The Sun. — London, England, 1860-01-24 00:00:00

THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE. Edited by W. M. THACKERAY. No.. 2 (for FEBRUARY), will be published on Friday, the 27th inst., Price ONE SHILLING, with Two Illustrations. CONTENTS. 1. Nil Nisi Bonum. 2. Invasion Panics. 3. To Goidenhair (from Horace). By Thomas Hood. 4. Frawley Parsonage. Chapter IT. A Matter of Conscience. Chapter V. Amantium irae amoris integratio. Chapter VI. Mr. Harold Smith's Lecture. 5. Tithonus. By Alfred Tennyson. 6. William Hogarfh, Painter, Engraver, and Philosopher, Essays on the Man, the Work, and the Time. 1. Little Boy Hogarth. Unspoken - Dialogue. By R. Monckton Milnes. (With an Illustration.) Studies is Animal Life. Chapter 11. 9. Curious if True (Extract from a Letter from Richard Whittingham, Esq.) o.Life among the Lighthouses. 11.Lovel, the -Widower. Chapter 11. In which Miss Prior is kept at the Door. (With an Illustration.) 12. An Essay without End. London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the management of Miss L. Pyne and Mr.W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, VICTORINE. Messrs. Santley, H. Haigh, H. Cerri, G. Honey, Walworth, &c. Misses Parepa, Thiriwall. Condactor, Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the new grand pantomime, called PUSS IN BOOTS ; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the Golden Palms. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 10 minutes to 7. T HEA TRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buoketone. THIS EVENING, the comedy of THE EVIL GENIUS. Miss Reynolds. After which, the new Haymarket Comic Christmas Panto mime, VALENTINE'S DAY; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the True Lovers' Knot. The pantomimista the unrivalled Leclercqs. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.- Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. Re-engagement of the Spanish Dancers. THIS EVENING, the popular Drama of ST. MARY'S EVE. Madeline (her original charaeter) Madame Celeste. After which, will be produced a new Grand Christmas Ex travaganza and Pantomime, KING TFIRUSHBEARD, the LITTLE PET and the GREAT PASSION. Clown, Mr. H. Marshall—Columbine, Miss Rosino. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. Re-engagement of the Wonderful Dancer, Mons. Espinosa. First appearance of Mdlle. Marietta Rosetta, Principal Dan sense of La Scala, Milan ; and the Delapierre Family. These highly-talented Children will appear every night. The Royal Princess's Rifles on parade every evening. THIS EVENING, THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. After which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomime, by H. J. Byron, called JACK THE GIANT KILLER ; or, Harle quin King Art:Jur and the Knights of the Round Table. Jack, Miss Louise Keeley—Harlequin, Mr. Cormack - Panta .oon, Mr. Paulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams—Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI, Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Reproduction of THE DEAD HEART, with all its power. ful effects. THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, David Fisher, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Billington, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly. After which THE NYMPHS OF THE LIIRLEYBERG ; or, The Knight and the Naiades. Messrs. Toole, Bedford, Eburne, Smith, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, C. Webb, K. Kelly, Laidlaw. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box- Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, net' for bills of performance. AU fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen gers all hours of the night. THIS EVENING the performances will commenoe with PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. Messrs. H. T. Craven and J. Francis, Mesdames Murray and Eliza Arden. After which, a new Tragic Ballet, entitled MY NAME IS NORVAL. Supported by C. Young, Barrett, Miss Lydia Thompson, Clara St. Casse, &c. Followed by a new sketch, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. Miss Wyndham and Mr. 11. T. Craven. To conclude with the new pantomime of PUNCH AND JUDY. Introducing Miss Lydia Thompson and the Corps de Ballet. Clown; Harlequin, Columbine, and Pantaloon, and t las wonderful Performing Dogs. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, is. The Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform ance commences at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Last Five Weeks of Mr. W. Cooke's Season. THIS EVENING, the New Spectacular Drama by Mr. R. Phillips, THE EMPEROR'S DECREE, with full stud of Horses and great effects.—Scenes in the Circle by Astley's world-renowned Equstrians, terminating with the Eques trian, Operatical, and Comic Pantomime of HARLEQUIN TOM MOODY ; or, Old Towler the Huntsman and the God dess Diana ; Diana, with Songs, Miss Jacobs.—Costly and dazzling Transformation Scene.—Harlequin, M. Iticharde ; Columbine, Mdlle. Mazoni ; Clown, M. Ililderbrandt ; Pan taloon, Mr. P. Abbot -A family of Sprites-Epsom Races by Living Jockies and rsal Ponies, w ith ring and Stage com bined. Commence at 7. Grand Morninz Performances of the Pantomime on Satur day, Jan. 28, and Saturdays, Feb. 4 and 11, at Two o'clock each day. Mr. Woke respectfully Intimates his Farewell Benefit will take place on Monday. Jan. 30. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAY QUEEN. And a Grand Selection from Meyerbeer's new opera of DINORA H. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come • dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Hackney. Several interestin Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. ROSA RON HEUR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.—Sux ()Friar, Luc. 24, 1860. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADB. 47—highest since noon yesterday. 41—lowest this morning and during the night. 46—tb;s day at noon. BinommTEß-28.68 ; a fall of three-quarters of an inch since yesterday. WIND, South-Westerly ; fresh, with cloudy weather. There is a storm raging somewhere near at hand. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tars DAY.—Morning, 2h. 56m.—Afternoon, 3h. 13m. T 0-310 RROW. -Morning, 3h. 29m.—Afternoon, 3b. 44m THE QUEEN'S SPEECH. MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,- It is with great satisfaction that I again meet you in Parliament, and have recourse to your assistance and advice. My relations with Foreign Powers continue to be on a friendly and satisfactory footing. At the close of the last Session I informed you that overtures had been made to me to ascertain whether, if a a Conference should be held by the Great Powers of Europe, for the purpose of settling arrangements connected with the present state and future condition of Italy, a Plenipotentiary would be sent by me to assist at such a Conference. 1 have since received a formal invitation from the Emperor of Austria and from the Emperor of the Erench to sllnd a Plenipotentiary to a Con gress to consist of the Representatives of the eight Powers who were parties to the Treaties of Vienna of 1815 ; the objects of such Congress being stated to be,to receive communica tion of the treaties concluded at Zurich ; and to de liberate, associating with the above-mentioned powers the Courts of Rome, of Sardinia, and of the Two Sicilies, on the means best adapted for the pacification of Italy and for placing its prosperity on a solid and durable basis. Desirous, at all times , to concur in proceedings having for their object the maintenance of peace I accepted the invitation, but, at the same time, I made known that, in such a Congress I should steadfastly maintain the principle that no external force should be employed to impose upon the people of Italy any particular Government or Constitution. Circumstances have arisen which h ave l e d to a postponement of the Congress, without a n y d ay having been fixed for its meeting ; but whether in Congress or in. separate negotiation, I shall endea vour to obtain for the people of Italy freedom from foreign interference by force of arms in their inter nal concerns, and I trust that the affairs of the Italian Peninsula may be peacefully and satisfac torily settled. Papers on this subject will soon be laid before you. am in communication with the Emperbr of the F."cnch with a view to extend the commercial inter com:4 between the two countries, and thus to draw still closer the boads of friendly alliance between them. A dispute having arisen between Spain and Morocco, I endeavoured, by friendly means, to pre vent a rapture ; but, I regret to say, without success. I will direct papers on this subject to be laid before you. My Plenipotentiary and the Plenipotentiary of the Emperor of the French having, in obedience to their instructions, proceeded to the mouth of the Peiho river, in order to repair to Pekin to exchange in that city the ratifications of the Treaty of Tien tsin, in pursuance of the LVlth Article of that Treaty, their further progress was opposed by force, and a conflict took place between the Chinese forts at the mouth of the river, and the naval forces by which the Plenipotentiaries were escorted. The allied forces displayed on this occasion their usual bravery, but, after sustaining a severe loss, were compelled to retire. I am preparing, in concert and co-operation with the Emperor of the French, an expedition, intended to obtain redress and a fulfilment of the stipulations of the Treaty of Tien-tsin. It will be gratifying to me, if the prompt acquies cence of the Emperor of China in the moderate demands which will be made by the Plenipotentiaries shall obviate the necessity for the employment of force. I have directed that papers on this subject shall be laid before you. An unauthorised proceeding by an officer of the United States in regard to the Island of San Juan, between Vancouver's Island and the mainland, might have led to a serious collision between my forces and those of the United States. Such colli sion, however, has been prevented by the judicious forbearance of my naval and civil officers on the spot, and by the equitable and conciliatory provi sional arrangement proposed on this matter by the Government of the United States. I trust that the question of Boundary out of which this affair has arisen may be amicably settled in a manner conformable with the just rights of the two countries, as defined by the First Article of the Treaty of 1846. The last embers of disturbance in my East Indian dominions have been extinguished ; my Viceroy has made a peaceful progress through the districts which had been the principal scene of disorder, and, by a judicious combination of firmness and generosity, my authority has been everywhere solidly and, I trust, permanently established. I have received from my Viceroy the most gratify ing accounts of the loyalty of my Indian subjects, and of the good feeling evinced by the native Chiefs and the greatlandowners of the country. The attention of the Government in India has been directed to the development of the internal resources of the country ; and I am glad to inform you that an improvement has taken place in s its financial prospects. I have concluded a treaty with the Tycoon of Japan, and a treaty regarding boundaries with the Republic of Guatemala. I have directed that these treaties shall be laid before you. GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMANS, I have directed the Estimates for the ensuing year to be laid before you. They have been pre pared with a view to place the military and naval services, and the defences of the country, upon an efficient footing. I am glad to be able to inform you that the pub lic revenue is in a satisfactory condition. MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, I have accepted, with gratification and pride, the extensive offers of voluntary service which I have received from my subjects. This manifesta tion of public spirit has added an important ele ment to our system of National Defence. Measures will be laid before you for amending the laws which regulate the Representation of the people in Parliament, and for placing that Repre sentation upon a broader and firmer basis. I earnestly recommend you to resume your labours for the impr avement of our Jurisprudence, and particularly in regard to Bankruptcy, the Transfer of Land, the Consolidation of the Statutes, and such a further fusion of Law and Equity as may be necessary to insure that, in every suit, the rights of the parties may be satisfactorily deter mined by the Court in which the suit is commenced. I am deeply gratified to observe that the great interests of the country are generally in a sound and thriving condition ; that pauperism and crime have diminished; and that, throughout the whole of my Empire, both in the United Kingdom and in my Colonies and Possessions beyond sea, there reigns a spirit of loyalty, of contentment, of order, and of obedience to the law. With heartfelt gratitude to the Almighty Ruler of Nations for these inestimable blessings, I fer vently pray that his beneficent power may guide your deliberations for the advancement and con solidation of the welfare and happiness of my people. It is the most remarkable and gratifying announcement her MAJESTY can make to-day in her gracious Speech from the Throne that the system of Free Trade has been inaugurated in France through the agency, by force of the example t and with - the direct diplomatic assistance and co-operation of her Government. That cer tainly is, to say the very least of it, a gloriously auspicious circumstance. It augurs well for the maintenance of the Anglo-French alliance, it is propitious of good for the commercial prosperity of both countries, it is peculiarly calculated to cement, or, to put it more strongly, and we believe also more accurately, to weld together indissolubly the real interests, and therefore the pacific ambition of the two populations and their Governments. But one onl y drawback there is to check our exultation. Circumstances preclude France from immediately reciprocating the advantages secured to herself by the conditions readily entered into by England in these arrangements. Several of the sources of our own revenues will be forthwith closed and abandoned, in order to secure the admis sion by France of the Free Trade principles enume rated in the commercial treaty, solemnly signed at Paris, at four o'clock yesterday afternoon. The old, almost immemorial monopolists of France have to be taken into consideration. Their pre judices have been so far consulted, and their opposi tion to the new order of things so far evaded, that time may be allowed them, that a moderate interval of a year or two longer may be con ceded to them, during the lapse of which they may prepare for the dreaded emergency—or what is more nearly the case, have their obtuse antagonism worn down by the sweeping on of the broad flood of Free Trade doctrines and Free Trade measures, with, so to express it, all their at first scarcely perceptible, but, when once admitted, perfectly irresistible power of trituration. It may be that but a modicum or instalment of Free Trade has been yielded as yet by the French Government. But, however small—there is that modicum, there is that instalment. The rest will follow in due course —must follow : it is only now a question cf time. It is the insertion of the thin end of the wedge. Every stroke of the pendulum afterwards will tell upon it. The upas of m onopo l y w ill b e riven to its centre and perish. The Flood Gates x. 7....,....,...... - ' 7 1. 4. :A - 4 ,:i , ) ---' ..1,„,. "4,1,. -5*._,.. I :,,, ~,,,, . . g , . 'ei -1 ' t r.' ' ' - --. . ' t ' . NI 0 • ' . ' . 1; ' , irr ''' - hip i ,—, , t 4,..4c.,5zt4,_..., 4 •, -- f. -...,.. ..,.:' . 0 ; t. s, -:,,,, THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. 24, 1860. THE f" SIIN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1860. of Free Trade, to use another figure, opened thus, it may be, but a chink, are, at any rate, so far opened. They can never be closed again—the mere force of the current they are beginning to admit must fling them wide eventually. Again, we say it is only a matter of time—the good work has actually commenced. If Sir ROBERT PEEL could but have survived to see it ! To see that, fourteen years after he himself, with the Ministerial hammer of Thor, had given the death-blow to Protection, the like coup de grace would be administered across the Chan nel by the Chief of the French Government. It may ben ot unnaturally matter of regret to us—it is, let us avow as much at once, it is unquestionably matter of regret to us that the full scope of our own imme diate concessions to France through the new Com mercial Treaty, dating from yesterday, cannot upon the instant, eannot for that matter simultaneously, be reciprocated by the French Government. The reciprocation is to come to us later on—that assu rance is our solace for the moment—and meanwhile the reconiolidation of differences or discrepancies in our accounts we hand over to that fiscal and finan cial wonder-worker, the Chancellor of the Exche quer ! Until we can hearken to the scheme pro pounded by him in his Budget for 1860, we are left to the merest conjecture as to the manner in which Ministers propose to extricate themselves from the difficulties of revenue resulting from this very Boon of a Commercial Treaty inaugurating Free Trade as the guiding commercial and finan cial principles henceforth in the councils of our imperial ally, the Emperor NAPOLEON 111. And meanwhile, after all this diplomatic "to do"—we are to have No Congress. That i—the next surprize. It follows hard upon the heels of the Free Trade Treaty yesterday. It will be wel comed far and wide in England, in France, in Italy, in Germany, anywhere, everywhere almost with a sigh of relief. What an immense quantity of paper will be saved, what an incalculable length of time, what an unimaginable waste of words. The illusion has vanished—bit by bit at first— and then at last the final remnant of it has gone out quite suddenly. It seemed at the outset to resemble a dissolving view that might turn to something else. But the colours have paled, the outlines have faded away one by one, and it has ended at length in—Nothing. Its President received at the outset his exiquatur. Count WALEwsm, who was to have taken his place in the largest gilded fauteuil, withdrew from the Foreign Office into domestic retirement. Then fol lowed, soon afterwards, an improbability, as to the embarkation from Civita Vecchia of his Eminence Cardinal ANTONELLI, the POPE'S Prime Minister and Chief Plenipotentiary. His Eminence's arch antagonist, the Count CAVOUR, was next in his turn precluded from hastening to Paris by having devolved upon him, once again, the responsi bility of constructing at Turin a new and powerful Administration. The sequel being, as we now recognise, not simply the indefinite postponement of the Congress, but its absolute abandonment. Free Trade for France—No Congress at Paris— these are the twin Napoleonic surprises "startling the isle " not from its propriety, but from its doubts and anxieties immediately upon the opening in 1860 of this new and momentous session of Parlia- ment. It is not without pleasure that we learn that the return of Count CAVOUR to office has been due, in a great measure, to the action of our own Foreign Office. We have always gladly done jastice to the goodwill of the leaders of the present Cabinet towards Italian liberty. Ever since their accession to office they have adhered to their antecedents, and have asserted the rights of the Central States of Italy, in opposition to Austrian notions of the rights divine of her exiled Lieutenants. They have had, we fear, a double temptation to another course. Of the first, though a near one—too near—and most difficult of all for the QUEEN'S servants to resist, we shall say nothing. The proof can only be inferen tial ; and, however clear to us, could at any time be easily denied. The other is open to the know ledge of the world. The Conqueror of Austria, in a fit of that generosity to the vanquished by which he had purchased the friendship of Russia, had sacrificed at Villafranca the independence of the country which he had entered as a liberator. Like many others who have made a blunder, he was long unwilling to own that it was one. He must have seen very early that it was so ; yet he felt bound by his engagements, and by his wish to show that his diplomacy was as good as his soldiers' fighting, to persist in translating the stipulations of Villa franca into a treaty of peace at Zurich. Much as our Cabinet must wish to agree in its policy with the Emperor of the FRENCH, it yet re mained firm to the cause of Italian independence. The consequence was a seeming opposition between the Governments of France and England, yet one which never went beyond a conflict of opinion between two equally honourable opponents. The EMPEROR had on his side the right to say, " To me it is due that the Central States of Italy have had an opportunity, without shedding a drop of theie own blood, to throw off the yoke of all—is it not fair that the Government which has spent blood and treasure for their freedom should be -listened to with considerable respect when counselling them how to use it." To this our Government has op posed the inalienable rights of independent States. Acknowledging the services of the French, and fully appreciating their generous sacrifices, we could yet say, and did say—" That to force on the States any particular form of Government, abol e all, to enforce the return of the old and detested despots, would be to deprive the Italian war of its greatest glory. LOUIS NAPOLEON ought to find his great reward in enabling oppressed nations to exercise the most prized rights of nations." It is equally to the credit of the EMPEROR that he early took the oppor tunity to repudiate the employment of force on behalf of the tyrants who had pointed their cannon at Solferino against their own country men, and of our Ministry, that they have persisted in the right course for Italy till the EMPEROR dismissed the pro-Austrian IVALEwsiii, and he has done all he could to repair the great blunders of Villafranca. The Rin g o f S ARDINIA appears a l so t o h ave ac t e d with increasing freedom, which we must attribute to the remonstrances of our Government with that of France. We may be sure that the toleration of the BUONCOMPAGNI Regency would never have been tolerated had not the English Cabinet stood very firm. It was a serious innovation on the side of the Sardinian Government of the Duchies. But now it appears there is no doubtthat Count CAvourt has again come forward, we may say, at the express invitation of England. Lord JOHN RUSSELL wrote expressly requesting to have a conference, whether a Congress were held or not, with Count CAYOUR. By this step our Government placed the Count in his right position. Ile was the man with whom the most powerful nation of Europe wished to con fer on Italian subjects, And rightly so. He and GARIBALDI, in their respective parts of statesman and warrior, have been the two men who have acted, in everything, as Italians, and not as the citizens of any small State of Italy merely. Count CAVOUR has preserved his policy against all opposition of clergy and potentates at home or abroad. At the Paris Conference, in the Piedmontese Chamber, when an Austrian invasion was impending, and when Italy's liberties were compromised at Villa franca, he was the Italian, not merely the Pied montese Minister. He acted in the interest of Italy, resigned in the interest of Italy, and now resumes office in the interest of Italy, The late Ministry, we are told by the correspon dent of the Daily News, wished to employ him as ambassador to London, and plenipotentiary to the Congress. Count CAVOUR, however, insisted on the immediate assembling of the Chambers as an indis pensable prerequisite. RATTAZZI and his colleagues objected on account of the impossibility of violating certain technical and legal forms which they them selves had originated. The Count continued firm. The Ministry resigned and left him to form another. Some think that having done their work by getting through the Treaty of Zurich without compromising Piedmont, they were not sorry for a pretext to give way. This, however, is little likely. They had for tified their position by creating, and dispensing, all the patronage they could; but the position given to Count CAVOUR by England, with his manifest right to it, was too much for less capable and loyal men to resist. We may surely hope well, now, for the annexa tion of the States to Piedmont, and the formation of a powerful free kingdom in the north of Italy. The statesman whose aim this has always been is now at the head of affairs by the wish of England, and with the good-will of France. His own Sovereign trusts him as he does no other public servant. The Duchies are taking steps to facilitate the union by election of delegates tbl Turin, conducted on the Sardinian model. And, it may be, that very soon we shall hear that the Cential States and Sardinia have exercised their undoubted right, and amal gamated their Governments without waiting to ask leave of any congress of foreigners, who have no title whatever to grant or to refuse it. Fortune favours the bold is a proverb which was never more applicable than in the present case. Let Sar dinia and the States join themselves together, and what power will ever attempt to put them asunder OPENING OF PARLIAMENT Parliament was opened to-day by the Queen in person. Her Majesty's State visits to the Senate of Great Britain have ever been marked by loyal manifesta tions on the part of her subjects of all classes, from the humblest of those who crowd the streets to the peers and peeresses who have the honour to form part of the brilliant assembly that receives the Queen ; but to-day the crowds in the parks and the streets leading to the Palace of Westminster were almost beyond precedent; the display of coloured flags and decked-out balconies and windows was much more numerous than on former occasions. St. James's Park, Whitehall, and Parliament street were well lined at twelve o'clock, and at that hour the equipages of the nobility were arriving in rapid succession at the entrances to the House of Lords. The State procession left Buckingham Palace shortly before 2 o'clock in the following order : A carriage, drawn by six bays, conveying the gentlemen ushers, and exon in waiting. A carriage, drawn by six bays, conveying the groom in waiting to the Queen, the groom in wait ing to the Prince, and the pages of honour in wait ing. A carriage, drawn by six bays, conveying the equerry to the Queen, the equerry to the Prince, the comptroller of the household, and the groom of the robes. A carriage, drawn by six bays, conveying the sil ver stick in waiting, the clerk marshal, the field officer in waiting, and the treasurer of the house hold. A carriage, drawn by six bays, conveying the captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, the lord in waiting to the Queen, and the lord in waiting to the Prince. A carriage, drawn by six black horses, conveying the lady in waiting, the lord steward, and the gold stick in waiting. The Queen's marshalmen. The Queen's footmen. A party of the Yeomen of the Guard. The State coach drawn by eight cream•coloured horses, and conveying her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness tho Prince Consort, the mistress of the robes, and the master of the horse. A detachment of the Horse Guards formed the escort of her Majesty. quests all to be seated, and the Usher of the Black Rod proceeds to the Commons to summon them to the Upper House. The interior of the House of Lords, at this mo ment, with its magnificently gilded roof; its stained glass windows, of various hues, covered with pic tures of the kings and queens who through so many centuries have sat on the throne of England; the fine statues of the barons who signed Magna Charta that fill the niches at each side of every win dow ; the elaborately carved oak pannels that back the peers' benches ; and the brilliant frescoes that adorn the walls in the front and at the rear of the throne presents a scone of unparalleled grandeur. The Peers of the United Kingdom wear their scarlet robes ; while the peeressss and their daughters, radiant with beauty, glittering with priceless gems, are ranged upon each side, like par terres of variegated flowers, bordered by the scarlet and ermine robes of the Peers who occupy the front seats. They rise, tier upon tier, with more than Iris hues, and the light streaming through the stained windows, sparkles on jewelled cornets, or pendant brilliants, like sun rays upon the dew drops or choicest flowers. All eyes are directed towards one spot. The Queen is seated upon her glittering chair of state, representative of a long line of monarchs whose cyphers and mona grams are emblazoned upon the throne. The centre of the throne is occupied by her Majesty ; the Prince Consort is on the left. Her Majesty wears a robe of white satin embroidered with gold, a purple velvet mantle falls in graceful folds upon each side of the *hair, covering the lions that support it, and partly concealing the crimson velvet footstool with its embroidery of fleur-de-lis. There is a diadem upon her brow, and jewels flash and glitter in the brilliant stomacher and ear drops which she wears. The imperial crown is borne upon its velvet cushion, upon her Majesty's right, and close.by is the Marquis of Winchester, with the cap of maintenance. Seated upon the chair on the left of the throne is the Prince Consort in the uniform of a field marshal. The Lord Chancellor stands behind the chair of the Prince of Wales, the Lord President on the right, and the Privy Seal on the left of her Majesty. Behind the chair in which the Prince Consort sits are the groom of the stole and lord in waiting to the Prince, and at the back of her Majesty's chair of state stands the stately figure of the mistress of th 3 robes, and the ladies in waiting. Only a few minutes elapsed before the Speaker of the lower branch of the Legislature, together with the Sergeant-at-Arms and the Chief Clerk (Sir Denis le Marchant), Lord Palmerston, Lord I. Russell, the Right Hen. Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. G. C. Lewis, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, and Mr. Sidney Herbert, appeared below the bar, followed by a great number of other members, who engaged in a rather uncere monious struggle for places in the confined space to which they are limited. The Lord Chancellor then, kneeling at the foot of the Throne, handed the Royal Speech to her Majesty, who, after waiting until the noise caused by the arrival of the Commons had somewhat sub sided, read it with that distinctness and pleasing em phasis which have been so repeatedly remarked and admired. The Speech will be found in another column. The Queen then left the Throne, and after grace fully bowing to the spectators, retired from the house in the same order in which she had entered. This concluded the ceremony of opening the Impe rial Parliament. HOUSE OF LORDS. The doors were opened precisely at 12 o'clock, and from that hour until about half-past one the arrivals of company were continuous and rapid, ladies forming, As is invariably the case on these occasions, an overwhelming majority of the visitors. They occupied the whole body of the house, with the exception of the limited number of seats in the centre, reserved for the peers and judges, as well as all attirehe galleries, ca and thei r r i c h, e l egan t, an d taste ful hues gave variety and brilliancy to aspt of , many which is a d m itt e d t o b e one o f t h e t eee finest and most imposing to be witnessed in the country. _ On no occasion that we remember has there been so large an attendance of Peers and Peeresses, and so much interest apparently felt in the proceed ings. The corps diplomatic arrived in rapid succes sion—the French, Sardinian, Turkish, Austrian, Hanoverian, Swedish, American, Netherlands, Spanish, Portuguese, Haytian, and a host of other Ministers and Ambassadors. At two o'clock an officer of the house requests the ladies to be uncovered, for the Queen is ap proaching, and then there is a rustling of silks and opera cloaks, rich shawls are laid aside, and jewels, hitherto concealed, glisten on the necks and bosoms of their wearers. A gentle buzz of conversation rises from the expectant group, Lords are seated, and all eyes are directed to the doors on each side of the throne, through which her Majesty is shortly to enter. The great officers of State leave the house, and assemble at the foot of the staircase. A few moments elapse, the State carriage is at the grand entrance, and her Majesty on alighting is received by the great officers in attendance. Here a procession is formed, which passes along the Royal Gallery into the Prince's Chamber in the following order : Pursuivants. Heralds. Equerry to H. It. H. Groom to H. It. H. the Prince Albert. the Prince Albert. Gentlemen Ushers to her Majesty. Equerry to her Majesty. Groom to her Majesty, Clark Marshal. The Comptroller of The Treasurer of Her Majesty's Household. Her Majesty's Household. Norroy King of Arms. Clarenceux. King of Arms. The Lord Privy Seal. The Lord President of the Council. The Lord High Chancellor. The Gentleman Usher of Garter Principal King of the Black Rod. Arms. The Earl Marshal. The Lord Great Chamberlain. Tho Sword of State. THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, accompankd by his Royal Highness the Prince Albert, and attended by the Mistress of the Robes, and the Lady in Waiting. The Lord Steward. Groom of the Stole to H. R. H. the Prince Albert. The Lord in Waiting to her Majesty. Pages of Honour. The Master of the Horse. • Lord in Waiting, to MILK the Prince Albert. Captain of the Yeomen of Captain of the Corps of the Guard. Gentlemen at Arms. The Gold Stiok. Field Officers ofthe Guard on duty. An Officer of the respective Corps of the Gentlemen at Arms and the Yeomen of the Guard, closing the Procession within the Prince's Chamber. After a short pause a flourish of trumpets is heard. The whole company rise en ?muse, and the heralds in their quaint dress and antique tabards enter ; great officers of the household follow, then Garter King of Arms, and range themselves on the left of the Throne. Her Majesty, with her royal train borne, and taking the arm of the Prince Consort, enters, and is conducted to the chair of state upon the throne. Her Majesty, on taking her seat, re- HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(rms DAY.) The Lower House met formally at half-past one o'clock, but for more than half an hour previously the members had began to assemble. At half-past one the SPEAKER entered the house. There were then some 200 members present, who were about equally divided on both sides of the chamber. A few minutes after two o'clock the leaders of the house entered and took their seats among their colleagues. At a few minutes past two o'clock there was a cry of " Black Rod," and the yeoman usher immediately afterwards appeared at the bar, Advancing towards the table, with the customary obeisances, he said—" Mr. Speaker,—The Queen commands this honourable house to attend her Ma jesty immediately in the House of Peers." The SPEAKER, preceded by the Sergeant-at-Arms bearing the mace, thereupon immediately pro ceeded to the House of Lords, followed first by the Premier, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the rest of the members of the Government present, and then by the memders in attendance, in the order in which their names were read by the clerk at the table, from a glass vase, in which they had been previously deposited at hap-hazard, in accord ance with the custom which has obtained of late years. On the return of the SPEAKER, after an interval of about ten minutes, the sittirg was suspended until a quarter to four o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY BANQUETS. Viscount Palmerston gave a full-dress Parliamentary dinner last evening at the noble lord's mansion in Picca dilly. Covers were laid for 40 persons. The following, noblemen and gentlemen, members of the House of Com mons, constituted the party :—The Right Hon. the Speaker, Mr. St. Aubyn, the mover, and Lord Henley, the seconder to the Address ; Lord J. Russell, the Right Hon. Sir C. Wood, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Right Sidney Herbert, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, he Right Hon. E. Cardwell, the Right Hon. T. M. Gibson, Ate Right Hon. R. Lowe, the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, the Right Hon. Sir G. C. Lewis, Viscount Castlecrosse, Viscount Bury, Lord Alfred Paget, Lord Clarence Paget, the Attor ney-General, the Solicitor-General, Lord Proby, the Hon. 11. 11. W. Brand, the Lord Advocate, the Attorney- General for Ireland, the Solicitor- General for Ireland, Mr. George Clive, Mr. Bagwell, Colonel Kingscote, Mr. Chas. Clifford, Mr. Chichester Fortescue, Mr. Whitbread, Mr. Massey, Sir W. Dunbar, Mr. Headlam, Mr. Hugessen, Mr. Laing, and the Hon. Evelyn Ashley and Mr. Charles G. Barrington, private secretaries to the Premier. As cus tomary- on such occasions, the noble lord at the head of the Government read to his political supporters the Queen's Speech, to be addressed by her Majesty at the opening of the Parliamentary session this afternoon. The Earl Granville, the leader of the Ministerial party in the House of Lords, had a full-dress Parliamentary enter tainment last evening at his residence in Bruton-street, Berkeley-square. After the noble guests of th e L or d Presi dent had assembled, the Queen's Speech, to be delivered at the opening of Parliament to-day, was read by the noble Lord President of the Council. Covers were laid for 40. The guests present were—the Duke of Somerset, the Duke of Argyll, the Duke of Newcastle, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Marquis of Breadalbane, the Marquis of Townshond, the Earl of Clarendon, the Earl of Ripon, the Earl Somers, the Earl of Shelburne, the Earl of Lichfield, the Earl St. Germans, the Earl of Chichester, the Earl Spencer, the Earl of Sefton, the Earl of Shaftes bury, the Earl of Cork, the Earl Ducie, the Earl of Albe marle, the Earl of Abingdon, Viscount Stratford do Red cliffs, Viscount Sydney, Viscount Enfield, the Lord Chan cellor, Lord Overstone, Lord Monteagle, Lord Cranworth, Lord Camoys, Lord Rivers, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Lord Hatherton, Lord Wodehause, Lord Foley, Lord de Tabley, and Lord Llanover, The Earl of Derby, as leader of the Opp ositian in the House of Lords, gave a grand dinner last evening at kis mansion to a distinguished circle of his political friends in the Upper House, including the Duke of Rutland, the Duke of Manchester, the Duke of Montrose, the Marquis of Exeter, the Marquis of Bath, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Earl of Carnarvon, the Earl of Hardwicke, the Earl of L'insdale, tho Earl of Sandwich, the Earl Beauchamp, the Earl of Lucan, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl De La Warr, the Earl of Fowls, the Earl of Wilton, the Earl of Strad broke, Lord Redesdale, Lord Chelmsford. Lord Colchester, and Lord Colville. The Marquis of Salisbury, owing to a recent family bereavement, was prevented joining the dinner circle. The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, M.P., owing to a domestic affliction (the death of a sister), was prevented giving his customary Parliamentary dinner to those friends who co-operate with him in the House of Commons. ITALY AND ENGLAND.—The following is an ex tract from a private letter, written on the 18th i ns t . b y an It a li an statesman, who holds a high rank in the Councils of Piedmont :—" I humbly thank heaven that an era ofjus tice between nations is beginning. Italy will always bless England, which through the organ of her press has made her voice heard in consistent defence of the rights of this country, and has fixed an indelible brand on her violators and oppressors. Having escaped the hands of Austria, Italy must now belong wholly to herself, and this result can be secured only by the annexation of Central Italy to Sardinia." LATEST NE The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : VIENNA, MONDAY NIGHT. The following is official : " Several Vienna papers have published the news that Verona was declared in a state of siege: " This statement is premature." PARIS, TUESDAY. The .2ioniteur of to-day announces that Vice- Admiral Lo Babier de Sinan has been appointed commander of the squadron of evolution, replacing Admiral Desfosses. BERNE, JAN. 23. According to letters from Vienna, the Emperor of Austria has expressed to the Swiss Charge d'Affaires his satisfaction at the loyal manner in which Switzerland observed neutrality during the war of 1859. PARIS, MONDAY. It is reported that a new pamphlet will be pub lished in the course of this week from the pen of the author of " Le Pape et le Congres." 12.20 p.m. The Bourse opens fiat; Rentes, 68f. 70e. 3.30 p.m. Business has again been very dull, and railway shares have declined several francs. Rentes closed at 68f. 70c., or one-eighth lower than Saturday. COPENHAGEN, SUNDAY. Rear-Admiral Van Doekuni, our Ambassador in England, has been summoned to Copenhagen, the Government having the intention to appoint him Governor of the Danish colonies. SPAIN AND MOROCCO. The Commander-in-Chief of the Spanish army in Africa has sent the following despatches to the Minister ad interim of War : Encampment on the Heights of Cape Negro, Jan. 10, 2.30 p.m. The division Rios landed to-day ;it took posses sion of the fort at the mouth of the Martin river. The siege artillery which had been parked on the road has entered the plain. Every preparation is being made for the passage of one arm of this river, so that the army may take the road to Tetuan. At two o'clock the enemy showed himself with hostile intentions ; the army was ready to receive him. After a few cannon shots he beat a retreat. I have in the plain 12 pieces in battery, supported by the reserve divisions and by the cavalry ; the 2d and 3d corps maintain their positions. In the fort were captured seven cannon, of 18 to 28, three gun car riages, an English machine for hoisting guns, and a large amount of ammunition. ALGI4:SIRAS, JAN. 18, NooN. Encampment of Guad-el-Jelu or Martin, Jan. 17. Since my despatch of yesterday, having observed that the enemy was advancing with considerable forces, I ordered some battalions of the third corps to place themselves on the heights -which command the valley, and I offered battle in the plain with the reserve division, and the 2d Regiment of Artillery, and the cavalry division under the orders of Gene ral Rabin. As soon as the artillery opened fire, the Moors fled in the greatest disorder, and the projec tiles reached them nearly as far a.s Tetuan. Con sequently the Moorish camp has retreated to the declines of the Sierra Bermeja. To-day I have transferred my camp by the left flank, without being annoyed, to the banks of the river Guad-el- Jelu, or Martin. We found buriee, the three can non belonging to the carriages I mentioned yester day and a grest number of projectiles. Our encampment extends from the Custom house, which is in our possession, to the sea shore, resting upon the river. We are right in front of Tetuan-, abour four miles distant from it. LITE'RATUR.O. Ceylon. By Sir James Emerson Tennent. 2 vole. Longmans. Second Notice. One of the most attractive features in the second volume of this peculiarly instructive and interesting work is the part which relates to elephants. It is replete with information so vast and various that in itself it forms a subject of study to the casual reader. The author has been at considerable pains to collect all the desirable detvills on the subject from the notes and memoranda of recent residents, the records of ancient and medieval histories, and from his own recollections and personal observa tion. Elephants abound in Ceylon, and their ex port has been going on since the period of the first Punic war. It is mentioned as .an extraordinary fact, and which is doubtless not generally known, that " whilst in Africa both sexes have tusks, with some slight disproportion in the sire of those of the females, and whilst in India the females are pro vided with them, though of much less dimensions than the males, not one elephant in a hundred is found with tusks in Ceylon, and the few that pos sess them are exclusively males." That elephants are comparatively harmless in cousequence of their peaceful natures, is proved by the rarity of the occurrence of any serious casualty in the numerous contests that arise between them and mankind in the frequent captures. It is truly observed that were they instinctively vicious, or even highly irritable, the del truction of life would be on a far more extensive ratio than it is at present, when the average range it: three fatal oases in five years in an island abounding in elephants, with a population of a million and a half. Among the fallacies here refuted is mentioned the supposed aversion of the elephant to many - animals, the au thor says—" In the quiet solitudes of Ceylon el may be constantly seen browsing peacefully t in the immediate vicinity of, and in with, other animals. I have s t e la e: g and wild buffaloes reclining in sandy roeuo bed of a groups of deer river in the d r y season, and eleplfeantspluocnk_ihng the e_ branches close beside them." Further e ing ex presses his h convictionfrightened by h t that,e sightin s o t f e a t d l of horse,the elephant eipsh theant h when latter an w elephanthoisterrifi a e t d t a c w k when e an rider h t h e e n y a m n e hi meot horseback sl, andehbauctkre serves iithate has never been known to h urt all his attacks for the man. A curious cir cumstance is here recorded of the sagacity of this wonderful animal, and a proof of the terror evinced i a n n i d ty s7fter a duo cou rse o f by the is h t o r r u s o e t l i v a h t e when i c n ap h t i i s vi v ty ic , training, the elephant discovers a new use for his tusk's when _ em ploy in moving stones and piling timber; so much so that a powerful one will raise and carry on them a log of half a ton weight or more. One evening, whilst rid the vicinity of Kandy, towards the scene o f th e rid ing in the of Major Davie's party in 1803, my horse evinced some excitement at a noise which approached us in the thick jungle, and which consisted of a repetition of the ejaculation t ion o turn t: urinph ! !in a hoarse and dissatisfied tone.any a ttendant. He was labouring painfully to carry a heavy beam of tim ber, which he balanced across his tusks, but the pathway being narrow, he was forced to bend his head to one side to permit it to pass endways ; and the exertion and inconvenience combined led him to 'utter the dissatis fied sounds which disturbed the composure of my horse. On seeing us halt, the elephant raised his head, recon noitred us for a moment, then flung down the timber and forced himself backwards into the brushwood so as to leave a passage, of which he expected us to avail ourselves. My , horse still hesitated; the elephant observed it, and impa tiently thrust himself still deeper into the jungle, repeating his cry of terniph ! but in a voice evide qtly meant to encou • rage us to come on. Still the horse tr =bled ; and anxious to observe the instinct of the two sag - scions creatures, I for bore any interference • again the elepha n t we d ged h i mself further in amongst the trees, and waited impatiently for us to pass him ; and after the horse had done so tremblingly and timidly, I saw the wise creature stoop and take up his heavy burden, trim and balance it on his tusks, and resume his route, hoarsely snorting, as before, his discontented re monstrance." Among smaller animals the most obnoxious to ele phants is the dog, but this feeling does not amount to hostility. One reason suggested for the existence of the antipathy is that the elephant fears the dog should attack his feet, of which he is very careful, he will remain indifferent to a spear (Erected against his head, but shrink at the same poC.xited at his foot. The conclusion arrived at is, that the eephant " lives on terms of amity with every quadruped in the forest, and that, with the exception of man, his greatest enemy is a fly .!" Th e natives divide the elephants into castes, detailin g their various "points." A white elephant is al ways considered a wonder by Asiatics. One is mentioned in the Mahawanso as a part of the retin se in the Temple the fifth century after Christ ; it was meant for an emblem of royalty, the Sovereigns of Ceylon being addressed as " Lord of Elephants." It is strange that though generally found in warm climates the elephant is not fond of great hi eat or light. The mountain tops of Ceylon, and not its sultry valleys, are their favourite haunts, and the hunter has found herds of them on Peelro-talla-; ;Etna, which is the height of eight thousand feet. It is mentioned, as worthy of notice, that, contrary t p our preconceived notions of the case, the elephant "dislikes the glare of sunshine, and passes the day in the depths of thick forests, making his excursions by night. This is partly in consequence of the peculiar state of his vision, which is circumscribed, and he relies more on his senses of smell and hearing than on that of sight. On account of this imperfection he ex hibits great timidity at harmless objects which have been only partially discerned. An officer once owed his life to this fact, for the elephant had seized him and had his fore foot raised to crush him when the tendrils of a plant suddenly caught his forehead, and he turned and fled, leaving his victim hurt, but with no limb broken. There is an abundance of anecdotical stories here met with at almost every turn, which forcibly illustrate the subjects descanted upon, and impress them power fully upon the memory of the reader. Their powers of smell and hearing are proportionately' great. Aristotle compared the hoarse cry pro duced by the elephant blowing through his trunk to the sound of a trumpet. " The French still call the proboscis of an elephant troinpe, which we have unmeaningly corrupted into trunk, and hence the , scream of the elephant is known as trumpeting by the hunters in Ceylon." The Ceylon elephant was formerly asserted to excel that of Africa in size and strength, but it is here stated such is not the fact, for so far from equality with the African species4chat of Ceylon seldom exceeds the height of nine feet, but it is plausibly stated that the height in the elephant 1 0 far exceeds that of the animals we see constantly' that one is naturally prone to exaggeration on that score. After commenting on the errors that have been made by writers who have declared that the legs of the elephant were without joints, and that when onoe down he could not rise again, we meet with the following passage which adduces useful arguments on the controverted question : " The real peculiarity in the elephant in lying down Is, that he extends his hind legs backwards as a man does when he kneels, instead of bringing them under him like the horse or any other quadruped. The wise purpose of dila arrangement must be obvious to any one who observes the struggle with which the horse gets up from the ground, Ann the violent efforts which he makes to raise himself erect. Such an exertion in the case of the elephant, and the force requisite to apply a similar movement to raise his weight (equal to four or five tons) would be attended with a dan gerous strain upon the muscles, and hence the simple ar rangement, which by enabling him to draw the hind feet gradually under him, assists him to rise almost without A perceptible effort. " The same construction renders his gait not a as it has been somewhat loosely described, which would be too violent a motion for so vast a body; but a skutlie: that he can increase at pleasure to a pace as rapid as tha t of a man at full speed, but which he cannot maintain for any considerable distance. It is to the structure of the knee-joint that the elephan t is indebted for his singular facility in ascending and de: scending steep acclivities, climbing rocks and traversins precipitous ledges, which even a mule dare not venture; and this again leads to the correction of another generally' r eceived error, that his legs are formed more for streng th than flexibility, and fitted to bear an enormous weight uPols a level surface, without the necessity of ascending or de: scending great acclivities.' The same authority assure s ; that, although the elephant is found in the neighbourho od of mountainous ranges, and will even ascend reeky passe' , such a service is a violation of his natural habits. " Of the elephant of Africa I am not qualified to spes ig ! nor of the nature of the ground which he most frequentei but certainly the facts in connection with the elephant ( d India are all irreconcileable with the theory mentione d above. In Bengal, in the Nilgherries, in Nepaul, in 1 3111 ,1 mah, in Siam, and Ceylo n , the districts in which the e',, ‘ ° phants most abound, are all hilly and mountainous. In the latter, especially, there is not a range so elevated as to inaccessible to them. On the summit of Adam's Peak, an altitude of 7,420 feet, and on a pin nac l e , w hi c h the O i l ; grims climb with difficulty, by means of steps hewn ,„ the rock, Major Skinner, in 1840, found the spoor of an e'" pliant. "Prior to 1840, and before coffee-plantations had he o t extensively opened in the Kandyan ranges, there was 11 a mountain or a lofty feature of land in Ceylon which WI, had not traversed, in their periodical migrations in sears, of water ; and the sagacity which they display in out roads' is almost incredible. They generally , a_ L ee along the backbone of a chain of hills, avoiding steep g','; o dients ; and one curious observation was not lost upo fro m government surveyors, that in crossing the valleys fr c ' t o ridge to ridge, through forests so dense as altogether, obstruct a distant view, th e e l e ph an t s i nvar i a bly select the line of march which commun i ca t es mos t j u di c i o usly wi e , the opposite point, by means of the safest ford. So 81 ; t r i e footed are they, that th ere are f ew p l aces w h ere man go:At an elephant cannot follow, provided there be space to an"' his bulk, and solidity to sustain his weight." a The wild elephants form themselves into herds,ae they are most scrupulous in their segregating all of which are most scrupulously adhered to. by any accident one is entirely separated front own herd, he is not allowed to join himself to T s ether. Even in the capture of the elephant I t h isolated one is not permitted to take refuge Iv or any of the herd, but furiously repulsed. In e o ,_ ll ol quence there is a class of solitary elephants wif ie t t goes by the name of rogue in Ceylon, and Wf e if commit all sorts of depredations and are extre r si est ; vicious. The sagacity of the elephant is very g e es during terrific thunderstorms, they have beg s „ o yell to leave the forest s an d t a k e up th e i r place re• ground until the lightning w a s over , w h e n theY 4.o turned to the jungle. A captured elephant . supposed to have feigned death, while being .1 0 , along he hesitated and finally sank a pp aren tly less to the ground. After all attempts to raiee had proved futile it wa s a b an d one d . Th e party' fr had "scarcely taken their departure, when to Ole o astonishment the elephant rose with the utni° o alacrity, and fled towards' the jungle, screaraiag.,g the top of its voice, its cries being audible lo," . 71 after it had disappeared in the shades of the fore st. In the chapter on elephant shooting, it is tr l y, said that the mode practised in Ceylon is infinite 4 the best, and contrasts favourably with the Pi o counts given of the slaughter in South Africa. .eh Ceylon they invariably aim at the head wh i o . is tho right way of accompli s hi ng an "ift stantaneous death, expert sportsmen It 0 0 said have been known to kill right and left , o e , with each barrel. The accounts given of the e l to phant captures are very interesting, and it is cur/ 0 0 to note the course adopted by the hunters; i t o % ne cessary to go agai ns t t h e w i nd in appeoaellleo, the animal, and the p ro f ess i onal catchers, " ?7h"be the wind is so still th at i ts d i rection canto,' s. otherwise discer ne d , w i ll suspend the film 01 gnc. s amer to dete rm i ne it, and shape th e i r co a - u rse nt cordingly." Th e mode of capture varies i n differ: • places ; the plan adopted in Ceylon is to form 7, large enclosure called a " Corral, from the po r , - ; :• guese "cural,"—or "cattle pen." Tame elephs",, o others,a r e takand al's,—or h e t i h r e e hunters ffort s ar i e n order generally ow attract ned w tr os success. t A h f e te e r le f p o h rm an in ts g . th T e h :or f r o a ll l ow th in ev g h p a it v ss e in : dri y in describes the exciting scone that took A ' in hcleelftehrunt sunsetw i witnessed se d scene b y ex t h h i e bi a te u d th w o a n s in of 1 e . , 8 ct 4 r0 7 c : r 7 3 ; 7, , i 1 interest; the low fires, which had apparently onlyll3w+lie dared in the sunlight, assumed their ruddy glow amidst darkness, and threw their tinge over the. groups coi he round them ; while the smoke rose d in eddies t t r o e ug_h s l o , rich foliage of the trees. The crow s of d s i pec a erce lu tp tamed profound silence and not On a s a ou s n udde v n as p beyond the hum of an insect. was broken by the roll of a drum, followed by t a he di B e ti eh liari ti er t d.Bl , y e n e d r s l e ' entered t h ic is k w s a\ were d and n leaves t u h s e k musketry. ettrhheee shoutsc fi s i an i rcl g e a w l u f i o th o r h th t e he ot they blazed aloft, and formed a line of flame on every e l l/ except in the direction of the corral, which was studione.„ w renewed aantcdhel a ar s n les watch-fires kept dark; and thither the terrified elephants betook th ° " - selves followed by the yells and rocket of their pursuersv " They app roac h e d at a rap i d pace, trampling down tor brushwood and crushing the dry branches, the le a e d emerged in front of the corra l, pause d f or an instant, s''•ii wildly round, and th en rus h e d h ea dl ong t h roug h the Or gate followed by the rest of the herd. h i 0 " As if by magic the entire circuit of the corral, which this moment had been kept in profound darkness, now 191 ,10 with a thousand lights, every hunter on the instant tha t • elephants entered, rushing forward to the stockade with torch kindled at the nearest watch-fire. ,t The elephants dashed to the very extremity of then ,j'y closure, and being br oug ht u p b y t h e powerful fence, st''rer back to regain the gate, but found it closed. Their te r s e r was sublime ; they hurri e d roun d th e corral at a rapid,rd to but saw it now girt by fire on every s id e ; they attempts till force the stockade, but w ere d r i ven b ack b y the guards' s - 1 y spears and flambeaux; an on whichever side the/ ;0 1 preached they were re p u l se d w i th shouts and dischar ges musketry. Collecting into one group, they would p a itt for a moment in apparent bewilderment, then burst offto another direction as if it had suddenly occurred to theo, io try some point which they had before overlooked ; but ag,,, c a repulsed, they slowly re t urned to their forlorn resting -P' in the centre of the corral. l ° " The interest of thi s s t range scene was not confine — A m . e Ol the spectators; it exte n d e d to the tame elephants w,,-,•pg were stationed outside. A t the first approach of the co herd they evinced the utmost interest in the scene. ar• in particular which were picketed near the front wer e i n g tensely excited, and conti nue d tossing their heads, PaNcl ttf the ground, and starting as the noise drew near. At 1040 when the grand rush into the corral took place, one ofths fairly burst from her fastenings and started off toward s herd, levelling a tree of considerable size which o bstril c her passage." sc 'tlS The chepters which re l a t e the difficulties met' , in securing the captives are very well w orthi tt • notice, and it is especi a ll y remarkable to perusepwir records of the sagacity exhibit e d by the tamed- phants in serving as d ecoys to the wild tribes , A i r in seconding the e ff orts of the men in a m ost till tounding manner. 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