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LONDON, THURSDAY, MICZMIIMI M.

Lrcisiow is relieved, the prrieon is rescued, the'
women and children are safe. " Thank Goo for
" that," is the word that will ring from end to end of
England, as the joyful intelligence that frees tie frees
the tartar of that wearing acuity is flashed to the
remotest corners of the land. The cloud that
darkened oar festal sawn is dispersed, the shadow
of &terrible foreboding has paler away (coin ne—the
spectre is chased from our Christmas revelries. For
in truth the heart of England was with those heroic
men and women, those pined and 'offering children.
There weld have been no merry Christmas with r
hare while there was a possibility of saraere thin.
All who felt at all, felt that while that great driver-
are was enetvompliehed, merriment ram ineebry,
and feasting an impertinence. Now they an safe we
may be glad—glad and reverently thankful to the
All-Giver.

Ova last intelligence, it may be MAlM-
bered, communicated the fact that Sit COLIN
Caurseu., with his reinforoements, had crossed
the Ganges on his march from Cawnpore to Luck-
now, on the 9th of November. Two days from
that date, the communicatiou being epee, brought
him to Alumbagh, which be reached, se our
Telegram shows, c• the 11th at November.
Two days after, on the 13th (net cm the 23rd),
active operations commenced. Then followed
six days of severe and confiners fighting. This
brings as to the 19th of November. The 19th,
therefore, as given by our Telegram, and not the
21st, se stated in the Government eneener, wee the
day oa whirl " the principal strongholds of the
" enemy having been captured, the beleaguered
" garrison was relieved." On the 20th the "sick and
" wounded, ladies and children, were sent under
"an escort to Casenpore." The paragraph that im-
mediately followed, announcing that the " army
" under the Commander-in-Chief now amounts to
" 22,000 men," would naturally lead to the infer-
ence that Sir Cous Cutesau had that amount of
force actually trembled under his orders in
Oude at the date of the Despatch. This
can hardly have been the are, and the correct
version probably is that when the reinforcements
then an their way from Calcutta had arrived at the
central seat of war6re, Sir Come would be a the
head of an army of 22,000 men, available for the
immediate prosecution of the campaign of Olds.
Our own Telegram, it will be seen, gives the embers
under the actual command of the Commander-in-
Chief at 12,000.
The rest of the intelligence is not less re-
assuring. In Central India, on the west of
the great scene of operations in Oude,
the column ander Brigadier Sruear was rapidly
clearing Malwa of the ;vergers. 0n the
north the columns under Brigadier Snows= were
scouring Itohilcund. On the south, great masses
of troop. were rapidly being moved up from
Calcutta. On the east, the Ghoorkse of
J 040 BAHADOOR were pressing forward to
oomplete the deadly and ever-narrowing circle. The
result of these combined movements will be to drive
in upon Oude, as a common centre, all those
scattered bodies of the insurgent foree which still
maintain a show of military organisation. The entire
subjugation of the force thus concentrated, the com-
plete conquest and pacification of the territory within
whose borders this still formidable mass of armed
ineurrectioo is driven to bay, may undoubtedly be •
work of some difficulty and considerable time.
But it is impossible not to see that the
h iumphant re-assertion of British supremacy
has now been decisively accomplished, that our
prestige is re-establ'shed, end our empire reared.
All honour to the great and gallant men by whom,
with means most inadequate, this magnificent result
has been 'thieved. Honour to the iron hardihood
and statesmanlike sagacity of Lewarece, who with
the one hand ruled • province and creaked &mutiny,
while with the other he created an army and saved
an empire. Honour to the calm intrepidity of ,
Wu-sox—the resistless, heroism of HAYLLOCK—
the chivalrous gallantry of Oura&e. Honour
Nicwoure and to Netrt.--to the brave
who have fallen as to the brave who lire. Harr
to the illustrious veteran who, when the time came
to strike, but not • moment before, struck decisively
and hems—whose vigorous promptitude kW accent-
'limbed the relief of Lackuow, and whose sagacious
generalship has planned the campaign of Oude.
Lord PALIMISTON is entitles, to the t►anks of the
entry for haring entreated the chief command in
the East to 81r Cutts CAMPIELL—EngIand gladly
resegnier la the relief of Lecknow an earnest sad
ea dustsheet of the speedy suppression of tits
Katry sad the complete re-conquest of India.

Sows documents, which a cotemporary has jut
published by request, let in the world's light apes
the modern Spanish system of manners mei
monk. Senor OCILL Y RENTIL is • Spar
Liberal, a Deputy, the husband of a cousin of the
Qvass and of a Meter of the Prince whom Loots
PHILIrtr, to hie eternal disgrace and in mockery of
merriege, united to the lit Ica. After the fret
eleweitall of NAIIVAY7, Senor GUEtt had attacked
that realms" ea-Pazaiita in the Chambas—u•

verely and harahly, no doubt—not unjustly we
may be sore—with vary small foresight, u it tuned
out, of the rapidly shifting phantasmagoria of
Spanish politics. After the first sea* had aired
of that plot which has reduced itpain to the sweat
Ministry, and by which O'Dolftwo..prepaseittlas
way for further descents in infamy—Maven, it will
be recollected, returned in the autumn of 183,6 to
Madrid from Paris, where he bad so long fretted
and chafed. The rules of ceremonial politeness re-
quired Nifty in to pay a round of visits, and hie
reception accorded with his coming greatness.
Amongst others he paid one to the Counter DILA PENA
DEL Mono, the wife, u Senor Cunt, with Spanish
minuteness, states, of Lieutenant-General Don ANAS-
TASIO ALESON, Count DE LA PENA DEL ROW; and
there he met their niece, MCIIIO. RAMONA DE
BONILLA, the honourable chaplain Don GASPAR
BONA SEELANO, Don Mextrxt. Gott= DE BONILLA,
and Senor GUELL himself. What occurred can
only be adequately told by the lut-named gentle-
man, and we extract his account of it from a letter
he addressed, on the 6th of November lest, to Gan.
NAIVAZZ :

Whet your visit wee assawaced, I roes to receive you
like a iirell-nerad mum, with all requisite politeness. You
twice stared at me, them s third time, but, with an imperious
gesture, to whkh I replied with the greatest courtesy
" y Rank, my gemmed." I am not your
gmearal," yea any to sus,. bemuse you me a clodhopper,
° Mow whams Wood I would drink and tier his heart oat."
iiipasking thim, yea threstesed me with a 'tout cans, with
which yen Mad erd my cost. I instantly replied, " That I
" required a iidielactims as greet as the insult dose to my
imesev." at riiasd, " That rat lilt hest* to give it
"ma, and dist rat ehsdd Us le Mar so at my beer< the
° wards Iha uldwrad ti dm Mambo, of Dipatlia." I no-
, rhea, " That your wih shoal he nee gratified."

This scene gives "the maid" that Senor 01.111.1
appeals to a very lively idea of the modern Great
Captains, the modern Generals, the modern Political
Leaders, the modern Prime Ministers—above all,
because more important than all, the modern gentle-
men of Spain. I should like to drink your blood,
and to tear your heart ont,"was the exclamation al
Don }WWI( NARVAEZ, Duke of VALVITIA, in the
presence of Madame Donna DOLORF9 BONILLA DE
ALISON, COEBURN DI LA PIMA DEL MORO, and her
aims, whose name we really cannot repeat, to say
nothing of " the honourable Chaplain." This, and
ikomishing a cane in the face of ladies, are the
mob= manners of Madrid, famed in old time as
the head-quarters of stately courtesy. Of course a
dud was, to all appearance, inevitable ; bet the
modern Spaniards seem no longer distinguished by
that alacrity in quarrel which distinguished their
ancestors.

First of all, these impatient combatants appointed
each a braes of seconds ; all Madrid knew what wan
going on ; the military authorities inhibited General
NAZTAIM from risking his precious. life, and the
police took care of the person of his antagonist. Be-
fore the seconds could prepare an account of this
position of things for the press, Niaviu became
Primo Minister, and se Prime Ministers in Spain,
nnlate Premiers in England seven and twenty years
ago, anal fight duels, the affair was adjourned until
NARTAIS quitted ofil,:e.
How this President of the Spanish Council, who
wished to drink Senor Guxu:s blood and tsar hie
heart out, has since, despiteallhla violence endears,-
nese, had his own heels tripped by Queen BABEL
when he attempted to re-exercise that authority
which he wielded during his former ministry, we all
recollect. In less than twelve months NAZTAU
was again in a private position. Thereupon Senor
" like a well-bred man, and with all requisite
" politeness," again addressed him, after this irre-
sistible fashion, prolosmdly serious as Don QUIXOTE
himself :

To-day, witiwas walk ay mimosa or wroth, banns
II am a roars devoted le Andy sad eathlog else. I writs you
this Later in the way that, without uttering a °na-
phtha, without replyles is year Weft by aimilar tanks, I
brow devoured my doped, In shames, bat not my dishonour,
beams as ands broils dere& a mut Ilke me. I lire by
my amailatiaa, wad so ale tie tanish my reputation.
la the amid, Mari vs Ins Mars is a law, a 131401111, •
Asamalfy that is mend I. me. Tan rind me • man lank
Wee • Wily, yew had boils( • women : come now with
• rend, as is the daty of awry men presemiag • male M
ehmes—ens and tsar out my bsart, se you promised.

. ,
Yes-0 Gene and tear out my heart, as you pro-
" wised." Senor Gent., whom reputation is
beyond all terrestrial soil, opened his immaculate
bosom to the brutal NARTAZZ ; on one condition,
however, and there lies the point of the second trim.-
action. Senor Gummi., in the very intensity of
pinion, which " devoured his despair," in the
wildness of his desire to tight, had, we must say,
something of Portia's spirit about him: like the
young Doctor of Padua, he was precise. lie required
his heart to be cut out—not with a knife or a sabre,
but with the small-sword; above all, he would not
have it blown out with a pistol. And NARYSIZ was
equally punctilious and particular. Though in Octo-
ber, 1836, he felt such " haste " to perform the
sanguinary operation that his seconds accepted
rapiers as the weapon, in November, 1837, they
would only allow " a man of his age" to fight with
pistols. Like Bob Acres, NAKTAE2 was ambitious of
the honour of bringing down his antagonist by a
long shot, and his seconds were of opinion that so
reasonable an aspiration ought to be gratified.

Senor GI:rI.C.I friends then insisted on swords.
NAIVETE'S seconds required pistols ; and a " great
• principle" was at stake. In Spain, the challenger
bee, it impesee, the choice of weapons, and Senor
Octal mild not surrender that right without en•
dangering the right of challengers in perpetuity.
So Senor GUELL became the victim of precedent;
he keeps his heart in his breast ; General NERVEEE
does not drink Senor Guru's blood ; no duel is
fought, no apology is tendered to Donna DoLoRES,
&e. ; and Senor Gt ELL asks " the world" for its
judgment on the affair in which he played so promi-
nent a part.

We don't profess to be " the world." We are
merely an expression of English humanity, and
England is but a speck on the great terrestrial tribunal
to which the magnificent Span is rd, whose heart is safe,
has appealed. Bat the conclusion we in our small
sphere arrive at in, that Madrid society is abandoned,
corrupt, hollow, false, and rotten to an extent that
defies all recovery, and that for Spain and its capital
there is but one road to regeneration ; and that is,
we speak the word advisedly, through the terrible
ordeal of a Tea °lotion, which shall purge away the
moral pollution and the social degeneracy that is aow
teetering in the mart-cue of the nation.

L the =deep& the shops give abundant ri-
gor tee eprearedis et the (err rem by their Mr
They et prialer et di rib, hen Norio& tither dews
le dreenia Me theragereee d leadenhaireer,
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try

aIIITILDAT NEXT.—ABtoapt the City and Welt.
witkr.• win has Omar asildel irk ignites to
sham dba Ihlt WWI as a ha/May dr lkilawim
kern Imo my% mod:—Xera J. sad R. Roth',
Wopi.einet; Seat sal Ca, 011Chastee : Cook, dos, sad
C 0... Gawp Maim& sad Ca. awl Allan and Co et.
Paarraliamkaal; Wale sad Mambos. Cheapidda ;
Barmy wad Ca., bedwie•hil; Oohs Making sad Cs.
sad Hamill sad Ca, Aim; Rama rd Edpr, Hoes-
, &Cy ; Kam& !'away am Om% Cadravr-oreet;
and
Oa
Oa, Readidesst ; Lai sad Aliesby, Clads*
mg co., Md. mai Lowanis, lay aad Ca., Paak and Co.,
Rig aid Co, Rameandame; Illonhall
Co.idgmaa
Ilaawatoest ; Pds Ratiara, Soarrav sod o , and Oraat
awl Ca, Oadankiaost ; disolteed of Co., Maya sod sad
Darraaa, Riad ard Ca, Ocearima wad Co.. y..s .4 Seam-
an% N* mg Ow, Tatlealoarcoart-rort.

Etc Court.

• WINDSOR, Dm, 13.
Thd Paean Royal and Uncap Alice to* -a
narrow' drip, 7eetards7eurasca.4
In thwiellideg, the Daiwa cl kw* Wended by lady
Anna Marla Dserwan lad Lady Augusta Dees, dined with
her Majesty. The Earl of Clarendon, Lady Caroline Bar-
rington, and laratenent-Colead the lion. J. Strange

Jocelyn,' Scots leather Guards, had the honour of beuTg
tneluAod in the royal dinner party.
The tend of the Royal Horse Guards preformed during
dinner

Orertura, "Yon" Reimiger.
Pa Pirarri. "Toll asnw"
ales, " Drum of the Osenn" Gunge.
deleetas Roosinl.
°slop
Ilar Majesty's privies tend afterwards performed in the
drawfarroara :

Overture, Heimkeir ana der Precede" Mendeleaolus.
Aria, "Merle" Herold.
Mew, "Nicht/err"
Selection, "Heyde,

The ChbiKS, with the Pekoe Segal. one est this morn-
ing. The Prince Comet eneuragneiel bar Mee* cm horse-
back. ltnor-tlessaal the Han Charles Grey and Captain
du Plat *ere in attendant*.