The Sun. — London, England, 1866-03-29 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TEL'S DAY.—M®rning, lh. 6m.—Afternoon, lh. 30m. TJ-Monitow.-Morning, lh. 50m.—Afternoon, 2h. 6m. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.- Sole Lessee and Mansgar, Mr. Buckstons. On SATURDAY NEXT, THE OVERLAND ROUTE: Messrs. Buckitone, Compton. Chippendale, Farren, Rogers, Gordon, Braid, Clark. Weathersby, White, Coe, ac.; Mes dames Snowdon, Hill, Wright. Coleman, Moore, Sm. and Mr. Aft e r which, BOX A.,IND COX : Mr. Buckstone Crompton. Concluding with THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. Commence at Seven. NEW THE ATRE-ROYAL ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THROUGH FIRE AND s$ wool gaTER : Messrs. J. L. Toole, It Phillips , Bil lin g ton ; bs Wr and Miss H. Simms. After which, THE WRECK ASHORE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford. S. uart, Biliingtcr, Ashley ; Miss Woolgar and Miss 11. Simms. To conclude wih LEIIIND TIME. Messrs. J. L. Toole, H. Eburne, t C. J. Smith ; Miss A. S e aman, &c. OY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, A GHOST IN SPITE OF RINI SELF. After which, at a quarter to Eight, TUE oS TREETS OF LO .N DON. Messrs. Vining. T. Mead, D. Murray. Shr , e Villiers; Mrs. 11. Marlon, M.isi E. Barnett, and Miss K. Rodgers. _ . _ ---:::------- ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. au ageress, him. Swanborough. Sole Lessee and b l THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock. a new and origi. nal Comedy, THE FL Y, AND THE WEB. Messrs. For telle and Price ; Blisles Swanborough and Raynham. After which J ame t Grand, Burlesque, IVANHOE. Messrs st o y; , e, 3 borne, son k enton : Mesdames Swanborougb, Raynfiarn, Simpson. Johnstone, and Hughes. To conclude with THE ARTFUL DODGE: Mr. Belford. ci A DLER'S WELLS THEATRE.— M . tinder the Sole Management of Mr. W. H. C. Nation.— RE-OPEN for the Summer Season on EASTER- N() NDAY, April 2, 1816, with a powerful Company, selected from the principal London and Provincial Theatres. DurVig the recess the Theatre has been renovated and decorated; entirely new Orchestra Stalls, with a sei arate entrance, added ; the Dress Circle and Pit S. ata recovered, and no expense spared to render this Theatre one of the most elegant and comtor, able in London. On EASTER-MONDAY, April 2, and during the week. will be presented the great Domestic Drama, in Three Acts, of BEL PIIEGOR: Messrs. T. Swinbourne, G. Belmore; Misses Ada Dya', Hudspeth, and Mrs. Poynter. After which (first time at this Theatre), ;the Ever-green Burlesque, by F. C. Burnand, Esq , of IXION : Misses Lizzie Willawre, Fanny Gwynne, Ada Harland, Betty 'Tracey ; Messrs. F. llar.by and G. Belmore. To conclude with (first time for may years), David Gar rica's Farce of A MISS IN HEIL TE : Mr. G. Belmore and Miss Fanny Gwynne. B,ox-office open daily from Eleven till Three. No charge for hooking or programmes. Bonnets arc not admitted in the Vress Circle or Stalls. Doors open at halt-past Six, comme.oce at Seven. Entirely new Orchestra Stalls, with spring gtufied seats and backs, and equal to those of the West-end Theatres, 4s. ; Dress Circle, 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. ; Private Boxes, £1 Is., .£t 10s. Od., and £2 2s.—becond price at Nine. Acting Manager, Mr. NYE CHART. SPECIAL NOTICE. MOSES AND SON'S ESTABLIS HMENTS Ll• will be CLO S ED on SATURDAY EVENING, the 31st inst.. and RE-OPEN as usual on MONDAY MORN ING, the 2d April, at Seven o'clock. E. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Bespoke TaiWs, Habit Makers, Woollen Drapers, Hatters, Rosters, Boot and Shoe Makers, and General Outfitters. LONDO c Ho u ES 89, Ald2 ate • 154'596, 156, 157, Minories ; 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, H BB, 507, 508, New Oxford-street ;1,2, 3, art-street ; 137, 13 4 , Tottenham-court-road ; 283, Eus' on-road, Country Branch—Bradford, Yorkshire. THE "SUN" NEWSPAPER.- G. R. 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HOLMES begs to inform his friends, and the public generally. that he supplies the LATEST EDITIoN of THE SUN" as soon as published --No. 16, Hampstead road, N.W. PORTING.—JOHN ROBERTS supplies the L - 79. LATEST EDITION of "TiiH SUN" as soon as pub lished.-4, Bath-street, City-road, E.C. 'af i i!gg ~~ e,lii- LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 18G6. The hopes that were entertained a short time ago of a peaceful settlement of the differences between the two great German Powers have been speedily dispelled, and we are more justified in thinking that war is imminent than that we shall see diplomacy _carry the day in the arrangement of matters. In Berlin there is a great deal said and written of the probabilities of war, and also of the preparations that are being made to that end. The organ of Count BISMARCK gives detailed accounts of the Austrian armaments. Certainly if the Vienna Government thought that by settling things quickly they would steal a march, they have been greatly mistaken, .because all their movements and plans seem well known to their oppo nents. It can scarcely be that the Aus trians expect to avoid extremities, for they have taken steps for the organisation of their forces, and been at great pains and considerable expense in order not to be taken aback Thus we find that the city o — f 7 Cracow is being fortified and armed in all haste in order to serve as the central point of the first corps. The towns are being garrisoned along this route, and the third,corpsis gathering in Bohemia, and is so strong in artillery that the Norddeutsche considers it is intended especially to act on the offen sive, while the first and second corps respectively stationed in Cracow and in Austrian Silesia, are supposed to be for defensive purposes; and these things indicate a special plan and purpose, and show in an unmistakable manner how far affairs have progressed. Besides these accounts, it seems that special trains are conveying Austrian troops to various destinations, and at Cracow im mense exertion is being used. Night and daylabour ers are engaged in working at the fortifications, and the furlough men are called in. Garrisons are being posted in spots hitherto unoccupied, and in several miner ways great speed is being used to ar range all things in readiness. The Norddeutsche very truly observes that, if, as has been indi cated in Councillor HETZ'S letter, that this war preparation is safely intended tn. protect the Jew s • in Bohemia, it is strange that the Viennese • lournals should have been requested to take as little notice of them as possible, because the more they were commented on the better the pur pose would be auz. N .,,, ed. But the Prussian organ concludes that it wi» ~„t PUS an opinion upon the " even the fortir, . point, for ations of Cracow, for the proctection of the Jewish Bohemians, in a measure it fails to understand, unless, ps, the Austrian Government intends to render ttla, city a new Jerusalem ' , Prussia in the meantime bas n ot been idle, beat has forwar ded a Circular de spat c h to in she to the minor Germa n lays great weight on the insuflicien B y of an appeal to the Federal Diet to arrange the present dispute. In this Circular Note it is declared to be imperatively necessary for the Minor States to take up one side or the other in the event of a struggle taking place; and it is added that the probability:of such an event is rendered more and more imminent through the armaments prepared by Austria. Of course this really signifies that Prussia will consider herself at war with all those lesser States and prin cipalities that do not side with her at the outset, and assist her defensively and offensively. , Such an arbitrary announcement is only in keeping with what has gone before, and is indeed quite worthy of the Government from which A emanates. ia We expected nothing less, but nevertheless it is very harsh and unfair. The unfortunate small States have been duped from the outset, and inas much as they had no part or share in the spoils of the late war. Why should they be dragged into this new dispute that has arisen out of the affair. Of course this Circular Note gives all the blame to Austria, who has violated it, says the Convention made at Gastein, and, furthermore, has assumed a threatening attitude. The fact is that the Vienna statesmen made the mistake of being too timorous and far too vacillating in their policy. Directly Herr VON BISMARCK adopted a blustering tone they gave in, and let all their protestations go to the winds. Of course, as is always ,the case under such circumstances, when the injured party really makes a stand and thinks toleration has been exhausted, the former aggressors professes a great deal of virtuous indignation, and disclaims all share of the blame of the transaction, let the issue be what it may. The despatch con tinues in these emphatic words, " It is urgent for Prussia to know if, and to what extent, she :may rely upon assistance in case she should be attacked by Austria or forced into war by unmistakeable menaces. We have, indeed, approached nearer and faster I to the climax than we anticipated a few weeks hack, but thera is no depending upon precedents or counting with certainty upon possibilities when unscrupulous parties are under consideration, and without Austria found out in an indirect manner that she was likely to be hoodwinked if she trusted to any more diplomatic arrangements as implicitly as she had hitherto done. Every thing tends in the same direction, and proves in an un mistakeable manner that Austria is in earnest 'now, and will not be trifled with any more. The semi-official paper points out dangers which Prussia may incur from the Austrian arma ments, and infers that in consequence of this state of things steps have already been taken to organise military measures in order to provide for the emergency. It is stated also in some private communications from Vienna that Austria is quite resolved to " put an end to the provisional state of affairs in the Duchies, and that, if necessary, she will propose that the question should be referred to an European Congress." This is what the French Emperor proposed two years ago, but our Govern ment refused to acquiesce in the arrangement, knowing that beforethe nations of Europe the claims of Prussia could not be advanced in the same daring and unscrupulous manner as they could when matters were carried on at home. Had Louis NAPOLEON'S proposition been carried out long before this time the vexed question of the Duchies would have been settled somehow or other, but wilful peo ple will have their own way; and thus it has turned out with the statesmen of Berlin, who, with the aid of falsehood and fraud, and backed up by most mistaken friends, have been allowed to ride rough shod over all law and justice, honour and honesty, and to offer an example such as the world of late has seldom witnessed of unscrupulous demands and arbitrary conduct. NEMESIS has sprung up for them, however, in a place and after a fashion in which they least expected to find it, and their late accommodating ally now threatens to become a very formidable enemy. Perhaps it will be all for the best if war is declared between these Power ; for, through the indifference of the other kingdoms of Europe, liberty was quite at a discount in Germany, and all that seemed respected was tyranny in one form or another. It is hard, however, upon those those who will have to suffer the consequences of the horrors of war. Easter week is close at hand, and meteorological science is rapidly rising in importance. Every one is hoping for " a fine Easter," since those to whom the dais of leisure are a matter of personal indif ference are humane enough to feel some interest in the thousands who escape from toil to snatch a breath of sea air or to look at the violets and prim roses peeping out under the hedges. But this fes tival epoch may very suitably be allowed to recal to our recollection those who have no holidays, and those who, whatever their occasional " day out," are kept at the round of continual toil, without even the brief respite which the hours of darkness secure to most of us. To the latter class belong the journeymen bakers, whose grievances have been so often brought before the public that there is really no excuse for not heeding them. Every now and then, however, we get a startling warning, a reminder of a truth which in the midst of more exciting topics of politics, science, and polemics, we are very apt to forget— ' that human beings are not machines. If the neces sary amount of natural rest is denied, health, reason, life itself, must inevitably succumb. In every rank, and among the members of every profes sion, there may be found cases in which individuals have been aetually sacrificed to over work, either from a too ardent and absorbing pursuit of some especial object, or from ignorance of the fundamental laws of health. But the evil which is most to be deplored belongs especially to what are called the working classes. It is a cruel thing for man, woman, or child to be forced by the laws of trade and the necessities of poverty to kill . themselves by excessive labour ; yet this tragedy is being repeated every day on every side of us. If the Registrar-General could tell us the real origin of the diseases which carry of so many of our population in their prime, we should hear some truths which might startle the community and shame the em ployers of labour. There are trades, no doubt, which are injurious in themselves, but the worst of them may usually be mitigated by proper precautions. Very often where the masters provide the proper appliances, the men from ignorance or indifference neglect to use them ; but in too many cases the manufacturers and their foremen appear to look upon those in their employ as the South American planters were said to do on their slaves, as mere agents for getting through a certain amount of work, whom it was cheaper to wear out' and replaced by new than to trouble about preserving. It is very possible for the loudest professors of the rights of man abroad to be domestic tyrants at home; and we English had better take care that all our sympathies are not expended on behalf of the negro in Virginia or Jamaica to the absolute exclusion of white men, toiling, suffer ing, and dying at our own doors. The story of GEORGE SPRIGGS iE a short and simple one. He was one of those martyrs of trade whose sufferings it is nobody's business to redress, and whose grievances:no one.' has time to listen to. His hours of labour would not exac tly h ave su it e d th e framer s of the Factory Bill. They extended from five p.m. one d ay till t wo p.m. t h e next. Th en came thr ee hours rest in his clothes (which were on him for ei g h t das), and when he set to work' again. S uc h were th e y a cts adduced at the inquest, and the master attributed hie Slei• n than neces sary to o h is Cross dislik dislike a t o n traversing oftenerthee g on the sacks distance between because of his sore feet. i for lin 18 a o r 20 hours is w o o n lld t e h r em There is not much maws fe e t reason n fo h r e ngievitinhgerlpvaeyrhaps, looking at the matter -of fact view of _life usually i taken by small tradesmen, need we be astonished at Mr. WHEELER'S Coolly remarking at the inquest that the man laept TFIE : J f SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1866. on the sack .s during his brief rest, "He was not bound to supply him with a bed." We may, however, be allowed to feel a little sur prise that Mr. WHEELER did not keep two men be cause, there was " not half work enough" for one. If eighteen -hoiars a day is not half enough work, Mr. WH EELER'S computation of time must be a little different from that of ordinary mortals, seeing that we do not usually reckon forty hours to a day. Of the time for sleep or rest we say nothing, since that is a necessity which is evidently not dreamt of in Cow-cross philosophy ; but Mrs. YELLALY fashion. Mr "WHEELER has a good deal of virtu ous indignation to spare for the public who insist upon hot rolls for breakfast. On one point we must cordially agree with him : " The state of the journeyman baker is a disgrace to the country." The remedy, however, is not easy to find. Mr. WHEELER might, of course, hare em ployed another journeyman, and so secured them each at least an alternate night's rest; but the whole system of night work is bad, and the simple obser vation of the poor widow " that GEORGE had too much of the bakehouse altogether," expresses a melancholy truth, applicable to a very large propor tion of the 15,000 men of his class in London. The end came at last, the inevitable end, of such excessive and protracted labour, but its extreme suddenness has made the story remarkable. One morning about 3 a.m. the journey man called his master, and asked to be laiddown on his old Mends, the sacks. There was no possibility of reviving him, and two doctors sent for, with singu lar heartlessness, refused to answer the call. A cab, after some trouble, was secured, and poor SPRIGGS was sent to St. Bartholomew's Hospital—a goal he never reached, for the man who had been knocked about by fate all his life ended his restless career in a cab at last, and only the corpse of the poor journey man reached the kindly shelter of St. Bartholomew's. Certainly this story reads as if Reform was not only wanted in the electoral system. It seems as if industry needed to be protected against itself, as if trade was destructive as well as creative, and as if the sooner the whole system of journeymen, apprentices, and others in similar po sitions, were put under regular and impartial in spection the better. Let us hope that poor GEORGE SPRIGGS, humble, patient, and neglected in his life, may not have died in vain, but that the public sense of justice and humanity may be roused to help those who cannot help themselves. The ninth meeting of the Royal Geographical Society this session was held on Monday evening at Burlington House, under the presidency of Sir RODERICK MURCHISON, and the paper of the even ing was singularly interesting. It was written by Sir 11. RAWLLNSON, K.C.8., on M. VENINKOF'S recent account on the Pamir and the sources of the Oxus in Central Asia. The region lying between the southern frontier of Russia and the northern frontier of our Indian empire in Kashmir is very obscure, and presents almost a terra incognito to the geographer. M. VENINKOF'S work is founded on a MS. by an unknown author, whose MS. is date d . 1806, and who professes to be employed by the East India Company to purchase horses for their army. It is accom panied by sketches of the country, tables of astro nomical positions, and several maps. The details given of the natural features of the country and the inhabitants are minute and interesting ; alto gether the production, if authentic, is of the highest value and interest. Sir 11. RAWLINSON, in his re marks upon this singular manuscript, observed that the map founded on it had been made use of in the compilation of the best modern maps of Asia. He is himself, however, of opinion that the whole MS. is au elaborate hoax. Sir HENRY entered at some length into his reasons for this belief, and the diffi culty of the whole question shows the obstacles against which our geographers have to contend. We commend the whole controversy to the atten tion of the curious. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, WQdnesday Evening. The Moniteur to-day is completely barren, as far as foreign news is concerned, and indeed in other respects it is to-day quite devoid of interest. It publishes rather a long letter from Florence, devoted chiefly to the discussion in the Italian Chamber re lative to the election of Mazzini. The latter cha racterises the disc - ussion as remarkable for modera tion, but of course Agrees with its decision that Mazzini, " being deprived of his civil rights by a condemnation for a capital offence, is not eligible for election to the Chamber." There is a lull in the horizon of German politics to-day, but it is rather curious to remark that several of the Paris papers which for some time past have professed to consider war between Austria and Prussia to be inevitable now seem to entertain the possibility of " making things pleasant" between them. A curious case of resuscitation from death has occurred at Brocou, near Vienne (France). A lady named Degusseau, 34 years of age, was supposed to be dead, and the time for the funeral was fixed. The mourners assembled at the house, but before the undertakers were about to take the coffin to the church, a woman who is in the habit of attending to the dead put her hand to the supposed corpse, and felt a slight movement. It was a living, not a dead body. Some brandy was administered, and breath returned. The lady has been in a state of lethargy for some days, and was still in that condition when the last account of the case was sent from Vienne. The annual ham fair, held in Passion-week on the Boulevard Bourdon began yesterday, and pre sented a scene of great excitement in consequence of the fears entertained relative to trichinose. The crowd was so considerable that it was difficult to move. It is customary with the Parisians to pro vide :larger quantities of ham during Passion-week as an adjunct to the festivities of Easter. This year the sale has been considerably checked, although the dealers took the precaution to post bills contain ing an extract from the report of the French veteri nary surgeons sent to Germany to study the disease, in which they state that it does not exist in France. Unfortunately for the pork dealers, however, people are afraid of the trichinose. The alternations in the weather in Paris during the last week have been really extraordinary. Yes terday morning at six o'clock the air was frosty, but before sunset there was a storm of thunder and lightning, not very heavy, it is true, but the rain fell with violence and abundance. To-day the weather has been warm and beautiful. The negotiations between the Governments iof Berlin and Hanover relative to the construction of a railway direct have terminated satisfactorily. The advantage of this railway for Prussia will be very great, for, in addition to the facility of transport to Hanover, it will give her a direct commufiication with the North Sea. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Drouyn de Lhuys, " albeit unused to the melting mood," can sometimes unbend from the asperities of foreign politics, and prove that he knows the .value of in dustrial and scientific progress. At the recent meeting of the Zoological Society of Acclimatation, at which M. Drouyn de Lhuys presided, he made a very interesting speech, full of historical research and information, relative to the culture of the vine, a branch of industry so vitally important for France. He said that the culture of the vine and the manufacture of wine from the juice of the grape could be traced to the earliest ages. In the days of Pliny tho wines made in the district of the Delta were purchased at a high price by the con , notsseurts of 'tome, The Bible mentioned the cul- ture of the vine by Noah, and the wines Made in some of the districts there named were still in re repute. Homer, in " The Odyssey," spoke of the wine made on the coast of Thrace, which was so strong that it would bear twenty times its volume of water. The Romans did not acquire perfection in the manufacture of wine till much later, but the conquest of Greece enriched the vineyards of Italy, and afterwards out of twenty different sorts of wine, Italy, according to Pliny, furnished two thirds. France had assumed now the first place among wine countries. The vine from which the celebrated Tokay wine was made was now accli matised near Montpellier, and experiments were in progress in the environs of Rheims with Portuguese vines for the manufacture of port. Russia was entirely dependent upon France for her vines and wine. Australia was beginning to make good wine with the produce of the vines from France. California had been able to make wine for ten years past with French vines. In conclusion, M. Drouyn de Lhuys said that for two centuries the world had made an advance in acclimatation without knowing it, and France, guided only by the instinct of her cultivat ing genius, bad made great progress in wine making before science had discovered the first germs of the art. Aided by science, however, the improvement in the wines of France would now be sure and rapid. In the pamphlet on cholera by Dr. Charles Shrimpton, to which I have already alluded, the author, after citing various authorities to prove that the disease is not propagated by contagion, a doctrine which he supports by powerful argu ments, the author gives his own opinion. As Mr. Shrimpton is considered in Paris to be a first-rate authority upon all points connected with the medi cal art, your readers will naturally be interested in knowing his views regarding this terrible disease. He says, " Frankly, it seems impossible in the pre sence of facts so positive, which are repeated daily and which are patent to all the world, not to attri bute the propagation of cholera to some electrical action, yet unknown, but very real, particularly as the direction and the violence of the winds do not exercise any influence upon this formidable disease." This theory well deserves investigation by the pro fession and by men of Science generally. In Paris the pamphlet has excited great interest. The Abyssinian Prison - rs. TO THE EDITOR OF THE sus. Reuter's Telegram Company (Limited), 1, Royal Exchange-buildings, E.C., London, March 28. Sir,—•l beg to call your attention to the fact that the letter from Dr. Beke, alluded to in the telegram received to-day at the Foreign Office from her Majesty's Consul-General in Egypt, bears a date antecedent to that of the letter from the same gen tleman communicated by me to the journals on Monday last, the one being' dated 12th February, and the other 17th February. 'ln forwarding the latter communication Dr. Beke referred to a letter he had written previously, but which has never come to hand, wherein he had stated that Mr. Rassam had met the Emperor Theodore, and was well received. This statement Dr. Beke declares to be false, he having been deceived by Mr. Rassam's messenger. His own words are :—"I have been grossly deceived by Mr. Rassam's messenger, whose report of that gentleman having met the Emperoi Theodore and been well received by him is as untrue as the tele gram announcing Consul Cameron's return, sent by Mr. Rassam from Suez on the sth September last." This denial was not given by me because the state ment to which it referred had not been received. From these facts it would appear that the contents of the missing letter have come into the hands of the English Consul in Egypt, who has doubtless telegraphed them in ignorance of the later in formation. The latest news from Dr. Beke is contained in his letter of 17th February, received by me and published yesterday, in which he states that Mr. Rassam was to await at Debra Tabor or Korata the Emperor's return from his campaign in Go-djam.--- I am, Sir, yours, &c., Jumus REUTER. The Excommunication of Bishop Colenso. In consequence of the deposition of Dr. Colenso from his office of Bishop of Natal by Dr. Gray, the Metropolitan of South Africa, a new bishop has been designated and will shortly be consecrated ; but his name has not yet publicly transpired. Meanwhile Dr. Colenso intimates his intention to maintain his legal rights as a colonial bishop, and to enforce his demands against the Colonial Bishoprics Fund, from which his salary is paid. In the suit which will be heard in the next term, Dr. Colenso, who is the plaintiff, sets out 'that when the see of Natal was founded, the Council of the Colonial Bishoprics Fund agreed with her Majesty's Government to appropriate for ever out of the proceeds of the fund to the use of the Bishop of Natal the sum of £662 per annum. He states that the annual income was duly paid to him after his consecration by the trea surers down to and including the half-yearly pay ment due on April 5, 1864, but has not since been paid ; and in the month of July, 1864, he received a letter from the treasurers, in which it was stated that they had directed the salary hitherto allowed for the bishopric of Natal to be reserved and carried to a separate account. Bishop Colenso will now pray that the sum guaranteed may be paid to him, and that the costs may be paid by the defendants, viz., Mr. Gladstone (Chancellor of the Exchequer), Vice-Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood, the Arch deacon of London, and Mr. J. G. Hubbard, M.F: The Archbishops of Canterbury and York and the Attorney-General are also nominal defendants. In their answer to the bill which Bishop Colenso has filed, the defendants set out the circumstances under which the fund was formed. In June, 1853, the council of the fund appropriated a capital sum of £lO,OOO for the establishment of the bishopric of Natal, and Dr. Colenso was nominated bishop by the Duke of Newcastle, who was then Colonial Secretary. The defendants ufge that they had nothing to do with the appointment of Bishop Colenso. Having adverted to the letters patent and the recent judgment'of the Judicial Committee of Privy Council, the.defendants say in their answer —" We are advised that, in accordance with the said judgment, the letters patent are null and void so far as they purport to create any diocese, or to confer any legal jurisdiction or authority on the plaintiff, and that the plaintiff has no power to exer cise the function of a bishop in the colony of Natal ; or, at all events, has no jurisdiction as a bishop in the colony, and is not himself subject to the juris diction of the Bishop of Cape Town as his metro politan, or to any other spiritual or ecclesiastical jurisdiction whatever ; and we submit that if such is the case the objects for which the funds were sub scribed and invested have not been obtained, which objects were, in the -first place, to secure the pastoral care of a bishop for the clergy and people of the diocese of Natal, and in the second place to bring such bishop under the jurisdiction of the metropo litan, himself being subject to the Archbishop of Canterbury ; and we declare our belief that none of the contributors to the Colonial Bishoprics Fund intended to contribute towards the support of a bishop, such as the judgment of the Judicial Com mittee of her Majesty's Privy Council has decided the plaintiff to be. That is, a bishop without any jurisdiction'over his clergy on the one hand, and entirely independent of all metropolitan jurisdic tion on the other." The defendants further allege " that the clergy of the diocese of Natal have refused obedience to Bishop Colenso—that one of the fun damental principles of all arrangements for the erec tion and endowment of colonial bishopric-3 was the maintenance and preservation of strict connection and discipline between such bishops and the United Church of England and Ireland, that all the arch bishops and bishops of such Church are trustees for the endowment of the see of Natal, and as such are authorised to withhold the income from the plain tiff." The case will be heard by Lord Romilly. THE EXTRAORDINARY GULL 0 TINE SUICIDE.- -This morning Mr. Payne, the coroner for the City of London, opened an inquest at the Sugar Loaf, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street, into the circumstances at tending the death of M. Yellers or Vollara, who destroyed himself a few days ago by means of a self-acting gullotine. The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict that the deceased committed the act while in a sound state 91 mind, LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. BRUSSELS, MAncn 29. The Indepentlance Beige of to-day publishes tele graphic intelligence from IVeime, according to which the' King of Prussia gave his consent on Monday last to certain military arrangements, which, although only of a preliminary nature, in dicate that war is almost inevitable. SPAIN. MADRID, MAncli 28 (Evening). Senor Rios Rosas, President of the Congress ; Senor Silvela, Director of Public Instruction ; and some other members of the Congress who abstained from voting upon the motion of Senor Fages for the reduction of the army, have tendered their resigna tions. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 29. The Hamburgh and American Company's steamer Borussia, from New York on the 17th inst., passed the Needles at 11.10 a.m. to-day. FRANCE. La Patric declares to be untrue the statements put forward. by several journals to the effect that unfavourable news had been received concerning the mission of Baron Saillard. The Baron had met at Cuernavaca the Emperor Maximilian, but up to February 25, the latest date from Mexico, no arrangement had been concluded. It is expected that the next mail (to arrive at St. Nazaire on April 8) will bring despatches from Baron Sail lard, with the official reply of the pnperor Maxi milian. BOURSE, March 28, Three o'clock.—The market closed at the following quotations :- 41- 13er Cents 97 20 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 6B 321 Do. end month 6B 30 Credit Mobilier Do. end month 665 Bank Shares 3610 Credit Fonder — Italian Loan 6O 25 Do. end month 6O 05 RAIL' Roman ...A — Ottoman Fives — Mexican Loan 4B Do. Bonds 3OO Russian — Austrian — Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred PAYE. Cash. Acct. ••• ... 872 50 1122 50 ~ 885 - - 555 - - 562 50 538 75 ... 103 75 ... 390 - - ... 400 - - ... 165 - - ~. 200 Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern Western. Eastern Sardinian . .. Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Roman - - ... 88 75 A National Debt of Honour. (From Punch.) You are occasionally informed by the newspapers that a meeting has been held by the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt. The next time these gentlemen meet they will perhaps take into consideration, and report upon, a debt of about £6,100 which the nation owes to the surviving rela tives of the late Admiral Fitzroy. The sum above stated, and rather more, was so much money per sonally expended by Admiral Fitzroy on the public service and never repaid to him. In particular, now some thirty years ago, " this conscientious sur veyor, unwilling to quit his South American station without rendering his services in every way com plete, had hired two additional vessels at his own cost to finish off the examination of the coasts of the Falkland Islands, and subsequently purchased a third, besides fitting out the Beagle to a great ex tent at his own expense." Was not this statement made by Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, at the Royal Geographical Society, in his anniversary ad dress to that scientific body, delivered May 22, 1863? And did not the eminent speaker on that occasion also relate how, as long ago as 1829, " young Fitzroy" gained credit by his discovery of the Otway water in the Straits of Magellan, insomuch that his commanding officer, Captain Philip King, very much applauding what he had done, named one of the chief sea passages Fitzroy Strait ? Everybody knows the work that Fitzroy did as chief of the Weather-office—a capa city wherein, having saved a multitude of lives, he finally, from over-exertion, lost his own. He died morally worth millions ; fiscally worth less than nothing : in debt £3,000. The late first Minister of the Crown promised to confer a pension on Mrs. Fitzroy, a promise which was more than he found himself able to perform. Government can do no more than ask authority from the House of Com mons for a grant sufficient to liquidate the debt which was all that the admiral left behind him. The times are so bad ; the nation is so poor, and is in debted to so many benefactors who had spent more thon their all upon their country before they died! The progress of a magnificent structure in course of erection by 'a grateful country in Hyde-park shows, however, that Englishmen can contribute something out of their poverty in acknowledgment of true merit, even when its claims are not forced by necessity. In behalf of the late Admiral Fitz roy's widow and children, the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce has formed a fund to be called " The Admiral Fitzroy Testimonial Fund," to whose com mittee the honorary secretary in London is Charles Shaw, Esq., 55, Charing-cross ; the secretary an d treasurer in Liverpool is William Ferguson, Esq., Liverpool and London-chambers ; and their Lon don bankers are Messrs. Coutts and Co. ILLNESS OF THE LORD CHIEF JIISTICE.—The Lord Chief Justice was unable, from a sudden attack of indisposition, to preside at the N orw i c h A ss i zos yesterday. Mr. Baron Martin intimated to the court that his lordship would probably be able to resume his duties to-day :he could not, however, speak with any degree of certainty. The Kladderedaatsh, the Punch of Berlin, has a clever and somewhat ominous cartoon. Austria and Prus sia, as two gladiators, are approaching a throne upon which the Emperor of the French is seated, clothed in the toga, with the laurel wreath of victory encircling his brow. The gladiators are holding up their swords, and uttering the formula, " Morituri to salutant," whilst the Emperor Napoleon's countenance expresses the delight he feels at the prospect of this combat a l'ontrance. STREET NOMENCLATURE IN THE CITY OF LONDON. —Seundsditch was so called from a ditch which was ren dered intolerable by the stench of dead dogs whose bodies were thrown into it. Clorkenwoll takes its name from an old custom of the p ar i s h c l er k s, w h o use d t o assemble a;, a inwell the neighbourhood for the purpose of acting Scripture plays. The Barbican speaks for itself. A bar bican or watch-tower, from the top of which might be seen a fine view of the town, formerly stood here. The actual spot on which the Tower was built is now ignominiously occupied by a watchhouse. Choapside, as all the world knows, is simply chepo, a market ; and, in like manner, Cornhill is merely a corn market established on a piece of rising -ground. Particular localities were distinguished by particular trades or callings, and took their names accord ingly. Bread-street, for instance, was a bread market in the old times, the bakers being prohibited by stringent City regulations from selling bread in their shops. Cloth fair, inhabited chiefly by drapers and mercers, was the re sort of clothiers from all parts of the country. Milk-street was the great market for milk ; as Mincing-lane, called after the Minchuns, or nuns of St. Helen (who had their priory and hall in another part of the City, where the name of St. Helen is still retained), was the principal sugar market. Staining-lane, Cheapside, was so called because it was chiefly inhabited by painter-stainers. Similar cases might be easily accumulated.—Reader. THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON I'ENTONVILLE-HILL. —Yesterday at the Royal Free Hospital Dr. Lan kester resumed his inquiry into the circumstances attend ing the death of Mr. Frith, a Dissenting minister, of Mar garet-gro-Ve, Mildmay Park, who, on Sunday the 11th inst., was knocked down by a van on Pentonville-hill and killed. The particulars of the occurrence were given at the time. Evidence was now adduced connecting a man named Robert Smith, who came from Birmingham, with the charge of manslaughter. He is a horsedealer, and he sold the horse he was driving when Mr. Frith was injured on the same evening to a man at Mile-end, and since then he himself cannot be found, although the police are acquainted with his usual haunts. The van that he drove is the pro perty of another man ; the step which was at the time of the accident broken off the van cannot now bo found. The inquest was again adjourned. RICHARD M. will shortly be played at the Porte St. Martin. LITERATURE. Hester's Sacrce. By the author of " St. Olave's," " Janita's Cross," &c. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. It is always pleasant to read a work by the author, or, we should say, the authoress of " St. Olave's." Her style is so refined and graceful, without the least appearance of effort, her charac ters are (for the most part) so natural, and the purpose of her writing is always earnest and elevated. The discipline of life is the moral of her works. Whether it is " Janita" bearing her " cross" or " Hester" acquiescing in her " sacrifice," the same lesson—the lesson of Longfellow's Psalm of Life—is ever enforced very simply but very touch ingly enforced—by the author of " St. Olave's." The work just published bears many of the admir able characteristics of its predecessors. Hester Tredegar is just the heroine to offer a sacrifice; and her sister, the wild, impetuous May-Blossom, is just the character to sacrifice, no matter whom, to her wayward caprices of the moment. When we first meet Hester she is " a shy, quiet girl of three-or four-and-twenty. Pleasant to look upon if only for the reason that there was nothing remarkably striking about her." And then " Hester was a fanciful girl, fond of building castles in the air—castles which all came down with a crash before the top-stone was put on." Two events come to disturb and brighten the monotonous current of Hester's every day life. Basil Brooke is appointed to the master ship of the Angusbury school of art, in which Hester is one of the most proficient pupils, and little May, the darling little May, dear as a child to her elder sister, returns home from her foreign school. The experienced reader easily surmises how these two events, each so delightful , in itself, painfully affect each other, as far, at least, as poor Hester is concerned. The following very happy simile depicts Hester in the hour of her sacri fice ; LIFE'S PICTURE. It is generally with bright, joyous expectancy that a young artist stands before the canvas on which is to be shaped forth the picture, whose fair ideal has for months been slowly growing in his thoughts. He is haunted by no vexing dreams of failure. He knows that the practised eye, the skilful right hand, will faithfully reproduce the glowing image of his fancy. Even now, on that unstained canvas, he can see the complete picture. From the sunny foreground, away to the purple distance, all seems to stand out brave and clear. Time and patience, only these, and he is sure of success. So he labours steadily on for a few months, and then come weariness and doubt. The unfinished picture mocks the fair ideal of his dreams. Its colours are so tame, its outlines hint so faintly and feebly of the graceful forms they should reveal. Can it be that anything worthy should ever grow from so imperfect a beginning ? Mis trust says, "No, leave it ; cast it aside. It has deceived you, you can do no more." Let him listen to that voice, and all is lost. Labour and design have alike been wasted. But let him take heart and go on, even though it be but slowly, and with little hope, and ere long light will dawn again. Once more the willing hand shall truly serve the creating mind. Those colours that seemed so poor and dim shall deepen into beauty. As he works on, there shall come back to him the glow and glory of his first love. It was but a passing cloud. Will and power were stillthere, only he was faint hearted, and could not discern them. He will fear no more now. Steadily he will go on, until the picture is complete, and all say of it, " How fair !" Like to the artist's work, is that other and more glorious picture of a human life, to those who, with earnest care and patient thought, are striving to make it perfect. Far off, but not too far for faith's strong sight, is their divine ideal. Striving, they will surely win to it. They have the will, they have the power. The untouched canvas is all their own as yet, and the picture shall be so beautiful. But to them, too, before the work is complete, doubt and weariness come. They look at what they have done, and there is no beauty in it. Yonder is their ideal, so divine ; here their actual, so poor and mean. The colours with which they thought to do so much are faded now. How can they paint a golden sunset with the dim tints of a November sky ; how, with uncertain hand and bewildered eye, bid to spring forth upon that spoiled canvas any shape of beauty or delight ? And the tired heart says "It is enough. All is over." Yet this cloud, too, will pass away. The colours are all there still, it is only the darkness that hides them. Hand and eyo have lost their skill for a little while. Work on, though it be in gloom and doubt. Work on, though no bright glow of hope tells you that you are working for success. Work on, though it be with aching eye and nerveless hand, and ere long you too, so despairing now, shall bring to the great Master a life of which He shall say, " Well done." _ _ In the same strain of simple eloquence we read on, and we cannot give a better example of the aathor's graceful style and noble purpose : Hester began her life-picture one bright April day, when the trees which autumn had just now stripped were shaking out their young tresses in the sunshine. She thought it would be a very beautiful picture. She had worked at it hopefully, day by day adding fresh colours, day by day coming nearer to the fair ideal which her fancy shaped. She knew no weariness. she felt no doubt ; hers the skilful hand ; until one day there was no more power to work. All the sunlight had died out. She had no bright colours left. Worse than that, the right hand had lost its cunning, the graceful fancy its power to create. She could but stand and weep bitter tears over what had been so fair. She could but mourn for labour spent in vain, for a past wherein was no content, and a future wherein was no hope. Helplessly and very sadly now, Hester looked at her spoiled picture. , Yet was it quite spoiled ? Might she not, like the over worn artist, wake after a short rest to find both will and power returned ? Might she not, drying her tear-dimmed eyes, lift them once more io that lost ideal, and find'it transfigured into a diviner glory, even the glory that ex celleth ? There, the future could never be so bright and sunny. Many a picture that was begun for the golden morning time has changed, ere the artist finished it, to the calm stillness of evening. Yet the master will not less truly say of such, " Well done." Nay, perhaps that work into which, by no sin of the worker, the deepest shades have come, shall have the most honourable place in heaven's great gallery. Hester had suffered, but she had done no wrong. And it is only wrong doing that can harm. No grief or dis appointment can hurt the true soul. They will but give more strength. They are enemies, which, nobly con quered, yield their weapons to the victor, that ho may do worthier battle with the next foe. She had been wounded, but not unto death. Thera was hope still, that she might rise and win. Very different from Hester is her sister, the spoiled, capricious, but, withal, charming May. " There was a fine, chaste coolness about Hester's beauty, the colourless charm of thought and soul. But when nature moulded the younger sister she was in a brighter mood, and so she showered over her rippling head a glory as of molten gold, and tinged her cheek with rose-like bloom, and coloured the rich full lips like twin cherries, and shed over her a warm, soft, _ mellow glow. So that while Hester reminded you of some moonlight landscape, May was that landscape steeped in all the radiance of summer sunset." Very delightful is the picture of dear old Miss Lapiter, the good Old Maid of Angusbury. Miss Lapiter, of Rose Cottage, was one of the merriest, funniest, most talkative and loveable of maiden ladies ; a perennial spring of mirth and good temper ; a notable example of single blessedness ; a standing proof of the happiness which may be attained in the much-maligned state of spinsterhood. For if there ever was a woman who lived in the sunshine, who absorbed it into her very face, from which it seemed to ray out in perpetual smiles, that woman was the daughter of. Isaac Lapiter, M.D., and sister of the late Rev. Josiah Lapiter, rector of St. Angusbury cum-Monkland. Among the interesting characters introduced to us in this novel is once which is singularly out of place—namely, that of-the passionate creole Ginevra Fassanette, alias the malicious and vindictive servant maid Jane Fawcett. As hypocrisy is said to be the homage that Vice pays to Virtue, so we cannot but regard the introduction of this unnatural character, and her very marvellous melodramatic revenge as the author's (very mistaken) tribute to the " sen sational" fashion of the day. It is a mistake much to be deplored by all who appreciate and admire the many sterling excellenzies of the generally truthful and natural author of " St. Olave's.'? A MASS, BY LISZT, THE CELEBRATED PIANIST, now in orders, vas performed on the great organ of St. Eustache on Thursday week last, with the aid of several eminent vocalists. The proceeds of the seats, amounting to 60,000 francs, went in aid of the schools of the arrondissement, the Cardinal, Archbishop of Rouen, preaching in favour of the charity. This mass was written nearly ten years ago for the Emperor of Austria, and is called the "Coronation Mass ;" it is in the severest style of the early Church music, and wholly devoid of melodies. The following day, the composer being at the Austrian Embassy, and urged to play, contented himself with ac companying Ldonard, the violin player, in a piece by Schumann. At Rcssini's also he was to be seen, not heard. He is greatly aged, and bent as if from bodily weak neoi ; and just now is the great NO; of the Parisian World. HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Wednesday. The Queen, with Princess Helena, drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon, and walked and drove this morning, attended by the Hon: Diary Lascellcs. Her Royal Highness Princess Louise rode in th© Home Park. Lord Camoys and Major-General F. Seymour, C. 8., have succeeded Lord Methuen and Lieut.- Colonel Kingscote as Lord and Groom in Waiting. The Prince of Wales at Littleton. STAINES, Wednesday. This morning his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended by Lieut.-Colonel Keppel and ac companied by the Duke of Sutherland, left Water loo station by the 10.50 a.m. Reading train, on the South- Western Railway, and arrived at Staines at 11.36 a.m. His Royal Highness, who travelled in a saloon carriage, was met at the station by Major- General Hood, the master ( f the Prince's harriers, from Cumberland Lodge, Mr. Hill, the divisional superintendent of the line, being in attendance on the part of the company. His Royal Highness on quitting Staines rode with his suite by way of Laleham to Littleton, the an cestral residence of the Wood family. General Wood himself met his illustrious guest on the road, and accompanied the Prince to-the mansion, where his Royal Highness was received by Mrs. Wood. The Prince alighted from his horse opposite the entrance, and, with the gentlemen of his suite, pro ceeded to the hall, where some light refreshments were laid, to which the company did justice. About ten minutes after the Prince's arrival his Serene Highness Prince Hohenlohe, with Major-General Seymour, reached Littleton, having driven over from Windsor Castle in an open carriage and pair. After taking refreshments the Prince of Wales passed into the " saloon," a very beautiful apart ment, and examined the paintings and works of art. Among the most noticeable of these are Hogarth's " Actors in the Barn," a sketch of William IV., and other chef d'ceuvres. The Prince and suite then remounted and joined the field, among whom were many of the neighbouring gentry, outside the house. Jem King, the Prince's hunts man, then trotted the hounds to a field in front of the house, where sport was found, the chase leading across the park. The hunting was principally confined to the vicinity of Littleton, Feltham, and Laleham, and after some hard gallop ing the Prince drove to Windsor Castle. The last 'meet this season with the Prince of Wales's harriers is, it is understood, fixed to take place at Cippenham, near Slough, on Saturday, when a red deer will be turned out. His Royal Highness is expected to attend. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, with the infant Princes, Albert Victor and George, attended by General Knollys and suite, left Paddington by the five o'clock train on the Great Western Railway, and arrived at Windsor at 5.37 p.m. Captain Bulkeley, director, and Mr. A. Hig gins, accompanied the train. Her Royal Highness and the little Princes, who seemed in good health, drove to the Castle on a visit to her Majesty. Their Royal Highnesses will remain the guests of the Queen till Saturday, and during their residence at the Castle will occupy a suite of apartments in King Edward the Third's Tower. EXETER HALL. —The last of the Passion-week oratorios will be given to-night by the National Choral Society, under the direction of Mr. G. W. Martin. The " Creation" is the oratorio selected; the principal soloists —Madame Lemmens-Sherrington, Mr. Leigh Wilson, and Mr. Santley ; organist, Mr. John G. Boardman. Handers " Israel in Egypt" and "Adis and Galatea" will shortly be produced by the above society. Band and chorus, 700. ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION.----A new en tertainment, by Mr. F. C. Burnand, the popular author of "Ixion," is advertised for Easter Monday, under the rather novel title of "A Yachting Cruise." The scene, we hear, takes place on board a yacht anchored off Valetta. Among the incidents of a comic nature is the flight of an unhappy gentleman from the management of three Mothers in-law, personated, with the previous experiences of the Sisters Pry, by Mr. and Mrs. German Reed and Mr. John Parry. A rehearsal of an operetta, the theme of which is the tragedy of Hamlet, is said to be extremely amusing. The evening will close with Mr. John Parry's new song of " The Wedding Breakfast at Mrs. Roseleaf's." GUY'S PATENT DEEP-SEA TELEGRAPH CABLE.-- This cable, although described by the inventor as stronger than any deep-sea cable yet constructed, is made so buoyant by the combination of cork carpet, or cork carpet pulp, and india rubber, as to diminish very consi derably, if it does not in fact entirely take away, all risk of strain on the conductor in paying out. It partially floats away from the ship and gradually finds its own bed, being one-third lighter in water than in air. HONITON ELECTION.—The election of a member of Parliament for the borough of Honiton, in the room of the late Mr. David Goldsmid, took place yesterdaY . There was only one candidate in the field, Mr. Julian Gold amid, son of the late member, notwithstanding that en announcement had appeared to the effect that Mr. Hol lings, an attorney, would contest the election. The norm" nation of the Liberal candidate was proposed by Mr. _Ash" leigh and seconded by Mr. Knight. Mr. J. Goldsmid Wa g declared duly elected. Mr. Spence returned thanks on be half of Mr. Goldsmid, who, on account of his father'm re cent death, was not present. He explained that the 1 1011 ; gentleman's absence was to be attributed to filial piety and religious scruples. The brevity of his address was owing to the same cause. He was not unknown in the politica l arena, his creed being in strict accordance with that of his predecessor. The speaker alluded to the efforts of the Goldsmid family in endeavouring to unsectarianise the uni" versities, and complimented Mr. Coleridge (the member for Exeter) on the manner in which he had introduced the University Tests Abolition Bill into Parliament. THE FATE OP THE REFORM BILL, on which the Ministry has been so ill-advised as to stake i t° reputation and fortunes, says the Saturday Review, cannot be a matter of much doubt, after the notices given byLord Grosvenor and, Sir William Hutt. If the Government can" not rely on the support of a young Whi g no bl em an, and c 4 a veteran official who a few months ago was a memb er : . although a very humble one, of the Ministry, on Wh at effectual support can it rely ? Tho more pertinacie es organs of the Ministry strive to console and animate their party by pointing out that Lord Grosvenor is only a sham Liberal, a landowner and an aristocrat; and that SirWillian; Hutt is merely moved by private pique, and is trying 1 avenge himself on the great people who compelled him t° abandon the tiny glory of a Vice-Presidentship for the inef honours of a baronetcy. This may be so, but the loll_ the motives ascribed to tho backsliders, the more cant is their desertion. If Lord Grosvenor is merely act ' ing with the selfish timidity of a Whig landowner, it ranst at least be supposed that he has also bean selfish e nough w calculate the consequences of the step he has taken. It is , exceedingly unlikely that he should have made himself t'o spokesman of dissatisfaction unless he knew that a g reat t ; many other persons who were also Whigs and landowners thought as he did, and were seriously opposed to the P a , i ss, , ing of a Reform Bill that was to be necessarily and avovireus', followed by at least 10 others. The Whig landovi u° ' r a before they allowed a man holding such a position a s Grosvenor to come forward on their behalf, must gauged as well as they could the feelings of the const l ,,4 encies they influence or represent, and must have d ecided that there was no feeling in those constituencies in f ay°. of the Government measure. Mr. SWINBURNE'S PANEGYRIC on the matchless ease of Lord Byron's style o f wr iti n g in ‘?'',.aclda Juan" is thus exquisitely ex p resse d : —B e t we en " 1 "' m e Harold" and "Don Juan," says the young poet, the Sire difference exists which a swimmer feels between water and "sea-water: the one is fluent, yielding , s _ da variable; the other has in it a life and pulse, a sting swell, which touch and excite the nerves like fire or • • fol music. Across the stanzas of "Don Juan" we swill s a k e n ward as over "the broad backs of the sea;" they brews oat glitter, hiss and laugh, murmur and move,-like wave „et sound or that subside. There is in them a delicious re ance and elastic motion, which salt water has and fair, water has not. There is about them a wide wholesore sn ' tit full of vivid light and constant wind, which is only! _laic! sea. Life undulates and death palpitates in the 01.?1°_;:ttv. verse which resumes the evidence of a brave and L I sea , sighted man concerning life and death. He re, as sat er, there is enough and to o much of flue; 0 and intermission : the ripp l e fl ags a nd falls of of loose and lazy lines ; the foam files v any mark, and the breakers collapse here and there In °ok' den ruin and violent failure. But the violen ce and ness of the sea are preferable to the smooth, sounaive equable security of a lake : its buoyant and prog:re7tigh i mpu lse sustains and propels those who wouldaiilk t nru s i i n ek t e h n e s fl , a a t n a d n d others placid w sh h a o l l m o wi its. . e h T i l h l s e r ; whom weariness it do well to steer inshore. t are 0 0 t bweirsi Cirtnbt 4