The Sun. — London, England, 1859-01-21 00:00:00

On February 1 will be published. :D A M B E D T, By GEORGE ELIOT. Author of " Scenes of Clerical Life." Three Vols., post Bvo. Price LI lls. 6d., cloth. W. I ;lackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA , C OVI ?NT GARDEN, under the sole Management of Miss L Salsa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison THIS EVENING will be presented an entirely new ' and romantic Opera, by Mr. W. Balfe, entitled SATANEL ; or, THE POWER OF LOVE. Conductor —Mr. Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the new Pantomime of LITTLE 3 Ei ED RIDING HOOD ; or, Harlequin and the Wolf in Granjay's Clothing. Commence at Seven, THE ATRE-RO Y AL, DRURY-LA7TE. Lessee—Mr. E. T. Smith. Tuts EVENING, LATEST FROM NEW YORK. Mr. and Mrs. Rainey Williams. To conclude with the new pantomime, ROBIN 111 )OD ; or, Harlequin Friar Tuck and the Merry Men of Shex !wood Forest. •U OYAL rRINCESS'S THEAT :11E. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTH LING. Dir. and Mrs. C. Kean. After which, a new grand Christmas Pantomime, en titled THE KING OF THE CASTLE; or, Harlequin 1 !rince Diamond and Princess Brighteyes. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARI :ET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING will be presented THE LOVE CI LASE. Messrs. Chippendale, W. Farren, Rogers, Clark; Mis r Amy Sedgwick and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. After which, a new grand Comic Pantomime, en titled UNDINE ; or, Harlequin and the Spirit of the Waters.. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEAT RE. Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE SIS'TER'S SACRIFICE. Messrs. Emery, Barret, and Rogers. M adame Celeste, Mrs. Keeley, and Miss Julia St. George. Aft e r which, will be produced the new Burlesque, r rritten expressly for the Lyceum Company by Robert B. trough, and entitled THE SIEGE OF TROY. h e, princip; l ea 1 cha racters by Mrs. Keeley, Miss Julia St. Geor - Mrs. Wton, /jigs Portman, Miss Talbot, Miss Kate Saxon, Miss E. ]homer, he. ; Mr. Emery, Mr. Charles Young, Mr. Ellerton, :Hr. .f. Rogers, Mr. Barrett, he. ; Miss Rosins Wright, Mass M. Charles, Miss Harriet Dalton, he. To conclude with the new Comic Pantomime, replete with new tricks and mechanical devices, entitled HARLEQUIN TOY HORSE ; or, The Cremorne Fete. Clown, Mr Charles Lauri ; Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Pantaloon, Mr. ' , Henry Lauri ; Columbine, Miss Jenny Lauri. Reduced Prices—Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Stalls, ss. ; Gallery, ls. Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7 every evening. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webs ter. THIS EVENING, THE BIRTHPLACE OF PODCERS. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. C. Selby, Mr. Billington ; Miss Kelly, Mrs. Chatterley. To be followed by TARTUFFE. Torture, Mr. B. W . ebsfer; Orgon, Mr. C, Selby ; Damius, Mrs. Bellington ; Elmi re, Miss Henrietta Simms; Dorine, Mrs. Mellon; Alarcon 1, Miss Keeley. To conclude with the grand Christmas Pantomime, .futitled MOTHER RED CAP ; or. Harlequin Johnny Gilpin 's Ride to Edmonton. Clown. Mr. Croueste ; Harlequin, Mr. Hilde brand; Columbine, Miss Hayman ; Pantaloon, Mr. L upino ; Sprite, Mr. Le Barr. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough. THIS EVENING. THE RULE OF THREE. After which, the new Extravaganza, KENILWORTBI ; or Ye Queene. ye Earle, and ye Maydenne. And THE LITTLE SAVAGE . Commence at 7 o'clock. A L STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE ; Westminster•road. Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke. Great and glorious Success of the gorg,eously-appinted Pan tomime.—First appearance these two years of the celebrated continental equestrians Mr. A. Brydges and Madame Brydges. Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. During the week, the great Eastern Spectacle of THE REVOLT IN INDIA; or, The Fugitives and their Faith ful Steed. _ After which SCENES IN THE CIRCLE by the Star Riders of Europe. Te conclude with the great Operatic and Burlesque Eques trian Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN BARON MUN CHACSEN, AND HIS COMICAL CREAM COB CRUISER. Baron Munchansen, Mr. W. Anson ; Harlequin, Mr. H. Hemmings ; Pantaloon, Herr Cole; Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest; Columbine, Miss Julia Weston. Stage Manager. Mr. R. Phillips. A Morning Performance of the renowned Pantomime every Saturday, at Two o'clock. Carriages for day performances at half-put four, and for night representation at half-past eleven, CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.-- Proprietor --C. MORTON. The public is most respectfully informed that the FINE ARTS GALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW OPEN DAT AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12 o'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec tton 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 MURICAL ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at Seven o'clock. In addition to the usual entertainment, the SAUVLET 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 perform every Evening at Nine an i Eleven o'clock. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, JAN. 21. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 52—highest since noon yesterday. 47—lowest this morning and during the night. 49—this day at noon. BAROMETEN-30'3. WIND, S.W.; moderate, with dull mild weather. THE SUN. FRIDAY. JANUARY 21, 1869. King FERDINAND 11., of Naples, is no more. He died, after a very brief illness, yesterday. In the case of Sovereigns we cannot accept the doc trine—tie inortuus nil nisi bonunt. They are public characters, and historical truth requires that they should be dealt with in strict accordance with veracity, and that no delicate scruples should inter fere with the real facts. The deceased KING will be lamented by few, if any, beyond his own imme diate family and dependents. We are told that even NERo had mourners, and there are few, in- deed, who have not earned the gratitude of some of s their followers. But King FERDINAND was pecu liarly unfortunate, so far as his subjects, and the peoples and rulers of other States, were concerned. He could never do anything with a good grace. Even if intending to make a concession, he spoiled its effect by some sinister addition or useless sarcasm. He had even the hardihood to insult England and France—a matter which led to the suspension of diplomatic relations, and very considerable annoyance to the KING, whose petulant insolence led to such unto ward results. Again, in the case of the English engineers, he disregarded, as he had been accustomed to do with respect to hiS own subjects, every consi deration of justice and equity ; but, thanks to the firmness and determination of Lord MALMESBERY, he had not only to make complete submission and to release the intended victims, but to make pecu niary compensation for the terrible sufferings they had endured. These were some of the matters that soured his disposition and made him wreak his vengeance with stringent severity on those who, being his own subjects, were liable to endure his tender mercies. Whenever he granted a nominal boon there was always something in reserve to convert the appa rent blessing into a real curse. It has been so with POERIO and his companions, who, after having endured ten year,,' incarceration, and that, be it remembered, in Neapolitan dungeons (!) and in chains, were banished from their native land, and may already be sent off if the death of their perse cutor and the accession and marriage of the Crown Prince does not in some degree alleviate their condition. It was certainly as doubtful an attempt at an act of grace and amnesty as was ever perpetrated by a crowned despot. The death of the man will be thought little of in this country, but it may exercise considerable in fluence on the state of Italy and the prospect of European peace. Of all the divisions into which Italy was separated, there was none in which reform was so urgently required a s in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Not only wer e the people ,justly and reasonably discontented at the oppression under w hich they groaned, but they had not the shadow of constitutional protection against the tyranny to which they were exposed on the slightest or most trivial suspicion. The slightest spark would have enkindled a flame which would not only have prod Iced a serious conflagration in Naples and Sicily, but also in the States of the Church, in Lombardo-Venetia, Tuscany, and other petty principalities which ought forthwith to be mediatised. We need not say what would be the consequences. The speeches of the Ist and of the 10th of January supply the response. VICTOR EI4IMANITEL is burning for the opportunity, to obtain which he has sacrificed his child, while NAPOLEON bides his time, watching the suitable occasion, and ready to strike sharply and suddenly whenever the scale of per sonal advantage, either at home or abroad, shall incline the hundredth part of an inch in favour of hostilities. Europe is at this moment placed on a volcano, the lava being composed of earnest enthu siasm and selfish and unscrupulous cunning. The accession of the Crown Prince may make a change. There may be some hope from him,while FERDINAND 11. was utterly beyond even the most sanguine anticipations of improvement. The last drop of PANDORA'S box appeared to have been poured forth in his case, and despair was the lot of his unfortunate subjects. A very brief period will suffice to show the spirit in which the new King intends to govern the beautiful territories to which he has just suc ceeded. A straw thrown up will indicate the direction of the wind ; and a slight demonstration on the side of mercy will gratify the people, and make the King a popular monarch, particu larly if he displays any indications of a resolution to introduce a better regime. It is an important moment for him—the hinge on which his future happiness and that of his subjects rests. Let him strive to win their affections—to bestow on them good institutions—to satisfy every reasop able demand, and he will be loved and respected. Let him follow in the path pursued by his father, and he will be hated and despised. The death of King FERDINAND is one of the points that affords additional security for the peace of Europe, and which will probably prevent any interruption of its tranquillity, should his successor be influenced by wise and prudent counsels. The Hudson's Bay Company have found an un discriminating champion and eulogist in one of the contributors to the current number of the Edin burgh. Several years back, when criticising the writings of the late reverend author of " Woman," " Satan," and the " Omnipresence," Lord (then Mr.) MACAULAY designated the last-mentioned effusion as a specimen of what might be aptly termed " the Turkey carpet style of poetry." Speaking of the political plea here advanced in behalf of the fur traders of North America, we might define it no less aptly, we conceive, as a sample of the true Kidderminster style of argument. The key in which the whole strain of this argument is pitched is unquestionably—low. It is penned by an adept in that peculiar line of advocacy expressed by the familiar axiom inculcating the advice that, if a counsel be in any doubt as to the precise course to be pursued, he should at once resolutely begin by abusing the opposing attorney. Altogether, the construction of this particular " article" in the Whig quarterly bears a very striking similitude to that often expressing "the very age and body of the Times" —and characterising the " form and pressure" of certain of the political lucubrations in the chief among our morning contemporaries. For example —as a direct indication in point—the Edinburgh Reviewer sets out, as his alter nos elsewhere, with an affectation of dealing only in the most unim passioned generalities. The very article which, before its close, rises from the first sad monotone of despondency to a wild shriek of despair as to the probable fate of the Hudson's Bay Company, begins—how upon earth does the reader suppose it begins ? It begins as PLUTARCH'S biographies end —with a contrast and a comparison—a parallel and an antithesis. But such a contrast, such a com parison ! The Reviewer sets forth in his argument with a recognition of what he is pleased to regard as the extraordinary resemblance discernible be tween North Asia and North America! A resem blance in reality about as wonderfil in its way as there might be found between any two men as dissimilar as possible, save in their being. equally free from anything like actual deformity. The likeness consisting entirely in the astounding cir cumstance of their both possessing the usual number of limbs and features—seeing with their eyes, hearing with their ears, walking upon their feet, and so forth. Having exhausted a really senile wonder upon the astonishing facts—that North Asia and North America alike consist of land, alike are washed on either side by the waters of the ocean, alike possess mountains and rivers, together with other geographical peculiarities no less calcu lated to excite our surprise and admiration —as, for instance, that truly amazing circumstance, that, as each extends northwards beyond the boundary lino of the arctic circle, so each, in the most incompre hensible way imaginable, enters the regions of eternal ice, where the cold stands at ever so many degrees below zero of Fahrenheit—the latent advo cate wriggles at last, snakewise, from under all these blooming flowers of rhetoric; is discovered at length, with uplifted crest, in his true character-- hissing, deadly, poisonous ! A single sweep, how ever, of the trenchant brand of Truth and that formidable " head—and front of its offending," might be lopped off as readily as the bloom of a thistle at the switch of a rattan. The whole of this elaborated argument of the Edinburgh Reviewer, indeed, carries with it its own refutation. The writer acknowledges, at the very outset, that the Hudson's Bay Territory—his theme—is, to say the very least of it, jeopardised. According to his own showing, there is no rational hope left of the retention of power by its present rulers. " Canada," he observes (p. 123), "is pressing towards them on the south-east frontier—the United States are approaching them on the south from Minnesota ; while the recent gold discoveries on the Fraser and Thompson rivers have emptied half California into a region unknown and untrodden, till within the last year or two, by any except a few tribes of Indians and the servants of the Hud son's Bay Company." Yet it is this moribund company, now confessedly in the midst of its death agonies, that the Reviewer would see rehabilitated as the heart and soul , and head (a very Caput mortuum) of our North American governments. And by a singular distortion of the straight and obvious rule of justice--deflected by the current of the writer's prejudice, as a rod when steeped in water —the very statesman who has had the courage and' the genius, in the midst of all theseanomtaolieusn, under-' d at this supreme moment of emer g ency, take the solution of the complicated problem of our North American difficulties, is, for so doing, ren dered the object of the bitterest reprehension, and of the most malevolent misrepresentation. There is, happily, in all this one obviously satisfactory consideration; namely, that most agreeable and encouraging reflection, that while the Whig apolo gist and champion of the Hudson's Bay Company IS Spitefully, but, at the same time, most innocu- ously vilifying the man in whom we rejoice to be lieve the nation may at last recognise the inevit able Destroyer of that long effete Monopoly—the death-blow has already been stricken, the doom of the. Company has already been pronounced. As many as ten years ago we wrote in the columns of this journal, on the 26th of June, 1849, in reference to the then recent acquisition of Qua dra by the company, for the period of that very decade which has since then elapsed— "lt was the circumstance of WILLIAM RUFUS preclud ing the possibility of anything like agricultural progress in the largest and most fruitful portions of Hampshire (the New Forest), that imparted to his reign an air of such savage austerity. Yet, what WILLIAM Rufus did to a portion of a new province of his dominion, at a time when that dominion extented no further than beyond the boun dary line of the Grampians and the shores of England, the Hudson's Bay Company have done (and that too in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries I) to half of a vast con tinent like the northern continent of America. What WILLIAM Iturus did for the sake of the manly sport of hunting, the Hudson's Bay Company have been, and are, • doing for the sake of so much profit as traders I Let them draw a warning, in the shape of a deduction, from the annals of their native country ! Let them remember how the second WILLIAM fell a victim to his inordinate passion for sport ! And let them beware lest they may find them selves destroyed by some Parliamentary Sir WALTER TYRRELL I Unless they be absolutely blinded by their avarice as speculators, by their greed of emolument, by their lust of an exorbitant per tentage in profit, they will yield before their barbarous and extortionate proceedings have driven the country to desperation ; they will, in par ticular, shrink from the ridicule attached to those who emu late the fabulous dog dropping the substance to snatch at the shadow. To them, we are satisfied that Vancouver's Island will prove nothing more than a shadow, a shadow reflected, to their avaricious eyes, in the waters of Nootka Sound. Even now, in this early stage of the proceeding, when the ink is scarcely yet dry upon the document which to manifest itself consigns Quadra to their tandeiertedstoamtiinonioonf, theirthe ebffaercbtarisoubsegicsnitening, which must inevitably tend, at last, to undermine the whole superstructure of their sway in North America." What we thus wrote on Tuesday, the 26th of June, 1849, we now distinctly reiterate on Friday, the of January, 1859. And we as k if every s,we penned more than ten years ago, has not, in the interval that has since elapsed, been in every particular justified.? The odium, long ago inspired, in this regard, by the Hudson's Bay Com pany, has been matured, by reason of their ten years' occupancy of Quadra, to the present climax of detestation as to their sway generally upon the North American continent. Vancouver's Island has melted from them like the shadow we predicted. For snatching at that shadow they are now losing the substance of which they had previously so long held possession. And as the disaster foreshadowed by our reference to the fate of the Red King—have not the rulers of the Company at length found themselves brought face to face with a " Parlia mentary Sir WALTER TYRRELL " in the creator of British Columbia ? And as we do confidently hope, Sir EDWARD LYTTON will yet prove himself to be the regenerator of the whole of the vast sweep of our British North American possessions. DEATH OF THE EARL OF CHARLEVILLE. (BY BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) DUBLIN, FRIDAY. Saunders announces the death of the Earl of Charleville at 10 o'clock last night, at his seal Charleville Forest, Tullamore. THE PRINCESS CLOTILDE.—A letter from Turin says Prince Napoleon is charmed with the Princess Clotilde. And well he may be. Imagine a girl with golden-brown hair, and a skin of pearly whiteness, just dawning into womanhood—a form already full and round, a figure of commanding aspect. Then the expression of the Prin cess's face is tenderly intellectual. Occasionally you observe a reposeful and meditative charm ; then again her features suddenly light up, and flash with the quick thoughts of a mind evidently of no ordinary perception and of quick appreciation. We (Wolverhampton Chronicle) regret to state that the venerable Lord Northwick is very ill and is n•t expected to survive many days. His lordship is nearly 90 years of age. The Hon. William Preston, the American Minis ter to Spain, and the Hon. J. Glancy Jones, American Minister to Vienna, are expected to arrive in the United States mail packet Fulton, now due at Cowes. The Duke of Buccleuch and the Earl of Dal keith, M.P., have left Belgrave-square for Dalkeith Palace near Edinburgh, after attending the funeral of the late Lady Montagu. The Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford, who came to Stafford House on Tuesday from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Manchester at Kimbolton Castle, Hunting. donshire, have left town for Lilleshall, Shropshire, where a select circle is about to assemble. The Earl and Countess of Harewood have arrived in town from Harewood House, Yorkshire. Lord and Lady Raglan are still staying with the Earl Beauchamp at Madresfield Court,Worcestershire. The noble lord has caused 40 poor families to be supplied with clothing suitable to the season on his estate at Llandenny, Monmouthshire. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has issued cards for a full-dress Parliamentary dinner on the 2d of February, at his private residence, Grosvenor-gate. Mr. Fitzwilliam Hume, M.P., had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer at his official residence in Downing-street. Mr. J. R. Graves, of Liverpool, had an interview with the Right Hon. J. W. Henley yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has addressed the following circular to the supporters of the Administra tion in the House of Commons : " Downing-street, Jan. 13. " Sir,—l beg leave to inform you that the meeting of Parliament has been fixed for the 3d of February, and as the House of Commons will immediately proceed to the consideration of business of great importance, I earnestly request your attendance at the opening of the session. " I have the honour to remain, Sir, your faithful and obedient servant, "B. DIsItAELI." A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Downing-street. The Ministers present were—the Earl of Derby, the Right lion. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury, Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Major-General Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir John Pakington, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord John Manners. Lady Montague and Miss Leeds have arrived at Wallace's Hotel, St. George's-place, Hyde-park-corner, from Bath. Captain Tottenham and Mrs. Tottenham have arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood, from Tunbridge-wells. DEATH OF LADY GEORGIANA WOLFF.—The village of Isle Brewers and neighbourhood have been thrown into a state of gloom by the sudden demise of Lady Geergiana, the beloved wife of . the Rev. Dr. Wolff, which took place early on Sunday morning last. The deceased lady returned' from a dinner party at about half-past 11 on the previous evening, and retired to rest in her usual state of health, when about two o'clock in the following morning she was seized with a suffocating sensation in the chest and a rattling in the throat, which continued to increase in spite of every effort which her domestics most diligently used to relieve her, until her death, which occurred about half-an-hour after wards, and before her medical attendant could arrive. An inquest was held on Monday, before 'W. W. Munckton, Esq., and a respectable jury, when a verdict of " Died by the visitation of God" was returned. This estimable lady was a daughter of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford, and born at Wolverton, Norfolk, the 19th Feb., 1795 ; she married the Rev. Dr. Wolff in 1823, by whom she leaves one son, Mr. Henry Drummond Wolff, who is now the private secretary of Sir H. Bulwer Lytton.—Sherborne Journal. BANKRUPTCY REFORM.—The Government have abondoned the bill introduced by the Lord Chancellor at the close of last session, and are now preparing an act for the amendment of the Bankrupt Law Consolidation Act, 1819. The draught of this measure is being prepared by Mr. Francis Savage Reilly, who, it will be remembered, was secretary to the Bankruptcy Commission Inquiry of 1854. The committee of the Cabinet who have charge of the measure consists of the Lord Chancellor; Mr. Walpole, Home Secretary; and Mr. Henley, President of the Board of Trade. THE MERSEY.—Yesterday (Thursday) three of the finest vessels ever built on the banks of the Mersey were launched into that river. One was the Sir John Lawrence, a medium clipper, built by Messrs. Thomas Royden and Son, for Messrs. Farnworth and Jardine, of Liverpool. She-is - 1,140 tons builders' measurement, and classed A 1 at Lloyd's for 13 years, and is intended for the Calcutta trade. Messrs. Thomas Vernon and Son launched the Slieve Donard from their yard. This vessel, of 1,450 tons burden, classed A 1 for 12 years, and built for Messrs. William Sinclair and Son, of Belfast, is the largest iron vessel ever built at Liverpool. She is also intended for the East India trade. At Birkenhead Messrs. Clover and Foyle launched from their yard, adjoining the woodside ferry, the Jessie Beazley, of 500 tons, one of the hand somest clippers ever built on the shores of the Mersey. This being the first launch in the locality it was witnessed by a vast crowd of spectators. The Jessie Beazley, which is owned by Mr. James Beazley, of Liverpool, is also in tended for the East India trade. In spit© of a stroll°. 104th-east breeze all the launches were perfectly successful, . LYCEUM THEATRE. Last night a new drama, entitled "A Sister's Sacrifice," was produced here with complete success. It is adapted from a French piece, called " Les Orphellines do Valneige," which is derived in its turn from " Genevieve," a celebrated tale by M. de Lamartine. The heroine is Genevieve herself (Madame Celeste), a sempstress and shopkeeper in the village of Valneige, who by honest industry supports herself and her half-sister Josette (Miss Julia St. George). Such a model of virtue and honesty is Genevieve that notwithstanding a perpetual feud between the mountain and the valley, she, an inhabi tant of the latter, so thoroughly gains the respect of M. Girard (Mr. Barrett), a wealthy farmer in the upper regions, that he consents to her union with his son Cyprien (Mr. Emery). Under these very favourable circumstances hap piness seems absolutely inevitable, when suddenly a diffi culty occurs. The Girard family is composed of good steady people, who are, moreover, strict Catholics, and Genevieve is exactly fitted to their standard ; but Josette has been brought up in the faith of her father, who was her mother's second husband and a Protestant. Genevieve will be welcomed at the mountain farm as the bride of Cyprien, but she must leave the little coquettish heretic down in the valley—an arrange ment which causes such overwhelming grief to poor Jo sette that Genevieve is obliged to remain with her and break offthe very advantageous match with Cyprien Girard, though she well nigh breaks her own heart at the same time. Several months are supposed to elapse before the second act begins, during which Josette dies, and in the course of that period Genevieve has been on business to Paris, whence she has returned to weep over her sister's grave. Surely we have here another chance of happiness ; for though Cyprien is engaged to marry a somewhat unamiable maiden named Catherine (Mrs. Keeley), he is quite pre pared to return to his old love, Geneviiive, now she is re lieved from the sisterly incnnlbrance. But a fresh cloud soon darkens the horizon. Poor erring Josette has died without diminishing the population, an illegitimate off spring immediately supplying the vacancy caused by her decease. To save the honour of the dear dead girl, Genevieve allows her neighbours to believe that she herself is the mother of the child, the revelation of whose existence has caused a village scandal. The scene of the third act is laid down in the mountains outside Girard's farm. Genevieve, wretched and an out cast, wanders thither to die. It is the morning on which Cyprien is to be married to Catherine, for everybody believes the tale of Genevieve's shame, and when she is discovered she is about to be hunted from the place, but Madame Belan conceives that she has kept silence long enough, comes forward, and declares the right of the story. Cyprien is overwhelmed with remorse, Genevieve is free and blame less, but his promise is given to Catherine and he will keep it. Now Catherine shows her generosity ; she sees the strait in which her betrothed is placed, she voluntarily surrenders his hand, and the curtain falls on the union of Cyprien and Genevieve. The simple story is very skilfully worked out, and it has the advantage of remarkably good acting in a considerable number of characters. Genevieve is most touchingly deli neated by Madame Celeste, who, though she has played in far more showy parts, has seldom appeared in any that have gone more thoroughly to the hearts of the audience. Mrs. Keeley is excellent as Catherine, Mr. Emery as Cyprien, Mr. Barrett as the farmer Girard, and Miss Julia St. George as Josette, are all good ; indeed there is a ge neral completeness in the production of the piece. The scenery, dresses, and decorations are exceedingly beautiful and appropriate, and reflected great credit on the management. Amidst the unanimous applause of a house crowded to the ceiling, the piece was given out for repeti tion every evening until further notice. , r r. A.0 . 6111111: 1 ' • , A• 0, • '.;" 4 4,1 1 10111• ••• • ;„• • ' . „,.. ai r e (;„ "/"31Wtom THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1859 MR. BARNUM'S LECTURES. We are requested to publish the following cor. respondence : (Copy.) " Farringdon-street, January 15, 1859. " Szu,—We cannot agree to the terms named by you, nor can we increase our offer. "We will give you our cheque for Twelve Hundred Pounds, for the exclusive right to publish your Lectures in this country, leaving it with you to make such additions as your judgment may suggest. " Awaiting your prompt reply, we are, your obedient servants, ROUTLEDGE, WARNER, and ROUTLEDGE, "P. T. Barnum, Esq., 126, Jermyn-street." (Copy.) " 126, Jermyn-street, St. James's, 17th January, 1859. " GENTLEMEN ~—I have to thank you for your repeated offer to publish the Lectures I am at present delivering. " I hope you will not consider it egotistic on my part, but as I am presumptuous enough to think that my sug gestions on the Art of Money Making' are calculated to have a much larger sale than your offer, liberal as it ii, seems based upon, I have no other alternative than to re spectfully decline it with thanks.—Your obedient servant, "P. T. BARNUM. " Messrs. Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge." THE CONVICT WILHELm.—The sentence of death passed on this anhappy man has been commuted into penal servitude for life—a commutation which seems to have struck him with dismay and apprehension ; and in a letter to his sorrowing wife tells her that he thinks even death would have been sweeter than his living an everlasting separation from her and their children. M. Wilhelm will, we believe, pay her last visit to her hus band this day. She is still residing at the house of the generous Mr. Southern, the Black Bull Inn, Kirkdale ; and had it not been for the very, great kindness of this individual and a few casual contributions from charitable persons, she must inevitably have had pinching want added to her great sorrow. As it is her prospects are dismal indeed. Apparently, but we hope not definitively, aban doned by her relatives, and on the eve of confinement, it is hardly likely that a stranger like Mr. Southern can con tinue to find her a home ; and under these circumstance we have been requested to make an appeal to the generosity of the public on behalf of this deeply unfortunate woman.— Liverpool Mercury THE KING OF AVA.—Mr. Flower, the anatomi cal articulator to the Royal College of Surgeons, has just executed an elaborate model of the human skeleton of the natural size in sycamore wood for the above enlightened potentate, who, being desirous of obtaining a knowledge of the human frame without losing caste by handling the ori ginal bones, requested the late East India Company to aid him in his difficulty. On the recommendation of Mr. Owen, of the British Museum, Mr. Flower was consulted, and at an expense of about £ll5 this artist produced a most faith ful representation of the human skeleton in wood, and exhibited the same a few days since at the College of Sur geons,. whep it elicited the highest commendation from the Court of Examiners. THE DEPTFORD THEATRE.—Yesterday a special session was held at Greenwich for the purpose of consider ing the propriety of granting a license for the Deptford Theatre, which was an old .established place of entertain ment, but the license of which had been lost through the alleged misconduct of a former occupier. The application was made by Mr. Edmund Timothy, supported by Mr. Mansfield, who stated to the bench that this was the fifth application for a license, and that on three previous occa sions he had reason to believe that three out of the four magistrates who attended were favourable to the granting of the license, but inasmuch as the Act of Parliament required that the license should be signed by four of the magistrates acting for the division of the county of Kent, the same was refused. Mr. Mansfield produced testimonials of character of the applicant, signed by several barristers and others who had known him for years. Mr. Timothy, sen., also addressed the bench, calling their attention to the fact that the applicant had kept the house closed since Sep tember last rather than infringe the law, while the Lecture Hall and another place kept open, and if the license was granted the place would be properly conducted. The chair man (Sir T. Wilson) consulted the other magistrates on the bench, and then announced that the application was refused. MIL CRY TERM, 1859.—public examination of the students of the Inns of Court, held at Lincoln's-inn Hall, on the 7th, Bth, and 10th days of January, 1859. The Council of Legal Education have awarded to Mon tague Hughes .Cookson, Esq., student of, Lincoln's-inn, a studentship of fifty guineas per annum, to continue for a period of three years ; James Anstie, Esq., student of Lincoln's-inn, and William Ambrose, Esq., student of Lincoln's-inn, certificates of honour of the first class ; Gateward Coleridge Davis, Esq., student of the Inner Temple, J. W. Hume Williams, Esq., student of the Middle Temple, Frederick Clifford, Esq., student of the Middle Temple, Joseph Fenwick, Esq., student of the Inner Temple, and Eyre Lloyd, Esq., student of the Inner Temple, certificates that they have satisfactorily passed a public examination. MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR BOARD.—At the meeting of the Mersey Dock Board yesterday, a committee, consisting of the docks an d qua y s comm itt ee, w i t h the addi tion of Mr. Bushell, Mr. Hubback, and Mr. Arnold, was appointed to take into consideration the question of an exten sion of the Custom-hours hours, and an increase of the gene ral facilities for the discharge of business on the docks and quays. A motion by Mr. J. Laird, with reference to the prevention of steamers anchoring in the track of the ferry steamers, was referred to one of the sub-committees. SERIOUS CHARGE.—FALMOUTIL—On Monday last, at the instance of the underwriters in London and elsewhere, Captain George Lang, of the barque Mary Werrall, of and from Liverpool, with a general cargo, bound for Belize, was charged by the crew, before the local magistrates, with an attempt to induce them to scuttle the vessel during a heavy gale of wind on the 23d of Decem ber last, in which she sustained damage, and was obliged to bear up and put int o F a l mou th on the 29th following. It appeared by the evidence of the mate and seamen that the master was in a state of intoxication for several days, and, while so intoxicated, had offered one of the seamen two gold watches and a handful of sovereigns to scuttle the barque with the cook's axe, which was of course rejected, and the master was placed in irons by the men for two days. The evidence was deemed by the bench sufficient, to commit for trial at the next county assizes, with leave to bail—the prisoner in hi s p ersona l secur it y for £2OO, aad two others in £7O each. The roaster had no evidence to re but the statement of the crew, who subscribed in the regular way to the protest after arriving at Falmouth, saying no thing of the circumstances which have since come out until they were discharged from the vessel, and no entry what ever was made by the mate in the logbook of the circum stances above described. On recovering from his intoxica tion the master was permitted to resume the command of the vessel. LATEST NEWS. DEATH OF THE KING OF NAPLES. PARIS, THURSDAY. A telegraphic despatch has just arrived from Vienna, announcing the death of the King of Naples, which took place this morning. FRANCE AND SARDINIA. The following has been received in a private letter at Mr. Reuter's office, Friday, January 21:— PARIS, THURSDAY, JAN. 20. "It is asserted that an alliance offensive and defensive has been concluded between France and Sardinia." The following telegrams were received at Mr. Reuter's office last night : TURIN, JAN. 20. Prince Napoleon has held a review of 1,000 vete rans of the Grand Army. The veterans and the people present shouted, Viva it Re ! Viva it Imperatore ! Viva l'alleanza ! Viva Italia ! The King of Naples is seriously ill. MARSEILLES, JAN. 20. According to advices from Corfu, Mr. Gladstone had called together the Deputies to a conference (Reuni deputes), the details of which the journals have published:— All the Deputies demanded the rAsal of the treaties of 1815 and the annexation of the lonian Islands to Greece. They likewise refused, thug* mine the proposed reforms before a solution of the pending question. Five other French brigs have been wrecked near Bona and Tunis between the 11th and 14th inst. TRIESTE, lAN. 20. The steamer, just arrived, brings the following advices : CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 15. The reports of approaching war have caused a panic on the Bourse. The Journal de Constanti- nople publishes a tranquillising article. CORFU, JAN. 17, Sir John Young has summoned the lonian Par liament for the 25th. Mr. Gladstone will •pen it as provisional Lord High Commissioner. Hopes are expressed that of the 40 Deputies 27 will be in favour of reform alone without union with Greece. A Paris correspondent of theMorningPost (second edition), says : " One of your contemporaries is leading the public into error by stating all fears of war have vanished on account of the conciliatory policy of Austria. In the first place the Cabinet of Vienna, under the pressure of fear, has only made broad assertions touching a desire to observe the provi sions of the Treaty of Paris. Those who write peace on the sand, because the tide has for the moment retired, take a very circumscribed view of the possibilities of war. Nothing is changed; the chances for peace or war are just what they were six days ago—six weeks ago—six months ago." The Constitutionnel only a few days ago an nounced that the Austrian Government had given explanations of a satisfactory' character on the Servian question, as they showed respect for the Treaty of Paris. The article of three days ago emanated from the Foreign-office; that of to-day, written, it is affirmed, by a superior employe of the same department, who has been long known in the literary world, calls in question these explanations, and adds that the protests of the European Cabi-, nets are maintained in spite of them. The follow ing is an extract from the article : " Unfortunately, late facts tend to shake the ex planations given at present by Austria of her in tentions. All the Cabinets, judging by her actions, had attributed to her but one intention—that of refusing to keep the engagements imposed by the Treaty of Paris. Hence proceeded all the protests excited by her conduct. France had not alone sent in her protest, but also England and Russia. Even Prussia, 'whose German patriotism has at heart to prove that Germany is united on foreign questions, joined the other Powers in protesting. At this moment all these protests are maintained, even in presence of the late sap of the Vienna Cabinet. And why are they maintained? Because it is the opinion of all the Powers that the present attitude of Austria must not at some future period be interpreted as the consequence of the re-establish ment of order in Servia. There was no cause for isolated intervention, since that step was prohibited by the Treaty of Paris. It must be made clearly known, in order that satisfactiou shall be given to the legitimate and unanimous protests of Europe, that it is not to the re-establishment of order in Servia, but to the cause of right and to the terms of the Treaty of Paris, that must be ascribed the solution of the matter." FRANCE. The election of a deputy for the first circum scription of the department of the Indre, in the room of the late Count de Bryas, took place on Sunday lat, when M. Charlemagne, mayor of Chateauroux, the Government candidate, Was elected by 20,484 votes, to 7,700 given to the Count de Lancosmo-Breves. BOURSE, Jan. 20.—There has been a great uncer tainty to-day in the stock market. Prices have been heavy, but the variations have been unim portant. Threes, after having been done at 69f. 15c., receded to 68f. 90c., and rallied to 69f. sc. ; Mobilier varied from 795 f. to 805 f. ; Austrian, 572 f. 50c. to 575 f. ; Orleans, 1,327 f. 50c. to 1,332 f. 50c. Northern, 945 f. to 947 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 847 f. 50c. to 850 f. ; Southern, 532 f. Mc. to 535 f. The following were the last quotations: 41 per Cents. 97 Do. end month 97 3 per Cents Do, end month 69 20 Bank Shares Credit Mobilier Do. Acceunt Credit Foncier . . 650 Belgian 4i 99 50 Piedmoptese (5) Roman — Austrian B9 Spanish Threes - -- Home Debt 4l -- RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern - New ditto Bl5 .. 815 Lyons and Mediterranean B5O .. 850 New ditto — -- .• -- -- Geneva 675 .. 570 Midi Southern ' 535 .. 537 60 Western 605 —•— Eastern Grand Central Sardinian 415 .. 415 Austrian - Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 11c. ; money, 25f. 10c. ; three months, paper, 25i. no. ; money, 25f. 10c. A Paris letter in the _Emancipation, of Brussels says:—" Notwithstanding the rupture of diplo matic relations between Piedmont and Austria, the reigning families of the' two countries, who are related, have maintained amicable communications. In consequence,' the Princess Clotilde wrote, it is said, with the authority of the King her father, to the Emperor of Austria to announce her approach... ing marriage with the Prince Napsleon ; and it is added that the Emperor returned an affectionate reply of congratulation." The same letter says that the Baronne La Ronciere le Noury, daughter of M. Clement de Ris, a Senator of the first Em pire, is to be lady of honour to the Princess. The Maharajah Dhuleep Sing, well known in English fashionable circles, according to a Vienna letter in the German Journal of Frankfort, has chosen unto himself a bride at Pesth, who is at present with him at Scullin. The marriage, the letter states, is to take place at Galatz, and after the ceremony the young couple will proceed to Accounts from Belgrade, published in the Lloyd of Pesth, announce that the Turkish commissioner has received instructions to inform the provisional Government that the Sultan renews purely and simply the berat of 1830, which assures the here ditary throne of Servia to Prince Milosch and his descendants. A letter from Turin gives some additional details of Prince Napoleon's entry into that city, and adds that though the betrothal is to take place at once, the marriage will be deferred until April or May. AMERICA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAM.) SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. A telegram from Hurst states that the United States mail steamer Fulton from New York passed at 10.30 a.m. She brings the mails of the Bth. LITERATURE. Right or Wrong. By Geraldine Jcwsbury, author of " Constance Herbert," &c., &c. Two vols. Hurst and Blackett. • This story exhibits great ingenuity, and some of the passages are replete with exciting interest ; but it is to be regretted that the authoress did not employ her considerable powers to a better purpose than the construction of a tale which is so objec tionable in many points. Paul is a most dangerous character, far more likely to occasion mischief than one who does not profess to be restrained by any strict rule, or enjoined principle. It may be, unfor tunately true, that many monks have broken their vows, and, while supposed to be leading a life superior in holiness to the rest of the world, have, in reality, sunk far below its level of propriety ; but it does not appear what object is to be gained by the introduction of such a subject into the pages of fiction. To add to the confusion of unpleasant incidents, Marguerite is entrapped into a false marriage at the beginning of the story by a young viscount. This might well have been omitted, as it does not affect the story in any particular, and only renders the notion of her rushing unadvisedly into another secret union more improbable. Apart from the faults alluded to in the spirit of the nar rative, the details are skilfully worked out, and the talent of the authoress is unmistakeably re vealed in the description of Paul's discovery. It is a scene almost dramatic in its startling effect when M. Perrin beheld in the prior of the Church of Antoine that Paul Crequi, whom he was lamenting as dead—and indeed it was to offer up a prayer for the repose of his soul that he had entered the sacred edifice. In vain did Paul affect indifference, and Marguerite simu late indignation at the declarations of Perrin—the secret that had lain hidden during twenty:years was to be concealed no longer. Nothing remained for the man who had set himself up in judgment against his fellow-men, and exercised a rigorous and merciless rule over the errors of others, but to fly from the offended justice of the sacerdotal court, whose deadliest wrath he had incurred. It is some satisfaction to find that the wretched man at last awoke in some degree to the knowledge of his crimes, for a more extraordinary and fatal self deception can hardly be imagined than that which he practised so long. One of the most pleasing persons in the story is old Madame Bobbinet, whose kind nature and genuine simplicity show to great advantage beside the cruel cunning, and wicked deceit and double dealing practised by the principal characters in the work. Those who like stories which display melodramatic effect will be pleased with this one, and those who admire the produc tions which reveal great originality in idea and construction, will appreciate the elaborate novel before us ; but to the thinking reader it will appear that talent might have been better engaged than in its creation—and it is to be hoped that from the same pen we may, on a future occasion, be fur nished with a more desirable work. Memoirs of William Beckford, of Fonthill, author of " Vathek." Two Vols. Skeet. These volumes give us the biography of an in dividual whose wealth rendered him conspicuous, and whose gorgeous romance still preserves his name from oblivion. Whether the events of his life, or his private and per sona l c h arac t er , autho rised such an extended biography, the reader will probably question. Very little of the work is occu pied by the actual memoirs, the greatest portion consisting of descriptions of travels and impressions of foreign lands, and of copious extracts from his conversations with Mr. Cyrus Redding. An account of the pedigree of the family occupies the first part of the work, and the author hassiven a full descrip tion of some of Mr. Beckford's trifling writings at unnecessary length. Had the work been com pressed into one volume it would have been far more creditable to the writer, and more agreeable to the reader. The biographer writes con amore, and would have us believe that every employment which his hero did not condescend to partake of is totally unworthy the notice of rational and refined mortals. The world of politics receives repeated attacks, owing:: to Mr. Beckford's never having taken part in it, which is a pity, considering that we a::e gravely informed that " he was capable of flights or fancy fully equal and more correct than many for which Burke obtained praise," while at the same time "the pilot who weathered the storm" would have suffered a hopeless eclipse had Mr. Beckford deigned to enter the Parliamentary arena : Young William Pitt at that time did not possess half the genius and imaginative power of young Beckford, but was well instructed, more correct in what he acquired, and more discerning. He was observant, pleasing, and polished in his manners; neat of expression, and somewhat vivacious, but not equal to Beckford in spirit, and much i-ll'erior in energy of character. Perhaps, for the welfare of Europe, it is as well that Mr. Beckford had not the chance of forming a Cabinet, as if his energy of character had been much superior to that. of Pitt, our national debt might have been doubled. His father, more am bitious than his son, had entered Parliament, hilt he did not greatly distinguish himself in oratory, " the best orators being cool men, of limited fancy and few ideas." To say the least of it, this is a somewhat novel doctrine, and shows great origi nality on the part of the author, the general im pression being that Chatham, Fox, Burke, and Sheridan, were somewhat excitable by nature, and that the range of their ideas and imaginations was not more circumscribed than usual. The style of the work is quite as original as the opinion; the writer showing a superb indifference to the ordinary rules of grammatical composition. Here is a sample : His fancy got continually into play, set going by some trivial object that came before him. Thus, on seeing an oriental coffer of elaborate workmanship in one of the Hague museums, containing flasks of oriental essenc. , s for perfuming a zenana, and while he scented th em, he could' have persuaded himself that as such essences dissolve en chantments, they may raise them. Here is a milder specimen, where the style is only involved : " But there is more than this ; for, while such scenes are disclosing, they bespeak a mind of a re - .:e cast of character in the recorder of tnem. They exhibit continually, in an all-pervadinr , tone, by the light o f t rue p hil osophy, the small value of file pageantries and regalities so much re garded in the olden time. They show that their worthless ness has been ever the same, and that those extinguished, and those whom the self-conceit of the multitude regir:d at the present•hour with awe-struck but diminished admira tion, are precisely the same, that they palled upon the higher order of mind then as they do now." It is only fair to the author to state that such pas sages as these are rare, but they are met with often enough to make the reader marvel at such unpar donable carelessness. Some portions of the work will amuse and interest many readers, and it is certainly not devoid of entertainment ; but the weakness, extravagance of style, and the diffuseness of the work, mar its effect considerably. We sub join-one or two of the entertaining portions, as more favourable specimens than those previously quoted : A VISIT TO VOLTAIRE. rn passing through the village to the Chateau, the chapel erected and dedicated " Deo Opthno Maximo," over the entrance, led the travellers to ask who preached there. They were told that sometimes Voltaire himself officiated to the people, over whom he was lord of life and death, of which a gallows standing on the estate was proof, it being a Seignorie which conferred that power. The constant official at the' chifel was a Jesuit named Pere Adam, of whom Voltaire humorously observed—" Quoique it fut le Pere Adam, it n'etoit pas le premier des hommes." At the Chateau the visitors were received by Madame Denis, Voltaire's niece, and she announced their arrival to Voltaire. He was then averydark-complexioned, shrivelled, thin old man, stooping much from age,, being eighty-four, though not naturally a very tall man. Tho chief, and indeed most etriking impression made by any of his features was by his eyes, which were remarkably large and pene trating. Upon his entrance he bowed, for his address was that of a finished gentleman of the time, taking each of the party in turn, and he then said : " You see, gentlemen 'un pauvre Octagenaire,' about to quit.,thid world ;" then making a- few observations about himself he turned to young Beckford, an d spo k e some cords highly complimentary of his father. He next asked some general questions about England; what his visitors thought of Switzerland; and for ten minutes addressed the party, all. standing, upon topics of the day. He concluded his audience with addressing the Englishmen, with some little humour, in the parliamentary mode, "My lords and gentlemen, many thanks for your visit. Pray take some refreshment, and then, if it will amuse you, look into my garden and my situation, and give me leave to retire ; which he did immediat e ly, no t a pp aren tl y ill- p l ease d at , e visit. A cold collation was served up under the auspices , °f . Madame Denis, and a walk in th e p oe t' s gar d en f u llowE It was laid out in the formal French style. The house not large, and plainly furnished, but its situation was.' mirable. COMING OF AGE. It was on the 29th of September, 1781, that Bea ,-forl became his own master • the following letter is an acc of the festivities upon this occasion. It is dated October 1781: " At last, my dear A., the festive tumult and bustle g t i Fonthill h ave b egun a li tt l e to su b s id e, an d I ta k e th e fo s , quiet moment I have h a d s i n ce my arrival, to give yo short account of it ; I say a short one, for I have not tiro to mention a th ousan d part i cu l ars, an d t h at on l y j us t a t 15 4 time they were going on. On my arrival, on Wednes last, I found the house half full of company. There had l music, dancing, and feasting from the beginning of week. But Thursd a y an d F r id ay b e i ng th two pine! days, I shall confine my account chiefly to them. On 4 li e d ° former day we sat d own t o b reakfast in the great arc h. , Grecian Hall, not les s th an a h un d re d persons, at severa l la °, tables. This being finished, a concert succeeded ; the co 3r pany every momentincreasing, till a b ou t five o'clock °, .„ Friday. Not less than th ree hundred, one-third of wlic"; were nobility and persons o f fashionx sat down to dinn s f ; not to mention a great additi on to the numbers in the vants of the company visiting, those of the family, and ti 3S: t friends, who dined, some before and sonic afterwards, Oil fewer by many than those up o n w h om th ey attended. f . 41 night there was an illumination, an d a b r illi an t b a ll, c, lowed by a supper at one in the morning; at which rib; guests were not fewer than they had been at dinner. company danced, and played at cards after supper, the festivity was kept up till daylight. Having slept 3 133 ,, hours, we all met again at breakfast and that was scare/ : over before the whole park, wood s , an d pl an t a ti o ns N' l r o , filled with country people, flocking from the town of 113 0 don and the surrounding villages. By the afternoon the 4 could not be less than tn or twelve thousand assemlrd On an extensive lawn before this noble house, there N , S t , erected three long booths. In one of them dined Mr. Be '4 l ford's Wiltshire tenants, with their sons, about two hund persons. In the other two booths were entertained, in, t io same manner, the people of the town of Hindon—a t borough in the neighbourhood, in Mr. Beckford's pa r d mentary interest. These might amount, men, wornon,,r . o, children, to about a thousand persons, and these as Ave" the tenants, had their band of music. A great quantity r strong beer was also given away to the populace. The , o °, lj c , l pany in the house dined at five o'clock the second': 011 ' i , about as many as on the day b e f ore . Di nne r b e ing 141 another grand illumination succeeded. S o me thou ti t lamps were beautifully disposed on the lawn, in the Nl' and along the river •, and three great bonfires lit up 0 distant ground. The company having observed and joyed these sights, they were, after tea, entertained w 1 magnificent fireworks, followed by a concert of vocal instrumental music, in which was performed an Ital!o pastoral in honour of the day. There were, perhaps, 01 f musicians of the first eminence there, than ever D? together at our greatest oratorios. The evening conclue'4, with a very splendid and crowded supper. The next cl!,, Sunday, the best part of the company that stayed, .ass o „, bled in a large room, where Dr. Lettice gave them a mon. At dinner, the company was reduced to three tablo o A concert was performed in the evening, and all who iv! f. present were invited to supper. On the following morn T the company began to depart, ab ou t a score o f Mr. Be_ : ford's more particular friends and relatives only continua for some time ' • but the birthday celebrity w as con sider: l b l , as finished. I feel as if I had written myself ou t o f bre ( ' and ani glad to, lay down my pen." 1 ,1 The expenses incurred upon the foregoing occasion very considerable ; but the property into which Y ol 'l Beckford came, after nurs i ng d ur i ng hi s m i nor ity, Pli tc ; him in the position of one of the richest subjects in Enrolj The amount, according to his own statement, con sisted g fo i nearly a milli on i n rea d y money, an d an i ncom e 01 : hundred thousand per annum. Principles of Social and Political Economy. 111 William Atkinson. Vol. I. Longman. d , The attention of cultivated and thoughtful 113 111 , has often been turned to the very defective s iatt , the science of political economy. The conflictli opinions and contradictory principles of its gr.' e exponents have divided their followers into rl l 7 ll sects ; and the deep thought and laborious reseal' o i required for its study have rendered the number ,e its students comparatively limited. It is, th e refor a subject of congratulati on to the nation, that int er , ligent and earnest men are now endeavouring' expound their principles in a clear and lu cr e manner, and to place the fundamental truths of 1 - 0 science in a position, where those uninitiated mysteries of scientific reasoning may gather sod,, ideas of their import and tendency. Hovit' r much the opinions of these reasoners may diP4 l3 and however much they may b e m i s t a ken, 1 0 their theories or examples, the fr e e di sc uss° and argument on the principles of governmel and national prosperity is beneficial. Though ; y circle of thinkers will always be limited, in will ? rison with the men of action, and though from very nature of the subject few will devote 11 1 : 11 ,, time or labour to its abstruse study, yet a vil' l l diffusion of its principles, and a more geTl5 knowledge of the differences of its chief wr itelf, very desirable for a nation that aspires to s e b , government. Mr. Atkinson's work treats the s il o ject in its broadest view, and makes a thoroliF j j examination int o th e th eor i es an d argu ments of its most eminent followers, from Adam Smith dO' wards. Without coinciding with all his princiP l ,4, we commend the wo r k t o th e s t u di ous an d though ful reader, who desires t o f orm hi s o wn opiol°o,l from a careful examination o f th e r i va l theories o f their practical results, and a thorough analysis their merits. THE SHANNON'S NAVAL BRIGADE' TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—As the United Service Gazette has publisheci statements affecting the discipline and charactera the Shannon's nav a l b r i ga d e, I shall feel gre3„,-, obliged by you r g i v i ng insertion to the accomP7if ing letter, which I have just received from le Ed. Lugard. I feel it due to the memory of tla late Sir W. Peel that such grave accusations sh° ll not remain unanswered.—l have, &c., J. W. VAUGHAN, Com. R.N 4 Lath H.M.S. Shannon. Craven, Hotel, Jan. 20. " Teignmoutt, Devon, Jan. 17, 18 59 ' r "My dear Vaughan,--I have just seen the par, graph in the United Service Ga ze tt e , o f th e 15th io s t commenting upon th e s t ate of the naval brigacleol , the Shannon. The writer of the paragraph 111 1 ; 41 be grossly i gnorant of the truth, or have bf wickedly misinformed, to state that the life the led in the naval brigade was the reverse of di 5 ;,4 Alined'—' t h ey were the terror of friends as w ell foes' no orders restrained them.' I consider t a r allegati on t o b e a gross libel upon our late rear friend, Si r W . Peel, as well as upon the Ach°„ brigad e , an d , as such, i t cught to b e at once OP tradieted. ite " I am u na bl e ( ow i ng t o a sa d acc id en t) t o scr. t e more than a few lines at a time, or I should vo l ti f to the edit or on th e su bj ec t ;_ but I give you or yo i . of friend s au th or it y t o contradict the statement J lie me in th e s t ronges t an d mos t di rec t manner . ' l l l l Shannon's brigade advanced upon Lucknow o , l ir e my division, and acted with it d ur i ng th e en!l,,, operations, as you well know. Th e men wer e c l3l I may say hourly, under my sight, and I c ° o o sidered their conduct, in every p ar ti cu lar, example to the troops. During the wh o l e perio', er was associated with the Shannon's brigade I ri C ip i once saw an irregularity amongst the men. I .,:u' r were sober, quiet, and respectful, an d o ft en I r c ; i , marked to my staff the high state of discipline W. Peel had got them into. From the cessafi . ° of active operations until I w as d e t ac h e d to A01,7.ci ghur I commanded all the tr oops i n th e c ity, ar e all measures for the rep ress i on o f p l un d er i ng wa r d carried carried out through me . D ur i ng t h at per' , - 0 not one irregularity by th e men o f the Sharlll,4 was reperted to me. . . . Indeed, in 11 whole course of my lif e I never saw so 'cycle conducted a body of men . . . . All I written about the good conduct of the Shannl io men would, I am conv i nce d , b e confirmed by,'or unanimous opinion of the army at Lucknow. 1 4 °,0 Adrian Hope a n d I o f ten ta lk e d together on %y e subject, and many a ti me I ex p resse d to Peel t' ll high opinion I had of his men, and my admirat ie l ° r of his che er f u l ness an d h ap py, con t ente d look unu,o all circu ms t ances o f f a ti gue a nd diffi cu lty.—Belie s me, my dear Vaughan, sincerely yours, (Signed) 46 EDW. LUGAIID' " Capt. Vaughan, C. 8." FRENCH PASSPORTS. Consulat-General de France en Angleterr°' 36, King William-street, City. The Consul-General of France presents his pliments to the editor of The Sun, and b e gs to h e close a note on the subje c t o f passports, w hi c h.P e , may perhaps deem ituseful to publish, in the i' rest of the public at large. London, Jan. 20. to i " A paragraph having appea re d i n th e newspapers 4- ll° effect that the Aronif eur h a d pu b lished a ministerial n°-e, cation of the entire a b o liti on of visas for passports in Fren",t the French Co nsu l-G eneral i n England, in order to prevely the erroneous id ea w h ic h such ' an announcement i s W t ., to convey, deems it a duty, in the interest of the public k t oo , point out the t rue b ear i ng of the statement in ques'iast The said stat emen t contains a recapitulation of the p is and present l eg i s l at i on on the subject of passports, Wu this day stands as follows : an ted " Facilities, p r i v il eges , an d exemp ti ons h ave b een gran by the Imperial Government se s "1. the inhabitants of the respective ports on th e f oca l board b o th i n F rance an d E ng l an d k nown to the aut `2. horities. ; di° To certain classes of travellers, as mentioned . 11 o d special instructions of the 22d October, 20th November , 13th December last. " 3. All other travellers, whether French or foreie t e h r : must have their passports vised in the u sua l wa y, with additional facility, that such visa is not now renni o r' bu t each journey, as had been regulated i n January, 185 %ii t te exempts the traveller for the space o f a y ear f ro m the coo of such a visa. Thus a British subject who would pr°.o.o - (21st January, 1859) a passport from the Fore'4 o s office, should have to get the c onsu l ar en d orseme nt en eo usual, but should he have to return to or through Fr'3 several times during the year, he need not present it 045 to the visa until after the 21st January, 1860." M,l The duri ng and i n Te a , h ( actions 111fiou n , It i s , or xs,ol dined t lel 7 a( tinn e d to in the Th e bei ng n Inateria Per oz. There °r th e pan t to Sided. hitherto of th e th e zPense tar rY aecount, and Nva , havi n g It ad to / j ag ad' JI Th e arrived insuran, per e en i Conti English de at h 01 411 AUSI Set ae ex km . I 411 it mor e i n 13 eettrrec Bank S ever, ha arc mar The Ne I; —o n g A Busk pressed, tenden c ditto issue, 9 Brazilic dini an ditto 4 ar e stew at 4,5, -Mess] lta the P b :1 0 0 .2 ; J o i n be en a and 14 Austri A tl i ch bitt