THE FIELD. 
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ARRIVAL OF AN AIDE-DE-CAMP FROM LORD 
RAGLAN. 
Lord Burohersh, senior aide-de-camp to Lord Raglan, who 
arrived at Marseilles during Thursday night in the Fury, 
brings home the detailed despatches relating to the battle of 
Alma, with the list of casualties. His lordship cannot be 
expected to arrive ; in town before late to-night or Sunday 
morning. J 
THE NEW STAMP ACT. 
On Wednesday next the new Stamp Act, making some im- 
portant alterations, principally relating to bills of exchange 
and promissory notes, will take effect. Bills drawn out of 
the United Kingdom are to be denoted by adhesive stamps 
and not to be negotiated without such stamps being affixed! 
With regard to bankers’ drafts, by the present law drafts 
drawn on bankers within fifteen miles are exempted from 
duty, but by this act a draft cannot be remitted or sent 
beyond fifteen miles unless duly stamped, or be received 
m payment or as a security, or otherwise circulated, under a 
penalty of £50. All bank notes, other than the Bank of 
England, are to be liable to duty. There is a clause repeal- 
ing the exemption from receipt stamp duty of letters 
by the general post, acknowledging the arrival of bills, 
notes, or other securities for money. Receipts for 
money paid to the crown are to be exempted from stamp 
duty. Some alterations are made with respect to stamps 
■on conveyances of property. The duty on pawnbrokers’ 
licenses in Dublin is reduced from £15 to £7. 10s. All con- 
tracts to serve as artificers, servants, &c., in the colonies are 
to he exempted from duty, as also public maps and documents 
referred to in deeds or writings. Leases for a period less 
than a year are to be chargeable with duty on the rent 
received. In order to encourage the purchase of stamps, 
persons buying stamps not exceeding one shilling duty, are 
to be allowed at the rate of 74 per cent, on £5 worth and 
upwards. No charge is to be made for the paper on notes 
and bills where the same does not exceed the duty of Is. An 
allowance is to be made up to the 5th April next for stamps 
rendered useless by this act. All instruments liable to 
stamp duty are to be admitted in evidence in criminal pro- 
ceedings, although not properly stamped. The new duties 
on inland bills of exchange and promissory notes payable 
other than on demand, commence at Id., where the amount 
does not exceed £5. Not exceeding £10, the duty will be 
2d. ; not exceeding £25, 3d. ; not exceeding £50, 6d. ; not 
exceeding £75, 9d.; and not exceeding £100, Is. The next 
Btamp is 2s. for not exceeding £200. It is erroneously sup- 
posed that the new duty will be payable on the 10th inst. 
but the words of the act are "from and after the 10th 
October," making it Wednesday next. 
THE COURT. 
There is little in the way of Court news to chronicle, as 
her Majesty and the other illustrious members of the royal 
family are still enjoying the rural retirement of Balmoral. 
The Prince Consort during the week has been out frequently 
deer-stalking. Her Majesty has accompanied him a great 
part of the way on his journey to the forest, and has joined 
him on his return to the Palace. On Tuesday her Majesty 
the Queen and the Prince remained at Alt na Guisach. 
An express arrived at Balmoral at an early hour in the 
morning, bringing the telegraphic despatch announcing the 
report of the fall of Sebastopol. It was immediately for- 
warded to the Shiel. 
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Prince 
Alfred, attended by Mr. Gibbs, ascended to the summit of 
Lochnagar. 
The Princess Royal and Princess Alice, attended by Miss 
Hildyard, drove to Looh Muich. 
FASHIONABLE WORLD. 
His Excellency Admiral Virgin is about to close his 
aojoum m this country as representative of his Majesty the 
Jiing of Sweden, and only awaits the return of her Majesty 
to the south to present his letters of recall. 
His Excellency Baron Bentinck has arrived at the resi- 
ence o t e Netherlands Legation, in Lowndes-square, from 
Scotland, where we regret to learn, his Excellency has 
recently met with an accident. 
W -?“ E?“ llenc y Count Kielmansegge and the Countess 
U,e ^v K i e f man i Segg ^v haVe arrived at Hanover on a visit to 
rnL. ^1 T T, he . COUnt and countess have derived 
much advantage to their health from residing on his excel- 
lency a estate m Holstein. His excellency may be expected 
in London about the middle 
of the ensuing week to resume 
his diplomatic duties. 
The Marquis and Marchio- 
ness of Exeter, and the Lady 
Mary Cecil, who arrived in 
Grosvenor-square early in the 
week from Burghley House, 
have since left town for 
Brighton. 
Lady Raglan and the Hon. 
Misses Somerset, who have 
been on a tour of the German 
Spas, are expected to arrive in 
Great Stanhope-street early 
in the ensuing week, for the 
season. 
Lord and Lady Hairy Vane 
have arrived in Grosvenor- 
place, from Germany, en route 
to Lord Rosebery’s, Dalmeny 
Park, Linlithgow, N.B., where 
her ladyship's youthful family 
had previously arrived from 
London. 
Lord Ernest Vane Tempest 
has left London, to join his 
noble mother at Garron Tower, 
co. Antrim. 
The Earl and Countess Am- 
herst have returned to Knowle 
Park, near Sevenoaks, for the 
winter, after a residence of some months at Broadstairs. 
Viscount and Lady Sarah Holmesdale and family are re- 
siding at Montreal, in the same locality. 
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Gladstone left 
Worsley Hall, the seat of the Earl and Countess of Ellesmere, 
on Monday, for Hawarden Castle, Cheshire. 
Lord Forester is surrounded by a select party at Willey 
Park, Shropshire. This week there have been several 
additions to the circle, to commence pheasant shooting. 
The Marquis and Marchioness of Huntly and family have 
returned to Orton Lougueville, from Aboyne Castle, the 
noble marquis’s seat in the Highlands. 
• ^ oun ^ ess Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers have 
joined the noble earl at Middleton Park, near Bicester, from 
the Hon. Frederick and Lady Elizabeth Villiers’ seat in 
Northamptonshire. 
The Earl Cadogan and the Ladies Augusta and Honoria 
Gadogan have left Lowndes-street for Brighton, where the 
noble and gallant earl proposes to pass the autumn. 
Viscount and Viscountess Duncan have arrived at Camper- 
down House, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Camper- 
down and Lady Elizabeth Duncan, from visiting Lady Pan- 
mure at Bearhill, Forfar. 
k ad y Dynevor have arrived in town from a tour 
of the German Spas, and shortly leave for the family scat in 
Gloucestershire. 
We regret to announce the death of the Countess of 
Hopetoun, who died on Sunday last, at Edinburgh. The 
deceased countess, who was daughter of the late Lord Mac- 
donald, married John, late Earl of Hopetoun, 4th June, 
1826, and by him, who died 8th April, 1843, leaves an only 
son, the present earl. 
METROPOLIS. 
The Public Health ( From the Weekly Return of the 
Registrar-General ). — Cholera is now rapidly declining in 
London, and the deaths by it have fallen from 2,050 in the 
first week to 754 in the last week of September. The pre- 
sent epidemic eruption began later than the eruption of 1849, 
and it has latterly been more fatal ; but the aggregate 
mortality will yet probably be less than it was in 1849 ; for 
the deaths by cholera in that year, down to September 29th, 
were 13,098 ; whilo the deaths by the present epidemy, down 
to September the 30th, have been 9,707. Yet the loss of 
nearly 10,000, or, including the deaths by diarrhoea, of 
12,000 lives, within a few weeks, in the chief city of the 
empire, is an appalling fact, demanding the strict investigation 
into all its details which the Board of Health has directed to 
be instituted. Is London to continue every five years to be 
attacked by pestilence, and to lose so many thousands of its 
inhabitants ? Cannot the conditions in which disease is fatal 
be determined, and cannot they be removed ? 
A Quarter op a Century's Imprisonment for Debt. — On 
Wednesday Mr. Payne held an inquest at the Queen’s Prison, 
on the body of Emma Davidson, otherwise Sarah Hawkins 
aged fifty-seven, who died iu the prison on Monday last, after 
an illness of Borne mouths’ duration. The deceased was 
somewhat of an eccentric character, and lmd been in confine- 
ment since 1829, having made a solemn vow when arrested 
that she would " live and die " in prison, os she considered 
the claim against her to bo unjust. She was in receipt of 
an income of about £100 a year, regularly paid to her out of 
property of which she was in possession when first arrested, 
under the provisions of an act now abolished. Deceased had 
died of cancer of the stomach, and the coroner explainod to 
the jury that although there was no doubt, according to tho 
evidence, that the deceased had died a natural death, accord- 
ing to the law, which was extremely old, the coroner was 
bound to hold an inquest upon all persons who died in prison. 
Iu former times it was of more importance than at the present 
time, but still it was a protection to persons iu custody and 
the public that tho enquiry should take place, that it might 
be ascertained that persons who died iu prison had not come 
to their death by any improper and unlawful treatment by 
any person iu whose custody they might be placed. The 
jury expressed themselves satisfied, and returned a verdict 
“ That the deceased had died from natural causes.” 
Death of Mr. John Moore, the PuBLisnsn. — We regret 
to announce the decease, on Monday lost, of Mr. John 
Moore, of St. Martiu’s-lane, tho well-known publisher of 
Turf Illustrations, who died at the age of fifty-nine, of 
choleraic diarrhcca. Mr. Moore's gallery of racing celebri- 
ties was a collection for the last 30 years of all the winners 
of the St. Leger, Derby, and Oaks, and other great stakes. 
The late Mr. Moore had excellent taste, and has done much 
for art improvement, in tho prints he produced of field 
sports and natural amusements. Through the patronage of 
the late Duke of Orleans, the turf in France was much 
improved, owing to the suggestions of Mr. Moore. 
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THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. 
( See page 037.) 
We this week give a view of the interior of the Adelphi 
Theatre, for tho purpose of drawing attention to the very 
charming ensemble of its decorations. It is, of course, quite 
impossible iu a wood engraving to give anything like contrast 
of colour, but enough can be given from which to form an 
idea of its simple elegance. 
The dome is surrounded by a graceful balustrade on which 
Cupids — equi-distont — festoon wreaths of flowers, the tender 
tinted sky above giving light and space to the whole. Tho 
ground of proscenium, dress, anti upper circles is white, re- 
lieved with gold mouldings, a rich gold scroll running round 
the upper circle. The front of the dress circle is extremely 
pleasing, gold Bcrolls of the Louis-the-Fourteenth style form 
panels, the ground of which W turquoise blue, enclosing 
OCTOBER: The eighth 
month in tho year of Romu- 
lus, as its name imports, and 
the tenth in the year of 
Numa, 713 b.c. From this 
time October has still re- 
tained its first name, in spite 
of all the different appella- 
tions which tho senate and 
Roman emperors would have 
given it. The senate ordered 
it to be called Faustinus, in 
honour of Faustina, the wife 
ol Antonius the emperor; 
Commodus would have had 
it bear the name of Invictus ; 
and Domitdau caused it to 
be denominated Domitianus, 
after his own name. October 
was sacred to Mars. 
