The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-16 00:00:00

HALIFAX.

This corps, formed at llalifax a few months ago,
is now in a most efficient condition. During the
summer and fine autumn months the corps met
daily, some in the morning and others at night, but
now the members are so well up in their movements
that two days a-week are sufficient, one day in the
riding-school and the other in the Piece-hall. They
are fully equipped with arms and uniform. A band
of able musicians, too, has been organised, and is
to be attached to the corps. They were sworn in
as members before the Mayor of Halifax last
Saturday. The corps numbers, independent of
the band, about 100 members, and about 30
more are waiting to be sworn in. A field has been
taken at a short distance from the town, and there
rifle practice is carried on. The corps contains some
excellent marksmen.

STRIKE IN THE BUILDING TRADE.

Last night the usual weekly meeting of the
Trades Delegates in support of the men at present
on the lock-out, in consequence of their declining
to sign the document, was held at the Shaftesbury-
hall, Aldersgate-street, Mr. C. Murray in the chair.
Mr. POTTER explained the circumstances under
which tne Conference had abandoned the strike at
Messrs. Trollope's, and hoped that as that obstacle
had been removed, the other trades would support
them in resisting the document. As the masters
had in the first instance treated the Conference
with hauteur, they did not communicate the with-
drawal of the strike to the central committee of
master builders, but Mr. Wales, the secretary of
that body, had written to the Conference to com-
plain of their silence ; that letter being considered
a recognition of the Conference by the masters, IL
correspondence was now pending between both for
the settlement of the dispute. He hoped, should
the masters adhere to the document, the other
trades would support the Conference in resisting it.
The delegate of the Compositors said that the
withdrawal of the strike was all his society re-
quired, and that if the masters did not, in return
r that concession, retire from the document, the
Conference would still receive the support of the
body he represented.
The delegate of the Amalgamatcd Engineers, in
announcing that he had paid into the Conferenee
£l,OOO, voted by his society, explained that the
' vote had been made without any conditien, either
in reference to the strike or to unslidlcd labourers
participating in the a:vision.
The subscriptions for the evening amounted to
about £lBO.

BENSON'S WATCHES.
" Perfection of mcchanism."--3lorning Post.
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Gold Watches 4 to 100 guineas.
Silver Watches
33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C.

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ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.
Under the mans=e,x►ent of Miss L. Fyne and Irr.W. Harrison
THIS EVENING - will be performed SATANELLA.
Messrs. W. Harrison. Santley, G. Honey, H. Corri, St. Albyn,
Miss Cruise, Filling, and Louisa Pyne.

Conductor, Alfred Mellon,

Ballet, LA FIANCE . Messrs. W. IL Payne, IT. Payne,
F. Payne, Mdlle. ',equine, Pasquale, Pierron, Mons. Vandris.

Doors open at halt-past 7—Commence at 8 o'clock.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bneksione.
THIS EVENING the, nerformances will commence with
THS CONTESTED ELECTION. Ur. and Mrs. Charles
Mathews, Mr. Buckstone, &c.
After which (by desire), PAUL PRY.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, the pertormances will commence with
a new drama, entitled THE MASTER PASSION. Messrs.
Ryder, G. Melville, Graham, R. Cathcart, Garden ; Miss C.
Lee ercq and Mrs. Charles Young.

'robe followed by A WONDERFUL WOMAN. Mr. A.
Harris, Shore, Frank Matthews, and Miss C. Leclereq.
After which, a new farce, in one act, entitled NUIRSICY
CHICKWEED. Messrs. Widdieomb, Meadows, H. Saker ;
Miss L. Keeley and Mrs. Weston.
To conclude with the Divertissement from LOVE AND
FOR RUNE.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, A.D ELPHI,
Sole Proprietor and Mana.,er, Mr. Beni. Webster.

THIS EVEND.7O, THE. DEXD HEART. Messrs
B. Webster. J. L. Toole, David Fisher, I'aul Bedford. Stuart,
Billington, C. J. Smith, Eburne, Mozeland; Miss Woolgar,
and Miss K. Kelly.

Followed by the successful niece of extravagiance, called
D [NO RAIL UNDER DIFFICULT [ES. Messri..l. L. Toole,
P. Bedford; C. J. Smith, Ebarne, and Miss K. Kelly.
Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box-
Ofilee open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing scats,
nor for bills of performance. All 'fees to servants of' this
establishment are strictly prohibited.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. The nearest The'Are to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West-
minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen-
gers all hours of the night.
THIS EVRNING, a new Comedy, LONDON PRIDE ; or,
living for Appearances. Messrs. Leigh Murray, Barrett,
Charles Young; Mesdames Frank Matthews, Murray, and
Nelly Moore.
- - -

Atter which (first timel a new Fairy Extravae:anza, entitled
THE SWAN AND EDGAR. Messrs. Barrett, Francis,
Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse, and the Corps
de Ballet.

To conclude with A DEAD SHOT. Mr. It Cockrell.

Reduced Prices—Gallery, dd ; I'it, Is. The Box-office open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six; perform •
suck commences at 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE
Westminster-road.

Bole Lessee... Ur. William Cooke.

Extraordinary prosperous career of the new historical
Drama, in four parts, by Tom Taylor, Esq., called GARI-
BALDI. New scenery -Magnificent MiMar, Tableux.—
Supported by a Powerful Company—Mr. R. Phillips, Ennis,
Behnore, Raymond, Miss Kate Carson, Sze. - The Scenes in
the Circle will be sustained by the best and most talented
Equestrians of the day, Mr, John Henry Cooke, Miss Rosina.
Ma ille. Marguerite, and a host of British, French, and
American talent—Little Menoni, the wonderful Juvenile
Equestrian—Facetious Clowns, Parisian Pierrots, and Ec-
centric Drolls -terminating eac'i Night with the comical and
mirth-provoking Ballet entitled LOVE'S VAGARIES.
Stage Manager. Mr. R. Phillips

CNTERB UR Y HALL CONCERTS.-
- EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera 01
MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con.
certs).

And a Grand Seeetion from Meyerbeer's new opera a
DINORAH.

Comic Vocalists -Messrs'. George !Tolson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. Critellikid. and E. W. Mackney.
Several interestin Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautified. and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
aig-hts of the metropolis.
ROSA BONHEUR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE
FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of
Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The
gallery is open from 9 am. till 12 p.m. Admission, Six-
pence.

THEIWEATIIER.—Sux OFFICE, NOVEMBER 15.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
45—highest since noon yesterday.
39—lowest this morning and during the night.
46—this day at noon.

BAnomETER.-30.26.
Wiwn. North-Easterly; light, with fair weather,

lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

Tins DAY.—Morning, sh. 25m.—Afternoon, sh. 52m.
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THE SUN.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1839.

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Mr. HENRY BERKELEY has br--en making another
of his broadly humorous speeches to his old eon-

stituents. Whenever the hon. gentleman rises to
deliver a harangue, whether it be. in the House
4-or out of the House it matters nothing, we are cer-
tain there will be a great deal of laughter. As
Certain of it as though the occasion were a thea-
trical dinner, and the orator Mr. BUCKSTONE. The
Senior member for Bristol can hardly open his
. lips, but his expectant auditors are immediately
upon the broad grin. The reporter who has to
record his sentences in flying hieroglyphics has to
jot down pretty frequently with his quivering
pencil the symbols expressive of laughter, loud
laughter, rows of laughter, and so forth ad libitum.
There is no end of his " good things ;" they drop
out in sprinkles, in showers, in cataracts, like the
flowers and sweetmeats out of the inexhaustible
hat of the great M. HouDiN, Magician and Am-
bassador ! The quaint sayings of Mr. HENRY
BERKELEY, too, are about the oddest as
well as about the most abundant -- his
anecdotes if not always the most apt
are certainly the most comical and the most frequent
anywhere to be gathered from the rhetorical dis-
plays of a member of Parliament. Listening to
him is about the next best thing to witnessing one
of those extra -extravagant farces known generically
as Adelphi Screamers. It is an illustration visible
and audible of MiuroN's couplet—

" Sport, that wrinkled care derides,
And laughter, holding both his sides."
The speeches delivered by the member for Bristol
during the last few years in the House of Com-
mons alone, if collected together, and published
separately, would make a very respectable Jest
Book—particularly if supplemented to these Parlia-
mentary " Broad G'rins" there were printed also, in
the form of facetious Addenda, the speeches de-
livered elsewhere by the hon. gentleman upon the
same theme upon the hustings, upon chance plat-
forms, and upon the occasion of all sorts of after-
dinner displays of his political drollery outside the
walls of the Legislature.

Precisely of this last-mentioned kind was the speech
last Monday delivered by Mr. BERKELEY upon one
of those admirable annual gatherings of the societies
formed for the perpetuation of the fair fame of that
good citizen of Bristol, EDWARD COLSTONE, the
large-hearted, open-handed philanthropist ! ~ That
same"COLSTONE whose charitable Blue-coat School
down there in that old western sea-port gave educa-
tion, among many thousands of obscure scholars,
very nearly now one hundred years ago, to that
"marvellous boy who perished in his pride," poor,
crYing, bri3ht eyesl, wonder - working TllO3l AS
CHATTER ON. Rather an unpropitious occasion
*that, one wonld think, for a comic speech upon
party polities ! Not so, however, by any means to
Mr. HENRY BERKELEY. It was said of the late
incorrig,iblei-ounster, GILBERT. A'n ECKETT, Author,
amonr, oth! r literary burlesques, of the Comic
Histories or Rome and England and of the Comic
Blackstou6's Commentaries, that he could have

written a funny article at a tuoment's notice upon
anything iz►: the wide world from a chimney-piece
to a Gothic cathedral, from SLIAKsPERE to

the musi.lal i glasses, from pitch-and-toss to man-
slaughter. 111, Ir. BERKELEY ims about an equal
facility in stringing together droll senterces by the
hour ii t refill 'n for any toast you may please to men-
tion up )n w ly occasion that may ponibly arise out

of the chapter of accidents, a charity dinner or an
electioneering banquet, a marriage feast or a laico-
clerical lunch at a bishop's visitation. He showed
this facility of his once more to perfection on Mon-
day at Bristol. And all through his speech he was
particularly hard upon the Tories! In fami-
liar parlance, he was down upon them
over and over again. They were his
chief butt. And as some people have only to wink
to provoke a shout of laughter, Mr. BERKELEY
had only to sound this butt of his, as it were, no
matter how lightly, with his knuckles, to elicit
fresh explosions of merriment. He had a congenial
audience, and this audience he certainly on Monday
fooled to the top of its bent. Sometimes his jokes
had so peculiarly a local application that the richness
of them is rather lost upon any other pallate but
that of a Bristolian. Now, for instance, in one part,
he unbends a good deal, he takes his audience fami-
larly by the button hole with one hand, and with
the other, digs it playfully in the region of the
small ribs, cracking his jocular bit of fun the
while thus colloquially and comfortably : " I
will ask you," he says to his brother
Bristolians, "to walk with me to the Dolphin
dinner. (Laughter.) There is no doubt a splen-
did and goodly company. There are assembled
the beautifnl ladies of the city, who have been
desired to attend in full dress—(laughter)--at
least, so we are informed by a supplementary ad-
vertisement from Mr. AIKEN, by which both the
gentlemen and ladies are desired more especially to
attend because Mr. Aiken has got a duke. (Loud
laughter.) Yes, according to this advertisement
there is the promise that his grace the Duke
of BEAUFORT—a most excellent gentleman, I
wish he was here—(hear, hear)—is to attend at the
Dolphin dinner; and, moreover, it says not only
have they a live duke with a coronet on his head,
but there is to be also Sir Frederick Wm. Slade
(Laughter). " Walk up, ladies and gentlemen ;
walk in"—(renewed laughter)—says Mr. Aiken,
" here, gentlemen you shall see what you shall see
—(loud laughter)—a real duke with a coronet on
his brow, and a live lawyer stuffed with straw."
(Roars of laughter.) And so they have gone to the
Dolphin to see it. I hope sincerely they will pass a
pleasant evening. I hope that their funds will be
increased from what they were last year. I hope—
no, I will not hope that Mr. Phippin has sent his
old port there, because that is said to be very
powerful port. (Laughter.) But Ido hope that they
may have excellent wines, excellent viands and a
most pleasant evening." The particular richness
of this evidently high-seasoned joke is rather lost,
somehow, we say, outside the limits of the city and
county of Bristol. As again thitt smaller joke, that yet
' sounds, even to Londoners, in some mysterious way,
very comical nevertheless, when Mr. BERKELEY
still ringing the changes with his sly knuckles upon
his big butt of Toryism, says of the Tories a little
later on—" They have cut everything, I say. Why,
they have even cut old NIBLETT and the White Lion.
(Cheers and laughter.)" Poor old NIBLETT, whoever
he is, and his queer heraldic companion, the white
lion aforesaid ! We can only wonder who they may
both be, with a sympathetic smile upon our fea-
tures, while the Bristolians are recovering their
breath and wiping their eyes to listen to the next
waggery from their senior member. It is rather
an old joke, by the way, talking of the loaves and
fishes, and of wild beasts tasting blood, merely
so as to whet their appetite ; but these exceedingly
stale little chips of fun are swallowed with a relish
by the Bristolians when applied by their senior
Member to their old foes the Tories. We cannot
help wondering, however, even as Liberals, when
Mr. BERKELEY says of the Tories—" They have
tasted the sweets of office lately. It is dangerous
to let wild beasts taste blood—(laughter)—they
always become mischievous, and I have always
observed that Tories get vicious when they have
once had a taste of the Government loaves and
fishes. (Laughter.)"—We can't help wondering,
we say even as Liberals, whether the same
maxim precisely might not, just within limits
of possibility be applicable to our dear old friends
the Whigs? That is a capital joke, however, and
one, by the way, rather wide in its applicability,
that Mr. BERKELEY makes a few minutes after-
wards, in allusion to the invariable and absolute
repudiation of anything like bribery and corrup-
tion by any ono accused of either within the walls
of the Imperial Legislature. We must give
it again here in its entirety. It is well
worth repetition. And it is this—" There is a
farce," he says, " I have seen for twenty years in
the House of Commons exceeding all belief. Such
a horrid state of corruption is proved in some borough
—men have been bought wholesale. Mr. So-and-So
is supposed to know something about it. Ho comes
into the House in a grave and florid manner, he
looks around him, and he says—that is, ho makes a
declaration by which he states that we are mistaken.
What is it, after all ? If any gentlemen are
here who frequent the theatre they must have seen
the farce of High Life below Stairs,' in which
there are a couple of rascally servingmen, who as-
sume the titles of their masters, the one being my
Lord Duke,' and the other Sir HARRY.' (Laugh-
ter.) My Lord Duke is given to telling lies, or,
speaking more politely, to romancing a good deal.
Sir HARRY each time contradicts him flatly. When-
ever he does so, my Lord Duke draws himself up,
lays his hand on his heart, and says, ' Upon my
honour ;' on which Sir HARRY raises his hand to
his hat, takes it off his head, and says, 011-h-h.'
(Laughter.) Now this is what 1 have seen acted in
the House of Commons over and over again. The
candidate says, I coat to declare that I have not
been guilty ; I know nothing of this corruption,
upon my honour.' (Laughter.) Oh-h-h ! (Laugh-
ter.) And there the farce ends, and we all know
it to be a farce, because we cannot fancy it to our-
selves that any third person would go and pay
money to elect a man to Parliament for his own
pleasure." Now all this really is admirable fun—
and it is so funny because it is so true ! Yet, beyond
either the fun or the truth of it, is is unquestionably
we must every one of us admit this when the
laughing is all over and we are beginning to lock
grave again—it is unquestionably also very dread-
ful, It is an evil that imperatively demands
eradication. Here in truth is "something rotten
in the state of Denmark." It demands the surgical
scalpel for its excision. There is but one remedy
we do honestly believe—but one effectual remedy
for it. And that remedy—we might almost call it
an Irish echo of Mr. BERKELEY'S own name—
The Ballot!!

Our adviccs from Gibraltar, up to the 9th inst.
inclusively, seem to throw a little light at last upon
the firing so often heard there from the Signal
Point in the direction of Tangier. "The Moors,"
we read in the Gibraltar Chronicle of the sth,
" continued to practice by firing from the guns of
the forts at a target, which fully accounts for the
heavy firing heard in that direction for the last two
or three days." It is only, therefore, like
Admiral NAPIER'S signal to the Baltic
fleet—" Sharpen your cutlasses!" It sounds
very warlike—but is not war. It may end, after
all this firing at the targets, merely in smoke—
with the smoke of the explosions.
Otherwise, however, there come to us from that

north-western corner of the Great African conti-
nent, if not "Yews of Battle," rumours indicative
of the approach of some sanguinary col-
lision between the: Moorish horsemen of the
Sultan of Moßocco, to the number of 12,000
troopers, under his Majesty's brother, MULAI
lIASSAN, and the gathering forces of the Franco-
Spanish battalions. Certainly the military ardour of
France ought to be satisfied, one would think, with
her other wars immediately passed, immediately
present, or immediately possible, without turning
mendaciously in the direction of these shores with
.a view to an insolent invasion of the land of liberty
trod by 26,000,000 Englishmen !
There is the Italian war, really and truly, not by
any means over yet—with GARIBALDI strong in
his own prowess and the love of the Italian multi-
tude, with VICTOR EMMANUEL virtually king at
this moment orthe chief part of the Roman Penin-
sula, with Venetia waiting but for the signal of
insurrection, with the dogs of war yet straining
eagerly, for their next run upon the strong fortresses,
like greyhounds in the slip.
There is the new war (in alliance with England)
to be waged now very speedily once more upon
the recreant Chinese ! The French armaments,
both military and maritime, preparing to take
their departure thither at somewhere about the
date of the 15th of December.

There is, moreover, this threatening onslaught
(in conjunction with the Spanish soldiers under
O'DONNELL) upon the haunt and covert of the Riff
Pirates—the empire of the Sultan of MOROCCO.
Italy, and China, and Morocco, one might fancy,
would glut the maw of any war dog of them all,
even though he were three-headed like Cerberus.
But the Eagle of France has proverbially a very
keen, even, be it said, an insatiable appetite. Even
during the days when it was chained and tamed
in banishment, being supplanted for a comparatively
brief interval by the pugnacious Orleans bantam
even during the days of old King LOUIS PHILIPPE
absurdly dubbed by his sycophantic advisers the
NAPOLEON of PEACE—even then when the national
symbol of France was nothing more than a cock—
but a cock, remember, perched upon that " coign of
'vantage" Power—did not BERANOER, even BEE-

ANGER, sing in vain.

" Co-co-coquerico I
France remet tons chako I
Coquorico, coquerico I"

The symbol of our neighbours at thi3 present junc-
ture, however, being neither the white cockade of the
Bourbons, nor the monarchial cock of the Orleans
dynasty, but the imperial eagle, and the conquering
and warlike tricolour of the Revolution—Eng-
land is bethinking herself betimes of her de-
fences by sea and by land. She has
already a noble fleet cruising in the Channel;
and she is fast mustering, drilling, and organising,
corps by corps, her new National Guard of what
may number up at last 300,000 skilled riflemen !

SUSSEX HALL. - MECHANICS'
INSTITUTE.

Last night a lecture was delivered at the above
institution, in Leadenhall-street, by Mrs. Thomas,
on " The Writings and Genius of Eliza Cook." It
was, on the whole, despite the difficulty that
attends all such undertakings, a very successful
affair. Mrs. Thomas displayed great skill in the
arrangement of her discourse, and she appeared to
give much satisfaction to her numerous and
highly-respectable audience. She was listened
to throughout with marked attention, and at
intervals, as she excited the interest and
awakened the enthusiasm of her hearers, she was
warmly applauded. There is always something
very attractive in the proceedings of a Mechanics'
Institute to those who are interested in the
improvement and elevation of the working-
classes. Among all the triumphs of literature
it is to be questioned if its brightest suc-
cess is not achieved when its reign is extended
over the toiling thousands of mill and factory,
whose aspirations were admirably alluded to by Mr.
Disraeli in his eloquent address at the Manchester
Athenaeum. " Amidst the toils and triumphs of
your scientific pursuits, upon you there comes
the undefinable, the irresistible yearning for
intellectual refinement." The influence of poetry
is universally recognised. Its sphere is not neces-
sarily confined to the narrow limits of classic
schools. Highly prized and appreciated as it may
be there, it has other and not less fervent worship-
pers, who bend at the altar of Nature, if not at the
shrine of Art—

" Thanking God whose boundless wisdom made the flowers
of poesy bloom,
In the forges' dust and cinders, in the tissues of the
loom."
Lectures like that of last eight'afford an unmis•
takeable evidence of the great progress that has
taken place in the cultivation and intelligence of
the community at large. In order to appreciate in
any degree such a discourse there must have been
previous study to refine the taste and mould the
understanding. The illustrations that Mrs. Thomas
presented were well calculated to impress her
meaning on the minds of her auditory, and sh e
may be congratulated on the success of her attempt
to evidence the remarkable powers of the
authoress whose works she selected for criticism.
She could hardly have chosen a more fitting theme
on which to descant before the members of a
Mechanics' Institute than when she analysed the
writings and paid tribute to the genius of one
whose sympathies have ever been warmly expressed
on behalf of the classes who form its votaries, and
who has averred it to be the highest object of her
ambition, as it is the crowning triumph of her fame,
that she should be called the Poetess of the People.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge had a
select party at dinner on Sunday evening at his apartments
in St. James's Palace.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Princess Mary have left Cambridge Cottage,
Kew, for Windsor Castle, on a visit to her Majesty and the
Prince Consort.

his Highness the Prince Leopold Hohenzollern-
Siginaringen, accompanied by Baron de Muyenfisch, has
left blaurigy's Hotel ono. visit to her Majesty at Windsor
Castle.

Their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Edward of Saxe-Weimar have arrived at their mansion in
Portland -place from Scotland.

Emily, Dachiss of Beaufort and the Ladies
Somerset have arrived at their residence in Hill-sticet from
Badminton.

The Countess of Derby and Lady Emma Stanley
have arrived in St. James's-square from Knowsley Hall.
His lordship remains at Knowsley.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Glad-
stoic returned to London yestaday from the Deanery at
Windsor.

GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.—The election of Lord
Rector of the University of Glasgow took place yesterday,
when Lord Elgin was chosen by a majority of all the Na-
tions—the total numbers being, Elgin, 553 ; Disraeli, 411.
The an.angements connected with the approach-
ing. Liberal banquet at Rochester are completed. It is
expected that 1,000 persons will be present. In addition to
Mr. P. W. Martin and Mr. Sergeant Kinglake, the two
members for the city, it is understood that Mr. A. J. Otway,
the Secretary tf the Admiralty, Mr.. Bernal Osborne, and
other influential gentlemen connect,d with the Liberal
party will be present.
THE HON. HENRY STANLEY.—It will be re-
membered that some weeks ago several paragraphs appeared
in the London and provincial newspaper, stating that the
lion. Henry Stanley, son of Lord Stanley of Alderley, had
during his travels deserted the religious faith of his ances-
tors, embraced the doctrines of Mahommedanism, and, in
fact, identified himself with the manners and superstitions
of the Last. However absurd and incredable the state-
ments might easily have been supposed to be, yet there was
an air of particularity . and circumstantiality about—them
that made them pass current as truth. But though no au-
thoritative contradict ion has pruviously been given to them,
we are enabled positively to state that the calumnious ru•
'flours are utterly void of foundation. Mr. Stanley, like many
other intelli..ent English gentlemen, has mixed with the in-
habitants of th 1 countries through which he passed, with a
desire to become thoroughly acquainted with their manners,
t language,habits, and religion ; and in his intercours with the
natives, may have assimilated his costume somewhat to
their habits. But that he had become in anyway imbued-with
their religious ideas, is wholly a calumny, at which Mr.
Stanley must necessarily feel hurt and indignant. We un-
derstand that that gentleman, who is or was recently at
Sian], is about to return home shortly, and with unabated
regard for the creed and iustittltions of his native land.—
t Macelesield courier.