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TEE ttberpool #tanbarb+ TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1855. THE TITHE REDEMPTION TRUST. WHATEVER of gratitude is due to Rome from the Anglican Church on account of the mission of ST. AUGUSTINE, certain it is that the debt has been pretty well cancelled, and that, upon the whole, more of evil than of good has resulted to us from our former con nexion with, and subjection to, him who claims to be the successor to ST. PETER. At this moment we are suffering under two evils : the want of additional Churches, and the scanty means afforded to their In cumbents by many existing ones. But how, it will be asked, is Rome answerable for this P We say not that the blame is wholly attributable to her, but doubt less it is so in a very great degree ; while, if she had exerted the mighty power, which she formerly pos sessed, less for selfish ends, and more for the good of the Church at large, there is little doubt but that she might have hindered altogether the proceedings to which we are about to allude. Our readers are, of course, aware that ofbenefices some are called Recto ries, and others Vicarages. Whence and what is the difference between the two P Simply this : all were originally Rectories, but, from time to time, some of them were appropriated to Monasteries, whose mem bers thenceforward enjoyed the great tithes, and appointed a Priest to discharge the duties, who had for his maintenance the small tithes and certain other dues. This was bad enough, being a diversion of pro perty from those purposes to which its original donors had solemnly dedicated it. And, as this system of appropriation flourished under the sanction of the Popes, so doiibfleis, if they had pleaSed, they might at least have 'greatly restrained, if not altogether put a stop to it. For the evil which followed, as a conse quence of this system, we therefore hold them to be indirectly responsible. The monasteries had been, to a large extent, endowed by the robbery of the parish churches ; and, at length, their turn came to fall under the hand of the spoiler. They were suppressed by the EIGHTH HENRY, and their possessions lavished upon his creatures ; and hence it comes to pass at this day, that not only Abbey-lauds, but the tithes belonging to particular parishes, are in the possession of laymen ; while the Incumbents of those parishes are, in many instances, doing the work for incomes which are utterly inadeqUate, to their maintenance. Windy de magogues not unfrequently take the wealth of the Church for their text ; while sums of fabulous amount are stated as the incomes of her- Bishops and Clergy. It will, however, surprise a good many people to learn that no less than four thousand parishes in England and Wales have their tithes either wholly or partially alienated from them, and that the gross amount—of which they have been thus sacrilegiously robbed— exceeds a million and a half annually. Could the Church recover this sum, there would be little difficulty in supplying all her wants, many and urgent though they be. We have been led to these remarks by a perusal of the Report, for 1855, of a society little known, but de serving extensive support. The title which it assumes is, " The Tithe Redemption Trust for the Church in England and Wales," and its objects are as follows : "1. To give to owners of alienated Tithes an oppor tunity of restoring them to the spiritual purposes for which they were originally ordained, and to assist them in so doing. 2. To apply any Tithes thus restored towards relieving the spiritual destitution of the Parish or Chapelry whence they arise, by adding to the endow ment of such Parish Church or Chapel, or by the endow ment of new districts therein. 3. To apply to Parlia ment to facilitate the means of accomplishing these objects." And, that its funds are not likely to be ap plied to party purposes, will, we think, be evident, by a glance at the names of the trustees. The Trust has only been in existence five years, and is yet but little known : its income is consequently small, and its means of accomplishing its two first objects very limited. But we regard its third pro fessed object as of at least equal importance; and had it effected nothing more than the removal of one of the restrictions 'imposed by the law of mortmain, it would have done much, and deserved well of the Church. However necessary that law may have been at its first passing, there is no doubt that it has acted prejudi cially to the best interests of the Church in later times, by preventing such provision for the spiritual wants of the people as would otherwise have been made. Tithes, once belonging to the Church, but since alien ated and held by laymen, could not be given back again by will. This restriction no longer exists; for, through the efforts of the Chairman of the Trust, a clause was introduced into 13 and 14 Vic., c. 94, sec. 23, enabling their possessors to make posthumous restitution. We repeat, that if • nothing else had been effected, this would be much; and we would venture to express a hope, that the means put at the Trust's disposal will be largely augmented, as its objects, and what it has already accomplished, become more generally known and appreciated. It has already a branch association established in Liverpool, including the names of several, both clergy and laity, who are ever found foremost in every good work : but, assuredly, this great town ought to do more than it has yet done. In conclusion, we beg to call the attention of our readers to an advertisement connected with this subject, which appears in our co lumns to -day. FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. MONDAY MORNING. popvLAR impatience has long formed a theme for the poli tical moralist. In few instances has the general weakness been more signally or more universally displayed than iu re lation to the intelligence which day by day has been expected from the Crimea. Two long and anxious weeks have now elapsed since the people of these kingdoms were apprised of the success which had rewarded the sustained courage and active bravery of the Allied armies, in their arduous and pro tracted endeavours to reduce Sebastopol. A year or two ago, the mere intimation of the ultimate and crowning results could not have been communicated in double the length of time ; now all classes are clamorous and dissatisfied, because we have noras - yetreeeived ample details, not only of what has been done, but also in reference to what is expected to follow from the great event itself. True, portions of those eagerly coveted details have, from time to time, been communi cated, but these have not been sufficient to satiate the general curiosity, and, so far from satisfying, they have only tended to whet the public appetite for news. The more frank commu nications of General PELISSIER have been contrasted with the laconic announcements of General SimpsoN, greatly to the disadvantage Of the latter as an efficient narrator of interest ing events. At length his official dispatch has been handed over to the public, and that sapient body finds itself not greatly wiser than it was before. The most gratifying feature in the document referred to is its confirmation of the entire success of the operations directed against Sebastopol. From this despatch, or, more properly speaking, from the scraps of intelligence which it rather countenances than con firms, enough can be gleaned to justify conjecture as to the probability of future operations, and to warrant the indulgence _ _ of those raptures of satisfaction with the tidings of the over throw of :Sebastopol by which they were at first greeted. Observing men of all parties concur in the opinion that, by the conquest of that stronghold, a vital blow has been struck at Russian domination. The Prestige of superiority in military matters, which the partisans and parasites of Russia SQ ,inces santly inculcat,edi has been dispelled. The carefully and stealthily accumulated preparations for aggressive warfare, which for more than a quarter of a century hive been sedu lously pushed forward by Russia, have been torn from her grasp and shown to the world. Explanations of Russian po licy henceforward receive their truest elucidation in the spoils of SebastOpol. No amount of credulity will now be sufficient to induce the belief that such an enormous aggregation of military and naval stores could be deemed part of a defensive provision for Sebastopol. Four thousand pieces of cannon, togetherwith the vast stores of the munitions of war, fallen into the hands of the captors, point unmistakeably to the fact that SebastoPol was the centre of Russian designi against the territory of the East. The reduction of Constantinople, though,without doubt the main, was not the only object aimed at by the concentration of so vast an amount of military and naval preparation as perhaps was never before equalled. From this fortress ere also intended to be drawn the materials of war to be directed against Circassia and the Transcaucasian provinces. Here was likewise concentrated that fleet which, by such feats of arms as the massacre of Sinope, was meant to annihilate rivalry on the Black Sea, and, by exterminating an adverse navy, convert the Euxine into a Russian lake. If this conclusion be considered too sweeping, let him who de murs cast a glance at the results. The fleetassembled at Se bastopid,:iihen the Allies invaded the Crimea, consisted of one hundred and eight vessels, five of which carried each a hun dred and twenty guns, the aggregate number of gu ns carr i e d by this formidable navy being not less than two thousand two hundred. Not even the imaginative scribe who, in the co lumns of Le Nord, describes the Russian flight from Sebas topol as a master-stroke of strategy, can hope to demonstrate the necessity of such a flotilla in an inland sea as a merely defensive measure. As already remarked, the amount of cap tured warlike spoils has been immense, and the character of these spoils is hardly less significant than their extent. Five hundred thousand pounds weight o f gunpow d er h ave a l rea d y been - secured, together with a hundred thousand rounds of shot and shell, and more of both are yet expected to be met with. Not an ounce of grain or food of any sort is men tioned as having fallen into the hands of the victors. This is too remarkable a fact to be passed over in silence. The retreat of the Russians was too precepitate to admit of their carrying with them in great quantity commissariat stores ; but, if they had not time to carry off food, they had still less time for destroying it. A flying enemy, which has not time to carry off its wounded, could not have had time to carry away stores of provision —a fugitive host, which bad to decamp, leav ing behind it two hundred and twenty odd tons of gunpowder, was not likely to have time for the effectual destruction of its food. If no food was left, then the coniecture seems at least a feasible one, which attributes its absence to previous exhaustion. This subject has attracted great attention in military circles. If the granaries of Sebastopol were exhausted, it is no wide stretch of fancy to suppose that the north forts and the encampments on the MacKenzie heights had no provi sions to supply them with ; and that even their more distant sources of supply were empty. Should this conjecture prove a true one, with what chance or hope of success can the Rus sian army attempt to hold its ground through the now rapidly-approaching winter ? Their position, in such a case, must be, indeed, a hopeless one. Within a few weeks, sup pose no hostile force were near them, their eonnexion with the grain -producing districts of Russia will be effectually cut off by the weather and the impassable state of the roads. The pro-Russian journals and advocates of all kinds, ostentatiously, although no doulst with great exaggeration, represent the Russian army of the Crimea as still 200,000 strong. How, it is asked, can such an army be supported in the southern por tion of the Crimea during the next six months ? Consideration of this important question favours the conjecture that no time will be lost -by Prince GORTSCHAICOFF in leading his army out of the Crimea; but this, if not effected speedily, will be impossible. Should the attempt to evacuate the Crimean peninsula be delayed till after the commencement of the winter, a retreat then undertaken would be as fatal as the disastrous retreat from Moscow was to the French, in 1812. Whatever policy is to guide the Russian councils in reference to its defensive operations must be undertaken without delay, and acted on with promptitude. Whatever this may be, the gain of the allies from the fall of Sebastopol begins to manifest itself on all hands; and it seems difficult to over-estimate the advantages accruing from it. The actual material trophies, although seldom equalled and never surpassed in war, are pro bably the least important portion of the benefit. It has broken the factitious prestige with which the Russians had contrived to invest their military pretensions, and which, even in the ruin of defeat, they seek to bolster up by ill-timed bravado. In addressing his army, the Czan says. " The prolonged de fence of Sebastopol, a defence almost unexampled in the annals of war, has fixed the attention not only of Russia but of entire Europe." Anything more bombastically absurd, or more his torically untrue than this it is not easy to conjecture. The defence of Sebastopol, though dogged, and obstinately pro tracted, is not by any means almost unexampled in the annals of war. - In numerous instances we read of more protracted defences, in the annals of ancient war; but without falling back much beyond our.own day, it will be found that the defence of Saragossa was more chivalrous and spirited ; and if the siege of Gibraltar be referred to, it will be apparent that Sebastopol, with all its boasted Russian glories, falls infinitely short of that extraordinary defence which was conducted against the combined forces of France and Spain for no less a period than four years, terminating with the utter defeat of the besieging fleets and armies—a result in which it signally differed from that of Sebastopol. Aproverb informs us,that whatever is asserted with sufficient pertinacity and boldness, secures implicit credence. The in vincibility of Russia is one of those drafts on public credulity which has obtained currency entirely from the boldness with which the mendacious statement has been made. One fact, not the least remarkable, connected with the statement referred to, is the belief it has secured in quarters where superior in formation might reasonably have been expected. Thus, not long ago, the gallant soldier and veteran warrior Sir GEORGE BROWN informed his wondering countrymen, at a public banquet given to him at Elgin, that " Russia is the most gigantic military power ever seen on earth." Such an opinion expressed by such a man is apt to produce effects the most mischievous. If analysed, the averment will be found to weigh but little. The population of Russia is estimated at 60,000,000, but these it should be remembered are spread over a space equivalent to nearly one-seventh of the habitable globe. She has few roads, and is subject to all the rigours of an extreme climate ; her people are ignorant passive serfs ; her sea-board is small and bad ; and her resources are scanty. These circum stances, if duly marshalled and applied, render her a formidable military power for resistance, but detract from her importance as an aggressive power. Hence it will be seen all through her history, that her acquisitions have been rather the result of politic cunning and patient greed than of bold aggres sion. The vast stores which she has been able to accu. mulate at one or two particular points (as at Sebastopol), offer no contradiction to the general truth of these remarks; and the fact that, with all her energies - devoted to the task of protect ing these stores by every contrivance afforded by science and by art has not enabled Russia to render them available against an enemy, or even to preserve them for her own use, is the strongest possible evidence that she is not a " gigantic military power." Wherever her troops have encountered those of the Allies, a uniform fate—defeat—has awaited the Russian arms, whether acting on the defensive or as assail ants. In short, the great sham of military superiority has been cudgelled out of them. Dispirited and discouraged, after a dogged defence of the strongly fortified positions of Sebastopol, they precipitately decamped while a stern resis tance was still within their power, and are now, so far as present appearances warrant a conjecture, in the extreme of a military dilemma. The spirits of our own brave fellows are in. highorder, and, notwithstanding the privations and labours to which they have been so long inured, they retain a taste for jocularity and a relish for fun which speak favourably of their mental and physical condition. Their excellent spirits are referred to by the correspondents of most of the journals ; and one, as an illustration, alludes: to the dramatic; performances, at the Theatre Royal, Naval Brigade." From the bill an nouncing theie, it is seen that the pieces performed before a really " distinguished andienee," were " Deaf as a Post," the "Silent Woman," and; appropriately enough, " Slasher and Crasher:' The correspondent alludad to notices the perfor mances in the following terms And right well they played. True, the theatre was the amputating house of the Brigade, but no reflections as to its future and past use marred the sense of present enjoyment. The scenes were furnished from ' The London,' the actors from the men of the Brigade. There was an agreeable ballet girl who had to go into the trenches to work a 68-p oun d er at three o'clock in the morning, and Rosa was impersonated by a prepossessing boatswain's mate. Songs there were in plenty, with a slight smack of the forecastle, and a refrain big guns booming doWn the ravine from the front ; but they were all highly appreciated, and the dancing was pronounced to be worthy of her MAJESTY'S, ere TERPSICHORE and Mr. LIIIi/LEY retired from the concern. Nor were fashionable and illustrious. personages wanted to grace the performance with their, presence, and to relieve the mass of two thousand com moners wha cheered, and laughed, and applauded so good.. humouredly. Your elegant contemporary's types need not have blushedto print such names as the "Duke of NEWCASTLE," who paid marked attention to " Deaf as a Post," and the encore for a hornpipe of the first force ; as " Lord Rozzny,') who was as assiduous as his grace, and of generals, brigadiers, lords, and honourables. The same sense of enjoyment was not marred by the long-range guns, which used now and then to send a lobbing shot near the theatre, and never did any harm ; and if the audience were amused so were the performers, who acted with surprising spirit and taste. " What," says the correspondent. " would old BErrnow or grim old CLOUDESLEY SHOVEL have thought of it all ?" Either, or both of them would, or should have speedily arrived at the conclusion that fellows who, under such circumstances, could so deport them selves, were men of the right stamp to seek thebubtle Feputation, Even in the cannon's mouth. While cursorily glancing the mind's eye over the past of the Crimea, the question forcibly . obtrudes itself, what of the future ? Already the ' pro-Russian party, .disregarding the bluster of•the Czeit, who says that he will never make peace " after a disaster," have begun to take the matter so far out of his hands.- The Fran Fort Post Gazette is informed by a letter from a good source at Vienna that a fresh attempt is to be made to re-establish peace. " A fresh treaty," says this organ of instruction, " is spoken of as having been concluded between France and England on the one part, and Turkey on the other part. The object is to invest the Western Powers with the right of keeping garrisons in various parts of Turkey. The points specified are Varna, Adrianople, Con stantinople, and Gallipoli. Varna and Sinope would be used as maritime stations by the Western Powers." The date of the foregoing proposition is the 14th of the present month, or four days after the evacuation of the town of Sebastopol by the Russians. Other rumours, from kindred quarters, repre sent the EMPEROR of the FRENCH as one whose "thoughts are turned on peace," the sole condition of which he is said to centre in reimbursement of the expenses incurred in prose cuting the war. In this, as in many other instances, without doubt, " the wish is father to the thought." The EMPEROR of the FRENCH knows well that if the Western Powers wish for a safe and honourable peace, they must carry on war with out relaxing, until a "material security " be obtained for Russian good faith in the conquest of Russian provinces. While Sebastopol, and with it the superiority of the Crimea, remains in the hands of the Allies, the power and predomi nance of Russia is destroyed, not merely in the Black Sea, but in all the countries which surround its margin, and by which alone she has obtained access to them. The allied fleets, now relieved from the blockade of - Sebastopol, are in a condition to strike a terrible and decisive blow at Odessa, or at any other of the Russian seaports in the south-east of Europe, or the west of central Asia. The struggle which has placed the Allies in this position has been a formidable one ; and whatever may be the current of events, humanity, justice, and policy, demand that the Crimea should not be restored to Russia. The powerful lesson she has been taught in the loss of Sebastopol will not be lost upon her. If she regain possession of that stronghold, however that possession may be fettered by the paper restric tions of well-drawn treaties, all her course of existence concurs in showing that she will again convert it into a means of enabling her to make a swoop upon Constantinople, with this difference, that in the second instance she will not content herself with rendering its fortress impregnable by sea alone, but will so dispose its land defences as to convert Sebastopol into the Gibraltar of the Euxine. For any serious operation against Constantinople a fleet is indispensable to Russia. This, with Sebastopol in her possession, she will speedily re-acquire ; if the Crimea be retained, by the Allies establishing a mode. rate land force with proper defences at Perekop, and a small squadron of ships at Sebastopol, her capability as an aggres sive power in the East is annihilated. The experiences of the Crimean campaign have been in some respects anomalous when viewed in connexion with the ordinary routine of military matters, not the least remark able of the anomalies being the introduction of civilians into the camp. The pioneers in this species of innovation were the able volunteer corps of correspondents for the London press, a body of men to whom the army and the nation are deeply indebted for the intrepidity and skill with which they combatted and conquered a foe as fell as that which lay behind the defences of Sebastopol. The next novelty was the intro duction of a corps of navvies, and the formation of a railway, not of the best construction as some rumours say, but still a veritable railway to the camp. Next comes the organization of what is called the Army Works Corps, entrusted, of all people on earth, to Sir JOSEPH PAXTON. What particular facilities for organising such a troupe was possessed by the lucky Chatsworth gardener is best known to those who, dis covering the multifarious bends of his genius,- sought his alliance. That Sir JOSEPH understands " a thing or two no one doubts; and his peculiar talent for organization has displayed itself in various ways, his latest known feat in that line of art having found record in the Field, a journal with which the crystalline knight was presumed to be on terms of more than passing intimacy. The feat and the fact thus find representation in Sir JosErn's Field :—" While the greatest savans of the day are met for the advancement of science in the good city of Glasgow, another meeting (not per haps of such world-wide importance) has been held n the re cesses of the peak of Derbyshire for the special advancement. of Sir JOSEPH PAXTON. The worthy knight has, we perceive, been dining nine hundred of his supporters in Chatsworth Park. A special train conveyed that number of independent voters from Coventry to Chatsworth, where the judicious hos- pitality of their new-made member awaited them. 'Tis true that the excursionists paid the expenses of the railway transit out of their own pockets, and that the tickets were made to include a quarter's admission to the Mechanics' Institution of Coventry; but it is no less a fact that Sir JOSEPH was their host so far as a very substantial dinner was concerned." Here was organization truly.. The wondering inkleweavers of Coventry. amid the "judicious hospitality of their new-made member,' introduced to a personal knowledge of the glories of Chatsworth, and, as a pledged teetotal Irishman drinks whisky "unknow-- inst to himself," supplied also with a ticket to the Coventry Mechanics' Institute. Surely election management and hide._ pendent organization could not more innocently or efficaci ously display themselves. The hospitalities of Edensor, deco rated by the fascinating splendours of the Palace of the Peak I Could any combination be finer or more seductive?. Fortu nate electors of Coventry, to be represented by-one having the talent and the means for such a combination; far luckier re presentative, to be so furnished with the opportunity of blend ing the appliances -of patrician wealth and taste with the rough and ready hospitality of an artificer's table. Henceforth the common bribery of an election contest willbe vulgar; and: ere long the candidate who cannot offer his supporters a pro— menade and a banquet, amid the fountains , and groves of a. ducal park, must 'pale his ineffectual fire," at-all events before the constituency of Coventry. LIVERPOOL ACADEMY S-EOOND NOTICE. Ox a leisurely visit to the--exhibition, attention is called to, a picture, N 0 . 174 in the catalngue, by a circumstance extra-. neous to itself, and without which, in all probability, it would escape any great amount of general observation. The- cir cumstance -referred to, it will be readily perceived, is the good. fortune which has- attended it in being selected as the Academy's prize picture. The picture, or rather the pietwes, for there are two of them, although surrounded by one frame, is designated, ``Life and Death of Buckingham," by Mr. Augustus--L. Egg, A.R.A; and with this meagre information and the • aid of two scenes theatrically contrasted, together with the peculiarity ot the costume in the first, the spectator is supposed to-know that the artist's intention is to represent the style of life, and.ta typify the miserable death of the pro fligate favourite of Charles 11. The- precise rule by which the Academy- awards its coronal is not very easily comprehended by a reference to its- past practice, and the present award does not go far in the- way of clearing up whatever mystery may have- heretofore attached to it. Whatever- the rule may be, however, is - of less, consequence in the- present instance than the fact that by its deliberate judgment it has accorded a preiniuM to a work of art peculiar in its construction, and thereby, so far as the Academy has the power to do_ so, conferring on that the character of a praise. worthy style of art. There is not much of novelty in an artist, who intends to convey a moral, havingrecourse to a series. of tableau; in which he-shall work out the successive scenes of his pictorial drama. Hogarth was, a master in his line of delineative teaching ; hut in his painted satires the gradations of character and incident were close and rapidly successive. The spectator was impelled through the various steps of the hero or heroine's progress in such a manner as to leave nothing untold,. Such is not the case in the dual representation before us. In; the first, we are introduced to a scene of riotous profligacy, in which wine and wassail and questionable women form the leading features ; in the next a wretched bedstead, with miserable hangings, and the few trifling accessories introduced, betoken squalor and desertion; while a minute investigationleads to the farther knowledge that on that deserted pallet is stretched, in . the agonies of death, the once gay and licentious Buckingham. The contrast is too sudden ; the mind is unable to comprehend so total a reverse, and the incidents, and consequently much of the teaching of the story, are lost. This, in an ethical point of view, is a serious drawback to the pictures as a painted moral. If their claims in this respect are to be with drawn, or greatly modified, their attributes as works of art will scarcely stand them in much stead. In the first scene, the principal figure, that of Buckingham himself, seems to be ornamented with a head entirely inanimate and immoveable, the eyes alone being capable of motion, while the features are rigid and inexpressive. In the second the ghastly head is al most lost in the monotonous semi-tones of leaden gray by which it is surrounded; and the intended moral of the picture is but scurvily carried out by the faithful delineation of the velvet breeches in which the dying man is attired, and the ostenta„ tious display of the garter, which hangs over the bed. Th e treatment of both parts of the subject indicates a poverty of artistic resources, and a barrenness of invention incompatible with pretensions to . the highest consideration of artistic excel lence, and such as might with justice lead to doubt as to their right to a place in the secondary rank of art. Faulty drawing, and heavy, opaque colouring are conspicuous features in the work which the Liverpool Academy, in the exercise of its wis. dom, has thought right to honour. Whether, in doing so, it is conducing to the progress of legitimate art, or lending its in. fluence in an Opposite direction, may well admit of question. N 0.128. "TheProeession of Cimabue's Madona," by F•Leigh ton, is a picture in many points remarkable and commendable, while it is also in several particulars objectionable. In com- Fn os c i . tio c n im it a is bue s , ev er e o r w ely tted sim w p i l t e h , i y al t ir h el i sg, h a l n y d a i rt e l d lic g i Tis it f s avg r ou o ri up te . pupil, Giotto, walks in front of his celebrated picture of thi THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Madona, which is borne by a group of handsome and elegantly attired young men. This, which forms the principal .and central group of the picture, is preceded by a band of singers and musicians ; and is followed by a train of celebrated mei assembled to do honour to the genius of Cimabue and his divine art. Among these are Arnolfo di Lapo, Gaddo Gaddi, Andrea Tafi, Nicola, Pisano, Buffalmacco, and Simone Memmi, the illustrious author of the "Divina Comedia," Dante, occupy ing a conspicuous place in the corner. The drawing and paint ing of the respective figures are in general forcible, truthful, and pleasing; the heads are expressive, and the draperies rich in texture and brilliant in colour, while the costume appears accurate, and it is generally suggestive of minute study and careful finish. The action represented is simple and subdued, and though rendered with fine artistic feeling and regulated with the nicest eye to a balanced composition of lines and colour, it does not suggest the idea of dignity, and though solemn, stately, and measured, it is. deficient in earnestness, and lacks that ap pearance of life and animation which constitute the charm of historical representation. The spectator feels impressed with the conviction that he is looking on a picture. The artist and his art is everywhere presented to his eye, and forced upon his understanding. The subject and the mode in which it is treated appeals more to the critic than to the general public ; and the result of such an appeal is that of wonder and admi ration, but it stirs no chord of sympathy, awakens no emotion. It is beautiful in parts, and pleasing as a whole; but at the same time it is eminently suggestive of the poet's exclamation, How vain is learning. and how empty art, Save where't improves the mind or mends the heart. In Mr. Leighton's cleverly-executed picture we have good and skilfully-executed drawing, well-studied composition, admirable colouring and bold manipulation ; yet all of these 'fail to interest in any high degree, from the absence of that everyday sentiment which could induce the spectator to become more than a mere looker-on at such a pageant. No. 62. " The Rosicrucians," by W. Douglas, R.S.A., is a clever picture of a class in a great degree peculiar to the Scottish school. Some dozen years ago or more, one of the most gifted members of the Scottish Academy, the late amiable David Scott, painted an admirable though somewhat outré picture of an alchemyst, Paracelsus, in his study. This singu lar but powerful picture combined many of the higher attri butes of genius, varied character and powerful expression, learned composition and brilliant colour, with quaint represen tations of eccentric vessels of different material, which gave to the artist a wonderful command of prismatic colour. This picture was admired by many and abused by some k but on the whole it appears to have taken an immense hold an the mind of Scottish artists', for no exhibition has been opened in the Scottish metropolis since poor David Scott's Paraceleus, which has not been enriched by some representation of alehemycal operations. Some of these have been good, many indifferent, and a large number of their very bad. The one before us seems to occupy a portion of the debateable land between the good and the indifferent. It is rich in its ample variety of colour and texture, is pleasing in general tone, and without reaching the dignity of "high art" will constitute an agreeable' and interesting cabinet decoration. No. 166. "The Ten Virgins,' by James Eckford Lauder, R.S.A., is a pleasing as well as an ambitious picture. It represents the ,moment of the parable, when, at the approach of the bridegroom; the five wise virgins having their lamps in order, are about to set out to meet and hail his coming, while the foolish virgins have their lamps to trim. The story is fairly told, and the incidents are significantly set forth in this small but excellent picture ; which, is liable to the objection, however, of being exceedingly like a reduced duplicate of the . larger picture painted sev era l y ears ago b y th e same ar ti s t, and purchased by the Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland, by the committee of which Asso ciation it was engraved and distributed among their sub scribers. The picture now before us presents many of the excellences for which the pictures of Mr. James Lauder are remarkable. It is rich and pulpy in colour, pleasing in general arrangement, and it possesses great power of light and shadow. No. in. Portrait of a Lady," by W. Huggins, is a very favourable specimen of this-artist's capabilities. It is life-like, and unaffected in style. Rich and pulpy in colour, and soft as well as delicate in handling. It bears, in these respects, as• well as in the warmth and solidity of its tone, a favourable resemblance to'the portraits executed by Wilkie, in what were called his later. or Spanish style, No. 79. "Portrait of a Lady,!' by W. Resell, is 's picture of a different class from that last named. It is - lower in tone, yet sweetand pleasing in effect. The head is grace ful, and is.painted with much delieacy and beauty. No. 75. "PortraW of Hugh Pierce,•Esq.," and No. 80;.-"Por trait of Joseph Hubback, Esq.," both by J. Robertson, are admi rable specimens of theartist's bold and:vigorous style. They are both-well drawn, and painted with ease and freedom. Mere is' a general air of ease-and nature in these two pictures ; the' heads- are firmly and well painted; and in both there f.s- a combination of richum-without ostentation and of vigour and boldness without vulgarity , if we exc e l it the somewhat questionable disposal of Mr. Pierce's right hand. No. 167-. "Cattle on the• Banks of a River," by F. R. Lee? R.A., an 4 T. S. Cooper, A.R.A, The combination of talent, and skill- bestowed on this picture has resulted in a happy-- - display of natural effect. Asa bright summer sunny land scape the 'abject is charming in. the highest degree. The earth, the air, the water, and the trees, - are-bathed in balmy sunshine ; and the cattle are- drawn and painted in sweet harmony with the pleasing scene. No. 106. "Loch Ranza, Isle of Arran—Morning- mist clear ing away," by J. W. Oakes, is a -very, favourable specimen of Mr. Oakes' talents as a landscape painter. The sterile yet picturesque beauty of the scene depicted is reproduced with praiseworthy fidelity, and the atmospheric effects- so peculiar to the scenery'of the rugged yet lovely Isle of Arran have moved the artist with telling- inspiration, which he has cleverly transferred to his canna.- LIVE RP OOE CO U.R OF _B ANEW . C‘IPTC ON-Wednesday, before Mr. Commissioner Perry,-there was an adjourned certificate meeting: in the case of J.:P. Hall. The bankrupt was-lately a merchant and shipowner in Liver pool; he was alaninterested in some chemical works at &- Helens.- The chief ground of opposition urg,ed, against the bankrupt was, that he had continued trading long-after he must have known:-that he was insolvent. Afteran argument which lasted upwards-of three hours and a-half,..thetsse was adjourned for judgment till Thursday, when Mr; Commis sioner Perry said,_ the allowance of the :certificate= had: been opposed by 111 r. Townsend, the solicitor of the trado.as.signees, upon several grounds,- First, that the bankrupt continued to trade when he • must have known that he was--insolvent. Secondly, that he- had made large purchases of goods,-which he is alleged and: has admitted', to have obtained advances upon nearly to the extent of their value shortly. after the receipt of the invoices, in the mouths of November, Decem ber, January, and February, e.. 89- of which goods were obtained in February, in which lasts month he,. on the 17th, gave notice to his-creditors of his-having stopped.--payment. Thirdly, that he-had made payments to Mrs. Newels to the extent of £l,lBO mid upwards ) such payments- being. in the nature of frauduleig preferences... Fourth, that on the-17th of February, the- day sof notice: :of his having stopped pay ment, he made a, -mortgage of a ,ship, the Locd.Riversdale, to a creditor fen an antecedent debt; and a further objection was founded upon sales matte in February last to creditors from whom no-money was received for the goods, transactions which were also: urged as assuming the character of illegal pre ferences. He was of opinion that the first objection had been established, and that the bankrupt had failed in his duty to wards his creditors in this respect. As to the second objection, the obtaining _advances to such, an extent as has been shown upon goods not paid, for, was one of the grounds, of the deci sions in exporte Monica, (3,. De Gex M'lsTaghten and Gor don's Reports, 502.) It was-urged that hehad enly pursued what he alleges to be a common practice in Liverpool It ap pears to me,. however, that unless the court is to adopt a code of commercial morality for Liverpool different 'from that which is acted upon elsewhere, it must visit with its severe censure the pledging of goods unpaid for to the extent •of nearly their value when it takes place on the part of a trader in a state of insolvency, who thereby-leaves the vendors , of the goods to look to the .- invirsoitihverentgaprudrett theaser eh relates to the payments to Mrs.. Bigham, it appears by the bankrup t ' s objection,as the only; means of pay viii examination of the. 7th of August that repeated promises o f s th b i i r l d ls payment had been made by him, and, therefore, it must be due to her. One such application is in terms stated to have taken that applicationhad been made by that lady for the debt been made by Mrs.l3igham about the. 2nd or 3rd of February. As to the fourth objection, the mortgege of the Lord Riversdale must, for the present purpose at least, be . taken to have been made in pursuance of a previous promise, and so thus far under that amount of pressure which would avail to sustain the transaction. The other objection urged was not strongly pressed against the bankrupt.. I.think that the delivery of the freight-note-for the sugar of lead to the amount of £374175. 2d. to. Messrs.. Fitzsimmons, Applebee, and Co., creditors of the bankrupt,, on the 16th of February last, without any previous contract note which could have been enforced against either party, was a reprehensible act on the part of the bankrupt; but with that observation .I shall dismiss that part of the case. Upon, the case, then, as it rests upon the first and second, heads of objection to the certificate, and considering the large amount of liabilities, the court feels itself bound to order that the allowance of the certificate be suspended for twoy.ears, and that the protection. be withlaeldfor six months. With respect to. the class of certificate, as there is no doubt some of the losses have been unavoidable,, and as it appears that, with the exception of an entry in a fictitious name, which must always call for some observation, but which entry does not appear to have been made with any fraudulent intention, the books of the bankrupt appear to have been well kept. The certificate to be granted will be of the second class. Subsequently an appeal was lodged against the judgment. The appeal will be heard by the Lords Justices in London, and pending the appeal the commissioner has granted protection, to the bankrupt. On Wednesday, before Mr. Commissioner Stevenson, J. C. Gresty, who lately carried on business, as a tobacconist in Liverpool, passed his adjourned last examination unopposed, and the 18th of October was fixed for the certificate meeting. Re J. G. Ceaus.— Wednesday was fixed for the certificate meeting in the case of this bankrupt, who lately carried on business as a shipowner and merchant in Liverpool.. The as signees opposed the allowance of the certificate on the follow ing grounds :—First, wilfully bad bookkeeping for fraudulent purposes ; second, dealing extensively in accommodation bills ; third, fraudulent preferences ; fourth, prevarication in his exa mination in reference to the true state of his affairs ; and for conduct coming under the 124th section of the Bankruptcy Act, in having his letters directed to other persons in order not to afford the assignees the necessary information as to the state of his property ; fabricating debts which never had any existence for the-purpose of fraud; mutiltating, altering, and falsifying his books of accounts, and concealing property; and obtaining money in one instance by means of bills and a bill of lading for goods not then shipped, and afterwards be having improperly in preventing them from being shipped. In reply to his solicitor, the bankrupt stated that there would be a surplus over and above his liabilities of £8,434 14s. 2d., besides a balance due on several debts that might be recovered. He (bankrupt) attributed his difficulties to the failure of a house in Italy indebted to the amount of £6,000 or £7,000. The hearing was adjourned until Friday, when Mr. Evans was occupied,on behalf of the bankrupt, in replying to the charges made against Mr. Claus. He proved that the bills, which had been termed accommodation bills, were bondfide transactions, and that a misunderstanding had arisen in consequence of a misapprehension of the term " accommodation bills," as ap plied by the bankrupt. The case was then further adjourned to the 9th of October, when judgment will be given. In the matter of W. and E. Latham, the last examination passed On Friday, without opposition, and the certificate meet ing was fixed for the 18th of October. LIVERPOOL CELEBRATION OF THE CRIMEAN -VICTORIES. ON Thursday last the " good old town" of Liverpool appeared decked out in all its gayest hues, and was musical till " echo rang again," in honour of the victories which have crowned the allied arms in the Crimea. The news of the fall of Sebastopol, although received with a joy which diffused itself rapidly through all classes of the inhabitants, and which penetrated into every nook and cranny of this gigantic town, had, never theless, received no public and official recognition, and the ac knowledgment of the victory was consequently felt to be imperfect. A generally-understood rather than directly-ex pressed opinion to this effect being widely spread, his worship the Mayor embraced the opportunity of requesting his fellow-townsmen to join with him in a public demon stration of rejoicing in commemoration of the great vic tories we have won in the Crimea ; fixing on Thursday last, the anniversary of the battle of the Alma, the first of those victories, as the day. The request of the Mayor was followed by such a cordiality of aid on the part of the inhabi tants as proved at once the intensity of feeling by which the public was pervaded. The various committees of the Council lent their willing and efficient assistance, and through their means the leading features of the day's rejoicing were speedily arranged ; but to the zeal and energy of the inhabitants them selves the entire success of the display was mainly attributable. Each locality vied with its neighbour in giving expression to the feeling of triumph which animated all. At early morn the royal standard was run up in front of the Town Hall ; flags were displayed on the various Church towers and public edifices; and the bells rang merry peals throughout the day . St. George's Hall was thrown open to the public, and at noon a series of performances was given by Mr. Best upon the mag nificent organ. The Hall was densely crowded, and as the strains of thenational anthem, of " Partant pour la Syrie," and of " See the Conquering hero," pealed through the noble edifice, the admiring audience expressed their sympathy and delight by loud and enthusiastic shouts of joyous aelammation• The organ performances were repeated in the evening to if possible a still greater crowd; which abated no jot of enthusi asm as compared with that which had been evinced earlier in the day. In the evening the Mayor gave an " Alma Banquet " in the Town Hall, which- was attended by most of the military and naval officers resident in Liverpool and its vicinity. As was to be expected a- community so eminently mari time as that of Liverpool, theg-eneral demonstration assumed az:aspect in unison with the - forms of joyful demonstration usually adopted by the gallant sons of Neptune. All the principal streets were literally radiant with the gay hues of flags; banners, and streamers, which fluttered joyfully in the breeze.- Festoons of brilliant flags spannediLord-street, Castle street, (north and south,) Church-street, Dale-street, Water street, Hanover -street, James'-street,. Park-lane, and indeed all the streets. and thoroughfares of the tuft,- even back courts and alleys' displaying tasteful exhibitions' of decorative bunt ing. Many of these displays indicated rich fancy and good taste, the preVailing devices being modifications of the Union Jack, together' with the national emblems - of the Allied Powers, intermingled here and there with the symbolic flags of different trading companies, the whole forming: a combi nation of dazzlhrg-brilliancy and varying forms.- The vast outstretching line of docks and its myriad hosts of shipping, formed adelightftdly varied picture, which, in the radiance of its aspect; mocked the rainbow's varying -free. The dense forest of tall and stately masts literally streamed and fluttered with emblematic figures of rejoicing peculiar to nearly every nation on the face of the earth. Added to these were also the countless array , of signal-flags which streamecU and flaunted on the summer.gale; rendering the scene asPyful as it was many-hued. Military and other bantli'perambulated the town thrugh-- out the day, performing martial and other appropriate - airs. The streets, particularly &ring the afternoon, were crowded by dense masses of people—pleased spectators of the general jubilee:. Royal salutes were flied. from various private battarl'es in honour of the occasion, azd atone o'clock a salvo of twenty one guns- was. fired from the Nertk Fort. As night closed bonfires were kindled in different localities within the town,-, and also entire outskirts. Frommost of these points there were-also-brilliant displays of fireworks-; and, in short, from morning-Aonight —and late in the night too—the spirit of rejoicing• and: merriment prevailed , througbaut the town. 3rUSIC AZ D TB . E DRAMA. LTAtiA.lti OEERAS AT THE THEATRE-ROI - AL.-011r remarks o± last week, relative to the thin attendance at these admira bly got up operas ; have called for a- letter from Mr. Copeland themanager and lessee of the Thsatre-Royal„ in whiCh he, in a temperate and. very gentlemanly manner, explains the rea_ sons-which actuate& him in fixing the rates of admission, at the high prices• referred to. He does- more than this. He enters 'upon a defence of his conduct, relative to those prices, and in doing, so , forgets, or appears-.to forget, that no one offered: the slightest impeachment of his- conduct, or even questioned-the motives of it. We found: the question in this position. With every attraction whiehought to have induced an attendance, the heuse was meagrely attended night after night.. The- parties who did attend: were obviously pleased with the treat provided for them ; but: still the audience did not increase in-number. A knowledge of these facts, backed by numerous observations as to the high rates of admission, and coupled with the fact that an, opera company of similar professional standing to that which was perform ing here- was ,giving a series of operas. in Dublin, at charges for- admission greatly lower-than those demanded here, induced us to throw out a- hint that some modi fication of the- Liverpool tariff might: have a tendency to fill the house. In this case, the matter for consideration was obviously whether a house filled at lower charges would not tell better upon-the treasury than one comparatively empty at high rates.,. If three hundred peoplehad been admitted to the it, (its complement as assumed by Mr. Copeland,) at four shil lings that would have produced £6O, whereas about one hun dred, (the number which seemed to attend,) at seven shillings each wouldproduce only £35. We da not, and never did pre tend to , dictate to Mr. Copeland what charges he ought to make' foradmission to the performances-at his theatres. We contented ourselves with the less invidious task of suggesting that lower rates- might, and in all probability would, produce larger audiences, and that in a surntient degree to more than counterbalance the loss upon the presumed difference of price. But it wouldhave done more than this-; if it had been produo.. , tive of larger audiences. It would -have afforded a high grati fication tea.. greater number of the public, and so have tended to disseminate a taste for the highest class of musical per-. formances. The comparison we sought to draw was rather between the- full and the half-empty house in Williamson-. square, than betiveen that and any other theatre, Metropolitan or provincial: As we, in comman-with the other members-of the Liverpool press, bore willing ; testimony to the efficiency with which. the operas were placed.upon the stage, Mr. Cope land might, ',without risk, have spared• himself the trouble of stating that he had been actuated solely by a desire for " their efficient.. representation." As. THE ROYAL AMPILITAgATHE the performances during the past week have consisted in .a a great degree of a represen tation of the drama of " Janet Pride," . the startling Llterest of which has been as before-.mainly supported by the able a c ting of Madame Celeste and Mr. B. Webster, whose efforts have been cordially and cleverly aided by the talent and judgment of Messrs. B. Baker and Villiers. Dearing the present week, Miss Vandenhoff leads the business at this establishment, supported-bythe talent of the resilent com pany. To-morrow evening Miss Vandenhoff appears in Robson 's new play of " Love and Loyalty." On Wednesday, the 3rd proximo, a grand:miscellaneous concert is.to be given .at the house by the leading members of the company which gave the last series of Italian operas in the Theatre Royal, including Madame Ettrisi and Madame Gassier - together with, Signors Mario, Susini, Gassier, and Li Calsi. programme. already issued is a very attractive one, and such an oppor tunity of hearing, those charming artistes,will not in ail probability again, occur.. Sir W. Moleswertlx has appointed Mr. Julian. Pauncsfote his Private Secretary at the Colonial-office. DR. BA.Rlat, the- African traveller, hs* , arrived. in. Ismidon, and dined on,Monday with Viscount Palmerston. IT is said that after the allied fleet left Sweaborg,,at Hel singfors even the Greek priests returned thanks before the altars in their churches to the commanders of the allied forces for their forbearance in not attacking private property. THE CELEBRATED ATHOLB GATHERING came off at Blair Castle on Wednesday last with the greatest possible eclat. The weather was highly favourable for the nerformance of the games. The Athole guardsmen numbered about 180 stalwart Highlanders, and there were about 5,C00 persons present. Among them was his Highness Maharajah Dhuleep Singh. FATAL COLLISIONS.—The Norwegian steamship Norge, with seventy of her passengers and - crew, was lost by a colli sion with the steamer Bergen, on the night of the 11th, about one mile and a-half from Christina, near Chloe Lighthouse, The weather was at the time hazy, and the Bergen struck the Norge with such force as to cut her nearly in two amid ships, and she foundered in deep water immediately. About thirty passengers and crew saved themselves by scrambling on board the other steamer. Another collision was reported on Saturday, between the steamer Mongibello and the barque Santa Annunziata, near Hyeres Islands. The latter sunk instantly. The crew were saved, but two passengers who were asleep in the cabin perished. THE "SEVEN Poon TRAVELLERS. " The Maidstone Journal publishesthe scheme, approved by the Court of Chan cery, for the regulation and management of Watt's Charity at Rochester. The provisions relating to the poor travellers are as follow :—" The trustees, as heretofore, to provide every night suitable and convenient lodgings for six poor travellers. To appoint a master and matron at a salary not to exceed £25 per annum each. The house shall be open every evening for the reception of six poor travellers, or wayfaring men, not being common rogues or vagabonds. Application for admis sion shall be made to the master before the hour of six o'clock in the evening; and, in selecting the persons to be admitted, care shall be taken that, unless under special circumstances, the same person be not admitted for more than one night, and in no case for more than two consecutive nights. Every poor traveller admitted to the house shall have a lodging for the night in a room by himself. A supper to be provided in the common room every evening at 7 o'clock for the poor tra vellers, each of whom shall depart from the house by ten o'clock in the morning, and shall on his departure receive from the master the sum of 4d." The first meeting of the new trustees was held on Monday last, wheu it was agreed, m be providedboiled r for of b ther p e o e o f, r travellers is e r things, t oeonsis t th o a.s er t o of that supper pap pound of round one pound of bread, and half a pint of porter each, [SEPTEMBER 2'5, 1855. I]?ELAYD. haTureceeViveedryaßleest.t. ---.---- tion for imaginary offences, and because he was averse to b being performed during the time of service on SundaYS,;o stated that " this Protestant clergyman is a kind and goy' in his dealings with all classes of people?' ears °I AT Philipstown, on Thursday, a fine boy, about five Y_, Al i t o b ag u e t , o w n as Su p n la d yi ay n and bit him in the cheek. The child's father took 1 _ ce : apothecary, who did not deem the wound of any consoeuqiii,e,sio ensnet?munittin3gr°tlllitanit°hrerews':llpheeasnhootf, inAre!lin-14°11r1", screaming, which subsided until Monday, when spasms " and he died in great agony from hydrophobia. to show a reduction in the number of emigrant pass,,,,e,, the g n i i g n htt theh the t f r a e m e t il , y w w h e e r n e s small alarmed cubrydhoigslrl: a_; ; loi, compared with the correspondinc, period in 1851. r,;`,'.`ibese 9th to the 15th of Sep. the gross total was but 466. _L:,t miril e , 279 took passages for America, and three only for bleif ioili of TUE ExoDcs.—The returns last week for the portenco,ileritil The Know-nothings notwithstanding, the greater P° l is the emigrants had taken passages to New York. --P b:e Evening Mail. for the harvest work, and the markets are beginnin. to " ' le sg s supported with new grain. The Limerick Chrorac. _ 0 , "We hear very little now of the disease of Me lva THE HeuvEsT.--The weather continues mosto.fac_°,are3o•ell crop. In the fields where it was dreaded tlaat ~ ~ THE MURDER OF Mn. ROBINSON.—A ceased nearly a month since, the tubers have greatlylo, in size and in quality." nounces that the whole of the circumstances collie e f ' the murder, so far back as the 17th Jane, 18 5 ., ° „ 0 10- 4 1, Robinson, will shortly be brought to light. fiv l "ibe arr:7 be sought for in America, and the result has ocr-R, 00), last week, of James (the illegitimate nephew of th e e ther i ( t ; i i man) and a farmer named Michael Whitty who, toge then ' ton 1 Patrick Byrne, long since in custody, wilt be Pu A c ag for a conspiracy at the spring assizes. Cu A ... ,10 ENGLISH SPECULATORS ON WEXFORD' *°; - ,,p . 0 3 ' 0 mercial gentleman mentioned to ns a few dal! 5., ; ,' 11 "1h0a5 e ,,,0 . travelled with a correspondent of a large coninl e "4., icitli r Liverpool, whose business was to N o" h ot th e ,. scour our „ ra g D i 0 cars, which he stopped at every potato district tY - fi e ld, °. iv ' county, and sometimes at every lt t Pot 3t° ' 1 1 — a erne e „beg ,oa he minutely examined, and made his report acc ° eiez i " d stalk and the bulb of the " no' I "esculent were o' ... •ga l ' ~ o e , oths' lysed by him. Inquiries were pressed amone ' el ooTtirge ' farmers as to the extent of the " blight." It 15 „, 1 ", th;:i tbed '• the English house he is connected with 0 " 1 . 0 . a I A - , 4 received information which will enable the 03,1 0 1., il-sc' 0 prices for the coming winter.—Wexford Ga ar i'le' 3-' fre e ; 1 m ma e n n ' e a: wh ou i rn s Journ al: —" THE CAMP AT THE CC - REA:ell OF KILDAR}:., 0 , tbe . o io. — bn ' t M co es m srs ple . Wexford Pai d particulars of the progress of this camp are i r ,, ° ,,is ° I./ ;0d contract to supply quarters for ten battalions ° ,,,r D ille 't'°' talons are already in the hands' of them tarY b ino", it , ~,„ 1, , i and the one that remains will be handed over:. i l, t icee g ig" ted eo i urt i n l a e y a m n , d rte SteP:f: a tb: o,,ri :ti , The original contract of the Messrs. Holmei 0 ' - eii.o l l - 0 7 ; complete, and the additional contracts taken 1))* you eil in a most forward state. The churches for cathell e e jev o t, testant worship are progressing rapidly, and o;° 3r ste er f e ti ado that they will be perfectedwithin 1' rtnign''' lit a o lo g Nf' which is now demanded in large supplies; is s - cri• Theo the vicinity . The several canteens belonging' to S es ` v I ,, e pt , 'lc!. Walsh ; • M'Donakl, and Cleary admirably 0 are lie 01' . proviaion-depOts have been lately placed under O n o the ciliated toensure the peace and security of the ti e ,o l l ) . e it# They have all to close at seven o'clock, which wi ll - Cri, i ,4 soldiers to be at their quarters at an early 1 1 ° 11% feee o nit' canteens we - 'must speak from what we have eeeu• atY of , 0 that a soldier:requires is to be had at all then - ii nary prices?' • renT,:l l4 ,i MUTINY OTT BOARD' A LIVERPOOL SIIIP ,- ; - die , 01- ' serious charaeter has taken place on board an "" - f ric e ,'. ti the Wandering Jew,-from Liverpool for Akyah , c' ar t weelso, which was towed into Queenstown, on Sandal , ' us tbe'ttß the screw-steamer- - Falcon, of Cork. On S a turd-ail i ttoo , to , the vessel being then about twenty miles off 13a, 11 : r a , e '' " t o; c o chief mate, Mr. Samuel Wright, sent one 0 l i ' - clire c 'e°' John Samuel Jones; forward to the larboard w atei , T bei the men to come aft and- remove an empty c ask ofd el fused, and persisted in-their refusal, though ('-- 4,' repeated several times!-- The mate then went fororolfoe.„p hold of one of the n.en, and pulled him out of th e. i l ls P t i ) 3 when John Woods came out of the forecastle, dte``; o ee l : 4 5 ' from out of the sheath , and• stabbed the chief ina` t . in i ei shoulder, inflicting a dangerous wound in his erblec s 6 6 then struck at the secon&mate, but heavoided t` facia at this time several of the-crew rushed out of thSegtroore with their knives unsheathed, and with the most o ;eie,•: er to gestures. The ship was at once put about, and , ip to .l' Of' after, the Falcon was seen, , and-the captain sign come alongside. The Wandering, Jew was then "" I fter",'; o o / and , brought into Cork harhour in a few 1100,r3Ajf See'' An investigation was held on Monday, in the r er' t of ixt , court',. Queenstown. The mutineers were Volga. theuor the bridewell under an escort'of police, and pla ce lei Their names arc John Woods, Owen Heywood, P A- I°l l° ,o William Wessel, Antonio BroWnj John Shearinall,.,os,J`roa, geto, John Pateny, Antonio Gomus, otherwise GoleToe, Il k Souza, Nicholas Mitchell, Peter Myer, John t he d', 36 Oc ° , l o . Rudolph.: Teydel. After hearing the evidence 0 1 tle 1 0 , 4 0 ratite, and of a medical man, who deposed tha t the 'eie, inflicted on the first mate was- a dangerous one, p orto , decided ow detaining the prisoner Woods , an d the ti j .4 1 Souza, who was the only other man distinctly rec og p er if i r,e having drawn a knife, until the ()Pinion• of the IS i e o ,,iti authorities-can be had upon the law of the case. ge oe ,- , Prisoners, who appeared to be mostly foreigners, and b,..,- , ?a' li!' unacquainted, with the English Language, were die r . fety ft s i p r e TITE GOVERNMENT PROVISION. , CONTRACT. , .„ k A , pr . , that in consequence of the quantity-of beef and Pprof;ftel on hand-in:the various stores the Goverinne n , t l9,alp this year is unusually limited—the deliveries '"‘ o f ''' if*P AO ea are not to exceed 1,000 tierces and,l,oooY Writ , i 4 DOOl/ 3,000 tierces and 3,000 barrels of pork-.,( P r fe- f, directs the supplies to be made up-in tiercee !'").* IV' . with iron,.instead of wood as heretofore the o ir „I Baci ett ' ti1e,, 5 , 4 • THE CHOLERA. AT BADEN.—The -spa e. - A .,one, , e--, l , °f favourite resort of the inhabitants of -Vienno,,:o" rfo j ta r h e mer-months ; has-been visited by the cholera vi u :ged i' At lg ':: dinary violence that nearly all its visitors hav e Artt rep; place; which almost resembles a deserted toscu,%/ gre - giry victims who have fallen is an Austrian office? „," e et ' Lotion for skill and bravery, bearing the 113 ' .- .0' % P e t , Sf r W ' 10' Cz S ech noCsLis wini. - o- OccsomENci.—A few days- ag ° ',: t wo - „stt l ?; whilst a father and. son, named Thornton, w e the 41; 4 Hannah Thornton, the wife and: mother o f d„ a's- 5 ill “'"i interfered to prevent their coming to blower s' ts oes 4. ,, , ra during the disagreement. The woman: ... wa s ,„ „ h oT o s mediately afterwards, and died the swo-o - oto:;:ol u eSt' t y been subject - to-paralytic attacks. 2.,coroner's ri:U pi e held, and a-verdict of " Died frora paralysis ow - ~e i r, meat" was returned.—Wakefield Hoeald. 60AP $1 6 ' 0 4 t , EXTENSIVE SEIZURE OF ILLICITSPIRIT S V -9 :p 10 - 15 irAt few days an enormous seizure of smuggled br il o ' l barr i place at the port of Teignmouth. Upwards- , of 1 ° 0 00 3 discovered by - the coastguard, and were sor . elY s re tel,, t pe rj d Parties who brought them into the port, and se e ' t hevje i 4 the: place where they were discovered, have not , ' e „, o IP'3 o' An extensive-seizure of illicit tobacco has also 1- '" - Pe e Salcombe, and. in this case two men were aPP . ,,,, re e b ot• vef e have been sentenced to a long term - of imPrise n '' . c' ' t , prie,l." A ' HITSMA-Ifn FOR THE PRINCESS RoYs---- --- 1 "j'' l rick William: of Prussia is a guest a* Balinorailie t ot i Royal Family of England is in villeggiatura• her )14 Royal, now almost fifteen years. of age, is as tall ss_itsi_ot: and is " quite the woman ; ' and, a species of aotli ce e' ftfK, isgiven to• the popular presumption , that Fri?, i. 4 . l :irpe William comes. to court a bride._ The suppositig, eel.# more premature than incorrect.. Queen Victor; in po unusual degree of freedom for a British Princess ,' od ',,,,, c reigning_Sovereign before she becanie a bride:, 00 4 l e a able to secure her own consent in accordance wi t ' i , ',F,41 of her all'actions. Etiquette has-stifled mo re the / y o ; dote to prove the genuine character of the attAr l lol ° ol l a)e the tale, at least until some future day, when„, olor, recorclothe- earliest evidences, of that liappY T4o4' e t , rendered the Queen and her. husband a rou.., e ' PAJ;IO° encouragement of the lieges. Of course a Priner^ - re fc a sy not expect the same immunities with a Quee n „,. fe - Vi Queen-Victoria is a woman of so much sense `l i t, Il ile, or feeling', that no one would expect a force to be• ti eeA e olr i ti 4 daughter, and we do not imagine that the 11 1 , r , , ,,t,,i , will become Queen of Prussia expectant by e ll ; c °Tie regal compulsion. If there: is truth in the s tor ie b o o ; most probable that the young people are to I n 3 o l tb e e;r f o le acquaintance, and that the,Prince will be left to W o g 4 claims. And sooth to say, such a prize is seldeva, 0 0 4 tcooe, unless it be fairly won. Even Princes have bee;i3re-;°;,4i discover that truth, as destiny makes them disV it, boNSi'ittl l o which are essential to our mortal nature. J?, t o o P l Zd e e Princess Royal may take it, what will the Dr_„'" - trire,y Oil How does it relish the prospect of an alliance rr i; aitj l'i ' ot Prussia ? The words give cool comfort enoug in etnoPi; politically, the alliance, although not reo 9lll- 0 1°' . (0 ; P'„ great promise, is free from positive or knool i ifiltD; a tie,;( y a Prusse et Prusse;" even King Freder_ic . " o o,tilo"‘e„j supposed to be quite so Russian as he looO'd e cia'r g s - ''''re advice which controls his actions; but it is,,at te tris;`; ‘ ,l stood of his brother Frederick William -1- ,,afie l i ie pr y Prussia, that thoug ha commander or" liuss e i," i trf , e,O very proprietor of au Austrian regiment, of inTio i ,,:l e ee t "olsl 3s be national than Russia, and decidedly, oppose"ib vi e to trimming course of his governmeot l There j t, O i l Ole',,rsr e _ 4 l authentic manifesto of sentiments on his rotiet`' 40'1-, • -.a- ._ e cv .0 - I I shall be cornet if we do not suppose his o -- „oi s t 1 _ a c , strongly pronounced. Nevertheless, there l o t lie,, 0, 4 3 11 " c ' : evidenca that he has been if notin disgrs ee deee m its ~5 pe t/`1 coolness on account of his non-Rossian te ll ie t iog,',,,,i probable that the constant report of his s e e; t t at'''',,ppe' - o t some ground in his conversation. The ; V oi ce,: is i sl i, haps.been more sinned against than shill'Oovi r ess;t ol l4 a man of feeble body and of feeble willos ln ce of L o be v ' r elei!'ot• every sign of his breaking-up. The Pri n im eao,; - be,- 1 a t ',. more than fifty-eight years of age ; be 8-e 'iffh ty .....ehre' of " ? ce'' ably vigorous health, and is likely coot, rey - .earS ros e d William V. The prince who has just liev,_toar ) t l i e P ro , moral, his eldest son, is not quite twenty lois The , of .; he is reputed to be an intelligent youth, ag ro sia , je tio?, / ,,0P ; of being Frederick William the Sixth of in the ea of J ote l ' i i ie net seem to be anything frightful, thew be (Pe alit/ a¢l.o Princess Royal of England condemne d L° t bere A pstO a dc if under such circumstances, nor is oft he , aol e rb. i ya political objection apparent on the face ou o upviu r 0 to e Gotha. On the other hand, could we e ided o g ii lo o l tage by the match ? Queens consort se re Bus. call of Frederick William of Prussia was " 10 i d treat ed to the git i°'3 ilf e astute Czar called him " Fritz , " a a partb, die pee 0 the family, the result must be ascril_,.. ~,oa o lit ri a o , er: 0 4 cunning of Nicholas, and partly to rr",_;,; (3 Art, /e ioll i t If i t William. Victor Emmanuel is not mor e " Du oc . .i_ e th? o f, his Queen is a daughter of the art elated' c°o3ighrorye.s.'l, fact, almost all these royal families ar vec ooch , n tis tea cl t alie` i pot were to judge by ties of blood and i n _,„ re ily,_,_, oas, ; t it t) to find the Court of Europe one hap.,3: 3 ; odor:J . pot ' 1 00! . ,,pe the bear-garden that it is. The _si)l' aerid Sps l , l . l .' a ock e tr i rli self with Belgium, Naples, Bran Brazil, Paver flitfile cl‘1 0 ;' the less exiled ; nor has the Oder o r re - •oet %1 .0' endless ties of blood, been able to keel' s idea tor' h ot o r m e of France. It was the first NaPolef u g alliance ; por e e o, c u t of upon his head by the link of a ~rui f i c p rcsel ts ga t \ i e f i t i pt i : miscalculation ; and the power or '. I , opOir ,a bf 10 a ll poleon, for all the doubts which hui,o_ ini shc,, v. . e. a d er not appear in the slightest degree (- 1 % 1 o i talf ;u pt , , ola re vo ,, his alliance with a noble but not a 0 r inc , s o r 1., Ail i i i. .14 , i ;, these alliances constitute embarrass iii vi e 'd , a nr , r r ;, s i ji leo rt ,i toy he character of the person °'''' S lSteSO leti VeCt s ' re ; c il ip o' CO • to the tact and will of the 0 ,,, ica l o ?,,, a 40 ~' [ mgAn to use collateral circumstances for 1!,!:;,,, s as bed 1: 0 ' 0 or` some revolution, we must aecoptru"'" 1 ou es -a for ill' Ithe Princess Royal ii to be married_„.t a nt , she must have a Prince and a l're'" - ' Spectator,