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the third day of December, 1855.
FERDINAND BRAND, Comptroller.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. —.THIS
EVENING, and every evening during the
Week, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC
and MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, the Great
Wizard of the North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety
DI incidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary
effects.

Magic and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos-
sessing distinctive characteristics and peculiar phases of
'aumsement. It is not a monologue, for the audience them-
selves
perform their parts with the principal actor, some of
them on the stage and others in front ; it is not an exhibition,
for though everything becomes metamorphosed before the
eyes of the visitors no one can be positive that he sees any
one thing; but it is a comedy really performed by the com-
pany ; a melodrama replete with startling positions and unex-
pected denouements ; a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of
the Public every night to appear as auxiliaries ; and an ex-
travaganza, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond
the bounds of probability.
Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged and
fashionable audiences which have nightly filled the Lyceum
Theatre to overflow, and by means of whose generous aid he
has been enabled to announce Magic and Mystery for eon-
linuous repetition. He believes that no professor of his art
las at any time or in any place been honoured with an
aTount of sueoess so extensive, so decided, and so nnuoual.
lie would attribute that success to three causes; first, that
In his present entertainment he has placed before his visitors
the results of a life sedulously devoted to the attainment of
Perfected skill in one peculiar art, and to perfect which he
has travelled the globe in every clime ; secondly, that he has
spared no trouble nor expense to put this entertainment on
the stage in the most elaborate manner, by the employment
of the first mechanicians and artists of the day ; and thirdly,
that, while endeavouring to provide amusement for those
Who honour him with their presence, he has not forgotten that
it is possible to afford information also, and that the oppor-
tunity should not be neglected of exposing conjuring. where
ever it has been used for nefarious purposes, or whenever by
l'esortiag to the conjuror's arts, in an illegitimate manner,
the designing have succeeded in making dupes of fir.
Credulous.

The 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pri.
fewer Anderson has received, from the time of opening the
theatre up to the present date, bear witness to the great in
terest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst
Many of them bear melancholy evidence to the dangers which
stteea a belief in the superstitious nonsense of the " Spiri-
tualists." Judging simply by the correspondence which has
lesulted, Professor Anderson's expos 6 of spirit-rapping and
his illustration of the so-called table phenomena, have pro-
'l'leed a sensation unequalled by any previous attempt to es-
pose a mischievous and impudent juggle. It is impossible
for Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the
Communications which reach him on the subject. He regrets
that many of these should come from ladies and gentlemen
I°llo, from their position in society and their well-known in-
tellectual attainments, he would least have expected to have
Teen converts to a belief so preposterohs in itself, and so
easily susceptible of being controverted and disproved. Every
evening, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions oe
tPirit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within the
'43lceum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited
and elucidated. It is respectfully requested that thi-
kliblic exposition will be accepted generally as Professor
Anderson's only mode of replying at full length to his
Multitudinous correspondents. lie regrets that the
names of the great and learned of the land should
Pave been made to figure in the documents emanating
from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex-
tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem-
ber 20, and taken by that journal from the New York Spiri-
"lca Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American
E.Pirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume :—" Sir David Brewster
'rankly confesses that he is sorely puzzled' at what he has
!sitnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be
,thoroughly nonplussed. Both of these noted men brought
the whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the
/elution of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial,
actual hands, and the demonstrative strength of the spirits
Who thus clothed themselves for the time, and moved mate-
-1:1°1 Objects about the room, proved to be too much of a ques-
tion for them to master." Mr. D. D. Hume, the author of the
Shove, has recently left England, and the following account of
Who, and what he is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 648:
-" This young man, who is a Scotchman by birth, and now
in Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations
without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout
the Anglo-Saxon world as a splendid humbug, offered him 2,000
dollars per annum if he would perform at his museum in New
(Yorks Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could
le bought. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was
refused. Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply
2nd honestly remarked, that the money would have been very
acceptable to him, for he was poor, young (under DI), an or-
l'han, and in very had health : but he would have been afraid
of losing his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose
his life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful.
Ile inquired into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the
greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is
!So of the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cer-
tainly surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the
editorial article of an established journal, the editor of whore
;alnight be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe
, spirit-rapping-- does spirit-rapping gain or lose b 3
this accession to its adherents ? and, with Barnum's endorse
)211ent to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likele
,10 be
when he finds at educated clergymen of the Church o
England have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross I
swindle, when he finds that the incumbent of Wortley (the
gev. N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and
writes a book on the subject, he considers it to be time for
him to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which
1t is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the
r°rning Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir
ee
In company
Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel.
com-an-
, p y with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that
which the Wizard of the North proclaims every night—that
spirit-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad
tor Poses. In the Morning Advertiser of the following day,
°waver there is an answer to Sir bavid's letter from one
Who was present when he and Lord Brougham had their
fiance with the spirits, in which thee writer says, that " the
table (a large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most
extraordinary manner, and, among other things, a large ac-
cordion was conveyed by an invisible agency to my hand and
then to Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship's
right hand, apart from any person, it played an air through-
ant." With such a statement, printed for the edification of
the people of the 19th century, with the facts before us that
the most talented men of the day are permitting themselves
to be deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers—that the
greatest novelist of the age is now engaged in making it the
/Tubject of a new work, and that a "spiritual convention"
43 actually been advertised to be held in St. Martin's-hall,
Professor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual-
ists of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, will
be received by the people of England as genuine honest at-
tempts to provide an antidote for the bane of the spiritual
Jugglers.
In the course of the last five weeks 100,017 persons have
visited the Lyceum Theatre,—a larger number, it is believed,
than has ever before been assembled within its walls in so
short a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even-
tug, the programme being continually changed. Grand
fashionable Day Performance, on Saturday, December 8, at
2 O'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ;
Part 1. —Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical
fjapabilities of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do
!)3, magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesiner-
rn, , and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in
Lae air,
Act 2. The Aqua-Avial Paradox ; exemplifying the power
t‘tt' producing animated nature from fire and water only, and
the possibility of eliciting from the simplest elements the most
complex forms of ornithological existence.
Act 3. Le Livre des Reeuoils Choisies: or, Puck's Own
Pocket Book, with Puck himself within it.- Typifying the
'vening's entertainment in the production of the very volu-
aninous from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude
',lit of minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears
for its existence, in discovering odd things iu odd places, and
5n bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely
Place for to be found.
Act 4. Magical Locomotion ; or, Transition without Trott-
-Lae. la,which will be comprised—the Adventures of a Wed-
Sling Ring, the Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the Transfer-
anation—black into white, and the Discovery of every Article
in the position which would seem the most inappropriate.
Act 5. L'Ecrin de Verro; or, the Casket of Crcesus. Into
'which, though made entirely of glass perfectly transparent,
and suspended so as to be visible to the eyes of all present,
the Wizard will cause the money of his visitors to transport
itself, and rain into the casket, though its lid be closed,
locked, and the key in the possession of the audience.
Act 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Tianspareney
of Opacity.
Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wine
and Spirit Store. An improvement upon the " inexhaustible
bottle," inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle will not only be in-
exhaustible, but will change its contents, ad infinitum, at the
Vend of command, producing soda-water, butter-milk,
Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, rum, whisky,
n /eau, or any, other wine or spirit required ; and finally
Proving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly dry,
kind occupying the whole space when tightly packed. of
Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Exp"e
Spirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping tab leand
tocsin of the invisibles.
Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property of
the Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange metamor-
Theses, and amongst others, their handkerchiefs
transformed, into the flags of victory—the banners ofbecome Eng
land, Frame Turkey, and Sardinia.
Act. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comas, in which he who
seats himself will be under the magic spell,
and app ear 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 Mahommed's coffin)
in mid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which
all will be produced.
Act. 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the Shortest
Route to the Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of
ridding ourselves of a troublesome friend, and tho advantages
of the newly-discovered dia-terrestrial passage from the west-
ern to the eastern hemisphere.
Doors open each evening at half-past 7; commence at 8.
Private boxes, 1/. lls. 6d. and 1/. ls., to be obtained at the
Box-office, or at the principal libraries; stalls, 4s. ' • dress
circle, 3s. ; upper boxes, 2s. ; pit, ls. ; gallery, 6(.1. The
Box-office is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction
of Mr. Chattertou, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per-
formance on Saturday, December 8, 4 2 co'clock. DoorN open
at half-past L.

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of the war. Whether it should be purely defensive, or
_ , whether it should be carried into the enemy's territory,
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of executing them. On this course we determined, and ci. `, .- .--1,.
the results are worthy of the wisdom which dictated it.
Sebast)pol is destroyed—the Russian fleets have no
existence—the Czar holds not one foot of the "material
guarantees"—the Danube is no longer his—the Turks,
who dreaded, have learnt to contemn the power of their
great neighbour, and the arms of England and Franco
have virtually solved the "Eastern question." It was
far different last year.
Now, we have only to set up the facts achieved as
permanent, and as forming the bases of the principles
which must for the future rule the destiny of the East
Under these circumstances, the question of Peace comes
before us ; and, on our part, it can be treated but in one
manner. There is but one arrangement possible ; and
that is one which shall insure the limitation of Russian
ambition, the freedom of Turkey, and the future security
of Europe.
The most necessary condition for the attainment of
these ends is the annihilation of Russian power in the
Black Sea. Sebastopol must never rise again as a me-
nace to the Turks —nor must any Russian fleet what-
ever be allowed to exist in the waters of the Black Sea. '
This is imperative, and secures the safety of Constanti-
nople and the freedom of the shores of the Euxine. But,
if the approach by sea towards the Turk be thus sealed
against Russia, the approach by land must be equally
made safe from her aggression. The mouths of the
Danube must be given up by her, and they, with the
Danubian Prir cipalities, freed from her protectorate,
must be secured to Turkey by the most binding guaran-
otefes.
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rangements with regard to the Baltic theßanodseiaon terms
general
interests of Europe must be accepted by
which can leave no doubt as to the certain solidity and
efficacy of the peace which may be brought about.
These, the outlines of the only terms of Peace which ,
would achieve our objects, are the only propositions
which the Western Powers would be justified in listen-
ing to—certain as they are that, if not consented to now,
another campaign would enforce compliance.
If the move which Austria is making towards nego- .
tiations hive for object the attainment of terms so satis-
factory as these, and if she be ready, as Sweden and Den-
mark are, to give her verdict in our favour, and, when
need arises, to enforce that verdict—then are the Western
Powers bound to give heed to overtures which carry on
their face no uncertain semblance—no diplomatic chi-
canery, but which are open, distinct, and honest.

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spirit of the Public Journals.

( From the Times of this day.)
The Antigone of Sophocles was acted a few years back
in London. The original Greek was rendered respect.
ably enough into English ; the costumes were copied
from the most trustworthy authorities ; the space usually
devoted to the orchestra and a portion of the pit had
been assigned for the evolutions of the chorus ; the acting
was above mediocrity, and yet the representation was a
signal failure. The reason was obvious enough. There
was not a single fibre, a single nerve, i❑ the holies or
minds of any one of the spectators which vibrated, not
to say in unison, but in harmony with the emotions of
an ancient Greek. Our old friend Cardinal Wiseman is at
the present moment following in the footsteps of the
enterprising manager. His repertoire does not, indeed,
comprise Prometheus, or the Theban Chiefs, (Edipus
or Jocasta, Medea or lon. He is a manager of the
romantic, not of the classical school. His Jupiter Scapin
thunders from the Vatican. He drapes himself with the
terrors of an Innocent or a Julius, and calls upon us to
bow down before pontifical shadows which have been
long since dismissed from the category of English belief.
We are not living in the reign of Henry Vll.,—of his son
we speak not, for Cardinal Wiseman was then out of date
--but of Queen Victoria. As for as England is con-
cerned, it would be as rational to get up an agitation for
the Druids, and to propose the combustion of Dr. Cum-
ming and Mr. Spooner in wicker images constructed for
the purpose, as to denounce us for not bowing the knee
to Rome. We spoke just now of Cardinal Wiseman as
of a. theatrical manager who had mistaken his line of re-
presentation ; he is still more like a masquerader caught
on his return home by the telltale sun. The pastoral
crook, the flowing robes, the false beard, the highly.
rouged cheek, did all very well by gaslight, when the
assistants had agreed to a compromise between the pre-
sent and the past ; but at five o'clock in the morning,
beneath the piazza of Covent-garden, when the ruddy
market-gardeners of A.D. 1855 tare tossing about happy

realities in the shape of sound-hearted cabbages—whens
the wail-flowers smell sweet in the baskets of the
flower-girls when 4ae sweets resouuo arse bus
cries of the ealey venders of milk which is meant
to be drunk, and of actual sweeps who purpose
sweeping actual chimneys which are foul with bona
fide soot—the false Cardinal, the mummer, the mas-
querader, slinks along litre a vulgar ghost. What
have real men, in whose veins life is bubbling and
dancing, to do with shadows such as these ? But what
if this mummer should call upon us to desist from our
usual and wholesome occupations, while he convinced
us that the world ought to go back four centuries, that
the present was the past, and that our only course was
to bow our necks to chains which our wiser ancestors
rent asunder, and cast behind them, in their own names
and in the name of their posterity, for ever ? Such was
Cardinal Wiseraan's position when, on the night of Sun-
day last, from the pulpit of the Roman Catholic Church
of St. Mary's, Moorfields, he addressed his audience in
favour of the Austrian Concordat. His vindication of
this notable measure was, of course, but another word
for abuse of England and things English, and, above all,
of " that tide, that] torrent of Anti-Catholic feeling
which seemed to be spreading like a deluge over this
land." The excitement, according to the Cardinal,
arises simply from a misunderstanding as to the nature
of the case. It Las been made ono of public interest,
whereas it is in reality " a domestic affair of Catholics"
—a kind of little family arrangement, with which
strangers have no concern.
Had there been two consecutive sentences of reason-
ing or argument in Cardinal Wiseman's address, we
c mld have met them by corresponding and, we venture
to think, by superior, arguinente. Two-thirds of the
address, however, consist of a pompons announcement
"that he is going to begin," and when his Eminence
has, begun, c f course he will make mincemeat of his
antagonist,. We read on, not without great expecta-
tion ; but the worthy Cardinal is like one of Homer's
gods—he possesses the art of disappearing from the
scene and vanishing into empty air at the critical mo-
ment. After more than one perusal, we pledge our-
selves to the statement that the single argument con-
tained in it is this .—The Concordat between Austria
and Rome is a wise and politic measure, calculated to
promote the interests of Christian Europe in general,
and of the Austrian dominions in particular, and it was
agreed upon after long consultation, between the Mr-
peror and the Pope. There has been great agitation
against it in this country, which was necessarily
without foundation, because we objected to it at
once. " Though two years were spent in drawing it
up and perfecting it," said the Cardinal, " it was
not two hours in the hands of a newspaper editor be-
fore he, to whom the subject was altogether new, with
a dashing and a flowing pen, wrote an indignant article,
blowing the whole thing to pieces." The Concordat was,
no doubt, a new thing—new to unhappy Austria, new
t France ! The ancient Monarchs of those countries
had spent their best energies in struggling against the
monstrous provisions which it contains. We and our
forefathers in England have been acquainted with them
from the times of Thomas A'Beckett to our own ; and
some three centuries back they decided that no foreign
priest should tithe or toll in England—that no English
subject should withhold his allegiance from his native
Prince to bestow it upon an Italian bishop. Although,
God be thanked, we have little knowledge here of an
Inquisition such as that which is established in the
Austrian Con' seelat, we know very well that precisely
three centuries ago, under precisely a similar jurisdiction,
martyrs were burnt at a distance of ten minutes' walk
from the spot on which these lines are written. If
we would know what the censorship of books
may accomplish in extinguishing the light of the
human ilitellect we need only turn to Spain, to Italy—
above all to Ron e. There is net, in point of fact, a
angle provision in the Concordat which has not actively
engaged the attention of Europe for many centuries
past. It needs no long cogitations to arrive at the con-
clusion that the young bigot to those unworthy hands
the temporary destiny of so many provinces has been
intrusted has sold his people body and soul to a tyranny
against which his predecessors, bigoted as many of them
were, had resisted to the death.
Not only in foreign countries, but in the Austrian
provinces, far more than in foreign countries, the ex-
citement against this juggle of Pope and Emperor is
intense. In Bohemia, so famous fur its religious strug-
gles when the rest of Europe lay prostrate before the
Roman Pontiff, the voice of free discussion has never
been silenced, the brilliant light of reason never quenched.
In the hereditary Duchies all respect is lost for the
tenants of those luxurious masteries which are scattered
along the course of the Danube. Tee country folk tell
you strange stories of the doings of these holy men.
In contact on all sides, save on the east, with civilisa-
tion and thought, is that fair portion of Europe which
is known ss he Au-trian dominions to be reduced to
the canilition in which Spain has many centuries been
held ? What ? E trope not know the consequences of
the provisions contained in this Concordat ! In the
Spanish Peninsula we see the result before our eyes.
The reader will not regret to see the words in which the
eloquent historian Prescott, in his recent " Life of
Philip II.," describes the event of such a policy :
" Spain might now boast that the stain of heresy no
longer defiled the hem of her garment. But at what a
prise was this purchased ! Not merely by the sacrifice
of the lives and fortunes of a few thousands of the exist-
ing generation, but by the disastrous consequences en-
tailed for ever on the country. Folded under the dark
wing of the Inquisition, Si a'n was shut out iron Vie light
which in the 16th century broke over the rest of Europe,
stimulating the nations to greater enterprise in every
department of knowledge. The genius of the people
was rebuked and their spirit quenched under the
malignant influence of an eye that never slumbered,
of an unseen arm ever raised to strike. How could
there be freedom of thought where there was no freedom
of utterance, or freedom of utterance where it was as
dangerous to say too little as too much ? Freedom can-
not go along with fear. Every way the mind of the
Spaniard was in fetters !"

( Front the Scotsman-)
iii. m;.11, has ;. bia *urn taken his say ripen
the war question, or the peace question, or by whatever
name we ought to know the question of the day. And
what Mr. Miall may say is entitled to attention—we
shall not flatter him by saying because he is a man of the
highest intellect or the soundest judgment, but because,
without any flattering, he is " honest as this world
goes" at this particular time, and because his position is
peculiarly fitted to put his honesty to the most painful
tests. By old political fellowship and other ties he is
deeply involved with the loaders of the Manchester
carry, !Ind he represents the borough where Mr.
Bright's well-won influence, political and commercial,
has the greatest potency ; while, pulling him in the
other direction, he has his own good sense and right in-
stin'ts, and the knowledge that even in Roch,la,!e the
popular antagonism to the course taken by Mr. Bright
sod his party is too strong to permit him prudently to
express concurrence or even to avoid expressing dissent.
It is, tierefore, not to be wondered at that Mr. Miall,
whose forte is not dexterity, should, in trying to tack
about in order to catch two opposing winds, have shown
some very clumsy steering, and scarcely escaped ship-
wreck.

That the war might have been avoided ; that, having
been begun, it should have been carried on with vigour,
end for avowed objects far beyond those aimed at ; and
that the time has now come when peace can and ought
to be made—are the turning-points in the maze in
which Mr. Miall tries to lose himself. A war that
should never have been begun, that should have been
carried further than was ever intended, and that should
be Mopped before it has been carried even so far—are
propositions ralher difficult to understand, and when
clothed in Mr. Miali's expositions, appear more shrouded
in mystery than when they were left in their primitive
nakedness. On the first, however, he is tolerably clear
--" I did not concur in the policy which committed us
to a war with Russia"—that is, he did not think that the
pre'ervation of Tui key, or any similar resistance to Rus-
sian aggression, was an object incumbent on this country.
That is too stale a question to be re-argued now ; but
the reason given by Mr. Miall for vigorously pursuing a
w: r which he thinks ought never to have been entered
i on, s noticeable for its originality—"l may have thought
it unnecessary for the safety of Europe, and for the in•
depeeelenee and liberty of continental nations, to measure
physical strength with Russia, but I never could regard
it as a matter of trivial moment whether, in that measure-
ment of strength, Russia should make good her boast
of supremacy." While he thought that we had no
right, or at least no interest, in interfering with even
the most unprovoked and gigantic aggressions of Rus-
sia, he thinks that, having begun fighting on that
very point, we were bound to go on fighting until we
hal preyed to the world that we are the stronger.
When Lard John Russell, in his ill-phrased speech
last session upon his proceedings at Vienna, uttered
a warning against " fighting only for victory," the in-
sinuation was resented as untrue and insulting. But now
we see that fighting for victory only is a policy advocated
by at least one man who must be regarded as almost a
memb:r of the Peace party, and who holds that the war
is oluseless, and therefore, we should say, wicked. The
chief interest, however, of Mr. Miall's speech, is com-
prise! in his reasons for holding that the war should now
take end—the principal of which reasons is that we have
shown ourselves stronger than Russia. Now, it pixy be
that we have proved this to ourselves, and yet not to
Europe, nor even to Russia. Mr. Miall says he knew
before the war as well as since that the Russian strength
was a delusion, and now he says—" I venture to assert,
without fear of contradiction, that the power of Russia
for al offensive purposes, at least for another genera-
tion, has been broken." But unfortunately it is not
merely sensible people like Mr. Miall that require to
be convinced on these points, but others who have much
more power abroad and at home. The question or
rather the fact is, that, on the whole, the operations of
the war have not increased the idea of the strength
of the Western Powers, and especially of Great
Briteite We think the existing impression of our
having to a great extent fiiled is a false impres-
sion, but it is not the less actual and mischievous.
We believe that a to +ter army never left the British
shores than that which landed at Eupatoria, and we did
eometl,ing the other day towards showing that none of
our armies ever did greater things within so short a
pried, not to say in the face of such great and novel
difficulties ; yet the fact is, that at home there is a
pretty general feeling of dissatisfaction, and abroad of
something rt:eembling contempt. Why is this ? Be-
cause, in the first place, an influential portion of the
press
has found pleasure or profit in makieg the worst
of everything that has happened— of contemning every
commander. cause, in the second place, Mr. Miall's
party friends, Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bright, take every
opportunity of tell'n; the world that this country i-i ex-
hausted ard Russia uz,liarme I. And because, in the
third place, men like Mr. Al i All bin self, ae he does in
this very speech, do all they can b bring distrust and
discredit upon every Government that has been seen
or is at present possible in this country. Mr. Miall
tells his democratic Rochdale audience that the Govern-
ment is a machine kept up for the personal benefit of the
aristocracy—although it would puzzle Mr. Miall to name
a single unaristeeratic man fit to join the Government that
is kept out of it by anything but his own unwillingness.
A still more incredible story is ventured on by Mr. /Mall
when he states that it is what he calls the
o f upper
ten thousand.' who are melt eager in favour the
e and
war--who "call upon you to pour out yourftlitehne
cur."
your blood like water for the prolong
alti°thneo community
Now, surely, if there is any
whose earnestness about the war is
smalltshousand" whom Mr.
pieion, it is just that "upper ten or open to sus-
it for their own selfish
,awdderefeseslesians.
end:
; and if there is any class
that must be regarded as especially enthusiastic and re-
r. Miall
in
Mien describes as its sole promoters and atehdereasisporooymoctliansgs
that must be regarded as p
Keep
suffering dupes.
solved, it is just that class
reelinrmgeees„—and to fearon ethstatahsisanyman
opinion that Mr. Miall is honest as
ewthhiischfacAtf
in-
clined to retract the op
honesty
' "as h
where._ we know the men, and
this worfldor
lgioveinsg"that is no honter than he." All such stuff is of
goestti further thanin ouAr
the facts, but it is considerably mischievous abroad,
where people think that every man who, like Mr. Cob-
denlittle mischief at . home,
or Mr. Bright, was influential on • is
one question,
influential on all, and even that every man who is, like
Mr. Miall, a member of Parliament, is a representative
of the people. And ought not persons like Mr. /distil,
who avow that they regard the struggle as one solely for
inflinence, preetige, or victory, to be careful above all
men not to lessen by an idle breath anything that may
have been won at the cost of blood and terse ?
In addition to the supposition, which ho himself so
much e )ntributes to destroy, that we have done enough
to confirm our reputation and influence, Mr. Miall
has a supplementary reason—we have taken a sufficient
"material guarantee" for the safety of Turkey. Now
there is some truth in this, if—an "if " with great vir-
tuo—Rusaia is ready to bind herself to let things remain
as they are—to keep her Euxine fleet at the bottom of
the sea, and her cherished Sebastopol in ruins. If Rus-
sia is ready to say that, then doubtless the allies
thatare
ready to hear her ; but Mr. Miall seems to mesther
the allies should now retire and let Russiarepair
Sere
re are
damages at her own leisure and conveniencet._
"The
his own words, which are incapable of caricaure
up
fact was, the man was down, and could net get get
again, while the allies stood overhti:i.,
That was the
' is taken from
guarantee." His idea of a "gute
ra nales
li knock down
that of Penelope's web—whatt are to rebuild during
during a year of war, the Russians
would humbly submit that there
can at worst be no harm
a yenr of peace. in insisting that Russia shall
find responsible isecurity for that good behaviour the
st th so much life and
breach of which has co..
soemuch country
perplexity and inge-
treasure, and Mr. M'all
nuity.

Alderman Farrell was on Saturday elected Lord Mayor
of Dublin for the ensuing year.
The Austrian Gazette conm
tas a letter from Odessa of
Nov. 20, which says :—" The druschines of the Tiver
Militia arrived yesterday at Perekop. General Luder9 is
at present in that town, and will shortly hold a counci 1
of war with General Plantin, Chief of the Grenadier
corps, and General Schabelsky, in order to concert mea-
sures in the event of the enemy making next spring
general attack against the north-west coast of the Blac
Sea."