The Sun. — London, England, 1865-10-02 00:00:00

ITOUSES.—INIesars. TOPLIS and ROBERTS have numerous furnished and furnished TOWN, suburban, and Coun tr y DEN un S to LET or SEL Paniculara forwarded for three stamps, upon stating exact street , and and rent.Ll: Offices, 2, Conduit-street,Regent street, and South Kensington, facing the Museum. Q 0 UTH KENSINGTON, HYDE-PARK, Queen's, and Rutland Gates, Queen's -gate and Peters ham Terraces, Queen's -gate, Cornwall, and PA inces Gardens, Elva ston-place, Cromwell-ro td, Onslow and Th urloe Squares, 13eltons. &c. Messrs TOPLIS and ROBE ItTS have RE A DEN CES to SELL and LET in these and surrounding localities. Offices, 2, Conduit-street, Regent-street, and South Kensington, facing the Museum. THEATRE ROY tIL, DRURY-LANE.- Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with Shakspere's Tragedy of MAUBETH. Mr. Phelps; Messrs. T. Swinbourne, Vandenholl; J. Neville; Miss Atkinson, etc. To conclude with Milton's Mask of COMUS. Messrs. H+ n,l Drayton, Wilbye Cooper; Miss Poole, Miss Augusta Thomson, &e, Co.nmence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.- Sole Lessce and Manager, Mr. Buckstone. • This Theatre will OVEN for the season on MONDAY , October 0. The Company wi:l comprise Mr. Chas. Mathews (on his second return from Paris) and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mr. Suasion° and Miss Nally Moore, Mr. Compton and Mies Lout c Keeley, Mr. Chippendale and Miss Snowdon, Mr. Howe and Miss Helen llowsrd, Mr. W. Forrea and Miss aroline 11111, Mr. Walter Gordon and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam, Mr. Wcathersby, Mr. Clark, and Miss Lovell, Mi. Coe and Miss Coleman, kfr. Braid, Mr. Rogers;. nn ss Maria Harris, Mr. Arthur Leclerc and Miss Fanny Wright, Mr, harles Leclercq and Miss Caroline Adams, and Mr. F. White, with a Corps de Ballet. Sothern, will reappear at Christmas. Box-office open on Saturday next, Oat. 7, from 10 till 5. :NEW THEATRE -ROYAL ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING. at 7. GOOD FOR NOTHING. Mrs Alfred Mellon and Mr. Felix Rogers. After which, at 8, RIP VAN WINKLE. Rip (his 25th appearance), Mr. Jefferso n, su pp orted b y Messrs. Billington, I'. Bedford, 11 Phillips, Felix Ro,gt.rs, Ashley, liburne, C. J. Smith; Mrs. Blitingtor, To o3nclude, at halt-past 10, with THE WIDOW'S VI CT IM. Messrs. BiLington, Felix Rogers, Ashley; Miss 11. Simms, Diiss Seaman, and hliss Jenny Willmore. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, a new Farce, by Mr. David Fisher, entitled HEART-STRINGS AND FIDDLE-STRINGS. Alter which, ARRAII NA POGUE : Messrs. Dion Bouci cault, 3. Brougham, H. Vandenhoff, D. Fisher, D. Murray; Mrs Boucicautt and Miss M. Oliver. To conclude with AN AMPLE APOLOGY. Commence at 7. ASTLEY' S. —E. T. SMITH, Lessee. 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The King of PRUSSIA is now in a very awkward position. He is obliged, perforce, to go through certain ceremonies, and yet even he must feel how empty and fulsome are the doings and speeches which take place during the celebration of such affairs. On the 25th of last month his MAJESY arrived at the frontier of Lauenburg, and the usual formulas were gone through, with all the display of triumphal arches, all which seem never to be so plentiful as when there is least reason to rejoice, and least cause to approve of the real meaning of the affair actually celebrated with pomp and circum stance. The KING made a speech, upon his entry into the Duchy, which contained the usual amount of fair-sounding phrases and hollow professions. Ile met the people will full confidence, he said, and he also trusted that he should receive equal confi dence from them. Not content, however, with the auspicious present, the KING went on to predict still better and brighter things for the future, and therefore he looked upon it as an assurance of hap piness for the future that the union of Lauenburg should take place this year, when already four pro vinces have thanked the KING for keeping the pro mises made by his illustrious ancestors. The next day the solemn act of homage to the KING as Duke of LikuENsunG, from the nobility and gentry, took place, and his MAJESTY appeared, with the CROWN PRINCE on his right hand and Count BISMARK on his left. A sermon was preached on th . e . occasion and psalms were sung. Prayers and blessings seem very out of place on such an occasion as the one re ferred to, but some persons will not be satisfied unless they carry out a thing in its complete en tirety without regard or reference to consistency or to propriety. Count BISMARK has a new project in his head now, and purposes to obtain an inter view with the EMPEROR to arrange about the completion of the schemes on the Duchies. Doubtless to give a fair colouring to his proposals, the wily diplomatist will make some offers or other to the EMPEROR, but NAPOLEON 111. will not show his accustomed wisdom if he consent to the artful propositions of so crafty a man. France will never gain anything from an alliance with Prussia, and it is earnestly to be trusted that the affair may come to nothing allowing the interview takes place. The annexation of Lauenburg is an anomaly in these days, and an outrage on the good sense and right feeling of the People of all civilised countries. Had any one predicted s u ch a consummation of the Duchy question at th e outset of hostilities how many would have laughed at him, and declared that it as quite absurd w to propound suc h a notion. Public opinion has been outraged in the most barefaced fashion by th ese schemers on one hand and shufilers on the other. Nevertheless we must deplore the result of the deliberations, and lament the issue of the affair, for it all ends M a decided triumph of might against right, after a fashion more consistent with the usurpations of old times than the enlightenment and progress of these our latter days. It is a step in a backward direc tion that cannot be too much reprobated, for it is a most pernicious example to rulers, and a ruinous illustration of force laying down the law indifferent to the claims of justice or the calls of honour. It must not be supposed, however, that we have even in our days seen the end of this Schleswig- Holztein affair ; it cannot be that with the present advanced state of progress such cruel usurpation of the rights of others should be suffered to meet with success, and that the course pursued by the tyrannical despoilers should flow smoothlyorr as if it was in accordance with a nation's designs, and fulfilled the hope and expectations of those who came under the sway of the powerful Sovereigns who rule the land, and, supreme in the right of possession, give the nod of fate. Austria and Prussia will reckon without their host if they suppose that they can go on at this game much longer. Aided and abetted by circumstances they have been allowed carte blanche, as it were, for some time lately ; and they will, perhaps, make the mistake of thinking that the nations of Europe are too ignorant or too indifferent to care what they are doing, or to trouble themselves much about the consequences of all these charges. Such is not the case, however, and they will soon discover that if power 1;e unscrupulously acquired at Berlin, and money hoarded up after an ignoble fashion at Vienna, that the respect and the confidence of the friendly and allied Powers will be forfeited. Prussia in particular has lost caste in this country to a great extent of late years. It would seem, in deed, as if the alliance with England, from which so much was predicted, had completely turned the heads of the authorities in Berlin, and that they had imbibed, somehow or other, the mischievous notion that they could do as they liked, and no one would call them to account. Sad as it may be, it is very evident that principle has nothing to do with the management of affairs in Prussia, and that mis rule and violence are the chief agents and presiding spirits of those who are at the head of affairs. The shameful manner in which our Government allowed judgment to go by default in the whole of the transactions of the Schleswig-Holstein affair has been one of the predisposing causes of the disastrous and disgraceful effect which was the other day con summated in the triumphant annexation of Lauenburg. The elasticity of the Revenue is one of those subjects on which everybody may congratulate themselves. In spite of continual reductions, in spite of all hindrances and losses, the public money gives unfailing evidence that the general condition of the country is highly prosperous and thriving. And yet the last few seasons have been by no means exceptionally fortunate in their external cir cumstances. The cotton famine produced in some parts an almost unparalleled state of distress ; last year's crops were below the average, while even now we are suffering from the infliction of the cattle plague and the consequent exorbitant price of pro visions. But the industrial energies of the nation rise superior to every adverse influence, and the Revenue Tables of every quarter give Englishmen increasing reason for thankfulness. The contrast between our own exchequer and that of less fortu nate Continental treasuries points the moral still more strongly. The English financier has not, however, always an easy task, for he has to please a whole nation, instead of merely consulting the interests or exigencies of a superior power. Every party or class has some rival object which is resolutely pressed upon the notice of the Chancellor, while sometimes the faithful Commons claim the right of interference, and boldly dictate to the unhappy financier what they think he ought to do. ➢ir. GLADSTONE has conducted himself with ability and adroitness under all these difficulties;. and for the last two or three years he has contrived to ingratiate himself with the tax-payers by remitting a good many oppressive burdens. The reduction of the Fire Insurance duty was not, indeed, entirely spontaneous on his part, but the remission of a good part of the duty on tea is certainly due to him. • This has proved a great boon to the working-classes, and will go much further to encourage sobriety than any importation of light wines could do. The immense increase in the consumption of tea consequent upon the reduction of the duty is proved alike by the Revenue Tables and the Board of Trade Returns. The estimated decrease for the quarter just over was £944,500, while the result shows only a loss of a little over £330,000. Every item shows an increase with the exception of the Customs, the Excise, and Miscellaneous, and the Customs, as we have said, shows far less alteration than was looked for. The losses expected from the reduction in Tea, and last year's reduction in sugar, have been partly counterbalanced by the stimulus given to consumption, and thus the Customs, which were estimated to show a difference of £1,868,000 for the year, exhibit only a deficit of £335,000 on the quarter. Here is a lesson for financiers, and one which we hope will encourage Mr. GLADSTONE to make further remissions. The Post-office, always one of the principal items on the Creditor side of the public ledger, manifests a steady increase, and a rise of £lOO,OOB in the quarter testifies to the active circulation of letters, books, and newspapers. Altogether the tables are calculated to give fresh stimulus to enterprise, and exhibit in the strongest colours the practical advantages of a Free-trade policy. As might have been expected, no sooner does the approach of the cold weather season facilitate the active prosecution of the war against the Bhoo tanese than those worthies resume their talk about peace. Of course every one would prefer the speedy settlement of the affair by treaties and diplomatic discussions than by a harassing campaign and the further expenditure of valuable lives. The diffi culty, hoivever, is a double one. The former con duct of the Bhootanese proves how little they are to be trusted, and there is good reason for sus pecting that they would willingly prolong the affair, talking about peace during the cold season, and leaving our men to die of their pestilential marshes in the summer time. The other side of the difficulty is that the Bhootanese authority is so divided between the rival factions that it is very doubtful who has the power to make an effectual peace, and to secure the maintenance of the terms: If both those dangers can be guarded against, the negotiations should be pushed on while the season is in our favour and the cold weather gives us the power to advance. Fear may bring the whole of the rival parties to some sort of understanding, and if a properly determined front is shown matters may be finally settled before the return of the hot season. The DEB RAJAH is said to be anxious for peace, and has despatched envoys to Col. BRUCE. A draught treaty has been submitted to the Governor-General in Council and approved. The conditions on our part include the surrender of all prisoners on both sides, so that the Governor-Gene ral intends to secure some guarantee of the real power of the DEB RAJAII. It will be matter of con gratulation if this empty and unsatisfactory war be really brought to a close, and we hope it will be Some time before we suffer ourselves to become entangled in another. Littl e o f political importance reaches us from China or Japan. The newly-appointed generalis simo is said to be anti-foreign, while Prince KUNG, now at the head of foreign affairs, is not very friendly to the 'Western Powers. He can, however, hardly afford to quarrel with them, even though the Imperialist forces are in the ascendant in the North. There has been a talk of establishing a direct telegraphic communication between Shanghae and London. Ma rve l s Will never fairly carried out. The notion of change of thought a n d news betweenf th e world of early and effete civilisat ion oldi this stately b e scenes of modern ente r p r i se is cert ai nly n a strange one. It is proposed to carry wire via Tientsin and Pekin, through Russia to London. The passage Naval and Military Intelligence. On Saturday, Mr. G. W. Beardslee, from the United States, who has been engaged at Chatham during the week in making the necessary prepara tions for the torpedo experiments about to be under taken in the Medway, had a preliminary trial of the invention, in the presence of Capt. W. H. Stewart, C. 8., superintendent of the dockyard, and other officials. One of the torpedoes was deposited by Mr. Beardslee in the river, and at a given signal was ex ploded. No vessel of anykind was allowed to be near, and from the violence of the explosion this precaution was necessary, as fatal injuries would have been in flicted on any craft in the immediate vicinity. Dur ing Saturday Mr. Beardslee deposited one of thevery large test torpedoes in the mud and sand at the en trance to Chatham harbour, at a spot which for ob vious reasons was kept secret, but which is not in the track of vessels entering or leaving the port. This torpedo will remain submerged until the day of the trial arrives, when it will be exploded, the ob ject being to show that although sunk to any depth the destructive powers of the torpedo are not in the slightest degree diminished. The place at which the Terpsichore—the vessel placed at the disposal of Mr. Beardslee by the Admiralty to be blown up— was originally moored having been found rather in convenient she has been removed to some distance up the harbour, where the depth of water at all stages of the tide is greater, and where there are more fa cilities for giving full effect to the trials about to be undertaken. The operation of filling and pre paring the numerous torpedo shells intended to be used during the experiments has occupied several days, and has been effected on board the Volage, floating powder magazine, under the personal direc tion and superintendence of Mr. Beardslee, every facility connected with the undertaking being given by the dockyard officials. The total number of tor pedoes intended to be exploded is 30, from the very largest and most destructive kind to those required for destroying small craft and boats. The screw frigate Racoon, 22, Captain Count Gleichen, arrived at Spithead during Friday night from the Mediterranean, and will steam into Ports mouth harbour to-day to be docked. She brought to England a number of naval invalids and time expired men, who were transferred from her on Sa turday to the Victory, by the Pigmy steam tender, Master Commander Petch. Lieut. Prince Alfred was to have joined the Racoon at Malta, and served on board her in the Mediteranean until his promo tion to Commander's rank in the spring. The out break of cholera, however, in various ports of the Mediterranean has been the cause of the Racoon's recall to England. A new rudder on Lumley's patent is being con structed for the screw troopship Orontes, Capt. H. W. Hire, at Portsmouth dockyard, and will be fitted to that vessel on her return to England from her present China voyage. The Lumley rudder, which is fitted to her Majesty's ships Columbine, Scotia, and six other vessels in the navy, is one of the most simple, yet efficient, forms of steering that can be applied to single screw ships, yet, strange to say, none of our large ironclads have yet been fitted with it: According to the present amended arrangements, the Helicon and - Salamis, paddle despatch vessels, are ordered to be in readiness to leave Portsmouth on their competitive trial to-morrow. Tim SUN, LONDON, MONDA EVENING, OCTOBER 2, 1 EE C. through Russia is an objection to the scheme, but the route is feasible enough, and it seems likely that the merchants of the North will take up the idea strongly. Trade is strongly flourishing in the East, though heavy rains have damaged the crops both in China and Japan. REVENUE RETURNS. I.—The following is an abstract of the gross produce of the Revenue of the United Kingdom in the undermen tioned periods, ended Sept. 30, 1865, compared with the corresponding periods of the preceding year : Quarters ended Dec. 31, Starch 31, June 30, Sept. 30, 1864 1865 1865 1865 £ £ £ £ 5,9 P,OOO 5,5;0,000 5,17e,000 5,289,000 5,000,000 5,312,000 4,.6 ,000 9,332,000 2,223,000 2,50'; 00 2,490,000 2,272,000 1,294,000 39•,000 1,40%,000 242,000 1,580,000 30 27,000 2,210,000 815,000 1,090,000 1,005,000 9;0,00) 1,145,000 8. , 000 81, 00 70,000 70,000 852.595 1, 50,151 359,520 297,09 .! 1 17,549.520 1 11,46 ',39: LATEST INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. BOURSE, Sept. 29.—Two o'Clock.—The reponse des primes (option) has just taken place. The reponse has been obtained as follows :—Threes, 68s. 60c. Italian Fives, 65f. 60c. Credit Mobilier, 875 f. Three o'Clock.—After an active advance on the two o'clock prices, the market has retro graded to leave off at the following quotations:— 4} per Cents 96 50 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 6B 55 Do. end month 6B 50 Credit Mobilier Do. end month Bank Shares 3585 Credit Fonder 1340 -- Italian Loan 65 50 Do. end month 65 55 RAIL Orleans Northern . Lyons and Mediterranean. Southern Western .. Ditto Threes — Roman 74 50 Mexican Loan _s2i Do. Bonds 340 Russian — Austrian Spanish Threes Rome Debt — Deferred WAYS. Cash. Acct. 845 ... 1091 25 ... 873 75 ... b 67 50 ... 550 --- - ... 535 - - ... 250 - - ... 410 - ... 458 57 ... 222 50 ... 310 Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Roman - - ... 220 --- MAGAZINE-DAY. BLACKWOOD. - Miss Marjoribanks' adventures and the destinies of fashionable life in '‘ Car- lingford " are quite as interesting in their way as those of the more demure and pre sumptuous heroes who preceded her in those won derful chronicles, which have afforded the readers of this magazine so much excitement and entertainment. Lucilla's schemes are very disinterested, and the good wishes of all who have followed her arduous career will go with her to the struggle in which she has resolved to tackle with prejudice, and make conventional absurdities yield to the claims of good sense and right feeling. It must be confessed that the strong-minded daughter of the Doctor nearly monopolises all our share of interest and regard, for her surroundings are not very attractive, but that circumstance only proves her superiority the more. Miss Marjoribanks did not look upon society as a sphere to shine in, or a lottery where she could draw a rich prize, but she rather regarded it as an exercise of her powers, for being of service to her fellow-creatures, and in some way or another gaining them benefits or furthering their inte rests. All who desire to refresh their memories concern ing the details of the late American struggle had better peruse the account of that eventful period here given. It is written by one who took part in that momentous strife, and conveys a very good idea of the inexorable time, now already lapsing into the past. Many distinguished traits and characteristic anecdotes are recorded with that spirit and reality which only belong to the narrative of an eye-witness. On one occa sion the writer was despatched by his commander, General Stuart, to give a message to old " Stonewall," who had gone before his arrival. To my question at starting, "Where shall I find General Jackson 2" my chief replied with a smile, " Where the fight is hottest." All the in cidents here recorded are related in an impressive manner, and an animated style, worthy of those events which will for ever associate the confederate cause with heroic re sistance and unsurpassed constancy under painful odds and desperate ventures. "Giacomo Leopardi" is an in teresting sketch of a remarkable man in the annals of Italian literature. Although he never won that fame which his talents deserved, he was one of those unhappy beings who never seem to fulfil their destiny, but are always driven, devious, tempest-tossed, the sport of adverse influences and ungracious circumstances. The second part of " Switzerland in Summer and Autumn," is an attrac tive sketch on a subject which can never be stale or un profitable, but will always contain some interest. Many of the remarks upon hotels are very just, and must prove of service to the novice in travelling, and the thoughtless in action. A few pages are devoted to the laying of the Atlantic cable, and all engineering topics of interest and importance. It is told in an earnest manner, and the reader's attention is kept up in an interesting style from the propitious commencement to the disheartening finale. Words of hope are, however, spoken in conclusion, which are doubly welcome when so many are inclined to despond and despair of ultimate success and final triumph s How true is this statement, that "it is not in the nature of the Anglo-Saxon to look upon defeat as final, but rather to look upon each failure as a step nearer to success." Let all honour be paid to those who have worked so bravely to attain a satisfactory result. It is from the knowledge of their great abilities the belief is encouraged that time alone is wanted to ensure complete success. There is no reason to doubt the fulfilment of this prophecy, and, with perse verance and due caution, the present generation may wit ness the establishment of a happy and successful inter course, carried on beneath the great waters, between the Old World and the New. FRASER.—Miss Cobbe gives us an interesting I article on Ireland and her recent Exhibition, be ginning with the assertion that no scenery is less fitted for the appreciation of hasty visitors than that of Ireland. Her animated description of the people contains some amusing anecdotes, such as that of the model school, in which the boys were carefully trained to reply to the query "Is it right to go to Donnybrook Fair ?" " No, sir; it is a sin." An English visitor, after hearing this exemplary answer, asked leave to put a ques tion, when, on his asking every boy who had been to Donnybrook that year to hold up his hand, up went every hand in the class ! The Exhibition of 1865 is, on the whole, warmly commended. The Maories, who have lately risen into undeserved prominence, form the subject of a length ened paper, which, being the expression of a colonist's views, is worthy of attention. The new religion of the Maories is thought to have much to do with the late out break. "Austrian Politics" touches on a topic in which Europe is more nearly concerned, and though somewhat weighty in character it contains a good deal of information. The political history of Austria and her scattered disunited possessions is traced since 1812, which is styled the period of its greatest humuliation. After Silesia,Austria.n Flanders, Brussels, the Swabian towns, and the Tyrol had all been lost, and the nation had virtually ceased to be a German Power at all. Since then the fortunes of the old House of Hapsburg have a little retrieved themselves, but they will never be really established till Austria submits to give Hungary her rights, and frees herself from the terrible out lay of men and money required in Venetia, by ac cepting pecuniary compensation from the Italians. By this means she would relieve her burdened treasury, and could meet Prussia boldly and firmly. A great career is open to Austria if she have the nerve and the liberality to enter upon it. The great diversity of her populations is her difficulty, a difficulty that the writer of the article in Fraser fully recognises. " The Writings of Bolingbroke" are discussed in an essay, which claims for him a place as the founder of modern political literature. Some lively letters to a friend, written during a voyage from London to Rio Janeiro, give an animated panorama of a traveller's adventures. "Charles do Bernard" is the title of a criticism on a modern French writer, which ex hibits in very clear light tho defects of his school. "A. K. 11. 8.," our old friend, reappears in an essay on •he introduction of the organ into Scotland, and there is a lengthened criticism of the work; of William Henry Hunt, which does full justice to the genius of the lamented artist. MACMILLAN.—Professor Bain gives us the second part of his able and elaborate essay on Mr. Grote's Plato, taking into consideration in this number the affirmative or exposition dialogues. In the first part he discussed the negative or dialectic side of the philosopher's writings, a view which has been seldom taken, Plato having been, he remarks, chiefly in fluential as an affirmer of positive doctrine. Those who pass by this article as somewhat too learned for their taste will find plenty of lighter reading. One of the most in teresting of the general papers is Henry Kingsley's account of Eyre, the Australian explorer, whose highminded and adventurous career he describes with all the fervour and energy so characteristic of his style. The theme is suffi ciently stirring and original to arouse the attention of the most listless reader, and the story of Eyre's hardships, vicissitudes, and endurance, lose nothing in the telling. " A Neglected Art" is a very sensible paper on a some what homely but important subject. The expenses of a domestic establishment of any pretensions are growing to such a terrible height that any one who offers a plain and practical remedy for the evil deserves an attentive hearing. The writer of this treatise, on " A Neglected Art," proposes to check the lavish waste which goes on in most households by the lady taking the superintendence of the culinary de partment into her own hands, thereby insuring a control over the cook's expenditure, and securing to her household that very desirable and wholesome benefit, a good dinner. It would be well for our chatelaines of the middle class to consider wnether they might not wholly or partially follow this advice, and thus turn their energies to profitable account. "On the Rhine" and " The Matterhorn. Sacrifice" aro two short poems, the latter having the advantage. It puts in verse the question very generally put in prose, wltather it is worth while to risk valuable and treasured lives for the empty glory of treading trackless snows ? The two stories which are going on in this magazine ad vance rapidly. They are very different in scene, style, and character, but both well worth reading. " The Dove in the Eagle's Nest" has made important progress in the last few chapters. The existence of Eberhard is openly hinted at, a fact that makes Christina's persistent refusal of her new suitor a fortunate occurrence. The young Baron is much incensed at the mere rumour of his mother's se cond nuptials, and altogether shows himself in less favour able coolness than heretofore. He receives the hint as to his father's possible existence with very bad grace, evi dently disliking the thought of being possibly deposed from his dignity. " Cradock Norwell," the other tale, loses something by the extravagance of its style, but it is a striking and original story nevertheless. The hero is supposed to have shot his only brother by an unhappy accident, and circumstances have filled his father's mind with dark suspicions. The unfortunate young man leaves his home in despair, with what result we have to learn. " Essays at Odd Times" perform less than they pro mise, but they deserve not to be overlooked. The literary life of Isaac Taylor, a comprehensive and thoughtful writer, is the subject of a brief memoir by Professor Fraser. TEMPIX BAR.—" Sir Jasper's Tenant" is con tinued, and new mysteries appear in the shape of an intruder on Mrs. Harding, just as her schemes were maturing and her grand prize seemed within her grasp. The character of the " florid widow" is one of the most successful that this writer has drawn, and the description of the artful manner in which the adventures went on is quite dramatic. Sir Jasper makes himself most absurd in his devotion to the untruth ful woman, but the worst is that he knows her insin cerity, and yet suffers himself to be fooled. In real life, however, we find many Sir Jaspers, only they do not avow their knowledge with the candour of this selfish old baronet. Marcia Denison is engaging in her way from hor quiet earnestness and simple demeanour. As might have been expected Mr. Dobb has got into trouble, and his employer's money seems very uncertain as to its chance of finding its way back again to proper quarters. " The Streets of the World," . by George Augustus Sala, concerns " Mexico, the Calle San Francisco," this month. " High Horses "is a sugges tive sketch on matters of daily life and domestic affairs, which are too often slighted and their importance over looked. The descriptions here given of " high horses" are very true, and many may take a useful hint from them if so minded, although it is to be feared that they are too stuck-up to profit by the opportunity afforded to them. " We get high horses and ride on them when we have more money than our neighbours, when we have testimonials and presentation-plates, when we inherit where we had no claim of birth or blood unexpectedly and richly, or get into the newspapers for any feat of daring, not of such heroic diversions as to annihilate the high horse altogether, which is a property belonging to true greatness." " Land at Last" is continued, and the visit of the questionable-look ing friends to Highgate is not a very successful one. Little Annie Maurice is now possessor of a large fortune, and astonishes every one by her moderation. " Through Hants" is another of those charming little sketches which we have before met with in the pages of this periodical, and which present the reader with such pleasant pictures of their own country, which study is too often neglected by those who rove about foreign lands. "In the Land of Nod" contains some curious accounts of dreams, etc. " A Government Clerk's Holiday" is a very clever paper, which is sure to find admirers. "Good Cheer" is the title of some verses by Thomas Hood, jun., which afford a useful moral as to the benefits and blessings of labour. "David Chantrey" approaches completion, and becomes more ex citing in its incidents. Altogether there is a great deal to attract attention in this month's number of this periodical. CORNHILL.—" Wives and Daughters" is here continued at some length, and many readers will be sorry to think that it is so near completion, for it is a most interesting story, told in a natural manner. Guthia and Molly arc about as great contrasts as can well be imagined, and the difference is becoming more palpable as circumstances develope their characters and call out their different qualities. The mystery of Mr. Preston has now assumed most formidable dimensions, and threatens to create a fearful division in the household of Mr. Gibson. Lady Harriet is quite a relief after the sense less gossips of Hollingford. There are many characters met with in this narrative, but it so dexterously arranged that no complicatipn takes place, and the reader is easily enabled to follow the clue of the story. " Aftnadale" is also very eventful in this instalment, and Miss Gwilt obtains some decided advantages in consequence of the extraordinary imprudence of Allan, and the exceed ing folly of Midwinter. No two young men could possibly have exhibited more want of wordly wisdom than these adventurers displayed in their debut at Thorpe-ambrose. The interview between Mr. Pedgift, senior, and his client is very aptly described, and the effrontery of the designing sorceress is almost unbounded. The next portion of this tale promises to be yet more stormy, as the two insepar ables aro on the point of coming to a quarrel concerning this Marplot who has started up, and put allithings about and around her to confusion. "Acquitted on the Ground of Insanity" is an article that is sure to arrest attention just now, because so much is said on this point, and such various opinions prevail in respect to it. Some very true observations are made on the unreasonable horrorlwith which many people regard the insane, and which extends to those who aro but slightly affected. "A Holiday in Venice" is a lively sketch , that presents some brilliant pictures of gaiety in the far-famed Sur-Mer of the Waters. Studious readers may find food for speculation in the "Platonic Doctrines of Ideas," " Trouville-Sur-Mer is a sketch of the new fashionable watering-place in France ; •' Maori Sketches" is the title of an article on a subject that comes prominently before the reader nowadays. The ob ject is to show what the Maories were before they gained oven their shallow varnish of nominal civilisation. It is truly stated that they have shown splendid courage, and the traits of their character exhibit their unwillingness to civilisation as nothing remarkable, however disappoint ing it may be. _ THE ENGLISHMAN'S MAGAZlNE.—Aquariums seem of late to have gone a little out of fashion, at least we do not meet so many rhapsodies about amphibious creatures who make up for the indistinct ness of their physical form by the dignity and pre cision of their learned names. There is, however, still something to be said about them in the way of pleasant practical description as is shown in this number, in the account of a ramble" Among the Tangles" of the Devon shire coast. "Some account of Barrack Life in India" is written by an officer who knows what the life in barracks was before the recent changes. From his calm and mode rately drawn picture the reader cannot wonder that no less an authority than the late Sir Henry Lawrence declared that the longing for transportation induced many soldiers to commit capital offences. The barbarous routine which gave the soldier no means of occupation during the weary day had nearly as much to do with the disease and death among our troops as the wretched sanitary arrangements. The improvement in health and morals has kept rapid pace with the changes in the soldiers' physical and mental con dition. " Stray Thoughts on Failures" is a well-written and suggestive essay regarding the different aspects and types of human failures, whether voluntary or involuntary. The story of the "Old Pagoda Tree" is continued, and has reached its third part. The officer supposed to be dead has come to life again under singular circumstances. But too late so far as his bride elect is concerned. Mr. B ouncy gives us his second paper on " Man before History," a wide subject, and the eventful life of "S t. Charles Borromeo" is the subject of an earnest encomium. " Such a man," it is. remarked, " will accomplish for thousands in one lifetime that which generations of inferior men can scarcely effect for as many hundreds." For the poetical reader there are several verses, some of the best being imitated from Cal deron, and others rendered from the German. - , THE ST. JAMES'S MAGAZINE:" The Lady's Mile," Miss Braddon's new fiction, proceeds with interest. Already, in this early stage of the story, the secret of Captain Gordon's incomprehensible conduct is explained to us, while the rival romance of the painter's fair daughter is carried on simulta neously with the story of the chequered fortunes of Lady Cecil Chudleigh. The author of "Shirley Ball Asylum' continues his narrative of the " The Village Doctor," and Paul Ferrol's " Working in the Dark" is rapidly approach ing a conclusion. Fiction is always predominant in the "St. James's," but there are several graver papers, one a sen sible essay on the ment9.ltraining of girls, very appropriately in these days when the guardians of young maidens are beginning to inquire whether they do not want something more than superficial accomplishments to equip them for the battle of life. "The Great Unread" refers to the for saken and forgotten literature of mediaeval times ; while an account of "Hindoo Prejudices" shows us the mischief working power of caste ; and an amusing paper on " Waverly Tourists in Scotland" assures us that the Bor der, socially speaking, is fast becoming destroyed by the constant passage of travelled's. Thirty times a day does locomotive pass the Cheviot Hills ani the Border regions going from south to north by various routes, and, of course, a corresponding number of times does it pass from North to South. Rather a change from the days of William of Deloraine, and the Border forays. Mr. Sala gives us a full account of the marvels of the Charing Cross Hotel, and M. Dulapierre continues his versions of " His torical Misrepresentations." LONDON SOClETY.—Pleasant and bright, as usual, comes the animated " society," which is introduced to us under the sparkling cover. No more suitable companion could be formed for turning over on the beach or under the flapping sail. The subjects are varied and numerous, beginning with the " Medi dieinal effects of Laziness," and ending with an essay on Hogarth. Between the two come sketches of Boulogne Pier, of the Kentish Hop Gardens, - of Welsh Waterino.- places, of Salmon Spearing, and Partridge Shooting. Be sides, wo have, in spite of the long vacation, a continuation of the gallery of portraits drawn in the witness-box, giving us some very striking and characteristic specimens of the genus. " Witty Women and Pretty Women of the Time of Horace Walpole" is the title of an entertaining paper; while the fifteenth chapter of the series, on our good old merchant princes, tells us the story of Thomas Coutts of banking celebrity. Tho illustrations, graceful and effective as over, adorn both prose and poetry. THE BOYS' OWN MAGAZINE : THE BOYS' MONTHLY MAGAZINE (Beeton).—These two little serials contain much pleasant reading for boys, and if the contents be not professedly instructive, 'they yet convey a good deal of indirect information in history, geography, and zoology, though it is given in the form most attractive to boys.. The riddles, experiments, and ' puzzles of various kinds will amuse many a play hour on a Customs . Excise Stamps Taxes Property Tax Post-office Crown Lands Miscellaneous .• • • Totes ........ 18,089,596 Quarters ended Dec. 31, March 31, June 30, Sept. 30, 1863 1861 1861 1881 £ £ £ £ Customs 5,97e,000 5,' 33,000 5,446,0( 0 5,g24,000 Ex he 4,753,000 5, , 27,000 4,864,000 4,352,000 Stamps Taxes Proper y Tax Yost-offs e 990,000 965,000 960,000 1,045,000 Crown Lands Miscellaneous Tnta la Totals . 18,31.,18& !18,9,9,069 Customs Excise Stamps Taxe. Property Tax Post-0111.e Crown Land. Mits.e.l.neous Total Il.—lncrease and Decrease in the peri' 1865, as compared with correspond preceding Sear: Quarter ended Sept. Year ended Sept. 30. 1865. 30, 1865. Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. £ ^ £ £ £ Customs .;xcise SO 2 0 , 000 .. 10,000 Stamps.... 5,000 •• 4-1,00 Taxes Property Tax .• • Post-Office Crown Lands 00 Miscellaneous Tota' s A et Deereas, 213,600 i 513,097 19; Net D, 161,000 !crease.. £, 1,2+5,777 :5,0L4,777 Customs Excise Stamps Taxes Property Tax Post Office • • rown Lauds • •• Miscellaneous Totals •• • Net decrease, 1,115,287 lII.—An Account showing the Revenue and other Receipts of the Quarter ended Sept. 30, 1865, the appli cation of the same, and the Charge of the Consolidated Fund for the said Quarter, together with the surplus or deficiency upon such charge : Surplus Balance beyond the charge of the Con solidated Fund, for the Quarter ended June 30, 1865, viz.:— Great Britain Ireland 4826,139 X 826,133 Income received in the Quarter ended Sept. 30, 1865, as shown in Account I. Amount raised per Acts 26th and 27th Victoria, cap. 80, and 7th and 24th Victoria, cap. 109, on account of Fortifications, &c Amount received in the Quarter ended Sept. 3 1865, in repayment of Advances for Public Works, &c. 350,000 £16,050,820 Balance, being the Deficiency on Sept. 30, 1865, upon the charge. of the Consolidated Fund in Great Britain, to meet the Dividends, and other charges, payable in the Quarter to Dec 3 1 , 1865. and for which Exchequer Bills (Deficiency) will be issued in that Quarter 3,r 18,224 X 9,069,014 Amount applied out of the Income in Redemp tion ot Deficiency Bills issu d in the Qu r ter to Sept 3', 1865, for the ch irge of the Consolidated Fund in Great Britain on Jun , : 30, 1865 Amount applied out of the Income to Supply Ser vices, in the Quarter ended Sept. 30, 1865.... Charge of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended Sept. 30, 1865, viz.:— Interest of the Permanent Debt £5,441,067 Terminable Debt Interest of Exchequer Bills 74, vtB Interest of Deficiency Bills The Civil List 101,478 Other Charges on Consoli dated Fund 581,805 Advances for Public Works,&c. 313,152 Sinking Fund 1,269,873 9,543,156 P,033,413 Surplug Balance in Ireland beyond t he charge of the Consolidated Fund in Ireland for the Quarter ended Sept 3^, 1865 . £19,069,044 19,177,151 18,274,200 Year ended 1865 21,969,000 19,539,000 9,486,000 3,311,000 7,732,000 4,210,000 312,000 2,669,659 6),25? , ,659 Sept. 2 ?,573,000 19,096,000 9,533,000 3,252,000 8,551,000 3,960,000 303,5 , X) 8,007,44 I 70,373,944 )ds ended Sept. 30, ing periods of the Year ended Sept. 39, IS6I. Increase. 413,000 Decrease. E 601,000 gi,o7 0 809, 00 427,785 - - 1,902.785 89,000 250,000 5,5 - 7e7,50 - 0 1 wet day, and beguile many an evening. The illustrations to the Boys' Own Magazine are plentiful and effective. THE SIXPENNY MAGAZINE.—The story of "Th e Fatal Legacy" proceeds rapidly, and, as the reader was led to suspect in the last number, the gentle man just arrived from India is no other than the Uncle John supposed to be dead, the giver of the fatal legacy. " The Epernay Diamonds" is a story of French romance and there are plenty other tales and sketches. An account of the arts and industry of the Japanese is interesting. Mr. Sumner on the South. Subjoined are excerpts, comprising the most important points, from Senator Sumner's speech, delivered to the Massachusetts Republican State Convention on the 14th ult. Senator Sumner spoke as president of the Convention, and his ad dress occupied in delivery one hour and a half : When last I addressed my fellow-citizens on public affairs, at the close of the late Presidential election, as we were about to vote for Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, I undertook to show the absolute identity between slavery and the rebellion, so that one could not end without the other. As I finished my address, I said to friends near me, that it was "my last anti-slavery speech." I so thought at the time ; for I anticipated the speedy downfall of the rebellion, carrying with it slavery. I was mistaken. Neither the rebellion nor slavery is yet fully ended. The rebellion has been disarmed, but that is all. Slavery has been abolished in name, but that is all. As there is still a quasi rebellion, so is there still a quasi slavery. The work of liberation is not yet completed. Nor can it be completed until the equal rights of every person once claimed as a slave are placed under the safeguard of irreversible guaran tees. It is not enough to strike down the masters, you must also lift up the slave. It is not enough to declare that slavery is abolished. The whole black code, which is the supplement of slavery, must give place to that equality before the law which is the very essence of liberty. It is an old principle of the common law, recognised by all our courts as announced by Lord Coke, that "where the law granteth anything to any one, that also is granted without which the thing itself cannot be." So also where a piece of land is granted which is shut in by the possession of the grantor, a right of way is implied from common justice and the necessity of the case. Until all is done in every parti cular and beyond possibility of question, it is in vain to say that emancipation has been secured. The good work is only half done. It must be continued to its assured con summation. There is another object kindred to security, or perhaps embraced in security ; and that is the national faith. This, too, must be placed beyond cavil, or even " sus picion." No nation can be powerful enough to disregard this sacred bond. Character, fame, and pi osperity itself are dependent upon its observance. But the national faith is engaged, first to the national freedmen, and secondly to the national creditors. No undertaking can be more com plete and inviolable, because it constituted the considera tion for those services and supplies by which the life of the Republic has been preserved. The national faithis pledged to the national freedmen, not only by the act of emancipa tion, which in its very essence and from the very nature of the case is a " warranty of title," but also by the plain and positive promises of the proclamation, that " the executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognise and maintain the freedom of such persons." Words could not b 3 more binding, and the history of their introduction testifies to their significance and efficacy. They were not in the ori ginal draft by president Lincoln, but were inserted at the suggestion of Mr. Seward, when the proclamation was read to the Cabinet; and there they stand without any limitation of time or place, binding the republic in its na tional character, through its Executive, including the mili tary and naval authority, not only to recognise but to maintain the freedom of the emancipated slave ; and this is to be done not in any special locality, but everywhere, and not only for a day or a year, but for all time. Our obliga tion to the national creditors is of the same validity, ap proved by successive acts of Congress, ratified by the popu lar will, and fixed beyond recall by the actual enjoyment of the precious fruits for which the debt was incurred. Repu diation of our bonds whether to the national creditors or to the national freedmen, would be a shame and a crime, and the national faith is irrevocably plighted to the two alike. Here is the proclamation, and here is the Treasury note. Look at the signatures and look at the terms. The former is signed by the President himself, Abraham Lincoln ; the latter is signed by an unknown clerk whose name I cannot decipher. The former is stronger and more positive in its terms than the latter. The Treasury note simply says that it is "redeemable after a certain date," and that "this debt is authorised by act of Congress." The binding terms of the proclamation, which I have already read are solemnly enforced by that memorable invocation at the close :—"And upon this act, siecerely believed to be an act of justice war ranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I in voke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favour of Almighty God." Thus religion comes to confirm the pledge with sanctions of its own. That pledge is as enduring as the republic itself. Meanwhile we must follow Congress in the present ex clusion of all rebels upon political power. They must not be voted for, and they must not vote ; on this principle I take my stand. Let them buy and sell, let them till the ground —and may they be industrious and successful. These things they may do ; but they must not be admitted at once into the copartnership of our Government. As well might the respectable Mr. Ketchum reinstate his son at once in the powers of a co-partner. The father received his son with parental affection, and forgave him, but he did not invite the criminal to resume his former desk in Wall -street. And yet Edward Ketchum, who had robbed and forged on an unprecedented scale, is as worthy of trust in the old banking-house as our rebels in the Government of the country. A long probation will be needed before either can be admitted to his former fellowship. The state of outlawry is the present condition of each, and this condition must not be hastily relaxed. Congress has already set the exa mple by excluding from " any office of honour or profit under the Government of the United States," and also by excluding as councillor at law from any court of the United States, every person who has given "aid or countenance " to the rebellion, or who has "sought or accepted any office whatever" under it, or who has yielded to it any "voluntary support." This exclusion, thus sanctioned by Congress, must be the polestar of our national policy. If rebels cannot be officers under our Government, they ought not to be voters. They should be politically disfranchised, purely and simply, as a measure of self-defence, and in order to prepare the way for those guarantees which we seek. " Vipers cannot use their venom in the cold." These are words of political wisdom as well as of scientific truth, and a great Italian writer did not hesitate to inculcate from them the same lesson as I do now. Still further, in obtain ing guarantees we must look confidently to Congress, which has plenary powers over the whole subject. Congress can do everything needful. It has already begun by excluding rebels from office. It must continue its jurisdiction ; whether, through tho war powers, or the duty to guarantee a republican form of government, or the necessity of the case, as in territories, is a matter of little importance. It is of less importance under which of its powers this is done than that it is done. Continuing its jurisdiction, Congress must supervise and fix the conditions of order, so that the national security and national faith shall not suffer. Here is a sacred obligation which cannot be postponed. All these guarantees should be completed and crowned by an amend ment of the Constitution of the United States, especially providing that hereafter there shall be no denial of the elec toral franchise, or any exclusion of any kind on account of colour or race, but all persons shall be equal before the law. At this moment, under the just interpretation of the Consti tution, three-fourths of the States actually co-operating in the national Government are sufficient for this change. The words of the Constitution are that amendments shall be valid to all intents and purposes " when ratified by three fourths of the Legislature of the several States;" or, accord ing to practical sense, by three-fourths of the States that have Legislatures. If a State has no Legislature it cannot be counted in determining the quorum of either House of Congress, where precisely the same question occurs. Any other interpretation recognises the rebellion, and plays into its hands by conceding its power, through rebellious con trivance, to prevent an amendment of the Constitution essential to the general welfare. For myself, fellow-citizens, pardon me if I say that my course is fixed. Others may hesitate; others may turn away from those great truths which rnake the far-reaching bright ness of the Republic; ethers may seek a temporary favour by a temporary surrender. I shall not. The victory of blood, which has been so won, must be confirmed by a greater vic tory of idea, so that the renowned words of Abraham Lin coln maybe fulfilled, and "this nation under God shall hare a new birth of freedom, and goVernment of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth." To this end I seek no merely formal Union seething with smothered curses, but a practical, moral, and political unity, founded on common rights knit together by common interests, and inspired by a common faith, where our Con stitution, interpreted anew, shall be a covenant with life and a league with Heaven, and liberty shall be everywhere not only a right, but a duty. John Brown, on his way to the scaffold, where he was to atone with life for a deed of self-sacrifice, stooped to take up a slave child. That closing act was the legacy of the dying man to his country. That benediction we must continue and fulfil. Thelasotssthpaolnled,be first ; and so, i n this new order, e q ualit y , long postponed, shall become the master principle of our system and the very frontispiece of our Constitution. The rebellion was to boat clown this principle by founding a Government on the alleged " inferiority of a race." Taking up the gauntlet, I now insist that the insolent assumption of the conspirators shall not prevail. This is not the first time that I have battled with the barbarism of slavery. I battle still, as the bloody monster retreats to its last citadel, and God willing, I mean " to fight it out on this line," if it takes what remains to mo of life. MR. HARRY COPELAND, the author of the now universal song " Slap Bang," is recently deceased. MORISON'S PILLS OF THE BRITISH COLLEGE OF HE ~LTII, EUSTON-ROAD, LONDON.-All persons should know that the above medicine can be sent by post on receipt of 30 postage stamps for two boxes, Nos. 1 and 2, I.3id size. --EA dvcrtisement • , n al _-er; tirmik •C.,•••4 • HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, Sept. 29. The Queen drove out in the morning with Prin cess Louise ; and in the afternoon her Majesty went out with Princess Louis of Hesse. Their Royal llighnesses the Prince and Princess Louise of Hesse, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, and Princess Beatrice went to a gillies' ball at Aber geldie, given by the Prince of Wales, in the evening. Baroness de Schenck, Baron de Rabenau, and Colonel the Hon. D. de Ros were in attendance. The Earl of .Dalhousie and Lady Christian Maule arrived at the Castle on a visit, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and royal family. SEPT. 30. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, and attended by Lady Ely, drove yesterday to Alt-na-Guitha-sack. Princess Louis of Hesse and Princess Helena went out driving in the morning ; and in the after noon Princess Helena drove out with Lady Chris tian Maule, the Hon. Mrs. Grey, and Miss Grey. The Earl of Dalhousie, Lady Christian Maule, and Sir Charles Wood had the honour of dining with the Queen and royal family. Foreign Courts. PARIS, Sept. 30. The Emperor and Empress, letters state, intend in returning from Biarritz to pass a day at Bor deaux. A request made by the inhabitants of Rochefort for a similar favour was obliged to be refused. General Baron Chazal, Belgian Minister of War, now resident on his estate of Usez, near Pau, has had the honour of a private audience with the Em peror Napoleon at Biarritz. Baron Saillard, sent by the Grench government on a mission to Tunis, arrived in the waters of the Regency on the 19th inst. The Duke of Northumberland and Lady Louisa Percy will leave Alnwick Castle to-day for Nor thumberland House, on their way to pass, the win ter at Torquay. The Duchess of St. Albans and Viscount Falk land, accompanied by Lady Diana Beauclerk, have arrived at their residence at Princes-gate, Knights bridge, for a few days. The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde left their residence in Stratton-street, on Saturday, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Cork, at Marston House, in Somersetshire. The Marquis and Marchioness of Waterford will, during the ensuing week, receive a distinguished circle at Curraghmore, the family seat in the county of Waterford, to celebrate the coming of age of the Earl of Tyrone, M.P. The rejoicings will extend over several days; and all persons connected with the extensive landed estates of the Beresford family in the county will participate in the celebration. The marriage of the Marquis Townshend and Lady Anne Duff, eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Fife, is, we hear, appointed to take place on the 17th inst. The Marquis of Ormonde attains his majority on Thursday next, when there are to be grand enter tainments at Kilkenny Castle to the tenantry and the labourers, employed on the Irish estates of the family. The Earl and Countess of Erroll are entertaining a select circle at Slains Castle, Aberdeenshire. Viscount and Viscountess Chelsea, who arrived at the Earl Craven's house, in Charles-street, Ber keley-square, on Friday, have since gone to Ash down Park, Berks, on a visit to the Ear] and Countess Craven, who are entertaining a select family party. Lady Francis and Miss Gordon have arrived in town from Germany. The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli have returned to Hughenden Manor from Woburn Abbey. QUEEN EMMA OF TIIE SANDWICH Islands is about to visit the Isle of Wight, and during her residence in the island she will pay a visit to Mr. Alfred Tennyson, at Freshwater. MARIO AND GRISI IN THEIR OLD HAUNTS.—The rumour that Signor Mario as well as Madame Grisi will sing next season for Mr. Mapleson gains ground ; Mr. Gye having had the unlucky fortune this year of dissatisfying every one —unless it be those disposed to bow down and worship Mdlle. Lucca. TilE TEMPLE CHURCH was re-opened for Divine service yesterday. M. JULLIEN will open her Majesty's with pro menade concerts forthwith. FECHTER, we are glad to hear, has met with great success in Scotland. A LIFE OF CHARLES LAMB, by Barry Cornwall, is said to be preparing for publication by Messrs. yoxon— as also a new poem by Mr. Swinbourne, the young poet of " Atalanta in Calydon." A NEW MASS, BYGOITNOD, is talked of as forth coming. GOUNOD'S ROMEO AND JULIET" will be first produced in Paris, at the Lyrique, with Mme. Carvalho as Juliet. The Italian adaptation has been secured by Mr. Gye for the Royal Italian Opera; Juliet by Adelina Patti. Mr. BENEDICT IS AT WORK ON A GRAND OPERA for the German stage, founded on the exquisite psycolo gical story of Schiller, the "Ghost-Seer." Mn BALFE has left Biarritz to enjoy a little boar hunting on the estate of his son-in-law the Duke of Frias Estramaduras. MR. SALA STARTED ON THURSDAY FOR GLASGOW, where he will deliver three lectures on Europe, America, and Africa, or, to narrow the subject down to the capabilities of three short lectures, England, the United States, and Algiers. SIR HARRY PARKES, the new Minister in Japan, is establishing his legation at Yaddo. A GIANT BIGGER EVEN THAN CHANG, measuring some 81t., is on his way to England ; and we believe it is not unlikely the new importation will, under the tutelage of Professor Anderson, cause Chang's light to pale. A change in the Indian-office is again talked :of as imminent. It is said that Sir Charles Wood will retire next month, and be succeeded by the Duke of Argyll. THE EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE AT STAFFORD.— Further particulars have been published respecting the charge against Mr. G. F. Griffin, son of one of the ma gistrates of Stafford, on the charge of concealing the birth of his housekeeper's infant child, by taking away the body in a portmanteau, and throwing it into theriver Mawddach near Dolgelly, Merionethshire. It is feared the charge will ultimately resolve itself into one of wilful murder it was wh o table of Me t h found ro w ny the tide. The the b against the h ouse k eeper , as the post mortem examination of the body s h ows th a t the child was born alive, and m e t - with its deathbiynsvtiowiehnoesee garden • The person wall body in Wales was gardener to the chief cons rionethshir ma gistrates have admitt e d b o th prisoners toe, against bail,to the surprise of nearl y all the inhabitants, wh o thi n k the; s hould have been detained in custody until after the r esult of the inquest was made known. The accounts from the manufacturing districts for the past week state that business generally has been active. At Manchester there has been a good export demand for both cloths and yarns, and prices have tended upwards. The woollen trade of Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield continued reasonably active. • The fineness of the wea ther, however, has delayed operations on winter fabrics. At Leicester and Nottingham the hosiery and lace trades have remained without material change, while in the hardware districts of Birming ham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton more anima tion has prevailed, consequent upon an increased demand for exportation chiefly to America. BREAKFAST BLVERAGE.—Elomceopathic practitioners, and the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa as being tle most healthful of al, beverages. When the doctrine of homeopathy was first introducei into this country, there - were to be obtained no preparations of cocoa either attrac tive to the taste or acceptai le to the stomach ; the nut was either supplied in the crude state, or so uuskiliully manu factured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London, homceopathic chemist, was induced in the year 1839 to turn his attention to this subje t, and at length succeeded, with the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first to produce an ar,icle pure in its composition, aid so refined by the pert .et trituration it te.eives in the process it passes hrough, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach. For general use Epps' cocoa is distinguished as an invigo rating, grateful breakfast beverage, with a delLious aroma Dr. llassall in his work, "Food and its Adulterations,'s says—" Cocoa contains a great variety of important nutritive principles; every ingredient neressary to the growth and sustenance of the bcdy." Again, "As a nutritive, cocoa stands very much higher than either coffee or tea." Direc tions : —Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a breakfast cup, filled up with bailing; wat:r or milk. Secured in tin-lined -Ib, and lib. pactets, and sold at Is. 6d. per At). by grocers, confectioners, and chemists.