POSTSCRIPT SA.TIIHDAY.

The curtain has not yet been dropped upon the Montalembert drama. The principal actors are still on the stage, and some new ones are to be summoned forth. The Emperor intended to terminate the play with a reprieve for the prisoner. He graciously extended his pardon to Count do Montalembert, and he selected the 2d _December, from all the days in the year, 'whereon to date this act of imperial clemency. What must he his chagrin and disgust to find the illustrious victim, not only refusing the pardon, but convicting the Emperor of a fresh breach of law ? The Ifoniteur of yesterday is the medium of this information. "hi. de Montalembert lodged an appeal after having become cognizant. of the decision of the Emperor relieving him from the penalties involved n the sentence passed upon him. The competent tribunals will give due con- sideration to the questions to which this appeal may give rise- " We see no harm in publishing the protest—

Paris, Dec. 2, 1858.

"'hi. le Redacteur—The Mon (tear of this morning contains, in its non- official part, intelligence which reached me otherwise while I was reading it. It is in these words—" The Rmperor, on occasion of the anniversary ef the 2d of December, has relieved M. le Comte de Montalembert from the penalties involved in the sentence passed upon him."

"'Condemned on the 14th of November, I lodged, within the time ape' cified by the law, an appeal against the sentence of which I was the object.

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and obedient ,-`1,4T-Ytti%111.41 9.0 i :al ,-,.4."1),1 ; CAIHT-.42g _DE AlfITrY:ti v't.,,,,'''' T4113, O., , ,r4,414reillolgttiet/F,.10.TiRkliArPfArrl$ . lq!!'er Iry On did 30 n'ii Pi oliem'ber,...A. , je pitteet, tic, thwaf4r, Sli,e, tip attributed to itim4,1q4.4794166174497Rfelg . O'Ill 011 01.11111 .:.'l 1/../1011 • — 0111111 mai! .t in itITI 7,ft ionot,t, Mr. Gladstone arriwi attiCtokftifein. Wodnftiall4y1,i Alie /24,th of November, at 11 o'clock, in the Teroffilse hliel fteastaixotipasiddilif Mrs. and Miss Gladstone, and byhia,,setgethm,,,,Alm.Heilograblp Arthur Gordenflon of Lord Aberdeen. His arrivaLled9orealed gnitelaisedsatiOn in the island. A letter from Turin gilietfttiftathdrVerditiMito[tho speech attributed to the King of Sardinia. "Thelit1/44#10litiffeicli'Mf ling 'Victor Emmanuel to his troops is reduced to e,feWtitiple ikartitiuililhith he rpoke.t.6 ealonel Rolland, after having idfietfellTi'

&4VoY which loudly

cheered his Majesty—' The b d'iiii 'g •ed'thd6$ilpses me exceed- ingly—it is truly warlike. ' s a tWiliftie ot, to me, for if in the spring, or at any other,tintV' we had :6W ad p li, I niay idly on the excellent feeling 'Ott160.-' V." 'rhd-.1.,.,!` ...?:1`O. Co?) ierv &Italia of Turin, states that "the fat littinfi'of Alessa ii, Cas.salc, Genoa, and La Spezzia are being antilr naffed on. The fortifications of Alqssan- dria are to receive 300 gi5m,'" eady cast and placed on their Carriages. The arsenals of the Stlite 6orithin upwards of 200,000 muskets, besides other weapons in proportion., There are large quantities of ammunition and uniforms for 100,000 men. There are twenty field-batteries in re- serve."

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The Queen has not forgotten the author of the "1ehgion of Common Life." The Gazette announces that her Majesty; has appointed the Reverend John Caird, M.A., to be one of her Chaplains in Ordinary in Scotland, in the room of Dr. James Paul, deceased. Three Cabinet Councils have been h4c1., this week, the latest yesterday. They were fully attended.

The Dorsetshire members met their constituents at the dinner of the Sturrainster Agricultural Society, on Thursday. The speeches were happily remote from lastmession, but not very political, polities being ex- cluded. Mr. Floyer, a former member, sympathized with Count Mon- talembert. The Honourable Mr. Portman pictured the French Em- peror as one smoking a pipe on an open barrel of , gunpowder ; but he hoped any immediate danger of war with France had blown over. Mr. Key Sey-mer was humorous, as usual, but he was serious as well. A visitor at Cherbourg, he thus interpreted its moraL

The moral of what he saw at Cherbourg was this, that we must have a good and efficientChannel fleet ; we must keep afloat a fleet well-manned ; we must offer sufficient attractions to our sailors to enter the navy—as to the idea of impressment, that had passed away—we must not go to the absurd expense of fortifying the whole line of our coast, but we must select certain available points. We had on the Donsetshire coast a second Gibraltar at Portland, and having seen the original Gibraltar, he thought Portland very like it; and we must have other places capable of holding a consider- able body of men and protecting a large fleet. When' these things were done he thought the inhabitants of the Vale of 'Blacknioor might go on making their batter and cheese, eating their beef and drinking their cider in peace, without any fear of an invasion.

But these preparations imply a rupture with France. Now we can have no political or religions symipathy with the Trench, and that bond of interest is absent, but we can develop our commercial intercourse to a Point which will amine the maintenance of the alliance.

The violence of Ribandism and its extension over so many counties has called forth a marked notice from the Irish Government. The Dub- lin Gazette of last night contained a proclamation directed against the Riband and other secret societies. It opens by proclaiming that asso- ciations of a seditious and treasonable character exist in several parts of Ireland, and emphatically points out that all such bodies of persons asso- ciated under the pretended obligation of oaths unlawfully administered __„,ate illegal, and that every person who shall unlawfully take these oaths Will be guilty of felony. After cautioning all parties against becoming or reniaming members of these societies, the firm determination of the Government to uproot them is announced, and all loyal subjects are re- quired th the utmost of their power to discountenance such societies or assemblies. And to aid in the suppression of the same and for better Tying hate effect these intentions and purposes the fiord-Lieutenant °um a reward of 100/. for such information as will lead to the convic- tion of any of the persons who shall have administered any oath ; and a teyard of 60/. for such information as will lead to the conviction of any c't the persons who shall be found to be members of, or in any way con., nected with, any of the aforesaid societies. liervice at St. Paul's will .cammence 6./yei Sunday Et eViefit deers will be opened for the public:— soon as OA cathedral,is filled the doors will be closed, which wlll be 'Clearly an= preMOieftliL appointed by the Bishop '5ful.oielon for thp are.Th'e' Very Reverend Dean of St. on the 5..thri the Lord npif Ripon, on the 12th ; the Reverend Dr. hook, Vicar

of Leeds," 'di* ; and the' Reverend IV. Cadman, Rector of St.

Geo.rge's?Amithwark, on the 26th December.

George Simpson, a prisoner in the Middlesex t11011B0 of earreetion, Cald- bath Fields, has been sent for trial On a charge of utterriptina,-• to murder two warders. Ile concealed a knife up his sleeve, then complhined of his food, and Wheal he was told that it was good, be stabbed the warder in the face. Another earning up Simpson struck him also. He was eventually secured by the other prisoners.

-At the ,Winehester Assizes a child, tett y-eari; Of tike, hid been. convicted of rotting fire/ Id a barn; Mild causing the destriretion of a great aniount of 'pre- perty. Therefwas no doubt that the child was the incendiary. Mr. Justice Bytes-told tlieliJiity that it was not necessary to make Out malice, it was sufficient if he did it capriciously, even. in fun or play ; if he did it on pur- pose it was sufficient. If he did. it in a childish freak he was guilty., other- wee" children !would be the most dangerous creatures en the earth. The only question was this,—was it p. mere accident, or did be do it on purpose,. net„iantending to do such an injury , The Jury said they found. him but it was a childish freak, and without any malicious intention." Thq.,Tudge said, he lielieved that to he the real state of the corm. He did net See how it isms pcissible for the Jury to have arrived tautly other ocai. elusion: To play with .lighted matches and te set firo to the property on purpose, ayk3.4 a crime that could not pass, without severe punishment. He recollected that the-prisoner had hadm good character, and he also noticed that lie/ was an illegitimate child, mind, perhaps, had not received the best attention. The sentence was, that he should be imprisoned for three months antlbe kept to hard labour, and that afterwards he should be kept in a.re- ferixtutory school for five yoo.rs.