The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, 1858.

?THEATRE-1W YAL, DRURY-LANE.—tinder
I- the Managemei it of Miss Louisa Ppie aud Mr. W
Harrison.
tris EVENING. Auber's grand Opera, THE CROWN
DIAMONDS : The characters by Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss
Susan I'yne, Mr. Gecl . Honey, Mr. A. St. Albyn, ;fir. Henry
Cord, Mr. Bartlema., Mr Terrott,7and Mr. W. Harriseu -
Conde •ctor—Mr. Alfred Mellon.
To conclude with a nt w Ballet Divertissement, LA FLEUR
D' AMOUR : Michelet, Morlacchi, and Pasquale.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
'2IIIS EVENING will be presented shakspere's Tragedy of
MACBETH.
Macbeth, 3lr. C. Kean ; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. C. Kean.
Preceded by the Farce of
NG
DYI FOB, LOVE.

THEATRE-ROYAL HAY MARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
ETENING will he perthrmed (sixth time), THE
T. .E OF A COAT. Mr.. Charles Mathews.
Aftcr which, THE DOWAGER. Mr. and Mrs. Charles
athws.
Follevcd by THE ETON BOY. Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Mathews, Acc.
And JA K'3 RETURN FROM CANTON.
Commence at 7.

lIOYAI STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Sycanboronzh.
THIS EVENING, WOOING IN JEST AND LOVING
IN 'EARNEST:
,Messrs. Selby, Porsche, and Miss Swan-
borough.
After which THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE.
Followed by THE LAST OF' rIIE PIGTAILS : Messrs.
C. Selby, J. Bland, J. Clarke, C.
And THE BONNIE FISH WIFE.
Conn:truce at 7 o'clock.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.
Sole Lessee, Mr. William Cooke.
Astounding and Expensive Parisian Engagement.
THIS EVENING, and durintr the week, will be presented
THE WOODMAN'S HORSE, introducing a treble company
of equestrians and the finest Stud of Horses in the world.
Characters by Messrs. Holloway, W. Cooke, Anson, Francis,
Mark Howard, Anderson.
Followed by the inimitable SCENES OF THE ARENA,
in which Mr. W. Cooke, Mr. Runnels, Miss Kate Coke, and
Madlle. Blanche will appear.
After which, Madame Amile Maurice, from Paris, will make
her Terrific Ascent from the Stage to the back of the Galleries.
Mons. Maurice will also have the honour to, introduce his
extraordinary Dogs.
To conclude with A MISTAKEN STORY.
Dress Circle, 3s. ; Upper Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Galleries, 6d.
Private Boxes from-XI ls. to £2 2s. and upwards.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.--
Proprietor—C. MORTON.
The public is most respectfully informed that the FINE
ARTS GALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12
o'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec-
tion of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters and is also
devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels
he may confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist-
ing* Music Hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently
added Ante-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether
as regards the architectural beauty of the structures them-
selves, or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations
within, will be found to be wholly without parallel in the
The MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at
Seven o'clock.

TIIE WEATHER.—SV•N OFFICE, Nov. 14.

THERM*METEIC, IN TIIE:SUADE.
47—highest since noon yesterday.
45—lowest this raorning and during the night.
48—this day at noon.
BAnomrrnr.-29.48--a great fall.
WIND, Easterly; strong fresh gales, with dull, cold
weather.

Nov. 15.
48—highest since noon yesterday.
42—lowest this morning and during the night.
44—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-2G•72 —a sudden rise.
WIND, Easterly; fresh, with cold fine weather.

We have had another telegram from Alexandria,
bringing dates from Bombay to the 25th October,
and Aden to the 22d November. They are of the
usual character. Again we hear of TANTIA TOPEE
making gigantic but hopeless efforts to retrieve his
position, so far as natives arc concerned, but flying
before, or defeated by, the British troops, whenever
they can overtake what may literally be designated
as his " flying brigades." There is still extraordi-
nary energy displayed by this man. He has re-
ceived defeat after defeat, been deprived of guns
and ammunition, and his troops scattered and
dispersed throughout the jungle and wild
passes of the district ; but within a few

days they are again recruited with marvel-
lous celerity. He is again enabled to menace every
native who may be supposed to be friendly to the
British rule, and, still more extraordinary, to find
all the materiel of war to replace that of
which he had been deprived so shortly before.
At one moment he is levying many lacs of rupees
on native bankers and merchants to prevent the
confiscation of their effects, and the next destrcting
a contumelious town or district which is either un-
tOle or unwilling to comply with his exorbitant de-
mands. We now hear that, after burning Esanghur,
he eacountered SCINDIA'S troops, the fight lasting
three days, and the indefatigable rebel eventually
entering Chundarec—after the loss, however, cf 800
n e.i. General MICHEL, however, subsequently
encountered him at Moorgow Dey, and again at
Seindwis on the 19th October, and entirely routed
him, capturing all his guns. Had we cavalry to
follow up our successes to their legitimate conclu-
sions, their total destruction would speedily be
effected. This, however, will be remedied ere long,
and then the rebels will be brought to a true sense
of their situation.

Indeed, we may believe that the beginning of
the end of the rebellion has at length arrived.
Lord CLYDE is slowly but steadily bringing up his
forces, and forming his strategetieal arrangements
with so much, skill and judgment, that he will be
enabled to ensure not merely the defeat, but the
destruction or surrender of the insurgents. There
must, of course, be many instances in which, from
the extraordinary activity of the enemy, and their
knowledge of the jungles and wild passes of the
country, scattered parties may be enabled to escape
and to maintain a species of guerilla warfare for a
brief period. But no formidable body will remain
united to offer any combined resistance to our
troops.

Lord CLYDE possesses that which is perhaps the
first quality of a great commander. He is chary
of the lives and of the health of his soldiers. Never
hesitating to encounter any danger, either person-
ally or otherwise, for which an adequate return
can be obtained, he will not be guilty of that fool-
hardiness: that too frequently sacrifices valuable
lives without any beneficial result. He well knows
that the climate during the sickly season is fraught
with greater peril to Englishmen than the weapons
of their Opponents. He therefore allows a short
respite to the rebels, in order to economise his own
resources; whereby he will, when th 4 proper time
arrives, be enabled to accomplish far more than if
he had recklessly and rashly taken the field, as
some of his censors would have desired. past

young officers and even grave civilians may crib-
cise what they are not capable of understanding,
but we depend on the cool brain and daring valour
—the happy combination for which Lord CLYDF,
is so justly celebrated, and which Will doubtless,
ere long, be more powerfully illustrated than at
any former priod of his brilliant career.
The task which he has to accomplish is
unquestionably one of a very arduous character.
Although the British arms have triumphed in
every quarter ; although no division or brigade
of the rebels has been enabled to meet them
in fair fight, or to maintain its position on a
field of battle, still there are a number of
zemindars and chieftains, who fancy that they are

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too deeply cor nprmised to entertain any hope of
pardon. Of course they look to these matters from
an Asiatic p Dint of view. They cannot conceive
the British sys tem of tempering justice with mercy,
of distinguishing between shades of guilt, or believe.
any con3iderat ion will be shown for a fallen foe.
These men have great local power and a large number
of devoted follom .•ers. And it is farmore desirable that
they should be won back to their allegiance,
by comparati- rely gentle means than that there
should be ma ny- sanguinary examples or general
confiscation o f property.

We must re 7nember that the people and chieftains
of Oude are differently circumstanced from any
others with chom we have to deal. They have not
owed a prolonged allegiance to the Anglo-Indian
Government. Many had not even given in their
adhesion to ti le just and necessary decree that de-
throned thci r imbecile Sovereign. There was
certainly a. broad and striking distinction be-
tween their case and that of the mutinous
Sepoys—wbo had proved " unfaithful to their
salt," and displayed the deepest ingratitude against
those by whom they had been clothed and fed, and
who had treated them with extraordinary kindness
—making ample allowance for every prejudice and

jealous suspicion that seemed to be part of their
natures. The latter have no claim for indulgence,
but the former may be treated with lenient con-
sideration whenever they are disposed to make
unconditional submission.
But there is another, and a very important class
in Oude, who have not yet elected the colours
under which they are to fight—who have not com-
mitted themselves one way or the other—who
have preserved what may be termed a species of
" armed neutrality," ready to adopt the Pickwickian
maxim of "shouting with the largest mob," or
casting in their lot with the strongest party. The
moment Lord CLYDE is enabled to . take the field
these men will be enabled to declare themselves,
and then they will join with greater energy eve 4
than the British troops in hunting down the
defeated rebels who have been conquered by
British prowess, skill, and bravery.

What is the most damaging difficulty with which
advanced Reformers have to deal ? We reply
America and France. We wish not to write a dis-
paraging word of either country—one is allied to us
by blood, and by political institutions, on the whole,
similar ; the other by the friendship of our Go-
vernment with her ruler, and by the altered tone
of our people generally towards the French people.
Yet it is an undeniable fact that when Radicals
ask for anything like Universal Suffrage and the
Ballot, or for a fair apportionment of members to
population, or even to voters, we are immediately
pointed to America and France. And not only
that, but the reference is felt to be an inconvenient II
one. Our Transatlantic cousins, and our allies I
across the Channel, if they see accounts of our pub-
lic meetings, must have observed how every Tory
obstructive uses them as warnings, and how nearly
every RadiCal, Mr. JOHN BRIGHT, perhaps, who is
never very measured in his assertions, excepted, is
unable to convert the warning into an encourage-
ment. The Radical leaves such political meetings or
speeches, wishing that, for his argument's sake,
America and France either presented a very dif-
ferent aspect, or that they were scuttled for four-
and-twenty hours. He could, we may allow, if you
give him time, make out that his arguments for
thoroughgoing Parliamentary Reform were sound
and practical after all, but he feels that his shield
is so cumbrous that ere he can bring it into posi-
tion, the audience regard him as having received
an awkward stroke. He may feel that he is not
disabled, but if he is to be victor at last, the meeting
thinks he was down and undermost in that round.

This ought not to-be. The Great Republic, at
least, ought to furnish us with an illustration on
which we might declaim by the hour respecting
the advantages of the utmost conceivable political
liberty; and France, La Belle France, ought to
show us, close at hand, in a different race, and as a
sort of experimentum crucis, that in an old Euro-
pean state universal suffrage and vote: by ballot
bestowed on the people at large such liberty as
they had never enjoyed under their old, arbitrary
monarchs, or under a constitutional monarchy with
very limited suffrage, and open voting. As we
have just observed, it is altogether the reverse. If
these political arrangements would conduce to
political freedom here, we must ascertain the pro-
bability of such a result from anything but the
experience of the Empire and the Union. In the
former, we see that, against the political arrange-
ments of the day, " not a dog may wag his tongue,"
much less one of the most gifted of Frenchmen
venture to describe them in comparison with those
of our own country. Nowhere throughout, the
world do we behold all liberty of action more com-
pletely fettered, and all expression of opinion, ex-
cept cuckoo iterations of " Napoleonic ideas," more
effectually interdicted than in the great nation
whose electors count their numbers by tens of
millions, and give their votes in freedom from the
surveillance of any one. Universal suffrage and
the ballot are in France compatible with, as some
would say, the foundation of a despotism over body
and mind the most revolting to Englishmen which
they can well conceive of. Hence the force of the
allusion. Indeed, few speakers who make it like
to develop its force ; to do so they must, more
strongly than we could wish, deal in vituperations
of our distinguished ally.
With America it is the came, but with a difference.
We see there a despotism to which that of France
can hardly be compared—a despotism over a race,
now native—a race which has the misfortune to be
of a colour diverse to our own, and a despotism so
extensive, so complete, and, on the whole, so cruel
and immoral, as to be without parallel in any Chris-
tian or civilised country. We see this despotism
rampant in what are called, and what used to be,
the Free States. Voters there by the million sus-
tain the slave power in all its enormities, even
while those very Free States are politically sub-
jugated by the slaveholders of the South. In this
country free Englishmen, under monarchical insti-
tutions, and with a suffrage extending to but one
in seven, compelled the emancipation of their
slaves in the distant South. In America the guilty
South borders on the Free North, and yet the latter
is unappalled by the iniquity, and votes in its favour.
And, besides this public moral delinquency, it is
notorious, first, that the Emperor Mob dictates to
genius and honesty what it shall be allowed to give
to the world through the press ; and, secondly, that
Governmental corruption surpasses the worst eve:•
heard of in our own country. The jobbing and
purchasing of votes for private bills in the lobbies
of Congress is attested by its own investigations;
and the universal bribery by means of all the
s •
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rr 0 a
alvhieh
no
Government salaried appointments, down to ife
very
ea vi t
1g
postmaster,paisrtya ipsrasterteicneg openly re]
t
break through. Ave must own, then, that if an
extended suffrage and the ballot would Americanize
or Frenchify our institutions,
we should, unlike
Mr. BRIGHT, say—have nothing to do with them I
We apprehend the true answer to all such argu-
ments is, that we are neither Frenchmen nor
Americans, but Englishmen. Even the " leading
jo al," which for the last few weeks has given

indications of discovering from which quarter the
wind is likely to blow most strongly in the spring,
acknowledges' the weight of this truism—that it is,
indeed, a weighty fact, and not a mere truism. The
Tinies does not now tremble at what even a rating
suffrage would do, because it would be conferred on
Englishmen! We hold this to be perfectly sound
argument. We have a national character. Even our
comparatively illiterate operatives share it with the
alumni of universities and the wearers of coronets.
Rascaldom has as small a proportional territory
among the poor as among the rich. You could
never induce a company of little English trades-
men, likely to want such an office, to put their votes
into a ballot-box to turn out any honest but humble
postmaster. They might try and get the situation
for their man were it vacant—they would consider
it fairiame then ; but they would not think it fair
to turn a neighbour out. Englishmen, as a body,
have the strongest possible feeling in favour of
what is fair, and the clearest perception of what is
so. This would keep them from American shabbi-
ness of the kind alluded to. Indeed, in regard to
the servility of Frenchmen, so keenly satirised by
M. DE MONTALEMBERT, and the mob tyranny of
American democracy over the press and over
Congress itself, English nobility and love of fair-
play are equal safeguards against both. No as-
sembly, whether of rich or poor, of workmen or
their masters, could be called together in England
which would not refuse either to part with their
own liberties or to take those of others.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Nov. 13.

Her Majesty's dinner party yesterday included their
Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, the Prince of Wales
and the Princess of Leiningen, his Highness the Mahara-
jah Duleep Singh, the Prussian Minister and Countess
Bemstorff, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Col. the Hon. R.
Bruce, Sir James Clark,- and Major Teesdale, R.A. ; also,
the Earl of Malmesbury, Lord Bloomfield and Sir James
Hudsoni who remained at the Castle after the audiences,
and Lady Bloomfield, who arrived in the afternoon on a
visit. '

His Highness the Maharajah Duleep Singh took leave of
her Majesty, and returned to London.
The following visitors also took their departure :—The
Earl of Malraesbury, the Prassian Minister and Countess
Bemstorff, Lord and Lady Bloomfield, and Sir Jas. Hud
son. Her Majesty held a Privy Council in the afternoon.
Present—His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, the
Marquis of Salisbury, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of
Hardwicke, the Earl of Derby, the Right Hon. Spencer
Walpole, the Right Hon. Major-General Peel, the Right
Hon. Sir John Pakington, Lord John Manners, the Mar-
quis of Exeter, and Earl Delawarr.

At the Council Parliament was ordered to be further
prorogued from Thursday, 18th Nov., until Thursday, 13th
January.
The six Crown members of the Medical Council were ap-
pointed.
The Hon. Wm. Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council
in Waiting.

The following had audiences of her Majesty :
The Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Derby, Sir John
Pakin,sion, Major-General Peel, and Mr. S. Walpole.

Colonel Tache, from Canada, was presented to the Queen
at an audience, and received from her Majesty the honour
of Knighthood.
Lord Raglan and Mr. J. Ormsby Gore were the Lord
and Groom in Waiting.

His Excellency the Ambassador of France and
the Duchess of Malakoff came to town to-day from visiting
the Duke and Duchess of Manchester at Kimbolton Castle.

His Excellency the Prussian Minister and the
Countess de Bernstorff arrived in town on Saturday from
visiting her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have been
surrounded by a distinguished circle at Kimbolton Castle.
His Excellency the French Ambassador and the Duchess
of Malakoff, the Earl Cowpox., Count and Countess Blon-
doff, and Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, have been among
the gues6 of the noble duke and duchess.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch have left
town for Bowhill, Selkirkshire.

The Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury,
the Earl of Hardwicke, General Peel, Sir J. Pakington,
Lord J. Manners, and the Hon. W. Bathurst, returned to
London, on Saturday afternoon by a special train on the
Great Western Railway, after attending the Quren's Privy
Council at Windsor Castle.

The Earl of Malmesbury- left Whitehall-gardens
on Saturday to join the circle visiting the Duke and
Duchess of Manchester at Kimbolton Castle. The noble
earl will return to town to-day.

The. Earl and Countess of Lichfield have arrived
at Shugsborouxh Hall, Staffordshire, from the noble earl's
shooting quarters in the north of Scotland. -
Lord and Lady Harry Vane arrived in town. on
Friday, from visiting the Duchess Dowager of Cleveland at
Newton House, and left town on Saturday for their seat,
Battle Abbey, Sussex.

Lord and Lady Saltoun are receiving company at
Piloith, the family seat in Aberdeenshire. His lordship
has just purchased a house in Hereford-street, Park-lane.
Lady Noel Byron (widow of the poet lord) has
left Claridge's Hotel for her residence on St. George's-
terrace.

The Dowager Lady Truro has arrived at her
residence in Eaton-square from a tour on the Continent.

Sir William and Lady Middleton have arrived at
their residence in Grosvenor-place from Shrubland Hall,
Norfolk.

Mr. and Lady Mary Craven are prolonging their
visit to the Emperor and Empress of the French at Com-
peigne, andaro not expected to return to England until the
close of this week.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—At the court at
Windsor, the 13th day of November, 1858, present, the
Queen's most excellent Majesty in council. It is this day
ordered by her Majesty in council, that the Parliament,
which stands prorogued to Thursday, the 18th day of
November instant, be further prorogued to Thursday, the
13th day of January next. —Gazette.
The Prince of Wales has been made a colonel in
the army. It was at one time contemplated that the heir
apparent should go through a course of military training at
the College of Sandhurst, in the same manner-as Prince
Edward of Saxe 'Weimar, and, in a modified degree, this
arrangement may yet be carried into effect ; but we believe
the precedent of George IV., when Prince of Wales, will,
in the main, be followed in the present instance. Incon-
veniences, which must be plain to everybody, would have
followed any attempt to make the heir to the Crown do a
subaltern's duty in any regiment. But, in the case of
Prince Arthur, it will be different ; he will be trained a
soldier, and, after the example of his great uncle, the Duke
of York, will go through all the regimental grades of the
service ; like Prince Alfred, in the navy, he will begin at
the lowest grade, and, as soon as he is old enough and has
got sufficiently forward with his studies, the country may
expect to see this young prince pursuing his education at
Sandhurst like any other cadet. —Court Journal.
Prince Alfred is expected shortly to visit Roche-
fort in the Euryalis. It has been intimated to the autho-
rities that the royal middle desires not to be received with
the honours due to his princely rank.
Miss Arabella Goddard is engaged to M. Gus-
tavus.
Le. Geary, the eminent tenor singer, of Dublin, for a
series of concerts in that city, Cork, and Limerick, the first
week in February, in conjunction with other artistes of
celebrity.—Era. _ _ _

At Paris " Il Barbiere" has been produced at the
-Italian Opera, with Sigs. Mario, Corsi, and Zucchini' and
Madames Alboiii and Congelini, in the_cast. Report says
that Mario sings better than ever.
It is stated that M. Berlioz has written a new
opera to his own libretto.
Mr. Phelps's son has, it is said, written a very
clever and amusing farce, entitled " A Tenant for Life."
We understand that the piece is entirely original, and
reflects great credit on the dramatic skill and humour dis-
plyed by this young author.
Mr. Montague Williamson, the husband of Miss
Louisa Keeley, has made his debut at the Theatre Royal,
George-street, Cork, as an amateur. Mr. Charles Dillon
has also been performing at this theatre with considerable
success.
Madame Ristori is preparing three new characters
for her next season's campaign in Paris—a " Cassandra,"
in a play Written for her—a " Fornarina" in a new art-
drama, with (of course) Rafaelle as hero—and Pauline in a
translation of Corneille's " Polyeuete."
The Sunday Times says that overtures have been
made to Mr. Charles Kean to undertake the management of
the Italian Opera House, Covent-garden, after the termina-
tion of h:s lease of the Princess's, in July, at which period
the opera season would be drawing to a close. Mr. Kean
has not, as yet, acceded to the proposal.
We (Era) regret to announce the death of Mr.
Hoary Lee, late of the Theatres Royal, Drury-lar_e,
Olympic, &c. after a protracted and painful illness. The,
deccasci will be remembered by playgoers as a most pains-
tak:r3 acid conscientious performer, while his private cha-
rendered him a valued friend to a large circle of
the profession.
ENGLISH OPERA AT COVENT GARDEN.—The
approaching English Opera season at Covent Garden will
be inaugurated at Christmas with every prospect of bril-
liant success. Her Majesty has testified her interest in the
undertaking by commanding, the reservation of the royal
box, while the example of her patronage has been eagerly
f ;Rowed by the principal nobility. An engagement with
Mr. Sims Reeves, our great English tenor, has been for
some time in negotiation. Mr. W. Beverley is superinte74-
ing the execution of the scenery of the pantomime, which is
founded on one of the most popular of our nursery ta!e3,
and is the joint production of Mr. J. V. Bridgman and Mr.
Sutherland Edwards. Mr. W.-H. Payne will personate
the chief character in the opening, and the humour and
agility of the " renowned Flexmore" will illustrate the
comic scenes.

HONG KONG, Sept. 27.—Albert Smith has been
giving at the club his entertainment (Mont Blanc) ; the
audience was very numerous. He leaves for England by
to•morrow's mail.

LATEST NEWS.

INDIA.

STEAM YACHT FOR EL HAM' PASHA.

One of the most beautifully proportioned of the
many noble steam. yachts which have been
•con-
structed this country for various European
Princes made her first trial trip down the river on
Saturday. The result of the trial was in the high-
est degree satisfactory, and fully justified the great
expectations which had been formed of a vessel
built with such care and fitted with enginss of such
power and peculiar construction. The Cleopatra
has been built for Hami Pasha, son of the late Vice-
roy of Egypt, and the Prince on the occasion of
-whose recent marriage with the Sultan's daughter
such prodigious sums were expended in fetes, pro-
cessions, and jewellery. The young Pasha, it may
be recollected, paid a very brief visit to this country,
for the first news which greeted him on his arrival
at Southampton was the announcement of the death
of his father, and that a successor had been installed
in his absence. On the receipt of this melancholy
intelligence his. Highness immediately returned to
Constantinople, where he has since resided, and
where e has concentrated his efforts with an energy
and vigour not often seen in the princes of any
country, and hitherto quite unknown in Asia, on
the careful management of his immense estates and
the development of commerce in the Levant. Though
now only 23 years of age, the labours of his Highness
have already borne fruit. His estates in Egypt, the
richest and most extensive in that country, are de-
voted entirely to the cultivation of corn, cotton, and
sugar, and Ins trade in the Levant has increased to an
extent that has necessitated his building some power-
ful merchant steamers on his own account. Two of
these vessels were built here by Mr. Scott Russell,
and the spced, power, and capacity of those ships
gave such unqualified satisfaction to the young
Prince that he at once commanded that gentleman
to build him a steamer, for his own private use, of
size and speed sufficient to enable him, from Con-
stantinople, to visit his- Egyptian property in any
weather. The model first sent out to the East for
the approval of this merchant prince is said to have
been a faultless specimen on a small scale of what
such a yacht should be. This, however, was altered
to suit certain requirements and Turkish notions,
an the changes were of a nature that affected that
great speed that would otherwise have been at-
tained. The vessel was positively limited• to one
funnel, and its fire bar surface thus, diminished ; the
diameter of the paddlewheels was also reduced, and
in order to give increased cabin accommodation
abaft the lines of the stern were enlarged. Never-
thpless, Mr. Russell undertook to build her as
required, and to guarantee a speed of not less than
16 statute miles per hour—a guarantee the trial
of Saturday vedeemed easily. The peculiar shape
of the ship is that so well known as Mr. Russell's
waveform, and she is constructed on the longitu-
dinal system, which adds such strength to vessels
when most subject to strain. The strength and
advantage of this peculiar mode of structure, has
been carried out to its fullest extent in the Great
Eastern, though a further exemplification of its
important use might have been found, if need
were, in the trial of Saturday, when, though the
Cleopatra was worked by powerful engines and
driven at a speed sometimes of 17 miles an hour,
the vibratory motion was scarcely perceptible even
in' the saloons nearest to the engine-room. The
whole ship is, of course, of iron. Her extreme
length over all is 202 feet, breadth 21, and 101 feet
deep. When laden with three days' coals her
&aught aft is only five feet, and forward only four
, feet seven inches. Her appearance in the water is
singularly graceful and striking; in fact, forward
she makes the nearest approach to the exquisite
lines of the Royal yacht Fairy of any vessel we
have seen. The general effect of her slight, grace-
, ful form would certainly be improved by two slight
funnels instead of one rather large one, but the
latter has certainly been made the best of, consi-
dering that one funnel was made a positive condi-
tion with the builder. The great' novelty, how-
.- ever, of the vessel consists in her being fitted with
engines of perfectly new construction, known as
Scott Russell's Patent .Three Cylinder Engine, and
, which are so great an improvement on the old plan
that their general adoption both for screw and
paddle vessels is now certain. Some of our readers
L probably recollect having noticed during the.launch
of the Great Eastern a small engine in one of Mr.
Scott Russell's sheds, which was flitted with three

small cylinders pointing inwards from a circle, and
which all wcked upon one bearing. This engine
excited the interest and admiration of the con-
course of engineers drawn together to witness the
stupendous operations of the launch to a de-
gree second only_ to that which was evinced
towards the great ship itself. The value of
the improvement was instantly seen and appre-
ciated, though it was then thought to be better
adapted to screw than paddle engines. Mr. Scott
Russell's first application of it, however, been to
a paddle steamer, and the success of the improve-
ment is most Marked, though it is still beyond a
doubt that engines OA the same principle fitted to a
screw propeller would gife even more important
and more decided advantages. It has been Jong
known that these cylinders would give the most
uniform and effective development of the power of
steam machinery, but the complexity that would
result from the employment of these several engines,
with all their crank shafts and appendages, has
hitherto prevented their general adoption. In the
case of the Cleopatra's engines all complexity has
been removed, and three cylinders are applied
through a single crank in such a manner as to
occupy smaller space and have fewer working
points than usually go to form an ordinary pair of
engines. The practical result is that the uniformity
of action is manifest. The rapidity of the stroke is
increased, the steam is worked with economy, and
the ship attains a high velocity, with a small con-
sumption of fuel. In the Cleopatra the condensers
and air pumps are on one side of the vessel, the
engines and cylinders on the other. The latter, in
fact, are placed in the centre of the vessel, so that
their whole force is exerted directly over the keel.
Thus, no matter how she rolls, b3th the paddle that is.
buried in water and that which is completely out
of it move with precisely equal velocities, and one
source of considerable danger to ordinary engines
is entirely done away with. On Saturday the
perfect ease with which all parts of the machinery
worked was admired by the engineers connected
with marine steam engines who were on board.
Though small, and of a nominal 150 horse-power,
they work up to 000 horsepower, with a consump-
tion of 21 cwt. of coal per hour. The vessel moved
rapidly down the river in spite of a strong head
wind and tide, the engines going 40 revolutions
per minute, and the result of six runs at the mea-
sured mile, now against wind and tide, and then
with Sit, gave an average of rather over 161 miles
per hour. During these runs the engines only va-
ried froth 40 against the wind to 42 revolutions
with it, excepting at the first run, when sufficient
way was scarcely on her at starting, and when the
engines only marked 38 revolutions. This run,
however, was reckoned with the rest, and the ave-
rage of the whole gave the high speed we have men-
tioned. During two runs she was going over 17
miles an hour, and both with the tide and against
it turned completely round in twice her own length.
Altogether it was one of the most satisfactory trial
trips we have witnessed for some time. The saloons
for"the accommodation of, the Pasha and his suite
have been fitted up with the most exquisite taste
and richness by Mr. Crace. That at the after part,
for the accommodation of the ladies of the harem,
is a little bijou. The vessel is commanded by Capt.
Johnstone, who has superintended her equipment,
and who will take her out immediately toConstan-
tinople.

MANCHESTER ELECTION.—The Mayor of Man-
chester has received the precept for the election of a repre-
sentative in the room of the late Sir John Potter. The
nomination is to take place on Wednesday morning.
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM—MEETING OF WORK-
ING MEN AT MANCHESTER.—A meeting was held in the
Free-trade Hall, on Saturday evening, "to give the inhabi-
tants of this city, electors and non-electors, an opportunity.
of expressing their sentiments on the important subject of
Parliamentary Reform." Such was the announcement
issued "by order of the Working Men's Provisional Com-
mittee." The room was crowded at an early hour, the
admission being free. The majority of those present were
working men. Alderman Heywood presided, and on the
platform were Mr. Thomas Bazley, Mr. Edmund Potter,
Councillors Rumney, Fildes, and Barlow; Dr. John Watts,
Mr. J, A. Nicholls, Mr. S. Popo, &c. Mr. Edmund Potter,
Mr. Bazley, Dr. Watts, and a number of working men ad.
dressed.the meeting in favour of reform, the direct tenour
of the speeches being an advocacy of the ballot and man-
hood suffrage. At the conclusion three cheers were pro-
posed for Messrs. Gibson and Bright.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.—
On Saturday, Mr. Bedford, coroner for Westminster, held
an inquest at Westmin ter Hospital on the body of John
Jones, aged 70, who came by his death under the following
circumstances. The deceased was passing overWestminster-
bridge, and when near the south side his foot slipped and he
fell into the road Ivay. At the same time a waggon laden
with about three tons of hay came along, and before the
driver could .stop, both fore and hind wheels passed over
him, injuring him so severely that he expired shortly after
in the hospital from the effects. It further appeared that
the wheel of the waggon did not have the skid on while
coming down ithe hill, which prevented the vehicle being
stopped sooner. A verdict of " Accidental death" was re-
turned, accompanied by a recommendation that waggons,
&c. should have the wheels skidded while coming down
the hill.
A VERY ANCIENT COIN.—We translate from the
" Deborah :"—An opulent Israelite in the vicinity of Selir a,
Alabama, possesses a silver shekel, coined in Judea, 1750
years ago. It is of the size of half a dollar-piece, but its
silver is only worth 15 cents. It has been for 530 years in
possession of the same family. At the time when the
skekel was coined, Judea was a Roman province, and
Roman money was current. However the Israelites had
the privilege of coining their own money, because they were
not permitted to throw pagan coin into the chest of the
temple, in which offerings for sacrifices were deposited.—
Jewish Chronicle.

LITERATURE.

The, Edinburyh Review. No. CCXX.

An extremely. elaborate paper occasionally
prosy, but more frequently sparkling and anecdo-
tal—leads off the Whig Quarterly just pub-
lished with a consecutive history of the " Granville,
Portland, and Percival Administrations." It is in
continuation of the article given in a previous num-
ber at the turn of the winter. 1857-1858—in refer-
ence to the Ministerial changes between the resig-
nation in 1801, and the death in 1806, of the

" Heaven-born Minister"—Mr. Pitt. The present
contribution to our administrative annals termi-
nates, of course, at the murder of Spencer Percival,
on the 11th of May, 1812, by the ruffian Belling-
ham—an event immediately followed by the erec-
tion of a commemorative monument to the dead
Premier in Westminster Abbey, by the award of an
annuity of £l,OOO to his eldest son, of another an-
nuity of £2,000 to his widow, and by a sum of no
less than £50,000 to be distributed among his child-
ren. Remembering that some of the greatest re-
forms effected of late years have been secured not
only under, but by Tory Administrations, it is ra-
ther amusing to notice the supercilious phrase we
have italicised in the closing sentence of this paper,
here subjoined :
"In the meantime,-the Whigs, led by Lord Grey in the
Lords and by Mr. Brougham in the Commons, had during
these administrations been the steady advocates of sound,
enlightened, and liberal principles, with respect to retrench-
ment of expenditure, taxation, currency, education of the
poor, colonial slavery, religious toleration, mitigation of
punishments, amendment of the law, and parliamentary re-
form; and, an their accession to office in 1830, they com-
menced a series of practical measures which have been
continued to the !present day; which the interposition of
Conservative .Ministries has not been able to interrupt; and
which, on the whole, have been crowned with greater suc-
cess than even their authors had ventured to anticipate."

The measures of reform " not interrupted " by
Conservative Ministries, including among them the
repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, the passing
of the Act of Catholic Emancipation, the gradual
refOrm of the tariff, and the final repeal of the
Corn Laws—all the3e being, in fact, the achieve-
ments, not of Whig, but of Tory Governments. The
-next article—being- a treatise upon Criminal. Pro-
cedure in Scotland and England—revive* to recol-
lection the extraordinary trial in the July of 1857
of Madeleine Hamilton Smith, accused of having
'murdered by poison Pierre Emile l'Angelier. .The
review of " Birch's History of Ancient Pottery"
opens with these curiously suggestive observations :

" There are few things which we are less accustomed to
associate the idea of permanence and indestructibility than
with any kind of earthenware. Crockery seems made to
be broken. The earthern jar in the fable is the very type
of fragility; and-we have all had painful experience how
rapidly theplates of our best dessert service and our prettiest
tea-cups disappear ; how surely, even the most careful
housemaid will, on some unlucky day, find her mistress's
favourite china come in two in her hand.' And yet, de-
-spite of housemaids—whom we take to have been of mud'
the same slay in all agesthere is scarcely any record of
past civilisation so permanent, hardly any sign of the habi-
tation of ancient races so indelible, as the remains of their
Tottery. The explanation is simple. It is indeed easily
broken, but not easily destroyed. The fragments remain,
because no one cares to gather them up. • They are thrown
aside as worthless ; they cannot be melted down like gold or
silver, or burnt into lime like marble•, they do not oxidize
or decay under the influence either of the atmosphere or the
earth ; and there they lie, neglected and forgotten by succes-
sive generatinis till they attract the eye of the antiquarian
in some distant age. All visitors to Rome will remember
_ _ _

that a considerable hill—the Monte Testaccio—is composed
of nothing but broken earthenware ; and the site of ancient
Alexandria is covered to a great depth with the accumu-
lated fragments of pottery of all ages, from the foundation of
the city downwards. In this country there is hardly a spot
once occupied by the Romans, which has not yielded with
more or less abundance the red Samian ware, characteristic
of that people ; while the much more ancient sites of cities
in Italy—cities that had perished long before the Romans
rose into power, and of which there does not now remain one
stone upon another—are still identified by broken pottery,
the infallible indicator of bygone civilisation."
" Binocular Vision" is the theme and title of a

charming scientific chapter, proving beyond the
shadow of the shade of a doubt the validity of Pro-
fessor Wheatstone's claim to be regarded as the in-
ventor of that exquisite little optical contrivance
known as the stereoscope. The following is the
emphatic close of the reviewer's argument :

" Sir David Brewster has claimed for himself to be the
first to apply photography to the stereoscope, for the pur-
pose of obtaining accurate binocular representations of liv-
ing persons, sculpture, architecture, and landscape scenery.
It had never been proposed,' he affirms, 'to apply the re-
flecting stereoscope to portraiture or sculpture, or, indeed,
to any useful purpose.' But we have before us ample evi-
dence that Professor Wheatstone had made all these appli-
cations long before Sir D. Brewster's invention of the lenti-
cular form of the stereoscope ; and photographic pictures
adapted to the reflecting stereoscope were sold, to our own
certain knowledge, by London opticians, as far back as the
year 1845. Not merely, therefore, as having originated the
idea on which every form of the stereoscope is based, but as
having carried out that idea in the construction both of the
reflecting and refracting forms of the instrument, as having
developed all its most important applications, and as having
furnished a theory of its operation which, if not entirely
complete and satisfactory, is based, we are satisfied, on the
only sure foundation—the full recognition of the share which
the mind has in the interpretation of visual sensations,—we
have not the slightest hesitation in affirming that Professor
Wheatstone is entitled to all the honours which the scien-
tific world can award to the discoverei of a new principle in
philosophy, and to the gratitude of the general public for
the large addition which has been made by his ingenuity to
its sources of enjoyment."

" The Earls of Kildare" are celebrated by another
critic in a courtly essay upon the history of the
Geraldines. a. Mr. Glacistone's Homeric Studies"
are then weighed in the critical balance by a ripe
scholar, who admires and appreciates. with admir-
able discrimination the learned labours of the
ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, now on his way to
the lonian islands as Lord High Commissioner
Extraordinary. A butterfly is next broken upon
the wheel in a brief review by the Edinburgh of
the ephemeral story of " Guy Livingstone." " The
Slave Trade in 1858," and a note in answer to Mr.
Froudc's reply to a former review of his History,
complete the current number of the Edinburgh.

Mackenzie's Book-keeping for Solicitors. Bvo. pp

156. Lim, Times Office.

An admirably concise and easy system of book-
keeping for solicitors and others is here presented
in the form of a compact volume, penned by one
who can write with great lucidity and draw upon
a large experience. Mr. Mackenzie, the author of
this useful and reliable work—a work destined, we
believe, to be henceforth accepted in his profession
as an authority—is a solicitor him Self, and has en-
joyed the advantage of superintending the employ-
ment of this familiar system of his own during the
better part of half a century in the offices of some
of the most respectable firms in our metropolis.
Prefixed to the explanation which forms the pith
and marrow of the work are some extremely accep-
table observations upon single and double entry,
and upon the general principles of book-keeping,
together with a few remarks upon the history of
accounts and book-keeping, besides an explanatory
introduction. Appended to the whole is an exposi-
tion of commercial and monetary terms, in which
the meaning of every word in general use in the
commercial world is elucidated—sometimes, cer-
tainly, it appears to us, rather superfluously, as in
the instance of cash, coin, balance, &c.—though, at
others, very graphically, as in'the case of invoice,
freight, demurrage, &c. Supplemented to these are
other pages containing observations, on accounts,
remarks on the subject of interest, &c., and a variety
of useful arithmetical and tabular memoranda.
Altogether this little volume is one which may
well claim a place upon one of the handier book-
shelves in the offices of both our merchants and
solicitors.

Agricultural Chemistry. By Alfred Sibson. Ron

ledge-.

This work gives a familiar explanation of the
chemical_ principles involved in the operations of
the farm. It is written by Mr. Sibson, the first
assistant in the laboratory of the Royal Agricul-
tural College, Cirencester, and has a preface by Dr.
Augustus Vordcker, Profeszor of Chemistry, which
highly commends the treatise. It will interest the
scientific student as well as the practical farmer,
and will be found both interesting and useful to a
large class of readers.

The Law of Wills, Executors, and Administrators.
By W. Hold,worth, Esq., Barrister-at-law.
Routledge.
The Useful Library of Mr. Routledge has just
included a particularly useful volume. Many per-
sons may wish to make a will or have occasion to
prove one, and have to fill the office of executor,
without caring for the expense of legal advice.
This little volume gives them a barrister's directions
for one shilling, certainly an unusually moderate
charge, and it is written in a plain and practical
style. At the end a collection of legal forms' of
wills, codicils, directions, and declarations are
added, which will be of much practical value. The
work is both cheap and comprehensible, two quali-
ties not often found in legal matters.

Nature and Human Nature. By the Author of

" Sam Slick." 1 Vol. Hurst and Blackett.

This new edition of " Sam Slick's" popular work
will be an acquisition to the lovers of fun and
humour. Mr. Justice Haliburton's writings arc so
well known to the English public that no commen-
dation is needed. The volume before us has another
recommendation in the fact that it is the first
volume of a new series to be issued by Messrs.
Hurst and Blackett, which is intended to form a
standard library of cheap editions of popular mo-
dern works. Each work will be comlriscd in a
single volume, price five shillings. The one beforef
us is very handsomely bound, illustrated by Lecc
and the paper and type are excellent. It is in
every way suited for a library edition,
warrant
aanndanats
thetne
names of Messrs. Hurst and

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