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London, England, 1858-07-19 00:00:00

THE .LONDON,` MONDAY EVENING, JULY 19, 1858:

to be once more led against the enemy, " deem-
ing nothing accomplished, while anything re-
mained to be done." It was said that the force
under Sir Iluag ROSE, together with the division
under Brigadier HICKS, from Jhansi, and the
column under Colonel SMITH, from Chunbraco,
were already before Gwalior, and there was a by
no means improbable rumour, that the town had
bzen recaptured, with terrible loss to the enemy.
Sir EDWARD LUGARD had gained another vic-
tory on the 27th of May, having defeated the
insurgents at Jugdespore, and captured all the
guns taken at Arrah.

A great act of justice had been execated. The
Chief of Nurgoond, who had brutally murdered
Mr. MANWY, the political agent, was tried on the
11th, and hanged at Belgaum on the 12th June.
The atrocity required exemplary punishment, and
the prompt and unhesitating manner in which it
was inflicted will strike terror into many chiefs
who would act in a similar manner if they dared.
Rohilcund is tolerably quiet, and the people of
Oude are gradually making submission, while the
disarming process goes quietly and regularly for-
ward. We must expect these chequered accounts
for some time, and be contented so long as no
formidable reverse has been sustained.

We earnestly invite public attention to a letter
headed " An Officer's Complaint," which we have
extracted from the columns of a respected con-
temporary, the Northern Ensign,. It exposes a
case of gross hards'aip. The writer may be re-
garded as a representative man—one that fairly
shows the class of those who, by steady and meri-
torious conduct, have worked their way upward
from the very beginning, and who have at length
been seriously injured by what was factitiously
termed a reward for valuable services.

The writer states his case simply and clearly.
He gives a plain statement of facts. But what
facts ? After being engaged as sergeant at the
Alma and Inkerrnan, and during the whole siege
of Sebastopol, never absent from duty during that
arduous campaign, performing an officer's duties
before he received its was at length
rewarded with an Ensigncy.
What "competitive examination" could be
equal to this stringent test of competency—one
spread over years and sealed with the blood of
England's enemies, if not his own ?
But he had soon cause to regret the delusive
kindness. Scarcely was he a commissioned officer
than he was put on half-pay, and consigned to
wearisome inaction for the reusainder of his life.
Could he have foreseen the future he would
never have relinquished the halberd. He might
naturally have conceived that the services
of a tried and Experienced man, "free, able,
willing to serve, and not yet tweety-
eight years of age," would have been
anxiously _ sought after, whenever the time
of " playing at soldiers" should again be
brought to a conclusion. But, alas ! he has no
wealth to purchase an appointment ; he cannot
"coin his blood_into shekels;" nor has he an aris-
tocratic relative or patron to transmit such a
valuable hint as "Take care of Dewß.," along the
magical wires. He has nothing but proved
merit and faithful and unflinching devotion
and bravery. These, alas !do not suffice, and
notwithstanding the numerous commissions that
have been. bestowed "without purchase" within
the last two years, no crumb has fallen from the
overladen table at the Horse Guards to the share
of a true-hearted "„Sutherland Highlander."

We believe that it only requires to bring such a
case to the notice of General PEEL to insure
prompt inquiry and speedy redress. We should
not have much hope from Lord PANMUIIE. But
the present Secretary at War has done more in
weeks than his predecessor did in almost as many
years, and he has displayed an anxiety to do his
duty fairly and honestly. With bin; we believe,
the Sutherland Highlander would have as good a
chance as even the mighty " Dow.D." himself.

( Everybody who glanced through the melan-
choly records of the Committee of Inquiry into the
wrongs endured by Mr. BARRER must have been
startled by those cruelly accumulated upon his ill-
starred but innocent head in Norfolk Island,
chiefly, as it appeared, through the gratuitous
brutality of the Commandant.
It would be well, for the sake of humanity,
that Major CHILD should clear his name from the
odium, the ignominy, the abhorrence attached to
it by this part of the evidence, by his own revolt-
ing and odious revelations. We are loth to credit
the accuracy of the statements to which he him-
self appears to have acknowledged. We would
fain believe that his memory is Jewett in the
matter by some singular hallucination. Can it
be really possible, according to Major CHrees's
own statements, that upon the arrival in
Norfolk Island of the two wretched convicts—
Mr. BARBER even then presumed by many
to have been wrongfully convicted, and FLBTOUER
clearly and glaringly proved to have been guilty
of Forgery—the villain was employed at once
and permanently as a medical dispenser, with
superior rations and a private apartment, while
the presumed victim of his crime, poor Mr. BAR-
RER, whose innocence was happily in the fullness
of time clearly demonstrated, was infamously put
to the loathsome office of a wardsman, relieved
once by stonebreaking on the roadside and later
by working in the open fields chained, heavily
laden with irons, among the dregs of that hell-
upon-earth—murderers, and the friends of mur-
derers. As to the filthy duties of ththeewmarin onedsman
Major CHILD has himself described
[Mr. BARBER, this
sickening sentence—" He—
gentleman of education, this
and shattered
map,attered
in
health by his cruel persecutions]—he was put to
the offensive employment of cleansing and scour
ing out the urinals used by 200 prisoners."
He had
no extra rations, like the Forger
FLETCHER. Ile had no private apartment of his
own, but had to sleep amongst the miserable gang
1 of these wretched creatures. No marvel his weak-
ened asvueweialynduinngdee.r thHeefilthy occupation
and thehealth nave
foul
hos-
pital. lie is sent by the medical superintendent to
break stones on the road, instead ogfoec
sleatonstihnea
andscouring those detestable urinals. While cleansing and
is
one day breaking the stones by the highway, rides
up to him Major CHILD, -the Commandant.
" What do you hero ?" ho asks. " Sir," says
Mr. BARBER, " I am ordered to break atones by
the medical superintendent." " I will not have
ehat," is the curt rejoinder. The Commandant
rides up to the statiou and issues his instructions
that the poor gentleman shall forthwith return to
his abominable office as wardsman. Mr. BARBER
is engaged shortly afterwards at his loathsome
task over the urinals --- with his health
again sadly drtoti .g
—when Major CHILD ap-
proached him with the query, " What is your
objection to cleaning your ward ?" Mr. BAItBER'S
reply is merely this—" I have made no objection :
it i 3 destroying my health, but I have made no
objection." "How does it injure your health I"
asks Major CHILD. Mr. BARBER explains that
the work is most disgusting, that the office is
fraught with humiliation. Major CHILD again
asks (as though he bad be deaf), "IL•ir 4..0cl it

injure your hea‘lth ?" Mr. BADDICIL then becomes 1
explicit, enters lilt° particulars. " Independently j
of exhalations.," he says, " I have bad wet feet
every morning from going out in a heavy dew,"
—he had to empty the urine tubs for 200 pri-
soners before the work of cleansing and scouring.
"Then put your shoes on," says the Commandant.
But, observes Mr. BArtnEtt, in answer to the objec-
tion, " That is of no use ; they will soon get
filled. with, "Then take them off," is
the rejoirlder. Facetious Major CHILD ! Gay,
lighthearted humorist ! Mr. Major
account
of the interview adds that the Major strode
away after having said this, laughing at his own
pleasantry. M ijor CHILD'S account differs from
it only so far that he says to the Committee of
the House of Commons, " I do not think I
laughed at his misery." Ultimately comes the
unfortunate gentleman's work in the fields among
the chained gang of homicides. Among his asso-
ciates poor Mr. IiARDER recognises the friends of
two murderers, against whom he himself had
formerly given evidence. He is in momentary
fear for his life. He implores to be removed
elsewhere. Major CRIED rejects the request
pitilessly. The moral of the whole story is this,
that Major CHILD is eventually dismissed from
his post for general misconduct—Mr. BARBER
being at length set free as a man
most cruelly wronged, because from first
to last perfectly innocent. Aud what is the testi-
mony given by On chaplain of Norfolk island, as
io his behaviour throughout the whole of those
inhuman persecutions ? Read it—" I have
never known a prisoner of the Crown who has
been subjected to greater wretchedness. I re-
joice to be able to add that I have never seen an
instance of more dignified suffering accompanied
by invariably consistent canduct." Honour and
sympathy to him—that true•hearted Christian
gentleman. And as to Major CHILD, cannot he,
for the sake of humanity, disprove some of his
own lamentable statements ?

LEE STEVIiNS' REGULATING AIR D001:S.

We publish an official Copy of the report made
to the lion. the Corporation of the Trinity-house
by the chief engineer of the Trinity steamship
Argus, r,lative to the ascertained results from the
use of the patent regulating air doors flited t
her steamboiler furnaces by Mr. John Lee Stevens.
The report testifies to the success of the patent :

" in compliance with the order of the Committee for
Lights I beg to state, in my previous report on Mr. Lee
Stevens' patent regulating air doors fitted to the boilers of the
Argue, I stated that the invention prevented the emissi ,n of
flame from the tops of the funnels, and thereby nuaterial'y
diminished Lie heat therein, and that the engine room was
better ventilated. I have now to report that, after re-
peated trials and weighing of differen.L sorts of coals for
many hours at each time, a saving of fully 10 per cent. is
the result for Welsh coal, and for Hartley coal a saving of
fully 20 per cent., at the same time keeping good steam
and the smoke cut off very quick. I would also state that,
from the first fitting of the patent doors eight months ago
to the present time no injury whatever has been done by
the action of the fires to the apparatus."
The report is dated July, 1858 ; and essentially
agrees with reports relative to this invention made
during the past and present years, by the engi-
neering departments of the General Screw, Euro-
pean and Amer ican, Newcastle and London, Beigian
Continental Screw, and other steam shipping com-
panies. A.s regards its utility for land furnaces,
by Sir Anthony Rothschild, the Victoria (London)
Docks Company, Messrs. Keens and Watch and
Day and Martin, J. T. Norris, Elq., M.P., and
various other private firms, the most conclusive
evidence has been given in its favour. Our own
opinion of Mr. Lee Stevens' ability in furnace
work has long since been recorded, and remains
unchanged, so that it is a matter of surprise to us
that a gentleman so practically successful should
not be encouraged by Government patronage.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.-0a Saturday a marriage
was solemnised between Miss Leclant,re, daughter of the
1 tte Sir Edmund Lechmere, Bart., of the Rhydd Court,
Worcestershire, and M. d'Arrae. The ceremony took
place in Warwick-street Chapel. After the ratification
of the civil contract, high mass was celebrated by Car-
dinal Wiseman, assisted by Monsignore Searle and the
lion. and Rev.-Dr. Talbot

Much gossip (says the Court .Toecrna/) has been currant
in diplomatic circles cmcernicg the reception awarded

by the Emperor of Austria to the Princess do Gorziga,
wife of Pimlico Gonziga, who ha-; .to long been a wandcrer
and disowned on the fans of the ea-th, deprived of his
inheritance and repulse] by his fellows, to whom, so it
is said, the Emperor generously sent a contribution of
10,000 francs to assist in the prosecution of his claims
to the title and estates of Gonnga. All believe the
c'airos to be just, but means are wanting to prove them.
The Emperor of Austria has pronounced himself entirely
in favour of the Prince, The Princess Gonzaga is an
English lady."

THE REPRESENTATION OP COLCHESTER.—Mr. Philip
Oxendon Papillon has been accepted by the heads of the
Conservative party at Colchester as a suitable candidate
to be proposed in the event of a general eltec.ion with
Mr. T. J. Miller, one of the present sitting members.
Mr. Papillon has attended and addressed, in conjunction
with Mr. Miller, a meeting of the Conservative Asso-
ciation established in the borough, and a resolution
pledging the members of the association to use their
utmost exertions to secure the return of both gentleman,
when the country is appealed to, was carried unani-
mously. The other seat for the borough is at present
occupied by Mr. J. Garden Reew, a moderate liberal.
THE CHARGE OF MURDER AGAINST TWO CAPTAINS._
On Friday, George Menham, captain of the Reliance of
Sunderland, and Edwin F,x, captain of the Schiedam,
of London, were re-examined before the Sunderland ma-
gistrates on the charge of murdering William Barron,
a seaman. The principal evidence given at the first
examination has already appeared in our paper. It will
be remembered that the two vessels were lying at Ham-
burg, and that the deceased, who belonged to the Re-
liance, came on board the other ye sel in a state of in-
toxication, and began larking with the men ; whereupon
a scuffle took place between him and Fox, and that Fox
and Menham, who was also on beard theßeliance,_then
deliberately heaved the man overboard. William Ram-
say, a seaman on board the Reliance, who deposed to
these facts on Wedneeday, was now cross-examined,
and some other evidence was taken, when the bench
unanimously committed the prisoners for trial on the
charge of" Wi ful murder."—Sunderland Times.

THE MAILS, &C.—SOUTHAMPTON, July 17.—The
Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw steamer
Alhambra, Captain Steward, took her departure to-day
for Vigo, Oporto, Litbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, with
the mails, 32 passengers (including Majar Vandeleur),
4501. in specie for Lisbon, jowel!ery value 191. for G•bral-
tar, and the usual cargo. Tire Royal Mail Company's
steamship Orinoco, Captain Bayntun, also left to-day
with the West India and Pacific mails, 76 passen-
gers' 8601. in spec* a full cargo, and j3wellery value
4,6501. Among her passengers are Lieutenant Franklin
(for Jamaica), Captain and Mrs. Fletcher (f ,r Nassau),
Ensign and Mr.?. Nolan, Ensign Alluran, &c. The
earew steamer Imperador, Captain Atkins, which
brought to this port a valual.l3 cargo of teas, hides, &e 3 ,
from Hong IC-ing, Singapore, and other ports, sailed
hetes for Liverpool, this afternoon, having completed
the discharge of her freight. July 18.—The screw
steamer ammonia, Captain Sehwensen, arrived yester-
day morning frorn Hamburg, and left fur New York this
morning with nearly 400 passengers, and a full cargo of
general merchandise. The Peninsular and OrientalCarn-
pany's steamship Colombo, Captain Field, leaves on the
20th wi h the outward Calcutta an 4 China mails.
GREAT CHESS MATCH FOIL 1,000 GUINEAS A SIDE.
AMERICA VERSUS ENGLAND.—The challenge of the
Arnericacs to back their newly-risen chess star, Mr.
Paul Morphy, a young lawyer of. New Orleans, against
the well-known English amateur, Mr. Staunton, for
1,000 guiueas, in a match of 21 games, has been as•
cepted by the latter, and the contest is appointed to
come off in Siptember. The stakes ire this enc:ailit,r
are by far the largest ever dependent on the result of a
mere trial of chess skill, and their magnitude and the
sort of national character with which the American
press is sure to invest the strigiolheo
nominations for
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Highest quarters are equally genurolis. So far ac this
aeighhourilood la concerned, cne cireumetance will be
melted with peculiar feelings of delight, v:z., the re-ap-
oi:arance of the name cf Esil Fitz Nilliam in the list of the
St. Leger nominations.—Daaccestcr Gazette.
CayeTAr, PALACE.—Tbe success of the Festival Con-
vert of M., amedict at the Crystal Pal.!ce on Friday
ist was, despite the wet weather, such as to induce the
directors too arrange for a second performance on Friday
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LATEST NEWS.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.

allY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY MORNING.
The Northam, steamer, Capt. Weeks, has ar-
rived with the Calcutta and China mails.

She left Alexandria, July 7 ; Malta, 10 ; and
Gibraltar,
silk,
a2rs,
250 bales
Brimsofeo
cotton, 107
oi7n specie, 495 bales
o
packages of ele-
phants' teeth, and 189 miscellaneous packages.
The Northam has 130 passengers, including
Lady and Miss Bowring, from Hongkong ; Colonel
Dames and family, from Azirnghur ; COL Franklin
and Lady, Col. Fyers, Major Barry, Major Willis,
and Dr. Ferris, from Lucknow.

Gibraltar Exchanges.—London, 50 ; Paris, 5.28 ;
Marseilles and Genoa, 5.30.

The 2d battalion Ist Royals left Gibraltar for
Hongkong in the Lady Raglan transport on the
7th inst.

The Norwegian brigantine Hilda landed at Gib-
raltar on the 6th Captain Marinelli andcrew of the
Roman ship Adlia Vorica, of Ancona, which
foundered at sea on the evening of the 2d on the
coast of Portugal, while on her voyage from Porto
Longone to Newport, laden with 129 tons of iron

The French schooner Bonne Mathilde, which
left Gibraltar for Morocco on thelOth of June, was
run into by an American bark 30 miles west of
Casabianca, and foundered. Master and crew
reached Mogador after 72 hours'„ suffering in their
boats, and were brought thence to Gibraltar by the
steam-ship L'Eg,yptien, which will convey them to
Marseilles. The Fame steamer tcok to Gibraltar
tha crow of the French barque Cambronne, stranded
to the eastward of Tangier on the 22d ult.
The Tagus steamer, from Southampton, arrived
at Gibraltar on the 14th.

The American bark Sea Breeze, put in on the
12th, with four feet of water in her hold, having
enccnntered a E avers f!ale on the 6th, which carried
away her canvas, staved bulwarks, and cleared
decks of everything ; in beating up to anchorage
ground she missed stays, being unmanageable, and
grounded near Punta M du,. Cargo discharging.

The following telegram was received at the
Foreign Office, July 17, 1858, 5.30 p.m.:—

SIR H. BULWER TO THE EARL OT MALMESBURY.

THERAPIA, JULY 15, 1858, 11.30 P.M.

I am requested by her Majesty's Consul at
Alexandria to transmit to your Lordship the fol-

lowing intelligence per OttAwa, arrived at
Suez 6.13 P.M., 7th July, ISSB :
Bombay Standard Office, June 19, 3 P.m.

13,000 of the rebels, who left C.tlpee on the
22d May, reached Gwalior on the Ist June ; they

were joined by 7,000 of Scindia's troops, sent out
to oppose them. They took possession of Gwalior,

and plundered it.
Scindia escaped to Agra.

The force under Sir Hugh Rose, from Calpee,
the division under Brigadier Hiek.4, from Jhansi,
the column uuder Col. Smith, from Ulutibrace,
are all by this time before Gwalior.

There is a report, probable but not certain,
that the place has fallen, with tremendous loss to

the insurgents.

Sir Edward Lugard defeated the rebels at Guo-
despore (Judispore) on the 27th May, and rk.co-
vered the guns lost at Arrah.
A. rising near Dharcoar has been extinguished
by the capture of the forts of Kapol and Nur-
goondor.

Manson, tlio political agent, who had gone out
to confer with the Chief of Nurgoond, wits mur-
dered. The Chief of Nurgoond, who caused the
murder, has been hanged at Belgauw, with others.
A seventh was blown from a gun.
Rohilcund is quit.

The people of Lackuow beginning to come in.
Disarming proceeds quietly on both sides of India.

The disarmed sepoy regiments in Bengal have
been discharged in small parties ; the native offi-
cers, and those in Bombay, have been dismissed.
The number of their regiments blotted from the
Army List.

The rains have not yet commenced ; they are
nearly a fortnight behind, and the weather is most

oppressive.

FRANCE.
PARIS, SUNDAY.
The eleventh Conforenc3 took place yesterday at
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Tho reorganisa-
tion of tie Danubian Principalities was still the
sub:ect of discussion.
It is expected that Prince Napoleon will visit
Algeria about the end of September. The Algerian
journals say that Pzinca Jerome will also arrive
about the same time, and pass the winter in that
country to avail himself of the mildness of the
climate. _ _

A Council of Ministers' at which Prince Jerome
presided, was hold on Saturday at the Tuileries.
The Prince afterwards returned to Meudon.
BOURSE, July 17.—The following were the latest
quotations :-
4a per Cents 95 80
Do. end month --
3 por Cont. ..... 68 15
Do. end month 6B 20
Bank Sirtrt33 -
Credit Mobilior
Do. Account 607 50

ilCßroedmaitnFonder
Belgian 4.t
Piedinontess (5)
91
ustrian
Spanish Threes .......
Home Debt —
-FoR CASH.
Midi
Western 577!
630
Eastern
Grand Central 405
Sardinian
615
Austrian ,

RAILWAYS.
Orleans
Northern .. 007.1i
New Ditto
Lyon and Ilediteran 76)
New Ditto —
Geneva

CIRCASSIA.
The Russians have received a very severe check
iu Daghestan and Leghistan. With 5,000 regu-
lars, 10,000 irregulars, two heavy and as many light
field batteries, they last month attempted to :.)btain
Possession of some highly-important defies near
Koodo Koda. The place mentioned was taken by
storm by four battalions of the line and 6,000
irregulars, and Sultan Daniel and his followers re-
treated in disorder. " The Russians, being elated
by their victory, entered the pass, and, while cook_
ing, were surprised by the
mountaineers. After
losing 1,800 men and eight guns, the Russians re-
treated in the greatest disorder to Rissar, but they
could not maintain their poaition, and fell back on
Scirvan." An English naval officer was in the
camp. of Sultan Daniel.

A jeweller's she in Chelmsford was robbed of 6001.
worth of plate, watches, &c., on Tuesday Light. The
j-iweller's wife went to the telegraph office in the mum-
named Alfa:,
the whole of the stolen p-operty being ingto communicate with the metropolitan police, wken
the roblier walked in with hiss poil in a cart et beg. He
the new
was ilium tliately accused, and acknowledged his crime,
fiund upon him.
DEATL IN A DIVING APPAILATUS.-0e Friday amason,
A.;liciira'tv pier, at Dover, lost his life by opening a
valve in his diving dress, Ttic unfortunate man had goi.e
ROYAL SUSSEx MILITIA.—Wrd
htlicre 1
`- he opened the val;e, by which the water was
dove
leaves Dover on the 4th A
title wtd to get into his helmet ; when lifted up out of
the water be was quite dead.
regiment, unda the commal.d of the Deice of Richmond,
understand that this
Scotland. The men of the Royal Sussex have conduct, d
:henist lves io the most exemplary manntr during their
August next and proceeds to
s'ay in Dover, and have earned for themselves the good
opinion of the inhabitants, while the courtesy of the offi-
cers on all occasions, from the noble peer at the head of
Vie regiment to the lowest suta'tern, has been snob
t cause the departure of the regiment a matter of real
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AUSTRALIA.

SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 18,

The Teviot arrived here this day with the
heavy portion of the Australian mail. The
Teviot left Alexandria on the 2d, and Malta
on the Gth instant. She brought home about 70
passengers from New Zealand, Sydney, Melbourne,
Ceylon, Aden, and Malta. Her mail consisted of
about 120 sacks and boxes of letters and papers.
Amongst her cargo was Australian gold to the
value of 140,2861., plate and jewellery worth 4651.
a quantity of opium, flax, elephants' tusk., and a'
mummy. The Teviot was due on the Gth, but she
has been delayed, partly owing to the late arrival
of the Australian mail steamer European at Suez,
and partly to her own machinery giving way on the
outward voyage. The European, it appears, left
Australia after time, but she made this up by the
time she reached Point de Galle. She was then,
however, -obliged to go GOO miles out of her course
to avoid the monsoon, and this made her late at
Suez. The Teviot has come all the way home from
Alexandria with one engine. She experienced fine
weather and easterly winds through the Straits,
then thick weather for a day or two, and after that
isle weather and seuth•weeterly winds. She spoke
the Norwegian barque Emanuel on the Bth inst.,
aud-the paddlewheel steamer Rainbow, of Liver-
pool, steering to the south-west, on the 14th. The
Australasian will bring the next Australian mail
and news of which will be due in England on the
29.ih.inst. The Teviot will in August bring home
Tamonget her passengers the Mayor of Melbourne,
with an address from the colonists of Victoria, con-
gratulating- her Majesty on the marriage of her
eldest daughter, the Princess Royal. This mission
of the mayor to England is looked upon in Victoria
as an interesting event. The chief magistrate of
the richest colony in the worli ie about to tre.vel a
distance of 13,000 miles—that is, more than over
kalf the globe—to pay homage, in the name of the
colony, to the Queen of England, on such an occa-
sion connected with her domestic happiness.

THE THEATRES.

DRURY-LANE.

On Saturday Mr. E. T. Smith, the le3sea of this
theatre, took his benefit at the close of the Italian
operatic season. The opera given wai Don Giovanni,
with the following cast :—Donna Anna, Madame Viar-:
dot Garcia; Elvira, Madame Sedlaz,3k ; Zirlina, Madame
Persiani ; Don Giovanni, Signor Eadiali ; Dun Ottavia,
Signor Naudin ; Leporello, Signor Rovere ; Cowmen-
date, Signor Manfredi ; Masseto, Signor liinni. At
the close of the opera, and after the principal performers
had been called before the curtain, Mr. Smith, obeyinr,
.Lc :Lc:ll.l,ii!, wade his appe;;railee, and
said :

"Ladies and Gentlemen,—Permit me thank you for
I your kind reception and for the bumper of this evening.
Having been latterly so much engaged iu foreign affairs,
I .thought at first of addressing you in Italian ; lint, my
friends, I . am satisied, above—(a laugh)—and other
friends beside me would, I think, toe fer to have it in
plain English. In engaging the artists for this theatre
for Italian opera I sincerely trust that I have carried
out the idea which I had promised, and kept in a
satisfactory manner the promise which I had made.
My object was during the ten weeks in which the
Italian operas have been performed to engage such
artists as would not only give eatisfact:oa to all, bat
amusement to the working classes of this metropolis,
who, I sincerely trust, appreciate the exereion of one
who does all in his power to carry out the principles of
free trade in every department, and who has been en-
abled to provide for them for sixpence, one shillieg, and
eighteenpunce such artists as they could not obtain at
any of the "singing-houses" full of smoke, or else-
where. (Laughter.) Ladies and gentlemen, I have pro-
duced thirteen operas in ten weeks, and although I have
not been able to produce a chorus such as I could have
wished, because although some have kindly come for-
ward to assist me, ethers have been prevented doing so
by their being engaged at the other two houses, I sin•
cerely trust, however, that you will appreciate the ser-
vices of those who have dune all in their power to con..
tribute to your amusement night and day, and to assist
in producing operas in such a manner as to give the
greatest satiJaction in their power. To every artist in
the establishment I am sincerely indebted ; to Mr.
Stirling, the stage manager, to carpenters, scene painters,
and every one, in short, who has been engaged on the
premises. My friend Booby' in the Haymarket—(a
laugh)—kindly alluded to the solvency of three of the
London managers--himself, the manager of the Olympic,
and of the late Adtiplii. He also expressed himself
as astonished to think that we should produce three
operas iu this met ',pens. New, Ido nut know why you
should not enjoy Italian operas at a low figure, if it will
answer my pm poss to give them to you ; so that you can.
came into the pit at eighteenperice and see the same
artists for whom you would pity a guinea over the way.
(A. laugh.). I feel deeply indebted to the press of 1,1 is
country for the position iu which they have placed me
by their remarks. But there are certainly one or two
gentlemen connected with the press at whose remarks
lam surprised, Filet, they have said of Naudin that
he was tr.e4 up, that he was very well in his way, but
his voice was ropy'—(a laugh)—the same of Bacliali
and Famagalli, who was only twenty-four years of age.
(Cheers.) There are some of those connected with the
press who do not receive the same favours from your
hurni.de servant that others can give thematother theatrv.
Tile humble individual who now addresses you has not
subscription lists of my Lerd Tura Noddy and others.
You have subscribed to the list of a man who has
worked hard for what ho now produces, and the sub-
scription list has been, and I hope will long be,
your approbation and appreciation of my humble ser-
vices. (Loud cheers.) I will only inform you that
I shall always make it my endeavour to induce the
working classes to come to this theatre, and I have reduczci
the prices so that they can come here and enjoy music,
which will not only instruct them, but at the same time
inspire their souls with the noblest feeling.% (Cheers and
laughter.) On S: p+. 13, having had sufficient of Italian,
you will have your own company of English ringers
here—the Pyne and Harrison company. I have engaged
them all to appear here with the pantomimes, so that
you will have a double treat, a pantomime and a new
English Opera. After that you may have Italian opera
again, for I have been promised by numerous gen.lemeu
from the clubs that if they can come here and scat them-
selves in the boxes to witness such operas as have bsen
now produced for one guinea, instead of le or 12
guineas, which they would have to pay elsewhere, they
will come here. (Cheers.) I elan be most happy to re-
ceive any suggestion which may be made to me, and it
will al ways be my study to endeavour to the utmost of
my power to amuse you whenever you come to Old
Drury. (Loud and continued cheering followed the
delivery of this address, and calls fer Signor Noudin,
who appeared and bowed his acknowledments.)