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LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1865. There is nothing to be surprised at in the rejec tion of Mr. BAINES'S Bill last night, and perhaps no great good would have resulted from the pass ing of so isolated a measure ; but still it was as well that the question should be considered. On the eve of a general election it was desirable that some members of the Government should be com pelled to pass an opinion upon a matter about which they would much rather have kept silent. Sir G. GREY'S speech was certainly a masterpiece in the way of mystification, and Mr. W. FORSTER very truly characterised it when he said that the right hon. baronet had promised to tell the House what the Government would do in future in the direction of this bill, but that he defied any one to make out from his discourse what that policy would be. This is just the sort of game that our present Government delight to play ; but they do not always succeed in their object, for it is some times possible for people to discern a motive and discover a tendency by what is not said as much as by what is._ Thus Sir G. GREY must have been very badly off for ideas on the topic immediately before him, for he had to go back to the past achievements of himself and his colleagues, and to expatiate upon the advantages which they had gamed by the rejection of Lord DERBY'S Reform Bill. Under the circumstances of the case the right hon. baronet would have shown more sense and better taste if he had left this matter alone. It was very, venturesome on the part of Sir G. GREY to m a k e out that the House of Commons, and not the Government, were responsible for the failure of Earl RUSSELL'S measure. It is needless to say that the effort proved a complete failure. It was imprudent in the extreme to provoke Mr. DISRAELI to come forward and express himself upon a subject on which he, of course, entertains much indignation, and the right hon. gentleman was quite equal to the occasion. Ile did not take up the ques tion with the view of raking up old grievances, but rather to disabuse the House of the false impression which Sir G. GREY'S specious speech had made. " Political life," as Mr. DISRAELI truly observed, " must be taken as you find it ;" but after a matter. has been so far settled, it is inconsistent for politi cal opponents to dig it up to life again to serve their turn. Thus what other object could the right honourable baronet have had in view, in taking his retrospective glance, if it was not to da mage the Consevvatives before till approaching election. Properly speaking, the question at issue lay between Ministers and the Liberal party, and if they agreed they were strong enough to carry the proposal of Mr. BAINES. Had the present Opposi tion been in office, they could not have done worse than to let the measure fall to the ground for want of support and sympathy ; and yet this is the course pursued by a Government which boasts of its ex ploits in turning out the Conservatives, and declares that it fears not an appeal to the country on the question of Reform. For real effrontery and dar ing assurance, as exemplified in public life, we can not do better than look to the Whigs for a model, and especially if they have some doubtful Liberals at their beck and call as partisans, as Mr. DISRAELI forcibly put it. Sir G. GREY took up the history of Reform, and gave the same remarkable descrip tions of it. He conveyed some very erroneous im pressions by his skilful adaptation of the theme; and, for the sake of justice, it was just as well that they should have been exposed. The amendment of Lord JOHN RUSSELL was described by the Home Secretary in very daring terms, but unfortunately they were not in conformity with truth. One pas sage was also extracted from a long speech of Mr. DISRAELI'S, in order to show that some notions were entertained by the then Government which, in reality, were not thought of. It did not require so great a proficient in the art of criticism as the right hon. gentleman the member for Buckingham to point out the flaws and discrepancies in the speech of Sir G. GREY, but still it is satisfactory to realise the remarks of the one most qualified to speak on the subject, since Mr. DISRAELI had to introduce the measure to the consideration of the House. When he had concluded his remarks on the cavalier treatment of Lord DERBY'S measure, Mr. DISRAELI proceeded to follow the right hon. baronet through his criticism of this measure of his friends. In this affair to gain was to lose, and to succeed to fail. When Lord JOIIN RUSSELL had got his Bill through a second reading he came to a stand still, and as the right hon. gentleman observed " the Government were quite overcome, and it appears that they have never recoverd the paralysis up to the present time." The manner in which the Liberal Government dis poses of those supporters who go too far in advo cating reform was also capitally exemplified by the dangerous adversary whom Sir G. GREY had un wisely provoked. One in particular, who had made himself obnoxious by his comments on Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S measure, was " promoted to a great post and sent to India, with an income of fabulous amount." Certainly the manoeuvres of the Cabinet to get rid of awkward adherents can ill bear the light of day upon them, and still less can stand inspection before the House, in which a member of the Government declares the willingness of himself and friends to be offered up on the sacrificial altar of Reform. And now the Ministers complain that there is no one to help them in their great under taking, but, as Mr. DISRAELI forcibly declared, " How can they suppose that they will ever carry a Reform Bill if they reward all those among their sup porters who oppose such bills by promoting them to posts of great confidence and lucre !" The conclu sion at which Sir G. GREY arrived after all his rhetoric was exhausted, and his comprehensive criticism could do no more, is thus ably summarised. First, the right hon. baronet repudiated the rights of man, and then he repudiated the £6 franchise. Another inconsistent member of the Cabinet is Mr. GLADSTONE. Why did he not appear to lend the powerful aid of his support to a measure which is in conformity with the principles he professed last year? The fact is, that this shuffling mode of procedure will not do ; it may suit the purposes of a moment, and answer the requirements of the time, but it can never receive the support or win the respect of the commmunity at large. To blow hot and cold is not the way to foster a cause or to mature a purpose, and it is quite idle for Minis ters to think of going to the country on the ques tion of Reform, if they cannot be certain before hand what part the most influential members of their Cabinet will play in the mighty drama to be enacted. Who will be bold enough to prophesy the course which Mr. GLADSTONE will pursue? Will he remain silent and do nothing, will he take a medium course, descant upon popular rights, and so on, but deem it advisable just for the present to keep quiet, and therefore vote against a Reform proposition? or will he, like his great pro totype, Sir R. PEEL, discover a third course, and go boldly in for the honours of democracy, thus keep ing up the character depicted by Mr. DISRAELI in the following terms :—" When, by the dangerous but fascinating eloquence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, we were led to believe that the days of Tom PAINE had returned, and that ROUSSEAU was to be rivalled by a new Social Contract." There can be no doubt that Mr. BAINES'S proposal, and many similar progressive stages of reform, will be eventually carried, and the matter may safely be left to the sense and understanding of the community. In England there is never any cause for fear, and never any foundation for the threats of the demagogue that no time must be lost in gaining the desired end. The really important question as regards last night's debate is the policy of the Government, and let not the country be deceived anew, for it is not likely that by them a Reform Bill will be intro duced. As time goes on we can the more fully appreciate the mischief which Earl RUS SELL has wrought to the cause which he is supposed to have so much at heart, that of reform, in the ad vocacy of which he won so many laurels in his earlier years, but the lustre of whose renown has been somewhat dimmed by his subsequent conduct. The facts are incontrovertible that, after living its full time, this Parliament has been a failure, so far as it has fulfilled the purpose for which it was summoned. Had the measure of Lord DERBY been allowed full scope and fair play there is no doubt that by this time we should be in posses sion of enlarged principles of representation ; but as it is the settlement is further off than ever, and it is expedient that the public should know who they have to thank for it. Let it not be misunder stood by those who will be called upon for their suffrages, and if anything were wanting to convince the doubtful of the party nature of the Liberal opposi tion to the DERBY Reform Bill, surely the deficiency has been supplied by the speech of Sir G. GREY last night, in which he did not address himself to the matter before the House so much as he raked up past altercations, for the purpose of showing that his opponents were to blame for the sins and short comings of his friends. The present condition of American affairs is altogether unsatisfactory, and all well-wishers of the country, whether Federal or Confederate in their sympathies, must unite in deploring the dark ness and doubtfulness of its prospects. Justice is, in some measure, avenged by the capture and death of BOOTH, but the mischief done by the assassina tion of ABRAHAM LINCOLN is far from being remedied. Moderation and conciliation were always too feebly represented in the Federal councils, but though LINCOLN countenanced severe and even cruel measures, and SEWARD was not lacking in arrogance and assumption, still these two members of the Cabinet, whose — position, reputation, 4114 experience glyo the% great weight, were usually on the side of more moderate proceedings than their fellows. Mr. LINCOLN'S last address gave offence to some of his party by the quietness of its tone, and he fully upheld the terms which General GRANT offered to General LEE. All is now changed, and changed in a manner which gives little hope for the speedy pacification of that unhappy country. Mr. SEWARD, it is true, has happily escaped with his life. We may hope that when his voice is once more heard in public his words will have all the more weight with his countrymen from the dangers he has escaped and the sufferings he has undergone. But absolute power has now drifted into the hands of the extreme party, men who strive to outbid each other in the ferocity of their denunciations and the recklessness of their assertions. Treason, extermination, and confiscation are words so lightly and so constantly used that men grow familiar with their sound. The voice of wise, humane, and prudent men is lost in the storm, and by an unfortunate conjunction of circumstances, just as the peace so long striven for, and at the last so dearly and unsatisfactorily gained, seemed about to dawn, the horrors of civil disunion and bloodshed have sprung up with more force than ever. The present rulers of affairs at Washington are only anxious, apparently, to influence the pas sions of the multitude, to keep up the tumultuous excitement consequent upon the cruel murder of Mr. LINCOLN, and to justify themselves in measures of extreme severity. No thought of conciliation or compromise is present with them. No heed is paid to the counsels of moderate and really patriotic men who might well sug gest that as each party has received a severe shock and has suffered a heavy loss the moment has arrived for mutual concession. The one side has lost its leader, the other its capital, but while the North was the gainer by the Southern evacua tion of Richmond, the South has certainly gained nothing by the assassination of President Lincoln. Nothing can be more unjust than the attempt to affix the stigma of the crime on the Confederates as a party. There is no evidence whatever to point to such a conclusion, and everything that is known of the Southern leaders contradicts the assertion most emphatically, while the evidence of reason and common sense points to an entirely opposite con clusion. Would any Confederate in his senses wish to supersede LINCOLN and JOHNSON, to replace SEWARD'S pre-eminence in the Cabinet by the prominence of STANTON? Such an idea is as ex travagant as it is groundless, but the excuse serves well the cruel and oppressive views of the extreme party. Mr. STANTON, who appears to have most mysterious means of obtaining information, for which we are supposed to accept his word, has now discovered that the attempt on the PRESIDENT'S life was " organised in Canada and approved in Richmond," and he believes the man who stabbed Mr. SEWARD to be a St. Albans raider. This is pretty good, but such announcements from the lips of a Minister of State are something more than ridiculous. 'They show a desire to influence the popular mind against the Confederates, and against this country, which cannot be disregarded. Such accusations should not be lightly made, even on plausible evidence, and certainly they must be based on something more solid than Mr. STANTON'S ready and imaginative assertions before they can be listened to in this country. The catastrophe which has placed Washington in mourning has excited the deepest horror among us, and the manifestations of English sympathy have been widespread and sincere. But we fear that the pomp and circumstance with which Mr. LINCOLN'S funeral obsequies have been invested have had something of political purpose in them. What are we to think of President:JonmoN, now that the first heat and passion of the tragedy is over, deliberately declaring that " the rebel leaders must be punished and impoverished, and their social position destroyed," asserting that the assassination of Mr. LINCOLN was due to the " fiendish spirit of rebellion," and that Union men in the Confederacy " must be remunerated from the pockets of those who had brought suffering upon the country." Is this the spirit in which to approach the solution of this difficult and delicate question, in which to deal with a brave and chivalrous, but partially vanquished people ? If to all the horrors and jealousies of civil war Mr. JOHNSON means to add the bitterness of con fiscation and the enforced distribution of property, he will introduce another and a more powerful ele ment of discord into his already distracted country. The extent of the Southern States is so great, their population is so numerous, and their natural wealth so considerable, that such an attempt will re kindle the flames of war, and excite a resistance more desperate and more united than any merely political proceeding could do. Nor are acts wanting to prove the uncompro mising hostility of the Northern rulers. General SHERMAN, who a few weeks since was the hero of the moment, and who has been virtually the moving spirit of the last campaign, has made an agreement with General JORSTON, the only considerable leader of Southern force left in the field. The terms of armistice were favourable to the Confederates, as they well might be, considering that no engage ment had taken place, and that JOHNSTON had before proved a formidable antagonist to SHERMAN and his army. On learning the particulars, however, President JOHNSON, Gen. GRANT, and the members of the Cabinet unanimously declared that such an agreement could not be recognised, that SHERMAN had exceeded his powers, and that he was greatly to blame for the temporary advantage he had given his enemy. A most ungracious message was sent to SHERMAN, bidding him thenceforward to confine his communications with the enemy to subjects of a purely military nature, while GRANT himself set out for North Carolina to direct personally the opera tions against JOHNSTON. By this means the Federals have probably succeeded in disgusting their best General, and in putting upon him an open slight. The Americans are never remarkable for their gra titude ,to their public men, and SHERMAN him self, some months ago, when he was the idol of popular enthusiasm, remarked that the first repulse or misadventure would soon make men forget his successes. Now, it seems that a reverse is not wanted to effect this. Moro stirring events have obliterated the interest felt in the march through Georgia, and SHERMAN, notwithstanding the atrocities committed during his march, has not personally shown sufficient rancour towards the South to make him acceptable to JOHN SON and STANTON. The latter, indeed, has gone so for as to notify his disapproval of SHERMAN'S nego tiations to the different commanders of the Federal armies, directing them at the same time to disregard all his orders. A less impetuous man than General SHERMAN would hardly brook such au affront, espe cially when he must feel that the present supremacy of the Northern arms is mainly due to himself. 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Zjit, Oft‘"tilb3soll,x,,_-, e;lnitto rHE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAYd 9, 186 South to fresh efforts ; for unless JOHNSON falls a victim to the sudden change of plans, and consequent suspenSion of the armistice, GRANT has admitted his abilities, but under existing circumstances one general could hardly be trusted to criticise another's movements. As if there were not enough elements of discord already in existence, ANDREW JOHNSON and his advisers must add fuel to the flame, they must increase the popular ex citement, they must endeavour to stimulate the masses to acts of tyrannical vengeance towards the South, they must bring up the old accusation against neutrals of harbouring assassins, they must import dissension into their own coun cils and amongst their own leaders, and must dis gust and incense the moderate men of all parties. Englishmen cannot look without emotion at such a prospect; and, independently of all personal sym pathies or sentiments, cannot but regret that the clouds which have so long overshadowed the desti nies of that fair and fertile country should but have been for a moment dispersed to gather again in greater force, and to presage a yet darker storm. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI, Miss Bateman as Bianca, in " Fazio," Whatever doubts might still have remained in the minds of some of the more obdurate among the representatives of the nil admirari school of criti cism, as to the versatility of Miss Bateman's powers as a tragic actress, those doubts may now be con sidered, we presume, to have been finally set at rest, by her performance last evening of Bianca, in Dean Mihnan's five-act Tragedy of " Fazio"—a per formance so brilliantly successful upon the whole as to be just simply final and conclusive as to the scope of the young tragediennes' capabilities. The play itself, disagreeable though it undoubtedly is, in the mere story of it, frequently, sometimes glaringly, inartistic though it is (no less undoubtedly) in its construction as a work designed for represen tation upon the stage, hardly less than for perusal in the closet—this play of " Fazio " has held its ground now during very nearly one whole half century within the already contracted and still contracting circle of the Acting Drama. It enjoyed for a while—in the earlier part of the half century that has thus elapsed since the date of its original production upon the boards of a London Theatre—it enjoyed for a while, we say, during that earlier part of its career, a sort of. double celebrity—thanks, that is, to the twofold attraction of Miss O'Neil's Bianca and of the Fazio of Mr. Charles Kemble. Thanks now, in her turn, to Miss Bate man—the character of Bianca, at last, is restored to to London stage in the fullest meaning of the word redivivus ! Bianca, the jealous wife, the tender lover, the half-maddened denouncer, the remorseful consoler, the distracted and impas sioned avenger of Fazio—again lives, and breathes, and talks, and weeps upon the stage like the lovely poetical creation that she is. llow successful Miss Bateman's representation of Bianca was last evening, upon the occasion of that its first performance, before a throng comprising within it many of the most fastidious among London Playgoers, may be under stood from the simple fact, that upon five or six dis tinct occasions, the heroine of the night was sum moned before the footlights. At the end of each of the four last acts—the first act admitting in no way of the possibility of a recall—at the end of the four last acts of the play, Miss Bateman was thus recalled. And finally, when the green curtain had descended at the close of the tragedy✓--yet once again, as if the audience were this time determined upon there being no mistake whatever as to the splendour of the triumph that had been achieved. The first act, we will confess, had in noway whateverprepared us for any such radiant and signal victory. The first act, we will even add, had so far yielded us disap pointment that it had certainly diminished our expectations. On reflection, however, we cannot but think that what we are here referring to, is attri butable far less to the actress than to the dramatist. As an acting drama "Fazio," we repeat, is here and there to our thinking nothing less than flagrantly faulty and inartistic. Several scenes end most abruptly—in one of them, namely the one in which Bianca is pleading in vain to the obdurate senators, the heroine is left to the hazard of an almost ludicrous anti-climax ! Bianca, besides this, at the termination of the very first act of the tragedy, being left alone upon the stage at the close of a long speech addressed to her by her husband—she is left there alone upon the stage at the end of that long speech of Fazio's to make her way off it, as best she may. For the good effect of a first act, a wholely fatal anticlimax ! Hence doubtless the apathy with which the first descent of the curtain last night was witnessed. It was afterwards, however and increasingly afterwards that Miss Bateman won by successive scenes of varying and ad vancing and cumulative intensity, her full mas tery over the emotions of her audience, that audi ence, including amongst its number, as already hinted, the more 'fastidious few who, until last night may be said to have but grudgingly admitted the validity of her great reputation. The earliest indication of the triumph achieved by her Bianca yesterday was towards the close of the third scene of the second act, where her jealousy is first awakened by Fazio's avowed admiration for his former love, the Lady Aldabella. All doubt as to the character of the success of the impersonation may be said to have ceased from the moment of her utterance of the words— Bian. Fazio, thou sett'st a fever in my brain ; My lips burn, Fazio, at the thought ; I had rather thou wert in thy winding sheet Than that bad woman's arms ; I had rather grave-worms Were on thy lips than that bad woman's kisses. And, still more radiant was her success when she added, in answer to Fazio's deprecatory interrup tion— Howbeit, there is no blistering in their taste: There is no suffocation in thoso arms— " Take heed! we are passionate ; our milk of love Doth turn to wormwood, and that's bitter drinking. The fondest are most phrenetic: where the firo Burneth intensest, there the inmate pale Doth dread the broad and beaconing conflagration. If that yo cast us to the winds, tho winds Will give us their unruly, restless nature ; We whirl and whirl ; and where we settle, Fazio, But he that ruleth the mad winds can know. If ye do drive the love out of my soul, That is its motion, being, and its life, There'll be a conflict strange and horrible, Among all fearful and ill-visioned fiends, For the blank void ; and there mad revel there Will mako me—oh, I know not what—hate then !" Then—having withdrawn further from him step by step with a sort of loathing—flying back to his arms with a sudden tenderness, her hard and almost pitiless intonations, abruptly breaking into tearful accents of love, as she clings to her husband tenderly, with her fair face nestling against his bosom, " Oh, no !--I could not hate you, Fazio ! " So again afterwards, at the close of the first scene of act the third, when she is bent upon announing her husband before the Duke in Council ! And yet more, where at the end of the fourth act, she hurries from the scene under a sudden impulse to destroy her children—that act the fourth of Fazio, as it is now performed at the Adelphi, ending at that precise point, dropping out of view altogether the sequel to this affecting incident as given in the printed drama. Where Bianca, returning from the inner chamber, having found her children asleep, fondly solilo quises over their innocent safety. Miss Bate man's crowning triumphs however were in the concluding incidents of the tragedy, in which we observe her pleading in vain to the cruel and wanton destroyer of her wedded happiness, the profligate Lady Aldabella ; or in which we watch her parting moments with Fazio —parting moments that leave her in what we might call a sculpturesque stupefaction of horror —from the agonising trance of which she is roused by her husband's death bell ! Bianca's subsequent denunciation of the Lady Aldabella to the Duke of Florence in the midst of a dance and revelry in that wanton dame's ap lazza, brought the green curtain down at the close of the tragedy in the midst of a general scene of clatlf3bal, immediately, that ia, after the termi- nation of her half inarticulate utterance while dying, " It [her heart] breaks !" "It breaks, it breaks—it is not iron !" The triumph of Miss Bateman's Bianca was then indeed recognised as complete. The young actress was twice conducted before the footlights by Mr. Webster him self—the applause which greeted her, coming from all parts of the densely crowded house without any distinction of clique or class, boxes, stalls, pit, slips, gallery, and amphi theatre. Mr. Jordan, who acted Charles Kemble's part of Fazio, sustained the character so meri toriously throughout that he, too, would have had to appear before the curtain in answer to a loud call from the audience, but that lie had already left the theatre. The thankless, not to say detestable part of the Lady Aldabella was self-sacrificingly sustained by Mrs. Billington. As to the rest of the characters of the piece, they are altogether too insignificant to admit for one moment of their beinglhere seriously particularised. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per the Europa). NEW YORK, APRIL 27. The following order has been issued by General Sherman : " Headquarters, Mildmay Division on the Mississippi, in the field, Raleigh, North Carolina, April 5. " SPECIAL FIELD ORDER. No. 58. " The General commanding announces to the army a suspension of hostilities, and an agreement with General Johnston and high officials, which, when formally ratified, will make peace from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. Until the absolute peace is arranged, a line passing through Tyrrell's Mount, Chapel Hill University, Durham's Station, and West Point, on the Neuse River, will separate the two armies. Each army commander will group his camps entirely with a view to com fort, health, and good police. All the details of military discipline must still be maintained, and the General hopes and believes that in a very few days it will be his good fortune to conduct you all to your homes. " The fame of this army for courage, industry, and discipline, is admitted all over the world. Then let each officer and man see that it is stained by no act of malignity, rowdyism, and petty crime. The cavalry will patrol the front of the line. General Howard will take charge of the district from Raleigh up to the cavalry. General Slocum to the left of Raleigh, and General Schofield in Raleigh, its rear and right. Quartermasters and commissaries will keep their supplies up to a light load, for the waggons and the railroad superintendent will arrange a depot for the convenience of each sepa rate army.—By order of 44 General W. T. SHERMAN. " L. M. Dayton, A.A.G." Advices from Newbern state that a large number of the members of the North Carolina Legislature arrived there, on the 19th inst., for the purpose of negotiating with Sherman with a view to restore that State to the Union. Lieut.-Gen. Grant arrived at Fortress Monroe this afternoon on the steamer M. Martin, from Washington, and proceeded southward in the steamer Alhambra. " War Department, Washington, April 24, 2 p.m. "Maj.-Gen. Dix, New York,--A despatch from General Sherman states that Wilson held Macon on the 20th, with llowell Cobb, G. W. Smith, and others as prisoners, but they claimed the benefit of the armistice, and he has telegraphed me through the rebel lines for orders. I have answered him that lie may draw out of Macon, and hold his command for further orders, unless he has reason to believe the rebels are changing the status to our prejudice. (Signed) " EDWIN M. STANTON, Sec. of War." It is reported from Ilavanna that serious appre hensions exist there of an insurrection by the slaves. Deposits of arms have been found, and several negroes arrested. The plot is said to embrace the slaves all over the island. It is stated that the exchange of 6,000 Union prisoners, now going on at Darien, will take all the Confederates hold, while we yet hold from 65,000 to 70,000. 'There was a report in New Orleans on the 18th inst. that Jeff. Davis escaped to the west side of the Mississippi river on the night of the 16th, crossing at Tinker's Bend. At the same time it was reported that the rebel troops of the Trans-Mississippi army, under Kirby Smith, were being disbanded and returning to their homes. The latest advices from Mobile say that General Canby had prohibited the entrance into the city of all persons excepting those connected with the army or navy. A blockade runner with 1000 bales of cotton on board had been captured above Mobile in the Mobile river. On the 14th inst. Gen. A. J. Smith's corps of national troops was 11 milesbeyond the town of Blakeley en route for Montgomery, Alabama, in pursuit of the retreating rebels. The national gunboats sunk by rebel torpedoes and ob structions during the operations against Mobile were the Milwaukee, Osage, Laura, Ida, • Iberville, Blossom, Rover, Scotia, and No. 48. Nearly all the monitors were up to the city on the 14th inst., and the remainder of Admiral Thatcher'sfleet would immediately follow. A despatch received by the New York limes says that Payne, the assassin, has, since his confinement, attempted suicide by butting his head against the iron walls of his prison, reducing it almost to a jelly. The same journal states that Johnston at first proposed to surrender on the terms granted to Lee, but Hampton objected, whereupon Sherman granted a delay for the opportunity to consult with Jeffer son Davis. The next day another meeting took place, when the remarkable propositions sent to Washington by Sherman were presented. LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, April 25.—The rebel Colonel Jessie, with 28 of his guerillas, were cap tured near Eminence yesterday morning by Colonel Buckley's men. Loss small on both sides. A despatch from the Secretary of War, received in New York on the 27th inst., announces the death of J. Wilkes Booth, the murderer of President Lincoln. Booth, together with an accomplice named Harrold, were driven from a swamp in St. Mary's county, Maryland, and took refuge in a barn. The pursuing party set the barn on fire, when Booth in attempting to escape was shot. Harrold was captured. Booth's body was conveyed to Washington. By a collision in Chesapeake Bay, on Tuesday night, a transport was sunk and fifty soldiers drowned. Secretary Seward was able to ride out yesterday. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG-, MAT 9. By an imperial decree, published to-day, General Mouravieff is relieved of his duties as governor of the Western Provinces, and raised to the rank of Count of the Empire. He will be replaced by General Kaufman, the principal official in the War Department. The Journal de Ss, ,Petersbourg states that no alteration in the system of government pursued in the Western Provinces will be introduced by this change of governors. AUSTRIA. The Neue Freie Presse of to-day says :—" The reply of Prussia to the note of Austria in reference to the port of Kiel has arrived here. It accepts, in theory, the proposal of compromise made by Aus tria, which is, that a portion of the Prussian marine should be transferred to Kiel, and a corresponding reduction made in the Prussian army of occupation in the Duchies." SPAIN. MADRID, MAY 8. Senor Reyes, an attaché of the Peruvian Em bassy at Madrid, set out yesterday for Peru with the ratification of the treaty between Spain and that country. LITERATURE. Charles Dickens's Serial Story. Our Mutual Friend. By Charles Dickens. No. XIII. Chapman and Hall. Having had for some little time past a presen timent (how suggested to us, we can't for the life of us conjecture) that Old Betty Higden, who had set off armed with her itinerant basket, and young Lizzie Hexam, who had mysteri ously disappeared no body could tell in which direc tion, would probably come across each other later on, somehow, somewhere, in their respective wan derings —we wake up now to the recognition, in the opening chapter of this thirteenth number of Our Mutual Friend, of the realisation of that same odd pre sentiment. The chapter is entitled significantly " The End of a Long Journey." It forms an affecting companion picture to that earlier chapter in the previous volume descriptive (ah so exquisitely !) of the end of a Very Short Journey indeed—the fore-shortened life, that is, of poor Little Johnny in one of the wards of the Hospital for Sick Children. A companion picture—descriptive of the close at last of the long, long, thrifty, toilsome life of poor old Betty Higden herself, my Lords and Gentlemen and Honourable Boards ! Her death at last—not in the Union—that evil at least she has escaped—faithful, in her fight against its coming, even to the end ! But—instead of in the Union—in the light of day, under the open face of Heaven, in the brightness and freshness of the early morning —with (as it seems to her) a very double of the " boofer lady" herself, bending over her ten derly—Lizzie Hexam, in truth—the realisation of our presentiment ! Read the dialogue between them, as it is given below! Before reading which dialogue, however, it should bo premised that Lizzie turns out to have become a worker at a paper mill, on the bank of the stream of which mill she is, here, during the dialogue, kneeling by the side of poor old, dying Betty Higden, then but faintly recovering from that last touch of " the numbness" that appears (by way of a coup de grace) to have stricken her into a state of uncon sciousness overnight ! The darkness gone, and a face bending down. " It cannot bo the hoofer lady ?" "I don't understand what you say. Let me wet your lips again with this brandy. I have been away to fetch it. Did you think that I was long gone ?" It is as the face of a woman, shaded by a quantity of rich dark hair. It is the earnest face of a woman who is young and handsome. But all is over with me on earth, and this must be an angel. " Have I been long dead ?" " I don't understand what you say. Let mo wet your lips again. I hurried all I could and brought no one back with me lest you should die of the shock of strangers." " Am I not dead ?" " I cannot understand what you say. Your voice is so low and broken that I cannot hear you. Do you hear me ?" cc yes:, " Do•you mean Yos ?" " Yes." " I was coming from my work just now, along the path outside (I was up with the night hands last night), and I hoard a groan, and found you lying here." " What work, deary ?" " Did you ask what work ? At the paper-mill." " 'Where is it ?" " Your face is turned up to the sky, and you can't sae it. It is close by. You can see my face, here, between you and the sky ?" st yes:, "Dare I lift you ?" "Not yet." "Not even lift your head to get it on my arm? I will do it by very gentle degrees. You shall hardly feel it." " Not yet. Paper. Letter." " This paper in your breast 2" " Bless ye !" " Let me wet your lips again. Am Ito open it ? To read it 2" She reads it with surprise, and looks down with a new expression and an added interest on the motionless face she kneels beside. "I know these names. I have heard them often." " Will you send it, my dear ?" " I cannot understand you. Lot me wet your lips again and your forehead. There. 0 poor thing, poor thing !" These words through her fast-dropping tears. "What was it that you asked me ? Wait till I bring my ear quite close." "-Will you send it, my dear ?" " Will I send it to the writers ? Is that your wish ? Yes, certainly." " You'll not give it up to any one but them ?" " No. Most solemnly." "Never to the Parish!" with a convulsed struggle. "No. Most solemnly." "Nor let the Parish touch me, nor yet so much as look at me !" with another struggle. " No. Faithfully." _ _ A look of thankfulness and triumph lights the worn old face. The eyes, which have been darkly fixed upon the sky, turn with meaning in them towards the compassionate face from which the tears are dropping, and a smile is on the aged lips as they ask : " What is your name, my dear ?" " My name is Lizzie Hexam." "I must be sore disfigured. Are you afraid to kiss me?' The answer is, the ready pressure of her lips upon the cold but smiling mouth. ,‘ m es s ye ! Now lift me, my love." Lizzie Hexam very softly raised the weather-stained grey head, and Ved her as high as Heaven ! The chapter immediately following the one that closes with this affecting incident, opens impressively with these words from the Burial Service—" We give thee hearty thanks for that it hath pleased thee to deliver this our sister out of the miseries of this sinful world!" The author of "Our Mutual Friend," adding thereupon wittily, no lass than with the tenderest sympathy—" So read the Reverend Frank Milvey in a not untroubled voice, for his heart misgave him that all was not right between us, and our sister—or say our sister in-Law—Poor Law !" Before her last touch of the numbness—when sinking down at nightfall on what turns out to be her death place—poor old Betty Hig den has exclaimed, clasping her withered hands, " I humbly thank the Power and the dldry that I have come to my journey's end." And when she has, a few hours afterwards, actually come to that end of it—to the end that ought to be marked (but is not) with a last milestone, recording the exact length of the weary way that has been tra versed—as chief mourner of all, there comes shamb ling up to the open grave poor blundering Sloppy ! Sloppy, of whom we find it mentioned here— among other things, very excusably—(" our sister having been more than a mother to him")—that "it cuts him deep to think," now, that it comes into his wretched head, he might have sometimes turned " a little harder for her !" Sloppy, fairly breaking down at last in his grief with the doleful apostrophe, " 0, Mrs. Higden, Mrs. Higden, you was a woman and a mother and a mangler in a million million !" A charming scene takes place in this same chapter --nay, we ought rather to say a charming " confi dence " takes place there, between the two young heroines of the story ! Who, by the way, have never met previously—Bella Willer (who prettily italicises a word by putting one of her dimples under it !), Bella Willer evidently enough the beloved of John Harmon, otherwise Rokesmith—and Lizzie Hexham no less evidently the beloved of Eugene Wraybum : the most ridiculous fellow in the world, this last, according to Mortimer Lightwood's esti mate of him ; according to our own, one of the most delightful among the more loveable creations of the genius of our Novelist. From first to last the conversation between the two girls, as here related to us, is the prettiest thing well imagin able ! As pretty, one is almost tempted to sal, as—themselves ! Yet, in the midst of all this prettiness, both spoken and looked, they have a sense of the ludicrous, too, about them—that is to say, at least one of them has. Witness—Bella allusion to "Ma going on like the Tragic M use in majestic corners"— an d h er saying afterwards of her self, " I have no more of what they call cha racter, my dear, than a canary-bird." And still later o n, hel , whimpering out pettishly " Oh, it's all very well your calling me your dear—but I anz such a nasty little thing!" The prettiness born of this same dia logue, by the way, is carried by Bella (vv lth a very flush upon it) dimples and all, into t h e rail way carriage in which, a brief while afterwards, en her way to London she sits, confronting the arif i rently indifferent butreally and tenderly enamour? Secretary—the Railway, as they sit there, " ingly shutting a green eye and opening a red one, er as they speed onwards and homewards ! boof to lady, fascinating boofer lady !" thinks Bokesn aith, himself, thinks be !—" If I were but legally executer of Johnny's will ! If I had but the right to pay yo u at legacy and to take your receipt !"—the stations, the blast of the train, as it clears them, " all ingly shutting up their green eyes and opening red ones !" And so ends the chapter recording " How somebody becomes the subject of a pr edic. tion." Chapter ten, closing the May nainber--s chapter headed "Scouts Out"—depicts Eugene Wrayburn to us, at his very best. His intervil with Miss Wren, his introduction of her bad child (under the name of Mr. Dolls) to Mortimer L i g ht - wood in the Temple Chambers, and last of all the ac count here given of his finally tempting the latter to . take part with him in leading the scout who isPerP e . o tually at his heels, a wild chase half over London ice same scout being no other than our old acquain tan , c Bradley Headstone, the Schoolmaster—are inciden", all of them, delightfully recounted by our Mast Humorist, especially the last one Mentioneli Eugene upon this occasion, as he ease; acknowledges, being " a little excited by the gle r '' ous fact that a southerly wind and a cloudy the too a hunting evening ! " Hear too upon suddenly bethinking him, in 3 choice of a direction for the run, that " there l ' s rather difficult country about Bethnal Green'l Announcing his readiness for the start--" n eed say," he asks Mortimer—" with a Hey Ho Choi and likewise with a Hark Forward, Hark Forw3rio Tantivy !" In spite, however, of all the del eet3b o f fun thus provoked by Eugene's eccentric ine d , e ha retaliating upon the maddened jealousy e' u - 00 Schoolmaster, there begins to grow up between ou two an ugly probability enough of the coming , n the very speedily, of that fierce struggle betwee n ; o two which has all along bee n hi n ted at towar ds : a lower part of the illustration on the green et). of " Our Mutual Friend." Z *yiZii int rt .0 1 4- ZIS t C HER MAJESTY. 0- f q. v . 8 , • OSBORNE, her In consequence of the unfavourable weathe r, bip , Majesty was unable to attend the service A W pingham Church yesterday morning. an d Their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena Princess Louise attended the afternoon serv ice. w ith Sir Charles Wood had the ho n o ur of dini l3 g_..,,ea the Queen and royal family y es t er d a y, and raw — to T London to-day, the he Hon. Emma Lascelles has succee ded Hon. Flora Macdonald as Maid of IleO ur Waiting. The Prince and Princess of Wales' „oh The Prince of Wales, attended by Earl SP e7 l , n el Lieutenant-General Knollys, LieutenantC%i, Keppel, Major Teesdale, and Mr. Fisher, le ft 's borough House shortly before seven o'clock Y es day morning, for D ublin. the h The Princess of Wales, accompanied f e , Crown Prince of Denmark, took a carriage yesterday. bridg e Her Royal highness Princess Mary of Cnra u gh visited the Princess of \Vales at Marlboro llouse. Dublin and its Exhibition , -p-hf oink t DUBLIN, Monday e a t The Prince of Wales arrived at six o' e , : w oo "- Kingstown, and was received by the Lord -1-"' ero l nant, the Commander of the Forces, and the ge e , er e staff of Dublin government. The crov ag 1 : 1 011 very large, the enthusiasm great, the saluting - 0 o f the bunting profuse, and all passed off in a 13a° enthusiastic loyalty. An d The Prince reached Dublin at half- ast P W er e 5 ,at once proceeded to the Viceregal Lodge, Wil d ' the Inner party of 40 was invited to meet hil n 811 a re Duke of Cambridge. Some of the iL m a i:ta to l - jo g being tried to-night. A slight accident, sP ri l e ep from a heated axle, detained the royal trai n bets Chester and Holyhead for a few minutes. *nce s3 Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and rl - De r of Wales and the Crown Prince of De nmark visited co Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambrid g e and the Mary, at Cambridge Cottage, Kew, on Sunday aftero ho Their Royal Highness es the Duke and Pia° ler d'Aumale and the Prince de Conde honoured Lady Tho worth with their company at dinner last eveni i t s following were invited to meet their r o yaluteS s The Earl and Countess Stanhope, the Earl an d Co- I : 1 4 the of Cork, the Earl Granville, the Earl of St. Ge rre : - doon' Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, m.p and Fra y ', StA ir toss Waldegrave, the Countess of Shaftesbury, - 1- ) f r i ci t ore' ley, M.P., Lord and Lady Foley, the lion. F. ua d -11 010r M.P., Mr. Oswald and Mr. H. West, and 1110 111e.-° champ, in Waiting on the Duchess d'Aurnale• ite pia The Countess of Derby w ill have fi ll e i do 3ll party on Friday, the 26th inst., as well as on the 18th inst. a 4 Lord Lord and Lady Algernon St. Maur have • at the St. George's Hotel. yeSt er t Lord Stanley, M.P., returned to to°ll,:wart day from visiting the Earl and Countes s Knawlo Park. dal Lord Adalbert Cecil left town on Say -- u join the depot of his regiment at Winchester . 10 1 The Duchess (Eleanor) of Northumber,3ll passing the early months of her widowhood ;100. Duchess (Dowager) of Northumbe r l an d, at Tvfic i The Marquis Conyngham left Slanes Ciffighoest seat in the country, in order to meet his Royal - - no t 0- the Prince of Wales at the Lord 3fayor's bi Dublin. off ilea The Earl and Countess of Wilton halloo at their residence, in Grosvenor-square, for th°G g pP The Earl of Glasgow has left the Hotel. ___ —.......___---- 0. Exhibitions for the Working 0111°8e Sm,—A question of high interest TO ------..^.-------. THE EDITOR OF THE WO. ..- 065. London, for lion of the great n tree ° mass of the people has be en leading articleof lia of Saturday, 6th inst. Would ' it not be wiser to he &Wee'. of the Exchequer, agree with t .. „00 0 chequer, who condemns the heavy e'r arlf nisi ) £50,000 perit, $lOO - for eight land acres of and take the land er a anywhere at a low price ? s WO The number, regularity, and cheapness 0. e t pre railways, and r, eyen omnibuses, would certainly.l:oooo t vent clerks, officials, or workmen from visiting -11 " o tlie Picture Galleries, the Crystal Palace, and s woreniell 00 on useful exhibition s, if such establishments °F ac e Sundays, _.v._.., antra aye, and not charged intellect eja.c ;Lula' Ire fires' with extraordi t" prices on Saturdays.shall p 0 v t de Open these doors to the working it feel classes, . i gian ~, any harm to churches, you shall have more CIO „rots. ings in the people, and less drunkards in the P', 15 .0. Yours respectfully, if 1.,•1 01 ` N ico l . l.V. • ill. murder r l GENERAL LEE AND THE LATE AIR. .', f gentleman waited -- • LIB ofl Lee e resident Lincoln. A Mr• Suite ,Ith °le t President nEte sruponas refusedtohiGmraonntt Grant's shaurentaidrusetyr y h e . d endT3l: ~,si ° ls :3: epitomethe s a _ letter's tohfe g night oi f of particulars. He said that when he dispossessed 1 ° 1 : ~,id the command s. of the Confederate forces he 100 1111.16, to N oo a o d t rth, maidn in that he regretted Mr. Lincoln's death as m uch 1,,, the Lincoln's benignity, and surrendered as 13 ,0 , 1 i p) . teer.s xeto and that he believed magnanimity and good faith.---1167:13 York Weekly Newspaper. rOO 1 SHEEP KILLLED BY DOGS IN IREL-Al4l)'---- r°- iirobe dt• return issued yesterday it appears that the 0 ii „01 - 1 sheep supposed to have been killed by dogs in 11.c o siO P the year 1864, was 6,147. Only in 449 of those c3PliolOt the cow4c , rs of the dogs beeu discovered and those Aillv