The Sun. — London, England, 1860-07-23 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. 2. 2u.k.5t3.7.e. THIS EVENING the performances will oommenee with HALLOWEEN. By the Leclercqs. THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Chas. Mathews, Buckstone, Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Hrs. Wilkins. ► After which, the new comedietta, HIS EXCELLENCY, in which Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear. Commence at 7. ROYAL P R INCE S S'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS E'VENI'NG, will be performed HOME TRUTHS. After which, the French vaudeville, MILITAIRE ET TENSJONAIRE. Characters by the Zouavca. Followed by BOWLED OUT. And LA CORDE SENSIBLE.• To conclude with AN AMBUSCADE AT INKERMAN. Commence at 7. A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE - ROYAL. rik. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster. Mr. B. Webster will make his first appearance (since his re turn from his provincial tour) in the course of the present month, at his Annual Benefit, particulars of which will be duly announced. 12th week of the favourite American Actress, Miss Julia Daly. , r Ens vENING, THE HARVEST HOME. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, D. Fisher, Billineton, Stuart, Eburne, C. J. Smith, Powell, Romer ; Miss Woolgar, Miss Simms, K. Kelly, and Miss Laidlaw. After which", THE FOOL OF THE FAMILY. Mr. Pau Bedford and Miss Julia Daly. To conclude with OUR GAL. Miss Julia Daly, Messrs. Eburne, Ward, and Romer. Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. Private boxes. £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, 11. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Is. ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d. doting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. FRENCH PLAYS-ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, Directeur, M. Talexy.—Lessee, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. EVERY EVENING. Positively the last Week. TO-NIGHT, CUM UNE PETITE DAME. And LES DEMOISELLES DE ST. CYR. Madlle. Delphine Fix. Orchestra Stalls, 7s. 6d. ; Balcony Stalls, ss. ; Pit, 20. ; Gallery, ls. Private Boxes, from Two Guineas. Commence at 8. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5 M. Talexy has the honour to announce that his Benefit wil take place on Wednesday, on which occasion Madlle. Docile will make her first and only appearance this season. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY. An Extra Grand MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on SATURDAY next, July 28, commencing at Two o'clock. • This Evening, the J.llstoricil Spectacle, entitled FAIR ROSAMOND, Or the AMAZON CRUSADERS. To be followed by Scenes in the Arena. To concluue with TIIE SPOILED CHILD. Little Pickle, Miss Amelia Smith. Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WERT. Director of the Arena—M. Felix Revolt!. CANTERBURY HALL THIS EVENING. C. H. GOUNOD'S OPERA. FAUST. First Time in this Country. CONCERTS. Faust Mr. Henry Herbert. Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard. Siobel Mrs. Anderson. Marguerite Conductor Mr. Jonghmans. And selections from Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, is Hall. 6d. Comic Vocalists—Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic). and C. Marshall. The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of 17 performers (organised expressly for this Establishment), for the performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Negro delineations, anecdotes, tc., in addition to the usual entertainments. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THR WHATHER.—Suw OFFICE. JULY 23. 1260. • Yesterday (S ay) ;vas a fine day, but cool, for the 22d 0 0 of July. li'indfXortherly ; the thermometer ranging in the shade mom 55 to 60 ; barometer 29.68. To-day it has been, and is, still raining rather heavily, with the wind fresh, at South-West; thermometer 62, and barometer 29.82. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TYis DlT.—Morning, sh. 7m.—Afternoon, sh. 28m. To-mounew.-Morning, sh. 50m.—Afternoon, 6h. 13m, ;t 1 r1 ;, A i tTT '4541141' .N l 4- ~:[ !,_ ')l.' ' u'" ! • THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 23, 1860. Look which way we will—to Syria, to Naples, to Germany, to Belgium, to our own dockyards, the French EMPEROR'S suspected policy, suspected be cause of past breaches of faith, is causing endless embarrassment and cost. The late Nicr[oLAs and the living NAPOLEON, in one respect, strikingly re semble each other. We have now to watch, to counter-work, to guard against our neighbour Ruler as we had to do against NICIIOLAS. Where all might be, and ought to be, easy and straightfor ward, we are obliged to act with fear of sinister projects. In Syria, at this moment, the need for action is urgent. The murders and massacres of the Christians by the Mahometans, and their allies the semi-Mahometan Druses, mast be stopped ; but the intention of the Annexer of Savoy and Nice are the real difficulty. Europe does not want to see another Algeria in Syria, and one which may be a gain rather than a loss pecuniarily ; while England remembers that it is on her road to the East. In the city article of a contemporary the affirma tion is prettyll i tiaNly made, that we owe the break up the Euphrat i rnlegraph Company to the op it e . ion of the French EMPEROR, and that too aft r our own Government had given earnest sup port to so evidently desirable a project, and the Turkish Government had pledged itself to grant a concession. This concession was suddenly refused ; and the allegation is, that the EMPEROR'S visit to Osborne, which occurred just at the time, induced oar Government to acquiesce, the threat being that otherwise the Isthmus of Suez question should be made a ground of international disagreement ! The imperial objection could only have been to theprestige which would be acquired by an English company in the East, among the tribes of the Desert, and the inhabitants of the few cities on the route; or, perhaps, still more to the rapid information which both Constantinople and London would receive of what was going on in the farther east. It was great weakness in our Government to give way. We wanted the line for a bona fide object ; it would have been at the service of all Europe, of Turkey and France included, for all honest purposes, but if dishonest schemes were at work, no deubt speedy publication of them in the west would have been very embarrassing. The suspicion is not un natural, therefore, that nothing but dishonest purposes induced the present master of Savoy and Nice to oppose such a boon to Turkey, Europe, and India, as the telegraph by the Euphrates line. We are assured now that the outbreak has been provoked by the Christians themselves—even French papers tell us so—and there is a strong sus picion that France has good reason to know. If it be so, there is, we foar, too much reason to think that the Christians were stimulated by evil coun sellors, whose master wanted a pretext for insur rection in order to divert his subjects' minds from home politics. We think so the more, because the Maronites, from the best accounts we have access to, do not outnumber the Druses to the extent stated in an interesting article which we quote from . a contemporary. Indeed, we incline to thinking their numbers approach pretty near to equality, though all travellers mention the Maronites as the larger body. The Druses, however, are the more fana tical se-A of the two. Their founder, HAKEM, though springing from Mahornedanistn, taught th e indifference of all actions and the equality of all religions, and on this basis founded a sect of }mystics, in their way ; since they have three grades, the last of whom only are taught the esoteric doe- trines of the sect. They havo always been a mo re furiously fanatical sect than the Maronites, corn _ bining the worst zeal probably of Alahometanisra and Heathenism too. The Maronites had their origin in the time of the Creek controversies about the nature of our LORD'S person ; and are charged with being believers in the Mono thelite heresy while they assert that their founder, MARI:), fled to the mountains of Lebanon, to avoid the persecution of the Monothelites in the days when imperial favour gave the latter power to persecute. They eventually accepted the prin cipal doctrines of the Council of Trent, and acknow ledge the supreme headship of the PoPE, who nominates their patriarch. The Maronites are subject politically to the Emir of the Druses, who, however, is in turn subject to the Pasha of ACRE, but on condition that no Turks dwell in his territory. It would seem, therefore, that the Druses have long been the more powerful, chiefly because the more warlike. The Maronites, however, though of more strictly ecclesiastical origin, are by no means wanting in courage. They do not live amongst the Druses, like the Greeks amongst the Turks, as sheep ever ready to be fleeced. They are a fine race of men, and generally go about well armed—the condition of safety in those parts. The two races, or tribes, or sects, whichever they should be called, intermingle in many of their villages and cities, though they do not intermarry, but the Druses predominate in the southern part of the ranges of Lebanon and Anti- Lebanon, and the valley between them ; the Maro nites have their chief seat in the northern part. Such being the relations of the Druses and Maro • nites, it is obviously but too easy for emissaries who wish it, to stir up one against the other. To us it does not seem likely that the Maronites would be the aggressors, unless they were instigated by the prospect of foreign aid; and it is far from improbable that the Ruler who is now so forward to help Turkey with soldiers, as well as ships of war, should ba the real author of the commotion which he is so zealous to quell. Of course, we are reduced to suspicions, surmises, guesses ; but it is useless to object to them as unfair. It were affectation, or diplomatic conventionalism, not to acknowledge that there is good reason for suspecting any possible underhand procedure of the French Government ; and England will be obliged to exercise all her caution, as well as her firmness, if she thinks it im portant to her that all the East should believe that the French EMPEROR is not eclipsing the QUEEN of England. The Crimea left that impression in the East ; shall Syria deepen it ? Mr. COWPER is certainly carrying it with a high hand as Chief Commissioner of Parks and Palaces. He acknowledges frankly that nobody asked him to carry that horse-road through Kensington gardens. He allows quite plainly that his alone is the responsibility. According to his own showing, therefore, the entire proceeding, from beginning to end, is a little pet whim or crotchet of his (Mr. COWPER'S) individually. Not a single complaint was heard previously from any one, upon any plea whatever, in respect to anything in the previous arrangement of the gardens in question. It would be a bold thing even for Mr. COWPER to assert that such is the case since his arbitrary carrying out of this extraordinary innovation. So far as we have anywhere heard an opinion expressed upon the mat ter, that opinion has been invariably against the horse-road, and against it diametrically and abso lutely. The unanimity, in fact, appears to be quite remarkable all round the immediate neigh bourhood, at Kensington, at Notting, and at Bays water. Within a few hours 1,500 signatures of the principal inhabitants were affixed to an energetic protest against this so-called improvement. A de putation of the most influential character waited on Mr. COWPER upon an early day after this unfortu nate act of Vandalism had been perpetrated, to pro test against it in the strongest possible language. Meetings were held simultaneously on Friday even ing in the vestry on Paddington-green, and in the vestry-hall at Kensington, where in each instance resolutions were passed loudly condemnatory of so outrageous a proceeding as this on the part of the Chief Commissioner. Two of these resolutions it will be sufficient here to specify : namely, one to the effect " That without notice to, or consultation with, the parties interested, a ride has been formed connecting Rotten-row with the most retired and beautiful parts of Kensington-gardens, cutting these gardens into two parts, and rendering access from one part to the other inconvenient and un safe." The resolution adding—" That these gar dens, by the gracious permission of the Sovereign, have been hitherto open to pedestrians only, afford ing a great and safe means of enjoyment to all classes, without reference to either rank or for tune." The other and longer resolution, declaring —" That the ride now made appears intended to afford further means of recreation to the upper classes of society, whose means of enjoyment are already comparatively without limit, particularly as to horse exercise, which they can enjoy in the parks, and on all the roads and places in the neigh bourhood of the metropolis ; and that it is an in terference, as unwise as it is ungracious, with the comfort and the safety of the people at large, many of whom have settled in the neighbourhood in the expectation of being allowed for themselves and their families, and for the young, the sick, and the more studious of all classes, the quiet and safe en joyment of these gardens ; and this meeting hereby expresses its unqualified condemnation of the for mation of such a ride." Those two resolutions epitomise all that need be said against the immola [on of which all but the " cream of the cream" are complaining. Upon ,the very same evening upon which these meetings were held at Kensington and Paddington, the hon. and learned member for Maryleboue brought the question as to the propriety or impropriety of maintaining this new horse-road in Kensington gardens under the consideration of the House of Com mons. It is an absurdity to sneer at a matter of this kind being talked of in the House of Commons, ob serving in its regard, as some did, that it was a thing of trivial importance that Mr. JAMES treated, as though it was something vitally affecting the stability of the constitution. We insist that it is nothing less than puerile to talk thus. Justice is justice whether it affect property to the value of three halfpence or to the fabulous sum contemplated by the will of that cruel old miser THELIISSON. It is just so much evasive babble, therefore, to deride the antagonism directed against this uncalled for horse-road as exaggerated to the extent of being ridiculous. Mr. COWPER insists in his reply to the very able statement of the facts of the case given by the hon. and learned gentleman the member for Marylcbone, that by the formation of the horse road no rights whatever are infringed. According to which—a horse-road might to morrow be opened (in compliance with the arbitrary mandate of one single individual in authority) across the centre of the Green Park, in a diagonal direction, from the corner of Stafford House, in the Mall, to the Tri umphal Arch at Hyde Park Corner. Again, Mr. COWPER, and his over self-opinionated supporters in the House of Commons, argue in favour of the continuance of this horse-road through Kensington gardens, that the convenience of all classes and not of any exclusive class should be con sulted in these kind of arrangements. Accord- ing to which, the costermongers of London might just as reasonably insist upon having a right of way for their donkey-carts, as the fine ladies and THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EvEIVI I NG, JULY 23, 1860. fine gentlemen who ate tired of disporting them selves in Rotten-row. " A place for everything, and everything in its place," is a duplex aphorism admitting advantageously of almost universal ap plication. Let us apply it for a moment to the fashionable equestrians. These would clearly be in their place in the vicinity of the stable-yard—in the street—or upon the high-road ! They would be as clearly out of place clattering up the staircase of their houses—trampling over the stair carpet — and showing their paces finally in the nursery, supposing the nursery to be large enough for the walk, trot, canter, gallop, or carocole. Yet this is precisely the very privilege demanded for them and now being enjoyed by them—in cutting up the carpet of the green turf and threading their way among the flower beds, and showing off their skill and awkwardness in the nzanege in Kensington gardens—the Nursery of London ! From first to last Mr. COWPER'S conduct in this matter of the horse-road is in perfect keeping. Unasked—upon his own individual authority— without, as the phrase is, or with your leave or by your leave—this aristocratic Chief Commissioner opens a horse-road through Kensington-gardens, a horse-road distinctly dividing in twain Kensing ton-gardens, and rendering the hitherto unimpeded passage to and fro of the nursery maids and children in the highest degree dangerous. Nobody has asked him to do this, remember ! Yet directly objections are addressed to him for his so doing he cannot reply to the objections with even the com monest civility. They are said by him to be in quest of vestry popularity. Nay, as charac teristic of the whole proceeding, let the following incident be particularly borne in recollection. Let it be remembered that several gentlemen resident on the north side of Kensington-gardens met on Friday at one o'clock, at the Office of Parks, Pa laces, and Gardens, Whitehall-place, by appointment of the Right Hon. W. COWPER, M.P., with Mr. F. W. RUSSELL, M.P., for the purpose of expressing to the First Commissioner their opinion, and that also of many of their neighbours, in regard to the re cently opened ride for equestrians through Ken sington-gardens. And now note the sequel to their attendance there upon Friday afternoon, according to the Minister's own appointment :—"After having waited for nearly an hour, and the hon. gentleman not having arrived, nor any communication having been received for his not keeping his appointment, the gentlemen separated." The reporter adding that " among those present were F. W. Russell, Esq., M.P., H. Burslem, Esq., J. A. Nicholay, Esq., F. H. Haggard, Esq., T. Whitmore, Esq., R. Lam bert Jones, Esq., John Dillon, Esq,, A. Pigeon, Esq., Dr. Thorne, J. S. Pearse, Esq., and Cohen, Esq. " And further, that on Edwin James, Esq., ALP., having been informed of the intention of a portion of his constituency to wait on Mr. COWPER he also formed one of the number of those present.', Arrogance of this kind on the part of the Chief Commissioner is only in perfect keeping, as we have intimated, with the arbitrary act of the Minister against which the gentlemen above enumerated were there to protest—the opening that Horse Road through Kensington-garden, unasked and upon his own individual responsibility. LATE N E The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : NAPLES, JULY 21. Melazzo has been attacked by Garibaldi. To avoid a civil war the King has ordered the whole of Sicily to be evacuated. NAPLES, JULY 20. News from Sicily states that Colonel Medici, being pressed by the garrison of Melazzo, had asked for reinforcements. On the 18th inst. Garibaldi left Palermo on board an English steamer to join him. The total number of reinforcements despatched. to Colonel Medici amounted to 8,000. PALERMO, JULY 17 (via Marseilles.) Garibaldi is still here; he has sent a reinforce ment of 2,000 men to Colonel Medici, who is en camped at Santa Lucia. The City of Aberdeen has disembarked 1,200 volunteers. A war-tax of 2 per cent. has been imposed on the property of the convents and the clergy. NAPLES, JULY 20. A detachment of the Royal Guard having endea voured to force the National Guard to cry out " Down with the Constitution!" the latter resisted the attempt. The King has, it is stated, promised that tho Royal Guard shall be immediately dissolved. GENOA, JULY 21. A dvices received from Sicily state that Garibaldi left Palermo on the 18th inst. with 5,000 men. His destination was unknown. It is reported that Garibaldi has disembarked on the Neapolitan coast. The King of Naples is said to have ordered the complete evacuation of Sicily. JULY 22. It is stated that the Garibaldians had occupied Melazzo. PARIS, JULY 21. A message from Toulon, dated the 21st of July, announces that two more large war transport steamers are being manned. Several are ready. A telegraphic despatch in the Presse asserts that they had already taken their departure. JULY 22. The 11Ioniteur of to-day says : " The proposals made by France, with the object of arresting the effusion of blood in Syria, and of protecting the Christian inhabitants, have been acknowledged by the Great Powers. "England is ready to co-operate with ships, and recognizes the expendiency of sending a corps d'armee, of which France would furnish the whole or the greater part. "Austria and Russia have given the same opinion. The Prussian Minister for Foreign Affairs has gone to receive the orders of the Prince Regent on the subject. "A convention is to be signed for determining the character and object of the European interven tion. The acquiescence of the Porte only is now from other quarters there were no complaints of unusual backwardness. The alarm about the potato failure is fast dying• out, and although the blight has shown itself in several places, the return of sun shine, it is believed, would repair the mischief, and prevent the extensim a of the disease. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE., That evergreen work of M. Alexandri3 Dumas, " Les Demoiselles de St. Cyr," reduced to four acts, has been revived at this house, where it ii most cre ditably played, and, as usual, amuses, Seldom have we seen entire Fre nc h pl a y s sothoroughly enjoyed by a London a u di ence as un d er t e manage ment of M. Talexy. The old pl an w to sympa thise with the leading " star," and to ay compa ratively small attention to his humble t associates. • Now, on the contrary, the whole piece V; liked, and the points in the dialogue are as readily taken up as if they were spoken in the language of the audience. Whether the change' is to be attributed to an increased familiarity with the ' French language since the days of Mr. Mitchell, who assembled together names of far higher; celebrity, or to an augmentation of the foreign elemient in the London public, we cannot say, but there is no doubt that such change has taken place, and that, consequently, the success of M. Talexy renders the prospect of establishing a permanent French theatre in England more hopeful than at any previous time. A desire to see " stars" can only be gratified by an enormous outlay, and by the creation of an excitement which can lead to no stable result, but satisfaction with a good working company is a sign of confirmed taste for the class of entertainments presented. M. Talexy will take his benefit on Wednesday next, on which night only Madame Doche will make her appearance. BANKING IN RUSSIA. In another part of The Sun will be found the prospectus of the General Mercantile Bank of St. Petersburg, the important object being to intro duce into Russia as speedily as possible the Eng lish system of banking, by which the amount of capital required for the operations of trade is so greatly reduced. The bank is founded by special decree of the Emperor with a view to the exten sion of commerce and the general improvement of the country ; and from the names of the eminent men to be found in the direction success must be certain. By the statutes the concession is for fifty years, and for at least ten years no similar institu tion can be established in that country ; so, while such an establishment will materially facilitate the development and extension of the internal and external trade of that great empire, it will afford a vast field for the profitable investment of capital. In such a primitive state is banking in Russia that large sums of money are actually carried from merchant to merchant at great risk and expense, causing an amount of capital to remain unproduc tive—the mode of payment by cheques, so uni versal in England, being there totally unknown. THE DISTURBANCES 1114 SYRIA. We have reasun to believe that an important telegram has been received officially, stating that a Treaty of Peace was signed on the 10th inst. between the Maronites and the Druses. This event will of course obviate at once the necessity, as well as the difficulties, of any foreign intervention.—Morning Post. It is expected that her Majesty will leave Os borne on the 4th of August, to commence the usual jour ney northwards. The whole of the Royal arrangements for the autumn are rather earlier than usual. The six weeks in the Highlands will be curtailed to about a month. Of course, many circumstances may occur to causo a varia tion in these arrangements ; but this is what at present is in contemplationt. —Court Journal. LORD CLYDE.—We understand that the gallant Lord Clyde has received her Majesty's commands to pass a few days at Osborne, on a visit to the Queen and Prince Consort. The noble and gallant general is expected to leave town to-day for the Isle of Wight. The prorogation of Parliament will, we believe; take place tho third week in August. Mr. St. Vincent Lloyd goes from Soulina to Poti, and is succeeded as Consul at Soulina by Mr. Dupuis, now Vice-Consul at Naples. CIIRISTY'S MINSTRELS.—Mr. Collin 9, the alto, Mr. Wilsorn, and Mr. Nish, the musical 47ircctor, form the new management of this clover company, Mr. Montague being the business manager as heretofore. Mr. Win. 13rough has written a new burlesque for them, of which re port speaks highly. After a short provincial tour, they will again appear in London. Mr. Hawkins has tendered his resignation as Keeper of the Department of Antiquities in the British Museum. Great changes are likely to take place in the administration of the various branches of our antiquarian collections. Lord Palmerston has with great liberality pre sented £5O as his donation to the National Rifle Associa- tion. awaited." LITERATURE, Scarsdale, or Life on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Border Thirty Years Ago. 3 'Vols. Smith and Elder. We here meet with a very peculiar book, in which there is a great deal of information afforded regarding the state of the manufacturing districts. It is always desirable to dwell on the causes that result in any popular outbreak, and, if from regard ing the annals of 'the past, we glean any ideas that may so guide us in the present that the future may be rendered peac , aable, it is always a great thing achieved. Considerable skill has been shown in some of the scenes that represent the rioters and conspirators. Rzcept for the notorious ringleaders, we always feel pity, if not sympathy, for these mis guided men who are excited and agitated by de• signing men, while their frames are weakened by toil and hunger and their minds tortured by anxious doubts. Apart from the popular records, there is a good deal of interest in the narrative with which the subject matter is skilfully ,inter woven. The only point in the tale that appears to be faulty is the episode of the Duke and Duchess, and this could advantageously have been omitted. It is an undesirable topic at any time which is sug gested by the disclosures of the life and actions of the French nobleman, and it does not answer any available purpose. Mabel is a superior style of young lady, and notwithstanding her pride she impresses one very favourably. Helen Hollings worth is more elevated in her character, and in many trying scenes she shows great qualities. Lord Pendleborough's career is a very interesting one, and he is almost the most attractive person in the book in his sincere endeavours to render him self more worthy of his high social position, in his strenuous efforts to do good to his neighbours, and, indeed, to promote the welfare of all classes. At the same time there was nothing high-flown, or sentimental, about him ; all was straightforward, and his genial nature enabled him to enjoy life while he was seeking to improve it. The account of Colonel Vavasour is impressive, although rather far-fetched at times in its sketch. It is worthy of notice how excellently Mr. Hollingsworth dis charged his trust of guardianship to the misguided but well-intentioned youth. There is no greater mistake made by elders than to practice severity in such extreme cases. More have beets irretrievably ruined by harshness than indulgence ; the convic tion that no allowance will be made for faults has made the offender reckless of all consequences, and and errors crimes have been the result. It would be well if more such teachers existed as the kind but firm friend here represented. Oliver Holte is a peculiar style of man, but his honest heart and up right life command respect. He is a type of the better class of the old Puritans : he has their unflinching disposition, blended with some softer attributes. In the hard work and fierce conflicts in which lie was constantly engaged, he displays so much sympathy in his steadfast course for those not so firm as him self, that one cannot help feeling a degree of admi ration for him. Sir Guy Scarsdale does not appear so prominently on the scene as some of the others, but he is a fair specimen of a large landed proprietor. He endeavoured to do good when he met with any deserving objects, and con sidering the troublous times he lived in, he made the best of his opportunity. " Scarsdale" is a novel that has not been composed in a hurry; but it seems to have a purpose in its concentrated pages, and in some of the descriptions the reader will find passages of interest and excitement. Such works cannot be so generally welcome as the more lively sketches of society, or the brilliant representations of history or politics, but they possess solid worth in their reflective wisdom ; and those who wish to inform themselves of the state of the working classes in some momentous epoch, that reveals more than long years of calm, will be willing to appreciate a work that discloses much of the inner life of an influential portion of the community. _Herbert Chauncey. By Sir Arthur Hallam Elton, author of " Below the Surface." 3 Vols. Smith, Elder, and Co. The author of the work before us is not unknown either in the literary or political world. In a for mer novel he has drawn us a picture of English country life, but in the present he takes the oppor tunity to mingle some political portraitures with his romance. Thus we have a vivid sketch of a contested election some oears ago, resulting in riot and confusion, and several incidental descriptions of the House of Commons and its habitues, some of whom it is not difficult to recognise. The work of written in the form of an autobiography. Herbert Chauncey, its hero, describes himself as " a man more sinned against than sinning," and certainly he deserves that title. He is a modern " Murad, the Unlucky," for, with the best intentions and excellent prospects, his undertakings and adventures con tinually result in disappointment and disgrace. The clue to all his misfortunes is, however, dis coverable in the unrelenting animosity of Sir Hugh Littlecot, a country baronet of wealth and influence. Sir Hugh has an only child, Ada, to whom he is devotedly attached, though in other respects a hard hearted snd tyrannical man. In early life Herbert had been engaged to Ada Littlecot, but had suddenly broken the engagement on arriving at the conclu sion that he loved another far better. The manner in which he expressed his change of views was certainly most reprehensible, and the anger of the fierce old man, who had reluctantly consented to the marriage, in the first instance, for his daughter's sake, was not surprising. Herbert speedily married Rosamond Esther, the lady who had eclipsed poor Ada Little cot, and soon prepared to stand for the county. Then his troubles began. Sir Hugh, in censed at Herbert's conduct, and still further en raged by the sight of his daughter's drooping , spirits and failing health, made it the great object of his life to ruin and disgrace his enemy. He was possessed of great wealth and much political in fluonce, which gave him constant opportunities of thwarting his victim. He also became aware of the fraudulent acts of the directors of some com pany, who were therefore ready to carry out his views in any way, in order to avoid exposure. One of these was a lawyer, and subsequently be came Chauncey's agent, a position which gave him endless opportunities for mischief. A foreign valet of Sir Hugh's, who had a private grudge against Chauncey, was also a valuable coadjutor. Through Mrs. Chauncey's maid he obtained access to his house and abstracted papers which were of moment. By a chain of unfortunate circumstances aggravated by his own imprudence, Chauncey lost his estate, his political reputaticn, his seat in Parliament and finally his wife and child. This last misfortune was remedied by the confessions of the treacherous maid, but we leave him at the close of the volumes with all his other troubles unrelieved, saving that his bitter enemy Sir Hugh has followed his daughter to the grave. There are many other characters introduced, and the events are so crowded that they are almost confusing. Rosamond is well drawn as a generous, warm-hearted yet wayward creature. Ada Littlecot does not attract much in terest, for she scarcely appears after her childhood and what we are told of her is somewhat morbid and sentimental. The reader will find much to in terest and engage him in this novel, and as we men tioned above, the Parliamentary and election sketches show the writer's familiarity with the scenes he describes. Poems : Containing the " City of the Dead." By John Collett, late of Wadham College, Oxford. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. Longman. This is 'a very charming little work that can hardly fail to be appreciated by those who are gratified with th ose vers es which contain the ex pression of deep f e eling joined to the admiration of lofty principles. There:is nothingLremarkable in the book; and it is a mistaken kindness friends frnds to flatter auth ors , and no service for critics to say one thing when all the world knows the contrary is the truth. This remark applies particularly to poems, than which no class of literature is so run down by the unrefined, or so overlauded by the prejudiced and partial. While denying that every one who makes rhyme now•a-days is a geni us an d a bright particular star, there is no need to fly to the other extreme, and because' the volu me t h a t may be the unhappy victim of som e cap ti ous critic's ill temper or a new "Pleasures of Hope," to d ec l are t h at i t i s trash, and ought to be immediately hurl e d t o li m b o . Often real pleasure . and profit may be deri ve d f rom simple un4ffected lines ; they apply to the imme diate concerns of daily life and home existence, and if they do o not attain to p er f ec ti on , measure d b y a cold critical standard, th e y f u lfil th e i r m i ss i on o f interesting the weary spirit and calming the harassed brain. " They come in e ar th' s d eep m i sery, a soo thi ng, sweet rel i ef, They come a solace in the hour of overwhelming grief." 1 If inspired by faith's visions there is no reason why they should not influence as well as impress, and while declari ng the beauties of this f a i r wor ld , impart by the spirit of their songs the blessed truth that those who delight in the loveliness of earth, may rejoice in the thought of its brightest radiance, being only the faint reflex of another and. a better world. To look through nature up to nature's God is a gift that is priceless in its value ; the peasant may cultivate his fields in the conviction that if he can thus lift his heart on high he is in possession of a treasure better than the phi losopher can reach with his dogmas or the prince confer in his proudest day of power. The advantages that may be derived from the perusal of poetry of the simplest kind does not extend to those grandiloquent effusions of mysticism which are so much the rage now. This work before us has, happily, no such drawbacks ; it is straightforward and comprehensible, while the metreis graceful and the style flowing. One of the best pieces is the poem which is called " The Cloud," and in its fine thoughts and elevated expression it is an illustra tion of the saying, " There is a silver lining to every cloud." In the first part the mourner is bewailing his fate in the terms of the bitterest anguish. The second part contains the advice of a friend which speaks to his tortured and distracted mind the glorious words of hope, and bids him, as a sufferer, to have patience, and, as a soldier of the cross, to endure to the end, and to look for the coming of that day when sorrow shall flee away for ever, and when the - warriors of Heaven shall be rewarded by their King : " Oh that I were in days long past, in the bright and happy days, When the melody of life was one long gladsome song of praise. Oh that I were in days long past, those days of cloudless light, So swift Time's chariot -steeds swept by, I scarcely felt their flight. But now his lagging wheels revolve so heavily and slow, The hours are days, the days are months, the seasons cease to flow. In vain I turn from side to side, and seek more sunny skies, Th' appalling Angel of Despair stands still before my eyes. Oh, how can I thus daily die, or Hire this living death ? I'll dare that leap into the dark, and face what comes be neath. Peace ! mourner, to thy troubled breast, and cease thee to repine : 'Tis Mercy which decrees thee this; let Mercy's will be thine Dost thou not call to mind God's word read in thy brighter days, That His thoughts are not as our thoughts, His ways not as our ways ? For, whether by the still small voice Christ seeks thy faith to prove, Or by the whirlwind's blasting blast, yet know that voice is love. Deepest thou, indeed, the human love that wept o'er La zarus' grave, Would smite thy body to the earth, except thy soul to save ? Though Sorrow be a stormy flood, upraised by many a blast; Fear not, for round thy sinking form th' Eternal arms are cast. While Health, and Happiness, and hope, crown'd high Life's festive bowl, How ill thy greater part then fared—thy great undying soul I As the heavy cloud of dark black mist that wings its up ward flight Is changed by the sun's bright touch to wreaths of fairy light, So with the shade of chastening woe, that weighs the spirit down, Th' Almighty waves his wondrous wand—the cross be comes a crown. Grasp, then, the telescope of Faith within thy feeble hand ; Shut out Earth's scene, and gaze aloft, where Heaven's high mountains stand. For Faith makes bright the earth-dimm'd eye, enabling thee to gain A glimpse whose light shall give thee strength to face Earth's bitterest pain." Another piece that attracts attention is that en titled "The Deathbed," and, although the thoughts are not new in themselves, still they are the reitera tion of the thousand times repeated strain that has swelled the song of praise and strung the harp of triumph, since first the sons of men were taught the glad tidings of resurrection ; that though their beloved ones were gone from their finite existence here, the mortal should yet put on immortality and the corruptible incorruption. It will appear to the reader that some solemn truths have been impressively imparted, and some beautiful thoughts becomingly expressed, in these verses. There is affection that will not be buried in the dark night of the grave, flourishing its perennial flowers by the couch of death. The following verses are some of the most striking : " Oh, brothers, I am dying now, in youth's first early bloom ; As Ev'ning's length'ning shade, my life steals onward into gloom : My bosom heaves so faint and slow, so worn and pale am I, Your eyes will scarcely note the change when ye behold me die. Oh, had it pleased the will of Heaven, perchance this lowly name In world-wide blasts had sounded from the bugle horn of Fame; But wheresoe'er that mighty will appoints your earthly state, Oh, strive first, brothers, to be good, and then seek to be great. You'll hear soon faithful Gelert's voice pine in his speech less grief, To him the hopes of other life cannot bestow relief ; "ris not the least; of those sharp pangs that rend this dying heart, That from my loved and trusty friend I evermore must part. Oh, tend my favourite flower with care ; but ere its blos • soms bloom, The flower of my young life will lie all wither'd in the tomb : Oh crescent Moon, that still beholds my weary lingering stay, Ere thou complete thy cirsling orb I shall hare pass'd away. Oh, chaunt that strain you sang last eye, each night until I die ; For Music's charm will welcome me snore perfect in the sky : Then shall this tongue unwearied sing that new and nobler song, While seraph choirs, o'er distant apace, swell the full tide along. But weep not comfortless, nor with despairing sorrow mourn ; The northern breeze is teraper'd to the lamb that's newly shorn. Oh, weep not, then, my brothers dear—upraise the stream - ing eye ; God's word declares that we shall meet in realms beyond the sky. There comes a fearful sinking now, as if life's sands were run ; Though heart and strength may fail me, yet I've One to lean upon : His circling arm shall bear me up, through Jordan's chilly wave; His radiant love shall light with peace the valley of the grave. Death comes not now a Terror King to scare the Weary soul ; An Angel snaps the silver cord, and breaks the golden bowl ; Thou glorious seraph boar me up upon thy heavenward wing; 0 Grave, where is thy victory ? 0 Death, where is thy sting ?' " This little volume has surely fulfilled its object of affording gratification to its readers, and of setting forward high and lofty truths for the contempla tion, clothed in words that delight the fancy, and please the taste. This is the second edition of this book, which it is most interesting to observe is dedicated to the memory of th e lat e Lord Macaulay. In the dedication the author gracefully and grate fully affirms that it is indebted for its publication to his kind patronage. Few more glorious recol 'ections live in one's memory of the departed great than a tribute like the foregoing. " The sweet remembrance of the just, Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust." And the hand that has written for itself a passport to the temple of fame being stretched out to serve and save others on the same rugged road, up the same steep ascent, is a bright and blessed result, a high and happy privilege, for friends to number in the catalogue of the great man's actions. We com mend this little w or k to the notice of the reading community, certain that its pages present much that is worthy of welcome. FRANCE. BOURSE, July 21.—The market continues very dull, but Threes, for the account, which opened at 68f 20c, are now_ at 68f 30c ; Mobilier is quoted at 675 f; Orleans, 1,350 f; Lyons, 892 f 50c; Northern, 947 f 50c; Austrian, 500 f. The follow ing are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents 97 25 Credit Foncier 880 Do end month.... 97 25 , Belgian 41 97 50 3 per Cents Do. end month 63 35 Roman Bank Shares 2820 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 678 75 Spanish Threes 47„ Do. Account 677 50 home Debt .. 47a - RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 947 50 .. 950 New ditto 872 50 .. 867 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 882 50 .. 883 75 Geneva — .. 370 -- Southern 502 50 .. 500 Western Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian Lombard IRELAND. DUBLIN, SATURDAY EVENING. THE RECENT ORANGE RIOTS. The Morning News understands that it is the in- tention of the Executive, acting upon the represen tations of the going judges of assize of the Northern counties, to take measures for bringing the accused parties to a speedy trial. The News further says : " Two modes of procedure have been hinted at — a special commission and a change of venue. In the former case the commission would be opened in Armagh early in October. In the event of a change of venue being sought, a trial could be obtained in the county of Dublin immediately on the conclusion of Michaelmas Term, or at the beginning of Decem ber. The latter course would be unquestionably the most advisable, as it is a well understood fact that the conviction of an Orangeman for an outrage on a Catholic is utterly impossible in the county of Armagh." A meeting of the Privy Council was held yester day at Dublin Castle, when a proclamation was issued, directing that the provisions of the Peace Preservation (Ireland) Act, 1856, should apply to, and be in force in, all those parts of the county of Armagh not already proclaimed. With regard to Irish Orangeism, the Northern Whig will be satisfied with nothing short of the stamping out of the whole:system, root and branch. " But the effectual extinction of Orangeism can never be accomplished by the mere punishment of Orangemen who have been guilty of substantial rioting, of wounding, or murdering. Such punish ments are not specially exemplary ; any man guilty of rioting, wounding, or murdering, is punishable. Orangeism itself must be declared a crime against the law, and punished accordingly. The joining in an Orange procession, with or without music, must be declared a crime, as it is in itself a provoca tive to outrage. The ledges must dissolve them selves or be forcibly dissolved by the authorities. Till these things be done we cannot boast that we live in a country where the law is strong enough to protect the subjects from insult, outrage, and the chances of slaughter. It will be seen from our report of the conclusion of the in vestigation before the magistrates at Lurgan, that nine persons have been sent for trial, and have been committed to the county gaol of Armagh till next general assizes—bail being refused. These parties are indicted for felony, in discharging arms with intent to kill. The assizes come on about March next. Nine others are returned for trial for un lawful assemblage, but admitted to bail; and nine arc ordered to bring in bail on the 27th of this month—also to appear at the assizes for unlawful assemblage." HARVEST PROSPECTS. If the summer of 1859 was one of the driest in the memory of the present generation, so must the corresponding season of 1860 be remembered as one of the wettest and least favourable for the ripening of cereal crops since 1822. Fortunately, however, nearly two months still remain, when fine weather may fairly be expected, so that at worst it may be that, although unusually late, the harvest may be as productive on the average as it has been in more promising years. In Dublin it has been rainy,with out the least intermission, for the last 18 hours, and as the wind is in a bad point, it is to be feared that no immediate improvement is at hand ; and, in ad dition, there is a chilliness in the air which must greatly retard the ripening of corn, and, indeed, of all other crops. In the southern counties matters— at least, in the early part of the week just closed— were much better than in other parts of the king dom. In Cork, Tipperary, and Limerick—all corn growing districts — the prospect was_cheering, and I THE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) .. Aug. 10. Do. (via Marseilles) Aug. 4. Bahamas and Havana (via New York).. .. Aug. 2. Canada, &c. (via Londonderry) .. Overdue. Cape of Good Hope, &c. .. Aug. 1. China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) July 19. Do. (via Marseilles) July 27. Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. .. July 19. India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) July 19. Do. ' (via Marseilles) July 27. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. July 28. Do. (via Marseilles) • • • • July 19 Lisbon, Brazils, Buenos Ayres, &c. Aug. 1. Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto July 21. Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) .. July 19. Do. (via Marseilles) .. July 19. United States, California, &c. (% ia Cork) .. July 25. Western Coast of Africa Madeira, Teneriffe .. Aug. 10 . West Indies and Pacific, Carthgena, Cuba, &c. July 30. We regret to learn that the Empress Eugenie is indisposed. Her Majesty will proceed to the Eaux Bonnes, accompanied by scarcely any attendants, as strict seclusion is recommended by her medical advisers. LOGIC IN THE RANKF.—In the papers relating to the late discontent among local European troops in India, just presented to Parliament, are the records of the Court of Inquiry at Meerut, appointed to ascertain from the men the grounds of their complaints with arrangements for transferring the army fronl the Company to the Q ueen. Private J. INPlntyre, a native of Glasgow, said :—" I was attested to serve the East India Company for 12 or 14 years. Hence arises ply grievances, seeing that I enlisted for the East India Company for the said term, shouldn't as a loyal subject of her Majesty's by birth be termed a loyal subject to her Majesty by servitude, through this transfer of the C om . pany to tho Crown, puzzles and blinds my understanding, to say expressive, with a patriot's feeling, that it is incon sistent with true British principles to turn over a human blmyoocclonwsiethiengeoeodruns in s s c u le c a h rl t y ra t n h s r f o e l r :v . gi y h nsg it hloffe channelstherefore, o Sirs, f min until e a en r t e i a t s le e d na t b o le a e f l r a e im sh , 0.17 n untilu n u nderstanding, a timendi n g s h , b a l y l m c o y n s p i e d r e c r e i bounty or a free discharge." DA 3L4 SCUS. dr . Damascus might well be the first of the four ter restrial paradises of Mabomet. Not a few Er glish travellers have seen it from the Saiahieh by even ing light; and they are probably all agreed that nowhere on earth have, they beheld a scene so lovely. The dense but varied verdure which lies in the midst of the desert, an oasis of 30 mites round ; the creamy city peeping out of it—sending up its 40 minarets among the slim poplars, and disclosing little bridges where the rivers of Damascus, Phar par, and Abana, wind among the thickets of fruit trees and flowering shrubs ; the villages standing in and out of the verge of the towering forest; the yellow plain stretching around, with its shifting, shadows and islands of mist, and the red and pur ple hills which frame the whole ;—this picture may well be beloved by the Mussulman as the Prophet's favourite, and the sultana of cities. But, once within the gates, all is changed. The gaiety which. is the great external feature, the harmony and brightness :which exhilarate more than they melt the heart, have vanished. Like Syria generally, Damascus is full of ruins which tell of religious strife. Here we pass a mosque now roofless, where the carved stonework lies hidden in the long grass, and the water runs to waste from the broken tank; and there we may see, by a little climbing, the shat tered portico of the once grand Christian cathedral, round whose broken columns the Arabs have built their mud hovels. The Jews have their Holy Places where Elisha anointed the King of Syria, and where the law was preserved when Jerusalem fell. The old heathen faiths of Syria are also repre sented there. All have ruins to show; and all cherish deep resentments, imputing the ruin to one another. This wrath enters into the whole life of Damascus, for the new-comers are compelled to take it into account in all their concerns. The doom of blood feud hangs over every relation and every transac tion of life there; and every class of believers calumniates every other. All Christians regard all Mahommedans as impatiently waiting for the final opportunity of exterminating the whole race of " infidels ' the Madommed ans p o i n t w i th disgust to the idols of the Greek Church, and the stupid legends of the Latin m on k s . Th es e l ast tell tra ' yellers every Holy week that the Jews in the next street crucified a child the week before. The Jews shrug their shoulders at Christianity being called by the missionaries a religion of peace, while the Maronites, who are in communion with Rome, cherish the institution of the avenger of blood as the dearest part of their religion. While their women aid peasants are at work in the fields and groves, their monks are poring over Thomas Aquinas in the convents, and kindling up the scorn of their dependents against the Druses, who keep up heathen mysteries, and i*ake a Me ss i a h, and even a god, of their Ifakim, whom Jews and Christians abhor. Amidst this stormy chaos of religious passions, life is neither tranquil nor gay in the first of earthly paradises. Sometimes the Jews are tortured to death ; sometimes the Chris tians are shut up in their dwellings ; sometimes a Mussulman is left dead in the street, and very often. there are skirmishes on the mountain roads when Druses and Maronites encounter. In going along the streets men glance before and behind; every group in the environs is watched ; every stranger who crosses a bridge is inspected ; every evening party is conducted with caution and tact to obviate offence, and broken up at the first ruffle. This is an epitome of life everywhere in the Holy Lands of the earth, where the great faiths of man kind have for the most part originated, and where they are now collected as if on purpose to jar. It is believed in Syria that there are moun tain recesses where Baal and Ashtaroth are still worshipped. The reflection of the fire-worship is still seen, we are told, in certain gorges of the Lebanon ; and Jezebel herself and the priests at Baalbec were not more devoted sun worshippers than some who are now watching the slaughter in Colo Syria from their perches on either hand. MuCh more is notorious even to us at home. We know how Christians are received at Nablous; and how the Turkish Governor at Jerusalem has for years been called upon to keep the peace between the Greek and Latin Ch r i s ti ans i n the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, even removing the altar-cloth himself, because the rival sects flew at each other's throats in the struggle to do it. We know how the Jews in Jerusalem sit in the dust in their Place of Wailing, actually wailing over their ex clusion from the site of their Temple, embracing the stones of the wall which Solomon deposited there, and muttering to the proud Mussulman on the other side that cruel fence, " Happy shall he be who shall take thy little ones, and shall dash them against the stones." We have known through out that missionaries go to Syri a an d P a l estine with their lives in their hands, as they go to Mada gascar or Cochin China. Moreover, we have for some time been aware that a new virulence has been excited in zealots of all creeds in the East by some fresh exasperation of Mussulman passion. For four years past we ought to have been aware whatmust happen in Syria, and Arabia, and Palestine, if the most vigorous check was not interposed in time. It was not done ; andnow the male children of whole tribes in the Lebanon lie in heaps, torn limb from limb ; all the men of whole districts are slaughtered ; and the wives and daughters of Christian settlers and converts are carried off to the harems of the Mussulman mur derers. It is now known that the Maronites pro voked the present quarrel ; and when it is consi dered that the Maronites are from 115,000 to 140,000 in number, while the Druses are not above 30,000, we cannot wonder at the outcry on the spot against the Christians; and we must admit the necessity of warning European society against sym pathising with the Christians as if they were dis ciples of a religion of peace and goodwill. But, of the 500 Christians slain at Damascus, and the Christian residents at Beyrout, Aleppo, Jerusalem, and other places now in peril, there must be many whom we may heartily sympathise with, and feel eager to acknowledge as brethren in the faith. The practical questions then are—first, how they can be most quickly rescued from peril ; and next, what must be done about these Holy Lands which are for ever steeped in blood in the name of religion. It is so entirely agreed upon that the Sovereign of those countries must be compelled by his allies and supporters to keep his subjects in order, at any necessary cost of his dignity and independence, that there need be no time lost in disputing that point. If the Sultan cannot keep the peace in e. case where so many interests are involved, his supporters must do it and settle the matter with him afterwards. Every day costs many lives, and the slaughter must be stopped, in the first place, by any power which can do it—of any faith and any nationality. Any demon stration that the Mussulman is not to extirpate the Christians just at present will break the force of the immediate superstition, will cow the Druses, and check the treachery of the Turks. But it is another thing for a single European Power to say that, without asking whether the Sultan is able to fulfil his promise to restore order and do justice in the Lebanon, it will send its own troops into Turkish territories. We are not to be blinded by the allegation of a self assumed " mission of humanity" to the dangers. of precipitate inter meddling. It was not very humane of the Czar to bring on the Crimean war, and yet his intervention had deliverance from oppression as its avowed object. The Christian nations of Europe cannot remain indifferent to the massacres ately perpetrated in the East, but they are bound so to act as not to bring on the cataclysm which it has been • the study of all wise states sten to avert. Even in England there has been too little looking to consequences in the public discus sions which have taken place, but the French Go. vernment, which announces an intention to inter vene in Syria, irrespective of the action of the other powers, pursues a course which naturally exc it es suspicion. The declaration that the Emperor is resolved on sending an armed expedition to Syria is not recommended by being connected with alarm ing reports from the French consuls in that coun try, for the consular agents o _ f France have for years been inflaming the Christian p o p u l a ti on , an d preparing them for the advent of a French army. The policy now proclaimed will impose duties o n us, for Syria can never be entrusted to any power which has agitated its population. By whatever machinery those lands may be,henceforth ruled, it must be ordained for the v, elfare of the in habitants, and not for the furtherance of any Euro pean ambition. Meantime it would be well, for the sake of futu re peace, if the cost of restoring the set. tlements, and lepairing the ravages in the Lebanon were char ge d upon the part i es, Mussulman, Chris tian, Jew, or heathen, who either provoked the war, or failed in the engagement to keep the peace. A fine 6f three millions of pounds sterling, in the form of compensation to sufferers, might secure future tranquillity when no religious or moral con siderations can be brought to bear. Where religious persecution is regarded as a duty, and felt as a plea sure, the only way is to make it expensive; and the cost is in this case only a small part of a really natural retribution.—Daily News. AN AMBASSADOR FORGETTING HIS SPEECH. — Otto Von Konigsmarck (uncle of the Konigsmarck who shot Tom Thynne, of Longleat) appeared as Ambassador at the court of Louis XIV., and had to make a Swedish speech at his reception before the Most Christian King. Otto was a famous dandy and warrior, but he forgot his speech, and what do you think he did ? Far from being disconcerted, he recited a portion of the Swedish Catechism to his Most Christian Majesty and his court, not one of whom understood his lingo with the exception of his own suite, who had to keep their gravity as best they might.— Thackeray's .Four Georges,