The Sun. — London, England, 1862-06-17 00:00:00

L.. BANK of BRITISH NORTH AMERICA, Incorporated by Royal Charter. —The COURT of DI RECTORS HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That a HALF YEARLY DIVIDEND, at the rate of Six per Cent. per Annum (free of income tax) on the capital of the Bank, will be PAYABLE to the Proprietors of Shares registered in this country on and after the sth day of July next, at the Office of the Corporation, No. 7, St. Helen's-place, Bishopsgate-street, between the hours of Ten and Four. - - -•-- -- No Transfer can be made between the 16th inst. and the 6th proximo, as the books must be closed during that period. By ordeT ofithe Court, C. McNAB, Secretary. No. 7, St. Flelen'i- - place, London, June 10, 1862. NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY. NOTICE.-MIDSUHMER RENEWALS. Losses by fire occurring during the fifteen days of grace :are made good to the as,ured. The business of the Company exceeds £68,000,000. The duty paid to Government for the year 1860 was £81,332 9s. 9d., and the amount insuring on farming stock £9,988,368. A bonus of three-fifths of the profi's periodically made to parties insuring, who have thus from time to time received .SJIPIS amounting; in the aggregate to £400,000. The rates ot premium are In no case higher than those charged by the other principal offices making no returns to their insurer A. For prospectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey street, No7:wich, and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black friars, E.Q. GU ARDIAN FIRE ANI) LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C. Established 1821. Su'oseribed Capital, Two Millions.—Paid up, One Million. DIRECTORS. HENRY VIGNE, Esq., Chairman. Sir MINT() T. FARQUHAR, Bart., M.P., Deputy Chairman. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq., John G. Hubbard, Esq., M.P. henry Bonham Carter, Esq. John Labouchere, Esq. Charles Wm. Curtis, Esq. John Martin, Esq. Charles F. Devas, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. James Morris, Esq. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Henry Norman, Esq. James Goodson, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. Abr :ham Jno. Robartes, Esq. John Harvey, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq. AUDITORS. Lewis Loyd, Esq. V I Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. Cornelius Paine, jun., Esq. Thos.Tallemach, Esq., Secrets.ry Saml. Brown, Esq., Actuary LIFE DEPA RTAIENT.—UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF AN .ACT OF PARLIAMENT this Company now offers to new In surers EIGHTY PER CENT. Of the Profits, at Quinquennial Divisions, or a Low Rate of Premium without participation of Profits. Eine." the establishment of the Company in 1821, the Al'vaunt of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded in cP.sh value £660,000, which represents equivalent Reversionary Pommes of £1,058,000. After the Division of Profits at Christmas, 1859, the Life Assurances in force, with existing Bonuses thereon, :amounted to upwards of £4,730,000, the Income from the Life - Branch £207,000 per annum, and the Life Assurance Fund, independent of the capital, exceeded £1,618,000. LOCAL MILITIA and VOLUNTEER CORPS.—No Extra Premium is required for service therein. INVALID LIVES assured at corresponding Extra Pre 11MS. • • - - LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their valuc.,4, if such value be not less than £5O. AS'S iGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, re vived and registered. MEDICAL FEES paid by the Company, and no charge for Policy Stamps. FIRE DEPARTMENT.—Tnourances are effected on every description of property at moderate rates. Losses caused by Explosion of Gas are admitted by this Company. ROY AL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK, (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. 'RESIDENT—Vice-Admiral his Grace the Duke of Northum berland, K.G., F.R.S. CHAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P. DEPuTv-CumuniAzi---Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, during the past two years, the Institution has incurred expenses arnountng to 228,650 on various Life-boat Establishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland. During the past two years the Life-boats of the National Life-boat institution have been instrumental in rescuing the Crews of the following Vessels: — Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose 1 Schooner Jane Roper, of Ulverstone Brig Pallas, of Shields .. .. • • • • • • 3 Ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow .. . • 9 Smack John Bull, of Yarmouth .. .. • • 5 Schooner Catherine, of Newry .. 4 Barque Niagara, of Shields .. . • .. 11 A Bart-,,e of Teignmouth •• •• •• 2 Brig" 'George and James, of London TO:ig Zephyr, of Whitby •• •• •• •• 6 'Coble Honour, of Cullercoats Schooner Eliza, of North Shields .. ......7 Barque Oberon, of Liverpool '.Brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth .. • • • • 9 Smack Wonder, of Teignmouth .. 2 Brig Scotia, of Sunderland • • • • • • 4 2 Sloop Three Broth ers , o f Goole .. • • • • . Sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge .. .- •• 5 Brig Ann, of tlyth • • •• .• •• •• 8 Sloop Hoe,, of Dublin 18ch00n , ...r Druid, of Aberystwyth 5 Barr - de Vermont, of Halifax, U.S. .. .. 16 ftnooner William Keith, of Carnarvon .. 2 - ftrig Flying Fish, of Whitby Smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis .. 3 Steam Dredge, at Newhaven .. .. 9 Schooner Admiral Hood, of Rochester .. 6 Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee .. 5 Schooner Rose, of Lynn .. 3 Brig Prodroma, of Stockton .• .. 11 Brig Eliza, of Middlesborough Brigantine Frela, of Konigsberg .. .. 6 Brigantine Diana, of Fredrikshamn .. 7 Brig Gloucester, of South Shields .. .. 7 Brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham - Brigantine Nugget, of Bideford Schooner Prospect, of Berwick •• •• •• Sloop Thomas and .Line, of St. Ives • • • • A Fishing-boat of Whitburn • • • • .. Brig Arethus';‘, of myth •• •• •• Schooner Dewi Wvn, of Portmadoo • • Flat Qyrnraes, of Beaumaris Schooner William, of Morecambe • • • • `,....mack Gipsy, of Newry •• •• •• Schooner Margaret Anne, of Preston .. Brig New Draper, of Whitehaven • • .• Schooner William, of Liverpool .. Lugger Nimrod, of Castletown Brig Providence, of Shields .. Brig Mayflower, of Newcastle • • • . Schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood Barque Guyana, of Glasgow Brig Ronal Empress, of Shields .. .. 10 Brig San Spiridione, of Galaxide .. Schooner Voador du Vouga, of Vienna 8 French Brig La Jenne Marie Therese 11 6 Barque Perseverance, of Scarborough.. 5 Schooner F]tizabeth, of Bridgewater Ship Danube, of Belfast SaCioner Hortensia, of Hanover .. . 4 Schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven ... 4 Brig St. Michel; of Marans _ 8 Spanish Barque Prim era de Torreviega (saved ves sel and one of the crew) .. 1 Schooner Hurrell, of Penzance (saved vessel and crew) .. •• • • • • • • • • 4 Brig Anne, of Plymouth (saved vessel and crew) 8 Schooner Betsy, of Peterhead (saved vessel and crew) .. 6 Marque Frederick, of Dublin 1 Barque Peace, of Londe;. . Lugger Saucy Law!. of Lowestoft .. 11 Schooner Fly. r.:A Whitby (saved vessel and crew of four ):,- an - d s ) 4 Fula* .adventure, of Hai•wich.. Pitt , cutter Whim, of Lowestoft riarqne Undaunted. of Aberdeen Wrecked boat on Blackwater Bank, on the Irish toast, saved one man .. • • 'Schooner Skylark, of Folkestone .. Brig Lively, of Clay, Norfolk Barque Robert Watson, of Sunderland .. Schooner Auchincruive, of Grangemouth .. Schooner Friends, of Lynn .. 1 • • Schooner Eliza Anne, of Dublin .. Brig Content, of Sunderland • • • Smack }Alen Owens, of Cardigan .. Galliot Epirnachus, of Amsterdam .. 4 .. 8 .. 5 .. 8 .. 4 Total .. • • 498 For these and other Life-boat services the Institution has voted £1,893 as rewards t o the crews of the Lifeboats. It has also granted re wards amounting to £515 10s. for saving 873 shipwrecked persons, by shore-boats and other means, mak ing a total of 871 persons saved from a watery grave during the last two years. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the society, and other,means, since its formation, is upwards of 12,2 1 0 ; or which serviceli 82 Gold Medals, 704 Silver Medals, and 15 h 5 e 0 s ales, expended 'nave been granted as rewards. The Institu tion'.; expended £57,200 on Life-boat Establishments. The Tr.iblic cannot but sympathise with the vigorous efforts now 'being made by the Society to save the lives of Ship wrecked Crews. Their help was never more needed than at the present time, when, through the extraordinary exertions the Society has made within the past few years, it has now One Hundred and Twenty-one Life-boats under its man- Zvi the maluteu.uweuf 'which, in a state of thorough efficiency, a large permanent annual Income is absolutely needed, if its humane mission is to be perpetuated. The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con' Tibutions anneal unual 50 1 0 1 0 0 ...... a aaa n nn n nn u uu a aa l ll 2 05 10 8 0 : 0 00 filer Majesty the Queen .. , .. Clark, Mrs. •• •• •• •• Clerk, Colonel, R.A. .. • . .. Cotton, Sir St. Vincent, Bart .. • • •• don. 215 0 Coutts and essrs., Bankers .. .. Digby, G. W., Co.,l]sq., Sherburne Castle .. Erie, Lord Chief Justice • • don. 10 10 0 Panshawe, Vice - Ad m iral Sir A., K.C.8... Id don. 25 0 0 Harvey, • G. G. Rev. Larnbton, Messrs. W. IT. & Co., Bankers ...... 7a d ta o h n ndu . oanl. 2 lso l 0 00 O g Lanesborough, the Earl of .• • • Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. • • Moore, Rev. G. B. .. ~. don. 15 15 0 .• .. annual 5 0 0 Robartes, T. J. Agar, Esq., 31.1 - • • • • • annual 30 0 Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich • • • • Messrs. Willis, Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. .. .. annual 20 0 Donations and Annual Su' scriptions will be thankfuLlyre celved by the Bankers of the Institu tion, Percival, and Co. 76, Lombard-street; Illesfßs. Coutts and F TR i ta . , n s ve o ds , o, an S ; t a r ;t a r eea n n d td ; bL lk y Le t s dh s ae r a s s . ; Berries , Farquhar , ect:.eytaaryl,the Bankers in the United at the Office of the Institution, 14, Johßnie-hsatrreleti,AewdlesiphEOL"on don, w.c . Paymcnts may be m a d e by Cheques or by Post - oaGe Orders tary, crossed), to M essrs. Wills, Percival, and Co., or to the Secre- GIVER AWAY TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS. TIF , NRY SMITH, M.D . , of the UniversityN of Al. 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In the early part of last week vessels arriving in the Tyne from the north reported that they had passed a vessel on her broadside and abandoned, about seven miles to the eastward of the Fern Islands, off the Northumberland coast, and the Leander and Prince Imperial, powerful tug steamers, left that river in search of her. After a good deal of cruising about they fell in with her, but it seemed a very great question whether they ever could get her to the Tyne, as her mast and decks were immersed in the sea. They however, got hold of her, and after two days and nights of tedious labour and anxiety the adventurers in the steamboats had by Saturday at noon got the sunken craft to within seven miles of the bar of the Tyne. 1 Being anxious to have her into port by the night's tide they called in the assistance of another boat. But their united tugging threatened to be the end of their prize, as they succeeded in pulling her under water, and she disappeared in 10 fathoms. At the end of three hours and a half she came up again, headforemost, and on Sunday morning she was towed across the bar and into the harbour of Shields by no less than four steam tugs, the Leander, the Imperial Prince, the Home, and the Messenger. In taking her up the harbour, how ever, the boats unfortunately got her into a deep hole made by the dredger, and they were employed down to Sunday night trying to get her out of that. The derelict vessel is the Mary, of Exeter, and she is laden with a somewhat valuable cargo of teak wood. She appears to have been caught in one of the squalls of last week, and to have capsized on to he, b a r t oa ß d o s r id w e i . ok. Her Duringcrew are reported to have landed the past two months vessels coming from North Europe to the Tyne have ever and anon reported s s o e fl Dogger bott om B u somewhere k. sheis r e p i n o r t t h e d e and would be a valuable pan' tallow, ne ighbourhood ade a n v wt h passingt obel salvage if she could be brought into post. Several steam tugs have been out in quest of her, but none of them have ever been _able to fall i n w i t h her • and, as she has been drifting about, in a ll proba bility, some months,andifasosiey should strike he r , woald pro ve dan gerous to sailing vessels comman ders of ships ar e as anxious to avoid her as steamboat men are to encounter her. Masters of sailing vessels, howev er, are as fortunate in sighting her in time as steamboat men are as unfortunate in never sighting her at all. On Sunday the brig Magnet, which arrived in t he Tyne, reported hav ing passed the capsized vessel near to the edge of Dogger Bank; but her hull was so deep in the wa ter that the men on the look-out Were only apprised of her neighbourhood by observing the tide rippling about her keel , for she is completely bottom up. Nothing daunted by former failures an expedition of three powerful tugs would leave the Tyne on Monday night for another search after this mysterious craft. THE NAVY. The sixth experimental screw trial of the Shan non frigate, Captain Wainwright, took place yes terday at the measured mile in Stokes Bay, under circumstances of wind and weather equally favour able with those experienced on the five preceding trials. The gales which had prevailed during the previous week had been succeeded by fine weather and a light northerly wind. The ship left Ports mouth harbour about noon, and Capt. Broadhead, commanding the reserve at the port, was on board to conduct the trial, as on the previous occasions. Mr. Miller, the assist.-Pngineer of her Majesty's Dockyard,and Mr. Murdock, inspector of machinery afloat, superintended the working of the machinery. Six runs were made at the measured mile with the following results : Ist run—Speed of ship in knots, 11.356; revolutions of engines, 49. 2d run—Speed, 10.682 ; revolutions, 492. 3d run—Speed, 12.203 ; revolutions, 49-1. 4th run—Speed, 10.055; revolu tions, 50. sth run—Speed, 12.500; revolutions, 491. 6th run—Speed, 9.574 ; revolutions, 50. The mean speed of the whole was 11.244 knots; the pressure of steam 201 b., and the vacuum in the forward and after engines 25in. The draught of water by the ship was as nearly as possible the same as on the former trials-20ft. 2in. forward and 21ft. 9in. aft. The screw tested yesterday was of a precisely simi lar character to the four-bladed one tested on the 31st ult., with this difference, that the one of yes terday carried six blades attached to the boss instead of four, as on the former occasion. The boss or sphere to which the blades are affixed is a Griffiths, while the blades are cast on the pattern of the Man gin. They are, however ) twice the width of the Mangin, owing to their being placed separately round the circumference of the boss, instead of being set in parallel pairs, as is the case with the Mangin. The face of each blade is like the French blade flat, and its back is also convex. They differ otherwise a little from the Mangin, inasmuch as they taper in their width slightly from root and edge to their centre. The speed gained by the ship yesterday con trasts very unfavourably with the former trials, and more particularly so when compared with the trial on the 31st, with four blades, the speed of the ship on that occasion having been 11.553 knots. The vibration yesterday, however, as on the 31st ult., was nil, as far as the screw was concerned, the only movement exhibited by the hull of the ship being that given to it by the movement of the machinery. The ridge of water raised across the ship's stern by the action of the screw, and'the following current over the screw itself was yesterday greater than with the four blades on the alst, and a considerable body of water was thrown up against the fore part of the after sternpost. After completing the runs at the measured mile, the ship was next tested in completing circles at full speed with the following results :—With the order given " Hard a-port" the rudder was got over to an angle of 40 degrees, with 1-} turn of the wheel in 32 sec., the half circle being made in 3 min. and 20 sec., and the full circle in 7 min. and 8 see. With the order " Hard a-starboard " the rudder was got over to an angle of 13 deg. with 11 turn of the wheel, in 30 seconds, the half circle being made in 3 min. 38 sec., and the full circle completed in 7 min. and 57 sec, In making the first circle the re volution of the engines were 49. In the second they were 48. The next trial is proposed to take place on Thursday with a screw of three blades— that is, with every alternate blade removed from the screw tried yesterday. It has, we believe, been recommended by Capt. Broadhead to the Admiralty that the present series of trials shall be closed with the Griffiths' screw. It would render the data to be deducted from these trials of greatly-increased value, if the suggestion of Capt. Broadhead should be carried out, and the Griffiths' screw fairly pitted against the Mangin, not only with two, but also with three blades. Both these and former trials have demonstrated that vibration is always.greatly lessened, and in many eases, as in the four and six bladed trials of the present series, entirely done away with, by, to a certain extent, increasing the number of the blades. The Griffiths with its two blades possesses the power of transmitting a slight vibratory movement to the ship's hull, but with three blades there is every reason to suppose that it also would lose this dangerous property. The Cormorant, 5, screw, Commander Buckle, sailed yesterday afternoon from Spithead for the China station. The Hazard, old sailing sloop, fitted with Capt. Coles's model cupola, was towed out of Portsmouth harbour yesterday to St. Helen's Roads, and moored there for practice from the two 110-pounder Arm strongs, with which the cupola is fitted. The object is to ascertain under what circumstances the guns could be worked and fired at objects within a cer tain distance with the cupola ship heeling over under canvas at sea. To give the Hazard the neces sary list or heel a quantity of iron ballast has been put on board from°the dockyard. The screw steamship Intrepid, 6, Commander Joseph H. Marryatt, which left Gibraltar June 3, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Sunday morning. She is ordered home in consequence of the defective condition of her screw shaft, and has returned under canvass only, Very severe weather was experienced throughout the passage. On the 11th, 12th, and 13th, there were strong gales from south-west and west. The Intrepid left at Gibraltar the screw steam troopship Himalaya, 6, Capt. John Seccombe ; the screw steam corvette Scylla, 21, Capt. Rowley Lambert ; and the paddlewheel steam vessel Red pole. The mizenmast of the screw steamship Trafalgar, ,86, Capt. Dickson, being defective, she was towed on Saturday from Plymouth Sound into Hamoaze and placed alongside the sheer hulk. She will pro bably receive a new mast to-day and return to the Sound at once. The k 'screw steanisbip lathes Watt, 89, Capt.Codd, recently returned from the Mediterranean, and now in Hamoaze, Davenport, was sufficiently stripped to be relieved of her masts yesterday. Her crew will probably be paid off on Saturday. We have to record the death of two of the few remaining officers who fought at Trafalgar, viz.— Capt. Edward Herrick and Lieut. Flowers Beckett. The former died on the 13th inst. at Wobdside, near Purbrook, Hampshire, in his 69th year, and the latter on the following day. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. A. E. Dupuis, to the Rapid ; J. R. Haines, E. Colburne, S. Vicary, and T. Warr, to the rank of master ; E. Colburne, master, to the Centaur ; H. Lan.ckester, acting second-class assist.-engineer, to the Dauntless, for Leveret, vice Smith ; T. Smith (B), acting second class assist.-engineer, to the Euryalus, as supernu merary, vice Ilackester ; C. R. Rodham, assist.- paymaster, to the Senspareil ; B. van Stenvright, master's assistant, to the Dasher; and W. I, Bull more, master's assistant, to the Royal Adelaide, as supernumerary. THE ARMY. _ The whole of the available men belonging to the Woolwich division of Royal Marines, commanded by Lieut.-Col. Marriott ; three batteries of the Royal Horse Artillery, in command of Colonel Sir David Wood, K.C.B. ; and three . batteries of the 1 15th Brigade, in command of Colonel Clifford, were yes terday morning drawn up on Woolwich -common and formed into line for the inspection of his High ness Said P as h a . The ground was kept by the men of the Riding-house establishment, in command of Col. Henry, V.C. At 10 o'clock precisely the guns of the sal u ti ng b attery comm enced firing a Royal His Hi g h ness, salute. accom panied by Mr. Lark ing, drov e up to the Royal Artillery mess quarters in an open barouche, followed by a closed landau, both bearing the Vice-regal arms. He was met by the Duke of Cambridge, Gen. Sir Richard Dacres and staff, and other officers: The Viceroy drove up to the south end, and commenced a close inspec tion of the horse brigade flanking the extremity of , the line. The party then withdrew to the front under the flagstaff, and the mounted troops marched past in batteries in slow time, and after wards formed into half batteries and trotted and galloped past. After marching past they fell back to the rear, limbered up, and prepared to fire. The batteries of horse artillery were supplied with Armstrong guns. and those of the 15th brigade with the old 9-pounders. The troops had been supplied with 25 rounds of blank ammunition, but after firing 12 rounds the atmosphere became thickly overcast and presented the appearance of an approaching storm. The Commander-in Cnief observing Major Thring and a number of the gentlemen cadets (about 100 in number) of the Royal Military Academy among the visitors pre sent, ordered them to fall in, which was immedi ately done for the Viceroy's inspection, the Duke explaining that in a few days they would pass their examination as officers of the army. The troops then marched off the field, and the Viceroy and party proceeded to the mess quarters of the Royal Artillery. After lunch the Viceroy went on board his yacht, lying off the Royal Arsenal, and the Duke of Cambridge returned to London. LITERATURE. ~.-,-',,, ----... Thirty Years' Musical Recollections. By Henry F. Chorley. Hurst and Blackett. The position of Mr. Chorley, as a musical critic of long standing, entitles his opinions to respect,and although he merely styles his work "recollections" it may be considered, in reality, a history of the opera in England for the last 30 years, whilst it contains many curious details respecting the chief operatic singers who have won " golden opinions" and obtained golden rewards here during that period. His judgment, he admits, may have individual bias, but we have no reason to doubt its conscientious ness, and he has wisely avoided all topics of scandal. " to be silent on all e " e l e t h h t a a s le s e ee e m f e t d he be g s r t e ,' he e ' ereseamys,aa relate to the deal ings of manager with artist—to the character of the one, or the grievances of the other. My chronicle is written from before the curtain, and with no wish to rake up old quarrels, or to pronounce on vexed questions. The result is the thing to be dealt with. te to inspire." yearlB3o, These The wisdom or the folly of this or the other lin e of policy may be judged by the evi dence offered as to results—and such opinion of the trust - worthiness of thererecollections lle et witness iee e a as commence e ay ce in h be able when Malibran ruled the operatic stage. Her qualifications are thus summed up— !WALDMAN. r ea tThoughive dramaticcreativea r t a i s s t. n a Thoughu t a the Malibran was not a c fertility and audacity of her musical invention had no limit s — thoug h she bad e x ecn t, the power and the science of a composer—she did not esta blish one new opera or character on the stage—hardly, even, one first-class song in the concert-room. Though she was received with royal honours in Milan. Naples, Venice, where she excited her audiences to frenzies of enthusiasm, and where the soldiers presented arms as she passed—on the Italian stage in London she was unable to possess her self of the succession to Madame Pasta—or to satisfy our public as thoroughly as a far younger and less accomplished artist—Madame Grisi—did shortly after her disappearance. She is best remembered, perhaps, in Italian opera, as Des detnona—especially in the incomparable third act of " Otello ;" and no theatrical portrait of modern time could be named surpassing that by M. Dubufe, of herself in the chamber scene. On the whole, she was found unequal, bisarre, and fatiguing, by many of our opera-loungers '(a public as apt to be scared as allured by original genius). Her real stage triumphs in this country were when she sang in English as Amina, as Leonora in " Fidelio ;" Iso lina in Mr. Balfe's " Maid of Artois," being her third character. In her English performances her exuberance, not to say extravagance, of style, served the purpose of concealing the mediocrity, and worse, of her playfellows. To myself it always brought as much of wonder as of de• light. Her vehemence in "La Sonnambula" too nearly trenched on frenzy to be true ; in " Fidelio," it destroyed that idea of faltering an d ness to the earlier scenes of the tale of woman's devotion. She delivered Beethoven's music wondrously, considering its unsuitability for her voice—making changes and adap tations where they were inevitable with such musician-like science, that not the protest of a solitary purist could be raised against them ;—but the effect produced in the opera by a singer incomparably inferior to her, Madame Schroider Devriont, was far deeper, and more moving. The Spaniard threw more horror into the scene in the vault than her pre decessor ; but the German is before me, when, in the in troduction to the Chorus of Prisoners, as they creep out of their cells, she questioned one ghastly face after another, with the heart-piercing wistfulness of hope long deferred. Nothing comparable has since been seen on the musical stage, till the other day, when the younger sister of Mali bran struck the same chords, by her admirable pantomime, as Orpheus, in Gluck's opera, when he is shown as search ing for his Eurydice in the " yellow meads of asphodel." As a woman, Malibran was ambitious, fond of gain, mu nificent in giving (and this when no chorus was at hand to applaud the gift)—noble, careless —insatiable in her search for excitement and effect. These facts have been so often told by her personal friends and her old comrades, that their story need not be returned on. There is no need to relate minutely the tale of her wretched American first marriage ; neither how, by break ing away from it. she flung herself into suspense and per plexity, from which one like herself could only find re tuge in excitement, and to which may be ascribed many of the caprices and inequalities which, for some `ears of her life, were supposed by her audiences to be only so many whimsies of a violent and reckless woman. Calmer days might have been in store for her after her second marriage with M. De Beriot but for her prema ture decease, hurried on by her wilfulness in concealing the consequences of an accident while she was riding (a favourite pastime of hers). Nothing could possibly be more painful than her agonising death, in the midst of the Manchester Festival of 1836, only a few hours after one of those unex pected outbursts of inspiration in which she was unparal leled. Nothing could be more sad to English eyes than its sequel. Of a woman so bright, so kindly, so ill-starred, and thence (it may be), so unequal, as she, it is impossible to think without a strange and affectionate regret. Of the artist it must be recorded that, boundless as were Malibran's resources, keen as was her intelligence, danzling as was her genius, the never produced a single type in opera for other women to adopt. She passed over the stage like a meteor, as an apparition of wonder, rather than as one who, on her departure, left her mantle behind her for others to take up and wear, Greatest among tenors Mr. Chorley ranks Rubini. "As a singer," he says, " and nothing beyond a singer, he is the only man of his class who deserves to be named in these pages as an artist of genius. No one in my experience, so merely and exclusively a singer as he was, so entirely enchanted our public so long as a shred of voice was left to him. No one is more affectionately remembered." Yet even this great tenor fell short of perfection. RUBINL He was in no respect calculated to please the eye ; for the openness of his countenance could not redeem the meanness of features impaired by small-pox. His figure was awkward ; he dressed as any one else pleased, without a thought of his own as to taste, character, or picturesque effect (in this how different to his successor !) He rarely tried to act, the moment of the curse in the contreet scene of " Lucia" being the only attempt of the kind that I can call to mind. The voice and the expression were with him to do it all. Before, however, Rubini came to England his voice had contracted that sort of thrilling or trembling habit, then new here, which of late has been abused ad has seam. It was no longer in its prime—hardly capable perhaps of being produced mezzo-forts or piano; for which reason he had adopted a style of extreme contrast betwixt soft and loud, which many ears were uhable for a Tong period to relish. After a time these vehemences (in themselves vicious) were forgotten for the sake of the transcendant qualities by which they were accompanied, though in the last years of his reign they were exaggerated into the alternation of a scarcely audible whisper and a shout ; and it was said, not untruly, that it would be hardly possible to form any idea of a new tenor part were it presented for the first time by Rubini, so largely did memory and knowledge of his intentions aid his public. Further, he was to be easily surpassed by every one in his declamation. Here and there (as in the garden scene in "Othello" with Iago) he roused himself to give point and passion to his recitative. But such an awakening was exceptional, since for the most part he went through this part of his task with correct accent, but without any remarkable intelligence—in this respect an utter contrast to M. Duprez. One remembers Rubini not by this or by the other character, but by his songs. Yet more, his taste in ornament was often-questionable. His facility was apt to tempt him into enormous roulade cadenzas which had little variety. In Paolino's great song, " Pria cho spunti" (" Il Matrimonio"), ho revelled in embroideries of the phrase in retarded time which occurs just before the close, which, however ingenious and wonderful as vocal displays, I al ways felt to be superabundant. " First in the first rank of all who have appeared in England during the last thirty years," Mr. Chorley places Madame Pasta. Nevertheless in many respects nature had been sparing to her. " Her voice was originally limited, husky and weak — without charm, without flexibility—a mediocre mezzo-soprano," whilst " her figure was short and clumsy." Her charm lay in her" depth and reality of expression," for which Mr. Chorley considers she stood alone. He thus describes PASTA'S LAST APPEARANCE. Thero remains a strange scene to be spoken of—the last appearance of this magnificent musical artist, when she allowed herself, many years later, to be seduced into g iving one performance at Her Majesty's Theatre, and to sing In a concert for the Italia n cause at the Roy al Italian Opera. Nothing more intidvised could have been dreamed ?f. Madame Pasta had long ago thrown off the stage and all its belongings ; and any other publie than those who have made their boatmen linger on the lake of Como, hard beneath the garden walls of her villa, with the hope of catching a glimpse of one who in her prime had enthralled So Many. Her voice, which, at its best, had required ceaseless watch ing and practice, hal been long ago given up by her. Its i state of utter ruin on the ni g ht n question pastes des-crip time She had been neglected by those who, at least, should have preenied her person to the hest advantage admitted by Time. Her queenly robes (she was to sing some scenes from "Anna Belena") in nowise suited or disg,tised her figure. Her hairdresser had done some tremendous thing or other with her head—or rather, had left everything done. A more painful and disastrous spectacle could hardly be looked on. There were artists present. who had then, for the first time, to derive some impression of a renowned artist—perhaps, with the natural feeling that her reputation had been exaggerated. Among these was Rachel—whose bitter ridicule of the entire sad show made itself heard throughout the whole theatre, and drew attention to the place where she sat—one might even say, sarcastically enjoy in g the scene. Among the audience, however, was another gifted woman, who might far more legitimately have been shocked at the utter wreck of every musical means of ex pression in the singer—who might have been more natu rally forgiven, if some humour of self-glorification had made her severely just—not worse—to an old prima donna p-1 mean, Madame Viardot. Then, and not till then, she was hearing Madame Pasta. But truth will always answer to the appeal of truth. Dismal as was the spectacle—broken, hoarse, and destroyed as was the voice—the great style of the singer spoke to the great singer. The first scene was Ann Boleyn's duett with Jane Seymour. The old spirit was heard and seen in Madame Pasta's " Sorgi 1" and the gesture with which she signed to her penitent rival to rise. Later, she attempted the final mad scene of the opera—that most complicated and brilliant among the mad scenes on the modern musical stage—with its two cantabile move ments, its snatches of recitative, and its bravura of despair, which may be appealed to as an example of vocal display, till then unparagoned, when turned to the account of frenzy, not frivolity—perhaps as such commissioned by the superb creative artist. By that time, tired, unprepared, in ruin as she was, she had rallied a little, When—on Ann Boleyn's hearing the coronation music for her rival, the heroine searches for her own crown on her brow. Madame Pasta wildly turned in the direction of the festive sounds, the old irresistible charm broke out ;—nay, even in the final song, with its roulades, and its scales of shakes, ascending by a semitone the consummate vocalist and tragedian, able to combine form with meaning— the moment of the situation, with such personal and musical display as form an integral part of operatic art—was indicated : at least to the appre hension of a younger artist. " You are right I" was Madame Viardot's quick and heartfelt response (her eyes full of tears) to a friend beside her--" You are right I It is like the Cenacolo of Da Vinci at Milan—a wreck of a picture, but the picture is the greatest picture in the world I " Of Grisi and Mario Mr. Charley speaks highly, but without much enthusiasm ; indeed the latter, he considers, has never wholly got beyond amateurship. He gives an amusing account of the Lind fever, from which he seems to have escaped, and his summary of the characteristics of the chief modern operatic composers will be read with interest. Indeed the value of the work to all of musical taste is unques- tionable. Upon some points they will necessarily differ with it; but they neverthelesscannot fail to derive from it considerable information as well as amusement. 2he English at Home. By Alphonse Esquiros . Second series. Translated by Lascelles Wraxall, Chapman and Hall. Differing widely from the burlesque descriptions of our manners and customs, with which foreign visitors usually regale their friends at home, these essays, contributed by M. Esquiros to the Revue des Deux blondes, contain a large amount of curious information respecting our institutions and amusements, are full of anecdote, and are cha racterised, in the main, by a sound judgment. Thus speaking of our clubs he observes, "Any person who has lived in England very speedily perceives that nothing resembling the English clubs exist, or can exist, on the Continent, for these assemblies pre suppose rights, guarantees, and, before all, a lengthened training in liberty, which are not found in other countries." This, for a Frenchman, is admitting a great deal, and we find the same spirit of impartiality running through the book. Thus, speaking of theatres and actors, he admits that the French "know nothing of Shakspeare, at least of the acted Shakspeare ;" and says, " I confess it is ever a mental festival to me when I see one of the plays of the Great English Poet interpreted by English actors." Oec,sionally, however, he is startled from his propriety. "I stopped," he says, " one day in a street off Deptford, in front of a shop, all covered with inscriptions and hieroglyphics ; about 15 feet from the ground and over the door a fearful mannikin was hanging from an iron bar. It was a sort of monstrous doll with three heads, painted black, and crowned with a horsehair wig. On this clumsy-carved wooden face the hatchet or the chisel had exaggerated the features of the Ethiopian race, a flattened nose and blubber lips. There were neither legs nor arms, but the body was indicated by three hoops covered with canvas. It looked like an idol, a fetish cut out of the trunk of a tree by the Congo negroes. Another circum stance attracted my attention : it was an enormous bone fixed to the shutters by an iron bar, and which was a fragment of some antedeluvian colossus. On this relic—which was worn by wind and rain, but which, on reflection, might have belonged to a horse or an ox—was written in red letters, make haste and sell me your bones.' I also read on a piece of cardboard—' Sell me your fat. These inscrip tions had nothing very reassuring about them, and had 1 been in that Fair Village where M. du Chaillu must have spent a very uncomfortable time, I should have fancied that designs were entertained on my life." Observing, however, a man and woman enter this den and emerge with no worse losses than a pair of cracked shoes and a shawl with a hole in its back, M. Esquiros plucked up courage, went in, gained the heart of the owner by disposing of a silk handkerchief ruinously low, mastered the details of the rag and bone business, and then pro ceeds to describe paper making, and to touch on some of the characteristics of the English press; and the volume concludes with a dissertation on sporting life, and a description of the Derby Day. Sketches of Faroe and Iceland. By Andrew James Symington. Longman and Co. This is an interesting little work, nicely got up, and profusely illustrated with woodcuts of the re markable scenery in the remote isles Mr. Syming ton was adventurous enough to visit. " The greater part of the volume," he says, "consists of a diary jotted down in presence of the scenes described, so as to preserve for the reader, as far as possible, the freshness of first impressions, and invest the whole with an atmosphere of human interest." The accuracy of the descriptions is thus guaranteed, and the author evidently lost no opportunity of acquiring information respecting the customs of the inhabitants, their traditions, and the peculiar natural features of the country. His work will thus be peculiarly useful to those who may feel a desire to follow in his track; and the appendix, moreover, contains thirteen Iceland stories fairy tales, translated by th e Reverend Olaf Palsson ; specimens of old Icelandic poetry ; poems on northern subjects in • and Icelandic ; information for intending tourists ; a glossary ; and lastly, a chapter on our Scandinavian ancestors —treating of race, history, Thus characteristics, language, and tendencies. " thiso:gm p a n n l i ti a c n a d l s C at o i . re, i n to those who delight will be peculiarly acceptable Patron. By the author of in northern traditions and literature. --_— the volume contains something to suit all ta stes, and for which The " rhyme, are especially directed against Disraeli, for his advocacy of the Pope's cause on the evening of "His Holi- TheHs Popear fatcseaonafdt the A a h s zt.sh a en author e s. w " a o r f i a . 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Yesterday at a preliminary meeting held at the Mansion Hollso, .sectwa mooted before t he Lord Ma y or, the differente subject chair men of com i t t e6 : : , of the Common Council, a n d th e several ward deputies, who had been specially con vened for its consideration, The proposal wa s re ceived with tifivalified favour, and before separat ing they passed an unanlialous resolution to eubruit it for consideration to a C ourt of Common Council. to be forthwith summoned for the purpose. The festival is intended to be held in Guildhall, which will be brilliantly decorated, and to equal ;n mag nificence that which the Queen graced with her Royal presence there on a kindred occasion on tne evening of the 9th of July, 1 851 , and o n which the corporation expended upwards of £5,000. The en tertainment, which, as at present indicat ed, voil consist of a ball, preceded by a concert, will be given more especially, if not solely, in compliment to tha foreigners of distinction, visitors to the Exhibition or officially identified with it. As on the occasion of 1851, the invited guests, numbering, it may be, about 4,000, will probably include some members of the Royal family, the great officers of State, the foreign Ambassadors and Ministers, members of the Houses of Lords and Commons, the judges, the Royal Com missioners for the Exhibition, the members of the corporation, the Masters of the various civic com panies, bankers, merchants, and traders, and the re presentatives of literary and scientific societies. The rumour gains ground daily that the Emperor of the French purposes paying a visit to the Ex hibition. In that event it is understood to be in contemplation to depute a few of the principal mem bers of the corporation to proceed to Paris before hand to invite his Imperial Majesty to the enter tainment, and to name a day for holding it which would suit his Majesty's convenience. Last evening a special Court of Common Council was convened for Thursday next, when a motion, of which notice has been given, will be submivted for consideration, having for its object to obtain the sanction of the Court to a munificent grant of money from the cor porate funds, to be expended on a festival which shall be worthy alike of the great international gathering and of the ancient renown for hospitality and public spirit of the corporation of London. THE PRUSSSAN BUDGET. The bill to be presented to the Chamber for settling the budget for 1862 is very short, and consists but of two articles. The first fixes the receipts at 136,523,411 thalers (something more than £20,000,000 sterling), and the expenditure at 133,217,292 ordinary expenses, and 6,691,119 ex traordinary expenses, making together 139,908,411. The second article authorises the extraction from the State Treasury of the sum of 3,385,000 thalers to cover the deficiency. The budget itself is now printed and distributed. In performance of the promise of increased detail the heads of expenditure have been increased from 218 to 537, being 319 more than before ; heads of revenue only from 95 to 119. By the usual process of taking the average of the three previous years, it has been found possible to augment the estimates of income, showing an in crease of 1,170,000 over 1861. The increase of expenditure in certain departments is put down at 670,000, leaving 600,000 as decrease in the deficit, compared with that of last year. The extraordinary budget comprises, as principal items, 1,140,000 for the navy, 1,800,000 army, 2,000,000 commerce and public works; together, nearly 5,000,000. Small items in different departments bring it to the amount stated in the bill, which is reduced by the surplus of receipts over the ordinary budget to 3,385,600. This it is proposed to meet with the disposable surplus of 1860, amounting to 3,867,840 , which is deposited in Exchequer, to whicl„ when all accounts have been revised and the surplus is found, it must, according to law, be handed. Permission must be obtained of the Chamber to apply it to the deficiency of another year. The balance remains to the Treasury fund—the taats Schatz, as it is here called. The different items of increase and decrease in revenue and expenditure would have little in terest for your readers. Most of them are of small amount. Among the largest is an increase of half a million (L 75,000) on the revenue derived from the State forests, and one of 726,000 thalers in the direct taxes. In the indirect taxes there is a falling off of 470,000 thalers. The State domains have been farmed at a higher rate. The military budget, which is, at the present time and under present cir cumstances, the most important part of the state ment, shows, as an ordinary estimate, 37,779,043; as extraordinary, 1,826,662 ; together, 39,605,705. Last year it was 40,361,104, of which 5,430,767 were extraordinary. It is to be borne in mind that, although the taxes already established by law, and not voted (as was the 25 per cent. supplementary impost) only for a short fixed period, cannot be re fused by the Chamber, the vote of that body is necessary in order that Government may legally apply the revenues to the expenses of the country. A FRENCH SUICIDE. On Friday (says the Breit) two coffins were brought side by side into the Church of Bonne Nou velle. They were followed by a man absorbed in grief, and attended by a large crowd, remarkable for their sad and collected demeanour. 111adlle. Palmyra, a dressmaker, living with her parents, was gifted with the most fascinating and the most loveable of characters, therefore was appearance she eagerly sought in marriage. .A.m.ong the can didates for her hand she had dieting one, M. B__--, who experienced an intense passion for her. Th oug h she fully r eci p rocated - his feelings she thought it right, through filial duty, to follow th e wishes of her parents, and married instead one NI. D—, whose social posit ion a pp eared to the m pre ferable to that of his rival. The marriage took place four years ago. MM. 8—...- - and 1 - 1---- (the husband and rival) were fast friends, and , al th ough they had no business connection, ditily v i s it e d eac h other. The mutual love of B---__ _ and anythin anything grown Palmyra nm y o r r a e itnutrennhseis. idOeusts o in f r a e n g o a t r h d er fo d r ir b e i c s ti f o r n ie , nd B (now Madame D—) had if , _ --, to made up his mind to marry, but, notwithstanding all his efforts, he perceived that this heroic remedy was powerless to destroy,his passion for his friend's wife. Never• theless, for four years neither he nor Madame D- failed in their duty. What they had to suffer cannot be described, as the unsuspecting hus• band always contrived to bring the conscientious and reluctant lover to his house. At length an unlucky chance brought the lovers together, and the friend betrayed the friend, the wife betrayed the husband. In an agony of remorse they ac quainted him with the crime. He freely forgave them, as the victims of circumstances over which they had no control. He continued to live with his wife, but enjoined an eternal separation be• tween the lovers. The injunction was religiously obeyed, but the struggle between passion and duty was too violent to last. Fearful of again transgres sing, the lovers determined to die together ; they were found inanimate from the fumes of charcoal, locked in each other's arms. They had left a letter for the husband, acquainting him with their reso lution, and requesti n g that the same grave 'night rece ive them both , a wish he religiously executed. t h e chief Th e ir bodies were in the two coffins, and ()tuner was the husband. THE PAST AND THE PREsENT.--A curious fact lately occurred at Downton, showing how few individuals are required to connect distant periods of history with the present time. Last week a wan was b of uried in this parish and whose father was born in the reign William that father lived in three centuries, having been born i n ,1798 and died in 1801.--saPbtlrY ,Tot4rtial. Z ~~liv THE CORPS OF C,93IIIIIsSIONAIREs, idge in- His Royal Highness the Duke e C an ibri Ti' spected the London division of this c os Sunday ark:" lest at the Welli n g ton-barr ack s, St. Sames'6l3 Besides the Comm andin g Officer, the Adju.tant, Capt, Peacb, Dr. Stavely Bing (the honorary 0:" sician), and the Rev. J. Townsend, incumbent of the district where the b arracks are situated, Were pre.- sent. The men, numbering about 250, were drawn up in line, and the smart manner in which they turned out proved their desire to uphold the charac ter of the corps, and their *Nish to merit the honr,ur conferred on them by the inspection of the General comm coding-in-chief. His Roy.: l Highness, while passing down the g l i ct inter( st in the per lines, manifested the hi son al history of several o f t h e .rien whose medals; indicated the nature and length of service they had undergone. He afterwards in,wreted title band, con sisting of 32 pensioners , musicians frcni different branches of her Majesty's service, azd who- se per formance gave the greatest satisfaction. Dr. Stt,'“iy Kin g , the honorary mcdiftal nicer of tiie corps, m'o qt.cst!ontd b y hi s Royal I:(ghn€l.6 or. f ' e ' vci °I details. ff ectlng the h ea lth of the men, wh i c h from the small amount of sickness (under 2 per cent.) must be in a very satisfactory oonditior. Before quitting the parade the men were formed in close columns of divisions, and his Royal Highness made the following address : " I have been requested by your commaD3ing offi cer to repeat to you the substance of what I have just had the pleasure of saying to himself, as the ex preseion of the impression I have received from the i nspec tion of you this morning. I say I have been much gratitic'd, and I wish you distinctly to under stand this, and tha t I take a ;F arm personal interest in you. You have established slrong claims upon of interest or my esteem altogether, independent any other influence than the well earned flaircs your own conduct has established. Many of you save dis uished ourselves as soldiers and s(: hors. You have y s erved your Queen and the country w 7i t h the performance of your h o nour, and both in duty and the discharge of the trust which as mem bers of the two services W as p laced in Tou many of you have become incapacitated for ordsiti occu pations. It is most gratifying to me in 'her I hold towards English soldie rs to find you, after when it is;tot years of perilous service, at a tim e or mis t unco mmon for men to efface by inactivity - conduct the record of their pre vious career, g za to make up by dissipation and thoughtlessness for VTO trac t e d discipline and hardships, voluntarily died, and and submitting to organisation and control I for the laudabl e p ur p ose of e.urning your own live lihood in an honourable and independent manner. `he services of the A fact like this is to my mind Very strong evidence of the high spirit animating country, and must be a considerable Source of pride to Captain Walter, and a recompense for the diffi •culties with which he a nd those associMed withave him have contended , an d for the labour they bestowed in bringing you t o y our present condition. h I am not at all surprised their efforts and yoor discipline, the the results of which have impressed ma so forcibly this morning, have been appreciated by the public, and that the success that has attended you has led to the establishment of similar division of the corps in several tow ns throoghout the coun s try. Your commanding officer informs me that the demand for your services has suri;assed hi expectations and is steadi l y increasin g ; anJ such a fact is sufficient evidence i n m y own mind of the necessity that Captain Walter was happy enough to foresee, of the confidence you have so legitimately earned, and of the respect in which you are held. Your praiseworthy endeavours to maintain your selves in honest independence, and. to deserve by labour the position of useful members of society, secure for you the cordial sympathy o ou f in every right-minded person. I congratulate y e l a te him pos sessing so earnest a chief , and I congrat in having got together men of so much character and self-control. I shall, believe toe, watch your further development with interest; and rely upon it that, so long as you continue in the eame path of duty towards yourselves and the public which you have hitherto pursued, zou will be as suc cessful and respected as industrious citizens as formerly you were fortunate and esteemed as bravo defenders of the honour and interests of your country." At the conclusion of the above his Royal High ness quitted the ground, and the men marched to their usual place of worship. A PHYSIOLOGICAL VIEW OF THE PREMIER. _ A medical journalist can do 13.1 more appro priate service than give prominence from time to time to a good specimen of fine old age. Lord P a l me rston certainly claims that atteniion at our hands. All party and political considereq icna aside, we pronounce the Premier a physiological phenomenon. Politics only half explain Lord Pal merston. Few statesmen have en j o yed so much power and popularity as the Prime Minister, and there are few instances in which the secret of the power has been less political. Lord Palmerston'o influence is in a great measure physiological" -- a n influence on the temper of the country produced by his own temper and health and good The nobility of England supply many speci mens of a fine old age, but it is difficult to find Well nigh one so striking as Lord Palmerston. spirits. . I. :it _ t w e the t r arl duringB2B f h o e u r ha o d r four score years have passed away since his life began. They have been eventful years, and few men b fi e v e e nfor have had more to say and do in the events than the veteran Premier. ry 19 years Secrets _ suc cessive Administrations, and was described by Lord Brougham,- e nother wonder of the physiological order —as a,‘ sort of hereditary member of every Cabinet." It is unnecessary for our purpose to go into any detail. Be has had a hand in every Euro pean pie for more than 50 years. He combines in his life the history, and in his person the qualities, of two succes • sive generations. He was Secretary at-War in the days of Waterloo and Wellington, and is as ready as younger men to entertain the last suggestion of Sir William Armstrong. In 1809 he was in office ; and in 1862, after a life of responsi bility that would have exhausted the br ains or the 1 strength of most men, he is Prinke Minister, filling the high place in no merely formal and honorary way, but doing triumphant battle single-handed with his enemies with all the shrewdness of age and all the Smartness of youth. There is no finality feeling in him. if he does not feel himself young, he fancies the world is still in its youth. Men would forgive him if he put off his armour and with folded arms talked of the past and his part ill it s achievements ; but he talks rather of the future, and is ready for anything the present seems to demand, whether it be a new experiment on trade, an o°,ll - of the franchise, or a reconstruction of o . n t r a a n e d " fences ; and all this cordially, with the °Piri this is the sprightliness of younger men. We m ea u y ch as a a physiological phenomenon quite se - a temperature, political one—an affair of temper an . study of phyla of health and habits, worthy the In old age to be able cians as well as politician s. and b a ck again ; to to ride to Harrow or Ep som be conscious of no feel the world still fresh ; to a generation in which want of sympathy with" ries can scarcely be detected; one's early contemporaries able to make the Com te be cheerful and genial-- mons of England laugh and vote at pleasure, are Old ego is the ti, for great qualities• lc slow ingfferenceof men who in middle the di ou their ern much alike. Why sh' ld a ge se advanced often spent in feebleness age b e s o and frailty ? : Why s hould not the vigour of the middle period be projected into the lest ? The answer +(;) such • queries must be looked far in the study of such lives as that of Lord Palmert4 ore W - . c should greatly relish a speech from the. noble lord on the art of attaining to an enviable old - .gc.. Meantime we can only guess at the secret ; but we have no doubt about the essential part of itcertain ' —a . . cheerfulness of disposition, exercise, good digestion waiting on ap petite, and withal temperance, especially in the matter of drinks. These are old-fashioned, plain expedients. They have been the theme of m oralists, poets, and physicians from ti n e? immemorial. Alas, that so many who praised did not practice them! May the Premier live long as a proof of their power, and as a happy" speci men of the men 4 sans in corpore sand I—Lancet. ~_._` I