The Sun. — London, England, 1860-03-28 00:00:00

A MOST LAUGHABLE STEREOGRAM. 0 M I C 1s of AIL, PR S U N. By CROWQUILL. Photographed by LONDON STEREOSCOPIC COMPANY, M, CHEAPSIDE, AND 313, OXFORD-S MEET. POST FREE FOR 18 STAMPS. MUST ORDER EARLY. BENSON'S WATCHES. " Perfection of mechanism."--Morning Post. Gold Watches 4 to 100 guineas. Silver Watches 2to 50 guineas. 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet on Watches HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. — SEASON 1800. The Lessee and Director, having completed arrangements which enable him to make the announcement under peculiarly favourable circumstances, has the gratification to acquaint the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public - , that HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE WILL OPEN for the SEASON on TUESDAY, the 10th o f April. ENGAGEMENTS. Mdlle. PICCOLOMINI, Her farewell nights, previous to her final retirement from the Stage. Mdlle. VA NE dlle. Rl, MARIA B I Mde. LAU TTIR,A BAXTER. MRUNE From the Grand. Opera, Paris, her first appearance in this country; and Madame ALBONT. Mdlle. LOTTI DELLA SANTA, (Her first appearance at her Majesty's Theatre). Mdlle. DEL'ANESE, Mdlle. NARDI. Mdlle. MARIA CABAL, (Prima Donna of the Opera Comique, Paris). Mdlle. BORG El I-MAMO, (Her first appearance in this country); and Mdlle. TITIENS. Signor MONGINI, I Signor MERCURIALI, Signor BELART, Signor SOLDI, and , Signor COItSI, Signor GIUGLINI. Signor EVERARDI, Of the Imperial Italian Operas of Vienna and St. Petersburg (his first appearance is this country). Signor FELLA tt Signor ALDIGHIERI, I (his first appearance). and Signor SEBASTIANO RONCONI, Of the Regio, Turin ; La Pergola, Florence, Sze. Signor GAsSIER, I Signor CA STELLI, and Signor VIALETT I. ENGAGEMENTS FOR THE BALLET. Mdlie. LEQUINE, 3ldlle. BIOLETTI, and 3ldlle. FERRARIS. M. MERANTE, Of the Grand Opera, Paris (his first appearance). Signor CALORI, Of the Imperial Opera, Vienna (his first appearance). M. DURAND. E BALLET—Signor BORRI. Mdlle. SAL VIONI, Of the San Carlo, Naples (her first appearance). MORLACCH I and Mdlle. POCCIIINI. Mdlle. CLAVELLE. Mdlle. MONCEL ET, and CLAUDINI CUCCIII, Of the Imperial Opera, Vienna %her first appearance). MAITRE ET COMPOSITEUR DIRECTORS OF THE MUSIC, COMPOSERS, AND CONDUCTORS — Mr. BENEDICT and Signor ARDITI. PRINCIPAL VIOLINS—Herr Molique and Mr. Henry Blagrove. LEADER OF THE BALLET—Signor Bollelli (Musical Director of the Theatre, Bologna). The MILITARY BAND of the GRENADIER GUARDS, under the direction of Mr. D. GODFREY, Suggetirore, Signor Fontana. I Regisseur, Signor Grua. STAGE MANAGER—Mr. R. ROX BY. The CHORUS tinder the direction of Signor VASCHETTI. The CORPS DE BALLET will include several additions from the Continental Theatres, tinder the direction of M. PETIT. The Box-office of the Theatre is open daily for Subscribers. from Ten to Five, under the direction of Mr. Nugent. ROYAL F,NGLISH OPERA. COVENT-GA RDNN. _ . _ Under the management of Miss L. Pyne and Mr.W. Harrison. - - For the Benefit of Miss Louisa Pyne. THIS EVENING, Henry Leslie's Operetta Romance of DICK TURPIN. Messrs. St. Albyn and G. Honey ; Misses Thiriwall and Cruise. After which. will be repeated the grand Opera, en tit►ed LURLIItE, by W. Vincent Wallace. Messrs.W. Har rison, Santley, Corr', and G. Honey ; Misses Louisa Pyne, Pilling, and F. Cruise, Conductor, Alfred Mellon. Doers open at halt-past 6—Commence at 7. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buokstone. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews, Buokstone, Compton, Chip pendale, Mrs. C. Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins. After which, USED UP. Mr. C. Mathews. To conclude with THE BOARDING SCHOOL. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM. Sole Lessee and Directress. Madame Celeste. Last Week of the present season. THIS EVENING (4th time) the new Comedietta, entitled "117, ARUNDEL-ST REET, STRAND." Principal charac ters by Mr. Walter Lacy, Mr. J. Rouse, Miss Kate Saville, Mrs. Campbell, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, will be performed the new drama, entitled THE ABBE VAUDREUIL ; or, The Court of Louis XV. The Abbe Vaudreuil, Madame Celeste ; Louis XV., 311. IL Butler; Lieut. Henri Delcour, Mr, F. Villiers. Followed by Callcott's Magnificent Transformation Scene from "KING THRUSIIBEARD." To conclude with THE SERGEANT'S WIFE. Lisette, Madame Celeste ; Margot, Mrs. Keeley. Commence at 7. Saturday March 31, (Last night of the season), the admired drama of MARIE DITCANGE, with other Entertainments, for the Benefit of Madame Celeste, who will speak an Ad dress on the occasion. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THE RIVALS. Mr. Melville, Frank Matthews, Leigh Murray, &c. Alter which, the Princess's " Rifle Volunteers " in full Costume. And TWICE KILLED. To conclude with the drama of PAULINE. Mr. Melville and Mrs. C. Young. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Last 4 Nights of Mr. and Mrs. Wl , :ran's engagement. THIS EVENING, to commence with (3d time) THE STAR OF THE STREET. Mr. J. L. Toole. Chas. Selby, Billington, C. J. Smith, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Chatterlev, and Miss Laidlaw. - - After which, PAPER. WINGS, Mr Alfred Wigan, .1. L. Toole, D. Fisher, Billingtotf, I'. Bedford, Stuart, C. Selby, Eburne, C. J. Smith, I'oweil, Romer, Mrs Alfred Wigan, Miss H. Simms, Miss Kate Kelly, and Mrs Chatterley. To conclude with A MODEL OF A WIFE. Messrs. A Wigan, Toole, Selby, Mrs Billington, Miss Laidlaw. Doors open at halt-past six—Commence at seven. Box- Moe open trom 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor ter bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. On Easter Monday, the popular Adelphi drama of THE DEAD HEART, in which Mr. IL Webster will make his first appearance since his return from his successful provincial tour, and a Grand Musical Fairy Extravaganza. ROY AL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. Directress, Miss Wyndham. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and Westminster, the Park being open to Carriage* and foot passengers all hours of the night. THIS HYMNING the performances will commence with BELPHEGOR. Mr. Charles Dillon. After which the successful burlesque of DIDO. Mesdames Wyndham. Clara St. Cases, Eliza Arden, and Mr Charles Young. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, ls. The Box-office open Irons 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform awe commences at 7. CONCERTS.- CANTERBURY HALL THIS EVENING. LUCREZIA BORGIA. (Donizetti) Donna Lucrezia Miss Russell Mafflo Orsini Mrs. Anderson Gennaro Mr. Henry Herbert. Don Altonzo Signor Tivoli. Conductor—Mr. Jonghwans. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W.'l`. Critchtield, and E. W. Dlackney. Several interesting,: Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halts have been re-decorated and eantided. and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.-Stx OIPPICIE, MARCH 28, 1860. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 51—highest since noon yesterday. 48—lowest this morning and during the night. 68—this day at noon. BARebtEmt-29.74 ; now up to 29.78. WIND, South -Westerly; light, with fine weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAL —Morning, sh. 3m.—Afternoon, sh. 22m. To-monitow.-Morning, sh. 42m.—Afternoon, 6h. 4m. THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1860. Everbody wishes well to the cause of Reform— Whigs, Radicals, and Conservatives, members of the Opposition and supporters of the Government. Everybody wants the subject to be taken at last seriously in hand and settled definitively for at least this generation. It has been " dangling" ever our heads so long that it has come at length to be about as pleasantly suggestive as that sword may be presumed to have been—trembling upon a hair —over the head of DAMOCLES. Or—adopting another figure of speech—we want to pull the grapes down and taste them, if it be only at last to decide 'whether they are sour, or ripe, or dried (by long suspension, out of the reach as yet of all gathering), into the veriest raisins. We had a chance, and a very good chance, indeed, of settling the question a whole year ago to almost everyone's satisfaction. But Lord JOHN RUSSELL had somehow got it into his head long since that he had same mysterious kind of copyright in the question. And in order to gratify that unaccountable crotchet and ridiculous whim on the part of his lordship, the House of Commons knocked the ladder from under the feet of Mr, DinaLi, and left Reform • 44 .".1 f ie 4 j# 9!! N't \ • " 1 '* • 4' • - Ark - ;or ii r • 2. • A": tz. • , nl., there " dangling " still far out of reach for yet another session. At length the noble lord the member for the City of London obtains, under the auspices of his dear friends and compatriots of the Coalition, yet one more opportunity. He has had plenty of others before—but, turn by turn, those have each of them proved only to be the very deadest of dead failures. They have expired at the moment of birth, they have been still-born, they have, one after another, come to premature and un- timely ends—as though in illustration of a new reading of the political Massacre of the Innocents. The halcyon year of 1860 at length comes. This golden session of 1860, when the Income-tax was to terminate, according to the elaborate pre-ar- rangement and deliberate prediction of Mr. GLAD STONE—but when, instead of that, Mr. GLADSTONE himself has had to propose the re-imposition of the Income-tax, at the alarming rate of 10d. in the £l, or, in other words, to the agreeable tune of £10,000,000 upon the year ! This beneficent year of 1860—the year of peace for England, during which, however, England finds herself constrained to expend a round sum of £30,000,000 upon war like armaments ! This superlatively beneficent year of 1860—(surely in this particular, if we were to believe all we have recently heard in its regard, The Year One of the Millennium !)—whon if the child was not yet to play with the Basilisk, the Eagle and the Lion were to associate in the closest intimacy—when, in other words, England and France, constitution al England and despotic France, were to be linked lovingly together by newly woven commercial bonds, and, like the wedded levers at the end of one of the old-fashioned Rosa Matilda novels, they were to close the re cord of their previous quarrels and misunder standings by being " happy for ever after wards !" Here, however, the fair promises about the certain effects of the Commercial Treaty negotiated by that political Dove, Mr. COBDEN, could scarcely be articulated when we have had reason to recognise what, from the first instant, we, at least, had ourselves clearly foreseen—their other falsification. It is in this same delightful year and session of 1860 that Lord JOHN has had his new opportunity vouchsafed to him as a Reformer. Pre-occupied as he might, with some degree of reason, have been supposed to be by the considera tion of our foreign relations in his administrative capacity as her MAJESTY'S Chief Secretary for Foreign Affairs—he deems the Question of Re form to be so entirely his own that ho and no other member of the Cabinet must introduce it to the popular branch of Parliament. There is a flourish of trumpets—there are the subterranean thunders, as of an approaching earthquake—par turient montes et nascitur ridiculus mus ! The Bill has now been some time before the Commons and the country. Like a puzzled correspondent over an unfamiliar letter, we have turned it this way and that ; we have read it upside-down, and backwards and forwards ; we have looked at it under all points of view ; we know it pretty well by this time through and through. So do the Commons. So does the country. And who now cares for it—one straw—a single fig— the toss up of a brass farthing Does any one individual in the land—besides Lord JOHN RUSSELL himself ? We doubt it. We doubt if there be even one, from Land's End to John o'Groat's, who could get up in favour of the new Reform Bill the merest " show" of what the late Mr. BRAHAM, the singer, used to pronounce " entuzimuzzy." Punch himself—who very often indeed hits the right nail on the head with his queer little sledgehammer baton—has very ludi crously, but quite truthfully, called the Bill and its Author—" A Pair of Smalls !" The Bill, in point of fact, is no more than another practical argument in favour of what is termed bit by bit legis lation. And it is so, for the simple reason, that as an instalment of Reform, it is just the least little bit in the world. Looking calmly and dispassionately to the simple fact before us, we would say—Better do absolutely nothing in the way of Reform if you can venture upon no more than this, my Lord JonN. You arc dumb in regard to the Ballot —the one all essential reform. You do nothing in the way of the re-distribution of the electoral districts. You don't touch a single one of the little pocket boroughs yet left to the large landowners. You concede the smallest extension of the franchise upon which you could well have the face to adventure. You take off one or two of the surplus members and give them grudgingly to a few new constituencies—one to Chelsea, for example, and one to Kensington. Certainly looking at these shortcomings and do nothings of the Bill, there is a large amount of work in the way of addition and expansion left over for Committee ! To-day candidates will be once more nominate for the honour of representing the old city of Nor wich. Short as the time will probably be before the city will again be appealed to, a fight there must ho. In Norwich not to fight, would, under any circumstance, be thought discreditable. No matter the occasion, if there be but an opportunity, the two parties cannot forbear spending money, and the subordinates of the two parties from de manding it. Poor electors want their money, and would not vote again for the party which backed out and deprived them of the opportunity of pocketing the bribe. One would have thought that now, if ever, the Liberal candidates might have been allowed to walk the course. At the last general election both parties bribed equally and notoriously. Those who got in bribed enough to be easily turned out ; an d those who failed, bribed too much to venture to ask for the forfeited seats. In the interim, however, a bye election, that of Lord BURY, took place, at which, through terror of the late proceedings, bribery was let alone on both sides, and then the Liberals returned their man. This would seem reason enough to let the Liberals have their way this time, and for such a probably brief term of representation. Not so thought the T or ies ; but after a little looki ng about they find up t wo , politically, obsc ure candida tes , and propagate the report that " one of them is made of money"— and of course that he means to win ;—an intimation the freem en o f perfectly well unders tood amongst Norwich. Hereupon, the Mayor of Norwich, a gentleman of very decided liberal principles, and long a sworn foe to corruption of every kind, determines to pre vent, if possible, the disgraceful scenes of former elections being re-enacted in the city during his Chief Magistracy. It seems that in August last, the Council resolved—Conservatives and Liberals to a large extent concurring—that in the event of another election, the candidates and a number of influential men on either side should he called upon to bind themselves to abstain from and dis countenance unfair and corrupt proceedings in any and every form; and two referees of the highest standing—Mr. GLADSTONE and Mr. WALrOLF-• were named to determine, in case of dispute, whether the understanding had been fulfilled; snch referees to have the power to call upon the successful candidates to resign their seats, if they adjudged that faith had been broken. The Mayor, accordingly, on the occurrence of IRE SUN; N E DON, WEDNESDAY EVICING, MARCH 728, :1860. LATEST NEWS. ) their wn tc g members of the Council to g ive effect is trat es and the this election, convened the ma The I Aberals, o to arrangement of August last. their credit, responded to the circular, 1 he Conser vatives, with trivial exception s, did n ot. This u nquestionably looked as if th e Cow 3ervatives wished to reserve to themselves the libert y to bribe, especially as they had brought forward a candi date—" a man whose name was synonymous with wealth." The Mayor attended, therefo re, a large meeting which had been convened of ;the Liberal electors, laid the facts before the p - üblic, and urged he t upon the Liberals, to which par t y he: belonged, that it was " more important to restore '- charac ter of the city than to achieve a party triumph." This shamed the Conservatives into ;)rotesting against such a misrepresentation of their intL 'rations ; misrepresentation, if it were so, for whi ci they could have only themselves to thank. The y . now declare their determination to " c onduct the co.ll- test fairly and honourably." It would have been better had their leaders said so by their presence went would forfeit le privileges of French citizen and language at the ranting, regularly called, to ship. give effect to the August arrangement. We could The Pays, in another article, expresses its re then have believed that their honour and fairness vets on account of the angry words pronounced were spontaneous. yes terday by Lord fohn Russell. The MAYOR has since published an exce llent T. he same paper gives a denial to the rumour that appeal to all parties, one which might be addressed the 1. 'ope and the K ng of Naples had quitted their with propriety to other boroughs and cities which capita Is. do not happen to have been found guilty before a Committee or a Commission. " Now," he says, " my fellow citizens of all parties, permit me to call your most serious attention to the position of our city. Our electoral misdeeds are notorious. Parliament has repeatedly condemned us. On Fri day last, several members on both sides denounced the corrupt old .ity. It was declared to be worse than either Wakefield or Gloucester—worse than both put together. It was suggested that the writ should be suspended for ten years. It was called a cesspool of corruption,' and the very motion for the issuing of the writ was denounced as a dirty business.' So narrow and almost accidental has been our escape, that no one can doubt that if another corrupt contest takes place, a commission will be issued, the city will be disfranchised, and Parliament will exercise something like vengeance on the guilty. Never has so serious an emergency arisen in our city. Never, perhaps, in the history of our country, has a constituency been put so con spicuously upon its trial. It is a question for us of honour or infamy, of freedom or the vilest form of thraldom,—a question of political life or death ! I call upon the electors on both sides, to resolve solemnly that they will sacrifice every party object for the honour of this once venerated, but alas ! now despised city. It matters little—almost nothing in a party sense—which side succeeds : but in a moral aspect it is of infinite moment that we should free ouselves from electoral crime." We confess that we are a little curious to know how this manly appeal succeeds, and whether it will really arouse whatever dormant feeling of poli tical morality may yet exist in Norwich. It seems indeed that Mr. TILLETT has by no means entire confidence in his appeal ; he thinks there are many who would despise any appeal to principle, and would still bribe if they could. He adds therefore : —" I proclaim a holy war against corruption. Let every man enter upon the crusade. Should any— unrepentant and incorrigible—seem to be reserving themselves for a renewal of past misdeeds, watch them closely—keep the peace, but watch them. Regard every briber, to whichever party he be longs, as an enemy to the city. Prevent him from committing the crime if you can ; detect him if he will commit it ; give information to the police the moment you have found him out. Watch these men as you would a pickpocket in a crowd, a burglar in the dark corner, or an incendiary with his match-box in the stackyard—watch them to prevent, to detect, to capture !" We sincerely hope that this Norwich election may show what the determination of one intelli gent and respectable man can do in frowning down corruption. The present Mayor of Norwich is not a man to be trifled with, and the men of corruption know it ; but it remains to be seen whether even he can insure anything like purity of election, when the name of one candidate is synonymous with wealth, when wealth would probably win ; and when as certainly the Conservatives could not gain an election without it. The Mayor of Norwich is a supporter of the Ballot, and we cannot doubt that, even if he suc ceed on the whole, yet the difficulties of this election will strengthen his conviction that, for per manent success, the enemies of corruption need the aid of the only device which makes bribery almost impracticable, while it does not increase the diffi culty of detection and punishment. The purity party need have the two strings to their bow,- secret voting and,open penalties. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. lteuter's office : MADRID, MARCH 27. The conditions for the conclusion of peace with Morocco will probably be as follows : An indemnity of 400,000,000 reals. The retention of Tetuan by the Spanish until payment of the indemnity. The territorial aggrandisement of Melilla. Commercial advantages. The protection of missionaries. A Spanish Minister to reside at Fez. PARIS, Mmtcn 27. The Pays of this evening, in announcing that General Lamoriciere has left for Rome, recalls the article of the Code Napoleon, which states that every Frenchman Tho should enter foreign service without the authorisation of the French Govern. ROME (via Marseilles), MARCH 24. A consistory was held yesterday. The allocution, which was delivered by the Pope on the occasion, remains an Absolute secret. It is only known that the excommuvicatien has not yet been pronounced. Yesterday the suspected Chiefs of the manifesta tion embarked at Civita Vecchia. Twenty persons have been arrested. On the last occasion of the last demonstration at Rome, which was suppressed by the police, a minister of the Anglican Church was among those who were wounded. The two French officers who were also acciden tally but slightly wounded on that occasion have exchanged visits with the staff major of the gen darmery. General Goyon has published an energetic order of the day, censuring the hissers and others who provoked the public foree by their intolerable in sults, and commending the French officer who gave the order to disperse the populace. He laments, however, the want of judgment shown by the Roman gendarmes, as well as their blind im petuosity. General Goyon says in conclusion : " I rely upon the noble character of our officers, and invite all to moderation and tranquillity." Yesterday another pacific manifestation took place while the Pipe was proceeding to the St. Peter's Cathedral. The number of carriages was immense. A public functionary, guilty of embezzlement, has been sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. BERNE, MARCH 27. It is stated that the Federal Council has received two verbal communications from France and Sar dinia. Sardinia has informed Switzerland that the lat ter Power must negotiate with Franco relative to the annexation of Savoy. France declared to Switzerland that, should Switzerland take military measures, she would be obliged to do the same. PARIS, MARCH 28. The Constitutionnel, in an article by M. Grand guillot, endeavours to prove that the counsels of England at Turin necessitated the annexation of Savoy. The Journal des Debats states that the treaty concerning the annexation of Savoy and Nice was yesterday ratified by the French Government. The Paris papers contain the following :—ln Pout de Beauvoisin, Savoy, the election of a Deputy for the Sardinian Chambers has resulted as fol lows : Total number of voters . For Napoleon 214 BERNE, MARCH 27. It is asserted that France has proposed to sub mit the stipulations in the treaties of 1815, relative to the neutralised provinces, to a Congress of the Powers, to which, according to these treaties, Switzerland will be also admitted. The Federal Council, having in view the treaty concerning the cession of Savoy and Nice to France, published in the Moniteur, has directed the Minister Plenipo tentiaries of Switzerland at Paris and Turin to repeat the protest against any occupation of the neutralised provinces. BERLIN, MARCH 27. As we expected, the French papers denounce the manly declaration of Lord JOHN RUSSELL—some call it an angry ebullition, while others affect to treat it in a more politic spirit. The fact is that NAPOLEON is in a fix. He feels that his double dealing hypocrisy is unmasked before the world, and he is even fain to let the cloud blow over, if only for a time. The reported closer alliance between Prussia and England is wormwood to his taste. That Prussia will die hard before giving up the Rhenish Provinces there can be but little doubt—for Prussia is but an agglomera tion of other States, composed of robberies here and despoliations there—just like her kindred rival Austria, only somewhat more liberal withal. Prussia has a conscience, and seems to respect it in others ; but Austria never had a conscience, and promises never to entertain such heretical free dom. The political cauldron is now seething in Germany, and may boil over all of a sudden, to the astonishment of some, and the utter confusion of more. NAPOLEON has the whip hand of his rivals just for the present, but in his over eagerness to win the race he may urge his steed overmuch—and then—what will follow ? Not the sympathy of the oppressed—nor the congratulation of the oppressors. No ! NAPOLEON has something yet to learn, like our Foreign Secretary—the one more respect for his neighbours, and the other more acuteness, and less faith in the candour of his " great men," be they monarchs or make-believe moralists ! The negotiations with England have produced a favourable result. It is expected that England and Prussia will take steps in concert, more especially for the maintenance of the rights of Switzerland. FRANKFORT (0. M.), MARCH 27. The Legislative body of the free town of Frank fort-on-the-Maine has unanimously resolved to give its representative the following instructions, viz. : —He may propose at the Federal Diet that a cen tral Power in Germany, increased by a national representation, should be established. The motive given for this resolution is the threatening attitude assumed by France. NAPLES, (via Marseilles) MARcii 24. The King remained three days at Gaeta inspect ing the newly-enlisted troops. His Majesty has given all the necessary orders for their organisation, but no movement of troops towards the frontier has been ordered. The King returned here on Thurs day, and has recalled his Plenipotentiary from Rome, who arrived here yesterday. The rumour of an approaching occupation of Rome by Neapo litan troops is no longer credited. Several other assassinations of agents of the public admi nistration have taken place in Sicily. Great agitation prevails there, but no demonstrations of any decided character have taken place. General Viglia has been sent into Calabria, in order to pursue certain bands of agitators. TURIN, MARCH 27. TILE PETITIONS FOR CII URCII RATE Although the new frontiers of France and Pied mont are to be fixed by a mixed commission, the two Governments have agreed to the following line :—ln the north the boundary which separates Savoy from Switzerland is to be preserved. In the east the frontier will extend to the summit of M6nt Cenis, the western slopes of which, as well as Fort Bramant (which is the key to that mountain), will be included in the French empire. The line will follow the chain of the Alps to Mount Viso, and to the defile of the Tenda and the course of the river Raja, the mouth of which is at Vintimiglia, a strongly fortified port in the Mediterranean. ABOLITION. Last night's presentation of petitions surpassed all that went before it, the extraordinary number of 1,305 petitions theya ppearing in the Votes of this morning, whereoccupypetitions tiet i ag o is hayrlcat ean a space. Assum ing reaae of 90 signatures, which is thought to be within the mark, the aggregate up to last night will be as :-3, 824 petitions, with 290,590 signatures. Therestill a large force in reserve for presenta tionlleorNeis vs to-day, so that the final result will be likelyto be much beyon d the calculations of the petition ing party. T HEATR E ROYAL, ADELNIL—Her Majesty, th e Princess Helena, Prince Alfred, and Prince Arthur, with the Hon. Miss Stanley, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, Lord Cremorne, and Lord Alfred Paget, honoured the perform ances at the Adelphi Theatre with their presence last FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY. The prevalent belief is that an arrangement is in progress under which the French troops are to quit Rome. Rome )yill be protected by the Pontifical troops, evening. The Countess Dowager of Tankerville is confined to her reeiduko liertfiad-street, by oeYere indisposition, and Neapolitan forces will be authorised to enter the Marches. The French uniform will be seen to-day in Chambery. At Nice the first detachments are not expected before the 29th. " A despatch from Turin has announced," says the Patrie, " that the movement of the with drawal of the French troops from Lombardy is suspended. We can affirm that the announce ment is erroneous, as the evacuation is going on regularly, and the whole of the corps of occupation will have entered France by the 15th April." The lndependancc Beige having announced that the reply of Lord John Russell to M. Thouvenel had arrived in Paris, but that the French Minister had refused to receive it on account of the sharp terms in which it was drawn up, the Patric de clares that the statement is entirely without foun dation. " The despatch in question," says the Paris journal, " discusses the Savoy question in free but proper terms, and terminates by a declaration of friendly feeling towards France." The rumour having been disseminated that the Federal Council of Switzerland had decided on occupying Chablais and Faucigny, as soon as French troops should enter Savoy, the Build contradicts the statement in the most formal manner. One of the journals states that Colonel Saget, of the Staff, having been appointed to the command of the garrison of Chamb6ry, has left Paris for his post. The deputation from Savoy, on dining at the Tuileries on Saturday, were the objects of most gracious attention on the part of the Emperor and Empress. After the dinner, which was not over till nine o'clock, the Emperor entered into conver sation with them, and asked many questions con cerning the interests of Savoy. His Majesty after wards gave each of them a photographed portrait of himself, and the Empress presented them with an engraving representing the Prince Imperial, with the words " Souvenir of the 24th March, 1860.— EUGENIE;" in her own handwriting. A letter from Marseilles of the 25th inst. says ; ,' The new treaty of commerce with England can not but largely increase our transactions with that country. Adready, even before it was certain that it would obtain the assent of the British Parlia ment, some large purchases were made by English buyers. Hitherto great secresy was maintained on these bargains but they are now spoken of. From the amount of the business already done one may judge of the immense development which our rela tions with the British Empire will assume. It was mentioned at the mercantile Exchange yesterday that a broker had contracted with a mercantile house here for the delivery, annually, of from 1,500,000 f. to 2,000,000 f. worth of wines for Eng land. The contract to last for 10 years." BOURSE, March 27.—The opening of the market was heavy, with a downward tendency, but it after wards rallied. Threes were done at 68f 40c, to 68f 90e, and are now at 68f 80c. Mobilier varied from 750 f to 760 f ; Austrian, 507 f 50c to 512 f 50c ; Lombard, 540 f to 545 f ; Orleans, 1,415 f to 1,425 f Northern, 955 f to D6of ; Lyons, 910 f to 920 f. The following are the last quotations : 4i per Cents. .... 96 25 I Credit Fonder.. • 752 50 Do. end month .. 96 25 I Belgian 4} — 3 per Cents. 6B 85 Piedmontese (5) Do. end month.... GS 80 Roman Bl Bank Shares. 2BOO Austrian — Credit Mobilier .. 756 25 Spanish Throes Do. Account THE NEW POEM. St. Stephen' R. A Poem, Blackwood and Sons. We aecetit this ationyitiods Voetil at once eh—illustrated by examples— the De Oratore of English literature. As we took oceasion to intimate immediately upon the commence ment of its original publication in Blackwood's Magazine, there can hardly be an instant's doubt as to the authorship. The very radiance of the writer's trenchant weapon, his style*—shines back upon the features that he would seemingly fain keep concealed, reveal:ng,_ almost at a glance, his identity, It is the thou'ght of Elizabeth Barrett Browning in her new volume, where, with a lumi nous touch of bier pencil, she depicts the emanci pating French under " Napoleon 111. in Italy " (Poems before Congress, p. 9), where— " Each man stands with his face in the light Of his own drawn sword," Yet as it is still the pleasure of the recognised author of " St. Stephen's" to withhold his name from the title page, we shall affect to regard him, even now, as inscrutably anonymous. It would hardly be extravagant to say, after a careful re• examination of these pages, that— " Hero Butler's Wit, ropo's numbers, Prior's ease, I , Vith all that Fancy can invent to please, Adorn the polished periods as they fall." The three parts are thickly sown with terse and har monious couplets, that only lack, what they are certain to obtain, the advantage of frequent quota tion to render them " household words "—"familiar in the mouths" of the lettered population. The work is essentially national in its character. It is peculiarly patriotic in its inspiration. It appeals with a persua sive eloquence, and with a most elevating tendency to the popular sympathies. It is the production of one Eclectic in Taste as well as in Politics, one who appreciates with equal readiness the nobler attri butes of the conscientious Liberal and of the conscientious Conservative. Above all, it is penned throughout (we feel it in the ring of every melodious syllable) by an • earnest, large-hearted Englishman. As a whole, the Poem is an admi rable exemplar in verse of what is termed in music the crescendo. It increases in power, and vigour, and melody up to its close—the last (Sir Robert Peel) being incomparably the best, to our thinking, among its many most felicitous portraitures. It may be said to illustrate thus upon a loftier scale the perfection of the sonnet, as defined by Keats— "- swelling loudly Up to its climax, and then dying proudly." We are glad to see eliminated from the effusion in its present collective reprint those explanatory words in prose introducing it to the readers of Maya upon its first and piecemeal appearance. They were superfluous. They were worse than superfluous—they sounded incongruously : as though we were hearkening to the 0 yez ! 0 yez ! of the Crier of a Law Court, before the trumpet notes of a Herald in the lists. The introductory Part, or Cantg, is chiefly remarkable for the deli neation of Henry St. John, the great Lord Boling broke, here admirably called " our English Alcibiades." From the first line to the last of this exquisite delineation the whole sketch is as near as one could wish it to perfection. Three months ago we quoted it entire from the pages of Black wood. Admirable also are many fragmentary pas sages in the limning of Dean Jonathan Swift—here with an aptness of similitude worthy of Mirabeau, designated " Half Rousseau and half Rabelais." In a kindred mood, the Right Hon. Joseph Addison is called in another part, the " Pope of Prose" and the " Virgil of Humourists." - And, in the grand full-length portraiture of the great Earl of Chatham, we have that Patrician-Tribune finely termed "the ./Esehylus of Speech." Witty, sparkling, capital, are many of the touches in the outline of the bluff features of Sir Robert Walpole. Not the least adroit of these being the very reticence—suppressing as applied to Walpole the three first words of the couplet closing Cow . per's tribute to his friend Joseph Hill— r‘ An honest man, close buttoned to the chin, Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within." There is, by the way, a sort of a catechetical colloquialism, as we may term it, disfiguring some portions of the poetical effusions of the same de lightful English writer, which seems to us to be occasionally echoed unacceptably from the other wise almost flawless numbers of the author of "St. Stephen's." Thus, at the close of his allusions to Hampden, he writes— " So pass, 0 pure Ideal of the free True star to stem by whereso'er the sea Linking the cause that gives the world its breath -IVith Cromwell' s triumph / No, with Hampden' s death." Quite as quaint, this self-question self-answered— almost as grotesque—as that whimsical couplet in Cowper's now nearly forgotten poem of Truth— " The Frenchman, first in literary fame, (111 - ention him if you please. Voltaire h—The same)." Thus in a minor degree is it in "St. Stephen's"—we might almost say passim. While we are thus hypercritically scanning these lines as it were with a microscope, let us for a moment object to the closing distich of the brief passage relating to Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough— " Whose aim is despot's, and whose sense a doll's— Whose pride Roxana's, and whose language Poll's." Suggested, unconsciously, no doubt, at the moment, but quite obviously in the retrospect, by Garrick's epitaph on Goldsmith— " Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, and talked like poor Poll." Forgetting the facuhe, forgetting the maculae upon the disc of " St. Stephen's," let us look now gratefully rather to the pervading warmth and sheen of its glowing eloquence. It treats throughout of oratory, and it is throughout in itself oratorical—it is the utterance of an orator upon orators. For the fire, and the verve, and the terseness which are among the most conspicuous of its charms, glance however .cursorily down the memorial verses dedicated to the memory of Chatham. Abundantly scattered through which verses are samples of what are in truth the chief sources of this volume's instant, and, we believe, abiding fas cination. Extracting but a few of these clustered graces from the memento of Chatham, we may thus sprinkle our comments with an abun dance of nervous couplets in the way of the merest casual quotation : ex. yr. : " Our fathers tell us what their fathers told, How from those lips the glorious cataract rolled. .* * * * * Learned ho from Roscius in what folds to bring The imperial purple ?—was he less the king ? Actor you call him ; yes, with inborn ease What labour made divine Demosthenes ; Tones with the might of music at Their choice The front august, the eye itself a voice. * * * * * Was it a fault if cowering senates shook, Thrilled by a whisper, spell-bound by a look ? * * * 4 * To colder lips he left the words that teach ; lie awed and crushed—the A'schylus of speesh." - - Throughout thesQ storied and almost, we might call them, pictorial pages of " St. Stephens"—we pass onward as though amongst the altar-like and colos sal pedestals upon which stand enshrined the effi gies of the eternal habitants of a Walhalla. Sar castic not unfrequently, even humorous at times, the writer at intervals gives evidence of higher and loftier capacities than those appertaining to the mere satirist or to the mere eulog i st; mani festing even, whenever the subject admits of it, at rater intervals, the possession of what Wordsworth has nobly termed in the first book of his Excur sion —(" The Wanderer")— " The vision and the faculty divine !" Although we are tempted to enter into a detailed scrutiny of this trilogy of Parliamentary com memorations, we conceive that it will be preferable after contenting ourselves with a very few more illustrative quotations, to refer our readers to the work itself in its entirety—satisfied that they will hardly fail to be lured on to a perusal of the whole Three Parts, from the Ist page to the 136th, upon a glance down one or two of the brief excerpts hereinafter introduced. The intermediate or second part of the Poem is chiefly remarkable for four very masterly portraitures—those of Sheridan and Burke, but more especially of Fox, and pre eminently of Pitt. More lightly pencilled though the profile outlines here given, are of Wilberforce and Dundas, of Windham and the Gronvilles— each is traced with a few rapid touches of facile, almost careless ease, yet:touches, that prove in every instance when more carefully examined that they have been guided by a master hand, with a...keen, an unerring, we might even say an instinctive, preci sion. Amongst these comparatively minor sketches there are introduced incidentally—very charmingly but very incongruously—a cluster of admirable silhouettes (not in the least Parliamentary) of Johnson and Garrick, Sir Joshua, Boswell, and Goldsmith. But the glory of Part Two is incom parably above all—beyond the limnings of Sheridan, of Burke, or even of Fox, superb though the last two arc in themselves—the grand and lofty effigy here furnished to us of the younger Pitt. Hearken to the memorial of the mere style, and manner, the contemporary effect and influence of Pitt's oratory, penned thus in resounding verse by. the Author of "St. Stephen's :" "If read the orations, and forgot the age, Words that breathed fire are ashes on the page. Oh to have heard them in the breathless hall, When Europe paled before the maddening Gaul; When marts resounded at the trumpet's blare, Fleets on the deep and banners in the air ; What time the dire Religion, stripp'd of God, Shook tower and temple to the dust she trod, And left the ruins elark beneath the frown Of Him whose bolt she mimick'd and drew down ! Then did the purpose (lost in rainier days) Inspire with patriot life the purple phraBe, And under that stiff toga of the dead Was heard the ringing of the Roman tread." The third and concluding portion of the Poem beginning with a graceful memento of Canning and his followers—brings the survey down to a period almost immediately contemporary. The orator poet whose hand has traced this volume, while proclaiming his determination to avoid any reference whatever to those more immediately around him, has nevertheless not only indulged his more genial, in some instances his more magnanimous sympa thies, by blurting out cordial tributes of admiration for the nobler qualities apparent in great Parlia mentary veterans still happily surviving—political celebrities like Brougham end Lyndhurst, and Russell and Palmerston—he has proffered kindlier evidence still of his appreciation of a few others, chiefly legal notabilities, of a later generation , eminent lawyers and debaters, like Cairns and Whiteside. Ills, indeed, is no sardonic tempera' ment, owning allegiance to the refrigerating rule whose motto is briefly nil admirari ! He, at least, among our more eminent writers is no sarcastic depreciator of his own times and of his own con temporaries. With Lord Byron he might sal derisively— " The good obi times ? All times when old are good 1" He scorns the notion in truth, so thoroughly, that there is any essential pre-eminence in antiquity, that there is any latent atom of truth in the col d and contemptuous TA (;)yiryca ilpLcurt, that we find him towards the close of his task exclaiming in terms of generous exultation— " Still in the Senate, whatsoe'er we lack, It is not genius ;—call old giants back, And men now living might as tall appear, Judged by our sons, not us,—we stand too near " Beginning, as we have said, with a graphic and graceful delineation of Canning and his followers, the final book or canto of " St. Stephen's" run% sinuously through an extraordinary diversity of themes, introducing us to an astounding variety of historic individualities. The lesser celebrities com prise amongst their number Ward and Grant, Frere and Horne. Back to our ken once more comes Sir Francis Burdett, " brecch'd and top-booted " " That tall pre-Adam of our trouser'd race!" Hither again, with " airy tread," Tierney " lounges into debate " " One hand politely pointing out your crime, The other—in his pocket all the time I " Yonder move with patriotic stateliness, across the mystic proscenium, the imperial Grey and procon sular Wellesley. There also are revived to vicar " mysterious Castlereagh" (a sketch characterised by masterly touches of most subtle discrimination) —and that acknowledged chief among the " mil lionaires of mind," Sir James Mackintosh. Here is Shiel, the dazzling 4 , Kean" of debate, and Lord Althorpe, as we might term him, its more equable walking-gentleman. Passing‘tributes are offered to the laborious Hume and the " mellifluous Follett—to the chivalrous Bentinek and the " de liberate" Huskisson. There is under the quiet and delicious humour of the following passage a depth of pathos in the literal truth of its conclusion:— " Few, who at ease their Members' speeches read, Guess the hard life of members who succeed ; Pass by the waste of youthful golden days, And the dread failure of the first essays— Grant that the earlier steeps and sloughs are past, And Fame's broad highway stretches smooth at last; Grant the success, and now behold the pains ; Eleven to three—Committee upon Drains I From three to five—self-commune and a chop ; From five to dawn, a bill to pass or stop ; Which, stopt or pass'd, leaves England much the same. Alas for genius staked in such a game ! When as the guerdon' in the grasp appears, ' Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears.' " Conspicuous among the more brilliant deserip• tions here given of our greater orators are those relating to the gorgeous Macaulay and the impas. sioned Plunkett. Butas almost facile prince"' even among these colossi of modern oratory, facile princeps in the true Demosthenic character-- Daniel O'Connell claims in a manner pre-eminently the writer's applauding recognition. Instance' the followlit : " Once to my sight the giant thus was given, Well'dby wide air, and roof'd by boundless heaven; Beneath his feet the human ocean lay, And wave on wave flowed into space away. Methought no clarion could have sent its sound Even to the centre of the hosts around ; And as I thought rose the sonorous swell, As from some church-tower swings the silvery bell. Aloft and clear, from airy tide to tide, It glided, easy as a bird may glide ; To the last verge of that vast audience sent, It played with each wild passion as it went Now stirred the uproar, now the murmur still'd, And sobs or laughter answered as it will'd. " Then did I know what spells of infinite choice, To rouse or lull, has the sweet human voice; Then did I seem to seize the sudden clue _ i;ii;;;;ncitrodlousi Life Antique—to view Under the rock stand of Demosthenes, Mutable Athens heave her noisy seas. ; ' Vividly do we ourselves bear in mind a scene i n °. n • ~ sense precisely similar—when, in the very Zen ith of O'Connell's fame and powers, we listened to . tn ta speaking, listened to the responding "sobs and laughter of his auditors, in the Ol d Corn Ex change of Dublin, afterwards called (by an absurd misnomer) the far-famed Hall of Con c ili a tion. In the course of the singularly and es p ec i a lly admirable portraiture of Viscount M e lbo ur ne adorning the earlier pages of this crowning instalment of " St. Stephen's," we light unexpectedly and somewhat, bewildered upon the only sentence in tlie whole the poem which really appears to us to be in on sense obscure, and even, be it said, enigmaticr, It is where, after describing the exterior eharac w of Lamb, the poet writes : " Such was the man, in part, to outward show; Another man lay coiled from sight below — And mystics tell us that this fleshly form Enfolds a subtler which escapes the worm ; And is the true one, which the Maker's breath Quickened from dust, and privileged from death." " Mystics ?" Nay, surely, is not this the one ineffable truth which alone renders the mystery of life endurable—is not this the one sacred, beatignantr and consolatory belief of our common Christianity? Gladly would we see this phrase modified, or pay' sage expunged, in the immediately ensuing edition of " St. Stephen's." But—to close our extracts nod with one fragment from what we have already designated, as to our thinking, the noblest arhong these superb oratorical and poetical delineations- -- • let us pause for a moment in turning over the con eluding pages of the volume, to the end that we may indulge at once ourselves and our readers with a parting quotation. Take, then, the one here sub joined : " The more his reasonings, in their watchful range, Seemed guarding outlets for prudential change, The more scared followers groan'd, ' Can we confide ?' The more the Public hail'd the common guide. It liked his wealth—the wealthy want not place; It liked his birth—trade has its pride of race ; It liked his sober yet imposing mien; It liked his life, in which no flaw was seen; And thus to his, as a judicial mind, The general cause the general trust consign'd ; ' , rola the vex'd Bar Opinion snatch'd its chief, AVrench'd from his hands each client's partial brief, And raised the counsel of a special plea Into the judge, whose voice was a decree. And, in return, his conscience more and more Revised each cause it had sustain'd before, Till all old questions merged afresh in one, ' Should, for the good of England, this be done ? If so, of all men I must do it l —why ? Because none else could so succeed as I I' " To me, who seek to analyse, not judge, Exempt alike from favour and from grudge— To me, so clearly, when witk care defined, Stands force excused his conscience-weighted mind, That where I doubt his course, I dare not blame; I too am English, and my share I claim Of our joint heirloom in his English name." With the melody of that rhetorical passage yet ringing in our memory, we close the book all bring our comments to a conclusion. " St. Stephen's is unquestionably, may be pronounced unhesitati ingly, a brilliant and twofold success—a suceeso both literary and political. It will take its place upon the national bookshelves as a classic at once, poetic and Parliamentary. It is the dream e l Horace at length realised— " Nec magis expressi vultus per ahenea signa, Quam per vatis opus mores animique virorum Clarorum apparent."* London, at a Glance. An Illustrated Atlas ° f London. Thomas Hodson. Great pains has evidently been bestowed on 01 0 production, the object of which is, as stated in the introduction, to enable strangers to find their soil a with greater facility than is practicable by referen t to a sheet map, the extent of London being suee that to residents it is a matter of no inconsiderat difficulty to solve the great problem. So write: the author. But if his object is to be of service to tb; stranger, that individual may well exclaim " Sa l ; me from my friends." The map of London n been divided into 36 sections, to which is added :- key map ; also a sheet index, and various cont1:1; vances to direct the stranger, in which map and which corner to look f o r the street he is in sea rch of ; but when he has mastered the principle of c° 11 : struction, and discovered his map and his str eo ! he is as far from the object of his search as ev„ er t ; for the maps are cut out with a happy disregalm uer the cardinal points ; one faces the South, an oto po S.W., and so on all round the compass; andf, be there is no directing arrow to show the waY,` of wind blows, the principal drawback to this maps is that it is necessary to know the locaall_V, before they arc comprehensible—which said dr,4 o bavk would be considerable to a stranger. 4 idea is. however, a good one, and b ad the .11154; been divided in a more orderly and intelbw.lo manner, with due regard to north and south, the PIP' might have been of service. Epist. Lib, ii, i. 218. RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 955 .. 957 50 New ditto 865 .. 8 66 2.5 Lyons and Mediterranean 920 -- .. 916 25 Geneva 475 -- .. 472 50 Southern - .. 512 50 Western 592 50 .. 597 50 E.amtern - .. 652 50 Sardinian 420 -- .. 412 50 Austrian - .. 510 -- Lombard.. . 545 -- .. 643 75 - - - Exchangeon London, at sight, paper, 25f. 11c.; money, 2.5 f. 81e.; three months, paper, 24f. 871 e.; money, 24f 85c. RUSSIA. The following letter has been received from War saw, dated the 21st of March :—" The arrests re cently made in the provinces of the Ukraine and of Southern Russia are more numerous and more im portant than lat first mentioned. It is said that the ramifications of the conspiracy extended to Mos cow, and among the persons arrested are many 'Mus covites or inhabitants of Great Russia. The greatest number of arrests was made in the town of Charl coif. Among those arresfed are public function aries, military men, and students of the university. The official organs announce that the object of the conspiracy now discovered is similar to that of the conspirators of 1825, at the accession of the late Emperor Nicholas to the throne. Public opinion, however, persists in declaring that there was no political conspiracy, and that the persons arrested belonged to a literary club. In the course of last year great trigonometrical, astronomical, and by dro graphical works have been accomplished through out this vast empire—on the banks of the river Amour, on the Caspian Sea ; at Archangel ; and on the Black Sea. A change has taken place in the internal policy of the Emperor Alexander, which has relaxed the accomplishment of various reforms, the adjournment or abandonment of others. The Government, in fact, has ceased to propose any re forms in the interior. It confines itself to the exa mination of them when they are suggested." THEATRE _ROYAL, LYCEUM. The close of the season at this theatre is announced for Saturday night, upon which occasion Madame Celeste will delight her numerous admirers with the representation of the splendid drama of " Marie Ducange," together with other entertainments, the particulars of which have not yet been advertised. This talented and enterprising lady has selected the last night of the season for her benefit —or, in other words, that evening has been appointed for the purpose of affording her friends an opportunity of testifying their approval of the manner in which the business of the house has been conducted during her short reign, and of bidding a brilliant though reluctant farewell for the brief period which will elapse before her resumption of the reins of go vernment in October. If we east a hasty glance over the performances of the season, it will at once be seen that the pro. raases made at the opening have been fully realised. " Paris and Pleasure," " The Tale of Two Cities," " The Abbe Vaudreuil," and the more recent pro duction, " Arundel Street, Strand," are all new com positions —not to mention " The Burlesque of King Thrushbeard," with its magnificent transformation scene, and these have been accompanied by the re vival of long-established favourites, as " St Mary's Eve," "The Sergeant's Wife," and " Lucky Stars," to the greater number of which the lady herself has given life and vigour by her exceptional talent. No expense appears to have been spared in the pro duction of the principal pieces, as instances of which:it may safely be affirmed that more exquisite ensembles have never been witnessed than the Trans formation scene in the burlesque, and the fete scene in the Pare aux Cerfs, in the " Abbe Vaudreuil !" In short, a severe and refined taste has controlled the nzise en scene of every piece which has been put upon the boards, a point to which too much atten tion cannot be devoted, for it must be admitted that, upon our English stage, the accessotres are for the most part sadly neglected ! There is another matter for which Madame Celeste is eminently entitled to the grateful acknowledgments of the public. At the time when this lady entered upon her duties, it is not too much to say that the " cha racter" of the Lyceum had suffered very severely in public estimation from previous negligence, but the somewhat impure atmosphere has exhibited a marked change under the new regime, and the most fastidious have since had no reason for complaint under this head. Let us hope that the next six months may show no symptoms of decadence. We trust, and we believe, that on Saturday next the talented benejiciaire will be supported by " troops of friends," as we are sure she will carry with her in her temporary absence the kindest wishes of the many who have watched her untiring endeavours to please her patrons, and have been so often charmed with her extraordinary ability ! Query—Stylus e Printers' Devil. bteet ~_ . i) Y 1 111! any at , th Co act Ne En tar 19s ; alga real Gre dial Bat of 3 3 p€ Ind I)iti Con Exc Ditt B a Gres 24e; D 14,eri XI; D. D elm] fur Eli; brid itt a gati tow It I Fre Cra