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q t r For full particulars of amusements see first page. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN, This Evening, TANA. Commence at 8. THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. This Eveninc,, at Seven, THE COLLEEN BAWN. at , half -past Nine THE RELIEF OF LIICKNOW. And THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET, This Evening., A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. A fter which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. With DUCK HUNTING. And JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. Commence at 7. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. This Evening . , THE GREEN BUSHES. Followed by THE SHILLING DAY. _ Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. This Eveninz, TIME TRIES ALL. After which, THE HUNCHBACK. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. This Eveninv, IT MUST BE T R.UE, `TWAS IN THE PAPERS. Followed by PEEP O'DAY. To conclude with KILLAttNEY. Commence at 7. W. S. WOODIN'S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, Polygraphic Hall, King William-street, Charing-cross. Commence at 8. MR. and MRS. GERM AN REED, with MR. JOHN PARRY, Every Evening (except Saturday), at the Royal Gallery of Illustration, 14, Regent-street, at 8. ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Hay market. Open every evening for Promenade and Dancing. CANTERBURY HALL.—EVERY EVENING.— Grand Operatic Selection and Cantata -Unaworth, Eugene, and Duley, the great comic trio, drc. Lommence at 7. THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET, EVERY EVEN IN G. —Donizetti's "Don Sebastien," Verdi's " 11 Cor saro" and "Nabuco," and Lewie'rk "May Day," with full b ind and chorus.—Drew Dean, the great Flautist—the Nea politan Minstrels—the comic performance of Miss Caroline Parkes— sir. Maclagan's Entertainment -12nsworth, the original of " Or any other man," Szc. Commence at 7. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE AND AMPHI THEATRE. -- Olmar every Evening. —Grand Musical En tertainment, 60 performers. Commence at half-past 7. CANTERBU RY HALL • GRAND SELECTIONS from VERDI'S " BOC CANEGRA," MACFARRENM'SACBETH CANTAT " MA DAY," " and LOCKE'S MUSIC of , A " Arranged Conducted by Mr. JONGLIMANS. Full Band and Chorus. PRINCIPAL ARTISTES. Miss RUSiELL, Miss TOWNLEY. Sig. Tivoli, Mr. Green, Mr. Raynor, and 31r. Russell Grover. The Comic by UNSWORTH (the Original Stump Orator, " OR ANY OTHER MAN"). in conjunction with Eugene, Duley, and Little Bob, forming the greatest Comic Quartet in London_ Also, the following Comic Favourites:—Miss Georgina Smithson, Messrs. E. Marshall, Hollingsworth, and Arthur Lloyd. and the surprising Performance of " THE ETOILE FA MIL Y." NOW PERFORMING ♦T TEE ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN., WITH IMMENSE SUCCESS. THE NII,W OPERA. LO V E'S TRIUMPH. An Opera, in Three Acts. The LIBRETTO written by J. R. PLANCHE. The MUSIC composed by W. V INCENT WALLACE. Price Two Guineas. !To. ACT I. Voice. Price. 4 0 Overture 1. Introduction and Chorus " Hither, hither, hasten all " 2. Duet—" My poor young friend" 2 Tenors 3 0 3. Romanza—" Tho ‘ ugh alt too Foot*" 3a. (Transposed) 4. Chorus and Solo—" Long life to her Highness " 5. Ballet— Romanesca 2 6 6. Trio—"A simple Cymon " Soprano dr.? Tenors 5 0 7. Quartet and Chorus—" Mount and away" 3 0 R. Aria —" Patience ! prudence !" 'tenor 9. Air —"Wayward fortune " 6 0 10. Finale—" Help, help " ACT 11. 10i. Introduction ................... .. 3 6 .................. .. 2 0 11. Rondo -" I'm a model page " C on t ra lto ....... 2 6 12. Trio—" Welcome, welcome " C . and 2 Basses . 13. Grand Scena—" 0 rank, thou host thy shackles " .. 13a. Air from Scena—" Now 'tis not Soprano .......... 3 0 Soprano 2 0 a vision " 14. Duct—"As in a dream I wan ... der " 15. Finale—" We are glad to see ".. ( C om plete) 9 0 *lsa. Part Song—" Corin for CleOra dying " ....... 2 6 ........... A C T. 111.. 16. Introduction and Air —" I have brou b .oht my daughte r" ...... Bass 2 6 17. Ballad " Those withered flowers" ...... ... ." .......... Soprano 18. Duo—"To t h e secret 19. Ballad—" Lovely, loving, and beloved" .... 20. Sestetto —' In mystery .. . shrou ded" 21. Itecit. and Air—" Night, love, Is creeping" 21a. vu .. (Transposed) 2 6 ,;). pram, and Tenor 3 2 0 6 22. Duet—" Hear mej must speali'' 23. Finale—" All to the ba11"...... .. * Separate Vocal Parts are Published. PIANOFORTE ARRANGEMENTS. Favourite Airs from Wallace's Opera, " Love's Triumph," arranged by W. H. Calcott, in Two Books ; bolos, 55.; Duets Flute Accompaniment to each Book Berger (Francescol— Fan laid I Glover (Charles W.)—" Night, love, is creeping" Osborne (G. A.)—Fant ,sia 4 0 Richards (B.)—" Those whithered flowers" ---- Fantasia 4 0 S'.thulthes (Wilhelm)—Romanesca Intermezzo 2 6 Trekell (J. Theolore)—Fantasia " Lovely, loving, and beloved" .. 3 0 ":\ ig,h c, love, is creeping . " Quadrille —"Love's Triumph," ar. byC.Cootejilustrated 4 0 Valse— Ditto ditto Illustrated 4 0 Galop— Ditto ditto Illustrated 4 0 The Page Polka—Ditto ditto Illustrated 3 0 Grand selection for Military Band, by C. Godfrey, sen 15 0 Other arrangements in the press. Addison and Lucas, 210, Regent-street, W. 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LONDON, TUTSDAT, NOV. 4, 1862. - The Exhibition having been duly brought to a close on Saturday evening, the Ist of November, according to long previous announcement, we may ven ture at length to express a deliberate opinion as to its suectse,. That success, under the circum- Stan cs, We cannot but regard as something remark able. It should be remembered that from first to last the enterprise was carried out under the most gloomy and depressing ausp i ces ,'at the most inoppor tune ' , ime of all for the fortunes of the Exhibition. The illustrious personage, who wag the approver not merely of this last and grandest of all the Great International Exhibitions, but the originator of the whole scheme of these gigantic displays of accumu lated specimens of the art and industry of all coun tries, and of products, both natural and artificial, brought together from the ends of the earth, from all the various climates, temperate and tropical, arc ti c and antarctic, in both the eastern and western hemispheres—ALßEßT, Prince Consort of the Queen of ENGLAND breathed his last, to the profound grief of the whole empire, and amidst the unaffected sympathy of surrounding nations. Hi s 103 ,„, Hi g h ness ' s durnhe in the vary flower of his age, ill the vory noonday, as it seemed to us all, of his career, in the full and i.ecognised matilrity ol his powers, must under any circumstances have fallen as a bitter calamity upon the Queen and upon her loyal people. Occurring at the particular period at which it &'d, it appeared to come as an all but irreparable disaster to mar the fortunes of H.l - t.H.'s latest amd noblest undertaking —The Great International. Exhibition (for 1562) at South Kensington. It h al o pened, this lament ed death, pre cisely at a tim e w h en it was altogether an d indeed quite obviously ou 1 of the question to dream of anything like a postponement of the enterprize. v The treasures of art and industry, summoned to England from the uttermost extremities of the habitable globe, were already—when the Prince most unexpectedly expired at Windsor Castle— either actually arrived upon our shores, or they were hastening to those shores across the various seas and continents. Deprived of the inestimable ad vantage of the guiding mind of his Royal High ness the PRINCE CONSORT—the rare value of whose capacity for this kind of administration (appreciated though it had been to the full, as we had a',. 1 of us thought, throughout) was never so appre ciated, it became apparent , as when it was lost to us for ever—deprived, we say, of the im mense advantage of that one - wise and guiding mind, whose very instinct was taste, ;the Exhi bition had to be carried out as best it might, under those deplorably altered circumstances. And it has so been carried out. With what results we are now enabled to recognise. These results being, we would again premise, as already intimated, some thing marvellous—under the circumstances ! For, added to the depriving influences attendant upon the year set apart for the Exhibition—a year over shadowed by the death of his Royal Highness— there was that vast storm-cloud to the west, the Civil War in the once United States, now split into opposing armies of Federals and Con federates! And there was visible in the opposite, in the exactly opposite direction that other storm cloud which, during all the earlier months of 1862, brooded—though " no bigger than a man's hand" (shall we say NAPOLEON'S) most threateningly over Europe—that Roman Question—that Italian Difficulty, that might at any time, that may even now at any moment, expand into a cases belli for the Great Nations of the Earth, bringing the principal armies and navies of the world into direct collision. A war throughout Europe was a possible contingency. A ter rible civil war in North America was a lamen table and formidable reality, a reality that has now for months past desolated the northern counties of England, especially Lancashire, with a destitution amounting in certain districts to absolute famine. Our Sovereign having been but so very recently widowed, the metropolis was deprived, throughout the whole year of the Exhibition, of the customary attraction and advantage of a Court, the central point, the actual source of what is called, and of what is at all times of so much value and importance to the capital as—the Season. Under these sinister auspices, the Exhibition at South Kensington was opened. Under them it has been conducted. Under them it has been closed. And yet the success achieved, all things considered, we may regard now as having been unmistakeable. Is evidence of this wanting— evidence, that iq, of a conclusive character, and not only conclusive but conclusive at a glance ? It is here ready to hand in the following reliable sta tistics ? Total number in 1851, to closing day Number to 11th of October of pre sent Exhibition Week ending 18th Oct 244,039 ~ » 25th Oct 240,066 Ist Nov. II 1) 6,116,640 Majority in favour of present Exhibition ... 77,445 Those three additional weeks, it will be perceived, having made all the difference ! Pulling the Commissioners through, so to speak—transforming a falling off into an increase, a deficit into a surplus ! Alas! that we should have to add—in the number of visitors—not in the satisfactory balance of returns against expenditure. There the story runs quite differently—in the contrast of the result of the 1862 Exhibition with that of the 1851 Exhibition. Out of the proceeds of the earlier, smaller, less elaborate enterprise came, as we all know, among other advantages, the very ground upon which Capt. FowEEs's structure is yet standing. Thousands of pounds sterling having remained over " to the good," when all was done, with regard to that first glorious venture, when the Crystal Palace was removed from its temporary standing ground near Rotten Row, when the grass was again growing in Hyde Park, whence all that accumlation of beauty and splen dour had passed away like a tale that is told ! Thousands of pounds sterling still, it will be remembered, remained over and above all that had had to be paid away in the liquida tion of expenses—gains that were eventually ex pended in the purchase of considerable tracts of land down at South Kensington. Not such, however, by any means has been the result of the Second and Grander Exhibition now but just completed. There, instead of a surplus sufficient to purchase an estate worthy of remaining afterwards as a magnificent and substantial memorial of a Successful Enter prise, there is the tolerably plain probability of a small deficit—say of about £20,000. Nevertheless, in very despite of that fact, it must still be, rea sonably enough, insisted that the result, all things considered, is really and truly and in the highest degree satisfactory. When the for mer Exhibition drew the world to London the attraction had a charm about it that it could not by any possibility possess under any circum stances upon a repetition—the potent and patent charm of absolute novelty. Again, eleven years ago, H.R.H. the Prince Consort was still happily surviving, and was yet to survive for the happiness of the QUEEN and of the Country for ten full years afterwards. Then, moreover, there was no imminent possibility hanging over our heads of an outbreak of war among the nations of Europe, whether upon the plea of Italy, or of Greece, or of Constantinople. Then, too, there was no cotton famine desolating the north of England, in conse quence of a deadly strife among the Northern and Sourthern States of the great Republic of North America. All was tranquillity in b o th hemispheres. All was industry ane, therefore, prosperity here at borne. Allinwtahe Palace shappin e ess f , tihne stead of grief and mournino. whri,dcisphcuotnasibtera fact tio that, nsis in the undoubted Sovereign. to i , the late instance of a great International Exhibi tion, upon a scale far larger, and more com p licated than had been ever befo re attempted in any capital of a civilised race, the Executive Commission was not guided by that master mind for organization of this kind so often displayed (Inuring the last ten years of his memo rable lifetime by ALBERT the Good, the PR INCE CONSORT of England. Hence, indeed, we are per fectly well satisfied, the errors into which the Royal Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1862 have so repeatedly blundered. Conspicuous among these flaws in the administration of the affairs connected with the grand enterprize just brought to a c l ose, b e i ng t h a t fl agran t case of Aristocratic (!) Jobbery, thus happily epitomised in aattielryribNieetvwsa,ntwolfi en s u r tn e d m a s r h k o i p a few sen tences by our contemporary the 'phleerse whenw as a valuabl© : n u c l i refreshme rupt Fren c h b aker forn the was,kgiven to a bank aristocratic follower ofe of obli g i ng an Earl GRAN VILLE. No amount of washing can wipe away • this stain. The creditors of M. VEILLARD--those who have not been his aiders and abettors —have a better cause o f complaint against the Commissioners, who placed such a man of straw in a position to com mand credit. The Commissioners have drawn ten or twelve thousand pounds from this bankrupt French baker; the Honourable Mr. CADOGAN, their friend, has drawn two or three thousand pounds more, and all this money has come out of the pockets of creditors. The whole transaction is discreditable from first to laet, and admits of no explanation." Ex uno disce omnes, as in one instance so in any other. It was the want of the guiding mind—the one dominant spirit under whose sagacious supervision the Exhi bition of 1862 might, even in spite of adverse cir cumstances, have been so conducted as to leave behind it (like that of 1851) only agreeable instead of many distressful and vexatious recollections. r When we have it stated, on the best authority, that SEVEN MILLIONS sterling per annum repre sents in round numbers the loss in wages sustained by the operatives in Lancashire, we gain some fair conception of what the distress must be among all classes. The Central Relief Committee, which met yesterday, report, amongst other painful facts, all of course pointing in the same direction, that the weekly loss of wages amounts to £136,094, the relief they are able to distribute to £6,250 per week, or less than five per cent. of what the men were accustomed to earn. Or to put it in another form, the committee can distribute about £300,000 per annum to meet a loss of £7,000,000 per annum. Another fact mentioned in the committee's report is, that the number of persons in twenty-four Unions receiving parochial relief had risen to 208,723, an excess over the corresponding week of last year of 163,065, and besides these, 143,870 persons were aided by local committees. The number of opera tives in full work is reduced to 58,638. Those on short time arc increased to 119,712, and 182,401 are thrown entirely out of employment. The mind strains in vain to comprehend the distress represented by these enormous totals, much as it does when attempting to realise to itself the distances represented by astronomical calculations. As Mr. COBDEN, who spoke at the meeting of the committee with mournful and sober eloquence, ob served—" There has been nothing like it in the history of the world for its suddenness, for the impossibility of dealing with it, or managing it in the way of effective remedy." The loss of wages represents but a part of the loss sus tained. Mr. COBDEN, who is no exaggerator, says the loss may be taken at £10,000,000 before next spring. The capitalists will be incurring a loss which many persons estimate at the same amount, and which cannot be much less on their mills and machinery. Then the vast increase on the rates, will, Mr. FARNALL estimates, throw one third of the saleable property, as it were, out of existence, leaving the rates to be levied on the re maining two-thirds. The shop-keeping class, amongst whom so large a proportion of the wages of the operatives were spent, must, in great num bers, follow the operatives. A poor woman was mentioned who kept a shop, and was threatened with distraint for a poor-rate ; she sold the Sunday clothes of her son to pay the rate, and received a relief ticket when she went to leave the rate. And after all when rates and relief have done their best, it hardly amounts to two shillings a week for each individual. On such a scanty subsistence it seems inevitable that, as the winter presses, sickness and disease should not follow. Ordinarily, the poor are very kind in relieving each others' wants, but now all are reduced to one dead level of want and dis tress. Mr. COBDEN, in his speech, which, as might be expected, was of a markedly practical character, strongly insists on the necessity of some far wider and more organised effort than has yet been made. The condition of Lancashire is, he observed, " wholly exceptional ; the state of things has no parallel in all history. It is impossible you could point out' to me another case in which in a limited sphere such as we have in Lancashire, and in the course of a few months there has been a cessation of employment at the rate of £7,000,000 per annum in wages." If the case is to be met by voluntary aid there must be an appeal to the whole country, the " General Committee" must be made a National Committee, and information must be sent by it to every part of the kingdom the lords lieutenants should be invited to be come vice - presidents—every mayor of the kingdom, including the Lord Mayor, should be invited to become a member of this committee —a committee should be organised in every borough—representatives might be sent to the more important places, from the national commit tee—and, above all, persons should come from such places, see for themselves, and carry back their own report ; they would find how much was doing b 3 the calumniated millowners themselves. Until Parliament meets, an effort should be made to make the national subscription not less than a million. Short of that would be utterly insufficient for the case; and Mr. COBDEN believed that, by an orga nised effort, the amount might be raised. It may be hoped that Mr. COBDEN'S appeal will be listened to. Nothing can be more interesting than the way in which all classes, and even distant colonies, are answering to the irregularly presented appeal which has already been made—from Canada, from India, from South America, from every place which the tidings have reached, there has been an outburst of the kindliest sympathy. All that, now seems needed is, that arrangements should be made which will place at short intervals before every knot of people, and every mass of population throughout the Empire, what is the actual condition of the sufferers—what is done to alleviate—what is still wanting ? If this were done with anything like the business tact and energy shown by the executive of the League which repealed the Corn-laws, the abundance of food and clothing which is certainly in the kingdom would be distributed amongst those who, without it, must soon become the victims of want and disease. Not the least consideration is that we shall preserve the population fur the better days, and revival of trade which we must yet hope will soon return. A contemporary has published this morning the first of a series of letters from a Southern corre spondent, who is henceforth to furnish authentic intelligence from that land of mystery. He dates this time from Richmond, and all of novelty that his letter contains, is furnished by his account of the civil and social state of things there. We knew before all he has told us of military matters—the . battle of Antietam included ; and a Southern paper had informed us of the stratagem by which a dread ful slaughter was inflicted on the small force which first, after the battle , ventured to cr oss the Poto - mac. We knew, also , how thoroughgoing was hatred and contempt of the South for the North. Indeed, all accounts show that the North is much more tolerant and forbearing in its feeling towards the South, than the South towards the North. What we hardly did expect to hear was, that Rich mond could be in such a co nparatively merry state. Crowded hotels, abundance of luxuries, everything, in fact, we are told, but ice, in plenty. Rather dear, to be sure, they must be. Board and lodging at the hotels costs five dollars a day, although, if the dollars be, what we may presume they are, Paper dollars, this nay not be so extravagant, after all. Still, the result must be that dearness, not exclusion, is the result of the blockade. The sea, and 1,500 miles of river boundary can never be effectually blockaded. It is not a little curious to turn from the state of things in the Southern capital to what a corres pondent of another journal describes as that of the great commercial capital of the North. He says : " The country, meanwhile, is apparently in the highest degree prosperous. I see no trace of distress or suffering anywhere. Wages are unpre cedentedly high, farm-labourers having been paid this summer in New Eagland as much as t wo dollars and a half a day. The two leading jewellers in New York have sold, I am informed, more goods during the past year than they ever remember to have done; the haberdashers tell the same story. The theatres are filled every night—the trains on all the roads crowded." The exports from New York are extraordinarily large. The following, from the New York Times of Monday, is in fact a very good resume of the situation :—" The foreign trade of the past week was unusually active, with considerable excitement in prices on the Corn Ex change among the factors and export buyers. The value of the clearances of the week is 4,444,382 dols., as against 2,807,827 dols. the week before, and 2,277,997 dols. the same week last season. The import entries of foreign merchandise, including the dry goods return in our last paper, amount to 4,096,749 dols., against 2,197,129 dols. same week last year." Thus the two capitals may compare notes in the midst of this furious war with some what of cheerfulness. Is it the old story of NERO fiddling while Rome WSS burning ? Another has been at pains to hunt out froti contemporary, the Southern papers evidence that all is not so triumphant and smooth in slaved= as its friends here would have us believe. They confess the thorough and disastrous defeat of PRICE and VAN DORN at Corinth, and if they are to be believed, the Federal generals practised on them with murderous success, one of these clever tricks by which the South has so often outgene raled the North ; drawing the Confederates into an ambuscade from which they escaped only with tremendous loss. Our readers may remember how, in his last message to Congress, JEFFERSON DAVIS adverted in rather angry terms to the disunion among themselves, which boded mischief to their cause. It appears the misunderstanding referred to was in reference to the conscription. The doctrine of State rights is now brought into play against the Confede rate Government itself. A supreme court in Georgia has decided that the " conscript act is unconstitutional and therefore the act itself, and all regulations and order based upon it, are likewise void." The Judge argues thus : " In the preamble of our Confederate Constitution care is taken to assert and maintain that the States are sovereign and independent. In what sense can this be said of Georgia, if every man of her militia can be taken from under the control of her constitutional Commander-in-Chief without his consent? Must he abdicate his most important duties by permitting himself to be disarmed of his forces, and all this, too, in violation of his oath of office, in case he should think them necessary for the protection of the State ?" and concludes by demonstrating the absolute sove reignty of the state in regard to military levies. Not only Georgia but Virginia herself is kicking at the military assumptions of the Confederate Govern ment. Indeed the " States Rights" which they have so often asserted, as their legal justifica tion for secession, seem to be now invoked by the separate States of the New Confederacy in thoroughly rebel style. On this point, too, there can be no misrepresentation. The proofs are judg ments and written documents which cannot deceive. Both the rival PRESIDENTS appear to have the trouble of division in their camps. The Democrats, who though favourable to the war, for restoring the Union as it was, are yet Mr. LiNcoLN's warm po litical opponents, will almost certainly be much stronger in the next session of Congress than they were in the late one, and will seriously interfere in that case with the action of the PRESIDENT. Though we have not yet the returns of the most im portant elections, no one doubts that they have gained largely on the Republican party. If this should be so, it seems hardly likely that they will back the PRESIDENT as heartily as his own party. M'CLELLAN is, however, their General, and they will cordially sustain him. He, though ho lets no thing interfere with his duty as a soldier, is known to be personally hostile to carrying on the war as one for emancipation. Like all his party, slavery, as it was, is his decided preference. One thing is very satisfactory —wherever eman cipation has been practically tried, it has worked, in all respects, well. Both at New Orleans and Port Royal the negroes have worked steadily and cheerfully for wages—and all the predictions of their murdering their masters, and indulging in wild revenge, have proved to be, what every reason able man knew they were, mere outrageous libels on the known kindless and docility of the maligned negro. They were fiction s i nven t e d sn t errorem , The Hon. NEAL Dow's testimony, who commands at Port Philip, we have twice given in The Sun, and now Mr. J. M. M`Kilt, who is conducting the Port Royal experiment, w r it es thus— " The experiment has been made under the most unfa vourable circumstances. The result of a military necessity, it was undertaken with inadequate means, suddenly extem porised, and has been conducted thus far in the midst of a raging and all-pervading civil war. " The Port Royal blacks are of the worst grade of their class. They are plantation slaves, the progeny of planta tion slaves of unmixed African descent. Gnarled and twisted in body, uncouth in form and feature, they show in their persons the effects of a century's degradation. And yet these life-long chattel slaves, dehumanized in law, and degraded, in fact, to the extent of human power, when suddenly transformed into free labourers, go to work, and co , tinue to work peacefully, happily, and industriously. "The transition is as easy as it is sudden. There is no jar. The problem is solved. The difficulties vanish. The expediency of emancipation is proved. It is proved under our own eyes, on our own soil, and in that portion of it where it seemed most improbable. This nation can, when ever it chooses, change its system of slave labour for that of free labour without any shock to the social or political fabric." On such facts as these we have but one observa tion to make. If the slaveholders of the South are determined to maintain their accursed aristocracy of skin, at the cost of enslaving 4,000,000 of their fellow-men—if they are so determined to do it, as to be ruined in the attempt—and that, when eman cipation is so easy and safe—if they thus pr2fer slaveholding to life and to property—then let not England, let not Christendom pity such fiend like tyranny if it should prove its own grave. They could, themselves, emancipate ; on their own heads be the consequence of leaving the work to others. THE SUN, LONDON, TIMSDAY EVENIN ( 3, NOVEMBER 4, 1862. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, Nov. 3. His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Baden left Os- borne this morning, and visited Portsmouth dockyard on his way to London. FArl Granville and Lord Stanley of Alderley returned to town on Saturd ay evening from Osborne, Isle of Wi g ht. Despatches w ere sent yesterday from t h e Colonial-office to the Governo rs o f M alta, Gibraltar, Ceylon, Hongkong, and Labuan, ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA. MR. WALLACE'S NEW OPERA, Mr. Wallace achieved last evening another un questionable success in his new opera called ‘. Love's Triumph," which met with the warmest reception possible, and was honoured with numerous en cores. As far as a first night can be called a cri terion nothing certainly could be more decisive. Nevertheless, while we readily admit that its recep tion was for the most part justified by the able and graceful character of its writing, and its consider able melodiousness, we are bound to state that its merits are not of an order to place it on a level with such a work as " Maritana," or even as " Lur line." We think this is chiefly owing to the sub ject. Mr. Wallace in the present instance has been tempted to abandon his old arena of romance and enter the less ideal but more spirited field of comedy. He has quitted the illustration of ad venturous and legendary life, as exhibited in Spanish stteets or in the sides of German hills and rivers, for the calmer excitement and graceful perplexities of the Court of the Regent Orleans. Mr. Planche, who has furnished his libretto, has adapted it from a little comedy produced some twenty years ago at the Theatre Francaise, in Paris, and we have not the least doubt with considerable improvement on the original. Now, we think this was a mistake. The genius of Mr. Wallace is not adapted to comic opera. He is not merely deficient in humour—the great distinction of Mr. Balfe—but even in its as sociate, that positive exuberant gaiety which can be made so largely to supply its place. He wants, in fact, the comic sympathy which is equally essential to interpret character and to sustain or heighten situation. His distinction is his sensibility, which extends at times even to passion, and his airy and graceful imagination, which can frame his emotion in so much beauty the whole resting on a basis of thorough musical accomplishment, which provides him with the utmost resource for the exhibition of either quality. Romantic and pathetic subjects are his true source of inspiration, and not the dilemmas and perplexities which belong to comic opera. But a further difficulty has been imposed on him by the story of the piece itself. This turns entirely upon an extraordinary resemblance between a young Dutch girl and a Princess, which attracts the lover of the former into the service of the latter, in which capacity being enabled to save the life of the Royal Lady—his bravery as well as devotion—awaken the latter's regard in return, till the presence of her rival, who comes to Court to be united to a dissolute noble, reveals the true feeling of her preserver, and her own hallucination. Now such a subject is not to be called in the truest sense dramatic, because it presents to the sympathies two persons instead of one—whose claims are so nearly balanced that they neutralize each other. Nor is the difficulty at all got over by Mr. Planches expedient, of assigning their representation to one and the same per son—a melodramatic resource which, as he states, had never before been employed in opera. This expedient if it explains the mistake, and thereby supports the illusion, tends in no way to sustain the interest, since it is made to divert the attention in the latter scenes from the essential distinctions of the two women to their mere per sonal identity—Theresa and the Princess alter nately passing in and out in the same apartment, and bewildering their beholders with their extra ordinary resemblance. Now as it it is not the likeness of the rivals but the claims . of either to be made happy, that constitutes the true excitement of the audience and therefore of the composer—all these transitions and bewilderments amount to a mere trick, which engages the senses of an audience but certainly not their sympathies. All these drawbacks must be considered, if we would do justice to Mr. Wallace, and see what was the amount of inspiration he could get out of his materials. Wanting the only power which could really deal with them—positive humour or buoyant gaiety, his own peculiar and admirable qualities could find no excitement in such a subject for their adequate expansion. He could only bestow on it his grace and taste, his thorough musical knowledge, and his genuine feeling wherever permitted ; and this he has done to an extent which not only ex plains the opera's success, but is certain to render it attractive for several nights to come. With this general eatimate of its merits, we must content ourselves at present, briefly referring to some of the more striking features of the work, and reserving for a future period its more exact exami nation. It opens very happily with an overture brilliantly written, and (with the exception of one movement, a reminiscence of " Les Diamans de la Couronne") which has great originality. This was admirably played by the band, and very deservedly encored. The first impression of the first act was the air of Adolph, "Though all too poor the painter's art," which is written with great feeling, was very well sung by Mr. G. Perren, and was very properly rede mewled. In the trio that succeeds, and also the quartette and chorus, both of which were charac teristic, the ensembles were very charming ; and the description by the Princess of her rescue from toe wolf by Adolph in the finale, has great vigour and reality. The opening air of the second act was also a great success ; the playful ballad, " I'm a Model Page," which was excellently sung by Mde. Laura Baxter, and in the medium it afforded for her superb tones and arch expression, serving to demonstrate the value of her accession to the company. This was also a loud encore. A bacchanalian trio followed, which obtained a a like distinction ; and then ensued the gem of the opera, the scena of the Princess, " No, 'tis not vision merely," which, alike in the plaintive beauty of its opening movement, and the genuine spirit of its allegro, made a deep and deserved impression, and won its share in the honours of the night. Miss Pyne was never heard to more advantage than in this effort, every phase of which she interpreted with the most consummate taste and feeling. The ensemble of the ensuing duet is also very pleasing ; and the finale of this act—which introduces a choral part-song that is very agreeably writ ten, but is entirely out of place was distinguished by no little dramatic spirit in the consternation of the Burgomaster on en countering the Princess. In the 3d act Adolph is furnished with another effective ballad, " These withered flowers," which was sung so well by Mr. Perren as to procure him again the honour of a re demand, and is followed by a sestett, which is ex cellent in every sense, being as full of dramatic spirit as of gracefulness and skill. A third ballad by Adolph ensues, which has a very charming me lody—" Night, love, is creeping"—and which, done every justice to by Mr. Perren, won him the honour of a third encore. The finale of the opera was not particularly distinguished, save by the rondo at its close, which afforded Miss Pyne—a medium for one of her most brilliant and perfect instances of voca lisation. The execution of this opera as we have partly indicated was admirable in the extreme. Though it afforded but little scope for the dramatic capacity of Miss I'vne—in the faint distinctions it presented of the princess and her rival—the room afforded her she filled with all her usual skill and feeling, and in the music assigned her especially she amply maintained her acknowledged eminence as the first of English sopranos. Madame Llurs. Baxter, though new to the stage, and somewhat hampered therefore by a character which required no slight vivacity, gave every promise of soon ripening into the needed ease and emphasis. Mr. Harrison, who plays a roue Marquess at the Court, is furnished with even less opportunity for effort, whether in his music or his positions—his one song—" Patience, Prudence, Circumspection"--excellently written by Mr. Planche in descr:ption of Court policy, receiving by no means an adequate support by Mr. Wallace. All that it was possible, however, to do with his materials, Mr. Harrison accomplished with his usual ease and pleaantry. Mr. Weiss, who was allotted music that seemed intended for a baritone, sung with great taste and feeling. Mr. G. Perren, however, unadequate to the dra matic needs of the lover—in the music, as we have already s h own, was on e of the features of the night, whilst the various and clever Mr Com, i n his capital picture of the Burgomaster, sung and acted with a spirit that won him the honour of a summons at the close of the second act. We must net omit an acknowledgment of the great merit of the Libretto, which, apart from the mis take ofsubject, is certainly one of the most charming which we have had for a long time. Its poetic portion especially is a perfect model of this class of writing—graceful, tasteful, fanciful—it awakens a deep regret that Mr. Planche has not favored us with more efforts in the same direction. The opera was carefully placed on the stage, the dresses being rich in the extreme; and the house, crowded to the roof, summoned not only the principal artistes at the close of the several acts, but also the composer, who had so well deserved the honour. PRINCESS'S THEA 7 RE. TIME TRIES ALL. This agreeable little drama was produced at this house last night, in order to present Miss Con stance Aylmer in the character of the heroine, originally performed by Miss Stirling, and Mr. H. Vezin as her lover. We hope on another occasion to do justice to their respective efforts ; contenting ourselves at present to state, that the performance was very favourably received by a very well attended house. FINE ARTS. PORTRAIT OF THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT. Mitchell, Publishers to her Majesty, Old Bond- street. The librarians to her Majesty, the Messrs. Mitchell, of Old Bond-street, have just published a portrait or his late Royal Highness the Prince Consort, which is certainly the most artistic and life-like production we have seen for years. It is engraved by Mr. Francis Holl, from a drawing by Mr. Corbould, made at Osborne, and was originally intended for private circulation; but her Majesty, to mark her approbation of the manner in which the plate has been produced, has been pleased to permit its publication, and also to allow its special dedication to herself. The picture is full length, and represents his Royal Highness leaning gently against one of the angles of Osborne House, perus ing a document, and a more easy, natural, uncon strained position could not have been chosen. The features are delineated with a delicacy of touch and softness that is most surprising, whilst the general effect is perfectly stereoscopic. As a specimen of engraving it is perfection, but as a souvenir of his late Royal Highness it will be treasured as price less. EPPING FOREST INCLOSURES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,.—So many of your readers are interested in preventing the inclosure of Epping Forest that I need offer no apology for calling attention to the subject. None but those intimately acquainted with this forest as it was and as it is can form any idea of the extent to which these enclosures have been carried. Within the last few years thousands of acres have been cleared and enclosed. My object in addressing you is to point out that all these inclosures are illegal under the provisions of the general inclosure act, which enacts that no land within 15 miles of London over which there are any rights of common shall be inclosed without the authority of Parliament, and that pruof of 60 years usage of any such right shall be sufficient evidence of its existence. Rights of common and other public rights have been exercised in this forest from time immemorial, and those parts of the forest where in closures have taken place are all within the prescribed distance ; notwithstanding this the sanction of Par liament has not been obtained, the lords of the several manors alleging that they have purchased whatever rights existed over the forest. This, it appears from a return recently printed by order of the House of Commons on the motion of Mr. Pea cocke, M.P., is not the fact, the sales to the lords of the manors being confined to the sale of the Crown's right of keeping deer in the forest. The lnclosure Act goes on to provide that in all cases of enclosures under the act a portion of the land the subject of the application shall be set apart for purposes of public recreation, and as allotments for the resident poor. I am, Sir, Your nhedient servant, JUSTITIA. IRE YELVERTON MARRIAGE CASE. EDINBURGH, MONDAY. In the First Division of the Court of Session, to-day, counsel were heard in the famous Yelverton marriage case, which came before the Court in the form of a re claiming note by Mrs. Theresa Yelverton against the judgment of Lord Ardmillan in favour of Major Yelverton. The Solicitor-General opened the case for Mrs. Yelverton, and addressed the Court for four hours. He began by referring to the grounds of Lord Ardmillan's judgment, maintaining that it was founded on a great mass of un favourable constructions, imputations, and charges against the pursuer, from which she had now to defend herself, as wall as to maintain her claim to be the wife of the defender. Ho proceeded to comment upon the views taken by Lord Ardmillan of the correspondence between Major Yelverton and the pursuer, contending that they were not supported by the correspondence, and that the Lord Ordinary had in various important matters entirely misconceived the case. The SJlicitor-General had not concluded his address when the Court adjourned to meet next Tuesday morning, when the hearing of the case will be resumed. SUDDEN DEATH OF COLONEL LLOYD, C.B.— CHESTER, MONDAY NlGHT.—Whilst Colonel Lloyd, C. 8., was speaking at the Music-hall here this evening on the occasion of the presentatioi of the prizes to the Chester Volunteers, he suddenly dropped senseless from an attack of disease of the heart. Drs. Powell and Brittain en deavoured to promote artificial respiration, but in ten minutes the gallant colonel expired. THE NEW LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN The Hon. J. Prendergast Vereker, who has been elected Lord Mayor of Dublin for the year 1862-3, is the second son of Viscount Gort and Baron Killarton, county of Galway, in the peerage of Ireland. He is a barrister, and was born in 1822. He was married in 1858 to Louisa, only child of Mr. G. Med licott, of Rutland-square, Dublin. A 'letter from Hamburg of the 28th ult. says : " The equinoctial gales have caused great disasters in the German Ocean. More than 100 vessels have been wrecked, and in some cases the crews were lost. A single steamer, on its way to Hull, which was forced to put in here by stress of weather, saw no less than six vessels founder with out being able to render them the slightest assistance." A Belgian journal, in mentioning the fact that Capt. Weickmans, of the 14th Regiment of the Line, is about to retire on a pension, adds that his father and grand father are still living at Ostend, and both in the enjoyment of pensions, also as captains. His father, aged 86, was pensioned by the Belgian Government in 1832, and grand father, now 106, has been receiving a pension from the Austrian Government since the commencement of the pre sent century. The Court of Assizes of Brabant, at the opening of its session last week, fined the Duke de Look-Corswaren 500 fr. for non-attendance as a juryman, and as he was ab sent again on a following day a second fine, amounting to I,ooofr. was imposed on him. THE STEAMER ALABAMA.—This vessel appears still to keep about the banks of Newfoundland, and conse quently out of reach of the Federal men-of-war who recently came to European waters in search of the Confederate privateer. The ship Travancore, which arrived at Liverpool yesterday from St. John's, New Brunswick, reports that when off the banks of Newfoundland, about 300 miles S.E., she saw the Confederate steamer Alabama. The steamer made for the Travancore, and fired a gun across the ship's bows. The Travancore immediately hoisted the English ensign, and the steamer seeing her mistake at once showed the Confederate colours, dipped them three times, and then steered away. There was a rumour in Liverpool yesterday to the effect that in order to stop the career of the Alabama the swift Federal steamer Vanderbilt had privately lett New York for the cruising ground of the famous Con. federate. We regret to learn that there is only the very slightest foundation for the report of Miss Nightingale's restoration to health. She is able to remove from one place of residence to another—a very few miles —once a-year, , partialbut she is scarcely able to leav e her b ed in the intervals, an d quite unable to struggle with the flood of co rrespondence an d a pplications of all kinds which the rep or t of her recovery has brought upon her. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, --The judges as sembled yesterday morning for the purpose of fixing the days for holding the sessions of the Central Criminal Court for the. ensuing year. The following days Were appointed Monday, Dec. 15. .7863- -1862--Monday, Nov. 24 Monday, Jan. 5; Monday, Feb. 2; Monday, March 2; Monday, Apra 6; Monday, May 11; Monday, June 8 ; Monday, July 13 ; Monday, Aug, 17 ; Monday, Sept. 21; and Monday, Oct, 26, LATESI I NEWS. CONFLICT BETWEEN ITALIAN AND AUSTRIAN TROOPS. TURIN, Nov. 3 (Evening). The Discussfo2ze of to-day says : " On the Ist inst. an encounter took place on the right bank of the Po, upon the Austrian fron tiers, between a body of Italian carabineers and some Austrian soldiers. " The Italians fired upon the Austrians, and after a few shots the two parties engaged in a hand-to hand contest, without regarding the boundaries. " The Austrian armed Customs guards were re pulsed from Italian territory. " The Austrians were finally compelled to take to flight." Serious inundations have taken place in Tuscany. The railway between Empoli and Sienna is inter rupted. The Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia have arrived at Syracuse. PARIS, Nov. 4. The Moniteur of this morning announces the nomination of M. Chain d'Est Auge as Senator. MADRID, Nov, 3. The Brazilian Government has paid the 8,000,000 which it owed to Spain. FRAN CE. BOURSE, November 3.—The operations of the settlement are going on pretty favourably, and prices have been well maintained at the closing rates of Friday (the last business day), Threes, for the present Account, being now at 70f. 90c. In other Securities the variations have not been ma terial. The market closed as follows: 41 per Cents. 9B Do, end month 98 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 80 New 3 per Cents Do. end month — Credit Mobilier 1200 Do. end month — - Bank Shares 3240 • Credit F ancier 1250 I Piedmontese Fives 72 30 Italian Loan 73 05 • Roman • Austrian Spanish Threes SIA • Home Debt .. 5O WAYS. Orleans Northern .... Cash. Account. 1050 .. 1052 50 1030 .. 1035 New ditto - • • —• Lyons and Mediterranean 1185 .. 1185 Geneva .. — .. 352 50 Southern .. 867 50 .. 866 25 Western Eastern .... ,.. 553 75 .. 553 75 Sardinian Austrian - Lombard North of Spain Saragossa.. Ditto to Barcelona 655 .. 357 50 SWEDEN. The following is the text of the speech delivered by King Charles XV. at the opening of the Swedish Diet on the 23d ult., as briefly announced by tele- gram : " Gentlemen,-1n seeing you again assembled to deliberate on the measures calculated to secure the public welfare, I greet you with that satisfaction with which your presence always inspires me. My relations with foreign Powers continue to bear that impress of friendship and confidence which I have always at heart to maintain intact. In consequence of the wishes you expressed during your last session with regard to a regularisa tion of the relations between Sweden and Norway, I announced in a council, at which the Ministers of the two kingdoms were assembled, my opinion that the revision of the Compact of Union was equally called for by the well-understood interests of both nations, and my hope that the two representations would unite their efforts to mine, in order to bring about a happy solution of that affair. I now renew to you, gentlemen, the expression of that opinion and of that hope. " We are all convinced that the forms of re presentation of the Swedish nation are defective. The present period, offering us the advantages of security abroad and tranquillity at home, appears particularly propitious for taking into considera tion those imperfections which impede warm rela tions between the Government and the people, and the existence of which is as important to one as to the other. A special representation of the Swedish Church, devoting itself exclusively to the sacred mission confided to it, appears to be loudly called for. I intend to present to you a bill for ecclesias tical Synods. "The communal laws which have just been pro mulgated authorise us to hope for a prosperous future for the people and for the country. In con formity with the bills which you submitted to me last session, I have sanctioned a thew law relative to bankruptcies, as well us other measures relative to affairs of credit. I shc,ll order to be laid before you the draft of a new Penal Code, and I am having a new Maritime Code prepared in a constitutional manner, a revision having appeared to be indis pensable in the old one. "Commissions composed of competent persons have been appointed to examine into the state of our means of defence, as well as the improvements of which they stand in need. The formidable in crease of armaments in other countries will impose on us considerable sacrifices, " The incessant progress of society in all its branches constantly gives rise to new exigencies which you will be called on to satisfy. I have thought that they ought to remain circumscribed within the limit which you might have at your dis posal without having recourse to fresh taxes. The Budget which will be presented to you will prove that, over and above the sums required for the most essential affairs ; you will be enabled to devote a considerable surplus both for other objects of public utility and for securing a rapid increase in the con struction of railways. Those which have been already completed, and which unite the two seas which surround us, are about to open rich sources for the increase of the general welfare. "The abundance of the late harvest ought to in spire us with lively gratitude to Divine Providence, which has also deigned to lately spare the country from afflicting trials. The constantly increasing influx of young persons to the public schools pro mises us the fruits of the progress of intelligence disseminated among all classes of society, whilst the arms which voluntarily devote themselves to the defence of the country prove to our great satisfac tion that, in the midst of all the blessings of peace, there still of Sweden. still exists as formerly a love of the indepen& dente " Calling for the protection of the Almighty on your labours, I declare the present Diet to be opened, and I renew to you, gentlemen, the assurd ante of my kind feeling and of my affection." LET 7ER FROM GARIBALDI. n o s t a r b e e a n ld i r : i e n e i a v n e b ve y r to an address that had been s en t to him:— To Ir. h mr e . followi ng EEtches, of t 1 3 ; tetrebr ylpei a,rhuenbfbxayrlcsoi. ellel from 'Wm. Jeffrey Etch es, P resident of the meeting at jhuas‘vt4ilnagsopwdireeafyetinoodunesmdoabfne thanks,fytohree tlht Derby, union of thei r country, but also for peoplece having na t vs f tic r oni i e e gn n bct d raei , kni eg bring Derby t bh o e or n eub l q y yt utte f lih o s 00 : lien, diplomatically entangled and embroiled, of the tem poral power of the Pope from its very beginning—that is to say, from the day on which the Roman Constituent As; sembly, ele c t e d b y universal suffrage. voted by 143 aga i n s t five voices the perpetual downfall of that monstrous ury vernment. This legal vote cannot be cancelled either by . the b a y onets of Bonaparte or by those of Spain or A u stria The right of Italy i s s till i n t ac t, an d m i g ht b e put in pra t " tb° tice without so much diplomatic trickeries, by aski?vote. Roman people again to declare th e i r wi s hes by adire: jail of Until the revocation of the act, I am th e legal guar ooth of this popular right; for on me was c nferred on the_ June, 1849, by the vote of the Constituent Assembly, by the Triumvirate, the executive power of that m• . 1 %-. 5 ` 1 when they wounded ins and took ale prisoner (i t who s tho w 5 not fighting at Aspromonte) I was marching towards _ — e s Y t nation had conferred upon me, to deliver it from t that everyli i“ a. _ Eternal City, provided with those legal powers which m wicked, loathsome Government in the world, disoofHi:. blasphemes God whilst making a merchan . c GuisErrz GA= Thanking you again, oh noble friend, and 3 41,,px.," begging y o u to believe me always with affection, yours, RAIL -