The Sun. — London, England, 1860-11-07 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN.—Under the Manag,ement of Miss Louisa. Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, sole taws The Public are respectfully informed' that the Last Repre sentations of Wallace's popular Opera of LuTtLINE are now terminating, in consequence of the preparations for the speedy production of the novelties announced. OYAL ENGLISH OPERA , COVENT ' I GARDEN—under the Management of Miss LOUISA PINE and Mr. W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, CROWN DIAMONDS. Miss L. Pyne, Miss Thirlwall ; Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. H. Corti, L . A. St. iklbyn, Mr. Horncastle, and Mr. G. Kelly. DIVERTISSEMENT. Conductor —Mr. Alfred Mellon. Doors open at Seven. Commence at Haff-past. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buekstene. THIS EV ENING the performances will commense with THE STRANGER. Mr. Howe and Miss Amy Sedgwick. Followed by a new comedy entitled ROMANCE AND RE &LITY. Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, Rogers, W. Farren, and John Brougham ; Miss Florence Haydon; Mrs. Wilkins, and Mrs. E. ?Raw - 1111am. And THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the Leclercqs. Commence at 7. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Leggee and Manatzer, Mr. A. Tfarris. THIS EVENING, an adaptation of Victor Hugo's cele brated Play of RUY BLAS, by Edmund Falconer, Esq. t when Mr. Pechter, the favourite actor of Parisian renown, will make his 10th appearance on the English stage, supported by Messrs. W. Lacy, ➢leadows, Garden, Graham, Raymond, Norland, Collett, Paulo, Daly, A. Harris ; Miss Rose Leclercq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath. To be preceded by SUSAN SMITH. To conclude with BOWL'D OUT. Mr. Widdicomb. THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM. Soie Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with Bayle Bernard's admired Drama of THE WEPT OF THE WISH-TON-WISH. Principal characters by Mr. T. Lyon, Mr. Henry Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. H. Butler, Mr. For rester, Mr. Campbell„ Mr. J. Johnstone ; Miss Neville, Mrs. J. Rouse, and Madame Celeste. After which (3d time) THE PE I'S OF THE PARTERRE. scenic Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Callcott. The Music by Mr. Georee 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. To conclude with GRIST TO THE MILL. Mr. Grorge Vintner, Mr. J. Johnstone, Mr. Forrester, Mrs. J. Rouse, and Miss Rose Howard. Commence at 7. A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL , r - A. Sole Proprietor and Manazer, Mr. Beni- Webster. Great Success of the new Drama, by Dion Bourcicault. Esq. "The Colleen Bawn."—Miss Agnes Robertson every even- lug. THIS EVENING, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J, L. Toole, C. Selby, Billington, Mrs. Chatterley, Miss K. Kelly, &c. After ,which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Bonrcicault, D. Fisher, Pilling:ton, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. ' Followed by DINORAH UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Ebume, C. J. Smith, Miss E. Thorne. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. • No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 25. ; Family Boxes,'ll. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Is. ' • pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, Is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wm. BATTY. Triumphant success and increasing popularity of the Grand Spectacle of ROBIN HOOD. Second Week of Madame Newsome, Mr. James Newsome, and their Troupe of unecinallod performers, drc., including the incomparable Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest Wonder of the age. _ _ _ This Evening, the highly successful new Spectacle, in Three Acts, by E. Fitzball, Esq., entitled ROBIN HOOF) ; or. the Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; introducing - the Stud of highly trained Horses, Herd of real Deer, Stag Hounds, &c, Allan a-Dale, Miss Rebecca Isaacs; Robin Hood, Mr. John Prit chard. To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena—Star Riders of Europe. Doors open at half-Fast 6, performance commence at 7. Bog-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. CANTERBURY HALL C ONCERT S. — EVERY EVENING, A Grand Selection from the opera of NORMA. Norma ..... ........ ......... Miss RUSSELL. Ada ..... ......... Madame MARIA, (Her first apnearance in this conntW.) After which the ETHIOPIANS, consistingof Seventeen Per formers. organised expressly for this establishment, for the Performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Negro Deli neations, Anecdotes, &c. Prin cipal Negro Artistes, Messrs. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H. Drummond, and Charley Fix. Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGIIIIANS. Balcony. le, Hall. 6d. THE WEATHER.—SIN OFFICE, Nov. 7, 160. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADB. 46—this day at noon. 39—lowest this morning and during the night. 46—highest since noon yesterday. BAROMETER-30.52 ; the highest for months. WlND—N•rtherly; light, with fine cold weather. the mortal contest upon the height of Hougoumont. The shopkeepeis had been subsidising coalition after coalition with millions of gold abstracted from the till, and at length leaving their shops for a while to take care of themselves, had come out armed with their old song-famous " cloth yards," and had beaten the Old Guard and the renowned Marshals who were the Paladins of the modern CHARLEMAGNE, and eventually the Great NAPOLEON himself, in the pride and glory of his great warlike genius. History has long since told in characters that will not easily fade how all this was done and finished forty-five years ago by—the Nation of Shopkeepers. It is literally the nation of shopkeepers that —as Mr. GLADSTONE'S timely reminiscence of NA POLEON'S phrase happily reminds us—has for the most part swelled to au army of 150,000 men, and that within a few months the ranks of the now widely scattered corps of the Rifle Volunteers ! It is England's National Guard which has thus risen spontaneously—from the sowing of no dragon's teeth of discord, like the soldiers of CADMUS— which has risen spontaneously, we say, from the midst of the masses of our peaceful civilians, from the homes and the hearths of this nation of shop keepers. _ _ HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.' Tsza DAY.—Morning, 7h. 34m.—Afternoon, Bh. 14m To-moßßow.-Morning, Bh. 56m.—Afternoon, 9h. 34m, ~......,- i -,: k , ......„:„.7,71.,, ~,,, ~.., , 40 ~- t; I , 4 ' . ,›liVi i . i..: ~ • - '?„ ;;E12 .4 1, . 4 • .e - $4. -- - '7, • —i 4 I oir -v f , As-.3,7,4e-fi,,.4T-- 4= , A,,,,, 1 , ~,,, ~.....,--..... -: THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 7, 1860. In commenting upon this astonishing movement only last week down at Chester, Mr. GLADSTONE gave utterance to several remarks that, coming from any Minister of the Crown would at any momentbe entitled to the popular consideration, but that they demand this scrutiny from the public in a very particular manner at this present juncture, an d as coming to us from the lips of no . other than the Chancellor of her MAJESTY'S Exchequer. Speaking of the Volunteer Rifle Corps Movement—"l confess," said Mr. GLADSTONE last week to the patriot bands of the Chester Riflemen—" I confess that I think that those would take a very narrow view of your institution who founded it upon any appre hension of immediate danger to the country. No doubt there have been those who have felt alarmed, and it is not for me to pronounce opinions which could be of no authority upon the subject, but I must confess that for my part I don't believe that the shores of Eng land are at this particular period in danger." The right honourable gentleman adding—" It would be, I think, placing your claims on too low a ground. It would be placing them upon a ground which probably would only assign to you a tempo rary rather than a permanent existence, if we were to suppose that it ,was actual apprehension only that had induced you to make the great efforts and the great sacrifices which you have made in a noble cause. But undoubtedly," said Mr. GLADSTONE, " I must admit that there has been in some countries at least of Europe an idea propagated, and there have been those who have thought it for their, in terest to propagate the idea, that England, especi ally of late years, had been so devoted to the arts of peace that she had entirely lost those energies which made the forefathers of the present race of Englishmen so distinguished in war. I do not believe there is a man in this room who ever imagined that that really was the case ; yet still there were those who did propagate such an idea." Precisely. Mr. GLADSTONE was enunciating a simple fact, when he spoke thus, an obvious truism, an unmitigated platitude, what may be called just in three more plain words—a selfevident proposition. And it was to do away with this " idea" that our Volunteer Rifle Corps have started into existence. That is Our "War for an Idea"—the bloodless but perfectly effective war waged now for some months past upon their practise-targets by our Rifle Volunteers. The thun der of which harmless but significant fusillade has al. ready served, we believe, to clear the political atmos phere not only here amongst ourselves in England, but in our regard in a great measure also all over the European Continent. A hundred and fifty thousand men have all this while been doing that duty which England is ever expecting, and never in vain from the hands and hearts of her good citi zeni. If requisite, a hundred and fifty thousand more will follow in the path already traversed by the footsteps of these orderly and disciplined Vo lunteers. The rest we may now therefore humbly leave to GOD—in whose hands lie the issues of life or death for nations as for men. At least England is now not unprepared for any emergency that may arise : and Christian philosophy teaches us through the familiar aphorism that GOD helps those who help themselves. NAPOLEON'S " Sayings" hardly less than his acts are very memorable. A collection of some among the most remarkable of those sayings were pub lished some years back, in a little volume that for wit and wisdom, for shrewdness and humour might vie even with the apothegms of BACON, the reflec- We have now before us all the communications tions of LA BRUYERE, or the aphorisms of ROCHE- of importance from China which we are likely to FOUGAULD. It wss said of NAPOLEON earlier than receive for some time, and can only meditate on the date of that collection, and said of him, too, by them at leisure till the next China mail arrives. no one less empowered by his own vocation so to In addition to the more graphic narratives of cor speak, than BERANGER, that he was the greatest respondents, we have the official accounts of the poet of the earth—la plus grande poete du monde. English and French Commanders, each showing to Reading all that he said and wrote during hi s s i x the other all that military courtesy could ask. But years of exile at St. Helena, we may certainly we have also the documents—such, at least, as Lord pronounce him to have been not the least of the JOHN RUSSELL thinks it not inconvenient to the political sages of Europe. It was during the public service to give us —sent home by our Pleni stormy period of his warlike career, however, potentiary ; and they suggest some important con that those sayings of his, to which we have been siderations. referring here more particularly of sayings half Just as the allied forces were leaving Pehtang, caustic, half comic, almost always flavoured with and while they were attacking Sinho and Tangku, wit and sparkling with a vivacity essentially Lord ELGIN received from the Governor-General French, were uttered. Who does not recollect his of the province not less than three letters, written recommendation always to have the dirty linen on immediately successive days, and intended to washed at home ? Or his own self-derisive excla- arrest his progress, by persuading him to enter on motion, addressed to the Abbe Du P RADT, during negotiations. The extreme urgency of the Governor the retreat, or rather the flight, from Moscow— General was enough of itself to induceesuspicion— " There is but one step from the sublime to the their contents still more so. Anxious as the r idiculous." Occasionally, however, some of these Chinese authorities were to treat, they did not in whimsical witticisms of NAPOLEON'S recoiled more any of the communications even advert to the ulti sh "PIY and directly upon himself than at the matum which had been forwarded them through mo ment of flinging them from him he could have Mr. BRUCE in March last. In the first letter the Go anticipated. They were intended by him, doabt- vernor informs Lord ELGIN that the EMPEROR had less, at t hose moments to be no more than poignant appointed a commissioner to meet our Plenipoten epigrams, feathered with wit and barbed with tiary in the capital, and that as they were at peace sarcasm : but they turned out to be on the contrary no hostile operations should be attempted by us. The —rather, perh aps, it should be said more literally second was of the same tenor, only turning to the they turned back upon him_as so many boomerangs. best account a white flag said to be flying in the About the most fan tastically recoiling among all allied camp. The third announced that an Impe these chance remark s o f NAPOLEON'S being, for iial Commissioner would meet Lord ELGIN at example, that one in whi ch he insisted that so very Tientsin, the same with whom he had negotiated much really depended i n the history of mankind the treaty of 1858. After the capture of the forts a upon the science of NasologY—that a small nose communication from the Minister of War also ap implied weakness, and a larg e one ener g y of cha- prised Lord ELGIN that the guns and garrison of ratter, or, in fact, general capacity. "Give m e a Tien-tsin, as well as ofTaku, had been withdrawn, man with plenty of nose,"—said NAPOLEON. And and it was therefore hoped that he would not come to he certainly got one with just a little too flinch at the former—which, it should be remembered, is the Waterloo ! ' grand port of Pekin, and the largest Chinese port Mr. GLADSTONE has but very recently been re- north of Shanghae—with many vessels of war, lest calling to the recollection of her MAJESTY'S lieges, he should alarm the inhabitants. in the good old city of Chester, another o f Lord ELGIN of course saw the drift of all this, answer to epigrammatic observations and therefore merely informed the Governor, in these familiar and that sufficiently of the great NAPOLEON —namely., th e three letters at once, that the mili famous one, which was wily too well remembered tart' had already been called on to act, in conse on this side of the Channel in 1815—the one in quence of the unsatisfactory reply to the ultimatum which NAPOLEON d u bbed us a nation of shop: of March last —that they were engaged in taking keepers. That, also, returned avengingly upon possession of the Taku forts —and opening him a himself towards the close of his wonderful career passage to Tientsin —that these objects must be of victory. Th e na ti on o f s h op k ee p e rs proved on e first attained, and sufficient assurances given y the Chinese Government before too many for him at l as t. A s i n th e old sylvan by he could call the military to suspend th • eir days of ROBIN 'HOOD, when the weapons were the o n operations. berw and arrow„ our cloth-yard was driven home After arriving at Tientsin, which was occupied by our forces, Lord E LGIN appears to have b een agu•in and again to the hearts of the power of the . . Cco n w ith the evident desire of the Chin ese to 'Pierer of Continental Europe—say, for in- satisfied s taace d to depart to Pekin not with a on the dyadly struggle at la Haye Sainte, in) treat, and prepare It is the fable still of the Satyr's bewilderment at the man's blowing hot and blowing cold with the same breath—to warm his frozen fingers and to cool his hot porridge ! The Warsaw Conference, we are now told through the Austrian note—the circular note addressed by Count RECHBERG to all the representatives of the Viennese Government at the various Courts of Christendom—that formidable meeting at Warsaw of the three Northern Sove reigns, we are now assured by the Austrian note, means everything that is pacific 1 The Austrian note declares that the Princes met thus simply to draw closer the bonds of their per sonal friendship. The Austrian note adds yet further that in that genial meeting—at which, we may presume, the three Princes sent round the loving-cup, filled to the brim with the milk of human kindness—decided definitively, in regard to the affairs of Italy, upon a policy (fancy this from Austria, Russia, and Prussia!) of non intervention. Meanwhile there is concentrated at this time in Venetia and the Quadrilateral, it is ac tually estimated, an army of no less than 200,000 men! The soldiers (we are left to conclude of course) of the Austrian principle of non-intervention ! And at the same time the "Pacificator of Europe," the "Regulator of the Revolution," or whatever else his Imperial Majesty of France may please to call himself through the speaking-trumpet of the Constitutionnel—in the same way and at the same time that Austria is doing all this in the name of the policy and the principle of non intervention, NAPOLEON 111. has been pouring his troops rapidly regiment by regiment into Rome and the surrounding districts, also, we presume— indeed we are solemnly assured as much, that it really is so—in the furtherance of the policy and principle of non-intervention ! All which is certainly blowing hot and blowing cold in the same breath with a vengeance. We can only wait patiently now and see what will come of this elaborately organised system of political hypocrisy and diplo matic contradictions. THE HOMEWARD _BOUND VESSELS. NOTICE. ADMIRALTY, Nov. 6, 1860. Sir,—l am commanded by my Lords Commis sioners of the Admiralty, to acquaint you for the information of the Committee for Managing Affairs at Lloyds, that her Majesty's steam sloop Spiteful has been ordered to proceed from Devon port to the Chops of the Channel, to relieve the homeward bound trade. Also : that the squadron about to sail from Plymouth, under the command of Rear• Admiral Stopford, will render assistance to the trade, if required. . (Signed) C. PAGET. Capt. G. A. Halsted, R.N., Sec., Lloyd's. THE EXPLOSION ON BOARD THE STEAMER TONNING.—An inquest was commenced yesterday at Yar mouth by the coroner, Mr. Chamberlin, respecting the deaths of three of the persons killed by the explosion on board the steamer Tonning. The inquiry was merely a preliminary one, and no new facts in addition to those already known were elicited. The inquiry was adjourned for a week, and the jury proceeded to Lowestoft to inspect the steamer. By the return made by Captain Rivers, the commander of the onning, the number who perished by the explosion is 12 —Robert Spooner, fireman, of Lowes toft; John Langley steward, of Kessingland ; and James Cummings, seaman, were landed dead, and another sufferer, a cattleman, has since died. The following are missing—they disappeared at the moment of the explosion, and are supposed to have been blown overboard :—Richard Barr, fireman ; John Jenkerson, carpenter, of Lowestoft ; John Fawcett, fireman; the Tonning pilot; William Arms,of Lowestoft, deck-boy; Alderman, a fireman; John F. Reay, jun., boy in engine -room ; and a cello, boy, pas senger, believed to belong to Liverpool. Those injured and lying at the hospital are—James Worsp, first mate, dange rously hurt and recovery doubtful; John F. Reay, sen , first engineer, going on favourably ; Ed war d P eck, seaman., of Lowestoft, recovering; John Hall Cook ; and Timothy Bitten, fireman. The names of those saved are —Captain Geerge Rivers, commander; George Wilkinson, second en gineer ; Thomas Jago, boatswain ; James Hardthorne, Samuel Absolon, John Read, and Golder, seamen ; Wil liam Golder, boatswain's mate ; James Conner and John Mullett, firemen ; and two (Danes) cattlemen. The Board of Trade will inquire strictly into the circumstances at tending this explosion. The seven wounded mon at the Yarmouth Hospital are progressing favourably. TIrE EARL CAWDOR.—We regret to state that the Earl Cawdor lies dangerously ill, at his seat, Stackpole Court, Pembrokeshire. Two medical gentlemen from town are in attendance, and the whole of the noble peer's family are around him, except Viscount Ernlyn, and he is on his way home, having been telegraphed for from Geneva. The Countess of Ellesmere, Countess of Desart, Lady Dun combe, and the Hon. Captain Campbell have arrived at Stackpole. The most serious results are anticipated. APPOINTSMENTS.—The Lord Bishop of London has conferred the honorary canonry in St. Paul's Cathedral, , vacant by the death of the Rev. J. T. Round, 8.D., upon the Rev. F. G. Blomfield, M.A., rector of St. Andrew • Undershaft (City) ; and the honorary canonry in the same cathedral, vacant by the death of the Rev. T. B. Murray, on the Rev. James Augustus Hessey, D.C.L., head master of Merchant Taylors School. THE SETN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7, IE6O. force, but merely with a large guard of honour. We have the honour, therefore, of holding a pro vince of China, extending from the sea and the Taku forts to Tien-tsin, about thirty miles in a direct line ; while our Plenipotentiary was, when the mails left, wending his way to Pekin, about seventy miles higher up the Peiho, in a direct line. The river, however, winds exceedingly, especially between the port of Tientsin and the sea, and makes the waterway very much longer. On the prudence of Lord ELGIN'S last move, as we more than doubted it at first, so we do still. We must think, notwithstanding the remarks of our able contemporary the Examiner, that the capture of Pekin would have been, demoralized as the Chinese solders were, a very easy fact; that its occupa tion need not have been protracted into the severely cold weather, and that such a stroke is necessary to ensure lasting peace. It is but too true that the Chinese confide, and not without reason, in their own diplomacy, as much as they fear our arms. They now know that even SAN-KO-LIN-SIN is no match fos English Generals ; and the Mandarins are doubtless quite convinced that we can do anything that we please of a military kind; what they rely on is, our good nature—our easy faith. They trust to that to obtain from us the means of further misrepresentations. The old Tartar party at Pekin stand to their political posi tion, as well as 'the Tartars of the Northern Fort did to their walls when we attempted to storm them. The Chinese will be again told in the Pekin Gazette, and in proclamations spread through the Empire, that we dared not venture beyond Tientsin ; and the military escort of the Plenipotentiary will be made to contribute to the pompous tales of homage done by an outside Barbarian, with his magnifi cent retinue, to the EMPEROR'S universal supre macy. The silly conceit would be, of course, matter of perfect indifference to this country; but the mischief is, that it lies at the bottom of all our Chinese wars ; so costly as they are in life and in treasure. We must, however, till we hear the whole case, hope that Lord ELGIN will find means to neutralise the evil of yielding to the Mandarins so far as he has done. There is one point on which we hope the Allies will be firm—that of insisting on a full indemnity for the war. An easy mode has been pointed out of taking security for the payment, that of requir ing the Government to pledge the customs dues of Shanghae, and, we might add, of all the ports to which Europeans trade, for it. Lord ELGIN, last time, hinted that the Imperial Excheqner was too. poor to meet such a demand on it. But we are now informed that the customs of Shanghae alone would liquidate the debt in a very few years—four or five at most. If this be correct we have the means provided for us of stopping the required penalty in &at:BlN. Our income-tax payers will be justly dissatisfied if this be overlooked. More over, we presume that want of money is as severe an instructor on the duty of keeping the peace in China as in Austria or Russia. TESrI E VV !) . (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) VIENNA, Nov. 6. Count Rechberg has addressed a circular note on the Warsaw interview to the representatives of Austria abroad. This note states that the object of the interview was to bind more closely the personal and friendly relations of the three princes present, and to con cert the principles for the regulation of their con duct in view of certain eventualities. Count Itechberg, without entering upon any de tails as to the nature of the arrangements concluded, announces that a perfect understanding was esta blished. He, however, makes it clearly understood that non-intervention in the affairs of Italy was agreed upon, and -that, although anxious to support the principles of or der and European Equilibrium, the three Northern Courts will do nothing which might provoke a war. M. Boyer, secretary to the Empress, has left for Southampton, on his way to Madeira, to prepare quarters for her Majesty. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 7. The steamer Etna, Captain Anderson, from New York, passed Holyhead at eight o'clock this morning. Her advices are a day or two later than those received per Africa. THE FRENCH SQUADRON AT GAETA. The Toulonnais publishes the following details respecting the attitude assumed by Admiral Barbier de Tinan towards the Sardinian squadron at the mouth of the Garigliano:— " The Descartes arrived yesterday at five p.m. in' our roads with very important despatches from Gaeta. " On the 27th of October a Sardinian squadron of six ships arrived to attempt a landing at the mouth of the Garigliano, and was compelled to withdraw before the energetic demonstrations of Admiral de Tinan. "On the 30th Vice-Admiral Persano made his appearance himself with 10 ships, and refused to withdraw, in presence of the French squadron, which made preparations to compel him to do so. " The Sardinian Admiral declared to M. Barbier de Titian that his instructions were to effect a land ing at the mouth of the Garigliano, and that he was obliged to obey. If the French ships thought fit to attack him he should not defend himself, but he rendered the Admiral responsible for the conse quence of such armed intervention, which he thought illegal, as he was outside Gaeta waters and line of blockade of that place. " In presence of this protest and passive attitude Admiral de Tinan, fearing he might have out stepped his instructions, sent the Descartes in all haste to take the orders of the French Government. "The two squadrons remain opposite each other, awaiting the reply." A telegram, dated Gaeta, 3d November, says— " In consequence of instructions received from Paris, Admiral Barbier de Tinan has left the mouth of the Garigliano, and has returned here since the Ist." The Pays says— " It will have been seen by the advices we pub lished yesterday that the Piedmontese fleet took an active part in the attack on Gaeta. The Pied- Enontese squadron afterwards withdrew to a cer tain distance from the perimetre of the fortress, where it remains at anchor." THE lONIAN ISLANDS. A letter from Corfu, dated the 26th of October, says :—" The Marlborough, with Admiral Martin on board, arrived here during the early part of the week ; also the Exmouth, Orion, and James Watt. Yesterday the Neptune and Victor Emmanuel, to gether with a gunboat, came in, making a total in our harbour, with the Melpomene, frigate, of six line-of-battle ships, one frigate, and two gunboats. One gunboat leaves to-morrow with a mail for Malta. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton is here, with his son, who is on his way to Paxo, of which island he has been appointed Resident. Sir Edward, I am informed, remains here four months, engaged on some literary production." FRANCE. BOURSE, Nov. 6.—There has been a fair amount of business transacted, with the market firm. Threes, for the Account, are now at 69f 90c ; Mo bilier, 735 f; Orleans, 1,390 f; Northern, 985 f ; Mediterranean, 928 f 75c ; Austrian, 501 f 25c ; Lombard, 496 f 25c. The following are the las quotations :- 41 per per Cents ... 95 50 Credit Fonder — Do end month.... 95 80 1 Belgian 4t 97 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 80 Roman ' 79 Bank Shares 2865 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 730 — 1 Spanish Threes 484- Do. Account 728 75 ; Home Debt .. 4S - RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1385 .. 1385 Northern New ditto B9l 25 .. 892 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 927 50 .. 927 50 Geneva 365 .. 365 Southern 520 .. 517 50 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Loirbard a . 493 75 .. 495 ITALY. A letter from Naples, of the 3d, in the Siecle, contains the following:— "I lately. mentioned to you that the army of Garibaldi was dwindling away from the time that a fear was entertained that it would pass under another command than that of the Dictator. It does not now amount to more than 12,000 men. The King has with him about 15,000, and Cialdini 11,000. There are, therefore, from 36,000 to 38,000 good troops to oppose to the Neapolitans, whose pre sent real strength is not exactly known. There has been a march of generosity between the King and the Dictator. Garibaldi wished to be in the foremost ranks in the combats which are to take place. Victor Emmanuel said to him, You have been fighting quite long enough; it is now my turn. Your troops are fatigued, and they shall farm the reserve ; mine are quite fresh, and they must be the first to act.' The Government has comprehended that when men have sacrificed their youth and their property for the triumph of a cause, they are entitled to a recompense when their cause succeeds —an employment to those who are capable of fill ing it, and a pension to others. Many places, more or less elevated, have been already given to former exiles, and pensions have been granted to political prisoners, and, in some cases, to their wives or to their children. A decree has ordered that a sum of 6,000,000 ducats (25,000,000 f.) shall be taken from the Bentes confiscated from the Bourbons and dis tributed among their victims, namely, victims of sacking, men incarcerated, condemned, emigrated, banished, sent into the interior and forced to hide themselves from political causes. A commission has been formed to watch over the proper distri bution of this sum. The decree bears the signature of the Dictator himself, and all the Ministers are charged with it's execution. It bears the bate of Naples, 23d, but has only appeared to-day in the official journF.l." The following is an extract from a Turin lettter : The new► Minister . of the Interior, M. Ming hetti, has played a considerable part in the affairs of his country. He was the first who, after the death of Gregory XVI., dared to draw up a petition to the new Pope praying for re forms. Pius IX. nominated him a member of the Finance Committee, and he was afterwards Minister with M. Pasolini, who is now Governor of Milan. It was owing to his firmness that Gen. Durando was sent at the head of Roman volunteers against Austria. On the coup-d'etat made by Pius IX. on the 29th April, 1849, when he refused to declare against Austria, M. Minghetti retired with all bis colleagues, and after the assassination of Rossi he resigned his seat in the Roman Cham ber. He then joined Charles Albert, and the King gave him a place in his Staff, which he retained until after the disaster of Novara. He afterwards made a journey in Africa to endeavour to discover the source of the Nile, and on his return occupied himself with the formation of societies of credit, which have rendered great services to commerce and manufactures. He was one of the most influen tial members of the last Parliament. Count Bor remeo, private secretary, and, so to speak, the right hand Of M. Farini, has been appointed by M. Minghetti Secretary-General of the Ministry of the Interior." A Santa Maria letter, near Capua, states: — "Although no witness was present during the con versation between the two champions of the Italian cause, I am able to assure you that Garibaldi spoke his mind very plainly to the King. I learn from a reliable source that the Dictator said that he had been calumniated by Count Cavour's parti sans, and that the pretended influence of Mazzini and the republicans over him was a falsehood imagined for the purpose of injuring him with the King and the public. ' How could I have exiled Mazzini, an old friend, who requested me to let him breathe his native air ?' asked the General. ' Believe me, Sire, the men who sur round you are the most ardent friends of Italian unity.' The King heard him attentively without expressing any opinion, and on arriving at Partig nano, they separated." A communication from Ancona says To witness the revived activity of this port, the commercial preoccupations of the inhabitants, and the tranquillity which prevails among all classes, no one would imagine that the place only a month ago stood a siege of ten days, and is now on the eve of an important voting. Everything has returned to its normal state, and the new autho rities work as well as if they had been ten years in office. The people obey without constraint, and are the more tranquil as they have less troops to restrain them. In the Marches, a province contain ing a population of one million, there are only 36 gendarmes. The troops of the line consist of a single regiment in garrison at Ancona, and which is shortly to leave for Naples. This is all that re mains of the Rinelli brigade, all the others having left. The police, and all the military duties, both in the towns and country parts, are left to the National Guard, which performs its task in the most satisfactory manner." The same letter has the following : " The abolition of a great majority of the con vents will exercise the same beneficial influence in the Marches that it has done in Umbria. The number of convents in the former province amounts to more than 600, and the monks and nuns to 8,000. The regular and secular clergy possess one-third of all the land. The proportion is smaller in Umbria, where the clergy hold one half of the country, but the number is not the less out of all proportion with the million of in habitants. It is to be remarked that the parts of the country where the clergy have the least land are the best cultivated, and it is to that inequality in the distribution that the Marches ewe the su periority of their agriculture over that of Umbria. The revenues of the bishoprics are also very un equally divided. The Bishops of Fermo and of Sinigaglia have each about 130,000 f. a-year, and those of Osimo, jesie, and Ricona average about 100,000 f. The smallest cures have 2,000 f. (which, considering the low price of every article of con sumption, is equal to 4,000 f. in France), and the largest 5,000 f. There is nothing astonishing that the clergy should regret a country where they are so well paid." A great reproach has been removed from London. We have at last another equestrian statue which deserves to rank with the few great statues of that class in Europe. Baron IMarochetti's Richard of the Lion Heart is at length set up in bronze in Old Palace-yard, between the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey. It is true that Baron Maro chetti has been favoured in his subject. He had not to transfer to stone the pigtail and top-boots of George the Third, nor the wig and stars of " The First Gentleman in Europe." He could clothe his hero artistically and nobly without having recourse to the shirt and blanket which did duty in the hands of our Chantreys and elder Wyatt& Baron Marochetti had only to array the Lion Heart in his close-fitting shirt of mail, and to fling back, by the sudden action of throwing up the arm that lifts the sword, the skirts of the long surcoat worn over the mail-shirt, in order to display the stalwart propor tions of chest and limb as the sculptor loves to do, without sacrificing the demand for prolonged lines which staturesque composition makes upon the artist. It may be that the Baron has sacrificed probabilities in the close fit he has given to Richard's mail-shirt, which is made to display the swelling biceps and folded mass of pectoral muscle as accu rately as a knitted woollen jersey. But it is un grateful to stoop to this carping in the presence of such energy and picturesque vitality as animate this proud horse and his stately rider. In this combination of life and picturesqueness lies the peculiar characteristic of all Marochetti's best, because most congenial, works. It is this which gives its crowning merit alike to his Phili bert Emmanuel, and his Charles Albert, at Turin ; to the magnificent tomb lately designed by him for the foundress of one of the greatest and most recent of the Parisian Hospitals ; to his monument of Latour d'Auvergne, " Le Premier Grenadier de la France ;" and to the exquisite ideal figure of Italy, executed by him within the last few years for Lord Dufferin. This characteristic Marochetti possesses in com mon with the great men whose works do honour to the early Renaissance. The designer of this Richard may, without presumption, claim for his work a place by the side of the terrible Bartolommeo leoni of Verocchio, or the statelier, if less living, Gattamelata of Donatello, Visitors to the Crystal Palace may study casts of both these finest of mediaeval equestrian, statues, and form their own judgment how far our praise is deserved. In point of site Verrochio and Donatello have been more fortunate than Marochetti, in about the same proportions as Venice and Padua excel London in architectural grandeur and glory. Yet the site granted to the Baron's Richard is for London a very effective one, if not quite so promi neatly public as might be desired. The figure stands a little below the Lords' entrance, with the chapel of Henry VII. flanking it on one side, and Sir Ch ar les Barry's imitation of its florid Tudor panelling on the other. The figure groups well with the architecture about it, and were it not for an ugly corner of the Law Courts, that thrusts itself into view beyond the angle of Barry's pile, and the paltry premises of New Palace-yard oppo site—made additionally offensive at this moment by the huge signboard of the " Land Drainage and Improvement Company," and an undertaker's hatchment next d6or—the sculptor would have as little to complain of as the best-treated of his brethren and contemporaries. The horse is as full of life and vigour as the knight who bestrides him. Both in steed and rider, however, the sculptor has felt himself at liberty to disregard literalness. He has no more sought to reproduce such a " destrere" as was really required to carry an armed knight of the 13th century, than he has tried to present a like ness of Richard as he lived by the help of the muti lated effigy of Fontevraud. His work belongs to the " realistic" school only in so far as it departs from that dead conventional classicality which palsied even the vigorous arm of Chantrey when set to model the National Gallery George IV. and the Exchange Wellington. No one can be more free and unfettered than Baron Marochetti has evidently felt himself in his treatment of the facts, both of horse and rider, and in his use of this free dum he has shown a true conception of the artist's proper function as a creator of national monumcrrio. The model of this great work will be remembered as having divided with Kiss's Amazon the honours of the colossal sculpture which adorned the Great Exhibition building in Hyde Park. A body of noblemen and gentlemen, determined that this noble design should be perpetuated in the most enduring of plastic materials, subscribedup wardsof£3,oooforthepurposeofhaving:the Richard cast in bronze, and presented to the nation. The Marochetti's. At as well as the design, is Baro n At present there is a vigorous ro ughness about the cast which is infinitely prefera ble to th e smooth and highly-wrought surface affected by lt is too m toany of our modern artistic metal lur g . be hoped that the surface will be allowed to remain as it is, and that Richard of the Lion Heart, even as he now rides, m ay for ages yet to come lift his good sword under the shadow of the Abbey; if not in refutation of the long standing reproach that John Bull cannot make an equestrian statue, in proof at least that hexan get a statue made for him. —limes. HESSE-DARMSTADT.—A rather serious conflict has broken out between the two Chambers of Hesse-Darm stadt. The Second Chamber lately adopted, almost unani mously, a motion for the regulation by law of the civil rights of the Catholic Church in the Grand Duchy. The First Chamber, on the contrary, adopted one which de dared that the Government alone had the power to assure the rights of that church by a concordat with the Court of Rcme. This motion was submitted to the Second Chamber, bul; the latter has persisted in maintaining its own. The Grand Ducal Government has consequently to decide ibe ween two contradictory decisions. THE LORD MAYOR'S SIIOW.—The followin g is the route of the procession for the Lord Mayor's show on Fri day next, corrected by authority up to last evening. The Precession will move from Guildhall at half-past 11 o'clock precisely, and pass through Gresham- street, Prince's-street, Bank, Lombard• street, Gracechurch-street, Leadenhall street, Fenchurch-street, Gracechurch -street, Cannon-street (East and West), St. Paul's Churchyard, Ludgate-street, Ludgate-hill, Fleet-street, and by the Strand to Westmin ster. The return from Westminster will be way of the Strand, Fleet-street, St. Paul's-churchyard, Cheapside, and Kirg-street to Guildhall. The London Rifle Brigade will form a guard of honour in Guildhall-yard and King : street to meive the Lord Mayor on his return from Westminster. But, sir, a large body of high-spirited lads "out for a lark" are sure to engage in some exploit, harmless enough, perhaps, in itself, but yet one which the steady-going part of the community would prefer seeing performed in any dress rather than in the Volunteer uniform. Some of M. le Prefet's guests may possibly come before him in his magis terial capacity. Some light-limbed youth is sure to dance at Mabille or the Chateau des Fleurs in a fashion too lively for the staid Parisian police, and be marched off by a couple of gendarmes. This would be of no consequence except to the lad himself and thi% geeiety who were teuiporarily deprived of his presence, were it not that they who have been, and still are, working at the organisation of the new force which has sprung up among us, have a right to demand that the gray tunic, now an honourable distinction, shall not be subjected either to indignity nor to unne cessary ridicule, and that the Volunteer movement shall not be mixed up with Paris excursionists. HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.) The weekly return of births and deaths in Lon don, issued by authority of the Registrar General, states that the London returns still bear testimony to a very favourable state of the public health. 'last deaths registered in the we e k th a t ended last Saturday were 1,049. The average for correspond ing weeks in the ten years 1850-9, after correction for increase of population, is found to be 1,17 g. Hence it appears that the number of persons who died last week was less by 130 than the number that would have died if a rate of mortality equal to the average for this season had prevailed. The districts within the metropolitan bounds diff er eaipsrt re h is ee t tl e t. widely, and those of highest sanitary conditi on duce " the mortality of London." The bc,„', dis tricts will, it may be reasonably hoped. 'oe in a f ew a, years tnadn td ha p er e dw r n m o or a sw n t e rd n e i p t s l tr y re is cetns taetd improvedlbeyasgttoi raisedlol d tcountryapp roach h iheeellaassst wofeedkisethaseesdewaethres 2 i 4 nc l l ; ud th ed e u e n o d rr e e r ot t e h d e condition of the best. z y In m o t t average for corresponding weeks being 303. There were only 2 deaths from small-pox, and one from varicella. There were 47 from scarlatina, and 13 from diphtheria. Five from scarlatina occurred in the Kensington Town sub-district; 2 of the se on the same day in one f am il y a t 8, Kensington -pl ace. ande d. 3 T he widow o f a merchant, aged 77 years, died from her c l o th es l n Limehouse. Forty-four childr en di e d o f mea sles ; 3 o f t h ese in the Belgrave sub-di s t r i c t, 3 in the east sub-district of Islington, 3 in th e Church sub-district of Bethnal greenlhree infants(2 in onwee rfamily), taking fire. Another woman died from burns ; 3 children from scalds. Of 5 death s f rom suffocation, 3 were those of children in bed.. A n infant, a week old, died from the foul air of the room in which it slept ; another, aged 8 months, from having been fed w ith two ounce! of beef sausage. A widow died at the age of 90 years, and a female domestic servant at the age (as stated) of 100 yoam, iu Cho ilahn,.,-. vyuLktlOUSe. A type-founder, aged 44 years, died from " theff ects e of poisonous metals, lead and antimony." Last week the births of 956 boys and 912 girls in all 1,868 c hi ldren, were registered in London. ' In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1850- 59 the average number was 1,617. A t the R oya l O b servatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.977 in. The barometrical readings rose from 29.84 in. on Sunday to 30.07 in. on Tuesday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 48.7 deg., which is 2.2 deg. above the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily temperature was above the average till Friday, this excess on Sunday i having been equa l t o 10 d eg . O n Saturday .t was almost 7 deg. below the average. The highest point attained by the thermometer in the shade was 68.5 deg. on Sunday; the lowest was 28.5 deg, (3.5 deg. below the freezing point of water) on Saturday. The range of temperature in the week was therefore 40 deg. The mean daily range was 17 deg. On Tuesday the range w as as mu c h as 22.3 deg. On the f o ll ow i ng day it was only 8.1 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 2.3 deg. Th e mean degree of humidity of the air was 90, c orn _ plete saturation being represented by 100. On Mon day the humidity was 98. The wind was in the south or south-east till Wednesday afternoon, wh en it changed to the north-east, at which point or E.N.E. it continued till the end of the week. The thermometer in the sun rose to 110 deg. on Sunday. PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold a t P ar i s is about 2 per mille premium , and the short exch ange on London is 25.15 per £ sterling. On comparing these rates with the English mint price of £3 17s. 10!(.1, per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is nearly 3-10ths per cent. de ar er in Paris than in London. By a d v i ces from Hamburg the price of gold is 4241 I.er mark, and the short exchange on London is 13.4 per £ sterling, Standard gold at the English mint price is, therefore, 4-10ths per cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills sixty a tdays' eight is 10811 per cent., which, ,when compared with the mint par between the two countries, shows that the ex change is against England ; but, after making allowance for charges of transport and difference of interest, the pi e sent rate leaves no profit on the transmission of gold be• tween the two countries, ~ SWEDEN. The close of the session of the States of Sweden took place on the 30th ult., with the usual ceremo nial. In the morning the Four Orders united, were present with the King and Roy al family at Divine service, after which the clergy, burgesses, and peasants wont to the Hall to await an arrival of his Majesty, who soon after appeared clothed with the royal mantle, with the crown on his head and sceptre in hand. His Majesty was accompanied by his brother, Prince Oscar, and followed by the Ministers, the knights of the Order of the Seraphim, and other high personages. The King haNl;ng taken his seat on the throne, the Minister of the Interior read a report of the labours of the session, and his Majesty delivered the following address : " Gentlemen—A period of more than a year has elapsed since the opening of this Diet, but that time has been usefully employed, and the country may expect to see the results of this laborious session exer case a salutary influence on the progress of our institutions. You share, lam well convinced, in the lively satisfaction I feel at the hopes which the pregnancy of my well beloved sister-in-law, the Duchess d'Ostrogothia, allows us to cherish. The united kingdom, thanks to the protection of the Almighty, continues to enjoy the most complete tran quill ity, bo th at home and abroad. Our indepen dence and security, founded on the recognition and application of a wile and legitimate liberty are maintained, and our relations with foreign Powers continue to bear the impwss of the most friendly character. On a proposition which I made, you have adopted a law, which applied conform ably to the spirit that presided over its wording, and according to the principles of peril et tolerance must satisfy the legitimate pretensions of liberty of conscience, hitherto denied to religious sects differ ing from our own. The care which you have devoted to the improvemen t of the code of our laws, which in several respects did net respond to the spirit of our times, has contributed to cause the more general re- 75 25 75 50 cognition of the principles, on the adoption of which legislative reform depends. The bills which have been submitted to you fnr tho ',bangs. to be intro- I Owed In the municipal institutions of the towns and country districts have, I am happy to declare, led to such serious examination on your part; and, on my part, I shall not fail to devote a careful soli citude to a satisfactory settlement of that important question. In conformity with the bill presented for your consideration, you have voted, for the continuation of the State railways, considerable sums which enable me to carry on, with the - same rapidity as heretofore, the execution of those works so indispensable for the development of our mate rial re sources, while you have at the same time, by wisel y combined measures with regard to the loans contracted for the object in question, con- tributed to consolidate the National Bank. In order to respond to the want which is more and more generally felt of credit establishments for landed property, you have by adopting my views on the subject, decided on the establishment of a general mortgage bank, guaranteed by a fund granted by the State, and in simultaneously fixing new principles for private mortgage esta blishments in the kingdom. I am convinced that agriculture, which is the principal industry of the country, will reap the advantages resulting from this decision. You have not thought proper, at the present time, to note some of the credits which I consider indispensable for the national defences, but I have learnt with pleasure that the changes which I had proposed to you with regard to the principles which regulate the system of military conscription, have met with your approbation. Agriculture, as well as other branches of national industry, have been favoured, at the same time that primary instruction and the means of dissemi. nating useful knowledge of a higher order, have received proofs of your generous interest. In now declaring your session to be closed, I renew to you, gentlemen, the assurance of my Royal consi deration." At the termination of this address, the four Pre- sidents advanced and kissed his Majesty's hand, and the order of nobility filed off before him. The King then left the Hall, followed by his cortege, and the three other orders separated. In the evening he received at his table the members of the States present at Stockholm. The Madrid journals of the 2d contain no political news of interest. It was said that the Queen and royal family intend to go to Seville for the ceremonies of the Holy Week. In the Con gress, M. Olozaga called for papers relative to the affairs of Italy and Venezuela, but the President of the Council said that he would not communi cate any likely to cause inconvenience to the public service. A letter from Vienna, in the Cologne Gazette, states that paper money of the value of 10 kreutzers (about 25 centimes) is now being struck off in the Imperial printing-office, and it is hoped that a large quantity of it will be ready about the middle of November. These notes bear an inscription stating that they ars exchangeable at all public offices for copper money. The Courts of Vienna and the Grand Duchy of Baden have each gone into mourning for' four weeks for the late Dowager Empress of Russia, and the Belgian Court for three weeks. The Prince Regent of Prussia has now so far re covered from his late indisposition as to be able to take carriage exercise. The Dresden Journal announces that Count Kieist vom Loss, Saxon Minister at the Court of Naples, who shortly before the outbreak of the in surrection in Sicily quitted that city for Germany on account of the death of his father, has left Dres den for Gaeta, and is charged to present to King Francis the insignia of the Order of the Royal House of Saxony. The Bavarian Ministry has just addressed a circular to the authorities, ordering them to give official rectification and contradiction to any false news and unfounded statements pub lished by the journals. The Hamburg News states from St. Petersburg that numerous skirmishes have taken place during the months of August and September in the country of the Chapsougs and other districts of the Cau casus. The Russians have, in general, been victori ous, and a great number of aouls have been de stroyed ; but no definitive result has been achieved and that part of the mountains cannot, therefore, be considered as a conquered country. MAROCHETTI'S CEUR DE LION. NAPOLEOA 111. AND THE ENGLISH VOLUNTEERS. Lord Bury, in a letter to the Times, says : Will you allow me to say a few words on the sub ject of an article which appears under the above heading in one of your contemporaries of Satur day ? The article contains a letter from M. Moc guard, the Emperor's Secretary, in answer to one sent to his Majesty by a certain Mr. J. Klotz Row sell. Mr. Rowsell, whose letter is not published, appears to have proposed that an excursion party of British Volunteers should proceed to Paris. The Emperor declares himself favourable to the plan, and promises a warm reception. Mr. Rowsell has, according to the Morning Chronicle, had inter views with the Commander-in-Chief and the Sec retary of War, who have both " spoken most approvingly of the project," and who consider it " very favourable to the maintenance of friendly relations between England and France." Mr. Rowsell has "made application to the rail way companies in France and England," so that " as great a number of Volunteers as possible may visit Paris, where the most brilliant reception doubtless awaits them." The expedition, then, appears to be in process of active organization. The whole Volunteer service are invited to send representatives. Will you per mit me to mention a few of the more prominent objections to the plan P The Volunteer service is the embodiment of a belief on the part of the English people that cer tain armaments which were going on in Europe were calculated to inspire distrust. We did not remonstrate ; it would have been useless and un dignified ; we did not increase our army ; it might have been construed into an answering threat; but we raised force well adapted for defence, but powerless for aggression —a force, therefore, at which no foreign sovereign could take umbrage, or even affect to regard it as a menace. There is but one Sovereign against whom these preparations can have been made, and if our Volun teers, as Volunteers, go over to exchange compli ments with M. le Prefet de la Seine and his official brethren, the position which England has assumed will lose its significance —we shall commit an act of extreme bad taste ; and if, as Mr. Rowsell suggests, we go " to fraternise with the Army," we shall run. more than a risk of making ourselves supremely ridiculous. It is hard to imagine what must have been the feelings of the Emperor of the French whet he read the letter which Mr. Rowsell addressed to him. His Imperial Majesty could hardly answer that the Volunteers, if they entered his dominions, would be badly received ; but is it really possibl e th a t th e British Commander-in-Chief and the Secretary of State for War have "expressed themselves delighted with the proposal ?" There must surely be some mistake in that. The excursionists are to go in uniform ; the gist of Mr. Rowsell's scheme is their appearance as volunteers. If in uniform, they will march, when occasion serves, in some sort of military formation. Of course they will have neither rifles nor side arms, and will consequently look rather like pri soners of war. I pass over that, but I should like to ask Mr. Rowsell whether any officer has been selected for the command ? If so, is it sure that the members of the various corps composing the expedition will obey the officer so selected ? Vo lunteers are not under martial law, and cannot be ordered to perform the smallest military act—not even to keep their ranks or te form four deep, unless they so please. Even if this difficulty be overcome, are there subaltern and non-commissioned officers told off in sufficient numbers to assist the officer in command ? and will the rank and file of the excursionists obey them? If all this be answered in the affirmative, the Volunteers will, at best, have to do under disadvantages, and under the eyes of the " most military nation in the world," what they have hardly yet learnt to do thoroughly with every advantage. If Mr. Rowsell answer that no military formation is intended, then the excur sionists differ only from other excursionists inas much as they are clothed in a uniform for the credit of which the English people are keenly soli citous. f ~