The Sun. — London, England, 1866-04-05 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.— Sole Lessee and Mansgzr, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, A. ROMAN Tl da Cavend ishC ATTACHMENT : M r . Compton, Mr. W. Farrell ; Miss A. After which, THE FAVOURITE OF FOR rUNE : Mr. sothern, Buckstone, Chippendale, Rogers, dm. ; Mesdames Chippendale, Saville, Moore, Fitzwilliam, Hill, Lindleyotc. Concluding with SHOCKING EVENTS : 3.1.-". Chippen dale, Ur. Compton, Om Commence at Seven. itOYAL LYCEUM T EiEATRE.- Under the sole Management et Mr. Fechter. THIS EVENING, SIMPSON AND CO. Messrs. S. Emery, C. 110113 Mall ; Mesdames Eleworthy, Henrade, Hors raan, and E. Boyce• Atter which, THE MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD. Mr. Fechter ; Messrs. Jordan, Emery, Widdicomo, Vezin, J. H. Fitzpatric,, D. Evans ; XesdamesTernan, Elsworthy, Lavenu, and C. Leclercq. Box Office open daily from Eleven till Five. NE W THEATRE-ROYAL ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THROUGH FIRE AND WATER: Messrs. J. L. Toole, It . Phillips, Billing gar and Miss H. Simms. After which, THE WRECK ASHORE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford. Smart, Billing Ind Ashley ; Miss Woolgar Ind Miss H. Simms. To conclude with .GEHIND TIME. Messrs. J. &c.L. Toole, B. ibiLUDs. Eburne. C. J. S mith ; Miss A. Seaman, OY A L PRINCESS'S THEATRE. RSole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, A. GHOST IN SPITE OF HIMSELF. After Murra at a quarter to Eight, THE S I •REETS OF LO NDON. Messrs. V inin g . T. blend. D. y, Shore, Villiers ; Mrs. Marson, Miss N. liarnett, and Miss K. Rodgers. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress. Airs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, PERFE BON ague' After which will be produced a grand Easter Burlesque, PARIS t or, Vive Le mpiere : Mes,rs. Stoyle, horne,Jamee, : Mesdames A. Swanborougb, Raynham, Simpson. Johnstone, Raaoe. and Holt. To conclude with DEAF AS A POST : Mr, Belford. AS TLEY' S.—GREAT ATTRCTY)IONS:I 5, T HIS EVENING (T 111:111S A D , Apri j 866, and during the week, will be produced C. AL von Weber's grand ro mantic Opera, ent FREISCHUTZ ; or, The Seven Charmed The new . The L ib re tt o re-written by John Oxenford , E s q . romantic Scenery of the Opera by Messrs. Charles and William Brew. The Band and Chorus under the direction of Mr. J. H. Tully. The Dances arranged by M. Milano. The characteristic Costumes by M. Laurey and Miss Yates. Machinery by Mr. Lanham. Properties by Mr. Adams. The Gas appointments by Mr. Pepper. The Stage ar rangements by Mr. T. H. Friend. All the remarkable effects and supernatural Illusions in the grand Incantation Scene invented, arranged, and produced by Professor Pepper, t,f the Royal Polytechnic Institute. Dramatis Personae—Prince Ottocar, Mr. Charles Lyall ; Kuno (the Ranger), Mr. Corri • Rodolph and Caspar (H u ntsmen of the Ranger), Mr. Henry Haigh, Mr. Aynsley Cooke ; Kilian (a Villager), Mr. George Honey ; Zamiel the Demon of the Forest), Mr. Basil Potter ; Agnes d Daughter of the Ranger, and betrothed to Rodolpli), ladame Haigh-Dyer; Ann (her Cousin), Miss Leffler (Mrs. H. Harper). Band and Chorus of 100 Artistes. Conductor, Mr. J. H. T LILLY. After the Opera, will be p ro d uce d an entirely new and original Burlesque Extravaganza, by F. C. Burnand, Esq., founded upon the Moorish Legend of " The T wo Sisters," entitled BOABDIL EL CHIC - 0 ' • or, The Moo r the Mer rier. Mr. J. 11. Tull Scenery by Messrs. Brew. c Dramatis Persona.— Moors —Boabdil El Chico e. Boabdil the Cheeky, the last Moorish King in Spain, after whom there wasn't any Moor ; in love with everybody), Miss M. Willmott ; Al Kali (his physician, one Moor), Mr. E. Garden ;El Bobbi little Mo.or chi officers of the Moorish police, and head o f the private inquiry and c d e t ec tives), Miss Ra chel Sanger; Captain of the Body Guard, Miss Maniata ; Ist Light of the Harem, Miss Annie P a yne ; 2d Light of the Harem, Miss M. Stanley; 3d Light Miss Julia Brandon •, several other little of the Harem , Lights of the Harem ; Zorah, the bighted Light of the Harem, being the Light of other Days somewhat faded ; considered by the other Lights as the Heavy of the Harem, Mr. George Honey. No Moors, or Spanish. Don Ferdi nand the Fearless (who loves his love with an N because t be's Nina), Miss Caroline Parkes ; Don Tito the Timorous (who loves his love with an I because she's Isabella, Miss Nelly Nesbitt; Don Pedro (the father of Nina and Isa bella), Mr. W. Templeton; Nina the Nimble (betrothed to Don Ferdinand), Miss Marian ; Isabella the Indolent (her younger sister), Miss Louise Laidlaw ; Kintinka (an Ex-moor, not a pony, but waiting-maid to the two sisters. She is in love with El Bobbi), Miss Minnie Sidney; Juanita, Inez, and Peres (Young Spanish maidens, com panions of the two sisters, Juanita, secretly attached to an influential Moor, to whom ultimately she gives her hand), Miss Clifton, Miss Kate Blandford, and Miss Velasquez. The whole produced under the direction of Mr. FRIEND. L7 ADLER'S WELLS THEATRE.- Under the Sole Management of Mr. W. H. C. Nation. RE-OPEN for the Summer Season. During the recess the Theatre has been renovated and decorated ; entirely new Orchestra Stalls, with a set grate entranc , , added; the Dress Circle and Pit S,ats recovered, and no expense spared to render this Theatre one of the most elegant and comtor. able in London. THIS EVENING (THURSDAY), and during the week. will be presented the great Domestic Drama. in Three Acts, of BELYHEGt►tt Messrs. T. Swinbourne, Barrett. G. Bel more; Misses Ada Dya-, Hudspeth, and Mrs. Poynter. Atter which (fourth time at this Theatre), the Ever-green Burlesque, by F. C. Burnand, Esq , of IXIO V : Misses Lizzie Willmore, Fanny Gwynne. Ada tiarland, Hetty rracey ; 11 sarn Llox-o fke %VI? v cedf l y Wo l k IPS& nWI forge. o charge for booking or programmes. Bonnets are not admitted in the Dress Circle or Stalls. Doors open at halt-past Six, commence at Seven. Entirely new Orchestra Stalls, with spring stured seats and backs, and equal to those of the West-end Theatres, 4s. ' • Dress Circle, is. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d . ; Private Boxes, £1 ls., £1 10s. 6d., and £2 U.—Second price at Nine. Acting Manager, Mr. NYE CHART. 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Wm. %le 4,44. 44,44, 4 LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1866, The arrival of the City of Boston from New York on the 24th ult. informs us that the Fenian excite ment is subsidin g both in Canada and New York, although the C an adians are wise enough to maint ain their defensive p reparations, not trusting to the ap parent inaction of the mi schief-making confrater nity. It is undoubtedly hard on the colonists to be forced into so great an outlay for an uncertain period, and the Fenians will Probably i them - selv es very clever in having subjectedtlero think to the u 0 Bo much annoyance and expense. Possibly cer and delay may be part of thei r pl an for htainty risin g the enemy, and having allowed the Canner ta ns , b y a great effort, to prepare for their reception, they a te anxious to entice them into false security, or put them to the cost and inconvenience of standing wait ing for an invader who never comes. In New York it is said the Fenians continue their organisation, and are mustering regiments into the service of the Irish republic in various parts of the country. SWEENEY, in a recent speech, referred to the general expectation of an invasion of Canada, but said that he did not himself know where the first blow would be struck. This might be either an ingenious attempt to cover a failure, or a piece of bom bast to hide the want of a definite pur pose; but it is certainly harassing to the Canadians, although they may thank their own THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1866. vigorous promptitude for preserving t he p eace on Cow mons can walk among them unarmed," he is St. Patrick's-day. The New York Herald asserts that the Government intends preparing a flying squadron for duty on the British North Amerieaa coast. The reasons assigned for this movement are the assembling of the British West India fleet at Halifax, the Fenian movements, and the effect of the termination of the Reciprocity Treaty on the American fisheries. We may accept this intelli gence with some reserve, seeing that it involve& some contradictory elements. The Reciprocity Treaty has been terminated by the Americans themselves against the wishes of the Canadians, and unless they intend to make the fisheries a cams belli they can hardly intend so active a demon stration on the coasts before any differences have arisen. The assembling of the British West India fleet at Halifax is so perfectly legitimate and com prehensible that the Americans might as well resent the martial preparations of the Canadians. About the Fenians the Washington Government have given themselves so very little trouble that it is scarcely likely they would suddenly take such very active measures when the crisis is believed to be introducing quite an erroneous element into the dis ec Lssion of the matter. It is quite a relief to turn to the more amusing passages in this speech, in which the hon. member for Birmingham speaks of the judgment of posterity in the style of exegi monumentum. "At this moment I recrarl Earl RUSSELL, Mr. GLADSTONE, their colleagues, and the members of Parliament who support"them, I re gard them all as men to whom history will point its finger in future times and say ' These were really the statesmen of their day.' " It is as well to be prepared for the worst, and therefore Mr. BRIGHT thinks that if the Tory party comes into office they will plunge the country into the horrors of an European war in order to avoid settling Re form ; and besides there is America, and we should find ourselves at war with the great Republic on the American Continent. Really, it speaks very badly for Mr. BRIGHT'S judgment that he is led to discourse after this extravagant fashion : " I would not trust this Tory party—their annals for the last hundred years have been annals of calamity of this country. To them we owe mostly what there is of ignorance and brutality, and of the abject poverty that is spread among the lowest and most hopeless class in the kingdom. If there is one thing more to be admired in the present state of politics than another it is the improvement that has taken place in the language and demeanour of public men. The days are gone by when rancorous hostility characterised all who belonged to the dif past. The American internal intelligence is unimpor tant. The principal feature is the report that the PRESIDENT intends to veto the Civil Rights Bill. Having fairly declared war against the Radicals, he will no doubt maintain his ground. Having, as his predecessor used to say, put down his foot, he is not the man to retreat from his position. The required information respecting Mexico has been laid before the House of Representatives, and it contains some extravagant statements respecting N AP OLEON'S in tentions, which will probably be accep ted both here and in America very dolibtfully. The Lean Bill had been passed with amendments, and the general aspect of domestic affairs is tranquil and satisfac tory. ferent sections of party. But Mr. BRIGHT 15 quite impervious to improvement in this respect. He is as rabid and perverse as any of the most benighted Tories of the old times he reprobates, and he may rest assured that no Reform Bill of the most extensive and comprehensive kind could do any permanent good if class was against class, as he desires they should be. Mutual respect and goodwill are the only things that can make a country prosperous and happy, and without their influence all other advantages of wealth and power will drive all away, because jealousy and mistrust will undermine their stability and mar their ex cellence. If talking could effect an object in view certainly i c n e g e , a f n o d r p h r e e i a s ch p i e n r g - Mr. BRIGHT petually at work, must ar in g f ui ali ng ib , l l y ect su ur e on his subject Last night a public meeting was held at Rochdale, and the hon. member spoke at some length, though not so long as usual. The other speakers seemed to be trying to make the best of things, but not to be able to steer successfully be tween the difficulties in their way. One one hand they were evidently disappointed that the new Re form Bill did not go far enough ; and on the other they were determined to protest against the course of those who oppose the measure. Mr. POTTER, M.P., was at any rate plain-spoken when he declared that " there could be no doubt that the most serious danger the bill was threatened with was oc casioned by treason in the Liberal ranks rather than by Tory opposition." This is very true, and all who knew anything of the condition of the Liberal party were aware that there would be great difficulty in passing a measure which would meet with a unani mous support, especially if it were introduced by those at the head, or even nominally so, of the party. It is this which made the conduct of Earl RUSSELL in 1857 so very blameable, and showed that he was not really sincere about Reform. Mr. BRIGHT is deserving of the same censure for the course which he pursued, and while he is going about from place to place during this Easter recess, those who take a retrospective glance at his career may find that this is the second time he is playing the same game. On this last occasion Mr. BRIGHT seemed very much disposed to compliment himself and the , Government also for having taken his advice re specting the framing of the measure of Reform now submitted to Parliament. As for Mr. BRIGHT it will not matter very much one way or the other, because h. will be al-An to rairckneralf hxr PTproicaintv hist persons and things in general ; but we very much question if the Ministers will find cause to rejoice at the step they have taken in conformity with the advice of their new ally. Already we find that the hon. member's ingenuity has extricated him in some degree from the awkwardness of the " position." He regrets to see that the Government have not implicitly followed his directions, but still great allowance must be made for their difficulties; and in the eagerness and excitement of this struggle, Mr. BRIGHT goes so far as to admit that they may see objections which he and his friends do not see. This is quite a new state of things, and we hope it may continue ; but it is to be feared that this moderation has only been adopted for the nonce, and will disappear when the emergency is over. One thing we may always predicate of a speech of Mr. BRIGHT'S upon any domestic question, and that is, that he will abuse the Tory party right and left with earnest goodwill and hearty spirit. Mr. POTTER spoke more truly than the leader of whom he said he was content to remain the " trumpeter," when he attributed to the division of the Liberal party the ill-success of schemes of Reform ; but Mr. BRIGHT thinks otherwise, and was at great pains to explain his views for the hundredth time. Indeed the main object of his speech last night was to heap abuse on the Tory party, as Mr. BRIGHT persistently calls them. He said very little as to the intrinsic merits of this measure, or as to the benefits which would accrue from it, for his whole time and thoughts were directed to the consideration of the delinquencies of the Opposition. In the first place, Mr. BRIGHT, declared that the Tory party exhibited more than " usual depravity" in opposing this scheme, because their own measure in 1859 went some way in the same direction; and Mr. DISRAELI held out the hope that if it were allowed to get into committee the reduction of the Borough Franchise would be considered. Why, then, we may well ask, did Mr. BRIGHT fight so hard that it never should reach the committee, and what would he have said to have been told that he was exhibiting more than usual depravity in thwarting alt efforts to have a Reform Bill ? We learn from Mr. BRioirr's reading of the riddle that they were thus prompted by love of place. As to their op posing this measure, on which he has set the stamp of his approval, they are factious to the very last degree. Mr. BRIGHT works himself up into such a state of patriotic zeal and virtuous indigna tion that the ordinary forms of polite society are quite forgotten, and his language is not -fettered by any restraint which good sense and good taste If it be not this, he says, it i s m ight interpose. "something, perhaps, if not more immoral, more sel fiandmore stupid, because it is this manifestation of a desperate resolve that they will never consent to any public extension of Pc: people o f th e U n it e d Kingdom." political c a apart freedom f the people the to te great impropriety of such terms, r eason of th em, b ecause Mr. where is the B frien ds would h ave beenFIGHT and his very indignant had p eo ple contin ue d their opposition to th Reform Bill with a " man if estat i on " that they did e DERBY not want Reform at all in this generation. Really it would be much more to the purpose if Mr. BRIGHT would keep t o the subject before him, instead of fly ing off i n t angents after this fashio n about extrane , ous things. Mr. BRIGHT takes c , view of I_ the subject altogether by persisting i n. a wron g question of reform with allusions to agitationb.n gu;patnhde when he exclaims indignantly that even those who vilify the working ciamee most in the Hou se of CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Wednesday Evening. There is nothing to-day in the Moniteur about Germany, or, indeed, any political news ; but the Constitutionnel, quoting from the Gazette de Vienne, says that the text of the note presented on the part of Austria, by Count Karolyito M. de Bismark, proves distinctly that Austria " repudiates all idea of an aggressive policy." A grand dinner has been given by M. Drouyn de I'Huys, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, to the Prince Royal of Denmark. About 80 diplomatists and other persons of distinction were present. The Prince sat at the right of Madame Drouyn de l'lluys, and the Minister had at his right the Princess Augusta Bonaparte and Gabrelli. In spite of the presence of the Prince, the dinner was not a mere formal one, but much gaiety and animation pre vailed. On Monday evening, information having been given to the Commissary of Police, that for several days a man, 65 years old, who lived in a state of great misery in the Avenue du Bel Air, St. Maude, near Paris, had not been seen by his neighbours, that officer proceeded to the place, and the door was forced open. On a bed of straw, covered with dirty rags, lay the body of the old man, who, it appeared, had died of apoplexy. From inquiries made, it seems that for years the deceased was by everybody sup posed to be in great misery and poverty. He lived only upon bread and remnants of cheese, and other refuse. In money only 2 francs and 8 sous were found in the room, but, in an old piece of furniture, wrapped up in rags, were found railway shares and other genuine securities, representing a capital of no less than 480,000 f., or more than £19,000. It is not known whether the wretched miser has left any relatives. No will has been found, and in the mean time seals have been placed upon the property. The furniture is not worth a pound. 'The Abbe Lequette, formerly Vicar-General of Arras, has been appointed Bishop of Arras, in the room of M. Parisis, whose death I announced at the time. At the Court of Assize for the Department of the Var, held at Draguignan, a man named Jean Bousquet was tried for the murder of Jean Hugony. It was known to the whole town that Hugony was criminally intimate with the prisoner's wife. The prisoner had told a witness that he suspected the fact, and said that if he found it to be true he would kill Hugony or Hugony should kill him. On Monday the 23d of October, the pri soner intended to go to the fair of Bargenan. His wife advised him to go the previous evening, upon the plea that this would give him the oppor tunity of seeing one of their children, who was a servant at a farm on the road. The prisoner was There are two great social and domestic griev. antes at the present day which might, at first sight appear to uninitiated spectators to partly cure each other. There is a growing demand for profitable and suitable employment for women of all grades, and there is, on the other hand, an ever-increasing want of respectable female servants. Surely, one might suppose, without any very great extrava gance, that the two wants would be mutually sup plied, and that the thousands of young women be longing of right to the industrial classes would be as glad to enter upon the duties and privileges of domestic service as the householders would be satis fied to employ them. When we come to examine into actual facts, however, we shall find the state of affairs to be very different. Whether from the lack of motherly training, from the growing tend ency to despise the duties of a thrifty housewife, from the increase of habits of luxury, idleness, and love of dress among the middle classes, or from any actual decadence in the race of servants themselves, certain it is that as a general rule the mistresses of our own day do not succeed in preserving the old tie between their mothers and their dependents, nor in securing good and dutiful service. Again, the growing dislike to service among the working classes may be attributed to many mixed causes. The young folks of any rank are now seldom brought up in those habits of order and subjection which properly belong to their age. In the at _ +es ssestsl3l.l.+4 q _1 n af.rn nt of And_ %ban: discipline in the last generation, the good old virtues of industry and obedience have been somewhat overlooked. The love of dress and " gentility " which causes the misery of so many middle-class householders is by no means out of the reach of the poor working man's family, and girls shrink from taking " a regular place " where they will have to conform to certain regulations as to dress and manner, will have to spend the evenings, and possibly the Sundays, quietly at home, instead of in the gay and dangerous pleasure seeking they have been accustomed to. They prefer the poorly paid slavery of the needle or the chance of getting employed on some of the countless trades which now engage so many, while those who do at last take places are so fully aware of their own value that they change from place to place without attaching themselves to any. There is a great deal to be said on both sides in this great question of mistresses and servants, but in waiting until it has been fully decided who is to bear the most blame, we may turn with relief and satisfaction to a very practical scheme for remedying part of the evil, while it affords the greatest possible benefit to a large and neglected class. We allude to the Industrial School for Girls,* established by Miss TWINING and some other benevolent ladies and gentlemen some five years since, and which has been maintained since that time with constant successs. Miss TwININg, in her workhouse experience, had her attention particu larly directed to the manifold evils arising from the presence of young girls in the adult wards. They are associated very frequently with most un desirable companions, are left entirely without that careful supervision and training which their age re quires, and when put out to service can only be sent (naturally untrained paupers as they are) to the roughest and commonest places. Little is heard of them afterwards, unless, indeed, as too often hap pens, they return with damaged characters to be a burden on the parish, directly or indirectly, through life. The constant repetition of this miserable story led Miss TWINING to organise the wise and benevolent institution to which we have referred. The Home in New Ormond-street receives girls from the age of 13 to 18, either taken convinced that his wife gave him this advice only that she might receive Hugony in his absence, and he consented to it, but determined to re turn home unexpectedly in the course of the even ing. The prisoner's suspicions proved to be cor rect. On entering the room where he and his wife usually slept, he found the deceased and his wife in bed. He seized a pitchfork, and killed the deceased with it almost instantly. The wife's father, hearing a noise, rushed into the room, and he and the woman, with the view to conceal the crime, dragged the corpse to a distance of 600 yards from the house, tied a heavy stone to it, and threw it into a well. On the 28th November, however, the body floated to the top of the well. Public opinion im mediately pointed to the prisoner as the murderer, and he was arrested. He did not attempt to deny the crime, and indeed his wife and her father de ' posed to the fact of his being the murderer. The jury, however, acquitted the prisoner, in spite of his avowal, a circumstance which may seem strange, but in France juries often decide against the evi dence, and take into their own hands both the law and the facts of the case, according to sympathy or prejudice. At the last meeting of the Academy of Sciences M. Paravey mentioned the discovery of a document written by Father Amyot, dated 1784, proving that the connection between electricity and magnetism was known in France at that period. M. le Verrier zne-ttattite - xr livfair,iiianswer to which the Director of the Conservatory said there had never been any idea of modifying the actual metre, but that was no reason why no attempt should be made to determine very rigorously and strictly what aliquot part the metre formed of the terrestrial circumference. According to the official table, just published, respecting French commerce with foreign countries, the operations, which were more considerable in February than in January, raise the amount for the two months to more than a milliard. The im ports were to the amount of 469,207,000 f. The exports were 597,060,000 f. Total, 1,066,277,000 f. Last year, during the same period, the amount was 778,689,000 f., being an increase in the foreign trade to the amount of 287,588,000 f. A letter from Florence states that Prince Na poleon, instead of going to Naples, has returned to the former city. His presence there is attributed to political motives, and nothing can convince the politicians of Florence to the contrary, even if their impression be an erroneous one. According to a document published under the sanction of the Railway Companies, the daily con sumption of coals for the railways of France is to the extent of three millions of kilogramme; say six million of pounds or more. The extent of the lines in operation is 12,000 kilometres. For the railways of the whole of Europe the consumption of coals is 15 millions of kilogrammes per day. The papers announce the death of M. Gustave de Beaumont, member' of the Institute, who when a deputy took a prominent part in many exciting political discussions. EMIGRATION FROM THE IRON AND COAL DIS TRICTS.—The mania for emigration has again set in among the colliers and ironworkers of South Wales, and the effects of the movement are beginning to bo seri ously felt, more especially by the colliery proprietors. Those who are induced by glowing descriptions to leave constant employment and good wages, and break up their homes, to seek new spheres for their labour in the States are princi pally hardy, industrious men, who from long experience have become what may be called skilled colliers. These are the men that the district can ill afford to spare, especially at the present time, when the coal trade is so active, and their departure in such numbers will not only prove incon venient but a positive loss to the employers of labour, in asmuch as it will take the hands brought in to supply the vacancies caused by the exodus a very long period to be . . . come proficient in their new avocations. In addition to the large numbers that have emigrated since the fine weather set in, upwards of 60 families left Aberdare for Now York a few days since, and others are preparing to follow from different parts of the district. It is a matter of regret that industrious men should by false representa tions and delusive hopes, which have so often been ex posed, be induced to leave their native homes to seek em ployment in America, where they will have to toil harder and be less remunerated in proportion to the cost of the necessaries of life. from the workhouses, or about to enter them. It trains them for service, teaching them household work, in the kitchen and laundry, as well as the use of the needle, fast growing a rare accomplishment ; moral discipline, as well as religious and useful in struction are, of course, added ; and a more striking contrast between the cheerful, animated home," and the dreary adult wards of the workhouse, with its oakum picking or hair picking, can scarcely be imagined. The success which has attended the House as yet has been very great, though of course not entirely unchequered. For the five years 334 girls have been admitted, and when we remember that of the girls educated in pauper schools nearly two-thirds are orphans, we shall feel that they have a double claim on our pity and assistance. The Home provides a refuge for these friendless girls when losing a situation, an interval which often occasions the ruin of a homeless girl. The objects are thoroughly practical, and the management is equally so. Surely all who wish to help a good work need not hesitate to assist so simple and sensible a method of lifting these poor g irls out of their dang erous and miserable p osition, while serving society in another way by providing handy, -trained domestic servants. willing, and well THE SCHOOL OF COOKERY, under the able management of Mrs. Mitchell, 281, Regent-street, VT., has just commenced its fifth spring course. Last season was most successful, and hundreds of cooks from the school are now in families of the nobility and gentry in all parts of town and country. All the newest styles in fashionable dinners, wedding :breakfasts, ball suppers, Sze., have been well mastered by the pupils, who do every dish themselves, under the directions of professed men cooks, and they have been eagerly sought after for good situations. Mrs. Mitchell wishes every cook to know her business thoroughly and economically. Dinners are served daily, so any one can test the productions of the School of Cookery, and ladies obtain servants of every description with excellent characters. ATTEMPTED PARRICIDE.—The Court of Assizes of the Basses-Alpes has just tried a farmer's son, named Mille, aged 18, residing at Vacheres, for attempting to poison his father and mother because they refused their consent to his marrying a young woman with whom ha had fallen in love. The evidence clearly proved that the prisoner had put a quantity of vitriol into their soup which made them both very ill, and the father, who had eaten most, was with difficulty saved. The jury having brought in a verdict of guilty, the prisoner was sentenced to three years imprisonment, with 100 fr. fine. PRINTERS' PENSION CORPORATION.—The anni versary dinner of the Printers' Pension, Almshouse, and Orphan Asylum Corporation, will take place to-morrow (Friday) evening at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen street; the kin. Arthur Ainzwird, 41'1 in the chair. Fifth Report of the Industrial Some for Girls, 22, New Ormond-`treat. LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, APRIL 5. It is officially denied that the United States have demanded permission to construct an American war port at the island of St. Thomas. No negotiations are being carried on on this sub ject between Denmark and the United States. PRUSSIA. KARLSRUHE, APRIL 5. The official Karlsruher Zeitung publishes a letter from Vienna, in which it is asserted that, besides the despatch to the Minor German States, Prussia has also addressed a Circular Note to the German Powers. In this note Prussia expressed her appre hensions that she would hardly be able to avoid the appearance of an aggressive policy if to prevent the threatening attack of Austria she should be com pelled to commence hostilities. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, APRIL 5. The Journal de St. Petersbourg, of to-day, pub lishes a historical review of the question of the Danubian Principalities, accompanied with official documents. The object of this review is to show that from the year of 1856 to 1864 Russia has always insisted upon the expediency of consulting the wishes of the Moldo-Walla,chians, and has given her consent to an union of the two peoples, so long as experience should not prove such a course to be prejudicial to the welfare of the Principalities. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. ALEXANDRIA, APRIL 4. The Nyanza left at 3 p.m. to-day with all mails and passengers. She may be expected at Mar seilles on the 9th, and Southampton about the 19th LITERATURE. Curiosities of Natural History. By Frank Buck land, M.A. Third series. 2 vols. Bentley. Mr. Buckland has done well to collect and re publish his scattered and very interesting memo randa, the results of many years' varied experience and much close and discriminative observation. In the two volumes now before us are some amusing accounts of " Expeditions" to Southsea and Ports mouth, Yorkshire, Berkshire, Hampshire, and the neighbourhood of London. Added to these are ex cursions to Connemara and Galway, with an inves tigation into the history of the salmon and the cul tivation of rivers. We meet next with amusing ad ventures with lions, tigers, and foxes, &c. As a specimen of which, let us take the following vivid description of instant. The Massilia, which would in the ordinary course have taken the Marseilles portion of the mails, &c., has arrived at Alexandria with one of her paddle wheels disabled. FRANCE. EVACUATION OF MEXICO BY THE FRENCH. PARIS, APRIL 5. In consequence of communications exchanged between Marshal Bazaine and the Emperor Maxi milian, the Emperor Napoleon has decided that the French troops shall evacuate Mexico in three de tachments. The first detachment will ]eave in November, 1866, the second in March, 1867, and the third in November, 1867. Negotiations are being carried on between France and Mexico for substituting for the present financial arrangements of the Treaty of Miramar a fresh treaty, which shall afford guarantees for the debt owing to France, and for the French interests involved in the Mexi can loans. BOURSE, April 4, Three o'clock.—The marke closed at the following quotations :- 41 per Cents 9B Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 67 60 Do. end month 67 421 Credit Mobilier Do. end month 630 Bank Shares 3540 Italian Loan 57 Do. end month 56 90 Mexican Loan 46 Do. Bonds 277 50 Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred rAYs. Cash. Unis — Do. end month — Acct. Orleans — ... 862 50 Northern — ... 1122 50 Lyons and Mediterranean — ... 875 Southern — ... 546 25 Western — ... 557 50 Eastern — ... 536 25 Sardinian — ... 107 50 Austrian — ... 386 25 Lombard Novt i ;_oLF•rojn • ... - -- ... 202 QU Ditto to Barcelona Roman -- - - - •• . 85 . - 'The Attack upon the Belgian Mission in Mexico. FURTHER DETAILS. CITY O}' MEXICO, March 8, The funeral obsequies of Captain D'Huart, murdered on the 4th inst. by guerillas a few miles from this city, took place yesterday morning in the church of San Geronimo with great pomp. A detachment of the Belgian Infantry Regiment were drawn up as a guard of honour inside the church, accompanied by their band, which executed various appropriate sacred compositions. Tho Emperor and Empress, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and other dignitaries, the staff of the Belgian Legation, and many French, Austrian, and Belgian officers were present at the ceremony, which terminated at half-past eight o'clock. The further particulars which have been received re specting the murderous attack upon the Belgian mission seem to show that it was prompted by no pasty feeling, but was the act of common highway robbers. According to the statement of the coachman, the band consisted of from 15 to 20 Mexicans on foot, wearing the Mexican leg gings and the serape. Some of them were masked. Upon making their appearance they called out to the first dili gence to stop, and did not fire until after Captain D'Huart had discharged his revolver. They then made the dis charge which caused the instantaneous death of Captain D'Huart, who was killed by a ball passing completely through his head. The travellers riding inside the dili gence also commenced firing upon the brigands, who then took shelter at the back part of the coach in order to reload, after which they fired a second time. Observing this, General Foury and the rest of the party alighted, and, sword in hand, rushed upon the brigands and put them to flight just as the second dili gence came up. General Foury and Major Atturs were wounded, but their hurts are considered slight. Both were able to return to Mexico, and are now lodged in the Palace. M. Marechal was wounded by a ball in the shoulder, which has since been extracted. As soon as his condition will permit he will be removed to Mexico in a litter by short stages. General Lopez left Queretaro, on the 3d inst., for San Luis Potosi, whence he will march with 2,000 men to Matamoras, in order to reinforce the division of General Mejia. The Ere Nouvelle of the Bth inst. says—" The Emperor has just nominated Gen. Almonte as Mexican Plenipoten tiary at the Court of the Tuileries, in place of Senor Hidalgo, who has resigned that post. General Almonte will also be intrusted with a special mission to the Emperor Napo leon. The important part taken by General Almonte in the intervention, and the high offices he has fulfilled, can not but contribute to strengthen the relations between France and Mexico." MARKETS.--This Day. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. A very small supply of beasts was on sale in our market to-day. Amongst it were 61 Scots and crosses from Scot land, in prime condition. The trade was very firm, and the quotations had an upward tendency. The general top figure was ss. 4d. per 81bs. The show of sheep was moderate ; but the quality was good. Woolled sheep were in request for Birmingham, &c., and the mutton trade was rather active, at very full prices. Prime Downs and half brads in the wool, sold at 6s. Bd. to 7s. ; out of the wool, ss. 4d. per Blbs. There were no calves on offer. Pigs moved off slowly, on former terms. Per 81b to sink the offal. s de d Crse. & inf. beasts... 4 0 4 2 Second quality do ..4 6 4 8 Prime large oxen ..4 10 5 0 Prime Scots, &c.... 5 2 5 4 Crse. and inf. sheep. 4 6 4 8 Second quality do ..4 10 5 8 s ds d Prue crs-wool sheep 5 10 6 Prime s'thdown d 0.6 8 7 0 Large coarse calves.° 0 0 0 Prime small d0......0 0 0 0 Large hogs ....4 t 4 6 Small porkers 4 8 5 0 Lamb.... 88 Od to 9s Od. Suckling calves, —s to —8 ; and quarter-old store pigs, 308 to 33a each. Head of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. Beasts Cows. Cows Sheep Calves Calves — Pigs 2lO Pigs — MEAT MARKETS. NEIVGATE AND LEADENHALL.—OnIy moderate supplies of meat are on sale here, and the trade is firm, as fol lows : —Beef, from 3s 0(1 to 4s 8d ; mutton, 3s Gd to 5s 4d ; lamb, 7s to 9s; veal, 4s 8d to 5s 4d; and pork, 3s 10d to 5s Od per 81b by the ca. case. HAY. SMITHFIELD.—Moadow hay, £4 4s to £5 125 ; clover £5 5s to 46 15s Od ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 5s per load. A moderate supply. CUMBERLAIM.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £slss Od; clover, £5 5s to £6 15s Od; and straw, £1 18s to £2 5s per load. Trade steady. WILITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 12s; clover, £5 5s to £6 158 Od; and gtraw, £2 Oe to £2 5s per load A fair demand. BOXING A TIGER. Though I have had much to do with live lions, yet one day we had great fun with a young tiger. My friend Mr. Bartlett kindly sent over to the Regent's Park barracks, to report that they were all ready to " pack up a tiger," and would I come over ? Of course, I was soon at the gardens, and a curious scene took place. The tiger to be " packed up" was about the size of a good big sheep-dog (only, of course, longer in the body). She had been captured as a cub, and brought over from India on board ship, where she had been made a great pet of by the sailors, and was in consequence pretty tame. " Puss" (for that was her name) was in one of the big dens next the large lions, having for her playmate a young leopard. The box in which she was to be placed was wheeled up in front of the den, and placed on its side ; it was simply a large box with strong broad wooden bars on one side (the two centre ones taken cut), and two strong bits of wood so arranged as to be screwed down in front of all the bars when the beast was safe inside. I write when, because it proved no easy task to get her into this box. All prelimi naries being arranged, Cocksedge, the keeper, who knows no fear with his beasts, went into the den with the tiger , and called "Puss, puss, puss," in an amiable manner. The tiger came bounding up in a kitten-like fashion ; she car ried her tail erect over her back, and then raising her fur, began to purr and rub herself against his legs. Cocksedge then took a bit of rope out of one of his capacious pockets, and proceeded to pass the end of it under Puss's collar. Puss in the meantime began to play with the slack of the rope, as though it was great fun. Cocksedge, having fixed the rope, began to draw Puss gently toward the door. She did not seem to care about this very much, but still thinking that " a romp" was meant, patted the rope with her paws. Cocksedge, however, got outside the door of the cage, and pulled somewhat harder. Puss began to think that something more than a game of play was meant, so she extended her feet, and pulled well backwards, and her expression seemed to say, " Two can play at that game, my friend." Another keeper then got into the den, and giving her a gontle lift up behind, out she went of the open door on to the stone space which is railed off to keep visitors from the bars of the dens. The moment Puss felt she was out of the cage, down she crouched, lashing her tail, as though determined not to move an inch. The box was brought nearer, and the rope passed in round one of the bars, and then outside again. The keepers began to pull gently and slowly upon it, the only result being to bring the "moun tain to llahomet"—i.e., the box to the Puss, not the Puss to the box. When the box was close to her head, they gave a sudden pull on the rope, and at the same time advanced the box quite close to her. The result was most laughable. Has the reader ever witnessed the execution of " Punch," by hanging in that most popular of street performances ? "Punch," it may be recollected, cannot bo made to under stand where he is to place his head. In like manner, Puss could not understand what benefits could be derived from placing her head into the opening of the box before her; so the result of the pull on the rope, and the advancing of the box, and the lifting of her hind-quarters, was simply to bring her head well on to the top of the box, several inches above the lid, her sprawling arms and legs being extended, spread-eagle fashion, in front of it. " Try again," therefore, was the word. "Look out," said I to Cocksedge, "the strap round Puss's neck is only leather, and is very likely to give way." Accordingly, on the next trial, smack it went, and Puss, feeling herself loose and free, instantly made a bolt for it. Cocksedge, with his usual coolness and courage, snatched at her as she was slouching quickly away, and got hold of her tail. Like the cats used in that refined but barbarous punish ment of the poor niggers, where a common house cat is placed on the poor black man's back, and her tail smartly pulled, so did "our Puss" instantly extend all her sharp talons, and hold on, as well as she could, to the stones, thus giving time and opportunity for the rope (without the strap) again to be placed round her neck. A trial was again made to get her into the box ; but Puss, having by this time found out that Cocksedgo was in earnest, showed fight in the most wonderful manner. She put back her ears, showed her young but terrible fangs, and struck at . ,• with her brrin l tnlon-armed pats ; she had quite lost her temper, and was a true embodiment of the phrase the nurse sometimes applies to a naughty child—" She fought like a young tiger." At last, feeling somewhat exhausted, she sat down on her haunches, lashing her tail from side to side with real anger. The rope plan was therefore given up, and the director of the proceedings, Mr. Bartlett, ordered the keeper to " fetch the bag." He shortly reappeared with a common sack, the open end of which which was mounted on to a strong pole (like an ordinary landing-net for fishing), the shut end of the bag being laced up, after the fashion of a Balmoral boot, only that the lace-holes were much further apart. Watching his opportunity, one of the keepers slipped the bag over her head (like a lady catches a butterfly on a hedge), and Puss was fairly in the bag ; he then lifted it up, thinking Puss would stay quietly there. Puss thought otherwise, for the moment the bag was off the ground she twisted herself right round, her head appeared at the mouth of the bag, and out sho hopped like a " Jack-in-a-box ;" her wrath in the mean time grow fiercer and fiercer, and she challenged all corners to deadly combat. Stealing up this time behind her, while Mr. Bartlett kept her attention engaged in front (the " Puss puss, puss" days were over long ago), the keeper put the bag once more overher head, and lifting it up a little from the ground, a rope was tied round it, the bag was then lifted up by means of the pole, and a pretty turmoil took place inside it. Puss scratched, and yelled, and jumped about so, that one would have thought that the keeper had caught a real live demon, but this did not last very long; the closed end of the sack was placed over the opening in the box, and the lacing carefully undone, and Puss fell into the box by her own weight. It made me laugh to look at her face when she was a prisoner. She peered out of the wrong side of the bars with her bright but glaring eyes, which seemed to say, " Well, you have done mo now. If I had known what the lot of you were about with your Puss, puss, puss,' and your fawning civilities a quarter of an hour ago, nothing would have induced me to come out of my cage so readily. Confound that sack, that's hardly fair." When the con quered Puss was safe in the box, the victorious Cocksedge rubbed his hands and set to work vigorously to screw down the bars which were to keep her in. " You're all right now, you tiresome young hussy," said he, "and off you'll go by to-night's train to Mr. Edmonds's menagerie, at Manchester ; and I only hope they will use you as well there as I have used you here." The above quotation will be sufficient evidence of the lip ely, pleasant manner in which Mr. Buck land narrates his experiences. His sketches of " Giants" and " porpoises," "performing fleas," and " Australian fat boys," " baby-shows," and " Ben Jonson's skull," and other equally amazing and multifarious matters, occupy the second volume, de scribed in the same graphic and animated manner, happily combining the " grave aid gay," the " lively and severe." Club Life of London. By John Timbs, F.S.A, Two Vols. Bentley. Amusing, indeed, are these records of the Club Life of London by the indefatigable and inexhaus tible John Timbs—anecdotes of the Clubs, Coffee houses, and Taverns of the Metropolis during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. There are grouped together in the present volume sketches of One Hundred Clubs, ranging from the Mermaid in Bread-street to the Garrick in Covent-garden. " Considering the mixed object of these clubs," says the compiler of their history, " strict classifi cation was scarcely attainable, hence chronological sequence has been adopted, with the advantage of presenting more connected views of social life than eould have been gained by the former arrange ment." Begining with the origin of clubs, we arc appropriately reminded, in the words of a true philosopher, that " all celebrated clubs were founded upon eating and drinking, which are points where most men agree, and in which the learned and the illiterate, the dull and the airy, the philosopher and the buffoon can all of them bear a part." The one great centre of attraction, common to all, having been thus discovered " the feast of reason and the flow of soul" come in as happy auxiliaries. About the end of the sixteenth century was established the famous Club at the Mermaid Tavern in Bread-street, of which Shakopere, Beaumont, Fletcher, Raleigh, Selden, Donne, and others were members, but it is not until shortly after this date, says Mr. Timbs, that we find the word club. Aubrey says, " We now use the word clubbe for a sodality in a tavern," and in 1659 Aubrey became a member of the Rota, a political club, which met at the Turk's Head, in New Palace yard. After some particulars regarding the Apollo Club, the Calve's Head Club (" in ridicule of the memory of Charles I.")—the Cocoa-tree Club, and others, we come to Almack's, the original Brookes'; then follow Brookes', White's, and other of the most famous of the past century. Every page is enlivened by an anecdote, many of which are little known, and those that are familiar to us are well selected. One chapter is devoted to " Fighting Fitzgerald," a member of one of the first families in Leinster, who in 1780 was hanged for murder. This fire-eating gentleman was re solved to become a member of Brookes'. He applied to Admiral Stewart to propose him, and the Ad miral, knowing that he must either fight or comply, chose to do the latter; but at the ballot every mem ber, even the proposer, gave a black ball. Mr. Fitzgerald was waiting for the decision in the coffee-room. Mr. Brookes took in coffee, and announced that there was one black ball in the box, and that the candidate must wait a month for a new election ; but this was not sufficient for Fight ing Fitzgerald. He grasped Brookes's hand, saying, " My dear Brookes, I'm chose ; but there must be a small matter of mistake in my election ;" he then persuaded Brookes to go upstairs, and make his compliments to the gentlemen, and say, as it was only a mistake of one black ball, they would be so good as to waive all ceremony on his account, and proceed to re-elect their humble servant without any more delay at all." Many of the members were panic-struck, forsee ing a disagreeable finale to the farce which they had been playing. Mr. Brookes stood silent waiting for the answer. At length, the Earl of March (afterwards Duke of Queens berry) said aloud, " Try the effect of two balls; d—n his Irish impudence, if two balls don't take effect upon him, I don't know what will." This proposition was agreed to, and Brookes was ordered to communicate the same. On re-entering the waiting-room, Mr. Fitzgerald eagerly inquired, " Have they elected me right, now, Mr. Brookes ?" The reply was, " Sorry to inform you that the result of the second balloting is—that two black balls were dropped, sir." " Then,', exclaimed Fitzgerald, " there's now two mistakes instead of one." He then persuaded Brookes again to proceed upstairs, and tell the honourable members to " try again, and make no more mistakes." General Fitzpatrick proposed that Brookes should reply, " His causo was all hopeless, for that he was black-balled all over, from head to foot, and it was hoped by all the members that Mr. Fitzgerald would not persist in thrust ing himself into society where his company was declined." This message was of no avail. No sooner had Fitzgerald heard it than he exlaimed—" Oh, I perceive it is a mis take altogether, Mr. Brookes, and I must see to the rec tifying of it myself, there s nothing like daling with prin cipals ; so, I'll step up at once, and put this thing to rights, without any more unnecessary delay." Iu spite of Mr. Brookes's remonstrance, that his en- trance into the club-room was against all rule and etiquette, Fitzgerald flew upstairs, and entered the room without any further ceremony than a bow, saying to the members, who indignantly rose at the intrusion, " Your servant, gentlemen—l beg ye will be sated." Walking up to the fireplace, he thus addressed Admiral S tewart —" So, my dear Admiral, Mr. Brookes informs me that I have been elected three times. " You have been balloted for, Mr. Fitzgerald, but I am sorry to say you have not been chosen," said Stewart. " Well, then," replied the duellist, " did you black-ball me ?" "My good sir," answered the Admiral, " how could you suppose such a thing ?" " Oh, I supposed no such thing, my dear fellow; I only want to know who it was that dropped the black balls in by accident, as it were !" Fitzgerald now went up to each individual member, and put the same question seriatim, " Did you black-ball me, sir ?" until he made the round of the whole club ; and in each case he received a reply similar to that of the Ad miral. When he had finished his inquisition, he thus ad dressed the whole body —" You see, gentlemen, that as none of ye have black-balled me, I must be chose ; and it is Mr. Brookes that has made the mistake. But I was convinced of it from the beginning, and 1 am only sorry that so much time has been lost as to prevent honourable gentlemen from enjoying each other's company sooner." lie then desired the waiter to bring him a bottle of cham pagne, that he might drink long life to the club, and wish them joy of their unanimous election of a rael gen tleman by father and mother, and who never missed his man." The members now saw there was nothing to be done but to send the intruder to Coventry, which they appeared to do by tacit agreement ; for when Admiral Stewart de parted, Mr. Fitzgerald found himself cut by all his " dear friends." The members now formed parties at the whist table—and no one replied .to Fitzgerald's observations nor returned even a nod to the toasts and haalths which he drank in three bottles of champagne, which the terrified waiter placed before him, in succession. At length, he arose, made a low bow, and took leave, promising to isiteAt .-d have SI little r t inro of it." It was then agreed that half a dozen stout constables should be in waiting the next evening to bear him off to the watch-house, if he attempted again to intrude. Of this measure Fitzgerald seemed to be aware; for he never again showed himself at Brookes's ; though he boasted everywhere that he had been unanimously chosen a member of the dab. We need not pursue Mr. Timbs' agreeable remini scences any further ; we have said enough to illus trate the amusing character of this very compendious history of the Clubs and Club-life of London. The Humbugs of the TVorld. By R. F. Barnum. One vol., pp. 315. John Camden Hotten: We almost expected to find upon the title page of this work the authorship indicated in a manner identical with that of Thackeray's " Book of Snobs." " The History of Snobs, by One of Themselves." Such an idea, however, is at once dissipated by an introductory note from the publisher, who assures us that so far from Mr. Bar num being a humbug himself—" there never was a public man who was less of one." Never was there a better illustration of the art and mystery of hum bug than that described in Hans Christian An dersen's capital story of " The Emperor's New Clothes." The charlatans who were suffered to provide these clothes for the Emperor declared that they would be invisible to all who were unfit for their position. What potentate, premier, or peer would admit his own unfitness by declaring that he beheld nothing, and so one and all extolled the beauty of garments that existed only in the cun ning imagination of the contrivers of the scheme. If, according to Hudibras, " The pleasure is as great in being cheated as to cheat," assuredly the odium of all humbug devolves upon the dupes as much as on the dupers. Parties of both classes, however , —and together they constitute the majority of mankind—may take an interest in turning over these records of the Humbugs of the World by one well able to appreciate and expose them. The Private Ilistorg of a Polish Insurrection. From Official and Unofficial sources. By R. Suther land Edwards, late Special Correspondent of the Times. Two vols. Saunders, Otley, and Co. These volumes contain a resume of the events of the Polish Insurrection of 1863, written by an eye witness well able to analyse and describe them. Many of the chapters appeared as letters in the Times ; but they are now published together in a consecutive form. Speaking of the Russian ambi tion to destroy Poland, the writer very justly observes, that " a country like Poland, with an independent and, for the most part, glorious, existence of eight centuries to look back to, is not destroyed so easily. If to ensure its final ruin it were only necessary to execute its inhabitants by hundreds, massacre them by thousands, and exile them by tens of thousands ; to confiscate the estates of its principal nobles, plunder its libraries, abolish its ancient plan of education, and seek to impose upon its population the use of a foreign tongue— then Poland would have ceased to exist long ago." As it is, the late insurrection, says this eye-witness, has had the effect of keeping up and intensifying the national hatred of the Poles for everything Russian. The Soldier of Three Queens. A Narrative of Per sonal Adventure. By R. Henderson, late of the 12th Royal Laneers, and formerly Captain in the British Auxiliary Brigade in the service of the Queen of Spain. Two Vols. Saunders, Otley, and Co. Fact and fiction are pleasantly mingled together in these very interesting and romantic records. By a singular combination of circumstances, the author tells us that he has taken part in the war of suceession in Portugal which placed Donna Maria on the throne, afterwards as a captain in the Spanish Legion he did good service for Queen Isabella ; and, lastly, in the war in the Crimea, he bore arms in the immediate ser vice of his own sovereign lady Queen Victoria. The title of the book is happily selected ; the style is earnest and animated, and the adventuree and nais