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what it was now, and whether he had attained a con-
dition of health which enabled him again fully to
manage his own affairs, and with safety to himself,
to his wife and family, and his acquaintances, to be
again intrusted with his liberty. The learned
sergeant recounted the circumstances under which
his delusions had manifested themselves from time
to time, and contended that the extraordinary rest-
lessness he had shown at intervals for several years
was the commencing stage of a brain disea.se
operating on a mind weakened by drinking and
by other excesses, and the active exhibition of which
was delayed until October last. He submitted that
the taint of insanity was still upon him, and that,
however he had tried to evade the subject, Mr. Ruck
believed a kind, affectionate, and virtuous wife to be
the cause cf that with which, in point of fast, she had
had nothing on earth to do.
Shortly after four o'clock the inquiry was adjourned
until Thursday at ten.
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FOURTH D.Y.

The Inquiry was resumed on Thursday.
Mr. E. J. ii addressed the court in opposition to
the petition. The learned counsel, after an eloquent
speech, called
Mr. ROBERT ALEXANDER FISHER, who said : I am
a member of the bar. I married the sister of Mr.
Ruck in 1842. A younger brother of mine also
married another gist( r. After my marriage I went
down to his house and stayed there from August to
October. In 1851 lie visited tile Exhibition, and he
hail a house in town. I saw a good deal of him. I
saw no change of manner in him. He was after-
wards in the habit of coming to town and consulting
me about his mines. I had visited one of his
galleries which had been excavated. I should say
that those mines might have been profitably worked.
I communicated with a scier.tific person on the
subject. He did not appear to me to possess any
exaggerated ideas of his property. In 1857 he
was talking to me of consulting Mr. Taylor, an
eminent miiwralogist,and he hid brought specimens
of slate and ore to show that gentleman. In
August, 1857, I saw him in Kent, and I thought he
was better in health than ever. He was to have visited
me, but that meeting was postponed. On Nov. 5 I
received the first intimation of his supposed insanity.
I did not see Mr. Ruck till he came up before the
Lords Justices, in July. He appeared very rational
and very intelligent. During the last three or four
days he has stayed at the same hotel with me, his
mother, and sister. He has appeared like an eman-
cipated mail. I have put the question pointedly to
him, and he has declared that Mr. Wainwright's
inquiries are perfectly satisfactory to him, and that
lie does not now think that his wife has been guilty
of any impropriety. I should say that he might be
oischarged with perfect safety. To confine him
again would drive him mad. I always considered
him perfectly able to take care of his property.
Thought him rather a close man than addicted to
profligate expenditure. Never heard of any insanity
in the family.

Other wiinesses examined in tho course of this
day's inquiry were Mr. Wainwright, Mr. Ruck's soli-
emir ; Drs. Seymour, Copeland, and Johnson ; Mr.
Skey, one of the senior surgeons at St. Bartholo-
mew's; and Mr. Lawrence, senior surgeon at the
same hospital. They all gave evidence in favour of
Mr. Ruck's sanity, though admitting the delusions
under which he laboured in consequence of drink.
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MANSLAUGHTEE.

William Bowyer B.mnetc surrendered to take his
trial upon the coroner's inquisition for the man
slaughter of Caroline Bridges.
Mr. W. Pearce and Mr. Martin prosecuted; and
Mr. Gift-tad defended.

The learned counsel, having briefly stated the
circumstances of the case to the jury, called
HANNAH WELCH, who said that up to the 14th
July lust she was servant to the prisoner and his wife,
who was known as Mine. Cuion. They were
artists in fireworks and lived in the Westminster-
road. They also had a place at Peckham, where the
fireworks were made, and the prisoner, who kept a
horse and cart, used generally to be engaged in
taking the empty cases, which were made in the
Westminster-road, to the factory at Peckham. Red
fire used to be kept in cases in the yard of the house
in the Westminster-road. Witness was in the house
when the fire took place ; it was on Monday, the 14th
of July, at about half-past six in the evening. She
Was in tile back room upon the first floor at the timr,
and hearing one of the boys call out that the place
was on fire, she looked down stairs and saw smoke
and light coming out of the kitchen. She got out
into the balcony and escaped with some slight bruises
upon the nose. Three buys were employed at the
house in the Westminster-road. They used to fill
cases and make them. The cases used to be filled
with coloured fire, which she occasionally gave to the
boys. Other cases used to be taken empty to
Peckham. Those cases used to be made in the
Westminster road. She did not know how many men
were kept.
EDWIN TUCKER said be was foreman to the prisoner,
and had been so for eighteen months. Mme. Coton
engaged him, but the prisoner used to pay him.
They were man and wife. He was at the house about
three-quarters of an hour before the explosion, but
had not been there before that day. Red and treen
fire used to be kept in the kitchen. It was used to
fill what are called the coloured cases. The witness
then explained the materials used in the manufac-
ture of the fire, and which contained in a certain
degree the elements of combustion. The coloured
fire used to be made fresh every day ; it was made in
the front kitchen ; Madame used to make it. About
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EMBEZZLEMENT.

At the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday,
EdwArd Wellington Boato was indicted for felo.
niously applying to his own use certain sums of money
which had been intrusted to him by virtue of his
employment in the public snvice of her Majesty.
After some conversation between Mr. Sleigh and Mr.
Robinson, his lordship agreed to allow the case to
stand until next session, the accused entering into
his own recognizances in 1001.
London, England, 1858-08-21

THE PRESS, AUGUST 21, 1858.

of the latter, and her disposition to encroach upon
Denmark, are less openly manifested. The harvest
in Denmark and the Duchies is expected to prove
very superior to that of last year ; indeed, above an
average. This, at least, was the opinion before the
recent storm, which has caused some damage, but
not, it is thought, to a serious extent. According to
the accounts from the Sound, the Two Belts, and the
Cattegat, twenty vessels were lost during that terrible
tempest.
Since the preceding was communicated, a private
telegraphic despatch has brought the announcement
made by a Hanover journal of the Diet's acceptance
of the propositions of the committee relating to the
Holstein affair. Hanover, Oldenburg, Saxe•Mei-
ningen, and the Hanseatic Towns voted against their
acceptance.

807

majorities, the vote in the Upper House being sixteen to
eight, and in the Lower seventrone to thirty-one. It is
not improbable that there will be a dissolution, although
the Governor-General is strongly opposed to such a step.
In the contest for West Middlesex the anti• Ministerial
candidate was in a majority of 125 on the first day's
poll.
An opposition is threatened to Mr. Brown's (the Pre•
'Merl return for Toronto.

The Legislative Council met this morning, and passed
a resolution declaring their regret at the vote of the Lower
House on the Seat of Government question, and denounc-
ing it as an insult to her Majesty.
A later despatch of the 3rd says :

A third motion of want of confidence in Mr. Brown's
new Ministry was carried in the House of Assem'oly last
night. A. dissolution of Parliament is expected.
London, England, 1858-08-21

its being used in two independent and often op-
posite senses.
Those who arc alive to the tactics of Popery
(and every educated Englishman ought in these
days to be so) must have observed the unsrupu-
lous ingenuity with which Romanists build a
sophism on the ambigulus word " Catholic" ;
how from the unwillingness of their more en-
lightened opponents to deny them to be a part,
though a most corrupt one, of the Church Uni-
versal, they have' pretended to extract the ad-
mission that they are the whole and sole Church.
Many a poor Protestant, if not convinced,
has been sorely puzzled, when pressed with the
" holiness" of the " Catholic Church," coupled
with the undeniable fact that both speakers and
writers of his own creed have too generally ac-
quiesced in the application of the term " Catho-
lics " to members of the Romish Church.

Near akin to this stale Popish device is the
abuse of the term " Liberal" by a large portion
of the press. As often as a Conservative Ministry
do some act which is " Liberal" in the common
sense of the word—interfere, for instance, to curb
the insolence of foreign despotism; lighten the
national burdens; reform official abuses; or
strive to improve the condition, moral, physical,
or intellectual, of the working classes—the pet
sophism is brought into play—the measures, for-
sooth, are " Liberal," and it is unheard-of base-
ness in Conservatives to steal them from the
" Liberal " party ! In this summary manner the
useful legislation of a whole session is perverted
into a misdemeanour on the part of a Conserva-
tive Government, while Whigs and Radicals
claim credit, on the ground of prescriptive right,
for measures which they would have postponed
to the Greek Kalends. Such has been the
sophism which, more or less ably disguised, has
furnished to the Liberal press the staple of a
hundred "leaders" during the last three months.
Truly the " magic of a word" is often akin to the
black arts.

It may be replied, that the fallacy we have
been exposing is too transparent to be successful.
In the long run this may prove true ; but it cer-
tainly works temporary mischief, and tells espe-
cially on the ill-informed, who are easily imposed
on by self-assertion, and on the discontented,
who are glad to have a pretence of finding fault
with what is well done. In truth the word
" Liberal" must have been found very con-
venient by our contemporaries of the "move-
ment " party, or they would not have harped on
it so continually. For the present we content
ourselves with this brief notice of a very dis-
creditable party-dodge. We may hereafter take
occasion to show to how few of the really Liberal
measures which have been passed during the last
sixty years the Whigs and Radicals, who form
the mass of that strange aggregate misnamed the
Liberal party, can establish an original or exclu-
sive claim.
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session, will undoubtedly be Parliamentary Re- -rol, and employ •to 'control alters :1 -.
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,igs a permane- .as country ; it has than ever sat there befor'
given rise *a . mediate party, and ended representatives are not
in I- .eaker than they were before. and other large but
potency of the public
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the Conservatives to show what they can do to whose great
amend the representation. The Bill of 1832, by empty
though coming from the Whigs, was intended to state of t'
be Conservative ; but conservative of what ?—of this is
their own paramount influence : this they sought is
to to conserve by disfranchising the close boroughs of Enft
the Conservatives, and preserving their own in- vid
tact. The Bill of 1859 or 60, though origin- sT
sting with the Conservatives, will, we venture
to foretell, be genuinely liberal; or, in other
words, truly conservative. It is no uncommon
phenomenon in that strange contradictory thir
called " human nature," for those who are big'
liberal in theory to be tyrannical in practice
for those who are rigid in their professee
ciples to be the most considerate and ju
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PARIS, Thursday.
SINCE my last the Emperor and Empress have
been making their " progress " in Brittany, and
they will not bring it to a close until Saturday.
Their Majesties must be heartily glad to be hack
again at quiet St. Cloud, as the course of more
than three weeks duration of mobs, triumphal
arches, flags, bands of music, receptions, Te
Drums, dinners, balls, firing of cannon, and
listening to complimentary harangues, which
they have heroically supported, is about the ex-
treme limit of human endurance. On the whole,
it decidedly appears that the Emperor and Em-
press have been most cordially received by the
Bretons—far better, indeed, than their fnends
had hoped. The Emperor, in reply to addresses
presented to him, has_: delivered several little
speeches, but none of a political character. It is
expected, however, that at a grand banquet to
be given to him at Rennes, he will pronounce a
political discourse. What, however, his Majesty
can say beyond what he has already said in his
two Cherbourg speeches, it is not easy to see.
The Conference on the Danubian Principalities
after two months labour, has at last completed
its task, and I believe that this very day it has
signed the convention and other documents in
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LORD PALMERSTON IN SLIGO.
LORD PALMERSTON'S reception by the tenantry on his
Sligo estates was only such as might have been
anticipated after an absence of several years from
Ireland. A local Tory paper states that parties of all
political opinions combined in the warm demm-
strations of respect paid to the ex• Premier on his
arrival ,in company with his agent. "As a land-
lord," observes the Sligo Independent, "he is
held in esteem by all who know the relation that
subsists between Wm and his tenants, and though
his lordship is not in the habit of granting leases to
his tenants, every one feels as secure in his posses.
sion as if he were the holder of a long lease."
Another local authority (the Chronicle) has this re-
velation respecting the future of Lord Palmerston :
We are enabled to state from an authority that is
perfectly reliable that Lord Palmerston is about to retire
from public life. lie has agreed to do so on the urgent
entreaty of Lady Palmerston ; and a growing defect in his
lordship's power of hearing has also had a share in inducing
him to bring his long public career to a close. The noble
lord, when he shall bid adieu to the excitement of parlia-
mentary life, intends, with Lady Palmerston, to take up
his residence at Cliffony, near this town and instructions
have been given, and we believe arrangements are now
being made, to erect a suitable mansion there for their re-
ception.
A special meeting of the commissioners of the
town and harbour of Sligo was held on Monday to
consider the propriety of presenting Lord Palmers-
ton with a congratulatory address on the occasion of
his present visit to his estates in Ireland. A
deputation' consisting of Mr. Tate, Alderman Lyons,
Mr. Kidd, Mr. Mends, Mr. Seeley, and other com-
missioners, waited upon his lordship at his new rent-
office. in the town of Sligo, and presented the address.
In his reply his lordship alluded to the circumstances
wider which he assumed the reins of Government in
1855, to the Peace of Paris, and to the India Bill
introduced last winter. With great good taste he
abstained front any allusions to more recent events,
L and concluded by some encouraging remarks on the
prospects of the town of Sligo, and with thanks for
the address presented to him.
London, England, 1858-08-21

CHINA.

Wo select the following from the China correspon-
dence of the Times :

The first duty of the naval authoritios, after the taking
of the forts, was to proceed on the exploration of the river
for the purpose of opening the way and securing a safe
transit for the allied missions of Tiensin. As they antici-
pated every description of natural and artificial obstruction,
anti conceived that the Chinese would offer a most violent
resistance to their progress, they advanced at first but
slowly. As they proceeded, however, it became apparent
that these fears were groundless; the river, winding through
flat country with richly cultivated and partially
wooded banks, had an average breadth of about 200 yards,
with a depth of water at half tide );paging from ten feet to
forty. Villages were not very numerous, and consisted
merely of a collection of mud huts such as grace the banks
of the Nile. So far from the inhabitants attempting t..)
oppose the progress of the fillies or showing signs of
distrust, much less of active hostility, they collected in
crowds upon the banks, prostrating themselves with their
foreheads to the ground as the first gunboats passed, and
staring at those following with an exprc,sion of counte-
nance peculiar totbe race in which the most listless apathy
is comt,ined with the extreme of wonder and awe. The
shore was occasionally lined with these curious spectators,
who, as they invariably adopt a squatting attitude, looked
like rows of penguins gazing for the first time npon some
intrepid Arctic explorer. It was the first time that the
" devil ship" of the barbarians had disturbed the muddy
waters of the Peiho, or that the agitated pant of a CO-
horse power steam-engine had aroused from noon-day
siesta the placid inhabitants of its banks. But they did
not content themselves with gazing at or worshipping the
god of steam ; regarding it as the precursor of a power
destined to overthrow the present dynasty and raise itself
upon its ruins, they faced the decrees of fate iu a spirit
London, England, 1858-08-21

THE PRESS, AUGUST 21, 1858.

In the evening the Prince and Princess of Prussia
entertained a large party at dinner. The Count of
Flanders arrived from Berlin, and joined the Royal
party. His Royal Highness returned to Berlin at
night.
The Princess Frederick William is in the enjoy-
ment of excellent health, and accompanies her Royal
parents in all their walks and drives.
On Sunday morning her Majesty and the Prince
Consort, with the Prince and Princess of Prussia,
the Prince and Princess Frederick William, and the
Prince and Princess Charles of Prussia, attended
divine service at the Garrison Chapel.

A Berlin letter says :
The meeting between the Queen of England and the
Princess Frederick William, her daughter, was very affect•
ing. The Princess sprang into the railway carriage to her
Royal mother, and the two remained clasped in each other's
arms for some time, unable to speak.
London, England, 1858-07-31

Mom fade an 6ttg Intelligenct.

FRIDAY EVENING.
Tut return of the Bank of England for the week
ending Wednesday last, the 28th inst., shows the
following changes compared with that for the week
preceding :
Decrease in Circulation .... :
Increase in Public Deposits .....• 8i1,598
Decrease in Other Deposits
Decrease in Private Securities 49,173
Increase in Bullion
Increase in Rest 7,423
Increase in Reserve
Bullion in both Departments
Circulation, including Bank Post
Bills
The comparison again bears evidence of the moderate
character of the inquiry for money, by the further decline
in the amount of Private Securities. The large decrease
in the other deposits is prinzinall% caused by withdrawals
from public companies to pay their dividends, and though
this amount has gone into circulation, it has been more
than counteracted by revenue payments, so that the
amount of notes in the hands of the public has been de-
creased, and the Reserve proportionately strengthened.
The addition to the Bullion is inconsiderable. On the
whole, the present return does not show any changes of
importance, while, hi its essential features, it indicates
a very regular state of things.
The Money Market coniinues to be most amply sup-
plied with capital waiting employment, the demand during
the week not having been sufficient to affect either the
rates or the supplies. At 'he same time, however, the
applications have sensibly increased during the last day or
two, partly from a little more activity in certain branches
of trade, and partly from the ordinary requirements at the
end of the month. But the aggregate demand is estremely
moderate, compared with that at the corresponding period
last year; and it is every week becoming more evident
that traders of all classes have for the time abandoned all
speculative enterprize, and reduced their operations to the
lowest scale consistent with the regular and steady prose-
cution of their callings. It is obvious, too, that credits in
the minor branches of trade have been shortened, and to
some extent abandoned; and that the greater establish-
ments, in consequence, are increasing their cash traesac-
tions. The partial operation of this improved system
tells upon the number of bills in circulation
from various trades. Thus it influences, ,
cer-
tainly in a small degree at present, the general dis-
t counts; and, accompanied by the increasing practice of so

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Alt* .ttil;di lit

Ikea* rodily be predicted that the reforms recently promulgated by
flustrden*Ansl Senior Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin, will not be
aoceipaed silibout grumbling by the gentlemen who have signalized
themselves by their attacks upon this learned body. At the same
time the letters patent just now published embody several substantial
improvements. It may be remembered by our readers that one of the
principal subjects of complaint was the high remuneration of offices
tenable only by Senior Fellows already in possession of a somewhat dis-
proportionate income. These salaries are at once to be diminished. The
redistribution of tutorial fees, and the appointment of two professors of
modern languages, are also obvious advantages, while the substitution of
fixed salaries for fees in the case of the Bursar and Senior Lecturer is sure
to be a change for the better. There is one clause that will doubtless raise
a smile in the snore decorous alumni of Oxford and Clunbr dge, to the effect
that "the Senior of the Fellows in the Hall should superintend the proper
" conduct of the students during dinner." We cannot say we envy the
grateisind reverend Senior his newly-imposed task. But Irishmen, we
st 4 understand one another ; and perhaps if the portly Don were to
&CO the riotous undergraduates with a carving-knife it would be con-
sitkited a perfectly ,lagitimate and natural affair. We congratulate the
authorities of ''o3:'D. on showing themselves at once impervious to
threats and amenable to reason. And we trust that now the authorities
have displayed a willingness to deal with abuses the painful schism which
ri
has reeentl bCpurred may be prevented from widening, if it cannot be at
once ekie 0 1:• -
)11 butlepabi:u I,—.

Thelifiiiintrifugal impulse from the " fate= et opes strepitum-
,
clue" otateabames-polluted London has set in, and tourists with faces
haPedbity beat in the direction of flood and fell, country solitudes and
mountain heights, are laying in their stores of spirit-flasks, guide-
Inokitinfl circular notes, and preparing their brains for the intricacies of
fore' coinage by bewildering them over the still more perplexing permuta-
tions and combinations of Bradshaw. Under these circumstances grave doubts
appear to have arisen, in the minds of the more careful and exact of the
travelling vim, is to the accuracy of the maps which have been hitherto
Provided fountheic instruction. The British public is, as usual, worst off in
these respects asinprds its own country. There are some capital maps
of Siritzerlailkave all are aware who have, by the assistance
of Isuzikfb•aarearabled to dispense with the attendance and expense of a
e. Theieooo,-who wish not only to find their way over the Furka or
Gemmi, but to gain accurate ideas of the physical features of the
musky, will fled their desires gratified by the tenderly-shaded contours of
inoetaaor the Still clearer delineations of I,Errtiota. And the absolute
erovernatents of the. Continent, in addition to the virtue which they
thaPlay it eachsding hioriecrifs Pills and Ileyalenta Arabic* from the
London, England, 1858-07-31

HE PRESS, JULY 31, 1858.

India nine days ago has been, we are informed,
literally fulfilled. It reported that " all would
be well," and by the latest telegram all seems
far from well ! We do not envy, and can only
wonder, when the Times on two successive days
finds it necessary to take up a standing in the
literary thoroughfare, make an appeal to the
public passing by, and pray it plaintively, " Ne
" date obolum calumniatoribus "—Don't encou-

rage other calumnious weekly papers.
London, England, 1858-07-31

THE PRESS, JULt 31, 1858..

"with picks, shovels, pans, blankets, and primi-
tive little rockers on their shoulders." The
roads over the Rocky Mountains, thronged with
stages and waggons, with battalions of wild,
ruffianly filibusters on horseback and muleback,
present an appearance similar to the retreat of a
South American army. Twelve thousand per-
sons have quitted San Francisco in six weeks,
and amongst them, we are informed, "men the
" most inveterate and pertinacious of all, news-
paper men, are leaving in great numbers."
The Pacific is unpacific with lines of colossal
steamers and clippers, and the Surprise, a fine
Yankee sea-going steamboat, has made its way
150 miles up the Frazer River. To this new
child of civilization which has come into the
world with a gold ladle in its mouth, we say,
with the best wishes for its growth in English
enterprize, speech, and religion—" Mail ! British
Columbia !"
London, England, 1858-07-31

An interesting question has this week been occupying the Chamber
of Representatives at Brussels. It appears that the Belgian Government
do not feel themselves justified in any longer leaving the King's dominions
without some central fortified place; and the points at issue appear to be,
first, whether Antwerp or Brussels shall be the place selected,
and, secondly, if Antwerp, what system of defences shall be adapted. We
know of nothing that can be said in favour of selecting Brussels
except that it is the seat of Government; but, as has been already pointed
out, the capital town of a country may be in possession of the enemy
without any greater injury to its independence than any other fortress of
equal strength. On the other hand, we have the fact that Antwerp can
be made stronger than Brussels, that it would cost less, and though, last,
not least, that it is the scene of glorious historic associations. Both
English and Dutchmen have cause to be proud of that memorable defence
in which the whole might of Spain was so long baffled by their combined
efforts. Nor should it ever be forgotten that the situation of Antwerp
affords far greater facilities for defence, should England and
Belgium ever again be united in arms, than a purely inland
city like Brussels. The possession of Antwerp would always keep
open communications with this country ; and if matters came to the worst,
its garrison could always be rescued. We look forward to the result of
this debate with great interest. The subject under discussion is one of
European importance. And we sincerely trust that the provincial
deputies will not permit any local prejudices to interfere with the whole-
some precautions of King LEoPOLD'S Ministers.

Lord CAMPBELL'S proposition that candidates for a seat in the House
of Commons should in future be subjected to a discriminative examination
is worthy of that great legislator. We think it would not be difficult to
frame a set of questions which might be advantageously set to
every embryo statesman before he was admitted into the askembly of
gentlemen in Europe. He might be asked, for instance, what is his idea
of an important despatch, and how he would distinguish it from one too
trivial to be mentioned. He might be requested to state his opinion of the
best method of rendering neutral journals subservient to the interests of
particular Ministers, and perhaps required to compose a leading
article as a specimen. If aspiring to the dignity of a whip, he should
be required to write down upon paper the names of all the independent
members—those who demand dinner, and those who are only evening-
party men. He should also be able to distinguish the married from the
single, so as to avoid some of those awkward little mistakes which occurred
in a recent celebrated crisis through the inadvertency of a gentleman who
filled this responsible position. Such are a few very brief suggestions for
the realization of the scheme propounded by the worthy Chief Justice,
who must have seen in the recent break-down of his friends much reason
to deplore that it was not adopted sooner.
London, England, 1858-07-31

Ett liramL

MADAME RISTORI.
THE great Italian tragedienne—the tragedian of the

day—has left us. What is the impression that sbe
has left upon us? It would be difficult to say what
is its depth ; but we easily arrive at this concluNion,
that it is not equal, or nearly equal, to her merits.
During twelve nights she performed in a very small,
but nevertheless only half•filled theatre ; and this,
notwithstanding all her great and acknowledged
powers, and that she was very creditably supported
by the company who are attached to her—notwith •

standing, too, that her talents were well known
amongst us, from the experience we have before
had of them in this capital. But whence comes this
apparent indifference to high art in a city which, at
the season of the year that is now closing, contains
probably a larger assemblage of the cultivated and
refined of all nations than could be found in any
other place in the world' We think it due to more
causes than one ; hut, in the main, we adhere to that

to which we have attributed it in a former number.

Firm, the love of novelty, inherent in our nature,
winch had been satiated before Mme. Ristori returned
to us this year. lier handsome face and figure, her
stern and lofty declamation, her thrilling effects,
were all familiar to us. We had but to read of the
immolation of her children at the foot of the statue
of Saturn, and w 3 at once saw her as Medea—
`sole, trernante, smirks, eon nn coltello in sangui.

nito in mann." Then, there is a sameness and

weariness inseparable from tragedy. Nothing is
more awfal in itself th-m- death ; yet the minister of
London, England, 1858-07-31

THE PRESS, JULY 31, 1858.

For the " Government of New Caledonia Bill,"
read " Government of British Columbia Bill."
This correction had been authorized by Royal
command, and was written on the margin of the
Bill when brought forward for second reading by
Lord CARNARVON. On the following night, in
committee, a revised edition was prepared, with
the emendation properly inserted.
London, England, 1858-07-31

THEPR

S

1, 1

CONTRACT FOR PIG IRON.

Department of the Storekeeper• General
of the Navy, someraet•place,
41st July. 185 rt.
THE COMMISSIONERS for executing the
Office of Lord High Admiral of the Unite i Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland do hereby give Notice, that on
TUESDAY, the 10th of August next, et Two o'clock, they will
be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to contract
for supplying her Majesty's Dockyards with

SOFT MELTING PIG IRON.
A distribution of the Iron and a form of the Tender way be
seen at the said Office. No Tender will be received after Two
o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the
p►rty attends. or an agent for him duly authorized in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Ad•
miralty, and bear in the lefthand corner the words " Tender for
Pig Iron," and must bo delivered at Somerset-glace, acoompa•
vied by a letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to
become bound with the person tendering in the sum of 5001. for
the dud performance of the contract.

INLAND REVENUE OFFICE,
Somerset House, 21th July, 1858.
TO ALL HAWKERS, PEDLARS, AND PETTY C HAPM
THE COMMISSIONERS of INLAND
REVENUE hereby give Noti,A, that all Licences issued
from this Office on and since the i st of August, 18.:7, will expire
on the 31st of July instant, and that New Licences will be ready
for delivery on the 2nd of August next.
Every Hawker found trading without a Licence, or with an
expired Licence, will be prosecuted.
Every person heretofore licensed must, on application for a
New Licence, deliver up the old one, and pers ,ns not before
licensed are to produce a Certitioaha of Character, as prescribed
by the Act 50 Geo. I I 1., cap. 41„ jim3, without which no New
Licence will be granted.
By order of the Commissioners,
THOMAS KEOGH, Secretary.
Nnte.—Lleences may be obtained at the Inland Revenue
Office, Somerset House, London, or from any Distributor or
Sub-Distributor of Stamps in any City or Town in England
or Wales.
London, England, 1858-07-31

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Whatever is intended for insertion muetbe authenticated by the
name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publica-
tion, but its a guarantee of his good faith.
Advertisements sent from the country must be accompanied by
remittance or a reference for payment in town.
It is impossible to soknowlelge the mass of letters we receive
Their insertion is often delayed owing to a press of matter,
and when omitted, it is frequently from reasons quite inde-
pendent of the merits of the communication.

ommunleatlons should always be legibly written, and on one
side of the paper only. If long It Increases the difficulty of
finding space for them.
London, England, 1858-07-31

THE PRINCIPLE OF THE AGE.

STRANGE changes in public. feeling take place to
mark and distinguish one generation from
another. What was esteemed a virtue in one age

often comes to be viewed as a vice in the next.
Time was when every man felt it to he right to
take some side, and to be known by some dis-
tinctive name. Our forefathers divided them-
selves into Cavalierilir "&nuidhea4s, Whigs or
Tories, High Churchmen, or Low Churchmen.
And in what they professed to be, they were in
earnest : they took their side decisively with all
its consequences ; they fought for it, they bled for
it, they died for it,' itnecessary. The reason was,
dory bad a prlnripte, even though, in some cases,
that principle was only party. Party may exist
without principle ; but still it may be laid down
as an axiom, that wherever there is, principle,
there oust be party.

V1lIK: LVW

What is the distinguishing Aseipore of the
present age ? It would be rither'diabuit to say,
except that it he distinctive at all.
Parties and pitncipiel amithecoliaiog maarged, alter
a Amp suoisiir, liiiititiefirnouw.-ig sort
of whitey-grey-4, dillt, indistinct mixture, which
passes under the general name. of Lilteralistn.
There are indeed :different shades of this cloth,
such as " Liberal Conserieative "- and. " Con-
servative bibsii,r 4 semi-Liberal " and 4' ultia,
Liberal ;" but these 111; partake, it milli,* obi.
served, of the saraiAbubtfill, 'hurl-14114' etilatirt
They neither embody a principle, Tux 'define ••
party. And why all this ambiguity ? .OM%
but because men in the present day do noihiradt
to be known to belong to any party; an( they
shirk identification with any party because they
have no fixed principle. If, then, we were asked,
What is the principle of the present age ? we
should reply, The principle of the present age is
to have no principle at all.
We see the manifestation of this spirit in a
great variety of ways extending itself to all
offices and professions of men. Among political
men it is, indeed, most marked ; but it pervades,
also, to a great extent, what is called the "religious
world." All are seeking to merge and lose their
distinctiveness under some ambiguous general
terms, just as all ranks and classes are assuming
one common dress. This, therefore, may be said
to be the mark (so far as it has any mark) of
the age.

The way in which we discover that this is the
characteristic of the age in which we live, is net
merely by observing the outward signs of it
which we have indicated in the adoption of am-
biguous Janus-faced designations, but by putting
Individuals to the test of principle. For instance,
a man calls himself a Conservative : ask him to
join the Conservative Club—his answer is, "I
" would rather not be committed." Or, he pro-
fesses to be a true Protestant, earnestly desirous
to uphold the Established Church, and to with-
LATEST EDITION.
London, England, 1858-07-31

TUESDAY.

As the Thames Purification Bill—technically
denominated the Metropolis Local Management
Act Amendment Bill—had passed the Commons
with the formalities of a money bill, which it
was by implication, the Peers talked about it
for a while, and intimated that the measure, in
their opinion, was not altogether so good as it
might have been. They, nevertheless, carefully
abstained from altering even a single word, not
wishing to risk the treatment which established
precedent and constitutional etiquette would have
compelled the representative branch of Legisla-
ture to inflict upon the amended. Bill under such
circumstances, quite irrespective of the nature
and expediency of the emendations. So the Bill
was read a second time, and on successive nights
committed and passed just as it came up from the
Commons.

Legal perplexities concerning " crossed
cheques" have been considered., and, as the
Leg►slature hopes, removed, by the new " Drafts
or Bankers Law Amendment Bill." Bankers,
however, don't like to undertake novel responsi-
bilities, and the " interest" made on this point
has proved powerful enough to carry one clause
in the Commons, by which the payment over the
counter of a crossed cheque is allowed if the
" crossing " happen to be obliterated or pur-
posely effaced. It is said that if the banks sup-
plied cheque-books engraved on tinted paper to
their customers no such obliteration would be
possible ; and that in every case the liability for
mistake and mispayment should be assigned to
the bank officials. The question has been
fought desperately in both Houses, and in both
the supposed personal interests of the banking
fraternity have prevailed. Finally, it may be
hoped the bankers will discover that they serve
their own interests best by consulting the con-
venience of their customers. Other tradesmen
have made a similar discovery long since. For
the moment, however, the clause has obtained
acceptance in both branches of Legislature, Lord
OVERSTONE, in the Peers, giving it an impulse
derived from his reminiscences of Lothbury.