The New York Herald Newspaper, November 8, 1857, Page 2

2 AFFAIRS IN EUROPE. EE ee eed Our London, Puris and Berlin Corres- pondence. TWF FASHIONS AND FOLLIES OF FEMALE DRESS, &, &., &. Our London Correspondence. Lonpon, Oct. 25, 1857. 2 ¢ Latest Minancial News from America—The Great | Bastern—Markwell’s Patent—The Indian Relicf Fund— Nena Sahib Claimed asa Son of Erin—Return of the H Prince of Wales—Marriage of the Princess Royal— | ‘Theatricals, dc. { ‘The letter of the Times’ New York correspondent in to- Gay's paper gives promise of a goodly day to-morrow, | and has tended to cheer up our mercantile friends in the city. Let us hope, ere this reaches you, that you will all be twenty-five per cent better, that is, “as you were,” at par. However, the American news which reached us yesterday, coupled with sundry failures in the north, caused another day of excitement in the city, The Bank of Engiand again raised its rato of interest to 8 por cont. Consols and other stocks, funds, &c., of course went down immediately. More cry than wool we opine. We heard of one of our largest “dry goods houses paying a Dill broker 124 per cent on drst rate bills, to the amount of £20,000. idea may be formed of the immense exertions that Me being made to complete the gigantic hull of the Great Eastern and its appurtenances, when we state that there are no fewer than 1,700 men continnally employed, the weekly cost for wages being £2,600. Captain Harri- son, her indefatigable skipper, is almost always in the yard. Mr. ‘Diamond’ Hope, who is a £100,000 share- holder, and who advanced the directors the last £90,000, is a constant visitor. It is stated that the Great Eastern is to be fitted with Mr. Markwell’s patented invention for keeping ships off rocks. The principle is said to bea simple one, and without any external application of ma. chinery, which would of course be injurious to speed. ‘The Indian Mutiny Relief Fund increases hourly. All re ligions of all nuances subscribe to it, Roman Catholies in cluded. notwithstanding the haughtiness of Cardinal Wise- man. Princes at home and in exile, as well as refugees, red and white, are among the contributors. You know it is a custom (more honored, &¢., &e.,) with Irishman to lay claim to every man who may distinguish himself. Peliasier, after his Malakoff success, was claim- ‘ed, and others innumerable could be mentioned, but who on’ earth would ever have thought them likely to desire relationship with Nena (Q. Na-na!) Sabib! Itis reported that the ancestor of the Cawnpore butcher emi- “ated at some remote period from ‘Tipperary, and that @ Was Known in India as“ Nenagh Sahib, * Tippe- rary Gentleman.” At ail Saxons. ‘The Prince of Wales arrived at Dover yesterday morning, and started immediately for Windsor. He has Deen some months absen' the Continent. Mr. Albert Smith did not return with him. Preparations are ely going on for the marriage of the Princess Royal of Eng. Jond, who it seems will be Queen of Prnasia ere ehe could reasonably have expected it—that is, if doctors are not wron or mts, he has’ paid out the | | | | | | { had a new, but not an original piece, last evening at the Olympic, called “Leading Strings.” Jullien commence hhis winter campaign, that 1s, his promenade concerts, at her Majesty's theatre on the 30th. Many new shirt fronts havo been ordered on the strength of it. Failing to se- cure the services of Madame Gassicr, Mons. Jullien an nounces Trab Trabbing, Jetty Trefftz.| The Opera Bufla Italiana at the St. James theatre has every prospect of success, at least one would think so to look at Mr. John Mitcheli’s subscription list. The Christy Minstrels are doing well, and the Barney Williams’ much botter still. Though our metropolitan atmosphere gets daily duller and duller, #. ¢. thicker and thicker, the streets. are fuller and fuller, owing to arrivals from the watering places and the Continent ‘Mr. Ten Broeck is the sporting hero of the day, and has Deen warmly received not only by the upper ten thonsand, but by turflies, large and email. ‘This is, as it should be, a probable inducement to other Americans to bring over horses ‘The Waterloo bridge mutilation case still remains a mys- tery, although (he old woman who crossed over with a oar- pet bag is said to be discovered. Tho eminent Queen's eoun- sel, Mr. Edwin James, has given itas his opinion that the whole affair is a hospiial hoax. If so, why not offer « re- | ward of £100 to discover the young medical rascals i Our Paris Correspondence. Panis, Oct. 15, 1857. Commercial Expansion in France—The Cloud Be fore the Storm—Clean Sweep of American Spend- thrifts, Abroad— Young Murat to be Squeezed into the Danubian Principalities—The Emperor's Speech on Breaking up the Camp at Chalons New Architectural Schemes of his Majesty—The New Marke Place near St. Eustache—Curious Process against Malle. Verger, the Sister of the Assassin—The Opera, &. We are in possession of the most lovely weather tbat the brightest October ever bestowed on man_ even in Paris. The city is not full—far from it—but the note of preparation is like the hum of bees, and swarms and honey are the latest dream and waking thought of the native Parisian. Still there is u threatening cloud overhead, which many predict will burst with a thunderclap. The monetary crisis | in the United States, and now making itself visibly felt in London, cannot, it is thought, but extend itself to France, where speculation has been playing such pranks before high heaven that retribution is ine table. For the moment there is certainly no ap. pearance of this. Prices are asked and readily given which ten years ago would read like a fable. Every shopkeeper, merchant, lawyer, government official, nay, every subordinate employé for domestic wants, is utterly transmogrified, and as little resembles his former self as the cloudy window pane resembles the brilliant mirror which reflects his image. The weak i would be utterly prostrated nd measure, and it is no uncommon thing for the customer, aghast at the augmentation of price, to be told, in the language of Malthus, to begone—that France has no vacant corner for such ashe. Ax to houses, the very propri themselves are bewildered by the sums t In all quarters new ones spring up, only nished and occupied before the plaister is dry tenants snatch at what is offered with the con’ eagerness of those who know that what is exorbitant to-day will probably be ten per cent higher to-morrow. | It is not only strangers, or to speak correctly, foreigners who flock to the wondrous capital, which, like mighty vortex, absorbs all the world into its gulf, but quiet pro vineinls who never dreamed of moving from their native haunts, can no longer rest there—all must come to Pa q their brief hour of splendor in the Me quence is, that fora and some 300 per cent dearer than they w two ye Only two days ago, of my own per- sone] k: ledge, | had proof of this. An apartment which let in 1555, when newly furnished, for 1,500 francs a month, without the slightest improvement in its conveniences, now lets to a Russian family for 4,000 francs. Agents tell you that they have only to open | their mouths wide enough, and that sometimes even their proverbial audacity is almost put to the blash. | And all this is in spite of a serions deficiency in the or- | dinary supply of American and English visiters, who | this r, expecially the former, are little to be | counted apon. Indeed, the monetary crisis in the United States has made a clean sweep of the epend- | ing American class. pny who on their travels had | written to their agents in Paris to secure them, re- } gardiess of price, the most presentable houses for the season, have since either countermanded these or- ders or paid forfeit, aud expectation is, that beyond a very infinitissimal portion, the American dollar will find ho representative here in the ensuing season. It ix the more unfortunate since, encouraged by their numerical and opulent phalanx, ground has | this year been purchased in the Rue du Berry for the erection of a beautifal chapel for the | exclusive use of the citizens of the United States, | and bene noe he such an advanced state a ! that it will be ready for opening by the end | of the existing year. What is to Be dane. with it, | is in every one’s mouth, seeing that while accommo- dation is provided for a thousand, not a tenth of the number can be found. It may be doubted whether— and it is understood that the expense is not less than £10,000 sterling—from the first, the pious or_specu- iative motive was not very unwise. An English chapel can ——. be supported here, if only from the visiters which arrive on Saturday, stay Sunday, and leave for London the following day; but from this supply an American chapel rily cut off, and in the event of any casualt e the present interfering with the supply of resident visiters, it must of course remain an empty, though @ teautifal monument of pious intentions. It seems to be generally supposed, in well inform €4 circles, that the son of Prince Murat. grandson of Joachim, King of Naples, will be squeezed into the Danubian Principal Napoleon ix or fon ably desirous that he shourd—the Emperor of Russia is understood to make no objection, and it is not at this present moment young man is in the are ago married the only daughter of Prince de Wagram, son of Berthier, Whise ohjection to the comparative poverty of the bridegroom was overruled, it ix said, by, the bint that there was “still a crown in reserve.” He is about twenty-four years of age, and the Princess, his mother, is. in fact.an American of very humble ex- tmetion. He fs in person handsome. and preposessing in manner; but there is nothing # him affording the slightest indication of more then avy ge talent. ‘The Muratish party think that by pushing the grand Pngiand or Austria w can gainsay France Guides and: of the wedge which shall ultimately split asunder the mighty power of perfidious Are tracts ply seated minds of some of the best men ‘who in- finence public it. Rg wi lution, was like Ise from the same 5 nant with the Guard a chosen body, without at the same time exciting jealousy in the line. The heart burnings have for'a long time been many and grievous, and springing’ from the army, where the very essence of Napoleon’s power is concentrated, it has more than once threatened dangerous co! ences. To re- medy this has been one great object of the Camp of Chalons. Napoleon, by his personal interference, has been constantly daing al that lay in his power to keep matters smooth, and has, undoul aly to a certain extent succeeded, but still not suffi- cently so to enable him to dispense with the part- ing ‘admonition contained in his speech, namely:—“ That the Imperial Guard should set a example in peace as well as in war, and be for the line, out of which it comes, a just object of emulation.” ly when one t! of the numerous shades of feeling which Napoleon, absorbing to himself, as he has, despotic power, has to reduce to homogeneity, it is wonderful how he gets throngh his work at all; nothing but a physique of almost superhuman impassivencss to exterior in- fluences could enable him to do so. Everything, lit- tle or big, from a market stall to the manufacture of a Danubian prince, has to be submitted to him; and no man can say, considering all things, that every- thing is not well done. Among the trifles he has in hand is the erection of a better style of house in the avenue de l'Imperatrice, in order to induce the French gentlemen to reside more on the outskirts of Paris. But French architectural skill is accustomed chiefly to deal with masonic masses. It must be either a public office of vast proportions, or 2 dwell- ing house consisting of numerons stages for the accommodation of many. To build anything ap- proaching the miniature English palace, where every comfort is provided for, from thé kitchen to the gar- ret, is ca abe beyond his art. Napoleon has therefore taken the matter in hand himself, and by the assistance of Dr. Evans, the eminent American dentist, whose property it is, has constructed one of the most beautiful houses in the Eng- lish style Paris has yet witnessed. It is built in the avenne de I'Imperatrice, and both in its external outline and in its interior arrange- ments, is a perfect gem of architectural success, It has been waggishly nicknamed “ Grinder's Hall,” from the peculiar occupation of the owner; but Dr. Evans has reason to be proud of becoming the medi- um of a perfect regeneration in French taste in this particular. ‘The Emperor is to open the colossal market place by the Church of St. Bustache early next month, known by the name of Les Halles. It is here that every product for Paris consumption must first be brought and submitted to public inspection; and the superb edifice which, under the Imperial auspices, has been erecting to give better accommodations to that enormous commerce, for the last five years, is to doubtless form a monument inseparable from the name of Bonaparte. The whole framework is of cast iron, and the outline of singularly graceful structure. The stalls are likewise of the same mate- rial. The fear is, lest in the attainment of symme- try, something of elbow room, so important ina mar- ket, may not prove to have been sacrificed. How- ever, the main area is of gigantic proportions. It will be recollected that the ladies of the Halle some years ago gave the President a ball in their market place, which, with that magic art which in France for snch put 3 knows no difficulties, was fitted up as a colossal ballroom capable of containing 10,000 guests. Two things rather marred its suc- cess, however. The President did not come, and a thunder storm coming on, bore down the canvass covering and deluged the fair dancers with a perfect inundation. The name of Verger, infamous by its association with the morder of the late Archbishop of Paris, has again been brought under public notice. The sister ot the assassin had formed a liaison with one M. d’Oliveira. and everything had gone on harmonious- Ip till the brother's unhappy notoriety. On this, the gentleman began to be tired of his fair one, who dis played something of the family insanity My sitting down and making a calculation of the worth of her services from the commencement of her laison, at the rate of ten francs a day—the minimum value. as she said, of her prostitution. She had robbed her protector, as was alleged, of money, but by this cal- culation she a al to prove that if such was the case, she was still a creditor on account of her pros titut M. d’Oliveira had brought the lady before the Civil Tribunal. People here are a little puzzled by the exaggerated | encomitums heaped on the success of Madame Frez- zolini, who is starring with you. “Lex succes des artistes nouvellement arrives augmentent d'une ma- niere effrogante,” is recorded. What does the word “frightful” mean in this sense? M'lle St. Urbain, at the Italian Opera, is taking Frezzolini’s role in the “Rigoletto” of Verdi, and though as yet far from the ection of more matured artistes, by her youth, i beauty, her fine, tall, graceful person, as well as the possession of great feeling and expreasion, bids fair to become a decided favorite. The truth is, the old arttisex begin to pall. Rachel's health is said to be slowly improvnng. Panis, Oct. 22, 1857. French View of the American Panic--Suicide of an American Speculator in Paris--Guizot's Memoirs —General Armed Movement Among the Mahom- medan Population of the East-- Political Persecu- tion in France—Exciting Scene before the Tribu | nal of Correctional Police at Colmar--Scarcity of | Silver in France, &., §¢. It may be asserted, without flattery, that never, | during the past half century, has the United States been so constantly in the thoughts and on the lips of Parisians as now. ‘There is unquestionably a great national syinpathy at ail times towards America, whose republican constitution is the envy of all the more elevated minds of France. There is also a singular identity of taste and character, not- withstanding the widely different mediums of ex- hibiting it adopted by the individuals of either coun- try. The American falls into French habits without the slightest géne—one would suppose he had lived with Parisians from his childhood. The American lady conforms so well to the Parisian style in dress, manners and language, that it is not always easy to distinguish her, except by the brilliancy of her com- plexion, from the French woman with whom she as- sociates. than anything of this—it is the monetary crisis of New York, Boston and Philadelphia, which, acutely sympathized with in London, is keeping the Parisian All men seem | mind in a perfect agony of suspense. to be walking under a cloud charged with electricity, and even now and then furtive glances are cast up- | ward, and expressions of wonder uttered that, seeing it is so black over head, and so imminently threaten- ing, the storm should stil! delay to break. Of course there is a great deal of twaddle indulged in as to what is the cause of this terrible monetary | difficulty, displaying @ very profound ignorance of American habits and conduct; and stories are told about the laxurious tastes of the mercantile classes at New York, which, were | to repeat, would cause no slight wonderment; but the predominant feelip is one of astonishment at the courage, temper, tad general good faith with which the crisis in encoun tered, and a secret misgiving that when the hour of France arrives, as arrive it will, ite people will a» suredly not “go and do likewise.” Were it not for the dread of coming events, which fling their shadows before them, and which is itself an antidote to dullness, the true description of Paris at the present moment would be, that it is passing flat indeed. The court is at Compiegne, the million naires are in @ stew about their ducats, the gay world has not yet nestled into winter qnarters, thoug! all things are made ready for its reception—trade ie consequently dull, and every one seems, like a company assembled half an hour before the dinner Well, to be waiting for something important. That there is to be a perfect avalanche of the dewizens of all countries, climes and languages, this winter, can hardly be doubted, if one credits the enormous price the Commissioners are paying for apartments for the expected guests, New houses, which formerly would have been considered perfectly uninhabitable, ate rigged up, almost before the last stone is laid, with vorgeous farnitare and elegant draperies, and _re- ceive a price for six months tenancy equivalent to an ordinary rental of three years. A kind of gal je everywhere, whose ephemeral natare is tou the very face of it; but, such as it is, it breathes and moves and has a being. An American gentleman who sometime ago ar. rived in Paris and took up his residence in a hotel in rue New St. Augustin, and was known to be deeply implicated in Bourse speculations, not hav ing been seen abroad for some days, an application was made to his room. It was locked and on being forced open, he was found seated in a chair with his brains blown out. The pistol, the report of which had not been heard, was found by his side. M. Guizot, who has just returned from his coun try house of Val Richer, is now engaged in the cor. But, just now, there is a bond stronger | we although the accounts from the East are so much more Semele, io gee certain that the feeling in weanee , toey Soe leas. Sr may een Oe is r thought. Presages like the It is not only in India that the Mahometans are armi themselves, for the armorers in all the cities and towns Asia Minor, and , Were never on su extensive ag at All that is lace at Calcutta, under the eyes of the Governor-General of India, the European rehasing revolvers, and the Turk, the ian Make no secret of the motive which loads them to purchase these weapons, One of our friends, who is on the spot, states that something is in agitation among tho Mussuiman population—something which very closely re sembles the rising of the Mussulmen in India." Europe de- ceives itself in imagining that an; atitude is felt because the Western Powers supperied the Cres- cent ag Greek . It is quite the contrary. The hatred felt throughout all the kas! is un- bounded. It is in tho torms of indignation that the events at Constantinople are talked of. Never has a Christian obtained less justice or been more detested than since the Christian States have declared themselves the protectors of the Mussulmen.”? Of course much of this isa Russian fling against the Western pele of the late war, but the anti-Bri- tish feeling of the French mind on the subject of In- dia just now makes it by no means indisposed to adopt it. The truth is, the mutiny in India has greatly served to develope the soundness of remarks made from time to time in the columns of the Hx- NALD, that, a fond, there isno more sympathy on the of France towards England, than there was at close of the ern war in 1815. Englishmen in their travels, wit! Lak of money tospend, meet with abundance of civil speeches towards themselves and their country, accompanied, in order to give additional piquancy to the flattery, with great complaints of everything French. At the end of their tour — the rush — home and retail all this for the beneiit of thick-headed John Bull, who is always ready to believe that all the world is dying of admiration of him; but the Frenchman, in’ his soul, loves but one thing about an Englishman, and that is, the Lng which he squan- ders. In his heart of hearts he despises him, be- lieves him a ninny in intellect, a brute in manners, and an overbearing aristocrat in temper, and when- ever the crisis shall come when the true spirit of France towards England shall be roused, this fact will be made known with a very tiger's howl. By far the greater part of those who record their opinions, and who induce others to adopt them, are mere birds of passage, and hence their mistake. For an Englishman to know a Frenchman well, he must domesticate in his country, and be brought into all kinds of relations with him, and the result will be, nine times out of ten, that he will find that the deni- zens of Gaul and Britain have as little affinity as oil has with water. In the best informed English circles in Paris it is currently reported that Lord Canning must be re- called and that Lord Palmerston, despite his posi- tion as an opposition peer, is areatly disposed to offer the appointment to Lord Ellenborough. The a ort which that nobleman invariably gave to Sir William Napier, who in the present Indian difficulty has so often heen quoted for his wisdom and forethought, has rendered him deservedly popu- lar in the public mind, and Lord Palmerston, who values Be potion! opinions far too highly to indulge in political animosity, is understood to be quite ready to receive help from the other side. Indeed, it was reported last night at the British Embassy that L Canning had already been recalled and Lord Ellenborough spoken to. M. Moss, who torms the new Spanish cabinet, in conjunction with Admiral Armero, left Paris for Madrid yesterday. A first class gold meda! has been conferred on Capt. W. Power, of the American schooner Howard, for rendering assistance to the French merchant vessel Le Jeun Adreas, which went ashore some time ago on the small island of Pinnel, near the' Isle of St. Marten, Dr. Kern, the new Swiss envoy, has taken apart- ments in the Hotel des Princes, and has caused the archives of the legation to be removed there. the first time an embassy has been established in a public hotel in Paris. The fact is, the price of apart- ments is such, that a moderately paid am! is obliged to find lodgings where he can, It may be mentioned as some proof of the latent spirit still existing in the minds of lieges in the provinces that the affair of M. Migeon, who has been returned as the representative of the Hant Rhein, | caused such a sensation in the neighborhood of the | Tribunal of Correctional Police of Colmar, that the military were compelled to patrol the district through- | ont the night. M. Migeon is looked upon as a mar- tyr, whom the imperial government are seeking to | | trample under foot by their Minister of Police, that he may not sit as representative. The scene in | the court is described by an eye witness as surpass ing all description. Judge, jury and counsel being | like so manf parties “possessed.” M. Jules Favor | announced on the part of his client, M. Migeon, that the Minister of Police was to be publicly prosecuted for 4 gross and palpable libel. ‘A monetary crisis of a novel kind exists at pre- sent in some of the manufacturing towns, such as Rouen and Elbeuf. Silver change has become so very scarce that there is not enough to pay the workmen with. Manufacturers are obliged ay = them in groups—to give a gold piece among ut adozen. The great establishments are buying silver of the retail dealers at a premium, just as formerly, a preminm used to be paid on gold. Our Berlin Correspondence. Bertix, Oct. 14, 1857. Convalescener of the King—His Mental Powers Impaired — Probability of a Regency—Political Intrigues—Origin of the King’s Iliness—The Monetary Crisis in Berlin—Ite Causes—Governor Wright Elected a Member of the Ber- lin Geographical Society— Baron Humboldt, de de. ‘The King’s iliness has taken a more favorable turn, and although he cannot yet be pronounced outof danger, there ie a prospect that his life may be spared for some time The most alarming symptoms have gradually | longer. perfectly sensible; takes some refreshment with apparent appetite, and recognises and converses with his attend- ants and the members of his family. As to his attending to business, of course that is quite out of the question, and it is more than doubtful whether he will ever be able to form the duties of his high station again. The succes on of slight paralytic attacks which Le has had for seve- al years running, has not been without a serious effect upon his mental faculties, which appear to be completely broken. Even before this last fit of sickness, it had been noticed by his entourage that ho showed a strange forgetfulness of persons and things, that he frequently diseoursed in @ rambling and unconnected manner. and that even his speech occasionally failed him. His intellect, already tottering on its throne, has been finally shattered by the severe attack under which he is now suffering, and though he should partially recover hie bodily health, it is feared that his mental powers will turn. Ifthis should prove to be the case, a re would of course become necestary, to which the has the nearest bas already taken the management of and pre which the berated upon which would have to by of = th King’s demine For the present Min rs ney Prince of Prussia, as heir to the crown. The Prine 1 bound from their post decency not to Fr his fn the meantime ty of ingratiating bi ble to his Fata and making t That thee ed the Prince's ce ger, ix evident from t M. ont will no doubt exert. them + the influence of the per surrounded. whore pas their firmest support. thday, which is generally kept with great rejoicings—illuminations, banquets, &c. i however, have been countormande antined to relig offered up in They have since been contin Kingdom. The first servi on Friday evening at the of the wened hy Tw. Heym, ely from Isaiah xxxvili sick unto death,” &e. fectly startling | nounced next day, it w a direct interposition of was Frederick the Gr four, the present King nine, bat his grandfather died at fifty three, and his great grand father at thirty-six years of age. ‘The first King of Prus sia departed this life in bis fifty ninth, and the second in his fifty-second year. It would not be uninteresting to draw up a statistical account of the average ages of kings ax compared with other mortals, as far as T can judge the result would turn out to he very unfavoral sity It appears certain now that the Ki f Vienna last summer was occasioned by his anxiety to bring sbout a reconciliation between his two aephews (every week, of dolay It is | subsided; he is still excessively weak and exhausted, but | | first by some unexpected in Every day there is a fresh fall in bank shares and railway bonds, and the pressure is so great that there is no tell- ing how low they will go down. One would imagine that we were in the midst of a bloody war or of a terrible re- volution, instead of being surrounded with ail the clo- ments of prosverity—profound peace, a sufficient harvest, and unexampled activity in every ‘branch of trado and manufactures. All thoso blessings have been rendered nugatory by the ruling passion or epidemic disease of our age—over speculation—by the side of which the events in India, China, &c,,to which the present déroute is attri- buted, are only to be regarded as secondary causes. — ‘Tho last monthly meeting of our Geographical Society was attended by Mr, Wright, the American Minister, who has been elected a member of that learned body, —Al- though not possessed of the ample pecuniary means of its sister societies in London and Paris, the services it has rendered to science are universally acknowledged, and its transactions contain papers from the pens of the most distinguished savans in Germany, such as Dore, the well known meteorologist, and Ehrenberg, the Columbus of the insect world. It is under the special patronage of Baron Humboldt, who, you will be glad to learn, still en- joysu degree of mental vigor truly wonderful in a man Who has entered his eighty ninth year. He has recently published the fourth volume of bis “Cosmos.” LORD ELLENBOROU( The following address to the members of the Winch- comb Agricultural Association (Eng.) has been published by Lord Ellenborough: SovrHam Deranrre, Oct. 16. Tmuch regret my not being able to attend oting to-day, the more especially as I was desirous of speaking to you ‘upon the subject nearest to my heart—the war in India, and of urging you to assist, as you and all country gentlemen and farmers can most pow- erfully, in bringing the country through the difficulties in which it is involved. Not having the opportunity of addressing you otherwise, | I now write to you. ‘As to the war itself T need say but little, As to the conduct of the Ministers and of the Indian government in this emergency I shall say nothing. 1 must soon have ample and more proper opportunities of saying whatever I muy think upon that subject. Gentlemen—You may not have looked into all the de. tails of what has taken place in India, but you must know this—that we have there a great war forced upon us by rebels, who would deprive all our countrymen of their lives and Engiand of an empire—that where we placed our confidence wo have beon met with treachery—where we acted with kindness we have encountered murder— iuurder, not directed only against men, by whom resis- tance might be made and from whom wrongs might have been feared, but extending equally to unotfending, help- less wormen—to the children at their knees and to the in- fants at their breasts, sparing none, and often inflicting death with torture upon the body where it had already ore eruelly tortured the mind. ‘We haye seen there, in aimost every instance of muti- | ny, one general deliberate design, not only to deprive us of the domi: we have so long held with honor, but to place us, as 4 people, under circum es of outrage and of indignity, which, if we submit te them, must render us in the eyes of ail living men and of all future generations a despised and degraded race. Will you submit to this? You will say you never will—you will have redress and vengeance. We will say notling about vengeance; that belongs only toa higher power; but to punish crime so signally as to deter all hereafter from its commission, and to vindicate our sovereign authority, this is no doubt our right and it is our duty; and you will say you will not be found wanting in the performance of it. But, then, what will you do? Depend upon it, it is not enough to sit quiet- ly at home and to pay taxes,’ nor goto public meetings and pass resolutions expressive of sympathy with the suf- ferers and of indignation against their destroyers. You must do more than this, and [ will tell you what you can do, what none but those who are in your position can do equally well, and what you now all onght todo for the honor of the country and for your own. You have heard of the great reMmforcements of troops which have been recently sent or are now going out to India, You have been assured that we shall Dave there a larger army than we had in the Crimea, and I dare say you expect from the exertions of this force early and complete suecess inthe war. Everything that the noblest of sol diers can do has been done, and will be done, by ours in | India; and they have now a General who knows well what | war the lions are at last led by a lion—but be assured that this is not a sudden temporary danger to be repelled by sudden temporary exertion. What at first was a mutiny is become a revolution; to restore civil authority is more diffi- cult than to repress military resistance, and it requires more foree to occupy than it does to subdue. Be assured | that the military institutions of this country, managed as they are now, are insuficient permanently to supply the number ¢ men required to re-conquer what we hare loi, and to hold our Empire hereafter in security. It is only through a change in thove institutions, which no Minister would willingly propose, or through a great practical im- provement in the working of them, which your co-opera- | tion may supply, that the necessary foree can be main- | tained. I am’ ‘satisfied that the principle upon which our militia is now founded, that of voluntary | | enlistment, is the one most acceptable to the | people; and I feel assured that a militia maintained at its mil complement, as it may be, and can only be, by the | patriotic exertions of country gentlemen and farmers, is | the best foundation of our military system. If you, and | such as you, will by your efforts keep the militia up to its complement, the rewular army will take care of itself. It may cost more to draw the recruit for the army through the militia, bnt the recruit obtained is in most cases one who would not bave been procured at all unless he had first entered the militia and there acquired a taste for mi. itary service, Employ in the obtaining of recruits for the militia but half the zeal you would display in getting votes at an election and you will certainly succeed. A bundred reeruiting sergeants could not do what each of yon ean do within the sphere of bis personal influence. ‘When I tell you that you haye this power I speak from my own experience. When the militia, as now constituted, was first established in 1853, T took much inte. rest in the success of the measure, and Learnostly requested. koveral farmers I wax nequainted with to do their utmost to obtain recruits. Seme zealously exerted themselves, others were more lukewarm: but in every instance in whieh an influential farmer cordially undertook the duty, | the result was uniformly the same; and Tam convince | that if all who could have done so had acted as some did, antry could in that year have raised, not between | 00 and 60,000, but not less than 120,000 men. No doubt yon would be greatly aided in your exertions to obtain recruits if the militia of the county should be embodied. Men will more willingly enlist in a regiment they can sce marching, with all the pomp and cireum stance of war, than inacorps which remains invisible, and of which the existence is only to be found in official records. But, let others do as they may, it is for you lo do your duty! Where you lead others will follow, and while you do mach good by your individual efforts, you | will do yet more by your example | Task you only to do what [ know you can do, and what 1 fee! you ought to do for the assistance of the country in this critien! juncture of our affuirs | It is impossible to over estimate its importance. There is nothing man holds dear for whieh we hav fight. If we should not bear ourselves manfull contest thus foreed upon us. if we should not din | it, we must be content not only to lose the noblest empire orld, but to make the name of Englishman a by of shame among nations wives and daughters of our countrymen have plicly violated, their children have been put I we Fe | | ! A of in the punishments inftiet npon the of. fending Jews. It has not been troy us. We were firet to be dishow yuntry through which we have proudly—perhays too proudly —etalked ax conquerors tor 100 years Do you suppose that if we could eabmit to this in India We sliould not be threatened with it in England? Do yar imagine that the great military Powers of Europe, always prepared for war, offended by our pride, resentful of our Former wistorics, amd coveting our pretent wealth would Long Permit us to enjoy in peace the luaurics we cling to and the dreams of irresistible strength in which we fatuously in dulge? “Be assured that if, under the strongest necessity ever imposed upon a people, we do not rive ax one man to vindicate ont national honor and to re-establish one Indian he horrors we read of with shuddering as pe trated #t Meerut and at Delhi will not forever be ave from our island home. Tcounsel you, therefore, to give at once your cord assistance, as you best can give it, to the country prosecution of this contest, which we cannot a nd the most difficult in which we have engaged —it will not do to confine ourselves to a cold com plianee with what may be required from us by t ‘0 succeed in this war the people must make it its own FLLENBOROUGH RUSSIAN OPINION OF THR INDIAN NEWS. {Rerlin (Oct. 18) correspondence of the London Tim: ‘The Invatide: Ruste points ont that the latest news from India is anything but couleur de rose, and seems to justify the doubt which had lately been expressed, as sone per sone thonght prematurely, as to whether England would neceed in “reconquering” India. While modestly re fraining from pronoficing apen the future in any: like an aracniar it proceeds to take exception to the terin “reconque to show that what England now er of India, particularly her acqnisitions mate be ' 7 and the beginning of thie century, she a fo much conquer by force of arme as she hought thet bit by bit. Tt will net deny that England has had generals, valiant armies, and has earned plentiful la in India; bat on the whole its empire there is the produce rather of arts thim of arms. The arts here alluded to are explained to have been the diplomatic arts of the resident agents of the Bast India Company and the time when they were most successful, that period of general disunion and distrust among the native Pynees which ensued upon the fall of the Great Mogul. Invalide will not pass any jodgment opon the course pursued by the Bast India Company under Clive, Warrep Hastings and Wellesley, but does not at Rnpty that that rate war oo the whole inju Tt pointe out, however, that Lard Canning and Sir Colin Campbell have’ a totally diffe rent task to fulfil, and must eet about it in a different man ner from that in which thelr predecessors went about theirs. There are no longer any nabobs and native princes who can be bought over to sell their own country, such ‘As are #till alive of the old races are either in the receipt of subsidies, or aro confined in fortresses, and have no influence with the native lation. | India has now to be conquered for the first time, and that too with the greatest despatch, for every month, nay will gee fresh gueunien 4 abetted by new and more becomin; / the fashionable work painters and poets, ever on the watch for taste and Elgin for China, but add nothing to indicate that our envo succeeded in the professed object of his visit to Bengal, namely, to obtain such aid in the shape of enable him to prosecut to some purpose. This object appeared to be plainly indi- cated in his lordship’s reply to the merchants and other ro, although it must have struck every one that Calcutta would be about the last place in which, under the circumstances, to look for sistance. The fact is the true purpose of Lord Elgin’ visit has not been revealed, and it is not likely that the public curiosity will be gratified on tho point. most probable explanation sccms to be, that, hav- i ticular to do at Hong Kong, in th ¢ greater part of tho troops comprising the Chinese expedition, ho had employed bis leisure in | visiting Calcutta, taking advantage of the opportunity to | wccompany the contingent of marines and Captain Pere’s naval brigade. It may be, too, that Lord Elgin imagined his advice at the Council Board over which Lord Canning vresides would have been yaluabic and well received. Whether he has experienced any disappointment in respect, it is impossible to say. “If we may place any re- lianee on the Governor General's proclamations, and on such reports as reach us from time to time, we should say that Lord Canning is not likely to be influenced by the vice of a clear headed and energetic man like Lord Elgin, but is disposed to pursue, at this eventful crisis in the af- fairs of India,a policy which is fraught with imminent danger to the Empire. There is something, we confess, which strikes us as significant in this sudden return of Lord Elgin to China, when we remember that matters are there just as he left them, except that the Canton river ‘is under blockade. We perceive, however, that there is some rumor of an intention of uniting the French and Russian fleets on the coast of China with our own, and that instructions have been issued to] Gros and Admiral Panuitine to co-operate with ford Elgin. ‘This, if true, would of course, account for his abrupt de- parture from Calcutta. We shall see. ‘The expression of dissatisfaction with the administration of Lord Canning has found vent in Calcutta long sinco, and is re-echoed at home in quarters where he might have expected to find his | general policy supported. The detention of Sir Colin Campbell at Calcutta, to be extended for a month from the despatch of the last mail, is very unfavorably inter- preted, more especially when contrasted with the promp- titade which marked his departure for India. We shall know more about these matters shortly; but ifone thing more than another would appear to be indispensable in thie present state of India, it is that the supreme adminis- tration of affairs should be confided to resolute hands, directed by @ clear and vigorous intellect. The New Prime Minister of Spain, {From the Paris Spectateur, Oct. 20.] Don Francisco Armero y Peneranda entered the Spanish navy in 1822. He was a midshipman when the civil war | between the partisans of Queen Christina and those of Don Carlos broke out, and at the second siege of Bilboa by * the Carlista, he was raised to the rank of lieutenant, and at the third'siege to that of captain. ‘Thig last rank’ was the reward for the bravery and skill he displayed in going up and down the river of Bilboa with his vessel, under the fire of the enemy, in order to carry reinforcements to the city. Captain Armero was the first who landed at the bridge of Lachana on the day of the victory which gave the tile of Count de Luchana to General Espartero. He afterwards obtained further rank, and commanded the naval division of Catalonia. In 1840, when Minister of | Marine, be accom the Queen Regent and Queen Isa- bella to Valenti. After the events of Barcelona, which com- pelled the Queen Kogent to quit Spain, heretired from poli- tical life, and did not return to it until 1843, when ho was made Minister of Marine in the first Cabinet presided over by Marshal Narvaez, and afterwards filied the same pot in that of which M. Isturitz was president. In 1848 Armero, who was then Vice-Admiral, was appointed to the command of the Spanish squadron ‘at Cuba. On his return to Spain he was named to the post of Minister of Marine in the Bravo-Murillo cabinet, which office he re signed a short tine before the dissolution of that ministry. In 1855 M. Armero attained by seniority the rank of captain-general or admiral of the fleet. Admiral Armoro has, therefore, owed his advancement Folelg to his mili- tary and administrative services, and from the frankness and moderation of his character he enjoys the highest consideration in Spain. He is closely united by conformity of principles and political feelings, as well as by long standing personal friendship, to M. Mon, now Spanish am. ‘Dbassador at Rome, and his first act was to summon that diplomatist to Madrid, in order to obtain his assistance in the formation of the new cabinet. 1 at {Rerlin (Oct. 18) Correspondence of the London Times. } At length we find something in the Russian journals in connection with the late meeting of the Emperor Alexan der with the Emperor Napoleon at Stuttgart. The Inva- lide breaks the silence that the Russian press seemed to have imposed upon itself on this head, and, indirectly re ferring to that rencontre, it expresses the “hope that, nl though an everlasting peace may not be expected, it will nevertheless be easier for the future than ithas been in times past, good will ith the exercise of a tit to maintain the Foropean harmony. Before article, however, the Jnvalide gives Sweden a Khanded slap, and points out how that Power, jer having on mature reflection entered in- and defensive with England and trepidation at that meeting of the two meoles ite Swedieh neighbor with the assurance that a Russian never bears malice. The consolation, thongh kindly meant perhaps, is not very im: plicitly to be relied on, and it is to be hoped that Sweden finds in her own strength and her al = something more satisfactory to fall back upon in cas disquieting intelligence reaching her from Russia. le common sense and Industry and Fashion at Parts. {From the London Post, Oct. 21.) ‘The season of shawls, burnous and mantles has at length succeeded to that of muslin and barege. The shops of Paris are honoring the change by the dis- play of every description of “confection” of the newest and most varied kind, and exhibiting the most beautiful shawls, which are attracting the ad- miration of the whole town, and the most splendid silks and laces, wherewith to give notice of the great execution to be done during the winter; and these same sinister designs on our purses are aided and fashions in both evening and walking dresses. Winter flowers are on view. Nothing can be imagined more beauti ful than the new flower called Marialva, and which stined to create the greatest furore we have xperienced in Paris for many years. This flower is so tunningly devised as to be regarded almost as an improvement on naturé. It is of the purest white, of the Brazilian orchidw tribe, the interior shaded off by that delicate yellow which is becoming alike to the brunette and the blonde. The leaves of the Ma- rialva are dark and shining, and the coiffure is made to be placed far back on the head, to suit the new style of wearing the hair. From the fresh wreath of flowers, inspired by nature, we come to the rich dia- dems inspired by art, which continue to dazzle us | by the wondrous elegance they display. ‘There is on | exhibition a run pearls and emerald, said to be destined by the King of Portugal for his intended sister-in-law, which is attracting every lover of the fine arts. The most exquisite designs for bracelets and brooches are also just completed. are entirely novel, many of them given by Prince } poleon, the result of his late voyage to Scandinavia, and are exciting the freatert initerest, not only in of Paris, but alvo among the novelty. Female Dress for 1857. [From the Westninster Review for October. | ar tea and a half ago, when treating of man- ners and fashion, this review made the avowal, “There needs, then, a protestantism in social usages; and the writer proceeded to point out how the ridicule played off by the humorists of society — our most ing * social follies must inevita- bly overthrow them. *' gna are not wanting that some change ix at hand. Ridicule has always. been @ revolutionary agent. That which is habitually assailed with sheers and sarcasms cannot long sur- vive. The time is approaching, then, when our sys tem of social observances must pass through some crisis, out of which it will come purified and compa- ratively simple.” Thus it pee in 1864 that we had reacher ch a pitch of extra ince in our tastes and usages that we could scarcely make our- selves more absurd; yet during the intervening years the gravest of those social extra inces, that of fe- tale dress, has become so much more conspicu- ous than at any time within three generations, that the expected crisis must be very near indeed, and the conventional protestantism must be ripe for pro- mulgation, if reform is really to come abont by such means. We see reason to believe, as we shall pres. ently show, that the prophecy of 1854 was a rational one; and we venture to hi that the fathers and husbands of the rising female generation will have less to suffer in mind and in purse from the follies of their fair relatives than our neighbors of the present day. We doubt whether in any age of our national his- tory, or on any spot of the globe, a more indefe ble mode of dreas could be pointed out than we have displayed before us at this moment in the World of Fashion, published by Simkin and Marshall, and (as the title declares) — by — the pe and in the Ladies of hion, istinguithed by ita faithful itments of the actual mode of Tepes class dress. itting aed Punch, and & kind of caricature, we have plewty of prints of existing ladies before ua every day to meditate upon with more leisure than the mind can obtain in parks, Crystal and Chiswick Gar- dena, where we have met, als; and a quiet contemplation of the garb of 1867 can leave no other conviction, we are corffident, than that, if our ladies were rational five years ago, no more reliance can be laced on reason than ea But the truth is, ress is nota matter in which reason has ever yet had much concera, It may be occasionally reason: ¢ his mission to the Court of Pekin | a e | i E ; Ei a s til : f nyt Pe ij i i | udop' e device without any conse! | the absurdity of the imitation. Thus are our | ladies proving themselves no their | ndmothers, though they ed themselves i | oN | for a ti Snapay oe ir fe have carried | them away intoa ticism of fashion which Punch at the fashions for 1857, what do we see? On the head is a something, the purpose of which it would be difficult to discover by reason—a structure of silk or straw, adorned with flowers, bon and lace, crowded on the angle of the jaws the nape of the neck, and with its fore part juas reaching the crown of the head. We have , Spurgeon’s authority for the effect to the eye of the spectator in front. Being advised to preach against the prevailing folly in head gear, he as he stood up on the platform, looked around him and said, “I have been requested to rebuke the bon- nets of the day; but upon my word, I don’t see any.” ‘This is the bonnet of the summer of 1857, pinned to the head in some troublesome way, leaving the face exposed in a manner which one need not be a ‘Turkish parent to disapprove, and causing the hair to be powdered with dust, and the head and face te be alternately heated and chilled by sun and wind, so that the physicians are easily believed when declare that cases of eye disease, of toothache, ani my, expose, but can hardly caricature. pee, Ce and a neuralgic of the head and face, are beyond all ere their practice. For many months English women and the ladies of America, the extremes of heat and cold are greater than with us, have been subjecting themselves to the incon- veniences of going out bareheaded, with the added annoyance of an Spt ratus which heats and worries the back of the neck. The broad-brimmed hats are a piece of good sense in the midst of a mass of folly. Punch, and other satirists, may quiz the hat asa device for looking young; but the ridicule touches | only the elderly wearers, and leaves the hat unim- | peached. Some quizzical specimens, plumed and ribboned, and so%turned up and tw: about as to serve no more useful purposes than the prevailing bonnet, may be seen here and there; but dite simple original hat, with a brim which shades the eyes, and a crown which protects the head, is worthy of all approbation, while it is exceedingly becoming to young wearers. As to older people, if they sen- sibly decline wearing the bonnet which exposes their grey hair to the very crown, and feel that the hat is too jaunty—why do they not recur to the indi- eam. .terviceable, becoming, unobjectionable lish straw bonnet of all times? Not the fanc: chip, or the open shell-work of straw, filled up with silk, but the veritable straw fabric (Tuscan or Dun- stable at pleasure,) which will outlast all changes of fashion in a climate like ours. There is no occasion to wear it in coal-scuttle fashion, like holy District Visitors, so that a pious woman is always to be looked for at the end of a long bonnet; nor do the milliners insist on all going bareheaded. The straw bonnet admits of all reasonable modifications; and that of five years 2K0, enclosing the face mo- destly, and covering the head comfortably, gratified taste then, while it satisfies sound reason now. Instead of it, we daily see old ladies in one of two extremes—either lank jaws are exposed by the dark strings of a slouching hat, or their wrinkled faces and Ried hair are encompassed with blonde and artificial flowers, as the trimming of the little excrescence called a bonnet in our day. One would think that no woman could fail to ive | that wreaths and garlands are a youth! bs ment, and that no one should wear artificial flowers who could not fittingly dress her hair with natural ones; yet we see do with roses and foliage clustering around their checks at every tarn. The mantle is, ps, the best idea among the fashions of the day, and now and then we see one worn by a sensible woman, which fulfils all reasona- ble conditions; but the | made as to partake of all | existing gown. It used to be thought, and it will be thought again, that everything in the cloak way loses its character, and therefore its tastefulness, being fitted to the m is confined at the wi a tight armhole, is certainly not a veritable mantle, whatever else it may be; and when we see it, as in this summer of 1857, cut down to a mere band round the chest, ore no higher than the point of shoulder, and turning into a sleeved jacket below, we have no more to say to it as a respectable mem- ber of the mantle tribe. But to respectability in the eyes of taste, it usually forfeits all pretension by its parade of ornamentation. Its fringes, and , and braids, and gimps, and laces, and buttons—ita frillings, and quillings, and puffings, and edgings, and slashings, are too meretricious for any garment of the cloak order, or for permanent fashion this article is perhaps the least objectionable of whole suit now favored by the caprice of the day. The madness runs riot in the gown—(to use the old fashioned word, which is more distinctive than the technical nse of the term “ dress.”) The con- sciousness of the whole public enables us to be brief on this head. When we enter on the ic of the gowns of 1857, every reader's “ prophetic soul’” warns him what animadversion to ex; on tight waists, bare shoulders and arms, cumbrous and en- croaching skirts, and an apparatus for their mai ment which is'in every way objectionable. the costliness, the clumsiness, the ugliness, the affec- tation, the stiffness, the noisiness, the compjete reversal of the objects and attributes of dress in the “ dress,” evening and morning, of the present fashion seems to be generally admitted; therefore we shall not insist on them at any length. The plain facts of the case are these:—The gown of 1857 is made of the most expensive materials obtainable. Ladies who used to dress handsomely on thirty pounds a year, now find that sum insnfficient for their gowns loans and middie class young ladies, who have hitherto been sutisfied with twenty pounds a year, are now driven to their wits’ end to sees up with the mode at all; and they have recourse | showy silks that will not last, or light | terials requiring a style of jcoat which makes the dress a costly one after all. id servants, who have before deposited something in savings banks every quarter, now feel morally compelled to buy twice as many yards as formerly for their gowns. “Tt is but ninepence a yard,”'the mistress says, when a gown isa print; but the gowns are not all prints; and if all require eight or ten breadths in the skirt, the difference at aes of the year to a girl whose wages are ten or twelve pounds, is not small. Even the cheap print gowns require so much mak- ing, and are #0 troublesome to wash and iron, that the cnstom is a nous one to those on whom it zhs least. As for the most numerous order of its victims—that of the middie class ladies—this year, 1857, will be a mortifying or disastrous one in the family history of too many households. The cost of dress has become so disproportionate to other items of expenditure, as to create serious Le 4 in the homes of men of business, who have hit! been able to provide their wives and danghters with what- ever was needful to a moderate complacency. The rich silks of the day, under the various names, of which every lady now thinks one at least absolutely ne- | bent cannot be had for a wife and ters, | with the prodigions trimmings, which are equally in: | dispensable, under a less «um than would maintain a fouatey CMeraymen, or half - officer and his fami- ly. paraphernalia of ribbons, laces, fringes and oe is agg omg than the entire gown of fen years ago. It is not our purpose, as we have no- tified, to go into the serious moral consideration of the case, or we might disclose a decline of respecta- bility in this class, as well as in ranks above and be- low, which would make other hearts as heavy as our own. Our readers can imagine, if they do not know, the process of xhausted credit, debt, secret gambling in one shape or another, and even theft, in the form @ great spread of shoplifting, and the purchase of stolen goods. Of these things we might say much, but our theme is the bad taste hem fashion. The middle class man, then, finds his honse and garden too small. The dinner table will not ac- commodate the old number; and if a leaf is inserted, the waiting maid can hardly got round —a process the more cult, from the number of bre skirt, and the extent of ‘air er it petticoat. The most delicate ladies’ hems ag den iM = of by the fn y walk t th, and the @reen- house is no place Flor wach t = they cannot move without knocking fone ait a dozen Bot commit ime than nas une more none at tl of a nursemaid, for a neighbor's cua es ooh Fi f cheap ry ma- swept into the ter frot wih 1 water fom es hy ‘a stiff ‘