The Sun. — London, England, 1860-05-03 00:00:00

BENSON'S WATCHES, " Perfection of mechanism." —Morning Post. Goldj Silver 2to 50 guineas. Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, descrip tive of every construction of w atch now made, with their prices. Watches sent to all parts of the kingdom free by post, or to India and the Colonies for ss. extra. 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Established 1749. T HE ATRE -R Y AL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, will be performed VICTIMS, Messrs. Buckstone, Farren, Cullenford, ; Mrs. B. White, Miss M. Ternan, Mrs. Griffiths, &c. Followed by the Farce, entitled THE RIFLE, AND HOW TO USE IT. Messrs. Buckstone, Compton, Rogers, Mrs. B. White, An. Wilkins, and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. After' which, a new fairy romance, THE PILGRIM OF LOVE. ROYAL PRINCE S S'S THEATRE.— Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, to commence with MY WIFE'S OUT. Mr. Widdicou►b and Miss L. Keeley. Followed by THE FOOL'S REVENGE. Bertuccio, a Jester, Mr. Phelps. To conclude with the extravaganza of THE SYLPHIDE. Miss C. Leclercq, Miss Louise Keeley, Miss Helen Howard, Miss Hose Leclercq, Mr. Shore, Mr. Saker, and Mr. Frank Matthews, Commence at 7. ADELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. Benj. W.sbster. Engagement of the celebrated American Actress, Miss JUL IA DALY, and Mr. LEIGH MURRAY. THIS EVENING, TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. Mr. Leigh Murray, J. L. Toole, C. Selby, Romer; Miss H. Simms, K. Kelly, Laidlaw. and Mrs. Cbatterley. After which, OUR FEMALE AMERICAN COUSIN. Messrs. Stuart, C. Selby, Billington, Eburne, Miss Julia Daly, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with the Fairy Extravaganza, THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS. King Lachrymose, Mr. J. L. Toole ; Count Pleniposo, Mr. P. Bedford ; Viscount Verysoso, Mr. C. J. •.imith ; Graceful, Miss K. Kelly; Queen Lucidora, Miss Emily Thorne ; Mollmopsa, Mrs. Billington. Box-office open from 10 till 5. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, 3s. ; Pit Stalls, 2s. ; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.- Under the management of Mr. Wm. Brougt. THIS EVENING, a new comic drama entitled NEXT OF KIN. Messrs. Emery, S. Calhaem, Tilbury, &c. ; Mesdames E. Travers and K. Saxon. After which, the burlesque of THE FORTY THIEVES. Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss Clara St. Cane, Miss E.Travers, Miss K. Saxon, 3lrs.Wallis ; Messrs. Emery, Tilbury, &c. ; and a numerous Corps de Ballet. Followed by WHITEBAIT AT GREENWICH. Sir W. Don. To conclude with THE MIDDY ASHORE. Miss Lydia Thompson. Commence at 7. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. Directress, Miss Wyndham. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and Westminster, the Park being open to carriages and toot passengers all hours of the night. THIS EVENING the performances will sommenso with a new and original comedy , entitled A FRIEND IN NEED. P Robinson, C. Young, Ate. After which, A LADY AND GENTLEMAN IN A PE CULIAR PERPLEXING PREDIC AMENT. Mr. Charles Young and Miss Wyndham. Followed by a new burlesque, LUCREZIA BORGIA AT HOME AND ALL ABROAD. Mesdames Wyndham, E. Scott, Cecilia Ranoe, Miss Clara Morgan, and the Corps de Ballet. Reduced Prices —Gallery, 8d ; Pit, is. The Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six; perform ance commences at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. — Proprietor, Mr. WM. BATTY. Manager, Mr. EDWIN HuGams. First Appearanse of Little MONONI and the celebrated Delavanti Troupe, who are engaged at a great expense. Great and unprecedented success of the NEW GRAND MILITARY SPECTACLE, universally pronounced to be the most perfect and magnificent production ever witnessed in this Theatre. The enthusiastic approbation bestowed upon the novel and varied Scenes in the Cirque is the best assurance of the unequalled talent of the eminent Equestrian Artistes who nightly appear. THIS EVENING, and during the Week, To commence with the Great Military Spectacle. in Four Acts, called "Tux HISTORY OF A FLAG," succeeded by an incomparable programme of Scenes in the Arena, sup borted by the most renowned and talented Equestrian and Gymnas tic Artistes in Europe. The magnificent Chandeliers are manufactured expressly by Messrs. Defiles and Son, of Houndsditch. Doors open at half-past 6 o'clock, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. CONCERTS.- CANTERBURY HALL THIS EVENING. C. H. GOIJNOD'S OPERA, FAUST. First Time in this Country. Faust Mr. Henry Herbert. Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard. Siobel Mrs. Anderson. Marguerite Conductor Mr. Jonghmans. And selections from Dinorab, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, ls , Hall, 6d. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), and W. T. Critchfleld. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified. and constitute one of the meet unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICZ, MAT 3, 1860. g THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 63—highest mince noon yesterday. 41—lowest this morning and during the night. 60—this day at noon. ;BAROMETER-30.23; rising. '' Wmn, North-Easterly; fresh, with very fine weather, but cooler than yesterday. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY.—Morning, Oh. Om.—Afternoon, 12h. 14m. To-moititow.-Morning, 12h. 21m.—Afternoon, 12h. 46m. _& \ -- i. au,. ..- ,- °°-4: --- 7 2-1 -' 4, ` - -.r -, , - , ,--....,t ..1. 4 .;,. _. w - F ..., , ,.,• % ....... - t ~.;~, <L THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1860. The country wilt lot so quietly sit down by obstruction or mutilation of the Government Re form Bill, as its Fabian opponents may imagine. At a very large meeting—" A Common Hall"—con vened by the Mayor of Norwich, who took the chair, on Tuesday night, and which was addressed by speak ers of all classes—what we are confident is the gene ral feeling of the country was unmistakably ex pressed. It is, indeed, very like what we have all along declared would be the general opinion. The bill is acknowledged to be small enough, but for that very reason there is great indignation that such a bill should not be cordially accepted. Middle class reformers, and working men alike, resent the unfairness that will accept Reform in no shape. It has come to them in its mildest form—it is a kind of vaccination—(our work in g•class readers will forgive the illustra tion) a vaccination of the electoral constituency with a milder proportion of the vast numbers who work for wages, to protect the present constituency from an " ugly rush" of those numbers which would certainly quite change, and as Whigs and Tories would say, disEgure its aspect. We do not, indeed, regard working-class electors as a disease to be warded off—but our Rulers do—let them un derstand, then, that if they choose to persist in obstruction for the sake of it, they may have cause soon to repent of their futile yet provoking obsti nacy. We commend to the notice of the wearisome speakers, who may have purposed to delay yet longer the second reading of the bill, the admirable remarks of the Mayor of Norwich. Having ad verted to the shabby and contradietorfpretexts that when the people are not demanding Reform in a temper bordering on riot, things are so quiet that Reform cannot be needed; and that when they are burning down old towns and castles to get it, it is undignified to grant it ; he observes : " But what do we see ? A measure is brought by Lord J. RUSSELL before the House of Commons. It is not an extreme measure, but, on the contrary, a very moderate measure—a measure so moderate, that the great majority of the working classes would be excluded even by it, and it becomes a question how ma.iy of them would be able to gain admission by its cr.suses. I cannot conceive that a measure of reform more moderate could be brought forward with any Lope of satisfying any large por tion of the people; but this measure, so moderate and so reasonable, Is treated with contempt in the House of Commons, although the men who wish it not to pass have n ot the courage to move, as a direct negative, that it be thrown out. They have not the courage to cc nue forward and say, "There shall be no reform 4" but all sorts of indirect mea- Whatever may be the fate reserved for the question of the second reading of the Reform Bill this evening in the House of Commons—the Ag gravated Assault Act Amendment Bill of Lord RAYNHAM was carried through as second reading yesterday by a majority of 24 in a house of 199 (including Speaker and Tellers) -85 being against and 109 for the reconsideration of the measure in due course in Committee. The difference of opinion expressed by the twelve members who yesterday afternoon took part in the discussion was some thing remarkable in its way, if regarded merely superficially. Everyone, as a matter of course, in his heart's core, felt profoundly the need there is to guard, as tenderly and effectually as it is at all possible that the law can guard them, those unfor tunate victims, the wives or mistresses of the more brutalised class of the bully-ruffians of the popula tion. As Mr. HENLEY very judiciously intimated, however, it is requisite, first of all—before we pro ceed to more stringent legislative interference in the matter of these domestic brutalities—it is quite clearly and obviously requisite that it should be shown, by returns, that there has been an INCREASE in the number of aggravated cases, since the law had been rendered more rigorous in regard to this particular offence in the distribution of punish ment. Besides which, it would be well to consider likewise, as the right hon. gentleman added, that if anything additional is to be done the case ought, in such instance, to be sent on at once to a jury. Instead of which the noble lord, the promoter of this measure of most mistaken humanity, endeavours thereby to empower magistrates to authorise the summary infliction upon adult males of the galling lash and of all the igno minies of corporal punishment. Against any such precipitate extension of authority to the magis trates Mr. CLIVE objected yesterday afternoon strongly. and energetically, moving in fact the amendment upon which the house eventually di vided—the customaryandproforma amendment that the second reading of the bill should be postponed six months, or, in other words, that it should be forthwith thrown overboard. Although the objec tions of Mr. CLIVE were sympathised in and sup ported by Mr. HENLEY and Mr. SOTHERON EST COURT, by Mr. WALTER, and even by Sir GEORGE LEWIS, her MAJESTY'S Home Secretary: although as many as 85 went into the lobby in support of Mr. CLIVE'S amendment, it will have been seen how by a clear majority of twenty-four that amend ent was negatived, the bill being thereupon read a second time, and thus secured for the next stage of legislative gestation, that of detailed scrutiny in Committee. Gladly, of course, eagerly, and with peculiar solicitude, would we support any amendment act that promised to strengthen the arm of justice in dealing out punishment judiciously sures, by all sorts of insinuations, by all sorts of upon the unmanly ruffians who are guilty of these trifling with the time and patience of Parliament aggravated assaults upon their weaker helpmates, and the people, they seek to tire out the promoters of upon those who should, on the contrary, have looked this moderate measure, and so to get rid of it alto- up with confidence to them for protection. It is gether. I say that, after successive Governments because we conceive that Lord RAYNHAM'S have pledged themselves to Reform, after the bill attempts to do this, to our thinking, people have been allowed year after year to look injudiciously, that we regret the measure was for a measure of Reform, it is something like a not thrown out yesterday, upon the motion for the fraud on the people to attempt thus to set aside en- second reading, as we hardly conceive that, in its gagements so often and so solemnly made, and to present form, it admits of adequate emendation escape the fulfilment of promises by all sorts of in Committee. The difficulty of obtaining a con delays and equivocations. If they believe that this viction in these dreadful cases was urged yesterday little measure would subvert the institutions of the by Mr. WALTER, as of itself a reason sufficient to country, then they are bound in manliness and make the house pause before adopting the proposed honesty to come 'forward, put their sentiments in emendation (?). " There was an instinctive ten the form of a decided negative, and move the entire derness and delicacy in the female mind," the hon. rejection of the bill ; but if, on the other hand, gentleman well insisted, " which would lead a they do not believe that the bill would have this woman of even the humblest rank to effect, they are bound to consider it, and in com- shrink from coming forward to inflict a degrad mittee to adopt such amendment as may make the ing punishment upon her husband, and measure more in harmony with their views. But the object," he added, " would thereby be defeated." their idea is to put off the bill, and to wear out its Mr. WALTER argued, moreover, that although this founders, in the hope that the question will be special objection had often been urged, it never yet, altogether lost sight of. This has been the fatal to this moment, had been answered. It is, in fact, error of politieians who have obstructed Reform in one of the most touching peculiarities noticeable in every age. You know perfectly well that this has the majority of these aggravated assaults upon been their mistake in regard to the measures which women by their husbands or paramours. And it is have come before us in our time. You know also one which renders the treatment of these cases that in the time of our fathers the same mistake fraught with difficulty. Well will it be for the un was made in regard to the American war. By re- happy victims of these assaults if Lord RAYNHAM'S sistance to proper appeals, by forcing upon the no doubt generously intentioned bill do not mate- Americans measures which were hateful to them, rially tend to aggravate the brutalities that hardly they precipitated the collision which cost us a seemed before to admit of aggravation. fearful war, and led to the loss of important terri tory. I was reading only the other day that within two years of the war of independence, WASHINGTON declared that not one thinking man in all North America desired a separation from the mother country ; yet so blind and infatuated were our rulers that they excited a feeling of discontent, and within twelve months of the time when Washington made this peaceful and moderate declaration, he was ap pointed commander-in-chief of the insurgent forces, and the triumphant people of North America de clared that their States were henceforth " a free sovereign, and independent republic." In such sentiments every reasonable man must concur ; and for obstrustives they ought to have the more'weight from the consequences of resistance to Catholic Emancipation, the first Reform Bill, and the Repeal of the Corn-laws ; in all of which cases much less concession, if made earlier, would have satisfied the claimants. At this meeting the Lords' Committee to inquire into the condition, habits, and so forth, of the work ing-man was denounced as an impertinence :it was thought that a committee to inquire into the taxa tion of the working-man, and into the habits and practices of their lordships, would have been much more appropriate. A working-man, Mr. C. J. BUNTING, denied that there was any danger of political combination among working men. There was, he said, just as much difference of opinion among them as among other classes, and they were not to be moved in their opinions by Trades' Unions- Adverting to their being objected to as liable to in timidation and to corruption, he asked " would any one propose to keep back a man's wages because some pickpocket might rob him. Give working men," he added, "the franchise, and the ballot would be their remedy to prevent intimidation. , He did not, as a working man, feel particularly anxious about the passing of the bill, for he was certain that " if the feelings of the country were longer trifled with a much larger measure would be demanded. Still he was for accepting the bill, and if the result did not show that the working classes were worthy of the franchise, he for one would never open his mouth more on the subject." Another working man thought that the proposed extension of suffrage was worth contending for; and another denounced in the strongest terms the language of Lord ROBERT MONTAGU and Lord ROBERT CECIL, in regard to working men, as " grossly insulting. The working class, if they got power, would use it properly." It may be well worth while for the obstructives, who seem bent on delaying and on getting rid of the bill by underhand tactics, to note these things. The country sees through their policy, which, indeed, is transparent enough—and it is both despised and resented. Let this bill be evaded or refused, and they may be assured that they will soon have another to deal with of far more formidable dimensions. On the occasion of the last division on the Church-rate Abolition Bill—its third reading by the small majority of nine, after a majority in its favour of seventy last year—we ventured to predict that the the retrogression of the House would be the advance of Parliamentary Reform. But a few days before the petitions for abolition had so im mensely surpassed the petitions for retention or compensation, that a more striking illustration could hardly have been given of the House and the country being at cross purposes. The demand for Representative Reform, we felt confident, must be strengthened by the retrograde division. We had not at the time thought of another effect which we see by the meeting of the Libera tion Society yesterday has been produced upon an energetic class of persons. The reduced majo rities, it should be observed, were caused, so far as arguments had any influence, by the assertion that the abolition of Church-rates was but one step on the part of Nonconformists to the abolition of a national esta blishment of religion. The Lords, in their Com mittee, examined two leading Dissenters—Dr. FOSTER, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee of the Liberation Society, and Mr. SAMUEL MOR LEY, a well-known and highly-respected City merchant. Their lordships deviated from the ob ject they were appointed to inquire into, and cate chised these gentlemen on the ultimate views of Dissenters. They, of course, answered straight forwardly, though, had they been so inclined, the Chairman could not have ruled that they were bound to answer merely general questions. Nothing, however, was further from their object, than concealment. They wished it to be fully understood, indeed probably thought their lordships very ill-informed for not understanding, that con sistent Dissenters of necessity object to State sup port and patronage of religion. They would not accept it for their own worship, and they know by experience that Churchmen could, as richer than themselves, do very well without it—do better, as they doubtless honestly think. The answers of these two gentlemen were made use of all over the country to alarm all the clergy great and small, and to rouse them to induce the members whom they could influence to be in their places and to vote against the bill. Thus, though the Parliamentary supporters of Abolition have not diminished, the opponents of it have mustered in greater numbers and so dimi nished the majority of the Abolitionists that the Duke of MARLBOROUGH, the Chairman of the Lords' Committee, has already given notice of mov ing its rejection on the second reading. The House of Lords, doubtless, feels very glad that the Com mons have enabled them to throw the odium of its rejection in great part upon the latter. But we observe from the tone of the speakers yesterday, that not only do they appear in no way to be dismayed—they seem rather to be emboldened. They say that notwithstanding the only plea which had any effect against the bill was that it is an attack on the principle of an establishment of re ligion—notwithstanding that the battle was thus avowedly fought on the Establishment principle— they yet had a majority, and had only to complain of absences, and not of any of their supporters turning against them. But they go further—they regard the conduct of their opponents as a challenge to resume the fight on the broad principle of an establishment or no establishment. Our readers will, however, best understand Dissenters if we give them the very words of perhaps their chief layman. Mr. S. MORLEY thus' quoted and commented on the words of Mr. BINNEY, the celebrated preacher, at the Weigh house Chapel, and which were uttered twenty seven years ago. "It is with me," said Mr. BINNEY, " I confess, a matter of deep, serious, reli gious conviction, that the Established Church is a great national evil ; that it is an obstacle to the progress of truth and godliness in the land; that it destroys more souls than it saves; and that, therefore, its end is most devoutly to be wished by every lover of GOD and man." Mr. MORLEY adds —" Right or wrong, this is my belief ; and I should feel not the slightest offence if a Church man were to express himself to me in pre cisely the same words with respect to Dissent. We know very well that we do thus actually differ in opinion, and it would be very foolish for either to be offended because the other expresses it. We are bound each of us to adopt those principles which we conscientiously consider to be true, and we are equally bound, in proportion to our ability, to defend and diffuse them. It is at present universally felt, that the time is at hand when the Establishment must undergo a thorough sifting ; the abstract principle on which it rests be discussed in Parliament; and the absolute dissolution of Church and State sought, and perhaps obtained. Dissent and the Establishment will then die together— die on the same day. The terms and things are relative ; the end of one will be the termina tion of both. The day that witnesses this will be a bright and blessed one. Episcopalians, Presby terians, Independents, Methodists, may remain ; but Churchmen and Dissenters will exist no more. All denominations, placed on a perfect equality, with a thousand sources of jealousy and animosity removed, each possessed of the power of advancing towards and admitting the approaches of the rest —such movements would ultimately be seen ; the spirit of peace, and love, and unity would return ; the real communion of saints' would be practised ; and GOD himself, on the throne of His glory, would rejoice over His once divided and broken, but then happy and harmonising ' household." All the speakers concurred in the view that TREr:SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, -MAY 3, 1860. Church-rate abolition fell in their way but incident ally. Their business as a society was to enlighten the nation on the injustice to half the citizens of Eng land, and on the injury done to religion, by Govern ment interference with it. The Society found the Church-rate question in agitation ; it illustrates very clearly, as they conceive, some of the evils of State Churchism ; they have used it for that pur pose; and we must say that the meeting generally seemed rather glad than the contrary that a topic so useful to them for agitation was likely to be left them yet awhile. Deprive them of a Church-rate grievance and Church-rate contest in every parish, and of their annual bill inthe House of Commons, and they would lose one of their best platforms for at tacking the State Church and making it hateful in the eyes of the people. The society is certainly right, and their opponents wretched generals. It is the latter who have said so loudly there that the State Church principle— some have added, as Lord JOHN RUSSELL used to do the House of Lords and the Crown—are bound up with Church-rates. Be it so ; but as the nuisance must be soon surrendered —as the parishes themselves will get rid of it if Parliament does not help them, and will eventually oompel Parliament to complete their work, it was hardly prudent to put the question in the form which would enable abolitionists to say—" Now, by your own confession, as you have abolished Church-rates, you must, to be consistent, proceed to abolish the Establishment itself." Till this session the battle has been fought as one for the removal of a practical grievance. Churchmen would have done wisely to have kept to that ground. To them, doubtless, the idea of universal voluntaryism appears perfectly absurd ; but they hive to remember that the abolition of every special privilege and monopoly has seemed equally so to those who are interested in maintaining it. We can:all of us remember how Par liamentary Reform, Negro Emancipation, Repeal of the Corn-laws, Free-trade, and even Penny Post age were laughed at as visionary absurdities when first proposed. We cannot doubt that Lord DERBY'S Son was right when he declared that privilege in regard to religion must vanish also—that Religious Equality, a thing essentially incompatible with the state patronage of one creed and sect, is the ruling idea of the day, and that voluntaryism is certain to be the creed of the next generation. We think so —because we know of no special privilege—which —in this free country—has ever survived a steady and persevering.attack. And surely it is a privi lege indeed that all the emoluments and favour of the State should go with the Prayer-book and the Thirty-nine articles. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.—May 2. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) REMOVAL OF THE COURT TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT.—The royal family are expected at Osborne House on the 19th, but it is understood that her Majesty only comes to spend her birthday here, according to annual custom, and that immediately after which she will proceed to Scotland. The Marquis Conyngham has sold his beautiful schooner yacht Cecile, of 190 tons, to the Marquis of Drogheda. NEW ISLE OF WIGHT STEAM PACKET COMPANY. —A new steamboat company has been formed to run boats between Cowes, Southampton, and Ports mouth. The vessels are guaranteed to steam 16 miles an hour. Between 600 and 700 shares have been taken, and the shareholders had a meeting at the Fountain Hotel, Cowes, on Monday last, and elected seven directors, resident in Cowes, New port, and Southampton. COWES AND NEWPORT RAILWAY.—Since the change in the weather great activity has been dis played on the works of this railway, and a great number of men having been put on, the tunnel is being carried under the Newport-road, and a great many bricklayers are employed turning the arches. A shaft has been sunk in Miss Ward's grounds by the side of Mill-hill road, and the excavation of the tunnel is being carried on at both ends and in the ROY AL ITALIAN OPERA. The re-engagement this year of Madame Miolan-Car valho enables the charming opera of " Fra Diavolo," to be again given, and on Tuesday evening it was played to a full house, who received it with evident delight. The cast this season is as follows :—Fra :Diavolo, Signor Gardoni ; Lord Allcash, Signor Ronconi; Lady Allcash, Mdlle. Corbari; Lorenzo, Signor 'Neri-Baraldi ; Matteo, Signor Polonini ; Zerlina, Madame Miolan-Carvalho ; Giacomo, M. Zelger ; and Beppo, Signor Tagliafico. Although differ ing in many respects from Madame Bosio's impersonation of the part, Madame Miolan-Carvalho's conception of Zerlina is most charming. Finished as a vocalist and actress, the character affords the opportunity for dis playing this artist's talents to the utmost advan tage. Vocally considered the air introduced at the com mencement of the second act was Madame Carvalho's great triumph—it was sung in the most brilliant style and with such marvellousfinish, purity of intonation, and splen did execution, that it roused the audience to a pitch of de light which was not satisfied until the last verse had been repeated. Mdlle. Corbari, as Lady Allcash, sang, acted, and looked charmingly. Signor Ronconi, Lord Allcash, is too well known to need comment, and it is only neces sary to state that on Tuesday his impersonation of the pusillanimous nobleman was as droll and humorous as ever. Of the choruses the opening one and that which concludes the opera may be apecially mentioned for the skill with which they were rendered. The pretty characteristic bal let in the last act was exceedingly well danced, and the groupings throughout reflacted the greatest credit upon the stage manager, Mr. A. Harris. CITY OF _LONDON THEATRE. The proprietors of the above theatre may congratulate themselves upon having secured the valuable services of the eminent tragedian, Mr. T. C. King, whose appearance every evening is hailed with the utmost enthusiasm. Last night Bulwer Lytton's " Lady of Lyons" was given, and Mr. King's masterly impersonation of Claude Melnotte deserves great commendation. He possesses all the essen tials of a tragedian•—a good figure, expressive features, and a manly, scholarly style of elocution, together with a thorough acquaintan6e with the mechanism of his art, which peculiarly fit him for this very difficult character. He was eminently successful, and repeatedly received the plaudits of the audience. Miss A. Clifton was a lady-like Pauline, and the other characters were well sustained. The spirited proprietors, Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee, deserve sup port from the public fur giving them an opportunity of en joying such an intellectual treat. THE RIGHT HON. THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCIIEQUER.—The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone was so far recovered from his recent severe cold as to be able to attend at his officill residence in Downing-street yesterday for the transaction of buiness. It is fully hoped that the right hon. gentleman will be enabled to attend in his place in the House of Commons this afternoon. _ _ The Bank of Tennessee, which was stated in the American telegram yesterday to have stopped payment, is a rather extensive establishment. Its capital is £740,000, and it has ten branches in various parts of the State, the head office being at Nashville. Owing to large cotton crops and high prices the South is richer now than at any former period, and an event of this kind was therefore scarcely to be expected. TIE NEW WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.—FURTHER WIDENING OP TILE APPROACILES.—Yesterday notices were issued that her Majesty's Commissioners for the erec tion of the new Westminster-bridge, in the course of the ensuing week, intend to sell three more houses in Bridge street, which will be cleared away for the purpose of fur ther widening the approach to the bridge from the west. The remaining portion of the old bridge is being rapidly removed, a great quantity of the road on the top of the arches having been dug up and carted away. As the bridge is not in a very sound condition, much care and caution are required by the contractor in taking up the dAr is. , TIIE METROPOLITAN SUBTERRANEAN RAILWAY. —Since Monday an additional number of men have been engaged upon the above line, between King's• cross and the intended station near the Great Western Railway ter minus, Paddington, the effect of which has been that the execution of the works has considerably advanced. Be tween that distance more than two-thirds of the line is in process of excavation, and in many parts to a very great depth. Itt Marylebone-road, opposite Marylebone Work house, three shafts have been sunk. At the bottom of two of them a stream of water was met with, and, in con sequence, several men were obliged to be employed in pumping. At King's-cross, where the railway has been commenced, this is going on in a way very satisfactory to the oontraetor. It is nut intended to tunnel, but to dig out the earth, to arch the line over, and to fill up the space between the top of the arch and the surface of the road. This course, it is expected, will enable the contractor to complete the line in a shorter time than if a tunnel were formed, LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams were received at Mr. Reuter's office : BOMBAY AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. The Veetis, with the above mails, arrived at Marseilles at six this morning. Mails leave for London at 10 a.m. PARIS, MAY 3. The Moniteur of this morning publishes a note of M. Thouvenel, dated April 16, proving that the annexation of the neutralised districts of Savoy to France will not change the situation of Switzer land. The Moniteur also announces that the project of law concerning the tariff for wools, cottons, and raw materials was yesterday adopted by the legisla tive body by 249 against 4 votes. The Constitutionnel states that the only condition attached to the general amnesty in Spain is, that parties wishing to avail themselves of it must take the oath of allegiance to Queen Isabella. MAYENCE, MAY 3. The Mainzer Journal announces that the chief command of all Austrian corps d'armee in Italy has been entrusted to Prince Alexander of Hesse. MARSEILLES, MAY 2. Advices from Messina to the 28th ult. state that perfect tranquillity, but general discouragement, prevailed. The number of persons who had been arrested was considerable. The Citadel and prisons were crowded to excess. The transportation of a num ber of individuals was spoken of, Contradictory rumours were in circulation. It was said that a Neapolitan general had been cap tured by the insurgents; that the seat of Govern ment was about to be transferred to Messina ; that the disembarkation of several insurgents had re stored courage to the others ; and that the garrison of Palermo, although numbering nearly 20,000 men, apparently feared to proceed into the interior. MADRID, MAY 2. A decree granting a general amnesty has been published. Count Montemolin and his brother Ferdinand will take their departure from Spain. The Cortes have been convoked for the 25th o: May. THE NEW PORTUGUESE MINISTRY. LISBON, MAY 2. The new Ministry has been formed as follows : President of the Council .. Senor Aguilar. Minister of War Minister of Marine Minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs Viscount da Luz. Senor Vargaz. AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna, dated April 30, says :—ln a letter of the 27th inst., which contained the official account of the circumstances connected with Baron Bruck's death, attention was specially directed to that part of it in which it was the question of the probability of a speedy confrontation of the deceased Minister " with other witnesses and persons accused." Those persons whose education enabled them to form an opinion on the subject understood the official writer to say that Baron Bruck had been at one and the same time a witness and a person accused, but the Wiener Zeitung now informs the public that the compositor committed a blunder when he united the preposition " mit" with the sub stantive " Beschuldigte." In the manuscript the passage run thus : 1 --" It appeared probable that Baron Bruck would soon be confronted with other witnesses and with persons ac cused (mit Beschuldigten)." The inhabitants of this city are now divided into two parties, the one of which believes that the late Minister of Finances was guilty of embezzlement to a very large amount, the other that no heavier charge can justly be made against him than that he was too good natured—too ready to oblige the men with whom he had been on intimate terms while a merchant at Trieste. Although a man of rare energy, Baron Bruck was totally unable to say nay to an importu - nate suitor, and this weakness was taken advantage of by many of his designing and greedy acquain tances and hangers on. Another of his charac teristics was want of due consideration; in fact, the inconsiderateness of the Minister of Finances was almost proverbial. In financial circles it is related that the value of the property left by Baron Bruck does not exceed 600,000 ff. One or two of the local papers yesterday asserted that the analysis of the contents of the stomach of the deceased statesman had already been ; the state ment was incorrect. The chemists commenced their operations this morning, and it is pro bable that the result will be communicated to the Court of Justice to-morrow. By the Medical Gazette of yesterday we learn that Baron Bruck suffered greatly on the 23d inst. from spasms, violent pains in the abdomen, frequent sickness, and great difficulty of respiration. During the greater part of the day the unhappy man gave short though collected replies to the questions put to him by the members of his family. To one of them he even expressed his regret that he had laid violent hands on himself. General von Benedek is doing all in his power to place himself on a friendly footing with his fellow countrymen and to win their confidence. Soon after his arrival at Pesth he called on Baron Gabriel Pronay, the acknowledged leader of the Lutherans, and the day before yesterday he paid a visit to Countess Antonia Batthyany, the widow of the President of the Hungarian Cabinet in 1848. On his first arrival in the Hungarian capital the Com manding General expressed a wish to become per sonally acquainted with all the civil employes with whom he was likely to be brought in contact, and they, as a matter of course, waited on him. To the German employes he said but little, but he spoke in Hungarian, and at some length, to several of the Magyars. In his address to his subordinates General von Benedek said he loved his native country and its inhabitants with all his heart, but that in his capacity of Commanding-General in Hungary he should recognise but two classes of men —the class that was loyal and obedient to the Em peror, and the class that was not. The gallant com mander then said that he would, if necessary, " break the neck" of any of his subordinates who neglected their duties. The Hungarians know that Benedek is an extremely resolute man, and they believe that he will execute to the very letter any orders he may receive from Vienna. While the Government is trying to come to an amicable understanding with the Hungarian nation, the inferior authorities in Hungary are doing all in their power to widen the breach between the Protestants and their Sovereign. M. Zsedenyi is treated like a common malefactor at Caschau. He is allowed 11b. of bread a-day, and meat once a-week. If he can mAnage to make friends with the physician it may perhaps be ordered " for sake of his health," that he shall have meat every second, and breakfast every day ; but at present the spokesman of the Kaosmark Protestants is in some little danger of dying of starvation. A person who has just come from Caschau states that the Roman Catholic bishop and the chapter wished to visit Zsedenyi in prison, but were unable to obtain admission. M. Maday, the clergyman, has not surrendered himself to •the authorities, but he has sent to say that they can " drag" him to prison whenever they please. M. Maday has been deprived of his living by the Impe rial authorities. M. Daroczy, the Calvanist clergy man in Raba, has been sentenced to pay a fine of 50fl. or to be imprisoned for a fortnight. The flock have offered to pay the money for their shepherd, but the latter appears to have made up his mind to suffer imprisonment for conscience sake. THE MAGAZINES. Blackwood's Magazine. With several readable articles there is not one of especial mark in this month's number. The consi deration of " Wellington's Career" is brought to a conclusion, and, though the subject is now well nigh threadbare, it must be allowed that in this instance some interest is imparted to it by the spirited style in which it is written. Without going so far as the writer of these pages in suppos ing the career of "Wellington to be an excellent subject for an epic, " hereafter when ages shall have done their hallowing work, and when the present generation of men shall have become as re mote as the early Greeks or the founders of Rome are to us," it is certain that this present juncture is not the time to depreciate the services or deprecate the character of one who, whatever might have been his peculiarities in private or his prejudices in public life, was a true patriot, a gallant soldier, and a zealots defender of his country. England had no more successful vindicator of her rights than he who so often led her sons to victory, and who finally made them vanquish the conqueror of Europe. Some of the remarks at the conclusion are very well made in a terse and reflective manner. It is said that the warm regard entertained for him by his countrymen rests on sure grounds. "They knew that he was a good and a great man. They were proud of his deeds and his virtues. They loved his personal dignity, his manliness, his simplicity and strength. Their confidence in his judgment and sagacity was pro found, and they were assured that those pre-eminent qua lities were absolutely, without reservation, at the service of the State, unbiassed by the hope of popular applause, or the fear of popular censure. He had thus become a kind of court of appeal of the people from their own impulses. In him, too, they believed they saw an embodiment of the na tional spirit in its best aspect--the spirit which, in its most practical aims, is directed still by the noblest influences. His most remarkable characteristic was the union of com mon sense with lofty feeling—of matter-of-fact and chi valry. He was a man of great actions, but small profes sions—a knighterrant without extravagance ; a man of business whose career was a romance. Recalling the me mory of mighty contests and of great successes, that good grey head, with its halo of former glories, stood amid the later times like the peak of a submerged world. Yet his was not the dignity which lives apart, and calls exclusive ness to its aid. He was by sight, as well as by reputation, the best known man in England." Further on it is stated that " the spontaneous mourning of a people lent solemnity to his funeral splendours, and that while with him seemed to "vanish some of the force and majesty of England," he left to his country a rich inheritance—the in crease of reputation abroad which sprang from his achievements and his policy, and the gain at home which a people derives from noble examples and a great name. Another excellent article is on " The Mill on the Floss," and those who have read the work in question will readily accord their corrobo rating testimony to the general accuracy of the opinions here expressed concerning that remark able production. There is a short epitome of the story here given without trenching on the more thrilling passages, which need no comment, and can only be fairly considered by perusal. One passage in this article is most veritable. It is that which refers to the superior attractions of a softer, weaker character, to enlist our sympathies, rather than a cold, severe one, who is upright. " Those who read the volumes before us with vivid recol lections of Adam Bede (as who will not ?) may notice how much mire strongly our sympathies are roused by imper fect characters. In that story the author designed, we may suppose, that we should be most interested (of the male characters) in Adam. And certainly, if a noble portrait of all that we profess to admire and love in the manly charac ter, yet not too perfect to be human, could have effected this, we found it there. Yet it will scarcely be denied that, to most readers, the heart all along wont with the weaker brother, Seth. That Dinah cannot love him—though we know it to be impossible, and do not wish it—yet strikes the tenderest chord, we have always thought, in the whole story. In the Mill on the Floss' none of the characters approach perfection; the heroine as little as any; yet we will venture to assert that Maggie's passionate and rebel lious weakness has more interest for us, however undeser vedly, than Adam's enduring strength. The true heroic struggles, which are silent and successful, are a spectacle for gods, not men. The indications of weakness and peril must be patent, to gain any deep sympathy from mortal lookers-on." Many will believe that a difficult task has been successfully accomplished in this criticism of a work which demands some skill on the part of those who sit in judgment on its elaborate struc ture. These brilliant volumes will doubtless for some time furnish the theme for essayists and re viewers, and this inaugurative notice in this periodi cal is worthy alike of the work under consideration and of the publication in which it appears. " A Feuilleton" is a most amusing sketch of life abroad. The adventures of Lahure Mathieu are really most entertaining, and his episode of love is endued with some of the attributes of romance, although the first scene is enacted in a place never supposed to be akin to sentimentality—the interior of an omnibus. A very curious paper is that on " Judi cial Puzzles," and the story of Elizabeth Canning does not redound to the credit of the legal profes sion of last century. It is not likely that a girl who had been so ill-treated as she evidently had been would have invented a statement; it is far more probable that the cunning of the gipsies and their confederates proved more than a match for the wisdom of the judges. Art-students will be pleased with the paper on " Munich and its School of Christian Art," which considers the subject in an enlightened manner, and in a fair spirit. While according to Munich Art and the German Christian School the honour which is their due, it is said that the nationality of the country is in jeopardy. " The Art of Durer and' Van Eyck is extinct. In its stead Perugino and Pinturicchio, ravished from the rest of hallowed tombs, are dragged over snowy alps across three three centuries of history, and now come with the skeleton touch of death to mock the ways of Na ture." There are soma admirable remarks in the last article on " Switzerland and French Annexa tions." The subjoined passages are some of those that forcibly illustrate the dangers that menace in consequence of the unfair seizure of Savoy : " As for the stipulation that the neutralised territory is to be held by France, only subject to the conditions under which it was held by Sardinia, and as to the plea that its neutrality was only established in favour of this latter coun try, the stipulation is, about as valuable as the plea is sound. The object of neutralising this territory was to protect not merely Sardinia, but Switzerland; and indirectly not merely these two countries, but all Europe. It was very properly considered as the key to Italy ; and Sardinia, as most nearly interested, was intrusted by Europe with this key. The object was to lock out the very Power into whose hands it has now passed. A man who has determined 'to force a door open, is not likely to content himself with kicking at the panels when he has got the key in his pocket, even though he may have promised not to use it, particularly after having been put to enormous trouble and expense in getting hold of it. One fails to see the object of the sacri fices made to obtain possession of the neutralised territory, if its strategical advantages are never to be made any use of. If it is worth the while of France not merely to engage in a costly war, but to incur the suspicion of Europe, for the sake of these provinces, surely it must be the duty of Europe to resist any such attempt, not only because it is unjust towards the populations whose liberties are being bartered, but because its own interests are at stake." Fraser's Magazine. The present number of Fraser has several excel lent articles. It opens with an essay on " Compro mise," from the pen of G. Whyte Melville, in which there is much sound sense and sober though melan choly truth expressed through the medium of a clear and forcible style. We recommend all who are inclined to reject the compensations offered to them by their surrounding circumstances, to study its philosophy and follow its advice. Shirley contributes a paper on " Certain Aspects of Toleration," which has some excellent remarks, although the part referring to the Scottish ecclesiastical dispute is somewhat tedious. " Gryll Grange" is continued. It is as quaint and classical as ever. The seven weird sisters figure prominently in it, and the conver sations of the chosen band of friends are as heretofore replete with mythology, tradition, quo tation and reference. Sir'J. E. Tennents admira ble work on Ceylon receives a lengthened and care ful notice. It is remarked that the public have now before them the " fifth edition of a book published five months ago, descriptive of a country of which till the appearance of these singularly successful volumes, the ignorance that prevailed was almost proverbial. In the course of a single season Sir Emerson Tennent has made the name of Ceylon as familiar as that of Italy, by the production of a work in which he has embodied, in a form at once ency elo pdie and luminous, the result of years of un wearied and well-directed research, combined with minute and extended personal observation during the period that he administered the Government of the island." AK. H. 8., whose writings are now a regular part of the magazine, contributes a very entertaining essay on the dignity of the Duchess. He attacks the theory which many uphold that a work of solid thought and intrinsic value must ne cessarily be heavy and dull, and censures the respectable prejudice which induces many persons to look on a brilliant and interesting speaker or writer as necessarily superficial and his eloquence less to be relied upon than the ponderous periods of a man greatly his inferior in point of intellect. The writer, who, although sometimes tautological and diffuse in his style is never guilty of dulness, has a good right to express himself strongly upon the matter. It is a very agreeable and well written paper—an encomium which most of his essays de serve more or less. Mr. Theodore Martin's recent translation of Horace receives a favourable criticisit, which concludes by recommending him to attempt an English version of other Roman bards. Mr. Alexander Bain gives us a very able and thought full article on Phrenology and Psychology. It shows great knowledge and careful study ; but it is written in so clear and compre hensible a style, that the somewhat abstruse subject is brought within the reach of the general reader, who is not perplexed with. scientific technicalities or recondite theories. " Wheat and Tares" is continued with spirit ; we fear that Rex will not long remain faithful to his allegiance to the absent Ella. A paper on the late Prize-Fight censures the barbarous and inhuman nature of such proceedings, but remarks that were the certainty of personal injury equally great to every soldier on entering a battle, many red-coated heroes would be less anxious to encounter a cam paign. Moreover, it is observed that a bull-fight, still the national pastime and fashionable amuse ment of Spain, is more cruel, more unjust in its character, since the unfortunate beasts are forced to be the sufferers. Another paper continues the Collier controversy, and brings to a conclusion a very able and interesting number: Bentley's Miscellany. " Ovingdean Grange" is still, of course, the pro minent feature in this magazine. The present in stalment is full of stirring incident, and recounts the rescue of Colonel Gunter from the hands of the Roundheads through the ingenious strategem and energetic assistance of a band of Cavaliers headed. by Lord Wilmot. " The Outremanche Correspon dence" is continued in its accustomed lively strain, and discusses the aspect of art and literature. The indefatigable pen of Mr. Dudley Costello continues the narrative of " Gurney, or Two Fortunes," and Monkshood contributes another of his agreeable papers of Mingle-Mangle. The second part of the Essay on " Stream Sounds" fills the present por tion, and is enriched with numerous quotations and illustrations from the poets. For graver articles we have papers on " The French Embassy in China," and " The Duke of Orleans and the Chancellor Dagnesseau," the latter being founded on the recent historical work of Oscar Devallee. " Oiuda" con cludes his characteristic love story to the reader's great satisfaction, by making his hero and heroine happy. Colburn's New Monthly Magazine. A full and complete description of the fortifica tions of Toulon opens this number, and will pro bably attract the attention of those political readers who look with some suspicion on the proceedings of our Imperial ally. The author takes a view of the history of the town, the arsenal, which is one of the largest in the world, the Bagne, and the fortifica tions, and arrives at the' following conclusion : " From Toulon we have nothing to fear so long as Malta and Gibraltar are kept in a proper state of efficiency ; to disarm Cherbourg we must press on the fortification and harbour works of Dover. Till these are completed, the safety of England against French invasion depends on our Channel fleet, and our close attention to the movements of Louis Napoleon." A paper on Life Assurance has some sensible remarks on the excellence of the system. The author observes that it is very satisfactory to see that the assurance of lives is now generally regarded as one of the most beneficial in stitutions of the age, and justly says that but for the evils attendant on unsound and reckless com petitions, the good would have been unalloyed. He compares the present extensive development of life assurance with its insignificant commence.. ment in the reign of Queen Anne, and says hu morously, in allusion to D r . L e th e b y ' s remar k s on the strain on a city life : " Life Assurance is becoming daily of more vital importance to a large proportion of the people, and it seems as if the in creased facilities for it were a compensation due to mankind, when so many special agencies recog nised by physicians as tending to increase the uncertainty of life are in operation, not to mention revivalism and Dr. Cumming, long sermons, and the activity of unpaid lecturers, the weariness of the British Museum galleries, the Civil Service exa minations, the income-tax, bad cookery, and the speeches of Mr. Bright, as evils of the day tend ing to shorten life." A notice of M. Freytag's work on the " Thirty Years' War," gives some ac count of the miseries endured by the.German:pea santry during that protracted:struggle. Mrs. Bushby continues her story of the " Belles of the Island" and gives us some animated sketches of West In dian life. " A Holiday Tour in Spain" is also ad vancing, and supplies us in this month with a de scription of Granada and its Alhambra, the theme of old romance and Moorish ballad s . " Th e J ews on the Continent" is the title of a paper, which traces the troubled and eventful history of the per secuted Israelites, and recounts some of their suf ferings from the cruelty and intolerance of peoples and their rulers. Sir Nathaniel has this month varied his contribution, and furnished some" Night ingale Notes," not referring in any way to the ac complished lady of that name, but to the veritable songster. He finds, of course, plenty of poetical allusions to Philomela, though, among his nume rous quotations from our poets, we do not find any citations from Keats' celebrated ode. We are pro mised another instalment of this paper. The inte resting story of " East Lynne" is continued, and chronicles the important and unexpected event of Lady Isabel'S marriage with Mr. Carlyle. It is hastily arranged to secure her removal from her miserable home with Lady Mount Severn, but we fear that Captain Levison and Miss Corny will trouble the future. Barbara Hare, notwithstanding her disappointment, does not secure so much of the reader's interest as her fair rival, Lady Isabel. W. C. Kent contributes some impressive verses on " Infinitude," adapted from Schiller ; and there are also papers on General Wilson's Russian Journal and the Policy of Annexation. United Service Magazine. The most interesting article in this number is on the negleeted subject of the "Medical Service." It really is disgraceful that gentlemen belonging to a profession that requires years of study should be set down as inferior to lieutenants and captains. We would ask those who have studied the accounts of the Peninsular war how, in spite of all obstacles, the Iron Duke kept his troops in an efficient state ? The position of the medical officers was lowe r in those days than it is at present, but he caused it to be respected. The examination for the service should be severe, but when a surgeon has passed it he should have the standing which his merit de serves. Steps have been taken in the navy in the right direction, and we trust that justice will be done to the regimental surgeon in future. The article on the " Armstrong and Whitworth Gene" is written in a fair and unbiased style; and to those who have read our perhaps overdrawn accounts of the Crimean campaign, the "Russian Account of the Battle of Balaklava" will be instructive. Macmillan's Magazine. Illacmillan continues with spirit, and shows no flagging of its energies. A very able paper, by the editor, is one of the prominent features in this number. It is entitled " Three Vices of Current Literature," and exhibits some very prevalent faults of style in a strong light. The three chief vices of the present day, in the writer's opinion, are the slipshod or slovenly style, the Trite, and the Blasd. Under the former head he classes imperfect and inverted syntax, mixed and confused metaphor, "stuffing out sentences with certain tags and shreds of phraseology," and he tells us that " all forms of the slipshod are to be referred to deficiency of precision in the conduct of thought." Next he attacks the Trite. Unfortunately few who are in the habit of glancing over periodical and current lite rature can deny his assertion of its übiquity. "We are overrun with the Trite. There is Trite to the right hand, and Trite to the left ; Trite before, and Trite behind. The view is of va s t l eagues ' o f the Trite, inclosing little oases of true literature as far as the eye can reach." He proceeds to give the following description of the enemy : "By the Trite is meant only matter which may be true enough, but which has been so familiarised already that it can benefit neither Jean nor beast t o h ear or read i t any more. Man is a microcosm,' may have been a very re spectable bit of speech once; and, if there is yet any poor creature on the earth to whom it would be news, by all means let it be brought to his door. But does such a crea ture exist among those who are addressed by anything call ing itself literature ? And so with a thousand other such sayings and references—' Extremes meet, sir;' You mustn' t argue against the use of a thing from the abuse of it ;' ' The exception proves the rule;' Talleyrand's remark about the use of speech ; Newton gathering pebbles on the sea shore : and, worst of all, Newton's apple. The next writer or lecturer that brings forward Newton's apple, un l ess w ith very particular accompaniments, ought to be made to swal low it, pips and all, that there may be an end of it. Let the reader think how much of our current writing is but a repeated solution of such phrases and allusions, and let him extend his view from such short speoimens of the Trite, to facts, doctrines, modes of thought, and tissues of fiction, characterised by the same quality, and yet occupying reams of our literature year after year, and he will understand the nature of the grievance. What we aver is that there are numberless writers who are not at all slip-shod, who are correct and careful, who may even be said to write well, but respecting whom, if we consider the substance of what th e y write, the report mus t b e th a t they are drowning us with a deluge of the Trite." The third evil which he denounces is what he terms the Blasé style ; that is the half sceptical, half scornful manner, restricting its votaries "to a petty service in the sarcastic and the small, and mak ing them the enemies of eve r ythi ng w ithi n their range that manifests the height or the depth of the unjaded human spirit." There is much in this article to attract the reader and instruct the professional writer if he choose to profit by its warnings. The Dean of Ely furnivhes a very interesting account of an in dustrial school in Cambridge, and all to whom the welfare of our unaided, uninstructed youth is not a matter of complete indifference, will peruse these annals of its success with great satisfaction. It is much to be regretted that some similar institutions c .snot be established for girls. Cases are continu ally brought before the magistrates, which they themselves say should be sent to reformatories rather than to prisons, and how many must there be who, without being positively trained to vice