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LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER I, 1855.

seats himself will be under the magic spell, and appear to '
the audience, under circumstances least expected, in a posi-
tion as peculiar as perplexing.
Act, 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; or, the
Nucleus of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the
audience will have the goodness to observe, in an earlier part
of the evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommod's coffin)
in mid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which
all will produced.
Act. 2. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the Shortest
Route to the Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of
ridding ourselves of a troublesome friend, and the advantages
of the newly-discovered dia-terrestrial passage from the west-
ern to the eastern hemisphere.
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EAST INDIA HOUSE. 31sT OCTOBER, .855.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of theEAST
INDIA CO NI PANT do hereby give Notice, that.the Transfer
Books of the said Company's Stock will be shut on THURSDAY.
the 6th of December next, at Three o'clock, and opened again on
TEL DINDAY, the 17th of January, 1856,
That the IVarrants for the Dividends on the said Stock, due, on
the sth January, 1816, under the 11th section of the Act 3d and 4tb
William IV., cap. 85, will be ready to be delivered on Monday, the
7th Jan., 1856.

JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, 31sT OCTOBER, 1855.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY DO HEREBY OWE-NOTICE, That the
notification issued en the 18th of July last of a reduction in the rate
of interest on the Company's Bonds is WITHDRAWN.
JIMES C. MELYILL, Secretary.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, alaTtlcTositit; 1846.
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QUARTEIZLY GENERAL COURT of the said Company he
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19th December next, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon.
JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

EAST INDIA HOITSIII, 31sT OCTOBER, P4SS.
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Exc.h.nge at widdi they will receive C,sh for Bills on Bengal and
3falras will, from the present date, and until further notice, he 2s. Id.
ti *e Company's Rupee, and for Bills an Bombay 2s. I%d. the Com-
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JAMES C. lIIELVELL, Seoretary.

ROYAL SWEDISH RAILWAY COMPANY,
18, Cannon-street, City.
The owners of Shares and Obligations in this Company are respect-
fully reminded that the Half-yearly INTEREST, due the 27th instant,
may be receivel on or after that day, by application at the Oftle,es of
the ompany, between the hours of eleven and three o'clock.
JOHN SADLEER, Chairman.
26th October, 1855.

I ONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAIL-
.&WAY.—WINTER ARRANGEMENTS.—NOTICE for NO-
VEMBER, 1855. _ _

The express train leaving London at 9 a.m. will call at Bletchley.
The express train leaving London at 5.15 p.m. for Worcester, the
Midland District, Birmingham, and Wolverhampton, will leave at 5
o'clock, and ceas•c calling at Leighton. . .

The express train leaving Lmtlon at 5 p.m. will call at Bletchley,
and cease calling at Watford and Wolverton.
The train leaving London for Trlng at 5.20 p.m. will leave at 5.5
p.m.
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The train leaving London for Worcester at 1 p.m. will leave at
12.30 noon. _ _ _ .

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By order. MARK lIIIISII.
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GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
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CONTRACT FOR Itiscurf-: • '
Department of the Coroptroll‘ir:_ Victualling,
SOmerset.houseiat Mi. •
THE Commissioners for.oxituttiettre-Offie. cof
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
rid Ireland, D 0 HEREBY GIVE NONCE, that on WEDNES-
DAY, tit, 14th November next, at One o'clock, they will be ready
to treat with -uch persons as may be willing to contract for supplying
and delivering inio her Majesty's Victualling Stereo, at DeptfJrcl,
the undermentioned quantity of BISCUIT, viz:—

When to be delivered.
r Cne-fourth to be (4ivered by thenth
November, another fourth by the sth
Dept-ord .... 10,000 cwt. December, another fourth by the 12th
December, and the remainder by the
19th December next, or earlier if pre-
.fered by the party tendering.

Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the Biscuit
Samples (not less than 211,s ) to beproduced by the parties tendermg,
and the quality to be equal to that usualy baked in her Majesty's
Victualling Yards.
Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the Ten-
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hereof only as they may deem fit, or for a greater quantity, or of
imt contracting f,rany, and also an unlimited power of selection.
The price of the Biscuit is to include the cost of suitable bags, each
to contain 112Ibs.

No tender will be received unless made on the printed form pro.
vided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on application at
the said Office, at the Victualling Yards at Gosport and Plymouth, or
to Commander Bevis, conducting the Packet Service at Liverpool, or
to the Collector of Customs at Bristol.

The conditions of the revised contracts, to which particular atten-
tion is called, may be seen at the said office, at the said Victualling
Yards,: and at Liverpool and Bristol. 11Co tender will be received
after one o'clock on the day of treaty, and it will not be required
that the party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend
at the office on the dayof contract, as the result of the offer received
from each person will be communicated to him In writing.
Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left-hand corner the words, " Tenderfor BISCUIT,"
and must also be delivered at Somerset ?louse.

TIM RUSSIAN VESSELS IN THE PACIFIC.

( From the Constitutionnel.)
The Russian fleet decidedly represents the phantom
ship. It is seen in a fog and is pursued ;at the moment
when on the point of being seized it disappears, and one
does not know if it has sunk in the waves or vanished in
the air. Thus two English ships ordered to watch the
movements of the Russian frigates and schooners at Pe-
tropaulovski anchor before the harbour, and keep their
eyes fixed on the Raseian masts which rise above the
batteries. The allied squadrons arrive. The Russian
ships are gone. The English £fficers rub their eyes, and
ask if they have been duped by an illusion or mirage.
The Allies sail towards Amoor after having destroyed
the defensive work of Petropaulovski. The English per-
ceive a Russian frigate and schooner in a Japanese Lay.
Hurrah ! the day of battle has arrived. The decks are
cleared for action, and the bay is entered. A new.dis-
appointment. The frigate and schooner have disappeared.
How did they escape ? No one knows, and the success
of this miraculous flight is again ascribed to the fog. It
is then deemed certain that in the Gulf of Saghalien, at
the entrance to the river Amoor, will be found these un-
approachable vessels. One thing is alone feared, that they
have been disarmed, sunk, and converted into batteries.
Travellers report the formidable preparations they have
seen, the rows of cannon, the ships shelved in the sand,
and the narrow passages filled up with stones and
rubbish. The Petropaulovski squadron appears before
the Gulf of Saghalien, and finds it open, free, and no-
where are discovered fortifications or ships. Decidedly
. Russian powers resembles those visions which dis- (pear
on approaching them. Naliinktivoatipili this , • than.
this perpetual flight of Rusivian' gielsomi 4"foit'
tifications, these coasts which are said Lobe impregnable,
and which are found utterly undefended. The English,
on entering the Gulf of Saghalien, which they did with-
out obstacle, found no other trac,? of Russian occupation
than an open town, without defences and abandoned.
This was the town of Ayan. A small iron steamer was
found and destroyed by the English. In discovering
the town, it was however discovered not to be totally un-
inhabited. Two citizens of the United States, who had
been bankrupts in San Francisco, had come to try their
fortunes on Russian soil, and had brought with them a
cargo of planks. The flight of the inhabitants had caused
their speculation to fail, and they were on the point
of leaving the place. The English allowed these two Tro-
jans to start on their unknown destination. The squad-
ron then attempted to enter the river, but no channel
deep enough to receive vessels of war could be dis-
covered. The boats were therefore armed and received
orders to ascend the river. Their researches were in
vain, and they returned to the Admiral with the
conviction that if the Russians had any military
establishments in these regions they were far in-
land. However, it is certain that the campaigns of
1854 and 1855, have been disastrous to the Russian
navy. Nowhere has it found the Allies, and it has
always sought safety in flight. At Sebastopol it only
found refuge under the water of the port. At Cron-
stadt and Sweaborg it remained concealed behind the
land batteries. These tactics would be excusable if the
Allies had always presented themselves in superior force,
but far from that, detachments of the fleet with the Eng-
lish and French flags, have scoured with impunity the
Baltic Sea, destroying all the Government stores with-
out being attacked by the Russian vessels, who were
infinitely stronger and more numerous. In the Pacific

the frigates of the same nation have subsided into mere
jack-o'-lanterns. There remains this day to the Russian
navy only the recollection of Sloops, and it is not that
event which will reestablish its reputation."

Spirit of the Public Journals.

( Front the Morning Herald of this dew. )

We need not go back to the days of Alexander
and Thais, to prove how worthless an instrument
may suffice to plunge an empire into ruin. But
the parasites and prostitutes of modern times differ
in many external respects from the flatterers and
betrayers of ancient or medwaval days. The
" three tailors of Tooley-street," with their mani-
festoes in behalf of " the people of England," con-
stitute oue of our chief dangers—fearful, though
ludicrous ; destructive, even while it is contemp-
tible. _

The great embodiment of the " three tailors," at
the present moment, is found in a London news-
paper, which not only pretends to speak in behalf
of the peop!e of England, but has repeated this
fiction so long and so often, that it comes at last to
be believed. One of the most embarrassing circnm-

stances, we are well aware, which attends any
Government in England just now is, the fancy
which possesses many politicians on the Continent,
and many more in America, that the Times speaks,
sometimes for the Government, at other times for
the people. Both are fictions; but if they passofor
truth they do as much mischief as if they were
really true.
In this way the Times bad a chief hand in
plunging England into the present war. In the
early. part of 1853, when the Emperor Nicholas saw
his " obi friend Aberdeen " in power, he desired
Baron Brunow to sound the English Cabinet about
Turkey. The language used was jut -that which
was used4o. Sir Hamilton Seymour. at St. Peters-
burg. Turkey was " the sick and likely
soon to die. What was to be done with the estate,

which would be left without an- owner ?. Should
Russia begin to take measures ? The answer Baron
Brunow received was, " Do just what you like; we

shall not interfere with you."
Satisfied as to the acquiescence of the British
Cabinet, the agents of Russia next began to con-
sider how tho people of England would be likely to
regard such a movement as the Czar contemplated.
Wo know not, nor does it much signify, whether
the Times merely " followed the lead" of Lord
Aberdeen, or whether it was propitiated by any of
the numerous agents, male or female, whom Russia
has been in the habit of maintaining in all the chief
European capitals. It is enough for us to know
that the Times said to Russia in leading articles
what Lord Aberdeen had already said in private

conversation—" Do what you please ; we shall
offer no objection."
It was on the 2d of March, 1853, that the Times
wrote as follows :

" The time is approaching when the maintenance
of the Ottoman empire in its present form will be
found to be impracticable, and acknowledged to
be undesirable : but whatever vicissitudes the

Christian and Sclavonic provinces of Turkey may
witness, they can pass under no form of Govern-
ment more barbarous, wasting, and oppressive than
that which has so long overwhelmed them. We
profess, therefore, to feel no anxiety for the main-
tenance of the Ottoman empire, which bears the
stamp of a tyrannical past, a worthless present,
and an extinct future." " The question is whether
we aro to leave the tottering edifice to fall mole

sua, or to provide against such a calamity ?" Here
w© had the Times "'saying ditto" to the Emperor
Nicholas. " What shall we do about the sick

man 1" asked the Czar of Sir Hamilton Seymour.
" Shall we leavo the edifice to f►ll, or provide

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against such a calamity ?" echoed the Times.
Baron Brunow had thus made all safe, had se-
cured the acquiescence of the British Government,
and had induced the Times to talk as pure Russian
as could be learned in St. Petersburg. So pre-
pared, Prince Menschikoff was sent to Constanti-
nople, and the army was put in motion. Unluckily
the mperor found out, atter a while, that neither
Lord Aberdeen nor the Times had any right to speak
in the name of England. The " old friend," " the
excellent Aberdeen," had to declare war ; and the
Times which, in March, " had no anxiety for the
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maintenance of the Ottoman empire," had
right round before, and had resolved that the Otto-
man empire should be maintained against Russia
and against all comers.
Unluckily, however, these conversions came too
late. The delusive encouragements of March had
induced the Emperor to embark in a course from
which he was too proiq to turn„huk, His old.
frielA> AberdeeninnikkirlitinibUtslaiv,tthe
had led him astray ; but the mischief was now
done. The war was, in fact, begun. And its
origin was a mistake as to the influence of Lord
Aberdeen and as to the power of the Times. So
began this great war.
But we refer to this long-past fact, chiefly be-
cause we see too much reason to fear a second
blunder of the same kind, or even still more serious.

A misfortune of the gravest kind is threatening us,
and, again, the foolish pretensoins of the Times
may have some considerable share in bringing it
on.

For the last two or three weeks a most absurd
rumour has been bruited abroad—so absurd, in
fact, that we have not thought it worth while to
allude to it—namely, that England and France
were entering into a treaty with Spain, which king-
dom was to furnish, like Sardinia, a contingent of
25,000 men to the army in the Crimea, while Eng-
land and France, in return, were to guarantee to
Spain the quiet possession of Cuba. Now the
manifest absurdity of this was two-fold :-1, that
Spanish troops, in Russia, were likely to be worth-
less—a mere incumbrance ; while, 2, our inter-
ference between Spain and America exposed us to
the danger of a new war with a nation of 20,000,000
of proud and pugnacious men. We disbelieved,
therefore, the whole story, as one too bad to be
credited even of Lord Palmerston himself. But,
while we thus paused, there came out an article, of
a professedly Ministerial hue, in the Times of last
week, which tended to make matters worse, if pos-
sible, than they already were.
This article avowed that the English Govern-
ment was reinforcing its West Indian squadron, and
thus interposing a " powerful fleet" between this
country and the North American continent. This
avowal at once entitles the Americans to demand
some explanations. Now an evasive or false expla-
nation is an insult. What, then, are we to say of
such talk as the following :
" At this moment North America is in profound
peace with the whole world • yet it is not the less
true that in her ports are fitting out at this moment
piratical filibustering expeditions, destined to carry
war and bloodshed into the dominions of an un-
offending neighbour. These explanations do not
receive the sanction of the American Government,
are not equipped by its funds, will not be conducted
by its officers—but their preparation is neverthe-
less well known to the President and his Adminis-
tration, and receives no check from that quarter."
" That which she cannot do we are compelled, at
least so far as the lawless enterprises directed against
ourselves go, to do for her. We cannot wait
patiently till these lawless emissaries of insurrec-
tion and plunder have set their feet within her
Majesty's dominions, and encountered there the
resistance which is sure to overwhelm their wild
and desperate schemes. We cannot wait till we are
placed in the terrible dilemma of either sparing men
to whom clemency is cruelty to the human race, of
which they are the enemies, or of inflicting a just
punishment, which may be the means of inflaming
against us the passions of the American people and
leading to a disastrous and fratricidal war. We
will, if i t be possible, prevent the crime that other-
wise it would be our duty most severely to punish,
and this we do in the name and in the hope of peace.
We cannot believe that those who are now engaged
in enrolling unhappy men for these desperate and
criminal enterprises really contemplate the success
of a descent upon Ireland, for instance, as probable,
or even possible."
The talk about a descent on Ireland is too ab-
surd to be maintained for a single moment. No
British Minister could gravely advance such a be-
lief in a conference with an American ambassador.
It is a baseless, and therefore a foolish pretext.
But there remains, unhappily, the avowed fact of
a "powerful fleet" assembled in the West Indies.
What rational account can we give of this to our
Transatlantic brethren ? If we say, frankly, "It
is to keep your people from seizing upon Cuba,"
that very reply may be the surest way of setting
America in a blaze, and of causing the whole nation
to resolve to take Cuba at once, just because we
were so insolent as to undertake to prevent them.
But of all possible follies, the worst was that con-
tained in the Times article. If that article is con-
ceived
etnotspoer theaktheEsenngsleisheitpheeorpolfe,thteheEnngalivt Go-
vernment
most unfortunate, unnatural war—with the united
States is an event most alarmingly probable.
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ly

(Fromm the Morning Post of this day.)
Although it cannot for a moment be doubted that the
English Government has acted in strict conformity with
law, in directing the Lieutenant-Governor 0f have to
remove from that island the 33 refugees, who in-
famously violated the hospitality which in every por-
tion of the British dominions is extended to foreigners,
"so long as they behave themselvey peaceably," it is
banish
aliens from the
well that the public should be informed of the precise course
(sanctioned by precedent and authority) which has
been adopted in freeing
Jersey from the presence of these
missionaries of assassination, treason, and infidelity.
But before we refer to the lam of the ii!and we may
with respect to the general question, observe that it is -a,
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clear principle of English law that the Crown has an
inherent right, independentlyreal
m Blaek
sotfena any
states y sta.tut©, to
that " grcat
tenderness is shown by our laws not only
to foreigners
in distress, but with regard also 6,-)L _
the admission of
strangers Rho come spontaneously, For, so long as
their nation continues in peace with
selves behave peaceably, they are ours, and they them-
tection, though liable to be Ben under the King's pro-
tection,
sees occasion." A.
more t home whenever the
declaration of the royal r distinct and emphatic
impossible to conceive. B)uter'ogative in this respect it is
lutionary war, when, in C in the first years of the revo-
prevailed on the onsequence of the troubles which
sought an asylum in this continent, a vast ntimber of foreigners
propers country, the Legislature thought
(From the Times of this day.) to pass an alien
the removal of foreigners. act, which provided machinery for
When the war in the East first broke out, and
acts passed for This act, as well as subsequent
England found herself in new and unwonted alliance confirmed the same purpose, merely declared and
with France, and an equally unwonted hostility 1848,
8h the inherent prerogative of the Crown. In
with Russia, there was no Power from which she convulV4 den the continent again became troubled and
received assurances of support more hearty, more Hutt, ‘'e , the Legislature, on the suggestion of Mr.
satisfactory, and more spontaneous than from the Eess_ passed an alien act which expired at the end of the
United States of America, vexa the Minister of is
this--the prerogative of the Crowa, after a period of