The Sun. — London, England, 1861-11-11 00:00:00

1, 0 YAL ENGLISH OPERA, JLL COVENT GARDEN. Under the management _of Misa Louisa Pyne and Mr. Wm. Harrison, Sole Lessees, THIS EVENING, THE MARRIAGE OF GEORGETTE. Miss Thirlwall and Mr. A. Core. After which, at Eight o'clock, ROBIN HOOD. Messrs. Bantley, George Honey, Patey, C. Lyall, and Henry Haigh. Miss Susan Pyne, and Madame 'Guerrabella (her 2d ap pearance on the KnOsh stage). Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. Commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-office open from Ten to Five daily. No charge for Dookins, , ,or fees to Box-keepers. ---- Staze-Manazer, Mr. Leigh Murray. Acting- 3lanager, Mr. Rdwnd Murray. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATR E . Manazer—Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, will be performed (2d time) the new and original Drama, entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, H ermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmun Falconer ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, MISS Clara Weston. To conclude with GONE TO TEXAS. Mr. Walter Lacy, Mrs. St. Henry. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 8, to commence at 7 Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chqtterton. T HEATRE. RO Y AL, HAYMARKET, Lescee, Mr. J. ei. Blackstone. For the Benefit of Mr. Edwin Booth. 'PITTS EVENING, the performances will commence with THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. After which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dun dreary, Mr. &Ahern. Mr. Bnckstone, Mr. Farren, Mrs. C. Young, &c. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at 7. 110 YAI, PRINCESS'S THEATRE.... Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING. JEANETTE'S WEDDING. Miss M. Harris and Mr. 11. Widdicomb. Alter which, a new and original comedy, in five acts, writ ten by John Brougham, entitled PLAYING WITH FIRE ; characters by Mr. John Brougham, Mr. Ryder, Mr. H. Wid dicorabe, Mr. G. Jordan, Miss R. Lelc;ereq, Miss Angle, and Mrs. Weston. To conclude with a new Transatlantic Extravaganza, po-CA-HON-TAS. Mr. John Brougham, Mr. A. Harris, XEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI ..L. Sole Proprietor and Manazer, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, MUSIC HATFI CHARMS. Messrs. D. Fisher, Romer, Warde, Misses K. Kelly and Laidlaw. Alter which "(273c1 time), TFTE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. D. ' - ioucicatzlt, S. Emery, D. Fisher, Eburne, Romer, C.. 1. Smith, Mrs. Boucle,ault, Mies Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Lewis. Toconclude with LOVE AND HUNGER. Messrs. Fisher, Emery, C. J. Smith, Mrs. H. Marston, and Miss K. Kelly. Doors onen at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. NEW ROYALTY THEATRE, Dean-street, Oxford-street. Under the Direction of Mdlle. Albina di Rhona. OPENING NIGHT, POSITIVELY TUESDAY, NOV. 12. Box-office open from 11 till 5 o'clock by Mr. Nugent. Gonlard, Manager. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Greet success of 11r. SAM COWELL'S New Song, "THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT," which will be repeated every evening, Grand Selections from STRADELLA, LA TRAVIATA, and DINORAII 13yMiss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr, Herbert, and Signor Tivoli, with a poWerful Chortle. Solos on the Cornet-a-piston by the renowned performer !dr. LEVY. The Comic department comprises Mr. Sam Cowell, Mr. Marshall, Messrs. Harvey and French (the Nerves), and Miss Harriet Coveney Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission —Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, ls. 11" 0 X F ORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET. EVERY EVENING. Auber's New Comic Opera, " LA CIRCASSIENNE," and Verdi's new Grand opera, " Simonßoccanerr,ra," by the entire Company. Balfe's new ballads by Miss Russell and Madame E derssohn (composed expressly for them). Varied Comic Entertainments by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs. W. Ran dar., Harvey and French (The Nerves), E. Marshall, an d SAM CO LL. Hall, 6d. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, Bh. 53m.—Afternoon, 9h. 30m. To-monnow.-Morning, 10h. sm. —Afternoon, 10h. 39m. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, NOVEMBER 10, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 44—lighest:since noon yesterday. 36—lowest this morning and during the night. 45—thy day at noon. Beuomzrzu-29.20 ; falling fast. WlND—South to South-Westerly ; strong and squally, with rain in the night and morning. By ten it came on a storm, with heavy hail, lightning, thunder, and bursts of rain. It must be blowing a heavy gale in the Channel and along the Southern and Western coasts. Afternoon—Better weather. Nov. 11. THERMOHETER, IN THE SHADS. 47—highest since noon yesterday. 36—lowest this morning and during the night. 45—this day at nopn. 'Qnvn—West•South-Westerly and West to W.N.W. variable, yet fresh; with fine cool, clear weather. A ,', --...i...1 b , . ~' F's r - • ~',.... ~ .g, - k - .:ii, - - q ' • ' , P. Q..gA:ti..- 'A . _ ,._._z__ _ , ,il ~ ~~' THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, NOV. 11, 1861. Armadas have not been always triumphant, and the Northerns in America, and we in this country, will therefore watch with eager solicitude the movements of that which was lying in Hampton Roads when the last advices left, to sail, Govern- went only knew whither. For the new world, it was indeed an Armada. Twenty-seven men-of war, the Wabash, 50-gun frigate, for flagship ; sixteen gunboats, each carrying one of the famous 11-inch Dahlgren guns, a Parrott rifled gun, and two 24-pound howitzers; the rest frigates and sloops, carrying from sixteen to fifty guns—in all 400— form the naval strength of the expedition. These seem, however, chiefly destined to protect the disembarkation of a considerable army, of 20,000 men, true Northerns, the great body of them from Now England and New York. The transport fleet for this purpose consists of twenty four ocean steamships of burden varying from 450 to 3,400 tons American measurement. Seven steam ferry-boats, four very large sailing veesels, with landing boats and surf boats, and vast quantities of stores of all kinds, including provisions, skeleton houses, and implements of all kinds, implying per manent occupation and action from the point occu pied. "Everything, in short, that military know ledge could suggest." The arrangements for the landing are made known by a general order. The boats, it is said, are sufficient to land at once three or four thousand men. It is expected that the first line will have to conquer the ground on which it is to establish itself—will drive back the enemy, but not venture beyond supporting distance, the rest will then follow; these general directions are to be followed in a short time by others more specific. Where this large force is to attempt a landing is, of course, kept a p ro f oun d secret. There can hardly be any point along . the coast where the Confede rates, with the army they must keep in Virginia, can be strong enough to prevent a disembarcation, and the advantage of a naval e xpe di tion is that it fre quently can, within certain l imits, select it s pl ace for a ilanding, without givin g the enemy time to become strong enough to oppose. We can h ardly conceive a place more likely to be chosen than Charleston itself. The defences of the h arbour have indeed been made strong, and pr o b a bl y loss of life by attacking them would not be i nc urred. Evidently provision is made for land ing on the coast, and the harbour batteries, thus taken in reverse, would be of little use. The cap ture of Charleston would be a signal chastisement of the vary authors of the rebellion, and once in the possession cf the Federalists, being so easily acces sible from the sea, the Confederates could never expel them. Fort Sumpter would than belong to the representatives of the old Union, and they might, if they liked to be a little dramatic, replace Major ANDERSON in command. If, as some say, one principal object is to open a cotton port, and thus to prove to the world that the North is not the obstruction of the cotton com merce with Europe, Charleston is connected di rectly b y ra ilways with the cotton di s t r i c t s , an d if not so cheaply accessible from the plantationii as New Orleans, is within easy reach of them. Savannah would also serve as well for this purpose, but the Georgians are not such flagrant and united rebels as the South Carolinians, nor would Savannah be so near the rear of the army in Northern Virginia. Charlestown indeed seems too far off, being not less than 400 miles from the camp of BEA.IIREGARD, but Savannah is 100 miles yet further South. If the object be a cot ton port, of course New Orleans is without a rival, and FREMONT might be aided from the mouth of the Mississippi, but the voyage thither would be long and some what hazardous for this time of year. Wilmington in North Carolina would be only about 250 miles from Richmond, and there is also a railway to it from the cotton district ; but it is hardly the port which would be selected for the operations of such a fleet. The whole charac ter of the equipments seem to qualify the fleet to land on a surf beaten shore, and to thread with gunboats the smaller entrances of a harbour— while, whether Charleston be the object of the ex pedition or not, in no other place would success be received with such acclamations in the North, as a retribution for the act which first roused its enthusiasm—the attack on Fort Sumpter. The North ought to gain some great success soon ; it would at least pacify the complainers for a time. The inactivity at Washington would then be pronounced part of a masterly policy, which was silently spreading a net for those whom the com mander of the expedition terms a " zealous, active, and wily foe, whose cause is unholy and principles untenable' The success must be food for a little time to those who crave visible results ; it must, however, be seen to result soon:in some thing available. If the army of the North can be long confronted by the whole strength of BEAU REGARD, the mere blaze of the triumph will soon go out, and the general strategy will be impugned, notwithstanding. In a few days, however, we shall probably learn everything, and the plan will be disclosed by the result. So far as the cotton question is concerned, we must say we should be sorry, now, for anything which would materially interfere with the efforts now making in India, Jamaica and else where. The suffering will be but temporary, if we never have again a bale of American cotton in Liverpool ; the gain to England, to India, and to the world indeed, would be immense. It hardly seems likely, however, that the exportation of cotton could be large while the war continues, and through a hostile port. Unless, indeed, the South could get the return cargoes which it needs through the proposed port, it might as well keep its cotton where it is. Gold, in their want of money, would assuredly be worth something; but the South would want, even for its gold if it got it, the very things which the Northerners would pro hibit from entering the country. Probably, there fore, there would be little traffic with the South till the war was over, and that, in the opinion of the best informed, will not be for years, though it may be in a few months—such is the strange doctrine of chances. Among all the convivial displays of the year the Lord Mayor's Banquet stands first and foremost. If after-dinner speaking be elsewhere intolerable, as it unquestionably almost always is —here, at least, in the ancient Guildhall of the city of Lon don, it is not only tolerated but even welcomed with a certain degree of cordiality upon every recurring ninth of November. There has been during the last twenty years, an additional and wholly extra neous reason why the festivities consequent .+1.1.414 .••••J of the metropolis should be regarded with a peculiar sense of interest and almost, be it said, of loyal exultation. The circumstance of Lord Mayor's Day and the Prince of WALES'S Birthday coming round upon us, year after year, together, im parts not unnaturally a greater zest to the rejoicings of the double celebration. It has so happened, likewise, that the present mayoralty, that of the Right Honourable WILLIAM CIIBITT, has been marked by a revival of some of thoSe old-fashioned pomps and ceremonials that had been latterly falling, little by little, into desuetude—until the municipal reign of the present LORD MAYOR'S immediate predecessor may be al most described as having signalised the epoch of their apparently total, and it was imagined by many, permanent extinction. Insomuch had the mere cavalcade attendant upon the chief magistrate of the capital shrunk and collapsed of late years that in 1859, upon the advance of Lord Mayor CARTER'S procession to the Law Courts at Westminster, and its return thence within the barriers of the City of London, the little string of carriages might very easily have passed along the route unnoticed but for the fact of its previous announcement. With the inauguration of the Right Honourable WILLIAM CUBITT, however, in 1860, the City Potentate seemed to don his ancient trappings, and revive his antique ceremonials—to be, in fact, the Lord Mayor Redivivus. The river route was still neglected, the state barge was still unused, as it was wont to be of yore, the civic dignitaries still abstained from " taking water "—contenting them selves a little later on in the day with " taking wine" instead, perhaps, more abundantly—having a wholesome recollection of the " base uses" to which, like CAISAR'S clay, the current of our noble Thames has long since come ! And remembering some of them—those who chanced to be more up in modern literature—that (anything but appetising) query in regard to the water of the river Thames, put so very pointedly by THOMAS HOOD in his "Bridge of Sighs" 44 Picture it, think of it, Dissolute man. Lave in it, drink of it, Then if you can." Still evading the old route via the Silent Highway the Lord Mayor of 1860, with his resplendent train of attendants, including amongst them all the men in armour, furbished up for the occasion with the gloss of an extra polish, traversed the principal streets of London and Westminster with a greater splendour even than that which accompanied some of his more remote and most ostentatious pre decessors, Remembering all which in regard to last year's doings, it can hardly have been matter of surprise that in celebration of " His Lordship's" re-1 tention for another twelvemonth he should have surpassed even himself both in the mere display and the subsequent hospitalities. A longer line of streets was traversed by a yet more ostentatious cavalcade. And, as a the afternoon's aue and v e r i sa g s . , o nb display, the n old Guildh a ll was of more h It is parti cu l ar l y worth not. gard to the popularit 1860 and 1861, or rather Say more cor rec tl y , of 1861 ens b a an l e ci u s e e t q i u n e l t o the t . a n usual ma gn ifi cence . ng, by th e way, i n re -5' of the L or d Mayor of , we ought to , that it is a popularity altogether 0f 1862 a personal, or, to be more accurate still, of a wholly unpolitical character. That it is so, is a fact that has been illustrated rather painfully to the Lord Mayor's own vivid recognition of it. He has been re-elected to the Civic Chair, it is true, but he had previously failed, utterly and entirely failed, to win the suffrages of a majority of the electors of the city as a Conservative Candidate. The incident of his Lordship's total failure there, in that instance, was one, it will be remembered, so signal of its kind, it was such an egregious anti-climax, after his resignation of his old seat in the House of Commons that it would have been nothing less than absolutely Microns to his opponents, but that it was, at the same time, so very painful to his friends and supporters. We may assert then, with confidence, that the present mayoralty owes next to nothing of its popularity to the political predilections of the chief magistrate himself. During his first year of office, indeed, it will be remembered, that he assumed rather conspicuously a sort of intermediate or neutral position between the two great rival parties still contending with each other for the possession of the reins and responsibilities of Go vernment. No sooner had her MAJESTY'S Ministers been entertained at the Mansion House, as the honoured guests of the LORD MAYOR of London, than the leaders of her . MAJESTY'S Opposition were welcomed there with a kindred cordiality by the same Chief Magistrate. The present LORD MAYOR, in point of fact, without being anything like a mere partisan, has almost all his political sympathies on the side of the Conservatives. Yet is he liked by his fellow-citizens, not because of his Conservatism —but, in simple truth it ought to be said, actually in spite of his Conservatism. He is rejected as a candidate for the suffrages of the electors when. he attempts to resist Mr. WOOD as an aspirant to the seat vacated upon the elevation of Lord JOHN to his well-earned peerage as Earl RUSSELL. But, very soon after wards, he is preferred with a sort of enthusiasm to Sir HENRY MUGGERIDGE, as an aspirant to the honours of re-election to that civic chair which he has filled for the first year to everyone's entire satis faction. So thorough and complete is his popularity, that it is even compared by the Lord Chief Baron POLLOCK to that so long accorded, accorded through so many generations, to the Nursery Hero of Romance, the one lured back by the chime of Bow Bells from Highgate milestone, our redoubtable friend with the Cat, good Sir RICHARD WHIT TINGTON. It is but very rarely, of course, that anything like political significance is to be discerned through the speeches of the leading guests at a Lord Mayor's Banquet. Whatever political signi ficance there may be be detected is only to be detected from what is indirectly said, or, still more, from what is left unsaid. It is only to be inferred—now from an ambiguous phrase or two—now from the mere circumstance of an obviously intentional reticence. It is not in any way with us on the 9th of November as it is with our Gallic neighbours on the Ist of January. There the mot du four is pretty often listened for. And, generally speaking, without the popular expectancy being doomed to disappointment. Here, on the contrary, we may listen in vain for any portents of the future articulated by the lips of a First Lord of the Treasury or by any of the more garrulous of his Ministerial colleagues. As a rule we might safely write out the speeches of the different speakers, providing only that we knew their names for cer tain beforehand. We might have felt perfectly well assured, for example, that Lord PALMERSTON and Sir GEORGE GREY would have spoken, as each of them did (very delightfully) on Saturday even ing. As confident, indeed, of the noble PREMIER'S allusions, with magnanimous expressions of regret, to the fratricidal war now desolating the Republican States of America, as Wb might have been confident that H. R. H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE would have referred as he did in words of generous eutog.-- h 7.4.31-;: i li e wliii o n v m em en e t nt. throughout r—sha t l h l e v;67 1 117 - s:3 l, too P—as we might have felt absolutely certain that the American Ambassador (Mr. ADAMS) would have tripped gingerly among the difficulties of Ms theme, as gingerly as a saltatory conjuror or profi cient in the science of legerdepied among his carelessly littered maze of eggs. His Excellency's speech it will be perceived, upon turning to it as reported elsewhere, is of a tolerably fair length under the circumstances. And yet, in spite of this, Mr. ADAMS, with an admirable adroitness, con trived after all to say—about as little as possible ! Never was there a happier illustration afforded of the truth of that sardonic saying, attributed by many to the hand of ROCHFOIICATJLD, but ori ginally penned in fact in his Citizen of the World by our own guileless and gentle-hearted OLIYER GOLDSMITH, ♦iz., that Speech has been given to man to conceal his thoughts rather than to utter them. Thus most certainly does it appear to have been in the instance of the glib-talking, but little-revealing, American Minister, who, on Saturday evening last, must have baulked the curiosity of many of his auditors in their eagerness to hear what he would say, while fooling them all to the top of their bent by saying, in reality, in a good many well-turned sentences, just next to Nothing ! The wonderful extension of scientific knowledge has seldom been developed in a form more useful to man than when it enabled him to comprehend, in some degree, the properties of the atmosphere. Accustomed as we are to the marvels of steam and electricity, it still seems strange that, by the aid of a simple instrument, storms and hurricanes may be foretold in calm, sunsbiny weather, and tempests which might have desolated a hundred homes dis armed of half their terrors by being foreseen. The interesting account of the erection of barometer-indi cators along the coast of Northumberland, which was read at the last meeting of the National Life boat Institution, shows plainly the great service which these instruments are likely to render, and the number of valuable lives they will probably be the means of preserving. The Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND, President of the admirable institution referred to, has assisted, in conjunction with the Royal Meteorological Society, in the pre sentation of three barometer-indicators, which have been set up along this stormy northern coast. Three different kinds of indicators were tried, and of these the dial indicator appears to be the most successful. Coasting vessels have reported that they have distinguished it with a glass at two miles out in the offing. Its face is 8 feet in diameter—each inch in the scale being magnified 48 times. It is,'however, recommended by Capt.WasuINGTON, Hydrographe r to the Admiralty, whose report on the subject we have been referring to, that in future the scale should not be less than five or six feet to the inch, thus magnifying sixty or seventy-two times. Cap tain WASHINGTON also recommends that the dial face should be illuminated—a suggestion of which the good sense and importance is immediately appa rent. The darkness only adds to the dangers which beset the storm-tossed vessel ; why therefore should it be the means of checking or suspending the customary aids. Capt. WASHINGTON asks—" If the illuminatedobjectteogreetthe by night, why arri shouldvingby the South-W estern w eani Railway not a similarly illuminated dial convey to the fisher man or passing coaster the intelligence he is desir- • ous to learn." It is very satisfactory to find that the fishermen have shown great readiness to profit by these novel instructors, and have even remained a feYournbl on shore notwithstanding e appearance THE' SUN, LIONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 11, 1881. of the weather, if the barometer has fallen to any great extent. In connection with these indicators, we may mention the excellent system of storm signals described by Admiral FITZ ROY in his letter on the subject, published in our impression of Friday evening. It is a satisfactory testimony to the advance of our meteorological knowledge, as well as a most gratifying statement for a nation so largely concerned in maritime ven tures, that one so well qualified to judge expresses his conviction " that the peculiarities of our winds and climate are now sufficiently known to make it practicable to foresee every exten sive storm, and when no such change is impending to give the negative information, often valuable, that no tempest need be feared." Many dwellers in the metropolis as they listened to the roaring of the wind yesterday morning must have thought with regret on the recent disasters along the coast, and have feared a recurrence of similar accidents. Such anticipations have been verified by the news brought this morning from the southern coast, Portsmouth having suffered severely, Surely, when gales are of such fre quent occurrence, and the men engaged in seafaring trades are numbered by thousands, it is no work of ►supererogation to afford every pro tection which art and science can render against sudden storms. It is impossible that the National Lifeboat Institution, maintaining as it does 12 0 life boats, which demand nearly all its available funds, should be able fully to carry out the scheme of barometer indications, which might in time do almost as much to preserve life as the lifeboats themselves. That prevention is better than Cure, is a good old saying, and " forewarned, forearmed," is another equally , sound. Let the public act upon them and show their sense of the services rendered by an association which has within the last two years been the means of saving more than four hundred lives, by assisting them in this exten sion of their labours. Few are called upon, like Lord CHARLES BEAUCLERK and his brave com panions, to risk their lives for their fellows; but while applauding their heroism, let us not forget that something is in our own power, and until the authorities undertake, as they ought to do, the responsibility in such matters, the number of lives lost along our coasts must depend, humanly speak ing, on the liberality of the public,—aye, and of the Government also, for Lord PALMERSTON could not propose a more welcome vote to the House of Com mons than one for the preservation of our gallant seamen—now that their services are becoming a national necessity more than ever. LYCEUM THEATRE. An overflowing audience assembled on Saturday evening to witness the first representation of Mr. Falconer's new drama "Peep o'Day," the production of which has been so long promised and so anxiously expected. The ground w.ork of the drama is taken from the "Tales of the O'Hara Family," by John Benin, and it must be at the outset con fessed that triumphant and unmistakeable success has attended Mr. Falconer's latest work. The cast of charac ters comprises the whole of the company—the hero, Harry Kavanagh,', being sustained by ,Mr. Hermann Vezin ; the gallant and high-spirited Captain Howard, by Mr. Walter Lacy; the Rev. Mr. O'Clery, by Mr. Addison; Barney O'Toole, by Mr. Falconer; Black Mullins, by Mr. Selby; Mr. Grace, by Mr. Neville ; Kathleen Kavanagh, by Mrs. D. P. Bowers ; and Mary Grace, by Miss Clara Weston. The following is a br of outline of the plot of the new drama :—Stephen Purcell, a tithe-proctor and middleman. the most odious of a detestable class, who, having libertine designs upon Kathleen Kavanagh, one of his tenant's daughters, and being continually foiled in them by her brother, Harry Kavanagh, resolves to compass the ruin of the man who so pertinaciously crosses his path; and with that purpose perfidiously entrusts him with the custody of certain treasonable documents, which, being found upon Harry's person by a party of soldiers who have been set upon his track, eventually leads to his tranwoort. g whatever r Le do with the rebelliOii . iiOW : On. - io'ot. The removal of Harry, a young man of literary tastes and attainments, eaves the coast clear for Purcell, who not only lures Kath leen into a clandestine marriage, but even makes love to Mary Grace, Harry's betrothed sweetheart. After an ab sence of seven years, however, the exile returns, and with a heart burning to be avenged both upon the enemies of his country, and upon the individual foe who has ruined his sister and laid home desolate. Purcell, unconscious of his proxi mity, meantime pursues his evil schemes, which Harry and his foster-brother, Barney O'Toole, unceasingly contrive to defeat. One of Purcell's infamous designs is to entice his wife to repair at midnight to the " Old Quarry in the Foil Dhuiv," a dark valley overhung by beetling cliffs where he has got a ruffian in his pay to dig a grave for her' reception; but just at the critical moment Harry arrives, and, swinging down from the summit of the crag by means of a tree, whose boughs, drooping beneath his weight, give a fearful crash as he descends, rushes heroically to the rescue, and saves her from the awful fate which but an instant before appeared inevitable. Another treacherous device of Purcell is a scheme for the forcible abduction of Mary Grace ; but in this he is foiled through the instrumen tality of the Peep o' Day Boys, whose captain Harry now is, and who so skilfully hems in not only Purcell and his retainers, but a party of English soldiers who have been deluded Lao the folly of accompanying them through the wild mountain passes, that the beleaguered men have nothing for it but to lay down their arms. Retributive justice, however, overtakes Purcell, just as he is about to shoot Kavanagh, who has given him his pistol as a means of self defence in escaping out of the country Barney O'Toole anticipates his object, and shoots while in the act of taking aim at his foster-brother. It now only remains to bring about the union of the lovers, Mary Grace and Harry Kavanagh, and this having been accomplished the piece concludes with a general rejoicing. The whole of the play is a series of startling situations, the principal one being the rescue of Kathleen Kavanagh from the murderous attack of Black Mullins, by her brother Harry, in the Foil Dhuiv, or Old Stone Quarry. The paint ing and setting of this moonlight picture is the very pertec- tion of scenic art. We have the dark recesses of the quarry, with its precipitous sides covered with stunted trees and shrubs, inaccessible to all, except by an old and crazy bridge over a deep and frightful precipice. The villain Mullins is standing in a new -made grave, awaiting the arrival of his victim, and as soon as she crosses the bridge he cut, it away, thus precluding all escape. A scene of in- tense interest ensues, and just as Mullins is in the act of striking the girl to the earth with his spade, Harry with Barney appear at the bridge, and finding the passage cut away, the brave brother makes a flying jump at one of the branches of the trees overhanging the gorge, which bend ing with his weight, swings him safely to the ground be neath, and thus she is saved from the hands of the assassin. The effect of this incident was most marvellous, The audience were completely taken by surprise by the daring performance, and when that surprise was somewhat overcome, they gave vent to their expression of delight by the most tremendous applause. This, of course, was the great feature of the play, and the success that has attended it must certainly satisfy the expectations of the talented author and designer of the situation, if it did not altogether surpass them. There is no servile imitation of the effect that has been produced at another theatre ; the idea is altogether a novel one, and, as such, will not suffer by comparison with the celebrated water cave in the Colleen Bawn. The termination of the second act, " The Pattern and Faction Fight," is another capitally arranged scene ; in fact from first to last the whole of the play is produced in a style of first rate excellence. Of the acting of the drama we must speak in the highest terms of praise. Mr. Vezin's Harry Kavanagh was a fine manly performance, and Mr. Walter Lacy's Capt. Howard showed how much could be made of rather a small part, and that which in other hands would have degenerated to abso lute nothingness, was brought out with a force and gentle- manly ease that left nothing to be desired. Mr. Addison's Fathero' Cleary was another highly-finished portraiture, and Mr.Falsoner's B arney 0' Toole was nature itself. Mrs. Bowers, as Kathleen Kavanagh, reminded us very forcibly of Mrs. Yates in her best days, the mentioning of which is paying that lady no light compliment. The smaller parts were all capitally sustained, and the curtain descended amidst uni versal and unmixed expressions of delight and approval. Mr. Falconer is too clever a manager not to notice that the drama is much too long. This evening, no doubt, it will be brought within the usual time occupied by four act dramas, and such an arrangement will heighten, if that be possible, the success of the play. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived at Uloucester House on Saturday from Windsor Castle. Their Serene Highnesses Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Earl and Countess of Bess borough, Lord and Lady Cosmo Russell, the Hon. Percy Feilding, and a select circle, are at present on a visit to Viscount and. Viscountess Lismore, at their seat, Shanbally Castle, Ireland, where the noble lord and her ladyship pur pose remaining till the end of the present month. _ His Excellency the Netherlands Minister is con fined to his residence in Lowndes•square by an attack of gout. LATEST NEWS. PARIS, Nov. 11. M. Geofiroy St. Hilaire died yesterday. TURIN, Nov. 11. King Victor Emmanuel has arrived at Ancona, and opened the new railway, amid the enthusistic cheers of the people. It is said that the Italian Exhibition at Florence will remain open during the current month. CALCUTTA AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. The Valetta and Ceylon, with the above mails, were to leave Malta at midnight on the 9th for Marseilles and Southampton respectively. The latter vessel may be expected at Southampton about the 18th. The Candia brought the mails to Suez, arriving there on the 4th. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. The Mooltan, from Southampton 27th October, reached Alexandria at noon on the Bth inst. The Sultan, from Marseilles the 6th, arrived at Malta on the 9th at 7 a.m., and left at 11 a,m. for Alexandria. FRANCE. PARIS, Nov. 10. At the dinner which took place to day in honour of Signor Rattazzi, M. Gueroult, editor of the Opinions Nationale, proposed " The Independence, Unity, and Liberty of Italy ;" M. Peynat, editor of the Presse, " The Health of Garibaldi ;" and M. Havin, political director of the Siecle," The Health of Signor Rattazzi, the Chevalier Nigra (the Italian Minister), and General Della Rocca." Signor Rattazzi, in responding to these toasts, said,—" I thank you for the words and wishes which you have expressed in favour of Italy, and in so doing my first thought is directed towards the Emperor Napo leon, the illustrious chief of your generous nation." Signor Rattazzi also expressed his thanks for the feelings of affection which France entertained to wards Italy ; " feelings which," he said, " find in return the most complete devotedness on the part of the Italians. Italy," continued Signor Rattazzi, " will never forget what she owes to your august Emperor, who for her sake has braved so many dan gers, and who alone held out a :hand to her in the worst moment of her distress. She will never forget the brave soldiers who fell in her cause, nor the army which made her free. She will never for get the generous political writers and the whole French people, whose wishes accompanied every phase of her emancipation. The future cannot but give more force to those sentiments. In this era of reconstitution of nationalities and grouping of sister nations, the union of the Latin race is. not a vain word. Fraternally allied, as becomes men of the same origin, equal civilisation, and exactly similar ideas, and having the same into ests, our two peo ples, supported by the sympathies of other liberal nation have nothing to fear from the rest of the world. When the hour strikes France will see how well Italy understands her debt of gratitude and her duties as a comrade." Loud applause followed all the speeches. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. The Vienna Gazette publishes the imperial decree fixing those crimes and offences committed in Hun gary which are to come under the military juris diction, even when the offenders are civilians. They are :—The crime of high treason, insults to mem bers of the imperial family, disturbance of public .. • crime of violently insulting any public tribunal or authority. Members of secret societies hostile to the Go vernment are liable to be tried by the military courts. Corporal punishment, as far as civilians are con cerned, cannot be inflicted without a sentence from the legal authorities. The following is the text of the autograph letter addressed by the Emperor of Austria to the Chan cellor of Hungary : " My dear Count de Forgach,—The insubordination of the Hungarian municipalities and the open resistance, al most c mounting to rebellion, to every measure taken with the object of bringing back everything to a regular state, is most dangerous to the maintenance of public order; while the authorities as they are at present organTsed, and accord ing to the actual state of the Penal Code, do not offer suffi cient protection against these lamentable attacks, disapproved by the great majority of my faithful subjects, and they are not capable of mastering the disobedience which invades everything. It is my duty as a sovereign, and my firm will, energetically to put an end to these misdemeanours, and firmly to re-establish that obedience which is due and the authority of the Government. But, as the execution of the extraordi nary measures commanded by necessity is not compatible with the actual institution of the Council of the Lieutenancy of Hungary, founded upon the laws of 1723 and of 1790, and while, on the other hand, the hope of being able to con voke shortly the Hungarian Diet, with a view to resolve the questions which have remained pending, cannot be realised as long as there is no regular administration to render it possible, I think it advisable temporarily to sus pend until the re-establishment of public order the action of my Council of Lieutenancy for Hungary, established in the sense of the above laws by my enactments of the 20th of October, no, as also that of the municipalities of the country, and, consequently, to decree the dissolution of all existing commissions of the comitats of districts and of mu nicipal representations of the Royal free cities. " In charging you to carry out this order and awaiting your ulterior propositions as regards the choice of the per sons to whom in future will be confided the direction of the Comitats in case of necessary changes, I request you at the same time to have a care that the current affairs of the ad ministration of the Comitats and free cities be carried on until the institution of new organs by the present officials on their personal responsibility, so that the public service may not suffer interruption. " The nomination of my Lieutenant for the kingdom of Hungary follows the same date. My Council of Lieu tenancy for Hungary, the Obergespane, administrators and other officials in the Comitats, as also the mayors of the towns in the Buda-Perth district are bound to obey him without any objection in everything which he may ordain* for the public administration of the country. You willfind in the annexed documents the orders which I have though fit to give to my Minister of War concerning the powers of the military tribunals and the judgment of crimes and offences committed against public order and the safety of persons and property. " As also it is my firm will to re-establish in the shortest possible delay, by the exceptional temporary measures in dicated above, public order which has been threatened in my kingdom of Hungary by lamentable disturbances, that I may afterwards, by constitutional measures, proceed to the solution of the existing differences, I think it also right to declare again that I am firmly resolved to maintain in violably and without restriction, in future, the concessions granted to Hungary by my diploma of the 20th of October, 1860, concerning the re-establishment of its constitution, of its rights and liberties of its Diet, of its municipal institu tions. " FRANCIS JOSEPH (menu propria). Vienna, Nov. 5, 1861." The Yientza Gazette, in which the above ap pears, publishes the following : " Dear Field-Marshal Count Palffy—l appoint you my Lieutenant in my kingdom of Hungary, " FRANCIS JosEPH;(manu proprta.) " Vienna, Nov. 5, 1861." A letter from Comorn, Hungary, of the 2d inst., says : " The ordinary monthly assembly of the Comitat was to have t iken place at 10 o'clock this morning, all the neces sary arrangements having teen made on the previou- even ing at a conference convoked by the Vice-Gespan Sarkozy. Scareely, however, had the members of the conference se parated than a detachment of troops surrounded the hotel of the Comitat, and the commandant, Lieut.-Col. Tarkos, presented himself to the Vice-Gespan, and declared that if the projected meeting took place he should be obliged, by orders from his superiors, to dissolve it by force. The Vice- Gespan replied that the assembly had been convoked, and that it must take place, whatever might happen. In the morning the greater part of the members of the commisson and of the inhabitants of the town assembled, and entered the hall at 9 o'clock. At 10 the cry was; raised, Here are troops!' and the soldiers were found to have, surrounded the hotel of the Comitat and barred the street s Lieut.-Col. arkos entered the room reserved for the Vice-Gespan, but he was seen in the hall, and at the same time a tremendous shout was raised. At that moment the ex-President of the Lower Chamber of Hungary, ➢I. Ghiczy, came forward and requested the public to keep quiet, prudent conduct being under the circumstances the first duty of every pa triot. The President then took the chair, and the Lieute nent-Colonel remained behind the door. Cheers almost interminable saluted the President as he took his place. Ho announced that the armed force was present, and that he had received the order of dissolution. 'At this moment,' said he, ' when we have no other arms at our disposal but the code of our laws, it is impossible for us to continue our deliberations." It is impossible was echoed from all sides. Let us retire.' The President then took leave of the public, and announced that the corps of functionaries, seeing the impossibility of doing their duties, had all of them resigned. The public then left the hall, singing the Szozat, and soon after dispersed with cries of Eljin a Magyar, huza I' (God save Hungary I)" TILE WARRIOR. TO THE EDITOR OP THE SIIN, Sir,—l forward you some extracts from a note just received, which may prove of much public interest.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, Queenstown, Nov. 7, 186 You will be pleased to hear that the Warrior, under steam, has been what may be considered a complete success. Under sail and steam she went 16.3 knots, and coming into this place on Tuesday from off Cape Clear, at the time the Revenge was going about 13 knots, she was going 15.2; the Revenge under a considerable press of sail and full steam, the Warrior topsails and foresail and fall steam. Steaming head to wind and sea, the Warrior went 9.8 at a time when the Revenge, at the rendezvous, found it neces sary to take in the third reef of her topsails. The trials in sailing have not been very favourable tothe Warrior. The first day, by the wind, the Revenge's jib boom went just before starting; this lost time; but after wards, on starting, the Warrior settled gradually to leeward. The next day the trial was with the wind abeam, when the Revenge left the Warrior very much, the Warrior, having a reef out of the topsails, royals, and fore topmast studdingsail more than the Revenge. By the Warrior's own account the Revenge left her at the rate of 500 yards per hour. The Revenge hardly works fair with the Warrior in steaming. The Warrior's fuel is the best Welsh coal, and fresh, while that of the Revenge has been in the ship a long time. The stokers and engineers of the Warrior are very numerous compared with those of the Revenge; but the Revenge's stokehole is vastly superior to the Warrior's. The Cork Examiner publishes the following in teresting description of the Warrior's behaviour during her trial cruise :-- "The great question to be determined with re gard to the Warrior was as to her speed and sea going qualities, and the present cruise was under taken with the object of testing these. In order to try her on every possible point of sailing and steam ing, she has been matched with the Revenge, a 90- gun two-decker, the fastest ship in the Channel fleet. " But for the extraordinary repute of her rival the beauty of the Revenge would have made her an object of attraction, as she lies opposite Haulbow line ; but all eyes are naturally directed to the first armour-plated vessel that has ever been seen in the water. The test cruise commenced on Thursday, when both vessels left Portland, the Revenge under the command of Rear-Admiral Smart, and the War rior under Capt. Cochrane. Their cruise was about the British Channel and away southward to about the centre of the Bay of Biscay. The weather was upon the whole fair, but the wind was stiff, and at one period rose almost to the dimensions of a gale. The result of the trial as regards the Warrior seems to have been not merely satisfactory but astonish ing. "If we may credit the reports of the officers, she has, under sail and steam, working full power, attained the extraordinary speed of 18 knots. When at this rate looking through her ports is described as inspiring something of the sensation felt in look ing through the window of an express train. In steaming alone, carrying her ordinary pressure of about 201 b. to the inch, she can beat the Revenge between two and three knots an hour. Under sail, however, she is no match for the two-decker, which can not only go closer to the wind, but faster before it. The spars and sails of the Warrior are no larger than those of an ordinary line-of-battle ship, while the weight they have to drive is manifestly far MiSatil.l4`ll ie breeze , w L t ri lr a r s e f a o l re , e on s - h :nd --- e ' ven . with a good sailing wind is not equal to a ship like the Revenge. It has been said that she would do better with four masts than her present conventional three. During the present trial the highest rate of speed she has attained under sail alone was nine knots, while steaming only she has nearly equalled the rate of her trial trip, which was something short of 141 knots. With the propeller working she is said not to be handy to steer, and that she does better when it is lifted. Comin g within harbour, owing to the momentum caused by her great weight she is somewhat difficult fo handle. Though her screw was lifted twice during the cruise, yet she steamed the greater portion of the time, which was from Thursday to Tuesday. Her consumption of coal during that time is roughly estimated as being under 400 tons. The original complement put on board was 900; of this a considerable quantity was used in preliminary trials, and she has now on board about 250 tons. "Her weatherly qualities are considered to have been more than established. She goes smoothly over an angry sea, and does not roll in any extra ordinary degree. She has taken in water, but only over the bow, and it is said that when the Re venge was shipping seas in considerable number, the Warrior was perfectly dry. During much of the cruise she had her main deck ports open. In the Bay of Biscay, where the roughest weather was en countered, th©y had to be closed, but rather with a view to the comfort of the seamen than through any absolute necessity. At all events, it is posi tively stated that the guns could have been fought at any period of the trip. " The engines move with great smoothness and caused no vibration of any consequence. A trial was made on Tuesday morning as to the effect of the recoil of the heavy guns, and with this object three broadsides were fired from the shotted 86- pounders. The consequent vibration was trifling. Indeed the effect of the working of the engines or the recoil of guns was felt far less than it would have been in an ordinary line-of-battle ship. The guns were found to be capable of training only two and a-half points. " The powers of the Warrior as a steam-ram were very near being unconsciously tested during the cruise. In the morning watch of Tuesday, both vessels steering up for Cork, the Revenge was lead ing under sail and the Warrior steaming after. The latter overtook the Revenge rapidly. The interven tion of the sails probably prevented the Revenge's lights from being seen, and the Warrior was bear ing fast down upon her consort, when she was made out from the Revenge, and a signal blue light having been thrown up her course was altered. It was not, however, a moment too soon, as it is said there was not a dozen feet between the stern of one ves sel and the jibboom of the other. DEATH OF GENERAL SIR HOWARD DOUGLAS. — The death cf General Sir Howard Douglas took place last Saturday, at the advanced age of 86. The deceased was the third son of the first baronet, and entered the army in 1794. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his brother in 1809. Sir Howard Douglas served with his regiment at Portugal and Spain in 1808 and 1809, an d was presentin gtiltheend i C i o a ru al n s n o a t , fo nok r w p a h r i t c h i n h t e h r e e c l e v i v a e i d the n h aran war Exp medal edt a i o n n done , an d clasp. s p . Return ing s t e n n t t h a e t p t h e e n s i n i e s g u e l a a and bloBmlll3,a he d e m r e e n t a o i n f e F d 1 u t h e h e r i e n l of 1812, and for his services received the Cross of Charles 111. of Spain. He became a general in the army in 1851, since which time he has .been colonel of the 15th Foot, the colonelcy of which is thereby rendered vacant. Sir H. Douglas represented Liverpool in Parliament from 1842 to 1847, after having been an unsuccessful candidate in 1832, and again in 1835. He was Governor of New Brunswick from 1823 to 1829, and Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands from 1835 till 1840; was a Groom of the Bedchamber to the late Duke of Gloucester, and received the degree of D.C.L. from Oxford in 1829. In recognition of his military services the deceased general was created a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1835, and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in 1841. He is succeeded by his son Robert Percy. Ho was the author of many scientific treatises, especially on fortification and gunnery—a subject which occupied his attention until the very close of his long and active life. An amalgamation is stated to have been arranged between:the new London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company of Liverpool. The business of the amalgamated Companies will be carried on separately, the fire depart ment being conducted by the London and Lancashire Company, and the life department by the Queen Company. THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA. DISCOVERY OF DR. BAIKIE.-ANOTHER DAHOMEY MASSACRE. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. The Royal Mail steamship Ethiope, with the above mails, arrived here this afternoon, after a very rapid passage from the West Coast. She brings 1,400 ounces gold dust, a full cargo of palm oil, ivory, &c., and 31 passengers. Her dates are— Benin, September 24 ; Fernando Po, October 4 ; Cameroons, 2 ; Old. Calabar, September 29 ; Brass, Nun River, and Bonny, October 7; Lagos, 10 ; Cape Coast Castle, 14 ; Cape Palmas, 17 ; Sierra Leone, 21; Bathurst, 25 ; Teneriffe, 30 ; and Madeira, November 1. By this arrival we are placed in possession of news of the long lost African explorer, Dr. Baikie, regarding whose fate there has been so much specu lation. It will be remembered that Dr. Baikie was attached for some time to the Niger expedition, and the last heard from him—until the present time— was upwards of two years ago. Since then the fate of himself and his assistant was a mystery, but it was generally believed that he had either perished from the sickness and fatigue incident on his ex plorations, or that he had fallen a victim to some of the savage tribes of the country. We are, however, glad to say that the adveuturous explorer and his assistant have at last been discovered alive and well, after a residence of two years amongst the natives, during which time they were without com munication with Europeans. During his two years' sojourn among the natives the doctor enjoyed tolerable good health, and had likewise made some interesting researches in connexion with the ex ploration o l f the Niger. The last advices left Dr. Baikie at the confluence of the river. The explor ing steamer Sunbeam, and the other vessels engaged in the expedition, had returned to the mouth of the Niger, ,after having been up to the confluence. Her Majesty's ship Espoir accompanied the vessels for protection, after which she sailed for the Island of Ascension. Another of those diabolical massacres which is a stigma on civilisation was about to be carried into effect at Dahomey. The Cannibal King was going to have another " grand custom." This sacrifice is to celebrate the new yam season, and the prepara tions were to have been of the most complete cha racter. All the principal natives and traders at Lagos had received invitations to be present to witness the ceremony of cutting off the heads of about 2,000 human beings. From this it would appear that the protest lately made against such acts of barbarism by the British Government, through the late Mr. Consul Foote, has had no effeet on the King of Dahomey, and the general opinion appears to be that until " His Majesty" is disposed of by summary or other means, this reign of terror will not abate. The cultivation of the country around Dahomey, down to the very sea board, was neglected, in consequence of the obser vance of the cruelties. Hunting parties had been sent out, to capture from neighbouring tribes the unhappy victims for the sacrifices. From Lagos we learn that a report was very'pre valent at that place, that the ex King Dosomu had mustered about 2,000 natives under arms, for the purpose of taking the Acting Governor of Lagos, Commander Bedingfeld, R.N., prisoner, and mas sacreing the merchants. The plot, however, had exploded, and the ex-King was said to have vanished. The King (Pepple) of Bonny was still on board his vessel, the Bowlah, in the Bonny river. His subjects were equally divided, some ready to sup port his being reinstated ; others, and powerful chiefs determined to oppose him. SEVERE STORM. Yesterday forenoon, between 10 and 11 o'clock, London was visited by a severe storm. The wind, which during the previous night had been exceed ingly variable, early in the forenoon settled into a strong gale from the south-west. The sky became suddenly overcast, loud peals of thunder followed, and a deluge of rain and hail fell. In some parts of I.oncion Lue .Lreetts were flooded to the depth of about a foot. The violence of the wind was very great. Few casualties are, however, reported. In the public parks considerable injury has been done to the trees, and in the river several barges and small boats have been driven from their moorings and injured by coming into collision with each other. The storm was most violent on the Surrey side of the Thames, where many skylights and win dows were broken by the violence with which the large hailstones were driven against them. Alon g Bankside, Southwark, Lambeth, and Bermondsey a great amount of mischief was done to the cellar stock of ♦arious publicans. The rain entered a newly erected building in Lombard-street, and slaked a quantity of lime. The heat so produced set the house on fire. The engines of the brigade however, were quickly in attendance, and the flames were speedily extinguished. The western districts of London were less exposed to the storm than the south-western. At Notting-hill the inhabitants were ignorait of the fact that a violent storm had been raging in other parts of the metropolis. CHATHAM, Nov, 10. Shortly before noon to-day the town and neigh bourhood were visited by a perfect hurricane of wind, hail, and rain, accompanied by several loud peals of thunder and extremely vivid lightning. For nearly half an hour the rain descended in im mense sheets of water, more resembling the fearful storms of tropical climates than anything usually experienced in these latitudes, quickly flooding most of the streets and lanes in various parts of the town, and in the neighbouring city of Rochester. The wind during the time raged with fearful vio lence ; but beyond the inconvenience resulting from the great fall of rain, no damage to property has been reported. The barometer during the day has been at 28.85, and this evening is still falling. All the vessels in the harbour have rode out the gale in safety, most of them having an extra anchor down. PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY, 6 P.M. We have had a heavy gale of wind here during the past 18 hours from the south-west, accompanied during the fore part of the time with thunder and lightning, hail, and tremendous rain squalls. The two preceding days had been unusually fine for the time of year, yesterday especially so, with a bright warm sun, the glass on both days, however, being low, on Friday the barometer marking 29.35 and the thermometer 40 at 9 a.m. ; and yesterday,' at the same hour, the barometer being at 29.47 and the thermometer again as law as 40. At 6 p.m. yesterday the barometer had risen to 29 67, the night being, like the day had been, remark ably fine. No. 14 pilot-boat of this port, which returned early this morning from the Channel, reports that up to sunset yesterday the weather in in land th l e ake C . ha A nn f e te l, r with water s emqeueatlhl as s fi anne h th a e d set the wind came • suddenly in l i ght puffs from various points of the compass, with a great deal of lightning in the western s k y. From this time the wind gradually got up, and by 11 p.m. the pilot boat, under canvass reduced as low as possible, was running for port before a strong gale, which kept on increasing until about 4 a.m., when it ap peared to have reached its extreme point here, at which it remained untill about 10 a.m., when the rain partially ceased, and the storm broke, trending away to the north-west, and moving thence in a semicircular direction, over the Isle of Wight, by the south round to the east, and where it was evi dent the storm was expending its strength in a manner fully equal to anything that had been ex perienced here. At noon a slight thunderstorm separated itself from the main body and passed over here, but was of no strength compared with those preceding, the glass giving indications of rising and the atmosphere becoming clearer, but the wind still continuing very strong from the same quarter. At sunset the wind had got in to N.N.W. more mode rate, with the barometer risen a tenth and the ther mometer at 53 deg., but the weather still looking wild and threatening. Tit to tr TH PRiL PREVAILING.-" How is it," said a noble man anambassador, t you succeed t o p er f ection in EVA,?.:: your mission ?" "Because, my lord, I tell the truth, and they never believe it, and therefore they tak e no trou b le to coun t e ract it."--Vie Quiver.