The Sun. — London, England, 1859-05-14 00:00:00

ROY X I , PRINCESS'S THEATRE. tr the Management of Mr. Charles Kean THIS 1 7; TENTNG will be presented Shakspeare's tilt orical play of '1( MG HENRY V. yng Henry V., Mr. C. Kean ; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean. T HEAT It - E -ROYAL, HAYMARKET . Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. TIM EVENING will be performed the new and original Covaedy, entitled THE WORLD AND THE STAGE. The CitfLracters by Messrs. Compton, Buckstone, Howe, W. Far- Ma, Rogers; Miss Amy Sedgwick, &c- After which, a new Classical Extravaganza, entitled PLECTRA IN A NEW ELECTR'IC LIGHT. Messrs Campton, Braid, Clark, Mrs. Wilkins, Misses Fanny Wright, Miss Weekes, and Louisa Leclercq. And 'TWAS I. Commence -at 7. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL , ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with ICI ON P E ARL FR kNCAIS. Messrs. I. L. Toole, Chas. 8 lby, Billington ; Misses Keeley, Arden, and Laidlaw, and Ness. Billington. After which, THE DEVIL ON TWO STICKS. Mr. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Misses Woolgar, Keeley, Arden, and Sate Kelly. T. conclude with THE SERIOUS FAMILY. Messrs. jt. Webster, Billington, Toole ; Miss Woolgar, Miss Sims. Acting ' , tanager—Mr. Wm. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Office open from la to 5- no charge for booking. No fees to servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Mias Swanborough THIS EVENING will be produced a new Comedietta, by J. N. Morton, Esq., entitled WHICH OF THE TWO ? supported by the company. After which, THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE. To conclude with VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark. Commence at 7o'cioct. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster -road. • Lessee and Manager. ....... Mr. William Cooke. Continued Success of DlANHOE.— Overflowing Houses Nightly. THIS EVENT AG, the performances will commence with a new grand spec tacle, founded on Sir Walter Scott's popular work, entitled - IVANHOE; or, The Lista of Ashby, intro duoing among the vast resources of this great Hippodramatic Temple,Tournaments, Processions, Banners, Combats, Tilts, Victories, and Achtevemer to in extraordinary magnificence. Ivanhoe, Mr. R. Phillips ; Isaac of York, Mr. Jas. Holloway; Richard of England, Mr. Herbert ; Robin Hood, Mr. Wm. Cooke, jun. ; RebeCta, Miss Bathurst; Lady Rowena, Miss Dowton. After which, the matchless and unrivalled SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing Mr. John Henry Cooke, the freatest equestriah in the world : together with Miss Emily Cooke, Madame Blanche, Madame Bridges, Madlle. Fleurette, and Madame Francisco, being the greatest amount of female equestrian talent ever seen in one night in any theatre. Grotesques—Messrs. Hemming and Thorne. To conclude with the Farce of RAISING THE WIND. Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes,:is : ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, is. ; Upper •Gallery, id. ' Private Boxes, £4 4s, £2 2s, and £1 ls. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY, Westminster-road.—Open at Seven. EVERY EVENING during- the week will appear THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette, and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and RIGHT years. The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios ever written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France and Belgium. They will perform EVERY EVENING, at NINE and ELEVEN o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MAY 14. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 63—highest since noon yesterday. 458—lowest this morning and during the night. 62—this day at noon. BAnomETER-30.17. WIND, South-easterly; fresh, with very fine weather. THE SUN. SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1859. A decisive intimation was yesterday given as to the intention of England to preserve a complete and perfect neutrality during the present contest between Austria, France, and Sardinia. The royal proclamation to that effect will be hailed with universal approbation ; and Lord DERBY'S Go vernment has earned an additional claim to the thanks and gratitude of the country by the promp titude with which they gave circulation to such satisfactory intelligence. We had long since anti cipated the line of policy that would be adopted. None of the parties engaged in the struggle have any claims on English sympathy or English aid. For their own purposes they have in volved Europe in war, and rendered a heavy expenditure essential to every nation. However peacefully disposed, Austria, by her mal administration of the Italian territories so unfor tunately conferred on her, has forfeited all claim to respect, while it is perfectly clear that the motives of France will not bear strict investigation. It is not for the purpose of conferring free dom and independence on any people that she has advanced her troops—she desires to extend her territories, and find employment for her troops who might otherwise become rather difficult to manage. The EMPEROR, too, desires to obtain military distinction. He fancies that a few vic tories will consolidate his dynasty, and strengthen his own position ; and Italy is the most convenient place to gain the anticipated triumphs. There are historical associations connected with many locali ties which he would gladly revive and repeat. The Austrians, however, avoided the possibility of another Marengo, and are entrenching themselves in positions which may not be so easily stormed as LOUIS NAPOLEON seems to imagine. France has a large body of experienced and dis ciplined soldiers. They have proved their bravery too often to permit any doubt on the subject. But the Austrians are also fully prepared, and they have a series of fortifications carefully arranged, and carried on for more than forty years with a view to such a contingency as the present. The matter, therefore, may not be quite so speedily or easily disposed of as the Emperor NAPOLEON imagines ; and although the people of France so promptly responded to his pecuniary demand, and tendered three times the amount required, they will soon get tired of that -game, and of the extra bur dens that must inevitably be imposed. Millions go rapidly in war, and however enthusiastic the people may be, they soon feel and complain of aggressions on their pockets. Austria is still worse off so far as monetary affairs are concerned.. Her exchequer all but bankrupt, and she cannot obtain money in any Boorse or Exchange of Europe. She may, how ever, get something at, home ; but that will be a resource speedily exhausted. And as her troops have already retreated, she cannot expect to pro• vide the necessary outlay at the expense of the enemy. It will be the want of money that will produce peace. It is now the great instrument of ' war, without which nothing can be effected, and when that fails we may safely anticipate the sub mission of the party whose pockets are empty. It is satisfactory to know that while our own Government has decided on the most perfect neutrality, it will be an ." armed" one. Desiring to preserve peacetheywill still be well prepared for war or for any altercation that may offer. No exertion has been spared, no expense regarded, in order to place Great Britain in a position to speak with authority and effect when the proper time arrives. The anxious wish of the nation has been responded to, and volunteer corps will be embodied, who can render good service should the soil of England ever again be invaded by the foot of an invader. Their valuable services will also render a greater number of regular troops available for foreign duty should it unfortunately be required. That the appeal will be enthusiastically answered is certain. Although it has been stated that we are a nation of shopkeepers," and not a " military people," we can prove the contrary, as we have already done on many trying occasions, and the Volunteer Corps will give eoncluive evidence that the present Limon are lirolOY of their More. The . - • • , ~sz) " ' 4 ' w •F• I 4.E . V .: 1 11-5 44 1112EW - S;e4k; •DR ° T rifle is the great weapon to be cultivated. It is the skill with which the Americans use it that has rendered them so formidable in the fiel ; and the revolvers for close action will be all-powerful. Let our volunteers render themselves perfect in the use of these weapons, and they will, with the true courage which is the characteristic of the Anglo- Saxon race, be enabled to defy any enemy, even should they be enabled to obtain a landing on our shores. So much for the personnel ; but we are still better off in the,materiel of war. Our ordnance has in every respect been placed on the most effective footing. Thousands of cannon, with all the deadly appurtenances to render them effective, millions of cartridges for the minie rifles, and every thing sufficient to carry on war on a gigantic scale for years, are in readiness, while we have the power of increasing them to any extent that may be re quired. These effective preparations will ensure peace to the ,United Kingdom, for none will be anxious to attack so formidable an opponent. " Riflemen, form"—is good, worthy of TENNY SON, worthy of Englishmen ; the War-office notice is good, worthy of a patriotic Government, and worthy of being listened to by all who can afford the time and money. The Poet and the Secretary for War have our heartiest commendations ; the one for his song, the other for creating soldiers to sing it. But we want something more. It is not enough that all who can afford outfit and time for full drill should form themselves into volunteer corps, who shall be virtually a part of our army ; England may be made, at a comparatively small cost, much more formidable than such volunteers alone can make her, and we trust she will be. In addition to the proposed volunteer corps of the classes able to defray entirely their own ex penses, why should not the classes below them be encouraged and aided in rifle practice ? The less wealthy classes are no longer to be distrusted, as if the only use to which they would put their rifles would be to shoot the more wealthy ; unhappily, were such their disposition, the means, as Ireland is witness, would not be wanting. On the contrary, the patriotism of the many is as devoted as that of the few, and their courage, to say the least, quite equal. The profes sional classes and higher tradesmen certainly do not surpass our stalwart workmen in the matter of personal bravery and readiness to face danger. And, should England ever hear the cry,--" The French have landed," or the Russians, or any foreigner whatever, our cottages would send forth as much deadly wrath as our offices, our counting houses, and our shops. It were, indeed, the greatest mistake possible to suppose that the working men of England need the drill of the soldier to give them the spirit of the soldier. It is because they have the soldier's spirit that they make such men when drilled; because they have innately the proud consciousness of being Englishmen ; the fixed con viction of every man's obligation to do his duty ; the willingness to bear up under prolonged hard ships and dangers which demoralise most continen tal troops ; and, that steady purpose and hand in execution of their task, which distinguish the Englishman as a workman, be his handicraft what it may—it is these things which make our working men so well worth drilling. We want to use our third class, as well as our first and second classes. We want to encourage among them the feeling that they, too, can contri bute their proportion towards their country's de fence. They do contribute one-third of our taxa tion. We believe that, handled well by a spirited Administration, they would contribute much more than a third to our volunteer defences. If they can not afford each man his rifle and accoutrements, that is no reason why—what is far more valuable than ac coutrements—their courage and their skill should not bristle formidably in the eyes of foreigners. If 100,000 volunteers, capable of defraying the cost of their equipments, can be found among the richer classes, well ? Call them forth, embody them, bring them to the highest state of efficiency you can. But shall we overlook the 200,000, or, it may be, double or treble that number, who, were they well practised in the use of the rifle all over the country, would make it hot work, indeed, for an enemy to move from the shore on which his steam-bridge might have landed him. We spy, take measures by all means to encourage our working men to prac tise rifle shooting. The - way in which it could be best effected is well worthy of careful consideration. For years the subject has dwelt on our minds as a very im portant one, and our readers will probably remem ber that we have not been silent on the subject. Perhaps at the time they did not think it of the importance we did, and might even have passed over our remarks. Now a change of opinion is rapidly coming overall, and we shall have attention. Long reflection has not suggested to us any better plan for working men, and even for our shopmen and apprentices —what a bra.ve body were the London apprentices once !—than that which first occurred to us. We proposed that the Govern ment should find the rifles and ammunition for all those who could not afford it for themselves ; that in every town and large village where sufficient youths and older persons could be found willing to enrol themselves as practitioners under reasonable conditions, that a small depot in charge of an old soldier should be formed ; that he should have charge of all the arms, &c., which belonged to the Government, and that he should be the trainer of the peasantry and operatives who desired to be taught. This is the essential part of the scheme. Whether they should be made good marksmen at known distances, ar. taught also to estimate dis tance well, or instructed in acting together in larger or smaller numbers—all such details would depend upon what could be done in each locality. The grand point we take to be, that good marks men should be formed in vast numbers all over the land; men who could handle the rifle with the precision of the best deer-stalkers. Of such men, whether drilled to act together more or less in their ordinary practice, a formidable body of drilled rifle men could always be made in an emergency. The grand thing—the confidence that they could hit an officer or an artilleryman at a tho usan d a hedge, and m a k e hi m yards off from behind repent of following a despot to spoil our towns, or to dishonour our families, would have been already acquired. Why, even in very small bodies men might be taught to estimate distances, to avail themselves of every shelter, to make shelter rapidly if needed, and all that per tains to the individual handling of the weapon. It must be remembered that the rifle makes defence much more a matter of personal and individual prowess and skill than it was in the days of " Brown Bess." The country which has the most men who can do with the rifle what our fore fathers did with the bow, will be the country most formidable to an invader ; and England has every facility for being that country. The tens of thou sands of ploughmen who can plough straighter furrows than any ploughmen in Europe, and the tens of thousands of operatives whose eye and hand can work with a truth and fidelity which makes our machinery the best in the world, these men have the faculties which would Make them the best rifle bliote in Europe, too. We plead for inviting , THE SUN, LONDOIIt, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 1859. LATEST NEWS. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) MARSEILLES, SATURDAY MORNING. The Ellora, with the mails from Calcutta, China, and Australia, arrived at Marseilles at 10 p.m. yesterday, and left for London by the 11 o'clock train. No quarantine. The Australian mails were brought to the Mau ritiuti by the Emeu. Her dates are Sydney, March 14 ; Melbourne, March 17. The Fera left Malta for Southampton at 8 a.m. on the 10th inst. their aid. Let registers be opened, let the means be provided, let small honours and prize; ie con ferred, let their convenience as to time and other things be consulted, and we should have a standing defence, if not a standing army, which would deter all the allied despots of Europe from invading our shores. DEATH OF MR. JOSEPH STURGE. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) BIRMINGHAM, SATURDAY MORNING. Mr. Joseph Sturge, of Birmingham, died• sud denly at his residence, Edgbaston, at 7 o'clock this morning (Saturday). Disease of the heart was the cause of death. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and the Prince Consort, with the Princess Alice, rode on horseback yesterday morning, attended by the Hon. Eleanor Stanley and the Equerries in Waiting. The Queen held a Privy Council at 3 o'clock in the after noon. It was attended by the Prince Consort, the Marquis of Salisbury, Lord President; the Lord Chancellor; Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Privy Seal; Earl of Derby, First Lord of the Treasury ; the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; the Right Hon. Sotheron Estcourt, Secretary of State for the Home Department ; Earl of Malmesbury, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; Major-General Peel, Secretary of State for War ; Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for India ; Sir John Pakington, First Lord of the Admiralty; Lord John Man ners, First Commissioner of Public Works ; the Marquis of Exeter, Lord Steward ; Earl De La Warr, Lord Chamber lain ; the Duke of Beaufort, Master of the Horse ; and the Marquis of Abercorn, Groom of the Stole to the Prince Consort. _ _ Sir John Lawrence, Bart., and G.C.8., by command of the Queen was sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his seat at the board. A proclamation was issued for the maintenance of neu trality during the existence of hostilities. THE GENERAL ELECTION. MEMBERS RETURNED. The following is a list of the members returned, in addi tion to that published yesterday : Places. Names. L. C, Leitrim County Mr. Brady .. 1 Mr. W. 0. Gore .. 1 Galway County Sir Thomas Burke .. 1 Mr. Gregory 1 RESULTS. Liberal A Cabinet Council was held this afternoon at the Chancellor of the Exchequer's official residence in Downing-street. THE VISIT OF THE QUEEN TO ALDERSHOT. — His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the General Commanding-in-Chief, and a large number of officers on the staff, are expected to be present at the review of the troops before her Majesty, at Aldershot, on Monday next. No gold was taken from the Bank yesterday. As fast as the Australian and American supplies come to hand they are bought for the continent. Large purchases of silver have also been made for Hamburg. The arrival of the Maidstone and Sydenham from Melbourne, with 33,980 oz. of gold, worth about £136,000, was announced yesterday morning. By the Great Britain intelligence has been received of the departure of several gold ships, of which the Monarch sailed on the Ist of March with about £171,000, and the Ellen Stuart on the 26th with 28,400. The Fulton, from New York, has brought £20,000 for England, besides a considerable sum for France. The sinking fund of £50,000 per annum on the Turkish Four per Cent. Guaranteed Loan of £5,000,000, which was to commence in four years from the date of the contract, came into operation for the first time yesterday, and bonds to that amount were drawn at the Bank in the presence of the Ottoman Minister. The numbers will be duly advertised in the Gazette, and the claim for interest on such bonds will cease in August next, after which time the interest will be appropriated to increase the sinking fund, which will be augmented in a similar manner every year. The monthly return of the Bank of France yes terday shows a decline of £1,040,000 in the bullion, in ad dition to that of £522,000 shown in the preceding statement. The total is now reduced to £20,700,000. There has been a rather large increase in the discounts, accompanied by an equal increase in the deposits, which seems to indicate that the trading classes have been making provision for future emergencies. PASSENGERS FROM BOMBAY.—The following is a list of the passengers by the Peninsular and Oriental Com pany's steamship Ripon, Capt. E. Christian, which left Malta on the 7th inst., and is expected at Southampton on Monday evening or Tuesday morning :—From Bombay— Mrs. Pegler and two children, Capt. Pascoe, Lieutenants Barrow, R.A., Nash, Dickinson, and Leech, Mr. Noble, Mrs. Hamilton two children, and servant ; Mr. Cart , wright's two children and servant ; Mrs. Taylor, four chil i dren, and servant ; Mr. Pereira, Mrs. Hore, Col. Mesutier, Master Oldham, Lieut. Niel, Capt. Dyett, Mr. and Mrs. Foreman and child, two Misses Foulks and servant, Lieut. Corbett, Dr. Wyndone, Lieut. do Winton, Col. Birdwood and child, Master Barry, Mrs. Sheppard and two children ; Mrs. Cole, four children, and two servants ; Capt. and Mrs. Wickham, Mr. Bary's servant ; Mrs. Brinton, four children, and servant ; A. Bonas, Lieut. Ducrou, Mr. Fennell (clerk to Peninsular and Oriental steamer Ottawa), C. Percival (third engineer of the Ganges), G. Newman (storekeeper of the Ottawa), J. Parish (fireman of the Ganges), M. Stringer (butcher of the Ganges), H. Evans (baker of the Ottawa), S. Lanham (storekeeper of the Pottinger), E. Allen (quar termaster of the Northam). From Aden—Mrs. Hewitt and child. From Suez—Henry Dodd (storekeeper of the Nemesis). VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE.—Foreig n, department : The con sulship at Baltimore, United States, has become vacant by the death of Mr. W. Moreton Dyer; salary, £5OO. East India department : Capt. A.B. Hawes, retired list, Bengal army, has been appointed assistant auditor to the Secretary of State for India. War- office : There are still vacancies in this office for established clerks, in which a competitive examination will be shortly announced ; commencing salary, £lOO per annum. Mr. Claridge, of Daventry, has been ap pointed to the Royal Engineer department, Woolwich, after a competitive examination. Mr. Jolm Roberts, a first-class clerk, first section, has retired on his full salary, after a con tinuous service of 50 years ; Mr. C. Sisson, a first-class clerk, is about to retire from the service. Commissariat Branch, Pall-mall : Mr. C. J. Eliot, a first-class clerk, first section, is about to retire from the service ; Mr. R. White stone, a first-class clerk, is likewise about to retire from the service. Horse Guards : Mr. J. Moxon, a first-class clerk, second section, is about to retire from the service. East Indies : Mr. E. H. Lushington has been appointed to officiate as junior secretary to the Government of Bengal; Mr. J. Christie, second assistant to the accountant-general at Bombay, has been appointed to officiate as first assistant; Mr. D. B. Hodge has been appointed to officiate as second assistant to the accountant-general at Bombay.—Civil Ser vice Gazette. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT PRESTON.—AbOttt six o'clock on Wednesday evening a fatal accident occurred at the Deepdale-street station, Preston, of the Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Railway Company. A passen ger train for Longridge had been backed into a siding in order that some goods waggons might be attached to it. When the waggons had been coupled to the train, the guard, James Waring, intimated to the engine-driver that one of the waggons was not safe, and he requested him to back his engine, that the defective waggon might be detached. Whilst this was being done, Waring, who had uncoupled the waggon, was caught between the buffers of two of the waggons, and so severely crushed as to cause his death almost instantaneously. The deceased was about 30 years of age, and has left a widow and one child. Ho was a very steady man, and had been many years in the service of the company, by whom he was much respected.—Manchester Examiner. SUNDAY PHOTOGRAPHING IN ST. MARTIN'S-IN THE-FIELDS.-At the meeting of the vestry of St. Mar tin's-in-the-Fields, held yesterday, Mr. Churchwarden Petter in the chair, Mr. Hill moved a resolution to the effect that steps be &ken by the vestry to prevent photo graphers in that parish following their calling on the Sab bath, and that no frame or specimen be allowed to be exhi bited on that day. which having been adopted, the vestry clerk was directed to call the attention of the Commis sioners of Police to the subject, with a view to a remedy. TII E LATE BOILER EXPLOSION AT HUDDERSFIELD. —The adjourned inqueet on the body of Hannah Haigh, whose death was caused by the boiler explosion at Messrs. E. Learoyd and Co.'s mill, on the 28th ult., took place at Hud dersfield on Wednesday.•. The jury returned a verdict that. Hannah Haigh had died from the boiler explosion which occurred on the 28th of April, the explosion having been caused by over-pressure ; and then add a rider to the ver dict, extending to considerable length, by which they, first, condemn the act by which the boiler had been raised from a 301 b. to a 501 b. pressure, without a proper and efficient examination ; and, second, blame Mr. Holt, the Inspector of the Huddersfield Boiler Association, for having on the day previous to the explosion shifted the ball to the end of the lever, thereby increasing the pressure, without hav ing previously made an accurate internal examinhtion of the boiler, and without having a steam gauge of ;sufficient ca pacity to indicate the pressure. They concluded by calling the immediate attention of the millowners in the neighbour hood to the present very defective practice with regard to the examination of steam boilers. SUICIDE OF A NEWSPAPER PROPRIETOR.—It is with extreme regret we have to notice the death, by sui cide, of Mr. William Hadley, son of Mrs. Hadley, of Queen's-buildings, ol a y nd oc p curr ropz: n e c t e or t o o f ok th p e la C c he e Jour nal.ltoennhsamaturdaynight, at about half-past ten o'clock, in a bedroom attached to that in which deceased had been in the habit of sleeping, where he was found by his distressed and horror-stricken mother suspended by a cord from the bed rail. The unfor tunate deceased had an inveterate drinking propensity, which he indulged at frequent intervals, to the neglect of business and the discomfiture of his friends. These habits of intemperanc e had been induced primarily by trouble of a domestic nature, and at different periods during the past twelve month s a remarkable change had been noticed in the deceased. li e h a d b ecome subject to continual depression, gener..l lowness of spirits, and taciturnity.—Cheltenham Examiner. LAMENTABLE CASE AT BRIGIITON.—On Friday last a young girl, 19 years of age, named Sarah Smith, was charged before the magistrates with stealing I oz. of tea, the property of Aldborough Phillips. It appears the pri soner had been living as domestic servant with the prose cutor for the last four or five weeks, and that on Friday morning, about half-past eight, he had occasion to leave his parlour to go and see his wife, who was ill upstairs. On his return he found that a quantity of tea had been taken out of the tea-caddy which stood on th e s id e b oard. He at once taxed thenirl with having take n it, w h ich she denied; but on her pockets being turned out some tea was found wrapped in a piece of paper. She then confessed to having taken the tea, but denied having ever stolen two and a half pounds of butter, of which her master also accused her. She had only 2s. a-week wages, and had taken the tea for her own use. The magistrate regretted very much that ..... shm w e e n s t e punishment measures with the poor girl,. whose character must be fo r - Mr. Phillips bad thought proper to proceed such severe t f h ei e ted iaw Th p e e y nni , however, tted_on e infli w c ee te k l o the im lig p h ri t e e o s ura t &sox Gazette. AMERICA. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY MORNING. The Arabia, Royal Mail steamship, off Holyhead at 6 a.m. this morning, will be up about noon. THE WAR IN ITALY. The follolving telegrams have been received al Mr. Reuter's office : BERLIN, MAY 13. In to-day's sitting of the Upper House the money supplies demanded by Government were unani mously voted with many expressions of confidence. All the speakers were anti-Napoleonic, and in favour of German nationality. TURIN, MAY 13. Advices from Genoa state that the town and port of that place were yesterday evening illuminated. The Emperor, accompanied by Prince Napoleon and Prince Carignano, attended the performances at the theatre, and met with a most enthusiastic reception. The King of Sardinia went to Genoa this morning to visit the Emperor and returned again to headquarters at 9.30 a.m. OFFICIAL BULLETIN S. (PUBLISHED FRIDAY, MAY 13.) 600 Austrians on their way to Piacenza have occupied Revergaro on the river Trebbia. The headquarters are at Bobbio. The wounded have been conveyed to Occimiano. GENOA, MAY 13. The Emperor, accompanied by military authori ties, visited the barracks of St. Benigno to-day. He was greeted on his way by the acclamations of the populace. The Emperor addressed a procla mation to the army. It is asserted that his de parture for the army is fixed for to-morrow. The enemy are increasing their forces near Castel-St.-Giovanni, on the road from Piacenza to Stradella. They have constructed bridges near Vigevano and Motto-Visconti to protect their retreat of to day. Our soldiers have pushed forward a strong re connoitring party as far as Cascina-di-Stra (?), near Vercelli, and our artillery began cannonading the enemy, which, however, was not replied to by them. Our troops have retaken their former position FRANKFORT, MAY 13. In an extraordinary sitting of the Federal Diet to-day the proposition of the military commission to put the garrisons of the federal fortresses on a war footing was agreed to. The Hanoverian representative proposed that a corps of observation should be placed on the Upper Rhine, but Prussia protested against such a mea- sure. The President of the Diet, the Austrian Ambas sador, had, in consequence of a summons to repair to Vienna, quitted Frankfort without being present at the sitting. FRANKFORT 0.M., MAY 14. Count Rechberg, President of the Federal Diet and Austrian ambassador, has left Vienna, having been appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs in the place of Count Buol Schauenstein, who has ten dered his resignation. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 12.30 P.M. Rentes open rather flat at 61f. 60c. 2.22 P.M. A rumour is current that a change of Ministry , inimical to France has taken place at Berlin; ten dency very fiat in consequence. Renter, 61f. 3.30 P.M. A notice has been posted up in the Bourse, which states that the rumour of a change unfavourable to France in the Prussian Ministry is incorrect. Rentes afterwards 61f. sc. 3.37 P.m. Bourse closes flat. Rentes 61f. sc. for money and 60f. 90c. for the account, being a fall of I per cent. since yesterday. THE STATE OF PIEDMONT, A letter just received, dated Turin, May 11, says : It is presumable the Austrians have not been acting without some settled plan, but it is certainly most difficult to divine what that can be. Their movements have all along had little meaning to those who observed them from this side. After coming to within half a dozen miles of the Dora, and some 25 of Turin, they have again retired. One of to-day's papers sayi that the Austrian scout (or spy), captured on Monday, and who hung himself with his cravat in his prison, was an officer of Engineers, who had come to examine the forti fications on the Dora, and had already sketched plans of them. In many places, on the approach of the Austrians the young and middle-aged men made their escape, the idea having got abroad that they would be carried off and made to serve as soldiers. The exactions and rough conduct of the invaders have caused great exasperation in the coun try. Some places are reported to have been stripped of everything, including even the agricultural im plements. Letters in the papers give various details of the extortions practised. One from Castelnuovo Scrivia, said to be written by a priest, says that they did not do personal injury to any one, but were overbearing and insolent, and used menaces to extract all they desired. It says : " The requisitions imposed on this place were for 24 oxen, 14,000 rations of bread, 200 hectolitres of wine, 160 sacks of meal, and I know not how much hay and straw, besides I 25 carts, with iwo oxen each, for transport ; and this after they had deprived us of all the tobacco and salt, and reduced us to the point that we could no longer cook our bread in the oven. In short, if we had not been totally abandoned by our army (by necessity, as all know) 1 assure you that the peasants here were on the point of cutting all their throats, and would have done it but for the prudence of the gentlemen, who saw the extremity in which they would have placed themselves without profit." From Pontecurone come similar accounts. The railway and telegraph were destroyed, the station house was knocked to pieces, and all the harm pos sible done. The horses were turned into the fields, and the people compelled to fetch buckets of water for them. On the morning of the 6th a requisition was made for wine, corn, and cattle, and towards evening the troops departed, but at 10 o'clock a fresh corps came in, Hungarians and Croats, and made fresh requisitions. They camped at 40 paces from the station, and threatened to fire on whom soever should approach. One account says : " But this was not all ; on the summit of the tower we saw a truss of straw, smeared with gunpowder, and which was to serve, as they told us, to give the signal for sacking and firing the place. Fortunately, towards four o'clock, an Austrian, who was stationed as a vidette on the tower, came to warn them that a large body of French was coming down from the direction of the mountain of San Stefano, and at the same time one of their spies, a wretch with a wooden leg, hurried to inform them that a body of Pied montese was marching towards Sale. (The cripple got a good number of florins as a reward.) Upon receiving this news the alarm was given and they departed precipitately, abandoning some oxen, for which they had made a requisi tion half an hour before." REPORT BY THE COMMISSION OF TILE PRUSSIAN CHAMBER. The Report of the Committee of the Prussian Chamber of Deputies on the political and financial statements of the Government was only made known at a late hour of the evening on the 10th inst. The following is a precis of that document : The representatives of the Government explained the position of mediator which Prussia took up at the com mencement of the misunderstanding. Sbe had openly de clared the validity of treaties, but on the other hand had promised assistance to no power, and still less had she given any assurance of her neutrality When the Italian ques tion turned up, in which she had no direct interest, Prussia had come forward as a friend to ali parties, more especially to England. Had she partially espoused the cause of Austria she would have alienated England and Russia from her, and yet not have secured the maintenance of peace; on the contrary, would probably have occasioned a war. Besides, she had negotiated not about a conflict actually going on, but about the apprehension of a conflict whose extent 'no one could calculate, since no defined difference was apparent. Under such circumstances, to have espoused the cause of Austria would have been on Prussia's part a renunciation of all self-judgment, and have endangered her independence in behalf of a policy monopolised by Austria, and over which Prussia would have no co-existent influence. The committee has found this position fully borne out by the circumstances. It must be kept in mind also that in the war which Austria. has to wage in Italy eventualities may occur that may im peril not Austria's special interests alone, but German ones as well. Neverthelese, it will not dep en d on A us t r i a , w h o i s guided not excl us i ve ly by German considerations, and must be so guided, but on Germany, and above all on Prussia, free from all extra-Germanic 'motives, to decide whether and when such eventualities become perilous to that degree as to require the exhibition of Germany's defensive might. The committee approves likewise the disapproval by Prussia of Austria's step that interrupted the negotiations, her ulti matum. to Sardinia, and the committee sees with the most lively satisfaction that Prussia's measures are entirely in dependent of Austria's one-sided proceeding. As the com mittee has now passed over to the discussion of Prussia's present policy, the Minister of Foreign Affairs made the communication respecting the position of the two great powers with reference to the war, that England intended to remain neutral so long as circumstances and her own interest enabled her to do so ; that Russia, on the contrary, had declared she formed no engagements with other powers of a nature to bind her hands, that she should take up for the present an attitude of expectation, reserving to herself the right of changing it the instant other powersinterfered in the war. The minister then expressed his conviction that considering the military preparations of the two greatest military powers Prussia could not but put herself into the position of being able at any moment of calling out the entire force of the realm. The com mittee, convinced itself that the Govern me nt, with out danger to the position it had taken up, could not point out to the committee and representatives of the nation minutely the objects it had in view, and the ways it meant to follow for their attainment. The position itself was found to be in principle corect and such as was required by the interests of the country in the present state of affairs, judging as the committee did from the reasons disclosed above. The committee concludes, from the declarations of the King's government, from its most recent measures, par ticularly from the mobilisation of the 6th army corps and the extended military measures contemplated by the pro jects of law now lying before the house, that government is fully alive to the magnitude and danger of the case, and that, whilst avoiding all provocation to war, unless it be thrust upon the nation, it wishes to be capable at the proper moment of appealing to arms for the safety and honour of Germany, and at the same time of causing for the common weal the defensive power of Germany to be led out against the enemy. After an allusion by some members of the com mittee to the enthusiasm existing in other parts of Ger many, a member of the government then expressed th e h o p e that facts rather than words would clear up this misunder standing in Southern Germany relative to Prussia's atti tude ; the Germans of the south had found the Prussian government too cautious and hesitating, but he for his part was convinced that the government would continue to pro ceed with great circumspection, and should the rest of Ger many not yet recognise the great and heavy responsibility weighing on the Prussian Cabinet, it would find when the time arrived that Prussia would stand up to avenge the least violation of Prussian and German honour. The financial measures of the Government have been unanimously sanctioned by the committee, and recom mended for adoption. The expenses of the mobilisation, it was shown, by the Government, will be almost entirely de frayed without requiring the aid of a loan. The committee accepted the propositions of Government upon condition that the sixth paragraph of the'law on the railway toll shall be abolished, not merely for the moment, but in perpetuity. THE CARRYING TRADE. The certainty that a European war will interfere with the carrying trade, not only of all the Powers directly involved, but even of those which may be in danger of being drawn in, has caused inquiry to be directed to the possibility of registering Euro ' pean ships under the American flag. The statute ' law of the United States is in this respect virtually prohibitive. No foreign ship can be registered unless a sum equal to two-thirds of her value shall have been expended upon her in repairs or im provements in America. Even an American vessel which has been lawfully condemned by a foreign Government, or sold to a foreigner, cannot, upon being re-purchased by an American, receive, except upon these conditions, a new register. It is also provided that foreign vessels which may have acquired the American flag shall lose the benefit of registration if their owners, being naturalised citizens, reside more than one year in the country of their origin, or two years in any other foreign country. Foreign steamers, if their owners are resident in the United States, may be enrolled for river service, on security being given that they shall not be em ployed on other waters ; and this, apParently, is the sole opening allowed. Any relaxation of the law can be obtained only by a special Act of Congress. There is, however, a solution of the difficulty that would meet all general requiements. Although it may be difficult to procure an American register, a vessel can be placed under the American Consul in England, together with a certificate that she is owned by an American citizen. She will then get the protection afforded by the United States' Go vernment to every description of American property remaining with regard to tonnage dues and all similar conditions under the liabilities common to any foreign vessel. That this plan would be ex tensively adopted in case of England becoming involved in war can scarcely be doubted, and it is probable, also, that increased latitude might be given by special acts to facilitate the granting even of a national registry. The impolicy of the exist ing restrictions is as obvious as that of all other obstacles to the free interchange of commodities. On the breaking out of a war a neutral country could, of course, purchase vessels from any of the belligerents on highly profitable terms. But if this is forbidden her traders are compelled to build new vessels, and always at an extravagant cost, owing to the general suddenness of demand. Meanwhile the ships which would have fully answered the purpose, and which might have been had at half the outlay, are lying without employment. But when the war is ended these are brought into competition with the expensive vessels built in the interval, and which are at once reduced to an nominal value, to the ruin of all who have invested in them. The prohibitionitherefore, in• volves to the neutral country not merely a sheer loss of the difference between the price of the home built ships and that at which the foreign vessels could have been bought, but also of the amount of depreciation which is ultimately inflicted on both sets of vessels, through the freight market being glutted with a needless quantity. The Protec tionists will urge that there was a great _advan tage in the employment opened for home labour in the original construction of the new VesSels, but this is a long exploded fallacy. By employing labour in building vessels which might have been had more cheaply elsewhere, they have diverted it from other branches of employment which would have been equally profitable at the time, and which, being independent of any artificial impulse, would not have involved the penalty of an ultimate re action.—Tinges. According to a circular of M. Arles Dufour, of Lyons, the average 'decline in silk since the outbreak of hostilities has been only ft ore sto 7 per cent. This is to be accounted for, first, by the reduced stocks with which the new season will commence after Ir. year of great manufac turing activity; secondly, by the execution of orders lately placed for American consumption ; and, thirdly, by the un certainty as to the result of the next European crop, which, at all events, will be impaired by the war in Piedmont and Lombardy. MINES.—A moderate amount of business has been transacted in the Mining Share Market tuffs week, without any material change in prices. On the 10th cop per dropped about £5 per ton, and some of the heavy divi dend copper mines have in consequence been more freely offered, and at somewhat lower rates. Lead and tin mines have continued in fair request, and in most cases pri ces have been fairly mai ntained. It is to be regretted th a t this fall in copper should take place on the 10th, an d t h at on the 12th, the East India Company and the Government announced that they should require metallic copper about equal to a fortnight's produce of all the copper mines in Cornwall and Devoh. If it had appeared that these con tracts had been entered into previously to th e 1 0th, we could have understood the fall, which will now press upon the miner, and make up the stock of the smelter. —Mining Journal. THE MURDER OF MR. JESSOP.--It is reported that the murderer of the late Mr' ' 4850 P has been arrested, LITB_RATURE. The _Man of Fortune. A Btory of the Present Day. By Albany Fonblanque, jun., Esq. Pp. 409. Routledge. If a first novel--this is certainly in many respects a very remarkable one. Occasionally it is no doubt marred by considerable improbability and extravagance. But after running through the in troductory eight chapters out o f the twenty-eight into which the narrative is subdivided, the reader's interest is fairly taken captive, and he " needs must" go on, turning the pages rapidly, down to the very conclusion. Hugh Trevor is the Man of Fortune— heir to a baronetcy and £lO,OOO a-year—betrothed to his cousin Eleanor, herself an heiress, the gentle heroine of the tale, spoken of throughout it fami liarly and lovingly (evidently the young novelist's pet character in the book) as Nelly. Although the story opens fantastically near one of the Italian lakes—Just after Hugh has been entrapped into a marriage with the evil-heroine of the tale, one Lorenza Amadina, an arrant adventuress—the scenery all through the work is essentially English. A fantastic variety of personages will be found flitting to and fro across this scenery as the plot is developed—the skein of it being, of course, accord ing to approved usage, carefully entangled, and then with all due elaboration as carefully unravelled. In the discrimination of these characters there is fre quent evidence of genuine humour on the part of Mr. Fonblanque. Instance this especially, almost every passing, apparently careless, but really artis tic touch given to the life-like sketch of Mr. Cairn leigh-Haughton—the Squire of the Grange—a true blue landed proprietor of the old school, known familiarly by the soubriquet of the Ancient Briton among all his neighbours. His younger daughter, the haughty beauty of the Grange, also designated by a companion soubriquet as Boadicea, is cleverly and facetiously described—but far beyond the lim ning of Boadicea, the portraiture of the Ancient Briton is capital and delightfully humorous through - out. Whenever he comes upon the scene he is always welcome—whether, it be at the moment when he is lamenting the accident to Hugh, so very characteristically speaking " as if it were the estate that had been thrown from its horse and had concus sion of the brain" —or, under his more ordinary aspect when laying down the law, "and waving his hand like a flourish of trumpets." There are casual touches of humour, again, now and then noticeable in the account of even such minor personages in the story as Mr. Springett, attorney•at-law—" a gentleman of a florid habit of body," who per spires with unusual freedom when under any great mental excitement ; and of whom we read, in his interviews with Don Ramon, that to his surprise he found the handwriting of the papers brought to him by his visitor identical with that of the papers in his deed-box—" a fact," says the writer, " which he greeted with much delight and perspiration." As exemplars of the novelist's descriptive powers, take in contrast his picturesque view of Trevor Hall, by moonlight, and his comio delineation of one the Poor Streets of our metropo lis, familiar to London wayfarers. Here is the former— " TREVOR HALL BY MOONLIGHT." " Far away—though the glare of the fiery breath gleamed like a stormy sunset above the distant woods—in the quiet midnight, lulled to rest by the songs of the nightingale, the old hall stood like an enchanted palace, which the first beam of the morrow's sun, like the kiss of the Prince in the fairy tale, would awaken into busy life again. " It was a fine old palace, in a fine old park, sheltered by fine old trees—fine old oaks, as sombre and stately as the old rooks who stuffed ragged nests into the forks of their wide-spreadinc , branches. Many a change had those old trees known, from the time when they first struck root in the ground—puny saplings, bent and worried by the wind— till now, when they stood like a double row of mighty giants, guarding the broad avenue which led t o T revor H a ll . " Many a tale could be told by those old trees and woods, of days when their present master's ancestry were in their cradles. Perhaps, in the meanings of the night wind, those old trees did send out voices known only to themselves, as their branches mingled, and their green heads stooped to gether as though they whispered. "There were signs, moreover, which you and I could read—a gap here and there in the row, not amongst the oldest, but where the trees were in their prime. In the woods, too, the bushes and young shoots nearly hid the smooth stumps of great timber oaks, that had been cut down and sold, for what had shortened the days and bar tered the soul of one whom the old trees had known, long ago, to spare even the violets that blossomed at their roots, that they might brighten the spots where summer had scattered them. " There was yet another story in the woods and trees—a prop to sustain a fallen limb, a band of iron girding a splin tering trunk. There was clear evidence of care and vene ration in the lopping of their withered branches, and the faultless condition of the roadway which lay below them. Some trees had been felled in the plantations, and lately too ; but they did not leave the land they had grown upon, but rose again for a good purpose. Neat white cottages, with cheerful little gardens, elbowed out wretched hovels from patches of waste land, where, if the old wood had not lost its power of perception, it might know that it had brought comfort and kindness where miseries and hatred had lurked before. "In the plantations there inid been quagmires and marshes, in which the roots of the trees lay rotting, making them rank and old before their time. There was a bright stream now, dashing along merrily. When the long imprisoned waters first found their liberty, they had no idea of being checked by a mill wheel that they found in their way ; so they whisked it round so briskly that the new mill began to prosper, and the young girl who had listened to love upon their newly-blossoming banks, soon became the miller's little wife. " The hall was, like the trees, massive and stately, and, like them, bore also the traces of its own history. There wero niches and pedestals within and without, but there were no statues. There was a spacious picture gallery, but few paintings, and those quite modern, though the oak panelling bore the marks of hundreds of ancient frames. There were stags' heads and antlers in every passage, but there were no deer in the park. The rooms were all well and handsomely furnished, but there was no mark of age upon anything save the wainscoting and stained-glass in some of the windows. The library alone bore out the an tiquity of the place ; you might see there, shelves upon shelves of old books, with an old coat of arms upon the back of each—two dark old portraits in black oaken frames, frowning at you ; rusty armour on the walls, old carvings on the ceiling, old small panes of glass in the windows—so that when you entered it from the rest of the house, it seemed as if you had stepped back three hundred years. Here is a Boz-like glimpse of one of the " POOR STREETS OP LONDON." " Poor streets I —rich in nothing but children, who loiter along the kerb and on the door-steps, on an average of about six to a house, composing dirt confectionary N. dry weather, and performing experiments in hydraulics in the gutter when wet. Musty streets I—savouring perpetually of boiled cabbage-stalks, and the eating-house at the corner. Lonely streets I—full of odd shops, containing scanty stores of commodities that no o ne see ms to w a nt, but which, being found in all poor localities, must have their trade and their profit, though how it comes Heaven only knows. There is, of course, the barber, who keeps birds closely packed in cages like mignionette boxes turned on their sides and wired over, with an old stocking nailed on the top ; the stationer who sells farthing wooden battledores (the only toy to be seen in the street), theatrical portraits —a penny plain, and twopence coloured—of Mr. Staggers in the unknown costume of an undiscovered country, defying unseen adversaries in an impossible attitude; and who pur veys all the weekly filth of the Mysteries of London school (only half neutralised by the moral and clever cheap jour nals) to the reading portion (who can they be ?) of the neighbourhood. And no less certainly shall we find the den where tawdry finery is exposed for sale or hire to the most wretched of the wretched—the honest cobbler's stall —the rag merchant—th e h er b a li st—the gin palace, flaming with light from ormolu chandeliers, brilliant with plate glass reflectors—and, as a natural c o n com it an t, th e pawn broker I Th e y are all alike—the poor streets of London." Conspicuous among the characters in the book is an out-and-out ruffian, Con Bates by name, alias Hud speth, who thus responds to Phil Hunt, the poacher, when asked by the latter " How come you out ? answer me that. You'd transportation for life ; I heard you sentenced." To which quoth Bates, with a grin— " I'm a reformed individual—l am ,• I'm a brand plucked from the burning—l am ; I swallowed an hour of gammon every afternoon, and a bundle of tracts every morning, for four years—l did. I can tell you all about ' Fanny Hone, the pious staymaker,' and ' Martin Hoyle, the naughty little boy who told a fib, and was tossed by the mad bull in consequence.' I know all about ' James Foy, the repentant dustman,' and 'the Religious Dairyman,' and all that lot. Lor' bless you! I took to making up such tales myself, and other coves had to read 'em. My eyes ! did'nt I pitch it in stiff, neither ? So the chaplain he got me a ticket-of-leave ; and, says he, ' My man, here's a couple of sovs for you out of the fund, and a Bible and Prayer-book for you to take to church.' So I lent the books to an uncle of mine, who wanted to read 'em very particklar, and he gave me ten bobs for the accommodation —don't you sco. Oh, it's a rare game—the ticket-of-leave caper —I can tell you." Sometimes, if he pleases so to be, the writer can be at o us 1 : 1 o e f x e . a g r t r h . "Pourn once witty , and it T r i c kl es s i e n n th t ea potti o fu c dirty water an d n through clear. Filter a man's character through es tate, and it is wonderful how p ure it will comeo uat.l,a,nded At another moment he ca n , w h en he likes, ,descant upon the imaginary griefs of his story with true pathetic sentiment. As when upon away of Nelly Trevor's intended the pa s si ng bridal-day, he writes— " But, oh—the morrow —the morrow! ~ you, upon whom somegreat and sudden ca l am ity h as fallen, have y ou f orgotten has been t o y our a i d, and lifted the morrow ? When sweet sleep the weight from your heart, and you have dreamt that your ag on y was a d ream , an d have waken e d t o f ind it a reality. Oh ! the morrow I " When the bright d singing gaily, and happy has broken, and the birds are some .appy faces are passing you. When unconscious friend has seized your hand, and mocked you with a joyous greeting. Oh ! the morrow ! " When you rise, to see the empty chair—to miss the accustomed face—to seek the idolworshipped, and find it broken. When you must act youfor . altered with an end, the ashesofwithered hope clogging bitte • a ring every thought. Oh ! the morrow—the morrow I" We are fain to quote largely from the descrip tions contained in the 23d chapter, headed "Assize Intelligence," in which there are capital portraitures in pen and ink of Slumberton, the county town of --shire, of the High Sheriff, of the Sheriff's jave linmen, of the accompanying trumpeters, and of the manner in which, among other marvellous ceremo nials at the Assizes—" Her Majesty's Judges are blown into their carriages by those indefatigable trumpeters; then blown into church, where they are preached at for 20 minutes ; and then blown back into, their lodgings again." Also we are tempted to extract somewhat largely from the Ito. 1 count given of the trial of " Trevor v. Trevor" — the culminating point of the interest of the whole novel—but that we conceive our so doing would be as superfluous as unreasonable under the circumstances. " The Man -of Fortune" is the third—as,the sport ing writers say, " a good third"—in the series of cheap original novels recently issued from the press by the Messrs. Routledge. As such the writer is secure of a large audience—to that audience we commend the perusal of his animated " Story of the Present Day," as one the frequent humour, and (towards the close of it) the vivid interest of which will cause many a reader to look forward hopefully for the appearance of the next tale from the pen of Albany Fonbianque. Davenport Dunn; a Man of Our Day. BY, Charles Lever, author of " Marry Lorrequer, &c., &c. With illustrations, by " Phiz." Chap man and Hall. Mr. Lever has added another to the long list of his popular and brilliant serials. His merits as a writer and the attractions of his style are known to many readers ; but on this occasion he has followed a somewhat different course from the one he has usually taken, and has pursued another object than that of merely entertaining the reader. He , ,. has sought to port ra y th e career o f a grea t man 01 business, the chairman of countless companies, the director of numerous railways, a member of Parlia ment, a stockbroker, and speculator par excellence, yet withal, as the vignette happily shows, a man of straw, who is ably imposing upon the throngs of admiring dupes who surround him. It is unfortu nately only too easy to discover the prototype of Davenport Dunn in " a man of our day," and lkfr. Lever has ably drawn the difficult portrait. But he does not let the interest of the story depend solely upon such an unsatisfactory individual. There la old Grog Davis, as he is familiarly termed, the sporting character, who is mixed up in some dark transactions, and from whose desperate hand Davenport Dunn at last receives the due reward of his crimes. Then, there is his beautiful daughter Lizzy, far too good and attractive for her miserable, position, and Sybella Kellett, the other heroine, one of those extraordinary young ladies whom Mr. Lever sometimes paints. The plot of the storYt though extremely complicated, affords full scoge for the display of the peculiarities of the author s style, and the introduction of thl Crimean war enables Mr. Lever to 'recur to his flivourite deScrip tions of the incidents of military life. Charles Conway, one of the heroes, or rather chief figures, for there is no regular hero, is a young Irish man, who, having frittered away a fine pro-. perty on the turf, sells his commission and enlists as a private. Mr. Beecher, too, is an ably drawn character. The manner in which the cunning Davis tyrannises over his victim is skil fully shown, but the reader c annot h e lp regretting that the fair Lizzy is left in no better company' She is one of the most interesting of the drama° personce, and her painful position awakens the reader's sympathy. There are crowds of lesser characters, and a variety of incident and elabora tion of plot that is almost bewildering. It will be a most acceptable volume to the many admirers of Mr. Lever's writings, and will probably attract the attention of many who might regard his lighter works with indifferenne. Life in Tuscany. By Mabel Sharman Crawford' Smith and Elder. Hong Kong to3ianilla. By Henry T. Ellis, B.N• Smith and Elder. These two volumes of travels take us to very different parts of the world, and show us the civl - race under very different auspices. On e treats * of the glorious and melancholy land where, the lingering memories of the past enhance the - sorrow of the present, and where the loveliness r, nature is reflected in the marvels of art. The other transports us from this mournful and beau - , tiful land of dreams to the sem i- c i v ilisation 01 the Philippines, the acquaintance of Indians , and occasionally to the matter-of-fact Pr e- sence of the very material denizens of the Celestial Empire. Mr. Ellis took advantage of siX weeks' leave of absence from his duties at Song Kong to take a trip to M an ill a , the capital `- of the largest of those islands, which wer e made so familiar to many by Gironiere's graphic account of " Twenty Years in the Philippines. The believers in this wonderful traveller's tales will be very indignant with the old man whom Mr. Ellis encountered, who contradicted many of them. They must console themselves, like our author, by think ing that age must have interfered with his memor.lG Mr. Ellis gives an entertaining account of life in these islands, and his acquaintance with the Indians and Spaniards. The numerous illustrations add to the attractions of the volume, which, as it relates to a part of the world little known or visited, will probably gratify the curious. Miss Crawford's work is more interesting. It is true that it cannot boast the charm of novelty' for the list of Italian travels must considerably in crease the difficulties of the Museum catalogue; But it is a subject which is always attractive, 11 treated with freshness and simplicity. The volume before us has an especial interest at the present time, since it is chiefly to the people of that country, their character, position, and tendencies, that the authoress has turned her attention. She justly observes, in her preface, that the classic and histe - , rival associations of Italy, and the t reas ures of ancient and modern art which it contains, have been the theme of so many eloquent writers that it would be superfluous for any one not highly qualified by learning and research, to treat of such subjects. Having lived for ten months 1 n 'Tuscany, she was enabled to form some opinions with regard to the condition of the people, which she has expressed with grace and clearness. Her, remarks on the condition of women in Italy, and the slavery and ignorance in which they are kept , are well worthy of perusal. She dwells much upon this point, and few will deny the truth of her inference as to the degrading effect of the state of Italian women on the national character. " Whic h is the farthest off, London or America ?" asked an Italian lady of the authoress one day. And on receiving the answer, g i ven w i t h secret wo nder, she remarked, " What a very large city America mus t be !" Two young ladies living in Florence were ignorant of the existence of one of the boasts of Italy—the celebrated Lake of Como. These anecdotes, and many others respecting th e strict rules which prevent women from walking ! few steps alone, are amusing enough to read, but they are startling from the amount of ignorance_ and cowardice they display, and the weakness 01 character and inertness of children brought up by such mothers is not surprising. The authoress, whose English privileges and English courage astonished her Italian friends, is well qualified to speak on such a subject, and she discusses it with an earnestness and ability that impresses the reader favourably.. Her chapters on society, manners, and, similar topics, are especially worthy of perusal, and those who do not coincide in her views of political questions' will not differ from her decisions en social matters. The incidental descriptions are well written, and the accompanying illustration s areverygood. hltac i knied subject,soneofthepleasantest volumes , on a somewhat that we have se en for some time. The Quarterly Review. No, CCV. Already in our leading columns we have referse,a to two out of the eight elaborate papers contri buted to the present number of the ever-vig0,.„1 9 old Quarterly.. The' iaper - on the "National lery," indeed, could hardly fail to command verY, general . notice, at a time when the future of that growing collection of art-treasures, and that als°. ° o the Royal Academy, hitherto the companion of 1 .., advancing fortunes, would seem to be trembling the balan ce , d epen d ant upon t h e w hi m o f his TOY Highness, upon th e t as t e o f th e t rus t ees , a nd ' 1 1 x) " the munificence of the Treasury. The chapter on " Law R e f orm " aga i n i s i nves t e d w ith interest, a s even for non-professional readers, by its direct t sociation with the genius and labours of the great of all our law reformers, and otherwise in so ?may respects one of the most illustrious men now living' Henry Lord Brougham. Carlyle's great biegronl e of " Friedrich IL of Prussia " i s th e su bject of th e opening criticism in this number of the Quarterly' in the course of which it is happily observed :--fr ,; " So far as it is possible to ex t rac t th e essen ce from 3i Carlyle's philosophy, arid reduce it to the narrow e?re; of a few words, it may p er h aps not un f a i rly b e d e scribed a system of protest in f avour o f wor k aga i ns t talk--°f ear nestness against trifling—of sincerity against pretension. Subsequently " The Minstrelsy of Scotland" - 1 recently illustrated by the distinct labours °s Charles Ro gers , Willi am A ytoun, an d Maidment—is fervently eulogised by a thoroug" appreciative reviewer. S pea ki ng of t h e son gs an ballads of old Scotia, he writes thus eloquently "Bravo youth and fair girlhood kindle at their strain' They make Scotland' s f ame smell sweet, as the breezes of the Levant smell of th e lemon-groves ! and embalm her nsacotitolanna,liitcyanasnetvheer becomehone a p honey of th ro e sa N ic o e rt o h u ' n ta try stes w o h f ilesue heather . literature survives to k eep a li ve the romance o f h er reputa tion." A chapter upon " Baron Bunsen and the Chronology of the Bible" carries us into Egypt—while another, referring, among other works of other antiquaries , to the learned Dr. Oliver, of Exeter, and hi, 111 onasticon Dicecesis xoniensis, takes us will in g l y in anoth er di rect i on, down into green, fert il e , beau: tiful " Devonshi re. " Th ere i s a ver y r eadable and gossiping 111. and Ch ar l es J ames Fox ;" an d a t the close of paper further on, in relation to " Ge or g e _ the number a comprehensive survey of '° Foreign Affairs," w ith especial reference to the war in Ita l _ springing out of the relations between Lomba rd y and Sardinia.