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0v,572 nt 4?* SUIT, ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. -a-4) Under the Mana , ement of Miss Louisa Pyre and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENINIG, W ,Ilace's Romantic Opera, THE DES r:RT FLOWER : Mi s s Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne ; Messrs. W. H. Weiss, H. Corri A. Cook, and W. Harrison. Conductor. Mr. A.. Mellon. —Doors open at half-past Seven. commence at Eight. TIL E ROYAL DRURY - LANE. - I ' El E A. Managers. Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. TUT i' • vENING the Performances willcommence with the S ' - 'WA of JOHN DO BB 3 : John Dobbs, Mr. G. F. Ne ville ; Comedir.• eter Paternoster, Mr. G. Belmore • other characters by D/11.- ~ Neville, Mr.;lVarde, Misses Harfleur, and Murray. A t .. •• which. Lord Byron's Choral Tragedy, MANFItED. vessrs. . helps, Ryuer, Rayner, M agreson, Ware, Si encer ; - miss Heath. Miss K. Atkinson, Miss Leclercq, and Mrs. E. Falconer. Vocalists—Miss Poole, Miss Litter, Miss Cicely Not+, Miss Heywood, and Mr. Swift. To conclude with an Original Farce (never acted), by John Oxenford, Esq , entitled BEAUTY OR THE BEAST. principal Characters by Messrs. Addison, G. F. Neville, Barret, Spencer, and G. Weston; Mrs Edmund Falconer and Miss 11. Lecicrq. THEATRE ROYAL HAY M ARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, OUR MARY ANNE. After which, COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles Mathews. Followed by THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Messrs. Charles Mathews, Compton,Weathersby, ; Mesdames C. Mathews, Keeley. Griffith, &c. And MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. BEL DEMONIO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated Every Evening until further notice. THIS EVENING, to commence wit h a Comedietta, by W. Gilbert, Esq., entitled UNC LE BABY Messrs. J.G. f-ijore, Widdicombe, Charles, Miss P. Leclercq, and Carlotta Leclercq. After which, at a Quarter -past Eight, BET, DEMO'NTO, a Love Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from Stendhal's Italian Chronicle ," by John BrouZiam. Principal ct arac ter by Mr. Fechter, supported by essrs. J , ordan, Charles, Br,ugham, Emery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford, Collett, Andrews, Sims ; 2a1513 Kate Terry, Lavenue, Mrs. Lee, and Miss Elsworthy. ------- EL DEMO-Z.:JO ; a LOVE STORY, in Twelve Tableaus. - 1V gw TNE As RE-R 0 Y AL, AD ELPHL— roIp, proprietor and Manager, Mt*. B. Webster. A_M THIS EVENING , a t 7, THE TLIAGEDY QUEEN: Are. Stirling - . At s, the New Drama of LEAH : .Miss Bateman, supported _Messrs. Arthur Sti . rlua_g, R. Phillips. Billington, Stuart . Wood, Eburne, Miss id. Simms and Mrs. Billington. ' T o conclude with CATCHING AN HEIRESS : Mi ss ciroolgar and Mr. A. Wood. if 'Ss BATEMAN.—LE A FL—The triu mp h an t 31 an d enthusiastic success of the gre a t t rag i c artiste, ~„,is s BATEMAN, on her first appearance in the character of L EA in the new five act Drama of th a t t i t l e, h aving been ,0-htly repeated, and even exceeded during the lase four weeks, amidst the applause and tears of crowded audiences, a nd the profount impression created upon all who have wit nessed the touching impersonation by Miss Bateman of the hea., t-broken Jewish maiden, being confirmed by the unani moue verdict and critical approval of the entire press, the manacer ot the NEW ADEL NH THEATRE has the honour to announce that Mss BATEMAN will appear in the New Drama of LEA El EVERY EVENING till further notice ; and in order to meet, as far as possible, the increasing demand for stalls, has added two more rows to those previously existing. pRINCESS'S THEATRE.___HERRMANN, PRE w fIDIGATATEUR.—Great Success of Herr rnann's Performances.—" He always keeps as close to his public ay he can, and courts their vigilance, that his superior dexterity may be lecritim .telp triumphant." Times, Oct. 27. His celebrated FISH, RING, HAT, and MONEY TRICK, EVERY EVkNINU. Constant change of programme. commencing' at Eight. Half-price at Nine o'Ciock. Seco id Grand M.,rning Performance TO-MORROW at 3. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborout,rh. THIS EVENING, FAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR LADY. Mr. Leigh Murray. After which, MIRIAM'S CRIME. Messrs. G. Honey, .Parselle, Belford, Turner, Miss K. Saville, and Miss Mande rs. To conclude with Wki ERE'S YOUR WIFE. Mr. Belford. Commence at 7. I,TIEIE THTRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," j t. Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, au be had Every Evening of G. R. GLhNIE, NEM; AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAL—Morning, 9a. 59m.—Afternoon,:10h. 33m. To-moußow.-Morning, 11. h. 3m.—Afternoon, 11h. 32m. The Weather—Sun Office, Nov. 6, 1863. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock 5l Barometer-30.44. Wind—North-Nest; westerly, and cloudy. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVENIBER 6, 1863, LONDON, FRIDAY, NOV. 6, 1863. NAPOLEON'S Speech, yesterday, was worthy of himself, of France, and of the occasion. His MA JESTY has often before now spoken admirably well, and always to the purpose. This last Imperial oration of his, however—the longest and evidently one of the most carefully elaborated to which he has yet given utterance—is, in many respects, the ablest, as it is certainly the most remarkable, he has delivered. Looked forward to, with eager expecta tion throughout Europe, its purport will create neither disquietude nor disappointment. The tone of the harangue, while it is eminently dignified and even authoritative, is also, and in an especial manner, eminently conciliatory. Not a syllable in it can be pointed to that is so much as even vaguely or indirectly irritating to either of the belligerents in North America. There is no word or hint of defience directed against the councils of the Russian Autocrat. And yet the French EMPEROR is most plainly and most emphatically outspoken a:ike in reference to the recent conquest of Mexico and to the Still p ro t rac t e d, an d em bitt ere d, an d f r i g htf u lly i s nte . nsified Polish Insurrection. If there were any ous expectation that the long imminent alterna tive o f Peace or War in Europe would be decided by NAP OLEO; in. in his Speech from the Throne on opening his new Legislative Chambers, perhaps that expectation maybe regarded now as hav ing been r eal i sed by one sentence—by what we may call a • e sentence—in the EMPEROR'S harangue. Ref • e rring in the most explicit terms that could well have h e , ti employed, in order to express his meani ng, to the utter impossibility of France solely dealing with this Polish Question, the EMPEROR adds, in one of those felicitous sen tences of his, which have about them almost the flavour of wit, certainly the t erseness of a threat an epigram An insult to our house or g of inst t o . our frontiers alone imp ose u p o n us the duty without previous concer t ." So that Earop e i sgiv n e g n to understand now , q uite distinctl y , t hat Franc e not go to war with Russia in the interests eves Will of Poland, if left (as the champion of the inalienable rights of Poland) alone and isolated amongst the Powers of Christendom. Yet does th e EM PEROR refer, almost in the same breath, pointedly, almost poignantly, to the immense temptation h e has had—" to raise my voice," he says, meaning by that to draw the sword of France, " in favour of a nation rebelling in the eyes of Russia, but in our's the inheritor of a right written in history and in treaties." Tempted by the instincts of a noble and hau;hty ambition, incited by the passionate sym pathies of his own people in favour of Poland, NAPOLEON 111. has nevertheless refrained from vindicating at the point of the sword that sacred right—inheritance of which hie Imperial Majesty I l a 3 thus formally proclaimed before Russia, before all Christendom---because--An insult to French honour, or a threat against the French frontiers could alon g impose upon the Sovereign of France cuty of acting without concert—that is, with out concert with his allies. The declaration, thus made , is more than momentarily reassuring; it it definitive. NAPOLEON 111. instead of declaring war against Russia, su b mits the proposal of a Congress t o the consideratio n of Christendom, The preposition of h i s Majesty, we take le, is a b out as chivalrous and as impracticable at hi s twice proffered and twice declined scheme of mediation between the American belligerents, w h il e (as we dread that it can alone prove tc h e ) thus impracticable, the suggestion of the French E3.11•EB.01:. is in itself none the le, mag_ ranimous of its kind. The proposition is so re markable in every way, that the mere manner in which it is put forth yesterday in the Imperial Speech from the Throne is deserving of our most serious consideration. " Without resorting to arms," says the EMPEROR, " and without being silenced, one resource is open to us. That is, to submit the Polish cause to an European tribunal. Russia has already declared that conferences in which all the other questions which agi tate Europe should b a debated would in no degree wound her dignity. Lot us take note of this declaration. May it serve to extin guish, once for all, the ferment of disorders ready to burst forth upon all sides ; and 'from the unease. ness in which Europe is in all directions traversed by the elements of dissolution may a new era of order and peace spring forth:' It sounds Utopian. It breathes like a foretaste of that Christian Arcadia the :llilleninm of which the Laureate dreamed his po litical daydream in " Lockslriy Hall," where he sings of "the Parliament of ne,tions, the Federation of the world." Yet the edifice, the rehabilitated, or to be rehabilitated edifice, NAPOLEON 111. alludes to, in his very next sentence, is surely no chateau en Espagne ! Is not th e ti me come," asks his MAJESTY, "to reconstruct upon fresh bases the edifice undermined by time and destroyed piecemeal by revolutions ?" It is a most momentous question. But the EMPEROR adds another immediately afterwards—a question eminently practical ; " Is it not urgent to reorganise by new conventions that which has been irrevocably accomplished, and to carry out by common agree ment what the peace of the world requires ! The Treaties of 1815,"—with what secret exultation the words must have fallen from the lips of the heir to the fortunes, the successor to the throne 01 NAPOLEON•LE-GRAND—" The Treaties of 1815 have ceased to exist." A fact which his Imperial MAJESTY thereupon immediately goes on to demon strate by illustration—rather superfluously ! By categorical reference, that is, to what has oc curred of late years, some of these things very recently in Greece, in Belgium, in France, in Italy, in Germany, on the borders of Russia, in the midst of the iEgean Sea. And the Emperor NAPOLEON adds that the proposition of an European Congress, such as the ono now for mally submitted by him to the consideration of Christendom, might be addressed to the consciences and to the reason of statesmen in all countries : " Have not the prejudices and rancour which divide us already lasted long enough ? Is the jealous rivalry of the Great Powers incessantly to obstruct the progress of civilisation ? Shad we be constantly casting defiance at each other by exaggerated anna ments? Are our most precious resources to be in definitely exhausted in vain ostentation of our strength ? Shall we eternally preserve a position which is neither peace with its security nor war with its chances of success ? Let ns no longer give factitious importance to the subversive spirit of extrema parties by opposing ourselves with narrow calculations to the legitimate aspirations of peoples. Let us have the courage to substitute a regular and stable situation for an unhealthy and precarious condition, even if it should cost sacrifices. Let us meet without a preconceived system, without ex clusive ambition, animated by the sole thought of establishing an order of things based henceforth upon the well-understood interest of the sovereigns and of the peoples." Even if, as is only too much to be dreaded, this ap peal which NAPOLEON himself says sanguinely he " cannot but believe would be listened to by all," should come eventually to nothing—it is something to have articulated it. Having thus emphatically put forth his proposition of a Congress, NAPOLEON 111. closes his remarkable speech of yesterday with words that, after all (it should, nevertheless, be most seriously borne in mind), may (by the rejection of his proposal) prove to have been the ominous muttering of a threat. " Two ways," he says, " are open. The one leads to progress through conciliation and peace, the other, sooner or later, conducts fatally to war by the obstinacy of maintaining a past which is rolling away !" Progress througa Conciliation and Peace, the French EMPEROR has already avowed he deems to be alone attainable by means of a project like this very one of the grand European Congress he has now proposed. Reject that pro position and—the inference is—War ! Declice to enter the path which leads to this Congress and " the other," ho tells Europe quite plainly, " sooner or later" must conduct us " fatally to WAR ! " An intimation could not be plainer. An oracular sentence could not be more easily con strued or more transparently comprehensible. Yet is this intimation of the EMPEROR'S, after all, hardly a threat of what will arise i❑ the event of his pacific proposition being declined by the nations of Christendom. It is hardly what can be called a threat. It is, more property speaking, the plain de finition of the actual situation—the exposition of an inevitable alternative. That there is something very faulty in the manner in which our poor laws are administered is abun dantly proved by the startling disclosures that are continually made under the head of "Death from Starvation." A casual observer might naturally think that in this wealthy and benevolent city, where there is no lack of wise heads, kind hearts, and able hands to help the indigent, such catastrophes would be absolutely unknown. That they are of such frequent recurrence is certainly not from the lack of means of relief, nor for want of an extensive and regular system for their preven tion. By the existing arrangements, if fairly car ried out, every pauper should be provided with sufficient to preserve life, and, if necessary, accom modated with quarters inside the Union. As the case actually stands, however, the business of parish officials seems rather to get rid of applicants than to administer relief. In the first place, when the father or mother of a family applies for relief, the granting of it is usually coupled with the con dition of entering the House. At first sight this would invi seem to be only adding to the expenses, but the g n u e i a b r le ei a a n i 8 8 1 know ike te going better. under T he They know bat the inhospitablealmost shelter, their objection to the breaking up of the family, and the entire surrender of their wretched home s . So 1011 g 43 they can fight it off, therefore, they and theirs will stay outside, and accordingly the porter is no more troubled. A melancholy case has just come to light, however, which ,the excep tion to this rule. A poor Shoemaker, 49 years of age, :ived at Shoreditch, with his little son. From long-continued illness the poor man was unable to earn a proper living. The ° O 5? got 23. 3d. p e r week, and it w as not ()twit that be. tween them they mustered twelve shillings weekly. And off this, of course, must come the inevitable rent. It was not often, said the boy, when telling his touching story to the coroner, th at they had enough to eat. "Sometimes they t ie d a bit of dry bread, and occasionally they got a drop of tea. They could not get food." They used to buy a pennyworth of coals, he said, though they could not afford it, because his father was so ill. On Monday week the father went to the workhouse to be taken in. He was told to go before the Board 4,f Guardians on Wednesday. This delay was not very cheering to a man in his circumstances, and he must probably have marvelled at it, for it is not necessary, we presume, for the Board to inspect every pauper before he is admitted. However, this visit was paid, and to little purpose, for the guar dians refused to admit him, but gave him, instead, an order for two shillings and a loaf of bread for four weeks. The two shillings was to pay for rent, coals, and the nourishment required by a man in the last stage of sickness and distress, He was quite unable to work at the time, and could hardly walk. For whom are our workhouses intended, we should like to know, if persons in the condition of this poor shoemaker are to be refused admittance ? His simple tale could doubtless have been easily confirmed ; indeed, we should imagine his gaunt appearance would be sufficient warrant. However, the guardians had the interests of the ratepayers at heart, and got rid of the dying pauper with two shillings and an order for loaves he was never to eat. This was on Wednesday. On Thursday he got his relief and an order for the doctor ; and very original advice he must have received, judg ing by the evidence given. On Saturday he was found dead in his bed, and so the tragedy ended. The question is, Ought it so to end ? Are we content to let men, women, and children die in the very midst of our rich and populous city of absolute want of food ? If so, we may as well give up the troublesome machi nery of our workhouses—if not, we had better see if they cannot be a little more efficiently adminis tered. The public, we presume, will hardly feel inclined to accept the dictum of the medical officer, that " starvation had only prolonged deceased's life." We have made many strange discoveries in these days, but Mr. GREENWOOD had better take out a patent for this, as it is certainly one of the most novel and remarkable of them all. The coroner, on hearing it, said that it could hardly be asserted that the Board had refused admittance to a man " unable to work, without food or warmth , and so reduced as scarcely to be able to walk." The gentleman in question, however, admitted not having seen the deceased until after death ; and although the conclusion he arrived at by aid of a post mortem examination was doubtless perfectly correct, and the immediate cause of death was dis ease of the heart, we imagine that the life described by the little boy is not exactly what Mr. GREEN' WOOD would prescribe for a wealthier patient—say one of the guardians themselves. The medical tes timony, however, evidently inclined to the official side, although, in defiance of it, the coroner did not hesitate to express his opinion that a charge existed against the parish authorities. How many more such catastrophes are needed before our local boards awake to the feelings of common humanity ? Considering the many recent triumphs that have attended the Conservative cause, it is not to be wondered at that its supporters are glad to make an occasion for celebrating their successes. At Essex, on Wednesday, there were grand doings at the annual meeting of the Maldon Conservative Club, which was graced by the presence of some distinguished men. Sir JOIIN TYRItELL, whos3 name is well known in Parliamentary remembrance, took the opportunity of meeting his old friends. Affairs have certainly changed greatly since the hon. baronet retired from the r epresentation of the north division of the county in 1859. The election which then took place was very unfavourable to the Conservatives, and he would have been derided as a prophet who had pictured anything approaching to the numbers which now swell the ranks of the Opposition. Indeed, it would be difficult to find any parallel in the history of party for any section of politicians which has so rehabilitated itself, as it were, and come forward in so prominent a position, and with so proud a prestige before the eyes of the country. Perhaps the cause may lie in two things —the perseverance of one side, and the decadence of the other. When the last Ministry was formed, it is not likely that its most bitter opponent could have thought it would run so ignoble and undignified a. career. The only reason must have been that the Government believed that it did not matter what they did, because they were safe in their places, and secure of support if they appealed to the country, The chairman of this meeting, Mr. WATLING TON, made some very pointed allusions to the extraordinary mode of procedure that has been followed by our rulers of late years. Out of the long list of anomalies and absurdities some of the allusions are very happy—such as," Liberalism abstained from interference with America, b u t offended both parties." It might be well if the so. called chiefs of Liberalism confined their exploits to those across the Atlantic, for 013 course they are adopting is giving great offence at home in all directions. It ill becomes any Government to boast of their conducting a neutral policy when it is s o managed and directed as to necessitate the occupa tion by armed men of the ships belonging to a n English subject, the jeopardising of a noble vessel in order to make assurance doubly sure, and also entailing the necessity of going to a court of law to appeal against a verdict that gave to British sub jects their inalienable birthright of independence. This is so strange a way of maintaining the prin ciples, and putting into practice the benefits of neu trality, that it is not to be wondered that it is hardly appreciated and very churlishly received. The reference to mysterious diplomatic metamorphoses is an admirable hit. "Liberalism removed, by a mistake, Sir JAMES HUDSON from the theatre of his usefulness at Turin, but he feared that it was not by a mistake Liberalism replaced him by an ELLIOT." No wonder that the enunciation of this fact was received with "laughter," for a more ridiculous mode of slurring over a blunder was seldom attempted than that which our Foreign Secretary contrived to adopt in mak ing his false move the other day in Italy. Mr. WATLlNGTox_would not allow the Government to plume itself on fiscal achievements any more than on reform measures at home, a firm policy abroad, or skill in the arrangement of general affairs. He reminded his hearers that their boasted benefit of the remittance of the Paper Duty was bestowed at the expense of additional Income Tax. Here is another special grievance, which it is of no use to complain of, because it is well known that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is immoveable on the point of direct taxation, and prefers figures to facts when these latter inform him that his odious calculations make the burden press heavily upon a numercus and struggling class, It must require great admiration for the achievements of skilled accountants of national expenditure, and also considerable zeal for the art of oratory, to console or convince these ground down and heavy burdened sufferers that all is for the best, and managed with a precision and a proficiency that are of world-wide celebrity, and have secured a remarkable reputation. Mr. DISRAELI'S remarks on the instability of coalition Governments might well he referred to at ts::,, period,when we are witnessing the practi-se fail for the second time since he declared in The House that " En g l an d does not love Coal :hone.'' Certainly the last t wo specimens have hot gone far to reassure the popul ar mind, or to remove t h e pre j u di ces regard ing the compromising expediency up o upon tthhea ideacaststhat prin ciples to th e w i nds, or acts all is fair to get in, and all allowable to keep so. Mr. PEACOCKE'S remarks on American affairs were most appropriate, and, it is to be trusted, are a reflex of the sentiments and an exponent of the spirit which actuate and animate the majority of the members of the House of Commons. Earl RUSSELL had better take timely warning, and note down the signs of the times, which every day is unfolding to his view. He had need to forget his late vehement denunciation of the popular expression of feeling in regard to America, or he may find that his new allies have taken him far away from his old friends. One universal expression of astonishment, one simultaneous avowal of indignation, will await the presentation of his proposal for " additional enactments," and its speedy and scornful rejection will be the immediate issue of his rash venture and impotent attempt to subvert the laws of our Con stitution at the bidding of a foreign Power. Thus, as Mr. PEACOCKE declared, they will best vindicate the " independence of Parliament and the dignity of the nation." It would be as well to spare such scenes, however, and not to have a second time, at the expense of the credit of our statesmen, to send forth the tidings to the world that England brooks no paltering with her privileges ; and that the mighty charter of independence and protection for the rights of others, that has been hanged down through a long line of past worthies, shall not be lost in these present days, but survive as a match less and glorious heirloom, to descend, unchanged and uninjured, to the generations of the most remote posterity. According to the Constigutionnel the German Powers have by no means modified their hostile in tentions towards Denmark, and the mild remon strances of Earl RUSSELL have proved entirely fruitless. It is stated by the Parisian journal that the four military commissaries charged with prepar ing the Federal execution in Holstein will shortly meet, and that the Prussian representative, General DE MOLTKE, is to propose that a part of the Aus tro-Prussian reserve should enter Holstein at the same time as the Saxon and Hanoverian corps of execution. The object of this arrangement is to defend the invading troops from a Danish attack— a contingency by no means improbable. It is, therefore, evident that the Diet are not only bent upon the prosecution of their rash and aggressive scheme, but are in some degree prepared for the opposition they will undoubtedly encounter. They do not seem, however, by any means to realise the strength of the feeling that animates Denmark, and are assuredly mistaken if they suppose that either KING or people will suffer patiently any dismem berment of their gallant little kingdom, whatever force might be brought to overawe them. It seems that Earl RUSSELL meanwhile, instead of endea vouring to effect some change in the position of affairs, is busying himself with a matter more directly personal to this country, by trying to secure the entrance of the port of Hamburg for English trading vessels, in case of a blockade of the German ports. We presume that the noble Earl now at the head of the Foreign-office fears that it would be too much even for English equanimity to have another branch of commerce suddenly cut off, and he is a nx i ous to avoid such a cata strophe,at least while Southern harbours can only be entered through a blockade. It is doubt ful, according to the news received by the Con licystitutionnel, whether this privilege will be granted to the B r iti s h G overnmen t, an d r ea lly th ere are no very s t rong groun d s on w hi c h t o b ase suc h a claim. The inconsistency and vacillation of the English in a matter already sufficiently complicated and precarious, has rather served to embroil the combatants still further, than to facilitate any satisfactory arrangement. Earl Rue- SELL'S famous despatch suddenly transferring his support to the pretensions of the Diet did mischief which the Premier's subs( quent disclaimer, the pub lic indignation, and even the Anglo-Danish alliance could not undo. Germany, reckoning on our con nection with the chief offender, is secure of our non-intervention, and is bent on carrying out her long cherished scheme, while the other members of the Confederation are only too ready to assist. Meanwhile the brave Danes, and their constitu tional KING, are preparing, as best they may, against the coming storm—a storm which any political weather prophet must have seen the signs of long since, although our sapient Foreign Minister appears to have thought otherwise, and has just aroused from his dream to remember, in alarm, that English commerce must not be shut out from Hamburg, or he would have an awkward story to tell our merchants and manufacturers ; and having eo ably and disinterestedly played the part of the candid friend to Denmark, he has surely a right to demand some little consideration in return. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAM.] MANIFESTO OF THE KING OF THE GREEKS. TRIESTE, Nov. 6. Advices received here from Athens state that the King of the Greeks on his arrival there issued a manifesto, of which the following is a summary : " I bring neither ability to govern nor practised intelligence, but sincere love for the people. I believe in the future identity of our destinies. 1 shall endeavour to love Greek customs, and shall respect your manners and language. 1 shall strictly observe the constitution, and shall surround myself with the most experienced men of the country, without remembering old political divisions, and shall make Greece the model State of the East." THE POLISH INSURRECTION. BRESLAU, Nov. 6. Advices received here from Warsaw announce that the National Government has published a pro clamation encouraging the Poles to persevere, and confirming the order for ladies to discontinue wear ing mourning. A sanguinary engagement has taken place at Czchanow. The insurgents were commanded by Baron Petz. Night separated the combatants. ROME. ROME, Nov. 5. The Prince Latour d'Auvergne presented his letters of recall to the Pope this morning, and will leave Rome on Saturday next. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 5. The Levant Herald says :—" AU the arrears of the army prior to March last have been settled by individual serghis, payable to the soldier at the ex piration of his term of service. Since March all have been paid in cash. "The new taxes are about to applied to Constan tinople, which city has hitherto been exempt." FRANCE. PARIS, Nov. 6. The bulletin of this morning's ]ioniteur publishes an account of the opening of the French Chambers, concluding as follows : "The Emperor's speech was interrupted by the most vehement acclamations, and terminated amidst repeated shouts of " Vive l'Empereur." His speech will not fail to re-echo loudly throughout France, and the whole of Europe." The Senate and Corps Legislatif will meet to-day, to receive a communication from the Government to the Corps Legislatif. It is asserted that the tax upon carriages will be abolished, and will not be inserted in the Budget for 1865. The Presse of this evening, in an article, signed by M. de Girardin, wishes that the appeal of the Emperor may be understood in Europe to open at last a new era of peace and liberty. The Gazette de France thinks that the speech of the Emperor tends to the alternative of a Congress, reorganising ancient Europe, or to war. The Pays applauds the Emperor's speech, and says:— "If the Emperor has spoken of war it is not as a threat, but to impress upon Sovereigns and nations the necessity of anticipating war by recom- mending peace." Tire Constitutionnel, in an article signed by M. Limayrac, says :—" The whole of France will join in the magnificent and patriotic language of the Emperor. k Europe will understand that this appeal was made by a clear-sighted and sagacious policy, proud without wishing to impose itself upon others, national without the spirit of conquest, the friend of order and of progress." The Nation of this evening considers the Em peror's speech to show that the common action of the Three Powers is at an end, and also does not believe that Europe will accept a Congress. La France of this evening says :—" The Emperor has condemned with equal firmness the rashness which endeavoured to carry him away, and the system of egotism and decay which has overthrown other regimes and which his name rejects." BOURSE, Nov. s.—Business opened at an advance on yesterday's closing rates, but the improvement was not long maintained, and quotations receded, Threes having been done at 67f. 15c. After the Emperor's speech had been poeted up a little rally took place, and prices again recovered to about the quotations of yesterday, Threes, for the Account, being now at 67f. 25c. Mobilier remain slightly lower. Railway Market quiet, and prices in general well maintained. The mirket closed as follows it per Cents. 95 10 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 Credit Mobilier....lo7B 75 Do. end m0nth....1180 Bank Shares 3360 -- Italian Loan 72 80 Do. end month 72 80 New ditto Do, end month.... Russian Austrian Spanish Threes — Home Debt Deferred Credit Fancier 1295 -- ,oman RAILWAY% Cash. Account. Orleans 978 75 .. 976 25 Northern New ditto — Lyons and Mediterranean 950 .. 952 50 New, ditto .. . 910 .. Genev^ ...Teneva .. 497 50 .. Southern Western Eastern .... 505 •• f, ( , ) ,1 50 Sardinian 4lO •• "' Austrian 410 .. 411 50 Lombard 540 • • 537 50 North of Spain 6 1 7 50 .. 630 Saragossa .. - Ditto to Barcelona .... '' LITERATURE, A Page from the Peerage. By the author of " The Colonel." Two Vols. Newby. The author of this story, in a very spirited pre face, deprecates the " sensation" sentiment of the present day, especially inasmuch as it involves a pleasant familiarity with the records of iniquity. "If," asks the writer of the preface, " authors can by the magic of their style blunt our sense of the crimes they narrate, why not by the power of their genius attempt to crush the growing evils of the age, instead of fostering them ?" The writer forgets that this noble task, so well worthy of employing the highest powers, has been, in many instances, already undertaken by some of our first authors. This " Page from the Peerage" now before us—this chapter from what Mr. Tnackeray has called " The British Bible" —although disclaiming all "sensation," abounds with vicissitudes. We cannot but regard the history of Katinka Campbell as most improba ble, although we are aware that there are not a few histories in the records of the House of Peers which are striking examples of that truth which is stranger than fiction. Katinka, or Kattie, as she is more frequently styled, is not a very pleasing character. When we are first introduced to her, she is the somewhat haughty and ambitious daughter of a widow lady of moderate circumstances. Shortly afterwards the death of Katinka's godfather, the old and almost imbecile Duke of Merioncourt, ren ders the unnoticed daughter of Mrs. Campbell the heiress of eleven thousand a year and seveuty thousand pounds besides. The ambitious damsel, for a brief time,— " Basks her in the noonday sun, Disporting there like auy other fly"— when a law-snit deprives her of her unexpected in heritance, leaving her many thousands of pounds in debt. Sha then becomes engaged to the steward of a noble friend, and prepares herself for a humble life at the park lodge, when, lo and behold, the steward turns out to be the rightful Duke of Merioncourt ! Assuredly this is a sufficiently sur prising climax to an anti-sensational romance ! Living in Earnest: with Incidents from the Lives of the Great and Good. One vol., pp. 265. By Joseph Johnson. Nelson. Those beautiful lines of Professor Longfellow— " Lite is real—life is earnest, And the grave is not its goal" are appropriately taken as the motto of this book— a little book well worthy the earnest attention of those for whom it is intended, namely, the young, and one well calculated also to prove interesting to the general reader, being filled, as it is, with anec dotes and examples from the lives of the Great and the Good of former times, These records are more than interesting—they are most encouraging. They are those footsteps on " the sands of time"— " Footsteps which perchance another Sailing o'er life's stormy main— Some forlorn and shipwrecked brother Seeing, may take heart again," The great lesson inculcated by these pages is the necessity of individuAl exertion in order to attain success. Those who have achieved greatness have not done so with folded hands. In the " sweat of his brow" man is doomed to earn his bread, and not his bread only, bat every other good gift. Even " the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence," and the " earnest" man alone will prosper in this world and in the next. As an encouraging exhortation to such noble work, this little book is well worthy of com mendation and success. The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Illustrated, Part I. Price 6d. Lea. We are glad to see " Robinson Crusoc" appearing in a cheap form in monthly parts. This edition is beautifully printed in large type, and is bountifully adorned with very spirited and excellent illustra tions. By placing works of such genuine merit and of such a wholesome and at the same time en thralling interest within reach of all classes of readers, publishers confer a very great boon upon the public in a moral as well as in a literary point of view. Winter leavings. Poems. By Isabella Law. One Vol., pp. 179. Smith, Elder, and Co. A charming little volume of fugitive pieces has, in these "Winter Weavings," been penned by a loving friend, and may we not call her also dis ciple of Barry Cornwall's gifted daughter. The book is, upon its very title-page, "Dedicated in all affection to Adelaide A. Procter ; " end one of the sweetest morsels of verse in it is the dedi catory sonnet given upon the next page, as fol lows : In tender love I dedicate to-day, In hope and trust, and all that in me sings (While thought of thee around my spirit clings), These songs I wove through all the winter grey : My first poor songs which at thy feet I lay, The first-fruits of my soul's imaginings : Because thy gentle hand first moved the strings, First woke my harp with trembling notes to play. And now I send my little songs abroad, With prayer that God may here and there turn such To drops of rain upon some thirsty ways— But from thy lips one kind approving word, From thy dear hand one tender answering touch, Were worth to me a world of humaa praise. Without ever rising beyond the tenderly graceful and pathetic, the Muse of Isabella Law, flutters her wings very prettily. Not, it is true, with that strength of pinion, or that radiant variation of colouring noticeable at the every turn and upon the every plume of the more aerial muse of Adelaide Procter—reminding one of how it is the new sculp tor poet, Thomas Woolner, sings, one while, of " My Beautiful Lady"— Fresh beauties, howso'er she moves, are stirred : As the sunned bosom of a humming-bird At each pant lifts some fiery hue, Fierce gold, bewildering green or blue, The same, yet ever new. The majority of these little poems by Miss Law are just the rythmical thoughts and emotions, felt and mused over, we doubt sot, by many another gentle and accomplished maiden, but very seldom, indeed, even by trio gentlest and most accomplished amongst them, so tenderly and so gracefully ex pressed. Shakespere. A Critical Biography. By Samuel Ne il. Pp. 122. Holliston and Wright. A foretaste, this little book is, of the floods of illus trative, prose, and verse that will be pouring in upon us within these next few months in anticipa tion of the tercentenary anniversary of the birthday of William Shakspere on that 23d of April, which was strangely also his death-day, and more strangely even than that (remembering that the poet is the chief glory for England as a " heaven-born" genius) —St. George's Day ! As a critical biography, Mr. Neil's volumette shows a good deal of research. Yet is the performance to our mind very far indeed from being entirely satisfactory. It is written in a prag matic strain. The biographer has his preconceived notions about Shakspere, and rigidly to those precon ceived notions he conforms everything. He has his bed of Procrustes, and upon it he pitilessly stretches the hero of his biography. What he wishes Shakspere to have been in family, in friends, in fortune, in religion—that he describes him as having been ! His arguments, moreover—notwithstand in g his theme—are not always readable. At any rate, we have not found them to be so. We have exaulined them with a sense of weariness, and have laid them aside afterwards with the one feelin g of satisfaction at our having done so. _ _ Davidson's Musical Aumanack for 18G4. A threepenny musical milange (oddly entitled an .Almanack) consisting of Jailien's "King of Hearts Quadriti;s," Charles Mackay's Eparkiin g song " DawdroP of the Morning," Rqloff's odd little ditty, pertly entitled " Wouldn't you like to know?" Rohner's haunting " Home, Sweet Home Waltz," Wilson's inspiriting "Pantomime Galop," Plump. ton's aerial "Zephyr Polka," and Jolly's ditto Scottish Ballad " Auld Dlys"—too much of an echo, this last, of the world-famed "Auld Lang Syne." THE MANUAL OF FASHION.—The Messrs. Jay, of Regent-street, have just issued their Illustrated Manual of Fashion, which, as regards taste, elegance, or variety, is without a rival. In ordinary fashionable publi cations two or three plates are usually given to their readers, but the Messrs. Jay present their patrons with a whole volume of the latest and most attractive Parisian modes The plates fflustrate every description of ladies' costume, and if there is any truth in the saying "variety is pleasing," then the Manual is without doubt a very marvel of inven tive taste. It cannot but increase the eminence already attained by the Messrs. Jay. leto 4,6A4 , t ar . 6naot HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, NOV. 5, The Queen drove out this morning, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Bruce. Colonel H. F. Ponsonby attended her Majesty on horseback. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and Princess Mary visited her Majesty. Lord Brougham had the honour of an interview w.th her Majesty. Viscount Palmerston arrived at the Castle yester day evening and had an audience of the Queen, and returned to London this morning. THE BIRTHDAY OF THE PRINCE OF WALES It is understood that the natal day (the 9(1 instant) Of 11.R.H. the Prince of Wales will be kept this year et Sandringham, and not at Windsor as was first announced• Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia were expected at Windsor last Tuesday, and pre' parations were made at the Castle for their reception, but the orders were at the last moment countermanded. The Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia will now, it is believed, remain at Sandringham until after the Prince of Wales's birthday. _ Her Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will return to town to-morrow from visiting General 1131 1 at his seat in Cambridgeshire. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cana bridge and the Princess Mary visited her Majesty yester day at Windsor Castle. After a short stay their royal highnesses returned to Cambridge Cottage, Kew. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena and Princess Louise, attended by Lady C. Barrington, Colonel Ponsonby, &c., honoured the Adelphi Theatre with their presence last evening, to witness Miss Bateman's perform ances of " Leah." Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess de Chartres have returned to their residence at Ham, Surrey, after a lengthened tour. The Duke of Somerset will arrive at his official residence at the Admiralty to-morrow, from Stover Park, near Taness. The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough have issued invitations for an evening party, on a grand scale, at Blenheim Palace, on Wednesday, the 25th inst. The party' will be in honour of Frederick Prince of Denmark, who i 5 now at Oxford, and a general gathering of the nobility and gentry of the county and leading members of the university is expected. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester, who, 011 leaving town, visited the Earl of Sandwich at Hinchin broke, have arrived at Kimbolton Castle, where they Wil l shortly receive a succession of visitors. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn have been entertaining a succession of visitors at Beaudesert Park, near Lichfield. The Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare, end Lady Blantyre and Hon. Ellen Stewart, are staying with the Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland at Stafford House , St. James's. _ _ Viscount Palmerston returned to town yesterds9 morning from Windsor Castle, and left in the afternoon for his seat, Broadlands, Hants. Lord Chesham, we are informed, is rather better/ and is gradually regaining strength. Lady Herbert of Lea, with the Earl of Pembroke and family, will leave Wilton for Egypt in the course of the ensuing week. Lord and Lady Cecilia Bingham have been among the latest visitors to the Duke and Duchess of Rieh• mond at Gordon Castle, N.B. We have to record the demise of Dowager Lady Stanley of Alderley, who died on Monday last at an ad" vanced age. Several families of rank are placed in moue ing by the melancholy event. A SINGULAR DISCOVERY LATELY ANNOUNCED 15 FRANCE.—The discovery is that of a Dutchma n ' M. Hooibrenk, and the results of his researches ha y° been so well marked and valuable that he has be en awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honour by the Erener °r ' who has directed that a scientific commission be appointed to investigate and report upon the matter. M. Hooibrenk supposes that the number of grains in an ear of corn can b° increased by bringing a larger quantity of pollen into con' tact with the stigmata than they usually receive. He c °• ducts his experiments as follows :—He takes a cord of from 2.5 to 30 yards long, and fastens it to a stiff woollen fringe of about 10 inches long; he steeps it for a short time in honey, and drags it over the fields of corn two or three times after flowering. It catches the pollen from the anthers and applies it to the stigmata (it is, in fact, Mr. Darwin's bee' process on a gigantic scale), and the result is a greatly is' creased crop. This method has been tried in conjunctio n with the old one, on a farm near Epernay, in Champag ne ' the property of the celebrated wine dealers, Messrs. Jagg eß rf son. The results beneath show the relative advantages.,-R, both systems :—Hooibrenk's system—wheat 31 kilos, 4- 25'5 kilos, barley 24 kilos, oats 17 kilos. Old syste n l r: wheat 21 kilos, rye 16 kilos, barley 16 kilos, oats 12 gr It has been conjectured that the results would have be e*. still more striking had not this season been such a fayet l f: able one. Fruit and garden vegetables have been similar" treated, and with a like success. It has been found si°: that an inclination of 112 deg of the branches of the ayes produces some effect upon the flow of the sap, and incrase' the fruit crop. hi. Hooibrenk maintains that by his P r° „{ cess, and without any material additional outlay, crops fruit, vegetables, and corn can be increased in value 60 P e cent. . 0 Of SUPERSTITION ABOUT GREEN PEAS.—The 11-- peas in divination concerning love matte rs is tic; counted for by the fact that they are sacred to th e patron ° marriage, In the Leitmeritzer district of Bohem ia the grlo go into a field of peas, and make there a garland o f five °,l seven kinds of flowers, all of different hues. T his g arland they use as a pillow, lying down w ith their right ear 111)°o ~ it, and then they hear a voice from underground, whi°' tells them what manner of man they are to have for a lin s' band. In England, whe n the kitchen maid shells h am peas, if she chance to find a p od with ni ne peas she 13.614":„, it over the kitchen door, and the first rustic who eoraes is infallibly to be her husband, or at least her sweet heart s The village girls in Hertfordshire lay the pod with nine P e : c i tiarathe undern first name man h gate, a te n , dt a s n au d trn t pa h a e rne y ee believe they will have for h uaba- g es ha th ve rou t g h h e , s o a r me on i e ni pro w v ti e ah s loss eaC : fjlii ,,a l°.: A Cumbrian girl, when her lover 1 ful, is, by way of conso lation, rubbed with P:.:1 straw by the neighbouring lads; ani, when a Carab rh i lo youth loses his swe e theart by marriage with a riv al, r o f same sort of comfort is administered to him by the lass es f r the village, g " Winter time for shoeing, peascod wooing," is an cld proverb found by Sir Henry Ellis ' - g d MS. Devon glossary. A peascod wooing was perfinill-0: according to Brand, by selecting one growing on the s te t o snatching it away quickly, and, if the good omen n f ti a peas remaining in the husk were preserved, then p resell it to the lady of their choice. An example of this P rrie h oit is tenderly recounted by Touchstone I remembe r I was in love, I broke my sword upon a stone, and 1)01°110, take that for coming a night to Jane Smile ; and I reinelor ber the kissing of her batter, and the cow's dugs that , e pretty chapped hands had milked; and I remember ,1;0 wooing of a peascod instead of her, from whom I took cods, and giving her them again said , wi th weeping tearß Wear these for my sake.' "—.Kelly's _Folk Lore. aC I C THE STORM.—On Wednesday th e fishing sal 5 Edwin, of Hull, Capt. Pounds , . arrived at that pora from the North Sea, having o n board Capt. W. Gibbons # ° 6 , 4 seamen belonging to the s chooner Mark Breed, of Virni.o stable. The schooner was on a voyage from Seawall 1,, Rochester with a cargo of coal, when on Saturday m erni% she was overtaken off S p urn Point by the :fearful gale Wl),icg swept the North Sea ou that day. On SaturdaynaorelPory the vessel sprung a leak, and from that time zintil gond 0, morning, at 7 o'clock, the pumps were kept at work in ce o t, san dy. Finding that the water was gaining napidlY , C h ti 'rs Gibbons ordered signals of distress to be heisted. s rre time a fterwards the Edwin hove in sight, and got3 o ° S ,; down upon the sinking vessel. As soon as the sr:l 3c ' a alongs ide Capt. Pound lowered hi s b oa t, w hi c h was t , ° :t e b° to the schooner, and soon the crew were safely on bO-d it s mack. There was a very he av y sea on a t t h e timer sr :Dat was at great risk to his ow n lif e an d t h ose o f his cre' e f oG the ship . wrecked seamen were saved. The vessel was DO settling down when the Ed w i n b ore up f o r Ifn i " of Taesday the fishing smack Superior, Captain ' Hull, landed seven of th e crew o f th e schooner Captain English, at that port. Th e Superior fell in 1-101 the Alpha on the Do gger B an k d ur i ng the fearful g e , I Sunday, and at much risk succ e ed e d in saving the It the whole of th e crew . O n W e d nes d a y the fishing 7:irt signal, of Hull, Captain Jones, landed the crew, ilZipie number, of the Annie, of Whitby, at Hull. Th° jl3 foundered on the Dogger Bank on Monday morning' t 6 0 the evening they were picked up in their boat ab°- et, miles from land by the Signal. They were in a lerl oie' hausted condition when taken on board the fishing *wit; The crews of all these vessels have been f or warde d I‘l to ap °"° homes by the Hull Shipwrecked Fishermen's an Association. Ses tet' FATAL OCCURRENCE IN THE ST RAND.- an day Mr. Bedford, coroner for Westminster, D , y esep u inquest in King's College Hospital, o n the body n. l _, be ing Henry Strong, aged 35, who met with his death 10 . Ye nigh{ run over by one of Chaplin and Hor ne's vans, 0 13 was of of Saturday last. Much evidenc e was heard, but.."'coroeer a very confused nature, after w hich the learnevae 1411- , s v ar t s i c r n t n b u a tp theand a deceased j s e u d r y m , after e t his death consulting, bye c re idt.aern quite ing under the van. The coro ner said that he q curred in the verdict. THE LONDON CHORAL UNION, Last evening M. Benedict's lyric legend " Un dine" was performed by the members of the Lon don Choral Union at the Queen's Concert Room, Hanover-square. The principal parts were sus tained by Miss Rase Hersee (Undine), Mr. Gwynne (Hildebrand), Miss Palmer Lisle (Berthalda), and Mr. Lawler (Kuhleborn)—the members of the " Union" giving the choruses assigned to water sprites. The story of the legend runs thus :—Un• dine, a water sprite, has left her home and compa nions in order to follow her noble lover, Hildebrand, but Kuhleborn, the principal kinsman of Undine, disapproves of the attachment, suspecting that the mortal lover will prove unfaithful. I❑ this he is correct, for immediately Hildebrand returns to his palace on the Danube his love returns to Berthalda, and, marriage following, Undine is left desolate. To revenge the outrage Kuhleborn summons the water sprite; the destruction of Hildebrand, his wife, and castle is determined on, and the resolution is carried into effect, and Undine is left to bewail the doom of her unfaithful lover. Mr. Benedict has been particularly happy in his composition of the music of Undine; for while he has given the prin cipals sweet and telling songs, he has arranged the choruses with great effect. "Mark the waves that rippling play" wr.s very beautifully sung by Miss Hersee; and Miss Lisle obtained enthusiastic ap plause for singing the music allotted to her. M r . liwynne's most successful effort was the recitative and air "My own Undine," while Mr. Lawler elicited applause for the air " Love, a tyrant of the earth." There was a short miscellaneous selection both before and after, in regard to which Miss Haldome and Mdlle. Marlorelli contributed some fine specimens of Italian music. The choruses of the legend were all admirably performed by the members of the Union, and Mr. Kingsbury conducted the concert in his usual ad mirable manner. Notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the weather, the splendid saloon was crowded during the whole of the evening,. Whittington Club, Mr. Adolphus Francis last evening gave another of his interesting reading;; at the Whittington Club, the subject ch(_;:;en being Slaakspere's " Midsummer Night'; Dream," with the whole of Mendelssohn's utak. There was a very crowded audience, and it need hardly be remarked that Mr. Francis ac quitted himself withhis usual ability and judgment. To the vocalists we must also award great praise, especially to Madame Andrea fur the skill, taste, and accuracy with which she rendered the composi tions of the great musician. Mrs. Gilbert and Miss S. Cole also honourably distinguished themselves ; and the members of the Polyhymnian Choir exe cuted the choruses with remarkable steadiness and effect. Mr. Gilbert very efficiently conducted the musical portion of the entertainment, which seemed to give the greatest satisfaction to every one pre sent. The Case of Starvation, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,--I have read in the newspapers of tho 2d inst. with profound regret a statement of an inquest being held on a child 12 years of age, whose parents are respectable, dying of sheer want in the neighbourhood of De Beauvoir-squaro, Kingsland, and I arc touched with the concluding remarks of the coroner, " That a more dreadful case of suffering he had never seen." This is a very lamentable state of things, and individu ally it is hard to combat them, but in a word and at once, if a subscription be raised, I will add thereto £5. I apprehend the proper way would be to ask the clergy man of the district to receive any aid that may be offered, and as I find the rev. gentleman's name (and who was pre sent at the inquest) is S. Finch, and who resides in the Downhara-road, Kingsland, I shall send my contribution to him, in the hope that many more will do the same.—l am, &G., J. L. ualston, Nov. 3. TRANSLATIONS of Jean Paul Richter's " Levanna, or the Doctrine of Education," and of his " Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces," are announced by Messrs. Ticknor and Fields of Boston. The same firm has recently published a translation of Richter's great work, " Titan." SHOCKING CRUELTY TO A CHILD.—SMELDS, Wednesday Evening,—To-day a good deal of excite ment has been caused in this seaport by a caso that has been heard before the South Shields borough magistrates. Isabella Inkester, the wife of a master of a vessel, a per sen,living in a respectable circle, was charged with cruel ill-usage to Elizabeth Inkester, an intelligent little girl 10 years of age, her step-daughter, in the absence of the father at sea. Tho neighbours, who appeared as wit nesses, gave evidence of a shocking series of brutalities exhibited by the cruel and brutal woman towards the poor child. The little girl herself was examined, and she stated on oath that during the three days ending the 7th September her stepmother had kept her naked in a dark closet without anything to eat; that she escaped from her on the third day, but that, upon returning in the even ing, this woman set upon her again and brat her cith rope, Before the woman had put the child into the closet,she had kept her fastened in a ch est of drawers all day with a rope, and naked. The bench was occupted.therdeet to ours t hearing the case. At its con c:usion they refus m ie a fine upon the defendant, btu, sent her to Durham Gaol for three months with hard labour. The decision of . the Court was received with muc h applause, and it war n of clear if the women could have laid hold of the prisoner they would have ;summarily lynched her.---Lees iercurY, tel 66 riz Po quo nee are Pat nal are rise 17- 3 63 Mal gen bee] imp 3 pe 3 pe Nev Ind Com ladi Exe Bra: Ore( Itali Mex Di Moo New Port 1 t Said piti Spai Di Turi Di yen But Di Itali Cons Di this tedl tiou adop for f na ry Nov for t extri Lc ~~'es Pc Jari, tor from from Jans4 Ewpi from Pal lloga Grah Gibrf Philli It,n2 for V steam steam Sai Stator