The Sun. — London, England, 1865-05-03 00:00:00

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PERCY M. DOVE, Manager. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. May 1,1865. THEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY-LANE, Managers. Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. TUTS EVENINLi the performa ncet o r, The Old and ommence with a new Play, entitled LOVE'S ORDEAL ; New Re_Time : M ess rs. Walter Lacy, E. Phe l ps , E. Falconer , Mrs. liermannVtzin, &c. After xvhicb, on a scale of gre it splendour, Milton's Mask of COMUS : Messrs. Walter Lacy, 18 iibye Cooper, i Drayton, Miss Poole, Miss Augusta Thomson, and Mrs. H. Vezin. THEATRE -R OYA L, HAYMARKET. Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, MY WIFE'S MOTHER. Mr. Chip pendale ; Miss N. Moore, Miss Snowdon, Miss F. Wright, &c. Alter which, THE WOMAN IN MAUVE. Meatus. Sothern, Compton, Howe, Farren, Braid, &c ; Mesdames Stuart, Lovell, Buckstone, &c. Followed by LORD DUNDREARY MARRIED AND DONE FOR Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. And EASY SHAVING. Miss Louise Keeley, Miss F. Wright ; Messrs. Clark, Gordon, Rogers, U. To commence at 7. 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THIS DAT.—Morning, 7h. 50m.—Afternoon, 8H.24m. To-Monnow.-Morning, 9h. 00m.—Afternoon, 9h. 36m. thg .t.C4Pjtr4, „';0,13T, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1865. It is always a pity when a Government contrives, through misfortune or mismanagement, to disgust a -whole class of its subordinates. Personal feeling, an impatience of rule and routine, or an exaggerated estimate of their own capacities, may often render individuals captious or discontented, but the gene ral sense of a whole body of men is seldom misled by any such feelings, and when complaints are uni versal it is right that they should, at least, be in quired into. The heads of offices are, as we know, very fond of hushing up all such matters, of assur ing the House that the very -points which are com plained of are the most beneficial to the grumblers, and of denouncing all inquiry as meddlesome and mischievous. We had a marked example of :this the other evening in the manner in which the Chancellor of the Ex chequer treated the remonstrances of the Custom house officers. But civil employes are generally supposed to be more at the mercy of the dictators at their head, and military officers occupy a very different position. The house, in both cases, re sented a manifest injustice, and insisted upon an inquiry at least being instituted. There is a very general impression that the officers and - men of the Indian service have been treated with great harsh ness and injustice, and as, as a body, they were remarkable for their energy, their courage, and their military skill, and the ill-favour shown to them has been especially uncalled for and ungracious. The transfer of their allegiance to the Crown should rather have been made an acces sion of gratification to them than a source of annoyance and mortification, and being effected just at a time when their chivalrous courage had extorted the admiration of the civilised world, it might actually have been supposed that it would have been done in the most gracious and conciliatory manner. There must always have been a difference betiveen the two services. On the one hand, the service undoubtedly possessed a more recognised position, and more extended opportunities for ob taining that military distinction which is so dear to every true soldier. But against these advantages might be urged the loss of the individual opportuni ties presented by the Indian service, the fettering influence of routine, and the old tardy system of promotion. An officer in the QUEEN'S service Might be doomed to spend the best years of his life in obscurity and inaction, at some out-of-the-way station, with nothing to look forward to but insig nificance and half-pay. The Indian officer, on the other hand, had constant opportunities for acquir ing fame and fortune, and if he were a man of character and talent there was little doubt that he - would push his way, if not in one direction in another. ' The long list of distinguished names - which immediately rise to the me mory prove that the Indian service whatever its faults or deficiencies at least gave its subordi nates a chance of rising and of showing what was in . them. This chance they have lost by the transfer, and in spite of Sir CHARLES WOOD'S lengthened defence of the system, the House of Commove it the grievances complained of to be really serious and oppressive. It is not .the first time that these complaints have made themselves heard within the walls of Parliament. A Royal Commission has been appointed to inquire into them, and a year ago the Indian Secretary promised to carry out the i r reco mmendations to the full. How f ar t h at pledge has bee n fulfilled, we may jud ge _f rom the fact that 23 general officers, 240 field officer s , and more than 500 officers of lower ranks, all of whom have served more than seven years in the East Indies, have now petitioned the House that the report be carried out ! Sir C. WO op gets out of this difficulty with a mixture of audacity and ingenuity which is really admirable. He plainly intimated that these signatures were not worth much, and declared that some of them belonged to officers who were entirely opposed to the petition ! The one great grievance of which these gentlemen complain is the oupercession of the right of promo- tion by seniority. The establishment of a staff corps by Sir C. WOOD, in which a captain after 20 years' service obtains the rank and pay of a major, and after 26 years that of a colonel, did not tend to improve matters. This corps is said to give abun dant opportunity for a system of favouritism, and enables those who are lucky enough to get into it to be lifted over the heads of their seniors, and, more over, the staff corps escapes the wearisome routine of regimental duty. Sir C. WOOD had a formidable antagonist in Colonel SYKES, who informed the House that the military committee to which the Indian Secretary had referred the question of amalgamating the armies had unanimously reported that they could offer no satisfactory solution of its difficulties. It was opposed by no less an authority than Sir JAMES OUTRAM, who, in a report dated Jan., 1860, said :—" Believing as I do that the mea sure of amalgamation, if carried out, will prove most injurious to this country, and that the servants of the East India Company will suffer severe injus tice, I have deemed it my duty to record a solemn protest against its adoption." Sir BARTLE FRERE, Governor of Bombay, expressed a similar opinion, and that same view was taken by the late Mr. WILSON. The report of the Military Committee was so much opposed to Sir C. WOOD'S scheme that he would not lay it before the General Council. Colonel SYKES, who, from his experience, was tho roughly well acquainted with the subject, showed how hardly many of the new arrangements pressed upon the officers, and the inequality and injustice consequent upon them. He cited two or three cases : one was that of a captain who remained in his regiment, while another captain three steps lower joined the Staff Corps. When the latter had been in the Staff Corps long enough to claim his majority, he came back to the regiment and took the command by right of his substantive rank over the captain who had been his senior, and who had been made a brevet - lieutenant-colonel. Another instance in which the injustice of the present system was strongly marked, was that of a married captain who served with his regi ment twenty years, and whose wife on his death got only the pension of a captain's widow. Another married captain, having joined the Staff Corps, obtained the substantive rank of major, and his widow obtained the pension of a major's widow. " The officers," said Colonel SYKES, " who before had rights, are now dependent upon the pleasure of the Commander-in-Chief for their promotion." And he added with great force, that however exceptional cases might be brought forward to weaken the evidence, it was not likely that 712 officers, several of whom were generals, and many of whom had served 30 years, would have drawn up these petitions unless they felt really aggrieved. Mr. SMOLLETT also passed some severe strictures upon the Staff Corps, most of whose members had, he declared, been promoted because they had good introductions. This is not the way to get good officers, or to fulfil the expectations of the country. Sir CHARLES WOOD has shown him self most obstructive to the interests of India on Many occasions, and he has never more signally failed in giving satisfaction, or in serving the public, than in his treatment of the Indian Army. The Courts of Justice Building Bill passed through Committee last night in the House of Lords. This is satisfactory on the whole, and may be regarded as an advantage to the community at large. At one time the bill was threatened with serious opposition on various grounds, but happily its promoters have succeeded in triumphing over all obstacles and vanquishing those captious critics whose arguments indeed related chiefly to minor details. Lord REDESDALE proposed an amendment last night, to the effect that the bill be sent to a Select Committee. The reasons which he gave for this were that further inquiry should be made into the provisions of the Bill before it received the sanc tion of the House. His Lordship did not approve of the manner in which the Bill * was arranged respecting the approaches. These, he declared, were not adequate, and, doubt less, another large sum would be required ; also he did not think enough explanation had been given respecting the bill altogether. Lord ST. LEONARDS supported the amendment, which is not surprising, considering the strenuous opposition which the noble lord has so constantly given to the measure. He declared, however, that he only wished the bill to be thoroughly investigated. Lord GRANVILLE explained that the chief objection to sending the bill to a Select Committee was that the Lord Chancellor could not be present at it. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH complained that they were attempting to build without an estimate. One of the wisest statesmen of former days was reported to have said, " Stay a little that you may make an end the sooner." To this the Lord Chan cellor very wisely said that if they never made a be ginning they would unquestionably never see an end of the work. As for waiting a little, said his lordship, why, they had been waiting for forty years—" forty years of lingering, talk, and obstruction, and at last they had come to the thresholdof the undertaking." The Lord ChAncellor entered into full particulars respecting the proposals made, and said that inquiry and calculation were prudent things, but they had already made all the investigations they possibly could. The Commission issued by Lord DERBY has been of Great service to the Government, and put them in possession of important facts. His lord ship very truly observed that it would be a source of great irritation to the country if, after all the efforts that had been made, this bill was now again post poned. The public and the profession would indeed alike have had cause to regret the result had the amend ment been carried. It was shown that the land was not so valuable as had been supposed, because it was covered with houses of a low character. Many experienced persona htnce been consulted as to the probable cost of thi tYndertaking, and thus all that ought to be done has. been fairly tried, and no reason remains to justify the opposition of those who refuse to give a. fair trial to the matter. It may truly be said that a great question of interest to the community has been happily disposed of, and that the country can now rejoice in this great measure of legal improvement, which has received the sanction of both houses of Parliament. As for the remark made, that their lordships would not see the edifice completed, it does not follow that it is a correct one, and, at any rate, it is the bounden duty of our legislators to make due arrangements for the exigencies of the country, and if the profits be reserved for Snother" generation of their own, it should not diminish their satisfaction, nor does it impair their suocess.. The world has been too muckengrossed lately by important news from various quarters to pay much attention to the despatches going on between Prussia and Austria, but these wily and wilful Powers have been steadily pursuing the very uneven tenour of their way for some time past, and are yet no nearer to a solution than ever. The last point of altercation which has arisen has been the differ ences that exist respecting "Kiel." Count BISMARK has managed very badly in treating of this affair, and lost sight of his usual prudence an 1 perspicacity. He has shown his cards too plainly, and aroused the jealousies and indignation of Austria to a dan gerous degree. This country has hiti_erto displayed most arked moderation in its dealings with Prussia , but there is a limit beyond which the utmost patient .e cannot go, and there are bounds which must be put to everything, whether private or politic al. Great interest will be felt as to the issue of thil; affair by the lookers-on, although the ulti mate effects of it will not probably appear for some time. Austria will be too cautious to hazard a • struggle with Prussia as yet, and therefore no direct steps will be taken. To gain time Herr vox BIS MARK has manoeuvred as usual, and made specious pretences as to the recognition of Austrain claims. This is evidently a dodge to answer the require ments of the moment, because all the time that the dexterous diplomatist is making these asseverations he is taking very decided steps in the direction to which Berlin hopes and aspirations have long pointed. Thus, while the world goes on its way, the Prussian men-of-war will be stationed in the harbour of Kiel as an earnest and harbinger of that mighty fleet which the Prussian authorities trust will one day walk the waters to the glory of their country and the terror of their enemies. All can sympathise with a legitimate ambition, even if they do no not exactly realise its object; but to pursue a plan in an underhand manner, and with unworthy Means, is very degrading to the character of a na tion, and cannot but prove subversive in the end to the interests of the people among whom it is prac tised. If the spectacle thus presented to the eyes of tla observant nations were not so deleterious to the good name of the respective parties engaged in the strife, it - would be amusing to notice the squabbles to which this affair has given rise. The fact is, that there is so much bitter ness of feeling between Austria and Prussia that the least jar that arises serves to rouse the latent embers, and long after the !dispute has been temporarily adjusted at head-quarters the minor individuals go on fighting and fuming. Thus the Prussian press now teems with indignant re marks concerning the course pursued by Austria, and all shades of politics unite in this common cause of bickering and reviling. The intelligence that BISMARK has proposed the convocation of the Schleswig-Holstein Estates has caused great astonishment in all quarters, alike for its unexpected announcement, as also for the fact of its having taken the game out of his oppo nent's hands as it were. In truth, it may be affirmed that there is nothing which the Prussian Minister may or may not do if events only point out the desirability of a change taking place. It would seem as if no very important results would take place for this arrangement, for Herr BIsMARK'S organ announces that the innovation will take place on the basis of a new law which will be arranged by the possessors. If this be true we shall witness another instance of keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the heart. Great cus toms curtsey to great queens, and we all know that the modern adaptation of this elastic theory is that truth, honour, and justice weigh as nothing in the balance where the German Powers have their objects o serve or their interests to gain. THE b - CIN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 3, 186641 The Murder of President Lincoln, " Historicus" writes to the Times thus :—The American Civil War is beyond doubt the greatest event in the history of mankind which has occurred since the French Revolution. In both cases a cor rupt condition of political society has purged itself at the cost of a terrible political and social convul sion. But the French Revolution itself, with all its horrors, has produced no crime more shocking to the conscience of mankind than the murder of the late President of the United States. The tribute which the civilised world from every quarter is offer ing on the grave of that eminent person is the natural instinct by which the human race gives utterance to the horror felt at a crime which is a common dishonour of our nature. It is too early to judge either of the consequences of the crime, or of those upon whom the respon sibility of it is to be charged. Nothing can be more unjust than to visit upon whole societies or general systems the acts of isolated persons who may commit crimes without authority in their name. If the Papacy was held responsible for the massacre of St. Bartholomew, it was not because it contrived, but because it approved it. The South:will be judged, not by the act of the assassin, but by the manner in which they receive the news of it. Booth has accomplished against President Lincoln what Brooks attempted against Senator Sumner. We unhappily know how the act of Brooks was applauded by both sexes of the community which he had disgraced. Let us hope, for the honour of our nature, that such an outrage on humanity is not to be repeated. I sin cerely wish, sir, that Mr. Mason, on behalf of the people he assumes to represent, had occupied him self on this dreadful occasion a little more in express ing his regret at the murder of Mr. Lincoln, and a little less in finding excuses for its commission. I hope that he will find in the Southern States of America feyv " well-balanced minds"—as assuredly he will find none in England—who will see in this hideous act the " necessary offspring" of anything but the most detestable cowardice and wickedness. Upon Mr. Lincoln himself the world, even before his death, had passed a just and favourable judg ment. Situated in circumstances of unexampled difficulty, he had achieved unexpected greatness: As the leader, in a revolution which he had not made, he adhered as closely as that revolution permitted him to the law. In disaster he was undismayed, in success he was sober, in the presence of provocation he was moderate, in the hour of victory he was merciful. If these are not the constituents of greatness, political and moral, I know not what is the meaning of that word. I see that some persons are disposed to exult over those who had not at the earliest moment appreciated the true proportions of his remarkable character. I do not sympathise in such censures, the more so, perhaps, because if they were well deserved I might feel that I ought to share them. But I think that those who plume themselves upon their prescient sagacity commit the common fault of pretending to have been wise too soon. Mr. Lincoln grew to be what he at length became by the hard discipline of adversity and the strict schooling of responsibility. He became great —as such natures do become great—by the action of the ennobling duties of such a station upon a mind honest, courageous, conscientious, and truth ful. Under the purifying influences of this fiery assay the ore is purged from the dross, and shines out at length in a sterling lustre which did not belong to its native state. Those who have com pared his earlier with his later discourses will have marked the striking growth of his moral stature. No one, I think, can have read the Message of March 4, 1865, distinguished as it was by a tone of chastened and saddened earnestness, without feeling that it was the true language of a good and a great man, sober in the midst of political success, and moderate in the hour of military triumph. The lesson to be learnt from the history of such a cha racter is to abstain from hasty judgments upon untried men. I trust it will not be lost at this moment either at home or abroad. CALLS TO THE BAR.—May I.—The undermen tioned gentlemen were this day called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple :—William Joseph Cripps, 8.A., of Trinity College Oxford, Esq. ; Joseph James Stuckey, 8.A., of St. John's College, Cam bridge, Esq. ; Digby Glen, Esq. ; and Charles Frederick Hamond, Esq. Lincoln's-inn, May I.—The undermen tioned gentlemen were this day called to the degree of Barrister-at-Law by the Honourable Society of Lincoln's inn, viz.: Louis Courtauld, Esq., LL.B., Cambridge ; John Byers Gunning Moore, Esq., Cambridge ; Benjamin St. John Ackers, Esq., Oxford ; George Cary, Esq., 8.A., Oxford ; John Radcliff Battersby, Esq., 8.A., Dublin. The Earl and Countess Spencer arrived at Spencer House, St. James's, on Monday evening, from Althorp Northamptonshire. Yesterday the noble earl accompanied the Prince of Wales to the House of Lords. THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, MARIO IN " LE PROPHETE." If we are this year without Tamberlik at either house, if there yet remains a shadow of a shade of a doubt as to Giuglini's recovery so far as to admit of his appearance this season, in fulfilment of Mr. Mapleson's promise, on the boards of Her Majesty's —we have, happily, still left to us, the King of all the Tenors, Mario, one who is yet to the last the pride and paragon of the Royal Italian ! It is, in truth, among the most notable facts in re gard to the musical season now in progress that Mario is in glorious voice—is nightly in such voice as he was " in" only upon two or three occasions, quite exceptionally, during the whole course of last season ! The freshness of his beautiful and, in some respects, matchless organ, we recognised ourselves with delight and duly notified in these columns in our critique upon the Opening Night at the Royal Italian, when, as will be remembered, the season • was inaugurated so very bril liantly with Gounod's chef d'oeuvre, Faust e Margherita. Since then the same delightful fact has been evidenced, again and again, and quite as conspicuously. On Monday the same fact was recognised as once more matter for general congra tulation among the audience assembled together within the walls of the Royal Italian, to witness the performance of one of the four—not the greatest of them, to our mind, but still one of the most not able of the four—of those prodigious musical achieve ments of Meyerbeer, called, with full justice, not simply Lyric Dramas, but Grand Operas ! Colossal evidences of the wonderful genius of the Maestro, of which genius the world had a foretaste more than three and thirty years ago, when the precursor of this series of Grand Operas, Robert le Diable, was, in 1831, first produced. At deliberate and lengthened intervals, since then, have appeared the four gigantic masterpieces known now, the wide world, over, as the Four Grand Operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer— Les Huguenots (the grandest of all operas to our thinking)—Le Prophete (the opera before referred to as having been performed at the Royal Italian on Monday evening)—Dinorah and (what is announced we rejoice to up, for performance again at the Royal Italian on Saturday evening next) L'Etoile du Nord. Added, at length, to that glorious list—added to it only as recently as Friday evening last—there is yet the fifth of these Grand Operas of Meyerbeer— crowning the radiant catalogue—perfecting, accord ing:to the report of those who have actually heard this last of his greatest works—just perfecting the reputation of the composer of Les Huguenots, of Le Prophete,.of Dinorah, of L'Etoile du Nord, with the posthumous triumph of L'Africaine. France, Paris, in each instance, being the starting-point in the marvellous career of each —as, in truth, the very perpetuation of the French title of each of these five Grand Operas (even in their Italian form) clearly enough, distinctly enough, serves to indicate. L'Africaine we have yet to make acquaintance with —happily, according to Mr. Gye's programme (and Mr. Gye has long since proved himself to be a man of his word, a fulfiller of promises as well as a giver of them, what though he is Director of a great Lyrical Establishment !)—happily, we say, the Time for our making acquaintance with L'Africaine is during this present season, and the Place Covent Garden Theatre, otherwise the Royal Italian ! Meanwhile; we have reasons enow to rejoice over the good the gods have (already) given us—those De migods of Song, the Great Composers—interpreted as they are by such High Priests of their art, let us say, as Signor Mario! We had reasons, for example, abundant and overflowing, for exultation (during the delay yet awhile of L'Africaine) on Monday evening, when Mario, nobly assisted by other artistes of emi nence, interpreted yet once more for us, the Prophete of Meyerbeer. In the absence from the lyrical stage of the incomparable Garcia, Madlle. Edelsberg enacted Fides with a singularly pathetic impressiveness—lgadlle. Sonieri co-operating with her very charmingly as Bertha, Jean of Leyden's betrothed. The Three Anabaptist Leaders of the revolt in Westphalia—picturesquely clad in sable, like so many puritan Hamlets, without, however, their princely stars and loosened garters—found ad mirable interpreters, both histrionic and lyrical— Zacharia in Signor Capponi, Mathisen in Signor Polonini, and Jonas in Signor Neri-Baraldi. The gorgeous and tyrannical libertine, Count D'Oberthal, was, as usual, the character allotted, most judiciously, to Signor Tagliafico. But the hero of the night in every sense (here again, let us say, as usual) was Signor Mario as Jean of Leyden, the Prophet ! In the second part of the first act, in the tavern at Dordrecht, where Jean appears simply as the innkeeper, Mario was as charming and as fasci nating as ever, not alone in his rendering of those dreams of glory, which may be said to be audibly, almost visibly revealed to us, in the visionary " Io stava in pie prostrato," but in his earnest bye-play, when listening to the temptations held out to him by the conspiring leaders of the Anabaptists. And so, for that matter—as indeed who that has gazed upon and listened to the Jean of Leyden of Mario knows not already, and who has not seen and heard it ?—so, for that matter, was it throughout the whole of the four acts on Monday, as it has been so often previously ! Throughout—through the mag nificent pomp and tragic situation of the coronation scene in the cathedral—through the breathless soli citude and anguish of the scene in the dungeon— up to the very climax of all, where, in the banquet scene, in the Town Hall of the City of Munster, the disenchanted Prophet of the Anabaptists still robed in his royal apparel, figuratively speaking lapped in soft Lydian airs and crowned with roses, bre e lthing an atmosphere of fragrance, surrounded by voluptuous dancers, bearing aloft in his jewelled hand a golden tazza, brimming, one might fancy, with the wine of the gods sings as Mario alone can sing it the one delicious haunting melody of Ze Prophete, "Beviam, e intorno giri"—to fall prostrate afterwards at the foot of his throne in the midst of the crashing flames and ruin he has prepared for himself like another Sardana palus ! After the final descent of the curtain on Monday, Mario, as a mere matter of course, or rather, let us say, as a sheer matter of necessity, was summoned before the footlights, to be there greeted with acclamations. Everything prospers so well this season ab- the Royal Italian that we haye reason once more to congratulate Mr. Gye on his propititious prqaration for what will be his crowning achievement ,thii year—the first pro duction, that is in England, of Meyerbeer's Afri caine. Gallery of Illustration, -0 Yesterday afternoon a new Opera di Camera, composed by M. Emile Jones, and adapted from the French by Mr. German Reed, entitled " A Fair Exchange," was produced with the greatest success. It consists of one scene and four characters, sup ported by Miss Henderson, Miss Pitt, Mr. J. Sha and Mr. Whiffin, and the fun of the little trifle con sists in the cross purposes of four lovers, each of whom has become an adorer to the other's sweet heart. The opera was capitally rendered by the artistes engaged, and will assuredlybecome a general favourite? with the lovers of sweet and simple melody. There was a pretty duet, which was encored, between Miss Henderson and Mr. Whiffin, and a qurstet between them and the other pair of lovers, played and sung by Miss Emily Pitt and Mr. J. A. Shaw, which was much admired. The suc cessful chamber operetta by Mr. Macfarren, called " The Soldier's Legacy," still holds its place, and is received with favour. These musical per formances are quite independent of Mr. and Mrs. German Reed's entertainment, and are only given on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. REPRESENTATION OF LAMBETII;--It is expected that the writ for the election of a member for the borough of Lambeth will be moved for next Friday even ing, and that the nomination will take place on an early day next week. At present it appears unlikely that there will be any opposition to the returp. of Mr. Alderman J. C. Lawrence, to whom a requisition bearing upwards of 2,000 signatures was some time since addressed, in anticipation of the retirement of Mr. Williams. The names of several other gentlemen have been mentioned in connection with the forthcoming election, but no efforts appear to be made to bring them prominently ,before the constituency. The Earl Delawarr arrived in town on Monday from Buckhurst Park, Sussex. The, Government has offered a reward of $lOO,OOO for the arrest of Booth and his accomplices. Per sons harbouring them are subject to the penalty of death. An accomplice of Booth, named Atzerot, has been arrested. Nothing further has been published con cerning the person already arrested. He is supposed to be named Suratt. A letter of Booth's, written several month's ago, shows that he was plotting the capture of Mr. Lincoln, but gives no intimation that he contemplated assassination. The Confederate prisoners at Point Look-out have passed resolutions of abhorrence at Mr. Lin coln's assassination, and expressing sympathy for his family. Delegations from different parts of the Union have waited upon Mr. Johnson and offered him support. Johnson made several speeches, indicating no definite policy, but reasserting that treason is the highest crime, and must be punished ac- cordingly. The New York Herald believes that Johnson will adopt a more demonstrative and exacting foreign policy than that of Lincoln, and states that he is committed to the Monroe doctrine. It is reported that, in conseqUence of Mr. Seward's condition, Johnson will appoint Mr. Preston King acting Secretary of State, or Secretary de facto. It is stated that in consequence of Lincoln's death Mr. Harlan will not assume the secretaryship of the Interior. Johnson has postponed the confiscation sales at Norfolk until after the organisation of the Freed- mens Bureau. The World asserts that Johnson has informed the Governor of Indiana that he never believed the doctrine that the rebellious States were out of the Union. The diplomatic corps visited President Johnson on Thursday. Baron Gerolt, Prussian Ambassa dor, read an address of condolence, and expressed hopes for the early re-establishment of peace and the maintenance of friendly relations with foreign Powers. Sir Frederick Bruce has presented his credentials, on which occasion he expressed deep sympathy at Mr. Lincoln's death, and said that her Majesty had nothing more at heart than to cultivate relations of amity and a good understanding, so long, happily, existing between England and America. In this spirit he was directed to perform his duties. Mr. Johnson expressed pleasure at her Majesty's friendly sentiments, and said that the interests of civilisation and humanity required that England and America should be friends. He always accepted it as an honourable fact that the Queen was a sincere and honest well-wisher of the United States. Mr. Johnson said he accepted Sir Frederick Bruce as a Minister well disposed to maintain the peace and honour of both countries. The Presi dent and his associates would act in accordance with the same enlightened policy and consistent senti ment. General Haneck has superseded Ord in the com mand at Richmond. Ord has relieved Gilmore al Charleston. The New York Herald asserts that Sheridan last night received a despatch from Sherman announcing the full surrender of Johnston's army. Kirkpatrick has pursued the Confederates 30 miles beyond Raleigh. It was expected that the Federal forces would compel Johnston's surrender. It is denied that an order was issued to arrest Judge Campbell and the ex-Mayor of Richmond. Wilson captured at Selma 2,000 prisoners and 100 cannon, and destroyed a large quantity of cotton, naval iron work manufactories, and build- ings. Thomas's cavalry are reported to have captured Columbus, Georgia, and Montgomery, Alabama. Mosby is reported to have surrendered on the same terms as Lee, and Rosser to have offered to surrender upon similar terms. The Confederates completed their evacuation of Mobile on the 12th, and the Federals entered the city on the 13th. Little private property was de stroyed. Official reports announce that Lee surrendered 26,000 men and 159 cannon. POSTSCRIPT. An expedition from Charleston has destroyed 1,000 bales of cotton, and all the railway bridges between Columbia and Florence, and has brought in 2,500 slaves. 5,000 more are waiting to come in. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, APRIL 22 (MORNING). Money abundant. Gold, 1501 ; Exchange on London, 161 k to 163 ;on Paris, 3f. 481 c. Stocks steady. New York Centrals, 95 ; Illinois, 109 ; Erie, 77/ : United States 5-20 Bonds, 1061. Cot ton quiet ; Middling Upland, 38. Flour declining ; wheat heavy ; corn good inquiry. Provisions slightly firmer. Coffee and sugar good inquiry ; molasses quiet. Petroleum steady ; crude, 37 ; re fined, 52. THE BOMBAY MAILS. MALTA, MAY 2. The Ripon and Ceylon leave here at 9 a.m. al midnight. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the sth, and the latter at Southampton about the 11th instant. The Carnatic brought the mails to Suez, arriving there at 1.30 a.m. on the 28th of April. OUTWARD CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. The Pera, from Southampton, April 20, reached Malta on the 29th, at 3 p.m., and left at midnight for Alexandra. The Poonah, from Marseilles, April 28, arrived on the Ist inst., at 12 a.m., and left at 6 a.m., for Alexandria. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. GIBRALTAR, MAY 2. The Massilia, from Southampton, April 27, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE EDINBURGH. (Via Crookhaven.) NEW YORK, APRIL 22 (Morning). Mr. Lincoln's funeral was solemnised at Wash ington on Wednesday with imposing ceremonies. A procession of civil, military, and naval officers, including President Johnson, Gen. Grant, Admiral Farragut, Gen. Butler, alAd the Foreign Ministers, followed the remains. Business was entirely sus pended throughout the North, and the day was observed in the principal cities throughout the British provinces by a partial suspension of business and the closing of the public buildings. Mr. Lincoln's remains will pass through Balti more, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, New York, Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Columbia, Indianopolis, and Chicago, to Springfield. Public honours will be paid to the remains in each city. Last night's bulletin reports that Mr. Seward had no fever. His wounds were healing, and were less painful. Frederick Seward is stronger, and not so rest- Less. - arrived here to-day at 8 a.m., and left at 11 a.m. though not very probable. Grantloy Berkeley contributes for Alexandria. All well. I some remarks on " Shooting in the Past and in the Pre sent," and there are other articles of various merits. LONDON SOCIETY.—This lively serial is as spark ling within and without as ever, and retains its position as the foremost of the purely entertaining magazines. Men and women are considered in their capacity " as letter writing animals " with a good deal of sagacity, and of course in such a discus sion a Frenchwoman occupies the most honoured place. A description of Cherbourg is well worth reading, and a bachelor gives his opinion on Bachelorhood with due severity. The twelfth chapter of the series on the histories of " the Merchant Princes of England" is devoted" to William Paterson, the founder of the Bank of England, and illustrated with a portrait of the able and strong minded Scotchman, whom his memorialist describes as " the founder of the Bank of England, the promoter of the Darien Settlement, the great encourager of the union between England and Scotland, and the foremost pro pounder of modern views on trade and finance." In the fiction department we are as usual liberally supplied. The singular and certainly original story of " The Lady jo Muslin" is brought to a conclusion, and the identity of the singular visits to the cottage explained, as well as her motive for her eccentric conduct. Truth to tell the dose of the story is very little to the lady's credit, nor does it say much for the gentleman's sense in marrying a person who, besides the actual dishonesty of stealing the paper s, had so unmercifully made him her dupe. We have, be sides, "A New Phase of the Old Story," in which a m an falls in love with his grandmother, and several other live l y sketches, many of them illustrated with great vigour and taste. THE SHILLING MAGAZINE, Illustrated, a miscel lany of literature, social science, fiction, poetry, ar t, etc.—This is the first number of this publication,. and it promises well in point of variety as yet. " Phemie Beller" is the title of a new story that is interesting in its events and impressive in its style. " The Wild Flower of Ravensworth" is also another pleasing narrative introduced to our notice in an attractive form. " The Rights of Dramatic Literature" is the title of a read able article that puts some important facts before us ill 11 striking manner, and it is well said that the theatres have destroyed their own cause by "pertinaciously prosecuting the music halls." Mr. Locke's Bill is commented on, an d due credit is given to him for the provisions he makes as to the safer and more commodious construction of theatres. All sensible persons will coincide in the truth of the re mark that the measure might be improved by a clause for securing ventilation, for great injury is done to health by the close atmosphere of crowded places, and, indeed, most of the evils sustained by those in delicate health when visiting these places arise from want of air. An other good suggestion is made to the effect that it will bd desirable for the future to lease all new theatres erected in an isolated manner, for it is wisely added that " space is costly, but it is better that the playhouse should be somewhat curtailed within than that, in case of fire, life and property should be placed in un necessary peril without." " Benjamin Disraeli, in 1865 ' n is a sketch of that statesman ; it is written in so very pre judiced a manner that any effect the writer wishes to pro duce is completely marred, and the unsoundness of t. llO arguments may be gathered from the remark that, unlike most political leaders, he stands no higher in public esti mation than he did a dozen years ago. We should be puzzled to find out who these leaders aro ; whether L or d Palmerston, who has given up the Liberal cause at hone/ or Earl Rus.;ell, who has ruined our foreign policabroad. To take a one-sided view of a public character is not the way to obtain the confidence of one's rea ders, and nowadays the differences of party are so nearly done . away with that in a discussion of .personal merit s se public claims to recognition there is generally as nallcilci praise and blame awarded whatever the politics of the c rit3 i ° may be. " Gold," and "Iron Ships and Turrets," are go! articles in their way, and it is not likely that the re ade 7 of this first instalment of the Shilling Magazine will be ells appointed at the subjects offered for their perusal. THE ANTI-TEAPOT REVIEW, No. V. is store d a$ usual with a whimsical m i x ture of grave and gag' lively and severe, all mingled together. Cri cket is considered philosophically—Quacks sarcasti cally —Bulls (verbal bulls, that is) scientifically—and so en ; Altogether an out-of-the-way sixp e n n y- w orth of gr'a' t e and jocosity, collected together periodically under th most whimsical of names by a number of grave jokers, On tented to be known only as Members of the 'Universities. THE SIXPENNY MAGAZINE.—The extraordin ary of " The Fate of Thorsghytt" is contin ued Q and it may certainly claim the attention of ht lovers of sensation. The tale of "Found Dead" is b rag s , to a conclusion, and there are besides " Temple Tule,,, and other stories. In borrowing from our Transatlat friends, however, the editor should be a little more discreeiri for the tone of some of the American stories is not at adapted to English readers. An amusing account of proceedings of an Eastern Juggler is given, and eert a in his achievements border closely on the mu:venou s. Modern Ghost story is graphically told, and narrates L' terrible results of the midnight discovery of a skeleton. TILE ENGLISHWOMAN'S DOMESTIC MAGAZINg. leis s this month quite up to its usual excellence. The artleted are very prudently selected, and the illustrations eveu n the best taste. THE YOUNG ENGLISHWOMAN contains a 'O riel / ° of articles in poetry and prose, together with a irs•-•e ty 4,d information on music, fine arts, fashions, and ornano' INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. MARSEILLES, MAY 2. The Messageries Imperiales steamer Moeris arrived here at 3 30 p.m..to-day. PRUSSIA. THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. BERLIN, MAY 3. The address of sympathy from the Chamber of Deputies was presented to the American Minister yesterday. His Excellency, in reply, thanked the Chamber in the name of the United States Government and people for the sympathy expressed by the members of so illustrious and in every way so distinguished an assembly. He lamented the great loss sustained by the death of Mr. Lincoln. He also extolled the great services rendered by the Germans to the cause of the Union, and said America would never forget what the Germans had done for her cause. Mr. Seward was now better. His death wouldbe almost as great a loss as was that of Mr. Lincoln. The death of the President would create no change in the policy of the North. Lincoln's greatest merit was that he had faithfully carried out the will of the people, and the will of the people had remained the same. There was no fear of any change, for Andrew Johnson was a statesman, tested during a long public career, and elected at the same time as 1 Abraham Lincoln. SPAIN. MADRID, MAY 2. The anniversary of the Spanish revolution of the 2d of May was celebrated to-day. The Govern ment employes took part in the fete. The streets were thronged with people. Perfect order and tranquillity prevailed. WAYS. needlework. ~ted CASSELL'S PUBLICATIONS.—cc a - Th e Mus ~ Gulliver's Travels," "Natural History," " ShaksP e , re p ir "Family Newspaper," and "Don Quixote" main tain well-earned reputation for excellence of typngraP' illustration. (,-.19-,P..-- HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, May 2. The Queen walked in the morning yesterday with Princess Helena and Princess Beatrice, and drove in the afternoon with Princess Louise, attended by the Hon. Flora Macdonald. Dr. and Mrs. Becher have arrived on a visit t° her Majesty. The Judge Advocate General had an audience of the Queen on Saturday. Col 94 Col. H. Ponsonby has succeeded Lieu t.- . • Plat as Equerry in Waiting. The Prince and Princess of Wales' dai The Prince of Wales rode on horseback es ter y morning, attended by Major Teesdale. st' The Princess of Wales took a carriage drip' tended by the Hon. Mrs. E. Coke. Major Teesdale has succeeded Major Gr e ' Equerry in Waiting to the Prince of Wales. ci ral •The Earl Granville had a dinner party Yes-core. evening at his residence in Bruton- street, Berkelo3l th e The Earl and Countess of Belraore 1131 " r ° 01 0 Misses Gladstone have arrived at Brown's 1100 f season. „4 the We understand that her Royal iliglan`;oo Princess of Wales, as representing her Majesty, an evening party at Buckingham Palace on. TuesdN' 16th inst. Cori The Duke of Montrose has arrived a t his 131 in Belgrave-square from Scotland. 3 Oiled The Duke and Duchess de Saldanha have at the Clarendon Hotel. The Marchioness Marchioness of Salisbury will hold he r iw oote assembly this evening at the family residence D2l/-1- street, Piccadilly. PARLIAMENTARY InITIS I°II. 4. Ol • DEFEAT OF THE GOVERN S HOUSE OF COMMONS- 3 W 2. • INDIAN OFFICERS. res e n ted t ° rese Motion made, " That an humble addr ess be P lease d to 4 her Majesty, praying she will be graciously l e 0 %0 . 1 :: redress all all such grievances complained of bY '' co no w tho 'ten of the late Indian armies, as was admitted by , 00 sil t, sion on the memorials of the Indian of fi cers to j u , arl isto P c. by a departure from the assurances give n an d , 24 V ie ' by the Acts 21 and 22 Vic., c. 106, and 23 100." The house divided—Ayes, 4 9 ; Noes' 36' AC. AYES —49. g a jor Baillie, H. J. P rker, Hamilton, Major . a i Beecroft, G. S. Harvey, K. B. reel, .... G. f , rt Ag Blake, J. Hassaid, M. riiiiiir b rat ilo , rotiard,,r va n Bourne, Col. Bay, Sir J. se yrao— , p . J. 3. Bramle -oore, J. Henley, J. Sinolle tt 'l:ord Bremrido - e, It. Heygate, W. U ley, fr•;. -..- Cargill, W. %V. Cartwright, Col. Kekewich, S. r• o a r tees. (3° l ' 1 W• If "ineerstone, Clifton, Sir It. Langton, W. U. ' N 'ti ittart, ~ us Pt, Cobbold, J. C. Leader, N. P. Wa lpole , F. P . Cox, W. Lever, J. 0. 'Williams, Daiglish, R. Manners, Lord J. wyld, . 1. • Dunlop, A. Sr. Miller, T. J. sib Dunne, Col. Moore, C. OD ° Farquhar, Sir M. Mowbray, BP Gaskell, J. M. O'Conor Don Tile .„_ r via , CAP Greene, J. O'Donoghue, The Nor Grogan, Col . Grogan, Sir E. I'acke, C. W. P. s. stab 0 . ti• i r, It• NOES -38. asc, fi r,' Acland, T. D. Enfield , Viscount f,eotte. kli,.. Bagwell, J. Gibson, T. M. P r ice, It; Baring, Sir F. Grenfell, H. H. r u gh, m• p J. ', Baring, T. G. Hadfield, G. Smit, C . , Bass, M. T. Henderson, J. 'Villiers, (2, i'• Beale, S. Herbert, I'. E. war ner, Z . It T. Briscoe, J. T. Hotham , Lord Bruce, H. A. Cardwell, E. Mainwaring, 'l'. wood , 1 01* , rsil' Collier, Sir E. P. Moncreiff, J• • W. Crossley, Sir F. Morris , an te d , '. Dodson, J. U. Knatclibult- 11 O'Loghlen, Sir C. BrWhi, li• Duke, Sir J. Padmore, It. ugess wWilinaiallie4,l. 000: if FRANCE. BOURSE, May 2.—The improved tone noticeable towards the close of speculative operations yester day has been maintained since the opening of busi ness this morning, and the greater portion of the principal Securities continue firm at yesterday's en hanced values. The aspect of the Railway Share Market has considerably improved, and sales have been negotiated at better rates. There is little change to notice in the nature of the transactions since two o'clock. The last quotations were : 41 per Cents 95 20 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 67 30 Do. end month 67 40 Credit Mobilier Do. end month Italian Loan 65 40 Do. end month 65 30 Ditto Threes 4l New Mexican Russian — Austrian Bank Shares 3590 'Tani ish Threes Credit Foncier 1265 Roman Home Debt Deferred Cash. Acct. Orleans Northern 1052 50 1055 Lyons and Mediterranean. 922 50 930 Southern 597 50 ... 595 Western 520 Eastern Sardinian 3Ol 25 ... 300 Austrian Lombard 533 75 ... 540 North of Spain 225 ... 225 Saragossa 345 ... 340 Ditto to Barcelona l3O 130 LITERATURE. LE CORRESPONDANT. No. 115. Paris : Charles Douniol—is mainly interesting this month by rea son of its containing a paper from the honoured as well as powerful pen of Charles, Count de Montalembert. That illustrious writer, orator, civilian, patrician, Christian has not, however—to our great regret—selected one of the themes so many earnest observers of the more intellectual portion of the periodical press of France would far rather, would dearly have liked him to have selected ! Not one thinking man in Christendom—it matters nothing of what belief or of what unbelief—is there who would not have preferred to have found that the Count de Montalembert, instead of descanting, as he does most charmingly, in this latest instalment of Le Correspondent, upon the gifts and merits of Monsieur le Comte Beugnot, - had taken in hand some far more momentous theme, some theme coming more directly home (according to Lord Verulam's phrase) to the business and bosoms of men of this generation—some such theme, let us say, as the Encyclical, as the Syllabus appended to it, as the Church question in Mexico, as the still vexed question of godless or of godly Education. Monsignor Dupanloup has spoken, boldly, most eloquently, and thoroughly well to the purpose, upon the two first, as they are also the two most important of the particular themes thus cursorily enumerated by us. But, glad though we are naturally to learn what is thought and felt upon matters of such universal importance, and of such very considerable magnitude, by a man as gifted as Monsignor Dupanloup—we would yet more have rejoiced at any opportunity enabling us to learn what are the thoughts and feelings with which those same notable subjects are regarded by the Count de Montalembert. As it is, writing as he does upon the cha racter and influence of a man of distinction like M. le Comte Beugnot, Montalembert (here, in this present number of Le Correspondent) follows up a paper more expressly about the man himself, written by Count Daru of the Institute, with an eloquent and persuasive disquisition, as we may call it, upon Count Beugnot's association, his intimate and potential association with the cause and interests of Religious Liberty. Another Count, the Count do Cham pagny, leads off the present number with a brief but timely paper, apropos to the " History 'of Julius Caesar," by the Emperor. Very noticeable, also, among the contents of the number, is the earnest, almost impassioned, tribute paid to M. Thiers, in reference to his recent discourse—a tribute of gratitude, hardly less than of admiration offered with an open hand to the Great Orator by Leopold de Gaillard. The translated novel of " Constance Sherwood," by Lady Georgiana Fullerton (who translated by, we know not) is continued—Le Correspondant, in addition to other miscellaneous contributions not here particularised, closing with its customary record of the Events of the Month, and its usual Bibliographical Bulletin. MACMILLAN'S MAGAZINE.--TWO new stories are commenced in this part, to replace the two so lately finished. One is by the author of " The Heir of Redclyffe," and is called "The Dove in the Eagle's Nest." The scene is laid in Germany in the middle ages, and the plot of the story, as it is yet indicated, gives ample room for the authoress's original talent. The portrayal_ of character, in which she especially shines, is likely to occupy a prominent place. Christina, the heroine, a gentle and sensitive girl, has been brought up from her infancy by her uncle and aunt, rich citizens of the good city of Ulm. Her father, a reckless landsknecht or free booter in the service of some of the fighting barons of the time, gladly leaves her to their charge. All at once, hOw ever, he returns to claim her as an attendant on his chief tain's daughter, who is ailing and lonely. The feelings of the poor maiden, suddenly transported from all the comfort and civilisation of the good burgher's house to the rough, half savage baronial castle, are vividly described; but her work lies before her, and Christina, timorous though she seems, is strong enough to do it. The other story, " Cradock Nowell," opens with promise. Sir Alexander Duff Gordon gives us an account of a visit to the Isthmus of Suez, and Lord Hobart contributes an article on our financial monopoly system, as exhibited in the Bank Act of 1844. The Editor continues his recollections of the eminent men whom he has known, among whom this month he chronicles Hugh Miller and Thomas De Quincey. The two last papers in the number are on two men of whom England has good reason to be proud —one, alas ! just removed from amongst us ; the other, we may hope, about to assume a still more prominent position. THE ST. JAMES'S MAGAZINE.—Miss Braddon's clever story of " Only a Clod" is rapidly approach ing a conclusion, and the plot thickens as the tale goes on. Harcourt Lowther, the Mephistopheles of the piece, is advancing rapidly in his grand scheme of securing the ruin and wretchedness of Maude and her husband, but it is more than probable that the mine so carefully prepared will select himself for its victim when it does finally explode. " Charles Churchill— Parson and Poet," is the title of au animated sketch of the career of that notability, who, despite his talents, reflected very little credit on his profession. " Street Songs and their Singers" gives an interesting account of some of our wandering minstrels of the lower ranks. It is worth no tice as investing this not very honourable trade with a mournful pathos that according to the census returns there are no less than six hundred blind musicians in this coun try. The writers of the most popular street songs have been of very various kind and degree, some of them being among our most famous authors. " Venice in 1864 " gives a picturesque description of the Queen of the Waters as she looks at this not very hopeful era of her history. We have also a paper on " Extinct Species," by Dr. Scoffern, and the new sphere which Central Asia presents for Bri tish commerce is dilated upon at some length. " Working in the Dark," a regular French novel, is continued, and a is ingeniously d e si g ned, short story, _"Left Well Off," I I