The Sun. — London, England, 1859-06-24 00:00:00

INIIR • G ADSI 'ONE'S LONDON COMMITTEE SITS DJIIL iY, at the UNION HOTEL, Cockspur street, S.W. The rolling will . commence on Monday, the 27th, at Twelve o'clock. It is ea' meetly requested that promises of support b e c ommunicated immediately to the Secretaries. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. tinder the idanagement of Mr. Charles Kean THIS E VEN 'ING will be presented Shakspe,are's historical Oa) , of KING HENRY V. King Hew: 7 V., Mr. C. Kean ; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean. After which,- IF THE , CAP FI fS. T REAT' LE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Ler s see, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVE? ?ENG the performances will commence with 3ICTERYBODY"S FRIEND. Messrs. Charles Mathews, C o mpton. and I l'ackstoue ; Mesdames C. Mathews, Wilkins, and Reynolds. , After which, THE CRITIC. To conclude with THE WATER WITCHES. Commence at 7. .nW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHL ole Pr oprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EV' EN IN G , THE MILLINER'S HOLIDAY. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. C. Selby, Mr. Billington, Miss Woolgar, Miss Keeley, 1 diss Kate Kelly. Followed by THE HOUSE? or, THE HOME? Mr. A. 'man, C, Selby, Billington ; Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Miss H. Simms. MI so Laidlaw. After - fe ch THE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. Messrs. C. sell- and . M or elnnd ; Misses Woolgar and K. Kelly. To con elude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Tf )ole, Chas elby, Billington ; Misses Keeley, Arden, And Liiidlaw. and Mrs. Billington. _ _ Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. 1)00 rs open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box o C Mee open from 10 to 5 -no charge for booking. No tees t IN Irv, nts permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. iIOYAL STRAND T HEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough ' THIS EVENING will be produced a new Comedietta, by J. M. Morton, Esq., entitled WHICH OF THE TWO ? supported by the company. ' THIS EVENING, CAUGHT BY THE EARS. Mr. J. S. wen and Miss F. Hughes. ,titer which, KENILWORTH. Commence at 7 o'clock. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, L Westminster-road. Lessee and Manager .Mr. William Cooke. 'Last Two Nights of the Season. Trer oendons - Success of the National Military Romance, the Battle of Waterloo. TB 'IS EVENING, the performances will commence with the 1 'eTived military spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WAT EICLOO, reproduced with all its original effects. Sup .. ported 'by Mr. W. Cooke, Mr. W. Cooke, jun., Mr. Holloway, Mr. R Phillips, Mr. J.W. Anson, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Herbert, Mr. St; tnton, Mr. Worboys, Lie. Mrs. Dowton, Miss Dowton, Miss R avers, &c. After which, the matchless and unrivalled SCENES IN THE CI RCLE, introducing Mr. John Henry Cooke, the greatest rider in the world, and the whole of Mr. W. Cooke's family, b. sing the only instance on record of such a domestic concentration of unequalled male and female talent ; Madlle. Francisco ; Miss Holloway. To con elude with a Novel Entertainment called THE VOLUNTEER CORPS ; or, Female Brigade. Stage Manager. Mr. R. Phillips Dress Ciro de, 4s. ; Boxes, :is. ; Pit, 25, ; Gallery. is.; Upper Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes, £4 4s, £2 2s, and £1 15. To commence at 7 ; Carriages at 11. TO- MO3 BROW, 25th June, the last night of the season, Grand Ch: tinge and Brilliant Routine of Novelties, for the Benefit of Sir. William Cooke, proprietor. CANTIZRBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GAL LERY. Westminster-road.—Open at Seven. EVEI tY EVENING during the week will appear THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, c on sisting o f three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette, and Julia I 'elepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and EIGHT ye: irs. The perfe( tt execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most I fifllcult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios evc: written for t he violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi ration in Cot ttinental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu siastic tribut es of praise from the Public Journals of France and Belgium.. _ They will perform EVERY EVENING, at NINE and ELEVEN o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments. THE 'WEATHER.-SIIN OFFICZ, JUNE 24. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 74—highest since noon yesterday. 59—lowesik this morning and during the night. 68—this d. ay at noon. BABoxrau--30.16. WIND, 'Westerly ; light, with fine weather. The visit of King LEOPOLD and the march of the Prussian armies seem to keep each other in coun tenance. What the Prince of PRUSSIA may pro mise to himself by his enigmatical conduct time will prove; but to our apprehension he is trying a rather hazardous game. If his purpose be to incense the French and thereby encourage the Austrians in their almost hopeless campaign, we fancy he will find himself mistaken in both cases. In the first, the French can well afford to bide their time, and teach the Prussians that moderation would better have been their policy than rushing in to fight at shadows, like the blustering boy who dared everything in his fanciful bravery, until at last the real substance made its appearance in frightful mood, and then who so quiet as he ? Even so will it be with the Prussians, who are now rushing on to the Rhine to vaunt their well disci plined courage from the various fortresses ; but who will shrink with dismay when the legions of triumph unfurl their banners, flushed with the glories of the Italian campaign on the banks of that Rhine which, sooner or later, must be the natural boundary of the Empire. In fact, the Prussians have no more right to be on the Rhine than their brothers in iniquity, the Austrians have to trample down freedom on the fair plains of Italy. Both monarchies derive their stolen titles from the Congress of Vienna —a Congress got up by themselves and for their own especial benefit. And yet we are to be insulted with the mockery of treaties, and told we must abide by them simply because the robbers put in the statute of limitations in bar to any moles tation of their ill-gotten territory. Why, there never was and will be a law to sanctify wrong but by the power of those who can, and do, outrage every principle of right. The trinity of Vienna was a political juggle in which England was defrauded or sold, in which France was despoiled of the fruits of her hard-earned victories, and the people of Europe were cheated out of , fileir promised liberties. And yet we hear men —no, not men, but noble lords prate about the sacredness of treaties as if they were based upon justice and equal rights to all parties. No, the day of retri bution, however long deferred, is coming with the grim certainty and steady step of fate, and woe be to those who in their fancied strength invoke the contest. One word to the PRINCE REGENT of Prussia—beware of another Jena—and to Austria—the sun of another Auster litz will seal your doom ! What shall be done with Norwich? What will Lord JOHN RUSSELL and honest Mr. WALPOLE propose to do with it ? Its merits and demerits will soon come before them, and if half -what is currently reported proves to be true, and we have little doubt that it will, the opponents of the Ballot will find it hard, indeed, to resist the sug gestion that it should have a trial there. Our readers will see that a petition has been sent to the House of Commons by the corporation of the city—sent, in apparently, a judicial spirit. The corporation is, of course, of no party—corpora tions are not; and feeling itself charged with the reputation of the city, and the proofs being flagrant that it was very much endangered, the corporation boldly demands that the electoral constituency of their - city shall be put fairly on its trial, and that a great public scandal shall not be hushed up by compromises in the lobby or committee rooms of the House of Commons. We have made, however, some inquiries into this rather s i n gular case, a n d we r ay the result before our readers. Of course we have nothing like depositions, and affidavits, and evidence in legal form yet. We have notoriety only and rumour; so general, however, tha t we have not in all our inquiries heard of a single denial of the reports why Ire proceed to dotal Norwich is woe of - • . ii ::A., . ,;,,, t " , r Tip ' ..1 # , , * 1T.C. ,, • Al, ' , ,•• •0 0, 11l • ;',',. ' ~ r,r,404 t____ _ ; ,t_., ••AlI b \ . re_ r. , . tr: . -. ".- , ~ , , _,..,,::;;:;,-. . 11 ,, ,. . -0,... ,-,,,. hi ~ THE SUN. FRXDAY, JUNE 24, 1859. those old cities which has a very large proportion of old freemen amongst its " free and in.dependent electors." It seems they are quite free from and independent of any foolish bias for a 'Whig or a Tory candidate. From time immemo al they have received a consideration for the tro ble of voting, and the amount of that consideration, has always decided the character of the vote. There has been however, honour, high honour amongst them. For instance, if a poor weaver was offered one guinea by the Liberal candidate, and two guineas by the Tory candidate, his fellow electors would never forgive the frailty, the dereliction of electoral virtue, which should hesitate to close with the two guinea Tory. The perfection of honour and virtue, however, is held to be to get the guinea from one side first, and to make it the means of gaining the other two guineas from the Tory. At the late election party feeling ran very strong —indeed it always does in Norwich—and it was de termined to unseat, if the usual means could do it, the two Liberal members, Lord BURY and Mr. SCHNEIDER. But the registration lists showed a clear and undoubted majority of at least 500 elec tors who had been accustomed to vote on the Liberal side. In a voting constituency of about 4,000 this was a large number to convert into a safe minority. A fight, however, there must be. Norwich Tories would not be worse than Austrians, and could not think of letting the Liberals, there fore, walk the course. Now it appears, that, till the very day before the election, the return of the Liberal members was considered certain ; con sidered so by the uninitiated of both parties. On the afternoon of that day, however, "a change came o'er the spirit of their dream." The " knowing ones" of the Conservative party met the " knowing ones" of the Whig party with brightened coun tenances, with very expressive shrugs of the shoulders, and the triumphant exclamation that it was " all up with the Whigs"—that " they were done"—" no chance at all "—" in fact the thing was settled." What could this sudden change mean ? The answer was not far to seek. Numbers who waited for the " consideration," after Tory sovereigns were exhausted, rushed to inform the regular old Whig managers of what was doing. Scouts and spies were soon out, and it was ascertained that not fewer than 700 votes for BURY and SCHNEIDER were down in the Tory books for BIGNOLD and LUSH INGTON ! Now it seems that Whigs are every whit as good hands at this game in Norwich as Tories. There is not, we are told, "sixpence to choose between them." To be beaten in a money battle at a Norwich election is infinitely more disgraceful than a victory won by bribery. In fact the latter is only considered as a proof of the " pluck" of the winning party. The plan was soon laid. It was found that the Tories had spent all their loose cash. Somehow— the how not quite explained, no more money could be got by them that night. Now, therefore, or never; at it went the seasoned old Whigs, and in the course of that night—that fatal night—they overbought their antagonists by about 300 votes, — having secured all that were yet available ! The election morning dawned on the Tory hosts out flanked. Bravely they came to the poll. The general public long thought the issue doubtful. Not so the leaders. One side knew that they had spent well, but both sides knew that the other had spent better; and, by about two hundred, the Whigs were masters of the field. Now so notorious was the bribery that of the success of a well-worked petition neither party appeared to have much doubt ; and as the rejected members could take no harm the Conservatives virtuously resolved that the Whigs should not enjoy the entire wages of political prostitution . Give us, they said, one of the seats, and we will not try to disturb the other. A clever " dodge" this. How shall the Whigs evade it ? Why, unluckily for the Tories, their adversaries had come upon the trail of some money—and a good round sum, too, from London—of its having been raised in a way most undesirable for the public to know. There had been a handsome sub scription in the city also—that was all fair game; but to fight the city battle, not by city resourzes only, but to call in the wealth of the Carlton— that was not fair play. This 19ca1 leader on one side would " fork out" as much as a local leader on the other side ; but it was not fair play to bring in foreign wealth. This was, of course, loudly com plained of, and became matter of current conversa tion. Those who fought in this way deserved to lose. But now a third party stepped forward—a party very desirous to keep the present members in, both of them being good Liberals, but even more anxious to put an end by some means to this into lerable system of corruption. This party deter mined that if the election was disturbed it should be to some purpose. A petition was, therefore, proposed to the Corporation, praying for a full and impartial inquiry into all the circumstances of the late election, and suggesting that a commission, as at St. Albans, should be sent down for that pur pose. It was framed not as a party, but as a general petition ; it referred to the notoriety of the circumstances, and to the London fund and its nature ; and it was carried last Tuesday, by the Corporation unanimously. It seems that the Tories mustered their whole force against it, but that, seeing they must be out-voted, they made a virtue of necessity, and agreed to pray for a "full and impartial inquiry." Mr. BRIGHT was appropriately named as the most proper person to present the petition. Such are the leading facts and rumours in con nection with the Norwich petition against the sit ting Members, and the Corporation petition ; at least such is what we can confidently state to be, we may say, the uncontradicted rumours in the old city itself. Of this we can speak from special in quiry made on the spot. We have only to ask, can a stronger case be made out for giving that city, at least, the Ballot ? Wholesale disfranchisement of a city of 70,000 persons is impracticable. The con stituency must be increased, not diminished, and the Ballot must deprive the briber and the bribed of the power of getting and giving a poll-book re ceipt for money promised or paid. we trust a Commission will be granted ; if it be, we believe that such an extent of bribery and malpractices for many years past will be disclosed as will almost appal the House of Commons itself. Mr. BRIGHT is not, we trust, the man to let such a matter be compromised or drop. FORWARDING PATTERNS TO SPAIN. — The Spanish Post-office, as a rule, prohibits the circulation by the post of all articles which are not either letters or printed papers, and numerous covers containing enclosures other than paper, addressed to Spain, have been returned to this country undelivered. The Postmaster-General has now induced the Spanish Post-office to modify its regulations so far as to allow of the transmission of patterns and samples through the poSt, under the following conditions :-Ist, The patterns or samples themselves must be of no intrinsic value whatever ; 2d, They must be enclosed in covers open at the ends or sides, or in such other manner as to admit of a thorough inspection ; 3d, The covers must contain no writing except the usual trade marks and numbers. Packets ,of patterns and samples thus forwarded will be liable ii this country to the same rates of postage as ordinary letters for Spain, viz., 6d. for a packet not exceeding a quarter of an ounce in weight, increasing for heavier weights at the rate of 6d. for each quarter of an ounce ; and such postage must in, all cases be paid in advance. •The_Vienna Press states that Prince Metternich has left three volumes of memoirs, or rather notes , 'all re latiinic to important political even t s , written by himself at the tam Of their Kowa% ELIZA COOK'S POEMS. Me Poetical Works of Eliza Cook. A new edition, in one volume. Illustrated. Routledge and Co. Farringdon-street. It is always pleasant, among the crowd of new competitors for literary fame, to welcome the re appearance of one who has achieved a recognised po sition in the world of letters, and especially so when the approval of the public has removed all occasion for criticism. In any case, indeed, the poems now before IN are out of the province of literary analysis. Telling of the joys and sorrows that are common to us all, interpreting the voice of nature in the woods and streams, bringing to our minds, half play fully, half tenderly, the rich memories of our childhood, and blending the wisdom of the philospher with the intensity of the enthusiast, they touch the heart and move the smiles or tears of the reader before he pauses to ask how or why. Of their poetical beauty and high moral tone it is need less to speak ; but it is gratifying to know that so popular a writer has " taught in song" such earnest lessons of faith in God and charity to man. Widely as the writings of this authoress have been diffused among all classes in various forms, the want of a popular edition of her works has long been felt. That want has now been very efficiently supplied by their re-issue in Messrs. Routledge's series of the poets, uniform with those of Cowper, Burns, and Herbert. This one volume contains the whole of the poems published in the four volume edition ; the type and paper are both of excellent quality, and there are eight new illustrations by some of our best artists. The book offers an additional attraction in a new portrait of the authoress, recently taken from a photograph by Mr. John Watkins, and admirably engraved by Mr. Frank 1011. We can pronounce it to be the only faithful likeness yet produced, possessing that air of intel ligence and refinement which identifies the ori ginal with a befitting spirituality of character. The admirers of Eliza Cook are not confined to her native land, for another hemisphere has given her poems as warm a reception, and the dwellers in a new continent have instinctively cherished her songs. It is, therefore, needless to direct the attention of the public to this reappearance of their favourite ; we should rather congratulate them on so conve nient and popular an edition of writings they have long known and prized, and re-echo the hope ex pressed in her preface, which we herewith present to our readers. The probation of long and inexpressible suffering has rendered me a comparative stranger to my esteemed and genial readers ; but I have a firm conviction that I am not entirely forgotten by them, and that their welcome will be readily given to an old friend with a new face. I have long had an earnest desire to present my writings to the public in a form and at a price that would place them within the reach of " the many," and on the prompting of this desire I have foregone propositions for an expensive work; feeling that I shall derive much greater pleasure from seeing my poems widely circulated, than from any in crease of pecuniary.benefit. I am hoping that a gradual restoration to a better state of health will enable me to resume my minstrel vocation, and that I may still find willing ears to listen to my song —that the cheerful strain of my noontide dream and the minor plaint of my twilight musing may again win for me the responsive echoes which excited my young spirit, and crowned my young ambition. With this hope uppermost in my heart, I cordially offer to " auld acquaintance" my warm " How do ye do ?" without any painful anticipation of titeir cool " Good-bye." LORD PALMERSTON'S ADDRESS. TO THE ELECTORS OF TIVERTON. 94, Piccadilly, June 20, 1859. Gentlemen,—Her Majesty having been graciously pleased to confer upon me the office of First Lord of the Treasury, my seat in the House of Commons has become vacant, and I again solicit the honour of continuing to be one of your representatives in Parliament. I have so lately had the honour of being among you that I deem it unnecessary in this address to enter at length into the grounds on which I rest my claim to your confidence. I have been charged by our Sovereign with the duty of forming an Administration, and I trust that I have been enabled to perform that task in a manner that will prove satisfactory to her Ma-, jesty, to Parliament, and to the country. It will be one of the great objects of the Govern ment so formed to preserve for their country the blessings of peace ; and to take advantage of any favourable opportunity that may present itself to exert the moral influence of Great Britain to assist in restoring peace to the Continent of Europe. We shall also have to consider the important question of the amendment of the laws which regulate the representation of the people in Parliament ; and I trust that we may be able so to deal with that subject as to strengthen the institutions of the country by placing them on a broader and firmer foundation.—l have the honour to be, gentlemen, your obedient and grateful servant, PALMERSTON. MR. COBDEN AND TILE MINISTRY. We understand that a number of letters from the leading members of the Manchester school are already lying in Liverpool, awaiting the arrival of Mr. Cobden from America, strongly urging him not to accept the seat in the Cabinet reserved for him. Among those who have written to Mr. Cob den in this strain, is a well-known member of Parliament, whose name has been much before the public during the last fortnight. It is thought that, considering the tone and tenor of the letters in question, coupled with the public position of some of the writers, they will have the effect of inducing Mr. Cobden to decline the seat in the Cabinet set apart for him. The hon. gentleman is expected to arrive in England on Wednesday or Thursday next.—Morning Advertiser. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty the Queen held a Court yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. Earl Delawarr had an audience and delivered to her Ma jesty his gold key and his wand of office, as Lord Chamber lain of the Household. Viscount Sydney had an audience, kissed hands on his appointment, and received from the Queen his gold key and wand of office as Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household. Viscount Newport had an audience of her Majesty and resigned his gold key and wand of office as Vice-Chamber • lain of the Household. Viscount Castlerosse had an audience, kissed hands on his appointment, and receired from the Queen his gold key and wand of office as Vice-Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household. Col. the Right Hon. Cecil Forester had an audience of the Queen and resigned his wand of office as Comptroller of the Household. Lord Proby had an audience, kissed hands on his ap pointment, and received from the Queen his wand of office as Comptroller of her Majesty's Household. The Right Rev. Dr. Campbell had an audience of the Queen, and did homage upon being appointed Bishop of Bangor. Sir George C. Lewis, Secretary of State for the Home Department, and the Rev. Lord Wriothesley Rus sell,--Deputy Clerk of the Closet in Waiting, assisted at the ceremony. Loid Harris had an audience of the Queen upon his re turn from India, and was presented to her Majesty by Sir Charles Wood, Secretary of State for India. Sir George C. Lewis and Sir Charles Wood had an au. dience of her Majesty. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Last evening " Don Giovanni" was repeated before a vast audience, which filled every corner of Drury-lane Theatre. So great, indeed, was the assemblage that it was found necessary to accommodate several persons with seats behind the scenes. The specially interesting feature in tho entertainment, and of course one of its very great attrac tions, was the first appearance this season of Madlle. Picco lomini as Zerlina ; and never, perhaps, did this gifted artiste act the part with greater spirit or effect. She was enthusiastically applauded throughout, and rapturously encored in " La ci darem" and " Vedrai carino." His Highness the Maharajah Duleep Singh has left Claridge's Hotel for Mulgrave Castle, near Whitby. The Prince Hohenlohe Schillingfust will arrive at the Brunswick Hotel, in Jermyn-street, to-day, where apartments have been engaged for his reception. The Lady Howard de Walden has arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Brussels. Lady Mary Wood has issued invitations for two balls, to take place respectively on the Bth and 15th pros. Lord and Lady, Gifford have arrived 'at Stevens's Hotel, Bond:street. The Hon. Mrs. Coventry's ball is fixed to take place on Wednesday, the 13th July. The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli have left Grosvenor -gate for Hughenden Manor, Bucks. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Peel have arrived at Fenton's Hotel, from Lancashire. Mr. and Mrs. F. Hunt and Miss Hadden have left the same establishment for Souttampton. The Right Hon. Maziere Brady has been ap pointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland, by which that gentle man-s pen6ion of £-1,000 per annum as el-Chancellor will be saved to the public. The 'Chancellor of the Exche4uer has appointed Mr. C. L. Ryan, of the Treasury, to be hut private segretig, LATEST NEWS. THE WAR IN ITALY. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, JUNE 24. The Moniteur contains a note explaining the nature of the Dictatorship offered by the whole of Italy to the King of Sardinia. One concludes wrongly that Piedmont without consulting the wishes of the different peoples or the great powers reckon on uniting the whole of Italy in one single State. Such conjectures have no foundation. The different peoples, whether delivered or abandoned, desire to make common cause against Austria. With, this intention they have placed themselves under the protection of the King, but the Dictator ship is purely a temporary power, which, whilst uniting the common forces in the same hands, in no way presages combination for the future. TURIN, TUNE 23. The main body of the Austrian army is on the left bank of the Mincio. The Piedmontese have advanced towards Pcschiera, and, after a vigorous encounter, repulsed the outposts of the enemy, who lost several killed. The entire French force has passed the Chiese at Montechiaro, pushed a recon naissance as far as Goito, and surprised the main Austrian guard ( Grande Garde Autrichienne), which lost nine prisoners and some killed. WEIMAR, JUNE 23. The Grand Duchess Dowager, mother of the Princess of Prussia, and aunt of the Emperor Alexander, died this evening at eight o'clock. VERONA, JUNE 23 (VIA VIENNA). The head-quarters of the Emperor of Austria have been removed to Vallegio. The feeling of the troops is excellent. At Antivari English as well as French war steamers are expected. VIENNA, JUNE 23. The Austrian Government formally declares that the cruelties attributed to General d'Urban, in the message of Count Cavour, are entirely devoid of foundation. Details will be published shortly. Prince Esterhazy's visit to London is unaccom panied by any official mission whatever. MARSEILLES, JUNE 23. Advices have been received from Constantinople to the 14th. Said Pasha has been summoned to send his contingent toßoumelia, but replied that the indecisive policy of the Porte compromises Egypt, and that he will therefore send no succours, but will put his army on a war footing. Dervisch having again taken Klobuck from the Montenegrins, the Porte has ordered him to con tinue hostilities. It is asserted that the regular troops have already begun devastation. BERLIN, THURSDAY. Prussia has demanded permission to march 31,000 troops through Hanover to the Rhine between the Ist and the sth of July. The Nord of the 21st contains the following : " At a military conference held yesterday morn ing it was resolved that the Guards should re• main at Beriin and at Potsdam. The four regiments of the Landwehr of the Guards, and two regiments of cavalry, will be cantoned in the province of Brandenburg. The 4th, 7th, and Bth corps of the army will take up positions between the lower and central Rhine; the 3d and sth upon the Upper Rhine and the. Maine ; the sth corps (Posen) will proceed to its destination by the route of Silesia, Saxony, and Bavaria. The departure of troops will take place about the Ist of July." The Independance of Brussels publishes the fol lowing : " If the information we have received is correct—and we have had many opportunities of ascertaining the accuracy of intelligence transmitted from the same quarter—the fol lowing are the bases of the Prussian propositions presented at Vienna, and which will soon be forwarded to Paris if they have not been so already :—' A congress shall regulate the Italian question on the broadest moral bases conceded by Austria, with revision of the treaties concluded by that Power with the other States of the Italian peninsula. The territorial delimitations established by the treaties of 1815 shall be regarded as the unchangeable groundwork of the arrangement. The annexations made to Sardinia with the consent of France shall not be sanctioned.' If these pro positions are made at Vienna and Paris, we feel certain that Austria will accept them, probably has done so already, and that France will reject them. 'With the exception of previous disarming, which is now out of the question, these are the very propositions put forward by Lord Cowley, which were not altogether unreasonable be fore the war began, but now, after the battles of Monte bello, Palestro, Magenta, Male,gnane, the conquest of Lom bardy, the revolutions of Tuscany, Parma, and Modena, the agitation in the Legations, and the alarms felt at Venice, will most certainly be rejected by France. The Cabinet of the Tuileries will have abundant reason to justify such a decision. The first is that the Prussian proposi tions came too late, as they ought to have been imposed on Austria before her armies invaded the Piedmontese terri tory ; now that the Cabinet of Vienna is compelled to stand on the defensive, the bases of the negotiation must be modified in favour of the national exigencies of Italy." A Piedmontese squadron, composed of six steam frigates, left Genoa on the 18th, under the com mand of Baron Tolosano. Two large gunboats are being finished in that port ; two more are building at Leghorn. The King of Sardinia has decided that the army of Lombardy shall be composed of 10 regiments of infantry and two regiments of cavalry. Prince Eugene of Savoy has issued a decree, dated the 15th, regulating the provisional govern ment of the Parmese provinces. A governor is ap pointed to act in the King's name ; all the authori ties are placed und& his control. The Ministerial departments are suppressed, and special directors appointed to each; the functionaries previously at tached to these departments remain in office under the directors. The present governorships and pre fectures are done away with, and intendants general and intendants substituted. All the police offices are suppressed, the officials belonging to them remaining at the diiposal of the Governor. Delegates of public security are instituted. In every other respect the old organisation is provi sionally maintained. A letter from Florence of the 19th, in the Siecle, says :—" A squadron of Pontifical Dragcons crossed the frontier with arms and baggage, and have to day entered this city. Men and horses are magni ficent, and the general appearance of the squadron reflects the highest credit on the Cardinal Minister of War at Rome. Quarters are being prepared for the remainder of the regiment. The Tuscan division quitted Florence this morning to rejoin the sth corps of the French army at Pistola." The Sardinian Government has sent the Cheva lier Olandini, Major of Carbineers, to Florence to reorganise the Tuscan gendarmerie. The Independance of Brussels publishes a letter from Milan, which says :—" The Austrians carried off everything moveable belonging to the railway; the only locomotive and carriages that remained were under repair. These are now used for passengers and ballast waggons are employed for carrying bread and. provisions to the army. I left Milan in a bread train. The Milanese had not the presence of mind, which any Parisian gamin would have had, to take up a few rails or break down a bridge to prevent the re moval of all the rolling stock of the railway." The Lombardia of Milan announces that the mer chants of that city have opened a subscription for the purpose of giving two florins to _each of the wounded soldiers of the allied armies on their leav= ing the hospitals, and that on the 19th the _sub scription had already attained the sum of 9,000 florißs (22,000 fr.) The Archbishop of Vercelli has issued a pas toral, recommending his flock to thank Pro vidence for having delivered. the most flourish ing towns of the States, such as Novara, Tortona, Bobbio, Voghera, and especially Vercelli, from the presence of the Austrians, and for having crowned the arms of the allies with victory. In furtherance of that object, he enjoins all his clergy to sing the Ambrosian hymn in their respective parishes, and to comprise in their prayers "the well-deserving heroes who, with such abnega tion and patriotism have obtained the immortal glory of so happy an event at the cost of the precious holocaust of their lives." Cardinal Milesi has issued the following protest from Ferrara : "The Bologna Gazette of the 12th, No. 132, in relating the deplorable events which took place there on that day against the legitimate government of the Holy Father, omits substantial facts which it is my duty to state. The Cardinal Legato was not induced to leave, being sud denly deprived of a sufficient garrison, by the mere taking down of the Pontifical arms, nor the being indirectly requested to take his departure, as may be proved by a document he preserves ; but on• the contrary he insisted upon learning from the originators of the new order of things what was the nature of the move ment. And it was only in consequence of this demand that a commission of three Bolognese presented itself to tell him (even before the Municipal Council was convoked to de liberate) that the people wanted the dictatorship of King Victor Emmanuel, and wished to join in the war. Such pretensions are evidently and diametrically incompatible with the rights of sovereignty of any independent prince, and much more with those of the Supreme Pontiff ; and in the present case they are also contrary to the neutrality of the Sovereign Pontiff in the present war, a neutrality de clared and accepted. Hence the Cardinal Legate solemnly protested. against such violence in firm and serious terms, and with the most ample declarations for securing the sacred rights of the Holy See, as the respectable per sons invited to be present may attest. These facts, from the serious consequences resulting from them, should not have been passed under silence. • "The Legate G. Card. MILESI." "Ferrara, June 13, 1859. The Parma Gazette gives an account of the re joicings which took place in that city on the 17th, on the occasion of the installation of the Sardinian Government there. The whole town was bril liantly illuminated ; bands of music played on the public square before the palace of the new governor, and on the latter making his ap pearance on the balcony, he was received with loud cheers for Italy, the Emperor of the French, the King, the union, &c. On the following day the members of the clergy, the Council of State, the Chamber of Accounts, the Tribunals, the University, Academy of Fine Arts, &c., went to pay their respects to the governor. The Movimento of Genoa has been prosecuted and suspended for a week, for having published false intelligence in the shape of an account of a pre tended insurrection of Austro-Italian troops at Mantua, ending in the massacre of the Austrians and the capture of the citadel. Marshal Count Giulay, ex-commander-in-chief of the Austrian army of Italy, has retired to his estates. In passing through Vienna to take leave of his po litical and military friends, he subscribed 25,000 florins to the fund for the expenses of the war. FRANCE. Count Paul Schouvaloff, aide-de-camp rof the Emperor Alexander, has just arrived in Paris on his way to the Emperor Napoleon's head-quarters as Russian Military Commissioner. The Count is the bearer of an autograph letter of the Emperor of Russia to Napoleon 111. He replaces Colonel Abbe dinsky, who joined the French camp at, the com mencement of the campaign. Baron Kubeck has arrived at Frankfort with new Austrian propositions for the Diet ; but he is not to present them until he has received communi cations from the Prussian Government as well as his own. The approach of Prussia towards Austria is obvious within the last week. Baron de Pfordten, ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs in Bavaria, and now representative of that Power at the Germanic Confederation, made his appearance suddenly at Munich on the 17th, and was received by the King. From Munich M. de Pfordten afterwards went to Stuttgardt, to confer with the Ministers of Wurtemburg, and thence returned to Frankfort. A decree in the 2tfoniteur, signed by the Emperor at Brescia, nominates Count de Moray as President of the Legislative Body, MM. Schneider and Revell Vice-presidents, and General Baron Vast-Vimeux and M. Hebert questors for the ensuing session. General of Brigade Wimpffen has been promoted to the rank of General of Division, and Colonels Anselme d'Alton and Douay to that of Generals of Brigade. PARIS BOURSE, June 23.—The market still con tinues dull, and slightly declining. Threes have been done at 61f. 90c. and 61f. 75c. Mobilier varied from 622 f. 50c. to 617 f. 50c. ; Austrian, 400 f. to 397 f. 50c. ; Orleans, 1,207 f. 50c. to 1,202 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 817 f. 50c. to 812 f. 50c.; Northern, 917 f. 50c. to 915 f. The following were th. last quotations : 41 per Cents. .... 91 75 Do. end month .. 92 Credit Foncier 635 ! Belgian 41 Piedmontese (5) Roman BO 50 Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt 39 50 per Cents 6l 80 _ _ D. end month.... 61 75 Bank Shares 2760 Credit Mobilier .. 620 Do. Account ..... 620 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 917 50 .. 917 50 New ditto 7BO .. 780 Lyons and Mediterranean Bl5 .. 816 25 tieneva 495 .. Southern Western 515 .. 510 Eastern Sardinian 370 .. 367 50 Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 c. ; money, 25f 71c.; three months, paper, 25f..; money, 24f. 9710. AMERICA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. The screw steamer New York, Capt. von Santen, with mails of the 11th, from New York, has arrived off Cowes, and proceeded to Bremen. Her advices are anticipated. She brings 327,336 dols. for England, 73,000 dols. for France, and 26,800 dols. for Bremen. A marriage is arranged, and will. shortly take• placb between Viscount Boyle and Lady Blanche Lascelles, sister of the present Earl of Harewood. ROYAL DRAMATIC COLLEGE.—The Prince Con sort has kindly consented to become the patron of the 'Royal Dramatic College, of which her Majesty is patroness. At Hamburg, notwithstanding the political ex citement prevalent there, as well as in other parts of Ger many, the rate of discount has fallen to 11 per cent. Mr. Edward Branson, of the Hanwell College, passed his examination for the Indian Military Service on Tuesday'last, at Addiscombe. We are glad to find that the 'college, under the constant supervision of Dr. Emerton, continues to contribute its share of accomplished officers to the British army.—United Service Gazette. THE YIELD OF GOLD IN VICTORIA.—The total quantity of gold brought down by escort up to the 15th of April, 1859, was 523,000 ozs., against 629,918 ozs. during the same period in 1858. The quantity exported this year has been 643,878 ozs., making the total quantity exported since the discovery of the gold fields, 18,253,620 ozs., repre senting at £4 per oz. the enormous sum. of £70,014, 480 . — South Australian Gazette. FATAL ACCIDENT.—At. Lambeth police-court yesterday Henry Sheppard, the driver of one of the Water loo omnibuses, was charged with having cau sed the death of John Radstead, a boy of ten years of age, by running over him. From the evidence the unfortunate occurrence appeared to be perfectly accidental, and the accused _was . admitted to bail in his own recognisan ces to a p pear at this court on Saturday next. FATAL FALL FROM A CLIFF AT ILFRACOMBE.-- This pleasant little watering place was on Thursday last the scene of a melancholy accident. On that day a pic-nic party were enjoying themselves among_ the_ rocks in the neighbourhood, when one of the party, Mr. W. Blathwayt, an ensign in the 83d Regiment, and youngest son of Col. Blathwayt, of Dyrham-park, Gloucestershire, scrambled down tiff. cliff in search of some gulls' eggs. Unhappily he lost his footing, and falling from an immense height he was literally dashed to pieces. The unfortunate young man was to have been mar ried in about ten da y s' time. He was in his 21st year. The following is a literal translation of a scroll which has been placed by the Archbishop of Paris on the new weathercock, just placed upon the steeple of Notre Dame :—" In this box, tied with ribands of red silk, and sealed with our seal, are placed relics of the true cross, of the holy crown of thorns of our Lord Jesus Christ, of St. Denis, the first Bishop of Paris, and a martyr, and o f th e v i rg i n S t. Genev i ev e, the patron saint of this city. Paris, on the vigil of Pentecost, after the solemn benediction of the cross which is to be place(' on the summit of the steeple of our metropo iiian Church, June 11, 1852; t FRAN c . N c w iaaja mozg; Archbieucp view 19I1OLAS, LITERATURE. Life and Liberty in America. By Charles Mackay, LL.D. 2 vols., illustrated. Smith and Elder. It has long been the custom, when persons of any note in this country visit the New World, for them, 1 on their return, to give us their impressions of life and manners in the other hemisphere. They are especially qualified for this task by the cordial welcome and ready attention they generally receive from our Transatlantic brethren. It has been some times objected that they have repaid the hospitality they have received with ingratitude, by deprecia tory remarks and criticisms ; and many of them have no doubt been restrained by this fear from expressing their fair opinions. The volumes before us occupy the happy medium between these two extremes—neither refraining from fair and open comment on the state and tendency of American institutions, nor indulging in harsh and hyper critical comment on the manners and customs of domestic life. A work of this kind was to be ex pected by the public, from the interesting papers which Dr. Mackay. occasionally sent over, under the title of " Transatlantic Sketches," to the London periodical to which he contributed. These sketches have been incorporated with the rest of his notes, and appear in the present volumes, which contain a large amount of pleasant reading and varied in formation. They are calculated, too, to dispel some of the prejudices against the Americans lingering in the minds of some Englishmen. Dr. Mackay asserts that it is a mistake to suppose that the Americans really regard the English with the contempt which in argument they often express for " Britishers." . Among themselves they speak differently, and he beliefes that it is their eager desire to be thought well of by the " oldhland " that makes them resent with such fiery indignation any disparaging comments from this side of the Atlan tic. The commencement of Dr. Mackay's excursion was not auspicious. 'The weather was' stormy, the voyage was longer than the average; and he was ready, under a combination of the small miseries of a sea voyage, to regret having started. On arriving at New York, however, he soon changed his opi nion, and commenced his acquaintance with Ameri• can "institutions," a word which they apply to every thing remarkable, from pumpkin-pie to the falls of Niagara. One of the first of these "in stitutions," which struck him was that of the fire men, who are conducted on a very different system from our fire brigades. The fire system, in nearly all the principal cities of the Union, is a peculiarity of American life. Nothing like it exists in any European community. As yet the city of Boston appears to be the only one that has had the sense and the courage to organise the fire brigades on a healthier plan, and bring them under the direct guidance and con trol.of the municipality. Everywhere else the firemen are a power in the State, wielding considerable political in fluence, and uncontrolled by any authority but such as they elect by their own free votes. They are formidable by their numbers, dangerous by their organisation, and in many cities, are principally composed of young men at the most reckless and excitable age of life, who glory in fire as soldiers do in a battle, and who are quite as ready to fight with their fellow-creatures as with the fire which it is more particularly their province to subdue. In New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and other large cities, the fire service is entirely voluntary, and is rendered for " the love of the thing," or for '' the fun of the thing," whichever it may be. The motto of one fire company, at New York, in scribed on their banner, is— " Firemen with pleasure, Soldiers at leisure ;" a couplet which characterises the whole spirit of their organisation. The fireman are mostly youths engaged dur ing the day in various handicrafts and mechanical trades, with a sprinkling of clerks and shopmen. In New York each candidate for admission into the force must be balloted for, like a member of the London clubs. If elected, he has to serve for five years, during which he is exempt from jury and militia duty. The firemen elect their own superinten • dents and'other officers, by ballot, as they were themselves elected ; and are divided into engine companies, hook and ladder companies, and hose companies. The engine and accessories are provided by the municipality; but the fire men are seldom contented with them in the useful but un adorned state in which they receive them, but lavish upon them an amount of ornament, in the shape of painted panels, silver plating, and other finery, more than sufficient to prove their liberality, and the pride they take in their business. An admirable system of fire telegraphs is organised in most of their large towns, conveying immediate intelligence to head-quarters of the locality of the fire. Such precautions are extremely necessary in America, where the accidents from fire are of alarming frequency. The railway cars and the street conveyances are also described at length, though in both these respects the " go-a-head " people seem to be far behind our more sober selves. Hotel' life in America is certainly an "institution" peculiar, to the country. Some of the greatest in the great cities make up from five hundred to a thousand beds, and the system on whiehitbe meals are conducted is as follows : For a fixed charge of two dollars and a half a day (about ten and sixpence English) the traveller has a comfortable bed-room, the use of a drawing-room, dining-room, reading room, and smoking-room, and the full enjoyment of a liberal tariff, or bill of fare, for breakfast, luncheon, dinner,: tea, and supper. The two dollars and a half include all charges for servants, and every charge whatever that can be fairly included under the head of board and lodging, ex-, cept wine, beerland spirits. There is no charge for wax lights—that flaring pretext for extortion in England. The cookery is in general excellent. The breakfast is bounteous, and at the leading hotels is spread from eight o'clock to twelve, between which hours fish, flesh, and fowl, fresh meat and salt meat, eggs, omelettes, wheaten bread, rye bread, corn bread, corn cakes, rice cakes, and buckwheat cakes (the last-mentioned a greater delicacy than England can show), are liberally distributed. From twelve o'clock till two the luncheon is spread with equal profusion ; and from two to six there is a succession of dinners, the getting up of which, at the St. Nicholas, the Metropolitan, or the New York, would do cre dit t o the Reform Club and its excellent chef de cuisine. As soon as dinner is over, tea commences, and as soon as tea is cleared away the cloths are laid for supper, so that from eight in the morning till midnight there is one continual succession of feasts, at which Go vernors of States, members of Congress, Judges, Generals, ex-Presidents of the Republic, the magnates of commerce and the law, and all the miscellaneous and less distin guished public, male and female, sit down. Whether the traveller do or do not partake, it is the same to the landlord. He may eat once, twice, thrice, or all day long, if he pleases. The price is two dollars and a half, even should he be a popular celebrity—have many friends—and take all his meals abroad. If ladies and families prefer to have apart ments of their own, the price for lodging varies from three to five or ten dollars a day, according to the extent or ele gance of accommodation required. In like manner, the board of each individual, supplied in a private apartme_n. is raised from two and a half to four dollars per diem. The ccnsequence is that very few people board in their private rooms, and that nearly all breakfast, d ine, and sup in pub lic, except the very young children, for whose convenience there is a separate table d' hote. These hotels are admirable establishments for tra vellers, but they are often used for another purpose for which they are not so suitable. Many families, from the extreme difficulty of procuring good ser vants, take up their permanent abode in one of them, thus forfeiting all the comforts of domestic life, and bringing up their children in an atmo sphere of publicity very disadvantageous to them. It is no uncommon thing for young married people to settle in one of these great hotels for years—a system which has its obvious drawbacks and disad vantages. It was not long before Dr. Mackay visited Niagara, of which he gives a full and very interesting description. We extract a few passages from it. Here, at all events, man and his works are impotent to mar or diminish the magnificence of nature. No wheels of mills or factories can be set in motion by a cataract like this. It would dash into instant ruin the proudest pyramid, palace, temple, or manufactory that imperial man ever ere.lted since the world began. He who would utilise such a flood must be as cautious as a homoeopathist. To use more than an infinitesimal portion of its exuberant strength would be to court and to meet annihilation. The mass of water pours over the rocks in onefeelut . for cent broken depth of upwards of twenty mile . of the no magician and no plummet has ever sounded the dread profundity; even within a condemned lake steamer, the Detroit, drawing 18 feet of finalaanl although nn broken h leap, ou a e nweavteerr,towuacsheeadrnth• e r o o v e e k r s t hweitFalls her a k s e fi e g l h u t n l y t l a s s h a e c w o r a k s . precShi pitatd, r e S e h i below,pitated ,anstdillthsheanpedloywann,ddboewanutinfuo l,onaehukundorwesd, and d e fi v f e t r y w fb i e ll t .know, how many fathoms into a low t e i f e deep, scooped out by the incessant action of the Falls very bowels of . the a few minutes afterwards, a chaotic and of beams, spars, and floating timber. unconnectede arth, t m reappear, ass When the first sensations of mingled awe and delight have been somewhat dulled by familiarity with the mono• tonous majesty, so suggestive of infinite power, and so like an emblem of eternity—though impossible for man's art to picture it under such a symbol—the eye takes pleasure in looking into the minuthe of the flood. The deep slaty green colour of the river, curdled by the impetus of tho Fall into masses of exquisite whiteness, is the first pecu liarity that excites attention. They/ the shapes assumed by the rushing waters—shapes continually varying as each separate pulsation of the Rapids above produces a new em bodiment in the descending stream—charm the eye with fresh wonder. Sometimes an avalanche of water, striking on a partially hidden shelf or rock half-way down the pre cipice, makes a globular and mound-like surge of spray ; and, immediately afterwards, a similar downflow, beat ing on the very same point, is thrown upwards, almost to the level of the Upper Niagara, in one long, white, and perpendicular column. Gently, yet majestically, it reaches the lower level by its own independent impetus, without being beholden to the gravity of the sympathetic stream from which it has been so rudely dissevered. And then the rainbows 1 No pen can do justice to their number and their loveliness. No simile but the exquisite one of Byron at the Italian waterfall—which, compared with Niagara, is but a blade of grass to some oaken monarch of the woods—can adequately render the idea of any spectator who has a soul for natural beauty as he gazes on the un paralleled spectacle of such an Iris as it was my good for tune to behold : " Love watching madness with unalterable mien 1" I I One of the most amusing chapters is that on Ame ricanisms of speech, in which Dr. Mackay giveshch us first an account of the English words d w l of have lost their English meaning, and, whatclass arehe r e m x esr'e‘ipseu,r,e which Americanisms. o " agsoeicttao,ttnhe,e secondly, which means courteous ; " amiable, or trouble; " bright," which means ctvwerh;ie‘hcllneveearn,s' stupid, thnded atshe,, tloattehorncelyafussghlee,ffintvoesfiaaterexo; suc O li f "take in ;" " to stump a state , " to g o on a t our of po li t i a d ag it a tion ; and many others, some of which are ray expressiye t While ether* hate A strong tinge of vulgarity. To one of them the following anecdote is appended : A bunch of sprouts. An Englishman who had steamed down the Mississippi with a captain who was not "clever' in the American sense of the word, seeing on his arrival at New Orleans a great assemblage of people at the levee, and hearing a disturbance, asked the captain what was the matter. "Oh, nothing particular," said the captain. "It is only Jones, an editor, who has quarrelled with Smith, another editor, and given him a whole bunch of sprouts." " A bunch of sprouts 1' " inquired the Englishman. " Yes, a bunch of sprouts," said the captain. " And what is a bunch of sprouts ?' " inquired John Bull, bewildered. " Don't you know ?" rejoined the captain. " I don't," said John Bull. " Then more fool you," was the reply, on giving which the captain turned upon his heel, and walked away. The Englishman, not altogether discouraged, app lied to the clerk for information. " Oh! editors are always quarrelling here," he replied. " It is but one editor who has given another a bunch of sprouts." " But what is a bunch of sprouts ?' " " Don't you know r' " Not I. " Why, what a fool you must be 1" The story is that the Englishman has asked the same question since that day, no one knows how many years a of thousands of people, but never obtained an answe r ; that the idea has taken entire possession of his mind ; and that he is wandering over the United States asking every one he meets, " What is a bunch of sprouts ?" Receiving 13 ,1 satisfactory reply, he hurries on from place to pl ace, ans from person to person, worn to a skeleton, the mere shadow of a man—a kind of flying Dutchman—a spectre pressne n —a wandering Jew—asking the old, eternal ques tion never to be answered on this side of the grave, " What is ;bunch of sprouts ?" Should this unhappy citizen of our fortunate Isles ever read these pages, the spell that is upon him will be broken, and he will learn that a " bunch of sprouts" is a slang expression for the whole diticharge of a revoker-- barrel after barrel. It would be impossible, in a work of this kind, to avoid touching on the subject of slavery, and Dr. Mackay has done so with moderation and judg ment. He looks upon it with the honest indigna tion of an Englishman, and an American's sense of the difficulties of the question. On the subject of political parties and the government of the States his remarks contain a good deal of truth. He w as a sufficiently shrewd observer to detect that, under the high-sounding names of republicanism and free dom, party tyranny exercises a stronger influence than under a constitutional government. The dependhas irely injurious upon et system of paying the members of the Leg islature frheiecrtss'ala a nd are open 'arY, many ofthem all outward influences of bribery and persuasion. The frequent changes of the President maintain_ . 01 continual agitation and strife in the political world The rival parties, each with their candidate, keep to up and foster the angry passions of the community, in order to obtain votes. In this way Dr. Mac ka y, accounts for the sudden disturbances abou t Engils misconduct, slavery, and other chronic troubles the the States, which occasionally astonish the English public. Each party catches at some popular cry, and many of the statesmen are forced by the exigencies of the hour to countenance those views and opinions which they are secretly_ averse to. It is impossible not to believe that all this must have a deteriorating effect on public life. On leaving the States Dr. Mackay visited Canada, and his description of Canadian loyalty to Eng land is very gratifying. His descriptions of the scenery all through his tour are graphic and well written. Here is his account of shooting the rapids on the St. Lawrence, one of the most difficult feats of American navigation. The Indians of the neigh bourhood are always the pilots : Our pilot started from shore in a canoe, and, on reaching the Kingston, spring nimbly upon deck—an indubitable red man, but without paint and feathers—in the European costume of his vocation. He had a keen black eye and a quick hand, and seemed to be fully aware of the importance of the task he had undertaken, and of the necessity that lay upon him to have every faculty of mind and body on the alert, to carry our vessel in safety down this frantic stair case of seventy , feet in a run of about three miles, intersected and encumbered by many rocks and with a current rushing, in some places, at the rate of fifteen or twenty miles an hour. Our trusty pilot was equal to his work. He was all nerve—and nerves—and at one point more especially of our mad career, when ,we seemed to be running right upon a point of rock projecting about two feet above the surface of the torrent, to be inevitably dashed to pieces—a sudden turn of his wrist altered our coarse instantaneously, and sent down a long reach, amid showers of dashing spray, at reck us less speed—like a railway train—full tilt upon another heap of rocks that seemed absolutely to bar the passage. A delay of one second in altering our course would have been certain perdition ; but the mind of the red man, quick as electricity, communicated its impulse to his hand, and his hand, with the same rapidity, to the wheel ; and away we were again, before we could draw breath, safe in deep waters—dancing along impetuously, but safely, into .new dangers, to be as splendidly and triumphantly aurmountecl, The trees uon either side seemed to pass out, of our fio!tt of vision as p instantaneously as the pliantasmagoria seem ui a magic lantern ; and when we darted at last into the bins water, and saw far behind us the snowy wreaths and feathery cr ests of the mountainous waves through which our sh i p had whizzed like an arrow, the propri . ety of the , expression, - " 'shooting the Rapids," needed no Justification but this scene and its remembrance. It should be stated that; although many canoes and boats have been lost in the Rapids, no accident has ever yet happened to a steam vessel in navigating them. Dr. Mackay's reception both in the United States and in Canada was enthusiastic. The po . et of " the good time coming" was a most congenial visitor to the people of Progress. A banquet was given him on his departure, at Boston, at which most of the American literary celebrities were pre sent. On this occasion, Mr. Holmes, one of their well known poets, addressed some graceful lines to the departing friend and litterateur, which are.repro duced in these volumes. Some of Dr. Mackay's own impressions of America are given in verse which is well worth the reader's attention. lie sums up his opinions in the following terms es conclusion, and for the b en efit of Amer i ca ns, and espe cially of critics, who are too apt to be over sensitive upon the w hich I formed bot h of the p eo p le Cosas Americanas, I need but s a y that time has strengthened every good impression and of the country, and weakened every unfavourable one ; that if I have spoken of slavery, and one or two other sub jects in a manner at which some may take offence, I have spoken conscientiously, and that I could not do my own heart the injustice to witness slavery, without raising my voice against it—not to blame the slaveholders, but to con dole with them on the burden of their inheritance, and to pray for the day when the evil thing may be either entirely removed, or so diminished by natural, aided by legislative causes, as to lead to the hope that one or two generations at the furthest may witness its extinction. No Englishman can travel in the United States without seeing on every side and at each step of his progress, the proof of the indomitable energy of the people ; and (if he will not judge too rashly from first appearances, or from random expressions), of the . pride which they feel in their Anglo-Saxon descent, in their relationship to England, and ofthe noble inheritance of British literature, which is theirs as well as ours. Shoul d the day ever arrive—which may Heaven in its mercy avert —that the " Old Country" should be imperilled by the coalitions of despotism, or by the subjection of Continental Europe to a great and overpowering military barbarism, Great Britain would have but to say th e word, and an alliance with the of the whole American people, and bring to the green shores United States, offensive and defensive, would stir the heart of the " Mother Isles"—of w hich professor Holmes has w sung so seetly—a grea ter army of volunteers than Eng land and America have at the present moment ships enough to convey across the ocean. Thus he closes his pleasant and vivacious records of a people who must always be especially interest ing to the English nation. He has discharged his task with a degree of taste and ability, which leaves on the mind of the reader a pleasant impression of the lands and the people he visited, and of the visitor who records his experiences. FINE ARM - . The _Duchess of Wellington ; Lady Constanci Grosvenor. Mitchell, New Bond-strreet.. These are charming portraits of two of the , Queens of Beauty in the fashionable world. Thep are companions, andyet contrasts, being strikinglr dissimilar in style, though their claims to admire` Lion are equal. The prints before us are engraved: by Mr. Francis Holl, from the original portraits by J. R. Swinton. Coming from such a skilful and practised hand it is scarcely necessary to say that : : the engravings are beautifully finished, and possess that air of softness and delicacy which is so neces sary in a good feminine likeness, and which Mr. Holl is so peculiarly happy in securing. This gift alone would render him one of our best portrait, engravers, and is especially advantageous in the' . suitable representation of these fair high born dames. The portraits are both good likenesses that of the Duchess of Wellington is , perhaps i , the most favourable. Lady Constance Grosvenor s re presented as wearing the costume of Blanche of Castille, and the regal coronet be comes her stately features. They are half-length portraits, and the costume breaks off in a graceful imitation of etch ing. We should imagine that many will adorn their walls with these two attractive portraits. LIVERPOOL DOCK T E LEGRAPH.--The subject of working th e t e legraphic line which has been laid down along the dock estate came before the meeting of the Mer sey Harbour and Dock Board yesterday. The Marine Committee, who have the management of the matter, re commended the Board to authorise the reception of tenders for the working of the telegraph. Considerable discussion ensued as to the advisability or otherwise of placing the communication in the hands of a public company, a priori/ of all messages being reserved for the service of the Board. Eventually the subject was referred back to the committee for further consideration. LIVERPOOL DOCK WORKS.--The Mersey Har bour and Dock Board at their meeting yesterday agreed to purchase the steam crane belonging to the Birkenhead, , Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Company, at Birkenhead, for the sum of £l,OOO. Tenders were also ac cepted for the supply of 1,500 gallons of refined olive oil for the use of the engineer's department at the same price as that supplied for the lighthouses, and also for a ton of , • wood screws. REVENUE OF THE LIVERPOOL DOCKS. --- The Warehouse Committee_of the . Mersey Harbour and Dock Board reported to tile meeting yesterday that the surplus revenue arising from the viiriousdockwarehousesamounod : to £ 330500 for the last rhaif-yeat, • which Was trineforra to the'general 'tin& This stirs is a couidatable., *MIA a the provim aix amts. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 24, 1859.