The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-19 00:00:00

COURT OF ALDERMEN.

Yesterday s wart was held. Mr. s
leeted
(sob
ol the lets Alderman Lawrence') who was sleeted alderman
for Bread-street Ward, ote !Wards .the Bth fasten', sp.
coved at the bar for the purpose of befog swim leo his
sew .a... He was asesimpasied by Kr. O. W. Sherrill,
Kr. Millard. morel mono& , oneseilmes, sad a
somber of highly respectable geadomea meneeted with
wan.
Kr. linsomirr, in premeds, Mr. Lemnos fie Use court,
said he had the honour of introducing the sea of the late
la routed sideman for the ward of Dread Mee*, who had
beets sleeted to the .8.5 of alderman is the plain of his
father. The merits of the late alderman bad been folly con-
sidered by the electors of tbe ward, and he (Kr. Sherrill)known
felt guile satisfied that the use. fon his well-
habits of business, and his assiduous 'notion to the Otero,.
of the City would not only make ea easiest ktrate,
but wished,. be s credit to those who had .let aim to
toproleat these is the Cott of Aldermen. He had bees
bore sad bred is the ward, sad had been connected in
business with his father. with whoa he had resided aU his
lit.. He lead been well knows to awn of tbeeleeteni of the
ward for a greet nosy yore, and from the partisidar is
tarot he bad continually eviased in the ruins mottos
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admisistered to him, sad reeeived the coosostslatioso et
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LONDON, WRDNISDAY, DICEJM4I_I4

promotion of the war, bemuse, unfortunately, no.
body hes yet given popular fixity and clearness to
de
the idea implied by the arse, sod ther,Tsfim
hope that the other will be brosibt tog
close. In a word. Carlton era Nil; b
be everywhere started upon f . pretenceebtaitasts
professions of liberality. • &et le in
time. They have been often duped before—ft will
be their own lau:t if they are doped again. If they
are. it will mot them dear.

fiAILUEL

limand Rogers has been spoken of ever ethos any-
WHATIVIB may be-dm reasons why a diembetiesi Indy can remember as " Rogers the poet." It is
et Parliament is looked ea with aversima by Gerbils lees as a poet, however, that his name will live than
political cliques and coteries, it is certain that • as a patron of literature—probably the last of that
gourd belief prevails that such an event cannot be owe who will in England be called a atvemuss.
very long deferred. Oa all sides it is felt that the His life was a remarkable one, from the great age be
existing Hues of Commons doSS not represent the sttehmei doting s aided period of civilisation; and
fesIMP or emeietione of the ematrY. Bloated "dm his function was a remarkable one—that of repre-
wholly different eireunistanete from those which sow mon the bridge over which literature has wood
exist, it no longer answers any real or eland per- from the old condition of patronage to the new one
peas of a esastitational assembly. The general else- of independence. He hoard 64 tics talk of the
ties of 1862 was a final appeal to the nation regarding town" (recorded by Dr. Adams) on James's Let-
the principle Da which Ito rommalelal policy Amid ter to Lord Chesterfield; and he lived to an
be earned on; and MOO cows sham mainly with the improvement of am copyright law, the removal
reblemee to the views they Pmfemed arm that of most of the tames ea knowledge, and so vast as
important, sad, for the time, all4hambiall slam- increase of the Milli peas OD hes maimed the
tics. Fat that gentian ease aimed of, no fanatics of patron if awdreackfrasebes. Kepi=
ether erased to have without hold spa the Wads could now help an author to fame; and every anther
of anything like a majority of its members to form who has anything genuine to say out say it wittiest
the Miele of an administration; and to this essential dreaming of any application to a rich man. Samuel
het is, in truth, attributable by far the greater Por• Rogers lived through the whole period when the pub-
tics of the `mammas "aid" sad blundering limbers were the purses, sad withered the complete
that bee obamotorieed the madaot of Gommamat moms of Mr. Dickens's plan of independence of the
fee the last them years. Homo aroo• the PomibilitY publishers themselves. He was a youth of fifteen or
of • Coalition Cabinet. In a Parliament that vividly thereabouts when half ""the town" was KlilidaStd
sad mearatel7 /reamed the Formal wishes of the at Dr. Johnen's audacity in saying what he did to
nation, sad not merely its Pelletal detal= of a Mollie Lord Chesterfield, and the ether half was delighted
matemmeY. a Coalition Military would have how a at the courage of the rebuke. It was not long No-
thing impossible. Is a Pull/meet which in the tee that the " Letters of Junius" hod beret upon
first Ida weal it eat bad performed its only mimics, the political world r and Rogers was quits old
sad which thenceforth had neither party the nor enough to undentand the nature of the triumph,
asthma pledges to govern or guide its action en any when the prosecution of woodfali failed, and the prom
vital subject, a coalition of Permaal and family into preserved its liberty under the assaults of royal and
nets was easy if not inevitabie. Upon the saber ministerial displessare. Hie connexiout in life fixed
quest changes and &Mins and trandonsatioas we his attention full oa the paresention of Priestley and
mad mot dwell. Enough. that at every stale the other vindicators of liberty of speech; while belay.
NOW want of say healthful costrolling pressure in in curious combination with this phase, that kind of
the choice of "'lingoes and meaciatee was betrayed. patronage which even the Priestley. of those days
Nobody meld tell at any given period upon what accepted as a matter of course :—Dr. Priestley living
feadameatal principle the Administration was with Lord Shelbarse, without oaks; sad afterwards,
deauda Any one whose medal manatione or Per- hie being provided with an them* by the subserip.
soul pliability of disposition rendered him socept- dons of friends, to enable him to carry on his philo-
abler might do apparently as well as another. Hie sophical researches. Then came the new aspect of
antecedents. whatever they might have been, seemed things, when the Bross, the Moores, Campbells, sad
absolutely immaterial; and whether be had been goony were the curets of the Murray;,
„,._ll reformer or an aitti'refrmaer• °SI admit*foemer, of the Longessns, and the Constables—that curious,
the war or its opponent, nicer appears to hays but rather short transition stage when, as Moore mid,
hem considered in appointments to dies of the patrons learned perforce, through interest, the
either high or low degree. Far from having got taste which had not been formed by education. Those
Omagh, at got over, this danginer, became wholly were the days of bookselling monopoly, whoa the
fathotakos, quagmire in the natioaal path, we have publisher decided what the reading public should
bad within the Mat few weal the most otrihial rode have to read, sad at what price. Rogers aw that
et the contrary; foe have we not seem use of the monopoly virtually destroyed; the greatnem of the
highest posts is the state offered IS .1001101011 to a great bosses paean away, or reduced to that of
Derbytte, a Pulite, and a Whig. and that within the trade eminence simply, and authors and the public
Woos of some ten days ? We are not discus's( the brought has to fare, or certain to be so presently.
merits or demerits of any of these offers—that were His own function, all the while. was a mixed one, in
superfluous. What we cite the fact to prove is this. accordance with the changes of the time. He was,
that lamolleaeilYead fora are wanting in the national in the course of his long life, both client and patron;
ounstive, because consisteacy, order, sad purpose are sad for a groat put of it he was both at once. His
warding in the existing Legislature. The Ham of puree was open to the poor author, and his Influence
Commons is not predominantly a Whig house or a with the great publishers was at his service, while
Coseereatiee house, or a Radical bones—lt le simply be himself sat at put men's tables ass poet and a
a bows full of Gebel, intrigUet and anareby, in which wit more even than se a coenoisour in art, and on-
all WM of party honour is lost and all reproach taioly much mote than as a rich banker. The last
of political inconsistency has booms a matter of character he kept out of sight as mash as possible.
laughter. When, some years since, hie bank was robbed to so
The people, we believe, are awakening to a sense enormous an amount by the pillage of a safe that
of the danger of such a state of things, and to a clear everybody apposed it must stop payment; and when
pareeption of its teal causes. Instead of railing at ft did net atop, and all his great friends testified their
the Minister who, like a captain in a wreck, is trying sympathy first, and then their joy, it was a curious
to construct a loose raft anyhow, from spars and Irv- thing to observe the old poet's bearing, and to hear
meats that can never fit, bat for a time may just the remarks upon it. He was wonderfully reserved,
bold together till the storm subsidess, men of all and passed off the whole with a few quiet jokes,
sissies and opinions long to see an end of a condition through which was plainly seen his modification at
of affairs so perilous and Impregnates. If the war being resognised as a banker. in a sphere where he
is to go on, they desire to see earnedness in the hoped he was kaowa as an associate of the great,
Government; and they have learnt by experience and the first eortcsoisseer is England.
that they cannot have that without earnestness in His was not a case of early determination of the
Parliament. And if peace is at hand, they want tune of life. In his early youth, his father one
parity and courage in the Parliament as the only evening asked all his boys what they would be.
guaraatee foe a vigorous spirit of wise and gradual Sat would not tell unless he might write it down,
reform in the councils of the Crowe. In either cam for nobody bat his father to see. What he wrote
they are resolved to disown, tad to call for the die- was, " A Unitarian minister." He was destined for
minima of, the present make-believe Hues of Com- basis, however; but hie tom of literature was not
me" It Yumaas to ask, of what sort will its sae- thwarted by it. We have seen Moore die in decrepid
seem be P To estimate the probabilities of this, we old ; yet did Moore, in his boyhood (when he was
mut watch and note the preparations that are fourteen), delight in Rogers's" Plossures of Memory"
=Wel is various quarters for the coming struggle. —the poem being then so common as to have found its
And met of all, we are bound to bttik% what loom way into schools in class books and collections.
de the Tory party mean to parses P They claim to When young Homer came to London to begin his
be—probably they are, at Meat in name—the largest career, he found Rogers a member of the Sing of
motion in the existing Parliament that can be our Clubs, the intimate of Mackintosh (who was his
visually cased or surprised into mustering under Junior), scarlet, Sharpe, and others—long gone to
see recognised flag. Whenever the Dote of warning the gram as old men—and one, Maltby, who'
4111 be given from Downiurelmet, that tattered and was a twist woods: with himself as to years. The
threadbare standard will be once more "furled from last evening that Mackintosh spout in London before
the summits of "the Carlton :" what device will it his departure for India was at Rogers's. "Somewhat
this time bear f Fifteen years ago, on the eve ot *melancholy ereathews are told it was; and the hod,
similar contest of principles " Monopoly" was the then between forty and fifty, most have felt the
rally ing•cry of Conservatism—monopoly in fotd, uncertainty of the party rmasembliag, to spend more
emmopoly in faith, and monopoly in the geed things web eveaiep as those that were gone. And some
et aim But though this was the Plowmen* that were deed before Mackintosh returned; but the host
west from mouth to mouth among the ploy, it was lived to tell, half a emitnry afterwards, of the sober
seldom if ever board to escape the lila of their madam of that parting convene. It was Rogers
wily leaders, Sir BOOM Pear, sad Sir Jars who "blabbed" about the duel between Jeffrey and
Gasman bad always some Miff periphrasis is which Moore, and was the cuss of their folly being ren-
t° kid and wrap their fah" iatoutima They doted harmless; and it was be who bailed Moore :it
foresaw the diflculties of ales; but to gain it they was he who negotiated a treaty of peace between
were willing to let loose at the hustings every laces- then; sad it was at his hum that they met
tive to bigotry and faction that their followers de- mid booms friends. Bush were his service*
sired. An equal duplicity, bet in the sonnies d one kind to literature—ring his dignity
shape, seems to be meditated by their sue- of seniority to keep these young wits in
moors is the leadership of the Tory party. ardor. He most have been lively in those
Best on schemes of resistance to reform at home, and days—" the bachelor," as his same was among his
of subserviest alliance with despotism abroad, the Meads, and be never married. Moore names him as
chiefs ot the Carlton instruct their meets and akin- arse "of those agreeable rattles who seem to think
nimbus to push out in all direetleas, in the disguise life such a treat that they never can get enough of it."
" Liberal Conservatives," or "Conservative Ono wooden whether he had had enough of it fifty
Liberals." as the case may be. Their general is- years later, when Sydney Smith (one of the agreeable
structions are to stick at nothing, as far as vague remise) had long laid dome his, atter having for some
generalities go. They are to declare vehemently time told his comrades that he thought life "a very
their attachment to "religious liberty I" but it is middling affair," and should not be sorry when he
privately andentood that this mesas oily in Italy or had does with it. There was molt to render life
Turkey. They are to talk stoutly, nay passionately, agreeable to a man of Rogers's tastes, it must be
where the constituency is very radios], abaft the owned. He saw Garrick, and welshed the aides 11110
equal rights of all men to the enjoymeat et leer of every good aster sines. AU the ma..as 11111
hoodoo ; bat this being interpreted is only to be within hie span. He beard the first Teems% ea the
tines for a pledge to wags a war of empty "Visor of Wakefield," and read, damp from
wards with the America's about slavery ea the the prem. all the Woe that has appeared
other side of the seem. They are to give sines from the Banns. the Rdpworths,
pledges for the reform of the electoral system, the Batts, the Diadems, and the Thackerays.
sad promisee to secure greater liberty of voting; bet As for the poetry, he was ogled at the rapidity with
when literally translated this is only intended to whisk the Seeds. Byrom, and Moores poured out
bind these political harlequins to vote for Lord their weeks; and even Campbell was too quick for
fistarresauar's plan et taking the @affrays by way him,-11e, with all We leisure, sad being always at
of"voting papers,' instead el ballet-4i plan which it, producing to the amount of two Be. volumes
is reality would make sliest iatisaidatisa and fire- in his whole life. The charge of haste and lames-
side sonaption more coolie% and irresistible than *teases alleged apiece his "Columbus," la the
ever. Filially, the sedate ef the Cultsa have urge Biltieryk Revise, forty years inn, was any co-
ll.". ..t.46ll.laintrathwilefhem end the virago sapseuting- to him; and so aboard that mw comet

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1855.

be sniped Byderf !With of bang the author of it,
for the sake of contrast with hie conversational de-

ANOTHER VICTORY

seriprisa of Rqpre's method of compreitios. Betae-
bodr3llloo, one der. whether Rimers bad written
anYthiall 17- " a colariet."' was the reply—
(the oosir being Ms eelobrated epigram on Lord
Dudley). • " Only °caplet r unbind Slurry
Smith. " Why, what would yogi her P When Rogers
produces a cosplet, he goes to bed, and the
hanker is tied,—and straw is laid down,—and sank
b mods .—and the answer to inquiries is that Mr.
Regan is as well as can be expested." Thug, while
be was cogitating his few peps of verse, "daily
adding couplets," as Moue said, showing a forth-
coming pools in boards. "bat still making altera-
tion," he was now and thou ming a whole new
world of poetical subject and treatment laid open;
and not seldom helping to facilitate the disclosure.
Moore always said that he owed to Rogers the idea
of " Lalla Rookh." Rogers bad lingered so long over
his story of the " Foseari," that Byron did it Bret. to
his peat distress but he received the drama with a
very good grace. Meantime, be was always sub-
stantially helping poor poets. Boddie the innumera-
ble instanose, known only to his intimates, of
the attention he bestowed, as well as the
money, I. the case of poetical beast-makers,
poetical footmen, and other such hopeless sons of
the muse, his deeds of munificence towards men of
genius were too peat to be concealed. His aids to
Moore have been recently made known by the publi-
cation of Moore's Diaries. It was Rogers who se-
cured to *abbe the 3,0001. from Murray. which
were in jeopardy before. He advanced 1001. to
Campbell to purchase a share of the Metropoillass
Magnin, and refused security. And he gave
thought, took trouble, used influence, and &duo-
tared advise. This was the endue and the
method of the list of the patron of Menthes in
England.
His celebrated literary breakfasts will not be for-
gotten during the generation of those who en-
joyed theta. They became at last painful when
the aged man's memory failed while his caus-
ticity remained. His hold on lib was very
strong. He who was an authority on the inci-
dents of the Hastings' trial, and who was in Fox's
MOM when be was dybar—he who saw George 111.
a yew maa, sad was growing into manhood when
iolmons want ben survived for several
Tsars Wig Ns erne by a orb of the construction of
the middle of the nineteenth century. His poetry
wild scarcely be said to live so long as himself, as it
was rather the illustrating with which it was graced
than the verse itself that kept his volumes on sale
and within view. The elegant* and correctness of
his verse are beyond question; but the higher and
more substantial qualities of true poetry will hardly
be recognised there. It should be remembered that
then is a piece of prole writing of his of which
Mackintosh said that " Hume could not improve the
thoughts nor Addison the language." That gem is
the piece on Assaminatioo, in his "Italy." In it may
be clearly traced the influence of his early non-
conformist education. If Rogers is to be judged by
his writings, let it be by suck fragments as that
little essay; if farther, by his deeds rather than his
words. Bo may the world retain the fairest remem-
brance of the last English Menu" and the only
man among us perhaps who has Illustrated in his own
person the pavilion at one of patron and of client.

OMER PACHA.

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WILDNOIDA.T.

By adviors from Oonatantiaople, juot received. we
learn that, after a battle, Omer Puha had taken pos.
semi= of /Chou', which is iive-ands-half leagues
from Lahti,. Hs found in the place twelve
thousand furs. He had pushed on to the
beaks of the Rion, and had made preparations to
attack lota.

A SWEDISH ALLIANCE.

LLIIIIIITITID 3T 003 111•301010

Dic. 18.

The Bias has Wiled a treaty with Inland and
Franca.

The two allied Powers guarantee the territorial
integrity of Sweden, and the latter engages not to
alienate any part of its territory to Russia.
The high contracting parties engage to eommani-
eatsq mutually and resiprosally, all prepositions
aiming from Russia.

From other soothes we bare that the above treaty
will appear almost directly in the Paris Moniteser.

It is rumoured in well-informed quarters that an
offensive treaty, stipulating for active 00-opelation in
the spring, exists, but is not to be published at
present.

THE NEW RUSSIAN LOAN.

The journal de &. Adersbeorp, of the 11th, pub-
lishes the following Imperial skies relative to the
new Busies loan. It is addressed to the Minister
of FineDOM

" Te provide fee the extraordinary memos which astral
eirstuastesess Impose opus the mammy of the Empire, we
have authorised you, ecsaformably to year propositica, to
easelsde, through the medium of the mnautereial home of
our beaker, Coansiller Berea Stieglite, of Bt. Petersburg, a
loan of fifty millions of silver feeble*, ea the sonditioas
ectufismod by as, mad we seder you asseguently to make
the bloats' arnageassate
" 1. Tbb loan is to Do isemibed ea the ledger (growl-
tifve) of the gable debt el Ruda as the sixth loan at 6
per mat.
" 2. For this lean Rohe shall be hinted of the Imperial
Cosualeska of the eiskiag load (asetriptiosse) to the
bearer ; rash sets to be fee 600 silver roubles.
" 3. Thh strip will beer ea manual 'merest of 6 per
mat., dating from the let Gf Omaha of the monad year.
To seek note 20 soaps.. will be Washed, on the mesas-
taloa of which, the Later's' due will be paid to the ants•
pendia, time.
"4. The mama et this laterest will be made for seek
lialf-year due, from the lse April to the Ist Jew, gad from
the 1K of October to the Ist Diessaber, and there will he paid
for sash wipes at Bt. Petersburg, by the Commission' of
the Slaking Food, 12 roubles 60 tomes silver, or else
Wealth the medium of the beakers, litiegUts and Ca, 23
axias 00 mum of the Netherleads, or 26 marks 10
eshalbsp 11 phuniags of the Hamburg Baal.
" 6. Oa the expiration of the lest tea years of the loan,
sew mums will be issued for the swig then is eirmilatior

int Court.
OSBORNE, Dm le.
Tin Marchloam of Ely has asecesdsd Lady Mao.
asaaid as Lady to Waitiag t. lon Majesty.

A Cabinet Connell was held yesterday afternoon at
the Foreign-aloe. The ministers peewit were Viscount
Palmerston, the Lord Chanoellor, the. Marquis of
Lansdowne, Earl Granville, the Earl of Harrowby.
Sir Georp Grey, the Earl of Clarendon. Mr. Score.
tart' Labonebete, Lord humus, the Chascellor of
the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon.
R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderlq, the
Right Hoc. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll.
The Council eat two hours and a halt

"6 The fdaklag (essortisossense of this loss will eon.
menus la 1838, sad for this objet a 'pedal feed will be as
totally dirtiest iron the other low, mad which will
Nees each year two per out. of the awaisal *aphid of ths
boa. This stalls( laid. which will homage (roes the
Interests Woos, disposaSle by the rdusptbs of scrip,
will be employed to bey up the scrip et the sunset rats
(ow caws) as keg as it dose ass rise above its nominal
vales, that is to say. above par. After 20 years, sanely.
datlag front 1876, the Goverameat reserves to Itself the
right of ming the seep of this loamy which may thus be is
oircelatioe, at the rats of Its amiss' vase.
[The Meisel is steed by the proper head of his Majesty
the Braparor.) ALEXANDER.
"lit. Petersinug, Nov. 28,1865.
" Transience approved,
" NESBELRODII, Chancellor of the Empire."

Oohed Babiao, V.P.E.8., Treasurer et the Britbh As
'Wades, Kr. Jetta P. Omelet, F.H.8., Charm= of the
Hew Committee, sad Mr. Jolla Welsh, of Kew Obser-
vatory. a deputation from the British Aiseelatiaa, hid ea
isterview wM the Right Hew dir Beejesala Hall vistas
day at the Wise of l'ablis Washes is Whitehall-Flaw, es
the natter of the Observatory at Hew.

PAltili BOURSE.

A &pasties frets the City, pupating Anitbieldoierket.
had sit isterview with the Chamonix if the liselogner
yesterday, at his aka' residence, is Dowsing•strat. The
deputation eossistad et Mr. H. L Taylor (Chairs's), Mr
Deputy Hicks, Mr. Deputy Obberd, Mr. De Jenny, Mr.
Perkiss, the City Desseabresser, sad the City Architect.
A depstation tram the parish et All Basta, Poplar, PM.
&tag a She Bev. T. T. Basely (iteetor), Mr. H. W. Hill'
(Overseer), Mama. Edward Celestas, Jibs Carter, aid
Blond X. nisei (Vestanses). asd Mr. Charles C. Cady
(Vestry Clerk), trawled busisses yesterdey at UN Rowe
Oaf.. The depstaties wee istrodseed by Lord Robert
Oravesce. M.P., end Mt. Merles IL Dales, M.P.

The Ilarqw ;/ laaadowas has salmi is ova boa

TUMIDLY EVIXLIIIO.

visit to Lord Aslibueton, at the Grasp.
• deputation from the pada .1 et. Marys. Battersea
respostiag a =asserts' addressed to Sir Beajusia Ball, fee a
pier by the New Bridge, ia Betterasisark, had IS later
view with the Biala Ilea. Dearest yesterday at the Oahe
at Pubis Work.. Th. deputation .soviets,' of the Bey
S. S. fashions (Vicar of Battersea), Mr. W. H. Wilma
(Clearehwareloa). lily. G. Citediria (Vasty Clerk), sad Mr.
W. Woods.

Despatches were resolved yesterday at the Colonial Moe,
hoot the Goverson et the Wet India beads.

At the Bowes the effect of the news of the day was
slight. The little confidence felt in the prospect of
peace was made Isis by the fall in Consols. A rim,
however, of 86c. was effected in the Rents, which
closed at 64fr. 90c. Credit Mobilise rose 251 r. It
was reported that this society had all but concluded
an Austrian loss. Railways were higher, but not
very active. Lyons and Mediterranean rose lOrr.

AFRICAN MAILS.
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of Colabridp University lioa

gives Bogies tbst Prises Album's gold Sista for the eon
regessest et leglieb pastry will be gives this year to is
resident undergraduate se shell easpess the best pees

.. Laeber at thu Dist at Weems."

A new church building effort in relation to the
metropolis is la pragrer, Lord Robert Grasseere brag the
Eerie( spirit The list of saberiptleas sammeare adds
t►e CIrOWS. 10,0001.; t►e Delis of BelGrd. 10,000 L; the
Marquis of Westminster, 10,0001. The attire let, wiles
the vales of the sites eel promised ebereltee ere rocketed
op, mares s Wel of men then 00.0001. The object is to
sailor 600.0001., sod to band 100 obarelor,
_ _ _

- .
Hu Excelleery the Ambassador of France and
the Coastase de Pessisray yesterday reedited at dimmer
Viewed* sad Viacesetees Palmerstee, the Swedish
ter sad the Onstage Raelmehild. the Postgame Meister,
sad Madame Lamed* the Danish }Roister and Madame
Oakdale. the Countess of Teakerville, the Camases wed
Mademoiselle de Flabealt, the Rid of Westmorland, Lady
WIIILm Remell, Si, Roderick Mezeitissa, Dr. Ferioros,
sad Hr. Norma Mazdesald.

The Marquis of Lanedewass bee arrived in town.
fres a visit to Lard Arbbartast, at the Group.
The Hari and Countess of Hardwick. and the
Ladles Yorke have arrived at Dimas Park, ea a 'hit t. the
Bari et Cardissa.

PLYMOUTH, tvzsokt.

The Candace, African mail steamer, arrived this
morning, bringing mail% 2,000 os. of gold, 15 pas-
sengers, and general eargo.
Her dates ere—Fernando Po, Nov. 5; Caps Cornet,
13; Gorse, 27; and Madeira, Deo. 8.
The Ethiops bad strived at Liberia, Nov. 18, all
well.
Mr. Taylor, the engineer of the Candies, lost his
life through that ship miming in contact with
H.M.S. Ferret.

Capt. Seymour Daum sad do* Hon. Mrs. Doan
bays lilt tows to Ida the petty meembled at Deese Perk.