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FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

MONDAY MORNING,

Tay all-absorbing topic of every company and every
tongue continues, even to this good hour, the war—the
Alma—and Sebastopol. If it be justifiable to say of
" Macedonia's Madman" thab—
Thrice he routed all his foes,
And thrice he slew the slain,

it is scarcely less true or less justifiable to say of the
Knights of Cockneydom that they have often fought Alma
" o'er again." Panoramas and penny-booths—placards
and pamphlets—vie with each other in laying vivid, if not
truthful; representations of that great military achieve-
ment before an admiring and bewildered public, while
every journal teems with details of the action, and is made
racy with anecdotes of its heroes. Many of these are, no
doubt, highly coloured, and not a few of exceedingly ques-
tionable authenticity; yet in general they bear an amount
of characteristic peculiarity highly suggestive of national
idiosyncracy, and a cool indifference, if not an absolute
contempt, of
,danger, which at once gratifies and interests
the reader. Conspicuous among those is one as honourable
to British humanity as the intrepid daring of her sons is
creditable to their valour. When the allied troops were
marching from the position out of which they had driven
the discomfited hordes of Russia on the morning of the
23d, they had to pass (sixty long hours after the battle) a

group of seven hundred and fifty wounded Russians,
stretched upon the battle field, who had been left by their
defeated comrades destitute of succour, and abandoned to
the lingering agonies of =assuaged suffering. Ere our
gallant army could bid adieu to these miserably maimed,
deserted, and suffering opponents, Lord RAGLAN sent

orders to the Tartar peasantry of the nearest village that
the wounded men would be confided to their charge, and

that their wounds might be attended to. An English
surgeon, Dr. TrromsoN, of the 44th Regiment, was left
with them,—the sanctity of his mission, and the preca-
rious efficacy of a flag of truce, being his only means of
security against the probable vindictiveness of the wounded
wretches' returning comrades. His was, indeed, true
heroism, unstimulated by eclat.

The threatened pre-Christmas Parliamentary Session
has blown up. The Cabinet Council, held on Wednesday,
decided that it is not necessary, and, in ordering the pro-
rogation to the 16th of November, came, it is said, to the
understanding that Parliament shall, assemble for the

dispatch of business somewhere about, or rather before
the beginning of the coming year. The long-talked-of
visit of the French EMPEROR and EMPRESS to our QUEEN,
has, within the last few days, acquired a fresh vitality,
stimulated, it is considered, by a rumour of extensive
preparations among the State apartments at Windsor
Castle, and some mysterious commands touching English
and India shawls, received by some great house of business
in the metropolis, from some one or other whose name is
of too much consequence to be permitted to transpire.
Among the London novelties—for a thing may be a
novelty in London although quite common in Paris—is
the intended adoption of pillar letter-boxes, erected in the
That such erections will be of great public con-

streets

no one pretends to doubt, surprise being confined
to the fact that they have not been introduced long ago.
While the POSTMASTER-GENERAL has his eye directed
towards improvement in this direction, he might find it
conducive to public convenience also were he to bestow a
moment's consideration on how the "smoke nuisance"
might be abated at some of the post receiving-houses, in
which the function of cigar vendor is commingled with
that of distributor of "postage stamps" to her Majesty's
lieges. In some of these establishments the ventilation
seems so imperfect, and the accumulation of smoky vapour
so dense, that females, or parties with delicate lungs, are
exposed to great inconvenience by the thoughtlessness
which converts a public office into a cigar divan. In
these remarks I have purposely abstained from any allu-
sion to the bold demeanour and free style which certain

"fast young gentlemen" are said to indulge in towards
ladies whose business leads them to enter these shops to
purchase postage stamps. A few reformatory hints in
this direction from his lordship would not be thrown

Few subjects have of late commanded a greater share of
attention, or received more sympathising consideration,
than the condition of our sick and wounded soldiers in the
East, as that has been npresented. That the

admits of doubt; but after making large allowance for
overstatements, there is still a sufficient amount of misery
and inevitably unheeded suffering to call for active ex-
ertion on the part of the public. Fortunately the atten-
tion of the wealthy and humane has been roused to the
subject, and ere many days elapse a corps of male and
female hospital attendants will have reached the scene of
suffering, and those, combined with the official provision
already made, will be able to meet even the most urgent
necessities of the occasion. Another position in which the
calamities of war have revealed themselves to our aching
sensibilities, has arisen from the wail of the widow and
the silent though apprehensive lamentation of the orphan.
A willing ear has been on all sides turned to their plaint,
and all classes have vied and still vie with each other in
voluntary contributions towards their relief. With the
watchful assiduity and native kindness of heart which
have at all times distinguished her when the voice of sor-
row and suffering has met her ear, the QUEEN has led the
way in preparing succour and consolation for them in their
bereavement, and the example has been nobly followed.
Public benevolence has been roused all over the country,
town competing with city, and hamlet with village, in
contributing the only means of solace which it is in the
power of a generous and great nation to bestow on those
who cannot be looked on as other than the widows and
orphans of the state. This is as it should be, and it forms
a marked and honourable contrast to the barbarous apathy
and cruel indifference manifested by the Russians towards
their wounded and helpless countrymen, as that was dis-
played by the miserable sufferers on the heights of Alma.
Unlike the natural, the literary world may be said to
hibernate in summer and blossom in winter. When the
beetle and the dormouse quit their holes, the parterres of
the Row begin to look sere—the blossoms have been
culled—in the literary orchard, the fruit which will ripen
has ripened and been gathered and garnered out of sight
of the sun; and the summer of nature becomes in a great
degree at least the winter of literature. When autumn's
yellow tints are fading into cheerless brown, and the
leaden sky which howls the prelude to November enwraps
the shrinking earth, the trimmers of the literary garden
begin to clear her encumbered flower-beds—her husband-
men to look over and proclaim the nature of the coming
The first throes of the literary spring are evinced

in the dissemination of those ingeniously concerted mis-
sives, the Publishers' Circulars, the appearance of which
gives unmistakeable token of the intellectual "time of
flowers" being at hand, and no revival of vital energy in
the animal or vegetable kingdom is more regular in its
period of return than that which permeates the
literary soil urging into shoot, and bough, and blos-
som, the germ which genius has implanted, and
which culture and intellectual care alone can foster
into wholesome life-sustaining fruit. True enough,
an occasional literary product forces its way into
convulsive life amidst the prevailing general dor-
mancy of the literary garden and field, but in general
they are feeble and delicate of growth, like the unnatural
strawberries and erratic apple-blossoms which we annually
read of in provincial newspapers, phenomena which every-
body wonders at but nobody admires, and which few are
even deluded into the hope of seeing arrive at maturity.
The publishers' recess of the present year has proved no
exception to those of ordinary currency. Some wild
flowers and not a few weeds have overrun the neglected
garden ; while here and there a nettle of more than ordi-
nary pungency, or a thistle of sharper and harder thorns
than usual, like " Firmilian," has shot up among the un-
expected wonders; nor have the nightshade and dock-
weed been without their representatives. Among the
latter class, the reading public has been favoured, or the
contrary, with a lusys naturee by an officer in HER
MAJESTY'S navy—unseasonable in its time of flowering—
sickly in constitution—uncomely in aspect—of repulsive
flavour—in short, a literary weed of rank and disagreeable
as well as untimely growth. This, even the less literary
of your readers will readily perceive, is the " English
Prisoners in Russia," in publishing which Lieutenant
ROYER fulfils a duty for which ho seems to have been
specially prepared in Russia. He was, it must be remem-
bered, an officer on board the ill-fated Tiger when that
vessel was stranded and her crew captured off Odessa.
From his notes he does not appear to have been very
keen-witted, but to have been the unconscious, and it rosy
be, the unwilling victim of false display ; and the Russian
authorities, from General OSTEN SACXEN, upwards end
downwards, appear to have had thorough measure of his
intellectual :dimensions. At Odessa the complaisant
governor handed the extatic " tar " the identical opera-
glass with which his excellency had been furnished
" when watching the progress of the attack on the luck-
less Tiger," and from that moment at least, if not before,
the fate of the gelhmt " luff" was sealed. The glass uo

longer presented "the attack on the luckless Tiger," but
was turned in admiration of " La Cordova," at the Odessa
-Operahouse, with whose acting he was fascinated. Dis-
covering the "impressionable mind" they had to deal
with in Lieutenant Rolm; the Russian magnates took
care that he should behold Muscovite life and manners
coleur de rose, and they treated him to all manner of
civilities, including a pleasant journey to St. Petersburg,
and a charming interview with the GRAND DUCHESS, pre-
paratory to his being introduced to the GRAND DUKE, the
melo-drama being consummated by a tile a tete with the
EMPEROR ! In all of these unusual incidents great care
was taken to show the sunny, not the shady, side of men
and matters, and, contrary to every form of expectation,
Lieutenant ROYER was invited to make notes—in short,
to write a book; he took the hint, and on every page of
his one-sided tablets he has successfully performed for
himself the office which DOGEERRY sighed in vain for a
clerk to do for him. This is all very sad and very serious,
but it cannot be helped. The reception of marked, indeed
very marked civility, where he had expected rudeness, if
not cruelty, and above all, the studiously elaborate cour-
tesy of a veritable live Emperor, has been too much for
the simple son of Neptune, it has upset him, and—he has
written, and worse than written, published a book—need
more be said on such a painful subject ?
In the death of SAMUEL PHILLIPS, which event took
place at Brighton, on Saturday, the 14th instant, the
literary brotherhood has lost an able and industrious
coadjutor. In his earlier years, indeed it may almost
be said "hot youth," Mr. PHILLIPS sought renown
as a player, but did not meet with that success which his

ambition craved, and, withdrawing from the stage, he

betook himself to literature. In 1841, his most important
literary work, "Caleb Stukeley," appeared in Blackwood's
Magazine, and was followed by " We are all Low People
there," both of which have recently been re-printed.
Subsequent to the publication of these works, he was

engaged as a writer for the Times, his contributions to
that journal being, it is understood, chiefly of a literary

cast, and including, it is said, severe rather than unjust
strictures on the writings of DICKENS and some other
Del populorum. He afterwards became connected with
the Morning Herald, for which he wrote political leaders,
and, at a more recent period, he became ostensibly the
proprietor of the John Bull. Seceding from this, about
two years ago, he became more prominently a literary
man and less of a political writer, connecting himself with
the literary details of the Crystal Palace, of which depart-

he was appointed director, and published " The
Crystal Palace Hand-book," and " The Hand-book to the
Portrait Gallery." In early manhood, his constitution, at
no time robust, suffered severly by a fall from a horse,

from the malign effects of which he never fully recovered ;
and, after a protracted course of ill-health, he died sud-
denly from the rupture of a blood-vessel, in the thirty-

ninth year of his age.

Literary and publis

thing circles are again launched upon

,ggy ocean of law's " glorious uncertainty," in respect
ed question of "foreign copyright." A

atly ye

gal opinion, promulgated in the Jurist, declaring, con-
trary to the received general opinion,—and that of pub-
lishers in particular—that the recent decision of the
House of Lords does not in any degree affect the question
of " foreign copyright in this country !" " Who shall
decide when doctors disagree ?" In the meantime, the
practical effect of that decision has been great, numerous
Tints, particularly of American books, have been
ssued and very extensively circulated in this country.
ie rights of property of sister Sarah and
brother Jonathan, has had a wonderful effect in sharpen-
ing their intellects, previously very indifferent as well as
obtuse and hazy on the literary relations of 'lleum and
tuum, and the Yankee confraternity of authors has become
clamorous for the establishment of an international law of
copyright. Unauthorised rumours having of late ob-
tained wide circulation, to the effect that the recent cheap
re-issue of the " Waverley Novels " had proved unprofit-
able, and was abandoned, have received the de facto con-
tradiction of the appearance, within the last few days, of
"The Antiquary," as a volume of that series. Another of
these unauthorised drafts on the somewhat liberal bank of

cheap rep

Thus invasion of tl

" public credulity" has been dishonoured by non-accep-
tance. It was to the effect that the cheap re-issue of
BuLwun's novels had been found not to answer, and that
the agreement under which that re-print had been issued,
has been cancelled. To this averment Messrs. ROUT-
LEDGE give the most unqualified contradiction. From
this somewhat lengthy string of facts and fictions, it is
evident that the spring breezes of the literary atmosphere
have begun to stir the buds and give token of coming

ssoras to grace the advent of

Already the grtat houses are pushing out the

season's

announcements, which include material of '` rare promise."
Old friends are placed before us with decidedly new faces ;
and several new candidates for the Olympian crown have
intimated their intention of courting popular applause.
To each and all of them a hearty welcome !
A great dramatic event has been introduced, and a bold
theatrical experiment has been made, in the revival of
"Pericles, Prince of Tyre," at Sadler's Wells Theatre.
A considerable time has elapsed sine the intended revival
was intimated; and from time to time the public curiosity
was stimulated by green-room gossip and coterie on dits
relative to the style of its production, and the amount of
pecuniary aid it must necessarily receive. The old disputes
concerning its Shakspearian origin were in part resusci-
tated, and various other incidental means were hit upon
to keep the shuttle-cock of public curiosity in motion.
In the list of amateur commentators on the genius of the
great bard, conflicting opinions were, of course, hazarded,
combated, agreed to—none of them, however, acquiring
more general favour than that long ago enunciated by COLE-
RIDGE, who correctly said of SHAKESPEARE, that he keeps
"at all times in the high road of life ;—he has no innocent
adulteries, no interesting incests, no virtuous vice;—he
never renders that amiable which religion
.and reason
alike teach us to detest, or clothes impurity in the garb
of virtue." An extensive colloquial commotion having
been duly maintained for the required time, the piece was
launched, and proved to be a well excised scenic outline
of the crude though powerful tragedy. It has been put
on the stage with great spectaculer skill. The scenery,
of the most gorgeous and artistic order, has, it is said,
been several years in preparation—the dresses and stage
properties are various and beautiful, embracing the cos-
tumes and social adjuncts of Greece and Assyria, which
are harmonized with taste and judgment—the acting and
elocution were in general worthy of the care and study
bestowed on the piece in all its elaborate minutiae and
powerful effect. Last week, I made allusion to the ques-
tionable style in which DOUGLAS JERROLD'S drama of
" A Heart of Gold" had been produced at the Princess's
Theatre. Mr. JsaaoaD has himself given a succinct nar-
rative of the cause which led to the injurious mode of its
production, and an equally succinct, though graphic com-
mentary upon the proceeding. He lays the weight of

his injury on the shoulders of Mr. CHARLES KEAN, and
attributes it to wounded vanity on the part of the actor,
who was carricatnred in Punch. If KEAN was galled by
Punch, JERROLD seems little less hipped by KEAN, and
threatens in revenge to bid "farewell to all dramatic
doings." At St. James's Theatre, " The King's 'Rival"
has undergone some judicious curtailment, and continues
popular and attractive. The tact, delicacy, and beauty of
Miss GLYN's acting in this drama have raised her to a
still higher position in histrionic art, and contributed in
no small degree to the success of the piece. At the
Adelphi, Mr. Mouuts BARNETT concluded his engage-
ment on Monday evening. He leaves this country for the
United States, where, it is to be hoped, an extensive and
profitable popularity awaits him.

WHEAT IN CANADA.—It is estimated that the Canadas
will have a surplus of 12,000,000 bushels of wheat to dis-
pose of this season.
FOREIGN PosTAGß.—Lord Canning, accompanied by
Mr. William Page, the head of the Foreign and Colonial
branch of the Secretary's department of the General Post-
office, left London for Paris on Thursday last to enter into
negotiations with the French Government on the subject
of a new postal treaty.—Civil Service Gazette.

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UPWARDS of 700-
tons of fleecy hosiery, consisting of
under-waistcoats, drawers, &c., have been shipped on board
the screw-steamer Prince, for conveyance to the troops in
the Crimea. A complete telegraphic apparatus, with
several hundred miles of wire, to be laid down in the
Crimea, and also several sets of diving apparatus, to
remove under-water obstructions, will likewise be taken
out by the Prince.
AN ANCIENT HOSTELRIE.—The old " Black Boy" at
Feckenham, Worcestershire, is now closed as an inn. It
has been in the family of the Gardners about 139 years.
The sign, which is of copper, stood the whole of that time,
until taken down on Thursday last.— Worcester Chronicle.
HER MAJESTY'S NEW ICACllT.—January next has been
fixed as the period when the splendid new steam-yacht,
the Windsor Castle, now building at Pembroke for the
Queen, is to be finished and launched. The greatest exer-
tions are being made in order to hasten her progress. A
large body of the best men are constantly at work upon
her, and converted timber has regularly been brought
round from the other yards in order to expedite her build.
She is so far advanced that an excellent idea may be
formed of her; and there is no doubt that she will prove
a model of beauty both in finish and mould. Her lints
have evidently been laid with care and judgment, and pro-
m'se great speed, while her immense length, more than
100 yards, and proportionate beam, will secure ample
accommodation, not only to Royalty, but @so to the
officers and crew—a comfort in which the Victoria and
Albert is sadly deficient. The Windsor Castle is built of
mahogany chiefly, with sound British oak. The diagonal
planking has been laid.