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At Eight, Phromel, Tho Goose with 'the Golden Eggs WOODIN'S CARPET-BIG AND SKETCH BOOK, Egyptian Hall, Picca dilly, every Evening (except Satui day) at 9; Saturday Moin- _ ingi at 3. 'Admission, ls, 2s, 3s. I)MBISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8; Wed nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. MADAME TIISSAIID'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till 5.30 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, Is. ; extra rooms, 6d. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, Open daily(except Sundays). Admission. ls.• on Mondays, 6d. Children ender twelve, 6d. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. PARIS, March 26th. The Constitutionnel of this morning says —" The answer of Cardinal Antonelli to Count Daru's recent de3patch endeavours to prove that the twenty-one canons of the Schema do not bear the interpretation which the French Cabinet attributes to them. " The Cardinal adds, "When discussed in the Council they may be considerably modified. The Church does not contemplate interfering with poli tics, and the canons referred to were not of a nature to cause France to abandon her attitude of absten tion with regard to the Council." The Cardinal concludes by expressing a hope that after these explanations France will not think her self justified in persisting in Count Daru's de mands. THE TRIAL OF PRINCE BUONAPARTE. Toußs, March 25. The trial of Prince 13nonaparte was continued to day. The President informed the counsel engaged in the case, that he will put before the jury to-day as the result of the trial the question whether the Prince was not justified by provocation in acting as he did ? M. Jeroux said that be would plead that the Prince had only acted in his legitimate defence. Doctors Sardieu and Pinel were confronted, when a juryman asked Dr. Sardieu if Victor Noir, being mortally wounded, could holn his -bat in his hand while falling ? Dr. Sardieu replied affirmatively. Maitre Flocquet, counsel for the Noir family, re• sumed pleading. He sought to prove that the pri. Boner did not act in legitimate self-defence. The Prince here appeared grealy excited, an said a few words, but was interrupted by the Presi dent. Maitre Flocquet continned his speech, and called upon the jury to find the prisoner guilty of murder, as the hypothesis of his having received a blow was inadmissible. After Maitre Flocquet's speech the sitting was suspended for one hour, and resumed at 3.15. Maitre Laurier then proceeded to address the Court, and spoke in eulogstic terms of Victor Noir. Speaking of the Prince Le said that his career had been bloodstained throughout, and while describing the fatal scene at Auteuil, he observed that it might be asked whether it took place in the house of a Bonaparte or of a Borgia. This caused a great sensation in Court, and the President recommended M. Laurier to be moderate in his expression, but M. Laurier main'ained his right of liberty of speech, and said the prisoner's utterly undisciplined manner showed he had been the aggressor at Auteuil. Maitre Laurier maintained that Noir could not have struck a blow, since his gloves were intact and his hat was in his hand when falling. Ile con cluded by saying, " Victcr Noir has acquired a mar tyr's immortality ; the prisoner—the immortali y of infamy." The prisoner protested against this lan guage, and Maitre Laurier was rebuked fer it by the Pr, sident. The sitting closed at 4.50. ITALY. FLORENCE, March 25. The Official Gazette says :—" The Government, being in possession of clear evidence of a shortly intenied:Republican movement, have forewarned the authorities of those towns where either disorders are probable or strikes going on." The paper proceeds to report on the known facts which have occurred at Pavia, and further states that the same night at Piacenza a crowd of 100 rioters appeared before the barracks, shouting sedi t o❑s cries, asking the soldiers to open the gates, and even trying to force an entrance. In this they failed, and took to flight, when two of their num ber were arrested. The town is tranquil, and much indignation prevails against the disturbers. Yester day morning, the paper adds, seventy individuals formed themselves into a band at Brisighella, near Faenza, and marched in the direction of Bologna. Advices from the latter place speak of the exist ence of a plot to collect a ,large assembly of yourg men with arms in that city, but the precautionary measures taken caused their designs to be aban cldned. A few arrests were made. The townspeople themselves were ignorant of the intended outbreak, and tranquillity has not been disturbed. INDIA. MADRAS, March 22. His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh arrived herd to-day, and was received by the Governor and his staff, and also by the French Governor of the settlement of Pondicherry. All the military and civil officers, as well as the native Princes, were in attendance. The reception of the Prince was most enthu siastic. BOMBAY, Saturday, March 26. A terrible conflagration occurred on Thursday last at Compta. Two hundred houses and 6,000 docras of cotton, equal to 2,500 bales, were burnt, leaving a stock of only 4,000 docras. The loss is estimated at 25 lacs of rupees (£250,000). Sir Seymour Fitzgerald, Governor of Bombay, is about to visit Khandeish. _ _ CALCUTTA, March 25. It is expected that Sir Richard Temple will deliver his budget in the Legislative Council on Monday next. Lord Mayo will leave Calcutta after the budget has been debated, proceeding to Peshawur. bir William Mansfield starts for England on the 2d April. Mr. Hugg, the Administrator-General of Bengal, is dead. The rainfall in the Punjaub has failed and severe distress is apprehended. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, March 25. The British Indian Submarine Telegraph line from Suez to Bombay will be opened to-morrow morning at four o'clock, for public traffic. GREENCASTLE, March 25. The Allan steamer Nova Scotian, from Portland on the 13th inst., arrived in Lough Foyle at 3 p.m. to-day. The mails for London were landed. ALEXANDRIA, ilarch 25. Advices from Jedda to the 16th lust,. state that all apprehensions of au outbreak of cholera are unfounded, as the pilgrims from Mecca have . arrived there in exceihnt health. Fourteen ve3s,:ls are ready to transport them. An Italian gunto,t has been wrecked off the coast, and seven lives lost. SUM LONDON, SA7 URDAY, MARCH 26, 1870. IT is not at all surprising that 'the collision be tween the Oneida and the Bombay should have been regarded as an " international" affair by our friends on the other side of the Atlantic. They 1130 in this melancholy disaster another proof of English treachery and hostility. The animus, it might almost be said, the rancour, of a large portion of the Americans towards England seems to be strong enough to lead them to the con clusion that the Bombay abandoned the Oneida simply because she was a United States ship. This charge is openly recorded in some leading New York papers, and accepted apparently with approbation by the American public. It is hopless to contend with such a convic tion. It is vain to point out that nothing in the English character can justify the assumption that English seamen are addicted to leaving drown ing men to their fate ; useless to show that it was dark at the time of the accident, and, therefore, the captain of the Bombay could not, itseems, discern the nationality of the vessel he had struck ; idle to re mind the Americans that each nation can boast of gallant deeds and noble services rendered to the seamen of the other. It is a melancholy truth that American public opinion does not seem open to such influences. Nevertheless, there is a certain measure of justice which ought to be rendered regardless of the loud and ungraceful clamour raised in New York. The result of the investigation that has taken place cannot be called satisfactory. The whole of the evidence has not reached this country, and that portion with which we are acquainted is far from being conclusive, or even thoroughly intelligible. The American ship was struck and sank in fifteen minutes, and yet the English captain and several of his passengers assure us that they knew nothing about it. The shock was a mere graze. The lady passengers did not feel it. Had the collision happened in the open sea, Captain Eyre admits that he ought to have stopped and ascertained the extent of the damage : but he was in command of a mail steamer; his instructions were to stop for nothing, except the saving of life ; and it was not cus tomary to take any steps to discover the extent of damage in case of a collision near the land. The English public can hardly rest satisfied with this exposition. Whatever may be the "custom," it is prinui facie the duty of every captain whose ship has come into collision with another to inform him self whether the damage is such as to require assist ance. A collision is not a common occurrence, and when such a disaster does happen, the consequences usually are very serious ; and no question of saving time with mails, important as that object may be, ought to interfere with the claims of humanity. Altogether the case is one which demands a searching inquiry. On the one side is the statement of Captain Eyre as to the apparently trivial character of the accident ; but against this evidence are to be set the pregnant facts that the crash seemed to those on board the Oneida to stave in the whole side of the ship, that the vessel did actually sink in fifteen minutes from the time of the shock, that her guns, which were previously fired, were heard at Yokohama, three miles off—though the sound did not penetrate to the ears of Captain Eyre and his colleagues, who were close at hand. The obscure inquiry, which has resulted in a suspen sion of Captain Eyre's certificate for six months, does not appear to have fully appreciated the difficulties of this question. The dilemma is obvious enough : if the commander of the Bombay were guilty, the sentence is inexcusably light ; if he had done all that could reasonably be expected, he should have escaped all punishment. A fuller investigation into the facts is imperatively needed. It is due, not to the exaggerated outcry at New York, but to our own sense of justice ; for it is all but certain that the American officers and seamen who were lost might have been saved, in great part at least, if the officers and crew of the Bombay had awakened to the necessity. It may be that Captain Eyre can justify himself. It would be very premature to decide other wise, for there are undoubtedly some facts to be urged on his side. But it is not the less true that a thoroual inauiry is needed. THE REPRESENTATION OF BRISTOL. (BY TELEGRAPH.) BRISTOL, Saturday. At the nomination tbis morning there was great uproar. Mr. Robinson was proposed by Mr. Ter rell, and seconded by Mr. Wedmore. Mr. Hare was proposed by Mr. Ffooks, and seconded by Mr. Kearsey. While Mr. Robinson was speaking the front portion of the hustings gave way, and there was much confusion. No one was seriously in jured. Mr. Robinson and Mr. Hare afterwards spoke briefly. The show of hands was in favour of Mr. Robinson. A poll was demanded, and fixed for Monday. SALE AND PURCHASE IN THE ARMY. Every care has been taken by Mr. Cardwell so to select members to serve on the Royal Commission on extra regulation prices, as to ensure for their proceedings the respect and confidence of military men as well as of the public. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey bas consented to serve as chairman, but we are precluded from publishing the names of the members until such time as they have been seen and approved by the Queen. 'LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.- Ale,srs. Hurst an Blackett announce in their always brilliant List of New Works fotthcoming 6everal of unusual attraction. Con spicuous among these are " Free Russia," by W. Hep worth Dixon, in Two Vols. Bvo., with coloured illus trations; "Wild Life among the gourds," by Major F. Milliugen, Bvo., with illustrations; "A Ramble into Brit tany," by the Rev. George Musgrave, M.A., Oxon, 2 vols. with illustrations; "Eastern Pilgrims: the Travels of Three Ladi,s," by Agnes Smith, Bvo. with illustrations; "A Tour Round England," by Walter Thornbury, 2 vols. with illustrations ; " The Heil' Expectant," by the author of "Raymond's Heroine," &c., 3 vols.; "Nora," by Lady Emily l'onsonby, author of "The Discipline of Life," &c., 3 vols. The very extensive Distillery now being erected at Belfast, with ail recent improvements for the manufacture of Irish whisky, by lilessis. DUNVILLE & Co., who have gained a world-wide celebrity f their fine old Irish whisky, be .ailed "The Royal Irish istillery." TOWN TALK. (From the Wutern Mail of this Morning.) LONDON, Friday Evening. The Commons, denied the possibility of Lenten fare in " short commons" (which would clearly be a luxury), ate chastening their spirits over the grinding labours of committee. There is the consideration in committee of. the new Coercion Bill, euphemistically entitled the Peace Preservation Bill; .and there is the tolerably dry work involved in the prospective dis cussion, cause by clause, cf the Land Tenure Bill, also in committee. If these two ordeals are insufficient in the way of 1 atliamentary maceration, there is the anticipative work of the House in regard to Mr. Forster's Bill in reference to National Education. If these are not enough in the self-scourgings of the House, both pre sent and prospective, there are seasonably appreciable knots in the thongs of the Committee discipline, so to speak, in the instance of such conspicuous participators in the toil of com mittee-debating, as the member for Mayo county, who moved the amendment on Monday evening, and the member for North Warwickshire, by whom that loud-talking, strident-voiced arguer was followed most lugubriously. But for Mr. Ayrton's impertinence in answering questions addressed to him in his capacity as Chief Commissioner of Public Works, I don't know what would become of us in the dead level dulness now weighing down the Commons House in Parliament assembled. The right hon. member for the Tower Hamlets has got the knack of treading on a favourite corn poignantly. "If any man's foot is before you," says Thackeray somewhere, in one of his deliciously ridiculous touches of cynic ism, "trample on it." Mr. Ayrton, coaching up his rather flim knowledge upon Art, has taken literally, and acted upon, this dictum of Michel Angelo— Titmarsh. And he is always at it. In season and out of season he is treading on the toes of his ques tioners—knowing precisely where the shoe pinches— picking out, by a sort of infernal instinct, the most petted corn and the most cherished bunion. And, in the absence of any other excitement, the House seems rather to like it than otherwise. Every fresh im. pertinence of Mr. Ayrton's it welcomes with a kind of a surprised burst of laughter—halt as much as to say to the victim, " There you had it !" half as though to say to the victimiser, " It's like his impudence." For all that, the general sense of dulness weighs on the House like a nightmare, insomuch that when the Premier announced early on Monday evening the intention of her Majesty's Government (in conside ration of the lateness of Easter this year) to revert to the old custom of having the longer holidays at Easter, instead of at Whitshntid.e, the crowded house cheered like a parcel of schoolboys. The intimation, it seemed to me as I listened to those cordial and prolonged " h:ar, hears" from both sides, was wel comed as a foretas' eof the a'rearly longed-for August break-up for the grouse shooting. Occasionally, there cornea to me through the Transatlantic post a budget of papers full of the wildest ex. fa,vagancies, blasphemies, and scurrilities of the most'incendiary character, purporting to be descriptive of the sayings and doings of George Francis Train, of America. For tall-talking, for bunkum, for high fallutin, there surely never was anything comparable to the out-come of Mr. Train. A creature like G. F. T. was never " raised" outside the United States. Anyone lecturing as he lectures, anywhere else but in America, would be—not lynched, but—simply and very summarily bonneted. A successor to Ltmartine is about to be chosen to the great poet's vacant post as one of the Forty of the French Academy. Who is that succcssor ? M. Emile 011ivier, the virtual Prime Minister of France, or head of the new Constitutional G overnment under the regime of Napoleon 111. as a liberalised sovereign. "ro-and-tweivy years ago M. 011ivier was induct d into put liclife under the auspices of M. de Lamartiue. It is in the Rat S 3 of things, therefore, that he shou'd succeed to his pl:lce as an academician. Not that the French Minister of Justice has any pretensions to recognition as a notable con!ributor in any way to literature. His one only literary pet formance, the brochure entitled, " 19 Janvier," is only remarkable as a demi-semi political manifesto—one as successful, as it eventually happened, in lifting the advocate who penned it into power as the leader of an admi nistration, as that last military demonstration of Prim's which conducted the latter into Madri I as, there also, in his turn, master of the situation. '• If in that eloquent orator and brilliant con•titu tionalist, Em leollivier, a so far suitable successor may hare been found at the board of the French Academy, for M. de Lamartine—where can the academicans hope to find a fitting substitute for M. de Montalem bert? That illustrious man, breathing his last in his sixtieth year, it may interest you to know looked in reality at least ten years younger. Slightly below the middle height, and delicate in his proportions, he nevertheless bore anything but the appearance of a dying man, so great was the animation of his manner and the vivacity of his expression. His head was covered with grizzled hair that was thinning slightly (without worn g iv indignation of baldne. , s), and was rathering any longish. His face was smooth shaven, leaving freely to view very regular fea tures, and a countenance altogether singularly hand some. In the Count de Montalembert there was more than the great author, the great orator, and the great man ; there was one whose whole soul was fired, through and through, with the genius of Christianity. One of the griefs of the season is that Mr. Santley has been relegated by the allied Directors of the two Opera houses —meaning, of course, Mr. Mapleson, of her Majesty's, and Mr. Gye, of the Royal Italian at Govent Garden—to Drury-lane Theatre. No doubt the company associated with the great Eng lish basso for the coming opera season at Drury-lane is in many respects worthy of him, worthy that is, of that association. But still, for all that, where Titiens went, where the other leading members of Mr. Mapleson's company went, there, by right, ought to have gone Mr. Santley. He is one of the very greatest living artists on the lyrical stage. There is no basso of the time that can, for one moment, be brought into comparison with him. Superb as a singer all through his career, he has of late years become as an actor entitled to our heartiest admiration. With lkIar:o, with Titiens, with Adelina Patti, rather than with any lesser stars, would the English public, lam certain, have rejoiced to see Mr. Santley's name as sociated under the direction of the two great operatic managers: While our London Theatres are increasing and multiplying, how is it, I marvel to myself sometimes, that a great histrionic genius, who has delighted so many of the capitals of Europe with his Shaksperian impersonations, should never yet have appeared upon the boards anywhere in the land of Shakspere? It is said by competent judges that the young Italian actor, Salviati, is, in characters like Hamlet and Othello, simply matchless. Recently, all through Germany, all through Italy, through France, through Belgium, through Switzerland, I repeatedly heard of the genius of the great tragedian Salviati; often hoped, always longed, to see him ; never lighting upon him, however, as ill-fortune would lave it. And ever since, I have wondered to myself why some distinguished caterer for the public, like Mr. Mitchell, of 13oiid:street, has never thoaglit of introducing a great Shaksperiau actor like Salviati to those who are certainly the best qualified to appreciate his genius, the playgoers of London. C J ntinentally, Salviati has the reputation of. immeasurably surpass ing histori, and of being akin even to the resplen dent genius of the incomparable tragedienne, Rachel. If so, if he is anything equal to all this, he ought cer tainly to be brought, w.th the least further delay possible, face to face with us Londoners. A naturalised Englishman, well known for a good author of " The Bachelor of the Albany." Mr navy years in the literary world of London, a Savage's new work, into which I am just inserting Frenchman by birth and education, M. le Chevalier the paper-knife with an anticipative relish, is doubly de Chatelain, a man of letters and a man of parts, entitled " The Woman of Business; or the Lady and has recently been' giving at his house, Castelnau the Lawyers." Lodge by name, out in the direction of Bayswater, On Tuesday the Lion of the Season sat for his por a very curious and attractive repetition of a very trait - meaning no other notability than Lycurgus, interesting entertainment. It was nothing less than the Archbishop of Syra, Tenos, and Melos. The an anticipative renewal in another form, or at any photographer was Mr. John Watkins, of Parliament rate, under another title, of a retrospective celebra- street, and the negatives, which were very numerous, Con of an anniversary. Let me explain what must were many of them remarkably successful. As a sound, when thus t xpressecl, exceedingly enigmatical. series they may be said to represent the Greek Last year, on the 12th of March, the Chevalier de Archbishop, stage by stage, all through the elabo- Chatelain celebrated, exactly a year too late, his rate process of robing and disrobing. Several of the " silver wedding," by means of a fancy dress ball. costumes are certainly magnificent, one of them cora -1 his year, on the 15th of March, as nearly as possible prising, among the adornments, a gorgeously jewelled 23 years too soon, he celebrated, in the same way, mitre, or rather crown, and a white silk robe richly his " golden wedding." As the Courier de l'Europe brocaded and lavishly seamed and interlaced all over has publicly mentioned the latter entertain- with gold_ embroidery—like many of the oriental ment, I need not scruple to do so myself after- vestments and diadems I myself saw on the Bth of wards. Allured to Castelnau Lodge by an invita- December last in St. Peter's at Rome, as that won don, I was, unluckily, unable to attend by reason of derful procession of the CEcumenical Council, passed, a pre-engagement; but, seeing through the eyes of within arm's reach of me, on the day of uaugura another, I may add that among the throng of literary tion. Archbishop Lycurgus has thus sat for his por and artistic notabilities disporting themselves there trait, as I understand, in order that he may present under various disguises—as Buckingham, as Charles each copy, literally as a carte de visite, to the Queen, IX., as Henri 111., as Marie Stuart, as Esmeralda, the Prince, and the Princesses, as well as to other and so forth—R. IL Horne, of Orion and the anti- illustrious personages in return for their own photo podes, was discernible as a troubadour, and Edward graphs ;an incident curiously and rather whimsically Corbould, the artist, in the magnificent panoply of illustrative of the march of civilisation. ' a knight in armour. Exceptional as a fancy dress ball is now a days, the one thus given to his literary and artistic friends by the Chevalier de Chatelain " went off," as they say of a ball (as though it were a bombshell), to very general admiration, being re garded by the guests of this—l hardly know whether to say golden or silver—wedding couple as creditable alike to their taste and to their hospitality. A wonderful corn[ilation has just reached us in the shape of a handsome volume, arrayed in golden brown cloth and blue leather. It purports to be, and is, a worthy companion to that microcosm of information, now in :its thirteenth edition, " Haydn's Dictionary . of Dates." " Haydn's Universal Index of Bio graphy," it is called, but Haydn's it is only as by a sort of sobriquet; for Joseph Haydn, the antiquary (compiler of the " Dictionary of Dates," in 1841), died as this very book I am now referring to says at p. 243, on the 17th of January, 1856. No; the labour (and gigantic labour it must have been) by which this superb epitome of the history of the globe has been compiled, it should be said at once, is that o' Capt. Bertrand Payne, the enterpr'sing publishers (Moxon, Son, and Co.), and the indefatigable man of letters. The ponderous tome extends to nearly 600 pai,es (586) of doubled-columned letterprev. Arranged as it is, of course, dictionary fashion, that is to say, alphabetically, the information it contains is instantaneously accessible. As suffi ciently indicative of its completeness and of its accuracy, it is only necessary to glance at the solitary erratum, and at the trivial addenda. If there is a fault of any kind in regard to its range, it is that it is too comprehensive. Whales and min now, leviathans and tadpoles, are all swept together in this all-embracing net. As a matter of course, because a matter of sheer necessity, the particulars given of each individual named in this stupendous catalogue of notabilities are of the briefest and corn pactest character possible. But in a mere dictionary that is all that can in reason ba looked for. To no class of labourers in the field of literature do I feel more gratefully beholden, as a rule, than to your con scientious dictionary-makers of any kind whatsoever. It is the most toilsome office they have undertaken and, generally speaking, the most thankless. Cap tain Payne's book is a dictionary among dictionaries; it is the epitome of all the histories, the cream of all the literatures, the resumeof all the centuries. To know it familiarly, one might say as Sir Richard Steele said of the charming lady, is of itsaf a liberal education. Napoleonism or Bonapartism, as the linrerial regime in Fiance is. called by the friends and enemies of the Oa'lie Caesars, has, within these last few days, hal two rather startling and certainly widely con trasting illustrations. While in the court of justice at Tours, one of the princes of the reigning family has been arraigned at the bar on a charge of homicide, the reigning prince himself has been spontaneously making another, the latest and certainly the most signal concession he has yet vouchsafed to the now dominant s 3 stem of Constitutionalism. The antidote to the poison of Prince Pierre's escapade may be found off-hand in the Emperor's letter to M. Emile 011ivier. The third Napoleon, by the way, has almost been as great at letter writing in his time as Earl Russell even—that complete letter writer among English stat, smen. From 11;s memorable communi c ttion to " My dear Ney," when Colonel Ney was at Rome, and when Colonel Ney's correspondent was President, down to this recent epistle addressed by his Majesty to that virtual Prime Minister of France, the Minister of Justice, the Emperor has availed himself of a good many startling opportunities for going directly to the point in the form of a very simple and almost familiar commuuic *tion. 1 han at the present moment his Majesty has most assuredly never, upon any occasion, written more opportunely. Besides Marianne Evans's 800 lines of poetry about "The Legend of Infal" and the initial instalment of Anthony Trollope's new serial story of " Sir Harry Hotspur, of Humblethwaite," both of which are promised as immediately forthcoming in Macmillan, we have the prospect of several new attiactions in others of the popular periodicals. Mrs. Adolphus Trollope's clever but rather painful tale of " Vero nica," in All the Year Round, is upon the very edge of its conclusion, and will be succeeded by another of a very different character. In the Court Circular, meaning not the state paragraphs, so headed, but the newspaper so entitled, besides the weekly gossipping of Edmund Yates, as a sort of loafing " Asmodeus," E. L. Blanchard, the veteran theatrical critic of the lelegraph and the Era, 15 enrolled among the hebdomadal contributor'esassup plying the readers of the fashionable j Saturday mornings with a sketch of one p o o r r u e o r d t u h e e t r ie o u f the favourite actors of the day. For the of a sketch of this kind, no one is in any way more d e happily qualified. A pictoria l able promise is now in active work pre p a ration, ofve r the con s picturesr coming from the hand of Gustave Dore, the literar y portion from that of Blanchard Jerrold—the theme being "London." It will be descriptive, I presume, of the " London Life" of now a days—without Tom and Jerry, Corinthian Tom and Jerry Juniper— with perhaps a be tter than that slan g iest among the s l ang y pierce Egan, but can one say a better than P Eganikis great artist compani on ? 0 rare (gorge ! With really ad m i ra bl e p l uc k , irce Cru Mr. !Alfred Austin, the sprightly, riant author of "The Season," has, in a reprint of the anonymous series of critical papers in Temple Bar, entitled "Poetry of the Period," owned to its authorship. lie, at any rate, is not one who : Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike ; To hint a fault and hesitate dislike ! lie hits the right nail exactly on the head, drives it well home, and then comes from behind the screen, at the back of which he has been thus vigorously working, comes deliberately fran behind the screen in sig'.t of us all, openly, and quite comfortably, for the express purl ose of clinching A remarkable volume has just come into my hand, whose production I know Lo., fe.r it is published by the Messrs. Chapman and Hall, al: onymously vs " By an Englishman," giving a most animated sketch of the men and events of the Anstro• Hungarian Em pire, and of the policy of Count Beu,t from 1866 to 1870. Also, I have from the same house, just to hand, the " Last Novel" (I hope, in another sense, not the last), of Marmion Savage, the witty and brilliant 'REPORTED ELOPEMENT OF A - DUKE'S DAUGHTER. The following is from the London correspondent or a Bristol paper :—" An elopement in high life is reported. The daughter of a duke, who is connected by marriage, with one of the members of Mr. Gladstone's Administra tion, and who has herself been married for eleven yeare.. has eloped with an officer in the Guards." ENGLISH PEDESTRIANS RN AUSTRALIA. When the question of an Eleven of English cricketers paying another visit to the Antipodes was started last autumn, it was at the same time proposed that some of our professional runners should also undertake the voyage with a view to testing the powers of the Australian champions. The first arrangement, fell through, but the pedestrians nothing daunted, set sail for the colonies, and the latest files of Australian papers give us some brief tidings of their doings. England was represented by Topley, the champian walker ; Hewitt, the champion sprint runner; and. Bird, who has proved himself very formidable over long distances. The trio competed for the first time on the Melbourne Cricket Ground early in January, when a series of handicaps came off in the'pre sence of some five thousand spectators. Unfortunately, they were not by any means in good condition, and the long starts which they were called upon to concede to the best men Australia could produce, caused their defeat in every event. Feeling, however, that they were not com peting fairly on their merits, they decided on a second trial after five weeks' training, and we shall doubtless hear of a great improvement ih their performances. Hewitt has matched himself with Harris, the champion of Aus tralia, for five sprint races, varying between a hundred yards and a quarter of a mile, and these events are looked forward to with much interest. To form any comparison between the pedestrians of the two countries, the various champions should undoubtedly meet on level terms ; for, with the climate and ground strange to them, our repre sentatives are already heavily handicapped. THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN COMMMERCV. President Grant has sent a special message to Congress on the decline of the United States' merchant navy. - 11 - summary of this important document is given in a special telegram from the Timer's Philadelphia correspondent. The President commences by referring to a report of the committee of the House on the subject, saying!'" "It points out grave wrongs, proving the decline of commerce. It is a national humiliation that we are now compelled to pay 20 to 30 million doll annually, exclusive of the passage money, which we should share with vessels of other nations, to foreigners for doing work which should be done by American owned and American manned vessels. This 15 a drain upon the revenues of the country equal to casting money into the sea, so far as America is concerned. nation of the United States' great resources must one day possess a full share of the ocean commerce, no matter what its cost. Delay will only increase the cost and enhance the difficulty of attaining the result. I therefore make an earnest plea for early action in a way to secure increased American com merce. The advanced period of the year and the fact that no contract for shipbuilding will be entered into until Congres3 arts, and the further fact that if Congress delays all large vessels contracted for this year will fail of completion before winter, being therefore carried over for another year, induces me to request an early consideration of the subject. I regard it as of such grave importance, affecting every . interest of the country so much, that any method gaining the object will secure rich na tional blessing. The building of ships and navigating them utilizes a vast capital at home, employs thousands of people, creates a home market for the productions in the farm and the shop, and diminishes the balance of trade against us precisely by the amount of freight and passage-money paid to American vessels. It gives us supremacy on the seas of inestimable value in the case of foreign war. At the beginning of the late War the American navy was less than to vessels of 150,000 tons, ro , with 8,000 men. We dr ew from the merchant marine, which cost the Governme nt ,;„ nothing, but had been a great source of wealth , vessels, exceeding 1,000,000 tons, and 70,000 men to aid in suppressing the rebellion. This demonstrates the via lte of the merchant marine as a means of national defence in time of war." The President recommends the a doption of a general method proposed by the Committee of the House for regaining this lost commerce. He says h e believes a direct money subsidy is less liable to abuse than an indirect one, given to the same enterprise. be thinks in this case, however, subsidies, while they may given to specified lines of steamers or other vessels, shoul not be exclusively adopted. In addition to subsiclizill aGsirable lines of ocean traffic, general assistance shoula be given in an effective way. He concludes by commen, a : ing to favourable consideration the Bills wapesed t' - `" House Committee. Queen Isabella has addressed a letter to the Noll Father on the occasion of the Prince of Asturias's journeY to Rome. Hail and snow showers (says the Mete orolo g ical Report) are reported from some stations, an d lightning in London. The Memorial Diplomatiquc is au ised to en dy, in the most formal manner, the report t h at the Marquis de Banneville will not return to his post- court a sergeant of polieffectce the JUVENILE ACTORS. watch ellar i astltret communicateduthaMpt7 that, having received nume' the magistrates to thesPtctriect): roux complaints, he p r°e He obtained where he found a boy a ° discovered about thin children irty tance, however, " been erected Inside A stage had —At th a number of boys were performing. He found that the chil dren obtained the money for admission, which was a peog each, in some baeseZhbo3sre-dofhlest`3", the pieces perforraie. gearingaP " and dresses the Jack Sheppard" s t i o d The , s cenery were brought into court; a 1 included the royal arms of England ! There was a' s °, i • b a t, w hich, though not of the best material, was ' ? ' gently made with the view of giving . 9 ,,... a romantic apP. , tthe , ante o which are given in low-class periodicals of highwaymen' A NEW WAY OF M AKING L OVE.— Mdlle. Mah e Roze, who is at present ' w hoaell MM. de Saint-Georges studying a part in L'Ontbre, and Flatow are about to bring at the Lyrique, Paris, was remarked of late to be nervoilS and preoccupied, and on being questioned by her frieila4 declared tis that she had received a number of a non7l°°„., letters from an unknown admirer, the missives being 1.- ; markable alike - for their ardour and their bad spelli ng ' the last on e h a d di rec t e d h er to be on a certain ev eni r at half-pa s t fi ve , a l one , i n f r ont of the Church of b t ' Trinity, as, if not, she might reckon on having her fal sprinkled over with sulphuric acid. Her friends insi..ste:, on her lodging a complaint at the prefecture of Poilcat On the day appointed the young actress WAS _.. a the place of rendezvous, and a young workman, i n a blow and cloth cap. came up and addressed her : "Ah ! you hsZ a come! Are you alone? " " Yes." " Well, it is not I 17 '.. r . wrote, but my brother. He is there in that hack coach." At that moment several police-agents sedzed,_, the man, and proceeding to the carriage found it eraPV e. Of course he was detained in custody to answer the age { l o c i 4 It appears that this is not his first attempt, .as be ~, offering his heart to Mdlle. Roze, he had laid it—ill Ph;f cisely the same manner—at the feet of Mdlle. Massiei ~ the Gymnase. He must at all events be allow og _a have good taste in thus selecting two of the v rottg" actresses in Paris. aSt ItEDUCTION OF ARDIAMENTS.—For some time p- t , I there has been a movement in Germany in favour of !:t t ,, reduction of armaments. A sense of the beg burden which is entailed on the population by the syesif b , of armed peace which is maintained has penetrated to ', if , Assembly of the Northern Confederation. The 8 51. '" opinion is shared by the States of Southern Geri where they rely on the autonomist reaction to co up the the Prussian influence.. In the Vienna Reichsrath a 1 3 ; position of this character has been rejected by a ma) of of only eleven. The opinion of Europe has pronounce o f itself in this matter as in the question of the atolition__ capital punishment, and sooner or later its ideas will 0/ carried out. froA. LONG VOYAGE.—A. large vessel called Nora Creina, 1,000 tons burthen, Captain Taylor, _ Bombay, with a general cargo, put into Queenstolviii,3 day or two ago, short of provisions. The ship was 1 .._ a days out, and during the last fifty days the crew suffered fearful hardships. Linseed cake constituted their 1 °_ (3 for the principal part of that time. They received soy a relief from a passing ship, but this did not last for ~Y 0 time, and the linseed cake was again resorted to as I " . A only resource to save the crew from actual starva tion : 0 1 short distance off the harbour some provisions were pi To, on board by a pilot schooner and with this meag re suP Pi ', the unfortunate men who w ere unable to work the s_iiora r IN from hunger and exhaustion, were regaled befo re the _. Creina arrived in Queenstown. This remarkably Pry , 110 _ 1 tracted voyage, extending over a period o f SiS =C ll .' ' was. Attributable to eolvtroo winds. , , lIER MAJESTY. BUCKINGHAM PALACE, March 25. Her Majesty, attended by the Duchess of Rox burghe, visited the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough House this morning. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High nesses Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Lcopo:d left the Palace this afternoon, at 4 o'clock, for Claremont. y j ~ : rf~.t