The Sun. — London, England, 1860-11-20 00:00:00

, TRENCH PLAYS. -BIJOU THEATRE.I:-= At HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, HaYKOZIEVt, (Grand Entrance.) Directeur—M. Talexy. THIS EVENING, L'HISTOIRE D'UN SOU. M. Dupuis. Alter which, VALERIE. fddlle. Periga. UNE TASSE DE THE . Mdlle. Periga. Commence at 8. JOY A L ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT , GARDEN —under the Management of Miss LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, THE NIGHT DANCERS. Messrs H. Haigh, H. Corti, G. Kelly, Dustin, and Lyall ; Madame Palmieri, Miss Albertazzi, Miss Leffler, Miss Thirlwall, and Huddart. And a Ballet of Action Ambuscade. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Doors open at Seven. Commence at Half -past. T HEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnekstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the Leelercqs. After which, THE BABES IN THE WOOD. And MY WIFE'S DAUGHTER. • Commence at 7. . ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, an adaptation of Victor Hugo's cele brated Play of RUY BLAS, by Edmund Falconer, Esq. when Mr. Fechter, the favourite actor of Parisian renown, Will make his 21st appearance on the English stage, supported by Messrs. W. Lacy, Meadows, Garden, Graham, Raymond, &Orland, Collett, Paulo, Daly, A. Harris ; Miss Rose Lecleroq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath. 'To be preceded by SUSAN SMITH. To conclude with THE GARIBALDI EXCURSIONISTS THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM. Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with THE YOUNG WIDOW. Mr. H. Neville, Mr. J. Rouse, Miss Hudspeth, and Miss Rose Howard. Followed by the new drama, entitled ADRIENNE ; or THE SECRET OF A LIFE. Principal characters by Mr. Henry Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. H. Butler, Mr. Villiers, Mr. G. Vining, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Campbell„ Mr. Clifford, Mr. J. Johnstone ; Mrs. Keeley, and Madame Celeste. After which, THE PETS OF THE PARTERRE. Scenic Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Callcott. The Music by Mr. George Loder. Principal characters by Mr H. Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. J. Morris, Miss M. Ternan, Miss Neville, MissFludspeth, Miss Stuart, Miss Turner, s Douglas, Miss Annie Collinson, and Miss Lydia Thorapson. Commence at 7. A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE - ROYAL. -u-s•• Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster. Engagement for a limited number of nigkts of Miss Axles Robertson and Mr. Dion Boncicault, who will appear every evening in the highly successful Drama of "The Colleen Bawn." THIS EVENING, THE RIFLE BRIGADE. Messrs. W. Smith. D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss Woolgar, Miss Kate Kelly, and Mrs. Billington. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boncicault, D. Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. — Tn conclude with MUSIC RATH CHARMS. Mr. David Fisher. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes,'Xl. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Es. ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, ls ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY. Triumphant success and increasing popularity of the Grand Spectacle of Romig HOOD. Last Six Nights. This Evening, the highly successful new Spectae:te, in Three Acts, by 1 , 3. Fitzball, Esq., entitled ROBIN HOOD ; or. the Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ' • introducing. the SAud of highly tra'tned Horses, Herd of real Deer, Stag Hounds, .tc, /Ulan a--Dale, Miss Rebecca Isaacs; Robin Hoot'., Mr. John Prit etard. _ _ To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by the celebrated Madame Newsome, TAr. James Newsome and their Troupe of uneqnalled pe'•fnrmers, &c., including. the incomparable Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest Wonder of the age. Doors open at half-Fast 6, peidormance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4 Stare Manager—Mr. W. WEST. Director of the. Arena—Mr. Pearson. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING, A Grand Selection from the opera of NORMA. Norma ........... ..... .... Miss RUSSELL: Adalzisa .......... ••• • • ....• Madanie (Her first appearance in this country.) After whkth the ETHIOPIANS, consistine-of Seventeen Per formers, organised expressly for this establishment, for the Performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and. Sentimental, with Negro Delineations, Anecdotes, ALc. Prin cipal Nero Artistes, Messrs. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H. Drammond, and Charley Fox. Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGHMANS. Balcony, I a, ticl. L. 1,: THE WEATHER.—SuN OFvlcz, Nov. 20, 1860. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 42—highest since noon yesterday. 35—lowest this morning and during the night. 45—this day at noon. BXROMETER-30. WlND—South-Westerly; light, and fine, but cold. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tau DAY.—Morning, 6h. 45m.—Afternoon, 7h. 13m. To-Moscow.-Morning, 7h. 44m.—Afternoon, Bh. 19m. LONDON, TUESDAY, NOV. 20, 1860. Sir JOHN TRELAWNY has been receiving the honours of the season at Tavistock. They were due to him. He showed that they were. But this indeed was rather for the mutual pleasure of representatives and constituents, for we all know that Sir JOHN has been among the most faithful of the faithful to the duties of a staunch Parlia mentary Radical. The sweet voice of the Premier has never charmed him from making a Radical speech or giving a Radical vote ; even on the Lords' aggression he maintained his Radical integrity, and tells his constituents that it is a question by no means done with, but one which will recur again, and probably in some very unpleasant forms. On all the questions of religious liberty, so dear to Englishmen, which came before the House, Sir JOHN TRELAWNY could, of all men, give a good account. On one great measure he is a leader, and on the other kindred questions, such as the Religious Census Bill and the Edin burgh Annuity Tax, he was on the side of freedom. It seemed to him " contrary to the genius of the British people that people should be called upon, at the point of the bayonet, to state what form of religion they held." And we cer tainly have not to thank Lord PALMERSTON and Sir G. C. LEWIS for their readiness to see with the people on this question, for they obstinately de fended their "religion profession." clause to the last, but solely to the energy and activity of a band uf resolute Liberals, who determined that they would not be overridden by statistical officialism. The compromise of the _Annuity Tax, an impo sition far more vexatious in amount, but similar in its oft en • swe principle to Church-rates, is, as Sir JOHN observes, already bearing its natural fruit. It has almost created a municipal revolt against the statute ; and the city is likely to have many bitter quarrels over it, till it may yet be necessary for the peace of Edinburgh, that the Old Presbyterians should consent to give up taxing those who, like Dissenters here, have their own worship to pay for. But Church-rates are, of course, S ir o r u s rt ha T s R h E e - L A WNY'S great point. For many Yea steadily and triumphantly fought that battle ; last session, however, his opponents, though they did not succeed in reducing the number of his supporters, did yet succeed in increasing the number of their own. We all remember how the archdeacons and clergy whipped up the skulking Conservative members throughout the country, and made them vote against their will —how they mustered a large number of clerical pro-rate petitions, only to be overwhelmed by such a host of Abolitionist petitions, as left their own almost buried in the mass ; but, as the result of the whole, they diminished Sir JOHN'S majority by con siderably increasing their own minority. Sir JOHN says he did his best, he consulted with those who had other schemes, but it soon became clear that they were all for different reasons impracticable, and that that there was nothing left as a settle ment of the question, but the simple abolition which e proposed. He commented severely on the in consistency between the arguments of opponents 4" . 1%,*4*... • Ntt '1; • ; ; • .4 • 4 .. " e 01.110. ,;41 ti = - 44- ' , \ 4„ • .4 , 4,, • •me• • • - ' ' 4 .7" THE SUN. in resisting his bill, and the bills which they themselves introduced ; for, while they con tended against him that Church-rates were a sacred inheritance of the Church, they themselves brought in bills to exempt Dissenters from paying them. Besides the head of their Government had himself abolished the cess or rate in Ireland, had confiscated the revenues of the bishoprics and given up to the Irish landlords one-fourth of the:tithes ! He justly stigmatised the absurdity of pronouncing that an inheritance at all, which the Lords themselves had decided, as a court of law, to be contingent on the vote of the majority. Chancellor has declared in its regard—certainly somewhat extravagantly—that it is worth all the measures of Law Reform passed during the sixty years of the reign of her MAJESTY'S Royal Grandfather ! Lord BROUGHAM indeed, has said somewhat sternly, in reference to this hyperboli cal praise of the Common Law Procedure Act by his learned successor now upon the woolsack, that —remembering only Fox's Libel Bill, the Nullum Tempus Act, and his (Lord BROUGHAM'S) own act, making the Slave Trade Piracy—this eulogium, to say the :east of it, was one of the grossest exagge rations he had ever heard of ! Granted that the encomium as uttered by Lord CAMPBELL upon the Common Law Procedure Act probably as Lord BROUGHAM hints in reference simply and solely to the mere mode of procedure— granted that the encomium thus uttered was ix itself glaringly and monstrously extravagant, as an " amendment in the mode of procedure," the import ance and value of the Act could really in no way hardly be exaggerated. That, recollect, was one of the law reforms of last session actually accomplished. The rest we have, before now in these columns, for the most part enumerated. As to the omissions of 1860 in regard to Legal Reform, those are less noticeable numerically than for their individual importance. Conspicuous among the " few " great legal improvements thus unceremoniously given the go-by in 1860 by an overburthened Administra tion and an exhausted House of Commons, being, of course—(there are surely not many, but will an ticipate the close of the sentence)—those giving pro mise a year ago of the speedy revision and reorga nisation of the laws relating to Bankruptcy. Recollecting how Sir RICHARD BETHELL'S great measure to this end was summarily pitchforked out of the House of Commons towards the close of the last session of the Legislature, it is consolatory at any rate to know (as nearly as we can know anything of the kind) for certain, that that admir able Bankruptcy Bill, proposed by that almost unrivalled lawyer, will be introduced to be passed, and not merely to be talked about,in the next session, and that it will be introduced, too, after having been enhanced in value by several most judicious amendments. There is every probability, moreover, that—we doubt not, with the generous co-operation of Sir HUGH CAIRNS, its originator—the long looked-for bill upon the subject of the transfer of land will be now in a Very few months brought before Parliament ! And, together with this, a bill for the consolidation of the Joint-stock Companies' Acts—a reform, this last, in every way so desirable, and in effect by many so eagerly and anxiously desiderated. The Law Amendment society's report in council further gives us apparently good reason to hope that the next session may result, among other great legal reforms, in an expurgated edition of the statutes— preliminary, of course, to their final consolidation. Already we ourselves have directed public atten tion to the augury given the other night, through the columns of the London Gazette, the happy, and we will trust in no respect illusory, augury of the concentration, now before much longer, of all our hitherto scattered law courts under the roof beams of a Palace of Justice worthy of London, worthy of being the grand central arena, for the administration of the laws of England. Other improvements of a more or less important character are urged anticipatively upon the attention of the Legislature by the comprehensive report of the council of the Law Amendment Association. Noticeable among these comparative subordinate suggestions being the hinted advisability of the amendment of the private bill legislation ; the extension and more accurate definition of the jurisdiction of the Divorce Court, particularly in reference to domicile; toge ther with the reconsideration of the question as to the admissability of the evidence of the parties in cases under trial, the evidence of the parties them selves—with a view to the extension of that— privilege shall we call it ? or peril ?—so as to apply it not only to civil but criminal cases also ! It is worthy of note that the Law Amendment Society forgets not, as usual, to refer towards the close of its report yet once more, to what it truly calls " one of the most desirable and important altera tions that could be made," namely, of course, the establishment of a Department of Justice ! Even within the brief interval which has elapsed since the last session of the society closed, what fright fully impressive additional evidence has there not been demonstrative, more strongly than ever, of the urgent necessity there is in England for anew ad ministrator of justice, under the name, style, and title of the Public Prosecutor ! Sir JOHN TRELAWNY was quite right in de fending Dr. FOSTER and the Liberation Society for their candour and outspokenness. It had been alleged that this was the cause of his not getting so large a majority. The truth is, that the Pro rate party made use of the ultimate views of the Voluntaries to rouse, if possible, the sleepy on their own side, and in this they were partially success ful. But it was little better than a hoax to parade the views of anti-State Churchmen as a reason for retaining Church-rates. They take up the rates as a subject falling in their way, and pressed on them by their supporters; but in every way for this 20 years they have been openly teaching their anti-State Church doctrines ; there has been no concealment whatever ; indeed, they are the last kind of men to be guilty of hiding their light under a bushel. In fact, in regard to those ulte rior measures, at which they so openly aim, they themselves acknowledge that the longer the sup porters of the Church maintain Church-rates the better for them. They are in the position of being obliged to do battle, in which defeat contributes more to their grand object than victory could do. The truth is, the Legislature has nothing to do with the motives which actuate the different advocates of Church-rate abolition ; they may be and are very various ; the public policy of the measure is all that a Government and a Legislature have to do with. TEE THEATRES. HER MAJESTY'S. ST. JAMES'S. Sir JOHN TRELAWNY had his theory for the failrAre of the Reform Bill, and in general terms it was the same as our own. Why did it fail? he asks: " I believe for this reason, because it did not seem to offer anything which would go to the hearts of the people." It embodied no great principle which could rouse public enthusiasm: He thinks House hold Suffrage, which is his favourite suffrage, would have done so. It might then have been urged that practically Taxation and Representation were co extensive. It would have been no paltry distinc tion of a pound more or less in the rent of a dwelling, but a ground of voting whieh any man might equally hope to occupy. We should have added another point in which we shall cer tainly have Sir JOHN'S concurrence ; we cannot but think, that if the measure had included the Ballot, this would have " come home to the heart of the people"—both of the pre sent electors and of those proposed to be enfran chised—as nothing else would have done. The shout for electoral liberty would have run through the land, and Lord JOHN RUSSELL would have been the GARIBALDI of electoral emancipation in England. The allusion is correct in more points than one, for the proposal of the Ballot looks as small and hopeless before the Whig and Tory anti- Reform forces as ever GARIBALDI'S two thousand volunteers could appear in comparison with the hundred thousand regulars of the Bing of NAPLES —but, like the former, aided by the upbounding of innumerable oppressed hearts, it would have driven all the old stately combatants before it, and car ried a Reform Bill with it to that political Gaeta, the House of Lords. Sir JOHN noticed almost every point of public interst, and we need not say was radically ortho dox on all. t He intends to have another trial next session at the county rate business ; and this time he hopes to carry his bill. It is cer tainly a most anomalous state of things that the rate :should be voted, not by the ratepayers, but by the county magistrates, many of them men, new and young clergymen for instance, who Lave but the slightest possible acquaintance with what they decide about. Our enormous war expenditure, of course, came in for his censure, but even he acknowledged that our foreign policy merited commendation ; it was not, however, to Lords PALMERSTON and RUSSELL or Count CAVOUR alone that the merit of it was due, but to the British people. And what, we may ask, enabled the British people to speak so effectually, and to make their voice respected as well as heard ? We reply, a Navy which could not be trifled with, and 150,000 Volunteers. The cost has been heavy, indeed, to us, bat we fully believe that but for these we should have had the insatiable Frenchman intervening afresh in Italy. The Law Amendment Society has again begun in earnest its useful and laborious exertions, under the presidency or chairmanship of the greatest law reformer :of his age, the venerable ex-Chancellor Lord BROUGHAM. The first general meeting for th,e session of 18604861, the eighteenth session of the association, took place last evening, at the society's rooms (No. 3), in Waterloo-place. It was strictly a preliminary meeting, at which the annual report or address of the council was read by the secretary, and, after a few passing objections, which were, however, in no single instance insisted upon as in any way insuperable, adopted without amendment. The council's report, while regretting the dis appointment of the hopes of the Society in many particulars last session, augured well for the pros pect of law reforms opening before us in the ensu ing session of Parliament. It may be remembered by some of those more deeply interested in this most important branch of legislation, that very recently one of our learned Recorders—it was the learned Recorder of Hull, who though (detri mentally for himself, no doubt, in a strictly pro fessional point of view) one of the most popular of our living novelists is also at the same time, it should be remembered, one of the most able among our living jurisconsults—epitomised in a few lumi nous sentences the principal law reforms for which, in spite of all its indubitable shortcomings, the last session of the Imperial Legislature was really re markable. Massed together thus, by Mr. WARREN, in his last singularly judicious charge, the law re forms of 1860 made no such sorry appearance after all. Nevertheless, while a c kn ow l e d g i ng thi s , w hil e allowing that, comparatively speakin g , " muc h h a d been done," it was impossible to regard that retro spect, even through the coleur de rose medium of Mr. - WARREN'S ch arge , as a lt oge th er sat i s f actory. It was impossible even while reading that charge, even while glancing down that by no means insig nificant catalogue of legal improvements, not to see at once that " much (yet) remained to do ;" that our hopes had been in numerous, and some of them very important directions, grievou s l y di sappo i nted ; that the chariot wheels o f t h e Law were still d ee p a herculean effort in the ruts, requiring many before they could glide smoothly upon level ground. It is true that among the law reforms of last session there was one of such indisputable value and efficiency, and one at the same time of such unusual magnitude in the scope:of its bene ficent operation, the reform embodied in the Common Law Procedure Act that the Lord High The last scene of the Stepney Tragedy was enacted yesterday outside the grimly walls of Newgate. The hoary murderer of old Mrs. EMSLEY, that heartless ruffian JAMES MuLnuis, who designed to be the assassin of poor Emm, striving by all sorts of clumsy devices to fix upon that innocent man the guilt of the very crime he himself (MuLLINs) had committed, with a view to the handling of the bloodmoney offered for the discovery of the actual perpetrator of the sanguinary deed he had done—this dreadful criminal, at once Murderer, Perjurer, False Wit ness, and as we cannot but deem him also deliberate Liar to the Almighty upon the very threshold of the grave, yesterday morning died the death of a dog by the hands of the hangman in expiation of his almost unparalleled atrocities. The statement written by this wretched creature upon the case, and deliberately signed by him before the morning of his execution, is a document in every way as pain ful to read as any we can at this moment, from all the abundant records of crime, recall to recollection. It is particularly observable in regard to this docu ment that it deliberately conveys, in one sentence, a formal, though manifestly wholly unintentional, acknowledgement, on the part of the writer, of his own guilt as the murderer—of his guilt of that crime of which throughout that very do cument he is solemnly protesting his innocence before GOD ! Scoring out some other words with his blundering pen, MuLLINs has there written in place of the words thus obliterated—"lbelieveEmms to be innocent of the murder of Mrs. Emsley !" In the presence of that admission—what becomes of the whole " plant" by means of which MULLINS strove to swear away the life of the very man whom he now thus solemnly avers that he believes to be innocent ? The parcel with its contents, the very tape-string tying it up, the threads or strands of that tape-string, the lens—above all, the cheque !—each of these things separately, all of them collectively, now that MULLINS confesses at least, "I believe Emms to beinnocent of the murder of Mrs. EMSLEY," all now manifestly and by necessity fix the guilt upon MULLINS himself as the murderer ! The cheque, observe, the wretched man never once accounted for, never once attempted to account for ! He never alludes to it once, directly or indi rectly-, throughout the whole of this statement. the tracing of that cheque to his possession was, as the learned judge who tried the case insisted in his masterly snmming up, the one damning fact in the evidence pointing to MULLINS as the murderer. With a lie upon his lips, made in this incidental examination of EMM, the unhappy felon has died by the just mandate of the law upon the scaffold. "'THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING; NOVEMBER 20, 1860. And now that he has passed from the scene—now that the reward of £5OO is about to be distri buted among those who took a prominent part in bringing that great criminal to justice—we would earnestly suggest in that sacred name of Justice— in the name of that justice which was so heinously outraged by the atrocities of this double-dyed mur derer, we would earnestly suggest in the name of justice that the largest portion of those £5OO should be given to—as it belongs of right to . Emm. Emm, the innocent man, who, although perfectly innocent, stood at one time, in this matter of thP, murder of Mrs. EMSLEY, in such deadly Extra having actually earned the chief part bf those £5OO by the simple fact of his evidence 'being the most important evidence of all, bringing MULLINS summarily to his conviction on the 26th October, and to his execution on the 19th of November. " Martha" was performed here last evening for the first time this season ladore a crowded audience, and with very great success. Tho principal characters were supported by Madlle. Titiens, Madame Lemaire, Signor Vialetti, Signor Mer curiali, Signor Ctstelli, and Signor Giuglini. All these performers were uncommonly careful and zealous, and rarely, if ever, distinguished themselves more honourably. Madlle. Titiens was in the fullest possession of her magni ficent voice, and obviously in the happiest possible vein throughout the opera. Signor Ginglizi, by his impassioned acting, and exqui sitely beautiful singing as Sir Lionel, showed that he ha s entirely recovered from the severe indisposition which re cently deprived the musical public of his invaluably, ser vices. The min en scene of the opera deserves high pra . ise ; and unqualified eulogy is due to Signor Arditi, one cif our very best conductors. The revival of the popular play o, " Still Waters Run Deep" at this attractive theatre last night afforded the public the satisfaction of witnessing, in Mr. Alfred Wigan's performance of John Mildroay, one of the most finished pieces of acting that the modern stage can produce. Mrs. Wigan played the widow in admirable style, and Mr. Dewar, a young actor of some promise, acted the part of Captain Hawkesley very cleverly. The drama of "Monsieur Jacques," with the lessee in the leading cha racter, followed; and the entertainments concluded with Mr. Wigan's farce of " Next Door," in which Mr. C. Young, as Jack Skylark, evoked much laughter. Mello. Albini Di Rhona, described as a" Servian Danseuse Sou brette," from St. Petersburg, is advertised to appear next Monday, in a vaudeville, to be acted in French and Eng lish, and introducing a variety of national dances. BOMBAY MAIL. OUTWARD MAILS. LATEST NEWS. :(RET7TER'S TELEGRAMS.) ROME, Nov. 17. The number of Bourbon troops who entered the Papal States was only 16,000. A conventio•l has been signed, according to which the troops vw; ill be sent back to their own country. TURIN, Nor. 19. The public funds are firm, although a rise in the discount is apprehended in Paris, and probably here also. BELGRADE, Nov. 19. The Berat of investiture has been read in presence of the Pasha, the foreign Consuls, and other dignitaries. Prince Michael replied that he should reign according to the double tradition of his dynasty— viz., fidelity to the Suzerain Power, but the jealous maintenance intact of the rights of the Servian people. MARSEILLES, Nov. 19. The ,Vectis, with the above mails, put into Toulon at four p.m., owing to very bad weather, The mails are sent forward to this place in charge of the purser, and will leave for London at ten this evening. The Delta, with the heavy portion of the above mails, left Malta on the morning of the 15th, and may be expected at Southampton on the 24th. The Ripon (from Southampton on the 4th November) reached Malta on the 14th at 5 p.m., and left at 11 p.m. for Alexandria. The Valetta (from Marseilles en the 12th Novem ber) reached Malta on the 15th at 2 p.m., and left at 6 p.m. for Alexandria. The Bengal, with the London mail of 20th to 26th September, left Madras for Calcutta on the 25th October (one day earlier). The Orissa, with the London mail of 27th Sep tember to 30th October, arrived at Bombay on the 26th October (correct day). STRAND. A new farce was produced here last night with complete success ; it is called, " Did I Dream It ?" and, as its title suggests, its story is based upon that marvellous condition of our sleeping existence which has so puzzled our psycho logists. The comic element arises ir. an odd hallucination, under the influence of which Mr. Peverel Poppy confounds his sleeping with his waking thoughts, even to the extent of acting upon them, and thereby embroiling his own posi tion and that of his friends. The victim of this unfortu nate habit is amusingly portrayed by Mr. Clarke. The popular drama of " The Post Boy" and the burlesque of "Kenilworth," which seem to have lost none of their effect by repetition, followed. The house was crowded. ST. TAMES'S MALL. The instrumental portion of the second of the Monday Popular Concerts, last night, was devoted to the works of Mozart, whilst the vocal part consisted of a miscellaneous selection. The vocalists were Madame Lemmens Sher rington and Mr. Santley : the former sang the beautiful cansonet by Dussek, " Name the glad day," which was so favourably received last Monday, and was so loudly ap plauded on the present occasion that nothing but the judi cious determination of the vocalist to decline the doubtful honour of an encore prevented its repetition, and the beau tiful romance from Macfarren's " Don Quixote," "Ah I why do we love ?" Both of these were well suited to the artiste, who gave them with great feeling, but without any unnecessary display of ornament. Mr. Santley's fine voice was heard to advantage in Wallace's "Bell-ringer," the pathos of which received full expression from the singer, and in Mr. J. W. Davison's wild and peculiar strain from Shelley's words "Rough wind thou moanest." Theselection from Mozart consisted of the Quintet in A major, for cla rinet, two violins, viola, and violoncello, which was mag • nificently played by Messrs. Lazarus and Sainton, Herr Ries, M. Schrceurs, and Signor Piatti. The finale to the first part of the concert was the sonata in C minor, without the fantasia with which it is some times connected. This was its first performance at these concerts, and its interpretation by Mr. Charles Halle was a most happy rendering of its beautiful and impassioned melodies. The first of the other two compositions intro duced was the duet fer violin and pianoforte in E minor, hitherto but little known in this country; and the other instrumental piece was the trio in E flat for pianoforte, clarinet and viola. Mr. Charies Halle, Mr. Sainton, and Mr. Lazarus were the instrumentalists. This concluded a concert certainly in its effect on a numerous audience most satisfactory. The Marquis of Salisbury returned to Hatfield House on Saturday, from visiting the Right Hon. Benja min Disraeli at Hughendon Manor, Bucks. The mar chioness arrived at Hatfield on the same day from St. Leonardo-on -Sea, where her son, Lord Sackville Cecil, is staying for the improvement of his health. The Marchioness of Lothian and Lady Alice Kerr have arrived in Dover-street from Scotland, on their way to Paris. The Earl of Malmesbury has returned to town from visiting the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, M.P., at Hughendon. The noble earl, having given up his house in Whitehall-gardens for the accommodation of the staff of the Foreign-office, has taken a mansion in Stratford-place for his future residence. The Earl and Countess of Yarborough will leave town this week for Torquay, where they purpose sojourn ing for a few weeks. The Countess Cowper has left Penshanger, where her ladyship has been entertaining company, for Wrest Park, Bedfordshire. The Countess of Glengall and Lady Matilda Butler purpose leaving town next week for Dover. The Earl and Countess of Gosford left town on Saturday for Gosford Castle, county Armagh. Viscount Palmerston returned to London yester day from a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle. Viscountess Jocelyn and her youthful family leave Cambridge House to-morrow for St. Leonards-on- Sea for the winter. Lord and Lady John Russell arrived at their residence in Richmond Park yesterday, from Windsor Castle. Lord and Lady Lindsay are about to leave Echt House, Aberdeenshire, for Haigh Hall, near Wigan. On Friday last her ladyship gave a ball to the tenantry on the family estate in Scotland. Lord and Lady Hatherton have left town to winter at Nice. , PORTABLE FLAG TELEGRAPH.—We have just seen a most ingenious system of flag signals for sea or land purposes, invented by Mr. H. Dempster, formerly a pilot of Bombay Harbour, H.E.I.C.S. It consists of four flags only—one red, one blue, one white, one yellow. These are buttoned on to an equilateral triangular frame made of stout wire, and is so constructed as to fold up and put the whole telegraph into a case, about the thickness of a soldier's halbert, a ship's boarding pike, or a gentleman's walking stick. The principle upon which the telegraph is erected is to hold one of the colours as a centre, whilst the other three work six different changes, and by bringing the dif ferent angles of frame to the masthead, and changing the centre colour, which is the distinghisher, 24 numbers or letters of the alphabet is made out. For light winds and calms this telegraph is most conspicuous, as it sticks out from the masthead like a vane, and the frame is easily turned so as to give a broadside view of the colours to an observer at a distance. It can be worked in hand from a ship's deck, without hoisting the flags to the masthead at all. The frame with flags on it answers also for the inc/#. cators, to convey sentences, such as—" To commence," " Are you prepared," and " All ready." The affirmative, " Yes"—the negative, " No"—the doubtful, " I cannot say"—the answering, " I see"—the finish, "Concluded," the " Comma," and the " Period." For spelling words or numbers the telegraph is well suited, and with it as an auxiliary to other published codes, you can refer to any number in Captain Marryat's book, or to any letters in the new commercial code, most expeditiously. Mr. Dempster thinks the telegraph might be used advantageously for military purposes on land, as well as for sea; and the fa vourable opinions he has received from both naval and military men, to whom he has shown his plans, encourages him to expect it may be adopted. THE. EX-QUEEN OF THE FRENCH. Mr. John Watkins, photographer to the Queen, had the honour of attending at Claremont yesterday, to take portraits of the ex• Queen Marie-Amello and Prince de Joinville, which were very successfully accomplished. Mr. Watkins has also been honoured with a commission to execute portraits of each member of the ex-Royal family of France. Letters from Munich state that the Castle of Bitterstein, in the vicinity of the Bavarian capital, is being prepared for the reception of Francis 11. of Naples. The Queen of the Two Sicilies is the daughter of the Duke Maximilian of Bavaria, FRANCE. BOURSE, November 19.—The market has been buoyant, and a good business has been transacted at an improvement on the closing rates of Satur day. Threes, for the Account, are now at 70f 121 c. Mobilier, 765 f ; Orleans, 1,387 f 50e ; Northern, 990 f ; Mediterranean, 912 f 50c ; Austrian, 547 f ; Lombard, 487 f 50c. The following are the last quotations : 4i per per Cents ... 95 85 , Credit Foncier 915 Do end month.... 96 10 i Belgian 4i ...... 1.... 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 25 Roman Bank Shares 2980 i Austrian Credit Mobilier 768 75 Do. Account — Spanish Threes 48i - Home Debt - RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1385 .. 1390 Northern New ditto 895 .. -- Lyons and Mediterranean 908 75 .. 911 25 Geneva 377 50 .. 380 Southern 522 50 .. 527 50 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Loirbard AUSTRIA. (From the Correspondent of the Times.) VIENNA, Nov. 17. The Emperor and Empress left Vienna this morning, and, should all go well, her Majesty will be at Antwerp on the 22d inst. The Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian is still here, and it is said that he is to be made Viceroy of the "Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom," as the Austrian Government is pleased to call Venetia and the Duchies of Mantua and Gonzaga. On the 15th instant the Committee of the Tyroles Estates caused a Te Deum to be sung in the cathedral at Innsbruck, but it must be supposed that the new statutes have not been well received by the people at large, as there have been no non-official festivities. The members of the Municipal Councils of Gratz and Cilli have demanded permission to retire from office, and the local papers tell us that the "fathers" of this city will follow their example should a statute a la Styrienne be given to the province of Lower Austria. The Prague papers openly state that the inhabitants of the kingdom of Bohemia wish to have a real and not a sham representation, and the same language is used in Galicia. The more liberal papers continue to express their disapproval of the mode of election for the provincial diets, and even the Vaterland is dissatisfied with the new statutes. The excuse made by the organ of the aristocracy for such bungling legislation is ' " that it was necessary to begin the work of organisation somewhere, and with as little delay as possible." It is said that Count Golu chowski is trying his hand at a statutelaw for Bohemia, but the chances are that he will not have an opportunity of finishing it, as it is morally im possible that he can long remain in office. The inhabitants of Croatia and Slavonia are beginning to share the scruples of the Hungarians in respect to the Imperial rescripts, but the Government still hopes to be able to convince them that their inte rests will be properly cared for by the Reichsrath. The German employes in Hungary and its depen dencies try to persuade the lower classes that they will have to pay all the taxes, and to till the fields of their former masters, if they should lose the direct protection of the Imperial authorities; but they make little or no impression on the minds of the peasants, who are hostile to the Government because they have to pay a heavy duty on tobacco and wine, which are almost as necessary to the Hun garian peasants as are bread and beer to the tillers of the soil in England. The Pesth Naplo advises the employes to remain perfectly quiet; and they will do well to follow the counsel received, as the Hun garians are not in a humour to be played with. In many parts of Hungary the Government is unable to get in the taxes, as the people positively assert that they have no money. If produce or household goods are taken in execution buyers are not to be found, as no one wants to have his house and pro peay destroyed by fire. Not long since an Arme nian was unable to resist the temptation of bidding for a fine ox, which was put up for sale at Szathmar by the Imperial authorities, but his con duct was so violently resented by the bystanders that he was obliged to take to flight. Many revolu tionary proclamations are in circulation in Hungary, and not long since thousands of handkerchiefs were introduced into the country which showed the por trait of a well-known agitator when held up to the light. On the 11th inst. there was a "national" demonstration in the German theatre at Temesvar, the capital of the Banat. One of the performers sang a Hungarian song beginning with the words, " Dear native country, why art thou so sad ?" which produced such a deep impression on the audience that an encore was vociferously demanded. The curtain was immediately dropped, but a person advanced from the side scenes on to the stage, and stated, in the Hungarian language, that the repe tition of the song was prohibited. Count Alexander Mensdorff has issued a proclamation at Temesvar, in which he, as Imperial Commissary, promises to act conscientiously and impartially. Count Merr.sdorff has a high reputation for honour, but he is an Austrian officer, and consequently does not inspire the inhabitants of the Banat and Voivodina with confidence. Per sons whotave recently travelled in the provinces in question state that " in general" their inhabitants wish to be re-united to the Hungarians, but men in office positively assert that such is not the case,. Many weeks ago the authorities at Venice arrested. 17 persons who were accused of belonging to ar v o lutionary committee. The men were to have been tried for high treason, but after the preliminary examination had been made the judges declared that the charge could not possibly be upheld. " After this," says the correspondent, " it is to be expected the prisoners will be set at liberty." As 'the "bail" system is not known in this country, it rarely hap pens that a person who is accused of an offence or crime is allowed to enjoy his liberty until his trial comes on. The fortresses of Verona, Lagnano, Mantua, and Peschiera are now almost as strong as they can possibly be made, but there is reason to believe that they have very few rifle guns. The Austrian troops on the Po and Mincio are now moving into their winter quarters. There is no truth in the report that the Grand Duke of Tuscany has " indirectly" received an in vitation from the Emperor Napoleon to go to Paris. Baron Hubner had an audience of the Emperor yesterday, but it is not yet known whether he will take office. The Second Chamber at Cassel, in the Electorate of Hesse, yesterday declared that it should insist on the restoration of the Constitution of 1831. Only five members out of 48 were in favour of the Con stitution of 1852. Baron Rothschild is said to have won four-fifths of the!great prize -300,0001—in the State Lottery. LITERATURE. Dauntot .Manor House. 2 vols. Hurst and Blackett. There are three stories in this book, one of the inhabitants of Daunton Manor, and the other two are tales that are written by the young ladies of of the Manor House to entertain their friends, and also to serve as a charitable purpose, afterwards to make up a volume publishing by a French lady for the purpose of defraying the expenses of her daughter's education. Of these the latter is by far the most pleasing, it is a simple village tale called, " All's well that ends well." The chief person mentioned is a smart little widow called Mrs. Pritchard, who is most amusing in her various manecuvres. Having failed to secure the object of her first plans, she is at last obliged to put up with old Dr. Dodds, who proves a very suitable match for her. The clergy man's family is interestingly described, and Alice is a gentle gracious young girl, and a fit inmate for a country parsonage. Arthur is a very unfortunate hero, and he was placed in a most cruel position by the extraordinary and inconsiderate conduct of his father. When this wretched man at last died it was a positive relief to all parties concerned. The first tale, called " The Guardian," is well written, bat not at all a pleasing style of story. The idea of father and son being in love with the same person is not at all a nice notion, and, alto gether the arrangements are not so agreeable to the reader. Aunt Ryan is quite a contrast to the others, and her straightforward plans are quite an advantage, after the dawdling and the vacillating of the others. The family of Mr. Holborough is a very pleasing one, and there is much to entertain in what we see of them. There is every variety in the composed Ada and vivacious Ella, the sprightly sportive Katie Dalton, and the solemn Madame Dupre. Charles and George Holborough, Henry Dalton, and Captain Bryanston also afford some striking contrasts, and with one thing and another there is ample scopejfor some hours' agreeable en tertainment in these two volumes, as from their several styles of narrative, and for the adroitness with which some of the persons are described, there is much to amuse and not a little to interest. My 71 7 fe's Pinrnoney ; or, The Marriage in Ex tremes. By M. E. Nelson. Saunders and Otley. This is a very curious page in literary history, and well deserves perusal. It is described in a graphic manner, and the wits of the day seem to live again before us as we dwell on that strange scene in Windsor Cottage. The old comic poet is indeed a remarkable devotee at the altar of Hymen, and adverse as such a proceeding is to one's tastes and repugnant to one's principles, there is some thing melancholy and affecting in the manner in which he addresses her. The subjoined passage in whichWycherly makes answer to a royal messenger who comes to offer him in the King's name the Order of the Bath, provided he furnishes him with the antiquity of his family and the nobility of his extraction, is very eloquent and dignified : " I am the son of my works, sir, and if I am tainted with the ♦ice of pride, that vice is at least good, as it regards what is of some real value. In short, I have no wish to resemble my ancestors, and I have nothing in common with that nobility which ruas in the spine and the hump, the respectable froth of whose grandfathers might make a sort of popularity. No I venerate and I admire the vir tues of my fathers, and I shall for ever retain a tender and profound admiration for the Wycherley who saved the life of his king on the battlefield of Browhill ; and for that an cestor who fed the peasants of his county during the civil wars of the red and white roses. There, sir royal messenger, is what I have to tell you; thank his Majesty's Minister for me ; take to the King himself the expression of my gratitude, of my devotion, and of my fidelity. Besides that, assure his Majesty that the poor Wycherley is quite ready to rejoin the shades of his illustrious and magnanimous protectors of former times, to take with him to the tomb his gratitude and loyalty. Tell him—tell him, above all—that my last desire, and my last prayers, shall be for the glory and the independence of Great Britain, fbr the prosperity o f the United Kingdom, and for the happiness and welfare of the Prince in particular, that England has called to the throne of Elizabeth, of Charles H., and William III." The Etnalgrant's Daughter, A Novel, Historic and Moral. By M. E. E. Nelson. Saunders and Otley. This is a very interesting little sketch of an episode in the reign of Catherine 11. of Russia, and it affords glimpses of Russian life that are well worthy of regard. There is something very im pressive in the character of the great Empress here described, and the young maiden who ar rives a homeless refugee to her Court, attracts greatly by her beauty and misfortunes. As an evidence of the style one cannot do better than peruse the following account of the private room of the Empress, called THE IVORY CABINET. This saloon was so named, because on its strong walls, which formed a perfect octagon, was encrusted between rich tapestry wrought by the needle of Catherine 1., Em press of Peter the Great, immense slabs of ivory on which the genius and the patience of a Greek friar had traced the most memorable events of the life of the founder of the Muscovite empire. Here was the revolt and the chastise raent of the strelitz ; there the battle of Pultawe ; beside it the taking of Azoff ; and farther on, the Czar in person attacking the enemy, and fronting the tempest on the lake of Ladoga, and calling to the sailors, who were frightened by the thunder, these words, more beautiful by their laco - them than those of Cresar on the Sea of Tyrrhene, " Fear nothing, Peter is with you 1" This cabinet contained other precious relics of the Char lemagne of Moscow : one might there look upon the sword that the rival of Charles XII. wore at Pultaws, with re spect and admiration ; the hat riddled with bullets which he wore at Narva, and the rich scimitar that the Sultan of Turkey sent him after the exchange of ratifications of the treaty concluded on the borders of the Pruth. These objects, which merely bad a relative and historical value, were surrounded by productions of a more general appreciation; there was also in the Ivory Cabinet the superb cameo antique that the Pope Clement XIV. had sent as a present to the Czarina; the golden chalice be queathed by the Patriarch of Constantinople to the grand father of Peter the Great; a beautiful statue of the Cava lier Bernin representing Saint Basil, one of the doctors of the Greek Church ; standards covered with gold and dia monds taken from the Janissaries by the Russian troops'; and, in short, beside paintings of incomparable value front Chirnaleni and from Giotto, the keys still warm with the blood and the powder of that famous fortress oflsmolil, that General Suwaroff took from the Turks, a terrible vic tory, which cost the vanquishers as dear as it did the van quished, and where humanity should shed tears on the mutilated corpses of a hundred thousand men—Mahome tans and Christians—who perished in one clay I The Shadow in the Rouse. A Novel. By John Saunders, author of "Love's Martyrdom," & e. Lockwood and Co. This singular story has already appeared in the pages of the National Magazine. It is now re printed in one volume , makin g a p rett y gift book in its appearance an d general character. Wh en we come to consider the plot, however, we mast admit it to be e xtravagant and improbable, a n d th e principles and occasionally graphic stylew r writer's r'scannotghihredeem its exaggeration. The Sh a d ow in the House is a young lady name d G race Addersley, gifted with talent, beauty, and an im perious and somewhat unscrupulous disposition. She and her mother are introduced to us re s iding w ith ber cousin, Mr. Dell, h av i ng l ate l y arr i ve d from Virginia, Grace's birthpl ace , w h ere s h e h as b ee n brought up chiefly by an old mulatto nurse, who puts her in possession of some dangerous secrets. She . forms a d eep at t ac h ment to h er co usin, which secret is accid en t a lly revea l e d t o him when he is announcing his marriage with another. Still this unfortunate revelation does not prevent Grace from continuing to reside with Mr. Dell and his bride; one of the striking improba bilities of the book. We will not pause to unravel how Grace professed warm friendship for both husband and wife, is secretly their enemy, and finally causes the death of her hated rival, although by the time her evil work is fulfilled she would give worlds to retract it. She dies by her own hand; a fitting termination to such a career. There arc other characters introduced whose careers are less tragic, and many portions are pleasantly descriptive of country life. Winny, the bride, is a charming character, whose goodness of heart is proof against the most bitter enmity. Still the writer might have turned his powers to better account, and we should hope in future that he will not select his subjects from such dark shades of life and character. THE BATTLE OF TIIE BANKS OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE FOR GOLD. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,--For the last twelve years I have been en deavouring in various publications to open the eyes of the public to the impolicy of the Act 0f1844, and to the inconsistency of advocating free trade in commodities whilst imposing restrictions by law on the medium for exchanging and circulating those commodities. The contest, however, now going on between the Banks of England and France for gold, the basis of our monetary system, and in which all our debts, bills, and bank notes are payable, must surely make the incalculable evils of the law patent to all. The Bank of France is not buying our gold at a loss, as is generally supposed, but with a considerable profit, owing to the restriction imposed on the Bank of England by the Act of 1844. That act prevents the Bank from issuing more notes than their equivalent value in gold deposited, with the exception of the fixed and never varying amount of £14,000,000 against securities. The Bank of France has no other restriction on its issue of notes than that to which the liability to convertibility imposes, and may safely issue, as experience proves, two votes against the value of one deposited in gold. Hence against a deposit of £lOO of gold the Bank of France can issue £2OO in notes, and when their rate of discount is 4-} per cent., as at present, they may realise a profit of about 4 per cent., allowing I- per cent. for cost of transport, &c. Whilst the Bank of England, being allowed only to issue £lOO of notes for £lOO of gold, gains nothing. Nor is this the extent of the mischief, for the higher the Bank of France can maintain its rate of discount the larger will be their profit, and the greater their power of drawing our gold from us; as when their rate is 31 per cent. they make a profit of 3 per cent., and when at 4k of 4 per cent., and so on as their rate advances. The point at issue between the two banks is not so much which of them can attract the most money by raising the rate of discount, as which can attract for the present crisis the inost gold, the basis of their paper money ; and in such a contest the Bank of England, with its restrictions, has no chance of competing with the Bank of Frunce, free and unfettered, except by its own discretion. One mode of alleviating the present monetary pressure and preventing a panic is the suspension of the Act of 1844, with the view of enabling the Bank of England to bid on equal terms for gold with the Bank of France. Another is the remedy suggested in the petition at foot, by which 20,000,000 of sovereigns may by set at liberty for exportation; a petition recom mended by me, in Oct. 1857, as a means of avert ing the apprehended panic of Nov., 1857. These alleviating measures I would again sub mit to the consideration of the public, and especially to the members of Chambers of Commerce, whose particular duty it is to attend to the interest of the commercial community. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, HAMER. STANSFELD. The Grange, Burley, near Otley, 15th Nov., 1860. " TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT KAMM " We, the undersigned bankers, merchants, and other liege subjects of the realm, considering that the present foreign drain of gold most seriously deranges the domestic currency of the country, thereby paralysing trade, throw. ing the industrious classes out of employment, depreciating property, and increasing unnecessarily the burdens of the war, most humbly pray that your Majesty will be graci ously pleased, with a view to counteract these evils, by Order in Council, to empower the Bank of England, until the sense of Parliament can be taken, to issue one pound notes to serve as substitutes for sovereigns whenever the Bank minimum rate of discount shall exceed five per cent'. on depositing Government Stocks for two-thirds and gold for the remaining one-third of the amount of such issues as a guarantee for the convertibility of the notes, and on pay ing interest at the rate of four per cent, to the Exchequer for the benefit of the State, on the two-thirds of which they would have the beneficial use, or on such other terms as to your Majesty shall seem fit. "And your petitioners will ever pray, &c." TRE ANNEXATION OF UMBRIA AND THE MARCHES, It was not to be expected that the annexation to Sardinia, by vote of the population; of Umbria and the Marches would be allowed to pass unnoticed by the Papal Government. Cardinal Antonelli has addressed to the Foreign Ministers resident in Rome the following circular note, dated from the Vatican, Nov. 4, 1860. With some offence to the English language, the following is a literal translation of its long-winded periods : " There was recently taken, as ground of complaint and protest on the part of the Government of the Holy See, the violent invasion made, in several other provinces of the Pontifical States (subsequently to that already effected in Romagna, by a neighbouring Government which, domi nated by the extravagant ambition of extending its reign over all Italy with the spoils of the other legitimate sove reignties, undertook and still pursues the fulfilment of its wicked design, ignoring and despising every right, like he who allows no obstacle to his unbridled temper of usurpation. Having possessed itself of the above-named provinces- - that is to say, of the Marches, of Umbria, and of a part of the Patriomio—by means of the most hostile violence and of a war carried on after the manner of monstrous piracieep the Piedmontese Government now fills up the measure of its violation of the Pontifical Sovereignty with the out rageous abuse—already practised by it in the territory pre. viously usurped—by means of the exploration of the so-called national will, pretending to create in this manner a valid element to legitimise the extension of dominion it ha% usurped in defiance of the rights of others. It is unneces sary here to note the fraudulent and ignoble artifices by which it is customary to prepare and regulate the pretended appeal to the popular will, so that that must justly be de. scribed as the product of a real pressure which it is dared to extol as the result of a free manifestation of the wishes of the people. The thing is notoriously demonstrated, and more over it is not the manner of the abusive vote that it is noW interesting to make observations upon or to bring into relief. That which is important is loudly to censure and reprove the great abuse and disorder by which it i s soug ht t o intro duce an eminently revolutionary principle, destructive of the rights of the legitimate sovereign. Whatever ma/ be, on such a point, the ideas of a Government which in strict alliance with revolutions, lends itself to there as their promoteer and conductor, the principle it is pre tended to establish receives full condemnation from the immutable laws of justice, from the general maxims of the rights of nations, from the fundamental reasons of social and civil order, and from the feeling of all well-regulated nations. And truly, if so strange a principle be laid down, what sovereignty, however strong in its good right, co uld ever deem itself secure from the danger of being arbitrarily, and from one moment to another, shaken and destroyed r To what fatal uncertainties would not Governments remain constantly exposed, and, with them, the whole of civilised society, under the influence of a principle so fruitful, by it/ nature, of agitations, perturbations, and disorders calculated to lead to general confusion ? It is on the grounds therefore, of such very grave considerations that the Pontifical Government finds itself compelled to protest against the abuse committed, and which continues to be committed by the usurping Government with the pretended appeal to the vote of the populations to decide on the fate of their sovereign, an abuse equivalent to the introduction of a principle with ignores and vilifies all things; train• ples upon the rights and prerogatives of legitimately consti tuted sovereignties ; deforms and subverts the law which, on the basis of solemn treaties and of international convert' tions, regulates the government of States ; tends to over turn the invariable and eternal maxims of justice ; este* Wishes the monstrous right of usurpations, and insinuates into society a germ of fatal uneasiness and turbulence. The sentiments of high reprobation with which the other Governments have pronounced themselves with respect to the prevaricating policy of that of pied mont, and to the usurping attitude maintained by that Power as well in other Italian State' as in those of the Holy See, do not permit a doubt that they will all be fully agreed in opinion with this lass protest now put forward by the Pontifical Government in protection and defence of the temporal sovereignty of till Roman Pontiff against the progressive outrageous behaviou r with wbich the usurper insists on fully consummat i ng the horrible and daring invasion of the above-indicated pro', vinces, as he already h as done in t hose parts of the Sta te% of the Church t pre viousl y that their i Y appropriated. A n d th ere i s e ver' reason to obelievetheafford Governm en t s re f erre d to w ill disposed be efficacious support to the just re' t mons t ranc es of that of hi s Holiness, s u pp or ti ng a t the same atu s time the good right which this Government feels that it has to render responsible the Sovereign or Government of Sardinia for all the detriment resulting from the hostile invasion effected and maintained in the dominions of the H o ly See, and to demand and expect complete restitution b 1 the invaders. And, in the abov e enounce d p ersuas ion an d confidence, the undersigned Cardinal, Secretary of State 01 his Holiness, invites you to communicate to your Govern' meat the present note, and, &e., " G, Cardinal ANTONnalil." wot deg sot qui ha; dec wa: exh cor in t lanl the Reel ratl con nen pro: Con of I disc bili as I the too ThE 14 bee lin4 ha N N. Gr, w In Pe he: Ur Sti Ba P 3 Nep Inc