The Sun. — London, England, 1862-03-17 00:00:00

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION. The ANNUAL GENERAL MRETING of this Institution will be held at the London Tavern, Ei i ns , TUESDAY (TO-MORROW), the 18th t., at shopsgate-street Two o'clock precisely. The Right Hon. The LORD MAYOR in the Chair. RICHARD LEWIS, Secretary. 14, John-street, Adelphi, March 17. • A i . and MRS. CHARLES KEAN will R A II I_ P FRAIL at the Theatre-Royal Drury-l a ne, THIS inrF,N ING (SIONDAY), March 17, in OT LIE 1,1,0. or( Tuesday, 18th, Louis XI. • Wednesday, 19th Othello ; o n Than daY, 20th, The Merchant of Venice e ; on Friday, 21st, Othello and on Saturday, 22d (for the B enefit of Mr. E. T. Sm ith), ; THE WONDER. R " AI. coEvENNTGGIA'IIDSENTI O PERA, (Jnier the management of a rri Mlson. AS Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. H 'THIS EVENING, THE PURITAN'S DAUGHTER. Mesors. Santley, Geo. Honey, Patey, Corri, Lyall, and Wm. Harrf,son ; Miss Susan Pyne and Miss Louisa Pyne. To conclude with HARLEQUIN GULLIVER ; or, (Hants and DNa.ris. Messrs. W. 11, F., and H. Payne, H., E., and S. Lauri, at - td Miss Jenny Lauri. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. Commence at Seven. .._ ---- THEATRE' Ito Y AL, HA YMARKET, i,t , tv tee. Mr. J. B. Bueirstone. t' commence with OUR - AMERICAN THIS EVENING, COUSIN. Lord punil. rearY' Mr. Sothern ; Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buckstone. a household Picture, under Two After which (7th time) r FE'S PORTRAIT. Mr. Howe, Lights, entitled THE -W% Mr. W. Farren, Mrs. C. "It.ung, &e. JARS. co L. TA To conclude with FA coma mii ‘ent.'e a 7 ----.- p OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. At' Manager---Mr. Edm and Falconer. T HIS EVENING, 106th time of We new and original Drama entitled, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Sayouirneen Deelish. Messrs Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charlos Selby, Edmund Fal coner ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. After which, a new and original Burlesque Extravaganza, en titled LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD ; or, The Fairies ot the Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrcelc. Principal charac ters by Mr . Chas. Selby, Mr. Warlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and bliss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Pt•ices as usual. Doors open at hall-past 6, to commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 tills. ROYAL PRINCESS' S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING. CASH V. CUPID. Mr. Widdicomb, Mr. Shcre, Miss Maria Harris, Ix. After whh, a Eight o'clock, OTHELLO. lago, Mr. l'echter ; Othello t , Mr. Ryder. NE W THRATRE-R0 VAL, ADELPHI.--• Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE CENSUS. Mr. J. L. Toole. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. and Mrs. D. Boucicaul', Mr. Billington, D. Fisher. C. J. Smith, S. Emery, Stephenson ; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, &c. To conclude with THE DUBLIN BOY, Mrs. Boncicault, Miss Laidlaw, Mrs. B. Lewis, Mr, Emery, &c. Commence at 7. JE W R OYALTY TH E A TRE, Dean-street, Oxford-street. THIS EVENING, THE LOTTERY TICKET. To be followed by DELICATE GROUND. Miss Rebecca P o well, from the Winter Gardens, New York (her 2d ap pearance at this theatre). Messrs. Charles Wyndham and D. James. After which, the snecesful Opera Buffo, entitled LE MARI AGE AUX LANTERN ES. Mr. John Morgan, Mesdames Stanley, Payne, and Mason. To conclude with the Ballet Divertissement, HOMAGE TO FLORA. Mtsscs Clara and Barbara Morgan. Commence at half-past 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. In consequence of the great sensation created by the won drous feats of the colossal Asiatic Elephants on the stage, and in the circle, their truly marvellous Performance will be continued till further not ce. THIS EVENING, the Grand Eastern Spectacle of THE RAJAH OF NAGPORE, with new and splendid dresses, scenery, and decorations, introducing Mr. Bell's trained Ele phpnts, pronounced by the Press and the Public the cleverest animals ever exhibited. To be followed by brilliant Scenes in the Circle by the u nrivalled Troupe of Equestrians. Concinding• with a comic Ballet of Action, introducin ,- Mr. Barry Croueste (the favourite Clown to the Ring), the Misses Gunn's, and the whole of the Corps de Ballet. Commence at 7—Conclude at a quarter-past 11. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle. CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. VICTOR ,TULIEN, "THE FLYING MAN," (Last Vi,f4ek but One) at half-past Nine, in new and extraor dinary fea:s. Grand Se.lections from "La Sonnambula," "Dinorah," and " La Cirmssienne," by Mdlle. Negri, with full Band and Chorus, co:lducted by Mr. Jonghmans. The Conic by ,Mr. Randall, Mr. Frederick French, Mr. J. G. Forde, Meaar,"4. Hildebrandt and Ormond, and Miss Caroline Parkes. Admission—Hall, Bd. ; Stalls and Balcony, is. THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.- EVERY EVENING. HENRI and PFAU, in their intrepid Double Feats on the Flying Trapeze. Two Operatic Selections alternately from " Ernani," " Macbeth,' "I 1 Trovatore," "La Traviata," "La Circas sienne," .he., by Miss Russell, Madame Enderssohn, Messrs. Morley, Greene, C. Grevilie. and Albert. Full Band and Chorus—(Conductor —Mr. F. Jongbmons.) Violin Solos— Mr.Viotti Collins, and other Vocal and Instrumental attrac tions. The Conlic portion by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey and French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. Randall. hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, is. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. A Grand Morning Entertainment EVERY THURS DAY, at Two, HENRI and PFAU and the whole of the Company, appear. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY. —Morning, 2h. 40m.—Afternoon, 2h. 58m. To-MORROW. -Morning, 3b. 13m.—Afternoon, 3h. 36m THE WEATHER.—Surr Or is MARCH 16, 1862. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 45 —highest since noon yesterday. B—low est this morning and during the night. 40—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.0. NVI ND—North -Easterly ; rather fresh, with dull weather. MARCH 17. THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADS. 44 —l4.ighest since noon yesterday. 38—lowest this morning and during the night. 43—this day atinoon.' BAROMETER-29.83. WlND—South-Westerly ; light, with dull rainy weather. It rained heavily last night. 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. ~.. 4 ) , 4 :1 9e 4 ,_ " 4 :5 1 ) ..* %' -. ,- - c -- : : ,"• •,L ~.---- , e; ,••-. .i-P ".! - . - --- ,:-.,'''..'"V •,......, •‘,,14)1P1-7, t e , .....),, ', , -.0 -,.., - , ': ' - ' 7 .tF'ir-i7 '- ';':; 0 1 4 ( -- Z ) ,„_, .1 • ' 7 '...) ;° 1 -!„* ''. 49• 4444- THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1862. The Financial Position of France fills every one just now with more or less solicitude. It is a matter of anxiety, of course, in the first place, to the French people themselves. It is a cause of watchful curiosity no less to the surrounding nations of Christendom. Hardly, however, can it be regarded with anything like surprise by any one. For, in point of fact, it is only what has been long anticipated by the more o bservant and reflective. The ma rvel indeed has been that so fair an appearance should have been kept up so long. The gloss cleverly put hitherto 'P c "' the state of things in the Imperial exchequer Ima ta ken a considerable time in truth in rubbing off. Blinked though the reality has been hereto fore, there ha s at olzgoth. been no chance whatever of any longerv P lung the inevitable day of reckoning. So specious, how"er, h o s t id P been the policy of the reigning Sovereign of ra t ze in regard to the financial organisation Government, that until vary recently under his last"appear- Once" of prosperity —though f rom j ra t t h : than with inex plicable —was regarded by the generality out Europe less with absolute incredulity a sort of puzzled amazement. People how the thing was done. They marvelled 3 8 to the secret of this seemingly substantial prosperity. The expenditure annually was s Government The pu blic works undert aken by the were and are still s o numerous, so co stly, and so g igantic ! The amount of taxation was and i s y et so moderately enhanced, simultaneou sl y with the yearly disbursements of such stup endous aggregates—aggregates in the mere numerals em &led all the more astounding to us Englishmen, from the circumstance of the French moneys being calculated not in pounds sterling, but in francs, consequently not by millions, but by hundreds of millions—that all kinds of preposterous rumours got afloat among the lovers of canards, as they are called by our Gallic neighbours, among the dis coverers of mare's nests, as they are familiarly de- signated by ourselves ! Chief amongst these extra vagant on dits, or "flying whispers," as to the secret of the ostensible financial prosperity of the French Imperial Government was actually a statement gravely advanced by one all-believing gobemouehe —(incredible though it may seem to say so, we are simply relating here what absolutely was written and printed, and what,at the time of its bein g written and printed actually, made the round of the European newspapers !)—a statement running to the effect that the Emperor NAPOLEON 111. had obtained posses sion secretly, and had long held possession securely of a gold mine in Central Africa! And that hence it was that his Majesty could, during this decade of his empire, do so much for France wit hout laying any corresponding burden upon France herself. Alas ! for the beautiful day-dream. But a brief interval has at this time elapsed since the Imperial Govern ment of the reigning Sovereign of France was con strained at last, in spite of itself, by what has been termed the "inexorable logic of events," to make a clean breast of it. The hitherto concealed involv of th e Imperial excheque r h ad gradually and so deplorably, and ments p : resent moment b e come so seriong; so vast,- A it would appear up to this like wise so inextricably com p licated ,`hat a tardy but complete eclaircissem ent b ecame the one thing inevitable. A new Minister of Finance was therefore fran:: l i and boldly called to his Imperial councils by the Emperor NAPOLEON. The blurred and blotted, and jumbled accounts of the French Treasury were placed in the hands of M. ACHILLE FOULD. Trifling with one of the names of this new finance minister of Imperial Gaul, it was punningly whispered (aside) by some, that " FOULDS rushed in where angels [might have] feared to tread !' The sneer, however, was speedily enough shown, by a few startling facts, to have been somewhat pre cipitately and inconsiderately directed against an adutinistrator who, in his mode of dealing with the fearful crowd of difficulties committed to him (if he could) to conquer, soon enough proved himself to be at any rate, not altogether unworthy of his other name, that is of his heroic and classic prenomen. As yet M. ACHILLE FOULD has only had time enough barely to begin in regard to the Financial Diffi culties he has to deal with—the Augean labour of the preliminary clearance. Afterwards—when that may havebeen accomplished—will come by necessity and in due sequence the task of reconstruction, the task, in other words, of the complete and compre hensive rehabilitation of the Financial Edifice of the French Imperial Government. Meanwhile, the first and immediate results of the preliminary exposure of the actual state of things there in France, in regard to the Finances, have, it must be admitted, been in various particulars sufficiently alarming. Insomuch, that—latterly, within the last few weeks, at Paris—incidents have taken place that have not been witnessed there since (eight or ten long years ago) the iron grasp of the revived Empire of the BONAPARTES was last grappling with those among the more zealous champions of the Republique Rouge, who evidenced the greatest tenacity to life, the most eager devotion to their political creed, the most determined and uncon querable adherence to their principles, as the chiefs of the Ultra Revolution. However the facts here alluded to as of very recent occurrence indeed at Paris, may have originated—those facts are alto gether incontrovertible in themselves. Obscurely here and there in different parts of Paris, in the "back slums" of that gay and gilded capital— arrests have taken plaee, personal seizures have been made, as in the days when renowned literati like M. Louis BLANC and M. VICTOR HUGO were driven into exile, when formidable enthusiasts like BLANQUI and BARBES were constrained to cast a blank look of terror suddenly—here, to the prospect of the galleys—there, to the more dreadful prospect still of possible toils for years to come in the tropic hell of Cayenne ! That—after a long inter val of quiescence in this way—Paris should have been thus again " startled from its propriety" by tidings of these kind of secret arrests, has surely its significance. Particularly, coming to Pass, as the event does, almost at the same moment when the financial embarrassments of the empire are brought to light. Once more, there, has been heard the muttering of those insurrectionary chants from the Quartier .Latin, from the sky parlours of the Isle de Paris, that have before now so often pre saged disaster. None wish here amongst us for the disturbance—yonder upon the opposite shores of the Channel—of the long-prevailing and still continued tranquillity. But it is as well to be on the alert, to be watchful, to exercise an unwink ing watchfulness as to what is occurring now, in this new and momentous phase of the Second Em pire, under the vigorous but still enigmatical and inscrutable regime of NAPOLEON 111. There is what appears to us a very foolish affec tation of logic amongst the opponents of the Mar riage Bill. The truth is, logical consistency is laughed at when it does not suit Conservative pur poses, and worshipped when it does. If Mr. BRIGHT would bring the representation of the coun try to something like what logic demands, then no thing is so beautiful as the anomaly of Thetford two representatives, and Manchester two. Logic is loathed or laughed at as the case may be, if it would compel the rectification of any abuse, or re quire the concession of any measure of popular liberty. But, if login can be pleaded in favour of any venerable imposture, or in lieu of any rightful popular demand, then " great is logic !" and even a practical bill must be weighed in the balances of ARISTOTLE. Amongst the notable prohibitions which interdict to a man marriage with his grandmother, and to a woman marriage with her grandfather, and many other things equally sage, is found one interdiction which is replete with practical evil. Amongst civilised people no one thinks of marrying his " grandfather's wife , " " wife's grandmother," his " mother," his " sister," or " his daughter," &c. &c. —if we happen to open our prayer books, where the parallel columns, containing thirty each of prohi bitions of this kind occur, we read a few, laugh at canonical absurdity, and turn over. But amongst these ludicrous prohibitions, which affect no man in his senses, is one which thousands have broken, and which assuredly thousands more will break. A man is left a widower; among the maternal aunts of his children, generally in this case very young children, he finds one whose love to the children, and whose character, known to him now by pre vious intimacy, combine to induce him to seek in her a companion for himself and a certainly affectionate mother for his offspring. But in this foolish list he Buds No. - ~ sister." 17 a man may not mar r y his wife's Who put that there, he asks ! A sceticism and sup did not ; she m at , him marry. GOD did not ; f or . in the case of th e only people for whom He ever leg' s• lated, he explicitly limits the prohibition to poloamoys Marriage, like J ACOB'S, w ith ACOE'S, a wife's rnE • T.,SUN, LONDON. IVIONOAY EV 'ENING, Al Uteri : 1 17, 18624 LATEST N-EWS. TURIN, MARCH 15, EVENING. In the Chamber of Deputies to-clay explanations were requested by Signor Petrucelli as to the con vocation of bishops at Rome, Signor Pctrucelli was of opinion that the bishops, similarly to other public functionaries dependent upon the Government, ought to request leave of absence to be allowed to visit Rome. These eccle siastics had more regard for the temporal than for the spiritual power. Rome desired to proclaim the dogma of temporal power and to make an appeal to the Catholic world against France. Should the bishops go to Rome without leave of the Govern ment, they must on their return become simple citi • zens and lose their ecclesiastical functions. The Minister, Signor Poggi, replied :—" The object of the convocation at Rome is unknown, but it is certainly not of a religious character. The Government is sufficiently armed by laws against those bishops who should take their departure from the State, and should render themselves guilty of acts contrary to the interests of the nation. Up to the present time leave of absence has always been requested ; but, in case of this not taking place, the Government will consider what course to adopt." The Minister, Signor Mancini, added a few ob servations, and Signor Petrncelli declared himself satisfied. ...--_ ...... r ., . sisters He refuses, therefore, to heed the injunction. Rightly, if he be prepared to face the consequences which the late Bishop of LONDON induced the Lords to force upon him, as the price of legitimatising the marriage, from which sprung the present Duke of BEAUFORT. Yet the Tories and Churchmen, if this practically evil prohibition be attacked, call out, when will you stop ? Why not repeal all these pro hibitions ? . _ _ It might be answer enough, surely, to an Eng lish House of Commons, that the rest of the droll list is a grievance to nobody. We hear of no peti tions for liberty to marry our grandmothers and so forth—and it is not the custom of Englishmen to demand relief from lists of words which trouble nobody. We must say, however, that we think the whole list of prohibitions valueless; and that we should have no kind of objection to throwing in the fire. It consists of prohibitions of two kinds, the foolish and the doubtful. Either we are pro hibited from marriage with persons with whom we should never dream of marrying or with persons with whom it cannot be proved that we ought not to marry, We agree very much in principle with Mr. MONSELL. With him and JEREMY TAYLOR we hold that in the earlier ages of the Christian Church, when the antagonism between Judaism and Christianity was better understood, there was almost general consent that the Levitical degrees do not, by any law of GoD, bind Christians to their observance." We might as well turn Jews at once as appeal to the precepts of Leviticus to guide our Legislation. Presbyterianism has much of this kind of Judaism in it. Episcopacy imitates Judaism more in the matter of the Hierarchy,—and a well-paying imitation it is. Both, however, go +4 Leviticus on this question, though Paul would as 00 ,7 i have thought of subjecting Gentile Chris tians to circumcision, as to Leviticus. But, Mr. MONSELL contends it is the tendency of Christianity to refine our sentiments, and one part us t of regard the refinement th rel ati o h n e s holds of ais t n o i t bet y a h s a e t u i tea ly c h o b e s . o jud Judaism. is m t o . jectionable in regard to marriage as relatives of consanguinity. We do not admit his view. Christianitythe artific i a l ceremonial re m o religion ni a o l of character reaitl.es a so opposedf d sanguinity in man , as in the lower animals, Now it is a physica l fact that relationship of eon detcriorates the quality of the progeny. There is a real reason therefore for preventing, as far as may be, by the force of knowledge and opinion, such marriages. Violation of this law has made the royal races of Europe, for the more part inferior to other men. In regard to affinity no such prin ciple exists in nature. All must be left to sense of propriety—to sentiment —so far we agree with Mr. MONSELL—what we deny, is, that such sentiments are fit subjects for law. We do not object to them, or to their indulgence, or to their cultivation, or to their being taught. What we object to is, that the law should be called in to affix penalties to the absence of such sentiments in any particular case. If our sentiments on the subject are as strong as Dr. CANDLISH says they are in Scotland, or as Mr. MONSELL says they are in Ire land, then law is useless. Social opinion will do the work of law. But if there be ever so few persons who are satisfied that the sentiment, in the case under discussion, for instance, is absurd— that it is contrary to nature and religion—then it is persecution, and nothing less, for all the rest, to force on him their religious and moral sentiments on the subject. All things socially desirable, or socially preferred by the many, are not fit subjects for penal statutes ; and we have never seen it shown yet that social opinions, on relationship of affinity in regard to marriage, are fit subjects for penallaw. The political ecclesiastics will find out, before long, that they have made a great mistake. Mar riage law reformers would have been content with the rectification of one practical evil in the old Judaizing Tables which disfigure our Prayer-books. They would have left the rest to those who delight in Levitical ornaments to a Christian Liturgy. Cierical obstinacy will compel an exposure of the baselessness of the whole system. The people will have to be taught that the Bible was meant to in fluence legislation, not by furnishing clauses for penal Acts of Parliament, but by abolishing inter meddling and artificial prohibitions, and by soften ing and ameliorating our codes. " Touch not, taste not, handle not," says Judaism, and it fills long columns with prohibitions and comminations. Love GOD and your neighbour, says Christianity, and dis penses with all the vexatious details of Leviticus. It is too late in the day to prevent the truth from coming out. The demand will now be to constitute marriage a civil rite for civil purposes; as, indeed, Archbishop WHATELEY has long proposed, leaving all persons to use what religious service they pre ferred, or none at all. At the same time we must require that Leviticus be left to the Jews, and that the degrees of affinity and consanguinity be settled and enforced by the social sentiments of a civilised and Christianised community. According to the present arrangements (writes our Windsor correspondent) her Majesty the Queen will leave Windsor Castle on or about the 3d of the ensuing month, and return to Osborne, Isle of Wight. Her Majesty contemplates visiting the Highlands at an early period, and returning to Windsor, from )3al - in June: After a stay of about a fornight at the Castle the Queen will proceed to Osborne, and again visit Balmoral towards the end of the season. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred had, we be lieve, a slight attack of fever during his voyage. He has grown considerably since he left England. The young Prince is now, we are happy to say, in excellent health, all traces of indisposition having completely vanished previous to his arrival in this country.—Court Journal. The civil marriage of Mlle. Adele de Rothschild with Baron Salomon de Rothschild took place on Wednesday at Frankfort. The religious ceremony was performed on the following day, at the synagogue, by the great rabbi of the Consistory of Paris. All the members of the Rothschild family from Paris, London, and Vienna were present. Baron James de Rothschild. of Paris, on the occasion of the marriage of his son Solomon, has presented 2,000 fr. to the mairie of the 9th arrondissement, Paris, for distribution to the poor. _ _ _ The Crown Princess of Prussia, it is expected, will take her departure for the Continent the latter end of this month.—Court Journal. It is expected that her Mijesty will return to Osborne the beginning of April, or soon after the departure of the Princess Royal for Prussia.—Court Journal. A new yacht is to be built for her Majesty; it is to be rather larger than the Fairy. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll have been visiting Alfred Tennyson, the poet laureate, at his seat at Farringford, in the Isle of Wight. Lord Palmerston, in giving evidence before a parliamentary railway committee last week, statetaed that he had turned his attention very much lately o defences of the country, and that it was most important that all the arsenals should be connected by railway, and of similar gauge. His lordship also stated that it was in contemplation to make some defences on an island in the British Channel, and that it was advisable that Portsmouth and other arsenals should be connected with Bristol by a railway without break of gauge. Pembroke, his lordship said in answer to a question, was not an arsenal, it was simply a building and refitting yard. His lordship also stated that he was in favour of connecting all towns on the south coast by rail. TESTIMONIAL TO MR. M'CONNELL.—A very superb testimonial has been presented to this gentleman on the occasion of his quitting the management of the Loco motive Establishment of the London and North-Western Railway at Wolverton. After the presentation Mr. M'Con nell and his friends dined together in the " Queen ' s Room." A universal feeling of regret at parting pre vailed. SURREY THEATRE.—Mr. Benjamin Webster having entered into a brief engagement with Messrs. Creawick and Sheppard, the lessees of this theatre, ha makes his first appearance this evening in his celebrated character of Robert Laundry, in the A delphi drama of the " Dead Heart." Illustrious Paul Bedford also accompanies his manager,. and he too will sustain his original character in the same drama, THE BOMBAY MAIL. The Valetta, with the above mail, left Malta for Marseilles at 9 p.m. yesterday (16th). The Ellora, with the heavy portion of the mail, was to leave at midnight. She may be expected at Southampton about the 26th inst. FRANCE. The Moniteur publishes the following report to he Emperor from the Minister of the Interior : " PARIS, March 14. " Sire—On the occasion of the anniversary of the birth of the Imperial Prince, your Majesty, desiring to accord a proof of your consideration for the municipalities of the Empire, has commanded me to present for the decoration of the Legion of Honour some of the mayors recommended by the value and length of their services. I have the honour of placing before your Majesty the names of those who appear to me the most worthy of that high distinction. As your Majesty recommended, I have not confined myself to pointing out the magistrates placed in the important centres of population ; among the Mayors proposed are a certain number having the administration of rural communes, and some among them being simple farmers; but your Majesty knows how to appreciate everywhere ab negation and zeal for the public welfare, and I am sure of responding to your intentions in designating aged and loyal servants of the State, who, sur rounded with esteem and respect, apply them selves gratuitously to the interests of the com munes. Sire, in 1856 y our Ma j est y calle d to the baptism of the Impe rial Prince the m ayors of all the chief towns of the departments. Your Majesty has now chosen the moment in which the Child of France is about to enter his seventh year to give to the municipal administra tions a fresh proof of your august sympathy, and that useful and numerous class of functionaries will understand your Majesty's intentions. They will feel a profound sentiment of gratitude in seeing their devotedness and services united in you Ma jesty's thoughts with the reminiscence of an event dear to the people who have associated their desti nies with that of your dynasty. If your Majesty should deign to approve of my proposal, I shall have the honour of submitting for yonr signature the project of decree annexed.—l am, &c., " F. DE PERSIGNY." Then follows an Imperial decree nominating to the rank of Chevalier in the Legion of Honour 64 mayors, as above-mentioned: BOURSE, March 15.—The market has entirely changed its tone; from being animated, as it was yesterday, it has become heavy, and, stock having been offered, quotations are generally lower. For the Account, Threes are now at 69f 65c. Four-and a-Half per Cents. at 96f. The following are the prices of other securities at the present time—Bank of France Shares, 3,110 f ; Credit-Foncier, 1,495 f ; Orleans, 1,360 f; Northern, 1010 f ; Western, 575 f; Mediterranean, 1,087 f 50c; Southern, 760 f; Aus trian, 505 f ; Lombard, 543 f 75c. PRUSSIA. Advices from Berlin of the 14th inst. state that the Ministerial crisis at Berlin is not yet over. The first Cabinet Council, under the presidency of Prince Hohenlohe, was held on the 12th, when a pro gramme was to be drawn up; but there was such a difference of opinion that Count Schwerin, M. de Patow, and M. Auerswald offered to resign. This is attributed to the concessions demanded on the question, which were opposed by M. Von militaryß oo nthe Alin is Minister of War. The successor of M. Bethmann-Hollweg will, it is said, be M. de Witz leben, actually President of the Province of Saxony. He was for a long time attached to the King's household when the latter was Crown Prince. MUSKETRY INSTRUCTION AT HYTHE. The following report of the late class for the musketry instruction of Volunteers has been re ceived at the War-office:— Flythe, Feb. 15, 1862. " Sir,—l have the honour to forward, for the information of his Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief, the enclosed practice return detailing the results of the shooting of the class of Volunteers No. 10, which has just completed a course of instruction at this establishment, and have left the station, with the exception of the following who remained for further instruction :—Captain Williams, Ist Warwick, R. V. C. ; Sergeant Thelwall, South Middle sex; Sergeant Joseph, Ist Glamorgan; Sergeant Middle tan, 11th Norfolk ; Private Emery, 2d Northampton; Private Wilshere, Ist Sussex; Sergeant Good, Ist Dorset; Sergeant Barnard, 2d Hants; Corporal Worth, 2d War wick; Colour-Sergeant Merritt, Ist Herts ; Sergeant Pun chard, 20th Essex; Sergeant Osborne, 20th Middlesex ; Sergeant Gittas, 20th Suffolk; Ensign Metcalf, 2d Cam bridge ; Sergeant Cleeve, 11th Barks ; and Lord Northwick, Hereford Militia. - 'The shooting is very good, ' particularly at the long ranges, and this class has obtained the highest ' figure of merit'—viz., 47.67—0 f any class of Volunteers yet trained at the School of Musketry :—Captain Nightingale, 22d Middlesex ; Ensign Browne, Ist Wilts ; Ensign Hunt, 10th Norfolk; Sergeant Hewitson, Bth Tower Hamlets; Sergeant Good, Ist Dorset; Sergeant Mitchell, 2d Essex; Sergeant Gibbs, 9th Berks; Sergeant Pulley, 23d Essex ; Sergeant Sparrow, Victoria Rifles ; and Private Wyatt, Ist London. The Volunteers having obtained seven points in shooting in the first class, and being first-class judges of distance, were examined in the theoretical principles and cleaning arms instruction, and found acquainted with these subjects ; hence the non-commissioned officers and privates mentioned are eligible to wear the marksman's badge of cross muskets on the left arm. " I would mention that the class judge distance in the afternoon, and that the proficiency of the several Volunteers in the said exercise was, on the whole, satisfactory. " I have the honour, &c., " CHARLES HAY, Inspector-General of Musketry. " The Adjutant• General of the Forces, Horse Guards." " THE NoE."—On the division of Friday night, which caused the adjournment of the house, there was a majority of one. In the votes on Saturday morning this lonely member, Major Windsor Parker, figures as p " the " Noe ;" an d w ith hi m are the " tellers for the noe, Mr. Lygon and Mr. Cubitt. MR. W. F. WINDHAM.—A correspondent writ ing from Norwich says :—Mr. Windham has returned 10 Norfolk, wh ere h e a pp e ars to find his chief amusem ent in driving a "drag." On Friday and Saturday he drove to Norwich with a ver y b u siness-like air, taking up as pas sengers several stray wayfarers whom he met on the road, so that when he reached Norwich on the latter day he had a tolerable coachful. Mr. Windham seems in excellent health and spirits, and does not—at any rate so far as ex ternal circumstances indicate—trouble himself much in dnre gard to the en dl ess Ch a ncery arguments respecting himself and his fo r t unes , an d p r obably he is pretty well sea soned b y this p e time se his to the costly wordy contention. H e a pp ears to is ! [ s hospitalities in much the same liberal fashion at Windsor. THE OVERLAND MAIL. By the overland mail we have received papers from Calcutta to the Bth of February, from Madras to the 15th, from Hong Kong to the Ist, from Mel bourne and Adelaide to the 25th of January, from Sydney to the 21st, and from Auckland to the Bth January. INDIA. The following is from the overland summary of _ the Friend of India:— The Indian public have now been able to judge of the character of the new constitution by its actual working. Allowing that despotism must be the basis of the new legis latures, the result has been as satisfactory as could be ex pected in the case of the Governor-General's, and perhaps of the Bengal Council. But the exhibitions made by the Madras and especially the Bombay Council seem, from the reports of the local press, to be not only undignified but ludicrous. On the occasion of the introduction of a bill by Sir Bartle Frere, who acted al the request of the Lieutel nant-Governor of the North West Provinces, to entail all grants of land henceforth bestowed by the state for loyal services, and to enable all previous grantees to apply for such entail, the three native members of council ex- pressed their opinions with an unexpected dignity and absence of servility. Rajah Dinkur Rao, accus tomed to the Durbar of the Maharajah of Gwalior, op posed the bill on the ground, among others, that a grant burdened with the condition of entail ceased to be a gift and became a trust, which no native would value. Rajah Deo Narain Singh expressed similar opinions in a speech which he read, while the Chief of Puttialla, on the eontrary, sup ported the bill as one of the highest policy, especially if primogeniture were attached to the grant. The discussion is well worthy of study by all who are interested in the self-government of the natives of India. As yet only one of the non-official members has spoken. Mr. D. Cowie op posed the Flogging Bill, which Mr. Beadon has revised in the new legislature under the title of the Whipping Bill. The Bengal Council consists of the following members, of whom the first six are officie.l:—T. H. Cowie, Esq., A. R. Young, Esq., H. D. H. Fergusson, Esq., E. H. Lushing ton, Esq., Baboo Rama Peraaud Roy, Moulvy Abdool Luteef, John N. Bullen, Esq., William Maitland, Esq., W. Moran, Esq., A. T. T. Peterson, Esq., Rajah Pertaub Chand Sing, and Baboo Prosunuo Koomar Tagore. Mr. Fergusson, who was commissioner of Patna, will give all his time to the duties of legislation. The other members are ex ojicio. The solitary advantage of the standing orders over those of the other councils ill, that they ex , pressly provide that a member shall rise from Ilia chair when he speaks. In discussing questions coming before the council for consideration a member shall speak from Ids place, shall rise when he speaks, and shall address the president. A member shall not be allowed t o read hie speech, but he may refresh his memory by referring to notes, and be may read, as part of his speech, passages from books or papers cited in support of his argument. At any time if the president rises, any member speaking shall immediately resume his seat. No member shall be hoard except upon business then regularly before the council, or by permission of the presi dent specially obtained, in explanation of what he had said in previous debate. Except In discussing verbal amend ments when the council is settling the several clauses of a bill, no member shall speak more than once upon a ques tion, other thAn the mover, who shall be allowed, if he have spoken to the question when making his motion, to close the debate with a reply. But a member who has spoken upon a motion, may speak again upon any amendment thereof afterwards moved. And a member may explain what he has before spoken if it has been misunderstood. No member, in debate, shall name another member. If the lieutenant-governor assent to an act, it will be by him sub mitted for the assent of the governor-general ; if the governor-general assents to the act, it will be published in the Calcutta Gazette as an act of the lieutenant-general of Bengal in council, assented to by the governor- general, and having the force of law. The council meets in the building occupied by the former legislative council of India. Mr. Macpherson, a barrister, is secretary. As all the native members are good English scholars they will speak in English, and no translator will be required, as in the case of the Hindtistani clerk of the imperial legislature. At the first meeting of the council on the Ist day of February, several important local bills were introduced, which had made some progress in the late legis lature. The Bengal council is the only one the legislative members of which are, most properly, not termed " Ho nourable." Ever since 1857, there has been serious discontent among our subjects in Assam and the Indo-Chinese tribes on the frontier, and it has now manifested itself in a most serious form. The outpost sanitarium of the Eastern Himalayas is Cherrapoonjee, noted for one of the greatest rainfalls in the world. It forms the centre, and is the chief station of the Jynteah hills. It lies immediately to the north of Syihet and east of Caehar, two fertile districts in which there are at least a hundred Englishmen engaged in tea planting, and where grants of land are being rapidly bought up in fee simple. In 1835 the Rajah of Jynteah, India Singh, finding the territory unprofitable, offered to give it to us for a pension of rs. 500 a month. Up to 1858 the administration of that district was not conducted with out expense, and in that year, after deputing a member of the board of revenue to the place, we imposed a house tax on the people. They resisted, were punished, and the tax was paid. The impost which was no novelty, had been made use of as a pretext by the ex-rajah to stir up intrigues for his restoration to a pest he had voluntarily surrendered. The order went forth that he should be removed to Dacca, but it was never obeyed by the local officers, " from oversight," as is naively confessed in the official report. It is thus Bengal is go verned, and we need not wonder that the Jynteah lihasias are once more in rebellion. The people of Jowai, Jalong, Tuteer, Shirmany, &c., have surrounded the sepoy guard located at the first-mentioned place, and all the villages in that part of the country are only waiting for a favourable opportunity to join them. The whole inhabitants of the 19 districts into which the territory is divided are estimated at only 40,000, covering an area of 25 square miles. The cause of this rising is said to be the new tax lately imposed upon them. But they say they would have been willing to bear this quietly bad it not been for other burdens which are still more grievous. Of these others they mention the lawless ness and corruption of the petty officials sent amongst them, who, they say, fleece them without mercy ; the disregard shown to their prbeipal men, and the fear they have that Government will force them to pay rent for their lands. When the rising took place there were not 600 troops in the whole province, which is as large as Scotland. Major Richardson is in cammand, and Major Rowlett, the civil officer, has considerable influence with the people. To add to this difficulty the independent Rajah of Tip perah has chosen this time to attack two of our subjects, who are large zemindars. His Kookees, old enemies of ours, have burned 28 houses and scalped 20 ryots. The Landholders Association, which represents the important interest in that quarter, at once addressed Government. Some thousand native troops were despatched from Bar rackpore, Calcutta, and Dacca, the whole to be commanded by Col. Dunsford. Meanwhile the latest news is that Major Richardson has taken the Jowai stockade with a loss of 12 sepoys. There is still a third com?lication. Bhootan, fur ther westward, between which and Nepaul stands Darjee ling in its unprotected beauty, must also be humbled, Like Japan, this Indo-Chinese territory is ruled by a spiritual and a temporal sovereign, named respectively the Dhorm and Deb Rajahs. The former, being regarded as an incar nation of the deity, rules for life. The latter is elected from time to time ; and we were prevented from punishing Bhoctan in 1857 only by the mutiny and by the fact that a new Deb Rajah had been appointed, supposed to be favour able to the cause of order and peace. As usual, our fax• bearance has been mistaken for weakness, for the only pun• ishment we did inflict was in 1859 to cease the payment of Rs. 2,000, the yearly rental for a tract of land in Rungpore surrendered by Warren Hastings in 1779, when he was too busy wii h higher matters to fight the Bhooteahs. Still the kidnapping of British subjects has gone on, and now ven geance will be readily taken. A. wing of the 10th Native Infantry and 150 men of her Majesty's 38th have been sent to Darjeeling. The Bengal civil service have adopted a memorial to the Secretary of State for India, the claim of which is—" It will be a reasonable and just concession to the expectations of your petitioners, and a restoration only of the advan tages originally designed, if annuities of £l,OOO per annum are granted to all members of the service after twenty-five years' service (and twenty-two years' residence in India under present rules), on making up their contrtbutions to the fund to one quarter instead of one half the value of the annuity; the retiring allowance of such of your petitioners as shall serve more than twenty-five years being annually increased by £25, the maximum annuity attainable after 35 years being thus £1,250. The Madras memorial, which also represents the civilians of Bombay, makes a similar claim, but wisely does not ask more than the 11,000 pension. The only effect of the £1,250 asked for must be to stop promo tion, while it induces the bad bargains of the state to cling to their salary to the last. Really good men will always re main in India beyond the minimum term of years, interested in their duties, and attracted by the hope of higher ap pointments and a greater reputation. COTTON TRADE WITII INDIA.—A short tabular return which has been laid before Parliament shows, side by side, how our imports of cotton wool from India have been increasing of late, and our exports of cotton goods thither decreasing, In 1859 we took 1,717,240 cwt. of cotton wool from Indi a , and sent thither cotton goods and yarn of the value of £14,713,812 ; in 1860 we took 1,822,689 cwt. of the raw material, but the cotton exports to India fell to £12,425,736; and in 1861 we took 3,295,004 owt. of cotton wool from India, but only sent thither cottons and yarns to the value of £11,618,35 0 . Still, this export compares well with that of six years before, which was only of the value of £6,458,086. There was a sudden increase to the extent of more than £4,000,000 in 1858, and again in 1859 an increase of above £3,000,000 more, the export of manufactured cotton goods rising from £5,156,171 in 1857 to £12,167,498 in 1859, and the cotton twist and yarn from £1,147,379 to £2,546,314. 2HE NEW ROYAL 111.AUSOLEUM, (From the Court Circular.} Her Majesty the Queen laid on Saturday the first stone of a Mausoleum in Frogmore-gardens, in which are to be deposited the remains of her dearly loved husband the Prince Consort, and ultimately her own. Her Majesty, in performing this act of reverential and devoted affection, was surrounded by all her children now in England, and was attended by the ladies and gentlemen of her Household in waiting and those who had in any way specially attended upon the Prince. Her Majesty, supported by the feeling of the sacred nature of the duty she had to perform, was able to complete the ceremony, and after the stone was laid the Dean of Windsor said a prayer, asking God's blessing on the work. The few carefully se lected persons who were permitted to be present were assembled upon the ground at 12 o'clock, and her Majesty, with no attendants but the Royal children, proceeded on foot from Frogmore House (whither her Majesty had previously come in a carriage in the most private manner) to the spot where the stone was prepared. Upon the stone is tEe following inscription : " The foundation stone of this building, erected by Queen Victoria, in pious remembrance of her great and good hus band, was laid by her the 15th of March, A.D., 1862, " Blessed are they that sleep in the Lord.' " The building is to be erected under the superin tendence of Mr. A. J. Humbert, architect, and the reclining statue of the Prince will be executed by Baron Marochetti. Her Majesty had wished that this mournful cere mony should take place upon the first anniversary of the death of her revered mother the Duchess of Kent ; but as that day was Sunday the eve of the anniversary was selected. There were present her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Prussia (Princess Royal oS, Eng-. land), their Royal Highnesses Princess Alice, Princess Helena, 'Princess Louise, sad Princess Beatrice, Prince Alfred and. Prir.ce Arthur, the Countess Caledon (Lady in Waiting), the Hons, Beatr=ice By n g and Emily Cathcart (Maids of r- Armour), Lady Augusta Bruce, Lady Caroline Barrington, Countess Von Schulenberg (Grande Maltresse to the Crown Princess of Prussia) Coun tess Bliicher Walstadt (Lady in Waiting), and Count Fursteinstein (Chamberlain to her Royal Highness), Viscount Torring on (Lord in Waiting to the Queen), Colonel Cavendish (Groom in Wait ing), Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge, C.B. (Equerries in Waiting,) Lieutenant-General the Hon. C. Grey, Colonel the Hon. C. Phipps, and the Hon. H. L. Phippsi the Hon. and very Rev. the Dean of Windsor, the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley, Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. Bid dulph, Lady Couper, Major-General Seymour, Miss Hildyard, Madame Hocede, Miss Bauer, Major Cowell, R.E., Major Elphinstone, R.E., Mr. Ruland, Mr. Woodward, Colonel Ponsonby, Colonel Seymour, C.B. (Scots Fusilier Guords), Mr. Meyer, Dr. Jenner, and Mr. Brown, ROYAL INS7IIUIION. MR. D'ORSEY'S LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Now that the course of lectures on the English Language, which the Rev. Alex. D'Orsey has been delivering at the Royal Institution during the last two months, is com pleted, we devote a brief space to noticing the wide and in teresting field of study over which the English Lecturer of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, has taken his hearers during the last few Saturday afternoons. The first lecture, on Saturday, Jan. 25, was devoted to the English language in its relation to the Indo-European Family—and how great this is, we can in some degree esti mate when we bear in mind that under that name is em braced the vast chain of languages which extends from the Ganges to Mount Hecla, and is rapidly spreading over America and Australia. Mr. D'Orsey passed rapidly over the great branches of the Indo- European family—viz., the Indian, including San suit, Hindostani, and at least forty dialects—the Medo- Persian, embracing the languages of ancient and modern Persia, &c. The Pelasgic, under which is included Latin, ancient and modern Greek, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romannie ; the Teutonic, com prehending the Frisian, German, Dutch, Flemish, English, with the Scandinavian branch of Medo-Gothic, Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian. The Sclavonic, under which branch come the Russian, Polish, and Lithuanian, and the Celtic, which includes the Irish, Welsh, Gaelic, and Breton; and then proceeded by a series of excellent diagrams and maps to alien, the birth, growth, and kindred of the Eng lish language. To this division of his great subject Mr. D'Orsey's second lecture was devoted. It was his belief, he said, that the English might date its birth in India many centuries before the beginning of the Christian Era, for though no records existed in the shape of written books of our language, yet the spoken words of England at this day, if compared with Sanscrit, Persian, Old Gothic and kindred tongues, would point to a common origin. Mr. D'Orsey divided the whole growth of the English language into seven periods, which he classified thus—(l) The Pra3historic, (2) the Gothic, (3) the Anglo-Saxons in England, (4) the Semi •Saxon or Transition period, (5) Early English, (6) I ntermediate English, and (7) Modern English. The distinctive cha racteristics of these several periods were explained, and various works placed on the table to illustrate the descrip tions, including among them an immense variety of versions of the Scriptures in different languages and dialects. For the advantage of being able to exhibit these, and other rare literary treasures, we believe Mr. D'Orsey was in debted to the kindness and liberality of Prince Lucien Bonaparte, whom we observed among the' most attentive and interested of the many distinguished philologists and savans who filled the lecture-room. In the third lecture on " The English Language, Lite rary and Vernacular," Mr. D' Orsey entered into a full examination of the composite character of literary English, showing that fully two-thirds of the vocables might fairly be considered Teutonic, while the grammatical construction was strictly so. A very interesting table was also exhi bited in illustration of the third lecture, showing the pro portion of Anglo-Saxon in some of our chief standard authors : thus, the English translation of the Bible had 97 per cent., while Gibbon, the most Latinised of our writers, had but 58 per cent. At the close of this lecture Mr. D'Orsey entered into a very interesting as well as entertaining discussion on pro vincial dialects and national corruptions of the English language, such as frishisms, Scotticisms, and Americahisms. Perhaps the fourth lecture was the most valuable as regards the direct practical benefit to be derived from the excellent hints which Mr. IYOrsey from time to time offered for tio consideration of his hearers. It was on the English lan guage as now written, and in his treatment of this branch of his subject Mr. D'Orsey exhibited all that scholarly re search and delicate critical acumen by which his lectures in general are distinguished. He pointed out the chief prevailing errors in style and composition, and contended that they were the inevitable results of a defective system of instruction in thought, and the use of language as the loom in which thought is woven. The last lecture attracted, perhaps, the most crovkled audience of all ; nor was it a matter of surprise, considering the many highly interesting and popular topics embraced in its syllabus, viz. :—The English Language as now spoken—Conversation—Foreign Words— Slang Public Reading—The Church Service—Public Speaking and Preaching—Sermons—Lectures— Speeches The Bar— The Stage. All these subjects were admirably treatsd in a free, candid spirit, and without the smallest approach to pedantry or affectation. Indeed, it would be unjust to Mr. D'Orsey if we concluded this mere outline of his course of lectures without saying that his manner is as easy, pleasant, genial, and unaffected as his matter is sound, sterling, and full of materials for thought. In alluding to the subjects of public reading, preaching, and speaking, Mr. D'Orsey was exceedingly happy in his remarks; and that they were well appreciated by his audience was shown by the loud and repeated applause which greeted his observations. While dwelling on these topics, Mr. D'Orsey strongly commended to all who were interested in them the Rev. J. H. Howlett's work "On reading the Liturgy," and Mr. C. J. Plumptre's little volume of " Lectures on Elocution," recently delivered by him at Oxford. We tender our best congratulations to Mr. D'Orsey on the success which has attended his zealous and unflagging efforts on behalf of the study of the English language being raised to its proper position in the educational courses of our colleges and schools, and trust that his valuable sugges tions may have a wide and increasing influence and benefit equally all classes of the community, A Chamber of Commerce has been established at Halifax, with nearly 200 subscribing members, Mr. Edward Akroyd, of Bank-fleld, has been elected President, and the Vice-Presidents appointed are Samuel Waterhouse and Mr. Joseph Crossley, "Until now the commercial and manufacturing interests of Halifax have been represented by the Bradford Chamber of Commerce, as the Chamber for the worsted district of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Occasional notices in the law reports show that the affairs of the Deposit Bank and National Assurance Association continue to furnish steady materials for litiga tion. Meanwhile there is not the least indication that the immunity enjoyed from the first by Mr. Peter Morrison is likely to terminate. The means of discovering the places of retreat of persons who are charged with heavy banking delinquencies, and who are supposed to retain ample spoils, RPM' to be singularly inefficient, THE PRINCE OF WALES IN-EGYPi, ALEXANDRIA, MAPCH 6. The Prince of 'Wales arrived here on the Ist inst. The arrangements for the reception of his Royal Highness underwent considerable modification, and, . • among other things, the intention of receiving him with a sort of feu de joie from the batteries of the harbour was abandoned. The matter was compro mised by the Prince landing under the ordinary salute of 21 guns, which the Viceroy insisted could not be dispensed with, since its omission would have been liable to be misconstrued by the people of the country. The Prince landed at the railway terminus, and at once went on to Cairo, where the Viceroy awaited his arrival and received him with every pc..4- sible attention. The train was driven direct to the Pasha's palace of Kasr-en-Nil. on the banks of the Nile, whence, after a short interview, the Prince and his suite were conveyed in carriages to the palace prepared for their residence. On the follow ing day the Viceroy visited the Prince, but without form or state, in consideration of the privacy in his Royal Highness travels. The Prince on. Monday, in like,manner, returned the calls of the several members of the Viceroy's family who had come to pay their respects to him. With these for unavoidable exceptions, the Prince's visit to Cairo has differed but little in its cireumstancr a from that of a private gentleman. On Sunday afternoon big Royal Highness attended Divine service at the English chapel, and onhis excumi ons i n t o th e t o wn few of the Cairenet who beheld him riding through the bazaars on the ordinary tnonture of the city can have suspected that they looked upon the future King of England. On Tuesday at midday his Royal Highness left Ce 3 _l'o for Upper Egypt. The Pasha's steamer con veyed the Prince and his suite from the palace of Kasr-en-Nil, and they were accompanied by Vice Consul Calout for the first day. At Djizeh the Viceroy again received his Royal Highness in per son, °Ad Colonel Minie exhibited to the Prince and his party some of his recent improvements in the rifle. On the shore every variety of Eastern means of locomotion had been provided by the Viceroy and awaited his Royal Highness's arrival—car riages, horses, asses, and dromedaries. The last mentioned obtained the preference, and a long ' valcade of richly caparisoned dromedaries wound its way through the green fields and palm gro v es of Djizeh, under the declining light of a gloriou s Even' ing, to the platform of the Pyramids. The 'sun had just set when the Prince and his party came into full sight of that memorable view. They had just time to survey the colossal features o f the Sphinx and the general outline of the Pyramids by the fading light, and then retired, not t o the ordinary bivouac in which European travellers rough it in the Desert, but to the sumptuous tents sup" plied by the Viceroy. Here, after a late meal' the party retired to rest till they were roused 11 early dawn to make the ascent of the Great Pyrr mid before runrise. The Prince, who was the ear' liest of the party, excited the astonishment of the Bedouins by climbing to the summit without assist' ante, a feat which, as all who have tried it, are wel l aware is anything but a light one. "Is that the governor ? Why does he go alone ?" was the Ties' tion the Bedouins put in their broken English. The sunrise revealed in its usual beauty the wonderfu l view that spreads itself out at the foot of the Pyra mids, and, after enjoying it at their leisure, 01° Prince and his suite descended again to their tents; An hour or more was devoted to the examinations' the other antiquities in the neighbourhood, an d the cavalcade returned as it had come, not withou t having been successfully caught by the skill of g f ' Bedford, the photographer, who accompanied th e Prince's suite. At Djizeh his Royal Highness, joined the steamer, when he was met by A ft ' Colquhoun, her Majesty's Consul-General, w ho or o companies him to Upper Egypt. Th e P r i nce wig return to Alexandria about th e en d o f t h e Ine e' when he will re-embark for Syria. i tta This morning the Duke of S axe C o b urg Prince Charles of Leiningen arrived from Tries by the Austrian steamer. They h ave t a k en up tlaeifst abode for the night at one of the Pasha's paluc ee . l 0 Alexandria, and to-morrow th e p arty star ts on journey to the far South. The matter of the Egyptian loan is at lengt h settled. The Viceroy has just signed the contrac t with Messrs. Openheim, the representatives of the German banks, whose offers the P or t e h as d e cide' he was bound to accept. The loan is fet 40,000,000 f. to 60,000,000 f., 30,000,000 f. of Nc'bich t. : are to be paid at the expiration. o f s i x inontu from the present time, and the balance at the eIP / ; ration of 12 months. The t erms o f th e l o an, you are aware, are 11 per cent, per annum for .00 : . years, comprising interest and a sinking fund fed the redemption of the debt. The annuity is secur e by th© ample revenues of the provinces of the Del ft !' The general opinion here is that the German car talists have done an excellent piece of busiue sti ; Their success is not un d eserve d , seeing that the ' were the only persons wh o came f orwar d with o ffers ' of assistance on fair and liberal conditions at the moment of the Pasha's greatest difficulties. In my last lette r I i n f orme d you that I‘-- f ' (I fit Lesseps had been suppli e d by th e G overn oei o with some thirty thousand labourers for the we t on the Isthmus ; but I refrained from mentionill°, that the men are not paid their wages by the CO ei ot pany. The information I received t o t h a t effe some weeks ago was so exp li c i t l y contra dict ea to me by persons closely connec t e d w i t h t he CO , pany, and who I had ev er y reason to b e li ev e P 0 0, tbe sessed the best possibl e means o f knowing c, truth, that I felt myself compe ll e d to y i e ld Ne t t tion to their denials. It was th ose persons, hoWe°e.i; who were misinformed, and the scruples I fe lt crediting the accuracy of my first informants' now appears, were altogether misplaced. wi t s rations men are suppli e d b y the company -Li rations of food, b u t on the expiration of the t ti , b e, during whi c h th ey are " held to labour " they f eeive in lie u o f money a paper specifying the vo, lance of wages due to them. This paper is O tt o tersigned and th e d e b t i s ac k nowledged by to Government, and th en p asse d i n account betviejeo the latter and th e company . T o b o th th ese part , the arrangement is, of course , p er f ec tly sat i s facto„' but the mode in which the claims of the fellahs settled by the Government is much less so, at let to the men, for whom, indeed, the transaction (3;e not possess the c h arm even o f nove lt y . Th papers are anythi ng b ut easy to conver t into eee ip ry In short, the transaction on the part of the Gov e t y ment differs very littl e , if at all, from those o f means of which Mr. Micawber was in the habit d, relieving his conscience from any sense of i n debt` ness. o f The Viceroy has for some time back s pokel l v g visiting England and the Great Exhibition du ll or the course of the coming summer, and there is probability that he will carry his plan into e se t i , tion. The Egyptia n contributions to the 031 tion are in cour se o f preparation, and will coul'o•V some specime ns o f guns and rifles, with imPl ° oo ments of the P as h a ' s own invention. The faro toe ancient je we l ry d i scovered by M. Mariette E°oo years ago on the mummy of one of the daug„ b doe' of the Ph aroahs is likewise to be sent to I)°4tre and will unquestionably become an importan . t e f - i e tte of attraction at the " W or ld' s F a i r. " M. 1 11 - e .," the will be one of th e E g ypti an C omm i ss i oner s Exhibition. , 7 101 1 RELIGIOUS POSITION OF BRITISH SUP- 111 1 ,s_PAIN. TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Of ~,,c0 , SIR,—Mr. Blake asserted on Friday in the 11- '„";ni , '"' Commons that " throughout the whole of the '-'r ewer' Peninsula English Protestants enjoy the full and free cise of their religion." olic re' The Spanish law asserts th a t "th e R oman Cat-h c og ligion is the only religiora of the land, and tha.,!, /3 :oalf d rf shall be tolerated." Tk j e Royal decree of 17th I ‘ °.e 'il; l49- 1852, enacts that "no foreigner shall profess ally r e ' but the Roman Catholic." ss iool Having acted as the Bishop of Gibraltar's tal rom i chaplain to the English in Spain in 1869, I speak ; j knowledge of the state of the case, w olf, That your readers may judge of Mr. Blake's ac c ,,,vrolr" submit a quotation from the letter of a b r other e'e-r -in 1860, t/ 0° m • [The letter is too long for insertion a t this me en pot' purport of it may, from the context i n o ur rev. Corte SP. dent's communication, be readily eno ugh surmi sed. Sun.l course, it is quite Possible a law may h ave /is been io Ili 01 cently passed in Cortes granting toleration. If so, be delighted to see a Copy of the decree. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, OY. OR . ALEX. J. D. 13 ,-13, Cambridge, Nara, 15, 1862,