Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-11 00:00:00

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By British and Irish Magnetic Te.'egrapk. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY NIGHT, The Journal La Patrie has received a govern bleat Warning, for an article demanding the compulsory circulation of Bank notes as a legal tender. The Three per Collts have been maintained tc-42 Y with firmness, and closed at an advance— .ll4 ; at 67!. BERLIN. BERLIN, TUESDAY. The Moniteur Beige publishes the list of the new 1 iberal CAbinet. M. Bogiers took the post of I linister of Foreign Affairs. THE DANISH HOLSTEIN QUESTION COPENHAGEN, SUNDAY. The Danish Government will adopt a passive Policy on the Holstein Question, and allow things to take their course before the German Diet. PORTUGAL. LISBON, Nov 5. Tile fever is (kerns:Lig. THE BRAZILS. LISBON, Nov. 10. The Teviot, Steamer, has arrived here from the trazlls with the mails for England. At Rio Janerio, Coffee was without alteration, and exchange on London was quoted at 2711. At Bahia, Sugar had fallen 500 rs. Exchange on London 2711.. At Pernambuco there was no alterat'aa to notice Cotton. Exchange on London 271 I. THE I,CiE MR. Hoes MILLER —The grvernment has greeted a pecsioa of £3O enyea• to the mother of the late Mr. Hugh Miller. . TUN MOB OF THE POUND AT 1173R1L AGATN.—About two e'cicck, the quiet of cur last Sehhath was again disturbed by the rabhle of " the Pound," who, in a body or four or fiv a hundred, atteckel the houses in Wilson street, and also stoned any persoes who happened to be standing in the street. There being no constabulary 9nerterel in that locality at the time, the im b had full liberty t 3 carry on their work, but the iehabitants of the Place turned out, in order to protect their houses, and stones were thrown for about half an hour between the halides. After some time, a- psrty of constabulary arrived, but the rioters had previously dispersed. Such seetes as these show the spirit which ex'ste in the minds of t he " hone and sinew" of the Poled —Belfast Paper. ' A Rusdotea alsouT JOHN JAILS 3 Mooan.—We learn that a lette- has been received by a gent'eman in County Dawn, f romhis brother, who sailed in the Aide for New York. i be ing th's be gives u description of the outward steamer bo ard hailed off Cork by a small river steamer, having on 'Coe some constahls.s. He s a'es tkat the Asia did stop, n alleertain what was wanted, but, as those on board had tin Admiralty warrant, the captain declined to remit thet) Ael t to be searched, and proceeded on his voysgs. ''' hen about enters; g Nsw York harbour, some constables , boarded the Asia, ante hrr , ated two second-cabin pesiergers, The of whom were shortly after transhipped for England. rhe gentleman who received the letter thinks that one of these parties was the new notorious John James Moore. It apnsars that a steamer s tiled from Southamtton for New York, a few ho irs after the Asia left Liverpool, and that intelligenes was sent by tier, with a description of 211,.... It is c,id Olt ....,c•rt ... iv. 4 .t New 'York an hour or so before the Apia, and thus the arrest is accounted for. Belfast Netts-Letter. by , i (b y .--, , Lao- Nu A cr.-4 ord C lining, we suspect, has h e ee i % titnefoured good reason to rue the hour in which l i tn r;.aetically proclaimed his loistility to the liberty of the sat", pr. ss in India—of that pr ss of which, in the /,`": breath, he had himself deed aed • h loyalty and ability. ' 8 not enough that Vie usable I , rd invested himself wi t h an arbii it ., rare rower over the press ;he has delegated his power `Very little tyrant under Hs authority , and those small mere olive 13 ten using their vicario is power with the folly and ih caprice that was to be expected. As to its effects in e soPp es.sion of the revelt of the Sepove, it is very certain that it will be of no more i ffieacy than in seems- Sing the rebellion of the Tai-pings is China. On the contrary, its conserpiene T have heel decidedly prejudicial, t ,Y alienating from the Governs - -General some of the most "le and zealous tupporters of British septemacy. We will add, without hesitation, that the liberty of the Pros nae done much good to India, and fa- 1. S 3 evil, if any evil at all, than all the measures of all the Governor-General that has succeeded Lord Metcalfe —Exareiner. Liaise ea rawer or 1 RUSSIAN GUN AT STAFFORD.--There are three regiments connected with the line, known es Ststfardshire regiments, and during the late war three regiments of militia were 'aimed and embodied in the county. In gratitude rer this loyalty, one of the guns . taken is the Crimea has been prseented by feed Pantnure to the town, which also possesses a valuable b- 11 taken at Rangoon by the 80th (or Stsffordshire) Regiment. The goo sass placed in its position on M tadav, and the ceremony with which it svas seennpanied attreetel thousands of spectators. A detachment of t` _ e 2ud Staffordshire Mill ir, under the command of the colonel, tha Hon. B. R. lt Littletote formed au escort for the gun. Preceded by the rt, ' . band of the r gitnent, playing suitalrle airs, the procession , motel towards the Make .square, where, in a conspicuous ',‘ 8 1) A in front of the Shire Hall, the gun was placed— "; never it is to be hoped, to be used either agait st a foreign e . . invader or domestic foe. After the gun had bees placed, H the mayor mode a suiteble ad tress, i.fter which the band se Played tau Qseen's Anthem, and the ceremony tes i heinated. ~,. THE NATtVES OF IFDIA.—If there are these excesee for [Slst have • barbarians, it is impossiale for us to deny that there nave been amongst tie m many instances of great kindness 81 11 of chivalrous dev tine. Severelcas - s of generous and gallant conduct have been rerate3, in order to prove that the majority of the n tive chiefs, and the people generally, are not with the neutineets, bat are with the British. The Pritate letters teem ski h narrations of b ele Hind os tied Ittussulmens svhe have t n ered. the field in arms to fulfil their c ,ntracts wi h the British ; who have continued faithful to us ev n when they were themselves supeotted to be treacherous; who have saved the lives of officers and fugitives, and refused all reward ; we have gone through great trouble and danger in order to score the safety of the most h e lpl ess . At present we are contending with an , immense force of mutt leers ; the military erg t&sed force r,ss . of Lenge], whom we should have called out to put down ' 44 ' . tbo civil inhabitants of the litter, his rebelled ; and it teertainly roves a grt amount of attachment to the Rritish if the eativ - s cat 'nester any show of antagonism to the action of the Sspoys. YA the ineranees, as we have - t - . 6 aid, are innumerable; and it would as yet be quite im- Pessibre to determine what is the proportion of treachery or fidelity.—Speceator. 1 101 , , - MBriT EXTRIORDIitART.—An elopement of a very alrlgul -r nature, and one which but ter timely assistance might have had a serioes and tragic termination for one or the parties cereerned, has costarred in our neighbourhood Within the last few dap. Toe zircumstaness, which have created considerable excitement in the vicinity, la ve just - t ranspired„ are as follows :—A gallant swain of very hirsute appea - aece, but diminutive stature— &d to be a sailor from one of the Nerthern ports on the other side of , the channel—attran eel probsbly by the large fortune Which the prang lady (a farmer's daughter) was reputed entitled to, had ieided for the last throe menthe with some friends in the immediate neighbourhood of the wealthy fair O ne. doubtless wit the obj-et of proseeuting his suit to a I , o es:sable issue Alter having sur unmated considerable a.nt too —at!ties which presetted themselves, itt the shape of e stalwart broths s who were averse to the match, an d having, as bet conceived, laid matters in proper train fa 1,-e. nuptials, he- pro;. owed to his inamorata t ) elope, to '"'ch she readily give her consent, and the laving pair a - ri ee d , f , et the residence of the priest. Bat, unfortunately r t heii into itiaes, hefcre the ceremony bad taken place, !'. W as well begun, the brothers co!' tile brale arrived on the sce ne, and the b r idegroom dscamped, closely followed by 4 af them threatening to t.ke his lifi-, and a tragic ran 10ie1re. Would in all probahility hare b en the resul t, but t ee time ' y arrival of a gtntlemar, who was armed with ,-e▪ !no--leaviet-g betel out shooing at the tripe—and who a m " manfully rescued the would-be hridegaom from h's er e riated pursuer. I 1 the m autime the other brother 1 1 ." 4 Yetl the disconsolate fair one V) her home, w4ere she el; t " s irlee been detained ire close eststudt. We uoderstand h e nor° tunate seeds has not. however, surrendered all ▪ tlle t — Correspondent Dolan Recorder. THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1857. THE MURDER OF A POLICEMAN AT STEVENAGE. CORONER'S INQUEST. STRYENAGS, RENTS, MONDRT..—This afternoon, at two o'clock, Mr. C. lanes, Coroner for the borough of Illtchin, p ocesded at the National School-rooms at tiis place, with an inquiry into the melancholy circumstances attending the death of Jahn Starkins, aged 25 years, late an officer belonging to the Hert's constabulary, who was brut , lly murdered iu a plane known as Cooper's Bracher, on Friday evening last, and his baJy thrown into a pond adjaining. The unfortunate man was a very efficient officer, and on Friday week he was ordered to watch some fields (as it was known that some robberies had taken place), at a Vms when alt the workmen were returning hams. Howeve-, the poor fellow was not h.ard of again until his body was band with his heal n-arly severe I from his boly by a frightrul wound in his throat, in the pond on Cooper's larsches on thz Monday follow ng. From circumstances which came to light, a man names Jeremiah C trpenter , was taken into custody, and is now under remand. Mr. Driver, surgeon, of Stevatage, examined—l made ap st mor tern examination of the body. it had the appearance of having been soaked in water a long while, especially the hands and feet. There wis a wound in the throe', ahout sic inches long, extending from abort: one w - g'e of the JAW t 3 the other. The w and had irregular edges, and had the appearance of being done with three separate cuts of the knife. The wound was not a fair one. The kn fe must hive been stuck in and th•ust round on the right side the carotid arteries and jugular veins. The knife hal appare.it'y passed immediately above the larynx and divided. the pharynx. The knife had come right dowe to the spine. On the left aid• the jugular veins were divided, and the knre had g ins close to the carotid art. y without dividing it. The rigor mortis of tie body had nearly disappeared. Coroner—What sort of instrument do you, thin', was used ? Witness—l should think it was a straight-edged knife. I only believe it to be sharp enough to be thrust in the throat, and then that it was sufficiently char, at the edge to cut through the flesh. A labours:'s bread and che^se knife would inflict the wounds. C iner—Should you say th, won al wee i flicted by the man himself accidental)+, or by any other person ? Witness—l do not for a moment b,l'evo that he did it himself. N) man would &atm t to cut his throat with his cloth s buttoned roind the throat. One hoik of the policeman's coat was torn off, and the col'ar was mach cut. [The coat warn b/ the deceased was then produced. It was a poli:emsn's fr.)ck coat, and the thick n2right collar was cut through in an u award diretion.] The Coroner—.ls th re i► now n doubt that this is not a case of suicide, we must rroceed to discover who inflicted the wound, and theref me I am ready to take any evidence the police may have to submit. Thomas Cooper sa'd—l am a fiy,driver, and live at Stev rage. On th. evening of last Frid ty week I drove a lady fr - rti the Stevenage railway sta•io That was twenty-five minntes after five When I passel a p'ace ca'-led Nort)n Green-lane, I saw a t oliceman standing on the bridge. lam pretty wet sure it was the decsas - d, Starkins. Elizabeth Rowe, a married woman, sail—l live at W.hust-com mon, Stevenage. On the evening of Fri lay week I waa standirg at my door when I saw a geatlern an g 3 by d ested in a dark dress. I do not know th tt he was a policman. That was rather more Sban a quarter past five. He had on a great cos:. I did not notice whether he had on a shinny hat. He appearel to be going out of the field towards the Breches where the policeman was found. From the time I saw this person up to pact six no other person pa-Bed my door. Mr. Edward Horne I am a farmer, a htevenage. I occupy Norton Gres Farm. I know Jeremiah Carpenter. He is employe by me as a labourer. I have been in the Feld where the murder too , : pace. I w there when the holy was found. The bldy was Nand about eleven o'clock, on last Moaday, and at three o'clock in the afternoon I fous-I so wheat on the ground in a r lace wh ere there seemed to have been a Beall ), and I t link the wheat was mine, but it is an important• thing, and I should not like to swear to it posi tirel7. It was the same deszrlption of what that Carpenter had been sowing for me. By the Coroner —Jermlih Carpe I , er is a very strong man William Reid—l am fore flan to the lust witness. On Fridsy, She,,herd anti Carpenter w re at win in a Held ht abut half-past twelve, andi went and took Sheah3rd away to do something , else. Ra Tway fi was one in wh ch he was 'eft to do some work. The nearest way from that fled to C.rpeater's house would be through the Britches. By the Coroner—When I 2371 Ca-p , n'er on caturday m3rning, hs was 'ame. I saw nothtng unusual in his k,psaranue, dress, or manner on Saturday morn'ng. William Shepherd, a little boy aged nine years. said—l r.mem'ser last Frilay wedt. • I ssw Carpenter conies home. He g..t over the railings at the bAtom of our garden at tho back o' the cottage. He walked lama as he came up the garlen. Toat ws about six o'clock. In le s than half an hoar Mrs. Carpenter came into our cottage and asked my father to no into their hoots and take same WO Jd off cdrpe-ter's lags which u,vo. My father welt to Carpenter. The e was a stack of roots near Carpenter's h tue, and love o' the roots wJis lying on his foot, and he was lyit g oi the ground. IL was n itcalllng oat. Father took the root off as soon as he could - he lifted it off very rainy. When he went into the cottage father took off Carp nter's boots and said hi , leg was very much swollen. '1 hive or :bar minutes a•terwirds my father told me to go home to my plait - I was not waisted there. When carpen ter was lying down nth ground he had on h's Sunday smo.k and hat. Wiliam Shepherd—l am a labou-er, and father of the 13mt wi'n ..s. I worked on the same farm as Carpenter. On Friday week I WAS at work with him in a field of mister's. I left home in t` e midd e of the day. No one was with him. I 'cf., the farm rather later than Carpenter. I went hose, and after do ng one cr two ittle jo' , F, saw earl enter go into the house, at the back. I did not notice any , hiog particular abotat the smoilt. The next thing I saw of him was when his wife came in and a•ked me to m we the block tory/col. At this stage of the proceedings, the inqmi-y was a;ain adj)nrned. The Morning Star learns that there is a private des pa'ch in town announcing the death of M'. Archidald Hastie, M.P.for Paisley. I (MT OF BRISTOL —The Customs' duties receivA at Br's'ol for the month et.ding 313 t Oct. kit, amounted to 4124 ; 500 143. 4d , being Vie I.rgest receipt for the month of Oclolatr on rt cord at this port. A SURGEON COMMITTED TO YORK ASiIZES -- DONCASTER, SATURDAY.—This afternoon, the West Riding magir trat.?s proceeded to hear a charge, which hal been p nding for the last mon b. ar;aiast 11r. Andrew Halliday Carmi chael, cf Nlexlvough, surgeon, on a charge of procu the ab rtian of flare:et Atkinson, and with using instru ments to accomplish the .hjPct. The eas , which had excited the etepest interest, was conlucte I in private, and occupied to less than fiv-e house and a half in hearing. The evidence of the pr s , c it rix was A at tak, n, and altho igh nearly eight weeks had elapsed since the corarnisai m of the ()fierce, she was unable to stand. The evidence having been complet d, the pr's mer was committed to take his trial at the n' xt York assizes. Application for b til was refus•d —Mr. C:rmichael wa• a surgeon o' large practice, and w-11 respected in the neilibou:boorl. He was e,niove , l to Wakefield 11.1130 of Correction in the evening. He is touch di jected, and since his ame`ien,ion has much altr-red in his appearance. Mareseauntaree AC H&LIFAI.—II Sunday morning, about oie o'clock, Samuel Sutcliffe Jacks-re a tailor, re-iding in Nelso- -street, ant employed by Messrs Paul Greenwo .d aid eon, was brought to the borough police station at Halifax, on a charge of manslauebter. 01 Saturdiy right, .1 cieson went to the Wateiheuse Arms Inn, and joi ed a number of voeng m-n in playing at bagatelle • but he 11,d not been long in the house before he picked a quarrel with one of the commshy. When turned into the'street, a litti e'ter• twelve o'c'eck, Jackson made a savage attack upon William Lockwood, a young man who had been is the ion, tut cot the one with whom the disagreement had taken piece. Waikiug up to him Jackson knocked him down, soy iag, " You are one of the b—rs; " and then injured him so severely, by jumping upon his chest and abdomen, end kicking him upon the head, th ,t when the police arrived, is a few minutes after wa der, he was a corpse. Jackson, who Ir s long boon known as a cruel, unfeeling mm, was subsequently taken into custody at hit own home, by police se-je4nt Pearson: GENERAL CAVAIONAC.—The death of a greet ci izen in a free country is not an event of suc'i unmixe,l eadneaa. If it is the end, it is also the completion of a noble life ; and sometl irg of the gladne's of haivest mingles with the noelanchoiy of the departing year. There are others to take the place and follow the great example of :he departed. But this In le can have no successor, fo', in his country, liberty, the parent of gr.et citizens, is dead. Great and irreparable is the loss to France, 11.-re was the one man who could be looked to, in case another ehanea should be granted to French freedom, as capable of grasping tlee r.enlin the first inevitable moment of confusion., and cer tain to use his power faithfully far the interest of his country, and not selfishly for his owe. Here was the one sildier able to wield his sword at reed, and sure to wield i'„ not fo: the ends of a vu'gar soldier, bat for liberty and law. Hero was the man whose name, severely tested as he had been, would have assured order whea despotism wise overthrown, and whose presence was a guarantee to society that the restoration of fre:dcm ebould not be the signal for anarchy and blood. his said that he was not a deep political theorist, or a man of first rate intellectual power. It may have been so But he seems to have been a thoroughly single heart--d man , and single-teutedness. whether for goad or evil, multiplies intellectual power ten foil. Washingtoo found genius in du y. Bat Oovaignac was not destine I to be tried by the possession of supreme power.. He ee.mel to have matey years arid a momentous future before him. lle had just been c,l'ed from -that simplicity of pr:vafe life to which he had wisely and un-' complainingly retired, to place himself at the head of a constitutional movement against arbitrary power. The Eyes of his countrymen were upon him, when suddenly the ;bread is severed, and be is gone.--Saturday Review. THE STAGE, ANCIENT AND MODERN. LECTURE BY THE DEAN OF CARLISLE. Last evening, the Dean of Carlisle, the Rev. F. Clowes, D.D., attended, by invitation, at the Collegiate institute' Shaw-street, for the purpose of delivering a lecture to th Young Men's Christian Association, of this tows. Th hall of the building was filled with a large and respectable; auditory, including a number of the clergy of the to an . The subject selected by the Rev. Than was, " The Stage, ancient and modern." Mr. Win. Crossfield occupied the chair; and amongst the gentlemen present on the platform, were the Revls. Dr. Raffl V. M. White, D. J. Barry, Messrs. Dawson, Steel, Marsd.n, Leyland, &c. The meeting was opened with a suitab'e prayer by the Rev. Mr. White. he Chairman then, after a few brief preliminary observations, briefly introduced the lecturer, upon which The Very Rev. Dean of Carlilse proceeded with his lecture. Ha sail that he supposed it was the custom of the lecturer to turn his back to the chairman, therefore he should be forgiven. Perhaps the subject he had selected for consideration might require some little explanation, but that, he believed, arose from an error of the Secretary, but he would divide the blame, if any, with him. The worthy Secretary of that associa tion, had, some time since, applied to him to deliver a lecture in Liverpool. Then he declined, having more sacred duties to perform, but he had received another application, saying, that if he would only come and read his old lecture he should be satisfied ; to that he had assented, because he could not from his heart resist the application ft ona doing what he could to assist the Christian young men, therefore, he had taken up a lecture which he had delivered about seven years' ago at Chelten• ham. But there was a mistake in the title of the lecture, it being " The Stage Ancieat and Modern, its tendencies on Morals and Religion." He then went on to say that:— The subject which will engage y eur attention this even. ing is one which has, for a long time, occupied my own, and, one on which I have long sou g ht an opportunity to express myself in public; conceiving that although the very name of " pulpit" is derived from a certain portion of the ancient theatre, yet that the Christian pulpit is not exactly the place for the discussion of many topics which naturally arise out of the one now before us. It is highly expedient, and divines in various ages have deemed it to he their dnty, to denounce the follies and vices of the stage ex cathedra, to condemn them with authority— but on this occasicn I rather wish to enter into a discus sion on the general merits of the case, to examine the arguments pro and con—and alleging the evidence of history, to consider the pretensions of the histronic art as a professed friend of religion and morals. Many chris tian people are umeh misinformed upon the subject, while they are doubtless open to conviction, and it may be confidently asserted that there are many who give their support to theatrical amusements, simply because they are unacquainted with the evils connected with them. Avoiding, therefore, a mere declamatory condemnation of theatrical exhibitions, let us eater upon a calm and dispassionate enviry on this iMportant subject. And to this end, alloy me to place before you in order, a brief and rapid, though it be a somewhat imperfect, sketch of the history of the rise and prt:qress of the stage in all ages, le order that we may be enabled to discover what I • results have fillowed. and se rnly arrive at a more deliberate and jest conclusion respecting the real tendency of the stage with regard to morals and religi m. lam sure of one thing—that I shall receive at your hands this evening a candid hearing—that you will "lend me your ears ;" and 1 hope that many of you will, at the close of my address, lend me your ha ads and hearts too, and join with me in the conclusion at which I may arrive, The lecturer then directed the attention of his hearers to the ancient drama, giving a history of the stage from the remotest ages. p srticularty alluding to the Greek stage; and also to give a full historical review of the English stage, which could not be traced to any classic origin, for it was not until the Elio tbethian age did it a•-s. any benefit from the purer type's of Greece, and pursued his subject with great nal tuteness until he came to the time of Sha.kspeare, whose talent he eulogised, and from thence, until the time of the Commonwealth, and of Oliver Cromwell, wham he was not in these days afraid to speak of in laudatory terms, for be had dune great benefit to his country, for he hid abaliiheal the two P.'s—popery and plays, and if for the twofold offences of abolishing theatritals and overthrowing popery I must bear the oppruhrium of Puritanism, I will not be ashamed of that stigma, for certain I am that I would rather be a Puritan than a papist, and I would rather be either than a false churchmae, a concealed papist in the Church of England. Having traced the progress of the stage from its most remote sou -cos down to a period immediately preceding the times in which we live, to ascertain what have been its moral tendencies, 'and whet is effects upon the religious interests of maukie he humbly conceived that be had made out a case which would carry conviction to many minds. When all these circumstances are duly considered and candidly weighe I, the conclusion appears inevitable, that notwithstanding the genius, talent, and power of mind which have been exhibited, especially upon the English stage, and at many periods of it,—notwith standing the respectability of many of those who have acted their parts on that stage—yet, nevertheless, as a whole, it would hay/I - wen fir be.ter, with respect to the interests of morality add ralision, if there had never been any stage at all; that it has contributed, both negatively and positively, as well in the days of Mesteries, Morali. ties, and Interludes, as in those of pare Tragedy and Comedy, to unsettle and demoralise the people of this country. And as Bishop H tai says on another subject— it is not simply the stage, it is not the tragedy or comedy, nor the play you read in your own house, but it is certain uncouth consequences that accompany the system—which appear, as far as experience teaches us, to be inseparable from• theatrical exhibitions, and which make them demoralising an 1 injurious to the public mind. Such then is my testimony, and such is the evidehce I hive adduced against the stage down to the present period. And no as let us turn our attention to the general character, and probable moral results of the stage as it exists among ourselves at the present day. And in parsuMg this enquiry it will not be necessary to enter into a description of the various kinds of histrionic representations now prevalent, whether of the opera or of the pure trage ly and comedy, if such there be, exhibite l on the London stage. or of the pantomime and farco which follow, or of the inferior theatres which abound in the rnetropaiis, or the various exhibitions more or less of a theatrical character which are familiar to all. S !Moe it to say that I allege against the whole system, an I shall endeavour to prove the charge, that the ll:miens theatre—' he stage as a whole—at this present moment is doing 'incalcula ble mischief to morals and religion in the country. There is one species of theatrical exhibition which few will be prepare I to defend, I mean the cheap or penny theatres; these are dens of infamy, pandering to the lowest and most degrading appetites of the most proffi• gate portion of the people, and corrupting and defiling those who have hitherto escaped pollution. Here rob heries, househreakings, and murders are planned, and here the most approved methods of accomplishing such designs are acted out before the audience. Against these cheap pleasures, or rather, these cheap vices, of the middle or working classes of society, not only clergymen, or ci y missionaries, or district visitors, protest, bus there is not a maeistrate who sits on the b-nch to administer justice who would not corroborate the statement that these guilty pleasures contribute largely to augment the catalogue of crime, and to debase and brutalise the people. If the stage is corrupt, low, and profligate, a more power ful engine of mischief cannot be devised. But these are condemned by all persons of respectability and character, independently of religious principie, as great evils to be abated, and, if possible, abaished. It is to the less obvious evils of the stage generally that we would now direct our inquiry, and for the sake of perepecuity we will bid you consider-1, the nature of the subjecta rs presented ; 2, the character of the performers ; and 3. of the audience. With respect to the plays themselves, or the representation generally, can it be denied, that not withstanding the marked improvement observable since the days of Dryden and C taker, there is much in every evening's amusement which ought to shock the eye, diet , ess the ear, and wound the heart of a sincere Chris. tian ? How the immodest displays of the ballet can be - witnessed by persons of delicacy and refinement , I cannot imagine l How mothers can introduce their daughters to such scenes is incomprehensible! ~But apart from these corrupting exhibitions, it may be safely affirmed that no person witnesses the entire perform:slice at any theatre, on any one night. without listening to many oaths, much profaueuess, many impure jaw, and indelicate allusions. Even the portrait of vice, which is necessarily introduced, in some form or ether, in every play, as the foil to virtue, cannot be represented to the mind and imagination with. oat injury. True It is that impurities and vices must be encountered in real life, and sooner or later they mu.t be more or less revealed to youth ; but does it therefore follow that it is lawful to visit such exhibitions of evil things for our plst hue and amusemen. ?• Is not pleasure so purchased bought too dearly ? NJ man who fears God, trembles al his holy name, and is jealous for his honour, could deliberately countenance, by his presence and his money, these who " take his name in vain" in sport, curse and swear to amuse their auTenee, or utter impurities, or half-concealed impurities, to,please a corrupt and vicious taste. The character of 'Ole plays and farces them. selves are sufficient alone to deter persons of piety of feeling, religious principle, and purity of heart. from witnessing them. They cannot voluntarily, and for mere relaxation, place themselves were God is dis honoured and his laws are violated with impunity, and where not uufrequently spiritual religion itself is made the subject of jest an e i lieu e. Nor can they divest thews evss of the persuasion that by their property and iefleence they are help tee to support au evil and corrupting system. This become -E4 'farther apparent if we pass (2) from the subjects represented to the character of actors and actresses. And here we treed on delicate ground— but let tru - h alone be our search, and when fennd, trw - te be told The estimation in which actors, actresses, and opera-lancers are held by the public at large cannot be questioned : there is a degree of infamy a tached to the profession. True there are, and there have been, most illustrious exceptions, especially in modern times, and tl e :norat reputation of so ,e who have sustained both male and female parts on the boards of a theatre has teen as unsullied in private life as their fame has been great for histrionic talent. We have had our Gerricks and the whole family of the Kesobles and others ; an we have now our Mecrealy, as well as some of lesser note. over whom the breath of slander has never passed. But do not the exceptions prove the rule ? And when private virtue does appear on the stage, does net the homage which is paid to it expose its rarity ? In reference to the Opera, one of which he had once, he said, attended, and tee left it, perfectly ashamed, and astonished however a mother of a famly of children eted sit herself or allow her children to sit ite such a place, and concluded a most interesting and instructive iec!u , e by a very forcible appeal to all present, perticalarly young men, not to attend such planes of amusement. and nsging up m them the much m 're cheerful and benefiting e j eyments that were to be obtained by attending the lecture-room, or the reading-room, an enjoyment which Prior generations could not avail themselves of. The Rev. Dean resumed his seat amidst the most enthusiastic applause. Oa the motion or Ds. Refll;9, a vote of thanks was voted by acclamation to the lecturer, awl the meeting concluded with the Doxology. OXFORD CORPJRATI'N AND THE OATH OF FEALTY. — The authorities of the Univ•rsity hiving intimated to the Corporatioe of the City of Oxferil that thee cannot dispense aith the Oa h of Feel y, which the 11ieyor has hitherto tikes) before the Vice-chancellor, the Corporation has replied by a • unenhnoas resole ion, that it sees no reestn to recind its former resolve, autherisiug the Mayor not to take the owli. Tue Eesax MURDER —G eve :NMENT REWARD. Oa Sttwday a reward of £lOO was ff.red by the G,vernment for the apprehension of the mordents of Mr. Isate. Butcher, firmer, near Htlstead, oa the eveeine of Sameley, the 31• t ult., and her M jeet)'s pa d;n will be ex filled to aey aceomerce, not being the actual murd ter, who may give such information as may lead to the same result. In ad dition to the ab.,Ye, the. Local association fur the prosecution of felons will pay H2O to the persoa who may be the means of wowing their conviction. FATAL ACCIDENT.—Six Lives LOST.-01.1 Friday after noon, a dr. adfal accide t occurred at the Ciodirer Qia - riee, about nine miles from Cern r - yon. Owing to an accident to he piston-sod of the engM r the men hid left off woe:, and fourteen of them were talking together at the bottom of the p t, wren a cry of dander was raised, and they rushed towares the c tide con.tructed for refuge in each cases; hut before they could reach it a bnze rock, which had been g-adually dislodged from the meath of the (parry by the rains, 'el, breekine into pieces by col ision ci h the sides of the quarry, and litred three of the men on the sp rt. A fourta died in a few minutes, afath as he was being carried home, and a sixth within eight hours. Seveml others were much irejived• Oa the legs of one poor fellow was a fragment of stone se heave, that it had to be lifted by a stearn-eng:ne before he could be extricated. WiterEY.—VEESELI LOST.—The brig Her Majesty. of Whitby, Caatai a Osborne, from o Istadt, laden with hemp an .1 deals, let Elsinore on the 17th Oe.ober. 0.1 the .6th, a boa 's crew was seen to pe ish off Meunsley. Shortie after, a boat came on :hare, with the name IF r Majesty pointed n the 6th instant, the papers le`onging to tip v... 1 were we lard up es toe same pta e, leavieg little room f - r doubt that the shin is loaf, and the unfortu nate crew dr Avnetl, The h-ig Naylor, of Whitby, Cape, Thompsoe, is also supp reed to be lest, with the crew. She was bound for Schied m, and was out in the late gale, and has net since ben heard of. The cap•ain wis a widower, and has left sii childree. These mike ten Whitby ships lest isithin little more than a menth. The liar Mej sty is the ve sea on board which (cm red a fearful trewedy cheat two years ego. Slm was on her passage from - -'altitica to Quenst,wr, when a seaman, named James Veale, murdered the c tp:ain, the mate, and the cook, w untied a a amen, and th- n committed suicide. ARaISAL OF THE 9:a REIIbtF.NT Ar PORTSMODTFI —Her Metjes , y's sc•ew troop ship Valean has arrived at Spittle td Prow Quebec, with the 9 a Regimen', ineludiag 35 officers, eight idlicee,' wives, 13 officers' children, 502 nor-cora ruiesioee.i era and p iv tee, 53 women, an ! 63 chtliren, and 17 prisoners from various regiments in Canada. Toe Vulcan left (11 , h •te oe the 17tn of Octo'er, an-1 has m tide a very fair passage h.rne. Al'. went right aetil the•3oth, whoa a freest melancholy accPerit occurred to Ensign Robert R. Laurel, of the 9.0 Regi nt, who bad retired to his cabin ; •but t cos q lent upon the heavy rolling of the ship, he w -s forced a;aiest the cabin door, and that giving way, he was p eeiditated to the deck b dor, and, pitching on his head, dislocated his neck, cot:deg instant cleats. Re was buried at sea with the usual soleineiti.s, aid and ci'ti , g a deep gloom over the ship. The tro rps wilt nit lend ultil to-day. Tire following is a list of the °Meets who have come home in the Vulcan :—Col B•rtun, C B.; M joys Bethitne, L sloe, and Taylor ; Cap.ains Reunee, W lkirsor, Terre, net s:raub neee ; Lieutenants. Boxeme, Hervey, Douglas. fle , sey, Tliresf4rd, Thompson, Bmtnn, Vibert, Bu land, M (lents, Elinitiett, rmere A enew, and 13 ; Ensigns P:uteri Ige, Rids d tile, Coadeitek, Massey, and' B d haw ; Paymaster Sieve/right ; Qaar:erma-ter Banhary; Sergcou Teornten ; Assirant-Surgeons Ow,,ns and l'tieadows. THE " CRASH" IN Now YORK—It is really amusing to take a walk new ihreugb Broed vay, aid m lay of the wholesale streeta, and wt ness the placards ie fro at of the a orer, and in the windo vs, announcing the " ttemetdous sacrifices'' tha are beiuz made ft for c sh." Here we have hundred-dollar silk dresses irked down to firtv dollars ; there-hundred d diet- shawls tor tvo hnnfire , e; fifty-1:11,r lace co fats for ibi ty ; a hundred-101l ir peke - handkerchief for forty; the bst of Pa-is kid for si e 0 doors per d z•n ; fi•e-dollar cloth for th-ee d 'lle's, And dire,- dollar for one d ilia* per yard, and o'her thin4s in propo - tient 0' c 'urge, the resh of the fair s x after tLete " bar gains" is immense, ant th , aid of policemen is required to c ere c. the bu,er in end cut of the crowd in safety. Some of the. qores preetu• the app eiraece of the banks when they were beaieged fur metre. the flees of earoTers extending clear into the street. To witness such a rush and anxiety to eurchase, one cruld hardly I e"eve th 1 .nev was scarce; nor is it so itt reality. Mot while ourtitiew of our wholes:de and ret:it st.ore, resort to •he :oboye method of toting rid of their crocks, o tee% hay, given up in deseair, nod the etninotte words " to let" are seen upon many a fi e establish nent is b ith the tipper and lower pats of the city. Some of these 'stores have heart in existence oaly a yeer ; but their whole structu e, from the foa edation upvva-ds, being one remitied mass of credit, they fall easy victims to the first lreathings of the crash.—Letler from New Fork AUCTION OF STORES OF TEE WAST OF IRELAND FISHING AND FISH MANURE COMPANY.-0a Weeelnesday, at one o'clock, r.O , in accordacce with prevM re no ificatiou, tee vessels, store., and fishing gear of the late London and Wet of Ireland Fishing and Fish M it u -e Company were stab nitted to pubic auction, at their t ffieee, Merchants'- road, Galway. The attendance of bu..,e-s coenec e 1 with Engli•h, Scotch, and Irish fi heri:,s etas very numerous. Mr. Fenton Otrson, et* Dublin, the auciione r employed on the oecasi,m, fiost set up the Star of the West Hooker, twelve tons, which, after a smart comp, ti i. n, was k rocked d own to Evans cud Sna for £3O. 'rue Sew, herring boat, fifteen tens, after some competition was bought in by the company, wl:o reserved such a right, when the highce price offered did not seem stiffed nt. The Samuel and M ry was then 0E1,1 , 0, ani, efior b ing keenly con tested for some time, the highest off r being 115 ;Twee •s, was pu-ch:used i t b; the c)mpany t it £215. Queen and Manes: trawl:As were n it set. tp in one lot, and a very spiri•ecl c must ensued between Mr. Goode, of Lindor, and Mr. J. A. B.owae, of Bhckr ck, untii the biddiogs reached £770. At the close Mr. G ode bid £775, and the aucqoueer, on the part of the comps .y, having st,ipped the slle at 1730, M-. G nude offered aluic•ii sirnaltaneously, £735, and insiced tint his bid shou'd be . tdren, whic`i was neremp`orily refs e', as the com;)at,y estimated the value of the property at. £I,IIO. The auc tioneer then pro eeded to the cirn zany's star 5, where an inun nse quantity of trawling nets, seine nets, cordage. st a il,, and tear of all desc i,,tions was rapidly disposed of. Tae trawling; nets generel y brought fr.un £3 10s. to £t. ,'hey wer,3p,rfectly new, and c .st, it was ta ,£7to £s topiec Th , re was also a lar.e quantity of olel netsB“l,l, at kinces ranting from los. to £1 5..--Galway Vindica'or. THE LORD MAYOR'S DAY. GRAND BANQUET AT GUILDHALL. LORD PALMERSTON ON INDIA. The Banquet given by the now Lord Mayor of London, on Monday night, W 45 of a most brilliant and recherche character. After the remlval of the cloth, the bird Mayor proposed the " Army and Navy," which was responded to by Lord Panrnure. who said—l am called upon to re`urn thanks for the noble veterans of the army.—a duty which has always fallen hitherto upon sarn3 active member of that profession. Yqur Lordship has departed from the usual custom. but I bow to the authority of the &lief Magistrate of the city, and I take upon myself the proud responsibility of returning thanks to this company for the army of England. I can, perhaps, speak of that army with more freedom than one who actually belongs to it ; but it is unnecessary for me to remind you of the actions of British soldiers, whether of those which are recorded in history or of those to which testimony has so recently been borne• (Cheers.) That army, I am pleased to think, now attracts public attention, not alone for it, ieoloit3 in the field—for they never were questiened— but on acceuat of the anxiety which exists iu this country to foster a force and to encourage a profession of which England may well be proud, and from which uoin all occasions it will obtain the most prompt cad v Ott tble assistance. On the occasion of the Crimean war the army was ready in the field to defend the honour and the interests of England, and upon the late occasion to which the Lord Mayor has s o feelingly referred, regi ments which had only recently returned from a long period of service abroad proceedel with the greatest anxiety and avidity to India to avenge the wrones which had been done to their comrades in arms, and the atrocities which had been foully committed upon the wives and children of those connra 103. (Cheer 2.) lam proud to think that under the syste a of voluntary service to which the Lord Mayer has referred the ranks of the army, thinned as they were at home by the draughts which we have sent abroad, are every week being rapidly recruited, and that the ree'ing which induces •the men of Eitel:fld to enter those rank; is hourly on the increase. (Clear, hear.) I trust t hat we shall have pl teed at home, by the aid of that adjunct of the army which now farms a part of the army itelf—natnele, the enrolled and embodied militia of England—such a force as will give confidence to the suhj , cts of our common sovereign. and will show to the nations of the world that, however and to whatever extent England had been called on in one part of her dominions, her army at home will immediately become efficient for her home service. (Cheers ) I beg leave to return you. in the name of the army of Eng land, my best thanks for the honour you have done them. (Cheere.) Tue Lerd Mayor : Thy noxt toast is one which I am sure will be. as it always has been on these occasions, received with the greatest enthusiasm. Whatever the polities of the Government may he, we, met in this hall, in the centre of the city of London, know nothing of them; all wa recognise is, measures and man. (Hear, hear.) In proposing to you the health of the Prime Minister of this country, I will only say that I have sat opposite to him during a whole session, and have had ample opportunity of vvitnessine his constant and labor rictus devotion to the duties of his office. There never was, and probably never will. be, a Prime Minister of' whom everybody approves; but at all events we have in Lord Palmerston a Minister who conscientiously and zealously performs the duties devolving upon him. (Hear, hear.) It would be fulsome in a humble individual like myself to ail a word in praise of the - noble lord ; but I will say that, as the first magistrate of the city of London I feel proud to hive him here as the guest of the cif iz ans of London. (C)ce , s.) I feel the more satis faction, too, because he is accompanied on this occasion by Lady Palmerston, and. because I believe the citizens feel additional pride when the guests they invite are accomoanied by their " better halves." (Laugh ter.) Lord Palmerston has had, during the time he has been in office. to encounter great dtffiealties, but he has hither o, and I believe will now, overcoat them al! ; and I am coufilent that the people will never forget the services which he has rendered to them. (Cheers.) Stanch at his post, true to his country, let me give you, ladies and geeelernen, " Her Majesty's Minis ters," with the health of Leal and (though this may differ from the usual custom) of Lady Palmereton. (Loud cheers.) Lord Palmerston, who, on rising, was received with loud cheers, sail—My Lord Meyer, ladies, and gentlemen, I beg leave in my own new, on behalf of my colleagues, and in the name of my better half (a laugh) to return you my sincere thanks for the honour yen have done me in proposing and drinking our he tiths. Your L naiship has alluded to the circu untance that you and I have looked at each other often from opposite sides of the table of the House of Commons. I can assure your L ordship—and I am sure you edit believe me when I say so—that it affords me infinitely more satisfate ion to be sitting on the same side et year hespita.aieeta'ase than to find seatna on opposite sides of that nterrintail tame tomother'pdacc. (Cheers, and a laugh.) My Lord. I was in hepea that at our meeting toelay we mieht have hal to announce the arrival of further intelligence from that q tarter of the globe on which au( eves al - re fix 'd, and to which the hearts of all mankind are directed. I was in hopes that we :night have had—not a confirrn , tion—hat ampler detail; of that splendi I exploit in arms by which the capital o has been cocci and I trust. th .t before totauy hours are over we shall receive in elligence which will cheer the hearts of every Eielishne in, and prove th et the capture of that stronghold of the mutineers has decided the fate of the ceetes*, and that what remains to he achieved is merely a sequel to that which has already been accomplished. (Cheers.) It is impossible the any Eagliehinen to allude to that which has been achieved in India—not by soldiers only, but by eiv.lians, by individuals, and by knots of men seattere 1 over the whole surface of a great empire— without feeling prouder than ever of the neloti to which we have the happiness to beton?, (Cheers.) There 1 never was an instance its the history of the world of such splend d exa notes of bravery, of intrepidity, of resource, and self reliance accomplishing sue' results as those which we have lately witnessed. The Government at horny, on the other hand, may justly pride themselves on not having been unequal to the rnegnittele of the occasion We took the earliest opportunity of despatching to India a treat army—an army which hal not yet arrived when those great victories were aecomplishei, but which, when it shall arrive, will render th4t which remains to be done comp tratively easy of acconplistt neat, and will, cannot entertain the sliglit , st doubt, re-esttblish th power and authority of England upnt an unshalteabte basis throughout the whole of our Indian empire. (L.,nd cheers.) My nob'e friend Lord Paninure has alluded t , the spirit w.lich has been displayed in thin country, and I am proud to spy, that although we have deqpltched from these shores the largest army thst I bel eve ever at one time left theta, we have now under arms in the united kingdom as many fi;tring man as we had be'Ore the news of the mutiny reached us • and t herero e, if any foreign nation ever dreamed in its visions that the exertions which we had bleu exnpeiled to make in India had lessened oar strength at nn and that the time hat arrive l Wien a different . bearing might be exhibited towards in from that which wLs safe in the moment of our s;rength, the manner in which the spirit of the country has burst forth. the manner in which ol r ranks have tier) fined, the manner in which our whole f.)rc) has been replenished, will teach the world that it would nut be a safe game to play to aVempt to take a ltantege of that which was erroneously itntgined to be t w molte4ot of our w.iaknesi. (L - 1 and prolou xed cheering.) It has been the fashion among the people of the Continent to say that the English na ion is nit a military nation. In one sense inleed—in their seese— ! hat assertion may bps slid to be true. An Eillishln ui is n Sc fund as the people of so:nq other countries are of unifor.o, of steel sc:l;',)ai" . (ls, and of iron heels—(a lanzh); tut no nation ca ex-•e1 the 13t1.Tlish, either as officers or soldiers, in a ko ,wlcdire of the d itics of the military pro f s4i )n, an] iii the s.4al awl ability with which those duties are perforinol ; and wherever desperate deeds are to be accomplish .d— wherever sisperi'm numbers are to be boldly eacouuterei and triumphantly ovarcorne—, wherever privations are to be encounterel—wher,4.ver ' that which a soldier has to cnfront is in.lividnally or c;tllectively to be taced, there, I will venture to sly, there is no nation on the face of the globe which can surpass—l might, wi' hoot too mach national vanity say. I believe, thAt there 14 no nation which can eq tal— the people of the B itish is!atids. (Cheers.) Bit, my Lord Nl4yoe and gentlemen, while we all a irnire the bravery, the constancy, and the iatrepili! - v or o it conntry inert in India, we must not forgr t to . do ja.ztice also to our countrywomen. (Loud cheers.) In iha ordinary course of Ile the fulctions of woman are to choer the days of adversity, to soothe the hours of suff..trinA, an I to give additional brilliancy to the sunshine of vosperity ; but our country won Oil in Tali ti have had occasion to show eloaliti,s of a higher and nobler kind, and when they have had eith,ar to surain the perils of the siege. to endure the privations of a difficult escape., to forget their own suff.o. togs in endeavouring to minister to the wants of o hers, the women of the united kingdome have, wherever they have been found in Italia, displayol cretlities of the a blest kind, sach as never have b en surpassed in the histo-y of the world. (Hear, hear) Henceforth the bravest soldier may think it no disparag- ment to be told that his courage aed his p wer of ender ince are eq tat to those of an E iglishwornan. (R mewed cheers) But. my L trd Nlayor, while wa d ejusti3o to the great Lull: of our countrymen in India, we must not forget that person who, by his exalted position, stan is at the heal of our countrymen there. I mean the G tvernor-Gmeral. L ,rd Canning has shown throughout the greatest courage, the grettest ebili.y, and the greatest resources; and, from the cor• di ility which exists between him as head of the civil service, an 1 Sir Colin Campbell as head of the military service, we may be sure that everything which the con hined c xperience of bo . h can accomplish will he effected for the advantage of the country. The task of Lard Can ning will he indeed a difficult one. He will have to punish the guilty, he will have to spare the innocent, and he wilt have to reward the deserving. T 1 punish the guilty ade qoa!ely exceeds the power of any civilised man ; for the atrocities which have been cotnnalAted are such as to be imagined and perpetrated only by demons sallying forth ' from the lowest depths of hell. But punishment must be inflicted—(cheers)—not only in a spirit of vengeance, buf iu a spirit of security, in order that the example of punished crime may deter from a repetition of the offence, and in order to insure the safety of our country— men and countrywomen in India for the future. (Cheers.) lie will have to spare the innocent, and it is most grati lying to know that while the guilty 'may be counted by thousands the innocent must be reckoned by millions. It is most gratifying to us and honourable to the people that the great bulk of the population have hal no share in the enormities and eriescs which have bean o )33n:fitted. They have experienced the blessings of British rule, and they have been enabled to co npare it with the tyranny exercised over them by their native chiefs. Teey have had therefore no participation in the attempts which have been made to overthrev our 'dominion. Most rerna-kahle It is that the inhabitants of that p art of our empire which has been most rue ently acquire I (I meats th 3 Punjaub), who have had the most recent experience of the tyranny of their native rulers, hive been most loyal on the present occasion and most attached to their new and benevolent masters. (Cheers ) Lord' C inning wit have also to reward the dea rving ; for mmy are they, both high ant lo.v, who have not only absainel from taking part in this rnatinv. hat who have most kindly and generously shelterei fugitives, rescaed others from the assaults of the metineers, an have merited recompense at the hands of the British G ,veranseet. I am convinced that if Lord C sneiae receives—a) I are sore he will—that confl fence oe the part of liar Maj esty's G tvernment an I of the people of this country, without which it is impossible for a man in his • high position to discharge the duties which hive devolved• upon him, it will be found, when this dreadful Crag , dy is over, th it he has properly discharged his silty, and that his c redact has not only bean g iverne i by a sense of st , vn tied un flinching justice, but also by that discrimin it ine g ,nero sity which is the peculiar characteristic of tee British people. (Cheers.) I bee leave again to re' urn von oar hest thanks foe the honour you hive done us Id drinking our healths. (The noble lord resumed his scat amid prolonged cheering.) The toast of " Their Excellencies the Foreign Ministers" - was acknowledged by the Ministers for the Hans Towns. Lord Palmerston—l take the liberty of proposing to you a toes - which I am persuaded you wilt drink with the greatest satis'aetion. I!, is a common saying ,that "as you begin re may you end." I apply that to my Lord Mayor, and as he has begun most kiss erm of service on the present day, so [ am sure you will join with me ire wishing him health and strength du lag the remainder of his Mayoralty, that he may fulfil his duties in the course of the year with as much satisfaction to himself and to others as he has performed his hoanita.hle (titles this evening. (Cheers.) I beg to propose to you to drink "The health of my Lord Mayor." (Cheers.) The Lord Mayor—With great sincerity I thank y iu for the honour you have done me. Nothing, believe use, shall be wanting ou my part to fuifll all the aet'cipations which have been formed of my mayoralty. As I have coin neared it is my wish and intention to continue in the discharge of the duties pertaining to tov offl , e. (Cheers.) His Lordship rose and proposed ‘• The Health of the Earl and Countess Granville, and the House of Peers," remarking upon the admirable manner in which the noble lord had acted as the rePres , ntative of the country at the Czar's coronation and upon the hospitable reception which he (the Lord Mayor) had met with at Moscow at the Ambassador's table. Earl Granville, in returning thanks, sail he thought all must hive been struck b 3 the great compliment paid to Lard Palmerston by a political opeettent, in the allusion by the Lord Mayor to what took place across the table of the House of Commons ; but he was afraid that he coell only attribute to feelings of kindness and courtesy the reference male by his lordship to his (Lord G' . anville's) table at •Moscow. With respect to that mission, as seen as he was infsrnied by hiS colleagues tett they thought it would be for the public a:lett - stage that he should undertake what in itself wee an agreeable and iteeresting dutr, he a once accepted it. .A.rel when at, Moscow he thought he should be best fulfilling the instructions of the Government, and carrying oat the wishes of the people of Et:glen& if he tried to she w that we were determine i in peace not to lase sight of those objees which we thought justiti s I war, an 1, res the other hand, to show t tat the first to tin; of an Eeelish men. after the fight was over, particularly where the enemy had displayed great galantry in the thee, was to shake battle and to p-ove that ho hid no rancour left fa his heart. It had been his fate a tee , days az s, to return thanks in the city for the [lease of L irds, an I some circumstances connected pith c,,rtaie rieee's of th it assembly had led him to be un nercifully. although he trusted not unjustly, prolix. He would ne, however, try to cure the evil to-night by acting on the homee ip tthie principle of simElil s'ut!bbas curantur. (L:tighter ) tie would only see' that he believed the Haase of Lords, in common with every class of Eaelishmen, when a really national ewrgency arose, would unite as one man its defence of the interests and honour of the country. (Cheers.) Tee Lord Mayor he 1 been please Ito couple with his health that of Lady Granville, an 1 he accepted grateful:y the compliment which his lerishin had paid her for the summer in which she had p.Tforraed the duties of hospitality at Moscow. He begged to assure theta th,r sere r eteeree tonight was on:v ataaeporart , und, that the ahsence or Lady Grant tee, occasi sued as it was l e y impaired health, was a source of great regret to her and to Mn. (He ir, hear.) The other t eies were—" Her Majesty's Jalees,'' ackeowleeeed by L ,rd CAM 35 3 i ; " the Ei Jose or C Ate rrtsns,' ler which Si- F. Thesie,r W:l4 called noon to return thanks; "the Sievers of London an 1 efeleleseic;" " the L lily M tyoress," propose 1 by E trl G anvilte ; the Solicitor-G n,ral ani the Bit 4,e r:tittiani;" " Sir J tones Delco ani tild City Members " the Aldermen. and the Recorder." NEW MAYOII3. tvz,.pooL. James Flolme, elected in the place of Franck Shand, Erg., whose term of °Mos had exp Roca; STEI.—Mr. Jesie Th ram, d Ciasery st!ve, Is eluted Kayo of Rochester. He e .terwiaad Lis file..ds at a 1. anqiilt at the 8 CILTHIII.—Yr. G. 11. W'ind?ye-, a C )naerv..ti e, has ben elee4l figh C •ostible for tLe etsnina year. Baiontox.—:Jr.klderman BarrtAri Las been tinti nonsly elec'sd Mayor for the ensuing year. Sourn,se PT )x.-11r. John White hts been e'ected Mayor. Tiasiorrn.-111r. Ikizbard Hick!, a Libra', wag eleetel Mayor for the ensuing year. DEV..NP .iltr. —Mr. Michael Saott, paymaA,r, R.N., a Conservative wai ele ted Mayor. MAFCilEiTEZ.—Aldcrman Tvie Macke was electei 3.7ajor. ATo o' ?II hks was given to Sir James Watts. S LVORD.— \fr. AlZt rman Harvey w:s elocted Ifayor In the plac cf %fr. stephen If?ells. OXFORD —Mr alderman Grub was e!ec'e N ysr Ty a rnsjorlty of twelve vote-. Mr. Grab!) Is the t! -d T's ester t' at has be,ti Sat e. ssively elected to the office of chief rnaziorsste of th s city. ROCHDAL t.—Mr. R. T. Ueape, a wool merchant, vas e'tc!'ed. Jacob Bright would hw3 been re elected, but or Ms di inc 'nation to serre a secon I year. Laic ESTEIL.-31r. Jose Ali Und3rwocd was rc-elect d Mayor. '['ha Vonittur °lnt a'na Or! offi , ;ial to iff f.ir teegraphie drapee'les from Fraree to Aitct-tia hp tie Medit 4 e!raneata semi: ine lull. The charze for 15 w,rtis i r , B ta is 15Fr.; ph , lipp3,-il!e, 1G 500. ;C ms antinA, 18 Algiees, 191 r. ; and Oran. 22 ,- . 5 !t: A PROMS Ei) PEIPIL,CII.—WI traln t , rry reason t , believe that the j passel two th. H in. Air. upn the 13 t , t of the pah!'c j turoa's g..nerany it prem'qn - e. S 'vers.( iron , rtaTit Ito s. which (rim soma 9nace t int hi eins , we. - e fo•wArl al. the trill, in al! p o'l4)ility will he sho tl. 140 hefire the ou'Aic. 113alwit 1: we would hpg our read , rs to wi hh.il i that jilzro•nt 'iirr the public °ion of a steeirmat of such vw• r aoe .-- Press. TIN JTLr'o t giro K t it t : t t ll n b t g ! .. w f: r r ' l Y e t J l‘t h Aveß:Ric,riiFneDa Coosa u y r tcs --A e tr er v ah r l Y e 14; q , Judge of the Coun y C.turt of Kent, holden t Roc p s ter, S :tor day. Mr. Addiso', , --tructe , l by Mr. B .ssett, Rpb.)rFd Vaintiff; Hr. Charles Stratton, Ile wir4l Mr. M`Carthy itephen-on, tor the .!efenilt.nt, fir. J ,, hn I . t.st, a trader rain, I , vivg ia the t. .v t of Cvith , m. The plaintiff is a shipwr gtt in her M jeity's do Icy re•iling at Slynner street, Chatham. it aplirars th tt be 'iv s M3r!i3(l in the tniildle of th • to of J rne de‘e dial is a c tbintt maker, an during the nigit of tha 28 hof that MI n th the 41 re hiaqt, cyan a m of men and b If, 50 is ,ttinher, came r00 , r.,1 h a ;iousl 4.:ttlei aid rattles, and li.4hte I torches, in .k lig a gre.it tu,iae, ea , ling out his name, art! also that o" . cia wife Th • disturbance lasted same consi.'e:4lile time, they knockei aid ;licked ht dont wi h g-e it ri an:l they h first open the do tr and rola o 'nto tie p p' hog', who . had a jug of water b hue hand, threw it over the five (lost of t mob who -ser,, in tir Muse. Tlo d I n!ant then ran min him, stuck him a vice it b'ow ulna his ches', ar4 then tried to pull !iial oc of his fiJus. al, however, gel ciao , and he armed hinself with a sw ird, as he ferec personal irj ry from the mob. The defendant throw ; pail of wat r o-er him, % hi c h i j 'red a pqrtion di( u ni:u:e in tha room, and he f:lt compelled to Win{ this action. The amount claimed WiS ,£lo. r. Addis -n, his addr 5. ho rd the rY would giro da - nages for the f t .ll amount clai 0.-d, a i d tius pot an eat tn the diigract f p .aetic 4of ext irtieg money from newly summed th rej aicing for rho h lapin o' the n.3-vi-nar ied pair; th, M t : d r e ie l d , fpoerNt(:).::,ibttiecfllan' iti,gthaa j i th i e en ti t n uf ie ro t: a i r i . ag Itws waswas m e c r u e n t: defendant Wai a frie id of the pl ttiff, and n harm ws t g hat he defendant' iwahteon,eie;if theh ( h v i i m ie . ;ice T , slaiiiHJl•leidmgeuttb:;:yin. c induct was most shameful. The jury re.ired, and arte some time it was announced th , y could pot agree, and the were conducted to the s.at:o -house in charge of th 4. polio and tate- having been lock •d for three hours, th; came to th,, conclus i,,„ o f .twarfing £6 to the plaintil which stun, and all the c s wtre tiriered oy th e j udge le paid immediately.