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pisrtilantilus.

THE EARLDOM OF SHREWSBURY promises to be-
come a question for the highest legal tribunal to
settle. The late earl has disentailed estates worth
some 35,000/. a year, and left them to Lord Bernard
Howard, second son of the Duke of Norfolk, and to
his grace's brother, Lord Howard, M.P. The Duke
of Norfolk has taken possession of Alton Towers,
but a formal notice has been published by Earl
Talbot's solicitor, addressed to the Shrewsbury
tenantry, warning them "not to pay any rent to
Lord Edward Bernard Howard, or any of his agents,
or ctherwise to acknowledge his claim to the estates,
as the successor to the earldom is entitled to the
rents from the day of the death of the late earl."
Major William Talbot, of Castle Talbot, Wexford, is
also disposed to assert his claims to the title against
Earl Talbot. The funeral of the late earl took placo
on Tuesday, at Alton Towers.
THE POSTAL AND PASSENGER COMMUNICATION be-
tween Ireland and the north of Scotland has received
the attention of the Lords of the Treasury. A minute
of the 15th August, 1858, upon the opinion of the
Admiralty, recognises Port Patrick and Donaghadeo
London, England, 1856-08-30

BIRTHS.

BENTINCK—On the 27th instant, in Charles•street, Berkeley.
square, Mn. George Cavendish Bentinek, of a son.
DRIJMMOND—On the 28rd instant, at Hampstead, the Hon.
Mrs. Maurice Brummond, of a son.
HAMILTON—On the 22nd instant, at the house of Commander

T. G. Drake, Broadstairs' the wife of Commander J. F. C.
Hamilton, H.M.B. Elk, of a daughter. •
LUWTH—On the let ult., at Aden, the wife of Lieut• Colonel
l.owth, 86th Royal Regt., of a son.
NEWARK—On the 23rd instant, at Tilney•street, Viscountess

• - ,
Newark,. of a soh.
WEN LOCK—On the 21st instant, at Escrick-park,LadyWonlock,
of a son.
WINCHILSEA—On the 23rd instant, at Eastwell•park, the
Countess of Winchilsea, of a son.

MARRIAGES.
BURRELL—PECHELL—On the 26tti instant, at St. George's
Hatover•square, Percy Burt%ll, Esq., eon of Sir- Charles
Merrik Burrell, Bart.; to Henrietta Katherine,' daughter of
Rear-Admiral Sir George Pectell.

KNOX—ROOPER—On the Mb instant, at Abbot's Ripton
Church, Major the Hon. Win. Stuart Knox, M.P., 21st Fusi-
liers, to Georgians, daughter of the late John Boufoy Rooper,
Esq., of 114 ton-hall, Huntingdonshire.
London, England, 1856-08-30

•T:H E • PRESS.

that Mr. Lofty's columns are freely open to at
least one member of the Government, and
that all the measures of this Minister are
eulogised, and all his opponents decried, by
his own pen. We could point to particular
articles of which be is confidently stated to
.be the author, wherein Mr. Lofty's journal is
not only committed to certain opinions, but in
which the journal is made the vehicle of dis-
seminating purely personal antipathies. If
this be so, at what worth shall we rate Mr.
Lofty's pretended superiority to the contests
of parties ? The parish pump would be the
shrine at which Mr. Lofty worships, and the
vestry squabble the most important debate he
'ever listened to.

We cease. The awful glass of Mr. Lofty is
upon us, and he will probably throw some
light upon the subject—lucus a non lucendo—
by copious laudation a few days hence, of the
immaculate purity and independence of the
organ which has the privilege of being
favoured with his effusions.
London, England, 1856-08-30

THE PRESS.

Russians .. .. 280,000
French .. 56,000
English .. 32.000
Turks .. 60,000
The total number of men sent by the allies to
the Crimea seems to have fallen little short of
a quarter of a million :
English .. .. 105,000
French 170.000
Turks .. .. 40,000
Sardinians .. .. 18,000
The account given of the strength of the
British army and fleet is reassuring:—
England commands 119,900 infantry. 13,600 cavalry,
15,122 artillery, 2,460 genie troops, 80,000 militia : total,
230,200 men.
England's maritime power consists of 94 line-of•battle
ships, 92 frigates, and 400 smaller vessels : total, 586
ships, with 16,234 guns and 60,354 horse•power.
The volume is instructive, and not un-
amusing. though encumbered by those " deadly-
lively" attempts at smartness which disfigure
so much of our fugitive literature.
London, England, 1856-08-23

No. 173.—V0L. IV.

Vrtss.

LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2:1, 1856.

No one can cast his eye abroad without being
struck with the general disposition of the
people of every State to support any Adminis-
tration which promises them security. Govern-
ment, always a necessity for mankind, has
often been submitted to with impatience.
But in our own day its importance is recog-
nised as the first condition of social happiness
and improvement. Many imperfections are
overlooked where it exists in tolerable vigour,
but no merits are allowed in excuse of its
weakness. In every country where it tampers
with insurrection, or where it fails to afford
the people that full and ample security for
life and property which they think themselves
entitled to demand, it falls to make ova} for
an Administration of greater firmness. In
one of the United States we see this principle
asserted by means of a popular rising. The
people of California will not allow their in-
terests to be sacrificed by a weak Executive.
They have formed themselves into a com-
mittee that the functions of Government may
be more strictly exercised, and have accom-
plished by combination among themselves an
end generally effected in European States by
a coup-d'etat.
On the part of our principal journals there
seems a reluctance to look at this remarkable
feature or tendency of our time. It is due to
many causes, some of which are sufficiently
obvious.

We are disposed to assign the first place to
that rapid and continuous development of
the industrial arts which affords to indi-
viduals of every degree more profitable and
pleasing occupation than political strife.
Communities, instead of busying themselves
with public affairs, are almost exclusively
occupied with their private concerns; and
that portion of their time which is abstracted
from business is usually devoted to those
home pleasures which modern inventions have
tended to multiply, and to render both elegant
and cheap. Money is found to command
such infinite enjoyments that men are unwill-
ing to let any other objects interfere with
their pursuit of it ; while enterprise is con-
tinually opening new channels by which in-
genuity can be turned to account. It is
further to be remarked, that, in this country
especially, strictly social questions—such for
example as Education. Reformatory Discipline.
and Sanitary Improvement—engage much of
the energy which was formerly spent on
purely political questions.
Another principal reason is the disposition
of the Governments to conform to the cha-
racter and desires of modern society, and to
regard with favour every kind of industrial
development which can tend to promote the
progress of their respective States. A com-
munity of interest is thus established between
the Government and the people. There is a
I,l.ling that their interests are the same.
Railways have proved highly conservative ;
they represent and embody that commercial
London, England, 1856-08-23

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Implements of War. Day and Sun
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Chapman and Hall
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restigia. One of the Million. Ditto
London, England, 1856-08-23

THE PRESS.

THE CORONATION OF THE EMPEROR OF
RUSSIA.
" OUR Special Correspondents " have already trans-
ferred themselves to St. Petersburg, and letters upon
the coronation of the Emperor may now be looked for as
regularly as those a few months since from the " Head-
quarters' Camp, Sebastopol." AU correspondents
unite in declaring that the magnificence of the ap-
proaching ceremony will surpass every effort of
modern times. Fetes, fireworks, reviews, and re-
joicings are to be upon a scale befitting a nation of
seventy millions. The actual ceremony of coronation
will, however, be witnessed by very few, for the
church at Moscow is so small that scarce a thousand
persons can be accommodated, and if each of the
many foreign ambassadors intend, like Lord Gran-
ville, to be followed by a train of a hundred valets-d-
pied, there will be little room for the principal actors
in the scene.

The three principal foreign ambassadors, Count
Esterhazy, Count Morny, and Lord Granville, appear
to have created an immense sensation :

PRINCE ESTERHAZY.

Among other personages here is Prince Paul Esterhazy,
the Austrian Envoy, whose appearance at the coronation is
expected to be surrounded with a magnificence inferior
only to that of the French and English ambassadors. His
diamonds are known to be among the finest possessed by
any private person in the world, and far excel those which
several crowned heads could boast; they constitute, it is
said, a large part of his entire wealth. These diamonds
are actually to decorate his housings. All the envoys—
the representatives of all the powers and states of Europe
—seem to have orders to spare no expense to do honour
to Alexander 11., and to increase by their emulous magni-
ficence the solemnity of a coronation which is understood
to be ,a sort of sacred ratification of the general peace.
Hero at St. Petersburg nothing is talked of but these
splendid preparations ; stories are told of the credit which
this envoy and that envoy, or the distinguished individuals
that accompany them, have brought upon Baron Stieglitz
and other bankers ; everybody pretends to set everybody
else right respecting the exact amounts, and the most
enormous sums are mentioned. In the midst of this tattle
and this pretended exactitude about thousands and hun-
dreds of thousands, there is one " credit" which eclipses
all the rest for exactly the opposite reason. It is the
French Ambassador's. " Sir, 1 have seen the letter with
these eyes," says a well-known wholesale merchant of
gossip. "And the amount? What is the amount?" He
draws in his breath with a whistling sound ere he will gra-
tify the curiosity of the silently expectant group; and then,
in an awful undertone, pronounces these words, No
amount—any amount. The credit is unlimited—Wimiii.
When the mind has recovered from this shock, a polite
Frenchman observes—" C'est 4,4 nothing can equal
Milord Ciranville's horses and carriages ; and he will have
the last English envoy's house at Moscow, which was
turned into a magazine after Nicholas's coronation, and
will be turned back into a palace for Alexander's.—Post corr.
London, England, 1856-08-23

COUNT MORNY.

The tribute of respect which the French Envoy paid to
the Empress Mother—fur the sake of visiting whom as he
passed he himself announced that he had selected the route
by which he came—is deeply felt, and much praised here
by the Russians. One lady of great rank—a Russian Rus-
sian— remarked that she thought far more of that mode
of arriving in Russia than if he had come by sea in the
finest line-of-battle ship. M de Morny is already a very
great favorite. One obvious means of winning the Rus-
sian heart has certainly not been neglected by him. M.
de Morny's mode of living touches the very chord which
most readily vibrates in Russia into goodwill and admira-
tion. One little fact will show the scale on which his estab-
lishment is conducted. Every morning regularly a hun-
dred bottles of Medoc are delivered at his door for the use
of his domestic servants till next morning. Among the
vulgar in Russia the number of a great personage's domes-
tic servants is, in the higher and more princely sphere of
life, all through the year, that gauge of his social preten-
sions which the fur in the collar of his shooba constitutes
in a more humble station during the winter months.—lb.
London, England, 1856-08-23

ADULTERATION OF FOOD.

THE result of the deliberations of the select com-
mittee upon the subject of the adulteration of food,
drinks, and drags, has appeared at length in a volu-
minous blue-book.

The committee classify adulteration under three
heads:—Those of which the object is to lower the
the price of the article adulterated by the admixture
of substances of a cheaper kind; those which are in-
tended to improve the appearance of the adulterated
article ; and those which are practised for the pur-
pose of simulating some property injured or destroyed
in the process of adulteration. They then draw a
distinction between adulterations as pecuniary frauds
and ill injurious to health :
London, England, 1856-08-23

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THE PRESS.

OUDE COURT CIRCULAR.

WE have omitted to state that the Right Honourable the Presislent of
the Board of Control, Mr. Vernon Smith, and the Directors of the
East India Board, attended at the Southampton Docks on Thursday,
to felicitate her Majesty the Queen Mother and the heir apparent of
Oude upon their safe arrival in this country.
The Right Hon. the President of the Board of Control, who was
dressed in gorgeous Oriental costume, in compliment to the distin-
guished visitors, assisted, in virtue of his office, the chosen maids of
honour into their carriage. The Directors of the Honourable Com-
pany held up the screen as her Majesty passed down the gangway.
The Directors afterwards superintended the landing of the luggage,
and Sir James Weir Hogg, whose lively and benevolent nature endear
him to the ex-Royal flunily, was specially intrusted with the care of
the royal treasure.
The Directors of the in consequence of the magna-
nimous spirit displayed by the Queen, have resolved to entertain her
Majesty and suite during their stay in London. The establishment
in Leadenhall-street is to be forthwith wLktiJwashed and purified.
London, England, 1856-08-23

Inlant.

THE LORD LIEUTENANT has returned to Dublin,
after visiting the squadron at Cork.
THE POTATOE BLIGHT in Kerry is very general.
DR. WRIGHT, acting medical officer to the union at
Ballieborough, Cavan, bas been emmitted for trial
for poisocing a child by strychnine. Dr. Wright, in
making up the prescription, mistook the strychnine
bottle for that containing jalap.
Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL has been appointed to the
office of Clerk of the Hanaper, vacant by the death
of Mr. Fitzimmon. Mr. O'Connell resigns his seat
for Clonmel. Mr. Bagwell and Mr. Murray have
already issued their addresses. Mr. Bagwell is in
favour of Maynooth, and " a thorough reformer in
Church and State." Mr. Murray is as thorough a
Repealer. He was one, he says in his address, "in
1844, he is one in '56, ready to work in the cause
wits heart and hand; ready to aid in this great
measure, which comprises all other measures for
the prosperity, for the happiness, and for the glory
of Ireland!" Several other candidates are also
spoken of. . .

MR. BOWYER, M.P., has addressed a letter to Mr.
James O'Connell with reference to certain "uncivil
and illiberal remarks" made by Mr. O'Connell
when proposing Lord Castlerosse. Mr. Bowyer
writes :

You boasted yourself a " country gentleman," and, by
way of contrast, sneered at "a Mr. Bowyer, a lawyer,'
among others. Now, you are not perhaps aware that I
am the eldest son of one of the oldest baronets in the
kingdom, and owner of 6,000 acres of land. It so happens
also that, though I have the honour to be a member of the
bar, Ido not practise. But, at any rate, I am astonished
that any person bearing your name should some forward to
abuse and vilify that profession of which the Liberator was
the greatest ornament.
London, England, 1856-08-23

MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL.

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THE PRESS.

lieve in anything of the sort. He places full confidence in
the acknowledged principle so gloriously established by
the Courts of Paris and London, according to which every
independent Sta'e, although much weaker than the power
which wishes to force its counsels upon it, has the iocon
testable right to reject those counsels if they contain a
menace or an attack upon its independence.
The King is firmly resolved to adhere to what he has
said. If, however, an attempt should be made--which is
scarcely possibly—to go further (passer (mire), his Majesty,
relying on the justice of his cause, would appeal to the
patriotism of his people, and, trusting to his brave and
faithful army, would repel force by force.
London, England, 1856-08-23

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Portrait. price 7s. 6J.,
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Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear.
London, England, 1856-08-23

AUSTRIA.

The Emperor has received with marked distinc-
tion Colonel 'l'ornau, the Russian Military Charge
d'Affaires, in the roonfof General Count Stackelberg.
The reported diplomatic mission of Baron Hubner
to Naples is denied by the Austrian official journals.

Baron Koller, the Austrian Dannbian Commis-
sioner, has left Vienna for Constantinople. His in-
structions are said to be entirely opposed to the union
of the principalities.
Sir Henry Bulwer, G.C.B , the British Commis-
sioner, has arrived at Vienna en route to Constanti-
nople.
London, England, 1856-08-23

THE PRESS.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lb Under the Management of Mr. ALFRED WIGAN.
On Monday and during the Week will be presented THE
GREF:N•EYED MONSTER. Characters by Meters. E. Rob-
son, Denver'', G. Vining, G. Murray; Misses Castleon, Mars-
ton, and Tertian. After which, MEDEA. Medea, Mr. F
Robson. To conclude with SHOCKING EVENTS. Commence
at Half-put Seven.

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London, England, 1856-08-23

RUSSIA.

The programme of the approaching coronation is
published. The Emperor leaves St. Petersburg on
the 25th inst., and on the '29th will make his solemn
entry into Moscow, after which he will take up his
residence at the Palace Petrowski. On the 7th of
September the ceremony of the coronation will be
performed.
The Empress Mother and suite have arrived safely
at St. Petersburg.
Lord Granville was received by the Emperor at
Peterhoff on the 11th. Prince Esterhazy was re-
ceived on the following day. Count Morny had
been received on the 7th.

The Dibats, French journal, in a letter from St.
Petersburg, August 9, states :

Tn the interview which Count de Morny had yesterday
with Prince Gortschakoff, the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
some explanations were given respecting the questions
mooted in the German and English journals on the subject
of the evacuation of the Turkish territory of Asia Minor
and of the occupation of Serpents' Island by the Russians.
The explanations given may make this incident be re-
garded as completely terminated.
As regards the Serpents' Island, I am assured that the
Russian Cabinet had not the slightest intention of infring-
ing the treaty of the 30th of March. Tt is also in my
power to contradict the statement that Russia has the in-
tention of constincting a fortress in the Gulf of Bothnia,
destined to replace Bomarsund.
It has been finally settled that M. de Kisseleff shall pro-
ceed to Paris immediately after the coronation. He has
had an interview with Count de Morny.
London, England, 1856-08-23

Volitttal.

HEE MAJESTY THE QUEEN held a Privy Council at
Osborne on Thursday at half-past one o'clock p.m.
The Council was attended by the Prince Consort,
Mr. Secretary Labouchere (officiating as Lord Pre-
sident in the absence of Earl Granville), the Lord
Chancellor, the Earl of Harrowby, Lord Privy Seal;
Viscount Palmerston, First Lord of the Treasury;
the Duke of Wellington, Master of the Horse ; and
Lord Ernest Bruce, Vice-chamberlain. At the
Council, Parliament was ordered to be further pro-
rogued from the 7th of October to the 13th of No-
vember.
THE TRANSPORTATION SELECT COMMITTEE of the
House of Lords have reported to the following
effect:—

That a continuance of the system of transportation to
some colony or colonies would be highly desirable, pro-
vided the system could be carried on with advantage to
the colony and with satisfaction to the colonists ; that it
would not be desirable to send convicts to Moreton Bay,
the Red River, or the Falkland Islands; and that, as re•
ganls Vancouver's Island, there is not evidence ample
enough whereupon to ground a decision at present,
although the committee think the plan worthy of full con-
sideration by her Majesty's Government.
The committee call the attention of Government, in the
event of a new convict settlement being formed, to the
northern portion of Australk and more especially to the
head of the Gulf of Carpentaria and the adjacent islands.
Among existing colonies Western Australia seems to offer
the only field for the continuance of transportation.
The committee recommend an early reconsideration
of the provisions by which a convict is called on to
repay the expense incurred in carrying him out to
Australia, and in certain cases to pay a large portion
of the expense of sending out his family. They also
state that it is desirable to review and revise the provisions
of the act 16th and 17th of Victoria, chap. 99, by which
the ti rms of transportation, as previously existing, were
commuted for shorter terms of penal servitude in Eng-
land. They question whether the abridgment of the penal
sentences, on condition of their being passed at home, is
founded on just principles; and it is certain, they retnark,
that the change has placed a new and unnecessary diffi-
culty in the way of well•regulated transportation. The
Minutes of Evidence follow, occupying a space of more
than 100 pages.
London, England, 1856-08-23

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THE PRESS.

The object of the above statement and remarks is to
direct attention to the fact that the reformation which
recent events have shown to be required, and towards
which the force of public opinion is tending, was projected
more than fifteen years ago by the Pharmaceutical Society,
that great progress has already been made by its voluntary
and unassisted agency, and that all that remains to be
done may be effected by means of the society, if armed
with more extended powers and assisted by the public.

SIR JDIIN PATTESON was presented on Monday
with a handsome testimonial by the University and
town of Cambridge, in acknowledgment of his
exertions to settle the disputes of the two bodies.
London, England, 1856-11-01

THE- PRESS.

fact, many glens whh had lately contained a
st
considerable populatirn of industrious peasants
present nothing now but a solitude arid a game-
keeper's house.
THE PRESTON CHIMNEY 3 are still swept by poor and
wretched children. The Chimney Sweepers Act
has hitherto been a dead letter in North Lancashire,
but the question, we art glad to see, is about to be
taken up. A meeting washeld in Preston on Monday,
and a committee appointed to take the necessary
steps to enforce the act and put a stop to the cruel-
ties which are welt known to be yet daily inflicted
upon these poor children.
THE UTTER CARELESSSESS some persons exhibit
when using or handling gunpowder is incredible.
Last week a maker of fileworks at ltashclitfe, near
Huddersfield, one Shay., was sitting in a back
room with his wife. son, grandniece, and
daughter, all engaged .n making up squibs awl
crackers, &c. A heap )f some twenty pounds of
loose powder was on the table, and two tallow
candles were placed dose by with a basin of
water at Shaw's hand lo drop in the snuffs ! Of
course an explosion occurred ; it would have been a
miracle if one had not. The whole of the persons
were severely burnt, and the poor little grandniece
died from her injuries the same night. At the ordi•
nary inquiry a verdict of "Accidental death" was
returned.

LORD STANLEY, M.P., lately declined to attend
the approaching inauguration of the Norwich Free
Library. The committee forwarded an invitation to
the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., to give the
institution the advantage of his presence. The right
hon. gentleman has, however, declined the overtures
made to him.

THE BLENHEIM-HOUSE ADMISSION CHARGES have
been the subject of a diseassion in the papers. "One
who has been fleeced at Blenheim" wrote to the Times
on Monday, complaining of the extortions of the
Duke of Marlborough's servants who show the place
to strangers. Lurd Alfred Churchill, on the other
hand, complains of the inconvenience caused by the
number of visitor:, and says that the charges made
are merely sufficient to defray the extra expense
caused by the sight-seers, and deter those from
coming in who go merely to pass the time. "A Con-
sumer of Taxes," however, asserts that it is the head
gardener who pays the additional sums thus required,
and contracted with the duke to pay the extra gar-
deners out of the receipts from the visitors. Jn
reply to these statements the Duke of Marlborough
addressed a letter to the Times of Wednesday, stating
that he bad just framed fresh regulations for admis-
sion to the Blenheim galleries, at a charge of one
shilling, and twopence each for those who visit the
gardens.

THE ANNUAL ACCOUNTS OW THE LIVERPOOL CORPO-
RATION TREASURER, which have just been printed,
state that the total amount received during the year
for town dues at Liverpool was 133,4981. 7s. Id. (I. ss
returns, 2,2901. Ils. I Id.), of which 2,4961. 6s. 3i.
was expended in salaries and other costs of collection :
received for town dues and anchorage at Runcorn,
3,619/. 10s. 5d., the expenses of collection being
2,9081. 4s. 6d.
London, England, 1856-11-01

POSTSCRIPT

Despatches from Naples, Oct. 29, states the Am-
bassadors were ready to depart on the 28th. M.
Brenier has, it is said, consented to delay, upon
concessions proposed. Another telegraph says they
are expected at Marseilles on the Ist.
General Lanza replaces General Gaeta as governor
of Naples. Considerable military precautions con-
tinue to be adopted. The city was tranquil, but
trade dull.

A despatch from Calais, Thursday night, announces
that four steamers of the Russian squadron from
Kiel have been signalled. They would be in harbour
yesterday morning. The official order has arrived
by telegraph to have a supply of coal ready for them.
These steamers are a portion of the Russian squadron
en route for the Mediterranean.

Intelligence from Teheran, Oct. 6, states the
English expedition to the Persian Gulf has caused
great alarm there. The Persian troops of the army
of Afghanistan have been sent to occupy the country
around Herat.

A letter from Montenegro of the 18th, in the Ger-
man Journal of Frankfort, says :—" Prince Danilo
has received from the Ru,-sian Consul the assurance
that Russia and France have taken Montenegro
under their protection."
London, England, 1856-11-01

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Friday, Seven o'clock.
SIR CHARLES NAPIER TO SIR ROBERT PEEL.

Sir,—Pigsty be d--. You bed—. Turnips yourself. Here's
your Health, no, I don't mean that. Here's bad luck to you, and
* * * damage * * Karacter * * * Brave Sailor,
d—.

( The concluding M S. is unfinished and slightly obliterated.)

THE PRIESTS' TOAST.
As we've done the confessin', and likewise the blessin',
An' sent Paddy home wid his sowl in good state,
We'll sit at our aise now, if your Riverinees plaice now,
An' moisten our lips wid a dhrop o' " the nate."
But befi- re ye begin it, jist hould still a minit,
And I'll give yiz a toast that ye'll all dhrink, I guess—
Here's, from every true Ca.thlie, that's son o' St. Path'rick,
More power to ould Granny—bad scran to THE PRESS.
They gave us this grant, sirs, be the sowl of my aunt, sirs,
As to a bould beggar a trawneen ye'd pitch ;
And we'd nothing to say thin, as they went on their way thin,
But to lie, maybe die, in the bould beggar's ditch ;
It's out o' believance, they left us no grievance,
We were trated quite purty—l'll say it, sir—l.
We'd nothing to howl for, or stir Paddy's sowl for,
Till ould chanticleer gave us this illigant cry.
NVid that to the fore now, an' frinds in galore now,
We'd have made, before endin', good use o' the row;
For ye'll mark, more by token, contintment was broken
By these anti-Maynoothites ;—there's that, any how.
And thin, what much more is, it split up the Tories,
And stifled that scandal of Sadleir—bad eess !
0211 ! if it were prastely, I'd say it was bastely
To have our game spoiled by the sinse o' THE PRESS.
F)r this Journal, persayvin' what we were consayvin',
Sez, " Don't be desayviu', but give what is right
There is worse, in good Booth, than the grant to Maynooth,
Don't quarrel thegither, ye've plenty to fight.
'Tis this the disgrace is, to see Irish places
To the lowest and loudest all free of access."
So it sez—an I'm thinkin' you'll therefore be dhrinkin
Luck, bedad, to ould Granny—bad man to Tux
London, England, 1856-11-01

THE PRESS.

down on the chest in front of Ntaess s bunk for a few
minutes. They talked in their own language, and Pettrich
put his hands on witness's legs, and said " Piccolo." They
then went up the ladder on deck. The witness deposed
to the subsequent movements of himself and the prisoners,
and to his seeing David Thomas coining down the hold
with his hand to his neck and die blood streaming from
it. Witness returned to his bunk and remained some time
—he could not say how long, tut it seemed a long time
to him. Before Thomas came down, witness beard noises
on deck as if some one was being chased round. When it
got light, witness saw Pattinson alongside of his bunk dead
with his throat cut. Afterward* Pettrich and Barbalano
came down the forehold into the forecastle. Pettrich had
a pistol in his hand and Barbalano a long knife. Witness
jumped from his bunk and implored them to save his life,
as he had never hurt them. Pettrich caught hold of him,
kissed his cheek, and said, "Ne no touch you." The
prisoners and the other two foreigners, having plundered
the vessel, went on shore in a boat.

The prisoners were remandel.
JOHN PRATT, the young clerk in the Bank of Aus-
tralasia, who decamped a short time since with
981. 10s., belonging to the bank, has been sentenced
by the Lord Chief Baron to nine mouths' imprison-
ment with bard labour.

ANDREW BLAND, who attempted to rob Mr. Ben-
son, the jeweller, ou Ludgate-hill, was sentenced on
Wednesday to nine months' imprisonment.
THE SUSPENSION OF Fox., HENDERSON, AND CO.,
for some time past rumoured about, is at length con-
firmed. The firm is unable to meet its engage-
ments. The liabilities unsecured amount to
150,0001., the principal creditors being Glyn and
Co., Crampton, the Ebbw Vale Iron Company, &c.
According to the statement of Mr. Colema t, the
accountant, the assets are more than sufficient to
pay 20s. in the pound; and it is said that the plant
and stock are valued very moderately. The firm
have large and Frofitable contracts on hand, and it is
probable that there will be no stoppage of the works,
which in the event of an arrangement will be car-
ried on unJer inspection. The suspension has been
caused principally by a serious loss, amounting to
about 70,0001., by the R)yal Danish Railway, for
which the house contracted.

A MURDER was committed at Shrewsbury on Wed-
nesday night. A man named Hollis quarrelled with
a woman, one Ann Usher, with whom he cohabited.
One Bromley, a labourer, interfered, and Hollis
struck him a blow with a knife just under the
region of the heart. Bromley fell dead without
uttering a word. Hollis has been arrested.
HARRISON, THE WIZARD, who obtained an unen-
viable notoriety in the Dove case, was fully corn.
witted by the Leeds bench to nine months' impri•
sonment as a rogue and Vagabond fur fraud and
imposture. A charge of tigamy is also standing
against him.
London, England, 1856-11-01

Friday, Five o'clock.
SIR ROBERT PEEL TO SIR CHARLES NAPIER.

CHARLES NAPIER.

Sir.—Your insolence is not worth my notice. I told you that you
were no admiral, and the best answer you can make is that I am not
fit to be a Minister. The shot is as harmless as any of those which
you discharged at places where the Russians wero not. I recommend
you to give up your seat in Parliament, and go and grow turnips, which
in moments of excitement you can imagine to be cannon-balls, and
batter your pigsty with them.

Yours, admiringly,
ROBERT PEEL.
London, England, 1856-11-01

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SIR C. NAPIER AND SIR R. PEEL.

SIR CHARLES NAPIER has forwarded the following
letter to the morning papers:—

TO SRI ROBERT PEEL, BART.

Merchistoun, Oct. 29, 15.58.
Sir,—ln your afte'.dinner speech at Stafford, the other
day, you returned thinks for the health of her Majesty's
Ministers, in doing which you stated that " You had
visited the fortress d Cronatadt. and there was but one
opinion—from the Grand Duke Constantine down to the
youngest middy on hoard the Vladimir—that had the
energy of the commander equalled the pluck of the British
navy, that fortress at the present time would have been
crumbled in the dust.

" Sir Charles Napier had been through the whole of the
fleet and fortress, and he gave it as his opinion that A was
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affairs. There is no part of that article more
entitled to attention than its concluding re-
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AMERICA.

Intelligence from New York to the 15th has
arrived this week.

The Kansas elections had terminated favorably
to the Pro-slavery party. The Free State party did
not vote.

The Presidential election is the only political topic.
The State election in Pennsylvania had terminated
in a decisive democratic majority. The New York
Herald, referring to this intelligence, says :
The vantage ground thus far held by Mr. Fremont is
now held by Mr. Buchanan, and something more than
trusting to luck will now he required of the opponents of
the alarmed and aroused democracy.
The returns of the town elections in Connecticut
show that of 126 towns heard from 73 have gone to
Fremont, 48 for Buchanan, and 5 divided. This is
a gain of 23 for Fremont, and 14 for the democrats.
Returns from Florida show that the democrats have
carried the State by a majority of 500.
INDIA AND THE CAI'E.
ENOLAND AND PERSIA.
London, England, 1856-11-01

THE PRESS.

A RIVAL TO THE PICCOLOMINI is mentioned as
having made her debut at. Turin, in the person
of Eugenia Virginia Boccabadate, who commenced ber
theatrical career some years ago, but was obliged
from illness to abandon it, so that the present season
at Turin may be looked on as her debut before the
world, and, much to her own dismay, she found her-
self cast in the first season for the part which was
commonly supposed to be the exclusive property of
the Piccolomini. Her voice is a soprano, and not
very powerful ; but she manages it with infinite skill,
and her execution and acting have been declared by
competent judges to be faultless. In fact, says a cor-
respondent, so completely has she captivated the
general public, that if the Piccolomini should ever
re visit the scene of her former triumphs, she would
find that, although her cari Torinesi still cherish
the emotions raised by her, a very formiiable rival
has meawhile crossed her path in the person of Vir-
ginia Boccabadato. _ _ _

OLYMPIC THEATRE.-Mr. Robson has reappeared
this week, after an illness which at one time wore a
serious aspect, but from which be is now quite
recovered. Mr. Frank Talfourd's comedy, Tit for
Tat, and the burlesque of Medea, have been the
pieces selected. Mr. Robson acted with an undi
minished amount of earnestness and vigour, and
his reception was very cordial.
LYCEUM.-Mr. Dillon, in the King's Musqueteers,
shows us that his role is not confined to melodrama.
Never was the impersonation of the free, hearty,
good-tempered, careless soldier of Richlieu's age better
delineated. It is a perfect piece of acting, and, con-
trasted with the pathos of Belphegor, gives a high
opinion of Mr. Dillon's power, Miss Woolgar, as
the faithful maid, sustains her character with grace
and truthfulness. The house is nightly crowded.
London, England, 1856-11-01

SIR CHARLES NAPIER TO SIR ROBERT PEEL.

Sir,—Has for your billiard•marking slang, this Comes to let you
know that I do not valley it the valley of a haporth of Tar. Your
father would have knowd better things than to Insult his betters and
yours, but I suppose you think that as he Took off all duties, he took
Off your Duty to behave like a gentleman.
Has for the Reform Club dinner, that's Neither car nor there.
Its Eton and gone, and there's an end of that. Other folks beside an
old Salt get baccy plenus, and perhaps you would ask Jimmy
Graham who Slapped a Party on the back, and said he was to Go it,
and, when the time came for Going of it, took d—d good care he
should n't. Put that quid in your cheek, and keep it there.
Who the Devil are you to give jaw about the Grand Duke
Constantine? Who was it that got up in the House, just a few
months ago, and protested that nothing would Satiate your love for
gore but the utter prostration of the forces of Russia? They are
Prostrate, of course, and you can go over and pay your Comps. to th e
London, England, 1856-11-01

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