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v~ ~. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN.—Under the Management of Mis 6 Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, :Sole Lessees. The Public are respectfully informed that the Last Repre sentations of Wallace's popular Opera of LURLINE are now terminating, in consequence of the preparations for the speedy production of the novelties announced. H OY AT, ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT ' GARDEN—under the Management of Miss LOUISA YYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, THE ROSE OF CAS FILLE. Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Thirlwall ; Messrs.W. Harrison. H, Corri, Dnrand, St. Albyn, and Wallworth. DIVERTISSEMENT. - - - Conductor—Mr• Alfred Mellon. Doors open at Seven. Commence at Half-past. T HEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessre, Mr. J. B. Baskstene. THIS EVENTICO the nerformsnees will comment* , with 'THE LOVE CHASE. Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, Rofrers, ~ M rs. Wilkins, MlJs Amy Sedgwick, Miss Florence Haydon. • After which, BOX AND COX Followed by a new comedy entitled ROMANCE AND REALITY. Messrs. Chippenda , le, Howe, Rogers, W. Farren, and John Brougham ; Miss Florence Haydon; Mrs. Wilkins, • and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. Commence at 7. 'RO YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-- Lessee and 3lanagfer, Mr. A. Harris. -A. THIS EVENING, an adaptation of Victor Att , o's cele brated Play of RUY BLAS, by Edmund Falconer, Esq. when Mr. Fechter, the favourite actor of Parisian renown. will make his 9th appearance on the English stage,'supported by Messrs. W. Lacy, Meadows, Garden, Graham, Raymond, Morland, Collett, Paulo, Daly, A. Harris ; Miss Rose Leclercq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath. To be preceded by - SUSAN SMITH. To conclude with BOWL'D OUT. Mr. Widdicomb. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM. Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. "• TITTS EVENING, the performances will commence with qtaYie Bernard's admired Drama of THE WEPT OF THE WISH-TON-WISH. Principal characters by Mr. T. Lyon, .Mr. Henry Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. H. Butler, Mr. For 'rester, Mr. Campbell„ Mr. J. Johnstone ; Miss Neville, Mrs. Rouse, and Madame Celeste. ' After which (2d time) THE PE I'S OF THE PARTERRE. feenic Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Calleott. The Music by Mr. Geor2se Loder. Principal characters by Mr IT. Neville. Mr. John Rouse, Mr. J. Morris, Miss M. Ternan, Miss Neville, Miss -Hudspeth, Miss Stuart, Miss Turner, Miss ,Douglas, Miss Annie Collinson, and Miss Lydia Thompson. To conclude with GRIST TO THE MILL. Mr. G, orge Vinincr, Mr. J. Johnstone, Mr. Forrester, Mrs. J. Rouse, and miss Roo. Howard. cummenee at 7. _ A DgLPHT, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL , *...r1 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster. Great Success of the w new Drama, by s RDion Bourcicault, Esq., "The Colleen Ran."—Miss Agneobertson every even- ing. THIS EVENING, THE RIFLE CORPS. Messrs. W. Smith, D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss W oolgar, Miss Kate Kelly, and Mrs. Eillin , ton. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Thourcicanit, D. Fisher, Billinolon, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. Followed by DINORAH UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Eburne, C. J. Smith, Miss 'E. Thorn De. oors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 25.; Family Boxes, - Xl. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 45. ; Front Circle Stalls, is • Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wm. BATTY. Triumphant success and increasing popularity of the Grand Spectacle of ROBIN HOOD. Second Week of Madame Newsome, Mr. James Newsome, and their Troupe of unegnalled perf , rmers, &c., Including the incomparable Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest Wonder of the age. This Evenin fr, the highly successful new Spectacle, in Three Acts, by E. Fitzball, Esq., entitled ROBIN HOOD • or. the Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; introducinfr the Stud of highly trained Horses, Herd of real Deer, Stag Hounds, Jzc, Ailan a-Dale, Miss Rebecca Isaacs ; Robin Hood, Mr. John Prit chard. To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena—Star Riders of Europe. - - Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Statre Manager—Mr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. CONCERTS. CANTERBURY HALL EVERY EVENING, A Grand Selection from the opera of NORMA. Norma ........ • • Adaluisa . (Her first appearance in this country.) After which the ETHIOPIANS, consistinzof Seventeen Per formers. organised expressly for this establishment, for the Performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Negro Delineations, Anecdotes, &c. Prin cipal Negro Artistes, Messrs. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H. Drummond, and Charley Fox. Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGHMANS. Balcony, Is, Hall. 6d. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Nov, 6, 1560. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADS. 45—this day at noon. 41—lowest this morning and during the night. 45—highest since noon yesterday. BARomETER-30.41; a sadden rise.' WlND—Easterly; fresh, cold and dull. The weather has now taken a wintry turn. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAL—Morning, 6h. 26m..—Afternoon, 6h. 58m. To-moßßow.-Moming, ih. 34m.—Afternoon, Bh. 14m. Z . ,1 4 t - , • . , ' t• THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, NOV. 6, 1880. There will shortly be deposited in their final resting-place under the roof beams of 'Westminster Abbey the remains of the late illustrious Earl of DUNDONALD. But—we are actually given to understand—the ceremonial will, after all, take place not at the national expense, not at the instance of her MAJESTY'S Government ! It is scarcely credible that the meanness evidenced by this country towards this glorious citizen during the greater part of his protracted lifetime should absolutely be continued after his death, should thus—to render the story of England's ingratitude in his instance complete —be per petuated and persisted in, so to speak, posthumously. Lord COCHRANE, the Earl of DUNDONALD, had earned from his native land all the honours within the gift of the Sovereign, And how many of those honours had been accorded to him when he expired the other day, in the eighty-fifth year of his age, at Kensington? - Why, he was a G.C.B. Literally that was all : that was the beginning and the end of all the honours ever awarded by this rich and powerful empire to a man, who had some half century back illus trated the glory of our arms upon the great deep, as no man ever illustrated them upon that ele ment saving and excepting only our immortal NE LSON. And we have even ample assurance from the deeds of unsurpassed heroism, which were again and again actually accomplished by Lord Coma . ANY-, with mea ns a pp aren tl y a lt oget h er in adequate, t hat, to equal even NELSON, this daunt less heart only needed the opportunities. Greater courage no man ever possessed. A readier genius upon all occasions, 11 1 3 0 n every emergency, how ever sudden or unexpected, a readier genius as a naval commander-in-chief, no man ever manifested. There was, in truth, the brain to devise, and there was in very deed the hand to act. Of a se t-captain like this one w ould uaveth ought that England, of all countries in the world, would have been proud. Instead of evidencing anything like this grateful appreciation of this extraordinary character, England manifested every disposition to thwart him in his career of glory, to cover him with ignominy even instead of with honour, i n return for his many resplendent achievements. We have told the melancholy story of his wrong s anevr since his demise, and we did, so not without emotions being stirred within our hear t's core, vital with a sense of profound and even pairaful indignation. But that the facts are upon rec and they would positively be incredible. That th e heroic Lord Comm INE, of all the valiant czi.ptains in the Royal Navy of England, should, upon a manifest blunder, have been so treated ! That the blunder was manifest at the very time of his conviction was shown in a most signal manner by the electors of Westminster, who re-elected him their representative eleven clays after Lord °DeI:MANE had been wrongfully condemned to un dergo a year's imprisonment, to pay a fine of X5OO, and, at the close of his incarceration, to stand , in the pillory ; we wonder even the sentence :lid not ada---to have his ears cut off and nailed to that infamous pillory Recollect the words of JUNIUS, when speaking of the people, where he says that they are seldom wrong in their opinions—in their sentiments NEVER ! It was a sentiment—a generous, noble sentiment—that led the electors of Westminster to return Lord COCHRANE to Parlia ment within eleven days from his condemnation to a year's imprisonment in the King's Bench. The accuracy of the popular judgment in obeying the impulse of that sentiment was proclaimed years afterwards in another reign, upon King WILLIAM IV's. accession to the throne, a paltry, but still to the gallant and outraged sailor, a most precious, meed of justice was doled—viz., by the restoration of Lord COCHRANE'S name to the Navy List, from which it had been shamefully erased, by his restoration to his rank in that service, the rank from which he had been most shamefully degraded. His rise in his profession we have not counted among his honours, for they were bis simple right ; he had earned his promotion over and over again by his long and active service, to say nothing of his many matchless achievements. The one sole " honour" of his life vouchsafed to him by Eng land was—the Knighthood of the Bath. Like another glorious hero in the sister profession, the late Sir CHARLES JAMES NAPIER—a man as brave as DUNDONALD, endowed with as noble a warlike genius, and we may add as ungraciously and as grudgingly recompensed, though never, happily, as contumeliously treated as the old Sailor Earl whose inanimate dust is now awaiting its sepulture —like Sir CHARLES JAMES NAPIER in this respect, in death as in life, when DUNDONALD breathes his last, when "after life's fitful fever he sleeps well " the one recompense that has been given to him by the land he had loved and served so well could be symbolised in those three initials—G.C.B. There was comprised under those three letters the whole of England's " return" alike to NAPIER and to DUNDONALD. These, however, are incidents in our national annals not altogether unprecedented. JERVIS dies an Earl from that single victory off St. Vincent, wen for him by Commodore NELSON'S disobedience of orders —while NELSON himself dies several years after wards, after winning not only that victory off St. Vincent, but three others immeasureably more re markable and more important—the Nile, Copen hagen, and Trafalgar—a Viscount. During the earlier part of the same reign of " good old GEORGE lll."—Admiral HowE wins a victory on the Ist of June, and is at once rewarded with an Earldom ! But NELSON dies after a hundred contests with his frame battered to pieces, with an arm off, with an eye out, and so forth, physically a mere wreck, prematurely old at the age of forty-six, NELSON dies after all these contests and after such victories as St. Vincent, the Nile, Copenhagen, and Trafal gar, a Viscount. FITZROY SOMERSET, again, when he passes away from the scene into his grave—has received a peerage for chronicling the weather very carefully under the walls of Sebastopol, and (better than any peerage to a true soldier) he has had placed in his grasp the baton of a Field Marshal. While Sir CHARLES NAPIER, the Conqueror of Scinde—the first soldier of his age after WELLING TON—Sir CHARLES NAPIER, the victor of Meanee and Hyderabad dies—a General and a G.C.B. Precisely as this kindred hero, boast, glory, and paragon of the sister profession, the late venerab. Earl of DUNDONALD —dies an Admiral and a G.C.B. Why, NAPIER, years before his death, ought to have been a Marshal of England—ought to have had an Earldom, if not a Marquisate. As for DUNDONALD, who shall say that a badge like the Vi ctoria Cross ever glittered upon a breast as dauntless ? Might not any order of knighthood have received lustre from his wearing it ? What grander coro net than the old hereditary one descended to him from his forefathers, would not have sat well upon that gallant crest, even though it had been a coronet circled with the leaves of the strawberry ? Instead of anything of all which Lord DUNDONALD breathes his last simply a G.C.B. And with the recollection of his possession of even that order of knighthood, we have the painful remembrance of his arms and banner having been torn down from their stall in HENRY VlL's Chapel in Westminster Abbey, and having been, then and there, kicked out of it with the utmost indignity—under a misapprehension ! Yet, with these distressing facts in our memory, we now find the Ministers of the Crown shrinking from the responsibility of according a public funeral in that same old Abbey at Westminster to the remains of Lord DUNDONALD. Lord DERBY'S Government did not so hesitate when the Duke of WELLINGTON expired in the month of September. And here is a hero worthy by the deeds recorded in his history of lying by the side of WELLINGTON. Let J,ord PALMERSTON'S Government do now what Lord DERBY'S Government did then—let them act upon their own responsibility, and, so acting, accord due honour to the dust of Lord DUNDONALD. Shame upon them if they hesitate ! It is the last oppor tunity England has of expiating her ingratitude to this DUGUESCLIN of the Ocean ! SIR CHARLES NAPIER. Another great Admiral has but just now ex pired, even while the mortal remains of the Earl of DUNDONALD are yet uninterred. Sir CHARLES NAPIER, of the Tagus, of Acre, of Southwark—has this very day breathed his last. Peace to his manes —honour to the dust of the brave dead—to one who nobly did his duty in the marine of that heroic pro fession of which he was through life one of the brightest ornaments—nobly and gallantly did his duty in its cause and on its behalf alike within and without the walls of the Imperial Parliament. If the schoolboys of the present generation need illustrations of their text-hand copy—,, Fortune favours the bold"—their masters may surely find it in this year's Italian campaigns. GARIBALDI and his 2,000 landing at Marsala, and the rapid deliver ance of Sicily, would of course come first —the march of the few thousands on Naples next—and the later proceedings of the King of SARDINIA would bring up the rear. They are, indeed, illus trations of the success of diplomatic boldness quite as much as of the military and more physical exemplification of the quality; they combined much of both, for to dare the autocrats of Warsaw and the Austrians of Venetia, and all the diplomacies and hostile armies frowning upon him at the same time—was a bold act. And, therefore, according to the time-honoured old proverb, fortune does stand by him. VICTOR EMMANUEL has now his reward. He has lost two silly ambassadors, and won a great kingdom. Won it morally —won its hearts, not its fortunes merely. ONE MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND votes votes fairly taken, too, attest that the King of ITALY the ri assumes that title not by ght of mere vulgar conquest, but by the honest one of popular choice. And the succession of victories over the mercenaries, !for suc h th ey really are, who co n ti nue to fight against their country till they have all been driven under the walls of Gaeta, will strengthen his popular title, by the debt due from a nation to its deliverer —the debt which every Englishman feels that this coun try owes to o WILLIAM of ORANGE. The areTatifying in more respe c t s last victoriesb THE SUN, - LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1860. than one. The great number of prisoners taken at Capua justify once more the noble and humane policy of GARIBALDI, who, throughout the whole ,_. campaign, though a man conspicuous for daring, :has always endeavoured to save the lives of the ItAlians opposed to him. The bravest of the brace, he has yet preferred rather to exercise the strategic skill which should drive his antagonists to a sur render, .and then to convince them that he regarded them, not as enemies, nor as cowards, but as Italians and misled brethren. View this noble man's conduct from what point you will, it always compels your admiration. It is said that the 9,000 or 11,000 prisoners taken at Capua (the numbers are variously stated) are to be sent to Gaeta. Is this to aid in starving the fortress into surrender ? It is not easy to conceive any other motive. GARI BALDI generally used to let the prisoners re-enlist or return borne. Of the last Sardinian victory the details, though few, are satisfactory enough. The rout of the Bour bon army on the Garigliano appears to have been complete. The Royalists seem to have fought with little heart. Tents, waggons, and an immense number of prisoners, were left in the hands of the Italian army, as we ought now to designate it ; this last incident evincing under the circumstance of a front attack, that the King of GAETA'S soldiers had no particular objection to being taken. The success was followed up. General SONNAZ pursued the enemy till he reached and occupied Mola, a small place at the very entrance of the peninsula on which Gaeta stands, and but three or four miles from it. He is also stated to have taken positions commanding Gaeta. Mean time the whole of the Sardinian army was crossing the Garigliano by a regular bridge, and a second one which they had constructed, both of them near the sea, and on Sunday the whole were to have been on the Gaeta side of the river. Two lines of the telegram will be read with pleasure for peculiar reasons. We are told that the Royalists " throughout their march were much embarrassed by the fire of the Sicilian fleet." Thus far, then, the French EMPEROR has shown him self sensitive to the universal cry of contempt and execration with which his inconsistent, and, under the circumstances, cruel intervention, through the French Admiral, was everywhere regarded. A lame apology was indeed attempted for him by the French press. It was said that he wished to save FRANCIS JOSEPH the humiliation of falling into the hands of his own subjects ! As if his late subjects would not have been but too happy to see him off their hands, and off to the Antipodes, if it pleased him. Neither VICTOR EMMANUEL, nor GARIBALDI, nor the Neapolitans desire any greater favour from the French than that they should offer the young Bour bon a free passage to any part of the earth. It remains, however, to be seen whether the French Admiral has orders to persist in his instructions as regards the fort of Gaeta itself ; and thus to delay the flight of the ex-King for no earthly purpose but to display French self-importance, and cause a double loss of life in the siege of Gaeta. We should like to know what the " Pacificator of Europe" has to do with prolonging a useless struggle ; and what even the " Moderator of Revolution" has to do with delaying an inevitable consummation. We hope it will appear that Lord PALMERSTON did not return in vain so quickly from the north. e Perhaps few of us suspected there was half so much good feeling in America towards England as the visit of the Prince of WALES has elicited. It has done much for pleasanter relations between the two countries, if it has done only this. There has been a spontaneity, a heartiness, a considera teness, too, about all the popular manifestations, as well as in those under the management of the upper ten thousand, which really leaves nothing to be desired. All contrasts strangely indeed with the performances done to order in Imperial pro gresses in a neighbouring country. In America the Prince witnessed popular enthusiasm never surpassed in the Old World, with popular order kept not by police, or gendarmes, but by the people themselves. The hurrahs of such a self-controlled yet ardent population—of how infinitely greater worth are they than the vivas shouted by thousands marshalled and instructed by Prefets and Moires. In some respects the last great reception of the PRINCE surpassed all the preceding. The Bos tonians—singular as it may seem, recollecting their traditions of the War of Independence —are the most English of the Americans, and they pride themselves on having the most "English City" in the States. Though the monument of Bunker's hill overlooks it, the memorial of their defeat, after having inflicted such tremendous loss; though the hall yet stands there, before which the first blood was shed in the grand quarrel, yet just there the inhabitants cherish the strongest attachment to the tastes and habits of the old country, and to the old country itself. The conduct of the reception there was unsurpassed as the combination of perfect good taste and unbounded enthusiasm. Nothing could surpass the beautiful and effective arrange ments at the Musical Festival, and certainly no variation that we ever saw of the national air ever approached in fitness to the occasion, in good feeling, and the expression of sentiments which we trust will mark henceforth the intercourse between the two countries, to the one sung with such zest at Boston. We feel that it deserves the prominence which we here give it. It was as follows : " God bless our Fathers' land, Keep her in heart and hand One with our own I From all her foes defend, Be her brave People's'Friend, On all her realms descend, Protect her throne I " Father, with loving care Guard Thou her kingdom's Heir, Guide all his ways; Thine arm his shelter be, From him by land and Pea Bid storm and danger flee, Prolong his days I " Lord, let War's tempest cease, Fold the whole earth in peace, Under Thy wings I Make all Thy nations one, All hearts beneath the sun, Till Thou shalt reign alone, Great King of Kings 1" The visit of the PRINCE to the house and grave of WASHINGTON was suggestive of a world of re flections; but there was something really more touching in his interview with the solitary sur vivor of the dreadful fight at Bunker's - hill. Eighty-five years have passed since the fire, re served till the British two thousand had almost reached the nearly extempore works on that dread ful summit, poured forth suddenly with such deadly Effect that half the number were killed and wounded—the rest staggering back to the bottom of the hill to be rallied only by fresh officers, and ultimately to dislodge the colonists. Amongst those deadly marksmen who thus mowed down half the soldiers of the PRINCE'S great-grandfather was RALPH FARNHAM, then twenty years of age, now of course one hundred and five ; and with him the Heir to the English Throne shook hands. The man who had seen three generations of warring and half reconciled Englishmen was now shaking hands with the fourth ! That fourth generation coming on the stage to find all the opinions, political and commercial, in which the War of Independence ori ginated, wholly gone—to find England proud of the United States as her offspring, the States proud of England as their mother country, and, above all, as ardent admirers of the Queen of ENGLAND as any of her own subjects. We may hope also that the present year will chronicle another event which will do more than any other, permanently, to better the feeling be tween the two countries. We refer to the reversal of the pro-slavery policy of the last forty years, by the election of a Republican candidate. Of that happy issue to the Presidential contest there seems now every probability. The Democrats • are, indeed, making strenuous efforts to carry New York State, and so to throw the election into the hands of Congress, but we can hardly think they will succeed in this. New York State has been too long republican, though the numerous Irish in the city take every oppor tunity of voting for negro slavery. Should a republi can President be elected we shall have no more en couragement to slavery and the slave trade. No more tampering with the post•office itself on behalf of slavery. No more attempts like those of Kansas, on the territories. No more insincerity in co-ope ration to suppress the slave-trade. And no more studiedly annoying treatment of England because we are a nation hating above all things the accursed traffic in man, and the very name of slavery. LiNcoLN's election will be a blessing to both countries. Never was there such an engregious anti-climax, never was there a more ab s urdly abrupt collapse than the Warsaw Conference. It began something after the fashion of one of those crackers, beloved of boyhood, fired off yesterday in the streets in honour of Don GUIDO FAWKES'S anniversary— banging right and left, threatening violence in all directions only to fizz itself out and expire in the gutter in the merest smoke, with a flavour, or just a hint or suspicion of gunpowder about it ! It has exploded this political bomb, and no one is a bit the worse for it, after all. Europe in effect is, on the contrary, we can hardly help thinking, a great deal the better. For if it can be said to have illustrated anything, this Warsaw Conference between the three dominant despots of the north, has shown in a very conspicuous manner the powerlessness of those old-world absolutist Sovereigns in the pre sence of the public opinion of the Christendom of nowadays. With England, and, even for that matter, with France, holding aloof from it—the Conclave was in a manner paralysed—more parti cularly in the presence of the whole Italian nation in arms, vindicating its rights and winning at the point of the sword its political independence. If it has done no other good than this, the Warsaw Conference has certainly demonstrated the fact that not only is the last Despots' Treaty—the Treaty of Vienna—just waste paper and ao more than waste paper, but that there is not the smallest remaining probability that any similar document will again part and parcel out, at the whim and pleasure of the Princes, rather than of the Peoples, the various States, large and small, possessing in a greater or lesser degree the blessings of Euro• pean civilisation. L % ' l' ESI NEW J, k • (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ROME, Nov. 3. Large quantities of stores and war materiel, for the use of the French army, have arrived here. The enrolment of foreigners for the Papal army has been stopped. Great enthusiasm prevails in the Marches and Umbria in favour of annexation. Beds, for hospitals for the wounded, have been sent from Rome to Francis 11. Anarchy reigns in the province of Viterbo. TURIN, TUESDAY. The returns received of the voting in Umbria and the Marches give very satisfactory results. Perfect order and enthusiasm prevails every where. SESSA, Nov. 5 (Evening.) A large body of Bourbon troops remain behind the fortress of Gaeta. These troops have sent a proposal to surrender to Goneral Fanti. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY. "General de Montauban," says the Journal du Havre, "has, it is said, been named a Senator as a reward for the skill he displayed in preparing and executing the attack on the Chinese positions. The modesty with which he speaks of himself in his official report is the subject of general remark. One of the principal positions occupied by Gen. de Sonnaz after his late success against the Nea politan forces was Mola di Gaeta, a small town on an eminence about two miles from the fortress, and fully commanding it. Mola is known to the classical reader as the place near which Cicero was killed. BOURSE, Nov. s.—The market goes on improving both in firmness and in the amount of business transacted, and prices show a further improvement on those of Saturday. Threes, for the Account, are now at 69f 85c ; Mobilier, 735 f; Orleans, 1,385 f ; Northern, 982 f 50c ; Mediterranean, 927 f 50c ; Austrian, 500 f ; Lombard, 495 f. The following are the last quotations : 4± per per Cents ... 95 75 Credit Fancier 907 50 Do end month.... 95 901 Belgian 41 97 }":75 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 90: Roman Bank Shares . 2860 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 733 75 , Spanish Threes 4B 50 Do. Account 731 25 I Home Debt .. 47 75 DEATH OP SIR CHARLES NAPIER, PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY MORNING. Admiral Sir Charles Napier died at his residence, Merchistoun-hall, at 5.40 this morning. THE POST- OFFICE SUBURBAN DIRECTORY. KELLY AND CO. , The public have long been in want of a guide to the suburbs of the Metropolis; for the London Post Office Directory, although complete in itself as far as it extends, treats of London proper rather than of London in the comprehensive sense in which it is now understood. The mania for living out of town which possesses all, from the wealthy mer chant to the well-to-do tradesman, renders it neces sary for the compilers of a directory to furnish double addresses to render the work complete. Messrs. Kelly and Co. have now done this, and have succeeded in a most satisfactory manner in extending to the districts round London the advan tages of a directory arranged on the same plan as that of the "London Post Office," and containing divisions corresponding to the street, commercial, court, and trades directory. The work extends to the boundary of the Iletropolitan Postal districts, and is, in fact, simply an extension of the London Directory. It is divided into two parts, northern and southern, so that parties residing on either the north or south sides of the Thames can procure the part which relates to their own locality. The "Suburban Directory" forms a necessary appen dage to the present London one, the two forming a complete guide to the whole area of the metro polis and surrounding circle with a twelve mile radius. A complete conveyance directory is added, which, in addition to the information relative to per sonal transit, furnishes useful instruction concern ing carriers' carts and parcels delivery company. A well executed map, on a large scale, engraved expressly for the work, by Mr. B. R. Davies, comprising the entire suburbs surrounding the metropolis, is added to complete this long required work. THE AMERICAN EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF FRANKLIN. Information had been obtair ed from the American expedition in search of Franklin. The captain of a whaler, writing from Cumberland Inlet on the 30th of August, says :—" I saw Captain Buddington, of the George Henry, about a week ago. All well on board. John Cud-la-jah, the native Esquimaux, who was returning with him, died of quick consumption three days before the ship made the land. This Cud-la-jah was a native of the west side of Baffin's Bay, about 35 years of age, and had been in the employ of American whalemen about eight years, and was regarded as a noble specimen of his race—manly in his deport ment, quick, and intelligent. Heengaged the friend ship of all with whom he was brougt in contact. His knowledge of the geography of these icy regions made him useful as a pilot, while his dexterity with harpoon or lance made him an expert seal fisher and whaleman. He was chosen by Mr. Hall to be his guide and companion in the boat journey he proposes to make westward towards Boothia and King William's Land. We sincerely regret that Mr. Hall has lost so valuable and reliable a man from his little company. It was the intention of Mr. Hall, if he found any difficulty in making up his boat's crow on arrival, to stay by the ship all winter, inuring himself to the climate I and learning the language and habits of the Esqui maux, and, starting early in the spring with a picked crew, push on his journey. The death of Cud-la-jah may make this intention a fixed deter mination, and, after wintering with the ship he will leave her and go towards the Pole, exploring, as he advances, the unknown region lying between Cape Willoughby and the entrance to Fury and Heels. Straits. Thence he will go westward through the Straits to Boothia and King 'William's Land, where the relics of Franklin's expedition were dis covered by Captain M'Clintock, R.N. At that point Mr. Hall hopes to obtain more information in regard to portions of that expedition." AUSTRALIAN SIIAKSPEARE FUND.—It is proposed to erect a testimonial to Shakspeare on the approaching tercentenary of his birth. The proposition has since met with great favour, and a number of subscriptions have been obtained for the desired object. At a meeting of the Shakspeare Testimonial Committee, held at Melbourne, it was resolved that three gentleman be appointed in Lon don to act as a "committee of taste" in the selec ion of a design for the intended statue, such committee to consist of Messrs. Carlyle and Ruskin, and Sir Charles Eastlake ; and that both colonial and English artists shall contribute designs, the above committee having the power to select the most meritorious. The selection of the committee does infinite credit to the discernment of the patriotic admirers of our national poet,—ditcsti•alimi and Zrew Zealand Gazette. RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto BBB 75 .. Lyons and Mediterranean 928 75 .. 928 75 Geneva 360 .. 367 50 Southern 521 25 .. 522 50 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard , 497 50 .. 495 ITALY. The Official Journal of October 30, publishes the following important decree, signed "G. Gari baldi :" " Considering that on that deplorable day, the 15th of May, 1848, the Government of the Bour bons violated every agreement to which it had sworn, filled the city with terror and blood, and for the authority of the law substituted tyranny and violence ; considering that the Government which emerged from that civil catastrophe raged with fearful pertinacity for the course of 12 years, not leaving inviolate even the sanctuary of justice and of families, so that honourable men and lovers of their country were condemned to criminal penal. ties, prisons were peopled with victims and a large number of citizens compelled to abandon the State, and take refuge in friendly Italian and foreign lands; considering that the losses and evils produced by such brutal tyranny were immense; considering that it is a debt of justice worthy of an Italian and free Government to compensate, as far as possible, the losses suffered for the cause which now triumphs —it is decreed that from the rentes confiscated from the Bourbons and placed at the disposal of the State the sum of six millions of ducats shall be distributed with due consideration to the political victims of the 15th of May, 1848, of these continental provinces, &c. " G. GARIBALDI." LYCEUM THEATRE. The clearing away of heavy clouds and the revelation of a bright and sunny landscape are not more charming in nature than the change which was manifest on the boards of the Lyceum last night. In placeof the gloomy revivals of ancient corridors, which up to the present time have occupied almost exclusively this stage, the performance opened with the well known Adelphi drama of the " Wept of the Wish-ton-Wish," the story of which is too well known to justify a recapitulation even of the principal in cidents. However, the part of the " Wept" one, which is one of Madame Celeste's most charming impersonations, vas sustained by that graceful and impassioned actress, and drew tears from many who " knew not tears before." The character of Naramattah, as represented by Madame Celeste, is indeed a great triumph of art ; for the piece itself is in point of construction but meagre. The great novelty of the evening was a composition, by Mr. Stirling Coyne, entitled, " The Pets of the Parterre ; or, Love in a Garden," the music composed by Mr. Loder, and the scenery by Mr. Calcott. The dominant idea of this pretty composition is the re animation of flowers in a human form—the impersonation, in short, of the most graceful and beautiful objects in nature in their most appropriate type. The idea is not a new one, and many a love-sick swain has, in thought, associated the purity and the odour of sanctity of his " dear one" with the softness and unobtrusive delicacy of the prettiest" pets of the parterre." Mr. Coyne has carried out this thought with marked success, and in the present piece has adopted the dramatic machinery of a Coun tess de Hainville (Miss Maria Ternan), a young Widow, lamenting the loss, not of her' late lord, but of an early love, yields to a morbid melancholy in a pretty chateau in Brittany. A pretty waiting-maid (Miss Lydia Thompson) and an old gardener (Mr. Morris) are her sole attendants. The opening scene introduces us to this de lightful recluse, and to a bevy of young Parisiennes, her friends, who have determined to bring her back to that fair city, where " the air's so pure, the wine so light." These young ladies are a very graceful assemblage indeed, and constitute a deputation of influence not to be withstood —the heart of the young widow expands under such influence, she enters into their gaiety, and yields to their fascinating association. At this moment a certain Leon Dorville (Mr. Neville), the same early love of whom we have before spoken, appears on the scene, a half-witted lover, who has given the reins to a kinder imagination (a sort of Rousseau in miniature), and who, seeking to distract thought, has become himself dis tracted. This young gentleman wanders into Brittany (of course in the neighbourhood of the chateau of the pretty widow), accompanied by his groom (Mr. Rouse). Leon Dorville is " all sentiment," and driven by a storm into the grounds of the Countess he throws himself upon a bank and dreams of the beautiful flowers which surround him. Our young Parisiennes hear of this adventure, and recognising in the gentleman the " lost love" of their wi dowed friend, determine, very intelligent girls as they are, to make the most of him. They design a charming file, for May night, when the flowers of the garden are supposed, by a pretty conceit, " to assume a human impersonation," and invite our young Leon to the enchanting entertainment I This is the grand scene of the piece, and it must be admitted by all who wit ness it that a more beautiful realization could scarcely be achieved I A more graceful and well-formed group of beautiful young ladies is not to be found in any other theatre in London, The Rose (Miss Neville), The Camelia (Miss Hudspeth), The Violet (Miss Stuart), The Lily of the Valley (Miss Anise Collinson), The Poppy (Miss Turner), The Convolvolvus (Miss Douglas), and a beautiful Zephyr (Miss Lydia Thompson) I Such a combination of beauty, grace, and art have certainly never been associated in . producing a more artistic ballet. The costumes, the grouping, ant' the general pose and tone of this scene are beyond all praise. It realises Moore's elegant thought in Lalla Rookh, as though the fruits and flowers " were all set dancing." The effect of such a scene of enchantment may Le safely concluded. Leon and the (Heartsease) Countess de Stem villa of course are re-united, and we have every reason to believe they, with their young friends and their delightful little Fanchette, will spend a gay season in Paris. Hap piness to their shadows I for even these have a pleasant remembrance! The curtain fell amid shouts of approbation from a crowded and most fashionable audience, who insisted on its being again draws up, which was done amid the warmest demonstrations of applause, after which the amiable Dame Directrice was called for, and presented herself to receive the congratulations of her friends. In fact, it must be re corded as a most triumphant sucoess. LITERATURE. A Book about .octors. By J. Cordv Jeaffreson, author of " Novels and Novelists, " Crewe Rise," &c. 2 vols. Hurst and Blackett. Mr. Gordy Jeaffreson is already favourably known to,the public as a writer of i n d us t r y an d abi lity. He has before appeared as a novelist and critic, but has now entered a new path in literature. The title of his present work will probably perplex many readers, who will be mistaken if they antici pate a production of a scientific or medical cha racter. It is rather intended as a work of enter tainment, and this purpose it is well qualified to fulfil. Taking the profession in various aspects, the writer gives us a collection of anecdotes, sketches; jokes, and incidents old and new; in terspersed with brief outlines of the careers of some of the most celebrated professors of the heal ing art in all its branches, from Chaucer's physician groundit in. Astronomy and Magyk Naturel," down to the rough eccentricities of Dr. Abernethy. In his preface Mr. Jeaffreson tells us that he has done his best to combine and classify old stories, and also cautiously to select his materials. "Much of the contents of both volumes has never before been published, but after being drawn from a variety of manuscript sources, is now for the first ' time submitted to the world. It would be difficult to enumerate all the persons to whom the writer is indebted for access to documents, suggestions, and memoranda. He cannot, however, let the present occasion go by without expressing his gratitude to the College of Physicians, for the prompt urbanity with which they allowed him to inspect the treasures of their library." It will thus be seen that the writer has not given us merely superficial information, but has drawn his facts from authentic sources. With regard to his memoirs; we have sketches of Sir Thomas Browne and Sir Kenelm Digby, the marvellous quack of James the First's reign, also of Sydenham, Sir Hans Sloane, and Heberden—three physicians who, says the author, "completely bridge over the uncertain period between old empiricism and modern science." Dr. Radcliffe, " the Jacobite partisan, the physician without learning, and the luxurious bon vivant, who grudged the odd sixpences of his tavern scores, and whose apothecary, Dandridge, died worth £50,000," occupies a prominent place in many of the anecdotes. He was Court physician in the days of William 111. and Queen Anne, whose death was by many attributed to his non-attendance. He was eminently successful in his practice, and made a large fortune. He was wont to say that " when a young practitioner, he possessed 20 remedies for every disease; and at the close of his career he f o und 20 diseases fur which he had not one remedy." The poet Akenside, Dr. Lettsom, and the redoubted quack, St. John Long, have each a separate chapter devoted to them. The former, whatever his merits in the literary world, does not appear to have pos sessed the humanity and consideration indispensable to the proper exercise of his more practical profes sion. Of Lettsom many amusing anecdotes are told. His own rhythmical account of himself was as follews : Though his writings show him to have been an enlightened physician for his time, his system of practice was not of course free from the violent measures which were univer - sally believed in during the last century. He used to say of himself, in doggerel English, that possibly was quite as good as the Latin of his prescriptio ns : " When patients comes to I, I physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em; Then—if they choose to die, What's that to I—l lets 'em." The extraordinary success attending the audacious impostor, Sir onn Long, who by means of his pro fessed specific, brought unnecessary suffering to many of his dupes, and caused the death of some, is one of the most remarkable instances of public cre dulity. It is worthy of notice that the ready credence given to his presumptuous doctrines was not awarded in the days of public ignorance and general belief in supernatural agency, but within the memory of the existing generation. The whole of his career, from his early occupation as an artist down to the days of his extraordinary popularity, is given in outline, and the melancholy case of Miss Cashin, on whose death he was tried for man slaughter, is cited. The absurdity of the evidence given in his favour by persons of rank and in fluence prove to what length the fanaticism of dupes will go. His name, says Mr. Jeaffreson, is still cherished by many enthusiasts, though they might have learned wisdom from the startling fact that he died at an early age of the very disease he professed to cure. On the important subject of fees we have some entertaining and curious details. " Seleucus, for having his son Antiochus restored to health, was fool enough to give sixty thousand crowns to Era sistratus ; and for their attendance on the Emperor Augustus, and his two uext successors, no less than four physicians received annual pensions of two hundred and fifty thousand sesterces a-piece." In another page we learn that "Dr. Willis was re warded for his successful attendance on his Majesty George 111. by £1,500 per annum for 20 years, and £650 per annum to his son for life. When Dr. Dimsdale, a Hertford physician, and subsequently member for the borough, went to Russia to inoculate the Empress Catherine and her son, he was rewarded with a fee of 112,000, a pension of £5OO per annum, and the rank of Baron." Ihe Emperor Joseph of Austria was still more liberal for less satisfactory service. He was so pleased with the candour of his physician, in telling him he could not live 48 hours, that he gave him a pension of £2,000. Louis XIV. gave his physician and his surgeon 75,000 crowns each, after successfully undergoing a painful and at that time novel operation. By the side of such munifi cence the fees paid by Napoleon I. to the Faculty who at tended Marie Louise in March, 1811, when the Emperor's son was born, seem quite insufficient. Dubois, Corvisart, Bourdier, and Ivan were the professional authorities em ployed, and they had amongst them a remuneration of £4,000, £2,000 being the portion assigned to Dubois. Even more than fee gratefully paid does a humorous physician enjoy an extra fee adroitly drawn from the hand of a reluctant payer. Sir Richard Jebb was once paid three guineas by a nobleman from whom he had a right to ex pect five. Sir Richard dropped the coins on the carpet, when a servant picked them up and restored them—three, and only three. Instead of walking off Sir Richard con tinued !lie search on the carpet. Are all the guineas found ?" asked his lordship, looking round. "There must be two still on the floor," was the answer, "for I have only three." The hint of course was taken, and the right sum put down. The work is full of variety and entertainment, and displays considerable ingenuity and research, besides some skill in the arrangement of the materials collected. The author has rather sought to entertain and gratify his readers than to perplex them with science, or to distress them by tales of disease and suffering. As an instance of the humorous element which pervades his volumes, we may cite some of the names of the chapter—" The Quarrels of Physicians," " The Loves of Physicians," " Make way for the ladies," " The Doctor as a bon-vivant," "Pedagogues turned Doctors," &c. As the best sample of the author's style and manner we subjoin a few extracts from his lively and agreeable pages. NAVAL EXAMINATIONS. Tho necessities of the long war caused the enrolment of numbers of young men in the ranks of tho medical profes sion, whose learning was not their highest recommenda tion to respect. An old navy surgeon, of no small wit, and an infinite capacity for the consumption of strong liquors— wine, brandy, whisky, usquebaugh (anything, so long as it was strong)—gave a graphic description to this writer of his examination on things pertaining to surgery by the Navy Board. " Well," said the narrator, putting down his empty glass, and filling it again with Madeira—" I was shown into the examination-room. Large table, and half a dozen old gentlemen at it. ' Big-wigs, no doubt,' thought I ; and sure as my name is Symonds, they'll pluck me like a pigeon.' " Well, sir, what do you know about the science of your profession ?' asked the stout man in the chair. " More than he does of the practice, I'll be bound,' tittered a little wasp of a dandy—a West End ladies' doctor. " I trembled in my shoes. " Well, sir, continued the stout man, what would you do if a man was brought to you during action with his arms and legs shot off? Now, sir, don't keep the Board wait. ing ! What would you do ? Make haste l' me—' I should pitch him overboard, " By Jove, sir l' I answered—a and thoughtgoonjtuostsosmtriekoinnge else I could be of more service to.' the " y ß p y — assed me e e d v i e r r e y et o l n y e , spenirr_espastsbeudrmsteodiutrelcatulyghvi,ng ; an d The examiners doubtless felt that a young man who could manifest such presence of mind pn such an occasio n , and so well reply to a terrorising.question, might be trusted to act wisely on other e mergencies. Many stories of a similar kind are very old acquaintances of most of my readers. " What"—an exam iner of the same Boa r d i s reported to have said to a candidate—. would you h ave recourse to if, after having ineffectually tried all the ordinary diaphore tics, you wanted to throw your patient, in as s h ort a time as possibje, into a profuse perspiration ?" I should send himi here, sir, to be examined, was the reply. No less happy was the audacity o f t h e medical student so.sultdmyinoguhtdtoo,"yboiltuNnvittlhy a in b q ro u k ir e e n d le t g he r surgeon, t ,, 0 : At: :: a b l e \ I nn , r n n aa e t t Nv y , Set it, sir," was the reply. " Good—very good—you're a very pleasant, witty youngv man ; and doubtless you can t e ll me what muscles of my body I should set in motion if I kicked you, as you deserve to be kicked, for your impertinence." " You would set in motion," responded the youth, with perfect coolness, " the flexors and extensors of my right arm , for I should immediately knock you down." AMATEUR ELEEDING. The practitioners of phlebotomy, and the fees paid for the operation, have differed widely. In the middle of the last century a woman used the lancet with great benefit to her own pocket, if not to her patients, in Marshland, in the county of Norfolk. What her charge was is unknown, probably; however, only a few pence. A distinguished personage of the same period (Lord Radnor) had a great fondness for letting the blood (at the point of an amicable lancet —not a hostile sword) of his friends. But his lord ship, far from accepting a fee, was willing to remunerate those who had the courage to submit to his surgical care. Lord Chesterfield, wanting an additional vote for a coming division in the *llse of Peers, called on Lord Radnor, and .~..., .~ after a littl e introductory conversation, complained of a dis tressing headache. " YOU ought to lose blood then," said Lord Radnor. "Gad—do you indeed think so ? Then, my dear lord, do add to th e serv i co,o f your a d v i ce b y performing the ope. ration. I know you are a most skilful surgeon." Delighted at the compliment, Lord Radnor, in a trice, pulled out his lancet 'case, and opened a vein in his friend's arm. " By-the--by," asked the patient, as his arm was being adroitly bound up, "do you go down to the House to day ?" " I had not intended going," answered the noble opera tor, "not being sufficiently informed on the question which is to be debated; but you, that have considered it, which side will you vote on P." In reply, Lord Chesterfield unfolded his view of the case; and Lord Radnor was so delighted with the reasoning of the man (who had held his surgical powers in such high estimation), that ne forthwith promised to support the wily earl's side in the division " I have shed my blood for the good of my country," said Lord Chesterfield that evening to a party of friends, who, OR hearing the story, were convulsed with laughter. THE LAST .21141VIFEs2o Or TIIE KING OF GAETA. The following is the text of the new note of the Government of King Francis 11., published in the Official Gazette of Gaeta, of which mention has been made by telegraph : " King Francis 11. had no sooner ascended the throne than the Revolution began to conspire and to labour openly against his rights. The peace of Villafranca left unoccupied all the men of enterprise and of ardent minds - in Italy; and the adventurers of all nations who had endeavoured to employ their energies in the war in that country joined them, and they selected the kingdom of the Two Sicilies for their invasion. " The King, our master, never disguised from himself the gravity of the events which have taken place in Sicily. His Majesty knew that the disem barkation of Garibaldi's little band was only the precursor of a more formidable invasion. " Seeing how menacing the situation was, the King hastened to provide for the danger—mili tarily, by concentrating in Sicily an army of 30,000 men; politically, b y prepar i ng the way for liberal institution s by administrative reforms, and by the re-est a bli s h ment of the Constitution of 1848 ; diplomatically, by denouncing to all the Powers of Europe the imminence of danger to them, by proving to them that the cause of the King was common to all monarchies and all Governments, and by proposing to Piedmont, instead of her alliance with the Revolution, an. intimate one with the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, and which, being founded on the resemblance of institutions, might have secured the peace and the future prosperity of Italy. Europe knows how the prudent measures of the King were re ceived. His army in Sicily, after numerous combats, was recalled, in order to save Palermo from ruin. " The gates of the Continent were opened to the bands of Garibaldi. Political liberty, which there was not time fully to establish, only served as st. shield and guarantee to all the conspirators, and. scandalised Europe saw a Minister of his Ma jesty boast of having, during his ministry, or ganised the revolution which was to take from the King his crown. Cabinets of the first order, in reply to the diplomatic communications of the King's Government, stated that his Ma jesty ought to combat the revolution with his own forces, and they held out to him the hope that mili tary advantages obtained by his troops might per haps offer a ground for the assistance and sympa thies of Europe. " That is what the King did from the momentat which he quitted Naples, in order to spare that capital the horrors of war ; and in leaving it he vo luntarily renounced the advantages and resources of all kinds which that rich and populous city can furnish to the man who possesses it. But the world has seen during the last six weeks that the brave troops which treason left to their legitimate sove reign were able, in spite of the most unfavourable circumstances, to defend the town of Capua and the line of the Volturno, to take the offensive with success, and to baffle the combined efforts of the revolution and of Garibaldi. Europe has seen by the bulletins which the generals of that condottiere have published, that there are in the service of the revolution a Hungarian legion, and troops of differ ent nations, as, for example, the English legion which disembarked at Naples last week. She has seen, too, that battalions of Piedmontese bersaglieri hastened to the assistance of Garibaldi in the com bat of the Ist October. "Notwithstanding all this, the - King was pre pared to combat the troops of the Revolution and Garibaldi, and he had every confidence in success. But an imposing reserve which had not been calculated on has arrived to take part in events : the King of Sardinia has crossed the Neapolitan frontier at the head of bis army, and he is now traversing and subjecting by force the fait%ful provinces of the kingdom, after having sent infantry and artillery to Naples by sea. Not withstanding so many treasons and so many mis fortunes, the King, we repeat, was ready to com bat internal revolution and Mazzinianism, the Italian bands of Garibaldi and the adventurers of all nations assembled around his flag; but he was not and could not be prepared in addition to his' enemies, to combat the regular army of Piedmont also. His Majesty could not be prepared for that eventuality, not only on account of the insufficiency of his material forces against so many adversaries, but also—and that was his principal reason—be cause his Majesty believed himself, like all other sovereigns, under the protection of international law. Full of confidence in the promise of the King of Sardinia, he could not expect that this monarch would, at the head of his army, invade the Neapolitan territory, and possess himself of it without any pretext, before any declaration of war, and whilst the respective Ministers were still accredited to the two Courts. " The King's troops will be perhaps crushed by this unjust aggression ; the independence and sovereignty of this country, and its ancient and recognised monarchy will perhaps succumb; but at the same time will fall all the rights, all the laws, and all the principles on which the inde pendence and security of nations repose. The example of the Two Sicilies will teach the world that it is permitted to trample under foot all senti ments of justice and loyalty, to carry revolution into the territory of a friendly sovereign, and to seize in the midst of profound peace his States in violation of right and treaties, in contempt of the most legitimate interests, and in defiance of the public opinion of Europe. (Signed) " CASELLA." TILE FRENCII INTERVENTION AT GAET.A. A letter from Naples, dated October, 31, says Hitherto Capua has been left open on the side leading to Rome, and an opportunity thus given to the garrison to evacuate ; but on Sunday it was intimated to them that if they did not leave the city every avenue would be closed against them and they would be bombarded. The answer was a sortie ; but to-day a serious engagement is ex pected, and in all probability at the moment I am it Death he i r s e ga e t n s her u in a g da i y n his night, i harvest. n t e n Admiral r n bridge over the Garigli ano, and defend his opera tionswerrsiang o left from the sea on that side—that is to say, if he is not again prohibited by the most inexplicable intervention of the French. Before this reaches you you will in all probability have heard the de• tails of what took place at Gaeta last Saturday. I need scarcely remind you that the French Admiral is there with a small squadron, consisting of the Bretagne, which bears his flag, the St. Louis, the Redoutable, and several other smaller vessels ; there are also Austrian, Spanish, and Sardinian Vessels. On Saturday morning a Sardinian officer went on board the French Admiral's ship with a flag of truce, and begged him to withdraw his ships, as it was the intention of the Sardinians to attack. Instead, however, of complying, the answer given was that such a step would not be permitted, and the St. Louis received orders to Put herself between the Sardinians and Gaeta, and signalled the Redoutable to get up her steam and do the the same. The incident is here viewed in various lights ; some regard it as a mere " seem ing," an appearance of concession to the Powers of the North, but others less hopeful regard it as the the last effort of imperial France to embarrass a government whose progress in the way of conquest it has probably regarded with no favourable eye. Of course nothing else could be done than comply with the orders of France. For myself lamby no means disposed to regard this act of i n tervention by France as an amiable deception to conciliate the northern powers, but as a spoke to the wheel, a s an attempt to upset what has been already done, and to throw difficulties in the way of what is yet de sired, and what is desirable for the peace of this unhappy country. If this, however, be true, the Emperor will raise up a host of enemies to hi mse lf, and the republicans to a man will number them selves amongst his determined and active oppo nents. Her Britannic m a j e sty's steam ship Recruit, Clptain Forbes, returned on Sunday morning from Gaeta, where he had gone, as I unders' and, to place himself at the dikposal of Francis 11. The offer was declined for the present. through General Caselna, with whom Captain Forbes had an interview, and by whom he was asked if he desired an audience of the King. This, however, I believe , formed no part o f the instructions Of Captain Forbes. "N