The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-22 00:00:00

SUN. LON 1)0 N, WIEDNESDA i'?_; V ENING OCrOBER 22 :8 5

\ THE STATE OF KANSAS.

Thomas H. Gladstone, Esq., of Stockwell-lodge,
Surrey, has addressed a second letter to the editor
of the Tines, of which the following is a copy
:
"Sir,—ln your i4sue of the 11 h of October, you did
me the favour to insert. a narrative of personal experiences
in Kansas, deigned to exhibit the lamentalde condition
into which political strife had plunged that territory in
the month of May last.
"The publication cf that letter has occasioned me the
necessity of replying to very many questions, of which
friends have deired a solution, in, order the better to
comprehend Ithel extraordinary anomalies which such a
condition'of affairs implies.
"In the belief that many of your readers may have
felt equally at a loss for a sufficient explanation, I will
endeavour, in the form of question and answer, to sum
up as briefly as possible the sbbstance of one or two of
these conversations, and thus anticipate probably some
of those inquiries which may have suggested themselves
to the minds of others.
"The first and most natural question is—if such fear-
ful outrages as every mail brings us intelligence of are
being committed in Kansas, why are not the perpetrators
of these enormities brought to justice ? Is there no
judge, no jury, no law to which appeal can be made for
protection ?
"The answer is simple. First, the man is wanting
who possesses boldness or rashness enough to bring the
offending parties to justice. Murder and cold-blooded
assassination were of almost daily occurrence at the time
of my visit ; but whoever should report such a case
would be at once a marked man, and in all probability,
before the day expired, his life would be the penalty fur
his imprudence in the cause of right.
"But, yet more, supposing the offender to be brought
to justice, what is the judge, of what character the jury,
and what the law, by which he is to be tried ?
"The judge would be such a man as Judge Lecompte
—the Jeffreys of the territory. Or, if not the chief of
the ' bloody assizes ' of Kansas, it would be some other
minion of the slave power, panting after the extermina-
tion of every Free State advocate, and pledged by his
oath of office to sustain the most offensive measures
which the slave power has introduced. It cannot be
otherwise, for every public office is occupied by the
most resolute adherents of the pro-slavery cause ; and,
lest one should creep in of a different stamp, a test is
demanded, contrary to the constitution of the
United States, of every candidate for office, accord-
ing to which he is required to subscribe an oath,
6 solemnly swearing upon the Holy Evangelists of Al-
mighty God ' that he will ' support and sustain the
provisions of the act entitled 'An Act to Organise the
Territories f Nebraska and Kansas,' and the provisions
of the law of the United States, commonly known as the
' Fugitive Slave LAW." ( Vide 'Statutes of the Terri-
tory of Kansas,' page 438.) Thus, by the law of the
territ ,ry, no man can sit on the bench or hold any other
public office unless he have first specially endorsed and
pledged himself to sustain the two most extreme Pro-
slavery measures that can possibly be cited.
"If such be the judge, the jury would also be of a
character no le-s accurately defined by statute. What
is tbe law of Kansas concerning jurors ?—‘ No parson
who is conscientiously opposed to the holding of slaves
cr who does not admit the right to hold slaves in this
territory, shall be a juror in any cause in which the
right to hold any person in slavery is involved, nor in
any cause in whiehany injury done to, or committed by,
any slave is in issue, nor in any criminal proceeding for
the violation of any law enacted for the protection of
slave property, and for the punishment of crime com-
mit ted against the right to such property.' (Statutes
of ;Kansas, p. 378.) Again, by the first section of the
act, the power is placed in the hands of 'the marshal,
sheriff, or other officer, to summon a sufficient number
of jturors' (p. 377). With such a law, and with discre-
tionary power vested in such hands, it will be seen at
once what kind of jury must of necessity be procured.
"And, if such be the character of judge and jury,
what are the laws they have to dispense ? Take a
sample
:
If any person print, write, introduce into, publish, or
circulate, or cease to be brought into, printed, written,
published, or circulated, or shall knowingly aid or assist
in bringing into, printing, publishing, or circulating,
within this territory, any book, paper, pamphlet, maga-
zine, hand-bill, or circular, containing any statements,
arguments, opinion, sentiment, doctrine, advice, or innu-
endo, calculated to produce a disorderly, dangerous, or
rebellious disaffection among the slaves in this territory,
or to induce such slaves to escape from the service of their
masters, or to resist their authority, he shall be guilty of
felony, and be punished by imprisonment at hard labour
for a term not leas than live years.' (Statutes, cap. 151,
sec. 11.)

`lf any' free person, by speaking or writing, assert, or
maintain that persons have not the right to hold slaves in
this territory, or shall introduce into this territory,
print, publish, write, circulate, or cause to be introduced
into this territory, written, printed, published, or circu-
latgen this territory, any book, paper, magazine, pam-
ph or circular containing any denial of the right of per-
sons to hold slaves in this territory, such person shall be
deemed guilty of felony, and punished by imprisonment at
hard labour fora term of not less than two years.' (Laws,
chap. 151, sec. 12.)
"And what kind of hard labour is the Northern.
man to undergo who should be lucklessly brought
before a Kansas judge and convicted of denying the
right to hold slaves in the territory ? It is defined
in the same code, where, after providing that every
person so sentenced shall be deemed a convict, and
shall be put to hard labour on the streets, roads,
public buildings, or other public works of the terri-
tory, the act continues :

'-And the keeper shall amuse such convict, while oegaged
at such labour, to be securely confined by a chain six feet
in length,of not less than 4-16ths nor more than ',lths of an
inch links, with a round ball of iron of not less than four
nor more than six inches in diameter attached, which chain
shall be securely fastened to the ancle of such convict with
a strong lock and key, &e.' (Statutes, chap. 22, sec. 2.)
" For greater offences against slave property ' the
law provides, of course, a severer penalty. To aid in
any rebellion of slaves against their masters, to
bring into the territory any book or tract calculated to
excise,rebellion on the part of slaves, free negroes, or
mulattoes, to carry out of the territory a slave belonging
to another, or to assist in the same, are all capital of-
fences, to be punished by death. But as the utterance
of even a syllable against the right of holding slaves is
made punishable by two years' imprisonment and hard
labour du the public roads, with a chain of six feet and
a round ball of iron attached to the ankle, it will at once
be seen whether the law was made for the Pro-slavery or
for the Free State man. Add to this the fact that every
act of the Free State party, if viewed in the light of the
laws as interpreted by the Federal Government, is an
act of treason against the Federal Power, and it be
perceived what opportunity is given for the most cruel
despotism and the grossest wrong to take refuge in the
name and sanction of the law. 'Law,' in fact, was the
word constantly in the mouths of the self-styled border
ruffians, with whom I myself came daily into contact in
Kansas. So far from appealing to it, everything they
did, every enormity they committed, was done in the
name of the law of the land. The constant taunt
thrown out against the Free State party and the chief
difficulty they themselves experienced was the opposition
in which they stood to the recognised law. Law and
order' became the watchword and war cry of the most
lawless in the territory ; and the words 'a posse of law
and order men' were synonymous with a company of
freebooters and murderers ranging the country in search
of their political opponents. The law, therefore, was all
on one side. And it will be seen that, with enactments
demanding the conviction of all who spoke or acted
against slavery, and a judge and jury no less desiring
their extermination, the wronged Free State man,
though he should have been struck down in the high-
way and robbed of his all, had more to lose than to gain
by a recourse to the legal power.
" But by what possibility could laws so glaringly un-
reasonable and unjust become the laws of the land ? By
what power or authority were they enacted ?
"Answer.—They were enacted by a falsely-chosen
but authoritatively recognised territorial Legislature.
This Legislature, viewed by the general Government as
the voice of the people, becomes of necessity lawgiver to
the people of the territory ; and not only gives the laws,
but assume, to itself the right to define its own autho-
rity. In this way the legal existence of this assembly
as a legislative body has been determined by itself, and,
being backed by the United States' troops, the so-called
Kansa4 Legislature has had almost all power in its
own hands. This is the Legislature for which the
votes were taken on the 30th of March, 1855, and
which, first meeting at Pawnee, was afterwards re-
moved to the Shawnee Mission, to be more conve-
niently near to the Missouri border. It is true, the
election was repudiated as fraudulent and unfair by
the free State population,. and that they acted indepen-
dently of it in eausin.gActresh election to take place
on the 9th Oct., 1855ssiiiihich resulted in the conven-
tion fr,r organi-ing a State Government, which met at
and the subsequent election of State officers
and members of the General Assembly. When this
Assembly met the second time at Topeka, on the 4th
July list, it will be remembered that Colonel Sumner
forcibly dissolved the Assembly at the head of a con.
siderable body of United States troops, at the same
time indi -sating his own view of the proceeding by
stating that it was the most painful act of his life.'
sasked,
esta-
blished, of the Legislature to which the Federal Govern-
ment gives the sanction of its approval and the aid of
its troops being thus falsely and fraudulently chosen?
before
"TiTeis fact admits of very easy proof. Long
the first election in Kansas a secret society had been in
existence in Alissouri, generally known as the 'Blue
Lodge,' the avowed purpose of which :vas,
in bya aye-
tematic organisation, to control the elections Kansas
or elsewhere. By this agency immense armed bands of
Kansas, and, under
men from Missouri were poured into
the generalship of efficient leaders, so distributed through
the eleetral districts as to outnumber and overawe thee
resident voters. The character of these men may h
inferred from an address delivered by one of their chief
leaderes General Stringfellow. As General Stringfellow
id the speaker in the Legislative Assembly to which I
have referred, the extract will have interest also for those
who desire to compare the style of address adopted by
the presiding officer in the Kansas Legislature with
that commonly heard in our own Houses of Parlia-
ment

tell yin to mar's every scoundrel among yon that is
the least tainted with free-scilism or abolitionlsm, and ex-
terminate him. Neither give nor take quarter from the
- rascals. I propose to mark them in this house, and on
the present ocza.nc.n,. so you may crush them out. To those
who
have qualms of conscience as to violating the laws,
State or national, the time has come when such impositions
most be disregarded, as your rights and property are in
danger ; and I advise yon, one and all, to enter every elec-
tion ' district in Kansas,
in defiance of Reeder and his vile
myrmidons,
and vote at the point of the bowie-knife and
revolver. Neither give nor take quarter,
as our case de-
mands it. it is enough that the slaveholding interest wills
it, from which there is no appeal. What right has Go-
vernor Reeder to rule Atipeourians in Kama: His proda.

mation and prescribed oath must be repudiated. It is your
interest to do so. Mind that slavery is established where
t is not prohibited.'
" nd as their leader advised them so they di 3. They
neither gave nor t ,ok quarter; they allowed no qualms
of conscience as to violating laws ; and they entered
every electoral district in liansae, and, in defiance of the
rightful governor, voted at the point of the bowie-knife
and the revolver. The result was a majority, almost as
ten to one, in favour of the pro-slavery candidate, Gene-
ral Whitfield. Exact returns from each district have
since been obtained by the Committee of Investigation,
and from their report presented to Congress I will
extract one or two examples of the fraud practised
by this invading army. The 7th District is a remote
settlement, as yet very sparsely inhabited, and contain.
ing by census not more than 53 voters. In this district
alone no less than 597 votes were cast for Whitfield, and
seven for another candidate, making in all 604, of which
it has been ascertained that not more than 20 ,4 ere legal,
the remaining 584 being consequently illegal votes. In
the 11th District, Marysville, the total number of white
inhabitants, including men, women, and children, was
36, of whom 24 were voters. Yet the poll-lists in this
district show that 245 votes were cast at this election !
• • • .By a comparison of the census-roll with the
poll-books it appears that but 7 resident settlers voted ;
and 238 votes were illegally and fraudulently given !'
"And what was done at the election of a delegate to
Congress was repeated at the election of the members of
the Legislative Assembly. By the report of the Com-
mittee of Investigation it appears that the proportion of
illegal to legal votes was as 4,908 to 1,410! From the
census it appears there were but 2,905 voters in the ter-
ritory ; yet 5,427 votes were recorded on the Pro-Slavery
side alone ! Many of the Missourians returned the same
night, after giving their vote, to their own State. At
Leavenworth a great number came down by steam-
boat from Weston, and having effected their object
returned by the same boat. Many affirmed their right
to vote as residents, although they might have been
only an hour in the territory, and had their home in
Missouri. The enormities committed by these armed
bands were fearful. Some we read of standing around
the polling-place and saying that no difficulty would
be male it they were allowed to vote in peace, but
that they were determined to vote anyhow, and that
each one of them was prepared for eight rounds with-
out loading, and would go to the ninth round with
the butcher-knife.' If the judges who presided over
the elections refused to receive their votes without
administering the oath of residence they held their
pistols at their heads, while they appointed fresh
judges from their own number and proceeded with
the election, masters of the position. So violent
was their hatred to the oath that any who professed
themselves ready to take it were threatened with in-
stant death, amid cries of Shoot him Cut his guts
out !' &c. Oue of them,' we read in the report of the
commissioners,
'Mr. J. M. Macey, was asked if ho would take the oath ;
and, upon his replying that he would if the judges required
it, he was dragged through the crowd away from the polls
amid cries of 'Kill the d—d nigger thief," Cat his throat,'
' Tear his heart out,' &c. After they got him to the out-
side of the crowd they stood around him with cocked re-
volvers and drawn bowie-knives - one man putting a knife
to his breast so that it touched him ; another holding a
cocked pistol to his ear, while another struck at him with
a club.'

"The whole of the voluminous evidence accompany-
ing the report submitted to Congress goes to establish
a succession of similar enormities in each of the polling
districts. These investigations were being carried on
within two doors of the place where I was myself stay-
ing when in Leavenworth ; and it was sufficient to hear
the manner in which the Missourians affirmed their
right to come over from their own State and vote in the
territory•of Kansas, and their determination to do so on
every occasion and at all hazards, to understand the
violence with whick they would assert that right when
confronted with their political opponents at the polling
places.
" Another question may be suggested on this topic
—By what right do these Missourians or others from
neighbouring States vote in the Kansas elections ?
"By no right whatever, except that of might. The
Missourians have no more right to vote in Kansas than
the voters in Middlesex have, after using their rightful
suffrage in their own county, to cross to Surrey and re-
cord their votes a second time, with a pistol at the head
of the election officer, in order to control the Surrey
elections. Indeed, as the States of the Union are by
their constitution perfectly independent of one another
and self-governed, the parallel would be truer if we were
to picture an army of Frenchmen, larger in number
than all our voters who should, at the point of the sword,
choose for us our representativss, and return without
exception as our rulers men from among themselves or
pledged to their own political sentiments. So much was
it an act of main force and illegal oppression that among
the conclusions which the Committee of Investigation
report as established by the testimony they submit,
they give the first place to the following:—
'That each election in the territory, held under the
organic or alleged territorial law, has been carried by
oiganised invasion from the State of Missouri, by which
the people of the territory have been prevented from ex-
ercising the rights secured to them by the organic law.'

" And as the fruit of an organised invasion they con:

clude—

' Secondly, that the alleged territorial Legislature was an
illegally constituted body, and had no power to pass valid
laws, and their enactments are therefore null and void.'

" While, however, in the first instances, the inter
Terence of the Missourians was wholly illegal, the Legis-
lature thus illegally constituted took care to legalise the
act for the future. Hence we find them enacting in the
act instituting a poll-tax :
sect. 1. That every free white male above the age of
2E years who shall pay to the proper officer in Kansas ter-
ritory the sam of $1 as a poll-tax, and shall produce to the
judges of any election within and for the territory of
Kansas a receipt showing the payment of said poll-tax,
shall he deemed a legal voter, and shall be entitled to vote
at any election in said territory during the year for which
the same shall have been paid, provided that the right of
suffrage shall be exercised only by citizens of the United
States and those who have declared on oath their intention
to become such, and shall have taken an oath to support
the constitution of the United States and the provisions of
the act organising the territory of Kausas.'
" In other words, by the payment of a single dollar
any citizen of any of the United States can purchase a
voting power in Kansas for a twelvemonth, provided he
pledges himself to the support of the Organic Act. In
contrast to this, in the 11th section (statutes, p. 282) it
is expressly enacted that while every inhabitant of
Kansas paying a territorial tax is a qualified elector, yet
should he, on being challenged to take an oath to sus-
tain the provisions of the Nebraska-Kansas Bill and the
Fugitive Slave Law, refuse to take such an oath or
affirmation, the vote of such person shall be rejected.'
" Hence, in the new election of members of the Legis-
lature, the results of which we daily expect to hear, the
Pro-slavery Missourian who pays a dollar receives for it
a vote, while the Free Settler in Kansas, though an
owner of land in the territory, is denied his right of sal-
fra.ze by the territorial law. The candidates, to be
eligible at this election, are also required by the same
la, to take oath in support of the Fugitive Slave Law.
(Statutes, p. 332.) There is little room for speculation,
therefore, as to what election results the next American
mail will bring us from Kansas.
" At the risk of writing that which is less generally
interesting I have presented in this letter numerous
extracts from public documents. I have deemed it right
to do this because the whole value of the present com-
munication rests on the authority whence the statements
are derived. The references I have made are to the
Ste .utes of the Territory of Kansas,' issued by the
legislative body, to which, though chosen by the inha-
bitants of another state, the Government at Washington
Lr:ves the sanction of its approval and its military aid,
and to the report and evidence of 'the Special Committee
appointed to investigate the troubles in the territory of
Kansas'—a report which, though dissented from by ono
member of the committee, contains testimony which can
Dover be overthrown or gainsaid.
"My simple object has been to show that the dark
deeds of which I was an eyewitness in Kansas, some of
' which I detailed in my former letter, are no darker than
the public acts of the slave-power in that territory, as
exhibited in the archives of its House of Asse bly ; and
that the fearful anarchy and unrestrained lawlessness
which reign throughout the territory find both their
parallel and their key in the flagrant unrighteousness of
their legal enactments."

THE LATE VICTORY OF THE
CIACASSIANS.

The following is the narrative given by the Jour-
nal de Constantinople of the victory •f the Circas-
sia.ns, a brief account of which reached us a few
days ago by telegraph

- SoUDJAK KALE, SEPT. 24.
"The Russians having passed the Laba for the
purpose of constructing °fortifications in Abzech,
Sefer Pacha immediately despatched an interpre-
ter to the Russian commander, in order to know
the object of the expedition. The Russian com-
mander replied, ' By the Treaty of Paris Circassia
is conceded to Russia, and I have come to take
Possession of it.' Sefer Pacha sent a second mes-
senger to the Russian commander to inform him
that Circassia was an independent country, that
no one could dispose of it without the consent of
its inhabitants, and that if the Russians did not
retire forthwith the Circassian3 would take prompt
measures to compel them.
"The next day Sefer Pacha advanced with
30,000 men against the Russians, who had taken
up a position on the slopes of a ravine with sixteen
cannon. The combat lasted three hours and a-
baft.; the Circassiana remained master of the field,
made 800 prisoners, and took all the guns. An-
other affair took place twenty days ago in the
Tchap-Sou, after the passage of the Kouban by the
Russians, who were obliged to retire with a con-
siderable 10. s of men, leaving five guns behind.
"The Russian troops were composed of recruits,
and did not stand their ground. The prisoners
ta.ken by the Circassians are no longer reduced to
slavery. They are admitted into the ranks, or are
at liberty to establish themselves upon the land,
under the administration of a Naib.

"The Circ?.sdan deputation which was sent to
Constantinople has not returned, but it is thought
certain that tho Porte and the Western Powers
will not support us."

The election of Alderman Hale for the ward of Cole.
man-street was celebrated by a banquet last night at
the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street. It was attended
by most of the leading members of the corporation of the
City of Londen.

E3RINCE'S CLUB.—RACQUET and TENNIS
lose and two open
monlbe rs are requested to
he Racquet Courts
ofl-thii CClOullb RaTr : ,s 1 loawn s -Op IpaEc ex. 13, eclogmr avvrei ; sing
gu atrhe.re—e 'IC
courts. Gentlemen desirous of becoming
forward their names to the secretary, at the club.
By order. B. CI,BIiE NTS, Secretary.

..e Doc' .tines, Bell-
THE PRINCEITES AND Tl IE ABODE
OF LOVE.
The "Somerset County Gazette" of Saturdsi next
, eictober 25
will contain Part I of an elaborate exposition of
gious Practices, and Social Habits of the Pr inek , 'rtes ; with State-
ments by former Inmates of the Agapemone. , A us°, A large and
highly finished Engraving of the "Abode."
Orders, with five postage stamps for each t toPY, „I' At, old be sent
immediately to Mr. W. A. Woodley, Gazette t Nice, 1 V anton.

THEA.TRE ROYAL, DRURY- •LANE+
Lessee, Sir. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING
TAE LADY OF LYONS.

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THIS EVENING,
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PIZARRO.

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THE LITTLE TREASURE.
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LYCEUM THEATRE ROYAL,
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THIS EVENING,
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THIS EVEIVINO,
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election of the 30th of March, 1855, was con-
ducted ? First, we learn that in the adjoining Slave
State, Missouri, a secret society had for some time
been-in existence, generally known as the " Blue
Lodge," the avowed purpose of which was, by a
systematic organisation, to control the elections in
Kansas or elsewhere. By this agency miserable
bands of armed ruffians were poured into Kansas,
and, under the generalship of efficient leaders, so
distributed through the electoral districts as to
outnumber and overcome the resident voters.
Before starting on their disgraceful mission they
had been earnestly exhorted by their leader,
General STRONGFELLOW, now the Speaker of the
soi disant Legislative Assembly of Kansas, to
" exterminate every scoundrel in any degree
tainted with freesoilism or abolitionism." Nei-
ther "to give nor take quarter," to enter every
election district in Kansas, and vote at the point of
the bowie-knife and the revolver. This wholesome
advice was carried out "au pied la lettre." Some
of that highly respectable ( ) constituency clustered
about the polling places declaring that if they
were permitted to Vote in peace there would be
no difficulty, but that they were determined to
vote, and that each one of them was " prepared
for eight rounds without loading, and would go
to the ninth round with the butcher-knife.'
It would be strange indeed if the judgment could
be very impartial under such circumstances. If
any impediment was raised—if the ordinary oath
of residence was directed, the obnoxious officer
was ejected from his seat with a revolver pressing
against his temples, and a bowie-knife, occasioning
a very unpleasing titillation from its close proximity
to his ribs, and another more pliable gentleman
selected in his place. Nor were they contented
with repudiating the oath themselves ; but they
required all bona fide voters to act in a similar
manner. The refusal to take the oath was the
test of orthodoxy, so far as the "domestic insti-
tution'' was concerned, and any failure in that
respect earned for the offender the obnoxious and
highly dangerous epithet of " nigger-worshipper."
Can we feel astonished at any result arrived at
under these circumstances ? In the 7th district
there were but 53 legitimate voters, but 597 were
recorded in favour of the Pro-slavery Candidate,
of whom but 20 were legal. In tho 11th district
there were but 36 inhabitants, 24 only, being
adult males, entitled to the suffrage—but 215
votes were registered, 7 of which only had any
just claim to the privilege ; and although there
were but 2,905 votes in the entire territory,
5,427 were recorded for the Pro-slavery Can
didate.

And this was the election which President
PIER .s lent the whole of the executive authority
to confirm (!), recognising the atrocious Code that
disfranchised every person who. would not take a
solemn oath to support slavery ! What possible
chance of fair play was there under such circum-

stances t What chance could there be for any
person who ventured to differ from parties like
" the highly respectable merchant from Weston,"
who was thundering forth his determination " to
bring some one down," and brandishing the
weapons with which he could have carried his
sanguinary intentions into execution ? We fear
that similar attempts at fraud will be made at the
approaching Presidential elections. The matter
has now, however, attained sufficient notoriety, and
the Northorns must be prepared for any extremity
that may be forced on them. Long impunity
has rendered the Southerns reckless. The Free-
soilers can no longer submit to their dictation.
Patient acquiescence iu the evil will make them
participators therein. They must at last shake
off their apathy, if they desire to avoid the re-
proaches of all civilised nations.

The dreadful accident of Sunday night has
elicited, naturally, a great variety of opinions in
regard both to the preacher and his friends.
Much blame and some commendation has been
bestowed upon both, but the truth of the case is
now becoming clear. All parties can, of course,
be wise after the event, but looking at all things
impartially, it is difficult to find just ground for
.ensure, if we except the reckless miscreants who,
whether from hostility to the dDctrines of the
preacher, or to get up a row by which they might
profit, wickedly raised the cry which frightened
the vast multitude. We trust that they will be
discovered and brought to justice. The design
co disturb is now established beyond all doubt ;
bells were heard tinkling previously to the com-
mencement of the cry of "Fire 1" and one gen-
tleman assures us that, sitting in the gallery, and
°reserving his self-possession, and choosing, there-
`ore, to withdraw amongst the last, he saw a
decently dressed man, whom he could identify,
,calk along the gallery, smash every window he
ame to, and at the same moment repeat the cry
"Fire !" We hope, therefore, some of the
►uthors of this cruel mischief may yet meet the
lue reward of their deeds. Nothing can excuse
heir villany. Had they objected ever so much
o the preacher's doctrine, it might have partially
Ixcused a half involuntary exclamation, but to i

raise a cry which must drive thousands
deadly rush to tho doors deserves any punish-
ment short of hanging, if, indeed, it does not
well deserve that.

We have long been witness to the crowds so
gear us, who strove in vain to gain admission to
Exeter Hall to hear the popular young preacher,
iardly, we are informed, yet twenty-two years of
Lge. It was therefore natural that he and his

'riends should wish to accommodate, if possible,

she thousands who thronged after him. It is not
in human nature, and certainly not in religious
zeal, to reject admiring followers, and we ought
to give the young man, and certainly the respect-
able tradesmen, several of them advanced in years,
,vho manage the chapel, credit for wishing to do
good to the thousands who we are constantly told
will go to no ordinary place of worship. Why
ihould we think that they engaged the Music
Elall from any but the usual motives which
actuate human beings and religious men ? We
have inquired of respectable persons who wore
present, and they inform us that up to the mo-
ment, during the prayer, when the bell was heard
to tinkle, and the cry of "Fire !" was raised, no
worship they ever attended was conducted with

•nore solemnity- and decorum ; that the singing of
f,ke hymn by so many thousands of persons, in

io vast a building, was peculiarly impressive ; and

,hat but fur the intentional diiturbauce the effect
)1 the whole must have been all that could be
lesired. We hardly think any one can be held

responsible for not conjecturing that any even of
the lowest roughs and rowdies could be found

wicked enough to hazard the lives of so many

persons, however willing they might have been to

annoy one whom they of course judged a fanati-

cal preacher.

One circumstance appears to have been over-
ooked by most of our contemporaries, and. to

nave occasioned incorrect comments. The stairs
from the galleries, at one of which the chief acci-

dents occurred, were exterior to the main body
of the edifice. The consequence was that the

great majority
- - - - - - -
within, those particularly who were

on the platform, with the preacher himself, did
not know.of the disaster which had occurred at the

buttom of the north-west staircase. Hence the
cries to " Go on," to " Preach his Sermon," &c.
—the persons who called thus only sup d there
was a little disturbance at the doors, F would
.
soon be quieted if the preacher resume ....Zo this
circumstance it is, we have learned a I so, to be
attributed that a collection was made. On
account of the size of the building a large num-
ber of collectors had been distributed all about it,
who acted as if nothing but ordinary confusion

had taken place. The preacher himself had no
idea, it appears, that anything serious had
occurred till the last moment, and when informed
of it, turned pale, and having pronounced the
benediction in great distress, immediately retired.
This is, perhaps, hardly the occasion to criticise

the youthful preacher's general style of sermo-
nising, much less his theology. The latter,
indeed, is least of all things the province, as we
conceive, of a daily journal. We speak with
modesty, for a morning contemporary has been
very diligent of late in instructing the Licensed
Victuallers anent the orthodoxy or heterodoxy of
a hymn book, published by a dissenting poet-
preacher. On this occasion the efforts of the
preacher, as we are informed by all present, to
impart confidence to the excited multitude, and
divert their attention, were most creditable. As
to the literary merit of his sermons, it would be
unfair to judge them by the ordinary standards of
taste. Perhaps had DANIEL O'CONNELL been a
baptist preacher, he would have indulged in a
very similar style. The broad, unqualified,
confident assertions of what he fully be-
lieves, language chosen not from books,
or the conventional pulpit dialect, but from the
shop, and the social circle, great natural dramatic
powers, au obviously humorous turn, yet, as so fre-
quently happens, in combination with almost equal
powers for pathos, add to all this a voice heard
with ease, and pleasantly too, by ten thousand at
once, and it is not wonderful that Mr. SPURGEON
is followed. If he were a speaker on Chartism
or Toryism, Unitarianism or the Highest Cal-
vinism, he would still be followed ; he is essentially
an orator for the many.

LATEST NEWS.

The Paris correspondent of the Times (second

edition) says :

" It was yesterday given as certain that M.
Antonini, the Neapolitan Minister at this Court,
would quit Paris immediately for Brussels. In
this there was nothing extraordinary after the
rupture of diplomatic relations between the Courts
and the official announcement of the fact in the
Moniteur. Besides, M. Antonini is the Envoy of his
Sicilian Majesty to the Court of Brussels as well as
to that of Paris. I learn today, however, that the
rupture which has just taken place is not of so stern
a character as to require the departure of M. An-
tonini, and that he will not quit us unless ho
receives the special and peremptory order of his
Sovereign to do so ; or, what certainly is much
less probable, unless the French Government sends
him his passports, accompanied by as peremptory
an order to evacuate the capital of the French
Empire as our !Minister received at Madrid in
1848. It is also said that Baron Brenier (the
French Minister at Naples) will not leave his post
immediately. Ho will still remain some days,
perhaps some weeks, at Naples, while there yet
remains a hope that the King will relent. It is
anticipated here that, notwithstanding the official
rupture, an arrangement which will not hurt the
amour propre of any of the parties interested is
not impossible. The King of Naples is impressed
with the belief that the Emperor Napoleon is very
unwilling to push matters to an extreme.

Queen Maria Christina intends quitting Paris
soon, and will spend the winter at Rome.

The Vienna correspondent of the Times (second
edition), in a letter dated Oct. 18, says :
" Certain remarks which have reached my ears
during the last few days induce me to fancy that
the foundation for a future alliance between
Russia and France has already been laid, but it
is possible that the atmosphere of Vienna makes
me over-suspicious. Austria is for the moment
almost isolated, and it is not clear to me where
she is to find allies, unless indeed she can manage
to effect a complete reconciliation with England and
Prussia. It is still positively affirmed here that
the Emperor of Russia never expressed his disap-
probation of the policy of Austria to Prince Ester-
hazy, but you may be assured that he did so. I re-
peat that the Czar, at the Congratulation Levee,
told the Austrian Ambassador Extraordinary that
he received his personal congratulations with plea-
sure, but added, ' You may write to your Court
that I prefer actions to words.' The sentence
quoted was repeated more than once, and was
heard by two or three persons who were standing
by. Prince Esterhazy was deafer than usual,
and did not choose to hear what was said by the
Czar, but he called on Prince Gortschakoff on
the day after the levee, and related what had
passed. I made no reply to his Majesty,' said
the Austrian Ambassador, " because I did not
consider either the place or the occasion (ni les
lieux ni l'oceasion) fitting for such a description of
conversation.' Did not the Hungarian Prince
display more tact than the Russian Emperor ?"

FRANCE.
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.
"We are assured on good authority," says the
Verite, " that the Marquis d'Antonini, Neapolitan
Ambassador at Paris, and the Commandeur-Mar-
quis de Cito, first secretary of embassy, are about
to proceed to Brussels. These diplomatists will
await in that city the termination of the crisis
which has disturbed the relations between France
and the Court of Naples."
" Not only is the resignation of Marshal Serrano
positive," says a Paris letter in the Independance
of Brussels, " but he has announced his firm in-
tention of persisting in his resolution, whatever
may be the answer ho receives from the Narvaez
Cabinet. The Duke de Rivas appears to be the
statesman who has the greatest chance of being ap-
pointed as successor to Marshal Serrano."

- A telegraphic despatch from Toulon of yesterday
states that nothing has been seen of the English
squadron since its departure from Ajaccio. The
French squadron was still off Toulon, but ready to
put out to sea.

The following order of the day was lately ad-
dressed by Marshal Randon to the troops on his
return from Kabylia :
"Soldiers,—ln the course of a few weeks you have
met the enemy twenty times, and in those different com•
bats your valour has always been crowned with victory.
The tribes of the Jurjura, who had revolted, have re-
ceived a severe and well-merited chastisement. You
have valiantly executed the task which the Emperor had
entrusted to you, and it only now remains to confer
recompenses on those who have more particularly dis-
tinguished themselves. I shall on the subject make
warm representations, which, I have no doubt, the
Minister of War wid receive with favour. Soldiers,
you will not have to bid a long farewell to the moun-
tains which you have just gone over, for you will have
to again appear there in spring, when we will achieve
the conquest of that Kabylia, where no one will have
penetrated before you. Prior to dissolving the expedi-
tionary corps of which I had the command, I address
to the generals my thanks for the most useful and de-
voted co-operation which they have afforded me on every
occasion.'

Amongst the banns of marriage posted Rp at
Algiers lately was that of Viscount do Salignao
Fenelon, colonel of the Ist. Chasseurs d'Afrique
with Mlle. Randon, daughter of the Governor:
General of Algeria.

BoultsE, Oct. 11.—The following were tho last
quotations :

Cash. ft. c
41 per Cents PO 90
3 per Cents 66 75
New Loan 66 70
Bank Shares 3,930 Roman ............. .
Cr edit Mobilier 1,460 A.ustrian ....... ...
..
Belgian Fives. ......
Piedmontese (5) 69 Home Debt .........
RAILWAYS—YOB CABEI.
fr. c.
...... . 1,265 Western ............... 885 Orleans
955 Strasburg ............ 875
-.....1,280
New Ditto ......... 790
Northern
Lyons
Mediterranean — Grand Central ...... 610 4a
Lyons Geneva 720 Testa ..............
~...'
Cette 692 50 Austrian Com ..
.... 785
•••••

End of Moutb.
_f• —O.

fr. a.

THE PRINCIPALITIES.
A letter from Vienna of the 17th, in the German
Journal of Frankfort, says:---" In answer to the
application made to the Austrian Cabinet by Count
Walewski on the subject of the prolonged occupa-
tion of the Danubian Principalities, it was replied
that the first application of the Porte on the sub-
ject would be attended to by Austria."
We find on this subject, in the Vienna Gazette
of the 17th, a second article on the subject of the
occupation, from which the following is an ex-
tract :
" In order to still more complicate the present state
of affairs, France is more persisting than
ever
Austria,
the
ia,
subject of the evacuation of the Principalities by A
that is to say, the abandonment of them to
an
unknownhas
destiny. The considerable sacrifices which Austria
guarantee
made in the occupation had for object to
Principalities from the attacks of Russia,
eu
those of anarchy. it was for that purpose well
the
et he a
t ins from
p th
e
treaty concluded between the Porte and
assent of the Western Power:3,
was given
n which was
urAustria,the e ato a
tti
oho
n
was made dependent on a private convention
to take place between Austria and the Sublime Porte.
But at this moment the Porte does not demand the
r
evacuation of the Principalities. Under
regret that a
Under existing cir-
curnstances it would, on the co
without interfering in the
power should not occupy them, and offer a guarantee
against disorder and violence,
internal affairs of the country.

The Journal de Dresde has a Paris letter, in
which it is stated that the meeting of the Congress
is not only fixed, but itis doubtful if it will take
place at

The Oest. Deutsche, Fos: pretends that England
has asked and obtained a reunion of the naval
squadrons as the minimum preliminary to more
decided action, reserving, however, to herself the
adoption of ulterior measures independently of
France.

M. Lindenberg, the principal editor of the Gazette
Pattiotique, has been found guilty of defaming the
Prince of Prussia. He has been condemned by
the Tribunal of Potsdam to nine months' imprison-
ment and the deprivation of all civil rights. Gen.
Gerlach appoared as a witness.