Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-28 00:00:00

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SMITHSONIAN HO TEL of the peace getting into trouble. A'Mr. Lee, an
13„,,,epeety, corner of HOUSTON-STSEET, New 'ion H. other magistrates MonmOlithshire, refused to
I•'ezned in honour of the SMITHSONIAN INSTITOTION, hear an information preferred against the manager
Established at WASHINGTON, by the U. S. CONGRESS, of a mine by a'Government Inspector. A manila
With Fun& bequeathed by JAMES SMITSISSN, Of ENGLAND, nttiB has been granted against those gentlemen by
Haatae the Friendship of the OFFICERS Of the NATIONAL INSTITUTION the 'Queen's Bench, and Lord Campbell said it was
shocking to think that a-sa,lutary enactment of the
Is conducted on thelSySteM of Hotels in ENGLAND.
CHAS. H. SMITH. legisbature should be rendered nugatory by those
whose duty it was to administer it.
A melancholy boat accident has occurred on the
'river Esk, near Edinburgh. Two fishing boats
were capsised in a squall, and all hands, ten in
number, perished.
At the 'Police Court, yesterday, Messrs. Heath
and Hornby presiding, the case of the Newington
" Hop" was brought before them. Inspector
O'Brien stated that he had visited the Argyle
Rooms, Newington, on the night of the 17th inst.
He found a number of improper characters were
there and thei'' congregated. He apprised Mr.
Smith, the proprietor, of the characters he was
then harbouring. Mr. Smith said he knew what
they were, but that, as they were quiet, and
behaved in a becoming manner, he did not think
himself justified in turning them out. O'Erien
laid an information against him, and yesterday
the evidence was gone into. The Bench
considered that, as the women conducted
themselves in a decent way, the act did not
authorise them (the magistrates) to con-
vict, and the indictment was accordingly
dismissed. Mr. Aspinall intimated that it was
his intention of appealing to the Queen's Bench
and Mr. Heath expressed his approbation at such
a proceeding, as the magistrates were divided
upon the •question, whether the characters who
frequent such places of amusement could be
legally.ejected, so long as there was no improper
-conduct.
The recently-passed Divorce Bill win not become
the law of the land before it is wanted. We are
almost every day called upon to chronicle the
results of dissensions between husband and wife ;
and we would just refer our readers to another
example of the working of the present system,
which oceapied the attention of the •stipendiary
magistrate yesterday. The Ist of January will, no
doubt, bring joy and happiness to many an ill-
matched eeuple.
There is not much news from abroad this
morning. A telegraphic despatch has been re-
ceived, announcing the departure of Lord de
Redcliffe from Constantinople for England ; but it is
not confirmed by the latest despatches in the Paris
papers ©f last night. A Berlin letter announces
the conclusion of a convetion between Egland and
Prussia, by which the ZAlverein of Germany is to
be placed in its trade with the lonian islands upon
the footing of the most favoured nation.
It is • confirmed that Mexico 'definitely accepts
the arbitration of France in the difference with
Spain, • but on condition that previous to the
opening of negotiations, M. Lafragua shall be
received at Madrid.
A denatch dated Athens, 21st November, states
that the Ministry have resigned.

time drove the enemy's extreme left before them,
and their whole line was-ereedily in full retreat."
In this action, General nIVELOCK lost 35 men,
`and his army slew 300 ! As might be antici-
pated, the effect of this action was to create a
wholesome dread among the enemy, whose main
effort was to oppose his embarkation at Cawnpore,
an operation which was not effected without the
greatest difficulty and danger. The next thing
we hear of HAVELOCK and his gallant band, is
his encampment at Bithoor, where he finds
another force of 4,000 mutineers, among whom
was a pardon of NE;TA SAHIB'S troops.
The ground which they occupied was a
plain, densely covered with thickets, flanked
by villages, and having two streams run-
ning through it. These, be it observed, were
unfordable by troops of any arm, and could only
be crossed by two narrow bridges, the most
distant of which was protected by an entrench-
ment armed with artillery.. Having passed the
second bridge, a turn in the road protected its
defenders from direct fire, and behind it were the
narrow streets and brick houses of Bithoor.
Against these numerous and formidable obstacles
the courageous heart and stragetic mind of the
noble HAVELOCK resolved • tb combat—aye and
conquer. As usual he fought and won, slaying
250 of the enemy, while the loss on his own side
was not more than fifty. From the number of
casualties on both sides in this engagement, the
conflict must have been determined and severe.
This General HAVELOCK himself testifies. He
says :—" I must do the mutineers justice to
pronounce that they fought obstinately ; they
could not for a whole hour have held their own,
even with such advantages of ground, against my
powerful artillery fire. The streams prevented
my turning them, and my troops were prevented
assaulting them in position by a heavy rifle and
musketry fire from the rifle and battalion com-
panies engaged; but, after a severe struggle,
the enemy were driven back, their guns captured,
and infantry chased off the field in full retreat
towards Serojpore. Had I possessed cavalry,
not a rebel or mutineer would have reached that
place alive; as it is, they shall not long remain
there unmolested." The foregoing quotation is
a brier description of his tenth engagement with
the mutineers in the short space of six weeks.
Victory alone had marked his career, and the last
we heard' of him is his being in Lucknow with
1,500 men. Any one reading the despatches
from which we have made the foregoing quota.
tions, and to which our remarks refer, must
admire the modesty which characterises the
noble-minded and heroic commander. He
briefly tells us that he engaged the enemy, tought
and conquered; but we have not one single
allusion to the difficulty of his position, the ev

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THE more we carefully study the despatches
from the seat of war in India,znd which were
gazetted a few days ago, the more must we
admire the military genius of that unparalleled
General—HAvELocK. 'We use the term unparal-
leled in an unreserved sense ; for, since. the
days of that ancient, but mighty conqueror—
aESAß, no succession of military triumphs have
been acquired so rapidly, and under such
adverse anti unequal circumstances. This gal-
lant man has, among all the other distinguished
Generals who have played their part so well,
and maintaiLed the honour and t!ignity of the
British flag. shown himself the „greatest, most
persevering, and, without any question or man-
ner of 'doui,t, the most successful of military
commanders. We are so convinced of the
truth of our xemarks, that it induces us to make

influences of climate and disease upon his band
of faithful soldiers, and, above all,, the vast

numerical superiority of the enemy. Against all
these he has successfully contended, and it now
only remains for the nation to demand that such
a hero shall receive his legitimate reward. But
upon this we shall have more to say hereafter.

a few comments upon his numerous engage.
ments in and around Cawnpore.

7 In the easy part of the Indian campaign,
we were made acquainted with the:unfortunate
• expedition to Arrah. This was, .certainly, a
: I most unfortunate, and, as .it turned out, fatal
undertaking. Although it was left to the peo-
ple of England to mourn over and bewail the
consequences of that expedition, the time was
but short during which the mutineers could
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exult in their deeds of treachery and barbarity.
The invariable successes which subsequently
attended our arms more than compensated for
the disaster at Agra. Success, full and corn-
plete, has attended ;HAVELOCK'S late .career.
1 ' His marches, during the present mutiny, are
remarkable for the ,conquests which he has
gained. Actions and battles have been fou.ght
and won by him with such astonishing rapidity,
that •the future historian will be at a lose to
find in all our ancient arrl modern Generals
one who has had such an unchecked and truly
triumphant career. To substantiate this posi-
tion, let us glance at his -ewn despatches. By.
one, dated Mungulwur, 6th of August, we find
him .an-'dous to acquaint the Commander-in •
Chief that,he met the enemy in force at Busher-
at-Gunge. His army, at the time, was not strong,
but it mattered not. IL was indifferent whether
the foe was five or even ten to one. Like himself,
his m n were animated by a spirit of heroism and
loyalty-11,117.4L0cK attacks the opposing force,
superior in strength and numbers though it was. 1 ,

There is a class of persons, not inconsiderable in number,
who are.tormented by a perpeteal desire to know " what
became of .the executioner of erwards," wh:t he had for
dinner on the day of the ceremony, how he was dressed,
what stimulant; he partook of when his unpleasant task
was terminated, how he amused himself in the evening, and
how he comported himself in after lice. There are in-
quirers of a kindred nature, who are less interested in an
event than in the state of the weather on the day it
oc-nar-ed, and the bodily health of the actors. When
Ceck Rabin is killed, they want to know all about the oculist
who attended the Fly for his "little eye," and the antece-
dents of the undertaker who supplied the pail for the
unfortunate red-breast. One meets these people every
where—social antiquaries, who tell you that Eliza Rnning
w:ls hanged inlavender-coloured boots, that Napoleon over-
ate himself on mutt on aed garlic the night before he signed
his abdication at Fontain,bleau, and that the napkin with
which the Pope dries the feet of the pilgrims he washes in
Easter weak has a double hem, and a tiara worked in gold
in the corner. such "notes and queries" are not without
their value. Such trivial ite:ns of social life are the
chief charms cf the immortal biography of Samuel
Pepys, and makes us far more interested now in the
venison pasties of the Clerk of the Acts and the
pattern7of Nelly Gwynne's farthingales, than in the
treaty of Utrecht or the Du'cle in the Medway. How
many would forsake the solemn tomes of Clarendon for
a graphic description of the inner life of the p-itectorate,
did such exist ! Which book is most valuable to the
novelist, the essayist, and the social historian—Bishop
Burnet's laboured "History of his own Time," or Ned
Warti's " London Spy " We could spare Pliny the
Younger for the housekeeping book of a Roman matron in
Pemoei, and we would surrender half the literature of the
E''z ebethan age for one page, in the poet's own hand, of
the daily !ifs of William Shakespeare. It bee not,
certainly, appear at first sight that any good in the way
of graphic description, or anecdote, or amusement, can
came out of a panic, than which there would seem to be
no drier, more prosaic, or uninteresting theme in the
world. Punch, indeed, managed to eliminate some wit
and humour from the railway reign of terror of 1845, and
was long hebdom tidally comic upon bankrupt directors
reduced to sweep the crossings, imp ecunious "stags,"
who paid for their dinners in exploded shares,
and trade-fallen engineers driven to pawn their
theodolites. Bu', a p=c, after all, is a very serious
affair. Basinghall-street is not fanny; beggary is no
j ke. The downfall of merchant princes, the stoppage of
long-established banks, the ruin of thousands of men, and
women, and children, are subjects which are terribly real,
but as terribly common place, and not very susceptible of
pieturesqle treatment. So a panic is generally recognised
as a topic to be treated in the prosiest and dullest manner,
and to be left to Chancellors of the Exchequer, governors
of banks, accountants, official assignees. ei ty correspondents,
and Commissioners of Bankruptcy ; the only latitude
possible with such a theme being extended to the thousand
and one visionaries and empirics who start up like Ja on's
army whenever a panic exists, and frantically propose
their thousand and one financial panaceas. If
aey one, however, will take the trouble to go
carefully through a file of American newspapers,
published since the declaration of the terrific crisis
which has temporarily beggared that great country,
he will find abundance of materials of the kind hinted at iu
the commencement of these remarks. Of course the panic,
in all its phases, is the one paramount text dwelt upon by
the press, and its interest seems to surpass that
hitlierto excited by the Nicaraguan difficulty, Mr. Charles

He first turns •its left position, attacks him in
front with another part of his force, drives him
out of the town across a narrow causeway and
bridge, and after .a heavy slaughter, returns to
his position at night. His loss on the occasion

was 25, and that of the enemy 300 ! Then we

find him, six days afterwards, August 12, en-

camped at Mungulwur, from which place he
narrates, Cwsar-like, his eighth battle since the

12th of July—only one calendar month. They
are best told in his own graphic words :—" The

insurgents," says he, " were about 4 000 in num-
ber, with six field-guns. They had varied their

mode of defence by entrenching the village of

Boorbeeakowkee, in advance of Busherhat. My

superior artillery fire would SOJII have crushed

them, but I could only slowly bring my batteries

and eschelloned troops across the deep and wide
morass, which protected their front. Meanwhile
their shot and shell caused some loss in my ranks ;
but when these obstacles were passed, success

was speedily achieved. The Highlanders, with-

out firing a shot, prec.pitated themselves, with a
a cheer, upon the principal redoubt, and captured
two out of the three horse-battery guns With
which it was armed. The Fusiliers at the same

THE NORTHERN TIC' ES. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28 1857

Mathew's impersonations, the mission of Sir William Gore
Ouseley, the Woodman abduction case, or the great Oyer
of justice anent Mrs. Cunningham's " bogus. baby." Much
distress has, it is needless to say, been caused by the com-
mernial crisis among the labouring clauses, and large
meetings of the " unemp'nyed" have been held in New
York, as, to our sorrow, they are being held in England.
At one of these meetings, held in Tompkins'.square, a
patriotic lady, called Theresa G. Runk, announced that she
was ready, " like the Nightingale who went to the Cri-
mea" (a remarkably modest comparison) " to take hold
and help the working men out of their trouble," and
tint she was "at that moment waiting to be received
by a deputation of workmen ;" whereupon uprose Mr.
M'Guire, the secretary, who declared fervently, ' Victory
has crowned us. The ladies is going to present them-
selves through this lady present." On this, Miss, or, as
she is termed, Madame Rank presented herself, and made
a speech from which, although we cannot vote it in
cxtense, we cannot refrain from culling a few choice
passages. The devoted Runk commenced by intimating
that she intended to give a series of concerts for men and
women out of employment; and she continued, " If I can
sell the shares in the enterprise, I will give you half the
money." Hear Runk again :—" There is forty thou-
sand soldiers—(where, out of an army of ten thou-
sand ?) ready to shoot you down like dogs. We
must get the editors to favour us, and I know they
all do ; and I ask you for three cheers for the
editors. (Three cheers.) In order to live, a person must
eat, and you must live this winter, and you shall live.
(Three cheers and a " tiger.") Do you accept of my
offer to be manager of these concerts ? (.1 Yes, ma'am,"
and cheers.) You must ask the Government for two
million dollars, to be paid for in work. You must apply to
the millionares; they will all do something ..There
must be immense dinners served up in the Crystal Palace,
where you can go and eat every day, and the Corporation
must pay for it. (Immense applause in " tigers.") You
must not starve; and now, fare thee weel." At the
termination of this astonishing harangue, Madame Runk
retired among lend and prolonged applause, and a German,
mounting the chair, pronounced a glowing euloginm upon
her, and translated her speech into the language of father.
land. We are glad to meet, once more, our o'd friends
the " tigers "—whom persons conversant with the
expression of American feeling described as a specie of
prolonged howl, mingled with shrill screams, and denoting
-approbation ; the last we heard of them was on the
occasion of the arrival of General Henningsen, and his
band of marauding Filibusters, at New York. The tigers,
we abserve, have been rampant, not only in Tomkins'-
square, but at other "mass" and "indignation" meetings,
and especially greeted the Mr. el'Guire aforesaid, who,
eulogising the Mayor for his exertions in relieving the
working classes, characterised him as the " star in the
firmament of all mayors." The religious community, who
in the United States seem to combine devotion and dollars
in a manner not quite practicable on this side the Atlantic,
have brought piety to bear upon the crisis in a most remark-
able manner. Tne New York Evening Post tells of a daily
noontide prayer meeting, " for gentlemen only," which has
been established at the Old North Dutch church ; and which
since the commencement of the present financial troubles,
has been attended daily in the intervals of bu-inesn by
hundreds of men of all religious denominations. We have
no wish to disparage the devotimal sincerity of our
American cousins, but it is certainly difficult to reconcile
with the fitness of things the idea of some hundreds of
excited stock-jobbers, bank-presidents, and cotton-brokers,
rushing away from the hubbub of Wall-street, from the
fury of high 'Change, and tho warfare of " stockboards,"
to a Methodist prayer-meeting, and then beck again, post-
haste, to the temple of Mammon. Devotion, however, is
as active in literature as is actual life; and, turning to
another journal, we find, in the column devoted to poetry,
an enthusiastic eulogium of a certain bank, which has
not yet suspended, a poetical exercitation slightly
irreverent, and somewhat open to the imputation of being
a planiarism upon the late Rowland Hill. We dare only
emote a stanza or two :
"I know a bank will never break,
A bank with lots of tin ;
Bring in your notes to ZION'S bank ;
• The banker is within.
"The leper had a little note,
Lord, if you will you can ;'
The banker cashed this little note,
And healed the sickly man !"
And so on, through thirty-two stanzas of pecuniary piety.
Some organs of the Press devote themselves to agreeable
retrospects of the former commercial misfortunes of Eng-
land, and are eloquent about the South Sea Bubble, the
panic of 1825, the railway mania, the suspension of cash
payments in 1797, and Mr. Pitt sending a frigate to Ham-
burg to buy specie. Others, taking the gloomier side of
the question, devote whole pages to dreary pictures of
fashionable millinery stores closed, from "Broadway to
Bleeker- treet, from Bowery to Eighth Avenge ;" of wed-
dings postponed, and bridal 'bonnets countermanded ; of
merchants s off their carriages ;of American youths
studying medicine in Paris, or art in. Rouse or Florence ;
destitute of tobacco, scalpels, and copal varnish; of
New York shoemakers emigrating to Virginia, and Irish
immigrants returning to the Emerald Isle ; of house
and church building suspended; of the " mantilla busi-
ness annihilated ," and of Parisian staymakers waiting for
the " recuperative power of time." Some of the moralists
of journalism administer sharp reproofs to the beaux of
Broadway and the elite of the "upper ten thousand," on
the enormities of their fast-trotting horses, and lecture the
belles of Newport and Sarratoga on the aggravation of
their flounces and the intolerable circumference of their
crinoline. But with all, and in all this, there is an inex.
haustisle vein of Yankee smartness and drollery, a deter.
mination to look upon the panic, and the crisis, and the
monster "suspension," in a good-humoured light, and a
confidence in the elastici'y of the country and the im
mensity of its material resources.—Daily Telegraph.

ROMANCE IN THE STATES.—A case has lately been
brought before the Supreme Ciurt of New York which
has excited a considerable amount of local interest, and
which is in some respects so characteristic of certain phrases
in transatlantic society that it may be as well to lay an
outline of the facts before our readers. Mr. Oliver
o.is Woodman, a wealthy merchant, of New Orleans
took his wife with him to Europe in the summer of
1854. The lady was at that time in infirm health, and Mr.
Woodman, on his return to America in the N)vember of
that year, left her behind him at Paris, in the family, of a
friend, for the benefit of the highest medical advice which
the science of the French metropolis could supply. Mrs.
Woodman, in tile absence of her husband, soon contracted
an unfortunate intimacy with one Gerard Farness,
an American adventurer, who, having tritixplued
over her conjugal fidelity, speedily commenced •an
infamous system of extorting from the weakness aid
the fears of his mistress the means of supplying his
own exravagances. Tha allowance she received from
her husband, though on the most munificent scale, was son
found inadequate to supply the incessant demands of her
paramour.. Before she quitted Paris, Furness had connived
to obtain 1,690 dollars from her in hard cash. She
returned to America, and the man followed her. His
influence over her appears to have beea unbounded, and he
exer:el his power by means truly diabolical. At New
Orleans, having incurred a eeb.: o!' some hundred dollars
at his hotel, he forced contributions from his infatuve I
victim, by threats the most brutal and unmanly. To
satisfy his exigencies, the woman sold lace shawls, jewellery,
everything with which she could part without fear of
detection. As time advanced, his persecutions grew ye
more intolerable. He resorted to open plunder and per-
sonal violence. He would go into her room, open her
drawers, and carry off whatever was most valuable. " When
I was going to a ball in the evening," says Mrs. Woodman
in her di 'writ,
.5' be would come into the NM end take ,

my jewellery and put it into his pocket, and refuse to let
me have it to wear unless I gave him money, telling-- ma-
thal, if I went out without it, Mr. Woodman would insist
on knowing where it was gone; so I would make every
effort to raise money for him; sell everything in my power
—my dresses, rich embroideries, icc., &o. Most of the
articles I sold to ladies of my acquaintance ; made excuses
about my health, about going back to Paris, &c. I sold
most of myj very handsome hankerchiefs—some of them
cost 25 or 30 dollars apiece, my velvet mantilla, my lace,
flowers, &c.; in short, I could not keep my jewellery, or
anything valuable in my room." All was in vaia. The
drain was incessant and unappeasable, and scenes of
less importunity were frequently followed up by acts
of the coarest and most unmanly personal violence.
During a great part of this time the lady appears
to have been living in various hotels in New York,
while the husband was immersed in dollar-making at Ne w
Orleans. At length the scandal reached his ears. He
came unexpectedly upon his wife and her persecutor under
circumstances that could leave no possible doubt of the
truth of the worst rumours that had reached him. Now
comes the most extraordinary part of the narrative. The
almighty dollar again put in its claim, and the " wealthy
merchant of New ()cleans" was once more hurried south-
ward by its irresistibile exigency; his wife's state of health
forbade her travelling with him, even if he had been
inclined under the circumstances to burden himself
with such a companion. It was necessary, how-
ever, to put her out of the reach of Furness,
and Mr. Woodman reserted to the expedient
(which but for the recent case of Mrs. Talbot
in this country we should have considered original)
of shutting her up as an insene person in the private
lunatic asylum of General M'Donald, at Flushing, in Long
Island. Bofore going to the asylum, the wife, in presence
of her husband, his friend, and his legal adviser, had made
a full statement of her owe criminality and of Furness's
persecutions, the substance of which statement was
subsequently reduced to writing by the lawyer, and sworn
to by Mrs. Woodman, in the presence of a commissioner.
She had not- been long in the asylum when an
application was made to the Supreme Court of New
York—notoriously, if not avowedly, at the instigation
of Farness—for a writ of habeas corpus to remove her
from the custody of General M'Donald. The application
was supported, amongst other grounds, on several letters
purporting to have been written by Mrs. Woodrhen
to Furness from the asylum, imploring him in most
passionate terms to assist her in escaping from the durance
to which, as the writer alleged, the tyranny of a husband
had consigned her. Whether these letters were or were not
genuine can only be a matter of conjecture. The probabi
lay is that they were so, and that the woman found the
constraint to which she was subjected so irksome, that as a
last and desperate mode of escape from it she betook herself
to the man for whom, in spite of his infamous misusage, she
still cherished a weak and guilty a ff_ction. Upon
this state of facts the Sepreme Court was ob-
viously placed in a somewhat curious predica-
ment. Those who applied for the habeas corpus relied
on the letters of the lady, as to the genuineness of
which grave doubts might possibly be entertained ;
those who opposed the concession of the writ were equally
urgent to avail themselves of the affidavit, to the authenti-
city of which considerable suspicion also attached. It had
been drawn up from statements made by the wife under a
_species of duress, amid tears and sobs, in the presence of an
outraged husband, and of the lawyer who consequently
redueed it into the form of a narrative. The counsel
applying for the habeas cor pus other words, the
advocate for Furness, whose object clearly was
to get the lady again into his clutches—ad-
dressed the court in a strain of argument which,
on this side of the Atlantic, seems somewhat original
Evidently the popular feeling went with the lady
and the paramour, and the court was sorely puzz'ed
whether to receive or not to receive the affidavit of
Mrs. Woodmen as evidence. Their deliberations on this
point, which they had taken a day's time to consider, were
happily cut short by a communication from the lady her-
self, who announced, throigh her counsel, that she wished
all further proceedings to be discontinued, as she had been
in the interim released from the asylum, and was about to
precced, under the escort of her brother, to the residence of
her parents in Mississippi. The reading of this document
produced, we are told, an extraordinary sensation, " and
the, court and all concerned seemed immensely relieved."
It is not for us tc draw any general moral from thee
extraordinary proceedings. Our American couisin4
are laudably sensitive to European, and especi-
ally English, opinion ; and, if we were no
venture to suggest that the almighty dollar worship,
the free-and-easy hotel and boarding-house lift, continental
travel, and cosmopolitan opinions, had somewhat tended
to relax the domestic moralities of the upper ten thousand
—we should, of course, be vnntering on exceedingly
dangerous ground. We will leave the task of improving
the occasion to the American press : —" In jading the
parties to this scandalous inquiry (says the New York
Evening Post) let us beware that we do not visit upon one
or two individuals, sins for which all of our fashionable
sooiety is more or less responsible. Rich and well-
dressed profligates are a prominent, and we had almor,
said, the favourite feature of the New York drawing-
room. Oar city is even now rife with other stories of
intimacies as disgraceful as anything which has been dis-
closed in the relations of Mrs. Woodman and Furness,
and, we blush to add, quite as mercenary. We have no
social standard which sets a mark of infamy upon the roue.
If he dances and dresses well, and has leisure to devo'e to
the entertainment of idle women, there are always enough
to be flattered and beguiled by his attentions into familiari -
ties which result in dishonour, if not in disgrace." Our
kinsmen ought to be well acquainted with the phenomena
of their own social state; but certainly if the facts revealed
in this scandalous case are to be taken as not exceptional,
but illustrative, then it is quite claer that the great centres
of transatlantic opu'ence have not entirely escaped from the
cirrupting influence of sudden wealth and boundless
extravagance.

NEAPOLITAN GOSSIP.--. A Paris correspondent, writing
under date of Nov. 17th, says :—" Amidst the press of
other matter we seem to have forgotten the many politi-
cal prisoners in Naples almost as much as the government
itself has forgotten them. To remove any man, and put
him into darkness and silence, when suspected of
liberalism, seems to be the great object ; and then, for
the future—why, let him lie and rot. This is no exanora-
tion, for many, alas, limo I known to have thus
pined away in imprisonment or exile until death
has come as a relief to them. Many are at this
moment in this position. I shall head my list
with the name of an old man, called D 3 Lnna,
who is eighty-one years' of age, and is imprisoned
in St. Maria Apparente; he has fallen into his second
childhood. Then there is the son of an Englishman,
caled Thither, and anoter man, called Aiascilli, who
have been ten or eleven mmths in close coafi a moent ; the
former is the only son of his mother, the latter has a wife
and family; and many members of the family of
Angesilao Milano, who was hanged last year, are configed
there; and one called Gentili, his cousin, has been taken
from the underground prisons, and confined as a hectic
patient to the prison hospital of St. Francisco. There
are a great many more there on suspicion and without
trial, and whom it is never intended to bring to tri 11.
When their families are ruined, and they are broken
hearted, or enfreloled, they will be let out, per-
haps, to celebrate the bir.h of another Bourbon
under the surveillance of the police. I have news also
from Montesarchic, where a lady bas lately been to see
her husband behind the bars. Poerio was present in hie
prison dress, he having refused to ask for any favour.
The other prisoners were in plain dress; but all wore a
chain. And now for a visit to the prisoners of Salerno.
The sdrocete for the defence is no longer permitted to see