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The Press.
London, England, 1853-08-20

KST INDIES.

The West India mail arrived at Southampton on
Wednesday. The islands were reported to be much
healthier. The yellow fever had almost disappeared,
though it still prevailed at Trinidad and at St. Louis.
Lord Harris was recovering from a severe attack of
this malady at the latter place.
In Jamaica public affairs remained as before. The
population were anxiously expecting the arrival of
the new governor. Sir C. Grey had, it was stated,
released no less than 160 prisoners on the alleged
ground that there were no means of supporting them
in gaol. The new Chamber of Commerce wee to
London, England, 1853-08-20

JUVENILE OFFENDERS.

THE practice of introducing bills into the
House, and leaving them for consideration
over the recess, seems to be gaining ground—
a new but by no means blameworthy instance
of homage paid to opinion out of doors. Mr.
ADDERLEY, we think, has done well in follow
ing this custom. Already one sweeping change
in our system of secondary punishments has
been carried through the Lower House, with a
degree of haste, and an absence of criticism,
which admits of no justificat ion on the part either
of Government or the Legislature. But Mr. AD-
DERLEY'S measure, though of great consequence,
is open to no such primajacie objection as that
of Lord PALMERSTON. It comes to us Sane-
tioned by the report of a parliamentary com-
mittee tested by the example of other
nations—and approved, as we believe, by the
general feeling of the community. The ob
jects of this measure are sufficiently described
in the opening paragraphs of the report. In
these the facts are dwelt upon "that a vast
" amount of juvenile destitution, ignorance,
"vagrancy, and crime exist for which no re-
" reedy has been provided "—that in France,
' Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, and America,
the same evil has been encountered by vigo-
rous remedies—that " a large proportion of
" the present aggregate of crime might be pre•
" vented " if the children thus abandoned to
sin were early trained and provided fin• ; that
" a great proportion of the criminal children
" of this country require rat her systematic
" education and industrial occupation than
" mere punish merit ;" and lastly, that such
cdtteation cannot be given in the ordinary
:gaols.

The first of these propositions admits of a
simple statistical test. Between one third and
one-half of the convicts in our prisons belong
to the ff m
class
of juvenile oende. Very few of
these are reclaimed in later life. The majority
live and die as they began—professed crimi-
nals ; except where a sentence of transporta-
tion has transformed the English burglar into
an Australian shepherd or gold-digger. The
extent of the mischief was not, perhaps. until
late fully known; but its existence is acknow-
ledged and proved by the multitude of private
reformatory institutions, having for object the
education of these young offenders, and their
separation from vicious parents and associates.
The detoets of •sneh institutions we may here-
after have occasion to mention ; as also the
reformatory system which prevails among con-
tinental nations. But our present purpose.
and the subject of this article. is the ineffi-
ciency of prison discipline. as such, for the re-
e•wmation of juvenile criminals.
London, England, 1853-11-05

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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and when omitted, it 1,4 frequently from r, quite nide.
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(then 'eationa al Id always be legibly written, and OltIt•
aide of the paper only. If long it increitees the difficulty of
finding spa's for them.
Whatever is intended for insertion must he authenlieitteil hr the
name and address of the writer, not neeessarily for mildiee,
nun, but as a guarantee of his good faith.
London, England, 1853-11-05

THE PRESS.

strong drinks is about 04 millions ; that out of a
party of four tradesmen who met daily to take a glass
of ale together, one commited suicide, the wife of
the second did the same, and that all went to the
dogs. " The Queen and Morning Dew Drops" is
one of the titles in the index. We imagined all
sorts of things about mountain dew and the High-
lands, and, lest the reader should do the same, we
hasten to inform him that her Mikjesty has been
grtwiously pleased to accept from the authoress a
book bearing the above poetical designation.
London, England, 1853-11-05

NOVEMBER 5, 1853.

a fact, he could substantiate that abundant signals I
were exhibited, to which it was the prisoners' duty
to attend. Instead of thi-, they had either not seen
or neglected to act upon the various signals of dan-
ger, and thus had occasioned the accident. It was
added that they were talking together instead of re
mainiug upon the watch, and attending to their duty.
Before the charge was proceeded with, some conver-
sation took place regarding the statutes under which
the indictment was laid ; and the result showed this
singular condition of the law—that, the alleged
offence consisting merely of au act of omission, and
not having resulted fatally, the Central Criminal
Court held no jurisdiction. The indictment in such
a case should have been laid and investigated at
quarter sessions ; though, if any of the sufferers had
subsequently died of the injuries received, that court
must in turn have resigned the adjudication to a
higher tribunal. The defendants were therefore
discharged at once.
London, England, 1853-11-05

tilt rtss.

LONDON. BAT URDAY, Xol'E3f DER 5, 1853.

We are not required to announce, with ineerti
tude and trepidation, that hostilities have com-
menced simultaneously in two quarters of the
globe. As we have never shrunk from acknow-
ledging war to be war from the moment of its
commencement by the passage of the Pruth, to
convince us of its reality we have no occasion
to be listening for the roar of hostile cannon
from the banks of the Danube.

To whatever destiny OMER PACHA has been
" impelled, " as the phrase is—and whether
the intervening river has been crossed by

5,000 or 50,000 Ottoman soldiers—we can de-
scribe it but as (mother incident in the cam-
paign. The beleaguered garrison of one of
the gates of Europe, mistrusting the issue of
a parley which has lasted from Midsummer to
November, and which leaves the enemy in
possession of the approaches they occupied at
its commencement, have made a sortie, and,

like the phlegmatic schemer who has affected
meanwhile to negotiate in their behalf, have
trusted a part of the desired result to fortune.
We can await the consequences with a con-
sciousness that they are but the proem of an Iliad
which will be written hereafter, and of which
tae commencement thus depends on suspected

courage, competence, and good faith. Other
generations and other " Great Powers " may
assist at its conclusion which is beyond the
reach of conjecture. We only can scan within
permitted limits the disgrace which attends
and the mystery which shrouds, its origin.

What, indeed, is our certainty of any fact at
any stage of these portentous transactions?
Omitting retrospect, what do we know at
this moment of the relative chances of the
immediate combatants ? Has Prince Gown-
CHAXOYv less than 50,000 or more than 150,000
troops in the invaded provinces ? Is the army
of OVER PACHA H. disciplined host or a unco-
hering herd ? Are the Russians wasting with
cholera and typhus, and yet is it rash in the
PACHA to attack them? Is it their object to
gain time, for the army of °matt to melt away
as their own increases, and yet is it folly in
him to prevent its attainment ? What is the
truth of these conflicting representations, and
why do we hear two voices in the explanations
of the Cabinet?

If the Cabinet are not agreed as to existing
facts, we may feel less surprise at the failure
of their vatieinations. On Tuesday morning
the leading Ministerial organ proclaimed the
collision of the two armies "an unlikely
result." On Tuesday afternoon its Ministerial
associate announced the passage of the Danube
at IKalafat. "We believe," said the Times,
emphatically, that this day, instead of wit-
London, England, 1853-11-05

THE El ECTIiIC ELEGRAPH IN INDIA.

Pltt:PAltotTtooNS for the eionstruetioM of the electric to legnipla
from l'itleinta to Lahore, with Nanette% eventuidly to
Imeknow and Militia, are now in souse progress. Mate-
riala for It MOO stilt's have already reached A16110)041, from
whence they will have been fooraarded la,looro the end of
this nu th in the different depOtm ailing the line. The
telegraph, at first, is to be put tip in a temporary manner
on bamboos or wooden posts. The line is to prooereol from
ealentta 1.% the ritual Trunk road to a point oppositeßemires.
Bemires. where it will either cross the lianges to that place
and roma. along the Trunk road to Allaliabrul, with a
branch to Mirzapore, or it will continue along the right
bank of the t :tinges throotigh Nlirrapore, and cross the
olunina to Allahal.ad with a branch to Ilentirem. Froon
Allaliabad the line will pursue its onward comrso. to ('awn-
ore, liolagoona, Agroo. Ally glom, Meerut, !Delhi,
Lotoolianah, .11111itialer. I 'wit sir, and Lahore', the whole'
olio•tanno being 1.10.40 inilew—that is, from Calming to Alla.
Itabaol. 491; thence to Agra. Agra to I tellii, riff
Nltoontt, IMO; and front that City to toilaire, From
Agra there will be a branch to lloontiony re/ Ititloore, fur
which more than :1:10 miles of wire have been forwarded;
the real will be supplied from Bombay.
'''lie' eseetitive officers of the brand Timik roan' hare
beets instructed to and meet bamboo,. and posts
along the foot of the slope of the road, lto distribute
the wire (ruin the depicts along the roads at the travellers'
bungalows or Chokees. The bamboo% ar' to I.' placed at
:dl and the posts at WI fool apart. It is expected that
each working tarty will be able to complete ail miles of
the 111ing telegraph daily. The wire to be used is of three
descriptions--one a copper Sire almost ono-twentieth of an
inch in diameter, covered with gents po.i elm, in order to
be sunk beneath the 1111 l lin the neighbourhood of
towns and villages ; u summit of the same kind. but covered
with sheet lead in addition, fur crossing riven.; the third
find pfincipal, galvanised iron nal. aoptarter of an inch in
diameter, for the 'owl side. Half a ton of this last iv re•
'mired fur a mile, and it is in coils a opinrter of a mile long.
th, wire is of a lunch higher gauge than is used for tele-
graphs in Europe ; but there is a certaiu liability to aeci

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dents peculiar to this country which has rendered its
adoption necessary.
lts strength was tested in England, and when stretched
in a horizontal position it how the weight of a man sus.
pentled from it—so that it cannot ho injured by heavy
Liras sitting on it, or even hv a blow from a latee. It will
be stretched over t•CIVW piles fourteen feet high. This
unusual height is requisite to provide against tisk
of damage from laden elephant. or camels cstrying
their loads snider it. The ends of the wire are flattened.
anti they will be joined together pouring on them an
ingot of melted sine, shun they are brought into a proper
position for the purpose. 'rhe estimated expense of the
telegraph i. :101. a 111111C.—Priho Gazelle.
London, England, 1853-11-05

Court an lastiou.

HER MAJEsn's ROYAL VISITORS, King Leopold and
his family, still remain at Windsor, where a continual
series of shooting expeditions, banquets, &e., are pro.
sided for their entertainment. The most noticeable
feature in the royal amusements during the past
week has been the visit paid on Tuesday last to the
Crystal Palace at Sydenham. The Queen and her
guests remained three hours within the building, and
testitbAl abundant curiosity while inspecting various
parts of its vast inchoate organisation. A handsome
delkuner was provided for the party in the " Pom-
peii " Court.
'Tut: DUKE RE BRABANT and Cu►'\T of FLANDERs
visited Woolwich on Tuesday, and were shown over
the arsenal, cannon foundries, and divers depart-
ments wherein warlike weapons are abundantly made
and stored up.
THURSDAY last was the birthday of her Royal
Highness Princess Sophia. (►n the 9th (Lord
Mayor's-day) will be the birthday of the Prince of
Wales, and that of the Princess Royal on the ttlst.
HER Rowd. HionxEss Ducnt:!s or lit.orcrs-
TER continues to be seriously indisposed. The
Queen and King Leopold have paid visits of inquiry
to her royal highness, who has now passed her Vith
year.
London, England, 1853-11-05

THE PRESS.

terms in which his excellency may have addressed
the ineml.ers on the lt4th.
Business matters were most unsettled. Every
article of provisions was unusually high in price,
owing to their great scarcity, particularly the articles
of very general consumption.
The yellow fever had disappeared.

AU sTIIALIA.
THE itreTRALLin CONSTITUTION.—The task of con-
structing a constitution for Australia having iveen
referred by the home Government to the colonists
themselves, a select committee was appointed by the
legislative Council of the colony to prepare a report
upon the subject. This report was laid ut►on the
table by Mr. Wentworth shortly before the last ad-
vices were despatched from Australia. It recommends
not only that an Upper House be created, to be no-
minated by the Crown for life, but that hereditary
titles should be conferred, together with hereditary
rights of legislat: . The idea is borrowed from
Mr. Pitt's bill for the better government of Quebec,
passed in the year 1791. The scheme, however, is
not to establish a 1 se of hereditary legislators like
the British House of Lords, but to ennoble a certain
number of individuals, who, in time to come, shall
elect an Upper llouse from their own order. This
report has naturally occasioned much excitement in
the colony, and meetings were to be called all over
the country to discuss its provisions. The scheme of
a nominated Upper House seems to be strongly sup
ported by a considerable portion of the colonists ; and
by the leading journal, the Sydney Morning Herald.
Most of the other newspapers, both in New South
Wales and in Victoria and South Australia, are opposed
to the nominee system altogether. Respecting the
Lower or Representative Chamber the report pro-
poses to maintain the present distribution of the
electoral districts ; but extends the franchise to pvl.-
1401118 receiving a salary of 1(W)!. a year, or paying 101.
a year for lodging, or 401. a year for Want
It also abolishes property qualification for
members of the Representative Assembly, every voter
being qualified to be elected.
London, England, 1853-11-05

THE PRESS.

All this would be very well for a money-jobber, but
it hardly is compatible with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer of England; besides, for his blunders
the public have unfortunately to pay,—and, to say
the least of it, these operations tend to lessen the
resources of the Bank of England, so far as the ac-
commodation to the public is concerned, for the
Bank cannot employ as heretofore the Government
balances for the accommodation of the publi-, when
they may be called on by the Government itself for
their balances for some fanciful operation.
Consols cicso this afternoon Oft } for the ac.
count, and 04} to it money. Stock still continues
very scarce, and bears per cent. premium. So
long as this lasts money must continue abundant.
The exchanges are much the same, and the Corn
Market is is. lower, and flat in appearance.
Exchequer Bills arc '2 to 5 premium. About
504,000 r., principally in silver, has been shipped
during the week for India and China.
London, England, 1853-11-05

FOREIGN FUNDS.

All foreign fillets are higher this week, especially
Pernvian and Mexican.
The intelligenee of remittances for the amount
required to pay a di% Wend of 1 i per eent. ou Mexican
k confirmed, and the dividend will shortly be
advertised. We regret, however, that this operation
has been effected by pledging the forihemning duties
belonging to the bondholders.
Mr. Faleonnet is expected by the next packet ;
and wo hope to hear that he ha• made those ar-
rangement% before he leaves Mexico that will at
lesat secure the bondholders their 15 per cent, of the
duties, whatever they may be.
London, England, 1853-11-05

THE 131tITAN NIA NEWSPAPER.
Deice, 141, STRAND.
The Proprietors of the Britannia have secured the exclusive
right of publishing in the columns of the Britannia au Illistorieal
Tale, entitled WES'f3IINSTER ; or, the Days of the
Reforniatioti, by the Author of '• Whitefriara," which will eons.
melte.. on Saturday, the sth of Oetulwr, aud bu continued
Weekly without ititermission.
Price Sixpence. Post-ofliee order* payable toJonti Mon-rim vit.

THE LIVERPOOL MAIL,
I. Prier. 54. (published every Saturday), it now penuanently
enlarged, by menus of a gratuitous Weekly Supplement, to the
extent of sixty rolunins. The average cirettlatioti of the Lirer•
pool Mail him steadily increased, and is, already and for some
time past, int its For writ Thousand. At the head of the Tory
and Conservative press of the first seaport on earth, and an the
chief local organ of that great national and country party which
has elevated Tory Liverpool to its present proud position, the
Lirerpool .Mil (it is almost ingwrfluous to add) is se Ito no
provincial }monad as tot extensive and influential advertising me-
ilium. The following are the sKtircr.b customs for advertising
in the Lirerpool :—Two lines, Out' Shilling, increasing lid.
by every two lines additional. All papers to be charged.
Post-ftlee order* to be made payable to the Proprietor, IL H.
SnEuLocs. Office, Liver.eottrt, South Castle•street, Liverpool.
London, England, 1853-11-05

T ILE THISTLE.

oct. ►tot.
The Queen Iwl4l a chapter of the Mont. Ancient and Meat Noble order of tl►e Thistle
at three o'cluek ►his attereoen in the Castle.—c►wed Circular.
A Chapter at Windsor was held t'other day
For giving the Thistle of Scotland away ;
And a motley assemblage as ever was seen
Went down in the carriage with old .Ini:ntir:r:v.•
A Baron, an Earl, and a Duke ton, were there,
Who propos'il amongst then► the Thistles to share ;
A Whig, and a I'eelite, and something between,
All went in the carriage with old Anrunah:N.
The IlArimerrow Earl, and the Lord of PANIMBE,
Had never agreed in one object before;
lint now both admitted there never hail been
A Minister equal to old ABERDEEN.
But as for the Puke—they considered it low—
For Lord Denny appointed his Duchess, you know;
And now he accepts with alacrity keen
The Thistle, when offered by obi Ant:to
Yon know it is said, when misfortune wertakes us,
With very strange fellows acquainted it makes us;
But here the reverse and contrary is seen—
Tis fortune combines us with old Anr.nPrEtt.
'Tis fortune has made Coalitions the go,
With liessrt.i. and GrAtecrowe, and Mi,Lesworrie end Co.—
Ilas mixed up a motley kaleidiscope scene,
And made the head showman of old Atit:nneEN.
John Bull, looking on, said, "Well, say what you may,
" While Anrenyes rules you are right to make hay;
" And I trust every donkey, whatever his mien,"
" May each get a thistle from old ABERDEEN.
" Your ears may be lengthy, but heed what I say :
" You may all take a hint fr►m the Vicar of Bray ;
" For the nation it will not for ever, I wecn,
" Submit to be govern'd by DM ABERDEEN."

• l'he Enrl of Alwrdeen, the Earl of lladdington, the I►uke of Athol, I.onl Pantunte.
the Earl of Manrti►ld, and two or three officials, went down in the name railwapoarriage
to Wiitdse tr.

SIR CHARM% Wool) AT HAI.IYAC nail, WI hive much to
get through this evening." lie did not say whether it was in the
wood or the bottle, and his subsequent observations on the Porte
afford no due.

IMPORTANT ON STRIKES.
IT iS said that the Russian army on the Danube is decimated by die-
ease ; tio is the Wigan police—one of them is on the nick lift.

I
London, England, 1853-11-05

of that. North Eastern barbarism which has
been from the remotest ages the scourge and
terror of civilisation. Can we wonder that in
his hands the balance trembles, and that
to-day we have no sure and safe augury of the
morrow ?

ELECTORAL REFORM.

WE do not conceive that it can be necessary
in discussing the various plans put forward,
for the amendment of the English franchise,
to resume our criticism of that shadowy
scheme whereby " education," in the abstract,
was to be represented in the House of Com-
mons by the substantial presence of not less
than ninety members. Suffice it to say of
that project that it frames an electoral body
supposed to possess something like a monopoly
of enlightenment which, in all human probabi-
lity, would exclude three times as much talent
as it let in. To the quack doctor—to the half-
crazed and wholly ignorant field preacher—to
the raw youth from college, whom dire neces-
' sity and the exertions of his " coach " have
barely saved front plucking—to the priest,
whose whole life is professedly a renunciation
of private thought and independent action—it
says, " You are of the enlightened : enter
freely; exercise the right of suffrage, for
which you, comparatively so few, have been
chosen out from the whole people of this
country." But the artist, though gifted with
talents which make his reputation familiar,
not only to England, but to Europe—whose
name is proverbial for skill in one of the most.
refined and humanising of professions—whose
works, cheaply reproduced, are to be found In
the cottage as well as the palace—is not ad-
mitted to this select body. The author who,
like many of those most distinguished in the
present day, has not gone through the routine
of a university education, but whose publica-
tions command a sale, in the Old and the New
World, not of thousands, but of hundreds of
thousands, finds here no place. The editor
and reviewer, whose office of public instructor
is now recognised, not by the people alone,
but by Courts and Cabinet's, has no part in
this exclusive oligarchy of intellectual preten-
sions. These objections are obvious : others
might be added of a more indirect and inferen-
tial nature, but founded, as it seems to us, on
grounds of reason equally strong. Knowledge,
of all tangible or intangible things, is that
which least requires adventitious aid to de-
velop it into power. It can make its own
way. In the majority of instances where it
exists it confers on its possessor the material
means whereby to become possessed of the
franchise, even were that franchise much more
restricted than it is. Of course there must be
exceptions. Doubtless there are learned and
wise men living in England who, I,v
peculiar combination of cireumatnt res, aro
ranked among non-"lectern. But tise same
may be said in regard of wealth. No one corn-
plains, so far as we know, that property, eve.
London, England, 1853-11-05

NOVIMBER 5, 1853.

THE NiXBERS ATTIINHINO the Museum of 0111/1-
mental Art at Marlborough-house, during the mouth
of October, was as follows:-25,80? persons on the
public days, admitted free ; 1,406 persons on the
students' days, and admitted as students on the pay-
ment of 61. each, besides the registered students of
the classes and schools.
HISS CATHERINE HAWS gave her parting concert
at Valparaiso on the 12th September. At Santiago
she gave several concerts which netted her 10,000
d Mars.
THE MIRE LAMENNAIS is said to be dying in his
garret, in the Rue de Valois, in l'aris. lie refuses
to see a priest.
THE EMPEROR, on the report of the Minister of the
Interior, has ordered the distribution of four gold and
249 silver medals to different persons in Paris and
the departments for acts of courageous humanity and
devotedness which have been reported during the
third quarter of the present year.
A New Pniteriao Paess is described by our Ameri-
can contemporaries which will print from uncut
paper, rolling from a cylinder, cutting and folding,
with perfect regularity, 30,000 copies each hour. The
inventor declares his ability to print one mile of paper
as fast as a locomotive can run on a railway.

Ws have to record the sudden death of Mr. John
Savill Faucit, which took place upon Tuesday morn-
ing, from heart disease, at the house of a widowed
daughter, residing near Bishopsgate. Mr. Faucit
was one of the few remaining of the old school of
provincial managers, and was an actor of no ordinary
talent. He was husband of the celebrated Mist.
Fetich of the Theatres Royal, and father of Miss
Helen Faucit (now Mrs. T. Martin). As an author
Mr. Flinch has written some very successful dramas;
the most popular of which were " The Miller's Maid,"
and " Wapping Old Stairs." An historical serial,
which appealed some years back, called " The Heads
of the Headless," was also from his pen.
London, England, 1853-11-05

FRANCE.

General Baraguay ice-President of the
Senate, has been appointed French Ambassador at
Conatantinople, vice M. de la Cour, " summoned to
other functions," according u, the official phrase of
the Moniteur. General &Milers took leave of the
Emperer on Monday, and let). Pais on the following
day l'or Toulon, en route to Constantinople.
Vice-Admiral Drina has taken the command of the
ocean squadron at Brest.
The Minister of Marine has granted the young
brother of the late Lieutenant liellot a free admission
to the naval school of Itochefort.
General Narvaez left Paris on Tuesday for Madrid.
The following are the names of the persons im-
plicated in the affair of the Opera Combine, which is
to be tried on Monday next, the its inst. :—Decroix
de Meren, Ribault de Laugardiere, Ituault, Bratiano,
Allix, Mariet, Turenne, Lallize, Follot, Lux, Jautl,
Baudry, tirabat, Copinot, tierard, Banc, Matz, Com-
mies, Folliet, Joirun, Deuey, Thirez, Mazillo, Martin,
Mailliet, and Mouchiroutl. The charge against them
is " Plot against the safety of the State, and against
the life of the Emperor."
Prince Jerome is said to be contemplating au ex-
cursion into Italy. Prince Napoleon hu returned
from Stuttgardt.
Tuesday being All Saints'-day, which is observed
as a strict holiday throughout France, the Bourse
and public offices were all closed. None of the
papers came out on the following day.
According to the table which fixes the sale of
wheat the price has advanced) considerably. By the
preceding return the average for the whole of France
was 261. 2c. ; it is now 27f. plc., or If. S;lc. higher.
The Lorientas-Bretegne has received a warning
from the Prefect of the Morbihan for having, as the
notice declares, published a false statement of the
prices of corn in the markets of that department,
thereby causing alarm in the public mind.
Two Imperial decrees, founded on a long report
from the Minister of War, for the encouragement of
the cultivation of cotton in Algeria, have appeared in
the Moniker. By the first of these decrees it is
declared, first, that cotton seed shall continue to be
furnished by the Government to the colonists;
second, that for three years from Isfil the Govern-
ment shall purchase the produce at a price to be
fled each year, accenting to quality ; third, that at
the expirae of those three years :►remiums shall
be given for two years for the exportation of the
cotton of Algeria ; fourth, that for five years from
ISM premiums shall be given for the introduction
of machines for the use of the planters ; and fifth,
that there shall be provincial premiums (three for
each province of Algeria) of t 2,0001., ;I,INK►f., and
5,0(10f., to the planters who produce the best speei-
nietis and the largest quantities. By the second
decree a sum of lIIO,OOOf. is appropriated from
the civil list for the encouragement. of the culti•
nation of cotton in Algeria, to form an annual pre-
mium of 20,0001'
~ to be called the prize of the Em-
peror.
Madame de Nenilly has gone into a convent at
Metz. Captain Laporte will be tried by court mar-
tial for the murder of lieneral de
London, England, 1853-11-05

art, 2:ittraturt, k.

THE CURIOUS CASE OF LUMLEY r. GYE iv still pend-
ing, and will be tried at the sittings after the ensuing
Michaelmas Term. It is an action against Mr. (lye
for inducing Miss Johanna Wagner, the celebrated
German artiste, to break her alleged contract with
Mr. Lumley, who lays his damages at. 30,0001. The
principal witnesses, including Miss Wagner herself,
being beyond the regular jurisdiction of the English
courts, a commission has been issued to take their
evidence at Berlin, where their examination anti
cross-examination will be conducted by English
counsel, through the medium of a sworn interpreter.
Mr. Hayward, Queen's Counsel, has been named
sole commissioner, and will discharge, pro tanto, the
ditties of a judge at a nisi Arius trial. The COLUllliN-
sion is to open at Berlin on Monday next, the Sth
instant.
FESTIVAL or THE THREE Cuouts.—Arrangentents
are already in preparation for the meeting to be held
at Worcester next year. At a preliminary meeting
twelve gentlemen signified their willingness ti accept
the office of stewards. The Dean of Worcester, who
was present, granted permission that the cathedral
may be used for the purpose, upon condition that
early divine service be performed on each day of the
festival, as at Gloucester last month.
TnE CELEBRATED GIRAFFE, "Jenny Lind," the
star of her species, left the Zoological Gardens, Re-
gent's-park, yesterday week, for a provincial tour,
having been purchased of the society by Mr. James
Edmonds, proprietor of the Royal Menagerie ( late
Wombwell's), fur 1,000 guineas. This splendid
animal stands eighteen feet high. There were
many eompetitors for the prize, and the purchaser,
it is said, had au offer of 1,5041/. for "Jenny " some
two hours after having secured her, but it was at
once declined.
TAE WELLINOTON STATUE COMMITTEE Of 011ild-
ball, of which Mr. John Wood is chairman, have
selected the models sent in by the six following
sculptors as those entitled to the premium of 10(5
guineas each :—Adams, Belmes, Bell, Foley, Smith,
and Thomas. The number of models before the
committee was thirty. The committee have not yet
determined upon the se:ection of a model for the
monument, and it is not known whether any one of
the above-mentioned artists is to be engaged to carry
into execution the great work.
THREE YOUNO LADIES, nieces of Mr. Henry
Russell. made their (abut last week as vocalists.
On the .-26tIt of October they sang before a numerous
audience at Breutfccis and were well received.
London, England, 1853-11-05

THE PRESS.

Is this policy, at once conciliatory and Con
servative, practicable? Can the franchise be
placed on such a basis as, while giving to
intellectual and social superiority their due
weight, to admit all, save the actually house-
lots and pauper, to some participation in its
piivileges? We do not positively answer
" yes"; yet the possibility merits inquiry ; the
object all must acknowledge to be good ; the
means may fairly he discussed hereafter.

THE LATE BOARD OF ADMIRALTY.
WE report this week, at a length which is due
to its special importance, a dinner at Dart-
mouth, at which Sir THOMAS HERBERT, K.C.8.,
vindicated tL. late Board of Admiralty, of
which he was a member, from the petty &apen
sinus of intriguing malevolence. Our first
impulse was to comment on the simple and
manly statement of the gallant admiral, but we
prefer that, for the present, it should tell its own
tale of honourable intentions encountered by
underhand plottings, and of successful efforts
disparaged by calumny.
We have no desire to rip up an old con-
troversy, but we cannot avoid pointing
at the detriment to the public service if
a generous, a patriotic, and accomplished
noblem in like the Duko of Neartium twit
T.AND is thereby deprived of one tittle of his
due honour for the most disinterested and
successful administration of our Admiralty
upon record. The Committees on the Capabi-
lity of Steam-packets and the Merchant Marine
and on the Manning of the Navy vouch for his
assiduity ; and the fleet which he created, but
which others are incompetent to use for a cri-
tical emergency, is a monument of his success.
In presenting the details of the Duke's admi-
nistration, Sir THOMAS HERBERT has not only
rendered justice to himself and his colleagues,
but, wherever public spirit is extant, an oppor-
tune service to his country.
London, England, 1853-06-18

COLOGNE UNION.

A CONCERT, partly sawed in character and partly
secular, was given by the Cologne Union at Exeter-
hall on Monday last. The admirable performances
of this society are daih increasing in 'similarity ;
and we trust they will be rewarded for their exer-
tions. not only in a pecuniary point of view, but by
the improvement which, it is to be hoped, their ex-
ample will effect in choral singing in this eonntry,
and which, as true artists, they will doubtless rejoice
to have assisted in aecomplishing. We are of opinion
that the music performed by the Cologne company is
monotonons in eharacter. and generally inferior to
the best compositions of the English school of vocal
writing : and it seems strange that so much eager-
ness should be displayed on the part of the upper
classes to hear a species of music whose native
dwelling-place is so much nearer their own homes
than the soil of I lerinany. Hut fashion is all-,mower-
rid, and those who would not listen to a glee or a
madrigal, however perfectly performed. will rush in
crowds to hear II foreign company, whose exeellences
they do nut understand, and whose defects they are
unable to see. An organ performance by M. Schnei-
der of Dresden was a Very moderate affair. Our
English organists are so superior a race that he must
be a hold malt (as Menolelssohn was wont to say)
who puts himself in comparison with them. It is,
however, hardly fair to criticise severely ate per-
former who has no other means of exhibiting his
;dent than by playing on the wretched and worthless
instrnment which has for years been a disgnwe to
Exeter hail and the Sacred Harmonic Swim).
London, England, 1853-06-18

foreign artistic Cossip.

(From our o Correspondout.)
BRUSSEts, JUn( 16.
Oroat.i: SAND has aetually an inedited eometly,
Nato, ue the. Chateau de MethMarl, in rehearsal at
the St. Hubert Theatre in Brussels. Mme. Brohan.
now Mme. linehard, will shortly reappear at the
Theittre Francais in the part of relintene. Mme.
Emile de Girardin's Lady Tortuffe, translated into
tierman, was performed with moderate sticeess at
Berlin. Ira Aldridge, the black tragedian, embarked
at Lubeck for Copenhagen, and is engaged for the
winter at Petersburg. Philippe Galli, formerly a
celebrity of the Italian Opera, died at Paris a
London, England, 1853-06-18

Lineal descendant of illustri►►us men.
Who lost a stubborn head, or drained a Fen :
Increased their wealth descends to his cont•ol
The Lydiun's treasures, and a l►edla's soul

Forth on his daily round behold him go,
From cringing friend, to blindly generous foe :
Those he consults on trifles of the day.
And drops for these the word whirls leads sistra.t.
Congenial task, to prick the listening r,►r.
And do from taste what DioN did from tear!

But does our Satrap deer► it no tli:.,gracc
To mask with studied smiles his withered ti►e ?
To twirl his meagre thumbs with jaunty air.
And plot your ruin, while lie tills your chair?
Wealth may be his, the pride of platy and birth;
Ills the ►titre passport of ancestral worth:
But not the spirit which dates the Tower,"
And risks a neck for duty. or for power.--
Content he guides the reins of small int►igue,
Soul of a trick. or patron of a I wagne !

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151

A Dusinmtvrtm.—The performante at this nonnunt of Cola
undertaking " to crumple the Russian empire like a sheet of piper,"
or, failing this. neommission of inquiry to ascertain whether the paper
contemplated watsfoidoeip.
London, England, 1853-06-18

4111rhtts.
6

('MIN EXCIIANtir. Filin \V.—Then. lsatslieen a good arrival
of foreign wheat this week. fair IX English, and of other
grain small. To•day's market was moderately at reinleil only,
but including some distant purchasers t nevertheless the
sales of foreign wheat were confined to necessitous buyer*.
oe to parcels which, from particular circumstances, wen,
comparatively cheap. The value of English is also. an.

JUNE 18, 1853.

altered. Barley, beans, and peas bring fully Mondays
prices. There is a rod trade for oats, and in some tn.
stances Monday's pnces were exceeded. Flour is fully as
dear, and the finest brands are in request. Holders of
cargoes of wheat from the South show more disposition to
sell, and some business has been done at a trifling reduc-
tion. London avenge prices and sales of grain :—Wheat,
3,339 qrs., 475. sd. : barley, 081 qrs., 275. ; oats, 0,10:3
qrs., 181. Ild. ; rye, 215 qrs., 315. 4d. ; beans, 181 qrs., 38s.
ld ; peas, 21 qrs., 355. Ild.
Surrerret.n.—The supply of beasts on sale to-day was
but moderate as to number, and rather deficient in quality.
Most breeds moved off slowly, yet Monday's prices were
well supported. The primest Scots realised la. Ad. to 4a. dd.
per sibs. We were fairly supplied with sheep, in which a
good business was doing at full quotations. The best old
Downs were worth 4s. Bd. per Sibs. Although the num-
bers of lambs were on the increase, the demand for that
description of stock ruled firm, at an advance of 21. per
81bs. The top figure was Os. 4d. The supply of valves
was very extensive. The veal trade was finn, at full prices.
The highest quotation was ss. per Sibs. In pigs very little
is doing. Milch cows were in fair request, at from 151. 10s.
to 191.55. each, including the calf.
COAL EXCHANGE: Prices at present are quoted :--Best
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London, England, 1853-06-18

THE PRESS.

Catholic missionaries arrived between the end
of the sixteenth century and the beginning of
the present one, and ten years ago they had
eight bishoprics in China, one hundred and
fourteen native priests in addition to their
European staff, and the Amides de lac Foi for
1839 estimated their converts and communi-
cants by hundreds of thousands.
All this is, of course, independent of the la-
bours and the converts of the various Protes-
tant missions which, for the last forty or fifty
years, have been established in China, but
whose success has been far less striking than
that of the Church of Rome.
It is not to be wondered at then if, amongst
a people who practically adopt education as the
title to official employment and political power,
these Christian converts, with their numerous
schools and their native catechists and teach-
ers, have established a wide and prevailing in-
fluence in Chinese affairs ; and hence the dis-
couragement and suspicion which of late years
the Emperor has manifested towards the
Christian population ; the authorities being ac-
customed to identify them with the political
societies of "the Triad" and the "White Lily,"
which take a prominent, share in the present
insurrection. It is true that KEYING, in 1844,
proclaimed an act of toleration towards the
professors " of the religion of the Lord of
ileaven," Protestants as well as Roman Catho-
lics, but it is equally well known that all are
regarded with distrust on political grounds,
from a feeling of alarm for their sentiments
and apprehension of their numbers.
With a knowledge of these facts, it is
easy to understand that the leaders of the pre-
sent revolution, who make their appeal to the
intelligence and patriotism of the educated
classes of China, may have found it their in
terest to address themselves to the Christian
communities, by whom education has been
widely promoted ; and that, in emblazoning
the insignia of Christianity on their banners,
they have resorted to no temporary stratagem,
but appealed boldly in a name and to a body
who command a powerful and increasing sym
pathy anti influence throughout the extent of
China.
London, England, 1853-06-18

THE POETRY OF HOME. By
lI coonwiN BAUM BY.

" This little volume contains no distempered thought, no
sophisticated sentiment, no morbid passion—everything about it
is heulthfid, natural, and pure—an atmosphere of goodness is
iround writ refreshing sense as of morning mmashine and
arh dews, and huts ' Kluging its they soar; renovates and trim-
luiliimes the world-wearied reader, who accordingly feels towards
this artless child of wing a degree of gratitude and liking which
loftier gifts and a more ronsuumuate culture may frequently have
failed to call forth. Earnestl) we thank Goodwyn Thumb). for
this • Poetry of home."'—lrechip Newland ('ltroniele.
W. TwErmr, 337, Strand.
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THE PRESS.

of the hospital, but in consequence of the breaking
out of scarlet fever, by which one of the masters and
two of the pupils had been carried oli the governors
prudently declined the responsibility of holding the
banquet there. From the large number of visitors
who attended there was a goo.l deal of crowding, and
sume confusion; but these difficulties were overcome,
and upwards of four hundred guests, probably the
largest number that ever dined in Merchant Tailors
Hall, were accommodated without auy great incon-
venience.
London, England, 1853-06-18

Yl;l\t'b:,S' TitE.vritE.

WE are compelled, 11,ibm t►ant Of !pare, to po►ttpoa!
our notice of Ste rdit 'mixt! use until 'WM. Neel,.

FRENCII MAYS.
os Wednesday lust Mine. tikardites play, Lady
Tartu" was produced at this theatre ; Mlle. Rachel
and M. Regnier sustaining the parts originally fluted
by them at the Theism' Francais in Paris. Our
opinion of this play i.. that although poulideesbbe
ability is displayed in the manner iu which some of
the characters also eonceived, still that no mount of
stoic fortitude would enable any impartial spectator
to go through the tour mortal hours which the re-
presentation occupies without some sensation of
weariness, more especially it' he happens to be sitting
in an ill-ventilated theatre and a chair which has
neither sows nor any ordinary degree of comfort.
This play is, in fact, devoid of all those features
of excellence which usually constitute the espeeial
merit. oh' modern French dramatic writing, and is
neither remarkable for skill of construction nor
novelty of ideas. The phot is issust impriolathie
and absurd, and the materials of which it is two •
posed ere so inartistically put together that the audi-
ence hedonics involved in a 'affect labyrinth of eon-
fusion ; and without a perusal of the work it re-
quires more knowledge of the French language
than the majority of the frequenters of the St. JunieWs
Theatre possess to understand fully the manifold
evolutions and devolutions of the story. Mlle. Rachel
looked excessively well as Lady Tortuffe. We think,
however, that she is unquestionably less great in
prose, and in modern costume, than in the works of
the classic writers and the garb of ancient Greece or
Rome. Added to this, there is a want of ease and
natural manner in her performance which, when
placed in contrast with M. Regnier's most excellent
impersonation of the Baron de Tourbiirre, was doubly.
apparent. No words can express our almiratiou of
this gentleman's acting : the mummer in which he
identified himself with Isis part was beyond belief.
We regret that we should again have to refer to
the hateful practice of calling the actors on the stage
after their exit. On this occasion the shout was
raised for M. Regnier, who for some time very pro-
perly declined to appear. We are sure that if M.
Regnier was aware that this detestable custom is
thoroughly un-English, and never suffered iu our
own theatres, he would not condescend to respond to
the applause of those who, by their conduct, show
themselves unworthy of his notice.
London, England, 1853-06-18

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