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The Wonderful PE aFORMILG ELEPHINT3 for this week cnly !

TIIIS EVENING,

THE BATTLE of TILE ALMA!
After which, the varied SCENES in the CIRCLE,
Also, the Wonderful PERFORMING ELEPHANTS, whose asto-
nishing sagacity and indescrioable deveiopement of the reasoning*
f,►culty have been the theme of universal admiration,
To conclude with the MARRIED BAC iTIELOIt.

N.P. —A MORNING PERFORMANCE consisting of the New
Comic PentonMite and Scenes in the Arena, will take place on
TIIESD.A.Y, 26. h (Boxing Day) at Two o'clock.

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To- ioaa,,w • liii;raiLig 39 min.aiter 1 ftvening 4 atin.art. 2

TIUS WEATHER.—Smc Onto, Dec. 19.

I`IIZILMOMETTIR, 111 THE STIADE.
43—highest since noon yesterday.
36—lowest this morning and during the night.
39—this day, at noon.

BAROMETER, 29 82.
WIND, N.N.W.—Light breeze, with fine frosty sun
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LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1854.

The Foreign Enlistment Bill last night passed
the House of Lords, and received its first reading

in the Rouse of Commons. No division was

taken. The' objections that had previously been
so strongly presaed. by Lords DEBBY, ELLEN-
BOROUGH, and other Noble Lords, were repeated,
'kit they professed themselves altisited with the
former vote, and sought no further trial of
strength. It is, however, generally supposed
that the result might have been very different
had Lord DERBY availed himself of the proxies
placed at his disposal, and which it is rumoured
were sufficient to have swamped the bill. It was,
however, resolved, whether judiciously or other-
wise, to leave to the House of Commons the re-
sponsibility of dealing with the measure, which is
one of the most unpopular with all parties ever
brought under the consideration of Parliament.
This evening the matter will be fully discussed
by the Representatives of the people. They will
have to decide a serious question, one that is
even more obnoxious to the Liberal members
who generally support the Government than it is
to those ordinarily opposed to their views. Of
tie many who will undoubtedly support the bill,
a large proportion will do so with deep pain
and sorrow. They will esteem it, at the best,
a choice of evils—a most unpleasant and distaste-
ful alternative.

On the one side, there is a matter that strikes
at the very root of the British Constitution—that
is also derogatory to the honour and opposed to
the feelings and wishes of the people—we use the
term emphatically—of all classes in the United
Kingdom. On whatever other points they may
differ, there is, at least, a general concurrence of
opinion that England may be defended by the Eng-
lish, and that Queen VICTORIA requires no foreign
mercenaries to occupy the station which there are
many gallant fellows in what were once the three
kingdoms, but are now indissolubly united, ready
to occupy.

That the deep slight thus cast upon those who
have proved their bravery and efficiency in all
ages, and who sealed their testimony with
their blood at Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman
so recently must be universally acknowledged.
We want England for the English, not for the
"Germans." We do not desire the occupation of
our country, even under the most specious pro-
fessions—the most plausible promises. The
new troops are not wanted for defence. That
proposition has been altogether abandoned,
and a special clause been introduced
to prevent the possibility of such an outrage to
the feelings of every true-hearted native of the
British Islands, as the employment in our garri-
sons of men "alien in habits, in language, and
possibly in religion." But the slur still remains
of thinking that their aid is required—if not for
protection, at least for the vindication of the
wrongs. of those who had afforded ample
proofs of their power to act in their own behalf.
We place ourselves in the category of women,
children, the aged and infirm, by procuring cham-
Pions to fight the battles which we thereby admit
ourselves to be unable to contest. These are mat-
tern exciting thoughts that must rankle in every
British heart, and cause a bitter feeling to arise
against those who have brought the bill forward,
and press for its adoption.
On the other hand, and_we readily give place
to the arguments that have been urged on the
other side, it is exceedingly
desirable to avoid a
course that must involve the necessity of a dis-
Parliament and a
solution of
general election.
Of such a proceeding
a
The expense and turmoil
should, if possible, be avoided
at a time when
there is quite sufficient excitement without it in
the country. We swallow the leek, and, like the
renowned Pistol, gc we eat, and eke wo Swear."
Whether the difficulty be worth the expense at
which it must be purchased is a matter of taste. we
confess that, in our judgment, the price is too high,
even for the blessing of retaining the services of
Lord ABERDEEN at the head of affairs. This
night the question will be asked of the popular
branch of the Legislature, and ou the answer
then returned will depend whether the introduc-
tionof the sharp end of the wedge will be tolerated,
and that allowed which was refused to the third ,

WILLIAM in the very hey-day of his pride, at the
very moment when ho was the champion of a
uccessful revolution, and when the country was
torn by civil dissensions and intestine commo-
tions. We earnestly hope that their decision
will be such as to prove most conducive to the
honour and interests of this country.
Why not pay our gallant Allies, the French,
for a large extra number to settle the question 7
They have plenty troops, all ready, and brave as
they are willing.

We have it now on the authority of Lord
CLARENDON himself, that General HESS really did

obstruct the movements of OMER PACHA in the

Principalities.

" We received from tke Austrian

Government the fullest assurance that no difficulty

should be put in the way of the Turks in their
pursuit of the Russians into whatever part they
pleased, or in their crossing into Bessarabia ;
still great complaints arose, and hindrances were
put in, the way of 031 ER PACaA." Not only this,

but so serious were they, that England and
France immediately remonstrated in the strongest
manner. Austria met them with regrets, and
professed ignorance of the deeds of her Generals ;
and Count Buon graciously arranged for a mixed
commission at Vienna, consisting of himself and
one member for each of the Allies, to hear the
complaints, and to answer them satisfactorily.
Here, then, we have on the best evidence proof
that Austria kept Russia at ease on the Pruth,
and liberated the reinforcements, who, under the
inspiration of superstition and brandy, assaulted
our position at Inkerman. Lord CLARENDON is
now witness for the slain on the sth of November
that Austria was a contributor to the slaughter of
that day. It is, indeed, very questionable
whether, if Austria had not entered the Princi-
palities, Russia dare have moved sufficient troops
to the Crimea to have hazarded the attack at
Inkerman. True, the miserable defence is, that
" the Austrian representative at Constantinople,
and the Austrian Generals in the Principalities
were not acting in accordance with their in-
structions, but contrary to them." But can
Lord CLARENDON believe such diplomatic palaver?
Does he not know that the servants of such de-
spotic Governments as Austria are all trained to
be birched for Royal delinquencies, and to bear the
disgrace of disobedience to orders, when to publish
the orders themselves would discredit of incon-
venience their Governments ? Least of all, will
any one believe that the Court which could at the
same time order Jellachich to attack Hungary, and
yet denounce him to Hungary as a traitor, and even
order the Hungarians to attack him, could hesi-
tate for a moment to give orders to its generals,
which it would utterly disavow when they were
found to work inconveniently. Even Lord
CLARENDON was not prepared to deny that Aus-
tria " might have used her moans to a greater
extent." Verily, she might. Had she done her
duty in the Principalities Sebastopol would have
fallen before now ; and yet Lord CLARENDON
speaks of his persuasion, that Austria would take
the course pointed out by her " dignity, her
honour, and her interests !" The dignity and
honour of a perjured, evasive, shuffling, and cow-
ardly Government toe cannot understand. That
she will take the course pointed out by her in-
terests, meaning thereby the very quintessence of
the meanest selfishness, we are as confident as his
Lordship CATI be. The Treaty is waste paper. But
all calculations founded on whe.t. the narrowest
save-skin policy may dictate, are solid grounds in
predicting the course of Austria.
We cannot help connecting with Austrian re-
lations to the Principalities and to Inkerman, a
reference to the dogged secrecy of our Govern-
' went as to the sources whence the proposed
foreign troops are to be obtained. " Who—as
Lord ELLENBOROUGH asks—are these foreigners
to be?" We share the common curiosity, and we
have already uttered our surmises. Are the
Anti-Russian battalions of Hanover, or of Saxe-
Coburg itself, or the troops of Prussia, gl swing
with ardour for European independence, to be in-
vited to the Crimea ? Is there to be an indiscrimi-
nate enlistment of all whom their Governments
will allow to join us, and are we thus to form
some Legions of those whom they are afraid of
at home? Very convenient, perhaps, to throw
them upon Russian bayonets, and to send
them to Sebastopol under orders similar to those
which accompanied Udall. Or—are we going to
take some Austrian troops by a round-about pro-
cess into our pay, and if subsidies cannot be voted
openly, are they to be paid covertly ; money's
worth instead of money ? So confiding does our Ca-
binet seem in her dear Ally that we cannot doubt
Austrian mercenaries would be welcome enough.
One thing, however, forbids. These foreigners,
for some mysterious reason, are to come to Eng-
land—and the countrymen of HAYNALT well know
the terrors of Bankside, and of English draymeu.
Indeed we believe that it would be most im-
prudent to bring any foreign troops but Poles and
Turks, who need not come here to drill within
sight of our populace. The people will never
believe that German soldiers, and German officers
especially, have the courage or the inclination to
fight against the CZAR. To land troops of the
Russianised German States in this country would
be to put them in the pillory. Mr. GLADSTONE
we know to be chary of money, and unwilling
to get it in the old fashion ; but what with the
clever secrecy with which this bill was kept till it
dropped unexpectedly upon Parliamen;, and the
secrecy as is the intended source of foreign re-
cruits, it really does seem as if it was intended to
steal a march upon us, and to attain some object
to which publicity would be fatal. The Duko of
NEWCASTLE says that the secrecy is really not
towards the people of England, but • towards the
Emperor of RUSSIA. Well, a short time will
show us.

LIVERPOOL, Monday.—The United States' mail steam.
ship Atlantic, which put back on Saturday night with
damage to her rudderhea(l, started this morning at nine
o'clock for New York, after having repaired the rudder.
She carries out abuut 90 passengers and the usual snails.
This is the first departure of the Collins line under the
new arrangement, which, notwithstanding the with-
drawal of several of the Cunard ateamers tor transport
service, secures a weekly communication with North
America. The stoam-ship Baltic, with the New York
mails of the 9th inst., may be expected to arrive to-
morrow evening.
SOUTHAMPTON, Monday, Dec. 18.—The gigantic new
graving sock at this port was opened for general busi-
ness this morning, by the admission of the General Screw
steam-ship Crcesus, of 2,500 tons register. This large
ship was placed in her proper position, the pumping
engines started, and the whole of the water pumped out
in three hours, including a stoppage of 10 minutes. At
the commencement of the operation there was a depth
of 25 feet 4 inches of water. This dock, the largest :n
the world, is 400 feet long by 88 feet wide, and is
capable of taking the largest ships ever yet built.
Vessels of the class of the Crcesus can be admitted at
low water. It has been built at a cost of about 65,0001.,
under the superintendence of Mr. Alfred Giles, the engi-
neer of the Southampton Dock Company. The pumping
engines of 100-horse power, are constructed by Messrs.
Mandalay, Sons, and Field. It is anticipated that the
txigencies of war will send a large number of the largest
class ships of war to be overhauled in this dock, and in
the adjoining one, which has been some years in use,
te andheaen-v terms,di
nas unln :ktr able of receiving ships of 3,000 tons.
inEnLeontrecliv Evssrs.— This gallant officer, of whom
s
g
ePoafrrthe first
Newcastler has written in such glowing
tnisead to several of our Scotch families,
Viscount
Arbuthnott, a lineal des-
Mrs. Paterson Rollo, of ounntn Arbuthnott, and niece of
many
yooacrksb.urun,orwbitrhabwehroims
Ad.she
resided in this city for
miral Alexander Dundas Young Arbuthnott, Knight of
Charles 111. And San Fernando, who was one
of
out,
gallant midshipmen at Trafalgar.--Edinburgh, couninc.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, DEC. 18.

The Queen, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and
Prince Alfred, walked in the Home park this morning.
The Princess Royal and Princess Alice rode i❑ the
Riding-house.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went to London
by a special train of the South-Western Railway, for
the purpose of presiding at a meeting of the Royal
Commission for the Patriotic Fund. His Royal High-
ness was attended by Major• General the Hon. Charles
Grey, and Capt. the Hon. D. de Ros.
The Duke of Newcastle and Viscount Palmerston,
accompanied the Prince to London.
The meeting was held in the Palace at Westminster
at 11 o'clock. Present—His Royal Highness Prince
Albert, K.G., the Duke of Newcastle, the Earl of
Derby, Earl Nelson, Earl Grey, Viscount Palmerston,
Lord Rokeby, Lord Colchester, Lord St. Leonards, the
Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, the Hon. Col. Lindsay,
the Right Hon. Sir James Graham, the Right Hon.
Henry Lowry Corry, the Right Hon. Vernon Smith,
the Right Hon. Edward Ellice, the Right Hon. Sir
John Pakington, Sir Robert Throckmorton, Bart., the
Lord Mayor, Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., Mr. John
Gillibrand Hubbard, Mr. John Wilson Patten, and Mr.
John Ball, M.P. ; Captain Edmund Gardiner Fish-
; bourne, R.N., and Captain John Henry Lefroy, R.A.,
honorary secretaries.
The meeting broke up at two o'clock.
Prince Albert returned to the Castle at three o'clock.
The ViscOuntess Palmerston and Major-General Bar-
nard left the Castle to-day.

The Duke of Rutland has arrived at Stanton Wood-
house, Derbyshire, from Belvoir Castle. His Grace is
entertaining a select circle of friends.
The Duke and Duchess of Wellington have left town
for Strathfieldsaye for the Christmas holidays.
The Marquis of Salisbury leaves town to-morrow, for
Hatfield House, Herts. Lord Robert Cecil, M.P.,
leaves the following day for the family seat.
The Earl of Powis has left town for Powis Castle,
near Welshpool, where the Countess (Dowager) and the
Ladies Herbert are at present staying.
The Earl of Yarborough leaves Arlington•street to-
day, on his return to Brocklesby Hall, Lincolnshire.
The Earl and Countess of Errol have left Mr. and
Lady Agnes Duff's residence, on a visit to Viscount

and Viscountess Campden.
The Earl and Countess of Darnley have left Farrance's

Hotel for Cobham Hall, Kent. -
Viscount Wellesley has left the Clarendon for Strath.
fieldsaye, on a visit to the Duke of Wellington.
Lord and Lady Lyndhurst have left town for Tur

♦ille Park, near Maidenhead.

The Right Hon. Sir J. Pakington and Lady Paking-
ton have left Farrance's Hotel, for their seat, near
Droitwich.

Lord John Russell has purchased Bare Homage, the
seat of Sir John Littler, at Christchurch, in Hants.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston returned to
their residence in Piccadilly yesterday, from a visit to
the Queen at Windsor Castle.

Despatches from the Governors of the North Ame-
rican Provinces, and also from the Governor of the
Falkland Islands, were received yesterday at the Colo-
nial-office.

Sir Alexander Spearman had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official

residence in Downing-street.
Lord Goderich is detained from his Parliamentary
duties by the illness of Lady Goderich, in the south of
France.

A deputation from the parish of St. Dunstan, Step-
ney, consisting of the Rev. Carter Smith, Mr. Church-
warden Patten, Mr. Courtenay (solicitor), Mr.
Bathurst (vestry-clerk), and Mr. Ratcliff, had an inter-
view with Viscount Palmerston yesterday at the Home-
office.

REPRESENTATION OP EAST GLOIIOESTERSRIRE.—Mr.
R. S. Holford has addressed a letter from Genoa to the
electors of East Gloucester, announcing his intention to
stand for that division of tho county, upon Conserva-
tive principles. The Hon. Grantley Berkeley is spoken
of as an opponent to the above-named gentleman.
Colonel Cole opposed Lord Henry Loftus for Fer-
managh.
TILE RED JACKET.—This vessel will sail for Australia
on Saturday next from Liverpool. Letters intended for
her will be in time if posted in London on Friday. They
must be specially addressed " Per Red Jacket."
RODEN.—The letters from Rouen state that, although
the attendance of buyers in the market for manufac-
tures had increased, there was no material alteration in
prices.

- WINCHESTER COLLEGE.—THE GODDARD SCHOLAR.
SHIP, 1854. —George Herbert Moberly (scholar) was
elected on Saturday last to this scholarship. Exami-
ners—The Rev. Geo. Riding, M.A., fellow and tutor of
Exeter College, and Mr. Henry Fumeaux, M.A., fellow
and tutor of Corpus Christi College. Mr. Moberly is
the son of the head master, and stood second in the exa-
mination of last year for the same scholarship. We
subjoin the names of the next five of the competitors, in
their order of merit :—J. K. J. Hichens, H. B. Georgen,
W. F. Phillpotts, C. Mayo, F. R. Wickhann. The
w6.'14511, by Mx. Pinlip B. Duncan for the en-
couragement of the study of the mathematical sciences in
the school have been adjudged—the senior, to John K.
J. Hichens, commoner ; second in merit, Hereford B.
George, scholar, The junior, to Charles J. Manning,
commoner ; second in merit, Alexander D'Arbly Bur-

ney, commoner.
RUSSIAN RECRUITING IN SWITZERLAND.—Accounts
from _Berne state that a letter had been received by the
master arinourer of Zurich, from M. de Colette, the
Secretary of the Government at St. Petersburg, inviting
workmen and armourers from Switzerland to join the
Russian regiments. All expenses to their destination
would be paid, with a salary of about 401. per annum,
and they would be placed at the head of the workmen
in the regiment.
QUARANTINE NOTICE.--NEVIS, Nov. 28.—Fourteen
days' quarantine from date of departure is enforced here
upon vessels from Barbadoes, Grenada, St. Vincent, St.
Lucia, Trinidad, St. Kitt's, and Guadaloupe ; the last
infected with yellow fever ; the rest with cholera. Bar-
badoes, St. Lucia, and Grenada, will soon be declared
free from disease.
THE PENINSULAR MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 16.—
The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gib-
raltar, which should be despatched on Monday, the
18th, from Southampton, will not leave until the warm-
ing day (Tuesday) in consequence of the late arrival of ,
the Iberia from the Peninsular ports ; no extra ship
belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Company
being available, from the number of steamers engaged
in the transport service, the delay of the mails in this
instance is unavoidable.
PRODUCE MARKETS.—The weekly reviews from the
Anaakerdam and Rotterdam produce-markets mention
that business, owing to the close of the year, had be-
come generally limited. In coffee, however, the opera-
tions
had been slightly more active, and rates were well
supported. Sales of rice had caused a partial decline,
holders exhibiting less confidence. The transactions in
sugar had not been numerous, but the quotations were
firmly maintained.
QUARTZ ROCK MARIPOSA GOLD MINING COMPANY.
—At a meeting of this company, held yesterday, resolu-
tions were passed authorising the directors to raise
20,0001. on debentures, payable from first profits, for the
purpose of giving effect to the recommendations in the
report of Mr. J. A. Philips. One-fourth of the required
sum has already been subscribed by the Board and their
supporters.
DEPARTURES PROM TEE PORT OF LONDON.—The de-
partures for the Australian colonies during the week
have comprised fifteen vessels—six to Sydney, with an
aggregate burden of 4,491 tons ; three to Port Philip,
with an aggregate burden of 3,392 tons ; three to Ade-
laide, with an aggregate burden of 1,639 tons ; one tc
The
eheir rates total
of
capacity tons
; and
was orie to
consequently Launceston,
New Zealand, of 617 tons ; one to Hobart Town, of 494
2 t0n5.419 tons.
s .
freight continue to exhibit general heaviness.
SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.—The report published yester-
day, says a correspondent of a contemporary, respecting
the discovery by Dr. Kane's Arctic party of the frozen
bodies of Sir John Franklin and his men may be regarded
by some persons as entitled to credit ; but Dr. Kane's
expedition, having for its object the exploration of the
seas and lands north of Baffin's Bay, it is manifestly ab-
surd that letters should have been transmitted from the
expedition to Lake Superior, whence it appears that the
intelligence has been received. Although the Lake Su-
perior Mining News declares its belief in the report which
it publishes it is clearly unworthy of confidence.
THE hum CHUM/H.—Some valuable church prefer.
ments have just fallen vacant by the death, on Saturday
morning, of the Ven. Thomas Magee, Archdeacon of
Kilmacduagh, incumbent of St. Thomas's, in this city,
&o. The deceased was one of the sons of the late cele-
brated William Magee, Archbishop of Dublin, and, until
a recent period, was a prominent and active supporter
of the extreme Protestant party in this country.
Although " Grand Chaplain" of the Orange Institute,
and a strong political partisan, Archdeacon Magee, as
rector of one of the largest metropolitan parishes, was by
no means unpopular among those who most widely
differed from him In matters pertaining either to Church
or State. A kind, though eccentrio, manner disharmed
hostility in adverse quarters, and few of any religious sect
could be found who entertained other than a friendly
feeling towards him. His probable successor in the in-
cumbency of St. Thomas's parish—valued at nearly
1,0001. per annum—will, according to rumour, be the
Rev. Charles Stuart Stanford, incumbent of St.
Michan's.
THE QUEEN'S IJNIVERsrrY IN IRELAND.—The report
on the condition ant' progress of this institution, from
September, 1853, to August, 1854, has been presented
to both Houses of Parliament, by command of her
Majesty. The examinations for 1853 commenced on
the 29th of September, and were mainly conducted
by printed papers. Of those who presented them-
selves for examination for degrees, diplomas, and
honours eight were rejected. It has been decided
that the rejection of a candidate by any one examiner
is fatal, and cannot be overruled by a majority of the
rest. The Senate has not yet been able to arrive at any
conclusion as to the expediency or propriety of making
my modifications in the course cf education now pre-
scribed, as suggested by a committee of non-subscribing
Presbyterians and the professors of the Queen's College.
Ad eundem, degrees will be conferred, but the greatest
care is to be exercised in so doing. The examination for
the B.A. degrees includes Latin and Greek, modern lan-
-1
guages, and English literature, mathematics, logic, me-
taphysics, chemistry, natural philosophy, zoology and
botany, physical geography, jurisprudence, and political
economy. In Oct., 1853, 9 persons obtained degrees of
M.D., 11 degrees of M.A., 25 degrees of 8.A., 1 a de-
gree of LL.B., and 2 diplomas of law and agriculture ;
aa- persons obtained honours in the various departments.
of study.