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ROYAL OLYNIPIC THEATRE.
Under the Management of Mr. ALFRED WIGAN.
On Monday and dining the Week (first time) a new Farce,
called A FASCINATING INDIV:DUAL. Charactess by
Messrs. F. Hobson, Danvers. Emery. G. Murray. Misses Castle.
ton and Marston. After which the Drama of HEIRIBUTION.
To conclude with STAY AT HOME.
Commence at Half-past Seven.

ROYAI4 SURREY THEATRE.
ITALIAN OPEttA and BALLET.—Finsr NIGHT.
On MONDAY NEXT will be performed HeDias Grand
Opera of NORMA. Norma, Mme. Caradori. After the Opera,
the National Anthem will be sung by the whole strength of the
Company. To conclude with a llaliet Divertissement. Prin-
cipal Denseuse, Miss Itosina Wright. Doors open at Seven;
performances to commence at Half-past Seven. Dress circle,
45.; pit, :s.; gallery, Is. Private boses, 21. lOs , 21. 2e., and II.;
to be had at the box-ottlce, and all libraries and musiesellers

MADAME JENNY GOLDSCHMID E-LIND.
EX ET ER- 14 ALL.
LAST CONCERT BUT TWO IN THIS COUNTRY.
Mr. MITCHELL respectfully announces MADAME GOLD-
SCHMIDT will give a MISCELLANEOUS CONCERT, with
full band and 'chorus, at Exeter-hall, on Wednesday evening,
June Ilth, MO, it being the List Concert but Two which will
be given by Madame Goldschmidt in this country.
PROGRAMME.

PART I.—Overture, "Les deux Journees." Cherubini—Air,
" Pensa ally Pattie," Madame Viardot (L'ltallana in Algeri),
Rossini—Air, Madame Goldschmidt (Armida), Gluck—FuntaPie
on l'hemes of " Don Juan " of Mozart, with Orchestral accom-
paniments, Voiloncello, Herr Moritz Ganz (from Berlin), Ganz
—Duo, " Ebbene..a te: &riser. —" thorn° ti' orrore," (Semira-
mide) Rossini—Madame Godischtnidt and Madame Pauline
Viardot—Concertstiick, for Pianoforte, with Orchestral accom.
pauiments, Pianoforte, Mr. Otto Goldschmidt, C. M. v. Weber-
-Scene and Aria, with Chorus, " Ah mm credea"—" Ah non
giunge." iSonnambula) Bellini—Mailame Goldschmidt.
PART IL—Ch,ral Fantasia, Pianoforte, Orchestra, and
Chorus, Piano►orto, Mr. Ow Goldschmidt, Beethoven—Duett,
"Per piaeeralla S.gnora" (II Turco in Italia), Rossini. Madame
Guldschmidt and sig. Belletti—Duo Conecrtante, for Violin and
Violoncello, without accompaniment, Messrs. Leopold and
Moritz Ganz (from Berlin), L. and M. Ganz —Morning Hymn,
Soprano Solo and Female Chorus, (La Vestale) Madame
Goldschmidt, Spontini—uavatina, Di minted onori," Signor
Belletti, (Jessonda) Spohr—Scotch Ballad, "John Anderson, my
Jo,"—Swedish Melody, "The Echo Song," Madame Go'd-
achroidt—Piut-song, Pearsall—Coronation March, Meyerbeer.
Conductor, M. Benedict.. Doors open at Seven ; to commence
at Eight o'clock precisely. Reserved and Numbered Seats, One
Guinea; Unreserved Seats (west gallery and body of the hall),
Ins. 81.; Area (under weet gallery), 7s. No more tickets will ho
issued than can beconveniently accommodated. Applications fur
tickets received by Mr. Mitchell, Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-
eireei.
London, England, 1856-06-07

JUNE 7, 1856.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
MADAME ALB ERTINL
First Time this Season, Lucrezia Borgia.
On Monday next, June 9 (a Subscription Nigtit, in lieu of
Saturday, August 11, will be performed
LUCREZIA BORGIA,
Lucretia, Mme. Albertiui ; Orsini, Mlle. Rizzi ; Gennaro,
signor 13aucarde; Gubetta, Signor Bouche ; and Alfonso,
Signor Belletti.
With a NEW BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT,
In which Mlle. Marie Taglioui and M. Charles will appear.

MLLE. PICCOLOMINI. On Tuesday. June 10, IL TEA.
VIATA. Violetta, Mlle. Piccolomini. And a favourite BALLET.
MME. ALBONL—Thursday, June 12, a Grand Extra Night,
VARIOUS ENTERTAINMENTS, combining the talents of
Mlle. Albertini and Mme. Alboni. Ballet Department—Mlle.
Marie Tag'Mill, Mlles. Boschetti and Katrtne, and Mine
Albert Bellon.
Friday, June 13, Grand Extra Night. Particulars will be duly
announced.
Satin day, June 14, Mile. JOHANNA WAGNER will make
her firstappearance as ROMEO, in I Capuletti ed I Mnntecchi.

LYCEUNI THEATRE.
MADAME DISTORT.
On MONDAY NEXT, June Ath, will be performed (for the
third time in England) a new Tragedy, entitled
MEDEA.

Medea, Mine. Rietori; Creusa, Mlle. Picchiottino ; Neutrica
di Creusa, Mlle. Feliziani; Una Giovinetta, Mlle. Rapazzini;
Licaone and Melan o (figli di Weevils e di Medea), Mlle. A.
Gleck and Mlle. E. Gleck. Creonte, Signor 'feeder° ; Orfeo,
Signor lloccotnini ; Giasone, Signor Gleck; and Capo-popule,
Signor Pomatelli.
Doors open at Eight. The Tragedy will
past Eight and terminate about Eleven.

at Halt
London, England, 1856-06-07

The Attaché in Madrid. Translated from the

German. London : Sampson Low, SOLI, and Co.
THOUGH pretending to be translated from the German,
this volume is evidently from the pen of a Yankee.
It is in the N. P. Willis manner, prodigiously fine
and flippant, with some attempt.; at routine romance,
and a great ruffling of the plumes of coxcombry.
This soi disant German attaché. eh se " mother was
a lovely Neapolitnn," gives the, pera of Norma Ros-
sini ; talks of Dickens's Mrs. Gam i ; alludes to the
crowding of London routs, and the cushioned pews
of L melon chapels ; quotes sneh phrases as " Where's
" Bru nmel ? Dished. Where's Long Pole Wellesley?
"Di idled" ; and winds up the volume by inquiring—
w st Was. ingto.i, with his " cool head, honest
" heart, unbiasse I judgment," would have done•
had he had the direction of the Madrid insurrection
in 1854. Mr. S Lie Atueii a I Minister, figures
as a hero. Ni • duel with the French Ambassador,
M. Turgot, when tie latter had a ball lodged in his
Lim is recounted to the brute's honour :—" Mr.
"Soule, who was as cool as if going out to breakfast,
" remarsed just before the duel began, ' I shall not
" kills tl. rurgot, I shall merely put a ball in his knee.' "
The author was probably present in Madrid during
the greater part of the time the letters cover—:rom
Sept. 11353 to Oct. 1854—and might have been at
tached to the American mission, but from the falsi-
ticaions detectable in his narrative it is not possible
to place credit in his veracity in any instance. The
scenes of the revolution are the best portion of the
hook, as they are described with spirit, and seem the
result of actual observation. Before young American
tourists can hope to on layour for their
" pencillings " in this t ouuury, they must learn to
write with more truthfulness and less pretence.

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.---JUNE 5.
BOOKS.

The Dramatic Works of Wiilian7Shakespeare.
Bell and Daldy.
The Old Grey Church. Three Vois. Bentley.
Lana Roukh. An Oriental Romance. Thomas Moore.
Longrnans.
Dish Melodies. Thomas Moore. Ditto.
Songs, Ballads, and Sacred Songs. Thomas Moore.

Ditto.
Lonely Hours. Poems. Caroline Criffartl Phillipson.
John Moron.
The History of Gustavus Adolphus. Longmans.

PE RIOD !CALS.

Le Pallet. Simpkin „,,a31;;;;;11411—The United Church
Journal. Seeley and Jackson—The Dublin University

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THE BISHOP OF SALISBURY AND THE BLANDFORD

BUM kl.-GROUND.

The Earl of SH tiFTESBURY, on Thurcday, presented
a petition from the mayor and inhabitani. of Bland-
ford, complaining of the non-consecration of thAr
new burial-ground. It appeared that the Bishop of
Sali.hury had required a communion-table to be
placed in the chapel attached to the cemetery, to
wiiich the Burial Board and the inhabitants object.
The Earl of Shaftesbury contended that the ceme-
tery alone was required to be consecrated, and re
ferred to the 13th section 15th and 18th Victoria,
c. 35, and the form of consecration, drawn up in
1712, in support of this view of the question.
The Bishop of SALISBURY declared that adminis-
tering the communion was an ?ssential part of the
service of consecration, and what he required to be

done was strictly necessary to the proper performance
of this rite of the Church. The right rev. prelate
appealed to the opinion expressed by Coke that the
law knew no church nor chapel until alter consecra-
tion.

Lord PORTMAN accused the bishop of attempting
to exercise a great r authority than Parliament
chn,e to exert. He thought the Bishop of Salisbury
should endeavour to carry out the law, not set up his
own authority in opposition to it, and by refusing to
consecrate that which was a fit place for consecra-
tion, deprive the inhabitants of burial in their accus-
tomed form.

The Bishop of OXFORD deeply lamented the spirit
with which the noble lord bad spoken, because he
had hoped that the noble limo, alter the speech of
his right rev. friend, would have exerted himself to
allay the agitation which it appeared he bad, almost
single-handed. created in the town of Blandford. He
was sure that if the noble lord applied his mind to
peace-making he would not fail to succeed, and that
he would bo quite able to allay the storm he had
aroused. The truth was that the whole of the mis-
London, England, 1856-06-07

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LIEUTENANT-GENERAL MACDONALD, C. 8., died at
Aix-la-Chapelle on Saturday last. The record of his
services tells the story, and no inglorious one, of his
life. He was present at the capture of the Cape of
Good Hope in 1906, and proceeded thence on the ex-
pedition to Buenos Ayres, where be was twice
severely wounded and taken prisoner. He served in
the Peninsula and south of France from June, 1809,
to July, 1814, including the battles of the Cos and
Busaco, affairs of Bedinha, Pombal, Condeixa, and
Foz d'Arouce ; battles of Fuentes d'Onor and Sala-
manca, affair of San Munos, battle of Vittoria, siege
of San Sebastian, battles of the Pyrenees, affairs of
the Gave d'Oleron and Aire, and battle of Toulouse.
He also served in the campaign of 1815, including
the battle of Waterloo (where he was severely
wounded), and capture of Paris. He received the
silver war medal with eight clasps. He was the
younger brother of the late Lieutenant-General Sir
John Macdonald, G.C.8., who died while holding the
office of Adjutant-General to the army.

GENERAL J. F. BIRCH, C. 8., of the Royal
Engineers, died on Thursday last. The gallant
general had been in the army above sixty years, and
had seen much service.

THE RIGHT HON. Loan CAREW, Lord Lieutenant
of the County of Wexford and a Knight of the Order
of St. Patrick, died on Monday last at Castleborough,
his lordship's seat at Wexford. The late lord was
born on the 9th of March, 1787, and was first re-
turned for the county of Wexford in 1812, which
county he represented in the House of Commons for
upwards of twenty years. He is succeeded by his
eldest son, the Hon. Robert Shapland Carew, born in
1818, and colonel of the 'Wexford Militia.

- ,
MR. RICHARD GARDNER, M.P for Leicester, died
very suddenly this week at his residence in Eaton.
square. Mr. Gardner had for some little time been
suffering from what was supposed to be but a slight
and passing indisposition, but nothing approaching to
danger was apprehended. Disease of the heart proved,
however, to be the real malady under which the hon.
member suffered, and ended fatally on Wednesday
morning. Mr. Gardner leaves a young family by
his wife, daughter of Count de AlanJoalsloh, formerly
Minister Plenipotentiary at this Court from Wurtem-
burg. A vacancy is the representation of Leicester
is created.

LIE t T..COLO:cELWILL!AY GORDON C AYE RON, of Nea-
house, expired on the 26th ult. He was the eldest
son of General Cameron, of the East India Company's
Service, and was born at Chunar, on the 14th of
June, 1790. Entering the army early in life, he
served in the Grenadier Guards during the latter
years of the Peninsular War, and was wounded at
Baro4sa. Colonel Cameron had the honour of bring
attached to the staff of the Great Dnke at Waterloo,
and, on that memorable day, log his right arm, and
received other severe wounds, whicn incapacitated
him from further active exertion in the mitite37 ser-
vice of his country.
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TURKEY.

The arrival at Constantinople of the Russian Con-
sul-General from Odessa took place on the 18th
ult., and friendly relations between Russia and the
Porte were once more officially renewed.
The Turkish Government, it is believed, has de-
termined to disband the Turkish Contingent upon
its return to Turkey.

The Post itiapt Gazette of Frankfort states that at
the international commission for the regularisation
of the frontier of Bessarabia, which opened its sit-
tings on the 190, the following members were pre
sent :—For Austria, Colonel Kalik ; England, Colonel
Staunton; France, Colonel Bosson ; Russia, General
Fonton, Baron Hackelberg, and the Russian Consul,
M. Cola; Turkey, Dervish Pacha and Muselis Pacha
(Gregory Stourdza, second son of the es-Prince
Michael Stounlza). After some preliminary sittings
the commission will commence operations at the
Lake of Sasik.

The Moniteur d* la Flotte states that the Russians
had already removed a portion of the artillery and
war materiel from the fortress of Ismail on the
Danube. That important point is to be delivered to
the Moldavian Government in its present condition,
but without its armament. The flotilla of gun-boats,
which had sought refuge in the port of Ismail, is to
be conveyed to the Don, where, after being disarmed,
they are to serve as transports for the wants of the
local navigation. Ismail will be totally evacuated
towards the 15th June, and the Russians will after-
wards disarm the fortress of Reni, which, in virtue of
the treaty, is also to be given up to Moldavia.
ITALY.
General Alphonse) de la Marmon arrived on the
:19th ult. at Yarignano, in the Gulf of La Spezia, on
board the Sardinian frigate Gorernolo. In the sitting
of the Chamb-T of Dept:Weft of the 39th ult. a bill
was passed, awarding to the general fitly are* of
Crown land, within the city of Turin, as a national
London, England, 1856-06-07

THE PRESS.

• LOCKHART'S - SPANISH BALLADS.
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late JOHN 01 /WON LOCKHART.
" Fifteen years have elapsed since first the Spanish Ballads
appeared in the illustrated edition which was hailed with so
much delight at the time of Its Advent, and has remained ever
since honoured as a type of excellence by the lovers of splendid
book-work. Now we have • second issue of it, substantially the
same, but with • more georgeously elegant binding, a chaster
delicacy of tint in its beautiful at abesque bordering, and in some
instances the addition or substitution of still more exquisite
specimens of that kind of decoration than almost any of the
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COMPLETION 07,GROTE-13 HLSTIJAY UP Ot/aNCE.
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each,
HISTORY OF GREECE
A From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation
contemporary with Alexander the Great. By GEORGE GROTE,
The Es
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London, England, 1856-06-07

COALWHIPPERS (PORT OF LONDON) BILL.

On Thursday, on the order for the second reading
of this bill,

Mr. LOWE said, that application had been made to
the Board of Trade with the view of having this bill
withdrawn, the trade undertaking to make such re
gulations for themselves RA would insure the objects
of the measure. Such an arrangement was extremely
desirable; and he was, therefore, willing to postpone
the bill for a fortnight, in the hope that within the
interval a plan would be laid before the Board of
Trade accomplishing the end aimed at by this
measure, and to which the principal cualowners would
pledge themselves.
The second reading was postponed accordingly.
NATIONAL GALLERY.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, 011 Thursday,
obtained leave to introduce a bill to provide a site for
a new National Gallery.

7AN ROADS.

On Thursday, .13 the motion ot Lird R. GROSVENOR
the Committee upon Metropolitan Roads was nomina
ted as collows :—Lord R Grosvenor, Mr. Bramstott, Sir
J. Shelley, Sir W. Jolliffe, Colonel Pennant, Sir B.
Hall, Mr. Hildyard, Mr. Butler, Mr. Wyvill, Mr. H.
Russell, Mr. Bonham-Carter, Mr. Alcock, Mr. Al-
derman Challis, Mr. Grentell, and Mr. Wr.ghtaon.
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THE PRESS.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
CHEAP EXCURSION TO BATH AND BRISTOL on
Sunday. June 15, front Paddington, at :".45 a.m., returning
the same evening from Bristol at 6.30 e.m., and Bath at 7
o'clock. Fares:—Bristol, 10s. and 65.; Bath, 9s. and sa. No
luggage allowed.
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has made no apology, because he denies th, t
any apology is required. If his view be tl,e
correct one, then the dismissal of Mr. CRAMP..
TON from Washington is about the grossest
insult ever o&red to a great nation. But, if
it be not correct, is it possible that this country
will stand by without making an effort to
avert the consequences of his error ?

INDECISION OF LORD CLARENDON.
IT is a misfortune in the present relations of
England with the United States, that our Se-
cretary for Foreign Affairs should be of so
nervous a temperament, and that with all his
accomplishments Lord CLARENDON should be
justly obnoxious to tho imputation of being
timidly sensitive and habitually indecisive.
His own word " drifting" exactly describes
the character of his mind. Nature gave him
a graceful presence, with a slender body, and
the outward show of a refined disposition.
Bred to the labour of the desk, commencing
career as a " Commissioner of Customs,.
and employed for many years only upon com-

sharpness of a special pleadir, and he fanei
himself actively engaged in real trusin
when he is only giving an unnecessary disci .
sion to trivial matters which Other •s• tatesm
would properly disregard. But when • pub% -
passions are aroused, when the blood alai&
c )mmunities is quickened by revenge, vaiL-
glory, or ambition, in these grave emergencies
a man like Lord CLARENDON has not the mas-
culine nature which can grapple with violence,
and, by inborn prowess immediately exerted,
daunt adversaries, inspirit friends, and tri-
umphantly overthrow vast obstacles.
It is, therefore, a real public misfortune that
a man like Lord CLARENDON should at this cri-
tical jun3ture be our Secretary for Foreign
Affairs. His natural feebleness leads him to
avoid issues, and to postpone difficulties, until
a point has been reached when it is impossi-
ble for either party to recede without dis- •
honour. He thinks it the perfection of clever- •
ness to invent some petty trap. for a strong
opponent, who at the proper moment con-
temptuously kicks the stumbling-block out of
his way. He is ingenious, but not profound ;
he is clever, but he is not commanding ; he is
active, and stocked with attainments, but he
is not original, nor full of resources He put
down Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN, but Lord CLARENDON
had thirty thousand --q. sixteen
thousand police, and
ter, with Lord ENNI.
The Whigs wanted a F
GRANVILLE had not ti
circumstances had ret
and Lord JOHN Russw
position ; and Lord,
gazetted to the post.
the effects produced
" rendon capittilation

regular troops, sixteen.
the Orangemeu of Uls-
IRR I.LEN
Foreign Secretary : L uNte
the' talAts for the ofaCe;e.
!nderedlLorti PALME RPIT011r:
&LT. " bpposiii ble ia Mtir
• Ci..kcpir,•2ttlk, b.Agt Ty
li i
by "net% miftetatble- Gpar
wht ithitaelf was tlur,
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Government all the charges pressed by Count Cavour
against Austria, and declares that the only means by
which reform can be attained safely in Italy are
utterly opposed to those put forth by Count Cavour.
Austria, says Count Boot, will not refuse assistance
when asked for, but she will withdraw her troops as
soon as the legitimate authorities declare their power
to maintain public order without assistance. In con-
clusion, Count Ilnol declares Austria to be ready to
give approbation to any prudent reform, and to en-
courage any useful amelioration emanating from the
free and enlightened will of the Italian Governments,
and to offer moral and zealous co-operation for
the development of their resources and their
proeperity :
Austria is also firmly decided to employ all her power to
repel any unjust attack from any quarter that it may come,
and to co operate, wherever its circle of action extends,
in causing to fail the efforts of the concocters of disturb-
anees, and of those who promote anarchy.
The publication of this document is said to have
given serious annoyance to the Government at
Vienna, as it contained expressions relative to Sar-
dinia not meant for the public e7e.
The entente cordiale which existed between Russia
and Prussia, in contrast to the complete alienation of
Austria from Russia, was felt with some degree of
inquietude at Vienna.
Prince Pant Esterhazy was to attend the coronation
of the Emperor Alexander.
RUSSIA.

A steam squadron, consisting of one liner of 96
guns, two frigates, and two corvettes, is fitting out,
and will leave Cronstadt almost immediately for
Palermo, whither the Empress Dowager repairs for
her health.
The ambassadorial appointments are believed to
be finally arranged thus :—Count Chreptowitch as
Ambassador to London ; M. de Fontoa to succeed him
at Brussels, or be appointed to represent Russia with
the Germanic Diet ; Prince Dologorouki as Ambas-
sador at Paris; and Baron d'Offenberg to represent
Russia at the Principalities Commission.
It is further stated, with confidence, that M. de
Balabiue, who has managed the affairs of the Em-
bassy at Vienna since the departure of Prince Gorts-
cliakoff, will be attached to Prince Dolgorouki as
Councillor of Legation at Paris, white Baron Bud-
berg goes to Venice, and Baron Brunow to Berlin.
PRUSSIA.

The Emperor Alexander left Berlin soon after
midnlght on Monday, on his return to St. Petersburg,
the Baltic coast. The reception of the Emperor
Et Berlin had been very warm. His Majesty, while
at Potsdam, is said to have worked hard every night
in the settlement or arrangement of State questions.
The departure of the Empress Mother is not fixed.
Count Nesselrode, the Grand Dukes of Oldenburg
and Weimar, and the other great personages assent-
bled at Berlin to meet the Emperor Alexander, had
left on their respective journeys. The Emperor, be-
fore leaving Potsdam, conferred on Baron ManteutTel
the Order of St. Andrew, the highest order of
Russia.
London, England, 1856-06-07

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THE INDIAN ARMY.

IT would appear from the latest accounts that
the Indian army is rapidly approaching a
point in respect of under-officering beyond
which it will be in the last degree unsafe to
go. The Company's regiments bear on their
muster-rolls very much fewer officers in pro-
portion than her Majesty's, and, there being no
unattached or half-pay list, the whole of the
staff of the army have to be provided from the
regimental officers' ranks. Then, again, a very
1 tige body, the Commissariat, which in her
M ijesty's service is a civil institution, wholly
distinct, has in India to be filled by selection
from the regimental officers' lists. There can
be no doubt whatever that this mode of pro-
viding for it is infinitely the best as far as the
efficiency of the Commissariat is concerned ;
but, on the other hand, it brings with it a
heavy draft on the regiments from which
officers can so ill be spared. Besides this,
nearly the whole diplomatic service of India
is furnished from the list of regimental
officers on full pay, as are most of the survey
and public works appointments, and all the
class of miscellaneous offices which in so vast
an -[pire that of India are daily springing
side. In the newly-annexed
instance, the Civil Service is very
led for by selection of officers
.eral military corps, F.* much so
. the majority. perhaps, of all the
employed. Then, again, as the
idia is reformed, the officers se-
charge of the several police corps
military men ; and there are,
whole of the irregular corps,
ifantry, which are otficered in the
.or is this an unimportant item,
corps have now been increased in
largely as to form almost an army
Reckon in addition to all this

an empire as tl
up on every
provinces, for i
largely provide
from the sere
that they form
persons thus e
police of Indii
lected for cha
are always ix
besides, the ti
cavalry and inl
Billie way. N(
'
for these Corp
number so lark
in themselves.
1111116._
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530

last of a long series of concessions to the
superior ascendancy and vigour of will shown
by the representatives (both in London and
Paris) of the Imperial Court of the Tuileries.
Never, therefore, wits a Minister less suited
than Lord CLARENDON for dealing with a emit-
munity like the Anglo-Saxon race of the Unites}
States. Lord CLARENDON does not believe iq
public passions. It is a proof of the narrowt.
ness of his nature that he does not at all ap-
preciate the volcanic power with which " sen-
timent " inflames masses congregated in
society. Lord CLARENDON, in his views of
mankind, is only an economistu At the Board
of Trade, or in the office filled by Sir CORNE-
WALL LEWIS, his Lordship might work with the
talents adequate to such posts; but statistics,
and proficiency in ADAM SMITH and his com-
mentators, will not give the hardy qualities
peculiarly needed at the present eventful
crisis by a Secretary for Foreign Affairs.
In intercourse with individuals we admit
that Lord CLARENDON may have some small
show of success. His Lordship is specious,
and apparently conciliating; but his courtesy
and condescension are overdone. His reputa-
tion for insincerity may possibily be ex-
aggerated, though it is apparently confirmed
by the unfortunate episodes in which his
confidential Corry Connellans and Birches
played their peculiar parts. We cannot for-
get, also, that Lord CLARENDON is, in the eyes
of the Whigs, only a tolerated Minister of
State. He is essentially a professional poli-
tician, and has been aptly called a " first-rate
" aristocratic clerk." That is, certainly, near
his exact measure. He did not win his rank
by Parliamentary services ; he has no fol-
lowers, nor is he. the elected chief of a par-
ticular connection ; neither is he an orator,
brilliant in reply, or formidable in attack ; but
he is assiduous, and habituated *to the desk,
and is, beyond doubt, s, capital clerk.
In his Irish Viceroyalty Lord 'CLARENDON
betrayed all the infirmities of his fidgetty and
nervous disposition. liven already the same
fluttering sort of mind has been revealed in
this American complication. Fear is a rash
counsellor, and, at such a time, we distrust a
man of Lord CLARENDON'S characteristic ner-
vousness.
London, England, 1856-06-07

PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS (SCOTLAND) BILL.

The adjourned debate of the 25th April was re-
sumed on Monday by
Sir J. FERovssoc, who supported the bill because
it did not sever the schools from the Church.
Although it abolished the formula of the test for a
schoolmaster, it preserved the religious character of
the schools. He suggested, however, that there
should be a provision in the bill that the school-
masters were of some definite Christian denomi-
n stion.
Mr. C. BRUCE thought the bin in its present shape
would lead to the abolition of the guarantee of the
union of religious and secular education.

JUNE 7, 1856.

Mr. BLAca justified the abolition of the test, and
contended that the bill would not diminish the control
of the minister or the Presbytery over the religious
teaching in the schools, which was, in fact, in the
hands of the lieritors. The west guarantee for re •
ligious teaching was the religious principle of the
people of Scotland.
Mr. BLACKBURN insisted that the bill practically
severed religious and secular education. He ob-
jected to the division of Scotland into districts and
the appointment of inspectors by the Committee of
Privy Council.
The LORD ADVOCATE could not consent to the
institution of any new test.
The bill was read a second time.
On the motion for the second reading of the
Education (Scotland) Bill, Mr. HADFIELD moved the
adjournment of the debate. Agreed to without a
division.

MARRIAGES BILL.

The house, on Wednesday, went into cotnir ittee on
this bill, and clauses 1 to 4 were agreed to with slight
verbal amendments. To clause 4, Sir J. DUCKWORTH
moved as an amendment that " notices of niarriages
be affixed outside as well as inside the registrars'
offices." The committee divided, and the amend-
ment was carried by a majority of 8-93 to 85.
Clauses 4to 10 were agreed to. To clause 11 Mr.
HENLEY moved to add the following proviso :
Provided always, that no such marriage as aforesaid shall
be solemnised in any such registered building without the
consent of .he minister, or of one of the trustees, owners,
deacous, or managers thereof, nor in any church or chapel
of the United Church of England and Ireland, without the
consent of the minister thereof,
which was agreed to. Clause 12, so far as it em•
powered the superintendent registrar to issue licence:
to parties who were not resident in his district, was
oppo.ed by Mr. MASSEY, and these words were struck
nut by the committee. The clause so amended, and
also clauses 13 to 18 were agreed to. Clau.:e 19 was
struck out. Clause 20 was agreed to. Clause 21
was struck out.. The remaining clauses and the
schedules of the bill were then agreed to.
Mr. BOWYER, who had given notice of adding
other clauses, postponed them to another stage of
the bill.
London, England, 1856-06-07

THE PRESS.

as James B. Mozley and Penrhyn Stanley,
his cold superficial logic appears a century be-
hind hand. It is questionable whether his works
have not done quite as much harm as good.
While professing to give belief a shield, he has
given scepticism a sword, and the offensive
weapon has proved the strongest. Why conceal
the truth ? Naked reasoning never made any
man a Christian yet. Reason must veil its
power in presence of the mysteries of the
Christian faith. Belief must rise from the sub-
mission of reason to those instincts of our
nature which crave communion with God, and
eagerly accept his revelation from a feeling
that it alone is sufficient to satisfy the wants
of our spiritual being. In this sense the evi
dente of Christianity is within us, and without
the perception of this evidence it is doubtful
whether true belief can exist All the Arch-
bishop's reasoning is little better than negation.
On the is hole, he thinks the balance of evidence,
nicely weighed with pros and cons , is more fa-
vorable to the divinity of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ than to the supposition of rank
imposture. Is this specula►ive opinion likely
to warm the heart, or to satisfy the mind,
ardently desiring some assurance and realisa
tion within itself of the Divine presence of the
Comforter ?

In this volume the Archbishop quotes with
approbation from an old number of the Edin-
burgh Review some sentences which exactly
express his theology or philosophy, which-
ever term he may please to adopt. Among
the things which future philosophers will
marvel at,
One is that any man should have been called on to
believe any mystery, whether of philosoph3 or of religion,
without a preponderance of evidence which he can grasp.
Here we have a true expression of the
Whutelyan creed. The understanding is in
all eases to be supreme. We are to accept
nothing except on evidence which we can
grasp. Dryden asks:—
London, England, 1856-06-07

CENTRAL AMERICA.

At the commencement of September, 1840,
Mr. HISE, the Chargé d'Affaires of the United
States at Guatemala, concluded, on his own
responsibility, and without the sanction of the
United States Government, a treaty with the
State of Nicaragua, by which the latter grants
to the " United States an exclusive right of way
" across her territories, including therein the
" river San Juan, for the purpose of joining
" the two oceans by a canal across the
" isthmus." In this Treaty the United States
were made to guarantee to Nicaragua for ever
the whole of her territory, arid promised to
become a party to any defensive war in
which that State might become engaged to
protect her territory The Government of
General TAYLOR, then President, acted with
the greatest openness to the British Adminis-
tration. Mr CLAYTON saw Mr. CRAMPTON, our
Minister at Washington ; he explained to him
the difficulty in which this Treaty had placed
the United States Government. as ►t was most
desirous not to acquire any rights of an exclu-
sive character which might bring it into colli-
sion with any other Power. But, said Mr.
CLAYTON—

You are aware of the opinion which, whether
right or wrong, is generally entertained in this coun-
try of the claim of the Mosquito Chief to any part of
the terri ory claimed by Nicaragua ; and yi)u can
form an idea of the eagerness with which the party
opposed to the Government will avail themselves of
the opportunity of either forcing us into collision
with Great Britain on this subject, or of making it
appear that we have abandoned, through pusillani-
mity, great and splendid advantages, fairly secured
to the country by treaty. It will require great caution
on both sides, said Mr. Clayton, to prevent the two
London, England, 1856-06-07

THE CRIMEA.

Replying to a question from Lord Elcho,
Sir C. WOOD made a statement, showing that by
existing arrangements all the troops now in the
Crimea would be brought home by the end of July.
On the motion for going into Cc mmittee of Supply,
Lord ELCHO recommended the purchase by the
nation of Simpson's Crimean sketches.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
experienced persons whom he bad consulted on the
subject, had declined to recommend such an expen-
diture of public money.

PLUMSTE AD PARISH.
The Marquis of BLANDFORD called attention to the
existing want of church accommodation in the parish
of Plumqead, which possessed peculiar claims on
the Government, as being the site for extensive
works ; and moved a resolution expressing the
opinion of the house, " That the circumstances of
the parish continue to demand the attention of the
Government." •
After an appeal from Mr. Monsell, and a few
words from Mr. J. Macgregor and Sir J. Pakington,
the Marquis of BLANDFORD withdrew his motion.

SUPPLY"
The house then went into Committee of Supply.
The vote of 2,0001. for a National Portrait Gallery
provoked a long and animated debate, but was ulti-
mately carried, on division, by a majority of 97 to
28.
The consideration of various subsequent votes
belonging to the Civil Service Estimates chiefly occu-
pied the remainder of the sitting.
The house resumed, and adjourned at half-put
one o'clock.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE,
Tuesday, June 3.

BANKRUPTS.—JAMES FIBBER, York-road, Lambeth, car-
penter and builder—Fail:mama EtTYOTT, Regent-sireel, Mid-
dlesex, jeweller—JsmEs GILLIN ER 01., LE Serles•place, Middle-
sex, law and general stationer—Triunes Cots, now of Wands-
worth, licen,ed victualler—ROßEßT bIE Wyss, tiecktord-row,
Walworth, ruilliuer—JAM:B OBRoIINE, Curtain road, Shureditch,
Middlesex, upholsterer— HENRY PRATT BARLOW, Cannou-sireet
West, City, wine and spirit merchant—Harm CRITCHLOW,
Dudley, Worcester, baker—Taciass Cooexit, Derby, builder and
brickmaker JA Ex BROADBENT HERBERT ano EDWARD
HitinLcv, Liverpool, coal factors and ageIIId—BICHARD
BuicaaniA, the younger, St. Helena, i.ancaster, ironmonger.

'Friday, June 8.
BANKRUPTS.—JOHN AVERY NANBCAWEN DAwE, JANES
HODGES COTTRELL, and THOMAS BENHAM, Laurence Pountney •
lane, City, seed merohanta and seedsmen—ANTos LEo, Jeffrey
square, Saint Mary Axe, merchant— GEOROE TARLINOTON,
Devonshire-street, Portland-place, lodging house keeper—
FRIDECIOX COOPER, Cbeadle, Stafford. currier—GEOßGE J oats*
PALMER, the elder, Savoy-street, Strand, printer—locum
SAMUEL ROBINSON, Brook-street, New-road, Middlesex, stone
mason—JAMES WRIGHT, Bristol, Cheese facurn—Joihr WILLIAX
CLARICE, Bury St. Edmonds, ironniouger—GEoltoX
OULU le
.TONER, Crickbowell. Breconshiie, banker—Mopsi-T FiFISHER,Exeter, builder—THOMAS !Arms the younger. Bishopsgide•
stt cet Within, City, merchant- PETER II BUIE POL. 1111)C606.
W
tar, match raitauhtoturin—Osono4 VUMPIIS4cIARBOTTI l"s'
laity, Cork, and Manchester, draper,
London, England, 1856-11-15

E4e Drama.

LYCEUM THEATRE.—The adaptation of Le Docteur
Noir, brought out at this theatre on Thursday, is one
of those highly-seasoned melodramas which are
pretty certain to command a lengthened popularity.
'With little merit as a literary production, weak or
bombastic in dialogue, and full of very obvious
claptrap, Fabian still abounds in romantic and im-
probable situations which give ample opportunities
for the display of Mr. Dillon's peculiar powers, and,
moreover, afford an excuse for the exhibition of a
succession of effective tableaux which contribute ma
terially to the favorable reception of the piece. In the
representation of the ditfei ent phases of emotion
which constitute the" business" of his character, Mr.
Dillon is eminently successful : the quick suspicion,
the ferocious hate, the passionate and romantic love,
the tempestuous grief of the mulatto, are given with
an intensity which, if it seem exaggerated to the cold
reserve of our northern nature, is singularly truthful
and effective in an exhibition of southern feeling. In
the delineation of Fabian's insanity the actor ap-
peared to us to be less successful than in the more
violent scenes of passion. The symptoms of mental
aberration were, most of them, se:ected from the
stock of stage traditions, and the inevitable bundle
of straw, which every madman on the stage, from
King Lear downwards, invariably carries in his
girdle, was only one among a mass of convention-
alities. The restless motion of the fingers, the
gaping mouth, the slouching gait, the wide-opened
eyes, are all very nld properties ; hut the burst of
childish delight with which, while moaning and
shivering in the château, he announces his discovery
of a cheerful fire, was well conceived ; and the last
fearful struggle between reason dawning in fitful
gleams and the darkness and delusions of an over-
wrought brain was a fine example of truthful ad-
herence to nature. Mrs. Dillon as Pauline was an
efficient support to her husband, and played an
arduous part with great sweetness and grace.
ADELTHI.—A new comic drama, The Border Mar-
riage, founded on the French piece Un Mariage a
tArquebtue, is nnw being performed with success at
this theatre. The piece, though slight in construc-
tion, is full of vivacity. The dialogue is good. Mr.
Leigh Murray, Mr. Wright, and Miss Wyndham sup-
port the principal characters, and, by their excellent
acting, give addit'onal point to the piquant situations
of this. lively little brochure.

TIM CRYSTAL PALACE WINTER CONCERTS commence
to-day. Mme. Rudersdorff will sing. The anthort
ties have announced that, the subject of a great
musical celebration of the centenary of Handel's
death, in 1859, having already occupied considerable
attention, in order to demonstrate the capabilities of
the Cr ”tat Palace for this purpose, arrangements
have been concluded between the Sacred Harmonic
Slciety and the directory of the Crystal Palace
Company for undertaking, in May next, in the COO'
London, England, 1856-11-15

TURKEY.

Intelligence from Constantinople to the 3rd inst.
states that the investiture of the Sultan with the
Order of the Garter by Lord Stratford de Redcliffe
hed been accomplished with éclat. Lord Stratford
addressed his Imperial Highness in a complimentary
speech on the cccasion, and the statutes of the Order
were read and translated to the Sultan.

The return to power of Redscliid Pacha was
viewed with great satisfaction in Constantinople.
H. M. ships Cressy and the Desperate (corvette)
had arrived to reinforce the squadron of Adm'ral
Lord Lyons. The St. Jean d'Acrc was expected. The
fleet winters in the Bosphorus.

INDIA.
A telegraphic despatch from Trieste, Tuesday,
announced the arrival of the steamer Calcutta. She
left Alexandria on the sth inst.
The India mail was to leave Alexandria on the
6th, with advices from Calcutta to October 9 ; Bom-
bay, October 17; Madras, October 15; Ceylon,
October 16.

Preparations continued on an enlarged scale for
the expedition ':o the Persian Gulf. The English
expedition was to leave Bombay about the end of
October. The Imaum of Muscat would furnish re-
inforcements and munitions of war.

A detachment from the Persian army before Herat
had captured the Affghan city of Furrath, sending
the governor a captive to Teheran.
The dates from Cabul are to the Ist of October.
Herat still held out.
The directors of the Great Indian Peninsular
Railway have issued an advertisement for tenders
for a line from Wassma to Nagpore, a distance of
487 miles.
The native troops at Peshawur were suffering
very severely from fever.
The new Government loan was making little
progress.
London, England, 1856-11-15

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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1856.

WE are told, and we hope it is true, that the
French Alliance is safe ; that the Government
of this country and the Government of France
are agreed on all essential points ; that though
some difference of opinion may prevail, it is
not greater than must be expected to arise
from the generally harmonious action of in-
dependent Administrations; and that under no
circumstances is there any probability that the
policy of the two countries will be dissevered.

- -
These assurances of the Ministerial press
are in part superfluous. The mind of the
people of this country is made up. We have
adopted the principle of the French alliance,
not through any pressing necessity, not as a
temporary expedient, but from a deliberate
conviction that it affords the surest guarantee
for the independence of nations and the
general tranquillity of the world. We may
conceive circumstances to occur which would
shatter this alliance, but we can perceive no
sign of such circumstances arising at the
present time. In one of those decisive
conjunctures which severely test the good
faith of nations, the two countries have held
together, and the worth and potency of
their alliance has been established beyond
all cavil by the results obtained. Principles
of policy are not swiftly grafted in our public
mind, but when once fairly established there,
they acquire the force of those institutional
sentiments which no transitory changes can
displace. We do not think it possible for any
Government in England, whatever may be its
wish, to cast off the French alliance. The in
telligence of the country would not allow the
breach to be made. We are well persuaded
that it would sooner displace an Administration
which misrepresented its sentiments, than►
part, except on the gravest and most urgent
grounds, with a principle of policy which
every motive of justice and prudence urges it
to preserve.
Yet though the akin ..cc may be in no real
danger. it is plain that the opinions of the two
Governments are adverse on a very important
question of policy, They are not agreed on
the course to be adopted towards Russia. On
the one side magnanimous sentiments are
professed towards the Court of St. Petersburg;
on the other, hostile suspicions. The French
Government desires that all causes of irrita-
tion should cease ; the English Government
thinks that the time has not yet come when
cordial relations with Russia can be resumed.

Be it observed, we have not now to deal with
the declamation of anonymous writers. The
heads of the Governments of England and
France have spoken in the most unequivocal
manner. The Prime Minister of this country
and the Emperor of the FRENCH have, within
a few days of each other. declared their senti-
ments on the policy which should he pursued
towards Russia. The Anglo-French Alliance
may be in no danger though those sentiments
should be in direct opposition. But in that
case it would be ridiculous to suppose that