The Sun. — London, England, 1859-08-16 00:00:00

lOPAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. talder the Management or Mr. Charles Kean. ' THIS EVENING, THE WIFE'S SECRET. Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with A. MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Commence at 7. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, ICALLOWE'EN. THE CONTESTED ELECTION. After which, OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND. To conclude with A NABOB FOR AN HOUR. Commence at 7. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. Followed by the new burlesque, THE BABES IN THE WOOD. Messrs. C. Marshall, Paul Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne ; Miss Woolgar and Miss K. Kelly. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. On Thursday, August 18, for the Benefit of Mr. W. Smith, Acting Manager, THE WRECK ASHORE : Mr. Billington, P. Bedford, Stuart, Mr.W. Smith, Mr. Eburne, MissWoolgar, and Mrs. Billing,ton. After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT. Marie, Miss Rebecca Isaacs, for this night only; assisted by Messrs. P. Bedford, Garden, More land, Mrs. Chatterley. And The Babes in the ood. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Mee open from 10 to .5 —no charge for booking. No tees to Servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE, Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING, THE MAID WITH THE MILKING PAIL, After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses Swanborough, Oliver, and Lavine. Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE LADY OF LYONS. Commence at 7 o'clock. VERDI'S OPERA OF MACBETH. The whole of the first Act of this Opera, now produced for the first time in this country (the remaining three acts being in course of rehearsal), is sung nightly at the CAN TERBURY HALL CONCERTS. THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, - Oonsistincr, of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette, and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and EIGHT years. The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios evc: written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France and Belgium. They will perform T IVICE EACH EVENING, in addi tion to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER.-STIN OFFICE, ALIGUST 16. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 68—highest since noon yesterday. 58--lowest this morning and during the night. 68—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.17—a sadden rise of nearly half an inch. WIND, North-Westerly ; fresh and fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, 3h. 30m.—Afternoon, 3h. 44m. To-Mortßow-Morning, 3h. 58m.—Afternoon, 4h. 12m. The foreign news seems to be at a standstill in honour of the fetes at Paris. The Conference at Zurich is a matter of dumb show, for secresy there is the order of the day. In fact they are afraid to to publish their fears, far less their doings. The end of it will most probably turn out to be that— " there's nothing in it ! ' One thing is clear that Russia is wide awake before the next break out assumes form and colour. She wants money, ostensibly for internal im provements, but in reality for carrying out the grand problem arranged between herself and others. Who those others are time will develope in due season when the pear is ripe. It was but the other day we had accounts of gunboats and larger vessels of war putting in at Cherbourg to dismantle ! Why go there ? Why not stay where they were in some more distant harbours ? Then, again, we have the Russian ships feeling their way into the English Channel, and then passing on to the Mediterranean, merely for pleasure, of However, there is some comfort : we are not blind nor idle either. Let Sir B. WALKER urge on his preparations. There is no time to lose. He has some seventeen ships under Ansideration for conversion into screws. Let them be adapted as coast-guard vessels of war, and They will, last long enough, until he build liners of 90 and 100 guns, with a good supply of corvettes of 21, and frigates of 50, and large and long ships of 30 guns, fit to carry a couple of thousand men as transports of war. These will be found useful on all occasions and for any purpose. course. One constituency, at least, has regained its posi tion on the Liberal lists—on the really Liberal lists we mean, which is quite another thing to the party list of the 10th of June. Bodmin has restored Mr. WYLD to the list of those members who can trust the people ; those who do not ask to see the elec tors' names on the poll-book as a receipt for a bribe, or to punish them for daring to vote according to their principles, but who are content to present to the voters their claims to support, and to say—send me to Parliament if you want such men as I am. Dr. MICTIELL, who contested the borough this summer with Mr. WYLD, very wisely, as we have little doubt, resigned. We none of us wish to say a harsh thing of a fallen man. De 7nortzt is, nil nisi bonurn, is a motto applied to the politically dead by that relenting country which is so pleasing a characteristic of Englishmen, as well as to the physically dead. And our only wish for Dr. MicHELL is, that, for the future, politically— requiescat in pace— " May no vain dreams disturb his rest, No pow'rs of darkness him molest." Mr. BRIGHT, touched with a Wakefield fracternal sympathy, suggested to the Bodmin M.D. the happy excuse of poverty as a plea for accepting the well known office under the Crown, which has saved so many purses, and something more than purses too; and the doctor cleverly and manfully withdrew from the contest, in forma pauperzs. Rather we should say, perhaps, to save himself from that undesirable condition . which with the loss of his seat would certainly have chilled the old age of a retired physician. Very wisely then, we think, the doctor retired to the honours of local Toryism, and he will, we doubt not, find ample occupation of iEsculapius, for whose services so many who need it can ill afford to pay. With one of his supporters committed for bribery his committee fight would have been a rather hope less affair ; still he left the House of Commons with flying Colours; the House could not deny that they have made the contest on a petition too costly for a man of ordinary means ; and he could retire with the too true allegation that a man might be honestly elected and yet unable to face a petition—again we say, therefore, requiescat in p ace. Mr. WYLD has doubtless been a marked man ever since he refused to compromise the Ballot. Had he been in the House we f ancy Sir J OHN SHELLEY would not easily have enabled the Whi gs to burk the inconvenient question this session. They would have been required to vote on it while fresh from their constituencies, and s the pockets of many s till suffering from the costs incident to open voting. It is, we think, a serious misfortune that we have had no expression of opinion from the new Parliament on the only question which can be regarded as a testing one, and we do not yet know whether it is more liberal than its predecessor. Everyone would vote that some small boroughs ought to be dealt with, that some large places ought to have representatives, that some larger places ought to have more than their present number, that there ought to be some extension of the franchise —but everyone will not vote that all who have the franchise should have it nri r olk, - :'„" e , - I)! t . • MO bnorr ,t ,LA cs THE SUN. TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1859. in reality as well as in name. The Ballot is the terror of Toryism, whether it openly asserts itself or puts on the sheep's clothing of Whiggism. We hope Mr. WYLD will not relax in his efforts to compel attention to the Ballot. A member who cannot be put down must, indeed, make up his mind to many uncomfortable remonstrances from his party, but for the public he is an invaluable man. There is all the difference in the world between an impracticable man and a man of decision. It is the latter we want. Mr. WYY.D has made his position as a man of decision ; let him determine to keep it, and he will find his more pliant friends content to be followers of MAHOMET, at least in one point of the prophet's creed ; for if Mr. WYLD will not come 1 1 to them, he will find that they will come to him. An extremely unpleasant article closes the cur rent number of the Quarterly. It is not by any means apropos des bottes—or, if so, the Boots can be no other than the seven leagued boots of the Invader. The reviewer has (before sitting down to write this lengthened argument) been carefully ex amining the views entertained by HANS BUSK, in regard to " The Navies of the World," and those of A Naval Peer, in reference to " Our Naval Position and Policy," to say nothing of the "Notes on our Defences," by General SHAW KENNEDY, and the "Military Opinions" of Sir JOHN BURGOYNE. And after reading, marking, and learning these several publications, the writer in the Quarterly has evi dently suffeied in a frightful manner from a severe attack of literary indigestion. Such waking night mares have surely never disturbed the imagi nation of an Englishman since TOM HOOD depicted that unfortunate Wight who was haunted by the grim and ghastly inter rogation, Why did you sup upon Pork ? Here, however, the reviewer has certainly got the wrong sow by the ear. Whether he is at all aware of it himself or no—he is certainly, from first to last, a flagrant example of that patriot with the white face, the white liver, and the white feather, known as An Alarmist. He appears to be almost out of his senses with terror at the bare idea of an " Inva sion of England." Nowhere can he discover any thing but the portents of disaster. Nowhere can he conceive to himself the possibility of our being attacked without seeing, with dreadful distinctness beyond that, the all but certainty 'pf our being de feated. Before, however, taking into account the possibilities of the Future, the writer entertains himself for a while by conjecturing what he deems to have been among the probabilities of the Past. Referring to the far-famed, but purely hypo thetical, Campaign " De Londres," sketched out in 1804-1805 by the master-hand of the Great NAPOLEON—the campaign, the triumphal completion of which was celebrated by antici pation through that exquisite bronze medal, indicative of the Conquest of Angleterre, still pre served at the Monnaie among the glories of Gallic Medallurgy—referring to this simply theoretical or suppositious campaign, the writer says of the naval part of it, that " the plan was conceived with the most consummate tact, and with ordinary courage and ability might easily have been carried into execution. In that case it would have been easy for the French to have mustered in the Channel a line of battle exceeding by at least one-half, both in number of ships and weight of metal, what the English could have opposed to them. The British Admiral must either have accepted battle under such circumstances as would have rendered defeat almost inevitable, or he must have retired to be blockaded in Spithead till reinforcements arrived to enable him to meet his enemy on equal terms. In either case NAPOLEON'S object would have been gained. The Channel would have been bridged ; England would have been joined to the Continent; and his army might have been taken over with as great or even greater facility than it could have passed the Rhine or any large river. Whether the campaign that followed would have resembled those of Moscow or Leipsic, or those of Austerlitz or Jena, must remain a mere matter of speculation ; but he is a bold man who would assert that so con summate a commander, at such a period of his career, should deliberately have planned, and so long adhered to the execution of a scheme which did not offer at least a reasonable chance of success." Extremely agreeable reading this, of course, for a patriotic Frenchman, but anything certainly rather than pleasant for the perusal of a patriot Englishman. Particularly when it is said afterwards, in pursuance of the same kind of conjectures, by the Quarterly Reviewer, that, "looking, at the genius of NAPOLEON, and the in competence of those to whom the British army would have been entrusted, it is highly probable that the result would have been as at Borodino, and that London must hare pllen." From this kind of de lightful hypothesis in regard to the past, our readers may judge what are the species of anticipa tion indulged in by the reviewer in reference to the future. Judge of those, say we, by the foregoing— ex pede Tlerculem. It is the first peeping forth of the cloven hoof of the alarmist in the argument— in which decidely he, the alarmist, has beyond a doubt put his foot in it. He has done so, we are bold to assert at once, beyond a doubt, because we believe in our conscience that scarcely kalf a dozen men will be found to regard these anticipa tions of his otherwise than with feelings of pro found indignation. We believe, of course, as we have again and again proclaimed through these columns, that our national defences require complete, instant, and thorough reorganisation. We believe that, notwith standing all that has been done recently for the most part in regard to the army through General PEEL, and almost entirely for the navy through the zeal and determination of Sir JOHN PAKING TON—we believe that, notwithstanding all this, we are but now at the very commencement of that great labour of defensive organisation. We be lieve that our maritime forces have yet considerably to be extended—that the manning of our fleets as a system demands the most comprehensive revision —that our militia admits at once of considerable extension and enormous improvement—that our army might be simultaneously rendered both more economical and more efficient—that our ordnance hardly less than our navy requires in a manner complete reconstruction. But firmly persuaded of all this, though we admit ourselves to be most un questionably, we do not by any means admit at the same time that there is any reason whatever to look at the possibilities of invasion for one single instant with sentiments of utter dismay, almost amounting indeed to a feeling of craven trepidation. Accord ing to the Quarterly, "supposing every regular soldier that could possibly be spared from Scotland and Ireland brought into London, all the militia called out, and every man who was sufficiently drilled to stand in the line of battle being mustered together, and by no conceivable means could 80,000 or 100,000 men be ga thered together in the neighbourhood of London." According to the Quarterly, " Such an arm y dare n otmove to the w es t to meet the invaders coming in that direction, for th ey would have the Colchester division in their rear, an d the Chichestermeto y on their flan k, and the y dare not move , attack either of t hese smaller bodies in their en trenchments without exposing the capital to be ' attacked by the other. In fact," continues the reviewer, " no strategy, nor any conceivable amount of heroism, will render an army of 100,000, in any position this country affords, equal to one of 200,000 placed, as we have just supposed the in vaders to be, within three or four days' march of a given central point. To make a stand against such odds would be simply to expose the English army to the fate which awaited the Austrians under MACK at Ulm, of being surrounded by superior forces and obliged to lay down their arms without striking a blow. The only thing an English general could do in such a case would be to abandon the capital and all the country to the south of London, retreat ing to the north, and, adopting a Fabian line of policy, he might eventually save the State from actual extinction." All this and a great deal more of a like kind—According to the Quarterly.! Now, instead of " all this,"—and without the smallest atom of braggadocio— we ourselves should look confidently (in the dread- I ful contingency of an invasion) for results entirely and diametrically the reverse. We believe that were 80,000, were 100,000, were 200,000 men landed anywhere from a foreign fleet upon our shores, that—our troops, our militia, our ordnance remaining exactly as they are now—the whole male adult population of England, or Ireland, or Scot land, or of all together, would have given a suffi ciently good account of that army before any lengthened interval could very well have elapsed. " For," as the Poet Laureate, ALFRED TENNYSON, sang so nobly but four years since, when there was, as there has been now more recently, this talk of a possible invasion : " I trust if an enemy's fleet came yonder round by the kill, And the rushing battle-bolt sang from the three-decker out of the foam, That the smooth-faced, snub-nosed rogue would leapfrom his counter and till, And strike, if he could, were it but with his cheating yardwand, home." Instead of drawing disastrous pictures of the pos sible sequel of the history of a foreign army landed on our shores, let us rather dedicate the whole of our energies to the prevention of any such landing taking place at all. With the wires of the electric telegraph trailed all round our coasts, in connexion with each and all of our coastguard stations—with those ma gical fibres of copper converging from the circum ference to the one grand central point of the capital —with the Government at that central point hold ing perpetually in its grasp (through the same wondrous agency) the capacity of instantaneous communication with all the dockyards, and all the arsenals, and all the military stations of the United Kingdom with the power afforded through our railways of rapid concentration of any amount of our forces, sea and land, upon any given point, according as circumstances might ren der that concentration advisable—above all, with an adequate Channel Fleet ever in readiness, and a sufficient and efficient Navy perpetually prepared —we might laugh to sc3rn these periodical panics about Invasion. The spectacle presented by us should in reason be always what was described by Holy Lips as that of—" The Strong Man Armed keeping his House." The Sword of the Nation should be sheathed, it is true, during Peace, but not hung up as useless. Rather than that it should remain slung ever by the side of BRI TANNIA, ready to her grasp upon the instant ! The motto arabesqued upon its blade—semper paratus! An interesting report will be found in another part of our impression of this evening, descriptive of the Annual Distribution of Prizes at the Seaham harbour and Seaham colliery schools, by their munificent patroness, FRANCES ANNE Marchioness of Londonderry. These proceedings we conceive have far more Clan a merely local interest. They illustrate too remarkably the reciprocal duties knitting together the lives of the wealthy and in dustrious classes—the Million and the Upper Ten Thousand—not to demand some respectful com ment en passant, far beyond the boundary line of the little county of Durham. The significance of the ceremonial which took place this day week at Seaham—when twelve hundred children witnessed the distribution of prizes among those of their number who had proved successful in the competitive examinations previously instituted for the purpose of exciting amongst them a wholesome spirit of emulation—was admirably expressed by that portion of the remarks uttered by the Mar chioness of LONDONDERRY, in which her ladyship observed—" I believe, if we rightly understand our calling's in life, it would be found that one of the greatest blessings insured by the possession of wealth is the power it ought to give the possessors of doing good to their fellow-creatures ;" adding— " I confess this is too often lost sight of, and, not the least by myself, in the pursuit of objects and ends of a more personal and selfish nature, and yet the satisfaction that I cannot but feel at being per mitted to be instrumental in producing a result such as this scene affords, is a proof of the truth that property entails duties, and if you try to discharge them, however humbly and inefficiently, you are rewarded." It was in reference to the utterance by Lady LONDONDERRY of these gracefully expressed and truly ennobling sentiments that the his torian of Europe spoke, when, by an antithesis as appropriate to the occasion as it was cha racteristic of the speaker, Sir ARCIIIBALD ALISON reminded his youthful hearers that " labour also had its duties." After expressing a hope that there were many among those present who would do honour to the training they were now receiving, Sir ARCHIBALD observed, " It was at schools simi lar to those, and in this locality, that Lord ELDON, one of the profoundest of lawyers, and afterwards Lord High Chancellor, and Admiral COLLINGWOOD, second only amongst our admirals to NELSON received their education," :adding immediately upon this, however, yet more effectively : "But why need I look elsewhere for examples, when I can refer yoil to the founder of these great works, who, although a nobleman by birth, solely by his own courage, in tegrity, :and :ability, won for himself such emi nence and such honour in the state and nation." A fitting tribute from the historian of Europe to the memory of that chivalrous and heroic nobleman whose deeds of daring on the field' of battle have been recorded by the pen of Sir ARCHIBALD ALISON, as well as by that of the veteran annalist of the Peninsular war, Sir \VILLIAM NAPIER—and the tokens of whose generous public spirit as a patrician citizen during times of peace yet survive, as in the instance of these schools at Seaham, now flourishing under the pa tronage of his relict, Lady LONDONDERRY. THE PRINCE OF WALES.—On Sunday his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales attended divine service in the High Church. The Rev. Dr. M‘Letchie preached an eloquent discourse from the 17th chaper of the Acts of the Apostles—reading the whole chapter as a lesson. The church was much crowded. On Saturday, his Royal High ness and suite visited the studio of Mr. Steel, her Majesty's sculptor for Scotland, and seemed highly pleased with the works in progress. Lord Macaulay was in Edinburgh on Saturday, and in company with some ladies paid a visit of inspection to the Advocates' Library, Law Courts, &c. The Southampton has arrived from Melbourne with 29,551 ounces of gold, worth about £llB,OOO, and the Africa and Borussia from New York, with £114,000. CRICKET.—NORTH V. SOUTH. --The return match between these two elevens was coguneneed at Canterbury yesterday, when the first innings of each - side was con cluded, the North scoring 107, and the South 48. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 18b9, LATEST NEWS. THE HOMEWARD INDIA MAILS. The following telegram has been received by the Peninsular and Oriental Company : " ADEN. "The Norna, from Bombay, arrived on the sth, and the Nubia, with the mails from Calcutta and China, on the Bth inst." The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : MILAN, AUG. 15. To-day a dejeuner was given by the King to Marshal Vaillant, and 100 superior officers of the French army at the Royal Palace. His Majesty proposed the health of his Imperial Majesty Napo leon 111., Prince Carignan that of the Empress and the Imperial Prince, General de la Marmora that of the French army, and Marshal Vaillant proposed the health of the King of Sardinia, con cluding his speech with these words : "To the chief of this fine and powerful army, the standards of which were united on the Black Sea and on the plains of the Po with the French eagle, and which on every occasion showed itself as a noble rival of our army. To the heroic King, who holds the ancient and noble sword of the House of Savoy, who made it shine with great lustre in the sun of Palestro and Solferino. MILAN, AUG. 15. To-day at Milan a solemn fete was celebrated in honour of Napoleon. In the morning aTe Dezon was performed in the Cathedral in the presence of the King, Marshal Vaillant, and other officers, the magistrates, and the national guard in grand gala. After dinner a grand spectacle took place in the arena, the expenses of which were defrayed by the municipality, and the receipts destined for the wounded. The King, Prince Carignan, Marshal Vaillant, and about 40,000 people were present. The name of Napoleon was received everywhere with acclama tion. TURIN, AUGUST 15. The Fete de nuit, which took place here, was magnificent. The Place d'armes was splendidly illuminated, a great platform was erected for the performance of military music, where the soldiers danced. The crowd was immense, the public build ings were illuminated. Many inscriptions were to be seen—" Long live Napoleon III." TURIN, AUG. 15. Last night and this morning the fete of the Emperor was announced by discharges of artillery, In the morning a review of the French troops took place. At nine o'clock the Te Deum was performed in the church, which was richly decorated. There were present the Ministers, members of Parliament, French Ambassador and the officers of the French army, the Piedmontese National Guard, and a large gathering of the popillation of this city. This morning eight guns, captured by the troops at the battle of Palestro, were exhibited in front of the Palace. In the evening there will be a fete de nuit in the Place d'Armes. General Garibaldi has arrived in Leghorn. VIENNA, AUG. 15. The Ministerial crisis is not yet over. It is said that a combination with Count Leo Thun at the head has met with so many difficulties that its suc cess is very doubtful. Count Clam Martinitz refused to accept the port folio of Public Instruction, and in regard to his ac ceptance of the Ministry of the Interior he imposed conditions which were rejected; he has therefore returned to his post of Governor of Cracow. Count Golochouski, Chief of the Lemberg Govern ment district, has been summoned hither to join the Imperial commission. Well-informed persons assert that :the consti tution which the commission is about to work out will be characterized by the principle of decen tralization, by the re-establishment of the repre sentation of the provinces (Landstaende), by great prerogatives given to the aristocracy of all the provinces, and, lastly, by a strict catholic spirit. BERNE, AUG. 15. The whole diplomatic corps, the members of the Federal Council, and of the Government of the Cantons, and the municipality of the town were pre sent to-day at the Te Deum in honour of the fete Napoleon. The French Ambassador, M. de Tur got, sat on the right, and the Austrian Minister on the left of the President, M. Staempfli. To-day, at Zurich, all the Plenipotentiaries and the deputation of the Government of Zurich were present at the Te Delon. ZURICH, AUG. 15. The Austrian Plenipotentiary, M. de Meyscn bug, has not left Zurich fo r Vienna, as had been stated ; his name was substit u t e d by mistake for the name of Baron Menzhengen. The Austrian Minister in Switzerland has re turned to his post in Berne. On Saturday last two Imperial messengers (Secretaires dc Cabinet) arrived here from Vienna, and left again yesterday. AUSTRIA. The Vienna Gazette contains the following article :—" We meet in several foreign journals, and even in some Austrian ones, articles relative to the dynasties of Tuscany and Modena, in which erro neous views are taken which we think it our duty to rectify. The territorial possessions of the said grand ducal and ducal houses are guaranteed by general treaties. Arts. 98 to 102 of the act of the Congress of Vienna of 9th June, 1815, are enact ments of public law in vigour. In consequence of the last war, and favoured by circumstances which have arisen out of it, a revolutionary faction obliged the legitimate sovereigns of the Italian duchies to quit their country. They have pro tested against this violence, and have not in any way renounced their rights. In the preliminaries of Villafranca, the two belligerent Emperors agreed that it was necessary that this illegal state of things must be put an end to, and that the Grand Duke of Tuscany and the Duke of Modena ought to re turn to their country. The Emperors of Austria and France thus expressed their will and their in tention, on the conclusion of peace, to put an end to the abnormal situation which had been caused, in consequence of the war, in Tuscany and in the Duchy of Modena, and bring them back to the nor mal state in conformity with the general treaties of public law in Euroue. This decision, which at once satisfies the rights that may be advanced by both the other parties to the treaties of Vienna and the grand ducal and ducal houses immediately con cerned, is altogether unassailable on principles of public law. The resistance to this arrangement proceeds solely from the revolutionary faction, which is still in possession of power, and continues to maintain the reign of terror over the populations of those countries. On the removal of this revolu tionary power 'the legal state will be at once re stored in the most peaceable manner, and with the assent of the majority of the people. The means of attaining this end may be the subject of delibera tions between the cabinets which have to settle the bases of the peace; but it can never be permitted, considering the authority of right as well as the authority of might, that a stipulation made between two great Powers for the maintenance of rights guaranteed by public law should be regarded as still in question." PRUSSIA. BERLIN, AUG. 13. The King's illness has not yet reached its inevit able termination. The bulletin of this morning notices an increase of consciousness, but acknow ledges the general diminution of strength. I learn from a private source that he is reduced to the greatest weakness, and it is.now a question of hours rather than days. All the Princes and Ministers have been recalled, and no attempt is made to con ceal from the public the near approach of the end. Yesterday evening the Royal theatres were closed; of course, all political business is at a stand-still. THE lONIAN ISLANDS. His Excellency Sir H. Storks has issued the fol lowing characteristic Notification : "NOTIFICATION. " The Lord High Commissioner has received during the last three months several anonymous letters. " His Excellency hopes that it is unnecessary for him to declare his abhorrence of a practice at once unmanly and cowardly. " His Excellency requests that this system of moral assassination may cease, and desires it to be distinctly understood that for the future every anonymous communication will be returned to the Post-office whence it came, with instructions to the Postmaster to place it in a conspicuous part of the office, in order that the writer may reclaim it if he thinks proper to do so. " If any person has any charges to bring against individuals, or any complaints to make for the Lord High Commissioner's consideration, they must be preferred openly and substantiated in person. " His Excellency would remind the writers of anonymous letters that they are not living under the Venetian Republic, and that the lion's mouth' is not a national institution. " By command of his Excellency, "H. DRUMMOND WOLF, " Secretary to the Lord High Commissioner. " Palace, Corfu, July 29." FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY. This being the fete of the Emperor, the Bourse and public offices are all closed. The Moniteur publishes a further list of promo tions and nominations in the Legion of Honour. Among them are two grand officers, five com manders, 13 officers, and 164 knights. It also con tains a decree awarding 583 military medals. The Memorial de _Lille says :—" We learn from a good source that Lille is shortly to be selected as the seat of a great military command, to be held by a Marshal of France. Marshal Niel is mentioned as the first to fill these high functions." The Corriere Mecrantile of Genoa says :—" Gen. Garibaldi has certainly offered his resignation, but for reasons not connected with our Government, and the latter has been obliged to accept it. We believe that it is also certain that the General will take the chief command of the troops in Central Italy, as has been already stated." THE GREAT MILITARY FETE. The following graphic account of what took place at the Place Vendome yesterday will be read with interest. THE PLACE VENDOME. Wreathed and garlanded with laurel, which hung in festoons along the eaves, with floods of purple velvet, embroidered with bees, ciphers, and crowns, with a purple circus reaching to the first story, built to accommodate some 25,000 people, with golden poles and many coloured streamers flaunting from the roofs, or fluttering round the base of the majestic column which is its chief ornament. The old fami liar Place Vendome, of quiet and almost gloomy memory, could hardly be recognised. At its en trances colossal Corinthian pillars were crowned with golden Victories, holding out wreaths in either hand to the soldiers of France. Everything was grand, gorgeous, brilliant. Up the Rue de la Paix the many coloured vista was terminated by a colossal figure of Peace. An accurate description of the de tails, a catalogue of the upholstery, an account of the miles of planking, or the sum of the thousands of square yards of gold leaf, is of no use to bring the truth near to you. It is more real to trust to the imagination and say, " Give Beverley a commission to paint a scene where a great Sovereign, with his Empress, his heir, and his people, may receive his myriads of warriors on their return from victory, and you cannot go far wrong." The result would be something like what I have witnessed to-day—vast, magnificent. and dazzling; almost too splendid for the eye ; almost too overpowering for the mind. In this astonishing theatre you must now fill in our selves, the public, such as we are seen at a Handel Festival, or on some such great occasion—masses of summer dresses dotted with black coats and hats. The predominant colours of parasols and petti coats, and all the numberless inventions appertain ing to the modern Eve, being on this occasion the imperial violet or green. Fill the gigantic circus ; fill eyery window; plant crowding figures on the lofty parapets, and crown the pointed roofs with the diminished forms ; and then look up the Rue de la Paix at the same blaze of life and von will Fee some fifty thousand of the million and a half of spectators who have seen this day's sight, and you will apprehend a proportionate part of the spectacle which stretches its wonders along four miles of the Boulevard to the Place de la Bastille. Presently, at ten o'clock, the roll of cheering flows up the Rae de Castiglione, and reaches us. The cry is " Vive l'lmperatrice ;" it is caught up, and everyone rises and re-echoes it as the popular and beautiful Eugenies passes with her child to the balcony prepared for her and her Court on the west side of the Place. " They will soon be in here" is now said, and every one grows nervous. Again a cheer rises, the little Prince Imperial has run forward on the balcony, and he is seen by the multitude in his uniform as corporal in the Imperial Guard. Every glass is fixed on the lovely child, who is now a fine little fellow with a curly head of fair hair, and with a charming animated manner. After the dozen tender epithets always given to pretty children, the fever of impatience again seizes the crowd, and the minutes seem long. Suddenly an electric shock runs through all. The first faint roar is heard rolling down the Boulevards. Down it comes towards us, down the Rue de la Paix, in creasing in volume till it bursts in a tumult of sound, " Here they are !" The Cent Gardes, the escort, wheels to one side—a few seconds more, and the Emperor appears—a solitary horseman on his charger, saluting the shouting people. They are throwing flowers and garlands in his path, and the vault rings with the noise of many mouths—one voice—" Vive l'Empereur"—a shout so long and loud that it might waken the sleeper in the Inva lides. On he comes, saluting, then rides to beneath the Empress's balcony, and salutes her, then turns to review the army of Italy. He is in undress uni form, as he appeared in the field, and so will the whole army appear just as they have come from the wars. His Majesty is followed by a small host of great ones, general and staff dignitaries ; they go to the rear beneath the balcony, and the one horseman stands forward in front. All this while the mighty sound continues id the distance— the shout of men in strong emotion. Here let me once more recall to you the vastness of the scene, which you must bear in mind you cannot see all at once. First you see vaguely the distant objects, then understand what it is. Well, you hear the waves of souhd of a strangely thrilling nature rolling in on you, and then from the Rue de la Paix come moving masses, all green ; all around you cheer. On comes the mass, and you distinguish the moving men, covered with wreaths and garlands. But in the distance, at the entrance, you see the waving kerchiefs on a sudden more sharply waved. You see arms sud denly thrown up; you see a more fierce ex citement seize the crowd; there is almost a shriek in the cheer that comes from that end of the place. " Why ?" the mass comes nearer. Ah, there are no bayonets. no muskets, rearer, von see the men distinctly ; they are limping, bent, hurt ; they are the wounded of the army. Then a shout from the men, and sharp sympathetic cries from the women—poor fellows—they pass the Em peror, they turn their faces to him. " Vive l'Em pereur," one waves his arm—his one arm; another stops to wield his crutch; those nearest to Napoleon throw at his feet the green decorations which the people gave. On they come, more and more of them, and " Vive l'Empereur," and now they pass us closely. How the women crave towards them ! poor fellows. Such yellow faces ! Such lines of suffering ; thin forms—strong men maimed, pulled down, wrecked. They march in companies with their officers, all wounded too. See that tall fellow! that young officer of the guard, with the Gardoni face, that his mother loves and some sweet Marie or Lucille adores —see, he has lost both arms—a cry of pain is all about. " See him, see him," yet he walks proudly, his coat slung from his broad shoulders. He sees the eyes bent on him. With a glance he acknowledges the sympathy, suddenly he steps towards us with his full face glowing with fire, and cries with such a brave enthusiasm, true as his valour, noble as his suffering, such a clear strong voice—voice from the heart, " Vive la France,': " Vive l'Empereur," and waving kerchiefs, and hats taken off, respond with the loud cry " Vive la France, Vive l'Empereur," and the mutilated man strides on, conscious of duty done and glory won. I cannot tell the pain and pride of that scene. Thousands passed by, all wounded, all so cheery in their suffering, saying in every look, " I am happy to suffer for my country, for the glory of France." Nor can I paint the gaze of the men spectators, nor can I convey the sympathy of women's eyes. But deep sympathy was there ; and they, the wounded, knew it, and it paid them for all they had undergone. Noble and glorious soldiers ! but so many—wearily, so many—so many that the heart ached at the streaming columns of crippled heroes. At last they all passed by, and then came along the strains of military music, and regiment after regi ment passed in review before their chief. The English present all caught the enthusiasm of the hour, and cheered right lustily " Vive la Garde !" " Vive les Zouaves !" " Vive la Ligne !" as succes sive regiments passed. No one thought of "Rifle men, form," or of the possibilities of the future. Every man present felt a pride in the manly fel lows who did such honour to their country. The Guardsmen marched with superb precision— the line, too, gallantly and firmly. Then came the Zouaves, " les Zou-zou," jauntily, easily, " cockily," as if their long march from St. Maur were but a light morning's amusement. They look the perfec tion of " hard," " wiry," "beggars," up to anything; fierce of aspect; yet none we know were more tender to the wounded friend or enemy than the redoubted Zouaves, who possessed in Austrian eyes almost Sa tanic attributes. All the troops were laurel crowned, and none more greenly decorated than these Zouaves. Many regiments were accompanied by pets—one a goat, another by a superb black greyhound— several by other dogs, The Zouaves had with them a most " canny" and Zou-zou dog. Like many of his patrons, he was evidently not up in the know ledge of his parentage—no mastiff, no terrier, no bulldog could he claim for father, mother, aunt, or uncle ; yet he was undeniably " varmint." He, too, was garlanded, and carried a "wee" tricolour flag. As to his exploits in the field, the regiment which pets him may know them ; but as to his performance im mediately in the Emperor's presence, it is not the profane pen of your correspondent that shall describe its eccentric audacity. I can only say that it at once conveyed to my mind that he must directly or in directly be descended from the dog of Launce, which did what the bard of Avon has not thought unworthy of record. Then there came the " Turcos," of whom the ma jority are pure Arab, and the rest niggers, French men, and an olla podrida of all nations. They are most strange-looking troops, dressed like Zouaves, only all in blue. They carried no French flag, but banners with a crescent on them and others with a hand; what meaning I know not except that they are Turks and infidels. I should tell you that regiment after regiment cheered the Emperor, and, halting before him, delivered its standard to the officers of the Cent. Gardes. But how picture the enthusiasm of the multitude as stan dard afte standard was laid, in tatters, at Napoleon's feet ! Such a tale of battle as was told by those flags—some on stumps of poles, mere ragged remnants of what had once been a huge silk banner ! Excitement succeeded excite ment, and emotion followed on emotion. The Duke of Magenta, M'Mahon, was present with his dtvision, and received an ovation, only second to that of Napoleon; so also General Forey, the victor of the first battle in the recent cam paign at Montebello. THE WEST INDIA MAILS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MORNING. The Parana steamer, Captain Bevis, has arrived with the West India and Pacific mails. Her dates are—from Jamaica, July 27 ; Grey town, 17th ; Hayti, 29th ; Demerara, Tobago and Trinidad, 25th ; Barbadoes, 27th ; Grenada, 26th ; Antigua, 29th ; St. Thomas's, August Ist. She brings 151 passengers, 795,910 dols. in specie, jewellery, ,diamonds, value 8,293 dols, and general cargo. The Paramatta was still on shore in about the same condition as at last reports. The Plata steamer, hence, with mails of the 18th ult., arrived at St. Thomas's at 6 a.m. on the Ist inst. All well. Tier Majesty's ships Imaum and Arachne were at Jamaica. Business continued dull at Jamaica, and confi dence somewhat shaken by recent failures. The same activity prevailed in meal and rice as at last report; sugar crops looking well. Health of the island good. Freights dull. Trade at Demerara dull, produce scarce, and freights low : weather favourable, and canes thriving vigorously. The sugar crop of 1859 at Trinidad was finished, and nearly all shipped, there not being more than 2,000 tons of shipping in the Gulf, all of which would leave within a week. The amount is a little below the expected 40,000 hogsheads, but in excess of the produce of any previous year. Freights at Barbadoes very low, and business dull. The sugar crops were looking well, but exports would not equal last year's. The South Pacific advices are of the same date as those received by way of New York. EXTENSIVE POISONING.—On the night of the 4th inst. about 30 persons, men, women, and children, were taken suddenly ill in the neighbourhood of Capel Hendre. Mr. Lewis, surgeon, and Mr. Saunders, druggist, were sent for, and did all in their power to alleviate the sufferings of those afflicted. Mr. Lewis, after inquiry, found that all the per sons who had become so afflicted had been employed on the previous day at a farm called Rhos, in the parish of Llan dible, in getting in the harvest, and had all partaken of supper there. It was also ascertained that some men who had been working there for the day and did not partake of supper were not ill. Mr. Lewis further ascertained that some who had taken supper but who had not eaten of pud ding were not affected. The cause must therefore be attri buted to some ingredient in the pudding. Mrs. Parry, the widow who occupies the farm, and all her family, together with her domestic servants, were amongst those that suf fered ; the principal part of whom are now fast recovering. Some are convalescent, and the rest considered to be out of danger. Further inquiries are being instituted, and no doubt the cause of the illness will be ascertained.— Tf 7elsh man. INDIA (TERRITORIAL AccouNTs.)—Accounts re specting the territorial revenues and disbursements of the government of India for the year 1857-58 have been pre sented to Parliament. The total revenue receipts of all the Presidencies of India of the said year amounted to £ 3l /7 06 ,776, and the total payments out of the income to £6,162,326, leaving £25,480,941 as the actual receipts into the Government Treasury. The gross receipts were : From land revenue, £17,310,195 ; from customs, £2,148,831 ; from salt, £2,131,346; and from opium, £6,864,209. The remaining items are hadly worth notice. The total charges on the revenue in India and England amounted to £39,570,998, which, balanced against the gross receipts (£31,706,776), leaves an excess of expenditure, or a defi ciency, of no less than £ 7,864,222. The estimated revenue for 1858-59 was £33,806,294, and the estimated charge in India and England £47,199,431, thus leaving an estimated deficiency for that year of £13,393,137. This is tantamount to a deficiency of more than £20,000,000 in two years. The charges defrayed in England on account of the Indian ter ritory for 1857-58 were £4.492,470, and the estimated chargc for 1858-59 was £6,051,566. The actual deficit on the ac counts of all the territories and departments under the im• mediate control of the government of India in 1857-58 was £11,610,734, and for the next year, 1858-59 it was esti mated at £16,900,754. RAILWAY A6CIDENTS.— A Parliamentary return, issued yesterday, shows that between the Ist of January and the 30th June, 25 accidents occurred to passenger trains, and 27 to goods and mineral trains, which resulted in the death of nine persons and injuries to 159. LITERATURE. Recollections. By Samuel Rogers. Longman. The volume before us will probably be produc tive of some disappointment. It does not fulfil the expectations excited by the recollections of the thoughts and conversations of such men as Fox, Burke, Grattan, Talley-rand, Lord Erskine, Sir Walter Scott, and the Duke of Wellington —re corded by one of whom a friend and brother pot has said that he was— " doubly blessed in life, as in his perfect strain, By that pure, mellowing power of Taste, Without which Fancy ines in vain." The recollections are often mere phrases, which lose all their value or interest by their isolated position. If we had the notes of a conversation, the assertio! and its answer, the criticism and discussion , it would be very different ; but the extreme brevity_ of the quotations is frequently, to say the least or it, perplexing. Who, for instance, can learn much from such disconnected sentences as the following, from the chapter on Fox : "Alps—Swiss lakes lovely—ltalian lakes muc h more busy. Returned from Italy very fast ---Wa s there with Windham. "Preferred Box-hill to Leith-hill. "Lock must do everything with taste. "A distance essential to a house, " Green Park the best situation in London? We cannot but regret that one who had so 0 0 / opportunities of gathering the opinions and Eat': ments of the great men of his time, should ha ve arranged them in a manner so laconic as to l e scarcely suggestive. Those of the Duke of ti~ r ef . lington are the most connected and interti r : g' There are, however, passages of interest and 10 - luo among the collection, which may serve to gT ati t fl o the reader, and afford him an insight into We characters and tastes of the eminent men NclO s words are thus quoted. Tobacco ; its History and Associations. By W. Fairholt, F.S.A., Author of " Costume in Ob .- land," &c. Chapman and Hall. This volume will attract the attention of til os : who entertain a predilection for smoking ; rt Int sesses advantages in the way of information, as. furnishes them with an account of the plant alld end 1 manufacture, with its modes of use i n a ll ages a r s countries. It is strange that th e au thor is n o smoker himself, although his earliest recollection, are of a tobacco warehouse, where he says he in the tobacco leaf as country children would in hay-field. It will be seen that this book is vai tte n f by one who has had experience of the subject t i o which he treats, having been for some time blCb mately associated with his father's business, he afterwards left, however, for it was not su s t a isr , to his taste. Without being anything poiti all ' s e this volume can furnish a subject of perusal to tin t desirous of informing themselves on the topic• s 8 exhibits great skill in research, and has nuirter ° quotations. r 0111 Luxima, the Prophetess. By Sydney, Lady • 51u ' gan. Westerton. • e The great interest which h as b een ex cited le the details of Indian life, and the recent death of authoress of this work, will probably induce 08 '," readers to receive it with cordiality. Unless" 11 „ ° ,"; ever, they are very romantic in their tastes, t' o l will most likely be disappointed, since the pl° t 0 1 the story is by no means pleasing, and the gelleTch style of the work displays little of the ability Yoi l lt won for Lady Morgan her high reputation• ro t is due to the authoress to state, that it was published upwards of 40 years ago, when , iitpf i r e peared in three volumes under the title of .t Missionary." Hilarion, the hero, is a Jesuit Pr to of a noble Portuguese family, who proceed ter. India as a missionary of the most fervent chara"ro, He accidently meets with Luxima, 2 , to phetess of the Brahmins, whom he endeavo ur e d, convert. They end by becoming mutually att 41c 7.,: 0 1 but their union is i m p oss ibl e , an d their affee'" i g brings them nothing but trouble. Hilarie l 4 ' seized by the Inquisitio n , but finally escapees. i 'io- Luxima accidentally falls a victim to a silt' a tended for him. Those who are attracted , romance of this character may derive some g rate a n cation from its pages, but the subject is I)° ' de agreeable one, and the nature of the character prives it of much interest. The Wild _Hebrides. By Walter Cooper Den Longman. This little book presents a sketch of the see fle It at once grand and picturesque of the Hebrides . _in is, therefore, a desirable study, and it is writ tell e is a pleasing manner ; as may be imagined, th cr t bo much that merits attention in the places acillc traveller passes, and the book is illustrated map and sketches taken on the spot by the en' ' ,ig The account of Staffa, the Isle of Column s ' der peculiarly attractive. It is th ere th a t the v 70 : 4 i 5 exists of the temple not mad e w ith hands, "- here remarked— " Nature itself, it seemed, would raise A minster to her Master's praise." 1 1ea The author observes, " as we close on its 13 , "ri l e cliffs, however, w;lether in a bright holiday e L a s elements when the sunbeam lights up its eoltio,l,lo, with varied streaks of colour, or when the 'the mental fury of a storm deepens its beauty with sublime, we gaze on it with especial admiratiou;o The scenery of Loch Cornish in Skye seems to 115 i g impressed the traveller the most. " Cornis h b y ' majestically beautiful in noontide light, but, h i4 oneself benighted in a storm at midnight in desert, it is awful even to think of the associati-to that would crowd into the mind," he goes o °,o say, " would produce a high-wrought enthus` °- o r akin to the sublime, but it might end in fatal terclio to the mind." There is eno ug h o f i n terest in A t o se little volume to render it a su it a bl e s tudy to who like to form a collection of works of tr 3 t be and among 'the many that appear concerning ab le wonders of foreign lands, it is certainly desiT: te d to look at home and become a little acqu a ' with the scenes of Great Britain. The Warden By Anthony Trollope. Ne w Edition. Longman. •dori This clever but somewhat unsatisfactory has just bean issued in a cheap and comill°ulls-ea form. Mr. Anthony Trollope is now rec o g o a as one of the regular band of novel writers , a° l° Nr ia whom his ability and vigorous style promise t° u ch him distinction if he will not write with too To o f rapidity and too little care. Though it is not 111 ,, 3 0- years since " The Warden" was first published , s h - o fe ral three-volume novels, bearing his name' have since appeared, and th ose w h o h av e been attr3cree by the originality and talent of " The Clerks," or "Th e B er t r ams," will be ready' . t 0 + l / 13 eif themselves of this opportunity of perusing author's earliest work. OUR RAILWAY JOURNAL• (From the Great Northern Railway Journal.) " The story of our lives from year to year," Has prompted me before you to appear; Not, mark, of Dickens' serial do I speak, Nor of its hopeful rival " Once a Week," Nor of the Railway Times, or Times diurnal, , But of our newborn " G. N. Railway Journal The little stranger that's just come to town, Whose fragile form would wither at your froust• If you but smile, because of recent birth, And warmly greet his advent to the earth; If you forgive his faults, and kindly try His failings to regard with lenient eye ; Full soon he'll thrive, and every week you'll sea A stouter, wiser, better child is he. From week to week, our Journal will enshrine All News important " in the Railway line." . The price of shares, the meetings, and " on tilt, In short whate'er of interest there may be. Our little Journal in Department " two," Will be entirely of a homely hue, Filled with reports on matters strictly tru.e-- Not gossip, mind, for that would never do. Should space permit, there'll be besides the New s ' A corner open to the Railway Muse. Next, Humerous Sketches, Stories, Essays brief/ To cheer the heart, and give the mind relief d 01 1 ' 4 ' From "Ups" and Downs," and special rates an p ols• And " Ins" and " Outs," dogs, horses, fish, and FRENCH FORTIFICATIONS IN THE Cm" elate - The French Emperor has issued an order for tho / 01- 44 um 4 10 fortification of the Chausey Islands. These i s cl . l— r o,at t most of our readers must be aware, lie between ,`-^,;" and St. Malo on the one hand, and Jersey on t' h 'io ° ll r They are little more than mere rocks, some of , w- tieg - o f entirely submerged at high water, and offer no o c : itu te, t any living thing. The principal one is totally tle!'",,,lig i n; all vegetation except the sparest herbage. There ' B l,yee houseupon it, which is useful to the small craft eruPaiat° e ' the oyster fishery. The present importance of the„. a s Islands consists in the shelter which their lee atfer u ,"a the' l anchorage in gales of wind. As affording such e1e,',," 0 - j t aa i , li e ; were of immense use to the British cruisers e:"Frati, in Granville and St. Malo, during the late war wi!') . , a tea No doubt, therefore, their being fortified has erlgici i Pr'; the prospective contingency of a not distant war w o . l t ess , land. With our own works at Alderney in pro!? rope, have, however, no right to complain of the French Chausey.—Guernsey Star. „ gatvr le u FOUNDERING OF THE BLENHEM—un ship the news reached Lloyd's of the loss of the fine thefil heim, Capt. Headley, in the Bay of Bengal, an r 013 " t Of by drowning of her commander, the second °w ee ' flee' 0 of her crew. The Blenheim was one of the fie ° d soty Indiamen owned by Messrs. Duncan Dunbar 511 , 03 (i bhe of Limehouse. She was on her return voYaQ 1 6th a K Akyab on the 7th of June for Calcutta. 0 31 t to 19 5 0 c, encountered a fearful gale, which caused the sea to foal l If over her, and it becoming apparent that she welli p, „, se w: o °o the capt,in and crew took to the bo , ts. and h ' co decl A o f done so when the ship went down. They s ue • 14 41,e Isla s o sighting laud, and one boat reached shore oh 7 tho t , o t' Rawree ; the other, however, was sw,atePed al w atei v;f0 0 which swept the beach, and the captain, second mita swain cook, and nine men perished. The Bie n about ' 7OO tons register.