The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY _EVENING, DECEMBER 3 18b5.

able, and which would insure a good and durable
peace, that the three Powers would " advise " as
to the means of obtaining that peace ! Surely it
could never be supposed that one of these Powers
would evade that solemn obligation by a quibble
on the word " advise," worthy only an Old Bailey
practitioner, and scarcely sufficient to be " re-
served " for the Court of Criminal Appeal in the
case of a fraudulent bankrupt. And yet it is now
gravely asserted that while that obligation re-
mains virtually unperformed, the French
and English Governments would listen
to new propositions from the same party
by whom they had been so grossly and so scan-
dalously deceived. And that after the deliberate
declaration by the English Secretary for Foreign
Affairs that there was " much reason to fear that
Austria would propose nothing that Russia would
be unwilling to accept ; while, on the other hand,
it seemed probable that Russia would agree to
nothing that would interfere with the determina-
tion that the Emperor ALEXANDER had announced
of carrying out the policy of PETER and of
CATHERINE."

No ; Austria has been " weighed in the
balance and found wanting." She cannot again
be suffered to interfere, and any propositions
which Russia may think proper to make must be
directly put forward by herself, and not through
any third party. Great as ker losses have been,
she is not as yet sufficiently humiliated to accede
to terms that will, at the same time, give ade-
quate compensation for the past, and ample SQ-
curity for the future—that will recompense all
the enormous outlay that has been sustained in
misting her unjustifiable aggression, and prove
that she has definitively abandoned her traditional
policy of annexation.
It is not from any vindictive feeling against Rus-
sia, or any undue aspiration after naval or mili-
tary glory, that we urge these matters, but from
a profound conviction that no satisfactory peace
can, at present, be concluded, and that any nego-
tiations or discussions must be highly prejudicial
to the cause for which the Western Powers have
been compelled reluctantly to fling away the
scabbard and " unloose the dogs of war."
Austria may have made propositions she
is capable of anything. But if she seriously
intended that her repree.entations should be
listened to she would not have permitted
so gross an insult, so foul a wrong as that perpe-
trated against the English nation in the person of
Colonel TUB, an officer wearing the British uni-
form, and in the actual service of Great Britain,
to remain so long unredressed. No matter how san-
guinary might be her minions, they would for the
time at least have repressed their bloodthirsty in-
stincts, and abated the insolence of office, if by so
doing they could have hoped to serve the twin
despotism. The very audacity displayed and per-
sisted in proves beyond the possibility of doubt
that they have no hope of again bamboozling the
Cabinet of St. James into disastrous negotiations.
The matter has now reached a point where there can
be no looking backward—no retrograde movement.
The path not only of honour, but of safety lies
forward. We must still advance, if we desire
that our heavy sacrifices, not only of money, but
of the inestimable lives of our gallant brethren,
shall be productive of results really beneficial to
the nation, and insuring to our children, and
children's children the peace and tranquillity
which we have been unable to retain.

In the interests of humanity it is much to be
regretted that no Englishman can speak in Rus-
sia but Messrs. GLADSTONE, COBDEN, and. BBI4IIT.
Each of their speeches are fully reported in the
journals of St. Petersburg, and as their names
have been carried on the wings of commerce fur-
ther than those of our more English-minded
Statesmen, the Russians are deluded into the be-
lief that a faction only of this country are at war
with their CZAR ; they are encouraged to sub-
mit to depopulating and impoverishing sacrifices
under the belief that in a very little time the
philo-Russians hero will eject the War Ministers.
While Prussia and Austria supply the Russian
army with ammunition, and shield her weak side,

the Peelites and their coadjutors feed it with
hopes of soon wearying out a power whose men of
European reputation clamour for peace at any
price. It were well if the vanity or party
spirit of these gentlemen suffered them to remem-
ber that their own speeches are thegreatest obstacle
to peace. The CZAR himself and his old Muscovite
party are desperate ; still we question if they could
have sustained the zeal of their rude soldiers but
for the orations of our peace men. Had these gen-
tlemen but had the patriotism to be silent when
their soft words were practically firebrands ; had
they allowed the country to present the united and
uncompromising phalanx of its majority of ninety-
nine hundredths, without their noisy band beating
a retreat in vain behind it, it is presumable that
Russia and Austria would have lost heart long
ago, and that peace might have been the easy
task of this winter.

By preaching peace to England they have
preached war to Russia. Why do we never
hear them addressing themselves to the power
which broke the peace Why, if they are
honest, do they not prove to Russia that such are
the resources and determination of England,
France, and their allies ; that such is the mani-
fest wickedness of the attack on the SULTAN, ani
indeed of all the Russian
.conquests of tbe
last half-century, that peace is hopeless till
Russia give up her aggressive position, and
retreat to legitimately Russian territory ? Why
not tell Russia that, for such reasons, peace-
men as they are, they may talk for ever, but will
never carry this country with them ? They know
that such speeches would be read in the Russian
Qourt if not printed in the Invalide Busse, and
would produce ten times more effect than for ever
lecturing their countrymen on the wickedness of
War, to punish the disturber of peace and to take
sufficient bail of him for the future.

It is the notable meeting at Oxford, on Thurs-
day, which has reminded us so strongly of the mad-
ness of our Peace-men. Could the report of such
a meeting but appear in the same Russian papers,
in which the Manchester and Peelite speeches
are printed, we should feel less concern that the
uneasiness of vanity in a minority vented itself
in the form it does. Here it does no harm, because
our perfectly free Press gives the antidote with
the bane. In Russia these effusions are a kind of
political brandy, a distillation from the wholesome
total of the English newspaper press, serving the
same purpose to the reading population there as
the material stimulant to their poor soldiers at
Inkerma.n and the Tchernaya. In the very city
whose University
parh Mr. GLADSTONE represents, at an
annual municipal e
amadfinornetrheaettiteyndaVd
ou
by the Mem-
bers
with
the Mayor ex-Mayor, the Sheriffs of the city
and
and county, and 'r
.uord-Lieutenant of the county,
the Vice-Chancellor, Registrar, and Procters of
the University, and other gentlemen—at this
c'NEwould
and Members of
have heard but one
voice. There
TMhre.reGL:.nerseT
ea-Ministers
Parliament of different, nay, decidedly opposed,
politics;
i there were literary Pntletneu, countr-
gentlemen, burgesses Of the city ; gent-him-
of whose incomes are likely to be 1'
corAl' l all
-
mated by the Income Tax-,-v y deci.
r,,, Pot a note of dis.

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sension is heard. Rival senators, civilians,
masters of arts, soldiers, and tradesmen, all,
without qualification, adopt the same language.
What is very remarkable is, that the Mayor hav-
ing properly interdicted politics, and all the
speakers concurring with him, they yet each and
all treated the War as no question of politics ;
that is, in their ordinary sense—as a topic on
which, indeed, Englishmen could not be supposed
to differ. We commend these plain facts to the
consideration of the fighting despot at St. Peters-
burg, and the skulking despots at Vienna and
Berlin. They will let them know the stuff which
JOHN BULL—every limb of him—is made of.
Sir JAMES FEROUTSSON, just come from the
Crimea, exulted in the enthusiasm with which
every returning soldier is received, and testified
to the ardour and efficiency of the troops he had
just left. Mr. CARDWELL, in a speech truly
wonderful for a Peelite, endorsed the sentiments
of the French EMPEROR, and affirmed that as in a
civilised kingdom each citizen is bound by muni-
cipal law to aid in resistance to breach of thepeace,
so by international law each kingdom is bound to
join in chastising the violator of intternational na-
tional peace. He bore willing testimony to the
unanimity of the British people, and joined in their
demand for a thoroughly satisfactory peace. Mr.
HENLEY was even more decided ; he (like our-
selves) could but characterise as cant the unde-
fined talk of a " secure and honourable peace."
His opinion was " that when two strong
persons fell out, nothing came of it until one
or the other got a very good thumping." " This
always produced some effect, and then things
which to the defeated had seemed unjust became
just, admissible, unpalatable conditions of peace
were swallowed, and a secure and satisfactory
peace was the result." We venture to think
that if all the worthies of St. Stephen's waste the
public time for six months next session in their
word-fencing, the homely formula of the Tory
member for Oxfordshire will sum up still the
truth of the whole question. Colonel NORTH
was sure that in this war for freedom " consider-
ations of money would never induce them to de-
sire a hasty and insecure peace." Mr. G. G.
1 HARCOURT hoped all the members would beintheir
place next session, to give a vigorous support to
such military measures as the Government might
think it needful to adopt. The Earl of ABINGDON
(the Lord-Lieutenant) praised'our Allies, especi-
ally the Constitutional Monarch of Sardinia, and
felt confident that in union with them we should
give the aggressor " the good thumping" which
alone would lead to a satisfactory peace. Major REED
was delighted with the unanimity on this sub-
ject of gentlemen holding such different political
opinions, and showed up the odious position of
Austria. Mr. CASTLB, the city sheriff, expressed
the strong dissent of the citizens from the views
of Messrs. GLADSTONE, COBDEN, and BRIGHT, and
declared their willingness to make any sacrifices
necessary for the conclusion of the War, with re-
sults worthy of the Allies and their righteous
objects.
Such is a bare outline of this thoroughly Eng-
lish meeting. If our readers overlooked our
report on Saturday we would bog them to turn
back to it. We feel proud of our politicians and
citizens when we see them thus merging all
vulgar differences and interests in a national and
world-important cause. It augurs well for the
approaching session, for the conduct of the War,
and, therefore, for the earliest peace worth our
acceptance.

When will common sense be installed at the
Horse Guards ? We ask the question without
much hope of a satisfactory answer. Were it a
question of mode instead of time the case would
be far different. The reply would then be alike
prompt and to the purpose. The reader would
at once exclaim—" By clearing it of its present
tenants, and setting Routine adrift to find where
it might a congenial domain," and we would
agree with him. The question, however, not
being one of mode, but of time, we must reiterate
the inquiry, " When will common sense be in
stalled at the Horse Guards I"

Some predestined victim of credulity, fresh
from the recent announcement that a line of tele-
graph is about to be laid down from Balakiava to
Kertch, "in order that the Allies may be regu-
larly apprised of the movements of the Russians,
and enabled to send immediate assistance to any
point menaced by the enemy," may point to it as
a convincing proof that despair is unwarranted,
and that we have only to " wait a little longer "
to have our wishes accomplished. A convincing
proof ! Couple the announcement with another,
and see what it tends to demonstrate. General
VIVIAN, the leader of the Turkish Contingent,
was menaced, we are told, the other day at Kertch
by WRANGEL, and consequently sent to Balaklava
for cavalry to protect his position, as the crisis
was somewhat imminent. Now, our cavalry hav-
ing been but little harassed during the War, it
mightimagined that such an opportunity of
provi be
ng its effectiveness would promptly have been
awarded it. What was the fact ? Why, despite
this circumstance, and the urgency of the case,
the cavalry was refused ! And on what ground?
Why, en that of etiquette I Had General
VIVIAN belonged to her MAJzsres service, instead
of being an India officer, his request would have
been acceded to, but being what he was he was
incompetent to command her MAJESTY'S troops.
H.M.S. must be under H.M.S. To be commanded
by H.E.I.C.S. would be derogation and ruin.
Better lose an important strategical post than that
should happen. What is the welfare of the
country—what the triumph of a great cause—
what the lives of brave men, in comparison with
the supremacy of etiquette

A pretty illustration this of what the laying
down of the new line of telegraph really implies.
A tolerably convincing proof, at all events, that
the object sought is not that paraded. Were it so
the cavalry would have been sent. Such a de-
parture from routine would have preceded the
appliance of so valuable a modern means of com-
munication. Can the reader imagine absurdity
carried to sheerer depravity than in this instance?
Here was a general who had won distinction in
defence of one of our most important colonial
Possessions, and on that account had been in-
trusted with high command in the present War,
left with his raw troops to rout and destruction,
because he did not belong to a favoured corps. A
general whose training was in the same field
as that chosen by WELLINGTON, and who had par-
ticipated in the triumphs of the most efficient
army we have—an army that can recount vic-
tories to the full as great and more scientifically
achieved than any in the present War victories,
pEr
alt z teenrn: a
hardly won but complete, over warlike tribes that
could beat back withofeeeasuereteheit armies of
beef
aß:essria.
Being, however, only a sepoy General, and the
.ontingent, and
",-"..ns- .ition were as dust in
pd aa rt cavalry,iedn wt iotilhb.e that,Mcl9. I nSia n d
defeatel by
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thehim -; atl d ~
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enabled to send immediate
assistance;"
thehs
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sblteaas slnacneoc
balance.
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continuous succession of
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each otherltssi nags as mt7shAnsaet_vparrdiaenrscecawicituh_
and to frustrate the objects of the War.
a much
laid to stultify any general not above mediocrity;
and
and it is more than probable you make
nearer approxiMPtion to the vl-2..utb.

THE KING OF SARDINIA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

The King of Sardinia, with Prince Albert, Sir C
Wood, and the whole suite, arrived at Basingstoke,
by train on the Great Western Railway, from Windsor,
attended by the Hon. S. Walpole, chairman, and C. A.
Saunders, Esq., secretary. They were received by J.
Crombie, Esq., secretary, and the officers of the South
Western Railway, and started for Gosport at 10 o'clock.

The royal train arrived at Gosport at 10.55 this morn-
ing, and will, according to present arrangements, leave
again at 4 p.m. on its return.

CHURCH RATES.

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]

CARMARTMEN, Nov. 30.—The Anti-Church-rate party
have won a victory to-day. The poll has just closed,
with a majority against the rate of 164 1 These are
what are called personal votes, and until the poll is
analysed it cannot be known what the real ma-
jority is, as many voters have a plurality of
votes according to the amount of their rating.
William Morris, Esq., one of the borough magi-
strates, after having spoken strongly and well against
resorting to a poll and in favour of a voluntary effort to
supply the needs of the church, proposed that no
rate should be granted. This was seconded by
Mr. James Bagnall, the well-known advocate for the
abolition of Church rates, and supported by Lewis Mor-
ris, Esq., who filled the civic chair for the last two years.
A forest of hands was held up against the vote, but a
poll was insisted upon by the adverse party, and the glo-
rious result is as above.
The state of the poll after scrutinising the votes was
as follows :

Against the rate 353
For 165

Majority 193

The majority of personal votes was 164, but after
giving both sides advantage of votes according to amount
of rating the result is as above.

Viscount and Viscountess Barrington and the Hon.
Misses Barrington, have returned to Beckett House,
Berke, from visiting the Earl and Countess of Hard-
wicke, at Wimpole Hall.
THE NEXT CAMPAIGN.—A letter from Constantinople,
in the Cologne Gazette, states that next spring the Turk-
ish army of the Danube is to be increased to about
80,000 men, and is to march to the Pruth, in order to
carry the war into Bessarabia. Two divisions of French
and English troops are to proceed to Varna from the
Crimea to support the operation.
The betrothal of the Grand Duke Nicholas, younger
brother of the Emperor Alexander 111., with the Prin-
cess of Oldenburg, daughter of Prince Peter of Olden-
burg, was celebrated on the 26th ult. at St. Petersburg.
Prince Peter is eon of the Grand Duchess Catherine,
who married the King of Wurtemburg, father of the
Queen Sophia of the Netherlands.
THE VICTORIA RIFLES.—The volunteer corps for the
county of Middlesex will muster for drill every evening,
during the winter months, at Allen's Riding School,
Bryanstone-square.
El Monday, Dec. 10, has been fixed by the high sheriff
for the Meath election. The contest, although between
candidates who, strictly speaking, both belong to the
Liberal party, will be one of the closest and bitterest we
have bad in Ireland for some time.

The Queen has presented the Rey. E. Eardley Wil-
mot, vicar of Kenilworth, to the living of All Souls,
\Langham-
place, vacant by the resignation of the Rev.
W. Thompson. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury have been
entertaining a large party at Hatfield-house, Herts, in-
cluding the Earl of Verulam, Lord Stanley, M.P., Lord
and Lady Harry Vane, Lord Pelham, Lady Cowley, the
Right Hon. Benjamin and Mrs. Disraeli, the Hon. R.
Grimston, Mr. and Lady Susan Smith, Sir Fitzroy
Kelly,iso.

MM. Lorieux and Eugene de Fourey are preparing
for publication, in 17 large maps, an Atlas of subter-
ranean Paris.

FOREIGN POTATOES.—It appears, from a return just
issued, that from January to October only 55,786 cwt.
of potatoes were imported. In ten months of last year
the importations were 110,773 cwt.
. _

The German Journal of Frankfort states that the widow
of Major de Lettgau, of the German Legion, who died
on the way to the Crimea, is to receive an annual pen-
sion of 1501. from the English Government.
Owing to the intended visit of the King of Sardinia to
the city the colonial produce markets will be closed on
Tuesday. In all other departments of business the
transactions will be restricted as much as possible.
SPECIL—The arrivals of specie last week, with the
exception of some silver from Belgium, have been li-
mited to the large ones from Australia by the White
Star, Oliver Lang, and Kent, amounting altogether to
1,200,0001. Of these one-third, the only portion yet
brought upon the market, has been purchased and re-
mitted to the Bank of France. Meanwhile it is under-
stood the next specie shipments to India and China will
be of unusual magnitude. From Mexico 500,0001. is
now overdue.

RISE Of WAGES.—In consequence of the exorbitant
price of provisions the journeymen sailmakers of this
city have applied to their employers for an advance of
wages to the amount of 6d. per hundred yards, to which
request they have readily acceded.—Pristol Mercury.
THE HIINGERFORD CASH.—We learn with much plea-
sure that the erection of a school-house for Mr. Grant
will be commenced immediately, and that it is hoped a
fund sufficient will be raised to admit of a chapel being
erected for him in the spring. Several handsome sub-
scriptions have already been received by the committee,
but more will be required to defray the expenses of
building, and to reimburse Mr. Grant for what he has
lost. . _

COUNT WALEWSKI'S CIBCULAB.—" An unauthorised
denial," says the Emancipation of Brussels, "has been
given to the statement that Count Walewski had ad-
dressed a circular to the neutral states relative to ithe
Eastern war. This circular was read some days sauce
to the Foreign Ministers of the various states not engLe g d
in the oenflict, by the French representatives at heir
courts. The circular is drawn up in a pacific sense' cor-
responding to the last speeoh of Napoleon llr. The
neutral states are invited to pronounce in favour of one
of the belligerent parties, not in order to be brought
into actual hostilities, but rather to influence by their
moral support the decision of the power that commenced
the war."
SIR CoLIN CAMPBELL—Lieut.-General Sir Colin
Campbell has honoured Cheltenham with a "flying
visit" this week, arriving on Thursday afternoon, and
teking his departure on the following day. During his
short stay this brave and distinguished officer put up at
the Queen's Hotel, where, early yesterday morning, he
was waited upon by Colonel Kirwan, the Master of the
Ceremonies, who tendered his services in any matter
wherein they night contribute to render the gallant
general's sojourn amongst us pleasant and agreeable, in-
timating at the same time a hope that an opportunity
might be afforded to the inhabitants of the town pub-
licly to express their sense of the estimation in which
they held their visitor. Sir Colin's arrangements would
not, however, admit of his remaining in Cheltenham suf-
ficiently long for this purpose, having to leave the place
in a few hours, and having only four days before he
would have to re-embark for the battle-fields of the Cri-
mea ; he was consequently compelled to decline any pub-
lic demonstration in compliment to his very short and
hurried visit, which barely admitted of his passing an
hour with Lord Ellenborough at Southern, and seeing
his other personal friends resident is Cheltenham. The
gallant general left by the five o'clock train on his re-
turn to town.—Cheltenham Looker-On of Saturday.
LECTURE ON ARCIIITECTPUBE.—Ou the evening of Fri-
day, the 30th ult., a lecture on architecture, its purpose
and origin, was delivered at the Westbourne College,
Bayswater-road, before the Rev. Charles Mackenzie,
A.M., Principal, and an attentive audience, by Mr. Ed-
ward Hall, F.S.A. The lecturer showed the importance
of architecture with reference to physical, social, and
moral condition. He adverted to the qualities and to
a lose of the beautiful in nature and art, and urged
strongly the necessity of design and contrivance in ordi-
nary dwellings, and in the laying out of streets and
squares. This design was habitually neglected by us,
yet was important, quite irrespective of improved sewer-
age, water supply, and similar questions. The argu-
ment was illustrated by reference to Sir Christopher
Wren's plan for the improvement of London after the
great fire, where convenience and architectural effect
went hand in 'and. The same lines of thoroughfare
were being more and more demanded, but now were
supplied with serious disadvantage, and without the
chance of the originally designed architectural effect.
A. subsequent lecture is to treat of the principles of
" Practical Art," as applied to house decoration and
furniture.
LOAD J. RUSSELL IN GLOCESTEBSEIIBE.—Lord J.[Rus-
sell, who has lately taken up his residence near Stroud,
in Gloucestershire, has been paying a visit, with Lady
Russell, to Cheltenham, and inspecting the Cheltenham
Grammar School. At the Grammar School he was con-
ducted through the different class rooms by the master,
Dr. Humphreys, observed the system of instruction
adopted there, and particularly examined the maps and
other drawings in the commercial school, thence proceed.
ing to the higher or classical department. The boys were
examined in the presence of his lordship, and an address
was presented by the dux of the school to his lordship
on behalf of the scholars, in which they say:—"We have
been too carefully instructed in the great principles of
civil and religious liberty not to esteem and revere the
statesman who has so long been the fearless defender of
those principles ; and we need scarcely say that those
feelings have assumed a deeper and a warmer character
since we have learnt tho kind interest taken by your
lordship in this ancient school, and the encouragement
which our esteemed head-master has received from you
in his arduous efforts to raise it from a state of compara-
tive decay to that heelt!ly and honourable position which
731 the 'pupils, feel proud to know the Cheltenham
seraremar School has attained. We trust that we
all
shall strive to do credit to our masters and our school,
and to prove ourselves not unworthy of the countenance
and encouragement of the good and the noble." His '
lordship made a rather lengthy reply to this address, and
pointed out to the boys the great advantages now
afforded them in every department of the school com-
pared with what existed in similar institutions some
years ago. Lord and Lady John Russell were after-
wards entertained at luncheon in the dining-ball of the
school, where they were met by several of the clergy and
gentry of the town. In the visit to the hospital Lady J.
Russell inquired with much minuteness into the domestic
arrangements, and appeared much pleased with the clean-
liness and good order which prevailed throughout the
catabliiiktment.

MAGAZINES.

Blackwood.—"Zaidee" is finished : and now
that it is finished we may speak of it deliberately
as of its charming writer's unquestionable master-
piece. " Katie Stewart" was, previously, her best
work, a *.‘ true story" of singular beauty and fresh-
ness. " The Quiet Heart" being a sweet companion
narrative, replete with grace and tenderness.
" John Riutoul, or the Fragment of a Wreck,"
occupying a minor place among the anonymous
writings of this delightful contributor to the pages
of the great Edinburgh Magazine. Not that we
ourselves regard the last-mentioned tale as in any
essential respect inferior to the other fictions
emanating from the same hand, but that such ap-
pears to be the author's modest estimate of it
herself—judging from the circumstance of its re-
maining (to our notion somewhat unaccountably)
up to the present moment unhonoured by the fact
of a separate republication. Beautiful, however,
though the three preceding stories by * * * are
beyond the possibility of any serious contradic-
tion, " Zaidee " is the best of all, as it is also the
most considerable in extent, the most ingenious and
elaborated in plot, and decidedly the most graceful,
agreeable, and sparkling in its general treatment.
The incidents of the romance here compacted toge-
ther in the crowning instalment of the serial-narra-
tive, are sufficiently numerous, varied, and im-
portant to satisfy the taste of even the most uncon-
scionable. The Cumberland Family, taking the
half-suspected but as yet unrevealed. Zaidee with
them, accompany Percy upon a visit to the Vivians
of Cheshire. Before proceeding at once to the
Grange, the whole party turn aside for the purpose
of a brief preliminary excursion to Vivian Castle,
where the heroine is startled by unexpectedly wit-
nessing the arrival there of the youthful " Head
of the House," newly arrived from India, to take
possession of the old estates placed within reach of
his purchase-money by the death of Sir Francis.
Bronzed with travel, only now in the first
bloom of his manhood, Philip is at once
recognised by Zaidee, the little brown Zaidee no
longer, but the beauty of the family par excellence,
lovelier even in the fastidious eyes of the whole
Vivian race than the vaunted belle of Briarford,
the noble and stately Elizabeth. Immediately after
Zaidee has thus recognised Philip-in the person of
the new Lord of Vivian Castle, she herself is
recognised in turn by one after another of her
beloved kith and kindred. The revelation of the
lost Zaidee to each and all of these startled
Vivians is very charmingly described. It
comes—this astounding revelation of the heiress
of the Grange—first of all to Percy, the
Great Author, secondly to Sophy, now wife of
the Rev. Reginald Burlington, Rector of Wood-
church, and then to the whole astonished group
of the rest of the family, to Philip the Head of the
House, to Mrs. Vivian the fairy Godmother, to
Elizabeth the spouse of Bernard Morton, Captain
and Member of Parliament, to Margaret, Lady
Powis now by reason of her marriage with the
Welsh baronet, Sir David Powis, of Powiscourt.
And after these, still more surprisingly, the news of
Zaidee's discovery comes also to the hearing of her
kindly protectors, Mr. and Mrs. Cumberland, and
good-natured, unsuspecting Aunt Burtonshaw
—Mary, the betrothed of Percy, having been the
first of all to penetrate the mystery of her adopted
sister's identity. The upshot of all is, of course,
the marriage of Zaidee and Philip, and the con-
sequent blending of the hitherto divided estates
of Vivian Castle and the old Cheshire Grange of
Briarford. And so the whole charming romance
comes to the happiest conclusion imaginable. There
are six other contributions in the present num-
ber of Blackwood, but these, for the most
part, are of a rather dull, heavy, lumbering
•haracter. The last and shortest of these six arti-
cles being a genial tribute to the memory of an old
and honoured contributor to Maga—recently de-
ceased. This being the Rev. John Eagles, author
of " The Sketcher," a well-known series of papers
published some years ago in Blackwood's Magazine.
Mr. Eagles, we may observe, was a native and for
the most part an inhabitant of Bristol, having been
born and having died there. And to him we were
indebted, it seems, very recently, for the delightful
notices given during two or three successive months,
of Charles Knight's most agreeable collection of essay s
entitled "Once upon a Time"—in the last of which
notices, we well remember was a promise given by
the reviewer of some new and as yet unpublished
particulars about Bristowa's incomparable bard,
poor, glorious, murdered Chatterton. For these
particulars we fear we may now look in vain—un-
less Blackwood somehow comes to the rescue, and
by some ingenious device contrives to redeem the
promise given by its dead contributor. The most
readable of the remaining articles in the December
number is the criticism on " Art :" the most un-
readable, the treatise upon " Simony." The lite-
rary review of the month is the contribution re-
lating to " Herodotus ;" the political paper
the one referring to the War ; and the
story of the month, the translation, from the
German, of a humorous history entitled " Court-
ship under Difficulties." So much for the contents
of Blackwood's Magazine for December, the 482 d
number, ending volume seventy-eight.

Dublin. University.—" Holly and Ivy" appro-
priately begins the number for the month of De-
cember. Some suitable reflections are made on the
departure of one year and the advent of another;
and some pleasing verses are introduced in the
course of the composition, entitled " December,"
"The Willow," &c. "The Old House of Dark-
brothers " is concluded, and although the plot is
not very probable, nor the personages every-day
ones, there is a great deal of interest attached to it
from the charm of the heroine, Grace. Her courage,
her kindness, and her talents render her worthy of
a place in any story. It was no wonder that she
softened the rigid austerity of Miss Beaufoy, and
thus restored peace to a melancholy household.
The succeeding passages in the story are of great
power and energy, when Grace and her father, in
the course of a journey they take in Ireland, meet
with the relation of Miss Beaufoy, whom she had
lost sight of for years—thus a second time was she
of service to the proud lady who had once not
thought her worthy of being noticed. There is also
one scene which is very ably sketched, in which
Grace crosses the sea in a storm. Her father had
gone on an excursion to a small island, and while
there had met with an accident. Grace insisted on
joining some fishermen who were going there in a
small " curragh." The voyage was exceedingly
rough, and there was enough to terrify any one not
so nerved with power and faith as the heroine.
Grace had, however, had the pleasure of beholding,
after all her toils and struggles, the whole dis-
united family assemble together, and the fruit of
her works was peace and charity. " The Fortunes
of Glencore," which is continued this month, is not
nearly so engaging a story ; as yet the meaning is
not so apparent, although it is cleverly written,
and the .haracters of some of the dramatis personce
are described with skill. Sir Horace Upton is a
diplomatist, and his cunning wiles and deceitful
manoeuvres form a decided and striking contrast to
the open and straightforward demeanour of Colonel
Harcourt, who is incapable of subterfuge, and to.
whom the plots and counterplots of diplomacy are
so many marvels. The old Lord is a most extraor-
dinary individual, who evidently labours under
some great secret which he is unable to divulge on
account of his extreme weakness and illness. It is
to be presumed that the next portion of the story
will contain some eclaircissement of the mystery
which hangs like a cloud over the affairs at present.
A short article is written on Lieutenant Bellot,
as may be supposed, it is ono of great interest. On
perusing the details that are everywhere and on all
sides afforded of this officer's daring and devotion,
the words of the poet occur to one's memory—
" Brief, bright, and glorious was his young career ;
His mourners were two hosts—his friends and foes."
Although he lived in a time of peace, it was from
these supposed to bo the hereditary foes of hisna-
tiox that Bellot won a high meed of approbation.
An account is given of the manner in which lie met
his death. It is observed, in the description of one
of his countrymen, that he sacrificed his safety to
duty, and that he died full of that sublime confi-
dence and that holy faith which inspired the navi-
gator of the sixteenth century to utter the fine say-
ing, "Heaven is as near by water as by land."
The writer of this article concludes by the follow-
ing passage :
"So ended the short career of Lieutenant Ballot ;
and seldom, perhaps, has a human life been more replete
with the elements of genuine happiness than his. " Whom
the gods love, die young." Bellot lived long enough to
win, by honest means, the respect of two great nations,
and, better still, to earn and to secure the esteem and
love of irany friends. He died before the experience of
manhood had cast its shadow over the brilliant colour.
ing in which the generous enthusiasm of youth depicted
the future. Being dead he yet speaketh, teaching, by
his own story, the nse---, personal and social, of legiti-
mate and honourable ambition ; and, by the manner of
his death, uniting France and England in a common
de,ire to do honour to the memory of one of the truest
and loyalest of Frenchmen."

" Flow and Ebb" is a melancholy poem. It is in-
teresting in its idea, and the style is flowing and
easy. "Irish Rivers" is continued. This month
The Barrow is described. A great deal of in-
formation may be derived concerning the country
and the different poin),s of interest met with by the
course of the river. As is observed here, we are
" made acquainted with picturesque scenes, famed
rivers, and historic details of a country whose
scenic beauties are too little prized." " Our Men-
o'-War's Men " contains accounts and delineations
of the sons of the sea, and will interest those who
take a delight in naval Subjects, Alter many re

marks on various congenial circumstances, an opi-
nion is expressed that " the hearts of oak" who
man " our wooden walls" have acted meritoriously
in the war, and that in whatever he has had to
perform or to sustain " Our Jack" has proved him-
self every way worthy of his name and fame.

Colburn's New Monthly.—The first paper in the
present number of the New Monthly takes its sub-
jects from two recent French works on the adven-
tures and exploits of the Zouaves at Sebastopol. It
is remarked that " ever since the Zouaves have
been designated by a Marshal of France the first
soldiers in the world,' they have not failed to claim
a lion's share in the history of the exploits of the
war." The present article consists not so much of
a list of their warlike feats, as a series of lively
anecdotes of their camp adventures. A " Memoir
of Sir William Molesworth," by Cyrus Redding,
furnishes some interesting details of his political
career. The story of " Millicent and Philip`Crano"
is concluded, under the title of " Seven Years."
Unlike the generality of this author's stories, it
brings the trials of its heroine to a happy termina-
tion, although by the unsatisfactory expedient of a
second marriage. "A Yacht Cruise through' the
Caledonian Canal " consists chiefly of descriptions
of Scottish scenery. A paper, under the title of
" Fly Leaves from a Circulating Library," gives us
a criticism on Mrs. Gaskell's novels. It contains a
well-merited tribute to the powers of this writer,
who may be ranked among the very foremost of the
authoresses of the day. The history of " Stoke
Dotterell " progresses, and recounts some extraor-
dinary events ; among them the arrest of Sir Jonah
Foster for murder, on his wedding day, and his
sudden death at the bar after his acquittal. The
fifth instalment of " Occasional Notes on Litera-
ture in France " contains a criticism on Villemain,
who has been styled by some " the French Addi-
son." It is an interesting paper, and presents an
attractive sketch of the writings of the French
critic, whose writings appear to be popular with his
own countrymen, if we may judge from the fact of
three thousand copies of one of his works being sold
in two days. " Fontainebleau" is an entertaining
sketch by Florentia, though it may be doubted if
all its historical details are authentic. " Pied-
mont" is a state which will doubtless now be often
described and discussed, the present visit of Victor
Emmanuel directing the public attention to his do-
mains. It forms a brief paper in this number
founded on a History of Piedmont, by Antonio
Gallenga. "An Account of the Punishment of
Criminals in the Eighteenth Century" gives a
gloomy picture of the inhumanity and brutality of
our ancestors in their torture of criminals. The
extracts from the journals and registers of that
time narrate, quite as au ordinary occurrence, acts
of cruelty that now fill us with horror. The poeti-
cal contributions are not above mediocrity of a
very superior class. They consist of three poems ;
the first. some graceful but somewhat lengthy and
vague stanzas by Mary Monck, entitled " Alice's
Dream." The second, and best of the three, is a
cavalier song by G. Thornbury, which is spirited
and martial. The remaining one is a translation
from the Danish, by Mrs. Bushby, which does not
rise above mediocrity.

Colburn's United Service.—The " War in the
East," as might be expected, is the topic of the
opening article. The writer is of opinion " that
the opportunity of conquering the Crimea has been
missed," and that retaining Kamiesh, Balaklava,
Kaffa, and Kinbourn, the allies would do well to
carry on a merely passive war in the Crimea, di.
reefing, among other objectsitheir more active
efforts toliards the destruction of the Russian
trans-Caucasian army on its defeat by Omer Pasha
and the conquest of Finland. " A Visit to the
Camp at Aldershott " recounts the objects for
which the camp was established, and, after describ-
ing its appearance and the scenes to be witnessed
there, pronounces the actual result, so far as the
training of the militia goes, to be " most satisfac-
tory." " Winter Quarters at Constantinople" are
shown to be a capital exchange for the hard-
ships of the camp, and to include a good
deal of the amusing and picturesque. " Pub-
lic feeling in Italy " should be read by those
who are desirous of forming a tolerably correct
notion of its actual state, and ascertaining
on whom it is the people of Italy chiefly found
their hope of future independence. " Camp Life
Before Sebastopol," if not of a nature to secure
contentment, would appear to be no worse than
might fairly be anticipated, judging by the revela-
tions of the lively participator in it whose contribu-
tion bears this title. Having enumerated its an-
noyances and advantages, he remarks that " the
campaign in the Crimea does a man good—if it
does not kill him." " Mr. Cobden on the Army
and the War" is gently handled, and the necessity
for lighter carbines and curved instead of cut and
thrust swords for our cavalry subsequently enforced.
" Sekoum-Kaleh, Mingrelia, and Goomri," the
second the scene of Omer Pacha's operations, are
graphically described, as also their inhabitants,
and those of the Caucasus, generally, in a long
and interesting paper. " Leaves from Western
Africa," and "The War in the Peloponnesus in
1820," are continued. The editor, in his Portfolio,
apart from the injustice done to Sir Colin Campbell,
expresses satisfaction with the appointment of Sir
Wm. Codrington to the Eastern command. The
number contains beside a great deal of information
interesting to members of the two services.

Bentley's Miscellany.----The first and the last
article in this miscellany are the most remarkable.
The former is the continuation of the tale of " The
Spendthrift," by the editor, Mr. Harrison Ains-
worth, whose established reputation renders auy
new work a matter of interest. The concluding
article is by Monkshood, whose writings are always
worthy of attention. The present paper is a criti-
cism on Prescott's " History of Philip the
Second of Spain," the two first volumes of which
have recently appeared. The critic renders full
justice to the transatlantic historian. We may
perhaps think ourselves fortunate that there are
only two articles in any way relating to the war,
one on " The Winter Quarters of the Allies," the
other on " The Russian Territories in America."
The tales, exclusive of "The Spendthrift," consist of
an Irish sketch, the continuation of the intermi-
nable "Adventures of Benjamin Bobbin," and a
ridiculous and extravagant story by Dudley Cos-
tello. It bears the attractive title of " The Cri-
mean Hero," but, without entering on the plot, it
is sufficient to say that at the conclusion the Cri-
mean hero is transformed into—a ticket-of-leave
man ! Another critical article reviews " Bailey's
Mystic," and for the utter discomfiture of sober-
minded readers gives numerous extracts. Of these
it is only necessary to say that when a writer of
the modern school sets out intending to be mysti
cal, the result can be better imagined thandescribod.
The remaining contents consist of " An Account of
Glasgow and its Clubs," and a pleasing paper with
the curious title of " Take me Horne," in allusion
to the wish so frequently expressed by invalids to
return home in their last moments.

The Merchants' Magazine.—A valuable number,
containing an unusual variety of the most recent
foreign, colonial, and home statistical information.
At the outset the reader is presented with the
latest returns from the Zollverein, and is enabled
to form a pretty accurate notion of its commercial
affairs, and producing and consuming powers, and
incidentally something of the commerce of other
countries. The paper is not without interest in
connection with the present monetary crisis, the
Zollverein having a good deal to do with the drain
of our gold. "The Commerce of Rio de Janeiro"
and " The Trade and Navigation of Spain for
1854" aro the titles of a couple of statistical papers
of considerable utility. The imports and exports
of Spain in the above year were, we aro happy to
learn, 15 per cent. in excess of the preceding year,
and 38 per cent. over the average of the four pre-
ceding years. A useful compendium of informa-
tion respecting " The Sound Dues" will be found
in the succeeding paper. The views of the writer
in relation to this obnoxious impost, and the op-
portunity now offered of doing away with it, are
pretty much the same as those advanced awhile
back in our columns. The writer of an article on
"The Present Crisis" deprecates all excitementiand
all hasty legislation about banking and financial
economy, and cautions " those who are open to ad-
vice against sharing in the rising spirit of specula-
tion, because a reaction must ere long take place."
In other words, he is satisfied with the present
extravagantly high rate of discount, and opposed
to the issue of small notes, which we are not.

Miscellaneous.—Sharp's London Magazine pre-
serves its character as the best of the minor serials.
Au agreeable variety of tales and sketches are
usually to be found in its pages, which possess the
additional advantage of illustrations by George
Cruikshank. He is at present illustrating the his-
tory of " Lorimer Littlegood, a young gentleman
who wished to see Life, and saw it accordingly."
The style of the tale may be easily guessed from
its title. George Cruikshank's design represents
the congenial subject of a drunkard's death. Some
chess exercises are given for the benefit of the ad-
mirers of that scientific amusement. The Home
Companion furnishes a goodly list of well-known
names among its contributors. The talented au-
thoress of " Mary Powell" is among them, and a
story,'entitlod "The Good Old Times," is from her
pen. A tale by Isabella Munro, " Consulting the
Sybil," offers a useful lesson to all young ladies who
are inclined to rule their actions in accordance
with the prophecies of fortune-tellers. "A Home
Picture," is a pleasing domestic sketch. There are
a great number of simple stories, which, without

any unusual talent or striking originality, convey
a sound moral with an agreeable narrative. New-
ten's London Journal consists, as usual, of a com-
plete account of all recent patents, with illustrailho
diagrams and explanatory notes. The Churchman's
Magazine presents us with Church intelligent*,
some literary essays, and articles on " Parish Ma-
nagement," besides obituary notices, and similar
papers. Le Follet has several charming plates,
arranged with its unvarying taste. These elegant
fashions are likely to elevate the general taste in
dress, which is highly necessary, as most ladies
seem to possess a profound indifference to the har-
mony of colours. The prose contents are, as usual,
interior to its other attractions.

DISCOVERY OF d .REPUBLICAN CON-
SPIRACY AT ROME—FINE A itT GOS-
SIP, &u.

ROME, Nov. 24.—Another of those fatal conspiracies
of the Republican party has a few days since been dis•
covered and frustrated. The particulars of it have not
transpired as yet. Arrests in great numbers are being
made by day and night, and so many "compromised
are still untaken, that the police keep the matter as
quiet as its importance admits of. One of the leaders in
the conspiracy, indeed the chief, is a man named Man-
cini, who was convicted of capital crimes committed
during the last Republic in Rome, but affected insanity
with such success as to completely gull the authorities
who sent him to the Bedlam of Rome. He made hie
escape from the mad-house some time age, and has
since that time been hiding in the house of a bell-
founder, whose foundry exists in the Via Tor di Nona,
on the way to the Castle St. Angelo. This bell-founder
is himself an old defaulter, having made a very free
use of the Triumvirates' order to destroy the belle
of the Roman churches, but on the score of ex-
treme penitence he was subsequently pardoned by the
Pope. The police were previously informed of every
detail connected with the affair, and hearing of a meeting
being appointed for a certain night in the house of a
butcher in the Via Laurina, occupied the houses in the
vicinity in great numbers, guarding all the windows and
doors in front and rear. At two hours after midnight,
the bell-founder joined the conspirators, as had been ex-
pected by the police, who had arranged his arrival as the
signal for the attack. ' They accordingly sallied forth in
strong force, and made their way into the house with
such promptitude that the party had not time to light
a match to set fire to their papers, and one or twe
were caught by the throat and compelled to give out
documents they were attempting to swallow. Other
papers were thrown out of a window into the street,
manned by the police, who possessed themselves of
them, and, it is believed, have obtained intelligence
of the utmost importance from them. I hope
speedily to be able to say more about the matter. All
I know as yet is that murder on a grand scale, as an
act of intimidation, was intended as the first step in the
affair. The French army of occupation being now small,
in consequence of so many having been sent to the
Crimea, and the Roman troops being at all times more
ready to attack than to defend the Government employ-
ing them, the conspirators were sanguine of success.
You will remember, in my letters of last summer, that I
mentioned the disembarkation, clandestinely, of large
numbers of armed men, who separated themselves off
into divisions of from 20 to 30 strong, and who, spread-
ing out from the thickets (Macchie) adjoining the Pon•
tine marshes, were heard of from time to time. The day
fixed for making the grand coup was the coming Sth
December, being the feast in honour of the Immaculate
Conception of the Blessed Virgin, which is to be held
with more than ordinary solemnity and splendour at the
Lateran Basilica, as a finale or wind-up to the year of
devotion and thanksgiving, celebrated all over the
Catholic world, but especially in Rome.

CARDINAL WISEMAN AND THE
CONCORDAT.

Yesterday evening Cardinal Wiseman delivered an
address at St. Mary's Chapel, Moorfields, on the subject
of the Concordat recently concluded between the Empe-
ror of Austria and the Pope. He said it was but a few
years ago since this country was thrown into a state of
religious excitement in consequence of what was then
termed the Papal aggression, but which was merely an
arrangement among the Catholics themselves. Now,
every day brought forward something to alarm the pub-
lic mind in reference to the See of Rome, in consequence
of the Pope having entered into an amicable arrange-
ment with the Emperor of Austria. The publication of
this arrangement had produced great excitement, and it
was his duty, having charge of the interests of the Church
of Rome in this country, to show how reasonable every-
thing was that bad been done, and how little ground
there was for any oue to complain. To any one who
watched the signs of the times, it would appear that,
in this country, there must be, from time to time, some
religious frenzy—that religion was like a boiling cauld-
ron, that must now and then run over. This ,has been
peculiarly the case in reference to the solemn compact en-
tered into between the Emperor of Austria and the head
of the greatest Church on earth. The solemn concordat
bad been treated as a miserable fiction by England--a
country which professed to treat religion with respect
and dignity ; but her judgment would not be enhanced in
the eyes of foreign nations if she treated with ribaldry a
great subject, which ought to be discussed with dignity,
which God had prospered, and which millions of men
venerated. The Emperor of a mighty nation, which bad
been known above all things for the slowness of its re-
solves and the multitude of its counsellors, bad been dis-
cussing this treaty with the representative of the Church
of Rome, clause by clause, for two years, and after the
gravest deliberation on both sides the whole treaty had
been adopted. The document was drawn up in the pecu-
liar phraseology of Roman Catholic ecclesiastical diplo-
macy, and the words had had a different meaning from
that which they bore when used in relation to ordinary
matters. This well-considered document fell into the
hands of a newspaper editor, who in two hours pulled
the whole of it to pieces. His recent proceeding, how-
ever, could not touch a single interest in this country.
Why, then, should England be so indignant, and why
should the people of Austria be subjected to vituperative
articles in newspapers. The Cardinal adverted at great
length, and in terms of bitter sarcasm, to the religious
divisions prevailing in England, to the High Church and
Low Church, the Puseyite and Evangelical, and the
various forms of dissent, and said his advice to England
and her Church would be—" Physician, cure thyself be-
fore thou ye/Wrest again on a lesson to Catholic
subjects and a Catholic Church." The Cardinal con-
cluded by stating that next Sunday evening he would
analyse the Concordat, and explain its provisions.