The Sun. — London, England, 1858-04-09 00:00:00

GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA RAILWAY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,That the Seventeenth HALF- T. ARLY GENERAL MEETING of the Shareholders la this Com- Pany will be held at the London Tavern, Blshopsgate-street, London, on FRIDAY, the 30th April, 1858, at 12 o'clock at noon precisely, for the General Business of the Company, pursuant to the Act. By order of the Board, THOS. R. WATT, Secretary. Company's Offices, 3, New Broad-street, London, April 9, 1858. The books for the registration of shares will be closed from Saturday, the 17th, to Friday, the 30th April inst., inclusive, and transfers will not be received during that period. ---,--- /11HE AMERICAN HO RSE -TAMER. —Mr . I RA.REY'S arrangements for Teaching in Classes his Method of Training Colts and Taming vicious Horse., alter the Easter Holi days are as follow : Monday Tuesday Wednesday ... ..... „ 14 Motcombe-street Thursday . • Saturday .• • • .. 17 1 In Yorkshire. Tuesday Monday ..... .•• • • Tuesday .. ...... Wednesday ...... •• • Thursday •.. ..... Monday ...... : Tuesday . . Wednesday.. • . - Thursday Monday . . . " 10 Kinnerton-street, Tuesday .. ••• • • • .... „ 11 3dotcombe-street, Wednesday ....•• " 12j Belgravia. Thursday Farther information and forms for Subscription may be ob tained on application to the Secretary of the Fund, at Messrs. Tattersale, Grosvenor-place. April 3, 1858. TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. FIRST NIGHT OF THE SEASON. FIRST APPEARANCE OF MDLLE. TITIENS. THE HUGUENOTS. On TUESDAY NEXT, the be 13th April, will be produced, first time at this TheLl atre U , GO ey N MOTTI. er's Opera, G DRAMATIS PERSON.X, Il Conte di San Bris Signor BELLETTI. Il Conte di Nevers Signor ALDIGIIIE MI. Do Cosse Signor MERCURIALI. TAVAIIIICS Signor ANNONI. D e Retz Meru Head of Night Watch Raul di Nangis... Marcell° (his Servant) The Queen of Navarre The Page Mdme. LUCIONI LANDI, (her first appearance in England.) Dame d'Onore Valentina (her first appearance in England.) Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, Pages, Citizens, Soldiers, Students, Night Watch, Monks, Musicians, 4c. Conductor, Signor ADRITI. With scenery, entirely new and original, by Mr. Marshall ; dresses, entirely new and taken from the best authorities, by tfadame Copere, and executed by M. Laureys and Mrs. Masterman ; principal machinist, Mr. Sloman ; head of the property department, Mr. Bradwell ; the mise-en-scene incidental ballet, by M. Massa, DESCRIPTION OF THE SCENERY,—Act I, Scene lst.—Tou rain.—Saloon in the Castle of the Count de Nevers, This Scene has been composed in the Renaissance style, age of Francis I. Scene 2d.—Park and Castle of Chenouceau, com posed from Sketches made in the vicinity of Auboise. Act 11, Paris—The Pre-aux-Cleres and View of Paris in 1572, from the Etchings of S. Silvestre. Act 111. Paris—The Castle of de Nevers— Interior. Old French Gothic style, with Renais • saince enrichments. Act IV. Paris—Chapel of the Hugue nots—A Quartier of Paris, from the Etchings of S. Silvestre. The National Anthem will be sung after the Opera, the the principal soprano part by Madlle. Titiens. In order that the great work, The Huguenots, may be pro duced with the fullest effect, no Divertissement, except that incidental to the Opera, will be given on the first night. The new Ballet Divertissement, by NI. Massot, entitled LE RENVOI DE L'AMOUR, will be produced on Thursday, 15th inst. (it being a Subscrip tion Night, in lieu of Saturday, 24th July), for the first ap pearance of MDLLE. POCCHINI. On TUESDAY, April 20, Mdlle. PICCOLOMINI will make her first appearance this season as Norina, in Donizetti's Opera of DON PASQUALE, and shortly afterwards in LUISA. MILLER. A limited number of Boxes have been secured to the public, Price 21s and 31s 6d each. The full prospectus of the season arrangements may be had at the Box Office. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, April 9, will be performed AN UNEQUAL MATCH. Characters by Messrs. Buckstone, Chipendale, Compton, W. Farren, Rogers, Clark, and Miss A. Sedgwick, Mrs. B. White, Miss Lavine, and Mrs. J. Fitz william. After which a Classical Extravaganza, entitled PLUTO AND PROSERPINE. Concluding with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d• Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes 3 15 / Upper Boxes 2 0 Pit 2 0 Pit 1 0 Gallery 1 0 Gallery Commenco at Seven. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr, Charles Kean. THIS EVENING will be presented the new fares entitled THE STOCK EXCHANGE ; or, The Green Business. .After which, will be revived FAUST AND MARGUE RITE. MephistoDlailes, Mr. C. Kean. To conclude with (for the fifth time) a new farce, entitled SA.M.IJEL IN SEARCH OF HIMSELF. T HEATRE ROYAL, A D - ELPHI Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING will be presented the drama of THE POOR STROLLERS, is which Madame Celeste, Mr, B. Webster, Paul Bedford, and Mr. Wright will perform. After which, a new operatic spectacle, THE CALIPH OF BAGDAD. The characters by Mr. Rolfe, Paul Bedford, J. Bland, and Misses Rothe, Keeley, and Arden. STRAND THEATRE.—Lessee and Directress, Miss Svranborough. —This Evening will be produced the new comedy, by Stirling Coyno, Eq . ., called NOTHING VENTURE, NOTHING WIN. After which, a new burlesque, FRA. DIAVOLO. And a Farce. Supported by Messrs. Bolton, Ray, Belfort, Kinloch, Seymour, C. Young ; Mesdames M. Oliver, Ternan, C. Melville, Selby, Victor, Portman, and Swanb3rough. irIANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road. OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow qg company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of elections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, &c., viz. :—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badzey, Miss Brunell, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti; and Mfrs Montague ; Herr F. Joughmans, Mr. Renshaw, S. Jonec, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Hume, Mr. Badzey, Mr. Edwards, Mr. 8011, and Mr. Bernard ; Messrs. T. Maclagan, W. T. Critchf!old, John G. Forde, and E. Mackaey. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil flicks ; harmonium, Master Williams ; Director, Herr F. Joughmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, &a., until twelve o'clock. Mr. AUGUSTUS BRAIIAM will appear every Evening. Mr. WOODIIOUSE (by permission of Ch irles Kean, Esq ) will have the honour of introducing, every evening, his highly successful Performance on the new REGULATION DRUM. THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 9. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. si—highest since noon yesterday. 41—lowest this morning and during the night, 43—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29.78—rising. WIND, Easterly ; fresh and bitterly ,cold. It rained newly all night. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY—Morn., 14 min. aft. 10 —Even., 5G min aft 10 To•Mosaow —Morn., 30 min. aft. 11--Even., 0 min. aft. 0 *') (V,lt • e l. " - tr: `Sf# =' ,"o::> . • „ss, Tut LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1858. In little more than a week the Chancellor of the Exchequer will develope his financial scheme for the ensuing year. The views of the Right Ron, Gentleman are looked for with considerable anxiety, not only in the Money Market and on the Steak Exchange, but by the industrial cona• munity throughout the length and breadth of the land. The nation has had painful experience of the calamities produced by the course of policy "Pursued by Sir CHARLES WOOD, Mr. GLADSTONE, illd Sir G. C. LEWIS. The steady refusal of the former to recognise the magnitude of the com mercial crisis until the Bank of England was en dangered, and the convertibility of its notes placed in jeopardy ; the application of the money in the Treasury, by the second, in paying off a sum of ten millions without the slightest necessity for so doing, and his other abortive attempt to provide for all the expenses of the war with Russia out of the annual revenue, together with lals steadfast refusal to recognise the distinction between permanent and precarious income, oc casioned enormous losses and deep discon font, which Sir GEORGE COIINEWALL LEWIS did "bathing to miti gate, but rather enhanced by kis stolid perseverance in the beaten track. trader the Baronets the nation has encountered ~.two panics, and seen the rate of discount en hanced to an enormous rate, w hil e ‘,LAD STONE put the screw on the present generation for the benefit of posterity, to an intolerable degre e of pressure. It is DOW for Mr. DISRAELI to show wh a t he can do to prove his superiority over his three predecessors, and confute those who fancy that they can sneer him down because he is 14 man of brilliant imagination and glowing °lc-. THEWSUN, LONDON FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1858 quence, a striking contrast in these respects to the gentlemen who bear " the bloody hand," on their escutcheons. That there must be a deficiency of from six to seven millions is 'note generally admitted. The Mats acknowledges to six, and we recently pointed out that it would be close on sewn. The calcula tions which we put forward, when " the precious budget" of last year was introduced, have been strikingly verified, making due allowance for the perturbations arising from the Indian mutiny and other elements that could not then have been an ticipated. It is the duty of M.r. DISRAELI to meet this serious demand in the manner that will prove least burdensome to the great body of the people, and also most consistent with justice and equity. We have frequently pointed out the imperative necessity of a complete revision of the fiscal code, so as to apportion the burden fairly, and make every British citizen contribute to the maintenance of the national establishments and the liquidaticn of the national liabilities according to his means and position. It couldnot, however, be anticipated that Mr. DISRAELI could enter on such a task, which should be preceded by a very stringent in vestigation before a select committee. We must for this year, and under existing circumstances, be contented if he make the most of the materials at his disposal, and render the additional charges required for making up the coming deficiency as light as possible. The first point that can fairly be required is the renewal of the Exchequer Bonds created by Mr. GLADSTONE. By so doing a large portion of the deficiency will be provided for, and that in the most equitable manner. As we yesterday explained it was never intended that the South Sea stock should be paid off without an equivalent, and we repeatedly urged that the tax-payers were fairly entitled to have the stock which should be substituted there for, sold for the benefit of the Treasury. This would probably have been done, but that it would have rendered the grievous mistake of Mr. GLADSTONE too perceptible, and proved beyond the possibility of doubt that his abortive attempt had cost the nation nearly a million sterling. The , six millions of Exchequer Bonds were intended as a partial substitute, and there is ample justifica tion for their renewal, which would not ha any degree destroy " the beauty of the invention," or what would be still better, let new stock similar to that contemplated by Mr. GLADSTONB, be created to the same amount that would have been required if every holder of South Sea Stock had accepted the terms proposed by Mr. GLADSTONE. No reasonable objection could be made to this course. The Oxford pet would be silenced. He at least could not complain of such an arrange ment. There might also be added the sum ad vanced to the Sardinian Loan, which is bringing in a well secured revenue to the British nation, although it was paid out of current receipts, and the amounts paid for the redemption of the Sound Dues—which ought to have spread over at least 20 years—and for the redemption of ceitai❑ hereditary pensions which would never have been sanctioned by Parliament. The latter transactions were, however, kept strictly concealed. Nothing was known on the point until credit was taken for the money thus misappropriated, in the annual ac counts. All these matters which have occasioned the deficiency, might be properly taken advantage of by Mr. DISRAELI to repair the evil, and by so doing he would have a handsome fund in hand to modify or abolish obnoxious imposts, the most striking whereof is the " tax on prudence," in the shape of duties on fire and life policies of assurance. But, beyond anything, a judicious apportion ment of the Income-tax is demanded by the country. The gross, the palpable injustice of that flagrant grievance, is universally felt. If it were not an "actual fact" coming home to every man earn ing 100/, per annum or upwards, and touching him in the tenderest point—the pocket—it could not be credited that any Government would so greatly stultify itself as to propose--or any Parliament as I to enact—such an iniquitous system. Mr. DISRAELI was the wily financial Minister who re cognised the distinction between dividends, in terest, and annual produce of accumulated and realised property, and the hard earnings of industry. He has now a glorious opportunity of carrying out his view. A beginning is all that is required. If he commences by reducing the payment under schedule D to one-half of those required from men possessing tangible property, the country will bail the step in the right direc tion, and gladly confess that "the right man" is, at last, "in the right place." More will, un• (loubtedly, be required, but that handsome instal ment will be willingly accepted. Should he do i so, ho will establish an irresistible claim to the I national gratitude, and so strengthen the hands of Government that it n ay smile with disdain at all the factious opposition ofered on untenable grounds. The golden opportunity is before him. It should not be neglected or misapplied. On this point we would earnestly invite atten tion to an article by an esteemed and valued col laborateur, the Belfast iferaantile Journal, which will be found in another part of this day's im pression. The views contained therein are in strict accordance with those we have incessantly advocated. It is but a question of strict justice that so long as the exemption is extended to in comes not exceeding 1001., a similar relief should be given to every payer, whatever may be the amount of his receipts, on the first 1001. It is absurd to say that a man earning barely 1001. per annum should be_charged 21. 18s. 4d., while the person with 991. would go free, or that the mechanic obtaining 21. per week should give 10d., and the , 1 working man who gained 38s. paid nothing. The class brought within the operation of the tax, coin prising a large proportion of clerks struggling to ' maintain a raspectablo appearance, aro those for whom the utmost sympathy should be felt, and the greatest possible relief afforded. We highly approve of our contemporary's sug gestion of taxing accumulated property of all kinds according to its capitalised value. We have repeatedly urged the justice and expediency of so doing, and in the beginning of 1857 pointed out the large returns that would be obtained from the adoption of such a system, by means whereof the most obnoxious and onerous taxes might be either entirely repealed or materially modified. Property has its duties as well as its rights, and certainly not the least important is that of pro• viding for the interest of the national debt,-__ which, as we have already proved, should fall ex clusively on realised property—and also of con tributing largely to the maintenance of the publi• establishments, which to a great degree aro re quired for its protection. The man without pro perty of any description would have little to fear if the Expenditure in these departments were rc (laced t) one quarter of their present amount. question is The true difficulty in the Indian that candidly stated by Lord DERBY at the Man sion-house--how to combine a responsible Minister with an effective Council. We must confess this is the problem which it has always appeared to us impes-ible to solve. Make the Council powerful, and the President or Secretary—whichever name L e may go by—is in just that proportion irrespon Bible y ;otefrthabescooluutnec,ilantodayetoueffdecei tively. If the Council be composed of persons to inducements de stroy the Mn i s whom any Minister must more or less defer, or if they are authorised to adopt a mode of procedure which interferes with the Minister's free action, the latter could always put forward, when attacked in Parliament, the plea of our first parent, and could justly say—the Council which thou gayest to be with me advised thus, and I did act. And the House must admit the plea, too. It could not get rid of an Indian Minister who yielded to the power created to "check" him.. On the other hand, what would a Council become which had no substantive power 1' What would our Lords and Commons be, if the Minister of the day could hear their opinions and then act on his own i What have Louis NAPOLEON'S Senate and Legislative Council, and even our own Board of Admiralty ever been t It seems as inevitable that a Council which does not act as well as advise, or whose advice is not necessarily followed by action, should lose its vigour, as that any muscle of our body, if not used, should shrink and almost vanish. As we observed, however, a few days ago, it seems to be considered a necessity that a Council we must have. The old Company has left that impression, at least, on the minds of most of our legislators. It will probably survive in part under the name of an Eist India Council, when the name of East India Company is abolished. It might take for its motto, while expecting its change, the non (minis morid6r of the poet, for by a kind of political metempsychosis the worthy directors, or many of them, will enjoy a higher title, a double salary, and no diminution, perhaps rather an increase of patronage. Lord DERBY can scarcely be blamed for proposing a Council, when he knew that Parliament is not yet prepared to construct a new Home Government for India on any other terms ; but from his statement on Monday week we have little doubt that lie con siders a Council and a really responsible Minister to be almost incompatible ; if, therefore, a Coun cil we must have, his Cabinet proposed to make the Council one of the greatest possible moral weight, and to lay greater stress on making the Council efficient than the Minister responsible. At the same time he has provided that the Mini ster should be able to act almost as a perfect autocrat if he wished ; the great check being that it would not be easy for him to ignore the moral weight of the elected half of the Council. The India Howse has very naturally criticised both the bills. It has presented a report, which, however, reads like a last dying speech and con fession, to the proprietary, and finds, of course, so many faults with both bills as to show that the Company is better than either of the preposed councils ! One thing is very amusing. Both Lord PALMERSTON and Mr. DISRAELI wished to be as tender as possible to the " sick man," or as civil as possible in showing the old Company the door. They used as kind words as possible, therefore, and bowed the Directors out. The worthy Directors mistook the commiseration and the courtesy for bona fide tributes of praise to their past merits ! They actually advert, almost in the opening of their report, to the praises bestowed by the abolishers on the institution they were abolishing, as rendering it marvellous that it should be abolished, and important if it were, that its ex cellencies should be perpetuated under any new arrangement ! As to the two bills, they divide their censures and their approbation pretty equally, though Lord DERUY'S as the more thorough-going comes in perhaps for more of the former. Either of them ought, they think, to be opposed by all legal means, but if the Rouse will pass one of them every effort must be made in committee, to confer increased powers on the council, that is, to lessen 1 the responsibility of the Minister, and to make the irresponsible council the real power, and the actual administrator of the Home Government of India. One proposal in Lord DERBY'S Bill has our hearty concurrence—the !appointment of a commission to examine, in India, into the state and prospect.; of Indian Finance ; the Directors profess fear for the reputation of the Indian Go vernment, and oppose most hotly the appoint ment of the commission—their real fear is a Blue Book of facts on their own Revenue delin- quonotees The election of five members of couneil by com mercial constituencies, of course, incurs their un qualified censure ;—" they can only express a feeling of amazement," at which we certainly are not at all amazed. They are obliged to confess that an English element is wanted in the courcil, and if they had not done so, their own most vain. able servant, Col, ARTHUR COTTON could have en lightened them. " Old Indians"—he has told them—"are the destruction of India." "What is wanted is a great majority of untainted English men, Englishmen who are not turned Asiatics." " India never can make a fair start in the race of improvement till Old Indians are in the minority among the ruling body." " What is wanted, is representatives from different classes in England, who will bring their English energy and understanding to the work." Such is the testimony of one of the most honest and efficient of the Company's servants in India, and we ask whether Lord PALarettsTors's Bill, or any other part of Lard DERBY'S Bill, provides Councillors more nearly approaching Colonel A. Corrox's description, than the proposal to choose five Councillors from commercial men by the five largest commercial towns in the kingdom. No person, we presume, seriously concerned to de cide aright, could do more than laugh at the very silly picture drawn by The Times from fancy, of the bankrupt merchant beggars whom London and 'other great cities would choose as Councillors for India. The proposal is perhaps sentenced, by the interested, to be joked out of the Bill ; we h h o wever, that, assum i ng we are to have a working ink, Council, the idea i s a goo d one. t It is superfluous, however, to advert to all their criticisms, since they are scarcely anything more than a repetition of the current objections ; objections easy enough to make, and some of them such as we have already made ourselves. Mr. Serjeant GAZELEE objected to both bills, and " thought it would be much better to throw the whole responsibility upon the Ministers, who might be assisted by a competent number of clerks. Such was the system in the Imperial Government, and surely what was good for Eng land was good for India." Different as England and India are, the last remark is somewhat of a non sequitur. Still it is not to be denied that the simple responsibility of a Minister, who would always be able to command the services of the ablest men, might be the best solution of the diffi culty stated by Lard Deasy. We should not be much surprised if the public were, indeed, driven to get rid of councils altogether. case we cannot conceive that Lordll3 any DERBY will allow himself to be driven iron , office, as the factious ones may sulject, a yhope, on an India Bill. It is not a party any Minister would be justified in accepting any alterations which discussion, not partizanship, may show to be desirable. Lord DEBBY will not allow India to be sacrificed, we may be assured, to mere patty tactics. There are ways and means enough for party to fight the battle for office, if it will, in Parliament, without perilling the interests of such an empire as India. We should think it would exercise a most salutary influence on the debates, if Mr. DISRAELI should announce pretty early, that under no circumstances would the Go vernment resign on the question of India—that they were quite prepared to carry out honestly the best plan which the united wisdom of the two Houses could furnish. It can scarcely be otherwise than a source of universal satisfaction, the knowledge that the protracted struggle against misfortune, maintained now for ten years with unwearied assiduity by M. Da LIMARTINB is at length about to be brought to a happy conclusion. Between 1848 and 1858 the contest with impending ruin has been main tained by him, single-handed, in the midst of an all but overwhelming accumulation of diffi- culties. After saving France and Europe from the horror of Anarchy—effecting this, moreover, at the imminent haaard of his life—the Hero of February, though by nature a poet, though by genius a dreamer, though by an instinctive pre ference, all his life long, a man of letters rather than a man of action, consented, nevertheless, for three months, in the midst of an appalling crisis, to assume the then by no moans tempting responsi bility of supreme Government. It is not an exagge ration of his importance, to say this of LAMARTINX. For he, among all his colleagues, was indisputably and notoriously the genius of the Provisional Go vernment. DUBONT DE L'EURB, it is true, occu pied the chair of presidency at the council board —but he did so simply in recognition of his age, and of his probity. GOUDOHAUX held the port folio of Finance, MAXIE that of Public Works, LEDRU ROLLIN that of the Interior, CREMIEUX that cf Justice, CA.RNOT that of Public Instruction, ARAGO that of Marine, BETHMONT that of Com. merce, and General SUXERYIE that of War—but they were dominant, these men, each simply and exclusively in his own department. With La- MARTINE it was Otherwise. He was far more than simply Minister for Foreign Affairs. He was pre-eminently the mouthpiece, the spokesman, the representative o f th e en ti re G ov ernment. His famous manifesto was the document to which all looked for the revelation of the intentions, the principles and the aspirations of the Republic born of the Revolution. When that Republic, scarcely yet brought into existence, was imperilled by the mob—he wa s th e one w ho stood forward as its champi on i n front of t h e H o t e l d e Vill e. When the organs of various parties and sections, and even, be it said, creeds and races, had to be met and reasoaed into a patient submission to the course of events--he it was who personally gave audience, ono after another, to the imperious and imprac ticable dep u t a ti ons. For three months he toiled at his peril ous post, with unflagging assiduity and determination, and, in the end, only withdrew from holding within his generous and heroic grasp the reins of the democratic Government—because the tocsin of civil war had sounded in the streets of Paris the absolute and instant necessity of gathering those reins up yet more tightly, and placing them collectively in the iron grip of a military Dictator. At the advent of the soldier CATARINA°, LAMAATINE, the poet, descended again, first of all among the ranks of the national representatives, and ultimately to the comparative retirement of a studious cultivation of the various fields of literature. The dignity of this retirement ho himself has eloquently vindicated but very recently in one of the last instalments of one of the most popular of all his aerial publications. It is in the preambule of the 25th, caretiel. of his Curs Fainilier de Litters lure, that in an address to his readers, M. DE LAMARIINB has condescended to repel the shame less insinuations cast against him by certain men dacious opponents. " How cruelly insequential," he says, "it is to say to a man, You owe debts, and if you do not pay what you owe you are dis honoured ; and to say to him in the same breath, Yet, if you continue to work to pay what you owe, you are still dishonoured." Nevertheless, this is precisely what has, been said of and to this great man by his flagitious and illogical assailants. Embarrassed in his circumstances at the period of the last revolution —he ascends to the diazy altitude of the virtual chieftainship of the French Government. Empty-handed, after doing his part to the last nobly and con scientiously, be descends fr om th at unwonted elevation to assume anew his l a b ours as an author. o ut,ail l n ‘ o b u e, i, en: juqiu Vonasesa in ne ira,, What is his reply no w to his malignant deprecia eitkems tors ? It is a reply worthy of LA.MASTINE. " Te ll s pouvez m'btouffer," ho cries no me dishonnerez tr pag on in d a er f n a i u e t r o s ; oi c ip o ir s , er e je sue ee cellsde av maiellsera e a " Yes, you may strangle me," he says, " but you cannot dishonour me. I will work on to my latest breath, and if I fail in my efforts the fault will not be mine ; it will rather be that of my ietractors." But France at this moment has decreed otherwise. For ten years this unequal contest has been continued u ninterruptedly. At last it is to cease. The gratitude of the Great Nation to one of the noblest, and truest, and most gifted of all her sons can no longer be restrained. A. national subscription is to liquidate the liabili ties of the man who is at once—Hero, Poet, His• torian, Orator, Romancist, Legislator, Admini strator. The estates so long in jeopardy at Ma con are to be redeemed from mortgages and secured intact to the owner from whose possession they Appeared but yesterday to be passing away rapidly and inexorably beyond the possibility of redemp tion. The home of the poet of Jocelyn, is still to ho his and no other's. The vineyards familiar to the feet of the young day -dreamer of _Raphael are to be yet trodden by him now that he is aged into the historian of the GironcNns. The BYRON ~f France is still to have his Newstead. The SCOTT of France is still to retain his southern Abbotsford. France has said it. Frenchmen of and 'lassos are swelling the lists of sub scription for this splendid and touching testimc nial. It is well. Had the struggle with adverse fortune ended in this instance differently, it would have been a disgrace for France no less than it would have been a grief to LIMARTINE. There. fore, we repeat, it is well—and not the loss so that the movement which is at length being parti cipated in by a Whole people is now formally authorised and ina ugurate d by the Government. There was uo part of the Ministerial arra.uge meats on which th e thi c k an d thin adherents of Lord PALMERSTON expatiated S.) pathetically a s on the dangers likely to arise from the substitu tion of Lord RIALMESBURY for 1.411'd CLA.RENDON at the Foreign Office. The safety, however, and welfare of the count r y would be endangered if the portfolio passed fro m th e v i goeou s hands of the f 'ruler Minister to one so weak and inefficient as his successor, "Peciall y a t a ti me when such im p )rtant questions were pending with he French and Neapolitan Governments. Such was the tenor of the sundry Jeremiads by Close who wished to constitute Lord PALMERSTON perpetual dictator, encouraging him to treat with contumely and insult every member who dared to give expression to opinions opposed to his own. We have now witnessed the satisfactory termina tion of • the untoward differences with the Cabinet of Paris, and certainly the publica tion of the correspondence respecting " The Cagliari," on which we commented on Monday, dues not place the loss to the country from the resignation of Lord CLARENDON in quite so strik ing a light as the panegyrists of that Nobleman would wish it to be regarded in. Nothing in deed more humiliating to the national dignity can be conceived than the correspondence and entire proceedings up to the time of the change of Government. And there are few consistent Liberals who would not now regard the return of the Earl of CLARENDON to the Foreign-office as a matter that would inevitably follow the over throw of the DERBY Cabinet. He it was who not merely omitted answering, but excused and justified the despatch of Count WALEWSKI, and thus caused the exclusion from office of the Ministry of which he was an influ ential member. He, too, was the person who so seriously compromised the national dignity by his milk and water remonstrances on the out rageous cruelty exhibited in reference to two Bri tish engineers, virtually conniving at that cruelty, until one of the victims (WATT) was driven to attempt suicide, his intellects having been affected by his protracted incarceration ; and the bodily health of the other (PARK) had yielded to his protracted sufferings. Already, WATT has been restored to his country, although but a mere wreck, while the other has been liberated from confinement and given a fair chance of recovering his health. A decided and energetic tone has also been adopted, calculated to bring King BOND/ and his advisers to a due sense of the folly of which they were guilty, in striving to gratify their vindictive feelings against Great Britain, at the Expense of two innocent Englishmen, illegally captured out of the Neapolitan waters, and treated as if they had been malefactors of the worst elms. We have already contrasted the legal opi nions given by the late law officers of the Crown with the lucid and convinc ing document signed by Dr. TRATERS Twiss. In the former there was a manifest desire to avoid the responsibility of making any demand, which, if refused, might be followed by hostilities. For that purpose, assumptions totally unwarranted by the facts were put forward—assumptions which were not warranted, or even ventured on by Commander CARAFA himself. The benefit of the doubt was given to the Sicilian autho rities, and a justification put forward on utterly untenable grounds, which were not alluded to by the parties implicated. Dr. Twiss, on the contrary (as well as Dr. PRILLIMORE), clearly and unequivocally examined every circumstrance, and proved the total illegality of the entire proceed ings ab initlo. And yet Signor CARAFA, depend ing on the weak and vacillating tone of Lord CLARENDON, declares that England herself has declared " that there cau be no right to re quire anything more than a speedy, regular, and public trial." This was his impression from Lord CLARENDON'S diluted correspondence. He was, however, undeceived by Lord MALMESBURY, who expressly stated, that her Majesty's Govern ment " cannot admit that the prima facie evi dence which was produced, as far as it is at present known, could justify the prolonged con finement to which these British subjects have been exposed, and from which they have SO severely suffered," emphatically adding, " Her MAJESTY'S Government still believe that the Engineers, WATT and PAux, were entirely igno rant of the conspiracy to BOiZ3 the Cagliari, and were throughout acting under durance." From the above, it is manifest that Lord MAL MESBURY, in a few days, effacted, through Mr. LYONS, what Lord CLIRENDON COM - pletely failed in doing during as many months. The vigour and energy so clearly de monstrated proved to the Neapolitan Govern ment that they could no longer maintain the contumelious trifling displayed towards the late Foreign Minister. And we hope and believe that the demand for compensation to the sufferers as atonement to the Government will be responded to with equal promptitude. Lord MALMESBURY has shown that the old pro verb, " where there's a will there's a way," is applicable to diplomacy, as well as other matters LORD NORMANDY'S REVIVAL.—Lord Normanby has addressed the following letter to the Constitutionnel : "Florence, April 3.—1 perceive from your journal just received that a subscription is opened for M. Lamartine. If a foreigner may be permitted to join in a tribute of national gratitude, one of M. Lamartino's oldest friends and one who has had particular opportunities of ob z a ll that his energy did for the great cause of order, - not only in France, but throughout the entire world may venture to contribute. As at this distance Id do not know the names of the committee I take the liberty of enclosing I,ooof. as my.eubscription.--Receive, &c., NORMANDY." REPRESENTATION OP GREENWICH.—In consequence of the recent decision in the Court of Bankruptcy with regard to Mr. To wnsend, M.P . , it is assumed that one o C t h e B eets for the borough of Greenwich will shortly be at the disposal of the electors. It is confidently sated that at the proper time Admiral Martin will ar pear as a Conservative candidate, meanwhile the friends of Mr. Townsend, who are numerous and enthusiastic in his cause, although chiefly composed of the industrial classes, maintain that another combined effort will be made to enable him to retain his seat, and that a com mittee is now in the course of formation, in order to raise the necessary funds to release him from his pecuniary difficulties. Candia, which has arrived at Suez with the Calcutta mail, brought only one day's later news from Calcutta than what wag received from Bombay a week ago by the Ottawa. The Candia, however, met with the steamer Oriental at Aden, which 11,d a week's later nows front Bombay. The Oriental is not the regu lar Bombay mail-packet, but is at present in the trans port service. She therefore only brought the news from Bombay up to the 18th ult. The regular Bombay mail packet next due will bring news up to the 25th u:ts, and a telegram of it may be exp-cted next Wednesday, the 14th. This telegram will no doubt have very im portwit news of the success of the columns in pursuit of the rebel fugitives from Luck flow. THE MONUMENT TO THE 23D FCICILIERS.—The erec tion of a monument in memory of the 231 Webb Fuel liars who fell dining the late Russian war is proceed ng at Carmarthen. The site is in the Guildhall-square, and the monument is to he 30 feet in height, with a base 12 feet square, the whole being formed of Portland atone, and on the shaft and pedestal will be inscribed the rani-ts of every officer, non-commissioned officer, and private who fell during the war, whether on the field or by dis ease. The monument is to be surrounded by a handsome iron railing representing rows of muskets with fixed bayonets, and will he erected at the expense of the officers and friends of this gallant regiment. EXTRAORDINARY CLIA.RGE OP IMPOSITION AGAINST A CLERGYMAN.—A singular case was brought before Mr. Kynnersley, the Birmingham stipendiary magistrate, on Wednesday. A person decently attired in clerical garb, and styling himself the Rev. Henry Chapman, was charge I by Inspector Glossop with sending begging letters to the principal nobility, clergy, and gentry of nearly every county iu England. The prisoner had bent two years in Birmingham, and during the greater par, of that time had 1 idged at the house of a person named George Jefferios, in Hill-street, into whose debt, by means of vague hints and mysterious insinuations about property in London, he managed to get to the an >unt of 1781. 104. ; and in order to supply the pri soner with money, Jefferies actually pawned a consi derable portion of his household good , . Chapman states that he was ordained by the Arc bishop of York, and, having no preferment, for some years performed the duties of curate at Kilharn, in the E of York shire. He was then po,seesed of a competency, but, by misconduct squandered his resources until be became penniless, and had no other means of getting a living. He has lost a leg ; and is besides suffering from hernia. Among those whom he favoured with his missives were Lord Palmerston, Mr. 0, B. Adderley, M.P. ; and Mr. F. Hatchard, of Piccadilly, London. The two last named put tbemselves in communication with the Rey. Dr. Miller, rector of Birmingham, and that led to Chap man's apprehension. He aeeured the meei , trete that he did not know he was doing wrong, and if it was against the law he would not offend again in like manner. He was allowed to depart, there being no specific okarge against him, LITEST NEWS. NAPLES. SALERNO, THURSDAY, APRIL 8 A Royal decree, of this day's date, allows Park to return to England immediately. He is acquitted (mis hors de cause). THE LOSS OF THE AVA. A telegram has been received this morning by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company reporting that, when the Candia passed Ceylon, nearly the whole of the specie and mails had been recovered from the wreck of the Ava. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY. A Council of Ministers, at which the Emperor presided was held yesterday at the Tuileries. The Senate met yesterday, H. Troplong in the chair. M. Baroche, president of the Council of State, M. Chaix-d'Est-Ange, M. Lestiboudois, and M. A. Lefebvre, members of the same body, were present as Government commissioners. The Pre sident of the Council of State read to the house the expose des motifs and text of a senatus-consultum relative to the competency of the High Court of Justice. Ten bills voted by the Legislative Body were brought up. The Marquis de Gabillac pre sented a report on the bill relative to the Greek loan ; and M. E. Thayer one on the bill con cerning a local tax in the department of the Haute- Saone. The Senate declared that it saw no reason to oppose the promulgation of the bills to which these reports related. Reports on petitions were presented by M. Delangle, Count de Casabianca, M. de Sivry, M. Herman, in the name of M. Bar baroux, absent from indisposition, Viscount de Barral, and M. Mimerel. The proceedings then terminated. The following private telegram has been re ceived :-- " MARSEILLES, . PRIL " Letters have been received from Constantinople to the 31st ult. It was stated that the European Com missioners were to leave the Principalities before the 15th of April. Tile embarrassments of the Treasury were increasing. " The Sultan had nominated Safeti Pasha Minister of Finance, in the room of Hassib Pasha, appointed to the administration of religious property. Ali Ghalib Pasha son of Redschid Pasha, who held the latter post, has been appointed Minister of Commerce. The nomina tion of Safeti Pasha had produced a good effect. "The Praise d' Orient states that it is not true, as re ported, that Austria bad opposed the disembarkati of the Turks at Kleck, and it affirms that she has offered to allow the Turks to disembark at Ragusa, which is the most direct route to Montenegro. The General-in- Chief, Hussein Pasha, had issued a proclamation recom mending that prisoners should be spared." BOURSE, April 8. The following wero the closing quotations : 41 per Cents 92 50 Do. end month — 3 per Cent. ..... Do. end month 69 45 Bank Sh tres Credit Mobilier Do. Account 730 Credit Foncier Belgian 4,, Piedrnontese (5) Roman B9 Austrian Spanish Threes Iloine Debt - FOR CAW. RAILWAYS. Orleans Northern New Ditto Lyon and Mediteran. 806 i New Ditto 770 Genera Midi Western 6lO Strasburg Grand Central Sardinian Austrian RUSSIA. The St. Petersburg Gazette publishes an Imperial decree, signed by the Emperor Alexander, estab lishing iu the districts of Kiew, Podolia, and Vol hynia a preparatory committee for carrying oui the emancipation of the serfs in those provinces. One of the members of the local nobility is appointed President. Each committee to consist of two mem bers of each district, selected from the landed proprietors who have self's, and of two experienced landed proprietors designated by the head of the local administration. The general committee is to consist of two mem bers of each of the three districts selected by the landed proprietors, an experienced proprietor from each district, and one member appointed by the Minister of the Interior. The Imperial rescript contains the following rules for the emancipation of the serfs : "1. The proprietor retains his right of property over the whole soil, but the peasant retains the enclosure of lois habitation, of which he becomes owner by redemption within a given time ; moreover, he has the use of the quantity of land necessary according to local conditions to assure his exists nce, and to provide him with the means of fulilling his obliptions towards the State and his landlord. For the use of this land the peasant must either pay a rent or work for the landlord. "2. The peasants are to be classed into rural districts; the domain'sl police is under the proprietor. " 3. The relations which are to be (;, , tablished between the proprietors and the peasants must be such as to guarantee regulate payment of the taxes to the State." Similar Imperial reseripts have been sent to th© authorities of Samara, Simbirsk, Orenbourg, and Saratow. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 4th have arrived. M. Ruiz del Cerro had been nominated to the Director ship of the newly-created board of Public Safety. The Diarie and the Discussion had been seized. The Vicalvarist (O'Donnell) party was about to establish a daily newspaper, called the Monarquia. The Queen, on the occasion of the religious cere monies of the Holy Week, had, iii accordance with ancient custom, granted a commutation of punish ment to several prisoners condemned to death for murder. The Queen had, as usual, washed the feet of some poor people. The Discusion says that the noted Carlist chiefs, the two Tristaays and Borges, have penetrated to Lerida and Balaguer, in Cata lonia, with the intention of raising a revolt. The following private telegram has been re ceived " MADRID, April 7. "The Government proposes to reply categorically to the question relative to the dynastic fusion. It will pro claim that it ie determined to refuse any paopoqtion which is contrary to the rights of Queen Isabelli II." MARK ET NE WS. —(T his Day. CORN EXCHANGE. Only a limited supply of English wheat was on sale in our market to-day. For most kinds there was a steady, but by no means brisk, demand, at fully Monday's im provement in the quotations. There was a large quantity of foreign wheat on offer. Good and useful qualities were in fair request, at full prices ; but low anti middling kinds were very dull. Floating cargoes of grain sold at last week's currency. Thu show of foreign barley was large—of English, very limited. The trade ruled firm, at full quotations. For malt the inquiry was far from active, on former terms. The few samples of oats in the market were cleared off, at fully Monday's improvement in value. Beans, peas, and flour were steady, but not clearer. ARRIVALS TIM WEER. Wheat. Barley. Malt. 1,4301 1,700 3,930 Eaglish Irish Oats. Flour, 1,480 1,310 2,990 : Foreign.... 2,770 I 1G,280 6;330 1 7 - 80 gbkrals. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies of meat on sale here to-day were compara tively moderate. Generally speaking, the trade ruled steady, and prices had an upward tendenoy. Per Blbs by the carcass. e. d. a. d. I s. d. B. d. Beef, Inferior 2 10 3 2 Mutton, Inferior 3 0 3 4 Do., middling 3 4 3 6( Do., middling 3 6 310 Do. primp large.. 3 S 3 10 I Do., prime ..4 0 4 4 Do., do. small ....3 10 4 0 Veal .4 0 5 0 Pork, large 3 2 3 8 Pork, small 3 10 4 6 Lamb, 5s 6d to 65 6d. BOROUGiI HOP. Compared with many previous weeks, there is a much batter feeling in the hop trade generally. The business doing is by no means extensive, yet prices are well sup ported, although some large parcels of foreign oats con tinue to ba lorced off at low currencies. New Mid and East Kent Pockets, 70d to 112 s ; Weald of Kent do., 54s to 663; New Sussex do., 52d to 60a ; Year lings, 21s to 50s. COLONIAL. TEA.—The market has been very quiet, with no change to report in prices. Rather a largo quantity is announced for public competition today, and prices are expected to rule rather flatter. Common Congou is quoted 120 per lb cash. SUGAR —Thera has been very little animation in the market, only a moderate business having boon done for immediate requirements. In the refined market a fair amount of business has been transacted at about previous rates. COFFEE.—The demand for Plantation Ceylon has slightly fallen off, and rather lower rates are current. Good qualities of Jamaica Lave also been sold at a decline upon former quotations. COCOA.—Rather more inquiry for good qualities of Tt hided and at improved prices. RicE.—The demand continues very inactive, and prices are rather lower, at public sale a decli ne o f fully 3d per cwt took on most qualities. _ . Rm.—The market is steady with a moderate business doing in Demerara at 2s 4d to 2s 5d per gallon. TALLOW.—Tho market is very firm. P.Y.C. advanced to 553 9d on the spot, 54s Gd to 518 9d for April to June, and 52s Gd per owt for the last throe mouths. LITERATURE. Wanderings in the Land of Barn. By a Daughter of Japhet. Longman. This volume is a record of a winter spent in Egypt a few years since, by a young lady, her mother, and invalid brother. Notwithstandies a certain flippancy in the title and introduction, which peeps out occasionally in her pages, when she talks of " doing the Nile at seventeen," &c., the writer was fully impressed with the vast and majestic character of the ruins she explored, which she describes with all the enthusiastic fervour of a youthful imagination. If she had not aimed at any brilliancy or eloquence of style, but recorded her opinions iu a simple and natural manner, her book would have been very attractive, as convey ing the impression made on a young and inexpe rienced traveller by the marvels of the Pharoahe. Where she has contented herself with doing this, and we must admit that her flights of fancy are only occasional, her sketches are lively and agree able. Indeed, her lively and animated pictures may entertain many readers who might be wearied by the sober and matter-of-fact accounts of more serious travellers. Here is her description of passing the cataracts— • We were all seated on the roof of the cabins, and is the midst of a din and uproar greater than I can de scribe, we left the moorings. Twelve oars, with three or four men at each, took us speedily over the first rapid, which is very slight, but in a few minutes the roar of the waters, crested with foamy breakers, and the rushing current announced our approach to the sec nd and greatest rapid. Then came the " tug of war." For a moment the Arabs were hushed ; the dragoman shouted to us to keep still, and hold on, as before our eyes was spread a sheet of foam, and the river dashed away be neath us, the huge waves breaking over each other, and over the masses of granite, between which we had to make our nay. The moment was one of the most in• tense excitement—the boat seemed to pause for an in stant, the rowers hastily shipped their oars, and with a sudden rush we were whirled down the rapid. It wag now a struggle between the redder and the current ; if the former gave way it would have been all up with us ; the chaenel was very narrow, and we were apparently steering right upon the frowning rocks, but n , act mo ment were dexterously turned aside, and again floated in still water. It was a scene we shall never forget, and must be seen to be appreciated. There were four men at the tiller ; the whole was very skilfully managed ; no water came into the cabins as often happens, and it was only ankle-deep at the bows. The third and last rapid of any magnitude was soon passed, and when this was safely accomplished, the rais came forward to shake bands with the gentlemen, who congratulated him on his success; guns were fired to announce it; the Tarrabukka was struck up, and the whole crew sang and shouted till we reached Assouan ; we again fired on our arrival, and the boats at anchor returned oar salute. We had a beautiful ride at sunset to the top of one of the neighbouring hills, whence we had a most glorious view ; the lights over both river and desert were rich and soft. A. modern Nile traveller has well observed that the sun " glares" in Europe, but that it " shines" in Egypt ; its light is quite different ; with us the outlines of every object appear hard and stiff, but in the East, a ithout the least hazi❑ess of atmosphere, they seem subdued and mellowed. Notwithstanding that one of the party was an in valid, and the other two, ladies, the little band seem to have been sufficiently adventurous. They descended the cataracts, as we have seen, and they subsequently penetrated into the interior of the Great Pyramid. The writer, quoting from her favourite authority, Miss Martineau, tells us that it is said to require more courage to go into than to go up it, and she concurs in advising no one who is likely to be overcome by the strange impression of vastness and solidity, which strikes the explorer On entering, to venture into the interior. They had heard so much of the airlessness of the interior that they thought the fewer guides the better, so succeeded in starting with only ten, leaving a few others at the opening to prevent the rest of the loiterers from following. The first passage they descended was about a hun dred feet lon.!, and three feet and a-half high, the highest of all. They then climbed a perpendicular wall of granite, and after passing two more long passages, through one of which they could hardly crawl, they reached the King's chamber, where Cheeps, the founder of the Pyramids, is supposed to rest. Another journey brought them to the Queen's chamber, under the apex of the Pyramid. It was indeed a strange feeling when we remem bered what acres of solid masonry separated us from the open air. The chamber we were in, and indeed every passage we had passed through, was lined with blocks of polished granite, so closely fitting that the point of a pin could not be inserted between them. We were in the centre of the .4reat Pyramid, but we did not feel alarmed. Ws coolly talked over the chances of suffecai ion, and the time that would elapse before we could possibly get out, or obtain assistance. The heat was in tense, much greater than on the outside, but we did not find it unbearable, and notwithstanding the difficulties of success we did not for a moment regret our trouble." They ware amused at the refusal of a Crimean soldier, who was lingering about the entrance, to advance more than a few steps into the interior, and when asked if he could not go where two ladies had been, replied that there was nothing English ladies would Lot do row-a-days. The author has collected the names of the historical celebrities who have been connected with her land of romance and marvels : Hither in later ages resorted philosophers and ma thematieiatis, physicians and historians, lawgivers and architects ; the distinguished series of celebrated men sho are said to have carried Egyptian wisdom to the Greeks begins as early as the mythical tunes. Danan■ brought the first germ of civilisation from Egypt to Argos, and Erectheus king of Athens was considered by 11 , )018 to have been an Egyptian, and to have taught the Eleusinian mysteries according to the mariner of the Egyptians. The holy singers of antiquity, Orpheus, Museeus, Melainpus, and Eurnolpus thence acquired their theological wisdom ; and even to Homer himself Egypt was not unknown. It was from Egypt that Lycergus and Solon trans ferred to their fatherland the wise regulations they be came acquainted with. The houses in Heliopolis in which Plato and the mathematician Budeaus had lived for thirteen years were shown to Strabo. Thales was instructed by the Egyptian priests, and, as it is expressly said, beside them bad no other teachers ; here he became acquainted with the division of the year into seasons, and into 365 days. Here a1,,0 he learnt to take the mea-uremerit of high objects, such as the Pyramids, by their shadow at a particular hour of the day. In this country Arehimedes studied hydraulics and invented his celebrated screw. Pythagoras was a long time in Egypt, and in this city pondered the great mysteries of the soul's existence and its relations to the Infinite ; his doctrine of the immortality of the soul is distinctly referred to by Herodotus to Egypt, in which country, he says, this belief was first maintained. To Helio p lie came the Father of History, and four centuries afterwards Diodorus and Strabo followed in his steps to pore over sculptured hieroglyphics, papyrus records, and dim traditions of this ancient people, this "first born of Time." Leaving the wonders of Egypt with regret, the travellers returned by Malta, Gibraltar, and Lis b,,n—the chronicler of their inventions giving us a sketch of each locality. One of their travelling companions spent the afternoon at Lisbon, at a bullfight, which in Portugal is very curious. The bulls have their horns tipped and padded ; no horses are used, and the amusement consists is seeing how high the bulls can toss any one who likes to volunteer to amuse the company. Regular practitioners attend, but any one who likes may share in this singular amusement. Few accidents are said to occur. In the appendix the author offers some useful hints to those who intend mak ing the same interesting journey. Photographic Portraits of Living Celebrities. Mull and Polyblank. The five numbers of this publication, now lying on our table, present us . with the portraits of Martin F. Tupper, F.R.S., Professor Faraday, John Gibson, ILA., the Earl of Rosso, and Charles Kean, Esq.,—each of whom, in his pecu ( liar walk, has strong claims on the interest and admiration of the public. The faithfulness of re semblance, and exquisita pictorial effect which always distinguish the works of these publishers, amply merit the especial notice and liberal patron.. age bestowed on them. We light upon many ph o . o t( f ) gra the p 4 h h i e specimensum anform iwhichvi divine." yve have mere d : t e n orf s i e o e us Grecian noses and short upper lips" so vilely translated, that not a trace of the classic original could be found. We have be held a fair, intelligent Saxon face so transmo grilled a s to give us the lac-simile of a pudding mouthed, sentimental "nigger ;" and very recently we stared for full five mi nu t es at the " portrait of a gentleman," without the most remote notion trussing our brain, that it represented our hated and too well known rival iu a severe case of " heart complaint." Perfect photographs are invaluable ; and those produced by Maull and Poly blank are among the number to be so estimated. The like 'less of Charles Kean strikes us as being unusually excellent ; but the whole of the portraits are high class specan , ,ms of this popular branch of the Fine Arts. MATRICIDE.—A terrible crime has been committed at Trieste. A young workman, who maintained himsel and Ida mother b y hi s daily labour, ' gained so little that they lived molt wretchedly. By dint of privations be, bowevtr, saved Pufficient to purchase a ticket in a lottery. Toe draxing took place a few days ago, and his ticket rained a prize of 16,000 florins. Wild with joy the youa4 wan hurried to hie mother, informed her of his good fortune, and asked her fur the ticket. " Alas, my "," said she, "I sold it some time hack." Without a word, the young man drew his knife and stabbed her until she fell dead at hia feet. ifs was arrest :A the same cy.