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London, England, 1856-12-06 00:00:00

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87%
32
29%

57%
289
17134

27%
12
682

Shrewsbury and Birmingham ......
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South Eastern•• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• ••
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Ulster.
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York and Newcastle, and Berwick &
York and North Midland & Leeds..

FOREIGN:

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Lyons and Mediterranean ..........
Montereau and Troyes ....... •
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1,540
2,861

842
2,138
15,661
6,457

4,125
1,407
956
655
369

1,870

Rouen and Havre ............ ... ..
Western of France .... ..... ........

1,223
2,523
771
1,973
15,3C9
5,521

3,470
1,404
1,241
514
326

1,642

37,963

41,981

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The non-commissioned officers belonging to tbelfg--;. ft 6''' . ~:‘N,..,,,,s
Hussars who have been transferred to the Cape me4str--"4,N,-,
Rifles have received an order to embark at Deptferet ...,,isk.6 ... Itir,
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Good Hope. The non-commissioned officers selected -0 pp:Z.l
attached to the 12th depot at Chatham. • ttieee . e-*"44e Yesterday the Commissioners from Chelsea frospital,'' ti, -2'
who have been engaged at Chatham in medically inspect- a S
lag those sick and wounded troops who were considered
unfit fer further service, concluded their inspection of
1 upwards of 200 men, the whole of whom were ordered
to receive their discharge. The Commissioners were Dr.
D. Maclachlan, Deputy-Inspecter-General of Hospitals,
and Mr. A. Moorhead, secretary of Chelsea Hospital,
assisted by Dr. J. R. Taylor, C.B.
The' officers belonging to the Chatham division of
Royal Marines gave a soiree last evening in their niess-
rn m, which was elegantly fitted up for the occasion.
Th - invitit'oer, which were very numerous, included the
principal officers of the navy, the Provisional Battalion,
and the Royal and East India Company's Engineers,
and the heads of the public departments.
The paddlewheel steamsloop Salamander, 6, Comman-
der G. T. Mecham, sailed from Plymouth on Thursday
fcr Woolwice.
The screw -teamship Cornwallis, 60, was commissioned
in Devonport on Wednesday by Captain Powell.
The troopship Belleisle, 6, is ordered to be brought
forward at Devonport for commission.
It having been arranged that the dockyard and marine
departments of Woolwich should undergo the Admiralty
annual inspection yesterday, Sir C. Wood, First Lord of
the pAdmiralty, accompanied by Rear-Admiral Peter
Richards, Captain Sir B. Walker, K.C. 8., Surveyor of
the Navy, and Colonel Green, Superintendent of the
Civil Engineer Department, arrived at the dockyard at
12 o'clock, and were received in their official capacity by
Commodore J. Shepherd, superintendent of the yard ;
Mr. M'Donald, master attendant ; Mr. Vintner, store-
keeper; Mr. A therton, superintending engineer; and Mr.
Rice and Mr. Large, master aed assistant shipwrights
of the yard. A detachment of the Royal Marine Light
Infantry, stationed for the duties of the dockyard. under
the coin in, nd of Captain T. Page Casey, R.M., turned
cut and pe Bents(' :arms ton th- ir Lordships' arrival.
They proceeded to a careful inspection of the factory
departments, through the building slips and basins, and
ov, r the dockg ; examined the internal arrangements
rapidly progressing in the new seamen's hospital the Ca-
ledonia ; and stibsequ, ntly inspected the remaining de-
partments and passed through the abeam sawmills, which
are receiving new boilers ; and having examined the im- '
proved ine'bod recently introduced for the more speedy
p syrnent of the labourers, their lordships were conducted
by Mr. Edwin Bernays, clerk of the works, to the site
in preparation for erecting the new church in the dock-
. ard. They thence repaired to the Royal Marine Bar-
racks, v‘ le, re they were received by Major-General Sir
W. F. Williams, Commandant of the Garrison ; Col. J.
•
T. Brown, Commandant of the Royal Marines ; Col. J.
Hawkins. Lieut.-Col. Nolloth, Lieut.-Col. Fleming, Lieut.
Gil. Walsh, and the several officers of the division. Im-
mediately on their alighting the band of the corps struck
up the national anthem, the troops presented arms, and
then formed into a brigade of columns in line and quar-
ter distance, mustering upwards of 1,700 men. The
ranks were then opened, when their lordships com-
menced the inspection of the lines, examining the indivi-
dual bearing and accoutrements of the men, and inspect.
ing their kit. They then proceeded to the ship-gun drill
battery, under the superintendence of Capt. M'Carthy, ,
where a series of intresting manoeuvres with 32-pounder
and heavy pivot-gins were ordered. Their lordships
then proceeded to the inspection of the barrack appoint-
ments, books, and official departments, and returned, as
they arrived, in two private carriages to London.
The ordnance steamer Balaklava, W. Pellat, master,
has arrived at Woolwich, laden with Russianshot, own-
mts,ariat stores, bags of shot and shell, machinery, tar-
paulins, &c., landed at Plymouth from the transports
Gondola and Triumph.

Official information has been received at Woolwich to
the effect that the duties of the transport department
are to be referred bac;, to the charge of Mr. Grant, Con-
troller of the Victualling Department, as that establish-
ment originally stood prior to the war.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :
Mate—A. M. Norman, to the Trident.
Clerk—W. H. Whiohelo, to the Pembroke ; D. Mar-
tin, to the Cornwallis..
Assistant Clerk—Robt. W. Parish, to the 11fander.
Assistant• Paymaster —C. W. M‘Dermott, to the
Mseander.

THE CATASTROPHE ON BOARD THE ROYAL
WEST INDIA MAIL STEAMER PARANA.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY NUM.
The inquiry into the circumstances attending this de-
plorable accident, which resulted in the almost instan-
taneous death of four unfortunate men employed in the
stokehole and serious i❑jury to several others, was re-
sumed to-day before Mr. Edward Colwell, coroner for
the borough of Southampton, and the jury assembled on
the 27th ult.

Captain Robertson, R.N., Surveyor-General of the
Marine Department of the Board of Trade, again at-
tended to watch the case on behalf of the Government.
Captain Mangles, chairman of the Royal Mail Steam-
packet Company ; Captain Vincent, the superintendent ;
Mr. Miller, chief engineer ; Captain Bevis, commanding
the Parana, and other officials were present.
William Smale was the first witness called. He said he
was a fireman on board the Parana, and was in the stoke-
hole at the time of the explosion of the starboard forward
bAler. The fires had been drawn from the other three
boilers, and were very low under this one, which was
being fired with cinders drawn from the other fires by a
stoker named Feltharn. At the moment of the accident
witness was engaged preparing to take off the mudhole
door from the port forward boiler, in consequence of a
leakage that had been discovered. The explosion at first
sounded like a light clap of thunder, and then a louder
crushing noise followed. Witness was not injured by the
accident. As soon as witness heard the first sound of
something wrong he ran into the after stokehole, a die•
tance of about 12 yards. The steam overtook him, but
did not scald him. The fires of all the boilers had been
kept up pretty smartly during the afternoon. Witness
could form no opinion as to the cause of the accident.
The Coroner asked if the stoker, Feltham, was able to
be examined.

Capt. Vincent said he was not. They had sent for him,
but he was unable to get his clothes on yet.
Another stoker, named Paddington, in whose deposi-
tion there was no important fact, having been examined,
Mr. Edward Tate, second engineer of the Parana, was
recalled and examined by Captain Robertson—l was in
the engine-room about two minutes before the explosion
occurred. I left for the purpose of giving one of the
engineers some instructions as to what he had to do to
one of the cranks. I had been left in charge by the
first engineer. About four minutes before I left the
engine room I shut down the stop valve of the port
after boiler. I did so because the water and steam in
that boiler had been blown off. Previously to that the
steam could have passed from the starboard forward
boiler into the port after boiler. My only reason for
shutting the valve of the port after boiler four minutes
before the accident was that that boiler was the last
blown off, and that it was not ready to have the commue
nication valve shut previously. There was no special in-
structions to keep strong fires up during the afternoon.
The Foreman—Do you think the boiler exploded at a
pressure of 121 b.?
Witness—l should scarcely think it did. I should hay*
thought it quite safe at 171 b. pressur, .
Westt superin-
tendent Foreman—Do you think it exploded at 211b.1
he ult. I 26th
Witness—No, I should think it would be safe at from
i withia Im am
ail
the boilers
of le
201 b. to 251 b. I believe it would stand that pressure.
well Mr. G. Mills was next called. He said
aetkheet
Parana,
Company.eegin
and previouslye I
er of the
am
Royal
to
acquainted
consi-
dered them to be in a good and safe state. I have since
made a personal examination of them, f •
from which I be-
lieve I have been able to form an
opinion
cause of the occurrence. I believe the
e as to the
accident arose,
in the first instance, from the breaking
stays inside the boiler. These
of
the
number, and being all broken ays
were sixteen in
the steam must have
been thrown entirely upon the shell. I cannot account
for the breaking of the stays. The ordinary pressure
which the Parana's boilers
would be about 141 b. The would have to bear
beat 8
self-
acting at 161 b., and I should safety-valve would
have considered the boilers
from safe with a pressure of 2olb to 301 b.
Captain Robinson—Havieg heard all the evidence
taken before the coroner, can you in any way account
for the accident ?
Mr. Mills—As the accident has occurred I think the
causes assigned by Mr. Summers perhaps account
for it. Had it may
_.
not occurred, I could not have believed.
it possible.
After the examination of several ether witnesses,
The jury retired to consider their verdict, and, after,
being closeted for a long period, the foreman announced
the following as the unanimous finding of himself and
brother jurors
" That in the opinion of this jury the deceased per-
sons, Daniel Knowlton, Alfred Rogers, John Pothecary,
and James Hobbs, came to their deaths by scalding,
consequent upon the aceidental bursting of the star-
board forward boiler of the Royal West India Mail
steamer Parana during the trial of an experiment as to
the superfluous heat in the ' up-take of that boiler ; and,
although the jury are not prepared to apply censure to
any parties under the circumstances of the safety-valve
having been open one-eighth of an inch, and being, as far
as the evidence shows, free to open at 161 b. pressure to
the square inch, as also that the steam gauge so shortly
previously to the explosion had indicated a pressure of
only 121 b., yet they cannot suppress their conviction
that by a great amount of caution the accident 'Was of a
preventible character, and therefore they consider it is to
be regretted that it was not by some unusual foresight
13 lu
avoided. The jury desire to add that, in their o i '
the evidence clearly proves that a single safet y-va cl" !fk
applied to one boiler is not sufficient protection
to life
and property (even though such boiler may or may not
be in connection with other boilers) when the engine is
not consuming the steam ; and that it is a grave ques-
tion with the jury whether or not saf t
e y:valves are at
Present constructed on sound and effective principleee
which question induces the jur toywa doubt whether the
valve of this particular boiler
geeted by some of the witnesses theis'hung up' as as
believ-
ing that it was insufficient in dimensionsdefective and in principle. Lastly, the jury desire to express their
conviction of great confidence in the directors and.
officers West
of the Royal
India Mail Steanipachet
Company, and of their general arrangements for securirtz
perfection of machineand guarding •t-
vy
by having all the details of their boilers and cativo.'
in excellent order before •
going to sea, as s.e, . tfirii.1 i
proved iu the course of the prenat inquiry. ' '

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IS ABEL
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By J. C. JEAFFRF.SON,
Author if "Crewe Rise," &c,
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Great Marlborough-street.

ELBOW-HOLD SPANISH GAROTTE
SYSTEM.

- -
Whereas—, The wives and families of several workmen
have been the past week cruelly distressed by their husbands
being thus " served out" (after receiving their Saturday
night's wages) by the swell detectives " as ticketed " in plain
clothes. It becomes imperative that every father of a family
do, after dark, insert into the heels of their shoes or boots a
thin horizontal-char'd-shoulder'd wedge-peg, projecting -3/4 of
an inch—the use of which, for a spur kick-up, will produce a
frightful wound, in such wise as to make " the Elbow
Garotteer" remember the old song of " One peg one hole."
PETER BASQUET DE BRANT.*
CHARLES " " ACKERLEY, J.P.
*By 3-4 Viet. eh. 35—The laws pivot Indian Chief of Ame-
rica's legislation (art. 1, sec. 3, U.S., 1774-'76, for the world).
as the living " Dummy of the priestcraft's possession of his
3,000/. per ann.—now under death-wait persecution to wife
and family, now six years since "the Queen's Ministers' tread-
mill order for workhouse drill, 1851"—had not Providence
rescued him by Captain Ackerley's intervention and support
at No. 6, Princes-street, Fitzroy-square.
This Indian Constable of Britain, having been called out to
carry the King's criminal writ under the ASHBURTON Commis-
sion, to avoid any question of its legality, by alien squatters
on the soil of America—consequent thereon—his colleagues
being all dead—he alone represents the spirit of the law of
equal A B C jurymen's rights, as that of all mankind,—as
given in the Shipping Gazette of 3d Nov., 1856.
Sineveh's•c/. CentauFian Anatomy-ken—.
No. 5, Swallow-street.
Pd. 20s.

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preferred. Any party .unused to letting would find the
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Address, with full particulars, T, 104, Strand.

TIFER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—
M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. Last
Week but One.—The New Grand French Quadrille.—LA
TRAVIATA.—Madame Elisa Poma (prima donna from the
Grand Opera at Milan), will have the honour of making her
first appearance.
Programme for VHS EVENING (Saturday, Dec. 6):—
Part I.—Overture, Ruy Blas—Mendelssohn (received with
great applause at the Mendelssohn Festival) ; Polka, Flirta-
tion—Jullien ; The Andante, from Spohr's Symphony, The
Power of Sound —Spohr ; Solo, Cornet, the River and the
Star (the third time of performance), written expressly for
and performed by Herr Koenig—Angelina ; Polka, My
Mary Ann (the 24th time)—Jullien ; Cavatina, " Ah, Taal
giorno " (Semiramide) Madame Eliza Poma—Rossini ; French
Quadrille (25th time), with variations for flute, flageolet,
oboe, clarinet, ophicleiJe, and cornet, performed by MM. D 9
Polley, Do Yong, Collinet, Lavigne, Sonnenberg, Hughes, and
Koenig ; Finale ; Partant pour la Syrie, Vivo l'Empereur—
Jrllien
;
Part 2.- Opera, Grand Operatic Selection from Verdi's opera
of " La Traviata," with solos by Herr Koenig, MM. Lavigne,
De Folley, Le Hon, De tong, Sonnenberg, Duhem, Hughes;
Quadrille, The English, with solos by MM. Collinet, De
Folly, Sonnenberg, and Koenig—Jullien ; Ballata, " Per non
istare" (Marie de Rohan) Madame Eliza Poma—Donizetti ;
Valse, Georgette —D'Albert ; Solo, Violoncello, M. De-
munck. jun.—Servais; Galop, Eglinton—Koenig.
Conductor—M. Jullien. To commence at 8 o'clock. Prices
of admission :—Promenade, Is. ; Dress circle, 2s. 641. ; private
boxes, 10s. 6d., £lls., and upwards. Private boxes to be
secured of Mr. Nugent, at the box-office of the theatre ;
at all the principal libraries and musicsellers'; and at Jullien
and Ca 's, 214, Regent-street.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRUM LANE.—
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
Acting Manager, Mr. C. Mathews. Stage Manager, Mr. R.
Roxby. Scenic Artist, Mr. W. Beverley.
ITALIAN OPERAS, COMEDY, and BALLET, every Evening
during the Week, at Old Play-house Prices.
Upper Gallery, is. ; Gallery, is. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Upper
Boxes, 3s. 6d. ; First Circle, ss. ; Dress Circle, 7s. ; Stalls,
10s, 6d._; Private Boxes, one, two, three, and four g,ninels.

Last Night of the Italian Op-ra Company
Powerful band and complete chorus, under the direction
of Signor Li Calzi.
THIS EVENING, her Majesty's Servants will perform
(last time), LES HUGUENOTS. The principal roles sus-
tained by Madame Grisi, Mdlle. Sedlatzek, Madame Chierici,
and Madame Gassier; Herr Reichardt, M. Gassier, M.
Kinni, Signor Gabnasi, Signor Mariani, Signor Gregorio,
Signor Mattoni, Signor Calamo, Signor Albicini, and Herr
Formes.
After which, COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Plumper (his
original character), Mr. Charles Mathews. Other characters
by Mr. A. Younge, Mr. Templeton, Miss Balmer, and Miss
E. Wadham.
To conclude with a Ballet, in which Mdlles. Osmont will
appear
Boxes, stalls, and places can be secured of Messrs.
Craver, Beale, and. Co., Regent-street, and at the box-office
of the theatre, from 10 till fi. To prevent disappointment
an early application is solicited. The Free List will
be entirely suspended.
Doors open at hilf-past 7, commenoe at R.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
THIS EVENING, will bo performed,
in consequence of its great success, THE SCHOOL
FOR, SCANDAL, in which Mr Murdoch will appear as
Charles Surface; Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. Chippendale ; Sir
Benjamin Backbite, Mr. Buckstone ; Crabtree, Mr. Compton;
Joseph Surface, Mr. Howe ; Sir Oliver Surface, Mr. Rogers ;
Moses, Mr. Clark ; Sir Harry (with a song), Mr. W. Farren ;
lady Teazle. Miss Reynolds ; Mrs. Candour, Miss Talbot ;
Lady Sneerwell, Mrs. Poynter ; Maria. Miss E. Sabine. After
which, the successful new farce, A FAMILY FAILING,
in which Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. Chippendale. and
_Kiss Blanche Fane will appear. With (for positively the
last night). the ballet pantomime of THE STAR OF
ANDALUSIA, by Perea Nena and her unrivalled Company
of Spanish Dancers. To conclude with THE DUMB BELLE.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADEL PHI.
Real Success. Great Adelphi Hit !
THE ELVES, a Grand New Fairy Ballet Extravaganza, in
which Madame Celeste will appear as the Statue Bride every
evening.—Revival of the Mysterious Stranger, in which Mr.
Wright and Madame Celeste will sustain their original cha-
racters.—THlS EVENING will be performed the celebrated
d:ama of THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. Messrs.
Wright, Paul Bedford, C. Selby, Parselle, Garden: Mesdames
Celeste, Wyndham, Keeley, Arden. After which, with new
scenery, dresses, machinery, and appointments, a new grand
fairy ballet extravaganza, °ailed THE ELVES, or the Statue
Bride, founded on the grand ballet spectacle, now perform.
ing with unexampled success at the Theatra Imperiale de
l'Opera at Paris, undec the title of Les Elfes. Principal cha-
racters by Madame Celeste, Misses Wyndham, Mary Keeley,
Kato Kelly, Chatterly, Arden, Messrs. Weght, Paul Bedford,
C Selby. Le Barr, ccic. Concluding with BETTY MARTIN.
Miss M. Keeley.

LYCEUM THEATRE ROYAL
Lessee, Mr. C. Dillon.

Production of " The Cagot."
THIS EVENING (Saturday), will be performed a new
and original English play. in five acts. entitled THE CAGGT;
or, Heart for Heart. Supported by Messrs. Dillon, Stuart,
Barrett, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Weston, and the entire strength
of the company.
After which the extraorlinary Troupe of Bedouin Arabs
will go through their sarprising performances.
Followed by THE DE A.D SHOT. Louisa Lovetrick, Mrs.
C. Dillon Hector Timid, Mr. J. L. Toole.
Concluding with a Ballet, by Miss Rosina Wright and the
Coryphees.

'ROYAL PRINCESS'S _THEATRE.
THIS EVENING and dnring the week
will be presented Shakspeare's play of A MIDSUMMER
NIGHT'S DREAM.
After which will be Drodneed a new petite comedy, in two
acts, called OUP. WIFE ; or, The Rose of Amiens. pal M Princi-
Murray and C. Leclereq essrs. Ryder, Harley, Fisher ; Misses characters by
Mendelssohn's celebrated overtime to A Midsummer
Night's Dream will commence at 5 rainntes before 7.

0 TRAND THENTRE._"------
pvrip.—THlS EVENp4 /19:zer, Jr. T.
C will he
BE LPHEGOR (Travestie). me rwrforr A I
1 oward, Clarke,
Maim a Lee,,... • a.,
and Mesdames Cuthbert, Woollidge: E.
Dionin. Jacobs, and Willy
Neville, G.
THE CAPTAIN'S NOT A MISS. Messrs j
Lee. Clarke, and Mesdames Fitziuman, Cnthb.erNt
Wilton. Cuthbert, and E.
After which, a new farce, OVER THE WAY. 34
l och ‘ Mu:lames Wonliilge and Wilton. r. Kin.
And THE QUEEN'S MUSKETEERS, serieut
Cuthbert ; Corporal, Miss Fitzinman ; Rank and File,hiss
M
numerous Auxiliaries, who Parade and Drill every evening,
by
Commence at Seven. Stalls, :Is. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, 1 ;
Gallery, 6d.

"DOYAL SURREY THEATRE
JLeggeos, llegqrg. SitPDherd anti Croswiek. •
THIS EVENING, BIRDS OF PREY. Charles Renne-
pont. Mr. Craswick.
After which, A BLOW IN THE DARK. Viltrac, Mr.
Shepherd (his original part).
To conclude with THE OUTCAST BROTHER.

THEATRE ROYAL, SADLER'S-WELLS.
Under the M*nagement of Mr. Phelps.
THIS EVENING. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW.
Christopher Sly, Mr Phelps • Pctruchio, Mr. H. Marston ;
Katharine, Miss Atkinson
After which, WHERE *THERE'S A WILL THER,E'S A
WAY.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lestgee, Mr. Alfred Wigan.THlS EVENING WIVES AS THEY WERE AND
MAIDS AS THEY ARE, Messrs. Addison, G. Vining ;
Mrs. Stirling, Misses Swanboron.h and Herbert.
And the new farce, JONES THE AVENGER. MessY.
F. Robson, J. Rogers, and Miss Marston.
Commence at half-;.i.ist Seven.

el ANTER-Bußv HAT
N ,_I OPEN EVERY. Nyestminster-road.—
EVEN ING.—The follow-
i„ r company of Vocalists are
popular
Selections from all the
GI ees, Duets, ,te., via.: _xis, E '')€,T.lls, Madrigals, Choruses,
M iss Brunell, and Miss Summers . Mr,earee, Mrs. J. Caulfield,
ponie
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Masters Austin,
S. Jones, J.
Js mghmans, It. Grover, T. R„in'e, TJ. Caulfield, Herr F.
B: szrker, W. Melling. and P.
E. !tt, and Corri ; Mr. Sam Cowell and E„i Austin, Ben
rte, J. Harrowny, E. A. ; harmonium. 'Tr a e km' 3" . Piano-
di roctor, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at 45. e.,
Caulfield, jun. ;
ei Wily. Suppers, &e., until twelve o'clock 9 o'clock pre
the usual Vocal Entertainment, the celebratedin addition to
MINOTRELS will appear in costume at Nine and SPANISH
and Eleven
o'clock., Every Evening, and sing some of their favourite selec-
t ons

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A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
ilk Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.
THIS EVENING (First Week), MACBETH, with Eques-
trian Illustrations by Mr. W. Cooke's Horses, trained by
him. Macbeth, Mr. James Holloway.
After which, the SCENES in the CIRCLE ; Miss Kate
Cooke in her elegant act of mankte,
To conclude with OTHER ENTERTAINMENTS.
Doors open at half-past six ; commence at seven o'clock.
Box•offioe open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr.
W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun.

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L')NDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1856.

So the Precious Conferences are to be forthwith
renewed. The Constitutionnel makes a semi-official

announcement thereof, and we fear that there
are no reasonable grounds for doubting the pain-
ful intelligence. Russia has triumphed, through
the instrumentality of France, and the Western

Powers are involved in the deep disgrace of seeing
the scanty benefits they obtained, at an enormous

cost of men and money, already fleeting from

,heir grasp. It is the triumph of fraud and
,reachery of the worst description, involving a
,otal loss of honour to those who have achieved

their sinister objects by such infamous means.

rev, the diplomatists who represented Russia at
.he late Congress, and the Government which

was cognisant of, and assented to, these proceed-
ings, must for ever remain disgraced in tho opi-
nions of all right-minded and veracious men, who

think that no temporal advantage can consecrate or
justify a wilful and deliberate falsehood. The
Czar., through his representatives—men who
acted in obedience to his instructions, and whose
acts were confirmed and ratified by his Govern-
ment—has been convicted of a base lie—a fraud
for which an attorney would be struck off the
rolls of Court, and deemed for ever disqualified
for the practice of his profession.
_ _

The Constitutionnel tells us that "it is not
intended to do over again the work of the Con-

press, nor to change the text or terms of the
Treaty ; * * * that it is simply to interpret
it, to fix its meaning on some points which have
appeared doubtful." It, however, adds—" It does
not appear that all the difficulties are, as regards
the substance, already solved ; there is reason to
suppose that up to the present moment
things are not so far advanced, and that
each Power still maintains its own peculiar
view of the points under discussion."
It then intimates the mode by which the difficulty

is to be solved, viz., that " either an agreemen
will be come to by reciprocal concessions—as is to be
hoped—or it will be the result of a vote, and of
a majority. In either case a satisfactory solution
cannot be doubtful !" We must totally dissent
from this conclusion. "Reciprocal concessions"
necessarily involve a change or alteration of " the
text or terms of the Treaty." It is the surrender
by one party for peace' sake, and to avoid litiga-
tion of some portion of that to which they are
absolutely entitled, and is therefore to all intents
and purposes, neither more nor less than a new
contract, which will be no more binding than the
former one on those who have evinced a thorough
disregard of the most solemn obligations. It is
similar to the case of a State th.tt, having repu-
diated its previous engagements, invites the
bondholders to assent to a considerable re-
duction, without offering any adequate
security for the satisfaction of its diminished lia-
bilities. The taint of faithfulness will stick to it
to the end ; its coupons can never again be ac-
ceptable in any money market.
The reference to a settlement of the question
by a vote, and a majority, however, permits the
cloven hoof to appear. It indicates the impend-
ing danger, so that he who runs may read ! We
have already explained that a treaty completed
with all the requisite formalities cannot be altered
or modified without the assent of all the contract-
ing parties ! A single dissentient must prove
decisive against the change—and therefore it is
that a Conference on such a point, where " each
Power still maintains its own peculiar view of the
points under discussion," can lead to no beneficial
result.
It has been charitably suggested that the
" Conference may be the best means of saving
wounded self-love, and of allowing those who
have wandered in the wrong direction decorously
to retrace their steps." We cannot lay the flat-
tering unction to our souls. There has already
been displayed too much morbid sentimentality
on the question of that infinitesimal, or rather
evanescent element, Russian honour (!). It would
he much more to her honour, if betrayed
into an error, candidly to confess and make re-
paration for her fault, than to have the matter
decided against her by a Congress. But there is
no intention of yielding on the part of Russia.
She has already secured an absolute majority by
means best known to heralef, and the result may
be regarded as a foregone conclusion. We may
paraphrase the maxim respecting the fair sex,
and declare that the diplomatist who hesitates is
mined, and we beg to say that the Government
of Inrd PALMERSTON bas placed itself in that un-
pleasant category. We cannot, then, regard the
approaching Congress save with mingled disgust
and indignatian—feelings in which we are con-
vinced the great maj;rity of the British people
will fully and completely concur.

The question relating to the Ecclesiastical Courts
must be decided during the approaching session of
Parliament. The Augean stables must be tho-
roughly and effectually cleansed without further de-
lay. They have long since beenecondemned by the
unanimous voice of public opinion, and have only
dragged on a doomed existence, unduly protracted
011 account of the late war, which prevented,
or rather procrastinated, the final arrangement of
many matters of vast importance to the commu-
nity at large. There is but one alternative. We
must greatly reform or altogether abolish those
obnoxious tribunals. Many efforts have been
made to ameliorate the practice and administra-
tion, but all in vain ; and we confess that we
entertain no possible
hope of a result satis-
factory to the great body of the peo-
ple, save in the entire abatement of these
social nuisances—Deenda est Carthago. The
Ecclesiastical Courts must be altogether got rid
of before the matters now within their jurisdic-
tion can be placed on a satisfactory foundation.
We have too :much of conflicting jurisdictions
that have no possible utility, but only epn fin e,
mystify, and occasion heavy expenses to those
who are so unfortunate as to fall within the
snare.

Sir FITZROY KELLY is undoubtedly actuated by
good intentions, but he does not go far enough
in the measure now before the country. He does
cient vigour or deter.
not apply the knife with sufo