The Sun. — London, England, 1859-06-15 00:00:00

!I - ` r* , ,tot ' ' s ,, _,a.u! ,____, l44 (. 1 4, .,, 4 ,• IZ ,(.,i ~....;,,,,:•,' , .• r'`'' •"• -C ' ',,,--• . I.Tk'``• • ' . . i. • bik e ~ ' 4 l'4' ' 't' ' • II Cl '' ' .. - 7••' Lik or r o' ----- ' t. t...----,, THE SUN. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1859. So the Great Reformer is to be our Minister for Foreign Affairs, his successful performances at Vienna being of course the reason. It does seem at first sight a rather unlucky omen for the happy reunion, that he, having formerly offended Lord PALMERSTON on one question of foreign policy, and subsequently having had to quit Lord PAL MERSTON'S Ministry on another, should now rejoin him in the very department in which he could not, either as chief or subordinate, agree with him before. However, at their forgiving age byegones ought to be byegones; let us hope they are so. So far as parlour secrets have been divulged, backed indeed by all appearances, we must confess that Lord PALMERSTON seems to have evinced a spirit of " dignified conciliation," and to have been ready to make any reasonable concessions to his uneasy colleague ; but unless rumour be altogether at fault, Lord JOHN has been as exacting as any tyrant beauty in the full bloom of youthful charms. The senior Lord doubtless makes 'every allowance for the restlessness of a man who, though not asked by his Sovereign to be first, cannot be easy without a virtual premiership. Unluckily there can be but one Premier, and still more unluckily, if that Premier be in the House of Commons, he must lead it ; and most unluckily of all, if there be one post which the junior Lord desiderates more than another, it is that of Leader of the House. H ow is a stable equilibrium to be found for such conflicting • forces How shall the centre of gravity be determined ? We hope events may falsify our fears, for we cannot afford to be always changing MinisterS and throwing away sessions, and establishing a practice of biennial Parliaments. When the new Ministry is formed we shall be ready to give it a fair trial : it is the due of any Ministry; but the new Ministry must give us what is fair according to the mode in which it took office. It is to be remembered that the indulgence which was fair to Conservatives in a confessed minority, who took the Government at the request of the Sovereign after the fact of its being in a minority was pointed out to her,—who took it because her MAJESTY stated the plain truth that the Liberal sections were too hostile to co-operate, and that she had no alternative but to resort to the largest of three minorities—the indulgence fair to a Ministry thus situated, from a House which had created the situation, cannot be extended to the present Govern ment. They take office on the avowed ground of being in a majority, and of being united. Majority and union were the watchword at Willies; majo rity and union were the cry of the debate. If the Libisrals were not sufficiently amalgamated to make theiir union efficient, it was gratuitous folly to turn out their oppo nen ts. No one pretends to deny that the late Ministry did many things for which liberals are thaAkful. Indeed, had they not adhered too pertinaciously —chiefly, we believe, because their taunting opponents had almost made it an affair of honour to those points in their Reform Bill, which, at the wish of the coun try they are now ready t o conced e , they mi g h t h ave been securely in office, ye t . . We did not spare those errors at the time. We acknowledge them to have .ged them to give them been great errors; we w aged up. wise in not doing so ; beat They were wrong and u n they confess this itow. The country gave the m some thirty seats, and tbiy in return have conceded the points objected .to by the country. A Ministry, therefore, is ejected which, as the blue-book now ' shows beyond dispute, was a sincere.. Neutrality Ministry, and which was ready to give us a Reform Bill freed from the objectionable clauses. If these things were sure under a minority Ministry, what are we to look for from a majority Ministry ? Two things we must look for at least. In the first they must imitate ; in the second, surpass the retiring Ministry, or they had better have refrained from a vote of no confidence. They must imitate them in their freedom from exclusiveness ; they must surpass them in the popular character of their measures. Truly enough was it urged, that what ever the faults of the Tories, it was not one of them to make government and a dministration the appanage of a limited circle of great families. If the Liberals really look as favourably on the plebeian. orders as the Tories, then let them show it by following the example of the latter. No one denies that wherever they found talent or genius at leisure for the public service, they were ready to avail themselves of it. They cordially welcomed all classes and orders of the Conservative body ; ability had, at least, the encouragement of knowing that it would not be postponed to aristocratic noodleism. It may be said that they merely wanted to use it. Of course they did. But to be used by a Govern ment in the public service of the country, is just the ambition, the honourable ambition, of aspiring minds. We believe that the whole Liberal Party both in the House and in the country, acknowledges that the Tories set their own leaders an example in this respect ; an example, which if not followed in a spirit as frank and ungrudging as theirs, will soon show the evil consequences of neglecting it. The Liberals have numerous able men outside the old routine squad, who, were they among Lord DERBY'S three hundred, would have honourable posts offered them at once in any Ministry formed by him. The second point is the sequel of the first ; as the first is the pledge for the second. If we are to have from a Liberal Ministry measures which sur pass in liberality those of their opponents, then we must have in the Cabinet and in the Ministry a much larger proportion of acknowledged—Radicals, we may as well use the word. Of men whom Whigs, as well as Tories, concur to honour with that uncourtly, but expressive designation. It will not do merely to have a single Sir W. MOLES WORTII, neutralised completely by ten to one hos tile to his views ; we ought to have a sufficient number of men devoted and pledged by all their antecedents to the popular cause, to insure that popular demands shall be listened to in the Cabinet itself, and shall modify the measures it initiates in Parliament. Austria herself governs for the people ; at least professes to do it. We want Government through the people. We want to govern ourselves, and to do it by the Cabinet to which our representatives agree to give their con fidence. More popular measures therefore imply more popular men in the Cabinet itself. The new Ministry can hardly go wrong in foreign affairs. They find them in the right groove at their entrance on office ; they have but to keep them there. It is on home policy—on Reform—that they, as well as the late Ministry,will be shipwrecked, unless they can by a bill which will rouse the country show cause for turning out their predecessors. It will not do to bring in Mr. DISRAELI'S Bill minus the errors of which Mr. DISRAELI himself proposed to strip it. The country will indignantly exclaim, No thanks to you for that. Mr. BRIGHT must not suffer his one hundred and fifty seats taken from paltry boroughs to be sent into oblivion. Above all, the two hun dred and forty members favourable to the Ballot must not allow the Reform which all Liberal con stituencies demaud to be forgotten. And NOW is the time to insist on such things. If a Ministry be formed which ignores them, it will be left by the people to the tender mercies of the Tories. It will be no concern of the people's to keep it in office. The enthusiasm of the Italians has proved equal to our expectations. It would have been marvel lous indeed if it had proved otherwise. There, at least, the pear was in truth ripe—the first breeze of insurrection might have shaken it down. How much more, therefore, when the roaring hurricane of war was storming through the great boughs of that political banyan which has, during these last few centuries been covering all the Roman peninsula as with a forest of larger and lesser nationalities—a sudden whirlwind of battle carry ing off a branch here and there in its passage, and making the roots vibrate to their uttermost foun dations. Could CHARLES ALBERT but have fore seen the events now occurring on either side of the boundary line between Piedmont and Lombardy it would have consoled him for his lost crown, and his broken sword, and his shattered sceptre on the field of Novara—it would have carried solace even to his lonely death-bed at Oporto. Could PEPE have looked securely enough into the future to have recognised the foreshadowing of the victories won over the Austrians, in 1859, at Montebello, at Palestro, and at Magenta, it would have sweetened the bitterness of that frequent draught of hope deferred,which during his long and agitated lifetime he had so often occasion to quaff to its very dregs—only to have the cup again and again re plenished. Could ORSINI but have beheld in prophetic vision from his dungeon the triumphal entry into Milan of the Emperor of FRANCE and the Ki ng of SARDINIA, he would have cursed the hand that in the frenzy of a mistaken and fanatical patriotism had hurled the deadly missile ' upon the causeway of the Rue le Pelletier. The bugle note which is the signal (GoD grant it!) of Italian emancipation, is sounding now no less earnestly from the ranks of the Zouaves and the Turcos, the stalwart Grenadiers of France, and the little red-legged soldiers of the Line, from the squadrons of the Chasseurs d'Afrique, and from those of the Chasseurs de Vincennes—no than ole a s n s earne stly, no less ent husiastica lly , from these from the Piedmontese army under Ding VICTOR. EMMANUEL, or from the heroic free corps of hitherto exiled Italians under the terrible banner o f a tm _ BALDI ! It is like the echo, in these times, o f the trumpet-call of RIENZI. It is as moving, as thrilling in its tones, as the note wound upon the horn of ROLAND in the pass of Roncesvalles. It has already wakened the Italian people, north and south, from their hopeless apathy, and their pro longed and apparently interminable degradation. Tuscany has thrown off the yoke. Parma has risen. Lombardy is rising. Venice waits only for the hour and the man. The States of the Church :have already recognised thel opportunity which identifies the cause, even in a constrained neutrality, with that now maintained at the point of the sword and the bayonet, at the mouth of the minie rifle and the cannon of precision in theUllied Armies of Emanci pation. Even Naples and Sicily, we cannot but feel assured, hearken with profound solicitude to the distant reverberations of the sound of that great war which is now being waged in the name of Italy, not of a part, but of all Italy, at the opposite extremity of that glorious and beautiful peninsula. . A little better this bold conflict than tho nomadic diplomatic mission nearly a dozen years ago of GILBERT ELLIOT MURRAY KYNYN MOUND, Earl of MINTO. Don't we remember that mission all of us rather painfully ? Was it not the wretchedest exhibition of interest on the part of England in the cause of Italian Independence ? Somewhat diffe rent as an attestation of sympathy in that cause, it must be confessed—somewhat different assuredly to the testimony now afforded by our ally at the head of 150,000 men—our ally abetting now with all the resources of genius and of valour that other ally, carrying in one hand the banner emblazoned with the white cross of Savoy, and in the other the tricolour of the Italian peninsula. All England did for Italy in 1849 was to send Lord MINT() thither in his green plaid trousers upon a still greener mission— one that resulted only in a series of imbroglios calculated only, as it proved, to rivet the chains of the oppressed yet more securely, instead of effecting anything whatever towards their social or political emancipation. That was the sympathy for Italy manifested by England under a Whig Government. Yet to those Whigs now, the Times tells us, we are to look, England is to look, Italy is to look, for the triumphant emancipation of the Roman peninsula. In Lord JOHN RUSSELL we are all at once to re cognise the true saviour of Italy and the Italians. Lord JoHN has certainly something to do in this matter by way of expiating his former policy. Lord PALMERSTON has to do likewise—he has to expiate his past—not alone in regard to the Ita lians, but in regard to the Hungarians also. If Italy has to expect anything from the Whigs, it will be not in fulfilment, but in expiation of Whig policy. If Lord JOAN is to effect any good for Italy and the. Italians, it can only be by his turn ing over a new leaf as a diplomatist. The old leaf to which we are now brought back after the pass ing by of one entire decade is sadly scribbled, blotted, and blurred with tears and blood—one of the most lamentable mementos, as it is also one of the most deplorable, evidences of the evils arising from Whig misgovernment. The following tables from " VACHER'S Parlia mentary Companion" we referred to a few days ago. They give a remarkably clear and impartial view of the actual state of the borough representa tion, and show, in a brief and unanswerable manner, that something ought to be done towards rendering it much more equitable : BOROUGH REPRESENTATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. ' tc '—' ',-; 0 a", C c- , •r , c.-:'4, -.. o —'2 -4- --.' - 4 1 ,1 ,, g° 'if . 2 . . , g -, -1, ,-,..,° E .T. P ''' •-, c-; .... El c., ,2,Lt Erg p., 0t g ~,S-:- ' . s -.,-4 , ,-. ) ...g '6 ..' s,, :::J ~ ,• tr2.l ' ''. 0 -C 5 E. 15 ,0 e. England lts 319 7,144,040 22,162 99 916,048 Wales Scotland Ireland U.liingdom 259 395 9,445,610 23,725 128 —1,121,445 COMPARATIVE RESULTS FROM THE PRECEDING TABLES. The present total borough representatives of the United Kingdom being 395 ; If the whole of the above 253 boroughs and 128 unrepre sented towns were re-divided amongst the same number of members, according to population, it would give one mem ber to each 26,536 of the population; and— England would have 303 borough members instead of 319 Wales 11 7) 14 Scotland „ 46 23 17 71 Ireland 71 35 77 39 Dividing the present 395 borough members into three parts, according to the population of the boroughs now return ing them ; One-third are returned by the 75 largest boroughs, having upwards of 29,000 inhabitants each, and a total population of 7,326,427 One-third are returned by 89 boroughs having from 10,000 to 29,000 inhabitants each, and a total population of One-third are returned by the 89 smallest boroughs, having less than 10,000 inhabitants each, and a total population of One .third of the borough members are thus returned by about four-fifths of the borough population ; and another third are returned by one-sixteenth of the same. And—Dividing the total population of represented boroughs into three parts— One-third of the population is contained in the 10 largest boroughs (each having a population exceeding 200,000) which re turn together One-third of ditto is contained in 35 inter mediate boroughs (each having from 46,000 to 200,000 inhabitants), which re turn together One-third of ditto is contained in the 206 smallest boroughs (each having less than 46,000 inhabitants), which return to gether In other words— One-third of the borough population returns one-twen tieth of the borough members, and another third returns fifteen-twentieths of the borough members, or fifteen times as many as the ten most populous boroughs 20 members. 66 members. 309 members. The following table is also one of some interest. It shows how much our Parliaments are increas ingly less liable to change. What a difference between the number of members who kept their seats in 1847 and in 1859,! and between the number of members not before in Parliament who were returned at the two elections referred to ! ANALYSIS OP CHANGES IN THE REPRESENTATION. Comparative Changes at the General Elections of 1847, 1852 1857, and 1859. 1852. 1857. 1 1859. 434 452 511 22 13 13 24 39 40 175 151 91 655 655 655 1 1 1 *654 654 1 654 Members re-elected for the same places Members re-elected by other Con stituencies New Members, formerly in Parlia ment New Members not before in Parlia ment Members returned for two places Deduct Double Returns.. * St. Albans disfranchised, 1855. MATANZAS and SABANILLA RAILROAD 7 PER CENT. BONDS. Notice is Hereby Given, that the following 140 Bonds of £lOO each, having been drawn by lot for the Annual Redemp tion, the holders of them are requested to present the same for_Myment at the counting house of Messrs. J. HENRY SCHRODER and CO., 145, Leadenhall-street, on and after the 15th June instant, after which day all interest on them will cease and determine. The Bonds must be left two clear days for examination. 24 164 245 361 554 736 984 1139 1284 1511 25 165 247 366 563 743 985 1148 1289 1515 27 166 253 383 597 746 986 1168 1317 15 17 42 180 256 385 604 776 987 1169 1353 1522 44 181 257 413 635 778 996 1197 1389 1539 46 196 287 427 637 810 1011 1129 1391 1580 51 204 293 450 651 812 1013 1207 1400 1581 54 208 304 466 653 834 1017 1218 1440 1617 62 209 311 520 669 931 1018 1231 1458 1622 80 211 331 523 693 937 1045 123'3 1462 1702 96 221 343 526 695 943 1051 1234 1489 1776 106 231 347 542 697 957 1075 1235 1490 1846 144 234 351 544 724 967 1105 1263 1501 1847 157 243 357 546 735 969 1131 1266 1502 1928 J. HENRY SCHRODER & CO. London, 13th June, 1859. • --- ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean THIS EVENING wi NRY II be presented Shakspeare's historical play ot KING HE V. Ki ng Henry V., Mr. C. Kean ; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean. After which, IF THE CAP FM. T HEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with EVERYBODY'S FRIEND. Messrs. Charles Mathews, Compton, and Buckstone; Mesdames C. Mathews, Wilkins, and Reynolds. After which, MARRIED FOR MONEY. To conclude with SHOCKING EVENTS. Commence at 7. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL , ADE LPHI. Sole proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE MILLINER'S HOLIDAY. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. C. Selby, Mr. BilWigton, Miss Woolgar, Miss M. Keeley, Miss Kate Belly. Followed by THE HOUSE ? or, THE HOME Binington ; Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Miss H. Wigan, C, Selby, Simms. Miss Laidlaw. After which, THE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. Messrs. C. Selby and Moreland ; Misses Woolgar and K. Kelly. To conclude with ICI ON FABLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Chas Selby, Billington ; Misses Keeley, Arden, and Laidlaw. and Mrs. Billington. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Mice 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 will be produced a new Comedietta, by J. M. Morton, Esq., entitled WRICH OF THE TWO ? supported by the company. After which, KENILWORTH. Followed by CAUGHT BY THE EARS. Mr. J. Rogers and Miss F. Hughes. Commence at 7o'clock. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Lessee and Manager ...Mr. William Cooke. Grand Holiday Attractions for Whitsuntide. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with the revived military spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, reproduced with all its original effects. Sup ported by Mr. W. Cooke, Mr. W. Cooke, jun., Mr. Holloway, 'Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. J.W. Anson, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Herbert, Mr. Stanton, Mr. Worboys, icc. Mrs. Dowton, Miss Dowton, Miss Rivers, &c. After whic4, the matchless and unrivalled SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing Mr. John Henry Cooke, the =Bt rider in the world, and the whole of Mr. W. Cooke's , being the only instance on record of such a domestic concentration of unequalled male and female talent ; Madlle. Francisco; Miss Holloway. To conclude with a Novel Entertainment called THE VOLUNTEER CORPS ; or, Female Brigade. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes, £4 4s, £2 2s, and £1 ls. To commence at 7 ; Carriages at 11. CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY, Westminster-road.—Open at Seven. EVERY EVENING during the week will appear THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette, and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and EIGHT years. The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios ever 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 EVERY EVENING, at NINE and ELEVEN o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, JUNE 14. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 68—highest since noon yesterday. 61 lowest this morning and during the night. 61—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30'02. WIND, North-Westerly; light, with very fine weather. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 15, 1859. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Last night, Milman's tragic play of " Fazio; or, the Italian Wife," was performed, for the purpose of affording Mrs. Hermaim Vezin an opportunity of displaying her great abilities in the character of Bianca—in which all the hum.an passions are vividly portrayed, and acknow ledged by all critics to be one of the most difficult on the stage. The high cpinion we formed of this lady's talents on her first appearance, on Monday evening, has been fully confirmed, and henceforth she must take her place at the head of her profession. During the whole of the play Mrs. Vezin never lost sight of the character she was embodying. As the loving and doting wife she was all tenderness ; but on the discovery of the perfidy of her hus band, love for a time was turned to hate—and then came out in full force the hot revengeful Italian. Her acting in the scene in which she denounces her husband to the senate as the murderer of Bartolo was intensely grand ; since the death of Rachel we have seen nothing to equal it. The Fazio of Mr. Vezin was another great triumph. Although there is nothing very striking in the part, yet he invested it with such earnestness that he perfectly electrified the audience by the brilliancy of his elocution. At the close of the third act Mrs. Vezin received the honour of a call, and at the fall of the curtain both artistes had to appear and acknowledge the applause of a crowded and delighted audience. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort and the Court will attend the races at Ascot to-morrow. According to present arrangements the Queen and Court will remain at Windsor Castle until Tuesday next. The Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg is expected to arrive on Friday next from Germany on a visit to the Duchess of Cambridge. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. Sir C. Wood, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Lord John Russell, the Earl Granville, the Right Hon. J. Mil ner Gibson, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir J. C. Lewis assembled at Lord Palmerston's early yesterday fore noon, and were engaged for some time with his lordship. Lord Palmerston visited the Marquis of Lans downe at Lansdowne House. The Mrs. Di s ra e li h ave l e ft id Elte, for Hughenden Manor, theirres Ri e t. Icon. Grosv e B. 1 aigna Bucks. MR. COBDEN. -- A le tter Was recei ve d f rom M r . C o bden at Mancheste r y ester day , from which we learn that the hon. gentlema n will leave Quebec for Engl an d on th e 18th inst. NORWICH ELECTION. —It now appear . althonol the Norwich petition was withdrawn' ' -- - that v on of an informality, a petition will be presented o account evening, and that it will be proceeded with with th u It Fridaye tmost energy. The error arose merely from the names ofhA The sureties not being inserted in the ri g ht place. -- petition has been drawn up again and signed. ABOLITION OF CHURCH -RATES. —Th e opponents of church -rates have already introduced a bill into the n ew Parliament for their abolition. The bi ll sim p l y a nd sum marily enacts that no church-rate shall hereafter be m a d e or levied in any parish in England or Wales. It has been already read a first time. The authors of the bill are Sir J. Trelawny, M.P., and Mr. Dillwyn, M.P. LATEST NEWS. THE WAR IN ITALY. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : BERLIN, JUNE 14. The official Preussische Zeituny states that the order for the mobilization of the corps d'arinee has been issued. The same journal says as follows : The greater proportions the events at the seat of war assume, the more serious becomes the duty of Government to place itself in such a position as may enable Prussia, in the regulation of the Italian question, to proceed in concert with her confederate German Powers with that weight which Prussia is called upon to use, and which corresponds to the position of Germany as a Power in Europe. Look ing from this point of view, and regarding the con tinually increasing armaments even of neutral Powers, Government has found it imperative partly to mobilize the army, and will take further steps in connexion therewith (theils arnzee zu mobilisiren, and wird danzit in verbindung stehende weitere sehritte thun), in order that coming events may not take Prussia and Germany by surprise and un prepared. " The character of measures of precaution is so fully impressed on all these steps that it is needless to make any new declaration respecting them. The country will grant them its concurrence, and the German Federal Powers will also, as we hope, see in this new measure, taken in the interest of the security and position of Germany as a Power, their confidence in the circumspect initiative of Prussia realised." BERNE, JUNE 14. The Federal Council has disbanded the troops in the Canton of Valais, and reduced the number of troops in the Canton of Tessin to 3,000 men, on account of the seat of war having bdcome removed from that frontier of Switzerland. On the frontiers of the Grisons, near Nanders, Austrian troops have arrived and begun making intrenchments. TURIN, JUNE 14. The Austrians are in full retreat in the directicn of the river Oglio. The bridges over the Adda and other rivers have been destroyed by means of mines. They have also evacuated Pizzighettonne after having burned the bridge, and thrown their guns, war material, and ammunition into the water. Cremona and Brescia are free. A numerous bcdy of the Austrians appears to be assembling at Monte Chivaro. A part of the Piedmontese army has crossed the Adda at Vaprio and Canonica. Bergamo and Lodi have proclaimed their union with Piedmont. The damage done by the Austrians to the fort fications of Piacenza is of little importance. TURIN, JUNE 13. The Austrians evacuated Reggio and Bresello last night and were also making preparations to evacuate the other parts of Modena. A deputation from Modena has arrived in Turin. The Moniteur says :—" The Emperor, wishing to re-establish old and glorious traditions, has decided that any regiment which shall take a colour from the enemy shall bear the cross of the Legion of Honour attached below its eagle. Lieut.-Colonel Schmitz has arrived in Paris on a mission, charged by the Emperor to deliver to the Empress the flag of the 9th regiment of Austrian infantry, which was taken at the battle of Magenta." A letter from Milan of the 11th, in the Constitu tionnel, gives some additional particulars relative to the combat of Male nano. The writer says : " In addition to the houses changed into casemates, the loop-holed barricades across the streets, and all the crossings bristling with bayonets, the Austrians had taken possession of a vast building used as a prison at the end of the village, towards Lodi, strong enough to form an important refuge, and to require a regular siege like a real citadel. It was on this village, more difficult to take than a faubourg of Paris, filled with insurgents, that the soldiers of Bazaine's division, headed by the Zouaves, made their attack. It was about five in the evening ; the horizon was black with clouds, and a thunder storm, which was soon to burst overhead, already lighted up the plain with vivid flashes. Just beyond a little bridge at the entrance of the village a barricade had been con structed. With their proverbial agility, the Zouaves at once surmounted this obstacle, firing their muskets, and then rushing forward with the bayonet. The regiments com posing Bazaine's division all came to the attack simultane ously, reinforced by two regiments of Ladmirault's divi sion, and then a combat ensued from street to street, and house to house, which 'lasted four hours. The resistance opposed by the Austrians was of the most obstinate character, and whole companies, though completely sur rounded, fought to the last man. When the princi pal streets were occupied by the French, the Zouaves and foot Chasseurs ' marched on the large building to which I have alluded. This immense edifice was sur rounded with a moat, like a prison of the middle ages. The Zouaves had to attack the principal entrance, and thread their way through a labyrinth of courts, yards, and pas sages, totally unknown to them all. Every step might lead to some snare, and every wall sheltered scores of Austrian soldiers ; night was coming on, the rain was falling in tor rents, but still the fighting did not cease. At last the Aus trians gave way on every point, and a retreat commenced, favoured by the thickening darkness. Hurrying across the plain they were closely followed by the French, whilst the batteries of Forey's division, which was on the left, sent after them shot and grape. Every ball told, so that on the next day the envircns of Malegnano presented a dreadful spectacle, the roads and ditches being strewn with dead bodies. The rain converted the water-courses into torrents, which carried away scores of bodies. Many of the Aus trians fell into these streams and were drowned, and unfor tunately some of our own men suffered the same fate." Another letter from Milan, in the Siecle, says : " In the affair of Malegnano, General Forey, who com manded the reserve, foreseeing the flight of the enemy, turned the village ; he caused 120 canisters of grape shot of 80 balls to be fired at the flying Austrians, and they strewed the ground with dead. I saw one spot in the plain which was literally covered with the corpses of Austrians piled one on the other. If the enemy could have been dislodged be fore night set in, it is not doubtful that the greater part of them would have been killed. The loss of the Austrians has been immense, if I may judge from the innumerable dead bodies which this day remain on the field of battle. The Austrians have singular ideas on the way of making war. Melas considered that General Bonaparte defeated him in violation of all rules ; and the countrymen of Maas now pretend that the combat with the bayonet is unworthy of a civilised nation. I conversed yesterday with an officer who is a prisoner, and he spoke frankly on the subject :—' I can understand that the Turcos fight with a bayonet, for they are almost savages ; but the French 1 . . . That is not fair warfare, it is down right butchery I' Fighting with the bayonet is, in truth, more destructive than firing muskets, and the French know better how to use that weapon than the Austrians; but those are not reasons why the French should abstain from using the bayonet. Besides, there is another reason why the bayonet has been the principal arm used in the combats which have taken place. Our army is in a friendly eountry, and with the bayonet it obtains possession of villages, occupied by the Austrians, in order to spare the property of the inhabitants. With the new can non, which carry 3,000 yards, it would be easier for us to kill the enemy under the walls of houses than to march against them with the bayonet, and we should lose much fewer soldiers ; but it is desired that the French army shall not mark by ruins its passage through a country which it has come to deliver. General Forey only fired his canister and grape when the corps d'armec of Benedek was in retreat across the country. The situa tion of an army in a friendly country has undoubtedly its advantages ; but any one can see that it has inconveniences also." A third letter from Milan of the above date says : " The Emperor went to Malegnano yesterday, leaving Milan at nine, and, after minutely inquiring into all the in. cidents of a combat which precipitated the enemyis flight and harassed their march, retuned il} the afternooo4 There was a performance at La, Scala last evening ; a vocal and instrumental concert, with a ballet, having been orga nised in less than twenty-four hours. The artistes wore collected from all quarters, and the house, which had been long closed, appeared in all its splendour. It was crowded in every part. The boxes were occupied by the Milanese aristocracy, and it was gratifying to see the reception which the audience grve to our officers. The fusion of the two nations was complete. Two flags only, the French and Sardinian, decorated the interior of the house; they were placed ever the royal box, which the Emperor and Bing entered at 8 o'clock, accompanied by a considerable num ber of officers. The ovation given to their Majesties by the Milanese who had been able to obtain admission was extraordinary, and the applause lasted for nearly half an hour. The performance was composed of ten pieces of music and dancing, and at every fall of the cur tain the whole house rose to salute their Majesties. The ladies presented a splendid sight, in white dresses trimmed with ribbons of the Sardinian colours, as they waved their handkerchiefs with indescribable enthusiasm. The receipts of the night, which were very considerable, are intended for the relief of the families of the soldiers who have pe rished in the cause of Italian independence. On leaving the theatre, still excited by the reception given to the Emperor, chance made fee witness of another scene which terminated my evening most agreeably. It was a half squadron of African Chasseurs, who entered the city from Lodi, escorted by ten thousand persons at least. They advanced sword in hand, the first of them proudly holding in his hand an Austrian colour. I asked where it had been taken, and a chasseur just found time to say, ' We took it near Lodi, where we gave them a be',ating.' " The Parma Gazette of the 9th publishes the fol lowing proclamation of the Duchess Regent, before leaving her States : " How I have governed the country during my Regency, I call upon history, and upon you all, inhabitants of the State, to testify. More fervid ideas, flattering to Italian minds, have arisen to disturb the pacific and wisely liberal improvements which engrossed all my attention, and the events now in progress have placed me between two opposite exigencies ; either to take part in a war declared to be a na tional one, or not to infringe the conventions to which Pia cenza especially, and the State generally, were bound long before I assumed the Government. I must not oppose the wishes proclaimed by Italy, nor can I break my faith. Hence, since a neutral attitude, such as the exceptional condition created by those treaties, seemed to advise, has become impossible, I yield to the pressure of events, recom mending the Parmese municipality to appoint a governing commission for the protection of order, persons, and pro perty, for the public administration, for the proper disposal of the troops, and for other provisions called for by circum stances. Meanwhile, I retire to a neutral country to join my beloved children, whose rights I hereby declare to re serve in their integrity, confiding in the justice of the high Powers and the protection of God. Good inhabitants of every commune of the duchies, everywhere and always your memory will be dear to me. " Louise, Regent. Countersigned " G. PALLAVICINO." Next follow various instructions left by the duchess, relating to the transfer of the sovereign power to the governing commission, and other proclamations, one of which is by the Director of General Police, recommending the people mot to allow themselves to be betrayed into acts of violence or vengeance. The Piedmontese journals are full of addresses of adhesion to the Sardinian Government voted by various municipalities of Lombardy, all expressive of joy at being delivered from Austrian rule. Chevalier Vigliani, the new governor of Lom bardy, has issued a decree, dated the 10th, laying the same restrictions on the press during the war as were imposed in Piedmont at the commence ment of military operations. The Director of Public Security has also issued an order, calling on all Germans, being Austrian subjects, to present themselves before the authorities of their respective quarters, with the papers necessary to establish their rank and identity. A letter from Leipsic of the 10th says :—" The passage of Austrians troopetkrough Saxony ceased for the present two days ago 4 - but another Austrian brigade is shortly expected to pass. In the space of eighteen days 60,000 men, the horses of three i egi ments of cavalry, and 80 pieces of cannon have been conveyed on the Saxon railways." Baron de Budberg, 'Russian minister at Berlin, has returned to that city from the baths of Koten. A letter from Milan of the 9th, in the Constitu tionnel, says : " I arrived here by railway from the field of battle of Magenta ; the Austrians, in their retreat, not having had time to destroy the iron way. By means of it a great number of the wounded, French and Austrians, have been transferred to the hospitals here. I had some intention of going back on the victory of Magenta, but you must ere this have had full details. I may, however', state that in the village itself, during the battle, every house was occupied with detachments of Austrians, varying from 50 to 200 men. The walls were all loop-holed ; the furniture served to make barri cades ; and every house required a regular siege ; hence, the desperate character of the fighting there. I travelled to Milan in company with an Austrian captain, made prisoner at Magenta. He told me that he had had with him 300 men, with whom he entrenched himself in a large house, which he defended against the attacks of the soldiers of the division La Motterouge, until all his men were either killed or wounded, except a young sub lieutenant and a private. Seeing himself thus left nearly alone, he descended to the street, in the hope of being killed. But although the balls whistled about him in every direction, he remained untouched. He again entered a house, and con tinued to fight on until he and the two others were at last made prisoners. He was taken before a general officer, whose name he does not know, but who said to him and to the other officer, You have conducted yourselves so bravely as to merit to keep your swords, and therefore I return them to you.' And, in fact, the captain wore his sword in the railway carriage. This officer spoke French exceedingly well, and assured me that there was not a single general in France whose services and character were not well known in Germany. Before I started by the railway, I saw the Emperor Napo leon on horseback watching the troops file off before him on their way to Milan. It is needless to say that he was cheered with almost frantic enthusiasm. He had something to say to every one, and all his observations were happily appropriate. I heard him say to the officer in comman I of one of the regiments engaged at Buffalora, lam glad to see you safe and sound, colonel. I heard you had been wounded.' No, Sire ; nothing whatever,' was the reply, in a tone that seemed to imply regret at not having a wound to show for the engagement. It was not your fault, colonel,' graciously observed his Majesty, in the hearing of all. The colonel bowed low to the compliment, and as the moment after he glanced proudly around, his eye was glistening with moisture. When I arrived here I was astonished at the enthusiasm, which pre• wailed, and as a Frenchman I would certainly have been welcome to take up my quarters in any house. Every street was dressed out with flowers and flags, and bright with all the colours of the rainbow. Some of the French soldiers who had been allowed to come on by railway were feted as if the dearest 'relatives, and the more so, that they announced that the Emperor and King would soon arrive. Their Majesties entered the station about half-past eight yester day morning, and at once left it on horseback from the Corso di Porta Orientate, where is situated the Palace Busea, which the King now occupies, and theii passage through the streets was one con tinued ovation. The Emperor was preceded by an escort. of Cent Gardes, and followed by a body of the Guides. Victor Emmanuel had with him the whole corps d'artnOe of General Cialdini. The crowd of spectators precipitated themselves under the very hoofs of the horses, and how accidents were prevented is an absolute wonder. Add to that, the waving of handkerchiefs from the balco nies, flowers showered down, and the loudest acclamations, and y 431.1 will have a faint id ea o f th e scene. After the King had alighted at the palace, the Emperor went on to the Villa Bonaparte, a private residence ; long the residence if not the property of the Bonaparte family. Scarcely had his Majesty arrived there, when he again issued forth on horseback, accompanied by a small escort, and went through the city, receiving everywhere a fresh ovation. Soon after the Emperor had returned to the villa, the whole city was again,thrown into a delighted agitation by the arrival of the main body o f the French and Piedmontese troops. Every soldier was seized on by an inha bitant ; and men, women, and children rivalled each other in giving them a warm reception. I myself saw a zouave two hours, later walking about the place, visiting the principal streets, with the little hand of 0, Milanese child in each of his, neither party uodorstanding a word that the other said ; and many others might be seen walking about en joying the fine weather, in company with some of the most respectable inhabitants of Milan ; all seemed perfectly at home, This morning again the whole city is on feat, as a grand Te Deun t i s t o b e celebrated at the Cathedral." As it would appear that the Austrians have resolved, in consequence of the late events, to retire definitively within the celebrated quadrangle formed by Pesohiera, -Mantua, Legnago, and Verona, it may not be uninteresting to our readers to have a full description of this important military position :- 7a Peschiera is a small fortress situated on an island formed by the Mincio at its issue from the Lake of Garda. At the time of the Venetian Republic it was a simple pentagon, to which the French, while they occupied the country, added three lunettes, forming a kind of crownwork, with- out curtains round the conical hill called Mandella, which commands the left bank of the river. These have since baen strengthened by a covered way running along a natural ditch, by which they are protected. On the left bank of the Mincio there is, moreover, an extensive work, called the Salvi, covering the immediate approaches to the river. Since 1848 the Austrians have extended the fortifications far beyond the island, and have crowned the eminence with eight lunettes, on the plan of those of the Mandella. All these works together constitute an entrenched camp capable of receiving a considerable number of troops, and their chief importance lies in their threatening the flank of an armyattempting to cross the Mincio near Goito or Valeggio. There is besides the flotilla of the Lake of Garda, which finds protection and coal magazines under the walls of Peschiera, and can throw troops across the lake in a very short time. Moreover, there is a system of sluices by which the level of the lake may be considerably raised, so as to pro duce, at a given moment, a vast impetus along the Mincio, sufficient to sweep away any pontoon or trestle bridges thrown over it by the enemy. Mantua lies, like Peschiera, on an island formed by the Mincio, much larger, however, than the former, since it covers about 124 acres. Close to it there is another, called the Te, which is used as a Champ de Mars. Both lie in the midst of a lake formed by the widening of the river, and are about 850 yards from either bank. Hence Mantua is unapproachable, except by five narrow cause ways, viz., two on the left bank, and three on the right. The fortifications of Mantua would be in significant, -were it nqt for the protection afforded by the lake. This maY indeed be tapped, as was done in the last century, but the only result was the formation of a morass, emitting a most offen sive stench, and more impassable by an army than the lake itself. The causeways are defended by three forts—the citadel St. George to the east, and Pradella and Pietoli to the left. The latter was built by Napoleon the First. Austria has added little to these fortifications, except a few mines. Mantua, though always considered the key of Italy, is too unhealthy and too far from the de files of the Alps, whence reinforcements and pro visions must arrive, to stand alone ; hence Verona has been selected as the great central depot of the army. This city is situated at the issue of the Adige from the Alpine passes, and has received most extensive fortifications, the cost of which amounted in 1848 to 18 millions of florins, now swelled to at least 25 millions of florins. Such large sums spent within that small compass, has contributed considerably to attach the Veronese to the Austrian rule ; so that here the Allies are not likely to meet with the sympathy of the popula tion. Verona possesses 55,000 inhabitants, and can boast many valuable Roman antiquities, showing that it has at :all times been considered an impor tant strategical point. The old Italian fortifications form the groundwork of the modeim works. On the right bank of the Adige, the old wall has been strengthened with eight bastions on the system of Carnot. The approach to the town on the river side is covered by Fort St. Proculo ; a little further from the town is Fort Hess ; but these works being insufficient to harbour a large army, an entrenched camp has been added on an alluvial plain aban doned by the waters of the Adige. This plain is surrounded with a series of strong redoubts, at distances of about six hundred yards from each other. Nearly all these redoubts are trape zoid, the larger base being turned towards the camp, and each redoubt is provided with bomb-proof barracks. The length of this for tified camp in three kilometres ; it is two in breadth. On the left bank the old walls, originally erected by the Emperor Gallienus, and at a much later period repaired by the celebrated Engineer San Michele, have been strengthened with bastians. Fort San Felice, consisting of a continued redan line crowning an inaccessible rock, an off shoot of the Tyrolese Alps, completely com mands the town. The approaches to this fort are defended by various trenches. Leguago is a small fortress, serving as a link between Mantua and Verona • its great advantage is that it pos sesses a double bridge head, whence sallies may be made on both banks of the Adige. Its present fortifications were erected by Napoleon I.—The quadrangle we have described, and especially Verona, inspire the Austrians with great confidence. If out-numbered, they can, by a retreat to Verona, despise all attempts of the enemy ; the place being ss vast that a siege is almost impossible on aacount of the immense quantity of siege guns requisite ; the neighbourhood of Peschiera and Mantua enables them to draw troops from those places, or conversely. If, on the other hand, they have the advantage of numbers, they may leave their wounded and their provisions in perfect security at Verona, and monceuvre at pleasure on both sides of the Mincio and Adige." FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY. PARIS BOURSE.—The market has been dull, and prices looking down. Threes, after having been done at 63f., receded to 62f. 65c. ; Mobilier varied from 645 f. to 640 f. ; Austrian, 385 f. to 390 f.; Lyons, 830 f. to 825 f.; Orleans, 1,220 f. to 1,215 f. Southern 485 f. to 480 f. The following were the last quotations :- 4i. per Cents. 92 50 Credit Fonder Do. end month. .. 92 50 Belgian 4f 3 per Cents 62 80 Piedmontese (5) .. 83 50 Do. end month 62 80 Roman B2 Bank Shares 2BOO Austrian — Credit Mobilier .. 645 Spanish Threes Do. Account RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 920 .. 922 50 New ditto Lyons and. Mediterranean B3l 25 .. 832 50 Geneva 495 .. 495 Southern Western 5lO .. 510 Eastern Sardinian Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 c. ; money, 25f Mo.; three months, paper, 25f..; money, 24f. 971 c. The Madrid journals the 10th contain no politi cal news of importance. Before the Senate the pleading on behalf of M. Esteban Collantes, im peached for embezzlement, was brought to a close; and M. Caledron Collantes (though of the same name no connexion of the accused) supported the impeachment in an eloquent speech, in the name of the Chamber of Deputies. The further proceedings in the case were again adjourned. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE VANDERBILT. ' SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY. The Vanderbilt has arrived here from New York for Havre. She has 1,528,564 dols. and 365 passen gers, amongst them being Mdlle. Piceolomini and suite. The news is of little interest. The statement that Mr. Mason, the American Minister at Paris, has tendered his resignation is uncertain, neither does Mr. Faulkner desire any foreign appointment. By the overland mail we have advices from San Francisco to the 9th ult., four days later than those received by way of the Isthmus, but there is no general news of interest. Business showed some symptoms of reviving. The contract entered into by the Post-office De partment with Mr. Johnson, for conveying the mails from New York and New Orleans to California, via Nicaragua, has been perfected and despatched to Washington. The law officer of the general government, by direction of the President, has just rendered an important opinion upon the recent conflict of autho rity which has arisen between the Federal Execu tive and the judicial and military officers stationed in Utah territory. It appears that the course of Governor Cumming is sustained. THE MAIL SERVICE.—SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday. —The North German Lloyd's steam-ship Bremen left this day for New York with the English and German mails, a full cargo, and a large number of passengers. The Penin sular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Alhambra, which has undergone alteration, went for a trial trip this day, which was perfectly satisfactory. The Royal Mail Com pany's steam-ships Tamar and Solent will shortly leave for the intercolonial service. These ships, which are of great speed, will probably supply a deficiency which has long been complained of by the West India colonists, viz., a more punctual delivery of the mails. PENINSULAR AND NORTH AFRICAN MAILs.— By the arrival of the Peninsular and North African Steam Navigation Company's steamer Amazon, arrived in the river on the 13th inst., we have advices from Lanzarote to May 19th, Grand Canary 20th, Teneriffe 21st, Mogadore 28th, Cadiz June 4, and Lisbon June 7. The Amazon brings a mail, 33 passengers, 5 packages of specie, and a miscellaneous cargo, consisting of 22 baskets plantains, 500 casks wine, 1 bag granilla, 13 casks beeswax, 76 bags cochi neal, 77 boxes potatoes, 192 bales orchella weed, 73 casks gum sandrac, 67 boxes and 19 baskets oranges, 54 elephants tusks and 1 case ditto, 185 bales sheep and goat skins, s 66 packages gum copal, 124 serons and 39 casks almonds, 4 cases wine, 37 bales tobacco, 200 bales manilla, 19 pieces beech tree, 1 case silk, 8 cases saffron, and tl o fi l'aciag O s sundries. Weather during the voyage mostly fine n Tune 5, at 9 a.m., off Cape St. Vineent,Western,exchangedtw ou colof d s with the British screw steamer Great bound. The late Prince de Metternich was proprietor of the chateau and vineyards of Johannisberg. This fine estate was given to him in 1816 by the Emperor Francis IL, on condition that he should every year send a tenth part of the produce of the wines to the Imperial cellars. THE ROYAL ACADEMY. (SECOND NOTICE.) Returning to a consideration of the collection of paintings displayed in 1859 upon the walls of the Royal Academy, we find our original impression as to its merits confirmed. The exhibition for the present season is unquestionably one, generally spe'aking, above the average, though it contains no single work of really surpassing excellence. Millais carries off the palm unquestionably, both for brilliancy and for eccentricity. No paintings in the gallery are more attractive, and none elicit more earnest expressions at once of derision and of admiration. Superior altogether is the delineation of the apple blossom by J. C. Horsley in that charm ing village love - scene called in the catalogue " Blossom Time," and numbered (414)—yet the un disputed chief of the Pre-Raphaelites, J. E. Millais, defies competition in the portraiture of the deli cately voluptuous in that exquisite prostrate form and face of the young girl in the apricot-coloured barege, who looks up into our eyes askance from the right-hand corner of " Spring" (298), drawing the long green blade of grass the while through her " crimson-threaded lips"—lips from which we doubt not, in her merrier moods of animation, as surely as from those of Tennyson's May Lilian— " Silver•treble laughter trilled). I" Lovelier than ever seems to us again, upon exami nation, the purpling sky of sunset, with the twinkling foliage, the dank, rank turf, the unctu ous and blackened mould, and the dry, crisp leaves of immortelles, in the " Vale of Rest" (15), from the same brush of eccentric fascination. Almost as welcome to the eyes of the lover of nature as the cropped bluebells and cowslips in the former of these two ambitious works of art by Millais, is IL. Moore's " Woodland Bank" (27), fragrant almost to the glance, with the freshness of ungathered violet and wild hyacinth. Witherington's " Plea sant Way by the River" (25) tempts one to lounge through the half-opened gate and away for a holi day saunter down the verdant perspective. A nolole coast scene is that by Lee (70) of the rocks shore in Cornwall, " Near the Land's End" — showing in the distant surge the dismastvi ship rescued by a steamer. Maclise, (105) depicts " The Poet to his Wife"—a delicious thought, culled from Moore's Irish Melodies : " Oh, could we do with this world of ours As thou dost, with thy garden bowers— Reject the leaves and keep the flowers— What a heaven on earth we'd make it' Among the blossoms here tended So lovingly by e . the poet's wife, no t e we ll th ose marvellous petals o f the passion -flower trailed round the porch-way by which she is standing—herself the fairest flower among them all, blooming and beautiful. Therein much evidence of observation both of rustic manners and of childi s h ways i n Hardy ' s Foreign Guest" (124), wh ere th e organ-grinder stands a t the cottage door, lo o ki ng i nto the room into wh i c h his chained m on k ey i n t h e scarlet jacket has . adven tured in quest o f a morsel from the han d s o f the , labourer' s c hild ren . Exquisitely soft an d beau tiful is th e p or t ra i ture by H. Le Jenne_ in (139), o f t h at other • larger group e l children f rom a hi g h er class out in the mea d o ws, gathering " Field Flowers." Mulready's one con tribution to the Collection (167), while it is mode rately illustrative of Pope's familiar couplet— " 'Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined," is hardly at the same time worthy of our great artist's reputation. Among the most successful, as well as am ong th e most ambitious, illustrations of our national poetry this year, is Cope's lovely re presentation of " Cordelia" (193), at the moment when she is receiving intelligence of Lear's ill treatment by Regan and Goneril. How marvel vellously here has the hand of the artist shown how—. " .. . Now and th en en amp l e t ear tr ill' d down Iler delicate cheek." It is the very realisation upon. magic calms of the scene, as so rarely and eloquently described by the messenger to Kent. Who, when Kent ex claims, " 0, then it moved her ?"—adds— " Not to a rage : patience and sorrow strove Who should expose her goodliest. You have seen Sunshine and rain at once ; her smiles and tears Were like a better day : Those happy smiles That played on her ripe lips, seemed not to know What guests were in her eyes ; which parted thence, As pearls from diamonds dropped :" continuing, thus— - " There she shook The holy water from her heavenly eyes, And clamour moistened." The whole picture is truly and eminently Shak— sperian. As truly as Redgrave's (218) " The Emigrant's Last Sight of Home" is at once of the national character and the national landscape. G. Smith shows himself to be a worthy disciple in the school of Webster, in (219) where " The New boy" is being dazed into familiarity with school ways by his amused and bantering companions. . Capital, comical, true in every touch to French life and French character is Solomon's " Ici on Rase,' a shop-interior in Brittany! Who can resist laugh ing outright at the first glance at that well-lathered visage of the wooden shoed peasant, under the' , hands of the female operator, laughing as she does, while twiddling the razor under his nose tohis own • evident apprehension. The gossip half in sunlight - at the door—whose jests, by the way, are the source of this untimely laughter—is the very beau ideal of one of those piquant little Frenchwomen, the delight. of the Reverend Mr. Sterne, the sentimentalist.. Another charmingly humorous picture by Solo— mon is that one in the middle room. numbered (293), and entitled (an old metaphorical title enough) "The Fox and the Grapes." Oh, the ineffable affectation of indifference by the discarded suitor, while his more fortunate rival saunters off laughingly between the silken damsels, so delicately flounced and furbelowed, and each so radiantly beautiful ! Two of the most delicious pictures in the Gallery are hanging upon the opposite wal. of that same middle room—(No. 369) Hook's " Lug, boy," the fisherman with his two sons, one a child - , the other a stripling—the former a curly-pate& urchin at the tiller, heaving in the well-laden. boat far out on the blue-green billows—and. (No. 368) " The Evening Hymn," by Rankler —an exquisite picture in spite of the grotesq uee introduction of the flock of geese, gab bling and hissing, with elongated necksg. danceet w hile'h on hose tip-toe our over vill theag e s villagech o o l girls, green, e e n h , a c n h d t - tn i hand - in-hand, chanting together (doubtless in sweet, silvery tones)— " And now another day is gone, I'll sing my Maker's praise." Those four village children so singing, so daneingt down towards us, under the dappled rose-coloured clouds of evening, are a very vision of the True and the Beautiful. Another of Hook's sea scenes will be scanned with hardly less pleasure than the one' already mentioned, in (439) " A Cornish Gift " to wit, a sprawling, blue-black, live lob ster. A glorious sea view of a grand. and simple kind is Lee's (511) " The Bay or Biscay"—nothing but the rolling waves and the' chequered marvels of cloud-land, but such sky and I such water, sky and water seen on the 11th of March 4 1857, here reflected back from the artist's canvas Hensley's (516) " The Start—one, two, three, an( i away !" would tell admirably, andwould achieve I'm' itself a wide popularity, if well engraved. As might: be asserted, if possible, yet more confidently, of " far more elaborate work of humour hard by,' Hicks's (519) " Dividend Day at the Bank"—a Inc ture full of Hogarthian incident and character :. There is hanging high up in the west room — above the line, and close to the north-we", doorway—a very admirably depicted group 0 , f. cattle and horses, in the midst of a charming E n g lisi landscape. This is No. (660)—is entitled sunini.e, er . time in the south of Essex—and is from the skill hand of H. B. Willis, already assuming high renL__ among our animal painters, even in as age that Jaed . produced for France a Rosa Bonheur, and in Eg e, land an Edwin Landseer. Near this n oble ca piece by Willis, is Linnell's masterly Frank Stone's field (661), and near this again -charming love scene, called rather vag uely wooer " A Little too Late," the seatfanrign g (still chapfallen and sorrow-stricken 13 st HarreSt tduobuLattinhge)fa)ttbeersiwdeiththhe her rbopnlnuidme plasasniiecavo:narheehlryaiswaasrmolt;,, plunged deep among the su most ß a p h aee truthful s, and su rvpi the vasids e dm exactitudesotrf g even,i s fied , o a fw m te o h n e g h av t ar h the isspi sail e l - 1: equalled in the y ellow soar, but jw - blance, that greasy lump o hfi t a ao k lbf e n oh d o f fiduaetnnno by flannel by t bi h ay e t ht ehre, washtub tshiaee floafn a tnnhedel alllaidw washer— t h e ssho u ed p rd— o et e dh t. h e evil s o u.w in e Ten n yson . lather eve of bursting l o re an d thins uy re! eLssuonaadotpuse—gbhus(,ub,tdbohsolee)aie s : nidn just onthe is another picture also called _in a "'ll'co . the room of Drawing s _. rlnd in d i as tures—a fantastic picture , in which W L. .vv Nl ip illustrate s eacstsiaogn ete are so many work iol is h mostr mY s te r Scattered us lY a s f v a l u e throughsome w hatl na a n d d s t m e the r to hours glide rue;ii)seiZLH.etldit.3 Gallery, tl avralump:snt SINKING OF A BELGIAN SCHOONER. —On. Moil" day, at 5 p.m., the Belgian schooner Maria, zinc lades: ► from Regmjada for Antwerp, sprung a leak and sunk iia mid-channel 12 miles S.E. of Dover. The crew were picket' up by the South Eastern Company's steam packet Clue' of the Belgians, Captain Goodburn, on her passageailo frc rs' Raz Calais. They were immediately received at the S Home, where every comfort was liberally provided for them. A few minutes after the crew were picked up 1 the vessel suddenly went down head foremost. This is I the seventy-first wrecked crew of different nations which ha re found a refuge at the Dover Sailors' Home.