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FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

MONDAY MORNING

So long a period has now elapsed since the public were
wont to be roused by proclamations of " glorious victories,"
and the issuing of " Extraordinary Gazettes," that people
were taken by surprise on Saturday night, when, shortly
before ten o'clock, the LORD MAYOR, attended by the
city authorities, made their appearance, preceded by the
trumpeters and mace-bearer, and, at the front of the Royal
Exchange, made proclamation of a victory achieved by the
allied army over the Russians in the Crimea. The war
having hitherto been conducted with such sneaking quiet-
ness, and the advantages gained over the enemy having
been allowed to ooze out with such obvious official hesi-
tancy, nobody knew what to make of the present startling
intimation. Not a few appeared inclined to regard the
proceeding as a hoax, conveying censure to the Ministry,
as the "Abbot of Unreason" was, in days of old, accus-
tomed to castigate the backslidings and peccadilloes of the
great, whom it was otherwise unsafe to impeach. Public
doubt, however, was cleared up shortly afterwards by the
issue of an " Extraordinary Gazette," in which the fact was
formally announced, that " the entrenched camp of the
Russians, containing 50,000 men, with a numerous artillery
and cavalry, on the heights of the Alma, was attacked on
the 20th September, atone p.m., by the allied troops, and
carried by the bayonet at half-past three." Here was in-
deed news as unexpected as it was gratifying. The intel-
ligence flew from mouth to mouth with amazing rapidity,
giving rise to congratulations and general joy. In the

tumult of enthusiasm, no one was at first inclined to in-
quire the amount of sacrifice by which victory had been
achieved ; and, by and by, the excitement was augmented
on receipt of intelligence conveyed by telegraph, to the
effect that Sebastopol and the Russian fleet had both been
captured. The effect of this additional news was quite
electric, and proved beyond dispute the vast amount of
popularity our rulers might easily have secured by the
exercise of a little more energy in prosecuting the
war. Whether the telegraphic dispatch relative to
the fall of Sebastopol be immediately confirmed or
not, the news of Saturday evening will exercise, for
a time at all events, a salutary effect on the position
of the Coalition. Of the ultimate reduction of that
fortress, a belief was extensively participated in
even by the Court of Russia. The unopposed landing
of the allied troops in the Crimea, on becoming known at
St. Petersburg, created an immense sensation among all
ranks, and is said to have most painfully affected the
CZAR, who had been led to believe that great opposing
means were provided along the whole coast, which would
have either prevented the landing, or have rendered it a
dangerous and destructive operation to the invaders. The
event, it is said, has opened his eyes to another of the
gigantic shams by which his stubborn spirit has been
buoyed up and sustained; and he now begins to feel that
immensity of territory on which his greatness seemed
built is, in reality, the source of his weakness. Discontent
in the Russian capital is taking different forms of mani-
festation, conspicuous among which are fires in various
portions of the government departments. These occur with
such remarkable frequency, as to leave no doubt that they
are the work of incendiarism.

Yesterday, as befitted a pious and Christian people, a
large majority of the British nation, in deep humility of
heart, approached the Throne of Grace, in grateful thanks-
giving to ALMIGHTY GOD, for that bounty He has vouch-
safed to us in a plenteous and well-gathered harvest. The
churches and the various dissenting places of worship in
London, as well, without doubt, as throughout the coun-
try, were thronged by congregations of devout worship-
pers, who, raising their voices in thankfulness, yet bowed
their knees and humbled their hearts in trusting depend-
ence before that Heavenly Father, who, in fulfilment of
His own wise and benevolent designs, has covered the land
with plenty, and given unto His people abundantly. Such
an acknowledgment, at such a time, was peculiarly. befit-
ting ; and, if ever an instance is to occur in which party
differences and sectarian spleen are to give way before the
dictates of sound religion, an occasion of general acknow-
ledgment for a common benefit was one in which to unite
all ranks of people, and every class of Christian believers.
This, however, has not been permitted ; the pseudo-hier-
archy of Rome, exercising the power which bigotry has.
accorded to them in Ireland, have decreed that the day
setapart fora grateful outpouring of thankfulness through-
out the kingdom shall be devoted to a different and a

questionable purpose in that country. There, the POPE'S
Commissioners, setting aside the authority of the QUEEN'S
command, and in contempt of constituted authority no
less than in defiance of common decency and good feeling,
ordered that yesterday should be set apart for a
general collection in aid of the funds for establishing an
additional Romish University in Ireland. In this con-
temptuous refusal to allow their followers to mingle in
either prayer or thankfulness to GOD with their Protestant
fellow-subjects, the pretended bishops of the Romish
Church in Ireland have gone far to show how malignant
and childish, if it were not dangerous, is their hatred of
Protestants and of Protestantism. Many things have of
late years conduced to show that the hold of this grinding
spiritual tyranny over the minds of the people has been
irksome, though acquiesced in. A few more such feats of
contumacious self-will and the bond will be entirely broken.
Already do we find numerous indications of diminished
priestly sway, and each returning day is adding to the
number. The Popish priest is no longer the despotic
ruler of the parish in which he resides ; and the pea-
santry—applying their own notions, rude, indeed, they
may be, yet they are their own—in judging of men and
matters, are now nearly as prompt in the infliction of what
BicoN calls " wild justice" against the offences of priests
as against those of others. In proof of this, on the fair-
day at Drumlish, some of the " pisantry" entered the
yard of the Rev. PATRICK MICRON, P.P., and stabbed
his watch-dog in several places. Within a few miles of
the same village, not long ago, the Rev. Mr. SHERIDAN,
Roman Catholic curate of Kelloe, was knocked down, and
escaped with much difficulty from his assailants. Such
instances of outrage, though highly reprehensible, cannot
be denied as evidence of waning influence. The truth is,
these sacerdotal despots have exercised their filched autho-
rity with too indiscriminate a severity, and their unwil-
ling thralls have'been driven to revolt. Nor is this oppo-
sition to their rule confined to the uneducated mass, or
directed alone against the humbler members of the priest-
hood. The contagion of revolt has stretched across the
wide Atlantic7and included in its innoculation men who,
in Ireland, exercised a sway second only to that of the
priesthood, yet bent the knee and licked the dust in token
of submission to priestly domination ; and these de-
nounce the highest functionaries of the Romish Church,
attacking bishops, and hurling defiance and contempt at
the Pons himself. An open rupture has broken out in
New York between the representatives of these two
parties, the chief belligerents being none other than his
pseudo grace Archbishop HUGHES and the redoubted
JOHN MITCHELL, the ostensible cause of the dispute being
the " wrongs of Ireland !" In reference to the famous
"Cabbage-garden rebellion," they have exchanged high
defiance, the prelate acquitting himself only second-best
in the affray. " If," says MITCHELL, alluding to the
rising so ingloriously terminated in the widow's garden,
at Ballingarry, "that insurrection failed, and ended with-
out so much as a blow struck, the failure is due, not to
cowardice or to faithlessness on the part of those you call
`Young Irelanders,' but to the treach;ry and meanness
of the Irish Roman Catholic priests. So, in the opinion
of Mr. MITCHELL, the priestly prestike is assuredly gone,
and, firm in this belief, he waxes yet bolder, and says, " I
tell you, bishop, that nothing can so grossly outrage the
feeling, or tend to damage the civil position of your coun-
trymen—(but, I beg pardon, your grace, I believe, is a
Welshman)—of the Irish in America, as the teachings of
the Roman Catholic press, especially your grace's organ
and Dr. BROWNSON'S Review, in favour of the intolerant
despotisms of Europe. If half the nations of the earth
must be held in civil bondage for ever—if democratic
freedom itself is to be openly denounced in the old world
and undermined and sneered at in the new—if American
Republicans and the Roman Catholic Irish are to be set
against each other in deadly strife, and all because the
Pons rules badly a petty principality in Italy, be assured
that the Irish will begin to curse the POPE, and his tiara,
and inquisitions, congregations, conclaves, colleges, and
the rest of the clerical apparatus." It is said that, when
feuds break out between certain members of the commu-
nity, honest men are likely to come by their own. How
such a proverb may apply in the present instance it is not
for me to say ; but certainly the freedom of invective in-
dulged in by the rebel censor does not savour much of
reverence for the priestly office, nor of personal respect
for those who hold it.
A rumour has gained considerable currency, most pro-
bably founded on nothing more stable than club-room
gossip, that one object of Prince ALBERT'S late visit to
France was to offer the garter, vacant by the death of the
late King of SAXONY, to his Imperial Majesty NAPOLEON
111. ; the same rumour adding that Louis NAPOLEON at
once condescended to accept the proffered honour. Belief

in such a rumour would hardly justify a charge of over-
credulity: the fluctuating fortunes of the French EMPE.•
Ron have oscillated with such rapidity, between extremes
so distant, that wonder almost ceases to operate in con-
templation of his success. It is farther added by the same
authority, that he, accompanied by his EMPRESS, will visit
England some time before Christmas, to receive the dig-
nity and be invested with its insignia. Should the event
in reality occur, it will be, indeed, a startling evidence
that "truth is stranger than fiction." Brief space ago he
quitted London, an insignificant and homeless wanderer;
and within a few short months he climbed to sovereign
power—more singular still, he has fixed himself there;
and if the rumour alluded to be a true one, he revisits our
shores, the favoured ally, if not also the personal friend of.
our SOVEREIGN, the most powerful monarch who wields a
sceptre. Assuredly, so far as the human eye can see, his
star has been a lucky one.

Within little more than a week, the Whig firmament
has been deprived of one of its lesser luminaries by the
death of Trroacks LORD DENMAN, who sank under an
attack of apoplexy, on Friday se'nnight, at his seat, Stoke
Albany, Northamptonshire. 'His lordship was in his
76th year, and although never a luminary of the first
magnitude or greatest lustre, he for a long period occupied
a conspicuous position among the dei minores of the
Whig Pantheon. After a stormy, rather than a brilliant
career, Mr. DENMAN was made Attorney-General in 1830,
and created a knight; in 1832, on the death of Lord
TENTERDEN, Sir THOMAS DENMAN was appointed Lord
Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, a position which he
retained till, in 1850, failing health compelled him to
retire, and he was succeeded by Lord CAMPBELL. His
lordship is succeeded in the peerage by his son THOMAS,
now second Lord DENMAN, who was born in 1805. The
late lord's second son, JOSEPH, is a Commodore in the.
Royal Navy, is Groom in. Ordinary to the QUEEN, and
Commander of the Royal steam-yacht Victoria and Albert.

By the death of Lord DENMAN many circumstances of
importance, and some events of moment, are brought
forcibly to memory. Although noted for his industry, as
a praiseworthy barrister, Mr. DENMAN cut no conspicuous
figure, legal or legislative, till the year 1820, when he
became associated with HENRY, now Lord BROUGHAM,
in defending QUEEN CAROLINE during her memorable
trial before the House of Peers, which terminated as
everybody knows in the acquittal, if not in establishing
the innocence of that Royal lady; however, it certainly
pushed Mr. DENMAN several stages on his way to that
eminence which, in all probability, without its aid,
he never would have attained. "We now look back,"
says the Times, " with amazement on the spirit which
pervaded the country at that time, and on the motives
which induced men of the highest ability and the purest
fame voluntarily to lend their advocacy to a client who
had, in a thousand ways, degraded her position and dis-
graced her sex. But men like LUSHINGTON and DEN-
IAN saw in the QUEEN a woman whose innumerable
offences against decency and virtue might, they thought,
be palliated by the unworthy treatment she met with
from her husband, and the furious spirit of opposition
which prevailed against GEORGE IV. and his Ministers
animated them to the contest, and embellished even the
worthless and repulsive object they consented to serve.''
The amazement of the Times at the generous simplicity
or, if it likes the title better, the furious factiousness of
the people which made them embellish "a worthless and
repulsive object," may, indeed, be a very natural feeling,
but the singularity most striking in the matter is the fact,
that while reviewing the extent of popular and forensic
delusion, the Times should have entirely missed any
traces of its own hallucination on the same subject. The
public was wild, delirious, and, of course, misguided. The
Times was also a good deal crazed in the same direction ;
but " there was method in its madness," and withal a
prudential consideration of the exchequer, is supposed, by
some, to have had quite as much as public spirit to do
with the course pursued by the Times; so it does not look
back with any amazement on its own vagaries.
De mortuis nil nisi bonum,
is in general circumstances an admirable rule of conduct,
but with public characters its application would some-
times lead to false results, and to this latter observation
the character and conduct of the deceased Lord Chief
Justice offer no exception. On the bench his lordship too
frequently allowed the partizan to take precedence of the
judge ; and, probably, in no instance on record did this
obliquity of moral perception appear to greater disadvan-
tage than when, in his conduct as Lord Chief Justice, he
led Lords COTTENIIA3I and CAmpnELLin reversing the sen-
tence on DANIEL O'CorrN am. and his fellow-convicts under
indictments for conspiracy and sedition. From that de-
cision and its consequences, the dignity of national justice
and the cause of social order received a serious wound;
and if the elastic vitality of the constitution was suf-
ficiently vigorous to overcome the shack, small thanks
only were due to him who was their sworn protector.

Until the other day, the British naval and military ser-
vices, particularly in their higher grades, were understood
to represent chivalrous honour and unimpeachable
veracity ; recent events have gone far to change the cha-
racter of this opinion. In the revelations of the Windsor
court-martials, the moral character of the military ser-
vice received a severe stab, scarcely less from n•liat was
attempted to be concealed than from what was exposed in
all the deformity of its natural viciousness. The condem-
natory tones of public indignation had not ceased to vi-
brate iu reprobation of the indecencies proved to exist in
barracks, when the general ear is again outraged by the
details of a yet more flagrant breach of morals and of
decency, which has occurred on board one of the
QUEEN'S ships, lying in Portsmouth harbour. As the
latter case is under judicial investigation, it would be ob-
viously unfair to offer such remarks as might prejudice
even guilty men before a legal tribunal ; but it would be
little less unjust to society to avoid all allusion to the
broad facts of the case revoltingand indelicate although they
are. On the night of Sunday, the 17th of last month,
two young women of tarnished reputation, were, at a late
hour, conveyed on board the steam-frigate Dauntless by
one of the marine officers, belonging to the ship. The
women were taken to the cabin of Lieutenant KNIGUT,
the officer referred to, where they were served with brandy
and wine, till intoxication of one at least, if not all of them,
ensued. The scene which followed it is unnecessary to trace in
all the repulsiveness of its horrid orgies ; suffice it to say,
that one of the unhappy females received such injuries as
to cause her death on the following Wednesday. Without
in the present condition of matters attempting to discuss
the question of guilt or innocence, as regards the fatal
result, enough has been established to prove that bru-
talising vice and filthy debauchery 'may be carried on in
HER MAJESTY'S ships, or in the officers' quarters of HER
MAJESTY'S army, without, to all appearance, infringing
the rules of either service. From the evidence adduced in
these inquiries, it seems not inconsistent with the regula-
tions for officers, and of course gentlemen, to bring with
them and introduce to their qnarters or cabins, as the case
may be, women of questionable repute, to keep them there,
and in their company carouse till past midnight.—to in-
dulge in shouting, screaming, drinking, and riot, and, in
short, so to comport themselves as would not be tolerated
in any pothouse in the kingdom. Surely it is not too
much to expect of the authorities at the Horseguards and
the Admiralty, that they shall have better regulations
established in the departments under their control. If
they are unable to establish good feeling and gentlemanly
propriety among the officers, they may at all events pre-
vent them from making the mess-room or the gun-room
the theatre for such Circean displays. If they cannot
make the officers moral, they may at least make the mess-
room respectable, the ward-room decent. Difficulties may
arise in keeping strict watch over the !conduct of young
men while they are exempt from duty; but little difficulty
need to stand in the way of preventing the introduction of
vicious associates. and the performance of profligate orgies

within the precincts of what ought to be the naval or
military officers' home. Of the.legal bearings involved in
the case last referred to, I have purposely avoided speak-
ing ; that branch of the question is in course of investiga-
tion. Its moral complexion is of too dark a tint, the
features of too revolting an aspect to require a comment.
Intimation has been received that Mr. W. H. BARTLETT
has died at sea, on his return from the east, whither he
went a few months ago, for the purpose of inspecting and
illustrating the artificial remains and scenery of the
"Seven Churches." While on his return, and within
three days of land, on board the French steamer Egyptus,
he was seized with an illness which proved fatal on the
following day. The gentleman who was thus cut off in
the prime of life was well known as an accomplished
artist, an elegant writer, and an indefltigable traveller.
He was the author of numerous illustrated works, chiefly
historical, and all of them attained great popularity. It
is stated that Mr. MCLISE has received a commission to
execute his fine picture, " The Marriage of Strongbow,"
in fresco, for the adornment of the Houses of Parliament.
Among the politico-literary gossip of the day, is a rumour
which points to an entire remodelling of a daily morning
newspaper, said to be in the favour, if not absolutely in
the pay of government. It is also said that Mr. B.
WEBSTER, lessee of the Haymarket Theatre, has become
a speculator in newspaper property, and purchased "The
Field," a country gentleman's paper, started a year and
a half or so ago by Sir JOSEPH PAXTON and some of his
pseudo-literary confreres. Another, and very apocryphal
rumour, has it that Diogenes, a rival, though not a very
successful one, of Punch, has found a purchaser at £5,000.
At the Strand Theatre, a petit piece apropos to the late
court-martial has been produced with considerable success.
It is entitled, "The New Wags of Windsor," and bur-
lesques with great spirit the sayings and doings which
formed such prominent features at those memorable in-
quiries. In it the flirtations of the officers with the mil-
liners and other delinquencies are brought to trial before
a jury of women, the counsel on both sides being also
women. The various scenes and incidents give ample
scope for satire, which is ably applied. Theatrical life
seems now more extensively varied than its proverbial
vicissitudes of yore would warrant a belief in. Aftar
having made a successful operatic and dramatic adventure iu
California, Miss CATHERINE HAYES, the Hibernian LIED,
gave a concert, in Honolulu, on the 23rd July, to an over-
flowing house, arid on the 26th took her departure for
Australia. An ambulatory iron theatre is all but ready
for shipment to Australia, for the accommodation of Mr.
G. V. BROOKE, the tragedian, and a troupe of other per-
formers. Mr. BROOKE, it is said, has been engaged for
three years, at an enormous salary, to play in Australia
and California, the travelling edifice, like the Thespian cart
of the ancients, being made to supply the stage and ward-
robe-safe, as well as to save the enormous charges of
house-rent at the "diggings."

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