The Sun. — London, England, 1850-12-10 00:00:00

- mile and a half broad. The tomb is a sad affair for such a man; it has an inscription upon it denoting that it was erected by John Strutters, marble mason! It is placed under a glaring red building, something between a coach-house and a cage; the Senate had once procured the consent of the family to have it removed to the ca pitol, when a bricklayer, a labourer, and a cart arrived to take it off one morning, at which their indignation na turally rose. There are few kings remarkable in the house, except the key of the Bastille sent by General Lafyyette to General Washington, and a sword sent to him by Frederick the Great, with this address, " From the oldest general of the age to the best." I made a rapid journey, by steamboat and railroad, through the states of Virginia and North Ca rolina; the country wore a universal impress of exhaustion, desertion, slavery. I spent a fortnight at Charleston, the capital of her more energetic sister, South Carolina. This town and state may be looked upon as the head-quarters of the slave-holding interest. lam bound to say that I spent my time there very pleasantly; there was much gaiety and unbounded hospitality. I have made no disguise of what my opi nions upon slavery were, are, and ever must be; but it would be uncandid to deny that the planter in the sou thern states has much more in his manner and mode of intercourse that resembles the English country gentle man than any other class of his countrymen; he is more easy, companionable, fond of his country life, and out of door pursuits. While I was willing not to shut my eyes to any of the more favourable external symptoms or mi tigations of slavery, other indications could not come across my path without producing deep repugnance. On the very first night c f my arrival I heard the deep sound of a curfew bell; on inquiry I was told that after it had sounded every night about nine o'cleck, no coloured per son, slave or free, mark that, must be seen in the streets. One morning, accordingly, I saw a great crowd of coloured persons in the sireet, and I found they were waiting to see a large number cf their colour, who had been taken up the night before on their return from a ball, escorted in their ball dresses from the gaol to the court-house. Indeed it was almost principally with relation to the free blacks that the anomalous and indefensible working of the system appeared there to de velop itself. I was told that the slaves themselves looked down upon the free blacks, and called them rubbish. I mast not omit to state that I saw one slave auction in the open street, arising from the insolvency of the pre vious owner: a crowd stood round the platform, on which sat the auctioneer; and beside him were placed in succession the lots of from one to five negroes. The families seemed to be all put up together, but I imagine they artist often be separated; they comprised infants and all ages. As far as I could judge, they exhiSited great indifference to their changing destiny. I attended is. meeting of the convention of the Episcopal Church of Sete h Carolina. Whether it may be for encouragement or warring to those who wish far the introduction or re vi.elef such synods at home, I raentiou the point then reeler discussion. It was—How tar it was proper to show deference for the opinion of the bishop. In point of n: atnesit. cleanliness, and order, the slave-holding states appeased to stand in about the same relation to the free as Issiatal does to England. Everything appears skaealy, ill-astanged. income it te. Windows do not Slav, dears do not fastsn. There is a superahuall aace ot hands to do everything, and little is thoroughly dyne. [llls Lordship having left Charleston arrives at the Havannch after a voyage of 12 days.] How en chanting to the senses at least were the tares weeks I spent in Cuba! How my memory turns to its pictu resque scenes and balmy ski, s. During ray whale stay, the thesnaometar scarcely varied from 76 deg. to 78 deg. in the shade. lam disposed to wonder that these re gions are net more resorted to by our countrymen fur enjeyrnent of lila and escape from death. Nailing was ever so unlike either Europe or America as the Ila veonah; sit least I hail never been in Spain, the mother country, which I suppose it most resembles. The courts of the gleaming white houses have a Moorish look, the irsteriors aro much covered with arabesques, and on the outside towards the street they have immense open spaces for windows, in which they generally tied it superfluous to put any glass; the carriages are called sa a aa a a , and look as it they had been intended to carry Dee Quixote. Then how delicious it used to be, late in the evening, under a moonlight we can scarcely imagine. to sit in the square called the Place of Arms, where, in a space flanked by some gleaming palm trees and four small fountains, a gay crowd listened to excellent music from a Spanish military band. It is certainly the handsomest town I saw in the new world, and gives e great idea of the luxury and splendour of Spain in her pantry days. The billiard-rooms and ice-saloons streamed with light; the great theatre is as large and brilliant as almost any in Europe. Again, how full of interest were some visits I paid in the interior both to Spanish and American households. I cannot condense my impres sions of the scenery batter than by repeating some short stanzas which, with such influences around me, I could . nut help perpetrating. I hope that, while they bear witness to the iatoxicating effects of the landscape and the climate, they du not wholly leave out of view the at tendant moral:— Ye tropic forests cf unfailing green, Where the palm tapers, and the orange glows, Where the light bamboo weaves her feathery screen, And her tall shade the matchless seyba throws: Ye cloudless ethers of unchanging blue, Save as its rich varieties give way To the clear sapphire of your midnight hue, The burnished azure of your perfect day. Ye tell me not my native skies are bleak, That, flashed with liquid wealth, no cane-fields wave; For Virtue pines, and Manhood dares not speak, And Nature's glories brighten round the Slave. A meog the country house,. I visited was the sugar estate of one of the chief creole nobles of the island--(I do not knew whether my hearers will he aware that the proper meenirg of a creole is a persen of European descent born in America). I was treated there with the most retired and courteous hospitality; and what a view it was from the terrace of goblets corn-fields, and fringing woods, and azure sea! The treatment of the domestic slaves eppeared kind and affectionate, and all the negro children on the estate repeated their catechism to the priest, and were then brought in to dance and romp in the drawing-room. Generally there does not appear to be the same amount of repulsion between the white and coloured races as in the United States, and there is the pleasant spectacle of their being mixed together in the churches. Still the crying conclusive fact remains, that the average negro population died off in ten years, and had to be recruited by continuous importations, which are so many breaches of the solemn treaties between Spain s and us. On one coffee estate which I visited— and generally the coffee cultivation is far lighter than that of the sugar cane—a still darker shade was thrown upon the system, as I was told from a most authentic source that there was great difficulty in preventing mothers from killing their offspring. General Valdez, who was captain-general of the island during my visit, is thought to have exerted himself ho nestly in putting down the slave trade. I believe it has been as much encouraged as ever under some of his successors. [Lord Carlisle, after al luding to the state of political parties in Cuba, describes his departure from the island and arrival at New Orleans.] The good I have to say of New Orleans must be chiefly confined to the St. Charles Hotel, which is the most splendid of its kind that I saw even in the United States. When it is at its full complement 560 dine there every day-350 of whom sleep in the house; there are 160 servants, 7 French cooks; all the waiters whites, Irish, English, French, German, American. The very intelligent proprietor of the hotel told me he thought the Irish made the best; he has them all together every day at noon, when they go through a regular drill, and rehearse the service of a dinner. I went from New Orleans to Louisville, on board the Henry Clay steamer. 1,500 miles, which lasted six days. The first 1,100 1 miles were on the Mississippi. (After a voyage of 400 miles up the Ohio his Lordship describes a visit that he paid to Mr. Clay, at his residence in Kentucky.) The qualities which rivet the Senate and captivate his al herents seemed to me both heightened and softened by his frank, courteous, simple intercourse. He lives with his family in a modest house, among fields of deep red soil and the most luxuriant grass, growing under very thriving and varied timber—the oak, sycamore, locust tree, cedar, and that beautiful ornament of American woods, the sugar maple. He likes showing some English cattle. His countrymen seem to be in the habit of calling upon him without any kind of previous introduction. Slavery, generally mild in the pastoral state of Kentucky, was certainly seen here in its least repulsive guise; Mr. Clay's own negro servant, Charles, was much devoted to him ; he took him with him on a tour i n t o C ana d a , and when some Abolitionists there wanted him to leave his master, " Not if you were to give me both your provinces," was the reply. My next halt was at the White Sulphur Springs, in the western portion of Virginia. The season had not yet commenced, early in May, so I was in sole possession of the place. One of my southern friends had kindly placed a delightful little cottage at my disposal, and I enjoyed in the highest degree the unwonted repose in the solitee of virgin forests, and the recesses of the green Alleghenies. Hero were my brief farewell lines to the small temple-like cupola over the bright sulphur -well from which I used to drink many times in the day : " Hail dome, whose lanpresuming circle guards Virginia's flowing fountain; still may health Hover about thy crystal urn, and bring To cheeks unused their bloom! may beauty still Dwell on thy billowy swell of wooded hills, And deep ravines of verdure; may the axe, Improvement's necessary pioneer, Mid forest solitudes, still gently pierce, Not bare their leafy bowers! This votive lay, Like wreath of old, on thy white columns hums Albeit of scentless flowers from foreign soil, b' Scorn not, and bid the pilgrim pass in peac." I again turned my face to - the - west, a and passed Cincin nati, which, together with all that of Is e aw u o n f . the State of Ohio seemed to me the where, if obliged to make the choice, I should like I best to fix my abode. It has a great share of all the and appliances of the old settled states of the easti,sawtli°thn the richer soil, the softer climate, the fresher spring of life, which distinguish the west. It had besides to me the great attraction of being the first free state which I reached on my return from the region of slavery, and the contrast in the appearance of prosperity and progress is just what a friend of freedom would always wish it to be. I embarked at Chicago on the great lakes; but here I must desist from pursuing my devious wanderings on those large inland seas, and on the opposite shore of Canada. Many thousands of miles him I steamed away over Lakes Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario; the Rideau Canal, the St. Lawrence and Ot tawa rivers. Some of these I traversed twice, and they supplied some of the most interesting and picturesque features of my long jonrneyings. I should have scru pled in any case to touch upon the politics of Canada, anotiadeed my pauses at any fixed spot were too short to trattlffy sere for the attempt,*ven if it h a d b een de sirable. It is a magnificent region, especially its western_ portion—happy in climate, soil, and scenery. I Willy however, only attempted to dash off two slight sketches from my Canadiaarecollectiona. Here is the firs), "::Istood in a :terraced garden on the summit of high promontory, running with a steep angle into the basin made by the River St. Lawrence, of which it is no exaggeration to say that the water is as clear, bright, and above all, green as any emerald; here, upon I be lieve the most imperial site in the world, stand the cita del and city of Quebec; the shipping was lying in great quantity close under the rocky steep, and was dotted for a considerable way along the shining river; in front was the island of Orleans, well-shaped and full-peopled; ridge upon ridge beyond, ending with Cape Tourment, descended on the river; the shore en either side gleamed with white villages, and the town below seemed to climb or almost leap up the straight precipice, broken with high cement roofs and glittering tinned spires. The flag of England waved upon the highest bastion that crowned the rock, the band of the Queen's Guards was playing in the garden, the clearest blue of western skies was above my head, and rising above the whole glowing scene was the commemorative pillar to that General Wolfe, who on this spot transferred to usEnglishmen, by his own victory and death, and with the loss of 45 men, the mastery of a continent. [Lord Carlisle here sketched another scene, which he witnessed in the centre of Lake Huron, on one of its countless islands.] Entering the United States again, I made a rapid journey by Lakes Champ lain and George, by Ticonderoga and Saratoga, historic names; spent four very delightful days in most attrac tive society in a New England village, reviewed the beauteous impressions of the Hudson, and taking leave of friends not soon to be forgotten, on the quay of New York, left the hospitable shores. You will have per ceived that in these desultory notes I have not attempted to pronounce any formal judgment upon the American people, or the great experiment they are conducting in the face of de world. The extreme diversity of habits, manners, opinions, feelings, race, and origin, in the se veral parts of the wide extent of country I traversed, would render the difficulty, great in any case, of such an undertaking, still more subtle and complicated. The striking contrasts in such a shifting and variegated as pect of society make me feel that any such general and dashing summary could only be attempted after the fashion of a passage which I have always much admired in es nibon, where, wishing to give a fair view of the poetical character of Malian, he sums up separately his merits and defects, and leaves his reader to strike the just balance. In some such mode it might be stated that North America, viewed at first with respect to her natural surface exhibits a series of scenery, various, rich, and, in some of its features, unparalleled ; though she cannot, on the whole, equal Europe in her mountain elevations, how infinitely does she surpass her in her rivers, estuaries, and lakes. This variegated surface of earth and water is seen undi r a sky warm, soft, and balmy in summer, clear, blue, and brilliant in all its latitudes, with a trans parency of atmosphere which Italy does not reach, with varieties of forest growth and foliage unknown to Europe, and with a splendour of hues in autumn before which painting must despair. With respect to the moral aspect, I naturally feel the difficulty of any suc cinct or comprehensive summary infinitely heightened. The feature which is the most ()billow, and probably the most enviable, is the nearly entire absence, certainly of the appearance, and in a great degree of the reality of poverty; in no part of the world, I imagine, is there so much general ease and comfort among the great bulk of the people, and a gushing abundance struck me as the prominent characteristic of the land. It is not easy to describe how far this consideration goes to brighten the face of nature, and give room for its undisturbed enjoy ment. Within a mere span of time, as compared with the general growth and prcgress of nations, the industry at once steady and persevering, of the in habitants, Lae cleared enormous tracts of fo rest, reared among their untrodden glades spa ei ons and stately cities, opened new highways through the swamp and the desert, covered their un equalled rivers with fleets of steam-boats and craft of every form, given an extension to canals beyond all previous experience, and filled land and water with lasting miracles of successful enterprise. The traveller, wafted with marvellous ease by steamboats and railways over prodigious spaces, carnet but indulge in what may ap pear a mere sup., rficial satisfaction at the accommodation he meets with in the hotels of e principal cities, which ere regulated on a scale and with a splendour and even cleanliness which he will find scarcely rivalled in the capitals of Europe. However absorbed in the pursuits of business, agriculture, and trade the citizens of these young Republics may be, and though it would seem to be their obvious vocation in life to cultivate almost bound less wastes, and connect almost interminable distances, circles are nevertheless to be found among them in which in point of refined and agreeable intercourse, of literary taste and general accomplishment, it would be difficult for the great capitals of the elder world to surpass; the bench and bar, as well as other professions, can boast well of the solid and brilliant qualities by which they are adorned; and while much occurs in Congress that must be deemed rough and unteemly, the chords of high and generous feeling are frequently struck within its walla to accents of noble eloquence : in the universal fluency of their public speaking they undoubtedly surpass our selves. In rural life I doubt whether the world can produce more examples of quiet simplicity and prospe rous content than would be found, I might say most prominently, in the embowered villages of New Eng 18rid, or of the sunny valleys of Pennsylvania. lam sure that I am not wanting in respect for the operative classes of the district, but I cannot conceal from myself that the appearance of the female factory population of Lowell presents some points of favourable contrast. Among the more opulent portion of society, an idle man without regular profession or fixed pursuit is the excep tion which excites observation and surprise. The pu rity of the female character stands deservedly high, and society hes been deemed by some to be rendered less agreeal,le by the rigid devotion of the young married women to their households and nurseries. It is some thiefr to have travelled nearly over the whole extent of the Union without having nuountered a single specimen either of servility or incivility of manner—by the last I intend to denote intentional rudeness. Elections may seem the universal business, topic, and passion of life, but they are, at least with but few exceptions, carried on without any approach to tumult, rudeness, or disorder ; those which I happened to see were the most sedate, un impassioned processes I can imagine. In the free states, at least, the people at large bear an active, and, I believe on the whole, a useful part in all the concerns of internal government and practical daily life; men of all classes, and especially of the more wealthy and instructed, take a zealous share in almost every pursuit of usefulness and philanthropy; they visit the hospitals and asylums, they attend the daily instructions of the schools, and give lectures at lyceums and institutes. I am glad to think that I may be treading in their footsteps on this oeca sion. I have already mentioned with just praise the universal diffusion and excellent quality of popular edu cation, as established especially in the states of New England, the powerful empire state of New York, and I may add the prosperous and aspiring state of Ohio. Without venturing to weigh the preponderating recom mendations or deficiencies of the voluntary system, l may fairly ask what other communities are so amply sup plied with the facilities of public worship for all their members; the towns, old and young, bristle with churches; they are almost always well filled; the Sabbath, in the eastern and northern states at least, is scrupulously observed, and with the most unbounded freedom of conscience, and a nearly complete absence of polemical strife and bitter ness, there is apparently a close unity of feeling and practice in rendering homage to God. Though it would appear difficult, and most certainly be un grassious, to paint the reverse side of such a country and such a people, a severe observer would not be long at fault. With respect to their scenery itself, while ho could not deny that within its vast expanses it contained at times both sublimity and beauty, he might establish against a charge of monotony, to which the immense con tinuances of the same surfaces, whether of hill, valley, wood, lake, or river—the straght unbroken skirt of forest, the entire absence of single trees, the square parallelograms of the cleared spaces, the uniform line of zig-nag fences, the staring squareness of the new wooden towns, all powerfully contribute. In regard to climate, without dwelling on such partial influences as the malaria, which desolates the stunted pine -barrens of North Carolina, and banishes every white native of South Carolina from their rich-plains during the entire sugnmep, the hot damps winch festoon the trees on the stet4theru!nomt with a funeral drapery of grey moss, the y which decimates the quays of 2 • - earQ4' fever New Orleans, and the feverish 'agues which line the banks of the Mississippi, it would ,he impossible to deny the violent alternations of temperature which have a more general prevalence, and it is certain that much fewer robust forms and ruddy complexions are to be seen than in our own more even latitudes. Passing from the physical to the moral atmosphere, amidst all the vaunted equality of the American freemen, there seemed to be a more implicit deference to custom, a more passive sub mission to what is assumed to be the public opinion of the day or hour, than would be paralleled in many aristocratic or even despotic communities. This quiet acquiescence in the prevailing tone, this complete abne gation of individual sentiment, is naturally most percep tible in the domain of politics, but I thought that it also in no inconsiderable degree pervaded the social circle, biassed the decisions of the judicial bench, and even infected the solemn teachings of the pulpit. To this source may probably in some measure be traced the re markable similarity in the manners, deportment, conver sation, and tone of feeling, which has so generally struck travellers from abroad in American society. Who that has seen can ever forget the slow and melancholy silence of the couples who walk arm-in• arm to the tables of the great hotels, or of the unsocial groups who gather round the greasy meal of the steam-boats, lap up the five minutes' meals, come like shadows, so depart? One of their able public men made an observation to me, which struck me as pungent, and perhaps true, that it was probably the country in which there was less misery and less happiness than in any other of the world. There are other points of manners on which I am not inclined to dilate, but to which it would at least require time to be reconciled. I may just intimate that their native plant, tobacco, lies at the root of much that we might think objectionable. However necessary and laudable the general devotion to habits of industry, and the prac tical business of life may be, and though there are families and circles in which no grace, no charm, no ac complishment are wanting, yet it cannot be denied, that among the nation at large, the empire of dollars, cents, and material interests, holds a very preponderating sway, and that art and all its train of humanities exer cise at present but an enfeebled and restricted influence. If we ascend from social to political life, and from man ners to institutions, we should find that the endless cycles of electioneering preparations and contests, although they may be carried on for the most part without the riotous turbulence or, overt bribery by which they aro sometimes but too notoriously disgraced among mirselves, still leave no intermission for repose in the public mind; enter into all ththeerierlaptinobnisicomf existence; subordinate ost malignant pander subordinate to themselves every oth er question of in ternal and foreign policy; la not say their best, but the av e rage of them, t m o worst prejudices, the meanest tastes , the resentments of the people; at each change of adroinig. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVEN tration incite the new rulers to carry the spirit of pro scription into every department of the public service, from tho Minister at a great foreign court to the post master of some half-barbarous outpost—thus tending to render those whose functions ought to withdraw them the most completely from party influences the most unscru pulous partisans; and would make large masses welcome war and even aequiesce in ruin, if it appeared that they could thus counteract the antagonist tactics, humiliate the rival leader, or remotely influence the election of the next President. It is already painfully felt that as far as the universal choice of the people was relied on to secure for the highest office of the state the most commanding ability or the most signal merit, it may be pronounced to have failed. There may be less habitual and actual noise in Congress than in our own Parlia ment, but the time of the House of Representatives, not without cost to the constituent body which pays for their services, is continually taken np, when not engrossed by a speech of some days duration, with wrangles upon points of order and angry recrimina tions ; the language used in debate has occasionally sounded the lowest depths of coarse end virulent acri mony, as the floor of the Legislative-hall has actually been the scene of violent personal rencounter. The manners of the barely civilized West, where it has been known that counsel challenge judges on the bench, and members of the Legislature fire off rifles at the Speaker as he sits in the chair, would appear to be gra dually invading the very inner shrine of the constitu tion. Having done justice to the strictness and purity of morals which distinguish many of the more settled por tions of the continent, it cannot be concealed that the reckless notions and habits of the vagrant pioneers of the West, evinced as these are by the practices of gam bling, drinking, and licentiousness, by an habitual dis regard of the Sabbath, and by more constant swearing than I ever heard anywhere else, fearfully disfigure that great valley of the Mississippi, destined inevitably, at no distant day, to be the preponderating section of the entire Union. It is at this day impossible to go into any society, especially of the older and more thoughtful men, some of whom may themselves have borne an eminent part in the earlier struggles and service of the commonwealth, without hearing the degeneracy of modern times, and the downward ten dency of all things, despondingly insisted upon. At the period of my visit, besides the numerous instances of individual bankruptcy and insolvency, not, alas ! peculiar to the new world, the doctrines of repudia tion, officially promulgated by sovereign states, had given an unpleasing confirmation to what is perhaps the prevailing tendency among retired politicians. I have reserved for the last topic of animadversion the crowning evil—the capital danger—the moral plague-spot— slavery. 1 have not disclaimed the original responsi bility of my own country in introducing and riveting it upon her dependencies; I do not disguise the portentous difficulties in the way of adequate remedy to the great and growing disease; but what I cannot shut my eyes on is, that while it lasts, it must still continue, in addi tion to the actual amount of suffering and wrong which it entails on the enslaved, to operate with terrible re action on the dominant class; to blunt the moral sense, to sap domestic virtue, to degrade independent industry, to check the onward march of enterprise, to sow the seeds of suspicion, alarm, and vengeance in both internal and external intercourse, to distract the national coun cils, to threaten the permanence of the Union, and to leave a brand, a bye-word, and a jest upon the name of freedom.—(Loud applause.) Having thus endea voured without consciousness of anything misstated or exaggerated, though of much that is wanting and incomplete on either side, to sum up the good and the bad, I leave my hearers to draw their own conclusions from the whole. There are large ma terials both for approval and attack—ample grounds both for hope and fear. Causes are occasionally at work which almost appear to portend a disruption of the Fe deral Union; at the same time a strong sentiment of pride about it. arising partly from an honest patriotism, partly from a feeling of complacency in its very size and extent, may tend indefinitely to postpone any such pregnant results; but whatever may be the solution of that question, whatever the issue of the future destinies assigned to the great American Republic, it is impos aible to have contemplated her extent, her re.ources, the race that has mainly peopled her, the institutions she has derived or originated, the liberty which has been their:life-blood, the industry which has been their off spring, and the free Gospel which has been published on her wide plains and wafted by her thousand streams, without nourishing the belief and the hope that it is reserved for her to do much, in the coming generations, for the good of man and the glory of God.—(The Noble Lord resumed his seat amidst loud and long-con tinued applause.) When the cheering had in some degree subsided, Mr. GOODMAN, Mayor of Leeds, came forward, and moved the following resolution : " That the warmest thanks of this meeting be given to the Earl of Carlisle, not only for his two remarkable and highly instructive lectures, but especially for the empha tic intimation he has thus spontaneously and spiritedly given, that there is no social rank, nor official position, nor public eminence, however distinguished, that may not with honour to itself recognise amongst its duties the promotion of these admirable institutions for completing the education, and raising the moral and intellectual character of the people." Mr. BECKETT, M.P., seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously, amidst enthusiastic applause. The Noble Earl briefly acknowledged the compliment, and the meeting then separated. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, THE GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS. THIS EVENING. The LAST WEEK BUT ONE of the present season. -....,- Mr. Howard Glover's Grand Selection from " HERO and LEAN. DER," for the second time, this evening. Grand Selection from a MS. Opera, entitled " Hero and Leander," preceded by an Original Overture, composed expressly for these Con certs, by Mr. Howard Glover. The principal parts will be sustained by Mdlle. Angri, Miss Poole, Mrs. Alexander Newton, Mr. Frank Bodda, and Mr. Sims Reeves, with a Atli English Chorus. Overture to William Tell —Rossini. Grand Selectioh from Halevy's opera, La Tempesta—L. Negri. Labitiky's Quadrille of " All Nations." The Solos in " God Save the Queen," in the Great Quadrille of All Nations, will be sung by Madlle. Angri. The Military Bands, the Corps of Side Drums, and the English Choristers. Rossini's Stabat Mater will be produced To-morrow Evening. Musical Director, Composer, and Conductor—M. Balt.. Conductor of La Musique de Danse—Herr Labitzky. Promenade (admitting to the Half-Circles, Gallery} 1 6 and Pit Stalls) • . •• .. •• •• •• _ _ _ The Doors open at Half-past Seven, and the Concerts will com mence at Eight, and terminate about Eleven. Boxes and Stalls to be had at the Box-office, where Programmes of the performance nay be obtained. Mr. Thomas Masters of the Polytechnic Institution, the Colesenm, and Royal Botanic and Zoological Gardens, will supply the Refresh ments and Wines, &c., &c. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS EVENING, Will be performed EVERT ONE HAS HIS FAULT. After which A RADICAL CURE. To conclude with THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER. Krout, Mr, H. Bedford ; Amelia Rosenthal, Miss A. Vining, Luise, Miss P, Horton. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new and original Drama, entitled JESSIE GRAY. Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Boyce, 0. Smith, P. Bed ford, Madame Celeste, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam. After which a new Farce called THE SCHOOL FOR TIGERS ; or, The Shilling Hop. Captain Kitefiyer, Mr. Boyce ; Major Stiff, Mr. Worrell; Mr. Panels, Mr. Wright; Alexander Panels, Miss Chaplin. To be followed by a new and original Farce, in the Vulgar Tongue, to be called JACK IN TUE GREEN; or, Hints on Eti quette. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Kea' and Mr. Keeley. THIS EVENING, Will be performed an entirely new Play called THE TEMPLAR, Characters by Messrs. Ryder, Fisher, Belton, Addison, Vining, Cath• cart, Everett, C. Kean ; and Mrs. C. Kean. After which BETSY BAKER; or, "Too Attentive by Half." Characters by Messrs. J. Vining, Keeley, Mrs. Keeley, and Miss Murray. To conclude with TO PARENTS and GUARDIANS. Private Boxes, &c., to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr. Massingham ; of whom also places may be taken at tho Box-offlce, Oxford-street, from Eleven till Four o'clock. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestals. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed SIMPSON AND CO. To be followed by A DAY OF RECKONING. After which THE RINGDOVES. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE HUNCHBACK. After which SPEED THE PLOUGH. ASTLBY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highneu Prince Albert. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Last week of the gorgeous Spectacle. Extraordinary series of attractive novelties. Second week of the Revival of TURPIN'S RIDE to YORK. THIS EVENING, _ _ The Grand new Spectacle of THE ENCHANTED PALFREY; or, The Warrior of the Crescent. Together with Batty's Splendid Scenes of the Circle, introducing the Magnificent Stud and Company of unequalled Artistes. The whole concluding with the Equestrian Drama (for the flat time these aye years) of TURPIN'S RIDE to YORK. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson. CROSSING CITY THOROUGHFARES. A correspon dent suggests that a lighted subway with shops (which would soon pay expenses), should be formed under the street cross ing from Fleet-street to Ludgate-street, and another from Bridge-street to Farringdon-street, as the thoroughfare there is really frightful and dangerous. A previous correspondent suggested the formation of light foot-bridges above the streets for such thoroughfares. Both of these plans have before been discussed in our columns. Enormous as is the traffic in omnibuses and cabs, waggons and bullocks, along Fleet-street, at certain hours, it is even more so along King William-street and London-bridge. There, too, the street is considerably wider, without even a halting-place in the middle, where it begins to be at the worst, near the Monu ment: there any tedious attempt to cross at particular hours is, indeed, most dangerous and fearful. The obviation of risk to the foot passengers in crossing such thoroughfares, in whatever way effected, would be a most useful work, and is every day becoming more urgently necessary. Could not something be done before the hubbub of next year takes ' place? Perhaps no improvement whatever will be more es sential than this. We hope that the projected alteration of London-bridge itself, for behoof of foot passengers, to which we have already called attention, is not being lost sight of. SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION IN A COIV.—An In verness paper says that last week one of the small tenants at Embo, county of Sutherland, having a cow swollen with over eating of turnips, Mr. Colin Munro, manager, probed the animal, and as he performed the operation the farmer's wife stood over him with a lighted candle. The heated air or gas from the cow took fire at the candle, and blazed up, to the no small astonishment of the parties. It was with difficulty extinguished, without doing material'injury. LEGAL APPOINTMENT.—The office of Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, Dublin, vacated by the resig nation of the Hon. Mr. Plunket (son of Lord Plunket), has, it is said, been conferred on Mr. Sausse, Q.C., and Crowii prosecutor on the Leinster Circuit. The emoluments are 1,0004 a year. Mr. Sausse is a Roman Catholic. - , MR. DISRAELI'S CHARLES I. Just ready, complete in 2 vols. Bvo., 28s. bound, THE LIFE ANI) REIGN OF CHARLES THE FIRST, KING OF ENGLAND. By J. DISRAELI. A New and Revised Edition, Edited, with a Preface, By B. DISRAELI, M.P. Heairy Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Orders received by all Booksellers. CAPTAIN CRAWFORD'S REMINISCENCES. Just real ty, in 2 vols. post Bvo., with Portraits of Admirals Sir Ed wa:.rd Owen and Sir B Hallowell Carew, price 21s. bouud, REMINISCENCES of a NAVAL OFFICER, WITH SKETCHES AND ANECDOTES OF CELEBRATED COMMANDERS. By CAPTAIN A. CRAWFOR.D, Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Orders received by all Booksellers. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., post Bvo., I L S W • 0 0 D. A NOVEL. " The author, we are convinced. is young, otherwise we could hardly see displayed such fresh and enthusiastic sympathy in be half of his heroes and heroines. He is a igniter of genius, inspired by a high standard of morality and religion, and by a laudable love of the 1 wrest sort of fame. We gather this from the glowing lan guage which he expresses his feelings, sentiments, and opinions on the subjects just mentioned. There are several chapters, in which Links of the story are dropped, containing most eloquent esittys matters that are the prima mobilia of - the actions which cha racterise nature's nobility. The writer evidently belongs, though he has marked per se peculiarities, to the school. of the Disraelis, Man nerses, end Smythes."—Observer. Silwoed' is no ordinary work ; it contains passages of exceed ing beauty, and is written in pure and forcible language, with great good tatite and power. It is one of the most interesting and en gaging novels which the present season has produced. Of the cha racter c•f Amelia Ross we have already spok en, and the extract we have given above is the surest voucher of the truth of what we have paid. 'Cho other ladies who play conspicuous parts in the tale are Florence Howard, an intellectual beauty; Jessie Gcrdon, a wild and Impulsive genius, passionately fond of music and poetry; and Julia Maitland, the noblest and best of them all."--Morning Post. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Elegant Present. Will be ready shortly, price 7s. 6d. GOLD: a Legendary Rhyme. By ALFRED CROWQUILIJI Illustrated with Twelve Outline En graving large oblong 4t0., handsomely bound in cloth, gilt edges. London : J. and D. A. Darling, 126, Bish opsg,ate-street. Post Bvo., 7s. 6d., QIPWRECKS of the ROYAL NAVY, bo -1 ween 1793 and 1849. Compiled principally from Official Do cuments in the Admiralty. By WILLIAM 0. S. GILLY. With a Preface by WILLIAM STEPHEN GILLY, D.D ~ Vicar of Norham, and Canon of Durham. London : John W. Parker, West St rand 4,7! OYER'S GASTRONOMIC REGENERATOR, The Eleventh Edition of this masterly Work on Cookery is now publishing, price 1/. is. To be had of all booksellers. For general opinion , see the whole of the public press, not forgetting the Frontis piece o,f " Punch's Pocket-book" for 1851. Publi shed by Simpkin and Marshall, Stationers' Hall-court, Lud gate-hill, London. R OYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY of ENGLAND. The GENERAL MEETING of the Society will be held on SA TUBUAI', the 14th of December, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon. By order of the Council, JAMES HUDSON, Secretary. Lond on, November 6, 1850. HIGH WATER Al LONDON BRIDGE. Tnis Doi —Homing 45 min. after 5 I Evening min. after 6 To-Molitor —Morning 30 min. after 6 I Evening 52 win. after 6 THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, DECEMBER, 10. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 47—highest since noon yesterday. 29—lowest this morning and during the night. 33—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 30.29. Wnkrn S.E.— dull, foggy weather. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following places at Nine o'clock yesterday .morning. —The stations are arranged in order of latitude. PLYMOUTH—Wind E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. PORTSMOUTH—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—foggy. BRIGHTON—Wind N.E., gentle breeze — overcast. HASTINGS —Wind N.E., gentle breeze—overcast. ouTHAistProN— Wind N., strong breeze—foggy. FOLKESTONE—Win d N.E., gentle breeze — overcast. TUNBRIDQE—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—foggy. BASINGSTOKE —Wind E., gentle breeze—foggy. GREENWlCH—Calm—foggy. SWINDON—Wind S.E., light airs—frosty. OXFORD—Wind S.E., calm—foggy. LEIGHTON—Wind E., gentle breeze—overcast. COLCHESTER —Wind S.E., gentle breeze—foggy. CAMBRIDGE Calm—foggy. RUGBY—Wind E., gentle breeze—cloudless. BIRMINGIIA3I —Wind S.E., gentle breeze—foggy. PETERBOROUGH—Wind S.W., calm—foggy. YARMOUTH—Wind S.W., calm—foggy. LivEaroor—Wind S.E., calm—cloudless. MANCHESTER—CaIm —dense fog. LANCASTER—Wind S.W., calm—principally clear. wrirrny_wind sAV., gentle breeze—cloudless. SUNDERLAND—Wind W., gentle breeze—foggy. BuArrocK—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—cloudless. BERWICK—Wind W.—gentle breeze— cloudless. EDINBURGH—Wind N., calm—cloudless. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Saturday morning at nine o'clock : CARLOW—Wind 5.W.., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. KINGSTOWN (DUBLIN ) —Wind SW., calm—overcast. DurenALK—Wind S., gentle breeze—clear. POOLE—Wind E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. LEIGHTON Wind S.E. gentle breeze—overcast. RUGBY—Wind S., gentle breeze—overcast. FETERBORO uGH—WindS.W., calm—foggy. CRRWE —Wind S., light breeze—foggy. CONWAY—Wind S. S.W., gentle breeze—cloudless. Ho LYHRAD—C alm— foggy. LIVERPOOL—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—cloudy. MA NCHESTEZ—Wind S., gentle breeze— overcast. LEEDS—Wind S.W., calm—foggy. Win - ray—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—cloudless. DARLINGTON—Wind S., gentle breeze— frost. SHAr—Wind E., calm--overcast. WHITEHAVEN —Wind E., gentle breeze—cloudless. SUNDERLAND—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. CARLISLE—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—cloudless. BEArrocx—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—cloudless. EDINBURGH —Wind N.W., calm—foggy. 1 f o, WI i ~."..k.t 'l . V • . 4 • %, 'Art ' 416 4, 1 1 2 v , s i au , • • RA -., • c • •, 'vi 4' V . 1 1r, b...•` , 7 ' ' 3 1: ; " ‘41.A1W9k.4' 1110111% ' ' '"?'" t\ _.-t,i. tteltind glut LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1850. Popular education is much talked about by poli- ticians—the Earl of CARLISLE has given practical testimonies of his solicitude to aid in forwarding its development. His lectures in the Leeds Mechanics. Institute go further in proclaiming the advantages of diffusing knowledge throughout the community than the most able speech on the subject of general in struction ever delivered within the walls of Parlia ment. One of these brillia n t prelections we have already particularised as having been directed to the disclosure of the now somewhat obscured and for gotten beauties of POPE. Another, relating to the aspect of the United States and Canada, as they ap peared when visited by the Noble Earl in 1841 , 2, we would here briefly, though inadequately, comme morate. In this admirable lecture Lord CARLISLE presents to the imagination a series of pictures, sketched with a rapid pencil but a master hand, in which may be recognised a panoramic view of the condition of society in the North American Continent. Impres sions of a country like the United States, coming from an observer as liberal and intelligent as the Earl of CARLISLE, must surely exercise even over the most in different a deep and earnest fascination. For the landscapes of the western republic the illustrious traveller had the appreciative faculties of a poet and a painter ; for her swarming population and extend. ing cities he cherished the interest experienced only by the philanthropist ; for her men of genius he had capabilities of estimation flowing out of the fulness of an eclectic and cultivated intellect; for her institu- tions, political, social, and religious, he had the judg ment of a legislator and a statesman. Consequently it was with consummate skill that the different subjects suggested by the theme of his discourse were touched upon and illustrated. Witness this, the adroitness of his portraitures of those distinguished Americans with whom his Lord ship came in contact during the course of his pere grinations. Mr. (.2trlstcv ADAMS, once the President of the Republic, seems to him like " a fine old game cock" when, in his seventy-fifth year, he se es him standing erect on the floor of Congress, shrieking out in behalf of the right of petition against slavery. Mr. HENRY CLAY wins his regard by the intonations of his melodious voice, insomuch that he pronounces him to be a man " easy, simple, and genial, with great natural dignity." lie beholds also in the " jutting brows, and cavernous eyes, and massive forehead" of Mr. DANIEL WEBSTER the evidences of a great and comprehensive intellect. Mr. CALHOUN is applauded for " his ability, his honesty," aye and even his very "impracticability," and Mr. TYLER himself commended as " a simple unaffected person." Mr. VAN BUREN he finds interesting and anecdotal. Chancellor LENT he regards at seventy-eight as 1" full of animation and racy vigour, combined with a very great simplicity." WASHINGTON laviNa ap pears to him "as gentle and genial as his works," the highest encomium he could pronounce. Mr. Justice STOREY he looks upon as " a profound commentator and expounder of law, hut as ono of the most generous and single. minded of men." Dr. CHAN :CMG, though marred by the aspect of his " fragile frame," and by the influence of his " dry manner," impressed his mind so strongly that he felt himself " in a presence in which nothing that was impure, base, or selfish, could breathe at ease." Besides these, Lord CARLISLE has a word of kindly recognition for Mr. BRYANT, the well-known poet, for Mr. LONG FELLOW, a writer more entitled to the epithet of bard, for Mr. BANCROFT, the historian of his country, for Mr. TICKNOR, the ablest of the critics on Spanish authorities, for Mr. EMERSON, the distinguished lec turer and essayist, and " last not least "for Mr. PRES.. COTT, the celebrated annalist, one of the brightest names in the whole range of American literature. Glancing at the various towns and cities scattered over the newly-peopled continent, Lord CARLISLE sketches the principal amongst them in colours at once vivid and natural. New York he regards "as some• thing of a fusion between Paris and Liverpool." Every one there seems to him " to be eating oysters all day long." Washington, called by somebody else " a city of magnificent distances," he describes as look ing like a spot where " it had rained houses at ran dom, or like half a dozen indifferent villages scattered over a goose common." Boston is an especial object of his admiration, and Philadelphia a wonderful place —where the streets, built at right angles with each other, bear the names of the different trees of the country, where the houses of red brick are adorned with marble door-steps and silver knockers—looking like a city built by Quakers, it is true, but by " Quakers who have become rather dandified." Aided by these brilliant and animated word-pic tures, we are enabled to follow the Noble Lecturer throughout the whole of his prolonged and delightful tour, now in the rice -fields, now in the sugar or coffee plantations, now in the senate-house, now in the prairie, now on the Canadian lakes, now in the back forests during the days of autumn, when the gor geous colouring of the foliage is as bright as the dyes of a prism and as varied as those of a chamelion, a dying dolphin, or the plumage of a peacock. An enthusiast in the majesty of Nature, such as the Earl of CARLISLE is, by this time, gene rally known to be, could scarcely be expected to slur over a topic like the Falls of Niagara without some effort, however incidental, at description and pane gyric. One observation made by him on this some what hackneyed but altogether inexhaustible theme, is too excellent of its kind to be passed by without espe cial consideration. It is where, alluding to the remark that the cataract is not considered to be picturesque, he exclaims, " When on the spot you would no more think of complaining that Niagara was not pic turesque, than you would remark in the shock and clang of battle that a trumpet sounded out of tune." Again it is nobly said by the Earl, when pursuing the same thread of ideas, " Living at Niagara was not like ordinary life ; it's not over loud but constant, solemn roar has, in itself a mysterious sound : is not the highest Voice to which the Universe can ever listen compared by inspiration to the sound of many waters?" Seeing that the Noble Lecturer neglected in this portion of his discourse to quote the bold and beautiful verses written by himself to that great wonder of creation, it may not be uninteresting to revive them here ourselves, coupled with these prose tributes of awe and astonish ment. The following, therefore, was the strain in which that nobleman, when Lord MoRPETIT, ejacu lated his homage to Niagara— " There's nothing great or bright, thou glorious Fall! Thou inayst not to the fancy's sense recall— The thunder-riven cloud, the lightning's leap, The stirring of the chambers of the deep, Earth's emerald green and many tinted dyes, The fleecy whiteness of the upper skies, The tread of armies thickening as they come, The boom of cannon and the beat of drum, The brow of beauty and the form of grace, The passion and the prowess of our race, The song of Homer in its loftiest hour, The unresisted sweep of Roman power, Britannia's trident on the azure sea, America's young shout of liberty ! Oh! may the wars that madden in thy deeps There spend their rage, nor climb the encircling steeps, And till the conflict of thy surges cease The nations on thy banks repose in peace.' Quaint as well as beautiful delineations are crowded by Lord CARLISLE into his account of America, as where, speaking of the Cuban carriages, he says, " they were called volantes, and looked as if they were intended to carry Don QUIXOTE." A multitude of interesting particulars are likewise squandered through the lectures—particulars such as the mention of the tomb of WASHINGTON above the noble Potomac, where are preserved the keys of the Bastille, sent to the Founder of American Republi canism by General LAFAYETTE, and the sword sent to him by the GREAT FREDERICK with this message, " From the oldest General of the age to the best," as the accompanying compliment. Whatever is repulsive in the United States' society the Earl of CARLISLE very suggestively and senten tiously attributes to—tobacco. Generally speaking he appears to commend the aspect and bearing of the population. Compared with our own, he considers their frames to be less robust and healthy ; but if physically deficient in one respect, they are unques tionably superior to us in many others, moral and socially. Hear, for instance, that emphatic sentence pronounced by the NobleLecturer,when he observes:— "It is something to have travelled nearly over the whole extent of the Union without having encountered a single specimen either of servility or of incivility." Commenting, also, upon their capabilities of religious improvement, he remarks, with an air of delight, that amongst them is visible the truest and the largest toleration. This occurs, moreover, without the citizens having pledged themselves to the adoption of the voluntary system entirely—the Earl observing upon this enlightened freedom—" There certainly is a breadth and universality of religious liberty which I do not regard without some degree of envy I" Various other topics are expatiated on with consum mate skill, and sometimes with incomparable earnestness, as where allusion is made to slavery— that diabolical system of slavery which, in the United States, is " a brand, a bye-word, and a jest upon the name of freedom," but further refer ence to these particular passages would be super fluous, seeing that all alike may read the detailed report of the lecture itself precisely as it fell from the lips of the lecturer. To him the country will not fail to look with increasing regard and admiration, now that to the fame of a lettered and liberal patrician he adds the glory of a true and practical friend of general education. The trial of the Abbe dOTHLAND and of Madame Du SABLON, for the alleged murder of the aged do mestic of the male prisoner, has been brought to a conclusion. After a protracted investigation, con tinued during many successive days, the jury returned a verdict of " Guilty, with extenuating circumstances," against the abbe, and acquitted the female of any participation in the offence. The con victed party was then sentenced to expiate the enor mous atrocity of which he had been con victed by hard labour in the galleys for life. The extraordinary and revolting circumstances attending the entire transaction, the intense interest excited in the public mind respecting every portion of the case, has led to the production of a more copious and detailed report of the proceedings than is usually given of criminal trials in other countries. We are, therefore, enabled to compare the practice and proceedure with what it would have been in England, under similar circumstances ; and we are convinced that the most ardent and enthusiastic advocate for legal reform will freely admit that so far as the administration of the criminal law is concerned, we are immeasura bly helve our continental neighbours ; that there is greater fair play shown to the accused, and conse quently less danger of the unmerited punishment of an innocent person, while there is at the same time a dignity and impartiality more becoming the solem.. nity of the occasion, which is never suffered to assume that dramatic appearance which is so percep tible in trials before the French tribunals. We do not find that searching cross-ex amination of the accused, that earnest desire to convict him out of his own mouth, to detect and expose his inaccuracies and inconsistencies, to browbeat and bully the person whose life is involved in the issue, which is calculated to prejudice the stupid innocent man, and to serve the clever scoun drel—to lead to the undue conviction of the former and the undeserved acquittal of the latter, while it deprives the bench of that appearance of im partiality which is so essential. The sole oh jed of —the presiding jadge seems to be the conviction of the prisoner by any means, per it, an t ne f as . In place of holding • the scales of justice . with an even hand, and accurately weighing the various circumstances for DECEMBER la, 1850. N and against, favourable and unfavourable, and giving the accused the benefit of any reasonable doubt, he is made to act the part of the most strenuous and enthusiastic advocate for the prosecution. His words and opinions, therefore, do not pos sess that weight and influence that would otherwise attach to them. Unseemly theatrical tableaux, are got up for the purpose of interesting the juries in favour of the accused, and counteracting the judge's charge : whole families accompany the prisoner to the tribunal, as if the innocent were on trial along with the guilty, that the sympathy excited in favour of the one may be extended to the other, while advocates, forgetting their true character and position, fling themselves into the arms of their clients, embracing and caressing the most atrocious criminals, and address them in terms of the most ridiculous and almost blasphemous adulation. We shall not now allude to the facts and circum stances of this most atrocious case. They have already appeared in extenso in our columns, and the duty was sufficiently painful and disgusting, without unnecessarily recalling the horrible par ticulars. But we must express our astonishment how any body of men could discover " extenuating cir cumstances" in the conduct of the Abbe GOTULAND. He was either innocent or guilty. If inno cent he should have been dismissed free and scatheless, without censure or punishment ; but if guilty the majesty of the law should have been fully vindicated, and its extreme penalty carried into execution upon one of the most atrocious miscreants ever called upon to answer for his crimes before an earthly tribunal. His offence was the highest known to the law, and effected by the most infamous means. It was wilful, deliberate, and cold-blooded murder, secretly planned, while his victim was living under his own roof; with his own hands he drugged the poisoned chalice, and with words of kindness and charity on his lips, and a sympathising and benevolent senile on his countenance, delivered the fatal cup that was to consign the aged woman to a lingering and painful death. And what was the " ex tenuating circumstance" that should mitigate the penalty justly attached to his outrage against the laws divine and human ? That he, an ordained minister of the Gospel, had violated the solemn oath of chastity which he had taken—that he was an adulterer as well as a murderer—a base and treacherous poisoner. As to the alleged companion in his guilt, we shall not interfere with the verdict, the merciful verdict, of the jury. She has been exonerated from all participation in the crime. Let her receive the full benefit of the decision. Her feelings cannot, even under the most favourable circumstances, be very enviable. To a person of any degree of sensibility the exposure that has ' taken place—the ripping up of the most secret transactions of her life, and the position in which she has been placed—must have entailed sufferiegs of no ordinary magnitude. We must, however, protest against the assumption that the double crime 'of suicide and murder, from which she was barely rescued, should be regarded as a demonstration of her innocence, and as arising from the natural ebullitions of a sensitive and honourable mind when suffering under the pres sure of unmerited suspicion and false accusation. It is scarcely necessary to allude to the admis sion of necessary evidence, and the bringing up the fellow-prisoners of the miserable man on trial to detail the gossip of the gaol, and the trifling conversations and demeanour of the accused during his detention. They must be condemned by all right-minded men, who, so far as the criminal code of England is concerned, will join us in ex claiming with the Barons of Runnymede, "Nolumus loges Anglia mutari." THE FRENCH REPUBLIC We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The Journal des Dibats, which on all matters re lating to the funds may be considered as a high au thority, has the following on the decree authorizing the sale of two millions additional of Rentes : "The announcement of this adjudication appears to have caused some surprise in the financial world ; it appears to us, however, that it was a thing which they rather ought to have expected. On opening the general discussion of the Budget, on the 18th July last, the Minister of Finance positively declared that he should not wait for the end of the year to make use of the power of selling granted to him by the law of 18th May. The funds in question, moreover, stood foremost in the number of resources of which, in set ting forth the financial plan of 1850, he recknoned on availing himself, in order to keep the floating debt within its just limits. The different Bills for supple mentary credits recently voted, particularly that rela tive to the levy of 40,000 men, must have warned attentive speculators that these limits would be reached, if not exceeded. The Minister declares that it is the opening of these several credits which has decided him to proceed to the adjudication, and his motive is evi dently just. There are two other causes which might naturally influence him—the price of rento and the se curity of offers of stock. He was right to avail himself of so many opportune circumstances." It would seem from the tenor of the following, which appears in the Constitutionnel, as if the Bona partists were becoming aware that their only chance of retaining power was by maintaining a republic, and that they now aimed, not so much at destroying as at corrupting republican institutions, so as to bend them to their own purposes. To parody the words of LA FAYETTE " they would fain make of the Republic the best of Empires." The article is curious, as showing the present tactics of the Bonapartists. It purports to be a criticism on M. GUIZOT'S recently published works on Moria. and WASHINGTON. The article con cludes as follows : We have only hitherto had two kinds of Republicans in France—those of 1793, who were demagogues, rational ists, insurrectionists, persecutors, and atheists; and those of 1848, who are socialists and communists. The republic of the one is as impossible and as in tolerable as that of the other. With such doctrines the foundation destroys the form. Doubtless a republic of Christians, of honest men, fathers of families, moral and industrious citizens, men, in short, who found their liberty on the respect due from one to the other, and who see in the law the common rule of order, peace, and civilization—such a republic may be established, may endure, and produce great na tions. The United States is an example; but, so long as immoral, sanguinary, spoiliatory, and senseless utopian schemes are connected with the Republican forms of Government, it will naturally alarm the world. Such is, therefore, the o pi n i on w hi c h th e history of our country gives us on the great and difficult problem pointed out by the publication of M. Guizot." The Bourse was animated, and Cr.ovenment Stock, which was offered at the commencement of business, rose considerably at the close. The Five per Cents. opened at 93f. 60c., fell to 93f. 55c., and rose subsequently to 941. 30c., at which price they closed; the Three per Cents. closed at 56f. 70c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 311 f. 25c. ; Rouen, 6101. ; Havre, 242 f. 50c.; Great Northern, 4621. 50c. ; Avignon, 1871. 50c. ; Vierzon, 385 f. ; Bourdeaux, 383 f. 75c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 341 f. 25c.; Tours and Nantes, 242 f. 50c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 9. Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 11I%—Great Indian Peninsula, 1% —Luxembourg, 2—Namur and Liege, VA—Northern of France 144—Paris and Strasburg, 8% Rouen and Havre, 9%. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 4th have arrived. The Spanish Senate was occupied on the 3d and 4th in discussing a proposition of General Ros DE OLANO and others, to the effect that the Go vernment should not be allowed to prevent mili tary senators, in non-active service, from remain ing at Madrid. General NARVAEZ and the Minister of War opposed the motion, and it was even ttrar rejected. No explanations were given in the S enate respecting the recent Ministerial crisis ; the Chamber of Deputies did not meet on the 4tb, and would not, it was believed, re-assemble before Satur day. Fears were entertained that the crisis was not yet at an end. M. MoN was expected to return to Madrid without delay, and his presence would, it was said, strengthen the position of the Cabinet. MADRID BOLSA, T)Ec. 4.—Of late the prices of the Funds received by telegraph from Paris have helped to depress prices here. To-day a telegraphic dispatch speaks of a considerable rise at Paris on the 30th ult., and this has assisted in promoting the reaction against the late fall, which has been as rapid as the fall itself. The Three per Cents. were done to-day at 34i to 1, and were f buyers, 7-16 sellers after the close ; Five per Cents., with current coupon ' 121 buyers, sellers ; Coupons, 7to 7-1-; Passive Debt, 3 to 4. Exchange on London, 50 35. GERMANY. Accounts have been receiv:d from Berlin to the 7th inst. The Prussian official journal publishes the follow ing note, addressed by the KING to Baron LADEN BERG : " POTSDAM. DEC. 4. I , Much as I regret to see you retiro from my Cabi net, yet I will not reft , s, , ynur rnneated eppliervi n to be rileased from your ()like, and will give you the Ws, missal you ask immediately I have , given my• deci- SiOn 33 to the appointment - of your successor. Till then I expect that you will continue to discharge' he non-political duties of your office. From the dutie s of President of the Cabinet, which were t em p orarily entrusted to you, I will forthwith relieve you , and boa already apprised the collective Cabinet of my intentiou. " FREDERIC W ILLa t " VON MANTEUFFEL. Another shorter order transfers the ad intern Presidency of the Ministry again to M. voN NW' TEUFFEL. o n the The Dresden conferences are to commen ce 18th. Austria will be represented by th e u n der° Secretary WEANER, and Prussia by Baron A 1.01" SLEBEN. Part of the Prussian troops were still at Cass.eli The Federal troops had advanced on the 7th to No deraula. TURKEY. We have received Constantinople journals to the 24th ult. The Journal de Constantinople confirms th e ia ; telligence which we gave a few days elr., A the pacification of Bosnia by OmEn , MEHEmer PACEIA, the new Governor-GeneraPa l • Aleppo, left Co ns t an ti no pl e o n the 17th for h is the Additional troops were sent to Aleppo o la t te r same day. The latest intelligence from this ,s, place is, that after th e defeat of the rebels ".7 KERIM PACHA, they attempted to attack Alel; again on th e f o ll ow i ng d a y, t h e ir numbers ballni, been re c r u it e d d ur i ng th e night by bona bands of Ar a b s . Thi s secon d attack, h ew " th; was not more suc cess f u l th an the first , s s insurgents were a secon d t i me en ti re ly deteated, lean' ing about a b ou t a h un d re d pr i soners in the ban, d : l it y the Imperial t roo p s . A HDULLA B EY , whose dliP" c t t; since the com mencement o f t h e l a t e troubles ha d ° e tracted the attenti on o f th e G ove rnment, 1 1 5 , 1 ,j e feo arrested. The sam e j ourna l s t a t es that dh'lT; vr ia having arisen betwe en th e G ove rnor of and a British subject, the Sublime Porte bald patched a member o f th e C ounc il o f Police , t bo Cuurssos, one of the i n t er p re t ers o f the Porte , to ase. town, to inquire into the circumstances of th e a bos adliees them, Mr. SIMONS, dragoman to the British Embi lls9 Y' accompanied MO of Late T Be rout announce the i• ° three English vesse l s a t Jaffa on the llt h iota umber—the brig Sundryporry, ANGEI ' , mes te 'frote London ; the brig C our i er , B ALDRY . ma ter ' stern Liverpool ; and the schooner Agnes, Watio? from London. Lives all saved. GREECE. Athens journals of the 28th have trrived• t the We learn fr om th e Ob serva t eur d' Athens Oa a its Senate assembled on the 21st ult., and c omm ti e r f e m ber labours by some preliminary business. The L'l r the held its first regular sitting on the 25th unu e , the presidency . of M. METAXA, the senior men 2b h e t , r ; W verification of powers and the formation of - reaux occupied the whole bittting. A.) QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS D Y Lord Campbell and a special jury were; fo i c ; a throughout the morni ng i n t r yi ng th e cas e of Hatch, which w a s an i ssue f rom t he C our t of C„l36:gertee" to ascertain the i n t er p reta ti on to b e put u pon ti"i o ' r tbs meet made between the plaintiff and defends°. fi c•clsr purchase of the White Horse public house, In street, Holborn. The case was wholly uniuterSe" any but the parties immediately concerned. MANSION-HOUSE.—(THIS J"`"der Richard Gardine r was b roug h t up b e f o re Mr' — , 1 0 06 man Gibbs on a charge of embezzling various 50 amounti in all to 2001., from his employers , 4 , of Beaumaine, Thompson, and Powell, ship - br 4e. l i fe t Trinity-square. Mr. Humphreys attended on bellgr the prosecutors. It appeared from the ev idence °„ Thompson, one of th e part ners , th a t the prisone'oeir been several years in their, employ but had I °llo' service for some months. Since he had left sever;biell crepancies had been discovered in the acconote,to fast had led to further inquiries, a n d th ere w as reason " die' that defalcations to a very h ea vy amoun t Wa disc°. d b e fef ea covered. Those which had already been amounted to 2001. The prisoner was remanded for a week. IVIARLBRO'-STREET.—(THIS P t "? CAUTION TO THE BENEVOLENT.—Thomas was placed before Mr. Bi ng h am , c h arge d with o .' ol bf several small sums of money trom various trades ° false and fraudul e nt pr e t ences . e tstw „ Mr. James Revell, oilman, 272, Oxford-stre et + ii boP; that on Saturday last the p r i soner came intelli„niled,°' and produced a paper, with which he said Adr• "° •, 70 ,0 0 1 Tavistock-street, had s en t hi m , w i t h his COMP no e and a request that he would rea d it. Witeeeaj e rb th ° the paper, and found it to be a petition, of vil" e followinr• is a copy:— "B. Smith, &c., 107 Fleet-street, beg s le b isT o O recommend the petition f William Lawrence , v i ne eedt employed by m e till an un f oreseen acc id e nt iimP t rbat by which his spine was injured in such a manner igll l will disable hi m f rom wor k f or the f uture , and "Aee e at,e; in the hospit a l. I h ave h a d t hi s d rawn out al3-tr''',l round to a few gentlemen in hopes of raising - O f▪ t for the poor family of five children, wh o a rc into the greatest distress through the accident.' . ~, t l/e This petition w as a ll ege d t o b e s i gned by leading men in the trade, for sums varying fr (3- t: 2s. 6J., and wit ness , believing the p r isone' r ti . s fe lt to be true, gav e him 2s. 6d., and P: e n name to the petition for th a t amount , an d be 1 ' Qt t' the shop. Witness had since ascertained that A3sr's statementoilman , was false. id / SO Mr. James 321, Oxford-stre e t Y ne r ea • Yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, the pri fi° • 4 0 7 tered his shop, and handing him the petition P' ao ol,,P: by last witness, said " Mr. Revell presents his ; c al P,e ments and wishes you to read it.." Witness e' r , - , b 0, 11 looked at it, told the prisoner he knew Mr. , S° l ` . Tv" well, and the petition was not in his handwriting' 1110 prisoner said it was, and that all the signate res a of . authentic. Wi tness th en sent f or a consta ble, a ll him in charge. • so 4 , Robards, 307 A, said he took the prisoner 1 , 1/ . o lcl tody, and on the way to the station he (prisoner) - 0 0b1 was rent by Mr. Smith with the paper. Witn ess 01 , quently went to Mr. Smith's, and that gentlealapel he knew nothing about either the prisoner or th e Aug " and that his name which was attached thereto forgery. was lacyAi The prisoner, in reply to th e charge, said be sorry but he was out of w or k, an d distress in° ll :, to write the paper hi mse lf, an d t h at the oata few exceptions, were forgeries. Mr. BINGHAM committed the prisoner for threelll°slw with hard labour. SINGULAR APPLICATION.—A gentleman nu give his name applied to Mr. Bingham for adile" tbr the following circumstances:— g rins, „HO The applicant stated that this morning, h a- 10 40U there was to be a lecture delivered at the ";,,,it Pr chapel in Newman -street, he went there and A I- bel l :1 seat in the gallery. Directly service commenef";ith astonished to observe that it was conducted an d the forms of Popish worship—the prle°' B B ioilr attendants being attired in preciself oergl i ; robes as those worn by the - Catholic heo Applicant had not been seated many minutes W," 0 0 of the attendants came up and asked him if ' le e nee member of the chapel, and on his replying la- t . b be d e o ( Live he was requested to leave the chapel. T bl6 leee_ fe clined to do, on the grounds that it was a publiebPo worship, and as such he had as much right t°,,dice ibon as any other person. A young man in a sok,gitna s e came, and laying his hand on applicant's arm I b e 0 that if he did not leave at once force would b e be le e eject him. Rather than disturb the congregao Ita ° the place at once. Applicant now wishedti° d do ns whether they were justified in acting as they . and what he had better do in the matter. sol f oa 13 Mr. usailax (to applicant)—l re ally ha v - 00 a ••f. diction in the matter. A n a t torney i s the P., e- g i O i s. ought to apply to. If I w as t o a t ten d to all °ill tba,„ o e cations as this I should have enough to dot l e per o l4 torneys have less. If y ou can p rove that thin 114100 belonging to th e c h a p e l comm it te d a t r esPas. d s „ffor" their hands upon y ou , th e C oun ty C o urts a speedy remedy. hat th e 01 0 The applicant, who appeared astonished t- i - D ie gistrate had no jurisdiction in the case, bow and left the court. e P le - — 7 -- db t oo Viscount Ponsonby, we hear, has resigt t 0 pct bassy at Vienna, and M r . M agen i s w ill coiltis:„"?8 506 :i iti Charge d'Affaires until th e arr i va l o f his Lordsu'roti! . sor. The Noble Lord and Lady Ponsonby ha Ve , sir Belgrave-street for the winter. tbiP 0 1a It was stated yesterday, in Lincoln's'iloelfd to R. M. Rolfe, the Vice-Chancellor, is to have th e inten -e toou peerage. The Learned Judge's elevation is no u nder s oe ci e unc m eto il uo p l orn l r a t f t oto i o o ßr n, Baron rthohene.,ooa uni. Rumour skoe: r; of h pau a rLnopoc_ ro P y i t: sso r re eE ts: : stei. o e r i p i c oib ' 0 0_ 1 : g: ifb 00 tirdr e t d I I - 000_ 1 ° - affect his judicial position for the present, but it i s w ith bar's to be a preliminary step in those arrangemen ts Se' ' , ar signedbt o e t n h e long hearing t he samei n -ucbc o hso f thnainott appeals this moment in a condition to say whether the i , fie $OO - satisfactiontf e o r theru e d N al o yp n iE t eß h i toase e L Tt heyt tribunal r bop n ur e Fno d fae ß Gl s a si Lni r OA o nt n sh. .GlO Housecw T h h . additionr—eo4w.oife.e Lords f w e 1 i 1 g va3 g t bo t t n d star ) a vtio ta the decision regarding the suspended Lord R be made until near the meeting of Parliain ent ' r etar li IV More, with whom the matter now rests, will not ae besP he re .01Elolvitseirold i's-cf,nilt'is Italy until the commencement of the session apPr i ° bt t'' 0 , decision must be given by Colonel More pers2 l:l :3f ' ' 119213 eri- `- can be no doubt that it will be favour of sli lO rl Glasgow Daily Mail. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON. r A oo' s • e d ___.A . si hr t . t b . e w i I . ; : 510 5 : 0 0 0 J og b i c ; on Saturday last, the Council appoint ' ~,, a of the Northern Circuit, Professor of Eugh Hugh , cessor to the late Mr. Marshman ; and Arthur _, for d,r to . M.A., late fellow and tutor of Oriel College,‘J'profe.s°A. the Of' now principal of University Hall, London, ° ted bY 0 0 ' ship of English Language and Literature, va,csaCollege' 006 J. Scott, on his becoming Principal of Owenb best obser Vil Oel d Chester. Fellowe's Clinical Medals for the e .... Tbe lo p, o s n re c d a a s l e fi s ,r at th t i l e ie w h it o l s t p e i r ta Mr. Thomas George Fitzgerald aud a 61 . _,.... 0 Sc .ob e i same term to Mr. Robert Bowman. 'rho el'rinvelreB47.s9.or,detdo competitlen . o re., , of Sheffield; the Gold Aled.d for th e 1141 ships were fixed as follows:—For f 50/. ettc h ' ixtti • Y next : A Scholarship of 1001., and two °f 440 , 0 f 45/. g , te lt , linverr Medi ° h - ol l' petition in October, 1852,,,0ne - of 70.2- and " e _,,..,..-01,6 ' TIE IRISH' Pfissawp - r -- It- .is c F• rr g n e :' j ksec l, - ;P I that Sir A.X., Brooko Barq M.l l , 71_1 „ Lw iLl)o} i ta' ifeft peerage; autt that Col ifiel oe, b1.1.'. .1.'. In -- ty iiieinberVi,'' Captain Archdall, Ar it DAlrbe git c r l oet it:;,4 o _,, is present the new consAituelfli in '- 40 , , - tilt:A"'"' 1,/ ,) • , i e:l' Reporter. es Ir.f. 41 1 LLa i n it Ma sian, 7,4 11 1 Po. di a 1kl %11: 4„.Pee lz ! . ‘):Dc 11- re; 1) 0 to I) ( t'tka