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

er • THEATItE. ItOY AL, BAYMARKET. Lessee. Mr. J. B. Be %Lstone. THIS EVENING (98th time)OUß. AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern ; Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck stone. Altcr which, a Household l'ictux , under Two Lights, rattled THE WIFE'S PORTRA.II •e '. Mr. Howe, Mr, W. Farren, Mrs C. Young, Acc. To conclude with FAMILY JARS- Commenoe a Y. gions toleration he speakge as a farce—a machinery not for spreading Christianity, but for giving him political power ; he surpasses all our TUDOR Kings and the POPE himself, making himself equal with JESUS CHRIST, who, with GOD the Father, and this crazy Man's own Son, constitute one Lord over all ! And no missionary is safe among them who will not propagate these blasphemies. The immediate cause of Mr. ROBERT'S own flight tells its own tale. We are to bear in mind that he is, afterall, more of a favourite at the Taeping Court than any other man could possibly be, a not very strong-minded, but undoubtedly sincere, zealous, and worthy missionary. Yet even into his house a brother of one of the " Coolie Kings" rushes one day, seizes his pet servant boy, kills him with a large sword, and then jumps on his head with fiendish rage. He immediately after endeavours to provoke Mr. ROBERTS to some act which should serve as an excuse for murdering him also, throwing the dregs of some tea into his face, shaking him, and insulting him in every way. Mr. ROBERTS was prudently quiet, and at the earliest opportu nity sought safety on board the Renard steamer, w hence he dates his letter. After this we cannot need more evidence. The open acts of the mur derous bands associated as TeEriNGs we know full well. We have now in addition evidence from the very heart of the movement, and of the most re liable kind. Nothing remains, (therefore, so far as we can see, but to drive them off by force of arms from all our treaty cities. o OPA L LYCEUM THEATRE. Manac,rer. Edmune, Falconer. 'T II IS EVENING, 126th time of the Mew and original Drama entitled, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. es,srs Walter Lacy , H ermann Vezin, Charles Selby,eLner Edmund } al : Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. Alter which, a new and original Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD ; or, The Fairies of the Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrcck. Principal charac ters by Mr Chas. Selby, Mr. Warlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and Miss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices a s usual. Doors open at half -past 6, to commence at n Box-office open daily from 11 tills. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, Lessee, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH Mr. - Ryder, Mr. H. Widdicomb, Mr. Meadows, Mesdames Fie:dinz, Carlotta Leclercq, &c. To eonetude with the new Mystic Drama, in lour parts, entitled TIHE ANGEL OF MIDNIGHT. Mr. Ryder, Mr. Potter, Mr. Jordan, Mr. Widdicomb, &c. ; Miss Marriott, Mss Fielding, &c. NEW THEATRE-R0 TAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENiNG, A PRIVATE ENQUIRY: Mr. J. L. Toole. Mr. Billington, Mr. Sefton, Miss Kate Kelly, and Miss K. Bland. Followed by THE LIFE OF AN ACTRESS. Mr. and Mrs. Dion Boucicault, Messrs. Emery, J. L. Toole, Billington, Stuart, Eburne, Sefton, Powell. C. J. Smith ; Mrs. Billington, Mrs. Harland, Mrs. H. Lewis, Miss Laidlaw. o conclude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billing - ton, Misses K. Kelly, K. Bland, Laidlaw, and Mrs. H. Marston. Commence at 7. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- ...7x Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Wonderful Performance of Mr. Bell's trained Elephants. 'IBIS EVENING, the Grand Eastern Spectacle of THE RAJAH OE NA GPORE, Introducing two colossal Asiatic Elephants, pronounced by all to be the cleverest animals ever exhibited. To be followed by brilliant and daring feats by the un rivalled Troupe of Equestrians. Concluding with a lau...hable Farce. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle. The cheering prospect of the Easter Holidays will, perhaps, tend to expedite very pleasantly the passing of the various resolutions of the Budget, as announced by the right hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The noble Premier last evening inti mated quite plainly to the House the nature of the alternative now put before it. .1f those resolutions be passed on Thursday and reported on Friday— then, in that ease—immediately after they had been passed, he (Lord PALMERSTON) would move on Friday that the House adjourn until Monday, the 28th instant. But if, on the contrary, matters could not be carried on thus glibly, in regard to the pass ing and reporting of the different Budget Resolu tions now requiring to be passed and reported before Easter—then, in that case—the House would per force have to sit again on Monday next, and by such an arrangement the holidays would be un happily, but unavoidably, so much shortened. Our representatives now know perfectly well, - therefore, what it is precisely that they are expected to do within the next forty-eight or seventy-two hours —especially what it is they can easily do to-morrow and the day afterwards—so as in the first place to avoid that unnecessary sitting threat ened in a certain contingency for Monday next, and in the next to secure to themselves the earliest adjournment offered to them. Now we take it altogether undeniable that the task before the house in reference to the new Budget is as simple as could be, That Budget— however much it may be carped at by an Opposi sion that even while carping at it refrains altogether from adventuring upon the faintest " show'' of pulling it to pieces—must infallibly be allowed to have already won its way through the house as hardly any Budget has ever been known to win its way there before. It affords no pretext in fact for anything like actual opposition. It is a Budget that upon the whole is accepted at once upon all hands—and no wonder—as in the highest degree satisfactory. If it fails to rival the Budget of last year by sweeping away any grinding impost, and so far relieving the shoulders of the people of a modicum at least of the weary weight of taxation, it at any rate is free from the odious distinction of imposing some burden in another shape, and differently placed upon the back of sturdy old JOHN BULL, that SINBAD among the Nations. Indeed, it was not in reason to be looked for, that the very year after AND FINE C NNTERBU HALL A.RTS GALLERY. The renowned ROCKY MOUNTAIN WONDERS, at ten o'clock, for a few evenings only. Grand Selections from " La Sonnambula" and "Dinorah," by Mdme. Negri, Signor Tivoli, and Mr. Raynor, with Band and lull Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jong,hmana. The Conic Department by Mr. Hollinv,sworth, Mr. J. G. Forde, Mr. W. Randall, Messrs. Hildebrandt and Ormond, and Miss Caroline Parkes. The miraculous STECKEL, from the Cirque Napoleon, Paris, will make his first appearance on Monday, the 14th of April. Admission—Hall, ed. ; Stalls and Balcony, Is. ri l HE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.- .1. HENRI and PFAU on the Flying Trapeze EVERY EVENING. The musical entertainment as usual, including Robert Burns' celebrated " JOLLY BEGGARS," with music composed exp! essly for this establishment by Mr. George Linley. Operatic Selections by Miss Russell, Mdme. Negri, Mdme. Maria, and, Aldme. Endersaohn. Full Band and Chorus.— Mus.cal Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Comic—Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey and French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. Randall. hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, Ss. ; Private Boxes, 108. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T HIS DA.T.—Morning, Bh. 57m.—Afternoon, 9h. 38m, TO-MOR ROW. -Morning, 10h. 16m.—Afternoon, 10h. 66m, NOTICE. Ail 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. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1862. Colonel SYKES well deserves the usual courteous epithet "gallant," for he has fought to the last for hils proteges, the Taepings, even after their most natural defender has entirely given them up. At first there did eeem a little reason to believe that the memorable financial twelvemonth, when Eng- these men were a great improvement on the Tartar governed Chinese. This seems to have been due to the semi-religious charaoter of the first movement. Their leaders received some Christian notions from land was relieved of direct taxation to the tune of £1,100,000, and of indirect taxation to the tune of £1,300,000, the former through the dropped penn y of the Income Tax, the latter through the total an American missionary ; they knew that these came from the civilised West, and hence, contrary to the common sentiment amongst Chinese, the one which influenced them in dealing with Eufopeans was a kind of deference to our priority in religious knowledge. All this, however, has long vanished. The leaders early set up for incarnations, or near relations of the Supreme Being, and, in the literal sense, for brothers of JESUS CHRIST. The sweets abolition of the Paper Duties—it was not in reason, we say, to be expected that the very year following shoula witness the remission of further imposts as a rapid sequel to that yielding up at once in a single Budget of a round sum amounting annually to £2,400,000. Yet:even here it must be recollected that Mr. GLADSTONE, if he has shrunk from rashly diminishing by further concessions of this character any one among his ordinary sources of power have had their usual effect, and no of revenue, has at least secured to his new Budget missionary is now safe among them who does not the remarkable merit of getting rid at last, for acknowledge, as the second article of his creed, once and for all, of that perpetual theme of lamenta that the " Heavenly Ruler," HANG Sow CEUEN, is tion—the Duty upon Hops. Here the change, worthy of divine honour. All accounts concur that introduced, however, by our financier into his their course is now marked by devastation, pillage, fiscal arrangement for 1862-63, has been one adven and bloodshed. The peaceful inhabitants quit the tured upon with admirable caution, and with the the largest cities in millions as they approach, and most discreet and judicious exercise of adroitness— fire and sword spare nothing. The Imperialists, the change adventured up on by M r . G LADSTONE i n are, on their side, little or no better. Under pre- regard to the Hop Duties being one for their wise tence that a city has yielded ia the marauders, if and well-considered commutation. Seeing how they obtain possession, they in turn plunder, burn, this has been managed, it may be objected by and destroy what is left, till the site of a vast city merely superficial observers of Mr. GLADSTONE'S is discoverable only by blackened walls L' l n d rub- Financial Policy that after all it amounts to a mere bish. We have long persisted in ab,qolute shifting of burdens. The objection at the first neutrality betweer the Imperialists and their blush appears specious enough. But after a opponents, but to permit the latter to attack moment's scrutiny it just vanishes into thin air. A the former in the treaty cities, where we carry mere shifting of burdens As if that were no boon, on our commerce, would be sheer fatuity. Non- forsooth, to one who, like JOHN BULL, MUST intervention is a very safe doctrine here in the (there is no escape for him) " fardels West; but to insist upon it in favour of hosts of bear, to grunt and sweat under an uneasy load"— murderous robbers, who yet pretend to be divinely of a National Debt amounting to between commissioned rulers or deliv,erers of the country, £800,000,000 and £900,000,000 in all! A luckless Would be applying a principle intelligible only to wight who is constrained annually, somehow or civilised men, to hordes of ruthless barbarians. another, to liquidate his enormous liabilities in in- But neither Colonel SYKES nor any one else terest upon that debt, and in current expenses, to Ought n ow t o have the least doubt of the real the yearly extent of £70,000,000 sterling ! Why character of the Chinese rebellion. If there be the simple fact of the burden of the Hop Duties man in China who knows all about it, it must being shifted from one shoulder to the other, receiv e Mr. ROBERTS, the American missionary, whose ing a new name and a new application in the shift convert the "Heavenly King" was, who has just ing—that simple fact of itself comes in its way at been re iel; inng among them for fifteen months, and last as an inexpressible relief. For years and years Who has a favourite at last fled to our protection, having seen past the Hop D uties have been gallin g and fr etting servant lad butchered without provoca- an important section of the:community almost be tion ore hi s eyes, and being also in fear of his own yond further endurance. One Chancellor of the life. A tract f rom Mr. ROBERTS first turned this Exchequer after another had been we aried D O W notorious eaa ° Ws attention to Christianity. with applications for the removal of this He afterwards ca me , ROBERTS for instruction. tormenting grievance. One after another R OB ERTS lost sigh t of him for years till he heard they had declined to deal with the matter. Mr. of Lira at the head of this movement, breaking idols GLADSTONE has at last dealt with it. And who to pieces, and enforcing o bedienc e to the Ten Com- shall say that he has not dealt with it judiciously ? rnandrrents, proclaiming at the same time his own If the only good result had been the getting rid of inspiration; and now ROBEnTs ha s been residing a clamour about a grievance that we had almost a long time with him h o p in g to . get a littl e li g h t b ecome s i c k t o d ea th o f h e aring about, the Chan and reason into his head. What s his verdict, after cellor of the Exchequer would, as the grandiose Buell ample means of knowledge, and still co n f ess _ is phrase , • have deserved well of his country. But, "to be a crazy ing to, personally, kind treatment by HANG s o W in his mode of dealing with the hop duties, in this I believe him," he sa y s, i nge nious method be has now hit upon with a view man ; entirely unfit to rule—without a ny organised to their harmless and effectual commutation—the Government—nor is he, with his Coolie Kings, goo d he ht..s secured to us is not alone of this purely capable of organizing a Government of equal negative character. He has contrived a means not benefit to the p eo ple with even the old I m perial only for Putting an end to the wearisome clamour Government." He further describes him as in- raised v e -erY spring in his own antechambers, and Solent in his temp er , and causing any man or echoed more or less l oudly an d cont i nuous l y ever y be session in the Commons Woman who has at all offended him to House of Parliament—but this he h a s murder e d a t once w i t h ou t judge or jury; He beyo n d Swep t away the nuisance, with represents him as opposed to commerce, and having o ut while so doing militating against the inte actuali r es ts of the Exch equer, g hat he takes from Y murdered his own people for no other hand he gives back into the crime than that of trading in the city. relie one , other. Before CUUEN. . . , s , Z %; 0 7 ? - '''' 0 ' ,l "%' ; , \ . 4,W 14 4 - j4 " -- • ' '4. 7 7,f .e* ~ tr•il o!' _ Es - Jearkf n, ) Rorr " - • t - -... <4 THE SUN. THE SUN, LONDO being " off" with his " old love," the hop-growers, he takes very good care indeed to be "on" with the " new"—viz., the Brewing Interest. Minor flaws there may be in tie Budget—one or two of an insig nificant kind we ourselves commented upon the very day after the Chancellor of the Exchequer had made his financial statement in Committee of Ways and Means—but these are altogether of a very subordinate, and almost, one might say, trivial cha racter. They may be readily enough eliminated from the Budget without in any way narrowing its symmetry. On the contrary, their elision would naturally tend, we cannot but think, to improve the whole aspect of a fiscal and finan c i a l p o li c y otherwise so peculiarly adapted to the occasion and its peculiar and distinctive circumstances. Foremost among these minor flaws is the vexatious license of 12s. 6d. proposed by Mr. GLADSTONE for private brewing in houses under £2O annual rent. And after that has been cleared from the Budget the supplementary license of three days at a time for publican' at fairs—a proposition by the way going just in direct opposition to the Temperance Movement, and tallying not in the least with that remarkable little subsidiary move ment the Teetotallers have so much at heart, to wit the more recent movement which has led to the erection of so many Drinking Fountains. Expunge the license for private brewing, and the supplemen tary publican's license for fairs from the Budget under the consideration of the House of Commons, and you would make it almost as perfect in detail as it is already beyond a doubt satisfactory as a whole. Mr. BRIGHT may well feel flattered by the com mendation of the New York Chamber of Commerce, and that he should return the compliment is natural enough. He would have done well, however, in an answer to their resolution, which is certain to be .pnblished in every Northern paper, to have expressed himself with a little more discrimination. More ever, he professes to speak in the name of the great majority of his countrymen, whom, " he believes, he does not mistake or misrepresent when he speaks on the side of their Government and people." We must think, however, that nine out of ten English men who would, on the whole, take the side of the North against the South, would have spoken muoh more distinctly on what Mr. BRIGHT merely in- sinuates vaguely. It may be true, but with a very serious deduction, that the country of the New York Chamber of Com merce, is one of which it may be said that " in no other, have men been so free and so prosperous;'' but Mr. BRIGHT'S fellow-religionists in America would add—" Save and except four millions of Americans, differing from us indeed in colour, who enjoy no kind of freedom whatever, and whose prosperity consists in the chance of having been sold to a humane proprietor." How could a lead ing member of a sect, certainly not undistin guished in the annals of philanthropy, forget so large a portion of his fellow-men, debarred from freedom and prosperity, not by inevitable el:cum stances, but by their wilful and tyrannical eten tion in a bondage the most bitter and unrelenting in the history of the human race. Again Mr. BRIGHT adds, that " there is no other political constitution in existence, in the preserva tion of which the human race is so deeply interested," as that of the Federal Government of the United States. We must again think that, unless the obvious qualification were mentioned, such a remark is not what Englishmen generally would make, and it is one which might, indirectly, do harm in America. As a thoroughly free constitution for white men, all but inveterate Tories would say as much as Mr. BRIGHT. Reasonable persons among Conservatives themselves, admit, that a republic was the only possible form of Government after the separation from England, and thorough going Liberals must all wish to see it proved to the whole world, that Englishmen could, in the fullest sense, govern themselves. Of no other race has this been yet said with truth ; probably because long habits of subjection to monarchical or aristocratic rule could not be thrown off in a day. English men, however, believe that they possess both the energy and the self-restraint requisite to national self-government, and they would all be sorry to see any conspicuous failure in this respect in America. But we ought surely never to commend the Ame rican Government to Americans themselves, with out reminding them that one little clause vitiates their whole, otherwise noble, constitution—the one which requires the Free States to send back the fugitive slave, and which, Mr. LINCOLN himself has said, finds its legitimate practical expression in the infamous Fugitive Slave Law. So stringent, indeed, are the demands of this clause, according to Mr. LINCOLN, that he urged the repeal of the "Per sonal Liberty Acts" of some of the States—acts which merely prevented kidnapping of free persons of colour—considering them to be at variance with the requirements of this fundamental clause of the American constitution ! Mr.BRIGHT, prominent as he is among the Liberals of England, ought not to have overlooked this. The clause is not an inci dental thing. it is one which Washington was unwilling to accept ; one which was earnestly and long contended for ; and one which resulted in that law which is the confessed disgrace of the American statute book. Mr. BRIGHT does indeed, almost imperceptibly, indicate that it is the freedom of the Free States which attracts the interest of his countrymen, and seems to express the hope that all the States will ere long be free from the St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico. Even thus much he hardly makes clear. Now we would remind Mr. BRIGHT that, outspoken as he can be against all kinds of class tyranny at home, his silence on the vile tyranny of skin, when he speaks to Americans of their institutions, is likely to do even harm. Silence is taken for consent. What he does not mention, if we may not say he approves, he at least does not seriously blame. For an official man, or even a very cautious speaker; to be reserved, does no mischief. Mr, BRIGHT is, however, preeminently in this country the tribune of the humbler classes. He never conceals his sen timents on their rights here; for him therefore to praise unconditionally a constitution constructed to protect slavery is almost to give his suffrage to slavery itself. One of the most amusing political events of the hour is the publication of the Prussian Finance Minister's confidential letter to the Minister for War. It surprised the public by its sudden ap pearance in the VoBsische Zeitun 9. How it came there no one knew. The conductors of the journal of course, knew nothing about it ; office desks and private desks are searched, equally in vain. The manuscript or any copy of it, save the printed one, was nowhere to be found. It is asserted on the part of the Administrution, that it could not have found its way into the paper except by fraudulent means, and of course the proper indignation is professed. When, however, the contents are fairly considered, few readers will doubt that the fraud was one per fectly acceptable to the parties on whom it was committed. We doubt whether stolen kiss was ever more willingly forgiven than the stealing of this letter. The substance and object of the letter may be Was to beg the War Mi given briefly enough. It nister to reduce his estimates, and the object of the reduction was to cut the ground from beneath the feet of the Liberals at the impending elections. M. VON DER HEYT says frankly to his colleague, that they must try for a majority in the new Chambers, that the best card of the Liberals was the extra taxation, that the expenditure of every other de partment but the army has been cut down to the lowest, and that in the army alone is there any room for economy. The inference is obvious— if you and I are to remain in office—and such true patriots cannot doubt that every sacrifice should be made to that end—less must be spent on soldiering. Time, too, presses. We must renounce, he says, from the Ist of July, the levy of additional taxes, and make positive promises on the subject " before the timefixedfor the elections" The disbanded Chamber has, we in England should think, fresh claims to re-election. To turn out the men who had brought a high Tory Minis try to such concessions would be political ingra titude indeed. But, it would be what politicians think worse, it would be political folly—for who should watch over and insist on the proposed reduction of military expenditure, but the men who brought it about. If the new ministers are honest, they could work with the members of the old Chambers. If they are dishonest they need their control. Prussians, however, surely under stand this, LATEST WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIW 9, 1862. PARIS, APRIL 'B. BRUSSELS, APRIL 8. NEWS. The Paris papers of this evening publish a tele gram from Athens of the sth inst., stating that the insurgents at Nauplia demand a general amnesty and change of the Ministry. A decree for the amnesty has been published excepting 19 of the chiefs of the insurrection. The same telegram asserts that the English and French squadrons before Nauplia are stationed there under pretext of protecting their respective Consuls, but in reality for the purpose of advising the insurgents to submit, and of offering an asylum to those persons not included in the amnesty. The result is expected to transpire in the course of the week. The Minister of Foreign Affairs has requested the Chamber to enter upon an immediate examina tion of his proposition for the establishment, upon the Ist of May, of two daily postal services between Belgium and England. The proposition has been referred to the sections, the meeting of which will take place to-morrow. The Minister requests a decision before the Easter holidays. COPENHAGEN, APRIL 8. The Rigsraad voted to-day the extraordinary credit of one million rix dollars asked by the Minis ter of Marine for the construction of an iron-plated vessel. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. Mr. Gye commenced his season last evening, and the "opening" was inaugurated by an audience that filled every seat in the immense theatre. The opera was " Guillaume Tell," with - Tamberlik as Arnold ; Faure, as William Tell ; Madame Carvalho, Mathilde ; Zelger, Walter Furst ; and Madame Rudersdorff, as Tell's son. On the appearance of Costa in the orchestra, he was very warmly welcomed, and in a few moments after the house became silent for the performance of Rossini's magnificent overture ; never has it been given with better effect than last evening, and the fact was testified by the loud applause that followed its termination. The manner in which the opera is always per formed at this theatre is so well known, th a t i t i s needless to go into any very lengthy parti cu l ars . In the second act no single scene mor e calcn lated to create a sensation of the liveliest kind than the meeting of the Cantons and the swearing of the oath of liberty, preceded by the superlative trio in which Tell and Walter disclose to Arnold the news of his father's murder. The trio in question was superbly given by Signor Tamberlik, M. impassioned delive r y, i n , F ra a ni ur b e e , r a li nd k, a M. Z ndheilsgetrru, truly pathetic tones of Sign or y h Arnold's famous apostrophe to his murdered parent, moving the sympathies of the whole audience, who applauded him with rapture. The opening of the act—with the alternate chorus of Aus trian chasseurs and Swiss shepherds, on t h e distant shores of the Lake in which the represen tatives of the Cantons meet, and after, one by one, declaring the motives that incite them to revolt, unite, under the auspices of the three leaders, Tell, Arnold, and Walter, in taking the oath —were alike in ever y seise per f ec t ; and the cu r t a i n f e l l on the patriotic exclamation, " All' armi! All' arm i , " amid applause as uproarious as it was legitim a t e l y earned. Of course, it was raised again, that n o t merely the principal singers, but every one engaged in the performance, might be included in the unanimous verdict of approval. The remaining gems of the opera were all g i ven with great effect, as every one concerned was in capital voice. During the recess the theatre has been entirely re-decorated, and it now presents a most gorgeous appearance. The Duke of Somerset will hold his third levee to-morrow afternoon at the Admiralty, Whitehall. The Marquis Camden and the Ladies Pratt have left Grosvenor-square for Wilderness Park, Sevenoaks, for the holidays. The Earl of Derby continues to improve in health. The Earl Cowper and the Hon. Henry Cowper have arrived in town from a tour on the Continent. The Earl and Countess of Erne arrived at their residence in Eaton-square a few days since, from their seat in Ireland. The Earl of Verulam has arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Bournemouth. The Earl and Countess of Bective have left Grafton-street for Underley Hall, Westmoreland. The Earl and Countess Russell will leave town to-morrow for Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, for the Easter recess. The Countess Dowager of Mexborough is ex pected in town in a few days from visiting Lady Stuart de Rothsay at Highclifle, Hants. The Earl and Countess of Stamford and Warring ton have arrived at Hill-street from his lordship's seat. Biadgate Park. Lord and Lady Camoys and the Hon. Misses Stonor will leave town on Saturday for Stonor Park, Ox fordshire, for a few weeks. Lord and Lady Chesham have arrived at their residence in Grosvenor-square, from Latimers, Bucks, fur the season, Lord and Lady Rendlesham have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel. Lord and Lady Norreys have arrived in town. Lady Caroline Townley remains at Brighton. Lady F. Fitzroy and family have arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood. NEW ROYALTY THEATRE.—This evening Mr. Charles Wyndham takes his benefit at this theatre, on which occasion he puts forth a very attractive bill of enter tainments. In the first piece, " Charles X 11.," Mr Richards, whose admirable performance of Grandfather Whitehead a short time ago showed that he possessed talent of the highest order, sustains Liston's part of Adam Brock. The drama is to be followed by a new comedietta, written by Mr. C. Wyndham, entitled "A Victim to Friendship," in which the author sustains the part of Captain Clements ; and, for the purpose of showing his versatility, he also ap pears as O'Callaghan in the comic drama of "His Last Legs." The remaining entertainments are calculated to afford a capital evening's amusement. GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION.—In order to enter tain our country friends who are expected to visit the metropolis in the " merrie month of May," Mr. and Mrs, (German Reed, in conjunction with Mr. John Parry, have produced a new entertainment, entitled " The Family Legend ; or, Heads and Tales." The author of the work is Mr. Tom Taylor, and he has acquitted himself of his task in a most admirable manner. The fun of the dramatic sketch consists in the dream of a romantic poet (Mr. Reed) who falls asleep during the singing of a Welsh legend, by Mrs. Reed, in which the doings of a bad Sir Griffith are duly chronicled in song. The ghost of Sir Griffith of course appears and amuses himself by enunciating his opinion on modern customs during the smoking of his cigar, and winds up by giving the sleeper a tune upon the fiddle. Mr. John Parry, as the jovial host, Col. Pryse, created quite a furore and, taken altogether, the novelty is well calculated to draw admiring thousands to the Gallery of Illustration. DEATH OF THE HON. JOHN E. ELLIOT.—We have to record the death of the Hon. John Edmund Elliot, the late member of Parliament for Roxburghshire, who died on Friday last, after a protracted illness. The hon. gen tleman, who was third son of the first Earl of Minto, and brother Peer, was born 30th March, 1788, so that he had just entered in his 75th year. The deceased mar ried, 3d October, Henry Casamajor, of M a d ras . H e e ntered the civil serv i ce of the late 1809, Amelia, third daughter of Mr. Jame @ of the East India Company in Bengal early in life, and re tired in 1830. From 1837 up to 1841, and from 1847 to 1859, he was representative in the House of Commons for R ox burghshite- lie was f or two years , durin g L or d J ohn Russell's administratio n , secre t ary o f the Board of C on t ro l . By his death the famili es o f th e Earl and Co un t ess o f Northesk, the Earl and Countess Minto, Lord and L a dy , William Compton, the C oun t ess R uss ell, Colonel a n d L a d y E :c li:a a b r e e th pla ß e c e , m d iiin mourning. Sir John a nd Lady Caroline Boilea u , 19THRIFLES.—On Monday evening the officers SURREY, honorary &c., of this corps attended a meeting at their drill sh e d, K enn ington-park. M r . F. iary members, D eu lton took the chair. H e sa id i t was w ith d ee p regret h e had to announce the resignation of Major Roupell, M.P., who had been coiopelled to resign the command through private reasons. He hoped that the corps Mould thrive, and he proposed, now that it had lost one who had been a great supporter to the corps, that a military man should be in vited to take the command; which was carried with great cheering. A vote of thanks was returned to the chairman for the able manner in which he had conducted the meeting. The two excellent bands were in attendance, and played selections after the meeting. Most of the members ex pressed their intention of taking part at the review at Brighton. INDIA. CALCUTTA, MARCH 16 (via Trieste). A person calling himself Balla Rao having cor rupted some infant-7.r t.eg;me...te the Ni'vee, tumult was on the eve of explosion. At this juncture the plot was, however, dis covered, Balla Rao absconded, and peace has been restored. Lord Elgin landed and assumed the government on the 13th inst. On the following day Lord Canning received de putations from all classes with addresses. He will sail in the Feroze on the 10th inst.! PEKIN, FEB. 1. Much is expected from the energy of Prince Kung. A large body of rebels have been driven out of a barricade at Woosung by the Imperialists, under the command of Colonel Ward, an American. There is no other news of importance. SHANGHAI, FEB. 21. Bodies of Volunteers are forming. Much speculation is rife as to the result of the rebellion and the interference of other Powers. Reports have reached this city that the inhabi tants of Nankin are in a state of starvation, and are eating human flesh. FRANCE. BOURSE, April B.—The market continues inani mate, and prices are slightly lower, Threes, for the Account, being now at 70f. Railway Shares have been rather offered, and some of the lines mark lower prices. Time Market slightly receded to wards the close, when the following were the last quotations : 4i per per Cents ... 97 75 Bank Shares — Do. end month.... Credit Foncier 1490 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 69 90 Piedmontese Fives 6B New 3 per Cents .. 68 95 Roman — Do. end month.... 69 10 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 790 Spanish Threes 6l 50 Do. Account — Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto 935 .. Lyons and Mediterranean 1125 .. 1125 Geneva 386 25 .. 385 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian 365 .. 368 75 Austrian Lombard 570 .. 570 ITALY. " Advices from Turin," says the Independence, have announced that King Victor Emmanuel has signed the decree for reorganising the Neapolitan magistracy, the composition of which, as bequeathed to the Kingdom of Italy by the despotic and corrupt Government of the Bourbons of Naples, was far from offering to the country the guaran tees everywhere considered indispensable in per sons charged with judicial functions. The work of weeding out the unworthy was so long, diffi cult, and delicate a task that no Ministry till the present has been inclined to assume the respon sibility of it. This reorganisation will be pub lished with the signature of M. Ratazzi, Minister of Justice par interim, and as this decree was the sole motive which delayed the entrance of M. Conforti into the Cabinet, it is highly probable that he will now enter on office at once." A Turin letter of the sth, in the Presse, says : " The King will arrive at Naples preceded by a flattering decree for the National Guard of that place, who have been indefatigable since their for mation. The banners of the twelve battalions will for the future bear the civil medal awarded for courage and good conduct. A few days back a man was arrested who attempted by force to obtain an interview with Garibaldi. He pretended to be a sailor, and stated that his intention was to obtain from the General admission to the Italian navy, but suspicion being excited he was searched and a pistol being found upon him he was arrested. An enor mous volume has been published to-day, containing the bill on stamps and registration dues already voted by the Chamber of Deputies, and completely modified and corrected by the Senate. The remark has been made that latterly all the bills of the Chamber of Deputies have been modified by the Senate, and the rumour goes that the bill on the tobacco duties will be treated in the same manner. As to the bill on postal reforms, I have the firm conviction that it will not pass the Senate without iiiiportant modifi cations. The numerous amendments voted by the Lower Chamber have altered its spirit and rendered it almost unintelligible. The proposed new postal rate still remains fixed at 15c. for letters of 10 grammes. The present charge is 20c. The bill brought in by M. Peruzzi proposed a uniform rate of 10c., but on the observations of the Minister of Finance the rate was fixed at 15c. It must be re membered that the postal service costs 20 millions a-year, and only produces 16." A Naples letter in the Nord says:—" The Che valier d'Amico, captain in the navy, has just been appointed private secretary to the Minister of Marine. To great practical aptitude that officer unites intelligence and great scientific knowledge. He is the same who last year distinguished him self at Gaeta, when i n command of the Garibaldi, and who has just published a " Treatise on Naval Tactics,' which in the opinion of the most intelli gent Italian officers, may be placed in the rank of the best works of that kind published in France and England. Everything gives reason to hope that the Italian navy will be satisfied with the choice of the Minister Persano. On the other hand, some disappointment was felt on learning that Captain Isola, of the navy, was to quit his post of Chief of the Department of Naples. There is a strong attachment in Naples to Vice-Admiral Baron Tholosan, Rear_ Admiral Provano, and Capt. Isola, who for the last year have had the direction of the naval department." A CENTENARIAN,--There is now living near the a man named William 'Weaver, Bat and Ball, S evenoa k s, who attained his 101st year on tho 29th of December last. He is in full possession of all his faculties. Ile was born at Chipstead, but has lived in this parish fo.•-• the last 25 years. — A r aiciston. Journal. AUSTRALIA. LIVERPOOL; TUESDAY. The screw steamship Great Britain has arrived, with advices from Melbourne to the 29th January, and 60,367 ounces in specie. Her news is three days later than the last mail. The Melbourne Argus of the 28th furnishes the following mining news : " There is still the same complaint of general dul ness on the diggings, and mining news is there fore scarce. New rushes are very muchwanted, but they will not break out, although so many are anxiously waiting to t a k e par t i n them, on the slightest possible excuse offering. The most pro mising opening just now for one is at the Antrim Arms, between four and five miles from Talbot— Back Creek, still the best known name, where work has just been commenced afresh in a number of claims, in consequence of its becoming known that the gold has been found in another claim besides that of the prospectors, and in more than merely paying quantities. A party of Germans bottomed some days since, and, for the purpose of inducing others near them to abandon their claims, gave out their own was no good, and commenced taking down their windlass, as if about to leave it ;but when they got as many of their friends as they could around them they commenced work again, and it is now believed that they got a prospect equal to three ounces to the load. And on the Mount Greenock Lead there has been a great improvement within the last few days. In one claim that was abandoned a fresh party of men came upon stuff that yielded them four ounces to the load, after driving a few feet, and in the Engine Claim a good lead has been struck, after a long search for this in vain. The gold on their part of the lead is also coarser, for along with smaller pieces they found a nugget weighing loz. 4dwt.; and on the upper part of the lead yet another party has come upon payable stuff, so that the Mount Greenock lead, or leads, as the case appears to be, are in high favour again. Towards the Talbot end of the plain a prospecting party has struck upon go)A, and some ground has been taken up round '-'itena, but we have nothing as yet to show what tte nature of the deposit may be. Most of the frontage claims on the Rocky lead are still yielding well, and a number of block claims have been taken up on a fresh parallel, as from a discovery made in one of the larger claims it is thought an important new or branch lead may be opened up. Work has been commenced in several of these, and there has been somewhat of a rush to the side of the pre viously occupied ground. No new alluvial ground has been found in the neighbourhood of Amherst, and there is in places there an increasing scarcity of water, calculated to drive away many of those still on the old workings. At Dunn's Paddock the lead is nearly worked out, and the nuggets found are becoming less in weight and fewer in number each week. "The diggings around Dunolly are now yielding well, and the last escort from that place was the largest for some time. Much of the gold was supposed to be from the old lead and from Coch ran's, but Burnt Creek contributed a due proportion, as a number of the miners there, particularly the Chinese, are doing remarkably well. The Bullock Flat Lead is extending towards Dunolly, and some of the claims on it are believed to be rich, for these times. On the Wild Dog side of the creek a num ber of the miners are still at work, and, to all ap pearance, satisfied with what they are getting. A new reef has been discoved on the Old Dry Lead at Dunolly, the first five tons from which yielded 7oz. 3dwt. 10gr. At Cochran's many of the men are engaged in raising cement, which pays them well. Two or three weeks since there was a small rush to shallow ground near Harper's Reef at Havelock, and the gutter, or else a succession of patches, has been followed up until the sinking is now between 50 and 60 feet. The yield is, how ever, irregular, and not great from even the best parts of these patches, so the rush is not likely to assume any importance. There has also been a rush of Chinese to the Blackman's Lead, and the alluvial ground about Maryborough is said to be receiving more attention, but no new discoveries in that direction are announced. " At Barkly good claims continue to be bottomed on the deep lead each week, and otherwise there is no change. The deep lead at Redbank is rising in favour, and from some of the shafts last put down the prospect was at the rate of a penny weight to the bucket. From other parts of this district there is no news. At Rokewood there has been a rush to a hill at the back of one of the streets, where some 20 good claims were bottomed early last week. A bucket of dirt from one of these yielded 1 oz. 5 dwt. of gold, so that it is needless to say the population on the spot is fast increasing." The English Eleven landed at Sydney on the 27th of January, and were to commence their match on the following day. The Otago Times of the 17th of January records the discovery of a new gold field on the Zammerland Creek, near its junction with the Waipori. A LITERARY CTRIOSITY. A singularly beautiful, and, in some respects, a really marvellous specimen of photography, was a considerable time back submitted to us. It was sub mitted to us then in our capacity as reviewersboth of art and of literature. And although our com ments upon this truly remarkable specimen at once of art and of literature have been delayed unavoid ably until now, they will nevertheless be the ex pression rather of the spontaneous effusion of our appreciation at the moment of writing than the deliberate utterance of any opinion over-scrupu lously weighed in the balance of our judgment. In simple truth there is no need, if indeed there be any possibility, for hesitation in the recognition either of the interest or of the value attached to this very curious example of the application of the photo graphic art to the preservation and perpetuation of a world-famous masterpiece in the world of letters. A single glance at the production we are here refer ring to will be quite sufficient to assure any one of even an ordinary amount of taste, or of what is called (rather rashly perhaps) common sense, that he is gazing at a magic facsimile of the only original draught now in existence of a poem renowned all over the :earth as the most popular poem in the English language ! A Facsimile of Thomas Gray's Autograph Manu script of his exquisite Elegy in a Country Church yard. A Facsimile published for half-a-guinea by Messrs. Sampson Low, Son, and Company, of 47, Ludgate -hill. The photographers who have pro- I duced this perfectly unique specimen of their beauti ful art being the Messrs. Cundall and Downes, a firm already honourably known by the microscopic daintiness of their manipulation. The extraordi nary specimen of photography we are now remark ing upon, it should be observed, at once extends to no more than four quarto pages —representing the four pages of an old-fashioned sheet of letter-paper, not note-paper, bat letter-paper. But together with these four quarto pages of what may be termed photographic calligraphy, there are besides several pages of illustrative letter-press, charmingly written throughout, giving a succinct account of what:they serve, indeed, only very agree ably to annotate. The editor of the entire publication (as now issued to the public by Messrs. Sampson, Low, Son, and Co.), to whose pen we are indebted for these interesting running commentaries, is ident cal, we believe, with the present posse ss o r o f th e Original MS. in Gray's handwriting. A manu script, remember, of which these four quarto pages are the literal lac simile—thanks to the marvellous agencies of the photographic lens and the glass sensitized by collodion ! Thanks immediately to these agencies, but decidedly also it should, in simple gratitude, be remembered by every purchaser of this " Fac simile"—thanks directly and obviously to the unselfish munificence (as we do n o t f or an instant hesitate t o ca ll it) of the actu a l possessor of the I manuscript, namely, Mr. Rob ert C harles Wrightson, now of St. j g 'Les's, formerly of Birmingham. A s w e have already remarked, but as we would here particularly repeat it, the original MS. —now, we need hardly hay for the first time photograph( d and thereby rendered (so far as an absolute fac simile can render it) public property —is the only au' ogra- Elegy now i n ex i stence . T here th© w known i p s hic draught of Gray'sautograph manuscript )f the Poems, of course, still treasured up in the Library of Pembroke College in the University of Cam bridge. But that, as every one will remember who ever examined it, is quite manifestly, is indeed notoriously, a fair transcript by Gray of the whole poem, when it had been thoroughly revised and corrected, and altered and abbrevi ated—the author's manuscript of the Elegy in fact as it is. The Original Draught of the Poem as it was—Mr. R. C. Wrightson possesses, Messrs. Cundall and Downes have photographed, and Messrs. Sampson, Low, Son, and Co.:are now pub.. lishing. The Facsimile represents this MS,, of course, exactly as it now appears—the edges of the sheet of letter-paper ragged and worn, the ink (never, perhaps, anything like a jet-black) faded away into a pale brown--a few of the words, occasionally nearly a line, of Gray's elegant handwriting so dimmed by age as to be almost illegible, as to be all but obliterated. Folded up—evidently for the purpose of being carried about more conveniently in the writer's poeketbook—there are other ‘, worn" edges to the M.S. than those already - mentioned as the outside e d ges o f t h e sheet of letter-paper. And the MS. appears to have beco'lee thus blurred, to employ a sk a t er ' s phrase, purald- y because of these " inside edges" having got warn also by lon g car rying in G ray ' s pocket b ook_ By this, and by fre quently going in and ov reiterated peru sa l, a it of th a t p oc k et b oo k f or the earnest "request of friends"—at the liter'ery soirees and conversaziones then especially in 'rogue in—those " tea-cup times of hoop and laoor'i,n of which our living Laureate has sung as of so very long ago though they are times, by the way, judging at least from opera cloaks and crinolines, that we seem one way or another to be fast reverting to ! It should be related in evidence of the indisputable authen ticity of tlr'..s very curious and beautiful autograph manuscript, that it was among the Papers be queathed by Thomas Gray to the Rev. William Mason, the author of our English Poem of The Garden, but better known as Gray's intimate FPnend, and (not always a consequence of inti mate Friendship) his judicious Biographer as well. On William Mason's death, this, among the rest of Gray's papers, was left in turn by Gray's friend and biographer to his own curate, Mr. Bright. And by Mr. Bright's son at length, in 1845, the Gray Papers were at length brought to the auctioneer's hammer, and scattered among eager purchasers. The purchaser therein 1845, of this (the original) draught autograph of the Elegy was (and no wonder) Mr. Penn, of Manor House, at Stoke Pogeis—the churchyard at Stoke Pogeis being the scene of the "Elegy," and the Manor House of Stoke Pogies (the residence of Mr. Penn) the scene of the "Long Story." For that singl e worn and faded sheet of old letter paper, precioas by reason of its containing the original draught of the famous poem in Gray's own handwriting, Mr. Penn paid down £lOO. In doing so, however, he was eclipsed nine years afterwards, namely, In 1854, when the hammer again brought the MS. under the bidding of an eager throng of competi tors. The gentleman already mentioned as the present possessor of the manuscript, Mr. Wrightson, himself a graceful writer and accomplished scholar, gladly paying down then for his prize £l3l ! A hun dred and thirty-one pounds for what accident might at any moment have crumpled up and tossed into the fire, and burned into a fluttering whiff of tinder in a twinkling ! Here, however, thanks to t:no public spirit and generous open-handedness of Mr. Wrightson, the original draught autograph is hap pily rendered in a manner (by means of its photo graindestructible ! etusg glance awhile at this or i g i na l Andpic multiplication)now draught autograph—as reflected in its photographic fac simile—of Gray's "Elegy in a Country Church yard." .Elegy it is not—to begin with—in the ori ginal, but quaintly, in the slipshod grammar of the day, Stanzas wrote in a Country Churchyard. And, by the way, we would here give a hint to any purchaser of the Jac simile—by simply following which hint of ours, he (the purchaser) may put him self in an instant, as it were, at the elbow of Thomas Gray while he is writing it! Let the purchaser then turn his copy of the fae simile up side down, and begin reading it, as it were, at the end. He will thereupon not fail to observe that at the tap of what will then be lying before him as the first page (what is now, of course, the bottom of the fourth and last page), written by Gray's hand, Stanzas. And he will understand at once how Gray—either not liking his pen, or thinking he had begun writing out his lines too near the top of the page, or, at any rate, in obedience to some su dd en momentary whim — turned the sheet of lette r p a p er r i g h t over and began afresh inditing his "El eg y," or rat h er his " Staizas . The interesting little it ems , h owever. discoverable in this extraordinary " copy of verses," are, in truth, to a practised eye, to a memery familiar with the Elegy as it is (and whose is not ?), like Falstaff's reasons, "plentiful as blackberries." For example, there are no less than six separate verses, or rather stanzas, in this draught copy of the Elegy not to be found now in the printed version of it ! Five sepa rate stanzas, that is, besides the one known already to a few of the more inquiring admirers of Gray, that lovely stanza that Lord Byron wondered and lamented Gray's fastidious taste should have induced him to eliminate : " There scattered oft the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." It were tedious, however, and, in truth —remem bering that the fac simile is now readily procurable by those who care to possess it—superfluous, to par ticularise the whole of the differences discoverable between the printed version of the Elegy and the Stanzas as they here originally stood in the draught manuscript. The "pick" among them, however, may not be inappropriately mentioned. And in every instance the alteration eventually resolved upon by Gray will be allowed upon all hands to be a veritable improvement. " Hands that the rod of empires might have swayed " stands in the original draught-- " Hands that the reins of empire, &c. Again--" And all the air a solemn stillness holds," first of all stood not nearly so well--" And now the air," &c. Turning, however, to the indications that may be found of larger changes than those intro duced by Gray into his eventually matchless Elegy, we find that in this original draught of the " Stanzas," immediately after the one ending— " Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep," the Elegy, in its crude shape, here continues— " For ever sleep—the breezy call of morn, Or swallow twittering from his clay-built shed, Or chanticleer so shrill, or echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed." A feeble version enough of what ultimately ripened into certainly one of the most exquisite and melli fluous passages in the whole of this incomparable poem. " Familiar in our mouths as household words" though they are, we still love ever to repeat them—we can never by any chance tire of repeating them : "a thing of beauty," here again, "is a joy for ever :" and so—the perfected stanza echoes back tatithrough our memory now by y " The bre ezy call of incense breathing breathing morn, crowning quo morn, Th o e omc s w ok r, aes shalllsohwr rill twitteringlro clarion,ue th ea f mn r o df m r tohm i tes echoingt s h t e r l straw-built i yo l t r bn s e h , d e . d u , The r c Examining the p oem as i t at length appeared when printed —examining it now by the light of this original draught of it in the poet's autograph—a draught in which, by the way, Cato takes the place of Hampden, Tully of Milton, and Cmsar of Crom well in that noble stanza that has since thrilled through the hearts of so many generations of Eng lishmen in harmonious accents such as these— " Some villa Hampden, who with d aun tl ess b reas t, The little tyrant of his' fields withstood, Somo mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood." —Scanning by the light of this Facsimile the Elegy as it ultimately grew to be, out of the budding gems of these Stanzas, one can hardly wonder at a reward even so immense as its unrivalled popularity being won by such a wondrous exercise of a taste so intense! y refined and of a care so exquisitely fastidious. For Placing within the reach of so very many a literary curiosity that a less unselfish man than its present possessor would have continued sedulously to hoard up for his o wn en j o yment, the students of En g li s h Literature are indeed beh olden to Mr. R. C. Wrightson —whose name e v ery purchaser of this charming Fa cs imile of Grey 's Elegy will h ence f ort h hold in most agreeable and grateful remembrance. 3Der i \., Per ~e w p . a l tdia " I%Lritti Fbiit viDittc 1 1;t+( t otsol Ziichec Dittr. 'l'etiad It alian, 1 1 ft; beb quiet Lux; decli i 12! to lc 44p ti d Joint Tb ther e l ‘lorti Coln/ In Stock kear e°ll ROll at o,t p