The Sun. — London, England, 1859-06-21 00:00:00

OXFOItD UNIVERSITY ELECTION. The Ri Hon. W, E. GLADSTONE'S LONDON COMMITTE_ E will SIT DAILY at the Union Hotel, Cock spur-street, w here all communications should be addressed. The followi ug gentlemen have resolved themselves into a Committee : Lord Gordon Lennox, M.P. The Right Henry - !Hon. James Stuart Wortley. Sir Frederic 3k Rogers, Bart. Sir Stephen R. Glynne, Bart. The Very ti ev. the Dean of St. Paul's. The Judge • of the High Court of Admiralty. The Rev. D r. Kynaston, Head Master of St. Paul's School. Granville I 1. Harcourt Vernon, Esq. Robert Phi llimore, Esq., LL.D. The Rev. V Tilliam Scott. A full list i )f the Committee will be given to-morrow. tOYA.I. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. and er tne Alanagement ef Mr. Charles Kean THIS EN `EKING will be presented Shakspeare's historical play of KING HENRY V. King If enry V., Mr. C. Kean ; Chorus, Mrs. C. Beam After wh Ich, IF THE CAP FI rs. T HEA,►TRE_ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with EVERYBODY'S FRIEND. Messrs. Charles Mathews, Compton, and Buckstone ; Mesdames C. Mathews, Wilkins, and Reynolds. After which, USED UP. To conclude with THE WATER WITCHES. Commence at 7. - xTEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI. .L Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE MILLINER'S HOLIDAY. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. C. Selby, Mr. Billington, Miss Woolgar, Miss H. Keeley, Miss Kate Kelly. Followed by THE HOUSE? or, THE HOME? Mr. A. Wigan. C. Selby, Billington ; Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Miss H. Simms. Miss Laid law. After which, THE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. Messrs. C. Selby and Moreland ; Misses Woolgar and K. Kelly. To conclude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Chas Selby, Billinoton ; Misses Keeley, Arden, and - Laidlaw. and Sirs. Billington. Acting Manager—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. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING will be produced a new Comedietts, by J. M. Morton, Esq., entitled WHICH OF THE TWO ? supported by the company. Alter which, KENILWORTH. Fielowed by CAUGHT BY THE EARS. Mr. J. Rogers and Miss F. Hughes. Commence at 7 o'clock. A STLETS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Lessee and Manager ...Mr. William Cooke. Last Five Nights of the Season. Tremendous Success of the National Military Romance, the Battle of Waterloo. THIS EvENING, the performances will commence with the revived military spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, reproduced with all its original effects. Sup ported by Mr. W. Cooke, Mr. W. Cooke, jun., Mr. Holloway, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. J.W. Anson, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Herbert, Mr. Stanton, Mr. Worboys, &c. Mrs. Dowton, Miss Dowton, Miss Rivers, &c. After which, the matchless and unrivalled SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing Mr. John Henry Cooke, the greatest rider in the world, and the whole of Mr. W. Cooke's family, being the only instance on record of such a domestic concentration of unequalled male and female talent ; Madile. Francisco; Miss Holloway. To conclude with a Novel Entertainment called THE VOLUNTEER CORPS ; or, Female Brigade. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes, .£4 4s, £2 2s, and £1 ls. To commence at 7 ; Carriages at 11. On Saturday next, 25th June, the last night of the season, Grand Change and Brilliant Routine of Novelties, for the Benefit of Mr. William Cooke, proprietor. CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Westminster-road.—Open at Seven. EVERY EVENING during the week will appear THE DRLEPIERRE FAMILY, consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette, and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and EIGHT years. The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios 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.-SUN OFFICE, Julia 21. THEEMOHETErt, IN THE SHADE. 67—highest since soon yesterday. 56—lowest this morning and during the night. 65—this day at noon. BAnomETER-29.98. WIXD, North-Westerly ; fresh, with fine cool weather. As time moves on the plot thickens—in one part we have the Allied Armies in dubious suspense as to the fate of the next battle on the Mincio. The Aus trians are evidently making the most enegetie prepa rations to defend the last stronghold on which they can hope to resist the Allies ; while on the other the French are full of enthusiasm, and, flushed with the prestige of victory, are burn. ing to measure swords with the hated oppres sors of Italy. The Germans entrench them selves with a heavy heart and sad misgiving, while their invaders push on with the light elastic step of youth—strong in the consciousness of their vigorous onset and martial strength. A very few days, perhaps hours, may not elapse before the trial takes place, and woe to the vanquished will be the order of the day. As we stated a short time ago, the French are very actively at work—not on one point, but on all points available for a grand onslaught. Their gunboats must be now on the Po to meet the army of Prince NAPOLEON marching in that direction, to be carried across that river and the Adige' also; while the division about to land, if it have not already debarked to the north east of Venice, will march at once on Treviso, seize the railway there, and so cut off all communi cation with Germany in that direction, at the same time that it menaces the rear of the Austrian army on the Alincio, if indeed it will rest there. We hear a great deal about the quadrangle, and the immensity of the Austrian army prepared to defend it to extremity, but, if we mistake not, their very number will become a sore perplexity when once the panic ensues. Then will come the confusion, ammunition, stores, baggage, and parks of artil lery too numerous and to cumbrous to be carried away. In fact they will consider themselves but too happy if they can but save themselves in the helter skelter and pell mell terrors of a beaten and retreating army. On the other haiid, we see the wily course of diplomacy at Vienna, Berlin, and Brussels, endea vouring to seduce this country into their hopeless cause. It is very well for Prussia to build on the late marriage alliance with England, and for Austria to rest assured that the former influence of King LEOPOLD will now be stronger than ever in her favour now that his family are so closely allied to her destinies by mar riage. But these despotic rulers reckon without their host. We have a House of Commons which must take an English view of the question and not subject the people of this country to heavy additional taxation to support foreign Go vernments in their suppression of alien people. Why should we be cursed with an Income-tax to op press the Italians, Hungarians and other nationalities now groaning under the yoke of Austria ? If Lord PALIIERSTON'S Government try it on we shall not have to wait long for his second and last exclusion from O ffice, however much he may fancy that 1 he is safe in the intrigues of LEOPOLD, or the German obstinacy of others who may yet rue the day of their folly. The Siecle has coo lly undertaken the task of lecturing her most gracious laJesty Queen Vic- TORIA, upon a proceeding which that ingenious organ regards as in the highest degree unconstitu tional. It is an exception about as reasonable in its way as though some Parisian critic, Sta unchly believing, let us say, in the poetic genius of BOILEAU, were to sit in judgment upon any poem you please of PERCY BYSSHE SIIELLEY'S-41/aator, for example—and sagely to pronounce the writer o f that article to be glaringly deficient in all the nobler • A 01 ) , 404 - • e , •- •."1101 , ,h 11.013 t•• • THE SUN. TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1859. and diviner attributes of the true poetic idiosyn cracy. It is altogether a most amusing spectacle that of a Paris newspaper declaring the most constitutional sovereign this country has ever rejoiced in the pos session of, to have acted in a manner (according to this most competent witness) decidedly uncon stitutional. The proceeding objected to thus for mally by the Siecle is nothing less than the be stowal, by the QUEEN, upon the ex-Premier, of that most noble Order of the Garter, which is usually only so accorded when, as at the present moment, there is no vacancy in its roll of Knights —upon the princes of the blood royal or upon a foreign sovereign. Remembering that it has been so bestowed by the fair hand of VICTORIA upon the Imperial ruler of FRANCE, it certainly does appear to us somewhat invidious that a French journalist should take exception to its bestowal upon any other whom the QUEEN so pleases to honour in like manner. "In granting to Lord DERBY the Order of the Garter, especially when there is no vacancy, which is contrary to all ordi nary usages," quoth the Siecle," Queen VICTORIA has acted in the plenitude of her power." So far, that . is an admission. It is, then, in her MAJESTY'S power, and in that power in its plenitude. "But," asks the Parisian journalist, "has she acted in conformity with the spirit and traditions of the English con stitution ?" The Sleds is dismayed by the extra ordinary character of the proceeding, and eagerly looks about it for the consolation of a precedent. Looking about vainly for this consolation, it is con strained to add with reluctance, in answer to its own inquiry, " with all the respect we feel for our gracious ally, we must say that we do not think she has so acted in the present instance." This is surely very deplorable. It is a conclusion delibe rately arrived at by the Siecle, such as, doubtless, must carry dismay to the heart of Sir CHARLES YOUNG, Garter King-at-Arms, if it do not even bring disquietude to the boson of his august and beloved SOVEREIGN. Glancing seriously, however, for a moment at the objection thus raised by a Paris journal like the Steele at an act of grace indulged in by her Britannic MAJESTY, in regard to one of the fore. most of her MAJESTY'S own subjects—yesterday, by right of his supreme position as First Minister of the Crown, the foremost—it does appear to us in the highest degree indecorous for any foreign journalist to pronounce any opinion at all upon the matter—but still more for that journalist to ven ture upon the astounding effrontery of designating that royal act of grace one in any way unconstitu tional in its character. Since the first institution of this highest order of knighthood in the land, or, for that matter, it may be said with perfect accuracy, in all Christendom—since the date of its original institution in the middle of the fourteenth century, by King EDWARD 111., the bestowal of its insignia by the ruler of these realms has been jealously preserved as one of the most treasured of the royal prerogatives. The three mystic mottoes variously emblazoned upon the device of the Garter during the reign of its regal and knightly founder, indeed, imply, more or less explicitly, the haughtiest maintenance of this royal prerogative. That even is one sufficiently obvious explication of the motto which has come down to this time as the peculi arly characteristic inscription of the Order—a ' motto mysteriously implying that each nomination to the Order by the Sovereign is to pass unques- 1 tioned. " Shame to him that thinks evil therein," "Iloni soit qui mal y penae." But there were two other mottoes, as we have said, emblazoned upon the device of the Garter upon different occasions during the reign of the great Founder of the Order, King EDWARD 111. And each of these two other perfectly authentic, though now almost forgotten inscriptions, pro claims the same truth yet more signally and sig nificantly. In one the royal donor seems to speak —in the other the knightly recipient. In both the words emblazoned upon the garter haughtily sweep away the temerity of any comment whatever upon the fact of the bestowal. One—the words it would seem coming from the lips of the kingly donor—running thus inexorably— " It . is . as . it . is ." The other more enigmatical, but at the same time, if possible, more solemnly definitive—coming thus exultantly from the lips of the chivalrous receiver of the insignia of the Order— • " Hay, hay, the wythe swan, BY GODES SOULE I AM TRY MAN I" From the first moment of its institiution up to this present hour—there is no appeal against any no mination to the Order of the Garter by the British SOVEREIGN. Whenever bestowed, however be stowed, to whomsoever bestowed—it is within the scope of the prerogative of the SOVEREIGN. And looking down the grand array of names inscribed upon the panels of St. George's Hall, at Windsor, it is impossible not to recognise as indisputable the truth that that lofty and jealously-guarded prerogative has been but rarely, indeed, abused in its bestowal from the days of King EDWARD the THIRD down to those of our present most gracious and most constitutional SOVEREIGN. Happily, however, while we would here protest briefly, but indignantly, against these impertinent comments of the Siecle, upon the nomination by her MAJESTY of EDWARD GEOFFREY, Earl of DERBY, to the high and resplendent honour of being one of the EXTRA Knights of the most noble Order of the Garter—we are conscious at the moment of so doing that there is no echo to this impertinence of the Siecle (however faint) any where discernible throughout the whole wide range of English journalism. Nobly ,has, Lord DERBY WOll :the blazonry of that supreme order of knight hood, and long may he wear it ! To a small extent we belong, and we confess it, ,o a beaten party. With the C onservat i sm of the E m 1; y'S supporters t o e cou ld have,vast bodyof course, of n Lord o DR sy ; but, on the other hand, we did not conceal our good feeling towards the leading members of the late Ministry. We felt, indeed, that it was a false position for an avowedly Conservative Ministry to be the Go vernment of a nation of which tie vast majority jE Liberal in , politics—a vastly larger majority, indeed, than the House of Commons indicates, elected, as Mr. BRIGHT observed, by bribery or influence in small boroughs, by coercion in the counties, and by freedom of voting in the larger boroughs only. If the party which governs is to be of the same sentiments as the party which commands a small nominal majority in the House, and a very large one amongst the independent elec tors and the non-electors, then, no doubt, we ought to have a Liberal Ministry. But though for this reason in a false position, it was a fair one, and one demanding the fairest treatment. The late Ministry was not to be jerked into office just to allow Lord PALMERSTON to turn round once or twice, after his conviction of subserviency to French dictators, and kick them out again with an India Bill or a CARDWELL resolution. Neither the house nor the country would tolerate this. They took office because no one else could or would ; and Radicals, at least, were united almost to a man in refusin g to permit any factious dealing with them. , In this feeling we fully shared with the great body of honest Liberals. We also thought with the few who, as a matter of Liberal policy, held that we should yet " realise," as a commercial man would say, more from a Conservative than from a still professing Liberal Ministry. We mentioned our principal reasons for thinking so, while they might be of some practical service ; and it is gratifying to see that journals most an tagonistic to Lord DERBY and his Cabinet are now quite ready to do full justice to their Ad ministration. It is acknowledged that so different was the courtesy and urbanity of the Leader of the House of Commons and his colleagues, from what members had been accustomed to under the cold shade of Whig leadership, that he and they have largely increased their popularity in the House, — that, indeed, it was quite refreshing, and enabled members to breathe, as it were, freely after the treatment to which they had so long been subjected. Their Reform Bill—or rather their indiscreet per sistency in retaining two clauses, or principles, which even their own followers objected to—was their only serious blunders, and that they were willing to correct. But on the most important point of all at the present moment—the decision and firmness of their foreign policy—there can be, now, no doubt. If Austria and the German Con federation chose to be blind, they must take the consequences. Lord MALMESBURY was not the man who led them into the ditch. Nothing could be plainer, both in January and in April, from the incendiary address of the French EMPEROR to the Austrian Envoy, to the belligerent ultimatum of Austria, than the language held by our foreign Minister. He warned Austria most solemnly that the national feeling of England would not in any case tolerate interfe rence in her behalf; and subsequently he pointed the crack-brained Germans to the English hustings all over the country, as proof that if they choose to fight, they must fight without help from us. But this leads us to the point on which we desire to fix the attention of our readers. The testing point with the new Cabinet must be their Reform Bill. There is no other business, that we are aware of, in the conduct of which they can surpass their predecessors, not in Indian Administration, not in measures for promoting Religious Liberty, not in Law Reform, not, as we have seen, in preserving an unflinching neutrality in re gard to foreign affairs ; it was on Reform that the present Ministry ejected the Derby Government, notwithstanding its willingness to adopt the wishes of the country when it was assured what they were,—and it is therefore on Reform that we must expect the present Ministry to surpass the late one. If they do not, the country will certainly ask for what reason they supplanted those who would have done as well. On this subject, then, we shall be disposed to give them, as well as their predecessors, "a foir trial." The trial relates to two heads—first, the time; secondly, the extent. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who, of course, allow 4 no one to dispute his autho rity on this subject, has insisted that either a bill should be introduced and carried through Parlia ment this session, with signal advantage to the poor grouse ; or that, which might be better, and we would not deny it, a special session should be con vened in the late autumn to pass a Bill. It is for Lord JOHN, occupying the position which he does, to prove that these suggestions were not clap trap to catch Radicals on the division. He eon give them effect--we look to him to do so. And of the two proposals we will own that we should prefer, were we legislators, the cool evenings of November to the sultry heat and the Thames in early autumn. But there must be no playing fast and loose with what amounts to promises from men of premier rank, although in a nominally second position. A still graver subject is the extent. There are two principal heads of reform, in regard to which the late Ministry, and the Ministers expectant, were equally silent before the late division; on all others the old ones stood, when they left office, on a level with the new. We refer, first, 'to the disfranchisement of small boroughs, with the con sequent reapportionment of seats; secondly, the Ballot. We confess, and every candid man will con fess, the difficulty, with so small a majority, of• throwing away the votes of the small boroughs by disfranchising them ; still this , subject must be dealt with; and it should be so dealt with that the voice of the nation will aid Ministers in com pelling the petty boroughs to submit to equity. It should not be difficult to do this. If the dis franchisement be rigidly impartial, showing no respect of parties, and if the electors be all pro vided with county votes, the nation will demand that they be content to be merged in larger con stituencies, and they themselves will feel that the demand is too reasonable to be opposed. The Ballot is a yet more important point. It concerns every constituency. All must wish to be free, all ought to be free. The absurd pretexts on which it has been so long opposed must now be given up. The solemn homilies, and heavy sermons and importation of fictions from America, by the Times, and the Whig protests of the leading lords who are unwilling to part with the mastery of the county electors, have all been rejected by the coun try. Ths great Liberal constituency is a ballot constituency. No one pretends to deny it. And as the Government takes office because it says it represents the majority, it is bound for the same reason to do the bidding of the majority on so im portant a point. Condderably more than two-thirds even of the members have voted for the ballot; what would be, then,, the proportion of electors who would demand it, if these demands were made by ballot ? Yet not more, we believe, than two out of sixteen members of the Cabinet have voted for the ballot. Two-thirds and more of the Liberal members, two-fifths of all the members, Liberal and Conservative, are represented in a Liberal Cabinet by ONE-EIGHTH of these members. Let Reformers, then, be awake. Ths two must, by popular sup port, be made a match for fourteen. GREAT GLOBE, LEICESTER-SQUARE.—The follow ing, among others, have recently visited this exhibition : Princess Rorsakor and party, Marquis of Kildare and family, Lord Alfred Paget and family, Lord Campbell, Lord and Lady Ashley, Sir George Baker and family, Sir Robert Hamilton and family, Colonel Dixon and party, Colonel Willoughby and party, Countess of Harrington and party, Lady Willoug_hby d'Eresby, Lady Colehurst, Lady Cochrane and turn to the :aniejuen, L o a L d s y l E N lo l w N e D r l , A an . tl T La n d e yPrice. party, Lady Tuffnell and party, Lady M'Dougal, Lady following is a list of the of e ce e rs B , agoiutnient s , and monthly salaries of all judicial i lii the East Indies, according to a recent re- Peacock... °use of Commons, viz.:—ln Bengal, Sir B. Knt., Puisn e i , Amt., Chief Justice 6,94.5 r. ; Sir C. Jackson, Octooer, 1852, 1 6,209 , ; dge, appointed , Puisne Judge in Bombay in 25:020009: .. : AA II ri. . . . , wi Ritchie,am. 1 im. d a r 4 hce S or i 5r3A31,0.,0v1i0 Advocate-Gen e r al, sa e t l te l er s ziGn K eE n n Kn t ., Puisne y 3,, 448 Judge,. Registrar m r : i dand Record T. H. Cowie, Mr. Henry dolroyd, el, 1,233 r.; Mr. F. C. Sando, and Accountant-General, Sworn Administrator -General, paid by Prothonotary, Clerk of the ' P or. ; 3,000 r. i Mr. C. S. H ogg, Adm a i P n r, Clerk of • the Crown, K. , ee 1,200r. ; Mr. H. Fort St. George—Sir H. Davison, Knt r T . R a x o i b n t g . G Officer'D ow Chief 1,600 r. At • ted Chief Justice in Bombayilin Feb.,.•efJustice, ap poinlBsB, 5 000 • Sir A. Bittleston, Knt., Puisne Judge 4,16 r . si , r• , S fe m es o ; ul 3 t l , Smith Advocate-General, 2,157 r.; /h r. j. • it. L . T. S. Solicitor-General, 1,175 r. ; Mr. C. M. Teed, °YB`.l, *nistrator. Gen Master in Equity, 525 r. ; ditto, Admi _ 5 eral, 70 Mr. T. B. Norton, Clerk of the Crown, 52. r. ; m r. 1 ,. Orme, D puty Clerk of the Crown and Examiner, 175 r. In Bombay —Sir M. A. Sansse, Kilt/ Chief Justice, appointed Puisn e Judge in 1855, 5,000 r. ; Sir M. Arnould, ii nt. , Puisne Judge, 4,166 r. ; Mr. A. J. Lewis, Advbcate-General, 1,600 r. ; Mr. T. P. Bickersteth, Company's Solicitor 1,200 r. ; Mr. T. L. Jenkins, Master in Equity, 52 61 . ! ditto, Examiner of Insolvent Debtors' Court, 152 r. ; Mr. C ' M. T. Pollock, Clerk of the Crown, 62.5 r. • Mr. W. Brook field, Deputy Clerk of the Crown, 175 r. • Mr. T. H. Stan don, Administrato r -G enera l , 850 r. All these belong to the English bar, with the exception of Sir M. R. Sausse, who belongs to the Irish bar THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 21, 1859. THE HANDEL COMMEMORATION FESTIVAL. The attendance yesterday morning at the Crystal Palace was not nearly st great as at the rehearsal on Saturday ; ant the difference may, perhaps, be accounted for by the very inauspicious aspect of the sky just before the hour at which the concert was announced to commence. There was a heavy fall of rain, and this, doubtless, had a very coasiderable influence. The concert commenced with the " National Anthem," very grandly sung, and enthusiasti cally received. To the performance of "The Messiah," taking into con sideration all the circumstances upon whieh we have spoken at some length, very great praise is due. Of course our readers will not expect us to enter into details with respect to a work so familiar to everbody, and which has been so very frequently and recently performed by the same artists at Exeter Hall and elsewhere. Madame Novello's voice was heard to the greatest ad vantage. Mr. Sims Reeves, Miss Dolby, Mr. Weiss, and Signor Belletti are also entitled to unqualified eulogy. The performances of those artists in " The Messiah" are so per fectly well known as to render praise superfluous. The precision of the band and chorus was really extraordinary, and reflected the highest credit upon the zeal and masterly skill of the conductor. " For unto us a child is born" was rapturously red emanded. Never in our recollection was so very large an assemblage of people managed with greater ease and comfort. There was polite attention at every turn, and visitors found their seats most. readily. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. The appearance of Mademoiselle Piccolomini for the first time since her return from America attracted a crowded audience last night to the Italian Opera, Drury-lane. Of course, "La Traviata" was the work selected for the im portant event, and the favourite little artist found herself in the presence of an audience well disposed to revive the pleasant reminiscences of the season when she came upon London as a new sensation. Her admirers will be re joiced to learn that she is net a whit changed. Voice, manner, abandonment to situation, are all as they were, and she dies as bravely as ever through the whole of the third act, her duet, with Signor Giuglipi thrilling through all who hear the familiar strain of misery and. passion. Boundless applause followed the descent of the curtain. MR. AND MRS. GERMAN REED. Last night Mr. and Mrs. German Reed gave an entirely new entertainment, consisting of popular illustrations from real life, in the Gallery of Illustration in Regent-street. The entertainment was divided into two parts, the first being entitled " Our Home Circuit," the second part " Sea Side Studies," and sonsists of a series of sketches of cha racters, admirably filled up by Mrs. German Reed, who was ably assisted by Mr. Reed himself. The most attractive portion of the entertainment consisted of a number of songs, the composition of Mr. German Reed, which were exseedingly well sung by Mrs. Reed, some of them being warmly encored. In the second part Mrs. Reed gave her very entertaining sketch of Sally Skaggs, which was re peated by particular desire, in which she sings her very amusing ballad " When first I went to service," and which obtained a hearty encore. The entertainment, which never flags, is well worthy of a visit, and those who remember Mrs. Reed as Miss P. Horton need not be told of the spirit, vivacity, and ster ling ability she displays throughout the entire perform. ante. At ths conclusion of the entertainment Mr. and Mrs. German Reed had the honour of being called before the curtain. IRELAND. DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING. THE IRISH SECRETARYSHIP. The under-current of discontent has already set in here. The rumoured appointment of so able a man as Mr. Cardwell to MI the comparatively , un important post of Chief Secretary for Ireland has failed to give satisfaction. It is the old story a hundred times repeated. The great administrative talents of the right hon. gentleman are freely ad mitted, and his services to the Roman Catholics in his opposition to the Ecclesiastical Titles Act are not wholly ignored ; but then Mr. Cardwell has had the bad fortune to have been born on the off side of the Channel, and is, therefore, quite in capable of knowing anything of the Irish tempera ment. Cunning Lord Derby managed these things better. Irishmen were to be found at the Admi ralty, at the Treasury, in one of the highest law offices, and the eminently popular Lord Naas, the projector of the admirable Dublin Police Bill, was Chief Secretary for Ireland. Alas, bow changed now ! THE LAW .APPOINTMENTS. Saunders' Newsletter states that . Mr. Henry George Hughes has refused the judgeship in the Bitin*:ruptcy Court, vacant by the death of Mr. Macao. It is scarcely credible that the offer was ever made. Mr. Hughes's professional income must be nearly double the salary of the judgeship, and he can well afford to bide , his time until something turns up more worthy of his position at the Irish equity bar. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. C. Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right lion. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. W. E, Gladstone, the Duke of Somerset, the Earl of Elgin, Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, and the Right Hon; T. Milner Gibson. Lord John Russell has appointed the How, George . Elliot and Mr. George Russell to be his private secretaries. Mr. Villiers Lister has been appointed Precis Writer. TRINITY Housx, TOWER-HlLL—Yesterday being Trinity Monday, the elder brethren of Trinity House pro ceeded to the parish of St. Olave's, Hart-street, Crutched friars, where Divine service was performed according to annual custom. The grand banquet to his Royal Highness the Prince Consort and her Majesty's Ministers takes place on Saturday evening, the 2d of July. On Friday next the royal mail screw steam-ship Ethiope sails from Liverpool• for the West Coast of Africa, with the mails, &c. The letter box at the Liverpool Poet office is open for letters till 12.45 p.m. with a late fee, at 1.15 p.m., and on the landing stage at 2 p.m. THE OUTWARD INDIA MAIL—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship the Pera, Captain. Jamieson, arrived at Malta with her usual punctuality oni the evening of the 12th of June, in eight days from South ampton, including stoppage at Gibraltar, nothwithstanding having had head winds as far as Cape St. Vincent. On the 9th, when 60 miles to the eastward of Gibraltar, she ex changed signals with the barque Egyptian, standing to the westward. The Pera left for Alexandria on the morning of the 14th. The Ellora, with the overland London mail, ar rived at Malta early on the morning of the 15th, and pro ceeded onwards to Alexandria immediately after coaling. The Behar, with the heavy homeward mail, left Malta for Southampton on the afternoon of the 13th, and the Nepaul on the forenoon of the 15th for Marseilles wi4h the home ward Indian mail. THE OCEAN MAIL SERVICE. —SOUTHAMPTON, Monday.—The Peninslar and Oriental Company's screw steamship Colombo, Captain J. S. Field, sailed hence to day, with the heavy portion of the mails for the East Indies and China, a full cargo, and specie and jewellery to the value of £285,017. Th e T agus , Captain Hall, is due on the 21st, with mails from Lisbon, Oporto, and Vigo; the New York, Captain Von Sauten, on the 22d, with mails from New York of the 11th inst., for England and Bremen; the Behar, Captain Hicks, with the Bombay mails, and the Hammonia, Captain Schwensen, with New York mails of the 15th inst., on the 27thl . the Ariel, Captain Jones, on the 30th, with English and French mails of the 18th, from New York ; the Atrato, Captain Woolley, with the West India, Pacific, and Mexican mails, and the Alhambra, Captain Steward, with the mails from Lisbon ? Oporto, and Vigo, on the Ist proximo; th e P era , Captain Jamieson, with the India and China mails, en the 4th; and the Tyne, Captain Sawyer, with the Brazil and River Plate mails, on the sth. The Vanderbilt, Captain Lefevre, leaves this port on the 22d inst. for New York ; the Orissa, Captain Joy, and the Sultan, Captain - N. Cook, on the 27th, the former taking out the Bombay mails, and the latter the mails for Vigo, Oporto, and Lisbon; the Weser, Captain Gatjen, f or New York, on the 28th, and the Arago, Captain Lines, for New York, on the 29th. The Red Sea cable has announced the arrival at Aden of the Calcutta mail of the 17th of May, but the news by that opportunity has been anticipated by the • Bombay mail of the 23d. It is satisfactory, however, to receive a confirmation that the line is in working order. The mes sage was despatched from Aden to Suez on the 10th inst., and would have reached London two days sooner had it been telegraphed from Marseilles instead of forwarded by post. The land line of the company between Suez and Alexan dria was completed, with the exception of 15 miles, when the last advices left on the 11th inst. The arrival of £500,000 in bullion was announced yesterday, the Asia, from New York, having brought £289,000 ; the Monarch, from Melbourne, £171,400 ; the Moscow, from St. Petersburg, £27,000; and the Ripon, from Alexandria, £13,600. Including the £56,000 in Aus tralian gold, by the Essex, and the £530,000 in gold and silver, by the West India steamer La Plata, there is an aggregate of no less than £1,087,000 in specie, chiefly gold, awaiting disposal. There is consequently a prospect of some amount being taken to the Bank during the present week. The bullion operations at that establishment yes, terday were too small to deserve notice. DETERMINED SUlClDE. —Y es t e rday evening, a n inquest was held at the University Hotel, Grafton-street East, Fitzroy-square, before Mr. Wakley, on the body of Mr. Charles Hall, aged 47, a coachbuilder, who committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. Tho deceased had for a length of time been in a desponding state of mind, for which there was no assignable cause. On Wednesday evening last, he, in conversation with his wife, said he did not think it worth while living longer. She went out after wards, during which the unfortunate man took the oppor tunity of cutting his throat with a razor, and he died on the following day. There were several witnesses examined, all of whom spoke to the deceased's low, dejected state of mind for some time past. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased committed the act while in a state of insanity. The amount of revenue of New South Wales for the quarter ending March 31 was over £58,000 greater than that of the corresponding quarter of 1868. A large portion of it is traceable to the increase in land sales, and to the newly impo se d assessm ent ; but £22,000 is from the Cus tords receipts alone. • - • LALTEST NEWS. THE WAR IN ITALY. The following telegrams have been received a Mr. Beutei•'s office : BERLIN, JUNE 2 The Preussische Zeitung states itself authorised to declare that the communication of the corre spondent oaf the Nord respecting a letter alleged to have been_ 'written by the Prince Regent to the Emperor Napoleon on the character of the mobilisa tion of the sixth corps d'armee, •is entirely an in- vention. TJtIESTE, JUNE 20, According to reports current, the Austrian vessel Buona, of the class No. 2, which had been captured by the French, has been given up as free, because its proprietor and captain are Venetians. MUNICH, JUNE 20. Major-General von Tann has left for Berlin on a special mission. MARSEILLES, JUNE 20, The Marseilles papers announce that the Mi nistry of the Pacha of Egypt has suspended the Suez Canal works. M. de Lesseps has published a protest, recalling the recent formal engagements of Said Pacha concerning the Suez Canal project. M. de Lesseps also states his double character of repre sentative of Said Pasha and of a regularly coasti tuted company. The French Consul in Egypt has officially offered his mediation. . THE- lONIAN ISLANDS. CORFU, JUNE 10. In consequence of the war all the normal chan nels of communication between this island and Trieste —as, indeed, also Malta and Italy—have been interrupted, and the harbour of Corfu is en cumbered by the steamers of the Austrian Lloyd's Company, 15 of which are at the present moment lying listlessly at anchor there, under the protec tion of our neutral flag. In the last month a chance ship of war and the fortnightly Liverpool steamers have been the only means of communicating with Europe ; while an occasional telegram from Malta, with stale accounts of the events which are occurring in Upper Italy, gave brief and tardy news of the war. The sub marine telegraph between Malta and Cagliari is still broken, and its want is at this moment more felt than ever it was. Let us hope that it will be promptly repaired. This little island is now to be somewhat relieved from its isolation, arrangements having been made to run a steamer twice a-month to and from Malta with the mails. Tranquillity has continued throught the Seven Islands since the noisy agitators of the National As sembly retired to their homes. The lonian Parlia ment does not reassemble until September, and until then, provided no extraordinary circumstances arise of a character to stimulate the discontented zealots of lonia, we may enjoy the blessings of repose and calm government. Yesterday, 'a French steamer chased an Austrian brig into this very harbour. A great many prizes have been made by the French hereabouts. A Turkish squadron, under the command of Mus tafa Pasha, anchored here last week. It is com posed of a screw line-of-battle ship, a large screw frigate, and a steamer. They proceeded on their course on Saturday, taking a considerable force to the frontiers of Montenegro, where hostilities have again broken out. It is, indeed, said here that the Montenegrins have made an incursion into the Sultan's States, and gained possession of a for tress near the frontier. French officers have for some time been with the Montenegrin army, and large supplies of arms have reached them from France. It is thought by no means improbable that Montenegro may, under the excitement of existing circumstances, gave an impulse to a move ment among the Christian populations of Turkey in Europe, among whom the elements of revolution are ripe, and who are encouraged by the great northern Power to struggle against the Turkish yoke. The military authorities have been busy inspect ing the state of the fortifications and outworks, and guns of large calibre have been mounted in some of the embrasures. The Melbourne and the Sir William Peel arrived here : last week, bringing the 2d Battalion of the 4th Royal Regiment, and a company of Artillery and Engineers. PRUSSIA. A Berlin letter of the 17th says :—" It is gene rally believed that the government will publish a manifesto making known the object of the mobilisa tion, which concerns so closely all the interests of the population. The public are painfully affected by the decision ; and it is said that the majority of the Cabinet is nowise in accord with the Regent as to the object of the mobilisation, and that an official document on the subject, which was ready to be printed, has been withdrawn. What, besides, is known of the sitting of the Council of Ministers in which the mobilisation was resolved on, is not cal culated to inspire much confidence. The rumour goes that the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Finance openly pronounced against the act in ques tion. It is not at all certain that the ministry will remain in office." GENOA. A letter from Genoa, dated June 16, says :—The French here are landing chests, four feet square, marked in English " Navy bread," with the gross weight, tare, and net, of each box ; and these do not lie at all on the quay, but are immediately put on the trucks, passed through the tramway tunnel to the station at St. Pier d'Arena, and so sent for ward without delay ; sacks of flour landed by hun dreds follow more slowly, each pile sleeping one night, perhaps, wrapped in sheets of canvass to protect it against the damp air before disappearing, when its place is soon supplied.bY - another. Num bers of casks from New York, containing each " 30 pieces of prime pork," are loaded on waggons or taken to the University, in Strada Balbi, one of the finest buildings in Genoa, and now used as a store. Great barges, piled like Pickford's vans, with cases of liqueurs, extrait d'absinthe, Muscat de Frontig nan, and cognac, are rowed in each by a single man through the port to the Sanita quay, to be discharged and put in store. Yesterday about 800 Austrian prisoners arrived, looking haggard and 'worn, but not otherwise objects that would excite much pity ; their general demean our is quite unnatural, so dogged and indifferent do they seem ; neither gay and careless as French men would probably be under such circumstances, nor showing dejection and mortification as Italians would do at the loss of liberty. Of course among the number were bright exceptions; some fine young men were pointed out to me as Hungarians, but the mass were simply heavy-looking, stupid, and bored. Two days ago I saw a curious sight at the Bu salla railway station, where ends the great tunnel, running through Monte Giove, which connects the Piedmontese plains with Genoa,—no less than a long train full of soldier butchers and bakers ! I did not at first observe that the numbers on their caps showed them to be of many different regiments, and was quite taken aback when a merry fellow sang out in answer to my question, " Nous sommes tous boulangers." They could not start for half an hour, for a double engine, patented by Stephenson, drags them up the steep incline of the tunnel, rendered still steeper by some unfortunate engineering mistak e or unavoidable difficulty of the ground, w hi c h has made the tunnel rise from both sides, its highest point being under ground, and meanwhile they laughed and talked and sang vaudeville songs with a good chorus, some , uning their voic es t o a " childish treble" to improve the harmony, or rather melody, for they did not take parts, but sang in unison. They were very eager to get down to the war, and confident of success, showing me their muskets and cartridges when I asked if bakers fought, and doubtful whether the Emperor was at Milan or Mantua. One wished very much to give news of his safe arrival to his friends at home but smiled at the idea of writing. No letter from the camp, said he, would reach the French shores ; Napoleon had no idea of exposing his plans or his losses to be criticised by every man qui mettait du noir sur du blanc—i. e., black ink on white paper. The complaint about non-delivery of let ters is quite true. It is acknowledged that no seal is respected at the post-office, and written news from the camp more explicit or exten sive than what is given in the bulletins runs great risk of total extinction. A friend of mine was told on application that there was a letter for him, but he was begged to return for it in an hour, at the end of which time he received it with the seal, bearing evident tokens of tampering; and the great movement which preceded the battles of Palestro and Magenta was marked by a total interruption of communications for a week, during which time wives and mothers, tormented by constant reports of fighting and loss, had no resource but patience. • FRANCE. PARIS, JUNE 19. ~ . . Three of the Paris journals give long descrip tions of the well-known square of fortresses belong ing to Austria beyond the Mincio, and inquire in what manner the " Franco-Piedmontese troops will endeavour to cross that river and attack the Aus trian troops at the other side. The Univera • expresses itself as follows on the point : " What is the French army about to do? Will it attempt to cross the Mincio in presence of 150,000 Austrian, ? -Or, will it make an attack •on Peschiera, in order to open an entrance into tilt well-known quadrangle _ ? The important point at the present time is to form an estimate of the strength of this large, entrenched camp, the last asylum of Austrian powei. It results from accu rate information, drawn from authentic sources, that the squads has its weak points. Peschiera, one of its bases, and which will probably be the first to be reached by the French troops, must 'speedily fall. Once that that place is in the hands of the allies, their army will possess one of the keys of the squar's and command the course of the Mincio. It may then advance towards Verona or Mantua. It is therefore probable that if the Aus trian army does not a second time tempt the for tune of arms in advance of the Mincio, a decisive battle will be fought in the very centre of the qua drilateral. Without knowing the plans of the Com mander-in-Chief, and without being even a skilful strategist, we may suppose that the Austrians will be attacked on several points at once. A naval expedition, possessing immense means of de siruction, is on the way to Venice ; 120 flat-bot tomed boats, sheeted with iron and armed with rifled cannon, are, it is said, to ascend the Adige and the Po. If Venice falls, as it is very probable it will, the fleet may land a corps d'armee tomarch on the Adige and take the Austrians in the rear, while the grand army attacks them in front. There are also in Tuscany French Troops which will at an appointed day appear on a given point. Let us therefore wait for events. The present manoeuvre of the Austrians is the same as was adopted by Radetsky in 1848, but with this difference, that General Schlick will now have a French army in front of him." PAM§ BOURSE.—The market has been very dull, and prices declining, owing to the English Con sols having come with a fall of 1. Threes receded from 62f. 45c. to 62f. 30c. ; Mobilier varied from 635 f. to 630 f.; Austrian, 407 f. 50c. to 402 f. 50c. ; Orleans, 1,217 f. 50c. to 1,242 f. 50c.; Lyons, 825 f. to 820 f. ; Southern, 475 f. to 472 f. 50c. ; Northern, 922 f. 50c. to 920 f. The market continued dull to the 'close. Tho following were the last quota tions 4f per Cents. 93 60 Credit Fonder.... 640 Do. end month — Belgian 4} . — 3 per Cents 62 40 Piedmonteso (5) .. 82 50 Do. end month 62 40 Roman B2 60 Bank Shares 2760 Austrian — Credit Mobilier .. 637 50 Spanish Threes Do. Account - ..._ 1 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern . 920 .. 925 New ditto — .. 787 40 Lyons and Mediterranean B2O .. 822 60 Geneva . . .. 495 Southern Western . 5lO Eastern Sardinian Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 c. ; money s 25f 7}c.; three months, paper, 25f..; money, 24f. 971 c. The Parma Gazette publishes a decree issued by the Government Commission, declaring that all the officers of the troops of Parma, who have gone over to Austria, are enemies of the country, and have as such forfeited their ranks and emoluments. More- over, all promotions in the army emanating from the old Government, subsequently to the date of the 3d ult., are annulled ; an exception, however, being made in favour of the corps of gendarmes. The same journal gives an account of a recon naissance made on Brescello by Captain Lafouge, aide-de-camp to General d'Autemarre, with four mounted gendarmes and the first lieutenant of that body ; the result of this operation was, that the few Modenese troops still at Brescello laid down their arms, and that the people immediately hoisted the tricolour. A correspondent of the Univers, writing from Rome on the 14th, gives the following account of the reception of the Bologna deputation at the French headquarters :—" It was stated that a de putation of the Bolognese, who repaired to the Emperor Napoleon to acquaint him with the situa tion of the Romagna and the wish of the inhabitants to be joined to Piedmont, were sent back with any thing but an agreeable answer. The Emperor is reported to: have said Return to your country, obey your Sovereign, and remember that I am not come into Italy to lessen his power, but to make it respected.' There is a rumour that another depu tation is to be sent to the Holy Father to lay at his feet a prayer for pardon and a promise of perfect obedience.'" AMERICA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) . LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY MORNING. The Hungarian has arrived with the Canadian mails of the 11th. The Africa had arrived at New York, and the Argo at St. John's, Newfoundland. The steamship Edinburgh, from New York, for Glasgow, had put into St. John's, Newfoundland, with two of her compartments full of water, having been in contact with an iceberg. There was no improvement in the Quebec timber market. (BY TELEGRAPH TO QUEBEC.) WASHINGTON, JUNE 11. Owing to representations from the British Go vernment, President Buchanan had determined to send to the Coast of Afrca and the Gulf of Mexico the gunboats in course of construction. NEW ORLEANS, JUNE 10, P.M. Middling Cotton, 10c. to 11. MONTREAL,. JUNE 11, P.M. 11 7 e have had heavy, cold rains and a slight frost. The crops are looking well. TORONTO, JUNE 11. The crops arc looking more promising. NEW YORK, JUNE 11, P.M. The North Briton's advices caused an advance of C. in cotton, middling uplands being quoted at 1 lie. Flour had advanced 10c. per barrel. Wheat a shade firmer. Indian corn was firm, but un changed in price. Other produce remained as last noted. Money and exchanges were without any new features. The stock market was quiet, but prices were rather higher. The disputes between the New York Central, Erie, and other western railroads had been settled, and the stocks had advanced. The New York sailed to-day for Southampton with 400,300 dols. specie. Advices from Fraser River are unfavourable. The Austrian Railways pe rhaps Company as a set-off against the increasing depreciation ho paper of the empire —have raisod their charges by 25 per LITERATURE. William Burke, the author of Junius. An essay'. By Jellinger C. Sy mons , Barrister-at-Law. Smith and Elder. This is a very ably-written essay on th e author ship of Junius, and his era. The writer supports the opinion that William Burke, cousin, it is sup posed, of the cele - orated Edmund, was the writer of those wonderful letters, whose mystery has no doubt heightened their importance. Few secrets have been so well kept, and it must h ave b een an indi vidual of singular self-command and power of reticence, who could close his career and go down to the grave without word or sign to prove that his was the hand that had wielded the dreaded pen. The writer of the essay before us enters thoroughly into his subject, compares the opinions of Junius with those of Burke, traces the simili tudes of their private and political hostilities or predilections, and gives a collection of incidents and anecdotes which tend to confirm his view. H. enters into the arguments for the authorship of Sir Philip Francis, and others, and compares their styles with that of Junius. In his chapter on the principles advocated by Junius, he expresses his admiration for his sentiments and opinions. He sums them up as follows : "The political principles involved in the war waged by Junius are these :—The rights of election over the arbi trary power of Parliament to annul them.—ln re Wilkes and the Middlesex election. The freedom of Government from the secret influence of Court faveurites—eersue Lord Bute. The liberty of the press, and trial by jury--walla Lord Mansfield. The liberty of the person—as against general warrants. The rights of property, as spinet the usurpations of the Crown—Nollum Tempus, and the grant of the Duke of Portland's property to Sir James Lowther. Due regard to military merit--versus the Ministerial treat ment of Sir J. Amherst, &c. ,‘ There was one, and only one, blot in the political cod, of Junius, and which alone defaces hie advocacy of con stitutional rights. He spoke tenderly of nominatiolt boroughs. He was 'startled at the idea of an extensive • amputation of them.' We must pardon this foible in William Burke—he not only owed his seat in Parliament to 'one, but so did Edmund ; and when William tried to gain an open seat he failed. In any other of the numerous patriots who have been put forward as Junius, such doc trine would have been, of course, unaccountable; in Will Ham Burke it was natural." " - - Whether the reader coincides in the assertion of the writer or differs from him,, he will find much to attract him in this essay . on .a time of much po litical interest. A discussion on such a subject cannot fail to excite the attention of all students of our Parliamentary history, treating as it does of that stormy and eventful . epoch when, as Lord Mahon has finely expressed it, "a new knight entered the lists with his vizor down, and with unreal devices on his shield, but whose arm was nerved with inborn vigour, and whose lance WAS poised with most malignant skill." . . Rita : an Autobiography. New edition. Bentley's Standard Novels. This is a very interesting story, and its repro duction in a cheap form is satisfactory to many who like to collect a library of fiction. The ♦arious adventures that befel the heroine are particularly well described, and there are many exciting pas sages that are more attractive than many that appear in stories like the present. Rita is a eery fine character, and the qualities she displayed are the more striking when it is taken into considera tion that she had so faulty an education, and that her relations, instead of being of service to her, conspired against her to serve their own unworthy ends. Few heroines had to struggle with more difficulties than those which environed Rita Percival. Practical Guide for Italy. By an Englishman Abroad. Longman. Another of the useful and convenient guides which have been recently published for dif ferent parts of Europe, suitable for persona of moderate means and limited time. It professes to tell the traveller how " to see all that ought to be seen in the shortest period and at the least ex pense." It will therefore be very serviceable to the large class of travellers who avail themselves of a few weeks relea se from the pr essure o f busi ness to visit the cont inent. Wheth er I ta l y, j ust at • p r esent, is most suitable for ti m id t ourists may perhaps be quest ioned; but when the storm of war has t i blown s i t o i v n e g r , it. greater ihe in r t o e u r t e e s s t t f h ro a m n e L v e o r n d w o n i b b y t d la i n u d m ar w e h b ic o h th ta d kl es e c s ri u b s ed th i r n this olugh different tpzeenr. t u F r s r a e a t f i n u o c l n e little i and t o t l f e t S c h o w e m i necessary advi ce ab loca lit iesabout North and Central Italy. Maps , p are s g , i a v n e d n i w l ith tariff, and r a il s ." h ote ls, posts, every steamers, A no _ usatici ekanees to Make M one y. By E. T. Freedley, a uthor of " A Practical Treatise. on Business," &c. Sampson, Low, and Co. A book w ith suc h an attract i ve t i t l e i s not lik e l y to be long without readers. The author is as good as his word, since he tells of upwards of a thou sand nodes for attracting the fickle goddess. His plans are not wild schemes or visionary El Dora dos, but state the best opportunities for industry and the safe investment of capital. Whether it would be safe to invest capital in all his proposed methods we shall not presume to determine ; but he appears to give very prosaic and business-like ad vice, speaking of many trades and manufactures in which some improvement or invention is needed ; of many articles of daily consumption whose cul ture or manufacture is neglected in this country ; and of those countries whose fertility promises an immediate reward to the cultivator, but some valuable trees and plants have not been n troduced. It will be hard if, among th e se va ri ed suggestions, the energetic and practical man of where i business cannot find some means of inc reasing his to almost every trade. income, since the suggestions mad e are applicable DEATH FROM DROWNING. —An inquest was held yesterday at Grantchester, near Cambridge, before Mr. Orain, acting as deputy for Mr. Barlow, coroner for the county of Cambridge, respecting the death of Mr. William T. Edwards, an undergraduate of Pembroke College, son of Mr. Edwards, solicitor, of the Terrace, Camberwell. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Thomas Savage, Fellow of Pembroke College, that ho and the deeessod went to bathe on Sunday at Otters-corner. The deceased jumped in where the water was only knee deep. He ran forward in spite of the caution of the witness, got into deep water, and was drowned. Every exertion was made to resuscitate him, but without effect. Tho jury returned a verdict of accidental death. IMPORTANT DISCOVERT.—The old axiom " That there is nothing like leather," appears likely to become obsolete by the recent patents for vegetable leathers of the Messrs. Spill, the ordnance contractors of St e pney-green. So singular is this imitation to sight and feeling, that samples of leather are compared with it, and not it with leather ! And this is not extraordinary when the first judges upon the hide markets of Bermondsey and Leaden hall have, previously to a more intimate examination, been deceived. With very ,many, adva.ntages over leather , it lacks, howevery one essetttial 'requisite for limited purposes is waterproof, but possessing the latter qualification, it must be obvious that for the majority ci oppliCaltiOWS Ltd write aro kaanfiwiAT Offorictro England and her Soldiers. By Harriet Martineau. Smith and Elder. This little work does great credit to Miss Marti neau's powers of observation and reflection. It also redounds to her credit that she expresses such worthy sentiments regarding the welfare of cur gallant soldiers. It would be well if the evils gilt she so eloquently denounces in many parts of this work were rectified; and if, instead of vaguely' admitting their existence, those who were able to remove-them were also willing to do so; and that thus the nation might have the satisfaction of knowing that the utmost had been done to amelio rate the condition of those who may be called upon at a moment's notice to expose their lives to 11 thousand perils and hardships, and even to sacri fice them in their country's service. There ate some illustrative diagrams which will be of servias to those who wish to analyse the subject._ There is no doubt great truth in the observations a the conclusion on the difficulty that exists in removinr the impediments to reform. It is said that the ob struction is low down. Change is abhorred in the' Government offices. The goodwill of the Sovereigo is believed in, the Commander-in-Chief is regarded as the soldier's friend, and two Secretarils el St.sts have agreed to the changes recommended by th commissioners ; but it is supposed that in the loysf departments the greatest resistance is made. Whether the reader agrees or disagrees with the authoress in the plans she proposes, her principle must be admitted to be a right one, in enumerating the wrongs and advocating the claims of the soldier. At no time could the work have been more oppor tune than at the present, when, through some sudden turn of affairs, the country may be spin plunged into a war, in which it should be our first endeavour to avoid the errors, and correct the blunders, which rendered the Crimean campaigns . a lasting disgrace to all who had to do with their direction at home and abroad. The Oxford Museum. By Henry Acland, M.D.; and John Ru s ki n , M.A., honorary students- of Christ Church. Smith and Elder. A little volume well worthy of perusal by those who take an interest in art. It will be fee* from the title-page that the additional advantage of Ruskin's opinion on the subject here treated of is offered to the reader. The writer of these are, although not claiming ' a professional knowledirr , has evidently attained much valuable information regarding works of art, which is proved by tho fact that this book is the substance of a lectur, given at their request to the members of the archi tectural societies that met in Oxford last year. To all whom it may interest, therefore, to dwell on such a subject this work may be recommended, and by them it will doubtless be deservedly appreci ated. . ~ ~ ~.. .••~ 1 • 1 tt 1 r t