The Sun. — London, England, 1858-04-09 00:00:00

tk •:, , Z; 719 1 0 §IIAI """' GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA. RAILWAY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVE N,That the Seventeenth HALF YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the Shareholders is this Com pany will be held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, London, on FRIDAY, the 30th April, 1858, at 12 o'clock at noon prec for the General Business of the Company, pursuant to the Actisely,. By order of the Board, THOS. R. WATT, Secretary. Company's Meas. 3, New Broad-Street, London, April 9, 1858. %* The books for the registration of shares will be closed from Saturday, the 17th, to Friday, the 30th April inst., inclusive, and transfers will not be received daring that period. 'WE AMERICAN AMERICAN HORSE-TAMER.-Mr. I RAWLY'S arrangements for Teaching in Classes his Method of Training Colts and Taming vicious Horses, alter the Easter Holi days are as follow: Si onday • • Tuesday Wednesday ~ „ 14 Motcombe-street Thursday .. • • Saturday *' • • " 17 1 In Yorkshire. Tuesday .... • • „ 20 • Monday ..... • • ...• „ 26 Tuesday .............. 27 Wednesday ........ .. „ 28 In Dublin. Thursday Monday ........ : , , May 3 Tuesday .... Wednesday.. • ... ~5 Thursday ..„ 6 At the Round House, Monday . • ...... „10 r Kinnert on-street, Tuesday .. —.. . . Wednesday.... ....•• , 12 ' Thursday• 1 ~ 13 ' Belgravia. • • Further information and forms for Subscription may be ob tained on application to the Secretary of the Fund, at Messrs. Tattersals', Grosvenor-place. April 3, 1853. M I I E F R IRST NAIGHSTTOYF STHETSEAtOTNR. E. FIRiT APPEARAN.:IE OF MDLLE. TITIENS. THE HUGUENOTS. On TUESDAY N" XT th e 13th April, will be produced, first time at this Theatre, Meyerbeer's Opera, GLI UGONOTTI. DRAMATIS PERSONE. Il Conte di San Bris Sign Signor BELLETTI. or ALDIGHIERL Il Conte di Nevers De Cosse T a vannes De Retz Meru Head ef Night Watch Raul di Nangis. M arce llo (his Servant) The Queen of Navarre The Page Mdme. LUCIONI LANDI, (her first appearance in England.) Dame d'Onore Valentina (her first appearance in England.) Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, Pages, Citizens, Soldiers, Students, Night Watch, Monks, Musicians, &c. Conductor, Signor ADRITI. With scenery, entirely new and original, by Mr. Marshall ; dresses, entirely new and taken from the best authorities, by sfadame Copere, and executed by M. Laureys and Mrs. Masterman ; principal machinist, Mr. Sloman ; head of the property department Mr. Bradwell ; the mice-en-Ecene and incidental ballet, by M. Massot. DESCRIPTION OF THE SCENERY.—Act I. Sceno Ist.—Tou rain. —Saloon in the Castle of the Count de Nevers. This Scene has been composed in the Renaissance style, age of Francis I. Scene 2d.—Park and Castle of Chenouceau, com posed from Sketches made in the vicinity of Auboise. Act 11. Paris—The Pre-aux Clercs and View of Paris in 1572, from the Etchings of S. Silvestro. Act 111. Paris—The Castle of de Nevers— Interior. Old French Gothic style, with Renais • saince enrichments. Act IV. Paris--Chapel of the Hugue nots—A Quartier of Paris, from the Etchings of S. Silvestre. The National Anthem will be sung after the Opera, the the principal soprano part by Madlle. Titiens. In order that the great work, 'rhe Huguenots, may be pro duced with the fullest effect, no Divertissement, except that incidental to the Opera, will be given on the first night. The new Ballet Divertissement, by M. Massot, entitled LE RENVOI DE L'AMOUR, will be produced on Thursday, 15th inst, (it being a Subscrip tion Night, in lieu of Saturday, 24th July), for the first ap pearance of MDLLE. POCCHINI. On TUESDAY, April 20. Mdlle. PICCOLOMINI will make her first appearance this season as Norina, in Donizetti's Opera of DON PASQUALE, and shortly afterwards in LUISA MILLER. A limited number of Boxes have been secured to the public. Price 21s and 31s 6d each. The full prospectus of the season arrangements may be had at the Box Office. rraNATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, April 9, will be performed AN NTEQUAL MATCH. Characters by Messrs. Buckstone, Chipendale, Compton, W. Farren, Rogers, Clark, and Miss A. Sedgwick, Mrs. B. White, Miss Lavine, and Mrs. J. Fitz wilham. After which a Classical Extravaganza, entitled PLUTO AND PROSERPINE. Concluding with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Orchestra StAlls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d• Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes ... 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 P , t ... Gallery Commence at Seven. ItOY A P L rop r . R t I or, N C ESST s T K H EAT R E. Mr. THIS EVENING will be presented the new farce entitled THE STOCK EXCHANGE ; or, The Green Business. After which, will be revived FAUST AND MARGUE BI PE. Me Ails' o planes, Mr. C. Kean. To conclude with (for the fifth time) t new farce, entitled SAMUEL IN SEAltell OF HIMSELF. T HEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI. Lessee—Mr. Bea. Webster. THIS EVENING will be presented the drama of THE POOR STROLLERS, in which Madame Celeste, Mr. B. Webster, Paul Bedford, and Mr. Wright will perform. After which, a new operatic spectacle, THE CALIPH OF BAGDAD. The characters by Mr. Rolfe, Paul Bedford, J. Bland, and Misses Roden, Keeley, and Arden. STRAND THEATRE.—Lessee awl Directress, Miss Swanborongh.—This Evening will be produced the new comedy, by Stirling Coyne, Eel., called NOTHING VENTURE, NOTHING 'WIN. After which, a new burlesque, FRA. DIAVOLO. And a Farce. Supported by Messrs. Bolton, Ray, Belfort, Kinloch, Seymour, C. Young ; Mesdames M. Oliver, Ternan, C. Melville, Selby, Victor, Portman, and Swanb,rough. CANTERBURY HALL, Westmin3ter-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of S ,lections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS ' CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, esc., viz. :—Mi ss R usse ll , M rs. Badzey, Kiss Brunel', Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, and Montague;Mies Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Renshaw, S. Jonec, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Anronio, E. L. Hime, Mr. Badzey, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Bell, and Kr Bet lard ; Messrs. T. Maclagan, W. T. Critchqeld, John G. Forde, and E. Mackney. Piancrorte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, Master Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, dtc., until twelve o'clock. Mr. AUGUSTUS BRAHAM will appear every Evening. Mr. WOODHOUSE (by permission of Ch irles Kean, Esq ) will have the honour of introducing, every evening. his highly successful Performance on the new REGULATION DRUM. THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 9. IHERMOMETEB, IN THE SHADE. 53—highest since noon yesterday. 41—lowest this morning and during the night, 43—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29.78---rising. WIND, Easterly ; fresh and bitterly cold. It rained neatly all night. HIGEI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TIIIB DAT—Morn., 14 min. aft. 10 —Even., 56 min aft 10 TO-MORROW —Morn., 30 min. aft. 11—Even., 0 min. aft. 0 LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1858. In little more than a week the Chancellor of the Exchequer will develops his financial scheme for the ensuing year. The views of the Right Hon. Gentleman are looked for with considerable anxiety, not only in the Money Market and on the Stock Exchange, but by the industrial com munity throughout the length and breadth of the land. The nation has had painful experience of the calamities produced by the course of policy pursued by Sir CHARLES WOOD, Mr. GLADSTONE, and Sir G. C. LEWIS. The steady refusal of the former to recognise the magnitude of the com mercial crisis until the Bank of England was en dangered, and the convertibility of its notes placed in jeopardy; the application of the money in the Treasury, by the second, in paying off a sum of ten millions without the slightest necessity for 110 doing, and his other abortive attempt to provide for all the expenses of the war with Russia out of the annual revenue, together with his steadfast refusal to recognise the distinction between permanent and precarious income, oc casioned enormous losses and deep discon tent, which Sir GEouoz CORNEWALL LEWIS did nothing to mitigate, but rather en h ance d b y his stolid perseverance in the beaten tiack. Under the Baronets the nation has encountered two panics, and seen the rate of discount en hanced to an enormous rate, while Mr. €41,4-D_ STONE put the screw on the present generation for the benefit of posterity, to an intolerable degree of pressure. It is now for Mr. DISRAELI to show what he can do to prove his superiority over his three predecessors, and confute those who fancy that they can sneer him down because he is a man of brilliant imagination and glowing olc quence, a striking contrast in these respects to the gentlemen who bear " the bloody hand" on their escutcheons. That there must be a deficiency of from six to seven millions is now generally admitted. The Times acknowledgesto six, and we recently pointed out that it would be close on seven. The calcula tions which we put forward, when " the precious budget" of last year was introduced, have been strikingly verified, making due allowance for the perturbations arising from the Indian mutiny and other elements that could not then have been an ticipated. It is the duty of Mr. DISRAELI to meet this serious demand in the manner that will prove least burdensome to the great body of the people, and also most consistent with justice and equity. We have frequently pointed out the imperative necessity of a complete revision of the fiscal code, so as to apportion the burden fairly, and make every British citizen contribute to the maintenance of the national establishments and the liquidaticn of the national liabilities according to his means and position. Itcouldnot, however, be anticipated that Mr. DISRAELI could enter on such a task, which should be preceded by a very stringent in vestigation before a select committee. We must for this year, and under existing circumstances, be contented if he make the most of the materials at his disposal, and render the additional charges required for making up the coming deficiency as light as possible. The first point that can fairly be required is the renewal of the Exchequer Bonds created by Mr. GLADSTONE. By so doing a large portion of the deficiency will be provided for, and that in the most equitable manner. As we yesterday explained it was never intended that the South Sea stock should be paid off without an equivalent, and we repeatedly urged that the tax-payers were fairly entitled to have the stock which should be substituted there for, sold for the benefit of the Treasury. This would probably have been done, but that it would have rendered the grievous mistake of Mr. GLADSTONE too perceptible, and proved beyond the possibility of doubt that his abortive attempt had cost the nation nearly a million sterling. The six millions of Exchequer Bonds were intended as a partial substitute, and there is ample justifica tion for their renewal, which would not in any degree destroy " the beauty of the invention," or what would be still better, let new stock similar to that contemplated by Mr. GLADSTONE, be created to the same amount that would have been required if every holder of South Sea Stock had accepted the terms proposed by Mr. GLADSTONE. No reasonable objection could be made to this course. The Oxford pet would be silenced. He at least could not complain of such an arrange ment. There might also be added the sum ad vanced to the\Sardinian Loan, which is bringing in a well secured revenue to the British nation, although it was paid out of current receipts, and the amounts paid for the redemption of the Sound Dues—which ought to have spread over at least 20 years—and for the redemption of certain hereditary pensions which would never have been sanctioned by Parliament. The latter transactions were, however, kept strictly concealed. Nothing was known on the point until credit was taken for the money thus misappropriated, in the annual ac counts. All these matters which have occasioned the deficiency, might be properly taken advantage of by Mr. DISRAELI to repair the evil, and by so doing he would have a handsome fund in hand to modify or abolish obnoxious imposts, the most striking whereof is the " tax on prudence," in the shape of duties on fire and life policies of assurance. But, beyond anything., a judicious apportion ment of the Incotne-tax is demanded by the country. The gross, the palpable injustice of that flagrant grievance, is universally felt. If it were not an "actual fact" coming home to every man earn ing 1001. per annum or upwards, and touching him in the tenderest point—the pocket—it could not be credited that any Government would so greatly stultify itself as to prop sse—sr any Parliament as to enact—such an iniquitous system. Mr. DISRAELI was the only financial Minister who re cognised the distinction between dividends, in terest, and annual produce of accumulated and realised property, and the hard earnings of industry. He has now a glorious opportunity of carrying out hie view. A beginning is all that is required. If he commences by reducing the payment under schedule D to one-half of those required from men possessing tangible property, the country will hail the step in the right direc tion, and gladly confess that "the right man" is, at last, "in the right place." More will, un doubtedly, be required, but that handsome instal ment will be willingly accepted. Should he do so, he will establish an irresistible claim to the national gratitude, and so strengthen the hands of Government that it may smile with disdain at all the factious opposition offered on untenable grounds. The golden opportunity is before him. It should not be neglected or misapplied. On this point we would earnestly invite atten tion to an article by an esteemed and valued cot laborateur, the Belfast ifercantile Journal, which will be found in another part of this day's im pression. The views contained therein are in strict accordance with those we have incessantly advocated. It is but a question of strict justice that so long as the exemption is extended to in comes not exceeding 1001., a similar relief should be given to every payer, whatever may be the amount of kis receipts, on the first 1001. It is absurd to say that a man earning barely 1001. per annum should be'charged V. 18s. 4d., while the person with 991. would go free, or that the mechanic obtaining 21. per week should give 10d., and the working man who gained 38s. paid nothing. The class brought within the operation of the tax, com prising a large proportion of clerks struggling to maintain a respectable appearance, are those for whom the utmost sympathy should be felt, and the greatest possible relief afforded. We highly approve of our contemporary's sug gestion of taxing accumulated property of all kinds according to its capitalised value. We have repeatedly urged the justice and expediency of so doing, and in the beginning of 1857 pointed out the large returns that would be obtained from the adoption of such a system, by means whereof the most obnoxious and onerous taxes might be either entirely repealed or materially property has its duties as well as its rights, and certainly not the least important is that of pro viding for the interest of the national Bill ex debt,—. which, as we have alread y prove 3, should clusively on realised property—and also of con tributing largely to the maintenance of the public establishments, which to a great degree are re quired for its protection. The man without pro perty of any description would have little to fear if the expenditure in these departments were re duced t) one quarter of their present amount. The true difficulty in the Indian qu estion is that candidly s tated by L or d D ERBY a t th e Man sion -h ou se—how to combine a respons ibl e Mi n ister with an effective Council. We must confess this is the problem which it has always appeared to us impcs ible to solve. Make the Council powerful, and the President or Secretary—whicheve r name i. e may go by—is in just that proportion irrespon o te f r t absolute, and you de i he Council to act effec :tibroley t h m e ainducementse effec tively. If the Council be composed of persons to whom any Minister must more or less defer, or if they are authorised to adopt a mode of procedure which interferes with the Minister's free action, the latter could always put forward, when attacked in Parliament, the plea of our first parent, and could justly say—the Council which thou gayest to be with me advised thus, and I did act. And the House must admit the plea, too. It could not get rid of an Indian Minister who yielded to the power created to "check" him. On the other hand, what would a Council become which had no substantive power ? What would our Lords and Commons be, if the Minister of the day could hear their opinions and then act on his own ? What have Louis NAPOLEON'S Senate and Legislative Council, and even our own Board of Admiralty ever been ? It seems as inevitable that a Council which does not act as well as advise, or whose advice is not necessarily followed by action, should lose its vigour, as that any musc l e o f our b o dy, if not used, should shrink and almost vanish. As we observed, however, a few days ago, it seems to be considered a necessity that a Council we must have. The old Company has left that impression, at least, on the minds of most of our legislators. It will probably survive in part under the name of an East India Council, when the name of East India Company is abolished. It might take for its motto, while expecting its change, the nom onsnis moriar of the poet, for by a kind of political metempsychosis the worthy directors, or many of them, will enjoy a higher title, a double salary, and no diminution, perhaps rather an increase of patronage. Lord DERBY can scarcely be blamed for proposing a Council, when he knew that Parliament is not yet prepared to construct a new Home Government for India on any other terms ; but from his statement on Monday week we have little doubt that he con siders a Council and a really responsible Minister to be almost incompatible ; if, therefore, a Coun cil we must have, his Cabinet proposed to make the Council one of the greatest possible moral weight, and to lay greater stress on making the Council efficient than the Minister responsible. At the same time he has provided that the Mini ster should be able to act almost as a perfect autocrat if he wished ; the great check being that it would not be easy for him to ignore the moral weight of the elected half of the Council. The India House has very naturally criticised both the bills. It has presented a report, which, however, reads like a last dying speech and con fession, to the proprietary, and finds, of course, so many faults with both bills as to show that the Company is better than either of the proposed councils 1 One thing is very amusing. Both Lord PALMERSTON and Mr. DISRAELI wished to be as tender as possible to the " sick man," or as civil as possible in showing the old Company the door. They used as kind words as possible, therefore, and bowed the Directors out. The worthy Directors mistook the commiseration and the courtesy for bona fide tributes of praise to their past merits 1 They actually advert, almost in the opening of their report, to the praises bestowed by the abolishers on the institution they were abolishing, as rendering it marvellous that it should be abolished, and important if it were, that its ex cellencies should be perpetuated under any new arrangement 1 As to the two bills, they divide their censures and their approbation pretty equally, though Lord DERBY'S as the more thorough-going comes in perhaps for more of the former. Either of theta ought, they think, to be opposed by all legal means, but if the Rouse will pass one of them every effort must be made in committee, to confer increased powers on the council, that is, to lessen the responsibility of the Minister, and to make the irresponsible council the real power, and the actual administrator of the Home Government of India. One proposal in Lord DERBY'S Bill has our hearty concurrence--the appointment of a commission to examine, in India, into the slate and prospects of Indian Finance ; the Directors profess fear for the reputation of the Indian Go vernment, and opposo most hotly the appoint ment of the commission—their real fear is a Blue Book of facts on their own Revenue delin- quencies. The election of five members of council by com mercial constituencies, of course, incurs their un qualified censure ;—" they can only express a feeling of amazement," at which we certainly are not at all amazed. They are obliged to confess that an English element is wanted in the couccil, and if they had not done so, their own most valu able servant, CA ARTHUR COTTON COUld have en lightened them. " Old Indians"--he has told them—" Are the destruction of India." " What is wanted is a great majority of untainted English men, Englishmen who are not turned Asiatics." " India never can make a fair start in the race of improvement till Old Indians are in the minority among the riding body." " What is wanted, is representatives from different classes in England, who will bring their English energy and understanding to the work." Such is the testimony of one of the most honest and efficient of the Company's servants in India, and we ask whether Lord PALltansTois's Bill, or any other part •f Lord DERBY'S Bill, provides Councillors more nearly approaching Colonel A. COTTON'S description, than the proposal to choose five Councillors from commercial men by the five largest commercial towns in the kingdom. No person, we presume, seriously concerned to de cide aright, could do more than laugh at the very silly picture drawn by The Times from fancy, of the bankrupt merchant beggars whom London and other great cities would choose as Councillors for India. The proposal is perhaps sentenced, by the interested, to be joked out of the Bill ; we think, however, that, assuming we are to have a working Council, the idea is a good one. It is superfluous, however, to advert to all their criticisms, since they are scarcely anything more than a repetition of the current objections ; objections easy enough to make, and some of them such as we have already made ourselves. Mr. Serjeant GAZELEE objected to both bills, and " thought it would be much better to throw the whole responsibility upon the Ministers, who might be assisted by a competent number of clerks. Such was the system in the Imperial Government, and surely what was good for Eng land was good for India." Different as England and India are, the last remark is somewhat of a non sequitur. Still it is not to be denied that the simple responsibility of a Minister, who would always be able to command the services of the ablest men, might be the best solution of the diffi culty stated by Lord DERBY. We should not be much surprised if the public were, indeed, driven to get rid of councils altogether. In any case we cannot conceive that Lord DERBY will allow himself to be driven f ro m office, as the factious ones may hope, on an India Bill. It is not a party saject, any Minister would be justified in accepting any a'terations which discussion, not partizanship, Lord DE.P.BY will not may show to be desirable. THE SUN, LONDON FRIDAY _E V ENING, APRIL allow India to be sacrificed, we may be assured, to mere patty tactics. There are ways and means enough for party to fight the battle for office, if it will, in Parliament, without periling the interests of such an empire as India. We should think it would exercise a most salutary influence on the debates, if Mr. DISRAELI should announce pretty early, that under no circumstances would the Go vernment resign on the question of India—that they were quite prepared to carry out honestly the best plan which the united wisdom of the two Houses could furnish. It can scarcely be otherwise than a source of universal satisfaction, the knowledge that the protracted struggle against misfortune, maintained now for ten years with unwearied assiduity by M. DE LAMARTINE is at length about to be brought to a happy conclusion. Between 1848 and 1858 the contest with impending ruin has been main tained by him, single-handed, in the midst of an all but overwhelming accumulation of diffi culties. After saving France and Europe from the horror of Anarchy—effecting this, moreover, at the imminent hazard of his life—the Hero of February, though by nature a poet, though by genius a dreamer, though by an instinctive pre ference, all his life long, a man of letters rather than a man of action, consented, nevertheless, for three months, in the midst of an appalling crisis, to assume the then by no means tempting responsi bility of supreme Government. It is not an exagge ration of his importance, to say this of LASIARTINE. For he, among all his colleagues, was indisputably and notoriously the genius of the Provisional Go vernment. DUPONT DE L'Eunn, it is true, occu pied the chair of presidency at the council board —but he did so simply in . recognition of his age, and of his probity. GOUDOTIA.UX held the port folio of Finance, MARIE that of Public Works, LEDRU ROLLIN that of the Interior, CRENIEUX that of Justice, CARNOT that of Public Instruction, ARAGO that of Marine, BETSMONT that of Com merce, and General SUBERTIE that of War—but they were dominant, these men, each simply and exclusively in his own department. With LA MARTINE it was otherwise. He was far more than s i m ply Minister for Foreign Affairs. He was pre-eminently the mouthpiece, the spokesman, the representative of the entire Government. His famous manifesto was the document to which all looked for the revelation of the intentions, the principles and the aspirations of the Republic born of the Revolution. When that Republic, scarcely yet brought into existence, was imperilled• by the mob—he was the one who stood forward as its champion in front of the Hotel de Ville. When the organs of 'various parties and sections, and even, be it said, creeds and races, had to be met and reasoned into a patient submission to the course of events—he it was who personally gave audience, one after another, to the imperious and imprac doable deputations. For three months he toiled at his perilous post, with unflagging assiduity and determination, and, in the end, only withdrew from holding within his generous and heroic grasp the reins of the democratic Government—because the tocsin of civil war had sounded in the streets of Paris the absolute and instant neces3ity of gathering those reins up yet more tightly, and placing them collectively in the iron grip of a tnilitary Dictator. At the advent of the soldier CATAIGNAC, LAXIARTINE, the poet, descended again, first of all among the ranks of the national representatives, and ultimately to the comparative retirement of a studious cultivation of the various fields of literature. The dignity of this retirement he hinaielf has eloquently vindicated but vary rocautly iu cue of the 11,t instalments of one of the most popular of all his serial publications. It is in the preambuie of the 25th, emtretien of his Cours Familier de Litbtra tare, that in an address t 3 his readers, M. DE LAMARTINg has condescended to repel the shame less issinuations cast against him by certain men dacious opponents. " How cruelly insequential," he says, "it is to say to a man, You owe debts, and if you do not pay what you owe you are dis- honoured ; and to say to himin the same b reat h , Yet, if you continue to work to pay what you owe, you are still dishonoured." Nevertheless, this is precisely what has been said of and to this great man by his fl Lgitious and illogical assailants. Embarrassed in his circumstances at the period of the last revolution —he ascends to the dizzy altitude of the virtual chief ta i ns hi p of the French Government. Empty-handed, a ft er doing his part to the last nobly and con scientiously, he descends from that unwonted elevation to assume anew his labours as an author. What is his reply now to his malignant deprecia tors ? It is a reply worthy of LAMARTINE. ` c Vous pouvez m'6touffer," he cries out, " oui, m a i n vous ne me dishonnerez pas; jo travaillerai jusqa'a anon dernier soupir, e. si j 3 suceomb e , ce ne sera pas ma faute; ce sera cello de mO3 ennemis." " Yes, you may strangle me," ho says, " but y ou cannot dishonour me. I will work on to mylatest breath, and if I fail in my efforts the fault will not be mine ; it will rather be that of my detractm.s." But France at this moment has decreed otherwise. For ten years this unequal contest has been continued uninterruptedly. At last it is to cease. The gratitude of the Great Nation to one of the noblest, and truest, and most gifted of all her sons can no longer be restrained. A national subscription is to liquidate the liabili ties of the man who is at onco—Hero, Poet, His• torian, Orator, Romancist, Legislator, Admini strator. The estates so long in jeop ar d y at Ma con are to be redeemed from mortgages and secured intact to the owner from whose possession they possibility - of redemp tion. bat h e y esterday yend t t to the possibility passing away rapidly and The home of the poet of Jocelyn, is still to be his and no other's. The vineyards familiar to the feet of the young day-dreamer of _Raphael are to be yet trodden by him now that he is aged into the historian of. the airondins. The BYRON of France is still to have his Newstead. The Scorr of France is still to retain his southern Abbotsford. France has said it. Frenchmen of a ranks and classes are swelling the lists of sub scription for this splendid and touching testimo nial. It is well. Had the struggle with adverse fortune ended in this instance differently, it would have been a disgrace for France no less than it would have been a grief to LAMARTINE. There. fore, repeat, it is we ll —an d n ot the less so th r a e t , we the movement which i s a t length being parti cipated in by a whole people is n ow formally authorised and inaugurated by the Government. There was no part of the Ministerial arrange ments on which the thick and thin adherents of Lord PALMERSTON expatiated s) pathetically as on the dangers likely to arise from the substitu tion of Lord MALMESBURY for Lird CLARENDON at the Foreign Office. The safety, however, and welfare of the country would bo endangered if the portfolio passed from the vigorous hands of the f inner Minister to one so weak and inefficient as his successor, especially at a time when such im pmtant questions were pending with the French and N eapo lit an Governments. Such was the tenor of the sundry Jeremiads by Close who wished to constitute Lord PA LYERSTON prpetual dictator, encouraging him to treat with 9, 1858 contumely and insult every member who dared to give expression to opinions opposed to his own. We have now witnessed the satisfactory termina tion of the untoward differences with the Cabinet of Paris, and certainly the publica tion of the correspondence respecting " The Cagliari," on which we commented on Monday, does not place the loss to the country from the resignation of Lord CLARENDON in quite so strik ing a light as the panegyrists of that Nobleman would wish it to be regarded in. Nothing in deed more humiliating to the national dignity can be conceived than the correspondence and entire proceedings up to the time of the change of Government. And there are few consistent Liberals who would not now regard the return of the Earl of CLARENDON to the Foreign-office as a matter that would inevitably follow the over throw of the DERBY Cabinet. He it was who not merely omitted answering, but excused and justified the despatch of Count WALEWSKI, and thus caused the occlusion from office of the Ministry of which he was an influ ential member. He, too, was the person who so seriously co►npromised the national dignity by his milk and water remonstrances on the out rageous cruelty exhibited in reference to two Bri tish engineers, virtually conniving at that cruelty, until one of the victims (WATT) was driven to attempt suicide, his intellects having been affected by his protracted incarceration ; and the bodily health of the other (PARK) had yielded to his protracted sufferings. Already, WATT has been restored to his country, although but a mere wreck, while the other has been liberated from confinement and given a fair chance of recovering his health. A decided and energetic tone has also been adopted, calculated to bring King Boats a. and his advisers to a due sense of the folly of which they were guilty, in striving to gratify their vindictive feelings against Great Britain, at the expense of two innocent Englishmen, illegally captured out of the Neapolitan waters, and treated as if they had been malefactors of the worst class. We have already contrasted the legal opi nions given by the late law officers of the Crown with the lucid and convinc ing document signed by Dr. TRAVERS Twiss. In the former there was a manifest desire to avoid the responsibility of making any demand, which, if refused, might be followed by hostilities. For that purpose, assumptions totally unwarranted by the facts were put forward—assumptions which were not warranted, or even ventured on by Commander CARAFA himself. The benefit of the doubt was given to the Sicilian autho rities, and a justification put forward on utterly untenable grounds, which were not alluded to by the parties implicated. Dr. Twiss, on the contrary (as well as Dr. PHILLIMORE), clearly and unequivocally examined every circutnstrance, and proved the total illegality of the entire proceed ings ab iuitio. And yet Signor CARAFA, depend ing on the weak and vacillating tone of Lord CLARENDON, declares that England herself has declared " that there can be no right to re quire anything more than a' speedy, regular, and public trial."_ This was his impression from Lord CLARENDON'S diluted correspondence. He was, however, undeceived by Lord MALNIESBURY, who expressly stated, that her Majesty's Govern ment " cannot admit that the prima facie evi dence which was produced, as far as it is at present known, could justify the prolonged con finement to which these British subjects have been exposed, and from which they have so severely suffered," emphatically adding, " Her MAJESTY'S Governme^t sill believe that the Engineers, WATT and PARK, were entirely igno rant of the conspiracy to seiz3 the Cagliari, and were throughout acting under durance." From the above, it is manifest that Lord MAL MESBURY, in a few days, effected, through Mr. LYONS, what Lord. CLAREYDON corn - pletely failed in doing during as many months. The vigour and energy so clearly de monstrated proved to the Neapolitan Govern ment that they could no longer maintain the contumelious trifling displayed towards the late Foreign Minister. And we hope and believe that the demand for compensation to the sufferers as atonement to the Government will be responded to with equal promptitude. Lord MALMESBURY has shown that the old pro verb, " whore there's a will there's a way," is applicable to diplomacy, as well as other matters. LORD NORMANDY'S REVIVAL—Lord Normanby has addressed the following letter to the Constitutionnel : "Florence, April 3.—1 perceive from your journal just received that a subscription is opened for M. Latnartine. If a foreigner may be permitted to join in a tribute of national gratitude, one of M. Lamartine's oldest friends and one who has had particular opportunities of ob serving all that his ener gy did for the g reat cause of order, not only in France, but throughout the entire world may ven ture to contribute. As at this di s t ance I do not know the names of the commit t tee n. L ßec take the liberty of enclosing I,ooof. as neyreubscripio &c., NORMANDY." REPRESENTATION OF GRERNWICH.—In conssquence of the recent decision in the Court of Bankruptcy with regard to Mr. T ownsend, M.P., it is assu med that one of the eeets for the borough of Geeenwich will shortly be at the disposal of the electors. It is confidently stated that at the proper time Admiral Martin will ae pear as a Conservative candidate, meanwhile the friends of Mr. Townsend, who are numerous and enthusiastic in his cause, although chiefly cempoeed of the industrial aintain that another combined effort will b e madeto classesm tr e nable him to retain his seat , and that a ooe rnittee is now in the course of formation, in order to raise the necessary funds to release him from his pecuniary 'difficulties. INDIA..—The Candle, which has arrived at Suez with the Calcutta mail, brought only one day's later news from Calcutta than .chat was received from Bombay a week ago by the O ttawa. Toe Candle, however, me t with the steamer Oriental at Alen, which hed a week's teems fro Bombay. The Oriental is not the regu ltelaarßr B o mbay mail-packet, but is at present in the trans port service. She therefore only brought the news from Bombay up to the 18'h ult. The regular Bombay mail packet next due will bring news up to the 25th ult., and a telegram of it may be exp-•.cted next Wednesday, the 14Th. This telegram will no doubt have very im portant news of the success of the columns in pursuit of the rebel fugitives from Luchnew. THE MONUMENT TO THE 23D FUSILIERS.—The erec tion of a monument in memory of the 23i Weld) Fusi liers who fell during the late Russian war is proceed rig at Carmarthen. Toe site is in the Guildhalkquare, and the monument is to be 30 feet in height, with a base 12 feet square, the whole being formed of Portland stone, and en the shaft and pedestal will be inscribed the caws of every officer, non-commissioned officer, and private who fell during the war, whether on the field or by dis ease. Toe monument is to be surrounded by a handsome iron railing representing rows of muskets with fixed bayonets, and will he erected at the expense of the officers and friends of this gallant regiment. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF IMPOSITION AGAINST A CLERGYMAN.—A singular case was brought before Mr. Kynnersley, the Birmingham stipendiary magistrate, on Wednesday. A person decently attired in clerical garb, and styling himself the Rev. Henry Chapman, was charge - I by. Inspector Gl ossop w i t h sen di ng b egg i ng letters to the principal nobility, clergy, and gentry of nearly every county in England. The prisoner had eon two years in Birmingham, and during the greater par; of that time had I idged at the house of a person named George Jefferies, in Hill-street, into whose debt, by means of vague hints and mysterious insinuations about property in London, he managed to get to the amount of 1781. 10e ; and in order to supply the pri soner with money, Jefferies actually pawned a consi derable portion of his household goods. Chapman states that he was ordained by the ..4.rclbiehop of York, and, having no preferment, fn. some sears performed the deli e of carafe at Kilhain, in the East Riding of York shire. Ho was then po , seseed of a competency, but, by misconduct squandered his resources mail he became penniless, and had no other means of getting a living. lie has lost a leg ; and is besides suffering from hernia. Among those whom he favoured with his missives were Lord Palmeraton, Mr. C. B. Ailderley, M.P. ; and Mr. F. Hatchard, of Piccadilly, Landon. The two last named put themselves in communication with the Rev. Dr. Miller, rector of Birmingham, and that led to Chap man's apprehension. He assured the magistrate that he did not know he was doing wrong, and if it was against the law he would not offend again in like mariner. He was allowed to depart, there being no specific charge agaiatt him, IA &TEST NE WS. NAPLES. SALERNO, THURSDAY, APRIL 8. A Royal decree, of this day's date, allows Park to return to England immediately. He is acquitted (mis hors de cause). THE LOSS OF THE AVA. A telegram has been received this morning by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company reporting that, when the Candia passed Ceylon, nearly the whole of the specie and mails had been recovered from the wreck of the Ava. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY. A Council of Ministers, at which the Emperor presided was held yesterday at the Tuileries. The Senate met yesterday, K. Troplong in the chair. M. Barocho, president of the Council of Sate, M. Chaix-d'Est-Ange, M. Lestiboudois, and M. A. Lefebvre, members of the same body, were present as Government commissioners. The Pre sident of the Council of State read to the house the expose des motifs and text of a senatus-consultum relative to the competency of the High Court of Justice. Ten bills voted by the Legislative Body were brought up. The Marquis de Gabriac pre sented a report on the bill relative to the Greek Loan ; and M. E. Thayer one on the bill con cerning a local tax in the department of the Haute- Saone. The Senate declared that it saw no reason to oppose the promulgation of the bills to which these reports related. Reports on petitions were presented by M. Delangle, Count de Casabianca, M. de Sivry, M. Herman, in the name of M. Bar baroux, absent from indisposition, Viscount de Barral, and M. Mimerel. The proceedings then terminated. The following private telegram has been re ceived " MARSEILLES, APRIL 7. " Letters have been received from Con , tantinople the 31st ult, It was stated that the European Com. miesioners were to leave the Principalities bef , re the 15th of April. Toe embarrassments of the Treasury were increasing. "The Sultan had nominated Safeti Pasha Minister of Finance, in the room of Bassi') Pasha, appointed to the administration of religious property. Ali Ghalib Pasha son of Redschid Pasha, who held the latter post, has been appoint6:l Minister of Commerce. The nomina tion of Safeti Pasha had produced a good effect. " The Presse d' Orient states that it is not true, as re ported, that Austria bad opposed the disembarkati , n of the Turks at Kleck, and it affirms that she has offered to allow the Turks to disembark at Ragusa, which is the most direct route to Montenegro. The General-in- Chief, Hussein Pasha, had issued a proclamation recom mending that prisoners should be spared." BOURSE, April 8. The following were the closing quotations :- 4i per Cents Do. end month 3 per Cent. ..... 69 25 Do. end month 69 45 Bank Shares Credit Mobilier Do. Account 730 92 50 Credit Foncier ..... 593 Belgian 4 Piecimontese (5) Roman B9 Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt - FOR CASH. RAILWAYS. Orleans Northern New Ditto 66d Lyon and Mediteran. 8062 New Ditto 770 Geneva Midi Wostern 6lO Strasburg Grand Central S3rtiinian Austrian RUSSIA. The St. Petersburg Gazette publishes an Imperial thcree, signed by the Emperor Alexander, estab lishing iu the districts of Kiew, Podolia, and Vol hynia a preparatory committee for carrying out the emancipation of the serfs in those provinces. One of the members of the local nobility is appointed President. Each committee to consist of two mem bers of each district, selected from the landed proprietors who have self's, and of two experienced lauded proprietors designated by the head of the local administration. _ _ The general committee is to consist of two mem bers of each of the three districts selected by the landed proprietors, an experienced proprietor from each district, and one member appointed by the Minister of. the Interior. The Imperial rescript contains the following rules for the emancipation of the serfs : "1. The proprietor retains his right of property over the whole soil, but the peasant retains the enclosure of bis habita. ion, of which he becomes owner by redemption within a given time ; moreover, he has the use of the quantity of land necessary according to local conditions to assure his existence, and to provide him with the means of fulilling his oblzations towards the State and his landlord. For the use of this land the peasant must either pay a rEnt or work for the landlord. "2. The peasants are to be classed into rural districts ; the domain al police is under the proprietor. " 3. Tee relations which are to be established between the proprietors and the pea4.4nts must be such as to guarantee regulate payment of the taxes to the S ate." Similar Imperial rescripts have 133 en sent to the authorities of Samara, Simbirsk, Orenbourg, and Saratow. SPAIN. Th 3 Madrid journals of the 4th have arrived. M. Ruiz del Cerro had been nominated to the Director ship of the newly-created board of Public Safety. The Dario and the Discussion had been seized. The Vicalvarist (O'Donnell) party was about to establish a daily newspaper, called the Monarquia. The Queen, on the occasion of the religious cere monies of the Holy Week, had, is accordance with ancient custom, granted a commutation of punish remit to several prisoners condemned to death for murthr. The Queen had, as usual, washed the feet of some poor people. The Discusion says that the noted Carlist chiefs, the two Tii s ta s y s an d B orges, have penetrated to Lerida and Balaguer, in Cata lonia, with the intention of raising a revolt. The following private telegram has been re ceived : " MADRID, April 7. " The Government proposes to reply categorically to the question relative to the dynastic fusion. It will pro claim that it is determined to refuse any paoposition which is contrary to the rights of Queen Isabella II." MARK ET NE WS.--(T at, Day. CORN EXCHANGE. Only a limited supply of English wheat was on sale in our market to-day. For most kinds there was a steady, but by no means brisk, demand, at fully Monday's im provement in the quotations. There was a large quantity of foreign wheat on offer. Good and useful qualities were in fair request, at full prices ; but low and middling kinds were very drill. Floating cargoes of grain sold at last week's currency. The show of foreign barley was large--of English, very limited. The trade ruled firm, at full quotations. For malt the inquiry was far from active, on former terms. The few samples of oats in the market were cleared off, at fully Monday's improvement in value. Beans, peas, and flour wore steady, but not dearer. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat.' Barley. Malt. 1,430 1,790 3,930 English Irish Oats. I Flour, 1,480 I 1,310 2,990 I -- Foreigu.... 2,770 1 16,280 6,330 78014 k% brlP. NEWUATE AND LEADENHA.LL. The supplies of meat on sale hero to-day were compara tively moderate. Generally speaking, the trade ruled steady, and prices had an upward tendency. Per Sibs by the carcase. s s. d. B. 4. B. a Beef, inferior 210 3 2 Hatton, Inferior 3 0 3 4 Do., middling 3 4 3 6 Do., middling 3 6 310 Do. prime large.. 3 8310 ( Do., prime . .4 04 4 Do., do. 5ma11....3 10 4 0 Veal.... 4 0 5 0 Pork, large 3 2 3 8 Pork, small 3 10 4 6 Lamb, 5s 6d to 6s 6d. BOROLTUR 1101°. Compared with many previous weeks, there is a much better feeling in the hop trade generally. The business doing is by no moans extensive, yet prices aro well sup ported, although some large parcels of foreign oats con tinue to la) forced off at low currencies. New Mid and East Kent Pockets, 70s to Ms ; Weald of Kent do., 51s to 665; New Sussex do., 529 to 60s ; Year lings, to 595. COLONIAL. TEA.—The market has been very quiet, with no change to report in prices. Rather a large quantity is announced for public cluipetition to-day, a-d prices are expected to rule rather flatter. Common Congou is quoted 124c1 per lb cash. Smut —There has been very little animation in the market, only a moderate business having been done for immediate requirements. In the refined market a fair NTATRICIDE.—A terrible crime has been committed at amount of business has been transacted at about previous ...e. A young workman, who maintainel himsel rates. his mother by his daily COFFEE. — The demand for Plantation Ceylon has , arnriti .. es slightly fallen off, and rather lower rates are current. labour, gained so little that Good qualities of Jamaica have also been sold at a decline upon former quotations. they lived moat wretchedly. By dint of privations be, COCOA.--Rather more inquiry for good qua liti es o f however, saved sufficient to purchase a ticket in a lott-ry. Tte drat ing took place a tew days ago, and his ticket i6 t , o oo l o iis fi l li .t r. h s e . r, joy of the his Trinidad and at improved prices. EICIE.—The demand continues very inactive, •and prices young gd m a an pr' il z u e rr o ie f d ' are rather lower, at public sale a decline of fully 3d per good fortune, and asked her for the ticket. " Alas Wild d ith her cwt took on most qualities. Rum.—Tlao market is stealy with a moderate business ~ my " • doing in Demerara at 2s 4d. to 2s 5d per gallon. Son, l 'ai- , " sue, " I sold it some time back." Without TALLOW.—Tho market is ve r y fi rm . P.Y.C. advanced a word, the yuung man drew his knife and stabbed her to 55s 9d on the spot, 51s Gd to Ols 9,1 for April to June, until she fell dead at his feet. He was arrested the same and 52s Gil per cwt for the last three mouths. M d ,37. LITERATURE. Wanderings in the Land of Barn. By a Daughter of Japhet. Longman. This volume is a record of a winter spent in Egypt a few years since, by a young lady, her mother, and invalid brother. Notwithstandit g a certain flippancy in the title and introduction, which peeps out occasionally in her pages, when she talks of " doing the Nile at seventeen," &c., the writer was fully impressed with the vast and majestic character of the ruins she explored, which she describes with all the enthusiastic fervour of a youthful imagination. If she had not aimed at any brilliancy or eloquence of style, but recorded her opinions in a simple and natural manner, her book would have been very attractive, as convey ing the impression 'made on a young and inexpe rienced traveller by the marvels of the Pharoahs. Where she has contented herself with doing this, and we must admit that her flights of fancy are only occasional, her sketches are lively and agree able. Indeed, her lively and animated pictures may entertain many readers who might be wearied by the sober and matter-of-fact accounts of more serious travellers. Here is her description of passing the cataracts— We were all seated on the roof of the cabins, and in the miOst of a din and uproar greater than I can de scribe, we left the moorings. Twelve oars, with three or four men a t eac h , t oo k us spee dily over the first rapid, which is very slight, but in a few minutes the roar of the waters, crested with foamy breakers, and the rushing current announced our approach to the second and greatest rapid. Then canoe the " tug of war." For a moment the Arabs were hushed ; the dragoman shouted to us to keep still, and hold on, as before our eyes was spread a sheet of foam, and the river dashed away be neath us, the huge waves breaking over each other, and over the masses of granite, b e t ween w hi c h we had to make our way. The moment was one of the most in. tense excitement—the boat seemed to pause for an in stant, the rowers hastily shipped their oars, and with a sudden rush we were whirled down the rapid. It was now a struggle between the rudder and the current ; if the former gave way it woold have been all up with us ; the channel was very narrow, and we were apparently steering right upon the frowning rocks, but next mo ment were dexterously turned wide, and again floated in still water. It was a scene we shall never forget, and must be seen to be apprecated. There were four men at the tiller ; the whole was very skilfully managed ; no water came into the cabins as often happens, and it was only ankle-deep at the bow s . Th e third and last rapid of any magnitude was soon passed, and when this was safely accomplished, the rail came forward to shake hands with the gentlemen, who congratulated him on his success; guns were fired to announce it; the Tarrabukka was struck up, and the whole crew sang and shouted till we reached Assouan ; we again fired on our arrival, and the boats at anchor returned our salute. We had a beautiful ride at sunset to the top of one of the neighbouring hills, whence we had a most glorious view ; the lights over both river and desert were rich and soft. A modern Nile traveller has well observed that the sun " glares" in Europe, but that it " shines" in Egypt ; its light is quite different ; with us the outlines of every object appear hard and stiff, but in the East, without the least haziness of atmosphere, they seem subdued and mellowed. Notwithstandin g that one of the party wa s an in valid, and the other two, ladies, the little band seem to have been sufficiently adventurous. They descended the cataracts, as we have seen, and they subsequently penetrated into the interior of the Great Pyramid. The writer, quoting from her favourite authority, Miss Martineau, tells us that it is said to require more courage to go into than to go up it, and she concurs in advising no one who is likely to be overcome by the strange impression of vastness and solidity, which strikes the explorer on entering, to venture into the interior. They had heard so much of the airlessness of the interior that they thought the fewer guides the better, so succeede 1 in starting with only ten, leaving a few others at the opening to prevent the rest of the loiterers from following. The first passage they descended was about a hun dred feet loni, and three feet and a-half high, the highest of all. They then climbed a perpendicular wall of granite, and after passing two more long passages, through one of which they could hardly crawl, they reached the King's chamber, where Cheeps, the founder of the Pyramids ' is suppos e d to rest. Another j ourne y brought them to the Queen's chamber, under the apex of the Pyramid. "it was indeed a strange feeling when we retnem hered what acres of solid masonry separated us from the open air. The chamber we were in, and indeed every passage we had passed through, was lined with blocks of polished granite, so closely fitting that the point of a pin could not be inserted between them. We were in the centre of the .4reat Pyramid, but we did not feel alarmed. We coolly talked over the chances of suff,ca'ion, and the time that would elapse before we could possibly get out, or obta'n assistance. The heat was in tense, much greeter than on the outside, but we did not find it u n b eara bl e , an d notwithstanding the difficulties of success we did not for a moment regret our trouble." They were amused at the refusal of a Crimean t oldier, who was lingering about the entrance, to advance more than a few steps into the interior, and when asked if he could not go where two ladies had been, replied that there was nothing English ladies would trot do row-a-days. The author has collected the names of the historical cr. lebrities who have been connected with her land of romance and marvels : Hither in-later ages resorted philosophers and tra. thetnaticians, physicians and historians, lavvgisfers and architects ; the distinguished series of celebrated men ho are said to have carried Egyptian wisdom to the Greeks begins as early as the mythical times. Danaus brought the first germ of civilisation from Egypt to Argos, and Erectheus king of Athens was considered by some to have been an Egyptian, and to have taught the Eleusinian mrteriee according to the manner of the Egyptians. Ths holy singers of antiquity, Orpheus, Muk . asus, Melaropus, and Euinolpus -thence acquired their theological wisdom ; and even to Homer himself Egypt was not unknown. It ~ , ag from. Egypt that Lycurgue and Solon trans ferred to their fatherland the wise regulations they bee came acquainted with. The houses in Heliopolis in which Plato and the mathematician Eudoxus had lived for thirteen yeare were shown to Strabo. Thales was instructed by the Egyptian priests, and, as it is expressly said, beside them had no other teachers ; here he became acquainted with the division of the year into seasons, and into 3G5 days. Here al,o he learnt t) take the mea , urerneot of high objects, such as the Pyramids, by their shadow at a particular hour of the day. In this country Archimedes studied hydraulics and invented his celebrated screw. Pythagoras was a long time in Egypt, and in this city pondered the great mysteries of the soul's existence and its relations to the Infinite ; his doctrine of the immortality of the soul is distinctly referred to by Herodocus to Egypt, in which country, he says, this belief was first maintained. To Hello p lis came the Father of History, and four centuries afterwards Diodorm and Strabo followed in his steps to pore over sculptured hieroglyphics, papyrus records, and dim traditions of this ancient people, this " first born of Time." Leaving. the wonders of Egypt with regret, the travellers returned by Malta, Gibraltar, and Lis bon—the chronicler of their inventions giving us a sketch of each locality. One of their travelling companions spent the afternoon at Lisbon, at a bull-tight, which iu Portugal is very curious. The Lulls have their horns tipped and padded ; no hor,es arc used, and the amusement consists in seeing how high the bulls can toss any one who likes to volunteer to amuse the company. Regular practitioners attend, but any one who likes may share in this singular amusement. Few accidents are said to occur. In the appendix the author offers :owe useful hints to those who intend mak ing the same interesting journey. Photographic _Portraits of Living Celebrities. MAull and PZ.dyblauk. The five numbers of this publication, now lying on our table, present us with the portraits of Martin F. Tupper, F.R.S. ' Professor Faraday, John Gibs on , ILA., the Earl of Rosso, and Charles Kean, Esq.,--each of whom, in his pectin liar walk, has strong claims on the interest and admiration of the public. The faithfulness of re semblance, and exquisite pictorial effect which always distinguish the works of these publishers, amply merit the especial notice and liberal patron age bestowed on them. We light upon many pho tographic specimens which are mere di , tortiona of the " human form divine." We have seen. Grecian noses and " short upper lips" so vilely translated, that not a trace of the classic original could be found. We have be held a fair, intelligent Saxon face so ttansmo grified as to give us the fac-simile of a pudding mouthed, sentimental " n i gger ;" and very recently we stared for full five minutes at the "portrait of a gentleman," without the most remote notion crossing our brain, that it represented our hated and too well known rival in a severe case of " heart complaint." Perfect photographs are invaluable ; and those produced by Maull and Polyblank are among the number to be so estimated. The like ness of Charles Kean strikes us as being unusually excellent ; but the whole of the portraits are high class sliced - n. 133 of this popular branch cf the Fine Arts. Xre Al e ( Ne