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HARRIERS WIPPERN, of the Royal Opens, Berlin, u ill make hur F irst Appearance ZERLINA in Mozart's Opera, DoN GIOVANNI, o L n WE ,NE .DAY, Aray :sU, at tt E JINJ ESTVO TUNA:IRE* TiIEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.— soh, Lessee and 211asger, Mr. IlliAstone. Tars EVENING. A. ROMA.NTIC ATTACHMENT : Mr. W. Farren ; Miss Ada Cavendish. Alter which. THE IA VOU R1T1,... E FOlt dv). ;Mesdames : Messra. Eo burn, Buck.4' one, Chippenda Rogers, CialppendAle, Saville, Moore, Fitz% illiam, 11111, Ljudley,,te. Conclding with 1 HE TABLES: Mr. Comp ton, Mr u . Howe; Commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.- Under the sole Maragement of Mr. Fechter. T HIS EVF:MNG, SIMPSON AND CO. Mr. Emery; Miss Elsworthy. After wh:ch, THE CORSICAN BROTHFX S. Mr. Fef hter ; Messrs. Jordan, I miry, Vezin, Widdicomb, Fitz • parte - , t I orsma9, t vans, Moreland, cte.; Miss Lav , nu, Mrs. !Fermin, Mrs. Horscaan, Xi,s Hatch, Miss Duverucy, and Miss Henrade. Box Office open daily from Eleven till Five. R 0 YA L PRINCESS'S THEATRE. 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Guaranteed the cheapest and bost glass ;a new model) ever offered to the publiu Sent carriage iree to any par. of the kingdom. rost• ordersoffs c payable to W LLIA3I CALLAGHAN, Opttean, 23A, New Bond-street, W. (corner of Conduit-street). Sole Agent for the celebrat.d Opera, Rare, and Field Glas!es made by Voiztlauder, Vsenna. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TICS DAY.--314rning, lh. 59m.—Afternoon, 21i. 20m. T.)-Moultow.-Morniqz, 2h. 36:u.—Afternoon, 2h. 54m. 64 4 6 ° .m''t m. LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1866. The debate of last evening certainly did not want for animation, and if the Government can congra tulate themselves on the first evening's discussion being safely over, they have also to chronicle the mortification of finding themselves in a minority of 10 in a house of 491 members, including the 4 Tellers and the Speaker. Mr. GLADSTONE has a troublesome office to perform in getting his bill through the house, and it is probably none the more pleasant to him from his own consciousness of the shortcomings of the measure. Mr. GLADSTONE cannot bring himself to supportt the Ballot, though we hope before long to enrol him in the list of dis tinguished converts ; but he must be fully sensible, even without the revelations of the last election, that bribery is one of the great drawbacks and dis graces of our Parliamentary system. It appears undoubtedly inconsistent to pass a bill for amend ing the Representation of the People Bill imme diately after such a transaction as the Nottingham election without making some effort to mitigate the evil. But the fact is that the antidote is ready to our hands, and we refuse to take it, be the poison ever so deadly. Mr. BRIGHT spoke the truth when he said that he had no belief in the efficacy of measures of punishment to repress cor ruption. " The law is strong enough now as re_ gards punishment, and yet the law seems ineffectual to suppress bribery." Mr. BRIGHT'S cure is two fold—the one as efficacious as the other is illusive. He says that you can only prevent bribery by hav ing constituencies sufficiently large, or by introduc ing election by ballot. The experiment of large constituencies has been tried without success. No doubt the nomination boroughs are had enough, and the memorable twelve.persons who returned a mem ber in the halcyon days before 1832 were far from immaculate or independent, but the boroughs of our large towns cannot boast much either. No one can pretend to believe that bribery is never prac tised in large constituencies ; and Mr. STANILAND'S suggestion that boroughs should be grouped in such a manner as to make bribery physically impossible is quite futile in these days of rapid and easy loco motion. Mr. STANILAND said, with great force 1 and justice, that when honourable members in veighed against the poor voter who took bribes they ought to remember that if the temptation were not placed in his way by hon. members no bribery would take place. He trusted that when _:ver a ranasure was brought forward on this sub ject care would be taken that ['WSJ who offered bribes were subjected to punishment rather than those who received them. But, in fact, it is this very consciousness that makes bribery so difficult to deal with. It is almost absurd for speeches to be made and bills penned, for grave deliberations to be held amid an attentive audience, when all the while va goodly proportion of those tak ing part in the proceedings owe their seats to bribery, corruption, intimidation, and influence in some of their various forms. Election by ballot is, as Mr. BRIGHT said, the effectual cure, though the hon. member for Birmingham need not have weakened his argument by telling us that " bribery is unknown in the United States." He would scarcely get an independent American who knew anything of the political working of his own system to support his statement. There is quite enough room for censure when we can be gravely told in the House of Commons that in a constituency of 1,000, 700 voters were bribed at an average cost of £35 per head, a good many of the remainder receiving £6O, without Mr. BmGm's indulging in his favourite declamatory platitudes, and telling us that there is no other country in the world where there is such gross bribery charged and admitted at elections. Vote by ballot itself will not always pro tect against despotic power, and it is not ne cessary to- bribe where influence and intimidation can effect the required end, while places and offices in the States are usually part of the regular machi nery employed to secure the return of the American PRESIDENT. Vote by ballot under our constitution would be an effectual protection to the voter, and therefore it would be free from many of the abuses charged against it. As for its being denounced as un-English we have only to conclude that the objectors consider bribery an especial insular virtue. But the task is an uphill one, for the majority are against it in their hearts, and so much heroic indignation has been spent on the proposal that it is easy to hide the real reason for reluctance l uuder the mask of patriotism and independence. Mr. BRIGHT, however, made one unlucky mistake, into which he was betrayed by his hatred of Con servatism, when he sneered at the new-found zeal of the Opposition with regard to purity of elections. Mr. Disn AELI was at once ready with the very obvious retort that it was nothis party who need fear Election Committees. Mr. DISRAELI, indeed, did not shrink from going back to the revelations of the last election, when the names of Wakefield and Huddersfield were ominous in the ears of the Man chester School. Very possibly the amiable wish to embarrass the Government and impede the pro gress of the measure had a good deal to do with the for midable body of 248, who supported Sir R. KNIGHTLEY'S amendment, but the principle is one that commends itself to all parties, and the only plea that could be advanced against it by the Govern ment was that it was advisable to deal with the question separately. Why does not the Go vernment put a bold face on the matter, and deal with it not only separately but conclusively by pro posing the Ballot ? They cannot please mock Re formers by any measure of Reform. They are safe to encounte r fyupnatecirthe opposition of all is hose interests are affected by any measure o f re di s t r ibution. They era most t mthoednitoo reductiont o h k ose fo w r ho t f h e fear f s t the thesupeople by even th not e Ho franchise.support tfm ro li t h h y e country w hi ch uset? Why not frankly heir temporising fails to obtain f rom the de clare that sinc e a ll modes have failed, and other the House has d ec l ared its conviction that some thing should be done to check the evil, they will intrcduce vote by ballot Is it because the Liberal side have really the most to fear from its intoduc. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1860. tion?—that to it among their own supporters there would be alarm and consternation at the bare men tion of such a thing, and that even the Whig leaders of the Cabinet would hesitate to relinquish their old prerogatives of influence and authority ? The Leader of the House has openly declared himself a Reformer—why should he not adopt a measure so consonant with his principles? We hope Mr. GLADSTONE will consider the question in a new light; and, if he does, he will gain far mere than he has lost by the temporary defeat of last night. We are glad to find that he still maintains his determination to carry the bill through this session, though it will no doubt have to undergo a good deal of alteration and amendment before it is suffered to pass finally through committee. The arrangements for the Conference seem to be proceeding slowly but surely, and no particular obstacle now lies in the way, to judge by the tenure of the recent accounts. identical Notes have been despatched by England, France, and Russia to Vienna, Berlin, Frankfort, and Florence. It is believed that the invitations were favourably re ceived, and that the Representatives of the diffe rent Powers will shortly assemble in Paris. This is satisfactory intelligence, and the sooner they do so the better, for this state of suspense is very bad for all parties. No very important incident is mentioned among the foreign intelligence, and, indeed, all parties seem to be on the look out rather than originating schemes of their own just now. The Duke of COBCRG has left Berlin after a short stay, during which he has had several interviews with Count BISMARCK. It is well known that his highness's policy is not a very liberal one, and therefore we do not expect any very great things from his advice or co-operation. From Vienna we hear that Count GOTTZ, the Prussian Ambassador at Paris, received instructions that Prussia would accept the Conference on condition that its decisions were not binding, and that its duration should be as short as possible on account of the armaments which were being maintained. This is a thoroughly Prussian style of argument, and no wonder that experienced persons should entertain so little hope of a favourable result when such is the meaning attached to its decisions. Where is the use of a Conference at all if no attention is to be paid to its decisions and no weight attached to its opinions. It is amusing to notice the different assertions that are put forth in various directions respecting this Conference. The Oesterreichische Zeitzurg de clares that " Austria will join the Conference, but without prejudice to her rights and honour ; she will not put forward any claims with her troops under arms; but, on the other hand, she will not dis arm in the face of the pretensions of other Powers." The truth is that the Austrian Government has not been treated very fairly of late years, when any treaty has been made, and therefore they are now naturally rather anxious as to the result of the pre sent disturbance. in this, as in everything else, the Berlin authorities are reaping the consequence of their unprincipled actions of yore, and no one can pity them iu their distress and dilemma who re members their selfish and vindictive course. Count MENSDORFF has been understood to intimate to the Austrian Ambassador at Paris that the only conditions upon which the Government of Vienna would take part in the Conference were that " legitimate rights and existing treaties " should form the basis of all its deliberations. How far the realisation of this desire will accord with the recent notable expression of the French EMPEROR, that he detests the Treaties of 1815, remains to be seen, and the of the problem will rest with the other marvels and mysteries of the affair. It is not an enviable task which lies before those who are to officiate at the Conference. What with the claims, the pretensions, and the prejudices of the various parties, it will be almost a work of superorogation to reconcile all the contending parties and settle the differences that so extensively pre vail. The Elbe Duchies are the chief subjects of disunion according to Austria, and we think that this is a correct view of the subject, for until that " vexed question" is settled somehow, there is no use of expecting any definite object to be gained. In Venetia great discontent has been caused by the official notification of a second conscription, and no wonder, for the threatened war will not be very popular in that quarter. Prussia and Italy appear to have given a sort of sulky consent to the pro posed Conference ; and the utmost stretch of their amiability appears to have been that they agreed to postpone any hostile movement until the Congress shall have proved a failure. Perhaps they wish it to turn out so ; at any rate there is little doubt that Italy would prefer war to a patched-up peace, and we have no doubt that Prussia would also welcome hostilities were she more certain of success, and more convinced of the support of her people. If this fails her she would still infinitely prefer to make all arrangements on her own ac count with Austria, France, and Italy, and not have to face the assembled Powers of Europe, neutral as well as offensive ones. Yesterday the Saxon Chambers were opened by the KING, and his MAJESTY'S speech was, of course, very interesting, for it referred to the exciting events of the present time, and, as was truly observed in the discourse, " a period when the com plications in the relations of the two great German Powers threaten Europe with a sanguinary conflict." Very forcibly did the KING declare that it was not the duty of the German States not concerned in these questions at issoe to take up either side of the dispute. In pursuance of these views Saxony has gallantly maintained her own in the face of a very determined opposition from Herr BISMARCK. The steps that were taken in order to carry out this course were briefly alluded to by his MAJESTY, and he concluded his earnest and impressive harangue by declaring that he should await the " vicissitudes of fate" with calmness, strong in the conviction that no provocation had been given, but that he had " stedfastly stood for ward for the rights of the German nation and of his Royal House, and would trust to the MOST HIGH for protection in the just cause." One of the most notable incidents in this war has been the independent manner in which several of the States and small kingdoms have come forward to assert their rights. Their amalgamation with the two great Powers will not be so easy a task as some have imagined ; and, indeed, we doubt if it can b e d one a t a ll , i n cons e q uence of the just indignation that has been felt at the aggressive conduct of Prussia. It has raised up a spirit of resistance that will not easily be checked ; and neither is it desirable that it should be, because in this opposition we find the best security for Ger man rights and privileges, the best assurance that freedom shall not be entirely banished from the fatherland. It is difficult to see how peace can be secured, unless the Duchies are entirely given up by the two great German Powers. This would, of course, be a bitter disappointment to Prussia and a vexation to Austria ; but we can see no other solution of the present difficulty. The other rbilers Of 'Europe and the States of Ger—any tese =au might ave a year ego, ai4 0 1071 . _ will not no N . look tamely on , as they pulous allies to parcel out the coveted territories between them. It may yet be that Denmark will be virtually the victor in the end, and that her Ger man aggressors may have to retire from thestrnggle possessing no more of these disputed Duchies than King CHRISTIAN himself. If, however, they resolve on war, we are convinced that neither Austria nor Prussia will have cause to rejoice at the decision, for too many other parties are on the look-out to make their own opportunity out of the general con fusion and dismay. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR Ow N CORRESPONDENT.) YiP,IS, Monday Evening. The 3/oniteur has not any news of its own to day respecting the war or the Congress, with the exception of an account from Florence, which com pletely confirms the fact of the enthusiastic war feeling in Italy. The volunteers offered themselves so eagerly that a sufficient number has been ob tained for the present, and further emolument is temporarily suspended. It is estimated that the total value of the pro perty destroyed by the bombardment of Valparaiso amounts to 75 millions of francs. The coming Congress has inspired confidence of peace in some quarters, but I have looked in vain at the Paris papers to-day to discover any general anticipation of the kind. The Journal des Debats such of as official to ntts)pnier that the circum great hope. Yesterday was decidedly the most attractive s s a t In s e i s n are a kin e k n i n o t d racing day of the season. The Emperor and Empress and all Paris were in the Bois de Bou logne. The Grand Prix de Paris for the last four years has been won by two French horses and two English horses, so matters are now equal in this respect between the countries. This year the Duke of Beaufort's Ceylon has carried away the prize. I subjoin au account of the races in their order, ac cording to the authentic list : Prix d'Armenouville, 2,000 f. Novatcur Lalla Rookh Prix des Pavilions, 6,000 f. Gontran (C. Pratt) 1 Vertugadin 2 La Favorite (G. Pratt) 3 Amount of the prize, 6,750 f., 950 f. for the second. LATEST INTELLIGENCE., LITERATURE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) ITALY. FLORENCE, May 29. It is believed that the enrolment of volunteers will be recommenced shortly. 25,000 volunteers have already left for their quarters. About 25,000 more have entered their names in the offices of the Committees awaiting the order for recommencing the enrolment, in order to enter the corps. FRANKFORT, MAY 29. An extraodinary sitting of the Federal Diet will take place to-day, at which the letters of invitation to a Conference addressed to the President by Eng land, France and Russia, will be submitted to the members. It is expected that the Diet will ap point a special committee to report thereon. The Diet will also appoint a committee to report upon the Limburg question. SPAIN. AIADRID, MAY 28, Evening. In to-day's sitting of the Congress four amend ments were proposed to the bill requesting extra ordinary powers, brought forward by Marshal O'Donnell. The Ministry will accept some modifications in she bill. MADRID, MAY 29. The health of Senor Alonso Martinez still con- tinning to fail, he has finally resigned his seat in the Cabinet as Minister of Finance. His resignation has been accepted by the Queen, and Senor Cano vas del Custulo, Colonial Minister, has been pro visionally entrusted with the direction of the vacant Ministry. The Bank of Spain has advanced 25 millions to the Government. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Alta 22. Riza Pasha has been appointed Grand Master of the Artillery, in place of llalil Pasha, who has been dismissed. This measure has had a bad local effect. The order for the Turkish troops to enter the Principalities has been suspended. MEXICO. Advices from Vera Cruz to the 7th instant states that the Emperor Maximilian has succeeded in nego tiating a heavy loan in Europe. The Republicans have suffered a total defeat at Michoacan. The Imperialists have occupied Tains tara. Republican accounts state that Mendez had captured the French garrison of Jonuto, the only Imperial force in Tabaseo. It is reported that Escobedo, with 2,000 men, is marching on Mon- ,erey. The Washington papers publish a report asserting lat Santa Anna is acting as a French spy. FRANCE. PARIS, MAY 29. The Moniteur of this morning says : " The identical notes, inviting the different Powers to a Conference at Paris have arrived at their destination. It is believed that favourable replies may be relied upon." In the Corps Legislatif yesterday the report on the Budget was laid on the table. M. Jules Favre reminded the Chamber that it had still to discuss the Mexican question, and that on the occasion of the debate ou the Budget the Government had pro mised that the documents relating to that question should be presented to the Chamber. M. Vuitry replied that the Government would see what documents it was possible to publish in tho present state of negotiations between France and Mexico. " But," added the Minister, " the Chamber understands that in the present position of affairs the publication o: the despatches must be accompanied with great prudence and reserve." BOURSE, May 28, Two o'clock.—The remarkably favourable symptoms manifested on Saturday and the consequent formidable advance in quotations have been but of short duration. To-day a totally opposite movement has been inaugurated, and the descent in prices almost as rapid as the previous ad vance. This state of things has been caused by a telegram announcing the occupation of the Danu bian Principalities by Turkish troops. Threes, for the account, have fallen lf. 121 c., the price now being 64f. 75c. This stock has been dealt in as low as 64f. 40c. Italian Fives have receded 2f. 25c. to 41f. 50c. Credit Mobiliar shares have declined 21f. 25c., viz., to 536 f. 25c., and Spanish Mobilier 22f. 50c.—to 272 f. 50c. Credit Foncier have lost 15f., they are at 1,070 f. ; and Comptoir d'Escompte 10f.—at 735 f. The Railway Department is simi larly affected, Northern Shares losing 15f. ; Lyons, 17f. 50f. ; Lombards, 17f. 50c. ; and Austrian, 10f. Three o'elock.—The market has closed on the fol lowing quotations : 41 per Ceuts 94 Bank Shares — Do. end month — Malian Loan 4l 60 3 per Cents. 64 90 Do, end month 4l 55 Do. and month 64 60 Mexican Loan 33 Credit Mobilier ... 510 Do. Bonds 235 Do. end month ... 537 50 Spanish Threes Credit Fancier — Home Debt — Do. end month 1160 Deferred A Grand 01d Soldier. The Memoirs and Correspondence of Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere, G.C.8., etc. By Mary- Viscountess Combermere and Captain W. W. Knollys, 93rd Sutherland Highlanders. Two Volumes. Hurst and Blackett. A mere glance at the frontispieces adorning these two splendid volumes will be found at once— before their perusal has been commenced—fairly to captivate the reader's imagination. They present to view these contrasting frontispieces, the vera effigies of the noble veteran whose history the work relates. They pourtray the heroic soldier whose existence is therein celebrated—on the one hand precisely as he looked at the very outset of his career, and on the other band precisely as he looked towards its conclusion. " COLONEL STAPLETON COTTON in his Twenty First Year" are the words inscribed under the first Frontispiece, the Fron tispiece, that is, to the First Volume. " FIELD MARSHAL VISCOUNT COMBERIIERE In his Yinety- First Year" are the words inscribed under the Second. Between those two dates, consequently, there extended an interval of exactly seventy years' duration ! Between the limning of those two por traits the living original whom they represented had passed through a whole life, a life of fully " three score years and ten "—according to Holy Writ the allotted age of man. And no idle or insouciant life either, tut a busy, active, energetic life—a life passed in the full glare of public events—a life not obscure, but, on the contrary, illustrious, and in many re spects magnificent. Looking at these two likenesses, and remembering the history and character of the dauntless soldier they represent, it is hardly possible, we take it, to look at them unmoved. There is some thing, to ourselves at least, really affecting in the mere comparison of those two widely-separated de lineations of the same countenance. The blooming comeliness of early manhood upon the one, with the not one jot less knightly comeliness of veteran age upon the other. Nay, turning from one of these frontispieces to the other, we should almost be fain to accord our preference to the representa tion of the chivalric old Field-Marshal, as he ap peared in his ninety-first year, rather than to the portraiture of the same man as a stripling Colonel of twenty-one in the old-fashioned uniform of the Twenty-fifth Light Dragoons. Handsome at the very outset of his career, he was handsome to the very close of it. A true-souled gentlemau-s--ingrained, to the backbone, to the core of his heart, to the innermost recesses of his nature—Stapleton Cotton bore himself, as such, befittingly, in every phase of his career, even in the very look and manner of him, certainly in all the more notable words and actions of his life from the far away beginning of it—a beginning removed from us by very nearly one whole century—down to its ultimate conclu sion, when the heroic old man breathed his last, peacefully, in his bed, being then more than a nonogenarian. Reading his life as it is here admirably well related by his widowed Viscountess, and by Captain W. W. Knollys, of the 93d Sutherland Highlanders, it is impossible to do so without a sense of exhilaration. It is as though we were hearing tell at last, for once, of some one born not simply with a gold spoon in his mouth, but with a good round dozen of them, full-weight, unalloyed, hall-marked, andking's-patterned. It is like reading at length of some one to whose christen ing all the Fairies had been asked without any excep tion whatever: even the spiteful one having been propitiated by a timely invitation. Born on the 14th of November, 1773, at Llewenny Hall, in Denbigh shire, Stapleton Cotton was to survive until—his ninety-third year having commenced—he tranquilly breathed his last breath on the 21st of February, 1865, at his old ancestral estate of Combermere Abbey, down in Cheshire. Thrice during the lapse of that lung lifetime he was married. First, iu his twenty-eighth year, on the Ist of January, 1801, to the Lady Anne (who died in 1807), daughter of the third Duke of Newcastle. Secondly, in his forty-first year, exactly a year be fore the Battle of Waterloo—namely, upon the 18th of June, 1814—to Caroline (who died in 1837), daughter of Captain Fulke Greville, grandson of the fifth Lord Brooke. Thirdly, in his sixty-fifth year, on the 2d of October, 1838, to Mary—joint author with Captain Knollys of these enthralling memorials —Mary Woolley, heiress of Robert Gibbings, Esquire, and grandniece of Lord Combermere's first commanding-officer, when (five-and -seventy years ago, that is, in 1791) Stapleton Cotton, as a young ensign, or, rather, second-lieutenant, of eighteen, joined, at Dublin, the first regiment to which he was appointed on leaving Westminster School, namely, the 23d, or Royal Welch Fusiliers. Less than a month after his thus joining his first regiment, to be precise, on the 16th of March, 1791, Stapleton Cotton became lieutenant, doing duty as such for two years in the Welsh Fusi liers, until, on the 28th February, 1793, he was made Captain by purchase of the 6th Dragoon Guards or Carabineers. Quartered with that regiment at Bruges and Ghent, he there in Flanders first saw service, first fleshed his maiden sword, first smelt gunpowder in actual conflict on the 16th of April, 1794, at Fremont and Cateau. Immediately prior to this, his earliest entrance upon the battle-field, he had, through family interest, been promoted at the precocious age of on e-and -twenty, first of all to the Majority of the 59th Regiment, and directly afterwards to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the 25th Light Dragoons. Such were th e earliest steps of the young soldier on his first entrance upon his public career—a career that afterwards, by reason of many brilliant acts of prowess, and by more than one resplendent achievement, became world-famous and historical. Himself the descendant and representative of two ancient and distinguished families—the one the essentially Saxon race of the Cottons of Cheshire, their family seat prior to the Conquest, however, having been at Coton, in Shropshire --the other the old Bavarian house of the Salusburys, one of whom, Adam, came over to England with William the Con queror—Stapleton Cotton (second son and fifth child of Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, Bart., M.P. for Cheshire, by Frances, daughter and heiress of Colonel Stapleton, uncle to Sir Thomas Stapleton, afterwards Lord Le Despencer) won a peerage for himself and for his descendants by the valour of his arms, winning, at the same time, the baton of a Field Marshal, the Grand Cross of the Bath, the Grand Cross of Hanover, the Star of India, the Colonelcy of the First Life Guards, the Order of the Tower and Sword of Portugal, and the Order of St. Ferdinand of Spain, besides, a variety of minor decorations. Moreover, he was not only a Vis count, a Baron, a Baronet, a Field Marshal, as well as the possessor of all those other dig nities and insignia already enumerated—he was in his time Governor of Barbadoes, Gold Stick in Waiting, Constable of the Tower of London, Lord Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets, Commander-in- Chief in the West Indies, Commander-in-Chief in Ireland, Commander-in-Chief in India, for an in terval even (during the temporary absence of Lord Amherst) discharging the duties of Governor-Ge neral at Calcutta—but, above all this, beyond all this, he gained for himself in the Peninsular War the glory, the power, and the responsibility of Commander in-Chief of the Cavalry ! He who, several years be fore the close of the last century, had been actively engaged against Tippoo Saib, who but a few years of ter the commencement of the present century had commanded a brigade in Portugal, who had been present at Talavera, had been second in com:nand to Wellington at Salamanca, had conducted with con spicuous gallantry the siege of Bhurtpore—he who had drawn the sword in the service of England upon the Flemish Fields before the new Sesostris had begun to parcel out Europe among his Satrap Kings, before he had crowned himself with the diadem of Charlemagne, before even he had as sumed the Consular fasces after driving the Con script Fathers of the Directory before him out of the orangery at St. Cloud —that same Stapleton Cotton, who, as a handsome young Colo nel of Dragoons, was often partner for the dance, down at Weymouth, with the then youthful Princess, afterwards Duchess of Gloucester, was riding but a Veryfetv years since, arrayed in hie Field Marshal's uniform, and bearing the symbol of his office Gold Stick in Waitini, - at the right band of the Queen, when her Majesty reviewed the Volunteers in Hyde Park. He who, as an infant, had been dandled in the arms of Dr. Johnson's Mrs. Thrale--afterwards Mrs. Piozzi, by birth, what every reader of Boswell will remember her to have been, Hester Salusbury, and, therefore, a blood relation of our hero—yet more recently than upon the occasion of the Hyde Park review, took a con spicuous part in a great Court pageant, the last of all the Court pageants, however, th at he was destined to attend, namely, wh en he appeared, his breast one blaze of orders, in t he gorgeous procession filing into St. George's Chap el down at Windsor when the Prince of Wales w as married. All through the lengthened career of this grand old soldier we are enabled to fellow him step by step, incident after incident, from his cradle to his coffin, through the eight hundred and thirty-seven pages of the Memoirs and Correspou- Imo.° here portioned out into these two thoroughlY realable and most entertaining volumes. Volumes penned by his faithful relict the Dowager Vis countess, and by her ladyship's congenial collabo rateur, a young soldier already honourably known in the world of letters as a wielder at once of the pen and of the sword, Capt. Knollys of the 93d Suther land Highlanders. Those who bear in their remem brance the long-familiar form and features of Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere, as he was known to this later generation until he disappeare d from the world, only as recently as last year, can not but read with interest such remote references to him as that, let us say, occurring at page 21 of th e first of these two delightful volumes, where Mrs• thrale—writing under date Ist September, 1774, to the late Field-Marshal's mother, to the moth er of that old Lord Combermere, who died but the other day iu his ninety-third year—says a him (then an infant)—" Stapleton has come ou visibly since we parted ; his stays grow tight over the breast, I see, and I advised his maid t ° put in a gore,. as nothing can be more agains t your liking than such confinement, I am sure." The little mite of a weanling the gore let into 12 15 baby-stays by the nurse-maid !—Fie who was after wards, upon so many a bloody battle field in Bin' dostan and the Peninsula, to charge in helmet and cuirass, sword in hand, at the head of his cavalrYl. a preux chevalier like Roland, a beau sabreur like Murat, at once a hero and a dandy, true to his ances tral motto, In Utraque Fortuna Paratus, going into battle as thOugh he were going on to parade, him self arrayed, that is to say, in all the splendour of full uniform, his horse covered with th e most sumptuous housings. Following our hero all through this narrative from its opening sen tence down to its conclusion, we watch him frcn n every point of view with interest, very often inde2il with the liveliest admiration. We have just n Ol seen him in the nursery—hardly out of his cradle' We note next his removal, in boyhood, from home care to the Audlem Grammar School, where he ob tains weekly, or weakly tuition (spell it how You please) —having there among his companions Vernon. afterwards Archbishop of York. We pursu e h is course later on, when he is removed to the g rea collegiate school at Westminster, wherehehas among his schoolfellows the late Marquess of Lansdowne; then Lord Henry Petty, the late Field Marsha' Strafford, then known as Jack Byng, the r° et Southey, Sir Robert Wilson, and Charles B son of Colonel Bunbury, the famous caricatur ist. He is always, so to speak, tip-top, someho W ' in all his belongings and surroundings.-- this gay, blithe, impetuous, " bright-eyed, Yoll u g adventurer Young Rapid, he is called at 'ioni c ! before he makes his first start in life or emerge: even from the playground. Descended, upon one hand, as we have seen, from those Saxon Co ttons _ who were flourishing in England bejiwe th e coming of the Conqueror--descended on other from those Teutonic Salusburys who cam e os, er to England with the Conqueror, and who claim. ea _ in fact (these last) to have sprung from a Soverell,l' Duke of Bavaria -- Stapleton Cotton " oode' vea with one of those iron constitutions more co tnno ' 1 , in his time than in ours" (vol. i., p. 3 1 ) contrivlle:-0 with a gay, riant air, as though the Battle of 1-,. were but a pastime to him, to win the nobility I ' ls th father before him had disdained—nay, to win t vr° coronets, and the marshal's baton, and all the o' llo and glories we have before enumerated. HoW be looked when starting upon the race let the ing description indicate : He was well calculated to attract the attention of ladie s for, in addition to agreeable manners and lively and hi te g ligent conversation, h o was a d ec id e dly handsome Ycn i ii • man. About 5 feet 8 i nc h es i n h e i g ht, s li g htly but sts png b partsman and. an exce ll ent pe d es t r i an , io built, and possessi ng grea t act i v i ty, h e was an indefatig 3 . , d even up tO "' eighty -seventy year. A s war thy complexion, a prO ft/S I , j of dark hair, thick eyebrows, and bright hazel eyes, by long eyel as h es, gave hi m somew h at o f a f or eign ePP f e : °4 ance. His gl ance was rap id , an d t h e express ion of hi s ~ 1 , 1 good - humoured, though when excited by anger it c°" o be fiery enough ; but, to do him justice, this was suit ) , the case, and any ebullition of temper was generallY transient. The head was small and well proportioaeive the nostril op en , an d th e nose aqu ili ne ; while a Dla ss ais .. Saxon chin indicated the firmness of character whic h , bis tinguished him through life, and was indeed one • principal characteristics. • ihe a As a compa n i on pi c ture to which, take the subi o acce 4 -ed what to other Ault of him, as he appear in what the prime of man h o od. but what to him was still Wit his youth : At that time ho was thirty-five years of age, and 3 cidedly handsome man. Of middle height and stroufity though somewhat slightly built, he possessed great uot ts be of body, and was an excellent horseman. In his was temperate to an extent not frequently met lcitlolo, those days, yet withal he was of a sociable disposit d; Though naturally hot-tempered, ho was universally lil"eioa for, courteous and pleasing in manner, he bad ever 5 t in word for those of his subordinates with whom ha 05til t iy, contact. Cheerful and fond of society, he freqnsittor during the intervals of active operations or in winter ( 1., 4 , tors, amused himself by assembling the ladies o f the Othe bourhood at those little parties called tertullias In el ,- Peninsula, at which dancing, music, and flirtation uli,cllo, bino for the entertainment of the guests. L ike his 16,1 c, trious chief, ho was a great dandy, though with 1 11 °, ra f or• cess. Resembling Murat in personal enterpr ise an d jo lessness, he also resembled that prince of beau x sabre" 0a carrying his love of dress into the very field of battlo•ed jS the most perilous occasions, ho was to be seen atti , ' 0 , A the rich uniform of a general of hussars, and m0 1111°1 ,4 horse covered with the most gorgeous trapping's, e t4):' ,vo ,4 himself recklessly to a storm of shot. Su notorious 00 this habit, that it obtained him in the army of S p ain name of the Lion d' Or. As calm and cool Ml9'loll, heaviest fire and at the most critical moments as at 3t1,06 his gallantry was so conspicuous that the writer of . pages heard one of Cotton's bravest officers li ken, of to lapse of upwards of half a century, his lamented chteraoro Ney. Surely no soldier was over honoured by noble panegyric. rk eCt Enough, however, when all this has been reul3 t A sketch of him at one time, is a sketch of 161136,11 all times—that is at any rate in all es sei) oo. particulars. For the man was of a n ature t r os ea one sense, could not grow old. He simP l Ya o out of life—he was never superannuated. P e , to o. the last survivor of all the Generals of welliob He carried his dandyism with him to the conlicio,t -and oddly enough without any derogati°l3 both ever from the dignity of his old age, so ;•,: 11 to e . his age and his dandyism became him! His La ay told here as it is, gracefully and manfully, 13 ; 3 : 3 par ts Combermere and by Captain Knollys—re ads l it stir s like supplementary chapters from Froissart: ciaDef, our heart, as Spencer's verse did the h eart ot Pc, s here as with the sound of a trumpet. The rec°brliao;lls given of his gallant deeds form a verY ntS• of knightly honours and noble achievenl e-- 4 . he re '- the vignette to the titlepage of one volume L f t hei; a charming sketch, by the hero's relict, °0,06, nit picturesque home for eight-and-twentY Yinaty, ancestral home for more than two-and -13 „ogle' Combermere. As the vignette to the othie;:cb, te there is appropriately given a compalli berth ere .I ‘ . time from a photograph, of the Co in fl s trueorial, a monument erected in Juern°rY ° r chars in t cavalry soldier as ever, put foot in stirrup-, 0 . . bei , D e at the head of his troops, armed capZ-Piecittaud and cuirass, through the s tinging sm° k storm of a battle-field. P re We learn from Stutgardt that at a Cou c ea In consequence,sev until o si f d t e i c l l e over by the King, it was decided that arriving to be put on a war footing. The horses fo',3`oo teat eLpo r t e s g . 41- the entire army a Wurteulbc.r.llo artillery . and cavalry are purChased, and 113-°3 er'tand eighth year should be calle rly.ever sine the 15th at the ci.. • RAILWAYS. For Account. Orleans Northern lOBO Lyons and Mediterranean BO7 50 Southern 530 Western 530 Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain ll7 50 Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona — Roman 65 MARKETS.—This Day. HAY. SMITHFIELD.—Moadow hay, £4 4s to £5 lOs ; clover, £5 5s to £6 15s Od ; and straw, £2 Os to £2 6s per load. Trade heavy. CUMBERLAXD.—Meadow hay, .£4 4s to £sl2s Od; clover, £5 5s to £6 15s Od; and straw, £2 Os to £2 6s per load. A fair inquiry. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 10s; clover, £5 5s to £6 15s Od ; and straw, £2 Om to £2 6s per load. A dull demand. COLONIAL. TEA.—The public sales have been brought to a termina tion, and prices have not varied to any important extent. 5,380 purchases have been offered, all of which were with out reserve. SUGAR.—OnIy a limited amount of business has been done, and but small quantity is announced for public sale during the week, prises being without material change. COFFEE—Business has retrained very quiet, but su perior descriptions of Ceylon aro at steady prices. The arrivals have been on an extensive scale, and the imports, as compared with those of the corresponding period of last year, sho a , a considerable increase RICE.—Duly moderate dealings have been reported in cleaned descriptions, at steady rates. TALLOW.—The heavy monetary pressure of last week acted with full knee upon the tallow market, causing the suspension of severta houses at Liverpool and elsewhere, whose tallow, held under advance, was throwu upon the market for immediate sale. This state of things seems' almost to have reached its worst ; if so, an advance on present moderate rates may bo looked for. There is more tone in the market to-day. Buyers offer 40s 6d for June, and 44s 6d October to December, sellers asking 6d per cwt more ; ready tallow, on the spot, is 40s 6d to 41s ; town tallow, 40s 6d, net cash. The last Petersburg advices bring the price 56i to 57 silver roubles for August, and the exchange 261 to j. The first shipment from thence has already arrived. Sorts are still scarce ; a cargo of Odessa arris ed Lait week, which has all b.n.ta disp.osti of. )ATe May ; 'no expected in a LOW weaks. Prix de Mendon (Handicap). Czar Mercedes Plutus 3 Amount of the prize, 10,500 f., 500 f, to the second. Grand Prix de Paris. A work of Art presented by the Emperor, worth 10,000 f., and 100,000 f., half given by the City of Paris and hall by the five principal railway companies, for homes foaled in 1863 of any country. The second to receive 10,000 f., and the third 5,000 f. Weight, about 901bs. Distance, 3,000 metres. 95 horses en tered. Duke of Beaufort's Ceylon, by Idle Boy—Pearl (Cannon) 1 Mr. Merry's Primate Count Batthyany's Mazeppa 3 Count Lagrange's Auguste Betting-5 to 4 agst Ceylon. Thofraca was a splendid one. Auguste led at first, but was soon distanced at the ascent ; Fernand Cortes, Mlzeppa, and Maravedis were ahead, but it was soon evident that the chance was between Ceylon and Prituate. Ceylon won by a length. Amount of the prize, 182,600 f. I have already described the cup pre sented by the Emperor. 11 ran. Prix du Conseil General, 4,000 f., for entered horses and mares of three years and upwards of any country. The winner to be demanded for 7,300 f. Distance, about 2,800 metres. 12 ran. Sala mbo II 1 Equivoque Chantilly Betting—Even agst Salambo 11., 6 to, 4 agst Chantilly, and sto 1 agst Equivoque. Equivoque beat Chantilly by half a length for second place. The races in the Bois de Boulogne on Saturday were not very well attended. The following i 3 the order of the running : Prix du Mont Valerien, 2,000 f. Virilia Gaulois Prix de la Neva, 5,000 f. Maravedis Fleurette (Count Lagrange) 2 Prix de la Ville de Paris, 6,000 f. Solitaire . Matamore Prix de l'Empereur, 4,000 f Vertugadin Baiounette ... 2 Paris is very full of foreigners just now, and pick pockets appear to be even more abundant than usual. The Paris papers seem to take a malicious pleasure in attributing all the pocket abstractions to English artists. They certainly abound now, and generally speaking do what is called a pod stroke of business. Their favourite haunts are the stations where people wait for places in the omnibus. On Saturday the Police who are on the watch at the Palais Royal in plain clothes arrested three of the fraternity. Two are English and one Italian. A vast number of purses were found upon them, many filled with gold. A pocket-book found on one of the Englishmen contained 7,800 f. in bank notes. The Paris evening papers at the present time compete with each other very actively in the publi cation of supposed facts and surmises respecting war. People rush to the stalls and buy them with great avidity. This accounts for the multiplication of false rumours. Paris politicians will have news of some sort, and the evening papers can hardly avoid giving it to them. The most prominent lie of the day is a supposed treaty between France, Prussia, and Italy. The Moniteur has thought this report worth contradiction. It is stated that the despatches of the three Governments speak of the Venetian question as " the Italian differences." The present railway traffic in France seems to be enormous. It appears from the table of the Western Railway Company, just issued, that in 1865 the number of travellers who went from the Paris station to various towns was no less than 13,645,592, or more than a third of the population of France. Probably a greater number travelled by the Northern Railway. A mechanic of Lyons has applied the principle of the mechanism of the Jacquard loom to musical in struments. His first experiment was with the accordion, and it was quite successful. Pasteboard is used to change the tunes, in the same way, as in the manufacture of stuff to vary the patterns, and thus any one may play in the same manner as with the hand-organs. The Jacquard Accordion will figure at the Exhibition. Two remarkable pictures have just been pur chased on account of the city of Paris from M. Boittelle, Senator, formerly Prefect of Police. One is a view of the Hotel de Ville in 1751, at the time of the fetes given by the municipality in celebration of the marriage of the Duke de Bourgogne, son of Louis XV. The other is a representation of the Palace of the Tuileries in 1753. They are both the production of a French artist, M. Raguanet. Shakspere is rather in the ascendant in Paris. " Richard the Thi rd " has been d one i n t o a three act drama, by M. Victor Sejour, for the Porte St. Martin ; but th ose b est versed i n t h e t rage dy wou ld find it most difficult to recognise as our great bard's delineation of the " crooked-backed tyrant." The French dramatist, however, retains one incident — Richard is killed on the battle-field. Although Richard, however, is not exactly " himself again" ou the French stage, M. Sejour's drama has for the moment caused the withdrawal of the " Biche de Bois," which has been the rage for some 400 nights. The other version of Shakspere is at the 'Theatre Lyrique, in the shape of a comic opera . , words by M. Jules Barbier, music by Nicolai. The " Merry Wives of Windsor," un d er the title of '° Les Joyeuses Conuneres," highly delights the Paris audiences. The laughter was fast and furious, on the first night particularly, to Falstaff. In an in t eres ti ng p a rt of the opera, Falstaff's stuffin g g ave wa y bodily, and would have in consequence of an additional mishap fallen on the s t age but for the hasty retreat of the actor, Ismael, wh o, h owever, even tually Made, the beet of the incident, by an exclamation to the effect 4 that it was - another trick of these WOMell' t R N tc ia Ca