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St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8; Wed nesdays and :Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, ls. ; extra rooms, 6d. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, Open daily(except Sundays). ls.• on Mondays, 6d. Children nnder twelve, 6d. 14 " - Ilk 111 rig - 4 -AL LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1870. IT is not usual to book for much enlightenment on great topics at Fishmongers' Hall ; and yet the Duke of Cambridge has just made an after-dinner speech there which directly informs the nation what he wishes and indirectly what he intends. Whoever may under take the re-constitution of the army, the Commander in-Chief will have no hand in the business. Whether his Royal Highness be responsible for the grievous delay in putting the business, of the War Office in proper order is a question which affords much scope for inquiry; but it is certain, on his own showing, that the Duke is prepared to resist reorganisation on the ground that the English army is a perfect machine. It is "efficient," "powerful," "noble," "patriotic," and possessing, according to the Com mander-in-Chief, various other qualities too numerous to be recounted in detail. Probably the foreigners who heard this effusion at Fishmongers' Hall were too polite to laugh at the idea that the British army was a perfect machine requiring no further amendment; and to the English people generally such egregious conceit and self-delusion are likely to be fraught with too serious consequences to furnish a topic for mirth. Nobody questions the great bravery of the individual British soldier, nor underrates the sur prising feats, in proportion to its strength, which the British army has accomplished. It is neverthe less true that the force, as an aggregate apparatus for offence or defence, is likely to be admirable only so long as it does not go into action. It is enormously costly, and yet it is not on a par with any of theleading European armies either in equipment or scientific skill—to say nothing of numerical strength. In suppressing the Indian Mutiny, or in reaching Magdala, the English soldiers shone to ad vantage, because :*nlividual bravery had full scope in such enterprises. But we all know what became of the army in the Crimea, where valour was of no avail to counteract the bungling of generals and the disgraceful inadequacy of the supply department. Viewed apart from that vanity which is one of the worst characteristics of our nation, the army is un satisfactory, both to those thinkers who prefer a powerful force, and those who desire to reduce the military body to the smallest proportions. It is costly, and yet it is too weak to play more than a secondary part in a European war. The best course for a nation in our position has long been decided to be the keeping of a small fore of regulars as an active nucleus, and the sormation of a great reserve which would carry on the ordinary industrial avocations in time of peace, and take the field in time of war. Reduce the men who are soldiers only, and augmetA the force of citizen soldiers with the saving —for one reaular costs as much as two or three men of the reserve. This is the plan which the present Ministry favours, and which was shadowed forth in Mr. Cardwell's speech on the last army esti mates. We now sea why the improvement is not more rapidly and thoroughly adopted. The Commander-in -Chief desires no change in a body which possesses all the virtues. Army reformers may labour, out the inertia of the Horse Guards will always be a dead weight in the opposite scale. And similarly with details of organi sation and discipline. The books written by competent British officers can testify to the constant improvements in drill and appointments made by the continental military authorities. They are unceas ing in their endeavours to outstrip each other. The Horse Guards looks on with a self-satisfied smile. The whole system of modern army discipline and manceuvres has been remodelled on the Continent' with the aid of late experience ; but experience is obviously superfluous to a body which is so good as to need no change. , (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) TEE work of reform is progressing rapidly in France; but the attitude of the Emperor during these last moments of supreme power is undoubtedly unsatisfactory and suspicious. A new Con stitution has been drawn up. By this project the power of revising and altering the fundamental institutions of France will be shared with the repre sentatives of the people in the Legislative Body, whereas it has hitherto been vested only in the Emperor and the Senate. This change is exceedingly important and beneficial. Previously the representatives of the people could not even discuss the Constitution; but now the power of altering its provisions, added to the other recently acquirel prerogatives of the popular assembly, must go far to establish a regular parliamentary Govern ment—not so perfect as that of England, yet a vast improvement on the old arbitrary regime. Unfortunately the Emperor has conceived the strange freak of submitting the new programme to the sanction of a plebiscitum. There is to be a per sonal appeal to universal suffrage, and every elector in France will be asked to say Aye or Nay to the new Constitution just as they were requested to decide the Constitution of 1852 and the establishment of the Empire. It is true that W 3 are promised a fair trial of this curious machinery ; the practices which made the plehiSc...ita of eighteen years mere delusions will not be adopted ; this time we are to have the genuine thing. But the project is none the less objectionable. It discrAits Parliamentary Government. What is the end and aim of a representation of the people, if the people are to be appealed to head by head o; momentous occasions? If the Enip3ror wished to consult the nation, and it is quite reasonable that he s'ould, an appeal to the country is the obvious and rational resotirce. When %_ned_ioll _ to be Bottled, THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1870. tine.nugnsn people came to a nem.= oy electing members who would support the Irish Church Aet and not by voting en masse for or against it. It may be urged that this is a question of extending the power of the popular House, and that therefore the Chamber itself cannot determine its own prerogatives. The answer is ready: the present machinery vests the power of altering the Consti tution in the Senate, and if the sovereign is afraid of the Legislative Body, let the Senate do the work. That body, which the Emperor considers" great and splendid," but which most people regard as a servile collection of his own nominees, is quite ready to do anything that may be asked of it. It has sup ported despotism, and it is prepared with equal grace to uphold liberty. To the Senate, then, let the new Constitution go, without any useless, foolish, and dangerous plebiscitum. Such an expedient is use less, because it is admitted by the French Premier himself that the conclusion is foregone. It is dan gerous, because it is contrary to the principle of the parliamentary system which the Emperor is supposed to be setting up. As Prince Napoleon himself neatly puts the case,'" To consult directly the people is a kind of coup d'etat, and it supposes a dissent be tween the Emperor and the representatives of the people. Were it otherwise, the Emperor would find it more natural to go hand-in-hand with the repre sentatives themselves." Just so ; so long as a Parlia ment is the legislative machinery of the Government it is to Parliament that all appeals of the kind should be made. We see such fine things nowadays that a time may come when Arcadian States will be ruled entirely by the ballot-box, when entire nations will divide on tramway bills, and &bye elaborate amendments on compensation for eviction. That blissful time, however, has not come yet, and until it does there is nothing to be gained by dis crediting parliamentary Government. TOWN TALK. (From the Western Mail of this Merniig.) LONDON, Friday Evening. Puck's girdle before very much longer, have made the earth's circumference. Tiilings dated from Calcutta on the 2d, and from Bombay on the 3d, were published before cockcrow on the 4th in London. The fasces of the British Empire are coiled about now by telegraphic wires and submarine cables. Rather inopportunely, as it seems to me, for the ready carrying out of the disintegrating designs of Professor Goldwin Smith and his unpatriotic sym pathisers. The rods of empire, there can be no donbt whatever about it, just when Mr. Smith wan's to have them loosened apart, are bang bound more and more strongly and tenaciously together. A gool stand-up party fight—an incident quite refreshing in these later days—was actually adven tured upon in committee on the Irish Land Bill, in the House of Commons on Monday night, at the signal of Mr. Disraeli's amendment. At its very commenc..ment there was a clash of arms between two Parliamentary athletes, as redoubtable as the ex-Premier and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. At its conclusion, there was a result certainly notable of its kind, on a comparison of the aggregate numbers for and against the amendment. Instead of the majority, as usual, exceeding a hundred, it had dwindled down below it to the extent of twenty four. The clear majority was 76, in lieu of being over 100. Incidentally, during the course of the debate, Mr. Osborne was loudly but vainly called for ; his gay animal spirits being still evidently damped through the evil effects of his immersion in the tank at Waterford. The insurrectionary movement which has recently occurred in the kingdom of Italy—a movement at once abortive and sanguinary—has again directed attention to Mazzini as the arch-conspirator. A letter from the hand of Mazzini appeared simulta neously with the announcement of the outbreak. Cause and effect were at once apparent. Granted (what very few, indeed, I should imagine, would feel disposed for one instant to deny) that Guiseppe Mazzini is a conspirator born, and bred, and in grained, I cannot, for the life of me, but recognise in po'itical fanaticism like his something of a less sordid, certainly something of a lets selfish, charact r than the whole scheme of life laid out for himself, from first to last, by the royal voluptuary who has profited by the last twenty years of this revolutionary Italian move ment. A quarter of a year has scarcely elapsed since, while I was travelling through Lombardy, I endeavoured to obtain some clearer inkling as to the poular estimate by the Italians of the conspirator and of the King—of Mazzini and of Victor Emma nuel. And what was the answer I obtained in each instance as indicative of the popular estimate of the two ? Speaking of the King, the reply was—" He is a fine animal. He is satisfied with eating and drinking, with the demoiselles, with the sports of the field." " And what think you of Mazzini ?" I asked. A. pause. Then—after long silence—in a voice broken by emotion, "He is my father !"—mean ing pater patrig ! The contrast is certainly re markable. M. Rouher's magnificent banishment to the south of the Mediterranean, as Viceroy of Algeria, is, beyond all doubt, one of the most extravagantly daring projects recently. imputed to, the Emperor. It might be regarded as a sort of left-handed or vicarious reactionary movement. And the rumour of it becomes audible at the very moment when the intimation of a coming plebiscite for the Democratic sanctioning of the constitutional changes recently introduced, has elicited from the anguish of M. Tbiers the witty ejaculation that Liberty is, thug, being horn by a Cmsarean operatimi. Aprop , s to the discussion as to whom the French Ac idemy should select as successor to M. de Lamar tine, it is almost pitiable to notice that M. Guizot, three-and-twenty years after date, has just now in dulged himself with a senile sneer at the Ilistoire des irondins. It is only when the great poet-historian and orator-statesman, and hero-philanthropist, is in his grave that the Ministerial chief of the Govern meet, which was scattered into space by that grand history, in the beginning of 184 e, when its lublica don was like the detonation of nitro-glycerine, blurts out his abhorrence for the cause of bis political ex tinguishment. Reports still fitfully arise every now and then of Mr. Bright's intended resignation. Nor can it be wondered at, seeing that the I'resi lent of the Board of Trade has been s) long invalided. It is certainly remarkable, as things go, that since the first forma tion of the present Ministry under the I'remiership of Mr. Gladstone, the fifteen members of the Cabinet remain to the last unchanged. Meanwhile the Austrian Ministry reigns en masse ; because of the Kaiser's refusal to dissolve those pro vincial diets, the deputies from which have left the Reichsrath. The transference of power at Vienna now is from Count Beust to Count Potozki, the former Minis . er of Agricul ure. . Seeing that the Budget is delayed until just before Easter, it is, at any rate, a consolation to know be forehand that the surplus attained is variously put at from £3,000,000 to £5,000,000. Whatever the actual aggregate of the Budget may prove to be, certain it is that the whole of it cannot possibly in reason be dealt with. And this, for the sample reas , n that, by his hocus-pocus F olicy of last year, Mr. Lowe antici pated the future, seized Time by the forelock, ran five quarters instead of four into the current twelve month—in point of fact, adventured upon deeds of financial legerdemain that can never by any possibility he repeated. The Ernperer Napoleon's reservation to himself of a power to elect his successor from among the sons of any one of the brothers of Napoleon the Great—in the event, that is, always, of the premature death of his own son (now legally of age), the Prince Imperial —opens up to view two notable possibilities. The possibility of "Pion-Plon" being still kept on his good behaviour by reason of that reserved power of selec tion by which his claims might, at any emergency, be overlooked. And the possibility, held in terrorern over the Irreconcilables, that one of these fine days Prince Pierre, of Auteuil, might exchange his favou rite six-shooter revolver for the sceptre of Charle magne. Happily, there is one barrier as yet left to any such arrangement—the historical fact that the Lucien branch of the Bonaparte family is not, strictly speaking, Napoleonic. They have to be made Imperial before any one of them can possibly become Emperor. IVithin a few days after the publication of No. 1 of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," the enormous supply of 40,000 copies had been exhausted. The serial is now in its fiftieth thousand. This, remember, before a single week had elapsed, was a fact already accomplished. As I told you in my last, I was then on the eve of attending the private view of three pictorial exhibi tions. I can now look back to them retrospectively. Regarding them according to the order of seniority, I have first of all, of course, occasion to speak of the forty-seventh annual exhibition just now opened by the Society of British Artists in the suit of rooms known ; s the Suffolk -street gallery, situated at the back of the Haymarket theatre, aril a little to the nor.h of Pall-mall -east. The society has thirty three ny mbc‘rs, exclusive of two who are simply honorary. Its pres •nt vice-president is Mr. G. Cole ; its new j re ident is Mr. Alfred Cl nt ; its treasurer is Mr. J. Noble ; its secretary is Mr. T. Roberts ; and its two auditors are Mr. Wyke Bayliss and Mr. E. J. Cobbett. Duting the last thirty years of the forty seven during which the society has been flourishing, the late Frederick Yeates Hurlstone has been installed there as president. No one can wonder, therefore, to find that one of the conspicuous features of the exhibition in Suffolk-street Gallery for the present season is a collection of some of the choicest works by the late president—works brought together, for a while thus commemoratively, from many scattered collections. One of the most ambitious and effective cf all there pictures by Mr. Hurl- Aone is (229) " Columbus asking alms at the Con vent"--a wholly apochryphal incident, seeing the,' Columbus never did anything of the kind. " Salute Signori" (52) is among a'l these pictures by Mr. Hurlstone the most brilliaetly chat aeteristic. Two of Mr. J. J. Hill's rustic pictures adorn the wa'ls of the exhibition ; and Mr. Woolner aga;n attracts the eye askance by his nullities. The Frenat and Flemi,hExhibition at 120, Pall Mall, upon this, the thirteenth annual occasion, charms the London visitors with the sight of a very choice collection of masterpieces. Ilenriette Browne, famous as the painter of the " Sick Child," arrests one's attention almost on .the threshold with her (3) " Egyptian Boys chanting the Koran"—one of the urchins giving it voice like an embryo boats wa'n in an mai ; inary gale of wind. There is a world of humour in Weisz's " Foster Brother and Sister" (14) hardby. What shall be said of Rosa Bonheur's (48) " Quiet Spot in the Forest of Fontainebleau," but that the fawns and the dappled shade and sunshine are simply delicious and inimit able? What of Meissonier's (55) " Halb ,rdier on Guard," but that while it has the grand effect of a colossal painting, it might be examined through a miscroscope. The place of honour in the gallery is worihily accorded to J. Bertrand's (143) " Virginia drowned"—a noble and pathetic rendering of one-half of the tragical close of Bernardin St. Pierre's exqui. site story of " Paul and Virginia." As you gaze on the picture, you can hear the thunder of the boiling surge ! A sixth exhibition of water-colour drawings at Mr. Arthur Tooth's gallery, of fine arts, at No. 5, Haymarket, tempted me in there also, on Saturday afternoon, to another of these private views ; and I was rewarded with a sight of several charming sketches by Birket Foster and Rosa Bonheur, Fre derick Tayler and David Cox, Clarkson Stanfield and J. M. W. Turner, David Roberts and George Cattermole ; so that dead and living artists, it will be understood at once, are there competing•together for admiration. Au extraordinary attraction will be contributed, by the way, to the forthcoming Exhibition of the Royal Academy by one of the most gifted and renowned of the foreign artists of genius. M. Gerome, the painter, among other great works, of the " Gladiators in the Amphitheatre," Ave Ccesar ; 2llorituri Te Salatent ! will display to view here, in England, his great historical picture of Mar shal Ney lying dead on the ground after he had been cruelly shot down by the fusillade at his military execution in the garden of the Luxembourg. DU you remember the closing sentence of my letter three weeks ago ? Permit me to repeat the very words I then used—doing so, shall I confess it ? with some degree of exultation. They were these, under date, Friday, the 18th March. "Let me give, as the last tip of the 'Varsities, in reference to the great boat-race—news that I believe will gladden all England—that the exceeding probability is that at last Cambridge will again have her turn, and come in the winner." Wednesday last, the 6th April, has shown how far I was right in my information. After an interval of ten years since their last success (in 1860), the Cantabs again were victorious, to the satisfaction, one could almost fancy, even of he conquered. Among those who were presented on Wednesday last at the levee, thousands will have noticed with interest the name of Mr. Charles Dickens. It seems only fair to add, in regard to it, that the great author's attendance upon the occasion was in obedience to the gracious suggestion of the Sovere'gu. WILL OF THE LATE EARL OF DERBY. The will of the Right Hon. Edward Geoffrey, Earl of Derby, K.G., P.C., late of Knowsley Hall, Lancaster, and gt. James's-square, London, was proved in he... Majesty's Court of Probate, on the 2nd instant, by his eldest son, the Right Hon. Edward Henry, the pre sent earl, the sole executor. The personalty was sworn under £250,000. The will is dated February 21, 1865; and there are three codicils dated May, 1868, March and September, 1869. His Lordship died Octo ber 23 following, at the age of seventy, having held the title since 1851. The will is of considerable length, extending to 179 folios. His lordship has bequeathed to his Count9ss, Emma Caroline, daughter of the first Lord Skelmersdale, an immediate legacy of £3,000 and an annuity of £3,000, in addition to a like annuity under settlement, and closes the bequest to her lady ship in the words—" To whom, under God's providence, I have been indebted for more than thirty nine years (then in 1865) of much domestic happiness and un interrupted harmony." He also leaves to her ladyship all his plate, with the exception of his racing cup and racing plate, and a selection of his books from his library, together with furniture. He devises to his eldest son and successor the manor of Knowsley, with the estates at Hayton, Eccleston, and Bickerstaff, and all his other estates in the counties of Lancaster, Chester, Westmoreland, York, and Middlesex, and to his issue male ; and leaves to his trustees, the Hon. Charles James Fox Stanley, his brother, and the Right Hon. Edward, Lord Skelmersdale, in trust, all his racing cups and racing plate, to be held and pass as heirlooms with the title of earl dom. To his second son, the. Hon. Frederick A. Stanley, he leaves his estates in the counties of Limerick and Tip perary, and elsewhere in Irelandoviththe option of taking within six months, the sum of £125,000 in lieu thereof. His Lordship has made provision for his daughter, Lady Emma Charlotte Stanley. He leaves to Colonel the Hon. Edward Bootle Wilbraham (Scots Fusilier Guards) and Lord Skelmersdale each a legacy of £l,OOO. Legacies are left to his cousins, nephews, and their children; and legacies and annuities to servants. To his stud groom, Timothy Forshaw, he leaves an annuity of £5O, when he may cease to be employed as stud-groom to his successor. To his valet, Joseph Blake, he leaves an annuity of £5O and all his wardrobe, with the exception of his robes of state and the Order of the Garter. The testator appoints his son, the present Earl, residuary legatee.--Illustrated London News. r -prw, (Pint eirtnbr HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, April 8. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princess Louise, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. The other members of the Royal Family and the Princess Blanche of Orleans also went out. The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REU'rER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. CREUZOT, April 9. The state of affairs here is unchanged, but emissaries have arrived, and have spread a report that a general strike is intended throughout France to-morrow. The authorities have taken precautionary mea sures. Bo URSE, April B.—Three o'clock—The mark et closed as follows : 11 per Cent. i per Cents 73 85 ItOnn Fives...—. 55 60 riud of month 73 90 Austrian Fives ... `lredit Mobilier Transatlantic 203 75 Do. Debt 4B Credit Foncier ...1285 Spanish Threes Paris Gas 1727 50 Home Debt — Suez Canal 275 Deferred — RAILWAYS. Cash Orleans Western Northern .„, llB7l Strasburg •• 6171 i.yons and Mediterranean • 1010 4 Southern.... 6lO Sardinian Austrian 714 Lombard ' 4671 North of Spain — Saragossa Liman. 85 50 SPAIN. MADRID, April 8, Evening. According to latest advices from Barcelona, orCer has not been disturbed in that city. AMERICA. (By Cable). NEW YORK, April 8. The Europa steamer (of the Anchor line) arrived here to-day. _ _ . The North German Lloyd steamer ➢lain arrived out at 8 a.m. to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1121 ; the highest quotation during the day was 1121 ; the lowest, 1121. Sterling Exchange on London 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 1885 1867 10-40 „ Illinois •••••• 251 Cotton—Mid. upland Petroleum—Standard White Flour—Extra State, $1 40c. to $5 Oc. Corn—bld mixe,i, $1 9c According to Messrs. Moffat, Davidi?, and Co.'s report the week's receipts of cotton hive been 4,200 bales, and since the Ist of September, 2,453,000 bales. Shipments to England, 31,000 bales; to France, 18,000 bales ; and to the Continent, 17,000 bales ; and since tba let of September, 1 ,515,000 bales. Stock at all ports, 396,000 bales. Middling Upland, 10 13-16 d. cost and freiggt per steam - T. BALTIMORE, April 8. The North German Lloyd steamer Leipzig ar rived hereat 9 a.m. to-day. CANADA. OTTAWA, April 8. To-day the Finance Minister introduced his Budget. The ordinary expenditure is in excess of the revenue. It is proposed to increase the latter by imposing light duties on flour, grain, coal, hops, and salt, but the latter shall remain free of duty if im ported from England or any British possession. This proposed salt duty is merely a protective measure against the United States. A charge of five per cent. is to be aided to all present ad valorem duties. It is further proposed to increase the wine duties by 20 to 25 per cent., ad valorem, per gallon. Duties are to be calculated on the invoiced value. The chang , s are expected to add two million dollars to the revenue. The Minister of Finance also statad that the Government intended to disregard the opinion of the law officers of England as to the appropriation of the International Railway Loan of last y ear. Vice-Admiral Halsted has published his protest a?ainst the terms on which compulsory retirement from his profession of life is to be suddenly, rudely, and pre maturely forced upon him. The GMle says that a memorial numerously signed, will be presented to the Attorney-General, asking him to call a meeting of the Bar at an early day to con sider the provisions of the great Law Reforms introduced by the Lord Chancellor. The very extensive Distillery now being erected at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of Irish whisky, by Messes. DUNVILLE & Co., who have gained a world-wide celebrity for their fine old Irish whisky, is to he tailed "The Royal Irish " istillery." MGT' WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Morning. Evening SATURDAY . SUNDAY 10 min past 8 52 min past 8 MONDAY 35 min past 9 20 min past 10 TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY......... 40 miu past 12... 5 min past 1 FBlDATtoseiew • ..... ss•••,3o_Mil3 past 6,,..,„„60 miu past 1 END OF THE CUBAN INSURRECTION. The Times' correspondent, in a telegram dated Thurs day, once more announces the end of the Cuban insurrec tion :—" Caballero Rodas telegraphed yesterday from Puerto Principe important successes over the Cuban rebels. who were dispersing and surrendering in all direc tions. General Jordan had embarked. The insurrectior was morally terminated. When this was read the Cortes passed a vote of thanks to the Captain-General of Cuba and to the army volunteers." Earl Spencer; if we may credit the Dublin Mail, will resign the Lord-Lieutenancy of Ireland after Easter; and it is not imrobable that Mr. Chichester Fortescue will succeed, with au English peerage. ROYAL LYCEII3I TIIKATRE.—Their Royal High nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by the Hon. Mrs. Stonor and Captain Elis, honoured this theatre with their presence yesterday evening. The Glamorgan Hotel, Cardiff, was totally de stroyed by fire this morning, at threw o'clock, and four of its inmates were burnt to death. The Lancet contradicts the rumour that the Arch bishop of Canterbury has sustained a relapse. His Grace is absolutely free from adverse symptoms. Mr. llenry T. Holland has been appointed an Assistant Under Secretary of State in the Colonial Office. In consequence of indisposition, the Bishop of London is recommended to abstain from business, and to leave London for at least a fortnight. The Rev. Charles Leslie has been appointed Bishop of Kilmore. The new prelate will receive the revenues of the see until January 1 next. Sir W. G. Armstrong announces his intention of defraying the expense of the new wing about to be added to the Newcastle Infirmary at a cost of £2,500. A process has been invented in France by M. Hurtault for rendering petroleum inexplosive, by adding to it a certain quantity of amylic alcohol. The New York papers of yesterday express a hope that the victorious Cambridge crew will go over to the United States and row against Harvard. The Sherhorne Journal states that the efforts made to obtain a remission of the sentence upon William Rou pell, formerly one of the representatives in Parliament for Lambeth, have hitherto proved unavailing. The suspension of General Gordon continues to create some excitement in Bombay. According to a tele gram from Bombay this morning it has arisen from a most trivial affair. Mr. George Odger, the working man's candidate for Southwark, has been entertained at dinner at Ber mondsey by upwards of sixty of his supporters iu Ber mondsey, . ,„„ Erie LITERATURE. Dixon's Free Russia. Free Russia. By William rlepwarth Dixon. Two Vols. Hurst and Blackctt. An early copy of this important and remarkable work, long announced and eagerly anticipated, has at length reached our hands through those of Mr. Dixnn's thoroughly congenial publishers. Associated as the Mt ssrs. Hurst and Blackett have been, in their capacity as Lis pu'.)liabera, with Mr. Hepworth Dixo I's previoas labours as a man of letters, tra velling now in the Old World, now in the New, now in Palestine, now in America, they have participated more or less directly in the rapid expansion and development of his literary reput ttion. As a keen eyed awl most observant traveller, there is hardly a man now living who can vie with the author of the " Holy Land" and of "New America." Flying on the wing; of the wind, h has all his wits about him whithersoever he goes. And whatever may be the system he adopts in jotting down the rough notes of ~his rapidly alternating impressions— at one moment of the country he is traversing, at the next of the people by whom it is inhabited—certain it is that those swiftly caught and clearly defined impressions run out in a sort of felicitously instinc tive sequence, in a full, and radiant, and symmetrical panorama. These were the characteristics which were recognised upon the instant by the readers of " The Holy Land" and of tt New America," and as such they are still borne very vividly indeed in the popular remem brance. They are the characteristic., it should now be added, if possible, yet more vividly apparent in Mr. Dixon's newly completed work on " Free Russia." The author's hand, we may also say at once, is well " in" to the accomplishment of the daring delineation upon which he has here ad ventured. The result is a more important work upon the great Muscovite Empire than any foreign traveller across the steppes has ever even attempted, much less ever accomplished. A flood of light, as broad and lambent and resplendent in its colouring as that of the Aurora Borealis has thus been thrown at a glance over vast tracks of country and remote cities and settlements hitherto only dimly brought to popular view by the merest glimmerings of information. The comprehensive scope of the work . is, upon the most casual survey of it, instantly recogizable. Within the compass of two handsome volumes, sixty-six chapters—not one of them of a superficial character —have been touched off curente calanzo, and yet hardly so much with a flying pen as with a winged and luminous pencil. Thirty-three chapters 'are equably accorded to each volume as its fair proportion. The opening out of the Japan-like Empire of the last Czar, Nicholas, into the Free Russia of the present Czar, the Second Alexander, is the tale Mr. Dixon has had to relate to us. And most fully, eloquently, picturesquely, hopefully, and suggestively is it here related. Our author's knowledge of Russia dates not from yesterday. Twice before these last and most important journeyings of his into the Russian Czar's dominions, he had been there as a temporary but most watchful sojourner. The changes and developments he consequently describes are changes and developments he himself has seen and appreciated. The book, as he has written it, is nO dry, didactic, political treatise. It is in many parts as enthralling as a romance, besides being full from cover to cover of life and character. In the mere " get up" of the work, both inter nally and externally, there appears to us to be something eminently characteristic. Radiant in black and white, with delicate emblazonries, the •cry binding seems appropriate with its symbolic devices of the two-headed eagle, and the imperial 'dem, awl the saintly knight crushing under lance and hoof that old heraldic dragon of evil, which may ba regarded by the more imaginative reader as typical, according to option, of either slavery or ignorance. I'he letterpress is further adorned with some exqui sitely coloured or!ginal illustrations. As a chromatic frontispiece to Volume One,we have the grnen-milla" vetted Convent of Solovetsk in the Froz m Sea. While as the gorgeously illuminated frontispiece to Volume l'wo, we have what alibost, at the first gl ince, looks like the representation of the Burning of Moscow im mediately after its capture byNapoleon the Great, but which turns out on examination to be merely the ptxtraiture of an atmospheric effect, visible on the Eastern Steppes at the time the Ru ssian Infantry is being escorted by Kozaks and Kirchiz. According to what Mr. Dixon here relates, Napoleonism has merged into a sort of hero-worship far beyond any dreamt of in Mr. Carlyle'a philosophy : ex. gr.— In Moscow, I hear of a body of worshipers who hav° the singular quality of drawing their hope from a foreign soil. These mon are Napoleonists. Like all the Dissent ing sects, the/ hate the official empire, and drive the official church. Seeing that the chief enemy of Russia in modern times was Napoleon, they take him to have been literally, that Messiah which he assumed to be, in a certain mystical sense, to the oppressed and divided Poles ; and they have raised the Corsican hero into the rank of a Slavonic god. Their society is secret, and their worship private. That they live and thrive, as an organized society, is affirmed by those who know t heir country well. Their meetings are held with closed doors and windows, under the very eyes of the police ; but add is the case with so many sects in Moscow, that their immu nity from detection need excite no wonder in our eye°• Making a sort of altar in their room, they place on it a bust of the foreign prince, and fall on their knees before it. Busts of Napoleon are found in many houses ; in none more frequently than in those of the imperial race. I have been in most of these imperial dwellings, and do not recollect one, from the Winter Palace to the Farm, in which there was not a bust of their splendid foe. According to our traveller, the poor believing Russians are wonderful believers in amulets : A Russian, he says, is a believer in stones, in rings, in rosaries, in rods ; for he bears about him a hundred relics of his ancient pagan creeds. His favourite amulet is A cross, which 'he can buy in brass for a kopek; one form for a man, a second form for a woman ; the mas culine form being Nikon's cross, with a true Greek cross in relief ; the feminine form being a mi% - tura of the two. Once tied round the neck, this amulet is never to be taken off, on peril of sickness and sudden death. To drop it is a fault, to lose it is a sin. . 6 ' second talisman is a bone ball, big as a pea, hollow, drilled, and fitted with a screw. A drop of mercury is coaxed into the hole, and the screw being turned, the charm is perfect, and the ball is fastened to the cross. This talisman protects the wearer from contagion in the public baths he grand starting point of Russian Development in modern times, Mr. Dixon thus commemorates when recording the in very truth most memorable date at which the-Serfs were Emancipated : On the 3d of March. 1861, be writes, the Emancipation Act was signed. The rustic population then consisted of tsventy. two miLions of common serfs, three millions of Appanage peasants, and twenty-three millions of Crown peasants• The first class were enfranchised by that act ; and a separate law has since been passed in favour of these Crown peasants and Appanage peasants, who are now as free in fact as they formerly were in name. A certain portion of land vary' in t; in different provinces according to soil and climate, was affixed to every • soul ;' and Government aid was promised io the peasants in buying their homesteads and allotments• The serfs were not slow to take this hint. Down to Januar/ 1, 1869, more than half the enfranchised male serfs hove taken advantage of this promise; and the debt now owing from the people to the Crown (that is, to the bondholder s) is au enormous sum. Thanks to the writer of these two splendid volumes "Free Rus74a' is brought clearly, boldly, vividly, cony prehensively, and yet at the sirne tim e ver y minutely within the ken of every intelligent reading English man. Mr. Dixon has sketched the earliest fortunes of the country and of the race inhabiting it, thus, sO to speak, radiantly in relief —not as it were on a fia t ' dead-level surface, and with a sort of Chinese per spective—because he has viewed his theme throng''' . out with the I inocular scrutiny, at one and the same moment of a historical student, and of a living 1 1°11.* titian. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—}is Highness the Prince of Tech and her Royal Highness tho Princess o f Teo honoured this theatre last evening With their preseuee. Th l'epor 8 ,815 958,0 C OMP consic introd lik e* list el, Th ( °n the and Sever, dear _ ic Prep c a s he, Dairy arri ve Week. Ilet e( atat e , In 11 M b U Spec, Hitt NPer N ow o. ' ll lli D . titeht 11, Auad Ar g b o Au)tr, 1), ) 'imubtt Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., STERN NECESSITY. By the Autifor of "No Church," "Owen, a Waif," ltc. " A capital story. It is intensely interesting, and deserves to attract a N,ide circle of readers. The heroine is unmistakeably original and fascinating."—Daily Telegraph. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough -street. ,~ TI TI the 'way also inipr whie a trif chap, Cc Accot Xew Stoci In Eg y/ 83};Italia 4 6i t In vatic, share to 12 Wesi 128 k, Soutl 45i t d G i r t A t o al 21*;I solid; Cent An Angl 14; Briti! inaril 2} to Mout £55,( Tb in, a I lilVer en- a 8 1 sail ti Th 2 0th atn ou draw, .., b l 'auk D o . D o ,* b Brtzil D o. 1) 0. 'Jo . UO. 1) 0 ,