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JAN. KIT, 0 K. li X858 COBDBK ON REFORM IN PARLIAMENT. Mr. WiUi'ams, the chairman of Mr.

Cobden's coal ictu 'ini alontinn for Huddersfield. has re- LITERATURE. of other lawyers; free country, which makes its own omission In one word, France do 8' and cannot understand, this 11 that resides the harm, for she nmv sentiments of her ally, and no sincerity. "Sw bsj Now, gentlemen, if ever that between nation and nation which i tion of a stable alliance should balm ttl be a deplorable misfortune for both 7 the whole of civilisation but, two nations interested in preserving illationsbetween two governments wt" another, and who continually disnla other the most friendly sentiments such an evil is, I am persuaded, almost ANOTHER ROTTEN BAitft It should be hoped (says the ffijiesi prosecuting the directors of the Rova will be abandoned. It is admitted that of them the only charge is that thevo vinRition of the concern in the nn: C0B PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS.

LOVERS' AMAZEMENTS. The disfigurement which English drama has en-dured, almost without exception, for some years, has so entirely become the rule that a departure from tt is not immediately understood. A fine day a Ho-vember is not more puzzling than a shght elegant drama, in place of heavy passionin tragedy or broken crockery to comedy. Mr. Lexgh Hunt's play, lovers Mmzements, at the team js-with its imperfections- happy release from such dramatic mistakes and if it be not very good drama, then it must be something else which is very good.

KTo great idea in plot is professed: it is a pleasant series of exchanges surprises, and reprisals, terminating happily through truu: and written in the most flowing ana delteate language, which never halts its blank verse. The ChevaUerdeTorsey(Mr. Shore), of the parhamen-tary army, is taken prisoner by a rather marauding Captain de la Eeusse (Mr. Dillon), of the army of he Fronde. Ten minutes make them friends, for the chevalier claims leave of absenee-on parole-to meet a lady.

The gay parliamentarian, who would account lukawarmness as a sin As greatin'Iove asin religion; and, we might add, in war and drinking also, is per-mitted to see the chevalier's mistress, and proves to be a former lover of the lady. As a counterpart, the captain's own lady has had a rather strong flirtation with the chevalier. Each is discovered, and by somewhat similar means. The jealousies, the angers, the anguishes, the despairs, the taking to drinking" and other evidences of disordered affections-follow in such profusion and variety that we cannot possibly trace them. Happily they are settled by good uncompromising lie from, the captain.

The four lovers meet, and become 'as sensible as lovers ever are at the termination of a comedy. They doubtless rush to the nearest church. Sut, then on Mr. Leigh Hunt's happy planthere are no ill-natured fathers to save their daughters from the ever-loved spendthrift; and the possibility of the young people's household expenses ever being overhauled ia the lumns of the Times, is as undreamed of as is amatrimo-hial alliance between Jenny's sister and the most bankrupt young swell of the Carlton. In the meantime, Mr.

Dillon and Mr. Shore, Mrs. Dillon and Miss Woolgar, have worked out a little moral against which we protest, and warn all young ladies who are singing too, am seventeen, mamma." It is that both sexes have equal rights in re flirtation. At the first blush it would appear so, because flirtation can never be, like the historic reciprocity," all on one side;" but, nevertheless, we Btrongly recommend every gentleman to insist on a first affection, and every lady to take what she can get. However, the opposite system is successfully carried by the ladies at the Lyceum, and how well it works may be judged from the enthusiastic applause which greets their graceful personation of two pleasant and amiable characters, the imagination of a poet.

Mi. Shore gets up some very effective jealousy, and Mr. Dillon makes a new success in one of his most admired, manners, the gay, careleBs, intoxicated soldier and lover. ME. BCREORD'S DELHI.

There is always some event occurring sufficiently important to make that little corner of Leicester-square the most interesting spot in the world. Moscow has given place to Delhi- another of those beautifully painted pictures for which Burford and Mr, Selons are famous. Perhaps out of official circles the new panorama will not be considered less interesting than the old one but Moscow, with the emperor's coronation, certainly had more nobility in it. What Delhi wants in nobility, it makes up in blood, for it is rather a picture of the hand-to-hand fight under the walls of the old king's palace than of the City of hands. The authority too, with ths liveliness of an AlbwS.Smjo.

OBSIHTS AUSTRIAN DUBfGEOKB The revelations made by Felice Orsini of his im" prisomnent in Austria give a clue to that msid excitement which led him, at last, to attempt the advancement of his cause by means of hand-grenades. The stirring pages before us show a naturally warm temperament stirred to white-hot anger; and we pity the man, seeing the calamity to which intentions originally good have led him, A man to whom the cause of Italy's freedom was dear has gone astray, maddened by oppression, and, in his agony, has polluted bis idol. All men who may read his revelations will think with pity of his final error. BABU YEARS AND LATE SBPLHCTIOUS.t Dr. Carlyon has just issued the fourth, and final volume of his theological reflections.

Two paragraphs froin his preface will explain his position in the world of religious controversy. "No one," he writes; now-a-days, can form any notion of the extent to which atheistical doctrines prevailed at the period of my entrance into life. The storm of the French revolution was raging at its utmost intensity, and all birds of ill omen were revelling in the tempest which had long been gathering over the Christian world. If any printer could 5c found, in the presest day, to print such a book as 'Payne's Age of no one would deign to notice it." A member, from my birth, of the church of England, my ardent desire is to see her in all respects a pattern of excellence to the other churches of Christendom and I have striven to discover what can bs the main.cause of that mass of dissent which so grievously impedes her march in the van of the church militant. Her articles, her canons, her homilies, her creeds, and, more than all, her learned and pious divines, are a legion.

What is it, then, that lets The church of England, despite the wranglings of Ebme, arid the unaccountable perversions to Home of others, is still ia heart protestant. What is it that lets, if it be not her too dogmatical teaching in the face of palpable fallibility, and the haughty bearing of high churchmen towards dissenters generally, and towards other societies than those she prides herself upon as her own The doctor, it will be seen, is not far wrong. We commend his book to those readers who have a taste for religious controversy. BOOKS, ETC, RECEIVED. A Collection of Hew and Original Valentines, Serious and Satirical, Sublime and Bidiculous, on all the ordinary Names, Professions, Trades, with an Introductory Treatise on the Composition of a Valentine.

By a Master of Hearts. Ward and Lock. Cupid's Complete Letter-writer. The nonsenBO which Cupid occasionally writes has been carefully collected. Town Life.

By the author ot "Liverpool Life" and Rambles in the Lake District." William Tweedie. The Koyal Princesses of England, from the Beign of George the First. By Mrs. Matthew Hall, author of Queens Before the Conquest," "Noble Deeds of Woman," With a Portrait ot the Princess Boy al. G.

Eoutledge and Co. A rapidly executed history of the Eoyal Princesses of England brought down even to the 25th instant making up a book for the hour that may be welcome to many ladies chiefly readers of the Morning Post. Bobert Burns and Walter Scott. Two Lives. By.

the Bev. James White, author of The Landmarks of English History," Sc. G. Bontledge and Co. Two biographies happily set tegether, and written pleasantly and liberally.

The Atlantic Monthly, devoted to Literature, Art, and Politics. No.3. January, 1858. Triibner and London. A various and pleasant Victoria Station and Plmlico Railway Plan.

Stanford's Plan of the City of Lucknow and its Environs illustrating the Operations and Routes of Sir Colin Campbell and Sir Henry Havelock; diBfingmshing the Residency, Alumbagh, Posts, Compiled from the plans prepared by authority of her Majesty's government, and th e' Honourable East India company. E. Stanford. One of Mr. Stanford's useful and timeiy maps.

Love and Hate; or, the Court of Charles I. -An Historical Drama in Eour Aots. By Charles Coghlan. 11, Wellington-street North, Strand. THE ROY Al MAERIAGE LICENCE.

miVsfl tfie fnlliroini letter from the hon. gentleman Midhurst, Jan. 11. My dear Sir, It is not easy to persuade ourselves that if the wnoie ot tue rare-payers are admitted to the franchise we shall not be subjected to the tyranny of the million; but if we analyse our fears they will be found, I think, unmanly and groundless. What are we afraid of? Some sort of class legislation But I defy you to showthe possibly of legislating for the benefit of the masses to tne injury 01 tne miaine classes.

wui.s vo im will ho tniri hairs, their unsound theories respect ing the regulation of wages, and if they had the power they would enforce them by act of parliament. I doubt the existence of this monster socialism' ia the minds of our working class. But if they were to try to give effect to such vie to by legislation they would De tnemseives tne flrst to suner, ana 10 con for the repeal of their own law. No doubt there is a tendency among many of the working class to regard their interests as separate from, and antagonistic to, thoBe of their bnt this is a false view, and it will give way before the light of truth and experience. We have made very great progress in the right direction within my short experience.

Thirty or forty years ago we should not have passed through the present commercial crisis without witnessing attacks upon machinery. Twenty years ago we should have seen Feargus l. 1 i UAJOnnor leauiug, iue wormiig ciasBea agaiuuL the middle and upper ranks of society. If we have seen a comparative calm during the late commercial panic, it is, I believe, mainly to be attributed to' the increased intelligence of the working people, who cannot as a body be now persuaded that their interests can be separated from those of their employers. They see the cheap newspapers, and know that bankruptcies and embarrassments are overtaking the capitalists, that trade is prostrate, raw materials fluctuating in price, and markets closed for the season; and from all this they learn the lesson that the interest of employer and working man is identical If we take a review of the conduct of the masses of the people on occasions of political strife, we shall find that they have generally been right before their and, although they have had no votes, their hands and voices have been raised in favour of every great principle of morality and justice.

"I have had great experience in appealing to all classes, and I say most sincerely that would prefer an audience of which the working class formed a considerable part in all' cases where I was the advocate of the rights of humanity. Great bodies of men are, no doubt, liable to be misled by appeals to their passions; they are not always logical or capable of clear reasoning, but they are instinctively just and truthful; the multitude are incapable of playing the part of hypocrites and traitors. The longer I live the greater is my reverence for, and trust in, the mass of humanity, which, in the aggregate, seems to sum up a total of virtues greater than can be traced in the individual units. There is much wisdom and truth in the saying of Montesquieu 'Men, although reprobates in detail, are always moralists in the It is strange how implicitly we trust the working class with all that is most precious to us in private life our property, our lives, and the lives of our children and yet, in the far less important trust of a vote, along with ourselves, how timid and jealous we are. And yet we see in America and Switzerland, where universal suffrage prevails, life is more secure than in despotic states, and property accumulates (a proof of its security) more rapidly than in other parts of the world.

My own opinion is, that if the working classes had votes they would be quite as conservative in their tendencies, after a little experience, as any other section of the community. They would not separate themselves from other classes, but range themselves under influential leaders, as they do now. for there is a fireside jealousy which prompts men to elect their chiefs from a higher class than their own. It is this tendency which leads he middle class to prefer to follow a member of the aristocracy to one of their own order. "I shall be glad if I have suggested any arguments calculated-to meet the objection which timid people have to the adoption in practice of that good old Saxon franchise of which we are all such stanch advocates in theory, which gave to every householder the rights and responsibilities of self-government-Believe me, sir, very truly yours, "Mr.

Wm. Williams." R. COBDEN. FRANCE DOUBTS OUR LOYALTY, The following reply was made by the Count de Persigny to the address of congratulation by the corporation of the city of London on the escape of the emperor: My Lord Mayor and Gentlemen, I thank you in the name of my sovereign. Amongst ail the congratulations which pour in daily upon the emperor, I wish to explain why I attach so high an importance to your address.

It is because I know the great and legitimate influence which the city of London exercises in England, as naturally representing the immense commercial movement of your country. "You were the flrst to understand the great interests which require the alliance of the, two nations. England, indeed, proud, and justly proud, of that maritime, colonial, and commercial power for which providence seems from of old to have destined her, can only desire the continuation of the best understanding with France. France, for her part, is bound by an interest equally important, for after having founded a great government, strong in the sympathy of a whole nation, there is but one thing she can desire, and that is peace, to assure the strongest foundations for her dynasty. France is at this moment shocked and agitated by the frightful crime which foreigners have just attempted against the person of her sovereign.

And seeing the series of attempts at assassination which are periodically made by foreigners living in England, she is filled with anxiety and alarm that such dangers can approach her from a country, side by side with whose soldiers she has just shed her blood on the battle-fields of the Crimea. who live amongst you, thoroughly comprehend the sincerity of the friendship which England bears to France, for I daily see the most convincing proof of it, I am aware alse of the noble and lofty principles which are the foundation of your legislation. "I especially admire and reverence, in your country, that right of asylum which is the honour and the Tboast of England the shelter which you yield to all the victims of the political passions of the continent is your glory, and it is not France who would wish to see it diminished. "Far from complainingt we are glad that, here, illustrious princes, fallen from the throne, should find the respect due to great misfortunes and we honour you for the protection and asylum which you give to all the sufferers of our political struggles, to whatsoever party they may belong. Let them live, then, in England, in peace, in security, in independence, and with every freedom of action.

My country too well understands what is honourable fee'ing, ever to demand from the friendship of England anything which could touch her honour. "Permit me, then, to tell you what is the true question: it does not lie in the attempts at assassination in themselves, nor even in the crime of the 14th January, which your government would have hastened to have warned us against if it could have known it beforehand; the whole question is in the moral situation of France, which has become anxiously doubtful of the real sentiments of England. Reasoning in effect by analogy, popular opinion declares that were there in France men sufficiently infamous to recommend in their clubs, in their papers, in their writings of every kind, the assassination of a foreign sovereign, aud actually to prepare its execution, a. French administration would not wait to rei. ceive the demands of a foreign government, nor to see the enterprise set on foot To act against such conspiracies, to anticipate such crimes, public notoriety would be sufficient to set our law in motion, and measures of security would be taken immediately.

Well, then, France is astonished that nothing of a like nature should have taken place in England, and Frenchmen say, either the English law is sufficient as certain lawyers declare and why then is it not applied or it is insufficient, which is the opinion Last feutumn, the well-known authority on skin diseases weat from his London home to Germany. Full of spirits, doggedly determined to enjoy himself, he went forth; nor was the note-book forgotten; Jior was the doctor set aside. "The world shall learn," quoth the merry traveller, as he took his way ticket at London-bridge, "whether I was sick well; how appetite treated me even the minuter particulars of my trip. I shall regard my travelling cap, at no time, as that choice emblem ot modesty a busheL" For result we have a bright red boot of chat. Mot formal chat, but real, after-dinner talk; from which we propose to gather two or three extracts, bidding the reader, if he like the flowers, to seek the parterre.

The doctor on sea-sickness flhe seat of the sense of nausea is tie pit of the stomach Js ifo hXm of that pit like a soroerer in his cave Seat wizard ffiat oireote the SuSiffiifi SmA. ifitempeste and its calms; ite Swil its volcanic emotions and to tins great wizard neUMo and mfeerioordiam is raised by thisse who would eScure his good offices to hinvthe offerings of sacrifice are Sic, according to the varied beUefofta votaries; soma come smiling on, with the conviotion thatthey have made Eta their friend by the offering of a good breakfast or dinner- some give him a stiff sou- wester ns the sailors have it that is, a glass of strong grog; ethers try to make him sneeze with a pinch of cayenne pepper; soma would tempt him into good-nature with peppermint others nhjsic him with camphor or creosote; others, again, send him to sleep by means of landannm or morphia, suffooate him with ether, or stupify him with chloroform. Each pilgrim has faith in his own nostrum, even when it fails as it is sure to do nine times in every ten. Then we have a more modest class of devotees, who approach him timidly; they stufi his pit with a camphor bag, or cover it up with a warm plaster, be it of cunimhi or frankinoense, and, thug armed, they boldly wait his pleasure. Now, far be it fiom me to deny that the solar plexus approves of a good meal on the contrary, no genius ever recorded in the Thousand and Eights" loves good things better than he, and to make him in every way comfortable is step of the first importance 5 but we must remember that he is to be comforted, not oppressed; he generally likes what he is accustomed to, and administered with the usual forms and at the usual periods; a breakfast at breakfast-time, a dinner at dinner-time, and so forth; but he neither approves of being devilled with cayenne and brandy, nor made stupid with laudanum, chloroform, or camphor.

If he be hungry, givehlmmeat; if either alone or with a little Bherry or brandy; and if he be chilled, clothe him warmly if you like, with a camphor pad, or cummin or frankincense plaster the external remedies can do no harm, and they often do good, not merely because they give confidence to the individual and allay apprehension, but bocause they bestow warmth and pressure. But, however conducive to the prevention of seasickness may be the securing of a friendly feeling on the part of the solar plexus, by the inner and outer comforts herein noted, there is a process which would seem to deserve to take precedence of these namely, the prevention of its exciting cause motion. And here again we find worshippers not less zealous than those who have gone before. Some throw themselves on the ground and remain motionless during the whole voyage, with their brow humbly resting on the floor others cast themselves on their backs, and, shutting their alike immoveable; while others eit with wooden firmness gazing unchangeably on some fixed spot, suoh as a star, an object on the horizon, or a stationary point, if suoh there be, on the vessel. And wherefore these extraordinary gestures, which resemble the antics of the Indian Fakirs? The answer is simple to fix the muscular system, over which we have control, and by that fixture to steady, if not totally to fix, the solar plexus.

If we effect this, we prevent the motion of the vessel from reaching those nerves, and we thereby arrest the after consequences, nausea and vomiting. Before starting from home, my brother reminded me of this voluntary exercise of control over tie muscular system, and mentioned its success in himself; he remarked, also, that the prieBts ef old sold oharms to dispel sea-sickness, and that these oharms, which were cabalistic figures written on parchment, were bound tightly round the person their sucosss appearing to depend mainly on their close pressure against the trunk of the body. It was to, illustrate this experiment that I now Bet myself, thinking that my proneness to sea-sickness would give it a fair trial. In the absence of a belt, I tied a shawl tightly round my trunk, making strong pressure from the-hips upward to the middle of the chest, and then sat down on one of the benches to observe the result; I fur-ther fixed my heels against the deok, and, crossing my arias ou 1:13 vyivjji mi my puiver every mo! o-meut of the vessel. I escaped without a feeling of uneasiness, while several around me and in the cabin were ex tremely ill I have said that there was a good deal of motion in the vessel, but not much rolling, and the passage could not be termed rough.

On my return passage I did the same, and with an equally satisfactory result; but the experiment was also doubtful, from the sea being calm and the transit short. I leave it to others to give the plan a further trial, which it deserves, as being correct in principle, even if it fail to be universally certain hi practice. The parts of the doctor's experiences and studies A i 1 wi itJii give vtuut: to uta iiguc ma very llgnu 000s. are those which treat of the-Belsian and German Spas. Hush! The doctor is discoursing pleasantly iueaiuauy 1 me is opa.

Mounting our Americain, a pleasant drive of about three-ouartersofa mile alone an avenue of nonlars hmnorhfcnR to the top of a hill, where we found the l'onnelets, one of vmw UUUIHWlo vllttiy UCwkiu WUIUU 6XI3E Ml CU6 neigU- bourhood of Spa. The chalybeate waters of Spa are cool, brisk, and piquant, resembling seltzer-water, with a distinct flavour of iron. Buch was the water of Pouhon, and I found the springs of Tonnelets to be similar, bnt containing less iron. Mounting again our Americain, another ride of about a mile and a-half, through a recently cleared wood, and within sight of an extensive moor, and a beautiful distant view of the surrounding country, brought us to a tavern celebrated for its delicious breakfasts; the visitors here declare that no bread, no batter, no cutlets, no coffee in the world, can equal in Bweetness and delicacy those supplied by this house. PerhapB the morning walk or rifle, or that excellent saune, appetite, may in some way unriddle the riddle.

I regreited that I could not prove the fact on the spot; but, on the whole. I felt more interest two of the springs, which are situated olose to the house, the Sauveaiere and the Groesbeck. Bauveniere, whether intended to mean Savekidney or notl am unable to decide, bHt it sounds very like it, Stem its rocky bed under a small stone erection; shaped like anornamental watch-box, and is reached through an arch in the side ot the box The watch- box is placed in the centre of a small paVed court, and covered by a wooden pavilion and on one of the stones of this jiaved court is the impression of a foot, sunkdeeply in the stone, the pied do St. Semacle." Chalybeate waters in ge-nerai posseBs great powers of making ladies who love their lords, sndhavenot been so fortunate as ladieswho love their Icrdc love to be, as ladieB wish to be who do love their lords; and the power of the water is rendered certain, by ladies taking the precaution, when drinking the beaker of Bauveniere, of putting one foot, the left foot, into the impression made by the pied de St. Semaole." The doctor whispered this to me in my ear, and I do not hesitate to tell the secret to all whom concern, and partioularly to those who do me the honour to read this book.

I have heard some goed people illustrate a blunder by theremark that they had put their foot in it, and it occurred to me that the footprint of Bt. Bemacle might lead to many such blunders at any rate I did not fail to put my foot in it, while I juaffed a glass to the health-of St. Eemacle. looking into the httle well of the Saaveniere, the gas, chiefly ear-bomo acid, could be seen rising through it in successive troops of bubbles, and the water was piquante and fresh, with bnt-ajsmall quantity of more than the TODuelets. Close to the Souveniere is a kind of altar-piece, built against a wall, and in a niche at the bottom of the alter-pieoe is a small well which contains the waters of the Groesbeck.

Across the upper part ot the altar-piece is an inscription stating that this spring was honoured -with the erection in quesfionintheyear 1651, by oneBaronQroeshaok whose name it bBII continues to bear. Though so near to Bauveniere, within a few yards, the flavour of the Groes-beok spring is very different from it; it is lesspiquante and contains less salts and leBs iron. Again the willing pony and the comfortable Americain bear us on our way and a ride of another mile and a half, at a somewhat lower level than the former springs, brings us to La Geronstere. La Geronstere is located in the midst of a wood, cut into ornamental walks, and exhibiting the taste of the landscape gardener. The spring is situated under an oblong pavilion, and is reached by means of a flight of steps, descending to near its level.

It is one of the weakest of the springs, containing little iron and" least carbonio acid and is commonly used as a preparation for the stronger waters of the Pouhon, which latter is regarded at Spa aa the moBt important spring. Being estimated light and easy of digestion, la Geronstere is eminently suited to a weak stomach, and conveniently prepares it for waters more largely charged with iron. Our pony now turned his head Sdown the valley in the direction of the town, and, after a rough but pioturesque ride, we came in presence of a pet spring of Dr. Cutler's, the Bartsart. It is situated in a wild mnt em-rounded bv rude masses of rook, with an elevated pavilion, and will some day, no doubt, become a pretty lace and favourite resort.

The water contains but little on, and is pleasantly fresh and niquante to the taste; Br. Cutler prefers it in debility of the stomach to the other springs; and, no doubt, fism containing a minimum dose of iron, it is well suited to that purpose. We had now made what is called the tour of the springs and the tour may be either from TonneletatoBarisart, or in the reverse order, according to the taste of the visitor, or, if he be a patient, the orders of the doctor. Headers who msy be thirsting for thermal springs, may here find an authority on the subject to their A Three We Is' Scamper through the Spas of German. c.

By Erasmus Churchill. vourine to brine it round, Yet in i3t vi mamiesiea a year ago py tne government' ot commercial morauty tney were hunted etl nateiy inrougn nurepe, ana are no a few weeks about to make their anJ. Cl criminal court. The proceed highly desirable at the time, because ZLTl torial virtue was then to be inausurat ot tosS ing at the class of offenderswho have we are to work our laws upon the occasionally makine an exairmlo KtMini regiment, by shooting one man out of Sl('l! though the lot may fall upon the best Another and a crowning specimen has b. S.Sffl the hst, and the particulars will be found in T4 port of a meeting of the Northumberland atfl Wi had a.

paid-up capital of 563,0002 if. auuuug AlrO oiuucuvmwfl auuub one Hundred -JS and unmarried. women it had a a Mr. Jonathan Richardson-who -repuiea io db very ricn; lc was assisted iVJI crisis of 1847 by the Bank of England it tkl wok aavaniage 01 mat assistance to getfetb, -II difficulty; and, finally, in December last, hJzfk doors, in consequence of "the pressure of tie Sf with liabilities to the amount of 2.40fl.wv also, after this event, the stens in first to circulate a statement that the would be merely temporary, and that be taken meanwhile to preserve the "valmbieSli ness of the bank next, that the chief WcntaE'll been surmounted, tne principal debtors havii, yered the bank-by giving security; next, that thir shareholders would lose a partoftheir camtai nnilastlv fnv t.Tifl.t. ihn 0 r.

wpnaim. hApn Avent and that leca) preparation uiiorce reiuciaut snarenoiaers to Bflvij- fresh payments for carry ingontheliquidation.AnjonS with ordinary apprehension can easily fill in theitsiji the history without waiting for its formal mezit lour or uvts yeare ueuce. lyieanwflue It 13 tobs recorded that all the minor parts of the ease an1 oemg acbtu cud wiui bue wvat scrupulous regard to recent precedent. In the first place, there is on to blame but the managing director, and era he as he is at present reputed to be rich is tefidstljj regarded. Those who were directors when tier! less advances made by the bank were cco.Miijj "have since gone to render an account elscflete, the present directors a committee of shaiesils-i eagerly testified, amid the applause of the msstijj that these gent! emeu have struggled most atm'omlj.

though ineffectually, to overcome the diffici a which had long been threatening the establuWiit The principal of these difficulties consisted in an il. vance made by Mr. Kichardson to some iron ntfiii his own, to an amount equal to more than the anta ell capital ot we pant, in tne fa ot wiucn, uuiera of tremendous magnitude, the oUreeto! infl February last declared a splendid dividend out "profits." In doing, this, they weteoil; "struggling anxiously" for the good of the tn, and the approbation of the shareholders reward. It merely remains to be reniarW ta that the meeting passed, off with all that liar-in mony which is never to be found so peifest as If when a set of ruined shareholders are called tag assent to the proceedings of those to whom they owe tneir misery, j. oe sure, mere was intense laugnta when the directors stated that the securities lately announced as having been obtained by the bank sisted in the personal guarantee of Mr.

Jona' Richardson to pay the debt of due by the Derwent Iron company in five years, the instalmmU to be regulated from time to time by the current price of forged pig iron, but in other respects there was little to indicate any difference of feelins, ill attempts to extract the particulars of the amounts to which persona have been allowed to handle tht funds of the bank were suppressed, the individual! acceptable to the directors were duly appointed 5 liquidators, a proposal to add to their number two highly qualified persons recommended by the Bank of England and Messrs. Glyn and Co. was re- jected, and certain secret compromises and arrange- ments made by the directors with other creditors as well as Mr. Jonathan Richardson since the stoppage were unanimously assented toin the total absent of all information as to the extent to vrhichtheva i rious modes of legal procedure that might have been open to the shareholders have thus been extinguished, A vote of thanks to the chairman wound up tw whole, and thus the development has ended. Directors, shareholders, and creditors seemed alike to regard the conclusion as satisfactory.

All parties were equally glad to escape anything that could bring them in contact with law, the shareholders and creditors, for whose benefit it should exist, being apparently more sensitive as to its possible penalties ii either the directors in general or Mr. Jonathan ardson in particular. It will be asked, if slips8 are satisfied, why should anything be said? omM" tunately, however, there is an English public sustain general damage and national scandal wen 8 rotten bank, which has demoralised the trade ot i district, breaks down, with liabilities counted by millions, and who entertain an inborn patriotism bicu makes them grieve to see the commercial laws 01 their country allowed so to remain that they shunned, perverted, and despised. Times. Rabekset's Will.

The Austrian papersgwesw" curious details of Radetzky's will. The bulk oi property goes to his only surviving son. He to to his daughter, Countess Wenkleim, two of marshal's batons, all his orders, seven of waicri a set in diamonds; one of his swords of mm' noble dinner service, in silver, for sixty covers; 8 a great portion of his funded property. His swor pistols, are left to his several aides-de-camp orderly officers. The head servants legacies, and those of low degree one a-piece.

A confidential sergeant on the rery JJL the marshal's death, apprehending doubtless uw might not be remembered in the will, toot care himself, and, opening a desk, took out and decamped. He was arrested in Fiedmorw, given up to the Austrian authorities. Photography. On Monday, Mr. Williams, ta eminent photographer of Regent-street, was 'L with the commands of her Majesty to attend at dm ingham-palace and take a full-length photogta? portrait of the Princess Royal in her bridal dress fore she started for the chapel.

The portrait. ttos taken under circumstances of peculiar difficulty, perfectly successful, and her Majesty expressed a self so'pleased that, at her request, Mr. William tw in the likenesses of her Majesty, tlieffen consort tod the bride on a large-sized plate, and again an exquisite stereoscopic likeness of the youu bride. Ail these processes were not completes after the time fixed for the departure of her Mwr from Buckingham-palace, and this at royal procession being a few minutes behind tim the chapel, a rare event in any ceremonial "a lisr majesty is concerned. to admit sculpture into the parks by gift as are accepted tor tne punuc galleries.

Delhi itself. The splendid walls of red granite are grey with ascending smoke, and the foreground is filled with every description of combatants. There are the Queen's troops, the levies of Sikhs, occasional Ghoorkas, and sepoys in abundance, generally known by their strongly marked features, closely cropped or shaved heads, and bits of tattered British uniform. Silver-street, and the principal public buildings in the distance is all that we see of this, city of dreadful memories. The interested public is fioeking to it in Leicester- square.

MR. AND MRS. GERMAN REED Have re-opened for a limited number of nights the entertainment known as Miss P. Horton's, at the Gallery of Illustration. It is not precisely the former entertainment, but a selection from the various domestic dramas which Mr.

and Mrs, Keed have produced," Thus we have the "Visit to Holly-lodge," the "Month from Home," and "My Unfinished Opera." The last is incomparably the best, and still retains firmly its hold on the public, who will never get tired of seeing Mr. Beed, or anybody else, worried to death and why should they In a world admitted to be exceedingly happy, such flashes of misery are most gratifying especially to the enthusiast who combines with misanthropy an indolence which alone prevents him doing (instead of merely seeing) the evil he would wish. CANTERBURY-HALL. This transpontine music-hall is distinguishing itself from its better known predecessors of the Strand and Covent-garden by the great names and better class of entertainment provided. Mr.

Augustus Braham is elevating the taste of the people from nigger songs and tumbling burlesque to the Death of Nelson," the of Biscay," and Wilson's favourite "Flowers of the Forest." Monday was marked by a passionately patriotic song to suit the occasion "King out, Old England's Bells," from the well-known and ever-pleasant pen of Mr. Douglas Thompson, Mr. Walter Maynard having supplied to it one of his finest melodies. But we cannot compliment the genius, which, rolling its eyes in frenzy and tearing its hair, wails forth We had hoped to have had him with us," in memory of Havelock, Apparently all the concert rooms want the lamented general with them. Jullien made his point out of the aspiration.

Mb. Sheridan Krowies. The birthday of James Sheridan Knowles was celebrated in New York city by a large number of his American friends and admirers. Among the guests were some of the most eminent authoiB, artists, poets, and actors of the country. The great dramatist is severity-three years old.

Havelock Mbsiokiai, We have been requested to state that no individual has keen authorised to solicit or receive subscriptions for the Havelock Memorial Fund." But that all subscriptions must be paid into the banker or to the London or provincial committee, which have been appointed to receive them, Death op Captain Soy, iate Cohmahder 01? the Captain John Soy, one of the oldest commanders of the Peninsular and Oriental company, having been in the service Bince its formation, expired early on Tuesday morning, at his residence at Southampton. He brought the Pera home on her last trip, and arrived home on the 17th. He was, however, somewhat poorly on the voyage, and on his arrival took to his bed, which he has never left. He was a thorough sailor, and extremely careful of the property and lives entrusted to his care. He was a favourite with' the officers and crew under him, and his quiet, unassuming manners won the confidence of the passengers.

In private life he was much esteemed. The flags of the various companies were hoisted half-mast, A Hint to Weabers of Cmkohhe, A letter from Andqze (Gard) states that a young lady of that town, named Vigne, has perished in a most melancholy manner. She was standing before the fire-place warming 'her feet, when her crinoline caught fire. The poor girl lost her presence of mind, and ran round the room instead of endeavouring to extinguish the flames. Her cries brought some spot, who tore off her burning clothes, but not before such injuries had been inflicted on her as that death ensued after twenty- four hours' suffering The circumstances attending thefcuiHg of this in portaut document are somewhat neeuliatand inte' resting.

Byan act of parliament passed in the 12th year of the reign of George called "An act for the tetter regulating the future marriages of the royal family," it is enacted that "no descendant of the body of his majesty King George II, male or female, other than the issue of princesses who have married or may hereafter marry into foreign families, shall be capable of contracting matrimony without the consent of his majesty, his heirs, or successors, signified under the great seal of England;" and under the provisions of this act the royal licence was issued from Doctors'-commons. Tins highly interesting document, which was beautifully engrossed on vellum, had attached to it the ordinary official seal, the outer covering of which was of tinted paper, the better to agree in hue with the vellum, and which seal was appended by a white eilt riband, the ends formed into pretty bows. The document commences by the Archbishop of Canterbury greeting his "well-beloved in Christ, Victoria Adelaide Mary Jjouisa, Princess Koyal of England, and his Eoyal Highness Prince Frederick William Nicolas Charles of Prussia," to whom his grace wishes health and in Christ everlasting and then, after reciting that her Majesty was graciously pleased to consent Ihii her royal highness might contract the holy estate of matrimony by letters under the great seal of England, given on May 16, 1857, quotes the portion of the act of parliament given above. If then again records that her Majesty has consented to the august alliance, and has signified her consent in due form, under her own hand, and his grace then states that at a privy council at Osborne on May 16,1857, at which her Majesty, the'Prince Consort, Earl Granville, the lord president; Sir George Grey, secretary of state for the home department Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, the chancellor of the exchequer; the Eight Hon.

Vernon Smith, president of the board of control; Lord Stanley of Alderley, president of the board of trade the Eight Honourable, M. T. Baines, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; and Earl Spencer, lord steward, were present, her Majesty declared that she gave her consent to the alliance between her "moBt beloved" daughtar and her now royal husband, under the great seal of England, and that her Majesty's consent was entered in the books of the privy council accordingly. His grace then recites that, as her Majesty has directed her royal warrant to him, he grants the licence for the performance of the ceremony, notwithstanding that the usual eath be not taken previous to its issue, he being assured that there are no impediments to the contraction of the alliance." The usual form of a special licence then follows, to the effect that his srace grants the licence and faculty to the Contracting parties and to all Christian people willing to be pre sent at me soiemmsauuii ui tiie nuttcrittge, at. any time, or in any church, or chapel, or other right and convenient clace.

by any bishop of the realm, or any rector, vicar, curate, or chaplain of such church or chapel, or by any other minister in holy orders. About a fortnight since her Majesty's warrant was transmitted to the usual department, at Doctors'-commons, and the Queen's proctor delivered the royal licence at Buckiigham-paiace last ween. Palmerston has intimated to Miss Hogg, the eldest daughter of the Ettrich Shepherd, that her Majesty has been pleased, in consideration of her father's genius, to confer on her a civil list pension of iOl. a-year. A few years ago, Lord Aberdeen bestowed on Mrs.

Hogg, the poet's widow, a pension of which she continues to enjoy. Lady Bolwbr Linos. it seems from a circular, signed "Isaac Irarside, Free JPms office, Sheffield," which has been sent to us, that the lady is in urgent distress, and has nothing to hope from her husband. She has been advised to have, recourse to legal, proceedings against, him, and Mr. Ironside solicits sub- ecnptions from her friends to defray the expenses of thesuit.

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