The Sun. — London, England, 1859-04-08 00:00:00

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean_ THIS EVENING, will be produced Shakspeare's histories' ,gay of KING HENRY V. King Henry V., Mr. C. Kean ; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean. !THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, if , . J. B. Buckatone. THIS EVENING, will be produced a new Comedy, en: titled EVERYBODY'S FRIEND. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews. • After which, USED UP. To conclude with JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. Commence at 7. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, A CABINET QUESTION. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Billington, Miss Arden. MASKS AND FACES; Triplet, Mr. B. Webster ; Quin, Mr. P. Bedford ; Sir Charles, Mr. C Selby ; Ernest, Mr. Bil lington ; Peg Woffiington, Miss Woolgar ; Mabel, Miss H. Simms. To be followed by THE MILLINER'S HOLIDAY. Mr. J. L. Toole. C. Selby, Billington, Misses Woolgar, Keeley, sand K. Kelly. To conclude with THE BIRTHPLACE OF PODGERS, Nr. J. L. Toole, Mr. C. Selby, Mr. Billing,rton, Miss Kelly. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Office open from 10 to 5 -no charge for booking. No fees to servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough This Evening, will be presented MATRIMONIAL PRO !WECTIISES. To be followed by VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark, and Miss M. Ternan. After which, the new Extravaganza, KENILWORTH ; or Ye Queene, ye Earle, and ye Maydenne Commence at 7 o'clock. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster -road. Lessee and Manager ........ Mr. William Cooke. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with DICK TURPIN'S RIDE TO YORK ; or, The Death of Black Bess. Dick Turpin, Mr. James Holloway. After which, the matchless and uurivalled SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing the great Star Riders and Miss Emily Cooke, Madame Blanche, Madame Bridges, Madlle. Fleurette, and Madame Francisco, being the greatest amount of female equestrian talent ever seen in one night in any theatre. Grotesques—Messrs. Hemming and Thorne. To conclude with a Screaming Farce, in which MiiTY. Jackson will make her sth appearance at this theatre. On Saturday, first time, a new grand Drama, entitled THE MUSKETEERS. The splendid romance of IVANHOE ; or, The Knights Templars, is ill active preparation, and will be revived with extraordinary magnificence. Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, is. ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, la.; Upper Gallery, fid. Private Boxes, £4 4s, £2 2s, and £1 Is. Commence at Seven Carriages at 11. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— Proprietor —C. MORTON. The üblic is most respectfully informed that the FINE ARTSGALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW OPEN DAY AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12 o'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec- Jon of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters and is also devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels he may confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist ing Music Hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently added Ante-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether as regards the architectural beauty of the structures them selves, or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations within, will be found to be wholly without parallel in the Kingdom. The MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at Seven o'clock. In addition to the usual entertainment, the SAITVLET FAMILY, of Amsterdam .Eight in number, whose varied instrumental performances have created so marked a.sensa tion in the principal cities and towns of the Continent, will r)erform every Evening at Nine and Eleven o'clock. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 8. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 73—highest since noon yesterday. 56—lowest this morning and during the night. 62—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29'82. WIND, S.W. ; light, with dull weather, and slight rain. THE SUN. FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1859. The note of preparation is being sounded in every quarter. Some honourable gentlemen have pru dently abstained from troubling their quondam constituencies, and left the ground open for new parties, whose opinions may be better calculated to promote the cause of reform. Others are endea vouring to excuse their votes in favour of the obnoxious resolution, pretending that they did not for a moment suppose that carrying the resolution would have led either to the resignation of Ministers or a dissolution of Parliament. It was merely a gentle hint, to induce them to be more liberal in their offers, and to extend the measure so as to meet the requirements of the age. Lord PALMERSTON, who threw out this tempting bait, still adheres to the view which he put forward during the debate. He says that " Ministers might, instead of putting the country to the expense and inconvenience of a general election, have with drawn their objectionable bill, and have proposed another framed in conformity with the views of the large majority of the House of Com mons." Adding- -"There can be little doubt that such a measure would have passed into law in the present session, and there seems good reason to be lieve that it would have been satisfactory to the country." Would Lord PALMERSTON himself have consented to hold office on what the Times truly de clared to be " a base and servile tenure ?" It might be very well to heap disgrace and dishonour on the heads of those who occupy the position which he would fain see filled by himself and his coadjutors, to make them swallow their leek before the community at large. Nay, more, it might constitute a convenient precedent to which he him self could resort on some future emergency. He would have taken the power of objection away from the most powerful opponents of his policy. But Lord PALMERSTON, and those who have followed in his wake, have wholly ignored the fact that they were fully and unequivocally warned as to the results that must inevitably follow the adoption of the resolution. Sir JOHN PAKINGTON clearly announced the determination of the Go vernment not to submit to the chastisement, or to crouch like a whipped spaniel beneath the lash. After thespeeches of Lord STANLEY, Mr. WHITE SIDE, and Sir JOHN PAKINGTON, it was absurd to sup pose that the course suggested by Lord PALMER STON could under any possible circumstances be followed. It is, therefore puerile to urge it as an apology for a vote the effect whereof was to shelve Reform for at least the present session, if not for a series of years. One remarkable feature in the present instance is, that neither in speech nor in address have any of the supporters of the resolution ventured to make a bidding in opposition to that of the Government. Tey criticise, but they do not emulate or enter into fair competition. They attack " fancy franchises," but they will not say what they will do themselves in the event of succeeding Lord DERBY'S Adminis tration. There is not a single promise, a single suggestion, by which they can be fixed—for eight years reform has been on their lips but not in their hearts. Had they been really sincere they would have at least brought forward some measure and pressed for a decision ; but such a course was aban doned on sundry frivolous pretexts. It was post poned from time to time in order that it might prove a stumbling-block, lapis offension is, in the way of their successors. The discreditable ruse has succeeded for the moment ; but we strongly suspect that it will fall more heavily on the parties by whom it was prepared—that they will tumble into the pitfall which they had prepared for others. What other Government can be formed with any prospect of success ? As to the notion of a strong Ministry, with an absolute majo rity in both Houses, it is simply ridicu lous. Where could it be found ? Lord DERBY hag, as we pointed out on Saturday last, 273 fol lowers, certainly a third more than the former Premiers could command between them, if in every respect pulling together and really desirous of uniting their forces under the same banner. The election must inevitably add to the Ministerial Strength, for those who have the power of bestow. ing " loaves and fishes are generally faioured. It is by no means improbable that-Ministers may have 300 supporters in the new Parliament, and with such a body they could carry everything be- ' fore them. They will not, however, ne glect Reform. They see how deeply the feeling of the country is engaged. They have performed faithfully and honourably the task which they had undertaken, and thus exhibited a strong contrast to the conduct of their predecessors. Nor will they now hold back. The wishes of the community will be expressed on the various hus tings erected in every county, city, and borough throughout the United Kingdom, and these wishes must be duly and properly responded to. But for the accession of Lord DERBY to office, there would be no Reform Bill offered worthy of acceptance. The Ballot is especially objected to by the rival Lords, and that, in the opinion of the People, is the alpha and omega of political amelioration, without which everything else is "worthless and of none effect." The Ballot, and nothing but the Ballot, is the touchstone of all true Reform. Very clever, Lord JOHN, "too clever by half," as some Radical member said of Mr. DISRAELI'S Bill. Your address to the worthy citizens of London is quite worthy of a practised Whig politician. It ought to get you some votes, it is so very clever. There are, however, ten or a dozen days for the good citizens to consider this clever address, and it often turns out that, the more these very clever things are looked into, the less they are liked. The first part of the address—one-third or so—is a sum ming-up of the parliamentary debates against the bill, and an adroit tit-bit of flattery is inserted for the small boroughs,—" they are not neces sarily corrupt or servile." Surely they will re turn RIISSELLITES after the compliment, and after the assurance that the "present Government" will corrupt them if it can. Then comes the personal defence; his resolutions were "the manly and direct course." Whatever the manliness of resolutions which committed the mover to nothing, there can be no question that they were supposed to be the " direct course " to office ; grievously as Sir HUGH CAIRNS sinned against Parliamentary conventionalities by blurt ing out the undoubted fact. On one point the pub lic will easily judge for themselves. Mr. DISRAELI says the Opp Dsition was composed of such diverse, almost hostile parties, that it is worth a dissolution to get a working majority on the Conservative side of the House. Lord JOHN says there was such a general agreement amongst the independent men that it would have been easy to pass a satisfactory Bill! Of course he means with Lord JOHN RUS SELL as Prime Minister. We must confess that Mr. BRIGHT and Mr. BERKELEY were much too compliant for our notions of " independence." But after all, did Lord JOHN RUSSELL expect that they and Lord PALMERSTON would all bow to his Dic tatorship ? It is notorious that if the election does not unite the discordant Liberals, they will be, as they have been all last session, at the mercy of well-led Conservatives. But how wicked to dissolve! "Public arid private business suspended and loss of many useful measures are evils of no common magnitude." There was Lord JOHN'S Bankruptcy Bill, or, was it the dropping of the Church-rate Abolition Bill which calls forth these regrets ? And then, there was no policy to dissolve for—no one knows what the Ministry mean to do in a new Parliament. So much the better ; it is left to the country to issue its instructions to Ministers. What, then, will Lord JOHN do? He will " endeavour to procure the immediate enactment of a sound, moderate, and constitutional measure." Doubtless Lord DERBY and Mr. DISRAELI would profess their unhesitating belief in the same trinity. But what of secret voting ? That, alas, is a tender point. At the last election brother CHARLES helped brother JOHN over the stile. This year he must get over himself as he best can. His colleagues have been sound on the point, and he is the black sheep —how shall he prove himself white? Let us see. Ist. " He will not recur to his votes on the subject." That is wise. " Least said soonest mended." But others may yet recur to those votes. 2dly. "He is in favour of publicity, as most conducive to freedom of thought and action." - Why, yes, we may grant that. It leaves the class who turned his Lordship out of South Devon very free, not only to think for their tenants, but to act too on their fears ; and it leaves many classes, whom we need not again enumerate, very free to act in the way of intimidation and bribery. Or, take it another way—open voting leaves tenants at-will, and others, full freedom of thought, and landlords full freedom of action. The tenant is free to curse his landlord, if he likes, in thought ; the landlord free to act through his tenant, whether his tenant likes it or not. Most of us think, however, that the freedom bestowed on the landlord under open voting is rather what we term " making too free." 3rdly. He must not affront electors, if he can help it, any more than petty boroughs—so he " honours the aim and object of those who support the Ballot :" they are the same as his own ; he " wishes, like them, to check intimidation and corruption,"—that is, when it turns Whig Lords out of counties. We are much obliged to Lord JOHN for all the " honour" he gives us, and his love too if he feels it ; but the pledge to " obey" also, if he wishes for political marriage with a Liberal constituency. Begging, however, his Lordship's pardon, we thank him little for honouring our aims and objects, for he tells us he honours his own in doing so—that is, that we have the honour of like aims with himself. The difference is that we are such fools that we know not what we need ; and that he is so wise as to know what is best for us better, than we ourselves do. It may be so. But we who wear the shoe think we best know where it pinches. But, fourthly, what will he do ? Why, " that is a question which must be decided by the growth and maturity of public opinion," There, electors, you are fairly challenged ! Lord JOHN RUSSELL throws the decision of the Ballot question on your opinion. Tell him your opinion unmistakeably---on its growth and maturity—show how it has grown since the last:elec- tion. Hundreds of thousands all over the kingdom look to constituencies like the city of London, com- paratively free themselves, to liberate those in elec toral bondage. Liberal electors of London do fear- lessly- your duty to the country ! Tell his lordship that he die is cast. Tell him that the greatest Reform of all now is, that of electoral indepertdence ; and tell him that, use what sophistry and what fine phrases he may, the plain fact is, that electoral independence is inseparable from the Ballot. That he must vote for it, or forfeit your votes. For the postponement of more legislative im provements than those involved in the great scheme of a comprehensive measure of Parlia mentary Reform, the country is immediately in debted to a petulant and factious Opposition. It is especially and peculiarly indebted to the noble lord under the glamour of whose wily resolution the motley ranks of that Opposition were—for one single division —brought together. Legal reforms, sanitary reforms, educational reforms, ameliora tions and modifications of every description have ban set aside collectively for another session— solely that that noble lord 'night enjoy the oppor tunity of at least striving tot wrest power from his political antagonists. It is earnestly to be hoped that the citizens of London will bear in mind this undoubted fact and wreak upon the noble lord a fitting vengeance by way of retribution. Now is the very time for the reappearance under happier auspices of the young man from Northampton. The Reformers of London ought to bear in recol lection the contrast presented at this moment by those two Liberal candidates upon the most im portant of all questions in regard to the Reform of Parliament. \lr. RAIKES CURRIE is for the Ballot. Lord JOIIN RUSSELL is resolutely, distinctly obstinately against it! Lord JOHN voted against it upon the division taken upon the hon. member for Bodmin's amendment upon his lordship's amend ment. Lord JOHN further endorsed that vote by his personal and petulant announcement on Mon day evening, to the effect—" If the present minis try should introduce any Reform Bill containing clauses introducing the Ballot, I shall feel it my duty to vote against it." Nothing could be more explicit, more definite, more precise than the avowal again and again reiterated by the noble lord, that he will not consent to the admission into any Re form Bill of the most essential of all reforms—the Ballot. In this he is directly opposed to the ma jority of those clustered about him below the gang way. He is distinctly opposed in this to the hon. member for Birmingham. He is at issue with the right hon. member for Carlisle, with whom, never theless, he concocted that precious amendment in the shape of a double-barrelled resolution—loaded, as it now turns out, with cartridge as blank as the faces of those ranged behind it, now that it has been fired off ! Again, we would remind the Liberal elec tors of the city of London that the Noble Lord is absolutely pledged now to oppose the Ballot—his Lordship having not only gone into the lobby against Mr. IV - vED's amendment upon the Resolu tions, but having, furthermore, since then, declared his intention to vote against it hereafter, should it eventually be introduced as a clause in any future Reform Bill to be laid before Parliament. The constituency that returns Sir JAMES DUKE, as he deserves to be returned with unhesitating cor diality, should bear in mind, at the ensuing general election, not only the course Lord JOHN has recently pursued in regard to the Ballot—not only the course he has plainly announced it to be his intention to pursue, yet further, as its implacable antagonist— but that same constituency should remember, in distinct contrast to this, the manly vote, in favour of the Ballot, given by the Noble Lord's colleague (Sir JAMES DUKE), and the unflinching advocacy of the Ballot by which the Noble Lord's former antagonist (Mr. RAIKES CURRIE) distinguished himself at the time when he competed with him for the representation of the City, upon the platform in Guildhall. The citi- zens of London should consider that Lord JOHN is but a sorry champion for Reform— opposed thus flagrantly to the Ballot, and driving all hope of any reform whatever again out of our reach by means of this further most vexatious post ponement. Better than the Noble Lord, as a fourth M.P. for the City of London, better as a colleague for Sir JAMES DUKE, better a " young man" of "fifty-eight," who is in favour of vote by Ballot, who is in favour of Church Reform, who is in favour of National Education—even Mr. RAIKES CURRIE—the young man from Northampton. " Palmam qui meruit ferat." Lord JOIIN should have his deserts. And these are they. It were a fitting retribution for his late factious manceuv . ring, for his intolerable antagonism of the Ballot for leis perverse postponement for another session of any Reform Bill whatever—it were fitting retribution, we say, if Mr. CURRIE" were preferred by the City of London to the noble lord the author of the late triumphant but futile reso lution. Certainly of that noble lord and of his " noble friend" the member for Tiverton, it might be said with bitterest irony, " Their's was no common party race Jostling by dark intrigue for place." It was so un-common in. its way that it was literally one which, as the Prime Minister observed on Monday, in the House of Lords, " we only not unprecedented, because the noble lord the member for the City of London had himself furnished a precedent for it !" The natural retribution for this should be, that the noble lord should at this next general election cease to be—member for the City of London. JUVENILE BALL AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE. Her Majesty the Queen gave a juvenile ball yesterday (the birthday of his Royal Highness Prince Leopold) at Buckingham Palace. The juveniles honoured with invitations were between six and 14 years old, and appeared in fancy dresses. The parents accompanying the children were in evening dress. The company began to arrive at half-past eight o'clock, the ball commencing at nine. The invitations amounted to 234. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at the Palace, attended by Lady Susan Melville and Sir George Couper. The Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary, and the Duke of Cambridge also arrived shortly before nine o'clock. The members of the Royal family, upon their arrival, were conducted to the White Drawing Room, where the Queen and Prince Oonsort received their illustrious guests. Her Majesty was accompanied by Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, the Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa, and also by their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Augustus of Saxe-Coburg, Prince Philippe, Prince Augus tus, the Princess Clotilde and Amelia of Saxe-Coburg, the Duke and Duchess of Aumale, and the Prince of Conde. The juvenile visitors and their relatives were conducted to the Picture Gallery, through which her Majesty and the Royal circle passed about nine o'clock to the Banqueting Room, which was prepared for dancing, and.in which was stationed her Majesty's private band. Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Helena and the Princess Louisa wore the costumes of peasants of the Canton of Berne : dress of gros bleu silk, edged with a band of scarlet velvet; the body trimmed with black velvet and steel ornaments. Chemisette and sleeves in white cambric. Black velvet round the throat, with steel ornaments. Black lace mittens. Headdress: hair done in long plaits with red ribbons. A straw hat trimmed with red roses. Their Royal Hignesses Prince Arthur and Prince Leo pold wore'the costumes of the sons of Henry IV. of Eng land : white satin tunic, with a light blue velvet cape, in points, trimmed on the right side with gold braid ; the left with silver braid. The tunic trimmed to correspond. Fleurs-de-lis on the side with silver. One shoe in blue satin, trimmed with silver ; the other white, with gold. White silk hose. Blue velvet bonnet, trimmed with silver, and a gold fringe. Prince Philippe of Saxe-Coburg wore the uniform of a Saxon grenadier of the 18th century. Prince Augustus of Saxe-Coburg, the uniform of an Austrian grenadier of the 18th century. Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg wore the costume of a Hungarian peasant. Princess Amelia of Saxe-Coburg, the costume of a can tiniere, from the opera of " La Fille du Regiment." The Prince of Conde wore the uniform of a sergeant in the Conde Infantry, 1745. Miss Van de Weyer, the costume of a vivandiere of the date of Louis X.V. Miss Maud Sidney Herbert, costume of a marquise of the same date, composed of white moire gothique brocaded, with bouquets of roses. Dancing commenced immediately after the entrance of the Queen and the illustrious party. The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Tuesday next, at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort will leave Buckingham Palace on the 18th inst., according to present arrangements, for 'Windsor Castle, to pass the Easter holidays. His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, attended by Captain du Plat, went yesterday morning to the New Palace, at Westminster. Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Alice and the Prince and Princess Augustus of Saxe-Coburg visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent on Wednesday, at Clarence House, St, James's. PASSENGERS FROM 'INDIA ' AND-AU-8: TRALIA. The following is a list of the passengers by the Peninsularand Oriental ConipanY's steamship Per?, Captain Jamieson, which lett 'Malta at four p.m. on the Ist inst., with the. lieaV3 mails from Bombay and Australia, and is expected atSouthampton on . . Saturday afternoon : - From Sydney.—Capt. Symons; Hon. A. and Mrs. Donaldson, three-children, and servant; Mr. and Mrs. Ritch ; Dr. 'M'Donald, Capi, Wiseman, Mr. G. - Thorne, Mrs. Thorne, - Miss - Thorne, Mr. G. 4, Thorne, jun., three childrdn, and servant ; Mr. A. Watt, Mr. J. Watt, Mr.. A. Davis, and R. Jones, Mr. J. Davis, Mr. J. LewiS, Mr. Pride, and Mr. and Mrs. Johnson ; Lieut. Napier,., Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Urquhart, two children, Miss Urquhart, and ser vant ; Mr. and Mrs. Chisholm, two children, and servant ; Mr., Mrs., and Miss Mack ; Mr. W. Edgar, Mr. Guich, Mr. Webster, Misses Butterworth, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Moses, five children, and two ser vants • Mr. Cousins, Mr. Jami eson , Mr. I'. Seaton, Mr. Bourguignon, Mr. Burnett, General and Mrs. Bishop, •Mr.. and Miss Bishop, three children, and servant ; Mr. Musgrove, and Capt. Birch. From Bombay—Lieut. Malden, Mr. Guille, Mr. M'Neil, Col. O'Brien, Capt. Paul, Mr. Ogilvie, Mr. Coates, wife and infant ; Mr. Macaulay, Capt. Pur chase, and man servant ; Mr. Crawford (chief engi neer, company's service), Rev. R. Watson, Mrs. Watson, two children, and servant ; Mr. and Mrs. Reid, three children, and servant; Captain and Mrs Mitford, Lieut. Gordon's two children and servant. Lieut. F. Wright, Lieut. Harman, Lieut. Strong, Mrs. Chitty and infant, Lieut. R. Boyce, Mrs. Woolley and two children, Captain and Mrs. Vau- Tenau, Mr. and Mrs. Ranking, Dr. Sandwith, Lieut.' Clarke, Colonel and Mrs. Hawkins, two children, and servant; Mrs. Winchester, child, and servant; Lieut. Pope ; Mrs. Willis, three children, and ser vant ; Lieut. Hogg, Master A. Sped, Mr. Chase, Lieut. Strong's native femal e servan t , M r. A. Duff, Mr. and Mrs. Davies, and two children ; Mr. J. M'Cleary, Lieut. M'Adam, Mr. Fleming (chief engineer Company's service), Mr. Cursagee, Mr. Smyth, Mr. Prodigees and servant, Mr. and Mrs. Brooks, Mr. Stiles, Mrs. Nesbitt, four children, and servant; Capt. Graham, Master Wainwright, an Arab pilot, Rev. W. Somerville and servant, Capt. Sir G. Brooke, coxswain, steward, cook, and domes- tic ; Mr. Taylor, seven sick seamen, Mrs. Somer ville and infant ; Private M'Mahon, Mr. Shorman. T I.CLU 244 :1 _elll ) • • MH tt • rg,„- 7 b .an, rto , G, APRIL 8, 1859, LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received a Mr. Reuter's 'office : PARIS, APRIL 8, The ilfoniteun of this day contains the following : —" The ConfeEepce Fof the great powers assembled yesterday to discuss the questions arising out of the execution of the convention organising the union of Moldavia and Wallachia." MARSEILLES, APRIL 7. Advices have .been received from Rome to the sth inst. The Papal Government is preparing an official note relative to the proposed Congress to be ad dressed to the great powers. It is said that Cardinal Antonelli intends to declare in this note, that the French ambassador, . the Duke de Gram mont, had made reservations, opposing the Cardi nal's intervention in the affairs of the Congress. According to advices from Naples to the sth, five of the King?s physicians har e declared his Maj esty's malady to be incurable. Public opinion is in an agitated state, and the higher classes of society are again beginning , to demand constitutional reforms. TURIN, APRIL 7. It is stated by advises from Milan that the fol lowing order of the day has been posted up in the barracks of that town :—" Austrian soldiers ! The Emperor calls you round his banners to beat down for the third time the pride of Piedmont, to expel from their den those fanatics who destroy the tranquillity of Europe. Advance against the enemies who have always fled before you. Re member the victories of 1848 and 1849. Remem ber Novara, where your foes were dispersed and annihilated. Let your watchword be—' Viva il Emperatore ! Our rights for ever.' " The Marquis Massimo d'Azeglio has arrived here (Turin) on his return jou, rnep from Rome. • BERNE, APRIL 6. Austria has sent a reply to the declaration of the Federal Council relative to the neutrality of Swit zerland, and expresses satisfaction at the intention of that country to maintain her rights, and uphold existing treaties. Austria, for her part, will respect most scrupulously neutrality as long as it is observed by Switzerland. TRIESTE, APRIL 7. The Austrial Lloyd steamer arrived here to-day with advices from .Constantinople to the 2d inst. Two steamers with troops on board had left for Varna. The former kapukiaja, Aristarchi, had been ap pointed Governor of Samos. At Smyrna a fanatical agitation prevailed against the Jews, caused by the murder of a Frenchman in the Jewish qUarter. The customs had been farmed out to the banker Missirloglu for 33 millions per year. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. A young lady with a Spanish name—Mdlle. Calderon— appeared last night as Arnim, in the " Sonnambula." We do not know her antecedents or her country; but, judging front her voice, we should suppose her to be a French woman. It is thin, and when strained, as it frequently was, it became somewhat shrill, with a tendency to sharp ness of intonation. She failed, accordingly, in legato pas sages of long, sustained notes ; but was more successful in florid phrases, which the quality of her voice enabled her to execute with considerable neatness. She is a pretty young woman, and looked the part very well ; and her act ing evinced intelligence and feeling; but her performance, taken altogether, was deficient in power. We believe she would be very useful in a secondary line of parts, but she lacks strength to sustain principal characters in a great theatre. In other respects there was nothing remarkable in the performance of the opera. Gardoni appeared in his old and favourite character of Elvino, and the Count Rodolfo was agreeably personated by Debassini. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Augustus of Saxe-Coburg- visited the Exhibition of the French Gallery in Pall-mall yesterday. His Royal High ness paid a visit to the Duke of Cambridge, at his residence in St. James's Palace. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday, at Buckingham Palace. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary visited the Princess Augusta of Saxe-Coburg yesterday. Marshal Narvaez arrived at Turin on the 4th from Milan. A letter from Thayer states that the officers of engineers charged to superintend the fortifications of the coast have received orders to be at their post by the 7th. The Phare de la Loire states that recent frosts at night appear to have done some injury to the vineyards which produce what are called muscadel wines in that department. In the neighbourhood of Orleans, in that of Oleron, and in the department of the Gers, there have also been frosts, but they have not done any injury to the vines. In Languedoc they are stated to have suffered. A letter from Padua states that the students of that university, 1,500 in number, are completely orderly since the removal of the ringleaders, who a short time since caused so much confusion. A smart shock of earthquake was felt at Oran at an early hour in the morning of the 28th ult. The Volkszeitung 6f Berlin, lately prosecuted on account of three political articles which it had published, was acquitted on two, and cd,demned for the third to a fine of 20 thalers. It appealed against that decision, and the public prosecutor did the sania. The Court of Appeal has now decided in faN'eur of the journal, which was acquitted on all three articles. Re&igious communities appear to be increasing rapidly in France. The last number of the Bulletin des Liis contains Imperial decrees which authorise the estab lishment at Grasse (Var) of a new religious body, under the name of Association of the Sisters of Saint Martha ; at Cahors (Lot), of the foundation of an establishment of Sisters of Charity and Christian Instruction ; at Bernard (Charente), of one of the Sisters of Saint Mary of Provi dence ; at Allemans (Dordogne), of ono of the Sisters of Christian Doctrine ; at Loury (Loiret), of one of the Sisters of Providence ; at Conlie (Sarthe), of one of the same order; at Cannes (Var), of one of the Sisters of Our Lady of Grace ; at La Jumellie (Maine-et-Loire), of one of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; and at Tiergeville (Seine-Inferieure), of one of the same order. The merchant shipping of Belgium, according to the Annales du Commerce Exterieur, amounted, on the 31st December, 1858, to 145 vessels, measuring 45,050 tons. In that number were comprised seven steamers, together of 5,771 tons. Among the sailing vessels were four of upwards of 1,000 tons, 19 between 500 and 1,000, and 110 between 100 and 500 ; 83 are of Belgian build, the others having been constructed in the United States, England, Germany, and Holland. The above numbers have varied but little from the corresponding period of 1857. The weather in Paris ha s su dd en l y c h anged, and become so warm that summer appears almost to have set in. Yesterday, in the early part of the afternoon, the heat on the boulevards was quite oppressive, particularly as the generality of persons still retain their heavy clothing. At five o'clock the thermometer marked 22 degrees 5 -10ths Centigrade (72 5-10ths Fahrenheit). THE REV. ALFRED POOLE'S CASE.—The Rev. Alfred Poole, late curate of St. Barnabas, intends appealing to the Judicial Committee of Privy Council against the Archbishop of Canterbury's recent decision, confirming the revocation of his licence by the Bishop of London. DEATH OF A BOY FROM ALLEGED ILL-TREAT MENT.-3tuch consternation was caused in Birkenhead yesterday in consequence of an announcement that a boy named Joseph Marsden, belongino• to the Ref orma t ory hulk, Akbar, bad been flog ge d to death. ' At the inquest, which has been adjourned, it was stated that the boy had been ailing for some time, but that on Wednesday he re ceived a whipping, from which he did not recover. The body exhibited evidence of severe treatment. There is to be a post-mortem examination. _ _ MAILS FOR NORWAY.—The steam-packet com munication between Denmark and Norway having been re established, the mails from the United Kingdom for Norway will be conveyed direct by sea from Denmark to Norway, instead of via Sweden, until further notice. The rate of pistage to be taken on letters addressed to Norway will be Is. 4d. the half ounce, and so on, according to the scale in operation for charginm inland lette rs . Thi s rate comprises both the British and 'foreign postage on the letters to the place of destination, and it may be either paid in advance, or the letters may be forwarded unpaid, at the option of the sender, except, however, as regards registered letters, the postage upon which, as well as the registration fee, must be paid in advance. THE MAILS, &C.—SouninirToN, April 7.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Tagus, Cap tain W. B. Hall, was despatched to-day, with the mail for Vigo, Oporto, and Lisbon, 18 passengers, a full cargo, and £5OO in specie. The screw steamer Athens, which sailed hence on Tue s d a y f or th e C a p e , took £2 , 000 worth of jewellery, and 48 passengers, among whom were his Excel lency Major-General Wynyard and family, Assistant-Com missary -General Willan and family, Assistant-Commissary- General Webb and lady, Lieuf. Carrington,.R.N., Captain Wynyard, Dr. Wernstein, Captain Cobbe, and Mr. J. Palmer, R.N. The Royal mail steamer Tamar, Captain Jellicoe, leaves on Saturday, - with the Brazilian and River Plate mails. MADAME LOLA MONTEZ.—Last evening Madame Lola Montez made her debut as a lecturer before a London audience, at St. James's Hall, the subject being " English and American character " The fair lecturer commenced by treating of the difference between the manners of the Ame ricans and the English, and • then showed how the inhabi tants of the two countries are in the habit of ridiculing each other. She forcibly portrayed the Englishman's horror of spittoons, and descanted upon the gullibility and excita bility of the Americans, individually and nationally, bringing to bear upon this portion of her lecture the Ame rican rejoicings over the momentary success of the Atlantic cable, contrasting the apparent apathy , o f th e E nglish people with what she aptly termed the " galvanic delight" of the Yankees. Lola Montez then gave some excellent illustrations of the speed of everything belonging to our trans-Atlantic cousins, and showed how quickly colossal fortunes are made and lost by them. She spoke of the power of public opinion in America, and of Jonathan's moral courage; and co nc l u d e d b y d raw i ng a v i vid picture of social and fashionable life in America, highly amusing her audience by a general description of the American ladies, of their beauty, and of their amusements. Alto gether we may pronounce the success of Lola Montez last evening as very decided, and augur from it a long con tinuance of her amusing. and instructive lectures: The notoriety which the lady has obtained in the old and new worlds, of course contributed to the interest manifested in the lecture. ERRATCM.—In yesterday's second leader a sen tence should have read—" The Whigs, for their own pur pose, created (not crushed) in 1832 a host of petty landlord boroughs, of which events have made them a little ashamed, although, in heart, they still cling to them quit e a s muc h as towns do," FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY. The Conference was opened to-day at one o'clock, at the Hotel of Foreign Affairs. Its attention will be directed to the question of the election of Colonel Couza by both of the Principalities. In this first sitting, M. Musurus, the Ottoman Plenipotentiary, it is supposed, will set forth the reasons which have induced the Sultan to submit this question to the Conference. It is thought that the discussion will take place to-morrow, and that the protocol will be signed on Saturday. The French consular agents in the Selavonia provinces of the Ottoman empire paint in gloomy colours the agitation which goes on increasing in Bulgaria, Bosnia, and the Herze govina. Fresh outbreaks are represented as being imminent. The Turkish governors demand rein forcements of troops, but the Porte 'cannot send them. The naval division under the command of Admiral Jehenne, composed of the screw ships of the line Donawerth, Alexandre, and Arcole, anchored in Brest roads yesterday, coming from Cherbourg on their way to Toulon. BOURSE, April '7.—The market has been very dull, and prices heavy. Many speculators have been rather alarmed by a threat of the parquet of agents de change to suppress entirely the coulisse, or jobbers. Threes, after having been done at 68f. 20e., declined to 68f. 10c. ; Mobilier varied from 723 f. 75c. to 720 f.; 'Austian, 542 f. 50c. to 540 f.; Orleans, 1,272:. 50c. to 1,2701.; Lyons, 833 f. 75c. to 832 f. 50c. ; Eastern, 633 f. 75c. to 632 f. 50c. ; Southern 508 f. 75c. to 507 f. 50c.; and Western, 537 f. 50c. to 535 f. The following were the closing quotaticrns Credit Fonder 645 Belgian 41 — Pfedmonfeso (5) 78 50 Roman B7 Austrian — Spanish Threes Home Debt — - RAILWAYS. 41 per Cents. .... 95 60 Do, end month .. 3 per Cents • 68 -- Do. end month 67 95 Bank Shares Credit Mobilier Do. Account Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 920 915 New ditto 795 796 25 Lyons and Mediterra nean B3O 830 New ditto — Geneva — 520 Midi . Southern 503 75 Western 538 75 .. 537 50 Eastern Grand Centi'al • • Sardinian 391 25 390 Austrian Exchange:on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 71c. ; money 25E*. ; three months, paper, 24f, 971 c.; money, 24f. 92ic. THE CONGRESS. The Ost Deutsche 'Post replies as follows to the statement made by the Dresden Journal that the five great powers are in accord on the preliminaries of the Congress :—" Notwithstanding the pains we have taken to ascertain whether the preliminary conditions laid down by Austria had been accepted by the court of the Tuileries, we are not yet able to . enlighten our readers on the subject, as the . .reply from Paris has not yet arrived here. The two mediating powers, who in the first place made use of all-their eloquence to induce Austria to take part iu a Congress, must now exercise their in fluence to lead France to accept the preliminary conditions put forward by Austria." The Telegraphe of Brussels publishes the follow ing article•:—" If we' can believe the organs of the Vienna Cabin et it is both in the in terests ofher dignity and in those of peace that Austria demands that Piedmont shall disarm before the meeting of the Congress. Such is the declaration made by the Ost-DeutsChe Post. We ask ourselves in what the .dignity of Austria could be wounded and peace compromised, if she were herself to give to the repose of Europe the pledge which she exacts from Sardinia. Does she not, on the contrary, make an attack on her own consideration and excite mis- trust by remaining armed before an adversary on whom she has imposed the obligation of laying aside its means of defence? Such a pretension is so exorbitant that it certainly will not be sup ported by any Power. Austria herself well knows that those conditions cannot be accepted, but this she cares little about ; all she wishes for being some pretext for 'causing the failure of the proposed meeting of a Congress. The weak side of Austria is the question of finance. With her formidable armaments she has created a state of things which swallows up more than two millions and a half of francs a day, and` those expenses go on increasing. On entering on the path of negotiations the per spective, in a budgetary point of view, becomes positively frightful —as it shows nothing but ruin and bankruptcy. The Congress cannot meet sooner than three weeks or a month, supposing that the Powers 'agree on the bases, which is still doubtful. The discussions which would come on before that assembly may be prolonged for three months or more, for every one knows the slow pace at Uhich diplomacy proceeds, so that before any conclusion can be come to, either favourable or otherwise, Austria will have, seen from two to three-hundred millions of deficit swallowed up. She is now at the end of her resources, the coffers of the state are empty, she has on her shoulders the weight of an enormous debt which weighs her to the ground, and the loan which she endeavoured to negotiate in London has turned out a failure. In this desperate situation, nothing remains for her but to have recourse to war. It is, therefore, in the excessive financial penury of Austria that we must seek for the secret of her policy. As she would not lend herself :to an honourable arrangement while there was yet time, and being now unable to draw back after having advanced so far, war is the only refuge open to her, and no astonishment need be felt at seeing her every day invent some fresh pre text for impeding the mediatory work of diplomacy." SARDINIA. The Opinione of Turin, of the sth, publishes a circular from ' Count Zileri, major domo of the Duchess of Parma, to the officers of her household, recommending them to dissuade young men be longing to families connected with the Court from proceeding to Piedmont in order to enrol them selves there as volunteers, that being a revolutionary act. The same paper states that two young men of the best families of Parma, viz., Count Sanvitali and Count Contelli, have enrolled themselves as volunteers. ,jhe IndipAdente of Turin also gives a list of volunteers from Tuscany, Sicily, &c., all belonging to great families. The Opinione, of Turin, mentions a rumour to the effect that, the Marquis Massimo d'Azeglio is to be appointed Sardinian Ambassador to the Court of the Tuileries in the place of the Marquis Pes de Villamarina. 13ELO-lUM. The budget of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belgium for 1860 has just been distributed to the representatives. It amounts to 2,595,002 f, being 34,040 f. less than the preceding one. Amongst other things, it proposes an increase of from 6,000 f. to 10,000 f.. in the salary of the consulleneral of the western coast of Africa, and intimates that that increase is scarcely sufficient, seeing that living is not only excessively dear there, but that the con sul's jurisdiction is v er y extensive, comprising all Senegambia, the adjacent islands, and Morocco. An increase of 2,000 f. is also proposed for the con sul-general at Athens, and a like augmentation for the consul at Beyrout. In the Ministry of Marine, various sums are required for repairs to steamers, and among them is one of 150,000 f. for repairing the Diamant, Rubis, and Topaze, which are engaged in carrying on postal communications with England. SPAIN. MADRID, APRIL 6.—The committee of the Chamber of Deputies appointed to examine the charges of peculation brought against M. Esteban Collantes, the ex-minister, has reported that he ought to be impeached. The journals of the 3d, as 9ften happens on a Sunday, contain no news. The President of the Council of Ministers had sent a circular to the governors of provinces directing. them •to take measures for promoting the success of the exhibi- tion of agricultural and manufacturing preductions which is to open on the Ist April, 1862. Intelligence from Leghorn states that several of the young nobles, and particularly Count Cassa nova, nephew of Prince Orsini, left Florence two days before'to enter the Piedmontese army as vo lunteers. A great crowd accompanied them with acclamations, and immediately after, a proclama tion was circulated, expressive of the good wishes and sympathy of the popdation towards these young men. AMERICA. LIVER VOOL, THURSDAY. The steamer North Briton, which left Portland on the 26th ult., has arrived. She brings 63 pas sengers and the Canadian mails. News unimportant. It is stated M. Levasseur, ex-Minister of France to Mexico, who went to Nicaragua nominally in the suite of Belly, really represents the Emperor, his mission being to secure to French citizens the right to employ Asiatic and African apprentices in mining and agriculture. The Mexican legation at Washington had re ceived information contradicting the reports unfa- • vourable to Miramon's government. An application by the American agent at Vera Cruz to land a naval force for the protection of American interests, in the event of the city being stormed by Miramon, has been refused, on the ground that the same per mission would have to be granted to other nations also. The New York Times has discovered an " in trigue for .converting Mexico into a monarchy, with a Bourbon king." The disclosure is made in a letter from a secret agent at Rome to Miramon's confessor. The screw steam-ship City of Washington, Capt. Petrie, from New York on the 26th ultimo, also arrived here shortly .after one eclock this afternoon, bringing the United States mails, 152 passengers and 189,486 -dots in specie. On the 29th the City of Washington picked up the crew (from two boats) of the American ship Grey Oak, from London, which vessel was abandoned the preceding day. The advices of the Washington are the same as those brought by the North Briton via Portland. The New York, .Herald of the 26th says that ex change closed rather lower in consequence of the prospect of large cotton shipments. Bankers were asking 1091 to 1092 for sterling, and 5.121 to 131 for francs. The business done for the City of Wash ington was light. The ship Centurion arrived at New York on the 23d from Glasgow; she hid on board part of the crew of the barque .Dromahair, from Quebec for Sligo, abandoned it sea. Previous to being rescued, five of the crew died of starvation. When the Dromahair was fallen in with, she had been twenty-one days a Wreck. The crew subsisted on half a biscuit a day, and what rainwater they could catch. Five died of starvation; the remainder, seven in number, were taken on board the Cen turion, five of whom were subsequently transferred to the ship Magellan, which was boarded February 24, lat. 45, long. 48. - A Washington telegram says :—" Venezuela has agreed to the payment of American claims arising out of the guano controversy, amounting to 300,000 dols., and thus removing all cause of dispute between the two countries. It is now discovered that the cause of the delay in the ratification of the Cass-Yrissari treaty is that Sir Gore Ouseley, in the course of the negotiation, inserted an article in his treaty requiring England to aid in the expulsion of any British filibusters; whereupon Nicaragua amended ours by, inserting a clause to the same effect; as regards American filibusters, which amenditent Government here refuses to accept, on the ground that the existing laws are sufficient." The last advices from New Orleans were that there was no immediate prospect of relief to the commerce of that port. It would require four months' labour and the expenditure of a hundred thousand dollars, to open the South-west Pass. The New York News says:—" Within one week we have had but five murders, three rapes, eight suicides, 42 burglaries,.l22 ordinary robberies, and not more than 500 assaults and batteries." The bill for,re-opening the African slave trade, under the name Of apprenticeship, was lost in the Louisiana House of Representatives by a vote of 37 to 17. . _ The barque Laurens. seized by the collector of New London, had been decided not to b e a slaver . A New Orleans telegram says : " Th ree criminals, Henrick Hads, Peter Smith, an d J osep h Lindsay, were hung on the 18th, all on one scaffold. They all confessed their , crimes just previous to the exe cution." COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, M AR CH 25, EVENING. Sterling exchange i s i n moderate demand at previous quo tations. Money continues abundant at easy rates. The stock market this morning opened dull and rather lower, but at the close it Was firm at the following quota tions :—lllinois Central Railroad 67 ; ditto Bonds, 90a ; New York C en t ra l R a il roa d, 79 ; Erie Railroad, 1(4; ditto Third M or t gage B on d s , 74; ditto Fourth Mortgage, 551; Virginia Sixes, 97 to 4 ; pacific Mail Company, 78 ; Read ing Railroad, 492. Cotton market continues active and firm at former ra t es . 3liddling,.Orkans, 121 c. Flour, sc. to 10c. per barrel lower for State and Western. Wheat quiet and drooping. Indian corn steady. Mixed Western, 89c. to 90e. Beef steady. Pak lower. New Mess, 18 dols. 12c. ; old, 17 dols. 37c. to 17 dols. 62c. Freights quiet. Cotton taken for Liverpool at 5-32 d. to 3-16 d. NEW ORLEANS, MAR H 25. Cotton firm and dearer. Sales to-day 16,000 bales, at _ to 11i for middling. Sales of the week 63,000 bales. Receipts same time, 33,000 again.st 56,000 last year. Exports of the week, 52,000. Increased receipts at all the southern ports, 815,500 bales. • Messrs. Neill Brothers and Co.'s telegrams from New Orleans report that the receipts of the week ending on the evening of the 25th were only 31,000 bales. Middling quoted at 12e., and freights, id. At Mobile middling has advanced to 12e. All the cotton markets closed with an upward tendency. The weather at the south had improved. LITERATURE. The Queens of Scotland. By Agnes Strickland. Vol. VIII. Blackwood and Sons. Herewith terminates Miss Agnes Strickland's superb and protracted series of royal biographies. It is a noble design, nobly executed. Upon its completion we would here very earnestly proffer its author our most cordial felicitations. From its Commencement to its conclusion we have watched its progress with unflagging interest. We have noted, in its instance, the perpetual evidences of the conscientious devotion to one end, and that a very noble one, of the energies of a mind rarely gifted—a mind unwarped, as far as we can judge, by a single prejudice, resolute in research, genial in imagination —an intellect at once poetic and antiquarian. Sixteen noble volumes have now been contributed by Miss Agnes Strickland to our national historical library. Those volumes are now permanently, established upon the bookshelves ot the United Kingdom as classic as authoritative. They help to throw a broad and vivid flood of light upon the annals writ in bolder characters by the hands of men like Hume, and Lingard, and Mac aulay. It was surely the happiest notion in its way —that of penning the memoirs of the Queens of England, and of the Queens of Scotland, and of the English Princesses connected with the Royal succession of these islands ! That notion was hap pily conceived, moreover, by the very woman in every essential respect qualified for the production of the proposed biographies. And the idea was appropriately formed by her, and has been trium phantly carried into effect by her, during the peace ful reign of one of the greatest, certainly the best beloved, of all our female Sovereigns. When Miss Strickland brought to a close the first—and we cannot, of course, but still designate it the principal —division of the Royal bioraphies, that popularly known and honou re d as "'The Lives of the Queens of England," the authoress gave to her readers a distinct, and at the time a most welcome promise, that she proposed afterwards "to fill up several unavoidable chasms in the history of female British Royalty," by means of a. sequel to be entitled, in its turn, "Lives of the Queens of Scotland and. English Princesses connected with the Royal Succession of Great Britain." That promise has now, in truth, been most faithfully fulfilled.' Its successful performance is visible in these eight luminous volumes—" the parallel links of the chain here carried down," as our authoress remarks in her closing sentence, " to the death of Queen Anne, and the accession of the reigning dynasty to the throne of the Britannic Empire in the person of George 1., the eldest son of Sophia the Electress of Hanover, on whose posterity the royal succession was settled by Parliament as the only Protestant branch of the royal House of Stuart, now happily . represented by, their august descendant our Sovereign Lady Queen Vic toria." It is one of the most remarkable, as •it is also one of the most distinctly proven facts in our national history that—notwithstanding all the apparently total and abrupt changes.of dynasties— an unbroken chain of relationship connects the whole sequence of our sovereigns, from Wil liam the Conqueror down to her present Most Gracious Majesty Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and of all the depen dencies thereof in Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and Australasia. And ever. further back, say ge nealogists, reign by reign to Alfred the Great, back even to the fabulous days of Arthur Pendragon.. Descending, however, from that momentary glance at the mythic epoch, when, ' according to the nursery rhyme, "Good King Arthur ruled the land, Ruled the land, ruled the land," we find ourselves lauded by this eighth volume at thi last dynastic starting point in this stately march of the English royal succession. Miss Strickland's two concluding biographies being here appropriately —Elizabeth Stuart, the Fist Princess Royal of Great Britain, and Sophia the Ele2tress of Hanover, with whose name, we have of us beconie so very intimately acquainted by means of its perpetual repetition in the Oath of Abjuration. Englishmen after Englishmen, generation after generation, by hundreds and by thou Sands, have -been repeating these familiar words,—" And I do faithfully promise to maintain, support, and defend, to the utmost of my power, th in e nca s e i Succession iead o : f Et &c.,eec t C r: o i r s as w no n df • stands which limited suecess to the h b e y P a r Hanover, and the heirs of her body being Protes tants." Here, charmingly told, is the melancholy history of thq life of that august lady, Speaking of her occupation in , thus bringing her elaborate design to its projected conclusion, our authoress writes thus at the outset of this at once her eighth and her sixteenth volume of royal biographies:— It has been but the development of one purpose unswerv ingly pursued—that of tracing, by means of two series of royal female biographies, the progressive march of civilisa tion and the interior life and domestic history of our coun try. Commencing with the Queens of England at the earliest period when female influence was acknowledged in the government of a court, our first series was brought clown to the reign of the last monarch of the elder line, and the accession of the present dynasty, whose hereditary claims to the succession are derived from the two Princesses whose lives occupy this volume namely, Elizabeth St uart, Princess Royal of Great Britain, afterwards Queen of Bohemia, and Sophia, Electress of Hanover, the grand daughter and great-granddaughter of Mary Stuart; with their lives, this, the second series of our royal biographies, will close. And with them, as we have said, they do close ac cordingly. The following is surely . a graceful glimpse enough, in her early years, of Sophia the Electress : Among all her sisters, Sophia most resembled her ances tress Mary Queen of Scots in elegant height of stature, delicacy of features, limbs, and complexion, and, above all, in the sweet hilarity and charm of happy temper which fascinated and delighted all that approached her. Both her mother and her learned sister, Elizabeth, took infinite pleasure in teaching this gracious and lovely child. She became nearly as skilful with the pencil as her sister Louisa, though her career of after activity prevented her from sharing her artistical renown. Her master was the sane, the kind and faithful Gerard Honthorst, the protege of their grandfather and uncle, James I. and Charles I. Sophia . was the companion of Louisa in her studies of the glorious school of Flemish painting, as she was of her sister Eliza beth in her deep learning, under the care of Descartes. Those who have read the letters of Sophia will remember that she occasionally illustrates natural objects, when men tioned by her, with a sketch by her ever -ready pencil. As a contrast to this, take the following graphic record of the peculiar circumstances of her death in 'her extreme old age, in her garden at Heren hausen Meantime the aged Electress Sophia showed no symp toms of affliction of mind or body. She took her daily walks at Herenhausen among her'trees and flowers. The morning of June Bth, 1714, had been sultry, with fitful claps of thunder; nevertheless Sophia took her usual walk when the sun declined, attended by her granddaughter-in- law, the Princess Caroline. A hasty summer-shower, with the sun still shining, began to fall. Sophia threw the train e w ‘ o ‘ rds sunk d own. The Princess ward, The Princess said, "Is not your Royal Highness of her ouen robe over her head l b f e o l r i e s v h e e shelter, r a , but life h a d fl ed. Her death 1327plieedd for ward, caught w kii Electress,ntg her tooea and da quickly c thh i t y fhe ? ell ' s ' occurred by the sun- dial in the garden at Herenhausen just as the shadow fell on the hour of six. And as equally, if not still more interesting and remarkable—take the commemorative note upon the opposite page, recounting the extraordinary • circumstances attendant upon the demise of her favourite savant, THE GREAT LEIBNITZ : Leibnitz did not long survive his patroness; hcvdied at Hanover, November 14, 1716, in harness, for a pen was in one hand, and a book in the other, and proofs before him. He was seventy years of age, a great suffere r w i t h gout and stone, althou g h a b s t em i ous in his habits. No wonder he suffered, for he has been known to be three weeks without Hefac face was witho f a middle nii ld studious air. About the age of fiftyhe beg an t o thi n k o f stature,leaving h th is in arm in -c p h e a r i s r on ev , e v n ery te g p o le t a o si b n . e o. d. in marriage—made an offer to a lady, who said "she would further consider the matter." "So will I," replied the German Newton; but he never renewed his love-suit to her or any other fair demurrer. He was buried on the esplanade at Hanover — not in consec ra t e d ground, we fear ; —yet that broke no squares with S op hi a ' s philosopher. A monument, in the form of a small Grecian temple, was raised over his remains by command of Caroline when Prin cess of Wales, which bears this simple inscription, " Ossa Leibnitii." He loved money, and left 600,000 crowns, only 20,000 of which were put out at interest ; the rest of his trea sure was found hoarded among chaff and other horse-food in corn-sacks about his storeroom and granary. The house that Leibnitz died in had been purchased for him by his generous old master, Ernest A uguste, who likewise settled a stipend to keep it in repair. It is one of the quaintest and most curious buildings in the ancient part of an old city, remain ing still an object of veneration to the citizens of Hanover, and is pointed out elevated above the noise of the main street, Schmiede Strasse, on which it is nevcrneless situated. The philosopher studied and wrote in a g irret which looks out from under a gible. In the royal library is the chair in which ho was found dead, and before it is the book he held when the last summons came. In 1790 a public monument was raised by the people of Hanover to their sage, surmounted with a portrait bust. It stands on a mound fenced off by a railing on one side of Waterloo place. As appropriate embellishments to the volume there are fac-similes of the autographs of both Sophia and Elizabeth, together with a frontispiece likeness of the former, copied from the portrait presented to Lord Raby, and a vignette of the latter served at table by the grotesque and awkward Taborites. Again, on closing the work, we would offer the ac complished biographer our sincere and cordial felicitations upon a completion of it in every respect so worthy of her "high. argument," and of her own already eminent reputation. DO, Paa Do,