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There is no very particular news from Germany, and what there is is not very satisfactory. There is no definite idea of peace proclaimed. Count BISMARCK, in his reply to the address in favour of peace presented by the Chamber of Commerce, was not at all encouraging. lie said—" The KING will, if possible, avoid war ; but the Government cannot be guided by considerations of national economy alone ; #if war be necessary the KING trusts in the tried readiness of the Chamber of Commerce to make sacrifices." This answer may read either way ; but of the two it seems to have a warlike tendency, because, if the chances of peace were more certain, no doubt the Mi nister would have been glad enough to have intimated as much in his reply. He took care not state how or why war would be rendered necessary, but merely indicated its probability. Col. WEY 3IAREN yesterday waited upon the King of PRUSSIA and presented to him an autograph letter from the Emperor of RUSSIA. The CZAR is certainly taking a great deal of trouble about this business, and it will not be his fault if a war break out after all. What with the chances of war, and the discussions which are constantly taking place respecting the convocation of a German Parliament, there is enough to think about just now in Ger- many. The electors of the third Electoral District of Berlin assembled yesterday, and the meeting was very well attended. Resolu- tions were passed of a similar nat l ur d, e to those passed at the other meeti ngs lately h the Convocation of a German and respecting e Parliament, it was R declared that it was the first step « towards the realisation of the invaluable right of the nation that Germany should be united in power and liberty. ,, It was also said that the Prussian people, whatever be their internal conflicts, would never forget their duty to be the first to enter the lists in favour of that right. So far this is satisfactory, as it shows the national sentiment is still strong, notwith standing all that has lately been done to uproot and destroy it. If, however, the project be carried "t, it is certain to be done in a manner that Herr ISMARCK will not approve of. The readiness with winch the su gg est i on has been taken up has shown that there is a deep feeling throughout the Empire that something is anting necessary for the dig nit y and w From 'Vienna, to th e fr last we of the different States . evening, as pect of affairs is zt id we learn that the ha s warlike, and that the A us t r ian army in Italy a s that t een put on a war foot ing. The journals ew e matists, Count AnEsE and Signor Viscorri-VoiosTA are believed to have asked the E mperor to eX plain the meaning of the A ustri armaments in Venetia. It has also been said by s de spatches h ave been brought to the Emperor concerning som e that the proposal fro m their Govern ment, but that th ey h a ve been met with a denial, on th e ground th a t Austria would abide by the Treaty of Zurich. s omi , of the journa ls seem to say that affairs have gone to a great length in certain quarters, and that a collision has taken place between some Italian volunteers who had crossed the Austrian frontier at Konjo and the Austrian troops. It is spoken of as trivial as to loss ; but, if true, it will prove per haps an ominous event, and, in fact, may be the herald and presage of war. Nothing seems more extraordinary than the part which Italy has played in these late transactions. It is unwise and mischievous, and cannot possibly conduce to her advantage. Austria, has also been Precipitated into danger by the ,persistency of her -- .--.....----- Government in adhering to their old rules. Had Venetia been got rid of and Hungary set free, how different would be the position of the EMPEROR just now. He would be free to act and to dictate terms to Prussia, instead of being compelled to defer in so many ways, and to sacrifice too often the interests of his people and the claims of justice to his unscrupulous ally. It has l ong been urged up on him by well-wishers and advisers that he should pursue this bold course, but he has as yet found the task too hard or too dis tasteful to attempt it. Notwithstanding the pro fessions that have been so largely made by Herr Von BISMARCK if ever Germany succeeds in free ing itself from any of the trammels that now im pede its progress and prosperity, it will be to Austria and not to Prussia that the nations of Europe must look for the lead. There is more nationality and more spirit among the Austrians now than among the Prussians, and they have rulers who are more alive to the necessities of the age. The Presse at Vienna states that there has been a telegram from Berlin stating that Prussia had declared to Austria in the last despatch that she expected all the German Governments that had armed themselves would countermand their said armaments the same as Austria did. This is very likely true, and is just an illustration of the arbi- trary course that is generally pursued by Prussia. Never satisfied with the especial request just made being granted, she is always on the look out for some addenda to the proposal, which materially adds to the difficulty of its accomplishment. At any rate we may safely con clude that a week or two will sec the question of peace or war settled for the present at all events, and meanwhile the deliberations of the various meetings and assemblies will go on. Just as every one supposed, that a period was being put to the long-debated question of the Duchies, the subject has sprung up again into fresh life and vigour. The only striking change is that Herr BISMARCK'S position does not seem nearly so secure as it was during the recent deliberations on the subject. The arrival of the City of Paris from New York on the 14th inst. tells us that affairs in the States are progressing quietly. President JOHNSON 13 apparently not desirous to provoke his adversaries to extremities, and is possibly not sufficiently secure of the temper of the people to feel that he can rely upon their support. Without in any degree re tracing his steps, he has remained quiescent, and is seemingly waiting to observe the effect of his for- mer acts before he proceeds further. The Radicals had succeeded in fomenting a good deal of excite- ment among certain classes, and had busily em- ployed themselves in stirring up a party to ask what was the use of the war if the rebels were to share the privileges of loyal Unionists. Such queries, easily enough disposed of on paper, are yet mischievous and troublesome when asked by an illogical crowd, and in America it is unfortunately not difficult to overbear the calmer and morereason able portion of the community. The Radicals have at present a temporary advantage from the unfor tunate constitution of the Congress. The majority which they possess in both Houses, especially in the House of Representatives, renders them as dangerous in a legislative sense as they are violent and intolerant. Fortunately a change is near at hand, and so plainly hare they shown themselvesin their true colours during thelast few months that they must have disgusted all who are really anxious for the prosperity and tranquillity of the country. The municipal elections now going on show, it is said, increasing Democratic strength, which augurs - well for the Congressional changes when they take place. The rumours of an amnesty proclamation are denied, the PRESIDENT having stated that as the peace proclamation was simply a declaration of his policy, it did not terminate mar tial law. This is one of the incidents which indicate that Mr. JOHNSON is not disposed to proceed to extremities, or to provoke an actual collision between the Executive and the popular representa tives. Of the Civil Rights Bill nothing more is heard; but another resolution has been introduced into the Senate by Mr. STEWART, to the effect that a constitutional amendment should be passed, pro hibiting any distinction in matters of civil right or suffrage among the people on account of race, colour, or previous servitude, repudiating the rebel debt, and ignoring all claims, for compensation on account of emancipated slaves. This resolution has been referred to the Reconstruction Committee, but it will probably not proceed much further. The question of the fisheries so long a source of dispute and contention seems likely again to give , us some trouble. Thanks to the folly and perti nacity of the Americans in insisting upon the ter ; mination of the Reciprocity Treaty, the whole question which has been at rest since 1854 has been again reopened, and threatens to be as troublesome and mischievous as ever. The sin gular perversity of American politicians with re spect to this treaty was the more remarkable, be cause its provisions were greatly in favour of the States. The British colonists, indeed, were largely the gainers by the definite settlement of the question, because it was a fruitful source of strife and dissension between the fishing populations of both countries, and threatened more than once to embroil the Governments. The Reciprocity Treaty permitted American fishermen to take fish of any kind, with the exception of shell fish, on the coasts and shores, and in the harbours, creeks, and bays of the British colonies, while British fishermen were allowed the same lati tude with regard to the United States north of a certain latitude. As the Americans profited the most by this arrangement, they agreed to admit some of the products of the colonies duty free. Thus by a happy system of quarantine ac commodation both parties were satisfied, and the source of disturbance was removed. The value of these fisheries to our colonists is very great, indeed they form the principal source of wealth to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. The cod alone, exported from the latter yearly, is reckoned at a million sterling, while the exports from Nova Scotia amount to nearly three-quarters of that sum. It is not likely that they can look very calmly on any interference with so profitable an industry. allow t e We hope, however, that the countries un w se il t will not d t G h o e ve m rn a m tt e e n r ts to remain both h n in an ' condi tion. The Ameri cans of the Border States are no doubt just now irritated by the projects and pre tensions of the Fenians , but at Washington and New York they should be wiser. A war with England internal the attention of the people from would he a very costly mode of diverting affairs, and the fishermen of Maine especially gain very little by it. President JOHNSON has sent Mr. SEWARD, would a message to Congress embodying a report from i t e a n t . i e n a g u th in at te to protect American an adequate naval force to the fishing grounds it was intended to send This is a very superfluous and irritating precaution, and bears so much the aspect of a menace that it is likely to pro voke the very outbreak which it professes to avoid. The State Department, we are assured, sees at present no reason to apprehend a collision. There id, therefore, no excuse for any such preventive or protective ineasues, ho sever, it is a THE SCN, LOINDO.N, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1866. mere show to pacify the angry feeling of the people, always to believe that " Britishers" are going to defraud them. The PRESIDENT and the British Government are believed to be con sidering whether negotiation and legislation cannot be employed to adjust the matter. We should hope that such will prove to be the ultimate course adopted. Anything like a collision between Eng land and America would be fatal to the newly reviving prosperity of the States ; while the extent and almost inexhaustible wealth of the Northern fisheries renders any contention about them as un necessary as it would be ill advised and disastrous. 'S READINGS. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. 1 MR. CHARLE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ITALY. FLORENCE, APRIL 25. The journals of this city publish news from Venetia, according to which the Austrian Govern ment has ordered all its land and naval forces to be placed upon a war footing by the first of May next. All soldiers on furlough are said to have been re called and armed, and arrangements made for an extraordinary concentration of troops in the pro vince of Rovigo. The Nazione believes that Austria desires to mask, under the pretext of measures of defence against Italy, an infraction of the understanding between the two great German Powers for mutual disarma ment. " Prussia," says the Nazione, " much more than:ltaly, should at once direct her attention to the Austrian armaments in Venetia." The rumours of a conflict in Rovigo between the Austrians and a body of Italian volunteers is absolutely unfounded. PRUSSIA. BERLM, APRIL 25. The semi-official Provinzil Correspondenz of to- days says :-- « The reform of the Federal Constitution will be undertaken with an earnest determination to carry it through. From present indications it is evident that the Prussian Government is striving to establish the Federal organisation upon a basis which shall secure the solid rational development of Germany in all positive and practical matters, especially in the organisation of the national army and fleet, the common treatment of questions affecting German commerce, such as the customs, railways, telegraphs, and posts, the due representation of these interests before the Federal Diet, the com mon representation of Germany by Consuls, and the protection of German subjects abroad. Count Von Bismarck will receive to-day the Roumanian deputation which arrived here this morning from Dusseldorf, where Prince Charles of Hohenzollern is at present staying. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, APRIL 25. The Oesterreichische Zeitung of to-day says : "Nothing is known in well-informed circles in this city of the alleged incursion of freebooters into Venetia, or of the reported encounter between them and the Austrian troops near Rovigo." RUSSIA• ST. PETERSBURG, APRIL 25. The man who recently attempted to assassinate the Czar is named Varokosow, and is a native of the province of Saratof. He is a hypochondriac. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 25. The Sublime Porte has instructed its Ambassador in Paris to protest at the next sitting of the Paris Conference against the election of Prince Charles Von Hohenzollern to the throne of the Principalities, and against any infraction of the Suzerain rights of the Sultan, as settled by treaty. SPAIN. MADRID, APRIL 24, Evening. To-day the Minister of Finance brought forward in the Congress a bill for assisting the railway companies by lending them Treasury bonds upon the security of a deposit of railway bonds. THE BOMBAY MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 25. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Syria arrived here this morning with the heavy portion of the above mail, 133 passengers, £1,988 in specie, and 255 packages of general cargo. She experienced east-south easterly gales across the Bay of Biscay and up Channel. On the 16th inst. she spoke the bark Dorothy, of Shields ; on the 17th the brig Azof, of Plymouth ; and on the 20th the bark Mary Elizabeth, of Cardiff, and the Belgian bark Alcida. The steamers Dido from Liverpool and Cromwell and Sabrina from Cardiff have arrived at Gibraltar. Exchanges and freights at Gibraltar unaltered. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. SUEZ, APRIL 23. The Messageries Imperiales steamer, Cambodge, with_the above mails, arrived here to-day. FRANCE. PARIS, APRIL 25. The Constitutionnel of this morning publishes an article upon the German question signed by M. Paulin Simayrac, demonstrating that France could do nothing better during the German difficulty than preserve, with entire neutrality, all liberty of action and every means of influence for the moment when they might be usefully employed. " Facts," the writer continues, " justify the course taken by the Emperor. Left to themselves Prussia and Austria have agreed to disarm, but it is very doubtful whether foreign interference would have more easily or promptly obtained a similar result." The traffic receipts on the Atlantic 'and Great Western Railway for the month of March amounted to $388,480, against $399,870 for the correspond ing month of last year, showing a decrease of $11,390. The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the following as the atmospheric situation yesterday : —" A barometrical depression exists over Spain, the Mediterranean, and Central Italy. Tinder its influence the wind is blowing rather strongly from N. and E. throughout France. The sky con tinues clear, and the sea is calm on the coasts of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. A gale took place on Sunday over the Adriatic, advancing from the E. The wind is strong at Florence, Ancona, and Lesina, and is menacing the Medi terranean."—At Paris yesterday the weather was fine but colder, the wind being from the N.E. At three the thermometer marked 16 Cent. (60-4.5 Fakir.) The Imperial Commission for the Exhibition of 1867 has decided that, in order to have a complete record of the progress of the works for the new palace, weekly photographs of them shall be taken to be appended to the reoorts of the architects and engineers. The Academy of Fine Arts has just elected as corresponding members M. Jerichan, of Copenha gen, in the room of M. Kiss, deceased, and M. Hess, of Berlin, in place of M. Strak, promoted to the rank of foreign associate. BOURSE, April 24, Th has closed on the followin 1-1. per Cents 97 Do. end month — tree o'clock.—The market g quotations : Bank Shares 3560 Italian Loan 53 60 Do. end month 53 60 Mexican Loan 4l Do. Bonds 2BB 75 Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred 3 per Cents. 67 70 Do. end month 67 70 Credit Mobilier 602 50 Do. end month 603 25 Unis Do. end month RAILWAYS. Cash. Amt. Orleans Northern ... 1120 Lyons and Mediterranean 853 75 Southern 550 Western ... 542 50 Eastern 537 50 Sardinian Austrian Lombard .„ 388 75 North of Spain ........... 142 50 Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona.,..~„ B2 50 Rornattwissmitimis ..... et " Doctor Marigold" and " The Trial from Pickwick." (LAST EVENING AT THE ST. JAMES'S lIALL.) Any one who has never heard and seen one of these Readings by our great Novelist can form no conception whatever of their remarkable and wholely exceptional excellence. According to all ordinary acceptations of the phrase, a Public Read ing means nothing more than a piece of elocutionary display, signifies nothing better (at the best) than a specimen of clever, occasionally of brilliant, and in very rare instances indeed of even af fecting declamation. It is no extravagance, however, to assert at once that Mr. Dickens's Readings are nothing whatever of this kind. They arc no mere recitations. They are distinct im personations. They are visible, audible, sub-, stantial incarnations of an extraordinary variety of characters—with the distinguishing peculiarities and idiosyncracies of which the vast majority of the audiences listening to Mr. Dickens's Readings have long previously been perfectly well fami liarised through his writings. But the consum- mate art with which these creatures of the author's imagination become realised to the eye and ear through these so-called Readings—as though, one by one, they were brought actually before us, ac cording to Mr. Gladstone's unpleasantly anatomical and sanguinary phrase, in flesh and blood—no one who has not been present upon one of these occa sions can even proximately conjecture. 'With a light, elastic step, and a face radiant with health and animation, there steps upon the platform, and advances towards the reading-desk, one whose fea tures, thanks to photography, are almost as well known by this time as any one among those famous books of his which have won for him his world- wide and delightful reputation. A small volume lying open on the reading-desk, with the author of that volume standing there before it—behold all there is upon these occasions in the way of prepara tion or in the shape of accessories. And yet, though this is literally all there is before us during the two hours occupied by one of these Readings, it is almost impossible to imagine how real, how actual—as if presented to our view and hearing, as already remarked, in living flesh and blood—are the people, the creations that are brought before us by the protean form, the variable manner, the flexile voice, the mobile "features of the great Novelist of whose brain they were previously no more than the subtle and intangible emanations. Of all his numerous successes, however, in this way—that is in his extraordinary manifestation of power in the impersonation of his own creations—be yond all manner of doubt and question, the most wonderful in its way, in every respect, as a complete and perfect realisation, is the very latest of all, the one that he has but just now realised as Dr. Marigold. In spite of its being Mr. Dickens in propria persona, who is there all the while conspicuously before us in his own unmistak able identity—it is, at one and the same time,in every glance of the eye, in every inflexion of the voice, in every casual movement, in every syllable articu- lated, in every sentient line about the mouth, in every emotional tone imparted to the voluble words poured forth in that irrepressible and irresistible patter—the itinerant Cheap Jack himself, and no other than the itinerant Cheap Jack, that we are listening to ! It is Doctor Marigold, and no other than Doctor Marigold, who thus holds us spell bound, who thus commands, at his own absolute will and pleasure, our tears and ourlaughter—now alter nately, now at one and the same moment ! It is Doctor Marigold and not Mr. Dickens ! The trans formation, the transmutation one might rather say, thus literally accomplished, is so complete, is so absolute in its way and of its kind that, to all intents and purposes, he who is thus talking to us for the best part of a whole hour, as nearly as possible exactly one whole hour, is—not a gentle man in evening costume, but a rough chap in a sleeved waistcoat—whose favourite attitude (though he stands before us all the thne)is sitting down—whose taste (in the way of personal jewellery) runs in favour not of mere diamond studs but of good-sized mother-of-pearl buttons--whose cherished necktie instead of being a delicate ribbon of white cambric, is a pretty loud-patterned shawl wore loose and easy! And perhaps the most wonderful thing of all about this Monologue of " Doctor Marigold " is this ; that just as distinctly as he thus brings him- self visibly and audibly before us, we have also brought before us by him, in succes sion, through the • medium of his variable look, and voice, and manner, all the other charac ters who come to be associated with him, who get mixed up with his story, who are mentioned by him in his rapid and chequered recollections. There's the Parliamentary Dear Jack on the footboard of his cart, the hustings, tempt ing his hearers to a bid with all sorts of lots on their own terms, take 'em, or leave 'em—their own railways carried and their neighbours railways jockeyed—all their sons in the Post-office—Bri tannia smiling on them—the eyes of Europe on them —the Wrongs of Men and the Rights of Women — total abolition of flogging in the army, or a dozen for every private once a month all round ! There's Little Sophy—with her bright eyes still wet, and her little face still flushed, and her shining dark hair all curling natural about her shoulders—hold ing on with a love strong in death to the poor Cheap Jack's neck—clinging tenderly to the last to his worn sleeved-waistcoat ! There's Doctor Marigold's Own Wife, before marriage and after—courted from the footboard, and drowning herself in de spair—when first seen like one of your lovely Suffolk dumplings, biling over with beauty—when last seen banging herself (when the Furies took her) to that extent that she was forced to be held! There's Mim's Travelling Giant, Pickleson by name, though known upon his travels by the more euphonious title of Rinaldo di Velasco —the languid young man, with a little head and less in it, with the feeblest circulation, and a voice apparently coming from his eyebrows ! One whose excessive languor our reflective Cheap Jack thinks must be attri butable somehow to the distance between his extremities ! That elongated specimen of male youth, capable, even in the midst of his con stitutional dejection, of being cheered almost beyond belief by the gift of no more than a sixpence (poor Pickleson we are told, being kept as short as he was long) and so bricked up by merely two threepennorth's of gin and water, that he sings off-hand, without being asked for it, the Favourite Comic of Shivery-Shakey, ain't it cold ! There's Mim himself—the Giant's Proprietor—a very hoarse man and a most ferocious swearer—now ferocious outside his own carawan—now swearing most hor rible and terrific, at the slackness of the public, in a pink calico pay-place up a green-baize alcove lead ing to an Auction Room ! There's Doctor Marigold's very Dog, too—that sagacious animal of whom we are told that whenever Sophy's mother was going to break out, be would spontaneously wake up, even out of the soundest sleep, give a howl, and bolt— the dog about whom we learn that he taught himself to bark at any one who bid as low as sixpence—alto gether an animal not unworthy of consorting with that other noble specimen of his species, the Pug Dog, with his muzzle blackleadod for an evening party, and his tail extra curled by machinery ! There's even the blushing butcher who gets handed to the front to take the lot he didn't bid for—constrained some how to become a purchaser in spite of himself by the irresistible patter of this incomparable bamboozler among Cheap Jacks —who'll throw us in a warming pan for nothing, and lend us a toasting-fork for life —tempting us now with a frying-pan, artificially flavoured with beefsteaks to that degree that we have only got for the rest of our lives to fry bread and dripping in it, and there we are replete with animal food--now with a genuine chronometer watch in such a solid silver case that we may hammer at the door with it when we come home late from a social meeting, and rouse our wife and family, and save up our knocker for the postman—now with a rolling pin of such uncommon excel lence that if the baby can only get it well into its mouth when its teeth are coming, and rub its gums well with it, they'll come through double in a fit of laughter equal to being tickled! There's Sophy Number Two—dumb, but realised to us (how vividly !) by her every look and gesture. Thore's her dumb lover, afterwards her husband ! And —to crown all, to perfect all, to bring all at the very last to one exquisite conclusion—there's the little child—child of those two dumb parents—the little child who comes clambering with a light tread up the steps of the cart, just after Doctor Marigold has been regaling himself with a dinner off that wonderful beefsteak-pudding of his own manu facture, pronounced by himself to be a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything but the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat—there's thebright little comely girl with large dark eyes, the tiny creature in her mite of a straw hat—at the first sound of whose pretty voice greeting him, all the poor tender-hearted Cheap Jack's fears as to her hereditary dumbness get blissfully scattered to the winds upon the instant. " Grandfather !" Ah, my God!" I cries out, "She can speak!" Immediately after - which rapturous cry- of de light from the lips of the itinerant Cheap Jack, the Reading of " Doctor Marigold" comes almost abruptly to a conclusion. Insomuch so that—before the echo of that cry, last evening, had well ceased ringing upon the ears and hearts of the im mense audience assembled there in the Hall—an audience that until then had been listening to the closing passages of the Monologue with breathless attention—Mr. Dickens had disappeared from the platform. The spell was still there, but the magician had vanished. Afterwards—when an interval of but a very few minutes had been as usual allowed to elapse—Mr. Dickens, although suffering yesterday from what we fear must have been to himself, at intervals, a very distressing hoarseness, crowned the evening's entertainment as radiantly as ever with his far famed and irresistibly-humorous record of " The Trial from Pickwick." Here, in his rendering of that most famous chapter of all from the most famous of all his books—about the most laughter moving and hilarious book sarely that ever was penned•—the twofold marvel is the rapidity of his facial and vocal transformations, coupled with the astonishing number and diversity of his impersona tions, while reading it. From the testy little Judge upon the Bench, Mr. Justice Stareleigh, at one mo ment looking about him with an inflamed glare of the eye, half suspicion, half indignation, at an other waking up from a doze to make an elaborately suppositious note with a pen that has no ink in it ! To Mr. Pickwick—that " angel in tights," accord ing to Sam's preposterously felicitous description of him—even, we say, to that great man who, although no more than casually referred to during the Read ing, seems, somehow, to start before us, then, upon the instant, arrayed, so to speak, in all his attributes, including among these, we might also say, his very gaiters and barnacles, so complete is our realisa tion of his bodily presence while listening to this mere momentary mention of himself by Mr. Dickens ! From Sam - Weller, best of all the wit nesses, to Mr. Winkle, indubitably and doubly among them all the very worst, but drollest. From garrulous little Mrs. Cluppins (with her domestic confidences uttered in open court) —that worthy precursor of " Anastasia Piper, gentlemen," afterwards introduced to our notice at the inquest in Bleak House—to Master Bardell in his skeleton-suit and Sugarloaf-buttons, fearfully expec tant of a summons to instant execution, as he stands there conspicuously within every one's view upon the floor of the court-house ! Besides all of whom, there are Sergeant Buzfuz and Sergeant Snubbin, together with Mr. Skimpin and Mr. Phunkey the juniors. To say nothing of the whole assembled bar with its astonishing and pleasing variety of nose and whisker. Ther© are Messrs. Dod son and Fogg, the rascally attorneys for the plaintiff. There is little Mr. Perker, the solicitor for the defendant. There is Old Weller —that glorious_Old Weller, of whom, by the way, we are almost inclined to speak as the very finest character of all in the book—bawling, gutturally from the gallery, " Quite right, Sammy, quite right—put it down a we, my Lord!" One after another, turn by turn, as the trial proceeds, we seem to see and hear these people to the very life, as if we were there actually in the court, instead of merely listening to an account of the proceedings recorded in the great case of Bardell v. Pickwick. It is a wonderful gift, indeed, this marvellous and wholely exceptional capability on the part of our great Author to realize thus magically by his look and voice to the eye and ear of such as may be there attentively watching him and listening to him, those purely hypothetical creatures of his imagination, which his pen, like a wizard's wand (as it is), has already conjured into life upon his pictured page. it is a gift, however, that, in the very midst of our marvelling over it, seems to explain to us in some measure how it comes to pass, after all, that Charles Dickens is so wonderfully realistic in his capacity as a Novelist. The obvious truth being, that he, first of all, realizes his dreamings so intensely to himself, that when he afterwards comes to relate them to us, whether by written or by spoken words, they appear to be far more like actual events and living people than any mere incidents and creatures born of his imagination. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Runs, Tuesday Evening. The Moniteur publishes the text of the despatch addressed by Count de Mensdorff to Count Karolyi at Berlin, which I have already described, and which no doubt you received by telegraph. The Paris papers have no other information from Germany. The Siecle, under these circumstances, places in the most prominent part the appreciation made by The Sun of the gravity of the position in regard to Germany, and directs attention to it in an earnest manner. Information has been furnished to the Minister of Marine and the Colonies that vessels from Brest, St. Nazaire, Nantes, and the whole of the sea from Cape Finnisterre to La Rochelle, are now exempted from the quarantine imposed upon them in conse quence of the former existence of cholera in those waters. Another ingenious swindler has been exercising his talent upon a rich jeweller here. Next to his stall at the Theatre Francais an evening or two ago was a well dressed and exceedingly intelligent gen tleman about fifty. They engaged in conversation and talked upon all sorts of subjects. The gentle man told the jeweller that he had come to Paris ex pressly to purchase some valuable jewels for a foreign Power. Upon this hint the jeweller offered his business card to the amiable stranger, who said he should have much pleasure in visiting his estab lishment next morning to select his purchases. Towards 10 o'clock the swindler pleaded sudden and severe headache, and took his leave. He imme diately went to the jeweller's shop and asked to see the wife, saying that he came with a message from her husband. He told her not to be alarmed, but that a strange thing had happened. He and her husband had been to a cafe after leaving the theatre, and, unfortunately, on entering they had knocked over a marble table and broken it, and also some valuable articles which were upon the table. Neither he nor her husband hap pened to have enough money in their pockets to pay 50f., the amount demanded for the damage done, and therefore the latter had sent him to request madame to let him have that sum, as he was detained as it were in pledge on account of it. Saying this the swindler presented the jewel ler's card as a proof that he came from him, although the lady was so pleased with his win ning manners and was so free from suspicion that the money would have been given without such a guarantee. The lady therefore instantly gave him the 50f., and indeed also thanked him heartily for the trouble he had taken on account of " her good gentleman." Of course there was a disagreeable surprise for the lady when her hus band returned home. After the service to the memory of the late Queen of the French, which took place at the parish church at Neuilly, some of those in at- tendance were favoured with the sight of an au tograph letter written by the deceased lady, who at the time founded an establishment of sisters of charity there. The following is a copy of the letter addressed to one of the sisters : " Eu, Sept. 15, 1845. " Here, my dear sister, are 550 francs to distri bute according to the subjoined note and a few petitions -which need inquiry. It is impossible for me to send the letter, which I return to you, as I neither know those persons nor their addresses. I have had the pleasure of seeing here a great number of your good sisters, all as active and as pious as you. I recommend myself and all my family to the good prayers of my good sisters of Neuilly. " M. A." The Constitutionnel contains a letter from St. Omer, which, referring to the report of an extended camp of reserve at Helfaut, says that so far from this being the case, the portions of the camp con structed a few years ago there are about to be de stroyed. So much for the alarmist articles about the warlike features of the ensuing camp at Chalons and other military demonstrations al le g ed to be in contemplation by the French Government. The same paper, in explaining the position of the English Ministry in regard to the Reform Bill, says Among its adversaries are a certain number of members who sit on the Ministerial side, and who persist in calling themselves Liberals. On the other hand among the supporters of the bill are Mr. Bright and the members who compose the Radical phalanx." It proceeds to describe the Opposition as a mixed opposition, but says that the English papers call it a coalition. Without giving a de cided opinion n regard to the bill, the Constitutionnel appears to coincide with the views of the supporters of Lord Grosvenor. A paper of some influence at Berlin, the Corres pondence Zeidler, denies that there is any truth in the report that the Prince de Hohenzollern had re fused the Throne of Roumania, the simple reason for which is that it has never been offered to him. The Prince has declared that the only knowledge he has of the offer has been derived from the news papers. Among the railway extensions about to be com menced in the vicinity of Paris is that for prolong ing to Boissy St. Leger the line between Paris and la Varenna St. Maur. The distance to be completed is inconsiderable, but it will necessitate some im portant and extensive engineering operations im mediately, in order for the formation of a passage across the river Marne. There are some interesting recollections connected with the Boissy St. Leger. It is near the celebrated chateau of Gros-Bois, built at the commencement of the seventeenth century, and which belonged to the Duke d'Angouleme, illegitimate son of Charles the 9th, and to the Count de Provence, afterwards Louis the 18th, and to General Moreau, who was arrested there in 1814. It was also the residence of Berthier, Prince of Wagram, whose son occupies it at present. Seven new members have been admitted to the Jockey Club—Count Eugene. de Sully, Count de Croix, Count Albani de Froissard, Baron Gaston de Montesquieu, Count Anatole de Montlaur, Count de Romanet, and Baron Val de Guimont. I gather the following items connected with Theatrical matters. M. Faille has succeeded M. de Chilly as director of the Ambigu. M. Eugene Moreau has resigned his position as director of the Theatre Beaumarchais. M. Angier has written another aet for his last piece, "La Contagion," which excited so much controversy. It gives quite a different termination to the drama, and when read to the actors of the Odeon appeared to be more satisfactory to them than the act first written. At the Gait 6 M. Eugene Nus has read a drama in five acts, called " Les Noces Islandaires" (the Irish Wedding). Every preparation had been made for opening a new theatre—the Theatre Imperial, near the Boulevard du Prince Eugene, but several , architects having given their opinion that the pillars • were not strong enough to support the weight upon them, the Minister of the Emperor's household, in the interest of public safety, has forbidden the opening of the theatre until a Government architect shall have examined and reported upon the sbject. KNIGHTS OF THE GARTER.—Sir Charles George Young, Knight, Garter Principal King of Arms, with his assistants, were engaged yesterday (Tuesday) at the Chapel Royal of St. George, after morning service, in taking down the regalia over the stall of the late Lord Palmerston as Knight of the Garter, and placing in its stead the banner, helmet, surcoat, sword, and brass plate, with the arms and titles of Lord Cowley, the newly-elected Knight of this most noble order. The regalia of the lap King of the Bel gians has not yet been removed, but it will shortly give Placo to that of lai4 Ron, the present g,overeign• VOCAL MUSIC BY FRANZ ABT. (PUBLISHED BY COCKS AND Co.) Several charming ballads—songs set almost all of them to the accompaniment of the piano, one of them exceptionally, however, to the added accom paniment of the tambourine, have recently been composed by that accomplished musician and finished master of his art, Franz Abt. Appearing together, published simultaneously by the Messrs. Cocks and Co., of New Burlington-street, these lovely little ditties come to us seasonably enough like the multiplying notes of the song-birds now beginning to be heard d a y b y day in greater variety and volume among the budding leaves and opening flowers. More especially bearing a distinct resem blance to these vernal songs of the birds is the very first of these same graceful ditties that our hand lights upon, purely by chance, after penning the previous sentence: — The Old Old Tale, it is called, the words of it being written by William Hills, and set daintily to the fluent warbling accompaniment, imitative of the night-birds' songs, listened to by the lovers of whom the ditty itself speaks, or rather sings. When Stars are in the Quiet Sky—the poetry by Sir E. Bulwer Lytton—is in a loftier strain, and upon a more ambitious theme, befitting the tender and contemplative view of the poet of Eva and of Constance. 1 Love my Little Native Isle—the stanzas by Dr. Charles Mackay—is the tambourine song already referred to, with a pretty rippling accompaniment of that hollow shell-shaped rattle of the Spanish dancers to the tralalalala of the singer after the trilling forth of the lengthened utterance of the word tambourrrrrrrrine ! Fortune with a Shining Face—a ballad also written by Dr. Mackay—is more to our liking, however, as worthy alike of both the song-writers engaged upon its production, meaning, of course, both Franz Abt and Charles Mackay—both Poet and Musician. The Sacred Day—the words by J. E. Carpenter, is replete with devotional feeling. I Cannot Bear to say Farewell—the poetry by W. S. Passmore, is a graceful, flowing composition, and Stay, Gentle Morn, a While—the words of which are by the late Right Hon. Lord Leigh, is singularly melodious. NOVEL INVENTION.—Our attention has been re cently called to a very ingenious and novel inven tion, patented by Messrs. Gottheimer and Co., of 39, Goodge-streot, Tottenham-court-road, London, by which a watch may be securely protected from the greatest adept at pocket-picking. It consists of an elastic guard, with a swivel attached, and fastens by a hook to the bottom of the waistcoat pocket through the lining ; it then becomes impossible to abstract the watch. The protector applies also to a pocket-book or portemounaie, either of which by being encircled with the elastic band, and then fastened through the lining of the coat or other pocket, effectually secures them from being lost or stolen. So useful an article, as tho protector un4uestionably is, will be found to be an effectual safeguard not only to bankers' and mer chants' clerks, but to those also of our country friends who usually attend the various cattle and other markets, agricultural meetings, &c. ; its cost is but two shillings, and can be procured of the principal jewellers and fancy sta tioners in the United Kingdom.—From the Farmers' Journal and Agricultural Magazine. 10. i...". • trg E - 4 rtr 04 HER MAJESTY• OSBORNE. Tuesday. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, went out in the grounds yesterday morning, and drove out in the afternoon, accompanied by Princess llelena and attended by the llon. Caroline Caven dish. Colonel Du Plat was in attendance on horseback. Lieut. Colonel Gordon, Scots Fusilier Guards, arrived at Osborne yesterday. APPROACHING MARRIAGE OF PRINCESS MARY OF CAMBRIDGE. At a recent meeting of the inhabitants of Kew, presided over by the Rev. R. B. Byam, vicar of the parish, it was unanimously resolved that an address of congratulation on the approaching marriage of her Royal Highness Princess Mary of Cambridge should be presented to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge. On Monday afternoon the deputation, consisting of the Rev. R. B. Byam' vicar, the Rev. P. W. Nott, curate, and Messrs. J. D. Rigby and F. Irwin, churchwardens, waited on her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge by appointment at Cambridge Cottage, and presented the following congratulatory address, signed by u wards of 250 of the inhabitants of Kew : TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE. Madam,—We, the clergy and inhabitants of Kew, trust that your Royal Highness will permit us to offer our un feigned congratulations on the approaching marriage of her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cambridge with his Royal Highness the Prince of Teck. We venture to assure you, Madam, that we are moved to this mark of respect, not only from the loyalty we bear towards every member of the Royal family, but from the fervent and sincere pleasure with which we regard an event that may tend to increase the happiness of both your Royal Highness and the Princess. In the numerous acts of gracious kindness by her Royal Highness, in the interest taken by her Royal Highness in all that appertains to the Church, as well as in promoting the welfare and education of tne children of the Queen's School, the Princess has endeared herself to every resident of this parish ; and we recognise in this the fruits of the wise counsel and maternal care of your Royal Highness. It is, therefore, in a spirit of affection, and as a tribute to your exalted station, that we address your Royal Highne ss on this auspicious occasion. Trusting that the God of all good may bless and prosper this alliance, we pray that Se may in his bountiful Providence grant health and long life to every member of your illustrious family. Kew, April 23, 186 G. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge made the following reply : Mr. Byam and Gentlemen,—l am much gratified at re ceiving the address of congratulation which the clergy an d inhabitants of Kew have been good enough to present through you on the approaching marriage of my daughter, the Princess Mary Adelaide, with his Highness the Prince of Teck. After a residence of nearly 30 years at Kew I cannot but regard with the warmest affection a place in which so maul years of my life have been passed, and where I have received from the clergy and inhabitants such undeviating marks of goodwill and sympathy on this and former occasions. It is most acceptable to me to learn from the kind 0 " pressions you make use of that my daughter's feelings towards Kew have been so thoroughly appreciated, and you may be certain that her interest and attachment will remain unchanged. I know it will be a pleasure to you to be assured by me that I have every reason to believe that the Princess Mary's happiness will be secured by this alliance, under God's blessing this marriage will be as prosperou s as you all desire. In my own name and that of the P r i nc e s s Mary Loffer you our sincere thanks for your good wishes. (Signed) Cambridge Cottage, Kew, April 23, 186 G. an d that AUGUSTA. SPANISH FINANCES. - MADRID, 21st April. Yesterday, in Congress, Senor Alonzo Martinez, Minister of Finance, made the following reply to Senor Moyens on the subject of a projected Na tional Bank : " I have already stated that the receipt for the deposit made by the contractors existed, and I hale ordered that it should be sent to the Committee on the Bill. I now hold a copy of this receipt, which is as follows : " We have received from Mr. Lewis Hazlewood the sum of £200,000 sterling, to be held as deposit by way of guarantee for the fulfilment of a con tract submitted by Mr. Haslewood for the appro bation of the Spanish Government. and which proposes the establishment of a bank in Spain. The deposit of the above-mentioned sum has been effected under the conditions expressed in the letter jointly addressed to us on the Bth Marcill 1866, by Mr. Haslewood and Don Jose Borrajo, chairman of the Spanish Finance Commission in London, and we undertake to deliver the said sign of £200,000 sterling to the proper claimant thereof, in conformity with conditions 3 and 4of the letter signed by Mr. Haslewood and Don Jose Borrajo* To this end we sign the receipt in duplicate, Alr' Haslewood preserving one copy, and Don Jos e Borrajo, as representing the Spanish Government, the other." The most important condition above referred to, continued the Minister, is that which states : the event of the contract not being fulfilled by th e concessionnaires, the deposit of £200,000 will b° delivered to the Spanish Government." The Minister did not state with what establishment this dep osit in question was made. The Epoca of yesterday published the following, paragraph with reference to the current rumours 01 approaching disturbances in Spain. " We have several times mentioned that previothl to the military revolt of January we received letter% from London, proceeding from the Reform Club announcing the proximity of that event. At °la time we attached no credit to intelligence subs& quently confirmed by facts. We are now roots, mended through the same channel to observe r a greatest vigilance, since the plans formed are °I most radical and important character. We 811°to have said nothing of this had not the Governts ell tbe anticipated us by giving the alarm ; but if danger really should exist, we could not unders tand how the conservative interests of the country should stoically resign themselves to what the future Icsal bring forth." It is stated that two amendments will be broug ht forward in the Senate and Congress to the Nat ions' Bank Bill, one declaring it illegal for the Gov ern ; ment or private undertakings to borrow money 3 c , longer dates than three months, the other the omission of the clause in the bill that the not e l„ of the bank shall be a legal tender through °ll " Spain. The Senate has voted 31 articles of the bill fO l r the abolition of slavery in the Spanish colon ial possessions. The Congress h as comm enced ti : ° discussion of the bill for the r e d uc ti on o f the oa .- in g debt.l The marriage of Miss Ida Waldegrave Money' daughter of the late General and Lady A nlle ' it -tt h Money, and niece of Frances Countess Waldegrave' 11/- Major the Hon. Edward Boyle, was solemnised yesterday morning at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. Tho bride a ' a bridegroom arrived at the church at half Past °l i e :: 1 o'clock, accompanied by Lady Waldegrave and C c v - e s the Hon. William Boyle. They were received ' I I sj large circle of friends and relations of both :amongst whom were—The Marquis o f Clanrica— the Earl and Countess of Cerk, the Earl and C. 161 1 - toss of Essex, tho Countess of Roth es a nd the .I°-° , lc i Waldogravo Leslie, M.P., Viscountess Chewton Lady Mary Hope Vere, Mr. and Lady Catherine N'Sre f; laud, Viscountess Nevill, Hon. F re d er i c k Byng, D °w : 1 : 0 1 ° 1 , Lady Radstock and Miss W a ld egrave , M r . a nd iforatia Wardlaw, Sir John and Lady Johnston, 013 rti Molesworth, Sir Erskin e an d L a dy P err y, th e Ladies (2), Mr. and Lady E m il y G a i s f or d , L a d y Hi s l o p, and 111 „ ° ,:- others. The bride was attended at the altar by the fo,; ing young ladies :—Lady Emily Boyle, Lady EvelY n „ f i s o tie, Miss A. Hervey, Miss Constance Brabant , Towneley, and Miss Boyle. The ceremony was perf °r ' 33e , by the Hon. and Rev. R. C. Boyle, uncle to th e bridegN" After the service the company adjourned to the resid°l'.‘cA of Lady Waldegrave in Carlton-gardens, where bros 14:;„ was served to about 80 guests, after which the ne yr, wedded pair loft town for the Priory, Chewton 31011 1 near Bath. ROYAL COMMISSION ON RAILWAYS.-1... C mission met at the House of Lords yesterday. ron re, the Duke of Devonshire, in the chair ; the Earl o f d Lord Stanley, Messrs. Leveson Gower, Horsfall, Captain Galion. The Secretary, Mr. W. Pale, attended' IF the fev bu; res nal Wa ata lim eve % II 11 181 Grp 1 84 1 Oh l 1 ki e 1 1 11, 11 e( N