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LIFEBOAT SER VICES.—Thiring the re c ent heavy gales some of the boats o f the Na ' ional Life boat F 7 7 p , rs ons from different wrecks. The institution saved Committee of the Institution earnest y AP.?EAL tc 1 the public for ASSI:,TAN,F, to e .able them to m et the con tinued bea.y demands on the In. titution s ,251ifeb ate 3 tab lishments. Contributions are receiv d by all the Lo 0 on and country bankers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, at the Institution, 14, Ji,hn-street, Ade phi, W.C. _ ROYAL ENGLISII.OPEIS..A COVENT-GARDEN. "Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyle and Mr. W. Harrison. TIIIS EVENING, W . ,11-tee's Romantic Opera, 'I HE 3DES r.R.T FLOWER: Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan P: ate ; Drlessrs. W. 11. Weiss, H. Corn A. Cook, and W. Hari-. ison. Conductor, Mr. A Mellon.—Doors open at half-past S e ven. cmmence at Eight. TH IRE ROYAL DRURY - N - Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chattert4 in. EVENING the • ertormances nommence wit h an ))3, , .1. Oxentord, Esq , endtled 'AEAUTY OF THE BE VST yrincipal characters by Messrs. Addison, G. F. Nit Airret. Spencer, and G. Weston; Mrs Edmund Falconea • and 310 s G. I ecicrq. _ . Al er which. Lord Byron's Choral Tragedy, MANF;i7,F,D. Messrs. helps, Ryder, Rayner, M , agreson, cer ; Miss Heath, 3liss r. Atkinson, Miss Leclercq, and Mrs E Falconer. Vocalists—Miss Poole, Miss r.itter, Miss Cicely Not', Miss Heywood, and Mr. Swift. To conclude with a New and Original Farce, by Mussrs. W Brou , rh and A. Halliday, entitled MY liii,ART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS : cnaracters by Mr. Nenille, Mr. G. Weston, Mr. Warde, Mr. J. Martis ; Mrs. C. Melville, and Miss Hai fleur. TH.EATRE ROYAL HAY NI AKE_ET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVE .N ING (sth time), LIT rLE DAISY. After which, at halt-past 7 1 ( 6 th time), A BULL TN A CHINA ri HOP. Messrs. Charles Mathews, Compton, Clark, -Rogers, and Gordon ; Mesdames Lindley, Wght, Fitz wilffam, Hill, &c. Followed by THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Mess Mathews, Charles Mathews, Compton,W ea thersby, &c. ; Mesdames C. L., Keeley. Griffith, &c. And MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. BL DE MONIO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated E Every Evening until further notice. THI A EVENING, the Comedietta, by W. Gilbert, entitled UNCLE BABY : Mess -s. Widdicombe, J.G. Shore, Charles ; Miss P. Leclercq, and Carlotta Leclercq. After which, at Eight o'clock, BEL DEMONIO, a Love Story, in Twelve Tableaux, laken trona Stendhal's "Italian Chronicles." by Mr. John Brougham. Principal charac ter by- Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles , rr,rsm, Emery, Raymond, ,foreland, Smith, Clifford, Collett, Andrews, Sims ; Miss Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, Al rs. Lee, and Door s orthy. 1 open at half-past 6—commence at 7. -12 EL DEM.O..;aO ; a LOVE STORY, in Twelve _I) Tableaux. NBllr THE ATRE-RO VAL, ADELPH I.- Sole Proori.tor and Manager. M:•, B. Webster. 'MIS EVENING, at 7, THE TRAGEDY QUEEN. Mrs. S At 8, the New Drama of LEAH: Mies Bateman, supported by Messrs. Arthur Stirlinz, It. Phillips, Billington, Stuart, A Wood, Eburne, Miss H. Simms and Mrs. Billington. T o conclude wPh CATCHING AN HEIRESS: Miss Woolgar and Mr. A. Wood. BAT E_l fusiaNsitAicNst;ccelsisEOll grielabte tragictriutn aprthieterixt bliss BATEMAN, on her first appearance in the character of LEAH, in the new five act Drama of that title, having been nightly repeated, and even exceeded during the last four weeks, amidst the applause and tears of crowded audiences, and tneprofouni impression created upon all who have wit nessed the to ning impersonation by Miss Bateman of the heart-broken Jewish maiden, being confirmed by the unani mous verdict and critical approval If the entire press, the Manager of the NEW ADEL THEATRE has the honour to announce that Mss BAT EMAN will appear in the New Drama of LEAH EVERY EVENING till further notice ; and in order to meet, as far as possible, the increasing demand for stalls, has added two more rows to those previously existing. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, WHERE'S YOUR WIFE. Miss Simpson. After which, NIIRIAM' MIME. Messrs. G. Honey, Parselle, Belford, Turner, Miss K.Saville, and Miss Manders. To conclude with FAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR LADY. Mr. Leigh Murray. Commence at 7. IriE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN,' j - L Containitn,r the L,test SPORTING INTELLIGENCE zan be had Every Evening - of G. R. GIANIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAL—Morning, 2h. 59m.—Afternoon, 3h. 20m '2O-tofts.ow.-Morning, 3h. 40m.—Afternoon, 4h. Oar, The Weather--Sun Office, Nov. 13, 1863. ~_ THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock 46 Barometer-29.70. Find—South-West; moderate, and cloudy. NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTSI "Paper Drapery" is informed that the address spiced for is that of Arthur Grainger, stationer, Holborn, W. Arjri , p : LONDON, FRIDAY, NOV. 13, 1863. From America we learn by the telegrams arriving this afternoon, and given by us elsewhere, that at various parts of the seat of war there has been more' fighting, and that at one or two points there have been effected several important strategic move ments. As usual, however, nothing decisive of any kind has anywhere been accomplished. Everything that is done is simply by way of preliminary. News of interest is promised by the next mail. Nothing additional is told about the relative posi tion of the maim armies under MEADE and under LEE. Charleston advices intimate that the bombardment of Fort Sumter on the 30th of October was the very heaviest yet adventured upon. Between sundown of the 28th and sundown of the 29th upwards of a thousand shots from fifteen inch mortars and 3001 b parrott guns had been belched forth upon the belleagured garrison—the Federal assail ants Upon th e d a y a tt erwar d s , th at i s th e 30 t h, t h e direst day of all as already intimated, opening up on Fort Sumter from Fort Gregg and Fort Wagner, three monitors being engaged alsa in this hellish strife ! yet-- what comes of it all, when the smoke has cleared away and the havoc can be calculated a Seven Confederates wounded! happil y if there is great c r y i n th e roaring of this stu pendous artillery, there is but little wool in the sh a p e er the slaughter caused by it. At Chattanooga, on the 28th, General HOOKER is reported to have gained a series of victories of moderate dimensions—ef very moderate dimensions, it will be confessed when we hays a pittedhis own loss to the number of 350 killed and wounded against a capture afterwards, as the fruits of the struggle, of seven Confederate prisoners, Meanwhile the Southerners themselves appear to have been adventuring, upon that same date, th e 28th, upon an attack of General GEARY'S d* • • IVIBIOII the report of General THOMAS being, however, that the assailants bad then and there been rep u l sed, being in point of fact driven across Lookout Creek from their advanced breastworks. While from London, Tennessee, the intelligence is to the effect that General BURNSIDE'S forces have returned to the heights overlooking that town, we learn that south of the Tennessee, fifteen thousand Confederate cavalry were\ preparing to operate on General GRANT'S line of communication. In those direc tions, at least, all was movement and energetic preparation. Elsewhere the silence and torpor seem to us, of course, remembering how the main armies are placed now relatively to each other, rather ominous of a deadly encounter, an encounter that if entered into resolutely by the con f ront i ng belligerents, may just possibly prove in some de gree d ecisive--decisive at any rate in respect to the itntnediato future reserved for Washington. The philosophic politician who who likes to look be yond the surface, and to moralise ou the principles fortunes that regulate the nes of States, m a y j us t new draw an interesting comparisonwtil between two king doms, both of modern growth, if of uneq u al dignity. Within the ithin the last few day s representative assem blies of two continental ktri• gdomevery tar not a part, gsve ban opened by th e soy' ques tion, but the r esemblance p rob ably beganlleign in and ended there. In the one a prosperous and loyal people awarded a cordia l g reetin g to an a ged monarch whose recent illness a dded to the warmt h of his ception. In the other, gloomy silence marked the advent of a capricious and despotic king, W hi le both sides felt that the truce was over, and that the battle for constitutional rights and liberties was about to recommence. Prussia, with her greater age and the extent cf her territories, acquired by fraud or force, is yet far behind the little kingdom of Belgium in all that constitutes the real welfare and happiness of a people, and the security and stability of a Govern ment. She has now to do the work done by Eng land some centuries back, by Belgium, it is Lrue, only within the last half-century, but, thanks to gcod fortune and a wise ruler, done then so effec tually as to distance many older States. The text of the two royal eddresses may also serve to point the moral. The King of PRUSSIA'S speech has already been analysed and discussed in all the capitals of Europe, and little hope of a wiser and more con• cidatory policy is found in the words, which were aptly enough handed to him by Herr VON BIS3IARK the ruling spirit and evil counsellor of the King's meditations. Very different from the programme of the Berlin Chambers is the task assigned to the Belgian representatives, Works of internal im provement and reform, public education,and enlarged commerce are the topics, and the venerable King is able to employ the usual formalities about foreign relations with raorejustice than many other crowned heads. He has some right to speak of receiving " marks of confidence and sympathy from foreign Governments," when he is regarded as the arbiter of differences and the referee in cases of disputed international law. The affectionate anxiety dis played by his people on the occasion of his late Illness naturally calls for some acknowledgment on the part of the KING, but the first paragraph relating to national questions is devoted to an event of no small importance to a thriving trading community. The freedom of the Scheidt has been accomplished since the close of the last session, and King LEOPOLD congratulates the Deputies upon this long looked for and important occurrence. The suppression of the burdensome toll has, with the consent of the Netherlands, been fully carried out, and this, added to the diminution of the dues collected in the Bel gian ports, offers increased facilities to he development of Belgian trade and com " The complete liberty of our fine river," observed the KING with natural gratifica tion, " sanctioned by all the Powers, henceforth constitutes a portion of the public right of maritime States." Another source of satisfaction, and one happily by no means restricted to Belgium, is found in the abundant harvest which there as else where serves happily to counterbalance in some degree the depression induced by other causes. The KING speaks also of the rapid development of the means of railway communication ; and although it may appear strange to us to find such a topic occupying a paragraph of the Speech from the throne, or indeed influenced in any degree by the wishes of the Government, we must, remembering the Continental customs, congratulate the Belgians on the readiness with which the authorities enter into the public necessities. The remaining topics of the address are all subjects of internal improvement, such as the revision of the Commer mai and Criminal Codes, the extension of Public Instruction, and the favourable representation of Belgian talent made at the English Exhibition. It is a good sign when such topics are the promi nent features in a royal speech at a time when the whole of the neighbouring states are agitated by difficult and weighty questions. Prussia distracted by internal dissensions and perilously involved with Russia in regard to Poland, Austria occupy ing a doubtful and invidious position with regard to Italy, Denmark waiting fur the attack of the Diet, and the whole body of German potentates and peoples perplexed and anxious respecting the ne ty movement in favour of unity, may all find something to envy in the obscure little kingdom which manifests so striking au example of the blessings of Constitutional Government and liberal policy. The quiet and cautious LEOPOLD would probably hardly b© accepted as a model by any of the younger and more ambitious rulers of those States, yet there are some points in which they would do well to copy him. By his prudent and tolerant rule he has brought his kingdom safely through that awkward and dangerous transition state which follows on a disturbance of existing institutions and dynasties. Though not a model monarch, or perhaps a very high-minded King, he has known, like Queen ELIZABETH, the art of ruling his people. He has always avoided those trials of strength into which the King of PRUSSIA so rashly plunges, forgetting that it is possible for Governments, as well as indi viduals, to get into such a position that retreat is undignified and advance unwise. The vicissitudes of King LEOPOLD'S career have been singular and romantic, and its close sees the family of the COBURGS in a very different position in Europe from the one they occupied at its opening, and the next occupant of the throne of Belgium ve merce. assume a steadier and more prosperous seat than the heir of many greater dignities. It is to be hoped, however, that King LEuPOLD may yet be spared t , ) bis people. This is not a crisis in which age and experience can be well replaced by youth however vigorous, or energy however daring. The craftiness of some, the insolence of others, the general uncertainty and suspicion, call for wise heads, no less.than strong hands and stout beart, in the Council chambers of Europe. In such assemblies the absence of the venerable ruler of the little Bel- gian Kingdom would be a loss to be sincerely re gretted by every lover of wise and moderate coun cils, and a vacancy not easily to be filled. It is very desirable Vast the subject of the Volun eers should be from time to time brought forward to keep alive the interest in the public mind, and to stimulate those who are concerned in the affairs, to use every exertion, and act with the utmost ligilance. The speech of the Earl DE GREY and at the annual meeting of the Westminster canes Volunte ers, d eserves attention in many respects, is especially alwwealycsomatetr tct in d re o s i p ng eet hono ur t o regard.a The high pos th ' • ou which his lordship holds r e nd ers what he says of double importance, and the whole tone and tenonr of his observations reflect the highest credit en himself, and through him, does honour to the Ministry of which he is a member. It must have been especially gratifying to all who have the prosperity of the cause at heart, and who rightly appreciate the importanc e of its welfare, to listen to the noble Earl' s remarks, and to dwell upon the chief points of his genial and gracious address. Of course, the observations are made by one well versed in all the matters he discusses, and therefore it is desirable to dwell upon some of his most striking stateme n t s, and consider his leading suggestions. In the first place the question of a Parliamentary grant was analy se d by his lordship, and he very forcibly pointed out the necessity that existed for this step. Notwith standing the objections raised and t he doubts en tertained as to the advisability of such a course, all the inquiries and inv e stigations terminated i n :iame result, and the grant was indisputably proved to be a fitting and desirable one. The fact was that the force could not have been kept up at its then state of efficiency, if some assistance had not been afforded to it, for the exertions that had been made and the sacrifices effected by pLivate indivi duals at the commencement of the undertaking had of course their limits, and could not be expected to continue, and to be persevered in at the same rate for any lengthened period. Yet, as objections will never cease to be raised on every public question, and as there is no pri vate arrangement which does not call forth the sneers of cavillers, and awaken the fears of the timid, and the doubts of the undecided and hesi tating, so when this difficulty was supposed to be solved, the next news was that the assistance afforded would invalidate the position, and detract from the character of the volunteer establish ment. These exceptions were disposed of by Earl DE GREY, in a very satisfactory manner. fie showed that no such detrimental influence would exist as had been predicted by some, and thus appropriately alluded to the unchangeable characteristics of the institution. He said that "it still maintained the free gift of time, the unpaid services of the force." Perhaps the present posi • tion of the Volunteers is quite as trying in its way, and as eventful in its ultimate issue as when first its arduous undertaking was resolved upon, and its earliest efforts spread astonishment and awakened admiration throughout the land. The time has now come for a solid basis to be formed to an undertaking that affects so materially the interests of the community, and upon whose success the safety of the country so immediately depends. Therefore the advice of the noble Secretary for War is particularly noticeable, when he says that which is now required is " Permanence." This is gene rally the touchstone of success, and the trial of merit, and often does it occur that some really fair, seeming prospects are shorn of their glory and bereft of their strength, as time goes on and trying circumstances occur. There is no reason to doubt that any adverse or unforeseen combinations will detract from the high state of efficiency to which the Volunteers have reached, or prevent their main taining the high and honourable post among the lasting military defences of the country. The last injunction laid upon the Force, in the excellent address referred to, was the absolute neces, city of preserving strict discipline. This may) perhaps, be rather unpalatable advice to some wild enthusiasts who wish to rush to glory without any restraining check or the interposition of the lets end hindrances of routine, and regulations, and it may offend the prejudices of others who desire to enjoy the privilege of direct influence, and will be apt to imagine that the prestige of the concern it lost if independence is not the ruling spirit of the hour, and vexatious orders are paramount to al individual predilections and control, peculiaritiee and prejudices. Let these demurrers take to heart and ponder deeply on the wise words of the Secre tary for War. When he tells them that no man is to command who has not learnt to obey, and that without discipline they will be but as an armer. mob, but that with its agency they may become u "valuable supplement to an army," he declares to them sober and salutary truths. There is a com pensatory result for all efforts that are made iu the path of duty,and the sacrifices that are requirec and demanded of those who would serve theit country faithfully, and perform a real and lasting service in their generation, are always attended with a beneficial influence on the community that accords them, and imparts to their votaries the spirit that deserves success if it cannot command it. Taking leave of Earl DE GREY'S admirable oration , and earnestly concurring in his testim any as to the volunteers adding another bulwark to the throne, and "increasing the defences of their native coon try," there seems one thing to remember before quitting this subject. When Ministers are aware. ing their approbation, and Parliament voting its grants to the efforts and support of the institution of volunteers, it should not be forgotten that neither cabinets nor senates called it forth. It was not established through the deliberation of councils, not arranged by the decrees of the Legislature, but it sprung forth at the spontaneous suggestion of the community. It is a testimonial from the genius of the nation a: large—it is a people's offering to the defences of the hearths and altarsof their lend. There fore,whatever restrictions are imposed by necessity or changes wrought by expediency, it must not be forgotten what was the rise and origin of our Volunteer forces. That, however, must not be laic aside and forgotten, and the chief spell which con tributes to success will be banished, if ever this grand cud glorious institution is deprived of that spirit of independence which should be its ruling passion. There will be nothing which has so affected and influenced the events of the day to a happy issue and a peaceful termination, as the marvellous upspringing of the. Volunteers through the length and breadth of the land. It breathed of hope to the w e ak a t h om e, a nd it inf use d fear to the stron g abroad. "The nation of s h o pk ee pers" proved reedy and willing to defend themselves, and protect then interests, against the encroachments of any poten tate near or distant. What has been formed it danger and difficulty should be preserved inviolate in its style and spirit, so that, amid the chances and changes now so prevalent in the political at. naosphere, there may be one point of reliance. and one stronghold of security, which friends, and foes must alike acknowledge to be sure and lasting. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13, 1863. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAM.] AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 13. The Royal Mail steamship Scotia, from New York on the 4th inst., arrived here this morning, with 163 passengers and 160,336 dole. hi specie. She landed 8 passengers, all mails, consisting of 101 sacks, and proceeded immediately. All well. The Scotia has made the passage in eight and a half days. NEW YORK, Nov. 3 (Evening). (Per the Scotia.) Railroad communication has been re-opened be tween Alexandra and Warrenton. Mosby's gueril las are still operating around Warrenton. An engagement took place o❑ the 28th at Chat tanooga, in which General Hooker captured seven prisoners and 1,000 rifles, losing 350 killed and wounded. General Thomas reports that the Con federates attacked Geary's division on the 28th, but were rep ulsed and driven from their breastworks across Lookout Creek. All has been quiet at Chat tanooga since the 29th October. Fifteen thousand Confederate cavalry, under Wheeler, Forrest, and Roddy, are in the neighbour hood Courtland, and T uecusa bi a , sout h of the o he f Tennessee Dr'ecatu river, prepare d to operate on Gen. Grant'sli Bu ne of communications. General rnside's f orces h ave retreated from London, Tennessee, to the heights commanding the town. Charleston advices received at Richmond to the 30th state that the bombardment of Fort Sumter on that day was the heaviest that has yet taken place. From sundown on the 28th to sundown on the 29th 1,200 shots from 15-inch mortars and 3001 b. parrott guns wero thrown against Sumter. On the even ing of the 30th the Federals opened upon the north east angle of Fort Sumter from Forts Gregg and Wagner, and two other batteries on Cumming's Point. Three monitors were also engaged. The Confederate casualties were seven wounded. The bombardment continued, but was slackening. General Banks has returned to New Orleans, to command the expedition, which, it is reported, will land on the Texas coast, and form a junctio❑ with Franklin, who is advancing vi' Opelonsas. Franklin ass occupied Opelonsas after a slight skirmish. Guerillas still infest the banks of the Mississippi, firing on passing steamers. General Butler's new command is said to include Baltimore, Fort Monroe, Norfolk, and North Caro 'ina—Schenck and Foster being both superseded. A mass meeting of the United Tamminy and Mozart Democracy has been held at New York. The Governor of New York made a speech, saying it was statistically proved that every twelve months he Federal army lost, from various causes, one-half of the men in service. He declared that the war, as carried on by the Administration, could only end in ruin and national bankruptcy. Democracy proposed to add conciliation to the power of force. He denounced the efforts of the Administration to centralise power and diminish State rights. The Administration has dealt unfairly with New York in regard to furnishing troops, and favoured New England. At a complimentary visit to the New Jersey municipality, Admiral Lisvoski said he was sure that the Emperor of Rucsia sympathised with the IN'orth in the present unjust rebellion, and hoped and believed, as he himself did, that the North would be successful. Ile should shortly take as many of his fleet as possible to "Waehington to whiter there. Nov. 4, Morning. The Republicans have gained the elections in New York State. Their majority is estimated at from 15,000 to 20,000. In Neef York City the Democrats have lost 10,000 votes since last year. The Republican ticket has been elected in Massa chusetts by a majority of 40,000. The New York 7 inics believes that the Confede- rates are executing a movement against General Burnside. Money tight. Gold, 441 per cent. premium. NEW YORK, Nov. 2 (Evening). An extensive conspiracy has been discovered in Kentucky and Ohio to liberate the Confederate prisoners at Camp Chase and overthrow the State Government. Numerous persons have been arrested. Another expedition has sailed from New Orleans to some point on the Texan coast. General Butler has superseded General Forstvr in the command of the department of Virginia and North Carolina. At a democratic mass meeting held at New York the Poles were lustily cheered, and vigorous groans riven for the Russilns. Twenty thousand furloughed soldiers have left Washington for New York. They received free transportation, it being understood that they would vote for the republican ticket on the election day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Nov. 3 (Evening). Money has been extremely tight since Saturday, it being difficult to borrow money on call at 7 per cent. The tightness is attributed to the large public conversions of the currency into 5 dot. 20c. bonds. Stocks have been unfavourably influenced by the tightness of the money market, but are re covering slightly. Yesterday there appeared less stringency in the Stock Market. Gold 46i per cent. 1 remium, at which quotation it has been .steady since Saturday. Exchange on London—bankers' bills, 160 to 161 ; Stocks flat; New York Centrals, 1371 ; Illinois Centrals, 1231 ; Erie, 108;1; 6 per Cent. United States, 107/. Cotto n dull, 81 to 830. Flour quiet. Wheat very firm. Cora depressed. Provisions dull. Coffee steady. Molasses heavy. Petroleum, crude, 274-; refined, 41. The decline has caused heavy losses among speculative dealers in this article. THE POLISH INSURRECTION, POSEN, NOV. M. The Posener Zeitung publishes the following from its Warsaw correspondent : " Half the population will soon have been tran sported to Siberia. On the night of the sth in s t. some 20 persons were arrested in the house of m . Kruppo, Zytsa-street. The Muscovites boast of having discovered the printing-office of the National Government. This is at least the tenth clandesti ne establishment they have found out, but the decr ees of the National authorities, nevertheless, conti nue to appear in print. M. Weuglinski, form er l y a member of the Council of State, whose capabilit y was much appreciated by the Grand Duke Con stantine, has been arrested. Dr. Januskiewiex has experienced the same fate. Rumours continue to be current that General Berg has resolved upon striking terror into the Polish ladies. O ne o f t h e i r number is to be publicly beheaded. R e p or t h as ' even pointed out the intended victim in a sister of the order of St. Felician, named Trochanownka, recently arrested." WARJAVi , , Nov. 10. The night before last the respected citizens Wyszynski, Wein; timid, Bayer, Kramettick, BANK OF FRANCE. The following is the account for month ending Thursday, Nov. 12 :-- ASSETS. F. c. 59,973,955 67 .. 145,416,293 545,777 15 Cash and ingots; E... Cash at the branch-banks .. . • Bills due to be paid to-day,. .• •• Bills becoming due in P ar i s , o f which 83,544,338 f. 50c. are from the branch banks 35 949 781 53 Bills in the branch-banks .. . - • • 321,537,505 Advances on coin and ingots .. .. 10,287,500 Do in the branch. banks .. .. 3,091,500 Do on French securities .. .. 3 9,090,800 Do in the branch-banks .. .. 2 4,737,650 Do on railway shares and bonds .. 50,611,400 Do in the branch-banks .. .. 3 5,901,100 Do on Credit Foncier Bonds .. • . 493,400 Do in the branch-banks • • • • 620 600 Do to State by treaty, 1848 .. .. 6 0,000,000 Rentes of the reserve-fund .. • . 1 2,980,750 14 Rentes, disposable funds .. • . .. 3 8,225,120 81 Rentes immobilised (law of June, 1857).. 1 00,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank .. • . 4,000,000 Real property of branch-banks .. • • 6,033,271 Expenses of administration .. .. 1,919,265 21 Sundries .. .. .. .. .. 4,057,952 62 1.279,048,622 13 Rawicz, Majewski, and many others, with several ladies, were sent away by railway to Russia. Each prisoner will be informed in St. Petersburg, whether it has been decided that he should be conveyed, alone, separated from his countrymen. In place of being submitted t o any examination, these ladies and gentlemen he.ve simply been informed that the Government considers them of position and influ ence sufficient to render their removal desirable. They were permitted to take leave of their families, who received a day's notice to get everything pre pared for their relatives' departure—a favour hitherto not extended to persons transported with out examination or trial. A search of an extreme's' minute character has been made at the residence of the Rector of the Warsaw University, the aged Mianowski. Singu larly enough, it was executed while the rector was at tea in the house of General Berg. Nothing of a compromising nature was discovered. It has been previously stated that, by demand of the military tribunals, the prisons of the Inquisition have been given up for the incarceration of political offenders. The head of the Department of Justice, Nliszurxi, represented to Count Berg that promis cuous confinement of civil prisoners still under examination in the narrow space of the House of Correction, where they could not be kept apart from each other, frustrated all kinds of examina tion, and was calculated to defeat the ends et justice. Count Berg replied that political criminals were the most important, and measures for their safe detention of the greatest moment. It is said that after this evening permission will be given to appear in the streets up to ten o'clock without a lantern, and that every place of enter tainment that will have music shall be allowed to remain open until the same hour. The object is supposed to be to withdraw the people from the brooding and reflective life within doors, to which they were compelled by the lantern nuisance and the prohibition to go out after nine o'clock. The majority of the Warsaw ladies appeared yes terday for the first time with coloured bonnets. To. day—the first upon which the wearing of mourning dress will be supervised—it is thought no ladies will go out who can avoid it, to escape possible an noyance from over-zealous agents of the police. RUSSIA. BERLIN, Nov. 13. Advices from St. Petersburg announce that tilt. Imperial Bank has ceased to issue foreign bills. The rate of exchange on that city has c ,nse quently fallen 21- per cent. MR. WARREN'S LAW STUDIES. A Popular and Practical Introduction to Law Studies, and to lvery Department of the Legal Profession. By Samuel Warren, D.C.L., Q.C. R-corder of Hull, and Master of Lunacy. Thirc Edition. T wo Volumes. William Maxwell. Although that unmistakeable' stamp of success. "Third Edition, , is conspicuously visible on the title page of this, in every sense, weighty treatise, the work is essentially a new work altogether. The fruits of the learned author's labours since they were first put forth have ripened : or, rather, to adopt an apter metaphor—the sturdy and apparently ample bole, already familiar to the law students of an earliei period, has here expanded, ring by ring, during the last six years, has struck deeper root, and spread forth wider branches, in all directions. It it umbrageous now to the extent of seven hundrec and eighty-four leaves. As the result of re• searches at once the most minute and the most comprehensive, of a scrupulous attention to details throughout, and of assiduous application in regarc to the symmetry and lucidity of their arrangement, the work, if viewed merely as a repertory of pro fessional information, is not only very remarkable but is, beyond that, entitled to our most cordial tine earnest admiration. It is remarkable, however, fat more than for the value of the materials out of which, or for the merits of the design upon which. it has been constructed, It is peculiarly and espe cially remarkable for the philosophical spirit it, which the whole of it has been conceived, and with which every particle of it may be said to have been more or less animated. Mr. Warren, we observe, frankly acknowledges in his elaborate preface to this third edition of his " Law Studies" that, whet. occupied in entirely re-writing the work and, while thus rewriting it, enlarging it so very con siderably, he throughout his labours "en deavoured to keep steadily in view" th( impressive advice conveyed to all thoughtful readers, in a passage contained in Another Preface— that penned by Lord Bacon as an introduction ti his "Elements of the Common Law of England: , The passage may be found here at page viii, in its entirety—beginning, " I hold every man- s debtor to his profession." It furnishes us at one( with a key to what might otherwise have remain et' an almost inscrutable mystery, meaning by that Mi Warren's spontaneous acceptance of the responsi bi!ities devolving upon one adventuring upon so ver3 laborious and complicated an enterprize. Conscien tiously he hies held himself, as Lord Bacon saith hi holds every man, to be—" a debtor to his pro fession." If it were solely by the production o this one comprehensive and substantial work—nobly has %Ir. Warren acquitted himself of that deb of his to his profession. But, by other works o' a remarkable, though of a lesser, - value than that attaching to the present, he had already in this sense (it may have been unconsciously, Sc to speak, instinctively) acted in accordance with the suggestion of the philosophic Lord Chancello. His admirably well digested epitome of " Blackstone's Commentaries," now one of the recognised text books at our two ancient Universiiies—his masterly series of discourses addressed to intending Attorneys and Solicitors, discourses orally delivered by Mr. Warren, some few years back, at the Law Institu tion, in Chancery-lane, prior to the date of their original publication—an occasional digest of im portant subjects relating to especial divisions of our legal administration, as, for example, one in reference to Parliamentary Law or the Law of Elections : professional works of this kind Mr. Warren has at intervals contributed to the book shelves of his professional brethren, as one readily and eagerly holding with Lord Bacon, that every man is a debtor to his profession. This, more over, it should also be especially remembered, in his instance, while he himself, throughout these thirty years, has been actively engaged in his profession as an advocate, without the bar and within it, in the stuff gown and in the silk. The man who has thus, during very nearly the lifetime of one entire genera tion, been toiling energetically in his profession, both at the desk and at the bar—having, quite apart from his profession, in very despite of the proverbial jealousy of that most jealous mistress the Law, as sumed and held a very high and brilliant position as one of the chief contributors to the popular and imaginative literature of the age. The author, in his youth, of " The Diary of a Late Physician !" The author, in his early manhood, of " Ten Thousand a Year !" The former of these two celebrated works sounding, prematurelY yn e in thrilling chords, the whole gamut ofhuman suffering from the treble to the diapason. The latter of the two constituting, what might be called par excellence, and without an atom of e xaggeration. the typical prose satire of the day. This sarcastic creator of Oily Gammon tend Tittlebat Titmouse, this pathetic celebrant of the victim of a " Slight Cold," of the " Cancer," and of " Consumption," penning meanwhile, in rapid succession, though at uncertain intervals, some of the most striking papers that have appeared in Maga since the Golden Age of the "Noctes Ambrosianm." In stance this, his charming biographic commemoration of men like Sir William Follett, in his time all but Lord High Chancellor of England, and of that wonderful Jehn William Smith, who, had he lived, might have been almost anything, in spite of his ungainly ways and his singularly unprepos- sessing appearance. Instance this—an enthral- ling logical web to disentangle, a mysterious literary nut to crack, call it what you will, entitled interrogatively " Who was the Murderer ?" Finally, instance this—in a lighter vein, yet one that we should almost be tempted to designate his forte, that comical poking of fun at men and things, after the fashion of Gresset, laughing out radiantly at us among the motley " Tales from Blackwood" under the fantastic title of " Tickler among the Thieves." Ocher miscellaneous writings of Mr. Warren, there are, that—let us frankly con fess it—we don't in the least admire. Eccen- , ricities of authorship, for example, like " The Lily and the Bee," writings that aro for us as if they had been penned it some unknown tongue, that are about as comprehensible to us, let us say, for that matter, as the signifi cation of the awful word abracadabra. As to the merits of the work, now more particularly, how ever, under consideration, there could hardly, one might suppose, be two opinions. The hinting of a fault, or rather of a whole multitude of faults, in regard to these " Law Studies"—perhaps we ought rather to say in reference to the captious and snarl ing criticism we are about, just for one moment, in passing, to particularise, the hesitation of a dislike, of a bitter personal dislike, derived from some name less source, in regard to the learners author of these pages, could alone be accounted for, very recently, by the fact that the cynicism resulting in those two Amiable achievements, the hinting of those faults, the hesitation of that dislike, came to view in the columns of that clever, sneering, brilliant, offen iive, delightful, intolerable, weekly journal, dubbed some time since by Mr. Thackeray in a moment of Grandisonian irritation the Superfine Review ! That Mr. Warren's " Law Studies" are not perfect —well, cela va sane dire. Errors of fact inevitably creep into these widely ranging surveys of a learned profession, a profession, moreover, which is perpetually undergoing changes of all kinds in,the way of modification or development. All the time that Mr. Warren, during these last six years, has been laboriously occupied in writing these pages and revising the prootsheets with an evidently scrupulous and cautions exactitude, the laws of {h e realm in respect to several most important departments have been undergoing a series of remarkable transformations. The task here under aken to be accomplished by him has, therefore, been all the while one of extraordinary difficulty And delicacy. It has been something equivalent to taking a photograph of a dissolving view. The survey of every department of the legal profession has, however, in this comprehensive " Introduction to Law Studies" not only been steadily pursued throughout those six years, but has at length at the end of them been most happily accomplished. That here and there, in exceptional cases, Mr. Warren's revision of 1568 octavo pages has not been tho roughly completed, even in the leaf devoted to the errata, is hardly to' be wondered t. Those oversights of the kind, however, which have alone caught our attention, upon careful examination of the two volumes, are of uch microscopical minuteness, are of such utter in lignificance, intrinsically, that to particularise them as substantial objections to the value of the work would be the veriest inanity of hypercriticism. Omissions of such vital importance, for example, from that page already reverted to (xxxi.), set ►part for the corrigenda—as that Sir George o wyer is mentioned at p. 351 as Mr. Bowyer, where allusion is made by the author o the learned baronet's " Commentaries on the Jonstitational Law of England." Or, again, as that iir Edward Creasy, upon the very next page (p. 352) is spoken of as Mr. Creasy, in reference o that Indian Judge's book on the •` Rise and Pro- tress of the English Constitution." Objections lave been raised—in the same petty spirit of fault finding for the mere love of that cynical uastime—by reason of Mr. Warren's gravely enforcing upon the attention of the more youthful, and we will presume also more in differently-educated, law students, the enorir.ity of inch vulgar slips of the tongue, ai the ellision of their H's, or the interchange of v and W, or, direst outrage of all, in this way, upon our sense of hear ing, the insertion of an R between a final and initial vowel. Atrabilious, indeed, must have been the temperament, or, at any rate, the mood, of he reviewer who could seriously direct this pre posterous charge (viz, that of giving superfluous idvice) against Mr. Warren—seeing that at p. 226 there was ample reason under the critic's gaze, for having his ill-humour laughed away by w hi ms i ca l little illustration in respect to the interpolated R—to wit " Amelia Anne, masquerading as Amelia Racine." 0 ojections of so very frivolous a kind, in truth, as those already indicated, are as completely beneath the learned -►uther's consideration, as might be exceptions -aken in the hearing of a Gothic architect to iome casual flaw or stain upon the nose of a gur -I,oyle. Fail to coincide with the conclusions ar rived at by Mr. Warren in the course of his elabo ate treatise, we cannot but to do repeatedly, as is hat natural, indeed, in regard to a work so elaborate ind comprehensive in its character. His opinions, for example, as to the absolute unans werableness Chillingworth's argument in that famous divine's reply to Matthias Wilson, otherwise Ed ward Knott, we take to be an utterly extravagant exaggeration. Imagine yourself, (he says, to the Student Reader), n the place of that unhappy opponent of Chilling worth—" Can you find an instant's opening ? Is your opponent ever off his guard ? Does he ever make a false thrust P Or fail of parrying the best if his antagonists ? Can you discover, in a word, t defect, or a redundancy, in either thought or ex jression ?" The mere extravagance, this, of ejacu ,atory, we will even say, of adulatory and hyper oolical admiration ! Again, we cannot but deem it to either a very reprehensible reticence, or a very singular forgetfulness, the omission of any reference whatever to William Cobbett's wonderful" History )f the Protestant Reformation," where reference is made to the annals of that extraordinary move went : although due attention is directed to " the Romish view of it" obtainable from Dr. Lingard's flistory of England, and to "the Protestant, or Church of England view of it," to be found in " Palmer's Treatise on the Church of Christ." Cobbett's masterpiece being in reality one of the most powerful and notable histories—to our thinking incomparably the most powerful and notable history—of that period and that movement, anywhere discoverable. Hardly, moreover (speaking now upon a totally different subject), can we do otherwise than avow our unwillingness to assent to the accuracy and validity of the astounding con clusion arrived at by , Mr. Warren, at the close of his very able and remarkable definition of the differ ence between the strictly legal and the strictly con stitutional. It. seems to us, in truth, little less than lezi tnqeste to dream for one moment of averring as an incontrovertible and irrefragable truth that—lf the spirit of Englishmen had degene rated so far as to tolerate and approve an Act abolishing trial by jury, prohibiting public mee tings, and repealinthe Habeas Corpus Act, g the Bill of Rights, and the Great Charter, then it would be both legal and constit u ti ona l , Legal ?__ Yes! Constitutional ?—a thousand times No! Constitutional? —why, the whole Constitution, passingswet o of any ofexistence, any such act as that, wou l w d ou be ld be, ipso facto, e theto swept annihilated. The application of the word to :tina y n s t u h e e h m A o o s t t , therefore, of , wo m u i l s d norn be er n s. othingless Fright fully legal such a proceeding would be on the part of a degenerate Parliament, b ut never Const itutional. Widely divergent at times, however, though our opinions, our cacvictions, our sentiments may be—" wide as the poles asunder"--nay, leg though we may do, toto cio c , ,l u n p n o o n t oe! d r lif t e w r : vital matters of discussion—ape possibl y, th . a t any time or under any circumstances , d than respect the arguments put forth byNolro,WeLwreinse, even where we are the least disposed to recognis their validity. For he writes upon all serious matters, as we have already remarked, in an elevated and philosophical spirit. He writes, moreover upon all the loftier themes that naturally come here, in sequence, under his consideration, with what we are ever eager to respect, a profound conecien tiousness. Reading his book thus, as we have done, with a ready sense of the seriousness with which it has been penned throughout, we would aPP I 9 to it, now that it is completed, the very words in which Mr. Warren himself comments upon Dr. Arnold's " Inireductory Lectures on Modern His tory." No words, in fact, that we ourselves might put together could be more strictly applicable to these two goodly volumes of Mr. Warren's Law Studies. "They abound in fruitful and practical suggestions, which.caonot be entered into here, and all of them it is not to be expected that every in dependent inquirer will adopt, however great hie deference to manifest worth and ability." Th° panoramic view here unrolled with so much effect before the aspiring Law Student by this ripe scholar, this practised lawyer, this gifted man of letters—is certainly calculated to fill the student-reader's heart, at one time, Wit h a highly inspiriting sense of encouragement, e t another with the liveliest feelings cf despair' Educated according to Mr. Warren's system, tutored ander the wonderfully elaborate directions here s° minutely and categorically defined, the Law Stu; dent need have the eyes at once of a house-fly o °' of an eagle, the frame of an athlete, the digestio n of an ostrich, the learning of a Scaliger, and the accomplishments of a Crichton. He is told franhil that, if he expects to make anything like a figure in his profession, he must needs take within his view (and that not superficially, but searchingly) the whole range of human knowledge. Proficiency, t ° him, is essential, in logic, rhetoric, and elocution, il l philology and classical literature, in chronologt history, geography, and political philosophy. I t will be well for him, he is here told impres' sively by his Mentor, if he has tried the vigou r of his intellectual pinions by soaring into the etnpr rean of the high mathematics. Political econoraY , he must be master of; ditto of medical jurispru cence. If he has a taste for anatomy, chemistrlf botany, mechanics, zoology, geology, and the science of navigation, it will be so much the better for hill' , as a wrestler for place and for advancement among a crowd of gifted competitors. Mercantile and agricultural knowledge, he must needs acquit' betimes, no less than a certain intimacy with all the tuts and all the sciences. Added to which' in legal lore alone, he has to work his way (heave n knows how laboriously!) through a whole vast li' brary of sombre law books, dating from old dead and gone Bracton down to living authorities like Broom, and Mayne, andWarrea himself, and poll' more, The mere enumeration of these legal autho' rities which the student, by the way, is requited to tackle, not to skim over lightly like on' of those charming naughty little primros e livraisons of M. Charles Paul de Kock, thinkingly to conn, steadily to devour, and iry wardly to digest—the mere enumeration of thes e names seems as suggestive of despair, as to an intend' ing reader at the British Museum might be the firs t crossing the threshold of that noblest walhalla of literature in the world, the circular library ° reading room down in Bloomsbury. Let not the eager but momentarily discouraged student be 0 ° discouraged. If Mr. Warren, in thus uncompron3iati ingly opening up before his gaze the long a° arduous path he is required to traverse, pitilessli seems to suggest only visions of dismay—let the student still follow out his Mentor's argument co n ' fidingly, and he will soon discover that these sam e pages have a heartening influence as well. It is not only that in a wonderful little footnote at Pag e 397 he will hear how Edmund Saunders, origi' natty an errand boy in one of the Inns of Cour t s rose at length,from that humble station,ia life to be an attorney, to be a barrister, to be one of the most able and learned of practitioners, finally, to be the Lord Chief Justice of England ! Neither i 5 it merely that the golden apples of the Hesperidesa garden of the law are here hung forth in tempting array for the student's contemplation, not as a Rhada' manthian punishment before the lips of Tantalus, but as fruits of toil to be culled by the more adventuro us —golden apples here displayed by Mr. Warren in 11 , i f appendix, singly an I in clusters, from great Br" dignagian lumps of deliciousness like the £l.o,°o° of year of the Lord Chancellor, tie £B,OOO a y ear the Chief Justices, the £6,000 a year of the Iklast ej: , of the Rolls, and so forth, down to such wretched little wizzened russettings or erabs(sour grapes some' pertaps, might whisßer) like the four guinea P e r annum salary of the Durham, or even the tic ° guinea per annum salary of the Wareha m Recordetship! Incentives, though the enume ration of these numerous, and many of therri costly, prizes which are to be won at the ha r of England, may be, doubtless are, to those co n ' fident in their own powers, and seriously ambitions of winning success—the heartening influence her ° spoken of, as exercised over the enerieies of th e , earnest law :student, by Mr. Warren's bracing and invigorating treatise, is rather to our mind discern' able' in the manly tone in which the whole hooX itself is written, in the reverent spirit i° which it is conceived throughout, a s pirit so reverential of its kind that the last sentence of the work closes quite natural'y, quite unaffeet edly, with a passage from Holy Writ. Mr. Warren' in regard to this important Practical Intro duction to Law Studies and to Every Department of the Legal Profession, has at length completed his labours, and completed teem most successfully. Having, quite frankly, in our foregoing remarks taken exception to whatever app eared to us in any way seriously to require it, in a viork so peculiarly comprehensive and various, we ma. now all th°, more unhesitatingly of f er to the learned author of it, our congratulations upon the general excellence of this his latest achievement. For, it is oily fair t: Mr. Warren that we should speak of the book Vi t a plainly, as nothing less than an achievement. it comes to us fittingly enough from one vele° h ag already earned for himself among his eon:ten:lP?' raries a conspicuous position both in law and 111 literature. THE KING OF PRUSSIA ;9 DETERMINATION.' °. At the celebration of the anniversary of the fotiV dation of the Cathedral of Magdeburg, the King of Pruss it/ made use of the following language, in an,wer to the el l ; dress presented to him :—" I feel the owerwhelming weig h of the struggle which God has imposed on us, but I 0 14° know *hat I owe to my people and to the crown of Rota"' zollern, which has been transmitted to me by inhe don e° to maintain it courageously to the end. Come what JOY ? I shall inflexibly persevere in what I consider to be f e , quisite for the good and for the independence of the coun ti I shall not turn aside from the path into which I 101 : entered, and if you continue faithful to the oath you 113 :,, - swo rn, we shall be victor i ou s in the end.' A cco rding '- the Madgebury Gazette, these words made a profound 11"/' pression. Prince C harl es was the first to cry, "Long S i :: t h e King!" which was responded to by th os e present enthusiasm. be THE YELVERTON CAUSE, it is believed, will ready for the House of Lords in Febr tif.ry, the case for respondent, the Hon. Mrs. Theresa Lou, gworth or Ye lv t ef.. ton, being in an adva nce d state o f pre paration, ~1101 as appellant's having be en l o d ge d b e f ore t h e H ouse of rose. SALES OF WORKS OF ART FROM TM? , Exalßa l l or THE RO YAL AC ADEMY. —I n 1858, 199 ea mules £s,os6—in 1659, 96 i tems b roug ht Z 1,60- —in 1860,.183 productions reali s ed £7,435—in 1861, 1 9 6 sales o btaii3 £7,33B—in 1862, 114 specimens procured for their But • £5,806. OFFICIAL VANDALISM, OR CRASS SrursDlTc(pt, The Builder buttes that the Board of Works, ` applied to for permission to place a marble ta blet on 1 e; front of the house in Maiden-lane, Covent . garcloa, /I,)iih Turner was born and lived, refused to grant it• applicants were artists who had subscribed money f°,l:ely purpose. As artists had this work in hand , it is nOt -• ga to have been open to the criticism of the B oard of Woreyx on aesthetic grounds, nor is the design like l y to have be to such as would endanger the building o r interfere WO te r circulation of air in the neighbourhood. Surely this in3',ll-0 must be re-considered. The Board, wh ile sanctionin g can" Waterworks and Napier statue in Trafalgar• square, hardly style itself an authority in art. DE QUINCEY wrote an essay , o n murder 0:1: sidered as one of the Fine Arts; without a joke Fr .o ie _ . Fighting may be considered as a Commercial Spectilatlea,iiinn There are two forthcoming fights which form the iu topics interest in the sporting papers at the present, One is for £lOO and the ' 4 ChaUlPiOn B hiF ;" the other 1$ £l,OOO. for 3 3 LIABILITIES. Capital of the Bank • • • • 182,500,000 Profits to be added to Capital (Art. 8 of law June 9, 1857) Reserve-fund •• New Reserve .. _ _ Reserve-immobiliere .„ Notes to bearer in circulation in Paris and the branch-banks Do. to order (Post-bills) • • Bills payable at sight .. Ace, cur, of Treasury Creditor .. Various accounts current .. Do. branch-banks Dividends to be paid •• • • Arrears of values deposited Discount, interest, and expenses .. Re-discounts of the last half-year Surplus of petit not diaturbeu Sundries .. 2,316,503 67 .. 12,980,750 14 9,125,000 - 4,000,000 - .. 8,076,997 25 .. 4,496,53;1 95 .. 39,236 80 .. 67,251,693 11 .. 122,072,725 16 .. 297,256 37 .. 1,105,618 75 .. 3,916,581 82 .. 13,634,459 81 .. 1,564,317 16 .. 1,016,709 23 .. 11,8z8,650 43 1,279,048,622 13 D uring the last fortnight the Paris Savings Bank received 7 79,039 fr., and reimbursed 688,845 fr. The receipts of the Caisse des Retraites for the aged in the same period amounted to 35,652 fr. The village of Borzimmen, in the Duchy of Posen, was almost entirely destroyed by fire three days since. No less than :300 buildings of various kinds were burned down, and of the whole population, amounting to 1,600 persons, 1,200 are now houselees. The fire began at a house where a wedding party was assembled, and spread with such rapidity that in less than an hour the whole village was in flames, with the exception of the church and five holism