The Sun. — London, England, 1865-04-10 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1865. SHERMAN'S successful, if not victorious career, has at length received a check, and instead of marching at the head of his army to effect a junc tion with GRANT, his interview with that general has only been effected by means of a personal voyage by sea. RALEIGH, the capital of North Carolina, has not, as the Federals fondly hoped, proved a second Columbia, and the opposition which ought to have met SHERMAN in Georgia has at last encountered him in North Carolina. JOHNSTONE has proved a formidable opponent, and so vigorous and determined was his attitude that SHERMAN abandOned his intended advance. The battle of Bentonville, of which we have heard by the last mail, is admitted by both sides to have been furious, and the losses of Federals and Confederates were alike heavy. It seems that on the day following the engagement severe skirmishing was kept up, and that SHERMAN finally decided that it was useless to attempt to proceed further in that direction. He, therefore, proceeded to Goldsborough to join SCHO FIELD, leaving JOHNSTONE to intrench himself at' Smithfield. We find an amusing example of the skill with which the Northern leaders make the worse appear the better cause, in the substance of SHERMAN'S address to his army after what may be called a retrograde movement. He informed them they had a won a victory after a gloriously success ful campaign, and that it should rest to enjoy the products of a rich and magnificent 'country before again embarking on fresh dangers. The fact of the matter is, that the first strong and well-organised resistance which SHERMAN has encountered has sufficed to turn him from his path ; and if the Con federates had had promptitude and energy enough to have faced him before they might have earlier arrested his progress. • SHERMAN'S expedition to City Point, to which he went via Newbern, was for the Purpose of joining a conference of war be tween LINCOLN,GRANT, MEADE, SHERIDAN, and ORD. The result of this conference is not known, but it is probable that some line of action must have been de termined on since the whole of the principal leaders of the war were thus present. SHERMAN returned to his head-quarters at Goldsborough the next day. and it is asserted that a movement of GRANT'S army commenced immediately afterwards. The PRESI DENT'S visit to City Point' . has revived the peace rumours, and it has been reported in the North that LEE, being convinced of his inability to hold Rich mond, had renewed the request for a military p eace conference. It scarcely needed an official denial to contradict this statement. LEE'S intentions do not seem at present to be very pacific, for the most im portant part of the military news brought by the Africa is the account of an attack upon the Federal lines on the 25th. GRANT'S version of the story i s that early in the morning of that day the Confede rates attacked the extreme right of his army, and succeeded in capturing Fort Steadman, and two Union works, besides taking General M'LAUGH LIN and many other prisoners. Afterwards the Federals were reinforced, and drove back the C on f e d era t es to their own lines with the loss of 3,600 men, the Federal loss being 1,000. LEE'S object was thought to have been to seize the military railway from City Point, an achievement The Duke of CAMBRIDGE presided on Friday at a meeting in the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall. Many noblemen, gentlemen, and offi cers assembled to hear a lecture from Captain CHESNEY, of the Royal Military School, Sandhurst, upon the recent campaigns of General SHERM..kN in America. The lecture was a very interesting one, and entered fully into the suggestive subject under notice. Captain CHESNEY observed, with great accuracy, that the time had gone by when men looked upon the American war as a chaos of inde cisive engagements. The history of the contest has shown that the Americans can fight, and the affair at Bull's Run was a " panic" that was not a test of their powers, nor should it be taken as an instance of their capabilities. The lecturer con sidered that President Davis made a fatal error in superseding JOHNSTONE and appointing HOOD. This is, no doubt, true; for the course pursued by the latter was a very mistaken one, and in the summary of the campaign tells greatly to the disadvantage of those who proposed and carried it out. The praise accorded to JOHNSTONE may be said to be borne out by consideration of the difficult position in which he was placed, even when it goes so far as to say that his retreat in some parts "was a master piece of successful caution." One of the chief points worthy of special notice in this campaign was the dexterous manoeuvre of SHERMAN, in allowing HOOD to think he was drawing him back into Tennessee, while all the while he was only wait ing to get clear of him to proceed on his march into Georgia. Of course such a series of events could not be given without due notice being taken of the manner in which SHERMAN obtained his sup plies ; and the lecturer observed very truly that we had reason to fear that the accounts given were correct ones, and that the " atrocities" said to have been committed in the Carolinas were only too well founded on fact. The savage spirit that has been evoked in this struggle cannot be too much deplored ; and, indeed, more than all other cala mities, it may be regarded as the chief evil of this civil war. It has shown that the intellectual and prosperous nation needed one thing, which may be called the one thing needful—a spirit of Christian feeling, and the remembrance that they were fighting with their own race. As a brilliant mili tary manoeuvre the campaigns of SHERMAN deserve attention and study ; and this last achievement of his has been the greatest exploit of the war in de sign and execution, although his fame has been tarnished by the cruelties which defaced his pro gress. The meeting at Wolverhampton on Saturday, a concerning the labour dispute in the iron trade, is efee cit li e n d g . it h has displayed, and the op worthy of notice, on ac in co io un ns t of h it has t elicited. Not withstanding that the question was -virtually settled, in many places the Unionists seemed to ' take great interest in considering the points of notice relating to the exertions which they had made. The chairman congratulated the as semblage upon the appearance of things, and said that the termination of the lock-out found the men more united than ever, which could not be said of the masters. lie also gave them some very good advice, which, it is to be hoped, they will follow. Nothing can militate more effectively against any future prosperity than ill-feeling and jealousy existing between employers and employed, and therefore we hear with satisfaction that wise counsels emanated from one placed in an influential position towards many operatives. The chairman urged the importance of not giving way to bad feelings, and truly said that to use such language concerning LIFEBOAT SERVICES. — I During the storms of the past year 1864 the boat s of the National Lifebeat Institution have saved 432 persons from different wrecks on our coasts. The Institution also expended £19,531 14s sd. 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According to General LEE'S report, his men captured nine guns, eight mortars, and 500 prisoners, including a brigadier-General and a num ber of officers. Two attempts to recover the captured works were, he says, repulsed ; but, as the works in the rear could only have been taken at a heavy loss, the position was abandoned, and the guns, which could not be removed, were disabled. The Confederate loss was not heavy, and the troops, it is admitted by Northern correspondents, fight with undiminished enthusiasm. LEE'S army is also to rest, which seems to be the fashion of the day, though not, we apprehend, for very long. JOHNSTON'S army is also said to be in high spirits and good condition, and the Richmond Sentinel de clares that SHERMAN has been forced to take up a defensive position, which is certainly a change of days. The tide of fortune has perhaps turned, and it remains to be seen whether the Southern leaders will take it at the flood. SIIERMAN is evidently compelled to rest upon his oars, which will give the South time to drill the slaves, and thus reinforce their armies. But if the Confederates hope to profit by the services of the negroes they must hold out the hope of freedom. Men, of whatever colour, are not machines, and it is useless to expect them to work without hope. It is mere selfishness that shrinks from the abandonment of so-called property, and that selfishness brings its own punishment, for it ends, and will end, in the total loss of slaves with out compensation. Men will not risk life and limb without an object, and it is as foolish as selfish to expect that they will do so. We hope to see this matter put on a proper footing, and since the interior of the Carolinas to the west, nearly all Georgia, and the country east of the Mississippi is in the hands of the Confederates, LEE will now receive heavy reinforcements. The suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act will empower him to im press white and black, and he will need all his rein forcements, for LINCOLN is obliged to resort to the draught again. Volunteering has almost ceased in New York for want of funds to pay the bounties, which were, unfortunately for Northern patriotism, the chief inducement. The fact is, the credit of the North is shaken, and the new secretary, M'Cui, LOCH, is alarmed at the aspect of affairs, as well he may be. Should gold fall below 150 their securities will be worthless, and money difficult to raise by any means. The powers give to the Southern leaders increase the Northern uneasiness. The Confederates are now enabled to raise men and money within their own territories, and this fact makes the North anxious for peace. No doubt, the large party who profit by war contracts, &c., are opposed to any suspension of hostilities, but those who fill the offices of State are beginning to see that an end must come. It is the Federals that are anxious for peace, and who disguise their anxiety under the rumours about LEE and the military conference. The South will not ask for peace conferences again while the memory of the recent failure is fresh in their recollection. The insulting demands of the North have not been so quickly forgotten, and the only effect of the conference at Fort Monroe has been to redouble their energies. The Montreal Court, we learn, has refused the extradition of the Vermont raiders, on the ground of their being belligerents, but has detained them on the charge of infringing neutrality, which is a just and sensible manner of settling a question, which threatened some difficulty. General Dix can hardly deny his own order, which recognised them as sol diers, and their re-arrest by the British authorities is only fair. rHE 7 - SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENiNG, APRIL 10, 18M, t heir employ(Jrs as some men indulged in was " a erious re ,flection upon the individual, and tso to the order to which he belonged." A very sensible speech was made by a " pud dler," in which they argued that they should ado pt such rules, and fix matters upon so firm a basi s that henceforth they need not fear a strike or ale ck-out. He alluded to the happy settlement of affs ,irs by the master-builders and joiners of Wol verhampton, and even went so far as to say that suer' a result might follow upon the dispute in the iron trade. If such should occur there will not be s o much cause to regret the disaster as some have apprehended, and, indeed, the confusion that has reoently occurred may be called non mal pour and bie,ful, if a better understanding prevails, and if from henceforth some decided plans are agreed upon. The speaker desired that the rules should be such as could be enforced in a court of justice, and not depend upon the chance of which side was the strongest. "Away with such a state of things for the future henceforth ; the appeal should be to the law and to the testimony." He proposed that the ironworkers of Wolverhampton should not return .to work until the masters understood what they required, and they understood how the masters intended to act, and moved that " they should not return to work until their masters had consented to a court of arbitration for the settle ment of all disputes in the future." This was seconded, and the opinion concerning the proposal I , was unanimous in its favour. A court of arbitra tion seemed to be an imperative necessity in the minds of those assembled, and so far they are correct, for such a course would finally dispose of many vexed questions, and settle disputes in a summary fashion, instead of the trades of the country being successively paralyzed, and numerous bodies of ope ratives thrown out of employ for months together, to the loss of all concerned, and the serious detri ment of trade. One of the men laid stress upon the fact that they were now improved by education, and able to speak to their masters themselves instead of being afraid of the managers. It is to be hoped that no undue prejudice upon the part of the masters will prevent the resumption of work in wait ing for arbitration to be established. The sooner some definite arrangement is made the better for the interests of all concerned. Until in all parts such a conclusion is arrived at, there can be little or no hope but of the periodical occurrence of such misfortunes, and it will be a great disgrace to all concerned if this disastrous dispute is not made the opportunity for a change, and if in future times it may not be consi derered as the epoch of a mutual understanding be tween the masters and men, based on fixed prin ciples, and founded on mutual understanding. is [there] represented in immovable, feature less, unemotional type." That in approach ing this wonderful man, that in commun ing with him through his works, he had done so "in silence and in solitude, face to face, alone with him alone"—that " he had read and studied and meditated upon him in early youth with out gloss or commentary, preface or glossary !" To employ the Cardinal's own beautiful illustration of the limpid purity of the source from which he had thus drunk in these draughts of Shaksperian lore—it might be said that instead of caring to quaff it from a richly jewelled and delicately chased cup—he had chosen the most transparent crystal vessel, how ever homely—filling it at the very cleft of the rock from which it bubbles fresh and bright, and thus drinking it while yet sparkling, while yet " beading with its own air-pearls the walls of the goblet !" Cast ing one comprehensive glance back over all the world's literature—modern, mediaeval, or in the days of antiquity—the Cardinal recognises Three P oets, out of the whole human race, each of whom in his way may be considered supreme, matchless, un rivalled. The Dii Majores of Literature ! SHAKS PERE—and prior to Shakspere, DANTE—and, prior to Dante, HOMER. Each of those three pre eminently established in fame—none of them ever to be dethroned. As to the indestructability of Shakspere's supremacy—its indestructability saving only with the destruction of Letters themselves —the Cardinal declares emphatically, that " To imagine Shakspere, even in intention, removed from his sovereignty, would be a treachery parallel only to that of Lear dethroned by his own daughters." Meaning by this, that all future literatures or de velopments of our own literature—consummated as the latter had been by Shakspere himself into "the powerful idiom which so splendidly combines the Saxon and Norman elements" (p. 23)—must, hence forth, evermore, own allegiance and filial affection to Shakspere as their arch-progenitor. The Secret, or nucleus, or essence of Shakspere's Genius, we find his eminence here sagaciously tracing up to that match less, protean, marvellous Sympathy of his—as the Cardinal puts it, " the most perfect of sympathies." A sympathy pronounced to be " the very soul of the dramatic idea"—meaning thereby the power (so essential to the Dramatic Poet) to throw him self into the situation, the circumstances, the nature, the acquired habits, the feelings—true or fictitious —of every character he introduces." That Genius, that Gift, that Power, that " Soul of the Dramatic Idea," Shakspere possessed as no man ever had before or ever has since possessed it—possessing it, so far as mortal man could, in truth, in its supreme per fection. Here, indeed, is the heart of the whole marvel ! Here, in truth, is the key to the whole mys tery—here is the solution of the otherwise inextri cable problem! And the beauty, and the majesty, and the sublimity, and the completeness of Shakspere's gift, in this way, is such that it can be said of him, as it is here said of him by Cardinal Wiseman (p. 37) that he, " Shakspere, has sympathy as com plete for Shylook or lago as he has for Arthur or King Lear." Otherwise, to put it, in regard to this Poet of Poets, " For a time he lives in the astute villain as in the innocent child." Astonishingly varied as his characters are, moreover, they never for an instant lose their identity. As it is here exquisitely expressed, " From the beginning to the end, each one is the same, yet reflecting in himself the lights and shadows which flit around him." One while, indeed, the Cardinal goes so far as to speak of this gift or power of Shakspere's, as the " übiquity of his sympathies." Commenting later on upon the Poet's astoundingly vivid delineation of insanity in Ham let (supposing, that is, that Hamlet, after all, really is insane) Cardinal Wiseman hesitates not to say, with all the power of language, " While this character was before him, he (Shakspere) changed himself into a maniac 1 He felt intuitively what would be his own thoughts, what his feelings, were he in that situation. He played with himself the part of the madman, with his own grand mind as the basis of its action." Con tinuing the same thought in other words, words still more felicitously expressive of it—daring though the thought is in itself—the Cardinal says of Shakspere, in reference to his delineation of this character of the Madman, " He needed not to look for a model out of himself, for it cost him no effort to change the angle of his mirror and sketch his own countenance awry ! It was but little for him to pluck away the crown from reason and contemplate it dethroned." In say ing this (so very admirably !) his Eminence is avowedly denying the validity of the argument put forth by Dr. Conolly to the effect that Shakspere's delineation must necessarily have been the result of external observation. The Cardinal's view of it— a far more reasonable view to our mind—being, that " the powers by which the genius of Shakspere reached this painful, yet strange accuracy, was rather that of introversion than of exter nal observation." Summing up in one luminous sentence all the marvels of that consummate sympathy of Shakspere, the Cardinal says, moreover, in so many words—" We may compare the mind of Shakspere to a diamond, pellucid, bright, and untinted, cut into countless polished facets, which, in constant movement, at every smallest change of direction or of angle, caught a new reflection, so that not one of its brilliant mirrors could be for a moment idle, but by a power beyond its control was ever busy with the reflection of innumerable images, either distinct or running into one another, or repeated each so clearly as to allow him, when he chose, to fix it in his memory." Surely a marvellously felicitous illustration ! It seems to realise to us, upon the instant, by one exquisitely happy figure of speech, the otherwise inexplicable aptitude or apprehension of that most profound, comprehensive, subtle, all-sympathising Genius of Shakspere—a Genius, in its own match less way, just simply supreme, complete, inimitable, incomparable ! Epitomising, in an earlier portion of this most eloquent Lecture or Treatise upon the Genius of Shakspere, the world-wonders accomplished by Shakspere's Genius, Cardinal Wiseman has spoken of the Immortal Bard—as " the great master of our language," as " al most its regenerator," as " quite its refiner." As " the author whose use of a word stamps it with the mark of purest English coinage." As one " whose employment of a phrase makes it household and proverbial." As one " whose sen tentious sayings, flowing without effort from his mind, seem almost sacred, and are quoted as axioms or maxims indisputable." As " the orator whose speeches—not only apt but natural to the lips from which they issue—are more eloquent than the discourses of senators or finished public speakers. As " the writer who has run through the most varied ways and to the greatest extent through every department of litera ture and learning, through the history of many nations, their domestic manners, their characteristics, and even their personal distinctives, and who seems to have visited every part of nature, to have in tuitively studied the heavens and the earth." 'We would add that while the lecture before us opens with one of its most eloquent passages, the one referring to Raphael, and Mozart, and Michel angelo—it closes with another passage, in its eloquence not unworthy of being placed beside it in direct companionship. It is a peroration quite worthy, in fact, of completing what the exordium had so very gracefully and impressively commenced. The passage of the Lecture here referred to epitomises, by a series of " incongruous combinations," the all but bewildering maze of imaginings conjured up by the genius of Shakspere. A single one of these same " incongruous combinations" will suffice to illustrate the character of them all, as where the Cardinal says—" here the golden orb dropped from the hand of a captive King rolls on the ground side by side with a Jester's mouldy skull—both emblems of a common fate in human things !" As an Appendix to the work we have " A Proposal for a Tercentenary Memorial of Shakspere"--a proposal that even yet, we would hope, admits of being adopted by the nation and fully realized. Cardinal Wiseman sug gesting in this Proposal of his a Memorial akin to that glorified by the familiar words of Horace, the— Monumentum Quod non imber edax, non aquilo impotens Possit diruere, aut innumerabilis Annorum series, et fuga temporum. In other words—such an edition of the complete works of 'William Shakspere as, in its text, in its typography, and in its illustrations, should be abso lutely unrivalled. The proposition, such as it is, admits, we do sincerely believe, and we shall yet earnestly hope, of being carried out to its actual fulfilment. Rapidly though this posthumous work of Cardinal Wiseman's has been issued from the press by his Eminence's executors, it has manifestly been carried through the press by them with exquisite care for the accuracy of its publication. Only on a single page have we noticed anything like an oversight, and there, indeed, on the parti cular page we are now referring to (p. 31), there are in point of fact two errors of the press—one of them purely a typographical error, where, in the tenth line, we read " particuler"—the very next sentence running thus—" We do not mean by the use of the word genius, that the soldier knew anything of poetry, or the printer [it should obviously, from the mere context, have been the painter] of mechanism." Such as the book is, however, altogether, in itself—it is worthy (brief and nominally incomplete though it may be) of being regarded as the writer's last intellectual offer ing to England, a lecture in honour of England's greatest son, in honour of that William Shakspere to whom has been accorded (p. 53) absolute and undisputed sovereignty over the literature of the civilised world. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) PALM SUNDAY AT ROME. ROME APRIL 9. To-day being Palm Sunday, the Pope blessed the palms, and distributed them among the members of the Diplomatic body. A large crowd of foreigners lined the route of the procession from the Basilica to the Vatican. M. de Persigny disembarked at Civita Vecchia, and arrived at Rome at 11 o'clock this morning, alighting at the French Embassy. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 10. The Great Victoria, from Melbourne, January 17, passed up the Channel yesterday, with 14,446 ounces of gold. She landed eight passengers last night at Dartmouth by a pilot boat. FRANCE. PARIS, APRIL 10. The journal l' Union de l' Ouest has been suspended for two months for publishing false news, with the object of misleading public opinion and exciting hatred against the Government. MARSEILLES, APRIL 10. The Ceylon reached Marseilles at 6 a.m. to-day. The mails leave for London at 11.30 a.m: MALTA, APRIL 9. The Nyanza, with the heavy portion of the above mails, left here at 10 a.m. to-day. She may be ex pected at Southampton about the 18th inst. The Ellora, from Marseilles on the sth inst., reached Malta on the Bth at 2 a.m., and left at 9 a.m. for Alexandria. GIBRALTAR, APRIL 9. The Delta left here for Southampton on the 6th inst. at 5 a.m. The Delhi, from Southampton on the 4th inst., reached Gibraltar at midnight yesterday, and left at 7 a.m. to-day for Alexandria—all well. BOURSE, April B.—The market is somewhat heavy, and prices have slightly declined. Threes, for the Account, have been done at 67f. 77c. Italian Loan is unchanged at 65f. 95c. A somewhat notable re duction has taken place in the shares of the Credit Mobilier, the quotation at this hour being 818 f. 75c., showing a difference of 12f. 25c. on the closing price of yesterday. Railway Shares are inactive, and quotations remain about the same. The market improved a little towards the close, but still showed signs of weakness in several departments. The fol lowing are the last quotations : 41 per Cents 95 Italian Loan 66 Do. end month Do. end month 66 25 3 per Cents. Do. end month 67 80 New Mexican Credit Mobilier ... 822 50 Russian Do. end month ... 820 Austrian - Bank Shares 3550 Spanish Threes 461 Credit Foncier 1292 50 Home Debt Roman RAILWAYS. Cash. Acct. Orleans Northern lO6O 1065 Lyons and Mediterranean 982 50 ... 985 Southern 6lO 612 50 Western 532 50 Eastern Sardinian 306 25 306 25 Austrian Lombard 553 75 ... 553 75 North of Spain 307 50 ... 302 50 Saragossa 390 ... 385 Ditto to Barcelona 167 50 ... THE EPIDEMIC IN RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG-, APRIL 6. The Poste du Nord contains the following note : " Different foreign journals publish reports which are quite fallacious, alleging that the plague of Siberia had recently declared itself among the in habitants of the province of Novgorod and also at St. Petersburgh, depopulating, in a very brief period, a whole district (the district of Chanew ?), carrying off the physicians who had been despatched there, and spreading terror through the whole popu lation of our capital. It is further stated, that this disease, to which, to calm the public agitation, we had given the name of typhoid affection, had destroyed in a few days not only almost all the patients in the hospital of Oboukhow, but that the whole staff of this establishment, both medical and administrative had fallen victims to it ; and that in consequence of these facts our Government had sent for the most celebrated physicians of France, Germany, and England, in order in have the bene fit of their counsels in such a terrible moment of public calamity. " In a German journal The Wanderer, of the 28th March, we read intelligence of a still more absurd character falsely purporting to have been received from St. Petersburg, according to which a number of the inhabitants terrified by the reports relating to the apparition of the Siberian Plague, had set fire to the Convent of the Nuns of the Elevation of the Cross, and that this institution, together with the Municipal Free Hospital, had fallen a prey to to the flames. " The improbability, not to say complete absurdity, of all the above reports, and others of a like nature, bruited abroad probably by some of our kind friends, do not really merit any serious consideration. We can only say further, that the Siberian plague com mits no kind of devastation—that, God be praised, the typhus and typhoid, as well as the relapsing fever (febris recurrens) have somewhat decreased during the last few days, and that, in consequence of the thoroughly active measures adopted by the administration of the hospitals, it will, in all pro bability be no longer necessary to provide extra temporary accommodation for the sick." THE ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS, TURIN, APRIL 6. " Vesuvius The Aurenire, of the 2d inst., says : is emitting strong columns of flame with greater fierceness than was observed in the first ebullition. The subterranean rumbling sound is also louder than before, and everything combines to induce the belief that an eruption of more or less vioience is immiment. However, from conjecture to certainty there is a wide gulf, and so we must hope that this prophecy will have no further fulfilment than that made a month since." MISS BATEMAN having, on Saturday evening, completed her engagement at the Adelphi, after playing Julia in "The Hunchback" eighteen nights with brilliant success—withdraws into the country to recruit her health prior to her re-appearance on the boards of the Adelphi on Monday, the Bth of May. Crystal Palace, The fine spring weather with which April has opened has had a sensible effect upon the attendance at the Crystal Palace. Although the season is somewhat late, the shrubs and plants in the gardens are now advancing rapidly. The Saturday concerts have been unusually well attended during the past winter; last Saturday nearly 5,000 persons were present. Active preparations are being made for Good Friday, on which day a great sacred concert will be held. Madame Rudersdorff, Mr. Weiss, and Mr. Sims Reeves are some of the principal singers engaged. The latter will sing the celebrated war song from Costa's " Eli," besides the two tenor solos in Mendelssohn's " Elijah." Mr. T. Harper will also play the trumpet obligota to " Let the bright seraphim," which will be sung by Madame Rudersdorff. Very extended arrangements are being made on the various railways for the accom modation of the visitors. Besides the trains of the Brighton Company from London-bridge, Victoria, and Kensington—connecting also with the Metro politan and North London railways —very frequent relays of carriages will run to Sydenham Hill from the Blackfriars, Elephant and Castle, and Victoria stations of the Chatham and Dover Company. The South Eastern, as well as the Chatham and Dover, will also run excursions up by their main lines. An excursion by this latter company will convey pas sengers from Chatham to the Palace and back, a distance of nearly sixty miles, and including ad mission to the Palace, for two shillings. Additional entrances will be opened at Penge, and at the north end of the Palace. The railway works for the high level line, leading up to the front of the Palace, are progressing with great rapidity. The workmen have commenced fixing the ironwork for the roof, and in a very short period this magnificent station will be completed. Great progress is being made on the other portions of the line. New bills were brought under the notice of the Parliamentary Committee last week for carrying on the Crystal Palace line to Croydon and Penge. The formidable opposition brought against them by the Brighton Company on this occasion proved success ful, and the bills were lost, but there is no doubt they will be revived next session in an improved form. The Thames Tunnel line, giving access from the Crystal Palace to the Great Eastern Railway, was, however, carried, and thus the Palace will, at an early date, be placed in speedy communication with the districts east of the metropolis. It is now, there fore, beyond doubt that the Crystal Palace will ere long be placed in thorough and complete communi cation, not only with every portion of the metro polis, but with all the great lines of railway con verging thereto. The great Flower Show of the season is appointed for Saturday, 20th May, and the Rose Show on Saturday, 24th June. The schedules for these two sho n alone show prizes amounting to nearly £BOO. The facilities afforded by increased railway accom modation now promotes entries from much more distant localities than used to be the case. The sale of tickets for the Handel Festival con tinues to progress in a most satisfactory manner. The alterations in the corner galleries, from which so much benefit is expected in an acoustical view, will be completed before Good Friday. The public generally will therefore on that day have an excel lent opportunity of testing the advantages which will result from these improvements. Roman Catholic Education. The following circular letter, dated March 24th, 1865, has been issued to the Roman Catholic clergy throughout England : Rev. and Dear Sir,—At a meeting of the English Bishops, held yesterday, at Birmingham, it was unanimously agreed that each bishop should address to his own clergy, for their guidance, a copy of the following document : " The Bishops are unanimous in their disapproval of the establishing of a Catholic college at any of the Protestant Universities. And they are further of opinion that parents ought to be in every way dissuaded from sending their children to pursue their studies at such universities." This judgment was expressed by the bishops, and by our lamented Cardinal Archbishop, in the last meeting over which he presided, and in forming it they were guided by those principles which the Church has ever maintained in the matter of edu cation.—Wishing you every blessing, I remain, Rev. and dear Sir, your faithful servant in Christ, W. B. ULLATHORNE. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—EXETER HALL. The thirty-third annual Passion Week performances of Handel's " Messiah " takes place on Wednesday evening next. Madame Parepa, Madame Sainton-Dolby, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Mr. Weiss are the principal vocalists. &SONS OF GREAT ACTORS.—On Easter Monday, the son of the late F. Robson will make his first appearance at the St. James's. While, upon the same evening, at the Lyceum, Mr. Fechter's bonnie boy Paul will for the first time tread the stage in " Belphegor ! " THE PARIS EXHIBITION of 1867 is to occupy the Champ de Mars. LITERATURE Cardinal Wiseman's Posthumous Work. William Shakespeare. By His Eminence Cardinal Wiseman. One Vol., pp. 80. Hurst and Blackett. An affecting legacy to England—for it is really nothing less—is this apparently incomplete, but, in truth (in its effect at least) this exquisitely finished product of the intellect of Cardinal Wise man—his tribute to the genius of Shakspere. Having, now, this thin octavo in our hands, we may feel at last that the Tercentenary of Shakspere's Birth has not after all passed by without some fitting celebra tion. Fragment though the book before us nominally is, it is still, as we have intimated, in its present shape, appreciable by us, one and all, as a whole. It is recognisable, we would say, in its entirety, in very despite of its seeming in completeness. And our meaning when so speaking may here be made plain, upon the instant, by the very simplest of illustrations. Fragment though the work is, it is not to be judged, as scholiasts have it, ex pede Rerculem. It is not a torso. Neither is it, for that matter, truncated. Reverting to the notion of a torso, it is the very reverse of that : for it is the intermediate portion of the work, so to speak, that is here alone wanting to us. We have the beginning and the end of this Memorial—each completely finished. It is the central portion that is alone missing. It is as if the Memorial designed in honour of Shakspere by the late Cardinal had been Columnar in its character—the middle portion of the shaft being alone a-wanting. The solid, massive, nobly-proportioned Pediment is here. Here, too, is the ornate Capital with which the Artist's hand designed to crown it—this Memorial to Shakspere—a Capital finished, even to the minutest touch of the chisel, through all the minuter tracery of its intricate and highly elaborated deco rations. And where the outlines of the shaft.— ascending from the pediment, descending from the capital—are seen to be broken off abruptly—leaving only a gap between, we can recognise upon the instant, by a mere glance of the eye, how those missing outlines would have been continued, judging of the work before us, as a work of art, by the simple necessities of proportion. The produc tion, such as it is, appears in some sort, we would repeat, as a distinct bequest from Cardinal Wise man to England—to his Eminence's fellow countrymen, the People of England. His fellow countrymen, we say, advisedly. For, born though he was in Spain, of Irish parents, he was intensely, nevertheless, in the very grail of his nature, if not in the very essence of his social sym pathies, an Englishman. Of this the present volume affords of itself conclusive attestation, None but an Englishman at heart, none but an earnest, cordial, patriotic, loyal Englishman could so have thought, and felt, and written. Actually written, in point of fact, by the Cardinal's own hand, it istrue, the book was not. It was dictated by him during his last illness. It is essentially, therefore, a Discourse, an Oration —this Lecture that was to have leen delivered by word of mouth (and to have been listened to) upon an appointed day at the Royalilnstitution. Death, unhappily, decided otherwise, however, and the Lecture—the central portion merely of which the dying Cardinal had neither strength nor care to dictate —appears thus for the first time in print as a posthumous publication. It was the result of a kindly promise made by his Eminence several months back, to the effect that he would (in compliance with an urgent request that he should do so) contribute—towards the cele bration of the Tercentenary of Shakspere's birth—a tribute to his genius, in the form of a Lecture, at the Royal Institution. To reduce such a subject to the compass of a Lecture, as the Cardinal says himself, seems little better than " a literal paradox." Here indeed was to be an Iliad in a nut-shell ! The sub ject matter of such a Lecture as the one proposed being, as his eminence takes occasion to remark (p. 9) in no way extravagantly, " without per haps an exception, the most difficult literary theme in English Letters." Yet, bewildering though that theme is in itself, by reason at once of its magnitude and its complexity—it has been here descanted upon by Cardinal Wiseman lumi nously, eloquently, exquisitely—in a manner worthy of it—with a refined, subtle, and most comprehensive appreciation. The exordium of this Discourse or Lecture upon the Genius of William Shakspere, is in itself eminently beautiful. Raphael laying down for the last time his palette, " still moist with the brilliant colours which he had spread upon his unfinished masterpiece," leaves the hinted limning of his own beautiful lineaments to be discerned, alone, here and there, in his own paintings, among the disciples in an ancient school, or among the guards at a sepulchre Michelangelo, "on casting down that massive chisel that no one after him was worthy or able to wield," himself alone enables posterity to recognise the dim shadowing forth of the rugged grandeur of his own wonderful countenance, in some unfinished Satyr, or in the sublime image of his Moses ! Mozart, on closing his last incompleted score and laying himself down to pass from the regions of earthly to those of heavenly music, which none had so closely approached as he, leaves no strains worthy to mourn his loss be yond those of his own marvellous Requiem, for the first time chanted at his own inter ment ! And so, in like manner, quoth the Cardinal —when the pen dropped from the hand of Shake pere, the world, powerless itself to describe his marvellous characteristics, is constrained to draw from his own works the sole adequate record of his genius and nature. Phrases of his own—phrases applied by him to others—are alone, in other words, worthy of defining him se lf I " Th e poet's eye in afinephrenzy rollin g "—f or examp l e. Or—as we ourselves would hint—" A brow where every god had seemed to set his seal to give the world assurance of a man !" As to the so-called record of the actual Life of Shakspere, that depicts for us this matchless genius almost ex clusively, as the Cardinal reminds us (p. 6) " as the worthy burgess or the thrifty merchant." It tells us, very precisely, how much he paid for a certain homestead in Stratford-upon-Avon—" the simple autograph of his name being now worth all the sums he thus expended !" What, we are asked here im pressively—What possibly can have become of the manuscript folios in Shakspere's own handwriting— or of the books upon books annotated or merely marked by his pencil what time he may have been drawing from among their leaves the themes of his wonderful dramas ? Manu scripts and books—that must both have been in existence at one time ! " What vandalism," asks the Cardinal, " destroyed the first or dis persed the second of those valuable treasures ? " Turning back, however, to Shakspere's own writ ings, witha view to discover, there-from, some glim mering notion of what Shakspere was himself, Cardinal Wiseman defines the task of thus piecing out the Poet's own (either unconscious or half-conscious) self-delineations, as resembling " the hopeless labours of one who, from the fragments of a tease lated pavement should try to draw the elegant and exquisitely tinted figure which once it bore." Ex tenuating his faithful fulfilment of his promise, even after the collapse of the Tercentenary Movement, he says, at once, as wisely as sententiously—" a task undertaken becomes a duty unfulfilled." Speaking deprecatingly of the fact that the office devolving upon himself had not rather devolved upon one of those pre-eminently distinguished as Students of Shak spere—" those who have consumed their lives in the study of him, not page by page but line by line, who have pressed his sweet fruits between their lip s till they have absorbed all their lusciousness" —he puts forth what he acknowledges to be an apparently paradoxical and yet what is in truth, after all, a really valid reason why he is in some measure exceptionally qualified to pronounce a candid and unbiassed opinion in regard to the Genius and Writings of Shakspere. This reason being that he had never, during the whole of his life, seen Shakspere acted I That he knew him only "on his flat page, as he to li n nt trar b r • HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, April 8. The Queen drove:out yesterday afternoon, accom panied by her Royal Highness Princess Louise, and attended by the Equerry on horseback, and walked in the grounds this morning, accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Alfred. Her Royal Highness Princess Helena rode in the Home Park. Princess Louise, attended by the Hon. Florence Seymour, Went out walking. Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice also went out in the Home Park. APRIL 9. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Helena, drove in the Great Park yesterday afternoon, attended by the Hon. Florence Seymour. Her Royal Highness Princess Louise, attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn, also drove out. The Queen, their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, with the Ladies and Gentle men in Waiting, attended divine service this morn ing in the private chapel. The Rev. F. C. Cook, chaplain in ordinary to the Queen, preached the sermon. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had the honour of dining with her Majesty and the royal family. Departure of the Prince and Princess of Wales for Sandringham. On Saturday afternoon their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by Prince Albert Victor, and attended by the Countess de Grey, Major Grey, and Mr. Holtzmann, left Marlborough House for Sandringham. NEW ZEALAND. We have been favoured with a Melbourne paper (the Australian News) of the 23d of February. It brings the following details of the recent affair in New Zealand : This morning an alarm was given in the town of Wanganui that the road party at Kai Iwi had been attacked, and that some of the men were missing. Two sons of Mr. Mailman, who has a store out there, rode into town with the intelligence, at half past 5, on one horse, without a saddle, and with nothing on but their nightshirts, and a little later in the morning Mr. Mona Rees arrived, and gave a more minute detail of the circumstances. It appears that there were about thirty of the road party still there—men who had not finished their contract, and who were waiting till the advance of the troops might enable them to resume work with safety, and that their tents were pitched along the road on both sides for some distance, those outermost being near the Kai Iwi, and the others stretching in this direction as far as to this side of the Puketotara Creek, which runs across the road a short distance on this side of Kai Iwi stream. Mr. Rees' tent stands on this side of the Puketotara, and he was aroused this morning at dawn by shots, which he found, on rushing out, proceeded from a number of natives who had come along the road from the Waitotara, and, as there had been no guard or look-out at any part of the encampment, had come upon it without the slightest warning. At first, Mr. Rees thought they were firing for amusement, but was quickly undeceived, for, so soon as they saw him and Mr. Symonds, whose tent adjoined his, they fired upon them. Five bul lets entered Mr. Rees's tent while he was getting his saddle, and, as he carried the saddle out on his head to put it on his horse, another bullet struck it. He immediately made off, and, on getting to a rising ground, could see about 250 natives, who had now possession of the tents, and were busy plundering. Most of them, of course, appeared to be round the store kept by Palgreen, and no doubt the liquor in it and Mr. Mailman's store quickly disappeared. Mr. Symonds twice fired at them from the low ground in the gully, and one man was seen to fall, while it was believed a second was also shot. He and Messrs. Mail man and Richardson then stationed themselves be hind some slabs, and kept up a fire for a few minutes, but they soon found the position too hot for them, and retreated. After a little they mustered, and only 12 men assembled. Many of course might be in hiding, but Mr. Rees thinks that the tent on which the natives must have come, and which contained seven men must have been so surrounded that the men could not ha're escaped. Some of them immediately made for the camp, about three miles distant, and Mr. Rees galloped into town. General Cameron arrived with his staff at Camp Alexandria about four o'clock in the afternoon of Sunday last. He was received with great enthusiasm, the men cheer ing lustily and throwing their caps in the air on his arrival. Foremost were the old die-hards,' and their cheers were heartily re-echoed from the warm hearts of the 18th Royal Irish and the devotedly loyal Queen's Own. The skirmishing party pro ceeded in skirmishing order as far as the pah, a distance of about half a mile from the camp, when a volley was poured in upon them from the huts there. They returned the fire, which was replied to, not only by those in the huts which lay to the left of the advancing party, but also from high scrub which lay to their right. This was about 6 o'clock in the evening. In the skirmish which ensued Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General Johnston fell, wounded in the abdomen by a bullet, which was afterwards extracted at his back. The wound is supposed to be mortal. Accounts vary as to the number wounded. The first account gives four, and the other 11, as the number, the others being private soldiers. Certain it is that this morn ing three dead bodies were brought into Camp Alexandra, together with Lieutenant Johnston, who is still alive. The reconnoitring party seem to have returned to the camp, the Maories following ; and it is said that a dropping fire was kept up in the camp until 3 this morning, when the troops fired a heavy volley in the direction from which the shots proceeded, which silenced them. It is not known that any Maories have been hit, as the soldiers could only fire into the scrub without seeing the enemy. "In an extra' of the Chronicle, 25th January, the following additional particulars are corrected, in some respects, from the first account given : The pah is at the corner of a bush, which stands in the rear and left of it. As the soldiers advanced from the camp, about 900 yards distant, they had the pah directly in their front, and saw before the huts an ordinary Maori fence or taiapa. About half past 4 o'clock a signal shot was fired from the bush on the left of the pah as the soldiers (80 men of the 18th) advanced to it. When the soldiers got up to the fence a volley was fired on them from their huts within, on which they threw off their knapsacks, scaled the fence, and got in by an opening, charged the huts, and fired on the Maories, of whom they killed seven. The Maories returned the fire, and it was here that Lieutenant Johnston fell. The fi r ing continued, and in about an hour a reinforce ment was sent from the camp, consisting of a de tachment of the 50th, under Major Rook, who were sent for the purpose of surrounding the Maories, and took up a position under cover to the left. On this the men of the 18th charged to the edge of the bush on the left, and found the ground thickly rifle-pitted among some long weeds, chiefly camo mile, from which they kept up a fire till half-past 11, when the enemy's fire ceased and they retired. Two men were killed, and two have since died, namely, Lieut. Johnston ,D A. A. G. ,and a private. Seven others were wounded, most of the wounds being on the head, owing to the position in which the men were lying. The Maori call through the night was, Come on, come on ; be brave, don't leave me 1' and a female voice was heard several times en couraging the men forward. This was heard when the Maories were retiring under fire from the soldiers. 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