The Sun. — London, England, 1858-05-27 00:00:00

HAVELOCK MEMORIAL FUND. President, H. R.II. the Duke of C ambridge, K.G., &c. £25 0 0 Colonel John Thomas Leslie, C. 8., Officers, Non-Commis sioned, Scoff, and Men of the East India Company's Depot, Worley Barracks, one day's pay . • • • 63 3 0 A list of other contribut ions will shortly be published. I !Subscriptions received at the bankers', andor the Committee-room 3, Pall-mall East, S.W. Maj ADAIR, Hon. Sec. May 13,1858. CRYSTAL PALACE—To-Morrow (FRIDAY) 28th May, 1858. FIRST ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA CONCERT. PROGRAMME, PART I. 1. Overture.. Fidelio Beethoven. 2. Aria Bella Sicesme (Don Pasquale) Donizetti. Signor Graziani. 3. Duo ..... Qnis eat Homo (Stabat Mater) Rossini. Madlle. Marai and Madame Didiee 4. Trio Ti Parle l'Amor (Otello) Rossini. Madame Grisi, M. Zelger, and Sig. Mario. 5. Madrigal.." Who shall win my Lady Fair" Pearsall. By the Clionts. 6. Aria Bela adorata incognita (I Ginra mento Mercadante. Sig. Neri Baraldi. 7. Aria Taccea la Notte (II Trovatore).. ...Verdi. Madame Grisi. 8. Finale. " Benediction des Poignards" (Les Huguenots Meyerbeer. Signori Rossi, Pierini, Smythson, Soldi, Polonini, and Zelger, and Chorus. PisT I. Overture.. Oberon Weber. 2. Roms.nza. Anglo' d'amoro (La Faverita) Donizet ti Signor Mario. 3. Aria Signor (Les Huguenots) Meyerbeer. Madame Didiee. 4, Trio Proteggi it giusto Ciel (Don Giovanni) Mozart. Madame Grisi, Madlle. Marai, and Signor Mario. 5. Aria Ernani involanti (Ernani) Yerdi. Parepa. 6. Dtto ....... ." Vents Scudi" (L'llisir d'amore).Denizetti. Signori Neri Baraldi and Graziani. 7. Finale Preghiera...Dal tno Stellate (Moise) Rossini. Mesdames Grief, Maral, Parepa, Didiee ; Signori Mario, Neri Baraldi, Soldi, Rossi, Pierini, Graziani, Polonini, Zelger, and Chorus. The Orchestra will comprise the entire celebrated Band and Chorus of the Royal Italian Opera. Conductor —Mr. Sainton. Doors open at One—To commence at Three o'clock. The Fountains in the Naves and the Courts will play from one to six, and on the Terraces from two to six, except during the progress of the Concert, at the close of which there will be a full display of the upper series. Performance by Mr. James Coward, on the Great Organ, before and after the Concert. Admission, 7s. 64. ; Children under twelve, 3s. 6d. ' • Re served Stalls, 2s. 6d. extra. Tickets (not transferable) for the series of Six Concerts, One Guinea. Season Ticket-holders will please observe that this is one of the six days excepted in the tickets from admission. After the Concert, the new WIND BAND of the Company will give a performance till half-past seven. Provided the weather is fine, this will take place in the grounds. The Rhododendrons, in the valley between the Cedars and the Central Basins, are now coming into full bloom. ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. IL TROVATORE. TITIENS, ALBONI, GIUGLINI, THIS EVENING, THURSDAY, May 27, will be repeated Verdi's opera, IL TROVATORE. Leonora, Madlle. Titiens Azucena, Madame Alboni Manrico, Signor Giuglini ; Ferrando, Signor Vialetti ; and Il Conte di Luna, Signor Aldighieri. And the Ballet Divertissement, CALISTO ; on, Le Renvoi de l'Amonr, by Mesdames Pocchini and Annetta. Madlle. Marie Taglioni has arrived, and will appear on Saturday next, May 29, in a new Ballet, composed expressly for her by M. Massot, entitled LA REINS DES SONGES. The Opera will commence at 8 o'clock. A limited number of Boxes have been secured to the public. Price 21s and 31s 6d each, which may be had at the Box Office, at the Theatre. H ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.— Titiens, Alboni, Giuglini. Piccolomini, Ortolani, Be Beneventano, Aldighiori. The following arrangements have been m tde : THIS EVENING, Thursday, May 27—Extra Night— IL TROVATORE and Ballet. Friday, May 28—Grand Morning Concert, in which all the art:stes of the establishment will appear. Saturday, May 29—Mozart's NOZZE DI FIGARO (first time this season), and a new Ballet, for the first appearance of Madlle. Marie Taglioni. Monday, June 7—Grand Morning Performance. In answer to numerous communic diens, it is announced th It, for the convenience of the gentry residing in the envi rcnr, a Grand Morning Performance will be given on Monday, June 7, in which all the artistes of the establishment will perform, including all the artistes of the ballet. A pplications to be made at the Box-office at the Theatre ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. NEW THEATRE. Second appearance of Madame BOSIO. Second appearance of Signor GRAZIANI. Second appearance of Si g nor GARDONI. Second Night of LA TRAVIATA. The ()pert to commence at half-past 8 o'clock. THIS EVENINCI, Thursday, May 27, will be per ormed (for the second time this season) Verdi's opera, LA TRAVIATA. Violetta, Madame Bosio (her 2d appearance this season) ; Flora Bervoix, Madame Tagliafico Georgio Germont, Signor Graziani (his 2d appearance this season); Baron Duphol, Signor Tagliafico ; Marchese D'Obigny, Signor Po!onini ; Gastone, Signor Soldi; Dottore Grenvil, M. Zelger ; Guiseppe, Signor Rosse ; and Alfredo, Signor Gardoni (his 2d appear ance this season). _ _ Conductor—Mr. Costa. Prices of Admission :—Boxes—pit tier, 51. 15s. 641,; grand tier, 61. 6s; first tier, s'. ss. ; second tier, 2/, 12s, 6d. ; orchestra stalls, It. ls. ; pit, 10s. 6cl. ; amphitheatre stalls, 10s. 6d., 75., and ss. ; amphitheatre, 2s. 6d. _ _ Application for boxes, stalls, and pit tickets, to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre, under the portico in Bow street, and at the principal musicsellers and librarians. On Saturday nex , , May 29 2 will be performed Meyerbeer's °rand Opera, LES HUGUEI•TOTS : Valentina, Mine. Grisi ; Raoul, Sig. Mario. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING will be presented the new farce entitled THE STOCK EXCHANGE ; or, The Green Business. After which (for the last time but three), FAUST AND MARGUERITE. Me ahistophiles, Mr. C. Kean. To conclude with the new farce, entitled SAMUEL IN SEARCH OF HIMSELF. ROY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. —tin and Mrs. CHARLES KERN respectfully inform the Public that their ANNUAL BENEFIT will take place ou SAPURDAY, June 12, upou which occasion Shaks pere's Play of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE will be pro duced, with the same accuracy of detail and historical cor rectness that have marked the previous revivals at this theatre. In consequence of this arrangement KING LEAR will to repeated NINE NIGHTS more, and then with drawn, to make room for THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. KING LEAR, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. TH EATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock. with THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Lady Teazle, Miss Rey nolds ; Mrs. Candour, Mrs. Wilkins. After which a Classical Extravaganza, entitled PLUTO AND PROSERPINE. Followed by JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. Orchestra Stalls (which 'may be retained the whole of the evening). 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d. Dress Boxes Upper Boxes... ....—.... 3 0 Upper Boxes ... 2 0 Pit 2 0 Pit 1 0 Gallery T HEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be presented the Drama 3f the MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. Followed by the new Broad Eccentric Drama, OUR TRENCH LADY'S MAID. Mr. B. Webster and Madame Celeste. Commence at Seven. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road . — OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The tar company of Vocalists are engaged for the polormance of Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES , D UETS, &c., viz. : —Miss Russell, Mrs, Radzey, Miss Brunel% Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson ; Harr F. Jolaghmans, Mr. Renshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker,W. Melling, Senor Antoni o, E. L. Rime, Mr. Badzey, Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell, and E. Bernard Mgrs. W. T. Critchtield, John G. Fordo, and E. Mackoey. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, Mr. Courtnay ; Director, Herr F. Jonghreans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, &a., until twelve o'clock. Mr. AUGUSTUS BRAHAM will appe ar every Evening in a Selection from "LA. DAME BLANCHE" (THE WHITE LADY), first produced at the Canterbury Hall. English words by Desmond Ryan, Esq. THE WE ATHER—SuN OFFICE, MAY 27. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 65—highest since noon yesterday. 49—lowest this morning and during the night. 63—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 300,2 a sudden fall. WIND, Westerly ; light, with mild weather. man WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TSUI DAY—Morn., 32 min. aft. I—Even., 52 Lain. aft. l To• uoußow—Morn., 10 min. aft. 2 —Even., 28 min. aft. 2 • ". Arr -- Ete; , 44h , t -. •- . . Mkt LONDON, THURSDAY, - MAY 27, 1858. Never, perhaps, during the course of a very brilliant career, was the Chancellor of the Exche quer more effective than last night, when, at the banquet at Slough, to which he had been invited as a private Member of Parliament, he was cane,' on to respond to the Oast of "Her MAJESTY'S Ministers"—amongst whom he now occupies so prominent a position. It was, to say the least of it, one of his most felicitous efforts. .The occasion was one of no ordinary importance. Although, nominally, a social gathering, intended to do honour to two gentlemen who had gained the un limited confidence of their constituents, it became, under the peculiar circumstances of the case, a matter of deep interest, not only to the electors of Bucks, but to the entire community. The Sabbath-day Conspiracy had only just been igno miniously defeated ; Parliament had adjourned for the recess on the very night when truth and justice prevailed ; and a- straightforward, manly, and equitable policy was vindicated, and a factious Opposition " brought to grief." It was, there fore, a glorious opportunity for the Ministerial leader in the popular branch of the Legislature to explain the conduct of the Government since their inauguration in office ; and it was turned to the best advantage. It was not a defence. That was totally uncalled for. It was rather a pocan for their unquestionable triumph, showing the substantial grounds on which their victory was founded, and, still better, on which it was so pre eminently merited. Mr. DISRAELI fully entered into the subject. He explained that Lord DERBY had not sought for or desired, [much less " grasped" at, office. On the contrary, if a feeling of imperative duty had not reigned paramount in his heart and soul, he would rather have avoided the serious respon sibility, the formidable difficulties, and the damaged inheritance bequeathed to him by his predecessor. As a loyal and devoted subject he yielded to the legitimate and constitutional command of his Sovereign, and threw himself into the gap with a devotion and intrepidity becoming his chivalric character. He cared not for obstacles, for by manly and energetic conduct they could be overcome. He was, or rather was supposed to be, in a minority in the House that really ruled the nation. But with fair play he could level every impediment, and pilot the vessel of the State into a safe and commodious port. With this feeling he accepted " the heri tage of difficulties" bequeathed to him, and en tered on his arduous task with an earnest determi nation so far as the foreign relations of the country were concerned, of neither cringing to the strong nor bullying to the weak, but of vindicating the honour of his country, under every emergency, and by temperate firmness extricating her from the embarrassments in which she was, unhappily, involved. Nobly has he discharged that duty. He has avoided a war—terrible to the cause of civilisa tion and of humanity—without any sacrifice of dignity ; nay more, winning the respect and esteem of those who might, by any unwise pro ceeding on our part, have become our opponents, and cemented the mutual esteem between the peoples of France and England, and placed their mutual kindly relations on a more enduring and permanent basis than ever. Our deeply wronged countrymen were rescued from the horrible dungeons in which they were so improperly placed, and restored to their family and friends. A possible, nay more, an impending war between Sardinia and Naples, which would have caused a general European con flagration, was wisely and judiciously averted. It was, indeed, a proud moment for him—a man of the people—one who by his own extraordinary talent, indefatigable industry, and indomitable energy, elevated himself to so exalted a position, when he could refer with natural exultation to what the government, of which he was so influ ential a member, had accomplished, in respect to the foreign relations of this country. Nor was this all. There was a subject in which he was more immediately concerned, that fell within his own peculiar department. As he himself truly declared—" The finances of the country were in a position of the most extreme difficulty; and—what was still worse—they were imagined by the country generally to be in a position even more embarrassing than they really were. The tendency of that feeling greatly in creased the difficulty of dealing with the sub ject, because it induced depression and even panic on the public mind, and acted in a most injurious manner on the commercial enterprise of the country. These financial difficulties were looked forward to by our opponents, equally with those we encountered in our foreign affairs, as the means by which it was hoped our failure might be accomplished. It does not become me to refer to the mea sures by which these financial difficulties were encountered, but I may be permitted to make this single observation, that it was my duty, as the Minister of Finance in the Govern ment of Lord DERSY—in the midst of this hostile House of Commons, and facing a band of opponents such as few have had to encounter—to propose measures to meet the emergency which had the singular and unprecedented fortune of being passed by general acclamation." The inanoial scheme which he promulgated was uni versally approved. He had solved the difficult problem, and maintained the national credit ueinapaired and unimpeachable, without resorting to additional imposts objectionable to the people, And actually carried out a reduction of taxation, giving a reasonable hope of ultimately getting rid of the oppressive burden, if it cannot be rendered fair end equitable. But the greatest difficulty of all was the In dian question. That indeed was of the deepest interest not only to the inhabitants of the United Kingdom, but to one hundred and fifty millions of their fellow-subjects. The Government had to decide the principle on which they proposed to reconstruct the Indian Empire—to re-establish the British supremacy. " Was it to be military oc - cupation by an army four times greater in amount than any army of Europeans that ever entered that country ? Was it to be military occupa tion, attended by enormous taxation, by a drain ing of her MAJESTY'S subjects from this country, and by a perpetual exhaustion of our resources ? or were we to recognise that vengeance had done its duty ? Were we to recognise that the time had arrived, or was fast arriving, when, upon the fall of the rebellious capital, we ought to announce to the inhabitants of India the principle on which it wa s proposed to reconstruct our empire—a prin ciple that we believed must contributa to their happiness, and to the welfare and power and glory of this country ? Was it always to be mas sacre and confiscation ?" What response should be given to these inter rogatories ? Is it not the response which both Houses of Parliament have given, and which tb.- nation has so cordially re-echoed ? It was ;an 1 never did a cabal so egregiously err as in suppos ing that their vile s'cherne would achieve success which they fond!y hoped for it. The plot the had been artfully contrived. The concoctors fan died place and power within their gray. They were resolved " to loot the Treasury," and saw not hin g that could hurl the anticipated cup from their Thirsting lips. "A gentleman in the House of Commons brought forward the motion, and Le was a man of unimpeachable character. Th cabal, which had itself rather a tainted character, chose its instruments with pharisaical accuri Lean assure you that when the Right Hon. Gen tlemau who brought forward the motion in the House of Commons rose to impeach me I was ,~, r --. THE SUN, LONDON, terrified at my own shortcomings, and I listened attentively to a nisi priers nar rative, ending with a resrlution, which I think must have been drawn up by a conveyancer. In the other House of Parliament a still greater reputation condescended t 3 appear upon the human stage, and like a Pharisee of old, with broad phylacteries upon his forehead, he called upon GOD to witness, in the voice and accents of majestic adoration, that he was not as other men were, for that he was never influenced by party motives." But " man proposes while GOD disposes." The overthrow of the Cabal was the most signal ever known. It WAS totally unparalleled. The inde pendent Members would not march through Coventry with the detected schemers. Prejudices were cast aside. Honour and justice resumed its sway, and party feeling was for once disregarded in the interests of the community. This was a miraculous result, and clearly and distinctly has Mr. DISRAELI explained its causes. His speech, as a marvel of eloquence, is well worthy of perusal, but it should be more closely and attentively considered for the sound and wholesome information which it conveys to the great body of the people—information which might otherwise have been beyond their reach. The Barnacles are, at any rate, no longer stick ing to the old State Vessel. In time, perhaps, the triple group of the British Laocoon—Eng land, Ireland, and Scotland—may be extricated from the serpentine involutions of red-tape, in the midst of which those three unfortunates have been so long struggling helplessly. Ultimately, even we may get rid, at last, of the old stubborn, stifling, strangling system of Circumlocution. The two latter anticipations are, of course, at the present moment, simply hypothetical. But at the very least—already—we have extricated our selves from the clutch of the Barnacles ! In order to realise this extremely gratifying fact, at once and to the uttermost, it is only neces sary to contrast the actual Ministry of to-day with its two immediate predecessors. With the one solitary eliception presented by the instance of the Noble Lord the Member for King's Lynn —between no two members of Lord DERBY'S Cabinet are there anywhere traceable the ties of relationship. And let it be recollected, particularly in the instance of Lord STANLEY, that that young and promising Statesman was offered by Lord PALMERSTON the very post he now occu pies, namely, that of the Colonial Secretaryship. Whereas—don't we all of us remember only too well how it was in the matter of relationship with two preceding Governments, the RUSSELL Admi aistration and the PALMERSTON Administration ? Each of those Cabinets consisted of fifteen mem bers—while the present Ministry numbers only thirteen. But out of the fifteen members of the Cabinet of Lord JOHN RUSSELL H there was not a single one of them who was not either himself a specimen of the old Whig nobility, or, what comes pretty much to the same thing, closely allied to it by family connection or blood relation ship. E'even out of those fifteen were distinctly linked together by recognisable ties—constituting quite a domestic party: altogether giving the Cabinet Council the appearance of a Christmas Dinner-table when the ladies have gone upstairs to the drawing-rooms. Among a single family alone nine conspicuous offices were comfortably distributed —three of these nine individuals were Cabinet Ministers, the other six wereeleverly sprinkled about in stray places at home and in the colonies. And so, under Lard Joures delightful regime, the Bar nacles—meanuhg the GREYS, and ELLIOTTS, and RUSSELLS, et hoc genus omne—were clustered toge ther in bunches all over the old hull of the good ship Britannia. As to the fifteen members of Lord PALMERSTON'S Government—they were chosen, too, with an espe cial regard to the pur sang, to the blue blood, the divine ichor of the old Whig aristocracy. As many as four seats iu the Cabinet were secured to one admirable Family—blood relationship securing to another the Irish Lord-Lieutenancy, and marital connections inducting at the eleventh hour into the high post of Lord Privy Seal, ULICK JOHN, the most noble the Marquis of CLANRIOARDE. Both Ministries were in this respect, no doubt, most admirably and ingeniously arranged. The RUSSELL Cabinet lasted very nearly six years—the PALMERSTON Cabinet more than three. But each in turn went at last--smash. The family party in each instance had to be scattered, to do penance on the front benches, or the back benches, or below the gangway, on the side of the Opposition. The RUSSELL Ministry going down under the influence of two crushing overthrows, one in '5l, on the motion of the Member for Eist Surrey in regard to the Franchise, the other in '52, on the amendment to the Militia Bill, pro posed by the Noble Viscount the Member for Tiverton. The PALMERSTON Ministry succumb ing only the other day under the weight of that clear adverse majority of Nineteen. And thus, and thus, history will say, was the vessel of the State rid at last of its antique and almost imme morial incrustation of the Barnacles. Now under the Earl of DERBY'S Premiership— with the one exception already particularised, that afforded by the circumstance of the Premier's son being (what Lord PALMERSTON wanted him to be in the late Cabinet) Secretary of State for the Colonies—no two members of the existing Ministry are in any way bound together by the ties of reiatio...t.; r . Here, at Any rate, if in nothing else, there is a positive gain to the country in the change of Ad ministration. The peculiarity we are now no ticing in Lord DERBY'S Government of '5B was observable also in Lord DERBY' s Government of '52. So that it seems to be in truth really and actually a distinguishing party characteristic. It is certainly a characteristic that at once endears the party to the general community, makes it welcome to the country at large as a positive relief from the old intolerable repressive system of exclusiveness. lore, at any rate, we have men at last ins!alled in office, because of their fitness for office, and not simply because of their family relationship. Here are Ministers selected by reason of their political ant3cedents and their Parliamentary careers, and not in any way by reason of their constituting a branch, or a twig, or a leaf upon one particular genealogical tree—a sort of political lipas. No longer, thank Heaven, as under the Whig regime, a certain descent absurdly and incongruously re aults in a certain elevation. Lord DERBY'S col leagues, at any rat; have not been chosen for '.heir ancestry, but, on the contrary—as ministers ought to be—for themselves. There is ob viously here—under this system of things—some better chance, some really good chance at length o f getting the Right Min - in the Right Place. possibility of wonderful We clJn't believe in the f am ili es —either upon the histrionic stage, or on the arena of politics. Whenever the manager of a Country Theatre fills u p the l ist of the dramatis pdistributing own immediate s all theprincip a l p ar t s h ouse h o ld a e tn r o sze th b e y me m b s of his * " Phases in Polities." By William Bdmondstele [not Aytoun, but] Lendrick. London :T. and W. Booze, 1858. Svo. pp. 76. —Mr. Crummles as Macbeth, Mrs. Orummles as Lady Macbeth, Master Crummles as Macduff, Mas'or Vincent Crummles as Banquo, with Fleance enacted by the Infant Phenomenon—we look upon the whole affair as a humbug, as cer tainly as the audience deluded into the theatre must inevitably look upon the whole performance, long before it comes to a conclusion, as a bore. We have never yet been able to persuade ourselves that, however large their hereditary patrimony may be, the Dukes of BEDFORD embrace within the limits of their personal estate, toto orbe terrarum, the whole circumference of the British Empire. That bubble, meaning this particular hypothesis about the toto orbe, has burst at last : and—whew ! with what a sigh of relief—we are rid at last of the Barnacles. Any one who wishes to luxuriate over this sense of relief would do well to coma the pages of a very sensible and, in some respects, a very remarkable pamphlet,'' entitled " Phases in Politics," which has but just now made its opportune appearance. Iu a few days the liberal motions of the session will come before the House ; in the week which terminates on the Bth of June, the third reading of the Church-rates Bill, the Committee on Lord BURY'S Marriage Law Amendment Bill, the second reading of the County - Franchise Bill of Mr. LOCKE KING, and on the Bth the Ballot itself, will also be proposed. All of them measures in the interest of civil or of religious liberty. The last two should be looked after immediately by electors themselves. The extension of the County Franchise ought, of course, to be vigorously aided by all Liberal electors, and we hope it will pass the Commons by decided majorities, euub majori ties as will make the Lords bethink themselves, ere they reject a measure of this sort ; a measure with which they have in all fairness nothing at all to do. Peers have no more equitable right to interfere with the franchises of the citizens than they have with elections themselves.. They have vastly more than their share of legislation, when, insignificantly small claEs as they are in the kingdom, they are allowed to have a voice on all business done by the people's representatives. But the Ballot is even the more urgent motion of the two. Its adoption would at once create many more voters than Mr. KING'S Extension Bill. It would convert all th© tenants at will into voters. We cannot now say that they pos sess the franchise--it is in every case mortgaged to the landlord, and the landlord enters and takes possession at every election. Thousands besides, both in counties and boroughs, would be at'once converted from machines to electors by the simple agency of secret voting. While, therefore, we would urge the most cordial support of Mr. LocxE KING'S Bill, we would press as still more important the necessity of backing Mr. BERKELEY in his motion for the Bth. Hundreds, indeed, of the persons proposed to be enfranchised by Mr. KING'S motion, would not be really enfranchised unless enabled to vote apart from the cognizance of those whose behests they must obey. Our special object, however, in adverting to the subject just now is to stir up our readers to some kind of action. Our Representatives are pretty much what we make them ; like other servants they need tho eye of their masters, and occasion ally a word, to remind them that their master's eye is upon them. Liberal members are now in a somewhat impressible mood ; their late insolent Chief is cashiered, probably for life ; there is now no Leader's name of the old clique with which they can go to the people, and they will think more than they have done of supporting, or at least not opposing popular measures. Many of the so-called Liberals who have hitherto stood aloof from the Ballot, or who voted against it, may think better of it for being thrown more on the people, and less ou aristocratic Leaders. Besides, dissolution impends over their heads. It is Lord DERBY'S strength against faction, and they know not how soon they may have to give an account of their votes to their constituencies. The present, therefore, is a very favourable time for electors to deal with their Representatives. Allegiance to the old Whig anti-ballot Leaders is now shaken. And allegiance to the constituencies is all-important. The practical modes of dealing with members are well known. Petitions, especially if signed by those who have voted for them, will always have weight—weight with the member who will some day ask again their suffrages, if not much with the House. HOw easy it is for the electors who dare sign, both in boroughs and counties, to sign petitions on behalf of their neighbours, who dare not. It needs but that a few should stir in it, and the thing is done. In addition to this, individuals who have voted, and, it may be, canvassed, or otherwise acted for a member, should personally write to him. Mem bers, like other men, feel more difficulty in evading a direct communication than a more pub lic and formal one. The necessity of answering, of finding reasons to justify refusal, and such rea sons too, as shall not make the member's conduct appear either wilful, or quite common-place, com pels attention ; and in every good cause to get real attention is half the battle. It would pro duce a very happy effect, we think, on scores of Palmerstonian and Russellite members to b 3 told, by letters from their supporters, that the condition of futuro support must be their voting for the Ballot, and the County Franchise extension also. That voting against either would insure the loss of their seats. EPIGRA.M. SUGGESTED BY RECENT EVENTS. That we doh'€ live in Paria And pray fur Newspaper inditers ; For there, while the Emperor strangles the Press, His Lieutenants are stabbing the writers. Lon lon, May, 1853. THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 2 7, THE LATE DUEL IN PARIS. The Memoriald'Amiens says : " Vl.ltl. Courtiel and 'Thence, rrincipalg it the two duels with id. de Pbae, and M. Rog 4, second to these gentlemen, all three officers in the 9th Regiment of Clasrleurs, in garrison at Abbeville, have been sum moned by the Juge d'lnstrucion of Versailles to appear before him and undergo an interrogatory. Toe pro prietor of the Figaro has also been required to attend." The Minister of War, wishing to stop the conse quences of the duel between M. de Pene and Lieu tenant Hienne, has addressed a circular to the colo nels commanding regiments to forbid the writing of letters by officers to the directors of newspapers, adding that the "honour" of the army stands too high in the estimation of the French people and of the whole world to be affected by the ill-timed pleasantry of an obscure journal. There was no thing against the " honour" of the army in the Figaro ; the paragraph was merely with reference to their demeanour iu society. M. de Peue is said to be still in a dangerous state. The Earl of Derby left London yesterday, for Os borne, on a visit to her Majesty. The Earl and Countess of Lanesborough have re turned to Great Stanhope-street from their seat in Sussex. _ _ _ Lurd and Lady D.)wiles, and the Hon. Miss Flem ing, have left London for a short sejour in the Isle of Wight. The Bishop of Exeter and Mrs. and Miss Philpotte have left the Clarendon for the Palace, Exeter. Sir John and Lady Pakington will return to the Admiralty to-day, from Westwood Park, near Droit wich. The French steam corvettes Mutine and Meteor() are taking soundings off the Bay of Palermo. Mr. George Crawsbay will move, at the next Court of East India proprietors, a vote of censure on Lord Can ning, and on the directors, for their conduct in reference to the confiscation proclamation. ARRIVAL OF CITY OF MANCHESTER AT GIBRALTAR. —The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Com pany's steamer City of Manchester, whose sailing from Portsmouth with 1,100 troops was noticed in The Sun of the 26th, has arrived safely at Gibral ar. News is by telegraph from Cadiz. THE LONDON CORP)RATION BlLL.—This bill, as amended by the select cummitLee, to which several clauses have been added, is fixed for discussion on Mon day next, when several amendments are to be moved respecting the expenses of the metropolitan police, and also the coal duties. THE ADULTERATION OF FOOD.—Mr. Scholefield has a notice on the order book of the House of Commons to bring forward a bill to prevent the adulteration of articles of focd and drinks. Several artists are now engaged in Paris in painting and decorating a state railway carriage, which will be used by the Pope on the occasion of the inauguration of the R )man lines. The cost of the vehicle will be 100,000 f. ; it will contain a complete suite of rooms, in cluding an oratory. CRIEFF.—TIIE MOORS.--t-The moors in this district never presented at this season better prospects for sp,rtsrsen than they do this year. The birds of vari ous kinds are very abundant, and the work of incu bation is going on in all quarters. The nests average from seven to nine eggs.—Stirling Journal. The appeal from the Vice-Chancellor's decision in the appointment of the liquidators to wind up the Northumberland and Durham District Bank was heard before the Lords Justices yesterday, and terminated, by mutual consent, in the addition of Mr. Coleman, the accountant, to the liquidators already named. DR. MUSPRATT AND THE UNIVERSITY OP MARYLAND. --At the last meeting of the medical department of the University of Maryland, hell March 10, is the New Assembly Room 4, the honorary degree of Doctor in Medicine was conferred upon the distinguished English chemist, Sheridan Mo-pra , t, Ph. D. F.R.S.E., of Liver pool, England.—Baltimore PatrioA. CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—A few days ago, a tom-tit was seen to go into a i , ovel at Over, Cambri igoshire, in the occupation of Mr. Joseph Symonds, and his brother having suspicion that it had a nest somewhere about, as last discovered it in the pocket cf one of his own waist coats. It had laid six eggs, and is now sitting upon them undisturbed. THE PERILS OF PHONOGRAPHY.—Not long since, a member cf the TiJnited States Congress mn.de a speech. quoting Latin, " Amicus Socrates, amicus Plato est, secl major veritas," (Socrates is my friend, Plato is my friend, but truth is much more my friend.) This ap peared next day in a phonographic report as follows : c. may cuss Socrates, I may cuss Plato, said Major Veritas." THE SUDDEN DEATH OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN AT OXFORD.—An inquest was held on the body of Mr. Rutter, who wits found dead in his bedroom, while on a visit to his brother at Oriel College, Oxford, on Tuesday evening, when, from the evidence adduced, the jury returned a verdict to the effect that death re sulted from a fit of apoplexy. THREE MEN BURIED IN A CLAY PlT.—The roof of one of the Garnkirk Company's clay pits gave way on the afternoon of Friday last, by which three men, tw o of them brothers, were buried or enclosed. The Ectinburoh, Courant of yesterday says :—" We are glad to learn, from a communication received in town:that the men were all got out safely on Sunday night, about 12 o'clock. Intelligence is almost daily expected to reach London of the arrival at Suez f the Australian mail steamer, with a large quantity of gold, and with news of exten ,ive shipments of the precious metal to England. Accord ing to the last aivices from Melbourne, the Maidstone, No folk, May Queen, Royal Charter (steamer), Tudor, Shooting Star, were to leave at early dates for this country. OUR EMBASSY IN TURlCEY.—Constantinople letters of the 15,th say that the official news of the nomination of Sir EL Bulwev as ambassador to Constantinople caused but little surprise, as the event bad been anticipated. M. Pisani, the first dragoman of the English embassy, who had been dismissed from his post by Lord Stratford de Radcliffe, had been reinstated by order of the E , lgtish Government. DESTRUCTIVE FlRE.—Yesterday morning a destruc tive fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Smith, cabinetmaker, 26, Catherine-street, Commercial-road, St. George's-in•the-East. The inmates with difficulty effected their escape. The eneines promptly arrived. The flames spread with amazing rapidity, and were not extinguished until the house and cmtents were destroyed. The cause is unknown. Insured in the General Fire Offiee. SETTLEMENT OF THE JEWS QUESTION.—We learn from varied sources that a settlement of this long agitated and troublesome question has at last been brought about. The conferences between the Lords and Commons have ended in the former agreeing to the principle of the right of Jews to seats in Parliament, and the result will be, as the first-fruits of the concessima of the Psere to popular feeling, that Baron Rothschild will very speedily take his seat in the House of Commons.—Morning Advertiser. SERIOUS ACCIDENT, Yesterday morning Captain Henry Lawless left his residence, in New Quebec street, Montague-square, for the purpose of taking a ride on a horse that he had just purchased round the R,gent's-park. He had, however, proceeded but a short distance when the animal became restive, and threw its rider, who fell with great violence on his head. He was picked up insensible, his skull being fractured by the fall, and taken to his residence. His recovery i s considered extremely d ou btf u l . T he h orse galloped to the Edgware-road before it was stopped. MIIIHoRIAL TO TIC LATE LORD DUDLEY STUART, M.P. —Toe Earl of Carlisle has consented to preside, on Tues day next, on the occasion of the inauguration of a new building, situate in Market-street, Edgware-road, which is designed as a memorial to the late Lord Dudley Coutte Stuart, who for some years represented the borough of Marylebone in Parliament. The building., which is capacious, is intended for a nightly refuge for the house less poor, a class in whose behalf the sympathies of the deceased lord were al • aye actively enlisted. A likeness of his lordehfp, in bronze, executed by the late Mr. Thomas Campbell, will be fixed over the building in the c6uree of the ceremonies of the day. MAILS FOR SWEDEN —The Mail Steam Packets under contract with the S -sedieh Government having recom menced their voyages between Grimsby and Gotten -I,eej, eouveyance by those packets will be made up at this office on the evening of every Friday, until further notice. All letters and newspapers ad• dressed to Getteuburg and Uddewalla will be forwarded by these packets, unless directed to be otherwise sent,; but letters and newspapers for other ports of S Nadel ] , intended to be transmitted by these packets, must be specially addressed, " Via Grimsby" or, "By S Nedish Packet."—By command of the Postmaster-General, Rowland Hill, Secretary—General Post- ace, May 25. ACCIDENT TO "BOATSWAIN SMITH."—On Monday afternoon, as the Rev. G. C. Smith was about to preach to the holiday folks on Blackheath, au intoxicated man • uddenly drove his cart, in which were seated three or four persons, out of the road on to the turf. Mr. Smith was knocked down, and the cart passed over both his legs, which were severely injured. Mr. Smith is •76 years of age, and it is feared, therefore, that the conse quences of the accideet may be serious. Through the at' ention of the police, who rendered prompt assi tare?, he was enabled to make his way to the steamer, and with much difficulty to reach Wellclose-square. NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM DISTRICT BANK.— The official list of contributors recently settled contains he names of 407 persons holding 55,653 shares. The f Rowing held more than 500 shares each :—Mr. C. Alihusen, Newcastle, 1,960 ; the executors ef the late Mr. C. W. Bigge, Linden, 3,375; Mr. J. Bigland, Ebchester, and Mr. 11. Biglaud, Mancheet-r, 640 j ; Mr. W. Chapman, Darlington, 600 ; Ur. C. Eskuche, Neweastl 770 ; Mr. J. Moraine - , New castle, 1,003; Mr. J. Grey, Dilston, 1,510 ; the Rev. W. Haake, Newcastle, 1,320 ; Mr. J. Hawks, Neweast'e, 1,200 ; Mr. J. Jeicey, Newcaele, 1,200 ; the Rev. W. S Jacson, Meldon, 615 ; Mr. W. Mountain, Newcastle, 2,290 ; Mr. E. Paul , , Pt ckham, 1,090 ; Mr. J. Richard son, Newcastle, 1,600. alr. J. Richardson, Shotley Pa rk, 560; Mr. G. Ridley, M.P., 555 ; Mr. J. Sillick, Ne s cistl', 700 ; Captain S enders, R.N , Bath, 1,205 ; Mr. F. Tealor, London, 770 ; and Mr. W. 11.Wooi, Coxhoe Hall, 1,000. Of the 407 coctributories 60 are returned as spinsters, and 36 as widows, or atiout one-fourth of 'he whole number. The number of shares held by these unfortunate ladies ranges from 10 to 360. About 43 shareholders are returned as" gentlemen," 2 as baronete, 24 as "esquires," and 20 as merchants The remainder f the list is made up of persons engaged in retail bust ilea; and 'in subordinate situations. ole holder of 10 shares is described as a butler, another of 5 as a gardener, another of 45 as a coachman, another of 5 as a female servant, and two holding 50 jointly as a porter and bricklayer. HAYMARKET THEATEE. Miss Amy Sedgwick, having completely recovered from her recent severe indisposition, returned to her old quarters last night, and sustained her original character of Hester, in Mr. Tom Taylor's comedy of "An Unequal Match." She was received with shouts of ap plause and a volley of bouquets. The enthusiasm which her first appearance evoked was heightened as the play proceeded by the pwer and brilliancy of her acting. At the conclusion of every act she was called before t't • curtai❑ tQ receive the gratulations of the au d ante, and Mr. Bucks one and Mr. W. Farren had busy work cf it picking up the ncvgays which came Eying in radiant showers from all parts of the house. So general and genuine an exhibition of feeling has , eldom been witnessed within the walls of a theatre. Th=e play was judiciously cast, and very spiritedly per formed in all the characters, and the audience, a. usually happens at Mr. Beckstone'a theatre, appeared to derive hearty erj )yrnent from the entertainments. The house was crowded to excess. CO7 LT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, MAY 26. Yesterday being the birthday a her Royal Highnese Princess Helena, the band of the Royal Marines played on the terrace. Her l‘laj:..sty and his Royal Highness the Prince Con sort, accompanied by Princess Alice and Princess He lena, drove- cut in an open carriage. Their Royal Idlghnessas the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred have returned to the White Lodge and Alver bank. Signor C .11) Andreoletti had the honour of exhibiting his feats of legerdemain in the evening, before her Ma jesty, his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, the Duchess of Kent, the Royal children, and the party assembled at Osborne. His Royal Highness the Prince Consort will leave Osborne to-day, on a visit to the Princess Frederick William of Prussia. 1858. ACCIDENT TO N. P. WILLIS.—Our neighbour, N. P. Willis, had sufficiently recovered from his late illness to resume his daily exercise in the saddle ; but on Friday his favourite horse took fright and threw him, dragging him soma distance with his 711 - It foot entangled in the stirrup. He was very badly bruised with the feet of the running horse, but fortunately no bones were broken, and the c mfinement to his bed will be but. temporary. IV ewburgle, News, May 10. LAUNCEI OF A STEADIER FOR TILE NIGER EXPEDI TIoN.—A new steamer, caiied the RaMhow, built by Mr. John Laird for the Niger expedition, was yesterday (Wednesday) launched from the works of that gentlemhn at Birkenhead. The Rainbow, which is to take the place of the Dayspring, is constructed of steel plates, manufactnred by the Mersey Steel and Iron Company. Mr. John Laird has also supplied the engines of the Rainbow. The dimensions of the new steamer are as follows :—Length, 127 feet ; beam, 16 feet ; registered tonnage, 160. The statue of Napoleon I. intended for the port of Cherbourg is now being finished in the workshops of MM. Eck and Durand, the bronze founders. The statue is 164 feet high ; the horse is modeled of the Anglo-Arab breed. The resemblance of the Emperor is considered excellent ; be wears the famous historical costume—small hat without ornament, chasseur uni form, and great-coat thrown open. The left hand holds the reins and a spy-glass, and the right is extended to wards the horizon, which at Cherbourg will be over the BEQWESTS BY THE LATE MR. WHYTE, BOOKSELLER —We understand that the late Mr. William Whyte, bookseller, has left some valuable bequests to the Free Church. He leaves a sum of 7,0001. to found a church at the Cowgatehead ; 5,0001. of which is to be devoted to the building of the church, and 2,0001. for an endow ment for the minister's stipend. He has also bequeathed about 1,500/. to found bursaries in connection with the New College, Edinburgh, and a similar sum for the benefit of native converts in India ; 2001. to the General Sustentation Fund ; 2001. to the Scheme for the Con version cf the Jews ; 2001. to the Colonial Scheme ; sum of 2001. or 3001. to the Aged and Infirm Nlinistere!, and 3001. or 4001. to Lady Glenorchy's Church, of which he was an elder, and 2001. to the School for the Indus trious Blind.—.Edinburglt Advertiser. Advices from Riga mention that the ceremony of turning the first turf and commencing the works for the Riga Dunaburg Railway took place on the 20th inst. The Greek Archbishop of the surrounding pro vinces attending with his choir, as did also the princi pat Reformed clergy with theirs. A procession was formed to conduct Prince Suwaroff, the Governor- G,neral, from the Exchange to the spot, in which all the authorities took part, together with the various guilds with their banners. The day was kept as a general holiday, and great interest was manifested by all classes in the event. After the ceremony the autho rities and principal inhabitants, to the number of 600, dined in a large pavilion erected on the spot. These proceedings, however, it is added, had nothing to do with the practical commencement of the works, which are already in progress on several poi.o'a of the line, so that it is hoped to have by the end of this season a eon sidereble portion ready for receiving the rails. The Earl of Lucan proposes to move the following amendment when the House of Lords takes into consi deration the Commons' reasons for disagreeing with their lordships' amendments :—"Provided also, that when ever any of her Majesty's subjects professing the Jewish religion shall be required to take the oath appointed Ly this act on any occasion other than an application to be admitted to sit and vote in either house of Parliament, the words And I make this declaration upon the true faith of a Christian' shall be omitted ; and that from and after the passing of this act it shall be lawful for the House of Lords and for the House of Commons, respec tively, by resolution of the house, to determine that the form of the said oath, so far as such oath rests upon or refers to the Christian faith, shall, for the purpose only of such oath being administered to persons professing the Jewish religion, be modified, and to make such modi fication accordingly in such manner as to each such house shall seem best calculated to adapt the form of the said oath to the honest and conscientious scruples of the said persons professing the Jewish religion." NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK LIFE-BOATS AND LIFE SAVING APPARATUS. —YARMOUTH, MAY 24. —Te e Surveyor-General of the Beard of Trade has just con cluded his tour of inspection on the lifeboats and rockets and mortar apparatus on the Norfolk and Suffolk coasts. He has, we believe, expressed his satisfaction with the renovated life-beats and mortar and rocket apparatus sta tioned on this and the neighbouring coast of Suffolk. It will be remembered that last winter loud complaints were made of the inefficiency of the life-boats and life-saving apparatus on the Norfolk coast. Since then the whole of the Norfolk lifeboats have been transferred to the management of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution which has already built new lifeb oats for Winterton and Palling, transporting carriages for the same, and has either built or altered houses for their reception. The so ciety is now engaged in building new lifeboats for Yar mouth, Mundesley, Becton, and Cromer, together with carriages and howes for them. We, therefore, trust that before nett winter sets in we shad have all our life boat-stations in a thoroughly efficient state on this dan gerous line of coast, along which hundreds of colliers and other vessels are daily passing to and fro. Much credit is also due to the Norfolk branch of the above institu tion for the cordial manner with which it co-operates with it. We believe that the best results will follow from this important inspection of the means of saving life from shipwreck on the part of the Board of Trade, whose officer performs his duty with much zeal and intelli gence. lie orders the lifeboats out, and superintends both the evrching of the boats and mortar appa ratus. Ho proceeded northward on his tour of inspec tOn, and we doubt net the lifeboats of the institution on that line of coast will give him equal satisfaction. THE CROPS AND THE WHEAT MARKET.—AII nature gives evidence of the influence of the recent showers ar d warmth ; the trees are everywhere in foil foliage, and the pastures have made astonishing progress, so much so that, to use a common expression, one can almost " see the grass grow." The fruit trees are everywhere giving krge promise ; in fact, vegetation of all kinds is going on at a rate that will rapidly suffice to make up for any backwardness which the earlier cold and dry spring had induced. The grain crops are looking splezdilly ; all traces of the yellow and pinched condition, which had in places begun to be observable having nearly, if not entirely vanished. The earlier sown wheats are won derfully strong and vigorous with a thick plant and heavy flag, whilst the latter sown are also "coming along" most satisfactorily. Peas and beans are also fast improving since the rains, as are oats and barley. In fact, the appearance of all the crops is most promising. All that remains now to be wished for is a fine summer to convert that promise into a golden performance. Toe grain market, which recently was depressed, seems to have rallied, and effected a partial recovery. Prices throughout the provinces have been firmer during the past week ; for, notwithstanding the abundant pro mise of the growing c ro p s , farmers do not appear disposed to sell other than sparingly at existing prices ; and as millers and factors are short of stock, what trade is done is transacted at slightly im proved rates. But still markets are dull, since neither holders nor speculators are prepared to act upon any-very decided opinion—except indeed, it be an opinion that no one can at present see the way very clearly as to future prices. Hence op‘ratione are limited, and are likely to be so for the present.—Sussex A cd vertiser. A MATTER OP TASTE.—A German rag-picker, known only by the name of Searburgher, who, with his family, has been until lately living in what is known as the "Rag-picker's Retreat," No. 330, East Thirteenth street, has disgusted his fellow-tradesmen, and drawn upon himself considerable persecution by indulging in dead cats and rata for food. These he gathered from the streete, usually to the number of five or six daily, as be found them in the practice of his vocation. Upon his arrival home he skinned them, served up their flesh for food, in the shape of fricassees, stews, and roasts, according to his fancy. The fur of the cats he laid aside for making pillows, chair cushions, and mattresses. The skins we:e hung up around the room to dry, preparatory to being sold to dealers in such articles. His associate rag-pickers noticed his habit of collecting the carcasses of rats and cats, and thinking it strange, inquired of him what he did with them. He gave them to understand it was for the purpose of obtaining their skins and furs. They were sot long, however, in discovering the fact that he ate the carcases, and that his family also derived their _principal subsistence from this loathsome species cf off.il. When this fact became generally known, the ierliznation of the ragpickers livii.g in the enmo house was excited to such a pitch, that they deter mined to stone him out of the premise , . Oe his return home a day or two since, the incensed crowd seisol his cart, in which were five dead cats and two rats. They threw the dead carcasses into the street, and gave them to understand that, unless he and his family left the heuse immediately, they would lay violent hands on him. Fearing that they might carry their threat into execution, he gathered up his store of rags, and a few articles of furniture , and left with his fatni!y. compelled him to leave behind his stock of fur, and al-o the skins of the cats and rats which were hung up on th e strings, covering nearly the entire walls of hi s apart ments. Toe exile made his way to 121, Willet-street, a house occupied exclusively by rag-pickers, and was re fused admittance. It is net known where he finally suc ceeded in finding quarters, but it is rumoured that be miived to the vicinity of Ninetieth-street, on the east si is of tt • town. They folio ved him until ha left the Eleventh Ward, when they gav, up th„h ase. Health Wardea Green, of the E eventh Ward, in his report to the City Inspector, confirmed tee story of Sharburgher's col eating dead cats from the streets, and dressing; and, together with his family, eating them, lie says this strange individual is about 40 years* of age, a robust, y-looking man, and that his wife and two children compare favourably with people of their class. The Rag pick re' Retreat alluded to is a four-story brick tene ment, and is entered through an alley-way. There are 11 families in the house, embracing 63 p reone, besides about an epic' number of does, which they employ ie dregeing their caris.—New York paper. DR. MUSPRATT AND THE NEVI YORK COLLEGE OF PHARMACY.—At a meeting of the Board of Trustees o f the Ne w York College of Pharmacy, held at their rooms on the evening of April 1, 1853, the following preamble an I resolution was unanimously adopted :—" Whereas it has been reported that Dr. Sheridan Muspratt, Presi deritof the C o ll ege o f Ch em i stry, Li verpoo l , con t emp l a t es making a visit to the United States, and the eminent services render e d by hi m t owar ds th e a d van c e ment cf coeualeal science entitle him to our special regards ; heref •re, be it resolved,—That a committee be appointed from the board of trustees, whose duty it shall be, in the event of the arrival of Dr. Mu3pratt, to wait upon hhn, and extend him a welcome on the part of the college, and proffer such attentions as may be deemed proper on the occasion." In pursuance with the above resolution, the following gentlemen were named to act as the committee—John Meakin, President; George Berrian, Secretary.—. New York Tribune. LITERATURE. Country Life in Piedmont, By Antonio Gallenge, Author of " History of Piedmont," &c. Chap man and Hall. The author of this work is by birth a Piedmon tese, hut his long residence in other countries has qualified him for being a fair judge of the present position and future prospects of la's people. To an ardent affection for his native land and race, he unites a clear perception of their errors and • defi ciencies, and what is more, a sense of what is needed, of the course of action and system of educa lion that would give a tone to the moral and phy sical nature, that would rouse the frame to health ful exertion, and wake the mind to a stronger sense of right and wrong. The book is written in a flowing and agreeable manner, and from the interest of the subject and the fascination of the style, the reader wilt find much to suggest reflection and afford pleasure. The opening chapter " Midnight on the Alps," gives a vivid picture of the effect produced on the mind of the solitary traveller, by the mysterious sights and sounds of the Alpine 11 ,, ights at the witching hour, " with the wind rush in, through the fir-trees with the clash of ten thousand steel blades," and the " blaze of stars such as can only light up an Alpine atmosphere." His journey's end was Piedmont, where he had an idea of settling, but he abandoneol his intention after sometime spent there, and after seeing how his advice and remonstrances only obtained for him the name of " The Grumbler, " and his efforts to encourage manly sports and healthful exercises were met with jests and ridi cule. Every allusion to political topics has been carefully avoided, he desires his work to be simply cleScriptive of manners and customs ; wishing to encourage the lively interest which the English now feel iu Piedmont, he thinks the only way to render it lasting or beneficial is by representing the Italian people as they really are ; by telling their faults with their virtues, by showing the causes that hold them back in the path of social advancement and by giving a true picture of the country and its inhabitants. After describing " The Country and the People," " Exteriors and Interiors," " Roads and Conveyance," cs I nns and Inn Customers," Jec , in separate chapters, we come to the "Land and Land labourers," and to " Water and Waterworks." In speaking of the roads he remarks on the folly of making all Italian roads of an extreme width. There is scarcely a road across Piedmont, he tells us, which will not give passage to six carriages abreast. Besides the waste of land in this fertile country, the expense and labour of keeping such roads in repair is seri ous. The difficulties of locomotion appear to be alarming and are amusingly described. The con dition of the field labourers in Piedmont seems to be a sad one, from evils which can hardly be called necessary, as we are told that the labourer often drinks water the whole winter while grapes are rotting on the branehes, and when in ordinary years the vintage would supply the wants of six times the population. The great scarcity of fuel is the cause of much distress, and one of the authorreasonsl of the s a p oliation bitterly. He of the says, "one which the e greatest injuries infli c t e d upon Italian agricultural of th economy, resulted from the all-sweeping destruc tion of the fine timber that once mantled the Alps and Apennines." Every one, he tells us, cuts down • trees, and nobody plants them. There is no rea soning with the destroyer. "Say what you will in behalf of useful or ornamental trees, be will only point to the immediate private gain to be derived ' from an irreparable public loss." Another reason is the difficulty of preserving your own plantations. - Men and cattle walk into it and take what pleases them. The writer bought and transplanted into his garden several hundred ash trees ; but he was assured that in the next. spring hardly one stick would be left. He pointed to the hedge he had put round them, but was told that would go first, and the young plants after. It is difficult, he says, to reason with men starving with cold or hunger, and the law has little power in such matters. .He considers the very indistinct notions of the rights of property as one of the serious evils of the nation. The priests have encouraged mendicancy, and not checked the notion that a little picking and steal ing is no theft. " This year, when grapes agair , midi) their appearance after six blank vintages, they had to be gathered in almost green, and the wine to be made nearly worthless from sourneo, owing to the impossibility of guarding them, as they were stolen from the vines before they could come of maturity." He thinks, notwithstanding that honesty is more common than in any other country he knows. It is the easiness and carelessness of the landowners, and the foolish notions of monkish liberty," that have fostered these dangerous Ilo' tions. A few years scarcity has done much good by teaching each to look sharply after his own- Some of the author's hints might serve as stints.- 1 tilts to British enterprise. He suggests that Eng lish colliers should supply the Piedmontese with fuel, that a commercial league should be formed of minor States, which should invite Great Britain to be the leader and protector. The latter portion of the work is occupied with social topics, showing the evils of the " laisser altar" system, the love of cards, the want of exercise, of rationalemployment, the precocity of the children, the ignorance of ths, women, and many other unfortun a t e sources 01 degradation and indolence. It is absurd, he says, to blame the climate, for the same temperature steeled the Gauls and Romans, the Lombards, and Tuscans of the middle ages. He builds his hopes, as all true Italians do, on Piedmont. Though the improvement is slow, though there is much he longs to alter, still the advance is in the right Nvel3 and with freedom o f th oug ht an d speech, a nd liberty of action, what may not be hoped from 3 race that is degraded, but n o t natural, a low one, that has been trampled by the foot of despotism, but belongs to another atmo sphere, a higher state of exist ence . Whil e ren der' ing full justice to the virtues and merits of 11 countrymen, Signor Galleagal d oes no t e s hrin from exposing their faults, and th us s h ows hi m self a true patriot. No doubt his volume will meek the success it deserves by directing the attention of English readers to the prospects and neces; • sities of the constitutional kingdom, " the hope 0 ' Italy," and by awakening the interest and arous" ing the sympathies of all who may peruse hi pleasant pages. Urling. A Novel. 3 vols. Harrison. This is a very interesting story, the character! are numerous, and some of the chief ones are a 4 mirably sketched. It is evident that the book 1° the production of an unpractised hand, as sore° parts are greatly exaggerated, for instance, th e conduct of Sir Grice and Lady Cla ver t on a t ille, l ^ t dinner table is improbable in the ext reme , and tn ° manners of Mrs. Willerdy are overdrawn 113 fussiness and fancies. These drawbacks are not ° any material importance to the story however, which is possessed of many merits, and exhibits 11 some passages a freedom and freshness of stYl a which proclaim it the composition of no inferior order of mind. It would be impossible to give a n ° outline of so complicated a n trrat i ve, and 0- meagre detail could give a correct idea of the inge nutty with which the plot is designed, or the slcd l r with which the e xecu ti on is effected. Sir Reginal d t Urling, the chief o f th e race, is a fine character, b a . the fatal effects o f p r id e and prejudice marred 1110 ~, noble nature, and gave opp or t un iti es t o hi s enenst'7 which they were not slow to take advantage °f. Frank, his nephew, is the hero, and his was a painful ono. He was surrounded by d i b, conies and dangers ; he had not knowledge enotig e of the world to avoid th e f ormer , or s kill t o extric3ta himself from the latter. The squ i re Willeraly lb:- specimen of the old En g li s h gen tl eman. , Latimer, a noble type of a Christian pastor. Th a , gentlemen were the only t rue f r i en d s of Sir 13t!g.,7,0 nald. Schoolfellows in b o yh oo d , compaill%-e in youth, they were friends in all chances and changes of their earthly pilgrialt; It would have b een we ll f or the Peas of many had the b arone t f o ll owe d t h e a d v i ce of t o{ sensible squire, and allowed the mild precepts r a • the doctor to rule his actions. The wily l' a er; Norcaster is described in a very striking raa . ",. 11 h e and the various plots and counter plots in whi,°`! o and his myrmidons were engaged, are disclosecl,lo - that imparts excitement to the story, all vests it with the attributes of the mysterious o f romantic. There is no doubt that the author t, "Urling" might do better in a second atteali ch but in the present work the reader will find 171 °r to admire, apart front the interest of the storY:2iog the merit of the descriptions. There is son:10 1 : 0 o superior in the style, something true in the lee' expressed, and unusual talent adorns its pages' - CAPTURE OF rt AN ESCAPED CONVICT. The COlllic tt l l Williatn Robes, who effected his e'caP e from'C hnt to dockyard on Saturday last, has been ca ptured in " e r woods between Rochester and Gravesend. The 1 0 ° e • in which he succeeded in baffling his pursuers is •B°` —,l' ni • what singular. On escaping from the dockyard he 99/ Zi• • out to her Majesty's ship Cleopatra, 26, lying in ° ,. 0 0 nary in the Medway, and although it was in the dePla,A, he succeeded in getting on board that vessel unperceiv; Re then stowed himself away until the following ril L ll log, when he dre,sed himself in sailor's clothes, n'ul-o. he stole on board, and without having been once sees', took one of the ship's boats and rowed himself ae" r b e A f er wandering about in a state of g reat destitu tion f • was captured on Tuesday in the neighbourho od di et vil:age Chalk,au-d conveyed back to t he confl p r i s on at Chatham. Toe cmvict, who has been P re s i vioubly transported, was sentenced to six years' O P , servitude at the Liverpool session held in Feb rilgr° 1857. • glean N orth lie vr / 1 ,,Y0n I New I aellev th e Affa, re ce - i Ahe NUN 'vith t eee kt c The b e 42