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W., by Special Appointment to 11.R.11. the Prince of Wales. BENSON'S WATCHES. Prize Medal, 1865. Sent Safe by Post. BENSON'S ILLUSTRATED PAMPHLET, 2d, BENSON, Old Bond-street and Westbourne grove. Steam Factory and City Show-Rooms, 58 and 70, Ludgate-hill. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, Bb. 36m.—Afternoon, Oh. 15m. To-Monnow.-21orning, Oh. 50m.—Afternoon, 10h. 30m. 4 5 ; LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1866. It is some sort of satisfaction to find that the proposals of the Prussian Government have not been met with complete unanimity, and that all the Deputiez have not been so dazzled and bewildered with the success of the recent campaign as to forget that serious errors may be committed in the first moments of excitement. The Committee on the address decided on the subject of the Budget ques tion, and although the majority was in favour of the original proposition supporting the Ministry, still it shows that there is a feeling inimical to them that will not give place to more favourable It is now considered probable that the opinion of the majority of the committee ' V ' lews. but any means certain, and it may, indeed, be carried by only a small majority. Some of the Liberal organs have been mean-spirited enough to blame the Lower House for the length of time which they have taken in replying to the Speech from the Throne and for alluding to par ticular differences, instead of answering the expec tations of the country by immediately declaring the delight they experience at the great success which had attended the foreign policy of the Government. It is by this inconsistency of conduct that the Prus sians alienate themselves from the sympathy and the good opinion of those who sympathise with their efforts after free government and liberal institutions. They seem taken in by every feint on tho part of their rulers, and are always ready to sacrifice their permanent interests for the sake of acquiring increase of territory, or other gains, at the expense of their neighbours. How foolish is this exhibition of wrath at the circumstance of these Deputies exercising a wholesome discretion in com menting on the important interests put before them. Is will be too late when the matter is settled to draw back and declare that they have conceded too much, and that they wish more time had been spent and care exercised in passing judgment on the address. There is no chance of a salutary change taking place in the government of Prussia while such glaring errors exist in those who ought to check its pro ceedinga and moderate its pretensions. It is much to be regretted that this tergiversation should so constantly take place in the management of Prus sian politics, because it entirely prevents a beneficial cliange from being wrought out. A crafty and un scrupulous man like BISMARCK has only to set about making some inroad on neighbouring States in order to secure the approbation of many, if not nearly all, of the community. Another sign that all places are not willing to be put under the domination of Prussia may be seen from the fact that a deputation from Middle Schleswig has left for Berlin, to solicit the King of PRUSSIA that they should be restored to Denmark. Very likely no heed will be paid to this request, but it is a. refreshing change to meet with after the parade that is made of the intimations from various quar ters that they s ee k t o b e i ncorporated with the Perlin Government. Even the brazen effrontery of Prussian journalism is obliged to make some excuse, and ever explanations concerning the course they have been Pursuing in high pl aces ; t h us we find an elrAborate defence about the treatment of Hanover. The :memorial has t hat lately came f rom Hanover giv en dire offenc e to the di gn iti es o f form th a t alth although the vote of the llanovarian Diet took place after the mobilization o f t h e Austrian contingent of the Federal army, still it was a vote iu favour of its having, been carried into effect, and was directly adverse to Prussia. consistent How much more with truth it would be to say that the Prussianauthorities desired to annex Hanover, and therefore seized the opportunity of takin g umbrage at the transaction that took place. Bavaria is another of the numerous victims to the cupidity of BIS3IARCK, and the hesitation that has taken place in the recent negotiations has arisen from the natural unwillingness of that State to agree to the bad terms put before it. The Prussian Treaty of Peace is indeed a comprehensive affair, and seals th e d oom of those who desire and expect freedom of any kind ; it is a sad episode in German politics that we are now witnessing, and consider that a salutary change has taken place all who ''ill 8 • Peedd y 014 their mistake, and see that the notion of unity and progress of Prussia is all humbug. It is strange that it should be necessary for this one Power to interfere so specially and so arbitrarily in the settlement of all matters, for if the parties most immediately affected by the changes are to enjoy anything like independence hereafter it is only reasonable that they should be studied now as to their own disposal. The storm that has agitated Germany has affected France in an indirect manner, and the uncertain state of the Emperor's health has caused great disquietude in many circles. His absence from the fetes given in his honour only tended to increase the apprehensions that were entertained. The EMPEROR on Friday drove about in public, but notwithstanding this things do not seem settled or satisfactory. No notice is taken by the official journals of the frontier rectifica. tion business, which is by some considered rather strange ; but affairs are now so peculiar and compli cated that it is exceedingly difficult to understand the exact meaning of things. The most mysterious part of the whole is that the French Government should have preferred their request at all if they did not deem it expedient to follow it up. We doubt if we have yet seen the end of this business, notwithstanding the satisfaction expressed in various quarters at the peaceful indication of affairs. One part of the undertaking seems entirely overlooked by those who criticise German affairs, and that is, how Count BismAncii means to Manage the new numerous places he has contrived to annex to Prussia? His real diffi culty will begin when all the negotiations are over, and when the inhabitants begin to comprehend more fully the nature of the transactions that have taken place. There is more likelihood of the Berlin Government meeting with opposition of a dangerous character from these States in the course of time than there is of any decisive movement being made by Austria to recover any part of what she has lost in the late momentous struggle. The close of the session of the Victorian Legis lature has been safely accomplished, notwithstand ing the vicissitudes and excitements of the year. Party feeling, so strong in this colony, showed itself plainly enough on the very eve of the pro rogation, the Opposition contriving a " count out" of the Council the night before, thus leaving the Council adjourned over the day of prorogation in utter contempt of the Gover nor's intimation of his proposed visit. This un warrantable conduct created, as may be supposed, a good deal of excitement throughout Melbourne, and the morning papers were virtuously indignant with the heads of the opposition on the ground of rudeness to the QUEEN through her re presentative, and general want of manners. The guilty parties pleaded that it was a mistake, although they could hardly have been unaware that a " count out" on the eve of a prorogation when there was unfinished business before the House was scarcely consistent with Parliamentary etiquette. However, " all's well that ends well,', and the Governor made his appearance the follow ing day as previously arranged and dismissed the Parliament, in an address which very adroitly summarised the principal events of the Session. The first paragraph refers to the passage of the Appropriation Bill through both Houses, by which means the final sanction of the Legislature has been given to the exceptional but necessary , public expenditure of the past year. This Bill, about which there has been so inuch difference of opinion did, in fact, only become law on the day of the prorogation, itself seeing that it did not pass the Council until the evening before, and up to that time many doubted whether the 1 Upper House would not reject it as a "at, 41.0JV111 •A on several disputed points. This would of course have brought about another political deadlock, which was not exactly to be wished, as in two days more there would have been no available funds for carrying on the public service. The Council had too much good sense to throw the whole colony into such needless confusion, and accordingly the Ap propriation Bill got through the Upper House on the 31st of May, the prorogation taking place on the Ist of June. The Governor, after referring to the passage of this much-vexed Bill through the House, congratulated all parties on the satisfactory work ing of the new Land Act. Throughout the various agricultural areas thrown open to selection, large quantities of land have passed into the hands of the farming class, and throughout every district there is evidence of increasing occupation and a more settled population. The new tariff is also, says the Governor, in full opera tion, without any of the mischievous conse quences so confidently predicted by its opponents. The Post-office savings banks still work most bene ficially, and the deposits increase from week to week. Certainly if any population can afford to lay up for a rainy day, it ought to be the working classes of a thriving colony ; and as hitherto the money so quickly if laboriously earned has as quickly gone, the establishment of savings banks is in every way a great public ad vantage. The proposed general system of water supply is another prominent topic in the Governor's address. He remarks with truth that it is a necessary and interesting characteristic of the legislation of a young country that it shall aim at the future development of the colony, as well as for the provision for temporary wants. The question of water supply is a very important one, and it is one in regard to which Australia may learn much from the mistakes and experiences of the mother -country. While her population is small in comparison to her soil, and her towns are not yet thronged to suffocation like some of our great cities, let her legislators be wise in time, and make those provisions for the public health which are so difficult to make in old and overgrown cities vested interests in old abuses, indifference springing from long-continued neglect, evilswhichto remove. affect everybody, but which it is nobody's business are the obstacles which spring reformer up, hydra-headed, in the path of the sanitaryin England. But in a colony like Victoria, fresh, young its ung energies, legislating for itself and with conscious of own wants and needs. All such difficulties may be avoided. It is easy to root up the slender sapling, but if we wait till the full-grown tree has twisted it s roo t s fi rm ly into the ground we shall not move it very readily, and so the objc ctions and obstacles which may be disposed of with • comparative ease in a young community re quire in the older days of national history a regular crusr%de to get rid of. I It concluding his address the Governor informed the members of the Legislature that he had de spatch ed a member of the Government to England, in am ordance with their recommendation for the purpm ,e of carrying out the negotiations relative to tb e defences of the country and other mat ters., Australia, we may suppose, has reached that; point considered by some to be the test t. of a colony's capacity for self -govern me 113 .t— th e willingness and ability to provide for its ow! a defences. Judging from the readiness with viz ich thQ Australian volunteers came to the assist- THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1866. ante of the New Zealanders, there is no lack of stout hearts and strong hands to repel an enemy from any of the colonies. The general condition of Victoria is prosperous. The new Land Act has, as the Governor remarked, produced most beneficial effects, and the plains are alive with ploughmen breaking up the land. In com mercial circles, too, there is as much activity as in the agricultural world, and the spirit of speculation so busy in the old world has been stirring up the enterprising spirits of the southern regions. There is much talk about establishing woollen factories in Victoria, and they have every prospect of success, seeing that they have abund ance of the finest material close at hand. It is only surprising that something of the sort should not have been earlier attempted. Other more adventurous and less substantial schemes are afloat for manu facturing salt from sea water, for making paper from the bark tree, &c. Altogether the young country is full of vigorous life, and affords a grati fying example of Anglo-Saxon energy. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ITALY. FLORENCE, Aug. 20. A Royal decree has been issued appointing Prince Humbert Honorary President of the Italian Com mission of the Paris Exhibition. Baron de Blalaret, the French Minister, is also among the members of the Commission. FRANCE. PARIS, August 20. The Emperor paid a visit yesterday to the Em press of Mexico at the Grand Hotel. He was cheered by the crowd on his return to Saint Cloud. His Majesty afterwards walked on foot in the Bois de Boulogne. PARIS, Aug. 18.--Two o'clock.—Although busi ness continues to be very dull, some few demands have had the effect not only of sustaining the slight advance of yesterday, but even of increasing it. French Threes were done at 69f., or 21c. higher ; Italian Fives at 52f. 60c., or a rise of 10c. Credit Mobilier were unchanged at 646 f. 25c. ; Credit Foncier at 1,302 f. 50c., or an improvement of 2f. 50c. Comptoir d'Escompte were likewise unaltered at 872 f. 50c. The Railway Market remains very inactive. Three o'clock.—The market has closed as fo] lows : 4 per Cents 9B 10 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 69 10 Do. end month 69 10 Credit Mobilier Do. end month Credit Fonder 1297 50 Do. end month 1302 • 50 RAIL' Bank Shares 3550 Italian Loan 52 Do. end month 52 Mexican Loan 2B Do. Bonds 172 Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred WAYS. For Account. 871 25 Orleans Northern 1135 Lyons and Mediterranean........., B7l 25 Southern 530 Western — Eastern 532 50 Sardinian . Austrian Lombard North of Spain..... Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona.. Roman. 352 50 386 25 125 - THE AUSTRIAN FLEET. - -o (From the Military Correspondent of the Times.) GO 65 50 50 TRIESTE, Aug. 13. Admiral Tegethoff has opened the eyes of the Austrian nation to the fact that they have a fleet, and no despicable fleet either, though they have been governed by the War Department since their sailor Archduke left them to become an Emperor. The Archduke Max, as the officers and sailors of the navy still affectionately call him, is deeply regretted, and is spoken of in the warmest terms. He seems to have made the Austrian sea service, and his energy and influence at Vienna are much missed. The dockyards and arsenal at Pola are all the crea tions of his energetic administration, and it will be long before the Austrian navy finds so distinguished a friend. But the gods help those who help them selves, and it will not be the fault of the navy if it sinks again into obscurity. The officers say that if they appear in uniform in the streets of Vienna they are stared at, and people ask them what nation they belong to. Will Austria become a seafaring and commercial people now that she has resigned her influence in Germany ? Sanguine . believers in her future destiny say " Yes ;" but where is her coast line—where are her portsi and, above all, where is _ _ LITERATURE. Library Edition of Miss Braddon , g Novels. The Trail of the Serpent. One Vol. pp. 456. Sir Jasper's Tenant. One Vol. pp. 457. Novels by M. E. Braddon. Ward, Lock, and Tyler. As a popular novelist, Miss Braddon is in a manner entitled to have her works issued in .a Library Edition—for, already, she has, within these last few years, with her own hand, written a small library of fiction. As originally issued in the re gular and orthodox form as three volumed romances, her nine tales would number up even now no less than twenty-seven volumes. Com pacted, each of them, within the compass of a single book, they make even then a goodly row of nine handsome octavos. Lying before us, oddly enough, side by side, there have now come forth together her first and her last, or—not to be ambiguous in our way of mentioning them—let us say the earliest and the latest of her effusions as an imaginative writer. On one hand wo have " Sir Jasper's Tennant," and on the other " The Trail of the Serpent." Tho former already reviewed at some length in these columns upon the occasion of its first ap pearance—while, in many particulars, evidenc ing a considerable advance or development of the novelist's abilities'as an artistic dreamer of dreamers, can hardly, we are still of opinion, be accorded a very high place among her productions. With one only exception, in point of fact, it is to our thinking in ferior in interest to them all—the single exception here referred to being the narrative entitled " John Marchmont's Legacy." Conspicuously holding its place of supremacy among all Miss Braddon's Novels to the last, " Aurora Floyd" is, to our mind, immediately followed in excellence by " Lady Audley's Secret" and by " Eleanor's Victory." Afterwards come in due sequence " Only a Clod," and " Henry Dunbar," and " The Doctor's Wife." Then—" Sir Jasper's Tenant." After that-:- " John Marchmont's Legacy." And last, in one sense, though first in another—" The Trail of the Serpent." It seems hardly fair, if only by reason of the inference that might thereupon be drawn by Miss Braddon's depreciators from any such seem ingly apropos phrase, to say, in regard to her whole series of fictions, that—even ranking them according to the mere rule of priority or seniority—" The Trail of the Serpent" is over them all I As an ima ginative production it is simply, we take it, to be regarded, as a gathering together of some of Miss Braddon's literary wild oats. It is in no respect whatever, according to our view of it, to be placed within the same category even with the least remarkable of our author's other romances. Written, if we remember rightly, for the pages of the illustrated penny " London Jour nal," it is, from first to last, intensely sensational iu its character. Its sensationalism, in effect, is throughout—unmitigated. Of this the authoress is not only herself perfectly conscious, but frankly permits the acknowledgment of the fact to appear in her Publishers' Announcement. The excuse there advanced is that of innocence or ignorance or how ever we may like to term it—an excuse put forth apparently with a view to the mitigation in some measure, at least, of the severity of the re prehensive terms otherwise all but certain to be elicited from some among the more captious or cantankerous of Miss Braddon's critics—to whom the mere phrase Sensationalism is as the gleam of a bit of scarlet flourished on the arm of a toreador in the eyes of an infuriated bull at a bull fight. "As the word ' sensation' was not perverted to its present use until after the ' Trail of the Serpent' had run its unpretentious course"— thus saith the Publishers' Announcement—" Miss Braddon may reasonably demand forgiveness on the ground of having offended unconsciously against the canons of modern literary criticism." Waiving that question of Sensationalism, however, altogether —Sensationalism pure and simple, appearing to us, to date back long before either Miss Braddon or Wilkie Collins had put in their appearance as novelists, before Harrison Ainsworth's " Jack Sheppard," before Anne Ratcliffe's "Mysteries of Udolpho," before Charles Maturin's " Melmoth the Wanderer," back even to that more than precursor merely, to that very archetype of all the Sen sational Romances that have since then been written. to that famous novel of " Caleb IVil- Hams," by the father of the authoress of ".r ran kenstein"--waiving the whole question, we say, as to Miss Braddon's larger or lesser share in re gard to whatever culpability there may be in the way of popularising what is absurdly called Sensa tionalism, we would say here, in regard to this earliest of all her fictions, the story entitled by her " The Trail of the Serpent," that the chief interest of it is to be found, to our thinking, in an examina- tion of it by the light cast back upon it by several of her subsequent performances. So regarding it, it is really and truly like scrutinising a failure by the light of several successes—an egregious failure by the light of several very notable successes. For, we will even say as a literary production making the merest superficial pretence to be regarded in any point of view as a work of art, it might almost be declared to be artless to the very extravagance of artlessness. Miss Braddon in this, however, if she sins against all the rules of probability, at the very outset of her career, sins thus in truth after all less flagrantly than does her immediate contemporary, Mr. Wilkie Collins, at this advanced stage in his career, in hislatest and most elaborated performance, meaning his recently completed story of " Arma dale." Whereas (at once to make plain our meaning) Miss Braddon hesitates not to de scribe her dumb detective, Mr. Peters, as upon one occasion soliloquising by actually talking to himself on his fingers, an incident so utterly im probable with any deaf person, even though it were one naturally predisposed to be the greatest blab imaginable, but improbable to the very last degree, one might surely conjecture, in the instance of a reticent dumb detective—whereas, we say, Miss Braddon goes that length of improbability in. her earliest fiction, Mr. Wilkie Collins in the latest and most elaborate of all his romances, his story of " Armadale," goes so much further in his outra geous violation of alt probability, that he shrinks not from describing a wily Lamia of a red-haired wicked beauty like Miss Gwilt, as coolly sitting down, time after time, in the most purposeless way conceivable, to jot down in her Diary all her dead liest and most evil atrocities of thought, word, and deed—solely for the purpose, of course, of enabling them all to be read afterwards (those " trivial, fond records") by the readers of " Armadale !" Faulty though " The Trail of the' Serpent" is, valueless though it is as a work of art, it has a wild extravagance of interest at times of its own, yet even then an interest in no degree what ever satisfactory. Insomuch that we are seriously disposed, after all, to doubt the dis cretion of the book's republication in its present form. It will not merely fail to add anything whatever to Miss Braddon's reputation, but it is cal culated seriously to militate against it—for inasmuch as it affords her rather numerous vilifiers or -vitu perators a tolerably colourable excuse, for once in a way, for i ns i s ti ng upon t h e reasona bl eness o f their systematic depreciation of her imaginative produc ductions. From Jabez North, otherwise Raymond de Marolles (a workhouse pauper child turned into a Parisian Exquisite)—from Kuppins, who is only another and a very inferior specimen of the Tilly slowboy genus of female hobbledehoys—from the squalor of Blind Peter, which is no more than a shadowy reflection of Tom-all-alone's--from Slop- pertou and Mr. Augustus Darley, and Mr. Joseph Peters (already mentioned) and the Cherokees and all the rest of them—it is nothing less than re freshing to turn back for a while to indulge our selves with a merely passing glance of retrospec tion at the scenes and people depicted by the same artist hand-only, how far more artistically in every touch of it, in " Sir Jasper's Tenant"—at Sir Jasper Dennison himself, let us say, and at his daughter Marcia—at George Pauncefort and Henry Adolphus Dobbs—at Scardalo Abbey and Scarsdale Her mitage I Routledge's Shilling Guide to London—is a very marvel of cheapness, compactness, and lucidity. It acquaints the stranger with all he can reasonably desire to know in regard to this vast metropolis. A metropolis so vast that it covers an area thirty miles in circumference—extending into four counties, namely, into Middlesex, Essex, Kent, and Surrey containing within it 10,500 streets, squares, and terraces, spread over a space of ground representing some 78,000 acres or close upon 121 square miles, comprehending within it more than 370,000 houses, and peopled by upwards of 3,000,000 inhabitants ! Counting merely the num ber of those who are born every week in London, there are added to the population week after week about as many infants, male and female, as the years already numbered in the Christian era-1866 1800 at any rate and upwards. Seeing, however, that there arc more than 1,200 persons who die every week in London, when the balance, comes to be struck between births and deaths the weekly increase of the population of London by births alone is found to be between 500 and GOO, or even then not far short of 100 a day ! Another token of the prodi gious scale upon which matters affecting the organi sation of the world of London must be computed, may here be mentioned incidentally, as a fact, illustrating, at one and the same time,• the wealth and poverty, the misery and benevolence of our London population—namely, that most lamentable yet most consolatory fact that, for the relief of pauperism amongst us, there are collected and distributed every week upwards of £30,000 sterling ! A metropolis like this deserves to have a Guide Book as handy, as cheap, as comprehen sible and as comprehensive as this Pocket Guide just published by the Messrs. Routledge. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Sunday Evening. The Moniteur does not contain a word of news in addition to the telegraphic despatches. It states that on the occasion of his fete the Emperor, at the suggestion of the Minister of the Interior, has ordered 70,000 f. to be shared between the 75 ad mirable societies of material charity in Paris. Our Minister for the Home Department might usefully follow the example of the Marquis de la Valette, who makes it part of his business to understand the wants and aid the necessities of the population of Paris. Was it not a beautiful trait in the official character of the Minister that when he heard of the terrible accident last Wednesday he immediately repaired to the spot and superintended the arrange ments for the succour of the victims ? To some of them he gave money at once. Although various reports and conjectures are afloat respecting the intentions of the Emperor in regard to his visits to the Provinces, I have reason to believe that at present nothing is settled as to the time when his Majesty will leave St. Cloud or about the spot to which he will proceed. Probably it will be Biarritz. It is certain, however, that he will not go to Chalons, an official announcement to that effect having been made to the troops. The prizes were to be distributed to-day by Marshal Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely, in the name of the Emperor, who intended to perform that office himself, but during last week he was engaged with Cabinet Councils, and diplomatic receptions, and commu nications. The number of deaths from the accident at the fete it appears was over-estimated. It is sufficiently serious—nine—and several persons are not expected to survive the injuries they received. It is noticed as a singular fact that the man who first lost his footing did not receive the least hurt. The bodies of those who fell over him formed a sort of arch, and he was thus enabled to breathe until he was extricated. In modern times accidents have been rare at Paris, even when there had been immense assemblages of people, for in general the police ar rangements are much better than in London. There has, however, been immense loss of life upon such occasions in former days, for instance at the fetes upon the marriage of Louis XVI. and Marie An toinette. A great many people were killed in 1837 at the marriage fetes of the Duke of Orleans. The Superior Tribunal of Lyons has just given its decision on an appeal case of a curious character, strongly illustrative of the adage—" Penny wise and pound foolish." The amount involved is 15 cen times (three halfpence). An individual residing near a toll-bridge conceived the clever idea of evad ing the toll in this way. The toll for a horse and carriage or cart is six sous. The person in question drew his vehicle over the bridge himself, and then went back for his horse. By this plan he paid only the toll of one sou for a person drawing a vehicle, one sou for the return, and one sou for the led horse, thus effecting an economy of three sous. The before an inferior Court, which decided in their favour. The Superior Court, however, has over ruled the decision on the ground that the defendant had paid the legal toll under the circumstances. The appellant, however, in spite of this judgment has not much reason for congratulation. The pro ceedings have been carried on for two years, and the law expenses amount to more than the sum which would have enabled him to pay the toll for his natural life. It is understood that the treaty of peace between Austria and Italy will be signed at. Paris. General Menabrea has arrived here, and will be assisted during the negotiations by M. Nigra, the Ambas sador from Italy at the French Court. A letter from Munich states that the young King of Bavaria will shortly be affianced in that capital to the Grand Duchess Maria, daughter of the Em peror Alexander of Russia. The camp at Chalons is about to be broken up, and the troops have begun their preparations for their return to their garrisons. It has been supposed that the ironclad vessel is a modern invention, but this is not the case. A war galley, equipped by the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, cased with lead for protection against bullets, is described by Bosio, the historian of the Order. This ship was built at Nice in 1530, and formed part of the great squadron sent by the Em peror Charles the Fifth against Tunis to assist in the expedition against the pirate Barberousse 2vTuley Hassan. The expedition was commanded by the celebrated Andre Doria. There was a siege of several days, and the vessel, the Santa Anna, gave great assistance in capturing the town. Though much exposed, it did not receive any injury. Ithad six decks, and a crew of a hundred men. There is still a picture of this vessel among the ancient frescoes of the Palais des Hospitaliers at Rome. The death is announced of M. Gisors, a member of the Fine Art Academy, of apoplexy. He was the architect of the Palace of the Senate. The cholera still prevails in the south of France, at Arias and Marseilles. It is nearly extinct at Amiens. In Paris there are deaths from cholera. M. Dreyse, the alleged inventor of the needle-gun, is about to place at the disposal of the Prussian Go vernment the model of a new cannon, which will give to the artillery the same advantages as those conferred upon the infantry by the needle-gun. M. Dreyse is also engaged in the manufacture of a needle-gun made entirely of iron, but which, nevertheless, weighs 3 lbs. less than the present needle-gun. French manufacturers are also engaged in making destruc tive fire-arms. A cannon has arrived at Toulon made at Angouleme of a mur d erous d escr i pt i on ; it is in two pieces ; it is nearly five yards in length, and weighs more than 30,000 lbs. English. It will form part of the armament of the Taurean, now at Toulon, and it is said will project an immense mass of metal. There is another unfavourable change in the weather. Early in the morning there was a heavy ' dew with fog. It began to rain about eleven, and there has been much rain during the day. It was cold in the morning, and not very warm as the day advanced. Prince Napoleon Jerome has been much on the move of late. The other (lay he was at the chateau in Switzerland. lle retuimed again to Paris, and visited the Emperor at St. Cloud, and he has again left Paris, some say on a political mission. CHARLES DICKENS.--Wbc► will not be rejoiced to learn that our great humorist intends to give another series of readings, beginning, wo aro given to understand, imme diately after Christmas. MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE.— -RICHARD WAGNER, we hear, is at a work upon a new grand opera en- titled "Fritz de Hohenstauffem."—JAELL, the eminent pianoforte player and composer, was recently married to Mdlle. Trautmann at the Church of the Madeleine, Paris.— We have to record the deceasey on the 23d ult., at the ad vanced age of 84, of Mr. T. F. Walmisley (formerly or ganist of St. Martin's-in-then-Fields), father of the late gifted Dr. Thomas Attwood Walmisley, the Cambridge Professor of Music, and himself favourably known as a glee writer cud excellent inusiqia4 .-31 - usical 'Standard. the money to keep up both an army and a fleet ? ' The interest in naval matters reached its highest point to-day, when the Archduke Albrecht visited Trieste and inspected the ships. Accompanied only by a portion of the staff, his Imperial llig!ine-ss left Gortz by train at half-past 7 a.tn, and on arrival at Trieste at a quarter-past 9 was met by the Go vernor of the town with his officials, and by the Admiral and his • small staff. The morning had been lowering, with occasional rain, but cleared as the train proceeded, and the sun shone out as the train rolled down the steep incline that leads to Trieste. At the station carriages were waiting to convey the Archduke and his suite L,, r .__ -- s .- _ova vIlt; . _3 miral Tegethoff awaited the coming of the Imperial Commander-in-Chief. After the first greetings, the whole party went on board the Greif, which, built originally as a yacht for the Emperor, was admir ably fitted for the part which she had to perform. A few minutes' steaming brought the fleet in view, lying in two lines—ironclads and frigates in front, the gunboats in the second line. The Greif glided along with a quiet, even. motion down the front of the first line, and the military visitors were equally astonished and delighted at the novel sight of a real fleet floating quietly on an actual sea, and with the sound of a naval salute. It had been reported the day before that the Kaiser would not be present, as her repairs were still in course of execution,—nay, the Italian sympathisers in Trieste had been ready to assert that the tale of her loss was confirmed, for why else did she not appear the first day when the fleet came up from Pola ? But, among the black uncouth looking objects which, with railway marches and short campaigns, are fast destroying the pomp and circumstance of war, appeared at last a far more gradeful object, a two-decker with her white barred sides broken with black spots—in fact, the Kaiser herself ; not, however, without loss of some of her beauty, —the tall tapering masts were no longer there, and her general appearance was more warlike than suited for parade purposes. The whole array of big ships being passed, the Greif, led by the Elizabeth (the faithful repeater of Tegethoff's signals during the battle), came slowly round and passed along the line of gunboats, four of whom had the impudence to attack the Affonda tore on the famous 20th, and to follow her when she retreated like sparrows after a hawk. When the inspection was finished boats were brought along side, and the Archdukes Albrecht, Leopold, and Heinrich, who were present, descended the side to be ferried over the strip of water that lay be tween them and the Kaiser. All the suite followed their Imperial Highnesses, but the steps were steep, the boats bobbed about alarmingly, and the legs of some of the Generals were stiff with age and honour able toil in their country's service, and there can be no question that faces that had remained un moved during the storming of Custozza or the dis aster of Koniggratz paled a little at this new and ter rible enterprise. Arrived on board how much there was to ask, and how little time to gain the, information required. How had the captain managed to get through those four iron-clads? "He had no idea, except that he fired broadsides at the neareast, and kept them off till the Re di Portogallo bore down to ram him, when he knew that there was no escape—that one or other of them must have the worst of it, and so he manoeuvred as best h e m i g ht to secure a meeting between his bows and the enemy's side," and so, and so ; it is the old naval tale, one side cool and confident in their Admiral, who never lost his head, the other enthusiastic, ill-trained, and having al ready begun to question th e i r commander's capacity, who :never gave them advice or orders during the whole fight. The Archduke spoke to the men on parade, in spected the ship, wondered at the small size of the guns, and made himself popular among them, as he deserves to be, for he is as kind iu heart as he is studious in arms, and deservedly esteemed among the members of his staff and those with whom he is thrown in contact. Then the Imperial party left the Kaiser and visited the Max, the Admiral's flag ship, and heard how the Re d'ltalia had got among the wooden frigates and gunboats, putting some of the latter iu the utmost danger after their friendly iron-clads had divided the Italian line ; how Teget hoff came round to their assistance as quickly as the ships would turn, and crowned the fortunes of the day by th e e ff ects of his terrible charge. The interest of this novel review appeared to be so great that the Imperial guest had to be reminded of the lapse of time a n d i n f ormed that the idea o f v i s i t i ng six or seven ships, as originally detain them until 9 o'clock at night ; that it was already noon, and a large party of guests invited to breakfast at 1 p.m. So the Archduke reluctantly closed his visit, which he afterwards said had been one of the most interesting events of his life. Naval and Military Intelligence. Rear-Admiral Augustus R. Yelverton, C. 8., with four ships belonging to the Channel Fleet from Portland, arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday. Wind north-east ; fine. `The Caledonia rounded the west end of the breakwater at 10 minutes before 8 o'clock, and at 13 minutes after dropped her anchor outside the breakwater, well to the eastward. The Achilles followed, and within two minutes took up her position to the westward. The Lord Clyde, at a quarter after 8, stationed herself near the Caledonia. The screw steam frigate Liverpool was placed at the same time between the Lord Clyde and the Achilles. When anchored four boats were dropped simultaneously from the Caledonia, and she saluted the flag of Port-Admiral Sir Charles Fremantle, K.C.8., which was duly acknowledged by the flagship Royal Adelaide, 25, Capt. Frederick B. P. Seymour, C. 8., in Hamoaze. It is . stated that the Achilles will receive provisions from the Royal William victualling yard, to be prepared for service in the Mediterranean in relief of the armour plated ship Prince Consort, 31, Capt. E. A. Ingle field, which is ordered home. The ull importance of the trial of the Bellerophon at Stokes' Bay on Friday last can only be under stood when the characteristic features of that ship are compared with those of the first and finest class of ironclad frigates laid down in this country—viz., the Warrior class. The great primary object aimed at in the design of the Warrior class was the attain ment of a speed of 14 knots, in association with a battery of guns, protected by armour-plating at a wholesale height above the water. The class consisted of two ships, the Warrior and Black Prince, both built from the same design, and engined by the same eminent firm of Penn and Son. The speed of the •Warrior was 14.356 knots, that of the Black Prince -13.604 knots, the mean or average speed of the two being 13.98, or very nearly 14 knots. In order to secure this very high speed these ships were made of the great length of 380 ft., and of no less than 6,109 tons burden, and, their armour plating was restricted to a central portion of the ship over a length of 212 ft. The great tonnage, of course, involved a great first cost ; the great length rendered the ships extremely unhandy both under steam and under canvas; and the restriction of the armour to the central portion of the ship involved two manifest and most serious defects—viz., first the complete exposure of all the steering apparatus —a defect the fatal character of which the case of the Re d'ltalia at Lissa but too well illustrates ; and secondly, the liability of the ship to instant injury at the water line near the bow and stern iu action, an injury which the watertight compartments at the ends would prevent from proving dangerous, but which would infallibly result in the partial sulimer.cwri , . ,s; vile -certain loss of that extreme speed for which so much had been sacrificed. A third defect of the restriction of the armour in the Warrior class is also obvious—viz., their incapa bility to fire a single shot ahead, or within 60 degrees of the line of keel, from behind the armour plating. Some of these defects were justly deemed so serious that when the next class of fast ironclads was designed—the Minotaur class—it was deemed necessary to secure the protection of the steering apparatus and the provision of a chase fire from protected guns at any cost, and as the universal opinion was that great length was indispensable to a 14-knot speed, these ships were made of the enormous, not to say preposterous, length of 400 ft., and of 6,621 tons burden, to the still further sacri fice of that handiness which under steam is essen tial to the efficiency of ironclads in action, and under canvas is no less essential to save them from going to destruction on a lee shore in the event of an injury happening to their machinery. We need hardly add that the cost of such ships increased with the tonnage, and it is to the construction of such im- mense and unwieldly fabrics as these that we to a great extent owe that deficiency in the num ber of our ships of which the present First Lord so justly complains. It was at this point that Mr. Reed stepped in, and in the face of all former practice asserted that these monstrous proportions were not in fact essential to speed in an ironclad frigate, but that speed could be attained in com bination with moderate size and cost, and with even greater efficiency in other respects. The Bellero phon was designed and built to put this theory to the test, and it must be viewed as a piece of great good fortune to the country that the trial of Friday last has completely vindicated the soundness of the principle upon which her designer has proceeded. Before that trial it was universally admitted that as regards armour and armament the Bellerophon greatly surpassed the Warrior, that her steering gear and water-line were thoroughly protected, and that her handiness is not only far superior to that of the Warrior class, but superior to that of every other ship of every description in her Majesty's navy. But the distrust of her steaming quality was, until Friday last, all but universal. It was not to be expected, indeed, that anything short of an absolute demonstration of the fact, made under unimpeach ; able conditions, would ever persuade professional men to have confidence in a theory which so utterly reversed their own practice. On Friday, however, the long and anxiously looked for trial came off ; the Bellerophon was steamed on to the measured mile in face of a wind so strong as to place her at a great disadvantage ; but, in spite of this drawback, the ship was put at once to the proof, and attained offhand, and without a hitch of any kind, a mean speed of 141 knots, kept up over a succession of half-a-dozen runs, thus beating the Black Prince by more than half a knot, and touching the speed of the famous Warrior herself within a fraction of a knot—so small as scarcely to deserve mention. The Lords of the Admiralty have given direc- tions for the preparation at Chatham dockyard, for exhibition at the International Exhibition to be held in Paris next year, of models of the various descrip tions of ironclad ships and other vessels forming the distinguishing type of the different classes of ships of war belonging to the Royal Navy. The list of vessels which are to be reproduced in half-block models includes the Monarch, Hercules, Achilles, and Lord Warden, ironclads, built or building at Chatham, together with the wooden screw two decker line-of-battle ship Rodney, the screw steamer Blanche, the paddle-wheel steamer Salamis, and the paddle-wheel steam yacht Elfin, tender to the Vic toria and Albert. The order further directs mid ship se3tion models of the Bellerophon, Hercules, and Warrior, iron-cased ships, also to be prepared for forwarding to the Exhibition. The ships enu merated include, with one or two exceptions, speci mens of the various descriptions of vessels making up the British navy. Major-Gen. A. B. Stransham, inspector -general of the corps of Royal Marines Light Infantry, at tended by Capt.. J C. Travers, aide-de-camp, ar rived at Chatham on Saturday, for the purpose 0 1 commencing his summer inspection of the officers and men of the Light Infantry companies comprising the first, or Chatham, division of that branch of the service. On arriving at bead-quarters, theinspector general was received by Col.- Com m and an t J. °' Travers, C. 8., commanding the division, Colonel Second-Commandant W. S. Asldtt, and the other officers of the staff attached to the divisional head quarters. Shortly after his arrival, Major-Gener a Stransham proceeded to make an inspection of the companies drawn up for that purpose in the barrac k square, one of which was selected for the c ustomarY,, examination of the arms, kits, and accoutrements of the non-commissioned officers and men. The re mainder of the day was devoted to the inspection of the officers and non-commissioned officers a t head-quarters in the sword drill, and also to an in spection of a portion of the battalion in the con s " pany drill, in which both officers and men acquitted themselves in a highly satisfactory manner. Ou the completion . of this portion of his duties, Maie r- Gen. Stransham visited the various barrack estab; lishments, a portion of the divisional offices, an", other departments, the day's inspection being brough t , to a close in the afternoon. The i n spector-gener al will resume, and probably bring to a conclusion, hi s inspection of the battalion to-day, when, should the weather be favourable, the customary field -day re view of the division will take place on Chatham-lines , together with the inspection of officers and men a the gun-shed battery, and other details, the garrisl orders issued yesterday exempting the officers an men from all garrison duty to-day, in order that the whole available force of Royal Marines at head quarters may be present at the inspection. An order has been received at Chatham garrison directing Capt. J. D. Bradley, 2d Battalion, 1011 Regiment, to be held in readiness to embark for New Zealand, and Lieut. R. A. Oswald, 29th Regi ment, to embark for Malta, to join the headquar ters of their respective corps. The detachment of Royal Engineers doing duty at Shoeburyness, consisting of 200 men of all ranks) is ordered to rejoin the head-quarters of the corp s at Chatham garrison. The 3d battalion Grenadier Guards, command ed by Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and numbering 20 officers, 40 non-commissioned officers, and 650 men, are expected to leaye the infantry barracks' Sheet -street, Windsor, on the 28th inst., en route for the Tower. This fine battalion will be relieved at Windsor by the 2d battalion Scots Fusilier GuardS• The Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief has approved Major El liott,lB th Regim en t, b e ing posted to the Ist battalion ; he will therefore proceed to Shorncliffe to join the head-quarters of the Ist bat" talion 18th Regiment. Capt. Burke, 2d battalion. 18th Regiment, has been ordered to join the dep ot companies. A testimonial has been presented by the non-c 0111" missioned officers and men of the Bth Depot Battallo to Sergeant-Major Rice on his retirement from 0' service. Sergeant-Major Rice has been appoin ted Sergeant-Major to the South Devon Militia. att..;‘ ,„m r i zi C HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Sundal'„ h The Queen drove out yesterday a fternoon r Princess Louise, Prince Arthur aecompaning lie Majesty on horseback. 11. Prince Leopold drove out, att en d e d by Mr. cll t Prince Arthur arrived from Greenwick Park , a tended by Major Elphinstoue. The Queen, Princess Louise, Prince Art' lll/1 , 1 . ' Prince Leopold, and P r i ncess B ea t r i ce attenu e " Divine service at Osborne this morning. The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting were also present. The Rev. George Prothero officiated. Lady Churchill has succeeded Lady Waterpari as Lady in Waiting. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Sage" Weimar, Lord Bingham, and Colonel Tyrwhitt have joined the party visiting the Duko of Richmond at Gordon Castle' N.D. TllO pftr*y onrnmonood groutso l?" nd3 1 at Glenfiddich, and nearly 500 b race o f grouse w ore bagge The Duke of Hamilton has left town for Brodie* Castle, Isle of Arran, for the shooting season. an The Marquis and Marchioness of Bristol a Ladies Harvey are expected to arrive at their residence in St. James's-square to-day from Ickworth Park, n ear De r '' St. Edmunds. The Marquis Conyngham will arrive in town te; clay from Bifrons, near C an t er b ury, on hi s wa y to 1651 1 . Lord and Lady Londesb oro ug h a t G r i ms t on Park, 05 ' Tadcaster. The Earl of Arran arrived at Saunders Court, seat in Ireland, on Friday last. Viscount and Viscountess Sudley joined the noble earl on Saturday. iea The Earl and Countess o f Wilt on , accompanied by Viscount and Viscountess Grey de Wilton, have arr is :,, e ,, at the noble earl's shooti ng -b ox i n I nverness-s hi re , for ti . '" shooting season. et the Earl and Count ess o f C aw d or h ave a sel ec t party staying at Cawdor Castle, N. 8., including Emlyn, Captain H on . H enry Campbell, Hon. To'ftr, Campbell, Colonel and L a d y Vi c t or i a L am b ton, M r . Fr 3s ;l L &c. At the commencement of grouse shooting, altbouil_ the weather wa s un f avoura bl e, t h e gentlemen b a d O ce lent sport on the moors. Lord and Lady Templemore and family have dr rived at Duubrody Park, Wexford, Ireland. } A t of Lord Lovat is ente r t a i n i ng a l arge Pal . '" e friends at B eau f or t C as tl e, I nverness-shire, for t h e shootiP. , season. The Hon. Mrs. Ives has l e ft Hertford-street for Bentworth Hall, her seat near Alton, Hants. THE ATLANTIC CABLE. VALENTIA, Sunday Nig ht ' . 0 A telegram from Newfoundland, by the Ada° tiea . °tl Cable, announces an inte rru pti on on the land t between Bay du No r d an d G ran dy' s B r ook, 111 / 300 miles from Heart's Content. Theatrical Intelligence. • Mr. Boucicault is announced as having three I les o il plays written by himself for three of our Lei ld° 3 , houses—one inaugurating Miss Herbert's new se f - s t son at the St. James's, one inaugurating the '`,7 1 , 0 season of the new theatre in Holborn, and nile tore) most important of all we may reasonably conjeet li , r ue in inaugurating Mr. Fechter's new season at w Lyceum. The last mentioned of these three, ll . e no dramas of the inexhaustible and indefatigable v i- ng Boucicault is the long-announ c ed pl a y o f "TheL% 0 Strike," in which the h ero an d h ero i n e are to impersonated by Mr. and Mrs. Boucicault. healt h Mr. Fechter, wh o h as b een recru iti n g his at Aix-la-Chap e ll e , re t urns t o L on d on iminew 3- 0 "; Ur. W. Harrison, the singer, intends to enter a new career=as an actor. t oe Mr. Sothern intends to play the part a e „ Melnotte during the round of his country Og g ments. ci The Miss Helen Faucit, the original Pauline of an Lady of Lyons," is advertised as having accepte d engagement at Drury Lane. Collision and Great Loss of Life' GREAT YARMOUTH, Stupor er The General Steam Navigation CompanY's stea Bruiser, from Hull for London, was sun k a'j° gll half-past two o'clock this morning of f Aldboro a Oswa ld, ft: 9 l oi j from collision with the screw steamer Os London for Sunderland. The Bruiser had 10' on from 120 to 130 persons. She sank in l ess tha ya quarter of an hour, but the captain of the Oaw`ro, had time to take on board his vessel 99 passe9gAejr. Almost all the others, it is believed, were lost. P ber W. Stout, jun., of London, and a la d y and er.. nephew were picked up by the schoon er Persev ante, of London, Captain Gaffes, and landed Mr. Stout states that a heartrending scen e t(3O place when the collision occurred. The Bruiser ba a crew of 19 men. LONDON, Sunday Eveniug' On the arrival of the Oswald in the Victoria -dc this evening the passengers saved we re landed. Ihe__,J presented a very destitute appearance, some of thew having only a portion of their clothes with thenl; The cause of the accident could n ot b in the confusion. ascertanico 4, 1 11:4 1 th i t e l ,4:), I *'l 4t min • Ci •C 0.4.5 e, tm, I Itto 1 1, g kii 4 • 1 CJ tltitier 113 tel. cl 1.4e1l 0,44 4 /111( rat} a sli Pro, Ea s DoI c a ..er Do a isl l : er New Do D 4 44 „ o ' Do' :2 Cehi B ato, Ar ge4 p 4ll Stil —rk z i, Do'.