The Sun. — London, England, 1859-01-05 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN, under the sole Management of Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. W. Harrison t THIS EVENING will be presented an entirely new and romantic Opera, by Mr. W. lialfe, entitled SATANELLA ; or, THE POWER OF LOVE. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the new Pantomime of LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD ; or, Harlequin and the Wolf In Granny's lothing. Commence at Seven, OPAL I"RINCESS'S THEATRE. L.a) Under the Management of Mr. Charles item. . THIS EVENING will be presented TILE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Mr. C. Kean, After which, a new grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled THE RING OF THE CASTLE ; or, Harlequin Prince Diamond and Princess Brighteyes. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lesree, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. SPEE - 15 THE PLOUGH. Messrs. Compton, Farren, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam and Miss E. Ternan. After which, a new grand Comic Pantomime, entitled UNDINEI or, Harlequin and the Spirit of the Waters. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer, THIS EVENlNG—lncreased Attraction—Production of a new and original Drama, entitled MARION DE LORME ; or, The Cradle of Steam : in which Madame Celeste will ap- poar. After which, will be produced the new Burlesque, written expressly for the Lyceum Company by Robert B. Brough, and entitled THE SIEGE OF TROY. The principal cha racters by Mrs. Keeley, Miss Julia St. George , M rs. Weston, Bliss Portman, Miss Talbot, Miss Kste Saxon, Miss E. Romer, c. ; Mr. Emery, Mr. Charles Young, Mr. }Merton, Mr. .1. Rogers, Mr. Barrett, &c. ; Miss Rosins. Wright, Miss M. Charles, Miss Harriet Dalton, &c. To conclude with the new Comic pantomime, replete with new tricks and mechanical devices, entitled HARLEQUIN TOY HORSE ; or, The Cremorne Fete. Clown, Mr Charles Lauri ; Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Lauri ; Columbine, Miss Jenny Lauri. Reduced Prices—Dress Boxes, 4s, ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. • Stalls, ss. ; Gallery , Is. 13ox-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7 every evening. A Morning Performance on Saturday next, at Two. NEw THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, MR. WEBSTER'S COMPANY IS REQUESTED AT A PHOTOGRAPHIC SOIREE. Manager, Mr. B. Webster; Photographer, Mr. J. L. Toole; Memory, Miss Woolgar ; Everybody, by Everybody else. After which, MEPHISTOPHELES. Mr. Paul Bedford, Mrs. A. Mellon, Miss Keeley. Followed by THE BIRTHPLACE OF PODGERS. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. C. Selby, Mr. Billington ; Miss Kelly, Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with the grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled MOTHER RED CAP ; or, Harlequin Johnny Gilpin's Ride to Edmonton. Clown, Mr. Croueste ; Harlequin, Mr. Hilde brand ; Columbine, Miss Hayman ; Pantaloon, Mr. Lupin ; Sprite, Mr. Le Barr. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough. THIS EVENING, THE RULE OF THREE. After which, the new Extravazanza, KENILWORTH ; or Ye Queene. ye Earle, and ye Maydenne. And THE LITTLE SAVAGE Commence at 7 o'clock. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE; Westminster-road. Sole Lessee Mr. William Cooke. Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 28, ; Gallery, 18. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. During the week, the great Eastern Spectacle of THE REVOLT 111 INDIA; or, The Fugitives and their Faith ful Steed. After which SCENES IN THE CIRCLE by the Star !Udell; of Europe. To conclude with the great Operatic and Burlesque Eques trian Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN BARON MUN CIRAUSEN, AND HIS COMICAL CREAM COB Cl WISER. Baron Munchausen, Mr. W. Anson ; Harlequin, M.r. H. Hemmings ; Pantaloon, Herr Cole; Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest ; Columbine, Miss Julia Weston. The grand Transformation Scene, introducing Mr. W. Cooke's beautiful and highly-trained palfries, pronounced unpreeedentedly magnificent. The new scenery, including the matchless re presentation of the "New Palace of the People, at Muswell Hill," perfect gems of art. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips. A Morning Performance of the Pantomime on the Bth, 15th, and 22d of January, at Two o'clock. Carriages for day performances at half-past for, and for night representation at half-past eleven, CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road. — Proprietor --C. MoRTON. The public is most respectfully informed that the FINE ARTS G A LLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW OPEN DAT AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock &m. until 12 o'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec tion of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters and is also devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels he may confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist . ing Music Hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently added Ante-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether as regards the architectural beauty of the structures them selves, or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations within, will be found to be wholly without parallel in the Kingdom. The MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at Seven o'clock. In addition to the usual entertainment, the SAINLI4.:T FAMILY, of Amsterdam, Eight in number, whose varied instrumental performances have created so marked a sensa tion in the principal cities and towns of the Continent, will perform every Evening at Nine and Eleven o'clock. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, JAN. 5. THERMOMETER, TN THB SHADE. 48—highest since noon yesterday. us 1---...4. +llia nanrnino• and during the night. 45—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.62. WIND, Northerly ; light, with dull rainy weather. THE SUN. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 5, 1859. After a long interval we again hear of the arch miscreant NANA SAIIIB, who disappeared from the scene of action just at the time when TANTIA TOPEE appeared thereon. Indeed, the circumstance led to the supposition that the parties were iden tical, and that TAN TIA TOPEE was really NANA SAIIIB in disguise, who, knowing that the horrible and cold-blooded atrocities of which he had been guilty had totally excluded him from any hope of mercy, vainly hoped that he might obtain a promise that his life would be spared under a fictitious name. A pro mise obtained under such false pretences would have no validity, but a cunning Oriental, well knowing the high character for veracity and hon our so long held by Englishmen, might fancy that any pledge would be faithfully observed, no mat ter on what terms it had been conceded—a suppo sition Which the treatment of the hoary-headed miscreant, the ex-King of DELHI, might partially justify. It, however, appears that the pretended Peishwa has at last appeared in propria per sona—that is to say, if there should not be another deception, and sundry "RICIIMONDS in the field." It is announced by a telegram from Agra, of the 6th December, that on the preceding day, NA NA SAHIB, with a considerable force, had crossed the Ganges, between Futtehghnr and Cawnpore, hav ing contrived to elude the forces under BARKER and TROUP, posted on the Goomtee, at Beni gunge, and Aligunge. Brigadier SHOWERS shortly after started from Agra in pursuit; and if he can contrive to overtake the flying column, we have no doubt that another victory will be obtained ; but the chief men generally con trive to secure their own escape, whatever may be the fate of their followers. It is supposed that he intends to cross the Doab and the Jumna, and to penetrate into Central India ; possibly he may hope to join his lieutenant, and add to the terror already excited in that district. TANTIA TOPEE himself is still exciting terror in every quarter where he presents himself. He is exhibiting the activity for which he has already become so celebrated. He was pursued by BARRAS'S Camel Corps, carry ing a detachment of the 71st and 92d Highlanders. There was also 100 of the Bombay Rifles on foot. The rear-guard was overtaken ; it at once took to flight, and was severely cut up. The rebel chief tain, however, made a show of resistance with the main body of his followers. Ile assumed a strong position, surrounded by the neighbouring hills. The hardy Highlanders speedily dismounted, and formed a column for the attack. The enemy, however, would not await the onslaught, but effected a rapid retreat just at the moment when matters were proceeding to extremeties. Th e camels were again mounted, and a contest rendered inevitable. On this occasion the few guns which remained at the disposal of the rebels were speedily captured. There was a brief personal encounter, t.. , ; . _---- ~, ~. sc „T.,Lui.m4 4 . . ..,;o'ip , *, , ,,..,.,•i- , r.• ---- 1 ,- * --- .- --, ),„4:‘, s _4,...• • , , i, • •,_ • - ._ ~„ ... L IE [' ~,," ' ,itt,., ~ . ~,,A, . ..' brrolT ' /t' A ,40 0 ' 1VAA.A.,....... , the result of which mty readily be anticipated. The LATEST NEWB rebels fled wildly in every direction. Unfortu- • nately, however, Major SUTIEERLAND, who com-, manded the British force, being unprepared with commissariat, was e ompell d to retire without gaining the full fruits ,t his victory. however, followed up the enase Brigadier PARK, with extraordinary energy and activity. After an exciting hunt through jungles of the wildest character, he surprised the outlying cavalry picket on the Ist Dec., and, after a sharp contest, achieved a brilliant triumph over an enemy ex ceeding 3,500 men. Sundry attempts were made to turn the British flank by TANTIA, who appears to possess considerable strategetical skill, but all in vain. The indomitable resolution, the unflinching bravery of our troops defeated all his efforts, and he was chased from the field with considerable loss. As usual, however, he made his own escape—a matter always carefully looked after by native commanders. This man's movements must be stopped, not so much for the mischief he effects, as the terror that he excites, which stops the traffic of the entire district in which he makes an appearance. He has a peculiar talent for " appropria tion." " Convey the wise it call," and anything that comes in his way is deemed legitimate booty. This aims a blow at our most vulnerable point, the finances of the Anglo-Indian Empire, which, even under the most favourable circumstances, will be hard pressed to meet the necessary outlay. He may be regarded rather as a leviathan robber, a bandit on a large scale, than as the chief of a formidable enemy; but still it is essential that his operations should be speedily terminated, and that the majesty of the British law should b© established in the districts wherein TANTIA TOPEE has hitherto car ried on his depredations. Unhappy Austria! Once she was blessed by lucky weddings ; now she is blessed by nothing and by no one. Russia, the Principalities, Servia, Tur key, all hate her on one side ; on another, Italy bitterly detests her; Switzerland does not love her; France longs to humble her ; and Prussia would be well pleased to see her occupy a lowered place among German Powers. England, we are told, is not loved by the despot Governments of Europe, and not much, perhaps, by their peoples, whose liberties, not England, but her aristocracy, have so often sold to the tyrants after giving hope to the patriots. But England and her Sovereign is surely quite as much loved as the selfish and brutal dy nasty of the Hapsburgs. Not one state can be pointed out of which Austria has made a friend. Not one towards which she has ever acted a gene rous part—not one of the provinces which she oc cupies clustered around the small hereditary domains of the Hapsburgs, which she has not deprived of its franchise, either with relentless cruelty or with shameless perfidy. Austria is hated, and she knows it. She has given cause for the hatred, and she quakes with a guilty conscience. It is this historical yet living fact which makes the gaolers of -Spielberg and the butchers of Italian patriots tremble at the aspect of Louis NAPOLEON. Sardinia is steadily strengthening her fortifications and becoming, at the same time, exceedingly courteous to Russia, and equally civil to France. Meanwhile, France is increasing its army beyond all conceivable necessity, if self defence were the only necessity. A, large corps ;is also to be stationed within easy access to Italy, and that while Sardinia, the Italian neighbour of France, is on the best possible terms with her; Sardinia indicates no alarm; she rather manifests con fideneA and _Russia. Meantime France makes certain demands of Aus tria ; demands which seem to look towards lighten ing the yoke of Italy. Austria is asked. to with draw from that part of the States of the Church called the Legations, and France, in return, will withdraw from the Capital of those States; Austria is to keep a garrison in Ancona only, the French in Civita Vecchia. The assumed result will be that in the capital and provincial cities the ecclesiastical rulers with whom they are now cursed, unsup ported by foreign bayonets, must mend their ways, which are no longer tolerable, or become the un pitied victims of popular indignation. Sardinia would be the near-at-hand reliance of the haters of ecclesiastical administration of civil and temporal government ; and France, at her back, would forbid , Austria, at her peril, to interfere. PENINSULAR MAILS. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING. The Tagus steamer, Captain Christian, has arrived. She left Gibraltar Dec. 27 ; Cadiz, 28th; Lis bon, 30th; Oporto, 31st; and Vigo January 1. General Willis and family, from Gibraltar, are among the passengers. Lisbon exchanges on London, 531 bills, and money; Paris, 538 ; Genoa, 533 ; Bank shares un altered. The Chamber of Deputies had voted the reply to the Throne, the proposal expressing regret that the Portuguese Government had not appliedfor English intervention in the Charles-et-Georges question being rejected by 83 to 32 votes. Gibraltar exchanges on London, 50 ; Paris, 5 26 ; Marseilles, 5 28 ; Genoa, 5 30. The Indus, with the outward India mails of the 20th ult., arrived at Gibraltar on the 26th. The Tagus brings £1,500 in specie, and cargo o: fruit, &c. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office : MADRID, JAN. 4. The Gazette announces officially that full satis faction has been given to Spaln for the exactions at Tampico. The Cortes has authorised Government to collect the taxes. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY. BOURSE, Jan. 4.—The Constitutionnel having con firmed to-day the words addressed by his Majesty the Emperor to M. de Hubner, the Austrian Am bassador, the market has been again in a very feverish condition. There was at the opening a further fall in the funds, and the settling of shares was heavy. There has been since a general rally. Threes have been done at 72f. 10c., and after de clining to 71f. 70c., rallied to 72f. Mobilier varied from 920 f. to 935 f. ; Orleans, 1,355 f. to 1,365 f. ; Lyons, 862 f. 50c. to 872 f. 50c.; Northern, 985 f. to 992 f. 50c. ; and Southern, 572 f. 50c. to 577 f. 50c. The following were the last quotations:— 4i per Cents. 97 Do. end month 97 15 3 per Cents 7l 90 Do. end month 7l 80 Bank Shares 3OOO Credit Foncier 670 Belgian 4i lOO 25 Piedmonteso (5) Roman 93 Austrian Credit Mobilier .. 932 60 Do. Account 923 76 Spanish Threes — Home Debt 42 25 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto B4O .. 830 Lyons and Mediterranean 867 50 .. 867 50 New ditto - .. Geneva 6lO .. 610 Midi — • • Southern Western. 600 -.-. 660 - Eastern - Grand Central Sardinian - Austrian - Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 15c. ; money, 25f. 121 c. ; three months, paper, 241. 971 c. ; money, 24f. 95c. SERVIA. Such is the fair programme. Some think it may include much more. That a little commotion having been excited by the patriots, Sardinia, by the aid of France, is to throw herself, a second time, into the cause of Italian liberty, and that Lombardy is to bless France as the real restorer of her freedom ! This is worse than a dream ; it is a mistake with our eyes open. Louis NAPOLEON can never be the bestower of liberty. The deed would be suicidal. He is seriously annoyed now by the constitution alism, moderate and subserTient to him as it is, of Sardinia, and he is not likely to magnify abroad the blessings of freedom before the eyes of his country, while he keeps his foot on its neck at home. If, indeed, there were any understanding between France and Sardinia for the liberation of the north of Italy, and thus for alleviating the political sufferings of central and southern Italy we might be almost sure that the NAPOLEON family, as of old, would not be overlooked in the bargain, and that probably the restoration of Absolutism by the Sardinian Government was part of the agree ment. A letter from -Belgrade of the 28th alt. says " The Vice-President of the Skuptschina, Michailo witch Steutcha, demanded on the 25th from the Turkish commissioner, Kabouli Effendi, that he should compel Prince Alexander to leave the for tress and go to reside in a Turkish town. Kabouli Effendi replied that he was expecting every moment to receive instructions from his Govern ment, and that he could not act until they should arrive. As he had sent no reply up to the 27th the Club of the Skuptschinas resolved to propose to the Assembly to decree the banishment of the prince's family, and to request the Turkish com mander, Osman Pacha, to execute the decree, in order not to cause disturbances. It was resolved in the club to request the Pacha to send away the prince. The debates of the club in the night of the 25th were very stormy ; allusion was made to the manoeuvres of several influential persons, who 17 years before brought about the fall of Prince Milosch, in order to secure to themselves a footing in the Principality, and take advantage of the,, prince's weakness to amass immense wealth at the expense of the people. It was proposed to confiscate the property of Prince Alexander and his creatures, and to bring the latter to trial. But in the end the decision was come to to postpone all proceed ings on the subject till the arrival of Prince Milosch. Some speakers alleged that Prince Alexander's wealth consisted of money which he had received from the Western powers to keep Servia neutral during the late war. Others expressed doubt of that assertion, and declared that the prince had received from the Sultan a promise that his son should succeed him on the throne. It was ulti mately resolved that a list should be laid before Prince Milosch, containing the names of the per sons who, for seventeen years, had laboured to effect the degradation." A letter from Belgrade in a Vienna journal states that the following address was delivered to Prince Alexander by the head of the deputation sent him by the Skuptschina : " Lord (Gospodam)—The nation is fully con vinced that you have neither the means nor the will of rendering Servia happy. It therefore inlays you by us to renounce the government, and it permits you to remain in the country in complete liberty, without a hair of your head, or of any of your family, being touched. The nation awaits your abdication—abdicate without hesitation, and thereby prove your patriotism." A Vienna letter of Dec. 30 says :—" To prevent any erroneous suppositions respecting the military precautions taken by Austria in consequence of the move_nent in Servia, the Austrian Cabinet has given explanations to Count Walewski as to the attitude which Austria intends to assume with re gard to Servia, and as to the object in placing a corps of observation on the frontier between Semlin and Werschetz. Austria having decided to abstain from all intervention, and these military measures being intended solely to cover her own frontiers, the declaration of M. de Hubner must have removed all doubt as to the intentions of the Austrian Cabinet." The real danger of European war we take to be the necessities of a despotism supported by half a million of praetorians. No ruler of Europe de pends, so exclusively as Louis NAPOLEON does, on his soldiers. They plundered France of her liberties to make him an Emperor. They must be kept content at all hazards. The clergy must be concili• ated—must be allowed to harass the Protestants— must be indulged as much as possible ; but the army is the very pedestal of his throne. He must keep it contented at all costs. He must pay it as it pleases . ; confer such honours on it as it pleases ; increase its number as it pleases ; find it a course for military glory as it pleases. No doubt peace is best for him ; but he must seek occasion for war if his praetorians demand it—for he has made the empire theirs, and they can change its emperor for another in a day, if he does not please them. Against whom, then, can he move ? He has no cause of quarrel with England ; and if he had, the Con versations Lexicon notwithstanding, in a few years, crash would go his costly and artificial fled, and his soldiers might, like those of " my uncle," strain their eyes in vain look ing across the Channel " to perfidious Albion." With Austria it would be both safe and glorious to quarrel. Encircled by hatred, she would find no helper on the Continent. Russia has just ground of offence with her for combined meanness and ingratitude rarely equalled ; while in Italy, though a change to French despotism would be small gain, yet it would probably be hailed if it inflicted the most mortifying of punishments on the detested Austria. Even here in England, if liberty cannot be achieved for Italy, there would probably be some pleasure felt in the sight of one despot chastising another. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 31st ult. contain re ports of what took place in the Chamber of Depu ties on the preceding day with regard to the bill of the Government authorising the levy of the pub lic taxes from the Ist of January next. A report from the committee recommended the adoption of the bill. The amendment which, as stated by telegraph, was brought forward to this bill was presented by M. Gonzalez de la Vega, and was re jected by 162 votes to 13. In the Senate, Count de Velle brought forward a bill rendering it illegal for the Queen to grant pardons or remissions of pains or penalties without having previously consulted the council of ministers and the court which had passed sentence, and without explaining the cause of the pardon or remis sion. The Minister of Justice opposed the bill, alleging that the faculty of mercy was one of the most precious that a monarch could hold, and that even its occasional abuse would be better than any restriction placed upon it. The Count de Paris, says the .Espana, is to visit the Queen at Madrid. The Peninsular Correspondence says : " The Message of the President of the United States does not appear to have occasioned Alny kind of Tlarm in the Spanish public, the news paper guides of which persist in considering it as an issue of political capital in paper. The only jour nals which have expressed their indignation in good set terms are the Monarquia and the .Fenix. The latter, which has already made it the subject of two or three articles, has the following observa- tions on the Isle of Cuba :--'• When the greedy hands of the North American Union are ready to be stretched out towards our precious Antilles, which is Rearly all that remains to us of the Spa nish empire in the New World; Whai the United States are openly Aeekitig. tb add, at our expense, one more star to those with which their flag is studded, it will not be inexpedient to loqk batik upon the Spain of our forefatheft,lth it occu pied the eighth part or the known world, when its inhabitants Were seventy millions, and its domi nions comprised a space of 800,000 square miles. Of these vast territories more than two-thirds have been lost. Can we permit another jewel to be snatched from the splendid crown or two worlds In 1565 we gave up the Isle of Malta to the Order of St. John ; in 1620, the Lower Navarre and Bearne, and in 1649 the Rousselon, were yielded to France ; in 1649, we lost Portugal and her colo nies ; in 1648, we recognised the sovereignty of the Netherlands; in 1626, the English wrested the Barbadoes from us, in 1653 Jamaica, in 1704, Gib raltar, in 1718 the Lucas, in 1759, Dominica, and in 1797, Trinidad, In the 17th, century France took possession of Martinieo, New Granada, Gua daloupe, and the half of the Isle of San Domingo, and in 1800, Louisiana. In the 18th century we yielded up Sardinia to the Duke of Savoy, and to Morocco, our rights in Mazalquiver and Oran. We ceded Parma, Placentia, and Lucca with other dominions in the north of Italy, to princes of the house of Bourbon, and in 1759, Naples and Sicily were emancipated from Spanish government. In 1819, we sold Florida to the United States, in 1821, we lost our half of the Isle of San Domingo, and before 1625, all the vast continent which our glorious ancestors had acquired was lost to us for ever. Of all this immense power, we have a remembrance of the past in the isles of Cuba and Puerto Rico, the distant Philippines, and, our African possessions, but the Spain of the 19th century is not that of the 17th and 18th centuries, and will never consent under any pretext that these jewels shall be snatched from her crown, and will, in case of force, defend them with the blood of her united sons. Time has not passed in vain for us, and neither caresses nor threats will prevail upon any Spanish Government, whatever be its opinions upon home affairs, to give up for gold that which touches to the quick the honour and the decorum of the country; nor in the midst of the agitation of political passions will the Spanish flag ,which waved over the throne of Isabel the First lose any of its splendour under the reign of her worthy successor, Isabel the Second." THE MEETING OF THE 3rd INSTANT. (From the Friend of India, Nov. 11.) The State paper in which Lord Stanley an nounces her Majesty's assumption of direct sove reignty in India must be pronounced a great suc cess. From all parts of India and from every class comes up one unvarying approval. Civilians and colonists, the men who would gladly have kept on the old regime, and the men who are impatient be cause the change is not yet a revolution, are agreed upon this one point. Even the wide amnesty con ceded has as yet created little discussion, and. no symptoms of hostility. The few who doubt its policy recognise the gracefulness of such a com mencement of a new reign. So general a cordiality was perhaps to be expected among the Europeans, butunless we are misled by appearances, the change of Government is even more satisfactory to the natives. The illumination in Calcutta extended far beyond the European houses. In the smaller stations every man able to afford a " chirag" seems to have lighted it. In Hydrabad the ceremony of reading was attended by tens of thousands who at all events seemed to display an enthusiasm wholly unexpected. In Allahabad, Lahore, and Umritsur, the illumination was expected to be universal. Perhaps the best illustration of the feeling was the meeting of the 3d inst. in the Town Hall of Calcutta. The meeting, assembled to consider a loyal address to her Majesty, was addressed by speakers singularly diverse in character. The drift of their speeches, most of them almost im promptu, was in every case the same. They re ceived with pleasure the announcement of the dis appearance of the Company, and hoped that with the new Executive, and wider principles which must accompany the change, India would enter on that career of prosperity so often promised, but still so distant for the mass. All repudiated the idea of yielding to a race hatred, and denounced the calumniators who have endeavoured for party purposes to blacken the character of Anglo-Indians. Even the "religious difference," the one permanent point of discord between the races, was for the moment laid aside. Mr. Wylie, amidst loud cheer ing, pointed to the fact that the word amnesty was heard for the first time in India, that it was Chris tianity which alone taught men to forgive •, and Baboo Ramgoopal Ghose, speaking from the Hindoo side, said, "If I had power and influence, I would proclaim through the length and breadth of this land—from the Himalayas to Cape Co:norin, from Bermapootra to the Bay of Cambay—that never were the natives more grievously mistaken than they have been in adopting the notion foisted upon them by designing and ambitious men that their religion was at stake—for that notion I believe to be at the root of the late rebellion. (Cheers.) They do not understand the English character—(hear, hear)--they do not understand the generosity, the benevolence of the governing power,—the even handed justice with which that power is willing and anxious always to do that which is right be tween man and man, without any reference what ever to the fact whether the men belonged to the governing or to the governed class." We do not wish to give to these expressions an importance they do not deserve. The strife of parties, the incessant conflict between two sets of opinions described in another column, must and will continue. The old torpidity of Indian life has passed away, and men to whom an " opinion" may make the difference of safety or slaughter, security or insult, will not reason with philanthropic calm ness. But it is something that the proclamation should even for an hour sooth feuds which must be bettor because they spring from the graveyards of the slain, and convince all classes, if only for the duration of a Meeting, that they are the subjects of a common sovereign, bound to sheathe all swords in the presence of a Queen. Could Englishmen but be sure that the loyalty is earnest, the union might last for years, and produce results in the presence of which even the past history of British India should seem an ordinary tale. CHRISTMAS AT MALTA. MALTA, Dec. 30. On Christmas-day an order from Admiral Fan shawe, commander-in-chief, released all prisoners in the fleet, in compliment to his Royal Highness Prince Alfred. There were none on board her Majesty's ship Tartarus, so there were none to release. The sailors of her Majesty's ship Marlborough, and most of the other men-of-war in port, had a double allowance of grog. The seamen of all the ships made grand prepara tions for Christmas, and splendid feeds they had. Every one of the seamen of - her Majesty's fleet at Malta had not only a good but a sumptuous dinner on Christmas-day ; they were allowed great license, and, I am delighted to say, they did not abuse it. At twelve, his Royal Highness Prince Alfred went round the seamen's deck to see their dinners ; he was loudly cheered by the men, who carried the first lieutenant round the deck. The Prince gave his messmates a boar's head for their dinner, and partook of it with them. In the evening, Admiral Fanshawe, probably with a view to keep the Prince from the scenes of a man-of war on Christmas Eve, invited: him to a quiet family dinner at his house. On Monday, the authorities went to very great trouble and expense in illuminating every govern ment building on the Prince honouring the mer chants with his company at a ball, which has been the gayest affair of any during his visit, The chief feature of the illumination was the Custom-house, at which the Prince landed. It was one blaze of light from that building to the Calcara•gate. Guards of Honour received him there; and on his landing Bengal lights were arranged to form the word " Welcome," and in front was a very bril liant Eagle. The landing-place was lined with carpets and flowers, and decorated overhead with banners and ;flags. The whole was arranged by the Hon. Capt. Hoseason, and him great credit. The Queen herself could not have received greater honours than, Prince Alfred has received during his visit to Malta. He has occasionally had to do duty, such as taking command of a boat, or going to the flag-ship to copy orders, to show that he is a naval cadet, which uniform he always wears. He has, in company with Major Cowell or some other officer, paraded the town and made some purchases in the shops. He is very observant, and at one of the balls he caused some amusement. A young English beauty, a visitor at Malta, who is accused of being a sad flirt, dropped her card of dances, which the Prince picked up, and smiled on seeing that dance No. 1 was filled with the name of a gay military gallant, and the six following dances with the same name. Her Majesty's ship Caradoc was sent with the last telegram to Cagliari and returned on the 27th. She leaves again to-day for the same placed The cable, it is now feared, is damaged by some convul sion near Graham's Island, close to which it passes. It is quite useless at present. The Coquette leaves to-day for four months, sup posed to be for Candia. The Wanderer is ordered from Athens to Con stantinople, her Majesty's ship Osprey having lost some of her rigging. The Recruit is to go to Tripoli on the 2d with Consul• General Herman. The Lapwing is ordered to prepare for sea. MR. GL AD s. To 117 - B AT APHPArs, Thb 21tai'd publishes the following letter from Athens " ATHENS, DEC. 23. " Mr. Gladstone arrived hero last Friday evening and alighted at the British Embassy. You may easily imagine how eagerly the arrival of this oft so many grounds tritas individual was expected, who has dome to Judge the cause of a whole people. Mr. Gladstone has visited all the lonian. Islands, except Cerigo, and has been everywhere received with enthusiasm and welcomed as the man who is to procure for them the union dreamt of and desired by the lonians. At Zante, however, observing the pitch which the excitement of the clergy and people had reached, Mr. Gladstone informed them that he had come to hear their grievances and not their wishes ; that annexation to Greece is a phantom —an impossibility, and that all that was pos sible consisted in reforms to improve the actual condition of the country. Mr. Gladstone may be right in saying that for such an event time, persons, circumstances, and conse quences must be considered, and that it is madness not to do so ; but what people under similar circumstances would not raise a cry which is innate in the heart of man—inde pendence ? The lonians, however, are well aware that they can never realise their wishes by force, but they have acted wisely in taking advantage of this opportunity to make by this manifestation an appeal to the whole of Europe. Their cause now cannot fail to be pleaded and taken into consi deration in future events which must take place in the East. " This speech, happily for Mr. Gladstone, only arrived here this evening, and was not made public till after his departure. I cannot picture to you the sentiments of admi ration and veneration with which this tribune of Great Britain was received. Here, also, if political etiquette had allowed it, manifestations would have been made for the annexation, for every Greek is aware that it , is only by the aggrandizement of his country that Greece can revive and assume a serious importance in the future destinies of the East. " Mr. Gladstone was astonished at the progress Greece has made, considering it has all been done within 30 years. " On the 21st, the Queen's birthday, who enters her 40th year, Mr. Gladstone with his wife and daughter, attended a Te Deum in the Church of St. Irene, in the pre sence of their Majesties and the high dignitaries of State. In the evening of this festival, a drawing-room having been held in the morning, he dined at the Palace. and had a long conversation with their Majesties. • " Mr. Gladstone, accompanied by Mr. Finlay, paid a visit to the Senate, during the debate on the Bank. He heard M. Chatziskos speak, and had all the men pointed out to him who took part in the revolution. On the follow ing day he visited the Chamber of Deputies, during a de bate on the Navy Estimates. I fear Mr. Gladstone will leave with no very high opinion of our modern Demos theneses." Le Nord devotes a leading article in support of the annexation of the lonian Islands to Greece, and, alluding to Mr. Gladstone's speech in Cephalonia, says : " Doubtless, if the lonian Islands are annexed to Greece. that power will not yet have gathered together all her chil dren under the protection of her Crown Thessaly, Epirus, and Crete will still remain subject to foreign rule. and be kept so in virtue of that treaty which guarantees the terri torial integrity of Turkey. Doubtless, their populations also will continue ardently to desire, like the lonians, union with their brethren of free Greece. But what hai this to do with the enfranchisement of lonia? Because justice can not be rendered to all at once, is it not to be rendered to any ? Because Turkey cannot be reduced, is lonia, which is not, dependent upon it, to remain subject to a detested protecto rate ? The still enslaved factions of Greece will, it is argued, agitate with renewed vigour to obtain the desired annexa tion. If it is thus, what ought to have been done in 1830 should have been either not to have restored Greece at all, or to have restored her in her full integrity. What ought to be done to-day would be to strike off Greece from the list of Sovereign States ; for so long as she exists as such Thes saly, Epirus, and Candia will loudly clamour for annexa tion, and Turkey, who feels no compunction in enslaving them, cannot possess them without anxiety and danger." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. The following is a complete List of the Nominations for the CHESTER Cur, Run May 4. Dis., Two miles and a quarter. Weights published about Jan. 20. Forfeits declared Fob. 1. Age Abron 4 Adelaide 3 Amsterdam Ancient Briton 4 Appendix Arsenal Argosy, the . 4 Aston 3 Australian Maid 3 Aysgarth Bankrupt .. . 3 Barbarity Barometer 3 Bastion Belle Bellona 4 Bevis Bird in Hand 5 Birmingham 3 Blackthorn Black Tommy Blue Jacket Bouquet 3 Borderer 5 Botany Brewer, The 6 Broadbrim Broadlands 4 Bumble. Bee Burgomaster 3 Cagliostro 4 Cantine Cawood f by Chanticleer, out of a Age I•;llersdale's darn Christmas Pie Clara Webster 3 Cock-a-doodle. doo. 4 Commodore. Compromise. 4 Conductor 4 Coroner Dane, The 3 Daniel . Defender ... Dispute Ditto Drogheda Ducrow Dutchman's Daughter East Langton. Eclipse Eleanor 3 Empty Bounce 4 4 Enfield .... Fadladeen. Far West Fashion Faughshin 3 Fearful F. M. The Duke of Duty 4 Fisherman 6 Fleet. Flitch 3 Colt by Flying Dutchman out of Meanee 3 c by Flying Dutchman, out of Gala ... • Fright . 5 Gildermire 4 Gladiolus 3 Go-a-head 4 Gorselull ouvieux Grand Secret ' Grillade a Griselda 3 Hal o' Kirklees Hamlet 5 Harefoot Harraton Harry Stanley 4 Heir at Law 3 Heiress H erne 4 Highwayman 3 Hobgoblin 5 Hydromel Independence Jealousy Jordan Julia Katharine Logie King of the Gipsies 6 King of the Isles 5 King William Knight of Kars Laodamia Lazy Lass Leamington 6 Lifeboat 4 Little Agnes .. 3 Longrange Lord of Lorn 4 Lovett Margery Daw Marine 3 Marionette lgarseillaise Martha Master Bagot Matlas Meadowdale Meg 3 Meg Merxilies Melissa Miss Digby Miss Harkaway Misty Morn Mr. Sykes a Mitraille 4 Molly Carew 3 Montague 4 Musjid Mutineer Nassau Nally Northumberland Duchess. 3 Nosegay 3 Odd Trick 5 Old Point Old Robert. Olympias. Colt by Orlando out of the Broom 3 Filly by Orlando, out of Gaze Palmister Palm Leaf 3 Pan 3 Pandora 3 Paul Jones . 3 Peeress Pensioner Petra Physician Physician, by Chanticleer 4 ; Pole Star Polly Peachum 4 Portia 3 Precious Stone Press Forward 3 Prince of Denmark .. 4 Prince of Orange 6 Princess Reyal 4 Prioress ; Production... 3 Queen Bess Queen Charlotte 3 Queen of the East .. 5 Queenstown Rara Avis 3 Raspberry 3 Ravenstonedale Rio 5 Riseber Rocket . Rogerthorpe 6 Roman Candle . . Ronconi 4 Rosabel Royal Sovereign' 4 St. Clarence Sampson 4 Sam Spode • 4 Satinstone 4 Saunterer Scribbler Sedbury 4 Shafto 3 'Shuffle • ...... 3 Simpleton Sobersides 3 Solomon 3 Southampton 3 Special License . . 5 Stapleton Supple Jack. 4 Syria Tapioca' 3 Tattler Telegram Thornhill Tiara Timandra Timon Tomboy 3 Tournament 5 Trepan Trovatore Trumpeter 3 Tunstall Maid Turned Loose Underhand Uralian Vanity e by Vatican, out of Lady Mary Mr. Farrance did not name. Vigo Villikins Wanderer 4 White Hart 3 Willie Wright 3 Wilton Woman in Black 3 Wouvermans Wrestler.... . 4 Yorkshire Grey . a Odd Trick, Telegram, Wanderer, Pandora, Nelly, St. Clarence, and Harraton have been entered without the knowledge of their owners. The following is a complete List of the Nominations for the LIVEILPOOL STEEPLE CHASE.. Run March 2. Dis., about 4 miles. Weights published in due time. For feits declared Feb. 2. Age Abd-el-Kader Ace of Hearts Anatis Band Boy a Barney Williams (late .Brompton) a Bon Vivant Border Chief a Brewer, the Broadway Swell Chelmerton Cladius Coram (late Brigliadora) a Daring Ranger 6 Dayton Emigrant Escape. Fearless 6 Flatcatcher . Fox a Foxhunter • Frank Picard Freshman, the 5 G hika 6 Gibraltar G ipsey King a Glautias Glenarnour.. Greencastle. Greyling Half -caste 6 Hassan (late Knotting) liorniblowtmimilitte a Age Huntsman 6 Ingomar . Jean du Quesne Jealousy.. . Knight of the Shiro a Little Bob a Little Charley Little Yeoman .. Longford ... Lothario Magnolia... M Midge ' . a Miss Harkaway Miss Pranks a Mule, the (late Lillah) 5 Orkousta Ratcatcher... Shylock a Sir Robert a Sir Walter Scott Spring Tame Deer Tease (late Little Tom) a Triton a Weathercock Wee Willie Westminster ... a Whistling Willie Winkfield a Woodyeates Xantb.us ,. a ROUTLRDGES SIIAKSPERE. The Plays of Sllttleespeoe. Rdited by Howard Staunton. The illustrations by John Gilbert. Vol. 11. George Routledge and Co. Our opinion of this superb edition of the Im mortal Bard is very considerably enhanced and elevated. The second volume, but just now com pleted, comprises, like its predecessor, thirteen out of the seven-and-thirty plays by our National Dramatist, leaving consequently eleven others to make up, with glossary, general index, biography, &c., &c., the third and concluding division of this eminently important and, in several respects, most remarkable publication. Remembering how many popular editions of Shakspere had preceded the one in course of periodical issue, it was obvious from the outset that the Messrs. Routledge would be put upon their mettle to render their own peculiar enterprise, not in one or two particulars merely, but in as many ways as possible, attractive, so as to allure a Shaksperian taste that had become at last both sated and fastidious. Hence, from the very commencement, it was not at all surprising to note that especial regard had been paid to the mere material and mechanical portions of the undertaking, to the general getting up of the work, such as the quality of the paper and the excellenceof the typo graphy. Beyond the attention given to these essen tial advantages bythe enterprise of some among the most enterprising publishers of our age—the Messrs. Routledge secured a ripe Shaksperian scholar for their Editor, and one of the most facile and elegant pencils of our time for the purposes of embellishment. Every one was already long familiar with the appropriately characteristic fruitfulness distinguishing the artistic powers of the most gifted among all the pupils of our great English Fruit-Painter. No stu dent had ever quitted the atelier of George Lance with one tithe of the rare capa cities which have enabled John Gilbert to win for himself simultaneously in so many different directions so conspicuous and popularised a reputation. Abundant sketches, for example, are dashed off by him perpetually with the affluent skill of a master, week after week, as the frontispiece of the most widely circulated of all the cheap serials, the London Journal. Elaborate, and sometimes singularly daring designs designs occasionally produced upon a scale hitherto undreamt of as in any way practicable in the way of wood engraving—John Gilbert has continued to produce, moreover, with the speed of an impromptu for the decoration (also week after week) of the Illustrated London News. Now it is the boldly-pencilled titlepage of a volume, now a review in Hyde-park, now an imaginary Christmas merrymaking, now a royal procession on the opening of Parliament, now (as evidenced in the number of the pictorial journal for the current week) a historical picture like that portraying the presentation of a Bible by Latimer to King Henry the Eighth. Together with these numerous, and for the most part constant drains upon his artistic energies —book after book has, for a considerable time past, been pouring from the press, each decorated with John Gilbert's abundant and ften brilliant illustrations. The inexhaustible draughtsman —apparently never , without pencil in hand sketching down designs upon the woodblocks, to be afterwards delicately picked out by the tools of the wood-engraver yet finding leisure, time and again, at rapidly recurring intervals, to contribute glow ing glimpses of the rarest merit, as in the instance of the famous Trumpeter, to the walls of our Water Colour Exhibitions. Recollecting the skill, the affluence, the grace, the vigour revealed in such prodigal variety by John Gilbert as a de signer, we hailed the earliest announcement of his selection by the Messrs. Routledge, as the illus trator of their popular edition of the Plays of Shakspere, with the liveliest satisfaction. Al ready, however, the first volume was completed not merely without, in his intance, realizing in any particular our very high expectations—but actually, as we cursorily intimated in the course of our critical remarks at the time, by subjecting us to something very like a grievous disappoint ment. Several of the symbolical titles to the plays were undoubtedly admirable for their blending of g race and boldness—as in the instance of " Romeo and Juliet," or of the " Taming of the Shrew"— sometimes a little vignette fancy sketch, like the post-haste Cupid, in jackboots, at p. 19, Vol, 1., was worthy, in the dexterous ease of its pencilling, of emanating from the hand of John Gilbert. But, altogether, regarding his labours upon that first volume as a whole, we could not but deem them in a very remarkable degree unsatisfactory. Dog berry, Verges, Gobbo, even Falstaff, with Bardolph, Nym, Pistol, and his other grotesque attendants, appeared upon the scene with scarcely a touch of humour. Bottom was a boor, Sly a sot, the Dromios slatternly varlets—all without raising a ,smile on the lip, or a dimple on the cheek. We were disappointed. It seemed to us that the very magpitassle of his new enterprize had baffled and bewildered the unquestionably considerable powers of -John. Gilbert, on hi s t a ki ng p enc il i n h an d t o embellish thew on derful Plays of Shakspere. Latterly, however, the artist has warmed to his work, to this new and now congenial labour of love ! Volume 11. is not only an improvement, but in many respects a very wonderful improvement. Mr. Gilbert's designs in this volume are some of them really exquisite—they are most of them worthy of his hand—they are in many instances eminently Shaksperian. They are graceful—they are humor ous—they are, here and there, singularly effective and picturesque—occasionally they are even charac terised by what we may term without exaggeration a real splendour of elaboration. Richard the Third certainly appears at times to degenerate into cari cature—though nothing can be finer, by the way, than the pious unction of hypocrisy expressed upon the tyrant's features, at page 550, as he appears there, in the gallery, between the two episcopal functionaries. But the delightful humour thrown into several of the comic scenes by Gilbert espe cially demands from us, we conceive, a distinct and eulogistic recognition. Instance this, at page 274, Sir Toby Belch reeling in (with a hiccup) arm in arm with that delightful clown—instance this, too, that clown (always delightful) bowing to the Duke with an affected obeisance, at page 271 ; or again, at page 269, huddled up grotesquely in the friar's gown and hood, as he stands there topping, and listening, and jabbering, outside the cell of poor deluded Malvolio. As evidence of the charming grace of some of these Shaksperian illustrations by Gilbert, we would particularise every passing glimpse lie gives us of Helena in her pilgrim's gown and scallop-shell, at page 31, for example, without the walls of Florence ; or again, at page 47, in one of th e s t ree t s o f M arse ill es . I n tes timony of the brilliant and picturesque power displayed in others of these embellishments, in the second volume, instance 'the incantation scene, at page 350, where the Duchess-Witch raises the spirits of the dead before the reeking of her hellish cauldron, amidst thunder and lightning. But among all the illustrations in the book, those of a chivalric character, those displaying the splen dours of knightly pageantry, are incomparably the very best. In would be difficult to choose among so many designs of rare excellence, but Harry the Fifth, armed cap-a-pie, crown on head, baton in hand, in. the grasp of his iron gauntlet, seated upon his mighty war-horse, fully caparisoned, among the bristling spears and serried ranks of his army . on the foughten field of Agincourt—presents to view upon one page, for example, a wood cut worthy, indeed, of forming an embellishment of the historic dramas of our glorious Shakspere. While the illustrator has thus signally-well ac quitted himsif in Volume Two of Routledge's Shak spere, the annotator has "continued " his labours— as in the previous volume—to our admiration. Mr. Staunton has, by this time, indeed, won for himself, permanently, high rank among the most ingenious of our modern commentators upon the text of Shakspere. High commendation, in truth, when accorded to one among whose immediate contem poraries are men like Knight, and Collier, and Hal liwell. Wonderful praise, if we remember that the eminent Shaksperian student who extorts it has hitherto achieved for himself elsewhere so entirely distinct an intellectual reputation. That the cele brated chessplayer, whose name will henceforth shine in the annals of that extraordinary game, side by side with the kindred names of Phillidore and Delabourdonnay should prove himself to be one of the ripest Shaksperian scholars, in an essentially Shaksperian generation is, to say the least of it, a somewhat remarkable phenomenon. That pheno menon has now nevertheless been distinctly wit nessed. Ex. gr. these two admirably edited volumes of the Plays of Shakspere, volumes edited with a luminous pen by Howard Staunton, the greatest of all English Chessplayers. The footnotes here jotted down by Mr. Staunton are no mere hurried or careless commentations upon the golden and glorious text—they are the fruits of the study of a life. They are evidences of a varied judgment, of a searching analysis, of conspicuous originality, of shrewd perception, of extensive reading, q a sin gularly retentive memory, and of no inconsiderable powers as an etymologist, and ,generally speaking, as a philologist. A desultory glance through the volume now lying before us will furnish abundant evidence of the combination in the person of Mr. Staunton, of these manifold qualifications as a Shaksperian annotator. To descend from gene ralities however to particulars—A chance word in the King's mouth in " All's Well that Ends Well" (act ii. scene 3.)—elicits this ingenious note :—" It , has never, that we are aware, been remarked that Shakspere usually pronounces cere in ceremony, ceremonies, ceremonials (but not in ceremonious? .... ceremoniously) as a monosyllable, like cere-clo cerement." Illustrations of this being theren adduced by Mr. Staunton from the " Merry Wi of Windsor," " Julius Caesar," " Midsumut Night's Dream," &c. "To give our hearts uni ceremony," " Not sorting with a nuptial co mony," " Caesar, I never stood on ceremonie This, simply, of course, in regard to pronunciati , Now, by way of elucidation—ln the same pla " All's Well that End's Well" (act iv. scene 4), explanation of the passage " Yet I pray Y but with the word"—upon which Blackstone It suggested it should be read, " yet, I fray you, b with a word"—Mr. Staunton writes, "With mu diffidence we venture to suggest that yet apparent' stands for now ; and that we should read— " Yet, I pay you, But with the word, &c.'" " Now, I can only compensate your kindness the word of promise; but the time approaches wh all that you undergo for my sake shall be subs tially rejected." Surely—most ingenious ! "Henry V." (act I. scene 1.) the phrase " all I j once," which some have proposed to read "rail once," draws from the new editor the same " trl t phrase" of - the Shaksperian age—found by hil repeated in Sabie's " Fisherman's Tale," A.D. 10 and Middleton's " Changeling" (act iv. scene 3)--' " She wept, she cried, she sobbed, and all at once, " Does love turn fool, run mad, and all at once." In the same play, " Henry V." (act iii. scene Mr. Staunton suggests that "And for achievemen should be read, " And, 'fore achievement." " import being," says he, "At sight of our army will be so intimidated as to offer us his rans before we have captured him." In "Pericles" ( ii. scene 1) " Their honour be but a goal to my will," Mr. Staunt9n admirably observes, "This is al3, repugnant to both sense and harmony," addivi "Surely we should read— ' Their honour be but equal to my will.' " The suggestion comes like a flash of light upon ti r text. Sometimes, however, we are very repugn o to revert, as Shakspere's new editor wishes us,, an evident misprint in the earlier folio text. example, in that lovely opening•speech of the Do in " Twelfth Night," we cling to Pope's exquisi suggestion that "south" should be substituted "sound" in the familiar words— "0, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour I" Nor can we recognise with Mr. Staunton tt necessity of understanding " south," if accept` as meaning the " sough" or soft whis of the breeze, but rather. as what Pope underst to mean literally the south wind, the sweet sell Again, in that old enigmatical opening of " beline," we cannot bow obediently to the hint t the third line should run " Still seemers—do king's." An explanation of the passage as it sta originally in the old text has been given lucidly (convincingly, to our mind) by a comma tator altogether overlooked in Mr. Staunton's f. note. Ayscough gives the passage quite rently, thus— " You do not meet a man but frowns ; our bloods No more obey the heavens than our courtiers', Still seem as does the king's." And to this bewildering passage A y scough appell i this footnote :—" Dr. Johnson observes that t! passage is so difficult that commentators may div concerning it without animosity or shame ; tb` the lines stand as they were originally:written, 0 , that a paraphrase, such as the licentious and abrii; expressions of our author too frequently reqd will make emendation unnecessary. We do 1 : meet a man but frowns; our bloods—our coup' nances, which, in popular speech, are said to , regulated by the temper of the blood—no No obey the laws of heaven—which direct us to ape what we really are—than our courtiers, that, than the bloods of courtiers; but our bloods, lib theirs—still seem as cloth the King's." Ayseoui adds that " Mr. Steevens is of opinion that blood pears to be used for inclination," and that " Tyrwhitt proposes to make the passage clear by very slight alteration—only leaving out the I letter." Dr. Johnson's explanation, however, ourselves hold fast by as perfectly clear and ration' , though, an we have seen, Dr. Johnson hino confesses the passage to be "so difficult that et ) mentators may differ concerning it without sha o ,, or animosity." It were superfluous to follow O f latest and by no means the least of these cornive, tators through all the subtle windings and invo' l tions of his searching new suggestive annoV, tions. They sparkle abundantly at the foot ' many a page, helping to bring various hid beauties to light and to clarify here and there 0 turbid current of the text. For these, mans' them laborious, researches of Mr. Staunton, we indebted to him as loving and reverential studen t of Shakspere—indebted to him as we might be the fabricator of some new refracting tclesol that enabled us to scan yet more clearly than bef° the wonders of the starry heavens. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington left tol l on Monday, on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The Duchess of Atholc has left the St. George Hotel. Viscount and Viscountess Hardinge left town Monday, on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The Counts Elios and d'Alton have taken th departure from the Brunswick Hotel, for Paris. Sir Culling and Lady Eardley have arrived Claridge's Hotel, from Holwood, near Bromley. Capt. Ramsay and Mrs. Ramsay have left t St. George's Hotel. DEATH OF THE EARL OF AYLESFORD. regret to announce the demise of this nobleman, who expi on Monday, at the family seat in Warwickshire, in his I' year. His lordship was son of the 4th earl by a Baugh 7 of the Marquis of Bath. He succeeded hi s f a th er i n 18 1 and married in 1821 a daughter of the 2d E ar l o f Waffl e, His lordship was formerly Captain of the Yeomen of t" Guard, and has been Lord Steward of her Majesty's 11490:, hold. The title and family honours descend to his lordsh l P son, Heneage, Lord Guernsey, who was born in 1824, 01 ' , married in 1846 the only daughter and heiress of J. 8f Knightley, Esq., of Offchurch, in the county of W ar wicY'l ROBBERY AT Mn. CHARLES Friday a person named George Blackman, who was o e ' scribed as a market gardener at Higham, was charged b e ; fore the magistrates at Rochester, with having stolen soil hay from the premises of Mr. Charles Dickens, Gads 11 1 . ' 4 " near Rochester. The robbery, it appeared, was of a ve' . ", impudent character, the prisoner first turning his heap into Mr. Dickens's meadow without that gentleman's Pey mission, and then helping himself to the hay from th' hay stack. A police-constable apprehended him, wri ti, the hay which he had just taken under his arm. The flej eused pleaded hard to be forgiven, but the Rev. Mr. Davie,l the presiding magistrate, committed him for three de? imprisonment. —South-Eastern Gazette. MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A YOUNG SURGEOrI'i —A melancholy accident occurred at the Norwich Dispein sary on Saturday evening, resulting in the death of 3 1 `,:l Alfred Dowson, a gentleman 22 years of age, who had bee 4 I officiating during the, last few days for his brother, NI; Arthur Dowson, surgeon of the institution. With the vied of giving himself an appetite for his supper Mr. Dowsol l ; it seems, took what he fancied was some tincture of orang e peel, but which really proved to be tincture of aconite. 1 11 e unfortunate young man misread the labels on the bottle!, ono being marked " Tint. aurant." and the other " aconite." Having made this fatal mistake he ate sole' bread and cheese for supper, conversed cheerfully and re ; tired to rest shortly afterwards ; but he had not been love " in bed before he found himself in such pain that he got a and aroused the establishment. Professional assistance We e soon rendered, but in vain, as death soon terminated sufferings. At an inquest held by Mr. Wilde, city corona' the jury returned a verdict in accordance with the above. GIRL TRAMPLED TO DEATH IN GLASGOW TIIEMrRF.—A very melancholy occurrence took place en Saturday within the theatre at the Green, occupied by M r ; Parry. It appears that on that occasion, and througholl; the whole day, performance succeeded performance in rani' ) succession, and that crowds were willing to go in so soon as.those in were ready to go out. From the pit there erl two doors leading into a passage of considerable length, an d 3f feet wide,which in turn leads into Greenhead-street. These doors are kept by a party who directs his attention solely to the duties of that office. Shortly after ono o'clock, and 0 0 the concision of one of the performances, the keeper ue' locked one of the doors, and so great was the heedless rug; out, that he was jammed between it and the wall, and could not get freed. Meanwhile a girl, named Rebecca Montgo' mery, 13 years of age,anddaeuttgrhteerwo_fstareesht7 beingmak moer,aresind4.: in th g e fiait's2t'in Hall -close, se'South passage, Pettigrew-street, somehow fell, w ithi n t wo yar d s os the door, and was run over by the crowd that madly fol' lowed, and was only rescued after having been knocked in' sensible, by the door-keeper, Charles Simpson, and o ther members of Mr. Parry's company. She was immediately conveyed to the shop of Dr. WCarson, Saltmarket, but all attempts to rebore life failed, and the unfortunate girl wee handed over to her parents in the Central Police Chambers a corpse. Mr. Parry has done everything in his power to lessen the grief thus suddnenly brought on a mournia family.--Glasgow Bulletin. THE RIVAL OMNIBUS COMPANIES.—The protracted disputes between the London General and Saloon Omnibus Companies is now likely soon to reach a termini' tion. At the last hearing of the charge of conspiracy at the Westminster Police-court, on Thursday, the 23d ult., the case was adjourned until the 12th inst., it being understood that in the meantime the terms of an agreement of arbitra tion, as also the arbitrator to whom the whole matter should bi.referred, would be agreed upon. Since that time a more. amicable spirit has arisen between the represent a ti ves of each company, and Mr. Vining, the solicitor for the Saloon Omnibus Company, drew up a draft of the proposed terms of reference, which has been submitted to, and with s light alterations, approved of by Messrs. Wilkinson and Stevens, the solicitors of the London General Omnibus Company, it being finally agreed that the whole of the question sad matters in difference, with full and ample powers, should be referred to Mr. Barstow, of the common law bar, who has consented to undertake the reference, his decision and award to be final. The agreement of reference as settled will be forthwith signed, and the learned arbitrator will, before the term, commence his sittings, and continue them day by day, to dispose of the matter with as little delay as possible. Each company will be represented by counsel, but the en pense and inconvenience of the array of counsel for th various defendants at the police-court will be avoided, as th reference will bp strictly confined to the matters in dispute —the charge of conspira c y forming no element in the reference, THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1859. me thi the thz An] BE tun deci Con cent (Bel Son clip La n Brit Base are sion Ore; X 1; £1; stea 10s. Ban] 3 N s] New ~ radio Ditto Ditto Ditto Cons Pxcl Excl Prat Chili Di Dan.] Ilexi Di Peru Di R usi Di Spa', Di Spar. url 1)i Di yen Di Fre t Eels but, Di VICE Tier at fu large tatl ( Zap, IrCl Pwr( rule, B Os are , of ti the', rece 'dee