The Sun. — London, England, 1860-09-17 00:00:00

• • :1 t ()YAL ENGLISH OPERA, C . OVE . N7- GARDEN—under the IlTatae.cruent of 31u4q A 'lr.gill oven ithr the Filth beacon on MONDAY, October Ist. THEATRE-8.07AL, HAY2d.ARKET. Lesmee, Mr. J. B. Buzkstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with THE OVERLAND Rou r r 14. Messrs. William Farren, Buckstone, Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, Miss Florence Haydon, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins. Alter which, the new farce, entitled FITZSMYTHE OF FITZSMYTHE HALL. Messrs. Buckstone, W. Farren, and Rogers ; Mrs. Wilkins and Miss Henrade. ::To conclude with FlSHCommen OUT ce at 7. OF ATER. Mr. Compton. W A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, „M., Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Great Success of the new Drama, by Dion Bourcicault, Esq. The Colleen Bawn." — Miss Agnes Robertion every even. THIS EVEYING, THE LOAN OF A LOVER. Messrs. W. Smith, Billington, Romer, C. J. Smith, and Miss Emily Thorne. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Bourcicault, D. Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer. Mies Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with MUSIC RATH CHARMS. Mr: David Fisher. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open trom 10 till 5. No charge for bookintr,. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family 110v , 5,'1 6 1- Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, 111!•,; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ; Amphitheatre, la ; oa• Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.— rl and Manager, Mr. Virm. BATTY. Last Nights of " Ma zeppa." This Evening, Lord Byron's splendid Hippo-drama of MAZEPPA AND TILE -WILD lIORSE, with entirely new and beautiful scenery, costly costumes, and app9lutments, introducing the largest stud of highly-trained Horses, Po nies, Buffaloes, and Camels in the World. To be followed by Scenes in the Aiena by the Star Riders of the day. ast 6, performanCe commence at 7. D oor s open at half - p Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. Di r ector of the Arena—M. Felix Rev olti. CANTERB UR Y HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING, A Grand Selection from MARTHA. And Selections from DINOI?.AH, TROVATORE, MACBETH, And numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, Is, ..Hall. 6d. Comic Vocalists—Mesers. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), and C. Marshall. The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of 17 performers (organised expressly for this Establishment), for the performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Negro delineations, anecdotes, &c., in addition to the usual entertainments. The Fine Arts Gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.-SVN OFFICE, SEPT. 16, 1560. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 65—this day at noon. 50—lowest this morning and during the night. 62—highest since noon yesterday. BAROMETER-29.73. , WIND —Westerly ; rain in the afternoon. SEPT. 17. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHAM,. 64—this day at noon. 57—lowest this morning and during the night. 62—highest since noon yesterday. BAROMETER-20.70. WlND—South-Westerly; rain. •". • • HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This D.A.y.—Morning, 2h. 52m.—Afternoon, 3h. 13m, To-MORROW.-Morning, 3h. 33m.—Afternoon, 3h. 54m . if sfp 1 ...,..„ ':-.11 •, - 7,-k ?,,?„,v, .214 e .-,.....4, . .Zy,Y4,:* t,. _ 9 1 ? k bßotr c." THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, SEPT. 17, 1880. The entrance of the Sardinian troops into the Papal territories presents quite a new scene in Italian affairs, and the EMPEROR has lent his aid towards rendering it a somewhat more remarkable one. It is not, therefore, wonderful that we should have plenty of speculation as to the probable move ments of all parties, and the final results. Almost all Europe is concerned, or thinks itself so, in what VICTOR EMMAN *EL has just done. All the great despotic powers have their obvious reasons for as. suming an aepeet of displeasure at any step in favour of national liberties which they have any decent pretext for condemning. The Catholic Powers, moreover, tremble for their chief Bishop ; though, why they:should do so more than during all the time that France has been his keeper, it is hard to tell. We, in England, have but one desire, that the leaders of Italian liberation, should render it impossible for any of the vexed lookers-on to find a fair pretext for intermeddling with the work. Now, in point of form it is confessed that the en trance of the Sardinian troops into the Papal ter ritories, not on the invitation of the Government, but of the people, is irregular. It is quite as much BO as the landing of William 111. at Torbay, by the invitation of the English people. Then, as in the present Italian case, had the English King's Go vernment invited French aid it would have been all formally right ; and there was quite as much good will then towards the repression of English liberty, at Versailles, as there now is towards the prevention of Italian unity at the Tuilleries. But the opinion is now gaining a strength throughout Europe to which even monarchs must bow, that People have quite as much, if not more Tight, to ask aid against cruel Rulers, than Rulers have to ask it, to keep down an entire population. Naples has done as much as any country to strengthen this opinion. Two great Powers had been obliged to condemn the admini stration of an independent Government; this was as irregular, in principle, as the marching of troops into the country would have been. It was only not so strong a measure. Hitherto that last resort has only been adopted only to stifle liberty ; as, by the Austrians so frequentla, and by the French at Rome. VICTOR EMMANUEL is the first who, on the demand of an oppressed people, has gone to rescue them from the soldiers of their own Govern ment. Those soldiers were indeed mercenaries, brutal mercenaries, it is true; but there is certainly no law at Rome, as there is in Hungary, forbidding its Sovereign to employ foreign troops. The question, however, cannot be reduced to a regular international or diplomatic one. Things in Italy had arrived at a crisis. Facts must be looked in the face, and forms must give way to them. Here was the broad fact—that VICTOR EMMANUEL, by the free choice of the Italians, had acquired a settled role up to Tuscany and the Romagna ; next, that fro m Si cily up to the Roman States, GARI BALDI had aroused the whole south of Italy to offer the sovereignty to the same monarch ; and the third fact, that between the geographical union of the south and north of Italy lap the Roman States. Al_ the provinces of those States, clamorous to share in the Union, and supplicat ing deliverance from the Papal - mercenaries, which prevented it. This itself Was no state of things to be met by " rose-water" diplomacy, and VICTOR EMMANUEL had the justification o f the wishes of all Italians for acting OR these a vowed, these loudly proclaimed, desires. Nationality has this year, in Italy, burst through all the petty_ interests and d ymstic efforts which have so long re P t e"sed it. It has verified itself as the actual conditoo of Italy, except in tl'e small States of the Pope, a n d in ' Venetia, which lies, however, in a corner, while the rule of the Pope cut the Italian nation in two. And, on the general aspect of the case the King w as quite right in converting into a link the provinces which prayed that they might no longer sever their native land, but enjoy the common lyinefit of sharing in a free Government. We aro told there are other consid.crations ; anfl .e can well believe it. With the unbounded :'aith which we all have in GARIBALDI, the poli- tical difficulties of his position must yet be consider ably increased as he neared Rome. The EMPEROR must then uphold the Sovereign whom he pro fesses to protect as the head of European Christen dom, in which Christendom and its headship he has about as much faith as VOLTAIRE had himself. The Bishops of France know this as well as the EMPEROR himself, and doubtless many of them share his creed, but both he and the Bishops need a POPE, and need to seem very loyal to him for their own purposes. GARIBALDI must not, there fore, come into collision with the small French ar my at Rome, and the General knows that well enough. He is not quite so beside him self as to make it a point of honour for the master of 600,000 bayonets to conquer him, and undo all the work he has done. Now in this state of things nothing better could VICTOR EMMANUEL do than takathe remaining work into his own hands. If the gates of the towns in the POPE'S provinces are opened to VICTOR EMMANUEL, then the work which GARIBALDI has been doing everywhere is so far accomplished by the KING himself, and the principal will supersede the subordinate, and proclaiming the union of Italy in his own name, leave GARIBALDI 110 more to do. Roman affairs will have been settled without any danger of col lision, before GARIBALDI enters the Roman States. As to the EMPEROR his acts are easily to be in terpeted in quite the pacific way in which his own journal explains them, Disavow strongly he must, for he reigns partly by favour of Popish priests. Interfere he will not, nor suffer Austria to meddle with Lombardy again. He no doubt sees with unwillingness a strong nation forming itself south of the Alps; but England sees it with pleasure, and he is not disposed to quarrel with her just now. Austria announces that she will keep quiet under the circumstancs of the KING'S marching to the rescue of the POPE; indeed, she has quite enough to do at present in squaring matters with her own states. All, there fore, seems right enough yet, GARIBALDI will wait for the proper time to come before he visits the Quiniral. Rome surrounded by freedom must become free despite French bayonets and all the popes and cardinals in the world. VICTOR EMMANUEL will quietly organise the political representation of the whole country ; and at no distant day Italy will be united and free. While the Bourbon has been running away from his kingdom England's future Monarch has been visiting a distant part of his. Religious bigotry has had not a little to do with the flight of the former ; for we must in charity beliei'e that, bad as Bourbon blood may be, it required the training of Jesuits and the degradation of intellect requisite to enslave even a Bourbon mind to the lowest supersti tions of Popery, to make the dynasty the suc cession of blindly cruel despots which it be came, and which has ended in its unpitied expulsion. But religious bigotry is by no means confined to Papists and Bourbons. It is tolerably übiquitous, and does not want representatives in every creed; still we must confess we had hardly expected to hear of it in connection with what may be termed a royal visit, and that even in a colony like Canada Protestants should be its rabid professors. The young Prince represented, of course, his august mother, who, if she has her own appropriate creed, holds it, not as a triumph over others, but as her personal belief, or as a convenient political arrangement, she being the head of one of the many churches of Britain, and for all she does in the affairs of this particular Church she is responsible, through her Ministers, to Parliament. But she stands in the same rela tion, as "Defender of the faith," to every faith in the country. It is her duty to protect all equally, to see that none of the sects wrongs the others ; to extend to all an equal measure of her favour, as Sovereign, in return for the equal loyalty of all. Yet, had a section of our fellow Protestants the effrontery to disgrace that name by their illiberal, their bigoted conduct at King ston and Toronto. They had determined to join in the 'processions with their party colours and banners, and at Kingston had actually plotted to make the heir and representative of British Royalty pass under the Orange yoke. They had erected a splendid Orange arch, which they had supposed would prove a kind of Orange Caudine Forks for the Prince. Happily the Duke of NEWCASTLE was too sharp for them. He required them to take it down. This humilia tion they wonld not consent to. The Duke, there fore, advised the Prince not to land, and left them the pleasure of keeping the Prince out of Kingston, and of footing it to their heart's content under their own gay arch somewhat crestfallen no doubt. The Prince, it was fully expected, would not call at Kingston at [all. At Toronto like displays of bigotry were expected, but it is hardly probable, we should think that the Toronto Orangemen will not have learned a lesson from the silly position in which their Kingston neighbours placed themselves. The Catholics are of course very much irri tated, and bad passions will be enkindled, which will not subside for some time. It is really much to be regretted as being, we trust, the only in cident by which the harmony and pleasure of the whole manifestation of loyalty in Canada has been marred. We know what Orangeism is here ; we know It o'w all our penal laws and restraints, not even: the power of Viceroyalty can keep down its perverseness; but in Canada, where, we presume, there is no law against religious processions, we should have supposed' good taste a sufficient law. What must men's religious bigotry be if, when thrown upon their own good sense and feeling, On such an occasion as a Royal visit, they could notrestrain theirunseemlyzeal, but brawl over their religious differences in the immediate presence, as it were of their Sovereign. Nay, even deliberately contrive and arrange things, to compel the Sove reign to acknowledge their unholy triumph. Canada is free from a Church Establishment. She has no burdens for religion at all. If anywhere in her dominions, it is in Canada that the QUEEN should have her religious neutrality respected. To us such an outburst of bigotry in such a country dis plays it a more offensive form than even in It eland itself. The diligence which runs from La Chatre to Bourges (Cher) upset three days ago, at a place called La Granges-Saint-Jean. The carriage was injured, and the passengers, 14 in number, were more or less bruised. THE GRAND STAND RECEIPTS AT DONCASTER.— The total net amount of money taken at the Grand St an d at Doncaster, last week, was - X4,363, being £1,142 more than 185), £790 more than in 1858, and £360 more than in. 18 57. The success that I.as attended the rneetin; is un precedented, and at no former races was so large a sum paid for admission. TIIE PRF,NCIT TREATY AND TYNE DUES.—At a meeting of the River Tyne Improvement Commission, which was held on Thursday last, the subject of M. De Pianelli's lette r to the corporation of Newcastle-on-Tyne, claiming that all French merchant vessels should be placed on the same footing as the freemen of the town with reg,ard to town dues, was considered when the town-clerk stated that the corporation had appointed a committee to answer the letter of the French Government, and it was resolved that the Finance Committee of the Commission, should CQMILIALIiCAte with the corporutiog on the subject. rknE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER', 17, 1860. THE I'l 7 l <1270- 4S'OCLA To 4 :XIII,' EDITOR OF THE St N. sir,— l h av e the honour of transmitting to you the aa. i c ti-er addressed by Lord Ei c ho, i n the name copy o f the Cuuncii of the National Rifle Asso elation, to the l ords-lieutenan t of counties. As this letter shows the steps which are b e i ng t a k en by the association for the encouragement and pro motion of rifle shooting, I hope that you will kindly give it a place In the columns of your valuable paper.—Believe me to remain, sir, your most obedient servant, EDMOND H. ST. JOHN MILDMAY. Sept. 14. " 11, Pull-mall East, Aug. 16, 1860. " The Council of the National Rifle Association wishing to see the taste for rifle shooting widely diffused and thoroughly nationalised, and be lieving that nothing would tend more to this than the establishment of county associations, ven ture to hope that you may be induced, as one of our vice-presidents, to take an active interest in this matter, and promote the establishment of such an association in your county. Local associations of this kind cannot fail to call forth a spirit of rivalry and competition among the different corps or com panies in each county, and as the best shots from the local meetings would subsequently have oppor tunities of competing against each other at the an nual prize meeting of the Central National Associa tion, a general feel;ng of emulation would be aroused, which would unquestionably add to the numbers and insure the permanence of the Volun teer force. These county associations should, we think, be formed as far as practicable on the model of the National Association, adopting the same rules and system; and, in order to encourage their for mation and to establish a connexion with them, we are prepared to render them all the assistance in our power, by the loan of targets, mantelets, &c., should these be required, and we have further resolved to give to each properly constituted county association a bronze medal to be competed for at the annual local meeting held under its auspices. The Council, how evor, being anxious to discourage as far as possible the unnecessary multiplication of prize medals, hope that these National Association bronze medals will supersede all local• medals, and that they will be considered the highest honour open to the compe titors at the prize meetings of the county associations. To those bronze medals we would gladly add a sum of money if the state of our exchequer admitted of it, but, in the meant:me, this might be done from local funds if thought desirable. On the other hand, the county associations might assist in support ing the National Association by establishing prizes bearing the county name, to be shot for by all corners at our annual prize meetings, a precedent for this being already formed by the prize given by the ladies of Northampton at the recent Wimbledon meeting. Such, then, is a rough outline of the system which the council are anxious to see estab lished, and for which we claim your favourable con sideration, in the belief that what has been found to work so successfully in Switzerland, and to con tribute so much to the strength and security of that country, will not be found ill adapted to our own and.—l remain your obedient servant, " acim." L AT NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, MONDAY. The Duchess of Alba died last night. BOLOGNA, SEPT. 17. General Cialdini has occupied very strong posi tions at Torre di Jesi, Orsino and Castelfidardo. The town of Todi has risen in insurrection and the Pontifical gendarmes have been driven away. A provision al government was constituted, and shouts of " Long live Victor Emmanuel." ROME (via Marseilles) SEPT. 16. The Papal Government will this evening commu nicate to the assembly of cardinals the reply which has been made to Count Minerva, as well as a diplomatic circular to be addressed to the foreign Governments. The tricoloured flag has been hoisted at Tivoli, Genzano, and Sabiaco ; but it is said that the people did not support the intended demonstration. Numerous agents, however, are spreading agitation in the country round Reme. Mgr. Merode has returned from Frosinone. Seven agitators have been arrested. The alleged order of the day of General de Lamo riciere, ordering pillage in case of insurrection, has been denied. TURIN, MONDAY. The Marquis d'Azeglio, Governor of Milan, has tendered his resignation. He has been replaced by Count Pasolini. Mgr. Bella will go to Munich. The tricolour flag has been hoisted at Foesgno, TURIN, SEPT. 15. General Fanti entered Perugia yesterday. The town was taken after a hot fight, which was continued in all the streets. The troops of the enemy withdrew into the for tress, which surrendered towards evening, Our troops made 1,600 prisoners, among whom is General Schmidt. Our losses are insignificant. TURIN, SEPT. 15 (Evening). The Italian journals express regret on account of the recal of the French Ambassador from Turin. The Diritto says .—" We must rally round the King in order to assist him in overcoming the pre sent difficulties." The other Turin journals publish articles of a similar nature. The Opinione says :—" Italy does not desire that the responsibility:of France for her actions should be her shield. Great liberty of action is necessary for our Government. Those States who are in friendly relations need not on that account be responsible one for another. The policy followed by Sardinia is imposed upon our Government by the state of things in the interior of the peninsula." MARSEILLES, SEPT. 15. Letters from Naples to the 11th inst. state that very ardent popular demonstrations were taking place in that city. Many priests and monks were fraternising with the people. A police regulation prohibited the compelling of the inhabitants to shout " Long live Garibaldi !" Numerous desertions were taking place from Gaeta, but the greater part of the soldiers and sailors had taken advantage of the Dictator's authorisation to return to their homes. Enlist ments of volunteers had been ordered. Liberio will be pro-Dictator while Garibaldi is attacking Lamoriciere. Garibaldi had declared that he would soon pro claim the annexation of Naples to Piedmont, but from the summit of the Quirinal, when all the Italians will be united at one national banquet. The Marquis of Bella had been sent on a special mission to France. A sanguinary reactionary movement had taken place at Ariano. A detach ment of Garibaldians were marching against that place. BOLOGNA, SEPT. 16. From Perugia to Rome and the Neapolitan fron tier no Pontifical troops are to be found except the gendarmes. Sardinian troops occupy Orvieto. Despatches received here state that the maritime Roman province and the surrounding country have risen in insurrection. Frosinone, the principal town of the province, has also risen in insurrection against the Papal Government. Mgr. Merode has set out to endeavour to crush the revolutionary movement. TURIN, SEPT. 16. The Sardinian Parliament has been convoked for the 2d October. TOULON, SEPT. 13 (By letter). An individual fired a pistol at the Emperor dur his stay at Toulon. The arm of the assassin was, however, struck by a woman at the moment of his discharging the pistol, and his aim was thus frustrated. No person was wounded. The assassin has been arrested. It is said that he is insane. VIENNA, SEPT. 16. On the occasion of the discussion of the budget in yesterday's sitting of the Reichsrath it was re solved that, after the expiration of its present pri vileges, the National Bank should be emancipated from any connection with the Government, and that special members should be appointed for this reorganisation of the bank. In the same sitting the proposal of the committee of the public debt, for the conversion of the public funds into bonds of 5 per cert., was rejected. The proposal to increase the amount of direct taxation was also declared inadmissible. BEYROUT, SEPT. 9. We learn by an express which has just arrived here from Damascus that the ex-Muchir, Ahmed Aga, the commanding officers at Hashbeya and Deir-el-Kamar, Osman Bey, and Abdul Selam Bey, as well as some other officers of inferior rank, have been shot at Damascus. Fuad Pasha is at Gebail, and to-morrow he will enter Beyrout. His energetic conduct has pro. duced the best effect. A brilliant reception is prepared for him by the lamentably violated by scenes of recent occurrence in two ports on the Vaudese bank of the Lake of Geneva. As Euch acts may at any time recur from the same causes and from strictly analogous circum stances, the Council of State is bound to warn its fellow-citizens of the grave consequences that may ensue, and to order efficacious measures for prevent ing their repetition. While making every allow ance for circumstances, without overlooking, on the one hand, how far the display of flags on their boats and craft may be mere affectation on the part of our neighbours on the other side of the Lake ; while taking into account the irritation, real or factitious, experienced by the national feeling, over-excited in some persons by the reckless language of certain journals or any other cause, none of these circumstances, none of these reasons, can justify or even palliate the attack made on a flag. Every body knows that any injurious manifestation against the colours of a nation is an insult to that nation which may become a cases belli, if suitable reparation is not offered and accepted. It is, there fore, easy to conceive what disastrous consequences might ensue for own country from rash or thought less conduct in this respect. You must be well aware of the accusations of all sorts which evil disposed persons delight to invent for the sole pur pose of irritating the Government of a neighbour ing State against us. If the continuance of such outrages on the flag of that country should be per mitted in our ports and elsewhere, and if the voice of reason as well as of authority should be treated with contempt, would not that give a kind of sanc tion to the spirit which dictated the accusations above mentioned ? Let the authorities, therefore, and all citizens animated with truly patriotic sen timents, keep a watchful eye over what passes around them, and, in case of need, energetically interpose, gto that for the future we may have to deplore no acts that compromise the honour and existence of the country. Such is the invitation which the Council of State addresses to you, gentle men, with a request that you will communicate it to the municipality and the citizens in your juris diction." THE Q UEEN'S JOURNEY SOUTH. EDINBURGH, SATURDAY EVENING. The Queen, the Prince Consort, with the Princes Arthur and Leopold, and the Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa, arrived at Holyrood this even ing from Balmoral. The train was due at St. Margaret's Station at 6.48, but it anticipated its time by about six minutes. The Royal party were received at the station by Mr. Sneriff Gordon, General Cameron, Colonel Sir John Douglas, and other officers of the North British staff and com manding officers in garrison ; Bailies Blackadder and Forrester, in the absence of the Lord Provost ; Messrs. Horne and Bowman, directors of the North British Railway; and Mr. Blackburn, M.P., and Mr. Logan White, directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, who accompanied the Royal train from Larbert. The train consisted of the usual series of saloon and first-class carriages, &c. On alighting, her Majesty graciously bowed to the magistrates and officers present, and the Prince Consort cordially shook hands with Mr. Sheriff Gordon. Although darknees was rapidly falling, the Royal party entered a procession of open car riages to drive to Holyrood. The band of the 13th Light Dragoons and an escort of the regiment were in waiting at the station. ' The route to Holy rood was lined by the 13th Light Dragoons, under the command of Colonel Tremayne ; the Royal Ar tillery from Leith Fort, under Colonel Maclean ; the 78th Highlanders, under Colonel Ewart ; the Mid-Lothian Coast Volunteer Artillery, under Lieut.-Colonel Sir James G. Baird; and the City of Edinburgh Volunteer Artillery. Owing to the absence from town of the commanding officers and many of the members of the Edinburgh Rifle Volunteers, neither battalion of that regiment turned out. Of the two Artillery regiments there was a fair muster, particularly of the Mid-Lothian. There were several thousand spectators in the park. At Holyrood the band and a guard of honour of the 78th were stationed to receive her Majesty. On the Queen's arrival at Holyrood the guard of honour presented arms, the band played the Na tional Anthem, and, by signal, the guns of the Castle fired a Royal salute. The members of her Majesty's suite were Lady Churchill, the Hon. Beatrice Byng, Sir Charles Wood, Secretary of State for India ; Lord Charles Fitzroy, Sir C. Phipps, the Hon. C. Grey, and Major Elphinstone. The Royal family were in mourning for a maternal aunt of the Queen, the late Princess Anne of Rus sia, At the Palace the Queen was received by the Hon. Mr. Cowper, Chief Commissioner of Works, as ako by Mr. Rutherford, Deputy-Keeper of the Palace ; Mr. W. B. Hay, Bailie of Holy rood, &c. The Royal party reached the Palace a few minutes before seven o'clock. Their Imperial Highnesses the Grand Duke Michael and the duchess, attended by the Prince Gortscha koff and a numerous suite, arrived at Birmingham's Royal ship Hotel, Dover, on Saturday morning, and, accompanied by his Excellency the Baron Bruanow, left at eight o'clock by special train for Torquay. The royal p2rty came from Ostend in the John Penn, Capt. Smithett. His Excellency Baron Gevers has left the Bruns wick Hotel for the Netherlands. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury come to town to-day in order to be present at the nuptials of Lord Eustace Cecil, the noble marquis's third son, with Lady Gertrude Scott, sister of the Earl of Eldon, appointed to take place to-morrow. The Earl of Derby returned to Kn3wsley Park, Lancashire; on Saturday, from Doncaster, and the Countess and Lady Emma Stanley leave town in the course of the week to join the noble earl. Lord John Russell vi ►ll leave Abergeldie Castle, N. 8., to-morrow, for London, and at the end of the week will accompany her Majesty and the Prince Consort to Germany. Lady John Russell and family will remain at Abergeldio until the first week in the ensuing month, when her ladyship will levo the north for Richmond Park. Lord and Lady Eleho have arrived at Starke Lodgo, in the north of Scotland, on a visit to the Earl Gros tenor, at his shooting box. We are happy to say the announcement in an evening paper on Saturday that Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Smith expired on Thursday last is with out foundation. That distinguished officer passed a more favourable night on Friday, and appeared rather better. on Saturday. Yesterday morning his skilful medical at tendants gave a favourable report, although they could not pronounce their gallant patient out of danger. DEATH OF THE MAILCIIIONESS OF DONEGALL.— We regret to learn that intelligence was received on Saturday from Paris conveying the mournfnl flaws of the death of the Marchioness of Donegal], who expired at an early hour the previous morning, after a short but severe illness. The Marquis of Donegan was with his wife at her dissolution ; but Lady Harriet Ashley and her husband did not reach Paris until some hours after the dissolution of the marchioness. The late marchioness was eldest daughter of Richard, first Earl of Glengall, and sister of the late earl, and was born let Jan,, 1799, and married, Bth Dec., 1822, the Marquis of Donegan (then Earl of Belfast), by whom ale leaves issue an only daughter, Lady Harriet Ashley. DEATH OF LADY MARGARET B. YEOMAN.—We have to record the demise of Lady Margaret Bruce Yeoman, which happened on Thursday, at Mars Hall, near Redcar, Yorkshire. The deceased lady, who was eldest daughter of Laurence, first Earl of Zetland, by his marriage with Har riet, third daughter of General John Hale, was born Junh 29, 1793, and married, Feb. 5, 1816, Mr. Henry Walker Ye Allan, of Woodlands, Yorkshire. DEATH OF SIR FRANCIS BLARE, BART.—We re• Bret to announce the death of Sir Francis Blake, Bart which took place a few days since at Twissel Castle, near Berwick-upon-Tweed. The deceased baronet was born at Heston, mar Hounslow, and succeeded his father in the baronetcy in 1818. He represented Berwick in Parliament from 1323 to 1834. The first baronet was an energetic sup porter of the Government during the rebellion of 1745, and the family numberel among its menibc , s the celebrated Admiral Blake. He is succeeded in his title and estates by his eon Francis. THE CHAPLAINCY OF GRAVS-INN.---By the death of the Rev. William Grey Watson, 111,A., who lost his life cn the Alps on the 31st of August last, the chap laincy of Gray's-inn has become vacant. It is in the gift of the Benchers. Mr. Watson, who has he'd it since 1856, was educated at Cains College, Cambridge, where he gra duated in 1815, being 20th wrangler. In the same year he was ordained deacon by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and priest in tho following year by the Bishop of London. He was for some time Vice-Principal of the College of Civil Engineers at Dombay. people. SWITZERLAND. The Council of State of the Canton of Vaud has addressed the following circular to the Prefects, in consequence of a French flag having been torn from the mast of a vessel at Vcvay " Gentlemen,--Foreign flags displayed at public meetings, boarding schools, and on vessels moored in our ports, have hitherto been safe from outrage and insult. The respect for the symbol of na• tionality prescribed by international law, religiously observed by all civilised nations, and which ought to be held sacred by Republics, had never, so far as we know, been found wanting in our canton. This principle, which is nevertheless deeply rooted in the manners and usages of the country, has just been FRANCE. • On the departure of Baron de Talleyranl from Turin, it is Count de Itayneval, first secretary who will assume the direction of the affairs of thei legation. BOURSE, Sept. 15.—The market has been dull to-day, with little business doing. Threes opened at the closing prices of yesterday, but the demand Was almost null. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents ... 95 20 Credit Fonder o— Do. end month..., —; Belgian 41 — 3 per Cents Do.'end month 67 90 Roman Bank Shares 2800 -- Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 675 50 spcLuish Threes — Do. Account G77 50 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1377 50 .. 1377 60 Northern New ditto 865 .. 866 25 Lyons and Mediterranean 855 .. 866 25 Geneva 350 .. 348 75 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian 365 .. 363 75 Austrian Lombard ITALY. Garibaldi has addressed the following proclama tion from Naples to the people of Palermo : " Far or near, I am with thee, 0 people of Palermo —with thee for life. "Bonds of affection, community of labours, of dangers, of glory, bind me to thee by indissoluble bonds. Moved from my innermost soul, speaking with my conscience as an Italian, I know thou doubtest not my words. _ " Separated from thee by the interests of the common cause, I have left you an alter ego— Depretis. Depretis has been accredited by me to the good people of Sicily. He represents more than me ; he represents the national idea, the sacred idea—' Italy and Victor Emmanuel I' Depre tis will announce to the dear Sicilian people the day of annexation of the island to the rest of free Italy. But it is Depretis who, faithful to my mandate and to the interests of Italy, will fix the happy day. " The miserable mon who opoak to yen of annexa tion at once, people of Sicily, are the same who spoke of it a month past. Ask them, 0 people, if I had listened to their miserable individual interests, how I could have continued to battle for Italy: Could I have been able to send thee to-day a greeting of love from the beautiful capital of the Italian conti nent ? " Therefore, people of Palermo, tell the cowards who hid themselves whilst thou wast fighting on the barricades—tell them on the part of Garibaldi, that the annexaeion to the kingdom of the King galantuorno in Italy shall be shortly proclaimed ; but we will proclaim it from the summit of the Quirinal, where Italy may behold all her children, united, press them all free to her illustrious breast and bless them there. " GARIBALDI. " Naples, Sept. 10, 1860." Garibaldi has also issued the following pro clamation to the Neapolitan troops : " If you do not disdain to have Garibaldi for a companion in arms, he wishes to fight at your side against the enemies of the country. " Truce to our discords, the secular wounds of our country. " Italy, shaking the broken links of her chains, points to the north, the road of honour to the last den of tyranny. " I only promise you one thing—that is, to make you fight. " GARIBALDI." "Naples, Sept. 9, 1860. The Ex-Minister Crispi has arrived at Naples. General Sirtori is appointed Commander of the Army in the Dictator's absence; Colonel Bertani, Secretary-General of the Dictatorship ; Chevalier Colonna, Syndic of Naples ; and the Advocate Mig non a, Secretary-General of Police. The 1,200 prisoners taken at Pesaro by General Cialdini have arrived at Alessandria. M. Bella has been sent to Turin as prisoner of war. He is lodged at the Madama palace. No one knows what has become of Count Minerva. Some say he could not get further than Civita Vec chia, others that he left Rome with a negative reply. The fact is, nothing is known on the sub ject. It is diffiCult to understand why that diplo matist was sent to Rome, as it had been already decided to act without awaiting a reply. The Espero says that Count Arese leaves this evening for Nioe. The Count has for a long time enjoyed the particular esteem of the Emperor, and is usually entrusted with confidential missions to the Court of France. The announcement, however, requires confirmation. Everything is being done to take Ancona as soon as possible. Cialdini is advancing by forced marches ; he is already at Sinigaglia, and he has re ceived orders to storm the place as soon as practica ble. Days and hours are valuable. The Marchestnd Umbria must be annexed before negotiations com mence ; after then let them negotiate as much as they like, it will be impossible to revoke the wishes of the populations expressed by universal suffrage. Communication will be open with Naples, and that is an essential point. The fleet of Admiral Persano, increased by a portion of the Neapolitan fleet, is already under way to attack Ancona from the sea. If General Lamoriciere is not supported he evidently cannot hold out long. MR. LINDSA F'S ALLEGED MISSION. We are requested to publish the following letter : " Foreign-office, Sept. 15. " Sir,—l am directed by Lord John Russell to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the sth inst., enclosing a copy of a resolution passed at the annual general meoting of the Goneral Shipowners Society on the subject of Mr. W. S. Lindsay's visit to the United States of America. "In reply, I am to request that you will state to the Committee of the Society that Mr. Lindsay has received no authority from her Majesty's Govern ment to enter into negotiations with the Govern ment of the United States on behalf of her Majesty's Government.—l am, &c., " E. HAMIOND, "Mr. W. Bonar, General Shipowners Society, 12, St. Islichael's-alloY, TILE FRENCR GOVERN:III 7 ,I\77 ANY) TILE 2 1 1.4.1:C1T OF TILE A. 101.1% The Courriu th .7_Thi2cznclc; publ,isliu; a - etters and telegrams sent to the Einperor of the French from Victor Emmanuel. His defence of the march of the Sardinian army southward will be read with interest. He says that Garibaldi had declared that he would march. on Rome, notwith standing the presence of the French troops; to avoid a collision, he places himself between them by occupying the Roman States. The article proceeds : " King Victor Emmanuel warns the Emperor of the painful necessity of interfering in the Roman States, a necessity imposed on him by the most imperious circumstances. In renewing to the Emperor the arguments in favour of this in tervention, and which are deduced from the immi nent dangers to which the presence, the increase, and the concentration of foreign troops, disguised under the Papal uniform, expose Italy, the King explains to the Emperor another order of things and of ideas, which makes it absolute law for him to send an army into the Marches and Umbria. Victor Emmanuel did all he could to limit Gari baldi's exploits to Sicily. But the General went_ further, in spite of the King's counsels ; conse quently, the King's Government and his Majesty personally have no reason to expect obedience on the part of Garibaldi, whose prestige and influence have prodigiously increased. It is not certain that, in the enthusiasm of his successes, he will continue very religiously to adhere to monarchical princi ciples ; and it is to be feared that, in a moment of weakness, he might treat with Mazzini. Besides, Garibaldi has formally declared his intention to go to Rome notwithstanding the presence of the French troops. King Victor Emmanuel is aware of what calamities would be entailed upon _ltaly by a conflict between the Garibaldians and the French army of occu i vatian at Rome. lie therefore wishes to spare Italy, Piedmont, his own crown even, the terrible and boundless perils of a struggle in which Republicanism would be engaged at once against monarchical principles, Piedmont itself, and a French army, consul uently against the most natural and most generous protectors of Italy. A Pied montese army will therefore cross the frontier and take possession of the Marches and Umbria. Thus the Piedmontese flag will be placed, as a separation, be tween' the French flag at Rome and that of Garibaldi at present in the Two Sicilies. King Victor Emmanuel adjures the Emperor, in the name of that friend ship which unites them, and in the name of Napo leon lll.'s sentiments towards Italy, to take into consideration the state of affairs in Italy, and the extremely difficult and painful positionof the King. He hopes, and is convinced that, in case Austria should have the fatal inspiration of again interfer ing in Italian affairs, and recommencing the war, the support of the Emperor would not be wanting to Italy. You also know that the Emperor Napo leon has not given his approbation to Victor Em manuel's views ; he disapproves his intervention in the Papal States, and throws on Victor Emmanuel the whole responsibility of future events. Baron de Talleyrand, in consequence, has handed a note to Count Cavour, informing the Government that the entrance of the Sardinian troops on the Papal terri tory will impose on him the painful obligation of immediately demanding his passports and return ing to France." In addition to these documents we have a me morandum supplied by the official Gazette, which has been forwarded to the Sardinian representa tives at foreign Courts. It depicts the situation of Italy after the peace of Villafranca, it mentions the refusal of the Court of Rome to comply with the demand to dismiss the foreign troops, and justifies the imperative reasons which have forced the Sardinian Government to act under pain of allow ing the Italian movement to be lost in anarchy and disorder. The memorandum repeats that the King's troops will scrupulously respect the city of Rome and its territory. It makes an appeal to the Sovereign Pontiff, who, it observes, some years back encouraged the national movement, and it terminates by declaring that when the Pope will have perceived that the regeneration of Italy is in the designs of Providence, he will be once more the Father of the Italians, as he has always been the august and venerated father of all believers. The Gazette also publishes Count Cavour's re monstrance to Cardinal Antonelli upon the enlist ment of foreign troops by Rome, five-sixths of the Roman army consisting of Austrians. The document in question is conceived in mode rate but peremptory terms. The King's Govern ment points out the dangers which result for every one in Italy from the uneasiness and excitement which are being continually kept up in the public mind by the presence of foreign troops in the Papal States. The King's Government considers this a flagrant infraction of the principle of non-interven tion officially proclaimed and accepted by the powers. The assembling and increase of those foreign troops daily furnish to Italian patriotism a right to enter tain fears for the future fate of the country, and to dread that under a uniform and flag of an Italian Prince, like the Pope, Austria may return and again plant herself in the heart of Italy. There fore, for reasons of peace, order, and tranquillity, as well as of right and views to the future, the King's Government urgently calls on that of the Pope to dismiss these foreign troops. It wishes to have an immediate categorical answer, in default of which it will consider those mercenaries as enemies of Italy and of Piedmont—enemies who, in violating the territory of the Italian Peninsula, bring on themselves the rigours and responsibility of hosti lities. Count Cavour has not forgotten in the ulti matum to repeat the sentiments of filial piety of Victor Emmanuel and of his family towards the Holy See and the person of the Holy Father, and doubtless any other than Cardinal Antonelli would have been touched and convinced by the expressions used. SCOTCH MOORS AND FISHERIES. There is little news from the moors this week (says the Inverness Courier), but no lack of sport to those who have not tired of the loud crackling of the grouse among the heather. At Kinglochewe, Capt. Basset, Walter St. Aubyn Basset, Esq., and Capt. Campion shot 216 brace grouse and 1 brace black game between Aug. 14 and 29. Four guns, on the 7th, at Belleville, had 17 brace ; and at Phoines, 15 brace. At Belleville, on the Bth, two guns had 8 brace grouse, 3 brace partridges, 1 brace snipe, 1 brace hares, and 1 blackcock ; and another party of two guns, on the same ground, had 4 brace. The party at Kincraig have shot about 2,000 head ; the ground is still well stocked. At Lagganauld, on the 7th and Bth, Lord H. Bentinck bagged 42 brace grouse. In Glenavon Forest, on the 3d inst., F. Walker, Esq., killed three fine stags, and one on the 4th. In Mr. Lumsdaine's forest of Glenmuick, Keanlochalsh, on the 4th, Mr. Blackwell had a right and left shot at two stags, and killed both at full speed. To-morrow (Friday) night the salmon fishing in Scotland comes to an end. So far as the Ness is Con cerned, it can hardly be said to have had a begin ning. From first to last, and including the whole length of the river, we doubt if more than seventy grilse and salmon have been taken with the :rod ; and it is notorious that the net fishing, both at Doehfour and at the Friar's Shot, has been a complete failure. At the latter station it is stated as a fact that during tcu days of the'month of Sep tember, the crew, working night and day, captured two grilse and a trout. The Four Cobles' Fishing, or rather seven-eighths of it, is let to the Ness Angling Club for £75 —every eighth fishing day being a holiday on the waters, open to all comers. The return for this rent, up to the present date, has been, we believe, two grilse, one caught by Mr. Lowe and one by Mr. Donald! In justice to the river we should perhaps add that Mr. Barclay had a fish " on" for a minutes at the C H Cross edges, but lost hi f m ew . The club meet at the Red Braes to-morrow night to give "a scrape" with the nets as a finale to the the rsievaesren. The weather looks threatening; we maynot have a vet night. The Spey well this year, nor has the Findhorn h h o as pe no t t he fl y shed or Beauly. The Thurso, Deveron, Dee, and Don have made about average fishing. We have the following report of the fishing on the Inver and Kirkaig (Sutherlandshire), dated 12th instant : Since .the beginning of June up till last night 373 salmon and grilse have been killed on these rivers by the rod, the heaviest 251 lbs., killed by S. Bradshaw, Esq., on Friday last, the 7th September. Mr. Bradshaw has been the most successful angler this season, having landed 86 fish to his own rod, be si desa t t t h e e n s d e in ri g ve a rs t the grouse shooting. The angling on n has improved since the abolition of the nets, and the fish increased considerably in size. The copious supplies of ruin have been in favour of the anglers, although they lost a good many days during spates. It would be a great mattei.for the west coast rivers if we had a month longer of angling in autumn. We should cheerfully give in exchange two mo nths longer close tim g e in sp r i n —, and the f is hi n g would be improved, for clean salmon are seen in numbers " taking up" the rivers till the middle of October. Sir Wm. Jardine and two other gentlemen have been appointed by the House of Commons " to in quire into the salmon fisheries of England and Wales." The Commissioners commenced their in- Yegfiggi oll at Cilouccgter on INIOndaY. LI7TIIATURE. ?Modern Painters. By John Ruskin. Vol. V. Co:nplcting the Work. Smiih, Eter, and Co. Finis Coronat opus may now be appended to Mr. Ruskin's masterpiece. We hardly know whether to offer the accomplished writer of these volumes, thereupon ; words of condolence or of congratulation. The labour of their composition has been so obviously with him a labour of love throughout, that its completion can hardly in one sense fail to be a matter of regret, and the final relinquishment of his self-allotted task a positive deprivation. With the publication of the first of the five volumes John Ruskin's career as an art critic was formally and brilliantly inaugurated. That initial volume was the startling enunciation of what in Pictorial Art the anonymous author regarded alone as "Truth" —it was the deliberate enunicatien also of, what he deemed in that Art to be all essential as its " First Principles." Accepting now from his hands the magnificent volume closing the elaborated series upon " Modern Painters"—we do so with a still vivid remembrance of Mr. Ruskin's debut in the world of letters under the modest noni-de plume of the Oxford Graduate. Who that read at the time of its original appearance that first volume upon "Modern •Painters," by the Oxford Graduate, has forgotten the novel emotions of admiration excited by the irresistible sweep of its rushing eloquence, an eloquence at once exquisitely poetic and won drously pictorial. Scattered through that first volume of Modern Painters were descriptions of the phenomena of Nature worthy not only of the pen of Thomson, but of the brush of Tuiner, glimpses of cloud-land and of dream-land, visions of storm and sunset, scanning which one almost seemed at times to be looking upon the reality. Nor in any one particular has the effect produced proved to be fleeting, or the applause elicited from the beholder in the smallest degree exaggerated. We may direct attention to that first volume of modern Painters as confidently at this moment as we could have done at the period of its earliest perusal—satisfied that the most fastidious and exacting reader may there find descriptive passages not to be excelled in eloquence, not to be surpassed as evidences of the " vision and the faculty divine,' in the whole range of our glorious literat ure . Since then, without losing in eloquence or enthusiasm, John Ruskin has gained in knowledge, a know ledge drawn alike from profounder reflection and from more extended and more and more vigilant observation. At the very commence ment of his career he at ence made good his claim to be regarded as one of the most remarkable Art Critics that had ever appeared in this country. In that high capacity as an art critic he has by this time assumed a place of absolute pre-eminence. Differ from him we may, dissent ftom his opinions more or less, we every one of us do incontestibly, yet with all his crotchets, through all his prejudices, in spite of all his eccentricities, and they are each of them, without doubt, sufficiently numerous, and a few amongst them sufficiently extravagant —his genius as an Art Critic, his skill and capacity as THE Art Critic of his time, must be recognised by friend and foe alike as wholly and entirely tine rivalled. Already Mr. Ruskin may be referred to as Gib bon was referred to by Sheridan—namely, as an author at once luminous and voluminous. The number of Mr. Ruskin's works cannot but be consi dered remarkable, remembering in regard to the chief amongst them their singular elaboration. His " Modern Painters" alone forms, with its Five Volumes, a very art library—an encylopeedia of art criticism, invaluable if only as a mere work of reference. His " Stones of Venice"—in Three Volumes—has builtup something better than a cumbrous cairn, it has raised so to speak an endur ing pyramid to his reputation : defining . the " Foundations," relating the " Seastories ' " record ing the " Fall" of the fair city of the Lagunes, the bride of the Adriatic. Beyond these two principal achievements as an art critic, as THE Art Critic of our time has not Mr. Ruskin hung up enduringly in the ideal Temple of Art his " Seven Lamps of Archi tecture ?"—a work symbolically so entitled in re ference, of course, to the seven all essential and primordial laws requisite as the guide of the am-- bitious architect. Another book of his comprises within it the written digest of his spoken " Lec tures upon Architecture and Painting." Another defines "The Two Paths," lying open before every Artist, viewing each of those paths from the point of their divergence. Beyond all which, beyond his ingenious pamphlet metaphoricallyentitled a chapter " Upon Sheepfolds,"—(purchased once upon a time with eager curiosity, as we have heard it related, by an unsophisticated Agriculturist !)—beyond his series of yearly criticisms upon the Royal Academy and Water Colour Exhibitions—Mr. Ruskin has penned three elementary works of peculiar value and importance to the art student, though two of them of comparatively minor dimensions ; one re lating to the Political Economy of Art, another lay ing- down in u succinct code, or book of rules, "The Elements of Drawing," and another " The Ele ments of Perspective. Conspicuous, however, or rather pre-eminent among all these fourteen or fif teen substantial volumes upholding the reputation of John Ruskin as an Art Critic, the noblest mani festation of his extraordinary powers is without a shadow of doubt the work which has been but just now completed, (namely, by the issue from the press of this its fifth and final volume,) the ornate and elaborate treatise upon " Modern Painters," by the publication of the first volume of which, as -we have already remarked, that reputation of his was, now some fourteen or fifteen years, inaugurated. Since the revival of art in Europe, no critic has so perseveringly, as Mr. Ruskin has done through all these five volumes of Modern Painters, directed the attention of artists to the one pure and only source of true art—NatureThroughout sk ! r iteawith h thesereveren tial nquenne and the pages'Mr. earnestness, the fervo ur an d authority, o f oen almost inspired. His arg umen t f rom f i rst to last is that of a lover of Nature and a creature of God, the one hope, aim, v a i n v d id am m b art it n io e n r, t o h f e w po h o o t r o existence is to realise, in a holy vision, to— e Look through Nature up to Nature's God 1" Having in the four earlier volumes of this elo quent treatise upon " Modern Painters" (which constitutes the Apotheosis, so to speak, of our glorious and matchless Turner), discoursed--• (in vol. i.) upon General Principles and upon Truth---(in vol. ii.) upon: the. Imaginative and Theoretical Faculties—(in vol. iii.) upon (speaking vaguely) Many Things—and (in vol. iv.) upon mountain beauty exclusively : our Att Critic in this fifth and concluding volume has spoken suc cessively of Leaf Beauty—of Cloud Beauty—and of Ideas of Relation. He has done so, moreover, with all the freshness and fervour of his early days un dimmed and undiminished. In the first of these three Parts or Divisions of this his crowning volume he s i t v e e m stage th e of br avneeghe : a t lifting i ng has an exquisitely dainty chapter or section set apart for theveerlyeaf e s s s , e Earth-Veil—clo s i ng w i t h the Leaves Mo tionless. In discoursing o f Cl ou d B eauty, aga i gt h e chaunts in a strain o f won d rous me l o d y, turn by t u rn, of the Cloud Bal anc i ngs , o f th e Cl ou d Flocks , firstthebtuhde, and of the Cloud Chariots—rising at last into $ song of truest poetry, rhythmical throughout, though throughout under the simple guise of prose, the rapturous glorification of " The Angel of the Sea!" The final section of the work referring to the Ideas of Relation, Mr. Ruskin has divided into the two closing parts of the whole Part VIII., " Of Invention Formal," Part IX., "Of Invention Spiritual." In the former of these two final divisions defining in due sequence, The Law of Help—The Task of the' Least—The Rule of the Greatest—The Law of Perfectness. In the second, advancing symbolically from The Dark Mirror, armed with the Lance of Pallas, shadowe d by the Wings of the Lion, on through the golden atmosphere of the TWO Boyhoods, under the /Egi9 of the Nereid's Guard, on to the Hesperia JEgle, on to the perfected acquisition of Peace 1 The chapter of this concluding book, or part, of Rus kin's Great Prose Poem upon Modern Painters, which we are fain to regard es, in many respects, the author's noblest achievement, both as an art critic and as a philosophic dreamer, of rare and in t some particulars wholly unmatched eloquence, is he pen u lti ma te chapter of the work (IX., xi.), entitled The Hesperia lEgle. Once read, it will never be forgotten. The music of it haunts one enduringly. The whole of this l as t vo l ume has impressed our mind with a lively sense of the writer's grasp of knowledge as a master-mytholo gist. Not a mere antiquarian, philological mythologist,likeolddry Jacob Bryant, but a mytho logist who views all that wondrous symbolism of the ancients above all as a Poet and a Philosopher. There are separate chapters in this volume, more over, that will be turned to by the general reader with the liveliest curiosity, we doubt not (chapters w hi c h will be road by them, we promise each this before hand, with the reverse of disappointment) , chapters headed respectively and suggestively- - Darer and Salvator—Claude and Poussin—Rubeno and Cuyp — Wouverinans and Fra Angelico. The frontispiece, by the way, is the bewitching Ancilla T) mini or the la=st Angelic painter Angelico! Ag a tribute to au old and honoured friend, we observe in a foot note to the incidental chapter " On Vul garity "—a foot note that we must perforce thee particulalize before closing this general comment upon " Modern Painters "—we observe here, we say, with a glow of pleasure we can hardly describe John Ruskin's mention of "the great, grave "—[and he adds emphatically in parenthesis]—" (I use the, words delib era t e ly, a nd with l arge mean i ng ) , as • singular genius of George Cruikshank." I • ( I