The Sun. — London, England, 1851-11-27 00:00:00

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Poil ec t a' then arranged that the case should be post- It until to arranged Pris,;l;; 4cDnl.EsToriE hoped the Court would allow the er to go out on bail again. Pertutitl3ttalt°4 PARtu.: said tho Court had no power to t i at. cnDLEsToNE said it had been done. then, foraTn PARKE—It has been done very irregularly nrth a ' t er a prisoner has surrendered to his bail the Th e no Power to renew it. ttyi t ',ourt wa engaged the whole of the morning ca3e Which is not fit to appear in print. C, E W COURT. tal;:th,er ine Adams was convicted of stealing a watch . LPerion", property of Isidor Abrahams, from proved I kkin,V a former conviction having b,teu pro . years 4411 hey the Recorder sentenced her to seven yca sPerlation. W i//' TH/RD COURT. 1 , 1 , 4 %1T 711 ? aqui/ was convicted of a charge of felo ')topf,,nur'aking and entering the warehouse of Joseph d kte.,l7ll`ula end another to whom he was a rervant,: n_ lenc ed g b ill ' h r ein moneys value 21. 2s. 4J., amlwas ,im. Pri3 otta Y t "' Common Sergeant to twelve months 4 (au with hard lab Air. and fithe : 2 841 'leY was convicted of stealing 13 spoons plat the ' property of William John tv oolwicho and sentenced - to twelve months Latent With hai;d labour. COURT CIRCULAR. Th,, v,te-Zial-Fituoel,o4carien,ce Alber?, S a ß nd °R th N e P l Family, E ...., , ,, N ,ti 0v. 26. and have not left the gardens and r. e6 fkre a ' U. Gra-rhad an interview with Earl Grey 4.),1145,9,0vern0r of ai l ay, et the Colonial-office. the Bank of England and the ' '' l lop ‘lsVernor had interview with the Chan (14114 tile Exchequer an il k , io a,, yesterday.. Sir John Herschel 4qi i .. nterview with the Right Hon. Baronet, , e cia! residence in Downing-street. „ Kucial Committee of her Majesty's Most to4, °- ; I :abl e .1),,. sat Yesterday in the Cr y 'cli e l , . I vy Council I,r,,,thtanaber. The Lords present h f t ! t :o ßati ,_ _§ .( i ) r J. Knight _B d r w u a c r e,.t An appeal Vii the ;_kj , ur_t, and Sir E Admiralty, Ryan. Judge were—Lordo f the w 4 94) (i g . tI Court of The case i tljo trile intiparte), was commenced. " Wilkinson v. IRELAND. D -Lp q halliIcIPAL ELECTIONS. '. I , (E DINEsoAv.--The elections to fill the Ip'tt'tireta" the Town Council of this city, caused by t~ EB ev er ea t of fifteen members, were held yesterdatm3y tellec,lt Wards. F our only were contested, the k, i rk abirt Led the outgoing members. The only q t ,N, 3 1 1 strUggle was between Sir Edward 14,1 1 4, ti " 4 Mr. Charles Gavin Duffy, proprietor krNet`,". The Young Irelander was defeated. 1) 0 14 4 v mln, the brewer, was again defeated in tki e Nly 8 Quay Ward, on this occasion by Mr. k French was returned for Mounijoy, to ts , a ' u tuliel H one f or Fi tzw illi am wards. Ifiut:ll 04 : 7 CeI DENT TO THE R EV . N ATHANIEL N. , 'titisAt ha s ,'FIIE REV. W. STEWAItT.—A corre ‘irel fo rwarded to us the following :—" On the 21st instant, about seven o'clock, tiA.athaniel M. Brown, of Newtownlima 10d, In riviug homewards from Coleraine, by the b ew n,Pany with the Rev. William Stewart, rt 4 1 14130 e, the gig in which they sat was (4. one of the wheels running upon a ,helf 4)i i that h a d b een w h eeled out more lkshedWaY across the road. The horse Go 4 tl e oa d uw° by th e f a lli ng ve hi c l e an d T he e u. were violently precipitated t o th e ep of e ni ght, having been exceedingly dark, ' 4 " . 41 11 a ar ch, which was a l mos t th e co l our o f th e 4' tit ot par t iall be seen. M r. Stewart, upon whom ly Y fell, was complet e ly stu n n e d, and 4 .t 0 , M eat etsible for a considerable time. He is e bruised, but is now in a fair way of " I lQtelA„',"e horse, a fine spirited animal, is also g In jured • butßrown happily escaped Mr. IV 'IV 'r two of a simple character. ( laLb" , V. THE C ASTLE.—The case of f or `)naerville" is in the Nisi Prins list to be 11; 115 el‘ th e Lord Chief Justice on the Ist of ez It j l 7 , °ow t t• There i s a l so a lib e l case i n w hi c h 0/et ) 4 fend a g, Wia t dow isplaintiff, and Mr. Lucas, of fl itAl ki f' 4 Rarr Vit k b Jehn Ireland, Esq., J.P., is ap- N' Yeti r Le riff of the town 01 Galway for the a nd Joseph M.Donnell, Esq., sub ristoph Esq., of Cloniquin, ,j 0 44 b e er French, 6 4 11 , 4 4 L rl if)t ) : 1:1 n ominated high sheriff of the county ti"°r the ensuing year, and has re-appointed ii i l tt t : l4 itif , r . e4 ett, Esq., of Ardcarne, Boyle, as his ) 4 , 9 R0 i , , e )h Edmund Smithwick, Esq., J.., -,,qi Ets tr or,e.c,eived his appointment to the office the city of Kilkenny for the ensuing I ie'tkrttrhD~Aruklt °P A. COMEDlAN.—Yesterday Mr. Sk t 4 tZetlo c ::' Inquest at the Duke of Sussex, Gibson- E at a ges a s ' Q ad, Lambeth, on view of the body of Mr. il il / 4 14 ,1"Naa -g a e t d thirti-four;comedian. Deceased's r..e last de_ k'lo`orLyesn the City of London Theatre. In 4 ,t(1, MI h e the habit of taking laudanum, to allay oti ti e'la ka suffered from some malady. On Monday Vl l , l oRed up in bed and called his mother, with complained o f difficult breathing. Mr. ‘,VelCre ,, a r",.. was called, but the deceased expired pkitlticier oil% Bu r t on , a relative, said the deceased 1\ , t 'trita d o e , care of Dr. Roberts. The coroner N,, 4 11 111 e atka t h e case, the jury returned a verdict of t ,' 4 ` 4 l t hb ott %11, 4 et, w'ZITAIIiirr.-111r. T. H Jolley, of Par ;,fttlAt ;tor, : 1 1 e.lected on Tuesday last to the office of kip ttpfirilltriet`' Inspector of the above market. From ttiZ' at th e Which Mr. Jolley has of the market, i l ti ;46 l C-tio tt ih s market committee have made a most k tr . " 4 aPPointing him to the office in question. 4 1 , t q I f i j'rP t t , ° A parcel of roasted rye has been ia, - ,',kthe Scotch ports from Riga, the pro 'i Ob t ad ip `e t am 'oe article which is not specifically pro 4,, -- ""e of duties', is stated to be intended and hy, 11 1) 4 ,5f i t , coffee for children, and appears to be a ae4i o ag o b Portation into this country.' kill 43 CO 4l ti 4t ki ti ttlee n s t, tAIIANCE OF A I.IAMILY.—A few which might have . been attended with t ls kieq Look place at Lincoln. Mr. FlowerQ t t, tat,l e tt 4ae il.treet, was seated with his family at th'e' te a c'ath . wlabn all of a sudden the earth kt,ttptFl tiott oan s ',Po k and Mr. Flowers, with his family,. his `les e ' t tud tea-things, disappeared from view. ayern e whole party were extricated from a kiit„4tt,eoehei. O ve r fortunaty unhurt. It appears t • hat wiN c kel, r kilea j . ;` la built a portion of the premises ) I 4J , 4i a sPot fc 3 : Mfr. Walker, machine-maker, and lOC% 4 existed a saw-pit. The saw-pit, th e in with earth, was merely covered over t .,; A kclaTe r, Ivho lv i 02d becoming rotten, at length gave 4 4 4, th e „ ' t`arnily of interesting " Flowers" were D'as deep• "—Lincoln Times. Ni t :ti f t"i ' es tt d kijl) AT . BLLIGHTON.—The Brighton ,kti ts 1) y ;144,, aY contains lenthened report of a ye , 4 e.`iB7: l ' 1 " 3 ( 1 1 by false p retences,p which has been kik t tt4.C,liti !A as. Hannington and Co., linendrapers at if,44kll4lita raehsPectably-dressed female, Eliza Maria 'Lm '`eSti,,..'Preherid e d in London. At the termi t,lNl)6l,"4 f t , eor o `'.'"on which lasted for several days, the ,tt rth et alit of 4 4 , ttz, stated for trial on Tuesday last.. The I, tp,e uis ttit s that had the charge against Miss k len b.,.,` 3 sed, one or more charges of forgery "I g l H. • )1, tr tai oth e r against her. We saw two bill s, tit ‘vi k 3 , 4 'or ' ) U01 , purporting to be drawn by tt t a arti a • bath d atti note upon the Earl of Wilton, and these, %tk t P' ar e eee alPanying, purporting to be written ,tt ak t ed to balleged to be forgeries. The bill for ,tl fi tt et l4 - ',,011a 00 4 ,..ve been presented by prisoner to a tclt•,.4tas be plate and money by way of change; I,;t l ' re ° by n mn 'rig doubted, it was refused. h , ltagardit'ar 5h.'44510N AT SEA.—The rumour a1),,,4,4411ey. ),,,4, 4 4 1 1ey. t4,1111(18 c osrespondent, in his letter of Mon i:Btion and loss of a collier and her crew, tt it t . l , 4he 4 aai e t tt,i,e_ooo,true. It was very dark on Sunday '‘o 4 ' 4 P4y oiCe4::,l:,,aauerocslsoicnk, a t s h a large barque, re h p e o f r e t r e e d ti t i o e O ar With e a Taele s h r c u o i ll t ie ln r g and before ht, 4 ll l ll l) at z , t h and: l ci lA r e o e ss o_nlq be stopped, the collier was ran ' tit t)%' h ra 1, 41 4 t Z-R th e -- BOSTONSTATIoN.—Yesterday ko t ,,aPp at eir de,Passengers arriving at the Euston IN4le!a ti , yarture by the third-class train, was a igl`"?'ecri,' n the last stage of consumption. She titt f rti Y a litti • t g fr o , it e child about three years of age, "t t , oei _,e, sort of cart in which she had been OliN kt kapep`'led togpTourhood of Wapping, the poor crea ta th Pool b tue bo oking -office, where she paid her .4 4 Ni Pl Y a third at at , 0 -class carriage, and then pro -I;4ds „ t Lat e w __ 0 % take her seat in one of the carriages. 0 , 54 1 kt s,omp4ans ?served by Mr. Spencer, the superin tl,tl)444. per tier assists Police at Euston-square, and ha at tc, t Po tt lat o Y uaiii,ee• On speaking to her he found t4 ls q "%a il refrl'ate to travel, and while assisting kh: B ql "I ' 1 10 f ell de ad Bhru ent ball with one of his officers 1 41 1 4 A rge of • lhe body having been conveyed thakc,'„ , l(a lte 'f b, ) . a n• Pancras parish, and the little child t ti, t atilidt4tyirlairicrter named Haines, in the company's h;Il k . itY tit Were set on toot with a view to ascer t k t.l 4 „„ _ e deceased It was subsequently found k i wife of a • ), t t _ a ratite in the merchant service, of NO at u,,Pay t he had only a few days since ana o 'ou r b o ,', expenses to Liverpool. The deceased i i k li t tt 4 4 / 7ite P ,, on her'peeersointh her, but only a few halfpence ' I tlNPate 4e43 Con • t kII IIIL I ir k rile, as an instance of manu „yeocos ntions that a woollen-mill is about to „ 4, aehi ne v ot Sutherland, and fitted up with 4 th erl a " r3' now in use, at the expense of the 4,1‘ 46 ! " . e01 , ,,,, ‘ • 4 1,, ill 441 4 t g1a fro m I Li i ,t,, r t t ici(l iti o ccasion _ ttelton confirm the particulars to ktg t ? it h ° a r i to th e 7.`-' 1, 3' the gales experienced in June, 4 6 ,ti e ti _ .. (l been ~,:onstr.uction of efficient moorings at °BtEai loies .Ileterruined to appoint an officer con s - t Pflot and harbour -master. ith regard (4 1 , : t hl pursuits the settlers were making steady 4 !it 41 4 . h AQ Qt.:veSact Il l °° t e `OLIb FARM.....The committee ergot i4o at ee , of an succeeded in obtaining a farm e 4ori tt the andfarraelcrit locality. The amount re -Betn-fall great) support support the boys till the crop . y short of 800/. It will require a 4 t. , t;. b false the sum ; but once raised, the ei lL ace, ccolnplirlhed, aril il ia ii ; .ititutios th e t, self-supporting. Tl . 2e experimenters very great. —.Ferthshzre THE SUN, LITERATURE. TRAVELS IN EUROPEAN TURKEY IIV 1850. By Edmund Spencer. 2 Vols. Colburn. Mr. Spencer, in again appearing before the public, has chosen an important and interesting subject, and a very opportune season. The great revelations which have disturbed Europe during the last few years, and the memorable and disastrous war in Hungary, have induced many who scarcely knew the names or existence of Christian provinces in the East, or that the Ottoman Sultan ruled over vast multitudes of Christians, to turn their attention to the politics and condition of eastern Europe. Mr. Spencer com mences his narrative on his arrival at Belgrade, and, after initiating the reader into the mysteries and in conveniences of Turkish customs, he describes his journey through the provinces of Bosnia, Servia, Bul garia, Macedonia, Thrace, Albania and Greece, and the lonian Isles. What the author tells us of his own adventures and mishaps is amusing and interest ing, but his chief object is the description of the habits, condition, and political feelings of European Turkey, hence the former are but little referred to, and then more by way of practical illustration of the conduct of the inhabitants or the nature of the country. The ac count of the Servian war of independence, and the abuse of power exercised by the Paellas and others, which drove the peaceful Rayah to desperation, and the gallant and ultimately successful stand made by the latter for their liberty, under the hero Tzerni- George, is powerfully told. The extraordinary success and military genius of Tzerni-George have rendered his name immortal in Servia, and the stories told of his prowess stand on a par with those of Scottish Wallace and Swiss William Tell. During the invasion of Russia by Napoleon, the Tzar sought to ingratiate himself with the Ottoman Porte, at this time intriguing with France, by putting down the rebels of Servia who were in arms under Tzerni-George against the Sultan; to which aid he dispatched into Servia a clever agent, M. Nedoba, whose intrigues in favour of the Ottoman Government com pletely lulled to sleep the natural prudence of the Ser visna, who were deludcd into the belief that by allowing the fortresses and strong places to be occupied by Turkish garrisons, their independence would be secured with the exception of paying an annual tribute to the Porte. Tzerni-George, who was at this time all-power ful, rejected the proposal with scorn; he had hitherto beaten the Mussulmans in every encounter, even without the assistance of artillery; hut now he was better able to meet invasion, having one hundred and fifty pieces at his command. He had a splendid army of well-trained patriots, every fortress and stronghold in the country was in his possesion, added to which he was deservedly popular and regarded with that superstitious veneration which insures success, since his followers firmly believed him to be invincible—an instrument in the hand of Heaven to deliver the true Church out of the hand of the infidels * * * At the critical moment when the devastating hordes of Mahometzn Arnouts and Bosnians, supported by an army of thirty thousand men, were ready to cross the frontier, the Russian envoy protested in the name of the Tzar against ,the military preparations of Tzerni , George. In vain the hero pleaded his cause; in vain he represented to the Senate and the Russian envoy the certainty of success and the crime of allowing an array of fanatic soldiers and freebooters to take military possession of 2 the coun try. It was of no avail, the Senate who yielded implicit assent to the statements of the Envoy, and reposed the fullest confidence in the friendship of the greatest monarch in the world, issued orders to the various Hos podars to disband their followers. Tzerni-George and a few devoted adherents, notwithstanding their being outlawed by the Senate, and menaced by the Envoy Nedoba with the advance of a Russian army to support the Turkish cause, still held out, until finding his army so reduced by the falling off of his followers as to be incapable of action, he was forced to seek safety in flight, and he entered Austria. Now commenced a series of the most atrocious and barbarous cruelties ever re corded in the history of any country. The insatiable vengeance of the fanatic soldiers of the Crescent was let loose on the devoted inhabitauts; whole towns and vil lages were burned to the ground, and the wretched people slaughtered without mercy. Children were bap tized in boiling water, as a mockery of the sacred rite by the infidels, and every refinement of cruelty prac tised that the imagination of a Nero could conceive. * • * s • The Turks intoxicated with success, and supported by the countenance of their new allies, Russia and Austria, continued their mad career, ruling this haughty people with a tyranny most oppressive; but, although obliged to submit to force, the Si-rvians were not conquered, the impenetrable forests and mountain plateau still re mained; and there the brave, the patriotic, the enter prising assembled to conspire against their oppressors, and prepare for another campaign, as sanguinary and effectual in its results as any undertaken by their former claief,TzFrui-GeorgeaThe iesurrection, which at first was confined to the mountain passes, soon spread among all classes of the Servian population, and as it frequently happens in similar revolutions, found a chief worthy to rival Tzerni-George. This was Alilosh, who, though born a swineherd, possessed sufficient bravery and military genius to become the hero of his nation, and sufficient tact and ability to elevate himself to the rank of a sove reign prince; and if he' had possessed one particle of humanity in his brutal nature, or exhibited ono redeem ing quality in his tyrannical disposition, might have lived and died the monarch of a grateful people. Even his love of absolute power, which led him to trample upon all the social and civil rights of a people so tenacious of their independence, might have been endured in a man who had achieved so much for the freedom of his country, were it not sullied by an act which entailed eternal disgrace upon his memory—he became the mid night assassin of his relative, friend, and companion in arms, Tzerni-George. The reader gathers far more knowledge of the man ners of the people, and the difficulties and dangers which the want of roads and bridges occasion in Turkey, from an account of a traveller who, without describing every incident of his journey, shows, by the expedients to which he is driven, the true nature of the obstacles be encounters. Mr. Spencer forcibly condemns the insane infatuation of the Turks in sur rounding their towns with a cemetery, or as they call it, the city of their ancestors, where they resort of an evening to breathe the tainted air, which is rendered still more injurious owing to the baneful superstition that exists of burying the dead only three feet beneath the surface, generally without coffins, with a hole bored over the heads of the corpses for them to breathe through. This system, hurtful though it be, has one redeeming point, for the Turks bury their dead almost immediately after death, so that many are interred when in a state of torpor, and on coming to are often enabled to extricate them selves from a premature grave. Everywhere (re marks the author) the hospitality he met with from all classes, whether,Christian or Turk, official or pea sant, was remarkable, not on account of the splendour with which he travelled, for nothing could be more unostentatious than a single horieman plainly equipped, and attended only by an uncouth guide—but from the simple fact that he was an Englishman. The re spect with which the Turks in general look upon the British power is extreme : France many consider to be tributary to us, and often troublesome to us by its revolts. Throughout the whole of the narrative the interest is kept up, which, when we consider that it contains minute particulars of the various revolutions and political changes in European Turkey during a vast period, does great credit to the author. The personal history of some of the chief' agitators and others, are highly interesting, of which the romantic story of the unfortunate HalilEffendi, Instructor-in-Chief to the Nizam at Bittoglia, is a sample : " His family name was a profound secret, never to be divulged; he, however, acknowledged, that when young, he had been a member of the brilliant corps de garde of Louis XVIII., and having talents, rank and wealth, he might reasonably have expected to become one of the leading characters of his country. Marriage, that lottery of life either for good or ill, was the means of blighting the whole of his future existence: having, in a moment of ungovernable fury, shot the seducer of his young and lovely wile—who, to render the tragedy still more revolting, was her confessor—without commu nicating his intention to a single friend, he fled France for ever, and took his passage in a vessel bound from Marseilles to Egypt. " Like too many of his countrymen, impetuous and imprudent, his mind embittered against Christianity, on account of the injury he had received at the hands of one of its unworthy ministers, on arriving at Alexandria, ho embraced Islamism, and took the name of Halil Effendi, Patronized by Soliman Pacha, the young renegade speedily rose from one military rank to another, till at length his talents and bravery won for him the friendship of Mehemet Ali , and his son Ibrahim Pacha, who advanced him to the colonelcy of one of the finest regiments in the service. Destiny, to use his own words, which seemed to play with its victim, by allowing him to enjoy fur a time the sweets of life, only to hurl him still deeper into the abyss of misery, again wrought his downfall. " His countryman, Soliman Pacha, envious of his good fortune, and fearing a rival, became his enemy, and de termined by secret machinations to effect his ruin, and for that pu r p ose secret ly contrived to circulate the most injurious reports of his character; among other things, he was accused of peculation, and only e xonerated him ' sclf from the charges by submittino. his conduct to the most rigorous investigation. Ever impet u o us, his indignati on against his calumniators knew no bounds : ccuite qui coiite, be challenged several officers, who had been particularly active in propagating the reports to his prejudice; but as duelling is prohibited in Egypt under penalty of death, his cartels remained unanswered. This contenap . for the laws of honour irritated the high-souled Frenchman still more, and while in this excited state, he met acci.dentally in the streets of Cairo one of his accusers, an officer of high rank in the household of Ibrahim Pacha. Halil upbraided his adversary in the most indignant terms, who retorted with equal asperity, words were succeeded by blows: they fought, and the unlucky Frenchman had again the misfortune to imbrue his hands in the blood of his enemy—his opponent fell dead at his feet. To save his life he had no alternative but flight, and it required a swift dromedary to enable him to escape the pursuit of the officers of justice. " Halil, however, succeeded in reaching Constanti nople, where, having been introduced to the newly appointed Vizie; of Roumelia, bcr.rrac his ^ecvetnr, and aid-tie camp. On the death of his friend, the Vizier, lie was again compelled to seek some employ ment, when, alter filling several unimport au t, b otions in the civil and military department, the Government, in acknowledgment of his services, have recently given him the post of Instructor-in-Chief to the Nizsm, at Bitto glia, with the pay of a major in the Turkish service, The unlucky Halil, having now lost the fire and energy of youth, divides his time between his official duties and in writing a history of the Turkish Empire, from its commencement down to the present day; and should ho live to publish it, I feel assured, from the industry and talent of the man, it will be found to he a work of great interest; and being a good artist, he intends to embellish it with plates, illustrative of the costume and manners of the Osmanli, and of the numerous tribes and, races subject to their rule in Europe and Asia." HAYMARKET THEATRE. The presence of a good operatic company has en abled Mr. Webster to bring out a stong and pleasant embodiment of the Beggars' Opera. The cast of last night embraced the musical talents of Mr. W. Har rison, Mr. Weiss, Miss Louisa Pyne, and Mrs. Fitz william, while Mr. Buckstone, aided by several of the most useful members of the company, filled the re maining parts with capital dramatic effect. Notwith standing the antique character of the songs in this once popular opera it is seldom resuscitated without enjoying a brief lease of success. Now and then it is met with under circumstances of peculiar interest, as when a year or two ago it was :revived by Madame Vestris at the Lyceum, end as it is now played at the Haymarket. The familiarity which the public has with the melodies which constitute the chief feature of the extravaganza, and the pleasure which their simple and unobtrusive beauty must necessarily oc casion to the unsophisticated ear, are facts of patent significance, and will not, we apprehend, easily be effaced. Mr Harrison was always a famous representa tive of the reckless debauche whose name has become a synonyme for profligacy and inconstancy. 'He wits last night in his best mood, and his loose, rol licking swagger, while tampering with the tendresses of the two girls, was in happy keeping with the genius of Gay's hero. Miss Louisa Pyne, whose ballad singing always reaches perfection, and who has here a field of unusual extent for the dernonstra- tion of the most pleasing side of her accomplishments, was an exquisite Polly, and achieved, in " Cease your funning," an encore, as loud and enthusiastic as the earnestness of delight could make it. Mrs. Fitz wil ham, as Lucy, was a coadjutor of nearly equal excel lence as a vocalist—of superior excellence as an actress ; and hence those two populer parts were filled to admiration. Mr. Buckstone is an uncom monly diverting Filch—which he plays -with a dry ness and humour that have never been approached. The audience applauded the opera throughout, and the encores, besides that already named, were several. The high-heeled shoes and furbelows of the period when the satire was written were preserved ; and the general ensemble was characteristically old-fashioned. The Two Bonnyeastles followed. In our impression of yesterday a e erroneously attributed, upon the authority of rumour, the paternity of this successful farce to Mr. Buckstone. We have since learnt that it is by Mr. J. M. Morton, the ingenious author of Box and Cox. ASTLEI"S ROYAL AIIIPHITHEATRE. As we anticipated, Mr. Batty'.3 new spectacle of Azael is achieving the full meed of popularity it so justly merits, whether regarded as a great moral drama, or vehicle for the display of unsurpassable re sources, vast research, and profuse outlay. Having again witnessed the performance of Azael, our first impressions concerning it are fully confirmed. The continued and increasing success of this magnificent ' drama does not surprise us. The piece now plays beautifully and smoothly, the humcn actors having had time and opportunity thoroughly to study their parts, written in a style far superior to the routine of ordinary spectacles, embody them with vigorous truthfulness, whilst the quadrupeds—horses, zebras, camels, and various other animals—acquit themselves with a skill and intelligence almost beyond belief. This, added to the gorgeous and appropriate cha racter of the mise en scene, dresses, decorations, pro cessions, and tableaux, conduce to render Azael per haps the most effective spectacle ever produced, as it undoubtedly is the most instructive and most unob jectionable, whether we regard the pointed moral con veyed, or the absence of the noise, confusion, and continued banging of guns, w hi c h have hitherto been considered as inseparable from pieces of this class. Azael is indeed a great hit, and it need be to reward Mr. Batty for his liberal outlay and the time which hehas devoted to it. THEATRE ROYAL, GLASGOW. Mr. Wright, a gentleman new to A Glasgow audi ence, but well-known to the London theatrical public, has succeeded Mrs. Fitzwilliam and Ikir. Buckstone at this house. The audiences have been tolerably good, yet not equal to the deserts of the actor, who, fur genuine humour, is not surpassed by any one at present on the British stage. On Monday night he appeared as Paul Pry, in which character he is the best successor of Liston we now have ; since which he has excited the risible faculties by his personation of Popjoy in Harvest Home, Marmaduke Magog in the Wreck Ashore, and Billy Lackaday, in the comedy of Sweethearts and Wives. These favourite characters, with the farces of My Precious Betsey, the Spitalsfield Weaver, and Domestic Economy, have made up a bill of fare entitled to a higher patronage from the public than has been bestowed. We trust, now that Mr. Wright is known, better patronage will be bestowed upon him when next he pays us a visit. Last night Mr. Wright took his benefit to a well filled house, and was enthusiastically applauded. We are glad to notice a great improvement in the corps dramatique of this house. , —Glasgew Sentinel. LONDON, SUSSEX HALL. Last evening a concert took place here, the oc casion serving for the Mitt of Miss E. Jacobs, who has a magnificent voice. The manner in which she sang gives evidence that, ultimately, she will be a valuable addition to the few remaining native artists that we possess. Mr. G. Lindley's song of " The Mountain .Daisy," was finely rendered, as also Donizetti's beautiful song, " Linda Chamouni," which was re-demanded. The other artists consisted of Mr. E. L. Hime (who in the course of the evening sang several of his own compositions), Messrs. G. Tedder, G. A. Cooper ; Misses Woolf, Cooper, Lizzy Stewart, &c. &c. The instrumental performers were Miss Woolf and Mr. G. Case, who played some fine selections on the concer tina. The hall was crowded to excess, so much so that in several instances the entrance-money had to be returned. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, NOV. 2G.—A court-martial took place this morning on board the Victory, in Ports mouth Harbour, Rear-Admiral H. Prescott, presi dent, to try the assistant-surgeon of the Helena, recently arrived from the West Indies, for drunken ness. The Court rose about a quarter before twelve, having found the prisoner, Mr. Jobn G. Cambell, guilty. He was dismissed the service. CHATHAM, Nov. 25.—The Tartar hulk was put out of dock yesterday. The Dispatch, 12-gun brig, was launched this day, and taken into dock to be coppered, and fitted for ordinary. Mr. Jeffery, extra clerk in the storekeeper's office, is appointed third-class clerk on the establishment, vice Morgan, discharged on account of ill health. A loan library is being established in this dockyard, to which any of the workmen may become members by the payment of one penny per week. The Ad miralty have very generously made a present of about 300 volumes for the benefit of the subscribers. THE REMOVAL OF MR. RAMSHAY. LivEaron, Nov. N.—The following letter was received this morning, by Mr. Hull, the attorney on behalf of the inquiry at Preston into Mr. Ramsbay's conduct as Judge of the County Court: — "Duchy of Lancaster, Waterloo-bridge, Nov. 25. " Sir,—l am directed to inform you that the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster has thought fit to remove Mr. Ramshay from the office of Judge of the County Court of Lancashire, holden at Liverpool. "I am, Sir, your obedient servant, " F. DAwEs DANTEES. "Mr. Frederick S. Hull, solicitor, Liverpool." The new judge in this court, we are informed by a correspondent, is Mr. Joseph Pollock, of Manchester, at present judge of the Salford Hundred Court of Record. Liverpool is fortunate in this selection of a successor to Mr. Ramshay, Mr. Pollock, in addition to high legal attai nmen ts, being remarkable for com bining with dignity and firmness a courteous de meanour. THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT WEEDON.—Tbe sufferers by this distressing accident are progressing towards recovery. The poor labourer who was in a state of con siderable danger on Tuesday has somewhat rallied, and ac counts from Weedon up to five o'clock last evening state that very little apprehension exists as to the termination of all the cases remaining in that locality. The hairbreadth escape of some of the passengers in the train is really marvellous. Among the most remarkable was that of the Marchioness of Conyngham, who was returning to town from a visit to her noble father, Lord Anglesey, at Beau desert. The Marchioness occupied a coups of one of the first-class carriages, and was accompanied by Mr. Blake, a friend of Lord Anglesey, and by her Ladyship's femme de chambre. When the collision took place, the Marchioness and her maid were thrown forward with terrific force. The head of the Marchioness came in contact with the frame work of the carriage, and the concussion was so severe that for some moments her Ladyship lost all sensibility. Her face is cut and bruised terribly, and the maid has also suffered very severely. Mr. Blake escaped with a few contusions. Captain Iluish is recovering slowly, but has not left his home since the accident. Captain Bruyeres, whose escape from death was almost miraculous, his legs having been ac tually for a moment among the wheels, is quite recovered from the shock, and, indeed, has not left his duties since the occurrence. Tile accounts from Rio de Janeiro of the 17th ult. quote the rate of exchange upon London 23;i. Freights to London and Liyerpool were at nominal quotations. THE HIGH PRICE OF BEER. (From the Chronicle.) The brewers have at length found their champions. Bung, Brothers, and Co., have retained their stalwart men-at-arms, who have vowed to keep the lists against all corners. It is a combat a l' outrance, and of :course we have no chance. Every resource, both of the arena and the rostrum, is desperately arrayed against us. The sciences which respectively address the rea son and the passions are banded together. The closed fist of logic, the argumentative defence of " A Con stant Subscriber and Leader," on the one side, stretches out on the plain ; and on the other " Sowry Swipes" buffets us with the open palm of his invin cible rhetoric. We give in. The brewers have the field to themselves, and it is only from the depths of a prostrate despair that we venture upon a feeble apo logy for our ill-starred attack on the Twelve. Our case—we recall it with humiliation—was, that the brewers made an exorbitant profit; and we arraigned them as extortioners of the first mag nitude. " Swipes "—euphonious name l —in choice language, somewhat reeking of the pot-house perhaps, and slightly redolent of its smokeables— takes the matter up fairly ; he flies at the very throat of the accuser, and shows to demonstration that, far from the brewers making exaggerated profits, they actually lose upon every barrel of beer they brew. This is the way to meet a charge—au assault of this sort combines completeness with audacity. It is the very poetry of reprisal—the brewers' apology is con ceived and executed in the highest spirit of art. Those whom the world has stigmatised as its tyrants prove themselves—the case has occurred in history— mankind's benefactors. London is living under the renewed dynasty of the Euergetoe—Barclay the Benevolent reigns ! But what a melancholy reflec tion it is for beer-bibbers, that every quart they swal low is to them eleemosynary; Truman and Hanbury put all our patriots and most illustrious philanthro pists to the blush. I'Vhat were the occasional sacri fices of a sinecuriat Teller of the Exchequer--what the casual beneficence of a Howard—what the tem porary self-denial of those who have given a single life, or a single fortune, to the public weal—when contrasted with the perpetual charities of the Twelve great alms-givers ? Statutes and canonization are the very least reward that grateful London should be stow en its liberal, yet hitherto secret, dispensers of good deeds. In Continental churches, if we remember rightly, statutes of another company of twelve are raised on each pier and arch ; and the Royal Ex change ought certainly to erect images of Barclay, Aleux, and their compeers, in every recess of the metropolitan hail of commerce. "An actual loss to the brewer, of is. per barrel" is the brewers' impreg nabla defence against their calumniators,. We know not what most to admire in this astound. ing evidence of public spirit. The secrecy of the thing—the amiable reluctance on the part of this holy Guild, these Brethren of Mercy, to let their good works be known—the quiet, calm, unobtrusive nature of the sacrifice—its magnitude—its continuance—all are evidences of a chaiity of the purest and largest quality. And when one comes to reckon its ex tent—to spread this aggregate of liberality over past years—to multiply it into interest and compound in terest—imagination swoons at the imnsensity of the gift which, unconsciously to its recipients, has so long been showered upon us. If brewers, with barley at twenty-five shillings, actually lose one shilling on every barrel they produce, what must have been their incalculable sacrifices in those dreary years when the raw material was nearly double its present price ? The mind faints at the total of our obligations to the brewers' public spirit—the old nails and horse-shoe sum shrinks into insignificance in comparison with the aggregate of Messrs. Barclay and Perkins' hidden alms-deeds. Generation after generation of brewers, from Thrale to Whitbread, have lived, and have died embalmed in the odours of their unrevealed virtues— the memorial of their benevolence perishing with them, for no " Sowry Swipes " lived to rescue their boundless munificence from oblivion. Their charity has been its own exceeding great reward ; though it is some consolation to re flect that estates, titles, rent-rolls, capital--all have accumulated on those self-denying firms who were always, for the public good and in mercy to the poor, trading in such a way that they lost upon every ounce of malt that they manufactured. Providence has signally blessed these good men by enabling them to create capital by constantly employing it at a ruinous loss. The case is clear—accept but" S wipes' " statistics, and the brewers are the greatest heroes, as well as ;the most remarkable commercial paradox, which the world has yet seen. To be sure there are other calculations extant. We extract from a contemporary document an estimate which tells a different story, and which we leave to the curious to collate with that furnished by our witty and forcible correspondent, Mr. S. Swipes : " The practical monopoly obtained by the London brewers bas long been a serious and crying evil. A few months ago, we did hear that the price et beer was to be reduced to the extent of ss. per barrel; but it is evident that the design is postponed, if not abandoned alto gether. Yet the profits of the brewers are altogether outrageous, as will be perceived from the following esti mate, which is our own. The price of melt, from the lowest brown, ranges from 445. to 565. per quarter. We may therefore assume 50s. as the average puce of malt used in brewing London porter. Seven pounds of hops, at 9d. per lb., will cost ss. 3d.; the charge for brewing, as has been allowed by the brewers' brokers, is I ls. per quarter, though, from the improvements in the s.rrange meuts and manipulation, the real cost cannot reach that --- sum. Allow 6d, per barr e l for delivery, — and we Dave the total cost—from which must be deducted 2s. for grains, and we have the net cost of a quarter of malt converted into porter and delivered at the publican's. Now, London porter varies in strength from 191bs. to 22Ibs. of saccharine matter per barrel, say 201bs. per barrel; and a quarter of malt, of medium quality, will produce from 821bs. to 881bs. of saccharine matter. We have known it to reach 94Ibs. The account then stands thus : Malt... Hops—. Expenses ... Deduct grains Per quarter... ~. £2 10 G 0 5 a 0 11 0 3 6 a 0 2 0 3 4 1 Which will produce 41 barrels, at 0 15 1.3 Add cartage 0 0 6. Cost per barrel ... 0 15 7-41- Selling price *Diicount 5 per cent. 1 13 0 , 0 1 7i Cost ... 1 11 4i -0 15 7.1 per barrel acomp any Profit, act that ••• £0 15 9" And it is a f is already established, which upon its own estimate—not the above--gua rantees a profit on its capital of 70 per cent., which would fairly justify our tes ima e of the profits which brewers make at 100 per cent. To speak seriously, however, on a serious matter—we are fully content to allow the question to stand in its present position. The only detence which the associated brewers offer is one which proves that they are now manufacturing at a dead loss—a loss of ls. per barrel on every one of the 2i million of barrels which they annually pro duce—a loss which consequently must have been about doubled when barley was twice its present price. Whether this defence does not go a little too far—just a trifle:more than what the exigency of the case, to say nothing of common sense, required—we leave the public to settle. But, besides this champion, we have to meet an op ponent of a different class. Fresh, apparently, from the most Scottish school of the most Scottish of sciences, " A Constant Subscriber, &c.," admits our charge, and the force of the public complaint—allows that the prices of brewers are exorbitant—but urges that so it ought to be. Meeting us with our own favourite weapons from the arsenal of polical economy—and familiar as ourselves with the truths of Free Trade—he boldly propounds the doc trine that tradesmen are justified in charging what ever they can get. The blame, we are assured, is with the consumer, who submits to be pillaged —not with the producer, who, on principle, claims the indefea sible right to rob. And theoretically we admit this. Our wonder is, that, with s• patient a public, the brewers do not double their present charges. Our argument only incidentally touches their profits, for our aim has been to stimulate competition. It is just a case in which we wish to dispel the pleasure of being cheated—the pleasure of cheating is another affair, and one of private morals, not of social eco nomy. We want the public only to realize the loss they suffer; for the remedy, we are perfectly aware, is de jure in our own hands—though what it is de facto is another matter. At any rate, this correspon dent is rather at issue with his contem porary, " Sowry Swipes." The one admits the extravagant gains of the brewer—the other urges that they manufacture at a dead loss. Both apologies cannot be true. It will not be argumentatively endured that, of two classes of our opponents, the one should admit the fact and justify it upon principle, while the other surrenders the principle by denying the fact. The brewers must take their choice, and inform us whether they consent to the doctrine that they are commercially justified in charging what they please, or whether they wish it to be understood that they are brewing at a loss—or, if at a profit, at what profit ? And let it be distinctly understood that this is not a question between the public and the pub licans, i. e., the retailers of beer, Far from it. We believe that, as a class, they are especially op pressed by the existence, and the consequent prac tical monopoly, of brewers' houses, as well as by the vices of the licensing system, and that they are equally interested with the consumer in the establishment of a free trade in beer. The high price charged to the retailers is our EVEN" Who could have thought that under the inoffen sive title of " An Act to amend the Acts relating to the vend and delivery of coals in London and Westminster, and in certain parts of the adjacent counties, and to allow a drawback on coals conveyed beyond certain limits," there could lurk the capture of four important towns and the conquest of a territory probably quite as large as the city of London itself ? Yet it is even so ; and what in creases the marvel is, that any one might read the Act through from cover to cover without discovering that it has any effect in enlarging that unfortunate district of country which it has pleased Parliament, for inscrutable reasons, to tax at the rate of one shil ling and threepence a ton on its coals, for the benefit of the wealthiest metropolis in the world. The sting is not in the enacting clauses of the 14th and 15th Victoria, chap. 146, for they are peculiarly modest and inoffensive. Indeed, the only mention of taxation is in the second clause, which repeals the second sec tion of the Sth and 9th Vic., cap. 101, except that part which imposes till 1862 duties on coal, culm, and cin ders contained in any ship or vessel arriving at her moor ings within any part of the port of London, or brought near London by railways or by the Thames, or to any place within the distance of twenty miles from the General Post-office, by any railway constructed or hereafter to be constructed, or by inland navigation, or by any other mode of conveyance. So far from imposing a new tax, this Act simply seems to leave in force the clause under which the old tax was le vied, and the rest of the measure is taken up with the regulation of duties, customs, and drawbacks in cidental to the establishment of that most astonishing octroi which the city has organized at the distance of twenty miles from the General Post-office. It is only when we come to the fiftieth, or interpretation clause, which probably would be read by few, that we find the words which are destined so materially to add to the civic dominions. Hitherto the distance of twenty miles from the General Post-office has been measured along the road, railway, or canal, but now it is de clared that the expression "London district" shall mean so much of the several counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, Essex, Herts, Bucks, and Berks as shall be situate within the distance of twenty miles in a direct line from the General Post-office. These four fatal words, in a direct line, have " taken in" not merely Parliament, but four towns, one of which, St. Albans, is not easily to be outdone in the arts of furtive dexterity. While Parliament thought it was merely assisting the Corporation in the not very easy task of explaining its own meaning, it was really imposing a galling and unjust tax on many thousands of hsr Majesty's subjects who had hitherto been exempt from it, and subjecting the inhabitants of a large district of country to the same degrading tribute which has already been levied on the districts nearer the metropolis. The Corporation exults in its shame, and assures the victims of its most unprin cipled Parliamentary tactics that the augmentation of the London district was no afterthought, but a deli berate and intentional trap, into which Parliament has fallen. Nothing can be more agreeable to the Corporation than such a state of things, in which they combine the useful with the sweet, the pleasure of outwitting Par liament with the solid profit of overreaching their country neighbours. Such amusements, however, are at the present time a little dangerous to the health of this apoplectic body politic. People have allowed the Corpo ration of London, under the pretence of the conservancy of the river, and as remuneration for trouble which they never took to usurp a duty of the Government and levy a tax on seaborne coal. They have been per mitted, on the truest Protectionist principles, to levy the same tax on coal brought by canal, because, as expressed in the preamble of the 231 George 111., chap. 80, sec. 19, it was apprehended that the convey ing of coal from the collieries of Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Leicestershire, and Derby s hi re , m i g h t be detrimental to the coasting trade, by diminishing the consumption of coals brought by coasting vessels. They have been permitted by a corrupt use of Par liamentary influence in days when the same excuse would not be tolerated to impose a light tax on coals brought by every railway in the metropolis, and to erect a chain of custom-houses in the heart of this free-trading country to enforce their exactions. Not content with this, they seek to enlarge the number of their tributaries by smuggling words into a local and personal Act, which extend its provisions under pre tence of explaining them. Possibly Parliament may think that it has been long enough the instrument of such practices, and may deem it necessary not merely to undo this last trick, but to inquire into the right of one part of her Majesty's subjects to tax another for purposes in which the taxpayers have no interest. CABS AT SIXPENCE A MILE.-MT. William Thompson, of 16, Southampton-row, Russell-square, has written to the editor of the 2'imes :—Sir,— Seeing your lead ing article of this day, in reference to my advertisement on the 3d instant, I beg to say that yesterday, the 25th, I brought out my cabs at sixpence per mile, which I trust will be satisfactory to the public." In the early part of October, her Majesty's ship Hogue, lying at anchor in the Tagus, a cry was raised of a " man overboard." Mr. Crowdy, a midshipman of the ship, was sitting in the gun-room, and on hearing it immediately jumped out of one of the ports to save him. It being some time before a boat could be lowered to pick up those strug gling in the water, both Mr. Crowdy and the seaman were nearly exhausted, when Lieutenant Cave, and Mr. Robinson, midshipman, also jumped overboard, and were fortunate enough to rescue them from a watery grave. NO VEMB subject of complaint. When the duty of 103. a barrel was remitted, porter was reduced id. a quart. Since that time, the price has been stereotyped, and beer is sold at 2s. Bd. per gallon, which might be, and probably is, brewed at little more than is. We are, in fact, paying war prices for a necessary of life. Tile agricultural interest suffers by the restricted con sumption of barley ; and the poor suffer by the exor bitant price of a commodity on which, as we have shown, they spend one-eighth of their earnings. That a company has been established to sell beer at a reasonable profit is at least a hopeful evidence that the public ere becoming alive to the existence and extent of this monstrous social evil. On sonic future occasion we may illustrate that stage of the argument which is concerned with the difficulty of coping with what practically—we do not say theoretically—is a huge monopoly, viz., the existence of brewers' houses. THE COAL TAX. (From the Times.) History has no stronger revelation, and philo sophy no more startling paradox, than the fact teat periods of internal weakness and disorder have often been marked by the most brilliant triumphs end most extensive conquests abroad. While torn in 'fleece by the dissensions of the triumvirs, Rome found means to conquer Gaul and to menace Britain. The Pope was never more formidable to foreign sovereigns than when he could not walk the streets of Rome without being insulted, and was scarcely safe within his forti fied palace from the conspiracies of his turbulent no. hility, and Republican France overran Europe, while no man in the capita] was sure of his life or property for a single day. Instructed, probably, and moved by a minute acquaintance with these examples, ancient, mediaeval, and modern, the Corporation of London has selected the present moment for the increase of its territorial dominion, and the imposition of its yoke on necks hitherto unaccustomed to bear it. To the eye of a superficial observer no time could appear more improper than the present for such ambitious designs. It is not treason to say that this august body is gradually fall ing into something very nearly approaching to con tempt. Dissensions, hitherto unheard of, become more and more frequent among the civic dignities. The Lord Mayor snubs the Aldermen, the Aldermen growl at the Lord Mayor, and something like a con sciousness is evinced that the recent appearances of the Corporation as hosts of her Majesty and as guests of the Prefect of the Seine have by no means tended to the exaltation of civic dignity in the eyes of the pro fane and uninitiated. Under these circumstances, it required no ordinary courage to select the present time for snatching an increase of jurisdiction, and the future historian of the Corporation will record this hardy and successful enterprise with the same admiration with which Livy tells how Rome, with Hannibal at her gates, sent forth her legions to the conquest of Spain. It was no trifling exploit to have " taken in," as our ancient writers would say, at a single stroke St. Albans, Hertford, Watford, and Hatfield, together with a goodly strip of country which, if the city of London be considered as the planet Saturn, would make a very respectable ring ; but ii; is a double triumph to have done this at a time when it was supposed that the Corporation had enough to do to hold its own, and to have accomplished it by means so secret that the first we heard of it was its complete success. Smithfield has been torn from the reluctant grasp of its civic patrons and admirers, but the same session of Parliament which witnessed this severe loss saw also the adroit reprisal which by the insertion of four words in a seemingly harmless Act of Parliament has placed within the pomcerium of the city of London a large, fertile, and distant district of whose subjugation the most ambitious alderman had never before dreamt. SUSSEX MAYORS, 1851-2.—The following gentle men have been elected chief magistrates of the bor oug h s and cinque ports in Sussex, for the ensuing civic y ear , v i z. : Arundel—Richard Holmes, Esq. Chichester —Mr. Alder man Gruggen. Hastings—Mr. Alderma n lli c k es. Pozen soy— J. W. Breton, Esq. Rye—Mr. E. S. Banks. Seaford— Mr. Henry Simmons.—Sussex Papers. EXTRAMURAL INTERMENTS.—At a meeting of the vestry of St. Pancras, yesterday (Mr. Churchwarden Baker in the chair), it was announced that the proposed measure for extramural interments had been abandoned by the Go vernment. Mr. Bretting,hana said that he was glad the Government had abandoned the idea of becoming general undertakers. This was a mos t opportune occasion tor the vestry to take the matter into their own hands, for, looking at the crowded state of some of our churcnyards, it was most urgent that something should be speedily done. As he considered this question one of vast importance to the ex tensive and populous parish of St. Pancras, he would at once move that the vestry should memorialise the Government for power to take g roun d f or the purpose of extramural int er. meat. The resolution Yeas tuutilimowly Agee" to TH URSDAY tt 0 7, lB5 l KOSSUTH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIV. of the constitutional monarchy of flung•ary, would have been not less in accordance with the wishes and the interests of the people of Lombardy than the an• nexation of their country to the dominions of the Ling of Sardinia. beg to send you the copy of a letter I have addressed to the Times, and shall feel obliged if you vr•i'l give it a place in The Sun.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, - DUDLEY COUTTS STUART. Literary Association of the Friends of Poland, Sussex-chambers, Duke-street, St. James's, Nor. 26, 1851. What then becomes of the ch arge, urged with such an air of triumph, against M. Kossuth, that he pro posed a vote of 40,000 men to cut the throats of the Italian patriots? And what then becomes of the charge which has been brought forward much more frequently, and which has commanded, probably, much more general belief, that he exert e d hi msel4 induced by motives of personal ambition, whil st Minister of the King of Hungary, to effectuate a seperation between Hungary and Austria, and to wrest the Crown of Hungary from the House of Hapsburg ? A careful examination of his conduct during that brief administration shows that he was more scrupulous than even so sound a statesman as Count Latislas Yeleki, to preserve unimpaired the provisions of the treaty which regulated the relations between Austria and Hungary ; that though strongly urged by Perczel and the democratic party to come at once to an open rupture with Vienna, and though exasperated by the underhand correspon dence kept up between the Austrian Cabinet and Jellachicb, he determined to retain Hungary in a po sition strictly defensive—in short, that his policy, under circumstances as embarrassing as can well be imagined, not only exhibited loyalty to his Sove reign, coupled with a due regard for the interests of a foreign people—respecting whose destiny he was called upon in some measure to decide, but gave proof of firmness, moderation, end prudence, such as would have added reputation to a Minister grown grey in the service cf a constitutional Sovereign. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, DUDLEY COUTTS STUART. Literary Association of the Friends of Poland, Sussex Chamber s , D u k e - street, S t. J ames ' s, N ov. 25. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir—Having seen in your paper of the 13th inst. a letter from Mr. Anstey, M.P., in which I am referred to by name, and in which the conduct of two bodies to which I belong is called in question, I claim from your justice the insertion of my answer. Mr. Anstey has retired both from the committee for managing the Polish and Hungarian Ball, and from the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland. The grounds which he assigns for his retirement are the impolicy of converting this annual festival of a great national cause into a demonstration of any one political partisan, and, above all, of arousing against that of Poland and Hungary the ill-will of all those to whom, on various grounds, the name of M. Kossuth was obnoxious ; the injustice to other more illustrious exiles from Kuitayah in singling him out for universal worship, and ignoring altogether the existence of the rest ; and, finally, the vote of the Hungarian Diet, in 1848, for sending 40,000 soldiers into Italy to help the Austrians to reconquer Milan-- a vote opposed strongly at the time by Count Teleki and others of the Liberal party in the Diet, and only carried through by the strong personal influence and eloquence of M. Kossuth himself, who moved it. With regard to the first objection, I have to say that it was not the object of the committee to convert the ball.into a demonstration in favour ofnny individual: the object was to melee it as conducive as possible to the end proposed—that of relieving the distress of the Polish and Hungarian exiles. With that object in view, it has always been the practice to invite any celebrated person happening to be in London to attc nd such entertainments ; and just as Kossuth was invited to Guildhall other distinguished persons have been invited to entertainments given there, and at other times, for similar purposes. It was thought that in co-operating with the com mittee in their benevolent endeavours he would be doing an act congenial to his feelings, honourable to his character, and which could be offensive to none. The ball, therefore, not being intended in any way as a mode of doing him honour, Mr. Anstey's second objection as to the injustice to other more illustrious exiles from Kuitayah of singling him out for univer sal worship, and ignorin g all the rest, has no applica tion and must fall to the ground ; and on that point I have only to say, that if the committee had known the names of any refugees from Kuitayah more il lustrious than Kossuth they would have been very happy to ask of those persons the same favour which they asked of him. As to the third objection, which is that Kossuth in 1848 moved a vote in the Diet of 40,000 men to assist the Emperor of Austria in the war of Italy, I must remark that even allowing Mr. Anstey's statement to be correct, I cannot admit it to form any reasonable ground for his withdrawing his name from the ball committee or from the Polish Association. By the invitation to the ball neither the committee nor the association committed themselves to approval of every act of Kossuth's political career. Oa the act in question there are various opinions, some blaming and others cordially approving it; but clearly it was not an act so decidedly immoral or injurious to the inte rests of those on whose behalf the ball was given as to make it absurd or improper that the author of it should be asked to a ball for their benefit. Having thus disposed of Mr. Anstey's objections, permit me to state in a few words the grounds on which I have arrived at the conclusion that M. Kos suth's conduct with reference to the vote in question was not merely justifiable, but highly commendable. Consider for a moment the posture of affairs in Hun gary at the time when M. Kossuth delivered his cele brated speech of the 20th July, 1848, printed by you in extenso in the Times of the 19th instant. At that period A ustria had made all the concessions which had been so long and earnestly sought by Kossuth and his partisans. The great measures for the commutation of the corvees, and for the establishment of a Hun garian Ministry responsible only to the Diet, had not merely received the Royal assent, and been confirmed by the Emperor King in person at Presburgh, but in the very Speech from the Throne on the 4th of July, 1848, to which the vote in question was an answer— s speech delivered by the Archduke Stephen in the name of the King, those persons had been branded as calumniators who dared to hint that the consent of his Majesty to these laws had not been voluntarily given, or that their revocation was meditated by his Austrian advisers. Was it not then incumbent on the men whom; the King of Hungary had appointed his Mi nisters,in that country to take care that whilst the King appeared, on the one hand, thus ready to meet the wishes of the nation, the nation should, on the other, perform with loyalty and exactitude the duties which it owed to the King ? Now the Pragmatic sanction, which became a law of Hungary in 1723, and by which the ancient consti tution and liberties of that country were:eolemnly and specifically confirmed, has always been interpreted as imposing on the Hungarian nation the duty of de fending from foreign aggression the hereditary states of the house of Austria. This was the view taken in 1741 by the Hungarian Diet, when the Queen of Hungary, Maria Theresa, by virtue of the Pr agma ti c sanction, claimed their aid against the combined forces of France, Prussia, Saxony, and Bavaria, who had entered into an alliance for the purpose of depriving her of her hereditary dominions. Could M. Kossuth, at a moment when the sovereign had not only confirmed all the existing rights of the Hungarian nation, but had restored others which his predecessors had taken away, have refused with any propriety to acknowledge the obligations generally admitted to have been imposed upon Hungary by the Pragmatic sanction? Would it have been either justifiable or prudent in him to do so ? It is true that doubts were rife as to the good faith of the Government at Vienna; but no overt act of aggression against Hungary had at that period been committed. Although Jellachich was then in arms for the purpose of extorting from the Hungarian Government a repeal of the union which had subsisted for many centuries between Croatia and Hungary, still all participation in his designs was strenuously denied by the Court. It was not till the 4th of September, 1848, that he was reinstated in his dignities by a decree of the Emperor a few days before he crossed the Drave and marched upon Pesth. Surely wisdom as well as loyalty required Kossuth to afford no pretext to the Austrian Mi nistry for declaring that Hungary had violated the compact which bound her to the House of Hapsburg. Even though such a step might have been morally justified by the intrigues carried on by the Court of Vienna with Jellachich and the Serbians, it would at that period have been difficult to furnish evidence of those secret transactions • and what effect would a n apparent l y unprovoked depar ture on the part of Hungary from the terms of the Pragmatic sanction have produced on the more mo derate politicians in Hungary ? Wh at i mpression on the rest of Europe ? Admit even that such a depar ture was not merely justifiable, but that the justifi cation could have been made manifest, still I ask, whether it would not have been most culpable in Kossuth, by refusing the demand for assistance, to have risked a rupture with Austria ? It is true that on the 11th of July the Diet had decreed unanimously a levy of 200,000 men. But on the 20th, notwith standing the unparalleled activity of Kossuth's admi nistration, this army must still have existed upon paper only. Besides the Croats and the Serbs were in arms on the southern frontier, whilst on the northern the fidelity of the Slovacks was still doubt ful. Will Mr. Anstey venture to assert that it would have been an act of " patriotism" on the part of Kos suth, surrounded as Hungary then was by enemies, to have peremptorily refused the demand of Austria, and thus have precipitated hostilities with another and still more powerful opponent ? it only remain If I have succeeded in showing that the interest of aftTernh Hungary required Kossuth to adopt some such line b. by mistake, and the o e onwe Americane ea rri letters to E di f n o h r u rg Glasgow of policy as that which he pursued, to be considered whether the Italian patriots had just merchants were consequently deprived of their correspond.. s once for a day by the blunder. AGED PILGRIM'S grounds to complain of it. And here I would ob serve that it is not correct to speak of the inhabitants Bath,P 'D bequests h SociETY. h of executors F REQUEST OF 1,0001. TO O T o , r:o various clergymen Were li the late Miss Wray, of institutedexeee 60 ye ars , 1807, of Lombardy as being in arms for the expelledindependence the übl v ed o i s n e these of their country in July, 1848, inhabitants of Milan had gallantly y n March 22 I" prised the secretary of this society that the deceased lady has also left it 1,000/. Thisass 9 from im f t o r i hn asa the relief di st ri of te a d relief Milan Radetzky and the Austrian garri war i ß e u L t 0 r e s u h b a s r Christianso both sexes, all ages, and every ydeeact.. CU led that city. The example of Mil foperiod lowed th b e y brunt othe of r She cities. son who 00- administerslt .on. Milan was speedily the manage. Union at tea e d q uen t l y to t a i t n h e a d t r , t bas a bead:oosnya.r o el r at Tl v i s e e se a d r w t t a stoo i d l a h wa: t e no 3O prwn s ea e , O w i r t department a g o e s s r e eo s n o mt n ei s n,sac pensionerso o n t h g w er h s o : by Charles Albert. The union of ssguineas tit. smaller sums. e E g v u e i r a y e e Piedmont had, indeed, been publicly reclaimed, Lombardy us with n e ie c n ei t p o t t o the society is filled gratuitously. About imed, but month is distributed in donations. The money will be vested i a strong party in Lombardy openly disapproved of im m a e r d h i e a t i e l r y on its receipt, so that the principal interest constitute a permanent fund at that measure. On the 7th of July Lord Ponsoziby ,may tned r is e p m o w s2orthe soci in the funds " had authority to state," says the Maid stone Journal, wrote to Lord Palmerston that the Austrians RernesEnTaTioer or WEST KENT...—" We have"thatin were persuaded King Charles Albert toe representation a candidate great difficulties to apprehend from The , o , t w h ar er A h e i \ e l s n r . s i n e s q tte u on e dt n di coaerntofsbe Douglasve re illnesshas f 0 h in nd ait necessarymembcr o to f his re li f n am qu i i l a y k , causes besides the Austrian army." election for th was already stigmatised as ~ a king's wa C r. h l at the next general rntation of West Kent. veryA Albert FfteVfwas EFFECTS OP P thes y t h fr e o f m A t u h g e u fury st t o o f ar b t the Nov. _ .._ FREE TRADE.—WELLS, o N f 0 1 R oo roLR, Reeks saved with on difficult 25 A few da mob in Milan ; and, therefore, the t r h e ie so re m as uc n h revilede- of arable land, situate of Holkhane. and composed late the property lieve Mi. Joseph Haycock, deceased, was sold for only 7,0001., lieve that if the project of f the purchaser being the Right Hon. the Earl of Leicester, if, after the est of the letter), had been carried into . II . by Mr. Anstey (insteado K re e u ne ft ss a e u i c n t i ; n ' g as it did a dea a d . blishment of tranquillity . and peace in Hungary—if, INFLUX or IRISH POOR.—Yesterday, at a meeting physical independence had been board of guardians of the Holborn union, J. B. Hum after its moral and Hum secured, a Hungarian army had entered Italy for phries, Esq., in the chair, it was stated that there . had been secure , a large chiefl increase of poor for the past week, apsing y the purpose promotingof a friendly compromise from the influx of Irish poor. Mr. Cottle wished to know which should maintain, on the one hand, the h onour how far persons returning to the union after they had been of the Throne, and, on the other, equally accord with passed home could be punished. Mr. James said that it the constitutional freedom and reasonable wishes of was difficult to bring the law into operation against the clan referred to by Mr. Cottle. The board, after some discussion the Italian people—there is ground, I say ,t for bl . e e ley upon the matter, voted a sum of 501. towards the expense of ins that such an arrangement, not merely obtained sending back to their own country a number of Irish through the mediation, but guaranteed by the power„ paupers. HEALTHOF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (From the Registrar-General's Report.) A further and imp or t ant i ncrease in the mortality s an iedicstion that th e pu bli c health has suffered to a considerable extent from the coldness of the wea ther. The deaths registered in London, which in the laat week of October were 861, and in the first two weeks of N ovem b er i ncreased to 989 and 1,022, rose in Dthuerrn'egekthwreheich weekset ended last OctoberlastSatu hrdtay, weekly ee 1,132. During temperature at Greenwich exceeded 52 deg.; in the last week of the month it fell to 46 deg. • in the first two weeks of November to 40 deg. ; and last week it exhibited a further decline to 35 deg. The present return is heavy as compared with cor responding weeks of the t en y ears 1 841-50, the average of which did not exce e d 993. It the average be corrected for increase of population, it becom es 1,091, on which last week's mortality shows an excess of 41. With the depression of temperature towards the close of the year comes increased fatality of diseases of the respiratory organs. This class, which i s ex clusive of phthisis, numbered in the two previous weeks 148 and 168, but last week the number rose to is o whilstos6, os. the Thesecorrected2COdeaths c average ea t of are correspondin g weeks distributed bronchitis, of f whicsh h b yBp2noepuemu occurred o th r u i s r.fl :- 2m l m o3 a c ti a o u n se h d by lungs)f the among children), 27 by asthma, 4 by laryngitis, 5 by pleurisy, an d 12 b y o th er di seas es of tne respiratory organs. Yhthisis, or consumption, has not discovered the same tendency t o i ncrease, t h e num b ers ascribed to this disease in the last three weeks having been 125, 123, and 135. The last number, however, is some what greater than the corrected average. Next to the above class in its contingent of morta lity, and nearly equal t o i t , i s that of epidemics, among which typhus, scarlatina, and small-pox are the most fatal ; 62 persons, of whom 23 were children, 33 were 15 years of age and under 60, and G were 60 years and upwards, were carried off by typhus, continued fever, &c. In the Workhouse, Bishopsgate, the son of a labourer, aged 4 years, died on the 19th November of " petechial fever (15 days), broncho pneumonia (4 days)." This child was admitted with its mother a month ago, from 3, Harrow-alley, Aldgate, the father also lying ill with fever in the men's house. Mr. Spencer observes that the place they came from is situated amongst a number of slaughter-houses, close and confined, the houses being in a dirty state, and mostly crowded by Irish of the poorer class. STATE OF THE WEATHER DURING THE PAST WEEK. SUNDAY.—The sky was generally covered with stratus and haze till afternoon, and it was clear afterwards. Elec tricity—Positive, and tension strong at each examination. MONDAY.—The sky was free from cloud until noon, from this time till bh. r.ar. it was for the most part covered, and clear during the remainder of the day; cumuloetratus and cirrostratus. The day was very cold. Electricity—Positive, and tension moderate during the afternoon. TUESDAY.—The sky was covered with cloud between coin and 2h. P.M., and generally clear at other times; cirrocumuli, cirrostrati, and haze. Light snow fell at Oh. i.ai. Ihe day was very cold. Electricity—Positive, and tension weak during the afternoon and evening. EDNESDAY.—The sky, with slight exceptions. was covered with cloud throughout the day ; cirrocumuli and cirrostrati. The day was painfully cold. Electricity—Posi tive, and tension strong throughout the day. THURSDAY.—The sky was generally clear throughout the day. Electricity—Positive, and tension strong throughout the day. FRIDAY.—The sky was overcast till 2h. r.i%t., and the amount of cloud during the remainder of the day was variable; cumulostratus and cirrostratus. Misty rain fell during the morning. Electricity—Nothing was shown throughout the day. SATURDAY.—Three-fourths of the sky were covered till noon, and the amount of cloud was variable during the re mainder of the day; cirrocumuli and cirrostrati. Slight showers of rain were frequent. Electricity—Nothing was shown throughout the day. The mean reading of a thermometer placed on the main mast, and read each day at 9h. A.M. was 34.5° ; and the mean reading at 9h. P.M. was 35.7°; the mean readings at the Royal Observatory for the same times were 33.2 0 and 34.2`i respectively. The reading of the barometer decreased from 29 88 in. at the beginning of the week to 29/0 in. by 9h. rat. on the 17th; increased to 2 9 / 8 in. by 9h. P.m. on the 18th; de creased to 29.61 in. by 9h. r.m. on the 19th ; increased to 29.96 in. by 9h. r.m. on the 20th; decreased to 29*72 in. by 9h. r.n. on the 21st; and increased to 30'04 in. by the end of the week. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOV. 22, 1551. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*240 Diseases of Uncertain Seat 37 Tubercular Diseases ... •.. 181 Diseases of the Brain, Ner v e s , an d Senses,.. •.. 123 Diseases of the Heart and 8100d -vessels ... 37 Diseases of tho Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ... •• ..• Diseases of the Stomach, Li ver, and other Organs 256 of Digestion... ... Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. •• • ••• Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus ; &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c, Malformations... ..• Premature Birth ••• ••• Atrophy Old Age ••• ••• Sudden ... ••• ••• ••• Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance Causes not specified ... ••• 51 ... 32 ... 53 • 35 ▪ 10 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... ... Population Deaths in come- Enumerated, spending week 1851. of 1850. 1,132 Deaths in the Week. 157 187 210 250 328 West Districts... 376,332 North Districts.. 490,441 Central Districts 392,986 East Districts ... 485,336 South Districts .. 616,545 163 176 148 239 290 Totals... 2,361,640 Males •• • • • Females 1 ,132 555 577 Males Females ... 1,016 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. ___ ••• ••• ••• 723 OGG •1111 Goo 653 Total ... ... .., . *ln thi s num b er are included 45 . by Searlatiak 62 by Typhus Fever, and 21 by Diarrhoea.