The Sun. — London, England, 1854-01-03 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE, Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, JAN. 3, Will be performed the entirely new Drama of interest, entitled THE BEGGING LETTER. To conclude with KING 1113213IINGTOP ; er, Harlequin and the Land of Toys. The New Drama having been received with universal approbation will be repeated every Evening until farther notice. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMA.REET. Under the management of Mr. Bucket:me. THIS EVENING, JAr. 3, Will be performed TILE HOPE OF THE FAMILY. Characters by Messrs. Chippendale, Compton, Buckstone, and W. Farren ; Mrs. Mrs. Fitswilliam, Miss E. Grey, Ste. After which, the Grand CHRISTMAS P INTOMIME, called HARLEQUIN AND TILE THREE BEARS ; or, Little Silverhair and the Fairies. Columbine, 31133 M. Brown ; Harlequin, Mr. J. Marshall : Pantaloon, Mr. W. A. Barnes; Clown, Mr. H. Marshall. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Cllsittas KEAN. THIS EVENING, JAN. 3, Will be performed THE LANCERS ; or, The Gentleman's Son. Principal characters by Messrs. Meadows, Ryder, Everett, H. Mellon, and D. Fisher; Mrs. Wlnstanley, Miss Daly, and Miss C. Leclercq. After which will be presented the new Grand CHRISTMAS PAN TOMIME, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE MILLER AND HIS MEN; or, King Salamandar and the Fairy of the Azure Lake. Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Huline ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; and Columbine, Miss Desborough. LYCEUM THEATRE Under the Management of Madame Vestris. THIS EVENING, JAN. 3, Will be performed A BACHELOR OF ARTS. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, and Baker; Miss F. Hughes. After which, an original Fairy Extravaganza, called ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WERE TWO KINGS. Principal cha racters by Mr. Wright and Madame Vestris. To conclude with PATTER VERSUS CLATTER. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPEL Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. Rare Christmas Amusements—The Great Attraction of London— " One of the Sights of London"—The Sea of Ice and Marvellous Adelphi Effects in the exciting new Nautical Drama of "THEE THIRST OF GOLD," every Evening—A new Grand Fairy Spec tacle, NUMBER NIP. THIS EVENING, JAN. 3, Will be presented the highly Popular New Nautical Melo-drama, In five taoleaux, with new scenery, the Sea of Ice, &c., new dresses and appointments, called THE THIRST OF GOLD; or, VIE LOST SHIP AND THE WILD FLOWER OF MEXTVO. Principal characters by Messrs. B. Webster, Keeley, Paul Beilferd, 0. Selby, Parselle, Marsden, &c. ; Madame Celeste, Mrs. Leigh Murray, Miss F. Maskell, &c. ; with an entirely new grand specta cular legendary Christmas piece, in two act', with new scenery, dresses, machinery, and appointments, called NUMBER NIP, or THE SPIRIT BRIDE. Principal characters by Madame Celeste, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, Miss M. Keeley, Miss Cuthbert, Miss C. Harding ; Messrs. Paul Bedford, J. Rogers, Romer, G. Lee, &c. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING, JAN. 3 To be followed by THE CAMP AT THE OLYMPIC. Charac ters by Messrs. A. Wigan, F. Rohson, Morton, and Galli ; Mes dames A. Wigan, Stirling, P. Horton, Chatterley, &c. Followed by THE WANDERING MINSTREL. After which, a new historico-geographical CHRISTMAS PAN TOM (ME, called HARLEQUIN COLUMBUS ; or, The Old World and the New. Harlequin, Mr. F. Moreland ; Pantaloon, Mr. W. Rochez ; and Columbine, Miss Wyndham. STRAND THEATRE Sole Les.see, Mr. F. W. Alicroft.—Directress, Miss Rebecca Isaacs THIS EVENING, JAN. 3, Will be performed Li SONNIMMILA. To be followed by THE IRISH TUTOR. After which, a new grand Comic Christmas Pantomime entitled R ‘RLEQUIN AND KING NUTCRACKER; or, The World of Toys. Clown, by ,he inimitable Flexmore ; Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantajoon, Mr. Griffiths ; Columbine, Mies GOwarth Stalls, as.; Boxes, 45.; Pitt, 25.; Gallery, Is.; Private Boxes, 11. Is., to be had of Mr. Allcroft, 13, New Bond-street. ASTLErS EUROPE'I NATIONAL AnPIIITLIEITRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. GRAND JUVENILE NIGHT on THURSDAY, JAx. 5. Crowded houses nightly to witness the unequalled Attractions. The most gorgoous and successful Pantomime ever produced in this Theatre. TIT'S EVENING, JAN. 3, (Ind during the week, Thursday exupted) The New Grand Equestrian Chinese Spectacle, entitled " TTIE WISE ELEPHANTS OF TIIE EAST; or, THE MAGIC GONG In which the wonder of wonders, Mr. W. Cooke's performing Ele phants win appear. Followed by a series of novel and brilliant scenes of Equestrian• ism in THE ARENA by talented artistes. After which, a New Grand Equestrian CIIRISTMAS COMIC PANTOMIME, written expressly for this Theatre, hp Mr. NELSON LEE, entitled BILLY BUTTON'S JOUJiNEY TO BRENTFORI) ; or, Harlequin and the Lalies' Favourite. New scenery, dresses, decorations, and appointments, magnificent Car of Industry, &c. Harlequin, Mr. H. Hemmings ; Columbine, Mdlle. Christine; Pantaloon, Mr. Lehman ; and Two Clowas, Mr. C. Adams and Mr. Croueste ; Sprites, Masters Gee and Bradbury. Box-01110e open !tom Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W West. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. TUESDAY, JAN. 3, 1854 State of the wind and weather at each of the following places at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations are arranged in order of latitude. TUNBRIDGE—S.W., calm—partially cloudy. GREENWICH—S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. STROOD—S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the weather on Saturday morning at nine o'clock : FOLKESTONE—W., calm—cloudless. STROOD—N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tan DAT —Morning 45 min.after 4 I Evening 10 min.aft. 5 To-Moaaow—Morning 3$ min.after 5 I Evening 55 min.aft. 5 THE WEATHEE.—SUN OFFICS, JAN. 3. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 37—highest since noon yesterday. 23—lowest this morning and during the night. 34—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29'34. WIND, E.S.E.—Sharp and cold, with dull, hazy weather, This is the coldest day we have yet had. ~~~A ~a~i9s. r,, u z d• ••• ~•• , I tbz LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1854. Festivities continue to overlay the natural anxiety prevalent in the principal capitals of Christendom. The Sovereigns of Europe by en couraging these festivities are wise in their gene ration. At least they are contriving thus adroitly enough to postpone the evil-day—the inevitable day of reckoning. They are hereby striving somewhat ingeniously to divert the popular atten tion from the misdeeds or the short-comings of their respective Governments. They are endea vouring, by the prolongation of these seasonable Court ceremonials—seasonable so far as concerns the time of the year, though, politically speaking, never more unseasonable—to distract the atten tion of the multitude from the deplorable confu sion in which the family of nations has become involved, thanks to their perverse diplomacy and pusillanimous mal-administration. Amidst the throng of these Christmas rejoicings and New-Year's festivities—what, let it be asked, are the more conspicuous events of a political nature observable in the chief capitals of the European Continent 1 Why, candidly, they are as readily enumerated as they are significant in their character. Private advices from Constantinople nform us that there has been a somewhat serious disturbance in that metropolis—a disturbance provoked by the Ulemas, but readily suppressed, according to our information, and calculated, in the opinion of certain credulous gobemouches, to render the Divan favourable to an Armistice. A conjecture, this latter, exceedingly probable under the circumstances, just as it was all along exceedingly probable that the proposals of the Four Powers would be favourably received at the Su blime Porte—always and invariably providing two essential conditions are attended to as pre liminaries —Firstly, that the Principalities be eva cuated, and, secondly, that, the integrity of the Ottoman Empire be guaranteed. Intelligence from St. Petersburgh acquaints the rest of the world with the gratifying fact that the Te Deum has passed off with admirable effect, in the presence of the Court and the high functionaries the Te Deum chaunted in honour of the butchery at Sinope, that blas phemous sequel to the Manifesto, ending with the versicle of the Royal Prophet, In to Domine speravi, non confundar in ceternum. Accounts from Vienna imply that the same specious policy is being persevered in by the imperial councils of Schoenbrunn which have so long deluded that over zealous lover of " harmony," that accomplished dilletanti, but most egregiously blundering of ambassadors, Lord WESTMORELAND. Information from Berlin comes to us laden with the record of ' fresh arrests—arrests showing, it is thought by many, that the conspiracy of last spring was of ' considerably larger importance than some ob servers have hitherto conjectured. From Madrid we learn that anxiety for the health of M. TURGOT commands the interest of the masses, together with the reception of the Duke and Duchess de MONT PENSIER. On the other hand, we learn, through the latest despatches from Lisbon, that the King Regent had, on the 19th ultimo, proceeded in State to the Cortes, and there formally- taken the required oath of allegiance. Meanwhile, we have to re mark in Paris a considerable fall in the Funds— attributed in part, we are told, to the result of the liquidation. However this may be at the Bourse, another circumstance is clearly and satisfactorily re-assuring to the public mind throughout France —a circumstance of itself sufficient to justify the declaration made the other evening by the Patrie, that France has confidence in her EMPEROR-that incident, we mean, which marked the grand cere monial of the reception given on New-Year's Day by NAPOLEON 111. and his Empress EUGENIS to to the Ministers, Cardinals, Bishops, and, among other high personages, the Corps Diplomatique— when his MAJESTY having addressed a few gracious words to the assembled representatives of the other Sovereigns expressive of a hope that it might be within his capability to maintain ami cable relations with the Powers his allies, singled out the Turkish Ambassador, assuring him that his sympathies, his good feeling, and his strenuous efforts would all be exerted in the cause of the SULTAN, an assurance which his Imperial MAJESTY thereupon requested might be communicated to ABD-UL-MEDJID by his diplomatic Representative. Of all recent occurrences of a political character, that we believe to be the most important and the most significant—an incident creditable to France and honourable to NAPOLEON. All the while, intelligence such as the foregoing dropping in upon us from Paris, from Lisbon, from Madrid, from Berlin, from Vienna, from St. Pe tersburgh, from Constantinople—in London Ministers are still drowsily and silently preparing themselves for their dreaded Parliamentary explanations. Eng land is compelled, whether its so doing be palata ble or unpalatable, to swallow intermittent doses of hope deferred. We have as a people to illustrate the wisdom of that verse of LONGFELLOW'S- " Learn to labour and to wait." Restricted to this effort, we find even it suffici ently difficult—difficult not 'only in regard to the waiting, but also (bearing in mind the "Strikes,") in regard to the labouring. Nothing else, how ever, seems left to us ; we are denied any alter- native; until the arrival of the 31st of this notable month of January, we are without option in the matter—we must, perforce, tarry as we best may, content (if we can be) with the tardy intimation sneaking out through the very audible whisper of the Ministerial journal, at the begin ning of 1854, instead of at the beginning of 1853 —to the effect that, on the 19th of December, in- structions were sent to our fleet in the Bosphorus to proceed from Beycos into the Euxine. At last ! It is the old story of this dear, old, fatuous Aberdeenism. After the steed has been stolen the stable door is to be carefully padlocked. After Sinope has been reduced to a heap of charred timbers--the ashes being copiously slaked with blood—the maritime armament of Great Britain to steam out into the Black Sea to reconnoitre and see how affairs are going on. We have sent salve to the wounded—perhaps we are now to supply wooden legs to the maimed. Everybody has heard of our last glorious enterprise in the East, the enterprise which is the laughing-stock of the rest of the world, and will long be remembered among the redoubtable achievements of the ABERDEEN Coalition as—what do they call it ?—the Lint Expedition. Another has now, it would seem, been actually set on foot by the Cabinet of the dear and excellent. What will it be desig nated ?—this wonderful and daring enterprise —entered upon at last after ten or eleven months of profound deliberation. Who knows —perhaps the Telescope Expedition ! The expedition for hovering about the ports of Russia, peering into Odessa, and peeping into Sebastopol—au expedition, the truest type of which might be—a War-steamer with PAUL PRY on the Paddlebox. We shall see. After the lapse of a few more weeks it may be just barely possible England must, it would seem, content herself with this vague futurity nowadays—it may be just barely possible, within the limits of a chance, that Aberdeenism will then, before much longer, con descend to vouchsafe the country the shadowy semblance of an explanation. Perhaps ! We have seen the question mooted, if we mis take not, by some of "Our own Correspondents" in America, " What will the Union do when it is proposed to admit the Mormon State as a member of the federation ?" Their misbelief might be borne with, their semi-ecclesiastical Government might be just bearable, but how possibly unite in federal matrimony with those who scout the Christian view of that "seed bed of the Republic?" In nothing has Christian civilisation been more uniformly consistent than in abolishing polygamy, and restricting men in the matrimonial relation to the primeval arrangement of their CREATOR. Even where divorce is too lightly conceded, and where lax Court morals have winked at concu binage, yet even there the limits of legitimacy both for mother add children were defined by the record in Genesis, confirmed by our LORD, that he " who made them at the beginning made them a male and a female." In the United States public opinion and feeling is as strong on this point as in any part of Christendom. How, then, will the respectable men of New England, and still more its respectable females, tolerate a national union with a State of bigamists and polygamists ? How can they receive amongst them visitors who may seduce their daughters to become the thirteenth or the thirtieth chosen one of a 13RIGHA.II YOUNG ? HO permit their sons under five-arid-twenty to travel amongst a community which teaches worse lessons than a brothel itself ? Does any provision exist in the constitution, veiling revolting wickedness by the substitution of a phrase for a name, and making it possible for a Mormon in any of the present 31 States of the Union, to prosecute in an action to which the validity of a thirtieth mar riage was essential ? And should a Mormon with his harem be compelled by circumstances to mi grate to one of the other states, would. his mar riages with all of them be recognised by their laws, and would even his presence be endured by society ? Such questions, and many others, may well perplex a States' man, looking forward to a possible, and it may be not very distant, future. Does it, however, never occur to " Our own Correspondents," and those who think with them, that they are already in the closest union with the most awful State abuses of Christian matri mony. The Slave States profess (after their fashion) to teach their slaves Christianity, and to make them Christians ; although, of course, the negro pen, or the negro chapel, are essential to impart the Christian graces of humility and reverence for a white com plexion ; yet, side by side with this Christian in struction, slave laws deny to the slave a marriage which no man can put asunder ; deny him a mar riage which legitimates his offspring, and which protects parental claims to their guardianship. Slave laws and slave practices, too, utterly set at naught the Divine law of holy matrimony. They encourage, more than indirectly, universal con cubinage. They protect the sale of virtuous THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 3, 1854 young females, agonised with the prospect, to wretches as disgustingly licentious as the lord of a Mormon bevy of worthless women. To the anti-Christian crime of turning a rational and immortal human being into a chattel, Slave States add, with odious consistency, the crime of deny ing him the Christian rights of marriage. No thing were easier than to decree the inviolability of negro marriage, and to prohibit for ever the forcible separation of man and wife, of parents and children ; but such law would be inconsistent with the infernal practice (we can use no milder epithet) of slavebreeding, and would almost ex tinguish the inland slave traffic. Either, then, let not New York shrink from federal contact with the Mormons, or let it repudiate all' fellow ship with Slave States. Polygamy, revolting as it is, does not add heart-rending cruelty Ito its desecration of marriage. It degrades it by a one-sided licentiousness--not compulsory, however, on the party most wronged ; but slavery breaks it up amidst the groans and tears of parents and children. Mormonism corrupts marriage, but slavery martyrs it. From the former the cry of the cities of the plain ascends to HEAVEN, but from the latter the cry of the Apocalyptic Babylon. We write in all sober earnestness. We may well believe that if the most offensive feature of Mormonism should call the attention of respect able Americans afresh to the serious consideration of the supreme importance to society of the prin ciples of Christian marriage, it will also react upon the frightful and atrocious violation of those principles in States now forming a part of the Union. Mormonism, whenever the time may come for claiming admission to the Union, may well bid the objecting States to "cast first the beam out of their own eye.' It will bid them to cast off, or to purify, the Slave States, before they treat the Mormon State as an unworthy asso ciate. It were hard, indeed, to strike the balance between those who believe and therefore practise a licentious creed, and those who believe a purer creed, but practise a worse licentiousness because stained with cruelty. We had hoped that the monomachia, or duel, had been permanently banished from civilised society—that persons moving in respectable circles, and occupying distinguished positions, could not be found who would endeavour to re vive the atrocious and happily obsolete practice. It is true that we occasionally read with disgust of half-educated and wholly barbarous savages meeting with bowie-knives and revolvers, in some of the minor towns in America, firing at and stabbing each other until one or both are either killed or severely wounded. But even in Ame rica the practice is alike deplored and reprobated by every right-minded man. It is only the Hannibal Chollops who permit themselves to seek an evil notoriety by such infamous means. Never, perhaps, was a more decisive revolution effected in public opinion than on the subject of duelling. Many years have not elapsed since, day after day, the public journals contained long accounts of what were termed " affairs of ho nour," with voluminous correspondence between the so-called "friends" of the respective par ties. The nature of the offence, the punctili ousness displayed by the seconds, were all sub jected to the most stringent comments. The man who was not willing to sacrifice his friend, or who would neither give nor accept a fair and reason able explanation was scouted from society, in place of being applauded for his extraordinary moral courage. No person who desired to take a part in public affairs could hope to do so until he had proved his " pluck" by " smelling powder," and " winging his man." The aspiring barrister had to fight his way into notoriety. A readiness to " parade his opponent" at twelve paces was an in dispensable qualification more essential than even a knowledge of law. All have heard of the father who sent his son to commence life with 501. and a pair of duelling pistols, and of the career of that son, who, by means of a truculent disposition, and a readiness to fight across a handkerchief at any moment, was elevated to a Chief Justiceship, and eventually became an Earl, with an immense fortune and wide-spread domains. A " fighting friend" should accompany every candidate to the hustings. The "good and safe man" then re quired was one who had for some trivial cause left his " opponent quivering on a daisy," and who was ready at a moment's notice to act in a similar manner, on any or no provoca tion. Ministers of State, occupants of the Judicial Bench, officials of every class fol lowed the fashion, and were ready to give or take an invitation to " slugs and saw-handles" on the cheapest terms. A Law-officer of the Crown might be found, while his hands were actually reeking with the blood of an acquaintance, friend, or rela tive, prosecuting a more vulgar assassin for a ho micide at a faction fight. Even a grave and ve nerable Judge, while explaining the law to a jury, every member whereof had been " out" in due course—a Judge, too, whose knowledge and inte grity were beyond suspicion, and whose ermine was never sullied by the breath of slander—has added the extra-judicial remark, that "he never heard of a fairer duel" than that is which the pri soner at the bar was implicated. Such was the state of affairs in "The good old times, when GEORGE the Third was king." Such was the practice under the Regency and the Fourth GEORGE. It had not materially altered even under our " Sailor KING." It was reserved for the reign of VICTORIA to abolish the infamous practice, and, calling things by their right names, to declare that every participator in a fatal duel, every man who went to the ground with a know ledge of what was about to take place, would, on the death of either party, be guilty of wilful and deliberate murder ; nay more, we believe that if it could be shown that if the pistols were loaded with ball, and that the parties intended to fire at each other, and not merely to scare the pheasants or minor game of the vicinity, they would be guilty of firing at each other with intent to mur der, or at least to do grievous bodily harm, and would, according to the circumstances, be liable to the extreme penalty of the law, or to banishment for life, or for a prolonged term of years, from their native land. And yet this is the practice which is about to be regenerated under the auspices of the repre sentatives of England, Franee, and America to the court of Spain, and of a Spanish grandee of the first class. All parties in any degree im plicated in the transaction are deserving of grave censure. Even those who were aggrieved by the gross misconduct of the diplomatic bullies, who should rather have been encountered with the cudgel and the horsepond, or even the cesspool, than a duel with really distinguished and honour able men. It is impossible to find the slightest excuse fog the behaviour of the Messrs. Sou Ls. Father and son were equally reprehensible. The rawness of youth could not even extenuate the folly of the boy, who, with the nervous sensitiveness of a parvenu, sought to resent the ridicule which he fancied he heard cast on a female rela tive. The very complaint proved his degradation, and showed that he was unworthy of " gentle manly satisfaction." Evenin the heyday of duelling no person would take a message for the man who avowed that it was by the most unpardonable eavesdropping, by listening to the private conver cation of strangers, that he received the offence which he desired to resent. Mr. SOUL; junior, should have been quietly kicked out of society, in place of receiving any explanation from the Duke of ALBA, and a summary expulsion should have been awarded to his messengers. It is said, however, that " one fool makes many," and, in the present instance, the adage received a new and powerful illustration. The " old fool" was decidedly the worst of any. The elder SOtTLE has shown that he is totally unfitted for any situation requiring temper and discretion. It is to be regretted that the Marquis DE TITRGOT should have forgotten himself so far as to accept such a challenge, or that Lord HOWDEN, the Eng lish Ambassador, should have permitted himself to be mixed up in a transaction in every respect so discreditable. We cannot conceive that the Government of the United States will lend any the slightest sanction to such proceedings, and we trust that all the diplomatists, in any degree mixed up in the transaction, may learn that such conduct is, to say the least of it, highly reprehen sible, and merits a severe reprimand from those by whom they were accredited to the Spanish Court. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF LORDS—(THIS DAY.) Parliament was this day further prorogued by Royal Commission, until Tuesday, the 31st of January, 1854. The Lon]) CHANCELLOR and the other Peers named in the Royal Commission, having taken their seats on the woolsack, the Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod was directed to summon the Com mons to the bar. The Royal Commission was then read by the Clerk at the table. The LORD CHANCELLOR then declared the Par liament to stand prorogued until the 31st of Janu ary, then to meet for the despatch of public busi ness. • THE PRINCE ALBERT. ( From the Morning Herald.) The following letter has been sent us by a corre spondent, upon whose accuracy we place implicit reliance. We feel that we should be guilty of a dereliction of our duty, as public journalists, were we to hesitate in giving it publicity : TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING HERALD. London, Dec. 29, 1853. SlR,—The conduct of the press is very praise worthy in exposing those undue influences by which our foreign and domestic policy is controlled. Facts, however, have not been adduced to an amount or with a precision sufficient to justify the prevalent opinion. Let me do a little to supply this deficiency. 1. The statement that his Royal Highness Prince Albert is invariably and on all occasions present when the Queen receives her Ministers, is literally true. His Royal Highness is not at such times a silent listener, but takes an active, often a leading, part in the deliberations. This practice is not of recent origin, but was first permitted and encour aged by .Sir Robert Peel. Lord Melbourne never suffered it, and by his prohibition incurred the lasting, though ineffectual, displeasure of the Prince. 2. The same illustrious personage corresponds largely with British Ministers employed at foreign courts—his letters being, of course, private, and their contents unknown to the Foreign Secretary for the time being. Several diplomatists have re ceived such letters, being, in fact, private instruc tions not conveyed through the Foreign Office. Where the Court and the Minister notoriously differ in opinion, as in the case of Lord Palmerston, it is not difficult to see what must be the result of this unconstitutional practice. One diplomatist who was commanded to enter into a correspon dence of this kind, declined —or, rather, silently forbore to obey the order, on the express ground of its unconstitutionality. 3. I believe (but it is only belief) that, besides the correspondence here alluded to, there exists a good deal of direct, and, necessarily, secret com munication between the English and certain Conti nental Courts. It is matter of notoriety that Louis Napoleon entered the presidential office a warm friend to England, and resolved, at all costs, to stand well with us ; that his friendship was at one period without visible external cause changed into suspicion and menace of hostility, and that the rea son ascribed for this change among well-informed persons was the accident of certain important mis sives not reaching the hands for which they were destined. Here, however, I only repeat the popular rumour, corroborated by some indirect proofs, but for which I do not absolutely vouch. 4. The degrading restriction imposed upon Lord Palmerston during his tenure of the Foreign-office is well known. He was not permitted to send off a single despatch of any moment which had not pre viously received the sanction of the Court—that is, of the Prince Consort. True, this sanction could not be withheld where the Minister was firm in his decision and backed by public opinion ; but the delay thus caused operated injuriously to the suc cess of negotiations in more than one instance, and Lord Palmerston, unable to explain to Parliament the reason of this delay, endured the blame for which others were in reality responsible. I am little disposed to join in a popular outcry against regal or quasi-regal authority. But no man, be his political opinions what they may, can desire to see that power which the constitution has vested in Ministers, answerable to the people for their actions, exercised by a secret, an irresponsible and an inexorable influence. The interests of the Crown must be defended, even, if need be, against those who stand nearest to it. Let Prince Albert have full credit for the Exhibition—for his services to art—and for his exertions to benefit the working class ; but it is too much that one man, and he not an Englishman by birth, should be at once Foreign Secretary, Commander in Chief, and Prime Minister, under all administrations.—l remain your obedient servant, M. P. MAGAZINES FOR THE MONTH. Blackwood--A pleasant variety is the charac teristic of Blackwood for January. Delightful themes for two really charming articles have been found in the effusions of two travelled Frenchmen. M. Eugene Flandin's Voyage en Perse has suggested the paper entitled "A Painter in Persia"—while Francis Wey's Les Anglais chez eux has suggested the (to us) yet more interesting chapter, headed by a comical antithesis, " The English at Home—by a Frenchman Abroad." Abroad these agreeable Frenchmen mostly are, indeed, when they take up the pen to write one, or two, or three volumes, as the case may be, about "England and the English." Amusing, however, they always are, if—perhaps we should rather say because—they are always so inexact. And amusing the chapter re lating to M. Wey will accordingly be found by the readers of Blackwood—the subject matter of the paper calling more forcibly than ever to mind the significant fact that the French have no cor responding word to our dear old English word of Home—Home ! It collapses, dwindles, freezes down to chez nous among our neighbours. A second instalment of "The Quiet Heart" adorns the num ber of Maga for January. A dismal little mystery in verse, light " Dives," and signed with the initials . G. K., initials gradually becoming familiar to the pages of Blackwood, is this month the sole poetical contribution. Then, besides a criticism on the last work of Walter Savage Landor, prettily called, as he himself calls it, " The Last Fruit off an Old Tree," we have an account of " The Past and Future of China," followed soon after, appropriately enough, by a chapter on tea, a chapter entitled " The Beverages we Infuse," another of those exquisite little treatises on the Che mistry of Common Life, for which the pub lic has of late been indebted to the hand and intellect of Professor James Johnston. Finally, Maga has (for a wonder) this month a political con tribution—an estimate of "The Aberdeen Cabinet" —a Derbyite estimate, of course, of duo severity. Laughing to scorn the coarse and sneering, and withal vulgar allusion to Kossuth, where it is said that- he was received in this country " with almost superhuman honours by mayors, and aldermen, and other civic idiots"—it is impossible for any sane man to deny the justice of the strictures pro nounced by Maga upon the wretched, dilatory, drivelling foreign policy of the Aberdeen Govern ment. Fraser.—A brother of the Laureate again appears in Fraser as one whose hand ventures to trifle with the Lyre of Erato. This time, however, Frederick Tennyson is scarcely so successful as in his previous contribution. His celebration of " The Birth of the Year," is by no means so satisfactory as his commemoration last month of the glories of " Har vest Home." The author of " Digby Grand" ful fils his promise by beginning with the beginning of 1854 another of his sprightly and facetious fictions —this time a narrative oddly entitled " General Bounce ; or, the Lady and the Locusts." The scene opens on the sea shore, at a fashionable watering place. It promises well, as far as we can judge from a first instalment. Among the chief curiosities in the number of Fraser for January is a critical essay on " Young Ger many"—a paper evidencing in every sentence that it is from the hand of one who is perfect master of his subject. Immediately before the essay on " Young Germany," are some exquisite verses signed G. W. M., an exemplar of the beauty of which will be found in the subjoined quotation : " AN ANGEL IN THE WAY. " Fair the downward path is spread, Love and Light thy coming greet, Fruit is blushing o'er thy head, Flowers are springing neath thy feet. Mirth and Sin, with tossing hands, Wave thee on, a willing prey ; Yet an instant pause—there stands An angel in the way. " Heed the heavenly warning, know Fairest flowers the feet may trip ; Fruits, that like the sunset glow, Turn to ashes on the lip. Though the joys be wild and free, Though the paths be pleasant, stay ! Even mortal eye can see An angel in the way. " Wilt thou drown in worldly pleasure, Wilt thou have, like him of old, Length of days and store of treasure, Wisdom, glory, power, and gold ? Life and limb, shall sickness waste, Want shall grind thee day by day, Still to win thee, God hath placed An angel in the way." Dr. Veron is again reviewed— the renowned Doctor Vern of the Constitutionnel. A bitter and acrimonious attack is made in the political article of Fraser on " Derbyism." Besides which, and several other contributions exceedingly miscellaneous in their character, the readers of Regina will be interested to observe the commence ment of a series of papers on the " Decline and Fall of the London Corporation." Ainsworth.—Nicholas Flame' continues his mys terious adventures, which terminate for the pre sent in his perpetual imprisonment. Doubtless he will soon be extricated from this unpleasant posi tion. A paper on " the Gastronomic Marvels of Antiquity" will be attractive to all students of M. Soyer. Among the romantic tales always to be found in this periodical is a romance of Tottenham, called " the Seven Sisters." The season of the year is of course alluded to in two lyrics by T. West wood, " Grave Chimes and Cradle Chimes," and " The Old Year Out and the New Year In," a curious allegory by Basil May. There is a variety of miscellaneous literature. Colburn's New Monthly. —This number com mences with a very interesting prologue to the hundredth volume. Certainly the list of contri butors to the pages of the New Monthly since Campbell first undertook the editorship is one of striking variety and eminence. This chronicle is followed by an account of " Campbell and the Lite rary Union," by Cyrus Redding. This will be in teresting to all admirers of the poet. " Literary Leaflets" contains a criticism on the much-praised work of Alexander Smith. It is written with im partiality. " The Felon's Reverie," translated from the Danish by Mrs. Bushby, is pathetically written, rendering forcibly the sensations experienced by the wretched criminal while meditating on the last words he had heard when enclosed in his gloomy cell, that death should be his deliverer. N o . X. of " American Authorship" is devoted to Donald G. Mitchell, who is better known as Ik. Marvel. There is a curious paper on " Ger man Almanacks for 1854," and another on " The Bourgeois of Paris." There are two articles on the subject of gold. One is a notice of a work which has recently appeared on the gold rocks of Great Britain and Ireland. It is certainly for tunate that gold may be so easily obtained, if such lamentable consequences are likely to result from the pursuit of it in other countries as "A Record of the Gold Fever," by the author of " The Un holy Wish," relates. There is something in the sketches of domestic manners and incidents, that always attracts and interests the reader in this author's writings. " Chronicles of a Country Town" is concluded, on the whole, unsatisfactorily. The episode of Eleanor waiting in the cave while the tide rises, beside the body of her early playmate, is very awful. Everything in this story has been ruined, and the happiness of all the deserving peo ple marred by the rencontre of Captain Howard, with a designing character, who must have appeared far more fascinating to him than she ever did to the reader. Bentley's Miscellany. The two chapters of " Aspen Court" which appear this month are chiefly devoted to the description of theatrical managers. Bernard Carlyon, the hero, being de sirous to assist a friend who is in difficulties, with out expense, remembers a comedy he had once written, and thinks that may be productive of profit. He accordingly visits two managers, both of whom are described, with their attendant curio sities. How his plan prospers we shall doubtless hear more fully in the next number. At present the appearances are suspicious, as, though ac ce pt e d, the play is doomed to undergo such numerous al terations that its ultimate withdrawal is probable. A curious sea tale, from the narrative of an eye witness, edited by Angus Reach, follows. A new story is commenced, entitled " Arthur Arden, the Medical Student." The characters in troduced in it are not very attractive, and the hero seems to possess more shrewdness than moderation. " St. Januarius to St. Constantine is continued, a nd the Island of Capri is described. There is a sketch of "An Elizabethan Pepys," namely, Robert Cary, Earl of Monmouth, " a time server, determined to achieve court preferment at what ever cost of dignity or self-respect." " Art," a dramatic tale by the author of " Christie John stone," is an episode, whether true or fictitious is not told, in the life of Mrs. Anne Oldfield. It is entertaining and lively. There are several other articles—among them one on " The Present Sultan." Dublin University.--The story of " Sir Jasper Carew" increases in interest in the present num ber. In the first chapter, entitled A Strange Incident," the hero leaves his crossing business to dine with Royalty. Some of the fashionables who frequently passed by him took notice of him, and invited him to their grand mansions. He, willing to revisit for a brief period his real station, accepted, hired a dress, and presented himself. It chanced that the Prince Regent was there when he arrived. He attracted his attention by his amusing anec dotes and varied information, and the climax was that the adventurer received an invitation to Carl ton House. This he, however, did not accept ; but under the influence of his evil star lie wandered to an hotel crowded by needy foreigners, where he became involved in a quarrel in which Carew wounded a man, which catastrophe induced him to return to the Continent. He is left starting for Paris, to meet some lately-made friends there. An article is devoted to " Children's Pleasure Books," in which a great number are enumerated and their merits set forth. It is remarked that in no department of literature has the press been more prolific than in juvenile works of late years. The fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen aro deserv edly highly praised, and some extracts are given from the books. The one in which the mother follows her child to death's conservatory is very striking. " Blanche, a Poem," is well written, but of a most melancholy hue. There are some " Memoirs of Count de Lally." He was the leader of the troops of Louis XV. in his wars in the East Indies. " Among the many gallant Irishmen who served in the armies of France, I know of none more brave and disttinguished," remarks his bio grapher. An amusing account is given of "A Voyage to Van Diemen's Land," in which it is related that a very enthusiastic young lady, who was very anxious to see the island of Madeira, was called up one night as they were passing the spot. She hastily dressed herself, and came out of her cabin with a lighted candle, in order to see it bet ter. " Our Winter Garden" is among the most attractive of the contents. " The Lyrist's Death" is a well-described piece ; but, on the wh o l e , th e best is the " Dying Year," the first verses of which are here given : " Stretched on the Autumn's withered leaves, Which the winds had heaped in play, With the glittering shroud that the hoar-frost weaves Cast o'er him as he • With death within his heart, And dimness in his gaze, The dying Old Year saw depart His last moon's pallid rays. • There was a dim light in the air, A cold and ghastly gloam ; The clashing boughs were stripped and bare, The ice was on the stream. Out from the frozen North The winds rushed fiercely by ; And the stars of heaven came looking forth To see the Old Year die. And the old man's thoughts are wandering back, As his hours approach their last, With a vain remorse on the lengthened track He bath left in the shadowy past. His children, fair and bravo, All to their rest have gone ; And on the threshold of the grave The Old Year lies—alone. Fie thinks of the clays when his reign was young, And his sun of life was high, When the early flovers from the green earth sprung, And the hours flew laughing by ; When the leaves came bursting out, And from hill and grassy plain The streams, released, with a joyous shout Leaped on to the sparkling main." George Cruikshank's Magazine. No. I. Bogue. All hail to the prince of caricaturists . ! and yet, be it said, one nobler, and better, infinitely nobler and better than a mere .caricaturist. Janu ary comes to us, indeed, by no means empty handed, when he brings us the initial number of a new magazine, edited by Frank E. Smedley, bet ter known by his nom de plume of " Frank Fair legh," and illustrated by the master-hand, and called by the popular name, of George Cruikshank. Everything secures to this new claimant of public favour, even before its appearance, the most cor dial welcome—as everything in the first number of it will be found to deserve that hearty reception. First and foremost there is the grand opening illus tration. Such an illustration ! " Passing Events —or the Tail of the Comet of 1853"—a wonderful pictorial skit upon the age, worthy (can more be said in panegyric ?—if so, tell us and we'll use it) worthy of the artistic genius in its palmiest day of our inexhaustible George Cruikshank. The em bellishment contains a marvellous profusion of figures—" figures of fun," drawn with infinite humour—and the whole accompanied (this, from the hand of the editor) with the liveliest of expla nations. By the way, the Tail of the Comet of 1853 will be regarded by the vast majority, we doubt not, as the " special wonder " of the new magazine—and wonderful it is, as we have said, undoubtedly. Nevertheless, to our mind, the ela boration of the Tail is surpassed altogether by the exquisite expression of the Head—an expression of breathlessness, of surprise, of merriment, and of a perfectly amazing consciousness of all the astounding eccentricities that come flooding afterwards. Such a face ! we have no word for it—we look down amazed at the apparition— dumbfoundered like our namesake with his hair on end up in the corner of the illustration Besides the frontispiece—George Cruikshank con tributes to his new magazine a variety of other comical cuts—such, for example, as the broadsheet against tobacco. Frank Fairlegh has a rollicking Ingoldsbyan Legend of Brabant, called " The For feit Hand"—but beyond this the letterpress admits of considerable improvement. The glory of the new magazine, however, radiates resplendently from the illustrations. Colburn's United 'Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal.—The first article is " The Black Sea," and an opinion is expressed, that as the war raging between Russia and Turkey is extending to those countries bordering on the Black Sea, of which so little haPi hitherto been known, that now, " new and almost unexplored regions will be opened to inquiries." In conclusion, it is said, that if the Sultan could be persuaded to receive men of every class and distinction into his army and navy, he would be more than a match for his collossal antagonist. "If a well digested system of immigration from the civilised West could be organised to a land at once fertile and salubrious, intersected with the finest rivers and straits, and having the advantage of so many seas and ports, Turkey might become as much to be admired for her social, political, and religious institutions, as she now is for her natural resources and geographical posi tion." A long memoir is given of " Radetzky," who, it is observed, offers in his career more in interest than is found in the annals of many great military men. After a life of battles, in his 80th year he still mounts his horse, and governs the Austrian provinces in his master's name. It is remarked further on that, as a statesman also, " Radetzky" is entitled to a place in the historical gallery. The sketch is to be continued in the next number, and will prove interesting to many it is to be presumed. There are various other subjects of importance here treated of, such as "De la Barre Duparcy'sCommentaires on Clausenitz," " Individ ua: Organisation of Prussian Regiments," " General Sir Harry Calvert on National Defence," &c. " A Treatise on Small Arms," by Leon Parrot, contains a great deal of information on the formation and operations of arms and warlike instruments, &c. The Zoist ; a Journal of Cerebral Physiology and Mesmerism.—This is the forty-fourth num ber, and the eleventh volume of this quarterly journal ; a fact which is a sufficient proof of its success. To believers in this popular science the work will be highly interesting, and will, no doubt, in time convince many who are now incre dulous of the curative powers of the mesmeric force. One of the most remarkable cures is of a maniac, who had been rendered insane by table-turning. There are also accounts of cases of blindness, rheumatism, &c., which have been successfully mesmer ic agency.. We shall s h or tly terminated by quote an interesting paper, which Dr. Elli o t son has contributed to this number. The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Re view.—Among the objects of interest here pre sented, the accounts of " The Lady Elizabeth, a prisoner at Woodstock," are worthy of being men tioned. Few probably are acquainted with the details of the unfortunate lady's captivity, and it will thus be generally instructive. The cause of her being imprisoned was that Wyat, in his con fession, accused her of being accessory to the plot in which he was engaged. In consequence of which misrepresentations the Princess was senb to the Tower, but she was subsequently removed to Wood stock, where she was placed under the care of Sir Henrylledingfield. From the letter book of the latter many details are gathered relative to the mode in which the detention of the Princess was carried on. The chief vexation arose from her not being free to select what books she thought fit, and there were many communications held with the council as to the propriety of her wishes being granted. " On supposed Apparitions of Air Lady at Salette," gives an account of the modern and ancient superstitions of that place. The proceed ings of " Sir Walter Raleigh at Sherbourne" are concluded from the November number of this Ma gazine. It will be remembered that he was left disputing with Meere his steward, as to whether he possessed the right of dismissing him from his service. Meere was undoubtedly right in law, it is observed, as he recovered the bailiwick. A plate is given of the pulpit of Richard Baxter, author of the " Saint's Rest." He was some time vicar of Kidderminster. It is still preserved in that town, but not in the church. The pulpit is of oak, octa gonal in its shape, and properly decorated with flowers and architectural ornaments in the well known style of the reign of James I. " The Toxaris of Lucian" is a very interesting sketch of the ancients. Mnesippus, a Greek, argued with Toxaris, a Scythian, as to which of their countries produced the most eminent examples of friendship. The five nstances which the Greek brings forward are here cited, and are worthy of attention. The last given story is the most pleasing. The one friend was cast into prison, being innocent ; the other contrived to be sent in after him. When released, a large sum was presented to each by way of atonement. De metrius, the second-mentioned friend, observed to Antiplilus (after having given up his money to him), " I leave you now. I shall have no use for this money, and you will stand in no need of a friend in the good circumstances in which I leave you." ~~. --~ INTRIGUES IN THE ARMY. It was last night whispered in military circles that General Wetherall, feeling that ho is the victim of an intrigue, in having had another placed over his head as Adjutant-General, has tendered his resignation. We do not wish to be understood as vouching for the fact, but the information comes to us from a quarter in which a knowledge of what is taking place in the higher branches of the military service would naturally be supposed to exist. We are in a position to make some important revela tions respecting what is going on at the Horse Guards, but there are considerations of policy why we should withhold them for the present—Morn ing Advertiser. OPERATION OF UNDUE INFLUENCES. TO THE EDITOR 01' THE MORNING ADVERTISER. • Sir,--I speak advisedly when I say there is not any class of persons more indebted to you for exposing the Coburg intrigues than the heads of public departments. The amount of interference, or rather dictation, which is practised at any public office when a vacancy occurs in a place which is required for a portegee of a foreign family, is difficult to describe. Neither seniority, nor merit, nor past services can be pleaded in reply. The application from influential quarters is, in fact, an ukase, and the man who refuses it will surely be marked out for disgrace at an early opportunity. Nor, alas ! Sir, does the evil end here : for, in credible as it may sound at first, it is a fact, that an intimation, in a manner and tonenot to be mistaken, is given to persons filling important offices that cer tain things will!be expected of them, the effect of which is, that an imperium in imperio is established, and probably at the very moment that a Secretary of State is on his road to Osborne or Balmoral with important information to his royal mistress, the very facts he is the bearer of are already far on their way to Bruxelles, and King Leopold and the Coburgs are thus enabled to pull the strings of our government, both at home and abroad. It is said that the effect of the present exposure will merely lead to a temporary lull in the Court intrigues, or perhaps to greater caution in future. But I trust to its having a much more beneficial effect, and that our policy both at home and abroad will give evidence that our labours have not been in vain. Should this hope be disappointed, then history, which has taught us our remedy, will, in deed, have been read without profit by those who are most interested ; and file nation will have no other choice open to it, but to show that it has both the inclination and the power to prescribe the needed remedy—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, Jan. 1, 1854. L. W. UP WlTff THE STANDARD OF ENGLAND ! The following patriotic song—the words by Edward Farmer, the music by George Simpson—has just bean published by Jewell and Letchford, Soho-square : Hark ! hark ! where the Lion is roaring, List ! list ! 'tis the growl of the Bear ; Above the proud Eagle is soaring, The Crescent waves high in the air. The steed with impatience is neighing, The flag of rude war is unfurled, The trumpet its wild note is braying, And threatens the peace of the world. Then up with the standard of England, Our watchword alone be " Advance !" Up, up with the standard of England, And raise the brave banner of France. 'Tie fearful that life should be wasted, 'Tis dreadful that blood should be shed, That the horrors of war should be tasted, And that ravens and wolves should be fed. All that honour permits has been borne, Every mild art of peace has been tried, Mediation bean met with foul soorn, And now " war to the knife" must decide. Then up with the standard, &c. Then onward by sea and by land, Since there's no other course to pursue, Let Old England and France, hand in hand, Show the world what, combined, they can do ; Let our scabbardless swords meet the light, " Down, down with the tyrant!" our cry ; 'Tis for honour and justice we fight, So forward to conquer or die. Then up with the standard, &c. ~.a~-~° MISCE LLANEOUS. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine opens with a paper on France and her commercial relations. It is fol lowed by the concluding chapters of the American tale of " Priest and People." The second chapter of " St. Florian" is given. A satirical analysis of the present biographical mania is certainly de served.--The National Miscellany maintains its character. Its selection of subjects is very good. A paper on "Saxon London" will be interesting to those who perused the " Roman London" of a number which appeared a few months ago. "Street Names" is another curious and entertaining article. This magazine is written with considerable ability.— The British Journal contains a variety of tales and sketches of general interest. Newton's London Journal gives an account of fourteen recent patents, with descriptive illustrations, and the usual reports of engineering institutions.— Le Follet possesses an additional attraction this month in the shape of a fourth plate with bonnets, caps, &c. , in every variety.—The Life and Adven tures of ick Diminy the Jockey, has reached the fourth number, and will be found still to afford its readers infinite amusement. NAPOLEON AND NICHOLAS. ( From the Morning Advertiser.) The last thing of which this journal would be suspected, would be that of being prepossessed in favour of the present ruler of France. Our past opposition to his Government drew down upon us denunciations, by name, in the pages of the Moni tenr, written by his own pen. And even so late as within the last six weeks, the Morning Adver tiser has been seized ten or twelve times at the French Post-office, merely because we happened to say some things which were unpalatable in the Tuileries. But whatever may be our views with regard to the state of matters as at present existing on the other side of the channel,—and those views are unchanged—we feel that we are called on by every consideration of prudence and patriotism, to put them for a time in abeyance, in the pre sence of those formidable preparations which, it is now known, Russia has made for subjugating the whole of Europe to her sway. France is the only country on which we can rely with confidence as being in earnest, and determined to resist the aggressions of the Northern invader ' • and it is essential to us, as well as to herself, that a cordial understanding should subsist between the two countries, if the great European burglar is to be checked and punished. Of the sincerity of France there is no room for doubt. The doubt with us always has been, not as regards her, but our own country. We believe we are only speaking in accordance with the fact when we say, that the French Government have been much more ad vanced on the Eastern question than our own. Little, indeed, as has been done by us, even in the way of show—for, as yet, there has been no action —we feel that we owe that little to the counsels, the remonstrances, and the examplet of France. The, navy of that country was the first to proceed to Besika Bay. The English squadron was obliged to follow it for very shame. And now that the allied fleets have entered the Black Sea, we owe that step also mainly to the energetic course which France has adopted. As, therefore, there can be no room to doubt the perfect good faith of the French Government in relation to the Turkish question, we cannot too earnestly impress on the people of this country the unspeakable importance of cultivating the closest and most friendly relations with France, so long as we are surrounded with imminent perils. We should, indeed, like to see a cordial union be tween the Governments of the two countries, esta blished on such a basis as would insure its perma nency, and not cease, or even be weakened, by the settlement of the Eastern question. Instead of France and England being, as they were long repre sented to be, natural enemies, they ought to be he most sincere friends. Cordially united, they will always have the destinies of Europe in their hands. Their interests are the same. Any great political changes in Europe which would affect the interests of the one, would, more or less, affect the interests of the other. Either might not be able of itself effectually to resist a combination on the part of Russia, Austria, and Prussia against it ; but, united, they would prove more than a match for all Europe, were the various despotic countries in it to enter into a league against them. Whatever may have been our views, at any time, of the present or any preceding Government in France, we have never ceased to impress on the people of that country the paramount importance of a close and cordial union between them and the people of England. So far as our countrymen are concerned, we can answer for them, that they not only are always favourably disposed towards such a unity of feeling and action, but that they also desire it. If the people of France imagine they can see any want of cordiality towards their coun try on the part of our Premier or any of his colleagues, we beg to assure them that the Coali tion do not reflect the popular feeling of the country. The head of the Government and several of its members may be the friends of the Czar, and the abettors of a Muscovite policy ; but so far from the nation having any sympathy with such. Ministers, they are indignant in the highest de gree that they should be in power. And what is more, the pro-Russian members of the •Cabinet will not be permitted to remain in office to mia represent the public feeling, and to play the game• 'of the Count de Chambord. It is the same Rus sian intrigues and influence which have placed Lord Aberdeen at the head of the Government, and kept him there, which have brought about that unnatural amalgamation between the two branches of the Bourbon family in France, which came upon Europe some weeks ago with surprise. The people of England are well aware of this, and will not long tolerate a Ministry which, acting under Muscovite inspiration, is secretly in favour of the restoration of the Bourbons. The existence of a Russianised Cabinet in Downing-street has hitherto been the great obstacle to a thorough union with France ; and when that obstacle has been removed, we may rest assured that the friendship between the two countries will become cordial ; and then a course of action, in all the great emergencies which may happen, will be simultaneous and the same. The Emperor of France has, it ought to be re membered, whatever we may think of his views regarding, the administration of home affairs, hitherto given every proof of the sincerity of his friendship for this country. So far as relates to the Eastern question, it is no secret in the Court of St. James's—it is no secret in any Court of Europe--that every effort has been made which Russian ingenuity could suggest to detach the Emi,eror of France from this country. But he has resolutely resisted all the influences brought to bear upon him with the view of accomplishing that object. So far from having been even shaken in his resolution to continue his alliance with Eng land, he has, within the last few weeks, afforded. proofs not to be mistaken, that he has become more and more confirmed in his purpose to make com mon cause with this country in the resistance which must be offered, not for the sake of Turkey only, but for the integrity of the territorial pos sessions of the various countries in Europe —to the audacious aggressions of the Czar. No doubt, the Chief Magistrate of France, in determining on this line of policy, has chosen the wisest course for himself. Had he formed an alliance with Nicholas, the latter would have be trayed him whenever a convenient season for the purpose had arrived. There never could have been any sincere friendship, on the part of the Cossack Emperor for the Emperor of France. The Czar, and all the other despotic Courts on the Con tinent, look on Louis Napoleon as a parvenu, which he himself glories in being. There could not, there fore, be, on the part of the Czar, any cordiality of feeling between him and the Emperor of the French. Consequently, in refusing to listen to the urgent solicitations addressed to him to sever the connexion with England, and identify himself with the cause of the Czar, he has consulted his own best inter ests. But that consideration ought not to make us one whit the less sensible of the value of the alli. ante of France at this fearful crisis in the history of Europe. Wo regard that alliance as of vital importance, not only to France and England them selves, but to Europe generally ; and, therefore, i the existence of the Aberdeen Cabinet, which is a Bourbon as well as Cossack Cabinet, interpo ses an insuperable obstacle to a sincere friendship, a n d cordial co-operation, on the part of France and England, that Ministry must be got out of the way with all practicable expedition. TESTI3IONIA.L.—Our late townsman, Professor Cope, during a visit here this week, received an elegantly chased silver salver, bearing the following inscrip. tion :—" This token of respect was presented to 3. G. Cope, Esq., by his pupils at the Royal Grammar School, Lancaster, Oct. 1853."— Preston Chronicle. CRICKET.—The eighth annual ball of the St. James's Cricket Club will take place at Willis's Rooms, on Tuesday, the 10th inst. ~.... :~.. .. n...~a:. , ~: