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" While, with rare self-control and watchfulness he observes his own tales, and adheres closely- to his own method, his labour has been rewarded with the foundation of a work far superior, both in the fullness and accuracy of its treatment, to any that has yet ap peared upon these difficult and inuc,b-vexed subjects of banking and currency."—Morning Chronicle. ' London : Longman and Co. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. Lessee, Mr. J. H. Anderson. THIA EVENING ROB ROT. Principal character by Professor Anderson. To conclude with the gorgeous Pantomime of YE BELLE ALLIANCE. Clown, Mr. Flexmore ; Fanta!oon, gr. Barnes Harlequin, Mr. C Brown; and Columbine, Mss E. Home. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, THE GREAT GUN TRICK. After which. MET BIDDLE DIDDLE; or, Harlequin King Nonsense and the Seven Ages of Man. THEATRE ROYAL HkrMARKET- Miler the Management of Mr. Buckatone. THIS EVENINO, THE STRANGE. Followed by ONLY A HALFPENNY. After which the New Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled ?RE BUTTERFLY'S BALL AND THE GRASSHOPPER'S FEAST; or, Harlequin and the Genius of the Spring. YIINATTAE ROYAL ADELPHT. rrOprietOT, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Iradame Celeste. IBIS EVENING, BETSY BAKER. After which, TYE BOOTS OF THE HOLLY TREE INS'. To 1. , ?, bilowod by THAT BLESSED BABY. To conclurta with JACK AND THE BE A.N STALK; or, harlequin and Mother Come at ►tome Again. In which Messrs. J. Bland, P. Bedford. Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham, and Miss E. Arden will aroear. ROYAL SURREY TffEATRE. Levees. Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. THIS EVENING THE SHADOWS OF CRIIIE. To conclude with A PRINCE OP PZ.A.P.r.S; or, llarleluin and Jane Shore. THE ROMANTIC WIDOW. Followel by THE PRISONER OF ROCHELLE; or, Tuns and Outs. After which, FEACE AT ANY PTUCE. To conc!ude with BLUE JACKETS. AlilLErS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRZ. Lessee and H. , ...nu;:er, Mr. Wm. Cooke. EVENING, ROOKWOOD: or, TITRPIN'S RIDE to YORK. The last week of that popular Spectacle. After which the SC F.NES in the CIRCLE and the perrormence of the Sagacious and Stupendous Elephants, one of which ascends from the centre of the stage to an elevation high above the stage, on a narrow ridge not the width of his foot! To conclude with a grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime called HARLEQUIN AND KT. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON; or, the Seven Champions of Christendom. Rox.ofAce open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. equestrian Director. &fr. W. Cooke, Jun. EMMA STANLEY'S SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN, Every Evening at 8, and on Saturdays at 3. Pronounced by the unanimon3 voice of the tress, and by nightly increasing audiences, to be the Greatest Artistical Triumph of the day. SAINT MARTIN'S II t.LL, Long-acre. Area, Is. Reservc,l Chairs, 2s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY—Morn. 5 min. aft. 6—Evening' 25 min. aft. 6 TA-110anow—Morn. 47 mill. aft. 6 -Evoning 1J min. aft. 7 THE WEATHER-SUN OFFICE, FEB. 12. TLIZILMOMETER, IN THE &LADE. 54 - highest since noon yestertie,y. Si —lowest this morning and dnring the night. 53 —this day at noon. BAROMETRIL s•n. WIND. S.S.W.—Fresh,"with dull, rainy weather. (-A: 4 %V ~~: LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1856. The noble-hearted Cunt VALERIAN ICRASIN SKI, immediately before his lamented demise during the course of last December, completed the mOst remarkable °Lail his political writings* —and, expiring, left it to his native land, to his adopted country, to Europe, to Christendom, as —A Voice of Warning ! GOD grant that at this momentous juncture that solemn voice may not remain altogether inaudible. It is an utterance, be it remembered ! coming t• us, as it were, awfully from the grave : the echo of the last dying words of adjuration, addressed to the conscience tfthe civilised world, by a generous and heroic spirit, the spirit of an exiled p a t r i o t, the sword at whose thigh was not more keen than his living sense of wrong —the wrong done, not to bireSelf alone, but to every non of bin beloved Fatherland. A warning like that left 60 very recently as a sacred bequest to Eur o p e , by KRAsiNs was never assuredly required more urgently than at the present extraordinary crisis in her history— when there are actually trembling in the balance the good or evil, the life or death, the advance ment or retrogression of her liberties, and of her general civilisation. Another week, an d the plenipotentiaries of the chief among the European Powers will be assembled together at Paris fur the purpose of watering upon the labour of negotiating the terms of an waiver sal and (so far as• that may be practicable) a durable pacification. After all that has occurred within the memory of the present generation, it actually appears that the Allied Nations, that England and France in complicity (as it must be termed, if termed in any way appropriately), in complicity with Turkey, and Austria, and sa . r . m . ain, are prepared •4; Th e Polish Orretitior t and Pa,nslavi B C Valerian KrasineLi." ISS. Y °Uri . ; •Cbapman iallagon4ol4 1555. ROYAL PRINCEWS TELEXTRE, OXFORD-STREET. tinder the Managerawit of Mr. enamors Kat*. THIS EVENING, KING HENRY VIE EIGHTH. Queen Katharine, Mrs. C. Kean; Cardinal Wolsoy, Mr. C. Kean. After which, HARLEQUIN AND THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE ; or, the Fairy Paradisa and Hanky Panky, the Enchanter. Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Haline ; Pantaloon, Mr. Patti , / ; and Colum')lne. Miss Caroline Adams. ROYAL OLY‘iPIC THE I.TRE. Lessee and Manager. Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVEITTN. G. STA.Y AT HOME. • ♦tter which will be produced a N'ew and doubly-moral, though excessively old, Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE DISCREET PRINCESS; or, the Three Dims Distaffs. In which Messrs. Emery, F. Robson, H. Cooper, M 133 Marston, and Miss 'Haskell will appear. UOICA.L %TRANI) THEATRE, Under the direction of Mr: Payne. THIS EVI,IIqING, )1111, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, to arrang e certain very recent and formidable difference s with Russia, upon conditions of a merely of •dinary character, upon conditions im plying to; T their very nature that Russia comes under I e same category with the rest of the great ►E. Rates of Christendom ! HEAVEN send that the vo; ice of warning resounding to us from the grave sf VALERIAN KRASINSKI, that the cry of that ac )ble heart ray reverberate far and wide at this terrible turning-point in the history of the civilised. world—reminding the nations of Europe of the dark and sinister truths which appear just now eitls er to be entirely overlooked, or to re main alb ogether unappreciated. Enough for us if but a few of these monstrous facts, facts embla zoned u:pon the annals of the human race in characte rs of blood and flame, are here very briefly indicatel 3, but indicated by their mere enumera tion, GOD knows, with sufficient distinctness. Is it forgotten ? When our diplomatists are becoming so mealy-mouth in regard to the inten tions of the Imperial Government l of St. Peters burg—is it forgotten how Europe has fared during the last hundred years under the pressure of the advances made simultaneously to the north, and to the south, and to the east, and to the west by that Robber-Government ? A little while ago and we heard a good deal of these things. A little while ago anal noble lords and right hon. gentlemen now so fair-spoken in regard to the intentions of Russia, in regard to the policy of the CZAR, in regard to the ambition of the House of ROILANOFE, did not hesitate to speak of these intentions, of that policy, of that ambition as of evils threaten ing the peace of Europe, the liberties of Europe, the rights of European independence, the glory of European civilisation. Is it already so entirely forgotten—that terrible story of Russian des potism, and Russian spoliation ? Let us recapi tulate but a few among the criminal and damning incidents recorded in that disastrous narrative— now that we are upon the eve of the Paris con ferences. Dbserve A little over a century aid a half from the present time—that is to say, in 1689, at the date of the accession of PETER, miscalled the Great, the population of Russia was 18,000,000. By the year of grace 1763, namely, when CATHERINE 11. ascended the throne, it had in creased to 23,000,000—becoming at the time of her death in 1798 as many as 36,000,000—and attaining at last in 1825 at the period when the late AUTOCRAT assumed the purple, the vast aggregate of• 58,000,000 or 60,000,000 altogether ! Listen further ! These are the words (it is believed) of Sir JOHN M'NEILL, echoed to us from the humble grave of the heroic KRASINSKI :—" The acquisitions of Russia from Sweden are greater than what re mains of that kingdom ; her acquisitions from Poland are equal to the Austrian Empire ; her acquisitions from Turkey in Europe are of greater extent than the Prussian dominions, exclusive of the Rhenish provinces; her acquisitions from Tur key in Asia are nearly equal in extent to the whole of the smaller States of Germany ; her acquisitions in Persia are equal in extent to England; her ac quisitions in Tartary have an area not inferior to that of Turkey in Europe, Greece, Italy, and Spain ; tho acquisitions which she has made within the last sixty-four years (prior to 1836) are equal in extent and importance to the whole empire which she had in Europe before that time." Hearken yet further ! It is still, we believe, the voice of Sir Joarr 111‘..NEILL, echoed back to us as with a trumpet-sound from the tomb of Count KRASINSKI—"In these sixty four years she (Russia) has advanced her frontiers 850 miles towards Vienna, Berlin, Dresden, Mu nich, and Paris ! She has approached 450 miles nearer to Constantinople. She has possessed her self of the capital of Poland ! and has advanced to within a few miles of the capital of Sweden ! Since that time she has stretched herself about 1,000 miles towards India, and the same distance towards the capital of Persia (Teheran)." Enough ! And this is the Robber Despotism with which England, and France, and Turkey, and Austria, and Sardinia, are about to negotiate at Paris upon ordinary terms, upon the customary kind of conditions! VALERIAN KRASINSKI, from his lowly but honoured- grave in the land of his exile cries—" Beware !" And the Voice of an other and a greater exilp—the Voice of the Cap tive of St. Helena—has it not long since declared prophetically—" Fifty years and Europe will be either Cossack or Republican !", What—with that prediction before him, pro nounced, as from his death-bed, by the Great Founder of his Dynasty—what says NA POLKON III.? Shall Russia, sooner or later, overrun Europe—or shall Poland be restored ? Si vis pacesm parr bellum. Even in the piping times of peace England should, in the words of the teem old Scottish warrior, be " ready, aye ready for the field." It is still more essential that she should maintain the maritime supremacy to which the greater portion of her prestige is ascribable. We therefore do not complain of the credits de manded by the Government. Any parsimonious or stingy attempt to effect a paltry saving under existing circumstances would be "a penny-wise and-pound-foolish policy," which every right thinking man would strongly and unequivocally condemn. But while Parliament and the country cordially and unhesitatingly respond to the Minis terial demands, and willingly sanction the full expenditure required for the vigorous and ener getic maintenance of the War, it is doubly incum bent on all parties to avoid any unnecessary-ex. penditure. The legitimate charges are sufficiently onerous, without any useless addition, front the red-tapist adhesion to a,. yictous system, or from the introduction of objectionable matters. There never was a time when a large and com prehensive measure of Naval Reform was more urgently required than at this moment, whereby not only would considerable savings be effected, but the efficiency of the service and of the controlling department would be greatly increased. It is not because we are at war that those important and interesting topics should be shelved—for that reason they should be pressed forward with the greatest possible energy. The exigencies of the service should be accurately as certained, and when that object has been effected no efforts should be spared to obtain " the right men for the right places," and to avoid, so far as human precaution can do, the possibility of mis takes similar to those which in by-gone days re flected so much discredit on former Boards. No reasonable objection could be made to the first item in the list—that for the excess of ex penditure over estimates of 2 04,0001., even if so fair an explanation could not be given for the greater part of the amount, by the improved system of keeping accounts, that debited the ex penditure to the period when it actually occurred in place of charging it in a future year. The cost to the nation in either case is precisely the same. Some discretion should be allowed to the executive when Parliament is not sitting, and if the outlay be prudent and judicious the parties who have sanctioned it on their awn responsibility are en titled to praise rather than censure for their energy. Tin additional votes for 140,12 4114 VW, Vain and other branches connected with the additional seamen, will be heartily approved of by every true-hearted Englishman, and the tardy com pletion of an adequate force of gun-boats to con duct operations in the Baltic joyously hailed throughout the length and breadth of the land. We long called for a proper force in that essential arm of the service. Had the ABERDEEN Admi nistration been in earnest far better accounts would have been rendered of the proceedings in the Baltic, and British officers and seamen would have been spared from very invidious insinuations. The 200 gun-boats that will be available at the breaking up of the ice will have a wonderfully moderating effect on the disposition of the Russian Government. It is only to be regretted that an improvident and precarious peace should be cobbled up, at a time when we are, under PROVIDENCE, in a position to compel one, that might be regarded as an equivalent for all the sacrifices and expenditure which the nation has so cheerfully sustained. The gigantic prepara tions may now be thrown away without the nation reaping either honour or profit. Still it is right that they should be made, and it is by no means impossible that they may still be required. At all events the knowledge that they have been made will render the representatives of the CZAR less querulous and far more reasonable than Prince GORTSCHAKOFF was last year. It is the acts of omission that require greater notice. Sir CHARLES NAPIER only gave expres sion to the national will when coraplaining of the absurdity of having the affairs of the Admiralty carried on partly at Whitehall, and partly at Somerset-house. The division occasions constant confusion, expense, and delay to the service, and an adequate remedy should b© supplied with all convenient speed. We cannot, however, concur with the Gallant Officer in his remarks respecting the list of Ad mirals. There are at least three times the num ber on the Active List that are required. All the old Admirals, whose physical powers disqualify them from active service, should be pensioned off by the Admiralty, which would clear the list considerably. There are, at least, thirty of the number who have been Post Captain more than half a century, scarcely one of whom are now fit even to walk the quarter-deck in a stiff breeze, much less to direct the efforts of a fleet under a trying emergency. There are at present 21 Admirals. Surely nine would be sufficient, and the reduction might be gradually effected, first to 15, then to 12, and subsequently to 9. In like manner the 27 Vice- Admirals might gradually fall to 21, and then 15 ; and the 51 Rear-Admirals to 33, 27, and eventually to 21. By this means, and giving an Admiral of Great Britain, and a Vice-Admiral, and Rear- Admiral, we should hare forty-eight Admirals, and scarcely one-third of the number could ever be required for active service. We have now between active and retired Admirals five or six for every line-of-battle ship in commission, and fully three Generals for every regiment. It is not by such proceedings that we can hope to re• duce the enormous burden of taxation, or to make any effectual efforts to reduce the burden of our enormous national debt. Let the House of Commons resolve upon 'grappling with the diffi culty, and providing a remedy adequate to its enormous magnitude. It sometimes happens that the attempted ex culpation of a foolhardy offender leads to his con viction ; and the painful reflection in left to him that, had he remained gniet, his •fate might have been different. Of course, no one but himself and friends can regret this, the welfare of society being obviously promoted by the provision. Whe ther the fact will prove applicable to Lords CAR DIGAN and LITCAN We cannot undertake to pre dict ; hut we must confess to entertaining a feel ng of satisfaction at the steps taken by these Noble Lords in relation to the 'charges involved, or brought against them, in the Report of the Commissioners sent out to inquire into the con duct of the War in the, Crimea. The matter has now, we trust, reached a stage where nothing short of the amplest investig,ationwill be permitted, not only into the charges brought against them, but also against other superior officers intrusted with command during that disastrous period, when the flower of the British army perished, not ignobly, but unnecessarily, on that fatal soil ! Lord CARDIGAN', it will be seen, gave notice in the House of Lords last evening, " That having been reflected upon in, as he considered, an un fair manner in the Report of a Commission ap pointed by her MAJESTY'S Government to inquire into the conduct of the War in the Crimea, he should feel it his duty to-morrow to transmit to the Noble Lord a full explanation of his conduct as animadverted on in the Report." His Lord ship was followed by Lord LUCAN, who stated that immediately on the appearance of the Report he had addressed to the Secretary for War a letter in reply, which, however, the Noble Lord refused to allow him to publish ; and he desired to be in formed whether the Noble Lord would either pub lish it himself or allow him (the Earl of LueeN) to publish it ? Now, these are steps which inno cent men might be expected to take in the first instance, and, as far as they go, tell in favour of the Noble Lords. But observe what follows : Lord PANMURE, in reply, informed the House " that he had communicated with the Commis sioner who was now in L , ndon with respect to the remarks of which the Noble Lord complained, and that gentleman had informed him that he should be able to support the charge made in the Report by returns now in his possession, and printed in the Report gr_the _Commissioners. He had promised to furnish this reply on the follow ing day, and he would then be prepared to lay the letter of the Noble Earl opposite and the reply of the Commissioner on the table of the House." Thus, it will be seen, there is no flinch ing on the part of the Commissioner, and an issue may speedily be arrived at if desired. From what followed, however, we have some doubt of such a desire being entertained—the Earl of DERBY on the one hand, by his expressed wish to place the parties inculpated who had not a seat in the Rouse on an equal footing with the two Noble Loris, in having the opportunity of laying their statements in reply to the charges preferred against them before the Houie—and Lord PAN , MURE, by prothising to have such statements laid before the House, apparently being agreed that the matter would end in the publication of the documents, and the inculpation or exculpation of the parties by public opinion. Now, this really will not do. We say not one word as to the guilt or innocence of the parties inculpated, but we point to the gravity of the charges, and repeat, this will not suffice. It is alleged, in the words of a contemporary, " that between them the chief English officers in the Crimea destroyed one-third of the army, and that three-fourths of the misery and starva tion from want and cold, not to mention the an nihilation of our splendid cavalry, must be re ferred to th e gros s,i nca p ac ity o f the officers in th e Cr imea," The allegation is frightful, and the culpts,bility proportionately enormous. The blood of ovr alaugiatend heigeowto lay no. thing of the damaged prestige and the material injury to the nation—demands the institution of something of the nature of a court-martial, before which the accused parties may be put on their purgation —a Court so constituted as to insure public confidence in the straightforwardness and honesty of its procedure —a Court to which the House of Peers must be content to refer its inculpated members, and whose decision shall be handed over to her MAJESTY for confirmation, and.- what further course of action may seem good, to be taken on it. If this, or something of the kind is not done—all that has been apparently effected in the way of reform in the army, will prove mere moonshine, and the honours and emoluments conferred on the Noble Lords, Sir R. AIRE; dsc., will, justly or unjustly, operate as so many ignes fatuce to lure incapables into the service, and officers of ability from the proper discharge of their •duties, to the future loss and humiliation of the country. The Report of the Commissioners must be acted on to be worth anything, and it will not be wise, it will not be prudent, in the House of Peers or the Ministry to put any obstacles in the way of its being so. ADELPBI THEATRE. A farce of the genuine Adelpbi flavour was brought out here last night, and met with unbounded success. The title " That Blessed Baby," at once proclaims the whimsical class to which it belongs. The terror of John Thomas, the footman, who has clandestinely married Mary Jane, one of his fellow-servants, contrary to the published laws and regulations of his master, who has a morbid antipathy to babies, affords half an hour or so of highly pleasant diversion. The weight of the piece lies solely upon Mr. and Mrs. Keeley ; and the acting of these admirable artistes was capital. The farce is perfectly original, and i from the pen of Mr. Moore. As this is his first dramatic essay at any theatre of im portance, we may fairly congratulate him on his success. MADAME JENNY LIND-GOLDSCHMIDT'S GONG giliTS. The programme of the third miscellaneous concert, which took place last night in the Hanover-square zooms, was on the whole well selected, though in some respects of rather a fatiguing character for the principal singer. For example, Madame Goldschmidt had to execute, with only the interval of time devoted to a very short tenor song, the scene and air, " Non paven tar, from // Flauto Mayieo, and the soprana part in the trio for voice and two flutes from the Camp of Sile sia, best known in England as the finale to L'Etoile du Nord. Two more intricate and arduous pieces than the first song of the Queen of Night and the tour de force with which Meyerbeer has illustrated his heroine's re storation to reason are not extant. The scene with the two flutes (Messrs. Pratten and Remusat) defied objection. We have heard nothing to surpass it for brilliancy, neatness of execution, dramatic finesse, and unblemished parity of intonation--even in passages the most daring and perplexing. The epithet " incomparable" may lse applied to this performance without the slightest exaggeration, since it displayed as much esprit as vocal facility, and left the ear and mind of the listener equally charmed and satisfied. The other essays of Madame Goldschmidt were " Deh vieni non tardar," from "Figaro," "Caste diva," and a little song by Mendelssohn, "The stars and the maiden" (in Ger man, called "Die sterne schauen"), Besides the pianoforte performances by Herr Otto Goldschmidt--who played Beethoven's concerto in C minor (with the orchestra), Chopin's somewhat hack neyed and over-sentimental nocturne in D flat, and the first allegro of the " Suites Anglaises " is G- minor by John Sebastian Bach (solus)-- e Signor Piatti gave two movements from th tiolenColla concerto composed ex pressly for him by Herr Molique. and M. Sainton his own violin fantasia on airs from "Rigoletto." The room was crowded to excess, THE NEW MEIIIBER FOR EDINBUR6IJ. (Prom the Daily News of this day.) " I am a man of moderate wishes," said the late Lord Dudley and Ward ; " a good soup, a small turbot, a neck of venison, and an apricot tart are a dinner for an Emperor— when he can't get a better." The electors of Cambridge are philosophers of the Dudley and Ward stamp. Not be ing able to indulge in a state banquet of High Toryism, they have known how to satisfy the moderation of their political appetites on the Mild but respectable con servatism of Dir. Walpole. There is not a great deal of it Perhaps—it might soot, but a lenten repast to the grosser palates of aldermen ors:quires, but it is in good taste, well chosen and well served up. Possessing the merit, too, of being what it professes to be, it offends the judicious taste with no such villanous compound of opposite flavours as the "Li beral but Conservative" mixture of Mr. George Denman. Having been unable to feel any very deep anxiety for the defeated candidate's success, we of course contrived to bear with equanimity the intelligence that he had withdrawn from the contest. It was the only thing ho could do. The irrefragable logic of figures was too strong fur him. SSG to 419, at the end of the third day's poll, was au arithmetical reductio ad absu,nlam. We trust the reproof will not be without its lesson. If Mr. 'Denman's views were more liberal than his address, the lesson he will have to learn will simply be that homely one, that—Honesty is the best policy—and that of all clishoncsties•there is none less politic than the practice of political . :eserve. " Liberal," without the " but," might have sent many to vote for him willingly, who either went not.at all, .or wentaeluctantly. " Conser vative " after the " but " had not even the poor merit of stealing a single supporter from the ranks of his anta gonist. If, on the other hand, as may be the case, Mr. Denman's address fairly and adequately represented his political opinions, the contest was one wholly personal between the two men—and in that event the lesson that Mr. Denman may derive from the result is one of personal mo desty. It cannot be an agreeable thing to have put 419 gen tlemen to 83 much inconvenience, for the mere purpose of fruitlessly recording their opinion that Mr. Denman is fitter than Mr. Walpole to represent the University of Cambridge. The consolatory view of the matter is that suggested by the safe and prosperous position of the illustrious mem'3er for Midhurst. True it is that a, contemporary, hardly less elo quent than the new-fledged senator himself, hail sug gested it as a remarkable coincidence "in the aunal of literary fame," that " the star of Warren had just begun to glitter in the senatorial firmament as that of Ma2aulay had sunk below the horizon ;"—true it is that the learned and enthusiastic orator hail himself told the men of Midhurst, in the first fervours of his saceess, that he was about to enter the House of Commons as their representative " free as the rushing breeze that revAlei above their hills ;"--still, not withstanding these auspicicus om DS and these aerial antici pations, we had misgivings that at times disquieted us. Till Walpole was safe for Cambridge, we could hardly feel confident that Warren was secure for Midhurst. We were haunted by disagreeable recollections that frailty as well as fairness was an attribute of the Lily—that vicarious industry was too often the thankless portion of the Bee. "Sic vos non vobis mellificates apes" that melancholy epitaph over fruitless toil kept ever chiming in our ears. What, we asked, if such should be the fate of the senatorial toils of Warren ? With the result of the Cam bridge election all these apprehensions are dispelled, and an intelligent public will appreciate as it deserves the great fact that the House of Commons has not lost Walpole and has gained Warren, who may bo alternately its " rude Boreas" and its " mild Favonins," its " own iEolian lute." The result of the Edinburgh election is peculiarly gratifying, and deserves to be discussed with less of levity. Of the de feated candidate, indeed, we know nothing but his name ; for though the pen of Scott has made "the black Douglasses" tolerably familiar to English reail ,, rs, the fame of the brown branch of the family has not yet penetrated to the south of the Tweed. But of his successful rival we do know some thing ; and during the whole of cur political experience— which now ranges over a rather longer period than it is quite agreeable to remember -it has rarely been our luck to en counter a man in whom practical sagacity and high principle have been niore liarrPilk ble,ntrerihati in Adam Black. He is no modern conformer to liberalism ; what he is now he was in the dark days of Castlereagh and Sidmouth. That an overwhelming majority of the inhabitants of Edin burgh are liberal - in Mir FolitiCn IV a fact which none can doubt who recalls the results of all the elections for that city since the passing of Earl Grey's Reform Act. There have been different shades of politics among the Edin burgh Liberals. Some cling to the eclectic doctrines of the Edinburgh I?eview—these are prinlipally the members of the learned professions and the circles among which they move. Some adopt the sturdier notions to propagate which the Scotsman newspaper was erip:nally established ; these are in general the trading classes. Some, perhaps, go beyond both. Mr. Black, by his sdcial connexions, belongs to the second set of politicians, participates in most of their views, and has shared in their labours. But, by Ins long connexions as elk publisher with the leading Whig. literati, he has often been called upon to act as a me dium of communication between the first and second of the three sub-divisions of Edinburgh Liberals we have enumerated. This is, perhaps, the most trying positiou in which au honest politician can be placed ; and, with frequent, opportunities of narrowly observing Mr. Black, we do him no snore thau jus tice when we declare that we have uniformly found him as upright and firm as he is clear-sighted. This is exactly the kind of man who is wanted in Parliament at present. Old questions have been settled, new questions are emerg— ing, and many well-meaning Liberals • are—from want of habits of independent thought and en-born moral courage —wavering and uncertain, Men are needed, to give the tone to their party, who possess sagacity to judge for themselves, and courage to act upon their convic tions through good repute and bad repute. The electors of Edinburgh have acted wisely in delegating the charge of pro moting their principles and interests in the Legislature, at such a juncture, to a man who combines both qualities iu so high a degree has Mr. Black. Even in England the bold and uncompromising stand made by Mr. Black against narrow minded sectarianiem can be appreciated at present ; but only those who know Scotland intimately can appreciate it at its full worth. His fellow-citizens, after bestowing upon him Various grades of local distinction, have now conferred upon him the highen honour they can bestow. His past services have richly deserved it ; and we firmly believe that his past life will prove to have boon merely_ the prophetic mirror of the future. The Grand Duke of Tuscany has ordered a new levy of 2,000 mon of the class of 1837. The Earl and Countess of Monnteharlea are expected in town to•day, from the Bedford Hotel, Brighton, where they Lave been staying for a few days!. Lord and Lady Augusta Gordon Hallyburton left town yesterday, to pass a few due at Twickenham. Last week 180 of the Royal County Limerick Militia volunteered to the lice, aztl cF Clegg 24 Wi' for-the. Foot Guards. Feb. 10.—The Augusta, from Demerara, for London, run on a rock and carried away past of false keel ; is now in safety. ST. DE'S BA Y, Feb. 10.—Arrived—Guillaume, from Havana, for Havre, lost mainmast and two men in a hur ricane off the Azores on the 18th of January. NEWPORT, Feb. [l.—Wind W.—Arrived—Humboldt, from London, for St. Thomas. Saila I—Venus, for Lon don ; Moses Wheeler, Calcutta ; Achsab, Jamaica. SWANSEA, Feb. 11.—Wind S.B W.—Arrived—St. Vin cent, from the Cape of Good Hope ; United, St. Jago de Cuba. Sailed—Gratitude, for Huasco ; Barge, United, and Cuba, Coquimbo. (PEE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday limning. Arrived—Wonder, steamer, from Jersey. _ . Sailed--Herman, steamer, fir Bremen ; - Sylph, steamer, London ; Caledonia, Sunderland ; Daspatch, steamer, Jer sey ; Alliance, steamer, Havre ; Susanna, Newport ; Ti• tania, Cardiff; Le Coq, Clierb9urg. LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning. Wind S. Arrived—James White, from Bombay. Sailed—Delta, for Havre. BY SIMMABINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH. ) GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 10.18 a.m. Wind S.S.W. ; tide, four hours' ebb ; fine. Arrived, Feb. 11.—liolywood, from Constantinople. Arrived, Feb. 12.—Pollux, front Hamburg. DEAL, Tuesday, 9.40 a.m. Wind S.S. W. ; moderate. Passed—Sonora, from Calcutta, for London. MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) HAY MARKETS. SMITITIFIELD.—Meadow hay, 4/ 03 to 51133 ; 0101 , 0% ditto, 4115 s to 6/ 144 and straw, 11 54 Od to 1/ 9s Od per load Trade rather dull. z , UNIBEIILAND.—Moadow hay, 4/ 43 to 5/ 154; clove/ do. 4i 154 to 6! 143 ; and. straw. 1/ 5s to 11 10! per load .4 slow trade. WHIVICIEIAFEL.—Maa.dow hay, 41 53 to 5' 153; clove? , 10., 4/ 1 to 61 153; :Ind straw, 1/ 44 to 1/ 94 per load. Supply good, and trade'dull. COLONIAL. The market for tea ht,; been extremely inactive, and prices are only nominal. Common congou 91 to 9id per lb. SUGAR,.—An increased demand has prevailed .for the conti nental markets and for h6nre consumption : a fair amount of business has been done. • The supply continues moderate, and rates generally are firm: There are but few parcels declared for pulic sale. COFFEE.,—The market ;continues firm ; low to fine ordinary brought 51s to 535. Plantation - was at rather higher rates, and for the better qualities an active demand existed. Mocha has also been in request, at rather higher rates. Rice.—The demand has rather improved, and higher rates have been obtained for the better qualities. ,Rum continues steady. Prices are without any material alteration. TaLLow.—The market still continues dull, and prices still show a downward tendency. .February and March, 57s 9d ; April and June, 525; last three months, 50s 9d to 51s per cwt. The newly erected' barFaelehnti at Pembroke dock yard are to be immediately filled with militia. We hear from Madrid that orders had been given to sell the Crown property in the Basque Provinces. DEATH OP LADY EMILY HENRY.—We regret to an nounce the death of the Lady Emily Henry, which oc curred, after a lingering and protracted illness, on Saturday morning, at her residence, Cumberland-ter race, Regent's-park. It has been decided by Mr. Justice Crampton that an insolvent leaving the court with an order of protection eannot be arrested on his way home. THE MURDER IN SOHo.—Yesterday the man Bous field was brokight up at the Marlborough-street police, and formally committed to take his trial for wilful murder. The Czar haS decreed that a year's pay shall be given, as a gratification; to all the general and 'other officers of the army and navy, to the civil cnbployes, and the medical and transport service, who took part in the defence of Sebastopol. Advices from Switzerland state that the National Council have passed the Railway Bill for a line from Geneva to the Canton of Vaud, in favour of the city of Friburg. The . C:anton has sufficient financial resources to construct the whole line, with very little aid from foreign capitalists. - AFFAIR BETWEEN THE PIEDMONTESE AND RUSSIANS. letter from the French camp, dated Jan. 29, s a y s : —"On Tuesday last the Piedmentese had an affair of outposts with the Russians, and made 200 prieeners.” GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. —The directors propose to dec'are a dividend at the rate of 21 per cent, per annum. ,EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. -- Yesterday, at a meeting of those shareholders of the Eastern Counties R a il way Company who are dissatisfied with the present management and opp - ised to the re-election of Mr. Waddington, held at the London Tavern, it was resolved to support Mr. Orr , Mr. Walters, and Mr. Helps at the nest election of directors, in place of those who re tired by rotation. .. : ENORMOUS BLAST AT HOLYHEAD NEW HARBOUR.--A monster blast, which has required the labour of six men in its formation fee the last ten months, and which re _r aired 8 tons of powder to explode it, was let off in the quarry belonging to these works on Wednesday .last, in the presence , of the chief engineer and a nu emirous staff. It is calculated that the quantity of stone 'loosenedby ale aEplogiou wul W.).19:k00 Atia .6 0 ,000 to* LINCOLN RACES.—(This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGR4PII.) Tame Deer TRIAL STAKES. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(This Day.) THE WENSLEYDALE PEERAGE. COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at two o'clock. Among the peers present were Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Campbell, Lord Redesdale, Duke of Argyll, Earl of Derby, Earl Granville, Lord St. Leonard:;, Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Colchester, Lord Abinger, and Lord Brougham. On the motion' of Lord LYNDHURST the House re solved itself into a Committee of Privileges, on which the Lord CHANCELLOR left the Woolsack and took his seat on the Ministerial side of the House. Lord REDESDALE then presided. [LEFT SITTING.] LA W ITELLIGENCE.—Feb. 11. EXCtIEQUER COURT. (B3fore Chief Baron Pollock and a Common Jury.) ADAMS v. FRANCIS. - Mr Phillimore, Q.C., and Mr. Phipson appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Prentice for the defendant. This was an action brought against the defendant, as publisher of the A thenceunt, for a libel on the plaintiff, who is an AMerican author of some reputation, and who, in his writings, has advocated earnestly the abolitionist cause contained in that journal of the 17th February, 1855, imputing to him the authorship of a novol called "Tit for Tat," or "Ame rican Fixings of Ei.glish Humanity," and stating that the ipladutiff had been irriprisoned in Charleston Gaol, and that he had published a false report of the proceed ings at the dinner given to Americans and English by Mr. Peabody, alluded to in what is called " the Pea body correspondence." The defendant pleaded that the plaintiff had been imprisoned in Charleston, and that he did publish the false report in question. The plaintiff ad mitted the imprisonment, but alleged that it occurred in consequence of the part taken by him in assisting the British Consul in attempting to obtain the release of a coloured seaman, named 'Manuel Pereira, whom the authorities at Charleston had imprisoned solely for being a free negro, and he alleged that the report published by him was true. The case, however, did riot proceed, as on Mr. Prentice expressing, on behalf of the proprietors of the A.the na3urn, their apology and regret for any pain they might have occasioned to the plaintiff by the publication in question, and withdrawing all justification of the libel, the plaintiff consented to accept a verdict for 40s. dam ages, on thedefendant paying the costs as between attor ney and client. The verdict was accordingly entered for the plaintiff on these terms. ARRIVAL OF THE COURT AT BUCKING HAM PALACE. The Queen and Prince Albert left Windsor Castle at four o'clock yesterday afternoon. accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, the Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leoold. A special train conveyed the royal party to the Pad dington terminus, from whence they proceeded in seven of her Majesty's carriages, escorted by a party of the 3d Light Dragoons, to Buckingham Palace, where the Queen and Prince arrived at five minutes beforo five o'clock. WINDSOR, MONDAY. Yesterday being the lath anniversary of her Majesty's wedding day, the bells of St. George's and St. John's Churches were merrily rang in honour of the day. The bands of the Ist Grenadier Guards and Ist Life Guards assembled on the terrace in the afternoon and performed Mendelssolin's. ‘` Wedding March" beneath the window of the royal sitting room, at which her Ma jesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and the royal children made their appearance. To•day royal salutes were fired from the corporation ordnance in the Bachelors'-acre, at Fort Belvidere, and from the Royal Adelaide frigate on Virginia Water. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LosnON, Feb. 12. —Wind this day at noon, S. ; fresh breeze and equally, with rain. PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 11.—Wind S.W. to W.—Arrived H.M.S. Lapwing, from Cowes. FALMOUTH, Feb. 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Merci dita. from Monte Video, for Liverpool. ' MILFORD, Feb. 11.—Several - casks of palm oil and pieces of wreck, apparently but a very short time in the water, were passed on that 6th Feb., about 60 miles S. by W:of Ballycotton. PLTMOUTH, Fob. 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Kent, from London, for Melbourne; Cumberland (s.), Wool wich, for the Crimea. .e 1 FEBRUARY 12, 1856 LATEST NEWS. BRAZILS AND RIVER PLATE. SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY, 11 A.M. The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Avon, Captain Revitt, has arrived in the river with the usual monthly mail from Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, Rio de Janeiro, Pernambuco, Bahia, St. Vincent, Teneriffe, Madeira, and Lisbon. THE TURKISH CONTINGENT. KERTCH, Jan. 24.—The ice having at length broken, on account of the prevalent strong south erly winds, we are now enabled to continue our landing of stores, and the transport fleet in the bay are obliged (much to their dissatisfaction) to have recourse to their boats and lighters once more, after having amused themselves for the past month in discharging their cargoes daily on the ice. We all hail with delight this change in the weather, for between the various daily reports of an expected attack from the Russians in our rear and the channel frozen over to the Taman side in our front (almost sufficient to allow the crossing of an immense army), our situation has been anything but comfortable, and, with the exception of our transport skippers, who rejoice in anything like dernurrage, especially in Government employ, everybody seems in high glee. We have received almost daily for the past month accounts from Tartar spies that a large body of the Russian army are intrenching themselves at Argin —the place where the 10th Hussars and Chasseurs d'Afrique had a skirmish with the Cossacks in September last. From this we can draw two in ferences—either that' an attack is meditated on this place, or that,' the navigation of the Sea of Azoff being now rendered impracticable by our gun boats, the Russians are now availing themselves of the " tongue of Arabat," in forwarding their sup plies into the Crimea. The latter suggestion is thought the most probable, for since the Kinbourn affair the enemy will prepare themselves for the loss of Perekop, and, having determined to "make bay while the sun shines," are thus taking advantage of the inclemency of the season. In the meantime, should their 'object be an attack upon us, they will find that General Vivian has not been idle, and with the limited means at his dis posal, has rendered'this place, in a military point of view, perfectly capable of resisting an attack of an army of 30,000 men. The only obstacle hereto fore has been a want of siege guns to put into posi tion which deficiency has been in a measure at tended ta by the Commander-in-Chief before Sebas topol and the Seraskier at Constantinople, the latter having sent us sonic beautiful long 32-pounder brass pieces from the-foundry at Tophane. The Turkish soldiers as you are aware have the reputation of being the most capable in the world at throwing up earthworks, and digging intrench meats •' and certainly in this instance they deserve a great deal of praise, for, under the able guidance of Major Stokes, the commanding engineer officer of the Contingent, theyhavecompletedworks which might well be shown as examples to other nations. Fort Paul is now a second Malakhoff, and, should necessity oblige us to evacuate Kertch and fall back upon that place, we could well - defy the whole Rus sian army to efect a dislodgment. On the 6th inst. (the-,Russian Christmas) the Cossacks paid us , a visit, and approached in large numbers (supposed 5,000) to within four or five miles of this place. The alarm guns having been fired, every man was at his post with wonderful alacrity, the batteries of artillery taking up their respective positions in the town and on the Yeni kale and Fort Paul roads. Her Msjesty's gun boat Weser, although frozen in hard and fast in the ice, was prepared for action, being in a position to command the Yenikale road, and by the eleva tion of her guns to throw shot and shell far bt yond the town in the direction of Arabat. Should th e services of this vessel not hays been required in either of these points, Lieut. Ross had already vo lunteered to place himself and his crew under the General's orders; and work the batteries if re quired. The Land Transport Corps were on the alert and prepared to convey ammunition to the dif feient magazines, and the Commissariat turned out a large force of Tartar labourers, armed with axes, dec., to prevent the firing of any of the Govern ment stores, which had been well filled with pro visions previous to the setting in of the ice. Our cavalry having been ordered out, under the command of Major M‘Donald, the Cossacks fell back, but in the evening returned and burnt the Spanish farm, about six miles distant, from which the Contingent had been receiving large supplies of forage. The health of the Contingent has been excellent, and Brigadier Holmes, the Commandant at Kertch, with his able assistant, Dr. Gunn, leaves no means untried in regulating the sanitary condition of the town ; in fact, everything has been done to guard against disease which might be brought on through negligence in not re moving the filth which naturally collects in a place of this kind. With the exception of the land transport, whichh requires increasing, since 8,000 more men have been added to the Contingent force, every department is in thorough order; and the Commissariat at the present moment have four months' provisions in advance, already lauded and stored. No exertions have been spared on the part of Commissary-General Adams to provide every thing in his power for the comfort of the Contin gent ; and, considering the late season of the year before it was determined where should be its field of operation, as well as the difficulty in making contracts, I consider the Commissariat has accom plished wonders. Two companies of the 71st Re giment are in Kertch, and the remainder, under command of Colonel Ready, are at Yenikale. Part of a company of the Royal Artillery, under the acting command of Lieut. Woolfo, are at Fort St. Paul. These, with the 4th Regiment d'lufanterie de Marine, division s of the Chasseurs d'Afrique and 10th Hussars, and about 16,000 of the Contingent, con stitute the force under General Vivian's command, and who occupy the posts of Kertch, Yenikale, and Fort St. Paul. At Yenikale I am informed the men of the 71st Regiment have established a capital theatre, and perform one day each week before a well filled house. With the exception of an occasional soiree at one another's barracks, I think the Turks are without amusement ; but, being naturally a very steady race of men, they are contented with sitting by their own firesides nightly, and listening to the recital of Oriental tales. They all appear well con tented with the discipline, &c., established by the English officers who command them, and their wants being amply supplied in food, pay, and cloth ing, they have no cause of complaint. ASIA MINOR. EEZEROUM, Jan. 4.—The latest letters from Persia state that Mr. Murray is on his way to Bagdad. The Shah had issued orders for all the Persian authorities to treat him with every possible civility on his route, but at the same time bad written to him in a tone which makes reconciliation at present entirely impossible. Letters dated the 14th of last month have been received from Sir William Williams. He was than at Tiflis, on his way to Moscow. He and his com panions were all well. The kindness of the Rus sian authorities, civil as well as military, is repre iented as having been unvaried. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The Emperor yesterday received M. Pahaud, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, and ' M. Conrad, chief engineer in the service of the King of tho Netherlands, president of the commis sion for cutting through the Isthmus of Suez ; they had the honour to be presented to his Majesty by M. Lighteuvelt, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the King of the Netherlands. fa The following report has been presented to the Emperor by "M. Billault, Minister of the interior : " Sire,--In the opinion of your Majesty, the right of initiative conferred en the Senate by Art. 30 of the Con stitution is not a nominal and sterile prerogative as re gards-the-welfare of the country. As stated in a recent article of the Mon itcur, the Senate may suggest to your Government any great measure of public utility ; it re ceives the petitions of citizens, exatninei the situation of the country, inquires into its wants, studies improve ments in its organisation, points out useful reforms, and proposes real ameliorations.' But, in order to accomplish properly such a high and delicate mission, an inces sant investigation as to what is required for the moralisation and welfare of the people, the in terests of agriculture, the developments of labour and credit, the security and prosperity of Prance is necessary. The annual resolutions of the Councils- General may be a valuable element in this task. I n t h e limits determined by the law, these resolutions, adopted by men who are best acquainted with the heal interests, and give for each department the opinions of its repre sentatives on the situation and wants of the different public services. The collection into a volume of these documents, and the annual publication of them at the expense 4 , f the Ministry of the Interior, had been suspended for some years. but 1 ordered the resump tion of this undertaking. The analysis of the resolutions of the Councils General in their sessions of 1852, '3, and '4 is already printed ; that of 1851 'is in the pro s, aud thrt of 1855 is being actively prepared. These volumes are dietrituted to all the great bodies of the State, bnt perhaps your Ilajesty will think it right that they shall be more particularly thought under the atten':.en of the Senate. The senators will find . 14 Uvula La 0 .14 40Par4iaeut a faitlatd acioUt ()fits , wants, it desires, and its demands. The collection of the- e re,olutions cannot fail to offer to their wisdom the most useful indica‘ ions in the search for those measures of amelioration and of practical progress which the con stant solicitude of your Majesty imposes on all branches of your Government, but which has been more particularly confided to the initiative of the Senate by the constite tion.—l am, &o." The Emperor has approved of the reoomtnenda tious of this report. The Moniteur publishes another long list of per sons who have received permission to accept and wear decorations granted by foreign Sovereigns. BOURSE, Feb. 11.—The market continued buoy ant, when the following were the closing quota tions : Cash. fr. C. End of Month. per Cents 96 —f. —a. 3 per Cents 72 50 72 90 New Loan 73 20 Bank Shares 3,190 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,560 Austrian Belgian Fives A7— Spanish Threes Piedmontese(s). B9 -- Home Debt 38 RAILWAYS-FOB CASH. fr. a. ft. 6. Orbaans 1,250 Western 847 50 Northern Lyons ~....1,230 New Ditto BlO3 — Mediterranean 1,375 Grand Central 632 50 Lyons Geneva 736 25 Testo ' ' 755 Cette 735 Austrian Corn. ..... . 868 75 RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, FEB 10. General Prince Gortschakoff is appointed Com mander-in-Chief of the Armies of the West and Centre, and Imperial Lieutenant of the Kingdom of Poland, with all the rights and prerogatives of that office. AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna of the 7th, in the Augsburg Gazette, says :—" Austria continues disarming her frontiers nearest Russia. On the sth, two special trains brought here from Cracow a number of siege pieces • yesterday the pontoon ma t er i e l arr iv e d. The reduction of the army is being effected without interruption, and at the market of Malzleinsdorf yesterday a considerable number of artillery and cavalry horses were sold." Another letter from the 'same city and of the same date, in the Post Gazette of Frankfort, says The Hungarian officer Turr, who has been so much talked about lately, did not obtain his pardon until after he had ' been tried by the court-martial of Carlsburg, and condemned to death: Immediately on his pardon being granted, he was set at liberty." The Memorial des Pyrenees states that Queen Isabella has named General Bosquet grandee of Spain of the first class. L ITERATURE. Noctes .Ambrosiance. Vol. 111, By Professor Wilson. Blackwood and Sons. Eight more Noctes are comprised in this addi tional instalment of the selected writings of Pro fessor Wilson—a volume bringing us down from the June of 1830 to thoNoVember of 1832. And over whelming us as we advance in its perusal with the usual avalanche of wit, and wisdom, and poetry, and humour, and satire, and philosophy. The daring of the Professor's slashing, lashing, crash ing, dashing criticism upon everything and every body, just as themes happened at the time t• come within reach of his tremendous crutch, is rendered by this new volume of the collective reprint of these IST octes, if that be possible, more than ever apparent. Fancy nowadays,--only just fancy for a moment—while the third and fourth volumes of his great History have just passed through a first edition of some thirty thousand copies (to begin with !), while almost everyone is lamenting his recent withdrawal from the representation of Edinburgh as a calamity to the House of Commons, while his Essays are constantly selling in three si multaneous editions, and while his "Lays of Ancient Rome " are among the' household words of every lettered Englishman—fancy, we say, North and. Tickler, and the Shepherd, jeering, sneering, and fleering at Thomas'Babington Macaulay—under what epithets ? As "the creature 1" As "a small malignant 1" As " a prig !" As "dishonest r As "a bairn I" As "a sumph !" As "a prick ma-dainty reviewer 1" . Pelting him boldly with the like dead cats, brick-bats, and rotten eggs of rhetoric. So trenchant, rash, and audacious were the thrusts made of old by the knights-errant of Blackwood—the terrible triumvirate of the re nowned and formidable Noctes Ambrosiancs. A more brilliant example of their exquisite and subtle appreciativeness of whatever is either sublime or beautiful, for which appreciativeness the genius of Professor Wison was pre-eminently distinguished among the more illustrious critics of his generation, could hardly be instanced than the following' mas terly illustration by Tickler of Milton's matchless description of Death, at the gates of Pandemonium. Here is the renowned passage, itself transcribed ver batim from the celestial epic. We all know it by heart—but here it is (for the clearer demon stration of the aptness of Tickler's commentaries) nevertheless. - "The other Shape, If Shape it might be called, that shape had none Distinguishable in momber, joint or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either ; black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook d dreadful dart; what seemed its head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand-" And here follows the inimitable comnasntary placed ley Jo'in Wilson in the mouth of— "Tickler (taking North's crutch under his arm and imi tating the voice, gesture, and manner of the ' old man chi ortent').—ln this sublime passage the power of Imagina tion is at its height. This Being, who, at the gates of hell, offers combat to Satan, has not even yet been named, as if the poet were so lost in the emotion accompanying the sight of the phantom he had himself conjured up, that even a very name had not risen yet for what was so unsub stantial. He scarcely dares to call it by the vague term Shape ' but as soon as he d oes so , qua lifi es even t h a t ap proach to substantiality, by saying, ' if Shape it might be called, which shape had none distinguishable,' or sub co might be called that shadow seemed.' Then he adds that still farther feeling of unreality each seemed either,' that is, substance seemed shadow, shadow seemed substance. Thus uncertain in its horror to his eyes, black it seemed as night ;' not utter darkness, but some thing black and grim, darkness visible'— fierce—not as a Fury—for that would be something too definite, since the image of a fury is of something conceived to exist—but fierce as ten furies, an expression in which all individua lity is lost, and nothing conveyed to the mind but an idea of aggregated and accumulated fierceness. Terrible as hell' is still more vague, and purposely so, or rather so under the power of the emotion ; yet in all this obscurity, unsubstantiality, and shadowiness, it shook a dreadful dart (observe how much effect is is that word it), some thing not described by any quality, as of size or shape, but merely dreadful '—how, why, or in what dreadful, we know not; while this motion of its weapon directs the mind to look on the Shape that brandishes it, and le that which seemed its head—not its head, but that which in that fury-haunted and infernal darkness seemed its head-- the likeness—not the reality—but the likeness of a kingly crown had on ! Poetry alone could give such an Imagina tion as this--for painting would at once of necessity give outlines, features, realiti es , w hi c h, h owever enve l ope d in obscurity, would be fatal to the fearful effect, and embody too sensibly the here almost unembodied attributes of this seeming, shadowy, threatening, scarcely-existing, yet most terrific Impersonation !" Enough, After that single extract from the Noctes it were idle to disoant upon their manifold graces whether of critical acumen or of conversational elo quence. The collective work is in itself a perfect repertory of wit and wisdom abounding in tokens of the most delicate sensibility and of the most • boisterous exhilaration.- •Af masterpiece in truth to be read alternately with tears of tenderness aid shouts of laughter. The miraculous evidence, in short, of animal spirits the most hilarious and of intellectual powers the most vigorous and the most comprehensive. The Martins. No. XV. By Charles Lever. Young Nelligan so wins glory with his fir,t brief that he astonishes the big-wigs and becomes all at once the pride of Oughterard. Probably we shall have him M.P. for the borough after all in the room of Jack Massingbred. Meanwhile poor Mary Mar tin is threatened by Lady Dorothy with exclusion from her old home in the great house of Cro' Martin. Her uncle still lyi ng para l yse d i n P ar i s , and her father (evidently) turnin g up i n th e p er son of the mysterious stranger named Barry, lingering about the family place doing deeds of benevolence. Mr. Herman Merl, after looking with eyes of rapine upon the estate on which he has so formi dable a lien, is scared from the west of Ireland by one or two startli ng occurrences —f r i g ht ene d b y & pistol-shot fired by Mary Martin, and threatened with a duel thrust upon him by Tom Magennis. These occurrences grow, by the way, out of perhaps the only animated incident yet re counted in the history of " The Martins," that namely of the incursion into Cro' Martin of the said Magennis in quest of Joan who has run away from him on the demise of her old grandfather ! Mr. Lever enlivens the present number of his new serial story, moreover, with a humorous description of Siminy Crowe's discomfiture when Herman Merl depreciates one after another the vaunted treasures of art decorating the walls of the great drawing-room of Cro' Martin. "Oh dear, oh dear ! Did I ever hear the like of this !" cries the poor painter as he finds a Both dwindling into a Woeffe], and a Mieres collapsing into a Jansens and a Saivator Rosa dropping down into a Haem lens. A little more and we saould have had SimmY introducing his bootmaker to the tailor of Mr. Her man Merl—but for the opportune interruption of Magenuis's housebreaking invasion of Cro' Martin- With the ignominious flight of the Jew gambler fora Galway thg ;maim letfoie torasiagerrir with 'rid distr het() kale i %Cu ti ou ; eyi nt vi a l ~ at th seine b r i, k 4ithi °t gri aid t pro ); to rei With bott — s e Itte 1, e rect tstit I, Del Ilk Th e ti on In a li n pro, $lll Por °Jar pic„ tol lg bit bit . q5n R( Et iii 14 1 4( „ 14 alPnn Turk Di at l'lre e Idtll iNiZi • *7)44