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MUSIC.

OPERA COMIQUE, ST. JAMES'S.
Ls Domino Noir was performed at this theatre
Int night, not quite so well or as suivessfully as the Dis-
armers de to arrests*, to which, indeed, it is not altogether
squat The Domino Noir is an exceedingly clever little
early. It bee a thoroughly Spanish plot, complicated in
the extreme, full of intrigues, mistakes, cror•purposee, sad
peepiesitiet ; a pleaasut mixture of the gay and the romantic;
sled abashing in that witty, sprightly, satirical dialogue
for make Scribe I. pre-eminent among modern drama-
tists. It gets a little farcical now and then, as in the
character of the stolid EngUeli lord, • favourite butt
on the French stage. As • musical work it is, among all
Auber's comic operas, inferior only to the Liar/tante do la
Cburowne, its: musk, we think, being neither so highly
wrought nor in so happy a vein. The first act ends feebly
with a somewhat insipid duet; but, en revanche, the flask
to the second act has not been excelled by Auber himself in
animation, brilliancy, and felicity of dramatic effect. The
Mrs, those especially of a serious and sentimental cast, are
rather languid, and escape being dull and monotonous only
through the aever•foiliog charms of Auber's instrumen-
tation.
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In regard to the performance, the acting was better than
the singing, and the singing was better in the cosserted
music than in the solos. Madame Faure again diapiand so
many fins "nine both as an actress and a einger--shond
In both capacities so much intelligence, grace, and Mien
talent, thee we more and more regretted ben &doing in thud
nose onestial entity, • fine voice. There is not, Indeed,
we ere sorry to say, • flnis voice in the company. 11.
Berm, the new tenor, has even law voice than M. Towns,
le whom, however, he is superior in every other ann. He
ts bindeents and gentlemanlike, and acts with file and
panes. And of Iddlle. Celina Mathieu, we out only repast
what we have laid before, that her youth, beautys sad
vivacity are more than enificient to cover her vocal defect*,
M. Montreal (we think it was) who permeated the English
lord, did so with en atanaing air of stupidity, but he has not
the slightest notion of imitating the English accent. In
Mart, the merit of het night's perkensanos lay chiefly in its
easembl . in the easy, 011117•3 chnneter of the acting, the
spirit and Asa given to the concened Pleas, and the °sal-
ines of no orchestra.

NAVAL AND IfiLIZARY.

THE NEW "LONG-11NOE- OUR.

(From the Netrautk Chreniele.)

The " long-range" gun of Mr. Armstrong, as de-
scribed in the limos, scarcely shows the importance of the
hevention of our scientific Mennen. It is not too much to say
Met it will revolutionise the whole art of war, and perhaps
may ultimately tend to make war impossible by rendering it
eampletely destructive of the combating elements. Mr. Arm-
strong, in one of his experiments. loaded and fired his own
gun 100 times in 130 minutes, and every time he fired he
sheet a target nine feet square, placed at a distance from him
of 1,1100 yards. He deems it quite possible to sink • ship of
war, bower powerful, at a distance of three miles from the
gun, and his piece of ordnance has already propelled a shot
over five miles of ground. It is possible, indeed, with this
gun, to bit objects out of common-sight range; and 'distend
once calculated by daylight, an object five miles away out be
struck with unerring and mathematical proclaim during the
darkest night. To obtain the range by daylight is the only
twomisity—a thing which can be done, however, with as great
certainty so the sun can be fired—end this object once arrived
at, the firing of the gun and the destruction of the object
becomes a matter of arithmetical calculation. Ooe proof of
the gun's accuracy of range may easily be passed over by a
casual feeder in the description of our contemporary,
but we should suppose it to be a twit such as wee
never before applied to a pleas of ordnesoe. The side
of the Trusty wee divded into separate targets,
each one of which wee consecutively bit by the artilleryman,
acoordiog as he was directed to change his aim.
Its destructive effect needs no other comment than that given
stove, although its facility in firing shell alone places it
above any other gun manufactured. The shell of Mr. Arm-
stroog's, fired by his " long-range" gun, does not explode
immediately on concussion, but strikes its object, pluming
through it where It is possible, and then explodes. On
firing at a target, far instance, behind which was exposed
another at the disuses of some garde, the shell passed
through the first, and, exploding on reaching the second one.
completely shattered It to pieces. Against a ship of war the
result obtained by this shell would be most tremendous.
Entering the bows or stern, it would likely travel midships,
and, exploding there, would rip the vessel to pieces. Mr.
Armstrong has been three mouths in London engaged is
o xperituentaliaing with his gun, and lass only now returned to
Newcastle.

ADMIRALTY, JAN. 12.—PROMOTION.—Liratenant
W. Rodger, R.N., ham been promoted from the reserved
Ilat of lieutenants to the reserved list of commanders under
en order in council, in recognition of hie valuable service@ to
the royal navy, as well as to the mercantile marine of the
country, by improvements which ha bee made in the sinions
kind of anchors.
APPOINTNINT.—IIarter H. W. C. Wise (I 828), to be
additional to the Vesuvius, 6, paddle-wheel steam @Loop,
west oaset of &trice station,

CHATHAM.

TESTIMONIAL—The committee of agars of this
dockyard upon civil service enperannuetions have presented
Mr. George Cotsetl, master bisclirenith, end the hon. secre-
tary to the committee, with a handsome diamond ring as an
acknowledgment of the amiduity and zeal displayed by him
during the past four years m promoting the wishes of the
officers employee in the several royal dockyards.
Captain A. C. Weir, WA., Assietant.lnepector of Mili-
tary Schools., has been engaged some time in the inspection
of the military schools at this gerriaoa, which are all in •
mast efficient state.

SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 12.
Lieutenant John Hay, R.N., has been promoted
to Ma soak of commander on the reeerved lilt. Lieutenant
Hay has bees *Was yang Admiralty asset on this station,
and davits that period has eupenntended the fulfilment of
the aril contracts in the Peninsula, Mediterranean, West
lodide, sad South American Pervion

APPALLING AND DISTNEASING OCCURPJLICE.--A
most dlotreselag ones of sadden death amerred en Tuesday.
Corporal William Miller, of the Royal Hoer Guards Bien,
►avieg died after a painful illn•ee, his remslie were to be
Interned in Highgate Cemetery, nod on the above-named day
the preemie= started from the barracks of the regiment on
its way to the cemetery. Having reached Highgate-hill,
the rorteyr was slowly proceeding, when suddenly one of the
guard, named Thomas Harris, a corporal-major. a comrade
of the deceased, and who had been eingularly affected by his
death, wee observed to fall back from the nick, and remove
hie tesimat and dash et to the ground; he then tore his
gloves from his heath., and riming head foremost across the
road to a hedge opposite 26, Grove-terrace, fell waveless to
the ground. He was immediately conveyed to the Ball and
least Tavern, when every assistance was rendered by Mr.
Welch, the landau!, and a medical gentleman, Mr, Bendy.,
residing at Gerdes-I=e, was instantly sent for. On lee
snivel he pronounced life to be quite extinct. The poor
fellow wee; much lamented by hue comrade*. The imposing
ceremony of a soldier's funeral is at all times most affecting,
sad it is needless to sdd that the effect on this 0001111i011 wag
heightened considerably by so =drawing an event. There
can he little doubt that tov,,, icitemeat, produced by grief
for the lees of his old friend, acring probably on a heart
already dimmed, was the immediate cause of the unfortunate
ocenneace. An inquest will be held on the body.

LVCIT ESCA P 6 FROM MI:RPRR.—The following
in Saunders' s Arms Letter,—" The brother of a
= catholic clergyman was fired at on his way to Newport
a abort time piece. He wee riding, when he was suddenly
attacked by three arm. d rufflans—one of the party fired at
him, fortunately without effect. A severe straggle ensued;
but, in a meaner which 'effect. the highest credit on him
for bravery end preamos of mind, he ..cared two of the
ruffians; the thi Ird the meantime fled. Having proceeded
' but a short distance, they were met by some country people.
The Winne,. immediately dropped on their knees sod im-
SEercy, static, that they ' mistook their man'—the
of a gentlemen in the neighbourhood. They were
y allowed to depart, which satrsordinary onnduct
ess only be accounted for by the dread from Intimidation
Ake sable in the neighbourhood. The informations Were
wan bikes the reddest magletrate, and elm lodged, se our
feirersrat Winer, is Dublin Castle."
TIM Saw DIVORCE. COURT.—There is a great
ban. ,4 bggi.... In this nw,rt. At present there are up-
MAI of 700 divans sad Juliana asp ration ans.

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. JANUARY 13, 1859.

LOAD ?AMMAN ON BAUM!.

On Monday Lord Namur, wart present at a din-
ler !IMO to Provost Guthrie, at Brechin and, in acknow-
ledging the toast of his health, proposed by the Earl of
Souther, he said—l rise to thank you for your too partial
reception of the toast which has been so kindly proposed by
my noble friend on my left (Lord Souther). During that
career to which he has alluded I have certainly endeavoured to
do my duty for uow very nearly a quarter of a century ; and I
have had the satisfaction of knowing that during the whole
of that time my conscience has told me that, with whatever
senses that duty has been reformed, it has been performed,
at isset, with a conaisteocy which I am thankful I have bean
ambled to throw into it. I think that in these times the
ended of public men ought to be a matter of grave cond.
&walks to all their fellow-citizens. We live in very curious
times—ln times when it appears that in politics we are Whims
large measures of ootueiltutional reform when scarcely a
vox* in the country ie raised in its favour ; but circum-
stances have so combined that it ft impoesible for my go-
vernment, whatever au political profesaions may be, to ab-
stain from entering and embarking in • course of parlia-
mentary reform. For myself, gentlemen, I have been ac-
cused of having lost some of that taste for reform which I
imbibed in early youth, sad which for many pan I have
followed up ; but I can assure you that that representation
in not founded on fact. (Applause.) So far as reknit is
carried out on the principles of the great tosesnre which
wee held et one time to be a second Magna Mama of the
liberate of this country—so long am reforms is ocatisuad
on the principles of the Reform Bill of 1832, I sin over
a steady, progreosive, and determined refenner.it
please.) Gentlemen, when I see scheme of re
projected which Mrike at the very root of our mixed
coneUtution—wtisn I see new organisalloss sketched out
before me which ace to do away with some branches of our
oneritution' or to glee to one, at least, the supremacy—then
I °ashes I shall pause at that road to reform, blows 1 do
not think it is • safe one. A very amiable gentleman, who
has lately been down in this cannery ar4ia favour of
such a course of reform, has gone back to d and com-
plained that be did not get that support wh he expected
from the gentry and middle classes of the country. And why
has he not done so! Became their own good sense assures
them that the course he would lead them is not the course
they ought to go. (ther, hear.) When Mr. Cobden and
Colonel Thompson come to this country as the apostles of
free-trade and the juatifiers of a policy which was to rid as of
taxation on the food of the people, among the fret of dues
who were ready to welcome them on the platformof Glasgow
I bad the honour to appear, and I know many in the Mass
condition ea myself who rallied round Mr. Cobden on that
occasion. (Greet applause.) And what was the result ?
In 1846 we received one of the greatest beue4te of the Re-
form Bill. Worw an end put to taxation on the food of
the people. But it has been the policy of some to run down
and decry the measure of 1892. Now, if ever there was a
measure from which • benefit accrued to the nation and glory
accumulated on Its head, it is that measure of reform which
was passed in the year 1892. (Applause.) And what has
reeulted from it P The very first act after the pairing of the
Reform Bill was to blot out from our country the disgrace of
participation in the trade of negro slavery. (Cheers.) The
next act of reform was the Municipal Act, widen was of
great value to the °matey, and none knew its value ea well
em the =said* oorpcestione. There are many people who
had no vote before, sad who have a voice now, and they may
go ea in the mint of that bill, and get • further voles
when parliament chows to grant it. But, gentlemen,
I assure you that free trade is the result of the Reform
Bill of 1832; sad numerous other avenues& you are all
well aware—and I need not detain you la enumerating
them—flowed from the paring of that measure, sad that
suemnre sloes; and I earnestly trust and pray et what-
ever steps we may take in furthering the career of reform,
we may never depart from the measure of 1832 as Its funda-
mental basis. Gentlemen, it has been said that Mae who
live in glass houses should not throw roam (" Hear,
hear," and laughter.) Now, I should not have alluded to
anything personally relating to myself if what I said at the
let county meeting hadnot bean misrepreerted. When
Mr. Kisloch got up and made a speech in favour of reform,
he took us ell by surprise. (11. laugh.) He made a yen
good-hamoured speech, and conanded by a very good pro-
pose!, end on• we should be very gled to we carried oat, if
that could possibly be accomplished—that In any plan of
reform that might be proposed, Forfarshire should have a
mound member, and that in any re-distribution of the tome
in perliement, every 30,000 individuals in this land
should have • member to represent them in parliament.
All I said wee, that I deprecated the division of the
country into numerical parliamentary division., and I
thought Mr. Kinloch would find himself mistaken if he
thought that in any redistribution of seats Forfarshire
, would come in for • second member. And it turns oat very
mash as I rid, for according to the announcement of Mr.
Bright himself, if his plan were c tried out, he would not
give • 'ingrate to the counties at all, but would nonage them
all to burghs end large populous towns; so that, under the
cisme:Larose, I thought I was not fairly treated by being
held up somewhat se an anti-reformer is giving vent to these
opinions at last county meeting. Now, gentlemen, I would
have our hue. friend the member for the borghs, instead of
canvassing my conduct, to look a little after hie own.
(Great applause.) Because, if I am not very much misin-
formed by a public print ou whose veracity I place very
much faith—namely, the Seaman—he Is rather seeking
popularity in Arbroath and Montrose by supporting the
shipping interest in their demands for protection than adher-
ing rigidly to the principles of free-trade. (Applause.) And
I would give him • friendly warning from twenty-five
years' experience, that adhering steadily and honestly
.to
Cirisr principle' is worth all the temporary populenty
departure from them may glee say Gee. Now, gentle-
Imo. I would only mats one thing Wilier with regard to my
ewe particular principles. Besentially—however unpopular
the expression may be--essentWly, I say, they are thole of a
whig. The old whig principles I understood from the life,
conversation, speeches and character of the man whore name
I bear,—Chatries James Fox. The principles of whimsey
em tbses,—to maintain the liberties of the people against
the encroachments of the aristocracy and of the
Crown. These were the principles upon which Mr. Fox
acted, and upon these principles I act still. Bat, gentle-
men. there is a reverse to what I have thus stated. Whig
principle' stop at a certain point and then turn ; and whits
maintaining the just rights of the people. they are
equally prepared if necessary to defend the rights of the
Crown and of the arietocraity from undue encroachment on
the part
,of the people. Tree are what I understood to be
whip pnntipler ; they are the principles upon viebnft I have
read—the principles which I think maintain this country in
the position it hold& and I trust ever will hold among the
nations of the world, with its limited monarchy and aristo-
macy open to the very humblest of the people if they are
willing to work themeless cep to it. The middle classes see
Imre and true to their principles, and the lower classes
busy end industrious. The nation gives refuge to political
outcasts of every other country, and will hold up its head
firmly and honestly when the lased' of every other nation
throughout Europe end the world sr lowered. During
the revolutions of 1848, no position was more
proud than that held by this country—calm "mid the storms
that surrounded her, and ready to be en asylum to
all who sought of her a refuge, without asking whether they
had been right or wrong in the countries they bad lett.
(Cheer.) I have gone, I presume, somewhat beyond my
mark—(cries of " No, no," and "Go on')—fu expressing
these opinion', but It Is but rarely, gentlemen, that • per-
son in my position—removed, I am sorry to say, at present
from the Commoos' House of Parliament—bas an opportu-
nity of expressing his opinions. I have taken this oppor-
tunity of making theme remarks, in order that I may not be
inisunderitood ; and I shall conclude by raying that, on the
subject of • reform bill, so far as the Intelligence of the peo-
ple warrant me in going, so far will I go. I would do every-
thing to forward ano of reform on this basis ; but I
would do everything openly, and would bare no secret
a traneactions, either in voting or legislating. (ilia lordship
concluded amid great applause.)
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MR. HORS.WAN, M.P., OMPAILUMENTART

zszosm.

STROUD, WEDNESDAY.
Mr. Homan, M.P., addressed a crowded meeting
of the electors and non-electors of this borough last Dighton
" the present aepect of political affair." Mr. MARLING pre-
sided; and at the close of the meeting there was considerable
diversity of opinion on the subject of reform as treated by the
right hon. member.
Mr. 1101i$11AN onmmenoed by shoe one to the India Bill
sad Conspiracy Bill of last asseien, sod the much vaunted
ethane* with Franc" of which, be said, France had had all
the benefit, and England all the shame. He would say—Let
us be friends with all the world. but keep our powder dry, and
take care to have plenty of it; anti form no intimate alli-
ances except with the friends of liberty, who had common
int/mete and common sympathise with ourselves. Turning
then to the subject of the dinori;anization of the literal party,
he said it was owing to the perceive and obstinate blindness
of those who had been their leaders, who had been living in a
fool's paradise of their own creation, shutting their eye. to
what all the rest of the world could see. and stopping their
oars against what all the rest of the world was listening to.
The disunion in the liberal piety had been anteing
ever since the old Reform Bill was pared. The
fact was that before 1830 the whims were the only leaders
of the liberal party, because they ware the only liberals of the
governing clean But the Reform Bill made a change In all
that. It was a revolution that had introduced a new go-
verning power which bad been growing every year. The
whip intending to stand toward* the liberal party in the
cherseter of patrons and protectors, never dreamt of raising
them to he their amociates in power. They had not the
foreeight to pee that the extinction of the does boroughs
Meer be followed by the extinction of clues governments.
Since 1830 the liberals bad been advancing in poorer while
the whiga had been as rapidly declining, until at lest they
bed become an insignificant minority of the liberal party.
The old whip had and in a in until all their political
simian was gam, end they bad bean trading on a politkal