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London, England, 1858-12-25

FOR LADIES.

VICOLL'S PATENT HIGHLAND CLOAK
is a combination of utility, elegance, and comfort. No
Lady having seen or used such in travelling for morning wear
or fur covenng full dress would willingly be without one. It
somewhat resembles the old Spanish Itoquelaire, and has an
elastic Capucine Hood. It is not cumbersome or heavy, and
measures from twelve to sixteen yards round the outer edge,
falling in graceful folds from the shoulders; but by a mechanical
contrivance (such being a part of the Patent) the wearer can
instantly form semi•sl , and thus leave the arms at liberty ;
at the same time the Cloak can be made as quickly to resume Its
()tights). shape. The materials chiefly used for travelling are the
soft neutnlcoloured shower-proof Woollen Cloths manufactured
by this firm, but for the promenade other materials are provided.
The price will be two guineas and • half for each Cloak ; but
with the Mhhanique and a lined Hood a few shillings more are
charged. This department is attended to by Cutters, who pre-
pare Mantles of all kinds, with Velvet, Fur, or Cloth Jackets,
either for in or out door use. These at all times—like this
Firm's Riding Habit—are in good taste and fit well. Female
attendants may also be seen for Pantalons des Dames I Chars!,
partially composed of Chamois. As no meastire is required, the
Patent Highland Cloak can be sent at once to any part of the
Country, and la thus well adapted for a gift.

H.J. and D. NICOLA•, Warwick House, 142 and 114, Regent-
atreet,London.
London, England, 1858-12-25

TANTIA T ATE, OR NANA SAHIB.

An officer in command of a cavalry regiment, who
is in full pursuit of Tantia Topee, and has been
within four miles of him, expresses his full conviction
that Tends Topee is no other than Nana Sahib him-
self. The rumours of the Nana's immediate appear-
ance were, it seems, universal just before Tantia
Topee's crossing the Nerbudda, and the prisoners
and deserters, of whom the officer in question had
spoken with several, he being v.n excellent vernacular
scholar, are, he says, unanimous on the point that it
is Nana Sahib who is dodging our columns in Cen-
tral India under the name of Tantia Topee.

THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.

The Englishman says:—" We have heard on good
authori►y that it is the intension of the Lieutenant-
Governor of Bengal to retire on the lat. ot' May next,
when he will have completed the period, live years,
a►lotted to Lientenant•Governors. We have not as
yet beard who is to succeed him."
London, England, 1858-12-25

PERIODICI,.LS.

Journal of the Statistical Society.—J. W. Parker and Son.

MUSIC.
Beautiful Cloud. By G. H. Thomas.—Cocks.
Souvenir de Nantes. Quadrille Brilliante pour Piano par
Alphonee Sedere.—Cocks.
Come to me, Gentle Dreams. Music by Wrightson.—Cocks.
I Shine in the Light of God. Composed. b) Rev. lease
Asbe, M.A.—Cocks.

THE MORTARA AFFAIR iS thus again alluded to
by the Jewish Chronicle :—" We translated some
time ago from the German an account of a secret
baptism which about a century ago took place in
Moravia, and stated that the Empress Maria Theresa
promulgated on the occasion a aecree for regulation
m similar cases. We now publish a text of this
decree. It was issued Nov. 11, 1775, and runs
thus :—‘ We, Maria Theresa, do., make known to all
our Christian subjects, and especially midwives, that
they are strictly, and under proportionate penalties,
interdicted from abducting secretly a minor Jewish
child, not yet endowed with sufficient reason, and to
baptize it against the will of its parents, guardians,
or curators (gerhaben). From this we wish to have
excepted two cases—that in which the like Jewish
child should find itself in extreme danger of death,
so that nothing but certain death is foreseen, or when
the child should have been disowned by its parents
or guardians, when paternal or guardian authority
would naturally have ceased. In the first case, the
child may be baptized by the Christian midwife, in
accordance with the holy decision of the congrega-
tion of 1678 ; in the latter case, if the child be for•
saken or disowned, it is to be handed over to the
regular pastors to be baptized, and then to be brought
up in the Christian religion. Should, however, any-
body, against our express prohibition, have under-
taken the baptism of such a minor ild, and should
is be proved that the materio forma sacraments was
employed in it, then such a baptism is in accordance
with the teaching of all Catholic theologians to he
considered as valid, and the Jewish child thus bap-
tized is to be forthwith separated from its Jewish
parents or relatives, and be educated at the expense
of those who undertook the forbidden baptism, by
good and pious Christians, or in an orphan asylum
or hospital, until it is able to learn a trade. The
parents are obliged to secure to such children their
portion (realiter ), and to give sureties. When the
child has reached the years of discretion it may 11l
hesitatingly he baptized at. its desire, and the parents
have to provide for it. A father or mother who re-
ceives baptism may cause their children under seven
years to be baptized. If a child be baptized because
it is in extrema danger of life, it must be attested by
two witnesses. Whoever acts contrary has to pay a
fine of 1,000 ducats, or is to be punished with two
years' imprisonment."
London, England, 1858-12-25

By WILLIAM MASSEY, M.P.
Londoh: JOYIN W.PAIIKEII and SON, West Strand.

Second Edition, Ins. ed.,

THE INTERPRETER.
By G.J. WHYTE MELVILLE.

By the elms Author,
DIGBY GRAND. Cheap Edition. 3s.
KATE COVENTRY. Third and Cheapar Edition. 3s.
GENERAL BOUNCE. '2 vols. 13c
London: Jose W. Puts* and So; Wait Strand.
London, England, 1858-12-25

TRIAL BY JURY.

JUST as we are about pleasantly and jovially to
bid farewell to the old year, and to welcome the
new in a kind of blind good-natured confidence,
hoping we shall become better acquainted by
and by, and like each other well enough, we are
startled by the information that the stranger
who is approaching as fast as minute-hands will
carry him is not unlikely to deal somewhat
roughly with one of our old and most cherished
favourites. That time-honoured institution
which has long been the envy of our neighbours
and our own boast, the bulwark of our liberties,
the pride and glory of our land, trial by jury, is
—who would have thought it ?—about to be it-
self put upon its trial. It is to be weighed in
the balance, under a strong preconception that
it will be found wanting, and with a purpose
prepense that it shall be mended—or, it may be,
tinkered—accordingly. Who can hear of the
fate thus preparing for the great safeguard of
all that we hold dear, and remain unmoved ?
From what quarter hails the meditated attack ?
Years, or, as they are called in the Westminster
dialect, sessions, though they appear to the
gaping crowd mighty arbiters of the affairs of
men, achieving many and wonderful feats, are,
as the initiated know full well, mere automata,
acting, not upon any plan or device of their own,
but simply according to the intent and contri-
vance of other parties, who hold and pull the
wires by which their wheelwork is set in motion.
Who, then, it is natural to ask, is the prime
mover of the threatened aggression ? Whence
proceeds the menace that trial by jury is to be
—monstrous thought !—in its own turn put upon
its trial ?

On inquiry it appears that the assailant
is a firm advocate, a warm admirer of the
imperilled institution. It is always so. If you
find your character maligned, and your pro-
ceedings called in question, with a sly hint that
you really ought to be looked after, it is ten to
one you will find that some very particular friend
of yours is at the bottom of the mischiet. He
London, England, 1858-12-25

CENTRAL AMERICA-ISTHMUS AFFAIRS.

The question of the political condition of
the narrow isthmus of Central America, through
which transit routes pass between the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans, he considers a subject of deep interest
to all commercial nations. To the United States he
says they are of invaluable importance, their posses.
sions extending throughout seventeen degrees on the
Pacific coast, embracing the important State of Cali-
fornia and the fl.dirishing territories of Oregon and
Washington. lie considers that the States in whose
possession thews routes are have no right to arrest or
retard their use by other nations any more than if
they were arms of the sea, for that they are highways,
in which they have little in interest when compared
with the vast interests of the world. He earnestly
recommends to Congress the passage of an act
authorizing the President, under such restrictions as
they may deem proper, to employ the land and naval
forces of the United States in preventing the transit
from being obstructed or closed by lawless violence,
and in protecting the lives and property of American
citizens travelling thereupon, requiring at the same
time that those forces shall be withdrawn the
moment the danger shall have passed away. The
Panama and Tehuantepec route, be says, also requires
similar protection.

COSTA RICA AND NEW GRANADA.

The President recapitulates the griefs of the United
States' Government against Costa Rica and Nica-
ragua, arising out of the transaction at Virgin Bay,
in April, 1856, when, the country being then in a state
of wat, with General William Walker in the land,
some American citizens, alleged by the President to
have been unarmed, were fired upon, and numbers
were killed and wounded. The President says that
long negotiations have taken place, and unless his
demands are complied with " other measures " will
be resorted to. The difficulties with New Gra-
nada are represented as being in a fair way of ar-
rangement.
London, England, 1858-12-25

BIRTHS.

BUXTON—On the 20th ins ant, in Grosvetior-oreseent, Be 1-
grave.square, the wife of Charles Iluxtou, Esq., M.P., of a
daughter.
CLIFFORD—On the 17th instant, at Ugbrooke, Lady Clifford,
of a Con and daughter.
DIGBY—On the 20rh instant, in Belgreve•aquare, Lady Digby,
of a eon.
METEIUEN—On the 17th instant, at Leamington, the Ilan.
Sirs. St. Juhu Methuen, of a daughter.
London, England, 1858-12-25

Post office Directory for 1859. London : Kelly

and Co.
THIS monster publieation, consisting of :ON pages,
is one of the most remarkable instances of human
patience, perseverance, and method in the minor
istewee7 d wtwdeaw Ames. On a first glance over
such an enormous mass of letter-press, closely
printed with the names of people and streets, one
can scarcely help likening the idea of discovering
the whereabouts of A, B, or C to the old-fashiolad
huntfor a needle in a bottle of hay, and except that the
ingenuity of the editors has proved itself fully equal
to their industry, this allusion might be a pretty fair
'tlex to the result. But Messrs. Kelly anu Co.
have now been well known for several years, and
each year has seen their masterly undertaking
becoming more perfect and more comprehensive,
without any corresponding increase in size. When a
book has reached a high standard of perfection the
introduction of improvements iv by no means easy,
and the recent typographical arrangement of the
streets, the giving of the old numbers, together with
those lately ordered by the Metropolitan Board of
Works, must have exceeded all calculation. Again,
the changes of residence and the variations of trade
have evidently required the greatest nicety of care in
compiling, and would have defied the energies and
accuracy alike of any ordinary publisher. It is. of
course impossible in a notice such as this to mention
all the advantages of the present edition. There are,
however, one or two points which seeni to claim
spec'al attention ; for instance, the marks in the lists
of stockbrokers, chemists, surgeons, and physicians,
to distinguish severally the members of the Stock
Exchange, the Pharmaceutical Society, the Royal
College of Surgeons, and the names of the univer-
sities at which the last-mentioned gentlemen were
educated, wherever the information could be oh-
tained, are obvious additions of no trifling merit.
The map, moreover, greatly tends to increase the
value of the work. It is quite new, having been
reduced from the Ordnance survey, and the engraving,
corrected up to the present time, has occupied two
years in preparation. The postal divisions of the
metropolis are also so distinctly given that no one,
especially with the map before him, can be at a loss
to determine the address initials of any one of his
London correspondents. We have therefore no hesi-
tation in pronouncing the Directory for 1859
superior, on the whole, to all its predecessors, both
in accuracy of arrangement and comprehensiveness
of detail.

London: Printed and Published by ALFRED Iva, at the Office,
110, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of
Middlesex, on Saturday. the :nth day of.Deoemtpr.lBs.9.
London, England, 1858-12-25

THE STATE OF MEXICO.

Respecting the recommendation made in his mes-
sage of last December in favour of an appropriation
"to be paid to the Spanish Government for the
purpose of distribution among the claimants in the
Armstad case," the President reviews the state and
position of Mexico, their direct interest in all that
concerns which, from their geographical position and
their well settled policy in regard to the South
American continent, rendered it, an indispensable
duty. He says the truth is that this fine country,
blessed with a productive soil and a benign climate,
bas been reduced by civil dissension to a condition
of almost hopeless anarchy and imbecility, and that
it would be vain for his Government to attempt to
enforce payment in money of the claims of American
citizens, now amounting to more than ten millions of
dollars, because she is destitute of all pecuniary
means to satisfy those demands. As a set-off to all
the claims and grievances which be considers un-
doubtedly furnish abundant cause for resorting to
hostilities against the Government still holding pos-
session of the capital, which if it should succeed in
subduing the Constitutional forces would destroy all
reasonable hope of a peaceful settlement of their
claims, the President suggests that the Government
of the United States should assume a temporary pro-
tectorate over the north ern portions of Chihuahua and
Sonora, and to establish military posts within the
same—the protection to be withdrawn as soon as
local government shall be established in those
Mexican States capable of performing their duties to
the United States, restraining the lawless, and pre-
serving peace along the border. He also repeats his
recommendation for the establishment of a territorial
government at Arizona, which numbers more than
ten thousand souls, is practically without a govern-
ment, or laws, or any regular administration of
justice ; disorder and crimes being permitted with
impunity.
London, England, 1858-12-25

CAUTION.

TN consequence of many impudent attempts to
deceive the public, it is necessary to state that all Messrs.
Nicoll's manufactures may be distinguished by a trade mark-,
consisting of a silk label attached to each specimen; to copy
this is fraud, and may be thus detected : if the garment is dark-
cobured, the label has a black ground, with the firm's name and
address woven by the Jacquard loom in gold-coloured silk ; if
the garment is light-coloured, the label has a pale drab ground,
and red letters. Each garment is marked in plain figures, at a
fixed moderate price, and is of the beat materials.
It. J. and 1). Nicoll bays recognised agents in various parts of
the United Kingdom and Colonies, and any information for-
warded through them will be thankfully acknowledged or paid
for, so that the same may lead to the prosecuti, n of any person
copying their trade mark, or making an unfair use of their
name; that is to say, in such a manner as may be calculated to
mislead.

(Signed) H. J. and D. NICOLL,
REUENT BTftEET and CORNHILL, London.
London, England, 1858-12-25

PENSIONS TO WIDOWS.

Under instructions from the Court of Directors, it
has been notified by the Supreme Government that
pensions granted to widows of officers from the
Compassionate Fund, are to cease on re marriage.

THE lONIAN ISLANDS.
MR. GLADSTONE'S MIS.4ION.

A few days ago Mr. Gladstone weut to the southern
lonian islands and to Greece. Shortly before his
departure there was a demonstration at Sta. Maura
in favour of an annexation with Greece. The Mu-
nicipal Council of Zante has addressed a memorial
to Mr. Gladstone, in which it is said that the best
thing England can do to improve the political
position of the lonian Ides is to consent to their
being united to the kingdom of Greece. The Muni-
cipal Council further expressed a hope that Mr.
London, England, 1858-12-25

THE DRAWING-ROOM MODEL

IS MADE IN THREE VARIETIES :-

THREE STOPS, Percussion Action, additional Blower, and in Rosewood Case . .
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SIXTEEN STOPS, ditto ditto, Voix Celeste (at best Harasonistas the can be astute) .

N.B. A New Tutor expressly for the Drairisig-Roons Model is just published by RIMBAULT, price 4s.

Messrs. CHAPPELL have an

Stock of the
London, England, 1858-12-25

THE PORTUGUESE AFFAIR.

The Baron de Paiva, the Portuguese Ambassador
to France, who has been residing in Brussels for the
last few days, has received orders to return to his post
in Paris, and is expected there immediately, so that
it is manifest that the difficulty between Fra►►ce and
Portugal has been definitively arranged.

SPAIN.
THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR.

By telegram from Madrid of Dec. 111 we learn that
M. Barrot, the new French Ambassador, had been
received with great honour by the Queen, and that
the draft of the address of the Chamber of Deputies
is favourable to the Government.
SW E DEN.
THE KING'S HEALTH.

Intelligence from Stockholm states that the health
of the King of Sireeen is seriously impaired. Ilk
appetite and power to sleep diminish, and his
strength fails.
ITALY.
THE CaiDINALATE.

Rumours are afloat of the nomination of two new
cardinals, one for Rome and the other for America.
If this should actually come to pass, it will be the
first time that America will have been blessed with a
cardinal. The ecclesiastics generally mentioned as
likely to be nominated aro the Auditor of the
Chamber and the Archbishop of Baltimore.

THE UNITED STATES.
THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.
The Message from President Buchanan was read
in the House of Representatives on the 6th instant.
We select the most salient passages in this important
document :
London, England, 1858-12-25

Also, recently published,

THE. YEAR NINE
000 D OLD TIMES
MORE'S HOUSEHOLD
CHERRY AND VIOLET
OLD CHELSEA IBUNHOUSE
ARTHUR H►U., Vtatua, and Co., 25, Paternoster Row.

This day, in poet Svo., price l's Gd. cloth gilt,
VATHER and DAUGHTER:
.1.: A Portraiture from the Life. By FREDRIKA BREMER.
Annum HALL, VIRTUE, and Co., 23, Paternoster Row.
London, England, 1858-12-25

HEADS OF INTELLIGENCE.

Her Majesty's proclamation has given general
satisfaction all throughout India.
In Oude the talookdars are tendering their sub-
mission, and surrendering their forts and arms.
The fort of Simree in Oude was taken by Bri-
gadier Eveleigh, on the 9th, with the loss of only
two Europeans killed, and three or four wounded.
Lord Clyde is at Purtabgurli, some twenty milba
distant from Allahabad.
Sir H. Somerset has abandoned his tour of in-
spection.
Sir P. Grant is about to visit the Deccan to in-
spect the Madras troops on field service.
The citizens of Bombay purpose to establish an
economic museum and gardens, as an enduring
mark of loyalty to our gracious Sovereign.
A further improvement has token place in cur
import market, and the prices of most descriptions
of our staple articles have advanced; money is
becoming scarcer; and the rates of freights show
signs of a slight improvement.
London, England, 1858-12-25

FAamitt end Roonr.s, 171, 173, 173, Regent Street, W.

THE FOLLOWING is an EXTRACT
horn the Second Edition (page 188) of the Translation of the
Pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians in London, by
Dr.O. F. Collier, puoliahed by Longman and Co.:— " It is no
small defect in this compilation (speaking of the Pharmacopoie)
that we have no purgative mass but what contains aloes; yet we
know that hemorrhoidal persons cannot bear aloes, except it be
in the form of COCKLE'S PILLS, which chiefly consist of
aloes, scammony, and colocynth, which I think are formed into
a sort of compound extract, the acridity of which is obviated, I
suspect, by an alkaline process, and by a fourth Ingredient
(unknown to me) of an aromatic tonic nature. I think no better
and no worse of it for its being a patent medicine. I look at it
as an article of commerce and domestic convenience, and do not
hesitate to say it is the best made pill in the kingdom a mus-
cular purge. a mucous purge, and a hydrogogue purge corn-
bored, and their effects properly controlled oy a dl 'gent and
corrigent. That it .loes not commonly produce hemorrhoids
like most aloetic pills, I attribute to its being thoroughly so-
Inable, so that no undissolved particles adhere to the mucous
membrane."

This day is published,

THE POEMS and BALLADS of GOETHE.
Translated by W. EDMONDsTOUNE AYTOUN, D.0.L..
and THEODORE MARTIN. In foolscap Byo., price 60., bound
in cloth.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD TOW SONS, Edinburgh and London.

This day is published, in crown Alio.,
INQUIRY into the EVIDENCE relating to
the CHARGES brought by LORD MACA.ULILY against
WILLIAM PENN. By JOHN PAGET, Esq., Bamster•at-Law.
LWlLmam BLACEWOOD and Sox; Edinburgh and London.
London, England, 1858-12-25

ALEXAND

THE

HARMONIUM

DRAWING-ROOM,

ALEXANDRE and SON have just taken out a new Patent for the Drawing-Room Harmonium, whi
effects the greatest improvement they have EVER made in the Instrument. The Drawing-Room Models will
found of a softer, purer, and in all respects more agreeable tone than any other Instruments. They have
perfect and easy means of producing a diminuendo or crescendo on any oue note or more ; the bass can
perfectly subdued, without even the use of the Expression Stop, the great difficulty in other Harmoniums. '
each of the New Models an additional blower is attached at the back, so that the wind can be supplied
preferred) by a second person, and still, UNDER THE NEW PATENT, the Performer can play w
perfect expression. The Harmonium is now admirably adapted to all expressive Melodies, to Songs, and
fact to the best Secular as well as Sacred Music.

NO.
I.
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3.
London, England, 1858-12-25

TRorDLES IN KANSAS.

The President enters at great length into the
history of the troubles in Kansas, which he ascribes
solely and emphatically to the refusal of the people
of that territory to join in the voting for delegates to
the convention which was to frame a constitution,
and their subsequent refusal to acknowledge the
authority of the convention so elected. He com•
mends the " wiser and better spirit " which was
matiiiested last January, when the majority of the
people voted for a governor and State officers, jus-
tifies his own recommendation that Kansas should
be admitted as a State, recalls the rejection by Con
grees of the constitution as voted by the people or
Kansas, and the rejection in turn by the people of
Kansas, in the month of August last, of the proposi-
tions put forward by the Congress. On the present
state or the question he says :
The people of the territory are now authorized to form
another constitution, preparatory to admission into the
Union, but not until their number, as ascertained by a
census% shall equal or exceed the ratio required to elect a
member to the House of Representatives. It is not pro•
bable, in the present state of the case, that a third consti-
tution can be :awfully framed and presented to Congress
by Kansas before its population shall have reached the
designated number. Nor is it to be presumed that, after
their sad experience in resisting the tertitorial laws, they
will attempt to adopt a constitution iu express violation of
the provisions of an Act of Congress. During the session
of 1"56 much of the time of Congress was occupied
on the question of admitting Kansas under the Topeka
constitution. Attain, nearly the whole of the last session
was devoted to the question of its admission under the
Lecompton constitution. Surely it is not unreasonable to
require the pecple of Kansas to wait before making a third
attempt, until the number of their inhabitants shall amount
to 93,420. During this brief period the harmony of the
States. as well as the great business interests of the country,
demand that the people of the Union shall not for a third
time be convulsed by another agitation on the Kansas
question. By waiting for a short time, and acting in obe-
dience to law, Kansas will glide into the Union without the
slightest impediment.
London, England, 1858-01-09

E PRESS, JANUARY 9,1858.

of pursuing the rebels, who, after ursuccessful opposition,
generally disperse, and some weeks after reassemble in
some other place, when we have to attack them again ;
and to this sort of warfare we shall have to apply ourselves
until the greater portion of our forces arrive. In fact, our
generel position cannot be considered to have improved
much, and although some of the districts are perfectly
quiet, yet there is a feeling of uneasiness which prevails
everywhere where no European troops are stationed..
We are completely left in the dark as to what is going
on at Delhi, and the public is actually left in ignorance
whether there is a sufficient force left there to protect the
city. The latest accounts received from that quarter have
mused public indignation about the mistaken leniency
shown to the King and his vassals by the officer in com-
mand, who, of course, must act under the order of Go-
vernment. Our brave soldiers and their wives and poor
children have been murdered there in cold blood, and their
mutilated remains call for vengeance and retribution upon
the villanous assassins; yet Government will not hearken to
the voice of the public, and hence the feeling against Lord
Canning and his advisers is very strong. Had we had a
man of proper energy and ability at the bead of affairs the
rebellion would never have been so widely spread ; but
when it was our policy to have recourse to stern measures,
and strike terror into the hearts of our enemies, we tried
the means of reconciliation by absurd proclamations, which
bore evidence to our weakness, and showed a total igno-
rance of the actual state of affairs. Indeed, never was
there a Government that so little knew of what was going
on, and so thoroughly unprepared for restoring order.

From the camp at Caw•npore we have an original
letter before us, in which the following description
of the state of affairs there occurs:—

The strength of our force is 8,000 men ; that of the
sepoys, 80,000—s great differenos ; we have also the
Gwalior force within fifty miles of us, consisting of 8,000
men, forty-six guns ; and, besides the above, we have
Naos Sahib, with some considerable force, hovering near
us. We are all on the siert, I assure you, and working
hard at intrenchments, which I trust may enable us to
protect ourselves for many months.

From the intelligence brought by the last mail it
would appear that General Windham had advanced
outside his intrenchments.

NEWSPAPERS FOR SOLDIERS IN INDIA.—A corre-
spondent from the north-west, whose letter (says the
Hurkaru) appeared in a recent issue, stated that
our brave soldiers in Cawnpore are " dying for news,"
and suggested that persons who do not file thei•
papers sbouid affix a one•anna stamp on the enve
lope, and direct them—" For the Use of the Soldiers
in Hospital, Cawnpore." We are sure that, having
thus prominently directed attention to the above, the
suggestion will meet with an immediate response,
and we do not see why the Post-office should not
transmit newspapers so addressed free of charge.
London, England, 1858-01-09

38

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
We have received the letters of our Scotch Correspondents,
"GAS." and " G. P.," but we regret that want of space must pre-
vent our publishing them. There was an error o omission
in the article on " lair Play for the Landed Interest." The
sentence objected to by our Correspondents should have been
"Nor has Scotland an Established Church on our English
episcopal system." The differences between the structures of
society in England and Scotland, and the effects resulting
thence upon the "balance of party," will probably receive
notice in an early number of our Journal, when some of the
points mooted by our Correspondents may receive their due
consideration.
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858.

Mrs. Keeley in Twice Killed. On Thursday, the
21st., The Rose of Castille will be played by the
English Opera co►npany, under the direction of ;11r.
Alfred Mellon. Mr. Robson and some of the
Olympic performers will appear in an after-piece.
On Saturday, the 23rd, Mr. Lumley's company will
appear in an Italian opera (not yet settled), and an
original " Festival Cantata," composed for the occa-
sion by Mr. Howard Glover, will also be given. On
the 30th Mr. Buckstone's Haymarket company will
appear in a comedy, and Mr. Webster's Adelphi
forces in a farce, neither of which are yet announced.
The public will pay for admission, and we are in-
formed that the prices fixed for these interesting pei-
formances will be about the same as those ordinarily
paid at the Opera.
London, England, 1858-01-09

Clit _);) vsoll+

LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1858.

POSTSCRIPT.

The " Act" for the navigation of the Danube,
drawn up for the Riverain Commission, is in forty-
seven articles. The Nord of Brussels, which pub-
lishes the principal portions of it, complains that all
the most important articles are worded in such a
way as to give undue advantage to the vessels of
Austria.

A despatch received in Paris announces the rather
serious illness of the King of Wurtemburg. His
Majesty was somewhat better at the latest dates.

The death of General Havelock has caused the
deepest regret amongst the English in Paris. The
same feeling was expressed by the Emperor and
those around his Majesty.

The Constitutionnel says that a modification is
about to take place in the Sardinian Cabinet by the
retirement of M. Ratazzi, Minister of the Interior.

The Emperor of Russia has just promulgated new
regulations for the governmelt of Mingreha during
the minority of the Prince Sovereign. They enact
that the province shall be under the authority of the
Emperor's Lieutenant in the Caucasus, and that the
local administration shall be confided to a Russian
functionary assisted by a coup: it of five members—
two nominated by the Russian Government, two
elected by the native princes, and one elected by the
class of the Aznaours.

From the Gazette of last evening :
Lord Chamberlain's Office, Jan. A.
Notice is hereby given that the solemnisation of the
marriage of her Royal Highness the Princess Royal with
his Royal Highness Prince Frederick William Nicolas
Charles of Prussia will take place on Monday, the 25th
natant.

The Gazette also announces that her Majesty will
hold a Drawing•room on Saturday, the 30th inst., at
which there willZbe " no presentations."

The Directors of the East India Company, aPting
upon a requisition signed by nine proprietors, have
convened a special general court of the Company for
the 13th instant, "to consider the communication
addressed to the Court of Directors from the Govern
ment respecting the continuance of the powers of this
company."

THE CHURCH SERVICES FOR THE
WORKING CLASSES.
THE Church special services for the working classes
commenced on Sunday last at Westminster Abbey,
where the first evening service took place. On this
occasion the audience was composed mainly of regu•
lar churchgoers, who had left their usual places of
London, England, 1858-01-09

FARLI kMENTARY REFORM.

A MAXIVESTo, signed by thirty-one members of Par-
liament and others, was published on Tuesday. It
lays down the following as " leading features " of
any Parliamentary Reform :
I (a). The extension of the borough franchise in Eng-
land and Wales to " every maie person of full age and
not subject to any legal incapacity,' who shall occupy, as
owner or tenant in part or whole, any premises within the
borough which are rated for relief of the poor; (b) the
extension of the county franchise in England and Wales
to all lot. occupiers at least; (c) the assimilation, as far
as possible, of the franchises in Scotland and Ireland to
those of England and Wales.

2. Protection to the voter by the ballot, on a plan similar
to that adopted in the Australian colonies.
3. A reappointment of seats, that shall make such an
approach to an equalisation of constituencies as shall give,
in the United Kingdom, a majority of members to a
majority of electors.
4. Abolition of property qualification for members.
5, The calling of a new Parliament every three years.
The following are the members of Parliament whose
names are attached to this document :
F. Hen. F. Berkeley, Bristol Chas. Gilpin, Northampton_
John Riggs, Leicester J. Green, Kilkenny County
J. A. Blake, Waterford George Hadfield, Sheffield
George Bowyer, Dundalk James Kershaw, Stockport
John Brady, Leitrim R. Levinge, Bart., West-
John Bright, Birmingham mea'h
C. S. Butler, Tower Hamlets W. S. Lindsay, Tynemonth
James Caii d, Dartmouth Donald Nicoll, Frome
F. M. Calcutt. Clue County Robert N. Phillips, Bury
James Clay, Hull J. A Roebuck, Sheffield
Wm. Coningham, Brighton Wm. Ronpell, Lambeth
F. Conyngham,ClareCounty J. B. Smith, Stockport
Joseph Crook, Bolton T. P. Thompson, Bradford
Frank Crossley, Halifax John Townsend, Greenwich
W. J. Fox, Oldham James White. Plymouth
T. Milner Gibson, Ashton William Williams, Lambeth
London, England, 1858-01-09

THE PRESS, JANUARY 9, 1858.

from the Conservative body, as compared with
those subtracted from the Liberals ; that the
Conservative interest in large constituencies
like those of Marylebone, Lambeth, and Fins-
bury has been practically swamped ; and,
above all, let them not forget that the con-
sideration of these and similar results induced
even the Coalition Ministry of 1854 to propose
an addition of roams= seats for the counties
of England. Conservatfves want nothing more
than their representWve rights, and those
they are determined to obtain.
London, England, 1858-01-09

Vtlaul

Ur TO THURSDAY no new legal appointments had
been officially made known.
THE HEALTH OF MR. JUSTICE PERRIN 19 not 80
satisfactory as we could wish.
THE DEATH OF MR. MACDONNELL has occured this
week. It will be recollected that Mr. Macdonnell
occupied a most conspicuous position in Irish
politics, and was the agent of the Raman Catholic
body in England during the struggle for emancipa-

lion.
THE VACANCY IN THE BOARD OF EDUCATION created
by the resignation of the Right Rev. Dr. Denvir has
been filled by the appointment of Thomas O'Hagan,
Q.C., Chairman of the County of Dublin.
THE EARL. OF CARLISLE has made the following
appointments in his household :—Major George
Bagot, to be Controller ; Mr. Robert Williams, to be
Gentleman Lishtr and Master of the Ceremonies ;
Mr. Frederick Willis, to be Chamberlain.
A FRENCH Buck was wrecked off Kingstown on the
night of the 4th. Eleven out of a crew of seven.
teen were saved.
THE Cork Reporter intimates that the Holy See,
by special authorisation, is about to constitute in the
diocese of Cork a dean and chapter, having full
powers. Bulls, it is also said, have been received for
the consecration of the Rev. Dr. O'Hea as " Bishop
of Ross."
THE news of the death of General Havelock had
created a profound feeling of regret throughout
Dublin.

Yate at* Volta.

THE REGISTRAR OF THE NORTHAMPTON BOROUGH
COURT, Mr. G. Cooke, has been committed for trial
on a charge of fraud and perjury connected with
certain claims be has preferred for loss of fees and
compensation.
A HORRIBLE MURDER has been discovered in
Cumberland. An old man named Irwin, residing
at Fenton, near Corby, was picked up in the road on
Christmas morning insensible, and in a dying state.
He bad been terribly beaten about the head and
neck. In less than twenty-four hours be died from
the effects of the injuries be had received. His son-
in-law, with whom he lived, a labourer named
Skelton, has been arrested on suspicion. Irwin
was known to be possessed of savings to the amount
of 2601., which he had invested on security and
bequeathed by will to his grandchildren, leaving the
interest only to his daughter.
A CURIOUS CASE OF POISONING BY ARSENIC iS
now undergoing inquiry at Shoreham, Sussex. The
wife and child of a butcher named Puttick died last
week, within a few hours after eating some pudding,
London, England, 1858-01-09

11E1: MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Her MAJESTY the QUEEN has graciously signified
her intention of honouring with her presence a series of FOUR
FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES. intended to be presented at
the period of the approaching NUPTIALS of Her Royal High-
ness the PRINCESS ROYAL with His Royal Highness the
Prince FREDERICK WILLIAM of PRUSSIA.
The General Arrangements are under the direction of Mr.
Mitchell, in co-operation with Mr Lumley, and favoured by the
assistance cf the following Managers of the Metropolitan
Theatres:—

Mr. Smith Theatre Royal Drury-lime.
Mr. Buckstone Haymarket Theatre.
Mr. Webster
Mr. Harrison and Miss Pyne Lyceum Theatre
Mr. Robson and Mr. Emden Olympic Theatre.
And Mr. Phelps

The Programme will comprise the following entertain-
ments:—

TUESDAY,On January 19. MACBETH, produced under the
direction of Mr. Phelps. Macbeth, Mr. Phelps ; Lady Macbeth,
Mist Helen Faucit. With Locke's incidental music, under the
direction of Mr. Benedict; and Mr. Oxenford's Farce of TWICE
KILLED. in which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will perform.
THURSDAY, January 21, Balfe's New Opera, the ROSE of
CASTILLE, by Miss Pyne, Mr. Harrison, Mr. Weiss, and the
operatic company of the Lyceum Theatre. Conductor, Mr. A.
Mellon. With a Comic Afterpieee.
SATURDAY, January 23, an ITALIAN OPERA, by Mlle.
Piceolomini. signor Giuglini. and the principal artistes of Her
Maje-ty's Theatre: and a FESTIVAL CANTATA, composed
by Mr. Howard Glover: with* BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT.
FOURTH PERFORMANCE, an ENGLISH COMEDY, by
M-. Buckstone's Company of the Haymarket Theatre; and an
Afterpiece, in which Mr. Wright and members of the Adelphi
Company will perform. On each occasion the National Anthem
will be sung after the First Performance of each Evening.
Admission to the Pit (for which a limited number
of Tickets will be issued) Half a Guinea.
Gallery Stalls (Reserved and Numbered) 6s.
Gallery
Application for Boxes, Orchestra Stalls, and Tickets, to be
made at the BOX•011ICAS of the Theatre; and at Mr. Mitchell's
Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street.
London, England, 1858-01-09

CHINA.

The following extract of a letter from an officer in
the squadron at China, dated Hong Kong, Nov. 12,
1857, gives a description of the position of affairs at
that date :

Since the leaving of last mail, there 'have been several
additions to the squadron. The gunboats Drake, Banterer,
Woodcock, Watchful, and H.M.S. Furious have arrived at
Hong Kong. The steam-transports Imperador and Ripe-
ratriz have also made their appearance with the marines,
each vessel having performed an extraordinay passage—
the former 71, and the latter 79, days from England to
Singapore—the Imperador reaching Hong Kong within 80
days. Both have proceeded to the Bogue, at the entrance
of Canton River, and two companies of the men have been
quartered in the North Wantong Fort. They all arrived
in perfect health, and are a flue body of men. The
blockade of the main branch of the river is strictly en-
forced ; but the communications with Canton by creeks
are so numerous that trade goes on almost as freely as
ever. General Ashburton goes to India in the Ave imme-
diately, leaving the admiral to do the work with the blue-
jackets and jollies; he (the admiral) proceeds in his flag-
ship Calcutta to the Bogne on the 16th, and no one has
any doubt but that he will at once proceed to operations.
Three hundred men of the 09th Regiment will assist,
which, with marines and naval brigade, will make a force
of about four thousand men. The changes in the tem-
perature during the present season have caused a large
amount of sickneu in many of the ships of the squadron ;
but it is not of a serious nature. The ships blockading
the river are AR follows, commencing from the highest
downwards—Bittern, Elk, Sampson, Higlitlyer, and Sybille,
at Boca Tigris ; and Nankin at Cheuna Pe.
"We are glad to find," writes the Malta Times,
1)43e. 21, "that tho telegraph connecting this island
with the Continent and England is now in excellent
working order. On the arrival of her 111ajosty.3
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