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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
of incidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary
effects.
Magic and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos-
sessing distinctive characteristics and peculiar phases of
amusement. 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 startly 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 con-
tinuous repetition. He believes that no professor of his art
has at any time or in any place been honoured with an
amount of success so extensive, so decided, and so unusual.
He 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
resorting to the conjuror's arts, in an illegitimate manner,
the designing have succeeded in making dupes of the
credulous.
The 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pro-
fessor 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 dancers which
attend a belief in the superstitious nonsense of the " Spiri-
tualists." Judging simply by the correspondence which has
resulted, Professor Anderson's exposé of spirit-rapping and
his illustration of the so-called table phenomena, have pro-
duced a sensation unequalled by any previous attempt to ex-
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
who, from their position in society and their well-known in-
tellectual attainments, he would least have expected to have
been converts to a belief so preposterous in itself, and so
easily susceptible of being controverted and disproved. Every
evening, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions on
spirit-tapping are expressed, and every evening, within the
Lyceum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited
and elucidated. It is respectfully requested that this
public exposition will be accepted generally as Professor
Anderson's only mode of replying at full length to his
multitudinous correspondents. 110 regrets that the
nausea of the great and learned of the land should
have 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-
tual Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American
spirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. •Hume :—" Sir David Brewster
frankly confesses that he is sorely puzzled' at what he has
witnessed, 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
solution of 14e 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-
rial objects about the room, proved to be too much of a quee•
tiou for them to master." Mr. D. D. Hume, the author of the
above, 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 wel-known throughout
tl. Anglo-Saxon world as a splendid humbugs offered him 2.000
dollars per annum if he would perform at his museum in New
York. Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could
be brought. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was
refused. Home, on telling the fact in London lately, simply
and honestly remarked, that the money would have been very
• acceptable to him, for he was poor, young (under 21!), an or-
phan, and in very bad health : but he would have been afraid
of losing his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose
his life. Tho refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful.
He inquired into the subject ; And now Barnum, one of the
greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is
one of the firmest believers in spirittiallem." It is cer-
tainly surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the
editorial article of an established journal, the editere a whom
might be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe
In spirit-rapping-- does spirit-rapping gain or lose by
this accession to its adherents ? and, with Barnum's endorse-
ment to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely
to bo negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe not ;
but, when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of
England have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross
a swindle, when he finds that the incumbent of Wortley (the
Rev. N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and
writes a book on the subject, ho considers it t be time for
him to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which
it is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the
Morning Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir
" David Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel,
in company 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
purposes. In the Morning Advertiser of the following day,
however, there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one
who was prCsent when he and Lord Brougham had their
silence with the spirits, in which the 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-
. out." 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
subject of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention"
has actually been advertised to be held in St. Martin's-ball,
• 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 au 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.
ing, the programme being continually changed. Grand
fashionable Day Performance, or Saturday, October 13, at 2
o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ;
Part I.—Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical
Capabilities of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do
by magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer-
• ism, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in
the air.
Act 2. The Aqua-Arial Paradox ; exemplifying the power
of 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 Reeueils Choisies : or, Puck's Own
Pocket Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the
evening's entertainment in the production of the very vein-
- milieus from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude
out of minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears
for its existence, in discovering odd things in odd places, and
in bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely
place for to be found.
Act 4. Magical Locomotion ; or, Transition without Trou-
ble. In which will be comprised—the Adventures of a Wed-
ding Ring, the Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the Transfer-
' enation—black into white, and the Discovery of every Article
in the position which would seem the most inappropriate.
Act 5. L'Ecrin do Verve ; or, the Casket of Crces sn . 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 Transparency
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 not. only he in-
exhaustible, but will change its contents, ad infinitum, at the
' word of command, producing soda-water,rumbu,ttewri,misiklky:
Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, Sin, •
noyeau, or any other wino or spirit required; and finally
proving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perf_.
ectly dry,
and occupying the whole space when tightly packed
. Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Expos 6
and
Spirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping table
tocsin of the invisibles.
Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property of
the Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange metamor-
phoses, and, amongst others, their handkerchiefs become
transformed into the flags of victory—the banners of Eng-
land, France, Turkey, and Sardinia.
Act. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comus, in which he who
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
Tquelcns of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the
audience will leave 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 produced.
Act. 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the t'Shortest
Route to the Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of
ridding our elves of a troublesome friend, and the advantages
of the newly-discovered ilia-terrestrial passage from the west-
ern to the eastern hemisphere.
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CONTRACT FOR TEAMS OF HORSES FOR DEVONPORT
AND KEYHAM.

Department of the Storekeeper General of the Navy,
Somerset-place, 16th October, 1855.
THE Commissioners for Executing the Office of
Lord Uigh Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
nd Ireland, do Hereby Give Notice, that on TUESDAY, the 30th
instant, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such Per-
sons as may be willing to contract for supplying her Majesty's
Dockyard at Devonport and Keyham with

TEAMS OF HORSES.
A form of the tender and the conditions of the contract may be seen
at the said office. No tender will be received after two o'clock on
the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed, unless the party attends, or
an agent for him duly authorised in writing.
Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
‘nd bear in the left-hand corner the words "Tender for Teams of
Horses for Devonport and Keyham," and must also be delivered at
S,,merset-place. accompanied by a letter signed by twe responsible
persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the
sum of 1,0001. for the due performance of the contract.

The following have no stations appropriated to them,
and several are only fitting out :
The Calcutta, 84, second rate, Captain James J. Stop-
ford, 750 men, commissioned June 19, 1854, at Devonport.
The Powerful, 84, second rate, Captain Thomas L.
Massie, 750 men, commissioned day 3, 1854, at Ports-
mouth.
The Penelope, 16, fifth rate, paddle, 650 horse-power,
Captain Sir William S. Wieman, Bart., 300 men, com-
missioned March 27, 1854, at Chatham.
The Malacca, 17, sixth rate, paddle, 200 horse-power,
Captain Arthur Farquhar, 20J men, commissioned June
21, 1854, at Portsmouth.
The Havannah,* 19, sixth rate, Captain Thos. Harvey,
240 men, commissioned August 6, 1855, at Devonport.
The Rosamond," 6, sixth rate, paddle, 280 horse-power,
Commander Stephen S. L. Crofton, 160 men, commis-
sioned Feb. 28, 1854, at Woolwich.
The Siinoom, 8, screw troop-ship, 350 horse-power,
Captain Thos. R. Sullivan, 183 men, commissioned Feb.
10,1852, at Portsmouth.

The Urgent, 2, screw store•ship, 450 horse-power, Com-
mander Chat. G. Phillips, 160 men, commissioned July
27, 1855, at Woolwich.
The Zolus, store-ship, Master Commander Wm. L.
Browne, 43 men, commissioned April 16, 1855, at Ports-
mouth.

MR. JOHN M'GREGOR, M.P., ON TEE

WAR.

The Tyne, 4, store-ship, Master Commander Peter Wel-
lington, 60 men, commissioned Oct. 7, 1850, at Devonport.
The Caradoc, 2, paddle steam-vessel, 350 horse-power
Lieutenant C. S. S. Stanhope, 65 men, commissioned
Sept. 26, 1855, at Woolwich.
The Wye,* screw tank vessel, 100 horse power.
Total-12 ships; 242 guns ; and 2,911 men.
The subjoined six vessels are fitting for screw :
The Mars, 80, second rate, 400 horse-power, at Chatham.
The Centurion, 80, second rate, 400 horse-power, at
Devonport.
The Eurotas, mortar-vessel, 200 horse-power, at Sheer-
ness.

Mr. M'Gregor, M.P., according to his annual cus-
tom, met the electors and non-electors of Giasgow in the
Merchants' Hall, on Wednesday evening, to give them
an account of his stewardship. The building was
crowded to excess.

Mr. Bailie M`GREGOR, who was called to the chair,
in opening the proceedings, said that such meetings were
very useful both to the constituencies and representa-
tives, and had no. right to be characterised as farces.
Mr. MGREGOR, M.P., on rising, was received with
general cheering, and, after a few prefatory remarks,
said that, since his last annual interview with his con-
stituents, events had occurred, the results of which, ac-
cording as they were wisely or foolishly managed, would
promote or retard the civilisation of the world, and the
progress of mankind. With the permission of the meet-
ing he would address them upon three topics :-1. The
doings of last Parliamentary session ; 2. The manage-
ment of the war and foreign policy ; and, 3. The pro-
spects of the people in reference to future taxation.
With respect to the first, he regretted to say that so
barren a session had not been remembered by any
man who had a seat in the house. (Hear, hear.) It
was occupied chiefly in long and oftentimes useless
debates, and the introduction of measures to be after
wards abandoned. Had it not been for discussions
on the war and personal matters, the house, instead of
sitting eight months, might have been dismissed at the
end of two. No reform Bill had been passed, and other
measures had been so mutilated in their progress that
their original promoters were glad to abandon them alto-
___

gether. [The hon. gentleman illustrated this statement
by reference to the Scotch Education Bill, which he had
originally supported.] The house certainly, with the
concurrence of the country, had passed measures to se-
cure money by way of loan, in addition to a preriou.
increase of the income tax, for the purpose of carrying

on the war in which England and Erance were engaged
with the greatest tyrannical power that ever oppressed
or afflicted mankind. (Cheers.) The great bulk of the
people of this country did not yet understand how far
the war was a just or an unjust one. (Hear.) His own
opinion was that ao war was just except a defensive one.
But what was the definition of a defensive war ? The

The Forth, mortar-vessel, 200 horse power, at Devonport.
The Seahorse, mortar-vessel, 200 horse-power, at Devon-
port.
The Fox, transport, at Portsmouth.
The following are under repair and refitting :
The Marlborough, 130, • first rate, 860 horse-power, at
Portsmouth.

present war had been most seriously and deliberately
entered into for the purpose of defending the liberties
and freedom of mankind against a conspiracy of monarchs
more insidious and dangerous than any that had ever
been recorded in the annals of the world. (Cheers.) He

granted that we in these islands might for a while longer
have held aloof from this war; but from the first he
was of opinion that the most fatal policy for this coun-
try, and finally the most expensive with regard to taxa-
tion, was to defer declaring war beyond the time that
that step was resolved upon. (Hear.) To sustain this opi-
nion, he craved the patience of the meeting for a few
minutes. The revolutions of Europe in 1848 had so
greatly terrified the leading despots of Europe—Russia,
Austria, and Prussia—that they determined to carry out
the principles of the Holy Alliance, and combine their
forces for the repression of any future attempt on the
part of struggling nationalities, in any of their dominions,
to secure their independence. When the Holy Alliance

was first entered into between the late Emperor Alex-

ander, the late most dastardly monarch, Fraiicis Joseph
of Austria, and the late timid King of Prussia, it was
upon this condition, that if the subjects of one of them
attempted to revolt for the purpose of procuring a con-
stitutional government, the two other monarchs should
aid him with their forces for th 3 purpose of crushing the
rebellion. When the late King of Prussia died he left
a will, in which this injunction was laid down to the pre-
sent King—" When you rise in the morning, and ad-
dress your Maker, pray that the Holy Alliance may be
maintained," and it was that will and that injunction
which now governed the counsels of the King of Prussia.
(Hear, hear.) And they would remember that when
the Emperor Nicholas died the other day the last words
he uttered were—" Tell my brother-in-law Frederick to
remain always the same with regard to Russia, and not
to forget the words of his papa !" In consequence of
this compact—notwithstanding the pretensions of
Austria—which were nothing but hypocrisy—if we
had not gone to war we should have had a combina-
tion of all the military forces of Russia, Prussia, and
Austria, to prevent anything like the development
of civil, religious, or political liberty throughout Eu-
rope. An attempt made in the Italian States would be
put down, as the insurrection in Hungary was put down
by Russia; and a rising i❑ Poland would be crushed by
the aid of Prussian and Austrian armies. (Cheers.) He had

The Conqueror, 100, first rate, 100 horse-power, at De-
von port.
Tho Repulse, 90, second rate, 600 horse-power, at Pem-
broke.
Tho Brunswick, 80, second rate, 403 horse-power, at
Pembroke.
The Devastation, 6, sloop, 400 horse-power, at Wool-
wich.
The Satellite, 20, sloop, 400 horse-power' at Devooport.
The Pearl, 20, sloop, 400 horse-power, at Wool wich.
The Tartarus, 4, sloop, 130 horse-power, at Woolwich.
The Hecla, 6, sloop, 240 horse-power, at DOTODpOrt.
The Salamander, 6, sloop, 220 horse-power, at Ports-
m, uth.
The Polyphemus, 5, sloop, 200 horse-power, at Ports-
month.
The Thunder, 14, floating battery, 150 horae-power, at
Sheerness.
The Trusty, 14, floating-battery, 150 horse-power, at
Sheerness.
The Sampson, 6, frigate, 467 horse-power, at Ports-
mouth.
The Lucifer, 2, tender, 180 horse-power, at Portsmouth.
The Widgeon, 1, tender, 90 horse-power, at Woolwich.
The Skipjack, 2, gun-boat, 60 horse-power, at Deptford.
The Seagull, 2, gun-boat, 60 horse-power, at Woolwich.
The Sheldrake, 2. gun-boat, 60 horse-power, at Deptford.
The Sandfly, 2, gun-boat, GO horse-power, at Woolwich.

Not in hand :-
The Inflexible, 6, sloop, 378 horse-power, at Devonport.
The Virago, 6, sloop, 300 horse-power, at D3VollpOrt.
The Vixen, 6, sloop, 280 horse-power, at Woolwich.
The Janus, 4, sloop, 220 horse-power, at Woolwich.
The Princess Alice, 1, sloop, 120 horse-power, at Wool.
wich.
The Pluto, 3, sloop, 100 horse-power, at Deptford.
The Kite, gun-vessel, 170 horse-power, at Deptford.
The Fearless, 2, tender, 76 horse-power, at Sheerness.
The Pike, 1, tender, 50 horse-power, at Devonport.
The under-mentioned are termed advanced ships :-
The Nelson, 120, first-rate, 970 men, at Portsmouth.
The Princess Charlotte, 104, second-rate, 850 men, at
The Collingwood, 80, second rate,
Portsmouth.
Ports-
mouth. at Do.
The Royal Adelaide, 101, second rate, 850 Men)
vonport. 750 men, at
The Bombay, 84, second rate, 750 men, at DeVODPOrtort.
The Canopus, 84, second rate, 750 men, at Davenp.
The Clarence, 84, second rate, 750 men, at Devonport.
The Thunderer, 84, second rate, 750 men, at DOVODpOrt.
The Asia, 84, second rate, at Portsmouth.
The Ganges, 84, second rate, at Sheerness.
The Superb, 80, second rate, at Chatham.
The Goliath, 80, second rate, at Chatham.
The Meesnee, 80, second rate, at Chatham.
The Foudroyant, 78, third rate, 650 men, at Devonport
The Cambridge, 78, third rate, 650 men, at Dv.vonport.
The Indus, 78, third rate, 650 men, at Devonport.
The Achille, 78, third rate, 650 men, at Sheerness.
The Cumberland, 70, third rate, at Chatham.
The Vindictive, 50, fourth rate, 500 men, at Portsmouth.
The Alfred, 50, fourthrate, 500 men, at Portsmouth.
The Grampus, 50, fourth rate, 450 men, at Portsmouth.
The Dubln, 50, fourth rate, 500 men,
The Java, 50, fourth rate, 450 men, at Portsmouth.
The America, 50, fourth rate, 500 men, Devonport.
The Eagle, 50, fourth rate, 500 men, at Davenport.
The Warspite, 50, fourth rate, at Chatham.
The Phaeton, 50, fourth rate, at Sheerness.
The Raleigh, 50, fourth rate, at Portsmouth.
The Constance, 50, fourth rate, at Devonport.
satDeonp
The Cambrian, 40, fifth rate, at DOVollpOrt.

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seen such di curnentary proof of all this that he believed
that if ever there was a just war it was the one in which
we were now engaged. (Cheers.) After referring to
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the time was not far distant when most of the German
nations would obtain constitutional freedom. The fall
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subjects, or their subjects will wrest that freedom from
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BANK OF ENGLAND.

ADVANCE OF THE RATE OF DISCOUNT.
The measures of the Bank of England yesterday are
rather more stringent than was expected, but although
they will cause the financial course of the country during
the next two or three weeks to be regarded with the
most unparalleled watchfulness, they have excited
neither dissatisfaction nor alarm. It is assumed that the
next Gazette return will exhibit a further large decrease
in the bullion, and apart from this the fresh step taken
by the Bank of France confirms the necessity for increased
caution.

The total absence of commercial distrust is as marked
as ever, and apparently the only point for dread is, lest
the public, unaccustomed as they are to such a rate as
6 per cent., should suffer themselves so suppose that it
necessarily involves something terrible. " What are
to be the consequences ?" is a question passed from one
idle person to another. The real features of oar
position, however, owing to the indisputable health-
fulness of trade, admit of being summed up with
more than ordinary precision. One principal matter
which the public have yet to learn is the vast effect
of a very moderate withdrawal of bullion. During
each of the last seven weeks the average drain from
the Bank, which has been accompanied by a series of
advances in the rate of discount until from 3. it has
reached to 6 per cent., has been about 550,0001.—that
is to say, the Bank have raised their rate i per cent, for
every 700,000/. or 800,0001. lost. The singular delay in
the Australian arrivals which has again become notice-
able is therefore nearly enough to account for the in-
creased pressure of the last week or two. According to
sound estimates at least 1,000,0001. is now overdue,
and some persons set the amount at 1,500,0001. The
absence or presence of this latter total might have made
a difference of 1 per cent. in the Bank rate. Again, the
more recent reports from France of a deficiency of at
least 3,500,000 quarters of wheat and a like quantity of
rye have given a new impulse to our orders for grain.
These imports are not required for our own use, and
consequently are as good to us as gold, except that they
involve delay before we can convert them, and mean-
while the pressure is just as great as if the gold they
are ultimately to repay would never reach us. Hence
there are influences amply to account for all the dis-
turbance now experienced, in addition to that origi-
nally created by the withdrawals on the part of the
Bank of France. It is true a cause of perplexity
remains in the fact that if, by the reaction from the re-
cent measures of the Bank of France, coupled with ship-
ments of grain to that country, things arrive at a point
which would draw gold back from Paris, the difficulties
on that side may involve the adoption of new plans to
obtain a further artificial supply from the Bank of Eng-
land, but there is a limit to such operations. The con-
tinental markets having been once cleared of bills can
only thenceforth furnish the natural daily quantity
created by the regular operations of commerce, while
with regard to the use of accommodation paper, or the
obtaining of money on the deposit of foreign securities,
there can scarcely at present be much apprehension. It
is to be remarked, moreover, that while the public gene-
rally fail to estimate the momentary effect of the loss even
of a moderate sum of bullion, they also, on the other
hand, never attach sufficient faith to the effects of an
increase in the rate of discount. In 1847 it was carried
as high as 8 per cent., the Bank bullion having fallen
to 8,312,691/., and in a mouth from that time a
reaction commenced, until within a year it was as
low as 3 per cent., and went on unchecked until it
had declined to 2 per cent. There is no reason to
suppose that in the present instance the measures adopted
will prove less efficacious. Indeed, as the drain.hai
bee❑ much more sudden now than then, there might,
perhaps, were it not for the Turkish Loan, be an expect
tation of a still more rapid reaction, as soon as the final
point of pressure shall have been reached. Already
there are indications that strong effects have been pro-
duced. From Hamburg it is said gold could now be
sent both to Paris and London. The demand for specie
for India has subsided, and, although the next steamer
will take out probably 300,0001., it will chiefly be for
contracts previously entered into.
But will even the certain prospect of mitigation be
sufficient meanwhile to sustain confidence all over the
country ? Hithert6 everything has tended to that con-
clusion, and among the banking and other financial
establishments in London not a shadow of distrust in its
accuracy is observable. The great addition made by the
Bank in their charge for bills having more than 60 days to
run will probably affect more than a third of the paper in
circulation ; but one object of that step was, doubtless, to
throw the demand from the Bank, where it had lately
been too much concentrated, to the discount houses, '
who have been cautiously holding back until they could
feel moderately certain that the highest point had bee❑
reached. Should they now entertain that conviction—
and, inasmuch as 7 per cent. is within 1 per cent, of the
highest rate known in modern times, the supposition
that they will do seems reasonable—they will be pre-
pared to act with more boldness, and the market may
assume, from the absence of uncertainty, a degree of
soundness greater than previously prevailed. If this
hope be rea'ised, and all should go well during the next
month, the advantage to the country will be incalcu-
lable, from the demonstration that will have been gained
of the possibility under the Bank Charter Act of our
passing through a period of trial without falling into
senseless panic, while it will also afford a lesson to Rus-
sia and her friends as to the actual solidity of that com-
merce to which we look for the means to meet any
struggle, however protracted, that may be necessary to
accomplish all that we have resolved upon.—Tiincs' City
Article.

had; he said, ever violated its treaties with other States,

We have eight vessels complete—
The Isis, 44, fifth rate, at Chatham.
The Actaeon, 26, sixth rate, at Portsmouth.
The Brilliant, 20, sixth rate, 230 men, at Sheerness.
The Arachno, 18, sloop, 145 men, at Devonport.
The Terpsichore, 18, sloop, 145 men, at Chatham.
The Larne, 14, sloop, 130 men, at heerness.
The Acorn, 12, brig, 130 men, at Chatham.
The Sappho, 12, brig, at Chatham.
The following are under repair and refitting :
The Helena, 16, brig, at Portsmouth.
The Persian, 12, brig, at Sheerness.
The Elk, 12, brig, at Chatham.

and given some illustrations of the exterminating atro-
cities which alWays characterised Russian wars of con-
quest, Mr. M'Gregor proceeded to say, England at
length declared war. Did they manage that war as they
should have done ? He said emphatically they did not.
(Cheers.) He believed the Government of Lord Aber-
deen was never sincere in carrying on the war. (Cheers.)
While squandering millions of the money of the tax-
payers of Great Britain, they allowed, by their criminal
negligence, 28,000 of our brave soldiers to perish from
want of shelter, food, clothing, and consequently disease.
(Cheets.) This criminal negligence produced its fatal
fruits in Varna, the Crimea, and Scutari. All the naval
and military posts of Government were held by men
who had been known as friendly to Russia, and who, of
course, determined to do as little as possible to humble
that power, believing as they did that at the Confer-
ence in Vienna a peace would be brought about. He
(Mr. M‘Gregor) had no hesitation in saying that a peace
at that time might have been agreed to, but it would have
been a disgraceful peace, and would have proved disas-
trous to the national honour ; it would have involved no
safeguard for the future ; it would have taken no gua-
rautee, either material or otherwise, for keeping under
the power and restraining the ambition of Russia ; in a
word, it would have been one of the most disgraceful
acts that an intelligent and liberty-loving people was
ever asked to sanction. (Loud cheers.) He was of
opinion that at that time influences were at work of an
exceedingly dangerous character to the liberties, civil
and religious, of this country. He regretted to find
that a distinguished nobleman, whom he desired to give
great credit for his former services—he meant Lord John
Russell—(hisses)—had, through some weakness, agreed
to accept the Russian terms of peace. By means of the
press, the House of Commons and the country became
alive to the gross mismanagement of the war, and the
consequent miseries endured by our soldiers in the East ;
and ho was bound to say that nothing that had been said
by the press on this fearful subject had been exag-
gerated. The country took alarm. It was found that
one department, the transport service, on which seven
millions of money was wasted, was all but useless, as no
one ship could be found to carry out to its destination a
single article that was wanted, or produce it when it
was most urgently required at any port. This state of
things was attributable to the Admiralty, and especi-
ally to Sir James Graham, whose criminal neglect was
the cause of inconceivable hardships and disasters, not-
withstanding all his plausible statements, and his reck-
less and untrue assertions. Then came the Roebuck
motion, and the Ministry were condemned by the largest
majority ever known in the House of Commons. They
retired, and Lord Derby Was sent for to form a new Go-
vernment, but he abandoned the task, as he found that
he had no chance of getting a working majority in the
Commons. Lord John Russell tried, and failed. Lord
Palmerston was then sent for. He was warned that if
he took into his Cabinet any of the Aberdeen members
of the late Administration, they would soon abandon
him, and show their Russian countenances in some other
part of the house than the front rows of the Ministerial
Benches. (Laughter.) And so it proved. In a very
short time, when the Aberdeenites could not prevail
upon Lord Palmerston to carry out the policy which
they had at heart, in connection with certain German ire-
terests, they retired, and took their seats on the same
bench with the Peace-at-any-price Party. No sooner did
they do so than they turned against Lord Palmerston,
and Lord J. Russell shortly afterwards came out with a
speech which indicated that he was desirous of following
in the same course. Lord Palmerston, however, was firm
and said, " I R ill not make peace with Russia until I do
so upon terms that will maintain the honour and dignity
of this country." (Cheers.) He declared that he would
carry on the war with the utmost vigour and energy, and
with a perfect understanding with the Emperor of the
French never to conclude a peace until they had humbled the
arrogance of Russia, and obtained material securities for the
future peace of Europe. (Cheers.) That was the policy which
he communicated to his Parliamentary friends, and the
result was that he had until the close of the session the
Ruppert of all the Liberal party, with the exceptions he
had mentioned, in the House of Commons ; and as far as
he (Mr. M`Gregor) could see, he would continue to re-
ceive that support in the next session of Parliament, al-
though his course would not be free from difficulties. If
the Premier put his trust in the country, and pursued a
course that was calculated to humble the power, and
lower the arrogance of Russia, and compel her to in-
demnify us for the expenses of the war, which she, with
unparionable aggression, commenced by seizing a por-
tion of the Turkish territory before we declared war in
this country, he would continue to receive the cordial
support of Parliament and the Empire. (Loud cheers.)
Notwithstanding the early mismanagement of the war
much had already been done to humble Russia. How
humiliated would the people of England feel if all her
harbours were so effectually blockaded by Russian fleets
that a vessel dared not move out to carry away her ma-
nufactures, or bring back to the island the produce of
other countries, and if we were obliged to burn our wen-
d-war in Portsmouth and Plymouth, in order to pre-
vent them falling into the hands of the enemy. (Ele'ira'
hear.) And yet this was the condition to which Ruwssas
herself had been reduced. (Hear, hear.) His
idea
side
that the war should be prosecuted with vigour,
by side with France, in order that the aggressiveand then
policy of Russia should be put an end to, to
be
he hoped that the alliance with France
main-
tained in its integrity, and th 4 the commercial
restric-
tions which had so long existed between
would
the
tw h 00
of Free Trade we had
(Cheers.) Through the blessings
as we otherwise might
not suffered so much by the war .
tillexisted,
eldothere et) leeeurnomwzhhilintor;se
trusted
would vanish with their ancient hatred.
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tfhi,oero,pgiaoindpilleat former
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Captain Lambert, of the Royal Engineers Corps, sta-
tioned at Chatham, has received instriactions from head-
quarters at Woolwich to hold himself in readiness to
embark for Sebastopol. Captain Lambert is to take out
under his command 100 non-commissioned officers and
privates of the Royal Sappers B,nd Miners.
The following general order has been issued from the
Horse Guards, dated October 4 :
"The Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief has been
pleased to appoint the following officers to be his
i‘alord-
ship'sijor
Georgeaides-de-cachple,yfri‘omiautdhee,
cle.tß.,Royal Artillery,
inst.—viz., Brevet.-
and Brevet-Major John Peel, 34th Regiment.
" By command.
"G. A. WErsEnALL, Adjutant-General."

* The II vannah has sailed for South America, the Rosa
mond for North America and the West Indies, and the Wye
is ordered to proceed without delay to the Black Sea.

of sentence,
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THE CONVICT ELI ZABET H WINTOSH.—A. respite dur.
was last night forwarded from the
ing her Majesty's pleasure, preparatory to a commuta-
tion Home-office to Cupar Angus,. on behalf of Elizabeth
M'lntosh, the convict in Fifeshiro.
ELECTION OF PROVOST OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE.-0X-
FORD, Oct. 18.—This morning the election of the Head-
ship of Queen's College took place, according to previ-
ous notice ; the electors, consisting of the fellows of the
elder foundation of that society, were all present. After
divine service in the chapel, the election was conducted
according to the forms laid down by the founder, Ro-
bert de Eglesfield, chaplain to Philippa of Hainault,
Queen Consort of Edward 111. The Rev. Dr. Audland,
senior fellow, presided, and announced that the choice of
the electors had fallen upon the Rev. W. Thomson,
ILA..

REMEDY FOR THE MONETARY CRISIS.

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BILL FOR THE LOCAL MANAGEMENT OF THE
/METROPOLIS.
A report was brought up from the Improvement Com-
mittee, and ordered to be received, setting forth that the
endeavours of the committee to obtain a larger share of
influence under the Bill for the Local Management of
the Metropolis than was conferred by the Corporation
by that act had failed, the amendments introduced in the
House of Lords having been objected to in the Com-
mons as important alterations in rate clauses, which it
was not competent for the Upper House to make. The
proposed alterations were therefore waived by their lord.
ship., which was to be regretted, as the City paid a tenth
of the whole sum collected in rates.
Mr. ABRAHAM complained that hardly a suggestion of
the Corporation had been adopted by the Government,
This would show them in what state they would be when
the question of Corporate Reform was brought forward
by the Government, unless they were a little more united
in theirideas on that subject. (Hear.)
IMPROVEMENTS IN CLERKENWELL.
Mr. T. H. HALL also brought up a report, which
stated that the committee for improvements, to, whom,
in 1851, it was referred to carry into execution the act
completing the improvements authorised to be made by
the Clerkenwell Improvement Commissioners, &c., had
had their attention drawn to the state of the funds for
carrying into effect the provisions of the said act, and
found that the account has been overdrawn by the sum
of 6,7681. 3s. Bd. To repay the above, to defray other
charges, and continue the progress of the works, would
require a sum of 50,0001., and the committee recom-
mended that they should be authorised to take steps for
obtaining the said sum, upon the most reasonable and
advantageous terms that could be arranged.
Mr. Cox and one or two other members of the court
thought that it was not fitting to go into the money mar.
ket for so large a sum at the present high rate of interest,
the corporationrevenues being alreadyso largely charged.
Deputy HARRISON said the Government bad consented
to advance 80,0001. upon the coal tax, on condition that
the corporation carried out the great improvement under
consideration. When the new street was opened, the
value of the adjacent land would be largely increased.
The motion for the adoption of the report was put,
and carried unanimously.
THE OATH OT ABJURATION.
Mr. ANDERTON moved—" That by the total extinc-
tion of the family of the person who pretended to be
Prince of Wales during the lifetime of the late King
James, the oath of abjuration referring to such family,
and required to be taken by persons to enable them to
hold various offices under the Crown, is no longer neces-
sary ; and, for its being not only unnecessary, but wholly
inapplicable to exisiting facts, it is but too frequently re-
ceived with derision, and without that sanctity with
which oaths ought to be taken. That to abolish the
taking of the said oath petitions be presented to both
Houses of Parliament." Mr. Anderton said that the
law which at present rendered it necessary that persons
holding public offices should take the oath of abjuration
was a disgrace to the statute book. (Hear, hear.) The
corporation at all times had taken the lead in erasing
from the statute hook oaths which at all interfered with
the religious opinions of the people, and they had from
time to time, from 1828 down to the present period, pre-
sented petitions to both Houses of Parliament, praying
for the abolition of all oaths which interfered with men's
consciences,
Mr. ABRAHAM seconded the motion.
Mr. T. PARKER moved, as an amendment, the pre.
vious question.
Mr. BUTLER seconded the amendment.
On a division the amendment was rejected by 30 votes
against 6. The original motion having been put and
carried,

The following petition, for presentation Jo the House
of Commons, was then adopted
" The humble petition of the Lord Mayor, aldermen,
and commons of the City of London, in common council
assembled,

" Showeth, that such of your petitioners as are mem-
bers of the common council are, upon their annual elec-
tion, required, among other oaths, to take the oath
called The Oath of Abjuration,' which contains the
following declaration Ido solemnly and sincerely
declare, that I do believe in my conscience that not
any of the descendants of the person who pretended
to be Prince of Wales during the life of the late
King James 11., and since his decease pretended to be
and took upon himself the style and title of King of
England, by the name of James 111., or of Scotland by
the name of James VIII., or the style and title of King
of Great Britain, bath any right or title whatsoever to
the crown of this realm, or any other the dominions
thereunto belonging. That the oath of abjuration is also
required to be taken by other persons taking upon them-
selves public offices and appointments. That as there
has not been for many years any descendant (as your
petitioners believe) of the person who pretended to be
Prince of Wales during the life of the late King James
the Second, the requirement of the said oath is not ne-
cessary, and is so absurd that it can hardly be taken with
the seriousness indispensable from the sacredness of an
oath, whilst the purpose for which the oath was origi-
nally intended is better effected by the oath of allegiance
to the reigning sovereign, and a. reliance to the known
and tried loyalty and affectionate attachment of all
classes and sects of British subjects to the person and
family of our beloved Queen. Your petitioners there-
fore humbly pray that your honourable house will be
pleased to pass an act whereby your petitioners, and all
her Majesty's subjects, may be relieved from taking the
said oath of abjuration."
A similar petition was then adopted for presentation
to the House of Lords.
THE LATE VISIT OF THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF THE

FRENCH.
Deputy HARRISON moved " That a medal be struck itt
bronze to commemorate the late auspicious visit of their
Majesties the Emperor and Empress of the French to
the City of London, to receive. the address of the corpo-
ration."

Deputy °BEARD seconded the motion, which, after a
short discussion, was carried.
Mr. J. Wood moved "That the address of this court
to his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French be
ornamentally written, signed by the town clerk, pro-
perly emblazoned, framed and glazed, and transmitted
to his Majesty."
Mr. MuuttELL seconded the motion, which was put
and carried.
The court then adjourned.

M. SOYER'S FIELD KITCHEN.

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