THE FIELD. 
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the fund subscribed for all soldiers’ widows, and not merely 
for the widows of soldiers who married, or enrolled them- 
selves in conformity with certain regimental regulations, and 
also that to punish the widow of the offender is unjust. The 
major has waxed wrath, has branded the Times, which ha3 
argued this case fairly and temperately, as the most “ disre- 
putable” paper in England, and has justified himself by the 
opinion of some more officers, equally reverent of pedantry- 
If he prove obstinate, however, injury will be done to the 
fund. The poor woman is the widow of the man who died 
for his country ; and it is not for Major Powys, a mere trustee, 
to limit the application of funds lodged in his hands for a 
specific purpose. 
Parliament has been again prorogued until the middle of 
December ; so that all question, if ever there was one, of an 
early sitting, is at rest. Lord Palmerston has gone to Paris, 
either to arrange for a visit of the Emperor and Empress, or 
to discuss the conduct of the war, or both. The Duke of 
Argyll has been elected Rector of Glasgow University, tri- 
umphing over Mr. Disraeli. No other event connected with 
our politics or political men has marked the week. 
Our obituary contains a name of almost European celebrity 
Mr. Charles Kemble, the actor, expired on Sunday last. He 
was in his 80th year, and we saw him in excellent health 
about three weeks prior to his decease. With this conscien- 
tious artist and accomplished gentleman expires the last 
representative of the Kemble school, with its graceful but 
artificial traditions. Neither the actors nor the plays of the 
period when the Kembles were in their glory would now be 
attractive, the public taste requiring in both a vitality and 
a truthfulness to Nature which were not then deemed even 
desirable. But while thus characterising a deceased school, 
let it not be forgotten that its pupils strove to be artists ; that 
they studied, and observed, and took small parts, and treated 
the art of acting with a respect shown by too few of the 
modem school. Charles Kemble began as a “stick,” played 
small parts, and at length attained the power and finish 
which in his Merculio and Mirabel were so extraordinary. 
It may be interesting to many readers to know that Mr. 
Kemble's last speech was at the Shakespeare dinner of the 
Garrick Club in April last, when he returned thanks for the 
actors, whose health had been proposed by Mr. Charles 
Dickens, the chairman upon the occasion. 
We deeply regret to add that since the above was in type 
most mournful intelligence has reached us. We have now 
to deplore a serious calamity, in the fact that Sir George 
Cathcart, and Brigadier-Generals Strangway a and Goldie, 
have fallen under the fire of the Russian enemy. 
He was only nineteen years of age. 
death of Sir William. 
— Morning Post. 
Ihe Count de St. Aulaire. — We regret to announce the 
demise of the Count de Sainte Aulaire, at the age of 77. The 
melancholy event took place on Monday, at his hotel, in the 
Rue Saint-Dominique-Saint-Germain. 
Lord Palmerston’s Journey to France. — Dover, Thurs- 
day Evening. — Lord Palmerston arrived at Dover at 2 p.m. 
vises him to go homo and tako the usual remedies ; but» 
before he can escape from the garden, some disorderly 
young men ore heard to wrench off the Doctor s knocker. 
He is ashamed, as he says, to go in with the milk, but as ho 
has taken a new lodging it does not matter. The outgoing 
tenant is Mr. Hector Racked (Mr. Paraelle), who is a very fast 
young man, and has scarcely removod liis trunks, boxing- 
- — «• — — , — * * * w '* ..v S . gloves, and single-sticks, before Mr. Massinger Watts tokos 
tms aay, and leaves tor Calais by the South-Eastern Com- possession, bringing with him no luggage but two bags full 
pany s packet at eight to-morrow morning. of light literature— amonrat the rest, the MS. of liis «rf A 
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THE COURT. 
Her Majesty held a privy council on Wednesday at Wind- 
sor Castle, at which it was determined that Parliament should 
he further prorogued to the 14th December. 
The Hon. Charles Augustus Murray, C.B., Envoy Extra- 
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Shah of Persia, 
was presented to her Majesty, at an audience, by the Earl of 
Clarendon. 
Dr. Logau (with the Maharajah Duleep Singh) was pre- 
sented to the Queen, at an audience, and was knighted. 
Sir Benjamin Hall, Bart., President of the General Board 
of Health, was, by command of the Queen, sworn of her 
Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, and took liis 
place at the board. 
Among the visitors at the Castle during the week has been 
"the Maharajah Duleop Singh. 
r morning. 
METROPOLIS. 
PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. 
[From the Supplement to the London Gatetle , of Fov . 1 4.] 
At the Court at Windsor, the, 14th day of November, 
1854 ; present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in 
Council. It is this day ordered by her Majesty in council 
that the parliament, which stands prorogued to Thursday, 
the 16th day of November inst., be further prorogued to 
Thursday, the 14th day of December next. 
House of Lords.— Nov. 16. 
Thursday being the day to which parliament stood 
prorogued, the house met at half-past three. 
The LordB Commissioners present were the Right Hon. the 
Lord Chancellor, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and Lord 
Monteagle. Their lordships having taken their Boats in front 
of the throne, the Lord Chancellor rose aud said, their 
lordships had been summoned by virtue of her Majesty's 
commission for the further prorogation of parliament, and 
directed Mr. Pulman, the Yeoman Usher of tho Black Rod, 
to summon the members of the House of Commons to appeal* 
at the bar during the reading of the commission. 
Mr. Pulman having retired, proceeded to the house of 
Commons for that purpose, and shortly returned, accom- 
panied by Sir Denis Lo Marchant, chief clerk, and other 
officers of the house, as the representatives of her Majesty’s 
most faithful Commons. 
Mr. Shaw Lefevre, deputy clerk of the house, then read 
the commission proroguing parliament from Thursday, tho 
16th of November, until Thursday, the 14th day of Decem- 
ber next. 
The Lord Chancellor then, in the usual manner, in the 
name of her Majesty, declared parliament prorogued to that 
day accordingly. 
Their lordships then rose. 
The Manchester Memorial to Wellington. — This me- 
morial of the late Duke of Wellington consists of a colossal ' 
statue of liis Grace, as he appeared in the House of Lords on 
the occasion of his pronouncing his celebrated peroration, “ I 
am one of those who have passed probably a longer period of 
my life engaged in war than most men,” &c. The statue sur- 
mounts a pedestal and plinth of red granite, around which 
are statues, seated, representing the mythological deities of 
War, Wisdom, Victory, and Peace. The height of the whole, 
from the base to the summit, is nearly forty feet. The Duke 
is in modern costume, the angular parts of which have by ju- 
dicious management been got rid of, and the treatment is 
very broad, simple, and effective. The likeness is accurately 
preserved, and the attitude dignified and characteristic. The 
subordinate figures are in a pure taste, and expressive of 
power and majesty. The group is about to be cast in bronze, 
and the model will in a few days be sent to the foundry for 
that purpose. At present it is at the studio of the artist, Mr. 
Noble, in Bruton-street, Berkeley -square, where the admirers 
of the great warrior and the patrons of the higher order of 
art may for a short time avail themselves of the opportunity 
of Beeing it. 
A Scene on the Corn Exchange. — A correspondent states 
that on Monday morning great excitemeut was caused in the 
Corn Exchange by the news of the glorious victory uear Se- 
bastopol. A copy of the second edition of the Daily News, 
contained General Canrobert’s official despatch, having with 
difficulty been procured, a gentleman mounted on an im- 
promptu, platform, aud read aloud the news, for the informa- 
tion of four or five hundred persons attending the market. 
At the close three cheers for the light cavalry were called 
for, followed by groans for the Greeks, a number of whom 
were in attendance on the market, aud witnessed the scene. 
Health of London. — The Registrar-General reports that 
last week the total number of deaths registered in London 
was 1,160. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 
1844- 53 the average number was 1,011, and if this is raised 
in proportion to increase of population, it becomes 1,112. 
From a comparison of the results, it appears that the morta- 
lity is now not much in excess of the usual amount, but It 
exceeds in a more important degree the point to which the 
usual mortality, in an improved condition of London might 
be reduced. Cholera, which was fatal in the two previous 
weeks in 66 and 31 cases, was fatal lost week in 23. In the 
same weeks diarrhoea numbered 46, 33, and 35 deaths. Nino 
of tho deaths from cholera occurred on the north side of the 
river, the remaining 14 on the south side; three of which 
are returned in the sub-district of St. Paul's, Deptford, 4 in 
the district of Lambeth. Scarlatina lias for some weeks pro 
dominated among zymodic diseases. In tho first week of Oc- 
tober the deaths referred to it rose to upwards of 100 ; since 
that time it has fluctuated near the same point, but its ten- 
tency has not been to decrease. Last week tho births of 839 
boys and 727 girls, in all 1,566 children, were registered in 
Loudon. In the nine corresponding weeks of the 
1845- 53 the average number was 1,454. 
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FASHIONABLE WORLD. 
Tho Duke and Duchess of Northumberland are entertain- 
ing a few select friends at Stanwick-park, near Richmond, 
Yorkshire. 
The Duchess of Wellington, who has been passing some 
•days with her sister, Lady Charlotte Watson Taylor, aud 
family, at the Bedford Hotel at Brighton, has returned to 
•town. 
The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk are entertaining a select 
jparty at Arundel Castle. Tho circle includes Lord and 
Lady Foley and the Hon. Adelaide Foley, Mr. and Mrs. John 
Stanley, &c. 
The Duchess Emily of Beaufort and the Ladies Somerset 
.have arrived at the new family residence in the Stable - 
yard, from Badminton, for the winter. Lady Rose Lovell 
aud her infant daughter are going on favourably at the noble 
duke's mansion in Berkeley-square. 
The Marquis of Bath is entertaining a distinguished circle 
"with the sports of the field at Longleate, Wilts. The Hon. 
Francis Villiers, M.P., has left town to join the party. 
The Marquis of Northampton has left Castle Ashby to 
join the circle assembled at Ashridge, the seat of Lady 
Marianne Alford. 
The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury are passing the 
.season at St. Giles’s, Dorset. The Viscountess Jocelyn is 
staying with her noble relatives. 
The Earl of Clarendon arrived in town, on Wednesday 
morning, from the Grove, near Watford, Herts. 
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left town on Monday, 
for Paris, on a visit to their Imperial Majesties the Emperor 
And Empress of the French. 
Viscount and Viscountess Falkland have arrived at the 
■Clarendon Hotel, from Skutterskelfe, uear Yarm, Yorkshire. 
Viscount and Viscountess Ebrington have arrived in 
; Grosvenor-squre, from Castle Hill, Devon. 
Lord and Lady William Compton, and Lord Spencer Comp- 
ton, have left town on a visit to Lady Marianne Alford and 
•family, at Ashbridge, uear Berkhampatead. 
Mrs. Gladstone arrived at the residence of the Chancellor 
•of the Exchequer, jin Downing-street, on Mondoy, from 
Hawarden Castle. 
Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Chandos Pole have arrived at the 
'Clarendon Hotel, from Rndborne Hall, Derbyshire. 
We are sorry to observe among the list of deaths from - ■ ■ - . . - ., 
■cholera in front of Sebastopol that of Sir Geo. Young, Bart., midnight, he has no difficulty m accounting for the stiffness 
lieutenant Royal Artillery, and brother of the late Sir William of his limbs, and the violent sneezing fit with which he is 
Young, Bart., of the 23rd Fusiliers, who was killed at the seized. He attempts to sing, but can only make a croaking 
'Battle' of the Alma. Sir George succeeded to the title on the that disturbs Doctor Dix, the father of his love, who ad- 
<Dnr (Dpera-dMnss. 
Adelphi. — On Thursday evening a new farce, from the 
experienced pen of Mark Lemon, Esq., entitled “A Slow 
Man,” wits presented at this theatre with complete success. Of 
this novelty a contemporary thus speaks : — " Mr. Massinger 
Watts (Mr. Keeley) believes himself to be a poet, is in love 
with Miss Lucinda Dix, and prides himself on being a slow 
man. Circumstances, however, prove that he is not only no 
poet, but that ho is a fast man, and ho nearly loses tho object 
of his affections by the latter discovery. To come to par- 
ticulars : Mr. Massinger Watts lias thought it right to amuse 
himself with the lighter branch of his poetic inspirations, 
and turn troubadour, in honour of the anniversary of his 
charmer's birth, and is discovered under her window fast 
asleep on the garden roller, but wakes up as the clock strikes 
As he recollects that he took up his station there at 
light literature — amongst .the rest, tho MS. of his epic 
poem, which ho is preparing for tho press, and for which 
purpose ho has taken a quiet apartraout, ns at home his 
mother kept a parrot. Ho begins to read his poem, but 
there comes a kuock at the door, and Mr. Bricks presents 
his card, aud wishes to know if he wants any vermin to 
worry, as ho has a beautiful lot of rats, which would afford 
him much sport, llo decliuos this, but pays two sovereigns 
for a pot dog, as a present to tho fair Lucinda . which, whou 
delivered, turns out to bo a regular briudlo buU-dog. Then 
the boll-hauger begins to work, aud sends tv long gimblot up 
right through tho floor. Presently a tremendous noise is 
heard in tho next room, tho door is burst open, aud tho 
lato tenant rushes in sparring with Ned Crosswell, tho 
Brentford Pot, and followed by a numbor of noisy friouds, 
who insist upon the slow mau drinking their healths in 
bumpers of champagne. Ho has no sooner got rid of them, 
aud sits down once more to road his MS., when one of tho 
lato tenant's companions seeks refuge from the police, ami 
deposits Doctor Dies knocker on tho table. Lastly coma 
the Doctor and his daughter to resent tho insult of haviug 
a bull-dog sent as a present, and discovers all tho bottles, 
boxing-gloves, aud chairs, upset about the room ; but above 
all, the Doctor recognises lus own knocker, upon which 
Lucinda gives up tho unfortunate Watts ; but he is saved 
by his new landlady declaring that he had just taken tho 
lodgings, which is confirmed by the appearance of Mr. Hector 
Rackett, also a candidate for tho hand of Miss Dix, but 
willingly resigns her to his successful rival. Mr. Keeley was 
excellent ; tho rest of the piece was carried on with a boister- 
ous impetuosity which did not give the audience time to 
think or to ceaso laughing after the first scene to tho fall of 
tho curtain. Miss VVyudham played Miss Lucinda Dix, aud 
having nothing to do but look pretty, all tho requisites of 
tho part wore performed to admiration. Mr. Paraelle aud 
Mr. R. Romer exerted themselves effectively, as did all con- 
cerned. Tho piece was given out by Mr. Keeley for repeti- 
tion with sorno slight expressions of discontent, which only 
served to increase the applause.” 
The Patriotic Fund. — On Monday last, tho Messrs. 
Tussaud most kindly appropriated tho whole of the receipts- 
both morning and evening exhibitions, to this truly philun, 
trophic undertaking. 
TURKISH Museum. — The reduction of tho charge of ad- 
mission to thus exhibition at Ilydo -park Corner, from half a 
crown to one shilling (except on Saturdays), has had tho 
effect of very considerably increasing tho uuuibor of visitors. 
One cannot but fear that, in this muddy weather, the fine 
carpets of our oriental friends will not pass uusoiled, since 
tho English have not yot learnt to lenvo their slippers at tho 
door, d la Tiirquc and mouut staircases in tho clean viest 
papoudj of Statnboul. With a proper respect for tho carpets 
ut this exhibition, all visitors are therefore invited not to 
neglect tho door-mat, a necessary hint., since the place is 
altogether too neat for very many of our rough and ready 
sight-seors, who would dash into it as they would to the 
arena of the cattle hIiow in Baker-street. But the Turkish 
Museum assumes to he a sort of drawing-room entertainment, 
and tho <‘lite of London are certainly its best patrons. It 
deserves a long visit from every one. 
Death of Mr. Charles Kemble.— It is with deop regret 
we announce the death of this ouco distinguished actor, 
which took place on Sunday last. Mr. Charles Kemble was 
born at Brecknock, in Soutli Wales, in 1775 ; consequently 
he had attained his 79th year when he died. Few actors of 
the old school are so well remembered by tho present race 
of playgoers as this gentlomau, whoso personations of tho 
higher class of comedy were brought dowu to a comparatively 
late date, aud are still spoken of with admiration os histrionic 
portraitures of unique merit. The youngest of tho great 
branch of the Kemble family, be shared with his illustrious 
brother John, aud his stately sister, the honours which attach 
so pre-eminently to the name. Many of the parts which ho 
filled may be said to lmvo virtually left tho stage when ago 
and infirmity occasioned his retirement into private life ; and 
we shall probably never see the Mirabels, Doricourts, 
Absolutes, and Charles Surfaces, of tho drama again realised 
with such exquisite tact and refinement. Mr. Charles 
Kemble's professional history was marked by tho usual 
vicissitudes which belong to the actor’s career. We are told 
that he originally began tho world os a clerk in the Post 
Office, aftor having completed his education at Douay, in 
1792 ; but that a taste for theatrical* influencing him, as it 
did other members of tho family, ho made his dtfbfit at 
Sheffield, a-i Orlando, in “ As You Like It.” liis early efforts, 
however, were anything but successes, and lie was described 
by a critic of tho day as “a tall awkward youth, with a 
hatchet face, a figure badly proportioned, and of weak limb*, 
his acting being evidently worse than his appearance.” 
About the year 1800, however, lie began to challenge a 
different sort of estimate; and joining, in 1803, his brother 
John in the proprietary and management of Covcut -garden 
Theatre, he gradually rose to that eminence as a delineator 
of polite comedy which no other actor ever rivalled. Certain 
of hid tragic personations wore also of unquestionable excel- 
lence ; and his Falconbridge, Pierre, Romeo, and others, are 
yet fondly and honourably mentioned. He was iuduced to 
re appear on the stage iu the year 1840, and play a brief 
round of characters ; but the venerable actor was all but 
unequal to tho task, and though some of the old genius was 
still visiblo, the trembling voice and stooping figure betokened 
the extent of the physical decay, aud the exhibition did nut 
long continue. For some years past Mr. Charles Kemblo 
liad been the victim of an incurable deafness ; this, however, 
did not prevent his taking an interest iu the art of which he 
was once so conspicuous an ornament. To him Miss Glyn, 
one of the few actresses of high ami thoughtful cultivation 
that wo now have, owes all her elocutionary power, as regards 
form and method, and wo have iu her a vivid reflection of the 
genuine Kemble school. Mr. Charles Kemblo . married m 
1806, Miss Theresa Decamp. His children, Mrs. Butler, 
Mrs. Sartoris, and the Rev. John Kemble, the eminent Saxon 
scholar, wc need hardly remark, have nobly maintained the 
intellectual glory of the house. 
Theatrical Engagements in France. — It has fre- 
quently been decided by the French courts that a married 
woman cannot contract a theatrical engagement without 
tho express or tacit authorisation ? f her husband. Gu 
