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THEAT RE- e ROT AL B , Backs HAYMA RKET. Lssee Mr. J . tone. THIS EVENING, a Household Picture, under Two Lights, entitled THE WIFE'S PORTRAIT. Mr. Howe, Mr. W. Farr e ll , Mrs. C. Young, &a After which, at hall-past 7, will be performed (140th ti me) O UR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. m e) OUR ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothcrn. Followed by anew .•:panish Ballet entitied LA CONTRA e BANDISTA. Senora Perea Mena, Senor Ricardo, and th Corps de Ballet. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST- 11 OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer. 173 d Night of the continuous run of "Peep o'Day." THIS EVENING, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, and Edmund Falcone! Mes. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston, and Miss M. Hudson. After which, cal, R ictorial, poetical, and ballet interlude, entitled KILLARNI,Y. Miss Anna Whitty and Miss Lydia Thomson. To conclude with the new farceentitled I COULDN'T HELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and Miss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at J3oir-office open daily from 11 tills. Commence a 7 L PRINCESS'S THEATRE Lesßee. Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. Messrs. Ryder, Meadows, Widdicomb, &a ; 11,sses Fielding, Angel, C. Leclercq, After which, the Mystic drama, THE ANGEL OF MID NIG El i . Messrs. Shore, B. Potter, Ryder, ('athcart, Wid• diatom be , Jordan, Meadows, Raymond ; Miss Elsworthy, Misl Fielding, and Miss Henderson. Commence at 7. No half-price. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, a new domestic drama, entitled DOT : Messrs. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billington. Stephenson ; MISS L. Keeley. Miss Woolgar, Miss H. Simms, Miss K. Kelly, and Mrs. H. Marston. To be followed by THE OCTOROON. Messrs. Dion Boucicanit, Emery, Jamison, Billington, P. Bedford, Phillips, Stephenson, Powell, Romer; &Ira. Billington, Mrs. H. Mar ston, Miss Latimer, and Miss Denvil. Commence at 7. AND FINE C A NTERBURY HALL ARTS GALLERY. The miraculous STECKEL at a quarter to 11. Grand Selections from " Lucrezia Borgia," by Miss Rue Mr. Jon sell, with Band and full Chorus , con ducted by Jonah mans. Great success of 17NSWORT1I, in his celebrated Stump Speech "Or any other man " t he original), and EUGENE, in his Burlesque Singing and Dancing:, at Ten o'clock. JOE BROWN, the renowned American Prize Jig Dancer, for a few weeks only. Also the following, Comic favourites Randall, Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. J. G. Forde, and Miss Caroline Par k es in her new entertainment. Messrs. Morton and Stanley beg to inform visitors to Lon don during the Exhibition that the GALLERY of PAINT INGS well be Open, free between the hours of Twelve and Two o'clock on and after Monday. ripHE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.- Every Evening.—The unrivalled Ethiopian Come dians, Rumsey and Newcomb's Minstrels, EUGENE and UNSWORTH (the original "or any other man"), in addition to a host of other comic talent.—Operatic Selections and the cantatas of the "Jolly Beggars" and " MAY DAY " (sup ported by the entire company. Full Band and Chorus. Musical Director, Mr. F. Jongtunans. Ball, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, is. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. In rehearsal, Verdi's " Great International Exhibition Cantata," and will be produced shortly. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY.—Monaing, bh. 57m.—Afternoon, 6h. 20m To-moßitow.-Morning, 6h. 44m.—Afternoon , 7h. 9m NOTICE. 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This, then, is the re sult of all the formidable speeches of Mr. DISRAELI, of the resolution of Mr. STANSFELD, framed to give the Opposition an opportunity of following up their leader's speeches by their votes, and of Mr. WAL POLE'S Amendment, in some respects more effective than Mr. STANSFELD's. This is the ridiculous mouse brought forth by the Parliamentary mountain in labour. IThat the other amendments would be withdrawn when the Opposition, through the WAL POLE Amendment, entered into conflict with the Government, we had fully expected, but we had as little doubt that either Lord PALMERSTON would capitulate and accept the WALPOLE amendment a s substantially agreeing with his own, or that Mr. WALPOLE and the Opposition would fight like Englishmen. We did not imagine that the " Amiable" Mr. WALPOLE would be so very amiable as to desert the trust his party bad repoeed in him, and at the eleventh hour to sneak out of the field, cowed by a threat from Lord PALMERSTON. It is not often we have to commend Mr.DISRAELI, but last night, we must confess, that he alone re deemed the position of the Tories. He at least stood to his colours. That we do like. We are Englishmen e nough not to relish being baulked of a good stand-up fight when it has been fairly pro. raised us; and Mr. WALPOLE did run, and Mr. DISRAELI did fight; and he fought, too, with a speech fuller of fact and argument than is usual with him. He will, we have too much reason to fear, prove a true prophet in predicting that the object of the withdrawn Tory amendment will be forced upon the Government by the state of the country: The prospects of trade and business are not such as to warrant much hope of buoyancy in the revenue of next year ; and Mr. DISRAELI coi.ld safely warn the Government that the repre sentatives of the suffering districts, and of those who would suffer because of their suffering, would be compelled to recall the attention of Parliament to the great question of national expenditure. But f e w Tories spoke; but we may gather from Mr. VIIITEsiDE's remark that there were others who would not have been frightened by Lord PALMER STOWS threats, and the conclusion from the whole I must be that t here were Tories afraid 3f bein g called on to take office, and Tories not afraid. The timid Tories we understand to be such as either feared the smallness of the majority they would have to work with, or such as disliked the idea of economy, the bolder Tories had calculated evidently on an appeal t o the country at the earliest opportunity with re duced Estimates and no Income-Tax for their elec tion cry. Divided counsels made the WALPOLE amendment A sham. It appeared, on the part of those who did not stand by it, as a piece of gra tuitous annoyance, since they were not prepared to carry it out as actual business. 'I he generalship of Lord PALMERSTON was what might have been expected of him, it he became aware, as he doubtless did, of the division in the Tory camp. Had the am endment been in firmer Mauls he might have tried the policy of accepting it ; but seeing his advantage he easily made up his mind to accept it as a gauntlet. He felt perfectly safe, resp e cting Mr. STANSFELD'S resolution, because the Tories, who might other wise have voted with Mr. DISRAELI for it, were now precluded from doing so by having their own amendment. The Irish members woaid have been in that case of no account. It was a bold game ; but the old proverb ogain proves true, and fortune favoured him. The STANSFELD resolution WE of course to be overwhelmingly defeated by the seces sion of the Tories, but had Mr. WALPOLE stood to his colours, hat the supporters of Mr. STANSFELD then given their votes to Mr. WALPOLE'S amend ment as the one more consistent with their objects, and had the Pope's Brigade, u n d er their new ma j or, joined the Tories, as they consistently could have I done on this question, the Government must have been beaten by a considerable majority. All de pended on Mr. WALPOLE'S courage, and the event proved that our clever Premier knew his man. But what will be the result of all this absurd affair of resolutions, amendments, amendments on amendments, and withdrawal of amendments by Tories themselves to avoid upsetting the Govern ment. It can but have one effect at least, to make Lord PALMERSTON the dictator of the House. When a Premier can confound all his enemies by the simple expedient of turning up his sleeves, and saying, " Quite ready, gentlemen, come on," why, of course, he retires with the belt and all the honours. We hope he will wear them meekly. But, first to take 302 with him into the lobby against Mr. STANSFELD'S 65, then to carry his own resolution nernine contradicente after com pelling his next opponent to retire, is almost enough to turn even a veteran politician's head. Lord PALMERSTON spoke as modestly as could be expected. He said that the Government would feel themselves bound under his amendment, in duty to themselves, and in obligation to the House, " narrowly to examine the different estab lishments which they may have to propose next year," and if the state of things abroad and at home permit of reductions, to make them. Such a pro mise, however, is perfectly w or thl ess —it b e i ng always easy to make anything a Minister pleases of the state of things around him. We must think with Mr. OSBORNE that the whole affair has rather strengthened Lord PALMERSTON as a money spender, unless he find Mr. DIsRAELI'S predictions too true of a revenue curtailed by the privation of the people. Here is the picture of this whole affair as presented by the clever member for Liskeard :—" What, he asks, "is the state of things we have got to . ? "If we talk of economy, up starts the noble viscount and cries out—' 1 will have no economy that is a party question!" Then, to mend the matter, after Mr. WALPOLE had brought down such a host of members, in expectation of a thorough set-to, what does the hon. member do but " with hearse-like moans, and as much solemnity of manner as if the British Constitution were at stake, say—".No, 1 like economy much, but I like Lord Palmerston better." Two features were prominent, however, in nearly all the speeches, as well as the resolutions and amendments—the commendations of economy 'and the anxiety not to be supposed to undervalue the greater importance of national security. Mr. STANSFELD and Mr. COBDEN were as explicit on these points as Lord PALMERSTON and Mr. HORS. MAN—each speaker, of course, indicating his view of their relative importance by placing one of them in a parenthesis. On these two general points, indeed, no Englishman can differ—it is when they are to be practically carried out the difference arises—Mr. DISRAELI and Mr. COBDEN lay stress on the moral influence to be gained, with other nations, by the vastness of our resources, and, therefore, they advise to husband them. Lord PALMERSTON leans to vast ready made armaments, as the most obviously influential. Good will doubtless come of the discussion. The country can as little dispense with its financial Watchdogs, as with its armament-loving Premiers—if the latter will require that we be safe and strong, the former will see to it, -that we do not waste money in superfluous strength, and, above all, do not utterly throw it away in inefficient depart mental administration. It is in this last branch of financial reform that most can be effected. The indignation of General GARIBALDI at the official proceedings which have recently taken place in Brescia and in other parts of Northern Italy, with a view to the " putting down" of the Volun teer movement against Austria, is all the more magnanimous on his part, it appears, from the hot that not only had GARIBALDI taken no part what ever in forwarding that movement, but that he had actually discountenanced it ! And he discounte nanced it, we learn without much surprise, for these two simple reasons : firstly, because under the circumstances it must for a dead certainty have proved a failure if it had been adventured upon ; and secondly, because from first to last the self sacrificing Champion of Italy and the Italians has a peculiar repugnance so to act as in any way (unne cessarily) to embarrass the Government. As to the validity of these two certainly impressive and (we would venture to assert yet more) all-sufficient reasons—who can have the temerity, the absolute frivolity to deny it ? With the Government at Turin against the movement, with the Ministry of RATAZZI its foes from the very commencement, with the army of VICTOR EMMANUEL in no way prepared even partially, even feebly, and inter mittently to support the hostile movement of the Volunteers against the forces of the Kaiser, who possibly can have the folly to believe otherwise than that the latter must, within a very brief interval, indeed, have swept the daring marauders to destruc tion ? More especially if they could not even have inscribed upon their banners that name which is in itself a tower of strength—the heroic and world famous name of GARIBALDI. Again, as to the second reason—have not all the: acts and words of GARI BALDI since his liberation of the Two Sicilies, and his voluntary retirement to his island home of Caprera, d em onstrated with a distinctness and an emphasis that nobody can fail to recognise and to appreciate (as it, indeed, deserves to be appreciated !) the self abnegation with which, from first to last, GARI BALDI has striven to avoid every conceivable chance of embarrassing the Government of King VICTOR EMMANUEL ? They call him—some even of his moat earnest and devoted admirers call him —meaning General GARIBALDI—weak and too impressionable. The incidents of his career, particularly of late—above all ever since the completion of his great Southern en terprise—contradicts this imputation altogether. Weak and toe impressionable ! Why, it is only necessary—to know at once absolutely to the contrary—it is really only necessary to recall to mind how completely GARIBALDI has "held his h ands," as the phrase is, from anything bearing even the app ear ance of a hostile movement aga inst the 14 /NG'S Ministers at Turin ! No matter to him whether the Cabinet there was presided over by Count Cavonn— by Baron RICASOLI—or by M. RATAZZI. With not one of these leading states men can the dauntless Soldier of Italy be said to have bad any profeand or intimate sympathy ? O n e after another, it is not diffieu:t to see that they have thwarted his most cherished designs, dashed to the earth some of his dearest hopes, run directly The ans wer, coun t e r occasionallytoh :becauseislofty, rspi c d u . e an a d ir ect f d teran subser vient ambition ! Is i t asked how, or why in truth, is simple enough other they have bee n too conciliator y and to the Liberator of Lombardy —to his Impe rial Majesty NAPOLEON 111. If any very vivid reminder of this be re quired, it is surely enough to bear in recol lection for a moment the tone in whi c h Signora MARIO WHITE, during her Italian lec tures, here in London, only very recently spoke of CAVOUR and spoke of GARIBALDI. He re, in he this friend fair lecturer was an intimate personal of General's —one who knows his views and senti well—and who yet could find it in ments perfectly I her heart to pronounce upon CAVOUR anything but I a panegyric ! Inool;:titch that those p4rti9na of her harangue to her English audience fell flatly upon theirears—being, in effect, directly opposed to the opinions entertained in regard to CAVOUR by the vast majority of Englishmen. But the lady lec turer, this personal friend of GARIBALDI, thought of the departed statesman as of the one who had huck stered away the birthplace of GARIBALDI, had ignominiously sold Savoy to France, in spite of the debt of gratitude owing (by how many Italians ?) to the most illustrious Savoyard ever born among those free mountains ! Mountains yesterday Italian —to-day French ! Yet grandly suppressing his anguish as a Savoyard, and looking only to the realisation, as far as might still in any way be practicable, of the che rished daydream of his Iife—GARIBALDI never broke with CAvorß, the man who sold Savoy and Nice " fora consideration"to the French EMPEROR. I GARIBALDI never broke with CATOTJR, any more than be has since then ever broken with either of CAVOUR'S successors—with RICASOLI or with RATAZZI. Everything for the cause he has at heart, and nothing for himself ! That is the guid ing principle of the policy of the Soldier Hermit of Caprera. And this, with every provocation from time to time to break away indignantly from his self-imposed course of silence and quietude, to that one end ! Provocations to speak and to act, ' coming to him, now from the right, now from the left—incentives, sudden and startling that must have driven this foremost man of all Italy into opposition had he been, as many even of his friends have imagined in his regard a man so very weak and over-impressionable. Instead of acting or speaking thus, however, in that purely suppo ' sitious character—as though he were the astutest and wiliest diplomatist among them aII—GARIBALDI has adroitly steered his course exactly midway between Sylla and Charybdis. He has maintained the same right onward course between the opposing forces of Mazzinianism and Napoleonism. Com mitted to nothing—biding his time—waiting for the next opportunity. In this age of cross purposes and double dealing, it is a spectacle worth look ing at. LETTERS FOR THE SOUTHERN STATES OF AMERICA. The Postmaster-General has received from her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the following circular from the Department of State at Washington, dated May 2d, which has been for warded to the Foreign-office by her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in the United States : " CIRCULAR. " Sir,—l have the honour to state, for your in formation, that the mails are now allowed to pass to and from New Orleans and other places which, having heretofore been seized by insurgent forces, have since been recovered, and are now occupied by the land and naval forces of the United States. It is proper, however, to add, that a military sur veillance is maintained over such mails, so far as the Government finds it necessary for the public safety.—l am, &c., (Signed) "WILLIAM H. SEWARD." DEATH OF GENERAL SIR T. WILLSHIRE, G.C.B. —The colonelcy of the 51st (King's Own) Light Infantry Regiment of Foot has become vacant by the death of Gene ral Sir Thomas Willshire, which took place on Saturday last at Hill-house, Windscr Forest, from effusion on the brain, in his 72d year. The gallant deceased bad been suffering for upwards of five weeks. He was born in 1789, at Halifax, in North America, entered the army in 1795, and served with the 38th Regiment in the West Indies for three years, the campaign of 1808-9, including the battles of Roleia and Vimiera, the retreat and battle of Corunna, and the expedition to Walcheren From 1812 to 1814 he served in the Peninsula, and commanded the light company at the battle of Salamanca, where he was twice wounded in the action at Villa Muriel, the actions of Osma, the battle of Vittoria, the first assault of San Sebas tian, as well as the second assault and capture of that place, when he received the brevet rank of major. He also com manded a brigade of light companies at the passage of the Bidassea and the battles of Nivelle and Nive, for which be was appointed a brevet-lieutenant-colonel. In 1819, while at the Cape of Good Hope, ho repulsed with 300 men the attack of 10,000 Caffres upon Graham's Town, and he tiko wise commanded in tho guboccitA.lL operations against them. now 1822 to 1840 be served in the East Indies, during which time he commanded a wing of the 46th Regiment at the battle of Kittoor, in the Doab. He also served thmugh.• out the whole of the campaign in Affghanistan, under Lord Keane, and was present in 1839 at the capture of the fortress of Ghuznee, on which occasion he was appointed a K.C.8., and in the November following a baronet, for capturing the fortress of Khelat, while in command of the Bombay column of the Indus. His military decorations were the silver war medal, with seven clasps, and the Order of the first-class Dooranee Empire, conferred upon him by the King of Affghanistan. 'THE SPECIAL EXHIBITION OF ART OBJECTS AT SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM.—The private view of this exhibition was commenced yesterday, and will be continued for the two following days. A very extensive series of works of art, embracing almost every style, has been got together from various private collections, many of which are of the rarest and most excellent samples of art. The works in the precious metals and enamels, the ancient glass and pot tery, the majolica and the Sevres china, with the ancient Celtic objects, are amongst the most remarkable of the ex hibition, the detailed notice of which we postpone for rea sons that must be apparent. NATIONAL SUNDAY LEAGUE.—The annual meet ing of this association was held last night at the Whitting ton Club—Sir Joshua Walmsley in the chair. The report stated that since the Ist of January the committee had cleared off their debt, and had now £7l in hands after pay ing for the printing and post of 1,300 double-crown bills, 40,000 handbills, the annual report, &c. The Crystal Palace Clubs were still providing workmen and their fami lies with the means of visiting that place of rational amuse ment. '1 he Sunday bands had made a successful commence ment of their seventh session, and were likely to be main tained by the revenue arising from the letting of 300 chairs placed within the enclosure in Regent's-park. It was to be regretted that the British Museum was still closed to the working classes on Sundays, but it was a matter of congra tulation that the spirit and power of the Sabbatarian party was broken, as it had failed in its efforts to shut up railways and prevent travelling of all kinds upon Sunday. The meeting was addressed by the chairmen, Mr. Baxter Lang ley, Mr, Bastard, Mr. Kinney, &c., in advocacy of the opening of places of rational amusement on Sundays. The report was adopted, and the proceedings were closed in the usual manner. Loss OF A LIVERPOOL SHlP.—Private telegrams were posted in the Liverpool Underwriters'-rooms yester day from Bombay, under date of May 16, reporting the wreck of the Beechworth in Bombay harbour, when just starting on her homeward voyage. She was a very good ship, of 1,266 tons, built in the United States in 1856, and belonging to Messrs. Willis and Co., of Liverpool. The telegram first received reported her on shore on a rock, but the second one states that she was breaking up, that her cargo was still under water at flood, and that 400 bales of cotton had been landed free from damage of any kind. THE EASTERN FISHERIES.—The boats connected with Great Yarmouth which are engaged in the macherel fishery met with but meagre success in the earlier part of last week, but within the last day or two better catches have been made, some boats having taken 200 to 300 fish each. The quality of the fish caught have been good, and fresh lots have realised 565. and over 445. to 465. per 100. The Lowestoft boats have pbtained about the same results. The season is not yet very far advanced, but it must improve greatly to enable a favourable comparison to be made with preceding years. ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL. —Yesterday the ad journed special meeting of the governors was held at the hospital, London-bridge; Alderman Sir J. Musgrave, pre sident, in the chair, supported by about 70 of the governors. The report of the grand committee on the question of se curing accommodation until the rebuilding of the hospit a l having been read, a long discussion ensued, in which the Earl of Leven, Mr. Tite, M.P., Mr. Alderman Salomons, M.P., Mr. Alderman Humphery, Mr. Alderman Copeland, Mr. Alderman Gabriel, and others took part. Resolutions were passed empowering the grand committee to take all necessary measures for securing without delay accommoda tion for the in-patients and out-patients in such place or places as they may deem suitable, also for the accommoda tion of the officers and servants, who will be displaced in July, and for the removal of the museum and library, and further authorizing the committee to take the necessary steps to erect such building as may be required for the re ception and accommodation of urgent cases, and for dis pensarymust have business, at a cost not exceeding £15,000. Thanks h aving been voted to the chairman and the committee, the Court separated. epigrarc :, " Destined aro on v the hustings : °la of these days Kidderminster will be hung as Gloucester was, and indeed so Mr. e thought, if he dropped the following ex quisitebe nailididddown.upon the floor ; THE KIDDERMINSTER KITE To be nailed Kidderminster's carp . ets Kidderminster's borough To Destined is up against the door."—Punch. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY,* 7EVENING, JUNE 4, 1862 LATEST NEWS. INDIA. (From Telegraph to India Company's Station, Subal.) CALCUTTA, MAY 17. Mr. Laing leaves for England on the 21st inst. The case of " Macarthur v. Grant" has resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, one rupee. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CALCUTTA, MAY 15. Shirtings higher. Twist quiet. Indigo and cop per unchanged. Exchange on London, 2s. Old. Government securities—Fours, 921 ; Fives, 105*. BOMBAY, MAY 16. Cotton and piece goods firm. Government securities.—Fives, 1054. Freight quiet. (By Telegraph to Galle, and from Alexandria.) CALCUTTA, MAY 17. The Englishman publishes the following intelli- nence ; Persian affairs have now assumed a less threat ening aspect. The movements of the belligerents have been impeded by the recent famines. Pacific overtures are reported to have been made by the ruler of Herat. There appears no present probability of British intervention. The opium crop has failed in Bengal. Mr. Laing estimates the loss at 50,000 chests. The last centre supports were successfully re moved yesteaday from the great railwa; bridge over the river Loakie (Hooghly) P CHINA. SHANGHAI, APRIL 21. The rebels have twice been defeated with great loss. Colonel Ward has been created a Mandarin. The Taepings are receiving large reinforcements at Nankin. - The foreigners at Ningpo still remain undisturbed by the rebels. There are rumours, however, of impending danger. The ice has broken up at the northern ports. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CANTON, APRIL 26. Shirtings firm. Twist dull. Tea, total export to date, 90,030,0001 b. Exchange on London, 4s. 6id. SHANGHAI, APRIL 21. Gray shirtings dull. Tea quiet. Silk active; settlements, 3,000 bales ; export, 62,500 bales. Exchange on London, 6s. 13d. Freight, 110 s. to 120 s. AUSTRALIA. MELBOURNE, APRIL 25. Sir George Grey is gradually restoring the Queen's supremacy in New Zealand, and creating a loyal feeling among the natives. The total shipments of gold since the departure of the last mail amount to 133,540 ounces. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Trade is easier. Brandies unchanged. Oats and flour flat. Butter and hams active. Coffee and sugar improving. Exchange unaltered. Trade at Adelaide and Sydney dull. TURIN, JUNE 2. The Royal Princes have left this city for Genoa. They will visit Sardinia, and, subsequently, Naples and Sicily. The. Baia believes that the Government is about to lay before the Chamber a Bill on the subject of associations. A letter, signed by San Front, Crispi, and Jor dini, has been published, declaring that they had had an amicable couference. It is stated that the recent polemic has not given any cause of offence. Many deputies have already arrived, and it is thought that the sitting of the Chamber to-morrow will be numerously attended. JUNE 3. The Italian Government has addressed a circular to the different Powers concerning the measures which it has taken to frustrate the attempted inva sion of the Tyrol, and stating in what light they regard it. Garibaldi left here this morning for Belgirate. It is believed that the Budget will be laid before the Chamber to-day. The Franco -Italian Correspondence states that A ustria . is said to have determined to remove the Hungarian regiments to the interior of Austria, re placing them in Italy by Bohemian troops. At the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies to-day the President read a letter from Garibaldi giving explanations respecting the occurrence which has recently taken place at Samico. In this communi cation Garibaldi denied that he had entertained any intention of passing the frontiers, and developed his political programme. Signor Ratazzi, in reply, referred to the Minis terial programme amid loud cheers. EVENING. In the Chamber of Deputies to-day Signor Crispi assured the House that the Volunteers had no in tention to cross the frontier of the Tyrol. They were only to undertake an expedition beyond the seas. He stated that the Government knew their object, and had promised its assistance in arms and money. Signor Ratazzi denied the knowledge of the Government of any expedition, and said that the Government had opposed every attempt which could compromise its loyalty with regard to inter national relations. Assistance had been asked for emigrants going abroad, but the Government ha?. never promised to supply arms. Signor Depretis expressed himself to the effect that the right of organizing armaments and of un dertaking the initiative of war belonged only to the Government. NAPLES, JUNE 2. An attempt to negotiate a clandestine Bourbon loan has been discovered. The principal agent hae been discovered. Out of 500 bonds of 100 f. each, 300 had been sold. The authorities have seized the money and the correspondence relating to the loan. ROkE, JUNE 3. Yesterday Dr. Manning delivered a long address in the presence of 15 Cardinals and many of the clergy, on the subject of the relations of England with the Catholic Church. He compared the former persecution of Catholics by the English Government with the moderation which is now shown towards them, and said that a happy destiny was reserved for Catholicism in England. There are at present 200 foreign Bishops in Rome, all of whom are signing an address to the Pope in favour of the temporal power of the Holy See. BERLIN, JUNE 3. Letters received here from St. Petersburg state that in the last sitting of the Council of the Empire, the proposed new fundamental regulations for the ,;. administration of justice were unanimously adopted. Henceforth no one is to be condemned except by the proper tribunals. All judicial proceedings are to be conducted publicly, and trial by jury is to be introduced. THE BRAZILIAN AND RIVER PLATE MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 3. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Oneida, Captain T. A. Bevis, with the above mails, has arrived here. She left Buenos Ayres on the 27th of April; Montevideo, 30th; Rio Janeiro, 9th May; Bahia, 13th ; Pernambuco, 15th ; St. Vincent, 22d ; and Lisbon, 30th, She brings 146 passengers and £9.286 in specie, with 1,347 barrels tobacco, 300 barrels tapioca, 20 serons ipecacuanha, and 174 packages of sundries. The Oneida experienced strong N E winds and squally weather, with much thunder, on the Brazil coast, and moderate N E trade and northerly winds to the Channel. She spoke the British ship Der wentwater, homeward bound, in lat. 5.8 S, long. 33.12, April 25; the steamship Sampson, steering south, in lat. 46.11 N, long. 7 9 W, June 1 ; and the Dutch schooner Fortune, off Ushant, on the 2d. At Montevideo were the Forte, the flag ship of Admiral Warren, the Satellite, Stromboli, Ardent, and Oberon, British ships of war ; and the gun boats Sheldrake, Dotterel, and Spider. At Rio, the Madagascar and Curlew, with the French line of-battle ship Bayard. FRANCE. BOURSE, June 3.—The market shows firmness, notwithstanding the arrival of English Consols with the fall of s per cent., and a fair amount of business has been transacted at an advance. Threes, for the Account, are now at 70f 45c. Railway Share Market quiet, but firm. The market closed as follows : ft per per Cents... 97 —lBank Shares 3135 Do end month.... I Credit loncier l5BO 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 70 55 Piedmontesc Fives 72 20 New 3 per Cents .. 69 80 Italian Loan 72 Do. end month.... 69 FO Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 827 50 Spanish Threes — Do. end month.... 827 25 Home Debt .. — -- RAIL 'AYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1312 50 1302 50 Northern . lO6O .. 1069 New ditto • • • ---- Lyons and Mediterranean 1110 .. 1110 - Geneva — .. Southern 855 .. 852 50 Western __ _ —_ _ .. 551 25 Eastern . Sardinian Austrian Lombard AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, JUNE 4. The screw steamer Edinburgh, from New York on the 24th ult., has arrived here. She brings 238,600 dols. in specie. She passed the Persia on the 30th ult. Her news has been anticipated. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-JUNE 3. NATIONAL EXPENDITURE. Motion, spade and,question proposed, " That in the opinion of this house, the national expenditure is capable of re duction without compromising the safety, the indepen dence, or the legitimate influence of the country." Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word " That tot he end of the question, in order to add the words "this house, deeply impressed with the necessity of economy in every department of the State, is at the same time mindful of its obligations to provide for the securitty of the country at home and the protection of its interests abroad ; and observes with satisfaction the decrease which has already been effected in the Nati. nal Expen diture, and trusts that such further diminution may be made therein as the future state of things may warrant." Instead thereof—question put, " Tbat the words pro posed to be left out stand part of the question." The house divided—Ayes, 65; Noes, 367. AYER— 63. Ayrton, A. S. Greville, Col. F. Potter, E. Baines, E. Hadfield, Geo. Robartes, T. J. A. Barnes, Thomas Hennessy, J. P. Seely, C. Barley, Thorn,. Reyrrete. W. II Seymour, Digby Bulkelcy, Sir R., Bt. B ibbert, J. Shelley, Sir J. V. Buxton, C. Hornby, W. H. Sidney, Thomas Caird, James Kekewich, S. Smith, J. B. Childers, 11. C. E. Kershaw, J. • Sullivan, M. Clay, James Langton, H. G. Sykes, Col. W. H. Clifton, Sir R. Lawson, W. Talbot, C. R. M. Cobden, R. Leatham, E. Taylor, F. A. Coninoham, Wm. Lee, W. Tomline, G. Cox, W. Lewis, Harvey Trelawny, Sir J. S. Crossley, Frank Lindsay, W. S. Warner, Edward Dalglish, Robert McEvoy, E. Westhead, J. Diliwyn, Lewis L. McMahon, P. Whalley, G. H. Dodson, John G. Maguire, J. F. White, Jas. Douglas, Sir C. Marsh, M. H. Willoughby, Sir H. Doulton, F. Mildmay, H. Wyld, James Dunlop, A. Mills, A. Ewing, H. E. C. Pea,e, H. TELLERS. Fermoy, Lord Peto, Sir M. Stansfeld, J. Forster, W. E. Pilkingion, James Baxter, Nir. E. NOES-367. Acton, Sir J. Fortescue, Hon. F. Murray, William Adair, 11. E. Fortescue, C. S. Newdegate, C. Adam,W. I'. Galiwey, Sir W. P Newport viact. Adderley, C. B. Gard , R. S. Nicol, William Adeane, H. J. Garnett, W. J. Noel, G. J. Agar-Ellis, Hon. L. Gavin, Major Norris, J. T. Agnew, Sir A. Getty, S. G. North, Col. Angerstein, W. Gibson, T. M. North, F. Annesley, H. Gilpin, Colonel Ogilvy, Sir J. Anson, Capt. Gilpin, C. Onslow, Guildford Antrobus, E. Gladstone, Capt. Owen, Sir H. Archdall, Capt.M E. Gladstone, W. E. Packe, Col. Ashley, Lord Glyn, G. G. Padmore, R. Astell, J. 11. Goddard, A. L. Paget, C. Atherton, Sir W. Goldsmid, Sir F. Paget, Lord A. Bailey, C. Gore, J. R. 0. Paget, Lord C. E. Baring, H. B. Gore, W. R. 0. Pakenham, Col. Baring, Sir F. Greaves, Edward Palmer, Sir R. Baring, Thomas Greenall, G. Palmerston, Visct. Baring, Thos. Geo. Greenwood, J. Parker, Major W. • Bathurst, A. A. Gregory, W. H. Patten, J. W. Beach, W. W. Grenfell, C. P. Peacocke, G. M. Beamish, F. B. Gray, William Peel, Sir R. Beaumont, W. B. Grey, lit. lin. Sir G. Peel, F. Beaumont. Somerset Grey deWilton,Lord Pennant, Col. Beecroft, G. S. Griffith, C. D. Philipps, J. H. Bellew, R. M. Grosvenor, Earl Philips, G. L. Bentinck, G. W. P. Grosvenor, Lord R. Pigott, Francis Bentinck, G.C. Gurdon, B. Pollard Urquhart W Benyon, R. Gurney, John H. Ponsonby, A. Berkeley, Hon. H. Gurney, Samuel Portman, W. H. B Berkeley, ( 01. Hanbury, R., jun. Potts, George Berkeley, C. Handley, John Powell, J. Bernard, Thos. T. Hankey, Thomson Powys, L. P. Biddulph,:Col. R.M. Hanmer, Sir J. Pritchard, John Black, Adam Hardcastle, Jos. A. Proby, Lord. G. L. Blencowe, J. G. Hardy, J. Puller, C. W. Bond, J. W. Hartington,Marquis Ramsden, Sir J. W. Bonham-Carter, J. Hartopp, E. B. Raynham, Viscount Booth, Sir R. G. Hay. sir J. Repton, G. W. J. Bouverie, E. P. Hayter, Sir Wm. Ricardo, 0. Bovill, Wm., Headlarn, Thus. E Robertson, D. Bramley-Moore, J. Heathcote, Sir W. }lobertson, H. Bramston, T. W. Henley, J. Roebuck, J. A. Bridges, Sir 8., Bt. Henley, Lord Bolt, J. Briscoe, J. I. Henniker, Lord Rothschild,Baron 31 Brown, J. Herbert, H. A. Russell, Ilastings Browne, Lord J. T. Hervey, Lord A Russell, A. J. E. Bruce, Lord E. A. liesketh, i-ir T. Russ-11, Sir Win. Bruce, C. L. C. Heygate, Sir F. St. Aubyn, J. Bruce, H. A. Hodgkinson, G. Salomon.,Aiderman Buchanan, W. Hodgson, K. Sclater-Booth, G Buller, J. W. Holland, E. Scott, Lord H. Buller, Sir A. Hopwood, J. T. z•cott, Sit W. Burrell, Sir P., Bt. Ho 8..1, T. B. Scrope, G. P. Bury, Viscount llorsmunll E. Selwyn, C. J. ButlerJohnstone H. Ilotham, Gen. Lord Seymer, H. K Butt, Isaac Howard, Hon. C. Seymour, Sir M. Calthorpe, F. H. Howes, Edward Seymour, H. D. Cardwell, Rt. Hn. E. Humberstone, P. S. Shirley, E. P. 1 Carnegie,lln. C. Hume, W. Smith, M. T. I Castlerosse, Vist. Hunt, G. W. Smith, Abel Cave, S. Hutt. W. Smith, M. Cavendish, Hon. W. Jackson, W. Smith, Augustus Cavendish, Lord G. Jermyn, Earl Smith, S. G. Cecil, Lord R. Jervoise, Sir J. Smyth, Col. Chr,pman,J. Johnson, Captain Smollett, P. Clifford, C. C. Johnstone, Sir J. Somerville, Sir W. Clifford, H. M. Kendall, N. Spooner, R. Clive, George Ker, D. S. Steel, John Cochrane, A. D. Kinglake, A. W. Stirling, Wm. Coke,W. C. Kinglake, Serj. J. Stewart, Sir M. It, Cole, Hon. H. A. Kingscote, Lt.-Col. Stuart, Col. Colebrooke, Sir T.E. Kinnaird, Hon. A. Stuart, Major W. Collier, R. P. Knatchbull, W Stracey, Sir H. Conolly, Thomas Knatchbull-Hugess Tempest, Lord A.Y. Copeland, Ald. Knightley, R. Thompson, H. S. Corry, H. L. Knox, Lt.-C01.8.W. Thornhill, W. P. Cowper, Hon. W.F. Knox, Major W. S. Thynne, Lord H. Craufurd, E. H. J Lacon, Sir E. Tite, Wm. Crawford, R. W. Laird, J. Tollemache, Hon.F. Cubitt, George I.ayard, A. H. Torrens, R. Dalkeith, Earl of Leeke, Sir H. Trollope, Sir John Davey, R. Lefroy, A. Turner, J. A. Davie, Sires. R. F. Legh, G. C. Turner, C. Dawson, R. P. Leg,h, W. Vane Lord H. G. Deedes, Wm. Lei g ht on, Si r B. Vansittart, Wm. Denman, G. Lennox, Lord G. G. Verner, Sir Wm. Dent, John Dent Leslie, C. P. Verney, Sir Harry Disraeli, Benjamin Lever, John 0. Vernon, H, Duff, 31. E. Lewis, Sir G.C., Bt. Villiers, Rt. Hon. C. Duff, R. Liddell, Hon. H, G. Vivian, H. H. Duke, Sir James Locke, Joh n Vyner, Reginald Duncoinbe, W. E. Lopes, Sir M., Bt. Walcott, Adm. J. E. Dundas, Frederick Lowe, lit. Hon.R. Walker, J. R. B. Dundas, Sir David Lysley, W. Walpole, S. H. Dunk Olin, Lord Lytton, Sir E, B. Walsh, Sir J. B. Dunne, 31. Macaulay, K. Walter, John Du Pre, C. G. 31'Cormick, W. Watlington, J. East, Sir J. B. Macdonogh, F. Weguelin, T. Edwards, Major H. 3iackinnon, W.(Ly.)Welby, W. E. Egerton, Sir P. Mackinnon,W. A. Wemvss, J. Egerton, A. F. Mainwaring, T. Whitbread, S. Egerton, W. Malcolm, J. W. White, Col. L. Elcho, Lord 3lalins, R., Wickham, H. IV. Enfield, Viscount Marshall, IV. Williams, Col. Ennis, John Martin, I'. W. Winnington, Sir T. Estcourt, S. Martin, J, Wood, Rt Iln. Sir C. Euston, Earl of Massey, W. N. Wood, W. Evans, T. W. Miles, Sir W. Woods, Henry Ewart, William Miller, William Wrightson, W. Ewart, J. C. Mills, T. Wyndham, Hon. P. Fane, Col. Mills, J. R. Wynn, Sir W Farquhar, Sir 31. Mines, R. 31. Wynne, Col. G. Fellowes, Edward Mitchell, T. A. Wynne, W. W. B. Fenwick, Henry 3litford, W. T. Wyvill, 31. Ferguson, Sir J. Moffatt, George Yorke, Hon.E. Filmer, Sir E. - 31onson, W. J. Finlay, A. S. Mordaunt, Sir C. Fitzgerald, W. S. Morgan, C. 0. S. TELLERS. Fitzwilliam. C. W. Morgan, Mk* Foley, J. H. Morris, D. Brand, H. B. Forester, Col. Morrison, W, : D u nbar, Sir NV= Slotflo W. 0. • I • : Almjaray, Itt.lln. J. STRENGTH OF THE NAVAL FORCES OF FRANCE. The reports of Captain Hore, R N., on the strength of the French navy, and those of Colonel Claremont on the strength of the French navy, were published yesterday as papers presented to Parliament by command. On the Ist of January the state of the French steam navy was as follows : Afloat. Building.. Total. Ships of the line 36 .. 1 . , 37 Frigates, iron-plated 6. 10 .. 16 F, igates, screw 24 • • 5 .. 29 Frigate, paddle* .... 18 .. .. 18 Corvettes, screw 7 .: . .. 7 Corvettes, paddlo .. 9 Avisos, screw 35 .• 1 .. 36 Avisos, paddle Iron-plated floating bat teries Gunboats Transports .. 43 Of the foregoing there were coromisioned : Ships of the line .. 14 I Avisos, screw Frigates, iron-plated.... 4 Avisos, paddle Frigates, screw Frigates, paddle 6 Transports • . Corvettes, screw - Corvettes, paddle Captain lore reports that the sailing navy of our allies consists of 122 vessels, of which 63 are in commission ; but his analysis of these need not de tain us from a more important object, the number, power, and state of advancement of the iron..plated frigates and batteries building in France. Captain lore's information from Toulon appears to come down only to the 12th of December last, and from Brest to September 30 ; but he visited Lorient, Bordeaux, Rochefort, and Nantes in May last. From the two first ports there are the following returns : At Toulon there was building : Provence, 36 guns, 300-horse power; state of advance ment, seven twenty-fourths. A fair number of men were employed on this vessel, which is to be finished first of those at Toulon. Savoie, 36 guns, 900-horse power ; advancement, six twenty-fourths. Revanche, 36 guns, 900-horse power; advancement, five twenty-fourths. Very few men were working on these two vessels. Flandre, 31 guns, 900-horse power; frame all up, filling in timbers between the ribs. Progressing slowly. At Brest : Gauloise, 36 guns, 900-horse power ; whole frame up, but little doing. Magnanime, 36 guns, 900-horse power ; in same stage as preceding. Valeureuse, 36 guns, 900-horse power; frame nearly all up. The other iron-plated vessels are building at Lorient, Bordeaux, Rochefort, and Nantes ; the following is Captain Hore's report of his visit to those places LORIENT.—The iron-plated frigates building at this port are the ,t-urveillante and Heroine, both of which are about 8-24 advanced. The former is of wood, the later of iron, and is of similar construction to the Couronne, except that the upper plates will be 4} inches and the lower ones 6 inches thick, those of the Couronne being relatively 3 and 4i inches. The keel of the Heroine is laid, and all the ribs and most of the beams are ready for putting up. No time is named for launching these vessels, nor are there many workmen employed on theta. The Solferino, of 52 guns, on two decks, is fitting along side the quay ; nearly ail her plates are fixed, but the iron spur with which her bow is to be armed has not yet arrived from Rive de Gier, where it is being forged. The delay has been caused by an alteration; originally it was to have been of 27 tons weight, but it is now reduced to 16 tons; the delay is a serious inconvenience, as no more weights can be put into the vessel until the spur is fixed. A similar deten tion has been caused at Brest on account of the non-deli vF of the spur of the Magenta. The engines of the Solferino are being mounted, and she is masted, but it will be three months before she will be ready for trial. The four lower rows of armour extend from stem to stern to the height of the lower deck portsills ; 13 ports on each deck are plated, leaving at each extremity a length of about 16 metres (63 feet) unprotected. The face of plating amidships consists of 10 rows, of which 3 rows are of 95 centimetres and 7 of 70 centimetres wide, making a depth of 24 feet 3 inches. The head of the rudder enters the hull about 3 feet below the water line, but great difficulty is found in putting the tiller within the protection of the armour; and as yet no plan has been settled for so doing. Two athwart ship bulk-heads plated with 3-inch iron separate the plated portions of the deck from the extremities. The ports are 2 feet 3 inches wide on the outside, and 2 feet 8 inches high ; the ship's side, including the armour, is 2 feet 4 inches thick. The draft of water will be 27 feet 6 inches aft and 23 for ward. The extreme length is 282 feet; width, 54 feet; and depth of hold, 26 feet 9 inches. Engines of 1,000 horse_ power; the propeller s x-bladed, of about 22 feet diameter- On the upper deck is an iron-plated tower to contain the wheel. A screw corvette named the Decres, of 10 guns, and the aligen e gunboat, are the only other vessels building. Since I last visited Lorient six large wooden buildings have been erected for the machinery required for building iron vessels. The fine dry dock that was building in 1860 is now finished, but it is not yet of service for large vessels on account of a rock that lies at its entrance. From this cause the Couronne had to be sent to Cherbourg to be docked. The only vessels fitting are the Pallas frigate, and Cos mao, corvette; the former is armed throughout with rifled guns, and is to replace the present flag-ship on the China station. ROCREFORT.—The Guinne, iron-plated frigate, building at this port, is 11.24 advanced ; no time is named for launching her, and only 30 men are employed on her. The Intrepide, the only line-of-battle ship now building in France, is in the same state as 18 months ago. The Fiore, screw frigate, and the transports Creuze and Cor • reze are nearly ready for launching. The Favourite, Che vert, and Euryale, sailing ve,,sels, are still on the stocks. The floating batteries Peiho and Saignon are in a dry dock. The stern posts and rudders have been removed, and large lee-boards aro being fitted for steering them, the rudders having been found useless. They attained a speed of 61 knots, The other two of the same class are not yet launched—the Palestro is plated, but the Paixhans is not so far advanced. These four vessels, and the seven iron vessels ordered, are intended for the defence of the mouths of the Gironde, Loire, and Seine, and are not intended for sea service. The Semiramis, screw frigate of 36 guns, is being fitted to replace the Bayard, ship of the line, that has received damage in the Straits of Magellan. She is armed through out with rifled guns. A military commission has just been nominated to exa mine the question of revetting shore batteries with iron, and important experiments are to be tried against a fort at the mouth of the Charente, which is t ) be revetted with plates 25 centimetres (9 inches) thick. NANTES AND I. DRDEAUX.—At Nantes three of the seven iron-plated iron floating batteries are being built in Messrs. Gouin and Guib,rt's factory, and the four others in that of M. Arman at Bordeaux, They are only just commenced, and the contracts are to complete them in 18 mouths. They are modifications of the Peiho class, being shorter and broader, and are to carry 8 instead of 14 guns In the river there is a small vessel taking in an engine for making experiments, on a novel plan of construction, designed by a M. 13rassin, who is a shipbuilaer on a small scale on the Gironde. She is about 6U feet long and 12 wide; the draught of water is not to be above two feet six. inches. The object is to obtain great power by the use of two screws, and light draught of water. To effect this, from the middle of the ship att she is divided into two por tions. The fore part of the vessel is very fiat, but has a fine entrance. There are three keels. From the middle of the vessel the centre keel rises gradually nearly to the taffrail; the other two are continued ; and thus the after part of the vessel becomes divided, and has the appearance of two vessels joined at a short distance above the water line. This vessel, when ready, is to be brought to Paris. A model of a frigate on the same plan has been made. The Eure and Ardtche are taking in their engines; and two other similar transports, the Var and the Drome, are still on the stooks near Bordeaux, (Signed) E. HORE. Paris, May 18, 1862, * Five of these are small vessels, built in compartments , and can be taken to pieces tor the purposes of easy trans• poi t. A few days ago, a young man named Edward Lyons, while out shooting rabbits at Ballyfoil, Kilkenny, thought he saw a rabbit unaer a bush, when he fired, and shot a person named James Tierney. The wound proved fatal. A FRENCH NOTION OF A LONDON BLOCKADE.—. M. Kaliet writes to a Parisian journal :—" I went in one of the most execrable of cabriolets to meet Estofel and family at the Chemen de Fer, and was four eternal hour s travelling from Charen Cros. The English are great grumblers. One of their fond complaints 4s the stoppa ge of their streets. has They are evidently proud of thisf it were It is magnifique, and impresses the foreigne r I It as. grown by its very so lidarit y into an in stitution. I got rid of to-morrow, they would mi ss it very much, and mor e they would grum ble . From Temple t Barrier—that eye of the needle the London camels have to go through, and in the narrowest and most important of streets, the principal citizens- who should remedy the evil are the greatesi , culprits. At Banking-houses, unlading gold—at naughty Tunch—Again, Ludgate, at the frernagaetwe caravans of merchandise (lucky tha u n r tsoirebeetsbommeewt with a p-h th il e i sahtuoerrlee, Osborne, a long stop for downns taompe everywhere h ' e t er h ey e p e ide and lmperial even h )—then at Cobards, and all m0nt1,,,, rihelevreilxlau rn at the seat of the Mayor, stop— this in a nation where Time is ome truth at last,—fferald. 4 LITERATURE. Macbeth : Tragedie en 5 Actes. de W. Shake speare. Traduite en Vera Frarc lie. Par le Chevalier de Chatelain. Bvo. pp. 108. William Allen & Cie. Leadres. We know not whether the author of this daring and elegant translation of Shakspere's magnificent Tragedy of Macbeth. into French Verse has fully realised the magnitude of the task he has now (un consciously) commenced. A dozen years ago, when he put feral, in 1850, under the sunlight of just such another graceful and facile " traduction" the Lovely " Floury and Leafe" of old Geoffrey Chaucer, he had no knowledge whatever that he was fairly committing himself to the herculean literary en terprize of giving to the world a version in French of the whole of the" Canterbury Tales"—an enter prise that nevertheless the Chevalier de Chate lain eventually accomplished. It may perchance turn out precisely in the same way that the present felicitous translation of " Macbeth" may lead him gradually, play by play, to the production of a new version in French of the whole wonderful series of the dramas of Shakspere. At any rate we " take the goods the gods have given us" already —and accept them thankfully. Here in these five acts of "Macbeth," we have ample evidence of the Chevalier de Chatelain's qualifications as a translator of Shakspere. Already his range as a Translator from English into French has been wide enough in all conscience— extending as his labours in that way have done over the poetical works of writers as various as Chaucer, and Gay, and Longfellow'. It breaths of a vaulting ambition—a diversity of enterprise in this way so very remarkable in its comprehensiveness That one and the same man of letters should, within a comparatively brief interval, contrive to issue from the press in rapid succession translations into French verse of masterpieces of English poetry, so conspicuously diverse as the " Canterbury Tales," as Gay " Fables," and as the charming " Evangeline" of the America poet Longfellow, appears, at the first blush, almost inconceivable. The Chevalier de Chatelain has, in truth, however, performed these skilful feats of the pen, within the compass of the last few years, and performed them, moreover, with infinite dexterity. And now, not contented with the laurels he has gathered—by the wayside, while following the Canterbury Pilgrims—from the little prim flower-beds and close cut quincunxes of the Tableland, cultivated by the Author of Trivia —and from the wild luxuriance of the transatlantic prairies traversed by the faltering and errant foot steps of the love-lorn and way-worn Evangeline— the Chevalier de Chatelain gathers his handful of bay-leaves (blackened by the thunders, torn by the winds, and drenched by the rains) from the " blasted heath," where the Weird Sisters hailed with their fatal greeting Macbeth—as Thane of Cawdor, as Thane of Glamis, as King of Scotland. It is a noble and heroic enterprise, in its way, this daring foray of an accomplished Frenchman beyond the borderland of English Poetry—into that awful realm of tragedy, in which the genius of Shakspere moves with a power as sublime as that of lEschy lus, and as pathetic as that of Sophocles. Macbeth is, perhaps, the most potent test that could be applied to the capa city of any French scholar as a Translator of the dramas of Shakspere. It is as a test in that way —the experimentum crucis—what that early prob lem of Euclid, so dreaded by the dunce, is to the as piring student in mathematics. Once past that Rubi con in safety, and the region of conquest spreads forth conaparatively smooth and fair before the ad venturous translator. Upon the manner in which the Chevalier de Chatelain r as traversed this peril lous pass we may very reasonably offer him what we hereby freely do venture to offer him, our earnest and cordial felicitations. It is another and a very graceful peace-offering between the two allied nations—another means of amicably bridging across the channel, and bringing the two races closer and more intimately together in their sym pathies. The work undertaken here in these five mar vellous acts of the Shaksperian Tragedy of " Mac beth" is such, that we commend the artist-labourer to persevere hi the same grand direction in which he is already so far advanced —not to rest contented with the dignity of being translator of Macbeth, but daringly to aspire to the greater glory yet of being the translator of Shakspere. More than one Frencti version of England's, the world's greatest Dramatist has of course already appeared. Yet may we assert with tolerable confidence that the way is 'still open to the Chevalier de Chatelain ; for not one o f his predecessors in this particular hes achieved a success that need cause him any anxiety in assuming to himself the rank of a rival and competitor. What we like the least about the work now immediately under notice is, beyond any doubt of it, a mere accessory or preliminary to the translation, meaning the very sparkling but (as it cert a i n l y appears to us here and there) the unnecessarily acrimonious "In troduction." In many respects the Chevalier de Chatelain holds his pen not less freely, moves it not less glibly, but certainly employs it always less agreeably, less gracefully, less delightfully in all. essential respects as a Critic than as a Translator. As a critic he would apparently find it an almost an impossibility, to speak in the language of moderation. Reviewing some of our English playwrights in a slashing note at p. 104, he cannot speak of Messrs. Tom Taylor, Falconer, and Co., otherwise than as a " maison fameuse qui travaille dans lea eaux de Robert Macaire et Compagnie." Ask ing at p. viii. of his Introduction, " Where nowadays can be found any worthy representative of the cha racter of Hamlet ? He inquires with scorn " Serait ce Charles Kean quo nous aeons eu le malheur de voir betas! le 24 fevrier dernier dans ce role ?" M, Fechter—whose exquisite impersonation of the Danish Prince has often blotted the stage from our. sight (as we looked and listened) by the sudden tears brimming into our eyes : M. Fechter—Waose pathetic genius as an Actor in that most diffie,ult of alloh (throughnimetsorefalgf toihcnetephgooerrfetptarhtaa greatest e i g t se u t s r es has extorted the pvaegyrics k c sc rio o t o ric d ri 's y li v i i a n ,g g a , zt a 'n e e) rit o ic f populardramatic l a c most o r ling dramatists —M. Fechter is only spoken of here by the Che valier de Chatelain as " un tgros baby, un lourd pou wird, la caricature en Ira mot d'un reel Hamlet !" We turn willingly from the intrcductory pages from which we have here quoted, we turn gladly from the caustic notes closing this otherwise alluring publication —to the body of the work itself, to the text of the " Acting Drama" of Macbeth, as it has here been very cleverly, nay with the hand of an accomplished master of both literatures, translated from the language of Shakspere into the language of Cor neille, by that living disciple seated at the feet of each—the Translator of Chaucer, the Translator of Gay, the Translator of Longfellow, the Che valier de Chatelain ! As one brief but suffi cient exemplar of the Chevalier's powers as a translator of Shakspere, we will here content ourselves with giving his version of Macbeth's Soliloquy— MACBETH (seal). Est-ce bien un poignatd que la, dans le silence J'apercois devant moi, le manche vers ma main Towne; viers que t'etreigne et to happe soudain; Je no t'ai pas : pourtant je te vois la sans cecse • N'es-tu point vision qui contre moi se dresse, Aussi bien qu'a la vue, accessible au toucher, Ou n'es-tu qu'un poignard qu'on ne puis4e approcher ; Un poignard de l'esprit,—creation impure D'un cerveau detraque, bouillant outre mesura ? Je te vois cependant aussi vial qui celui Que tire en ce moment de son pretend etui. Tu me sers d'eclaireur et me mentre la voio Qu'allais suivre moi-meme, ea le destin m'envoie. On mes yeux clairvoyants sort dupes de mes sens, Ou sur mes acne its ont grand pouvoir, je It sens,• De snug qui fume encor, deaffsmaan iargionist ueain:aaguniattrittaveueit Car je to vois toujoura, poignard, et sur ta lame Je vois aussi de sang un recent amalg me, m do e r i t i' pas de Et ma raison me nit qu'il n'e d s o ; t i m e s n eorr d ot e .ch p u ar s e l il e . C'est I'horrible penser de l x ' chatte l'epoutvante. L D Q a a ui Dads a l tau natures m soonop i a t r i e a idt cell reposer ai ns i mondefait d o a t s Maintenant, la sorciere au quer son coup. m Solid° sur ta base, et termement plantee, S F Ee a t ms s o ee n u, t ta e r r t to r s e k i n xo e n, n rni c i erqncusui imarch,nterrible,p o u r v ans e ap r a s t a n Terre, n'entends mes pas, dans cette nuitee, D e peur que led cailloux, en babillant entre'eux, Ne signalent en moi l'assassin tenebreux. J'y vale I .... Oui, c'en est fait, ce ( rigb e r im e brc Il te somme d'aller sur les altos appe) Soit la haut vers le ciel, soil bus Vera l'enfer. Ne l'entends Pas, Du ncan, ir • (Il sort, on entend growler au loin le tonnerre.) Enough: it is, of course, but. brick from the house of the Scholastikos of Hierocles, that we give this one ins ulated quotation. Yet will it be sufficient for our• purpose, for inasmuch as it shows at a glance the material out of which this solemn and gloomy find blood -stained castellated palace of " Macbeth" has been built up anew (under French rules of st ;to) by the praclised hand of the Chevalier es t a l o s 1%1 de " t 37 vie ni.i.vr Chatelain, THE PRESERVATION OF SMALL BlRDS.—Mea sures are being adopted throughout France, not only by the authorities, but likewise by the chief landowners, to pre vent the destruction of small birds. An association formed for that purpose at St. Cesaire, in the Charente Inferieure, has adopted the following resolutions :—" 1. None of us during the year 1862 will either seek to discover birds' nests or to destroy the young birds in whatever place soever they may be, and under no m a tt er what pretext. 2. None of us will pursue any bi r d s a f ter quitting their nests. 3. The nests of sparrows, chaffinches, and linn.ts may alone be destroyed, these birds beimv considered reischiev , us.” It was M. Renon, the parish schoolmaster at St. Le:ltire, who drew up these resolutions for his pupils, but it is expected that on consideration he will strike out the third resolution, which declares war against sparrows, chaffinches, and lin netsl as it is very well known to farmers that they do more service to the crops by destroying the worms than they do injury to fruit trees, ~~