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London, England, 1854-03-04

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY.

POSTPONEMENT OF THE REFORM BILL.
Lord J. RUSSELL moved that the order appointing
the 13th inst. for the second reading of the new
Reform Bill should be read from the chair, for the
purpose of postponing the same to a more distant
date. Two reasons were assigned by the noble lord
for this delay—the state of public business, and of
the foreign relations of the country. Increased esti-
mates had been voted for the military and naval
services ; and on Monday next the finance statement
would be made. The due consideration of that
exposé would totally prohibit the proper discussion
of the Reform Bill on the appointed day. The Em-
peror of Russia, moreover, was by this time in the
receipt of a joint message from England and France,
requiring the evacuation of the principalities within
a limited period, and intimating that his refusal
would be taken as a declaration of war. By the end
of the month his answer might be expected, and its
tenor might necessitate a royal message, informing
the house that peace no longer existed between this
country and some foreign power. With such preoc-
cupation at present, and possible exigencies in pros-
pect, he considered it inexpedient to press forward
so important a measure as that for remodelling the
popular representation. Lord J. Russell then ex-
pressed his intention of postponing the next stage of
the bill until after Easter, and named the 27th of
April for its second reading. By that day, he added,
the Scotch and Irish Reform Bills would be intro-
duced, and the whole scheme could then be con
sidered together.

Sir J. 'V: SHELLEY disapproved of this delay, which
he apprehended must prove fatal to the measure for
the session. The step argued lukewarmness in the
CUM 3 on the part of the Government, and he
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limit to Government interference with private enter•
prise, and this point he considered had been attained,
so far as justice and expediency allowed, with respect
to the vast business of emigration.
Mr. Liddell, Mr. Henley, Mr. Cardwell, Captain
Scobell, Mr. Meagher, Captain Bentinck, and Mr.
Fagan having spoken, the motion was agreed to.
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proclaimed over the whole of Spain, and a circular
sent from the Ministry to the governors of provinces,
declaring that the Government is determined to main-
tain to the last gasp.
Numerous arrests have since taken place at
Madrid and elsewhere among the members of the
Opposition. The number of persons arrested in the
capital amounts to upwards of 200, and among them
were not only Republicans, but some Legitimists of
the upper ranks of society. In the departments,
and especially in the Department du Nord, a great
number of proclamations have been seized, signed
by the refugees in London, and addressed to the
French army, calling on the troops to revolt against
the Government.
Gonzales Bravo is among the persons captured.
Generals Serrano and Manzano (the latter also a
former subordinate of Jose Concha's) have been
sent de cuartel. Madrid at the last advices was
quiet, but there was much anxiety abroad.
On the day when news of the outbreak arrived
in Madrid, the Queen, with a numerous suite, took
an airing in the promenade of the Fuente Cas-
tellana, and at night was at the Opera. Her
reception was, as usual, one of perfect indif-
ference.
The Government was preparing [a project of con-
stitutional reform, which was to appear on the
25th of February. The two Chambers will be dis-
solved.
The Constituent Cortes are to meet on the Ist of
May. The Government will present a new consti•
tution to the Assemblies, a Senate and a Congress.
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THE NAVY LIST

To a question by the Earl of Hardw•icke,
The Lori of ABERDEEN 1.4)11(A that the commissioners ap-
pointed to inquire into the state of the army list would not be
iustrucled to include the navy Bet in their investigations.

tortigit anb. Coionig antelligtatc.

FRANCE.

The duties which the pending war may assign to
the officers an I agents of France in relation to the
interests of their faithful allies, the British, are laid
down in the following circular note addressed by the
French Minister for Foreign Affairs to all the diplo-
matic and consular representatives of that country :
" Paris, Feb. 23.—Sir,—Obliged to admit the possibility
of hostilities between them and Russia, the Government of
his imperial Majesty and her Britannic Majesty haveAon-
sidered that the alliance which they have contractelf in
presence of a common danger should be directed to protect
such of their interests as may be menaced by the conse-
quences of a state of war. Whatever be tbs. extent of the
resources at their disposal, particularly by sea, they have
also to take into consideration the fact of sudden and un-
foreseen emergencies. Shonld war break out, cases may
occur in places where the naval force of each power may
not l e constantly present, and where their subjects and their
mercantile flag may not have at the necessary moment
the support indispensable to their safety. The two Go-
vernments, actiag in the spirit which inspires their present
relations, seek the means of providing for such emergen-
cies ; and they find it in the adoption of a system of reci-
procal protection, embracing interests which are dissemi-
nated in every !Mande. The diplomatic and commercial
spit :s, as well as the commandants of the naval tomes, of
each ( f the two countries on all points of the globe are
therefore to afford their aid to the subjects and the com-.
meree of the oth .r in all cases where they may be menaced
by the common enemy. Yon are consequently to c.n.sider
in similar circa ustances English vessels and English sub•
:ects, within t le sphere of your action, as having the
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CHINA.

By this mail intelligence from Pekin is brought
down to the 28th of November. At that date it is
said that the patriots had secured Teen-thin, the
seaport of Pekin, situated at the junction of the
Grand Canal with the river Pei-ho, at a distance of
about ninety-five miles from the northern capital.
It is also stated that the Emperor, in anticipation of
the loss of Pekin, had directed the governors of the
various provinces to send the imperial revenue to
Gehol, their old family seat and present summer
residence, in Mantachooria, about eighty miles north-
east of the wall. This statement, though generally
credited in China, appears to require confirmation.
The mail has, however, brought files of the Pekin
Gazette, which admit the fact of the rebels being in
the immediate neighbourhood of Teen-thin, and
trading junks arrived at Canton thence confirm this,
and state that the north-eastern army of the rebels
bad effected a junction near that place with the
other rebel army, which had advanced northwards
from Nanking along the line of the Grand Canal.
The French expedition has returned to Hong
Kong from Nanking.

The island of Mauritius is in the highest degree
prosperous. The exports of sugar greatly on the
increase. The large number of emigrant labourers
are well employed.
London, England, 1854-03-04

BIRTHS.

ARNOLD—On the 24th ult., at Pimlico, Commander James
Fearnley Arnold, R.N. aged 81.
CURRY—On the 15th ultimo, at Cranborae, the wife of Capt.
Douglas Curry, R.N., of a son.
FITZROY—On the 27th ult., at East Sheen, the Hon. Mrs,
Horatio Fitzßoy, of a daughter.
IFIEBBERT—On the 21st of December last, at Dharwar, the
wife of Captain Hebbert, Bombay Engineers, of a daughter.
LE MARCHANT—On the sth ult., at Halifax, Nova Scotia, the
lady of his Excellency Sir Gaspard Le Marehant, of a son.
VERNON—On the 25th ult., at Marehington, Staffordshire,
Lady Harriet Vernon, of a son and heir.
WILLSIIIRE—On the 21st ultimo, at Richings•park, Bucks,
Lady Wilshire, of a daughter.
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TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Iris impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive.
Their insertion is often delayed, using to a press of matter;
end when omitted, it is frequently (ruin reasons quite inde-
pendent of the merits of the communication.
We cannot undertake to return communications of which we do
not avail ourselves.
Ceininunications should always be legibly written, and on one
side of the paper only. If long it Increases the difficulty of
finding space for them.
Whatever is intended for insertion must be antitentiosted by the
name and address of the writer, not neceob,trily for
ton, but as a guarantee of his good faith.
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bituar

SIGNOR GAETANO POLIDORI, the translator of
Milton and Lucan into Italian, and well known to
his countrymen as one of the veterans of their litera-
ture, died recently at his house in London, at the
great age of ninety-four. A life more consistently
and tranquilly devoted to letters and poetry could
not easily be found among the records of the learned ;
and many associations are called up by the mention
of the name of a man who for some time was secre-
tary to Alfieri, and who was the father of that Pr.
Polidori, author of "The Vampire," whose name is
so familiar to the readers of Byron. Signor Polidori
was a Tuscan by birth, and studied in the University
of Pisa. He became attached to the person of
Alfieri, as his secretary, in 1783. Of the great and
eccentric count he tells some anecdotes in a volume
of his collected poems published in London ten years
ago. There the reader may see how much hatred of
" tyranny " was compatible with habits of private
despotism of the most extraordinary kind—with
other contradictions—all on the great scale of a man
of genius and a patrician ; and yet learn, on the
authority of the secretary's four years' experience,
that the count, though " superb° al part del Satanno
di Milton," had qualities which made one who was
exposed to all his humours yet esteem and love him.
Polidori nursed him in a dangerous illness in 1787,
on which occasion, in the face of death, the count
expressed his resignation to that event, only regret-
ting to leave uncompleted the edition of his tragedies
which had been commenced at the celebrated Paris
press of Pidot ! Signor Polidori accompanied the
count to Paris, and was there when the revolution
broke out; soon after which he came to London, to
instruct the youth of this country in the Italian
literature and language. Among other letters of
recommendation, Alfieri gave 'inn one to Paoli, whose
familiar friend he became and remained so till the
death of that remarkable man in 1807. Paoli ho-
_ neared him with a bequest in his will. Alfieri was
London, England, 1854-01-07

PERIODICAL LITERATURE.

REmoloN and Reform continue to occupy the rages
of the Westminster Review, almost to the exclusion of
other topics. Elaborate articles upon both subjects
are presented in the January number, the ninth of
the new series, under the titles of " Constitutional
Reform," and " English Religion : its Origin and
Present Types." Both papers are characterised by
great fulness and great fervour, are written with un-
questioned ability, and embody the results of careful
reflection and laborious research. Thus much we
must say in justice to the authors, but with no refer-
ence to the nature of the conclusions at which they ar-
rive, or of the principles they seek to enforce : we
know, indeed, that their point of view differ% from our
own by a whole diameter. To discuss politics with
the object of securing for the "masses" a 1=
share of power—to treat. of religion as a metaph
thesis or emotional expression, while ignoring, eves
ostentatiously, the very idea of Revelation—has from
the beginning been the idiosyncrasy of the Westmin-
ster. We accept this as a necessity of its nature, and
are able to recognise with less regret the talent that
has lately been infused into the Review, because
accompanied by a noticeable chastening of the tone
of its articles. A milder style, a more courteous
phraseology—above all, a more reverent spirit when
discussing the faith and the institutions which, to the
minds of the vast majority of Englishmen, are sur
rounded with peculiar sanctity—have become increas-
ingly evident, and stand in promising contrast to the
virulence and rancour which predominated in the ear-
lier series of the Iteviose to so offensive an extent.
Among the other articles in the present number,
those of chief merit are appropriated to
" Arnold's
Poems," "Strikes," and " Foreign Policy." The last-
mentioned paper contains a large ~tore of inform*-

I it
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THE PRESS.

propriated for this purpose. It is understood that
this measure will be followed up with such protisions
for a thorough reorganisation of the whole naval
system as will place the service in the most complete
order.

One exciting debate on slavery had taken place in
the House of Representatives. The subject was in-
troduced by Gerrit Smith, the Abolitionist represents
tive for New York, while the house were considering
a resolution voting a sword and thanks to Captain
Ingraham for his conduct at Smyrna in the Koszta
affair.

At New York a great deal of excitement had arisen
of a religions nature. The aggrieved parties are the
Roman Catholics, who are indignant at the Pro-
testants for having adopted a system of street preach-
ings against the doctrines of the Romish Church.
The mayor, conceiving such practices had a tendency
to disturb the public peace, had issued a proclama-
tion against street-preaching.
The Mitchel banquet took place at New York on Pee.
19. About 600 persons sat down, and as many ladies
sat in the boxes of the theatre in which the enter-
tainment took place. Charles Connor, Esq., presided,
and the speeches, made by Messrs. Mitchel, Meagher,
O'Gorman, and Smyth, were distinguished, as usual,
by rabid expressions of hatred to England and her
institutions.

Another awful conflagration had occurred at Frank-
lin•square, New York. Sixteen buildings were con-
sumed, and property destroyed to the value of three
quarters of a million of dollars.
A dreadful riot had broken out among the workmen
on the Illinois Central Railroad, near Lasalle. It
appears that an altercation occurred about wages
between a contractor named Story and a party of
Irishmen, which was terminated by shooting one of
the disaffected. Mr. Story was afterwards captured
and brutally murdered, and his wife was fired at, but
escapes]. It is reported that the foreman of the de-
ceased has since shot nine of the labourers, and the
sheriff has killed two more and captured thirty. The
ringleader of the rioters escaped.
The usually quiet city of Portland, Ma., was thrown
into commotion on the 17th ult. by the arrival of the
screw. steamer Sarah Sands, the pioneer of a line of
steamers between that place and Liverpool. Cannon
were fired, bells rung, and every other evidence of
extreme gratification granted.
The river steamer Zachary Taylor had exploded
her boiler, by which three persons were killed and
ten severely scalded. A still more fatal steamer ex-
plosion had occurred at Charleston. The victims in
this latter case amounted to thirteen.
Advices had been received from Mexico, an-
nouncing that Santa Anna had been declared Dictator
for ten years. The general impression had been that
lie would have declared himself Emperor ; but this
is looked upon as only the intermediate step.
London, England, 1854-01-07

JANUARY 7, 1854.

H. TEMPLE,

RESTAU RATE U R,

From Tiverton, Devon,

respectfully informs the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public in general
that he has taken the old-established House in Downing-street, which
will henceforth be conducted on entirely new principles.

H. T. has on hand a large assortment of the choicest

plitatits of itt

CABINET AND NESSELRODE PUDDINGS,

prepared after a new and improved receipt. Together with the
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recently eaten with unanimous relish by her Majesty's Ministers.

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Improved Turtle Soup, with New Force-Meat Balls,
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CAULD KAIL FROM ABERDEEN,
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SKETCHES OF RADICALS.

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JANUARY 7, 1854.

in London in 1701, and some time after Polidori was
again offered the place of secretary in his establish-
ment. But by this time he seems to have conceived
a sincere affection for this country. The glimpses he
had had of the French Revolution had disgusted him
with " sanguinosa e barbers anarchic," and with the
individuals (whom he calls the " cannibali ") who
were revelling in that element in France. He had
tasted the blessings, he tells us in the volume above
referred to, of "just and impartial laws " and " se-
cure quiet," and preferred to sojourn for the future in
ittranquil England." The sojourn lasted for sixty
years! He married an English lady, by whom he
acquired some fortune ; and, first in Buckingham-
shire, and afterwards in London, devoted his life to
literary pursuits. Besides his valuable translations,
he was the author of several tragedies, many poems,
novels, and other pieces, and was a very learned and
amiable man. One of Signor Polidori's daughters
married her countryman, Professor Rossetti, the
celebrated commentator on Dante.

tttitsiastical.
London, England, 1854-01-07

UNITED STATES.

The last New York dates have arrived by the daantic.
They are of the 24 h ult.
A (vices from Washington state that the naval com-
mittee of the Senate had reported favourably on the
proposition for th• immediate construction of six
bteatn-frigates. Three million dollars were to be ap-
London, England, 1854-01-07

JANUARY 7, 1854.

Museum of Irish Industry, and it is publisl,ed in
Dublin. It contains six articles. The first on the
Dublin Exhibition of 1859, by Sir Robert Kane ; the
second, by the editor, on the application of fish, &c.,
as a substitute for guano ; those that follow are not
unworthy of a companionshi with these, the moits
of which the names of their authors guarantee.

The British Medical Directory for England, Wales,
and Scotland. _ _

A LONDON MEDICAL DIRECTORY has existed for seve-
ral years, and attained, we believe, a circulation cor-
responding to its utility. In the present publication,
which is now in its second year, a more comprehen-
sive view is taken, and all the information which a
directory should properly contain is furnished with
regard to the profession and its members throughout
the whole extent of Great Britain. There are few
classes which, in number and importance, rival that of
the medical practitioners, and that importance is fully
shared by the" Class Directory," which, like the volume
before us, presents in lucid and well-classified order
their names and addresses, the functions they fulfil,
the offices they hold, and the numerous institutions
of public, educational, or charitable purposes which
they uphold, or to which they belong.

London:

The Boudoir Almanack for 1854.
Waterlow and Sons.
Ax elegant specimen of ornamental lithography,
printed in colours on a single sheet, and adapted for
presentation and for suspension in the apartments to
which it is dedicated.
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THE PRESS.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
The market for foreign funds has been flat. Pus-
sian stock is maintained by purchases on the part of
the Bank of Poland for Russian account.
Advices from Mexico announce that Santa Anna
will shortly be declared Dictator. Private letters
announce that the internal state of the country is
improving. About 120,000 dollars have been received
by the Magdalima in payment of former advances on
account of the dividends.
The advices from Ecuador merely announce another
instance of bad faith on the part of the Government.

RAILWAYS.
The stoppage of the traffic, by the snow has had a
bad effect on the value of railway shores, and prices
have also been influenced by the depressed state of
the English and foreign funds. French shares are
lower.

PRICES CURRENT.

SHARES.

RA IL WA Y Mond.
Aberdeen

XII berg., Nottng., Bata.
& East Junction 4l 11
& Stour Val 9 9
Birk., Lan. & Ches. June U 9
Do. Ches. & Birk , 501.&
251 C.
Do. do. 201.
Bristol and Exeter
Caledonian
Chester and Holyhead 14 6
Cork and Bandon ,14 5
Dublin & Belfast Junc.l4s 6
Dundee, Perth, & Aber-
deen Junction
4 5}
East Anglian
9 Eastern I inion 9B 4
East Lancashire
E. & W.I. DILL& Bir.
Edinburgh & Glasgow 68 65
Eastern Counties .... 121 8i
Ednbrgh., Perth, Dund. 21 3 '
Great Northern
Ot. Bth. and Wit of lre. 103 5.
Great Western
Hull and Selby 1 1
Irish South-Eastern
Laneaehire & Yorkshire 65 i 1
Lancaster and Carlisle 93 961
Leeds Northern
Lon., Tilbury, &Sthend 1 p
Lon., Brighton, &c 97 9
Loudon and Blackwall 8 i
London and Nrth-West. 102 i
Londudrry. & Coleraine
Londudrry. Ennaklln.
Man.,Shef.,& Lncolnah 9l 2
Ilidland
Do. Birm. and Derby 30 8
Newmarket.
Nswp., Aber. & Hereford •5 4
Newry and Enniskillenl2/ 81
New.,Warrnpnt.,& Ros.lB 8
Norfolk
Nrthrn. Counties Union4i id
North British 199 90
North Devon 1 8 101
North Staffordshire.. , .16 51 di
North-Western ;Eli 91
N. & St.h.-WesternJuncol d par
Oaf., Wrcstr., and W01v.194 6
Scottish Central 4l 98
Scottish Midland ILO 8
Shrewsbury & Birming.lss GO
Shrewsbury k Hereford If d
Shrewsbury k Chesterll4 6
Shropshire Union 9; 3id
South Devon
South-F.astern audDov. 60 1
South-Western Ns 8
South WRIOR 132 e 34
Bth. Yorksh. & Itiv.Dun4 2d
Stockton & Darliniton'27 80
Thms.HavenDk.RAail.t2i
Vale of Neath
IVaterford & Kilkenny Z' (4
Waterford & Limerick 2 ,
West Cornwall 8 i'
Wimbledon & Croydon'

Woodford
York, New., and Ber.lG3 4
York and Nrth Midland IA 114
avm—
Australasten
Chartered Bank of A ma 11 cotd
Oh BRA of India, Atm
train, & China id
Eng. Sctch & Aust. Ch. 2 1 d
I.on.Bnk of Aus.&india I
I on. Char. {ink of Aust. 1 p
Oriental Bank Corpor. 45 T
Roy. Aus.Bnking & Old
Importing Company Id par
South Australia
Union of Australia
Do. New
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Cobre Copper
Colonial Gold
Nouveau Monde ... p•
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American Laud
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JANUARY 7, 1854.

army to 2,226,000 men, with 1,000 pieces of artillery
—on paper.
A private letter from Teflis announces that Prince
Woronzow had received despatches from St. Peters
burg apprising him that a reinforcement of eighty
pieces of artillery had been forwarded to him, with
directions to carry on the war in Asia with the
greatest activity.
A letter from Kalisch, of December 22, says that
there is no indication of the army in Poland having
received orders to march forward towards the theatre
of war.
London, England, 1854-01-07

THE PRESS.

THE directors of the London, Brighton, and South
Coast Railway have resolved to distribute, as the
reward of railway merit, gratuities among such of
the men whose general conduct and length of
service have rendered them deserving of the bene-
faction. The amount of the gift is to be a week's
pay to those whose service has exceeded two and
a half years, and half a week's pay to those who have
been in the service twelve months.
London, England, 1854-01-07

11. THE RADICAL FEMALE.

Vire;mll-1 are born Conservatives. This is a fact of which there cannot
be Any doubt. Hence the Radical Female is at best an unnatural
exception ; and I never, for my own part, think of her except as of some
"Pig-headed lady," or other monstrous creation. Radical Females arc
rare and curious, and as little known as mermaids ; but never bestow
the same attention on their personal appearance as those interesting
creatures.

A paper might be written, indeed, showing how much the Conser-
vative cause owes to the Radicals' wives and daughters. When the
severe and terrible Podger advances to the period of baldness, and
becomes fat, he finds that he has bean nourishing a brood to turn
upon him. His olive branches, with the beautiful peacefulness which
the olive symbolises, put him at peace with the powers of his native
land. Young Podger will hear of nothing but a cavalry regiment, and
here has Podger, all his life, been abusing war and soldiers, and
kicking up a hubbub about the army being kept to support an
oligarchy ! But the AIiSSC3 Dodger arc far more intractable. Those
London, England, 1854-01-07

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Memorable Women. Mrs. N. Crossland. Bogue
11,44 Janus t, and other Poems. Pickering
TM, Shire Non. Mrs.. W. N. Wilkins. Chapman and I lan
},'.Ray upon Consumption. It. I'. Coulson, M.D. Churchill
John Mutton; or, Be, .ad Think. W. Hobson. Routledge
shakTeare Restored. Muskett, Norwich
Dante. F. Pollock. Chapman and Hall
The Lays of Modern Rome. Ditto
The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Sir E. Ruben. Lytton, Biro
Vol, IV. Ditto
The Stratford Elhakspere. C. Knight. Vol. T Hodgson.
Parham. .lAbrary—The Scottish Heiress. It M. Daniels. Ditto
The Works of Oliver Guldsuitth. Vol. I. Murray
Pelham. Sir E. Bt,lwer I.ytton, Bart. Routledge
i'ave of the Poor Brother* of the Charter-house.
The Life and Adventures of Dick Diming. No 4.
V ick Priersam.
.
The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine. No. 4. Routledge
The Coining Era of Practical Reform .1. Silk Thickingliam.
No. 1. Partridue, Oakey, and Co.
Cobilenic Policy the Internal Enemy of England. A. Somerville.
Hardwicke
Maephail's Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Journal. Mai:Than
London, England, 1854-01-07

PERSIA.

Letters have been received from Teheran, dated
the 30th of November, which announce that the
Persian Government had, in consequence of the
energy displayed by the English Charge d'Affaires,
withdrawn from its warlike attitude towards England,
and given our Minister every assurance of its pacific
intentions ; so that the intrigues of Russia in that
quarter, for the present at least, have been unsuccess-
ful. The Turkish Ambassador has also succeeded in
triumphing partially over the Russian I'rince Dolgo-
rauky ; and, if he has not completely put a stop to
the preparations of war urged by the Russians, has
very considerably diminished them, and has reduced
the frontier armies to a number which the Turks
may regard without apprehension.
London, England, 1854-01-07

Handbook of Familiar Quotations. London

Murray.
A STRONG reaction has decidedly set in against
the frequent use of quotations in writing and
speaking. Even when made with readiness by
persons of research and extensive acquisitions,
scraps from various authors give a motley ap-
pearance to the style. Occasionally a good
quotation is suggestive, but nearly all the
truly great writers have been sparing in their
use. The " fashionable" novelists of the se-
cond class have been the great sinners in the
frequent commission of quotations, ill-chosen,
and ill-spelt ; and even ladies' maids have
taken to talking a leash of languages, like the
heroines in Lady Morgan's novels.
The present volume can scarcely he called
" a handbook of familiar quotations." The se-
lection is made almost entirely from English,
and we miss many a well-known saying in
everybody's mouth that ought here to find a
place. The use of such a work at all is very pea-
London, England, 1854-01-07

WEST INDIES.

The Magdalena reached Southampton on Wed-
nesday with the West India mail. There is no
political news of interest.
The cholera had made its appearance at Nevis,
where forty cases had occurred, ten; of which proved
fatal. It is supposed to have been communicated to
the island by an emigrant-vessel which touched
there.
In Trinidad the weather continued to be most
propitious for the growth of the cane ; but the pro-
longed and heavy rains had caused the roads to be in
a very bad state. The yellow fever is said to have
disappeared.
From Demerara accounts are to the 10th ult.
Disease had disappeared from the colony. The rains
which had fallen were not sufficiently heavy to retard
the general operations of the sugarmakers. Through-
out the colony indications of the next year's crop
were most cheering, and the young canes everywhere
looked green and luxuriant. Freights had risen
within a few weeks 400 per cent. in value. The
Court of Policy was to meet on the 13th of Decem-
ber.
The Magdalena brought on freight specie to the
value of 423,4001., chiefly from Mexican ports.
London, England, 1854-01-07

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THE CAPE.

Cape Town papers of the 21st Nov. have been re-
ceived by the Bosphorus.
The colony was perfectly quiet. The only cir-
cumstance of an adverse nature spoken of was a fatal
disease among the horned cattle, said to have been
imported by some diseased animals from Holland.
General Sir G. Cathcart continued to speak hope-
fully of the future state of the border. The new
arrangements and general administration of affairs
in Kafirland seemed to be peaceably acqui(sced in by
the Kafirs. Some uneasiness, however, was felt by
the colonists at the early withdrawal of the troops,
after so fierce and irAracted a :4, uggle with a daring
race like the Kafirs.
In the Orange River sovereignty Sir G. Clerk was
proceeding to mature the arrangements for the with-
drawal of British authority from the north side of
the river. Numerous petitions and remonstrances
against this line of policy had been signed and for-
warded to her Majesty. It was also proposed to

despatch two delegates to England to represent the
wishes and opinions of the inhabitants on this sub-
ject.
The increasing number of desertions and refusal
of duty by seamen was causing great inconvenience
to the shipping interest. During the last six weeks
180 seamen had been brought before the judge of
police charged with this offence. Severe punish-
ments in the shape of imprisonment with hard labour
were being awarded under a provision of the act of
Parliament, and it was hoped that the evil would be
checked.
London, England, 1854-01-07

PREFERMENTS AM) APPOINTMENTS.

The Rev. J. T. Walters, MA., to the Rectory of Stradealiall,
near Newmarket.
The Rev. Wm. Allen, 8.A., to the Curacy of Mucklestone,
Staffordshire.
The Rev. Wm. Haughton Freer, B.A , to the Curacy of Col-
wich, near Rugely.
The Rev. H. Rolland, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Mary's Church,
Bricignorth.
The Rev. Win. Bebb, 8.A., to the Curacy of Staunton-upon-
Arrow, near Leominster.
The Rev. W. H. Cave Browne, V.A., to the Curacy of St. Mary's
Church, Prittee'tproad, Lambeth.
The Rev. John Judge, M.A., to the Incumbency of Trelstan,
with the Chapelry of Leighton annexed, near Weialipool.
The Rev. Spencer W. Rant., M.A., to the Vicarage of Br/Al-
ford, with Burstall annexed, near Ipawich.
The Itev. Frederick Thomas Scott, M.A., to the Rectory of
Sibertsvrold, with Coldred annexed, near Dover.
The Rev. Edward Peche Stock, BA., to the Stipendiary Curacy
of the parish church of Radcliffe, near Manchester.
The Rev. Henry Lloyd Bickerstaffe, to the Stipendiary Curacy
of St. Andrew's, Manchester.
The Rev. R. W. Pearce, 8.A., to the Rectory of Ga3-wooci, near
Lynn Regis.
The Rev. Wm. Henry Hicks, D.C.L., to the Vicarage of Wal-
ton, Norfolk.
The Rev. Dr. Hawtrey, to the Rectory of Farnham Royal,
Bucks.
The Rev. H. J. Sawyer, M.A., to the Rectory of ell,
near Abingdon.
The Bey. W. J. Penwell, M.A., to the. Vicarage of Holley,
Lear Banbury.
The Rev. John Jones, M.A., Rector of Criccieth , t'arnaryon.
bhtre, to a Rural Deanery.
The Rev. J. M. Gleucruss, BA., to the Curacy of Dothan),
Cornwall.
The Rev. W. H. Thornton, 8.A., to the Curacy of lyiittni, near
Minehead.

The Rev. J. J. Manley, 8.A., to the Curacy of Dan li,ll.
The Rev. Thomas Henry Newman, 8.A., to the Currey of
Honiton.
The Rev. Edward Gabriel, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. James's,
Torteth.park, Liverpool.
The Rev. Wm. Ogden, 8.A., to the Curacy of lbhant.
The Rev. Richard Robert Drummond Ash, 8.A., to the Curacy
of Benefield near Rundle.
The Rev. Richard Mums, BA., to the Curacy of Packington,
near Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
The Rev. Samuel Meyrick Higgins, M.A., to the Curvy of
Pot terspury.
The Rev. Win. Robert Finch Hatton, 8.A., to the Curacy of
Weldon.
The Rev. Wm. Gurdou Lee, BA., to the Curacy of Stanwick.
The Rev. Edmund Augustus Claydon, 8.A., to the Curacy of
Marholm.
The Rev. John Edward Elee, 8.A., to the Curacy of Mitlille•
ton Chancy.
The Rev. Robert Charles Jenkins, M.A., to the Rectory of
Iyminge, near Canterbury.
London, England, 1854-10-21

... •M• .M...•

LECTURES at the NORMAL SCHOOL of
ART at MARLBOROUGH HOUSE during the Sessions
ISU-5
T. HUXLEY, Esq., F.R.8., on ANIMAL FORM
J. MASSHALL. Esq., on the HUMAN FORM
R. N. WORNUM, Esq., on the HISTORY of ORNAMEN.
TAL ART
1)R. LINDLEY, F.R.S., on FORM and COLOUR in the
VEGETABLE KINGDOM
PROFESSOR SEMPER on ARCHITECTURE and PLASTIC
DECORATION
0. HUDSON, Esq., on SURFACE DECORATION
J. THOMPSON, Esq., on WOOD ENGRAVING
CHACE cALvEwr, Esq., on COLOURS and PIGMENTS.
Persona not Registered Students are admitted to any one
Complete Course, at the rate of Sixpenee each Lecture, or to a
Siugle Lecture at One shilling.
For information application should be made at the Offices,
Marlborough }louse, fell mall.
London, England, 1854-10-21

998

THE PRESS.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL (despondsngly): There is no doubt that he is
dragging the coach deeper and deeper into the mire.
Lord PALMERSTON (suggestively): Cut the traces, and try a new
team.
Lord J. RUSSELL : All very fine talking.
Lord PALMERSTON : If you don't the passengers will, that's all.
put it's more your business than mine. Come, is there anything to do,
as I want to get away to Sir Benjamin ?
Lord J. RUSSELL: Nothing we need keep you for. (Exit Lord
Palmerston, whistling "My name it is Ben Hall.")
The Council then sat for three hours and a quarter longer.

CAULD KAIL;
Ox, THE LEADER THAT FOLLOWS THE BEAR.
When Russia's despot reigned abhorred
By men of a' conditions,
Great Britain had a Cauld-kail Lord
Set owre her politicians :
His Kailship's grudge to draw the sword
Raised honest men's suspicions,
That muckle fools grow tyrant's tools,
When placed in heich positions.
He thoctna o' the tyrant's fang
On Europe fast encroachin ,
Or whaur the weak for help could gang
When Bruin was approachin'.
But, drunk wi diplomatic slang,—
Wi ultimatums botchin',—
He cared na wha micht suffer wrang
if Bruin could get poachin.'
London, England, 1854-10-21

THE PRESS.

The ship guns will be worked by sailors. Nearly
600 blue jackets, landed from the Agamemnon and
Sanspareil, encamped on the 2nd inst. on shore.
Jack anticipated with great glee his participation in
the honours of the day. Above a thousand marines—
magnificent fellows they are—volunteered to storm
the breach, and were landed and bivouacked near
Balaklava.
THE LONG RANGE.

One of the long-range Lancaster guns has been
mounted on the Arrow, and for the last few days
been trying its range upon the fortress. Its success
has exceeded the most sanguine expectations, and
there is no doubt that had we more of them we
might in a fortnight destroy the whole town, ship-
ping, and fortifications of Sebastopol without the
loss of a man on our side. The first few shots fired
by the Arrow, at three miles, the gun was too ele-
vated, and the balls passed far over the whole place.
Afterwards the range was precisely taken, and for
three hours shot and shell were thrown into the
nearest battery until it was completely destroyed.
For the last half hour of the firing it never returned
a shot. But this, it appears, is by no means the
sole merit of the gun. It weakens the resources of
Sebastopol still more fatally than by knocking up
batteries. Under the natural belief that because
their works were in range the vessel which fired
must be in range also, the Russians returned a tre-
mendous fire, but every shot sank in the sea at about
three quarters of a mile distance from the Arrow.
Unless there are incredible stores of ammunition in
Sebastopol, such a mode of fighting must soon leave
them without a shot.
London, England, 1854-10-21

CAN &DA.

A bill has been introduced into the Provincial
Legislature to do away with the property qualifica-
tion of members.
The trade returns of Canada for 1853, just sub-
mitted to the Canadian Parliament, show that the
exports for the last year amounted to 23,801,308 dols.,
and the imports to 31,981,436 dols. The exports to
Great Britain were 11,465,408 dols., and the imports
therefrom 18,489,121 dols. ; exports to the United
States, 10,725,455 dols. ; imports from ditto,
1082,147 dols.; exports to North American colonies,
1,380,465 dols.; imports, 632,660 dols. The increase
of the aggregate imports and exports since the pre-
ceding year was 57 per cent.

AUSTRALIA.
The ship Red Jacket, Captain Reed, which sailed
from Melbourne on the 2nd of August, arrived at
Liverpool on Sunday last. She had made the
quickest passage on record, having been only 73 days
9 hours. She reports the Australian mining so
counts to be favourable, and that gold is increasing
very much in private hands; the price is quoted
at 41. per ounce, and it does not appear that the
European news will in any way affect the gold
market.

--
The-
Legislative Council of Hobart Town reas-
sembled on the 25th of July, and it is rumoured that
the Chief Justice has resigned.

EXPEDITION AGAINST THE RUSSIANS AT
SITKA.
Admiral Sir James Stirling, by last advices,re-
mained at Shanghai, awaiting the arrival of Admiral
de Guerre, in the French frigate Jeanne d'Arc.
The united English and French force were to
proceed to New Archangel (Sitka) and co-operate
with Admiral Price, of the Pacific squadron, in giving
an account of the Russian ships.of-war and forts in
the north.

EXTRAORDINARY COINCIDENCE.—The 21rd September,
the day on which the Russians sunk their ships•of•war in
the entrance to Sebastopol, is the first day of the Froth
year, according to the Republican calendar, the first day of
the Jewish year, and also the first day of the Mahomedan
year. The commencement of the French year is concur-
rent with the autumnal equinox ; the Jewish is a regular
lunar year; and the Mahomedan consists of only 3b4
days 9 boars. This strange concurrence of the three new
years' days has never happened before, and will, not be
witnessed spin for thousands of years.
London, England, 1854-10-21

PROCRASTINATIONS.

It was generally expected that the first engineer-
ing works—that is to say, the marking out the
trenches within gun range and the tracing them
ready for the pickaxe and the spade of the fatigue
parties—would commence on the Ist ; but, as the
working parties cannot proceed to business without a
sufficient number of gabions —to be filled with earth
and placed before the men—and not sufficient means
of transport had been provided, the commencement
of engineering operations had been put off. Under
an energetic commander that first battery would have
been already in full play. Means of transport
abounded in the villages round, officers speaking the
language having invited the natives to come out
with their carts, dromedaries, and horses, and for
sterling money—paid down "on the nail"—do cart-
ing for the English. The natives expressed their
desire to earn the money, and their readiness to
come, if the English would make a show of compul-
sion, wind half a dozen dragoons, and, in fact, give
the poor natives a good and sufficient excuse, in case
they should ever again fall under the dominion of the
Czar. Thus a detachment of twelve dragoons might
have brought in hundreds of arabas and horses with
willing drivers, if it had been in the nature of our
military an-angements to detach cavalry on such a
service. But, as the providing of means of transport
has an appearance of some sort of connection with
the commissariat, the detaching dragoons or other
cavalry on any such service could not be thought of:
This is another leaf out of the history of military
mismanagement, and will satisfy the people of Eng•
land of there being very good reasons for slowness
whenever it does appear that the movements are
slow.
THE MARINES.
In compliance with an eager request made by the
seamen of the Black Sea fleet that they mignt take
part with the land troops in the assault on Sebas-
topol, they have been authorised to do so. Each
ship is to furnish six pieces of cannon and a certain
number of men. This will give a total of 200 pieces
of artillery.
London, England, 1854-10-21

This letter, says a correspondent of the Times,

was written while suffering from all the horrors of war,
and his own wounds are glossed over, not to add to the
afflicted feelings of his mother. On the fourth day after
the battle his brother, the Hon. Robert. Annesley, of the
11th Hussars (who took share in the melancholy glories of
Alma), was struck by virulent cholera; he was curried on
board her Majesty's ship London (where his elder brother
lay wounded), and, after three days, expired. it will be
remembered that this fine young officer, who was only in
his twenty-first year, was quartered the last two winters in
Dublin, where he was a general favourite. When his re•
giment was ordered for service he was offered 1,0001. to
exchange, but he spurned the proposition, and gloried in
the idea of devoting his life to his country.
London, England, 1854-10-21

SOUTH AMERICA.

The Panama Railroad Company are making
great efforts to finish the line across the Isthmus.
The mule truck continued not only exposed to
delays and inconveniences, but also to robbery and
murder.
At Grey Town people were busily engaged in
rebuilding the razed houses and other premises
which had fallen a prey to the late attack of the
American frigate Cyane. So great was the progress
being made that domiciles are fast reappearing.
London, England, 1854-10-21

SATURDAY,

The simmer days broucht dull delays,
The fleets and armies grummelt ;
The plague began to wrack the host—
His Kailship's brain was jummelt
But loud, at last, as thunder blast
Twa hours the cannon rummelt—
And Russia's micht frae Alma's heicht
In bloody heaps was tummelt.
The news comes hame o' valour's deeds—
His Kailship 's at Balmoral—
He braks the seal, he groans and reads,
And thus laments the quarrel :
" My gude wild Bear, ye're peeled and sair—
The burstin' e this barrel
Will send you, growlin' in despair,
. Ayont the Sea of And."
But caulder than the cauldest clime
In winter's cauldest gloaunin.—
When whirlin' drift flees fiir and swift
Across the frost-bound common,—
Maun be the heart that doesna burn
To be the tyrant's foeman ;
But our Cauld Kail sic thochts can spurn,
When Bruin needs a showman.
Come ! gie 'a a man o' noble soul,
Whase counsels can be trusted ;
Wha winna let Oppression prowl
Wi faulchion murder-crusted.
Let Britain speak wi' British voice—
And wha may daur resist it?
There's honest hearts wed worth her choice—
Let Parli4ment be dusted !

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.
AN A rrnvizxsivr ASPIRANT (Musselburgh).—We hare no reason to doubt that Hiss
Nightingale is the real name of the lady who goes out at the head of the nurses. It may
be true that there are many Russian dicers of distinction among the wounded, but we
hare not heard that the Premier has any present intention of going to the East.
London, England, 1854-10-21

DEATHS.

ABINGDON—On the 16th instant, at Wytham, Berks, Bun•
tague, Earl of Abingdon, aged 71.
ANSON—On the 17th instant, at Bath, the Rev. Henry Anson,
brother of the late Viscount Anton, aged 81.
BECKWITH—On the 25th ult., on board the Orinoco. off the
river Katcha, Lieut.•Cul. Sidney Beckwith, tat Battalion Ride
Brigade, aged 47.
COOKF,—On the 18th Instant, at Brontyard, the Rev. Win
Cooke, vicar of that parish, and a magistrate for liurefunl•

shire.
COX—On the 28th of August, at Chicacole, Major Edward Thos.

Cox, of the Madras army.
DAVIES—Ou the Utti instant, at Walworth, Lieut.-Cul. David

Davies, aged I;9.
ISHAM—Ou thu 11th instant., at Northampton, Major Isham,
late of the 79th Highlanders.
JAMES—On the 13th instant, at Littlebourn Rectory, Kent
Captain Wm. James, half-pay, Br,i or Scots Fusilier Ouards,

aged 55.
MARTIN—On the 14th instant, at Colston Basset, Notts, Capt.
George Bohuu Martin, It N., C. 8., Captain Superintendent of
Deptford Dockyard, aged O.
PHILLIPS-0u the lUtii instant, at Brighton, Samuel Phillips,
.Esq., LL.D., late of Sydenharn.hill, aged 30.
SNEYD—On the lath instant, at Huntley-ball, Cheadle, Stafford-
shire, Hear-Admiral Clement Sneyd, aged 01.

TO ADVERTISERS.
The abolition of the Duty on Advertisements enables us to
insert at the price of Three Shillings the Advertisement
for which we have hitherto charged hire; and Adver
tigers generally will receive the fall benefit of the change
in the law.

DR. DE JONGH'S
London, England, 1854-10-21

MINEMIIIMEMIN

SATURDAY,

cases down to September Ist (13th), of which 8,652
had proved fatal. At Mita% down to the 14th (26th)
of September, there had been 381 case,: of these 188
persons had died.

POLAND.

Cracow, though not capable of being converted
into a regular fortress, will have in all likelihood an
entrenched camp with detached forts.
Travellers lately arrived at Vienna from Russia
state that entrenchments on a great scale are being
made along the Vistula, and capable of preventing
any successful passage of the river from the oppo.
site bank. More than ten thousand men are at work
on them.