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HOUSES. —Messrs. TOPS and ROBERTS have numerous furnished and unfurnished TOWN, :suburban, and Country RESIDENCES to LET or SELL. Par[iculars forwarded for three stamps, upon stating exact requirements and rental. O ffi ces, 2, Conduit-street, Regent street, and South Kensington, facing the Museum. OUTH KENS GTON, HYDE-PARK, Queen's, and Rutland Gates, Queen's -gate and Peters ham Terraces, Queen's -gate, Cornwall, and Princes Gardens, Elvasten- place, Cromwell-mid, Onslow and Thurloe Squares, Bolton& &c. Messrs TOPLIS and ROBERTS have RES'. pEN CRS to SELL and LET in these and surrounding localities. Offices, 2, Conduit-street, Regent-street; and Soul h Kensington, facing the Museum. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. (Opera Company, Limited.) TIII4 EVEN IN 4 will be produced a new opera, the music by Mr. Hem y Leslie, the Horeb() by .1. i'alg are Simpson, ksq., entitled IDA, with new scenery, resses. and appoint menu. Ida of Lis nield, Mae. Ida Gilliess ; Greta, Madame E m , a Heywood (her second appearance this season);;Barnu Adrian of ilaintetd, Mr. J. G Patey ; Baron Liingzsopt, Mr, Henry Corri ; Osman, Mr. A Cook ; nu, Mr. E. Duabek ; Eric, Mr. C. L; a.l ; liuthilt, Mr. W. IL Cummings (his second appearance on tue stage). Conductor, 4:r. Alfred 3fellon. To conclude wi,h the Grand Ballet, GITTA LA B,TL LE /LINA. Mdlle. Duchateau ; Malice. AloLtero, Carey, Borth', and Pancaldi; Mr. Harry Payne and M. Despl ces. supported by 48 Ladles of the corps ae Ballet. Commence at half-past 7. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.- Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with the Farce of HUSBANDS BEWARE. Mr. G. Bellhop:a ; Miss Hazlewood, Miss R. Leclercq, &c. After which, Shakspere's Tragedy of KING JOHN : Messrs. Phelps, James Anderson, T. Swinbourne, Raynor. G. Bel more, E. Phelps, C. Harcourt; Miss Atkinson, Mrs. H. Yandenhoff, Mrs. Hodson, &c. Commence at 7. EATRE ROYAL, HAYM ARKET. _ TH Sole Lessee and Mana;, - -er, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THREE WE,t;Kend S .A.l,TERSnowden, MAR RIAGE. Mr. W. Farren , Mr. Chippale, Miss Miss Rielly Moore. Atter which, USED UP. Mr. Charles Mathews, Ilr.Howe, Miss Belly Moore, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. To be followed by (sth time) WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN ? Mr. Chippendale, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. &c. Concluding with THE BALLET. Messrs. Arthur and Charles Leclercq. Miss Fanny >ti right, Miss C. Adams, and the Corps de Ballet. Commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEAT.PLE.- Under the sole Management of Mr. Fechter. THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Mr. and Mrs. Horsman. After which, at 8, a New Drama, entitled THE WATCH CRY. Mr Fechter, supported by Messrs. H. Widdicombe, S. Emery, C. Horsman, Raymond, Fitzpatrick, Clifford. and Miss Elsworthy. To conclude with the Farce of NURSEY CHICKWEED. Messrs. IL Widdicomb, Raymond, Moreland; Mrs. Lee and Miss Lavenu. 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SATURDAY, Nov. 18, being the LAST DAY for publication of Railway notices for the next Session of Parliament, in compliance with the Standing Orders, an extraordinary late edition of The Sun will, as usual, be published that evening, for the purpose of keeping the press open to Par liamentary agents and professional gentlemen until the latest moment. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tius DAY.—Morning, lh. 26m.—Afternoon, lh .:15m T3-Monatow.-Morning, 22h. Om.—Afternoon, 2h :18m UM LONDON, FRIDAY, NOV. 17, 1865. The arrival of the anxiously expected mail from the West Indies has at length brought us reassuring intelligence. It seems that the prompt and vigorous measures taken in Jamaica have so far repressed the rebellion, and that the principal ringleaders were not only captured, but had actually paid the penalty of their crimes when the mail left. It is probable that the extent of the loss of life and pro-. perty is not as yet fully known, and while we may reasonably fear that the number of victims which is incomplete, we may also hope that in some isolated cases those supposed to have been included in the massacre have escaped with their lives. So far from the outbreak being a casual or localised movement, it appears to have been part of a deep seated and wide-spread organisation, and terrible as the results are even now, it is evident that the white and mulatto population have had a merciful escape. It seems that, as in the larger case of the Sepoy rebellion, the insurrection was premature, and was provoked . by the arrest of one of the prin cipal movers on some totally different grounds. A riot took place when a prisoner was captured, and the police were beaten, and had to fly, leaving the prisoner at large. Summonses were, therefore, served upon the rioters, being, of course, served by policemen. The first person served was PAUL BOGLE, one of the principal leaders, who at once sounded a signal whistle. Two or three hundred men arrived with sticks, and soon overmatched the P olice, compelling them to jo in their ranks. The Custos, who was afterwards so brutally murdered at once sent off to the Governor and the command ing officer of volunteers for forces. The next move ment was the assault on the Court-house, which was evidently part of a deadly plan of general massacre, for the mob, without any provocation, commenced firing through the windows. The mob consisted of more than 1,000 men, for whom the few volunteers were no match, though they fought heroically, and soon paid for their assistance with their lives. The fearful details of the slaughter, the firing of the Court-house, the general massacre and plunder, have already reached us ; but we now learn that all this was part of an organised plan for the destruction of all whites and maroons in the island, and the seizure of the property and lands by the negro population. In bitter mockery at the attempt to Christianise them, the ruffians had selected Christmas-day for the general rising ;so m as that, had it not been for the fortunate c h ance of the dispute about the p risoner, England as well em a J a maica would have had good reason to remember the Christmas of 1865 . I t is p robabl e enough that the negroes selected that day, knowing that it w as a time of general festivity and holiday-making, and that persons would be off their guard, though it may well be asked what possible reason there could be for distrusting a people which are admitted in every respect to equal privileges with the whites. The leader, Mr. GORDON, who was, we regret victim. to find, a member of the Baptist profession, in sequestrating the Duchies. The influence of the was a black tin; butr-a member of the Legislative I Duke of AUGUSTENBEUG has not lost its power, Assembly, and a min of property. He was also at although by force and persuasion so much has been one time a magistrate, but was dismissed by the done to weaken it, if not altogether to nnllify it. Governor for seditious harangues, having always , It is one thing to trample down the rights of a had, it seems, the idea of being a popular leader. people, and another to alter their inclina- What more could be asked than that a black man tion. By this time both of Schleswig and should have the power to acquire and to retain Holstein the inhabitants are quite prescient large property, to take part in the legislation of the enough to perceive the real meaning of country, and even to administer the laws? Yet the German intrigue, and it remains to be seen, evidence against this man, loud in his professions notwithstanding all that has been said, done, or of religion, is most overwhelming. The plan o f the thou g ht of, whether the allied Powers will finally whole atrocious rebellion was found drawn up in his establish any rule i n th ose t err it or i es th at i s wort h y own writing, and it w as noticed that on the day of of the name, or w h e th er th ey w ill go on ca j o li ng b y the attack on the court-house, Mr. GORDON, though specious promises and such threatening with the terror of their wrath, u n til some su dd en revo l u ti on generally a regular attendant at the mee tin g , was absent. This wretched man, having been tried by upsets the whole of the fragile mechanism of so court-martial, was hung on the morning of the 23d called sovereighty, an d d as h es t o th e groun d t h e ult., receiving a more merciful doom than he had hopes and expectations of the Ger man P owers . It was not likely that so very co m pli ca t e d an affair as d ecr eed his victims. The Maroons, who have this attempt to get hold of the D uc hi es w o u ld b e h av ed with great fidelity and courage, perhap s from having been included in the danger, have also eventually succeed to the extent that was w i s h e d f or , b s ucceeded in capturing PAUL BOGLE, with who m , as but it may be safely said that the P russ i ans an d we have said, the revolt originated. He will pro- Austrians have made even more confusion than we bably before this have suffered the full penalty of expected, considering the latitude that was given to the law ; his brother, MOSES BOGLE, and several them to pursue their way both in the exterminating others of his chief associates had been hung when war and the monopolising peace. the mail left, and it is said that over 200 rebels have been shot or executed. Many arrests bare been made, several of them in Kingston itself, and among these we are sorry to find the names of four Reverends, two of them being Baptist ministers. Why the members of this profession should have taken part in this terrible business is quite incomprehensible. It is to be hoped that whoever selects persons for the difficult task of evangelising the black race will henceforth be more careful whom they appoint. For some time past it seems that persons, some of them men of influence, have been travelling the country, ad dressing meetings on the subject of the coloured people's wrongs, telling them they were oppressed and ground down by taxes. It was well known that this was going on, but very little attention was paid to it, it being never supposed that such a savage spirit of hatred and disaffection existed in the black race. Too summary justice cannot be mea sured to the men who, whether from fanaticism or greed, have excited the blacks to this rebellion, but the outbreak itself is, in any case, a startling one. It shows how little has been actually - done towards reclaiming and civilising the negro, though a gene ration has elapsed since the chains of slavery were struck off him. It will be necessary to keep down all disaffection and rebellion with a strong hand for some time to come. A sufficient force must be kept in the island to overawe refractory negroes, and the least attempt on their part must be sternly repressed. Any clemency towards the offenders would be down right cruelty to their own race, as well as to the supe rior races. They have shown themselves incapable of appreciating the indulgence and liberality with which they have been treated, they must therefore learn henceforward to respect the strong arm of law and justice. In any case it will be long before confidence and security are restored, and if the experience of this outbreak has shown that the black man still cherishes a hatred of the white man, it will certainly give the white man a confirmed distrust of the black. Hitherto all his crimes, vices, and cruelties have been naturally attributed to the oppression and injustice of which he has been the It remained for the negro of Jamaica to show that those who sought to befriend, civilize, and enrich him, might expect the same fate at his hands as the tyrant and the slave driver. A correspondent of the Morning Post has fur nished some very interesting details concerning the Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein. It- in d uly abatoci that " Schleswig-Holstein is very like a hedgehog, which can never afford satisfaction to those who touch it ;" and, indeed, all that we hear of its affairs, and the fate of those who meddle with its destinies, tends to confirm the impression thus given. Austria and Prussia have found their real difficulties begin ning just as they deemed themselves secure from hostile demonstration, and safe from the awkward interference of friends and others. The fact is, that the whole course which the Allied Powers has pur sued has been one so inimical to the feelings of the inhabitants, and so adverse to the constitutional rights of the territories in question, that it was almost impossible for any advance to be made in the fashion which was so ardently sought after in the councils of Germany. However much discussion may now prevail among the rival factions at one time, there is no doubt whatever that universal concord prevailed, and that the many divisions and subdivisions of that country made common cause to oust the Danish rulers and establish there supre macy there. The strenuous efforts which are being made by the governors of both Duchies do not appear to meet with any great success ; and while they struggle on with a zeal worthy of a better cause, it is evident to all sagacious lookers-on that they are still far off from the realisa tion of their object. The wonder of those newly-installed authorities is anything but an en enviable one ; in short, particularly that of General GABLENTZ, who has to play second fiddle to the Prussian potentate. In all that has taken place throughout this tedious aflair Austria has been by far the most moderate in the several arrangements and propositions that have been made. But this has not in the end conduced to a very favourable result, because whenever any serious dilemma arose, or any vital interests were in danger of clashing, the Berlin Cabinet was allowed to rule the day. The same sys tem is being carried on in the case of the Duchies, now governed, or supposed to be so, by courtesy in a temporary form. It is graphically told in the ac count before referred to that General GABLENTZ is kept in continual hot water by the way in which he is pestered by General MANTEUFFEL to do many things for which he is not disposed, but with which he is compelled to comply, because he has got in structions to sub m i t to the wishes of the Prussian ruler in Schl eswig "i n all minor matters !" and he cannot easily dizti ngum • h as to whi c h o f th e d eman d s that are mad e t o this limit may properly apply. It would seem as if the Government of Vienna had resolved to follow the example of those " who know the right, and yet the wrong pursue," fo r w h a t they gain in all, estimated by their own re ticence and moderation, they lose by their mean compliance with the dictates of Prussia. This unscrupulous power knows no limits and recogni ses no restrictions that justice may put forward, or that decency may suggest ; and although the over bearing sway so unblushingly asserted may for a time have carried all before it, the period of the amazing success which it has met w ith seems alread y to be drawing to a close, or, at all events, to ap proximate towards a termination. The prevailing sentiments of the inhabitants a It seems that Herr VON BISMARCK has not suc ceeded to so great an extent as he is anxious to make out that he had done on his return from his first visit to France. It was not likely that so astute a judge as the Freneh EMPEROR would have been taken in by the wily manceuvres of the Prussian Minister. It is reported that when Herr BISMAKCK explained the necessity that existed of the Duchies being annexed to Prussia. The EMPEROR replied that it was well known that lie adhered to the "principle of the population boing in such cases consulted," and when, further on, the Prussian Minister spoke of the "mischievous agitation" which influenced the people in a wrong degree, the Emperor did not deign to reply. M. DROUYN DE Linrvs was no easier to persuade than his Sovereign had proved to be ; and he added the significant rejoinder, when the wishes of the people were alluded to, "Du reste le peuple s'est exprimd assez." Indeci sion is exhibited in the councils of Berlin, which proves that all has not gone so smoothly as was at one time predicted by the artful schemers of Prussia. It was expected that the work of " annexa tion" wonld progress in earnest when the French visit was over. But such] has not been:the case, and in some respects Herr VON BISMARCK has hin dered instead of hastening the execution of his pro- jects by his daring effort to bamboozle the ruler of France, and talk over the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Even at Kiel it is evident that the grand scheme of the naval works is getting on very slowly, and a commission is engaged in making inquiries as to whether it will be more desirable for the " proposed Prussian naval establishment " to be formed in the Island of Alsen, in Kiel Harbour. It is quite apparent, from one thing and another, that the arch-conspirators who have sacrificed Denmark insulted the German Con federation, and set at naught the wishes of the Duchies, have halted in their mischievous course, and are at a loss how to proceed for the best. Any check that is given to their progress must be a gain to the cause of justice and the best interests of those with whom they have to deal. Spain is apparently determined to keep herself before the world. She haz just succeeded in ob taining the approval of Europe, by the wise and politic acts of her new Ministry, and her announced intention of emancipating the slaves in Cuba, when she comes out in a very different character. A most unwarrantable aggression on an inferior Power has just occurred, and it has, inciroovor, boon committed in defiance of the unanimous protest of the diplomatic body, and has included a direct in sult to the British flag. The Government and the people of Chili have fortunately shown a spirit and determination worthy of an indepen dent State, however . small. Admiral PAREJA with eight Spanish vessels of war entered the port of Valparaiso, and demanding abject submission on the part of the Chilians for asserted insults to the Spanish flag, gave a very brief term for consideration. The Chilian Minister replied in a dignified despatch, and refused the Ad miral's unceremonious and insulting demands, in which conduct he was supported by the representa tives of England, France, and the United States. Upon this Admiral PAREJA declared the whole coast of Chili under blockade, a threat which he was the more easily able to fulfil from the absence of Her MAJESTY'S ships-of-war, owing to false pre tences on the part of the Spaniards. The Chilians rallied round their Government, and declared war against Spain, but the commercial consequences have been already serious. It remains to be seen what course the English and French Go vernments will think proper to pursue. If they tolerate such a wanton and inexcusable aggression on the liberties and rights of a smaller State, they must certainly abandon their right to be considered the leading Powers in Europe. National Choral Society. -V> - The sixth season of this society, which its founder, Mr. G. W. Martin, has brought to such a great degree of excellence, commenced last night, on which occasion the large area of Exeter Hall was quite incapable of comfortably accommodating the vast audience assembled last evening to hear Mendelssohn's magnificent oratorio " Elijah." To the great disappointment of the entire audience, Mr. Sautley, who had been announced for the prin cipal part, was absent ; and although the regret at such a circumstance was general, the cause that led to it was a matter of still greater sorrow, viz., the death of his son, of whom the highest expectations had been formed. To a person of ordinary courage, such an unlooked - for event would have entirely precluded the performance of the oratorio, but with that energy which has throughout marked Mr. Martin's career he sought for a substitute, and was fortunate enough to prevail upon Mr. Renwick to sustain the part originally assigned to Mr. Santley. As the substitute of so renowned a vocalist, Mr. Ren wick at once secured the sympathy of the audience, but it was in a great measure unneeded, for he sang the music with a taste and expression that won the most enthusiastic and well-deserved applause-- the great airs, " Is not His word," and " It is enough, 0 Lord," each securing an encore. Madame Rudersdorff sang the soprano music to the admiration of the entire audience—and Miss Palmer, Miss Armytage, and Miss Lisle, each sang their respective parts with commendable expres sion. One of the important events of the evening was rais l s aobrilliant the ,a n appearance o f a new tenor, a Mr. Leigh di ta a ff n o d rd u s n u d s e u u n h a te ff d ec s td e p es l s e . as i u i r i se voiceto recordis e f fi th n e e r etone,ptiite r h i as hi l s 3 e e e ff n or h t i s gh r l e y ee c i u v l ed fromtiva la te st d, ev a e n uin d will be at n o very distant date that he will take his place as one of th e most accomplished and genuine it t s h i n o g e r r i s g h o e t o h u e s d shine," h y e t h h e c e e a v t , s d o n t g h , a T h h e e Then sal a h s a l thorough musician, and such was the taste and feel ing with which the piece was executed that a rapturous encore had to be complied with. The choruses were given with all g t eu hi nh t d ut steadiness omr a aa n nt o d e reiso r e oi c fn i s t pin th o hies and, despite the disapp o i n t most o h oc a si t et t s ey o ff. greatlynildfaai s nr t nt i i n enr ment above alluded to, the performance was brought to a most successful conclusion. ayli , li , The d next performance of the society will be R the Duchies towards the Germans are thus described to us :—" P russ i a i s h a t e d, Austria is distrusted, and the other States of the Confederation are all more or less despaired of." Such is a very natural feeling to have existence when we take into consi deration the devious course which has been pursued by all the recklessness of Prussia, the hesitating conduct of Austria, and the inability or unwilling ness displayed by the minor States 0 do anything decided to impede the progress of the allied powers TIE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVEINING, NOVEMBER 17, 1865. LITERATURE, Sir Thomas Wyse's Pelopomesus. An Excursion in the Peloponnesus it. the Year 1858. By the late Right Hon. Sir Thomas Wyse, K.C.B. Edited by his Neice. Winifrede M. Wyse. Two Volumes. Day and Son. We have examined these pages with very mingled feelings indeed—with feelings at once of the irost profound regret and of the sincerest admiration. To our thinking, they constitute, beyond all com parison, the best book of travels descriptive of Greece as it actually is, contrasted with Greece as it used to be in its halcyon days when a great and heroic nation. It appears to us to be not only, as we have here said, incomparably the best book of travels upon the subject that has ever yet appeared to our knowledge, but, in point of fact, the only one intrinsically worthy of its theme —the only book worthy of being the expositor of Greece as it is, when viewed through the remembrance of what Greece vas wont to be in the golden age of classic antiquity, when so re garded by the intelligence, and afterwards described by the hand of a lettered Englishman. Scholars of eminence have no doubt visited Greece before now, and written books about it after their return home ward, but their writings as compared with the two volumes here submitted to our consideration have been either frivolous and superficial —or dull with the dullness of Peter Bell—" dull beyond all expres sion dull," tediously erudite and didactically dry. To particularise amongst these predecessors of Sir Thomas Wyse, might possibly be invidious, would certainly be sheer waste of time. It could, in no possible manner, serve our present purpose —meaning a candid examination of these two noble volumes, descriptive of modern Greece— volumes shadowing forth through their vivid and picturesque and thoroughly appreciative delinea tion of modern Greece, the far grander outlines of the glorious Greece of antiquity. For—amongst the ablest of his precursors, there is not one with whom the author of the remarkable work now under review can be brought seriously, even for one single instant, into comparison. His scholarship was ripe and ready. His eloquence was as captivating and as persuasive when he took pen in hand, as when, in his Parliameniary days, he was :wont to address with his lips intelligent and delighted audi ences, now within, now without the walls of the imperial Legislature. And hence—by means simply of the judicious combination of his lore and of his rhetoric, in his jotting down thus in the simple form of a diary the varying impressions produced upon his mind during his latest excursion among the desolate ruins and thinly-peopled dwelling-places of the Peloponnesus, Sir Thomas Wyse contrived to write a book as instructive as a paper contributed to the Philosophical Transactions, yet as sparklingly vivacious and as entertaining as one of the happiest hits in a Paris feuilleton. The work altogether— that is, regarded as a whole, looked at in its symmetrical completeness—is, so far as any one could reasonably desire it, completely exhaustive of its theme : namely, as a description of the country, of the people, of the manners and customs, of the institutions, both civil and political, of the material condition and of the intellectual and moral status of all that is signified, now-a-days, under the one comprehensive term of the Peloponnesus. It is as minutely detailed as well digested and as scrupu lously well-arranged in its accummulation of illus- trative facts and statistics, as though it were a blue book compiled by the labours of a commis sion, to be placed afterwards for the enlighten ment of our legislators on the tables of the Lords and Commons by command of the Sovereign. But—in this instance, unlike any blue book that was ever printed, certainly quite unlike any that ever yet came under our own observation--the work, amply furnished though it is with statistics and other such illustrative or elucidatory materials, is, nevertheless, from the beginning of the opening chapter in the first volume, down to the conclusion of the final chapter in the second, not only thoroughly readable, but often as exhilarating and refreshing, in the mere sparkle and animation of its manner, as the conversations of a wit or the correspondence of a humorist. We read on—never once bored—always entertained—very frequently delighted. Having opened the book - with euriinstwe . havo clotted it with admiration : but, as intimated at the outset of these remarks, with an admiration that is mingled with regret. And that regret?—who is there who knows anything at all about Sir Thomas Wyse who will not recognise the source of it upon the instant? A regret arising simply, solely and wholely, from our con viction that that distinguished servant of the Crown was unexpectedly prevented by his death not merely from giving this effusion himself to the world, but from giving to the world, together with it, very speedily afterwards, other and yet ampler illustra tions of the rare and refined powers that were in him. From whatever untoward or fortuitous cir cumstance it may have arisen, certain are we, from all that we have been able to learn in regard to his career and his writings, that Sir Thomas Wyse never did himself full justice in the manifestation of his gifts and capabilities, insomuch that those gifts and capabilities of his are to this hour, we be lieve, in no way adequately appreciated. His Speeches —and they alone would make a noble volume—have yet, we believe, to be collected. His History of the Catholic Association is the only substantial literary production that was fully completed by him during his lifetime. His great work upon Education-- which promised to become the text-book u p on t h at _ _ _ _ . subject of vito,l import to every civilisedlommu- nity—never advanced, at any rate in a published form, beyond the limits of a First Volume. Never theless, judging that work through merely its one opening volume—estimating its proportions thus in a manner ex pede Herculem—its augury of the work as a completed whole, was magnificent. As a preliminary treatise upon Education, it was a master piece. Turning, however, from a consideration of his career as a Parliamentary orator, as a champion, nay, in his day, as the arch-champion of the great cause of National Education, as a legislator, a debater, a man of letters, an administrator, and a patriotic philan thropist—turning from an examination of those ear lier phases of his career to the latest epoch of that career, to the latest manifestation of his powers, that is to say, in his capacity as a diplomatist, we have, if that be possible, a yet more striking illustration of the singularly regrettable, the almost disheartening fact we are now alluding to, in the history of the memorable " Financial Commission to inquire into the _Resources of Greece"—the Commission for mally appointed after the occupation of Athens dur ing the progress of the Crimean War, and of which Commission Sir Thomas Wyse was from first to last the active and distinguished President. Here, again —as finally and conclusively illustrative of those vexatious casualties that somehow intervened be- tween the application of the rare abilities of Sir Thomas Wyse to any given theme intrinsically worthy of them, and the conspicuous manifestation of the skill with which those powers had been so ap plied—the light of this Commission was in a man ner, as one may say, placed under a bushel. It was a Commission, it may be remembered, appointed, in the first instance, for the solution of the long bewildering problem as to whether the resources of Greece could really be regarded as sufficing for the regular payment thenceforth of the interest upon the loan guaranteed by the three protecting Powers, that is to say, byEngl and, France, and Russia. That those resources did not suffice, the Greek Go vernment had persistently maintained, from year to year, their doing so being in truth their one only excuse for the non-fulfilment of their solemnly stipulated engagements. Consequently to inquire for once and for all into the validity of this asser tion, the Financial Commission referred to was for mally constituted. It consisted of the English, the French, and the Russian ambassadors then at the Court of Athens, those three ministers having as sociated with them in the labours of the Commis sion two assistant-Commissioners. Sixty-two sit tings in all were held by those five members of the Financial Commission. Sir Thomas Wyse, at each of those sittings, presiding. Elaborate reports were drawn up on the several departments of the Greek Government. Th ose reports s h owe d as c l ear ly as written words cou ld d o, t h e ac t ua l con diti on o f the adm in i s t rat i on. They suggested remed i es and improvem en t s, 'Wherever such were deemed ' to be _ feasible, and their arguments were based upon parti culars supplied to them by documents furnished to that very end by the Greek Ministers themselves. After all this had been done, and the labours of the Commis sion were to all intents and purposes completed, the commissioners thereupon invited to a Conference upon the whole matter, the members of the Greek Government individually and collectively. At that Conference the Reports of the Commission (observe the plural here italicised) were submitted, each re port to the head of the respective department, to the end that any errors of fact that might peradventure by sheer casualty have crept in might there and then be detected, and either struck out altogether or scrupulously corrected. Afterwards—that is, after the completion of this conference between the members of the Financial Commission and • the members of the Greek Government—the epitomised labours of the Commission were by the Commis sioners embodied in A Report—which report (and no more than which report) was eventually laid before Parliament and published. All the prelimi nary Reports already particularised—the whole of the accumulation of valuable (some among them it might be said wholely invaluable) docu ments accompanying that one final and . isolated Report, which was eventually published, being summarily and en masse suppressed, or at any rate cushioned. " A mine of knowledge and instruction" it was proounced to be at the time—this accumulation of papers accompanying the report—by those who had the privilege of dipping into them. And, among those elaborate documents, several were drawn up by Sir Thomas Wyse himself, the President of the Commission--conspicuous amongst his papers being one on " Justice," one on the " Church," and one upon that always congenial theme for him, " Education." Those three treatises, of themselves, would, if produced, we feel certain, be of ines timable value, not only for the student of modern history, but for the future guidance of the Greek Government. But no !—manuscript they remain, in common with much, we feel certain that might no less radiantly illustrate the rare ability of the accom plished man who from 1849 to 1862 (au interval of profound anxiety at Athens to all the diplomatists there resident) occupied at the Court of Greece the delicate and responsible position of H.M.'s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. At any rate, in the midst of the regrets thus called to mind by the publication of this splendid posthumous work of Sir Thomas Wyse' upon the Peloponnesus —we at the least can exult in possessing this one work of his upon the Peloponnesus. Among all those of his literary performances which as have as yet seen the light, it is, in every way, the most felici tous. And we say this, moreover, with no dis paragement whatever to his earlier productions. Whatever else he may have written, and that may yet be lying hid away from our ken in manuscript like those three treatises of his upon Justice, and the Church, and Education in Greece, which have in a manner, as we have said, been shelved by the Government, this posthumous work by Sir Thomas Wyse is certainly, among all his published works, the one likely to win the largest amount of popu larity, and to enhance and extend his reputation very considerably. It is written delightfully. Not intelligently alone, but delightfully. We have read it with a relish: and yet, for all that, we have read it at every turn of the leaf with an appreciable sense of instruction. It yields an ampler amount of infor mation, we believe—of solid and valuable informa tion upon Greece and the Greeks—the Greece and Greeks of nowadays—than any other two volumes that were ever before printed. Nevertheless, while doing so, the work never once wearies us with its stores of information. We:read on willingly, and are almost unconsciously instructed while we are very conscieusly, indeed, entertained. The charm of the very style of the composition is perpetually around us like any atmosphere. And we may safely say that any mere fragmen tary quotations, however well selected, could afford no adequate notion whatever of the fascina tion of Sir Thomas's manner as an author, as the appreciation of it grows upon us while reading his book continuously. Whatever his theme at the moment chances to be, it is the same. If, for example, he has reason to contrast in a passing sentence the bright, ingenuous, fresh-complexioned Spartan boys with the Athenian urchins who are the very reverse of being bright,, or ingenuous, or fresh-complexioned, he does so thus by a touch or two of his pen, resulting in an equiva lent to a pencilled vignette by Stothard—remark ing of the stripling Spartans that " Well set on their light, clean limbs, they looked as ready as their own goats for a tough mountain walk, and resembled in nothing the rickety build or listless movement of the sharp-nosed, thin-lipped, sallow checked, imp -like creatures packed up in the schools at Athens." Or, to give ampler evidence of our,:author's skill in wo r d painting, take the follow ing exquisitively picturesque and vivid description of the forest scenery traversed by him on the road to Psophis. Heard of previously at I)ouka, as a sylvan region, eminently worthy of examination, this richly wooded Arcadian landscape q.ppears to leave beguiled the travellers an by its varied beauties for as many as throe or four consecutive hours. Descanting upon it with manifest delight, the author of the Peloponnesus thus comments upon the aspect of the Greek woodland : It presents the richest variety of forest scenery. Plane trees, valonea, and pines stand in masses or separate. Hazel, arbutus, prinari, chyrysoxylo, form the intermediate foliage whilst vigorous groups of myrtle, bay, lentisk, in terwoven with angus castus, fill up the foreground. This forest belongs to the Government, and it boars the usual marks of such proprietorship. It has been cut, or rather destroyed, and apparently at random. Trees, tapped for resin, and consequently perishing, others half-burnt, others undermined, not by rule, but as tho caprice or cupidity of the trespasser impelled him, show how ineffectual is government control at all times, and here, how directly pernicious. No division of district exists, and no appoint ment of seasons or limttation of time for cutting the tim ber ; all seem welcome to do what injury they can ; what belongs to Government belongs to every one, and no one. Yet foresters—Sao-oVaaxis—there absolutely are, as in Franca and Germany, and also a sort of second-hand German and French forest code. But the foresters sleep the whole year, day and night, in the villages ; at most they pass through the woods two or three times a year. * * A rough and harsh mountain country succeeded the forest. Passing through stony grey defiles, where stunted wild olives and ragged firs with difficulty broke their way, wont last reached, in the heart of this region, and on the side of one of these craggy crumbling rocks, the miserable khan of Birbisi. To enter was impossible. Here, therefore, the travellers pause awhile for the enjoyment of an al fresco meal spread for them by their attendant Dimitri, under the shadow of a plane-tree. While the mules and horses of the cavalcade are yet enjoying their repast, and while the companions of Sir Thomas are yet luxuriating in their siesta, he himself is happily tempted to wander down into one of the defiles sweeping away from their momentary iest ting place. Happily tempted, we say advisedly, and this for the simple reason enough that our author's so doing enables him to complete not only his pencilled sketch, but (in the manner following) his pen and ink 'description also of the immediate neigbourhood A wild, broken up district it was—the mountains seamed by olives, and here and there topped by villages , not un like a tamer Switzerland. At the bottom of a deep de scent, we reached a rough torrent bed, with the customary decoration of plane trees, and following it for some time, we came upon a more open pathway to Tripotama. The whole aspect was rough, and dislocated by the perpetual action of mountain wind, waier, and snow. The winter climate is nearly alpine, but with this difference, that it does not leave behind it those vividly green pasturages, in the bosoms and hollows of mountain, edged by a cluster of chalet; which atone for tho devastations of winter in Switzerland. Shepherd wanderers are occasionally seen tending widely-scattered herds of goats and sheep flocks : but entire tracts lie silent, stony, and desolate. Great cloven rocks overhead, regularly split and hewn, now and then bear the semblance of some toppling mountain fast- ness. In other cases, real remnants of ancient defences are confounded with the natural.rock. All these small in- ternal states, in a normal condition of unceasing feud and fear, had to look narrowly to every approach, and to keep their sword ready for aggression on every side. No treaty had effect longer than suited the convience of either party : at best, their treaties were but a series of loose and brief armistices. Border warfare in all countries consists of ambush, surprise, sudden foray, and successful treachery ; and every stato in Greece stood in the position of a bor- darer surrounded by enemies. Many of these overhanging cliffs, new go bare, had their castles—Opo;oca, and many now taken by the traveller for freaks of nature, show, on closer examination, substructions of fortified outposts exactly the counterpart of the strata of rock with which they were interwoven. It requires some time, and not a little labour, to reach and examine them ; and, when the end is achieved, it turns out to be hardly worth either. But no part of Greece is without a large harvest of shat tered citadels, of which traces are every day brought to light, many more still awaiting tho investigations of the archaeological traveller—investigations of more im portance in a topographical than in an artistic point of view. Continuing this description of the general appear ance of the surrounding country, Sir Thomas writes— We gradually emerged from these defiles into a plain somewhat better cultivated, and shut in by two ranges of mountain. At its extremity, a rather lofty summit, vast and gloomy, seemed to bar our passage, or to intimate that the plain we were traversing was only au interruption, a favoured exception to the general ruggedness. Over its whole extent, no village, and scarcely a habitation, was `perceptible. As sunset approached, our Agoyiates talked widely of khans and monasteries, but we could not yet discover any. At length, the evening sun struck on a small dwelling, a few miles distant. This single house in the middle of this desert was the—khan. But the village? "There is no village," answered our guide. "It is the khan of Tripotamo." In another half-hour we stood before it. A more forbidding lodging it were impossible to im agine, or one more deserted. At pistol-shot distance were some enclosures for cattle; and a ruined church, once con nected with a monastery' stood on the declivity opposite. All was silence. Even the khan seemed untenanted. It was not without effort that we brought ourselves to enter it, scrambled as we could up the broken steps ; and yet it had rooms and " apartments," though no kitchen, and we had to dig a hole in the neighbouring earth for our cookery, which fortunately was simple. Then, by the warning twilight, we made a reconnaisance of the surrounding scenery. Tripotamo, or Tripotamos—so called from the junction of the " three , rivers," the Erymanthus, the Aronius, and Liopesi—is the ancient Psophis. The mountain opposite was the site of the town and citadel, and the river flowing between is one of the three from which it takes its modern designation. Tho Liopesi runs immediately behind the khan. The long ridge of hill, higher than, the lower part of the mountain facing us, was that on which Phillip encamped. It is in a strain thus picturesque that the whole narrative of this evidently most delightful Excursion through the Peloponnesus is penned by her Ma jesty's late ambassador at Athens. That he was not spared to see the work passed through the press under his own direction is a matter of profound re gret to us—purely for his own sake, however, and not for the book's ! We can hardly imagine any posthu mous publication produced with more exquisite care for everything that might be supposed to have been among the deceased author's wishes in its regard, than that which has been lavished, with a bright in telligence and a tender affection, by the niece of Sir Thomas Wyse, upon these two volumes, upon these 657 pages of his work upon the Peloponnesus. Charming though the graceful deprecation put forth by Miss Wyse in her Preface—her deprecation, that is to say, of anything like a rigidly searching scrutiny of her editorial labours upon the book under review —it is in itself altogether superfluous. Her affec tionate regard for what she (better, surely, than any one else that could be named) knew to be the wishes and intentions of the departed author, in the transformation of his manuscript into print, has enabled her to accomplish what scholarship and literary aptitude alone would certainly have failed to effect. Aided, she has been, here and there, as she takes occasion herself very warmly to acknow ledge before the close of her prefatory remarks, by several kind and learned friends, who, during her performance of her labour of love, have offered her —some their assistance, all their encouragement. Nevertheless, it is easy enough to recognise, while reading the work itself in its in tegrity as a whole, that the brunt of the toil has appertained exclusively to the Editress of these volumes, to the author's niece, " Winefrede M. Wyse," to give her name here simply as it appears on the titlepage. From Monemvasia, where we first arrive in company with Sir Thomas and his fellow-excursionists on to Gythium, to Sparta, to Mistra, to Trype and the Langada, to Kalamata and Mount Ithome, to Upper Messenia and the Stenyklarian Plain on to Eira, and Phigaleia, and Bassw, along the Valley of the Alpheus, within the august precincts of Olympia, on to Lafa and Psophis, to Kalavryta and Megaspi lion, to Vostitza or. lEgium, along the Achaian coast, to Sicyon, and round by way of Corinth back once more to the starting-point of Athens, or rather to its outport of the Pincus, we make the tour of the whole Peloponnesus. How profitably any one might predicate without reading one page of the work under notice, bearing in remembrance simply the fact that the late Sir Thomas Wyse is the writer, and that his theme is Greece. How pleasantly—no one could pcssibly conjecture who has not himself read the book and read it, too, not casually, here and there, but consecutively and throughout. Every thing that could be wished for the work in regard to its mere material getting up has been done for it by its publishers, the Messrs. Day and Son, the eminent lithographers of Gate street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. IsTumerous embellish ments are scattered through the two volumes— illustrations etched with a delicate and wonderfully accurate needle, by Mr. A. Severn, from drawings made upon the spot by Signor V. Lanza, and by the accomplished author himself—Sir Thomas handling his pencil, it should be said, as an artist—almost as skilfully as he handled his pen as a man of letters" Folding panoramas, an outline map of the route taken by the tourists, woodcut diagrams introduced here and there among the letterpress—whenever desirable for the purposes of elucidation, enhance the value and interest of the two volumes as an illustrated publi- cation. Its general excellence we have in our fore going remarks in no way exaggerated. They are discernible in regard to this work alike at its heart and upon its surface. Even a superficial reader of it becomes aware of them in spite of himself, in de spite, that is, of the merely cursory glance bestowed by him upon a work so alarmingly elaborated as a two-voliimed record of an Excursion in the Pelo ponnesus. Does any one doubt what we are here saying or regard our tributary phrases as expres sive in any way of an extravagance ? Let another fragmentary passage answer, a passage culled almost hap-hazard from these posthumous pages of Sir Thomas Wyse—descriptive (how charmingly let our readers judge for themselves) of Parori, otherwise, of the sweet waters of Mistra, as they babble and sparkle to view upon our opening (at page 150 of Vol. I.) this doubly pictorial book upon the Peloponnesus Pausing upon the brink of Taygetus, he runs on thus radiantly and eloquently in his description of the place— A clear clo'Ven wall, with such a profusion of ivy, so moist, so green, that we refused to beliete we were in Greece, where all is so intensely dry and brown. Caverns and clefts, however, there were sufficient to let out whole torrents, and masses of verdure with them, in spring and summer. Just under this rock the Mahomedan love of shade and water collected the streams into their usual form of fountain, pieced-up with fragments wherever they could get them, and fitted together as journeymen •masons might deem best. A Doric frieze, supported by an injured inscription, figured on a sort of cornice. This not being of any antiquity harmonised sufficiently with the coarse fleuron ornaments near. Besides the fountain stood a group of Spartan, or at least Lako nian, damsels, who • in health and form would not have shamed their countrywomen in the Lysistrata. They were busily prepared in washing—preparing, as they told us i for the bridal of the youngest of the party, which was to be celebrated in a day or two. The Nausikaa was very active and practical, and did not allow the presence of strangers to interfere with the prosecution of her work The great plane tree spread its fine green branches over the party, and joined its shadows with those of the rock in protecting them from the sun. If there lives a tree in Greece which deserves, or appears to have, a Dryad to take care of it, it is assuredly the plane. Oaks themselves are dwarfs beside it, to say nothing of that artless art with which, while grasping rock and block below (I have seen them keep defiant hold on both in the very face of a Tay getan torrent) with roots like claws and talons, worthy of the Blocksberg roots of Ooethe, they run out above, re sembling a sort of hugh convolvulus, the arms apparently s coneach -as pliant as tendrils, but loaded with s ha de sufficient for a whole squadron. Nor is it massive heavy shade, b u t o f a light twinkling kind; theecaqnudisidtei sharpness ve g at o f the foliage moved by every breeze, turn all the grey, silver, and brown purple of its lining in rich harmony with its bright verdure. Around this one-- evidently an old favourite—its Turkish ad m i rers, as in other parts of Greece, had built up a circular dais, where pasha and peasant, sleeping, smoking, coffee-drinking, or eating, might fiud at any hour of the four - and-twenty the fulness of Southern and Oriental enjoyment. Surely a charming picture, charmingly pencilled— pencilled with a touch of refined and subtle appre ciation. And thus, as occasion offers, is the boo written with that same appreciative touch, and that same picturesque grace of description throughout Satisfied, more than simply satisfied, though we are in regard to the work as a whole—now that it has at length made its long-announced appearance—it has rendered us so far extortionate in our wishes, that is with reference to the probability there surely must be of its speedy republication, that we are fain to suggest, thus early, for its prospective Second Edition, one or two (as it appears to us) very ob vious improvements. The weeding out of the literal errors of the press, which are indicated by those two rather ample, but still not complete errata, may at once be regarded as a mere matter of course in the way of correction. The improvements, how ever, that we would here speak of are, in point of fact, no corrections whatever, they are simply additions. But they are additions that would to our fancy very conspicuously and appreciably enhance the value and interest of the work in the light in which we have already said that we regard it, namely, as among all Sir Thomas Wyse's pub lished works, his undoubted masterpiece. And they are these simply—as personal memorials of the man, these two additions that we would suggest as en hancements of the interest and value of the reprint in a Second Edition of this, his magnum opus on the Peloponnesus—A Biographical Notice of him, of his career as a politician, a man of letters, an orator, and a diplomatist ! And, together with this proposed memoir, an engraved portrait of Sir Thomas Wyse prefixed to the first volume as a frontispiece. As it is, resting solely on its own in trinsic merits as a literary and artistic, as an anti quarian and a philosophical production, Sir Thomas Wyse's two volumes upon the Peloponnesus, with out any portrait of him, without any biography of him, affords us of his intellect, of his idiocyncrasy, a very vivid and admirable pre sentment ! The individuality of the'man himself, shines out through it quite recognisably. The scholar, the artist, the orator, the legislator, the ad ministrator, the diplomatist, the philanthropist, all are brought to view with wonderful distinctness. So that this one work of his, may be said to constitute of itself a sort of literary rhomboid, presenting to view, it may be at unequal angles, but each of them with perfect distinctness, the varied and contrasting phases of his reputation. (Exturt 4-`"r HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 16. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal family yesterday. Her Majesty, accompanied by their Royal High nesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia and Princess Helena, left Windsor by a special train on the Great Western railway, at 10 minutes before eleven this morning, for London. Her Majesty, on arriving, honoured Mr - . Arm stead and Mr. Calder Marshall with visits to their studios to see the progress of their sculptures for the Prince Consort's memorial in Hyde-park. The Queen afterwards drove to Buckingham Palace, and returned to Windsor at a quarter past one'clock. Her Majesty was attended by Lady Waterpark, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Colonel H. Ponsonby. The Prince and Princess of Prussia remained at Buckingham Palace. The Prince and Princess of Wales• SANDRINGIiAIf, Thursday. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Prince Louis of Hesse, with the gentlemen in atten dance and the royal guests, have been out shooting during the early part of the week. On Monday Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, the Earl of Sef ton, and Lord Beaumont arrived at Sandringham, on a visit to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. On Wednesday the West Norfolk " meet" was arranged to be at Aumor,. the seat of Mr. H. W. Coldham, adjoining the royal estate, and as it was understood that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and his distinguished guests would join the hunt, a very brilliant meet was anticipated. The morning opened beautifully fine, the sun shining as brightly as a May morning, and the interest attached to the meet was neightened by the fact that this was the first time the " West Norfolk" had been honoured with the royal presence since the hounds have been under the management of the popular new master, Mr. A. Hamond, who has succeeded Mr. Villebois. The scene was indeed a gay one ;in the park in front of Anmer Hall it was computed that there were not less than 700 or 800 persons present. About 12 o'clock the Prince of Wales, accompanied by Prince Louis of Hesse and Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, with the Duke of Man chester, the Earl of Sefton, &c., arrived. Soon after the royal party had arrived, Anmer woods were drawn blank, and all trotted off to Fring, about four miles distant, and drew the osier car, when a fox was soon found, but was unfor tunately run into and killed immediately. The hounds were again put in, and soon the welcome cry of " Tally-ho ! Gone away !" was heard, and Reynard, with his face towards Houghton, scampered off, the new pack of hounds well after him. Some capital sport was got. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland have left Sandringham, having completed their visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales. Their royal highnesses gave a dance this evening at Sandringham. The Duke of Leinster will leave town to-morrow ,o visit Mr. and Lady Jane Repton at their seat in Bed 'ordshire. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland left Staf ford House, SL James's, yesterday morning, for Lilleshall, Newport, Salop. The Earl and Countess of Wilton will take up their residence for the season the week after next at Eger-. :on Lodge, Melton Mowbray. The Countess (Frances) Waldegrave and the Eight Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., left town yesterday for Dudbrook, Essex. Viscount and Viscountess Barrington arrived in. ,own yesterday from Becket House, Berks. Viscount Somerton arrived in town yesterday !rem his residence near Midhurst, Sussex. Lady Augusta Poulett has arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Hastings. Rear-Admiral the Hon. James R. Drummond, C. 8., has returned to his official residence at the Admiralty from visiting Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Portal at their seat in Hampshire. THE LATE VISCOUNT GORT.—At the desire of her Majesty, Lady Augusta, Stanley has written a letter of condolence upon the death of the late Viscount Gort to his bereaved widow, expressing her Majesty's sympathy in the great affliction that has fallen upon her and the family of that esteemed and lamented nobleman. THE CASE OF CHARLOTTE WINSOR again came before the Court of Queen's Bench yesterday. Mr• TT Hannon, on behalf of the Crown, moved fora rule to shar cause why certain amendments should not be made in the record of the trial which has been returned to the c ourt. The object of the learned counsel is to substitute a definite for a vague form of expression in the document in question. Mr. Justice Shee said that the bench would be happy to agree to the proposed amendments if counsel could obta Baron Channell's sanction. Baron Channell subsequently gave his consent, and the record was amended. THE DEPARTURE OF SIR WILLIAM CODRINGT OI4 FROM GIBRALTAR.—A deputation of the merchant s of Gibraltar waited upon the Govornor-General, Sir W• Codrington, G.C.B„ on the 7th, for the purpose of express ing to his Excellency the regret felt by the merchant° upon his Excellency's departure, and of requesting Il i° acceptance of a piece of plate as a memento of his siS years' residence amongst them. The governor, in rePif c i expressed himself highly gratifind at this mark of reg ard from the members of a community he was leaving regret, and that this token of regard and esteem from ti-L merchants of Gibraltar, iaresbective of its intrinsic veil-I.f,', would be always looked upon by himself and fami l y pride and pleasure, with an agreeable reminiscence of l of association with the donors, and a grateful rec ollectio; e 1 the kind fooling 'which his departure from them had c4l forth,