The Sun. — London, England, 1860-11-22 00:00:00

WRENCH PLAYS.-BIJOU THEATRE At HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, Haymarket, (Grand Entrance.) Directeur—M. Talexy. THIS EVENING, M. LE ROMAN DIM JEUNE HOMME PAUVRE. Mar. guerite, Madame Doche. Commence at 8. OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT AL a) GARDEN—under the Management f Miss LOUISA PYNE and Mr, W. HARRISON, Sole Lesse o es. THIS EVENING, THE NIGHT DANCERS. Messrs IL Haigh, H. Corti, G. Kelly, Distin, and Lyall ; Madame Palmieri, Miss Albertazzi, Miss Lefllzr, Miss Thirlwall, and Miss Huddart. And a Ballet of Action Ambuscade. Conductor —Mr. Alfred Mellon. Doors open at Seven. Commence at Half-past. , T HEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Baekstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with THE BABES IN THE WOOD. After which, THE LION SLATER. Aud THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the Leolereqa. Commence at 7. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Il , Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, an adaptation of Victor Hugo's cele brated Play of RUY BLAS, by Edmund Falconer, Esq. 1 when Mr. Pechter, the favourite actor of Parisian renown, will make his 23d appearance on the English stage, supported by Messrs. W. Lacy, Meadows, Garden, Graham, Raymond, Morland, Collett, Paulo, Daly, A. Harris ; Miss Rose ecleroq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath. To be preceded by SUSAN SMITH. To conclude with THE GARIBALDI EXCURSIONISTS THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM. Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with THE YOUNG WIDOW. Mr. H. Neville, Mr. J. Rouse, Miss Hudspeth, and Miss Rose Howard. Followed by the new drama, entitled ADRIENNE ; or THE SECRET OF A LIFE. Principal characters by Mr. Henry Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. H. Butler, Mr. Villiers, Mr. G. Vining, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Campbell„ Mr. Clifford, Mr. J. Johnstone ; Mrs. Keeley, and Madame Celeste. After which, THE PE FS OF THE PARTERRE. Fcenfc Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Calloott. The Music by Mr. George Loder. Principal characters by Mr H. Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. J. Morris, Miss M. Ternan, Miss Neville, MissHudspeth, Miss Stuart, Miss Turner,'Miss Douglas, Miss Annie Collinson, and Miss Lydia Thompson. Commence at 7. DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. - Bole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster. Engagement for a limited number of nights of Mies Agnes Robertson and Mr. Dion Boucloault, who will appear every evening in the highly successful Drama of The Colleen Bawn." THIS EVENING, THE RIFLE BRIGADE. Messrs. W. Smith, D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss V? oolgar, Miss Kate Kelly, and Mrs. Billington. - After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boncicault, D. risher, Millington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with MUSIC HATH CHARMS. Mr. David Fisher. Doors open at half-past 6 —Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 2s. • Family Boxes,'Xl. O r chestra Stalls, 55. ; Balcony , ; Front Circle Stalls, :5 • Pit Sta ll s, 25.; Is. 6d. ; Amphitheat re , is ;6d.. Acting Manager—Mr, Win. Smith; A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Was. BATTY. Triumphant success and increasing popularity of the Grand Spectacle of Roims HOOD. Last Six Nights. This Evening, the highly successful new Spectacle, in Three Acts, by 113. Fitzball, Esq., entitled ROBIN HOOD ; or. the Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; Introducing the Stud of hihly trained Horses, Herd of real Deer, Stag Hounds, &c, Ailan a-Dale, Kiss Rebecca Isaacs ; Robin Mood, Mr. John Prit chard. TO — be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by the celebrated Madame Newsome, Mr. James Newsome and their Troupe of unegnalled performers, &c., including the incomparable Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest Wonder of the age. Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7. 3oz-office open daily from 11 till 4 Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS. EVERY EVENDTG, A Grand Selection from the opera of NORMA. Norma Miss RUSSELL. Adalgisa .................... Madame MARIA, (Her first appearance in this country.) After which (for this week only) the ETHIOPIANS, consist ing of Seventeen Performers of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Negro Delineations, Anecdotes, &c. Principal Negro Artistes, Messrs. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H. Drummond, and Charley F•x. Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGHMANS. In lieu of any of which disastrous results, have we ' not seen commerce and agriculture increasing and improving more rapidly than even the most san guine advocates of the substitution of Free Trade for Monopoly ever ventured to predict ? Remem bering all which, who can marvel that the President of the Board of Trade—or let us rather call him at once the President of the Board of Free-Trade—en forces that inference already insisted upon so strongly by Mr. BRIGHT only the evening before at Wake field, that as in regard to the abolition of the Corn Laws in 1846, so now in regard to the Commercial Treaty negotiated by Mr. COBDEN in 1860 between France and England ! Mr. GIBSON observes, in fact, point blank to his constituents at Ashton under-Lyne, that he had observed a sensible remark made by Mr. BRIGHT at Wakefield—" that it was a strange thing that 30,000,000 of people in Eng land and 36,000,000 of people in France, separated only by a narrow sea, could not just as well have as extensive a trade with each other as with people separated by the Atlantic !" The reasonableness of this simple reflection tends most materially to the enhancement of the satis faction with which Mr. GIBSON has watched, as President of the Board of Trade, the slow but steady, and at last the completely successful nego tion by (we had almost said his colleague) Mr. COBDEN, of this new treaty between France and England. May his predictions, too, in regard to that treaty, like those of his brother Free Traders of Rochdale and Birmingham, be even partially fulfilled—it is our earnest aspiration. ISpeaking next of the income tax, speaking of it, remember, as a Cabinet Minister, Mr. GIBSON can find nothing better to say about it, in reference to its continuance, and to its continuance, too, at the high rate of 10d. in the pound, in the very year (1860) in which it was to " cease and determine," and by the very financier who had seven years back elabo rately pre-arranged that it should thus in 1860 " cease and determine"—Mr. GIBSON as a Minis terial colleague of Mr. GLADSTONE could find nothing better to say about this ever odious and detestable Income-tax, than that, after all, It does not now bear a larger proportion than in past times to the current war expenditure ! As if that one astounding reflection were in this matter of the Income-tax an anodyne for all the pangs in flicted by it ! Nay, so perfectly satisfied is Mr. GIBSON apparently that this thought can but prove such an anodyne if only it could be sufficiently well realised by the Income-tax-payers, that he goes on in his speech of last evening to explain to these extremely obtuse-minded people—that really he finds, up . on a careful examination of the subject, that we do not pay as much of the war expendi ture out of the Income-tax as we used to do ! ," Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Income-tax," he says, " paid 36 per cent. of the war expenditure," whereas now-0 ! wonderful consolation !—now, with a war expen diture of £30,000,000 in a year of peace !—" the Income-tax at 10d. in the pound pays no more than 32 per cent." In other words, JOHN BULL is solemnly assured by Mr. GIBSON in reference to this particular torture of the Income-tax—like the "Boot" of the Inquisition—this expanding and contracting Boot of the Income-tax, that about a score of years ago poor, innocent JOHN " put his foot in" at the earnest recommendation of his Finan cial Physician—JOHN BULL is now gravely assured by Mr. GIBSON that this dreadful boot of the Income-tax don't pinch in the least, even though at the very moment when he is so assured it is screwed up excruciatingly to the mark of 10d. in the £l, and when the unhappy victim is standing under the unusual weight (upon:his mind as well as upon his shoulders) of £30,000,000 by way of war expenditure in a year (nominally) of European tranquillity. Mr. GIBSON'S one only reason for indulging in this amiable, but rather feeble conso lation—being the fact merely that formerly the screw relaxed just a twist or two in the worm of it, when JOHN was a trifle less heavily weighted in the shape of a war expenditure ! The fact is, in truth, becoming more and more painfully felt and realised by the indus trial masses in this country, that of all the odious taxes in this land of taxes the Income Tax is the most intolerable and unendurable—particu larly when inflicted upon the country according to the present cruel, unjust, and grinding mode of assessment. In regard to the inequalities of which most unequal mode of assessment Mr. GIBSON has not one syllable to say, even in the way of an attempt at apology or extenuation. It is a remin der to us of what is in truth one of the most flagrant shortcomings of the Manchester School of Politicians. As thick-and-thin advocates of the obdurate continuance of the Income Tax as at pre sent assessed, Mr. GasoN and his friends of the Manchester School are laying up for themselves securely, in the hearts of very many of their Liberal constituents, it may be a tardy, but it will certainly also (should this insensate course of theirs be persisted in) an inevitable and a sweeping reta liation. The rumour which kept us, and perhaps our evening contemporaries on the qui Sive yesterday till the very moment of going to press, turns out, as we fully expected it would, a hoax —we wonder whether another rumour, generated from a source which has often proved true, will also prove a hoax. A very short time sufficed to prove that we were not to be honoured by a visit from an incognito Emperor following his fair Empress, and bringing most pacific prospects, and a sudden rise in the funds, with him. It will take much longer to assure us of the reasons for which a French jour nalist is permitted to send forth from the well known press of DENTU a pamphlet to prove that Louis NAPOLEON ought to be Pope as well as Emperor of the French. Were a parallel brochure to appear in England it would hardly attract notice enough to sell an edition ; but, of course, they do things differently in France; and in a country where the purse and liberty of every writer, printer, and publisher are at the mercy of M. BILLAULT, everything that issues from the press will be thought to have its significance. It is " inspired," or " suggested," or " permitted"— and then come the inquiries into the reasons for the various degrees of Imperial inspiration ; all of which suppositions and ratiocinations, ridiculous as they would be on such occasions here; are really Perfectly rational respecting what is published on the other side of the water. Possibly Louis NAPOLEON knew nothing what ever about the pamphlet referred to, till it was emerging into; l w ig e ht e . an fl f u es t s , quite as possibly, he kne w all about it that he did. O ur readers w m e ay th l i i n k k e to it see eotsht the style of the French pamphleteer' s argument before we add a few more remarks on it. Here are his con clusions, which, it will not be denied, are lucid enough : " Victoria of England is Qu on and pope (Reine et Popesse). " The King of Prussia is King and Pope. " The Protestant Sovereigns of the Germanic Confedera tion exercise at the same time political and religious power. " In Sweden, Denmark, and Norway the Kings are • Popes. " Alexander 11., Emperor of Russia, is Czar and Pontitt. " Otho of Bavaria is King and Pope at Athens. " The Sultan of the Turks is Emperor and Pope. " And we must add that in nearly all these States, espe. Balcony, la,— .....—.Hall. Bd. THE WEATHER.—Stm OFFICE, Nov. 22, 1860. THERMOMETER, IN TEE SHADE. 50—highest since noon yesterday. 44—lowest this morning and during the night. ahi 4B—this day at noon. omETER-29.50 ; it rose from 29.45 this morning, Wlr indicates that the storm has abated. WrxD—Westerly ; light, with dull weather, and sun shine occasionally. The storm of rain and wind yesterday was very heavy along the Channel. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, Bh. 54m.—Afternoon, 9h. 27m. To-MORROW.-Morning, 9h. 59m.—Afternoon, 10h. 31m. The Right Hon. MILNER GIBSON last night had his say too at Ashton-Under-Lyne. Gradually one by one as the long recess or vacation glides on we are obtaining a glimpse of what is thought of things in general by the chief of our political nota bilities. Yesterday we had to comment upon the remarks of the member for Birmingham. To-day reference must be made to those of the member for Ashton-under-Lyne, who, if individually less conspicuous as a representative man than his emi nent associate in the advocacy of free-trade prin ciples, is at any rate a man of very considerable abilities, and one to whose words attaches the official importance appertaining to the utterances of a Cabinet Minister of the Crown. It is especially in his administrative capacity as President of the Board of Trade that Mr. GIBSON last evening addressed himself to the consideration of the actual position of the mercantile system of this country in his speech to his constituency at Ashton-under- Lyne. And at the very outset of his observations it is peculiarly remarkable and consolatory to no'te how full of encouragement, in every way, are the facts, Mr. GIBSON, as President of the Board of Trade, has to adduce in evidence of the present state and immediate prospects of the mercantile system of England, whether examined in detail or -v iewed comprehensively. As a Free Trader, the right hon• gentleman may well exult to note the still visible and appreciable increase of our enor mous export trade, notwithstanding the extraor dinary magnitude that trade has already attained. Within the first nine months of this present year of grace (18 60 , ), Mr. GIBSON reminds us that the value of theezp o rts of British produce has attained within those nine months a total of £102,000,000, the value of those exports having been in the corn responding i ;Lae mo n th s „ of the preceding twelve= month (1859) four millians les s , nanaely,X9B,ooo,ooo. Analysing that grand aggregate of £102,000,000, Mr. GIBSON notes with compre h ensible satisfaction proportion of the w h ole, n is derivable o e l x e c s l s u a si s v u e m ly , in fact, than £ 48,000,000, how large a from the cotton manufacture. Re re minds the shipping interest again that it, too, has cause for self-gratulation in certain equally prehensible signs of improvement. Comparing the nine months of 'sixty with the nine months 0 'fifty-eight, there is found, for example, an increase of no less than 785,522 tons in the British tonnage cleared with cargoes, as contrasted with an increase in the same way of 475,165 tons in the Foreign tonnage—proof positive that the British shipping interest even still more than simply " holds its own" against " all-corners" in the way of unfettered competition. " Where be your gibes now"—O you antideluvian pre-Adamite Pro tectionists ? In the presence of such facts and figures as these--" Alas, how chapfallen !" Why, according to the predictions of the old world, cham • Pions of Monopoly, commerce was to collapse utterly under the evil influence of unrestricted competition —British Bottoms" were no longer to float in our ports—shipowners and shipbuilders were to fall under the ruining influence of the Free Trade doc- trines as irretrievably as the Farmers themselyos. . _ _ . r:F m T „ o -t "-t - ~...41•• • - THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, NOV. 22, 1860. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 22 , IS6O. cially in England and Prussia, the union of the two powers has promoted the development of the national instincts and of liberty. " Does not England enjoy constitutional immunities? " Is not Prussia at the head of German Liberalism ? " What is useful for others will be good and useful for our dear France, a land so fertile in all grand and gene rous ideas. In the name, then, of the country and of the national will; in the name of religion, endangered by am bitions which have no longer any reason for their existence ; in the name of human progress inaugurated in 1789—in the name of tolerance and free will—the two great laws of modern times, in the name of the security of all, and of peace—let the head of the State at last unite in one and the same grasp the political power, and the administration of public worship. Let the political government in future have no longer two distinctive centres—Paris and Rome— that is to say two centres of civilisation and of obscurantism. Let the French clergy, as the only body combining the science and the morality necessary to direct public worship, no longer receive its inspirations from abroad, but from its conscience and its patriotism. The priest should be above all, a citizen, and serve the State which pays him Rome is a factitious country; the moment is come to declare for France." Now, we can easily imagine more than one reason why such outspoken sentiments should be published, in a form, certainly, very telling with Frenchmen, and altogether in accordance with the traditional in dependence of the Gallican Church. The French are not, like the Irish, a people naturally half disposed to worship the POPE. At one time they may be said to have had a Pope of their own ; and their prelates, in past times, have contended as earnestly against popes for church franchises, as ever mo narchs have done for their civil independence. Latterly there has been a prelatical, and perhaps, in some measure, a clerical tendency to ultramon tanism, but it may be questioned whether even the ignorant but excitable French peasantry are not quite ready to respond to the cry for Gallic Church Independence. If then it be feasible to discuss such a subject, whyis it discussed ? For one thing, it looks quite as liberal as despotic to propose that the Re presentative of all Frenchmen should be their head in all causes, " ecclesiastical as well as civil," as we phrase it here. If it glorifies an Emperor, it also glorifies France in his person ; it makes her inde pendent, self-contained, self-competent, ecclesias tically as well as civilly. Then there may also be other reasons at home and abroad. It may serve as a hint to Bishops who abuse their relation to Rome as an instrument for vexing the Government, that the Government has an ecclesiastical coup d'etat on the cards, which would enable the EMPEROR to speak to his Bishops in the style adopted by our " glorious Queen BEss" to the Bishop of ELY. The Bishops know also full well that they have a cunning and a resolute man to deal with, and may think it wiser to become suddenly very loyal than to wake up some fine morning —perhaps December 2d, 1860—and find thenaselves some in prison, some crossing the frontiers, and all the remainder meekly giving their allegiance to the side on which— " their bread was buttered." Such things as this last we in England saw enough of when we ac cepted our great Royal POPE. We do not know whether it has ever occurred to our readers, that M. CAYLA'S argument from facts is substantially correct. The Sovereigns of whom he speaks are substantially the Popes of their re spective countries—and our gracious QUEEN the Papesse of our own. The CZAR more openly in sists on his supremacy over the Russian Greek Church, and the SULTAN is supreme in Islam through veneration for the hereditary representa tive of the prophet ; and the other Monarchs have by law or custom more or less power in their respective countries. But, here, our QUEEN'S supremacy is no figment. At least it is no more of one, than her supremacy in civil matters. In both she necessarily acts through her servants, and through her courts of law. All the rulers of the Church here are nominated by her, and a large proportion of the livings themselves are at her disposal. But not only that. The decision of the doctrine of the Church rests with her. We have seen, in our time, one of the most mysterious of transcendental doctrines—the nature, namely, of baptismal regeneration, settled by the QUEEN through her Judicipl Committee of Privy Council. The nature of the divine presence in the Eucharist seems also likely, sooner or later, to be submitted to ;the same tribunals. We know not that the doctrine of the infallibility of the POPE extends much beyond this. He, we believe, before decree ing anything to be the doctrine of the Catholic Church, hears all that can be said on both sides of the question. He decides, in fact, after a full can vassing of the subject by counsel on both sides— and certainly, in principle, this is what Queen VIC TORIA did in the celebrated GORHAM case. She settled the doctrine for her Church; in the main by much the same method as the POPE settled the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception for his. If the French pamphleteer, and his possible prompter, want a case to gild their own, they cer tainly cannot do better than refer to England. It will look like following the freeest institutions in Europe, while it will be, in truth, selecting their monarchical portions, and adding them to the monarchical part of the present French system. As to the bearing of such a change on the prospects of liberty in France, it is by no means clear that it must be favourable. The clergy would, of course, be more dependent than they now are on the Go vernment, but whether the Court of Rome, or the Court of Paris, be most inimical to liberty, it is hard to say. Rome has never espoused the cause of peoples against Sovereigns but for some selfish purpose. Her natural and general instinct has been, to aid rulers in putting their feet on the necks of their people. For this she has always taken care to have her price, especially in making concordats. We, naturally like to see other countries freed from all inter meddling on the part of that foreign Prince, potentate, or bishop, for whom Englishmen have such a strong hereditary aversion ; but it is by no means quite certain that, just now, French Catholics might not find that they had exchanged King LOG for King STORK. Perhaps it may be said that they have both Kings now. True ; and the inertia of the one may afford as little shelter occasionally against the other. But the chief benefit of the change, which Englishmen can but think of with pleasure, would pr.ebably be future. France would doubtless develope herself more naturally, and probably better, were she not ex- posed to foreign influence. Who can tell what Ireland might have been by this time had her creed united her with the intelligence and indus try of England and Scotland, and not with the retrogressive States under Papal influence. For, account for it how we will, the States of Europe rank, in respect of civilised energy, very much in proportion to their independence of the See of Rome. The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow (Friday) at Windsor Castle. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived at Gloucester House, yesterday, from visiting her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The Countess of Caledon has arrived at Carlton house. terrace from Ireland. Vicount Palmerston gave a dinner last evening :o the Cabinet Ministers, at his residence in Piccadilly. Lord and Lady De Table.; have been entertaining a succession of visitors during tile past week at their seat in Cheshire. A marriage is arranged to take place between the Lady Victoria Howard, oldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, and Mr. J. R. Hope-Soltt, Q.C., of Abbotsford, whose first wife, it will be remembered, was gritUddaugb.ter of Sir Walter Scott. MADAME CLARA NOYELLO'S FARE- WELL CONCERT. Madame Clara Novello has taken her farewell — her last farewell—of the public, Her career—the most brilliant that any English vocal performer has had during the present century—is ended, and she retires into private life, carrying with her the regret and good wishes cf every one who has derived from her performances the highest and most refined pleasures which the art of music can bestow, and of every one who has had the means of knowing, from personal acquaintance, her many virtues and amiable qualities. The announcement of her farewell concert created much excitement in our musical circles, and drew, last evening, the greatest audience we have ever seen in St. James's Hall. Long before the doors (+el:led, the lines of carriages in Regent-street extended as far as the Polytechnic Institution; there were numbers of them approach ing by all the neighbouring streets; and in a short time every part of the building was densely crowded. The concert was in three parts, and in each part Madame Novello was heard. In the first she sang one piece, but it was one which has always been one of her grandest efforts—the magnificent scena, " Ocean, thou mighty monster," from Weber's " Oberon." The beautiful song, " Mark the waves that rippling play," sung by Undine with a chorus of female voices, produced an immense sensation. The applause from every part of the hall was so loud and prolonged that the fair prima donna could not but interpret it as an encore, and, though she had retired from the orchestra, she returned, and the piece was repeated with undiminished effect. The concert concluded with " God save the Queen," Madame Novello singing the solos. Shr.., made her parting obeisance, and retired from the orchestra amid acclamations and waving of hats and handkerchiefs from all parts of the hall. PARTIAL DESTRUCTION OF THE COLDBATFI FIELDS ROUSE OF CORRECTION BY FIRE. Shortly after 10 o'clock this morning the greatest excite ment was occasioned by the breaking out of a Are in the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields. The fire was discovered by one of the warders, who in stantly gave notice to the officers of the prison, and in a few minutes active steps were taken to confine, if not extinguish, the conflagration in the apart ment in the east wing, in which it originated. Expresses were instantly sent off to the different statims of the London Fire Brigade, and in a very short time a number of engines arrived and set to work instantly, but with apparently little effect, as the flames appeared to be rapidly spreading. A mounted messenger was despatched to Engineer:Gerard for the attendance of the newly-in vented land steam engine, which quickly arrived, and com menced operations in admirable style ; but notwithstand ing the immense jets of water that were discharged from the hose of tke different engines, the fire got hold of the store room of the prison, and burned with great fury. The brigade men continued their exertions, and after some considerable time the conflagration was so far extin guished as to prevent all apprehensions of danger for the western portion of the building. Up to three o'clock the engines were still playing upon the building, which, of course, has suffered very con siderable injury.' The Right Hon, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart., 3LP., is at Corfu, engaged in literary pursuits. The right hon. baronet, who, we are glad to learn, is in im proved health, is not expected to return home until the spring. A HERO REWARDED.—Ensign Chaplin, who so greatly distinguished himself before the Taku Forts, has been promoted to a lieutenancy, without purchase, in the 100th Foot. WALBROOIC WARD.—The nomination of candi dates for the vacant aldermanic gown of Walbrook Ward, took place this afternoon, at the School-rooms, Oxford court, Cannon-street. The gentlemen seeking the honour are Mr. John Linklater and Mr. James Clark Lawrence. The polling will take place to-morrow from 10 to 4. ME ROAD MURDER.—It was fully expected this morning that an application would be made in the Court of Queen's Bench for a re-opening of coroner's in quisition on the body of John Saville Kent, but in conse quence of their lordships being occupied with the hearing of the arguments in a very long and intricate case relating to some building transactions, the motion for a writ ad tnelius inquirenduin, was postponed. It is very probable it will be made to-morrow morning. REPRESENTATION OF SOUTHWARK.—Last night a meeting of the inhabitants of the borough of Southwark was held at St. George's Tavern, Lambeth-road, to take into consideration the best means to be adopted to secure the return of a representative in the room of the late Sir Charles Napier; Mr. Evan B. Jones, of the Southwark bridge-road, was called to the chair. Mr. Day moved a resolution to the effect " That in the opinion of this meeting, from the expression of liberal opinions Mr. Scovell has given, he was well qualified to represent the borough in Parliament." The resolution having been seconded, some discussion took place, which resulted in an amendment being moved by Mr. Dredge in favour of Mr. Fawcett,which was declared to be carried by a large majority. Mr. Llewellyn then moved the following amendment " That, in the opinion of this meeting, Mr. Layard is a fit and proper person to represent the borough in the Commons' House of Parliament, and that a deputation be appointed to present this resolution to him, with a request that ho would allow himself to be put in nomination for the repre sentation of the borough." Mr. White seconded the amend ment, which was carried unanimously. THE FATAL FIRE AT POPLAR.—The fire, which we noticed on Tuesday last, in which a poor girl 13 years of age was burnt to death, and Mr. Donovan, who occupied the upper part of the house, was, together with one of his daughters, terribly burnt in endeavouring to escape from the burning building, has proved of a mor e di sas t rous cha racter than was at rst expected. Yesterday morning it was announced that the unfortunate girl, who was removed to the London Hospital, had expired in that institution from the effects of the burns reeeived, and that no hopes could be entertained of the recovery of her unfortunate father. It is therefore expected that Mr. Humphreys, the coroner, will not go fully into the inquiry until the state of Mr. Donovan is officially ascertained. GREAT FIRE AT MANCHESTER.—MANCHESTER, Wednesday Evening.---A fire, which threatens to be ono of the most extensive that has occurred for many years past in this city,was discovered about half-past four o'clock this afternoon in an old manufactory belonging to Messrs. Birley, near Oxford-street. Six fire-engines had been de spatched up to five o'clock, but it appears that the flames are rather making progress than likely to be subdued. Many of the workpeople are still inside the mill, some of them screaming for help. Efforts have been made with fire-escapes to rescue them. Great fear is felt for the safety of extensive gasworks almost adjoining, as well as for a neighbouring sugar refinery and much of the adjoin ing mill property. Loss OF SEVEN LIVES.—A sad catastrophe oc curred last Wednesday night. A sloop called the Charlotte was on her way from Leeds to Lincoln with a cargo of rape cake, and while taking the turning from the river Ouse into the river Trent she came in violent collision with a sand bank and capsized. The tide was running at the rate of eight knots an hour at the time, and the unfortunate vessel turned completely over, bottom upwards. There wero seven persons on board at the time, the whole of whom were drowned. They consisted of the commander of the sloop, Capt. Taylor, his wife, and two children ; the mate, named William Hopkinson • and a young wo man an d a b oy, who were going to Lincoln. Another ve sse l was near at h and when the Charlotte capsized, but no assistance could be rendered to any of the persons on board the unfortunate sloop. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—A young male example of a very scarce and little• known animal of the swine family —the babirussa—has just been received by the Zoolegical Society, and is now placed in their gardens in the Regent's park. The adult babirussa is remarkable for the extraor dinary development of his tusks, which turn upwards and backwards, and form a semicircle nearly meeting the jaws again. The whole contour of the animal is also very dif ferent from that of the true pig. The babirussa is a native of the island of Celebes, in the Indian Archipelago, and obtained its name from the extraordinary idea of the Malays that it originates in a cross between a pig (baba) and a dear (russa). The present is believed to be the second individual that has been brought to Europe alive, a previous example, obtained by Sir Edward 13elcher during one of his explor ing voyages, having lived for a few weeks in the society's gar:lens in 1841. SINGULAR LONGEVITY OF THE BRITISH PEERAGE. —lt is not a little remarkable that the members of the Peerage who have died since the year commenced, 24 in number, have exactly completed, on the average, the full measure of the allotted span of human life, the " three score years and ten." They are as follows :—Viscount Ar buthnett, 82; Lord Londesborough, 54; Viscount South well, 83 ; Viscount Gormanston, 84 ; Lord Orantnore, 72 ; Bishop of Rochester, 84; Earl of Longford, 42; Baroness *Stratheden. 63 ; Lord Fitzgerald, 60 ; Viscount Gnillamore, 27 ; Baroness Wentworth, 67 ; Earl of Strafford, 82; Lord lleytesbury, 80 ; Archbishop of York, 71; Lord Sandys, 68 ; Lord Elphinstone, 53 ; Bishop of Worcester, 77 ; Earl of Lauderdale, 76; Earl of Cawdor, 70 ; Lord Ffrench, 74 ; Earl of Leven and Melville, 75; Duke of Richmond, 69; Earl Manvors, 82; Earl of Dundonald, 85. Total of united ages, 1,680 years, which, being divided by 24, gives exactly 70 years to each. This result, it is to be believed, could not be shown among any other class of men in any rank of life. SMOKING ON TUE RAILWAY.—The directors of the London and South-Western Railway, through their Secretary, Mr. L. Crombie, have made an appeal to the common-sense of the smoking public. They leave deter• mined to stop the practice of smoking in carriages, in con sequence of the annoyance i n fli c t e d b y t h ose who disregard the rules on the great majo r it y o f t rave ll ers, not only wile smoking but also from the offensive state of the carriages to those who enter them afterwards. The directors have invited the co-operation of the passengers in discountenan cing the practice of smoking on the railway, and they trust that those who, without due consideration for the conve- nience of others, have violated the published regulations, will in future abstain from a habit which so ranch inter- urea yfith the general comfort, LATEST NEWS. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) TURIN, Nov, 22. General Goyon is said to have declared that he would not deliver the materiel belonging to the Bourbon troops who had taken refuge in the Roman States either to Francis IL or to King Victor Emmanuel. Negotiations are however being continued on this subject. TURIN, Nov. 21. It is asserted that the rumours respecting a loan to be shortly negotiated by the Sardinian Government are completely false. The clergy in the Neapolitan provinces have paid homage to King Victor Emmanuel. ROME, Nov. 21. The Dowager Queen of Naples has arrived here With the princess and the young children. They have taken up their residence in the Quirinal. The young Queen remains at Gaeta with the princes. The French are about to occupy Terracina. PARIS, Nov. 21. The Paris papers assert that the necessary measures have been resolved upon by the direc tors of the Turkish Bank for buying up the kaimes at Constantinople, and withdrawing them from circulation. FRANCE. The Constitutionnel said, in substance, a day or two ago, with reference to L'Empereur—Pape, that it was all a mistake to suppose that in France there were restrictions on the freedom of the press. The following is an apt comment on that state ment : " Considering the 32d article of the Organic Decree on the press ;-- "Considering the judgments of the Bth and 12th of Decem ber, 1859 : " Considering the number of the 12th of November; — "Considering that this number contains violent attacks on the constitution and the laws of the country ; " Considering, moreover, that this journal, under pretence of defending the interests of religion, makes constant efforts to excite political passions ; " Orders,—the journal called the Franee Centrale is sus pended for two months. " The Prefect is charged with the execution of the present decree. _ " Paris, Nov. 17, 1860. "BILLAULT. BOURSE, November 21.—The market has been rather heavy, speculators appearing to anticipate a further rise by the Bank of France in its rate of discount at the meeting of the council, which takes place to morrow. For the Account, Threes are now at 70f ; Mobilier, 763 f 75c ; Orleans, 1,385 f ; Northern, 986 f 25c ; Mediterranean, 910 f; Austrian, 513 f 75c ; Lombard, 485 f. The following are the last quotations :- 41' per per Cents 96 10 Do end month 96 20 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 15 Bank Shares 2945 Credit Mobilier 766 25 Do, Account 770 —‘ Credit Fonder 915 Belgian 4f Piedmontese Fives BO 50 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes 49 Home Debt .. 4B 50 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto Lyons and Meclitorranean 911 25 .. 910 Geneva 3BO .. 380 Southern Western Eastern .... . Sardinian Austrian .. . 5ll 25 .. 515 Lour fand 486 25 .. 488 75 THE BRITISH LEGION AT NAPLES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—A paragraph in the last letter from your able correspond ent at Naples, in your impression of Monday last, in calculated to give great uneasiness to the relatives and friends of the men composing the English Legion now stationed at Caserta. I only returned front Naples last night, and, as I hal a good deal of intercourse with both the offi cers and men of the legion, and am fully acquainted with the facts of their case, I hope you will give me a place in your columns to explain to their friends and the country generally that for the pre sent melancholy position of the regiment the men are not so much to blame. Before I left Naples the legion was completely disOrganised ; many of the officers had resigned in disgust, and the men were leaving it in dozens, I might almost say in hundreds, and by this time I dare say there is no legion left. And not without cause. From the first day the men landed at Naples, up to the hour I left, they were badly treated, and all the affairs of the corps were mis managed in the grossest manner. Ido not wish to say one disparaging word of Colonel Peard, who is as brave a soldier as ever lived; but at the same time I must not conceal the fact that the unanimous opi nion of his own officers and men was, that he was not just the maxi to command them; and that, had they been under the orders of Major Styles, things would have borne a very different aspect. You must remember that, although a few roughs had got amongst them, the great majority of the men in the legion were gentlemen ; many of the men in the ranks had seen active service in India and the Crimea, and, animated by a love of adventure or of liberty, had come to Italy to fight for Garibaldi. Such men were severe critics of their commanding officer's acts. To manage them required more than usual prudence, tact, and judgment. The first thing which shook their faith in Colonel Peard's ability to lead them was this :—On the night of the 24th of October he ordered the men under arms at midnight for the purpose of making an attack upon Capua. When they had assembled he haranged them on the glory they should win if they succeeded. Major Styles and the other officers refused to obey his orders; but two companies actually followed the colonel, who led them up to the very bastions of Capua. For tanately, in the darkness of the night, they were not discovered by the Neapolitan sentinels, or evory man of them must have been sacrificed. I. marched with the legion from St. Angelo to Teano. The men complained to me that they had received no pay; many of them were without shoes, and I saw more than one poor fellow trudging along with his feet tied up in rags. There was no commissariat, although it was said Colonel Peard had been offered one and refused it; there were no ambulances for the sick ; no medical stores ; many of the men were dying from diarrhoea, and Dr. Fairley, the surgeon of the regiment, had not one ounce of medicine of any kind, and bitterly complained to me that he could not get any. On the march back from Teano to St. Angelo five Englishmen were found looting a farm house by some members of Garibaldi 's staff, who sent them under an escort to be dealt with as Colonel Peard should direct. , He at once, without inquiry or trial of any kind, ordered the men to be shot. The picket told off for the purpose refused to obey orders, and would not fire. The colonel sent to Garibaldi for a detach ment of Italians to shoot the condemned men a s hi s own regiment was in a state of mutiny. Gari baldi replied that it would be a disgrace to the English if he were to do so, and asked Colonel Peard to pardon them. I do not fur a moment justify the men for looting; but when they had no food, and were obliged to forage for themselves, they surely deserved some kind of trial. On the same march I saw Captain Hampton guilty of an act of cruelty to one of the sergeants of his company for which Colonel Peard should have drummed him out of the regiment, and be was not even repri manded. Now, sir, these are a few of the facts which came under my own observation. I heard of many others quite as bad, with which I shall not trouble you. Can you wonder then, that the men are all anxious to leave the legion, and that many of them are sorry they ever left England ? Many of them have joined the French Legion, others have joined the artillery corps under Colonel Dowling, while a few have joined the cavalry under Colonel Forbes. When I last saw the legion on parade at Caserta, out of 800 men there were not 300 present on the ground, the others having left the regiment. That these men were brave and could fight, they sufficiently proved on the morning of Friday, the 19th October, when, attacked by Neapolitans five times their number, they drove them back with a shout under the very walls of Capua, and taught them a lesson which they will not soon forget. Such, owieg to mismanagement and injudicious selec tions of officers and incompetency on the part of those appointed to lead them, is the inglorious ending of the British Legion, which is the more to be regretted, as a finer body of brave men were never brought together ; and, led by officers in whom they had complete confidence, there were no achievements too hazardous and glorious for them to attempt and perform. As a guarantee of good faith I have the honour to subscribe myself, sir, your obedient servant, T. MASON JONES. 10, Cheltenham-terrace, Nov. 21. LITERATURE. High Planes. By G. J. Louth, author of " The Wanderer in Arabia." 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. This is a peculiar style of work, yet one which deserves regard and merits attention, inasmuch as it contains passages of elevated thought, and reveals some noble sentiments and genial instincts. There is not much story, as far as that goes, but what constitute the chief attractions of the works are the descriptions. This is not often the ease, as many a novel-reader will testify, who in agonised impa- tience or angry disappointment has hurried over or entirely skipped whole pages of wonderful accounts while longing to unravel the mystery of a narative or learn the fate impending for a hero or a heroine. Here we meet with refreshing observations, and the reflections of Mr. Brande are eminently worthy of notice. His desire to raise the thoughts and exalt the spirit of his granddaughter Edla is evi dent in his words and actions, and few could have climbed the high places with such an ardent worshipper of nature without returning in some way wiser and better. For truth and sense the following remarks are most distinguished, and many a would-be ,moralist might learn something from them —lt can hardly be consistent with the character of Christian kindliness to ill-use or neglect the meanest creatures of their Maker. The lines of the poet are beautifully expressed : He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small, For the great God who loyeth us, He made and loveth all. " Let no one say that much kindly feeling and even valuable affection is thrown away and wasted upon a lower creature—a mere fancy, and which might be so much better expended on human beings, family relatives or poor persons. It would be a mistake so to think and estimate the case. It is a good and a beneficial thing for the human breast that the affections, which are a part, and the best part, of it, should be cultivated and kept in exercise. The more these are brought out into action the better for the indivi dual, and for those in communication with him. There is no possibility of wasting the affections. The more they are used the more they gain—the more they are expended the more they abound and increase. It is not using them freely, even lavishly, that chills the growth and limits them. There is many an act of affection done for a dumb animal which is a value and a gain, not only to the doer, but indirectly to many persons ; ane there is many an animal which is the real spark of the warmth that spreads itself from the small hearth out over the circle of a village, or a town, or a people. There is many a household that has much of its happiness in the affections lavished on some one of God's humble creatures, affections which are the fire on the hearth, and on which, without this, there would sit the deformed genii of carelessness and indifference." The character of Edla is well described, and Mary is a very efficient contrast. The career of this latter young maiden is most interesting, and her various extraordinary adventures form quite a romance. She was placed ' in a very trying position for so young and inexpe rienced a girl, and she admirably acquitted her self in the trying ordeal. The two cousins, Adol phus and Charles, are very different. With all his apparent carelessness and. affected coldness, Charles possessed much sense and feeling. The account of the chase after the fugitive pair bound for America is most exciting, and the awfully sudden death of the wretched Carlton is a most impressive warning to all who, like him, are intent on their own e n d s , and seek but to gratify their vile ambition. There is much to interest in the true nature of the records here transcribed of domestic life ; while there is also, as has before been said, much to attract attention in the depth of thought evidenced in the reflective passages. The old Domitor's death is very im pressively described. Turning to Mary, he said, pointing at the same time to the height of Cheese ford Head, which was plainly visible with the long high slope of the hill from where they were all sitting, " There, Mary," he said, " there is your King, and he has his crown on full of honour, such as God's hand made it, the place of glory." The old man paused a moment, and then he sud denly said, '° I see another King above it, in his own high place, and he beckons me. I come, I come." Valentine .Duval. An Autobiography of the last Century. Edited by the author of "Mary Powell." Bentley. The life of Valentine Duval, a poor peasant boy, who, after narrowly escaping starvation, raised himself by slow degrees to a recognised position in the world of science and letters, cannot be without interest to the readers of these self-helping days. Though he has left nothing tangible behind him by which to mark his superiority, yet his love of truth and simplicity, his earnest pursuit of know ledge under the greatest difficulties, and the up rightness and consistency of his life, through all vicissitudes, render him well worthy of a more last ing and extensive record than the passing allusion of contemporaneous writers, or a few brief lines in the pages of a biography. The editress herself re marks "As Duval neither wrote any books nor made the world the better or wiser by any remark able inventions or discoveries, there may be some who will say To what end, then, write his life ?' There is greatness in being as well as in doing ; and there are things worth living for, besides in venting, discovering, and writing." Duval is first introduced to us as a poor peasant boy, keeping turkeys, who having lost his place, and being un able tofind another, nearly perished from cold and want during the terrible winter of 1709, which produced an absolute famine among the French. peasantry. To add to his afflictions while wan dering about in search of employment, he was seized with small-pox, and narrowly escaped with his life. After undergoing the severest hardships he took up his abode with a hermit, as his servitor. This kind old man was his first instructor, and having gained the first steps in learning he was thenceforward able to follow his own course. He subsequently went as servitor to a small religious community, where his secret studies scandalised the old monks, who thought ignorance and holiness inseparable. Duval's favourite plan was to snare game in the forest and sell the skins to the furriers to obtain the means of purchasing the books neces sary for the prosecution of his studies. One day one of the brotherhood obtained access to his cell, and was horror stricken by discovering astronomical charts, geometrical problems, and scientific instru ments. Convinced of the impious character of such necromantic proceedings, Brother Anthony posted off to a neighbouring town to implore the assistance of a Carmelite friar, who was his confessor. The Carmelite could not help laughing when he found the state of affairs, but succeeded in pacifying the old monk. However peace was not of long dura tion, and once Duval, excited by the threats of the monk, drove him from the convent, and as the rest of the brethren were absent, he remained in posses sion. A truce was at length agreed, to by which he bound himself to serve them for 10 years on condition of liberty to pursue his studies. This offer of service, which he afterwards regretted, was for tunately not fulfilled. An accidental meeting with the members of the royal family in the forest opened the path which conducted V a l en tine to fame and fortune. He was subsequently appointed librarian to Duke Leopold of Lorraine, and Professor of History at the Royal Academy of Luneville. He was a great favourite with the duke, and with his son and successor, Francis, afterwards husband of the Empress Maria Theresa. In his new dignitie s Duval did not forget his old friends. He appointed bookseller to the Royal library a tradesman who had befriended him in his early days of poverty and distress, and spent all hie savings in building a commodious dwelling for his old friends of the monastery. He lived to old age a n d di ed L iffinnilred and lamented. The life of his friend and associate Peter Vayringe, the famous mechanician, is also full of interest. We are indebted to the editress for having brought forward the record of a labo rious and honourable life, and too liable to be for gotten in the crowd of more pretentious celebrities. The book might have been shorter with advantage, the correspondence at the conclusion being almost too voluminous, but as it is, it is well worthy the attention of the public, and we have no doubt it will receive the consideration which it merits, both from the interest of the subject and the reputation of the lady who has thus resuscitated an almost forgotten memoir. HER MAJESTY'S S TAGHOUNDS.—The Royal pack met on Tuesday at Stoke-common, where there was a numerous field, including. most of the officers of the Royal Horse Guards and Scots Fusiliers, and many sporting gen tlemen from London, Hounslow, and the surrounding neigh bourhood. Th e b eautiful deer Redheart went off at tiptop speed right across the country in the direction of Amersham and Watford, and after a severe run was taken at Fordham : wood, about three miles from St. Albans, being about 25 miles from home • only a few of the sele c t were u p a t the take. I n consequence of their being so far from the kennel, the houds Were brought back on the to/19 11 '112g day. 4 THE PENINSULAR MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Tagus has arrived with the above mail and 21 pas sengers, including five officers of her Majesty's ship Perseverance, lost off the Island of Majao. She also brings £1,344 in specie and general cargo. The English squadron, under Admiral Stopford arrived at Lisbon on the 14th inst. At Lisbon, on the 17th inst., Exchange on Lou. don was quoted 541 ; Paris, 5.28 ; Amsterdam , 421 ; Hamburg, 48 ; Genoa, 5.27. Rentes, 3 per cent., 461 ; Coupons, 451; Deferred, 37/ ; Bank of Portugal Shares, 560 ; Commercial Bank of Oporto, 260; Mercantile Bank, 260 milreis. THE EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH IN SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, WEDNESDAY. Yesterday morning the Empress Eugenie and suite paid a visit to the Abbey of Melrose, and the house and grounds of Abbotsford. Like all the previous movements of her Imperial Majesty, her journey to Melrose was kept strictly secret, so much so that when she was seen to drive to the station, a large number of persons ran to the Glasgow side of the general terminus, in the expectation that her Majesty was about to take her departure for Hamil ton Palace. The Imperial party travelled in a first class carriage by the ordinary passenger train, leaving Edinburgh at 11.25 a.m., and returning in the same private manner about 6 o'clock. At all the stations on the homeward journey, however, large numbers had collected to see her Majesty, who was everywhere greeted with loud cheers. Hav ing paid a visit to the far-famed and interest ing ruin, Melrose Abbey, round which the Em press was conducted by the usual garrulous guide, the party drove to Abbotsford. In the grounds of the house, rendered classic by the residence of Sir Walter Scott, her Majesty lingered a consider able time, and was then taken through the house of the great novelist, the library, the armour, the personal relics of Scott, and the many curiosities of the place being pointed out by the persons in charge. After a drive along a portion of the banks of the Tweed the Imperial party returned to Edin burgh, where her Majesty was eagerly greeted, and perhaps somewhat rudely surrounded, by a large concourse, which the railway officials had in vain tried to prevent from crowding the station platform. The time of her Majesty's departure from Edinburgh is not yet made known, but it is expected she will to-day visit the Duchess of Buc cleuch at Dalkeith Palace, and to-morrow (Thurs day) leave Douglas Hotel for Hamilton Palace. At the meeting of the Magistrates and Council of Edinburgh, on Tuesday, the Lord-Provost moved the following resolution which was agreed to unanimously : " That an address be voted by the Lord Provost, Magi strates, and Council, and presented to her Majesty the Empress of the French, offering, on the part of the citizens Of Edinburgh, an expression of their sincere respect, and their congratulation on her Majesty's arrival in this city; their cordial desire that her visit to this country may con duce to her health and happiness ; and their earnest hope that this visit, though unofficial and not in state, may tend to maintain and promote peace and go•dwill between two great and neighbouring nations of Europe." A SHOWER OF DEL USIONS. Since the day when the Empress Eugenie suddenly startled all London by her unexpected and quiet arrival, the citizens, indeed, have asked each other, " What next ?" but the world of attendants upon travellers ---guards, points. men, porters, cabbies, policemen, and penny-a-liners—have lost their nerve. They feel that they have failed in a great public duty. They, who can distinguish an M.P., certify to a nobleman, and swear to a "rile 'highness" have let a real Imperial Majesty slip by them unrecognised and un noticed as if she were a plain Mrs. Grundy. "This must never happen again," has been the deep resolve of the entire population engaged in the reception and the car riage of travellers. We all know how, in waiting for cur passports at Calais, we have to undergo the sharp scrutiny of Mr. Vattel's two eyes. We have met it often and calmly, but behind him there is posted a one-eyed gendarme, whom no adventurous traveller was ever known to chaff. That gendarme never sleeps, and at one and the same moment his glance seems to pierce the particular secrets of every individual in the room. Keeley, it is said, once called him "gimlet-eyed," and Robson alluded to him as " cockeye ;" but these pro fane observations were made over an infinitesimal chicken at the far end of the refreshment-room, and none heard them without a shudder. But the search of Vattel and the one-eyed gendarme is as nothing compared to the investigation now bestowed on the traveller landing in England. The inspector inspects, the guard is vigilant, the porter scrutinises—the very stoker, as he lolls over the engine-rail, looks and looks and guesses. A dark young man might be Bombalino, or a fair-beardei person Garibaldi. Hat-boxes are watched to see if any be shaped like a triple tiara or a turban, and coins received are spelt over to see whose image or superscription they bear. Photographs of all crowned heads are in great de mand, and every particular feature of royalty is deeply scanned and committed to memory. This fever of expectancy had yesterday come to a crisis. Anxiety would be no longer baulked. It was felt that Ma jesties by dozens were running about, and a stupendous effort was made to pitch on one of them. Currents of agi tation set in from the south-east and south-west. " The Emperor Napoleon had landed I" Crowds rushed to Lon don-bridge, and crowds to the South-Western. This was the least probable point of arrival, and therefore the most favoured ; for was not Napoleon a man most to be expected from some unlikely quarter? Besides, would it not suit him to pass Portsmouth in his trip and take a sketch of the new fortifications ? Rumour soon magnified itself into positive assertion, and Scotland• yard was applied to. Straightway a large force of police was sent down to the station to keep the surging crowd from too near an approach to Majesty. Still matters were only at the state of assertion, when suddenly the telegraph was set to work at Winchester, and the great news was converted into a certainty. A guard tele graphed to the Board that he had got him—Napoleon him self—in the first compartment of a first-class carriage in the 2.30 from Portsmouth. On this--endless excitement. The train was watched for, prayed for. At last it duly rumbled into the station. Directors were there, and big and little officials, and long-nosed police, and quick eyed reporters ; and last, not least, it is averred —sure sign of the imperial approach—a posse of French secret police sprang from the ground, having arrived, by some tunnel only known to the French, from Leicester-square. The hubbub was great ; dozens of hands were laid on the doors of all first carriages of first-class compartments. Who should first meet him ? The astonished passengers could hardly get out. Where was he ? Why, sure enough, in a first-class compartment there was found a quiet-looking gentleman with the prominent nose and the moustaoke and imperial of the victor of Solferino. As such he was hailed. " Ave Clesar I " cried the Board, and "Hooray for the Hemperor ! " shouted the crowd. The police pushed them back. The reporters duly noted the " ovation," and room was made for the imperial move ments. High beat the hopes of the Hansoms. Earnest, though humble, were the four-wheelers, when suddenly the group about the carriage parted asunder. The astonished gentleman explained to the unwilling auditors who he was, and a magistrate with spectacles, two railway i nterpreters, and four travelled Britons, affirmed that he was not the Emperor. This being confirmed by the general verdict of the crowd, including the " French detec tives," he was permitted to escape from his strange and novel situation. The British public were undoubtedly " Sold," to use the phrase current among the masses in the Waterloo-road. Nevertheless, many held that Napoleon ought to have come, and they remained near the station till. a late period of the afternoon. The police stayed three hours at the station, till, finding there was no possible reason for their presence, they marched home to Scotland- yard. Meanwhile, the news had spread through London, and for a few hours the hoax enjoyed a very lively ex istence,—Post. THE MAILS. Nov. 18. MAILS DUE. Au a s n t i r p a t l o ia n , ) Ceylon,. and Mauritius(via .. h Sout . .- Do. (via Marseilles) Dec. 13. Brazil and Cape Verds .. .. • • " D ec. 5 . Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &c. • • • • Nov. ---• Bahamas and Hav ana ( v i a N ew York) .. .. N ov. 22. Canada, &c. (via Gal wa y) . • .. .. Nov. 18. Cape of Good Hope, &c. .. • • • • • • Dee. 2. China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) Nov. 18. Do. (via Marseilles) Nov. 18. 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