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Apply at the Spread Eagle, Regent-circus; or at Irongate-wharf. SEA. —VACANCIES for MIDSHIPMEN and APPRENTICES in a first-class London shippinsr firm. Premium moderate. Also apprentices without premium.— Apply to SIMMONDS and Co'., 3S, St. Mary-at-hill, East cheap, E.C, Third Officers and Stewards wanted. SEA. —First-class APPRENTICES requ i re d in an East Indiaman.—Far premium, name rf ship, &c. apply to Messrs. Laing. and Co., 27, Coleman-street, Bank. o control over or interference in the outfitting exercised. SHAKESPEARE. A T a MEETING, held on Monday, the 13th Xl_ inst., at 4, St. Martin's-place, His Grace the DUKE of MAN( lIEST ER in the Chair, an Amalgamation of the t'zhak espeare Tercentenary Monument Committee with the National Shakespeare Committee was completed. 't is proposed that the Three Hundredth Birthday of Shakespeare shall be commemorated under the highegt sanc tion, with the aid of alittlfnAses of the Poet's countrymen and admirers, on the 23d of A pril. ISt .4, by laying the first stone of a Monument in a conspicuous part of London. The iN atonal Shakspeare'G , mmittee - have tfndertaken to invite the Patronage of her Msjcsty, the Pres dency of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the co-overation of Corporate Bodies, Special CoMmittees, and eminent men of all ranks and pr3lessions. Ctrlmcnications sh. ul be addressed to W. HEPWOR FIT DIXON, Esq.) G ener al Secretaries, J. 0. HALLIWELL, Esq. ' 5 4, S. Martin's-place. Sir CHAS. NICHOL.zON, Bart. Colonial Secretaries. Sir B. MACDONNELL, C.B. Dramatic Secretaries, J. ST [RUING COYNE, Esq. G. LINNIEUS BANKS, Esq 28, Rng-street, i garden. mit. T. CARRICK begs to announep to his Artist Friends and the Public, that his Photographic Establishment, 32, Regent-street, Piccadilly-circus, is now in full operation. Cartes de Visite, 10 for 10s. 6d ; 21 for Ll. Miniatures on Ivory, Marble, and the Photographic base in his former styles. IMMEDIATE CASH ADVANCES.—Persons requiring Capital, repayable by instalments, to enable them to increase or commence business, or for any other pu , pose, can readily obtain Advances on application at the Offices of the ST. GEORGE ADVANCE FUND ASSO CIATIONS, 11R, Pall-ma I, S.W. Prospectus and forms sent free. E. H. GILBART, Manager. rilo Persons in WANT of MONEY (in Town 1 or Country).—A GENTLEMAN is willing to MAKE ADVANCES of CAS H, without delay, to respectable person (male or female), on their own security. The utmost secrecy can be relied on.—Apply (it by letter enclose four stamps) to W., st Mr. Robertson's, Accountant, 41, King William-street, London-bridge, E.C.—Money advanced on Dock Warrants. MONEY PROMPTLY ADVANCED by a Private Gentleman upon FURNITURE (without removal\ Leasehold and Freehold Property, or Reversions, in sums from .£2O to £soo.—Mr. Howard, 18, Queen street, Cheapside. N ORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1809. Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of Parliament. Accumulated and Invested Funds Annual Revenue 422,401 FIRE DEPARTMENT. Insuran-es granted both at Home and in Foreign Countries on the most liberal terms. LIFE DEPARTMENT. . Every facility offered to Insurers. Ninety per Cent. of the Profits divided among the Insurers on the participating principle. The new Life business transacted in 1862 as follows: Policies. Amount Insured. Premiums. 1,037 £763,334 £23,641 0 0 Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished on application at the OFFICES : LONDON 5B, Threadneedle -street 4, New Bank Buildings, Lothbury. ',', West-end Office B, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. T HE ORIENTAL HOTELS COMPANY (Limited). Incorporated under the , 1812, by which the Liability of each Shareholder is strictly limited to the amount of his Shares. Capital £250,000, in 25,000 Shares of £lO each. (With power to increase to One Million Sterling.) First Issue 12,500 Shares, whereof a portion will be reserved for India. Deposit £1 per Share on application, and £1 on allotment. Calls not to exceed £2 per Share, with an interval of not less three months between each calL DIRECTORS. Sir John Peter Grant, K.C.8., Chairman, late Lieutenant- Governor of Bengal. Colonel Anderson, C. 8., Director of the Eastern Bengal Rail way Company. George Constable, Esq., Firm of Henderson and Constable, Cannon-street, E.C. Sir Frederick Currie. Bart . Member of the Council of India. Colonel French, Chairman of the Bombay and Baroda Rail way Company. Colonel Holland, Director of the Agra and United Service Bank. John Stewart, Esq., Director of the Marine Insurance Com pany. John Robert Thomson, Esq., Chairman of the London and South African Bank. James Henry Young, Esq., late of the Bengal Civil Service. AUDITORS. T. R. Walker, Esq., 21, Hanover-square, and A Shareholder, to be elected at the First General Meeting. BANKERS IN LONDON. The Agra and United Service Bank Limited 27 27, Cannon street, E.C. The London and County Bank, Hanover-square, W. BANKERS IN INDIA. The Agra and United Service Bank (Limited). SOLICITORS. Messrs. U ptons, Johnson, and Upton, 20, Austin-triars, E.C. BROKER. Francis BUrnand, Esq., 78, Lombard-street, and 13 and 14, County-chambers, Cornhill, E.C. SECRETARY (pro tern.) Macdonald Yates, Esq. Temporary Offices :-36, Cannon-street, E.C., and 5, Parlia ment-street, Westminster. The deficiency of Hotel accommodation in India, China, and other places in the East to which Europeans now resort in large and annually increasing numbers, is a subject of general complaint ; and it is evident that the development of the means of transit by ocean and river Steamers, and by railways ; which has been in rapid prngress no fo some years, must i mperfectly fulfil all Ps important objects, so far as European intercourse with the East is concirned, until this want is adequately supplied. In England, and on the continent of Europe, it is now an ascertained fact that the joint-stock system may most suc cessfully be applied to the establishment of Hotels of the first class. If this be so where good private Hotels before existed in large numbers, there seems no reason to doubt that an equal degree of commercial success is attainable by the application of capital, upon the same system. to the sa nd increasing, in countries where, though the demand is great and increasing, it may almost be said that good private Hotels do not exist. In Calcutta a joiat-stock company has lately purchased and undertaken the management of an Hotel, and the pro !Teets of the enterprise, as a commercial speculation, may be infer red from the very high premium at which their shares are quoted in the Calcutta market, see "s" July 17, the Englishman'a Weekly Mail" of June 8, 186 3 and " Allen's Indian Mail," viz., £25 paid. present value, £42i ex div., equal to 70 per for the and the payment of a dividend of to per cent. for the halt -year ending 30th April last, equal to 20 per cent, per annum. Bombay offers a wide field for the establishment of an Hotel of a first class character. The early completion of vast lines of railway converging in the island of Bombay. and the more frequent steam communica tion between that port and Europe which will soon tak place, must very much increase the demand for such accom modation. The same may be said of Madras. It is under these circumstances that the Oriental Hotels Company (Limited) is established, in the confident belief that the application of European capital to India in this form will not be less profitable than useful. It is proposed, in the first instance, to supply the urgent requirements of Bombay and Point de Galle. There are equally important places which will naturally engage the early attention of the Company, such for example as Madras, Singapore, and Kurrachee ; not to speak of many very important railway stations in the in terior of India, Where there are now no Hotels at all, and t or p off tab e op at a compeiaataitro n ely small outlay, th ere i s a large field The larger cla ss of the Company's Hotels will afford all the conveniences of the best European Hotels adapted to the cli mate, and t o the habits of those for whom they are In tended; whilst, in even the smallest class, the health and Coinfort of the inmates will be carefully studied. It is intended to constitute local committees of management in each Presidency where Hotels m a y b e established. In the event of t wo - thirds of th e fi rst i ssue of shares not being of for. n o allotment will take place, and the dion, eposits will be ret urned to the subsorib rs, with out deduc t It is proposed to pay to shareholders 5 per cent , interest upon the capital as paid up, until the first dividend is de clared. Prospectuses and forms of application for shares may be had on application to the Bankers, the Broker, or the Seem tary. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHIRES. To be retained by the Bankers. THE ORIENTAL HOTELS COMPANY (Limited). To the Directors of the Oriental Hotels Company (Limited). Gentlemen,—Having, paid to the Bankers of the above named Company the sum of £ , I hereby request that you will allot me shares in the said Compan and I agree to ac cept such shares, or any smaller number hat may b e a : all otted to me, and to become a Member of the Company, I ers authorise you to place my name on the R eg i s t er of Zgn rab in respect of the shares to be allotted to me, and I n e e e,t9 be boy all the conditions and regulations con . In the Memoandum and Articles of Association of the 18 Co 62." mpan y , In m anner provided by " The Companies Act, ke I undertailorty the balance (if any) of the Deposit of £2 notice of alfotmee per share o cancel the allot hares allotted to me within ten days after be forfeited to nt, and in default thereof, I authorise you to Dated this he and that the Deposit paid shat' 1883, 'Name in full Firm (if any) filminess or Profession Place of Business Itesidence ..... coreemaidionind nu L t l n Z ab i' le lL to L a S ll p w r h e o - . 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ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room , LibrQr Ind Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant .7 went of VASES, Figures, Group!, Candlesticks, ob e liZsaurt stands, beautiful inlaid Tables , ap er wei g hts, &a , in er, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbrhire s nar Imported and manufactured by JAMES TLS 4 E -. 0 . ralogist to her Majesty, 14 9 , Stand , W.C., Lonaon. l'ne- Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS MINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSIL S, which will greatly facilitate he interesting study of MIN ERALOGY, cog: CHOLOGY, and GEOLOGY, at 2, 5,10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE. v•ALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT. at 149, strand, No. 22,173 MADAME TAND-GOLDSCHMIDT.22d. THIS DAY (WEDNESDAY) , July the Hanover,square Rooms.—Madame LOUISE MICHAL (of Illelajesty's Theatre) has the honour to a nnounce that her INEE MUSICALE will take place at t he above Rooms, TH S DAY (Wednesday), July 22, 1863, commencing at half past Inv° o'clock precisely, on which occasion she has the gratification of announcing that she will be assisted by the following eminent Artists : Madame LIND-GOLDSCHNIID T, Madame TREBELLI, Madlle. VOLPINI, Madlle. ARTOT , Signor BETTINI, Signor GASSIER, and Mr. SAN rLEY. Violin—M. AUER. Mr. Pianoforte GOL OSC —Mr. CHARLES HALLE and 0. HMIDT. Conductors—Signor ARDITI and Mr. 0. GOLDSCHMIDT. Reserved and numbered seats, Half-a-Guinea unreserved seats, Seven Shillings ; which may be secured at Mr Mit chell's Royal Library, 13, Old Bond-street, W ; of Messrs. Addison, Irollier, and Lucas, 210, Regent-street ; and at the principal Libraries and Musicsellers. HEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. — Under T Distinguished Patronage.—BENEFlT in AID of the FUNDS of the ROYAL DRAMATIC COLLEGE, THIS EVENING, July 22, 1863. The Council have great pleasure to inform the Patrons of this Charity and the Public, that Mr. Buckstone has generously granted the free use of his Theatre for the above Benefit, when several Amateurs of distinction, in conjunction with Artistes of celebrity, have kindly con sented to appear : —The Hon. E. C. Yorke, the Hon. R. O'Gradv, the Hon. L. Wingfield. Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Henry Vandenhoff, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Henri Drayton, Mr. Addison, Mr. Howard Paul, Mr. C. Rice, Mr. W. Worboys, Mr. F. Charles, Mr. W. H. Eburne, Mr. T. Stuart. Mr. Billington, Mr. R. Thorne, Mr. Alfred Wallace, Mr. G. Peel, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. C. J. Smith, Mr. Paulo ; Mrs. Stirling, Miss Amy Sedgwick, Mrs. Mellon, Mrs. Henri Drayton, Mrs. Howard Paul, Miss Henrietta Sims. Mrs. Bil lington, Miss Kate Carson, Miss C. Saunders, Miss Kate Rivers, Miss Jenny Taylor, Miss A. Seaman, Miss Bedford. The performances will commence with the Comedietta of GOOD FOR NOTHING: Tom Dibbles, Mr. J. L. Toole; Harry Colli , r, Mr. F. Charles ; Charley, Mr. W. H. Eburne ; Young Mr. Simpson, Mr. Moreland ; Nan, Mrs. Mellon. The popu'ar Farce, by C. Dance, Esq., entitled THE BENGAL TIGER : Sir Paul Pagoda, the Hon. R. O'Grady ; David, the lion. E. C. Yorke ; Miss Yellowleaf, the Hon. L. Wingfield. A Comic Opera, in one act, written by H. Drayton, music composed by E.. 1. Loder, THE COUNTESS : Oscar (Count de Belleville), Mr. Henri Drayton; Louise (Countess de Belleville), Mrs. Henri Drayton. To be followed by the successful Comedietta, by J. Maddi son Morton, Esq., of KILLING TIME : Lady Mavduke (her original character), Miss Amy Sedgwick ; Master Mowbray, Mr. Henry Vandenhoff. Second Act of Tom Taylor's Comedy of MASKS AND FACES : Triplet (his original character), Mr. BeujaminWeb ster ; Peg Woffington (her original character), Mrs. Stirling. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Paul will give a brief quotation from their ENTERTAINMENT. The Third Act of MIDSUDIAER NIGHT'S DREAM: Messrs. R. Thorne, G. Peel, C. Rice, T. Thorne. F. Charles, Fitzpatrick ; Mesdames C. Saunders, Kate Carson, Kate Rivers, Jenny Taylor. Prices as usual. Tickets to be had at the Box-office, from Eleven to Four ; at 20, Tzvistock-street, Covent-garden ; and of the principal Librarians. J, W. ANSON, Secretary. OYAL DRAMATIC COLLEGE, iv GRAND FETE AND FANCY FAIR. CRYSTAL PALACE. SATURDAY, 25th, and MONDAY, 27th July, 1863. The Council have the honour to announce that they have made arrangements with the Directors of the Crystal Palace for the ANNUAL FETE and FANCY FAIR in AID of the FUNDS of the DRAMATIC COLLEGE, for the above dates. TIIE FANCY FAIR, FAIRY POST-OFFICE, WHEELS OF FORTUNE, Sze. Sze , will be presided over by the leading ladies and gentlemen of the profession, who have kindly tendered their service. The OPENING of the FAIR by Proclamation —The Herald _ Mr. R. Romer. A Thrilling Melo-Drama of the Good Old Bartlemy Fair Times, by CIRUJANO, M.M.C., illustrated by the Real Players (Metropolitan members of the Profession), at RICHARDSON'S THEATRICAL SHOW, entitled, BARBADAZULO VANAGLOROSO, The Demon of the Castle Heights ; or, The Brother's Revenge. --- -- _ ___ _ ___ With double cast. First Cast. Second Cast. Barbadazulo Vanagloroso Mr. J. L. Toole .. Mr. R. Thorne Bobo de Nacimiento Mr. J. G. Shore .. Mr. Soutar S egu id oro Amoroso Mr. F. Olivier Lagrimosa - Mr. T. Thorne ford Bartlemy Ghosts. Difunta Primera Mr. W. H. Eburne PauloMr.Aldridge Defunta Segunda Mr. J. Sefto n .... Mr. Defunta Tercera Dresses by Mr. S. May, of Bow-street ; scenery by Mr. T. Thompson ; music by Mr.B. Isaacson ; generalmanager, Nel son Lee, Esq. ; stage manager , Mr. R. Phillips, Adelphi Theatre. PARADE. Parad Combatantsr H. G. Brookes Clown, Mr. Paul Her rincr ;, Messrs. E. Garden, J. B. Johnstone, the Leelercq Family, and the Lauri Family. WOMBWELL'S MENAGERIE. Astounding Collection of Trained Performing Wild Animals. Van Amburg, Mr. J. Robins ' • principal keeper, Mr. Addi son; Mr. Le Barr, Brothers Warne. One Brothers Tanners Dogs and Monkeys. Brass Band by Isaacson. Gorilla, Mr. Martini (the original man monkey). The Parade will be under the direction of the celebrated Mr. W. H. Payne and Family. The GIPSY TENT, by Miss Agnes Burdett, assisted by Mr. Pulleys. TEMPLE OF THE ROAD TO HAPPINESS, where ladies may see their future husbands, and gentlemen their future wives, by Cousen German, from Kissengen. BERRY'S WONDERFUL LIVING CURIOSIT Y-A TORTOISESHELL TOM CAT. WHITE LILINESEGRO of t ENTERTAINME NThe PRAIRIE, with the celebrated JACK AND THE GREEN. My Lord. Mr. C. J. Smith; My Lady, Mr. R. Romer Clown, Mr. C. U. Stephenson. The PAUL-Y-TOOLS -Y-TECHNIC INSTITUTION united with the ORIGINAL MADAME TIS-SO'S.—Pro prietors, Messrs. TOOLE and PAUL BEDFORD. —Startling Illusions—Mechanical Figures life size—The Divin Belle Dis s olving Views. A LECTURE (very qu‘rter of an hour, by Professor TOOLE, written by Messrs. BYRON, E. L. BLANCHARD, W. BROUGII, and HALLlDAY.—Admission to the entire, One Shilling. --- ZADKIEL'S CRYSTAL BALL—" DANCE of DEATH " and LIFE -superior to the Guards' Ball or the Ball of St. Paul's. Wonderful Generosity.—Each party en tering this exhibi tion will be presented with a full-size figure (elegantly cos tumed) of Mr. J. L. Toole, as Azucena, the Gipsy Queen — worth more than the price of admission. SIGNOR LOGRENIA'S TROUPE of PERFORMING BIRDS and . The ROYAL PUNCH and JUDY, by Mr. H. Rivers, of the Olympic Theatre. The BAND of the CRYSTAL PALACE COUPA.NY. For numerous other attractions and arrangements of pro gramme, see future announcements. Admission, on Saturday, 2s. 6d. ; children, Is. ; on Monday, Is. Change can be had at the Fancy Fair, close to the stalls Tickets of admission to the Palace may be had of Mr. J. W. Anson, at the office of the College, 20, Tavistock-street, Covent-garden ; Mr. Sams, Royal Library. 1, St. James's street ; Mr. Mitchell, 33, Old Bond-street ; Messrs. Keith, Prowse, and Co., Cheapside ; Book Stalls, Great Western Railway, and all stations on the line ; at the Crystal Palace office, 2, Exeter Hall, Strand; and the usual agents. J. W. ANSON, Secretary. Admission, is. CANTERBURY HAL L A ND FINE ARTS GALLERY. The Last Week of the Marvellous ARTHUR and BERTRAND, the Two French Clowns. ARTHUR LLOYD'S burlesque Drama, arranged expressly for him. SAM COLLINS, with new Songs. UNSWORTH, the celebrated Stump Orator. EUGENE, and TAYLOR. GRAND SELECTIONS from OPERAS, GLEES, and CANTATAS. Principal Artistes —Miss Russell, Miss Townley ; Mr. Green, Signor Bernardi, and Signor Tivoli. EVERY EVENING will be produced, with all the new OPTICAL EFFECTS and by permission of J. H. Pe pp er, Esq., THE GHOST, Medium, Mr. A. Silvester. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE: The RISARELIS, EVERY EVENING during the Week. IN OYAL ALHAMI3RA PALACE. The FAIRY FOUNTAIN EVERY EVENING, at Ten o'clock. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. —Signor and Signori FRANCESCO in a Grand Divertissement and Pas Deux--Operatic Selections from " Ernani " and " Lucia de Lammermoor." N iss M'Gregor, Mr. Lamence Albert, Signor Georgini, Mr. Vernon Rigby, &o. &c. Band and Chorus of Sixty Performers. ARGYLL ROOM S.-JULLIEN'S PROMENADE CONCERTS. NOTlCE.—During the Week the Selections will be—" Der Frieschutz "—" I .a Forza del Destino "—" Il Trovatore " "Don Giovanni," &c. LEVY, the great wonder on the Cornet-a-Fiston, plays from half-past Nine to Twelve. 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When we have settled to our satisfaction the balance of power, the rights of conquest, the con flicting pretensions of legitimacy and constitutional freedom, the interests of this or that portion of the civilised world, and the very great convenience of keeping thiep just as they art , there rises up, un invited and unwelcome, yet not to be banished or despised, the spectre of a race, or a cause, with a thousand wrongs that can never be righted. Vain are all attempts to deal with it by any of the methods suc cessful more or less in other cases. We have recognised it in treaties, we have . befriended it in diplomacy, we have obtained for it the kindly intention of Emperors, we have protested . in its behalf, and, flying from one mode of action to another, we have finally made a clean breast of all s ma our hearts' longings for it; y et Poland still remains the Poland of our youth, the Poland of our fathers —nay, as the prying student of its annals would have us believe, the Poland of all time; noble, gene rous, national, but utterly impracticable. But what is that which remains the same for all time, a pure, impalpable essence, whose evil fate has cast it among the colossal creations of earthly policy and convenient wisdom ? The worst that can be said of Poland—that it is as it always was—is its strongest plea to the interests of those whose faith is not in the greatest number of battalions. How are we to deal with this more than strange element? By the genius of our own political system and by the tra ditions of our fathers we are bound to cherish our deep interest for what we call an unfortunate race. That interest is part of ourselves, and is as inde structible as the race itself. It rises and rises again with every fresh struggle on the part of its object. No doubt this universal sympathy feeds the vitality of Poland ; and when Russia sends her Governors and her legions thither, it is to quell, not merely the conspiracies and risings of a few millions on the spot, but the instincts of the whole civilised world. So does Russia confess when she alleges that Poland would be quiet enough but for the foreigner, the universal Pole, who is to be found everywhere, and who pours in from all sides to countenance, to exasperate, to assist, and to die. With the local substance Russia is prepared to deal ; it is the mighty shadow that disconcerts and baffles her. But what is to be done, when the Nestor who has taken part in every nego tion for Poland since diplomacy took the place of arms can only claim to have secured a verbal ex pression of sympathy from all the nations of Europe that can sympathise at all, and when Poland's best and warmest friend can only pronounce a solemn judgment on the futility of everything that has yet been done ? It has all been good as far as it goes, the best in its kind that man could do ; but it has been done and done in vain. Mr. Horsman describes the Poland of diplomacy, and preaches a " vanity of vanities" upon the long series of remonstrances, from those of the proud Castlereagh to the last effort of the irrepressible Palmerston. As one tricked, cajoled, and unfairly beaten, Mr. Horsman is for sweeping the board clean. The Treaty of Vienna he reads as a man would read a compact with the Arch Fiend, when he felt he could neither dispute it nor stand upon its terms. It is the deed by which Poland has been made over to Russia, who with the juggler's trick of two alternate pleas, benevolent intentions and actual conquest, dex terously contrived to meet both present and future reclamations. So Mr. Horsman treats the docu ment as a pitfall which history has proved worth less for good, and only powerful for evil. Russia stands on both a prior and a subsequent conquest, and only recognises the Treaty as a bond to which she is ready to give her own interpretation when Poland has ceased to fight, to act, and to speak. Poland herself, too, has thrown away the Treaty. She finds it worthless. What she is struggling for is independence. Why, then, asks Mr. Horsman, are the nations of Europe to appeal to a bond virtually, if not actually, rejected by both the parties chiefly concerned ? Let Poland henceforth stand on the ground of Greece, of Italy, of any noble race ground under the heel of the op pressor, trampled, torn, and broken to pieces. This is his demand, and it is impossible not to read it as a defiance to Russia which puts her on the level of Turkey as regards Greece, and Austria as regards Italy. It is the broad ground of a man who is sick of a war of words. If the map of Europe is to be rear ranged, the new boundaries must be written, as they have ever been written, with the point of the sword. This, too, he says, is what diplomacy must end in. Poland must reappear on the map of Europe, and diplomacy will never write it there. There is no mistaking such langaage. Mr. Horsman does not = condescend to explanation. It can only mean one thing. We are to forget the story of this century, and, as men would act if they could combine the opportunities and impulses of youth with the deter mination and experience of age, we are to contest, by force of arms if necessary, the original partition of Poland. At all events, such a proposition ought to be looked well in the face. Are we prepared to enter upon a course of demands on Russia which may involve us in a war,not only with her, but with the other parties to the original partition ? Have we framed to ourselves the extent of our demands, the Poland that is to be ; and do we ourselves honestly desire this mighty medieeval restoration? There are Poles from the Baltic to the Mediter ranean. There are Poles everywhere, and though they meet to fight, they divide for everything e lse. But if we give up the Treaty of Vienna, we have nothing else to stand upon with Russia but that wide platform upon which races make their way, religions destroy one another, and em pires are founded. We enter the Conference sword in hand, ready to throw it into the scale that kicks the beam. That we may come oven to this, at some future time, the inextinguishable nature of this struggle renders too proable ; but we are most of us prepared to pray for "peace in our time" on this question at least. If, indeed, the West of Europe wishes to push its loftier civilisation east ward, and to make the Poles the vanguard of pro gress, it hardly becomes any organ of opinion to discourage such a crusade. But let us not drift into it. Let us not float unconsciously down to the broken waters, for which our craft is neither built nor manned. It is good to be a hero, or a martyr, but not to be beguiled and entangled, one knows not how, into these romantic expeditions. Great acts require preparation. They must be done, and done well; and they cannot be done well unless they are foreseen and premeditated. The Poles have their destiny yet to fulfil. Theirs is that keen temper, and the subtle genius, in which we see th e fated in strument for the dissolution of huge masses, tools creation of new living forms. But these himself are not to be played with. Mr. Horan . ni and the does but draw the scimitar and suspend pro phecies, head head of the Northern Damocles. atnover the lie "But let us rather than urges, an appeal to Arm eni a. all sides how know what we are doing. We i se b e ow a single shot a word may lead to a blow, a e a t n owb al rob, believe evle one t i O s u easy t h t b o e, May deluge a continent with There is a momentum begin, but not so easy to w sop. even in diplomacy, alternatives. b w u i t sh we do not like e ves e told d i n that the u h r e s. fae l t v a e ss a u r m e a peaceful natlieVne, told we are, or to thens th h sympathy streng e language of our neisgeehbot ands of Po even our syruP e have obtained States has land, and that ths; concurrence w from the European done soldiers' work f or them. Bo th the partiesin the dire struggle may, howev er, on e day tau nt us with th e p rom i ses wh i ch we n ever mea nt to f ulfil, and the cheapness of our share in the glorious but sanguinary con test. All w e ask and insist on is that we should know what we are doing. We certainly did not encourage the revolt. and may ask to consider long and well w hether we should adopt it. HERALD.—It , ate on t was nil' the recent debate understood after the Banda and Kirwce Priz e, that no furth er s t eps were to be taken by the Go vernment in the matter until Parliament had an opportunity of discussing th e subject with the Papers befor e th em. L or d Palmerston's stat ement Upon this liotham peint in answer to Lords St anle y and I Was ' thought to be so explicit that evasion seemed to be impossible. A distinct assur ance was given by the Prime Minister that the final decision should be suspended, if necessary, till neut, session, in order to allow time for the House of Commons to peruse the papers and express an opinion on the subject. But it certainly seems, that in Lord Pahnerston's philosophy, words were given toPrime Ministers to conceal their meaning. Forty hours after his lordship's express assurance that judgment on the Banda and Kirwee Prize should be deterred, the decision of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury was dispatched from Whitehall, and offi cially announced to Sir George Whitlock's prize agents. The letter conveying was not it is true, was dated July 14 . , but it was not delivered in St. James's square until the afternoon of Joly 16. It seems as if there is really a fatality attaching to this unfortunate prize question. we have the majority of the Indian C, by ex parte information, and perhaps influential persons. It is said that tin a good deal of what on Friday last wiu citation going on at the Westminster long before the accredited agent Of G lock's force waited - mt - lord -Palm , official manner, to solicit a fair and op this case. Then we have the melancholy pi, nomena of cooked documents, of important sup pressions and additions, of interpolated matter, and non-veracious attestations. Then we have the unanimous opinion of the law officers of the Crown overidden by the arbitrary fiat of the Prime Minis ter, who it is well known differs in his judgment from the most able and upright of his colleagues. And last, not least, we have the distinct and explicit assurance of the heed of her Majesty's Government, ' formally given to the House of Commons on the 14th inst., deliberately violated. Truly the claim ants to prize-money in the days of the old Court of Chivalry were far better off than we are in 1863 with Lord Pahnerston at the Treasury Board. We will only add in corclusion, that it is now granted, even by the apologists of the Minister, that there ore no circumstances in this case would s , aod l p l sre i re e rewn h a7inanresyedre mit Sir Hugh Rose, according to established usage and precedent, to share in the Banda and Kirwee prize, and that a new precedent must be made for his special benefit. ' We believe, moreover, that the facts of the case were erroneously ' state in the House of Commons, for not appears that Sir Georgo Whitlock's division ' o o t r organised en any plan suggested by Lord Clyde by any other Bengal authority, but was altogether organised bef by Lord Harris, the governor of Madras commu nication reached him from thedirected ileafe oedf Govern ment; that Sir George Whitlock under the orders of the commander India, and that his march upon Banda by the personal orders of the Governor General. In short, all the important statement of the friends of n Sir Hugh Rose have been shown to be essentially i ncorre ct, and Sir H. Rose himself has never ven tured to put forth a claim in a direct and formal man ner. The papers, however, are now to be placed before the House of Commons, and it is for Parliament to declare whether this question has been fairly investigated and honestly decided, or whether it is a c ase which imperatively demands a fair and open examination before some judicial taibunal. ____.--------- MANSLAUGSTER AT LIMEHOUsE. Last evening Mr. H. Rallies Walthew, the de puty coroner, resumed an adjourned inquest at the Crown Tavern, Narrow-street, Limehouse, respect ing the death of John Godden, aged 50 years, who died from violence inflicted by a man named John Harrington, a coal porter. The deceased was a labourer onboard the Guernsey stone ships in the Regent's Canal Dock, Rateliff. On the night of Sunday week, about 11 o'clock, the deceased was standing at the corner of London street, when the man Harrington came out of his house and addressed the deceased, whom he knocked down with great violence with his clenched fist. Several of the neighbours went up to the spot and remonstrated with Harrington at his brutality, when h© threatened to serve them the same, ex claiming, " Any man that calls me a - Irish ' man, if I can't fist him I will boot him." The de ceased was raised up and conveyed home by a police constable and a sailor, who placed him upon the floor of his room. He remained in a state of uncon sciousness until the following morning, when Mr. M'Andrew, the surgeon of Limehouse, attended, and prescribed for the deceased, who never rallied, and died on Thursday last. Several witnesses proved the violence, and spoke as to the general conduct of the man Harrington, who was the terror of the neighbourhood. Mr. M'Andrew, M.R.C.S., said that the deceased was in a state of insensibility. He had since made a post ,Horton examination of the body, and death was the result of fracture of the base of the skull and effusion of blood on the brain. The injury was caused by external violence. The Coroner read over the voluminous evidence, and summed up the chief points of the case, after which the jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter against John Harrington for killing and slaying John Godden." L The Coroner then made out his warrant fo r t he committal of the accused to Newgate. THE CAPE OF GOOD EOPE MAIL. PLYMOUTH, Tuesday. The Union Company's steamer Roman, with the above mail, arrived here this evening. Her dates are Table Bay, 20th ult. ; St. Helena, 28th ult. ; Ascension, 2d inst. She brings 67 passengers, among whom are Lord Sandys and the Hon. P. De Roubaix. The Cape Parliament, although it had been 64 days in session, had done little beyond voting the estimates. The votes for the police and gaols were reduced by about £16,000. A motion declaring that the time had arrived when the establishment of a responsible or party government was expedient and necessary, had been discussed for three days. Most of the members of the greatest parliamentary expe rience and influence were for the change, but it was known that a numerical majority of members would record their votes against it. The government had meinLained perfect neutrality in the matter. A vote of censure had been passed on the colonial en gineer and the chief commissioner of the works de partment for extravagance and inefficiency in con structing public works. The governor had offered i to remove Mr. Scott Tu cker (who is now n England on leave) on a handsome retiring allowance, and to alter the management of the public works depart- ment. proposal for purchasing the 11in ton Railway had been re ferredselectrllltr:omnigittee. The proposed new ha d gone no further than the Capel The e Town t g o ov a e r a n n n a d e prepare careful i hte e bni s e t ei i ns ni g ates for the guidance of the empowered to to railway sGuorlveeryns 1 na next year. .The Assembly had refused to expenditure of £4,000 per annum for a trigometrical survey of the colony. gauisTtlhaheurirseew2eanther continued fine, with frequent s howers. There had only b een one severe ga le Pasturage falling i and i a d n u d rin p g ro t v h i e si w on h s o p le winter,lentifu np s ri a e b e u . abundant, Business wss dull, and money scarce. The banks were unable to discount even first-class paper. The Gorgon had arrived with news from Zam besi. Dr. Livingstone was about to proceed to Great Lake Nyassa. At the University Mission, River Shire, the Rev. Mr. Scudamore was dead. Animal food was so scarce that it was feared the missionaries would not be able to remain there. All was quiet on the frontier. 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Why should I consider this statement more trustworthy than tha statements published a few weeks ago to the effect that Little Russia was in a state of revolt ; that there were 15,000 insurgents in Vol hynia ; that an insurrection had broken out around Kaminiec-Podolski ; that the Volhynian peasants (who cut out the eyes and run skewers through the cheeks and lips of the Polish proprie tors suspected of insurrectionary tendencies) are favourable to the Polish cause—in short, than a dozen statements which, having taken them on trust for a moment, lafterwards found to be either grossly incorrect or wholly without foundation? I will say nothing about suppressions ; it would be too much to expect the Poles to proclaim to the world how many peasants the insurgents have found it advis able to hang by way of example and to "encourage the others," or how many guilty and innocent per sons they have assassinated, not only in Warsaw, but also in Cracow and Lemberg, as spies. It may be necessary, from a military point of view, to intimi date the peasants, and deter them from giving infor mation and assistance to the Russians. At least, however, it is a necessity of a very deplorable kind, and one which the Poles may be excused for not en larging upon, for it is not and cannot be their object to keep foreigners well informed as to the exact position of affairs in Poland. Their aim is to place themselves and all their actions in the most favour able light possible. They are standing on the de fensive, in a desperate contest, and the political Pole will no more give evidence against himself than would any private Pole who was being tried for his life. It is not from any wish to spoil the Polish game which, on the whole, is played with far greater fair ness by the Poles than by their adversaries—that I call attention to its true character; but English readers ought to be made to understand that it is one in which, when fair play does not seem likely to succeed, cheating is resorted to. I doubt whether the Poles will do themselves much good by deceiving foreigners for a littlewhile, and then, a little while afterwards, losing their cha racter for veracity. Already the most respectable of the French papers are beginning to complain that their telegraphic correspondents in Poland are not sufficiently careful in supplying them with news. I do not know whether they are careful or not, but they certainly forward a great deal of news which is not true. The senders of telegrams, however, are not the worst offenders in this respect. The tele grams are, for the most part, based on statements contained in the Polish papers, and those who trans mit them have to choose between doing so at once, when the information is as fresh as it is astonishing, or not at all. The telegraphic agents have often no means of verifying statements sufficiently striking to be worthy of being telegraphed, and the foreign writers who base their articles on the Polish tele grams are in the same position. But if some allowance may be made for persons who, on the strength of false rumours published in journals which are glad to adopt them, mislead the public under pretence of giving it early informa tion, what are we to think of artists who, hearing of occurrences which have really never happened, resolve to depict them as though they had taken place beneath their eyes ? When the newspaper reader has a falsehood offered to him first in a tele gram, secondly in a commentary founded on the telegram, and, thirdly, in a picture founded on the telegram and the commentary together, he must be as sceptical as though he had lived for several months in Poland during an insurrection not to swallow it at last. Accordingly, the subscribers to the French Illustration cannot be blamed if, seeing in the number for the 4th of July a representation of a band of "Galician Volunteers" (who bear no resemblance to Galician Volunteers) "encamped at Druczkopol, in Volhynia " (which no "Gallician Volunteers" or insurgents of any kind have entered, and where there has been no rising), they imagine that the story and picture of the Druczko pol insurrection are, somehow or other, not alto gether without foundation. The scene in question must have been invented long before the ill-starred Galician expedition had even reached i the Nolhy nian frontier, and it figures worthily n the same number with another in which an imaginary rising of the " Cossacks of the Ukraine" (so notorious for their Polish sympathies) is depicted. Let it not be imagined that the patriots who lead the Polish insurrection in the field endeavour either to conceal their defeats or to exaggerate the import ance of their victories. They may blind themselves to many of the difficulties they have to encounter — and had they not done so from the first the insur rection could not have lasted as it has until now— but if they allow themselves to be deceived they are not the men to attempt to mislead others. There are plenty of persons, however, ready to do the work for them, and the more the armed insurrec tion seems to decline, the more persistently is it announced day after day that " the insurrection goes on increasing," and that it extends " from the Baltic to Bessarabia." One telegrapher —probably the same who made poor Horodycki march rapidly upon Dubno when he was lying dead at Radziwilow —caused Rochebrun, the other day, to appear with 600 horsemen on the banks of the Pruth ; this tele gram, however, seems to have answered. At least the French journals have not yet published any articles headed " .Rochebrun on the Pruth," and the Illustration has hitherto abstained from presenting its readers with caricatures of " Volunteers from Moldavia entering Podolia." However desirable it may be to keep up the in surrectionary spirit in Poland, and sympathy with the insurrection in France and England, I do not think it is fair to deceive the insurgents as to the chances of a foreign intervention in their favour, though it may be argued, on the other hand, that if all hope of foreign aid were abandoned the very state of things which first caused such aid to be looked forward to as possible would soon come to an end. The Poles are surrounded and tormented by difficul ties of all kinds, and a nation cut into three, know ing too well who are its enemies, but not knowing where to find or by what arguments to procure a single frieud, may be excused for not pursuing a straightforward course, and for not looking in the face dangers and obstacles which are quite insur mountable. At least, if this be inexcusable, the in surrection itself must be condemned, or, at best, viewed with pity as a movement of blind despair. When the Poles began their present struggle, wiihout arms, without money, without any prepa ration worth speaking of, and without the goodwill of their peasants, they had, nevertheless, some slight apparent chances in their favour. They believed that in Russia, a country which they hate too much to take the trouble of studying with attention even its weak points, a political revolution was at hand, or if not a political revolution, at least an insurrec tion of serfs. Tbey even fancied that the Russians would basely profit by a rising in Poland to over turn their own Government, whereas the effect of the rising has been to rally all the moderate reform party in Russia—all the landed proprietors Rho a year and a half ago were so urgent, and in some places co peremptory, in their demands for a con stitution—to the Crown. Prince Alexander Schtcherbutoff, who was one of the two most con spicuous leaders of the Constitutional party in the Moscow Assembly of 1862, is now Mayor of Mos cow and President of an Elective Municipal Council which possesses considerable lccal power ; and it was he who obtained permission to form the Volunteer companies which are to replace regular troops at Moscow, in order that a greater number of the latter may be available for service in Poland. Hitherto the Polish insurrection has only had the effect of increasing the internal strength of Russia propsr. As for the revolutionary party, which must not be supposed to include all who read M. Herzen's writings on account of their novel tone and of their high literary merit, it has hitherto proved itself powerless for direct action. Its influence hes shown itself chiefly among some of the junior officers of the army, and M. Herzen has himself acknowledged that his general teaching is odious to the peasantry whom he has so earnestly striven to befriend, but who believe that the man who is the enemy of their Sovereign is their enemy also. The greatest chance the Poles have had has been given to them by- the Russian Government itself, which by cautioning the soldiers against obeying too implicitly the orders of the regimental officers or (what comes to much the same thing) by encou raging them to keep a watch over these officers and report as to their conduct, destroyed all discipline in more than one corps. The same result was pro duced by the infamous incitements to pillage and slaughter issued by many of the generals, and which, in some instances, the more honourable of the regi mental officers sought to check at the peril of their lives. The abolition, at an opportune moment, of the right to inflict corporal punishment in an arbi trary manner is said to have been another cause of " demoralisation" in the Russian army. Then when the moderate party in Poland accepted the programme of the revolutionary party in regard to the serf question, and the peasant was declared free proprietor of his land, there seemed to be some foundation for a hope that the peasant might prove grateful to his benefactors; but the gift came too late, and looked too much like a speculation. If the peasant's rent was to be forgiven at all it should have been forgiven to him earlier. In the kingdom at this moment the peasant is in some districts favourable to the Polish cause, in many others un favourable ; and, on the whole, is indifferent. In the Catholic portions of Lithuania he appears, here and there, to have given active assistance to the insurgents, and the Lithuanians, of all classes, have certainly shown themselves more energetic than the inhabitants of the other divisions of ancient Poland. In the south-eastern provinces the insurrection has quite failed, and more completely and far more sud denly than it failed in 1831, when an expedition of regular troops entered Volhynia from Galicia as a very irregular expedition entered it the other day. All endeavours to drive the Russians permanently out of " Ruthenea"—that is to say, the Ruthenian provinces of Volhynia, Podolia, and the Ukraine— must, from a variety of reasons, be attended with far greater difficulties even than similar attempts to drive them out of Lithuania and the Congress King dom, If the two latter divisions of ancient Poland were replaced in the hands of the Poles, the fortress which commands them would also be in their hands. But the capital, and military key of the three great Ruthenian and Russo. Greek provincesis the Russian city and fortress of Kieff, which stands on the Polish side of the Dnieper and enters the Ruthenian pro vinces like a wedge. Kieff formed no part of the Poland of 1772. It belonged to the Russian empire before the partition and to the Czarite of Muscovy, before the " Czar of Greater, Lesser, and White Russia" (which was the official, though not the fa miliar designation of the Czar in England at the beginning of the 18th century) had adopted the title of " Emperor of all the Russian." It was, in fact, ceded freely, for a promise of money, to Peter the Great's father, by John Sobieski, when the latter was preparing for his great expedition against the Turks. But without considering the possibility of recon quering the Ruthenian provinces, it is difficult for the Poles to make even a Polish demonstration in those parts ; not that the very small civilised class in Volhynia, Podolia, and the Ukraine is not alto gether Polish, but because the very large semi-bar barous class of newly-emancipated Ruthenian pea sant-slaves is bitterly hostile to the Poles, and be cause its natural servile hatred has been encouraged and excited by appeals to its timidity and fanati cism. Every one knows that the Polish proprietors agreed the other day to give the Ruthenian peasants their portions of land in freehold, and premised to respect their religion and language ; but every one does not know that the Polish National Govern ment, or at least its recognised agents, were guilty of a very unbecoming act in their dealings with these peasants, which was easily, and in this one instance most justly, turned against its authors. In the districts of which the few insurgents who ap peared in Volhynia contrived, in the absence of the Russian soldiers, to gain possession, the duty on spirits was declared abolished, and in one place at least, to my certain knowledge, the price of rodka was reduced by about a rouble a gallon, and all in the name of the liberty and independence of Poland. " This," said the Russians, in reply, in an address given to the priests to be read in all the churches, " is a device worthy only of a Jew, a Lech, or a devil." (The Poles are called Lechs or Lechites by the Ruthenians and many of the Russians, just as the Russians are called Moskals by the Poles.) "You will not get the Emperor to cheapen spirits," the address went on to say, " for he would have the orthodox keep their heads clear," and so on. As for land, they were told that " the conspirators from that hotbed of Lechery, the kingdom of Poland, might give theft " a piece of barren soil to be watered by their tears ;" but that would be all. Ultimately, the Ruthenian peasants showed they did not think much of the promised land flowing with gin and brandy offered to them by the Poles, for they knew that the Poles had no power to give it to them ; and when after a few days the troubled districts were occupied by Russian troops they fell upon their Polish benefactors and inflicted on them more cruel tortures and more horrible deaths than were ever heard of during the worst excesses of the French revolution. I regret to hear that another expedition to Volhy nia is about to start, and if the Russians are as dia bolically wicked as the Poles believe them to be they will rejoice at the news, for if it does not fail at the very outset, like Wysocki's expedition, it will lead to a fresh massacre of the Polish inhabitants by thO Ruthenian peasantry. I can recal conversational have had at different times during the last fey months with some half dozen prop rietors of Volh y i. nia, each of whom assured me that he looked for ward with dread to the breaking out of an insur rection in that province, and without being able sav that it was the general wish, I know that i was the earnest desire of many of the proprietcls that the National Government would send them no expeditions from Galicia, and that the anonymous and irresponsible body which directs the general movement was begged to content itself in regard to the three south-eastern provinces with levyieg money contributions. However, if the armed insurrection has not made any progress lately it still exists, and is mak* ready for one more great effort, while the National Government is strictly obeyed, willingly or (as sometimes happens) unwillingly, by every role. I : 1 the Kingdom the Polish taxes ar e , paid and the Russian taxes refused. In Rut henia the Polish and Russian taxes are both pa id, an( I b e lieve this almost impossible to no one receives rent, and it is aim° is also the case in Lithuania. On the. ot her hand, The sm all proprietors in sell agricultural produce . alit:A y , penniless, all parts of who have had capital and many of the larger ones, to fall back upon, are also _ nea rly ruined. In Galicia, as in Posen, th in g s are Russian Poland a who p ile, ss of course bett er. Her e evry inn nays taxes to two G o vernments, but that is all. 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HOWELL, JAMES, and Co.'s, 5,7, 9, Regent-street. PAGE'S BRICK, TILE, AND PIPE MACHINES, for hand, horse, or steam power, are the most simple and efficient extant.—Full particulars and prices obtained of the makers, E. Page and Co., Laurence Pountney place, Laurence Pountney-hill, Caunon-street, E.C., where they may be seen in operation daily. THE POLISH INSURRECTION. (From the Special Correspondent of the Timss.) LEMBERG, July 15. There have been signs of a rising of peasants in the district of Bochnia, in West Galicia. Why they should rise is by no means clear, but several pro prietors have been threatened, the villages are in a very excited state, and it is said that acts of vic lence have been committed, and that the peasants have only with great difficulty been restrained from pillage. Two very different, but not contradictory, explanations of this movement are given. The Lemberg official paper states that the excitement was caused by the news of some peasants having been hanged by the insurgents in the kingdom of Poland ; while the Gazeta Narodowa maintains that it is due to the intrigues of Russian agents, Both explanations may be true, for it is well known that the peasants of the kingdom often favour the Russians and betray the Poles, and that when the Poles catch them at such work they hang them; and nothing is more probable than that Russia, en raged as she is at Volhynia having been invaded by the Galicians, may have resolved to foment troubles in Galicia, in which case nothing more would be necessary than to let the peasants know that their brethren were being;executed by " the Poles" on the other side of the frontier. Bochnia was the centre and chief scene of the horrible massacres of 1846. Since then taskwork has been abolished, and all forced relations between peasant and proprietor put an end to. Nevertheless, considerable bad feeling is still entertained by the former towards the latter class, partly from old recollections of statute labour, and of its inevitable, invariable accompaniment the law of the stick, and from an insane dread that the Poles may some day, after recovering their national independence, reinstitute serfdom, and partly from an unsettled and irritat ing dispute as to the privilege claimed by the pea sant to cut wood in the proprietors' forests, and to send his cattle to graze in the proprietors' pasture lands. The peasant appears to confound an ancient permission granted to him when he was the proprie tor's subject, with an absolute right. However that may be, there is a " peasant question" in Austrian as well as in Russian Poland, and if the Poles think it worth while to cultivate the goodwill of the agri cultural classes in provinces where they have no im mediate intention of getting up an insurrection, they would do well to make concessions in time, without reference to the strict legality of the Galician pea sants' demands. I know that it will be difficult to make these concessions with advantage, for the more that is given to the peasants they more they require, but it is more difficult still to liberate Poland by force of arms, when the great majority of the nation are opposed to its would-be liberators. It is as well to speak the truth about the un happy Polish insurrection as about other things, and since the total failure of the Galician expedition to Volhynia, following close upon the total failure of the insurrection organised in Volhynia itself, it has become more than ever evident that unaided it can not last. There seems to be a general understand ing among all the newspapers of the continent, which claim to be considered liberal organs, that when the Polish and Russian accounts of any given occurrence differ, the former ought to be accepted and the latter rejected. Both, however, ought to be rejected. Neither Russians nor Poles tell the truth as to passing events in Poland. The lie would seem to be used as a weapon on both sides, and the Poles, and the more injudicious and unscrupulous of their friends, shower lies forth with do much skill and in such numbers that the political sky is darkened, and all Europe kept, with regard to the Polish insurrection, beneath a shadow of falsehood. As for the Russian missiles they are clumsily manufactured, and for the most part do not reach the West of Europe at all. The great aim of the Russian official journals in misrepresenting facts is to deceive Russians. The Poles, however, have a double object to attain. They seek on the one hand to persuade the West of Europe that the Polish insurrection is more formidable than it really is, and on the other to keep up the hopes of the insurgents, not only by publishing exaggerated and sometimes utterly untrue accounts of Polish victories, but also by misleading them as to the probability of a war being undertaken on their behalf. Thus (to quote one instance) the leading article in the Times of July 4, complaining that the diplo matic action in connection with the Polish questio❑ may place England in such a position that, while having no wish at all to go to war, she may have yet to choose between war and a disgraceful peace, is represented in a telegraphic summary as simply setting forth that England has now only to choose between war and a disgraceful peace. All that poi• tion of the article in which a war on behalf of Polish independence is protested against is omitted. The interest taken by the West of Europe in the Polish insurrection may be said to be in proportion to its belief in the magnitude of the movement, and accordingly Europe is informed from day to day of disturbances having taken place in provinces which have remained perfectly quiet, of victories THOX F 0 R 6, OXFORD STREET. Will be performed Selections from the following Operas : LA CIRCASSIENNE, MARTHA, and MASANIELLO. Supported by Miss Russell, Miss Townley, Miss Ellison, Messrs. Albert, Green, Bernardi, Huish, Kimberley, and W. Evans, with full band and chorus. Conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. Drew Dean's Flute Solos Master Sanders. the Juvenile Vocalist. UNSWORTH, the modern Demosthenes. Eugene, W. Randall, J. Hutehenson, and the marvellous ARTHUR and BERTRAND. The HALL has been newly Decorated and Ventilated, and is now one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. or Jere. ainl - pira" v ail. tont oc. She iirty 'rev, ears• waS WAS in to ne Ltero, wive, eared and least id by their ff \ A I