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London, England, 1865-11-15 00:00:00

THE SUE, LONDON WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, 1865.

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ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-
GA it DEN.
(Opera Company, Limited.)
FIRST NIGHT OF IDA,
TIII i EVEN G Ibe produced a new opera, the music
by air. ll,nry Leslie, the Herat() by .T. Palg, aye Simpson,
Esq., entitled I1)A, with new scenery, resses, and aPPoint-
malt s. Ida of tla:nield, Mdfle. Ida Gilliess ; Greta, Madame
Em fa Heywood (her fir-t appearance this season ; Baron
Adrian of flainfeld Mr..l. G. Patey ; Baron Langzsopt,
Henry Corri ; Damian, Mr. A Cook ; Hildebrand, Mr. E.
Dussek ; Eric, Mr. C. Lyall; Rudolf, Mr. NV. 11. Cummings
(his first appearance on tne stage).
Conductor, air. Alfred Mellon.
Tq conclude with the Grand Ballet, GITTA LA BAL-
LERINA. Mdlle. Duchateau ; Mdlles. alontero, Carey,
Porelli, and Pancaldi; Mr. Harry Payne and M. Despl .ces.
Supported by 48 Ladies of the Corps de Ballet.
Commence at half-past 7.

pHEA:TRE ROY AL, DRURY-LANE.--
Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton.
TINS EVENING the performances will commence with
the 'Farce of HUSBANDS BEWARE. Mr. a Belmore ;
Misf Hazlewood, Miss It. Leclerc% &e.
After which, Shaks „ere's Tragedy of KING JOHN: Messrs.
l'heeps, James Anderson, T. Swinbourne, Raynor. G. Bel-
more, E. Phelps, C. Harcourt; Miss Atkinson, Mrs. 41.
Vandenhoff, Mrs. Hodson, &c.
Commence at 7.

rrillEAT,lll; ROYAL, HAYMARKET._
_a: Sole LeS4Ce and Mans.,;;er, Mr. Buckatone.
TU.'S EVEINING, THREE WEICKS Al4"1 ER MAR-
RIAGE. Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Chippendale, Miss Snowdea,
Melly Moore:
After which, USED UP., Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Howe,
Miss iseliy Moere, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam.
TO be followed by (3rd time) WHO KILLED'COCK
ROBIN ? Mr. Chippendale, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mrs. Charles
Illathews, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, &c
Cimcludint; with THE BALLET. Messrs. Arthur and
ChArles Leclerc}, Miss Fanny ii right, Miss C. Adams, and
the Corps de Ballet.

sidering the noble earl's performances of late years,
to say the least of it, betokens a very sanguine
temperament. They might depend upon it, said
Mr. BERKELEY to his Bristol audience, that Lord
RUSSELL and Mr. GLADSTONE were at the head
of a Reform Ministry or no Ministry, but they
laboured under great difficulties. lie proposed to
them a modification of the famous text, and would
say, " Rest and be watchful." " Give them a fair
chance ; don't push measures down their throats
before they were well settled in opinions. They
should not urge upon them anything." We would
rather say urge upon them the necessity of imme-
diate and comprehensive Reform, and do not let
them find in the indifference of the people an excuse
for that inaction and delay which is so fatally in-
viting.- Do not let the country be any longer deluded
by the pretence of a Liberal Ministry, who proposes no
Liberal measures, but shuffles off the great problems
of the day, from session to session, till the inhe-
rent difficulties are aggravated and the popular
temper irritated and soured. A crisis like the re-
construction of a Cabinet certainly affcrds the best
possible opportunity for the declaration of a new or
improved policy, and if Earl RUSSELL and Mr.
GLADSTONE are really the genuine Reformers they
profess to be, they will not lead men who refuse to
follow them in so vital a question. Let them have
a fair chance by all means, but they must carry
their colours in open day. The time is past when
Reformers need lay their plans in secret, and rely
on a successful outbreak 'or a guerilla warfare.
They are now a large and regular army, only like
too many other great armies, they lack competent

and earnest generals. We are disappointed, how•

ever, to find Mr. BERKELIT saying nothing about
the measure with which his name is more particu-
larly identified, and we cannot but think that he
might with advantage have shown the British Re-
formers that he was ready to fight for the Ballot
with undiminished vigour. .
Sir MORTON PETO'S speech was principally de-
voted, as was natural, to the politics of that great
country from which he has so recently returned.
Sir MORTON PETO, as might be expected, views
everything Transatlantic, en couleur de rose;
but his remarks were interesting from there
being no theoretical speculations, but the actual
opinions of a gentleman who had mixed with the
people whose acts he was criticising, and had seen
the country of whose future he spoke with so much
hope. It is encouraging to find that Sir MORTON
PETO'S view of Canadian politics is no less cheerful

than his opinions on the States. He went, he
tells us, through all the British North American
Provinces said he believed there was no part of
their own land in which loyally to the Queen, and

love of the institutions and the Government, were
more shown. Of the public institutions of Canada
Sir M. PETO spoke in high terms. In Toronto he
was specially delighted with the noble university and
with the schools. In the States he met with a most
cordial reception, and the vigorous commercial life
of the country naturally excited his admiration. No
man of business entering life should, he said, con-
sider his education complete until he has paid that
country a visit, for to understand America they
must go there. We cannot, of course, agree with
Sir MORTON PETO in his estimate of the origin of
the war. "It was from the very first a war of
principle. Slavery was at the bottom of it." This
is in direct contradiction to the express decla-
rations of the Northern leaders at the commence-

anent of the war, and is, moreover, quite in-
consistent with the conduct Of the Northern
States so long as the stream of Southern commerce
flowed through their ports. But at any rate, the
great evil, the terrible drag on the wheels of pro-

gress, is at last removed, and for that Englishmen
can only be thankful, from whatever motive the
struggle began, which ended the curse of slavery.

Sir M. VETO lost no opportunity of pointing out how
much better the IC, orth would legislate for the negroes
of the South than England had done for the blacks
of Jamaica, though the fault of our management in
his eyes seems to have been too great severity
instead of too great indulgence. Sir M.

PETO appears to forget that some ten
years ago, before the now fashionable American
worship set in, it was the custom of ultra-philan-
thropists to extol the virtues of England and decry

the wickedness of the States. Both extremes are
bad, and thoughtful Englishmen and Americans
would alike condemn them. The views of the
party and the sect to which Sir M. PETO belongs
are somewhat extreme in these matters, as they are
with reference to American politics generally. All

parties, however, must unite in echoing his hope
that the two great free peoples of the Eastern and

Western Hemispheres may be able to preserve

unbroken the ties of friendship and consanguinity,
and may unite their efforts to secure the triumph of
freedom And tolerance throughout the world.

Mr. BENTINCK is always a fluent speaker, and his
usual readiness did not desert him at Taunton, the
other day, when he responded to the toast of " The
Lords and Commons." In the first place, there was
some novelty in coupling the two Houses together,
and as the hon. gentleman did not belong to one,
and the other had as yet no definite existence, he
could only deal in platitudes and make objections
of a general nature. Still it was an amusing speech
on the whole, and contained some strictures on
political parties, which were more true than plea-
sant, and which his Liberal friends may not alto-
gether approve of. Mr. BENTINCK paid a tribute
to the "other place," as the phraseology
of Parliament compelled him to call the august
assembly of the House of Lords, and
declared that he had great confidence in it, and that
they who belonged to it " would always be found
to do their duty, and defend that constitution which
had made England great, glorious, and free." The
hon. member, in common with all those who have
addressed public meetings of late, alluded to the
death of Lord PALMERSTON, and expressed his
profound regret at the termination of that loner
and brilliant career. Although occasionally opposed
°
to the noble lord in polities, he had enjoyed the
honour of his friendship, and "any man who knew
Lord PALMERSTON was aware that a more hospitable
host, a more genial companion, or a kinder friend
never existed." Such tributes as these are
rife throughout the country, and .4
i i, may
be fairly said that in some respects the late Premier's
fame rests more upon his private character than his
public eminence. Many men have won great re-
nown in their fulfilment of the arduous duties of
state, and their successful exploits in the senate, but
few, if any, of our departed statesmen have retired
from the sphere of their earthly labours and left
such a train of glory behind them in their social
capacity as Lord PALMERSTON has done. It is
worthy of notice that the praise accorded to the
memory of the late Premier has been quite as
heartily accorded by those who were in opposition
to him as by those who followed his lead, and were
loss, in
at all events in some way connected with him.
national
concur
recording his death as a great
and
in
recognising these genial
qualities in the discharge of his high duties, which
rendered his career a popular and prosperous one.
It is most unfortunate for Earl RUSSELL that he
succeeds to so fortunate a statesman. No Minister
Who has swayed public affairs during the memory of

the present generation was so happy in his defini-
tions and so dexterous in his dealings as the late
lamented Premier, while of all our most valuable
public men none have made so many mistakes, and
failed so often to realise his grand projects,
as Earl RUSSELL. We find Mr. BENTINCK
following in the wake of many another
critic, and doubting whether the present
head of the Government could any longer "rest and
be thankful." There was much truth in the ac-
count which the hon. member gave of the profes-
sions which are so abundantly made by soi-disant
Liberals,',and which are so feebly put into practice
when the time comes for exchanging deeds for
words. In some respects this discrepancy
may account for the little progress made
during the years which a Liberal Government holds
office, and also for the excitement which then pre-
vails among its members in opposition. As for
supposed preponderance of numbers on the Minis-
terial side of the house, Mr. BENTINCK considers that
time may prove that all is not gold that glitters, and
that when " certain investigations," which always
follow a general election, have been conducted, no
great changes will be discovered between the
mechanism of the past and present Parliaments.
The many differences which.exist among the various
members of one party, as they style themselves,
were well shown up in this speech ; and there is also
a notable instance given of the tyranny which
sometimes prevails among their tactics, as in the
case of Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE and others, who were
ousted from their seats, because, to use Mr.
OSBORNE'S expressive phrase, " they were disobe-
dient to the crack of the Ministerial whip." Such
manceuvres may serve the purpose for a time, but
they cannot eventually profit those who employ
them.

The capture of STEPHENS has naturally created
great excitement, and it is to be expected that the
conspiracy, such as it is, will thus receive a de-
cisive check. The whole of the circumstances con-
nected with his seizure display a great spite and a
vengeful spirit on the part of the offenders, such as
show that they have been long brooding over the
matter in their minds, and were savage at the pro-
spect of failure. It is confidently asserted that the
American agents, who were staying in various houses
in Dublin, declared that if " STEPHENS were ever
taken blood would be shed," and they have cer-
tainly put their threat into execution. A more
cowardly resolve could not have been made, because
there was no shadow of excuse for the commission
of such violence, there was none of the excitement
of a contest, and thus shooting the police-officers
was a wanton act of cruelty to those who were
merely discharging their duty. It is fortunate that
the wounds received were not fatal, but the conduct
of those who fired at them is quite as heinous. It
is explained now that there was a very good reason
for the Government holding the investigation in the
Lower Castle-yard ; it was not for the sake of con-
venience or with a view to secure privacy that they
did so, but it was mainly Zor precaution, in order
that those attending the court should not run undue
risks. Some of the most useful among the police,
and some of the most important witnesses, were
threatened with assassination. One of the
police-officers declared that an attempt would be
made on his life if the inquiries took place in the

Head Police-court. It has been well determined
upon that some of the police are to be provided with
revolvers. It is to be hoped that this will serve as
a check to the attacks with which they are
threatened; and, indeed, it would have been a good

thing if this precautionary measure had been
resorted to before. If the promoters of the Fenian
Movement desire to make their memory infamous,
and to draw down upon them the obloquy of all
respectable persons, they cannot do better than have
recourse to the practice of nssnrainn.tion, which 1R the
most cowardly and detestable act that a human
being can commit. STEPHENS appears to have led
a very wandering life, and to be well educated, as
well as,an accomplished speaker. He came from
Kilkenny, where his father had a humble employ-
ment. During a disengaged time in Dublin young
STEPHENS frequented the Young Ireland Clubs,
where he had doubtless imbibed the revolutionary
notions that have brought him to such a disgraceful
consummation as the head of the Fenian movement
in Irelanel, and lovers of justice and peace will re-
joice at his capture; while they pity his infatuation
and lament his misguided course. Ile affords a
striking warning to all those who let their ideas of
independence and remodelling the world after their
own fashion lead them they know not whither, and
who end by achieving their own destruction and
ruining the hopes of their Mends and families.

Despatch of Baron Von Beust to Austria

and Prussia.

DRESDEN, NOv. 12.

The following is the text of the despatch ad-
dressed by Herr von Beust, Saxon Minister for
Foreign Affairs, to the Saxon Ministers at Vienna
and Berlin :

" Dresden, Oct. 11.
"On the occasion of my reception to-day of the
Diplomatic Body the envoys of Austria and Prus-
sia gave me information of a step which their Go-
vernments had taken towards the Senate of the
town of Frankfort, namely, that corresponding notes
had been despatched to their respective representa-
tives in the free town of Frankfort in which com-
plaint was urged against the excess of the recent
Assembly of Deputies, reference made to the pre-
viously proved connivance of the Senate, and stress
laid upon the necessity of preventing repetitions,
especially any further meeting of the Committee of
Thirty-six, and at the same time threats held out
of independent action by both Powers in case of
non-compliance. I did not consider it neces-
sary to enter upon a detailed discussion of these
document's. As far as regards the complaints
relative to the past, it is the business of the
Frankfort Senate to come to an understanding with
the two complaining Governments. But as re-
gards the possibility of independent action, it is a
question of an eventuality which does not yet pre-
sent itself. At the same time we do not wish that
the interpretation of consent should be put upon
our silence, but rather that, the opportunity oc-
curring, we reserve liberty of opinion and declara-
tion, all the more since we cannot overlook the de-
cisions contained in the Federal fundamental laws
respecting independent action in case of differences
between the members of the Confederation. That
the disadvantage of agitating meetings possessing
no constitutional basis being held at the seat of the
Federal Diet is dwelt upon in both documents is a
consideration, the right to make which we are by
fsix ar prised edshantiliatr, in the no means inclined to gainsay, although we are so
b laste ebeen
Illieavceollfrequentlyhaving
given
rise
to any
such protests on the part of the Governments of
Austria and Prussia. But further consideration of
the matter should have brought into notice the
fact
that Frankfort, as the seat of
the Federal Diet, is
perhaps subjected to an u •
nexceptional decision, and
that it certainly must be the affair of the Federal
Diet to decide what measures it might be proper
and
necessary to take or not towards the territorial Go-
vernment. The presence of the Austro-Prussian
garrison, which is also dwelt upon in both docu-
ments, is certainly a consideration worthy of notice,
and must be taken into account by that body, since
their presence is not based upon treaty or any other
relation between Austria and Prussia and the town
of Frankfort, but is rather founded on the close
connection of the seat of the Federal Diet with that
town.
" Your excellency will read this note to the
Minister of Foreign Affairs or his representative.
6 BET.7SV! _

LATEST INTEL LIUENGE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

BELGIUM.

OPENING OF THE BELGIAN CHAMBERS.
BRUSSELS, Nov. 14.

The session of the Senate for 1865-66 was opened
to-day. During the first sitting, at which the Duke
of Brabant was present, the Assembly proceeded to
the formation of its bureau.

The followilg were appointed :—President, Prince
de Ligne ; First Vice-President, M. d'Omalins
d'Halloy ; Second Vice-President, Baron de Tor-
naco ; First Secretary, Baron de Rasse ; Second
Secretary, Count Ludovic de Robiaua ; Assistant
Secretaries, M. de L'Abbeville and M. de Looz-
Corsivarem.

The Chamber of Deputies also met to-day under
the presidency of M. Lange, the senior member, but
no business having been set down in his order of
the day, the members separated immediately.

The Chamber will probably proceed to-morrow
to the nomination of its definitive bureau.

SWEDEN.

STOCKHOLM, Nov. 14 (Evening)

A change in the views of the nobility in favour
of the proposed reform of the Constitution has
taken place, and several members of the House of
Nobles, among whom is General Bjoernstjerna,
formerly Minister of War, have withdrawn their
opposition to the measure.

THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 15.

The steamship Ethiope, with the mails from the
West Coast of Africa, Teneriffe, and Madeira, arrived
here this morning. Her dates are :—Benin, Sept.
25 ; Cameroons, Sept. 20 ; Old Calabar, Oct. 2 ;
Fernando Po, Oct. 3; Brass River, 5 ; Nun, 5 ;
Bonny and Lagros, 8 ; Accra, 10 ; Cape Coast
Castle, 12 ; Cape Palmas, 14 ; Sierra. Leone, 21
Bathurst, 25 ; Teneriffe, Nov. 1; and Madeira, 4th
inst: She brings 3,530 oz. of gold dust, and
13,000 sovereigns in specie.
Business was unchanged at the different points at
which the Ethiope called.
At Lagos communication with the interior re-
mained closed.
Native wars prevailed at Sierra Leone.

lose 2 colonels, 2 lieutenant-colonels, 2 majors, 52
chefs d'scadron, 104 captains, and double the num—
' ber of lieutenants and sub-lieutenants. As to the
artillery, we do not know whether the suppressions
will bear upon the number of batteries or upon
whole regiments. We are also assured, and we
readily believe, that the Emperor's Government,
ever full of kindness for the army, in order to ren-
der so considerable a reduction less onerous to the
officers, is studying the means of ameliorating the
status of those affected by that measure who have
reached the limit of age, by securing to them as far
as possible positions in the civil service. The other
officers would naturally be placed on the books of
the regiments of their own arms, and would take
rank therein according to the vacancies occurring ;
but always under certain limits, and in a manner
that would not cut short all advancement. The
measure in question, when it shall have been com-
pletely executed, will present a saving of not less
than 50 millions in the War Budget, especially if to
these figures are added those resulting from a dimi-
nution of at least 6,000 or 7,000 horses."

An attempt at murder and a suicide have just
taken place in the streets of St. Quentin (Aisne).
A smith, named Lamy, on quitting the prison where
he had been confined a fortnight for illtreating his
wife, waited for the woman at a spot where he knew
she was about to pass, and discharged the contents
of a pistol at her, after which he blew out his own
brains. The woman, although wounded in the
cheek, is likely to recover.
The Military Tribunal of Nantes last week

tried a soldier, named Besassier, of the 86th
Regiment of the Line, charged with having been
found asleep when on duty as sentinel, and with

having disobeyed and threatened his superior
officers. It appeared from the evidence that on
the night of the. 26th September the corporal of
the guard at the central prison of Fontevrault
did not receive the usual reply from one of the sen-
tinels, and on going to ascertain the 'cause found
the prisoner fast asleep on the ground, and his mus-
ket leaning against the wall. When wakened by
the corporal, the prisoner started up, and used
abusive language, for which the corporal at once
ordered him two days' arrest. Irritated by this, the

prisoner became still more abusive, and refused to
return to the guard-house when ordered by the
sergeant, who had now arrived. He also wrested
his musket from the hands of the sergeant, and
threatened to bayopet or shoot any one who ap-
proached him. To avoid bloodshed the sergeant
and his men left the prisoner to finish his watch.
In due time he was relieved and returned to the
guard-house, when he was immediately put under

arrest and committed for trial. All these facts

having been proved, the prisoner in his defence
pleaded that he was intoxicated at the time, and
knew not what he did. The Tribunal, considering
intoxication no excuse, found the prisoner guilty,
and condemned him to five years' hard labour, and
to pay all the costs of the prosecution.
The armour plated division of the Atlantic, com-
manded by Rear-Admiral Baron de la Ronciere Le
Noury, has arrived at Cherbourg.
On the Emperor Napoleon's recent visit to Are-
nenberg, in Switzerland, he admitted to an audience
an engineer of Constance named Klein, who manu-
factured, in 1835, according to his Majesty's orders,
the first rifled cannon. The Emperor has since
conferred on him a large gold medal, accompanied
with an autograph letter.

We have to announce the death at Paris of Prince
de Castelcicala, Duke de Calvello, formerly Ambas-
sador of the King of Naples to the French Court,
and at one time Viceroy of Sicily. The death is also
announced of M. Le Clerk, senior of the Faculty of
Letters, member of the French Institute.

M. Jules Favre is said to be a candidate for the
seat in the French Academy rendered vacant by the
death of M. Dupin.

BOURSE, Nov. 14.—Two o'Clock. English
Consols are telegraphed with a rise of / per cent. ;

nevertheless this encouragement has had no effect
on the market here. Stocks and Shares are consi-

derably weaker, and quoted at lower rates. Threes,
for the Account, are doing at 68f. 40c.—a decline of
123 c. Italian Fives at 65f. 20c., with a similar de-
cline. Credit Mobilier Shares have receded Gf. 25c.

Spanish Mobilier, 2f. 50c. Comptoir d'Escompte
2f. 50c. Immobiliere sfr. Northern Railway Shares
2f. 50c. Lyons lf. 25c. Lombard 2f. 50c. Austrian
lf. 23c. baragossa, 7f. 50c. Romans 2f. 50c., and
North of Spain 2f. 50c. Three o'Clock The
market has been still more depressed towards the
end. The final quotations were as follow :

4} per Cents 9O JO
Do. and month —

3 per Cents. 6B 35
Do. end month 6B 32i
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month

Bank Shares 3700

Credit Foncier 1325
Italian Loan - 65

Do. end month 65 15

Ditto Threes —
Roman 74
Mexican Loan —

Do. Bonds 321 25
Russian -
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred

Acct.

820
--
- ... 1098 75
- - 827 50

- - ... 567 50
- ... 532 50
- - ... 516 25
- - 211 25
- - 411 25
- - ... 405 -
-- - 183 75
- - ... 232 50

167 50