The Sun. — London, England, 1860-06-05 00:00:00

EARLY CLOSING ON SATURDAYS AND' THE RIFLE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT. A MORNING MEETING in connection with the EARLY CLOSING ASSOCIATION will be held, at St. James's Hall, to-morrow WEDNESDAY, June 6, at 3 o'clock, for the pro motion of earlier closing on Saturday. Lord ELCHO, M.P., in the chair. The Right Hon. the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Right Hon. Earl Grosvenor, M.P., Lord Radstock, the Rev. William Landels, Arthur Mills, Esq., M.P., Benjamin Shaw, Esq., ALA., the Rev. J. M. Bellew, and others, will address the meeting. Dooii open at half-past Two. Admission by Tickets only, to be obtained of Mr. Austin, at the Hall ; Messrs. J. and F. H. Rivington, 3, Waterloo-place, Pall-Mall ; Nisbet and Co., 21, Berners-street ; Seeleys, 2, Hanover-street ; Westerton's Library, 20, St. George's-place, Hyde Park-corner ; W. Sksffington, 163, Piccadilly; E. .Stamford, Charing-cross ; and at,the offices of the Association, 35, Ludgate-hill. JOSEPH PITTER, Secretary. EAST AND WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY. The Court of Directors of the East and West India Dock Company hereby give notice, that the TRANSFER BOOKS of the said Company will be SIIUT on WEDNESDAY, the 13th day of June, and open again on TUESDAY, the 3d day of July, 1860, By order of the Court, GEORGE COLLIN, Secretary. East and West India Dock house, Billiter-square, Ist June, 1860. B " SON'S WATCHES. " Perfection of mechanism."—Morning Post. _ _ . Gold Silver 2 to 50 guineas. Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, descrip tive of every construction of watch now made, with their prices. Watches sent to all parts of the kingdom fres by post, or to India and the Colonies for ss. extra. 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Established 1749. _ THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE FAMILY SECRET. Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, W. Farren, Villiers, Buckstone, Mrs. B. White. Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Mrs. Wilkins, and Miss Amy Sedgwick. Followed by a now farce, entitled FITZSMYTHE OF FITZSMYTHE HALL. Messrs. Buckstone, W. Farren, and Rogers; Mrs. Wilkins and Miss Henrade. After which, THE ODDITIES OF THE OHIO. By the Leclercqs. To conclude with A KISS IN THE DARK. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A.. Harris. THIS EVENING, HAMLET. Mr. Phelps. To conclude with THRICE MARRIED. Mr. Meadows, Miss C. Leclercq, &c. Commence at 7. ADELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING to commence with IT'S AN ILL WIND THAT BLOWS NOBODY GOOD. Messrs. Alfred Wigan, J. L. Toole, Stuart, Billington, C. J. Smith, Ward, Mrs. A. Wigan, and Miss 11. Simms.. After which, OUR FEMALE AMERICAN COUSIN. Messrs. Stuart, C. Selby, Billington, Eburne, Miss Julia Da'.y, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with GOING TO THE DERBY. Box-office open from 10 till 5. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, XL Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 9s. ; Front Circle Stalls, es. ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. FRENCH PLAYS-ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, Directeur, M. Talexy.—Lessee, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. TIIIS EVENING (Tuesday), LA TENTATION. Comedie, en cinq actes, de M. Octove Feuillet. Mdlle. Duverger, M.Brin dean, and M. Paul Devoux. Orchestra Stalls, 7s. 6d. ; Balcony Stalls, ss. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Private Boxes, from Two Guineas. Doors open at half-past 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor, Mr. WTI. BATTY. Last six nights of the Great Military Spectacle. • lIIS EVENING, The Grand Hippo-Drama, " THE HISTORY OF A FLAG." Wondrous Scenes in the Cirque, supported by the most talented Equestrian and Gymnastic Artistes in the World. Concluding with a Laughable Farce. Thu magnificent Chan 'eliers manufactured by Messrs. De fries and Sons, Houndsditch. s open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7. - Box office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. Director of file Arena—M. Felix Revolti. CONCERTS.- CA NTERB UR Y HALL THIS EVENING. • C. H. GOIJNOD'S OPERA, FAUST. first Time in this Country. Faust Mr. Henry Herbert. Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard. Siobel Mrs. Anderson. Marguerite 0.4••• Miss Russell. Conductor Mr. Jonghmans. And selections from Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, is, Hall, 6d. Comic Vocalists—Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), and W. T. Crltchfield. The AFRICAN OPERA TROUPE, their first appearance Since 1852, consisting of ELEVEN STAR PERFORMERS, who will give the whole of their inimitable entertainment every evening. The gallery is open from 5 Lill 11 on Sunday Evening. THE IVEATH.EII.--Strx OFFICE, JUNE 5, 1560. THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE. 6.s—highest since noon yesterday. 49—lowest this morning and during the night. 61—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.88. Wrxn—W.-S.-Westerly ; rather fresh, with fine weather. lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 2h. 41m.—Afternoon, 3b. 2m. To-MORROW.-Morning, 3h. 24m.—Afternoon, 3h. 45m. 1 eifip ) 1 • ... . ' g;,. -(•:.‘-_ 9 - 7 - ;-' , ' ', NP% , ' - -,.,-; ';)-'' , ,Ce -_-_ , •c '''- 7 1 .7- / -4 ~,,(&. %! : '*,l --:•:',":-'7,1fT,,i ~ „ , .:AS: J - 7,,, , d t ,,j' • x, 0 \ ....4,A5,,,,,-A_,), ir.--;,Z.Vi--- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 5, 1860. THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1860. --P If there be " reason in madness," there surely ought to be reason in Parliamentary opposition. The country will not, however, think there is even the shadow of reason for the wanton waste of time of which the Opposition are guilty in regard to the Reform Bill; and it is the more to be regretted, there fore, that some Liberals should needlessly, by their own crotchets, aid them in the discreditable course Nvhich is now pursued. The country began to be utterly disgusted with the six days' debate, by which the time of its Parliament was frittered away by third and fourth rate talkers on the motion for the second reading, on which there was to be no division. We do not remember that any speech added one idea or one fact worth preserving to all we knew before ; it was, as the talkers well knew, merrly - wasting time to get rid of the bill, if po,sible, by a side wind. And now the same unmanly tactics are renewed on the proposal to go into committee. A score nearly of instructions and other proposals are moved, not for their own sake, but to delay business. We must denounce cuela a proceeding as undignified and un-English. The bill ought at once to go into committee, and the combatants to fight a manly straightforward battle against the clauses they object to, and for those which they wish to insert. That we could respect. This fictions prating against time is really intolerable. We adverted to the formidable list of motions, obstrut;tive of going into committee, on Saturday, and need not repeat what we then said. Four of them went off on the ground of form, but Mr. BENTINCK, who seemed to threaten the Speaker with an appeal to the House on his decision, was permitted to instruct the committee to make better provision for the prevention of bribery. We should have given Mr. BENTINCK credit for sincerity, but for his gross misstatement as to the relative corruption of counties and b'oroughs. We quite agree with him that the addition of-numerous and poorer voters will in2rease the field for bribery, and we have always demanded that the only known remedy should form part of any bill which ex tended largely the franchise among the working classes. But we deny entirely that the boroughs are the more corrupt of the two. The corrup tipn is different, but incomparably greater in the counties. We speak what we know when we say that the constituency of West Nor folk is one of the most corrupt in the United King dom. Very probably not half a dozen voters, if so in case of a Con t est, t h ere get any many, would thing beyond their trav e llin g expenses, and not man y would need even those. But will even the member for West Norfolk pretend that votes are bought with sovereigns and beer only ? We beg to ask him one plain question—How many of the farmers, and even of the tradesmen, who have votes in any part of the county darn Tote again their landlords or the landlords of those who employ them. Bribery in the towns is carried on by the hope of getting money—in the counties by the fear of losing it. The bribee in the borough wants to get more than his right ; the bribee in the county fears to lose his right. In the borough the briber makes some sacrifice ; in the county the briber sacrifices the man he bribes. The bribers in West Norfolk are infinitely meaner men than the CHARLES WORTHS and the LEATHAMS. The latter put gold into the bribee's hand. The landlords of West Norfolk elect Mr. BENTINCK by driving the iron into the voter's soul. Mr. WYLD, indeed, would have added to Mr. BENTINCK'S instruction on the prevention of bri bery, " and that for that purpose the votes of elec tors should be taken by Ballot." But the discus sion on that subject was shut out by the Speaker deciding that the committee had power already to introduce a clause to that effect. No doubt they have, and if Mr. BENTINOK be sincere he will as certainly support Mr. WYLD'S proposal, when it is made. We deny that even in boroughs any other means would do half so much to check, if not almost to extirpate bribery, especially if the constituencies were large ; but for the county corruption it is the cure, as much a specific, as quinine for ague. In a very few elections, under the ballot, the counties would become as politically alive and intelligent as the large boroughs ; their voters as independent, arid Mr. BENTINCK and Mr. DISRAELI might then fairly claim for them representation in propor tion to number of electors and the rateable value of property. To give the counties more members now, would simply be to give more members to the 30,000 landlords of the kingdom ; and we submit that between the counties and the agricultural boroughs, they already enjoy a most unfair monopoly of electoral power. In the slave states the slaveholders vote for two-fifths of their slaves ; but in the counties of England the landlords vote for the whole of their tenants; for, what is the same thing, they compel them all to vote for their candidate. So the Scotch and Irish Bills go by the board for the session, and the Tory press, chuckles with the confidence that the English Bill will follow them. It may be so. But, if it be, it will be the disgrace equally of both the Ministry and the Opposition. The latter must bear the opprobrium of doing what any man can do, of obstructing your way when he dare not resist you. The foruier, of not assuming a tone which should compel Parliament to do its duty, and save the credit of our House of Commons in the eyes of Europe. Lord JOHN has justly said that if Parliament has serious business to do, there is no reason why it should not sit—Lords and Commons, too—till the business is ended. We hear enough declamation against Americanising our institutions ; it would be so, indeed, if we fixed any day for the termination of the sittings of our Congress. We boast of greater freedom. Let Ministers use what they boast of. We may be quite sure that if the Cabinet announced that both houses should sit until the Reform Bill and the Bankruptcy Bill had both been fully considered and decided on by them —every man who spoke against time would be put down as a bore, and business would.move on. The Ministry which could submit to have a money bill thrown out by the Lords, and a Reform Bill talked out by the vulgus of the Commons, had better resign at once. They would only live on a humiliated Cabinet life. Is the bombardment of the city of Palermo to be tolerated by the civilised nations of Christendom ? The question comes home even to the Neutrals ! Here is a populous town, the capital of the island of Sicily, brutally subjected by the war ships of the King of NAPLES to a bombardment and a re bombardment. And under what circumstances ? Let the facts which have been patent to the world but so very recently answer. Let it be borne in remembrance that there at Palermo, there in Sicily, is the Royal Neapolitan Army 25,000 strong—assailed by a band of nearly 2,000 volunteers, landed only the other day and marched against them by GARIBALDI. Two thousand against twenty-five thousand! Certainly GARIBALDI and his followers have the nation, the people them selves, at his back. That is their reliance—that is what they counted upon when setting forth upon this apparently rash, but, as the event is proving, perfectly rational expedition, But equally certain is it—that when the soldiers of GARIBALDI first put foot upon Sicilian soil they mustered actually under " two thousand." So formidable, however, was that little band under the leadership of their famous Captain, that the war ships from Naples at their approach wisely kept aloof—allowed them to effect a landing uninterruptedly—they, the volunteers, together with their arms and accoutre ments, and then—but not till then—opened fire upon the two empty and deserted vessels that had brought over the expedition! Precisely in the same safe and cautious manner are they acting now, with a view to inflict as much damage as possible upon _their antagonists, with as small danger as may be of any injury being inflicted in return upon themselves. The army of 25,000 men being unable to defend Palermo against the 2,000 volunteers under GARI BALDI, the Neapolitan fleet begins determinedly opening fire upon the defenceless city—an act of desperation happily but seldom adventured upon in modern warfare, and then only. until now, under circumstances of the utmost ex tremity. Where large masses of unarmed people— civPians—men, women, and children—are crowded together, there the artillery of true warriors will be found (when looking retrospectively down the long vista of history), but rarely, indeed, to have directed their fire, a fire that so directed is felt in stinctively by brave men to be little less than literally murderous ! The Neapolitans are open• ing a new era in warfare. They are giving the world a precedent, in regard to which it will have to be remembered that a royal army 25,000 strong laving been driven to an extremity by a little band of two thousand, have conceived it to be only reasonable, nuy,the merest matter of course, that they, the vast defeated majority, should be avenged by the brutal bombardment of a defenceless city crowded with civilians of both sexes and of all ages ! Again, we ask, is the continuance of this act of unexampled brutality, of unparalleled in humanity, to be tolerated by the nations, even by the neutral powers of Christendom ? The act itself is one of such peculiar atrocity as to afford even the most peace-loving advocates of non-interven tion the opportunity, the right, (might we not rather say, the solcmn and imperative duly ?) of interference. The bombardment of Palermo caps the climax of everything that has ever been charged against the Neapolitan Government. Will it not serve, toe, most effectually, to brim up the cup—there in Sicily, there also in Naples itself —of the popular indignation? It is not in our own Church alone that there are Churches within a Church, or at least great diver sities, doctrinal and ecclesiastical, among those who hear, religiously, the same name. As we have our Mei and Low, our Broad and Moderate Church , men, so the other great Christian bodies of our country contain each of them numerous sections. There are, we know not how many sects of Metho dists, all claiming their descent from the renowned JOHN WESLEY, and each proud of the asserted purity of its ecclesiastical blood. And we learned, but a short time ago, that amongst the large and influential body of the Baptists, the sect which our seceding clergymen, the Hon. and Rev. BAPTIST NOEL for instance, are so prone to join, there is a very remarkable difference of opinion on a point of ecclesiastical order. We happened to be in the Rolls Court about a month ago, when Sir HUGH CAIRNS was pleading in a cause arising out of this difference ; and his remarkably lucid and eloquent statement and illus tration of the case created no little interest in our minds, as it evidently did in those of a number of individuals present, whom we judged to be persons belonging to the denomination. It would seem that the Baptists also have among them their Puseyites and their Broad Churchmen ; the men of ritual tendency and the men of expan sive Christian charity. Our readers should, however, be aware, that the peculiarity from which the denomination takes its name, is their opinion and practice in regard to the ordi nance of Christian baptism. They do not, like all the rest of Christendom, baptise the child at a con venient time, and, as a matter of course, generally in very early infancy, much less do they admit spon sorial pledges. They maintain that infant baptism is a nullity; that it wants the essential feature of scriptural baptism, which they place in the indivi dual's intelligent profession of his own faith prior to baptism. Hence they baptise only those who are of age to make, and who do make, a credible profession of their personal belief, and whose visible conduct does not belie that profession, By their adversaries in early times they were designated Ana-baptists, from their baptising those who had been previously baptised in infancy ;—a term, how ever, always, and fairly, repudiated by them, since the baptism in infancy being, in their view, a nul lity, they could not be charged with repeating the performance of the ordinance; We should add that, besides baptising believers only, they baptise them by immersion only—a practice which many also of our High Churchmen desire to resuscitate. The difference of opinion amongst Baptists them selves, which we heard so ably illustrated, relates not to baptism but to communion in the Lord's Supper. Some of the body restrict their fellow ship in this sacrament to those who have been bap tised according to their own practice ; others are willing to receive to their communion all who agree with them in the fundamentals of Christian faith and practice. The Baptists, like most other Protestant Dissenters, accept, generally, the doc trinal articles of the Church of England, and the more liberal of them would consider accordance in these weightier matters as sufficient ground for fellowship with those who, preferring their Ivor . ship in other respects, do not accept their views on the ordinance of baptism. The more rigid Bap tists—the Puseyites of the body—refuse communion to all who have not been baptised on their own profession of faith, although they would at the same time by no means deny that they were Christians, but freely own that they might be even exemplary Christians. They insist on their view of the rite as essential, not to salvation, but to communion; just as a High Church clergyman would not deny that an unbaptised person might be saved, but would set the whole parish in com motion rather than bury him as a Christian. In the suit, of which we heard part of the plead ings, and gave, briefly, the judgment of Sir JOHN ROMILLY on Monday week, the Baptist Puseyites showed themselves wonderfully hard indeed to please. In the old city of Norwich there is a /as a p and handsome chapel, occupying the place of an older one more of the conventicle class, which by its deeds places the building in trust simply for the use of "particular Baptists." It was explained, and agreed to on all heads, that the term " par ticular" was an ecclesiastical and technical word, not relating, as but for the explanation we should have supposed, to particularity in regard to the point in dispute—Communion— but to the point on which diversity of opinion has always existed, the application of the Christian Redemption. It is opposed to general Baptist— the two words really meaning, respectively, Cal vinistic and AI minian. On the face of the deed, therefore, there was no restriction on the subject of Communion. The Hyper-Baptists, however, appeared chiefly to contend that if other acknow ledged Christians, not Baptists, were admitted to fellowship, the building could no longer be said to be for the use of Baptists. It was acknowledged that the "Broad-Church" Baptists, as we might desig nate them, had consulted most liberally the scruples of their rigid brethren. As the latter could not conscientiously receive the Sacrament of the LORD with those whom they regarded as unbaptized, the more liberal had provided a separate communion for them, to which only those were admitted who had been baptised in the mode held by the strict brethren to be orthodox. This, however, was not enough. The strict brethren seem to have thought the building would be desecrated, if their more liberal brethren admitted to Christian fellowship within it any who had not passed the Baptist Rubicon. Interested as we all get in an able dis cussion on any point, we confess we hoped, while listening to Sir IruGn CAIRNS pleading so ably for the liberal side of the case, that the Liberals might have it. His legal argument appeared to Its also to be complete. We were pleased, therefore,' to see that Sir JOHN ROMILLY accapted decidedly Sir HUGH CaiuNs' representation of the law. His Honour, in a long and able judgment, was decidedly of opinion that the absence of limitation in the deed left the znijority of the members free to exercise their judgment as they pleased on this matter hI held that it was amply proved by the evidence, that from the earliest accounts of Baptists, down to the present time, two things were clear. One that they jealously maintained the supreme and indepen dent authority of each Baptist Church over its own affairs—even when Baptists met together by dele gates as a class of churches, they were always care ful to note that such a meeting had no authority whatever beyond that of brotherly advice. The second point was that from the earliest days there had been among the Baptists this difference of opi nion on the subject of communion with persons not baptized after their own manner—a liberal party and a strict party in the same church frequently. None had pretended, however, that the liberal view deprived those who held and acted on it of their title to be considered Baptists. Hence it was, as Sir Ilercat CAIRNS exi ressed it, intra vines, of any Baptist Church to adOpt the liberal or the strict practice, at the discretion of a majority of the mem bers, at any time ; and no long continuance of one practice or the other could debar the church of a right to change its practice either way. Our sympathies can but be with the liberal side in everything; indeed liberals in religion are gene rally the same in politics and in social life. As abode-, the Baptists, in politics, are almost sternlyliberal ; we believe that a Baptist Tory is a rara avis in deed. We were struck with another circum stance; all the genius and education among Baptists seemed to be on the ecclesiastically liberal side. We judged from the affidavits referred to, that all the tutors of the Baptist ministerial colleges, and all their ablest ministers at the present day, were Free Communionists. Sir JOHN ROMILLY seemed much impressed with the fact, as we also should have been, that the immortal author of the Pilgrim's Progress was a Baptist, and argued earnestly in his day for the liberal practice ; and that his arguments were distinguished from those of his opponents, as much by their gentleness of tone as by their vigour and genius. ROBERT HALL also, the unrivalled pulpit orator of mo dern times, the college companion and friend through life of Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH, defended with all the force of his eloquence the liberal views on communion of JOHN BUNYAN. Men of considerable learning, generally self acquired learning, were, indeed, to be found on the other side ; but we know in our own Church that liberal views are commonly associated with genius and scholarship combined, while narrower views :Jo not unfrequent amongst the merely learned. As we understood it, the legal decLion of Sir JOHN ROMILLY will enable the greater part of the Baptist congregations of the country to carry out liberal views if they entertain them, and we certainly cannot but feel gratified that law should be on the side of liberty. It seems to us, also, that the Free Communion Baptists furnish an unusual exemplification of Christian charity in secta rianism ; since they professedly admit to their fellowship all Christians who differ from them on their distinctive tenet. If the Christian churches generally adopted such a practice, how much might it do towards appeasing the most bitter and un lovely of strifes—those which disgrace religion. THE PRETENDERS TO THE SPANISH CROIVA: The following important document has been forwarded to us for publication : (Translation.) " To THE CORTES. " The abdication of my brother Charles Louis of his rights to the Crown of Spain, contained in his manifesto, dated in Tortosa, on the 23d of April this year, compels me to claim the rights of my family, and those which I have personally, to the throne of my ancestors. " Decided to maintain them, as well as the principle of legality upon which they are based, I will not permit an appeal to arms to obtain the triumph, nor that the noble blood of Spaniards shall again be shed in the cause. " I place my faith in Divine Providence, in the rectitude and patriotism of the Spaniards, and in the force of circum stances. " I desire not to ascend the throne by encountering vic tims on the steps of it ; I desire to ascend it supported by the general conviction that by legality order will be esta blished, and with it the country will prosper and progress, in conformity with the enlighte2ment of the age. " I issue this manifesto to the Cortes in order that the nation may thereby be informed of it. "London, June 2, 1860." " Copia de la ,Manifestation que haco ele Principe Don Juan de Borbon a la nacion Espanola, y que dirige per conducto de los Presidentes de los Cuerpos Colegisla dores. " A LAS CORTES. " La renancia de los derechos que tenia a la Corona de Espana mi hermano Carlos Luis, consignada en su mani fiesto fecho en Tortosa a 23 de Abril de este ano, me obliga a reclamar les derechos de mi familia y los que personal mente lengo al Trono de mis mayores. " Desidido a sostenerlos, asi como el principio de legali dad en que descansan, no permitire que pars obtener el triumfo se apele a las arenas, y corra una vez mas la noble sangre de los Espanoles. " Espero todo de la Divina Providencia, de la reetitud y patriotismo de los Espanoles, y de la fuerza de las cireum stanciaa. " No quiero subir al trono encontrando cadaveres en las gradas; quiero ascenderlas apoyado por la conviction gene ral de que con la legalidad see: tablece el dr den y con el el pais prosperara y marchara de acuerdo con los progresos y la ilustracion de siglo. " Y hago 6sta manifestation 5. las Cartes para que asi lo engo entendido la nation. " JUAN DE BORBON. " Londres, 2 de Junio de 1860." WASHINGTON FRIEND'S CANADIAN AND 41.1C.E.TeZai -V IL An entertainment, not merely of an amusing but of an instructive nature, was commenced at St. James's•hall last evening, by Mr. Washington Friend, a gentleman who has for some weeks past caused his advent to be very generally known by a very extensive system of large posters and other means of attracting attention. The entertainment is a corn • bination of vocal music and descriptions of the principal scenes and objects of interest in Canada and the United States, illustrated by some very vigorously-painted dioramic views. Starting from New York, the lecturer takes the spectator by the Trenton Falls and city of Rochester to Genessee, and thence to the constantly depicted, but never thoroughly appreciated, Niagara falls. The views at this point afford as good representations of this stupendous natural fall as can be expected by the aid of the pencil, and it is no discredit to the artist to say that they fail to convey an ade quate idea of the magnitude of the scenery. The Niagara River, the lake scenery, and the principal towns of Canada along the shores of the St. Lawrence, are next visited, and many of the views, especially a camp meeting and a Cana dian farm, exhibit considerable power and ability on the part of the artist. The Victoria Bridge at Montreal is very cleverly illustrated, and the difficulty of presenting this ex traordinary structure in such a manner as to convey an idea of its colossal proportions have been very successfully over come. Mr. Friend introduced several songs in his enter tainment, and accompanies himself upon a val iety of instru ments. His volubility is amazing, and his descriptions are like " patter songs." He is lively in the extreme, and if not always intelligible is at least amusing. The introduc tion of moving figures in the dioramic pictures, such as the paddles of the steamers, the oars of the boats, &c., is a novelty, and the wagging of the horses' tails in the farm yard has a very comical and laughable effect. An hour may be very pleasantly and profitably spent at this enter tainment. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, JUNE 4. A rumour is current here that the bombardment of Palermo recommenced yesterday. Letters state that the first bombardment caused enormous damage to the town. GENOA, JUNE 4. According to advices received here from Naples to the 3d inst., the King is said to have refused the conditions of the capitulation, and hostilities were to recommence at noon yesterday. The city of Palermo is barricaded, and part of the royal troops are surrounded by the insurgents. A Neapolitan general is said to have gone over to the insurgents. PARIS, JUNE 4. The Gazette de France publishes the following message, dated Naples, Sunday evening : " 4,000 insurgents, having several pieces of can non, had attacked Catania on Friday. They were bravely repulsed by General Clary, with the sth Chasseurs, one regiment of Lancers, and some pieces of artillery. " After a combat of eight hours the insurgents were dispersed, losing three cannon and two flags. " The city has since been declared in a state of siege. " Marshal lElfan's column did not participate in the action." ROME, JUNE 2. The Commendatore Martino, the Neapolitan Minister at the Court of the Holy See, left yester day evening for Naples, having been summoned hither by the King. The ambassador, before taking his departure, had a long conference with the Pope. Rome is tranquil, but the inhabitants are agita ted by the grave news from Palermo. Strong patrols traversed the town yesterday evening. His Holiness is said to have expressed his opinion that the Emperor Napoleon and the King of Sar dinia had resolved upon the execution of the pro gramme contained in the pamphlet " Le Pape et le Congres." Signor Castellain, the Roman patriot, has been exiled. MARSEILLES, JUNE 4. Some commercial houses of Marseilles are said to have received fresh news by a supplementary mail from Hong Kong to the 25th April, according to which it was rumoured that the ultimatum had not been absolutely rejected, and that the Plenipo tentiaries had remitted a second ultimatum modi fied in its stipulations, to which theywere going to await the answer of the Chinese Court. PARIS, JUNE 5. The Moniteur of to-day contains a bulletin stating that the improvement in Prince Jerome's health is improving. MADRID, JUNE 4. The treaty with Morocco has been published. The first payment of the indemnity by Morocco will be effected by the Ist July next. The following telegrams have also been received : THE EXPEDITION OF GARIBALDI. " TURIN, JUNE 3. " The Movimento publishes two letters from Garibaldi, one dated from Salemi, the other from Calata Fimi. " In these letters Garibaldi praises the zeal and enthusiasm displayed by the Sicilian insurgents in the fight at Calati Fimi. " The General also renders just homage to the valour of the Neapolitan troops, who were more determined in their resistance than the Austrians last year in Lombardy. " Garibaldi asks for arms and ammunition. "A despatch from Cagliari, dated the evening of the 2d inst., announces the safe arrival at Marsala of the steamer Utile with volunteers, arms, and ammunition." "MARSEILLES, EVENING, JUNE 3. "The Levant steamer, which arrived here yester day from Genoa, has landed a number of strangers who have fled from Messina. Whole families of that city had gone on board the vessels in the roads, which were converted into floating hotels. On the 29th of May the streets were quite deserted, " The Corriere Mercantile says that the defec tions in the Neapolitan army are not numerous, but under the double attacks of Garibaldi and the population they showed hesitation." JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS. " The following is the journal of Garibaldi's operations up to the 26th May : " May B.—Arrival and departure from Talamone for ammunition and coal. " May 9.—Arrival and departure from San Ste fano for coal. " May 10.—Arrival and landing at Marsala, with all and everything, ammunition, and four pieces of artillery. "May 12.—Bivouac at Gran-Pancardo, near Salemi. " May 13 and 14.—Bivouac at Salami ; and con centration of insurrectional forces to the number of about 4,000. " May 15.—Advance and combat outside Calata Fimi, at Monte di Pianto-Romano, against 3,500 Neapolitans, under the orders of Landi. 128 wounded and 18 killed on our side. Capture of a mountain gun. The Royalists driven from five well-defended terrible positions. " May 16.—Landi abandons Calata Fimi, which we occupy. Landi, in his retreat, is terribly cut up at Partenico and Borghetto by the insurgents. " May 17. Departure for Alcamo. " May 18.—Departure for Partenico. On the same day the march is continued towards Palermo. " May 19.—Incessant rain. The troops bivouac. " May 20.—March on Poppio, to draw the Royal forces from Monreale, and manoeuvres to entice the troops out of Palermo. This partially suc ceeds. During the night march on Perrio. The artillery carried by hand, amidst torrents of rain, through horrible paths. " May 2].—lii the morning arrival at Parco, return to Monreale, dispositions to march on Palermo. " May 22 and 23.—The enemy concentrates a large force ; the General still wishes to get more troops away from Palermo. " May 24.—Threatening attack by a force of more than 10,000 men ; dispositions of resistance to draw theta on; commencement of attack; retreat on our side to draw them towards Corleone and bring them in range of cur artillery. While taking a flank movement our troops could appear before Palermo. " May 25.—Arrival at Marnico. We succeed in bringing the Royalists opposite our artillery in the direction of Corleone. In the evening march on Misiltneri; arrival at midnight; bivouac. " May 25 and 26.—A great day ! The wounded are doing well. " ilTisilmeri , 26th." A Paris letter in the .21Tordgives some further de- tails of an incident already mentioned connected with the struggle in Sicily : " A serious and unexpected incident has just arisen at Naples, in connection with affairs in Sicily. M. Carafa assembled all the members of the Diplomatic Body, and communicated to them a note to the effect that the King of Naples, ' from feelings of humanity,' called fcr the intervention of the Powers who had any naval forces stationed on the coast of Sicily, in order to pat an end to the conflict between - his Majesty and a part of his subjects. The note laid it down as a condition that the territory of Sicily should be guaranteed to the King, who, on his part, engaged to grant the most extensive reforms. You may imagine the astonishment produced on the Diplomatic Body by this communication ; it found them quite unprepared, and they were obliged to refer the matter to their respective Governments. It is doubtless that circumstance which led to the armis tice bet ween the royal troops and those of Garibaldi. The Marquis de Villamarina has received instruc tions from Count Cavour not to adhere to the re quest of the Neapolitan Government, as Piedmont wishes to remain faithful to the principle of non intervention. The Cabinet of the Tuileries has not yet made known its reply, -but there is no doubt that France will also maintain the same principle. The announcement of this proceeding on the part of the King of Naples has produced a great im pression in the official world, in Paris, and among diplomatists generally, and has been interpreted as an evident sign of the weakness of the Neapolitan Government, which, with an army of 150,000 men, cannot defend itself against what has been described as a handful of Italian patriots and Sicilian insur gents." A Paris letter in the Independance says : " The fact of a capitulation between the repre sentative of the Neapolitan Government, and the man who was only recently called a filibuster' by the official journals of Naples, is an extremely sig nificant fact. It is considered certain that the Eng lish and French Governments intervened, on the one hand, to stop the resistance of the Near olitan army, which might, in the fortified positions it occu pied, have long continued to fill the town with ruins and bloodshed, without advantage to its cause ; and, on the other, to assure to the army of General Lanza acceptable conditions; Garibaldi having been at first, I am assured, disposed not to let General Lanza and his army withdraw until after having laid down their arms, and even, it is said, restored 5,000,000 f. The French and British Go vernments cannot be too highly praised, if it be true, that they stopped a barbarous and unneces sary effusion of blood." A letter from Naples of the 28th ult., in the Siecle, adds some details to those already known relative to the attack on Palermo : " The statements made here respecting what oc curred yesterday at Palermo are very confused, but in substance they are to this effect :—The insur gents advanced very rapidly in two columns, Garibaldi, sword in hand, at their head. Colonel Orsini, of the Artillery, succeeded in dismounting several of the guns of the royalists. The royal artil lerymen, after a while, became demoralised, and ceased to serve their guns, so that the officers them selves had to work them. The company of Airoli (so the name is given) of the insurgents took some of the guns and killed the officers. Garibaldi and his 15,000 men then rushed on the royal troops in their entrenchments, and drove them back in disorder; on which 8 vessels of war and the forts commenced a bombardment. The consuls, and the commanders of the foreign vessels in the roadstead, made protests against that act ; and this led to communications between Admiral Solazar and the Consuls, who were collected on board the English vessel Hanni bal, bearing the flag of Admiral Mundy. The re sult of these communications was that at five o'clock the Neapolitan fire ceased, and the Italian flag was hoisted on the plateau called the Favorite, which commands part of Palermo and a great portion of the roadstead." The following details respecting Messina may prove of interest at the present moment : " Messina, at once a mercantile port and a fortress, was formerly called Zancle, from the shape of its port, which then presented a curve resembling that of a scythe. It was taken by the Messenians under the conduct of Anaxilas, and from them received its present name. Opposite Messina stands Reggio, the last town in Calabria, and so near that the two coasts appear to have been separated by some grand convulsion of nature which opened a passage for the Tyrrhenian Sea to mix its waters with the lonian. At Mes sina and Reggio, in summer, when the sun rises or sets in cloudless splendour, the singular pheno menon called the Fatu Morgan a is sometimes sae'', which consists in a wonderfully perfect reflection of each of those towns in the sky over the opposite coast. The citadel of Messina stands on a curved promontory, and offers great advantages in a military point of view. In 1848 it proved more powerful than the whole island beside, and, as has been already stated, was the means of re storing Sicily to the Neapolitan Government. The fortifications are very extensive, and the batteries are almost on a level with the water. Having the command of the sea, the citadel can always re ceive reinforcements and provisions. Indeed for its strength and commanding position, it has been styled the Tyrrhenian Gibraltar. Messina is well built, and the streets paved with flags of lava. Many of its squares and public places are orna mented with fountains and statues, the more re markable of which are the Neptune on the Marina and the fountain of the Piazza del Duomo, both by the sculptor Montorsoli. The fine Palazzo Sena torio, the cathedral, built by Count Roger, and de corated with 26 columns of Egyptian granite, and the Storpi Hospital, are not the only remarkable edifices in Messina. If Palermo has the fete of St. _Rosana, Messina, its rival, has the Centenaria, which is kept only once in a century; but thousands of persons flock to Messina to witness the yearly ceremony of the Madonna of the Letter, so called from a letter attributed to the Holy Virgin. The free port of Messina contains a population which is a singular mixture of all nations. Before the great earthquake of 1783, it had aboveloo,ooo inhabitants, but so many people were then driven away that it has never attained that number since." GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION. MR. AND MRS. GERMAN REED'S BENEFIT. The great night of the season—the benefit of Mr. and Mrs. German Reed—took place last evening, and, as is in variably the case, a most fashionable and brilliant audience assembled on the occasion. In addition to the highly sue • cessful entertainment of these popular artistes, there was an extraordinary attraction, viz., the reappearance, after a long absence, of the prince of buffo singers, the unsur passed and unapproachable John Parry. home The entertainment given consisted of the popular " Circuit and Sea-side Studies," with such alterations as were necessary to allow of Mr. Parry's taking a share in the perform .nce. Of Mr. and Mrs. Reed's impersonations it is unnecessary to speak, as all their delineations are well known to pleasure seekers, and it may simply be said that they never sustained them with more spirit, nor produced a greater impression upon the audience. After the regular scenes of this entertainment had gone on, Mr. and Mrs. German Reed meet with an old friend, Mr. John Parry, who being duly recognised and introduced to the audience, was received with the heartiest acclatna - tions. After a scene which nicely touches on his popularity and position, he is indUced to sing one of his old popular son?s, and consequently he sits down to the piano, and gave with all his old well-known powers of expression his cele brated ballad, " Fayre Rosamond," which elicited the most enthusiastic applause. The first part of the entertainment concluded with a capital buffo trio, adapted from the Huguenots, by Mr. Parry and Mr. and Mrs. Reed, which, it is needless to say, produced the greatest laughter and applause. In the second part Mr. Parry also took a share. It consisted of selectiDns from "II Barbiere," and presented him with a fine opportunity of distinguishing himself as Figaro, and certainly- he went through the music with such spirit and humour as clearly proved that Time had not impaired his vocal powers. As to his instrumental accompaniments they were extraordinary. His style of playing was more delicate and expressive than ever, as he made the keys of the pianoforte again yield that humorous and perfect dramatic expression for which he became so justly celebrated. At the termination of the en tertainment all parties were called for, and were received with the most rapturous applause. _ _ We believe Mr. Parry has consented to remain for a short time before the public with Mr. and Mrs. Recd. If such really be the case, the Gallery of Illustration will be come the most, as it long has been one of the most, fashionable and attractive entertainments in the metropolis. The Earl and Countess of Leicester and the Ladies Coke have an ived at the London Hotel, Albemarle street, from Uolkhaut Lord and Lady Iladdo have left England on a foreign tour. Lord and Lady Prohy have left town on a visit t) Lord and Lady Worsley, at Farming Lodge, near Windsor, for the Ascot week. Sir James and Lady Anne Mackenzie have ar rived at Claridge's Hotel from Sherborne Lodge, near Al. dershot, FRANCE. BOURSE, June 4.—The market has been very firm, and speculators for a fall having been obliged to become purchasers, prices have improved. Threes, after having been done at 69f 95c, receded to 69f 80c, and are now again at 69f 95c ; Mobilier varied from 657 f 50c to 675 f 50c; Austrian, 512 f 50c to 516 f 25c ; Saragossa, 522 f 50c to 525 f : Lyons, 875 f to 880 f; Orleans, 1,332 f 50c to 1,335 f; Northern, 980 f to 982 f 50c ; Eastern, 600 f to 602 f 50c ; Southern, 512 f 50c to 520 f. The following are the last quotations : 4 per Cents. .... 96 30 Credit Foncier 885 ISo. end month .. Belgian 4} — 3 per Cents. 7O 10 Piedmontese (5) Do. end month.... 70 15 i Roman B2 50 Bank Shares 2820 - i Austrian Credit M(abilier .. 675 Spanish Threes Do. Account RAILWAYS. Cash. A er'onn t. Orleans sateetfecee.ooossieoa•• 1340 1338 75 Northern 9BO .. 983 75 New ditto 865 866 25 Lyons and Mediterranean 877 ~ 880 Geneva 405 407 50 Southern Western 570 572 50 Eastern Sftrdinian 415 415 Austrian .. 512 50 .. 516 25 Lombard .. Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 e. money, 251.120.; three months, paper; 24f. 90c. ; money, 241 871 c. THE WEATHER IN TIIE HIGHLANDS.—Winter has not yet departed from some of the wild districts of our west coast, and we have received from Captain Turner a memorandum referring to a part of the country in the neighbourhood of his route, in which it is stated that Loch Corrichulen is still covered with sound ice, and that Craig.- chulen, which rises to a height of 2,500 feet above the level of the sea, is still wrapt in wreaths of snow, 20 feet deep.— /pret•ness Chronicle. ACCIDENT TO A TRAIN ON THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—The train which leaves the Euston station at half-past six o'clock, called the news paper train, met with an accident yesterday morning near the Harrow Station, the engine having run off the metals, dragging the carriages across the line, so as to completely obstruct the truffle occasioned, it is said, by some repairs to the sleepers, which were left is an imperfect state by the platelayers, who had recently been at work on the spot. Happily the passengers sustained no injury ; but consider able inconvenience was incurred by the delay, particularly to these in the up trains, which were due in London at half past eight, nine, and ten o'clock, the line not being cleared to admit their transit, until eleven o'clock. SIT6PECTED POISONING IN NOLFOLR.—SOI:II. cxci tn. eat has been occasioned in the remote port of Wells next-the-Sea, Norfolk, by the disinterment during the last few days of the corpse of Mr. Tulver Silvers, who died sud denly towards the close of November. It appears that ever since Mr. Silvers' death, sinister rumours have prevailed in Wells, and of late the talk on the subject has assumed such a tone that the local coroner considered it advisable to order the remains of the deceased to be disinterred, with a view to a full and searching inquiry. It is asserted that Mr. Silvers' features in his last moments bore the peculiar ex pression noticed in persons who have died from certain po i sons ,. The inquest has at present reached only a preE minary stage, but the stomach, of the deceased have been forwarded to I - rifesserTaylor, in order that an exami nation may be made by that eminent analyist, and the pro m ecedings be resumed when the professor's rep or t is ie ceived. Mr. Silvers was clerk to the Wells Harbour Co'-- missioners, and also discharged the duties of several other s mall local appointments. He left a widow a n d three or four little children, and was quite a young man at the time pf his 4404—Manchester Excuniner, MR. ARTHUR COTTON. On Saturday last one of the most upright, able, and disinterested men of whom India can boast, embarked for England to recruit his health almost completely broken by unremittin g exertion. Arthur Cotton, who without exaggeration may be called a good and great man, has been compelled to quit, for a time at least, a country which abounds in proofs of his earnestness, activity, and genius. For forty years he has laboured with a zeal and singleness of purpose almost unprecedented, to bestow upon the people of India the most substantial benefits. While the timid have contented themselves with carping at his projects, he has persevered in his course through evil and good report, and while others have been talking he has been doing what will transmit his name to an admiring posterity. He is still undecorated, and decorations, we trove, are not much to his taste ; but does it become a people who boast of their practical character to re serve all their honours for deeds of arms and con tent themselves with a half-hearted and post mortenz recognition of the merits of its Brunels, Stephen sons, and Cottons ? Unless the world is much de ceived in our great hydraulic engineer, it would be more in accordance with his wish to pass through the world doing what good he was able in the most unostentatious manner possible, than to be encum bered with such distinctions as our great ones can bestow; but the country owes it to herself to mark most unmistakeably her sense of the worth of suck men as he is. Men of genius, honesty, and zeal, who throw themselves heart and soul into the service of their country without a single thought for their own personal aggrandisement, are by no means so abundant that we can afford to lose the advantages which would flow from some striking ex amples that the world's admiration now-a-days is not confined to those who are compelled by their call ing to bring suffering instead of happiness to their fellow-creatures. All honour to the soldier who fights and conquers in a righteous cause. War, though an evil of huge proportions, is a necessary evil nevertheless; but its triumphs, though more brilliant and exciting, are often less valuable and always more mixed with suffering than the noiseless but important achievements of such men as Arthur Cotton. Let 'distinctions and rewards be freely given to those gallant men who imperil their lives in defence of their country, but have we no dis tinction, no rewards, no admiration for the man who is spared the necessity of crimsoning a country with blood and whose skill and energy cover it with verdure instead ? It does not speak much for the wisdom or good feeling of our age that a man is scarcely noticed if he have not something to recom mend him to public favour besides the highest mo ral excellence, the most inflexible uprightness, a splendid genius, rare modesty, and unexampled disinterestedness. All those merits, such as they are, belong to Arthur Cotton, but he is plain Arthur Cotton still, because he has only helped to fill the pockets of the poor and the Treasury of the empire without slaughtering his fellows, obtruding himself upon the notice of the public, doing what the world calls brilliant deeds, or making for him self a plethoric purse . — M e Madras Daily Times and )5 pectator, of April 16, 1860. TEE NAVY. The Wrangler, 4, screw steam gun-vessel, Com mander Beamish, for Devonport, has sailed from Sheerness. The Monarch, 84, the flagship of VicelAdmiral E. Harvey, Commander-in-Chief, was paid wages yesterday at Sheerness, under the superintendence of Capt. Schomberg. The crew was granted a short leave of absence. The fleet, which has been lying in the Downs for some days, under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir C. H. Fremantle, C. 8., sailed yesterday from Sheer ness for Leith. The Firebrand, 6, paddle, Commander James M. Bruce, at Portsmo u th, is under orders for sea. The Bulldog, 6, paddle, Capt. Sir F. L. M'Clintock, fitting out for special service at Portsmouth, received her masts (fitted with their rigging) from under the shears yesterday alongside Portsmouth-yard. The Harrier, 17, screw, and the Coquette, screw despatch vessel, are both having their boilers taken out prior to being placed in dock for overhaul and repairs. The orders for admitting the water into the ship basin at Portsmouth yesterday were countermanded until today. The Edgar, 91, screw, Capt. J. Keaton, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Erskine, sailed from Spit head for the westward at 6 p.m. yesterday. The Wasp, 17, screw, Commander Chas. Stirling, is detained at Spithead, making good some slight defects. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Robert Roughton, chief en gineer, to the Bulldog ; Joseph H. M. Bowman, paymaster, to the Bulldog ; George B. Brown, pay master, confirmed to the Madagascar ; Stephen L. Lancaster, assistant paymaster, to the Ariadne ; W. H. F. Armstrong, clerk, to the Algiers ; Arthur Le B. Cowie, clerk, to the Aboukir; and Edward A. Dyer, clerk, to the Royal Albert. THE ARMY. The East Kent Militia, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Dering, assembled on Southsea-common yesterday afternoon for the purpose of being in spected by Major-Gen. Lord W. Paulet, C. 8., Lieut.-Governor of Portsmouth, and commanding the south-west district. Shortly after the regiment had drawn up in line his lordship arrived on the ground, accompanied by Col:Nomerset, Assistant- Quartermaster- General ; Col. Thackwell, Assistant- Adjutant-General; Capt. Milligan, Aide-de-camp; and Town Major Breton, and was received by a. general salute. The regiment marched past in slow and quick time, and the usual manoeuvres inci dental to a field day followed, at the close of which Lord Paulet, addressing the regiment, said—" He was glad to have had an opportunity of seeing them before they left the garrison for disembodi ment, and he was much pleased with what he had seer of them. He was aware they laboured under great disadvantages from having been broken into detachments, but their general discipline, as well as their internal economy, reflected the greatest credit on their officers and themselves. They were a regi ment mustering strong hi the field, showing lo companies, or 600 bayonets. The character of the regiment had hitherto stood high, and he trusted. that for the short time they would be together, they would endeavour to preserve its good name , and that every man in it would be enabled to return to his home with a good character. It would afford him much pleasure to be able to report so favour ably of the regiment to his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief." The troops then returned. to their quarters. LITERATURE. A Comprehensive ilistory of India—Civil, Military, and Social. Nos. 27 to 30. Blackie and Son. We have on previous occasions drawn attention to this useful history. No. 27 contains a well-exe cuted map of the Punjab and Cashmere, and No. 29 one of the Valley of the Ganges, with the coarse of the Jumna from Calpee to Delhi ; also an en graving of the " Seizure of the Killedar of the For tress of Wandiwash, by Lieutenant Flint, A.D. 1781." The period comprised in these four num bers is from 1772 to 1781. DAItING ESCAPE FROM THE HULL GAOL.—A most daring escape was made from the Hull borough gaol on Sun- . day morning by a notorious offender named Thomas Foster, who was just completing a term of three months' imprison ment at the gaol for a violent assault upon Detective Chap man, when taking him into custody for breaking into the slaughterhouse of Mr. Samuel Robinson, butcher, near Hull, and stealing therefrom two legs of pork. He was committed by the stipendiary magistrate to the sessions on the charge of felony and assault ; for the latter, as we have said, being sentenced to three months' imprisonment, and, having been four times previously convicted of felonies, he was sentenced to seven years penal servitude for breaking into the slaughter-house and stealing the pork. The way he managed to escape exhibits considerable cunning an d premeditation. He was l ocated in a room on the thir story of the Model Prison, the base of his room being about 25 feet from the ground, the windows being protected by iron bars about 11 inches thick ; and he was employed in making cocoa fibre mats. It would seem that he had succeeded in plaiting a rope of the fibre of which tho mats are made, about 51 feet long, and between two and three inches thick. With two old nails and a piece of iron he had by some ingenuity made a kind of drag, similar to a butcher's hook, and this he fastened in the centre of the rope, which was sufficiently long when doubled for him to reach the ground from his cell. In. order to get out of his cell he had, however, to remove one of the iron bars, which by sonic means or other he managed. to do, by cutting one of the bars at the bottom clean through with a knife, the manner in which h e h a d pos sessed hitneelf of which cannot be surmised. The bar being cut through at the bottom, and fitti ng i n t o th e stone work at th e top of the window, by working it about he un lodged it, and egress from his cell was then easy. Pl ac i ng the rope round one of the bars outside the window, he slid. down it, and then withdrew the rope from the bar, leaving his clogs behind him. lie then noiselessly wended his way to the west side of the building, which he seems to have fancied the most sxitable for his purpose, as the street at the side into which he would alight is only a short one, and he would be less likely to be seen than by getting over the wall into Kingston-street, which is a long street, where he might have teen seen by parties a great way off. Having got to the west side of the yard, an obstructi n to his easy progress, in the shape of a boundary wall about 25 feet high, presented itself. Getting on to a coal heap about f our f ee t from the ground, he doubled his rope, the hook before mentioned being in the centre, and threw it over the top of the wall, working it about until the drag had got fast under neath the stone at the top of the wall, which projects over two or three inches from the bricks. He then drew himself up to the top, made the drop secure in the inside of the wall, and then slid down outside the boundary wall, pulling the rope after him. Divesting himself of his prison dress, he then'got over another wall, about 10 feet Irgit and alighted in Manor-street, being once more at liberty, having nothing whatever on, however, but his shirt, dre,Wersy and Et9okingg. I