The Sun. — London, England, 1859-08-01 00:00:00

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. tinder tne Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Fablen and Louis dei Franchi. By Mr. C. Kean. IT. conclude with A MIDSUMMER NIGH E'S DREAM. Commence at 7. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnckstone. THIS EVENING, SHOCKING EVENTS. THE CONTESTED ELECTION. After which, COOL AS A CUCUMBER. To conclude with HALLOWE'EN. Commence at 7. W THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI. STEW Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Chas Selby, Billington ; Misses Keeley, Arden, •nd Laidlaw. and Mrs. Billington. - And (10th time) a new comic drama, in two acts, entitled AN OLD OFFENDER. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. C. Selby, Mr. Billington, Mr. C. J. Smith, Mr. Eburne, and Miss H. Simms. Followed by the new burlesque, THE BABES IN THE WOOD. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne ; Miss Woolgar and Miss K. Kelly. Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Oflloe open from 10 to 5 --no charge for booking. No fees to servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING, CAPTAIN CHARLOTTE. Miss M. Wilton. After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses Swanborough, Oliver, and Lavine. Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE LADY OF LYONS. Commence at 7 o'clock. VERDI'S OPERA OF MACBETH. The whole of the first Act of this Opera, now produced for the first time in this country (the remaining three acts being in course of rehearsal), is sung nightly at the CAN TERBURY HALL CONCERTS. THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette, and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, Jul and EIGHT years. • The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios evcr written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France and Belgium. They will perform TWICE EACH EVENDTG, in addi tion to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER.—StIN OFFICE, AUGUST 1. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 67—highest since noon yesterday. 6 f—lowest this morning and during the night. 71—this day at noon. BanommTEß-29 . 93. WIND, South-Westerly; fresh, with fine weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 3h. 26m.—Afternoon, 3h. 48m. To-Molutow-Morning, 4h. 10n1.—Afternoon, 4h. 32m. We are fast coming within view of the end of the present piecemeal and fruitless session of Par liament. The House of Commons has all but got through the very last of the estimates. Ministers have nearly murdered the very last of the inno cents. Mr. GLADSTONE has presented us (with a flourish) with his "little bill." Sir CHARLES WOOD to-night is about to favour us with his ! Jowt BILL has his hands already deep in his capacious pockets—he is fumbling up (already) that inferial fourpence additional, to be in readi ness for his old enemy the Income Tax dun in October. He is grumbling loudly enough while ho is about it—but he'll pay, as is his wont, as a matter of course. There is some comfort he thinks, however, in knowing that, at last, he will be rid for a little time of the din and hubbub of all that useless palaver, in 1859, down at Westminster. Sympathising with him heartily enough in this— we wish Farmer BULL and his family a pleasant time of it now in their autumn leisure down at the seaside. It is a melancholy fact, as we intimated on Satur day, that as yet, while the Election Committees have gone far to exonerate the Conservatives from all blame whatsoever, they have in every instance condemned the Liberals, as proved by incontestible evidence given upon oath, guilty of bribery and corruption. Six constituencies have been already hauled over the coals—they have trod barefooted over the burning ordeal of a Parliamentary inves tigation Ashburton, Aylesbury, Dartmouth, Gloucester, Norwich, and Wakefield. Three of these six committees of inquiry have involved he return of those doubtful representatives Mr. SCHENLEY, the member for Dartmouth, Mr. LEATHAM, the member for Wakefield, and Mr. ASTELL, the member for Ashburton, The remaining three have had to decide whether double that number of seats were vacant or were validly occupied namely, whether Messrs. PRICE and MONK were properly returned for Gloucester, Lord BURY and Mr. SCHNEIDER were properly returned for Norwich, and whether Messrs. SMITH and BERNARD were properly returned for Aylesbury. Six com mittees have already delivered in their decisions to the House of Commons, and these decisions are precisely as we have here already intimated. In each instance, without exception, the Libe ral is declared to have not been duly elected —his agents having been guilty of the grossest bribery and corruption. In every instance, on the contrary, without exception, the Conservatives have been duly elected—their agents not having been shown to have in any single instance been guilty of bribery or intimidation. Mr. SCHENLEY, for example, is a Liberal ; as such we are doomed to find that in his case the committee of inquiry resolved, " That the late election for Dartmouth was void by reason of bri ery and corruption by Mr. SCHENLEY'S agents, and that Mr. ICHENLEY was not duly returned." The decision of the committee appointed to inquire into the late election for Wakefield, in declaring the Liberal member there to be unseated is yet more explicit—it expresses itself thus: "That WIL LIAM LEATHAM was not duly elected a burgess to serve in Parliament for the borough of Wakefield ; that the last election was void ; that the said WILLIAM LEATHAM, by his agent, had been guilty of bribery ; that it had been proved that four per sons named JACKSON, and others, had been bribed with sums of £lO, £3O, £2B, and £lO ; but that it had not been proved such bribery took place with the knowlege of said WILLIAM LEATHAM." What has tended to make this particular case peculiarly noticeable is the fact, as we have taken occa sion before now to intimate, that Mr. LEATHAM, the Quaker banker of Wakefield, is the brother-in-law of Mr. BRIGHT, the Quaker member for Birming ham. _ _ _ Reverting to the above decisions arrived at by the committees —there are the two Liberals un seated for Gloucester (Mr. W. PRICE ana:preinC: MONK), the last ele ction for the old city being torily proved to have been a void election. It having been proved before the committee that a large num ber had been bribed by the ag ents of the two Libe ral candidates ; and the committee, beyond this expressing their decided opinion that corrupt prac tices were extensively indulged in at the last elec tion for the city of Gloucester ! As to the Norwich inquiry the result is rather curious, and, in its way too, sufficiently significant. Both the Liberals returned for Norwich at the last general election, both Lord BURY and Mr. SCHNEIDER, have been proved to have been wrongfully returned, because they have been proved before the Committee to have been guilty, then and there, through their agents, of the grossest bribery and corruption. According to which decision of the Norwich Election Committee both Lord BURY and Mr. SCHNEIDER would be, as a matter of course, alike unseated. But—since that informal or rather invalid return at the period of the general election —they e has been another election down at Norwich consequent upon the late change of Governments. Lord BURY Still sits for Norwich under that later return in spite of the adverse decision in regard to its predecessor ar rived at by the Parliamentary Committee of In. quiry. The inference is obviously this—that Government influence with a candidate is equiva lent to the grossest bribery and corruption ! Compare with these aforementioned facts the de cision of the committee appointed to inquire into the return of the three Conservatives—Mr. ASTELL, the one member for Ashburton, and Messrs. SMITH and BERNARD, the two members for Aylesbury. All these returns are confirmed—or declared to be valid—the charge of bribery and corruption falling to the ground. A rather startling anti-climax all this to the sinister insinuations and flagrant impu tations directed by the immaculate Whigs against those vicious and perniciousDerbyites! Why, out of the seven first revised returns before the five earliest election committees, five Liberals were promptly unseated because of their having been guilty, through their agents, of gross bribery and corruption—and three Conservatives were pro nounced duly elected, the charges of bribery hav ing utterly faded out and vanished under the light of a Parliamentary scrutiny. Previously eight petitions were withdrawn. Forty seats yet continue to be dubiously occupied—forty seats still are being contested, or remain to be con tested, before committees. Twenty-one of these seats are held by Liberals—nineteen by Conserva tives. The prestige as yet is decidedly in favour of the Conservatives—not one Derbyite having been as yet unseated upon a charge of corruption ! and every Liberal whose case has yet been inquired into having been found guilty of bribery of the grossest description !! Another illustration has just been afforded of the extraordinary injustice of the system hitherto in vogue in the distribution of the Civil List Pensions. According to Act 1 Vict., c. 2, the sum of £1,200 is annually placed (under this head) at the disposal of the First Lord of the Treasury. Recollect the very title is that of the Civil List Pensions. Yet year after year we find conspicuously enumerated on this civil list the mothers, or the relicts, or the children of men who have died in the service of their country, either in the military or the marti time department. The twelvemonths recently completed yields no exception to the rule. For ther3 at the very head of the catalogue of all the pensions granted between the 20th of June, 1858, and the 20th of June, 1859, we find " Mrs. HAR RIET LUCAS WILLOUGHBY, in consideration of the gallant conduct of her son, the late Lieutenant WILLOUGHBY, in blowing up the magazine at Delhi (in trust to Mr. THOMAS WILLOUGHBY and Mr. HENRY WILLOUGHBY), £150." Not but what the mother of that heroic soldier had an undeniable claim upon the grateful consideration of the country. We maintain this pension of £l5O a year ought to have come out of some other fund than that set apart for the Civil List pen sions. This, moreover, is not the only exception The very next pension mentioned upon the list is that of Mrs. SKINNER, "in consideration of her having lost three sons in the service of their coun try (in trust to Sir JOHN D. HARDING and ALLAN MACLEAN SKINNER, Esq.), £50." Subsequently there is mentioned the following pension, to " MARY STEPHEN S, LAURETTA, RACHEL, SARAH, and AMY TUCKER, daughters of the late JOSEPH TUCKER, many years Surveyor to the Navy, £25 additional." Together with these there are pensions for scientific attainments, one for eminence in photo graphy, another (it is a pension of £lOO per annum to his widow), in consideration of the merits of JOHN HOGAN, the sculptor, and five for labours (hardly one of these for fame) in literature ! The fifteenth pension upon the list, bringing up the different amounts to the prescribed maximum total of £1,200 is a pension of £75 a year awarded very faintly, dimly, casually for literary merits, but in reality almost entirely out of military considerations. The award is thus expressed—to " Mrs. FRANCES MARTHA AGNES SIMMONs, in consideration of the military and literary services of her husband, the late Captain SIMMONs, and also of the eminent military services of her sons, two of whom lost their lives in action, and two of whom died from illness contracted in the execution of their duties (in trust to THOMAS FREDERICK SI3iMoNS, clerk, and HENRY PARSEY, Esq.), £75." So that the last as well as the one intermediate and the two first awards on the Civil List Pensions—we have found avowedly made for military services. One pension of £l5O, this latest distribution of the £1,200 set apart for another pension of £5O, a third of £75, and a fourth for £2s—the four together making a total of £3OO to be deducted from the paltry maxi mum set apart for the encouragement of art, science, and literature. Subtracting that sum of £3OO given in reward for military or naval services from that already sufficiently restricted amount of £1,200 —we find, of course, no more than £9OO, instead of the £1,200 promised by Act I. VICT. ch. 2, for the yearly encouragement of art, science, and literature. Of those £9OO the proportions are as follows—£lso to art, £275 to science, and £475 to literature. Under the first section, HOGAN'S widow, as already shown, has a pension of £loo the other £5O being set apart for " ALICE, CoNSTANCE, and JANET ARCHER, in con sideration of the valuable contributions of their late father to the science of photography." For scientific attainments there is one pension of £75 given to " ANN MARIA and CATHERINE COPPARD, in consideration of the services rendered to nautical science by their grandfather, Mr. T. ROBERTSON ;" and two for £lOO each—one of them in general terms, to " JAMES BOWMAN LINDSAY, in consideration of his scientific attainments"—the other to " Mrs. A3IELIA GRESLEY BALL, in con sideration of the services of her husband, the late Dr. BALL, the naturalist." As to the five pen sions—amounting, in aggregate value, to £475 awarded for literary attainments, one is for £5O (to " JOHN BOLTON ROGERSON, in consideration of his literary merits and destitute condition") —three are for £75, and two for £lOO. The last-mentioned two are the Rev. JOHN HIND, £lOO, in consideration of his literary services, and W. DESBOROUGH COOLEY £lOO, for his literary services and discoveries in Central Africa. The three literary pensions, for the £75 each, being really and truly the only three of any sort of in terest to the general public. Mrs. SUSANNA BART LETT obtains £75 for the literary merits of her hus band, the late WM. HENRY BARTLETT. CHARLES D. YONGE obtains £75 for his literary services, we believe chiefly, if not entirely those of a lexicog,, , rapher. And the third £75 (we shouldhave been better pleased had the amount, in this instance, been at least trebled) is awarded, in consideration of his literary merits, to the gifted, but only partially popular poet, EDWIN A THERSTANE. The analysis we have here given of this latest distribution of the annual sum of £1,200, set apart (nominally) for the Civil List Pensions, pursuant to Act 1 VICT. c. 2, we will here minutely epitomize : For Art . For Science For Military and Naval Services . . . . For Literature. Total Ll5O 275 300 475 . £1,200 That total of merely one thousand two hundred pounds sterling being, as the italics indicate, most unjustifiably diminished this year to a minor maxi mum of merely £9OO altogether. The mode of re duction is characteristic—and is, in fact, only according to precedent. But it is full time that the system should be put an end to, and the grant appropriated henceforth in the manner originally intended and expressed by the Act of Parliament. ''., • • )1: 4 1. `''„,,.--,-,:,,, .) ~ 4.,r, .; --, !. • , - 1 - :;,..i,1,• - „. 41. 4 . 0b 11 4 ; 5 ,.. i t , ),,: 4 4t •-•=,.154.:,..,-,,.. j i -, i i i - i i ~ • . x,1",,0ic ' bIEV ^ ;., 1,. t," , ^ ''' ? ':•',. , f.. : . 421 1 ~ ~.2.: 0 „, ",,,r, v. :,,,,„„ . k,- 41 , • ' --, -... ~. ..1:-,7, THE SUN. MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1859. ITALIAN OPERA, DRURY-LANE. The fourth performance of the " Vespri Siciliani," on Sa turday night, was also the last ofthe present season. Had this opera been produced earlier, there can be little doubt but that the treasury would have benefitted considerably ; for though the piece itself, in spite of its melodramatic and spectacular character, appears somewhat heavy and spun out, it is enriched with many of Signor Verdi's happiest thoughts. Instance among others the fete, with its spirited tarantella and pretty unaffected chorus, "Del piacer s'avanza l'ora," in the barcarolle style (act ii.); the whole of the music to the incidental ballet of the "Four Seasons" ;which, being characteristic and sparkling from end to end should not have been curtailed so unsparingly as at Drury lane Theatre); the duet for Helene and Henri ; the quarte for Helene, Henri, Procida, and De Montfort, with chorus of monks ("De profundis"), and chorus of women, solicit ing mercy for the heroine and patriot, condemned to execu tion (act iv.)—the most ingenious example of concerted music in the opera ; the bridal song of Helene, " Merce di lette amiche," a bravura in bolero measure and accent (which made the fortune of the opera in Paris) ; and last, not least, the tenor romance for Henri, "La brezza e leg gia" (act v.), than which Sig. Verdi has invented no more graceful melody. The oftener these are heard the more likely are they to become popular. Moreover, tho "Vespri Sicialiani" afforded the first opportunity of bringing forward that universal favourite, Mdlle. Tietjens, in a new part (new, at least, to her English patrons), and of exhibiting the splen did voice of Sig. Mongini, for whom the music of Henri is in every respect well fitted, to the greatest possible advan tage. Nor could the barytone and bass parts (De Montfort and Procida) have been intrusted to more competent repre sentatives than Signors Fagotti and Vialetti. That the opera was successful on the first night has already been re corded; and it may be added that three subsequent per formances have fully justified the verdict delivered on that occasion. In short, it may reasonably be concluded that the "Vespri Siciliani" will maintain its place among the best operas of its composer. Next season may probably afford it a better chance. On Saturday night the performance went off from first to last with unflagging spirit. Mademoiselle Titiens never sang and acted more finely; Signor Mongini scarcely ever before in a manner so thoroughly to warrant the belief that his continental reputation has not been built upon sand. When the curtain fell on the third act, Mr. E. T. Smith, being unanimously summoned, advanced be fore the footlights, and addressed the audience. He thanked them for the warm reception accorded him at the end of this the seventh year of his management. The Italian Opera season had included 81 representations on consecutive nights, during which only one disappointment had occurred. He (Mr. Smith) had brought out 14 operas, and trusted the public would consider he had fulfilled the pledges entered into before the commencement of the sea son. In addition to the artists announced in the printed prospectus, he had secured the services of Mademoiselle Piccolomini, Miss Balfe, Signor Belart, Signor Vialetti, and others of more or less note. It had always been his desire to fix the prices of admission at as low a rate as pos sible, and he had been more than repaid by the amount of sympathy exhibited towards him by the public. The ex penses of the season of 84 nights had exceeded £24,000, but he was happy to say that, thanks to the liberal patronage of the public and the support he had obtained in excess of subscriptions, he was no loser. One instance he wished particularly to mention. A lady who has held a private box during the season sent him a letter that morning, en closing £5O, with the expression of her sympathy in his endeavours to produce high class operas at such a tariff as to place them within reach of the general public. Such a mark of generous appreciation encouraged him to perse vere, and he would bring forward the same eminent artists next season, together with as many others as he could secure. - He would scour Italy in the recess, and all that he could find worthy to be heard by a British audience should figure on those boards. He begged to be allowed to return thanks to the ladies and gentlemen of the company for their zealous co-operation, to the members of the band, to the press, to his subscribers, and to the public generally, who, by their liberal and continued pa tronage, had shown that the existence of more than one Italian Opera was not only possible, but desirable, in this metropolis. The address was frequently interrupted by loud applause. After the opera the national anthem was performed, Mademoiselle Tietjens, by the earnest, emphatic ; and intelligible manner in which she gave the principal solos, reading a lesson by which nine foreign singers out of ten might profit. That Mr. Smith has deserved well of his supporters can hardly be denied. He had to contend against most inaus picious circumstances in the earlier and middle part of the season ; and if he has not sustained a very considerable loss 'le may fairly be congratulated. The 14 operas presented were the " Sonnambula," with which the season began, and which brought forward Miss Balfe and the new tenor, Signor Mongini ; the " Favorita," in which Mademoiselle Guarducci, one of the most admirable artists on the Italian stage, was first introduced ; •' Lucrezia Borgia," for the debuts of Mademoiselle Tietjens and the accomplished tenor from her Majesty's Theatre, Signor Giuglini ; the " Tro vatore ;" the " Barbiere ;" the " Huguenots," one of the most creditable achievements of the comp any ; " Lucia ;" the " Traviata," for the first appearance of Mademoiselle Sarolta and Signor Ludovico Graziani, the tenor; " Don Giovanni ;" " Rigoletto," in which two new prima donnas, Mademoiselles Weiser and Elvira Brambilla, were succes sively essayed ; the " Zingara" (" Bohemian Girl") ; " Norma ;" "Il Giuramento," the early demise of which foreshadowed a like result in another and a greater estab lishment ; and last, not least, the " Vespri Siciliani," the second novelty, which was just as favourably received as the first was snubbed by the public. All these operas were more or less well executed, and some of them in a manner that would not have discredited any lyric theatre. Among the new singers Mademoiselle Guarducci and Signor Mongini must be regarded as real acquisitions— the position of the lady being firmly established from the beginning, that of the gentleman after consider able doubt and hesitation. Of Mademoiselle Tietjens, Signor Giuglini, Miss Balfe, Mademoiselle Piccolomini, Signor Badiali, and Signor Marini, already known to the public, it is enough to say that they maintained their repu tations. About the litigation connected with the non-ap pearance of Signor Graziani (the barytone) and its results our readers know enough to make any further allusion to the subject unadvisable. This gentleman's brother, Signor Ludovico Graziani, achieved a quasi-success in the " Tra viata," which, it may be remembered, was in a great mea sure confirmed by his performance in the " Giuramento." With regard to Madame Lemaire, a really excellent con tralto, who appeared as Maffeo Orsini and Maddelena (Rigoletto) when those characters were abandoned by Mademoiselle Guarducci ; of the other tenors, barytones, basses, sopranos, and contraltos included in this (from a numerical point of view) altogether unprecedented com pany, we having to add to -what was said, from time to time, in the regular notices of the transactions of the sea son. The ballet may be dismissed with a strong compli ment to Mademoiselle Boschetti, one of the ancient stars in the Lumleyan hemisphere, and an admission of the gene ral efficiency of the choregraphic corps. The band, led by M. Tolbecque,—with Mr. Viotti Collins as solo violin, Mr. Benedict and Signor Arditi as alternate conductors—was good, but, although numbering eminent performers in its ranks (to single out any of whom from the rest would be invidious), might, for evident reasons, have been improved. The chorus, en the other hand, was by no means satisfac tory. To conclude, with much to criticise but much more to praise, Mr. Smith's experiment has exhibited a degree of enterprise and spirit that entitles him to the consideration of the operatic public, and especially to that large section of it which cannot afford to pay high prices. THEATRICAL BENEFITS. The close of the theatrical season is, as usual, ushered in by the number of appeals on the part of the managers and actors to their patrons. Mr. E. T. Smith, the lessse of Drury-lane, is so fortunate in the number of his friends, that his own theatre does not suffice for their accommoda tion, and he takes his benefit to-night (Monday) at Cre morne-gardens. Mr. Webster, the lessee of the Adelphi, and Mr. W. S. Emden, the joint-lessee of the Olympic, will respectively take their benefits on Saturday (the 6th) and Saturday week (the 13th). Next Thursday and Friday will be devoted at the Olympic Theatre to the respective benefits of Mr. G. Vining and Miss Wyndham, both favourite artists of the establishment. The Lord-Lieutenant and Chief Governor of the Tower, Field-Marshal Viscount Cmnbermere, hat.: appointed Mr. Thomas Wrake Ratcliff, of Dean C,let House, White Horse street, Commercial-road., to be the Steward of the Court Leet and Court of Record within the precincts and liberty of the Tower of London, and as such steward to be coroner for her Majesty within the said precincts. LATEST NEWS. THE BOMBAY MAIL. We have been favoured with the following com munication from the office of the Red; Sea and India Telegraph Company : ADEN TELEGRAPH OFFICE, JULY 17. "The Emeu, with the Bombay =Lila of the sth, has just arrived. " The disaffection among the 13te Company's European troops is on the increase. " At Berhampore they are in open. mutiny, have entrenched themselves in the barrac Ics, and elected officers. " The Madras Fusiliers have followed the ex ample of the Bengal troops. " A general order has been published, to the effect that every non-commissioned officer and sol dier in the three Presidencies, who enlisted for the East India Company's forces, shall, if he desires it, be allowed to take his discharge under the provi sions of the Act 10th and 11th Victoria, cap. 38. The sth European Regiment, at Berhampoore, are for the present excluded from the operation of this order. Central India is quiet. " The campaign in Nepaul has been closed. " The Oude police and Sikhs watch the frontier. " Five and a Half per Cent. Loan at from 6 to 7 discount. "Freight rates, Bombay to London, from 17s. 6d. to per ton. " Exchange on London. six months' sight, 2s. Old. " Large shipments of cotton are being made to China. " Received 2.45 p.m., July 17, A.S." AUSTRALIA. " The Benares, from Australia, arrived this morn ing. Dates—Sydney, the 14th of June ; Mel bourne, 17th ; Adelaide, 20th ; and King George's Sound, the 24th of June ; and Mauritius, the 9th of July. "Rates of Exchange.—Sydney on London, at 60 days, 2 per cent. premium ; Sydney on London, at 30 days, 2; ; Melbourne rates, same ; Mauritius on London, 60 days, s per cent. premium; Mauritius on London, 30 days, 1 per cent. From Australia no political news, trade dull, the prospects of war having had no influence on markets. Mauritius business very dull." "Received 10.45 a.m. July 18, A.S." The following telegrams have been received a Mr. Reuter's office : FLORENCE, JULY 30. The Sardinian Commissioner, Signor Buoncom• pagni, left this evening. _ Signor Ricaloli, a supporter of the union of Tuscany with Sardinia, will remain at the head of the Government of Florence. THE ITALIAN CONFEDERATION. The Diritto of Turin states that King Victor Emmanuel, when subscribing the preliminaries of peace, added, " except the clauses relating to the Italian confederation." The Diritto adds that the Sardinian Ministry is resolved at all hazards to reject the confederation proposed in the convention of Villafranca, and that any Minister who should assent to a league with Austria and the other princes of Italy would basely betray the country and deserve capital condemnation. PROCLAMATION OF GARIBALDI. The following ordre du jour was issued by Gen. Garibaldi, dated from Lovere, 19th July, 1859 : " Whatever direction political events may take, Italians ought not, under existing circumstances, either to lay down their arms or feel and discou ragement. On the contrary tiny ought to enlarge their ranks, and show to Europe that, led by the valiant Victor Emmanuel, they are ready to en counter anew the vicissitudes of war, whatever complexion they may assume." BERNE, JULY 30. The Federal Assembly has adopted a law against the enrolment of Swiss in foreign service. The law forbids the entry as a special corps into the military service of foreign states under penalty of imprisonment for one to three months and one to five years' loss of civil rights. Enroleurs and all persons co-operating with them will be punished by imprisonment of two months' to three years' duration, a fine not ex ceeding I,ooof. and five to ten years' loss of civil rights. The close of the session then took place. PARIS, JULY 30. It is asserted that the Emperor, at the audience granted to the Tuscan ambassadors, advised the recall of the hereditary Prince of Florence, his re storation to be accompanied by the granting of a constitution to the country. Marshal Regn ault de St. Jean d'Angely has arrived here. MARSEILLES, JULY 30. Letters from Naples of the 27th inst. 'state that an English squadron, composed of twelve ships, arrived there on that day. The Calcutta mail of the 17th of June has ar rived. The European troops have submitted. Nana Sahib is still in Nepaul, where a political party prevents his being given up to the English. The following is from the letter of the Times Paris corresdondent (second edititon) : :" It would be no harm if some one in the House of Commons asked Lord John Russell, whether any information has been received to the effect that Marshal Canrobert's corps d'armee, or a portion of it, was to enter the Italian Duchies ; and whether a division of the army intended for Venice was to occupy the Legations. A report of the kind is current here ; and it seems rather a contradiction to what Lord John Russell [has stated to beshis belief, namely, that the Duchies were to be allowed to choose their own government, and that no coer cion was to be used towards them by either Aus trian or French troops. It is true that the occupation of these parts by the French may be solely with a view to maintain order until the Congress shall decide on the " future" of Italy ; but the Congress may never meet, and the occupation would be in definite ; and, in any case, what becomes of the declaration, that Lombardy once freed from Aus trian domination, the Italians would be ever after left to themselves to settle their own affairs without foreign intervention ? If the question were put to them (and they surely are interested in the matter), they would probably say that they do not want to be under the tuition of French Generals in order to learn how to be good Italians : and Prince Napo leon could tell, from what he learned and saw dur ing his tour in Tuscany, how little disposed the populations are to accept French military rule. That experience was so far valuable that it opened the Prince's eyes and made him, from having been the warmest advocate of war against Austria, the earnest adviser of peace. Instead of liberating Italy, it is much to be feared that the dragon's teeth have been sown there, and that the crop will still be armed men. " I hear that a hint has been given to the editors of certain Paris papers to open their small artillery that is, to be ready with a series of articles against the Belgian Government on account of the fortifi cations of Antwerp. Any pretext will serve. The (paper) campaign against Austria was begun in La Presse months before war actually broke out." The following is from the Paris letter of the Morning Post (Second Edition) : " The French journals print the debate in the House of Commons on the condition and prospects of Italy. The speeches have been read in Paris with interest, and, as:far as I can judge, the general impression on this side of the water is that her Majesty's Government will not be abic to improve the condition in which the two Emperors have left the people of the Italian peninsula. Diplomatists with whom I have conversed see no way out of the difficulty until revolution and anarchy have obliged again foreign troops to occupy portions of the Roman States—Tuscany, Modena, and Parma. As for carrying out the idea of a confederation headed by the Pope, that is an impossibility, so long as civil and religious freedom exist in Sardinia and Sardinian Lombardy. Permit me to point out to you what I take to be at the bottom of the difficulty so far as France is concerned. I maintain that no Sovereign of France whose throne rests on universal suffrage can afford to offend the Roman Catholic Church. A nod from Rome would put the Emperor in a minority in most of the departments of France. I do not pretend to say that a nod from Rome would be headed by the large towns ; but there area hole districts of France where the priests could influence the population. Therefore, let there be no mistake about it; Napoleon 111. will not offend the Pope or contend with the Vatican. The Emperor has clearly shown in his treaty of Villafranca that French federal policy in Italy is to be subject to the influence of the Church. The Pope is to direct and Austria is to be the executive. That is what it will come to in the end. Ever since the whole world condemned the late treaty of peace the French Go vernment has been trying to get France out of an awkward posision. What has been -he result? Aus tria, satisfied with her bargain, only wants to get her contract ratified at Zurich. As for revising the treaty for the good of Italy, she has not the slightest intention of doing anything of the sort. On the contrary, she keeps at least 150,000 troops in Venetia and the new frontier fortresses, and there they will remain threatenin gP iedmont from theMincio instead of the Ticino. We do not believe on this side of the water that England will ever succeed in changing the actual position, and therefore the debates in the House, though highly interesting, are not considered in Paris to possess any real political value. Mr. Bowyer may congratulate himself on having given us much amusement on this side of the water. A Frenchman said to me to-day, " Your Parliament is becoming universal. M. Bowyer evidently re presents Rome, and you have French and Austrian deputies. Our Parliaments have contained members for the Pope also ; but more clever men than M. Bowyer." I do not recollect a French deputy ever going so far as to say " that the Roman Government had been an improving one for many years; that it was a good Government ; that it was a pro gressive Government." We in France, continued my friend, always thought the expense which France incurred in keeping an army in Rome for the last ten years originated in the dis content of the people of the Roman States originally in the governing system of the Papacy. I have known all classes of his Holiness' subjects for many years, and I never met with one who came up to M. Bowyer. He is or should be a political arbiter elegantiarum to the Pope at Rome, when he might persuade old ladies of the virtues of the Papal Government us he introduced them to the Papal paradise of his own imagination." FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY. . PARIS BOURSE, July 30.—The market was rather depressed at the opening of business, but after the reponse de primes (option) had been declared at 68f, 50c., prices improved. Threes, which had been done at 68f. 30c., are now at 68f. 60c. Mobilier varied from 807 f. 50c. to 822 f. 50. ; Aus trian, 552 f. 50c. to 565 f. ; Orleans, 1,345 f. to 1,355 f.; Lyons, 865 f. to 860 f. ; Southern, 515 f. to 520 f.; Northern, 825 f. to 830 f. The following were the last quotations :- 41 per Cents. .... 96 50 i Credit Foncier 650 Do. end month .. 96 351 Belgian 4f 3 per. Cents 6B 50 Piedmontese ( 5 ) .. — 84 Do. end month 6B 50 Roman B5 50 Bank Shares. 295 Austrian _ Credit Mobilier .. 820 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 825 Home Debt 4l 25 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 935 .. 932 50 New ditto BlO .. . Lyons and Mediterranean 865 .. 870 Geneva 525 .. 525 Southern Western 550 .. 547 50 Eastern Sardinian Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 71c. ; money, 25f sc. ; three months, p a p er , 24f. 95 c.; mone y, 24f. 91e. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. The screw steamship Sultan, belonging, to the Peninsular and Oriental Company, Captain Neil Cook, arrived at Southampton at 5 30 p.m. yester day, with mails of the 27th ult. from Lisbon, and the 28th from Oporto and Vino. She brought 14 passengers, £4,221 in specie, 314 half-chests and 24 boxes of lemons, 193 cases of eggs, 52 boxes of po tatoes, 116 bags of orchella weed, and 28 packages of miscellaneous merchandise. During the voyage the Sultan experienced variable winds and hazy weather as far as Vigo, and thence to Southampton variable winds and fine weather. July 27th, at 11 55 a.m., the Sultan exchanged signals with the screw steamer Arno, steering for Lisbon, Cape Roca, distant one mile ; 29th, at 3 30 p.m., with the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Behar, all sail same steerigt 6 45 p.m ~ S.W., in lat. the 44 57 N., long. 87W. ; e day n , a Company's steamer Tagus, all sail set, steering S.W., in lat. 45 22, long. 7 showing 30th, in lat. 46 58, long. 6 30, an English ship, 3d distinguish ing pendant, No. 2,965, steering S.W.; 31st, in lat. 47 27, long. 6 11, the bark Calypso, steering S.W. When the Sultan left Lisbon news had just been received that the Portuguese steamer Duke of Oporto, from Oporto, bound to Lisbon, lost her scre w and commen ced fillin g , but was beached off Peniche lightho,use. All hands saved but one, who was drowned. The usual Portuguese squadron was lying in the Tagus. The Lisbon exchanges for three months are quoted this mail on London, 521 to ; Paris, 542 ; Amster dam, 4 1 1 ; Hamburg, 461. Three per Cent. State registered, 471 to 4 ; coupons, 461 to ; deferred, 321 to 33. Bank of Portugal shares, Bto 81 per cent. per annum ; Bank of Oporto, 24 to 25 per cent. per annum. The following letter from Lisbon, is dated July 27 : _ _ _ " It was hardly possible that the subjects of his Majesty Don Pedro V. could have shown a greater or more general sympathy than that which has testified their f ;clings upon the sudden and lamented death of the late Queen Donna Estephania. Independent of the official programme for the funeral procession it was spon taneously accompanied by the members of the dif ferent corporate bodies and associations, including the British merchants, accompanied by Mr. Vice- Consul Meagher, who equally with the others held a meeting for the purpose of prepa r i ng an a dd ress of condolence to his Majesty. The King has, how ever, publish -J(1 in the Diario eo h hanks for the demonstration. made at the funeral, and the different associations, having ascertained that his Majesty wishes to go to his favourite retreat at Chafra to-morrow without even receiving the dip lomatic corps, have resolved to forego all addresses, which may add to his present distress of mind and naturally melancholic disposition. The late Queen, who has been so suddenly taken off, had during her brief residence of 14 months in Portugal greatly endeared herself to the people by her unostentatious charity, and kind and amiable disposition. The attachment between her Majesty and the King appeared to be more that of lovers than of husband and wife. Her lamented death is attributable to her having persisted, contrary to his advice, in accompanying the King in a walk across a sandy and excessively hot district on the south side of the Tagus, when the sun was almost scorching. Thus the cold and sore throat were acquired which has ended so fatally. OPORTO, JULY 27. The exchange for the packet for bills on London at 90 days' date was done from 53 to Some thing was done in Brazil paper, but the major part of the transactions, which were neither limited nor over extensiue, took place in local paper, and it may be said that neither money nor paper remained over. Wine shipments continue almost in a limited rou tine, principally by the steamers, whose usual quan tities latterly have been from 300 to 400 pipes each voyage. The Aurora sailed last evening, taking (besides other merchandise and 120 head of oxen) 392 pipes ; one or two sailing vessels are also loading, and will carry between them about 600 pipes. The wine freight latterly by steam has been 275. 6d., and by sailing ship 15s. to 17s. 6d. " The wine trade here, as far as regards old wines, remains in a state of apathy, fiw or no transactions taking place in wines of the last 'vintage. " Large quantities of apples have latterly been sent to the London and Liverpool markets, and the shipment of onions is now about to commence, the crop of which is both large and of superior quality, and prices not likely to be so high as in former seasons. " The shipment of cattle has 'Very much increased from the port, notwithstanding which the quantity of oxen in the country has by no means decreased." DEATH OF THE EARL OF MINTO,G.C.B We have to announce the death of the Right Hon. the Earl of Minto, who expired at 12.30 a.m. yesterday at his residence in Eaton-square, after a protracted and lingering illness. His lordship's lengthened innisposition had in some degree pre pared the members of the family for the mournful event. A decided change for the worse took place on Friday last, and the earl continued rapidly to sink, when at the hour above named he breathed his last, apparently without the least pain, in the presence of Viscount Melgund, Lady John Russell, l i Lady Dunfermline, and the Hon. George Elliot. The deceased, Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmond, Earl of Minto, Viscount Melgund. and Baron of Minto, county Roxburgh, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, also a baronet of Nova Scotia, was eldest son of Gilbert, first earl, by his wife Anna Maria, eldest daughter of Sir George Amyand Bart., and was born Nov. 16, 1782. His lordship married, Aug. 28, 1806, Mary, daughter of Mr. Patrick Brydone, by whom (who died in 1853) the late peer leaves surviving issue Lady Dunfermline, Viscount Melgund. (now earl), Lady John Russell, the Hon. Henry George, Captain the Hon. Charles, Lady Elizabeth Romilly, the Hon. George, Lady Charlotte Portal, and the Hon. Gilbert, in the Rifle Brigade. The late peer succeeded to the earldom on the death of his father, June 21, 1814. By the lamented demise of his lordship the family honours and estates devolve on his eldest son, Viscount Mel gund, born March 19, 1814, and married in 1844 to Emma;Eleanor, only daughter and heiress of the late Gen. Sir Thomas Hislop, G.C.B. The late earl was a fellow of the Royal Society, an el der brother of the Trinity House, and deputy lieutenant of R,ox burghshire. In 1834 he was nominated a knight grand cross (civil division) of the order of the Bath. RESTORATION OF THE APPARENTLY DROWNED. We extract from a Swansea paper the following singular instance of the resuscitation of a sailor, apparently dead from drowning : " At a late hour in the evening of the 28th ult., an accident occurred in the Swansea lock, which, but for the advance lately made in medical science, must inevitably have proved fatal. A sailor named George Greenway was returning on board his vessel, when he was suddenly precipitated into the water. Before assistance could be obtained he sank. The bystanders procured a boathook with which, after a few minutes' delay, they grappled for the body, and caught hold of the poor fellow's trousers. Upon bringing him to the surface of the water, the trousers, unable to sustain the weight of the body, broke, and the man was again thrown into the water, and sank to the bottom. A man, named William Kneath, fastened a rope round his body and descended to the bottom, and at last succeeded inbringing the body to the surface of the water, when they were both brought ashore. These operations occupied from 15 to 20 minutes. Mr. James G. Hall and Mr. T. A. Essey, surgeons re sorted to Dr. Marshal Hall's ready method for restoring suspended animation.' After continuing it for about fifteen to twenty minutes, signs of vitality manifested themselves by means of slight convulsions, and within half an hour the poor fel low was so far recovered as to be able to be removed to the Cornish Mount, and the attention of the medi cal practitioners being here renewed, he was soon pronounced out of danger. This is the first case, we believe, in the district of Swansea, where the new method has been resorted to; and the man having been in the water at least twenty minutes, the result of the operation is certoinly most satis factory and striking. On this important method for restoring the apparently drowned, the Royal National Life-b'at Institution has obtained the favourable opinions of the principal medical bodies, and of 300 medical men in this country, as also those of the chief medical societies on the Con tinent. These directions have been extensively circulated by the institution throughout the United Kingdom and in the colonies. They are also in use in her Majesty's fleet." THE SICKLES TRAGEDY. The following is an extract from a letter from Mr. Sickles in defence of the course he has takrn My reconciliation with my wife was my own act, done without consultation with any relative, connection, friend, or adviser. Whatever blame, if' any, belongs to the st e p , should fall u p on me. lam prepared to defend what I have done before the only tribunals I recognise as having the slightest claim to jurisdiction over the subject—my own conscience and the bar of Heaven. lam not aware of any sta tute or code of morals which makes it infamous to forgive a woman ; nor is it usual to make our domestic life a subject of consultation with friends, no matter how near and dear to us. And I cannot allow even all the world combined to dictate to me the repudiation of my wife, when I think it right to forgive her, and to restore her to my con fidence and protection. If I ever failed to compre hend the utterly desolate position of an offending though penitent ., woman, the hopel ess f u t ure, w i t h all its dark possibilities of danger to which she is doomed when proscribed as an outcast, I can now see, plainly enough, in the almost universal howl of denunciation with which, she is followed to my threshold, the misery and perils from which I have rescued the mother of my child. And, although it is very sad for me to incur the blame of friends and the reproaches of many wise and good people, I shall strive to prove to all who feel any interest in me that if I am the first man who has ventured to say to the world an erring wife and mother may be forgiven and reckemed, that in spite of all the ob stacles in my path the good results of this example shall entitle it to the imitation of the generous and the commendation of the just." PARLIAMENTARY REPORTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—Will you allow me to correct an error in your report of my speech of l as t n i g h t, where Mr. Bright's name is introduced instead of Mr. Hors man's ? In expressing my dissent from the course pursued by "my hon. friend near me," in passing compliments upon the French Emperor, after having argued on the assumption that he would invade us, I referred to Mr. Horsman, who was sitting below me, and not to Mr. Bright, who was at my side. The mistake was a natural one, and in asking for the first time, I believe, for the correction of any reported speech of mine, I cannot, as a now rather old member of the house, refrain from bear ing testimo n y t o t h e marvel l ous accuracy with which our speeches are reported.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, RICHARD COBDEN. Athenaeum, July 30. MR. AND MRS. DRAYTON. After successively introducing three of their little operas to the notice of the public, Mr. and Mrs. Henri Drayton terminated their engagement at the Adelphi on Saturday last. Their performances, especially adapted for rooms, scarcely harmonised with the entertainments of a theatre, while the dimensions of a regular stage were too large to allow them their full effect. But the great m:rits of Mr. Draytoa as a dramatic vocalist aro not to he overlooked, and he is So well supported by Mrs. Drayton that they have a fair prospect of establishing themselves as permanent " entertainers" of a novel kind. They are about to leave this country for the United States, where a wide field will be open to their exertions. LITERATURE. Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers : a Series of Excur sions by Members of the Alpine Club. Edited by John Ball, F.L.S., President Pf the Alpine Club. Second Edition. Longman. This work is of a superior class to the ordinary volumes of travels that abound at the present time ! It would be difficult to decide whether the perusal is most interesting or instructive, as we are pre sented in these pages with most valuable infor mation, and at the same time the attention is ex cited by the details of some arduous undertaking , and the dangers of some hazardous enterprise. As the several chapters are written by different travellers, there will be found more variety, fresh ness, and life infused into the book than if all the events were cited by the same person. In the preface there is an explanation given of the reasons tnat have occasioned its appearance. In the year, 1858 an Alpine Club was formed, it being foun d that the community of taste and feeling amongst those who in the life of the High Alps shared the same enjoyments, the same labours, and the same changes, constitutes a bond of sympathy stronger than many of those by which men are drawn into association." It was deemed desirable that the members of the club should combine their materials in one volume, in order to secure a degree of ex cellence which could not be attained in separate productions. That the effort has proved eminently successful, no one who attentively regards this work can entertain a doubt, and it is not to be wondered at that it should already have reached ,a second edition. The editor, Mr. Ball, has perform ed his task with great care, and in many instances has affixed notes of his own experiences to the chap ters, which contain valuable information on maul points. The work has been beautifully illustrated , and combines the advantages of an ornamental_ volume, with the more solid merits of a book el reference, and a record of travels. There are nine maps, which furnish clear information regarding the places mentioned, and the chromo-lithograPh s are very effective. There is a most useful chapter by the editor, called " Suggestions for Alpi ne Travellers," which contains much desirable matter on the subject. Among other things, he has, divided the dangers to be apprehended into rea l and imaginary ; reducing the latter to three. " First, the yielding of the snow bridges that cover glacier crevasses; second, the risk of slipping. upon steep slopes of hard ice ; third, the fall of ice or rocks from above." Mr. Hinchcliff, in an excellent description of the Trift Pass, thus describes what he terms an interrupted feast, the enjoyment of which was suddenly suspended by :ailing rocks :--- " A glance through the telescope showed that a fall of rocks had commenced, and the fragments were leap in g down from ledge to ledge in a series of cascades. Each block dashed off others at every point of contact, and the uproar became tremendous ; thousands of fragments mak" ing every variety of noise according to their size, and pro ducing the effect of a fire of musketry and artillery com bined, thundered downwards from so great a height that we waited anxiously for some considerable time to see them reach the snow-field below. As nearly as we could estimate the distance, we were 500 yards from the base cf the rocks, so we thought that, come what might, we were in a tole rably secure position. At last we saw many of the blocks plunge into the snow after taking their last fearful leap ; presently much larger fragments followed, taking propor tionably larger bounds ' • the noise grew fiercer and fiercer , and huge blocks began to fall so near to us that we jumpd to our feet, preparing to dodge them to the best of ou r abi" lity. " Look out," cried some one, and we opened out right and left at the approach of a monster, evidently weighing many hundred-weight, which was coming right at us like a huge shell fired from a mortar. It fell with a heavy thud not more than 20 feet from us, scattering lumps of snow into the circle where we had just been dining ; but scarcely had we begun to recover from our astonishment when a still larger rock flew exactly over our heads to a distance of 200 yards beyond us." An instance of another danger in Alpine tra velling is given in the chapter on the pas sage of the Fenetre de Salena, by Mr. Wills, which is one of the best in the volume , and furnishes the reader with a graphic account of a passage that has not been frequently visited byr explorers. The adventure is thus reldted— " Balmat and I were the first, and we thought we might venture to slide from one rock to the next, and so avoid the labour of step-cutting, and the tedious precaution o. using ropes. We reached the lower station in safety; b ut It., who came next, lost his direction, and was going over, to the left, down a fearful slope of ice three or four hund rea feet high, too steep for us to see in what it ended, but sepa rated, in all probability, by a bergschrund from the Glacier de Trient ; for we found one at the foot of the gentler slope on the right. It was a terrible moment, as there WO only one chance. It was utterly impossible for him to stop himself, or for either of the men to help him. Balmat wag already some distance below, cutting steps. and Cachat Nvag engaged with W. 20 or 30 paces higher up. R. showed great presence of mind. He did not utter a word, but threw himself on his right side, so as to pass as near to the edge as possible, and stretched out his arm for me to grasP• Fortunately he passed just within my reach, and I Wu?, able to cat c h hi s h an d an d arres t hi s progress , o therwise 1 1 . might have been a very sad day for all of us. I think both our hearts beat quicker than usual for a few moments; but It., with great prudence and forbearance, said nothing that could shake our nerves, and sat down quietly against the stone, while I set to work and cut a set of steps, by which W. and Cachat descended without the risk of a similar mishap," A curious fact is mentioned in one of the chapters , which is illustrative of the extremes to which men will go in whatever undertaking they engage, er on whatever subject they converse upon. The, writer relates a stormy conversation he overhear d between two travellers who were in the same mom as himself, and the conclusion to which they arrive? was that they must part, as after what had passe d it was impossible to hold any further communica" tion with satisfaction. It appeared that they were old friends who had differed thus seriously, no t on the usual disputed points of politics or religion, but on the theory of the glaciers. The narra to r of th is scene wisely joined in the conversation, and con trived to give a more pleasing turn to the subject , and by proposing a joint excursion the next dal' he diverted their attention from the fatal fracas' After some days passed in delightful discoveries he parted from his companions, leaving them again th e best of friends. The third risk which is run by these daring explorers is thus recorded— " We had scarcely done so when an avalanche of fresh snow descended from the slope on the o posite side. Lue rr it was for us th a t we h a d not crossed P The larger portio n of the avala nc h e f e ll i nto the crevasse whilst the remainder poured steadily over us like water. It came down with u sound like the prolonged dwelling with the voice on the word "hush."' Directly I felt it coming I struck 01 ! handle of my ice axe into the snow and held on, crouching on my knees as low as possible. I was blinded by the rut, of sno w , an d t h ought at the moment were all go i ng to '- covered up. By the time it ceased I was pretty nearly of that pr e di camen t ; I was o bli ge d to pu ll my h ea d o ut 0 1 my hat, lea v i ng th e l a t ter i n t h e snow, w ith large lumps which, like hods full of mortar, my back and should er ' were covered. Th e snow a l so filled my pockets, and clu ng in lumps to every part of my flannel clothing. BohreAo and Almer were i n a s i m il ar pl i g h t. W e h a d j us t finisheri clearing off th e snow w h en a smaller ava l anc h e f e ll, 00 7, we again went th roug h t h e clinging process. This wis to much, and the momen t i t ceased, we hastily cleared off tli _ . „l snow, and ran d own our l a dd er as f ast as our l egs coal carry us." In the ascent of the Finsteraar Horn Mr. Hardy gives an animated description of Moonlight on the glacierpand even more exciting is the picture dravta of the sunrise from the Grunhorn Lucke, Whil ° gazing at the snowy heights there comes creeping over the topmast pinnacles that exquisite roseat e tinge which all mountaineers know and l ove s o well" but which pen and pencil must alike fail to &line' ate. Those who never expect to behold for there" selves those wonders which abound in the fair scenes here brought before their notice, can en t ,,, , et in thought, if not in ac ti on, i nto the sp i r i t of t"- place, while those who may have taken but a cur sory glance, will derive satisfaction from here re' newing their acquaintance with remembered scenes' The scenery of the Alps has ever attracted the ad miration, an d aroused the enthusiasm of the pt.": grims of nature, who are the worshippers o f beautiful in its sublimest shrines, and the crowning testimony has been offered in those glorious lines"' "Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks. with a robe of amids t And a diadem of snow." This work cannot fail to be appreciated, and it . , j s , most probable that it will ac hi eve th e success whi e s i its merits certainly deserve, and that its peras. t will now afford satisfacti on , w hil e su b sequen tly' l a may be considered a standard work for guide an reference. THE MASSACRE AT PER UGIA. We (Galignani) have received the follovvi li% communication : Villa Capponi, near Florence, July 24 : 1 , 0 In the Messenger o f th e 21 s t you quote from `—e, Giornale di Roma, " th a t th e A merican fam ily sident in Perugia at the time of its capture the Swiss have declared that the troops behave with a moderatio n th a t could hardly have v.,se„-a, expected after th e p rovocation to which they .110 been exposed. Will you do me the favour s , contradict that statement ? It is one of mail ° T y sertions made by that journal which have no f o il dation in fa c t. Th e American family have lieu made any s uc h declaration, but, on the co ntra%, , have stated in the most public manner their c(3 st viction that th e so ldi ery behaved with the greatest brutality, ferocity, and license. The same joulivoi asserted very coolly that the American family er e lost some of th e i r e ff ects, which had been or,'West 0 about to be r es t ore d to them. As we lost 11000 everything we had, to an amount of between 2 . 0 t el and 3,000 s cu di, i n t h e sack and pillage of the }Lira de France. w h ere we were residing, and as t h e c .00 made on th e R oman Government b y the Aree,, r i l e to minister h as not yet been paid, you will be au" he judge how arteurale arc. the :,01.11'c',CS from which t eg Giorieral e di R oma d er i ves i ts i n f orma ti on . r Bing youtoexcusien order my troubling avoid linyoum ep in is t r his r in es a e t at e ; which tion, I remain, &c., v l , O. EDWARD NEWTON THE SUN, LONDON, MO I