The Sun. — London, England, 1859-05-03 00:00:00

iupO.YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. 'PHIS EVENING will be presented Shakspeare's historical play of KING HENRY V. King Henry V., Mr. C. Kean ; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING will be performed the new and original Comedy, entitled THE WORLD AND THE STAGE. The characters by Messrs. Compton, Buckstone, Howe, W. Far ren, Rogers; Miss Amy Sedg-,wick, &c. After which, a new Classical Extravaganza, entitled ELECTRA IN A NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT. Messrs. Compton, ,Clark, Mrs. Wilkins, Misses Fanny Wright, Eliza Weekes, i and Lollisa LOCierCq. And 'TWAS I. Commence at 7. - x - rE w THEATR E - ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. TTIIS EVENING, THE SERIOUS FAMILY. Messrs. B. Webster, Billington, Toole; Miss Woolgar, Miss Sims. After which, THE DEVIL ON TWO STICKS. Mr. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Misses Woolgar, Keeley, Arden, and Kate Kelly. Followed by THE PRETTY GIRLS OF STILBERG. Mr. B. Webster, Billington, Eburne, Misses Woolgar, Keeley, and Arden. Acting Tanager—Mr. Wm. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Office open from 10 to 5 —no charge for booking. No fees to servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. P OYAL STRAND THEATRE. XIV Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING will be produced a new Comedietta TWO ? by J. M. Morton, Esq., entitled WHICH OF THE supported by the company. After which, THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE. To conclude with VANDYKE BROWN. . Mr. J. Clark. Commence at 7o'clock. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster -road. Lessee and manager Mr. William Cooke. Immense success of IN Nig ANHOE.—Overflowing Houses htly. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with a new gra nd- spectacle, founded on Sir Walter Scott's popular work, entitled IVANHOE; or, The Lists of Ashby, intro ducing among the vast resources of this great Hippodramatic Temple,Tournaments, Processions, Banners, Combats, Tilts, Victories, and Achievemests in extraordinary magnificence. Ivanhoe, Mr. R Phillips ; Isaac of York, Mr. Jas. Holloway; Richard of England, Mr. Herbert ; Robin Hood, Mr. Wm. Cooke, jun. ; Rebecca, Miss Bathurst ; Lady Rowena, Miss Dowton. After which, the matchless and unrivalled SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing. Mr. John Henry Cooke, the greatest equestrian in the world : together with Miss Emily Cooke, Madame Blanche, Madame Bridges, Madlle. Flenrette, and Madame Francisco, being the greatest amount of female equestrian talent ever seen in one night. In any theatre. Grotesques—Messrs. Hemming and Thorne. To conclude with the Farce of BATHING. :Oren Circle, 48. ; Boxes, 35.; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, ls.; Upper Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes, £4 4s, £2 2s, and £1 is. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips (IANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS k.) GALLERY. Westminster-road. --Open at Seven. EVERY EVENING during the week will appear THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, consisting; of three Juvenile Violinisp, 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 ever 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 EVERY EVENING, at" NINE and ELEVEN o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER.--Strx OFFICE, MAY 3. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 55—highest since noon yesterday. 48—lowest this morning and during the night. 55—this day at noon. BAROMETEU-29.94. WIND, Easterly, fresh, with fine cloudy weather, and a ►rinkling of passing showers. We have at length obtained an authoritative, and, we may add, an admirable exposition of the policy of England, in reference to the untoward state of affairs in Europe. The Chancellor of the Exche quer has boldly spoken out ! He has explained the policy of the Government of which he is a very influential member, and that in a manner which must be satisfactoryto every un prejudiced an d true-hearte d Englishman. As he has truly declared, our policy is eminently one of peace. There is no desire to interfere with the internal affairs of any other nation ! We may tender valuable advice, but there our mission ends. We cannot hope to change by force their domestic institutions. Their feelings and opinions are different from ours in many respects, and too many are unprepared for the rational and constitutional freedom which is the happy privilege of our countrymen. We must, however, be prepared to mediate when the golden opportunity arises ; and to do so with any hope of success we must be fully and cora pleteiy prepared for war. Our condition must be that of an " armed neutrality," ready to enforce our coun sels, should such a contingency unfortunately arise, as that we should be compelled to do so for the preservation of our honour, our dignity, our interests, or safety. We must, as we stated yes terday, be "ready, aye ready for the field," enabled to work at a moment's notice. There has, however, been no failure on the part of the Government. Never was England in a better position. We have a hundred thousand tried and gallant soldiers in India—men who have proved themselves equal to any the world ever saw. Many of these must return home, in consequence of the happy termination of the Indian Rebellion, for which public Thanksgiving was returned on Sunday last ! In addition we have a hundred thousand in the tinitedKingdom. They may not have been sub jected to the same stringent ordeals, nor be so well disciplined as those who have defeated ten times their numbers on many occasions ; but they are our own countrymen—men who have never been found wanting on any occasion, and on whose in vincible courage , and unflinching prowess we may place implicit reliance. We have already noticed the judicious proclama tion for increasing the number of our sailors, and Mr. DISRAELI now tells us that long before six weeks have passed we shall not only have a power ful fleet in the Channel, but also a powerful fleet in the Mediterranean. This is as it should be. It will maintain the position which .Great Britain ought always to occupy, and cause her to be respected by those who might otherwise be disposed to disregard her sug gestions. We may, therefore, repeat the pertinent interrogatory of the Right Hon. Member for Buckinghamshire, " What nation in the world, then, can compare with England ?" It was not in a spirit of vain boasting that he asked the question, or that we repeat it. It is merely to show that we are entitled to become the arbi trator and mediator, even between first rate Powers, who, under a different state of affairs, might not be disposed to listen quite so favour ably to our proposals. But there is another, and no less . important matter alluded to by the right hon. gentleman in his admirable and interesting oration. Wars are not now decided by mere physical strength. What has been emphatically termed the "sinews" thereof ar e indispensable. Without money or credit the strongest armaments must fail. They cannot al ways meetthe necessary expenditure at the expense of their a.dv e „ ar i es. One side or the other must speedily f a il! And the scene of action—the cockpit in 1, which the contest is to .be decided — will be exhausted within a few weeks. We find both Pranc e a nd Austria already asking for loans of twenty millions sterling each, while more economical Itussia, limits the demand to six-tenths of the amount, or twelve millions sterling. It is quite clear thaj they will not get what they require in this country. T here m ay be forced loans and compulsory contributions, but such contrivances cannot be long continued. money borrowed for warlike purpose:; is virtually ca st into the sea, or, as Mr. DISRAELI declared, « goes —no future benefit like water." There is no return' r;, • • • .W!:.`, t' 4 4 • A ik; : 4- , ' •= 4 , • -" hrot - • THE SUN. TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1859. arising therefrom. The experiment cannot be often repeated. And in a brief period the monetary, if not the physical, exhaustion must produce peace. Meanwhile, England is in that respect facile princeps. We have no pecuniary troubles as a nation. It is true that the speculators on the Stock Exchange have . suffered severely ; that some fifty-five respectable firms have succumbed under the existing pressure, but many will pay a fair dividend, and the community at large are not materially affected. Money is still but 31 per cent., and our pecuniary resources are ample. The income-tax alone could raise twenty millions sterling, although GOD forbid that it should ever be required for warlike purposes. Still we could go on where other nations must fail. Great Britain will still be enabled to maintain the even tenor of her way, and, amidst the fearful events that are now occurring, will pass triumphantly through the ordeal that may be imposed on her. We invite the public attention to the statements thus freely and openly made by the leader of the representative branch of the Legislature. They will well repay perusal, and it is only to be re. gretted that the right hon. gentleman was not enabled to make them at an earlier period, as they musehave naturally influenced the returns in every free and independent constituency. The appeal to the country has, in several in. stances, been responded to somewhat surprisingly Several new members have replaced in a remark able manner the old representatives, hitherto deemed strong in the confidence, some of them even in the affections, 'ot their constituents. Several of the rejected at the last genoral election have again been returned to Par liament. Foremost among these, the eminent political economist, now wandering through the United States, and whose voyage across the Atlan tic we regarded upon the instant as judiciously well-timed, enabling the hon. gentleman to get out of the way conveniently so as to allow of his name being put forward during his absence in the event of a dissolution. There is scarcely an individual, we should imagine, who will now regret that Mr. COBDEN has been elected by Rochdale as its repre sentative. His return to the scene of his former triumphs may be regarded with almost unalloyed complacency, now that his past errors have been expiated to the full by his late protracted and ignominious banishment from the Legislative Chamber at Westminster. Bury has repented, moreover, in the instance of the Right Hon. red tapist—Sir ROBERT'S second son, FREDERICK, now once more that changeful borourgh's representative. Mr. LAYARD still continues to be inexorably denied admittance again into the House of Commons —the City of York confirming the rejection formerly resolved upon by the borough of Aylesbury. By the bril liant success of his chivalrous and daring appeal to the independent electors of Southampton, Mr. DIGBY SEYMOUR has more than compensated him self for the withdrawn confidence of his former supporters down at Sunderland. Although an entire stranger tothe great Hampshire constituency the hon. and learned gentleman has by an eloquent avowal of the most liberal and enlightened views, contrived to win golden opinions, indeed, from that influential constituency—insomuch that, at the close of the poll, he was not only at the head of it, bat so unmistakeably first and foremost in the race, that he was very nearly 150 ahead of the old, tried, and favourite representative of the borough, Mr. BRODIE WILLCOX, the eminent shipowner, but actually upwards of 300 ahead of Mr. MATTHIAS WEGUELIN, the governor of the Bank of England. Besides the former members, who have thus been restored to the House of Commons, after a temporary banishment from it—there are various new men who have taken the place of other M.P.'s now in their turn summarily rejected. As, for ex ample, where the electors of Carlisle have chosen Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S nephew as that right hon. baronet's colleague in the representation of the constituency ; and as in the instance again of the border borough of Berwick, where the electors have cordially and unhesitatingly welcomed as one of their two new representatives Mr. RALPH ERLE, the private secretary of the Chancellor of her MAJESTY'S Exchequer. Very noticeable, indeed, among the number of those who have failed to retain any seat at all in the new Parliament are three or four staunch Reformers, whose absence from the House we shall probably have only too much cause for regretting. Already we have, in these columns, ex pressed our sincere sorrow at those untoward cir cumstances which have led to the withdrawal, from the list of the national representa tives, or the name of an earnest and in telligent recruit in the cause of the Ballot like Sir ARTHUR ELTON, now replaced as the second Liberal M.P. for Bath (thanks to the pique and petulance of that peevish and perverse consti tuency) by Mr. WAY, an arrant, uncompromising Conservative ! And still more earnestly have we lamented the disappearance from the catalogue of our veteran reformers in the House, of a gifted champion of Reform such as General THOMPSON— IateIy but now no longer M.P. for Brad ford—a name ever to be honoured as that of :the witty author of so many logical, sen tentious, and convincing catechisms. Added to these ex-members must now be mentioned in the same category, we grieve to think, that honest Liberal, late M.P. for Bodmin, Mr. JAMES WYLD, whose last prominent appearance in the House of Commons redounds so much to his honour as a thoroughly independent politician--when -amidst ' the timidity, the shuffling, and the hesitation of many reputed Reformers, he manfully appended to Lord JOHN'S vague resolutions, pledging the Liberal party to Nothing, a supplementary amend ment, frankly proclaiming the advisability, or rather the necessity, of the Ballot. Looking to the contests nearer home, we have seen Sir SAMUEL PETO just exactly 3,944 too many at Finsbury for poor ,il , lr. Cox, who will now have ample leisure for the more accurate study of the history of England. As for Sir WILLIAM CARDEN, the wealthy London Alder man, late Lord Mayor, and still conceived to be all potent in press influence,Mr. MONK has eclipsed his glory by nearly 200 votes as the successful candidate for the representation of the city of Gloucester. Yet more noticeable in its way is the failure, after so many years of reiterated triumph down at Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, of the gallant Col. FREESTUN, hitherto deemed to occupy, unoffi- cially, the position, and to enjoy in consequence the accruing prestige, of Esquire in attendance upon Lord PALMERSTON. As for another gallant retainer of that adventurous and chivalrous knight in the Parliamentary lists—one of the most skilled and brilliant fencers in the ranks of the Liberals in the tournays of the Legislature, Mr. BERNAL Os BoßNE—he has recently succumbed merely to the fortunes of war, after a heroic and desperate fight down at Dover, yielding only to the sheer force of adverse circumstances. The unmistakeable victory won at Dover by the two veteran Derbyite candi dates is attributed to the local influence exercised at that seaport b y her MAJESTY'S Government. Of course, Mr. OSBORNE profited by nothing at all of the same kind when he was returned upon the occasion of the last general election, when Sir 'tit SUNIiLONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1859. CHARLES WOOD occupied at the Admiralty the post now committed by the SOVEREIGN and the country to Sir JOHN PAKINGTON ! Why, SO long as we are without the Ballot, these things are in a measure inevitable. And being thus inevitable, it is only fair, by way of balance, at least; that there should be turn and turn about. Lord PALMERSTON being at the head of affairs in 1857—Mr. B. OS BORNE as the Government candidate down at Dover profits by the circumstance and is returned. Lord DERBY being at the head of affairs in 1859—Ar. BERNAL OSBORNE doO not profit by the circumstance down at Dover, and• is rejected. Voila tout ! In 1857 no harm came to the elected of Dover by way of an adverse: committee of inquiry ! -It is hardly—in these days of no Ballot—" honour among"— ahem •is hardly fair play, in truth, in the • great political game of Diamond Cut Diamond—to be so very vociferous, implacable, and revengeful, as Mr. OSBORNE• avow himself to be in regard- to Sir HENRY LEEKE and his col league, now. that. they have also triumphed, pre cisely as Mr: OSBORNE himself and Sir. WILLIAM RUSSELL formerly triumphed only two. years ago -namely, as .successful candidates on • .the side of the existing Government. LATEST NEWS. THE WAR IN ITALY. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : TRIESTE, MAY 2. The town of Trieste, together with the surround ing territory and the districts Pisino and Georizia, have been declared in a state of siege. According to advices from Venice to the 30th ult. General Gyulai has already assumed the functions of Governor-General, in the place of the Archduke Maximilian. Venice and Verona have been declared in a state of siege.: The Hereditary Prince of Tuscany has arrived at Venice. Advises have also been received from Milan to the 30th ult. The official Gazette contains a proclamation addressed by General Gyulai to the Sardinian population, to whom it guarantees liberty, honour, security lof property, maintenance of - laws, and protection. • • • PIEDMONT. TURIN, MONDAY EVZNINO, May 2. General Gyulai has imposed on the town of Novara the demand for a heavy: contribution of provisions and forage, under pain, in case of non- Complialice, of a fine of five - times 'the value of the supply required. The Abstrians have occupied Vercelli. The following official bulletin lifis beeli published to- day : • • • " The lAugrians have concentrated their force on the Sesia, but no encounter has yet taken place. No movement has yet been made by the Austrians on the right bank of the river Po,'! centuries a fief of the German empire, and Venice was given to Austria instead of her Belgian provinces. Sardinia tells us that the real cause of the discontent of the inhabitants of Lombardy and Venice is the dominions of Austria on the Po and Adriatic. ' The right of Austria to Lombardy and Venice is irrefragible, and it will be defended against every attack. ' France, which long shared with Sardinia the moral responsibility for the sad state of things in Italy, now openly supports the revolutionary movement which has begun. The second French Empire is about to realise its long .cherished ideas, for the throned Power in Paris has informed the astonished world that' political wisdom' will replace those treaties which have so long formed the basis of European international law. The traditions of the first Napoleon have been resuscitated, and Europe is not ignorant of the importance of the struggle which is about to begin." There was a frightful panic on 'Change to-day. National Loan fell to 60fl. 50k. ; Metalliques to 5511. 40k. ; Credit Bank Shares, to 135f1. 50k. ; and Northern Railroad Shares to 1351 English sovereigns were in demand at 13fl. 40k., and ducats at 61 32k. Count Gyulai has sent in an official report that the vanguard (tete) of the Austrian army crossed the Ticino, near Pavia, yesterday, the 29th inst., in the afternoon. THE ROYAL ACADEMY. (PRIVATE VIEW.) Whatever is sufficiently effective of its kind is of worth—Quicquid in suo gcnere satis effectunt est valet. They are the words of Quintilliaß (12, 9), and they form the appropriate and suggestive motto for 1859 of the Academy Catalogue. Hap pily for us as critics, happily for the general public as spectators in search of the true and the beautiful, there are very many of the 666 principal pictures in this year's exhibition which afford apt illustration to the sententious opinion expressed in the axiom of the great Christian philosopher. Altogether, including architectural drawings, sculp tures, and miniatures, the Gallery displays upon its walls no less than 1,382 distinct works of art. But the three principal apartments—the rooms distin guished as the East, the West, and the Middle— contain exactly the mystical number 666, the enigmatical number in the Apocalypse. Yet, opt of forty Academicians, there are no less than twelve defaulters, whose names appear not at all in the list of this season's exhibitors. These twelve, including not merely the veteran Sir Robert Smirke ; the auditor, Richard Westmacott ; the treasurer, Philip Hardwick ; and the president, Sir Chas. Eastlake ; but Bailey, the sculptor, and Barry, the architect, Charles Cockerell and olomon Hart, John Gibson and Charles Landseer, Alfred Elmore and Thomas Webster. The only solace we have for the non appearance by the last-mentioned truly English painter, is the faithful reproduction of his famous picture of " Punch," by the skilled needle and graver of H. Lemon, in the little Octagon room, sacred to the productions of the engraver and lithographer. Besides the dozen Academicians who are non -exhibitors in '59, there are several of the associates who, for once, have failed to take part in the great annual competition. Frederick Goodall has but one, Francis Danby has but one—P. F. Poole has not even a rustic lassie with a pitcher, W. E. Frost not one solitary nymph robed in nothing. We have to look to other easles for consolation. Among the most industrious who do exhibit among the Academicians are five who contribute a single work each to the collection. Conspicuous among the glories of art in this coun try, William Mulready has (in 167) taken as the theme for his pencil the familiar line of Pope— " Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined ;" and the eminent painter, long 'missed from the Gallery by reason of his assiduous labours in the ilecoration of the national Palace at Westminster, J. R. Herbert, has restricted his efforts this year, in a noble picture hard by (165), to the sorrowful limning of " Mary Magdalene" as she approached with spices to the tomb of our Lord upon Easter morning. Daniel Maclise has . , in his solitary . con tribution (105), given a genial portraiture of the Poet and the Poet's Wife. While Macdowell's chisel has contented itself with carving, in marble, the bust of a distinguished contemporary (1346). The brush of Frith has found suf f icient occupation in de picting in glowing colours the most popular author of our generation, " Charles Dickens in his Study." This (210) vies at least in interest with the elaborate Hogarthian masterpiece of last season, which enabled Frith, by the attractiveness of his one contribution, hardly less than by its extraordinary merit, to surpass all competitors. Seven Academicians contribute two works respec tively to the collection • these seven being Leslie, Redgravc, Roberts, Marshall, Foley, Dyce, and Pickersgill. Three contribute three a-piece—viz , Cope, Jones, and Stanfield. Six, four—these six being Creswick, Lee, James Ward, and Edward Ward, Sir Edwin Landseer, and W. F. Withering ton. Sir William Charles Ross gives to the walls of the "Drawing" room five of his brilliant minia tures. Francis Grant' and Alfred Chalon add each in turn six pictures to the Gallery. The four most industrious among the Academicians—each of them contributing eight pictures to the walls--being Sir. John Watson Gordon and John Prescott Knight, Abraham Cooper and H. W. Pickersgill. Un doubtedly, however, the most ambitious among all the exhibitors this year is one of the Associates— soon, no doubt, to be one of the Academicians. John Everett Millais, now in his fortieth year, and in the fulness of his powers as an artist, has in two at least out of his three pictures this season far more than sustained his already high reputation. No. 482, " The Love of James the First of Scotland," is hardly entitled to more praise than such as may be demanded by the loveliest colouring both of the blue gown of the Princess upon tiptoe by the prisoi wall, and of the delicious flowers in her wicker basket in her still more delicious hand—there are far more and far higher beauties than those of mere colouring in the two other contributions from the same artist, though the colouring of each of those likewise is also, in simplest truth, something really marvellous. In (15) there is poetry of the purest and the loftiest character. " The Vale of Rest" the picture is called—with the echoing motto, " Where the weary find repose." In (298) there is an exquisite vernal, sylvan, pastoral sentiment. " Spring" is the sententious title of this extraordinary painting. It is spring in an orchard when the grass is full of bluebells and cowslips, and the branches are full of the pinkest and whitest of apple blossoms. The contrast.presented by those two productions is in its way something remarkable. Life, overflowing, abounding, joyous life in the one. Death, with all its sombre and affecting influences in the other. Here the scene is the graveyard of a convent—the time is twilight. Ivy mantles the walls. The light of sunset shimmers through the yew boughs of the graveyard. One of the sisters stands knee-deep in the grave, lifting out a spadeful of the unctuous loamy earth, with a womanly , effort in the muscles of her long arms. Another sister is seated waiting hard by upon a gravestone, with her face turned full towards us, gazing out of the picture in sombre abstraction. A bony, uncomely face, bandaged round .with the nun's shroud-like head-dress, not a line of beauty in any one of the features—but enthrall• ing, too, in its way, from its air of profound yet mournful serenity. Beside her lie two or three wreaths of immortelles—so real that one is almost fain to pick them up from the picture in their chinking dryness. Contrasting wondrously with this is that other painting •of luxurious efflo rescence—" Spring" in the blooming apple orchard. A duster of young girls—elf-like from their being about half-life size, while the flowers are of the size of nature—damsels of various ages, clad in the most chequered variety of raiment, disposed in the most strangely diversified attitudes. One is about to pour something out of an antique beaker—evi dently nearly emptied. Another, an imperious little lady enough, is holding out her hand for the goblet when it shall be filled. Another, the sweetest, prettiest girlish beauty of them all, lies carelessly upon her back upon the turf with a ribbon of grass drawn through her crimson lips, her young form clothed in a glowing barege of the colour of a ripening apricot. Overhead the orchard boughs are in the full glory of their blossoming. Heaped together in a basket on the sward are a profusion of culled bluebells and cowslips. The banquet is a very innocent repast of curds and whey and syllabub. The whole scene is one kalei doscopic glow of prismatic colouring. Both the one and the other of these remarkable pictures displays the astonishing gifts, and the still more astonishing deficiencies of the painter, with extraordinary, vividness. They are at once exquisitely beautiful and hideously ridiculous. The scenes themselves are almost as lovely as Nature—the creatures peopling them are some of them as grotesque as though pencilled by , th e whimsical hand of a cari caturist. Each of the two is at once an example and a warning. We pause long before them, stirred at heart simultaneously by a mingled sense of deri sion and admiration. Turning from these to one of the two pictures contributed to the Gallery this year by another of the a ssociates— , namely, to Egg' s (40) "The Ni g ht before Naseby' —we note within the shadow of an open tent in the moonlight Oliver Cromwell kneeling in prayer to the Lord of Hosts. The effect of the brawny buff-clad figure with the face darkened, and yet a mystical glory radiating from the lamplit canvas of the tent i s s ingular, almost to the extent of being abso lutely fantastic. The aureole about the sombre visage, gives the figure the appearance almost as of a demon—beatified ! Out of the four pictures contributed to the Gallery this season by- E. M. Ward, incomparably the one worthiest of 1 • (125) is " Marie Antoinette on the day of, her trial lm i listen ing to the Act of ccusatiOn.' , The beautiful French Queen and Austrian Princess is seated n 1 '7,4 lamb that was los - t and is - found—the countenance of our Saviour being of that divine type of perfect human beauty, with which, since the earliest days of Christianity, the painters of Christendom have rendered us familiar. Horsley's (222) " Mil ton Dictating Samson Agonistes " is an admir able and national picture, which only needs to be faithfully engraved to ensure a wide and deserved popularity. Milton, blind, sorrowful, re signed—towards the close of that life that sounds among the world's biographies as the strains of some thrilling anthem—is seated before the organ on which he loved to play. A bunch of new culled flowers are on his lap. His eyelids are closed meekly. His still hyacinthian, though silvering, ringlets trail down his shoulders luxuriantly. He is dictating—with his fingers just taken from the keys of the yet vibrating instrument—dictating to his wife (Elizabeth Minshull) Samson's affecting lament for the loss of sight. The blind poet's puritan friend, young Thomas Elwood, listening in earnest sympathy the while in Milton's study, there, in his last residence at Bunhill Fields, Crip plegate. Another, and more charming picture, from the same hand this season, is (414) " Blossom Time "—a picture in which the apple-blossom is glorified as beautifully and almost as truthfully as in the more pretentious painting of " Spring" by Millais. It is by a curious coincidence that the apple tree this May is blooming from so many easels in different parts of the Academy Collec tion. Hook in (250) has produced an effective em bellishment to the Laureate's babbling, bubbling, delicious song of the Brook. It is, indirectly, as a fitting tribute to the genius of the one pre-emi nent poet of our time, that Alfred Tennyson is quoted again, and again, and again all through the academy catalogue. Lance, upon the surface of another glowing stretch of canvas (251), still pours forth another cataract of " Fruit" from his in exhaustible cornucopeia. Frank Stone, in (254)1 "Friendship Endangered," depicts a couple of young girls in the midst of a tiff—evidently about a love letter. Faed has, if possible, surpassed his previous achievements by (310) " Sunday in the Backwoods,.' every atom of which is painted with true poetic feeling and wonderful manipulative dexterity. W. C. T. Dobson's (316) "'Der Rosenkranz " is the sweetest, delighfulest little Dutch girl's face ima ginable. F. R. Lee, in (321) an " Avenue at Youl stone," in Devonshire, has portrayed a perspectiN e of sylvan beauty, chequered with light and shade from the vivid foreground to the dim distance in a manner delectable to look at. A glance sit the picture is an incentive to a run down to Barnstaple for the pleasure merely of a stroll down that charming avenue. Danby, in (413) "A Lake Scene," is altogether as- unlike Danby as Danby could well be. The subject is as different as pos. sible from his ordinary themes—and the treatment of it is in every respect no less strikingly dissimilar. It is a tranquil, Lorraine-like glimpse of lake scenery in the coolness of twilight. D. Roberts has again portrayed for us, in (420) " St. Mark's," at Venice, another of his marvellous architectural interiors, with all the gorgeous tracery of its mosaics and other ornate adornments. As we pass (427) " Dog berry's Charge to the Watch," by H. S. Mark, we cannot but note the additional evidence here given of the fun and drollery possessed abundantly by this promising young artist of the grotesquely humorous. Without doubt the most effective land scape in the whole gallery is (494) " A Thunder Shower," by J. T. Lindell. The peasant figures in the foreground are full of animation, and the land scape is brilliantly painted throughout. SOlomon in (557) "Not Guilty" has relieved our minds at last after the lapse of two years, giving us the sequel to the story, the first half of which was told in the companion picture, entitled, in 1857, " Wait ing for the Nerdict." O'Neil in a more general way has relieved our anxiety after a similar fashion in regard to another incident, viz., by (400) " Home Again-1858," which shows the return from the Crimean war of those English soldiers O'Neil's hand revealed to us last season going in a quite con trary direction. The delineation of the return is by no means equal to that of the departure. Con spicuous among the flower pictures in the gallery are two by Miss A. F. Mutrie (619), "Garden Flowers,'" and (621) " Travellers' Joy "—both of them exquisitely beautiful. The portraits in the exhibition are there in usual abundance, but several of them of unusual excellence. The most attractive of all is a subject we have already specified— Frith's portraiture of " Charles Dickens in his Study"—a truthful likeness, not a doubt of it, but still one in manyrespects unsatisfactory. The expression -which is the very soul of that thought ful, genial, delightful face—is wanting.. Grant's full length portrait (236) of the Premier, is the vei y man himself, unmistakeably. Several (I the leading members of the Academy startle us by their life-like effigies on the walls of the three principal apartments. Here, it is (113) the sailor-like, hirsute English face of Clarkscn Stanfield—there, it is (87) the earnest, careworn, pensive visage of R. J. Lane, the Academy's associated engraver and lithographer. Yonder (405), Augustus Egg con fronts us, with his terrier on his knee. Geddis has in (16) produced an admirable portrait of a very handsome original, " The Lord Chancellor ;" Grant in (183) depicting delightfully for the satisfaction of all the readers of " Mary Barton," and " Cran ford," the truthful likeness of Mrs. Gaskell le m rsel t f, in pretty piquant walking dress, as she may be i with by her friends in the winter time, when the snow lies besmirched on the ground under the smoky atmosphere of Lancashire. A nervous man had better glance elsewhere than in the direction of (194), where the uncompromising brush of Sir J. W. Gordon has portrayed, at his grimest, "James Wilson, Esq., M.P." for Westbury, and late Secretary of the Treasury. There (233) may be re cognisedthe gallant old veteran, Sir George Brown, painted for the officers of the 77th Regiment. Yonder is (322) Sir Harry Jones, another of the chiefs of the B r iti s h army before Sebastopol. am Among the sci ons o f t h e nobility noticeable Sant's charmin g portra i ture (334) of Mary Agatha, youngest d aug h ter of the Right Hon. Lord Jo h n Russell; M.P. ; of the Lord Seymour. Distinguishable here and there in this year's collection are portraits also of the most diversified notabilities—here, in the middle room, one (430) of the Hon. Sir Samuel Cunard, Bart., the eminent shipowner—here, in the minia,- ture room, one (818) of Charles Edward Mudie, Esq., the librarian-monopolist. In the west room, conspicuously placed in the centre of the south wall, is a gigantic portrait , picture, vigorously painted by J. G. Middleton, representing, ie an effective group, Frances Ann, Marchioness of Lon. donderry, with Viscount Seaham and the Hon. John Vane, her ladyship's blooming grandchildren. In the same apartment, hung on either side of the western entrance, arc, life-size end life-like, full length portraits of the King and Queen of the Lyrical stage—Madame Grisi as Donna Anna, and Signor Mario as Don Giovanni. Dereendingto the sculpture room, we are particularly struck by there being this season not only effigies of sundry poets, but together with effigies also of poets' wives and chil dren, Here it is that ; besi4es the thoughtful and pensively (with her exquisite features in profile) sensitive features of John Edmund Reade (1,320), gazing prayerfully at a crucifix, while Fouquier by Weekes—besides the comely bacchanalian head Tinville immediately below the entrance of the of Robert Burns (1,253), crowned with the holly prison window, with his face turned towards us, wreath, faintly tinctured with a suspicion of a tinge though half-concealed from view by the fatal parch- of red, by Slater—besides the sombre, ascetic head ment from which he is reading, d rones f or th th e o f Sh er id an K now l es (1,363), b y Crowley—we mark virtual sentence of death by the guillotine. The with a sense of pleasure (1,368) the Chatterton-like gaudily-plumed cocked hat of the official and the profile of the boy offspring of two English poets white-capped and white-aproned form of the young resident at Florence, young Robert Barrett Brown- Queen-Consort contrast as affectingly as effectively. ing—and we turn with interest to Brodie's bust Mr. Ward is par excellence among all our artists (1,360) of Mrs. Sydney Dobell, and to Woolner's the Painter of the French Revolution. His brush medallion (1,380) of Mrs. Alfred Tennyson. There has already depicted with masterly ability " Napo- is a noble head, one of the noblest heads leen in Prison at Nice" —" Charlotte Corday ever yet modelled, of Lord Brougham—a bust led to Execution"—" The Royal Family of France by J. E. Jones (1,299) of that illustrious veteran, in the Prison of the Temple"—and, to the brilliant illustrious at once as lawyer, orator, legislator, series, he has now added this charming and pathetic writer, philosopher. Ranged among the busts memorial of " The Eve of the Trial of Marie may here be recognised once more the por- Antoinette." Yet what thoroughly national pictures traitures (this time in marble) of Madame Grisi have we not also had from the same pencil ! "Dr (1,291) and Signor Mario (1,290). Close by them Johnson Reading the MS. of the Vicar of Wake- is a wonderful pudding-faced, sensual, bloated field"—" Goldsmith as a Wandering Musician"— semblance of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon (1,285), one, " Dr. Johnson in the ante-room of Lord Chester- that it is to be hoped, must be a monstrous carica field"—" The Fall of Clarendon"—" The'Esecution ture. Mr. Lucas has contributed, in 1240, a marble of Montrose"—and other kindred works, that if statuette of the Right Hon. Viscount Palmerston ; only multiplied with proportionate industry and and the Baron Marochetti a curious little bronze merit will eventually constitute a collection for statuetteof Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy,the famous Hin engraving as full of interest as any accumulated doo baronet. Fain though we are to loiter yet once works of our English masters since the days of more round the sculpture room, and even after Hogartb. We are all the more sanguine of this in passing its threshold to stray up the staircase again regard to Mr. Ward's future career from a remem• into the picture gallery, we refrain from thus brance that he is yet.but the vigour of manhood lengthening our first survey of the collection, and —being only two or three years past his fortieth close our already protracted participation in the anniversary. An elder academician, in the person of Private View on Friday with a mingled sense, as Sir Edwin Landseer, is especially successful this usual, of fatigued satisfaction. year—his four contributions being quite worthy of his reputation. "Doubtful Crumbs" (138) repre sents, as only his /Esopian and Pilpayan brush could so represent, a huge mastiff sleeping over a gnawed bone—towards which a little terrier is sniffing its way hungrily and timorously with frightened eyes and watering jaws—doubtful crumbs, indeed ! What is that other huge picture by Sir Edwin in the East-room ?—is it not an illustration of an incident in the immortal Waver ley ? (175). " Bran will never put another stag at bay : and Oscar will not make out by himself. The deer will do fine yet !" Bran, poor hound, floating in the trail of the hunt, paws upwards— dying, disembowelled ! The deer—with its antlered head above the surface of the stream, dry tongued but defiant ! Oscar panting close by its neck with glistening fangs—ready for a spring the next minute ! Close by this picture of the chase is Dyce's noble allegorical scripture piece of " The Good. Shepherd" (174 . )—where, passing through the wicket of the fold, is the Lord and Redeemer of Mankind tenderly bearing in his arms the strayed MANIFESTO OF PIEDMONT. The following proclamation to the troops was published in the Piedmontese Gazette of the 27th ult..— " Soldiers I—Austria, which increases its army on our frontjers, and threatens to invade our territory, because liberty here reigns with order—because not force, but con cord and affection between people and Sovereign here rule the State—because the cries of suffering of oppressed Italy here find a hearing, Austria dares to intimate to us, armed only in defence, that we are to lay down, our arms, and .put ourselves in her power. " The outrageou's intimation called for a worthy reply. I have disdainfully rejected it. . " Soldiers ! I announce this to you, certain that you will take to yourselves the outrage offered to your King—to the nation. The announceme n t I give to you is the announce . ment of war. To arms, then, soldiers "You will find yourselves opposed to no new enemy; but, if he be brave and disciplined you do not fear the meeting, and may boast of the days of Goito, of Fastrengo, of Santa Lucia, of Sommo Campagna, of Custosa itself, where only four brigades contended for three days with five corps d' armee. " I will be your leader. On former occasions we have known a great part of you in the heat of combats ; .and I t fighting by the side of my magnanimous father, admired your valour with pride. " On the field of honour and of glory you, I am certain, will know how to preserve, and also to increase, your fame as valiant soldiers. " You will have for your companions those intrepid sol diers of France, conquerors in so many great battles, whose comrades you were on the Tchernaya, and whom Napoleon 111., ever hastening thither where there is a just cause to defend and civilisation to uphold (da far premiere), gene rouslysends to our aid in -umerous bands. " Advance, then, confident of victory, and adorn your banner with fresh laurels; that banner which, with its three colours, and with the chosen youth which, here as sembled from all parts of Italy, are gathered together be neath it points out to you that y ou h ave for your task the independence of Italy—that just and holy enterprise which will be your war cry. " Turin, April 27, 1859." " VICTOIt EMMANUEL. MANIFESTO OF AUST.RIA. The Wiener Zeitung, of the 29th ult., publishes a manifesto signed " Francis Joseph," of which the following are the chief passages : "IMPERIAL MANIFESTO.—TO MY PEOPLE. tg I have ordered my faithful and gallant army to put a stop to the inimical acts (Anfeindungen) which for a series of years have been committed by the neighbouring State of Sardinia against the indisputable rights of my Crown, awl against the integrity of the realm placed by God under ml care, which acts have lately attained the very highest point (auf ihrem Hohenpirnkte angelangt). By so doing I have fulfilled the painful ( schwere) but unavoidable duty of a so vereign. My conscience being at rest, I can look up to an omnipotent God, and patiently await His award. With con fidence I leave my decision to the impartial judgment of contemporaneous and future generations. Of the approba tion of my faithful subjects lam sure. More than ten years ago the same enemy—violating international law and PIS usages of war, and without anyoffence being given—entered the Lombardo-Venetian territory with the intent to acquire possession of it. Although the enemy was twice totally de feated by my gallant army, and at the mercy of the victor, I behaved generously, and proposed a reconciliation (reiehte die Hand zur Versonung). I did not appropriate to myself one inch of his territory ; I encroached on no right which belongs to the Crown of Sardinia, as one of the members of the European family of nations ; I insisted on no guaran tees against the recurrence of similar events. The hand of peace which I in all sincerityextended, and which was takett appeared to me to be a sufficient guarantee. The blood which my army shed for the honour and right of Austria , I sacri ficed on the altar of peace (dem P r i e d en b rac ht e Icildas Vol meineo Armee zum Opfer). The reward for such unex ampled forbearance was immediate continuation of enmity,' which increased from year to year, and perfidious agitation against the peace and welfar e o f my Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom. Well knowing what a precious boon peace Was for my people and for Europe, I patiently bore with than now hostilities. My patience was not exhausted when the more extensive measures which I was forced to take, il l consequence of the revolutionary agitation en the frontiers of my Italian provinces and within the same, were made an excuse for a higherdegree of hostility. Willingly accepting the well-meant mediation of friendly Powers for the main tenance of peace, I consented to become a party to a congress of the five great Powers. The four points proposed by the Royal Government of Great Britain as a basis for the deli beration of the congress were forwarded to my Cabinet, 14 I accepted them with the conditions which were ealenlatea to bring about a true, sincere, and durable peace. In the , consciousness that no step on the part of my Governmen t , could, even in the most remote degree, lead to a disturbance of the peace, I demanded that the Power which was the cause of the complication, and had brought about the dam' ger of war, shculd, as a preliminary measure, disaXJ' Being pressed thereto by friendly Powers, I at length to" cepted the proposal for a general disarmament. The media' tion failed in consequence of the unacceptableness of the On: ditions on •which Sardinia made her consent d e pendant Only one means o f ma i nta i ning peace remained. I addresse' myself directly to the Sardinian Government, and sun' mooed it to place its army on a peace footing and disband the free corps. As Sardinia did not accede to my demanu , the moment for deciding the matter by an appeal to arw' has arrived. " I have ordered my army to enter Sardinia. f ever'" I a r amya dutieswar awar e e o f s th o e in v n as n t arc im h p w o l a ig n h c e e d o h f e t a h vii o m y e o a n surtr n : j ag watittnhissonmoowment. that th W e a u r is the scourge vesandpropor of mankind. rnnkinad I thousandssee of mY beingoc t e n u o occupied with its n t subjects are imperilled, and deeply feel wh a t a severe trial war at y which, requires of peace. But the heart of the Monarch mus t b e s il e nt s'' a i l s d for evelmo the command of honour and duty. O n th e f ront i ers is_ A... an p y nient, realm, gre armed enemy who, in alliance with th e revolutionary Parw openly announces his intention to obtain p o ssession of the dependencies of Austria i n I taly. To support him ' the ruler over France—who, under futile pretexts (nielitig Vorwande) interferes in th e l egally established relations the Italian peninsula—has set his troops in movemen t ' Detachments of them h ave already crossed the frontiers 0 ' Sardinia. The crown which I received without s pot or blemish from my forefathers, has already seen trying times' The glorious histo r y o f our country gives evidence tha t Providence, when th ere i s a foreshadowing that the greatest good of humanity is in danger of being overthrown in 11 ; rope, has frequently use d t h e sword of Austria in order 4."; dispel that shadow. W e are again on the eve of such - period. The overthrow of the things that be is not onlf aimed at by factions but by thrones. The sword which have been forced to draw is sanctified, inasmuch as it is i defence for the h onour an d rights of all peoples and Ra ze* and for all that is held most dear by humanity. " To you, my peopl e , w h ose devotion to the herecling in reign family may serv e as a mo d e l for all the nations ..° the earth, I now a dd ress myself. In the conflict which br, commenced you will sta n d by me w ith your oft-proved Merl.' andtlevotion. To- your sons, whom I have taken into I I ranks of the a rm y, I, th e i r comman d er, send my ma rtial greeting (wafen-gruss). With pride you may regard them' for the eagle of Austria will, with their support, soar high° " Our struggle is a just one, and we begin it with coursbi and confidence. W e h o p e , h owever, t h at we sh a ll not stand alone i n it. Th e so il on w hi ch we have to do battle was made fruitf u l by th e bl oo d l os t by our German brethr...e , when they won thos e b u l war k s w hi c h th ey have Inall'of tained up to the present day. There the crafty enemiea Germany hav e genera lly b eg un their game when theyhiloch wished to break her internal power. The feeling that S u a danger is now imminent prevails in all parts of Germany' from the hut to the throne, from one frontier to the oth er. I speak as a Sovereign member of the German Confedersci tion, when I call attention to the common danger, a n d recal to memory the glorious times in which Europe .".%, to thank the general and fervent en th us i asm o f Gerlal ll for its liberation For God and fatherland g 4 Given in my residence an d metropolis of Vienn a ) ost this 28th day of April, 1859." v OPENING OF THE _ROYAL ALBJ , - - BRIDGE. PLYMOUTH. MONDAY NIGIIT' e a Yesterday morning the Prince Consort aril' s . in Plymouth to open the great Albert Bridge Or ° the Tamar into Cornwall. The ceremony, which passed off with the utot success, took pla ce a t one o ' clock, his Royal it ness giving the bridge its name, and delariog opened to the public. ain The Princ e qu i tte d Plymouth by the Royal +rto, at 7 p.m., appointed to arrive at Windsor at 1 $' this morning, THE CROWN PR INCE OF SAXONY.—HiS rtyal Highness the Crown Prince of Saxony landed at Dover ° n Sunday evening, and, after passing the night at the •`:;.' a in Ship Hotel, left yesterday morning by the eight a rth ed for Southampton via Reigate. His Royal Highness ret c oar d Southampton at one p.m. and at once proceeded en,' the Portuguese Government frigate, commanded O r f Royal Highness the Duke of Oporto. In the course ) ._,. 0 afternoon the Crown Prince honoured with an aucilet4 o Mr. Emanuel, of Hanover-square, who submitted t24'ex., Royal Highness several beautiful works of art in !,. 1. . 1 : 00 . from which the Prince was pleased to make select Early in the evening the frigate sailed for Lisbon, 1v.. 4 • 4 , 0 the Crown Prince is proceeding to marry the sister ca '- 4160 f Portugal. GREAT . NAVAL PREPARATIONS. Yesterday, inconsequence of the issue of her Majesty's proclamation to - encourage the entry of seamen and lands men-for service in the Royal Navy, and which was posted during the day at the Admiralty, Horse Guards, the Man sion -house, Royal Exchange, and Docks, an immense num ber of men and.lads assembled at the Royal Naval Rendez vous; Tower-hill, to join the service ; and during the entire day both entrances to the rendezvous were besieged by an eager throng anxious to take the bounty and enter the service. Capt. Greet, of.H.M..'s receiving ship Crocodile, moored off. the Tower, and the officers under his command, inspected and passed several hundred first-class men and boys, includ ing numerous first-clas s`seam en gunners, the latter in addition to the bounty being entered to receive additional pay of from Id. to 4d. per day. So great was the crowd of men and lads that it was found necessary to obtain the services of several ofthe H division of police to keep the thoroughfare open and . preserve order. The applications. were equally numerous on board the guardship Fisgard, moored off Woolwich, and. it is calculated that the men required, 10,000, will be raised in a very short period. .. On Saturday. a large van, drawn by four horses, with a band of musicians, was engaged for seven days, by order of the Lords of the Admiralty, to arouse the martial ardour of the tars willing to serve the Queen and accept the liberal bounty. —This . novel cavalcade, preceded by .outriders on horseback, the. roof of the van covered with volunteers, with the .Union. Jack hoisted above. Ahem, and the in terior of • the .van filled with warrant officers from the Crocodile. receiving-ship off the Tower, made. a successful cruise on .Saturday. Yesterday, the van, again drawn by four greys, with a band of music and outriders, paraded the principal streets in Wapping, St. Georgerin-the-East, Shadwell, Ratcliff, Stepney, Limehouse, and Blackwell, picking .up volunteers in all directions. After leaving them at Wards, and the Tower-hill rendezvous, the van, with' the band . playing merrily, and the tars .on the roof cheering loudly at intervals, proceeded over London-bridge, Southwark, Westminster-bridge, and Parliament-street, to the Admiralty, returning through Westminster and the City to the east. At every place where the van stopped the band. struck up the national air of. "Rule Britannia," followed. by ".Hearts of Oak," the "Red, White, and Blue," and other popular airs. Mr. Ward, the warrant officers, and others frequently ad dressed the people, urging seamen to join the - Royal Navy and accept the bounty, and calling upon others to bestir themselves and induce volunteers to serve the Queen and Old England. - • At two.o'clock the van drove up to the Star and Garter, in Arbour-street, Stepney. A halt was made, the Queen's proclamation was read amidst deafening cheers, the band struck up." God Save the Queen," and after a stay of about 20 minutes the band struck up the faveurite air of " The Girl I left behind me," and the van drove away and pro ceeded along the Commercial-road, Shadwell High-street, Ratcliff-highway, and Tower-hill. Numerous volunteers, both seamen and landsmen, offered themselves and were Approved. yesterday, and were forwarded to the Crocodile receiving.ship off the rower, where snug. berths and good treatment were provided them. Many. were rejected by the doctors, and it is of no use for any but men and lads in a sound state of health to attempt to enter.the Royal Navy. The bounties offered by the Adniiralty were. conspicuously painted in blue and red let ters on white cloth on each side of the navy van, which was at some periods.of the day most inconveniently overcrowded. The police have received orders to give.every.facility for the passage of the van, horses, and colours, through the streets during the present week. • . Yesterday orders were issued by the Admiralty for all the men belonging to the Coast Guard .fit for service, to be held ready to proceed to sea, and the necessary number of Royal Marines to be told off for .the first division of the steam reserve, all the ships composing - which are having . their .sea .fire-hearths put in; and, pursuant to Admiralty orders, additional numbers of shipwrights, riggers, caullrerr, and artisans, were taken on at all the Royal dockyards, to bring them forward with all expedi tion; including the Exitouthi 99, screw, Captain J. Stop ford; Asia, 84,. screw Captain Robins.= ; the James Watt, 91, Captain E.. Codd; the Imperieuse, 51, screw ; Mel pomene, .50, screw ; Termagant, 25, screw ; Firebrand, 6, paddle, Captain. Edward Bruce ; Gorgon, 6, paddle ; Gla .diator, 6, paddle; and numerous despatch and gunboats. The Revenge .91, screw, just launched at Pembroke, is ordered.roundto Sheerness to be fitted with all expedition. The Hood, 91. guns, to be launched at. Chatham.to-morrow (Wednesday),.is also to be brought forward immediately, and the .Reynard, 6, despatch gunboat. The Ajax, 60, screw, has received orders to be held ready to sail at an hour's notice from Dublin Bay, and .several gunboats aro ordered. to proceed to the Channel Islands, and yesterday orders were issued for her Majesty's troop-ship Urgent to be held ready to convey ; Captain Garbett's company of the Royal Artillery, to Jersey. . In addition to the preparations making for the augmen tation of. the Channel fleet, the division of which, under the command of Sir C. Fremantle, has sailed from Berehaven, Bantry.Bay, with sealed orders, supposed destination the Adriatic, the greatest activity prevails in all departments of the Admiralty.,. and the steamers Britannia; Sidney Hall, -and Peninsula have been despatched to Gibraltar with large quantities of shot, shell, and ammunition. The Ad miralty. have also just despached several vessels, laden with heavy guns, to Malta, which are to be mounted on the fortifications of that island. The accounts received yesterday by .the Admiralty of the reception of her Majesty's proclamation at the Northern and Western. ports were most encouraging. First-class seamen freely volunteered for the service, and in a few days an efficiently manned fleet of steam-ships of war, commen surate with the power .and dignity. of England, will' be afloat in the British Channel. THE. COIIET.—Her Majesty and his.lloyal High ness the Prince Consort and the Princess Alice and the youthful members of the royal family leave 'Windsor Castle to-morrow for Buckingham Palace; accompanied by the members of the Court. Her Majesty intends, according to present arrangements, to remain in town until the 19th or 20th instant, when the Queen and Prince Consort and the royal family leave for Osborne for a week or ten days Her Aoyal Highness the Princess Fiederic William of Prussia is expected to arrive at Osborne on the 21st or 22d inst., on a visit to her illustrious parents, from Berlin. It is very probable that the royal consort and infant son of her royal highness will likewise visit Osborne. His Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Coburg will take leave of the Queen and His Royal Highness the Prince Consort•to-day, and depart from Windsor Castle, on his retain to Germany. The Duke .and Duchess of Marichesfer, who have, during the past week, entertained his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge; the Earl Cowper, Lord and Lady Ossulit'on, Colonel the Hon. James Macdonald, and a select circle, .at Kirabolton Castle, come to . town 'to-morrow, in order that the Duchess, as Mistress of the Robes, may be in attendance at Court. • • • - The•Earl and Countess of Winchelsea are enter taining. a select party of friends at • Eastpll Park, near Afford; Itent. , Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left Picca dilly yesterday for Brockett Hall; Herts. The noble viscount and viscountess intend to come to town for her Majesty's Drawing-room at St. James's P.alace on Satur day next. • • The, Right Hon. Sir J. Pakhigton, Bart., M.P.,: arrived at his official residence at the Admiralty last even-. ing, from attending his election at Droitwich. , The Right Hon. Edward Lucas has arrived at the Brunswick, Jermyn• street, from Castle Shane, county- Monaghan.. - Her Royal Highness the • Duchess of Saxe- Cobuig yesterday honoured the establishment of Mr. C. F. Hancock, the eminent jeweller of Bruton-street, with a visit.—Morning Post. Lord Stanley has returned to town from attend .. once at King's Lynn for his re-election. ' Lord Lavensworth and faMily have arrived at Percy's-cross, Walham-green, for the season. We regret to announce the • death of the Hon. Mrs. Leland Noel, which took place at EXtOn, Rutland, on Monday last. She was the daughter of Mr. J. S. Foljambo, of Osborton-hall, Notts, and married, in 1824, the Hon. and Rev. Leland Nocl, brother of the Earl of Gainsborough. MORETON BAY.—It has been decided to erect into a colony the district of Moreton Bay, now a portion of the government of New South Wales. The formation of this district into a separate colony has been for. the last six years urgently and repeatedly pressed by.the inhabitants on the Home Government. A delay in acceding to their petitions was occasioned by the necessity of, km arrangement for ap portioning the public debt as between Sydney and Moreton B a y—a point now satisfactorily adjusted. The separation now effected will no doubt lead to a great and rapid dove lopemen.t of the colony thus created, which will take the name of Queensland. The governor selected to preside over the new colony is Sir Ferguson Bowen, K.C.M.S., at present Chief Secretary to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, a post he has held for some time to the approbation of his superiors. Sir George Bowen was for merly a fellow of Brasenose, and a first-class man, and has' obtained considerable distinction in literary as well as in official circles. His appointment is likely to be popular in Australia, Sir Benjamin Pine, now Governor of the Gold Country, has been appointed Lieutenant-Governor of St. Christopher's. It will be seen from the foregoing that Sir Edward Lytton has adhered to the principle of promotion in the service as the best means of securing to our colonial empire the most efficient servants that can be obtained. The name of the capital of British Columbia is to be New Westminster. TUSCANY AND PARMA. The .11/:oniteur of to-day (Tuesday) contains the bllowing telegram : . PARMA, Sunday Evening.—A public manifesta tion was yesterday made by the populace before the Royal Palace: The officers in the name of the army deManded the union of their troops with the Piedmontese forces. The Duchess quitted Parma after having appointed a Council of Regency, com posed of her 141inisters. The Princes have also left this morning. Public order has not been disturbed. The I?resse of last evening announces that a movement similar to that which lately took place in Florence has just occurred in Parma. The Grand .Duche . ss has taken her,,departure, after having instituted a Council of Regency. The new Governinent .has expressed its adhesion to Pied mont. , _ _ TURIN, MAY 2. - The official Piedmontese Gazette publishes an account of the late events in Tuscany, drawing the conclusion that they prove the unanimity of feeling entertained by the population for the cause of na tional independence. The King of Sardinia has accepter the military dictatorship. of Tuscany solely to facilitate the co-operation of the Tuscans in the war ofindependence, and also to protect public order. The . Sardinians in Venice have placed themselves under the protection of the Russian Consulate. FRANCE. PARIS, MAY 3. The Moniteur states that at two o'clock to-day the Senate and the Corps Leyislatif will receive a communication from Government. MAY 2. Rentes were first done at Gir. 5c., rose to 61f. 15c., and are•now 61f. 10c. Little doing. 12.35 P.M. Rentes opened OK 5c., but fell immediately to 60f. 95 . 9 . , rose' again, and are now•6lf. 20c., being a decline of .L since yesterday's closing. Little doing. 2.18 P.M. Liquidation' is proceeding quietly. Tendency of the Bourse flat. .. Rentes, 61f: 15c. BERLIN, MAY 2. In tolday'S* . sitting of the Chamber 'of Deputies the Minister, of War made tha following state- ment Government, on the 28th of March last, ex plained the point of view which liersuaded them of the. necessity of ordering three corps d'armee of the Federal Contingent to be placed on a war footing. Since that date political affairs have assumed such a form, .that • Government have deemed it their duty to • extend the same measures to . the remaining six corps d'armee, and .the • necessary instructions have been already sent: to the different quarters:. Although Government have for the present communicated this intelligence to the Chambers, they have re served a more det.liled statement of the position of political affairs, which will, however,, be made to the house with the shortest possible delay. - BEItNE, MAY 2. The President opened the Federal 'Assembly to day with a patriotic speech. The Federal Council moved the following de mands for the consideration of the • Assembly — namely, to . sanction the declaration •of neutrality which. accompanied the recent calling in of the con tingents by. Government ; to authorise the taking of further defensive measures; to open a credit not to be limited to contracting loans ; and to appoint a Commander-in-Chief of the Federal army. The Austrian Ambassador has communicated to the Federal Council the manifesto containing the declaration 'of war. STUTTGART, MAY 2. The. Chambers have to-day .unanimously voted the Government projects of law for callin g out the Landw . ehr, forced levy of horses, and for opening a .war credit of 7,000,000 florins. The debates which took place expressed sympathy with Austria and indignation at the longing for war manifested 'by France. AUSTRIA. • VIENNA, APRIL 30. On the 27th inst. his Majesty the Emperor despatched the subjoined address 'to the forces forming the second army, which, as you are aware, is under the command of the Feldzeug.meister Count Gyulai : " After fruitless attempts to secure peace for my Empire, without compromising its dignity; I am necessitated to have recourse to arms. " confidence I confide the rights of Ausfria to the best of hands—to the hands of a tried and gallant army. " Your fidelity and bravery, your exemplary discipline, the justice of the cause which you 'defend,. and a glorious past guarantee to me your success. " Soldiers. of the second army I It is for you to secure victory to the spotless flag of Austria. Take with you into battle . the blessing of God and the confidence of your Emperor. "FRANCIS JOSEPH." Yesterday Count Buol addressed a circular de spatch to the diplomatic agents of. the Austrian Government at foreign Courts : "By her refusal to disarm Sardinia (it says) has proved that she is resolved to continue the attack on the indisput able rights of Austria, to disturb the tranquillity of Europe, and to encourage the hopes of the revolutionary party.. The Sardinian Government has abused the na tional feeling of the Italian races... All the germs of dis content in Italy were long assiduously . cultivated, and, as soon ati they began to spring up, Piedmont took the field as the champion of all the Italian nationalities. Sardinia can never have sincerely wished that Italy should remain in a state. of peace and prosperity, for .whenever .the Italian monarchs -have displayed - clemency and shown a spirit • of conciliation, she has redoubled her efforts to rouse the evil passions of the peopld. When the Emperor and . Empress were in Italy the public papers were permitted to- speak in f wour of regicide ; and when his Majesty placed his brother, the Archduke Ferdinand Maxi milian, at the head of the Administration of the Lembardo- Venetian kingdom, the agitators 'at Turin systematically misrepresented every act perforn;ted and- every measure taken. by the benevolent and generous Prince. " Austria is a conservative Power, and religion, morality, and historical rights are sacred in her eyes. The possessions of Austria in Italy are guaranteed fO her by the very Powers which gave Genoa to Sardinia, Lozbardy. was dOPISmaAY lx