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CLERICAL. MEDICAL, and GENERAL LIFE 'ASSURANCE SOCIETY. The. AbINHAL GEKERAI; MEETING of PROPRIETORS will be hel I at the Office of the Society, on THURSDAY, the Sixth day or March next, at 1 o'clock precisely, at which meeting Six Direc tors will be elected. Any proprietor desirous of proposing a candidate for the office of ( .director, must send the name of such candidate to the secretary, at least fourteen days before the day of meeting. The ballot will commence at Eleven and close at Two o'clock. An election of an Auditor (on the part of the As ured) will also , take place on WEDNESDAY, the sth day of March, between the hours of Eleven and Two o'clock. BONUS. The Sixth Division of Profits will be made in January, 1557. Those who complete Policies before the end of June next will par ticipate. GEORGE H. PINCKARD, Resident Secretary. 99, (herd Russell-street, Bloomsbury, London, 11th Feb., 185 g. Now read.y. Vol. IL (completing the work). price 16e., THE THEORY and PRACTICE of BANK ING, being a systematic Treatise on Monetary Science. By HENRY DUNNING MACLEOD, Esq. Containing an account of the rill and progress of banking in Eng land—of the Bank of England—the great monetary crisis in 1696-7 —in 1794—suspension of cash payments in 1797—Report on the Irish Currency, 1804—Analysis of the Bunion Reoort 1810—De• bates thereon—great change In mercantile opinion in 1819—Act of 1819—Crisis in 1825—the Act of 1344 —Fallacy of several theories fcurrency—ofJohn Law's theory of money—alarming presence of tin the public mind at the present day—Criticism on the Act of ' 944—the business of Bankisg —illegality of crossed cheques—Acts - .Elating to Joint Stock Banks. Vol. I. Price I4s. - - - - - " While, with rare calf-control and watchfulness he observes his own rules, and adheres closely to his own method, his labour has been rewarded with the foundation of a work far superior, both in the fulness and accuracy of its treatment, to . any that has yet ap peared upon these difficult and much-vexed subjects of banking and currency. —Morning Chronicle. London: Longman and Co. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. Lessee, Mr. J. H. Anderson. TIM EVENTNG ROB ROY. Principal character by Professor Anderson. To conclaje with the gorgeous Pantomime of YE BELLE ALLIANCE. Clown, Mr. Flexmore ; Pantaloon, Mr. Barnes: Harlequin. Mr. C. Brown ; and Colamblne, Miss E. Horne. THEATRE ROYAL, DEORY.LANE. twee. Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, THE GREAT GUN TRICK. After which. 3Rir DIDDLE DIDDLE; or. Harlequin King Nonsense and the Seven Ages of -man. THEATRE ROYAL. TIAYMARRF.T. Ua!er the Management of Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING. THE STRANGER. Followed by ONLY A HALFPENNY. After which the New Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled THE BUTTERFLY'S BALL AND THE GRASSHOPPER'S FEAST; or, Harlequin and the Genius of the Spring. ROYAL. PRINCE43 I 3 THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. • tinder thu Management of Mr. CaA&LU KUM. THIA EVENING, KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Queen Katharine. Mrs. C. Kean; Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean. After which, lIARTAIQUIN AND TITS MAID AN!) TIM MAGPIE ; or, the Fairy Paraffin and Hanky Faulty, the Enchanter. Harlequin, Mr. Corrnaek ; Clown, Mr. Hahne ; Pantaloon, Mr. Panto; and ColumWne, Miss Caroline Adams. TIIKATER ROYAL ADRLIPRI. P:opriotor, Mr. B. Webster.--Directress, Mama Cdeorte. THIS iVENING, BETSY BAKER. After whlelt. THE BOOT:: Ow TETE HOLLY TREE P. To to CAlovred by THAT,BLESSF.D BABY. To conclude wlib K AND TEIF: gPALK: or, Ffarlaqula ALI Mather Gooie at 'fame Aiain. In which Afagri. J. Bland, P. Bedford, Itattame Celeste, Miss Wyhdbam, and Min E. Arden will ap,)ear. ROYAL. GLY lgt PIC TIIE.A.TIM. Lessee and Mana3er. Mr. Alfted Wigan. THIS EVENING. STAY AT 11011 E. After which will ha produced a New and &ably-moral, though eacteslvely old, Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE D1A,"21/EET PlitgC e^, the Three Glass Distaffs. In 'which Messrs. Emery, F. Robson, H. Cooper, 311s1 Marsto.i, and Miss Masks!l will appeir. ROYAL. SURREY TfIEATRE, Lames. Messrs. Shepherd and Crerwiek. THIS EVENING THE MUMMA OF CRIME. To conclude with A •PRINCE OF PEA-REA; or. Tfarleinln and Jane shore. ftOtAL ArRASII3 TiIEATRIC. Muter the direction of Mr: Payne. THIS EVENING. THE ROMANTIC WIDOW. Followel by THE PRIS)NER OF ROCHELLE ; or, lons ani Outs. which, PEACE AT ANY PRICE. To conclude with 131.17 E JACKETS. ASTLErS ROYAL AMPRITIIRATRZ. /411508 and Manager, Mr. Win. Cooke. THIS KVF.NING, ROORWOOD; or. TURPIN'S RIDE to YORK. The last weak of that popular Spectacle. After which the SC ENES In the CIRCLE and the performance of the Smotelout; and Stupendous Elephants, one of which ascends from the centre of the stage to an elevation high a'ove the stage, on a narrow ridge not the width of his foot! To conelnda with a grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime called HARLEQUIN AND ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON ; or, the Seven Champions of Christendom. Box-office open from Eleven till Your. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director. Mr. W. Cooke, gun. EMI LA STA.N'LEY'S,SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN, Every Evening at 8, and on sataidays at 3, ?mom:teed by the unanint ms, voice of the press, and by nightly in Teasin: aullencei, to be the Greatest Artistica' Triumph of the day. S IINT MARTIN'S MILL, Long-acre. Area, Is. Reserved Chairs, 2s. Gd. FIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tali DAY—Morn. 5 min. aft. 6—Evening 25 min. aft. G 17 , 1-110kuow—Morn. 47 min. aft. G—Evouing 1J min. aft. 7 THE WEATHER-81w OFFICE, FEB. 12. THERIONETER. ITT THE SHADE. 54 hlghttet einee noon yeaterasy. • Si thin morning and during the night. 53 --tidt.day at noon. B►ARnMRTIR, 29'81. WIND, S.S.W.—Fresh, with dull, rainy weather. c*. .r.E-f-'4'N,,,i e *4) ~.....,e, 1,-7.. 7 ,7 ' 4,- F . ~ c .-, (1 ) I _ - LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1856. The noble-hearted Count VALERIAN KR ASlN siu, immediately before his lamented demise during the course of last December, completed the most remarkable of all his political writings* —and, expiring, left it to his native land, to his adopted country, to Europe, to Christendom, as —A Voice of 'Warning ! GOD grant that at this momentous juncture that solemn voice may not remain altogether inaudible. It is an utterance, be it remembered! coming to us, as it were, awfully from the grave the echo of the last dying words of adjuration, addressed to the conscience tithe civilised world, by a generous' and heroic spirit, the spirit of an exiled patriot, the sword at whose thigh was n o t more keen than his living sense of wrong—the wrong done, not to himself alone, but to every son of his beloved Fatherland.' A warning like that left so very recently as a sacred bequest to Europe, by KnAsnism, was never assuredly required more urgently than at the present extraordinary crisis in her history— when there are actually trembling in the balance the good or evil, the life or death, the advance meat or retrogression of her liberties, and of her general civilisation. Another week, an d the plenipotentiaries of the chief among the European Powers will be assembled together at Paris for the purpose of entering upon the labour of negotiating the terms of an univer sal and (so far as that may be practicable) a durable pacification. After all that has occurred within the memory of the present generation, it actually appear s that the Allied Nations , that England and Fra nce i n complicity (as it must be termed, if termed in any way in complicity w ith T ur k ey , a pp ro priately), , Sardinia and Austria, and are prepared * "The Polish Question and Panslaristn. By Count Valerian Krasinski." 8vo:, pp. 185. Chap man an d Hall, London. 1855. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 12, 1850. and other branches connected with the additional seamen, will be heartily approved of by every true-hearted Englishman, and the tardy com pletion of an adequate force of gun-boats to con duct operations in the Baltic joyously hailed throughout the length and breadth of the land. We long called for a proper force in that essenti.tl arm of the service. Had the ABERDEEN Admi nistration been in earnest far better accounts would have been rendered of the proceedings in the Baltic, and British officers and seamen would have been spared from very invidious insinuations. The 200 gun-boats that will be available at the breaking up of the ice will have a wonderfully moderating effect on the disposition of the Russian Government. It is only to be regretted that an improvident and precarious peace should be cobbled up, at a time when we are, under PROVIDENCE, in a position to compel one, that might be regarded as an equivalent for all the sacrifices and expenditure which the nation has so cheerfully sustained. The gigantic prepara tions may now be thrown away without the nation reaping either honour or profit. Still it is right that they should be made, and it is by no means impossible that they may still be required. At all events the knowled'ge that they have been made will render the representatives of the CZAR less querulous and far more reasonable • than Prince GORTSCHAKOFF was last year. It is the acts of omission that require greater notice. Sir CHARLES NAPIER only gave expres sion to the national will when complaining of the absurdity of having the affairs of the Admiralty carried on partly at Whitehall, and partly at Somerset-house. The division occasions constant confusion, expense, and delay to the service, and an adequate remedy should be supplied with all convenient speed. We cannot, however, concur with the Gallant Officer in his remarks respecting the list of Ad mirals. There are at least three times the num ber on the Active List that are required. All the old Admirals, whose physical powers disqualify them from active service, should be pensioned off by the Admiralty, which would clear the list considerably. There are, at least, thirty of the number who have been Post Captain more than half a century, scarcely one of whom are now fit even to walk the quarter-deck in a stiff breeze, much less to direct the efforts of a fleet under a trying emergency. There are at present 21 Admirals. Surely nine would be sufficient, and the reduction might be gradually effected, first to 15, then to 12, and subsequently to 9. In like manner the 27 Vice- Admirals might gradually fall to 21, and then 15 ; and the 51 Rear-Admirals to 33, 27, and eventually to 21. By this means, and giving an Admiral of Great Britain, and a Vice-Admiral, and Rear- Admiral, we should have forty-eight Admirals, and scarcely one-third of the number could ever be required for active service. We have now between active and retired Admirals five or six for every line-of-battle ship in commission, and fully three Generals for every regiment. It is not by such proceedings that we can hope to re duce the enormous burden of taxation, or to, make any effectual efforts to reduce the burden of our enormous national debt. Let the House of Commons resolve upon grappling with the diffi culty, and prOviding a remedy adequate to its enormous magnitude. It sometimes happens that the attempted ex culpation of a foolhardy offender leads to his con viction ; and the painful reflection is left to him that, bad lie remained quiet, his fate might have been different. Of course, no one but himself and friends can regret this, the welfare of society being obviously promoted by the provision. Whe ther the fact will prove applicable to Lords CAR- DraAN and LUCAN we cannot undertake to pie diet ; but we must confess to entertaining a feel ug of satisfaction at the steps taken by these Noble Lords in relation to the charges involved, or brought against them, in the Report of the Commissioners sent out to inquire into the con duct of the War in the Crimea. The matter has now, we trust, reached a stage where nothing short of the amplest investigation will be permitted, not only into the charges brought against them, but also against other . superior officers intrusted with command during that. disastrous period, when the flower of the British army perished, not ignobly, but Unnecessarily, on that fatal soil ! Lord CARDIGAN, it will be seen, gave notice in the House of Lords last evening, " That having been reflected upon in, as he considered, au un fair manner: in the Report of a Commission ap pointed by her MAJESTY'S Government to .inquire into the conduct of the War in the Crimea, he should feel it his duty to-morrow to transmit to the Noble Lord a full explanation of his conduct as animadverted on i❑ the. Report." His Lord ship was followed by Lord LUCAN, who stated that immediately on the appearance of the Report he had addressed to the Secretary for War a letter in reply, which, however, the Noble Lord refused to allow him to publish ; and he desired to be in formed whether the Noble Lord would either, pub lish it himself or allow him (the Earl of LUCAN) to publish it ? Now, these are steps which inno cent men might be expected to take in the first instance, and, as far as they go, tell in faVour of thing of the damaged prestige and the material injury to the nation—demands the institution of something of the nature of a court-martial, before which the accused parties may be put on their purgation—a Court so constituted as to insure public confidence in the straightforwardness and honesty . of its procedure----a Court to which the House of Peers must be content to refer its inculpated members, and whose decision shall be handed over to her MAJESTY for confirmation, and what further course of action may seem good, to be taken on it. If this, or something of the kind is not done—all that has been apparently effected in the way of reform in the army, will prove mere moonshine, and the honours and emoluments conferred on the Noble Lords, Sir R. AIREY, &c., will, justly or unjustly, operate as so many ignes fatuce to lure incapables into the service, and officers of ability from the proper discharge of their duties, to the future loss and humiliation of the country. The Report of the Commissioners must be acted on to be worth anything, and it will not be wise, it will not be prudent, in the House of Peers or the Ministry to put any obstacles in the way of its being so. LAW ITELLIGENCE.—Feb. 11. EXCHEQUER COURT. (Before Cliiet _Baron Pollock and a Common Jury.) .11)13IS v. FRINCIS. Mr Phillimore, Q.C., and Mr. Phipon appeared fur the plaintiff, and Mr. Prentice for the defendant. was an action brought against the defendant, as publisher of the „kthenreunt, for a libel on the plaintiff, who is an AMerican author - of some reputation, and who, in his writings„ has advocated earnestly the abolitionist cause Contained in that journal of the 17th February, 1855, imputing to him the authorship of a novol called " Tit for Tat," or " Ame rican Fixings of English Humanity," and stating that the !plaintiff had been imprisoned in Charleston Gaol, and that'he had published a false report of the proceed ings a t the dinner given to Americans and English by Mr. Peabody, alluded to in what is called " the Pea body correspondence." The defendant pleaded that the plaintiff had been imprisoned in Charleston, and that he did publish the false report in question. The plaintiff ad mitted the imprisonment, but alleged that it occurred in consequence of the part taken by him in assisting the British Consul in attempting to obtain the release of a coloured seaman, named 'Manuel Pereira, whom the authorities at Charleston had imprisoned solely for being a free negro, and he alleged that the report published by him wa3 true. The case, however, did not proceed, as on Mr. Prentice expressing, on behalf of the proprietors of the Athe naeum, their apology and regret for any pain they might have occasioned to the plaintiff by the publication in question, and withdrawing all justification of the libel, the plaintiff consented to accept a verdict for 404. dam ages, on the defendant paying the costs as between attor ney and client. The verdict was accordingly entered for the plaintiff on these terms. the Noble Lords. But observe what follows : Lord PANMURE, in reply, informed the House ",that he had communicated with the Commis sioner who was now in L mdon with respect to the remarks of which the Noble Lord complained, and that gentleman had informed him that he should be able to support the charge made in the Report by returns uow in his possession, and printed in the Report of the Commissioners. Be had promised to furnish this reply on the follow ing day, and he would then be prepared to lay the letter of the Noble Earl opposite and the reply of the Commissioner on, the table of the House." Thus, it will be seen, there is no flinch ing on the part of the Commissioner, and an issue may speedily be arrived at if desired. From what followed, however, we have some doubt of such a desire being entertained—the Earl of DERBY on the one hand, by his expressed wish to place the parties inculpated who had not a seat in the House on an equal footing with the two Noble Loris, in having the opportunity of laying their statements in reply to the charges preferred against them before the House—and Lord PAN , MURE, by promising to have such statements laid before the House, apparently being agreed that the matter would end in the publication of the documents, and the inculpation or exculpation of the parties by public opinion. Now, this really will not do. We say not one word as to the guilt or innocence of the parties inculpated, but we point to the gravity of the charges, and repeat, this will not suffice. It is alleged, •in the words of a contemporary, " that between them the chief English officers in the Crimea. destroyed one-third of the: army, and that three-fourths of the misery and starva tion from want and cold, not to mention the an nihilation of our splendid cavalry, must be re ferred to the gross incapacity of the officers in the Crimea." The allegation is frightful, and the culpability proportionately enormous. The blood of 10,000 of our slaughtered heroes—to say no-1 to arrange certain very recent and formidable differences with Russia, upon conditions of a merely ordinary character, upon conditions im plying by their very nature that Russia comes under the same category with the rest of the great States of Christendom ! HEAVEN send that the voice of warning resounding to us from the grave of VALERIAN KRASINSRI, that the cry of that noble heart may reverberate far and wide at this terrible turning-point in the history of the civilised world—reminding the nations of Europe of the dark and sinister truths which appear just now either to be entirely overlooked, or to re main altogether unappreciated. Enough for us if but a few of these monstrous facts, facts embla zoned upon the annals of the human race in characters of blood and flame, are here very briefly indicated, but indicated by their mere enumera tion, GOD knows, with sufficient distinctness. Is it forgotten ? When our diplomatists are becoming so mealy-mouth in regard to the inten tions of the Imperial Government of St. Peters burg—is it forgotten how Europe has fared during the last hundred years under the pressure of the advances made simultaneously to the north, and to the south, and to the east, and to the west by that Robber-Government ? A little while ago and we heard a good deal of these things. A little while ago and noble lords and right hon. gentlemen now so fair-spoken in regard to the intentions of Russia, in regard to the policy of the CZAR, in regard to the ambition of the. House of ROMANOFF, did not hesitate to speak of these intentions, of that policy, of that ambition as of evils threaten ing the peace of Europe, the liberties of Europe, the rights of European independence, the glory of European civilisation. Is it already so entirely forgotten—that terrible story of Russian des potism, and Russian spoliation ? le3t us recapi tulate but a few among the criminal and damning incidents recorded iu that disastrous narrative— now that we are upon the eve of the Paris con ferences. Observe ! A little over a century and a half from the present time—that is to say, in 1689, at the date of the accession of PETER, miscalled the Great, thepopulation of Russia was 18,000,000. By the year of grace 1763, namely, when CATHERINE 11. ascended the throne, it had in creased to 23,000,000—becoming at the time of her death in 1798 as many as 36,000,000—and attaining at last in 1825 at the period when the late AUTOCRAT assumed the purple, the vast aggregate of 58,000,000 or 60,000,000 altogether ! Listen further ! These are the words (it is believed) of Sir JOHN MWEILL, echoed to us from the humble grave of the heroic KRASINSKI —" The acquisitions of Russia from Sweden are greater than what re mains of that kingdom ; her acquisitions from Poland are equal to the Austrian Empire ; her acquisitions from Turkey in Europe are of greater extent than the Prussian dominions, exclusive of the Rhenish provinces; her acquisitions from Tur key in Asia are nearly equal in extent to the whole of the smaller States of Germany ; her acquisitions in Persia are equal in extent to England ; her ac , quisitions in Tartary have an area not inferior to that of Turkey in Europe, Greece, Italy, and Spain ; the acquisitions which she has made within the last sixty-four years (prior to 1836) are equal in extent and importance to the ivhole empire which she had in Europe before that time." Hearken yet further ! It is still, we believe, the voice of Sir JOHN WNEILL, echoed back to us as with a trumpet-sound from the tomb of Count KRASINSKI—"In these sixty four years she (Russia) has advanced her frontiers 850 miles towards Vienna, Berlin, Dresden, Ma ' nich, and Paris ! She has approached 450 miles nearer to Constantinople. She has possessed her self of the capital of Poland ! and has advanced to within a few miles of the capital of Sweden ! Since that time she has stretched herself about 1,000 miles towards India, and the same distance towards the capital of Persia (Teheran)." Enough ! And this is the Robber Despotism with which England, and France, and Turkey, and Austria, and Sardinia, are about to negotiate at Paris upon ordinary terms, upon the customary kind of conditions! VALERIAN KRASINSKI, from his lowly but honoured grave in the land of his exile cries—" Beware !" And the Voice of an other and a greater exile—the Voice of the Cap tive of St. Helena—has it not long since declared prophetically—" Fifty years and Europe will be either Cossack or Republican !" What—with that prediction before him, pro nounced, as from his death-ad, by .the Great Founder of his Dynasty—what says NAPOLEON III.? Shall Russia, sooner or later, overrun Europe —or shall Poland be restored ? Si ris pacem, para bellum. Even in the piping times of peace England should, in the words of the brave old Scottish warrior, be" ready, aye ready for the field." It. is still more essential that she liould maintain the, maritime supremacy to which the greater portion of her prestige is ascribable. We therefore do not complain of the credits de manded by the Government. Any parsimonious or'stingy attempt to effect a paltry saving under existing circumstances would be "a peliny-wise and-pound-foolish policy," which every right thinking man would strongly and unequivocally condemn. But while Parliament and the country cordially and unhesitatingly respond to the Minib terial demands, and willingly sanction the full expenditure required for the vigorous -a.nd ener getic maintenance of the War, it is doubly incum bent on alLparties to avoid any unnecessary ex penditure. The legitimate charges are sufficiently Onerous, without any useless addition, from the red-tapist adhesion to a vicious system, or from the introduction of objectionable matters. There never was a time when a large and com prehensive measure of Naval Reform was more urgently required than at this moment, whereby not only would considerable savings be effected, but the efficiency of the service and of the controlling department would be greatly increased.. It is not because we are at war that these important and interesting topics should be shelved—for that reason they should be pressed forward with the greatest possible energy. The exigencies of the service should be accurately as certained, and when that object has been effected no efforts should be spared to obtain " the right men for the right places," and to avoid, so far as human precaution can do, the possibility of mis takes similar to those which in by-gone days re flected so much discredit on former Boards. No reasonable objection could be made to the first item in the list—that for the excess 'of ex penditure over estimates of 204,0001., even if so fair an exp l ana ti on cou ld ito t b e given for the greater part of th e amount, by the improved system of keeping accounts, that debited the ex penditure to the period when it actually occurred in place of charging it in a future year. The co s t to the nation in either case is precisely the same. Some discretion should be allowed to the executive when Parliament is not sitting, and if the outlay be prudent and judicious the parties who have sanctioned it on their own responsibility are en titled' to praise rather than censure for their energy. The additional votes for men and viotualling ADELPHI THEATRE. A farce of the genuine Adelphi flavour was brought out here last night, and met with unbounded success. The title "That Blessed Baby," at once proclaims the whimsical class to which it belongs. The terror of John Thomas, the footman, who has clandestinely married Mary Jane, one of his fellow-servants, contrary to the published laws and regulations of his master, who has a morbid antipathy to babies, affords hnlf an hour or so Of highly pleasant diversion. The weight of the piece lies solely .upon Mr. and • Mrs. Keeley ; and the actin , ' of these admirable artistes was capital. The farce is perfectly original, and i 4 from the pen of Mr. Moore. As this is his first dramatic essay at any theatre of im portance, we may fairly congratulate him on his success. MADAME JENNY LIND-GOLDSOIIMIDT'S CONCERTS. The programme of the third miscellaneous concert, which took place last night in the Hanover-square Rooms, was on the whole well selected, though in some respects of rather a fatiguing character for the principal singer. For example, Madame Goldsclunidt had to execute, with only the interval of tine devoted to a very short tenor song, the scene and air, " Non paven tar,' from II Plauto Magico, and the soprana part in the trio fur ♦oice and two flutes from the Camp of Sile sia, best known in England as the finale to L'Etoile du Nord. Two more intricate and arduous pieces than the first song of the Queen of Night and the tour de force with which Meyerbeer has illustrated his heroine's re storation to reason are not extant. The scene with the two flutes (Messrs. Pratten and Remusat) defied objection. We have heard nothing to surpass it for brilliancy, neatness of execution, dramatic finesse, and unblemished purity of intonation- -even in passages the most daring and perplexing. The epithet " incomparable" may be applied to this performance without the slightest exaggeration, since it displayed as much esprit as vocal facility, and left the ear and mind of the listener equally charmed and satisfied. The other essays of Madame Goldschtuidt were "Deh vieni non tardar," from "Figaro," "Casts diva," and a little song by Mendebisohn, "The stars and the maiden" (in Ger man, called "Die sterne scbauen"). Besides the pianoforte performances by Herr Otto Goldschmidt--who played Beethoven's concerto in C minor (with the orchestra), Chopin's somewhat hack neyed and over•sentimental nocturne iu D flat, and the first allegro of tlse " Suites Anglaises " in G minor by John Sebastian Bach (solus)—Signor Piatti gave two movements from the violoncello concerto composed ex pressly for him by Herr Molique. and M. Sainton his own violin fantasia on airs from "Rigoletto." The room was crowded to excess. THE NEW MEMBER FOR EDINItURGH (From tke Daily News of this day.) • " I mu a man of moderate wishes," said the late Lord Dudley and Ward ; " a good soup, a small turbot, a neck of venison, and au apiicot tart are a dinner for an Emperor— when he can't get a better." The electors of Cambridge are philosophers of the Dudley and Ward stamp. Not be ing able to indulge in a state banquet of High Toryism, they have known how to satisfy the moderation of their political appetites ou the mild but respectable con servatism of Mr. Walpole. There•is not a great deal of it perhaps—it might seem but a lenten repast to the grosser palates of aldermen or squires, but it is in good taste, well chosen and well served up, Possessing the merit, too, of being what it professes to be, it offends the judicious taste with no such villanous compound of opposite flavours as the "Li beral but Conservative" mixture of Mr. George Denman. Having been unable to feel any very deep anxiety for the defeated candidate's success, we of course contrived to bear with equanimity the intelligence that he bad withdrawn from the contest. It was the ouly thing he coalci do. The ' irrefra,gabla logic of figures was too strong for him, BS6 to 419, at the end of the third day's poll, was an arithmetical reductio ad absurdum. We trust the reproof will not be without its lesson, If Mr. Denman's views were more liberal thauhis address, the lesson be will have to learn will simply be that homely one, that—Honesty . is the best policy- and that of all dishonesties there is none less politic than the practice of political reserve. " Liberal," without the " but," might have sent many to vote for him willingly, who either went not at all, or went reluctantly. " Conser vative " after the " but" had not even the poor merit of stealing a single supporter from the ranks of his anta gonist. If, on the other hand, as may be the case, Mr. Denman's address fairly and adequately represented his political opinions, the - contest was one wholly personal between the two men—and in that event the lesson that Mr. Denman may derive from the result is one of personal mo desty. It canna be as agreeable thing to have put 419 gen tlemen to so much inconvenience, for the mere purpose of fruitlessly recording their opinion that Mr. Denman is fitter than. Mr. Walpole to represent the University of Cambridge. Tho consolatory view of the matter is that suggested by the safe and prosperous position of the illustrious member for Midhurst. True it is that a contemporary, hardly less elo quent than the new: fledged senator himself, had cog 'l:,;'6iited it as a remarkable coincidence "in the annal of literary fame," that " the star of ,Warren had just begun to glitter in the senatorial firmament as that of Macaulay had sunk below the horizon ;"—true it is that the learned and enthusiastic orator had himself told the men of Midhurst, in the first - fervours of his saceess, that ho vas about to enter the House of CommonS as their representative " free as the rushing breeze that revelled above their hills not withstanding these auspicious om ns and these aerial antici pations, we had misgivings that at times disquieted us. Till Walpole was safe for Cambridge, we could, hardly feel confident that Warren was secure for Midhurst, We wero haunted by disagreeable recollections that frailty as well as fairness was an attribute of the Lily—that vicarious industry want too often the thankless•portion of the Bee. "Sic vos non vabis mellificates apes" 6 that melancholy epitaph over fruitless toil kept over chiming in our ears. What, we asked, if such should be the fate of the senatorial toils of Warren ? With the result of the Cain bridge election all these apprehensions are dispelled, and an intelligentieublie will appreciate as it deserves the great fact that the Ifouse of Commons has not lost Walpole and has gained Narren, who may be alternately its " rude Boreas" and its " mild Favouius," its " own Alolian lute," The result of the Edinburgh election is peculiarly gratifying, and deserves to be discussad with less of levity. Of the de feated candidate, indeed, we know nothing but his name ; for though the pen of Scott has made "the black Douglasses" tolerably familiar to English readers, the fame of the brown branch of the family has not yet penetrated to the south of the Tweed. But of . his successful rival we do know some thing ; and during the whole of cur political experience— which now ranges overa rather longer period than it is quite agreeable to remember -it has rarely bean our "hick to en counter a man in whont.practical sagacity and high principle have been more happily blended. than in Adam Black. He is no modern conformer to liberalism : what he is now he was in the dark days of Castlereagh and Sidmouth. That au overwhelming majority of the inhabitants of Edin burgh are liberal in their politics is a fact which none can doubt who recalls the results of all the elections for that city since the passing of Earl Grey's Reform Act. There have been cliff:lent shades of politics among the Edin burgh Liberals. Some cling to the eclectic doctrines of the _Edinburgh review—these aro principally the members of the learned professions and the circles among which they move. Some adopt the sturdier notions to propagate which the Scotsman newspaper was origuallY established. ; these are in general the trading classes. Some, perhaps, go beyond both. . - Mr. Black, by his social connexions, belongs to the second set of politicians, participates in most of their views, and has shared in their labours. But, by his long connexion as a publisher with the leading Whig literati, he has often been called upon to act as a me dium of commuuication between the first and second of the three subdivisions of Edinburgh Liberals we have enumerated. This is, perhaps, the most trying position in which an honest politician can be placed ; and, with frequent opportunities of narrowly observing Mr. Black, we do him no more than jus tice when we declare that we have uniformly found him as upright and firm as he is clear-sighted. This is exactly the kind of man who is wanted in Parliament at present. Old questions have been settled, new questions are emerg ing, and many well-meaning Liberals are—from want of habits of independent thought and in-born moral courage —wavering and uncertain. Men are needed, to give the tone to their party, who possess sagacity to judge for themselves, and courage to act upon their eonvic- Cons through good repute and bad repute. The electors Of Edinburgh have acted wisely in delegating the charge of pro moting their principles and interests in the Legislature, at such a juncture, to a man who combines both qu ditties in so high a degree as Mr. Black. Even in England the bold and uncompromising stand made by Mr. Black against narrow minded sectarianism can be appreciated at present ; but only those who know Scotland intimately can appreciate it at its full worth. If is fellow-citizens, after bestowing upon him various gradeS of local distinction, have now conferred upon him the highest nonour they can bestow. His past services have richly deserved it ; and we firmly believe that his past life will prove to have been merely the prophetic mirror of the future, The Grand Duke of Tascany has ordered a new levy of 2,000 men of the class of 1837. The Earl and Countess of Mountcharlee are expected in town to day, from the Bedford Hotel, Brighton, where they have been staying for a few days, Lord and Lady Augusta Gordon Hallyburton left town yesterday, to pass a few days at Twickenham. Last week 180 of the Royal County Limerick Militia volunteered to the line, and of these 26 were for the Foot Guards. ARRIVAL OF THE COURT AT BUCKING HAM PALACE. The Queen and Prince Albert left Windsor Castle at four o'clock yesterday afternoon, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince'Atfred, the Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold. A special train conveyed the royal party to the Pad dington terminus, from whence they proceeded in seven of her Majesty's carriages, eseorted by a party of the 3d Light Dragoons, to Buckingham Palace, where the Queen and Prince arrived at five minutes before five o'clock. WINDSOR, MONDAY. • Yesterday being the 16th anniversary of her Majesty's wedding day, the bells of St. George's and St. John's Churches were merrily rang in honour of the day. The bands of the Ist Grenadier Guards and Ist Life Guards assembled on the terrace in the afternoon and performed Mendelssohn's " Wedding March" beneath the window of the royal sitting room, at which her Ma jesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and the royal children made their appearance. Today royal salutes wore fired from the corporation ordnance in the Bachelors'-acre, at Fort Belvidere, and from the Royal Adelaide frigate on Virginia Water. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Feb. Ig.—Wind this day at noon, S. ; fresh breeze and squally, with rain. PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 11.—Wind S.W. to W.—Arrived— H. M.S. Lapwing, from Cowes. FALMOUTH, Feb. 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Moroi dita. from Monte Video, for Liverpool. MILFORD, Feb. 11.—Several casks of palm oil and pieces of wreck, apparently but a vary short tune in the water, were passed on the 6th Feb., about 60 miles S. by W. of Ballycotton. PLYMOUTH, Feb. 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Kent, from London, for MelbOurne ; Cumberland (s.), Wool wich, for the Crimea. KILRUSII, Feb. 10.—The Auguita, from Demerara, for London, ruu on a rock and carried away part of false keel ; is now iu safety. Sr. IVE'S BAY, Feb. 10.—Arrivod—Guillaume, from Havana, for Havre, lost mainmast and two men in a hur ricane off the Azores on the 18th of January. • NEWPORT, Feb. 11.—Wind W.—Arrived—Humboldt, front London, for St. Thomas. Sailed—Venus, for Lon don ; Moses Wheeler, Calcutta ; Achsab, Jamaica. SWANSEA, Feb. 11.—Wind S.S W.—Arrived—St. Vin cent, from the Cape of Good Hope ; United, St. Jago de Cuba. Sailed—Gratitude, for Huasco ; Parga, United, and Cuba, Coquithbo. (PER ELECTRIC) TELF.GEAPII.) SOIITiLtAIPTON, Tuesday Mai eking. Arrived—Wonder, steamer, from Jersey. Sailed—Herman, steamer, for Bremen ; Sylph, steamer, London ; Caledonia, Sunderland; Despatch, steamer, Jer say ; Alliance, steamer, Havre ; Susanna, Newport ; Ti tania, Cardiff; Le Coq, Cherbourg. LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning. Wind S. Arrived—James , White,. from Bombay. Sailed—Delta, for Havre. BY SUBMABINE AND BRITISH TELEGBAPA.) GRAVESEND. Tuesday, 10.18 a.m. Wind S.S.W. ; title, four hours' ebb ; fine. arrived, Feb. 11.—Holywood, from Constantinople. Arrived, Feb. 12.—Pollux, from Hamburg. DEAL, Tuesday, ).40 a.m. Wind S.S.W. ; moderate. Passed—Sonora, from Calcutta, for London. MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) HAY MARKETS. SmiviriELD.- , —troadow hay, 4/ Os to 5,.134 ; elOvor ditto. 4/ 15s to G/ 14a and straw, 11 5s Oil to 1/ 93 Od per lo•id Trade rather dull. ullll2RLAND.—Aleadow hay, 41 43 to 5/ 15z.; clove, do. 41 151 to 14s ; and straw, 1/ Si to 1/ 10 i per load, A slow trade. WIIITROHAPTEL.—Maadow hay, 41 5s to 5' 154; elovoi 4/ 159 to 61 154; 'and straw, 1/ 49 to 11 94 per load Supply good, and trade dull. COLONIAL. The market for tea has been extremely inactive, and prices are only nominal. Common conTou 9d to 9id per lb. SUGAR.—An increased demand has prevailed for the conti nental markets and for, home consumption : a fair amount of business has been done. The supply continues moderate, and rates generally aro firm. There are but few parcels declared for public sale. COFFEE.—The market continues firm; low to fine ordinary brought 51s to 535. Plantation was at rather higher rates, awl for the better qualities an aetivo demand existed. Mocha has also been in request, at rather higher rates. IttcE.—The demand has rather improved, and higher rates have been obtained for the better qualities. Rum continuos steady, ,Pri , Cus are without any material alteration. . . TALLOW.—The market still continuos dull; and prices still show a downward tendency. P.Y.C., February and March, 57s 9d ; April and June, 525; last throe months, 50s 9d to 51s per cwt. The newly erected barrack huts at Pembroke dock yard are to be immediately filled with militia. We hear from Madrid that orders had been given to sell the Crown property in the Basque Provinces. DEATH OF LADY EMILY HENRY.—WO regret to an nounce the death of the Lady Emily Henry, which oc curred, atter a lingering and protracted illness, on Saturday morning, at her residence, Cumberland-ter race, ltegent's•park. It has been decided':by Mr. Justice Crampton that an insolvent leaving the court with an order of protection eannot be arrested on-his way home. 'DIE MURDER IN SO,Ho.—Yesterday the man BOW field was brought up at the Marlborough-street police, and formally committed to take his trial for wilful murder. The Czar has decreed that a year's pay shall be given, aq a gratification, to all the gtneral and other officers of the army and navy,' to the civil entitloyes, and the medical and 'transport service, who took part in the defence of Sebastopol. . AFFAIR BETWEEN THE PIEDMONTESE AND RUSSIANS. --A letter from the French camp, dated Jan. 29, says : —"On Tuesday last the Piedtnoutese had an affair of outposts with the Russians . , and made 200 prisoners." GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The directors propose to declare a dividend at the rate of 21 per cent. per annum. EASTERN COUNTIES• RAILWAY. Yesterday, at a meeting of those shareholders of the Eastern Counties Railway Company who aro dissatisfied with the present management and opposed to the re-election of . Mr. Waddington, held at the London Tavern it . was resolved to support Mr. Orr, Mr. Walters, and Mr. Helps at the next election of directors, in place of those who re tired by rotation. ENORMOUS BLAST AT HOLYHEAD NEW HARBOUR.--A monster blast, which has required the labour of six -men in itslormation for the last .ten months, a nd which- re quired 6/ tons of powder to, explode it, was let off in the quarry belonging to theie works on Wednesday last, in the Presence of the chief engineer and a nu merous staff... It is calculated that the quantity of stone loosened by the explosion will be no less than 60,000 ton- , BARNUM S MASTERPIECE,--Barnum has performed matey wonders, but the greatest of all is the folloviing. It consists in nothing less than in passing down the Niagara ca aract In a vessel Constructed for this purpose. The vessel- is a ball of gutty perclia, thirty feet in dia meter, supported in its interior by hoops, rings of steel, and wood. Strings of gotta percha, coming from four points of the rings, meet:in the centre of the sphere, where they are fixed to a coat of mail of the:same ma terial.. This is so fitted that a man buckled in it hangs, supported by the four strings, safe in the middle of the ball.- At one end of ,the ball, where the lower part of the mail is direCted; some lead is put, so that swimming on the - wateithe head side will be turned up wards. On this upper part there is a hole which may be opened or shut by_the person in the interior. The hall is as strong as to stain without danger the shock ,of the fall. 0„ account of its size it cannot sink, nor can the person buckled in the coat of mail suffer any harm by the violence of the fall. As soon as thcrball, alter its fall; bait:found its centre of gravity, its inhabitant-un buckles himself, opens the flap, a n d g et s out of the hale, waving ' the United States colours under the ap piano, 'of souls 50,000 or 100,000 spectators, whom Barriuni intends to assemble,. at one dollar eaob, upon the occasion of his first performance. From every such ,pertormance a gain of 20,0_00 or 30.000 dollars are to Le counted on, :lime from all parts of the Union spectators will fla , 11( 'to the cataracts of Niagara. Barnum is about-to mace the first experiment with a dog.lf that animal arrives all right below, a nigger or Irishman will be engaged fur the 'next expe riment. If this one arrives equally safe, the Yankeo undertakes the first serious passage himself, I—Attanti Studies, MWMg LATEST NEWS. BRAZILS AND RIVER PLATE. SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY, 11 A.M. The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Avon, Captain Revitt, has arrived in the river with the usual monthly mail from Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, Rio de Janeiro, Pernambuco, Bahia, St. Vincent, Teneriffe, Madeira, and. Lisbon. THE TURKISH CONTINGENT. KERTCH, Jan. 24.—The ice having at length broken, on account of the prevalent strong south erly winds, we are now enabled to continue our landing of stores, and the transport fleet in the bay are obliged (much to their dissatisfaction) to have recourse to their boats and lighters once more, after having amused themselves for the past month in discharging their cargoes daily on the ice. We all hail with delight this change in the weather, for between the various daily reports of an expected attack from the Russians in our rear and the channel frozen over to the Taman side in our front (almost sufficient to allow the crossing of an immense army), our situation has been anything but comfortable, and, with the exception of our transport skippers, who rejoice in 'anything like demurrage, especially in Government employ, everybody seems in high glee. _ _ We have received almost daily for the past month accounts from Tartar spies that a large body of the Russian army are intrenching themselves at Argin —the place, where the 10th Hussars and Chasseurs d'Afrique had a skirmish with the Cossacks in September last. From this we can draw two in ferences—either that an attack is meditated on this place, or that, the navigation of the Sea of Azoff being now rendered impracticable by our gun boats, the Russians are now availing themselves of the " tongue of Arabat," in forwarding their sup plies into the Crimea. The latter suggestion is thought the most probable, for since the Kinbourn affair the enemy will prepare themselves for the loss of Perekop, and, having determined to "make hay while the sun shines," are thus taking advantage of the inclemency of the seasons In the meantime, shettrld their object be an attack upon • us, they will 'find that General Vivian 'has not been idle, and with the' limited means at, his dis posal, has rendered this pi.ace, in a military point of vicw,, perfectly capable of resisting an attack of an army of 30,000 men. The only obstacle hereto fore has been a want of siege guns to put into posi tion, which deficiency has been in a measure at tended ts by the Commander-in-Chief before Sebas topol and the Seraskier at Constantinople, the latter having sent us some beautiful long 32-pounder brass pieces from the foundry at Tophane. • The Turkish soldiers as you are aware have the reputation of being the most capable in the world at throwing up earthworks and digging intrench meats ; and certainly in this instance they deserve a great deal of praise, for, under the able guidance of Major Stokes, the commanding engineer officer of the Contingent, they have completed works which might well be shown as examples to other nations. Fort Paul is now a second Malakhoff, and, should necessity oblige us to evacuate Kertch and fall back upon that place, we could well defy the whole Rus sian army to effect a dislodgment. On the 6th inst. (the Russian Christmas) the Cossacks paid us a visit, and approached in large numbers (supposed 5,000) to within four or five miles of this place. The alarm guns having been fired, every man . was at his post with wonderful alacrity, the batteries of artillery taking up their respective positions in the town and on the Yeni kale and Fort Paul roads. Her Msjesty's gun boat Weser, although frozen in hard and fast in the ice, was prepared for action, being in a position to command the Yenikale road, and by the eleva tion of her guns to throw shot and shell far beyond the town in the direction of Arabat. Should th e services of this vessel not have been recpaired in either of thesuoints, Lieut. Ross had already vo lunteered to place himself and his crew under the General's • orders, and work the batteries if re quired. The Land Transport Corps wore on the alert and prepared to convey ammunition to the dif ferent magazines, and the Commissariat turned out a large force of Tartar labourers, armed with axes, &c., to prevent the firing of any of the Govern ment stores, which had been well filled with pro visions previous to the setting in of the ice. Our cavalry having been ordered out, under the command of. Major M'Donald, the Cossacks fell back, but in, the evening returned and burnt the Spanish farm;abont six miles distant, from which the Contingent had been receiving large supplies of forage. The health of the Contingent has been excellent, and Brigadier Holmes, the Commandant at Kertch, with his able assistant, Dr. Gunn, leaves no means untried in regulating the sanitary condition of the town ; in fact, everything has been done to guard against disease which might be brought on through negligence in not re moving the filth which naturally collects in a place of this kind. With the exception of the land transport, which requires increasing, since 8,000 more men have been added to the Contingent force, every department is in thorough order; and the Commissariat at the present moment have four months' provisions in advance, already landed and stored. No exertions have been spared on the part of Commissary-General Adams to provide every thing in his power for the comfort of the Contin gent ; and, considering, the late season of the year before it was determined •where should be its field of operation, as, well as the, difficulty in making contracts, I consider the Commissariat has accom plished wonders. Two companies of the 71st Re giment are in Kertch, and the remainder, under command of Colonel Ready, are at Yenikale. Part of a company of the Royal Artillery, under the acting command of Lieut. Woolfe, are at Fort St. Paul. These, with the 4th Regiment d'lnfanterie de Marine, divisions of the Chasseursd'Afrique and 10th Hussars, and about 16,000 of the Contingent, con stitute the force under General Vivian's command, and who occupy the poste of Kertch, Yenikale, and Fort St. Paol. At Yenikale I am informed the men of the 71st Regiment have established a capital theatre, and perform one day each week before a well filled house. With the exception of an occasional soirée at ono another's barracks, I think the Turks are without amusement; but, being naturally a very •steady race of men, they are contented with sitting by their own firesides nightly, and listening to the recital of Oriental Wes. They all appear well con tented with the discipline, &c. ' established by the English officers who command them, and their wants being amply supplied in food, pay, and cloth ing, they have no cause of complaint. ASIA MINOR. ERZITROUM, i;l7i.—The latest letters from Persia state that Mr. Murray is on his way to Bagdad. The Shah had issued orders for all the Persian authorities to treat him with every possible civility on his route, but at the same time bad written to him in a tone which inake3 reconciliation at present enfirely impossible. Letters dated the 14th of last month have been received from Sir William Williams. He was then at Tiflis, on his way to Moscow. He and his com panions were all well. The kindness of the Rus sian authorities, civil as well as military, is repre sented as having been unvaried. • FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The Emperor yesterday received M. Pahaud, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, and M. Conrad, chief eng i neer i n the serv i ce of the King of the Netherlands, president of the commis sion for cutting through the Isthmus of Suez ; they had the honour to be presented to his Majesty by M. Lightenvelt, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of tho King of the Netherlands. T The followine• report has been presented, to the Emperor by M. Billault, Minister of the Interior : "Sire,--I n the opinion of your Majesty, the right of initiative conferred on the Senate by Art. 30 of the Con stitution is not a nominal and sterile in - cfrogative as re gards the welfare of the country. As stated in a recent article'of the 4lloniteur, the Senate may suggest to your Government any great measure of public utility ; it re ceives the petitions of citizens, examines the situation of the country, inquires into its wants, studies improve ments in its organisation, points out useful reforms, and proposes real ameliorations.' But, in order to accomplish properly such a high and delicate mission, an inces sant investigation as to what is required for the moralisation and welfare of the people, the ,in terests of agriculture, the developments of labour and credit, the security and prosperity of France is necessary. The annual resolutions of the Councils- General may be a valuable element in thin task. In the limits determined by the law, these resolutions, adopted by men who are best acquainted with the heal interests, and give for eaeh department the opinions •f its repre sentatives on the situation and Wants of the different public services. The collection into a volume of these documents, and the annual publication of them at the expense of the Ministry of the' Interior, had been suspended for some years, but I ordered the resump tion of' 'this undertaking. The analysis of the resolutions of the Councils General in their sessions of 1852, '3, and '4 is already printed ; that of 1851 is in the press, and that of 1855 is being actively prepared. These volumes are distributed to all the great bodies of the State, but perhaps your Majesty will think it right that they shall be more partieularly brought under the attention of the Senate. The senators will find in them for each department a faithful account of its wants, its desires, and its demands. no collection of these resolutions cannot fail to offer to their wisdom th• most useful indications in the search for those measures of amelioration and of practical progress which the con stant solicitude of your Majesty imposes on all branches of your Goveinfuent, but which has been more particularly confided to the initiative of the Senate by the eonstitu tion.—l am, &o." The Emperor has app rove d o f th e recommen ds.. tions of this report. The Moniteur publishes another long list of per sons who have received permission to accept 'Etna wear decorations granted by foreign Sovereigns. BOURSE, Feb. IL—The market continued buoy' ant, when the following were the closing clilOW tions Cash. fr. e. End of Month. 4i per Cents E6 —f. —o. 3 per Cents 72 50 72 90 New Loan 73 2'.) Bank Shares ..., . . 3,190 Roman Credit Mobiliar 1,560 Austrian Belgian rive.. ..... .. 9 7 Spanish Threes risdinoutese (5). B9 -- HOMO Debt • RAILWAYS—NE CABE. fr. c. fr. O. Or!aans 1,250 Western 847 60 Northam - Lyons ~,;,,1,230 New Ditto 810j,,,-"' Mediterranean 1,375 Gr an d C en t ra l 632 Du Lyons Geneva 736 25 Testa Cotte ,„ 735 Austrian Com. ...... 863 lu RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, FEB 10. General Prince Gortschakoir is appointed Coln; wander-in-Chief of the Armies of the West slid Centre, and - Imperial Lieutenant of the King 4ola, of Poland, with all the ri g ht s an d p reroga ti v es 01 that office. AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna of the 7th, in the Allgsbor9 Gazette, says :—" Austria continues disarming hat frontiers nearest Russia. On the sth, two specia! trains brought here from Cracow a number agog , pieces • yesterday the pont oon ma t er i e l arr i ve d : The reduction of the army is being effected wallet°, interruption, and at the mark e t o f M a l z l e i ng dori yesterday a considerable number of artillery and cavalry horses were sold." Another letter freg the satite city and of the same date, in the PO Gazette of 'Frankfort, says :—" The Hungaris! officer Turr, who has been so much talked about lately, did not obtain his pardon until after he bad ,been tried by the c our t- mar ti a l o f C ar l s b urg , an d condemned to death. Immediately on bis pardfil being granted, he was set at liberty." The Memorial des Pyrenees states that Que° ll / Isabella has named General Bosquet grandee 0 Spain of the first class. LITERATURE. Nodes A mbrosiance. Vol. 111 By Pro Moor Wilson. Blackwood and Sons. Eight more Noctes are comprised in , this Ode tional instalment of the selected writings, of Pro' fessor Wilson—a volume bringing us down from-th e June of 1830 to the November of 1832. And over' whelming us as we advance in its perusal with the usual avalanche of wit, and wisdom, and poetry and humour, and satire, and : philosophy. Th ° daring of th e p ro f essor ' s slashing, lashing, crash' ing, dashing criticism upon everything and e ver," body, just as themes happened at the Ole to come within reach of his tremendous crutcb , is rendered by this new volume of the .collectif• reprint of these. N oct6, if that be possible, more thou ever apparent. Fancy nowadays—only just falai for a moment—while the third and fourth Tolunt 6l of his great History have just passed through first edition of some thirty thousand copies (f ° begin with I), while almost everyone is lamentio4 his recent withdrawal from the representation EdinbUrgh as a calamity to the House of Common!' while his .Essays are constantly selling in three s l ; multineous editions, and while his "Lays of Aneis,n Rome " are among the household wor d s o f 0 n lettered Englishman—fancy, we say, North O a Tickler, and the Shepherd, jeering, sneering, 3 n,. fleering at Thomas Babington Macaulay—undj; what epithets ? As " the cr e at ure 1" As ~ small malignant !" As " a prig !" A s "di s h o nest' As " a bairn As "a Bumph !" As " a pric„ b ma-dainty reviewer !" Pelting him boldly Wi t h f the like dead cats, brick-bats, and rott en eg gs ° f rhetoric. So trenchant, rash, and audaciouS were the thrusts made o f o ld by th e k n i g ht s - e rrant Blackwood—the terrible triumvirate of the 11 : nowned anti formidable Noctes Ambrosiance. more brilliant example of their exquisite and sum.' appreciativeness of whatever is either sublime Or beautiful, for which a pp rec i a ti veness t h e gen i us ° , "' Professor Wilson was pre-eminently distinguished among the more illustrious critics of his generation , could hardly be instanced than the following terly illustration by Tickler of Milton's matchlw description of . Death, at the gates of Pandemonium' Here is the renowned passage, itself transcribe et batim from the celestial e pi c . W e all 01°" it by heart--but here it is (for the clear er den 2 ° l2 ; stration of the.aptness of Tickler's commentaries ) nevertheless. "The other Shape, If Shape it might be called, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limh ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either ; black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seemed its head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was. now at hand—" And here follows the inimitable commentary placal by John Wilson in the mouth of— " Tickle'. (taking North's crutch under his arm and 1 011 ' Wing the voice, gesture, an d manner o f th e ' o ld man ‘o°. quent").—ln this sublime passage the power of Imagiu!i tion is at its height. 'This Being, who, nt the gates hell, offers combat to Satan, has not even yet been name as if the poet were so lost in the emotion aecompau9 l % the sight of the ph an t om h e h a d hi mself conjured up, ths • even a very name hail not risen y e t f or w h a t was so u nsub' stantial. He scarcely dares to call it by the vague taro' ' Shape ;' but as soon as he does so, qualifies even that sr preach to substantiality, by saying, if Shape it might called, which shape had none distinguishabl© ' or ' du,. stance might be called that s h a d ow seeme d.' Then h e sal that still farther feeli ng - o f unrea lity—`each seeul e A either,' that is, sub s t ance seeme d s h a d ow, s h a d ow stolid''' . substance. Thus uncertain in its horror to his ey' o ° ' black it seemed as night ;' not utter darkness, but sing e thing black and grim, ' darkness visible— fierce—not as,: Fury—fur that would be something too d e fi n it e , s i n ce the iniego of a fury is of som e thi ng c once i ve d t o ex i s t—but fierce as ten furies, au expression in which all individus' . lity is lost, and nothing conveyed to the mini but. an idiot of aggregated and accumulated fierceness. Terrible at hell' is still more vague, and purposely so, or rather 0 0. under the power .of the emotion ; yet in all this obscuriti: uusubstantiality, and shadowiness, it shook a dreadful dart (observe how much effect is in that word it), soda." thing not described by an y qua lit y, as of size or shape, 141" merely dreadful'—how, why, or in what dreadful, W . know not; while this motion of its weapon directs th e mind to look on the Shape that brandishes it, 1 and le ! 0 , 6 ! which seemed. it s h ea d — not i ts head but that which " that fury-hau n t e d an d i nfernal darkness seemed its head -- the likenesa—not the reality—but the likeness of a kingly crown had on ! Poetry alone could give such an linagiu': tion as this—f ur p a i n ti ng wou ld at once o f necess i ty g iv e outlines, features, realities, which, however enveloped in obscurity, would be fatal to the fearful effect, and emboat, too sensibly the h ere a l mos t unem b o di e d a tt r ib u t es o f alit seeming, shadowy, threateni ng , scarcely-existieg, yet nett terrific Impersonation !" Enough. After that single extract from the Node' it were idle to discant upon their manifold grace° whether of critical acumen or of conversational 0 1 ' 3 : (pence. The collective work is in itself a perfec t repertory of wit and wisdom : abounding in token! of the most delicate sensibility and of the WO" boisterous exhilaration. A masterpiece in truth to be read alternately with tears of tenderness an d shouts of laughter. The miraculous evidence, i 1 short, of animal spirits the most hilarious and , intellectual powers the most vigorous and the mol t comprehensive. The Martins. No. XV. By Charles Lever. , Young Nelligan so wins glory with his fiat brie' that ho astonishes the big-wigs and becomes all at once the pride of Oughterard. Probably we shall have him M.P. for the borough after all in the road of Jack Massingbred. Meanwhile poor Mary Mar" tin is threatened by Lady Dorothy with exclusi° ll , from her old home in the great house of Cr° Martin. Her uncle still lying paralysed in Paris, and her father (evide*tly) turning up in the perso° of the mysterious stranger named Barry, lingering about the family place doing deeds of beneeelenee; Mr. Herm an M er l , a f ter l ook i ng w i th eyes 05 rapine upon the estate on which ho has so forrui' dable a lien, is scared from the west of Ireland b 1 one or two startling occurrences—frightened by I pistol-shot fired by Mary Martin, and threatene d with a duel thrust upon him by Tom Magenui e l. These occurrences grow, by the way, out I perhaps the only animated incident yet 0 ,7 counted in the history of. " The Martins," namely of 'the incursion into Cro' Martin of the said Magennis in quest of Joan who has run awaY, from him on the demise of her old grandfather • Mr. Lever enlivens the present number of his nevi serial story, moreover, with a humorous deseriptio° of Skinny Crowe's discomfiture when Herma n Merl depreciates one after another the vaunitu i treasures of artmlecorating the walls of the gretb drawing-room of Cro' Martin. "Oh dear, od dear ! Did I ever hear the like of this !" cries the poor painter as he . finds a both dwindling a Woeffel, and a Mores coll a p s i ng i n t o a Jansen' and a Salvator Rosa dropping down into a 11 10111- lens. A little wore and we should have had SinuDY introducing his boottnaker to the tailor of Mr. 1 1 "; man Merl—but for the oppo r t une interruption oL Magennis's housebreaking invasion of Cro' Martini; With the ignominiou s flight of the Jew gam ble from Galway the number before us terminates. :;113 kb C( St 20 e P I 11 V 1 at 'lt Tt Ili