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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

statement is, however, apparent from various circumstances: The
boat'screw are represented as having landed in arms,and in the
same account the arms of the men are said to have been found
in the bottom of the boat. Next, the Russian version of the
story tells us that the boat was sunk, although all the world
besides is aware that JoriN BROWN, as he himself believes,
the only survivor of the barbarous tragedy, escaped in the
boat which was picked up at sea, and with himself was taken
on board the ship. The boat, in its upper planks, is found
riddled with bullet-holes, sufficiently proving that the men
were fired on before they landed, or in the act of landing—or

that, after .those.who had.landed.had beea murdered on shore,
care was taken that none should escape to reveal the particu-
lars of the horrible massacre. The dismal tragedy enacted at
Hango was.indeezl a sictory suited to the genius of that Rus-
sian warfare which Murdered the wounded at Inkermann,
and butchered those who brought succour to her wounded
sons on the heights of Alma—it is in every respect worthy
of their false pretensions and their felon arms. It shows
how such men can fight, when there is no resistance•—when
the achievement of victory depends alone on safe butchery.
The musical world of London has just received intelligence
of the death of one of its oldest and most deserving fovourites.
On Friday week, ROBERT LINDLEY, the veteran and most
accomplished of English violoncello-players, -died in Percy-
street, Brighton, at the advanced age of 83. It is bat a few
years since he retired from the public practice of his profes-
sion, and all those who can extend their recollections to the
Royal Italian Opera and the best concerts of ten years ago,

must have a vivid and pleasing remembrance of the comely
old man whose entrance into the orchestra was the invariable
signal for a hearty welcome. For more than half a century
LINDLEY was a popular idol, his claim to adoration being
founded on the expressive delicacy, yet strength and vigour
of his tone. In his hands the violoncello could do anything
but speak, or yield unpleasing sounds. He was of an urbane,
gentle and kindly disposition, and was a great favourite
among his younger professional brethren, while with the
distinguished of the elders he enjoyed a lively friendship and
a welcome brotherhood. LINDLEY was a native of Rotherham,

in Yorkshire, where his father was a teacher of music.
Early in life the son gave unmistakable token of musical
aptitude, and so long ago as 1794 be received the appoint-
ment of first violoncello in the orchestra of the Royal Italian
Opera, which position he retained till his retirement from
public life.

The theatrical world, as is usual at this season, continues to
whirl with liveliness, if not with vigour, in its gas-lit orbit.
At the Adelphi, Mr. ToM TAYLOR has produced a drama
under the name of " Helping Hands," which has the great
merit of having achieved success, The interest of the piece
is centred in the- excellent acting of WEBSTER and Madame
CELESTE, aided by the efforts of Mr. and Mrs. KEELEY—to
literary merit the piece has no claim. CHARLES MATHEWS
is distributing his theatrical lustre at. the City of London
Theatre, where lie has been engaged, and in which he has
been delighting the City folks with some of the vagaries with
which he so long and so successfully enliVened the frequenters
of the Lyceum. At the. Princess's, CHARLES' KEAN Still gaily
keeps the field with his gorgeous reproduction of King Henry
the Eighth. At the Standard, Messrs. WRIGHT and PAUL
BEDFORD have become the leading stars, in the absence of
Miss GLYN, who has just made a most gratifying and success-
ful debut as Cleopatra in a revived set of Shakspeare's
Anthony and Cleopatra. Of her performance of the "fair
witch of Egypt," which was witnessed by His Excellency the
Lord-Lieutenant, the Dublin critics speak in rapturous terms.
To return, however, to the starting-point, the gentlemen
named as leaders at the Standard have proved very attractive.-
The two great houses still continue rivals in Opera. At Old
Drury, respectably performed operas and gay ballets are.
offered by Mr. SMITH, at circus prices, and are meeting with.
a fair share of patronage ; while Covent Garden rejoices in
the melodies chaunted by Guist and Kum ; by TAM,
BUEINI and LADLACHE ; and these veterans are aided in. the
general corps by several celebrities of newer fame, why pro:
mise fairly to deserve a large share of popular applause.

THE NATIONAL SOCIETY and the (SO-CALLSM
CHURCH of ENGLAND EDUCATION SOCIETY.-

TO THE EDITOR, OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sin,—Mr. Colquboun's letter, ira defence of the society o
which he is a leading member, requires some notice; thought
the transparent fallacy of argument needs only a clear state-
ment to be plainly seem Whether the letter is a judicious
one, is a matter of opinion ;: that: it ie a valuable one, there
• can be no doubt, sinceit sets forth intadmirablc simplicity the
tactics of the party to which the writerbelonp.
Mr. Colquhoun's.objections- to the-National Society are two-
fold. Ist. It gives help only to school, building, and sup-
porting of training. colleges ; not to- the support of schools
already established. The answer tolhisis almost too obvious
to need setting down :—lncrease the- funds; and the society
will increase its- sphere otoperations, -
The second objection requires az little more. notice. It
says:—" The second. characteristic of a- National Society of
Education is,-that it shall combine in:its management the two
leading sections of the-Church of England?! Truly, this is a
most delectable characteristic ! I have often heard of . the
pugnacity of John Bull; the noble art of sparring,-which is, I
believe,. peculiar to, him but I certainly never tlidunderstand
before that the exercise -of this art was -necessarY to his reli-
gious well-being.; and that no society - had -any titleto the
term" National," unless 'it contained -in itself the elements of
discord, and the whole apparatus of dissension. The pc-rfection
of a National Society is, according to this: view, when it con-
tains two parties eqUaliy balanced, each opposingantl thwart-
ing the other. And, se completely- is • this -the view of Mr.
Colquhoun and Isis, party, that, having attempts.4,-. and- failed
in introducing into, the Committee of the National Society the
element of discor4he thought it absolutely necessary to the
well-being of the. ehurch at large to. establish a rival and oppo-
sition society, which was to act mere -extensively and more
publicly against the-Nitional Society- This schismatical pro-
ceeding he considers essential to any national' institution.
But, in endeavouring to- establish his position„he proceeds to
make the monsttous- and malignant assertior„.that—all the
sixteen elected members of the Committee el the National.
Society, with the exception of tices-are Tractarians; .! !=that..
this was the case-when he was amember of the eommittee,..i
and that it is se -now. Of courses.the very monstrosity of
an assertion carries its own refutation : no man, of sound judg,
meat could for a moment believe this, But, as proof is moca-i
satisfactory than :mere denial, I mill give tile names of. the
committee, so that every one may judge for -himself.. I have
before me the Reports of 1849 and 1850—tha other three yeks
I cannot find.. As, however, Ilnow that the committee has
changed very.; these two yearn will, be quite 5a.11,-,- I
dent for the -purpose :--Ar,Adeacon Ha=ison, Revs. IL. H.
Milman, J. Jennings, Mr. Mathison, Pi'r. H. Norris,. Sir.-1
W. P. Wood,. Mr. Colquboun, . Sir Thomas Phillips,. Mr.
Acland, Lord Lyttelton, Adderley, Hon. J. Talhot,..Mr,
Cotton, Ray. Lord J. Thyane, Mr. Twining, Mr. Davis, Rev..l
W. Short. Here is. Mr., Colquhoun'a. list of Tracrians
Truly, some of these ge4lemen will lie proud of the; -honour;
of being nicknamed by Mr. Colquhom ! I should like to see.
their lock when they were told so:

Now my idea of a. national society is, that it is. associety
which is not a. party society, whose members are not party
men ; and this is exactly the characteristic of the National
Socie4 for Edueatica,. None of those men above-mentioned,
excepting -Mr. Colignhoun himself, is a party man ; and it is
plain. from Mr. Colquhoun's letter, that it If because this,
society would not lend itself to party purposes, that he has.
left it, and set up another. Mr. Colquhoun confepes—con,
fees without a blush of shame—that he ancUis party tried: to
get the Archbishop of. Canterbury to lend himself to, his
.latrigues nay.;.raore, he dpes not hesitate to father on, the
Archbishop the scheme itself. lam sun, and, all readers
will agree with,me, when I say, that the Archbishop: of Can-
terbury is incapable of such tricks.
I must say. a few more words about this. Tractarian Com-
mittee. let it be known, then, that a. committee is elected,
according to a certain cycle, by the Jubscribers sf agseinea to
the society,.at their- annual meeting. .Anything less exclusive
than this,-it is imaossible to conesiv.e :at the same time, any-
thing- more. completely crushing to Mr. Colqulioun's slander,
that it is a " party society, ', is. as difficult to. imagine ; unless
it
.he. this, TEAT EVERY ONR OP THE- Bxmori is, ex officio,
A MEMBER OF TILE COMMITTEE. Neither are any more
words needed to prove that the society is what it professes to:
be—" Tut NATIONAL SOCIETY for the Education of the-
Poor in the Principles, of the Estobliehed church."
A careful perusal of Mr. Colquhoun's letter brings me, to
the conclusion, that the only point in which he attempts to
substantiate the charge of Traetarianism is the College of St.
Mark's, Chelsea. Yet he acknowledges that it is governed
by a council of its own,' and not by the National Society : the
society makes grants to the college, but so does the govern-
ment ; if the.National.SoCiety is Tractarian; because it grants
money to St. Mark's College, so must the Privy Council on
Education, for it does so too. I shall not enter into a defence
of that college, or of the matter concerning Mr: Pay monde
since you did that effectually in your two articles; I will
only mention one fact, which will tell-more than all argument :
that this year the Counciiik the Cheltenham Training Col-
lege, which has the repots fiNi of belonging exclusively to the
Evangelical party, applied to St. Mark's for a method master,
and the offer of this office was made to Mr. A. C. Daymond, a
St. Mark's man, and brother to the gentleman of whom Mr.
Colqubouu so bitterly complains. E.

A RCLE for a new trial has been granted, on the application
of the defendant, in the ease of Boyle r. Wiseman, on the
ground of the improper admission of secondary evidence of the
cardinal's handwriting.

MR. TURNERELLI'S LECTURES
ON RUSSIA.

" WHAT KIND OF MEN OUR ENEMIES ARE."

Seen. is the title of a course of lectures, the first of which
(on the Russian nobles) was delivered- last night, at the
Mechanics' Institution in this town, by Mr.'Edward Tracy
Turnerelli, the author of some well-known wes'as on Russia
and its People. Mr. Turnerelli, who, we learn, is the son of
the celebrated artist of that name, sculptor to their late
Majesties George 111. and IV., first visited Russia in the year
1837. Ills travels in that country were not confined-alone to
the two capitals, St. Petersburg and Moscow, for he explored
the whole of the Volga down to the Caspian sea; sojourning, as
he advanced, for weeks together in the principal towns on the
banks of that river ; one of which, Kazan, the ancient capital
of the Tartar Khans, he has described in two interesting
volumes lately published in London by Bentley. During this
journey, which lasted five years, he travelled through 17 pro-
vinces of the Russian Empire, a feat which, we believe, few
English travellers can boast of having accomplished. Mr.
Turnerelli enjoyed the personal favour of the late Emperor
Nicholas, who patronised his works in a very liberal manner,
and assisted him in various ways in his travels. This advan-
tage joined to an intimate acquaintance with many of the
nobles, induced Mr. Turnerelli to prolong his sojourn in Russia
upwards of sixteen years; and it was only at the commence-
ment of the present war that he felt it his duty to leave that
country, to which, he candidly tells us, the kind treatment he
received from all classes had in many ways attached him. As
Englishmen, therefore, we could duly appreciate the feeling
which induced Mr. Turnerelli to remark that as much as truth
would permit him (for no sense of gratitude would induce him
to say a word that was not truth), 1:e would, although we were
at war with Russia, tell all the good he. had observed in that
country, and tell it too with heartfelt pleasure. The Russians,
he said, had many imperfections in their character which were
generally known; but they had, at the same time, many gseat
and remarkable national virtues, of which few travellers had
spoken. While he painted, therefore, faithfully, the darker
side of their character, he would most certainly not conceal the
fairer traits ; and this was a duty he owed not only to the
Russians, but to his countrymen and to himself. He began
his description of the Russian nobles by depictin,-, the
peculiarly Muscovite manner in which Peter the Great, by the
aid of a host of French tutors, governesses, nurses, hair=
dressers, dancers, teachers, valets (all French), whom he
imported in ship loads into the country, introduced civilisation
among his gaunt Boyars. They wore long beards, which
Peter ordered them to shave, but the &Tara rebelled at this
order, and the mutiny it raised nearly cost Peter his life. The
latter settled the matter by fixing a tax upon his subjects'
beards, and the Boyars—preferring rather to part with their
beards- than their roubles—finished by keeping Peter's order.
By degrees the Muscovite Boyars assumed a very polished
appearance, and at the present day, a Russiananobie is as
polite- and civilised a man as any aristocrat in Ilerope. The
stamp of civilisation, however, retains the impress-of its-origin;
the Russian nobles, still imitate. the French in their habits,
manners, dress, and tastes; nothing but French is heard
among them, and by some of their enemies they have been
called des Francais p'ate's, or spoiled Frenchmen. A pre-
ference for the French people was strongly marked: in the
Russian character; but they liked all foreigners, patticularly
when they happened to belong to the softer sex. A pretty
actress or dancet,. was sure to make a rapid fortune in Russia,.
though it is not necessary to enquire too closely into' the'
means employed to do so. Uadlle. Jenny Falcon came to'St:
Petersburg a poor girl e in a few months she had a palace- to
live in, and droveabout the town in a carriage and four; ever-
body was dying for her, and one poor fellow did die,—a youage
Russian officer having shot himself for Jenny's sake, when she
refused to marry him. This passion for foreign artistes-
was carried so far as. often to lead- the young Russian'
noble into the meet ridiculous excesses. For instance,
when Mademoiselle Taglioni quitted: St. Petersburg, she
left a pair of slippers- at the hotel.- The landlord soon
made his good fortune. known, and 50,. 100, and even 200
roubles (£3O) were freely offered for the forgotten slippers.
The landlord, however, finding the public enthusiasm in-
crease as he raised his- demands, peremptorily refused to
part with the slippers under 500 roubles- (E 75). This sum
being rather more than any individual appeared willing to
givea 35 persons clubbed together, and purchased the slippers.
They then wanted to know what to do with them. After
many suggestions, none of which gave general satisfaction,
it was- proposed by one of Vieapeculators, mere enthusiastic
and original than his fellows; that they should- eat them?
The landlord of the hotel pronounced the idea to -be excellent,
and proposed to make a fricasee of them, -whichiwas accord-
ingly donee and the 36 enthusiasts, with the lettirrer as their
guest, did actually eat TaglionitS slippers, and'' washed them
down in bumpers of champagne; in which they drank to the
health of the charming danse-Ae. The education of the
Russian nobles was almost exclusively in the: hands of
foreigners; and many of these were certainly littae -qualified
for the task they tools upon themselves to perform. Allissisa. n
princealiving na• the interior of Russia, was very proud of his
daughters'. English; but, on being 'introduced to them, Mr.
Turnerelli foutd-that they had been 'earning Scotchinstead of
English; and for-aught be knew, their teacher might have been
some needy bagpiper, wlaefound teachiiiga more profitable bug-
ness in Russia than playing his national, instrument. Tur-
nerelli related on this subject several other amusing anecdotes,
which space wilrnote permit us to allude to. The great defects
of the . Russian nobles were their extravagance, their* dis-
sipation, their love of change, their fondness for gam-
bling, and sometimes their want of honesty in their
dealings: But,. on. the- other hand their hospitality,.
courtesy, and charity- were beyond all praise. Each: of
these characteristic- traits, Mr. Turnerelli illustrated by a-
variety of incidents-which had occurred under his personal
notice, and which ii terestedf. strongly his auditors. Mastrof
the nobles-in the interior kept open horse,. and the 'more--
numerous the droppers in toalinner the better pleased was-the.
Pest. In a Worst the hospitality of the Russians was in many.
owns the hospitzllty ortheliotel—without the bill at leav—
ing; Of their courtesy Mr. Turnerelli related; several drums-
stances-which occmTed.foehinsself individually, while travel. -
ling-in Russia. Their charitee and generosity to; foreigners in'
distress was highly-creditable-to their feelings:. An appeal to-k
the generosity of a 'Russian noble was seldom= made in vain a
arid the-lecturer recorded 'several instances of poor foreigners,.
who had 'died in lie-Russian capital when he wasliving there,.
anti !whose families had been provided for br,-. the Imperial
family. and the nobles., "-Charity," he hopeda therefore,;
aright 'cover some of the sine'.' of the Russiar as With some

remarks on the physical appearance, educatica.,..habits, and
tastes of the Russian ladies.-MraurnereLli conch:tied his lecture,
in which, we must do hhia thejkistiee to say, net-only he com-
nasnicated to us mach.novel information concerning the Rus-
siin people of a most interesting and useful deseription,-but

Pict-ures bora.a character- of truthfulness,. hapartiality,
and moderation vn-cannot too ;:iighly value.

His second lecture on " The Ittisslan Serfs" wine delivered
tomorrow evening.; and, when we reflect that it is with
fOrty millions of these men :ire have to struggle in our

ppesent contest, all us of must naturally feel moreor less inte-
rested to know the peculiar characteristics of that race of which
we have so little-trustworthy iwformation ; and =iv, doubt,
less, will avail themselves of the favorable opportunity af-
ierded them in this matter by Mr. Turnerelli's &scriptions,
founded on a sixteen years' experience and a ache- study of
Russian character. Mr..Turnerelli'S last lecture win be given
en Friday evening; :and the subject, " The dead` and living
Czar," promises-to be highly interesting—the more so, when
we recall to mid Mr. Turrerelli's acquaintance -with the
Imperial family.of Russia, whose .cionestic habits and. charac-

ter he has probably had better-opportnnities of studying than
any Englishman we could forward. His work,. very
lately published, entitled, " INnow of the late. Emperor
Nicholas and his. Family," ef. sithieh we have mad . several
laudatory notibes in the Y Louden papers, confirms • its in this
opinion; and we look forwardwith pleasure to that evening's
entertainment.