Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-24 00:00:00

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The London papers are taken up with the exa enination of the Duke of Cambridge's speech at Sheffield. On the whole, the opinion of the naajo rity of our metropolitan cotemporaries must prove very satisfactory to his Royal 'Highness. The Times says that the Commander-in-Chief spoke in a frank and manly tune. n It WAR the English utterance of an English heart. Such a speech, on such an occasion, shows how muchave have advanced during the last few years in the mutual sympathy of classes ; how entirely the policy which divided the army from the people, and tlept it out of sight,' has been abandoned. On the subjects on which his audience desired to hear his opinions the Duke was not silent. The great anxiety to the chief military authority in a free country must be to obtain a supply of recruits'' And further on, the editor of our leading journal says : We are happy to record, on the highest authority, that the exertions of the lest few weeks have not been without their effect. The narratives which have been laid before the public, the general horror and indignation that have been excited, and the activity of those who have influence with the labouring class, are now drawing recruits to the army in numbers not inadequate to the occasion We do not wish to raise the voice of jubilee too soon, or to fancy that one swill av makes a spring, but such an assurance as that given by the Duke of • Cambridge may certainly be communicated to tke country with a comment expressive of satisfaction The only subject," said his Royal Highness, " which of late has given me anxiety, was the recruiting for the army. I must, however, tell you—for there is nothing like being frank and open with you— that the ordinary recruiting for the army is pro gressing in a manner which is perfectly incredible. The ordinary means of recruiting have in two days alone produced 800 men. That is a great -fact. .It is a result which was never obtained during the Russian War ; a result which was never equalled in the military history of the country." This intelligence will, we are sure. he received with satisfaction and pride. The Daily NAAS in an article ostensibly on this subject, takes occasion to pass a very elaborate panegyric on the whole of the house of Hanover. " There is nothing brilliant, or great, or very wise in the house of Hanover;" but they are courageous, temperate, mild, moderate, prudent, and patriotic ;" and as for the Duke, " he is plain, unaff:cted, simple, intelli gent, active, sincere, and an accessible man of the world, without pimp, pretence, or ostentation." The writer indulges in still further powerful adjec tives. Speaking of the Duke's personal vigour, temperament, and views. as evinced by his speech, he says_--" It was frank, manly, practical and use ful ; offensive to no one, encouraging every one, free from all false sentiment or sham philanthropy, such as Lord. Cenni ig indulges in, but equally free from- vindictive feelings or instigation to acts of mere vengeance or cruelty, laying down principles in a plain simple way, stimulating, by its earnest ness, the country to a wholesome action, and evincing a just estimate of the nation's power and strength." Much anxiety is felt for the receipt of the next telegraph', news from India. Meantime a mush cooler spirit seems to prevail as to the treatment of the Sepoys, when sul , olued, than was recently observable. The word " vengeance" is expressly repudiated by almost every speaker cf note at the - Indian Fund meetings, and a discriminative justice is case I for. At Leicester. on Thursday, the Duke of Rutland and other gentlemen very emphatically conieinned the cry for blind re venge. The Belgian Consul resident at Bombay has written to hia Government with a view to state the conclusions at which he has arrived as to the rebellion, and the effect which it is likely to have -upon trade and . commerce. Speaking of the .Bengal .Psesidency, he describes the revolt as assuming alarming proportions, while the English troops have only gained a few advantages here and there. Of the Bombay territory he indulges in .great hope, and states that the elements of the in -surrection do not exist, that:eh disorder has broken out in a tew isolated atations. The commerce of Tembay was, in his opinion, in a healthy state Sir ]'sward Bulwer Lytton has been address ing the farmers at Tring, on India. Sir Edward highly approves of Lord Elienborough a .letter, and says that all we must think about new is the best means of suppressing the revolt. Belfast was represented on \Vednesday in its wealth and influence, at the meeting -convened by the Xayor, for the purpose of raising a fund for the relief of the sufferers by the calamities in India. The appeal made was liberally responded to, at - least AG • far as the town of Belfast , is colearried. Weald it not be well, as the High 'Sheriff of the couety-suggests, that local meetings should beheld in Ball , ymentt, .Ballym.aley, Antrim, iLarne, and other towns of the eon:ten-, and local subscription lists got -up in coincideaee with the movement? The character of the county Antrim for loyalty and liberality is, to no small extent, concerned in the matter, and we trust that the hopes entertained, from the result of the suggestion, as to what is fitting to be done, will not be disappointed.. The Lord. Lieutenant of Ireland, who has arrived in England, is said to be in possession of the report Of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the Belfast riots, but it is not known wheu the ; report will be published. The sooner the report is in the hands of the public the better. It is not probable that the evidence will be published, - artless moved for in the .11 )use of Commons. Now that the report has been made, its aoasideration, sure2y, cannot occupy much time, an it ought to be .made public forthwith. -We have some particulars of the execution of Booth at Aberdeen, en Wednesday lest. lie walked 'with the utmost firmness to the seaff Ad, and there addressed the large ce3wd for about two or three minutes, in a clear and distinct voice. The tenor of his address was an advice to the spectators to .look .to Christ for guidance and mercy, as hope for pardon at death, as he at that moment did. regard to what he sail in the court at his trial about the unfaithfulness of his wife, and his Ming driven to commit the deed for which he was to suffer by the conduct of his mother-in-law in sanc tioning:hat unfaithfulness, he now, in his last moments, asked all who heard him to omit from their naiads the statement he made in court ; fur what would not man say to try and save his life ? He then bade the assemblage farewell, and having for a second or two engaged in prayer, Caleraft drew the belt and the drop fell. The unfsrtunate man struggled but a few seconds. Booth has left statement i 3 the hands of the Chaplain of the gaol of the same import as his speech on the scaffold. He was 37 years of age. At a meeting of the Cambridge Town Council on Thurslav, the Right lion. Baron Macaulay was elected High Steward of the borough, in the room tpf the late Lord Fitz willinin• The noble lord had (previously intimated his willingness to accept the - office. - - A curious case, illustra`ing the anomalous state of the Church-Rate question, was held before the Lord Mayor of London, on Thursday. A gentle man of the name of Burgon, occupying a house in Bucklerabury, was summoned to show cause why he had not paid a church rate amounting to ..t5 2s 6,1, alleged to be due to the churchwardens of " St. Benet Sherehog." The defendant pleaded that the rate to be legal . must include some charge for the repairs of the building, whereas it was actually levied to pay the sexton e,ss, the vestry clerk, and other parties. The reason why no charge was made for the building became sufficiently apparent when Mr. Goodman, the chief clerk, stated that the parish of "St Benet Sherehog" had been unblessed with any thing in the shape of a church since the Great Fire of London. The Lord Mayor, under the peculiar circumstances of the case, refused to adjulicate upon it, so that the church wardens who levied the rate may, if they pleas©, find their remedy in the Ecclesiastical Courts. Mr. Burgon will need something more substantial than public sympathy should he be dragged into that court, which, as he not unaptly says " was formed to ruin individuals:" Two "fortune tellers" were, yesterday, sent to . gaol for three months, with hard labour, as rogues arid vagabonds. It is stated by the police that there are a great number of these characters in the town. They will nz,ver he put down until both the astrologer and his victim are sent to gaol. The latter is as bad as the former. We have often directed the attention our readers to the har lahip and inconvenience under which the publican is placed, respecting the billit ing of so'diers. At the Police Court, yesterday, a ease bearing upon this question came before the macistrate. A publican, in Mulberry-street, was served, by a corporal of the Scots Fusilier Guards, with a billet. He was offered 41. to fo: ego his privilege, but refused it, whea he was to'd there was a bed for him He returned at night, but the publican was under the impression that the party was not the one for which the billet was issued, and refused him a bed. A summons was taken out, and the defendant was fined in a sum of 40s. and costs. It is surely time that this bil letting system was done away with. A fob report of the proceedings at the Concert Hall last night, when Neal Dow made his farewell speech in England, will be found iu another column. The news from abroad this morning is not of much interest. The naw Spanish Ministry has shown a disposition to be conciliatory towards the press, but seems resolved to govern without the Cartes as long as it can, for it has postponed their meeting till the 31st Deeemhor, the utmost period allowed by law. The King of Russia is getting bettor, and there is something said about his signing in a day or two an► ardonnance bestowing temporary royal power on the Prince of Prussia, but this is doubtful. According to the Austrin press, Lord Palmerston is still firmly resolved to support Austria and Turkey in their resistance to the union of the Principalities. The returns of the Brunk of England issue, last night, show a decreasa of upwards of £355,000. OF late we have heard many, and, to our mind, singular speeches respecting the Indian Mutiny. But the most wonderful, and at the same time unmeaning, of all that has come under our observation is that delivered the other day by Mr. J. P. WILLOUGHBY,. an East India Director, to his constituents at Leominster. Just now, the gentlemen who " rule the roast" in Leadenhall Street, are important personages; consequently, everything they say, particularly in reference to the position and prospects of their own empire, is seized upon with avidity. Their orations are scanned, sentence by sentence, in order that, if at all possible, we may know the " why " and the " wherefore" of the mighty struggle now going forward on the plains of Hindoostan. Certainly, one would imagine, that of all other personages who could furnish such desirable information, a member of the Court of East India Directors would be the personage. If, heretofore, that body was only a small congregation of commercial gentlemen, regarded as being well posted up in Oriental matters, which in themselves were dry and uninteresting to the public at large, a change has come round, and lie must be little of a patriot, or a politician, who would carelessly overlook the driest details issued by the " Esst India House." or not peruse every word, line, and sentence, of a Director's speech. Well, one of these great Eistern luminaries, as we have before remarked, has been to Leominster and had his say, and that too on no less an exciting and all-important topic than an attempt to enlighten his audience as to the causes of the Indian Revolt. But any one who carefully peruses the speech will be at a great loss to know what the " Honourable Proprietor " actually means. It is an oration full of negative qualities. Instead of setting forth the legitimate and true causes of the outbreak in Bengal, Mr. WILLOUGHBY merely demonstrates what they are not; and if we were disposed to be extremely critical we should siy that his argument, if sound and good for anything, proves that the mutiny had no cause at all. But this is a philcsophical idea that we would not desire to establish, particularly at the expense of an East India Director. Commencing his address to the Electors of Leominster there was a cautious and extreme guardedness, which did not say much for the speaker or his colleagnes at the India Board. He told his hearers that he was there as a private individual, and not as an E.ist India Director. If, however, Mr. WILLOUGHBY et that what he was saying was the truth, there could be little cause to think his colleagues in Leadenhall Street would have been ashamed of, or repudiated, any of his remarks. .I.t strikes us, from this little piece of preliminary fencing, that there must be divided, counsels at the E Ist India llouse. If so, we need not be surprised at what has taken place. The language of Holy Writ declares " A house divided against itself, cannot stand." But let us see how Mr. WILLOUGHBY disposes of this Indian mutiny. In the first place, lie tells us that the war, or rather, rebellion, is one in which the people at large do not ihun nor sympathise with. The people, instead of rising agaist their exiting rulers and countenancing the mur.lerous deeds of the rebellious Sepor, keep aloof from them, 41)(4 where dangegPf their THE NORTHERN TIMES. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1857 own persons and property is not at stake, they acknowledge the British standard, and readily furnish our beleagured troops with provisions. Again, according to Mr. WILLOUGHBY, the Native prince's and chiefs condemn the move ment, and pay homage to our authority and power; so that both prince's and people not only acknowledge, but prize and value our rule in India. But after all, does this prove, admitting the several statements put forth are correct, simply that the revolt is confined to a portion of the army. Nearly one hundred thousand of the Bengal Army has risen to despoil us of our authority, and in doing so, recruited their ranks by letting loose the criminal population of the Presidency. Why did they do this ? That, although the main question, Mr. WILLOUGHBY dces not answer. The greased cartridges, he also declares was not the cause. Now, although we know that the greased cartridges were used by the Mohammedan to rouse the Hindoo, his explanation of how the Mohammedan came to plot against the }Endo°, is singularly remarkable. It is in these words—" There seems to have been a delusion, almost amounting to insanity, which no effort on the part of the authorities could possibly have prevented." He next denies that the causes arose from the bad treatment of the officers, the proselytism of the missionaries, nor the centralisation of authority, or the depriving of commanding officers of the power of punishment, or the abolition of flogging. Then, again, as to the ardent desire of the Mussulman to obtain his rights, long since lost by conquest, the Honourable Director does not esteem that a cause. Last of all, he does not think the system of annexation and conquest, which has been going on for some years, has had anything to do with causing the fearful catalogue of crimes which has taken place, and which have roused the subjects of the British Crown in every country and in every clime. —This is all that Mr. WILLOUGHBY has got to say about the Mutiny in India. He has, as a Leadenhall Street Director, told us what, in his estimation, did not cause the rebellion—We now ask him to tell us what did ? And here we fear that had the Honourable gentleman ventured on that—the most important part of the subject—he must, if influenced by candour and truth, have told some things which would have, more than ever, convinced the people of this country that the mismanagement and bad government of India by the East India Company has led to much of the evils and cruel disasters which have occurred. No matter how blandly the Honourable Member for Leominster may endeavour to cloak or disguise the fact just enunciated ; it is impossible that an event so serious in character, and of such magnitude in extent, could have taken place without a cause— it may be a series of causes. This is not exactly the time to point them out; ere long, a suitable opportunity will occur, when we shall return to the subject. HOW TO PROVIDE MEI FOR OUR ARMY AND NAVY FOR TrIE FUTURE. [COMMUNICATED.] Now that rebilion has broken out in the Native Army in India, we shall require constantly a large army in our Eastern possessions; and if the clouds do not blow off the political horizon, we know not how soon we may require as many men as we can get. C)eval with this, we have a great mischief on . the increase at home, and we seem exceedingly anxious to transmit it to our colonial possessions. We refer to the increase of crime in this country. Reference to the assize, quarter sessions, and jail delivery reports, will satisfy any of. th 4 curious and thoughtful on this subject, thai something ought and must be done. What that something is, requires no SOLON to devise. It has been pointed to by Judges and Recorders, in their charges, and by none perhaps better than by Mr. FREDXRIC lIILL, Government Inspector of prisons. He, has put his finger on no one measure as a panacea. He, on the contrary, points out several measures to be adopted, to bring about the desired Reformation ef character in criminals. The first to be employed, personal cleanliness ; then, habits of industry ; then, means of earning a livilihood ; and, synchronically with these, there is to be given a good moral and religious education. This last proposal, is the red cloak, which has excited our sectarian bulls. They will hare, that no religion can exist witboutjheir theology; and, as this class superabounds amongst the so-called religious people, the best efforts of the the wise and good are frustrated—the best measures for the good Of our common humanity, are sacrificed at the shrine of sectarian bigotry. We do not agree with those intolerants—men, who can only see one thing at a time—that there can only be one way of imparting religious teaching, and that way, their doxy. We rather agree with those philosophers who, like the spider, can see all round them ; - who can discern the good in every religious system, and are prepared to agree to a syncretiSm in religion--- a comprehensive scheme of Christian teaching, which shall include the good •of all without offending any. We believe that such a system can be fixed upon; it is feasible, and can be worked out in all the National Reformatory Institutions. Our scheme for raising men for the future for our army and navy is, to establish Industrial Sc e hools in every large town throughout the country, and district ones for the smaller towns; in the rural and manufacturing districts; whither the rising crops of our criminals might be sent whilst yciiing and tractable, to be reformed in their morals, taught a trade, industry and thrift ; to follow that trade, and besides, disciplined for one of the branches of the service—Naval or Military. The different towns might send a representative to a central board, ' that should contract with Government to deliver yearly so many men of all arms, upon a consideration of a capitation fee or bounty. This, though it would not defray the whole of the expenses of the establishments, would be, upon the whole, more economical than keeping up our large prison establishments, which would, in time, be much less in requisition. We are supported in our statement of the large numbers of troops we shall require for the future, at home and in India, by Lord ELLEN BOROUGH, in his address to the Members of the Winchcomb Agricultural Association, on the 16th inst. And, though we do not disparage, for one moment, his Lordship's recommendation that the farmers and country gentlemen of England should exert themselves in swelling the numbers of recruits for the Militia, so as to keep up its compliment; yet, we do feel that we shall require every man that we can procure for our army, and this for a long time after the excitement of the War has passed away. What better method, 'then, could we adopt than taking those poor little urchins that are born in the alleys and lanes of our crowded cities, and who grow up in a state of orphanage—as far as regards any care bestowed on them by their wretched parents—and rescuing them from the career of vice, misery and crime, which else will constitute their future, make them into good servants of the State ; training the males into soldiers, and the females into nurses for the hospitals and other feminine occupations. By this system, in the course of tea or twenty years we shall have got rid of the prolific hot bed of prostitutes and thieves, and have turned the gaols into industrial institutions , and, though we shall spend more in fitting these boys for the army than any bounty we shall receive from the Government, yet we shall be gainers in the end, by saving our lives and property from the burglar, and being spared the expense of prosecuting him when captured. This National scheme would deserve well at the hands of our Town Council, and when matured we have no doubt other corporations would willingly fall in with it. We know that there are several objec tions that can, and will, be raised against this proposal, but we also know that there are objections raised to every scheme of moral reform. This one, no doubt, will admit of great modifications, and it is for our legislators to bring their collective wisdom and experience t) bear upon it before empowering our local authorities to care out its details. THE BANKRUPTCY 01" ME , SRS. Ross, MITCHELL, AND CO —At a meeting of creditors, held in London, yesterday, a proposition was made by the firm to pay 203. in the pound, by 4 half yearly payments, of 53. each with 6 per cent interest. The business to be still carried on under the inspection of a committee to be nominated. The terms were agreed to, and the London and Glasgow members of the committee were nominated. The assets were estimated at £473,573, and the probable surplus over liabilities, £57;000. SCIENTIFIC MISSION T 3 INDIA —An important paper has just been read to the Academy of Sciences, Paris, on a mission sent to India and Upper Asia in 1831 by the li.'eng of Prussia and the East India Company. The members of the mission consisted cf three brothers, M. M. Herrmann, Adolphus, and Robert Sehlag,entweit, two of whom, M.M. Herrmann and Robert, returned in June last ; the third, M. Adolphus, is still among the Himalaya mountains, and is expected soon to return, eel the Punjaub and Bombay. During the winter of 1854-55, these enterprising travellers visited the region lying between Bombay and Madras ; in the following summer M. Herrmann explored the eastern parts of the Himalaya, the Skikkirn, Bhootan, and Kossia mountains, where he measured the altitudes of several peaks. The highest of all the summits known through° it the world appears, by his measurements, to be the Gahaorishanka, situated in the eastern portion of Nepaul—the same announced as such by Colonel Waugh, but c tiled by him Mount Everest, because he had been unable to ascertain its real name in the plains of Hind°. stan, where he effected his -measurement. This peak is somewhat mare than 20,099 English feet in height,' and hears another name in Traipse - , where it is called Ching°. pamarl. The other two brothers, M. NI. Adolphus and Robert, penetrated by different roadsl into: the central parts of the Himalaya, Kumsou, and Garwahl ; they then visited Thibct in disguise, entered the great commercial station of Girtok, explored the environs of Lake Man sarowr, and that remarkable ; , crest whieh see mites the waters of the Indus from those of the Diliane, ottea erroneously ealled the Barrampeoter. Taey ascended Ihi-Camine, 22,260 feet in height, that being an altitude never before attained in any part of the world. After hiving been separated from etch other for a spice of Fourteen months, during which M. Robert ascertained that the tablet in I of Amirkautsk, in Central which is generally stated to be eight thousand feet above the level of the sea, is not more than three thousand three hundred feet in height, the three brothers again met at Simla, previous to commencing operations intended fee the summer of 1856. M. Adolphus, on leaving that place, crossed the Himalaya, went over Thibet, Baltistan, and visited the interesting spot where several mountain crests meet, arid the Hindoo Koosh jrins the range lying to the north of India. He then returned to the Punjaub through the valley of' Cash mere. MM. Herrmann and Robert proceeded to Ladask by different routes. Under good disguises, they were enabled to penetrate ir.to Turkistan proper by crossing the Kirakoroona and the Kuenluen mountains and descending into the great valley of Yarkand, a region never visited before, not even by Marco Polo. It is a vast depression of between 3,009 sad 4,009 feet, separa ting the Kuenluen, oa the northern frontier of India, from the Syan-Chane, or mountains of Central Asia, on the southern border of Russia. They then returned to Ladak, and entered the Punjaub by different routes through Cashmere. After a two years' negociation M. Hermann was, at the commencement of 1857, admitted into Nepanl, where he determined the altitudes of the Machipoora and Mount Yassa, which have hitherto been vaguely called the Dhawalagery, which means nothing else but "snowy crests," and is applicable to all snow. capped mountains. M. Robert proceeded to Bombay through Scinde, Kutsch, and Gazerat, where he surveyed the chain called the Salt Range, and determined the changes effected in the course of centuries in the course of several rivers. Before returning to Europe he stayed three months in Ceylon. M. Adolphus visited various parts of the Punjaub and Cabul, previous to returning to the Himalaya, where he still is. The chief results obtained from this careful exploration of Asia are the following :—Theji. Himalaya mountains everywhere exercise a decided influence over all the elements of the magnetic force; the declination ',everywhere presents a slight deviation, causing the needle to converge towards the central parts of that enormous mass, and the magnetic intensity is greater than it would be anywhere else under an equal latitude. In the south of India the increase of the magnetic intensity from south to north is extremely rapid. The lines of equal magnetic intensity have a remarkable form, similar and perhaps parallel to those of certain grdups of isothermal lines. The three travellers have collected all the materials necessary to ascertain th's important fact. Irregular local variations in terrestrial magnetism are rare in those regions. On the Himalaya, at altitudes of 17,000, and even 20,000 feet, the daily maxi mum and minimum variations of • the barometer'occurred nearly about the same hours as in the :plains below. Again, at the above altitudes, the inversion of the curves of daily variation which is met with on the Alps does not take place. At the altitude of 17,000 feet the diminution of transparency produced by a stratum of air of the thickness of 3,000, feet, is no longer distinguishable by the eye. Daring the Dist storms which frequently occur in India, the disk of the sun is seen of a blue colour ; if small bodies are made to project their shadows on a white surface, under such circumstances the shadow is of an. orange colour—that is, complementary to blue. The transparency of the waters of the Ganges, the Barram pooter, and the Indus, was tested by letting down a stone into them, which generally became invisible at a depth of from 12 to 15 centimetres (5 to 6 inches), showing that they are overcharged with earthy particles, for in th, sea near Corfu a stone is visible to the depth of 50 feet, and in the seas under the tropics it remains visible at a depth of 30 feet. AM USE 3IE NTS, &c. THE I.IVA.L OPERAS AT THE THEATRE ROYAL AND THE ROYAL AMPaITHEITRE. Mr. Sims Rceves, on Thursday evening, attracted the largest audience which has been present at the Theatre Royal during the week, to hear Donizetti's opera, " Lucia di Lammermoor." His perlormince of Edgard° was the great fact of the opera, and certainly the best performance we have ever witnessed from Mr. Sims Reeves. Madame Gassier was not successful as Lucia. She sang the music with great brilliancy, but somewhat was wanting in pathos and passion. Signor Borchardt was not equal in Ashton. At first he was very coarse, but improved in the latter portion of the music. He has a sweet tone and considerable poorer, and with care should take a high position among the baritones of the day. At the other house, Lucy Escott's benefit was not attended at she deserved. She mad) a spirited Mari tan; but a little more grace woeld not not have boon amiss. Mr. Henry Haigh male a reckless Doe aesar de Bazan. Last night that opera was performed at the Theatre-Royal to an equally thin house. Mr. George Perren was the Don Cedar, and has been seen here in that character before. He was vary good, bat scarcely so effective as when we last saw him perform it. Madame Borchardt took the part of Mlricans, and sang a great deal of the music very well, but her personal appearance is not suited to such characters as vivacious gipsies. The performance of the whole opera was in no respect superior to that of the National English Opera Company at the Amphitheatre. !Last night the latter rei eated "It Trovatore," but an apology was made for Mr. Henry Squire, on account of severe cold, as he nailed in "Ah 1 si ben m'o," and " quells pira," in which he was so successful last week. He recovered a little in the " Miserere," but when that was en cored, his voice showed sympto las of weakness. The " Trovatore" was announced as this evening's performance at the Theatre Royal, but it will be seen by the letter of Mr. Sims Reeves, in the advertisement in oar columns, that he is afraid of that opera, and that he proposed to substitute a second performance of " Lucia di Lammer moor," and, in addition, to carry out the rivalry to the last moment with the National:English Opera Company, to take the part of TOM Tug in " the Waterman," in which Mr. Manvers, of the other company, has been so successful, We wish we could record that more remune rative audiences had greeted both companies, for their own sakes and fur that of iNIr. Copeland, who certainly deserves more supp art. There will be highly attractive performances at both houses to night, and, under ordinary circumstances, large attendances might have been calculated on. At the one house Simi Reeves inlEigardo and Tem Tug,' at the other, two operas, " Der Freischutz" and " the Daughter of the Regiment." Tne bands, choruses, and conductors are very good at both houses, and the appointments at both equally good. We shall be glad if we can record good attendances. Sr. GEORGE'S CONCERT Ito min.—This place of amuse meet continues to fill nightly, and the talent engaged by the spirited proprietor, is deservedly appreciated. The choruses are effective, and the glees and duets elicit hearty encores. We cannot refrain from noticing the very excellent execution of Miss Cantrell, w:tu is a great and deserved favourite. HENGLER'S CIRCUS, DALE S.TREET•—ool7ething new is almost daily added to the attractions of the Cirque, and we find that the first grand day performance will take place at two o'clock this afternoon. In conjunction with the accomplished artistes that we have already noticed, we have to mention this week, the astounding, and at the same time, delightfully daring performance of Mr. J. M. Hengler, on the tight rope. Performances of this description are rare, because few cin be found capable of doing so. Mr. Hengler has, however, in this instancee eclipsed all the rope performers of modern times. His fetes are daring, yet gracefully performed, and at the time we admire him, we are lost in admiration at how such things can be, and overc)me us like a summer cloud, without our special wonder ! Descriptio❑ would fall short of conveying a true notice of Mr. Hengler's walking in the air, as it were—he must be seen, and then will he be appreciated. Mr. Powell, as "Shaw, the life gaarasinan," is equal to anything of the sort, we have observed i❑ his various and _interesting personations of celebrated individuals. M. M. Leopold and Boultelier, are amongst the finest grotesques in the world, and the " S ar and Waltz Cotillon," by the principal performers of the company, are graceful and attractive. We must defer noticing other portions of the performance, until next week, but still the excellence of the company is unrivalled. THE COURT. WIND , :on, October 22 —The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood arrived at the Castle yesterday afternoon on a visit, and had the honour of dining with her Majesty. The Dean of Windsor and the "Bon. Mrs. Wellesley, and Colonel Ridley, commanding officer 2nd Battalion Scots Fusileer Guards, had also the honour of being invited. The band of the Scots Fusileer Guards played during dinner. tier Majesty's private band after wards perforzed the following pieces : Oeer'ure—•' L 3 Pre an c Clercs" ........ Herold. Se!ectlon from the Works of Handel. Ensemble and Air—" Marco Siada" .. ..Anber. Manch —" Tannhauser" .......... ...... ..Wagner. The Queen and Prince Consort, with the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, rode in the riding house this forenoon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty at the Castle. BALHOR kL.—Sinc;e the departure of the court from Balmoral, the stir about the castle has ceas , d, and it has resumed its wonted quiet, imposing look. The day previous to the Queon's leaving for the season, the youth ful Prince Alfred, who was deer-stalking in Garmadir, brought down his first stag, and, in celebration of the occasion, all the gillies in attendance were commanded to appear at the main entrance, and, with lighted torches, they danced a Highland reel together in first rate style.— Aberdeen Journal. Tun BERKELEY ,PEERAGE.—The following letter appears in the Morning Herald :—" Sir, —Having seen con siderable misstatements in the public papers relating to the Earldom of Berkeley, and one in particular, signed A Gloucestershire Man,' it behoves,me to set the matter right, and to declare the fact as it really is. Tha earldom of Ber keley is settled beyond the power of cavil. The House of --"—r----"--.-------"---"w"- L de o c r i d . s have decided it, and there is no Wea l of the la . te aga i n st Ot t. TLhaeraGlßonecreksetteeryshoirewpilrloptoerwtyhwomas hinothpate,P°:eeeil. but the London and Dorset estates, left E a rl lAror of g Stratton, to whomsoever was r i, and th e could not be:linterfered with by the late ° kr ailea succession :to: those estates cannot rola. , is ated from the title. Thomas Moreton Fitzharci.n; sal, the Earl of Berkeley,:although he chooses to nai l 131 or his by some other name; but as to the accumulatiouio minority, and the income arising from the e nt3 er estates in London, to that extent he has, ivadvertentlfro mast rwise, sacrificed the interest of his life.-- be liently, GRANTLEY F. BERKELEY, Beacon Lodger o_,;t. o 2 a o sE . " NTATION SWORD FOR THE DUKE OF LA -- $ ter , , i g MO' —Mr. C. F. Hancock, of Bruton-street, has just couplet the sword which the City Corporation is about 0 r es hip, and the Duke of Cambridge. In respect of workinalistej to material it is one of the finest weapons ever Pr es e n t ioc a soldier. It is a state sword of strict reguiesso. pattern. The hilt is of ivory, carved. Ths trensi atia 1 00 1 ids, part is of gold, ornamented with wrea ths of acorns, the acorns of diamonds, the le aves of ealerrilossea in the centre, a sword and marshal's b aton are e;0;11 on a red enamel ground. On each side are o n ' te a, cabochon emeralds, with which diamon ds are alter The mounting of the entire upper port ion of the s'ieli is daaaa very s finely executed. The blade,whi ch is elaber:po keened, bears the following inscriptio:-"wordy freedom of the City (together w ith this s te of was presented to his Royal Highne ss the Da ni f, bf C Ambridge, Commander-in-Chief of the British itt""higlt the es Corporation of London, in testimony of the ir • c eth Adbaa. t prtm - d m , a sk ti e o e n ni o n f g, hi t s he di c st i i t n y g a n r i m sh 3 ed ar c e b e a fi r g a r c a te r r ed a . nd T e h e e r o f f lib ir et t. crown am t a tis e 7 r . i " el. On Ne t a h r e th ot e he t r op side, together with other d .amwi mo:aod,af,',cn,hgdierl,ntdffhk,ecirtsm. Prince's covered w cipher,it h enrichmen ts ,G r e wit h vrse ; n u g , ii i t :: has a nris,inon stones, are d a enamel ground, a corabittati°ll 1 $ l4 I l i n n o,n, a , , as p e a bw n e : l si i tt g oe b below the m il t h e e l e ld C c bg :i ire t ionc i t r ai li t i b e :, iab lower , pa nt r h t ew o hw f iar t ah h t e harre s el cabbard is crossed o l swrough t esels : 0 , bes i h n e s a c d r i b o e f d tphtahei,e,Bwarinotirstlisi :oen.r.l:o; pres:ntation is appointed to take place at the 651 on the 4th of November, TELEGRAPHIC NO Ty British and Irish Magnetic Telegra,l)ls"_ TURKEY. 01. CONSTANTI NOPLE, 01 " The Turkish Ministry has been overthrown. Se) A Pacha has been appointed Grand Vizor. SPAIN. 11. MADRID, -Cf t n is said that the new Cabinet has resolve4l:9 r se ize journals except for attacks upon the t osilltills religion or morality, or exciting disturbances, or . o te top mo c ai f f unctionaries. It is eves supposed tl is , t i i t y the law on the press on a liberal 513'r*". FRANCE. ' ritl/ 4 0 PA RIS, ~,i , 0 11 The Three Per Cent Rentes have risen 200 to• 0 closed at t. 6 ' 9Dc. sth, 6.h, 7th, Bth, THE ARMY. All the officers of the additional hatallions of W o e ° and 9th R.gitn ents of Foo gazAted last night. NEWFOUND LANPI --- ARRIVAL OF THE ANTEL OPE' 0 1)e gr g fr° ,2 re The screw-steamer Antelope, which s ail f e . " Jahn'3, N?wfoundlan 1, on the 12th inst., s',, p . -11 , o f last even:ng. She brings no news of inaportsfri ift if ' $, The screw—steamer Indiana, f r om New o"yeure St. John's short of coals. She had been ou t °lel t st and was on her voyage to Southampto n. h 0 5 0 5 Her H.M it 'e .'s ship Buzzard, from Pipnoot' s 3 5° , John's for Halifax, short of coal, and had r'''.° O f damage from heavy weather. d ig. p , The Antelope brings a full cargo of me rebali four passengers, and three cases of specie. B L YTE E L R EGR F A R P O IL M ow ir...0101, THREE DTs IT line, A. Th , ac e or I : i : i f je a n steam a s tt l oN i i p epw ,yE Atlantic, eonrtk N oa nrCEraat:pnitgsaYidn:E7dtbr'eig7;. fitit.91::::011:1:1 b 3 despatched again, for a o s t 4a a a dn d r o e a l l i s) C . reported ocoo Liverpo ol, eu.l - d e 3 : :e o nn t httse :l nt a hltilti p li o iti r vi e l°.°-5:::itb::: acc T C F o j hl r o m e d u i ni pr n r g e o ( c tdc ; i : a e cit s eh'' t e ffi‘ r ial n ai f d r u o p l a i i . 4 dole. 3 Oc e . t T'ae transactions in Cotton were reportedt°be r r c is kets are all represented tabe 01 WI Prime Pi,rk was cial;erl at 18 dole per barrel. oi smell amount. At . ftear , FOUND DROWNED Yesterday, the . ., as ter,a ov of ti l iPe found in the canal. An inquest b named Thomas Prescott , who was the,r be' or w ill of , i tO i opium eanb L en oou E uu c n -r ac u en a sd n a c o ox lectureti o N n o . n a n . the A l r s . a T m comase topic, O Y O3 I/ 0 : 0 - 1 , of 0 0 , : 0,. was • yt: op t; " J: i : 1 of P - ,ir a il : body this day. towho has been lecturing throughout the acs connected with the all-important subteloo,ll,seghf on the evening of Wednesday next. wrle n .,, be the v r° er arerorsuainANthoelNenTinpsloEysTroNfoTChorumcaugg4A.-Itoscele7t e De e fes, of 0 f : to, give some startling revelations reltive L- As Or L ilco' ..e ilia o o f p, P n t i > n n g -y it P t a h r e k y , near Beaumaris Aelle s %;ter i° ,:u .00 stronglyart trunk gn o nk a o k t tree , j,a cas lmaii seopsl t discoveredleltoidfheowyeu,wnsa:ieitncha iuponro n i s etehiv. erect, 3 ,1 - d s ..o:fi the jewellery. silv, er „ ' ia l V int; red t" r el , of antique have remained there ever since the time ° a b). s ( ti ! e a period of nearly 20D years. pioe 0 1 ,0 TIIP GHoonicas.—A. letter has been re c— ja 01 0 0 ~,-• soelivitdei.rsatleowoggraeloillhdeetraunodi t D. fetehte tileiowt:eo atm fn io this town from his son, an effeer,retl,h'ififef'o; Ghoorka regiments in India, and for wh .i .os c ,:;,, , itt i rli et ,f - s , loug silence, fears were entertained. . 13 " ..- d bor e ' d beril [next at Almorah, and he speaks in high an,.. 1 10 4 %.0 0 .) , of the spirit of his mm. The brave little Ol eve ror• t i rgag are burning to prove their dtv)tion to ga th e , I v tile i Pli be rivalling the fidelity and courage dispYeuibali frAltpl sp r o : a n .ncee b tl e ia f m ' s o te re naigg D nht; l . hi. Haying stated th a ,, t ISTYlitTeiitee oia Khan was eo lee' i g an army to a e ft:.. ,. l: 0 7 . 11: 5 : 11 . : says— aenr ' ; d A ,bn h edi o t u i About 400 of our men wen le t f ° t / t e h ` b i4 a : o o l ;;e tb ol l e li e I anotheron only y wish companyyoo what hearty pleasure they marched, hurrab'elipotProeto The writer, Pu n " ' n 2 long Ade pe The opinion of the writer as to the outbreahe tler; i pr e eth that of others upon the spot—that whell,..t o ut seclimienip' Ta:Ming s , largely to our territory', witu oo r hell o st r ,irg they single En-opcan bayonet, they do te d they pee' io brethren."— O6 and felt II • - iir own power, and this in . . e or 0 0, 4 0 g Pt a w c rtr a e n 3 c , e f ' o i r f halfab•raglr 8-7:coititeopeS:ol,l3 we regret to find, gives eau:, Ther e o f Allot disasters of which we have n et Lea is „1 9 0e 10 „. b e ,ber says, " a few regiments at out of-the-vra7 ,' % fc",:‘,l ' fate we have not ytt heard, bat thete ""i‘eil' little debt that they have followed the e Chelmsford Chronicle. 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