The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-21 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENINGS JAN VARY 21, 1856.

able Harlequin—Very " fowl" proceedings----The Seductive
Sedan-chair—Strange Birds in a Cage.
WATCHMAKERS' ESTABLISHMENT, C FIRONOMETI-
CAL-VILLE—MILLINERS' ESTABLISHMENT, BON-
NETVILLE BELLHANGERS' ESTABLISHMENT,
BELLEVILLE. •

Home from Scotland—Cab Fares and Mayno Force —The
Movements of the Age—What's o'clock —" The Clock strikes
two"—How to Ring a Belle—Umbrella Courtship—Who's
your Hatter I—Early Closing Association--" Love Laughs
a t Locksmiths"—La Varsoviana—The Strike of Belles against
Time.

Grand Equestrian Feats, by Signor Flexmerini.
HIGH-STREET, SPIRIT-SQUARE.
Apartments to Let.
A Cold Roll for Breakfast—The Organised Nnisance Ta-
bleaux—Punch's Pocket Book—Patent Perambulators—Ast-
ley's Equestrian Feats---Policemen and Cooks—Monsieur
Tierce—All-round Collars and Punch's Coats—The quickest
way to the Coal-cellar—Spirit Rapping Extraordinary.
HAIR-DRESSER'S, FILTER MANUFACTORY,
PICKFORD'S PARCEL WAREHOUSE, AND NEWS.
VENDER.
The Purifying of Old Father Thames—The Invasion of
London —The Russians set the Thames on fire—Foreign Fruits
and British Stuffs—Odd Importation of Bear's Grease—Sar-
dinians and Zouaves—The Illustrated London News—The
Humours .of Good Humour. ••
THE APOTHEOSIS OF YE BELLE ALLIANCE,
Designed by M. Guerin.
ENGLAND AND FRANCE.
Mourners at One Altar—Viotors on One Throne. The Coro-
nation with the Coronals of Valour by the Genius of Victory.

Grand Fashionable MORNING REPRESENTATION of
the Pantomime on SATURDAY, Jan. 26, at Two o'clock.
Doors open at Half-past One.
In rehearsal, and shortly will be produced, an entirely new
Farce, entitled TWENTY MINUTES WITH AN IMPU-
DENT PUPPY. The Impudent Puppy being prohibited by
the express injunction of his manager for any Theatre Royal
but one, will be represented by Mr. Leigh Murray, his first
appearance this season.
Treasurer, Mr. Hingston, to whom the Superintendence of
the Auditorium has been entrusted.

'rho Box-office is now open, under the direction of Mr.
O'Reilly. Private Boxes (which may also be taken at the prin-
cipal Libraries), 3/, 35., 2/. 25., 11. ls., and 12s. Grand Bal-
cony, 4s. Upper Boxes, 2s, 6d. Amphitheatre Stalls, 2s. Pit,
2s. Gallery, ls.
Half-price at Nine o'clock. Balcony, 35.; Upper Boxes,
ls. 6d. Pit, is.; Gallery, 6d.

TO THE MEMBERS OF THE SENATE OF
THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

GENTLEMEN,
I have been urged in the most flattering manner by a very
large number of your body, to offer myself as. a candidate for
the seat in Parliament, left vacant by the lamented death of
your late beloved representative Mr. Goulburn.
Though fully sensible how far I fall short of what your
representative ought to be, I feel persuaded that the opinions
which I hold are those of the majority of your body. lam
not aware that there is any probability of a Candidate.coming
forward who will represent these opinions except myself. I
therefore presume to ask for your support.
Before stating my opinions, I wish it to be distinctly under-
stood that if I am elected, I must go to the discharge of my
duties unfettered by pledges ; which I hold to be unconstitu-
tional and mischievous.

lam a sincere member of the Church of England, and I
consider it as the most important function of the University
to educate the Clergy and Gentry, and through them all
Classes, in the principles of true religion.
I am entirely free from all ties of party, and from party
views. My opinions generally are Liberal, but Conservative.
The ability and judgment with which the affairs of the coun-
try have been administered by the present Government in
most tryiug times would render me desirous to give them
my support. _

on the question of War or Peace, it would be impossible
for me, at this moment. to express any opinion which the
events of the next few weeks might not modify. But I may
say, generally, that for the safety and honour of this coun-
try, and for the good of mankind, I earnestly hope that no
efforts will be spared to prosecute the war with vigour, until
a solid and well-secured peace be obtained. And when such
a peace has been concluded, I trust that the Government of
this country will never be allowed to suffer our military and
naval establishments to fall to the low ebb to which they bad
sunk at the commencement of the present war.

I would gladly support such measures as would best enable
the University to carry out its own progressive improvement,
and aid its efficiency as a great instrument of liberal educa-
tion. I am, however, sincerely attached to the system of a
body of independent colleges, free from all unnecessary ex-
ternal control or interference.

I should be disposed to consider favourably any sound and
well-considered plan for giving to the University a real and
complete representative system.
I have the honour to be, yours faithfully,
GEORGE DENMAN, M.A.
14, Eaton-place, South, London, Jan. 19th, 1856.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ELECTION.-
MR. DENMAN'S LONDON COMMIT-
TEE will meet daily at tha Trafalgar Hotel, Spring Gardens,
to which place all communications may be addressed.

41111 E LON WINE COMPANY
(LIMITED). Provisionally Registered.
Temporary Offices, 56. Lombard-street.
Capital 50,000/., in 5,000 shares of 101. each.
Deposit V. 105. per share.
TRUSTEES.
James Wm. Deacon, Esq. t R. Danvers Ward, Esq,
DIRECTORS.
Professor Brewer, King's College.
Jas. Wm. Deacon, Esq., 11, Leinster-gardens, Hyde-park,
The Hon. Capt. Hobart, R.N., Sidmouth, and Dingle,
County of Cork.
Arthur S. D. Harris, Esq , 8, Somers-place, Hyde-park.
Henry Robertson, Esq., of Hampstead, and 3, St. Michael's-
alley, Cornhill,
Captain Luke Smithett, of Dover.
W. Thompson, Esq., Conduit-street West, Hyde-park.
R. Danvers Ward, Esq., Temple.
With power to add to their number.
BANKERS.—Messrs, Heywood, Kennards, and Co., 4, Lom-
bard-street.
BROKER. —Jas. Wm. Deacon, 27, Tokenbouse-yard.
AUDITORS.—Jas. Cooper, Esq., Chiswick-lodge ; Henry Hart,
Esq., George-yard, Lombard-street.
SOlicrroas.—Messrs. Rutter and Trotter, Ely-place.
MANAGING DIRECTOR.—]Henry Robertson, Esq.
SECRETARY.—A. B. Godbold, Esq., 56, Lombard-street.
The law passed during the last Session of Parliament for the
limitation of the liability of shareholders in certain Joint-
Stock Companies admits of the application of capital to legi-
timate enterprise without risking the whole means of the
partners engaged. The London Wine Company is therefore
proposed to be established under its protection and advan-
tages, for the purpose of supplying the public with pure
wines and spirits at reasonable rates.
It cannot be doubted, that if pure wines could be supplied
at a moderate charge the consumption would be largely in-
creased. It will, therefore, be a primary object with the Lon-
don Wine Company to introduce extensively the light and
wholesome wines of the Continent, at prices that will com-
mand a large consumption, and yet leave a good margin of
profit on their sale,
The Directors are happy to state that immediate sales may
be expected, in consequence of the Company having secured,
under favourable circumstances, the extensive connection and
valuable services of Mr. Henry Robertson, for many years
the confidential manager of the late old-established firm • f
Shiro, Maxwell, and Co., as managing director,
" This gentleman having had long practical experience of
the wine trade, and having been much in the wine countries,
will enable the Company to purchase direct from the growers
and merchants abroad, saving thereby very considerable sums,
which those possessed of limited means, or unacquinated with
the method of buying in the foreign markets, are now com-
pelled to pay.
Besides numerous advantages which the Company will offer
to its shareholders, the Directors beg particularly to call at-
tention to those which will arise from the extensive business
which it will command in the army, navy, India, and in the
colonies, owing to the extended connections of Mr. Robertson;
as also in the manufacturing districts of Great Britain, in
consequence of the house of Shaw and Maxwell having been
long and favourably known in those quarters.
As they are determined on supplying the best wines and
spirits at the lowest remunerating prices, and on conducting
their affairs with skill, energy, and strict economy, the Di-
rectors cannot doubt that the return on the capital employed
will be very considerable, and to a groat extent immediate ;
and although they would hesitate to raise expectations that
might not be fulfilled, they have such coafidenee in the suc-
cess of the Company that they fully expect to realise a divi-
dend for the first year's operations of from 10 to 15 per cent.,
increasing in proportion as transactions are extended.
It is intended to commence business without loss of time,
and the directors are already in treaty for commodious offices
and cellars, the latter containing stocks of wine of great ma-
turity and high quality,
The directors, from the advantages which they possess,
hope to be able, in the reports which they intend laying be-
fore their shareholders, to impart much valuable and useful
information in reference to the various wine-producing
countries, and thus to prove that they have used judgment in
yantedaawiy thhatretshpeeyetwtmo
the selection of their stockhysooafrheawshainfpeopr;
many years devoted
htheisaipdaertd ihcyulaargseuebtjleeemta,
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considerable attention to the statistics connected with the
wine trade. This gentleman will also give his valuable assist-
ance in the general management of the business, and bring to
the company a very extensive and excellent connection.
Application for shares, in the form annexed, may be ad-
dressed to the Secretary, at the temporary offices of the
company, to the broker, or to
i the solicitors, from any of
whom prospectuses and further information may be obtained.
PORN OF APPLICATION FOR :WARM.
To the Directors of the London Wine Company—limited.
Gentlemen,—lof 10e
which, or any less number that may be allotted me, I hereby
eaehreirtehste thahateryeou mllallot m e
shares undertaking, the whole of
agree to accept ; and to pay the deposit of 21. 10s. per share,
and the calls per share, and to execute the ,subscription Con-
tract and deed of settlement of the Company when required.
I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Name in full
Address
Date

Name of Referee
Address

pIIRSUANT to an Order of the High Court of
Chancery, made in the matter of the estato of John Bradley,
late of Great Tichlield-street, in the parish of St. Maryleboue, in the
County of Middlesex, Printer, deceased, and in a cause, Richard v.
Bradley, the creditors of the said John Bradley, who died in or about
the month of September, 1855, are by their solicitors, on or before the
22d day of February, 1456, to corns in and prove their debts or claims
at the chambers of the Vice-Chancellor S' r Richard Torin Kinderaley,
No. 3, Stone-buildings, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex, or in default
thereof they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the
said order.

Thursday, the 28th day of February; 1856, at Three o'clock in the
afternoea, at thesaid Chambers, is appointed for heariag and adjadi-
"ting UPOII the claims.
Dated this 18th day of January, 1856.
CHARLES PUGH, Chief Clerk.
711liani Kinsey,
riain2o, tirlißinZlOS°rllat°7l4(Are;

PUBLICATIONS.

NEW N OVEL-BT THE AUTOR OF ‘! THE FLIRT."
' llThis day is published, in 3 vols.,
ruHE LADY OF FASHION.
1 Ily the Author of " The History of a Flirt," Scc.
Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13,
Great Mariborough•street. •

TEE LATE SAVJEL ROGERS.
In a few days will be published, In one volume, poet Bvo.,
RECOLLECTIONS .of the TABLE-TALK of
SAMUEL ROGERS.

Edward Mozon, Dover-atreet.

THE POSTMAN'S KNOCK.
London: Robert Cocks and Co., New Burlington-street.
This lively rattling song continues to win its way among the sing-
ing circles. Complaints are loud, that a copy is not to be had for
love or money. The supply is not asyet equal to the deniand. In a
word, the " Postman's li,nock"4:4decided bit The gayrnelody of
this song it already made the basil of a set of the liveliest Quadrilles
that ever set feet in motion. The Quadrilles are by the celebrated
Stephen Glover.—Vide Stamford Mercury, Dec. 28.

rpHOM'S IRISH ALMANAC and OFFICIAL
I DIRECTORY of the UNITED KINGDOM, for 1856, is now
published, price 7s. 6d., or bound with the Dublin Post Mice Direc-
tory, las. 6d. All the materials of which this publication is com-
posed are collecte.l from the most direct and authentic sources ex-
pressly for this work, which contains, together with other informa-
tion, a Mate and Civil Service Directory for Great Britain, Ireland,
and the Colonies, with Indexes; complete Navy, Army, and Militia
Lists; Peerage, Baronetage, aid Knightage of the United Kingdom.
—The Statistics of Ireland; Popglation, Revenue. Expenditure, Com-
merce, Agriculturt, Manufactures, Fisheries, Education, Crime,
Valuation of Property,. Balks, Poor Law Unions, Emigration, Rail-
ways, &c.—Ecclesiastical Directory; List of the Clergy of the Esta-
blished Church, the Roman Catholic Church, the Presbyterian
Bodies, &c., revised by the highest Ecclesiastical Authorities.—
County and Borough Directory : Lists of Lieutenants, Deputy Lieu-
tenants, Magistrates, and Official Authorities, and a General Index
to the- Lieutenantcy and Magistracy of Ireland ; Postal and Banking
Directories, &c., &c.
London: Longman and Co., Paternoster-row; A. and C. Black,
Edinburgh: Alex. Thom and Sons, 87, Abbey-street, Dublin.

Just Published, 15th Edition, price One Shilling, Free by Post for 12
stamps, direct from the Anther, 4, Coventry-street, Leicester-
square,
DR. KAHN'S TREATISE, THE SHOALS
and QUICKSANDS of YOUTH," an Essay, specially intend-
ed to avert dangers to which the young and susceptible are peculiarly
liable, and to arrest the progress of evil.

NVANTED, a Respectable Person as HEAD
CHAMBERMAID (good character required) at the King's
Head Hotel, Darlington.

R. ALBERT SMIT/i.'S MONT BLANC,
LT A_ TO-NIGHT, and every evening (eitcept Saturday), at 8
o'clock, and Tuesday, Thursday, and ,aturday Mornings at 3.
Stalls, 3s. ; area, 2s. ; gallery, Is. —Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.

[ADAMS JENNY GOLDSCHMIDT-LIND.
HANOVER-SQUARE ROOMS.

Mr. MITCHELL respectfully announces that Mr. and Madame
GOLDSCHMIDT'S SECOND MISCELLANEOUS CONCERT,
VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL, will take place at the above
Rooms en FRIDAY EVENING, lan. 25, to commence at 8 o'clock.
Programme and full particulars will be duly announced. Con-
ductor, M. Benedict. _

Reserved and-numbered seats 1 guinea ; unreserved seats, 10s. 6d.
The tickets will be appropriated according to the order of applica-
tion, and no more will be issued than the room can conveniently
accommodate. ,
Applications for tickets to be made at Mr. Mitchell's Royal
Library, 33, Old Bond-street.

ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAURENT'S CASINO
NOW OPEN for the winter season. Principal Cornet
a Piston, M. Bouleourt.—Doors open at 8. Admission One Shilling.
Laurent's new Varsovlana every night.

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.--Unrivalled
Attractions at the ROYAL PANOPTICON.-Lectures on
Natural Magic by Mr. J. D. Malco!ni ; and Chemistry for the Young,
by Mr. G. F. Ansell, &c., &c. Hears of Exhibition, 11.30 to 2,3 to
i. 30, and 7to 10. Admission, Oae Shilling. Children and Schools
half•price.

IPMMA STANLEY'S SEVEN AGES of
WOMAN.—Pronounced by all the London Journals. and by
nightly increasing audiences, to be the Greatest Artistica' Triumph
of the day. Every Evening at 8, anti on Saturdays at 3 precisely.
Area, Is. ; Reserved Chairs, 21. 6d.—SAINT MARTIN'S HALL,
Long-acre.

„
DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL
MUSEUM, 4, Coventry-street, Lelowater-square. Open (for
gentlemen only) from Ten till Ten, containing upwards of 1,000
models ant Preparations, illustrating every part of the Human
Frame in Health and in Disease; the Races of Men, &c., &c. Lec-
tures delivered at Twelve, Two, and Four, Morning, and at Half-
p,tst Seven, Evening, by Dr. Sexton, F.R.G.S.; and at Half-past
Eight, by Dr. Kahn.—Admission, One Shilling.

1111 R. W. S. WOODIN'S OLIO of ODDITIES,
A. Fifty instantaneous Metamorphoses of Voice, Character,
and Costame, concluding, with an impreonation of Mlle. Rachel, as
Camille in "Les liora,,s." Every evening, at 8. Private boxes
and stalls may be secured in advance, without extra charge. Poly-
graphic-hall, King William•street, Strand.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The
Directors hereby Give Notice that they will receive Iron( 7
.n Loan, to pay off Debentures falling due, and are prepared to accept
Tenders tor the same for a period of 3,5, or 7 years, at 5 per cent.
per annum. Application rimy be made to the undersigned.
By order of the Directors.
CHAS. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary.
Paddington Station, 2d November, 1855.

NOTICE OF DIVIDEND.

BANK of DEPOSIT, No. 3, Pall-mall East,
London. Established A.D. 1844.

The WARRANTS for the HALF-YEARLY INTEREST, at the
rate of 5 per cent. per annum, on Deposit Accounts, to 31st December,
are ready for delivery, and Payable daily between the hours of
Eleven and Three.

Parties residing at a distance will, on application, have their
Dividend Warrants forwardedlfor signature. The Warrants will be
paid on presentation at the Head Office in London, or the amount
may be received at the various branches, or through Country Bankers.
PETER MORRISOK, Managing Director.

10th January. 1856.
Prospectuses and forms for opening investment accounts sent free
on application.

OTTOMAN CLUB, 14, Regent-street, 31st
December, 1855 —At the General Meeting of the Members
held this day, an explanation was given by the Proprietor of the
position and future prospects of the Club, which was considered
satisfactory. Certain alterations in the Rules of the Club were then
proposed, and the Meeting was adjourned till the 31st of January
next, at 3 o'clock p.m., for the purpose of confirming them, if
approved.
By order of the Committee.
C. A. CUR WOOD. lion. Sec.

ALBION FAMILY and COMMERCIAL
HOTEL, BRIGGATE, LEEDS.
MISS FANNY WALKER,
In announcing to her Friends, Commercial Gentlemen, and the
Public in general that she has succeeded to the business of the above
Hotel, embraces the opportunity of tendering her best thanks for the
favours bestowed on her late Parents for the past twenty years, and
hopes by strict at'ention and Moderate Charges, to secure an in-
creased share of their kind patronage.
GOOD COMMERCIAL ROOMS, LARGE STOCK BOOMS, AND
PRIVATE SITTING ROOMS FOR FAMILIES.

LOAN.—The NEW RIVER COMPANY are
prepared to receive TENDERS for SUMS of MONEY (raised
wider the provisions and requirements of their Acts of 1852 and
1854) on Bonds of not less than 5001., for three, five, or seven years,
at 44 per cent. interest, payable half-yearly.
Further information may be obtained, if required, of the under-
signed, at the New River Office, New River Head, Clerkenwell, be-
tween the hours of Ten and Four, to whom Tenders are to be addressed
for the Directors.
By order. FRED. INGLIS, Clerk.
New River Office, Nov. 30, 1855,

I F.PSOM MEETING.—The CONSERVATIVE
LAND SOCIETY.—A PUBLIC MEETING will be held at
the King's Head Assembly Rooms, Epsom, on TUESDAY, January
19th, 1859, at 7 o'clock.
Viscount RANELAGH in the Chair.
A Deputation. con,isting of Colonel Brownies! Knox, M.P., T.
Knox Holmes, Esq., Ness nham Winstanley, Esq., and the Rev. Dr.
Worthington, Members of the Executive Committee, C. E. Lewis,
Esq., solicitor, and Charles Lewis Gruneisen. Esq., the Secretary,
will
to explain the general objects and working of the Society,
andof the system to all parts of East and West
attendthe t
application
Surrey.
All shares taken at the meeting will be included in the advantages
of the 32d public draviing for rights of choice on the Society's Estates,
'
at the Central offices, No. 33, Nerfolk-street, Strand, London, at
noon, on Saturday, the 9th of February.
For prospectuses, plans of estates, &c., apply to Wm. Everest,
tErePest°, Cr ;m;oydon and at Dorling s library, Epsom ; Mr. Wm. ;
Mr. J. D. Down, solicitor, Dorking
Esq.,Pe ar Pearce,
solicitor,High .e
Messrs. Page and Relf, Dorking and Reigate ; Mr. Lucy, Farnham'
Mr. Allen Batchelor, Guildford ; and Mr. William Long, Richmond'

IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY.
TRIESEMAR.—On the 29th of May, 1855, an
on the 11th of injunction was granted by the High Court of Chancery, and
Perpetual, against Joseph
gainwthasemm
Penalty of one thou-
sand pounds, from imitating this Medicine, which protected by
defojthanerse, ,adune der a
Royal Letters Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of the
Ec.ole de Phsrmacie de Parts, and the Tmperlal College of Medicine,
fthollorsevinstr
Vienna.
TRIESEMAR, No. 1,
is a remedy for Relaxation, Spermatorrhcea, and all the distressing
consequences arising from early abuse, Ike., and its effects are effi-
cacious in youth, manhood, and old age; and to those persons who
aze prevented entering the married :state from t le results of early
errors it is invaluable.
TRIESEMAR, No. 2,
alectually, in the short apses of three days, completely and entirely
a• adicates all traces of those Disorders which Capaivi and Cubebi
Ave so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health
of a vast portion of the population.
TRIESEMAR, No. 3,
Is the great Continental Remedy for that class of Disorders, whicl
unfortunately the English physician. treats with Mercury, to the in-
evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all the
sarsaparilla in the world cannot remove.
TRIESEMAR, me. 1,2, and 8, are alike devoid oftaste or snaeli
ind of all nauseating qualities. They may lie on the toilet table
without their use being suspected.
TRIESEMAR, Nos. 1,2, and 3, are sold in tin cases, price 1 le., or
four cases in one for 335., which saves Us.; and in M. cases, whereby
there is a saving of 11. 12e.; divided into svarate doses, as &drew's.
tered by Valpeaa, Lallemand, Roux. ~c.,
To be bad Wholesale and Retail in -Londcn of Johnston, 6e,
" -,rnhill; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; and Sanger, 150, Ox-
rd-street ; R. H. Ingham, druggist, 46. Market-street; danohester
• Bradbury, bookseller, Deansgate, Bolton; J. Priestly, chemist, 52,
Lord-street Liverpool; Powell, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland-street.
PabliB beekseller,High-street, Birmingham. •

WEAT .NEXT ? AND NEXT ?

( From the Weekly Dispatch.)

The world had thought that there was " nothing like
leather." The world is deceived ; there is nothing like
the League and the Manchester School. Oar friend the
Peace pamphleteer exposes the world's deception; if in
rather a queer fashion, why genius ie eccentric some-
times. We had thought he was a Free-trader. So had
he. He is a sort of politico-economical Vicar of Bray
without knowing it. England is enabled to prosecute
the war, it seems, solely from the resources furnished by
free trade. Russia sustains her defence exclusively from
the effects of her policy of restriction, prohibition, and
monopoly. Had the "country party" here triumphed
we could not have gone to war. Had Peel's "recipro-
city system" penetrated to Russia she would have been
totally defenceless ! Seeing that our meditative friend
regards our assault as a calamity, awl the triumph of
Russia as a "consummation devoutly, to be_ wished,"
the success of his argument is destruction to his theory..
He has really done his best to prove that independence
upon foreign States is 'lithe cheap defence of nations,"
and that open ports are the surest provocative to war,
on the principle on which the character mentioned in
the Scriptures was moved-to pride, of whom it. is *said
that " when he waxed fat he kicked." We are now-as-
sured that the foreign trade of Russia is insignificant,
and has been dispensed with by our enemy without any
materially appreciable deprivation.. Formerly the same
author informed us that the foreign trade of Russia was
very valuable to us, and far superior in importance to
that of Turkey. In fact, we have only to collect Mr.
Cobden's propositions and place them in -naked nieces
slop, deprived of their intermediary rhetoric, ire-Order ton
find them-as pliant and accommodating as that sword
of Hudibras, of which it was said that it
" Was 'fit for any use—
To fight, scrape trenchers, or clean shoes."

Russia, it seems, has lost nothing—we have lost every-
thing, our character included, and, we presume, we will
be told she has at last yielded our demands from the
sweetness of her temper. Her trade, it seems, is better
than before the blockade ; she has carried en the war
at scarcely any cost, finding and paying everything as
she coos. Her armies thrive on monkey's allowance,
" nothing a day and find yourself ;" her population can
supply, not merely an indefinite, but an unlimited num-
ber of soldiers. No treaties will bind her • therefore it
is useless to fight for four, or any other number of points
of diplomacy ; therefore we should gracefully retire, and
see what will come next ! have no other course
left than to come to the magnlnimous conclusion of Sir
Andrew Agueeheek—" An' I'd ha' known he'd been so
cunning of fence, I'd ha' seen him d—d e'er I'd ha'
challenged him !" We really begin to doubt whether
the " Manchester Manufacturer" any longer writes for
the public. His brochures seem more and more to be
addressed exclusively to one individual—himself—as to
whose convictions he seems not to be altogether satis-
fied. The Irishman asked his friend to dismount just
to take a look at himself on horseback. Mr, Cobden
appears to write really only to look what dialectic figure
he cuts in print. And that figure gets pOorer and poorer
every day. We are at a loss to divine what possible
object he can have had in view in the publication of his
last escapade. Its only effect is to raise the hopes of
the enemy, and to urge him to refuse all terms of accom-
modation ; or, at least, to afford him the means of per-
suading his subjects that his prosecution of the war is
just, necessary, and certain of success, even by the ad-
mission of his enemies ; a somewhat awkward position
for an autocrat who has actually given in. Himself it
can not deceive. No one better knows than the Czar
that he has already lost the flower of his armies, and
that he is reduced to the rubbish of his subjects. He
feels that, whenever he ceases to sustain his position by
all the appliances of military science and strategic art,
his troops will be annihilated ; and that, while he meets
the cohorts of the four allies, with their means of civi-
lised warfare, the cost to him, crippled in credit, bare of
capital, and blockaded on his frontier, must be greater
than to us. If France, England, Turkey, and Sardinia
have together expended three millions per week, the rule
of three will lead the humblest disciples of Cocker to
"count the cost" to the Czar, the loss of his sunken
fleet, the ruin of his captured citadel, with its 6,000
cannon and vast military stores and ammunition. We
have been warned, indeed, with oracular solemnity, of
the dangers of a Baltic campaign ; we have been im-
pressively reminded of Moscow ; Napoleon the Third
ie authoritatively summoned to take note of the fate
Napoleon the First and his monster army before
G en( led January and Field-Marshal February. But
that Old Bogy has ceased to frighten any who
can muster a tolerably competent knowledge of geo-
graphy. We all begin to know that Moscow in
the interior is not St. Petersburg on the coast—
that our fleets can land the largest armies with
ease, and without effectual opposition, on the shores
of the Friendly Northern Powers, within ten days'
march of the Russian capital, leaving Cronstadt behind,
and pressing forward to 6t. r'etereiyurg, -,.,eLeet
any natural military defences. Once established on the
Neva, we can draw, as our crafty enemy very well knows,
fresh forces from the Baltic ; and we are on the high
road to Poland, to which kingdom will be sent, in the
van, the Polish Legion as a rallying point for their coun-
trysnen and a refuge to Polish deserters from the Rus-
sian army. Our vast transport navy, too, would enable
us to threw our whole force on any given point before
the enemy could concentrate his troops, or march them
overland from the Crimea to the Baltic, or vice versa,
because it is the privilege of the assailant to choose his
point of attack, and the defect of the assailed that he
knows not where the stroke is to fall until it has actu-
ally been struck. The priesthood of Muscovy, too, who
care little for the Crimea, and who are all powerful with
the people who are their dupes, are, it is notorious, ter-
rified at the idea of the profanation of Holy Russia pro-
per by the hoof of invading infidelity ; and we may rest
assured that the sight of Pelissier and Codrington on the
high road to Petersburg wonid be like the pictures of
Cortez and Pizarro sent from the coast to Montezuma
in his capital. It is one of those mysterious dispensa-
tions of Providence which, "seeing as yet through a glass
darkly" we cannot explain, that sixty-three millions of
naturally harmless, homely, peace and hearth-loving peo-
ple, trained for gentle, kindly, good nature, should be
she slaves of a tyrant and the dupes of a superstitious
hierarchy, to their own destruction and the vexing of
the rest of their brethren of mankind. We feel—we have
always felt, the bitterness of the necessity which con-
strains us to the awful alternative and solemn responsi-
bility of war—to organise destruction—to plan waste—
to plot mischief—to reduce pain, poverty, ruin and death
to a science—to take upon mortal man, ',xis( se breath is
in his nostrils, the dreadful office of the Angel Azrael—
and sweep over the path like a hurricane, and ride on
the blast to breathe the palsy of the grave upon our own
likeness, dressed but in a different uniform. The very
thought of the fact that mankind has yet found no better
means of averting the curse of proud tyranny, and the
human ingenuity of the "monkey tigers" who play their
" fantastic tricks before high Heaven," makes us, al-
most in utter despair, abandon what seems to be a vain
attempt to "leave the world better than we found it."
He thinks 'most unjustly of his fellow-countrymen who
believe that it is not far more in sorrow than in anger
that we have been constrained to the self-protecting ne-
cessity of disarming the organised mischief that threatens
to overbear civilisation, public right, and the law of na-
tions, on the mere plea of the law of the strongest. Mr.
Cobden forgets that every fact he cites to show the im-
pregnability of Russia only conclusively proves that her
million and a half of troops, her enormous stores of war-
like instruments, her large fleets, her endless fortifica-
tions, all advanced to the very frontier of her peaceable
neighbours, can never be intended for defence ; can have
for their object only burglary on the largest scale ; can
leave the rest of the community of States only the alter-
native of destruction or of being destroyed ; and that the
stronger and more formidable the array the enemy pre-
sents, the more pressing is the necessity of sapping her
power and crushing her forces. That has been our jins-
tification, that is the only justifiable ground for our ad-
vocacy of the prosecution of the war. The poor Russian
serfs, whose mild blue eyes and innocent looks, even in
the "torrent and whirlwind" of the fight, struck our
heroes with pity and melting kindness—
" We would carve out as a dish meet for the gods,
Not hack them for the hounds."
We rejoice, indeed, to think that " What next ?" will be
very different from Mr. Cobden's prophecy, "and
next ?" will diametrically reverse his vaticinations.
Russia is exhausted. She is alarmed thoroughly at the
prospect of a Baltic campaign, beaded by tke Imperial
Guard, which has been recalled from the Crimea. In
her secret heart she is thoroughly sick of the war, and
has already been taught a lesson which will keep her
sincerely at peace for quite thirty years to come, the
has already accepted all of the points of the Conference
which it much concerns England and France to enforce.
The sage of the West Riding has been refuted by his
client's deeds, more conclusive than all the arguments of
his critics. The assertions of the enlightened cosmopo-
litan Englishman who has satisfactorily proved to him-
self that the Czar is certain of victory, just at the very
time it has "seemed good in his eyes" ignominiously to
give in, need no other commentary than the current facts
of history ; and if amid the general congratulations of
good citizens and generous patriots on the entire tri-
umph of their cause, and the glorious proof which has
just been given of the soundness of their jddgment, there
is one fallen statesman for whose miserable position they
have no higher sentiment to express than the humilia-
tion of pity, and over whose reputation for accuracy,
judgment, and common-sense they can only hum a dirge
or chant a requiem; perhaps as Burns, in his "Address
to the Deil," hopes that even Satan some day may be
pardoned, Mr. Cobden's countrymen, his affectionate
admirers, old followers, who still whisper—
" Cassio, I love thee, ,7
But never more be officer of mine,
may forget and forgive even his great errors, and reco-
ver their faith in his great powers, when, having con-
jured the Devil called a crotchet out of his mind into
the swinish multitude of Peace fanatics, they see him
once more going about "clothed and in his right mind."

The shipments of specie by the Peninsular and Orien-1
tal steamer Enxine amount to 255,6411., of which
20,69 A/. is gold for Alexandria, Ceylon, and Madras ;
and 234,951/. silver for Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta,
showing that the clock to the Eastern demand has been
only temprary.

Spirit of the Public Journals.

( From the Times of this day.)

To those who have heard in the recent complaints
of nailitary mismanagement merely a democratic
cry it may be a consolation to find that in a Re-
public there is also a "system" and a " cold shade
of aristocracy." England does not stand alone in
unpreparedness for the sudden outbreak of war ;
aged commanders, middle-aged subalterns, unre-
warded merit, disappointed hopes, and, we cannot
doubt, heartburnings, bitterness, and evil-speak-
ing, exist in the service of a State which pro-
claims the equality of all and the extinction of any
aristocracy but that of nature. It is not with a
wish to retaliate the jibes of Americans, and to'
curb the exultation with which many of them have
regarded our failures, that we point to the testi-
mony of their own authorities to similar defects
among them ; nor, on the other hand, do we wish
to make it appear that such unfitness for war must
necessarily be the result of a long peace, and that
our own country has enly passed through a phase
which was necessary, and might have been fore-
seen. The facts which have just been published
concerning the American navy are valuable to us
as well as to the Americans, and we therefore call
attention to the narrative. Mr. Secretary Dobbin,
of the Naval Department, has addressed a long
report to the President of the United States. Very
voluminous is he in describing the doings ~s various
sloops and steamers scattered over the globe under
several Commodores. He then approaches the great
subject of naval reform. An act was lately passed
for the purpose of increasing the efficiency of th e
navy. Under its provisions 15 officers sat as a
board of inquiry, and seem to have done their
duty with no light hand. After a careful exa-
mination no less than 201 officers were found in-
capable of performing duty afloat. Some were
reserved on " leave of absence pay," some on " fur-
lough pay," while 49 were altogether struck off the
rolls. The vacancies were filled up by promotions
in order of seniority. The meaning of this official
account is, that about half the officers of the
American navy were struck off active service on
the ground of incapacity. We have also heard it
said that a large proportion of those who remained
were almost as inefficient, but that it was impos-
sible for the commission and the Government to
proceed further without almost extinguishing the
navy. The evil must have been great when the
remedy is so violent. It was said by the opponents
of the measure that only a small number of officers
were inefficient. " But, if that had been the case,"
says the Secretary, " would committees session
after session have pressed the measure ?" It ap-
pears that grave members even proposed to dis-
band the whole navy and to begin afresh. " The
press in every town and village fulminated its
thunders for reform." "It had become manifest
to all that something radical, thorough, and search-
ing must be administered to rescue the navy from
the dangers that imperilled it."
It is singular to find that among a people at
peace with all the world, busy with the develop-
ment of their country's resources, and with a firm
faith in voluntary efforts when war really comes,
there should have arisen au outcry for the reform
of the services almost as general as that which a
great war and the destruction of half an army has
caused in England. Yet the tone of the official
document we have quoted will show how strong
must have been the feeling. If this be the style
of a report, what must have been "the thunders
of the press !" Indeed, some of the articles in
American journals resemble the British philippics
of a year ago. It is complained that the Commo-
dore and those who sustain him at home have no
world beyond the quarterdeck. "No one will re-
cognise in the common sailor the possible Lieute-
nant or Captain." "Amidships there is a great
gulf fixed." Remove every barrier between the
forecastle and the cabin if you wish to have an
effective force. At present there is a degrading
distinction between the man and the gentleman.
Why shall not " the rough-handed man-of-war's
man be summoned from before the mast to the fel-
lowship and converse of the Captain's cabin ?"
There exists no reason except the "strong pre-
judice of routine, of habit, and of aristocratic sen-
timent." It will be seen from this Utopian style
of writing that our brethren of the New World
have their demands for a inainistrative reform-
-es nether tans- will isisroduce any siith changes as
the journalist whom we have quoted contemplates
we cannot tell, still less would we venture to
assert that the means proposed would solve the
difficulty, but certainly there seems a necessity for
some plan which will supply a due number of
young and skilful officers. From the showing of
their own authorities, the Americans have allowed
routine and incapacity almost to destroy the her-
vice of which they boast so much. On the in-
crease of the navy the Secretary has much to say.
He advises the immediate construction of steam-
sloops, each carrying about 20 guns, but with a
light draught of water. He points out the
difference between volunteer service by laud and
sea, and urges his Government not to trust too
much to the sudden enthusiasm of the people.
The country, he says, is not better prepared for
war now than it was in 1812. He argues that a
weak navy is worse than none, for recent occur-
rences in Europe have shown that it may be neces-
sary to destroy such an insufficient force, to avoid
enriching the enemy by its capture. The Secretary
then passes to the political aspect of affairs. Ho
shares in a feeling from which few Americans are
exempt. The alliance between France and Eng-
land may not be confined to the eastern shores o I
the Atlantic. Contrary to the expectation of the
world, this alliance was formed and has lasted
through trial and success for three years. Inter-
ference in the New World is not without a pre-
cedent. Indeed, it was with regard to the affairs
of Texas that the first notion of such a common
action was entertained. The American Secretary
therefore thinks it well to be prepared for danger.
"Our institutions," he says, "if they do not excite
positive jealousy among the European Powers, are
not the objects of a large share of their esteem,
and weakness may sooner or later invite the inter-
ference of those whose ideas of regulating the
balance of power may so expand" as to take in
American relations. Mr. Dobbin then enters into
the details of construction, and afterwards devotes
a long section of his report to the raising and edu- '
eating able seamen'
That a nation like 'the United States, which
possesses a vast commercial marine and posts on
two oceans, should be without the means of form-
ing a navy is, of course, impossible. The mer-
chant service must be the chief reserve in a
maritime war. States which, without commerce
or enterprise, call a naval force into existence to
gratify the pride of a Sovereign or the instinct of
aggression, only succeed in producing a feeble
exotic, which the first blast of war must destroy.
England and the United States are in a very diffe-
rent case. The one possesses actually, the other
potentially, a powerful navy-. In our case distant
colonies—fortresses on so many of the great head-
lands of the earth—unite with our neighbourhood
to great military monarchies in forcing us to keep
up continually a large armed force. The navy has
always been popular in this country, and, whatever
truth there may be in the complaint that land
armaments were stinted, yet certainly Portsmouth,
Chatham, and Plymouth can fear no comparison
with the naval ports of other nations. It is grati-
fying to hear on all sides that the British navy is
in a state of the highest efficiency. Discontents,
of course, exist among those whose services.
no_pro
motion has rewarded, either through want of
na-
tural energy or of family interest;
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of a Transatlantic
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(From the Morning Advertiser of this day.)
The clubs, and the West-end generally, were last
night rife with rumours of every conceivable
variety. Among those which were most current,
was one to the effect, that Lord Palmerston and
Lord Clarendon contemplated resigning office im-
mediately after the meeting of Parliament. The
ground assigned for the alleged intended return of
the seals of their respective departments into the
hands of her Majesty is, that they have been from
the first dissatisfied with the Austrian conditions
of peace, and that they had only given a reluctant
consent to them, because they were subjected to a
pressure from the Court, and from a majority of
their colleagues, which they could not resist.
It is right we should express our disbelief in the
reported fact of the two noble lords having resolved
to resign, because they could not do so, with any
show of reason, on the ground alleged, after having
given in their formal adhesion, however unwillingly
they may have done so, to the Austrian Propositions.
At the same time, however, we are assured, from
what we regard as good authority, that both the