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SPAIN.

Madrid journals state that, in consequence of the
new regulations in the palace, the Marquis de Punon-
rostro, grand equerry to the Queen ; Count de
Altamira, her Majesty's grand majordomo; the Duke
de Medina de Las Torres, grand equerry to the King ;
M. Perales, secretary to the Queen, and several other
gentlemen, together with some ladies, have been dis-
missed. The Government intended, it was said, not
to allow some of these personages to remain in
Madrid or any other royal residence. It is supposed
that these changes were most unpalatable to the
Queen. The Madrid Gazette of the 24th announced
that she had suffered a miscarriage the day previous.
On the 25th her Majesty is reported as " going on
well."
Spain, it appears probable, is about to join the al-
liance of the Western powers. It is stated that a
treaty of alliance, offensive and defensive, has been
prepared, and that it will be presented forthwith to
the Cortes.
The following little fact conveyed in a letter is
another indication of the general rise in prices
throughout Europe :

Although the harvest has been a good one, prices ar
rising in most of the markets of Spain.
London, England, 1855-09-29

THE ENGLISH RETREAT.

Our attack lasted about an hour and three-quarters, as
well as I could make out, and in that time we lost more
men than at Inkermann, where the fighting lasted for seven
hours. At one o'clock wounded men began to crawl up
from the batteries to the camp ; they could tell us little or
nothing. " Were we in the Redan ?" " Oh, yes ; but a
lot of them was killed, and the Russians were mighty
strong." The rapidly-increasingnumbers of wounded men,
some of whom had left their arms behind them, gave rise
to suspicions of the truth ; but their answers to many eager
questioners were not very decisive or intelligible, and some
of them did not even know what they had been attacking.
One poor young fellow who was marching stiffly up. with a
broken arm and a ball through his shoulder, carried off his
firelock with him, but he made the naive confession that
he had " never fired it off, for he could not." The piece
turned out to be in excellent order. It struck one that
such men as these, however brave, were scarcely a tit match
for the well-drilled soldiers of Russia ; and yet we were
trusting the honour, reputation, and glory of Great Bri-
tain to undisciplined lads from the plough, or the lanes of
our towns and villages ! As one example of the sort of
recruits we have received here recently I may mention
that there was a considerable number of men in daughts
which came out last week to regiments in the fourth divi-
sion who had only been enlisted a few days, and who had
neverfired a rifle in their lives ! It must not be imagined
that such rawness can be corrected and turned into
mili-
tary efficiency out here, for the fact is that this siege has
been about the worst possible school for developing the
courage and manly self-reliance of a soldier ; neither does
it teach him the value of discipline and of united action.
When he goes into the trenches he learns to dodge behind
gabions and to take pot-shots from behind atones and pat a-
pets, and at the same time he has no opportunity of testing
the value of his comrades, or of proving himself against the
enemy on the open field. The natural result follows. The
old soldiers behaved admirably, and stood by their officers
to the last ; nor was there any lack of courage among the
lads just joined, but they were wanting in discipline and
in confidence in their officer-ft.—Timed Cur.
London, England, 1855-09-29

THE ENGLISH LOSS.

From the following statement of the loss in the light
division it will be seen that this gallant body, which be-
haved so well at the Alma, and maintained its reputation
at Inkermann, suffered as severely as it did in gaining the
former great victory. In the light division there are 73
officers and 964 men wounded—total, 1,097. The hiss of
this division was 1,001 in killed and wounded at the Alma.
The number of officers killed amounts to 19; of men killed
to 94—total 107.

The loss of officers in Windham's brigade, and in the
portion of Warren's brigade which moved to his support,
is equally severe. The loss in the two brigades of this
division is not lees than 790 men. The whole loss cannot
be estimated at less than 2,200 or 2,300 men. This Itedan
has cost us more lives than the capture of Badejoz, not to
speak of those who have fallen in the trenches and ap-
proaches to it ; and although the enemy evacuated it, we
can scarcely claim the credit of having caused them such
loss that they retired owing to their dread of a renewed
assault. On the contrary, we must in fairness admit that
the Russians maintained their grip of the place till the
French were fairly established in the Malakoff, and the
key of the position was torn from their grasp.—lb.
London, England, 1855-09-29

THE PRESS.

UNGFRN-STERNBERG—BUNSEN—On the 14th Instant, at
Heidelberg, the Baron von Ungern-Sternberg, to Theodora,
the fourth daughter of the Chevalier Bunsen, late Prussian
Minister at the Court of St. James's.

DEATHS.

AIREY—BROMLEY—On the 25th instant, at St. George's,
Hanover-square. Julius Talbot Airey, Esq., son of the late
Lieut.-General Sir George Airey, to Charlotte, daughter oft he
Rev. W. Davenport Bromley, of Wootton-hall, Staffordshire.
ANDERSON—Ott the 4th instant, killed in the trenches before
Sebastopol, Captain Charles Anderson, 31st Regt., aged t 6.
BERLYN—MENETRIER—On the 15th instant, at St. Mar-
garet's, Westminster, Peter Berlyn, Esq., of Rotterdam, to
Emily Aghte, eldest daughter of Emile Menetrier, Esq., of
Albert-terrace, Hyde-park.
BOOT HBY—ANSON—On the 27th instant, at All Souls', St.
Marylebone, Charles Edward Boothby, Esq., to the Hon.
Georgians Mary Anson, widow of the late George Edward

Anson, Esq.
CAMPBELL—On the 17th instant, at Dover, Caroline Eliza,
widow of the late Sir Donald Campbell, Bart.
CARPENTER—On the 20th instant, iu Great Cumberland-
place, Hyde-park, Heater, relict of the late General George
Carpenter, aged 94.
D'OTLY —On the 2Gth instant, at Nevill-park, Tunbridge-wells,
General D'Oyly, aged 76.
EVANS—On the lath instant, in Upper Porehester-street. Hyde-
park, Captain James Evans, late of the Royal Artillery.
GIFFARD—On the 16th instant, at Southampton, Admiral John
Gitfard, aged 90.
KENNEDY—On the 15th instant, at Hollybrook, Antrim, Ire-
land, Colonel Arthur Kennedy, late of the 18th Hussars.
NORTON--On the 20th instant, at Baden-Baden, the lion. Mrs.

Erskine Norton, aged 61.
OLIVER—On the 22nd instant, at Eden-grove, Holloway,
Captain W. J. Oliver, R.N., aged 6b.
REED—On the 12th of May, at Hobart-town, Van Diemen's
Land, Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald William Reed,
99th Regt.
REPINGTON—On the 22nd instant, at Amington-hall, War.
wickshire, Vice• Admiral 8 Court Repington, aged :2.
SOMERVILLE—On the 3rd instant, at Scutari, Lieut. W. M
Somerville, Royal Engineers, aged 20.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
TWO DAYS' EXCURSION to Cirencester, Stroud, Glou-
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SATURDAY, October Bth, at 8 30 p.m., returning on MONDAY,
the Bth, from Cheltenham at 0.30 p.m., Gloucester, 7 p.m., Stroud,
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trains specified.
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BIRTHS.

FARRAh—On the lath instaht, at Bohoona•lodge, Spiddal,
County Galway, the wife of John Farrar, Esq., lath Captain let
Life Guards, of a daughter.
GERARD—On the 21st instant, at Garswood, Warrington, Lady
Gerard, the wife of Sir Robert T. Gerard, Bart., of a daughter.
GWYN—On the 21rd instant, at Paragon, Blackheath, the lady
of Captain H. W. Gwyn, R.M., of a eon.
LLOYD—On tl e 24th instant, at Lancing, the wife of Lieut.-
Colonel Can Lloyd, of a daughter.
OLIVER—On the 24th instant, at Grove-ent
Captain R. A. Oliver, R.N., of a son.
SOME RS—On the 22nd instant, at Carlton-1
Countess Somers. of a daughter.
TROLLOPE—On the 21th instant, Lady Trollope. of a eon.
WESTON—On the 21st instant, at 23, Dorset-street, the wife of
Captain H. Weston, Bombay Army, of a dtaighter.
MARRIAGES.
BRODIE—HAIG—On the 20th instant, at Barnbarrach-house
Wigtownshire, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Brodie, of the
Bengal Army, toJanet, daughter of the late William Haig, Esq.
ROSE—PARKER—On the Ysth instant, at Rothley Church,
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tturrey, to Mary Ellen, daughter of the late Vice-Chancellor
Parker, of 80. Way Temple I .eicestershire.
ST. INO ft—PE IC f .—On the 25 h instant, at St. Margaret's, West-
mins.er, the Hon. Frsnel . Stonor, a nof Lord Camoys, to
Eliza, daughter of the late Bight lion. Sir Robert Peel, Bart,

the wife of

the
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ARRIVAL OF THE KING OF SARDINIA.

His Majesty Victor Emanuel, King of Sardinia,
passed through London en route to Windsor between
12 and 1 p.m.yesterday. His Majesty reached Dover
at an early hour in the Vivid, from Calais, which
place he left at 5 o'clock a.m. on Friday morning.
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Inkermann will be highly valued by our soldiers.
I accept the expressiou of your good wishes as a happy
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FRIDAY EvawrNe.
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UNITED STATES.

Dates from New York to the 14th have arrived.
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Hlit.sgow and its Clubs
fbe Winter Quarters of the Allies
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P. J. Bailey's " Mystic and caber Poems "
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LONGFELLOW'S POEMS.
TO THE EDITOR OF " THE PRESS."
Sir,—Discussion may not always imply dissent,
nor need dissent be necessarily absolute and irre-
concileable. Without enrolling myself among the
enthusiastic admirers of the American poet of the
day, I confess I was startled to see him classed in
the school of affectation. Were his fame to rest on
the " Song of Hiawatha " and some of his transla-
tions he and the author of //Men and Women "
might be left to stand side by side in the place
allotted them ; but the mind which conceived the cha-
racter of Evangeline, and tells us that,

Patience, and abnegation of self, and devotion to others,
This was the lesson a life of trial and sorrow bad taught her—
the mind which has made accessible to us all the
stern truths told by Don Coplas de Manrique—though
it may, with the weakness all great minds are prone
to, stray once in a while in the regions of affectation,
should not I think be confounded with the denizens
of that unwholesome air. Will you recur to my first
sentence while I add that the comparison between
Tennyson and Longfellow does not appear to me to
be more tenable than one between a gorgeous butter-
fly and a silkwotm ? Longfellow has nothing com-
parable in fairy lightness and beauty with that
stanza in " Maud,"—

The red rose cries " She is near, she is near,"
And the white rose weeps " She is late ;
The larkspur listens" I hear, I hear,"
And the lily whispers " I wait."
Nor has Tennyson, so far as I remember, ever taught
us such a life lesson as,—
The mighty pyramids of stone,
That, wedge-like, cleave the desert air,
When nearer seen and better known,
Are but gigantic flights of stair.
•
The heights by great men won and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they while their companions slept
Were toiling upward in the night.
Sir, yours obediently, P.

[Our observations were confined to the " Song of
4g Hiawatha," which certainly does not appear to us
worthy of Mr. Longfellow's genius, or of his former
productions.]
London, England, 1855-12-01

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ituider Captain Wardlaw, had pushed on by my direction to
village about three miles further, where they found in-
habitanta, who told them that some Russian cavalry had

left them that morning.
On the 23rd the whole force returned to Kinburn. On
the march our rear was threatened by about 250 of the
.enemy's cavalry, who, however, soon retired. On the 27th
the cavalry and artillery were embarked, and on the 30th
the whole of the infantry, to return to the Crimea, leaving
French troops to garrison the fort.
General Spencer then calls the attention of the
commanderin-chief to those officers who particularly
distinguished themselves by their zeal and exertions,
and concludes with expressing his high sense of the
valuable co-operation and counsel afforded him by
Sir Edmund Lyons.
London, England, 1855-12-01

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SIR ROBERT PEEL AND THE BRITISH

NAVY.
Tax extraordinary conduct of the present Sir
ROBERT Pm has for the last week been a theme
for conversation in every circle. Hitherto the
sentiments of the Baronet have
been treated as ti
young man, whom
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Published this day, price 2e. 641.,
JOURNAL of the STATISTICAL SOCIETY
for DECEMBER.

CONTENTS:
1. Effects of the War on Russian Produce
2. Births, Deaths, and Marriages, in the Men °polls
8. Coal and Iron Trade in the West or Scotiand
4. Ten Years' Retrospect of London Banking
5. Mining Resources of France
U. Juvenile Delinquency
7. Statistics of a lilasgow Gratnmar•School Class
8. Our National Strength
9. Miscellanea
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CONTENTS YOH DECEMBER. NO. CCCCXX•
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Sir William 31olerworth. By Cyrus Redding
Seven Years. Ey the Author of "The Unholy Wish"
A Yacht Cruise through the Caledonian Canal
Fly-Leaves from a Circulating Library. Mrs. Gaskell's Novel■
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SWEDEN AND DENMARK.

Sweden and Denmark will continue to permit the
exportation of corn.
General Canrobert left Stockholm for Copenhagen
on the 20th. The gallant general was accompanied
to the frontier by the King's aide de-camp.
General Canrobert, on his arrival at Copenhagen
on the 23rd, met with a magnificent reception from
the people and Prince Ferdinand. On the 26th he
was received by the King, and, after being treated

THE PRESS.

with the highest distinction, embarked on the 29th
for Kiel, en route to Paris.

SPAIN.

The Parliamentary Committee on the Tariffs have
declared in favour of free trade.

The case of a Guarda Costa, having fired into and
attempted to capture a British vessel almost under
the guns of Gibraltar, has been the subject of a
strong protest on the part of Lord Hoyden.

GREECE.

The Greek Chargé d'Affaires at Paris has re-
ceived orders from his Government to make the fol-
lowing statement on the subject of the late visit of
the King and Queen of Greece to the Russian
Church at Athens :—" The visit of their Hellenic
Majesties to the Church of SL Nicodimos had
merely an artistical object, and was solely of a private
character."
London, England, 1855-12-01

THE LONDON AND PARIS
JOINT-STOCK BANK.
Commencing Capital 600,0001., in 6,000 Shares of 1001. each.
Deposit 101. per share, and 401. to be paid upon the Charter of
Incorporation being obtained, pursuant to 7 and 8 Victoria, cap,
113. Established for the purpose of extending the principles of
joint-stock banking in the metropolis, and for introducing the
system on the Continent.
COURT OF DIRECTORS.
Governor—GEOßGE ALEXANDER HAMILTON, Esq., MX,
HERMANN Cox, Esq. (Hermann Cox and Co.), Mark-lane
JOHN H. DILLON, EMI., Albany
GEORGE CHRISTOPHER GRAVES, Esq. (PhiHipps, Graves, and
PhiHipps), Rood-lane
JOHN GILCHRIST, Esq. (Gilchrist, Watt, and Co.), Porchester-
terrace. Hyde•park
EDWIN WARD JACKSON, Esq., Craven-hill-gardens, Hyde-park
THOMAS SHEPPERSON, Esq., Dulwich-hill
HARRISON WATSON, Esq. (J. R. Thomson and Co.), St. Peter's-
_

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chambers, Cornbill _
ALEXANDER WEBBER, Esq. (Alexander Webber and Co.), Mark-
lane
JOHN WILLSON, Esq., Southwark and Dulwich
JOHN YOUNG, Esq. (Young, Dlx, and Co). Watling-street, and
(John Young and Co.) Royal Exchange-buildings
(With power to add to their number.)
Bankers in England The Bank of England; the Union Bank
of London, 2, Princes-street, Mansion-house
Brokers—Messrs. PHILIP CAZENOYE and Co., 99, Lothbury
Standing Counsel—Sir FITZROY KELLY, M.P.
Solicitors—Messrs. ASHURST, SON, and MORRIS, 6, Old Jewry,
General Manager—JAMES WRIGHT, Esq.
Secretary—ALßEßT DUMMER, Esq.
Bankers in Pans—The Bank of France

Standing CouNsel in France— M. liussoa. Avocat i la Cour Im-
perials, Depute an Corps Leglelatif, 40, Rue Mont Tbabor, Paris
I.lotaire—M. MOCQUARD, 5, Rue de la Pala
Avou6 de Premiere Instance—M. RasErri, 2, Rue de la
Michaudiere
Offices, 4, PRINCES-STREET, MANSION•HOUSE

This Bank is formed for the purpose of affording banking
facilities to meet the requirements of the increased and increa-
sing monetary operations of the metropolis.
The following table exhibits the progress and present condi-
tion of the Joint-stock Banks in London:—
London, England, 1855-12-01

BATTLE OF INGOUR.

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Lord Clarendon on Thursday received a despatch
from Major Simmons, her Majesty's military com-
missioner attached to Omer Pacha's army, detailing
the events of the passages of the Ingour by the
Turks.
Major Simmons states that Omer Pacha's total
force consisted of four brigades (thirty-two batta-
lions) of infantry, four battalions of chasseurs, and
1,000 cavalry, with twenty-seven field-pieces and ten
mountain guns, or in all about 20,000 men ; the
remainder of his force, about 10,000 men, being em-
ployed to protect the depots at Godova, Tchinshera,
and Soukham ; and proceeds to detail the manoeuvres
of the dq, but does net present to us any new facts.
London, England, 1855-12-01

THE PRESS.

parties, one gaining Cape Riley, another pro-
ceeding to I'ond's Bay on the west shore of
Baffin's Bay, and another, under Sir John him-
self, endeavouring to reach a Hudson's Bay
post. It would be utter waste of space to
examine Captain Belcher's theory. It proceeds
upon the wildest conjecture of unfettered
fancy. It has not a single fact to support it.
All is assumption, and moreover of the most
irrational and arbitrary character. On this
point he speaks like a man bereft of reason.
Probabilities are strongly against the ships
having ever entered Regent's Inlet. The
bottom of this Inlet (Committee Bay) was
thoroughly explored by Dr. Rae, in 1846 and
1847, when he connected his own discoveries
with those of the Bosses on oue shore of the
gulf, and with those of Parry on the other. No
trace of Franklin's ships could he find, nor
from any of the Esquimaux could tidings be
gained of them.
Sir James Ross with his ships wintered at
Leopold Island, at the very entrance of the
Inlet, in 1848.9, and in the spring of the latter
year explored, by travelling parties, the neigh-
bouring shores, but without finding a trace of
Franklin.

In 1851, Mr. Kennedy (with Lieutenant
Bellot as a volunteer) sailed in the Prism
Albert, for Regent's Inlet, wintered at Batty
Bay, on the west shore of that gulf, and in the
following spring performed the most extensive
journey on record—proceeding south till they
reached Bellot's Strait, then journeying west
till they struck the sea, and returning home
by Cape Walker, yet were wholly unsuccessful
in the object of their search.
Is Captain Belcher ignorant of these facts ?
It would seem so by his supposition that in
1846 the ships of Franklin were driven into
Regent's Inlet. No part of the Arctic region
has been so thoroughly explored as this.
Franklin and his crews have unhappily
been sacrificed to the weakness and indeci-
sion of the Admiralty. He has never been
sought where he was directed to proceed.
That expanse of sea to the south beyond Cape
Walker, which he was expressly enjoined to
explore, has, by a deplorable fatality, not even
yet been properly searched. Franklin has
been sought in every direction but the right
one. The ignorant clamour in favour of Wel-
lington Channel did infinite mischief, by put-
ting research on a false scent.
It was impossible for Franklin to mistake
his instructions. In proposing his expedition,
the late Sir John Barrow said :
A. distance of three hundred leagues on a clear sea,
keeping midway between the supposed Banks' Land and the
coast of America, would accomplish an object which, at
intervals during three hundred years. has engaged the at.
tention of crowned heads, men of science, and mercantile
bodies.
London, England, 1855-12-01

any subject but war.
What has happened in the interval ? What
has caused this marvellous revolution ? Sim-
ply this. For the last twelve days her Majesty's
Gove►nment have been busily negotiating Peace on
terms deemed by the Emperor of the French to be
satisfactory ; and thus, if the present prospect
of Peace be defeated by any Zilches on our part,
her Majesty would have to dissolve Parliament,
not against Mr. GLADSTONE, or even against
Mr. DISRAELI, but against the Emperor NAPO-
LEON ; and the politic issue before the people
of England would be, whether they would
carry on the War against Russia without the
concurrence, and against the advice, of our
great, our prudent, and our faithful ally.
But is it true? Can it be possible that
Peace is on the tapis ? Surely it must be "one
of the canards of THE PRESS." That paper is
famous for canards. It declared in 1853 that
the Emperor NICHOLAS had frankly communi-
cated his projects to her Majesty's Govern-
ment, who, months after, assured the nation
of the Emperor's moderation, and subsequently
expressed astonishment at his rapacious per-
tidy. That was a canard of Tux PRESS in 1853,
although, one year afterwards, in full Parlia-
ment assembled, her Majesty's Ministers
were forced to confess that the statement was
literally true, and to produce the "most secret
" and confidential documents" which demon-
strated it.
Then, again, there were constant canards of
THE PRESS during the Conferences of Vienna,
intimating—at a time when every journal was
assuring us that Peace was impossible, and
not a single obstacle had been surmounted—
that Peace was not only possible, but very
probable, and on the point of being concluded.
What audacious and high-flying canards were
these, when it is notorious that the War con-
tinued; and yet, a few months later, it did
strangely transpire that at Vienna Peace was
on the eve of being concluded, and two of the
most eminent statesmen of Europe, M. DROUYN
DE LHUYS and Lord JOHN RUSSELL, have
ceased to be Ministers because the allied
Governments revoked the instructions and
authorities on which they had acted.
London, England, 1855-12-01

THE PRESS.

He then proceeded :-
2. He thought that he was expressing the opinion of the
country, when he said that the eight or nine millions spent
in the Baltic had nut answered the expectations of the
people.
Next the char*, becomes more definite, and,
aftei-filiMehk nc4 soot at the Baltic 40:
miral, thp bold'rotiet cakes aim at the Block
Sea Admirals :-
3. A Pun* wail •,leave man, but he had to givq
way to Lye, Veto is. ,as thought would imam*
more vigour into the autionkof tbe fleet. He did not
here that such had turned.4lo be,The case.

Again :-
4. He thought that all had not been accomplished by
Mlmiral Lyaua is tlia Black Sea which might. have been
done.
' •

--
Not satisfied with these reckless imputa-
tions, this most offensive personage injuriously
contrasted our present Admirals with NELSON
and EXMOUTH. How would the present Sir
ROBERT PEEL like to be contrasted with his
own father, or with his grandfather, or with
his most estimable uncle, the much respected
General PEEL ? We tell the Lord of the Ad-
miralty that the contrast between himself and
the sayings and doings of his father and
grandfather, taken in connection with the
name he bears, reminds us of the case of cer-
tain insolvent bankers, where, though the title
of the firm still remained, the credit was long

gone.
It is a most serious question whether the
official assailant of the British navy should
continue in the Admiralty. Such a speech as
that of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S is a flagrant scandal,
and even the Premier dare not to treat it with
a laugh. It received partial castigation from
the clever reply of his colleague, Captain
TOWNBHEND, who spoke with great ability in
defence of the absent Admirals. But a more
severe course must be taken with Si ROBERT
PEEL than has yet been applied to him.
" Hardinge" and " Graham" were the two last
words heard from his distinguished father's
lips, and this young man had the indecency in
the same speech to assail Sir JAMES GRAHAM,
and to refer to that particular speech in which
the Member for Carlisle paid an affecting
tribute to the character of a Sir Robert Peel of
another stamp.
We know of only one excuse that can be
made for him. Through his maternal ances-
tors the present Sir ROBERT PEEL inherits
some of the wildest of wild Irish blood, and
what reads like mere malice might in reality
have been only the outbursts of a ridiculous
roysterer ; and the next account may inform
us of the Lord of the Admiralty entering into
rivalry with Mr. GOUGH, of temperance-lecture
notoriety.
But such is not the " Lord of the Admi-
ralty " wanted for the example of the public
service, and as soon as he shall be turned
" out," then we shall have the proper illustra-
tion of a man, though not " the right one,"
I being at last in his " right place."
London, England, 1855-12-01

This day, Bvo., price 16..,
THE POLITICS OF ARISTOTLE; with
English Notes, Introduction, Essays, and copious Index.
By RICHARD CONGREVE, M.A., late Fellow and Tutor of
Wadhain College, Oxford.
Lately published by Mr. CONOREYE, 46.,
THE ROMAN EMPIRE OF THE WEST.—Five
Lectures delivered at Edinburgh.
London : JOHN W. PARKER and SON, West Strand.
London, England, 1855-12-01

WE have received a communication from Mr. John M.
Knott, a diligent writer on the currency question, calling
in question the accuracy of a statement contained in an arti.
de in our number of Nov. 17, headed" Currency and Capital."
In that article it was said that Mr. John Taylor had " con.
fessed that, with the discovery of the new gold-fields, he
saw swept away all hope of the one great object of his life
being carried into effect." Mr. Knott, from his intimacy
with Mr. Taylor, and general knowledge of his sentiments,
conceives that he is justified in affirming that Mr. Taylor
never used those words. This is a strange piece of pre-
sumption on the part of Mr. Knott. As it happens, the
writer of the article " Currency and Capital " heard those
words from Mr. Taylor's own lips. Mr. Knox's negative
testimony is worth nothing. Mr. Taylor may not com-
monly have expressed that sentiment,—he even may not
entertain it now. lint the writer was justified in ad-
ducing it as an evidence that the gold discoveries had, in
Mr. Taylor's opinion, materially altered the state of the
currency question, and had relieved that monetary pressure
which constituted an argument in support of his theory•
'the revival of that pressure may have revived Mr. Tay-
lor's hopes of success ; but the admission of Mr. Knott,
t hat Mr. Taylor " rejoiced over the gold discoveries, as
beneficial to the world, and ministering to industry," sup-
plies a presumption that, with the increased production of
gold, he felt (even though his own opinions might have
remained unchanged) that there would be less probability
than before of a change in the currency becoming a popu-
lar question through any positive scarcity of the circulating
medium.

We regret that we cannot, from its length, insert Mr.
Knott's letter; but, on the particular point of what ex-
pressions Mr. Taylor may have used between three and
four years since, Mr. Knott is certainly not a com•
petent witness, and has no right to insist on being
heard.

t is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive
Their insertion is often delayed, owing to a press of matter
and when omitted, it is frequently from reasons quite rode
pendent of the merits of the communication.
We cannot undertake to return commo•o— • •
not avail ourselves.

of which we do

Communications should always be legibly written, and on one
side of the paper only. If long it increases the didioulty of
finding space for them.
Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the
name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publica-
tion, but as a guarantee of his good faith.
Advertisements sent from the country must be accompanied by a
remittance or a reference for payment iu town.
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