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THE ERA. February 12, i860. A NEW MOVE IN THIS CORRECTION pTSE MISSES C0SHMAN and ME. GEORGE Vandenhoff. have occurred within the last few days about one there is -a mystery which will probably be solved, but about another, the slaughter of a wife and the suicide of the husband, there is also a mystery, the solution of which does not seem likely.

Madness, lurking in the husband, and dictating his treating his victim with all imaginable kindness and indulgence, until he suddenly rose upon her and slew her, may be the key. Simple brutality characterises the third of the crimes on the dark list brutality, aroused by drink. All the cases occur among the lower classes. But not one hundredth part of the daily and hourly wickednesses that are perpetrated in the crowded alleys and courts and loathsome dens of our large cities ever surges up to the judgment seat, or to the notice of "the world" and, especially, the number of child-victims to the ruffianism, drunkenness, and neglect of their parents will never be known till the day that all things shall be known. Happy are those who can snatch a single brand from the burning.

So thought the men who the other night assembled a large number of the unfortunate class at the St. James's Hall, gave them first food, and then counsel, and followed up the work by-showing them a door through which to escape from their horrible life. Such men are of a different order from those who preach sermons from the stages of theatres. of our Social Evil. Some yearB ago Mr.

H. Mayhe in his cruBade on the Social Evils of the metropolis, when he called together housebreakers and pickpockets, and made the reformed convict preach homilies to the vicious, conceived the idea of congregating the Prostitutes of London and making the Magdalen teach virtue and continency to the erring sisterhood from whose body she had been reclaimed. This scheme, like most of the others from the same source, fell to the ground, and a movement, subsequently undertaken by many of the better educated of the sisterhood, to correct this social evil also collapsed into nothing; but a measure has this last week been practically set afoot that, properly carried out, may yet eventuate in clearing our streets of many thousands of tho more worthy of the erring women who throng them, and though it is out of the power of human legislation, while society is constituted as it is, to suppress this tolerated vice, may yet vastly reduce the cause that gives it encouragement, and save to all the amenities of social respect and domestic obligation thousands who, unsuccoured, would draw out a life of sin, crime, and degradation. The Honourable and Eev. Baptist Noel, with several other pious and worthy Christian ministers, resolving, if possible, to reclaim a few of the unfortunate women, who, to the offence of decency and the injury of morals, nightly carry on their unhappy trade in the locality of Leice3ter-square and the Haymarket, in the early part of this week issued cards, both in the streets, and at the cafes, and houses of resort, inviting each to an entertainment of tea and coffee, at the hour of midnight, in the St.

James Restaurant, St. James's Hall, Regent-street, where before one o'clock above 250 of the class denominated unfortunate, but dressed in the extreme of fashion and elegance, had already congregated, when, after liberally partaking of the beverages and viands prepared for them, the object for which they were assembled was imparted by one of the reverend gentlemen present. Once apprised of the motive for which they were convenedn so remarkable a manner, the Rev. Baptist Noel addressed his female hearers in. a speech at once eloquent, touching, and practical, and while showing them the evil and enormity of their vicious life the beauty and natural intentions of existence they had forfeited by such a course the loss of friends, love, social distinction, domestic duties and maternal ties a life of hollow, seeming, and meretricious glitter for the, honourable enjoyments of home and conjugal happiness he showed them that, however hard and rugged the path might be, there was a haven of peace and respect, if not love and honour for all, if they seriously repented, and honestlyresolved to amend the evil course of their former life.

Such an address, delivered with all the power and eloquence of Mr. Noel's manner, could not fail to produce a great effect on his hearers, who by tears and sobs testified how acutely they felt, not only their degradation, but the feminine joys of existence they had sacrificed. As an encouragement to reformation, it was intimated that for those who honestly desired to change their unhappy and degraded state, accommodation would be found in the Reformatory, Trinity Home, and other philanthropic institutions. So far, so good but on this point we may possibly have something pertinent to say in to the editor of the era. Sir On seeing lately a work entitled Leaves from an Actor's Note'Book," by Mr.

George Vandenhoff (edited by Mr. Carleton), I felt, as an old playgoer, eager to read its contents. Having done so, I must candidly confess that it disappointed me greatly in every respect. One would have thought that from the high reputation of his father on the stage, the son would have produced some, thing worth perusing. What has he done Published a book lull of egotism and bombast, and, from first to last, extolling his own high attributes as an actor (said to be taken from such papers as the New York Herald, written by himself f) and depreciating all his contemporaries, or nearly all, male and female.

Being more particularly interested in the Misses Cushman, I deem it a duty due to the living as well as to the dead, to refute, in toto, some of the remarks this envier and reviler of Macready has passed upon these unequalled and estimable ladies, whose acting in their respective parts has been pronounced unparalleled in any age or country. What docs Mr. G. Vandenhoff say of Miss Cushman's Romeo, in his passing through Philadelphia, on which occasion Charlotte Cnshmau played Romeo: I was Mercutio (i. I suppose, was the play I lent her a hat, cloak, and sword for the second dress, and, I believe, I may take credit for having given her some useful fencing hints for the killing of Tybalt and Paris, the only good points in this hybrid performance of hers." How Miss Cnsh-man would laugh if she happened to read this self self-laudatory account of the great and discriminating George Vandenhoff, from whom she received the only good points in this hybrid performance of hers." Then he proceeds, I never yet heard any human being that had seen her Romeo who did not speak of it with a painful expression of countenance," more in sorrow than in anger." Surely the man who wrote this, having, of course, acted Romeo himself, must have been jealous of a woman interpreting better a part than he possibly could under any Read carefully the above, I never yet heard any human being that had seen her Romeo who did not speak of it with a painful expression of countenance." Will Mr.

Vandenhoff read what the first living dramatist, the second only to Shakspere, the greatest man that ever lived (and what a position to hold, only second to Buch a one namely, Sheridan Knowles, wrote in the following letter to a friend on witnessing Romeo as personated by Miss Cushman "I witnessed with astonishment the Borneo of Mm Cuthmm Unanimous and lavish as were the encomiums oftha London preBs, I was not prepared for Such a triumph of pure genius. You recollect, perhaps, Kean's third act of Othello? Did you ever expect to see anything like it again I never did, aud yet, I saw as great a thing last Wednesday night, in Borneo's scene with the Friar after the sentence of banishment, quita as great I am almost tempted to go further. It was a scene of topmost passion, not simulated, paasiou no such thing real, palpably realjtba genuine heartatorm was onon in wildest fitfulness of fury and I listened and gazed and held my breath, while my blood ran hot and cold. I am sure it must have been the case with every one in the house; but I was all absorbed in Borneo till a thunder of applause recalled me to myself. I particularise this scene because It is the roojt powerful, but every scene exhibited the same truthfulness the first soene with Juliet, for instance (admirably personated by her beautiful Bister), was exquisitely faithful the eje, the tone, the general bearing everjthing attesting the lover smit to the core at first eight, and shrinkiDgly and falteringly endeavouring with the aid of palm, and eye, and tongue to break his passion to his idol.

My heart and mind are so full of this extraordinary most extraordinary performance, that I know not where to stop or how to go on. Throughout it was a triumph equal the proudest of those which I used to witness years ago and for a repetition of which I hove looked in vain till now. Ihera is no trick iu Miss Cushman's performance no thought no interest, no feeling seams to actuate her except what might be looked for in Borneo himself, were Borneo reality. What reply can Mr. George Vandenhoff give to the above written at the time when Sheridan Knowles and the actress were almost strangers After such laudations, of what value is the opinion of Mr.

Vandenhoff upon the acting of any one male or female? I feel certain that all reading the praise of snch a man as Sheridan Knowle3 upon Miss Cushman's Romeo will at once say that jealousy must have been at the bottom of Mr. Vandenhofl's estimate of the acting of the lady in the love sick youth." I need not go through several other characters that are treated in a similar style by the great of it by members of the Government something more than a mere allegiance to certain arithmetical dogmas, or even to an economy. We propose or Lord Pamieb-ston and his party in the Government proposes to buy the friendship of with one hand, at a large and certain sacrifice, while with the other hand they disburse an enormous sum, and create an enormous debt, to provide against the exceedingly probable animosity of that neighbour. Whether the House of Commons is prepared to accede to this ambi-dextrous proceeding or it is clear that members of the Government must fight for it or resign, and if Ministerial convictions mean any thing, there are several men of high honour and standing who are strongly opposed to the Palmerston and Napoleonic compact. In the debate on the Budget, therefore, it will be extremely interesting to observe who of the Cabinet throw themselves into the arena.

Those who do not, it may, without any particular hesitation be said, are likely to be at no distant date either without office or without their present colleagues in office. Irrespective of questions connected with the Budget, but as grave as any of them, comes the Savoy and Nice annexation scheme. This subject was discussed in the House of Lords early in the week, and we think very advantageously, for their Lordships lost no time in pronouncing a decided opinion that the Empeeoe of the Fbench must not be permitted to pursue this plan of aggrandizement. Lord Debbt, on the part of the Conservative body, spoke with temperate eloquence, but without in the slightest degree disguising his convictions, and distinctly condemned the project. The feeling of the House of Lords was with him.

Lord Gkanvilie, on behalf of the Cabinet, was compelled to confine himself to expressions which, from their very nothingness, were as pregnant as fuller language could be. He has assurances" that nothing of the kind is intended, but these assurances are confuted by the acts of the French agents and the words of the French press, and Lord Granville and his chief can say little that assures" us. But the moral effect that will be produced by the unanimous expression of the House oE Lords must be very great, and the sooner that it is echoed elsewhere the better. It will then be signified to Europe that we are not inclined to see the limits of Prance altered, or to behold a honourable, free, and independent population handed over to the sway which may suit Prance exceedingly well, but would not be cnosen by those who believe liberty of speech and action to be among the necessaries of But should the House of Commons take up this question in earnest, and it will be obliged to do so, there are new dangers to the Coalition, which may be called on to be explicit as to a policy on which it is disunited. Parliament has availed itself of the interruption caused by the illness of Mr.

Gladstone, and has made brief sittings. It has found time, however, to carry Sir John Teelawnet's bill for the abolition of Church Itates, to decide that the Divorce Court shall not sit with closed doors, to refuse to try the ballot at Wakefield and Gloucester, to demand of Lord John Russell how ho had been intending to settle the Italian question, and to receive from him a full, frank, but not satisfactory reply the despots will not commit themselves. We may add that a new bill on bribery has been introduced by Sir Pitzeot Kelly, but that learned person proposes punishments which are not too severe in themselves, but are much more severe than, in the present state of th3 public mind, could be enforced against offenders. We have not taught the neople to look upon bribery as a THE BUDGET. Ia another column, in our Parliamentary intelligence, will be found the Chancellor of the Exchequer's financial statement, which has been looked forward to with so much anxiety and interest.

The House was densely crowded on the occasion, and the Peers' galleries especially were full. It was with difficulty that Lord Derby could find a seat. The Duke of Cambe'idge, the Duke of Aegylb, and nearly' all the Members of the Government in the Upper House were present. Mr. Gladbione entered the House precisely at half-past four, and was loudly cheered of course.

We never saw him look better, and when he rose, almost immediately, to answer a question that was put to him, his voice save no indication whatever of any recent indisposition. It was full and clear, and really seemed almost as though it had been tuned for the occasion. When the Chancellor of the Exchequer did begin it must be confessed that he did not waste much time in coming to bis subject. He dashed into it at once, and it must be acknowledged that it is a Budget that required no little dash on the part oi its propounder. It is emphatically a bold Budget.

It repeals four millions of taxes, and imposes ten millions of fresh ones. It.dasbes in at interests ia the moBt remorseless manner, and administers sops" with a lavish hand. The increase in the current expenditure of the ear is very large, and this is attributable to the Chhiese expedition, and the necessary augmentation of our defences. That of course everybody expected. The new Commercial Treaty is more sweeping in its effects than was at first anticipated, or at all events announced.

We knew what the French part of it was to be, but we did not know uutil Friday night what our part is to be. In the first place we are to admit all kinds of French manufactured articles free, absolutely free of duty, gloves, silks, evervthing they manufacture in France. We rather think that will be a'staggerer to a good many -interests and people in this country. What we are to do with regard to wines and spirits that is pretty well known. Already one interest is to be prominently attacked in consequence of the provisions of this treaty, and that interest the Licensed Victuallers.

In order, as Mr. Giadstone freely admitted, to make the working man a wine drinker, all eating-houses and coffee-houses are to have licenses to sell wines and beer. Now that is a direct infringement of the vested interests of the Licensed Victuallers, and one which they, of course, will resist to the utmost. The repeal of the paper duty is the great sop of the Budget, Of course this is to be the propitiatory offering to the Manchester school, and is the make-weight in the French treaty. There are various small items of reduction of duties, such as the game licenses, butter, eggs, figs, oranges, and lemons, articles which would almost seem to have been selected for their sweetness to take away the nanseousness of the great pill that came at last, an income tax of lOd.

in the pound on incomes over and 7d. in the pound under. Snch is the Budget of 1860, we shall, see how it will fare in a few days our next week a edition. Ji or tne present we content ourselves mux recording the fact of this, in every respect, remarkable meeting, whose simple and unostentatious manner of getting up cannot but greatly please us. That ranch real good may be effected through snch a channel, we freely admit; but that gojd may come of it, some harbour of refuge beyond that of a quasi-prison must be provided-some refuge free from the taint of a penitentiary or the moral drawback of a system of correction.

On this we shall probably have something to say in our next in the meantime, we cannot but wish every success to a philanthropy that in any way honestly and practically grapples with one of our greatest of social evils. ADVICE to ME. BKYAN KING, of ST. George's. While riot can be suppressed in theatre, assembly, ball, or street, th.

Wa. if in anv niece on earth, decorum, peace, and reverence should exist, the laws of society are powerless to command I order, or save it from pillage, desecration, and outrage. The Ecclesiastical Court, with all the virulence of the Star Chamber, would punish with exemplary severity a solitary individual, should he give expresion to an opinion, however brief or courteously delivered, adverse to the tenets be hears but if five hundred ruffians break in on the peace of the congregation, run a muck at the minister by pelting him with every missile within their reach, break down the chandeliers, make a garden and a prize ring of the house of God, and interrupt minister by- ribald abuse, howling, shrieking, and every species of the lowest and most disgusting infamy, for this there 'is no redress, the Ecclesiastical Court is impotent to grapple with an infuriate- rabble, the bishops and the Metropolitan are equally powerless. The police have no jurisdiction, the law no arms to reach so degrading an evil, and even the legislation of the country declares itself incapable of meeting the emergency of the case. The scenes that for months past have taken place at St, George in the East, every Sunday, would disgrace the natives of New Caledonia, or their savage brothers of the Navigator Islands and vet though each week the disturbance continues increasing, the parish church is given over to rnffians, and the rate-paying parishioners are debarred from their religious rites, and shut out from the decent observance of their Christian duties, and no steps are taken to mitigate the evil but with an apathy that amounts to a sin upon the morals of the nation, the lowest outscounngs of London are permitted to work their disgusting profanity ia the house of God unchecked and unpunished.

There is one thing that strikes us as somewhat remarkable in the affairs of St. George's-in-the East, that the respectable inhabitants of the parish have not memorialised the Home Secretary as to the weekly desecration of the church; or the bishop to remove from TW FINANCE COMMITTEE. A resolutionwas propounded last week, and carried by the House of Commons, singularly illustrative of the mutability of a popular assembly. If there be one class of subjects more jealously watched and vigorously defended than another by that House, it is questions touching its privilege. To discuss them the business of the nation is brought to a stand-still.

Legislation is postponed that the Legislature may be propitiated; and in asserting its dignity it often stultifies its character. A refractory member, who pertinaciously violates a rule of the House, or disobeys the mandates of Mr. Speaker; a contumelious editor, who trenches upon the privilege, of members, or indulges in certain comments upon their motives, may equally be consigned to the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms during the pleasure of the House." And even when that benign pleasure is vouchsafed, the hapless prisoner is not released from the limbo of the Sergeant's cellar until sundry liberal fees are paid for the pleasures of the incarceration. Ansa tn the rkhfc and Noes to the left." was too sacred a legis crime its worst aspect is that of a ludicrous offence, and if it is done very well indeed we fear there is almost a disposition to applaud cleverness, while the clumsy briber is only laughed at, and the party who "peaches" does not gain much accession of favour among his fellow creatures. Under these circumstances, and as laws must be founded on public opinion, it is no use enacting that a briber shall be a sort of outcast and Pariah.

Mr. William Htjtt, M.P. for Gateshead, is made the new Vice-President of the Board of Trade, in place of Mr. Cowpee, promoted. The appointment of Mr.

Htjtt is a wise one he is a clever man and a good speaker, who obtains the ear of the House. If it be interesting to any one to know that his uncle, deceased, was Captain of the Queen, and has a monument in Westminster Abbey, we are happy to part with that information as freely as we obtained it, that is to say from the invaluable Captain Dod. a. a The Spanish war seems likely to be rather abruptly terminated. Tetuan has at length been taken, and for the deed Marshal O'Dootell has been created a Duke.

But Tetuan is, as the crow flies (and Spaniards do not get over ground as fast or as straight as crows), three hundred miles from the capital of the Moors, and the Duke of Tetttan considers that it will not be desirable to follow the enemy further into the country. Things can hardly stop here, unless Spain intends to be once, more the laughing-stock of Europe. At present the Spaniards have made no impression upon the enemy the slaughter, even if it be truly represented, does not daunt him at all, and unless some much more important result be obtained, the Duke of Tetuan will have done nothing but show ins soldiers a little fighting, and have exposed them to a great deal of hardship. We shall surely hear that he means to do something. No news of a Speaker in the American House oi Representatives, though a sudden coalition nearly gave the office to a Democrat, and he may yet beat his Republican rival, who was so much a head during the previous part of the race.

But Mr. Smith All but won that desperate game. It would be the highest impertinence in a to make a suggestion that the American Constitution could possibly be improved, especially by a hint from the beniahted old country, or else one might venture to ask tragedian. I think the above is annihilation sufficient for the present. Now.

for the sister: thus speaks Mr. George Vandenhoff Susan, her sister, was a very pretty creature, but had not a spark of Charlotte's genius Was he snubbed by the pretty creature? "She pleased the however, and was the best walking lady on the American stage." Is this all the praise Mr. Vandenhoff cau bestow upon the lady who has won a world-wide fame as Juliet a. character one of the most difficult to peurtray in the whole range of Shakspere. An eminent German who had seen Borneo and Juliet at the Haymarket Theatre, London, on being asked which sister he preferred, replied Juliet I never was so astonished in my life never so entranced! Romeo is wonderful, but Juliet is so beautiful, so loveable, and loving." Now we all know that Juliet was a character in which Miss O'Neill excelled, still, from all tho writer can learn, he ascertains that, viewing the character as a whole, it was better played, from first to last, by Susan Cushman than by any other actress that ever trod the London boards.

Even Hazlitt, the greatest of critics, found fault with Miss O'Neill, who, he says, seemed least successful in the former part of the character, in the garden scene, The expression of tenderness bordered on hoy-dening and affectation. The character of Juliet is a pure effusion of nature. It is all the exquisite voluptuousness of youthful innocence. She ought not to laugh when she says I have forgot to call thee back," as if conscious of the artifice, nor hang in a fondling posture, over the balcony (this was also done, and the writer thinks wrongly, by Miss Helen Faucit). The whole expression of her love should be like a breath of flowers.

Again Hazlitt remarks Her deportment is not particularly graceful there is a heaviness and want of firmness about it." Mrs. Glover, who played the nurse in Borneo and Juliet, and whose opinion was said to be of the utmost value, said that in the grand scene with herself she had never played with an actress who did so much justice to the part, or who exhibited so much pathos, affection, and loveliness as Susan Cushman." Since Miss O'Neill, the part has been played successfully by Miss Faucit, who had all the advantages of a first-rate education, and who, for many years, enjoyed the friendship and tuition of Macready, a perfect gentleman and scholar, and the greatest actor who ever trod the boards of any theatre except Mr. George Vandenhoff, in Ms wan opinion. Well, what says the Times in speaking of the uliet of Miss Helen Faucit and of Miss Susan Cushman? (This was after the latter had retired from the stage in 1847.) Comparisons are stated to be odious, but when made for the purpose of illustrating our meaning, the uBe of them may he excused. Many of our readers will recollect having witnessed the Juliet of Miss Susan Cushmaa, a lady whose excellent personations we shall, pernaps, witness no more those who have seen both these actresses in the character ot Juliet, will perhaps at least acknowledge, though they do not assign the preference to Miss Susan Cushman.

That elegant actress had the decided advantage over Miss Faucit in the scene of the reconciliation with the nurse, in which so much grace and art were displayed and also in that passage we have alread? referred to as descriptive of the horror of awaking in the tomb of the CnpulotB before the arrival of Borneo. Could any more praise be bestowed and using the term elegant" is the most appropriate one that could have been selected to describe this talented lady. Pretty" was not the word at all applicable to Miss S. Cushman. What says the editor of the Liverpool Daily Post ou hearing of the demise last year of this estimable woman who to see was to love." Death a few days since deprived society of one of its roost precious ornaments a lady to whom appertained all the attributes which add lustre to beauty and goodness.

The name of Cushmaa is now eternally associated with the higher drama and when the gifted lady who bears that name took first rank in the first class of her profession, her sister, Miss Susan Cushman, shone like a vision on the same boards with her, realizing, in the fair child of Verona, the Juliet, who might have been imagined bat never seen on the stage before, Tho high qualities which fascinated the audience blessed a happy home, and charmed a large circle of admiring and loving friends. Death never laid its hands on a more dignified or a mora accomplished creature, and the grief of relatives and friends is necessarily increased by a fate so premature and unexpected. In conclusion let me quote the pertinent remarks of Mr, II. S. Carleton upon the volume in question If authors would only write upon subjects they know something of, it would prevent errors popular; thus, if Mr Vandenhoff had only written hia own experience it would have been well but when he narratsB anecdotes of his contemporaries, or slyly seeks an opportunity to lative "myatey to be gazed on by the unholy eyes of a 10 householder.

But, even in these modern days, the House asserts its privilege in ordering strangers to withdraw, whereupon it stultifies its perceptive faculties in supposing them to have withdrawn, though they actually remain. This shows the tenacity of a question of privilege in that House; and, withal, absurd though some of its issues may be, it is to that tenacity of privilege that we Englishmen of this present day are indebted for some of our greatest liberties. In relation to these is a jealousy of privilege more constantly and vigilantly watched than any, and that is in reference to money bills." Here the House is the supreme custodian of the public purse, insomuch that if a bill, even savouring -of the nature of a "money bill," bo introduced into the Lords, the Commons would reject it until it first passed the ordeal of its own tribunal. Even where a bill has so passed, if the Lords" make any virtual alteration the Commons will never assent to it, but send it back to be read a third time in its integrity. Yet this most important and exclusive privilege in relation to the "public purse" is virtually abrogated in the resolution to which we refer.

Certain economists, with Mr Gladstone for their most profound and eloquent spokesman, have taken fright at the magnitude of the expenditure of this countiy. Undoubtedly their intentions are good and they have a reasonable case, since the collection and disbursement of seventy millions annually is no matter to be lightly passed by. To investigate this expenditure, Mr Wise proposed a permanent select Committee of the House. In his official capacity as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Gladstone spoke and voted it bnt the fervour of the rhetorician and acumen of the agaiusn v-rt th. his cure a man who violates tne moaest uecencies ui inugiuu fantastic fopperies and senseless customs, and drives by his obnoxious presence all the devout and pious from their lawful place of worship.

Nothing of this has been done, but, with a supineneas far from redounding to their credit, they have applied the fire to the combustibles, and leave the mad flame to carry out the work of anarchy and disorder begun by themselves. Mr Bryan King- may be a courageous man, but he does not show that he is either a good or a pious one. His conduct proves that the cure of souls and the interests of his flock are secondary matters in his opinion, and of infinitely less account than the maintenance of his own crotchets and the spotless beauty of his Romish IfTnvclergyman of the Established religion once inducted into a livine may ignore the Rubric, dress himself, altar, and church, according to his own ideas of propriety, and thereby openly scandaliTe those, who, brought up to the Established faith, abomi-nate such parade and senseless show, what is to prevent him dressing himself as a harlequin or clown, or coming into the pulpit a domino? If in the one instance he can openly and audaciously attempt to graft the paraphernalia of Papacy on the simplicity of Protestant doctrine, and with impunity brave Church, State, and public opinion, without the fear ot disgrace or expulsion, what is to prevent another making a theatre, or a mountebank show, of the temple dedicated to reverence and religion? Though the fact of these unchecked riots are themselves sufficiently disgraceful both to the feelings of religion and the. sense of social propriety iu the country, and are at the same time a reflection on the supineness of onr clergy and rulers adopting no extraordinary powers to meet so extraordinary and anomalous a state of public immorality, our indignation is tame comparison to what we entertain towards the author of these scenes ot depravity and license And when we look at the hardihood, the unchristian obstinacy, the personal pride and theological egotism of Mr. Reyan King's conduct, we are amazed that he is not confounded with shame for his indecent behaviour, and marvel how he has the pre-sumntion to approach his Maker, and profane his Master service in the midst of a desecration and blasphemy his own insolent persistency in thrusting himself on an unwilling congrega-Hon and obstinate perversion of the Church Rubric, has kindled and keens alive.

Whatever may be Mr. King's belief in the right of the course he has adopted, and the interpretation ho puts on forms and symbols, if he possessed one spark of sincere and pious rather than the Almighty's service should be financier croppeu uuwivi when he declared if the resolution were carried, it would not Butwharwill be the practical effect of this Committee when annointed If it is to inquire and report," the inquiry may be voluminous and the report elaborate; but the political blessings of the fathers would only descend upon the children of the third and fourth generation. For any good to us, payers of a ninepenny income tax the Committee would have been as well if never appointed In the library of that House of Commons there are strata of evidence that have lain torpid until they have become fossilized, ml there are elaborate reports that slumber as ong a sleep as that of their authors, who have long since been "gathered to their fathers-" vet were these reports revivified into living statutes, could their articulata be galvanised, into social activity, England would be legislative Arcadia, wherein minis enng spirits go on missions lornr and the songs of content swell into choral harmony. anauire and report!" Is this all? Inquire into what we all know; report about what we al experience. This is carrying workY of supererogation into senatorial labours indeed yet what this Committee do more? its decisions are to bind the house then it deprives it of its privilege as guardian of the public PS If its reports are to fetter the Government then are they absolved from official respons.bi lity.

In either case the Committee and not the House, a coterie and not the Government, will be the financial execXe. If its reports are to be reviewed by the Govern-tnt an vi ed by the House to, what end its labours? Its Zdent intentions may be frustrated a season of prodigality, or its liberal but necessary scale of expense may be ruthlessly cut down in a sudden fit of parsimony. Like the Chancellor of the Exchequer, it does not break our heart, though mayhap has injured his voice. It will cost a ew thousands a year-that is the utmost of the evil-and we know it can do no.more harra, though, alas, we fear it will do no good. give an opinion upon any aocor or ararati, no ou aiguany unnappy his statements of circumstances and personages, that I almost blush to let the errora pass through my hands.

Hoping you will honour the above with a place in your valuable columns for the sake of justice to these talented artistes, and enclosing my card, I remain, yours respectfully, London, Feb. 6, 1860. A PROFESSIONAL. whether it is aosoiuteiy uvwszuy uu organ, and constable of an assembly should be chosen in a political battle Doubtless in England we have had such fights over the Speakership, but then we settle the war the simplest manner, by a single and the instant that is over members who have voted against the selected gentleman vie with those who have voted for him in congratulating him, and what is more, in assisting and sustaining him. We never stop public business for weeks and weeks, while the chair remains vacant.

However, far he from us the insolence of saying that everything in America is not perfect. Mr. Beight says it is perfect, and if "they didn't know everything down in Judee" they do in Birmingham. Except that the Pope is still exceeding rabid, and insults his people on ail occasions, while General Goyon is most anxious they should rebel in order to make the wesence and action of French troops necessary, we have not much to chronicle from Italy, unless it be that the Pope aforesaid and his police have turned the correspondent of The Times out of Rome. That is to say the avowed correspondent, for ot course the -o from one capital to another is not hkely to be cheeked by such a piece Sf priestly and ridiculous spite Remarking, as we turn homewards, that the Red Sea teph is making successful progress, we come back Claud.

Ve regret to record tha murder nrofaned by oath and ribald jest, the church turned into a den of discord and outrage, and thousands of his parishioners deprived of the wholesome Word of Life, and the decent observances of religion, he would retire from a contest that has shown itself from the first so unmistakably against him; and in the self-sacrificing spirit of a true Christian, rather give up his own opinion or at least the ground that makes it obnoxious than by an unseemly obstinacy endanger the spiritual welfare of thousands, and not attempt, with i th. annnnr of the worst days of intolerance and persecution to carry his offensive principles, met amis, to the profanation, of religion the injury of public moralsthe disgrace of the Church and the scandalizing of decency and order. If, then, Mr. Bryan King has neither the charity nor hnmility of his Divine Master to prompt him to retire from a parish where he has made himself odious, is there no power in the Executive of the Church to remove from a ministry a brand, who not only endangers the creed he should teach, but brings religion itself into iW.redit. and who has proved himself a scandal to his order, and Death oe Miss Bromley.

Miss E. Bromley, a pleasing actress, who has for some few years past been a member of most of the London theatres, departed this life at a very early age, ou Sunday last. She first made her appearance, when about sixteen, at the Strand Theatre, Whit-Monday, 1815, in the burlesque of Boiinsan Crusoe, and continued, both there and afterwards at the Olympic, to make herself a very useful addition to the company. Her vocal powers gave her an advantage which many managers turned to account iu their Christmas pieces, but of late indisposition has compelled her to decline the engagements offered, and her premature decease will be heard of with regret by many. I an enemy to the function he was called upon to interpret truly ererrf crimes fchis nature again about pn our soil..