The Sun. — London, England, 1862-04-09 00:00:00

"WM.. sHEATRE.ItO Y AL, HAYMARKET, Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buctstono. THIS EVENING (08th time) OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. /ord Dundreary, Mr. Sothena ; Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck. 8 1021 e. After which, a Household Picture, under Two Lights, retitled THE WIFE'S PORTRAIT. Mr. Howe, Mr. W. 'Farren, Mrs. C. Young, &c. To conclude with FAMILY JARS. Commence a 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer. 'THIS EVENING, 126th time of the newand original Dra,lllB, entitled, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmund k'al :::;ner : Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. Atter which, a new and original ROOD ; or, The Fairies of k. Burlesque Extravag an z a, en titl e d LITTLE RED RID the Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrock. Principal charac tersham by Mr. Chas. Selby, Mr. Warlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and m iss Lydia Thompson. Actin g Manager —Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half -past 8, to commence at "7. Box-office open daily from 11 tlll5. D OPAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. RAU _--.. Lessee, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH Mr. Ryder, Mr. FI, Widdicomb, Mr. Meadows, Mesdames Fie:ding, Carlotta Leclercq, &c. To conclude with the new Mystic Drama, in four parts, entitled THE ANGEL OF MIDNIGHT. Mr. Ryder, Mr. Potter, Mr. Jordan, Mr. Widdicomb, ; Miss Marriott, Mss Fielding, &c. NEW THEATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHL- Sole Pronrietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, A PRIVATE ENQUIRY. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Billingtat, Mr. Sefton, Miss Kate Kelly, and Miss K. Bland. Followed by THE LIFE OF AN ACTRESS. Mr. and Mrs. Dion Bouc.cault, Messrs. Emery, J. L. Toole, Billington, Stuart, Eburne, Sefton, Powell, C. J. Smith ; Mrs. Billingtoll, Mrs. Harland, Mrs. H. Lewis, Miss Laidlaw. o conclude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billington, Misses K. Kelly, K. Bland, Laldlaw, and Mrs. H. Marston. Commence at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Wonderful Perim mance of Mr. Bell's trained Eleptsnts. THIS EVENING, the Grand Eastern Spectacle of THE RAJAH O 1 NA GPORM, introducing two colossal Asiatic Elephants, pronounced by all to be the cleverest animals ever exhibited. 'ft) be followed by brilliant and daring feats by the un rivalled Troupe of Equestrians. Concluding with a lau hable Farce. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle. C A NTERBU RY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. The renowned ROCKY MOUNTAIN WONDERS, at ten o'clock, for a few evenings only. Grand Selections from " La Sonnambula" and " Dinorah," by Mdme. Negri, Signor Tivoli, and Mr. Raynor, with Band and Lull Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. The Comic Department by Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. J. G. Porde, Mr. W. Randall, Messrs. Hildebrandt and Ormond, and Miss Caroline Parkes. The miraculous STECKEL, from the Cirque Napoleon, Paris, will make his first appearance on Monday, the 14th of ApriL Admission—Hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, Is. THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.- HENRI and PFAIT on the Flying Trapeze EVERY EVENING. The musical entertainment as usual, including Robert Burns' celebrated " JOLLY BEGGARS," with music composed expi essly for this establishment by Mr. George Linley. Operatic Selections by Miss Russell, Mdme. Negri, Mdme. Maria, and Aldme. Enderssohn. Full Band and Chorus.— Mus.cal Director, Mr. F. Jongbmans. Comic—Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey and French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. Randall, H all, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, Is. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY.—Morning, Bh. 57m.—Afternoon., 9h. 38m. To-monßow.-Morning, 10h. 16m,—Afternoon, 10h. 55m. NOTICE. All remittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 112, Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. •Ir.'•• ~ .m,,, ' •,..... n't V -,..---- -.4 ,•.'''' ' .''' .4. ' • • ''',...i . '"•:..... ,. ) ---711 .. • ~...t •.: - . ~,, !... , --t, ----,:,, .eo- .. y-..--7.- -... , • , •., • 4 ~,,,, .., * p...,..., •,., 3i - ,-- , --40y. - - ,,,,, ts- . ~,.,..-....44. ~ , , , ,,, - .4:,; ,, ,..,, ,.., : --„ THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1862. Colonel SYKES well deserves the usual courteous epithet "gallant," for he has fought to the last for his proteges, the Tuepings, even after their most ,natural defender has entirely given them up. At first there did seem a little reason to believe that these men were a great improvement on the Tartar governed Chinese. This seems to have been due to the semi-religious character of the first movement. 'Their leaders received some Christian notions from an American missionary ; they knew that these came from the civilised West, and hence, contrary to the common sentiment amongst Chinese, the one which influenced them in dealing with Europeans was a kind of deference to our priority in religious knowledge. All this, however, has long vanished. The leaders early set up for incarnations, or near relations of the Supreme Being, and, in the literal Dense, for brothers of JESUS CHRIST. The sweets of power have had their usual effect, and no missionary is now safe among them who does not acknowledge, as the second article of his creed, that the " Heavenly Ruler," HANG SOW CHUEN, is worthy of divine honour. All accounts concur that their course is now marked by devastation, pillage, and bloodshed. The peaceful inhabitants quit the the largest cities in millions as they approach, and fire and sword Spare nothing. The Imperialists, are, on their side, little or no better. Under pre tence that a city has yielded to tlee marauders, if they obtain possession, they in turn plunder, burn, and destroy what is left, till the site of a vast city is discoverable only by blackened walls and rub bish. We have long persisted in absolute neutrality between the Imperialists and their opponents, but to permit the latter to attack the former in the treaty cities, where we carry on our commerce, would be sheer fatuity ; N em intervention is a very safe doctrir ge h el , e i n th e West ; but to insist upon it :a favour of hosts of murderous robbers, who 'set pretend to be divinely commissioned ruler'4 Or deliverers of the country, would be applying a principle intelligible only to civilised m' Al , to hurdes of ruthless barbarians. But neither Colonel SYKES nor any one else oug!at now to have the least doubt of the real character of the Chinese rebellion. If there be One man in China who knows all about it, it must be 'Mr. ROBERTS, the American missionary, whose concert the " Heavenly King " was, who has just b eta residing among them for fifteen months, and *ll° has at last fled to our protection, having seen favourite servant lad butchered without provoca tion before his eyes, and being also in fear of his own life. A tract from Mr. ROBERTS first turned this now notorious convert's attention to Christianity. He afterwards came to ROBERTS for instruction. ROBERTS lost bigh t of him for years till he heard of him at the heaa nt this movement, breaking idols to pieces, and enforcin g obedience to the Ten Com mandments, proclaiming at the same time his own inspiration; and now Roamers has been residing a long time with him hoping to get a little light and reason into his head. What is h is verdict, after such ample means of knowledge, and still confess ing to, personally, kind treatment by 1 141 , 10 sow CHUEN. cc I believe him," he says, " to be a crazy man ; entirely unfit to rule—without any org anised Governmert—nor is he, with his Coolie Kings, capable of organizing a Government of equal benefit to the people with even the old Imperial Government." He further describes him as in solent in his temper, and caus i ng any man or woman who has at ail offended him to be murdered at once without judge or jury. He represents him as opposed to commerce, and having actually murdered his own people for no other "hue than that of trading in the city. His nil gious toleration he speaks awl a farce—amachinery not for spreading Christianity, but for giving him political power ; • he suVlsses all our TuDo4 Kings and the POPE himself, making himself equal with JESUS CHRIST, who, with GOD the Father . , and this crazy Man's own Son, cons ti tute one L ord over all And no missi onary i s sa f e among them who will not propagate these blasphemies. The immediate cause of Mr. ROBERT'S own flight tells its own tale. We are to bear in mind that he is, afterall, more of a favourite at the Taeping Court than any other man could possibly be, a not very strong-minded, but undoubtedly sincere, zealous, and worthy missionary. Yet even into his house a brother of one of the " Coolie Kings" rushes one day, seizes his pat servant boy, kills him with a large sword, and then jumps on his head with fiendish rage. He immediately after endeavours to provoke Mr. ROBERTS to some act which should serve as an excuse for murdering him also, throwing the dregs of some tea into his face, shaking him, and insulting him in every way. Mr. ROBERTS was prudently quiet, and at the earliest opportu nity sought safety on board the Renard steamer, whence he dates his letter. After this we cannot need more evidence. The open acts of the mur derous bands associated as TAEPINGS we know full well. We have now in addition evidence from the very heart of the movement, and of the most re liable kind. Nothing remains, !therefore, so far as we can see, but to drive them off by force of arms from ail our treaty cities. The cheering prospect of the Easter Holidays will, perhaps, tend to expedite very pleasantly the passing of the various resolutions of the Budget, as announced by the right hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The noble Premier last evening inti mated quite plainly to the House the nature of the alternative now put before it. if those resolutions be passed on Thursday and reported on Friday— then, in that case—immediately after they had been passed, he (Lord PALMERSTON) would move on Friday that the House adjourn until Monday, the 28th instant. But if, on the contrary, matters could not be carried on thus glibly, in regard to the pass ing and reporting of the different Budget Resolu tions now requiring to be passed and reported before Easter—then, in that case—the House would per force have to sit again on Monday next, and by such an arrangement the holidays would be un happily, but unavoidably, so much shortened. Our representatives now know perfectly well, therefore, what it is precisely that they are expected to do within the next forty-eight or seventy-two hours —especially what it is they can easily do to-morrow and the day afterwards—so as in the first place to avoid that unnecessary sitting threat ened in a certain contingency for Monday next, and in the next to secure to themselves the earliest adjournment offered to them. Now we take it altogether undeniable that the task before the house in reference to the new Budget is as simple as could be, That Budget— however much it may be carped at by an Opposi sion that even while carping at it refrains altogether from adventuring upon the faintest " show of pulling it to pieces —must infallibly be allowed to have already won its way through the house as hardly any Budget has ever been known to win its way there before. It affords no pretext in fact for anything like actual opposition. It is a Budget that upon the whole is accepted at once upon all hands—and no wonder —as in the highest degree satisfactory. If it fails to rival the Budget of last year by sweeping away any grinding impost, and so far relieving the shoulders of the people of a modicum at least of the weary weight of taxation, it at any rate is free from the odious distinction of imposing some burden in another shape, and differently placed upon the back of sturdy old JOHN BULL, that SINBAD among the Nations. Indeed, it was not in reason to be looked for, that the very year after the memorable financial twelvemonth, when Eng land was relieved of direct taxation to the tune of £1,100,000, and of indirect taxation to the tune of £1,300,000, the former through the dropped penn y of the Income Tax, the latter through the total abolition of the Paper Duties—it was not in reason, we say, to be expected that the very year following should witness the remission of further imposts as a rapid sequel to that yielding up at once in a single Budget of a round sum amounting annually to £2,400,000. Yet:even here it must be recollected that Mr. GLADSTONE, if he has shrunk from rashly diminishing by further concessions of this character any one among his ordinary sources of revenue, has at least secured to his new Budget the remarkable merit of getting rid at last, for once and for all, of that perpetual theme of lamenta tion—the Duty upon Hops. Here the ebange, introduced, however, by our financier into his fiacal arrangement for 1862-63, has been one adven• tured upon with admirable caution, and with the most discreet and judicious exercise of adroitness— the change adventured upon by Mr. GLADSTONE in raegd has well-considered been e th o nesHidmoerpaenDa managed, e Duties i m ties being o ne f or th e i r w i se mmtutataiy be b on. Seeing ho b w this n y merely superficial observers of Mr. GLADSTONE'S Financial Policy that after all it amounts to a mere shifting of burdens. The objection at the first blush appears specious enough. But after a moment's scrutiny it just vanishes into thin air. A mere shifting of burdens As if that were no boon, forsooth, to one who, like JOHN BULL, MUST (there is no escape for him) " fardels bear, to grunt and sweat under an uneasy load"— of a National Debt amounting to between £800,000,000 and £900,000,000 in all! A luckless wight who is constrained annually, somehow or another, to liquidate his enormous liabilities in in terest upon that debt, and in current expenses, to the yearly extent of £70,000,000 sterling ! Why the simple fact of the burden of the Hop Duties being shifted from one shoulder to the other, receiv ing a new name and a new application in the shift ing—that simple fact of itself comes in its way at last as an inexpressible relief. For years and years past the Hop Duties have been galling and fretting an important section of the:community almost be yond further endurance. One Chancellor of the Exchequer after another had been wearied with applications for the removal of thi s tormenting grievance. One after another they had declined to deal with the matter. Mr. GLADSTONE has at last dealt with it. And who shall say that he has not dealt with it judiciously ? If the only good result had been the getting rid of a clamour about a grievance that we had almost become sick to death of hearing about, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer would, as the grandiose phrase is, have deserved well of his country. But, in his mode of dealing with the hop duties, in this ingenious method he has now hit upon with a viow to their harmless and effectual commutation—the good he has secured to us is not alone of this purely negative character. He has contrived a means not only f or putting an end to the wearisome clamour raised e very spring in his own antechambers, and echoed more or less loudly and continuously every session in th e Commons House of Parliament—but beyond this he ha s swe o pt away the nuisance, with doing militating against the inte restsgEizveehseteeZ Ito he takes from on hand t° the other. Before u te while of t hhse: THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRILI 9, 1862. being " off" with his " old love," the hop-growers, he takes very good care indeed to be "on" with the "new"--viz., the Brewing Interest. Minor flaws there may be in the Budget—one or two of an insig nificant kind we ourselves commented upon the very day after the Chancellor of the Exchequer had made his financial statement in Committee of Ways and Means—but these are altogether of a very subordinate, and almost, one might say, trivial cha racter. They may be readily enough eliminated from the Budget without in any way narrowing its symmetry. On the contrary, their elision would naturally tend, we cannot but think, to improve the whole aspect of a fiscal and financial policy adapted to the otherwise occasi so occasion and iptesculpiaercluyliar and distinctive circumstances. Foremost among these minor flaws is the vexatious license of 12s. 6d. proposed by Mr. GLADSTONE for private brewing in houses under £2O annual rent. And after that has been cleared from the Budget the supplementary license of three days at a time for publicans at fairs—a proposition by the way going just in direct opposition to the Temperance Movement, and tallying not in the least with that remarkable little subsidiary move ment the Teetotallers have so much at heart, to wit the more recent movement which has led to the erection of so many Drinking Fountains. Expunge the license for private brewing, and the supplemen tary publican's license for fairs from the Budget under the consideration of the House of Commons, and you would make it almost as perfect in detail as it is already beyond a doubt satisfactory as a whole. Mr. BRIGHT may well feel flattered by the com mendation of the New York Chamber of Commerce, and that he should return the compliment is natural enough. He would have done well, however, in an answer to their resolution, which is certain to be published in every Northern paper, to have expressed himself with a little more discrimination. More ever, he professes to speak in the name of the great majority of his countrymen, whom, " he believes, he does not mistake or misrepresent when he speaks on the side of their Government and people." We must think, however, that nine out of ten English men who would, on the whole, take the side of the North against the South, would Ave spoken much more distinctly on what Mr. BRIGHT merely in sinuates vaguely. It may be true, but with a very serious deduction, that the country of the New York Chamber of Com merce, is one of which it may be said that " in no other, have men been so free and so prosperous ;'' but Mr. BRIGHT'S fellow-religionists in America would add—" Save and except four millions of Americans, differing from us indeed in colour, who enjoy no kind of freedom whatever, and whose prosperity consists in the chance of having been sold to a humane proprietor." How could a lead ing member of a sect, certainly not undistin guished in the annals of philanthropy, forget so large a portion of his fellow-men, debarred from freedom and prosperity, not by inevitable circum stances, but by their wilful and tyrannical eten tion in a bondage the most bitter and unrelenting in the history of the human race. i Again Mr. BRIGHT adds, that " there is no other 1 political constitution in existence, in the preserva tion of which the human race is so deeply interested," as that of the Federal Government of the United States. We must again think that, unless the obvious qualification were mentioned, such a remark is not what Englishmen generally would make, and it is one which might, indirectly, do harm in America. As a thoroughly free constitution for white men, all but inveterate Tories would say as much as Mr. BRIGHT. Reasonable persons among Conservatives themselves, admit, that a republic was the only possible form of Government after the separation from England, and thorough going Liberals must all wish to see it proved to the whole world, that Englishmen could, in the fullest sense, govern themselves. Of no other race has this been yet said with truth ; probably because long habits of subjection to monarchical or aristocratic rule could not be thrown off in a day. English men, however, believe that they possess both the energy and the self-restraint requisite to national self-government, and they would all be sorry to see any conspicuous failure in this respect in America. But we ought surely never to commend the Ame rican Government to Americans themselves, with out reminding them that one little clause vitiates their whole, otherwise noble, constitution—the one which requires the Free States to send back the fugitive slave, and which, Mr. LINCOLN himself has said, finds its legitimate practical expression in the infamous Fugitive Slave Law. So stringent, indeed, are the demands of this clause, according to Mr. LINCOLN, that he urged the repeal of the " Per sonal Liberty Acts" of some of the States—ants which merely prevented kidnapping of free persons of colour—considering them to be at variance with the requirements of this fundamental clause of the American constitution! Mr.BRICIIIT, prominent as he is among the Liberals of England, ought not to have overlooked this. The clause is not an inci dental thing. It is one which Washington was unwilling to accept ; one which was earnestly and long contended for ; and one which resulted in that law which is the confessed disgrace of the American statute book. Mr. BRIGHT does indeed, almost imperceptibly, indicate that it is the freedom of the Free States which attracts the interest of his countrymen, and fseems to express the hope that all the States will ere long be free from the St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico. Even thus much he hardly makes clear. Now we would remind Mr. BRIGHT that, outspoken as he can be against all kinds of class tyranny at home, his silence on the vile tyranny of skin, when he speaks to Americans of their institutions, is likely to do even harm. Silence is taken for consent, What he does not mention, if we may not say he approves, he at least does not seriously blame. For an official man, or even a very cautious speaker, to be reserved, does no mischief. Mr, BRIGHT is, however, preeminently in this country the tribune of the humbler classes, lie never conceals his sen timents on their rights here; for him therefore to praise unconditionally a constitution constructed to protect slavery is almost to give his suffrage to slavery itself. One of the most amusing political events of the hour is the publication of the Prussian Finance Minister's confidential letter to the Minister for War. It surprised the public by its sudden ap pearance in the Vonische Zeitung. How it came there no one knew. The conductors of the journal of course, knew nothing about it ; office desks and private desks are searched, equally in vain. The manuscript or any copy of it, save the printed one, was nowhere to be found. It is asserted on the part of the Administration, that it could not have found its way into the paper except by fraudulent means, and of course the proper indignation is professed. When, however, the contents are fairly considered, few readers will doubt that the fraud was one per fectly acceptable to the parties on whom it was committed. We doubt whether stolen kiss was ever more willingly forgiven than the stealing of this letter. The substance and object of the letter may be given briefly enough. It VAS to beg the War Ali nister to reduce his estimates, and the object of the reduction was to cut the ground from beneath the feet of the Liberals at the impending elections. M. Vox DER HEYT says frankly to his colleague, that they mast try for a majority in the new Chambers, that the best card of the Liberals was the extra taxation, that the expenditure of every other de partment but the army has been cut down to the lowest, and that in the army alone is there any room for economy. The inference is obvious— if you and I are to remain in office—and such true patriots cannot doubt that every sacrifice should be made to that end—less must be spent on soldiering. Time, too, presses. We must renounce, he says, from the Ist of July, the levy of additional taxes, and make positive promises on the subject " before the timefixedfor the elections" The disbanded Chamber has, we in England should think, fresh claims to re-election. To turn out the men who had brought a high Tory Minis try to such concessions would be political ingra titude indeed. But, it would be what politicians think worse, it would be political folly—for who should watch over and insist on the proposed reduction of military expenditure, but the men who brought it about. If the new ministers are honest, they could work with the members of the old Chambers. If they are dishonest they need their control. Prussians, however, surely under stand this, LATEST NEWS. PARIS, APRIL 8. The Paris papers of this evening publish a tele gram from Athens of the sth inst., stating that the insurgents at Nauplia demand a general amnesty and change of the Ministry. A decree for the amnesty has been published, excepting 19 of the chiefs of the insurrection. The same telegram asserts that the English and French squadrons before Nauplia are stationed there under pretext of protecting their respective Consuls, but in reality for the purpose of advising the insurgents to submit, and of offering an asylum to those persons not included in the amnesty. The result is expected to transpire in the course of the week. BRUSSELS, APRIL 8. The Minister of Foreign Affairs has requested the Chamber to enter upon an immediate examina tion of his proposition for the establishment, upon the Ist of May, of two daily postal services between Belgium and England. The proposition has been referred to the sections, the meeting of which will take place to-morrow. The Minister requests a decision before the Easter holidays. COPENHAGEN, APRIL 8. The Rigsraad voted to-day the extraordinary credit of one million rix dollars asked by the Minis ter of Marine for the construction of an iron-plated vessel. INDIA. CALCUTTA, MARCH 16 (via Trieste). A person calling himself Balla Rao having cor rupted some infantry regiments of the Nizam, a tumult was on the eve of explosion. At this juncture the plot was, however, dis covered, Balla Rao absconded, and peace has been restored. Lord Elgin landed and assumed the government on the 13th inst. On the following day Lord Canning received de putations from all classes with addresses. He will sail in the Feroze on the 10th inst.] PEKIN, FEB. 1. Much is expected from the energy of Prince Kung. A large body of rebels have been driven out of a barricade at Woosung by the Imperialists, under the command of Colonel Ward, an American. There is no other news of importance. SHANGHAI, FEB. 21. Bodies of Volunteers are forming. Much speculation is rife as to the result of the rebellion and the interference of other Powers. Reports have reached this city that the inhabi tants of Nankin are in a state of starvation, and are eating human flesh. IMOWM ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. Mr. Gye commenced his season last evening, and the " opening" was inaugurated by an audience that filled every seat in the immense theatre. The opera was " Guillaume Tell," with Tamberlik as Arnold ; Faure, as William Tel. ; Madame Carvalho, Mathilde ; Zelger, Walter Furst; and Madame Rudersdorff, as Tell's son. On the appearance of Costa in the orchestra, he was very warmly welcomed, and in a few moments after the house became silent for the performance of Rossini's magnificent overture ; never has it been given with better effect than last evening, and the fact was testified by the loud applause that followed its termination. The manner in which the opera is always per formed at this theatre is so well known, that it is needless to go into any very lengthy particulars. In the second aet no single scene more calcu lated to create a sensation of the liveliest kind than the mEeting of the Cantons and the swearing of the oath of liberty, preceded by the superlative trio in which Tell and Walter disclose to Arnold the news of his father's murder. The trio in question was superbly given by Signor Tamberlik, M. Faure, and M. Zelger, the pathetic tones of Signor Tamberlik, and his truly impassioned delivery, in Arnold's famous apostrophe to his murdered parent, moving the sympathies of the whole audience, who applauded him with rapture. The opening of the act—with the alternate chorus of Aus trian chasseurs and Swiss shepherds, on the distant shores of the Lake in which the represen tatives of the Cantons meet, and after, one by one, declaring the motives that incite them to revolt, unite, under the auspices of the three leaders, Tell, Arnold, and Walter, in taking the oath —were alike in every cease perfect; and the curtain fell on the patriotic exclamation, " All' armi ! All' armi," amid applause as uproarious as it was legitimately earned. Of course, it was raised again, that not merely the principal singers, but every one engaged in the performance, might be included in the unanimous verdict of approval. The remaining gems of the opera were all given with great effect, as every one concerned was in capital voice. During the recess the theatre has been entirely re-decorated, and it now presents a most gorgeous appearance. The Duke of Somerset will hold his third levee to-morrow afternoon at the Admiralty, Whitehall. The Marquis Camden and the Ladies Pratt have left Grosvenor-square for Wilderness Park, Sevenoaks, for the holidays. The Earl of Derby continues to improve in health. _ The Earl Cowper and the Hon. Henry Cowper have arrived in town from a tour on the Continent. The Earl and Countess of Erne arrived at their residence in Eaton-square a few days since, from their seat in Ireland. The Earl of Verulam has arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Bournemouth. The Earl and Countess of Bective have left Grafton-street for Underley Hall, Westmoreland. The Earl and Countess Russell will leave town to-morrow for Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, for the Easter recess. The Countess Dowager of Mexborough is ex pected in town in a few days from visiting Lady Stuart de Rothsay at Higheliffe, Hants. The Earl and Countess of Stamford and Warring ton have arrived at Hill-street from his lordship's seat, Biadgate Park. Lord and Lady Camoys and the Hon. Misses Stonor will leave town on Saturday for Stonor Park, Ox fordshire, for a few weeks. Lord and Lady Chesham have arrived at their residence in Grosvenor-square, from Latimers, Bucks, for the season. Lord and Lady Rendlesham have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel. Lord and Lady Norreys have arrived in town. Lady Caroline Townley remains at Brighton. _ _ _ Lady F. Fitzroy and family have arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood. NEW ROYALTY THEATRE. —This evening Mr. Charles Wyndham takes his benefit at this theatre, on which occasion he puts forth a very attractive bill of enter tainments. In the first piece, " Charles X 11.," Mr Richards, whose admirable performance of Grandfather Whitehead a short time ago showed that he possessed talent of the highest order, sustains Liston's part of Adam Brock. The drama is to be followed by a new comedietta, written by Mr. C. Wyndham, entitled "A Vi c ti m t o F r i en d s hip," in which the author sustains the part of Captain Clements ; and, for the purpose of showing his versatility, he also ap pears as O'Callaghan in the comic drama of " His Last Legs." The remaining entertainments are calculated to afford a capital evening's amusement. GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION.—In order to enter tain our country friends who are expected to visit the metropolis in the " merrie month of May," Mr. and Mrs. German Reed, in conjunction with Mr. John Parry, have produced a new entertainment, entitled " The Family Legend ; or, Heads and Tales." The author of the work is Mr. Tom Taylor, and he has acquitted himself of his task in a most admirable manner. The fun of the dramatic sketch consists in the dream of a romantic poet (Mr. Reed) who falls asleep during the singing of a Welsh legend, by Mrs. Reed, in which the doings of a bad Sir Griffith are duly chronicled in song. The ghost of Sir Griffith of course appears and amuses himself by enunciating his opinion on modern customs during the smoking of his cigar, and winds up by giving the sleeper a tune upon the fiddle. Mr. John Parry, as the jovial host, Col. Pryse, created quite a fu rore and, taken altogether, the novelty is well calculated to draw admiring thousands to the Gallery of Illustration. DEATH OF THE HON. JOHN E. ELLIOT.—We have to record the death of the Hon. John Edmund Elliot, the late member of Parliament for Roxburghshire, who died on Friday last, after a protracted illness. The hon. gen tleman, who was third son of the first Earl of Minto, and brother of the late peer, was born 30th March, 1788, so that he had just entered in his 75th year. The deceased mar ried, 3d October, 1809, Amelia, third daughter of 'Mr. James Henry Casamajor, of Madras. He entered the civil service of the East India Company in Bengal early in life, and re tired in 1830. From 1837 up to 1841, and from 1847 to 1859, he was representative in the House of Commons for Rosburghshire. Ho was for two years, during Lord John Russell's administration, secretary of the Board of Control. By his death the families of the Earl and Countess of Northesk, the Earl and Countess Minto, Lord and Lady William Compton, the Countess Russell, Colonel and Lady Elizabeth Romilly, Sir John and Lady Caroline Boileau, itc., are placed in mourning. 19Thi SURREY RIFLES.--On Monday evening the officers, tonorary mem b ers , &c., of this corps attended a mee ti n g at their drill shed, Kennington-park. Mr. F. Doulton took the chair. Ho said it was with deep regret he had to announce the resignation of Major Roupell, M.P., who had been compelled to resign the command through private reasons, He hoped that the corps mould thrive, and be proposed, now that it had lost one who had been a great supporter to the corps, that a military man should be in vited to take the com,l . nand ; which was carried with groat cheering. A vote of thanK, was returned to the chairman for the able manner in which he ht 2. (1 conducted the meeting. dance, and played The two excellent bands were in atty.:. eg selections after the meeting. Most of the .2 1embers pressed their intention of taking part at the re., Brighto4. -; ew at FRANCE. BOURSE, April B.—The market continues inani mate, and prices are slightly lower, Threes, for the Account, being now at 70f. Railway Shares have been rather offered, and some of the lines mark lower prices. The Market slightly receded to wards the close, when the following were the last quotations : 4i per per Cents... 97 75 Bank Shares — Do. mad month.... Credit Fancier 1490 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 69 90 Piedmontese Fives 6B New 3 per Cents .. 68 95 Roman Do. end month.... 69 10 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 790 Spanish Threes 6l 50 Do. Account — Home Debt AUSTRALIA.. LIVER P 00L; TUESDAY. The screw steamship Great Britain has arrived, with advices from Melbourne to the 29th January, and 60,367 ounces in specie. Her news is three days later than the last mail. The Melbourne Argus of the 28th furnishes the following mining news : " There is still the same complaint of general dul ness on the diggings, and mining news is there fore scarce. New rushes are very much wanted, but they will not break out, although so many are anxiously waiting to take pact in them, on the slightest possible excuse offering. The most pro mising opening just now for one is at the Antrim Arms, between four and five miles from Talbot— Back Creek, still the best known name, where work has just been commenced afresh in a number of claims, in consequence of its becoming known that the gold has been found in another claim besides that of the prospectors, and in more than merely paying quantities. A party of Germans bottomed some days since, and, for the purpose of inducing others near them to abandon their claims, gave out their own was no good, and commenced taking down their windlass, as if about t 3 leave it ; but when they got as many of their friends as they could around them they commenced work again, and it is now believed that they got a prospect equal to three ounces to the load. And on the Mount Greenock Lead there has been a great improvement within the last few days. In one claim that was abandoned a fresh party of men came upon stuff that yielded them four ounces to the load, after driving a few feet, and in the Engine Claim a good lead has been struck, after a long search for this in vain. The gold on their part of the lead is also coarser, for along with smaller pieces they found a nugget weighing loz. 4dwt.; and on the upper part of the lead yet another party has come upon payable stuff, so that the Mount Greenock lead, or leads, as the case appears to be, are in high favour again. Towards the Talbot end of the plain a prospecting party has struck upon gold, and some ground has been taken up round them, but we have nothing as yet to show what the natuze of the deposit may be. Most of the frontage claims on the Rocky lead are still yielding well, and a number of block claims have been taken up on a fresh parallel, as from a discovery made in one of the larger claims it is thought an important new or branch lead may be opened up. Work has been commenced in several of these, and there has been somewhat of a rush to the side of the pre viously occupied ground. No new alluvial ground has been found in the neighbourhood of Amherst, and there is in places there an increasing scarcity of water, calculated to drive away many of those still on the old workings. At Dunn's Paddock the lead is nearly worked out, and the nuggets found are becoming less in weight and fewer in number each week. " The diggings around Dunolly are now yielding well, and the last escort from that place was the largest for some time. Much of the gold was supposed to be from the old lead and from Coch ran's, but Burnt Creek contributed a due proportion, as a number of the miners there, particularly the Chinese, are doing remarkably well. The Bullock Flat Lead is extending towards Dunolly, and some of the claims on it are believed to be rich, for these times. On the Wild Dog side of the creek a num ber of the miners are still at work, and, to all ap pearance, satisfied with what they are getting. A new reef has been discoved on the Old Dry Lead at Dunolly, the first five tons from which yielded 7oz. 3dwt. lOgr. At Cochran's many of the men are engaged in raising cement, which pays them well. Two or three weeks since there was a small rush to shallow ground near Harper's Reef at Havelock, and the gutter, or else a succession of patches, has been followed up until the sinking is now between 50 and 60 feet. The yield is, how ever, irregular, and not great from even the best parts of these patches, so the rush is not likely to assume any importance. There has also been a rush of Chinese to the Blackman's Lead, and the alluvial ground about Maryborough is said to be receiving more attention, but no new discoveries in that direction are announced. " At Barkly good claims continue to be bottomed on the deep lead each week, and otherwise there is no change. The deep lead at Redbank is rising in favour, and from some of the shafts last put down the prospect was at the rate of a penny weight to the bucket. From other parts of this district there is no news. At Rokewood there has been a rush to a hill at the back of one of the streets, where some 20 good claims were bottomed early last week. A bucket of dirt from one of these yielded 1 oz. 5 dwt. of gold, so that it is needless to say the population on the spot is fast increasing." The English Eleven landed at Sydney on the 27th of January, and were to commence their match on the following day. The Otago Times of the 17th of January records the discovery of a new gold field on the Zammerland Creek, near its junction with the Waipori. RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1255 .. 1256 25 Northern New ditto 985 Lyons and Mediterranean 1125 .. 1125 Geneva 386 25 .. 385 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard 570 570 ITALY. " Advices from Turin," says the Independance, "have announced that King Victor Emmanuel has signed the decree for reorganising the Neapolitan magistracy, the composition of which, as bequeathed to the Kingdom of Italy by the despotic and corrupt Government of the Bourbons of Naples, was far from offering to the country the guaran tees everywhere considered indispensable in per sons charged with judicial functions. The work of weeding out the unworthy was so long, diffi cult, and delicate a task that no Ministry till the present has been inclined to assume the respon sibility of it. This reorganisation will be pub lished with the signature of M. Ratazzi, Minister of Justice par interim, and as this decree was the sole motive which delayed the entrance of M. Conforti into the Cabinet, it is highly probable that he will now enter on office at once." A Turin letter of the sth, in the Pram, says : " The King will arrive at Naples preceded by a flattering decree for the National Guard of that place, who have been indefatigable since their for mation. The banners of the twelve battalions will for the future bear the civil medal awarded for courage and good conduct. A few days back a man was arrested who attempted by force to obtain an interview with Garibaldi. He pretended to be a sailor, and stated that his intention was to obtain from the General admission to the Italian navy, but suspicion being excited he was searched and a pistol being found upon him he was arrested. An enor mous volume has been published to-day, containing the bill on stamps and registration dues already voted by the Chamber of Deputies, and completely modified and corrected by the Senate. The remark has been made that latterly all the bills of the Chamber of Deputies have been modified by the Senate, and the rumour goes that the bill on the tobacco duties will be treated in the same manner. As to the bill on postal reforms, I have the firm conviction that it will not pass the Senate without important modifi cations. The numerous amendments voted by the Lower Chamber have altered its spirit and rendered it almost unintelligible. The proposed new postal rate still remains fixed at 15c. for letters of 10 grammes. The present charge is 20c. The bill brought in by M. Peruzzi proposed a uniform rate of 10c., but on the observations of the Minister of Finance the rate was fixed at 15c. It must be re membered that the postal service costs 20 millions a-year, and only produces 16." A Naples letter in the .Nord says :—" The Che valier d'Amico, captain in the navy, has just been appointed private secretary to the Minister of Marine. To great practical aptitude that officer unites intelligence and great scientific knowledge. He is the same who last year distinguished him self at Gaeta, when in command of th e G ar ib a ldi, and who has just published a " Treatise on Naval Tactics,' which in the opinion of the most intelli gent Italian officers, may be placed in the rank of the best works of that kind published in France and England. Everything gives reason to hope that the Italian navy will be satisfied with the choice of the Minister Persano. On the other hand, some disappointment was felt on learning that Captain Isola, of the navy, was to quit his post of Chief of the Department of Naples. There is a strong attachment in Naples to Vice-Admiral Baron Tholosan, Rear-Admiral Provano, and Capt. Lola, who for the last year have had the direction of the naval department." A CENTENARIAN.—There is now living near the Bat and Ball, Sev enoa ks, a man named William Weaver, who attained his 101st yoar on the . 29 th of Dec em b er l ast. He is in full p ossess i on o f all his faculties. H e was b orn at Chipstead, b u t h as lived in this parish fo7 the last 25 . yeard. - -JfaicilOno MOW* ~t i t:l32a. A LITERARY C&RIOSITY. A singularly beautiful, and, in some respects, a really marvellous specimen of photography, was a considerable time back submitted to us. It was sub mitted to us then in our capacity as reviewers both of art and of literature. And although our com ments upon this truly remarkable specimen at once ( of art and of literature have been delayed unavoid ably until now, they will nevertheless be the ex pression rather of the spontaneous effusion of our appreciation at the moment of writing than the deliberate utterance of any opinion over-scrupu lously weighed in the balance of our judgment. In simple truth there is no need, if indeed there be any possibility, for hesitation in the recognition either of the interest or of the value attached to this very curious example of the application of the photo graphic art to the preservation and perpetuation of a world-famous masterpiece in the world of letters. A single glance at the production we are here refer ring to 1611 be quite sufficient to assure any one of even an ordinary amount of taste, or of what is called (rather rashly perhaps) common sense, that he is gazing at a magic facsimile of the only original draught now in existence of a poem renowned all over the :earth as the most popular poem in the English language ! A Facsimile of Thomas Gray's Autograph Manu script of his exquisite .Elegy in a Country Church yard. A Facsimile published for half-a-guinea by Messrs. Sampson Low, Son, and Company, of 47, Ludgate-hill. The photographers who have pro duced this perfectly unique specimen of their beauti ful art being the Messrs. Cundall and Downes, a firm already honourably known by the microscopic daintiness of their manipulation. The extraordi nary specimen of photography we are now remark ing upon, it should be observed, at once extends to no more than four quarto pages—representing the four pages of an old-fashioned sheet of letter-paper, not note-paper, but letter-paper. But together with these four quarto pages of what may be termed photographic calligraphy, there are besides several pages of illustrative letter-press , charmingly written throughout, giving, a succinct account of what.they serve, indeed, only verLagtrieoen ably to annotate. The editor of the entire s publication (as now issued to the public by these Low, Son, ite andre interesting i C n o g . ) runningto whose commentaries,p e n w e M e are es sr indebted . s Sampson, for identi cal, we believe, with the present possessor of the Original MS. in Gray's handwriting.' A manu script, remember, of which these four quarto pages are the literal fac simile—thanks to the marvellous agencies of the photographic lens and the glass sensitized by collodion ! Thanks immediately to these agencies, but decidedly also it should, in simple gratitude, be remembered by every purchaser of this " Fac simile"—thanks directly and obviously to the unselfish munificence (as we do not for an instant hesitate to call it) of the actual possessor of the manuscript, namely , Mr. Robert Charles Wrightson, now of St. James's, formerly o f Bi rmingham. As we h ave already remarked, but as we would here particularly re p eat it, the original MS.—now, we need hardly say for the first time photograph( d and thereby rendered (so far as an absolute fac simile can render it) public property—is the only autogra phic draught of Gray's Elegy now in existence. There is the well - known autograph manuscript of the poems, of COUTO()) still treasured up in the Library __=_-z-: ~---~-- lOt=2l of Pembroke College in the University of Cam bridge. But that, as every one will remember who ever examined it, is quite manifestly, is indeed notoriously, a fair transcript by Gray of the whole poem, when it had been thoroughly revised and corrected, and altered and abbrevi ated—the author's manuscript of the Elegy in fact as it is. The Original Draught of the Poem as it was—Mr. R. C. Wrightson possesses, Messrs. Cundall and Downes have photographed, arid Messrs. Sampson, Low, Son, and Co..,are now pub lishing. The Facsimile represents this MS., of course, exactly as it now appears—the edges of the sheet of letter-paper ragged and worn, the ink (never, perhaps, anything like a jet-black) faded away into a pale brown—a few of the words, occasional/1 nearly a line, of Gray's elegant handwriting so dimmed by age as to be almost illegible, as to be all but obliterated. Folded up—evidently for the purpose of being carried about more conveniently in the writer's pocketbook—there are other '° worn" edges to the M.S. than those already mentioned as the outside edges of the sheet of letter-paper. And the MS. appears to have become thus blurred, to employ a skater's phrase, purely because of these " inside edges" having got worn also by long car rying in Gray's pocketbook. By this, and by fre quently going in and out of that pocketbook for reiterated perusal, at the earnest " request of friends"—at the literary soirees and conversaziones then especially in vogue in—those " tea-cup times of hoop and hood," of which our living Laureate has sung as of so very long ago though they are times, by the way, judging at least front opera cloaks and crinolines, that we seem ono way or another to be fast reverting to ! It should be related in evidence of the indisputable authen ticity of this very curious and beautiful autograph manuscript, that it was among the Papers be queathed by Thomas Gray to the Rev. William Mason, the author of our English Poem of The Garden, but better known as Gray's intimate Friend, and (not always a consequence of inti mate Friendship) his judicious Biographer as well. On William Mason's death, this, among the rest of Gray's papers, was left in turn by Gray's friend and biographer to his own curate, Mr. Bright. And by Mr. Bright's son at length, in 1845, the Gray Papers were at length brought to the auctioneer's hammer, and scattered among eager purchasers. The purchaser there in 1845 of this (the original) draught autograph of the Elegy was (and no wonder) Mr. Penn, of Manor House, at Stoke Pogeis—the churchyard at Stoke Pogeig being the scene of the "Elegy," and the Manor House of Stoke Pogies (the residence of Mr. Penn) the scene of the "Long Story." For that single worn and faded sheet of old letter paper, precious by reason of its containing the original draught of the famous poem in Gray's own handwriting, Mr. Penn paid down £lOO. In doing so, however, he was eclipsed nine years afterwards, namely, in 1854, when the hammer again brought the MS. under the bidding of an eager throng of competi tors. The gentleman already mentioned as the present possessor of the manuscript, Mr. Wrightson, himself a graceful writer and accomplished scholar, gladly paying down then for his prize £l3l ! A h an dred and thirty-one pounds for what accident might at any moment have crumpled up and tossed into. the fire, and burned into a fluttering whiff of tinder in a twinkling ! Here, however, thanks to the public spirit and generous open-handedness of Mr. Wrightson, the original draught autograph is hap pily rendered in a manner (by means of its photo grapic multiplication) indestructible ! And now let us glance awhile at this original draught autograph—as reflected in its photographic 14c simile—of Gray's "Elegy in a Country Church-. yard.' Elegy it is not—to begin with—in the on but quaintly, in the slipshod grammar of the day, Stanzas wrote in a Country Churchyard. And, by the way, we would here give a hint to any purchaser of the fac simile—by simply following which hint of ours, he (the purchaser) may put him self in an instant, as it were, at the elbow of Thomas Gray while he is writing it! Let the purchaser then turn his copy of the fac simile up side down, and begin reading it, as it 'were, at the end. He will thereupon not fail to observe that at the top of what will then be lying before him as the first page (what is no NC, of course, the bottom of the fourth and last page). written by Gray's hand, Stanzas. And he will understand at once how Gray—either not liking his pen, or thinking he had begun writing out his lines too near the top of the page, or, at any rater in obedience to some sudden momentary whim-- turnrd the sheet of letter paper right over and began afresh inditing his "Elegy," or rather his "Stanzas. The interesting little items, however. disco verab;e in this extraordinary " copy of verses," al-e, truth, to a practised eye, to a memery familiar with the Elegy as it is (and whose is not ?), like Falsta.ff's reasons, "plentiful as blackberries." For example, there are no less than six separate verses, or rather stanzas, in this draught copy of the Elegy not to be found now in the printed version of it ! Five sepa rate stanzas, that is, besides the one known already to a few of the more inquiring admirers of Gray, that lovely stanza that Lord Byron wondered and lamented Gray's fastidious taste should have induced him to eliminate : " There scattered oft the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble And little footsteps lightly print the ground." It were tedious, however, and, in troth—remem bering that the fac simile is now readily procurable by those who care to possess it—superfluous, To par ticularise the whole of the differences discoverab , le between the printed version of the Elegy aid the Stanzas as they here originally stood in the draught manuscript. The "pick" among them, however, may not be inappropriately mentioned. And at every instance the alteration eventually resolved upon by Gray will be allowed upon all hands to be a veritable improvement. " Hands that the rod of empires might have swayed " stands in the original draught— " Hands that the reins of empire, &c. Again—" And all the air a solemn stillness holds,•'' first of all stood not nearly so well—" And now the air," &c. Turning, however, to the indications that may be found of larger changes than those intro duced by Gray into his eventually matchless Elegy, we find that in this original draught of the " Stanzas," immediately after the one ending— " Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep," the Elegy, in its crude shape, here continues— " For ever sleep—the breezy call of morn, Or swallow twittering from his clay-built shed, Or chanticleer so shrill, or echoin g ; horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed." A feeble version enough of what ultimately ripened into certainly one of the most exquisite and melli fluous passages in the whole of this incomparable • poem. " Familiar in our mouths as household words" though they are, we still love ever to repeat them—we can never by any chance tire of repeating them : "a thing of beauty," here again, " is a joy for ever :".and so—the perfected stanza of crowning o e w c ni ho n e g s back through our memory now by w quo tation— , g The breezy call of incense breathing morn, The swallow twittering from its straw•built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, and the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed." Examining the poem as it at length appeared when P ri nted — um/lining it now by the light of this original draught of it in the poet's autograph—a draught in which, by the way, Cato takes the place of Hampden, Tully of Milton, and Caesar of Crom well in that noble stanza that has since thrilled throughishmen in ha the h r e m ar o t nu hearts harmonious ssoacmceanntys such a generations these— tionsotEog- i " Some village Hampden, who with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood." —Scanning by the light of this Facsimile the El eg y as it ultimately grew to be, out of the budding gems of these Stanzas, one can hardly wonder at a reward even so immense as its unrivalled popularity being its present won by such a wondrous exercise of a ttlste so intensely r€fined and of a care so exquisitely fasticious, For the, students of placing within the reach of so very many a literary possessorcuriosity that. 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