The Sun. — London, England, 1865-02-20 00:00:00

HER. MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Sole Manager and Director, Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING the performance will commence with the new Opera, LARA. Principal chacters by .Mesars. Swift, G. Honey, Forbeq, Terrott, and R enwick; M sses Lou sa Pyne, Cc ttrell, Barrington, and Romer. Conductor, Signor ARDIT I. Alter the Opera will be given the Burlesque, entitled THE LION AND THE UNICORN. Principal characters, Messrs. Rouse, Anderson, Misses E. Button, Cottrell, Furtado. To conclude w.th the GRAND TRA.NSFORMATION SCENE. Doors open at Halt-past Six. Commence at Seven. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. (Opera Company, Limited.) CONTINUED SUCCESS OF CINDERELLA. AND TUE WON DEIt UT. LON ATo. THIS EVENING a new Op. ra, in one act, entitled TIIE RIVER SPRITE. The music by Frank NI orl, the words by tieorge Lin'ey. h ara c u crs by Messrs . G. Perrin, Weiss, A, Cook, Lyall, E. Duss k, and Mdrue Florence Lancia. Condu :dor, Mr. A. MELLO N. Atter which, at a quarter -past 8, the Grand and highly successful fa, tominte, CINDERELLA, in wuich Donato will reappear, Magnificent Scen.:ry and gorgeous accessories. Commewle at Seven. TII EATR E-R OY AL , DRURY-LANE, Managers. Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, Sir F. L. Bulwer Lytton's Play of RICHELIEU : Messrs. l'helps. Waiter Lacey. 11. Marston E. Phelps, Neville, Sinclair ; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Howard, &O. AI ter which, the Grand Christmas Pantomime, HOP O'MY THUMB AND HIS ELEVEN BROTHERS; or, Harlequin and the Ogre of the Seven-League Boots : Messrs. a bel snore, Tom Matthews, G. Weston, Master Percy Roselle, &c. M i sse s Lydia Thompson. R. Lcclercq , &c.; Messrs. Boleno, C. Lsuri, W. A. Barnes, T. Morris, Cormack, Saville • Mdthe. l3oleno, the Misses Gunnies , and Signor Tescano. THEATR E-R YA L, HAYMARKET. Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. • THIS EVENING, A DAY AMR THE WEDDING. Miss Blanche Aylmer. To be tollowe I by DAVID GARRICK. Messrs. Chippendale, Sothern, ituckstone, Rogers, Clark, Coe, Wel therspy, &O. ; Mesdames Moore, Snowdon, Fitzwilliam, &c. After which, LORD DUNDREA.RY MARRIED AND DONE FOR. Messrs. Sothern, Buckstone, Braid, Gordon, Clark, White, Coe, Weathersby, &c. ; Mesdames Snowdon, Hill, &c With PRINCESS SPRLNGTIIIE. Mr. Compton, Miss L Keeley. To commence at 7. NEIV THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.— ~Me ett.Drl44,r 411 a Mani r. ret.t.er. rms EVENING, ICI ON PAP-LE FRANCAIS. Mr. J. L. Tool?, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Billington, Miss K. Kelly, Dirs. Billington, Mrs. R. Lewis. Atter which, th Cemic Drama of MASKS AND FACES ; or, Before and Behind the Curtain. Mr. Benjamin Webster, Messrs. Paul Bedford, Biilington, Ashley. Stuart , C. Smith, Mrs. Stirling, Miss R. Simla?. and Mrs. BiLiugton. To conclude with DARK DOINGS IN THE CIJ:- .BOA.Itll BY Ulm IiNoTrINWE3I BItOrLIERS: Messrs. J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford ; Mrs. A. Mellon. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. P echter. THIS G EVENIN, sinrsoN AND CO. Messrs. S. Emery, C. Ilorsman, Collett; Mesdames C. Horsman, /len rade, E. Boyce, and Elswortay. Atter which, at halt-past 8, a New Drama, entitled TILE ROADSIDE INN. ILbert Mazaite, Mr. k echter. Messrs. Widdicomb, C.' llorsman, I. it zpatrick, Garden, Moretand, Raymond, t;oltett; Mesdames Eis worthy and B. Percy. To conclude with TWO IN TIIE MORNILNG. Messrs 'Mad s)mb and Eme. y. Doors open at nail-past Six. The Box-office open daily from Elev,n till Five. ReYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. 'Vining. EVENING, a new Extravaganz ~ entitled THE MAGIC• HORSE AND THE ICE MAIDEN / RINCES6. Alter which, THE hTItEETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fisher, D. Murray, J. Nelson, H. Forrester. IL Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Moisten, _Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss Rainy Gwynnr. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and alanaft,eress. Mrs. Swanborough. T iIIS EVENING, at 7, THE WILFUL WARD. Mr. Belt old ; Miss Palmer. 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THE LAST EDITION of " THE SUN " supplied as boon as Published containing all the LA LEST £ EWS anl SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, by W. HARRIS, NeA spaper Agent, 4, Blacklriars-road, London, S. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAL—Morning, Bh. 10m.—Afternoon, Bh. 46in To-Moußow.-Morning, 9h. 26m.—Afternoon, 10h. 12m. ' f. 2.1 4°'`Z Alt WiTg f 1 " 44- ° of- 0, LONDON, MONDAY, FEB. 20, 1865. ---- By the arrival of the Cuba we have a synopsis of the proceedings at the Peace Conferences at Fort Monroe. It differs very little from the account given in the earlier news, but all details of such an important matter must necessarily be interesting It seems that the Confederate Commissioners at first pressed for permission to visit Washington, alleging that their own Government had only agreed to their mission in consequence of the as surance received from Mr. BLAIR that they should have a personal interview with LINCOLN himself. This difficulty was got over as we know by the PRESIDENT'S arrival at Fort Monroe, having evi dently been summoned thither by Mr. SEWARD, in consequence of these representations on the part of the Confederate Commissioners. But when the PRESIDENT appeared on the scene matters did not advance much further. The interview was friendly and courteous throughout, President LINCOLN de claring his wish to treat every point of difference but one with the utmost liberality, and the Con federate representatives insisting in their turn upon but one condition. Unhappily the subject of both these exceptions was the same. The Commissioners declared at the outset of the Conference that they had no authority to make, receive, or consider any proposition which did not rest upon the basis of Confederate independence. Not for a moment would they swerve from this rule, the simple ulti matum of DAVIS'S Cabinet, and, indeed, of the whole Southern people. President LINCOLN in his turn made many specious promises and friendly offers, but unhesitatingly assured them that such recognition was impossible. " All the conversation," says the New York Times in a semi-official account, " came back and turned upon this irreconcileable difficulty," and the Conference broke up with the distinct understanding that it was to be as though it had never taken place. The New York 7inies thinks th at t h e inability of the North to acknow ledge independence, and the inability of the South to abandon it, renders all attempts at nego tiation fruitless; but where the inability of the North lies, except in the perversity and grasping ambition of its people , i 3 difficult to see. The Southern St a t es may • eed be unwilling to sur render all for which they have so long suffered and t striven, and submit again the supremacy which they have so long resisted ; but for waste life and treasure on th e attempt to recon struct a hopelessly shattered constitution, is wilful blindness or headstrong perversity. It would be almost ludicrous, were it not so grievously tragi ca l , to find the Tribune declaring that full ran k s and a full treasury would kill the rebellion in 60 days, but the action of the Congress with regard to the p2ace movement is significant, and shows how strong a party is still favourable to hostilities. On thefailure of the negotiations both partiesseemingly resolved on making active demonstrations, and the North apparently determined on a grand concen trated effort to harass and entangle the Southern forces. SHERMAN is pushing forward in two columns--one towards Charleston and On other towards Branchville. GRANT is moving his forces and attempting to surround Richmond, with the object, most probably, of encumbering LEE and preventing him from interfering with SHERMAN'S march to Branchville and Charleston. TERRY'S troops are said to have left the Cape Fear River ' to reinforce SHERMAN, so that even the great attack on Wilmington is held secondary to the success of his expedition. A large force from THOMAS has reinforced GRANT, so that it is determined to make some movement. On the sth inst. there was a slight encounter between the rival forces at Watcher's Run, near Richmond, and a general battle was looked for the next day. We have a sufficient indication of the renewed determination of the South to carry on the war un flinchingly in the appointment of General LEE to the chief command. The Richmond Sentinel, writing on this, urges the people to fresh and vigor ous efforts. "We stand," it says, "on the threshold of a stern campaign," and it charges the Southerners, as they love their country, to lose no time in preparing for it. They have, it declares, a noble army, a wide country and abundant supplies, and can do great things if they will apply themselves to the task manfully and hush all bickerings, leaving only the noble emulation as to which shall best serve his country and support his leaders. It is rumoured that LEE'S policy will be a new and bold one, that he proposes to abandon Charles ton, evacuate Richmond, and withdraw his forces from the coast, leaving the whole of the Confede rate armies free to operate in the open field. He has, it is said, more than once declared that the loss of the Atlantic cities would be an advantage to the Confederacy, since he would then be relieved from the encumbering duty of defending them, and be able to teach the North what war meant. Gen. SHERMAN is said to hold the same opinion as the wisest course now open to the South. It is argued that by the new system of dealing with the North the Confederates would be able to dispense with the supplies of the blockade runners, and that therefore tile loss of the Atlantic cities would be very little felt. But there are some drawbacks to the scheme, which we should think would serve to moderate it. In the first place, to depend entirely on the enemy for ex ternal supplies is to give him the power of cutting them off when he pleases. Secondly, Richmond is lot on the sea coast, and the force necessary to de 'end it, though large, is well employed. The whole nation cannot take to the open field, and it is abso lutely necessary, if the South is to remain a nation, that it should retain some stronghold as head quarters, as the seat of Government, and the centre of authority. It would weaken the European prestige of the Confederacy immeasurably to sur render the capital, and would reduce the struggle more to the level of a mere military rebellion than anything that has yet been done. Charleston, again, is a strong point which it would be a pity to resign, and whose loss would be disheartening to the-people. The Confederates would no doubt gain immensely by concentrating their forces, and so wise a tactician as LEE will be certain, we should Lope to do so. The abandonment of some points for the sake of getting a larger and more vigorous army in the field will very likely be his policy, though the surrender of Richmond and Charleston would, we believe, be a mistake. His first task should be to recall HOOD'S army from the west, where its presence was the great mistake of the campaign. Had HOOD, instead of suffering THOMAS to decoy him into Tennessee, detached his forces, and while allowing a few troops to keep up the appear ance of moving westward, hurried with the main body after SHERmAN, the redoubtable raid through Georgia might have been arrested at the outset. An important question is now under considera tion in the Confederate House of Representatives where a resolution has been introduced to put in the field 100,000 slaves, giving one as property to each white soldier. Englishmen will not enter very cor dially into this condition, but there is no doubt that the arming of the slaves will be the great step to wards the total extinction of slavery. The nume rical strength which this movement will give the Southern armies will be increased by the moral strength gained by the virtual abandonment of their detestable Institution. It is worth notice that neither side is reported to have made slavery a con dition at the Conference—a fact which might en lighten our Emancipation Society. This great duty now lies before the Southern people, and we shall see whether the experience and sufferings of the last four years has taught them to accept it. If not, they will in a great measure forfeit the sym pathy which their gallantry had earned, while sur rendering a powerful weapon against their adver- saries. The Emperor of RUSSIA is one of those who seem to glory in outraging public opinion, and certainly the mistaken manner in which other nations have treated his proceedings have given him every en couragement to go on in his course exulting at his own audacity and want of consideration. He paid no heed whatever to the repeated remonstrances of the different Governments concerning the Polish affairs, and he is now acting precisely the same as if no despatches had been written, or communica tions received from anywhere. As with foreign, so with domestic affairs; he can brook no interference, and he will bear with no advice or admonition. To all intents and purposes he might just as well have been let alone to settle matters according to the dictates of his own fancy, and to carry out his pre conceived and predetermined notions, for his adaman tine resolvesfieem to manifest no change, whatsoever influence is applied to them. The rescript of the EMPEROR to the Minister of the Interior is a very characteristic document, and seems significant of the policy likely to be adopted in the future by the autocrat. The Russian nobles appear to have fallen under the ban of the Imperial displeasure, and to have drawn upon themselves the full force of his vituperative vehemence. He denies their right to touch upon certain subjects, and expresses his opi nion upon the matter without any reserve or reti cence. Apparently he dreads the effect of any oppo_ sition to his plans, and thinks the only safe course to pursue to uphold his policy will be to put down at once and for ever all expressions of opinion a n d movement contrary to his purpose. For a time, at all events, there is no supposereasontowill n that this b thi e s arbitrary mode of procedure a s successful as it has hitherto die her i t n ob at e in e o n, s and that individual and national will long this may last remains not be suppressed partially or t oentirely.be shown, now but meanwhile the effec t nor the consequences less complete.is. not ThelessE3sitrriEkßinog r: takes credit to himself for having done so much for the benefit of his subjects, and actually infers that he has commenced a work of " gradual perfection." " Gradual," indeed, it is likely to be, so far as any one can see, and it would be amusing if it were not so seriou s an affair to note how the se mblance of a thing ca n ape the reality, or how affecting a virtue if you have it not, may realise a fair show and . a good appearance. To read how the EMPEROR des cants upon matters, we might fairly suppose at first sight that he was a great national benefactor in lieu of being a tyrant of the m os t ar bi trary an d absolute kind, and deadly foe to all free dom of opinion and liberty of action. Ills address THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1565. in this instance means very plainly that he will not interfered with, and despite the disguise of ingenious language in which its unpalateable truths are enveloped, the unwelcome truth is only too apparent, and the ungracious meaning is clearly evinced. It is not the right way to propitiate a people to refuse to hear any statement of grievances, whether they are well founded or groundless ; and it is not the way to illustrate the merits of a new system to maintain a dogged silence and an impene trable mystery and haughty reserve. The Emperor evidently looks upon the nobles with a jealous eye, and is determined at all hazards to resist their power and curtail their privileges. This he will find a very dangerous game to play out ; and, indeed, it is to be questioned if he will not find that he is reckon ing without his host in the hazardous venture. There is one peculiarity in the language of the Emperor NICHOLAS which is by no means a favourable one, or likely to win him respect. He becomes almost profane in his perverse endea vours to prove himself in the right, and when he is at a loss for a new argument he falls back upon his Bernier resort of declaring himself under the guidance of Heaven. Thus in the present document we find he mentions that the " right of initiative" belongs to him alone, and " is indissolubly bound up with the autocratic power entrusted to him by GOD." It is very convenient for these tyrants that all things work for their ends, and that all laws, human and divine, concur in sanctioning their cause and furthering their plans. It shows a total want of reverence in those who utter such phrases, and it is to be greatly deplored that the practice prevails in so many quarters. The more unjust the cause, the more vehement are the appeals to Eternal Justice—the greater the scandal to the nations of the earth, the stronger the claim that is asserted upon the favour and protection of HEAVEN. The two extremes of tyranny and democracy seem to unite in pursuing this course, and the Emperor of RUSSIA, for his part, only adopts the tactics of Federal Generals and Washington statesmen. After declaiming upon his sacred rights and im mutable privileges, the CZAR goes on to determine the duties of others. He gives a very wide scope to himself as to what he may do, but he confines the powers of others into very narrow limits indeed. Thus we hear that " Nobody is privileged to inter cede with me in favour of the general interests and necessities of the State." It is very likely, indeed, that there is considerable truth in the intimation that in no case whatever will they be able to attain their objects. None, after perusing this Rescript, can believe that the representations of any class will weigh at all in the balance of Imperial policy, or that any influence will be exercised upon the Government by the wishes of the community. A very broad hint is conveyed towards the con clusion of this document, doubtless calculated to im press upon those referred to the utter uselessness of their present efforts, and also the impolicy and in convenience of their ever again renewing the ven ture or looking out for a more favourable oppor tunity. The EMPEROR entertains the firm convic- tion that he will not henceforth " encounter similar obstacles upon the part of the Russian nobility." Surely the Russian nobility cannot be so obtuse as not to see the meaning of this paragraph so ingeni ously introduced into the intimation, and they have good cause to regret and resent the manner in which they have been treated. There is no consistency in the course of the EMPEROR ; he professes to have the welfare of his subjects at heart, andto be hard at work in the great project of emancipation, and at the same time he denies in toto the right of any class to express its opinions upon the effects produced by a change, or to advocate its claims to consideration on account of any grievance. This is not the manner in which constitutional principles are carried out in any other part of the world, and the Emperor ALEXANDER will find that he fails egregiously in his one-sided plans of freedom. It remains to be seen if the haughty nobility of Russia will submit tamely to this virtual denial of their prerogatives and sup pression of their power ; but whether openly or covertly, a decided and determined opposition is sure to be made to the future furtherance of the EMPEROR'S schemes, and the sentiment of unity, so necessary to the success of any great national work is certain to be wanting, while one class is divided against another and the ruler only seeks his own selfish ends. The ,‘ Turkish Bath;" Its Advantages and Dangers• FINE ARTS. General Exhibition of Water Colour Drawings. DUDLEY GALLERY, EGYPTIAN HALL: PICCADILLY. A most successful inauguration has here been achieved of an enterprise long felt to be desirable. Until now the Water Colourists of this country have had no adequate opportunity of ensuring the exhibition of their powers, unless by, first of all, becoming members of one or the other of the two eminent associations, devoted to the culti vation of this branch of the art, in Pall-mall. The Old Society and the New Society—the one in Pall-mall East, the other in Pall-mall West—have, in this way, shared between them, heretofore, almost the whole of the exhibiting powers of the metropolitan galleries, as applied to Water Colour Drawings. For, the walls of a single room at the Royal Academy, and that room one of the smaller ones, and even the sur face, there, such as it was, monopolised by minia tures—might almost be set down as nil, or, at any rate, as " next to nothing," in the way of affording intendingwater-colour-drawing-exhibitors the smal lest chance of accommodation. Between the two societies, Old and New, therefore, no more than about a hundred artists (or say a hundred and thirty at the very outside) could hope to obtain an opportunity of competing for public favour by an exhibition of their capabilities. Remembering this, and remem bering also that that restricted group of merely, one hundred, or one hundred and thirty water-colour painters, does but very inadequately indeed represent the actual number of the cultivators of that beauti ful branch of the graphic art—it must be manifest upon the instant that precisely the very enterprise now formally inaugurated at the Dudley Gallery of the Egyptian-hall, in Piccadilly, was really and truly a " case in point," for once, of what is called in the commercial slang of puff prospectuses, a desi deratum. On the walls and screens of the gallery just mentioned there are, in fact, now hanging as many as five hundred and nineteen proofs positive (more or less convincing, according to their merit) —519 proofs positive of the fact here in sisted upon. The present year, remember, is the First Year of this (as it is now intended to be) annual General Exhibition. The notion was only called into working operation within the last twelve months. And, here, is the inaugural result ! A Result so satisfactory of its kind, as to be already a complete justification of the scheme now happily set agoing (with the fairest possible prospect of suc cess) by its projectors. Five Hundred Water Colour Drawings of genuine and unmistakable excellence now adorning the walls and screens of the Dudley Gallery, constitute this effectual justification. But, while saying this, it may be notified by us at the same time, that more than thrice five hundred water colour drawings were actually sent in for exhibition, and that only one-third of the number could by possibility be selected, (as far as possible according to their merit of course), by reason of the restricted space afforded by the Gallery for Exhibition. The General Exhibition is announced by its managers to be —not in any way that of a new Society. The managers even go beyond that where they assert, rather oddly, as it appears to us, at starting, that it is not intended in any way to rival existing Exhibitions. At any rate, whether so designed or not, it certainly does rival them, even at start ing. Such at least is the distinct impression pro duced upon us as the result of our saunter two or three times round the crowded apartment on Satur day afternoon—that being the occasion of the Pri vate View ! To-day (Monday) being the occasion, consequently, of the first throwing open of the doors of this " General Exhibition of Water Colour Draw ings" to the Public at large. Upon the whole, we repeat the Exhibition is really remarkable for its excellence. As a First Exhibition, in fact, it is most remarkable. It is so much of a success that it appears to us to be only fair (upon the principle, so far as the management is concerned, of palmam qui meruit, &c.), that we should particu larise by name— THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE. C. R. Aston. 11. J. Johnson. R. Beavis, George H. Brabazon. W. S. Coleman. T. Cooper. Frank Dillon. Thos. R. Mcquoid. H. Moore. J. Needham. H. Pilleau. Charles Earle. W. W. Fenn. G. F. Glennie. H. C. Herries. G. L. Hall. Edmund Hawkins. E. Hamilton, M.D. E. J. Poynter. W. Severn. Simeon Solomon. Tom Taylor. Field Talfourd. S., Vincent. Frank Walton. Several among these, by the way, as, for example, Messrs. Aston, Coleman, Dillon, Earle, Johnson, McQuoid, Poynter, and Walton, hold high rank among the number of the actual exhibitors. Be yond the central group of the committee, however, —it being, here, as with the enlarging ring upon ring, caused by the dropping of a stone into deep water—there spreads forth circle beyond circle of other accomplished cultivators, both male and female, of the exquisite art of Water Colour Drawing. An art, so far as atmospheric effects are concerned far, far beyond that of oil painting ! An art giving, in fact, to the painter who uses the materiel of it with anything at all like genius, a subtler power for the portraiture of Nature in landscapes and sea views, than any otherwise accessible to the grasp of the artist ! _Hence, in effect, the very themes selected —as, for example, in this very exhibition—for por traiture by our water-colourists ! Here, Wind and Rain (100), here, Shade and Sunshine (124)—now a Sunny Afternoon (126), now a Cloudy Day (209) —yonder a Fresh Breeze (154), yonder, again, a Sandy Lane in the Spring- time (296)—one while a Misty Morning (279), another an Autumnal Afternoon (303). Almost immediately on crossing the threshold of the Gal lery—the eye notes, with a sense of gratification, three or four charming little street-scenes at Caen, in which the architecture of Normandy has been most truthfully and, therefore, most picturesquely delineated by the pencil of T. R. Macquoid. One of them, a sketch that would have gladdened the heart of Sterne (13) La Remise ! Distributed more widely through the Gallery, and not grouped thus in a cluster, are several noteworthy drawings by Arthur Severn. A wonderfully impressive, imperial, pontifical view of " Rome" (23)1 , and a noble, even in some sense a singularly daring representation, upon a large scale, in (65), of—what ? Sea and Sky, or rather Sea and Cloudland entitled, "Waves by Moonlight !" A giant breaker, swelling, heaving, rolling, booming—shorewards ! A pic ture, pausing before which, we recall to mind almost involuntarily that thunderous echo from the verse of Chatterton descriptive of Winter, when— " Rising whirlwinds, blasting shrill and loud, Roll the white surges to the sounding shore 1" Twilight has seldom been pourtrayed more felici tously than in Jose Tapero's " Ite Domum—vemt Hesperus" (32). Even among the minor contribu tions, such as thos e o f f ru it an d dead game, there is much discernible th a t i s hi g hly meritorious --as in the colouring of John Sh err i n ' s L 6 Woad Pigeon" ( 129 ) , or in Miss H. Col eman ' s " Hazel Nut" (148), with the crinkling leave s j us t b eg i n ning to be autumnally tinted ! Passing a l ong th e gallery, on a first visit, one has, here and there, many a casually noted inducement to pa use even b e fore seeming trifles— the pretty animation of " Girl and Butter fly " (210), the voluptuous Greek profile of the " Autinoiis Dionysiacus" (239), or let us say, again, before a little diamond gem of a picture (as of a landscape seen through the small end of a telescope), such as " Autumn's Golden Leaf " (269), by R. Redgrave, the Royal Academician. That old fami liar friend of the million, Phiz, by the way, is noticeable, here, among the number of the Exhibitors —under his proper name, however—as Hablot K. Browne : his most spirited contribution to the gal lery being, beyond a doubt of it, the helter skelter Harry-Lorrequer, Jack-Hinton, Charles-O'Malley sort of a steeplechase leap of a Pooka, at once over the head of a Paddy and the edge of a precipice ! One word—before closing our notice of this brilliant and varied Exhibition of the outsiders among our many-gifted Water-Colourists—one slight passing word we would here offer by way of suggesting that there may be a trifle more care taken ior the TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stn, —It seems probable, though not desirable, that in discriminative eulogy of the " TURKISH BATH" may lead to bad results. Few violent sanitary agents of this kind require so much caution in their use, as the bath so called Turkish. It may answer for the latitude of the Mediterranean or the Levant, but surely it requires serious attention, in such a London winter as we are now passing through, of fog and frost, whether it has all the virtues ascribed to it. Let us remember that the Turkish bath is admitted to bo of very doubtful advantage, if not directly mischie vous, in all nervous and cerebral diseases. It is equally dangerous and equally useless in the cure of the class of cases against which good Mr. Banting has, or has not, in vain taken up his parable of late, and worked a not small revolution. On the other hand, there are certain diseases allied, so to speak, to dropsies, depending on renal disorders, or blood poisoning, where the benefit arising from the Turkish bath is beyond controversy. It is probable that divers troublesome forms of dropsy, and even diabetes, have been very much relieved, if not cured, by the Turkish bath. As to its use in skin diseases, &c., the subject is not a very inviting one; but the effect there is also good, as in all cases where the good old water "packing" has proved of service. But the reader will say—What is the general average result, not in disease, but in rude health ? Good well meaning reader ! Does he know that six out of ten of the men he believes to be in rude health would not be insured in any decent insurance office ? If they have been great University men at boating matches, their weak point is soon found ; they have dilated heart, and will bo sure to grow faint (though in " average" health) in the Turkish bath. Again, if theyhave been great smokers of tobacco, though in so-called rude health, their nervous system is as un strung as a shipped mahogany piano after its arrival in its box of deal in Australia from London. No doubt it is easy to screw such men up to concert-pitch, but that is exactly the thing they neglect. They expect the bath to do it all, which it cannot do. "Average" health, indeed, of our young men now-a-daysabout or after the age of 86! What with gout or rheumatism, boat races, 15 or 20 cigars a-day, gin and bitters, consumption, and other evils from the use of nervous and other quack remedies ! Average health, indeed, of men who never seek good medical ad vice, but trust to any advertising charlatan or prescribing chemist to poison and ruin their constitution, who have been from childhood drugged with physic, who live in ill ventilated rooms, or are employed at some unhealthy work where gas, and late hours, and indigestion, absinthe and bitters, mercury and tobacco, undermine what little strength they may have had. Average health, indeed, is often no health at all, when it comes to be inquired into ! In a word, in some constitutions, the Turkish bath acts in average health in the not ambiguous, but very similar manner a coup de Boleil would act in Bengal. The condi tions are nearly the same. Our hottest summer day in London is a joke to the baker's oven wasting of the bath, notwithstanding its kaleidoscope windows, celestial sham pooing, snow-white heavenly soap-lathering, delectable p l un ge into cold :water, eze.—the thermometer, anywhere you wish, a bove or at the temperature f o r bakin g muffins. In constitutions with gout lurking in them, the Turkish bath may kill or cure, according as the patient is n or fit ofecause fit for the bath or not. Many deaths have occurred . vi o ent good health might avoid diseasesoundadvice th e a indiscriminatingnadthst corpor vi 1 a o l)ut ofna o the on e family ought and unnatural orotherphysic e iaxnp.e—riment, in I am, &c., sackville-street, Feb. 17. CHARLES KIDD, M.D. future in the revision of the printed catalogue, so as to ensure the avoidance of blunders such as that noticeable on page 15, under No. 139, where Miss Lizzie Wormald's contribution is defined as from Kent's Isabel, or the Pot of Basil. LATEST INTELLIGENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) OUTWARD AMERICAN MAIL QUEENSTOWN, FEB. 20 The Royal Mail steamer Canada, arrived here at 12.30 a.m. to-day, embarked the mails, passengers, and the latest telegrams, and proceeded imme diately for Halifax and Boston, all well. She ex perienced very heavy weather from Liverpool. FRANCE. BOURSE, Feb. 18.—The money market is in a very unsettled state. For the Account, Threes are now at 67f. 40c. Mobilier have been done at 970 f. Railway Shares are firm, and recent quotations are well supported. The market closed as follows : 41 per Cents 96 50 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 67 50 Do. end month 67 50 Credit Mobilier Do. end month Bank Shares 3530 Cndit Fonder 1280 Roman 74 Italian Loan 65 25 Do. end month ' 65 20 Ditto Threes — New Mexican Russian B9 50 Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred ' 39 25 RAIL' WAYS. Cash. Acct. Orleans Northern lOlO 1015 Lyons and Mediterranean 948 75 ... 948 75 Southern 5BO ... 580 Western 540 L-- Eastern! 520 Sardinian 307 50 ... Austrian Lombard 548 75 ... 550 North of Spain - 342 50 ... 342 50 Saragossa 403 75 401 25 Ditto to Barcelona ... 518 75 Naval and Military Intelligence. The crew of her Majesty's late ship Bombay were paid wages on Saturday on board the Duke of Wellington, three-decked seamen's training-ship, in Portsmouth harbour, Capt. J. Seccombe, and were afterwards granted leave, passes being provided for them at the expense of the Admiralty by rail or steamboat to and from their respective homes. On Saturday morning, previous to the payment com mencing on board the Duke of Wellington, the following Admiralty letter was read to the Bombay's officers and crew by Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, G.C.8., the Port Admiral and Naval Commander in-Chief at Portsmouth : " Admiralty, Feb. 17, 1865. " Sir,—My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, not having yet received the minutes of the court-martial on the officers and men of her Majesty's late ship Bombay, are not in possession of those details to which their attention has been directed by the sentence of the Court, but their Lord ships cannot allow the ship's company to be broken up without expressing their admiration of the noble conduct of both officers and men under the trying circumstances in which they wero placed. " The judgment and foresight of Captain Campbell and Commander Wilson were admirably seconded by the officers under them, and the manner in which their orders were carried out affords the most conclusive proof of the high state of discipline to which the ship had been brought, and of the confidence which the conduct of their officers had inspired in the men under their command. "My Lords are satisfledthat if human efforts could have saved the Bombay from destruction they would not now have had to lament the loss of a ship, which, under any cir cumstances in which she might have been placed, would have reflected the highest credit on the British navy. "My lords desire that you will read this letter to the ship's company, and announce that Commander Wilson has been promoted to the rank of captain. " I am, &c., "C. PAGET." "To Admiral Sir M. Seymour, G.C.8., Sze., Portsmouth." The Imperial Ottoman squadron, consisting of the screw line-of-battle ship Kossova, 80 guns and 100 horse-power of engines, and the screw frigates Er togroul and Khudevendigar, of 50 guns and 700 horse-power of engines each, under the command of Admiral Edhem Pasha, sailed from Spithead at 10 a.m. on Saturday for the Dardanelles, calling en route at Cherbourg and Gibraltar. During the stay of the Ottoman ships at Portsmouth Admiral Edhem Pasha and his officers renewed their acquaintance with many officers of her Majesty's naval and mili tary services whose friendship they had previously made at Constantinople or in the Black Sea dur ing the period of the war between the allies and Russia. On Friday last M. Musurus, the Turkish Ambassador, arrived at Portsmouth from London, and embarking in the steam tender Pigmy, Master- Commander Vine, paid a visit to the Ottoman fleet then lying at Spithead. On leaving his Excellency was saluted with 17 guns. The Research, 4, iron-cased sloop, 1,253 tons and 200 horse-power, Capt. Arthur Wihnshurst, arrived at Spithead on Saturday from guard duty off Os borne, on the departure of her Majesty from her marine palace for Windsor. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Lieut. W. G. Douglas, to the Royal George ; Lieut. R. E. Buller, to the Irresis tible ; C. H. Herring, midshipman, to the Sutlej ; R. J. Hay, chief engineer, to the Indus, for the Narcissus ; W. Beck, engineer, to the Prince Con sort ; W. H. Grove, engineer, to the Cambridge, for the Redwing ; and James Elwess, assist-engineer, to the Indus, for the Narcissus. TIIE LATE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND.—The Royal National Lifeboat Institution, feeling deeply the loss which the lifeboat cause has sustained by the lamented demise of its late valued president, Admiral the Duko of Northumberland, K.G., who for the past fourteen years actively co-operated with its committee of manage ment to carry out the philanthropic objects of the institu tion, and desiring to show a mark of respect to the late duke's memory, has instructed all its branches throughout the British isles to hoist the flag of the lifeboat half mast high from daylight to sunset on Saturday next, the 25th inst., when his grace is to be buried in Westminster Abbey. THE "LEAF WEARERS" OF INDIA.—At the meet ing of the Anthropological Society on Tuesday even ing, a communication was read from Dr. Shortt Zillah, sur geon, at Chingleput, giving an account of certain wild tribes of India, the most remarkable were a tribe inhabit ing some parts of Orissa, called "Leaf Wearers." Their chief physical peculiarity consists in the conformation of the lower jaw, which, like that of the bulldogunderhangs. Dr. Shortt stated that he had not observed or read of a similar malformation in any other race. The men are con siderably under the size of Europeans—the tallest of 20 that he measured not being more than sft. 3iin., and one was 4ft. Blin. In other respects they are well formed, and they wear clothing to a certain extent ; but the woman wear no clothes—a few leafy twigs collected from the jungles being employed instead. The leaves are tied in conical bundles, and are placed one before and one behind, and are fastened by a string of clay beads, which goes round the waist several times. This tribe is looked upon as`the outcast race of the province, they inhabit the most distant and wild parts, and cultivate the soil on the declivity of the hills. They have the Mongolian type of countenance, a well-formed globular head, with an expanded forehead, and rather high cheek bones. The bodies of the dead are uni versally subjected to cremation, no ceremonies being per formed beyond that of bathing and fasting, and the ashes are thrown into some stream. They have alanguage of their own which seems to belong to the Ooryah dialect, and most of them can talk Ooryah ; they have no priests, their children flav untaught, and they have no written language. Traditional stories and songs are handed down from generation to gene ration. They have only one cooked meal, which consists of boiled rice seasoned with herbs, and is eaten at night. In the morning the men, w omen , an d c hil dren start for the jungles in search of wild fruits, roots, &c. which they use for food. Several varieties of the wild yam are abundant in those parts, and are eaten roasted. They sometimes cultivate a few of the common vegetables, as also tobacco, of which they are particularly fond. It is powdered and placed be tween the lower lip and incisor teeth, when, from the pres sure and irritation caused perhaps by the tobacco, the gums appear to get absorbed and the lower incisors fall out at a very early age. One of the stories current amongst them is that Juggernauth, or the supreme ruler of the universe, formed a male and female at the creation of the world, and placed them on one of these hills ; in course of time the woman disobeyed her husband's command, for which the goddess Parvuttee cursed the women and enjoined her to wear leaves all her life instead of clothes. The religion of this tribe can scarcely be said to belong to any system ; they entertain some indistinct ideas which they carry out in trifling superstitious ceremonies; they have no idols, nor have they any particular mode or place of worship ; they have some rude notions of a Supreme Being, who is said to be present everywhere; they are fond of animals and rear cattle, goats, pigs, and dogs, and the villages abound with poultry,which are a very small kind ; they make use of animal food of all sorts, not excepting even the cow. They are evidently of a peace ful character ; the only weapons about them being the bow and 417017, and a tanghee, au axe for cutting wood, The Lying in State and Funeral of Cardinal Wiseman. The arrangements for the funeral of the late Cardinal Wiseman, on Thursday next, have now been nearly completed by the chapter of the diocese, and there is no doubt that the metropolis will wit ness a greater display of the Roman Catholic force in this country than has been seen on any occasion for many years back. Although, as announced by us on Saturday, the lying in state commenced on the preceding day, Saturday was the first day on which full effect was given to the imposing scene. Tickets were issued by most of the Catholic clergy in London to mem bers of their congregations, and the arrangements were that access to the late cardinal's residence in York-place, Baker-street, should be obtained be tween two and four; but whether too many tickets had been issued, or whether a greater number at tended than was anticipated, there was much con fusion at first in consequence of the difficulty of obtaining entrance and egress by the hall door, and the services of a body of police were had recourse to in order to lessen the pressure and restore something like order, which was only effected by requiring those seeking to leave the house to pass up the area steps, after having visited the apartment in which the cardinal lay. This was the drawing-room of the house, to which visitors as they entered were directed by the priests. The room, which had been darkened and hung with black, was lighted by a considerable number of large altar candles and others placed around in such posi tions as to afford a sufficient light to enable the spectators to have a proper view of the body of the deceased cardinal. At the entrance to the apartment was a vestibule, in which was a large carved repre sentation of the Saviour on the Cross. hi the centre of the apartment, resting on a bier, was the coffin containing the remains of the deceased prelate, attired in the full and splendid vestments of his order as an Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church, even to his gold-embroidered shoes, chain, and all the insignia of his ecclesiastical office, with the hands crossed on the breast, grasping a crucifix, whilst on his fingers outside his gloves, the backs of which were embroidered in gold, with the glory and " 1.H.5.," were the large jewelled rings, which are worn by all who attain to the dignity of car dinals of the Roman Catholic Church. The deceased cardinal had on his head the small scarlet cap which the Pope and cardinals usually wear (except on state occasions). At the head of the coffin, however, which was lined with white and yellow satin, was an exceedingly large and richly embossed mitre in figured white satin, whilst at the foot was an elaborately ornamented cross, crozier, and other emblems of ecclesiastical dignity. On one side of the apartment, in its darkest recess, there had been erected an altar, at which there were constantly kneeling and praying a number of nuns, who ap peared occasionally to relieve each other, and who in their turn visited and touched the cheek and kissed the hand or crucifix in the hand of the de ceased cardinal. The Roman Catholics could be easily distinguished. On passing round the bier containing the corpse of the cardinal, nearly every one either touched with their hand, their cross, or their rosary the face of the cardinal, and also attempted to kiss the hand. With regard to the appearance of the cardinal in death, those who had known him in life could scarcely believe they were looking upon the remains of a man of so much bulk, and generally speaking of so robust appearance, as he had up to his last illness exhibited. Even the body itself seemed to be much reduced, whilst the full features of the face had apparently dwindled away, exhibiting a large amount of prostration, and of long and extreme suffering. On the right side of the head and temple was a large plaister, some two or three inches in diameter, and a smaller one pass ing right along the right eyelid. The circumstances which had led to the necessity of these disfigure ments during his illness had evidently the effect of rendering the countenance less pleasing than it pos sibly otherwise would have been, and are stated to have arisen from the following causes :—The late cardinal has been suffering for about 12 years from diabetes. In 1860, whilst in Rome, he suffered severely from carbuncle. His last illness was erysi pelas of the head and face, which came on about three weeks ago. It was followed by a carbuncle on the scalp ten days back. Ile gradually sank, exhausted by this accumulation of maladies. It is intended_that the remains of, the cardinal shall lie in state until to-morrow, on the evening of which day the body will be removed to Moorfields Chapel, which has been entirely hung with black, and will be open for admission by tickets during Wednesday. On Thursday morning the solemn dirge will be chanted by the priests of the diocese, and a sermon will be preached by Dr. Manning, who, it is believed, will be the successor of the late cardinal in the Roman Catholic see of Westminster, if he does not obtain the vacant cardinalatc. The funeral, the arrangements of which have been entrusted to Mr. James Taylor, of Lower Seymour street, Portman-square, in conjunction with Messrs. Garstin and Co., of Welbeck-street, who supply the furnishing and fittings, will be of an exceedingly imposing character. Upwards of 30 mourning coaches, which will contain the dignitaries and priests of the various chapels in the metropolis, have been already ordered, and it is believed that many more will be required, irrespective of the carriages of the Roman Catholic nobility, ambassadors, foreign Ministers, and private friends of the deceased which are expected to follow. The list of names sent in to attend the funeral comprises nearly all the Catholic clergy of the metropolis. It is expected that the religious ceremonies at Moorfields will be concluded about 1 o'clock, and that the funeral cor tege will leave the pro-cathedral between one and two, passing along the City, Pentonville, Euston, Marylebone, and the Edgware and Harrow roads, to St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery at Kensal green, where it will arrive shortly before 4 p.m. On arrival at the cemetery the bishops and clergy (who will be vested in their appropriate ecclesiasti cal habits) will descend from their carriages and accompany the corpse to the grave. The coffin of the late cardinal, which is of crim son velvet, will bear on its lid a massive and elabo rately -engraved brass plate. The coat of arms, with the cardinal's hat and pendants, will surmount the following inscription : Emus. et Emus. Dominus. Tit. St. Nicholaus Pudentianae, S.R.C., Presb. Card. Wiseman, Primus Archiepiscopus Westmonasteriensis, Natus die 2, Augusti, 1802, Consecratus die 8 Junii, 1840, Obit die 15 Februarii, 1865. Orate pro eo. Which being translated into English reads thus:— The Most Eminent and Most Rev. Lord Nicholas Titular St. Pudentianae, S.R.C., Priest-Cardinal Wiseman, First Archbishop of Westminster, born on 2d August, 1802, consecrated Bth June, 1840, died 15th February, 1865. Pray for him. It is rumoured that a great many applications have been made by the humbler classes of the Roman Catholic community, and on behalf of some of the schools, to join the procession walking. The chapter (on whom has devolved the adminis tration of the diocese) will proceed at once to elect a vicar-capitular to conduct that administration till the new archbishop is appointed. The mode of appointment is as follows :—The chapter select three names of candidates which are forwarded to Rome after previous approval by the body of English Roman Catholic bishops. From these the successor is usually, though not necessarily, appointed, the Pope possessing absolute power in the nomination. The " WEEKLY REGasTER" of Saturday remarks, as follows, in regard to the Cardinal's last moments and his coming obsequies :—For several days no hope of his Eminence's recovery had been enter tained by his medical attendants, and the announce ment of his decease was hourly expected. On last Sunday morning, the 11th instant, the Right Rev. Monsig,nore Manning arrived in London from Rome, whence he had travelled with the greatest possible speed. On proceeding to York-place Mon signore Manning conveyed to the Cardinal the solemn blessing of his holiness the Pope. Monsig- nore Manning, and other dignitaries of the dioces e remained almost uninterruptedly with his Eminence till the last moment. Throughout Mond a y n't" Tuesday the reply to all enquiries was, tha t the Cardinal was sinking fast, and the formal bulletins • were no longer issued by the medical attendants. During Tuesday night it was evident that death Was rapidly approaching, and at 8 o'clock next morning his Eminence was released from his sufferings. ' The immediate causes of the Cardinal's death (as already intimated) were an attack of erisypelas in the fac e, followed by carbuncles, and the exhaustion of tha system which proved unable to rally, in spit e of a l the aid that the utmost skill and care of his ined ica ,, attendants could afford. We are informed by ell' who had the privilege of witnessing the closing days of the Cardinal's life, that from the time wh en he was informed that his recovery could net, ,71 expected, he entirely laid aside every matter wnici had any reference to the affairs of this wo rld, al r i no longer received any visits, except in con nectil d with spiritual things. He entered into und istllrhe l" commune with God," and allowed nothi earthly to interrupt the sacredness of me ditatie u r on eternity. In short (to use the words o f ° ja esteemed informant), "if ever any ma Afte r a saintly death it was Cardinal Wiseman. go the Cardinal's dissolution on Wednesday, notice Kegs sent to all the clergy of London that there wellee be Mass for the repose of the soul of his Emiliee. the next morning at St. James's, Spanis h- P i ns Accordingly on Thursday, at 11, High Mass r'or, ceelebrated at that church. The Very Rev. 1 ,,, 1111 ;te , Morris was High Priest, the Rev. Alfred "" Deacon, and the Rev. E. Tunstall, Subdeacee ' There were present all the dignitaries of th e dl the and a very large number of the general bo d y 0 I/ clergy. In fact, a list of the names would be Ware, a list of the clergy, regular and secular, of th e j a tropolis and suburbs. The music was the r op chant. The remains of the Cardinal Arehhish, will lie in state at York-place until Tuesday (to morrow), all who produce cards from any rbere the clergy being admttted to the house. c ues will be Solemn Requiem Masses at all the ch ar in London during the next few days. Th e igl oo of his Eminence will take place on Thursday bet e remains will be removed to the pro-cathedral, W the there will be a solemn service and a sermon day of the funeral. The Cardinal will be in ter ;:4l at St. Mary's Cemetery, Mensal-green. There:se's be more than 20 mourning coaches, and of cc . l des very large number of private vehicles, hesl that considerable attendance of persons on foot, so+ jilt' the funeral cortege will no doubt be the mos" pressive seen in London for a long period. THE LONDON REVlEW"—among other thine Cele says of his Eminence :—The distinguishe d e „ tt s siastic who has just passed away from ani ( T7 i ted will be long remembered as a man of viable tastes and accomplished mind— amiable an d se% blie in his temper, and naturally shrinking fr om P o d OA controversy and agitation—and yet who ca lls c u t 10 outburst of national indignation and resentrae days the England which has had no parallel since - ~c of the Popish plot. He was an entlausia s ' l ia tive mirer of art, and his cheerful smile and aPl iree dea criticisms at the private view of the Royal Ac a oev i e w will long be remembered. The D a hlia er e is a claims him for a rigid Ultramontane, but therliberal wide chasm of spirit and thought between t il l ! tw eea and philosophic writer of the " Connection % c ora of Science and Revealed Religion" and th e au v t o tiff' the late Encyclical Letter of the Sovereign revs Still, his devotion to the see and chair of t' red, A was unshaken. The chamber of death pres &- few days ago, a most solemn scene wh en the Ci_artorai ' nal arrayed in his robes and grasping the 5301 c staff, made anew his profession of fa ith, an back virtually to die. the o'l' THE " QUEEN" remarks as follows upon of the Cardinal :—Another p r ince has pas sed , 0 0 11 Nicholas Wiseman, a Prince Cardina l of the -t 1 offe r Catholic hierarchy. It is not our province n t : fa rp any estimate of this gentleman's tions as a minister of religion, but we are conNw ice that all just persons will position a 4 61 agree with us wh e t n f iro declare that a Christian gentleman and a most Nor i 4 and cultivated scholar has been lost to the "W ° . Cardinal Wiseman died after a lingering illl iieu tly the 63d year of his age. Although fre i ln r ied accounted an English Cardinal, he was of 111 2 / 111e• Irish and Spanish origin, and was born in 'col- He was educated, however, at St. Cuthb ert la ir la ir lege, in the county of Durham, and spoke ou r 0 0 cd nguataigvee lgvriathce.natHivee wasflu linguist as well as a very profound scholar. lu when the Pope determined nntwas elected eney indeed an hierarchy to England, Nicholas -11115°11— • strama ter a d more mos t a thane co ; r ssi an Cardinal and Archbishop of T' e us id e rable caus e of c° ff r ded appointment which was the A which a ° public excitement at the time, an' ' 11 has Lord Eus se ,• t ig one of those opportunities which Lor d des e " - ii so seldom neglected for incurring a n ay dill to restore he Rona public ridicule. However much opini° ll rct c a rclio il P as to his religious functions and opi nions ' c o of a P A Wiseman was respected by cultivated pets su ffior e faiths. His literary efforts would alone havrlle of to make him famous. He was one of pv ieze i f contributors to, and joint editor of the Dubln :4 , ha ° and, as a prolific and forcible controversial' t 0 13 eh /311 • el perhaps no equal in the Protestant Chur the $1• 1 Bishop of Exeter. Cardinal Wisema n was Oe° who hold the dignity of Cardinal in Eng la ie. the Reformation, his predecessors being ro Howard, York, Weld, and Acton. W h° til e his successor remains to be seen. i 0 THE " ATHEN/EUM" thus offers its tribil WY O a DO memory of his Eminence. The great Car life now lies dead in York-place—though his pOSVelisl.' been cut short in his prime of intellectlt can hardly be said to have died too for l ca r ' fame. The last public action of the ChUrdeoppo he was bound to support, and which he di s to with an extraordinary power, was suc h a l oe t ' ll o f barrass profoundly a man of liberal ci b li a t sitle ss ; f practical genius, who had made it the , his life to show that Rome is the best g li- • •• o ° ' A iO ll % arts, learning, science, progress, an- How his fertile intellect would have fo r t i ts to 7; new aspect of things, it is impossible O r •e ft eat • we may assume his obedience to lila chl 00(1 u o cl Vatican ; but we cannot guess how t c - ie oce e ven author of " The Connexion between tO u ea Revealed Religion" would have harmoniz;ol/Pee of obedience with the principles of his r po ro v works. The Cardinal was in personal lbotigli 11 1 31 and character, a thorough Englishma n. 'alY ) 'a was born in Spain, and was educate d • ( for a: , t y Italy, there was little about him thatwa: a bo ut look, in taste, and in genius. Not hil" s cet ie. ,ol l ' man indicated the priest, much less the - c a "a round and jovial face, a large bluff ng lir , e 's, ° 11 ;:i stantial paunch, a pair of twinkling c •', e lir , merry laugh, suggested ideas of Frla`,„d 9 3 : , 3 ° as red hat. He was, in truth, so far a tYP i i- c ' t ed Mil e man that a caricaturist might have s ele i,ge o , ol eo, the model for a portrait of John Bull' 30 inn recd' English-ness of look and manner was of el, advantage to him in fighting the battles 0 ,0 s us' t w A man of dark, meridional asPe c Asa° rid, tli - created among the English people 3 p s a' el/ picions and oppositions, which the Cared. d ° ld rer ao the g oo o t cheek and laughing eyes at once one felt that it was ridiculous to (Ve to f a ce t)f oP i the protests against Italian priests in lti 'eV bluff and humorous Essex gentlews there was much English fight, bu t 1:1(3st a Italian guile. POET CLOSE !---- it tli ef ......." 1 ,; o '- 1 0 On Tuesday hard at Kirkby or own books, with details of his lnv,. pet ~:, but all seemed taken in good yenhaivaotebve,enac-ucsoirtg: eirtoep i I A.O night the audience was larg° ; /13.• pi e/ t f W S 00 room was crowded. Mr. Close read several o' 45 c o, and f re , e , ntly asked, amid roars of loglltkoca dye doggerer 2 He praised some people and t c At i f oce• pace, shall not attempt, however, to reproduce a ny c). , tiOcitija for the y nearly all relate to individual gentle°,ol,o'ag/e iiie togethe rmention in the funniest way imaginable, alld , ' t u ot - oo t of them might be pardonable in the no° the r it Poet Laureate to the King of Bonny (by the sirVir' 0 fet , ,, %0 t Close was pelted with exhibited his credential from King pepple), a D IP „ t would part by the aliTetb be fearfully presumptuous from the pen ()%1 to 111 journalist. ur On Wednesday evening, we aro s°i ec ts sf i t s badlyit, for ivated. It was no credit to those who /of eats the readings were a fair and honest 011 money. . peas, and in other reordu esto