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TliE itiberpool ftanbarb. TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1855 LORD SHAFTESBURY'S BILL, Am _TN ill! r:gay things which we have tobe thankful • .• . for, we may certainly include the House of Lords; otherwise, L-,r l SHAFTESBURY'S Bill would have 'been by this—time law.; -and a more mischievous law-ewe can scarcely conceive. We owe it to Lord DERBY, — and we take apleasure in recording the fact —that this bill has been arrested in its course. Smuggled through the House of Commons in a most marvellously silent and secret manner,—the divisions being taken after twelve o'clock at night, —and introduced with as few words as possible into the Lords, Lord SHAFTESBURY thought to get it quietly and silently made law. That the bill means a great deal more than lies on the face of it, no one who watched the noble Earl's nervous and excited manner, his dread of investigation, can doubt for a moment. Concealment was his prime ob iect—exposure his terror. This looked suspicious ; but his speech confirmed the suspicion. One set of facts completely contradicted the other ; but both he contrived to make to serve his purpose. One time he aid that this bill would not give a layman any more power than he now had; another, that it was neces sary, in order to enable a pious layman to read and expound the Scriptures to his friends. One time he said it was necessary, in order to legalise the meetings of the City Mission ; at another, he said that the City Mission held its meetings without hindrance from the existing law. Evidently none of these were the true reasons.: there were some behind that he durst not make -public. We shall tell our readers what they are. As the law stands at present, no one can call together more than twenty persons, besides his own household, for prayer or preaching ; at least, if he does, he is liable to indictment. This has proved a very awkward restraint on some of Lord SHAFTESBURY'S "pious laymen"—that is, persons who have manifested their piety by quarrelling with their clergyman, either on personal or doctrinal grounds. A country squire, who owns almost the whole parish, quarrels with the parish priest lhe goes, perhaps, to another church, but his tenants still go to their own church. A manufacturer objects to the doctrine of the Incumbent of his dis trict ; he, too, goes to another church, but his factory people still attend on the ministrations of their proper pastor. This is disagreeable : they want to put down the clergyman, and make him come to their terms. It will not do to open a dissenting meeting-house, because these men profess zeal and attachment to the Church; and they know their people are Churchmen. If they could only open a room near the church, a work-room in the factory, an empty barn in the farm yard, where they could make their foreman or butler 'read the Church service and a lecture, then they could plead attachment to the Church, and show inde pendence of their Church's minister at the same time. The urgency for some such scheme is pressing at this time ; for, in spite of all his efforts, in these last few years Lord SHAFTESBURY has found that Church doctrines have been making steady and un doubted progress. Clergymen have managed to sur vive agitation, and to surmount prejudice ; people are better Churchmen, more attached to the Church than ever. This is diametrically opposite to what his. Lordship expected. Another favourite scheme has also in a - great measure failed, viz., that of effect ing a powerful union between a certain class of disaf fected • Clergy and Dissenters. He saw something must be done. This bill, if it passed, might do a great deal. Thus, any influential layman, landowner, or manufacturer, could hold this bill in terrorein, over the clergyman's head. "If you don't preach as, I please, or conduct the services as I like, I will open a meeting-house, and read the Church Service, and make my people attend ; then, what will you do ?" Again, many Dissenters admire the Church Service, and, indeed, very much prefer it to the extempore eftsious of their own ministers ; but they dislike the sacerdotal character of the clergyman, and the autho ritative position of the Church. If they could have a laymanor one of their own ministers to officiate, they would condescend to. attend. Here is the basis for a union of Church and Dissent. These are the - real reasons of Lard SHAFTESBURY'S anxiety about the bill; both his wish that it should pass, and that without too close an inquiry. FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. MONDAY MORNING. UNEASY poPidarfeeling and ominous general surmise have so frequently been experienced as the harbingers of public calamity, as to have given rise to a common belief in their prophetic value; and the' events, the knowledge of which has been Crowded into .the past week's history, go far to coun t _ tenance the prevalent impression. The capitals of France and England were both Overclouded by a brooding apprehension' of misfortune (hiring Wednesday and Thursday, on the latter of which days it took the form of whispered rumour of defeat to the Allied . arms before Sebastopol ; but the rumour was so vague, and seemed so baseless, that its retailers scarce gave Utterance to their thoughts, leaving them only half breathed out. On Thursday, the impression was widely prevalent, and broadly Stated, that Government was in receipt of intelligence, "announcing reverses to the Allies, With great loss, before Sebastopol." The assertion thus substantively put forward, received the same evening an official contradiction. So strong, however, was the presentiment of evil which had taken pos session of the public mind, in connexion with the subject, that men, though willing to give credit to the contradiction, found themselves - resistlessly impelled to disbelieve it. In the dead watches of the night, the uneasy feeling, which had been im perceptibly engendered, was reduced so far to a distinct cer tainty by a telegraphic announcement at the Wa;Department, to the effect that an attack, made simultaneously by the French and English, on the Redan and Malakhoff Batteries, had been unsuccessful, and that the assailants of both points had been repulsed with great loss. This 'sorrowful intelligence was speedily communicated to the telegraph in London, and within an hour.the unwelcome tidings.were disseminated all over the British Islands. spreading a deep gloom and dark dismay wherever they were heard. Lord P.AnttßE's brief but emphatic despatch consisted of only 39 words, but in their dire import: . these seemed wingedwithlate. The weight of the blow which they inflicted was oppresssive, and the very vagueness of theintireation, connected with its heavy import, staggered the boldest its it bewildered the most clear-headed and dis passionate. All that was to be gathered from the unwelcome message was the fact that, at daylight on the morning of the fortieth anniversary of the glorious victory of Waterloo, the standards of those hosts who that day met in deadly conflict on the Belgian plain, were borne iu concert against the corn- . mon foe, and, unlike the .fOrtune of that memorable day, those standards were both driven back defeated. The extent of loss was not stated nor even indicated, but, as in all such cases conjecture did its utmost to realize the worst of fears. At first all presented to the mind's eye seemed a chaos of commingling disaster end defeat ; a steady gaze on matters as they could be guessed at through the misty medium of contemplation Presented, tended in no small degree to reassure the most desponding and to rekindle the hope which had been all but crashed in every bosom. The despatch spoke, indeed, in terms sufficiently impressive; of an attack repelled, but was silent as to the loss of any advantage previously achieved ; and, though mournfully eloquent as to the lees sustained - in the particular enterprise referred to, was encouragingly mute as to fatal casualties on any other point in either of the allied works. From the glimmering ray of hope thus permitted to illumine the darkened picture, men were enabled more int partiallY to scan its limnings. The inspection showed that, deeply as the misfortune is to be deplored, it is not such an occurrence as to take it in any degree out of the ordinary oc currences of war. Deeply as this, the first, repulse of our attack upon Sebastopol is to be lamented, it is not such as ought in any degree to dishearten a great and gallant people. Sue!' reverses Lave happened before, in numerous instances, to even the Ll'«VC.it and best disciplined troops when led by the most skilful generals. Our annals tell us that WEL LINGION eXperielie&A sitnilar checks before Burgos and . Badajos ; and his invincible army was much w orse h an dled at Cituld Rodrigo and San Sebastian ; yet all of these places fell before his victorious arms. From such details as have been permitted to transpire, it woitl4 seem as if the too easy conquest of the Mamelon and the comparatively rapid capture o f tike Ovens raid Quarry-works liid rendered the commanders of both armies too sanguine of an easy victory; forgetful that to obtain possession of these important points, which would completely command the fortress, they must expect a stub born and a sanguinary opposition, which they appear to have been but indifferently prepared to overcome. So far as can be gathered from the very imperfect data hitherto made public, it would seem that, in accordance with a preConceived plan, the French were to attack the Malakhoff, and the English the Redan, at day-break on the morning of the 18th, and this attack they spiritedly made at tjie time ~anc in the manner agreed on: To undeFstand the nature of this combined operation and its importance, it will be well to bear in mind the foll Owing explanation. The 3lalakhoff is a strong fort constructed on an eminence to the east of the town, which it completely overlooks, commanding the inner harbour, and with its guns sweeping the whole of the town proper, enfilading Fort Nicholas, and traversing the eastern or military portion of the town, and according to some authorities holding within its range the Star Fort, on the north side of the Great Harbour. In short, it is placed so as to pour destruc tion over nearly every portion of the devoted city. The Redan is another strong fort, also crowning au eminence at a short distance to the south-west of the Mahlkhoff, from which it is separated by a deep ravine. The Redan is on a level con siderably lower than that crowned by the Malakhoff, and is commanded by it. In front of the Malakhoff the Russians had constructed and fortified the strong out-work called the Mamelon, from which the French dispossessed them after a sharp and sanguinary struggle ; at the same time, the English took possession of the Quarries. Both these important out works were held by their respective conquerors ; and from them it was agreed they were to sally forth in quest of the new advantages they sought, which, if obtained, would have given them virtual command of the whole south side of the Great Harbour. Within the exterior defences of the Redan, the Rus sians had constructed an additional battery, so that if beaten from the main work they might still be able to check the storm ing party in its progress towards the town, and in front of this inner battery they had dug a deep and wide ditch. The attack on both the Redan and the Malakhoff were made simultaneously. After a severe, although not very protracted struggle, the British storming party carried the millworks of the Redan, but were brought to a stand at the ditch which defended the inner battery ; they had no planks on which to cross this formidable obstacle, nor were they provided with scaling-ladders to surmount the wall, and they were conse quently exposed to a severe and murderous fire from the guns of the inner fort. The French also advanced gallantly in their attack upon the Malakhoff, the outworks of which they had barely reached when a mine was sprung beneath them, causing instant and wide-spread destruction. The recoil of the attacking column was immediately followed up by a vigorous attack of the Russians, in such force as to bear down the staggered and broken batta lions of the French, whom they succeeded in driving beyond the Mamelon, which they held with desperate tenacity, not withstanding the repeated and brave efforts of the French to regain their lost position, which efforts were not crowned with success till night. Consequent on this partial success of the Russians, the newly-acquired position of the English became eminently perilous. They were exposed to a dreadful can nonade from three different points, viz., from the inner battery of the Redan, from the Malakhoff, and from the recaptured outwork of the Mamelon ; to none of which could they reply w,th anything like effect. From this exposed situation they were at last, compelled to ratire, but not before they had sus tained a !oss, it is said, of between 4,000 and 5,000 men in killed and wounded, including 20 officers, amongst whom were Sir Jo CAMPBELL, Lieut.-Colonel YEA, and Colonel SHAD. FORTIE. The French behaved with their customary bravery in the desperate conflict. In the first burst of the strife they gained a partial footing in the Malakhoir works, from which they were driven by the springing of the mine referred to, which, by its destructive effects, secured for the Russians a temporary triumph, and an additional means of galling the previously victorious English. After repeated struggles of a dreadfully sanguinary character, the French succeeded in dis lodging the enemy, and before night-fall were once more per manent possessors of the dearly-bought works of the Mame lon. In accomplishing these efforts, however, they suffered severely, and lost, it is said, two general officers, in the contest. No estimate has as yet been transmitted of the absolute num ber of their killed and wounded, nor, of those who fell on the part of the enemy, the fatter of whom must also have sustained a very severe loss. Such, 'according to the meagre accounts received, has been. the nature of the great and sanguinary conflict, which resulted in the -first check as yet sustained by the allied arms. Deeply to be deplored as it unquestionably is,, it presents few features which ought . to dishearten the Allies, -and exhibits no characteristic, except the indomitable courage of the attacking troops, if that be an exception, which ought not to have been looked for in so ardtious an undertaking as that in which we have been engaged. The works assaulted are evi dently of the last importance to the besieged, and conse quently a resistance proportionately desperate was to be looked for. The disaster, for disaster it unquestionably has been, like that which was.the precursor of the French successful attack on the newly-constructed .works thrown up by the Russians to the westward of the Flagstaff Battery, will, there is reason to hope, prove only the harbinger of a decisive and victorious effort to carry the works of which partial pos session had been obtained. Profiting by the dear-bought knowledge they have acquired, their martial "-virtues rising will appear More glorious and more dread than from no fall, And trust themselves to fear no second fate." Indeed, even among those but little tainted with an orer sanguine disposition, there are not wanting many who believe that the assault will have been made, and that successfully, before these lines shall see the light. Expectation is eagerly on the stretch —time presses for the issue, unless we mean to see our gallant armies melt away before the debilitating influ ence of a Crimean summer, not less fatal than the winter campaign whose miseries and desolation all classes have joined so feelingly in deploring. .Mention of the winter campaign reeds to memory that the famous committee of inquiry into the disasters of that period, more fatal than the unsuccessful attack which is now the cause of such general and acute regret and grief, delivered its report to the Hofise of Commons on Monday night. It is a long and somewhat pointless document, from which, nevertheleis, some good may ultimately be extracted. It is understood to have been the result of so much wrangling—the offspring of so little unanimity, as to be practically a mosaic in which each individual member has placed his little bit of tile after it has been ground, and pared, and chipped, and trimmed, and fitted to its particular opening by the combined ingenuity of all his colleagues. As good not unfrequently comes out of evil, so in the case of this committee and its report, in which censure has been so refined and attenuated as to have lost all but the semblance of condemnation, a substantive motion has been carved out and notified to the house by Mr. ROEBUCK, calling upon its members collectively to pass a censure upon all the members of the late and present Government, with the exception of three Members of the present, of which exception neither Lord PALMERSTON nor Lord Joust RUSSELL is one . The motion has been fixed for the 3rd of July, and if it do not, as in the case of several of its predecessors,. give rise alone to endless and seemingly aimless speechmaking, it may be productive of some benefit. The metropolis and the nation, and indeed it may be said the whole of civilized Europe, has been struck breath less with indignation, by the accounts received of that atrocious outrage which the Russians have perpetrated at Hango, in the Baltic. There, as all the world knows by this time, some four or five hundred Russian soldiers attacked and most inhumanly murdered a boat's crew belonging to the English _.ship_ Cossack, which under cover of a flag of truce landed for the purpose of setting at liberty some Rus sian prisoners. The affair was brought before the House of Peers on Thursday, by the Earl of MALMEeBUBY, who, in em phatic, yet measured, language, denounced it as a deed of mur der demanding the execration of the civilised world—as a deed. of ruthlessness unparalleled in English history. The spirit of his lordship's observations was promptly taken up and reiterated by a large number of the peers assembled. Lord BROUGHAM, with his characteristic energy, refused to be satisfied with a mere disclaimer of participation by the Russian Government, and called for " punishment on the perpetrators of a, deed so extraordinary and so cruel. If ever the land called for blood," said his lordship, "it is noW." The details of this sad tragedy are now widely known, and universally condemned and exe- crated. In the field our countrymen have met and beaten the Russians with a disadvantage of eight to one; on the wave they have not dared to show an adverse prow ; but at Hango they had the fortune to find themselves in a ma jority of between twenty and thirty to one, and the Oppor tUnity was too good to be let slip. The leader of these Murdering miscreantS; elated with his overwhelming numerie.tl superiority, exclaimed in savage exultation,— "We will shOw you how Russians fight." And be did so. He showed how Russians can fight when five hundred have to wage unequal conflict with eleven : the smaller party, trusting to the usages of war and their own message of mercy for protection, being altogether unarmed. The victory in such circumstances was indeed suited to the genius of Russian bravery. In treachery and wantonness it surpasses the butchery of Sinope, and will, without doubt, be rewarded with a similar mined of public approbation at St. Petersburg. Indeed, it has already met with Russian praise. According to the Russian account of the atrocity, the:crew of the Cossack's beat aro said to have, landed in arms, :and, consequently, the deed is exalted into one of patriotic heroism ; but the amount of slaughter is concealed, and the majority of the crew are said to be only " caged." Such is the Russian phrase, but what it means it is not easy to conjecture. The falsehooq of the Russian THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. statement is, however, appareu t from various circumstances. The boat's crew are represented as having landed in arms, and in the same account the arms of the men are said to have been found in the bottom of the boat. Next, the Russian version of the story tells us that do boat was sunk, although all the world besides is aware that. Jo}tx BROWN, as he himself believes, the only survivor of the barbarous tragedy, escaped in the boat which was picked up at sea, and with himself was taken on board the ship. The boat, in its upper planks, is found riddled with hullet-holes, sufficiently proving that the men were fired on befora they landed, or in the act of landing—of that, after those who had landed had, been murdered on shores care was taken that none should escape to reveal the particu lars of the horrible massacre ; — The diSmal tragedy enacted at Hango was indeed a lictory suite&to the genius of that Rus sian warfare which murdered the wounded at Inkermann, and butchered those who brought succour to her wounded sons on the heights of Alma—it is in every respect worthy of their false pretensions and their felon arms. It shows how such men can fight, when there is no resistance—when the achievement of victory depends alone on safe butchery. The musical world of London has just received intelligence of the death of one of its oldest and most deserving fovourites. On Friday week, ROBERT LINDLEY, the veteran and most accomplished of English violoncello-players, died in Percy street, Brighton, at the advanced age of 83. It is but a few years since he retired from the public practice of his profes sion, and all those who can extend their recollections to the Royal Italian Opera and the best concerts of ten years ago, must have a vivid and pleasing remembrance of the comely old man whose entrance into the orchestra was the invariable signal for a hearty welcome. For more than half a century LINDLEY was a popular idol, his claim to adoration being founded on the expressive delicacy, yet strength and vigour of his tone. In his hands the violoncello could do anything but speak, or yield unpleasing sounds. He was of an urbane, gentle and kindly disposition, and was a great favourite among his younger professional brethren, while with the distinguished of the elders he enjoyed a lively friendship and_ a welcome brotherhood. LvsnLE - r was a native of Rotherham, in Yorkshire, where his father was a teacher of music. Early in life the son gave unmistakable token of musical aptitude, and so long ago as 1794 he received the appoint ment of first violoncello in the orchestra of the Royal Italian Opera, which position he retained till his retirement from public life. The theatrical world, as is usual at this season, continues ,to whirl with liveliness, if not with vigour, in its gas-lit orbit. At the Adelphi, Mr. Tom TAYLOR has produced a drama under the name of i ‘ Helping Hands," which has the great merit of having achieved success. The interest of the piece is centred in the excellent acting of WEBSTER and Madame CELESTE, aided by the efforts of Mr. and Mrs. KEELEY—to literary merit the piece has no claim. CHARLES MATHEWS is distributing his theatrical lustre at the City of London Theatre, where he has been engaged, and in which be has been delighting the City folks with some of the vagaries with which he so long and so successfully enlivened the frequenters of the Lyceum. At the Princess's, CHARLES XEAN still gaily keeps the field with his gorgeous reproduction of King Henry the Eighth. At the Standard, Messrs. WRIGHT and PAUL BEDFORD have become the leading stars, in the absence of Miss GLYN, who has just made a most gratifying and success ful debut as Cleopatra in a revived set of Shakspeare's Anthony and Cleopatra. Of her performance of the "fair witch of Egypt," which was witnessed by His Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant, the Dublin critics speak in rapturous terms. To return, however, to the starting-point, the gentlemen named as leaders at the Standard have proved very attractive. The two great houses still continue rivals in Opera. At Old Drury, respectably performed operas and gay ballets are offered by Mr. S3IITH, at circus prices, and are meeting with a fair share of patronage; while Covent Garden rejoices in the melodies chauntect by GRIST and MARIO ; by TAB-. BURINI and LABLACIIE ; and these veterans are aided in the general corps by several celebrities of newer fame, who pro mise fairly to deserve a large share of popular applause. THE NATIONAL SOCIETY and the (SO-CALLED) CHURCH of ENGLAND EDUCATION SOCIETY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL. STANDARD. Sin,—Mr. Colquhoun's letter, in defence of the society of which he is a leading member, requires. some-notice; though the transparent fallacy of argument needs only a clear state ment to be plainly seen. Whether the letter - is a judicious one, is a matter of opinion; that it is a valuable one, there can be no doubt s since it sets forth in admirable-simplicity the tactics of the party to which the writer belongs.. Mr. Colquhoun's objections- to the- National Society are two fold. Ist. It gives help only to school building, and sup porting of training colleges ; not to the support of schools already established. The answer to this is almost too obvious to need setting down :—lncrease the funds, and: the society' Will increase its sphere of operations. The second objection requires a little more notice. It says :—" The second characteristic of a National: Society of Education is, that it shall combine in its management the two' leading sections of the Church of England." Truly, this is a most delectable characteristic ! I have often heard of the pugnacity of John Bull; the noble art of sparring,.which is, I believe, peculiar to him : but I certainly never• did understand before that the exercise of this- art was necessary to his reli gious well-being ; and that no society had any title to the term "National," unless it contained in itself theelements of discord, and the whole apparatus of dissension.. The perfection. of a National Society is, according to this view, when it con tains two parties equally balanced, each opposing and thwart ing the other. And, so completely is this the view of Mr_ Colquhoun and his party, that, haVing attempted, indlailed. in introducing into the Committee of the National:Society the element of 'discord, he thought it absolutely necessary to the well-being of the Church at large to establish:a rival and oppo sition society, which was- to act more extensively and more publicly against the National Society This schismatical pro ceeding he considers essential to any national institution. But, in endeavouring to establish his position, he proceeds to make the monstrous and malignant assertion, that—all the sixteen elected members of the Committee. of the National, Society, with the exception of two, are Ti.actarians ! ! !—that this was the case when, he was- a member of the committee, and that it is so now. Of course, the very monstrosity of such an assertion carries its own refutation : no man of sound judg ment could for a moment believe this. But, as-proof is more satisfactory than mere denial, I will give the names of the committee, so that every one may juste for himself. I have before me the Reports of 1849 and 18a0—the other three years I cannot find. As, however, I knew that the committee has changed very little.. these two years will be quite- suffi cient for the purpose :—Archdeacon Harrison, Revs. H. H. Oilman, J. Jennings, Mr. 'Mathison, Rev. IL Norris, Sir W. P. Wood, Mr. Colquhoun, Sir Thomas- Phillips, Mr. Acland, Lord Lyttelton, Mr. Adderley, Hon. J. Talbot; Mr. Cotton, Rev. Lord J. Thynne, Mr. Twining, Mr.. Davis, Rev. W. Short. Here is Mr. Colquhoun's. list of Tractarians ! Truly, some of these gentlemerkwill be proud of the honour of being nicknamed by Mr. Colquhoun ! I should like to see their look when they were told so. Now my idea of a national society is,. thsa it is a society which is not a party society, whose members. are not party men ; and. this is exactly the characteristic. of the National- Society for Education. None of those men above-mentioned, excepting Mr. Colquhoun - himself, is a party man; and it is plain from Mr. Colquhoun's letter, that. it is because this.: society would not lend. itself to party purposes, that he 404 left it, and set up another. Mr. Colquboun confesses—cony_ fesses without a blush of shame—that he-and his party tried.to, get the Archbishop of Canterbury to lend himself to his. intrigues : nay, more, he does not hesitate to father on the. Archbishop the scheme itself. I and sure, and all readers. will agree with me, when I say, that the Archbishop of Can terbury is incapable of such tricks.. I must say a few more words about this Tractarian.Com mittee. Let it- be known, then, that a committee i.elected, according to a certain cycle, twthe subscribers.of agninea to the society, at their annual meeting. Anything less exclusive. than this, it is impossible to conceive : at the same-tune,. any= thing men .completely crushing to Mr. Colquhoun's slander, that it is a " party society, " is as difficult to imagine ; unless it be this, THAT EVEE.Y ONE OF THE Exenorti Is, ex officio, • MEMBER OF Tun COMMITTEE. Neither. are any more Words needed to prove that the society is what it professes to be—" THE NATIONAL SOCIETY for the .Edneatiotiaf the Poor in the Principles of the Established. Church." . A careful perusal 'of Mr. Colquhoun's letter brings me to the conclusion, that the only point in si,hieh be attempts to substantiate the charge- of- Tractarianism is the College of St. Mark's, Chelsea. Yet he acknowledges that it is governed by a council of its own, and not by the National Society : the society makes grants to the college, but so does the govern ment ; if the National Society is Tractarian, because it grants money to St. Mark's College, so must the Privy Council on Education, for it does so too,- I.shall not enter into a defence of that college, or of the matter concerning Mr. Daymond since you did that effectually in your two. articles; I - will only mention one fact, which will tell more than all argument that this year the Council the Cheltenham Training Col lege, which has the reputation of belonging exclusively to the Evangelical party, applied to St. Mark's for a method master, and the etibr of this office was made to Mr. A. C. Daymond, a St. Mark's man, and . brother to the gentleman of whom Mr. Colquhoun so bitterly complains. E. B. A Itc-LE for a new trial has been granted, on the application of the defendant, in the case of Boyle v. Wiseman, on the ground of the improper admission of secondary evidence of the cardinal's handwriting, 17fR. TUR2i - ERELLI'S LEOTLTRES ON RUSSIA. "WHAT KIND OF MEN OUR ENEN.IIE3 ARE." Sucre is the titre of a coarse of lectures, the first of which (on the. Russian nobles) was delivered last night, at the Mechanics' Institution in - - this town, by Mr. Edward Tracy Turnerelli, the author of some well-known works on Russia and its • People. Mr. Turnerelli, who, we learn, is the son of the celebrated artist of that name, sculptor to their late Majesties George 111. and IV., first visited Russia in the year 1837., His travels in that country were not confined alone to the two capitals, St. Petersburg and Moscow, for he explored the whole of the Volga down to the Caspian sea, sojourning, as he advanced, for weeks together in the principal towns on the banks of that river; one of which, Kazan, the ancient capital of the Tartar Khans, he has described in two interesting , volUmes lately published in London by Bentley. During this journey, which lasted five years, he travelled through 17 pro vinces of the Russian Empire, a feat which, we believe, few English travellers can boast of having accomplished. Mr. Turnerelii enjoyed the personal favour-of the late Emperor Nicholas, who patronised his works in a very liberal manner, and assisted him in various ways ia his travels. This advan tage joined to an intimate acquaintance with many of the nobles, induced Mr. Turnerelli to prolong his sojourn in Russia upwards of sixteen years ; and it was only. at the commence ment of the present war that he felt it his duty to leave that country, to which, he candidly tells us, the kind treatment he received from all classes had in many ways attached him. As Englishmen, therefore, we could duly appreciate the feeling which induced Mr. Turnerelli to remark that as much as trata would permit him (for no sense of gratitude would induce him to say a word that was not truth), he would, although we were at war with 'Russia, tell all the good he had.observed in that country, and tell it too with - heartfelt pleasure. The Russians, he said, had many imperfections in their character which were generally known; but they had, at the same time, many great and remarkable national virtues, of which few travellers had ' spoken. While he painted, therefore, faithfully, the darker side of their character, he would most certainly not conceal the fairer traits ; and this was a duty he owed not only to the Russians, but to his countrymen and to himself. He began his description of the Russian nobles by depicting the peculiarly Muscovite manner in which Peter the Great, by the aid of a host of French tutors, governeeses, nurses, hair dreseiers, dancers, teachers, valets (all French), whom he imported in ship loads into the country, introduced civilisation among his gaunt Boyars. They. wore long beards, which Peter ordered them to shave, but the Boyars rebelled at this order, and the mutiny it raised nearly cost Peter his life. The latter settled the matter by fixing a tax upon his subjects' beards, and the Boyars—preferring rather to part with their beards than their roubles—finished by keeping Peter's , order. By degrees the Muscovite Boyars assumed a very polished appearance, and at the present day, a Russian noble is as polite and civilised a man as any aristocrat in Europe. - The stamp of civilisation; however, retains the impress of its origin e the Russian nobles still imitate the French in their habits', manners, dress, and tastes; nothing but French is heard: among them, and by some of their enemies they have been: called des Francais OM's, or *oiled Frenchmen. A pre ference for the French people was strongly marked in the Russian character; but they liked all foreigners, particularly when they happened to belong to the softer sex. A pretty actress or dancer, was sure to make a rapid fortune in Russia, though it is not necessary to enquire too closely into the means employed to do so. .Madlle. Jenny Farcon came to St. Petersburg a poor girl; in a few months she had a palace to live in, and drove about the town in a carriage and four; every body was cliing for her, *and one poor fellow did die,—a young Russian officer having lot himself for Jenny's sake, when she refused to marry him. This' passion for foreign artistes was carried so far as often to lead the young Russian noble into the most ridiculous excessee, For instance, when Mademoiselle Taglioni quitted St. Petersburg., she left a pair of slippers at the hotel. The landlord soon made his good fortune known, and 60, 100, and even 200 roubles (£3O) were freely, offered for the forgotten slippers. The landlord, however, finding the public enthusiasm in crease as he raised his demands, peremptorily' refused to part with the slippers under 500 roubles (£75). This sum being rather more than any individual appeared willing to give, 35 persons clubbed together; and purchased the-slippers. They then wanted to know what to do with theme After many suggestions, .none of which gave general saffsfaction, it was proposed by one of the speculators, more enthusiastic and original than his fellows, that they should. ear them ? The landlord of the hotel pronounce) the idea to be excellent, and proposed to make a fricasee of them, which was accord ingly done, and the 36 enthusiasts, with the lecturer as 'their guest, did actually eat Taglioni's slippers; and washed them down in bumpers of champagne, in which they drank to- the health of the charming danseuse. The education of the Russian nobles was almost exclusively in the ban& of. foreigners, and many of these were, certainly little qualified for' the task they toed( upon themselves to perform. A Russian, prince, living in the interior of Russia, was very proud of hies daughters' . Engliish; but, on - being introduced' to them, Mr: Turaerelli found that they had been learning Scotch instead of English a and foraught lee knew', their teaeher, might have been some needy bagpiPer,whofouad teaching a more profitable busi nessin Russia than playing his national instrument. Mr. Tur nerelafrelated on toss subject several other amusing anecdotes, . which space wilt not permit us to allude to. The great defects of the Russian nobles were their extravagance, their dis sipation, their love of change, their fondisess for' gam bling, and sometimes their want of honesty in their dealings. But,. on , the other hand, their hospitality, courtesy, and charity were beyond all praise. Each of these characteristic traits Mr. Turnerelli illustrated by a variety of incidents- which had occurred under . his- personal notice, and which interested strongly his auditors. Many of the noblas- in the interior kept open house, and the more numerous the droppers in to dinner the better pleased was the bast. In a word, theliospitality of the Russians was in many towns the hospitality of the hotel—without thea bill at leav fag; Of their courtesy Mr. Turnerelli related several circum stances-which occurred to himself individually,. while travel- Hag in Russia.. Theii - charity and generosity to-foreigners in - distress was highly creditable to their feelings. An appeal to the generosity of a Russian noble was seldom rnade in vain ; and the-lecturer recorded several instances of poor foreigners, who had. died in thedatissian capital when he was living there, and whose families had- been provided for by the Imperial family and. the nobles. , " Charity," he hopeda therefore, might " cover some of the- sins" of the Russians. .With some remarks op the physical appearance, education, _habits, and tastes of the Russian ladiessMr.Turnerelli concluded hie lecture, in which, we must do him the justice to say, not only he com municated to us much novel information. concerniteatbealtus sian people of a most interesting and useful description, but his pictures bore • a character of truthfulness, impartiality, and moderation we tanuot too highly value. His second leature on ." The Russian Serfs" wilaba delivered tomorrow evening.; and,.. when we reflect that it* is with, forty Millions of these men we have to struggle in our present contest e all us of must naturally feel moreorless inte rested to know the 'peculiar characteristics of that race-of which we have so little trustworthy information ; and many, doubt less, will avail- themselves- of the favorable opaortunity af forded them in. this matter by Mr. Turnerelli's descriptions, founded on a sixteen years! experience and a else study of Russian character. Mt. Thrnerellfs last lecture will be given on Friday evening; and the subject, " The dead; and living Czar," promises to be highly interesting—the mere-so, when we recall to mind Mr. Tumerelli's acquaintance with the Imperial family of Russia, whose domestic habits-a eel charac ter lie has - probably had better opportunities of :studying than any Englishman we could bring forward. Hies work, very lately published, entitled, ." What I Know of the ate Emperor Nicholas and his Family," of which we have read several laudatory notices in the London papers, confirms us in this opinion ; and we look forward with pleasure to that evening's entertainment. 7!HB BAMIr.RUPT BANEVI?S. AT a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Strahan, Paul, & Co., on Tuesday, it was stated that there is scarcely a tradesman among the debtors under the estate, the Itgal profession, through themselves cetheir clients, being the 9rineipal sufferers. The two firms of Strahan, Paul, & Co., and Milford & Co., are identical, but the opinion is that the latter will, as far as its separate position is concerned, be found in wrauch better posi tion.than the former. On Wednesday Mr: Robert :Makin Bates, .the third partner in the firm, wae_paeoed at the bar of Boarstreet Police-court, before Mr. Jaldlue,. to answer the charge of having,..ha conjunction with Messrs..Strahan & Paul, unlawfully negotiated or otherwise disposal,of certain deeds or securities to the. value of £3,000, which ;lad been entrusted to them for safe keeping by Dr. Griffiths., itatte.rapts had been made, it was thew stated, to apprehenclthe other two partners. J.. D. Paid was, indeed, actually taken into c us t o dy on Tuesday evening, at his residence at Nutfield, near Reigate. - ThiOfficersiound Sir John at homeeand.succeeded in serving the warrant upon him, but, it beingtoo late to return to Lon don,the same night, alllowed their prisoner tog° to bed, sitting up all night: themselves within viesseafhisroom. Next morn ing they conducted the prisoner tothe Reigate station, arriving barely in time to save the train. liakats were procured hur riedly for the three, and, according ; to: the statements of the officers„the train was actually in:motinn when Sir John took. his seat in a second-class carriage,. The constables were follow ing him: into the same carriageovhen a railway porter pul.W, them back, exclaiming, " TlattrAin is in motion, and you can't get in." The officers "We are police-constables e. he is our prisoner, and we musitaccompany him ; resist us at your peril," To this the porters, merely rejoined that they were only carrying out their orders, "to prevent any one entering a, carriage while the train was.in motion," and having closed the carriage -door against the• officers, the train went off without them. The constables state : that they immediately represented the facts to the superintendent and showed him theirauthority, but he refused to "signal," the train to stop, although.consent ing to send a telegraphic message to the London station. This was done by desire of the officers, who proceeded. to town by the next up-train,, which reached London-bridge only ten minutes after the one they had missed. On inquiry,.howeeer, of the station-master at London-bridge if their prisoner had been detained, he replied that he did not know the person of Sir John Paul by sight, and had taken no steps in the matter. The police officers, who had been in some measure disarmed by Sir John's suavity of manner, had thus the mortification of .finding that their prisoner hadeffectually escaped, and throngh- - out the day no trace of him could be found. They were also unsuccessful in their pursuit of Mr. Stra.han, who was expected to keep an appointment at the bank, but who did not make his appearance, although anxiously looked for throughout the day. Some formal evidence, respecting the disappearance of cer tain Dutch bonds belonging to Dr. Griffiths, and entrusted to the firm, being given, the prisoner was remanded. Since the examination of Mr. Bates on Wednesday, the other two partners have surrendered themselves to the author ities. Mr. Strahan gave himself up that same evening, and was briefly examined on the following day, when he was also . remanded. On Thursday Sir J. D. Paul surrendered at Bow street police-court, declaring that he had no intention of es caping from the officers who captured him. The three defen dants were placed at the bar before Mr. Hall on Friday , when Dr. Griffiths again gave evidence respecting the charge which he preferred against them. Securities worth £22,000, chiefly in Dutch stocks, he stated had been lodged in the bank for safe custody, Messrs. Strahan being merely empowered to re ceive the dividends, and lodge them to his account. The secu rities were now missing, and Dr. Griffiths deposed that Mr. Strahan had confessed to having taken them, together with similar documents belonging to different parties, to the value in the whole of £lOO,OOO, to a discount house in the City, for the purpose of obtaining advances: The only object being to take enough evidence to justify a remand, the further inves tigation of the case was postponed until to-morrow, Wednesday, and the prisoners sent to the House of Detention at Clerkenweli, 5 , LIVERPOOL COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION. AT the half-yearly distribution of prizes, on Friday, tiie Rev. J. S. Howson, the Principal of the institution, presided, in the absence of the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of the Diocese. Interesting addresses were delivered by himself, and by the Rev. Dr. M`Neile, Mr. S. Holme, and other gentlemen, The following is a list of the prizes : UPPER . SCHOOL Master's Un!versify Exhibition, Arthur ; Egerton Scholar ship, Arthur ; Hoime Scholarship, 'Wright ; Brown Scholar ship, Widdowson ; Sandon Scholarship, J. B. Moore. CLASS Pitiz4..—Class 1, prize, Arthur ; certificate, G. Rawdon ; class 2, prize, Sinker ; certificates, Edwards and E. H. M`Nelie, Tq. ; class 3, prize, J. F. Rounthwaite ; certifi cate, Archer ; (modern) prize, J. B. Moore ; certificate, F. Rawdon ; class 4, prize, Clough ; certificate, Fairclough ; (modern), prize, J. Peel ; certificate, Newton ; class 5, prizes, T.. Cartwright and Cordeaux, req. ; class G, prize, Falloon ; certificate, W. Aked ; class 7, prize, Makin ; certificate, Young ; class 8, prizes, Forwood and J. M. Caw ; certificates, A. Ramsay, and H. Glynn. SPECIAL PRIZES.—Junior Divinity, 1. Jones, 2. P. Tarbet ; Clough and Fairclough, wq. Junior History, P. Ramsay and Clough. Junior Arithmetic, Parkin and Fairclough. French, J. B. Moore. French (Additional), B. W. Wilson, E. H. M'Neile, and Webster ; Newton, Pater, Clough, J. Brown, J. C. Brown, A. Wilson, T. Cartwright, and Cordeaux, Writing, A. Wilson. Drawing, R. P. Aked and Peel. Draw ing (Additional), Parkin aad Jeffery; G. Maples, J. F. Rounth waite, I. Glynn, Pater, and H. Rawdon. EXTRA PRIZES.—Donor, the Principal ; subject, Latin Prose 'l'ranslation ; prize, Arthur. Donor, Mr. Ellis; subject, Latin Verse Poem ; prize, G. Rawdon. Certificate,l. Arthur, 2. Wright. Donor, Vice-Principal ; subject, Greek and Latin Grammar ; prize, P. Tartlet ; Certificate, Ramsay. Donor, Mr. Pbrter ; subject, Good Conduct ; prize, W. Aked, and F. Michod. Donor, Vice-Principal ; subject, History British Colonies; prize, F. Rawdon. Donor, Stewart Ker, Esq. ; subject, Divinity ; prize, Moore and Dove, equal. A prize has also been given by the Principal, Vice-Principal, and Mr. Porter, to•J. B. Moore, for distinguished answering in the examination for the Brown Scholarship ; and by - Mr. .Hilley to the head-boy in the lower division of the Bth class. Certificates have been awarded- in the preparatory classes to Makin for writing, and .Hugh Glynor for general improve ment. MIDDLE SCHOOL, I CLASS PRIZE LIST . .—Ist Class : prize, Pendlebury ; Lobly. 2d Class, prize, Clare ; cert., Gath. 3d Class, prize, Dixon ; cert., Han. 4th Class, prize, Wright ; cert., A, Daly. sth Class, prize., Field ; cert., Gregg. Gth Class, prize, Daly ; cert., C. Daly. 7th Class, prize, Hughes • cert., F, Venn. 9th Class, prize ; Broek ; cert., Cunningham. 9th Class, prize, Gibbons ; cert., Piling. SPECIAL natal?, Lisr.—Divinity medal, Buckley ; cart:, Coltart. Nomination to the Upper School, Pendlebury. His torical and Geographical medal, Shaw. Mathematical and Arithmetical medal, Pendlehury ; carts., I'. G. Jones, Smith, Stubbs, Youd, and A. Daly. French medal, O'Sullivan ; certs., Garratt, Clare, Hall, and H. B: Holmes. Drawing medal, Swift ; carts., Pendlebury, Cooper; H. G. Jones, and Fell. Penmanship medal, Newall ; certs.,- Nott, T. B. Jones, Stafford, Daly, Fell, Gill, Dawson,. Crane, and Pearson. Ist WNeile scholarship, Lobley. 2nd M`Neile schelarship, Swift and Dixon. Tyrer scholarship, F:.G: Jones. Natural His toll: prize, Dawkin. Mr. J. H. Cox Zs. prizes far French, C. Virilis and A. Daly. Dr. Nevin's- Prize for Chemistry, Rochfort. Choral Union Prize for Singing,. Smith. LOWER SCHOOL, ft 4 PCIA.‘I,- PRTZES.—Divinity, Ist Lawton, 2nd Witham : cert.,. Green, W. History, Bootle-;.: certs:„ Lobity and Cowa.rct Ist M'Neile Scholarship, Sirdefield:; certs-., Lawton and Bishop. - 22nd Ditto, Sirdefield, transferred. to Pearson ; certs.„ Witham and Parslow. Writing medal,. Buckley,; W. ; certs., Munday and Wright. Arithmetical Medal, Sirdeffeld ; -carts., Lawton,- Pelham, Bradbury, and Nicholson. Nomina tion to Middle School, Witham. Heyworth. Ditto,. Parry; cert., Bradbury.. Singing Prize (by Choral* Union), Eynon, G. ; cent,. Pearson. CLASS PRIZES: , --Class, 1, Ist Molyneux Scholarship,. Sirdit.- field, transferred , to Lawton, W. B.; 2nd Ditto,. CowarcL.D.. Class 2, Pelhtun ,J l .-; , cert., Munday, R. Class-3; Todd, cert., Williams;!J: Class 4, Nicholson, W.; cer&,.Taylor, W.. Class 5, Kidd,..E A. ;. cert., Williams, J. G. Class'6, Franceys, A. ; cert., Bates; F. Class 7, Bateson, J. ; • Class 8, Alsop,-W. A; cert., French and Walker. Class 9,. Wells, I.; certs:,.lCiSsack, 1., Quale, G. Writing certificates,. for best in each class,. Class 1, Bishop ; 2, Wright 4, Ward ; 5, Goulding--;: 6, Wilby ; 7, Bateson; Si.Winstanley ; 9, Bates. Writing' certificates, for greatest improvement ;. Class I,,Sirdefield , and .Bootle; 2, Munday and Lee ; 3, Wil ton ; 4, Ward ; 5- Rivenall ; 6, Wilby and Eadgel: 7y .Wilton ;. 8, French and gkellorn. Mapping certificates:: Sirdefield, Lawton, Parslow, and. Coward. Certificates for Ornamental Penmanship : Pelham, Witham, Parslow, Halsall„andLawton. EXTRA SPEctal.Pkizts.—Drawing, Parslow certs., Wit ham, L.; Pelham, and Anton.. Euclid and Algebra-(given by Mr. Evans), Halsall, Examination of Half-year's Work, Class 7, (given by Mr. Harper), Tnrvey J. French (giimn , by M. Sears); Ist W. Buckley ; 2nd J. Pelham ; certs.,. Parslow. Parker, Wright, and Scheifield. . - NAMES HONOURABVTMENiIONED. —Class 2, Shaw, Wagden ; 3, E: B. Ewart, Tyrer ; 4, Salisbury, EdWards ; 5 Hollis, Hallam, Hughes, Lahy ; 6, Lea, Tale% . Leith, Bushell; 7, Jones, J. DOwnes„ Hinde ; 8, French, Maris i Wal ! br, H. F., Brown, T. ; 9, Parry, Heywood. MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. Ar ;THE THEATRE-ROYAL, Miss Cushman has appeared on two evenings during the past week, viz., on those of Wednes day and Friday, and on both occasions she was successfulein bringing, together large-.and fashionable audiences. On Wednesday she performed- her favourite and wellsknown character of Meg Merrilies in the drama of " Guy Man nerirg, and presented to , the- admiring assemblage her per sonation of the fine embodiment of Scott with all herw , anted energy' of action, and heravonted vehemence of decimation, both combined and heightened by the accompaniments of picturesque costume, and etudied stage effect. As usual,. she was received with warm. enthusiasm, and her performance throughout was loudly arafrequently applauded. OnTriday she appeared as the hereilieeof a play somewhat nese.to her, and performed for the - first time on that occasion- ab this theatre:. It is a new version of Victor Hugo's " - Angelo; .Tynan de Padoue," and wae-here, as it had been at the Hay. market in London, produced .under the title of " The Actress of Padua," As a drama,. it is a piece of which ne great amount - of good can be saide in dialogue it is commonplace, presenting!ew outbursts of poetical attraction to redeem the flat, bald 'language of exaggerated though common passion. It is marked by no fine descriptive flights : and even those tinsel ornaments of the playwright—well-concocted. senti • rents—are far from plential, in its composition ; its-plot is -meagre and unnatural, and-• the means by which that plot is wrought out are.• sadly defitient in ingenuity—and at its denouement the drama knees no pleasing, no impressing im pression on the eninds. of the auditors, who, by its-singular construction,. have been, .long before the curtain falle e reduced to the unpleasant level of. mere apathetic spectators. The play is composed with a view to show the depravity of the high aristocracy of a highlS: artificial state of society, and by inferences. although no- contrast is attempted; to -exalt the virtues of the humbler smite._ Angelo Malipieri,.. the tyran- • nical governor of Patina s under sway of- the-. Venetian Republic, is married to .Catarina, whom he ceees not a straw about; although .he has .been cruel moue:in. to force her into -the marriage ; .: which • she detests ; yet careless - thouglehe appears to be ; and is, in regard to her eifeetions, he is intensely .jealous-- of her. He is himself the slave of Tisbe, who despises-him, and is greatly enamoured al , ,Rodoljb; a banished lord, whose real name. is.Ezzelino, but who ie fran tically in love with. Cateeitea r toarhom he was betrothed, and he treats-ribe.and hereffeetion with the most.complete indif ference: A nondescriat ..ealled Canodei, a spy c.f; the Council whose jealousy of Ten i slias- also been a lover, though a disearded one, of Catarina. He insinnatee.hinieelf successfully hits, an under 'rnisbbee,r stamEng of- the- fee/lags- and desires of all th,e parties, and .the, r - 4 i g n e t n o c.), the c eh: resolves to work upon them all .to gratify his own revenge. • Knowing.the. rautualiaelinations of Rodolfick and Catarina, he hering • r t i o va u b limasis, Rotittlfo in the latter in-the. palace of her husband, and thie, engagement he e e contrives- h nga b s r . ol - t i o fe to. i n . s f b u t emit; shams s y h e r e p t r % h a g e n i d i .f ; • wiCiont even hinting who that rival: is. Tisbe, an actress, whe, has risen to emi nenee.freen being a ballad-singer in the streets, is a creature of the-most viole-at and impetuous passien, yet she retains a burning affectionlee the kindness and love of her mother, of whom slie.narrates that on one occasion,,when condemned to speedy -death. death. by the caprice of a crue'S!noble, she was saved Etoneher impending fate by the urgent entreaty of that noble es daughter, to whom the rescued mother : gives a rude crucifix in, token of her gratitude. For this benefit conferred on here now deeeasedeparent, Tisbe also eatartains a feeling of the. - liveliest gratitude, and determines tarequite it . Introdueed surreptitiOnskr into the chamber of Catarina by Onzadei i .. who but a few minutes .before haslealso introduced Rot/alike : the latter,_ en the alarm caused. by Tisbe's entrance, is concealed lb an oratorio leading. nut of the chamber. . Vista , is satisfied of the lover's concealment, although only suspi cioua as to who that lover is, and : after upbraiding Calfirifia with her-infidelity, and making such a disturbance as-alarms the. jettions Angelo, discovers that Catarina is possessed of the. loot crucifix, and investigation satisfies her that that lady is theehild to whose intreaties her mother owed hey- life. The filial love of Tisbe is now stiraulated,and she in gratitude assists in deceiving Angelo, and altowing the favoured lover, to escape. A letter from Rodo ? fa to. Cata - eina falls into the hands of Angelo, and confirms hishelf-hilled suspicions as. to the infide lity of his wife, and.he dooms her to death. To: prevent this, Tisbe interferes, and advises him to poison bar-- instead of having her beheaded as he had at first intended and she fur nishes the potion which is to do the work of death, but sub stitutes for it a sleeping draft, and has the sleeping Catarina carried to her honse.. Somehow there was also conveyed along with the sleeping draft a deadly poison which Angelo mistak ing for the other, swallows it, and of course dies. Tisbe then introducing Rodolfo to his inamorata, whom he is now at liberty to marry, stabs herself with his poignarcl and dies. The character of Tisbe was supported by Miss Cushman with fully more than her usual energy,and was correspondingly successful. As Catarina, Miss Anderten acquitted herself with good effect, and both those ladies were called before the curtain. at the conclusion of the piece and received loud plaudits as the reward of their exertion. The character of Angelo was fairly rendered by Mr. Lorraine, as-was also that of 1?odolfo by Mr. Villiers. The play was well put upon the stage, and had a favourable reception on the whole, although it would be ha zardous to predict for it a contipuanee of that favour, which its character as a drama does not by any means entitle it to. Ar THE ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, the chief attractions of the week have been the lively faeinations of Perea Nene and her companions of the Spanish corps de ballet. They have each night delighted numerously crowded houses by their lively and expressive as well as graceful and characteristic dancing. As in London they have been very popular in Liverpool, and have met with deserved success. On Saturday e v ening, Perea Mena took her benefit, on which occasion she was well patro nized and warmly applauded. The opening piece was Shak s i peare's favourite play of "As you Like It," the part o Rosalind being performed by Miss Anderton ; that of Or lando by Mr. Loraine. Of the former, it is only justice to herself , and to her author to remark, that roystering and "mannish swagger are foreign to the character, and but little associated'_ with its faithful personation. It is a part replete with deli cacy of feeling sand truly feminine grace of sentiment ; to is assume even in masquerade the airs of the froWaiehboy-man to mistake the character. The Spanish national dances intro duced in the ballet were charming in th e i r characteristic liveliness, as they were pleasing in the varied yet ea s y g race of their complicated crolation2. [JuNE 26, 1855. AMERICA. --,- BY the Uni t ed States mail steam- 3 aa which arrived o n Sunday in in g aa New York the taro York i l V 3t A h LinsOmnFartn. TsHtEewhbeiPphAtaip;Ca;:t.iiF.:tr,ieipetosseeepfast 0. 1 and nearly $1,700,000 in specie. The United States mail steam-ship_ and instant, arrived out on the morning of the 12; 5 0 7 e lari t - The Hon. W. Cayley, -Inspector.General, buexpaeec.o the Exchequer of Canada, was a passenger by t he COUVe rl t V A majority of the committee appointed by L" in i ej fer, 4 at Philadelphia to frame a platform of lo.r i . uc c r.i c n b . ,,,d government of the Know -Nothing; party in upon national interests, had . reported resolut'opo_ 4 , 3 1! " the existing laws upon the subject of slavery,. ..5,.0"-a,ea;,: exclusive settlement of that subject in spirit andau,rof 5e and denying the power of Congress to eaclaaa ut io da: from admission into the Union because her const r ;,, r t of e ,' l or does not recognise the institution of slavery as 3 a lto iaa : social system." The members of the committee r at , e for this platform were all from the eavehold lea. _°,',..' ert ied State of New York, the District of Coluaabia, and t l6 _ . ' ilt ,,j _ of Minnesota. Those who dissented from it rep.;:o , six New England States, New Jersey, Pe 3t15 ,1 WiA The anti-Maine d'eed teat al lowa was not represented. 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Delaware, exceeded Elias ehA M ei ichigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, an' 0 avi , tion would be carried in the Convention. 1135 , 2 °- A very stormy caucus meeting of the Se/ Atlantic, li,a_tace.foit, t d n ile g a id s e m r ' a v l a % as :s im. s h - b i, n l e c i e e in .i e n g t G in i. h eLe g e n l a g d r t t n . ai ' ca s ur r ia e 3 t. s e r s ia la ' s ,i c a is P re stt et : '* : ' l l3a be° : l 3 ' 'e-e r : 34 :l ll ' e,z-'ceP•ir o ; trl‘: 4 Liquor Law pe. bj . h. d fro eli m ver ß e e d r a k a 's e e p o h u l n ie t n y .t a h n a d t. t t h l e ie L u hi p a p e e r r L t::: : ::: °: ett- 3 ' : est s l;s unconstitutional in its mose important roraa'ijui o e aao merit establishedr e Mobile The e d r a e t p it : :, e a r lit receivedt :aci s yktiete s o e f aA t s h od e nvie, crops as promising a yield far outstripping '' e inw m ee e rn n et t . p h r a e e d lp s had As attention directed to Pe'e , ace eo vessels seemed on this .sid haf e ri: Gow ß i r tl i .h t er is an h mo m mr oiurfiniKsi ammunition:' .h .,,s a , rates less than those established by law. I' L l t ia j o a 0. 4 under investigation by the proper authoritia,(,)ll e a ",. 0 0 4 g e preP°": e e of s r t ete zh a iti cl .: S tt. t he a e t tr es hee. la:: : I . : esy le: pi, a s,fr a . nil e ai o. : Washington Star reports , that a revenue cutte r p ' d itioN '- el a C 10 0 el'iC t i if l e rl carryingd odi etermined not only to remov e '''' sad j ' i 'l' e: nl o ' g g t. ,th oh carel ' t t '' ' . Ir b. rib i te a lseeuidi s botl i otn it,oeh l nuf i cart es s .I,rereturnedt d,a g y ,ani t at l s ° a 1, e eo n w t e dsattsoo Governmente mh t u r , aaefpsolrts asserted ,asenintitcrhtnart his o eet t s d:o s I st li tts: i t roj e l iad i ro; a F eerifir : : : - t i :c2, ,iii,,:o.r s ' aidosa e w t ro b ; :e t l4.::i i r et,:.. 13 ' . , : efa ti yirEi e , . e cceed in reaehina . Nieara ua the ' r- ' they" . tlit gl ' • said that - o jet. A zn e s:: : : :;l 4 l i t di l r t d a li t h :; : u : , D : , i h st a r d ie s t u -A nk tto in rn t e h y e 3 o i f ieee th .l e e nd ri t g e ri .e :ri ver j to ° : r lY n fe , :;:t: l o ;:_ os l) : „ le t ai l : ie ee . y in aet i l t p ed Nedewi S ti t oy a n t e es rekas C fee ir rh c aa ei s t ,e e r : e.g.T urt of y J t ° oo l o :l :ett_,: i lajf i roo g ro P :e . rolo :ad oict : Th e e a te rg:e l charge to. the grand jury, condemned the cOte i a c 51 1 ,1 for the' edb a i: p rpen p aa e rkL a ti r eer s ad - g.fivr t pono o eurinsa l : t l ei a tio l lieg v , l ti e o e rjen: f ir ' 3 ol..h.lo,l. ° ,,,a7r l . ' o: (l ll :olll:o ll4 : :. c l) , ''' ,i(t.; ro ' l:etil. i e fee in Fitf th e c o l ßr le rim Cel tisr s he it ss u to p rl T ed o l i h i em r r t e s i . e .Yews had been p r T o a h c e h of de a e e ol f i ce t , h t e h einctaepltl intelligence :N I 1 li v n e goe r r were twelve- eesteamers` rotroops, s, Light,-Germans, In consequence•ot the late rain the inineni- '._/re.iff,o,,flsit,° The anti-gambling, law had given satisfactienj, 0 t i .ttg,':l wi i th le co s n t t ea em m p s t i . ii t p hb l a : , fv r ii l om i s r h tptsol a arEa c t e i aldLovniFtiectenr Francisco. ficroirrisollimci The leoo.fs: n e; e ae s i n oxna e n : state that the Indians had assembled for the the ? g'7 sti l " Kingston, with s4: : : ml;asa i ship Sonora had arrived. ulnioimispteodrtsaanitl. aniti::::euce, doi:lree: in time. at e sirpinefeared running.aa of ae etnatielhirefeoiifyrrroeco;A:nudin:fresvreii:ole e i tin from numbe r ,t : ~..,): ::: ::ci, ,irrai e , r1:4 0 : ::0,:. ' 0.::;tt; :.pi ea line $592,851 in specie on Night, of which $187;2`13 ea' Tit r f Ta t o n ld t e taken Posses -1 : l i i l e A i f. s o th vb in ,as a s a 'a i ,,: i -• oi2 a t t e, l 4 3 t : on the 23rd ult., and VMS- preparing for ;;hill Oa 0 0 3 re;l'' a' IA approach. The fugitive* weree however, ''''''''' ' ll ' ''. d a e to 4 00 a .. • 2,X)0 taken prisoners. Santa. Anna returnee a aere„ o ft a a the 21st of May, and left °lathe 23rd for Ar i l' a . .. hart fort was posted with 2,50te men. Several 81113i%'-iten` tr 'eee,„ l revolutionists had also been-routed by the gav e f r n aora s.- t. 6'; Advices from Nicaragua state that the revol'al.-teel°°lol waeelikely to continue. General Munos, one at f the o' o and:accomplished soldiers, had taken counaaause°o th a e bal* ' rai ti tli t e °hri i e n .i2 su nb r ia re ia c Hr t ''r' i t o i'sn'cid:t3zl li l't' r ectc:. :: oZ":::: untie army and completely re-org.anized it: Vaal. qerf.', e ' ' ' five-hundred veterans detachedafrom the forc e ?' ores ` of Honduras. The existing Government wasaa . t ' 'ace .4" and their army marching on Leon had 1' 31 1,1 ' ' ot l' A ,,e;'' sooner - than meet Munos. The. p e ople w, Gag:' system of rule appioximatinee - toT that ia fa ct ,N : . 4 or Costa Rica,. which it was:fear El a s telialliP 'e W rear monarchy in both places. i taola i aia. Vierszuzaa, '2sthof aaa ' . °135.°111'4 Ifg ,BY.—AL% z re past ; , 11 J Granada was dreaded, and, except w ine P - d ale .; 1 i , 1 0 1 2 were making for defence, a.- - • was a ear c a , ence, t e -count* , t, ° l, • ti , 00 finarciai di • . tficulties beset the- o -ernme ll "' ith dicta i ll adjourr.ed e . after investing the . plrealdent s v , jo- ie lac t t powers. - Col. Diaz, chief of the Venezuelan na v •:,: s io o ,ii: 11 ' 4 . in New York, en route for Washington, on a If.,: r aenLera. ll ' to the -Bird Island, or guano difllll3 3 R ei r,,,t.9) --. "' .. ;a been sent to the island. in the mesaitiei....te ti3a. - 1,,' - of the Venezuelans. bents',:aa SOUTIVA.SIERICA..—The va -- - WA . 6 311 a V ' c a'aP tii, nom rep lc . 4 0 a ~, ,T, a state of peace, although the people of Bel,..i f : ‘ ," r es a l ' tosi' are much.aZected with fears of invasions by "' r y e - pare : 4o7;f Cruz, whoeare harboured and allowed taSt - 00 ° rot *• expeditions in Peru. So severely - hatlia sm - that , rio' fallen on the cultivatorsof land' .. ' ' V eful°' l ' iv di9j°' in. ea as elera - 1 pr of law hacl.been introduced in Coagreag -c° ,a - • a ltar. : ing the rates• of taxes now imposed upon"' c , v sCE. Jar e : c e, COMMERCIAL INTEL/JAI') 13tli °d he Yog s ' to i i ld ' N.W . , f ta li file MoNEnr,=.-In this market there-is-no la 64 ' e O 3 cs" e c() . d Capital cenbinues abundant, andthe los°2„ - e n er , e ; t a a', easily obtained on first-class securities - a l "' - e ; 5 u ''',rejl e ce (fi ' export of gold for the fortnieht, is- s?el et le' o ' '' i t ' ''' ' 4l ` . aBOO,OOO-via Boston. Receip'ts. from: taael -r t n o r t io besides above an equal amount estiraataa ae oel e a a,:a brought by passengers. The busitiosa ja e 4 . l ;ae ' ,e l `;': , steamer Pacific was only to moderate . ni'„,,,'"foll, ) f. ; ll', J `: ,.. general- elosed flatly. Ti • stoo o "- ' I ie quotations ~ e a. e a on Londone9i to 10k per cent. perm: a Per' , piee o e 5f..12ae., 60 days, and of. laic. short si n at ; aea gatile',l?, 79-1 ; Frankfort, 411 to 41 . 1 ; Thalers, 741 - t° ill/4 `eat Coeacera-e-Since Friday last (says the .iVete li t i t1' e 1f , , ,..!. ~c o ,' List of the 13th June), there hasebeen.a aaas!,,, cll',ea'ttea for this staple, but prices are without c,,t_'..oblu, ate' ila aea parties seem disposed to await thn• reeeiPt ° : ,,tic., s g 0 4 '4 now fulayedue by the Atlantic at this. poec"eta'ae. s'ari, market being considerably higheathan tlios t e 0 0 t e at° . a other side •at last -accounts. The achieves „I r e late ...., c o n w are rathermore encouraging, inasmuch to ' . : c hel e ',;‘ ,o ! i ir reported tu have extended over nearly th e , ; t oe' e ` . .:oo` a le i the cotton:region. 'ln view of thi.% fact, it ° ot tori i ' T v .• t 1.).; expected. that a considerable quantity o f the c o o. ta aa in the-interior can be got to market thie 5 1,0 0 t) ~ since cut last are estimated ...:•1 6000 t ° ' -'f ~,T. , I market closing steadily. c o o f I :itir o tt STATMINSNT OF RECEIPTS, li7CNeRTS ASO f.r: v ort.' . 1 1 . 1;1 , hxporte.to 'Totali,'"i , ert• ;;6, 4 r Receipts. (it. Britain.. t" . .1 .° . .;,8 3g : '4' 185'. 1854 ..... • ••• 4 ' 980 1'3°8,242 1 ''7, 356 ,4s- d . Increase.. . ' 2 " 07 ' 762 1,3 ", 7,29 ' 5- 1 ' 5. £31, 51 'lr V. ease.. ~52:', its 4 d4 Decrease.. 201,782 . ..A . ' • es s ‘ l 'o•e i° " to- 1 0 • • t ' From Messrs. 7'alcott's Cifoutar, (13 f °lel ) ,11 * 0‹..,' 4, 12, • me extract the following.--" The sale s °- i ' ' 0- ti . at 0 ' ril , 4 ,a 1 we egimate at 36,000 bales, of which aa° en bes , e tpor, transit, on the basis of ilia:top:lc. ' fl'eciiti; t:l' t ' e , fo r ~ ~ • 3-13 d, for `low middling' New Orleans. , ea ela e ,:;, :0 1/. 4 t `,, of parcels afloat, the business' d o ' fas ' 4- , k .'" r e`l,o' doing 1 he wee , .., r', . .si r; speauLation, lists changing hands during t Lo t a ea le at i of ie. to !lc. The acconnis-to hand since 01 1 r e „ious , ;, aa a ao ties growing crop are more favatvable frog'u' ruin I ' t ee ials: fallen in every section et the country f e tton, .:ev-1 e 10 1 ,,,' . 4 .eard, giving encouraging.- prospects °` -43 ise 1 ° . ej:aal -- crops. We are also advised of a partial reerarae, .oear southern rivers, but whether it will b e tenwa li eola l ae aient duration to permit some of the c°'' ° ate , IIY fs l t . previously dried-up sere to reach the I ) 4 SAES, el' t r3l will determine." , e at W e l. '''„t ire BREADSTUFF'S.— 'lite. dour market aa I , to .; . :' , •tp- r 0 . broken down, the decline this week ainour'''';'bef&atteal per barrel. Wheat is- somewhat lower the „ ie el ~,,, scantiness of the supply eonnterbalances .': o t, D' ruse favourable harvest prospects. Indian corri,ol ~.(1 v i".o,lf to lOc. per bushel lower since this day . ,s 0 : - ec %at. ° ' l ave 1- 0 1 , ? 1 , - , ) e 3 " - ,oll t PROvisioNsreceipts o f pore d' ea p rtitr n t l e f o t' rate, and with a good. home trade anddemanae ot 1 .14 et .., cents has been established on old mess idl e ° tic °r e on new mess - other descriptions are a., irio . ., ; Oa . change, and the-stock is light for the seasaaael. „ a te'', 1 .. beef is again slightly firmer, with a fair a_e!not , ;:t tio l r 'i,et i ; beef is in moderate supply, anal the 01:1at tile; aljaecf buoyancy previously noticed. Bacon is 'l t o pa ,101. ,;pie' lard there has been a speculative moreracat;. oa " fo r p• ir : 1 0: without important change. Butter is Pl i c , n to l ec• t a t . It lo' is selling at se. to 7c. for inferior and 7:u 00 a ii iiii i, 0 SALT.—There is some inquiry for Liv erv aeell e aa' proved rates. Bulk salt continues axe' th' , c ,. .01 6 augmentiag stock. ia .tiaV _ ae at , to r „ e t. 4 4 .lll:avrAcrunED GOODS.-the alavv i- the a ° o r - .0 .' on o I , market hits had a favourable influence aaaacelearelea market. All descriptions have either i a era lee P 10 . t) a saleable at very full prices, and cog s "! . to o e, l p reported to have been made on speculatione _lave ‘.0t,,,,i.,tc„, /RON.—The recent advices from Earol!cj to ps . to ~, 00 1 , 1 a ..)5„o cy ,e , Wing effect on the market, and some ed a a t a- . a here and to arrive, have chaoged haa l ids a t lot fo r re cash, and :$2B to $3O, six months fal' e s a ° Aare , ' , a English bars are scarce aucl wanted, laaal'aage. i-tea but it is held higher. Sheet is withot tal . thol_;seine,• roe men.: at iot. Cuee.—Foreign is without imp or node b tea'ac' absence of arrivals, there is little „ te , 10 4 p , tat a. '''-~' Liverpool Orrel is searoe and wante . . staf ely , " t e - Hard la a el e t pool gas cannel, in lots, a9,-o. j, 11, I 'l l '4 rates.continuo' 'cl t‘ ) tiCY lly . ao : a , e FREIGI-1111.---The market genera vesse ls tie .0 va; , a,,: rates are: without materiel cliange._,l v d "T f a e ultei ll 'aee o t ' .) . 1 , Britain continue to experience c. nl aht, which i:„pocigef,e the requisite quantity of heavy freara an for Li% . ta r .. ..„: low rates. Corn, in bulk, was I3'''; sea to ls"eatea'illi cotton was taken at 4s. sterling; rosin, ~. mete or To a r t ; is. to ls. ad.; dead weight, Os. ta 7w0r ,,,,5,,, oioo , 10.. to 12s. 6d. : pork, Is.; beef , 11 t a. to 6-3- '' Lid. t Cotton, lc. To ' Glasgow : Cotton, , ~.0011, i , e7s. . 0 1 , moat goods, 15s. to 17s. Cel.; heavy ac e to :I'.'• i . Oa pork, 2s. to 23. 3d. ; beef, in tierces, f2s. _enaction '` : co , Our c otton 1"' col°, ot NEW ORLEANS, JUNE 12. a a c tern • f ;its ' 11 . 1- change. Sales to-day 2,000 baps. , iror poo , e e selling at 00e. Ereig,lits : Cotton to a v . 0.4 0. C A fall , MoBILE, Juan 9.—The river: areaa c t2 n : i 3 11 • ..at` (V cotton, 0,000 bales. The price of aria la , a to° every prospect of more rain. . t. , ~,,,,,. c ot '° Jinifi 9.—Strict rat tu....,- at 121 e., and middling fair at 131 c. . , )