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THE SON, LONDON, WEDNESDAY
._EVENING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1858.

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1858, will be paid at the Agency of the Banque Generale
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THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstono.
THIS EVENING will be performed THE WAY TO
•KEEP HIM. Messrs. Buckstone, Howe, and Farren ; Mrs.
'. Sinclair.
After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE GUADAL-
.2UIVER. Perea Neua.
Followed by A WICKED WIFE. Miss Reynolds.
To conclude with A KISS IN THE DARK.

He is not very enthusiastic on the subject, but he
acknowledges the necessity, and we hope and
believe that we shall obtain far better, terms from
the present Government than from -their pre-
decessors. It will be the great ordea', which, if
successfully encountered will give them a prolonged
tenure of office, at all events " &wino.t, good be-
haviour."

Side by side, yesterday evening, we reported the
speeches of a Liberal member to a large manufac-
turing constituency and of two county members to
an agricultural one. Mr. EWING gave an account
of his Parliamentary behaviour to the busy men of
Paisley, and our old acquaintance, W. 8., with his

colleague Mr. Du CANE, told their story to the ap-

plauding yeomen of Essex. In some things they
agreed, as all Englishmen, Whig or Tory, county
or town representatives, are sure to do. The honour
of the country must be maintained, however alarmed
French counts and colonels might be, and its secu-
rity must be absolute even if Cherbourg be rendered
doubly stronger than it now is. As to what it be-
comes us to do in regard to foreign powers, friends
or foes, all are pretty.well agreed among us, except-
ing the celebrated school whose loud and bitter de-
nunciations of war, however righteous the cause,
emboldened, as we verily believe, the guilty
NICHOLAS to imbrue his hands in the blood of

Europe.
The Paisley senator, however, and the members
for North Essex, differed, as good party men should
do, when the question came to be the policy of
1859. Not so much, though, as might have been
expected. Both parties look forward to next spring
—the Liberal orator, however, is almost at sea about
his party. Mr. EWING thinks, that by a " fusion of
the independent Liberals," a strong party and go-

rernment might be tormed which should command

the respect of the country. As to the Reform Bill,
some people thought it would be more liberal than
one proposed by the Whigs, but that must be mere
conjecture ; he believed that they had not yet
made up their minds, nor would do so till the
eleventh hour, and that then we should have just
as little offered as it might be supposed the country
would put up with. Mr. EWART certainly drew
his Tory Reform Bill picture from the PALMERSTON
Cabinet of this spring. That more would be offered

than would not be a positive mockery of the
country no one believed ; while the Reform Bill
promised in the QUEgN'S Speech in December was
not even in draft by the Easter holidays—it was
not in the power of the ejected Minister to draw
forth from his desk a bill of any sort, and to say to
the dgobedient house, and the laughing country,

See what you have lost by turning off PALMERSTON
and Reform for DERBY and nothing.
But what does Mr. EWING mean by the fusion
of the independent Liberals ? Who and what are
they ? And does he mean that the fused indepen-
dents are to form a Cabinet from among themselves,
as his language would seem to imply ? Hardly,
we should think, the latter, since he scarcely ex-
pects that Mr. GIBSON and Mr. BRIGHT would be
likely to take office, although others of the Liberal
outsiders might be ready enough to do so. Perhaps
he ranks Lord J. RUSSELL amongst the indepen-
dents 1. unless, however, the noble lord marvellously
reforms himself, he will want to exact an obedience

from the advanced Reformers, which they would

be foolish indeed to concede, since it is not easy to
say wherein he will go much further than the
present occupants of the Treasury benches. He
opposes, like them, the Ballot and the abolition of
Church-rates—that is, he is on the wrong side, as
much as they, of the two ecclesiastical and political
testing questions of the day. In fact, we hope that

both sections of the Whigs—both the Russellites
and the Palmerstonians—are sentenced to penal
opposition till they have learned to serve their
country, not to domineer over it, and to carry out
its wishes instead of palming off their own upon it.
We want something worth changing for when we
change our Ministry again.
But what, in regard to Reform, is the tone of the
Conservative members ?—of such a Conservative

member as Mr. Du CANE, who regrets Lord
DERBY'S concessions of last session, and even
wishes he had left the property qualifica-
tion to be dealt with as a part of a larger
measure ? It is curious to see how this
gentleman, the colleague of Major BERESFORD for
a county, has been compelled to adopt the new
creed which Mr. DISRAELI has taught the Conser-
vatives. Though he opposed Mr. LocKE KING'S
most reasonable Bill, he is " not averse to any

change in our present representation." On the
contrary, he thinks that " resistance to progressive
improvement forms no true item in a Conservative
creed"—a statement which his Tory supporters
loudly cheered. He added, fairly enough,
that "if we persist in opposing all improvement,
under the name of innovation, the day will come
when, as in 1831, we shall be compelled to swallow
innovation divested of improvement." If he had
modified the last sentence, cleverly turned enough
in the Conservative sense—if he had told his con-
stituents that they would, if they resisted too long,
be obliged to swallow a double dose of improve-

ment, administered, not by autocrats, but by an

aroused country, he would have told them the
quiet truth. Mr. Du CANE distinctly expresses his
hope that Parliament will deal with the subject in
a comprehensive and impartial spirit next session ;
though between " those whose desires are boundless
and those who would let well alone, the task will
be a Herculean one."

On one point he agrees with our old friend Lord
GREY, who on this subject has become a thorough
Tory, and hopes that the bill will be of such a nature a.;
to b; regarded as a final settlement by the country.
He thinks that nothing is "more detrimental to the
progress of sound legislation than reopening and
tampering, bit by bit, and piecemeal, with so great
and vital a- question as that of Parliamentary
Reform." We think, and always have thought,
that there is a deal of cant in this kind of talk. It
is the excuse for leaving obvious amendments in
Our representation untouched for years. Our

legislation is all of the patch-work kind. We have
no codes, much less any constitutions, cut and dried
in our history. Be it a defect or otherwise, such is
the plain fact. Our constitution and legislation is
not a straight poplar tree growth, but rather that
of an oak ; much less:symmetrical it may be, and
with hardly one long straight bough on it; but this
has proved its strength. There may be little regularity
but each small part has pushed itself, it may
be crOokedly, forward, and it forms one strong
whole. Of course we care not how far the Con-
servatives, or any other party, will take us
in their love of progress ; but we do not mean
to bind ourselves over to stop progress at their
milestone. Nothing of the sort. We wish
that to be distinctly understood. We shall
be Reformers while anything is left to be reformed,
whether it be in our representation or in our laws.
It may be convenient to the anti-reforming class to
fling us a good large mouthful, and tell us, as Lord
cuEvatIFORD did the electors of Stamford, that that
shrould .t -hour throats ; but our throats will last
fo
and be all the worse if they had
nu 4: service,
to us, will, fora cen-
tury to swallow. Our representation,
nothing
like everything elsebelonging
till the New Zealander actu-
ally to come, perilaPs
ken arches of London-bridge,
ally mounto the PrP--

admit 'of indefinite improvement ; and most cer-
tainly we shall never relax our efforts to make it
more and more exactly the reflex of the mind of
the nation. Well, if Tory county members begin
to talk about a'Reform Bill in this style, it will not
do for Reformers Tall over the country to be idle.
The recreations of autumn over, we must begin the
task of enlightening our Conservative Reform
Ministers on the sort of Reform we mean to
insist on.

THE GREAT EASTERN STEAM-SHIP.

With reference to an advertisement which was
published this morning, purporting to emanate
from the promoters of a project entitled the " Eng-
lish and American Great Steam-ship Company,
Limited," we have received the following commu-
nication from the Eastern Steam Navigation Com-
pany :
The Eastern Steam Navigation Company,
13, Gresham-street, London. _

Sir,—An advertisement having appeared- in this day's
newspapers of a company stated to have been formed for
the purpose of "Finishing and Working the Great East-
ein,' I am desired to inform you that my directors have no
knowledge of any such company ; but a well-considered
scheme, combining the interests of the present shareholders,
with ample inducement for the contribution of fresh capital,
has received the assent of a majority of their body, and of
several of the largest shareholders, and will shortly bo sub-
mitted to the proprietors.—l am, sir, your obedient servant,
Sept. 14. J. H. YATES, Secretary.
The Manchester Guardian has a paragraph from
Liverpool to the following effect :—" Arrangements
are on foot here for the purpose of calling a general
meeting of the leading inhabitants, in order to
decide what steps should be taken for the purpose-
of completing and employing the Great Eastern.
The meeting will, we understand, be presided over
by the Mayor."

RUMOURED DEATII OF J. P. SomEßs, ESQ.—
A paragraph from The Sligo Independent has been
quoted in several journals respecting the death of
Mr. Somers. We are happy to say that it is not
only without foundation, but that the hon. gentle-
man was never in better health, or more earnestly
resolved on seeking the "suffrages of Sligo constt-
tuency on the next vacancy, or with better hopes of
success. " The wish" was mrnifestly " father of
the thought" with some who would fain obtain the
position which he so long occupied.

SUSSEX HALL LITERARY INSTITUTION.—For some
time past the executive of this Institution have contemplated
the closinc, of its doors, consequent on the meagre support it
continues to receive from the public. The members of the
Institution, however, are opposed to this step, which they
think premature, and on Sunday evening last met in delibe-
ration to devise means still to uphold this, the only literary
institute among the Jews.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT WITH GUNPOWDER.—
Yesterday morning a frightful accident occurred to Ovimond
Cornin, aged 17 years, and Edwin Cornin, aged 10 years,
residing at Portland-place, Clapham, under the following
circumstances :—lt appears from the statement of one of
the sufferers that they placed a large quantity of damp gun-
powder on the hob to dry, when, standing over it with a
lighted candle, a spark fell from it on the gunpowder, when
it exploded, frightfully injuring both brothers. Without
loss of time they were conveyed to Guy's Hospital, where
every assistance was rendered, but they remain in a very
precarious state.
CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.—On Thursday next, the
21st instant, being St. Matthew's Day, the Lord Mayor,
Aldermen. and Sheriffs, together with the governors of the
several Royal Hospitals, will attend divine service at Christ's
Church, Newgate-street, at 11 o'clock precisely, when a
sermon will be preached by the Rev. George Edwin Pat-
tenden, Head Master of Boston Grammar. school, Lincoln-
shire ; after which they will repair to the Great Hall in
Christ's Hospital, where three orations will be delivered by
three of the senior scholars on the Benefits of the Royal
Hospitals, preceded by a Latin Prologue in the place of the
French Oration, which will be omitted owing to the indis-
position of Monsieur C. J. Dellille, by Theophilus Mitchell,
Senior Grecian. The Greek Oration will be delivered by
Albert Biden Rogers ; the English, by Francis Alfred
Hanbury, Mathematical Medallist, 1858 ; the Latin, by
Alfred Tucker, Classical Medallist, 1858. Three trans-
lations will also be recited by other Senior Scholars.
A translation from Shakspeare's " Macbeth" into Greek
lambics, by Henry Charles Bowker, Mathematical
Medalist, 1857, Pitt Club Scholar, 18.58 ; a trans-
lation from Campbell's " Hohenlinden " into Greek
Sapphics by Mortimer Sloper Howell ; a translation from
Macaulay's " Prophecy of Capys" into Latin Alcaics, by
Albert Henry Poulton. There will also be recited two ori-
ginal poems—one, in Latin hexameters, " being the
Richards Prize poem" on the Pilgrimage to Mecca, by
Mortimer Sloper Howell ; and the other in English, on the
Siege of Lucknow_, by Albert Henry Poulton.
A WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH IN BED.—On
Saturday night, between nine and ten o'clock, a woman
named Mary Howard, the wife of a cork cutter, lodging
at a house in Hardman-street, Deansgate, occupied by an
old man named Alexander Mitchell, was taken to bed in a
state of insensibility from intoxication, and her child, about
ten months old, was placed in the bed with her. About
half-an-hour afterwards the occupants of the house per-
ceived a smell of fire, and on proceeding to the room where
Howard slept they found the bedclothes in a blaze. The
assistance of the police and some of the neighbours was
quickly obtained, and information sent to the fire brigade ;
but when a body of firemen arrived they found that the fire
had been partially extinguished with buckets of water, and
the child rescued, with little injury.; but the woman was
still lyin on one end of the bed seriously burnt. As quickly
as possible she was removed from the bed, and, conveyed
on a board to the Royal Infirmary. She was much burned
about the breast, arms, and sides. There were no hopes of
saving her life, and she died at two o'clock yesterday morn-
ing. The origin of the fire cannot be definitely ascertained,
but it is supposed, from the fact of the woman's pipe being
afterwards found in bed, that she had lighted and smoked
her pipe in bed, and accidentally ignited the clothes. The
candle was found extinguished, and in its usual place,
which favours this supposition. An inquest was held upon
the body by Mr. Herford, City coroner, yesterday, when a
verdict of " Accidental death" was returned.--. Manchester
Guardian. _ _

- THE REFORM MOVEMENT IN THE NORTH.—An
active agitation in favour of Parliamentary Reform has, for
the last eight months, been conducted in the two counties
of Durham and Northumberland, by the Northern Reform
Union. From a report submitted last week to the members
/ of the Newcastle branch of the union, by the treasurer, Mr.
Jos. Cowen, jun., we learn " that upwards of 30 public
meetings in connection with the union have been held in
the northern district, commencing with Newcastle, and
comprising North Shields, South Shields, Hexham, Blyth,
Hartlepool, Darlington, Middlesborough, and nearly all the
large colliery and manufacturing villages between the Tyne
and the Tees. All the meetings have been numerously
attended, and at none has the least opposition been offered to
the resolutions of the union, or a single hand been held up
against them." The council are preparing to extend and
complete their organisdtion, and they declare "that in
every centre of population in the northern counties there
shall be, before Parliament re-assembles, a local branch of
the Reform Union." A great gathering of reformers is to
be held in Newcastle in the course of a few weeks, at which
the winter campaign is to be formally commenced. P.
A. Taylor, Esq. of London, the gentleman that the sup.
porters of the Union have pledged themselves to con-
test the representation of Newcastle at the next
election, and .other well-known reformers of the ad-
vanced school, are expected to be present. The council
issue a monthly journal, The Northern Reform. Record,
which is devoted to reporting the proceedings of the Union,
and a vigorous but temperate statement of the principles on
which it is based. The council declare their object to be
"to disseminate useful political information, and to urge
the middle and working classes to increased interest in
political affairs, but free from the personal and class decla-
mations of the Chartist tithes." The success they have
met with they declare to have been " gratifying and encou-
raging," and they write of their future efibrts in a hopeful
spirit.
THIRD ATTEMPTED SALE OF BRANKSEA CASTLE
AND ISLAND.—The celebrated property of Branksea Castle
and Island, the transient stately hall and domain of the
fugitive Colonel Waugh, was offered for sale yesterday, for
the third time, at the Auction Mart, by Mr. C. Driver.
• Particulars descriptive of the estate were handed round the
room, announcing that it was "for absolute sale," and that
the "upset price" was " fixed for auction at D 50,000." On
the occasion of the first attempted sale of the property it
was bought in at £119,000, and on that of the second at- '
tempt it was purchased in at 64,000. It is understood that
there are two mortgages upon the castle and island, one
for £37,000, and anotber for about £BO,OOO. The first mort-
gage bears with it interest at 5 per cent. per annum since
1855. There was a goodly attendance in the room, but
none of the visitors seemed inclined to become possessed of
thin much-talked-of property. After occupying nearly an
hour in describing the estate, and expatiating on its mine-
ral resources, Mr. Driver informed his auditory that to the
highest bidding beyond the upset price the property would
be knocked down. A pause ensued, when he observed that
he should not procrastinate the biddings ; he would merely
offer the estate once, twice, and thrice. Another slight
pause followed, but there was no bidding. Mr. Driver then
thanked the company for coming to listen to him, and
added that, as there were no biddings, tloi property was
bought in by the London and Eastern Banking Corpora-
' tion for £50,000, the upset price.
THE ORLEANS FAMILY.—The ex-Royal Family
of France visited Cheltenham on Thursday last, arriving
from Malvern, where they have been staying for some weeks
past. The party included the ex-Queen Marie Amelie, the
Count de Paris, the Duke de Chartres, the Prince and Prin-
cess de Joinville, the Princesses Blanche and Francois°,
the Prince of Ponthieu, the Prince of Wurtemburg, and a
suite, consisting of the Count and Countess de Chabannes,
and six or seven other attendants. After resting a short
time and • partaking of luncheon, which was in waiting
on their arrival, the party proceeded in three open car-
riages, first, to Cambray-house, the ex-Queen having a
desire to visit once again the dwelling in which she resided
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through the pump-room and grounds, admiring especially
the noble avenue of centenarian elms • and then resuming
their route, drove to Lord Northwic' k's residence, in the
reropi I:ro:0g
Bath-road, for the purpose of inspecting the paintings and
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other objects of high art there treasured by their noble
owner. The intention of the party to visit tae galleries of
Thirlestane-house, though intended to be kept secret,
would seem to have transpired, for on their arrival,
shortly after 2 p.m. there must have been in the various
rooms some 60 or /0 visitors, who at once recognized
the illustrious personages just introduced. Wtth many
of the paintings in this beautiful collection the
ex-Queen and others of the Royal party, as they passed
through the several galleries, expressed themselves
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Looker-on.

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covered by their cavalry, among whom the artil-
lery made sonic good practice. It soon became
dark, and the infantry being quite exhausted, pur-
suit was impossible. The rebels are chiefly cavalry.
I have five hunched of her Majesty's 83d, two
hundred 13th N. 1., sixty Guzerat Horse, and three
guns with me. The men have borne the fatigue
cheerfully, and behaved well. The rebels are this
morning at Goosla, on the Oodeypore road."

Colonel Holmes' detachment, which had kept up
a hot pursuit of the enemy in a different direction,
without much result, found it impossible to come up
with them, and they at last escaped by a pass
which, being encumbered with artillery, he could
not cross. These rebels then turned to the west,
and intend, it is said, descending into Marwar by
the Chutter Boof. or one of the Marwar passes.
It was not thought any of the Thakoors would
join them, and troops have been moved from
Ahmeedabad towards Oodeypore, to check their
advance into Guzerat. The detachment under
Colonel Holmes joined General Robert's force on
the 10th, and the pursuit was recommenced on the
13th. On the 18th August (yesterday), the rebel
fugitives were overtaken and defeated, as will be
seen by the following telegraphic despatch from
General Roberts, dated Camp Kotarea, 18th
August :

"I came up with the rebel army this morning
about nine o'clock, at this place (Kotarea), about
10 miles north of Nathwarre, and totally defeated
him, capturing his fine brass guns, four in number,
with ammunition, &c. The loss of the enemy in
killed is severe. Our casualties are few. The
enemy were scattered in all directions, but seemed
most to be going towards the S.S.E. The Cavalry
and Horse Artillery have gone after them."