The Sun. — London, England, 1861-11-21 00:00:00

1_ COVENT ENULTSH O PERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the management of Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. Wm. Harrison, Sole LCSaCC3. THIS EVENING '(3d time) THE TOY MAKER. Mr. Henry Haigh, G. Pyne ; Mesdames Susan Pyne and Thirl- Wal I, After which, at Eight o'clock, LIIRLINE. Miss L. Pyne, Mesdames Jessie APLean and Thirlwall ; Messrs. Santley. 11. Cord, C. Lyall, Patey, and W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. Commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-offioe Open from Ten to Five daily. No charge for Oki;., or fees to Box-keepers. Stagc-Manager, Mr. Leigh Murray. Acting- llana.gcr, Mr. Edward Murray. T HEATRE•ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstone. THIS EVENING, the pertorraances will commence with THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. After which, OUII AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dun teary, Mr. Sothern. Mr. Buckstone , Mr. F a r ren, Mrs. C. "n g, To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager--Mr. Edmund Falconer. TIIIS EVENING, GONE TO TEXAS. Mr. Walter Lacy, Mrs. St. Henry. After which, at a quarter to Eight (11th time) the new and original Drama, entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmund Falconer ; M. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. M Acting Manac.,rer—r. F. B. Chitterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half -past 8, to commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. RO YAL PRINCE S S'S THEATRE.— Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THE MERRY WIVES OF WIND SOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Ryder (his first appearance in that character.) Messrs. G. Jordan, H. Widdicomb, &e. To conclude with BLUE JACKETS. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.--• Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE PRETTY HORSEBREAKER. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford, and Mis 3 Woolgar. Atter which, the new drama, entitled TEE OCTOROON; or, LIFE IN LOUISIANA ; written by the author of "The Colleen Bawn," and in which Mr. and Mrs. D. Boucicault will appear. A New Musical Introduction has been kindly pre sented by Signor Benedict, and will be performed by the Orchestra, which has been re-organised, and will be con ducted by Mr. Riviere, by whom the incidental music has been selected and composed. The following artists will make their 9th appearance :—Mr. G. Jamison, from the Winter garden, New York ; Miss Latimer, from the provincial thea tres ; and Miss Denvil, from the Lyceum. Th e o ther prin cipal characters in the drama will be performed by Messrs. Emery, Stephenson Billington, Paul Bedford, Romer, Mrs. Billington, Mrs. Marston, &c., &c. Entirely new scenery by Messrs. Dalby and Thompson. To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr. Toole, Miss K. Kelly, &c. Doors oven 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.. THIS EVENING, to commence with a new farce, en titled ALL IN THE DARK : Messrs. Butler, D. James, Worboys, Miss E. Wilton, After which, A THUMPING LEGACY. Followed by SMACK FOR SMACK. After which, Mdlle. di Rhona will appear in CAMELIA, and Dance two National Dances. Box-office open from 11 to 5. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at Seven. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. MR. SAM COWELL EVERY EVENING in his New Bong, "THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT " (written expressly for him). Grand Selections from STRADELLA and LA TRAVIATA, By Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Herbert, and Signor Tivoli, with a powerful Chorus. The Comic department comprises all the principal favourites of the day, viz.: Mr. Sam Cowell ; Mr. Marshall, in his new song, "John Bull, you don't bamboozle me ;" Messrs. Harvey and French (the Nerves); Mr. Wood and his talented son, the be st negro delineators ; and Miss Harriet Coveney Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, is. T HE 0 X F ORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET. EVERY EVENING. Auber's New Comic Opera, " LA CIRCASSIENNE," and Verdi's new Grand opera, " Simonßoccancgra," by the entire Company. Balfe's new ballads by Miss Russell and Madame Eederssohn (composed expressly for them). Varied Comic Entertainments by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs. W. Ran dall, Harvey and French (The Nerves), E. Marshall, and SAM COWELL. Hall, 6d. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 108. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 3h. 53m.—Afternoon, 4h. 13m, Te-moußow.-Morning, 4h. 28m.—Afternoon, 4h. 48m THE WEATHER.—Stm OFFICE, NOVEMBER 21, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 42 —liighest since noon yesterday. 35—lowest this morning and during the night. 49—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.90; falling fast. WIND--S.-Westerly; light, with dull, damp weather. „,,, , ,+ s • • • - ~r:La_..,,..* Or ie l -IP ~ , -,...... . ...41,t-;71,,..4-91? ,', - . ' 4":"..25;"''`..--) —'• - ' • , „ , 1) 4e ....- ; 4 4 4“ ..! - :r." --- W- , *"." , ' -- ri'x'';' ,7 - , s' r t ' l, • •V,. ~. -....- •:',,,,,,,” " ... .• ?. 4 -I: , . ( e ' i".'!"<l - ''' ''e - 1 .... re :', •->•', " - r. - . - ,, ,-; e 4 4. - p, ..,- •34 0 ....... ,r,.. ~ , . _ EE; , .., ,, ,' if- u a re •::/ - - e -t: . --,.... THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, NOV. 21, 1861. M. FOULD is, of course, the man of the hour in France—he stands at the Treasury of France in regard to Finance, much as M'CLELLAN does by the Potomac in regard to Secession—all eyes turn to him. Whether his financial genius can effect more than the military genius of the American, remains to be seen. Both seem to be estopped from action by the doings of their predecessors; As the soldier finds that BUCHANAN and LINCOLN between them allowed Secession to arm to an extent, which compels the General to be content with holding his own ; so M. FOULD may find, that the ten years of Imperial extravagance, and the shape that extravagance has taken, will com pletely checkmate him. Where shall he begin his reductions P What ever branch of expenditure he selects, he will raise up a formidable host of malcontents. Possibly disbandment of eighty or a hundred thousand soldiers may create least disturbance—that number may be found glad of a furlough, but to maintain the authority or influence of France in Europe the army must be kept ready for action. Hence the most expensive part—the officers and equipments of every regiment—must be fully kept up; the board and wages of the men will be saved, but the full salaries of the officers will remain, and the costly artillery probably be undimi ni,hed. Anything like compulsory disbandment would displease the body which placed the EMPEROR on the throne. That, of course, woulci never do. The elect of the coup de-etat may not touch a hair of a pretorian's head. If M. FOULD looks to the other departments, to any one we mean which has employed labour in accordance with the Socialistic views of the EMPE ROR, what can he do. With bread dearer than for m any years, he cannot dismiss the workmen with out raising the most dreaded of Parisian cries. Indeed, we have just now at home a specimen of what difficulty a Government finds in giving up unprofitable expenditure. We have found that we were paying nearly a million a-year for Educa tion, through a system which hardly taught a fourth of the children any useful knowledge of the three elements of education. We propose not to stop the expenditure, but to require that the wor k shall be done fora hich the money is paid —and instantly there is perfect hubbub of Government payees through the land, clamorously asserting a vested right in payments for doing the thing the country does not want ! M. FOULD will find this yet more in France, if he proposes to stop the Government expenditure in public works, in shipbuilding, or in anything which has fed great numbers by employment which now seems to be unprofitable. We wish the new Minister success, but we fear ho has difficult material to work. Already the Minister of the Marine declares that he cannot reduce his expenditure a single centime. No guarantee, therefore, is to be given for Euro pean peace on the side of the French navy ; yet this is of all the extravagancies of the Empire the greatest extravagance, and the worst cause of ap prehension t o E urope. M. FOULD relies CM the effect of freer, more 3. reraTtUittur.” -1 . 1 • •• . - public dealing with the estimates, and indeed the way in which they are now managed is the very burlesque of voting them through the representatives, such as they are, of the people. A a correspondent in a contemporary thus describes the present process—" The Budget is afterwards submitted to the Legislative Chamber by Mini sterial departments, so that the Chamber, which cannot present an amendment, cannot exercise the right of rejection but on the entire Budget of each Minister. Should they object, for in stance, to the expenses of any single office in the department of the Minister of Finance, they cannot reject the item without rejecting the whole of the estimates of that department, including those for the payment of the interest on the national debt. With this alternative no deputy will venture to exer cise his right. When the Budget has passed through these various trials it is put to the vote as a whole, and, of course, passed, and it is after this last opera tion that the supplementary and extraordinary credits are decreed. The first reform of this system of voting the supplies will be proposed, and, no doubt, adopted, by the Senate in its sitting an nounced for the 2d, and the Budget will in future be voted by what is called chapters' instead of by ' Ministries." What will be the form and working of the pro posed alteration it is useless to consider till we see it—but though we have much faith in the power of discussion and publicity, we must acknowledge, with the Journal des Debats, that the vote by chapters, and the abolition of supplementary credits cannot in themselves be enough. But two modes are known to any of us —to individuals and nations alike—of rectifying our annual balance-sheet, either obtaining more money, or diminishing our expenses. The first seems difficult indeed, if we may judge by the 'proposal which is chiefly talked of. ,When a tax on Lucifer matches is the first expedient proposed for raising the wind, one might sup pose that the second would be a resort to the being whose name they bear ; in other words that French finance was going whither it would not be quite polite to say. When LUCIFER has, however, done his best in response to M. FOULD'S supplications, we cannot doubt that retrenchment will be the only one left of the two remedies. To this or to revolution it will come at last ; if the former be preferred, it must be as M. FOULD himself appears to see, by giving up the office of arbitrator for all Europe. An army and navy not for defiance, bat for defence merely, is the principle which can alone save France finan• cially. It will be long, we fear, before national as well as Imperial pride will submit to this necessity. Some evasion will be found—some crooked policy resorted to—if LUCIFER will not do, SATAN him self would be invoked rather than the grand policy of disquieting all Europe should be given up. It must certainly be recognised as a very extra ordinary turning of the tables indeed when Sir DE LACY EVANS (of all men in England!) can look con fidently to Sir ROBERT PEEL (of all men in Ire land !) for the rousing at last of the sister island to a tardy but energetic participation in the Volunteer Movement. Sir DE LACY EVANS—who can say with justice, "I believe I was the first person who had the honour of presidin g at a metropolitan mew ng for the formation of a Volunteer force !" Sir ROBERT PEEL—who, on the contrary, was, not so very long ago, conspicuous among those who strove to turn that same movement into the uttermost ridicule! Yet, so it is. The gallant old veteran the member for the City of Westminster does look confidently to the right hon. baronet the Secretary for Ireland for the extension of that patriotic act i vity to the Irish people which has now been mani fested, with such admirable results, during the last two years among all ranks and classes of English• men and Scotchmen. And no wonder, say we, tha he should do so—no wonder that the member for Westminister should look with this confidence to the present Irish Secretary in this matter, because th® third Sir ROBERT PEEL already has so far emu lated his illustrious father in respect to one of his very noblest characteristics—in that he never hesi- totes to acknowlelge an error of judgment on his own part so soon as he himself has come to recog nise it. He did this, right manfully, he did precisely this some months back in regard to what he had pre viously said and thought derisively about the Volun- teer movement. And so it came to pass, we repeat quite naturally, almost as a matter of course, that' General Sir DE LACY EVANS, one of the original promoters of the Volunteer movement in England, turns hopefully to Sir ROBERT PEEL for the fur therance of that same movement now in Ireland. Referring to the actual state of things in regard to this movement in the three great divisions of the United Kingdom, the member for the City of Westminster has recently observed, in his very able and comprehensive address to his constituents, — In England and Scotland the more public-spirited of the nobles, gentry, middle classes, and others have induced the Government to acquiesce in, and even give some support to, the patriotic armament which has thus sprung up throughout the length and breadth of Great Britain." Adding thereupon— " The people of Ireland have not been hitherto thought wanting in vigour, good faith, or military aptitude. In my humble opinion it is now the duty of the same classes in the sister island to emulate the patriotic conduct in this matter of their fellow sub jects on this side the Channel. 1 venture to believe that, instead of sectarian differences being the real cause of this affronting exclusion, it is more likely to be attributable to the bureaucracy of the Vice regal Government, whose repugnance to deviate from their habitual routine, as is usually the case with other bureaucracies, led them to thwart this movement." And thereupon it is that Sir DE LACY EVANS turns confidently to the sometime derider of the Volunteer movement—turns with im plicit reliance to the present Irish Secretary— looking to him especially for the breaking down of the barrier of " habituable routine " recognizable in this, as in so many other things in the Hibernian Bureaucracy ! Nothing could be more explicit or more directly to the purpose than the words applied to this subject by the member for the City of Westminster. He `writes—" Sir ROBERT PEEL, however, I am glad to find, at present fills the office formerly held by Sir ARTHUR WELLESLET. I conclude that he has duly weighed the statements on this subject of his great predecessor ; and I have too high an estima tion of his intelligence and vigour to doubt of his setting this whole matter right, by which he will free his colleagues from deserved reproach, and in augurate advantageously his own official career." A y, h ave great confidence ourselves th a t i n LACY these anticipations Sir DE 13 , - doomed to disappointment. - I Sir ROBERT PEEL'S manly character is comin g I ou t every day more brightly and more agreeably in the estimation of his fellow countrymen. He is showing his intelligence repeatedly. He is always as frank and as outspoken as we could wish him to be, in his responsible capacity as a public adminis trator. His speech the other day at Belfast — whatever else may be thought of it by some—was as manly as well could be. In was a speech, remember, uttered in some re k 'Teets under circumstances of much delicacy. For n ~ ---- rag SET N, LONDON, TdURSDAY EVENING, NOVEHBER 21, 1861. one thing Sir ROBERT had to begin his remarks by responding to an address couched in language of the most encomiastic character. But how did he respond to it ? By saying, among other things, for example—" I do not, gentlemen, for one moment suppose that I am in any way worthy of the grati fying encomiums which have been passed upon me." But he adds, " I accept them in part as the son of that statesman to whom allusion has been made in this address which has now been read, and I rejoice to find that the expectations which he had formed on one notable occasion of a memorable address in the House of Commons have been, both in this coun try and in England, realised by the grateful recol lections with which his memory is cherished by all classes of the community, but more particularly by those—to use his most eloquent words—by those of whom there are many thousands in your town of Bel fast, by those whoselot it is to labour and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow—the sweeter because it is no longer leavened with a sense of injustice." Again, the Irish Secretary was speak ing to his Belfast audience under circumstances of still greater delicacy—remembering, as who can fail to remember ? his recent denunciation there by the Roman Catholic Primate of all Ireland, Arch bishop CULLEN. Commenting upon this denun ciation, Sir ROBERT PEEL put the matter thus plainly before his hearers :—" Now, gentlemen," he said, " just figure to yourselves his Grace the Arch bishop of CANTERBURY exhuming from the sepulchre of our Parliamentary debates extracts from Han sard, and incorporating them in a circular to the clergy of his province, denouncing with the most severe ecclesiastical censure political views upon the extension of the franchise, or upon Irish tram ways. Or go further," he said, " suppose the Archbishop of CANTERBURY holding up to popular indignation a Roman Catholic who goes for pur poses of charity into the outlying districts of Step ney and Spitalfields for the purpose of doing good. " Why, such conduct as that," exclaimed Sir R. PEEL, " would only raise a smile of pity in Eng land, and would tend, unquestionably, to lower the character of that sacred office which he so worthily fills. " But I am sorry to say," added the Irish Secretary, " that it is precisely that I com plain of in this "country." It was certainly bringing the case directly home to his Irish audi tors, to pat it thus bluntly before them with that very:point blank application of the whole affair to his Grace the Archbishop of CANTERBURY. A Secretary for Ireland who is so bold, and outspoken, and self reliant as Sir ROBERT PEEL has already shown himself to be since he succeeded Mr. CARDWELL in that most delicate and responsible office, is not very likely, we may rest assured, to stick at any mere trifle in the way of promoting the further ance of the Volunteer Movement among the loyal population of Ireland. We have heard much of Trades Unions of late ; we seem now likely to hear a good deal of Church Unions. We do not refer to Union of Benefices, and the removal, by that means, of aseles churches in the City to situations where there are congrega- tions to fill them ; the Church, the clergy especially, are summoned to a union of quite another kind by two gentlemen who move in very different spheres indeed, but are each notable in his way—the Hon. BENJAMIN DISRAELI and Sir CULLING EARDLEY —and it is somewhat singular that both these gen tlemen fix on the unfortunate " Essays and Re views," or on their writers, as a chief cause of the disunion of which they complain. The worthy Baronet of Erith has, however, rather wider views than the distinguished Privy Council lor. He would,webelieve,by his EvitngelicalAlliance, effect for the religious people of England what the Emperor of AUSTRIA would fain do for his nume rous States—Sir CULLING EARDLEY, if we under stood him rightly, would amalgamate all sects. Only, unfortunately, the obstinate sects, like the obstinate Hungarians, wont amalgamate. The great meeting of his Amalgamation Society came off yesterday in Freemason's Hall; but for that matter, the company would have been far more comfortable in the baronet's own parlour, where they would certainly have been easily and pleasantly accommodated, since they did not number more than thirty persons. This, too, was not an initial conference, but a public meeting, the climax of thirty years of en deavours to persuade all good Christians that they ought to unite rather than quarrel for ever ; and to unite under the diplomatic title of the Evangelical Alhance. Mr. DISRAELI aims at nothing so visionary. He sees a " great majestic corporation" which has grown with the growth of the nation, which is a part of England itself ; but which it is forfeiting half its advantages by the distrusts and discontents which prevail among its leaders. The Statesman does not want to amalgamate all sects with the Church, but to amalgamate the sects in the Church ; and he charges on the Essay and Re view writers that they have created deep dis• trust by advocating opinions contrary to those which they are under engagements to maintain. He allows laymen to be free inquirers, but de clares that clergymen may not be so. They have taken a brief and received a fee to maintain the Articles and the Liturgy against all corners, and it is not for them to inquire. They have signed that they do ex animo believe Articles and Prayer-book in their plain grammatical sense—and Mr. DIS RAELI agrees with Dr. LUSHINGTON that that sense precludes all inquiry on the subjects on which the formularies speak. It is on this point that Mr. DISRAELI and Sir CULLING seem also so entirely to agree. One of the EARDLEY resolutions, agreed to unanimously by the whole thirty who composed the fifteenth meet ing of the British Evangelical Alliance—was a censure of the "Essays and Reviews," and amongs the grounds of censure were, that the writers had " entered into solemn obligations to preach the faith of GOD, which large portions of the volume tend directly to destroy ;" the resolution, which is theo logically long, adds, that so marked an opposition between the teaching of the volume " and the public subscription of most of the writers is calcu lated to excite suspicion as to the integrity of clerical subscription and ministerial engagements in general. and thus do essential injury to the conscience of the nation, and lower the standard of truthfulness throughout the land." We can hardly doubt that Sir CULLING and his 30 had been studying the speech at Aylesbury, as the Resolution is bat a prosy expansion of what was better said by the Statesman. It is however a little remarkable that persons of such wholly different positions and views as the Alliance Baronet and the Tory Statesman should both be found assailing the Essayists from the same ground. Both complain that the Essayists violated their subscription. To us it suggests a different lesson—that any subscription which can b 3 devised can be little better th an a snare for conscientious men, who have ability e noug h to b© respectable teachers of religion. We ob serve, for instance, CULLING'S thirty who voted i the names of some leader s o f i l Evangelicals amongst Sir for this resolution amongst Churchmen. How, in the name of the conscience, can they talk about to the Essayists, can they sub. _ scribe to the acknowledged remnants of Popery, and to the Sacramental efficacy and priestly powers which mark the Liturgy P Rightly or wrongly the Evangelicals preach against these things, and then hold up their hands to a vote of censure on the Essayists for unconscientious sub scription ! The truth is, no man can draw up a ereed, much less lengthened formula ries and articles of belief, to which any other man of independent thought can subscribe as being true throughout. Each man who lives and thinks twenty years must undergo some change in his own opinions. Very general agreement, like that which unites the two great parties in politics, is all that is possible, if men are honest. Clerical subscription is, we believe, a great evil. We quite agree with the EARDLEY Resolution, that for people to think clergymen sign, or retain their subscription to what they do not believe, is an " injury to the conscience of the nation"—and that it " lowers the standard of truth fulness"—but we would remind Sir CULLING that the Essayists, in the eyes of the nation, are not the only guilty parties. The common belief is that not one clergyman in twenty would assert his belief in all which he has signed as most true—and as conformable to what Protestants regard as the one standard of theological truth. LONDON GLEE _ AND MADRIGAL UNION, EGYPTIAN HALL, There is no falling off in the attractive power of the exquisite glees, old ballads, and madrigals, as performed for the third season under the able direc tion of Mr. Land. There is evidently an increasing love and appreciation of this kind of music, and those who weary of a long opera may be seen thoroughly excited and interested during the sing ing of " Now is the month of Maying," or " Barbara Allan." The present programme contains a variety of charming compositions, including Sir Henry Bishop's quintet, " Now by day's retiring lamp," " Love in her eyes," from " Acis and Galatea," " When winds breathe soft," "By Celia's arbour," and others of equal merit. Miss Eyles charms the audience by her expressive power and sweet sing ing thrown into the old traditional ballad, "Near Woodstock Town." A rapturous encore is sponta neously awarded her, and most richly is it de served. The beautiful four-part song by Kiicken, " The soldier's farewell," is given with great effect and careful finish by Messrs. Land, Lawler, Cum mings, and Baxter, usually eliciting the same com pliment. In short the whole entertainment is of a most pleasing character, and we are not astonished to find such full and fashionable audiences con stantly attending it. Mr. Land knows well how to select the best and most telling compositions; and under his direction there is nothing more to be desired in the rendering of them. They are perfect of their class, and constitute a most agreeable fea ture during the gloom of our winter months. PRIVY COUNCIL.—Her Majesty the Queen held a Privy Council yesterday. Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Most Noble Edward Duke of Somer set to be Lord Lieutenant of the county of Devon, his grace took the customary oaths. The Right Hon. Francis Earl Cowper was sworn Lord Lieutenant of the county of Bed ford. The Right Hon. Benjamin Lord Llanover was sworn Lord Lieutenant of the county of Monmouth. Prince Leopold of England arrived at Cannes on the afternoon of the 15th, having travelled from Paris by easy stages. The Prince occupies the Villa Leader, near that of Lord Brougham. _ The Emperor of Russia has just placed a sum of 125,000 fr. at the disposal of M. Struve, the celebrated astronomer, for the purpose of establishing an observatory on Mount Ararat. THE LATE KING OF PORTUGAL.—The post mortem examination took place on the 13th, and the opinion given was that his Majesty had expired from a violent at-. tack of fever, the cause of which was to be attributed to the miasma arising from the marshes in the neighbourhood of the capital. FUNERAL OF MR. T. S. DIINCOMBE..—The in terment of the late member for Finsbury took place to-day at Kensal-green Cemetery, at half-past eleven o'clock. In conformity with the wishes of the deceased, only relalives, with some members of his committee, attended as mourners., THE CARLISLE ELECTION.--We learn by eleetrid telegraph that the writ for the Carlisle election arrived there yesterday, and that proclamation was made from the mar ket cross that the nomination will take place on Monday, and the polling on Tuesday next. _ _ A Vienna journal says :—" Omer Pacha, wearied at having repeatedly demanded in vain from the Porte the reinforcements which are absolutely necessary to enable him to put down the insurrection in the western provinces of the Turkish empire, lately prayed the Sultan to give him a successor forthwith ; but on the earnest entreaties of Prince Kalimachi he has consented 10 retain his command for the present," A letter from Berlin of the 18th says :—" The decision has to-day been come to that no money shall be demanded from the Chambers fer the coronation ceremonies, but that the King shall pay all the expenses from his privy purse. His Majesty, in order to do so, intends to borrow 2,000,000 thalers from the Seehandlung (Maritime Com merce Bank). This news has produced a very good im pression. _ _ WARLIKE PREPARATIONS IN ITALY.—A letter from Naples of the 15th, in the Italia, says :—" The utmost activity prevails in the dockyards of Naples and Castella mare. An order has arrived from Turin directing all the vessels to be repaired and re-armed. They are required to be ready for the spring, and M. Tholosano has given direc tions that the workmen should bo employed even on the Sunday. FIRE AT KENSINGTON.--A destructive fire broke out yesterday morning on the extensive premises of Mr. C. Phelps, builder, Essex Villa, Philimore-gardens, Kensing- ton. The fire was discovered raging in the workshops. The engines of the Kensington Brigade, as well as the London Fire Brigade, were shortly on the spot and got to work under the direction of Mr. G. It. Staples, but the fire was not extinguished until a building 24 feet long by about 20 wide was burnt out. THE NORTH BRITON.—At Lloyd's yesterday 20 guineas premium were offered on the North Briton, Cana dian steamer, but were declined. In the course of the after noon the rates advanced to 30 guineas, but very little, if any, business was dote at that price. A telegram was posted at noon from Liverpool that the Jura steamer passed the North Britonlin the evening of the 4th (the day after her departure), and that the Jura was detained 31 hours by fog at Belle Isle on the 7th. It is exceedingly probable that the North Briton encountered the fog, and sustaining some damage to her machinery, &c., was detained. The last rates done on the ship James "Wilson, from Australia, with £BO,OOO of gold on board, now out upwards of 130 days, was 15 guineas. PRESENTATION TO THE LATE GOODS MANAGER OP THE WEST MIDLAND RAILWAT.—.A. short time ago Mr. Thos. Hibbert retired from the office of goods manager on the West Midland line, in order to enter upon a more lucrative appointment on the South Western Railway. He held his former office for nine years, and won the respect of the officers of the company and many members of the community with which he was connected in business. It was res lved, therefore, to present him with some substan tial mark of the respect in which he was held. A subscrip tion list was accordingly opened, and very soon 220 sub scribers had given in their names, and upwards of £3OO was realised. This sum was expended in the purchase of a dinner and dessert service of plate for twelve, a beau tiful gold chronometer watch and guard, and a neatly netted purse, containing 100 guineas.— Wolverhampton Chronicle. _ _ _ ..... According to the New York accounts this week, the shipments of grain from that port during the month of October had been of unprecedented magnitude, those of wheat and flour alone being worth more than a million and a half sterling. 'r he imports of manufactured goods during the same period had been only £400,000 against £1,100,000 in the corresponding month of last year, and oven of this total about half consisted of woollen goods bought for army purposes. Nearly all the markets were now drained of produce, and many bankers and merchants were looking anxiously to the effects to be witnessed when the shipments of breadstuffs, as would soon be the case, are reduced to moderate proportions. The financial advices from Paris to day state that it is understood M. Fould called before him yesterday the Syndicat of the Agents do Change, and intimated that he does not intend raising any loan for the present. He is also reported to have said that, in his opinion, the measures about to bo taken will inspire sufficient confidence to enable the immediate wants of the Treasury to be supplied through the floating debt. The Bourse is to be opened gratuitously at the end of the year, and the tourniquets removed. Tho obnoxious tax on the transfer of share property, which pro duces only £240,000 per annum, is likewise to be abolished or modified. The Minister further mentioned that within these few days there has been a commencement of a return of silver to the Bank of France. Among the recent causes of firmness in the funds have been some large purchases of Reduced and India De bentures on account of the London and Westminster Bank . . Several of the French journals state that a float ing battery cased with iron, which will be called Le Ram part, is about to bo built at Cherbourg. LATEST NEWS. OPENING OF THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT, TURIN, Nov. 20, EVENING. The Italian Parliament was re-opened to-day. In the Chamber of Deputies. Baron Ricasoli, Presi • dent of the Council, explained the present state of the Roman question. He said that he had drawn up a plan of reconciliation between religion and liberty, and between the State and the Church. He had requested the Emperor Napoleon to become mediator; but, owing to the little disposition to conciliation on the part of the Roman Court, the mediation had not been attended with any result. Baron Ricasoli then laid on the table of the house the documents relating to this project of arrangement. The project contains 11 Articles, of which the following is a summary : " The Pope and the Cardinals are to preserve their dignity and inviolability. Full liberty is guaranteed to the Sovereign Pontiff for his acts of divine rights as chief of the Church. The Pope is empowered to send Nuncii to communicate with the Bishops and the faithful, and to convene Synods and Councils without the intervention of the Go vernment. The King of Italy renounces his right in respect of ecclesiastical benefices. The Italian Government also relinquishes all right of inter ference in the nomination of Bishops. Tho King of Italy will guarantee to the Pope a certain re- venue." The 11 articles are preceded by an address to the Pope, accompanied by a letter to Cardinal Antonelli requesting him to give the plan a favour able consideration. A note addressed by Baron Ricasoli to the Che valier di Nigra was also laid on the table of the house. It instructs the Sardinian Minister at Paris to request the good offices of France in order to bring this project before the Pope, and says that should the proposals it contains be rejected, the Italian Government could not, without difficulty, restrain the impatience of the people, who claim Rome as their capital. After the speech of Baron Ricasoli an animated discussion took place on the state of things in the Neapolitan provinces. The Chamber resolved on discussing the state of things in Naples at the same time as the Roman question. PARIS, Nov. 20. The Patrie of this evening says :—" If we are well informed, the disarmament of which we have spoken could only take place in consequence of an understanding between France and the other great powers, who are themselves armed." General Cialdini has arrived in Paris. The Pays denies that it has been purchased by Count de Morny. The statement made by the Constitutionnel yes• terday, that Count Persigny had submitted a pro. ject of disarmament to the Emperor, was nol believed on the Bourse. BERLIN, Nov. 20. The Neve Preussische Zeitung of to-day says : "We learn from a reliable source that the Pope's health is daily becoming more impaired." RAGUSA, Nov. 20. Communication between this city and Trebigne has been interrupted by the insurgents. The Turkish army, under the command of Omer Pacha, has been increased by 10,000 regular troops and Bashi Basouks. The insurgents have likewise received reinforce ments. They returned yesterday to Ljubowa, which place they had left on the 16th inst. A slight skirmish has taken place between the Turks and the insurgents, but led to no result. RAGUSA, Nov. 18. A heavy fall of snow has compelled Omer Pasha go into winter quarters. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY Molly'Na A steamer of war belonging to the Southern States, giving no name, but late the Nashville, has just come into the river with the Confederate flag flying and pennant at the main. She was bound from Bremen for England for repairs, and on Tues day last, is lat. 49.8 N., long. 9.50 W., she fell iu with the American ship Harvey Birch, from Havre for New York, in ballast. She boarded her, and took out all the crew, and put them in irons, and then burnt the ship. The capture took place in 75 fathoms water. The steamer is anchored in the stream, and the crew and all their personal effects are just landed in the docks. The steamer is in a very dilapidated state. The Harvey Birch was a full rigged ship, 1,487 tons American mea surement, commanded by Captain Nelson. The mate states the steamer opened her port fires, and ordered them to heave to, haul down her American flag, and send the captain on board. Captain Nelson went on board, and soon returned with orders from the captain of the Nashville to get all their things out, as they were going to destroy the ship. They were allowed about an hour and a half and got out part of their things. The steamer's crew took a large quantity of provisions on board, and the ship's chronometer, barometer, and some of her charts, and allowed Captain Nelson to have his own chronometer, but he has lost some 1,200 or 1,400 dols. worth of personal effects, books, charts, &c. They then set fire to the ship fore and aft, and the steamer left her burning. The three masts were seen to go over the side. The crew of the Harvey Birch consists in all of 29 men, including the owner's son, captain, two mates, two boat swains, cook, steward, carpenter, and 20 seamen. They are all cast on the shores to do the best they can for themselves. FRANCE. BOURSE, Nov. 20.—The firmness of the market continues unabated, but prices show only a shade of improvement on the closing rates of yesterday. Threes, for the Account, are now at 70f sc. Rail way shares quiet, but firm. The following are the last quotations :- 4i per per Cents ... 96 10 Credit Foncier l2lO Do. end month.... 96 20; Belgian 4 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 05 Roman Bank Shares 2920 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 775 Spanish Threes 49 '25 Do. Account 776 25 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1335 .. 1336 25 Northern New ditto 912 50 .. Lyons and Modittaranean 1027 50 .. 1028 75 Geneva Southern 655 .. 657 50 Western Eastern Sardinian A us t r i an Lombard 525 .. 52 ° 25 POLAND. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) WARSAW, Nov. 12. The Government account of the events of the Koscinszko clay has at last been published, after a delay of more than three weeks. Of course it gives the best appearance it can to what its own mem bers have been fain to confess was a very foul transaction. The disgraceful outrages committed by the Cossacks in every street it terms "dispersing the crowds ;" the soldiers, it says, only entered the Cathedral, after the people had shown their open defiance of the authorities by their persistence in re maining in it, and only then slipped in with some who had been sent out to get water; no - violence whatever VP as used except what was necessary to compel the people to leave the church, the soldiers being without caps or arms; no blood was spilt, and nothing was stolen. The evidence taken by the Commission of Inquiry, officially sanctioned by the Government, tells a very different story. The sol diers who entered without arms had caps on, and admitted others with arms, and the latter used them to good purpose. One person was wounded in the head with a sword; another bad his lips cut open ; a third had his head pierced with a bayonet; and so on. One witness declares that he saw an officer pursuing a boy of fifteen in the church with his sword drawn, and that when the boy fell, knocked down by a cut in the head, a soldier ran up, pierced _ _ him with his bayonet, and threw his bleeding body on the grand altar. The cathedral was broken into —not entered by stratagem. No one went out to get water, simply because there were sentries all round the building, and even on the roof, placed there for the express purpose of preventing the people inside from getting provisions ; and the bro ken gate still testifies to the violence used. That the soldiery added robbery to their other outrages is proved by several drawers-full of jewels and money being broken open in the sacristy, and robbed of heir contents. All this, be it remembered, rests on ,he evidence of accredited witnesses, who were ex- amined on oath before the committee. The Govern- ment have accordingly adopted the most effectual means of preventing any further disclosures being made by arresting the majority of the members of this committee, and afterwards the Rev. Mr. Sick- ,ucki, the president of another committee, subse quently appointed with the same object. General Luders has at length been officially ap pointed acting Viceroy of the kingdom. Wielo polski is still at St. Petersburg, where it appears he is most favourably received by the Czar. During his absence his duties are divided between Messrs. Hube and Dembrowski ; the former takes the De- partment of Education and Religion, the latter that of Justice. General Roznow has been prevented by an accident from taking up his duties in the Inqui sitorial Committee at Warsaw. Generals Lowszyn and Jolszyn, both of whom have distinguished themselves by their barbarity and blood-thirstiness, are worthily filling his place for the time being. Meanwhile the condition of the country has not improved in the slightest degree. Anarchy and violence are everywhere the order of the day. Not satisfied with the results of the state of siege and the disgraceful proceeding of the Kosciuszko day, the Government are, I understand, about to adopt even more rigorous measures than hitherto. A system of coercion is to be adopted in all the depart ments ; and with this view the bishops have been summoned to Warsaw, and the Council of State ordered to meet to-day, the former to be compelled to open the churches, and the latter the schools. Undoubtedly, if there be any truth in the maxim : Quos Deus emit perdere pinus dementat, the Govern ment of Poland must be tottering on the very brink of destruction ; for the obstinate folly which they have displayed during the late events can only be ascribed to the unreasoning promptings of insanity. In the face of the abhorrence and disgust with which they have covered themselves by their acts of cruelty and violence in the eyes of Europe ; of the considerable accession of strength which their exhibition of brute force has given to the passive opposition of the patriots ; of the numberless instances which their own experience has furnished of the impotency of police and the military to control a people resisting with no arms but the strength of one engrossing, universal, national feeling ; they yet go on in the fatal course which has brought on them so many dis asters, and think:to remedy the consequences of violence and outrage by aggravating the very evils which have produced them. The streets and squares of Warsaw are busy with preparations for a win ter campaign. Wooden huts are being built for the troops, who are suffering much from dysentery, brought on by the fatigue consequent on their incessant exertions. Hardly a moment's rest is allowed them; their services are constantly in requisition to arrest peaceable citizens, search private houses, and disperse funeral proces sions. Nine persons of the labouring class have been condemned by the military tribunals to exile and enlistment as privates in the army—one of the most dreaded of the punishments of this paternal Government ; and its persecution has of late been a good deal directed against traders and workmen generally. The consequence is much misery and poverty in the country ; several bankruptcies have taken place, the labourers are without work, and the tradesmen without custom. Several persons who were injured by the soldiery on the 15th have since died of their wounds ; among them a lady who was struck in the forehead by an officer with a sword, because she had a black veil with a white border on. These outrages have now become so common as hardly to excite remark. On the 9th, a boy was sent by his mother after a run away dog. He whistled after the dog, and was seized for whistling at the soldiery, taken to prison, and only released because he was not of age. His mother, however, was arrested as being answerable for the act of her child, and is in prison still. The unfortunate people who are shut up in the citadel are treated in the most barbarous manner ; several, the Rev. Mr. Otto, the Protestant clergyman, among them, have fallen ill in consequence ; and Mr. Hiszpanski, one of the most patriotic of the dele gates, is not even allowed to see any member of his family. In the provinces, arrests and persecutions of every kind continue. The authorities, nothing daunted by the ill success of the profanation of the churches at Warsaw, have repeated their achievement at several of the provincial towns with more or less bloodshed of the unarmed population. A young lady, Miss Jonska, was arrested by a soldier at Wielun for praying under a cross, and taken to Warsaw, where she was so rigorously treated that she became insane. At Kovno, in Lithuania, a detachment of Cossacks fell upon a hunting party of Frenchmen, and wounded three of them, but not until several of their own body were shot down. At Zytomierz, in Volhynia, the number of arrests during the last month is almost incredible. After the destruction by the Russians of the cross which had been erected in this city to commemorate late events, a great number of ladies went to the house of the Rev. Mr. Drucki-Sokolinski, a priest who enjoys the reputation of being a Russian Liberal, to ask him to allow the cross to be replaced and the people who were imprisoned on the occasion to be liberated. He answered that he could not discuss the matter with them all, but that if they would elect deputies to represent them he would be happy to hear what they had to say. Accordingly three ladies, named Pietkiewiez, Bohomolec, and Slawek, were chosen deputies, and entered the room where the priest was ; bat scarcely had they done so when they were arrested. The first is to be sent to a convent, and the two others sent to their estates, where they are to remain under the surveillance of the police. Evidently the priest's proposal was only a trick to get the most patriotic of the ladies into the clutches of the Government. Mr. Piotrowski, who had been in prison at Warsaw for having been in one of the churches on the 15th ult., had scarcely returned to his home in Volhy nia, when he was seized by the police and sent to Omsk, in Siberia; an d by a refinement of cruelty separated from his wife, who was also sent to Siberia, but to another part of the country. The ladies seem here to be the particular objects of the persecutions of the Government ; many of them are in prison, and others on their way to Siberia. Miss Puslowoj tow, the lady who was sent to Zytomierz from Lublin, is now lying so dangerously ill that sbe is not expected to live. The Submarine Telegraph Company's cable be tween Dover and Ostend, a distance of about 70 miles, has been broken by the recent gales, but will, it is understood, be soon repaired. The traffic in no way suffers by the dis aster, being carried on by special direct wires through Franco, INDIA. By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have received files of papers from Bombay to the 28th October, and from Calcutta to the 17th October. We take the following from the Bombay Gazette : " The English mail of the 3d October had not arrived up to the time of our going to press. " Arrangements are now in progress for the re linquishment of office in January next of his Ex cellency Sir George Clerk, Governor of Bombay. " The Governor-General was to leave Calcutta for Allahabad and Agra on the 24th inst. " The Commander-in-Chief is forming his camp at Jallundur, whence he will march to make his military inspection of the Punjaub. " The Governor-General has officially notified that all claims to prize money on account of booty captured at Delhi, Lucknow, and in Pepa must be submitted by the 31st December, 1861, after which no claim will be received. " A railway locomotive is actually on the soil of the Punjaub. Locomotives, tenders, &c., have been landed at Mooltan, and are on their road to Lahore. The problem as to the time of their arrival may bo worked out by professional actuaries from the fol lowing data;—Distance from Mooltan to Lahore, 215 miles ; number of feet in a mile, 5,280 ; average rate of progress of locomotives,l&c,, 50 feet:per diem. The carriages travel on moveable rails, and are dragged by coolies. " The Calcutta Gazette publishes a tabular statement, showing the expenditure of the Public Works Departments, under the several local Governments for the year 1861-62, as sanctioned by the Government of India. The whole estimated expenditure chargeable to the British Governments, exclusive of local charges, falls little short of three and a quarter millions sterling. " Orders have been received from Calcutta to the effect that all adjutants, quarter-masters, and pay masters of regiments, who have volunteered for the Staff Corps, are to vacate their appointments ; all those who have already volunteered having the option given them of re-considering the matter. "'The official return of the number of deaths from cholera during the recent visitation in Delhi places it at 2,161. " Colonel Baird Smith's Final Report on the Famine, in two sections—first, supplementary descriptive details ; second, remedial measures, has been published by the Government of India. It is a most important State paper, and will prove a per manent document. " Lord Canning has published important resolu tions regarding the absolute sale of waste lands and the redemption of land revenue. No reserve of special rights to Government, or conditions of clear ance and cultivations. Grants not to exceed 3,000 acres. Price of unassessed lands not to be above rs. Lands free from jungle not to be above 5 rs. These rates to rule for five years. Parties redeem ing land revenue entirely free to follow their own course with land redeemed. " The Hon. Mr. Frere has returned from Se dashewghur, whither he went to meet the Governor of Madras on the subject of the transfer of the trans fer of North Canara to the Bombay Presidency. Sir Wm. Denison, says the Bombay Saturday _Review, in his interview with the representative of the Government of Bombay, is understood to have stated that his Council is unanimously opposed to the transfer of North Canara, and that he him self does not feel justified in running counter to the opinion of his responsible and expe rienced colleagues. Why could he not have com municated this opinion without the public expense of a meeting at Sedashewghur ? " Cholera is making fearful ravages in Cabul-- the average mortality from this scourge is said to be 300 daily. Among its victims is Sirdar Peer Mahomed Khan, brother of the Ameer of Cabul. " Major A. H. Burtis, of the Bombay Staff Corps, has been gazetted commanding officer of the Bom bay Volunteer Rifles, vice Colonel G. H. Robinson, C. 8., appointed Political Resident at Aden. "We have just had the Elephanta storm, the fifth act of the monsoon, accompanied with much electricity and considerable rain. " The health of the town and island of Bombay is good." The Times of India says : " Mr. Cecil Beadon will, it is said, suoceed Mr. S. P, Grant as Governor of Bengal. " The average price of opium in Calcutta has risen to 1,740 rs. a chest; Mr. Laing's estimate was 1,748. "The double administration of the Adjutant - General's department in Bengal, for the Queen's troops and the Indian army, is about to be abolished. " All claims to prize money on account of booty captured at Delhi, Lucknow, and Pegu must be submitted by the 31st December next, after which none will be received, " The official returns of the numbers of deaths by cholera in the Delhi division states the total to be 2,161. "H. M. 6th Royals, now at Barrackpore, and H. H. 75th Regiment, now garrisoning Fort Wil liam, are to return to England during the next cold season. " The murderers of the late Mr. and Miss Jen nings, at Delhi, have been, it is said, apprehended n Central India, and are under trial there. UNIVIE.RSI7Y INTELLIGENCE. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. The following are the lists of candidates who passed the eespective examinations indicated : Second B.A. Examination, 1861.—FirstDivision—Arthur Bellamy, King's; Montague Spencer Blaker, private tui tion ; John Clifford, University ; Thomas Dale, Trinity, Cambridge ; Elim Henry D'Avigdor, University ; Jolul Wale Hicks, St. Thomas's Ho -pital ; Charles Trice Martin, University ; Thomas George Rooke, Regent's-park ; Warwick Wagataffe, R. Medical, Epsom ; Arthur Alliott Wells, Spring-hill; John Williams, Regent's-park; Ray ner Winterbotham, University. Second Division—Joseph Allen, Regent's-park ; Fred. Barnes, Spring-hill; James Samuel Beale, University ; James Henry Broadbent, Wesleyan, Richmond ; Richard Charles Browne, King's; Holroyd Chaplin, private study; Robert Chignell, private tuition ; Matthew Philip C hristie, private tuition ; Henry von der Heyde Cowell, Regent's park ; Hugh Dickie, Training College, Glasgow ; Thomas Charles Edwards, Calvinistic, Bala ; James Galloway; Lan cashire Independent ; Richard Palmer Thomas Gammon, New; William Gray Gilchrist, King's ; Edward -Hall, private tuition; Richard E.obert Hathornthwaite, private tuition ; Henry George Hightield, Wesleyan, Richmond ; Alfred Holborn, New; Thomas Charles Jarvis, University ; Owen Jones, Calvinistic, Bala, and University; Charles Forscutte King, Bramham ; Benjamin Kisch, University ; a yn i n e 1 , King's Nathan, Edwin Lawrence , Universit y ; William Jose ph Leacock, King's ; Frederick Francis Lovegrove, p r i va te tuition ; William Charles Allan Mines, spn Yn N ne ath L Nathaniel University ; William Ni co ll°, New; Henry Pete, U n ive rs ity ; Alfred Roscoe, ri University ; William Bridges Row, private tuition; Ernest Mason Satow, University ; John Saunders, self-tuit ion ; Henry Lakin Smith, University ; Aaron Stoppard, Univer sity; Francis I homas Taylor, Greenwich Collegiate School; John Watton Teevan, Trinity-hall, Cambridge; Mathew Mawe Wagstaff°, Royal Medical, Epsom; John Wallace, St. Edmund's; James Albert Way, private tuition; Alex ander Wilson, Spring-hill; Edwd. Weedon Winterbotham, University. Second B. Sc. Examination, 1861—Pass Examination —First Division—Frederick Victor Dickins, private tui tion, Second Division—John William Bell, Trinity College, Dublin; Rev. Burford Waring Gibsone, 8.A., King's Col lege ; John Comyns Leach, University College ; William Cawthorne Unwin, New College. Examination for Honours—Logic and Moral Philosophy —John Wm. Bell (University scholarship), Trinity Col lege, Dublin. Second, M.B. Examination, 1861—Pass Examination —First Division—George Frederick Atchley, Bristol Medi cal School and King's; James Ba akart, Guy's Hospital; Frank Buszard, Guy's Hospital; Frederick Victor Dickins, Manchester Royal Infirmary; Charles Hilton Fagge, Guy's Hospital ; George Ferguson, St. Bartholo mew's Hospital; George Fortescuo , King's College ; John Henry Galion, Guy's Hospital ; Samuel Jones Gee, University College; Morell Mackenzie, London Hos pital. Second Division —Henry James Alford,. University Col lege; John Barr Browne, King's College ; obert Charles Brown, King's College ; Albert Buchanan, University College; Octavius Edward Peddle Chard, University College ; Alfred James Har r i son , Birmingham General Hospital and Guy's ; Edmund Holland, University Col - lege ; Frederick Thomas Hulk°, King's College ; Thomas Michell, London Hoepital • John Nicholas Miller, Univer , 6 bity College.