The Sun. — London, England, 1859-07-04 00:00:00

ONCE A WEEK. No. 1., price 3d. London : Bradbury and Evaie-stred• ROYAL PRINC ESS'S THEATRE. Under the Managem ent of Mr. Charles Kean. play THIS K EVEN IN ING will be prese nted Shakspeare's historical ot G HENRY V. Sing H e nry v., Mr. C. Kean; Chorus, Hrs. C. Kean. After which, IF TB CAP Firs. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bucluitone. THIS STENDIG the performances will commence with new Comedy, entitled THE CONTESTED ELECTION, in which Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear, After which, MY MOTHER'S MAID. To conclude with THE WATR WITCHES. Commence E at 7. W THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL N E Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L., Toole, Chas Selby, Billington ; Misses Keeley, Arden, sad Laidlaw. and Ws. Billington. Followed by THE HOUSE ? or, THE HOME ? Mr. A. -Wigan, C, Selby, E ll ington ; Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Mi" mss. Miss Laid law. F o llowed by THE FIRST NIGHT. Mr. Alfred Wigan, Mr. Billington, Miss M. Keeley. After which, THE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. M t nars. C. Seto} , and Mor e ; Misses Woolgar and K. Kelly. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-past sbc—Commeuce at seven. Boa".' Otilee open from 10 to 5 - no chary for booking. No fees to serva nts permitted. A registry kept of aU articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with THE SPITALFIELDS' WEAVER. Mr. J. Rogers. Alter which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses Swanborough, Oliver, andpLavine. To conclude with KENILWORTH. Commence at 7 o'clock. R O YAL SURREY THEATRE--Thi s Evening THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. • Shylock, Mr. H. Vezin ; Portia, Mrs. Vezin. To conclude with THE MASKED MOTHER 11ANTF2aBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS ika GALLERY. Westininster-road. — Open at Seven. ItViay EVENING during the week will appear THE DELEPIKRRE FAMILY, _ _ _ - -- • • - - Ounsisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette, and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOITR, SIX, and ZIGHT years. The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some el the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios evel written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu idiotic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France and Belgium. They will perform EVERY EVENING, a t NINE and ZLEVEN o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, THEILMOICHTER, IN THE SHADE. 72_higheat since noon yesterday. • 62lowest this morning and during the night. 72 __ t hi s day at noon. BAROMETER-30'17. Wurp, Easterly in the morning, now Northerly. with iine weather. We had a very heavy storm of lightning, thunder, and rain last night. It began about 8, and continued on till past midnight. The lightning illumined the sky for some time previously with its lambent flashes, which were very brilliant and beautiful. 'I:7LY JUNE 4. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 76—highest since noon yesterday. 6.s—lowest this morning an& 'during the night. 72—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.25. WIND, Northerly ; light, with fine weather. There was another storm last night, but nothing like that on Saturday. The lightning was vivid, but the thun der must have been distant ; the rain was also more mode rate, THE SUN. MONDAY, JULY 4, 1859. We are to-day favoured with the French official accouit of the great Battle of Solferino. Indeed we cannot sufficiently admire the frankness so clearly displayed throughout the description of that momentous day. Though the Allies suffered very severely in the conflict, yet they are not ashamed to tell the truth and. stand on their merits. It now, seems evident that the Austrians had re treited, with the intention of falling back on their forces, scattered abroad in the ,various fortresses, not only in Lombardy but throughout the country generally. With these reinforcements swollen to about from 250,000 to 270,000 men or more, they resolved upon taking the offensiive, and so pounce upon the Allies by surprize, while yet unaware of the combined movement. For this pur pose the Austrians recrossed the Mincio and re occupied the fortified places they had but recently evacuated. They did this with good generalship, and confidence worthy of a better fate. But although the allies were spread here and there over a vast surface they were not caught napping. So far from it, indeed, that the Austrians seem to have been more taken by surprise of the two. For although the Austrians had been marching all the night to take up their several positions, they yet found that the French were up also. pursuing their march to the Mincio. Thus both armies had by accident stolen a march on the other ! The Austrians had divided their immense numbers into two - armies—one to take the French by surprise on the Austrian right, while the other was to proceed by the centre and left by way of Montechiaro. In fact, the Austrians hoped or thought that the whole of the Allied armies had not yet crossed the Chiese, and they therefore made sure of an easy and speedy conquest. But they reckoned without their host. Not only had the French crossed that river, but they were marching directly for the Mincio. True, their forces were a good deal divided by reason of the various roads, and the necessity of bringing up their cumbersome materiel. The several divisions were thus at some distance from each other ; but when the sound of cannon caught their ear, the divisions urged on and gra dually closed by break of Day to the sudden sur prise, if not cons t ern ation of the Austrians. Then the fight began —a fight !as remarkable for daring and obstina c y o f Indeed, the Purpose as any recorded in history. combatants were fighting under" the immediate eye of t • heir several Emperors and King ; and nothing could have gi ven a grea ter stimulus to their valour than the h ope of coming off victorious And in that heroic conflict. each did his best—but the Allies triumphed and the Austrians left the the honours of that, field, like those of the others, to the soldiers of valour, as well as of fortune. We see by the Gelman papers that the Austrian Cabinet is in a panic. Their boasted preparations were all based upon the certainty of victory ; i n _ deed so much so that they trealed all advice w i t h supercilious contempt. Not only were the rernon strance of England, and the persuasions of King LEOPOLD of Belgium received with cold indifference , but:actually with haughty insolence. What they may have reckoned on is best known to themselves ; but so far as rumour goes—and probable rumour too — their trust in Coburg promises have at length failed, them, and will now fail them in their hour of need. They have, therefore, appealed to the Prince Regent of PRussiA, who, if he will forget his duty to his own country and Also to the " misty fatherland," he may yet _no the day of enlisting in a quarrel which dues not, in fact, concern the interests of Gen away one artier. He ought to re member t he Pas t, and not build too hastily nor yet too surely on ti Le assistance of England. England has quite cue ugh on her hands without enter ing upon ancj wild-goose chace for perpetuating Austrian Idomi 'nation in Italy. No, if the Prus sians be wise I hey will not risk another Jena by rashly ad , veritul ring into a crusade against the French under th, plea of saving the integrity of the Fatherland —whi t .h integrity has not yet even c L : Ige .• • "4"---' . 4 *, Oels . - .ll , j iod it' bit ; 7 ' ll 11111 , •-• been menaced. On the contrary, the Emperor NA- i POLEON has frankly disavowed all and every inten tion of interfering with the nationality of Germany. Then, why should the Germans insult him by dis believing his solemn promises ? The Germans should remember that it will be time enough for England to act when the French prove false—but not till then. Mr. MILNER GIBSON does not even affect to emulate the stoic superiority to the temptations of office evidenced so very recently and so very sig nally by the hon. member for Rochdale. Nothing conies amiss, if it but enables him to have a seat in the Coalition Cabinet. Poor-law Board, or Board of Trade—his own eagerly grasped first prize, or Mr. COBDEN'S leavings—each lure in turn is seized upon with avidity. " Give me a cup of sack," quoth FALSTAFF, " I am a rogue if I drunk to-day" 0 villain !" cries Prince HAL, "thy lips are scarce wiped since thou drunk'st last"—" All's one for that" responds Sir JOHN, with (again) A. plague of all cowards, say I." And so w ith w like gusto, the member for Ashton-under- Lyne qu affs the drugged goblet of Whig blandish ments, bi_kt just now disdainfully refused h is quondam ass:qciate, late M.P. for the West Riding, now M.P. for . nochdale. How much, le.t us ask , was gained to the ultra- Liberal cause in th.,,° July of 1846 —exactly thirteen summers back—by 1:no-mAs MILNER GIBSON'S rst time, from the then acceptance of office, for th Whig Premier , Lord JOHN _ ,'? fi t RUSSELL. Thirteen years ago, in this same auspicioLls month for the Right lion. Gentleman's personal fortunes, he con sented to run in harness under the Alrn'' I l i whip He was then M.P. for Manchester, by tht con stituency of which place he had been selee, t ed five years previously as one of the two ultra-re forming representatives. Mr. GIBSON thereupon in that July of 1846 became for the first time an Ad ministrator. He was sworn in and kissed hands as a Privy Councillor. He inaugurated his career as Right Honourable by consenting to assume, exactly thirteen years ago, the Vice-Presidency of that very Board of Trade to which he has now been nominated President, vice COBDEN, who peremp torily declines to sell thus cheaply his proud Par liamentary Independence. During the one-and twenty months ensuing that first acceptance of ' office by Mr. MILNER GIBSON, what was the gain to himself, what was the gain to the country resulting therefrom ? For that matter, indeed, it might be inquired with about an equal chance of any satisfactory reply, where was the good anywhere discernible in return for the abandon ment of the Premiership to Lord JonN RUSSELL, not simply from the July of 1846 to the April of 1848 (the interval of scarcely two years during which Mr. GIBSON remained in office as the Whig Vice-President of the. Board of Trade), but from the 26th of June, 1846, to the 22d of February, 1852, very nearly six long years altogether. Like the result of Mr. Bob' SAWYER'S practice in Clif ton—it might all be deposited at the bottom of a wineglass, and covered over by a gooseberry leaf. For five years and for two hundred and thirty-nine days between the summer of forty-six and the spring of fifty-two Lord JOHN reigned supreme over the various departments in Whitehall. And as far as reforms are in any way concerned, that prolonged interval of time remains a blank upon the records of Hansard. Signal as had been the complaisance with which Mr. GIBSON bad yielded his consent to be enrolled upon Lord JOHN'S political staff in the beginning of 1846—it failed the right hon. gentle man just one year and three-quarters afterwards. For in the April of 1848 he abandoned office pre maturely—having originally accepted it, as we have seen and intimated, precipitately. It was obvious, in fact, in the April of 1848—the year and month of the threatened Chartist Demonstra tion, and of the not simply threatened but actually and magnificently realised counter-demon stration of the Special Constables—if then became very generally apparent that Mr. GinsoN's Ron tinned connexion with the Government might probably embarrass him in his relations with his constituency. Vividly conscious of this himself, Mr. GIBSON resigned the Vice-Presidency of the Board of Trade --retaining, of course, his honorary and right honourable rank as one of the Privy Councillors of the Sovereign. If it be in any way possible to be so the right hon. gentleman's position to-day in the new Liberal-Radical-Whig - Pee lite Coalition is positively more anomalous than it was then under a Whig Administration pur et simple. Under Lord JOHN'S Premiership Mr. GIBSON eat in 1846-1847-1848 alone in one of the subor dinate posts of the Administration. He sits now a-days under Lord P ALAIERSTON'S Premiership- - no longer, it is true, in a subordinate position, but in the high position of a Cabinet Minister—but he sits thus, in a manner, in every respect far more strikingly insulated. His eminent associate of yesterday—the hon. gentleman the member for Birmingham—has been shamefully passed over altogether in the formation of this new Coalition Government. His other eminent associate of yes terday—the member for Rochdale—has declined to accept the office set apart for him during his absence in America. Mr. GIBSON takes his place at the Cabinet Council Board—the solitary Radical or ex-Radical among a total of 15 Ministers, the total number of the Cabinet having been originally fixed as we all know at Sixteen. Sixteen oddly enough was the grand total of the RUSSELL Administration—so many of the Whigs require to have their appetite for place satisfied. The Secretary for Ireland then as now had a seat 'in the Cabinet—the post (now awarded to Mr. CARDWELL) being then occupied' by Mr. LABOU CIIERE. Mr. LABOUCHERE'S claims are not now recognised. Lord CAMPBELL then sat in the Cabi net as Chancellor, but it was as Chancellor merely of the Duchy of Lancaster. The woolsack was oc cupied by the late Lord COTTENHAM. Mr. (now Lord) MACAULAY was Paymaster General — his lordship being now left undisturbed to the pursuance of his historical researches at Holly Lodge. Lord MORPETH (now Earl Of CARLISLE) had the Woods and Forests— being now viceregally banished to the Irish Lord- Lieutenarry. Lord BROUGHTON (then Sir J mut RoanousE) held the Board of Control—now con fided, under its new name, to the wisdom of Sir CHARLES WooD, then, in 1846, the wonder working Whi g Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Earl of m INV) was Privy Seal—the ornamental post now awarded to his Grace of ARGYLL. The Earl of. CLARENDON held the chieftainship of the Board of Trade —now shuffled a bout between Mr. COBDEN and Mr. GIBSON. The Earl of AUCK LAND was First Lord of the Admiralty — a perillous and responsible office, now entrusted to the "prentice hand of the Duke of SOMERSET. Th , ?, Mar • gins of CLANRICARDE was Postmaster-Gen eral—an office nowadays con fided to the Earl of ELGIN as the inadequate reward of his late resplendlent diplomatic achievements The venerable Marquis of LANSDOWNE was Presi dent of the Council— -a distinction now reserved for the comparatively youthful Earl GRANVILLE. Lord GREY was a t the Colonial-office instead of its present chief, then Lord LINCOLN. Lords AUCKLAND and COaTENHADI hare passed away WYLD'S TREATRE OF WAR. Under this title Mr. Wyld has produced No. 2 of his Quartermaster-General's Map, extending from Malegnano to the West of Lodi, on the River Adda, to Verona, on the East of the Mincio, and from Bergamo on the North, at the foot of the Alps, t• Parma on the South of the river Po—thus taking in the whole scope of the war as hitherto developed. We need not say that all the places are set down admirably clear, and the reader may put his finger on any town or fort mentioned in the late accounts of the battle. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, DRURY LANE. •.311,0.......,....,... , from the scene themselves. Lords GREY, LANS- i Y —i r 1 -- 1 --- 1 r AI E . II NE 1 W 8 DOWNE, CLANRICARDE, CLARENDON, and MINTO • '' no longer figure in any capacity among the catalogzie of administrators. Sir GEORGE GREY has sunk from the Home-office to the Duchy of Lancaster. Lord JoHN and Lord PALMERSTON have " set" to each other in the gay political dance, and with a hand across ilave changed places! Lord JoHN RUSSELL was then First Lord of the Treasury and Viscount PALMERSTON at the Foreign Office. Lord JOHN is now at the Foreign Office and Lord PALMERSTON chief of the coalition Government. Conspicuous among the members of which revived Ministry is the more than ever anomalously placed right hon. ultra-reformer, Mr. MILNER GIBSON to wit—then Vice-President, now President of the Board of Trade. An administra tor then in his subordinate position, having no seat in the Cabinet, now possessing the additional em barrassment of that supreme responsibility. Sup posing this new Coalition by any means to continue in existence but long enough, we may be quite cer tain of this, that Mr. MILNER GIBSON'S tardy (but for them, whenever it may come, premature) with. dra-vval from the Ministry will be its next embar. rassment. THE WAR IN ITALY. MILAN, JULY 1 (via TURIN). The legion of General Garibaldi and the division of General Cialdini are manoeuvring to close up the whole valley of the Adige, in order thus to render themselves masters of the Lago di Garda, and to isolate Verona from the Tyrol. BERNE, JULY 2. A body of Chasseurs des Alpes, 5,000 strong, has arrived at Tirane, under the command, it is said, of General Garibaldi himself. TRIESTE, JULY 2. The American steam frigate Wabash has left our port for Messina. To-day '7OO prisoners of war passed through this town for Nabresina. The Arch duchess Charlotte is about to establish an hospital for wounded soldiers in the Archducal palace here, and to support it with an annual donation of 20,000 florins.. TRIESTE, JULY 3. A steamer arrived here to-day from Constanti nople passed the day before yesterday, at Curzola, on the Dalmatian coast, a French squadron com posed of six ships of the line, five frigates, and many gunboats. TRIESTE, JULY 3. An English steamer coming from Liverpool an nounces that on the 26th ult. disturbances took place in Messina. Four Sardinian war steamers were at Messina, of which three had left for the Adriatic Sea. B e delightful opera, "I Puritani," attracted a crow d e d a od brilliant audience on the stormy night of Saturday, to witness the first appearance of the accom plished Madame Penco in the role of the heroine. The other characters w cre thus distributed, the names of the artists giving warrant for the excellence with which the opera was presented : .._...Arturo, Signor Gardoni ; Riccardo, Signor Graziani; Giorgio, .Signor Ronconi; Bruno, Signor Enrichetta, Madame Tag - Rossi ; Valton, Signor Polon..:.ni liafico. We might almost dispense with notice of all the singers, with the exception of the representative of Elvira, as Gar doni, Ronconi, Graziani, and Polonil have often been be fore us in the several parts, with the recent change of Ron coni taking Giorgio, the uncle, while Craziana assumes Ronconi's old character of the Puritan coi.wel Riccardo. Gra.ziani's singing of his aria d'intrata, "Per Oempre io ti perdei," and his delivery of " Bel sogno beato," Nr - ere beau tiful specimens of his fine, manly, yet delicate baritone. The well known duet with Giorgio, " Il salvo - to dever rival," with the " Suoni la tromba," ended the second act triumphantly; the patriotic sentiment expressed adding, by association, to the enthusiasm evoked by the dramatie sing ing of Bonconi and Graziani. The Arturo of Gardoni is well known ; he dressed aid looked the cavalier Lord Talbot well, and sang, from his chest, his throat, and his head, in his usual remarkable manner. He was applauded in " A te, o cam," and called, and sang well in the concerted pieces with Elvira, Bur*. chetta, and Giorgio. In his re-entrance in the first scene of act 3, he was greeted at the close of his cavatina ; and in the following one, in "Da quel di." " Ella e tremante," brought in the historically absurd anti-climax of the ruin of the Stuarts, and the glorious exultant joy and marriage of the young cavalier with the ,old Puritan. Governor's daughter, to celebrate the " glory and honour" of " Crom vello ;" all which we determined to lose sight of in the admirable musical features of the finale. Turn we now, as the best in reserve, to the Elvira of Madame Penco, in every respect a great, an admirable vocal and dramatic achievement. The Queen and the Prince Consort honoured the per formance with their presence. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were accompanied by the King of the Belgians and the Count de Flandre, the Pi:nce of Wales and the Princess Alice, and bis Royal Highness the Duke of Oporto. The advertised season of this great enterprise of esta blishing an Opera for the general public, supported by the highest ability available in Europe, elosed on Saturday with the great work of Mozart, " Il Don ,Giovanni," with a tex tual adherence to the composer's score. Titiens was the dignified Donna Anna, Piccolomini the piquante Zerlina, Badiali the mercurial Don, Marini the grotesque and musi cally admirable Leporello, Mdile. Vaneri the hapless Elvira, Ginglini Don Ottavio, Lanzoni II Commendatore, and Castelli Masetto. The cast tells its own tale of the re sources of the Drury-lane Opera, which in the short period of its career has placed more operas in its repertoire, intro duced more talent to the public, and made greater exer tions to secure success in every department than any manage ment within memory. The season of 20 additional subscrip tion nights opens this evening, with a promise of the variety and energy which have hitherto marked the directorate of Dro.ry as an opera house. CRYSTAL PALACE. The Last Saturday Concert was very attractive, the names of Mme. Clara Novello and Mr. Sinis Reeves being added to a capital programme of instrumental music provided by Mr. Augustus Mantis. The vocal pieces were the serenata, " 0, the joy of belly loving," from Mr. Costa's cantata, " The Dreams—which, by the way, reminds us, if remotely, of the ladies' duo in " Norma," with the tempo altered—finelysung by Mr. Sims. Reeves, and encored ; the romance," Robert toi que j'aime," from " Robert le Diable," clearly warbled. and curiously changed by Mme. Clara Novello; Mr. Benedict's popular rondo, " Prendi per me sei libero," brilliantly rendered by the lady, and loudly encored; and a pleasing song by Herr G:mz, " When thou wilt be my bride," given with becom ing tenderness and expression by Mr. Sims Reeves. Lastly, the vocal twain joined in the duet, " Eil sol dell' anima," from "Rigoletto," which they sang a merveille. The band performed Beethoven's symphony in B No. 4 ; overture to Meyerbeer's " Struensee ;" scherzo from Mendelssohn's " Otello,' op. 20, arranged for orchestra by the composer ; and Meyerbeer's " Marche aux Flambeaux" in C. Very little attention is paid to instrumental perfor mances by the regular visitors to the Saturday Concerts, who prefer being enlived by vocal pieces. This, however, is no reason why Mr. Augustus Mants should relax in his endeavours to popularise instrumental music at the Crystal Palace. He has effected a good deal with the forces placed at his disposal, and his programmes are invariably admir able and select. Why should the mere listless lounger, or the desiderator of ballads, be only conciliated? Mr. Augus tus Manns knows better. On Wednesday, the fourth Royal Italian Opera Concert will be given ; and at the next Saturday Concert Mr. Henry Leslie's choir is announced to sing. The Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday closed steady, and between 6,000 and 7,000 bales were sold at former rates. In the Railway Share Mar ket only a limited business was transacted, and at reduced quotations. REPRESENTATION OF MARYLEBONE.—It is quite certain that the three Liberal candidates will go to the poll, as, on being summoned by Mr. George Tamplin, the return ing officer, on Saturday afternoon, to ascertain what their intentions were, Major Lyon, Colonel Dickson, and Lord Fermoy each placed .in that g entleman's hands sum of t 260 as their share towards the erection of hustings, poll booths, and other official expenses of the election. Mr. Dyke, who announced himself as afourth liberal candidate, has retired in favour of Lord Fermoy. It is said that a de putation to the Marquis of Chandos on Saturday failed in inducing that noble lord to come forward. The nomina -1 tion for to-morrow (Tuesday) at eleven o'clock, and the poll for the following day (Wednesday). THE LATE NORWICH ELECTION. — It is stated that in the course of the ensuing week petitions will be pre sented to the House of Commons against Lord Bury's re turn from the nominators of Sir Samuel Bignold and Colonel Boldero, the noble lord's Conservative opponents claiming the seat obtained by his lordship. If this Is done there will be no less than four petitions before the house frbm Norwich, three from the Conservatives and one from the Liberals. The town council have also entrusted a petition for presentation to Mr. Bright, M.P., praying for a search ing inquiry into the election practices of the eity, either before a select committee or a Royal Commission taking evidence on the siolot. THE IRISH. J UDICIAL BENCH.—Mr. Henry Geo. Hughes, Q.C., ex-Solicito-General, has been appointed a Baron of the Exchequer in the room of .the Rig ht Hon. B a ron Richards, who retires. The appointment will give general satisfaction, for, although a Whig 'and a Roman Catholic, Mr. Hughes is eminently papular with all Parties. By his elevation to the bench a large amount of equity busi ness will fall to the share of the bar. Mr. Hughes was called in Michaelmas, 1831, and has alarge share of professional ser vice:to establish his claims for promotion. In 1843 he was ap pointed by Sir E. Sugden (then Chancel for of Ireland) one of the commissioners in matters of lunacy. In the year following he received a silk gown. In 1850 he was raised to the post of Solicitor-General, and was a second time ap pointed to the office in 1858. He had been a Commissioner of the Board of Charitable Bequests since 18.57, and from 1854 to 1856 he assisted the Marquis of Kildare as commis sioner in the Endowed Schools Inquiry. For the last 20 years Mr. Hughes has been the undoubted leader in the Rolls' Court, where his practice has been enormous. In 185.5 he contested the county of Cavan, on Sir John Young's of Longford in theretire bemanotavanjo f is. repress6enanteddlhBis. his native county " litE SUN," LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 4, 11359, but it is as sure that he will be'sacrificed as that I hold a pen in my right hand. In fact, there are strong indications that the Emperor will soon have to part with the kingdom of Hungary or with Baron Bach. The storm has long been brewing, and is about to burst. FRANCE. PARIS, SATURDAY. PARIS BOURSE, July 2.—The market has been very steady. A general conviction prevails that the neutral Powers will soon interpose their media tion, and that an armistice may soon be concluded. Threes were done at 62f. 95c., and advanced to 63f. 45c. Mobilier varied from 660 f. to 670 f. ; Austrian, 435 f. to 447 f. 50c. ; Orleans, 1,235 f. to 1,247 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 837 f. 50c. to 845 f. ; Northern, 940 f. to 945 f. The following were the last quo tations : 41 per Cents. 93 70 Credit Foncier.... 635 Do. end month 93 50 Belgian 41 . — 3 per Cents 63 35 riedmontess (5) .. 82 Do. end month 63 25 Roman B2 Bank Shares 2720 lAustrian Credit Mobilier .. 660 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 661 25 Home Debt RAILWAYS. - _ Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto -- --- .. 800 Lyons and Mediterranean 832 50 .. 832 60 G eneva 495 .. 495 Sonthern Western 520 .. 515 Eastern Sardiniaß 376 25 .. 376 25 Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. Mc. ; money, 251 9c. ; three months, paper, 241. 97tc.; money, 241.95 c. THE BRAZIL MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY. The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Tyne, Captain T. W. Sawyer, with the usual Brazilian and River Plate mails, in charge of Lieut. Bolton, arrived this morning at ten o'clock. During her voyage homewards she experienced fine weather,, and light trade winds. The Tyne brings mails from the following places : —Buenos Ayres, May 28; Monte Video, 31st; Rio de Janeiro, June 8 ; Bahia, 11th ; Pernambuco, 13th ; St. Vincent, 21st ;, Lisbon, 29th. The Tyne brings specie to the amount of £51,644, and on freight diamonds to the value of £2,150. AMERICA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING. The African has arrived, with advices from New York to the 22d, and 550,000 dole. on freight. The Anglo-Saxon, Kangaroo, the Ocean Queen, and the Persian had arrived out ; the last three vessels on the same day. It was said that General Cass was preparing a circular on the subject of neutral rights, and that he does not acquiesce in the British views, but insists that all regular articles of commerce, with the exception of powder, lead, muskets, &c., and sa ltpetre, are not contraband of war ; also insists that the fact of goods being on board vessels car rying the flag of the United States exempts them from seizure, the broad ground being taken that the flag carries protection with it. Up to the period of loading money continued easy, at 5 to 52 per cent. for call loans ; 6 per cent. for short first-class acceptances ; three to six months paper, 7 per cent. ; second-elass double en dorsements, 8 to 9 per cent. There was rather more doing in long dated papers. Th, demand for sterling exchange, as well as the supply of bills, was very limited. On Lon don' 94- to 101, per cent. premium ; France, 512 2 f. to 510 f. The proposals for the new issue of 5,000,000 Treasury notes were opened by the Secretary of the Treasury at Washington, on the 20th, accord ing to notification. The total bids amounted to 13,500,000, while the actual awards were as fol fows :-2,700,000 dols. at 51 to 51 per cent., 100,000 dols. at 5 per cent., 1,300,000 dole. at 6 per cent. The following is a comparative statement of the condition of the New York city banks for the weeks ending June 11 and June 18:—Loans — June 11, 122,948,958; June 18, 121,800,195 dols. decrease, 158,783 dolt. Specie—June 11, 22,132,275 (1°1%4 June 18, 231,922,217 dol'. increase, 1,059,942 dollars. Circulation— June 11, 8,391,116 dole. ; June 18, 8,281,111 dols. ; decreose, 110,005 dols. Net deposits, Ju 11, 78,883,536 dole. ; June 18, 79,127,979 dole; in crease, 244,443. The following are the latest quo tations at the Stock Board :—United States' Fives, 18,734,104; Virginian Sixes, 961 ; Missouri Sixes, 861 ; New York Central Shares, 73-Z- ; New York and Erie shares, 6 i 5 ,- • Reading Railroad shares, 421 ; Michigan Central shares, 401 ; Michigan Southern Preference, 29 ; Cleveland and Toledo shares, 151 • Panama Railroad shares, 122 ; Illinois Central ;hares, 581 ; Illinois Central Bonds, 81/ ; Chicago and Rhode Island shares, 58; Milwaukie and Mississippi, 4 ; Galena and Chi cago, 631 ; La Crosse de land Hudson, 91; Cum berland Coal Company, 16 ; Peen Coal, 821; Pacific Mail Steamship Company, 68 potashes, 5 dole. 311 c.; pearl, 5 dols. 812 e. Cotton quite at a stand-still in consequence of the European ads ices, middling up lands, 111; State and Western flour had declined 20c. to 30c. per barrel since the 12th ; Southern also lower, stocks heavy; wheat had declined 3c. to sc. ; Scoteh pig iron, 23 dols. 50c. to 24 dols., six months ; rather a more active demand for =- lasses, without improvement in price ; crude turpen tine, 3 dole. 80c. ; spirits, 47c. to 48c. ; common ro sin, 1 dol . 85c. ; mess pork steady ; prime, 50c. to 75c. lower ; prime country mess beef, 6 dols. 50c. to 7 dole. Sugar had advanced / of a cent. per lb. ; Kentucky tobacco, 72e. ; Virginia, 42c. Freights unchanged. Cotton to Liverpool, 4s. per bale. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. The Roberl Harding, hence, at New Orleans ; Jane Hen Jerson, hence, at. Philadelphia, 17th of May, from New castle ; Pembroke Ward, and Telegraph, from Shields ; Ocean Queen, from Havre ; and Cerere, from Palermo—at New York. The Nellie Southard, from St. John's, N. 8., for Bristol Channel, was totally lost on Murr Ledges. Grand Menai. Crew saved. She had a cargo of dea!s, and was bound on her first voyage. WINDSOR ROYAL ASSOCIATION. The ninth anniversary of the Royal Association took place in the Home-park yesterday, when the prizes awarded to the candidates were distributed by his Royal Highness the Prince Consort. The report was read by Mr. H. Wrench, after which the distributions commenced as follows : Class I—To the labourer or artisan, or the wife of a labourer or artisan, who has brought up a family in honest, sober, and industrious habits, without parish relief, except in cases of sickness— four persons received £3 each ; eleven £2 each ; and one £l. Class 2—To the widow of a labourer or artisan who has brought up her family in honest, sober, and industrious habits, whether with or without parochial relief—two persons received £3 each, and eight £2 each. Class 3 (a) —To families distinguished for cleanli ness and tidiness in house and person—six persons received 30s. each, and 20 £1 each. Class 3 (b) —To the best cultivators of gardens or allotments—ten persons received £1 each, being persons of honest, sober, and good moral character. Class 4—To well-conducted servants or labourers, male or female, who have been for the longest period of service in the same situation—eight per sons received £3 each, fourteen £2 each, and two £1 each. Class s—To young persons, male or female, Who have kept their first places of service for the longest period, not less than three years—two persons re ceived £2 and eleven persons received £1 each. FiVe persons also received honorary distinctions, and eighty exhibitors of vegetables and cottage handicraft received from 40s. to 2s. 6d. each. The weather being delightfully fine, the ground was crowded with fashionables, and the pleasures of the day were greatly enhanced by the perform ance of the band of the Scots Fusilier Guards, the corps of drums and fifes, and the Scotch bagpipes. The annual dinner of the friends of the association took place at the Town-hall in the evening. M. Thiers is staying at Charleroi, Belgium. The non electors of South Essex have determined on inviting Mr. B. Baker, the late member, to a public dinner, which is to take place in August. A LADY BURNT TO DEATH.—On Saturday even ing the neighbourhood of the Victoria-road, Islington, was greatly wiled in consequence of a lady being; burnt to death. The unfortunate lady, attired in one of those thin and ample dresks so much in vogue at the present time, was busily engaged preparing for the reception of friends on the following day (Sunday). A ham wag being boiled in the copper, and while she was in the act of lifting the lid to watch the process of cooking, a current of air wafted the folds of her dress to the fire beneath, and in an instant she was enveloped in flames. Her shrieks for assistance were heartrending, and, losing all presence of mind, she rushed into the garden adjoining the house, where the flames were extinguished, but not before every particle of wearing ap parel made of cotton had been consumed. The poor lady who was momentarily expecting her confinement, lived but three 1494r0 after the accident, Off Ancona were four English ships of the line ; with three steamers. Yesterday Count Reehberg, the Austrian Pre. mier, passed Nabresina. BERLIN, JULY 3. According to reliable information, Field-Marshal Prince Windischgratz is expected here this even ing, on a special mission, coming from Vienna, via Dresden. MUNICH, JULY 3, On account of want of money for war purposes an extraordinary Diet has been convoked for the 14th of July instant. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, JULY 2 At to-day's sitting of the Federal Diet the pro posal of Prussia to place a corps of observation on the Upper Rhine was almost unanimously agreed to. Several Governments were without instructions. MARSEILLES, JULY 2, Advices have been received from Naples to the 28th ult. M. Brenier, the French Envoy, has been appointed Grand Cordon of the Order of St. Jannarius. Prince Ischitella and Prince Comitini have been sent to Lombardy on a mission recipro cal to that despatched to Naples by France and Sardinia in the yersons of M. Brenier and Count Salmour. Letters from Rome to the 28th assert that an inquiry into the disturbances at Perugia has been ordered. An official contradiction has been pub lished of the reported liberation of criminals at Rome. A circular publication on the temporal power of the Pope, and an address by his Holiness to the Cardinals in the Legations, have been issued, both expressing cdnfrdence in the Emperor of the French. INDIA AND CHINA. The following telegram from Mr. Mark, dated Marseilles, July 3, 4.45, was received at the Foreign-office, July 3, at 6.15 p.m.:— " The followink despatch has just arrived by the Ellora , " Political intelligence from India, per Bombay, arrived at Suez at 3.30 a.m., June 25. " ' The dissatisfaction among the European troops is rapidly subsiding ; many rebel leaders of note have taken, advantage of the amnesty. " The Nana is still at large. The Punjab is quiet. " ALFRED S: WALNE, Acting Agetit and Consul-General. "' Alexandria, June 25." We have received the following_ from the Penin sular and Oriental Company : "The Ellora, having on board the Calcutta and China and the Bombay mails, arrived at Marseilles at noon this day. " The Ahna grounded at Moosehedgerah, near the Harnish Islands, in the Red Sea, at 3 a.m. on the 12th of June. She heeled over immediately, and the starboard and stern ports being put under water, she filled rapidly from above. The mails, passengers, and crew were all saved, and it was confidently believed that the vessel's bottom was not injured, and that she might be got off. " Twenty-six of the Alma's passengers came on in the Ellora ; the remainder are on board the Pera, which left Malta on the 80th of June, and may be expected at Bouthainpton on the . 9th inst. " The Columbian, with the Australian mail, had not arrived at Suez on the 26th of June. " The mails ex Ellora left for London by specid rain at two o'clock this afternoon." AUSTRIA. A letter,ldatod Vionna, July 1, says : The Emperor has resolved to remain with his army in Italy. and the day before yesterday he telegraphed to the Archduke Regnier, the Presi dent of the Council of the Empire, to join him with out delay. The Prince left immediately, and it is believed that he has been summoned to Verona be cause the Emperor sees the necessity for a change of system. God grant that his Majesty may direct his attention to internal matters before it is too late. The Government has received information that Kossuth is in European Turkey, on his way to Hun gary, but it is not alarmed, " because it is assured that the peasants will have nothing at all to do with him." This tranquillity of mind I might, perhaps, share, had not experience taught me that the un educated many can always be led by the educated few. It has been hinted to me that the Austrian Government may, perhaps, try to play off the eman cipated peasants against their former task-masters, but any such attempt would be a total failure. Hungary is, to ail intents and purposes, an aristo cratic country, and the Austrian Government can not hope to regain its influence there unless it can manage to win the upper classes of the people. If Austria had been content to govern Lombardy by means of the aristocracy of the country it is highly probable that Milan would not now be in the hands of the Sardo-French. Count Rechberg has again been summoned to Italy, and will leave this evening for Verona. His travelling companions are to be M. von Biegeleben, the Referendary for German Affairs, and M. Buhl, a Government Counsellir, who has been the man of confidence of no fewer than four Foreign Ministers. Persons of Baron Bach's acquaintance relate that he begins to talk of the necessity " for some change," and there is little doubt in my mind that he would consent to remain in office even if the Emperor should resolve altoge ther to overthrow the present system. The Minis ter of the Interior has powerful friends at Court TILE MAGAZINES, -♦- Blackwood's Magazine. It will be remembered by the readers of Maga that in the last number some severe cen sures were passed upon Lord Macaulay for stereotyping in his brilliant pages some unjust attacks upon the conqueror of Blenheim. The same writer now proceeds to censure the eminent historian on very opposite grounds, though the error he charges him with arises probably from the same cause—a strong personal bias, and a tendency towards the rhetorical . pleadings of an advocate rather than the calm impartiality of a judge. He who weighs the actions and criticises the motives of the dead, should bring to his task something of the sense of responsibility, the careful deliberation and the patient investigation of both sides, that we look for in him who adjudicates upon the destinies of the living. It is no light thing to disparage or degrade an eminent name, though its owner has mingled with the dust ; neither is it a matter of indifference that the State _crimes of kings and governors should be disguised or plausibly excused to gratify a personal admiration. The charge which the critic brings against Lord Macaulay is that in his partisanship of William the Third, he has endeavoured to explain away his sanction of the Glencoe massacre. The gifted essayist does not indeed degrade his eloquence or insult his readers by at tempting to palliate the treachery and massacre it self. On the contrary, he speaks of it in terms of the strongest indignation ; but he turns his wrath upon secondary actors in the tragedy, and resolutely tries to defend the King's signature of the order which says " If Man of Glencoe and that trybe can be well separated from the rest, it will be a proper vindication of the public justice to extir pate that sect of thieves." Leaving this paper, we come to a mystical story, entitled " The Lifted Veil." The idea is somewhat original, and, if clothed in a simpler and more practical form, might have carried an effective moral with it. The hero of the story is afflicted with the mysterious power to foresee certain scenes and crises in his own life, and also to know what is passing in the minds of others. These faculties, so often wished far, bring to, him nothing but deso lation and despair. He sees the littleness and selfishness of all about him—he sees his wife's evil nature and hatred of himself, and life be comes a misery to him. He knows the coming events, but cannot alter them, and he has at length the bitter consolation of foreseeing his lonely death. Had the story been less dreamy and rhapsodical, had the poisoning and resuscitation been omitted, and the wife made a mere ordinary selfish, heartless woman, the story would have been more life-like, and we think more effective. How ever, it will doubtless please readers who admire the abstruse and the horrible, and it carries a warn ing with it to those who would add the weight of to-morrow to the burden of to-day. " The Luck of Ladysmede" continues, and the story advances. " Sentimental Physiology" is the title given to a criticism on Michelet's work, " L'Amour," which truly deserves the name. Physiology and Psycho logy appear likely to add to the list of those sub jects which are analysed with such absurd minute • ness, and discussed with such elaborate exaggera tion, that the real truths which underlie the extra vagant superstructure are lost sight of, and few un initiated people have quite as clear ideas on the topic as they had when thetorrent of discussionbegan. The novels of Jane Austen are reviewed at some length, the critic affording her a high place in her art, though he does not rank her among the first novelists. The perfection of the art with which she pour rayed ordinary and commonplace indivi duals is, he thinks, her great claim to admiration ; and though all may not agree with his estimate of her powers, few will deny flat in this respect her delineations are wonderful. A political article on the change of Ministry need not he expected to show much mercy to the Coalition Cabinet. When their own partisans and followers cannot conceal the dissensions in the camp, it is not to be ex pected that their opponents will be more generous. But, in truth, this article in Blackwood is not re markable for its advocacy of the late Government. It expresses the opinion very generally felt among impartial and clear-sighted observers—an opinion which we ourselves, though of opposite politics to Maga, have not hesitated to declare—that the pre sent Government, without a connected party or a declared code of principles, displaced the late Ad ministration on untenable grounds. After recalling with succinctness and correctness the events of the late crisis, the author concludes with a prophecy which is just now somewhat general:— " This new Coalition cannot last, It contains within itself the seeds of its own speady dissolution. The two years which, to its own great detriment and humiliation, the nation accorded to the Coalition of 1852, will with this new Coalition be considerably shortened. The Russian war was the natural consequence of the former Coalition : who can fully tell what will be the ultimate consequence of the pre sent one? When Lord Derby was expelled by the Liberal factions in December, 1852, the Czar Nicholas rejoiced, sent his congratulations to his ancien asi the. t'remier, and be gan to get his troops in hand for tue invasion of Turkey. When the factions again triumphed, three weeks age, the French and Russian ambassadors openly rejoiced as they descended from the gallery of the house; and Louis Napo leon has already, doubtless, sent his congratulations to the author of the Conspiracy Bill on his restoration to power. But the British public regard the new regime with coldness and suspicion. The new Ministry, it is true, are Liberals, and their predecessors were Conservatives ; but it is some thing deeper than party-politics that now occupies the mind of the nation. On the memorable night of the 10th ultimo, when the Ministry had been defeated and the house was breaking up—even at that late hour crowds thronged every avenue'to the house; and for whom did those crowds re serve their special marks of favour ? Disraeli, the fallen Minister, the representative of the defeated Government, was loudly and warmly cheered : while Lord John Russell was hissed I The time has gone by when the public will be blindly led by party-names ; and a critical period has com menced in the history of this country, when the nation will refuse to tolerate the triumph of heterogeneous factions at the expense of the public good. Lord Derby retires from office honoured by an extraordinary mark of his Sovereign's favour, and two others of the Cabinet have been justly dis tinguished by unusual proofs of the Royal esteem. The country ratifies that verdict of approval. The Factions triumphed by a stolen success. The Ministry was expelled without being heard. But :the truth is already , becoming better known ; and we are confident tha t ere a y ear ela p se the Coalition will have ended in disgrace." Dublin University Magazine. A new story, under the title of " Artist and Craftsman," is commenced in this number. Its author appears to possess a sincere love of nu, and a full appreciation of its high aim and purpose. The heroine is a young girl, the child of an English father and an Italian mother, who, possessing unusual musical abilities and force of character, resolves to devote herself to an artistic career. The Rev. Dr. Hincks criticises the merit an d demerits of " Bunsen's Egypt" with some severity, contradicting his assei Lions, disproving his statements, and refuting his lo g i c . The fifth of the series f University Essays is by the Vela. Archdeacon Rowan, and selects the curious subject of " Luther's Devil-Talk." The writer takes some pains in answering the ridiculous charges brought against the memory of the great Reformer by Bos suet, Ulenberg, and others. He gives copious ex tracts from the work referred to both in the original German and in English. In discussing the sub ject, he observes that the form into which Luther threw his arguments was scarcely judicious. " The keenness and severity of his irony was probably lost on the coarser apprehensions of the age in which it appeared, while the calumniators of every age since have grasped at the pretext for repre senting the writer as having been literally the devil's scholar." He remarks, however, that allegory and veiled satire was the style of the time in which he wrote. Archdeacon Rowan enters upon the question " as a point of literary inquiry rather than of theologic controversy," and argues without the acerbity too often found in discussing such subjects. A new volume of poems, by Mr. James Orton, author of the " Enthusiast," receives an encouraging, but at the same time a discrimina tive, criticism. " Volunteering—New and Old"___ is the title of an entertaining paper on the rifle corps movement of the present day, and similar pro ceedings fifty or sixty years ago , . "An address t o the people of the British Isles,' which is giv en , i s cited as "strangely applicable to the circumstances' of the present moment. With the alteration of a couple of lines it might have appeared in the Times a week ago ; and as a historical parallel, a com modity just now so much in vogue, it is highly in teresting." Among the numerous letters and rhymes and reasons, some of which show more patriotism th a n literary ability, we find one whi c h appeare d in The Sun newspaper on the 29th of September, 1798. It was signed "A Loyal Volunteer," and cas t invidious reflections o n "The First_ Batta lion of Liverpool Independent Vo . lunteers." Great was the wrath which this epistle excited in the colonel, major, and other officers of the_ corps, and we commend the reader ff to learn t _ efirrom indig nation article in question the direful Junius.e ects A of h private personalt i the offending career firstsketch Du o k_ f e o e he _ of t Buckingham is worth perusal. It leaves the con sideration of his career as a statesman, for details of his private life. The writer, admitting his errors, submits that he is not to be entirely judged from the verdict of the contemporaries who were full of envy at the success of the court favourite, and con siders that he had seine noble qualities, while the circumstances of his education and subsequent career may plead some excuse for his errors. The thirty-sixth exhibition of the Society of British Artists is noticed at some length ; but the general opinion of the critic is not very favourable. Charles Lever's story of " Gerald Fitzgerald, the Chevalier," is brought to an abrupt termination. The concluding instalment consists of two pages, which relate an interNiew between Marietta Fitzgerald and the Fra, who is proved to be O'Kelly, the associate of the Chevalier's unfortunate father, Irritated by the jests and taunts of the intoxicated O'Kelly, Fitzgerald suddenly attacks him, and is as suddenly shot dead by his opponent. Marietta loses her reason, the murderer disappears, and thus briefly closes the record of the fortunes of the last of the Stuarts. The writer of " The Seasoit Ticket" continues his discursive meditations, and ponders on the special characteristics of English absentees and Yankee tourists. He gives an amusing specimen of a war of words between one of the latter class and a friend of his : " A friend of mine lately steamed up the Thames with one of these gentry when he was in one of these agreeable moods. When they arrived off Woolwich he pointed to a line of battle-ship anchored there, and said, What do you call that ?' That is the Dreadnought,' was the reply, 'an old man-of-war, but now used as a receiving ship." Ah,' he said, we raise cabbages in the States as big as that thing. "Proceeding farther up the river they came opposite to the Leviathan, which was just ready to be launched, when he put a similar question as to her. ' What do you call that ?" That,' said my friend, is a great iron kettle we are building to boil the Yankee cabbages in.' Stranger,' he replied, with a loud laugh. I guess you weren't born in the woods, to be scared by an owl, was you? Well; that ere ship is as big as all out doors, that's a fact.' " " The Old Sea Lion" is the title of a sketch of the nautical career of the Earl of Dundonald, better known as Lord Cochrane. The poetical contribu tions of this month are scarcely equal to the ave rage of the verses in the Dublin University. Fraser's Magazine. An elaborate ,paper on stammering, its causes and its cure, opens this number of Fraser, It is called " The Irrationale of Speech," and enters very fully into the subject. Much is said on the force of habit and imitation, and the writer severely censures the unjust severity with which children who do not speak readily are often treated. The impatience with which they are often asked " Why cannot you speak like other people," he I stigmatises as most unjust. The sufferer would give the world to be able to speak like other people, but capricious and impatient harshness will never make him do so. There is much truth and good sense in these observations, which are well woi thy of the notice of anyone who is the victim of this defect, and of those who have the care of stammering children, although it is rather a lugu brious subject for a magazine. A memorial paper •• ; on Alexander Von Humbolt traces the career of the great pioneer of modern natural philosophy. " Holmby House" is continued with spirit, and intro duces the stern and inflexible Cromwell, who is moved by the tears and entreaties of beautiful Mary Cave to grant the release of the doomed cavalier. The "Notes on the National Drama of Spain," are pro ceeded with, and discusses the plays of Cervantes and Lope de Vega, besides examining the peculiar features of the Spanish dramatic school. A curious and interesting paper treats of " War in general, and Modern French Wars in particular." It fol lows the course of the French arms, and points out how little any of their brilliant military achieve ments have gained for them. Reverses, remarks the writer, seem fated to follow French successes, and great as have been the abilities of French generals and leaders, and brilliant as have been their feats of arms, the great body of the French people have reaped little substantial profit from their vic tories. " Sword and Gown" is continued With in terest. The two chief characters are ably drawn, and the haughty and inscrutable Royston Keene, and the proud Cecil Tresily an are we ll ma t c h e d. The style is animated and vigorous, with, perhaps, a little too much aiming at effect. The expunging of a few words, the turn of two or three phrases, would refine and elevate the style without making it less forcible. " Thoughts on Modern English Literature" is the interesting title of an interesting paper. The author is evidently well versed in our modern literature, and writes like one who is capa ble of appreciating its merits. But though we occa sionally admire the wit and wisdom of his remarks, we differ entirely from the results of much of his criticism. He is somewhat extreme and positive in his opinions, in many of which he will have few supporters. For instance, he ranks Scott's poetry high above his novels, he speaks with measureless contempt of Bulwer's three last novels, two of which are usually ranked among his best works; he styles " Jane Eyre" the best novel of the century, and regards " Wuthering Heights," "considering its authorship, as the greatest intellectual prodigy the world has seen !" We should not have expected su?,h extravagance from a writer who is acquainted with a wide range of literature. After this we need not be surprised to find him enthusiasticallypraising Mr. Carlyle's English. Some of his remarks are juster and more worthy of attention. His com parison of the three historians is ingenious, and his observations on biography and works of travel are for the most part correct and forcible. In his strictures upon Mrs: Browning's writings, too, her warmest admirers must confess there is much truth. The coarseness, the irreverence, the absurdity into which a writer with much of the feeling and all the vigour of a true poet is betrayed by her ceaseless straining after originality and effect is proved b v a very few lines of extract. If Mrs. Browning had not imagined herself, or been persuaded that she was, a first-rate poet, she would have been an ad mirable writer of the secondary order. Half the care she has taken in finding strong epithets and elaborate originalities, had it been bestowed on the refinement and correction of her style, would have raised her to a high tank in English literature. In. her fear of being too feminine in her writings she has passed to the opposite extreme, and forfeited the refinement, the delicate touches, and the mea sured music of real poetry. Th e essay c l oses with a half promise of a future treatise on plays and play writers. " A Visit to Mount Ararat" gives a brief account of an excursion to the mountain of the Ark, and a short article on " The New Ad ministration" cannot find much to say is their favour. Bentley's Miscellany. " Here and There" is the title of brief re sume of the present state of affairs in politics and literature. It is followed by a light and amusing love story by the author who writes under the curious cognomen of " Ouida." His tales certainly do not display any extraordi nary ability,-and a strong likeness exists between his heroes and heroines, but they are lively and entertaining, and the reader of Bentley does not generally seek for solid and intrinsic merit. An episode in Italian history follows, telling the for tunes of Francesco Novello di Carrara. The opening pages give a picture of the state of Italy during the close of the fourteenth century that is worth perusal, especially at the present period. Walter Thornbury furnishes a some what ' gloomy and mysterious ballad relative to the proceedings of Vidocq, the great French de tective, in securing a gang of ru ffi an s w h o use d to go about at night in disguise and torture the farmers into yielding their money. The poem in. question is meant to describe the sudden seizure of one of these " Chauffeurs" as they - were called, but why the author has made the thunderstorm the chief feature in the ballad, when it effects no Particular purpose, we are unable to surmise. Monkshood, forsaking the particular for the gene ral, devotes himself this month to the considera tion of the merits and demerits of the historical novel. Wise men and good critics have recorded very opposite opinions on it, which are quoted and contrasted in the essay before us. Sir Walter Scott (and who had a better right), brought forward some strong arguments in ,favour of this descrip tion of literature. The article is interesting and will gratify the reader of literary tastes. " The Maze," is the title of a story which, under another name continues the fortunes of Blanche Level. It takes its title from the country house of the Levels, but it would have as good a right t 9 it from the intricacy and mystery of the story. A paper on Italy in 1848 traces the events of that memorable year in the Italian penin sula, and indignantly denounces the conduct of the Milanese towards the brave Charles Albert. " Romance and Reality " is the title of a paper which is enough to deter any English reader from improving his acquaintance with continental ro mance. The general tone and tenour of Parisian novels are unfortunately familiar to most readers on this side of the Channel ; but the special evil of , those here criticised is the introduction of persons well known in Parisian circles who have recently passed into the grave. The introduction of the living into works of such a character cannot be too much deprecated; what, then, can be said when the individual so presented in the scenes of reck less dissipation has heard the eternal summons ? Other circumstances combine to render'the work censured most objectionable in its character, while the weary routine of sentiment and suicide, the contemptible sophistry and heartless immora lity with which this class of works usually favours us, can hardly impose upon the most unreflective. It is impossible to estimate the evil influences of such a literature, or rather of the state of domestic society which can tolerate it. What wonder should scepticism take the place of faith, should a sturdy love of national freedom be replaced by an enthu siasm for military glory ? what deep and earnest feeling, what brave and h onest ambition can. flourish in such an atmosphere ? Following this criticism is a paper on " Our National Defences," upholding the almost unanimous opinion of the country on the necessity of naval armaments. The indefatigable Dudley Costello has resumed his pen, and commences a new story under the title of " Gurney ; or, the Two Fortunes." The Ne w M ont hl y M agazine. An article on " Germany and the War" takes a full and careful view of the position of Prussia a n d the German States, and the atti- tude in ti wort] coinc page num perk Int( and full