The Sun. — London, England, 1861-05-01 00:00:00

THE WELLINGTON, 16 0 , PICCADIL LY . Gentlemen are respectfully informed that the SALOON DINING ROOMS are now OPEN for the Supply of LUNCHEONS and DINNERS, from One to Nine o'clock P.m. Set Dinners and Dining from the carte in the most varied form. Dinners from the joint, 20. Whitebait is now served daily. THOMAS PRICE, Superintendent, Tli" TR 1 1 1 -it 0 Y AL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Alr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, the performances will commerce with a new and original Comedy, entitled BLACK SHEEP. Mr. Buckstone, Hr. Compton, Mr. Howe, ,tc. ; Mrs. Wilkins, Mrs. Charles Young, Miss Lovell, &c. After which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery and effects, and all the original music by the late Sir Henry Bishop, the melodrama of THE DULLER AND HIS MEN. Commence at 7. LOYAL g'STHE s THEATRE.- Lessee P a ß nd l Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore, Meadows, Garden, and Miss C. Leclercq. Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Sup ported by Hermann Vezin, Ryder, Meadows, &a ; Misses Heath, Elsworthy, and R. Leclercq. NEW THRATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- Solo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Reproduction of "The Colleen Bawn." The Adelphi "Census " every Evenin7. " 7 1 1 1 7 1 Th EVENING, time of a new Farce, entitled A TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford. Atter which (168th time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. D. Roucicault, D. Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss Wooigar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS. Messrs. J. 1,. Toole, Eburne, Romer, C. J. Smith ; amiss Kate Kelly, Miss E. Thorne, and Mrs. Chatterley. Doors open at halt past 6—Commence at 7. CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS'!Westminster-road. Proprietor ........C. Morton. A Grand St.lection from Ver di s new Opera, IL CORSA lt° ' (bleed in this or any other (This opera has never been Pr 4 ,3 ), having - met with that de country, except at these Con° I , the most popular werks of Bided success which eh:t ract :l-formed EVERY EVENING ; this great Master, wilt from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGl together with a Seieetwil b BIENTO, by Donislti. Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss Principal Art "'tee-o;ft m , Slu or Tivoli, H. Drummond, and Tyrrell, Mr. N • ll Director Mr. c risesms C. W. Bernard . Department'comp , Messrs. E. Marshall, A. The coati° B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, } . Bell, W. H. Welland, and the Brothers Conrad. John Martin'S Three celebrated Pictures will remain on view a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the Establishment. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 6h. 29m.—Afternoon, 6h. 58m. To-MORROW.-Morning, 7h. 28m.—Afternoon, Bh. 4m. 1118 WBATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MA.Y 1, 1561. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE, 69—highest since noon yesterday. 49—lowest this morning and during the night. 63 —this day at noon. BAROMETER--30.38. WIND—Westerly—light ; with fine, but dull, weather.' ) b - 9 6 ''m 74- , .'"Ni - _ p"-: - , ..pM , .'‘' " ~s -I sti'r'pl- t - I .' ic ' ... •,..t '' or s . ~ , . , o• .4' .' 1 72,1,' -- 23_ * • `ll 0 • - bROIT' " - ".. -r".,--- --.r• THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1861. Fuller intelligence strengthens the probability of war in earnest in America. If the PRESI DENT'S Message was rather hesitating in its tone, there is no hesitation on the part of any of the Free States. The Border States, as might have been expected, either refuse to send their quota of men to the PRESIDENT, or remain inactive; but the Free States more than make up for their failure. It would seem as if Mr. LINCOLN might have a militia army—and it will be a militia army on both sides—of any number that he pleases. Even the little State of Rhode Island, with a population of 147,000, less than that of many of our towns, offers 1,000 men, the Governor offering to lead them in person. New York is providing an army of 30,000 ; Pennsylvania, 25,000 ; Ohio, 20,000 ; indeed, it is stated that 250,000 men could be raised with ease at a short notice. It may be said that these men are not regularly trained soldiers, mere 4tla of July men, good only at a de monstration ; they are however of the same material as the army which conquered Mexico so easily was made of ; and though they would be no match for the men who fought on either side at the last battles in Lombardy, neither are their antagonists better drilled than themselves. The southerns have pro bably had much more practice with the revolver, the rifle, and the bowie knife, as these seem to con stitute the bench to which they almost daily appeal for justice. But the north has vastly the advantage in artillery, and in the means of manufacturing both great guns and small arms. Indeed up to the time of the last advices the south was buying its weapons from northern manufacturers, and the sale of them thither had only been stopped since the attack on Fort Sumpter. The South must now go to Europe:for them. That will take time, and possibly they may be captured on their way by a Northern fleet. The South responds to all the preparations of the North, with, considering their population, more than equal vigour. It must, however, be borne!in mind that in all slaveholding countries the number of freemen at disposal for military purposes is always, in proportion to the entire population of freemen, large. Labour is dishonourable, and freemen abound to whom military service is but a relief from weary idleness or from pressing want. The Galf States can extemporise an army of vagabonds and illers, who are, because having to maintain themselves by their wits, not wanting in the desperate kind of courage which may make a decent soldier. They have some military supplies already, and if the contest be prolonged, will get more by smuggling them from the North or from Europe. We do not see, however, what the North can do more than blockade the ports and hold its Southern ports as we hold Gibraltar in Spain. For the rea sons we have already mentioned, it would be im posible for a Northern army to penetrate the interior of the gulf States—Nature and a deficient population arc against them. A glance at any map will show how little there is to occupy and hold. Not a great deal, comparatively, on the coast itself, in the centre next to nothing. few ports, amongst which New Orleans stands conspicuous, might with greateffort be perhaps conquered; they might be with no great difficulty blockaded —but when that is done it would be difßcult to do more. The worst aspect of the last "reeve is, that it seems like the beginning of a .svalll3 which, from the nature of the case , neither party can s o They conquer as to compel a peace. may weal"' each other out by mutual injuries, a nd be glad to settl e oti the basis of mutual indepen dence, but the No r th can no effectually the South, than th reere hope to conquere South th e North. At Fort Sumpter the possibility of p eeful counsels prevailing was wickedly thrown away, The South probably wished this. Th ere i s a verp The of Unionists even in the seceded Stat:,t;rtahYe noisy and furious party who, from the beginni ng, have determined to be independent, want e d to silence their voice by placing them in a false posi tion. The South never, as n e meet remember, had the shadow of a legal or even fair cause for seces sion ; it had long resolved to keep its man in the Presidential chair, to rule the whole Union, or to separate. It will fight, therefore, to the last for a separate existence, nor do we see how the largest Northern army can compel reunion. Not having made much way with the Covert - ment in the House of Commons, Sir It. PEEL, aided by the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, has resolved to try what a "large and influential meeting" of the QuEix's suhlects can do, through her MAJESTY, to Put a stop to suue most cruel religious persecu- tions in Spain. That the cases are flagrant viola tions of the commonest rights of conscience cannot be doubted. Sir ROBERT saw one of the sufferers himself, and the ladies of his party relieved him. Both of them are men of simple character, wholly uninterested in politics ; indeed, it is not pretended that they are guilty of any other crime than that of having the Holy Scriptures, selling them, and reading them to others. But this, strange to say in the 19th century is an offence, in Spain, for which men can be:sent to the galleys for life or for the best part of life. It is contrary to the fundamental la o ne is allowed, not ws of the land. In that priest-ridden country no even a foreigner, to do any open act, not even to cele brate a funeral service ,w hieh is not in accordance with the Roman Catholic religion. Not even the the civil servants of our acEEN resident there can be interred, except at midnight, and then by connivance, with any religious service. No Religion but Popery may be professed by any one in Spain. Just now the Sp a nish Government is paying to the Baptist Missionary Society £1,500; it is for the property of missionaries whom they expelled from the Island of Fernandez Po, which the missionaries were colonizing with converted negroes. It was not known to belong to Spain—but it does, and one day a ship of war came and and com pelled them all to quit and go to the mainland. The reason assigned was that her MAJESTY would allow no religion to be professed in any part of her dominions but Popery. At that time the mis sionaries and their converts were the chief part of the population ! What her Majesty the QUEEN can do with such a Government it is not easy to imagine. Like the greater part of civilised Europe Spain was kept in the bonds of Papal superstition by violent expul sion of the Reformation—as in Italy, in Austria, in Bohemia, in France, and elsewhere, the Bible and Protestantism were suppressed, and the priests upheld by ruthless bloodshed—but for this, all the fairest part of Europe would have been Protestant now. The rulers of these countries, who have always found Popery the most apt instru ment of despotism, well know these, indeed, notorious facts. ISABELLA understands that the light of the Gospel was put out by the Inquisition and horrid penal measures. She knows that to relax these measures, would be to enable tha Scrip tures to confront the POPE, with the certain result of large and speedy secessions from the faith which she finds it so convenient to uphold. The Spanish Government is consistent. If men become religiously free, they will soon become civilly free. Freedom of thought, and freedom to propagate thought on the two great topics of politics and religion, have always gone together. One never lasts long without the other following. And though MATA MOROS and ALHAMA, pious simple-minded men, dream of nothing but teaching the peasants the w ay of spiritual salvation out of the Bible, as sway as tLey do so, their converts having learned to think for themselves in the most solemn of human matters, will begin to think themselves competent freely to discuss political matters also. We can but wish, in the name of humanity, suc cess to the efforts of Sir R. PEEL. We doubt, how ever, whether he will make much way against the instincts of a Bourbon QUEEN and a Spanish Go vernment. Moreover he will do well to look at home. In Spain he finds the clergy controlling the minds of the people; both together controlling the willing Government, but the clergy at the bot tom of all. Here, in England, he beholds a similar sight. The clergy here cannot indeed go the lengths of Spanish priests, but they do go all the lengths they can. They refuse to bury them selves a Nonconformist child, and will not let the Nonconformists do it. And if they can not now enforce the sacrament on all who take office, they refuse permission to do so, except under a declaration intentionally degrading to Dissenters. They oppose burial bills, and Church-rate abolition, as intensely as the least inroad on clerical tyranny and domination is opposed in Spain. Indeed, considering that our clergy live in a land with a representative Government, a land of free discussion and of a free press, our clergy are for their advantages, as intolerantly minded, as a body, as those of Spain. And the worst is, they control not only the Lords, but even the Commons of England. A meeting of a spmewhat remarkable character took place at Boston on Monday—the proceedings at which meeting will be found reported at unusual length in another part of our impression of this evening. It will be perceived at once that it was an assembly of Boston Workmen, who were thus collected together at what even the least fastidious people amongst us are: in the habit of calling a "soiree," after the manner of those gorgeous Footmen at Bath, who under cover of that genteel name regaled SAM WELLER in ° the greengrocer's back parlour upon a repast of Boiled Leg of Mutton and Trimmings. The convivial gathering of Mon day evening last in the Exchange Hall at Boston, in Lincolnshire, were, however, far more en regle than this in the nature and character of their festivities. Their "soiree" consisting, first of all, of an agreeable refection of Tea—Tea taxed to the tune of is. ',513. per lb. upon an annual consumption in the United Kingdom of 77,000,000 lbs. And the amusements of the even ing, or, to preserve its distinctive title, of the "soiree," trailing off afterwards—into a h appy blending of several of the more humanising of the Fine Arts, music, oratory, and poetry intermingling harmoniously, with an effect quite as delightful in its way, no doubt, as even that discur sive intellectual conversation alluded to in the Vicar of TY okefield as one ranging " from grave to gay, from lively to severe," running through an immense variety of subjects, inclurling, among others, SIIAKSPERE and the Musical Glasses. The object of this pleasant meeting of Monday last at Boston, may be stated at once as having had in view the furtherance of the interests generally of the local Working Men's College. The Principal of that College, the Mayor of Boston, the two representatives of that great con stituency, and a goodly number of the leading inhabi tants of the place lending the aid of their countenance to the entertainment. Altogether, judging from the report already referred to as given elsewhere, we ,should certainly conceive that the proceedings, though occas sionallyin h fo a r v m e a b l e e e n n ou p g a i rititcoulaarmetro politan reader, m ast de lightful and exhiliarating, iu their way. It sounds strangely to the ears of a Londoner, for example, When is informed that after tea came not of c ourse the ‘at Breach of Prorrise Trial ofrn-o , of the prover b, but —the leadh c lergyman of Sur fleet, the R ev , of the Trial sce ne from Pickwick, the G PARR Bardell v. Pi c k w i ck. had After the laughter subsided at th e c l ose of the Rev. E declamation, then, b u t not till thin, the business o f B. PARRY ' S Comic the evening appears i n earnest t , g :e b yu a gy t , to have commenced. That being tho furth erance ( as we have said) Boston Working of the Men's College and thereception of one of the most fam ous o f t h e young eeorki ng men of the western hemisphere, Mr. G. F. Teee N to wit, the inventor of th.e Street Railways, ow e ,' ceusin, We should presume : , of Jr. G. 0. A. HEAD, of Staleybridge, familiar to the readers of Coningsby. To appreciate tho excitement felt by the Boston inhabitants in reference to Mr, TRAIN'S appearance there on Monday evening at the soiree of the Work ing Men's College, it is only necessary to note the mention made as to that gentleman's movements, in the reporter's remarks prefixed to the shorthand record of the proceedings. When the tea and et ceteras had been satisfactorily consumed, and all traces of the repast cleared away, the company as sembled in the Exchange Hall having been by that time augmented to an aggregate not far short of a thousand—the reporter tells us " Mr. TRAIN and other invited guests had not then arrived, but a messenger shortly afterwards entered the room to say that he and his lady had reached Boston by the six o'clock train, and large posters were quickly distributed throughout the town—' Mr. TRAIN has arrived !' " Two hours are allowed him, however, for repose after the fatigues of his journey--during which interval the inimitable humour of Boz is whiling away the time delightfully. By the time the reading of the Trial Scene is closed with old Mr. WELLER'S almost tearful lamentation " SAmmY, he should ha' proved a haliby"—the speaking of the night begins at length ; the Chair man addresses the assembly ; and, after the Chair man the senior Member for Boston, Mr. STANILAND, delivers an harangue to some of the busiest workers amongst his industrious constituency. It is in the midst of that gentleman's speech that occurs what may be termed of course " the incident" of the night—which we must now give in the graphic words of the local reporter :—" A long interruption here brought the speaker to a stop, and, on turning to the door, we perceived the Mayor leading in a most charming lady, beautifully attired, and from the fact of Mr. TRAIN following close behind, there appeared no doubt that it was Mrs, TRAIN. Cheers, loud and long, rang throughout the hall, until the audience appeared almost exhausted by their tumultuous plaudits. Mrs. TRAIN having been duly introduced to the ladies on' the plat form, and Mr. TRAIN to the gentlemen, something like order was restored. All eyes were fixed upon Mrs. TRAIN, and many compliments were passed about the room upon the fair American beauty." That—we take it—is what may be fairly termed a sensation. That is certainly entering a crowded room with something like " éclat." And we are not in the least surprised, therefore, to read shortly afterwards in the report that when Mr. G. 0. A. HEAD—we beg his pardon, when Mr. G. F. TRAIN rose to address the meeting "for some time the hall so ;ang with the deafening plaudits of the assembled audience that he was unable to utter a word," until (as the reporter adds) "at length order being restored, he proceeded." Although the "bright particular star" of the evening was rather cruelly introduced to the audience by the senior member for Boston, Mr. STANILAND, with the remark that now his friend TRAIN, " Special TRAIN," if he m i g ht be allowed to call him so, had arrived, they might prepare themselves for a good amount of amusement"—something like saying to a Wit," Now, Mr. So-and-so, be funny," and then turning to the audience with "You are expected to laugh !"—Although this rather unfair advantage of a precipitate compliment was taken in reference to Mr. TRAIN quite unwittingly, we are ready to believe, on the part of good-natured Mr. STANILAND, the prediction of the latter was certainly fulfilled to the very letter, the working men of Boston did unquestionably derive from Mr. TRAIN'S sparkling, earnest, poeti cal, and thoroughly idiomatic speech, no inconsi derable amount of merriment: Londoners as well as Boston men can now turn to it, anareaa b Mr. TnAni's special for therarsavpß. And we promise them beforehand that it will be found pleasant reading— for the speaker is not only exceedingly clever, and heart and soul in earnest, but he is thoroughly and essentially " a character" to boot. He talks among other things (it will be seen) of his determination to become President of America be fore he has done with it. ' And really while one is laughing under the influence of the mere rush of his animal spirits, or what he himself terms " the electricity of good nature," —one can't help recollecting the old adage about—" Many a True Word being spoken in Jest." Presi dent or no President, there he is as he is—and, so regarding him, one cannot also but recognise in him, already, a happy result of the due admixture of what he himself alludes to as " the three P's " Patience, Perseverance, and Pluck ! POS7=OFFICE SAVINGS BANE BILL, The following protest against the third reading of the Post-office Savings Bank Bill has been en tered upon the journals of the House of Lords by Lord Monteagle : " Dissentient— " 1. Because it is inexpedient, without deliberation and evidence,to transfer to the centralised authority of a revenue department, already charged with laborious and incompatible duties, function ‘ which have been hitherto performed by independent trustees, acting gratuitously, freely appointed, and who, by their administration of the savings banks throughout the British empire, have conferred a signal benefit on their country by encouraging habits of prudence, industry, and forethought. "2. Because such a transfer cannot be made without implying a mistrust in that systein of self-government to which England owes so much prosperity and happiness, and her charities and voluntary institutions so much of their success, and whereby all classes of society, being united in the discharge of their local functions, are trained in habits of business and responsibility, and are thus fitted for the fulfilment of other and more weighty duties. " 3. Because this change is made without any clear and distinct explanation of the proposed system, or any estimate of its probable cost—a cost which, whether supplied by Par liamentary grant or by a deduction from the interest pay able on deposits, equally demands the most careful and jealous attention. "4. Because the proposed change is the less called for when it appears that, under the existing local management, the amount of deposits in savings banks and friendly socie ties has steadily augmented, and on the 28th of November, 1800, had reached the extraordinary sum of £13,298,320 ; and that a further sum of £768,275 had been pledged by the officers of the existing savings banks as a security for their faithful discharge of duty. "5. Because the Legislature, in passing its earlier laws for the regulation of savings banks, described the sole object of those institutions to be the receipt of deposits for the benefit of the depositors, and the accumulation of so much of the interest as shall not be required by them ;' yet a practice has subsequently been introduced, and largely ex tended, by which the funds of savings banks have frequently been advanced to meet financial difficu' ties of the State, a power being conferred on the Executive Government de scrited by high official authority as being ' larger and more absolute than is required for the public service.' "6. Because these practices, condemned by high Parlia mentary and official authorities, are not only left uncor rected by the present bill, but are liable to be more largely and freely applied, by reason of the substitution of a re venue department for the more constitutional control of the existing boards of trustees. "7. Because no provision is made under this bill for com pensation or reward to the paid officers of the existing sav ings banks, however long and painful their services, who will be liable to be turned adrift and replaced by the nomi nees of the Government. "8„ Because the proposed system,brought alt tgether under the central authority of a ravenue department, may, when dealing with a capital of £42.,298,320, facilitate and euccu rage the sale and purchase of public securities on account of savings banks in a manner to in fluenceunduly the value of the Parliamentary stocks, and thus to affect injuriously both public and private credit. "9. Because, while it is not improbable that the agency of the Money-order Department of the Post-office may be usefully employed in the mere remittance of the funds of ,savings banks as between the local trustees and the Com missioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, no evi dence or authority has been produced to justify the novel and objectionable principle on which the present bill is funded, 4 ‘ MonzacLE OF DlVailWki." LITERATURE. The Sabbath and Sunday under their various Aspects and Obligations, considered in Two Discourses, delivered in Christ ChUrch, New road, Brighton. By the Rev. Robert Judd and Glass, New Bridge street, London. Waterfield Market-place, Brighton. An attentive reading of the above two discourses has afforded us so much enlightenment, respecting a question which has demanded no small share of theological, political, and social attention of late, that we cannot refrain from noticing them, "as being especially worthy of perusal by the liberally minded portion of the public. They yield a con cmi s e e s a a i n e d S u c a lid a t h account at t o d f t t the e Sabbath i a e n f Ed s a e h n h , a t t h h e , according to Bible c hronology; examining the authorities and obligations consecutively re garded by the Jewish Church and the Christian Church, until the present time ; and produce an ultimate deduction from all historical proof and integral meaning, contained in Scripture; that the happiness and benefit of mankind are the great purposes to be ministered to on our " day of rest." In allusion to the Jewish consideration of the Sab bath, the author says : "It was fearfully stringent, and minutely prescribed nearly every action in public and domestic life which they could perform. Yet it was to be a day of rest for man and beast, for son and daughter, for man servant and maid servant, and for the cattle and stranger within their gates. The Pharisees were exceedingly strict in reference to the Sabbath. They said it was wrong to heal—it was wrong for the man whom Jesus healed to carry his bed after he had been healed—it was wrong to pick a few ears of corn and rub them in their hands—and it was wrong to walk more than a mile on the Sabbath day. And there are at thepresent time not a few Christians, who would not only put us under tho Fourth Commandment, but would interpret it as stringently as the most bigoted of the Pharisees." We own that we are compelled to accede unhesi tatingly to the declaration in the last sentence, while mental observations and practical results at test that much evil may arise from the "excess of good." Too severe an exaction of a rigid preserva tion of the Sabbath by those whose bodies and spirits have few opportunities allowed them for the freedom of physical enjoyment and the exercise of pleasureable will, can never tend to much purer development of Christian devotion in a people, than the entertainment of a repulsive aversion to the stern and ascetic dictators who would add sack cloth to the dust-worn skin, and fast days to the life of scanty pittance. Holding these opinions, it is refreshing to us to read such a passage as the following, which occurs in the second discourse : "We have not the shadow of proof that the observance of the day was enforced among Christians, nor among those who were not Christians. There was no law for its enforce meat, and consequently no authority to enforce it. Nothing can be plainer, than that, in the time of Christ and of the Apostles, the civil power never aided, but rather opposed Christianity. Conceive of Jesus asking aid of :the civil power to enforce his divine lessons of wisdom and love. Or, think of Paul going to the Roman magistrate to ask his enforcement of the observance of Sunday. The gospel contains moral and spiritual truth for the moral and spiritual condition of all who embrace it. It is not to be forced upon men by the civil power. The civil power and religion should be for ever divorced. 'My kingdom,' said Christ, is not of this world.' Those who believe in Christ should follow, love, and obey him, and those who do not receive him should be unharmed, and left perfectly free. Coercion to believe in any article of faith, or to receive the Lord's Supper, or to observe Sunday, is a usurpation m the part of the civil power that the apostles would have denounced, and Jesus Christ would have repudiated." The Rev. Robert Ainslie appears to be thoroughly qualified to maintain and justify the broad, honest convictions which le offers to his hearer 3. His style of eloquence combines energy with feeling, scholarship with simplicity, and nervous vigour with clear reasoning. Nis forcible elucidation 01 what he conceives to be Christian truth, is entirely destitute of the dogmatic egotism and declamatory rant which offensively distinguish so many of our modern " popular preachers." Those persons who are capable of receiving reli gious impressions only through the mediums of eccentric and presumptuous extravagancies, start ling metaphors, and fanatical denunieations, would probably fail to appreciate the tone and doctrine of this teacher ; but those whose hearts and brains arc susceptible 9f the prin ciples of sincere piety delivered by one, who, however anxious he may be to enlighten his fellow men, never forgets the reverence due to his God, nor lightly jests with things mysterious and divine—such hearts and brains must experience rich, mental satisfaction and pure, spiritual eleva tion from the discourses of Mr. Ainslie. We are induced, in conclusion, to give a short extract from a sermon delivered by him at Christ Church on Sunday, April 14th, on the subject—" A Rational and Valid defence of Personal Religion," from the text "Be ye always ready to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear" " It is of great importance that whatever form of reli gion a man may profess, he should be able, not only to give an account of it, but to defend it as the highest truth to which he has attained. . • A rational and valid defence of our personal religion is required from every one of us. We have a national religion, but that is not necessarily personal. We have to do kith the honest convictions of the individual heart. The Apostle speaks of the hope that is in you;' and who among us would be without hope ? Who would toil amidst daily duties without hope ? Who can lay claim to the dignity of a rational being—and yet wish that his present life might have the termination of the life of a brute ? That a ILI:, mind, well disciplined, highly educated, full of generous emotions, should have no aspiration after a future life, end desire to be quenched in death and eternal darkness, —this is not the moral nor the mental state of him who has hope living in his heart, and ruling him in all the scenes if existence. The Christian has hope in his God as the creator of all things, the ruler and upholder of all worlds, the author of all life, the foun tain of all intelligence and wisdom, the loving Father of the whole human family. Ile meditates upon realities, and believes in and loves God. * * * * * " Education and freedom will bring back Christianity to what it was when Jesus, and Junes, and Paul taught it. It is a reasonable service, and whet the old ecclesiastical dogmas are neglected, and fanaticism end frenzy are laid (as they used to lay the ghosts), reasonable men will look at it, ad mire, love, and obey it. Let us get rid of the additions and corruptions which can be as accurately ti aced in ecclesias tical history as we can trace the hands upon the face of a dial, and then men will listen t) its claims, and be charmed with its heavenly spirit, its spund philosophy, its practical morals, and 116 divine hope of happiness and a future life." Such cheerful and strengthening inculcation as this goes far to strike at the roots of the Upas branches of Ignorance, Bigotry, and Intolerance. We are glad to learn that Mr. Ainslie's congre gation is becoming as numerous as it is intelligent —alsign that Christianity, Truth, and Reason now have only to be "taught ;" and those who " think" will humbly and fervently acknowledge in that teaching, the eternal and lure Trinity which can alone unite the created wit'). the Creator, and ren der Man fitted to properly serve the Incomprehen sible and Almighty Being, who " rideth on the wings of the whirlwind," and " holdeth the waters in the hollow of his hand." 7 lee Constable of the Tower. By W. Harrison Ainsworth, Another instalment of tiis brilliant historical romance gives us, in the May number of Bentley's Miscellany, the nine opening chapters of the Second Book, entitled, " The Lord 1 - ligh Admiral of Eng land." In the vivid delineation of character and in the intricate ravelling of th e plot—the unravel ment of it has yet to be commenced—Mr. Ains worth shows the eame facile rapidity as ever : as in his Windsor Castle," as ir, his "`lower of Lon don," as in so many other of his national, half historic, half fictitious, wholly enthralling narra tives. Edward VI., in the May number of Bentley, is depic' ed still as the studurt recluse in the Tower, until the day comes for his siding forth to White hall, a noble pageant followed by a yet grander one viz.,the Coronation oF the Boy King in the gorgeous old Abbey at Westminster. Here it is that the romancist, drawing aside the curtain of the pest, affords us a glimpse into the glorious edifice as it looked when King Edward VI. entered it to be crowne( l . The trumpel-blasts and the tremendous cheering hail apprised those within the abbey that the king was at hand, and all were on the tiptoe of expectation; but before de scribing the entrance of the proces s i on , lot us cart a hasty glance around the magnificent buildi ng . Magnificent, in soeth, it looked on this occasion. A spectacle of extraor • dinary splendour and beauty burst up on the beholder as he passed thr - mgh the great doorway an d l o oked towards the choir. With the exception of the railed and carpeted space in the centre of the pavement, the whole body of the pile was thronged with spectators clad in the variegated and picturesque costumes of the period. Robes, cloaks, and doublets tlaero were of cloth, 811 k) yelyet, and otlaer 045, of as many hues as the rainbow. Additional depth of dye was imparted to these many-coloured garments from the light streaming down upon them from the richly •painte windows. Amidst the closely-packed crowd rose the tall grey pillars lining the aisles, decked with banners and ' escutcheons as before described. The effect of the choir was marvellous. The doors were left wide open, so that the splendid estrado on which the ceremony was to be per formed could be seen from all points. Nave, aisles, and galleries were thronged; so were the transepts on either side of the choir, so were the ambnlatories adjoining the chapel of Saint Edmund the Confessor ; so were many other places which could by no possibility command a view of the solemnity. In Saint Edmund's chapel, which com municated with the choir by two doorways near the altar, were congregated the nobles about to do homage to the king. Even Henry the Seventh's Chapel was filled by those who had been been unable to obtain accommodation elsewhere, By this time, the foremost part of the procession had poured into the nave, and, amid loud blasts from the trum peters, the young king at last set foot within the abbey. His canopy was still held over him, and with much dignity of deportment he proceeded towards the choir, where he was met by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Pro tector, and conducted to the chapel of St. Edmund the Confessor. _ _ After tarrying there for a short time, he Wa3 brought forth seated in a chair of crimson velvet, which was carried by Lord Seymour and Sir John Gage, and conveyed to the summit of the estrade, at the north end of which he was set down by his bearers. During the Royal Banquet which follows in the neighbouring Hall of Rufus, that superb old West minster Hall, roofed with oak by Richard the Second, and under which roof so many monarchs have held their revels upon their day of Coronation —we read in Mr. Ainsworth's pictured pages how the King's Champion flings down his gauntlet to the world in challenge, and how the little mannikin Xit has a fight with a wild man, a sort of Orson— until suddenly caged like a rat while standing for an instant upon the wild man's broad buckler ! Among other incidents recounted in this instalment of" The ,Constable," we must especially particu larise the clandestine celebration of marriage between Lord Seymour of Sudley (late Sir Thos. Seymour) and the Queen (Dowager) Catherine Parr, relict of King Henry VIII. The secret cere monial taking place in St. Peter's Chapel, in the Tower of London. The interest of this descrip tion will be realised the most by those who have stood musingly, as we have done, beside that crumbling block of pink-white marble among the ruins of old Sudley Castle, under which fragmentary wreck of a royal monument lie yet there in the dust the remains of the once beautiful Catherine. Remembering that crumbling tomb at Sudley Castle in the midst of many old familiar associations, we read not without emotion what follows close upon the mention by our novelist of the exultation with which Lord Seymour of Sudley hastens to his clandestine marriage with Catherine Parr in St. Peter's Chapel in the Tower of London : But his exultation was quickly dashed. While traversing a corridor on his way to the Wardrobe Tower, he unexpect edly encountered the Princess Elizabeth. The princess was attended by her governess and Sir John Gage, and was in the act of quitting the Tower, an escort being in readi ness for her without. Up to this moment she had looked exceedingly pale, but her cheek flushed as she met Sey mour's gaze. But she gave no other sign of emotion. Coldly returning his profound salutation, she passed proudly on, without a word. " I would I had not beheld her at this moment, The sight of her shakes my purpose," he exclaimed, gazing after her. "'Tis strange how she still clings to my heart. But I must have done with this folly. 'Tis idle to think of her more." And he wont on. But Elizabeth's image haunted him still. That evening, however, the marriage took place in the manner arranged ; the chaplain's connivance and services being secured by Ugo. The Queen and Lady Herbert were in St. Peter's Chapel; so also was Seymour, with his esquire and the Marquis of Dorset. When all fear of intrusion or interruption was over, the ceremony was performed, and the widow of Henry VIII. became the spouse of the new-made Lord Seymour of Sud- ley. Close beside the altar where they were wedded were laid two of Henry's slaughtered queens—Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard. Little did Seymour dream at that hour that at no distant day he would have a place beside them. Little did he dream, as he uttered his vows at the altar— vows so ill-kept I—that he stood within a few paces of his own grave. Towards the end of his present instalment of "The Constable" Mr. Ainsworth records how the Lord Chancellor was disgraced, relating moreover in what manner the Lord High Admiral discharged the duties of his office—not forgetting incidental reference to the way in which the Duke of Somer set (formerly known as E irl of Hertford) faired as England's Lord Protector. This romance alto ther of " The Constable of the Tower" still reads to us, coloured as it is into life by Harrison Ains- Worth's ripened imagination—it still reads to us, for all the world, like one of the old knightly chro nicles gorgeously emblazoned. ESSAYS AND _REVIEWS. The following letter has been received from the Lord Bishop of Salisbury, by the Rev. Robt. Grant, of Bradford Abbas, in reply to one addressed by himself and several clergymen in the 3d portion of the Deanery of Shaftesbury, to his lordship on the 12th larch last : " Palace, Salisbury, Easter Monday, 1861. "Dear Mr. Rural Dean,—Your letter of March 12 has been forwarded to me from London, where it was tying for some time. " :I was much pained to receive the letter to which you allude, from Mr. Kennard—both because it was a confes sion of his own partial, if not entire, approval of the Essays and Reviews, and also because it seemed to state that there are other clergy in the :diocese, and perhaps many, who shared his opinion. " You will be glad to hear t hat I have no reason to be lieve that so painful an insinuation about our brethren can be justified. " I will now only add that I trust in more ways than one, certainly by the expression of the matured convictions of the members of the church, and possibly by the exercise of legal powers, we shall be able to give good proof that the Church does not allow it to be an open question whether her ministers can honestly bring their teaching into har , mony with this now notorious book. " Commending myself to your prayers, and those of my brethren, I remain, "Dear Mr. Rural Dean, "Your faithful friend and brother, "W. K. SA.umi. "The Rev. Mr. Prebendary Grant." As a constant reader of your paper, I bog to enclose a copy of a letter written by me to the Lord Bishop of Salis bury, and request you will be good enough to insert the same in the forthcoming - number of your paper. Trios. B. HANJIAM. Manston House, April 15, 1861. (COPY.) "Mauston, Sturminster Newton, April 15, 1861. "My Lora,—l have just read in the public papers, with much surprise, a letter from your lordship to the Rev. Robert Grant, in which your lordship seems to claim, as Bishop of this Diocese, the power of over-riding, by some mysterious act of episcopal authority, the established law of the church.. "As a humble member of . the church,' to whose ' matured convictions' your lordship appeals, and residing within the Diocese of Salisbury, I beg most entirely to repudiate your claim, and most emphatically to deny the existence of any power in this country, superior to the laws of the realm. _ _ "Mr. Kennard, in his letter of protest to you, has in fact s imply done his duly, in vindicating a well-established principle of English law, and protesting against its viola tion. Ire merely claims for himself and others the right, which your lordship will hardly venture to deny, of free in quiry and discussion, within the limits expressly laid down, and specifically defined, by the articles of the Church, for the guidance of her ministers. "Your lordship must, indeed, be a sanguine man, and, .as it appears to me, strangely misinterpret the signs of the times, if you anticipate that the legislature of this country will consent, in this nineteenth century, to narrow the basis of church communion within the limits already prescribed in the sixteenth.—l am, my lord, with profound respect, Your most humble servant,: "Taos. B. llAratAxt.' THE DERELICT WRECK IN THE CHANNEL—The efforts made to lighten the derelict wreck by the crews of her Majesty's steamers Bulldog and Lightning had not been successful up to Saturday, but it was only deemed a matter of time. Her bottom had been bored, and on spearing through the shingle ballast it was- found she was laden with timber or deals. The vessel is fir built from the bends, with an elm bottom; is nearly new, and her main rigging being ascertained to be nine inches she is sup posed to be of about MO tons measurement. She is copper fastened throughout, and her rudder is sunk into the rudder case. The diver from the Falmouth Docks has been down, and reports her three masts to be carried away by the deck, and the cross boarding of the stern gone, which pre vents her name being ascertained for the present. THE FORTHCOMING FIGHT FOR THE CHAMPION SHIP.—It was finally arranged last evening that the fight between Hurst and Mace, the aspirants for the highly.. coveted distinction of Champion of England, should take place on Teiesday, the 25th of June next. It, will be re membered, that at the conclusion of the far-famod tourney between Sayers and Heenan, the " Stalybridgc Infant," put forth a challenge which Sayers was prevented from accepting by the provisions of a life an nu it y w hich had been conferred upon him, and that the " gage o f b att l e " gas taken up by Paddock, who carlyin the subsequent contest, was put hors de combat by a chance blow from his gigantic antagonist. Mace, who was compelled on one occasion to succumb to the superior " talent" of Paddock, has since been victorious over Brettle, of Birmingham, in a contest in which he displayed both courage and science; hence the very considerable interest manifested by the amateurs of pugilism in the match now on the lapis, LATEtiT NE 11 , 4. k , • ~_- ~ _e.._..__ __ TURIN, MAY 1. The Nationalites of to-day says : " Garibaldi arrived yesterday morning at Genoa in order to be present at the marriage of his daughter with Signor Canzio, a Garibaldian officer, which is to take place to-day. " As soon as the ceremony is concluded Gari baldi will return to Caprera." THE BRAZILS. LISBON, APRIL 30. Advices from Rio de Janeiro to the 9th instant state that a dreadful earthquake had destroyed part of the city of Mendoza, in the Argentine Re public. The number of victims was said to be 7,000. 2,000 houses were thrown down. The loss was estimated at 350 millions of francs. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam• ship Ceylon, Capt. Evans, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived. She brings 134 passengers, precious stones valued at 4,400 r., musk 3,500 r., and jewellery 50,000 r., also 13 packages valuables, 14 casks wine, 18 cases silk, 153 packa ges general merchandise, and 1,763 bales raw silk, valued at upwards of £170,000 sterling. The Ceylon sailed from Alexandria the 18th, Malta 22d, and Gibraltar 26th ult. On the 22d she spoke the Company's steamer Ellora, off Gozo, and on the 26th the Indus, off Malaga. Her Majesty's - ship Ariadne was at Gibraltar. The Geyser left for England on the 2Cth April. The Neptune, Assurance, Alacrity, Lapwing, Terrible, Doris, and Amphion were at Malta. At Corfu were her Majesty's ships Cower, Orion, and Algiers. The London was at Athens. Her Majesty's gunboat Lapwing arrived at Malta from Suda on the 19th. She encountered a frightful gale in the Archipelago. For the safety of the ship and lives of the crew, she had to throw her guns overboard. The Turkish corvette Isnir had sailed for Candia. The Empress of Austria was expected at Cadiz on the 23d, from Madeira. The Spanish liner Reina Isabel 11. was to pro ceed to Algesiras via Cape Spartel. The Cadiz Constitutional says, owing to the deli cate state of the Infanta their Royal Highnesses had given up their voyage to England, and had left San Fernando for Seville. The civil and mili tary governors accompanied the illustrious travel lers. On arriving at Port St. Marys, the Duke parted from the Infanta and proceeded to San Luca de Barrameda. The steamer Lepanto was to leave Tetuan for Tangier, to receive the war indemnity money de posited there. The British schooner Black, from Liverpool ; her Majesty's ship Supply, from Woolwich ; brig Roberts, from Cardiff; barque John Wellesley, from Liverpool ; steamer Rhone, from Liverpool ; barque European, from Hull ; steamer Mavrocor datas, from London ; brig Hetty Ellen, from Liver pool; yacht Wagtail, from Falmouth ; brig Foote, from Hull; barque Falcon, from Collingwood; brig Charlotte, from Cardiff, had severally arrived out at Gibraltar since last dates. Gibraltar exchanges were quoted, on London, 90 days' date, 50j-, to ; Paris, Marseilles, Genoa, sf, 31c.; Madrid, eight days' sight, par; Cadiz, Malaga, Seville, Valencia, par; Alicante, dis. ; Barcelona, pm. Freights to London and outports, 255. to 30s. per steamer ; Brazil and River Plate, Gulf of Mexico, and Havannah, 12 dols. per ton and: 10 per cent. ; Spanish pillared dollars, 3 per cent. pm., no demand; ditto Carolus, 20 per cent. do., in demand. VENICE, APRIL 29 (Evening). In consequence of the refusal of the Congrega tion of Venetia to elect members for the Council of the Empire, the Governor is about to proceed to a public examination of the elections of some com munes, and will afterwards deliver a certificate of election to every person elected. PARIS, APRIL 30. The Temps of this evening says : "We learn from a reliable source that Turkey has proposed .that 1,000 French soldiers should be left at Beyrout until the reforms which have been decided upon by the European commission have been completely carried out." THORN, APRIL 29. The President of the Court of Appeal at Modlin has declared all the prisoners who were made during the late events to be not guilty. The state of things at Warsaw remains unft changed. PARIS, APRIL 30. The Pat,* of this evening says : " It is asserted that the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands has issued a proclamation in which he declares that, should the disturbances which have broken out at several points continue, the country will be placed in a state of siege." The same paper asserts that Corfu is militarily occupied, and that the troops are encamped in the squares and streets. La Patric adds : " The schism between the lonians and the Eng lish Government assumes daily larger proportions. We learn by a despatch that a conflict has taken place at Zante between the English garrison and the people, and that 12 soldiers and eight inhabi tants were wounded. The details of this collision are wanting." MADRID, APRIL 30. The opposition journals have given a dinner in honour of the deputies who are opposed to the bill relative to the press. LISBON, APRIL 30. The elections to the Cortes have resulted in the election of 64 Ministerial and 16 Opposition can didates. BERNL, Mimi 30. The constructi on o f the railway through the Lukmanier co mmence d yesterday near Bellinzona, under the direction of the chief engineer, M. Pesta lozzi, and in the presence of the authorities. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY. The Journal de Geneve announced, a few days back, in one of its Paris letters, that the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia had passed two days at Paris incognito ; that he had had en interview of five hours' duration with the Emperor, at which Count Kisseleff was present; that in this interview a political project ,_brought by the Grand Duke from St. Petersburg was discussed, and that the Prince was highly satisfied with what took place. The Independence of Brussels affirms that all this is mere invention. BOURSE, April W.—Two o'Clock.—The market has been rather more buoyant, and 'prices have gained a slight improvement on the closing rates of yesterday. For the present settlement, Threes opened at 68f, 60c„ and are now at 68f, 70c. The reponse de primes (option) :was made at 68E 60c. Railway shares firm. The following were the last quotations :- 4k per per Cents 95 50 Credit Poncho 933 75 Do. end month 95 50 Belgian ........ 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 75 Roman Bank Shares .. 2856 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 685 Spanish Threes 4B 50 Do. Account 685 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1345 .. 1346 25 Northern New ditto 895 .. 895 Lyons and Mediterranean. 957 50 .. 958 75 Geneva 4lO .. 407 50 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian 372 50 .. 372 60 Austrian Lombard 487 50 .. 487 50 HUNGARY. "Notwithstanding all that can be said," says the Nord, " on the projects of conciliation now nego tiating with the political chiefs of Hungary, there is much reason to doubt that success will attend the efforts made to remove the dualism which divides the monarchy into two parts—the Hunga rian Empire in the East, and Slavo- German Empire in the West. On that point, the Vienna journals do not deceive themselves. The programme of the compromise attributed by the Wanderer to the party of MM, Deak and Evetvoes is not the work of those deputies, as the Wanderer itself now admits. The Diet of Pesth seems in no hurry to approach this burning question, and, before taking any decision, will probably wait to see what turn the debates will take in the Council of the Empire at Vienna. Its attitude is already traced by the fundamental laws of the country." ITALY. The Opinione of Turin states that not a day passes without some Bourbonists' crossing the Nea politan frontier with large sums, and then pro ceeding to Naples, where they disguise themselves as National Guards. The Pontifical Government, it adds, offers them a free passage, either by the Frascati or the Civita Vecchia railway. The Bishop of Conversano (Naples), province of Bari, has issued a pastoral, in which he declares that it is contrary to religion to refuse absolution merely on the ground of liberalism, and that he, therefore, will suspend all confessors from their functions who shall refuse absolution to those who profess liberal opinions, or who have voted in favour of " the King of Italy." A letter from Rome, of the 23d ult., in the Monde, says Cardinal Antonelli has delivered two notes to the Diplomatic Body at the Holy See ; one, already published, relative to the title of King of Italy, decreed by the Parliament of Turin to King Victor Emmanuel, and the other on the subject of the sale, by Piedmont, of the Eccle siastical property of the Pontifical States. The ex-King of Piedmont will not the less go on his way, and the sacrilegious sales will still take place. The only effect will be that the pur chasers, small and great, will be thus warned of the nullity of their contracts. Much attention has been excited by the steps said to have been taken with Cardinal Antonelli by the French Am-. bassador, in .consequence of the applications of Count Cavour for the departure from the Pontifical territory of the King of the Two Sici lies. The Cardinal, after having consulted his Holiness, is said to have replied by an absolute refusal, and even to have given his reasons for it. These motives are based, in the first place, on the gratitude of Pius IX. towards the Sovereign House of Naples, which received him at Gaeta and at Portici during his exile ; and next, on the tra dition of the Roman Pontiffs, which makes it a sacred duty for them to offer hospitality to all unfortunate and persecuted men to whatever rank and to whatever country they may belong." GERMANY. The Postampt Gazette of Frankfort, of the 27th ultimo, says We are informed that th e repre sentative of Denmark , ypsterday made to the Diet the declaration so long expected, in reply to the application to the Danish Government on the 7th February last. According to the statement of the Danish Minister, his Government has made to the States all the concessions compatible with the safety of the monarchical principle and the maintenance of the unity of the monarchy. The Patente of 1859 was submitted to the States for them to abro gate it. The Government rejected their memorial, because it exceeded the attributions of that Assem bly. The Diet has voted on the military question brought forward at the previous sitting, and decided that the division of reserve shall be maintained, and the troops at the depots shall be increased." AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY. The Royal Mail steamship America, which touched at Queenstown yesterday, has arrived. Accounts from nearly all the Northern and Wes tern States announce active military preparations, and the volunteering or draughting of troops for the Southern campaign. How far these reports are reliable remains to be seen. In Utica, Buffalo, Troy, Pennsylvania, Ohio, the Union feeling was enthusiastic. Adjutant-General Carrington, of Ohio, had issued orders for carrying into effect the military laws just enacted by the General Assembly of Ohio, and providing for 6,000 regular militia, besides the militia of reserve of not less than 35,000 men, to be subject to immediate transfer into the regular force. The regular militia had been organised into twenty-five regiments, which, when upon a war basis, would make 25,000 men. The same feeling was exhibited in Indianopolis, Illinois, Michigan, Massachusetts (at Boston 20,000 volunteers had offered their services), Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Detroit (the banks of which place had come forward with liberal offers of money), New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, and Maine. The following is the form of the call on the respective State Governors for troops, issued through the War Department Sir,—Under the Act of Congress for calling out the militia to execute the laws of the Union to suppress insur rection, repel invasion, &c., approved February 28, 1795, I have the honour to request your Excellency to cause to be immediately detailed from the militia of your State the quota designated in the table below, to serve as infantry or riflemen for a period of three months, unless sooner dis charged. Your Excellency will please communicate to me the time at about which your quota will be expected at its rendezvous, as it will be met as soon as practicable by an officer or officers to muster it into the service and pay of the United States. At the same time the oath of fidelity to the United States will be administered to every officer and man. The mustering officers will be instructed to re ceive no man under the rank of commissioned officer who is in years apparently over 45 or under 18, or who is not in physical strength and vigour. The quota for each State is as follows :—Maine, 1; New Hampshire, 1; Vermont, 1; Massachusetts, 2 ; Rhode Island, 1; Connecticut, 1; New York, 17 ; New Jersey, 4 ; Pennsylvania, 16 ; Delaware, 1; Tennessee, 2; Maryland, 4; Virginia, 3; North Carolina, 2; Kentucky, 4 ; Arkansas, 1; Missouri, 4; Ohio, 13; Indiana, 6 ; Illinois, 6 ; Michigan, 1; lowa, 1; Minnesota, 1; Wisconsin, 1. It is ordered that each regiment shall consist on an aggregate of officers and men of 780. The total thus to be called out is 73,391. The remainder to constitute the 75,000 men under the Pre'sident's proolama tion will be composed of troops in the district of Columbia." The Hoe. John Covode had offered Governor Cur tin 50,000 dols. of the loan authorised by Pennsyl vania to arm and equip the troops ordered froni that State. A delegation of Pittsburgh merchants had made a similar tender. The force at Washington was being strengthened. At Philadelphia symptoms of rioting had taken place. A large mob collected in the street, which at one time numbered about 10,000. The office of the Palmetto Flag, a paper recently started for advertising purposes, was visited, and the demonstrations against it were of so decided a character as to call for the interference of the po ice. The proprietors were obliged to display the American flag, and Mayor Henry made a speech deprecating viol enc e, but giving assurances that no traitors should be tolerated in Philadelphia. The snob subsequently visited the house of Gen. Patter 'on, who was suspected of Southern sympathies, Ind were with difficulty prevented from making an Lttack upon it. The house of Gen. Cadwallader MIS also visited, but the general mollified the crowd en aid Fe torn► telel oitioi The ofßei vern men tion gum fall o the 1 tow It( Vene, repo, Unio to N nun Marc the 1 GOVT Were Legi netio Lion cone: peop the it is Nort requ prop the ] retal 4t tical Pose Ellie 'Ca tedo Men THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY" EVENING, MAY 1861.