The Sun. — London, England, 1866-01-22 00:00:00

QOUTII KENSIN GTON, HYDE-PARK, Queen's, and Rutland Gates, Queen'saPiing Peters ham Terraces, Queen's -gate, Cornwall, and s Gardens, Elvaston-place, Cromwell-rosd, Onslow and Thurloc Squares, Boltons. &c. Messrs TOPLI4 and RO ISE itTS have RE DENCES to SELL and LET in these and surrounding* localities. Offices, 2, Conduit-street, Regent-street, and South Kensington, lacing the Museum. - - LIFEBOAT SERVI C ES. —1) uring the storms of the past year the National I.ifeb9at Institution, by its ,ifeboats and other means, contributed to the savin; of 707 persons from 4illerent wrecks on our coasts. The Insti tution also expended £21,374 in the same peris,d on its life boat otablishmeats, in addition to granting £4,930 for to wards for saving life and exert.tising the lifeboats. inquiry now instituted." This last intimation is rendered very necessary in consequence of the extraordinary and unwarrant able conduct of certain parties, who, not content with the strange subserviency of the Government to their views, declare that they must act for them selves. This memorial from Bath is very welcome at the present time, and as time goes on we shall meet with many similar ones, while the searching inquiries that are said to be made in the matter when the House meets,' will not be very easy to answer. It is long since Ministers met Parliament with so awkward an affair pending over them, and it is very doubtful if they will be able to extricate themselves from the difficulty with anything like credit to themselves, or satisfaction to the House and country. The Committee of the Institution earnestly A i'PEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on the lobtaution's 150 lifeboat Stations. Contributions are received by the London and country bauk , Ts ; and by the ticcretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. (Opera Company, Limited.) Tills EVENING (MONDAY), Mr. Charles Deffelli's new opera, In one act, CHRISTMAS EVE. Madame F. Lancia, Madame E. Heywood; Mr. A. Cook, and Mr. D. Miranda. Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon. After which. at 8, the grand comic, spectacular, and ope ratic Christmas Pantomime, entitled ALADDIN AND TIIE WONDERFUL LAMP; or, Harlequin and the Flying Palace. (See other advertisements). Commence at 7 o'clock. TII EATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.- Managers,yesers. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton, THIS EVENING, the Comedy of THE JEALOUS WIFE. Mr. l'helps, Mrs. Hermann Vezin. Atter which, the Pantomime, LITTLE KING PIPPIN ; or, Ilarlequin Fortunatus and the Magic Purse and Wishing Cap. Messrs. G. Belmore, 11. Drayton, G. Weston. Master Percy Itoselli ; Misses Hazlewood, A. Thomson, E. Falconer, Pantomitnists, Messrs. H. Boleno. C. Lauri, Cormaclt, Saville, Miss Morgan, and Madame Boleno. The intelligence brought by the steamer Aus tralasian from New York is of very grave import ance. It refers almost exclusively to the Mexican question which, after long increasing murmurs, has assumed a position which throws every other topic, foreign or domestic, into the shade. Since the sudden and unexpected termination of the great Civil War there have been plenty of exciting sub jects of political debate and internal division. There have been debates and discussions respecting the position of the Confederates, the cla 4 -ns for the destruction effected by the Southern privateers, the negro suffrage, the question of the civil or military government of the South, and, very re cently, the admission or exclusion of the Southern representatives to Congress. All these matters, though they are severally full of importance and interest, have been for the time put aside, and the great question of the day is now the state of affairs in Mexico. No sooner had Congress re-assembled after the holidays than active steps were taken to convince the Executive of the strength and unani mity of the public feeling on this point. The diplomatic correspondence concerning it has now been submitted to Congress, and we have the summary of the contents in the Australasian news. It seems that the great object of both the French and Mexican Emperors has been to obtain the recognition of the new Empire by the Government at Washington, and in this they have hitherto totally failed. In July last the agent of MAXIMILIAN attempted to obtain the much-coveted Federal recognition through M. DE MONTIIOLON. It was so late as last November that the recent correspondence was opened by Mr. SEWARD, who wrote on the 16th to Mr. BIGELOW, representing that the presence of the French army in Mexico caused serious concern to the United States. In this communication Mr. SEWARD does not restrict himself to objecting to the mere fact of the French troops being in Mexico, but took taro to show that it was the authority which they were assisting to maintain, which was "in direct antagonism to the policy of the Federal Government and to the principles upon which it is founded." He reminds Mr. BIGELOW that the United States Government regard the attempt to establish permanently a foreign Imperial Government in Mexico as disallowable and impracticable, and asserts that they are not prepared to recognise any politi cal institutions in Mexico in opposition to that form of Republican Government with which they have vat ,11.1.Z10 Mr. SEWARD significantly observes that ho has dwelt so strongly on this subject because it has superseded other considerations in the minds of the American people. Mr. BIGELOW writes, in answer, that M. DROLTYN DE LIII;ICS' comment upon this remon strance is, that it gives him neither pleasure nor satisfaction. Mr. SEWARD, however, does not rest here, and on the 16th of December, a month after his first epistle, he writes again to Mr. BIGELOW, insisting upon two points ; first, that the United States are anxious to preserve their friendship with France ; secondly, that it will be difficult to do so unless the latter abandons armed intervention in Mexico ; and, in conclusion, Mr. SEWARD boldly states that his Government will not recog nise MAXIMILIAN, even if the French troops are withdrawn. A confidential letter from M. DROUTN DE Liiuys to M. MONTIIOLON had pre viously been received in Washington, of which the substance is that the French Government wants from the United States an assurance that it will not interfere with the Mexican Empire. Mr. SEWARD, in reply, laconically states that he regrets that the condition which NAPOLEON presents is impractic able Commence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckatone. THIS EVENING, BROTIIER SA.M : Messrs. Sothern Bnckstone, Compton; Mesdames ISelly Moore, Snowden &c. To be followed by ORPHEUS IN THE HAS MARKET Messrs. W. Farren, Fisher, Bartleman, Weaihersby, &c. ; Mesdames Keeley, Snowden, Moore, Lindley, Woolgar, Howard, Wright, Coleman, Lovell, Prevut, To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE Under the sole Management of Mr. Fechter. THIS EVENING, THE ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER. Mr. H. Widdicomb. Alter which, THE MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD, Mr. Etchter ; Messrs. Jordan, Emery, Widdicomb, Vezin, J. H. FitzpatricK, D. Evans ; Mesdames Ternan, &worthy, Lavenu, and C. Leclercq. Box Office open daily from Eleven till Five. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, at Seven, a new farce called PIPKIN'S RUSTIC KETBEAT, Messrs. J. L. Toole and P. Bediord, After which, at 8, RIP VAN WINKLE. Rip (his 120th appearance), Mr. Jefferson, supported by Messrs. Billington, P. Bedford, It Phillips, Felix RogLrs, Ashley, Eburne, C. J. Smith; Mrs. Billingtor, To conclude with LEIIIND TIME. Messrs. J. L. Toole, It. Phillips, Eburne, C. J. Smith ; Miss A. Seaman, &c. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, QUIET LODGINGS. After which, at a quarter to Eight, IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO .3IEND. Characters by Messrs. Vining, T. Mel ville, T. Mead, 1). Murray, b. Calhaern. F. Villiers, J. G. Shore, G. Murray, H. Mellon, C. Seyton, It. Cathcart; Miss L. Moore and Miss Katherine Rodgers. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE , Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at Seven (never acted), LENDING A HAND. ilessis. Belford and Turner; Misses Simpson and Hughes. After which win be produced a new Opera Burlesque, L'AFRICAINE ; or, The Queen of the Cannibal Islands, Messrs. Stoyle, James, Thorne ; Mesdames Swanborough, Raynham, Johnstone, &o. To conclude with THE ARTFUL DODGE. THE LAST EDITION OF « THE SUN," Containing the Lateet SPOUTING INTELLIGENCE, Dan be had Every Evening of G. It. 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There can be no doubt of the depth and earnestness of the feeling of the American people. All their political sympathies and convictions are on the side of republicanism, and although they are often in consistent enough in their propositions and their practice, the attempt to establish an Imperial form of government by the aid of European arms in a neighbourin g R epublic is certainly not of a nature calculated to win their suffrages. The Mexican Government was undoubtedly bad enough before the advent of MAxamjA.N, and the whole condition of the State unsettled and unsatis factory. Still it was a nominal republic, and as such the Government of Washington regarded it. In addition to the jealousy with which any change in their favourite form. of government would in any Case be regarded by the Americans, there is the tenacity with which the people of the United States cling to the Monroe doctrine. So far as America herself is concerned she has a perfect right to insist upon them fighting out their own quarrels and arranging their internal affairs in any manner most acceptable to the great body of the people, but the new fashion of applying the MONROE doctrine to every part of the Great Western Continent is extra vagant and untenable. If it were followed out to the extent now advocated by American statesmen, it would be only another form of the tyranny they so greatly disapprove. If we follow the Monroe doc trine, and to its full extent, we may ask what has become of the rights of the Red Indian ? We ap prehend that, where American interests are con cerned, the favourite theory will shrink into a very small space, and we have already had proof of the determination of the majority of the American people to uphold their power and authority at any cost of loss or suffering inflicted on those who refuse to acknowledge it. All efforts to enforce a form of government on a large body of people who deliberately reject it must end in tyranny, no matter by what name they are called, and the Government of Washington have shown no more real love for constitutional liberty in crusbing down the independence of the South than the. OLTSES.—Messrs. TOPLIS and ROBERTS ence of a doubt on their part as to whether he had 11 have numerous furnished and unfurnished TOWN, conducted himself in a suitable manner, and suburban, and Country RESIDENCES to ma or SELL. Particulars forwarded for three stamps, upon stating exact efficiently discharged the duties of his position requirements and rental. Offices, 2, C,onduit-street, Regent street, and South Kensington, facing the Museum. before any opportunity had been given, to him of "furnishing such fuller information on the subject of his despatch as her MAJESTY'S Govern ment may deem requisite." The last paragraph of this memorial very forcibly declares that it is to be hoped that no further step will be taken which can at all tend to place the Governor in the position of an accused person, and that no " interference of an unofficial character be permitted pending the Iv/ • LONDON, MONDAY, JAN. 22, 1866. -0- Slowly, but surely and steadily, the opposition to the machinations and manoeuvres of the faction is progressing, and by the time that Parliament meets no doubt it will have greatly increased in strength and importance. One of the last movements in the affair is a memorial forwarded to Earl RUSSELL, signed by 803 inhabitants of Bath, in which the subject of the Jamaica insurrection is treated in a proper manner. The memorialists state that they desire to place upon record that they have no sym pithy with the outcry which has been raised against Governor EIRE, and that they " utterly disavow'' any in reference to the recent outbreak in Jamaica; and furthermore, they state emphatically that they consider the outcry to have " been dictated in a spirit at once un-English and unprincipled." It is quite refreshing to meet with so outspoken a decla ration emanating from a large number of persons; and the remarks have all the more force on account of the time which has elapsed since the occurrences alluded to took place. No one can say that these opinions have been hastily formed, and that the ex pressions alluded to have been used on the spur of the moment are not the result of calm deliberation and mature judgment. Those whose opinions are really worth having, and whose influ ence becomes of paramount importance in the eventual settlement of matters of moment, are always the most c a l m i n their language and ' the most deliberate in giving their j tidgment. Thus it happens generally, as it has occurred in a marked manner in this Jamaica affair, that the most noisy had their say first, and by their vehemence and per sistency contrived to overawe some and bewilder others, and make altogether a very fair show. In the end, however, these schemers defeated them selves in their arduous efforts to monopolise atten tion and to have everything their own way. Even those who at the outset were tempted to go part of the way with them, now draw back, and cannot satisfactorily account for their refusal to listen to any reasons which do not coincide with their own views. Facts are discredited, and no heed whatever is paid to those whose position in the island at the time of the outbreak renders them particularly worthy of attention and reo•ard • how true is that passage in this memorial which refers to the want of evidence that exists on the side of the persecutors of the Governor and the coloured authorities. They state that they are not aware of an y evidence being made public " which tends in any wa y to shake the truthfulness of Governor Eyi , E , s despatch in relation to the existence of a widespread rebellion in Jamaica ; whereas the acquiescence shown in the means he adopted to sup press it, by all her Majesty's loyal subjects in that colony, of whatever colour, ere* or condition, tends on the contrary to confirm the confidence hitherto placed in him as a public servant." A better exposition could not have been given of the state of the case than that which is presented to us in these earnest and expressive words. The natural sequence to such reflections is that regret is felt that her Majesty's Government should have proceeded to sucli lengths as to have superseded the authority of the Governor, which act certainly implied the exist- THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY " 22, 1866. Emperor NAPOLEON did when, by force of French arms, he installed MAXIMILIAN on the Mexican throne. The Americans may naturally resent the insult to themselves, and the recollection that the now empire arose in the midst of their difficulties. Had the Federal Government been as assured in its position then as now, neither France nor Austria would have thought the Imperial Crown of Mexico a very enviable possession. But the fairest and simplest way of settling a question which is now rapidly assuming very formidable dimensions is for both lookers-on to retire and leave the Mexicans to settle the matter for them selves. If they are not strong or united enough to be able to gain their independence should they really desire it, they will not be able to maintain it when given to them. If MAXI3IILIAN, on the other hand, cannot keep his throne without the support of French bayonets, his empire is worth very little. Let France and America content themselves for the time with an armed neutrality, which will affect the interests and honour of neither. The public will hear with satisfaction that the police are to undertake the task of inspecting the workhouses and the casual wards. This arrange ment is in every way so good a one that it seems strange that it should not have been made before this. The introduction of this plan will prove an effectual check to those who have taken advantage of recent legislative enactments in order to carry out their own views, and to cause riots and disturb ance, thus militating against the objects desired, and preventing the maintenance of order. It must be stated, to the credit of the Poor-law Board, that they some time ago recommended the adoption of this course, and had the guardians paid due attention to the advice no doubt many of the evils recently complained of would have been avoided. So long ago as December, 1863, the Board alluded to that plan, and in their circular to the guardians the following January advised them to secure the valu able services of the police force. In the Poplar Union the experiment has been made with great success, and it is to be hoped that the guar dians in other places will see the advan tages of the scheme, and consent to avail themselves of the resources afforded to them. As a rule the police are far better judges than the officials of workhouses have generally shown them selves to be ; and, besides the advantages that will ensue from their detection of impostors, they will serve the desirable end of keeping the authorities themselves in check, or, at any rate, of being of some service to the helpless and really destitute, who, left to the tender mercies of the officials at unions, too often suffer great privations. The most satisfactory information has been furnished by the Clerk of the Poplar Union as to the results which have followed from the visits of the police. The decrease of the num ber of vagrants since the police were employed is, for one month, 1,241 persons, or 68.1 per cent. Sir RICHARD MAYNE has consented to the police under taking the duty as desired by the Poor-Law Board, so that it is to be hoped that the recurrence of such disgraceful scenes as were recently reported may not again be possible, and, at any rate, we have the satisfaction of knowing that the best and wisest means have been adopted for their suppression. The meeting of masters and persons employed in making painted paper for rooms, to which I alluded, has not been attended with a good result. The mas ters having refused to make some concessions upon which the men insisted, the latter are now "on strike." The weather to-day has again been so remark able and so beautiful as to deserve a word o mention. All day the sun has bean shining so vividly that in localities exposed to its beams it was necessary to draw down the blinds, just as is the case in the height of summer. In the early part of the morning'the wind was rather violent and some what cool, but now (6 p.m.) there is every pros pect of weather unprecedentedly mild and beautiful at this season. Charles Dickens and His Writings, Charles Dickens writes for the world to read —in print ; but it is only behind the scenes, in he printing-office, says the Press News, No. 1 just published), that his genuine MS. is seen. It was our lot to make one in the " Pickwick " comp ship, and to indulge in the irresistible Sam Wel lerisms long before they reached the public eye. The only way possible to proceed with " Pick wick " copy was to adopt the plan of having it read through by the clicker to the compship collectively, before giving it out, in order that they might proceed with it uninterruptedly. " Pick wick" MS. was all very well—when you got used to it. Sometimes its inspired author was in a hurry ; or he wrote in a bad light ; or the pen, perhaps, got turned the wrong way up, or something else, and then-- ! His mode of interlining was always considered to be very ingenious —especially when written small, with a very soft pen, which did not always keep between the lines, but sometimes--like our present railway trains—got on the wrong one, and thus produced a conglomeration, if not a colli sion ! But though this highly popular author was at times troublesome, he was always tho roughly practical and business-like in his work. " Pickwick" was done in a sheet of 32 pages, and such a thing as a page being over-set was never known ; for Mr. Dickens is one of those men who can write to a line. his copy being always written on the same size 4to. post paper, he could easily cal culate what each leaf would make ; and he was generally very punctual. Tn hi., rnrr,,,f;,„„ - vt uttiu liTice to a word, and no matter how long the insertion was it would be sure to cause no over running. After the fame of " Pickwick" had established the reputation of Mr. Dickens, there used to be the most extreme caution exercised at the Whitefriars printing-office to prevent a chance of the nature or title of a new work of his coming out before its time. This was all owing to the piracy of his name as " Bos" by a certain publisher, who always issued a penny spurious edition of something, with a title resembling the great original, as soon after its issue as he possibly could. To prevent this, the care and secrecy previously alluded to were observed. No compositor was allowed to have more than a leaf of copy at a time ; and its consecutive order was destroyed by having it scattered into several rooms, with the overseer walking patrol to see that there was no contraband communication. In fact, so strictly were these rules carried out, that the compositors, in a joke used to say, that it was against the law for them even to read their copy ! As each leaf was set up, it was given to the overseer, who stood by to see it made up ; received the only proof that was pulled, and then did not leave the scene of operations till the former was literally locked up, and padlocked besides, so that no one could take a proof of it. As soon as the work progressed, and the secret got into the keep ing of some 200 people, it was found impossible to keep it, and long before the first sheet was at the machine a penny edition was announced by the in corrigible " Bos," which it is unnecessary to say, was miserable trash, and could only have found a sale amongst the wretchedly ignorant. Most of our readers will of course remember the unsuccessful application for an injunction to restrain the sale of the " Penny Pickwick," which at the time had a great sale. By a certain agreeable perfume which pervaded Mr. Dickens's MS. (evidently the odour of best cigars) it used to be naturally inferred that his ink and his ideas flowed freely as he smoked, and that whenever he made a blot he had nothing more to do but to shake the powdery end of his cigar over it, and go on afresh like steam. Inexperienced compositors were nowhere with Mr. Dickens's MS., which, as I have said before was pretty well " when you were used to it ;" but at first sight a leaf of it presented exactly the same appearance as a sheet of cream-laid would after it had been crawled over by half-a-dozen blue-bottles who had just escaped from the ink ! The sale of Mr. Dickens's last work, " Our Mutual Friend," is unprecedeutedly large in New York. Of Dr. Marigold's " Prescriptions" upwards of 200,000 doses have been dispensed to the public, who will no doubt be greatly benefited when the ingredients are well digested. An American critic, speaking of the Cheap Jack in Dickens's recent Christmas number, "Dr. Marigold's Prescriptions," is pleased to say :—"lt is a Shaksporian power which plucks ono true-hearted vagabond out of tho crowd which fill England, and makes him typical and im mortal." PLEASURES OF EDITORSIIIP.—Southey, the mur derer, is reported to have been very vain of his ima ginary literary abilities, and used to annoy Charles Dickens very much. Ho was in the habit of sending MSS. to the office of "All the Year Round." These contribu tions, being utterly worthless, were declined, and on re ceiving notice to this effect Southey wrote a series of in solent personal letters to Mr. Charles Dickens, informing him, among other things, that as the articles were sup pressed through jealousy, he (Southey) would mako a public exposure of Mr. Dickens's conduct in the transaction in a published letter, to be addressed to "David Copper fiold, Esq., Murderers' Den, Rottenborough The recent articles in the Pall Mall Gazette, en titled " A Night in a Workhouse," are said to be from the pen of Mr. Anthony Trollops. THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS IN EGYPT !—Upon the title of this book, recently published by Bentley, tho Saturday Review remarks :—" The notion of an Eng lish governess living in a harem seems fearful and won derful. It fills a rightly- constituted mind with as much amazement as if Mr. Whalley were to turn chamberlain to the Pope, or Mr. Tupper were to compose an unseemly song." millions to 120 millions. Speculators at the Bourse are often carried away by impulse. It may be well, therefore, to recall to mind that no modification of the statutes of an anonymous society can be carried into effect without the sanction of the Council of State. Such demand must be sanctioned also by the vote of a general meeting of share holders. Bat there must at all events be some delay. The Journal des Debats confirms my statement as to the entire cessation of cholera in Paris. The first case manifested itself on the 15th of September, and the disease existed five months, more or less in intensity. The deaths from cholera during that period, within the limits of Paris, amounted to 6,400. In the civil hospitals of Paris the number of deaths was 1840, but in the military hospitals of Val-da-Grac and Gros Caillon the deaths were but 160. In the suburban communes the deaths were 550. The above total is completed by 3,890 deaths in the 20 arrondissements of Paris. In round numbers the deaths in the whole department of La Seine were at the rate of 52 a day. In the 20 ar rondissements of Paris the deaths were 32. The total population of the 20 arrondissements of Paris being 1 ,800,000 inhabitants, it results that the number of deaths was rather more than at the rate of two persons a-day out of 100,000 persons. The highest rate of mortality was on the 14th of October, when the number of deaths was 230. The suburbs which suffered the most were Batignolles (400 deaths), (370) Popincourt (350), Buties Chaumont (240), Gobelins (240), Jardin des Plantes (225). The arrondissements which suffered the least were Passy, Vangirard, Opera, Elysee, Banque. The cholera of 1863-4 lasted 13 months, when 7,600 persons fell victims in Paris. It existed also in 70 departments. In 1849, 11,000 persons died from cholera, which lasted seven months and ten days. In 1832 the number of persons who died from cholera was 16,600. I was in Paris at that time, and I knew of many instances of death from cholera in from four to six hours. LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE MILITARY REVOLT IN SPAIN. RETREAT OF PRIM INTO PORTUGAL. MADRID, JAN. 22. Official confirmation has been received of the in telligence that General Prim entered Portugal on Saturday last. LEGIIORN, JAN. 22. A submarine telegraph cable was successfully laid yesterday between this port and the island of Corsica. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Sunday Evening. The ittoniteur has no private accounts from Spain to-day, but it gives a report of the discussion in the Senate, the result of which, as I have already in formed you, was the adoption of the resolution to prosecute General Prim for sedition by a majority of 141. Indeed there was only one vote, that of M. Campuzano, against the proposal. It appears from the various official despatches of the Spanish rlnfb ,,,, ifias: fn thn a-wernment that a.noral Pr4,-r, and his troops had arrived at li.ava, and had left for the frontiers of Portugal. The Governor of Tarra gona writes to the Minister of War as follows : " A man, named Escoda, with 200 men, is scouring the country in the environs of Priorato. The mani festation of this fool is more ridiculous than serious, and does not merit the attention of the Govern ment." The Moniteur publishes a circular addressed to the Corps Legislatif by the President, stating that the Session will commence to-morrow (Monday), and requesting the attendance of the members of the Grande Salle of the Palace of the Louvre, at 1 o'clock precisely. The session will be opened by the Emperor in person. The Emperor, who extends his solicitude to what ever can possibly affect the health or comfort of the inhabitants of Paris, is almost übiquitous. Yee terday he presided at a Council of Ministers, after which he proceeded with Baron Haussman, the Prefect of the Seine, and the leading engineers of the capital to inspect some important drainage works near the Place du Chatelat. The Emperor descended and made a careful survey of the opera tions, with which he made himself perfectly acquainted by minute inspection and frequent ques tions to the chief engineer. The Siecle has but a brief commentary to-day upon the position of affairs in Spain. After stating that General Prim was on the 19th at Fugenal, between Andalusia and Portugal, it asks, " But is it towards a foreign land, or in a contrary direction, that this insurgent is proceeding, whose position the Monde, which is not always so happy in its appre ciations, thus defines—' General Prim is always in flight. It does not appear that the troops who have orders to pursue him are also ordered to reach him. " The police of Toulouse are still actively engaged im their inquiries respecting the murder and muti lation of the girl Marie Guilhomet. The proprietor of the wine shop, M. Aspe, persists in saying he is innocent, but facts discovered strengthen presump tions against him. A truck, or hand-cart, has been found which was seen at the door about the time of the murder, and with which it is supposed he took away the mutilated body. Blood has been found on the bed, and also on one of Aspe's shirts. The girl, it appears, had saved some money, to obtain which was probably the motive for the crime. Dr. Lamouroux, a distinguished French botanist, has just died at Paris. A satirical journal has just appeared with the title of Prison for Debt—journal of prisoners —the object of which is chiefly to enlist sympathy for the principle of the abolition of imprisonment for debt. Some of the supposed advertisements are not bad. Here is a speciemen :—" Marriage —A good-looking young man wishes to get married in order to pay his debts. Address, M. X. aux Petits Cannes " (Petits Carmes is what is called the debt quarter of the city). "To be sold, an importunate creditor. Great facility will be given for payment." While speaking of satire I may allude to a very prevalent expression, " Rien est sacre pour un Sapeur." It would appear also that nothing is sacred for a French newspaper writer. The author of a notice of Poncet, the murderer iu " Figaro," says—" I was not pleased with his deportment in Court. There was nothing sensational about it. He was so stoical that it is utterly impossible to find for him the general excuse that his emotion was inseparable --- rona the anxiety always felt by an individual when he made his debut in any character." News has been received in Paris of the serious illness of Prince °don, third son of the King of Italy. The Prince is at Genoa, and is suffering from a virulent scrofulous affection. King Victor Emmanuel and an aide-de-camp of Prince Napoleon are about to proceed to Genoa. • The financial operations of the week were seriously affected towards its close by a report that the Credit Mobilier has decided to endeavour to procure an important modification in its statutes. Its object is to dotAblQ it 4 capital by icing it from 60 'AIM. Cash. - ... 855 - - - 1115 - - 858 75 - - ... 552 50 - - 560 - - 530 - - - • •• - - ... 411 25 - - ... 421 25 - - ... 182 50 - - ... 220 - Lyra Liturgica. Burns, Lambert, and Oates. Side by side with The Christian Year we at once and unhesitatingly place the Lyra Liturgica. This is high praise, no doubt, but it is praise to which the lovely little volume under notice is eminently well entitled. " Reflections in Verse for Holy Days and Seasons" is the sub-title of the Lyra Liturgica. " Thoughts in Verse for Sundays and Holydays" is that of The Christian Year. The motto of the latter is from Isaiah (xxx. 15) " In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength." The motto of the former is from the Psalms (exviii. 54) " Cantabiles mihi erant justificationes Tum in loco peregrinationis mew." May 30, 1827, is the date appended to the prefatory advertisement of " The Christian Year." The Feast of Corpus Christi, otherwise June 15, 1865, is the date affixed to the introductory remarks addressed to the reader at the opening of the " Lyra Liturgica." The present issue of the last-mentioned work marking the date of its first publication, there appears, as a matter of course, no intimation whatever of that fact upon the reverend author's titlepage. Whereas upon the titlepage of the latest reprint of " The Christian Year" there appears conspicuously a no less magnificent timbre of its popularity than is con veyed by the intimation that this most recent edi tion is the EIGHTY-EIGHTH of that famous work's publication. And no wonder ! For, to whom does it not come home with its gentle utterances ? In what heart does its music not awaken some respon sive vibration ? It is dear to others besides the Rev. John Keble's co-religionists. It is beloved far be yond the pale of the Anglican communion. High Churchmen and Low Churchmen, Conformists and Non-Conformists, Dissenters and Catholics take it alike home into their affections—readinn it arw mdunLeu oy its harmonious numbers with an equally delicate sense of delight in its appreciation. Echoing here an appropriate stanza from the very first poem in the work itself—the tenth stanza of the "Morning Hymn" opening up the varied strains of The Christian Year—we may best indicate how it is that we, one and all of us, turn back to it, again and yet again, so very frequently for joy and con solation : by saying— " As for some dear familiar strain Unfired we ask, and ask again, Ever in its melodious store, Finding a spell unheard before." Disclaiming, as he says—with a very charming, though, as it appears to us, a very exaggerated humility—even "the suspicion of any such pre sumptuous and hopeless design as that of produc ing a counterpart to a work in many ways so in imitable as the ' Christian Year,' " the author of the " Lyra Liturgica " has somehow contrived, as it were, in spite of himself to produce precisely such a counterpart neverthe less ! Mr. Keble's plan, as he takes occasion to re mind the reader, " has furnished meditations for every Sunday in the year and for all the received Holydays of the Anglican Calendar, as well as the Occasional Services"—such, let us say, for example, as " Catechism," " Matrimony," " Commination" and so forth. The work thus being, in a manner, as we may say, rounded and complete. With regard to the " Lyra Liturgica," on the con trary, as its author tells us—" this little work embraces but a limited portion of the mighty range of devotional illustration opened by the Liturgy of the Catholic Church." Nevertheless, according to his subsequent remark, as if in deprecation of the charge of the incompleteness otherwise possibly im putable to the work as a whole—the series being " regular, so far as it goes, the verses have been referred to the Successive Quarters of the Ec clesiastical Year, according to the arrange ment of the Breviary." The Winter Quar ter embracing within it, Christmas—the Spring Quarter, Easter and Whitsuntide. —the Sum mer Quarter, Trinity, Corpus Christi, and the Assumption—the Autumn. Quarter, such feasts as those of All Saints and All Souls, of St. Michael and of St. Charles Borromeo. Previously, however, to the celebration thus in turn of the more important festivities distributed after this fashion over the Four Quarters of the Ecclesiastical Year, the author of the Lyra Liturgica, by way of introduction to the whole, commemorates, as it were, en masse, the complete glory and solemnity of the "Holy Ceremonies"—enforcing thus beautifully (and logically, as it appears to us) the reasonableness of solemnizing Divine Worship by some degree of pomp and ceremonial, instead of stripping it puri tanically of every outward token of reverence on the part of the worshippers : Rings have their marshals, palaces their state, E'en Christian homes their forms and courtesies ; For Reverence must on Love obsequious wait, And Love that lacks Respect decays and dies. And shall Thy House, 0 King of kings alone, No signal tokens of Thy power display ? Shall no glad Courtiers muster near Thy throne, No duteous escort guard Theo on Thy way ? Adding, very tenderly and very reverently, after wards-- Each symbol of Thy presence, Lord, is dear; Tha consecrated vase, the goodly vest ; The Altar, where Thy Spirit comes so near, The Tabernacle, where Thou deign'st to rest. But chiefly dear, because to Thee, most high, Thy Priests and Levites, princes of Thy choice, And they who at Thy Board their service ply, And they who lift in choir their gladsome voice ; By reverent gesture, or by staid salute, Their faith they witness or their fealty prove, And yield in studious form, by acts minute, The thoughtful homage of punctilious love. And Thou who count'st the numbers of the sand, And track'st the sparrow as it falls to earth, Shalt note and recompense with bounteous hand Each least and lowest deed of Christian worth. Gracefully lyrical and flowing, though the verifica tion is throughout, it is occasionally compacted, oven to the coademity as of 0,4 epigram. Instance FRANCE. BOURSE, Jan. 20.—Two o'clock..—Rumours of a speedy return of the French troops from Mexico continue to be widely circulated, and gain consider able support in commercial quarters. Under the influence of these anticipations, Stocks and Shares show great firmness at increased quotations. 'Threes, for the Account, are well maintained at an advance of 15c., viz., 68f. 70c. ; and Italian Fives are in great demand at 62f. 70c.—an improvement of 40c. A project for increasing the capital of the Credit Mobilier Company has been widely discussed to-day, and the result has been an augmentation of 22f. 50c. on these shares, the present quotation being 837 f. 50c. Spanish Mobiliers have advanced 3f., 75c. In Railway Shares Lyons have improved 2f. 50c., and Lombard; 3f. 75e. Three o'clock —The market closed at the following quotations • 41 per Cents 9B 50 Roman I Do. end month — Ottoman Fives. 4 3 per Cents. 6B 65 Do. end month 6B 62-} Credit Mobilier Do. end month Bank Shares 3665 Credit Foncier 1312 50 Italian Loan 62 52 Do. end month 62 62i RAIL Mexican Loan Do. 80nd5,,,,,,,,, Russian Austnan Spanish Th rees Home Debt Deferred - Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean... Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Roman LITERATURE. Acct At dawn, the shepherds tell with meek surprise How Heavea enwrapped them with its light benign, And how they sped to feast their wondering eyes On Mary, Joseph, and the Babe Divine. But, when the Day hath come, St. Paul shall preach Of Him in whom tho Father's brightness shone, And Holy Church the Word Incarnate teach In the clear accents of the lov'd St. John. Very beautiful and touching in its evidence of sensibility is the hymn in commemoration of " New Year's Eve," sorrowfully contemplative over— Holy Childhood's bloom delicious Blanched by care and sadness now ; And the miser's scowl suspicious Where was Boyhood's beaming brow." Seldom has the pathetic form of an antithesis all but paradoxical in the emphasis of it been more felicitously applied than in this instance, where our author in g 'his Hymn on the " Feast of the Epiphany," commemorates in the coming of the Kings of the East— " The Wise of Earth to lay their Folly at His feet !" Hardly in a single instance, by the way, have we been enabled to detect in the equable flow of the rhythm throughout the various poems making up this charming collection entitled the " Lyra Liturgica, one casual line that fails to scan cor rectly. One solitary verse alone of this kind can we here recall to our recollection—namely, at p. 51, the second line of the stanza beginning-- Then on her eye a wondrous vision beamed A man of meek aspect, a matron mild, lc. An incidental lapsus, so trivial of itslind, that we only direct attention to it at all as evidence of our having examined the contents of the volume with a searching and almost captious scrutiny. One phrase there is—so regarding the work, under however another aspect—that still, even after careful recon sideration, appears to us quite inexplicable. It is a phrase occurring upon p. 59, where, referring to Satan's temptation of the Messiah, the lyrist exclaims— " What though his arts were met and foiled, And from lhy mailed Soil recoiled." Surely a slip on the part of the typographer. An obvious misprint occurs later on (p. 103), where, in reference to the Crucifixion, our author is made to I say—. " Gaul Ills drink, behold Him languish." While we are thus ungraciously carping over the microscopic flaws that are alone discernible in these pages, upon the most searching and even, it might almost be said, cynical examina t i on o f t h e i r - -ccc GIL 11110.1(L/LL LO the apostrophe addressed to St. Benedict (p. 69), to the effect— Thy children, doom'd to exile, still With loyal hearts or work thy will Or stereotype thy ways. Where our author is most persuasive, as it appears to us, is in the eloquent force of his exceeding tenderness and simplicity : as where, at the open ing of his hymn on the " Feast of the Annunciation," he cries out in a very enthusiasm of simplicity and tenderness— Ye who deem us over-bold When we chant our Lady's praise— Judges harsh and critics cold Of evil life and ardent phrase— Come with me and con the story Of her grace and destined glory ; By its light ye stand reproved ; _Dare we slight whom God so loved? As on Ash Wednesday he has an eye and a voice of reverent appreciation for the profound symbolism latuit in the " penitential grains," so has he in a joyous and exultant mood for the " consecrated boughs" borne aloft processionally on Palm Sun day. Poetically referring to the fragrant clouds surging up from the thurible, he speaks of their rising in " fleecy ringlets." Alluding to the Apos tolic assemblage in between, the Resurrection and the Ascension, he almost wittily applies the well known expression of the Evangelist— " We, too, are gathered in our Upper Room (Thy Church).' , Like an echo from the heart of our old Eng lish Poet, Thomas Southwell, comes the pathetic close of this solemn and affecting stanza (which shall be the last of our many excerpts from the pages of the " Lyra Liturgica")— Church and her priests despised ; The Eucharist unprized— Cooped within walls, and of its honour shorn, Or borne in breast, not hand Like something contraband, • And hid from pious eyes for fear of scorn. Having said all which, and fully justified our re marks, as it appears to us, by the foregoing quota tions, we would here recur to the simple but em phatic observation with which wo comm enced— namely, that, according to our view of those two exquisite works, The Christian Year and the Lyra Liturgica may be placed side by side upon our bookshelves. They are the effusions of congenial spirits —sons of the same alma mater—men whom that noble University of Oxford will long hold in proud remembrance—the one wistfully,no doubt, the othor exultantly! For if the one has long since passed beyond the pale of the Church Establishment, the other Oxford, Cambridge, England, yet rejoices to know is still within the compass of its communion. Yet—. divergent though their paths have been—there re mains unbroken (even it may be said unloosened), a bond of direct and intimate sympathy between John Keblc and Frederick Oakeley, between this Catholic priest.and this Protestant clergyman 1 Just assuredly as thelike sympathy subsists, unbroken, un loosened, between Dr. Pusey and Dr. Newman. Of the latter fact, the Apologia and Eirenicon have very recently afforded signal and conclusive attesta tion. Of the former fact, that is of the no less intimate sympathy still subsisting between the natures, between the souls, of such men as the Rev. J. Keble and the Rev. F. 0 akeley, evidence equally conclusive and quite as signal in its way, appears to us to be exquisitely discernible in the kindred fervour and congenial devotion manifested by Mr. Keble in the Christian Year and by Father Oakeley in the Lyra Liturgica—lyrical volumes not unworthy of being placed on either side of the be loved masterpiece of Thomas a Kempis, the immor tal De Imitatione. NAPOLEON 111. AND M. GUSTAVE DORE.—M. Maine, editor of the Bible Mustrie of M. Gustave Dore, having solicited an audience with the Emperor, to present a copy of the work, was informed in reply that his Ma jesty would receive him, but in company with the author of the illustrations. M. Gustave„ Dore therefore went to the Tuileries at the hour appointed, and was warmly com plimented by both the Emperor and Empress, who also 4CCertoa tho work naaviiicently bound, tho passion of supplication compressed into the couplet— 0, loving Judge, 0 Saviour just, Remember that we are but dust ! At intervals, too, his very terseness in this way has all the force and emphasis of syllogistic reason ing. As, where singing of the Patroness of the Two Advents, he thus enforces her claim to the title of the Immaculate.-- The grace that from thy chaste Conception flows, To awe and keen compunction well may move, So high the Nature that the Incarnate chose ; So pure the Creature that deserved His love. By the mere picturesqueness again of a single aptly chosen phrase, he conjures up a whole picture in one passing sentence. As where, referring to the Apparition of the Archangel Gabriel to the Blessed Virgin, he speaks of-- Her lowliness and calm submission seen In shrinking converse with her Angel-Guest, that one solitary participle, presenting to view a very vignette glimpse of Jalabert's lovely vision of the Annunciation. His homage for Mater Dei Genetrix he is never weary of articulating. She is to him, as she is called in the Loretto Litany, the Stella Matutina. Shedding over every page and line (as he himself sings with impassioned emphasis) A lustre only not divine ! Occasionally in the course of the " Lyra Liturgica" the rev. song-writer, in reality very ingeniously, though to all appearance quite casually, explains some of the esoteric mysteries of the ceremonies set forth in the Breviary —as where in commemoration of the triple mass of Christmas Day, he thus indicates that those three ceremonials are illustrative of the Nativity under the different aspects of Prophesy, Narrative, and Dogma— At midnight's hour prophetic mists shall hang Around the glories of Messiah's birth, Which David hinted ere the welkin rang With the glad notes of holy angel mirth. r t Oren HER MAJESTY. The Earl of Bessborough and the Earl of Cork had also audiences. Lord Bessborough, having resigned the office of Master of the Buckhounds, kissed hands on receiving from her Majesty the Wand of Lord Steward of the Household in place of the Earl of St. Germans' resigned. Lord Cork kissed hands on being appointed Master of the Buckhounds. The Lord Chancellor arrived from London, an d had the honour of dining with the Queen an d royal family. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duche ss d'Aumale, who have been staying on a visit to the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., and Frances Countess Waldegrave, at the Chief Secretary's Lodge, Dublin, are expected to leave to-day for Orleans House' T wickenham. The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle have been entertaining during the past week, at Clumber Park . ' Worksop, the Earl and Countess of Westmoreland, iris count Canterbury, Lord Courtenay, Lady Rossmore Hon. Robert Temple, Lord Arthur Clinton, Captain Synge, &c. The Duchess Dowager of Sutherland is, We understand, much better. As before stated, there is 73° reason for anxiety, although the dowager duchess is unable to leave her chamber. The Earl Russell will give a full-dress banqu et on Monday, the sth proximo, at his official residence in Downing-street, to the mover and seconder of the Addres s ' and a largo party of peers, members of the Governmen t, and other political friends in the House of Lords. The Earl of Derby, as the leader of the Cense r " vative party, will give a Parliamentary entertainment en the sth of next month, at his residence in St. Jamese square, to a party of about 30 Opposition peers. ji The Right Hon. B. Di srae li an d M rs. Disraeli have arrived a t G rosvenor-gate for the season. The rig hon. gentlem an h as i ssue d cards for a dinner to a "gaff ° members of the House of Commons for Monday, Feb. 5 . The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequ er entertained at dinner on Saturday evening, at his residence on Carlton-house-terrace, the following gentlemen:--T he Lord Chief Justice of England, the Right Hon. T. Mil ner Gibson, M.P., Mr. Childers, M.P., Mr. Edward Hamilton, M.P., Mr. Tite, M.P., Sir Francis H. Doyle, Sir F. Roger s ' Mr. Melville, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Chis holm, Mr. Repingt eP ' Mr. Airy, Mr. E rs ki ne M ay, and Mr. Gurdon. Mrs. Glad stone and familay arrived in town on Saturday eveni n g from Hawarden Castle, Flintshire, for the season. Miss Emma flardinge's Orations on America' Miss Emma Hardinge delivered a second oration at St. James's Hall on Saturday. In discoursog upon " The United States : the People and WI! Uncrowned King," Miss Hardinge described the vast transatlantic community as being composed of fo ur great departments—the New England States, where were the head-qua r t ers o f th e s h rewd, ready-witteu race popularly k nown as t h e " Yankees ;" tho Central States, whose c hi e f empor i um o f com merce and indu s t r y was t h e c i ty of New Yorl-, Wher° the demon " b us i ness " held supreme dominion ; Western States, w h ero were the illimitable prair i e s ' the romantic w ild ernesses so dear to the imagina tion of poet s an d novelists ; and, finally, the Sol!' them States, who se m ili tary achievements and poli tical revolutions h a d o f late vearg much of the wo r ld' s a tt ent i on. The fair orator de scribed in fl uen t an d f el i c i tous language the social, political, and commerc i al institutions of those vari ous contingent s o f t h e Great Republic. She the n dwelt at some le ng th upon the prodigious natura l resources of the A mer i can continent ; she ne' d passed to a graphic description of some of tila characteristic features of the river and mountain scenery; and after glancing at a variety of misc el- , laneous matters, and dismissing the Fenian tg craze with a scornful allusion, she drew a 11 3 14 31 augury from the general anxiety for " reconstruc tion," tion," and co nc l u d e d an i mpressive and spirited oration by expressing her belief that days of lino' ampled power and prosperity were in store for th e Columbian commonwealth. The tone of her dis course was exceedi ng l y conc i liatory, and in strict accordance with the avowed purpose of her " sion"—the promoting a better understanding be tween the new and o ld con ti nents of the world. At the conclusion, Mr. Dove announced that the sub' ject next S a t ur d ay would be the reconstruction °f the Union, to be delivered at the same hour and in the same place, and Miss Harding., on retiring, eras loudly cheered. READERSHIP OF THE TEMPLE CHURCH.—The .owing is the selected list of candidates (six in number) for he Readership of the Temple Church :—The Rev. Alfr e ; Ainger, late schol ar o f Trinity-hall, Cambridge ; Rev. ward Josselyn Beck, Fellow, and late Dean of Clare Colleg e ' Cambridge ; Rev. William T. Du Boulay, Trinity Colleo Cambridge ; Rev. William Anthony Harrison Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; Rev. W. G. Martin, St. johu College, Cambridge ; Rev. John Oakley, Brasenose Colleg e ' Oxford. The election will be made on the 7th prox. Mr. JEFFERSON BRICK NATURALISED IN EN G° LAND.—The Star has got hold of a noble writer who thus says the Spectator refers to Gustavus Brooke on board the London: "A billowy curtain has fallen tumultuously on OW last scene of the chequered life-dream of Gustavus Brooke , the tragedian." "Go whore you will, his early fame an d the splendour of his adolescence are favourite topics atri° l: g . the old playg oers. " B ut wo aro told that "the 1)/101' exhalation disappeared with ominous suddenness." T he whole article is gorgeous in style, and almost suggests tha:t it must be an exhalation from the splendour of somebody adolescence,—the finest phrase of a bright boyhood of which the heart of man over conceived. But the Stc tt : does not often twinkle like this. Surely it has engage" the man who does the big words in the Telegraph. "Go IN, FINNEGANS."— Some of our Irish fellow-citizens, of the Fenian persuasion, had a litt le festivity in St. Louis a few days since, and when the affair was well under way they forgot then' selves so far as to send for Major-General Frank r" Blair, with the purpose of drawing a speech froth him' The General was found just at the conclusion of a dinner party, which had not been conducted on strict temperanc e principles, and to put a fine point upon it ho was not pre cisely in a condition to confine himself very closely to on° subject. He concluded, however, he would go and make , the boys a sp eec h, no t w ith stand i ng the advice of some o f his friends, among them General Sherman, that ho had better postpone his remarks on the great Fenian question until some other occasion should arise. Arrived at th e hall where the sunburst glowed and the shamrock bloome d he was presented to the audience with the usual flattering observations, and drawing himself up to his full height , his countenance wearing a look of inexpressible solemnity , ho roared at the top of his voice :—"Finnegans ! I'm with you !" The mercurial Irishmen, dashed a little by the '11) - parent mistake of the General, in addressing them by a nal they had not ca ll e d t h emselves, and looking upon his br"1", declaration th a t h e was w i th them as all right, interrupte d him with a tremendous round of applause. Poising hint self as if to meet a great emergency, he continued :" " But, mind, I tell you, you have a big contract 011 hand, and old Ireland is away across the ocean. But will you get ships, and h ave th em l oa d e d w i t h cannon things, and sail down New York harbor, I'll go out ther e at Sandy- Hook and take off my hat, and say with all in y heart—Good bye, Finnegans ! And when I think ' t ~1 s about time y ou h a d t ouc h e d t h e sod over there, 1;'„ give you my prayers, and say—Go in, Finnegans • At this point there was another interruption, and o no not altogether of excessive approbation. General Blair Nv 3s . tumultuously told they were not Finnegans, but Feniaus c i and, after apologising for hi s m i s t a k e b y saying he ha d been down South so long he had forgotten the names things, the hero gracefully retirocl.—Cinn. Commerci(,ll. OSBORNE, Saturday. Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Helena, Princess Hermann. of Hohenlohe, drove out yesterday afternoon. Prince Christian rode on horseback, attended by Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge. His Serene Highness Prince Leiningen arrived from London, and dined with the Queen and royal Princess Hermann, of Hohenlohe, joined her I 1 jesty's dinner party. Lord Augustus Loftus arrived from London, and also had the honour of dining with her Majesty. Sunday. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena and Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, drove out yesterday in a carriage and four. The Dowager Duchess of Athole and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge attended. Lord Augustus Loftus had an audience of her Majesty yesterday, and kissed hands on being a P; pointed her Maj es t y ' s A m b assador to the Ki n g °A Prussia. v©n bat , b 1 tali se tt , Di