The Sun. — London, England, 1853-10-18 00:00:00

1 4 THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, Ocronsa 18. Will be performed THE LADY OF LYONS. Supported by Messrs. G. V. Brooke, J. Johnston, A. Youngs, Morgan, and Moor house ; Mesdames Anderton, Vickery, and Belton. To be followed by VERY SUSPICIOUS. Supported by Mr. G. Wild and Miss F. Williams. Ta conclude with THE WATERMAN. Supported by Miss Featherstone and Miss E. Ormond. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CHARLES liztx, THIS EVENING, 00r. IS, Will be performed THE RIVALS. Characters by Messrs. W. Lag. Harley, Meadows, Cathcart, Mellon, and Addison ; Mrs. Winstanley, Mrs. W. Lacy, Miss Heath, and Miss C. Leclercq. To be followed by MARCO SPADA. Supported by Messrs. W. Lacy, Ryder, and Graham ; Misses Heath and C. Leclercq. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster , —Diroctre.ss„ Madame Celeste, THIS EVENING, Ocr. 18, Will be performed THE DISCARDED SON. Characters by Leigh Murray, Paul Bedford, and Keeley; Mrs. Keeley and Mica Woolgar. After which, THE CAMP AT CHOBHAM. To be followed by "HOTEL CHARGES !" or, How to Cook "A Bitlin." To conclude with COMING OF AGE. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING, OCT. 18, Will be performed THE CAMP AT THE OLYMPIC. Charac ters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Emery, F. Robson, Cooper, and Galli ; Mesdames A. Wigan, Stirling, P. Horton, Chatterly, E. Turner, and Wyndham. To be followed by PLOT AND PASSION. Principal characters by Mr . F. Robson and Mrs. Stirling. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. SECOND APPEARANCE of Miss KATE COOKE on her milk-white Charger, Snowdrop, expressly trained for her by Mr. W. Cooke. Last Four Nights of the Battle of Waterloo. Mr. W. Cooke, ever anxious to present the Patrons of this popular Theatre with every possible Novelty the Continent affords, has, at an enormous ex pense, entered into an Engagement with Mons. CLEUSIL and his Extraordinary ACTING TROUP of DOGS and MONKEYS, whose wondrous performances abroad have been the theme of universal astonishment and admiration. They will appear for the First Time on SATURDAY, October 23. THIS EVENING, OcT. 18, And during the week, will be presented (the 31st time) the New Classical Burlesque, entitled JUPITER'S DECREE, AND THE FALL OF PHATON; or, THE FIERY COURSERS OF THE SUN, supported by the entire strength of the Company. To be followed by Mr. W. Cooke's matchless Scenes in the Circle, introducing, for the First Time, Miss KATE COOKE, and those asto nishing Artistes, Signor CARLOTTIE and Signor FRANCOIS on LA PERCHE. Concluding with (107th time) THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. N. West. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tuts DAY —Morning 32 mln.after 2 Evening 48 min.aft. 2 To-Moeaow—Morning 6 min.after 3 I Evening 19 min.aft. 3 THE WEATHER. —Sim OPPies, Ocr. 18. THERMONETRE, IN THE SHADS. 57—highest since noon yesterday. 44-lowest this morning and during the night. 54—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 2 9 . 49—going up rapidly. WIND, N.W.—Fine, but cloudy. • N . 4 , ghg ( 1 7 ...12 4 - erattan LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1853. Yesterday we published the Manifesto of the Sublime Porte, and this morning we have the satisfaction of laying before our readers a docu ment scarcely one jot less remarkable in its char acter, and one, moreover, of a nearly equal perti nence, importance, and significance. A. glance, however cursory, through our columns, will show the reader at once that allusion is here made to the elaborate communication in which Louis Kos- HUTH has analysed the foreign policy of the Eng lish Government. At a superficial regard of this incident it might, perchance, be erroneously sup posed, by some observers, that there is in the pub lication of this epistle, from the hand of the illustrious Magyar, a certain indecorum or indeli cacy, considering that he enjoys tranquillity, security, and independence at this moment under the aegis of the British Constitution. It might be conjectured, at the first blush, that there is a degree of impropriety in the circumstance of the ex-Governor of the Hungarians pro nouncing words of reprehension upon the course pursued by the Cabinet of the very country in which the respect accorded to himself and his compatriots constitutes the most precious and estimable solace they could possibly enjoy iu the bitterness of their prolonged and undeserved exile from the beloved haunts of their Fatherland. Reflection, however, must at once satisfy any im partial spectator of the political misfortunes of a glorious patriot like Louis liossurll, that any such condemnatory estimate of his proceedings in this particular would be as despicable in error as it would in effect be preposterous. Liberator of his country—Kossum could never by possibility forego the privilege of his sacred and inalienable right as a freeman—that of aspiring to witness the ultimate emancipation of his fellow-citizens, that of pleading in their behalf at every available . opportunity, that of avowing his belief in the certainty of their realising sooner or later the glorious dream of their independence. To silence a man like KOSSUTH in regard to the wrongs of his mother country, you must tear his tongue out by the roots. Not otherwise can he be ever constrained to silence upon that all-ab sorbing theme, which time, and wrongs, and an guish have rendered the passion of his existence. Imprisonment in the Austrian dungeons failed to crush out of his heart the holy hope of raisin(' 0 the down-trodden race of the Magyars to the glory o f a powerful and unconquerable nationality. It is not likely, therefore, that that hope will be extinguished here in England during the sorrows of his protracted banishment. It is not probable that he will willingly let pass any 'event calculated to afford him valid reason to remind the world of his opinions, to recall to the recollection of the community the lamentable situation of the heroic people over whom he once exercised the power of a beneficent, and (for the time being) a wholly irresponsible Government. Therefore KOSSUTH has spoken, and spoken, too, in language that cannot for an instant be misapprehended. Hitherto we have deemed it adiisable to delay for a while the appearance of this remarkable letter before the public through the medium of our circulation. It appeared to us injudicious to afford that letter now printed in another part of our impression of this evening the ill-advised opportunity of a premature publi cation. According to our view of the question at issue it could not be otherwise than blundering to circulate at an earlier period than the present the severe strictures pronounced by KOSSUTH upon the foreign policy of her Britannic MAJESTY'S Government. Severe those strictures are ; but are they not also most justifiable in their severity? Answer it that craven and abortive Note of the Vienna Conference ! Answer it that despicable toleration of the passage of the Pruth, and of the lawless seizure of the Danubian Principalities ! Answer it these timorous procrastinations ! An swer it these hysterical assurances from Downing street that England Yearns to preserve peace at all cost with the mighty AUTOCRAT of all the Russias ! Answer it our bungling diplomacy, our hesitating Cabinet, our protr ac t ed and utterly valueless negotiations. KOSSUTH hits the right nail on the head. He admits the ignor6t i n t o the secret of these reiterated delays and of this pitiable pusil lanimity. He declares —and these wo r ds of h i s are truth—that the reaso n w h y the Engli s h G o vernment have not acted more vigorously under the recent pressure of circumstances, that the reason of their not having more boldly maintained the rights of Turkey, that the reason of their not more valiantly repelling the aggressions of the AUTOORAT--iS the dread entertained by themselves lest by acting more energetically they may be aiding the cause of a general emancipation. "I , have no hesitation to say," observes KOSSUTH, " that the policy of England has long since been Russian in its results ; though not Russian in its motive it has been worse, it has been anti, liberal in its principles." Yes—Heaven knows that is the truth—History proves it in deplor able characters. It was in consequence of this miserable policy in the councils of Great Britain, that the treason of GoRGEY was allowed the op portunity of proving triumphant, that Austria was enabled to coerce into subjection the heroic people of Hungary through the armed interfer ence of the Russian soldiery, that the Cossacks entered Moldo-Wallachia with impunity in 1848, and that in 1849 they were permitted without r emonstrance to strangle with rope, and to stab "with the /* Met) mid to decapitate with the , ~ a 7~"~ axe the betrayed libexty of the ill-fated but glorious Hungarians. KOSSTJTH, however, has even now morally and virtually his triumph over his antagonists—his victory over his assail ants, even in the days of his misfortune, and in the period of his banishment. Already he is avenged. He is avenged on those craven states men who were accomplices in the perpetration of enormous crime, by consenting to witness the fulfilment of the evil designs of despotism through a nameless fear of democracy. Dreading the exten sion of popular freedom over the Continent, England was indirectly the cause, by her pusillanimity, why the heart of CHARLES ALBERT was broken—why Lombardy was reconquered by RADETzKy—why the Magyars, bound hand and foot, were delivered over by the traitor GoRGEY to the mercy of HAY NA.I7 and the forbearance of PASKEWITZCH. Kos- STITH, we repeat, is avenged upon these craven and incapable statesmen. For the same policy which before crushed the beautiful visions of Ita lian and Hungarian independence has at length arrived at what was obviously its inevitable deve lopment, by tarnishing the fair fame of England, and jeopardising the tranquillity of the European Continent. The contest between the millowners and the factory hands has fairly commenced at Preston. It is impossible to calculate with any pretensions to accuracy the amount of damage that must be inflicted, the misery that must be endured, during the internacine conflict. The operatives will, we fear, have bitter cause to deplore the short-sighted folly and arrogant assumptions of which they have been guilty. Too late will they lament the in fatuation which induced them to listen to the insidious suggestions of interested agitators, and to aim a deadly blow against their best friends— a blow which rebounds with double force against then elves, their wives and families. They have hitherto 'remained deaf to the sound and whole some advice that has been offered by true friends. They have disregarded the salu tary admonitions of their religious pastors of all denominations, and of the public journals, which, with scarcely an exception, have pointed out the inevitable consequences of their reckless audacity and insubordination. The more prudent and sagacious among them have been struck with the validity of the arguments offered for their consideration, but they have been unable to struggle against the stream ; the well-disposed have been swept away with the torrent, and un fortunately must participate in the sufferings thereby occasioned. They would willingly with draw if they could, but unfortunately that is scarcely possible under present circumstances, and they are gradually but certainly drawn into the vortex, and involved in one common destruction with others who are less entitled to sympathy or condolence. We have repeatedly pointed out the certain results of such a struggle as that which has just been entered on. When the ten per cent. move ment was started, we explained that " the masters might arm themselves with the same weapon which had been resorted to by the work men, and use it with terrific force against the mal contents—that employers might strike' in due course, and teach a bitter lesson to those who, not contented with unexampled prosperity and the enjoyment of unwonted ,comforts, were aiming at impossibilities, by endeavouring to produce a state of things that should necessarily terminate, and that at no very distant period, in the ruin of all parties concerned, of the workmen more certainly than of the employers." Already our painful forebodings have been partially accomplished. Our gloomy predictions have, up to this time, been sin gularly verified. Would that it had been other wise. We would willingly submit to the obloquy, and suffer ourselves to be branded as "false prophets" if the poor betrayed victims might escape from the privations which they have endured, are enduring, and must endure to a heart-rending extent. But these aspirations are fruitless. They have sowed the seed, and they must reap the crop, and the fruits of such conduct invariably come home to the parties themselves. We learn from recent intelligence, that "on Friday. and Saturday, no less than thirty-six mills were closed," making a total of forty-six mills in which there is an entire suspension of manufac turing operations. Others are under notice to close, so that there will be a general cessation of work in the district within a few days. Here, then, we find some 25,000 unfortunate persons doomed to idleness and inactivity in consequence of this disagreement. Twenty-five thousand individuals, each of whom on an average had one or more dependents, and who earned, on the average, at least 10s. per week. We are greatly within the mark if we assume 12,5001. per week as the amount of earnings sacrificed, which pro vided for FIFTY THOUSAND human beings—men, women, and children—at an average of ss. per week for each adult and infant. This is the very lowest calculation as to the extent of the loss ; and if we take the highest estimate of the contri butions that may be obtained from all sources at 4,0001. per week, we find that there will be a loss of at least 8,0001. per week, or more than 3s. per week for each individual, who will have to live on less than two-fifths of his or her former expenditure. We invite intelligent operatives, and there are very many such, worthy of a far better fate than that to which they are subjected through the folly and recklessness of the different trade committees to examine the above calculations, and to state whether everything is not estimated in the most favourable point of view for the workmen. We have done so advisedly, that no time may be wasted in disputing the premises or arguing on the sufficiency of the data. Surely 10s. per week is not more than the average earnings, and it is not too much to assume that each operative has one other person of the declining or rising genera tion dependent on him or her. The minimum, amount of loss is thus ascertained, and the maxi mum of relief is also discovered from the proposi tion of the Committee of the Operative - Union, which is to pay 4,0001. per week, which they allege they will be able—if contributions come in freely for some weeks I Good GOD, is this the shattered reed on which the misguided mass is resting. Each working man, or woman, will receive 4s. in place of 10s. There will be 2s. to provide, we shall not say comforts (for these must be totally given up), but necessaries for each. And how long will it last ? How long will those who earn'', their daily bread by the sweat of their brows be willing to contribute largely, from their hardly acquired earnings, to support others in idleness ? There may be a temporary enthusiasm, which in- duces them to promise largely—but how soon will they weary of the intolerable burden ? How soon will they feel desirous of dislodging the in• truders on their limited resources ? The Com- mittee have gone to the full length of their tether in naming some—for which we may read three or four weeks, at the outside, as the period for which even that pecuniary assistance can be continued, and when it ceases, what is to become of the mal-contents ? Miserable as will be their condition during the payment of the auxi liary fund, it will be immeasurably worse on its cessation. Then, indeed, will they rue bitterly their infatuation when sustaining privations at which humanity may shudder. Let them not suppose that they will be immediately restored to the positions which they have forfeited. The masters will make the most of the victory which has been so dearly purchased. Their own pecu niary losses will indurate their hearts, and they will discover the necessity of teaching a lesson that will not easily be forgotten. They will be sus tained by capitalists, who will willingly renew obligations, for the none -performance of which valid excuses may be offered. The operatives must be totally defeated before any impression is made on the wealthy firms, while struggling establishments will take the opportunity of ob taining unlooked-for indulgence ; or, if greatly embarrassed, by going into the Gazette a n d wiping off their liabilities under the most favour able circumstances. Once more, then, and ere-it is yet too late, we implore the misguided opera. tives to take a calm and unprejudiced view of their real position, to discard the heartless scoun. drels who prey upon their follies, and to patch :~.~~' up, in the best manner possible, the quarrels that have disturbed their relations with their best friends. Let them remember that they them selves are the aggressors, and that they must ne cessarily make submission. There is nothing dis honourable in the confession of error. Far worse is a perverse and. obstinate perseverance in a mis taken course. The most contemptible offspring of Coalition Legislation was, doubtless, its India Bill ; and we were never more surprised than on reading a few weeks ago, in one of our ablest weekly con temporaries, that this measure, opposed so vehe mently at first, was now looked back upon by the country with such approbation, as to be justly enumerated amongst the sources of Ministerial strength ! The House of Commons was satisfied that Ministers were thoroughly acquainted with the subject ; popular opinion rapidly changed as the discussion advanced ; the ignorant Press pays now the penalty- of bashful silence, as the just punishment of ita unjust attacks ; and Sir CHAS. WOOD receives from all persons acquainted with Indian matters a homage parallel with thatten dered to certain wooden idols in our Indian em pire itself. Such is the pleasing fancy of one of our journals, than which none is more competent to deal with hard commercial facts ; possibly for that very reason, less able to shape the creations of its imagination, when it indulges that untried faculty into anything like the needful resem blance to the realities of life. We thought that no one doubted that the large ma jorities on the Indian Bill were due en tirely to our Legislators' weariness of a topic on which they knew but little, and that no waking man could imagine that either England or India looked upon such a paltry measure for so great an occasion with any other feeling than disgust. We supposed that even the happy Directors who survived self-mutilation (and their beneficiaries, too) chuckled by themselves over their good 'luck in escaping the wholesale annihilation which they consciously merited. If, however, one weekly journal indulges in pleasant day-dreams, another of far higher politi cal pretensons awakens the dreamer a week or two afterwards with most startling intelligence. If Englishmen are weary of a long session, and not least so of its worst part, East Indians are not weary of their own business. If Sir CHARS WOOD really had begun to plume himself on his measure, and to look forward to a niche of honour in Anglo-Indian history, the most undeniably competent judges of his bill have pronounced a verdict which will make him wish that any name but his had been on the back of his unlucky bill. The arrival of Sir C. WOOD'S opening speech at Calcutta was the signal for immediately convening a great public meeting of the natives. It was called in regular form by the High Sheriff ; it met in the Town-hall, and was attended by 4,000 persons. The meeting was conducted wholly by natives, the chairman and the speakers were all natives and all Hindoos. The principal natives of the province wexe present, gentlemen representing, it is said, ten millions of property. Europeans who were present were auditors merely. Such a meeting as this in India must, under almost any circumstances, make any flesh and blood Presi dent of the Board of Control open his eyes, and widely too. Though there are no elections in India, though public meetings cannot sway elec toral votes, and set the Governor and his Counc on calculating their numerical strength, yet pub lic meetings alone cannot be despised. In con junction with a Free Press they will compel the attention of even an absolute Governor and an absolute Indian. President at home. This meeting, however, was conducted with a measure of ability whieli would have affected the councils of NIGH OLAS himself. Such full political knowledge, such consummate talent, such thorough mastery of the English lan guage itself, and such oratorical power were displayed, as must make both Sir CHARLES WOOD and Sir JAMES Hoag tremble on their respective thrones. It is obvious enough now, if it was not before, that the days of exclu sive covenanted service are nearly ended. If the English public can be bamboozled with the mer- (cenary fiction of an irresponsible double govern ment, and its institutions for English patronage at Haileybuzy and Addiscombe, the Indian public are alive to the gross injustice, and are plainly adequate to its exposure. Not the least,remark lakio circumstance about the speeches was their absolute freedom. from all claptrap, personality, and declamation., and their thorough business-like character, notwithstanding that the eloquence of some of them was, in the language of a Calcutta merchant, " astc.unding." The speech of RAMGO PAUL, says the ar.Ame witness, " would have gained breathless attent ion and thundering applause in any country in Europe." What if this thoroughly informed man, brilliant speaker, and perfect master of English, should come hither to instruct British audiences I Sir CHARLES and Sir JAMES, we imagine, would shrink into their proper di mensions, and India be no longer an unin teresting theme. Perhaps, however, he will act more wisely to be the COBDEN of the Anti- Leadenhall-street, League. It is perfectly certain that an agitation under his guidance would be conducted at once with consummate talent, and with the best por3sible temper. RAMGOPAIII, i n the most dignified temper, and happiest manner, attached with convincing argu- ments almost ev€ ry thing Anti-Indian in the bill, and the arguments by which it was defended. He showed that opex ling Haileybury and Addiscombe to competition naight indeed be a boon to the English public, 'but that so long as they were re tained as the exclusive media of entering the cove nanted service, 'the hundred and fifty millions of India would be shut out from the benefit. He considered it impossible that any parent or guar dian could trumt his child to the wardship of strangers, and iu an ungenial clime. He exposed the error of excluding every native from the Le- gislative Council, contending that no one but a native could uruclerstand adequately the customs, prejudices, and sentiments of the natives of the country. To th,e most intelligent and observing foreigner these would be the study of a lifetime. R AMGOPAIIL denounced as a national disgrace the charge made in, the House of Commons, on the ;estimony of Mr.. HALLIDAY, that the natives were ,00 jealous of each other's promotion to render such promotion safe to the individual promoted. The petson of whom the allegation was made came forward himself to deny it utterly ! No charge against the natives excited more indignation than this. The same speaker showed that" giving the natives a high dAsgree of education, and then slap- ping the door of exclusion in their faces from the higher prizes of the public service, was an anomaly a itself, and a cruelty to them," and eloquently exposed the tantalising effect of such a procedure. The administration of justice was placed in the light of truth and experience by one who lives under it. We may say in brief, and that on the testimony of a candid speaker who cordially wit nessed to the merits of individual magistrates, that, as a system., the worst is true. The majority of the lads, and even middle-aged magistrates, who, without jury or .permission to the parties to criti cise the evidence, try the cases of the more re spectable part of the community, are, througii youth or ignoraince, incompetent for their work. Respectable natives are tried in a style which, " if attempted in En gland in a single instance, would create a burst of indignation from one end of the land to the other." We think it clear that a new era is dawning on India. Downing-4street incompetency and Leaden ball old ladies will not long be able to maintain their ground agai ust the high ability and steady agitation of their Hindoo superiors. Indian talent must be conciliate 'd and employed, or India will not long be ours.. The Earl and Cot intess Granville, after closing their visit to Mr. and Lac ly Georgiana Fullerton, at Matcham Park, proceeded c m a visit to the Marquis of Lans downe, at Bowood Park, Wilts. The noble Lord Pre sident of the Count cil is expected to return to London early in the ensuing week. hona The a visithjeu sima nsion a 3 seie t on b n e voMf the r o g m e i E s a o or f fl L D o I n ut, s d e i o e n o d i tn e i r r ya r Lord and L a d y G oug h h ave arr i ve d at G arron Tower, di d 14,0001. s e qu w a a re s avvat ~. ':~'" ~~,. THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18. 1853 DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Last night Mr. G. V. Brooke appeared for the first time in Sheridan Knowles's play of William Tell. If, as is undoubtedly the case, Mr. Brooke has achieved a popularity as an actor rarely equalled, and by his pre vent engagement has done wonders for this theatre, it is not the less certain that the period has not been without great advantage to himself as regards his dramatic capa bilities. Great as were his abilities first admitted to be, it must have been evident to any one who saw him last night that there has been, since his debut at Drury-lane, manifest improvement in his acting. He seems wisely not to have suffered popular applause to induce him to think that he no longer needed any study of his art. He made a good deal of the part of William Tell ; he was the hot but rugged patriot to the life ; and his pathos was manly if not refined ; and if he missed some of the niceties with which the byeplay of the character has hitherto been invested, there can be no doubt that his was, on the whole, a bold and telling performance. To-morrow (Wednesday) evening is the last night of his appearance, and we would counsel those who have not yet witnessed his performances, to avail themselves of that opportunity. The occasion will also be interesting to the late frequenters of the theatre, as he is to under. take the difficult and hazardous part of Macbeth, for which he is supposed by many, and not with out good giounds, to be peculiarly adapted. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Mr. Alfred Wigan's first appearance last night in the capacity of a "manager" may almost be said to be a complete triumph, for the two new pieces which formed the bill of fare were both admirable productions, the acting was of the first class, and the audience delighted and uproarious in its praise. As an actor Mr. Wigan has won golden opinions of the public. He is one of those artistes who is always sure to please, because, shunning all meretricious aids and clap-traps, which are too frequently restorted to on the stage, he is content to owe his success to the quiet, yet easy and graceful, dis play of that genuine humour and pathos which few in his profession possess in so great a degree, and we were therefore not astonished to find his characteristic good sense and judgment as an individual member of a drama tic corps' exhibited in the higher and more responsible position of a lessee and manager, or to see by the crowds which flocked to the Olympic yesterday evening that much was expected of him by his admirers in that new sphere of his operations. It has now become the custom to inaugurate the commencement of a new reign at the metropolitan theatres by some light whimsical trifle, disclosing a little of the reality of stage life behind the scenes, and introducing the company and its head to friendly acquaintance with their patrons, and it was in this way Mr. Wigan and his small, but talented, army made their debut at the Olympic, M. Planche's never-failing pen having supplied the materials pwherewith each was enabled separately to make his or her bow in the most appropriate and telling manner. The title of the opening extravaganza is the Camp at the Olympic : it is smartly written, and abounds in puns and pleasantries, which have the peculiar charm of novelty ; and when we say the spirit of all was thrown into it, it will be unnecessary to add that nothing could be desired in point of acting. Mr. and Mrs. Wigan present themselves in propria per sonce on the stage, whose only decoration consists of old, dirty scenes, unpainted canvass, and two broken chairs, and allow us to overhear a private conversation, in which the one expressly declares that having got the theatre, they are "regularly in for it," and the other (the lady of course) takes courage, as she knows "one friend" who will take a stall. This does not augment the hopes of the tyro manager, but appropriately remarking that "one friend makes many"—a sentiment which is cordially echoed by the pit, boxes, and gallery—he determines not to despair, but he is puzzled how to hit upon a kind of entertainment which shall please the taste of the day. In this juncture, Miss P. Horton, whose en gagement here cannot fail to prove peculiarly gratifying, starts up through a trap-door, in a brilliant fancy costume, and proposes a general review of the forces of the British drama, in order to discover the most useful branches of the service. This produces a series of lively dramatic sketches. Tragedy, Comedy, Opera, Burlesque, Pantomime, Ballet, and Spectacle, appear by their representatives, who put forward their claims and debate their conflicting pretensions. Mrs. Chatterley personified the stately pomp of the Siddonian tragedy ; Mrs. Stirling the grace and dignity of comedy ; and the other parts were very adequately represented. The upshot is, that the manager resolves not to exclude any branch of the drama, but to avail himself, to the best of his taste and judgment, of what may be good in them all. After this there was produced an entirely new and original drama, in three acts, called Plot a; Passion, said to be by Mr. Tom Taylor and Mr. Lang, and a more intensely interesting piece we have not seen of late—every scene from first to last enchaining the at tention, and tending, by the continually increasing com plexity of the plot, to excite an anxiety in the fate of the chief movers. The groundwork of this drama can be told in a few words ; but it would require more space than our columns would permit to describe with any accuracy the various incidents which constitute, as it were, the superstructure, and lead to the happy denoue ment of a most tragic beginning. The scene is Paris, and the period that when the detested Fouch6 held the portfolio of police under the first Napoleon, and when his system of espionage extended itself throughout the whole of society, and no family or individual was safe from his machinations. A young royalist, Henri de Neville, has published an anonymous pamphlet, giving a true and particular account of Fouch6 and his prac tices ; and suspecting that he is the author, Fouch6, who is attired in the garb of a confessor, draws him into a game at cards, and in "friendly" conversation alludes to the unpalatable publication in terms of praise. Taken off his guard at the frankness of his companion, Henri avows the authorship, and launches out in bitter invec tive against the object of his attack. Fouch6 arranges with his agents that, on leaving, Henri shall enter a car- riage whose destination is the prison of Vincennes ; but there is a hitch in this plan, and by mistake he gets into one which is charged to proceed to Prague, and thus Fouchs is baulked of his prey. Among the rest of his paid spies is Madame do Fontanges, a distinguished member of the old aristocracy and a great beauty, but ruined by her passion for play. Fouchd takes advantage of her necessities to make her his tool —an occupation which, though she loathes, she reluc tantly submits to when more money is needed for gambling. He proposes to her that she should seek out Henri in Prague, and captivate him with her charms, and then decoy him back to Paris. This task she un dertakes, and succeeds in inspiring him with a violent attachment, but in return falls not less deeply in love with him. Wretched from the feeling of her degrada- tion, and unable to accomplish her treacherous mission, she suddenly leaves Prague and returns to Paris, under circumstances which rouse the lover's jezilousy, as he thinks she has gone off with a rival. He, follows her to Paris, thus rushing into the hands of his enemies. He is immediately discovered by FouchZ, by whom he is arrested ; and the prospect of his approaching fate is embittered by his learning the real character and pursuits of the object of his passion. A scene of agony ensues between them ' - he is unable to with s t an d her tears and contrition ; all her faults are forgiven ; and the reconciled pair are preparing, hand in hand, to meet their fate, when they are saved by the sudden downfall of Fouche's power, caused by the detection of some foul play in which he had been engaged against the Emperor. It is impossible to speak in too high praise of Mrs. Stirling as the heroine. Her acting was beautiful and pathetic, ,especially in those scenes wh en giving vent to her feelings of remorse at the thought of loving and being loved by one whose destruction she had almost too successfully brought about, and who was ignorant of the gross moral debasement of her pre vious life. Mr. Wigan, first as the enthusiastic royalist, and next as the desperate lover, was most effective ; and indeed the last few scenes between him and Mrs. Stir- ling were as fine as any we ever witnessed on the stage. Mr. Emery was very careful and intelligent in the cha racter of Fouch6, pourtraying the keen shrewdness and reckless villany of the chief policeman of the empire, with an adequate appreciation both of its salient and more delicate points. Mr. Robson, who has achieved such laurels in burlesque, appeared as Desmarets, Fou ch6's secretary, the minister's creature, and the agent of his dark designs. Mr. Robson's performance of this character was a most extraordinary display of power. Desmarets is a villain of the most mean and sordid de: scription ; cunning, obsequious, with the cool compo sure produced by the consciousness of intellectual strength ; and all this joined to violent passions, con strained by a powerful will. Robson, though naturally with a little exaggeration, gave to this character an in tensity that sometimes was actually terrible. Several times the audience seemed lost in astonishment, and gave vent to their feelings in peal after peal of applause. ,The curtain fell amidst the loudest marks of appro bation. TICKET OF LEAVE CONVICTS IN ENGLAND.—The act which permits the executive to grant tickets of leave to convicts in this country, received its first execution last week. On Friday and Saturday eight convicts were li berated from the Warrior convict ship, stationed off the Woolwich dockyard. These convicts have each served between three and four years of the period expressed in their sentence, and return to their friends, or to any employment they may obtain, unfettered with any re strictions save that of their avoiding the haunts of thieves, or associating with bad characters, on pain of being again taken up and sent to the hulks without any further trial, where they will then be kept until the full period of their original sentence expires. ~~. ~ - or WARWICK RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY BLEOTRIC TELEGRA PH.) SWEEPSTAKES OF 5 SOVS. EACH. Five Furlongs. Census Nine ran. Course very heavy. COURT OF BANICRUPTCY-(T_HIS DAY) (Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.) IN BE J. AND F. GOULD. These bankrupts carried on business as lace ware. housemen, City, and to-day was appointed for their last examination. The accounts prepared by Mr. G. Butler, shows debtors to creditors, 5,015/, 11s. 10d. Assets, cash, 31. 17s. 1d; debtors, 2321. 16s. 4d. ; property, 1,5541. Bs. Bd. ; consignments to Melbourne, 397/. 14s. 9d. The losses amounted to 9071. 10s. 9d. ; trade expenses, 1,2381. 14s. id ; partners drawings, 6251. 7s. 10d. The bankrupts passed without opposition. RE-OPENING OF THE OFFICE OF THE ACCOUNTANT GENERAL IN BANICRI7PTCY-This office has been re opened after the vacation, and dividend warrants will be issued and paid forthwith. SHERIFFS' COURT-(THIS DAY.) (Before R. Gurney, Esq.) TAILORS' CHARGES-MIXTABLE V. WHITE. This was an order to recover the sum of Cl. for goods sold. The plaintiff is a tailor, and charged the sum claimed for a suit of clothes. The defendant, on being examined, swore that the plaintiff agreed to make the articles for 5/., which he was prepared to pay. The plaintiff, in reply, said that the agreement was for ready money, but defendant having kept 'him out of the money, he consi dered himself entitled to charge the difference. He ad mitted, however, that he did not deliver the bill, stating the course of trade, until some time after defendant had had the clothes. His Honour said that under the circumstances plain tiff was only entitled to 51. without costs, but defendant ought to have paid the money into Court. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.-(TIIIS DA Y.) STEALING A WATCH. Henry Harris was brought before Mr. Bingham, charged, on his own confession, with having stolen a silver watch, value 61., the property of Mr. James Crouch, water gilder, 50, Old Compton-street, Soho. The prosecutor stated, that on the 12th of August last he left his shop about nine o'clock in the morning, on business, leaving his watch hanging over a bench in the shop. A short time afterwards he returned, when he found the watch gone from the place where he had left it. He at once communicated with the police, but heard nothing more of the matter till last night, when he received the following note : "Sir,—l stole your watch, and pawned it for,lBs., at Brown's, in Ryder's-court. If you wish to punish me for it you will find me this evening at No. 8, Bow street." In consequence of this communication witness, ac companied by Ryland, a detective officer of the C divi sion, went to the place named in the note, where they saw the prisoner, who admitted the truth of his state ment, and was then taken into custody. The watch was subsequently found at Mr. Brown's, pledged for 18s. An assistant of Mr. Brown's produced the watch, and identified the prisoner as the person from whom he took it in pledge. The prisoner was committed for trial. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, OCT. 17. The Queen, with the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice, rode in the Riding-house this morning. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colo nel the Hon. Charles Grey, Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Seymour, and Lieutenant-Colonel Biddulph, left Wind sor at 10 o'clock this morning and proceeded to London by a special train of the Great Western Railway. His Royal Highness drove to Buckingham Palace, and sub sequently visited her Royal Highnes3 the Duchess of Glocester, and returned to 'Windsor Castle at a quarter' past two. TITE AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 15.—The expected mails from the Australian ports via Singapore and Suez, the absence of which is causing such great incon venience and anxiety to the commercial world, can not, it is now supposed, reach Southampton till the 4th of November, by the steam-ship Euxine, due with the India and China mails at that date. They will consequently come to hand nearly a month overdue. No reason can be yet assigned for the delay, inasmuch as when the homeward packet left Singapore the Chusan, with the contract mails from Sydney, Port Philip, Adelaide, King George's Sound, and Batavia, had not arrived, although nearly ten days past due. The agent of the Penin sular and Oriental Company, writing from Singa pore, under date the 31st of August, with reference to the non-arrival of the missing steamer, states that the bark Eliza, just come in from Melbourne, reported that two steam-ships were observed enter ing Port Philip harbour on the 20th of July, one of which it is assumed was, without doubt, the screw-steamer Chusan with the outward mails. This vessel would, therefore, have to proceed to Sydney and return by the regular route, calling at the various ports. It is therefore deemed certain that the next overland express will bring accounts of her arrival at Singapore with the full quota of mails. One cause that may have operated in pro ducing the failure of this mail by the present oppor tunity is, that during the south-west monsoon the China steamers are dispatched from Hong Kong five days earlier than at other seasons. It appears that the monsoon had abated earlier than usual, and the steam-ship Ganges, not having the ordinary bad weather to contend against, arrived at Singapore four or five days earlier, and also left that port four or five days earlier than would have been the case under other circumstances ; in fact, she reached Point de Galle, Ceylon, six days before the steamer from Calcutta. This arrange may appear to be a defective one, and probably it will be found that the Chusan may have got up to Singapore in time to transfer the Australian mails —supposing the packet to have been kept till the ordinary date—but the agents of the company at intermediate ports have no power to detain the vessels. The Ripon, due at Southampton on Wed nesday, may possibly bring some letters from Aus tralia, conveyed to Singapore by the Eliza. The voyage out to Port Philip, performed by the General Screw Steam Company's ship Argo, must be considered as the most successful one ever ac complished in conxexion with Australian- steam navigation. It occupied only 65 days, four days of which were consumed in coaling at St. Vincent's, giving 61 days as the total period under steam and canvas. The overland route has thus been com pletely beaten by the Argo, inasmuch as the Australian mails dispatched from Southampton by way of Suez and Singapore, on the 4th of May, had not arrived at Port Philip up to our last ac counts (the 20th of July), when they were 77 days out, while the Argo, which left Southampton on the Bth of May, reached her destination on the 14th of July. As the Argo will come home by way of Cape Horn, her arrival at Southampton may now be daily looked for ; and it is not at all un likely she will again anticipate the overland route with Australian intelligence. It is a singular co incidence connected with the news just received, that the dates from Sydney and Melbourne brought in the one case by sailing vessel and steamer, vid Panama, and in the other by sailing vessel ad steamers by way of Singapore, are precisely iden tical—viz., the 20th of July, and reached London the same day. THE CRYSTAL PALACE AT SYDENHAM.—The works of the gigantic building at Sydenham appear to progress rapidly, and the shell of the building is so far advanced towards completion, that the contractors, Messrs. Fox and Henderson, have undertaken to surrender it to the company in a finished state at Christmas. If they can effect this—and there is no reason to doubt the power or resources of men who have already accomplished so much—a whole army of decorators and embellishers will be thrown into the interior, and the varied and compre hensive designs of the undertakers will be rapidly carried out during the early months of the next year. Under these circumstances there can be little doubt that the building will be so far advanced as to warrant its being thrown open to the public, as has already been an nounced, on the Ist of May next. CARLTON-TERRACE.—From the esplanade, which abuts on the Mall, in St. James's Park, and is in the rear of the mansions of Chevalier Bunsen (the Prussian ambas sador), Lord Londesborough, Lady Somerset, the Mar quis of Clanricarde, and the Duke of Leinster, having become excessively damp and covered with moss, from the exhalations ascending from the lower buildings, the gravel has be en covere d with orsi and armanis metallic lava, by order of the superintendent of the Crown estates. The espl ana d e , f rom it s dimensions and situa tion, has long been a favourite promenade of the noble residents of Carlton-terrace, but has latterly been ren dered useless by the dampness, to remedy which the lava has been laid down. lATEST FOREIGN NE S. FRANCE. It is stated that an intimation has been made by the Minister of the Interior to the semi-official journals, that they are henceforth at liberty to dis cuss the Eastern question as freely as they may think proper. a A number of arrests are said to have been just made. Some speak of nearly 200 persons takes into custody. M. Goudchaux's name has been mentioned, but it is said that he was soon after set at liberty. The Toulonnais newspaper states that all the steam-frigates laid up in ordinary have been ex amined by the naval surveyors. The instructions for this proceeding were sent from Paris by tele graph, and the object was to ascertain whether those vessels are in a fit state to be armed and sent out to sea. The total of the importation of corn, &c., into France amounts to 3,300,000 hectolitres. The steam and sailing vessel Dunkirque, of 90 guns, is to be launched at Brest on the 2d of No vember. The fete of the Emperor was celebrated with great pomp at Monte Video. The religious service was attended by the French Charge d'Affaires, M. Maillefer, accompanied by Prince Paul of Wurtem berg, the cousin of the Emperor, in the uniform of a general officer, and wearing the gran d cor don of the Legion of Honour. The Ministers of Monte Video, all the diplomatic and consular body, and the great majority of the French residents were also present. A grand banquet was given in the evening by Admiral de Suin, on board the Andro mede frigate, to which Prince Paul, the comman ders of the different vessels on the station, the Ministers, the diplomatic body, the consuls, and the principal French residents were invited. Preparations are already making for the recep tion of the Emperor and Empress at Fontaine bleau. A letter from Compiegne states that the town is unusually animated, in consequence of the presence of the Imperial party at th e p a l ace. Th e ra i lway, i t states, brings down every day a crowd of persons animated by curiosity, as well as a number of visi tors to the Emperor. Upwards of 60 apartments have been got in readiness at the palace, and all the guests, following the example of the Emperor and Empress, spend a considerable time each day in the open air. On Friday took place the first battue in the forest. It had been in contemplation at first to have a stag hunt, but that idea was given up, and a shooting party substituted for it. The Emperor was accompanied on the occasion by Marshal de St. Arnaud, the Duke de Terceira, Count de Morny, M. Fould, Gen. Canrobert, Col. Ney, the young Duke de Casigliano, Barons James and Adolphe de Rothschild, and a few others. The party advanced regularly in a line, the Emperor occupying the centre, and proving himself an ex cellent shot. A considerable number of spectators were present, and everything passed off with the greatest regularity. At two o'clock the Empress arrived in a char-b,-banes with a number of ladies and witnessed for some time the address of the sportsmen, the whole party returning in chars-a bane to the palace at five o'clock. The next day to*k place a stag-hunt, and on the day after a grand racket match was to be played for the amuse ment of the imperial party, in the racket-court attached to the palace. The performers of the Gymnase, who had been ordered down, wore to give a representation in the evening at the palace. The Emperor has ordered several improvements to be effected in the town of Compiegne, and in par ticular the enlargement of the Place du Marche au-Ble. Tho Bourse opened firmly yesterday, and the Three per Cents, were first called at 73f. Some heavy sales made shortly afterwards forced them down to 72f. 40c., and they closed at 72f. 55c. for the cad of the month. There were no political reports current. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 99f. 45c. ; Orleans Railway shares, 1,155 f. ; Rouen, 1,012 f. 50c. ; Havre, 485 f. ; Great Northern, 832 f. 50c. ; Paris and Stras burg, 905 f. ; Paris snd Lyons, 895 f. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 730 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 590 f. ; Western of France, 700 f. ; Great Central, 515 f. ; Lyons and Geneva, 505 f. ; Shares of the Bank of Credit Mobilier, 702 f. 50c. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. REPLY OF THE RUSSIAN COMMANDER IN-CHIEF TO THE TURKISH DEMAND. Advices were received in Vienna yesterday, stating that Prince Gortschakoff had sent a reply to the demand made by Omer Pacha on the part of the Ottoman Government that the Russian forces evacuate the Danubian principalities within a period of fifteen days, otherwise hostilities would be commenced. The answer of the Russian commander-in-chief is to the effect that he is neither authorised to com mence hostilities, nor to conclude peace, nor to evacuate the principalities. The Cologne Gazette publishes a telegraphic dis patch from Vienna, dated Sunday, stating that Prince Gortschakoff had answered Omer Pacha's demand in the negative, as he had no orders to evacuate the principalities. The Gazette adds that hostilities will not necessarily begin even yet, as the Russian Commander-in-Chief, in reference to the period fixed by Omer Pacha, meant that he must receive instructions from St. Petersburg. Omer Pasha has declared that vessels sailing under a neutral flag will be allowed to pass on the Danube till the 25th inst. In Bessarabia, Bulgaria, and the Danubian Principalities the smaller rivers and mountain streams are dried up. The Wallachian Militia, who were detached along the bank of the Danube, have been ordered to march upon Bucharest, where they will act as a garrison. The Russian subjects in Turkey are from the Ist of October to be placed under the protection of Austria. The Moniteur contains a paragraph contradicting the declaration of the Constitutionnel that orders had been sent to Toulon to prepare vessels to carry one - troops to the Dardanelles. The official journal declares this assertion to be without any kind of foundation. (fiThe Wanderer of Vienna states that it has learned by its latest intelligence from Constantinople that the Russian merchants had received, on Oct. Ist, notice, that if, in case of war, they intended to, leave the capital, they should lose no time in setting their affairs in order ; if, however, any de sired to remain, they could place themselves under the protection of Austria. The Wanderer of Vienna, under date of Con stantinople 4th inst., says :—" Every one here is procuring arms, and all the shops are cleared out. Pistols have doubled in price. The agitation among the Mussulmans is so great that the Otto man Porte could not, even if it were inclined to do so, make any further concessions. It is worthy of remark that the Christians are not exposed to any molestations from the Turks as they were in 1829. A letter from Warsaw, 12th, says—" We learn from a source worthy of being relied on that the three allied courts (?) have it in contemplation to make another effort, by means of negotiations, to arrange pacifically the Turco-Russian differences. This last attempt is, it is said, connected with the questions which the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh addressed to the Divan simultaneously with the dispatch of the 26th September. It is not, how ever, thought that the Emperor Nicholas will make any further concessions as far as regards the modi fications. Nevertheless, it is certain that the three allied courts wish to maintain peace; without, how ever, compromising the dignity of Russia. It is needless to observe that this project is independent of the operations of the Conference of Vienna. A proof of this is the dispatch which England and France addressed to the Court of St. Petersburgh on the 6th. Field-Marshal Paskiewitsch has re ceivil instructions relative to the operations of the grand army, including the corps of infantry of which he is the chief. The corps d'arrnee in. Poland will not advance until it is replaced by an other corps. Russia will not give up her repressive and offensive position between the Vistula and the Narew." According to the German Journal of Frankfort, the Russians have on the frontiers of Asiatic Turkey 40,000 regular troops, 10,000 irregular troops, and 30,000 Cossacks. The Turks have to oppose them 100,000 men near Erzeroum, and as many more are expected from Arabia. The Druses of the Lebanon and other scheiks of Syria have offered 40,000 men to the Sultan. The Emperor of Russia, on proceeding from Potsdam to St. Petersburg, turned out of his road to visit Weimar, where he arrived incognito at a late hour in the evening. Ho again set off at mid night after having had a long conversation with the Duko of Saxe-Weimar. The New Gazette of Prussia publishes the follow ing letter from London, dated the Bth :—" The equipment of the leg ion o f the refugee auxiliaries of Turkey is being continued here with the greatest activity, and more than 300 workmen are, it is said, occupied in the preparations. The uniform of the legion consists of a dark blue frock coat, with a purple collar, grey trousers, a knapsack in black leather, and a dark blue cap with the Polish eagle and a cockad e . U niforms are also being made for carabineers, of a grey colour, with a yellow collar, cartouche-boxes instead of knapsacks, tend szapkas of dark blue. The Polish Colonel Wierzicki directs and superintends the depot of the workmen in the name of the National Committee, The same officer, with other auxiliaries, causes a certain number of young Polish refugees to practise military exercises daily. These refugees are for the most part the remains of the legion of Hung ar i ans an d P o l es w ho came from Turky with Kossuth and the other Magyar chiefs. The exercises for the war of independence in perspective take place in the court-yard of the building in which the equip ments are manufactured, and to learn the handling of muskets, sticks shaped like firearms are used. Kossuth issued on the 6th of this month a new in cendiary proclamation to his countrymen in exile and suffering,' to invite them to a fete in honour of the memory of the Hungarian generals executed at Arad, October 6, 1849. It was surrounded with black borders, with the Hungarian arms without the crown, and was dist r ib u ted amongst t h e re fugees ; it fixed the meeting for the evening of the 6th. We must eternally preserve,' it said, amongst other things, the souvenir of the heroes who for the sake of their country were assassinated by the brood of the hyenas of Hapsburg. That man is not a Magyar (and may the malediction of the nation fall on him !) who does not take the holy oath to avenge in the blood of our enemies the ignominious death of our patriot generals. The man who shrinks from the duty of killing as a mad dog the executioner of the country is only a mi serable coward ! Yes, Magyars, the hour of ter rible retribution for the blood shed will arrive ! It will come—l swear it to you ! And then no pity for the sanguinary ty ran t w h o h as a hundred times merited death ! Hungarian generosity, the noble national virtue of our people, and which has be come historical, has attained its limits ! The gib bets of Arad, of the 9th October, 1849, have pre scribed to it for ever limits beyond which only vengeance can reign ! Sanguinary fury has been called into the country, and it will reign, it will reign in avenging power over its enemies ! The words of Scripture—" He who sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed 1" will then be ac complished !'—The meeting was held, and consisted of all the Magyar refugees, and of some Germans and Italians." Another correspondent writes to the same jour nal :—" I have just seen pass a number of Poles wearing the confederatka, or square red cap, and going towards the place where the equipments for the legion are being made, in order to hold a meet ing. You may readily form an idea of the fanaticism -which the declaration of war by Turkey has caused among the emigrants, particularly the Poles and Hungarians. lam also informed that the Polish Literary Society has at its disposal 6,000 muskets which are now on board two vessels at Southamp ton, intended to convey the Polish legion to Tur key. It is said that 900 Poles, completely armed, and commanded by Colonel Oporski, will leave Southampton to-morrow. The Literary Society displays the greatest activity ; half the street in which it holds its meetings is blocked up by Polish refugees. Letters from Paris, which have reached here to-day, announce that General Dembinsky left on the 4th inst. for Constantinople. The Polish emigrants in Paris are also preparing to start. I have just received a copy of the appeal of the National Committee, which is, however, too long for me to be able to send you a copy of it to-day. The following is an extract from it :--‘ Poles, war between Turkey and Russia has been declared. Up, brethren I wherever a Polish heart still beats. A ray of hope begins to shine in the East for our betrayed country ! To arms !to arms ! The alarm gun has been heard ; Poland is to be the field of battle 1' The German journals announce that the Prussian and Austrian Governments have sent orders to their subjects in the service of Turkey to return home. The Turkish Government, however, in an ticipation of suc h a measure, demanded of the foreign officers in its service, several months since, what decision they would adopt in case of a war with Russia. Some declared that they would re main in ilia service of the Porte, even at the risk of losing their nationality. Others quitted the Turkish dominions and were replaced by other officers, so that whatever may occur the regiments will suffer no inconvenience by the loss of officers. A Russian Colonel, named Michaeloft, who oc cupies a high post in the department of Foreign Affairs at St. Petersburg, has arrived in Paris. A letter from Warsaw, of the 9th inst., confirms the appointment of Prince Haskiewitch to the com mand in chief of the army against Turkey. The Prince, it is added, has obtained his request to have 40,000 men of the troops in Poland placed unda his orders. Those troops are considered the best in the Russian service. AUSTRIA. I The Austrian Correspondence of the 13th says: —cc On the 9th, the Emperor ordered an important reduction in the army, and already the order is being carried into execution. In the Ist, 2d, 4th, 10th, and 11th corps, in the divisions of Hohenlohe, Rossbach, 'and Castiglione of the 3d corps, and , finally, in the infantry regiment of Woyvodina and Croatia the effective force of the company of infan try is fixed at 60 men, and of the company of chas seurs at 30 men. One half of the depots of the central divisions of the 3d and 4th battalions are to be sent home, and in the battalions of the fron tier-reserve, in addition to the discharge already granted to the privates, one half of the officers ex° to be placed on the retired list. In the whole army, including the artillery and the cavalry, the second captains are to be reduced. The companies of engineers are to be reduced to 120 men. In the artillery, the equipages of six batteries of the re serve are to be suppressed. The companies of the 3d corps of artillery are to be reduced to a peace footing." ITALY. The Duke de Nemours and the Princess of Saxe- Coburg have arrived at Turin, under the incognitos of Count d'Embleur and Baroness of Ernenthal. The anniversary of the burial of King Charles Albert was celebrated on the 14th in the cathedral of Turin. The accounts received from the East had excited considerable agitation among the numerous re fugees residing at Genoa. They were beginning to plan the invasion of the neighbouring states for the purpose of rousing the population to insurrection. To that effect the Republican Committee had widely circulated a proclamation through several provinces of Italy, and a Turin journal, the Voce della Liberia, contended in one of its last numbers that the Piedmontese Government ought to allow the emigrants liberty to act. The Government, however, in the interest of the refugees themselves, had adopted measures to prevent the realization of these projects. Thirty of them were arrested, but seven or eight had been almost immediately libe rated. The Austrians, who occupy Modena and Tuscany, had formed a cordon along the Sardinian frontier, and the Piedmontese Government, on its side, had thought proper to take some military measures of precaution. SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 11th contains a royal order addressed to the Minister of Grace and Jus tice, to the effect that, in compliance with the re quest of newspaper proprietors, original political and literary articles published in their papers shall be considered private property, protected by the laws, and shall not be quoted or copied without their permission. The resolution of the Govern ment relative to the Northern Railway was, says the Diario, about to be published in the Gazette ; but it was said that it considered the demands made by M. Salamanca with respect to it exorbi tant. The Nacion states that, on account of the existing complications of Europe, the Spanish Go vernment intends to send a reinforcement of 4,000 men to Mahon. A letter says that the Queen, on account of her interesting situation, will not open the Cortes in person. The Nacion announces that the Government, in anticipation of the political complications likely to arise in the present state of affairs in Europe, in tended to send a reinforcement of 4,000 men to Mahon. The Three per Cents were done at 421 ; the New Three per Cents. at 22i ; the Debt of the first class at 91, and that of the second at 5 MG. TELEGRAPH FROM NEW Yon)/ TO LIVERPOOL.—.AC cording to a communication inserted in the New York Journal of Commerce, the formation of a company for is telegraph from New York to Liverpool is nearly com pleted. The route is to be vid Nova Scotia, Newfound land, and Galway, to Liverpool, the whole length being about 2,800 miles, at an entire cost of about 350,000/. Improved methods of constructing and laying and laying submarine wires, discovered by an inventor in Massa chusetts, will, it is alleged, greatly facilitate the under taking, and the right of using them has been purchased on behalf of the company. These new methods, it is added, will enable the work to be accomplished within six months from its commencement, so that, if it be begun, as intended, in the ensuing spring, the line will be in operation by this time next year. No names are given, however, in any way to certify the validity of the project. THE ALLEGED VIOLENCE BY A SCHOOL TEAMED AT CLERKENWE LL. -- Yesterday Mr. Wakley resumed the adjourned inquiry touching the death of Tasman Castle, aged 11 years. It will be recollected that the deceased was an attendant at the North British Schools, Calthorpe-street, Gray's -inn-road, and that on the I!it September, she came home ill, and complained of pain in the head, which had been produced by the teacher striking her with a book. The jury, after hearing quantity of additional evidence, returned a verdict of "Natural death," clearly exonerating any p erson from blame, as had been suspected and charged,