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LONDON, MONDAY EV - - ;-
ENING, DECEMBER 15, 1, t)6.

TILT' CONCERT AT THE ATHEN2EUM.

adtni;s:6n, the house was perfectly tilled without the
slightest pressure or inconvenience to any one. We un-
derstand that all the places wh:ch can be reserved are
already taken for to-night.

THE CAPE OF cituuD HOPb.

(P iont the Cork Daily Reporter of Bed. 'll4
As we anticipated the attendance at the first of the
concerts last evening was, in the fullest meaning.of the
eeeressive, but not over-refined phrase, a complete
"cram," Long before the hour announced for opening
the doors had arrived crowds of citizens had collected in
the vieinity of the Athemeum, and many a private car-
riage and hired jarvey, filled with reserved-seat gentry,
might be seen patiently standing in Nelson-place until
the hour had come. And when the doors were thrown
open the rush and crush were immense, and were parti•
cipated in by the representatives of both sexes with an
astonishing amount of vigour and perseverance. The
weather, fortunately, had lost that severity which cha-
racterised it for the past week, and beyond some slight
injury to the perfect rotundity of crinolines, and the nn.
merciful crushing and derangement of apparel, we are
not aware that any disagreeable inconvenience resulted
from the great struggle at the doors last evening for ad.
mittance to the Atheumum. We do not remember to
have witnessed on any previous occasion such an amount
of enthusiasm—such furore, as was exhibited last night
to nee and hear our incomparalll Prima Donna. The
Cork public, ever most sensitively alive to the attrac-
t'ons of music, either vocal or instrumental, when pro-
porly rendered, appeared last evening to have ascribed
no bounds to their enthusiasm—so great was their
anxitty to be present, so determined not to be outdone
in (their exertions to obtain a good situation to hear
every note, and so perfectly silent, anxiously, almost
painfully alive to catch every syllable that tell from the
national cantatrice. The scene presented in the hall was
maemificently grand and imposing to the extreme. Every
portion of the immense building, not alone the spacious
hall, the commodious rotundo, and the galleries, but
every nook and niche, every, in fact, " hole and corner,"
the very orchestra itself was crowded with the fashion,
and respectability, the intelligence, rot only of Cork, but
,f many portions of the county, special trains and con•
veyances having been provided, to gratify the universal
desire of the community to "hear Catherine Hayes." To
hear—to see 7a daughter of our own sea-girt isle, who,
dur:ng the past six years, has flung the enchanting girdle
,f her sang a. 4 it were, round the globe—a perfect pioneer
of the Fine Arts, who conceived and made the bold and
adventurous experiment of, quitting the haunts of civilisa
t: on, penetrating the retnote4 regi-ns of the earth, and
carrying, with her—aye, even to the gold regions of Cali
iorti a and the newly-horn cities of Australia the refill-
ing, the civilising, and the fascinating charms of mode_
expressed by her with that passionate emotion and vivid
brilliancy, which Liave ever enabled Miss Catherine
Hayes to

PLYMOTITIT, DEC. 14.
The hired screw steam transport Cleopatra, ,Oartain
Paton arrived last evening. Her dates are—Cape of
Good ilope, Oct. 19 ; St. Iffslena, Oct. 29; Ascension,
Nov. 4 ; St. Vincent, Nov. 27 ; and Madeira, Dec.t• 5.
She left Dublin on the Ist of August with troops, who
were landed in surf-boats at the mouth of the 'Buffalo
River, and has returned with naval stores. On the 12th
of October she conveyed the Governor, Sir George Grey,
from East London to Cape Town. The arrival of troops
had quieted all apprehensions of disturbances on the
frontier, and the colony was in a vary tranquil state.l
The Cleopatra bad a fine passage until she arrived
about 100 miles north-west of Cape Finisterre, where,
on Tuesday last, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, she fell in
with the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship
Azoff, with ensign down, apparently in a sinking state.
The lifeboat was immediately over the side, but the sea
was too heavy to launch her, and while the Cleopatra
was lying to with steam off the A.zsff ported her helm
and carried away her bowsprit, which struck the Cleo-
patra'se quarter. No help could be rendered on Wed-
nesday, but on Thursday night a marine named Bank'',
having twice volunteered, was followed by two other
marines, Pine and Taylsr, Bombardier Harding, R.A.,
James Morehouse, seaman passenger, and T. Riley, ship's
steward who were put on board in the chip's boat. The
Azoff had lost her wheel, the engines were disabled, and
was quite unmanageable. Hawsers from the Cleopatra
were broken twice on Wednesday by the tremendous sea
which was running. The military officers on board de-
scribe Capt. Paton's conduct to have been most noble ;
he kept by the distressed ship at great risk, and conti-
nued watching her day and night. The last time she
was seen with certainty was on Friday evening at 6
o'clock, but the next morning tho second mate supposed
that he descried, -her well ahead, steering north-east
by east, and, the wind having become, favourable, she
has prObably gone to Southampton.
Naval Intel ligenae—Commod ore Trotter, in the Castor,
had left the Cape of Good Hope far the Isle of France.
Captain Sir William S. Wiseman, in the Penelope, was
senior officer at the Cape. The steam-sloop Geyser,
Commander Arthur Tower, was.in Table Bay, October
16. His Netherlands Majesty's barque Prince William
Henry;was in Table Bay, August 14, bound for Holland
The only ship of war at Ascension was the Tortoise.
Merchant Shipping—At the Cape of Good Hone were
the ships Alipore, Archibald M‘Millen, Nil, end Anne
Jane; the barqnee Intrepid, Montezuma, Dreadnought,
Ellen Ra wsnn, Catherine Pemberton, and William James.
At St. Helena, October 29, the barque Martha and
Jane ; passed the shiplMary Stenhouse, standing to
north-west ; October 30, in lat. 14 S., long. 7 W., sig-
nalled the French ship Edward, bound north-west.
At Ascension, November 4, the barque Jessie Macs
farlase ; November 11, in lat. 640 N, long. 20 30 W.,
signalle 1 the French chip Nouvelle Pauline, standing
south-west. On Saturday, at 8 a.m., the barometer was
down to 20 8 10ths deg.
At St. Vincent's, Nov. 27, were the ship Carthage,
and barks In°, Glenburn, Haamstede, Victory, brig
Queen Britain, and Brigantine Glance. Nov. 30, lat.
23.23 N., long. 22 17 W., signalled the hark Jane Strong,
standing to the S.W. Dec. 1, lat 25 47 N., long. 21.13
W„ signalled the French ship Paulista, bound to Rio
Janeiro

Naval and Military Intelligence.

On Saturday 2471 invalid itroops arrived at Strood
from Liverpool, where they disembarked from the
steamer Jura, which arrived at•that part from the Me-
diterranea-A. The troops were sent home from the various
regiments stationed at Gibraltar, Malta, and the lonian
lolanda.
Her Majesty's ship Victory, 104, Captain G. H. Sey-
mour, C. 8., struck the flag of the Commander-in-chief
(Vice-Admiral Sir G. Seymour, &a.) on Satur-
day morning, the admiral having gone to attend his
brother's funeral. Her Majesty's ship Excellent conse-
quently hoisted a commodore's broad pendant for Sir T.
Maitland, C. 8., who, being the senior officer of the fleet
in the port, will be Acting Commander-in-Chief until the
return of one er other of the admirals.
Her Majesty's 'paddlewheel steam frigate Firebrand
arrived at Woolwich dockyard on Saturday from Sheer-
ness, to have the defects in her machinery and boilers
made good and to undergo other necessary repairs.
Her Majesty's 50-gua ship Coaquestador was on Sa-
turday ordered to Woolwich from Sheerness, to be rigged
for service.
The freight ship Northumberland sailed on Saturday
from Gravesend, laden with Government stores and a
full magazine of ammunition and powder frOm Wool-
wich Areeual, for the Cape of Good Hope. She em-
harked thence 12 non-commissioned officers of the 10th
Hussars from Dublin.
The freight ship Lady Valiant has gone down to
Woolwich from the docks, for the purpose of shipping
pow.4er and ammunition.
The new steam yacht named the Eniperori which ar-
rived at Wodwich on the 29th ult., is to be fitted with a
screw, and is otherwise in a forward state. When com-
pleted she is to be sent Under the charge of one of the firm
`of Messrs. H. and C. Green, the builders, to be presented
to the Emperor of Japan from the British Government.
In the naval estimates it appears that the sum of
10,000/. has been voted for the expenses of the yacht, it
is computed that this amount will be inadequate to cover
the total expenses.
The following appointments were made at the Admi-
ralty on Saturday :
Capt tin F. Warden to be Naval officer in charge of
naval arid victualling ciAablishinents and stores at Gib-
raltar ; Lieut C. R. Robson, to the Bloodhound ; Lieut.
H. J. Hodgson, to the Victory (for disposal) ; Lieut
S. M. Wilson, to the Hawke ; Lieut. S. H. Pickard, t
the Hibernia ; Lieut. W. E. Anne,l,y, to the Scourge
(for disposal) ; Lieut. J. Ward (A), to the Southampton;
E. P. iiedwell, S,,cond Master, the Plumper; H. S.
Paymaster, to the Melauipus ; S. Fisher, Pay-
master, to the E,gle ; G. A. Lance, Paymaster, to the
Hawke ; A. B. Culainin, Clerk, t•) the Melarnpus ; G
W. Junes, Clerk, to the Eagle; F. A. W. Smith, Clerk.
to the Hawke ; F. Woods, Assistant-C,erk, to the Eagle,
and F. A. Johnston, Assistant-Clerk, to the Melarnpue

" rule like a Wizard the world of the heart,
And to call up ite sunshine or bring down its showers
and eonitrring that inlescribable spell by which

"Verse ceases to be airy thought,
And sculpture to be dumb."

Ire:antes aistie,pelis has welcomed her on her return—
n her werl sere triumphs—and Cork moot becniningiy
gave the Daughter of Erin, last eig'.t, such a recsptien
to only ti:e Seutherns con accord—hearty, sincere, aye,
even, we might say, affectionate, and enthusiastic beyond
description. Added to this all-sufficient cause for the
furore displayed last eveeing, there were other great at-
tractions—Her Ernst—the Paganini of the day Piatti,
the best violincellist in the world, we believe—Osborne,
a pianist of eminence, and a successful composer—Mdcle.
Cerelii, a contralto of high standing—anti Charles Bra
ham, already not unfaveurably known to a Cork. audience.
But the attractions did not cease even here, for with
such artistes the programme is of material importance—
and that of last evening's concert was varied and attrac-
tive in the extreme, and comprised some of the master
compositions of Verdi, Meyerbeer, Doeizetti, Rossini,
and &lei. Among the most beautiful creations of
that inarticulate poetry, which, finding no adequate ex-
pression in ordinary language, gindses into song, ranks,
most assuredly, Declines "Amine." Full of tenderness,
purity, and grace, intensely passionate yet supremely
gentle, the Raphael of music has lavished on it the
roost magical endowments of his art, and the " ! non
giunge" is the epitome of all that is grand, passionate,
joyous, and pathetic in this master piece of Musical art.
To beer the thrilling exultation of the innocent, yet
suspected girl rendered, as we recollect it to have been
rendered of old by our Syren of Song, was a treat suffi•
cient, in itself, to attract an overflowing house in Cork.
But, it would appear as if the attractions of this concert
were limitless, for together with the foregoing we had
Scotch ballads and Irish melodies. The Irish Melodies--
" Savourneen Dheelish" and the "Harp thatonce through
Tara'a Hall's !" Where are there such treasures in music
as those Melodies ? That music of ours which comes
swelling up from the heart, telling, as it were, all the
ley?, all the sorrows, the woes, the griefs, the fears, and
the hopes of our much persecuted, yet never despondent,
oft deceived, yet ever trusting people ? Tee infuse into
that music a soul—a national soul—to make that music
speak to the hearts of others the poetry that first found
in it a spontaneous language, is to borrow some of the
inspiration from which it emanated and to revive the spell
of departed Genius. We do not say too much when we
say 'tis thus our Irish Prima Donna sings the melodies
of her native country. She is, it has been prettily
observed, racy of our soil, and gradually diffuses
sweetness around. Her beauties are of her native
clime, with its features of tenderness,
,melting into light
or darkening into shade ; and, still further carrying out-
the simile, her reputation for virtue, as a woman, has
Bone hand in hand, through the trials and difficulties of
life, with her reputation for genius as a vocalist. She
has ever adorned and graced the private circle as much
as she has charmed and delighted the theatre and con-
cert-room. Could • such a combination of the most
-4azzline attractions fail, even in the most unmusical and
uncivilised csmtnumty, to draw together a numerou a
.11,1 a brilliant assemblage ?
Miss Hayes, on making her appearance last evening,
was greeted with the utmost enthusiasm, the entire
audience standing en masse and cheering vociferously for
some moments She opened wigs the scene from "La
Prophets," Aid mor. firs"—nn admirable and judicious
selection, for it was the most perfect specimen, to our judg-
,nens, of vocalism given during the evening, affording
abundant scope for displaying the varied resources of her
voice, as well as that impassinnate fervour of expression
without which all music is dull and pointless, In this
she exhibited, in the most striking manlier, that magic
power of totichirg the feelings of her audience, which
surpasses all other beauties, and which is the manifeeta-
tien of truly inborn genius. Neither travel or time ap-
pear to have impaired the capabilities of her voice, on the
contrary she seems to have improved in volume, in in-
tonation, and in the delivery of her voice since last we
had the pleasure of listening to her bewitching vocalisa-
tion. In striking contrast of style, but no less fervent
in de'ivery, was the plaintiff and pathetic Scotch ballad,
"Auld Robin Gray." In the first piece she was en.
cored, but the fatigues were too great, and notwithstand.
mg the great anxiety of the audience to hear her they
were, for once, considerate and satisfied with a deprecat-
ing acknowledgment of the call. "Savourneen Dheelish
was
ot
impartfeelitigt o andit, twruheeo pathos,
singing
thewhic glori-
ous annly
Irishwoman
melodies
the audience as if in a trance, while t
that they drank in, with
avidity, the delicious draft of music givens salts
t h
of her own country. In passages, she held
out, as if in one continued and unbroken stream,
when the lest notes had died away the solemn stillness
was poured
out, and
mows encore burst from each individual of the immense
tt
oa t had s
asrod
thatp airev
we l prevailed
have gaves wa
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seen
equalled.demonstration
An uo en-
aeni
assemblage, and Miss Hayes, as if aware of our love o
national music, at once re-appeared, and with consummate
taste, substituted the admired ballad, "Steer my bark
to Erin's Isle," by which she again spell-bountl, the
house until she came to "Erin is my home, at
which the enthusiasm became absolutely unruly, and
gave way with the utmost heartiness, interrupting the
song for some short space, but giving the fair cantatrice
ample assurance that her countrymen were unmistakably
proud of the truth of the passage. The "Harp that
once through Tara's Hall " was the next Miss Hayes
sang, and although we find exception has been taken to
a new rendering she has given it, we cannot avoid ex-
pressing our opinion that the abruptness with which she
gives the word "breaks," and the pause which followed,
were apposite, and dictated by sound critical acumen.
This of course was encored, and the last verse repeated.
But the finale of " Sonnambula" was the piece in which
the richness of her voice and its extraordinary capabi-
lities distinguished themselves. The effect was literally
ravishing, Peal after peal of applause succeeded it, for
in it the fair songstress poured out a tide of glorious
melody, and ended by a shake of almost incredible diffi-
culty, both from the altitude of the notes and the length
to which it was prolonged. The excitement was almost
frenzied, and Miss Hayes retired amid the most
sherap-
turous
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ef
et
a nd bowede
displayed,or
t, an niapology.
reading f
turous applause and demands for an encore, to which
o
" segreto" was
which she took part, the purity to o
advantage, a
tonentaaer,
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range of her rich contralto. In the
concerted- pieces in
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richness
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pieces
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selected.
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violin
The instrument really seemed to become endowed with
the vocal expression of the idea with which he was
possessed. It would be futile to endeavour to con-
vey a just appreciation of the thrilling effect which his
passages,a se with wohpi which hea executeddioo lt ot
oh e
instrumentno stntoraaptsdt
perfect mastery of his art enabled him to produce. Piatti
was equally surprising in his thorough control of his vio-
aliondceil
—the perfect subservience in which he seemed to hold its
al '11)7 utrbe fed 3 e
narrow and apparently confined capacity, were quite
surprising. In answer to an encore, he gave,
some airs from " Sonnambula," the celebrated "
Phan-
tom Chorus," with the most wonderful refinement,
variety of tone, and delicacy. The various artistes were
accompanied upon the piano by Mr. Osborne, whose exe
cution was marked by great truthfulness, and complete
individuality of sentiment with the performer, whom he
assisted. Mr. Brahana possesses a clear and pleasing
tenor voice, and well sustained the hereditary character i
of his name in the admirable manner n which he gave
the seles and concerted parts which wereaseigned to him.
Upon the whole the concert was most successful. For
years we have not seen so crowded an audience in our
city, and owing to the. arrangeneents of Mr. Roche, not-
withstanding the extreme anxiety of the public to obtain

HER AJ EST Y'S .3121 P RESOLUTE AND THE
AMERICAN OFFICERS.

POR, SATunDAY.
This morning Commander HTS MOUTHartstein was embarked by
Mr. George Allen in H.M.'s steam tender Sprightly, and
landed near the official residence of the United States'
Consul the Chevalier Vincent Pappalardo, at the Plat-
form B ittery, where he was met immediately by Com-
modore Sir T. Maitland, C. 8., of H.IILS. Excellent, the
Commander- n-Ch of pro tens. of the port, Vice-Admiral
Sir G. Seymour being absent at the funeral of his bro•
ther, and Rear-Admiral Martin being absent on leave.
Sir Thomas offered Captain Hartstein, in the name of
her Majesty's Government, everything in the way of
ship's provisions, pilotage, and, indeed, everything else
the officer or crew could require during their sojourn in
England. For these hospitable courtesies Captain Hart-
stein expressed his a wiliest acknowledgments.
After this interview Chevalier Pappalardo presented
Capt. Hartstein, at the Government-house, to the Lieu•
tenant-Governor (Major-General H. Breton), by which
gallant officer he was most warmly greeted ; then to the
Mayor of the Borough (Mr. Crosweller), and then to
Flag-Captain G. H. Seymour, C. 8., on board the flag-
ship Victory.
Capt. Hartstein has accepted the invitation of the
Mayor and Corporation to dine with them, but could not
name a day, owing to the necessity for transacting the
official business connected with his courteous mission.
At 11 o'clock this morning her Majesty's steam frigate
Shannon, 51, Capt. Peel, C. 8., sa:uted the American
ensign with 21 guns, after which the Resolute changed
her colours to English, and the garrison and battery (on
the flagstaff of which was hoisted an American ensign)
fired a salute of 21 guns thereupon.
Capt. Hartstein and his next in command partook of
an elegant dejeuner at the Consulate, and the former left
for London by the 1•45 p.m. train on the London,
Brighton, and South Coast Railway, to deliver his
despatches to the British Admiralty and the American
Minister,
The Government sent down a special ;messenger last
night to Portsmouth to order suites of apartments and
every accommodation of the best class for the American
officers at the Portland Hotel, Southsea, where the most
assiduous and satisfactory attention is insured at the
hands of Mr. Digt,), Dent, the lessee.
The Resolute will come into Portsmouth harbour on
Monday, unless contrary orders are issued. She is in
first-class condition. Her commander reports a succes-
sion of gales the whole voyage from the N. W. on the
other side of the Atlantic, and from the S.S.W. to S.S. E.
on this, in all which she behaved remarkably well. The
weather the night previous to her arrival at Spithead
(Thursday) is described by Commander Hartstein and
his officers as awfully wild—heavy squalls, with rain and
hail, and lighting very vivid.
Considering the peculiar build of the Resolute, and
the season of the year, her passage has been a remarkably
good one.

The Cleopatra brings passengra from the Cape of
Good Hope7-Second-Master Switzer, R N., Capt. Du-
malt, Mr. Westenerck, and several invalided seamen
and marines ; from St. Helena, Major Faunce (St.
Helena Regiment) and M. Piquet ; from Ascension,
Lieut. Taylor (Royal Marines); and from Madeira, Mrs.
Barrett.

Capt. Dacres, C. 8., the superintendent of the Royal
Clarence Victualling Eitablishment, Gosport, sent off
to the Resolute this morning by the Sprightly a full
supply of fine Christmas beef and every other victualling
necessary for the ci ew. The ship is an object of much
interest in the port.

EXTRICATION'OF TWO MORE SHIPS FROM THE ICE.—
follo wing information relative to the discovery of
two of the abandoned ships has reached us fromEA.ber-
deen :—Captain Paterson, of the Pacific whaler, who
had been in Pond's-bay, Baffin's Straits, this past sea-
son, 1356, states that he had bartered with an Esquimaux
there three copper bolts and a galvanised rod of iron
bTheyeen saereen noteui nr
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Esquimaux made signs that they were taken from a ship
which had been pressed on shore in a gale of wind by
the ice, and that she "slept" there, meaning that she
was there still. Captain Duchess, of the ship Dundee,
saw a patent copper scoop in the bands of the Esqui-
maux ; he wished to barter it, but the natives made off
without parting with the article. All this confirms
the information obtained from Hull, through Capt, J. B.
Cator, who, writing to Capt. Sherard 0-borne, states
that the Esquimaux of the west side of Baffin's-bay have
been observed to have sledges this season of bard wood,
with treenail holes through, and, in answer to questions
put, assort that two ships have been discovered by them
—one is on the beach and broken up by the ice, but that
the other vessel is perfectly sound, and merely beset in
some inlet west of Pond's-bay—either Admiralty or
Princa Regent's Inlet, but most probably the former.
Capt. Penny, who, as well as Capt. Parker, of the True-
love, wintered about Cumberland Straits in 1855.6, was
puzzled by constant rumours of ships being somewhere
to the north-west of his position, Capt. Penny fancied
at first that these reports referred to Franklin's ships
locked up in King 'William's Land, but we isow under-
stand what gave rise to these rumours, being nothing
more than two more of Sir E. Boicher's squadron that
have floated from the spot where they were so prema-
turely left, to bear witness against the need of any such
wholesale expenditure of her Majesty's ships. From the
vessels having been abandoned in pairs, and the)Resolute
and Intrepid
being originally fully 200 miles from the
Assistance and Pioneer, there seems reason to suppose
that the Intrepid, whether floating or wrecked, would
never be very far from the position in which the Reso-
lute was discovered by tie Americans, and that the two
ships now in the hands of the Esquimaux are the Assist-
ance and Pioneer. In corroboration of the idea that
ships beset together and drifting in the sea would not be
very far separated we need only point to the great win-
ter drift of Commander De Haven's two vessels, the
Advance and Rescue, and that of the Enterprise and In-
vestio•atar, under Sir James C. Ross, in 1849, and of the
Terror, under command of Sir George Back, still earlier.
—United Service Gazette.

If the physician sees you eat anything that is not
good f,,r your body, to keep you from it he cries "'tis
poison ;" if the Divine sees you do anything that is hurt-
ful for your soul, to keep you from it be cries "you
are damned." To preach long, loud, and damnation,
is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns
us, and we run after him again to save us.—Selden.
A boy having been remarked for his quickness of re-
tort, a gentleman, on looking at him, observed that
" When children are so keen in their youth, they gene-
rally become stupid as they advance in years." " What
a remarkable sharp boy you must have been yourself,
sir !" retorted the youngster. The gentleman remem-
bered an appointment which required his immediate
attention.

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THE CONDITION Chttl6TlAziS L

TURKBY.

A late chaplain to the army in Turkey, in writ-
ing to a contemporary, says :
" I 'see that it is determined to reopen the Paris
Conferences. I trust that certain apparent over-
sights in the first Conference will be reconsidered.
If you will permit me I will mention one—l mean
the present condition of Christians in the Turkish
empire, as settled by the late Conferences ; for the
Conferences made a very serious change in their
condition—the Western Plenipotentiaries being,
I firmly believe, overreached by the Turkish. The
change I allude to is this, that now no foreign
Christian Power shall have any right to interfere
between the Porte and its Christian subjects. Be-
fore this, when any outrage was committed en a
Christian, the Foreign Ambassador (I may men-
tion particularly our own) used means for their
safety and protection.. At the Conferences so
eager Were the Western Powers to keep out the
Russians from claiming a right to protect the
Christians that the Turkish Plenipotentiary
got a' clause inserted, that no foreign Power
should have a right to interfere. The formerly
protecting arm of the English and French Am-
bassadors is now paralysed. It will probably be
replied that, since the publishing of the Ilatti-Lloes.
mayoun, giving liberty to the Christians, this is
unnecessary. I reply byasking if this edict has ever
been published beyond the shores of the Bosphorus ?
I answer that it has not ; the provinces know no-
thing of it. Dr. Sandwith could hear nothing
about it in Armenia, but, on the contrary, found
all the old oppressive and tyrannical proceedings
against- Christians in full force. I heard, at a large
public meetins, of the Turkish mission. Dr. Ham-
lin, who had' been missionary in Turkey for 18
years, say publicly that he believed that this edict
was not carried out, and never was intended to be
carried out ; a statement fully corroborated by my
own inquiries at Constantinople. While at Scutari
this spring I made frequent inquiries 'among the
Christians—both Greeks and Armenians about it.
They unanimously declared that they would be in
a far worse case through this edict than they %% ere
before it. Before they paid the haratch, and were
exempt from the duty of serving in the army ; now
they pay the tax and are liable to serve, without
being permitted to enjoy the privileges of citizen-
ship ; nay, I believe that they are now treated
worse by the Turk than before. The latter knows
his power and the weakness of his victim, and we
may be sure of this, that no Turk will ever be
punished for violence on a Christian unless
through the interference of a foreign Power.
The well-known case of the Pasha of Varna
and the girl Nedele will be remembered by
all. I was at Scutari at the time that the
investigation was going on, and I well remember the
indignation expressed by the Turks" at the
French for their interference with their liberty to
do what they liked with their own—i. c., the per-
sons and property of the Christians."
The following account, which I have translated
out of a Greek newspaper, the Sun (Helios), will
show that the Turk is still the unchanged Oriental
despot he ever was :—" At Philippopolisb a certain
Christian celebrated the marriage of his son, to
which he invited all his friends and relations ; for
six days they kept up the rejoicings with music
and dancing. On the fifth day the Pasha of Philip-
popolis unfortunately happened to pass by and saw
the ladies elegantly dressed, adorned with flowers,
jewels, and strings of pearls. On learning the oc-
casion of the festivity from the father, with whom
he was acquainted, his Excellency was angry be-
cause he had not been invited ; he was therefore
invited on the following day, and was a spectator
of the profusion and wealth of the family. About
midnight he attacked the house, carried off every-
thing, and slaughtered twenty-five persons. On
the following day, which was Sunday, the
neighbours, consulting together, knocked at
the door, but there was no reply, or sound of
anything within. At last they broke open the door,
and became spectators of the 25 corpses, with their
fingers mercilessly cut off—a sad sight for Philo-
Turks. Immediately a statement of facts was drawn

up, and the Pasha hastened to view the place with
his own eyes. He then left, mounted his horse,
uttering curses and imprecations on the perpetra-
tors. He rode up and down, and set a guard over
the house, and sent out his soldiers to pursue and
take the midnight plunderers. But there is nothing
done in secret that shall not one day be brought to
light. One of the servants of the Pasha gave an
account to the Christians of his share in the hor-
rible murder. Upon this immediate information

was given to the Pasha of Adrianople, who, coming
to the houso of the Pasha of Philippopolii, instantly
drew up before him all his soldiers, afterwards the
soldiers of the place, so that the latter should have

• guards, and accompanying him caused search to
be made in the houses of the neighbours of the
murdered man. Then he returned to the Pasha's
houAe, when, on being searched, was discovered in

a private apartment occupied by his servant a large
iron chest ' • this he opened, and there were found
heaped up bracelets, necklaces, and rings belonging
to the amputated fingers, &-c. The Pasha was
taken to Adrianople, where he remains in custody.
The other inhabitants are seeking out the terrified
witnesses with all diligence ; hut the fear is that
this Pasha will get off as the Pasha of Varna did.
They have written to Constantinople, and are
waiting orders from head-quartets."

THit GIGANTIC FRAUDS ON THPJ GREAT
IVO ~THERN RAILWAY.

We find the following letter from Lord Hotham
n Berapath's

" My-attention has been called to your paper of
the 29th ult., containing au article headed
" Leopold Redpath," in which is the following
statement, referring, as I am given to understand,
to myself :
" One day while Mr. Denison, the chairman of
the Gteat Northern, was talking with Lord H.,
Redpath passed, and as a gentleman should do to
to his superior, bowed, which the chairman is said
to have acknowledged by a stiff How d'yo do,
Redpath ?" Whether the chairman told the noble
lord that Redpath was one of his men of honour
and gentlemen, deponent saith not, but he was
presently astounded to see Redpath and Lord H.
in conversation as two old friends and equals. The
wondering chairman, going afterwards in the train
with his lordship, is reported to have said, c Do
you know Redpath I" Know him ! that I do, and
well too; I've dined at his table many a time • and
capital dinners he gives. He is very fond of
articles of vertu ; gave a large sum for one. He
is indeed a capital fellow. " .
" I desire, therefore, in order to prevent the pos-
sibility of misconception, to state what and all
that I have known of Mr. Redpath.
I have never had, either directly or indirectly, a
business transaction of any kind whatsoever with
him. On two or three occasions I have met him,
when paying a morning visit to a friend in London,
and if I had seen him afterwards, on one occasion,
at the station (which, although it has escaped my
recollection, I have no doubt, from what Mr.
Denison tells me, is the case), I should certainly
have spoken to him, as I should have done to any
one under similar circumstances.

......_
This_ _
being •the_ sum total of my acquaintance
with Mr. Redpath, it will be evident to you how
little foundation there is for the statement made
to you by your correspondent.
It would, indeed, have been strange if I had
described myself as being on terms of intimate
familiarity with one of whom I knew no more than
is above detailed, or that I should be guilty of
such a monstrous falsehood as to declare that I had
dined " many a time" at the table of au individual
with whom, or even in whose company, I have
never dined in the whole course of my life.
Requesting that you will be so good as to publish
this note in your next paper, I remain, &
Hull, Dec. 9, 1856. c.,
HoTHAm.

AUDACIOUS IZOBBERY.—un chursday evening, about
7 o'clock, three men entered the Crown Tavern,
Jamaica-street, Bristol, and sitting down in the par-
lour called for some drink. The parlour is divided
from the bar by a partition, and upon Mrs. Poole,
the landlady, going 'tete) the parlour, one of the men
placed a chair against the door and prevented her
from returning to the bar. Another went from the
parlour into the side passage, and beckoned to a
'comrade in the street, who mane in, arid both entered
the bar, and attempted to sissy off a desk which wad
there. The desk, however, wai screwed down to a kind
of counter, and they began wrenching it off. Mrs.
Poole, seeing what was going on, managed to get into
the passage, but was followed by one of the men who
had remained with her in the parlour, and who struck
her a violent blow on the head and knocked her down.
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several times. The other fellows succeeded in wrenchingher
off the desk, from which they obtained betweenlol.and
121. in gold and silver, which they secured, and
ofthe w ho .
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