The Sun. — London, England, 1856-05-15 00:00:00

lIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. This Evening, May 15 (a Subscription Night given in lien of Tuesday, August 19), will be performed Rossini's Opera, IL BARBIERE DE SIVIGLA. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Ar. E. T. Smith. ENGLISH OPERA. THIS EVENING will be produced CINDERELLA. To con: Jude with THE YANKEE HOiI3EKEEPER. THEATRE ROYAL, JI IYMARKET. the Management of Mr. Buckstone. TIII3 EVENING, THE EVIL GENIUS. Followed by GRIMSH 11V, BAGSFIAW, D BRADSHAW. Tc , onnetirriq with TO%[ THUMB. ROYAL PRiTICESS9 OXFORD-STREET. Under the M kivemlat f.,f. Mr. Ca 411LE3 JEAN. Tl I'S 1!: L'E NiNG, THE V'..70:1 VANQUISHED. After which, TFIg NUTTER'S TALE. Prlrrspal characters by Mr. and nrs. C. Mean. ROYAL TIIE A.TRE Proplesor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, MAdanio Celeste. TIM EVENING. LIRA" AND UNLIKE. Messrs. B =venter. Wright, P. Re.Pori. C. Sethy, Garden; Madame Celeste, MN, Wyndham. After which, URGENT PRIV ITE AFFAIRS. To concl ad e with 31 Y PRECIOUS BETSY, ROYAL OLYV.TIC THEATRE. Lessee and Mana7er, fir. Alfred Wigan. TFII? EVENING RETRIBU LION. To conclude with STtY AT HOME. ROYAL SIPIREY TrIEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. THIS EVENING, JACK: SHEPPARD. Followed by YOUR LIFE'S IN D.SYGEB. To conclude with BETSY BAKER. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Mananr, Mr. Wm. Cooke. TIIIS EVENING, 4th time, a New and Original Romantic Equestrian Spectacle, written expressly for this Amphitheatre, called, THE 119RSE OF THE CAVERN, or the Mounted Brigands of the Abruzzi, In which Mr. William Cooke's Stud of Horses, trained by him, will develope various novel and surprising situations and effects. After which, A new series of SCENES in the CHICLE, concluding with a TABLEAU EQUESTRC. Box-ogles open frmn Erevan Foir. &Age Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. Al. Cooke, inn. HIGH. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY—liorn. 5 ruin. aft. 11--Evening 30 min. aft. 11 T )-ItOßßOw—horn. 0 min. aft. o—Evening 55 min. aft.ll THE WEATHER—SVN OFFICE, MAY 15, TIIERHOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 53—higbest sine° noou ye B t o rd & y. 49 -lowost this morning aii,l (3.rtring the night. 59 -tilts day a.t v3AltOtiaTgß, 29 . 58—falling. Wrlcn, S.W.—Light, with dul weather and sligh showers occasionally. \ Aln - LONDON, TUURSDAY, MAY 15, 1856, There is still a dark cloud on the political hori zon. The " Precious Pe ice," for which rejoic ings have hem directed, 'may not after all prove so enduring as has been a , surned. The state el Italy is seone sufficient to excite grave apprehen sions respecting the future tranquillity of Europe. The Notes from the Sardinian Plenipotentiaries, to which we have already directed attention, prov , beyond the possibility of doubt the existence of very serious elements of disturbance, which,unless promptly and judiciously disposed of, may lead to formidable results. Great hopes wore enter tained of the proceedings at the Parisian Con ferences. It was supposed that the assembled Plenipotentiaries could not separate without providing some adequate remedies for the too palpable evils. BuC these reasonable expectations have been completely frustrated. Austria, in tbt present instance, is the aggressor, and she perti naciously refuses even to discuss tho important question at issue, or to permit any antidote to b( administered for the poison which she had infused into the social system of oppressed and long suffering Italy. Her unwarrantable occupation of quasi independent States, rendering the nominal Governments mere puppets in her hands, of which she could pull the wires at her will and pleasure, has occasioned the mischief—and she availed her self of a point of form to evade the consideration of the subieet—and is now striving to enter into new arrangements; by which her usur pations may be rendered permanent obtaining the guarantees of other Powers, to support her in the position she has as sumed. She is now coquetting with Prus , ia, her quondam, rival. The interests of despotism suffice for the moment to extinguish former jea lousies. However they may differ in other matters, both are agreed in exfinguishing. every thing tending to the freedom of oppressed Peoples or which may in any way lead to conititutiona Governments. Neither - CTI7IYeSt on the affection of those whom they rule-With rods of iron. Ea& may require the aid of foreign bayonets, and ae willing, in return, to bind themselves to assist it crushing any effort of popular feeling. Thor; have before now been conspiracies of crowne, heads, and there is but too much reason to fea, that something of the kind is on the taps' at Ulf present moment. tarn the atrairs of Italy Sardi n i a is primarily i n *rested. But France and England must also bi inv olved in any complications that may arise. They cannot without disgrace and dam age themselves desert the ally who so nobly came for_ ward in the hour of difficulty, and so faithfull. redeemed every promise that sbe made. It is an imperative duty on both Governments to sustain. Sardinia in her just and equitable demands. They cannot, if they would, escape from the difficulty and care should be taken that they are not agait " drifted into war " while waiting for Austria The Germanic influence occasioned the late War. and a Similar course may lead to still more seriou,, consequences in the present instance. But will they, warned by experience, avoid the perilous path ? We fear not. We have for some time ceased to repose our faith in Princes 01 Emperors. Dynastic considerations, and other secret intrigues, induce proceedings that canno( be justified, and it is seen that the wishes of tilt. people are no longer regarded—their representa tives are not consulted on any points relating t(, foreign affairs. All they have to do is obedient.l, to vote the sums required, and to receive, " with bitel 4cati i ant deep tha c-xjaaujii- Resina, Mame. Alboni ; II Conte, Signor Calzolari; Bartolo, Signor Zucconi ; and Figaro, Signor Belletti. In the Lesson Scene Madame Alboni will introduce Hum piers variations. To conclude with the new Ballet Divertissement, LES QUATRE SAISONS; by Mdmes. Bellon, Boschetti, Lizereux, Pierron, Katrine, and. M. Vandris. Pas de Deux, Mdlle. Boschetti and M. Vandris ; Pas, Mdlle. Katrine, accompanied by Mdlle. Pierron and coryphees; Pas, Mdlle. Lizereux and Corps de Ballet ; Pas de Bacchante, Mdlle. A. Bellon; Pas de Deux, Mdlle. Bellon and M. Vandris; Finale, Mdlles. Bellon, Boschetti, Lizereux, Katrine, and M. Vandris, and Corps do Ballet. Applications for boxes and stalls to be made at the Box office of the Theatre, Colonnade, Haymarket.—The Opera will commence at 8 o'clock. If we have wronged_ Prussia we must ask her forgiveness. We confess that we had not inquired very closely into the details of her connection with Russia for the last forty years, or we might have spoken with more commiseration than anger. The leading facts of her commercial rela tions since the Treaty of Vienna, with her over bearing and faithless neighbour, have, however, been just brought to light, and they present such a picture of political helplessness as cannot well be surpassed. No petty state of Germany has been more at the mercy of one of the two greater States—none treated with more utter indifference and contempt than Prussia by Russia. The former has been the meek, uncomplaining JA.con in the hands of an insolent and fraudulent LABAN, solemn commercial treaties having been, not less than four times, changed or broken without a word of notice. The Prussian JAOOB has not, however, had the good luck and the cunning to steal off with a good compensation from the tricking of the Russian LABAN. Prussia still remains cheated out of ahnost everything for which she has served Russia by day and by night. Treaties are dry things, and we will not go into details, but it is worth the reader's while to see how tv;terly faith less Russia could be to Prussia, and how igno miniously humble Prussia emild be to Russia, and Atat through forty years. First in order • was the Treaty of Vienna. Russia at that time agreed to a Sapplementary Treaty with Prussia and Austria too, arranging for liberal fiscal regulations between the teho/e of what had ever been Poland and the two neigh b airing powers. This was in 1815. How long does the reader suppose Russia kept that Treaty ? Not a single year. In 1816 she issued a rigor- ously prohibited tariff for the entire empire. The old Polish provinces formed part of that empire ; they were, therefore, withdrawn from the Treaty, and Russia, in fact, refused to ratify the Treaty which her Plenipotentiaries had agreed to. Poor Prussia set to again to negotiate with true German zeal, and by 1820 obtained the assent of Russia to a passable Commercial Treaty and Tariff for the two countries—it will hardly be bolieved that this Treaty which came into force on the first )f January, 1820, was in less than two years and ,L quarter entirely abrogated by 'a Russian ukase, and a new prohibitive tariff enacted for the whole of Russia and Poland. A third time the ignored and insulted kingdom ventures to expostulate. A nine years'areaty of very hard terms for Prussia was concluded in 1825. The gilding of the pill was a stipulation ..fiat at the end of the nine years of commercial irvitude the liberal commercial principles to ~ vhich Russia's Plenipotentiaries had agredd in 1815, but which Russia so unceremoniously set 6.side, should actually come into force. It is the fain Lid that 1834 came, but with it nothing f)r Prussia. She hal ground in the mill in vain. Tito Vienna arrangenr , nt3 were never permitted to ~.)one into force ; and for the third time, the CZAR, 'aught the KING that tr4aties4-hetween Czars and Kings were meant to bind the latter only, not tho +former. The SISYPHUS of Berlin, however— such was his sentence—resumed his task. The stone this iine seemed to be making more hopeful progress. pertain definite concessions were vouchsafed by Russia to Prussia by two ukases in 1842. They were not yet fully in force, but appeared likely to he carried out, when in 1851 Poland was fiscally united with Russia, and the prohibitive system of be Empire rigidly carried out. Since then no i,hing has been done. This fourth paternal act of NICHOLAS seems to have put even Prussia out of heart. It became evident that engagements with her weighed not a feather in the scale. She was har dly treated w ith so muc h consideration as would have be en given to an ackn ow l e d ge d prov i nce of the Ru ss i an Empire. These facts, be it be remembered, are not fur !iished us by an enemy of. Russia, but by a Com- Chambers ; in thi s Core- Aittee of the Pr uss i an nittee the Philo-Russians, though th e s t ronger ;Ar ty, could not refuse to state the simple his toric facts as they stood ; and the result is such a narrative of shameless breaches of faith by R uss i a, and of such timid submission on the part of Prus iia, as i s no t eas ily to he paralleled i n th e history of countries pretending to anything like indepen dence. In no single case did it appear a matter of the smallest concern to Russia that she had come under written obligations to Prussia. Her ukases were issued just as if Prussia were no more to her than the Sandwich Islands ; or rather as if eho had a right to 14 4 ,1, 0 cuc a cta i - Q at,-; and to cala4 cations respecting matters finally arranged that may be vouchsafed by the Government. The position of France in the Roman States materi ally enhances the difficulty. To give weight to her remonstrances, she should "come into court with clean hands." She should " take her own foot out of the boot" before she can consistently require Austria to abandon her occupations, which are intended to render her " the absolute mistress of almost the whole of Italy, and to over throw the equilibrium established by the Treaty of Vienna." Piedmont at present offers " thy only counterpoise to her invading influence." VICTOR EMMANUEL is the champion of Italian freedom. He has nobly stood forward at the hour of trial, and for him there is no possibility of retracing his footsteps. But he is also th( champion of order—the " impassable barrier tf , the revolutionary spirit." Should the hope that rests on his noble and disinterested efforts be withdrawn, it is impossible to calculate the results that might follow the democratic torrent, that might overturn all the existing landmarks. At present Sardinia is waiting for France awl for England. It is their imperative duty to take the initiative, and to sustain the efforts of the pioneer of.ltalian liberty. As yet there has been no movement against any points except those in which the chief aggressor is concerned. While the fatal consequences of the occupation of the Legation are so clearly depicted, nothing is said respecting the no less inequitable occupation of Rome itself. While the condition of States gar risoned by Austrian troops is expatiated on, nothing has been ventilated against the abuses prevailing in Naples. The benefits arising from the Code Napoleon, and the policy of the great Emperor in Italy are lauded, there are also baits thrown out to Russia by the rejoicings at "the re-establishment of the old intimate friend ship between the House of - Savoy and the House of Romanoff." These are significant points that cannot be disregarded. It is manifest that the Cabinet of Turin first seeks the assistance to which it is so eminently entitled from the Western Powers, but, if they fail, she has " another string to her bow," to which she may resort in time of need. As we have already stated, we have few expectations of any real benefits to arise from the spontaneous movements of the Governments of France or England. Dynastic and Germanic in fluences are too potent for the time being. The object is rather to crush than to extend freedom. Nothing but a well-organised and powerful pres sure from without can establish the policy calcu lated to advance the honour of both countries, and the welfare and prosperity of Europe. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENINO. MAY 15, 18 them as for one of her own Governments. ILEXANBER and NICHOLAS were alike in one Cling, in perfect contempt of Prussia.--we must ldd in contempt of common honesty and veracity also. his matured powers—he had reached the culmi nating point of his reputation. He had painted his grand fresco of the " Last Supper." Carlo Amoretti, in his lifemorie Storiche su 1a vita di Lionardo, relates that in 1506, Da Vinci visited France, a statement adopted by Mr. John Brown, Leonardo's English biographer. Considerable doubt, by the way, has been thrown upon the reported visit of the great Florentine to Rome in 1514—but, very little, indeed, upon this visit of his to France in 1506, a visit, as we said, mentionPel by Amoretti, and accepted as a fact by th , E iglish biographer. Whereas in regard to the Ro uan journey of Leonardo in 1514, while it is spoken of by Vasari, by Fabroni, by Ma riette, by Du Fresnoy, and by Amoretti, it is not mentioned at all by Roscoe, by Sereno, by Borghini, or by Baldassare ! Added to all which, are incontrovertible proofs of a reciprocation of kindly feeling between Louis XIT. and Leonardo. Louis bestowed a pension upon Leonardo, and besides this, gave the latter certain rights in the canals of Martesana—public works the artist him self had aided so largely in improving. Leonardo, on the other hand, soon after Louis XII. had taken forcible possession of the Duchy of Milan, and had incarcerated Ludovico it Moro in the Chateau de Loches, in Touraine, had gratified the French monarch by presenting to him the por traits of two virgins, painted as then Da Vinci alone could paint them—and, besides this, had flattered the King most memorably by the fabri cation of his celebrated lion automaton ! Nothing could be more consonant, therefore, with all this, than that Leonardo should in 1506 (the date of his first visit to France) have yet further grati fied Louis XII., by introducing that monarch's portrait in the benevolent features of Joseph of Arimathea, as well as the likeness of his Queen Anne, of Brittany, in the beautiful countenance of Mary Magdalene, humbly portraying himself at the feet of the Lord in the kneeling form of Nicodemus. Henceforth, therefore—coupling these discovered portraits with the detected data, initials, and monogram —we cannot but regard as an undoubtedly authentic Leonardo da this remarkable painting of the " Preparation for the Entombment." THE TRUE STORY OF THE SILENCING OE THE BANDS. All the world knows the story of Sir Walter Raleigh, how, finding himself unable to get at the rights of a row beneath hie prison window, he began to moralise on the presumption of men's pretending to write the history of distant ages. The moral of this anecdote is, that every one ought to exert himself to let the exact truth be known regarding important incidents in contemporary history. Under this impression we beg to offer a con tribution to the veritable history of the great contro verily about the Sunday bands in the Parks. Lord Shaftesbury, with more regard to msthetical propriety than exact truthfulness, has attributed to the Archbishop of Canterbury the honour of converting Lord Palmerston from the error of his ways. Now, in the eyes of Lord Shaftesbury and his friends, this appears, no doubt, to redound exclusively to the honour and glory of the Archbishop. But when society is nearly equally divided in opinion, such apotheoses have their inconveniences. Malcontents are muttering satirical scoffs at the penitent prostration of Henry IX. before the successor of Thomas a'BecKett. Now, Lord Palmerston's reply some time ago to the Presbytery of Edinburgh shows that he is not the man to submit tamely to clerical dictation ; and all who know the Archbishop of Canterbury are aware that be is not likely to presume over-much upon his sacerdotal authority. It may somewhat spoil the romance of tho story, but truth compels us to state that the mild and gentlemanly appeal to the Pre mier which importunities extorted from the Primate bad comparatively little to do with the ultimate decision of the former respecting the bands. A much more power ful engine was brought into play. It is matter of noto riety that in the present nearly balanced state of parties in the House of Commons, the votes of the friendly Scotch members are indispensable to Lord Palmerston. And it so happens tbat in the beginning of the week an irrup tion of the aggregate Scotch representation into the pre sence of the badgered and baited Premier was headed by that most solemn of the Free Kirk leaders, the Lord Advocate. From the solemnity of these legislative sages it was obvious that, for a moment, the souls of Knox and Cameron were burning with►n them ; that they were a resuscitated " Westminster assembly of divines." Lord Palmerston, it seems, was bluntly told that un less he immediately commanded Sir Benjamin Hall to silence his bands, be could no longer count on a single Scotch vote. The Premier ini4ht have defied the Arch bishop as he did the Presbytery, but to be left in a mi nority in the house of Commons was a much more serious matter than clerical censures, and he yielded with as good a grace as he could. We put this fact upon record simply from an abstract lore of truth. We doubt whether Londoners will be reconciled to the loss of their music by learning that it has been suppressed at the dictate of a class of theologians who will not tolerate an organ in their churches either on Sunday or on week days. In fact, the movement against the hands begins to wear the appearance of a:crusade against the art of music. In the dreary lay sermon which has been put forth by Mr. Ed ward Baines, the arguments against musical perform ances for the delectation of numerous assemblies, if they are of any weight at all, tell as conclusively against the practice on any day of the week as on Sundays. ROYAL THAHES YACHT CLUB. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, MAT 14. Prince Albert embarked on board the Fairy yesterday morning, attended by Captain Du Plat, and visited the forts at Hurst Castle, Sconce Point, and Freshwater. The Prince returned at half-past four o'clock. The Queen and Prince rode out on horseback in the afternoon. Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour arrived yesterday on a visit, and had the honour of dining with her Ma jesty. The Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess of Glou cester yesterday, at Gloucester house. Mons. Tricoupi, the Greek Minister, transacted busi ness yesterday at the Foreign-office. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Tuesday, at his official residence in Down ing -street. Despatches from the Governors of New South Wales, Victoria, Ceylon, Mauritius, and Malta were received yesterday at the Colonial•office. Despatches were also received from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. TEE NATIONAL GALLERY JOB. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR, --The thanks of every true lover of art are due to you for the uncompromising manner in which you de nounce the flagrant mismanagement of the National Gallery. I read with great interest your very vigorous leader of to day on the subject. Will you permit me, however, to correct one or two trifling inaccuracies in it. You say, " Mr. Moore is a connoisseur of paintings, pos sessing, in London at least, a very considerable and ex tended reputation." Now Mr. Morris Moore's reputa tion as a profound connoisseur is, perhaps, more widely known on the Continent than in London. He studied many years in Italy, and his name, especially in connec tion with the National Gallery, is familiar to all the art circles of France aid Germany. No Englishman, indeed, has so great a reputation on the Conti nent for connoisseurship. " Besides this, it is observable that Mr. Moore was about the most impor tant witness examined before Lord Elcho's select com mittee in 1853." Mr. Morris Moore was, in fact, by far the moot important witness examined by the com mittee. Had it not been for him the committee probably would not have been formed. He held, as it were, the pest of public prosecutor. The committee adjourned to the National Gallery, for the express purpose that he might point out on the pictures themselves the injuries they had received. He was the only witness so exa mined. And his evidence it was that convicted the Vandal Eastlake. I was at Venice in 1851, and several times saw the original drawing by Raphael of Mr. Moore's picture, "The Apollo and Marsyas," in the Accademia, delle Belli Arti. This, however, was before it was smuggled into the private room of the director. —I am, Sir, your obedient servant, May 14. AN ARTIST. PREPARATION FOR THE' Perhaps this latter fact is the most important of all to bear in mind just now. Count ORLOFF has been blandly promising anything and every thing. Just a little resistance to be sure, and even that might have been easily overcome about .Nicolaieff and the Circassian ports ; some resist- Luce was requisite lest the " conciliation and frankness" of Russia might have been too trans parently mere verbal and parchment conciliation ; but in these Prussian Treaties, as in a hundred others, we have the clear warning what we are to expect. There probably never was a nation, savage or civilised, so utterly destitute of the sense of honour, so coldly unconcerned about treaties or engagements as Russia. Her whole history since she became a conquering —we cannot iay a civilised, power—has been •f a piece in this respect. Turks, Poles, Tartars, Persians —every nation whom she has wronged, has shown some, or even great regard to their word or bond. Russia has shown none. We must conclude now, is we did the whole War through, that a peace is worthless which does not rest on the disabling of Russia for further aggression. The power which Jould unblushingly cancel four Commercial Treaties even with Prussia, her accomplice in the Polish robbery, and whose KING was the kinsman of her CZAR—such a power will certainly throw the Treaty of Paris in the fire as soon as it serves her purpose. But turning again to Prussia—is it to this pitiable, helpless, nondescript power that we are to be united by a royal marriage, and pay some 70,000/. a-year for the privilege ? A power which France and Russia, whenever they like to unite, can disintegrate by their opposite pressure in a single year. A power botched together of frag ments with no cohesion but that of a common censorship of the Press, a common surveillance, and a common monarch with a standing army. A. power which begs leave to be of every great power around her. We detest the Royal Mar riage Act, and if the two young people really wish to marry by all means let them ; but if our Royal marriages are to be matters, as they are but too likely to be, of political arrangement, there is nothing to recommend Prussia. To a petty Ger man State it is, after all, no great degradation to yield to conspicuously greater force, but for a kingdom of the magnitude of Prussia to submit to such treatment as we have described is a humi liation which places her in the lowest rank of nations, I A Bull led to the Sacrifice ! We all know per fectly well what that meant in the old classic days. We know that it meant a grand, public, national, politico-religious procession, with the victim con ducted in state to its doom by a chain of flowers, fragrant and beautiful. Its hooves lacquered over with gilding—its horns tipped with the same— its head festooned with blossoms woven into gar ' lands and coronals—its carcase "larded o'er with sweet flowers"—its tail, for aught we know, tailed off yet more lengthily at the tip of it, with a trailing train of clustering honours like the tail of the schoolboy's kite, knots of cowslips and pansies, bunches of roses and buttercups, posies of violets and lilies, with, may be, an appropriate tAssle at the end of all, in the shape of a flower ing clump of rue. These odorous glories and adornments closing, of course, with the inevitable altar, the unavoidable knife, the pitiless high priest, the inexorable spectators, the blood and the Munn of the crowning immolation. Well—preciselyafter die old mythologic fashion —another BULL, whose Christian name is JOUN, may be announced as nowadays pretty much in the same plight. A 13tia,r, formally led to the sacrifice, under an aspect, however, a vast deal more ridiculous. Thursday, the 29th instant, is the day definitively fixed for the national festivi ties. Already, however, the sacrifice in the pre sent instance has been accomplished for the most part beforehand. Already the " knife" has been brandished to some effect in a two years' war to it ! Already the blood has been spilt abun dantly, both actually and figuratively, with the connivance on the one hand of the Secretary for War, and on the other of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Thursday, the 29th, is simply fixed as the day for a crowning spectacle of COMP. ruemoration. JUAN BULL—as he has been so long and so meekly—is then once more to be led forth publicly by the nose "in the presence of Europe," as the tailors of Tooley-street might say, there to be revealed to anybody's gaze who lists to look upon a sight so verylamentable, under an aspect the most supremely pitiable and ridiculous. Thinned rather —poor fellow, after nourishing himself for the last two or three years as he best could upon food at war prices ! His purse lightened of about 1 20,000,0001. over and above his ordina rily enormous expenditure ! His breeches pockets for the time being fairly rifled, and afterwards turned coolly inside out ! His coat of honest broadcloth, showing its parti-coloured lining, from having somehow or other been similarly reversed ! His hat—fornvrly sleek as Friend STURGE'S, and broad-brimmed as his namesake BRIGHT'S-lamentably touzled in the late scuffle yonder in the Crimea : in other words, what is called—"shocking bad !" A melancholy spec tacle altogether—this modern version of "A BULL led to the sacrifice !" Festooned, not as in the Pagan times, however, with flowers and ever• greens—appropriate though the latter would have been beyond all question-but hung about, poor knave, with brown paper squibs and crackers plump with explosive bowels of gunpowder ! A sight for the Gods—Yes, for the threepenny Gods of the Wictoria Gallery ! For no more reputable spectators surely—unless, inde9d, with the bold est satiric effrontery, Her MAJESTY'S Minis ters point the moral of the War, and adorn the tale of the Peace, by a grand tableau repre sentation (as we have here described it) of "A Bull Led to the Sacrifice," in Green Park, in Hyde Park, in Dublin, in Edinburgh, in each case in the shape of a big Vauxhall transparency. Then, but not otherwise, there may be some grain of sense in these preposterous fireworks, with their accompanying charivari of flags, guns, bell-ring. ings, and illuminations. The Chancellor of the ExchequAr and Lady Theresa Lewis entertained, at dinner, at their residence, Kent House, Knightsbridge, last evening, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, the Countess Dowager of Morley, Viscount and Viscountess Goderich, Viscount Valletort, Lady' Harry Vane, Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, the Right. Hon. Robert Vernon Smith, M.P. and Mrs. Smith, M r . P an i zz i, an d the Right lion. T. B. Macaulay. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess of Gloucester, yesterday, at Gloucester House. The Marquis of Dalhousie arrived at Claridge's Hotel, yesterday afternoon, from Portsmouth, where his lord ship had landed on the previous day. The noble mar quis was accompanied by his daughter the Lady Susan Ramsay. The Marquis and Marchioness of Townshend enter, taiued the Earl and C iunte - ss Spencer, and a select circle, at dinner, at their mansion, in Grosvenor-squaro. Mrs. Manners Sutton's ball is fixed for Monday, June 2. Mr. and MCP. S. M. Doulderson have left Edwards' Hotel, for Lrichtf...z. Nthora h 33 also left for the iaxo _ ENTOMBMENT. BY LEONARDO DA VINCI• A remarkable picture is now "on view " at No. 31, Regent-street, Waterloo-place, a picture publicly exhibited in London twenty years ago as a " Descent from the Cross, or Preparation for the Entombment, painted by Leonardo da Vinci," and then as now, in 1835 as in 1856, very gene rally admitted by most of the competent judges of art in our metropolis to be a veritable master piece from the hand of the great Florentine. It was accepted, moreover, as a genuine Leonardo a score of years ago solely upon the strength of its artistic merits. Excellences of so very re markable a character, in truth, that those con noisseurs who were most familiar with the style of the earliest of the greet masters among the Italian painters (the leader of the Dii Majores o the Atelier in the Roman Peninsula) at once pronounced it to be an emanation from the genius of Leonardo, and an emanation from the genius of no other than, Leonardo. The reasons for this very prevalent and very positive opinion in 1835, remaining of course twenty-one years afterwards, in this year of grace 1856, precisely the same, may be at once very readily explained. To afford which explanation the most effectually and perspicuously, it is re quisite merely to enumerate a few among the chief peculiarities of this extraordinary composition. Wherefore let it be promised at once that the painting appears to have been produced originally upon the oak pannelling of a building—probably as an altar-piece—the picture having been after wards cut out of the wall and framed as an ordi nary easle-picture. Restricted, doubtless, in his design by the narrow dimensions of the original pannelling, the artist nevertheless contrived to obviate the diffiqulties inseparable from that very restriction in regard to space, by grouping the six figures introduced into his composition with a consummate ability, of itself sufficiently indicative of the master-hand ! Six figures they are, as we have said, in number—six figures, about half the size of life, the Pieta, or dead Christ, being, as a matter •f course, the central form about which are clustered the Blessed Virgin, the Beloved Disciple, Mary Magdalene, Joseph of Arimathea, and the ir resolute but ardent Nicodemus. Clustered, these five attendant figures are, too, so reverently, so sorrowfully, so characteristically about the inani mate shape of the Redeemer ! Joseph of Arima thea gazing upon the dead body of his crucified Lord with a look of awe, visible in every line of that noble and benevolent countenance, which even through the look of awe seems to be smiling with a serene trust and implicit confidence in the glorious triumph of the inevitable Resurrection ! The Blessed Virgin with her holy visage sod dened as it were with a grief, supreme, unutter able, and inconsolable. The beloved St. John leaning his head towards her's in tenderest sym pathy, mingling together the tears of those who were thenceforth to be, relatively each to each, as mother and as son, according to the Saviour's lovely and dying admonition. The Magdalene weeping with the others, bat weeping with them, it almost seems, partly in bitterest woe, and partly in agonised indignation. And Nicode mus kneeling in sorrow and humility among his companions upon Golgotha, bearing up the feet of the Redeemer reverently in his arms, while the Sacred Head is supported in those of Joseph of Arimathea. By a wonderful stroke of the artist's sense of the sanctity of the corpse of the Incarnate God, not one of the hands of the attendant mourners and worshippers, not even those of the two who are actually sustaining , in their embrace the lifeless body of Jesus, touch ing it ! The sanctified cerements, the " linen cloths" mentioned in holy writ, interposing ex quisitely between the body of the Lord and the hands of such faithful Disciples as Joseph and Nicodemus ! Besides these tokens of the genius of Leonardo—there were others, recognised easily enough in 1 835—tokens visible now in 1856, at 31, Regent-street, where the painting is again happily "on view"--tokens unmistakeably those of a great master, and to such as are the best ac• quainted with his distinguishing characteristics those of no other great master than the immortal Florentine. The pathos in the face of the Virgin Mother, the passion in that of Mary Magdalene, the amenity in that of Joseph of Arimathea, the grief in that of St. John, the fervour in that of Nicodemus, are all surpassed, we might almost say immeasurably, by the awful and divine majesty expressed in the Pieta, shadowing forth so terribly and wondrously the vastness of the ineffable sacri fice. From the lance wound in the side scarcely more than a drop or two of blood and lymph have oozed—the ichor of the expiring Divinity ! From the nail-holes in the sacred hands of the Redeemer, the blood almost seems unaccountably to have trickled up to the elbow—but you remember on the instant that those sacred hands have been raised during the crucifixion, and that the blood has there coagulated. In the form of the " Man of Sorrows"—what expressive attenuation ! In the face—what infinite and Divine resignation! Leo nardo, and no other than Leonardo, at so early a date as 1506, could by possibility, we fee], have produced a picture such as this of the " Prepara tion for the Entombment." Although two cen turies had then passed away since the date when Giovanni Cimabue had revived the art of paint ing ; although Cimabue had been succeeded by a pupil no less gifted than Giotto ; although the career of Masaccio had been completed a hundred years after that of Giotto had reached the period of its consum mation ; although Domenico Ghillandaio and Andrea Verocchio, Filippo Lippi and Pietro Peruginn, Francesco Francia, and Luca Signe relli had then followed each other in rather more rapid succession—the art of painting had not in 1506 so far developed under the hands of its votaries, as to enable any other than Leonardo da Vinci to produce a work combining within itself so many rare excellences, excellences of perspective, grouping, design, anatomy, colour, expression, pathos, grace, drawing, drapery, &c., discernible in this very remarkable picture of the " Preparation for the Entombment." And this date-1506—brings us at once to the new, and, as it appears to us, conclusive testimony that the painting is from the hand of Leonardo da Vinci, with which, twenty-one years after its exhibition in London in 1835, the picture is again submit. ted to the examination of the lovers of art in our metropolis. Since the occasion when it was formerly "on view," it has (very recently) been discovered, curious to relate, that the picture bears upon itself the date (" 1506") of its production, and the initials (" L.D.V.") of the master hand that produced it—the master hand of Leonardo da Vinci. Initials and date have both been detected, minutely but distinctly defined, upon the sword-nut of Joseph of Arima thea—while the artist's well-known monogram is discernible upon a precious stone set in the sword hilt. Probably the cause why these signs manual have not been discovered earlier is the circum stance that the lines of the initials of the date and of the monogram, constitute actually some o f the high lights both in the sword-nut and in the precious• stone, a circumstance accounting readily enough for their having been hitherto overlooked. It is especially observable, moreover, that in each of these newly-discovered evidences the initials, the date, the monogram, are written inversely from right to left, according to the invariable wont of Leonardo, who never wrote otherwise than after the fashion of the Persian caligraphers. Besides all which—as a sort of crowning or sup plementary testimony illustrative of one portion of the foregoing, explanatory, that is to say, of the date " 1506" —it has also recently been disco vered (strange to tell) that the Portrait of the Artist himself, Leonardo, is discoverable in Nico demus, that that of King Louis XII. of France is traceable in Joseph of Arimathea, and that of his Queen, Anne of Brittany, in Mary Magdalene ! Illustrative facts perfectly re conoileable with the date and with =item- porary incidents in his career recorded by the biographers of Leonardo. In 1506 the great Florentine was in the fiftY4ourth year of his age, in the karma of hie /012 - OW is the ripmes6 of Yesterday the first sailing-match for the season name off under the patronage of the Royal Thames Yacht Club. The morning opened with cloud and mist and gave promise of anything but an agreeable day. This, no doubt, operated as a check upon the less seasoned admirers of this truly national sport, and was the cause w hy the present race was not so numerously attended as on former occasions. The Prince of Wales, steam boat, belonging to the General Navigation Company, which had been provided for the stewards, the mem bers of the club, and visitors, was, however, as full as it could conveniently hold, and the river boat Greed bad also its ample complement of amateurs. When the steam-boats had reached Erith, which was the starting point, the weather cleared, and as propitious a yachting day as could swell be wished for en abled the visitors to enjoy all the excitement of the " run." The club offered two prizes on the present occa sion, °le of 100 sovs, for yachts exceeding 35 tons, and one of 70 sous. far yachts exceeding 20 tons and not ex ceeding 35. Of the first class were to have run the Tons. Port. Owner's Name. Cyclone ......... 1 3...8ri5t01...W. J. Patterson, jun., Esq. Amazon ....... ..46...L0nd0n A. J. Young, Esq. Ext ravaganza...4B...Poole ...Sir Percy F. Shelley, Bart. Of tee second class, the Thought ......... 28...L0nd0n Ge orge C oope , E sq . Secret ............ 30...Plymouthflen r y J. W ar i ng, E sq . Phantom... ..... 28...L0nd0 n Samuel Lane, Esq. with the usual half-minute time per ton for difference of tonnage. The Cyclone and the Phantom, however, were not placed, both yachts having unfortunately sustained da mage coming up the river. The other four boats started from Erith about 21 minutes to 12 o'clock in the follow ing order :—Secret, Extravaganzas, Amazon, and Thought. The Amazon, however, soon took the lead, and rounded the Nore light-ship at 2 minutes past 2, followed by the Extravangza, at 7 minutes past 2 ; the Secret at 71 minutes past 2 ; and the Thought at 7i minutes past 2. It was apparent by this time that the Amazon would be facile prineeps, ao _that the real excitement centred in the contest between the two boats of the. second class —the Secret and Thought. The former steadily held her own till the boats reached the Lower Rope point, when the tacking manceuvres commenced, and it seemed that with every tack the Thought gained a little on her adversary. At all events she emerged into the Reach below Gravesend, not only ahead of the Secret, but also of the Extravaganza. The vessels turned the winning point in the following order :—Amazon, 18 minutes to 6 ; Thought, ]2 minutes to 6 ; Extravaganza, 7 minutes to 6 ; and the Secret 5 minutes to 6. The distance run was between 60 and 70 miles, and was performed in nearly six hours by the Amazon. The weather was extremely favourable, there being a smart breeze all the day, S.W. by W. The two successful yachts.came alongside the Prince of Wales, amidst the cheers of those on board, to receive the prizes, which consisted of two handsomely designed silver pieces from the atelier of Messrs. Garrard and Co., Haymarket. The extravaganza is a new boat, and a good deal of speculative interest attached to her sail ing powers. In the absence of the commodore of the club, Mr. Greene performed the agreeable ceremony of distribut• ing the prizes, accompanied with the usual libation of champagne and complimentary approval of the exertions of the crews. The visitors raached L .ndon-bridge at eight o'clock; extremely well pleased with their excur sion. The band of the Royal Horse Guards Blue were on hoard, and contributed very much to the enjoyment of the day. THE ALLEGED POISONING AT Asurorr —The adjourned inquest on Emma Scott, of Ashton, supposed to have been poisoned by a neighbour named Jane Newton (in custody on suspicion), was held on Tuesday after- noon. Mr. Stone, analytical chemist at Manchester, said that he had examined the intestines of deceased, and discovered the presence of arsenic in various por tions of tkem. The daughter of deceased showed that her mother was in company with the prisoner on the Saturday night before her death, and came home very sick, saying, "Oh, dear me, Jane Newton has given me a (savoury) duck and_ a muffin, and they have made me so sick." She continued sick until the Monday fol lowing, when she died, -This was the effect of all the evidence, no poison hating been traced to the prisoner, for motive for the rourderhavig bocce shown, and tho Cali, was Author adinnat* BANDS IN THE PARKS ON SUNDAYS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BUN. SlR,—The author of the coup d'etat of the 2d Decem ber, on the other side of the " herring-pond," has found a worthy coadjutor on this side, in the person of the Premier. By a stroke of the pen the autocrat of Eng land has, as despotically as his "friend " the Emperor, set at nought the wishes and wants of 258,000 of the loyal subjects of her Majesty the Queen—at the sugges tion of a mitred prelate, who is paid 15,0001. per annum for thus efficiently- teaehing the. value of the Christian religion. At the conduct of the priest no one is sur prised, it is part and parcel of their calling to place heavy burthens on the shoulders of the poor ; but all are astonished at the conduct of the man—who forgets the debt of gratitude due to that popular voice which placed him where he is, despite the opposition of the Court and Aristocracy. With such a vacillating man at the head of affairs we cannot go to bed in safety. To-morrow, upon opening our eyes, we may find a coup d'etat against the Liberty of the Press. Why not What right had Lord Pa'inerston to order the discontinuance of the Bands playing en the Sunday without first taking the sense of Parliament upon the subject ? Who reigns in England—the Queen, or Exeter Hall ? This question must be solved speedily. We have been warned that our Constitution was on its trial, and some day the poor old creature may disappear, upon the plea that a new one was required. Let us watch narrowly the 'workings of State and priestcraft, or we are in danger of being handed over, bound hand and foot, to the ten der mercies of a modern Protestant inquisition. Eng lishmen, your rights and privileges are in danger of being wrested from you unless you give a "long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether " at the rope which is being craftily twined round your bodies and souls by Exeter Mall and its braying trumpets of Zion. "Arise, awake, or be for ever fallen "—said the glorious Milton —and show these despots that the ancient fire of a Briton is not quenched within you, but merely smoul ders, ready to burst i n t o flame when fanned by the breath of bigotry and intolerance. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, W. E. A. HARPER. 17, Liverpool-terrace, Liverpool-road, Islington, May 14, 1856.. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—Lord Palmerston having betrayed the interests of the people by shamefully succumbing to the Sabha tarian sect of Exeter•hall and its clique, it becomes the duty of the middle classes not only to resist oppressions but to help themselves, and that right vigorously and at once. It is self-evident that a meeting of the masses on Sun day next is looked upon by the Ministry as the inevit able result of their insane measure—one and all appear ing bent upon the measure. And meet they most as suredly will in every public park of the metropo lis, for they feel that their amusements and recreations will ere long be further jeopardised, unless a stand, and that a very strong one, be made against the fanatical Mawworrns of E. et and Bulgaria. Up, then, and be doing. Let it be a strong pull, a long pull, and a pull altogether—but peaceably and legally. Withhold the Fabbatarian supplies—closeyour pockets —give not. Let not a penny of your earnings or a farthing of your families' money go to fatten these wolves in sheep's clothing. Henceforth there will be a war of hatred between the two classes. Let every religious beggar (collector, if you will) be scouted from our doors and homesteads. Give not. Let one and all re-echo the cry throughout the country. Give neat —give not—untie our atnuemeuts are again concede ;0 us.—l remain, sir, yours, JOHN BULL. May 14, 1856. VISITATION OF THE A HCBDEACONEY OF MIDDLESEX. Yesterday morning the Archdeacon of Middlesex (the Ven. John Sinclair, M.A.) held a visitation of the clergy at St. Paul's Church, Covent-garden. In addressing the clergy, the Archdeacon lamented the great loss the district had suffered through the illness of the Bishop of London, of whom he spoke in terms of high eulogy and warm affeetion. A great portion of his charge turned on the duty of the parochial clergy to visit the sick, not only when sent for, but by seeking them out. He said the case of persons belonging to another communion or cotorious unbelievers might presentsome difficulty, but the general rule of the clergy should be to make a tender of their services. Their parochial system, the greatest boon ever granted to a nation, made the clergy espe cially accountable for all within certain territorial limits who could be prevailed upon to accept their ministrations, and therefore their policy should be aggressive. Ttie archdeacon deprecated controversy aid over technical phraseology in the sick man's cham ber, for not only was the language of theology perplexing to the poor and illiterate, but to many also of higher rank who were far from destitute of general knowledge. Much of it had its origin among the schoolmen of the middle ages. Consisting to some extent of Latin words, it was not familiar to Saxon ears, and could not, however fre quently reiterated, be comprehended without careful definition. There was no technical term in divinity for which an equivalent word or phrase might not be found. They sometimes were condemned to hear, to their no small discomfort, public addresses to the poor so redo lent of the university that; as regarded general intelli gibility or any practical result, they might quite as well have been delivered in Syriac or Sansorit. In all their ministrations, public or private, to the sick or to the he a lthy, it was th e i r bounden duty to avoid not only the reality but the appearance of Antinomian laxity, to declare unflinchingly that in order to be saved there was an indispensable necessity of acquiring meekness for the inheritance of the saints in light. For his own part, he had often been struck with the justice of an observation made by the most eminent moral philosophers, that the easy terms upon which the happiness of eternity was offered by Christian teachers to doubtful claimants was the groat inciting cause of infidelity, and that the doctrine of retri bution in a future life, powerfully recommended as it was by natural reason and the moral faculty, as well as by the Word of God, would never have been called in ques tion by any individual in respectable society, if it had not been for the preposterous misappropriation of re wards and punishments by which superstition and en thusiasm had outraged the common sense and best feel ings of mankind. The Archdeacon baying concluded his charge with some sound practical advice to the clergy, dismissed them with the benediction. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gentle men having undergone the necessary examinations for the diploma, were admitted members of the College at the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 12th inst. : F. Owen, Clapton, Hungerford, Berkshire ; J. Spode, Van Diemen's Land ; W. F. Johnson, Colchester ; J. Greenwood, Queen's-road, I alston ; W. F. Davis, Hon. East India Company's Service ; C. Wraga, Manchester ; R. M. Theobald, Kentish Town ; G. F. A. Knapp, Northwick, Worcestershire ; S. H. Green, New Garrat, Manchester ; P. Lyell, Gardyne, Forfarshire ; W. Clare, - Higher Hurst, Ashton-under-Lyne ; R. Fryer, Liver pool ; and C. Pigg, Wokingham, Berkshire. The follow ing gentlemen having undergone the necessary examina tions, were admitted licentiates in midwifery at the meeting of the Board on the 13th inst. ; Messrs. W. H. Hayden, High Wycombe ; A. Taylor, Kingsclere, Hamp shire ; P. Williams, Carmarthen, South Walas ; E. W. Witten, Islington'; J: Waters, Manchester ; O. Davis, Cardigan ; E. H. May, Great Trinity-l ane • C. R. Suf field, Droitwitch, Worcestershire ; F. Trinity-lane; Bridge. water • R. Fryer, Liverpool ; E. earson age , vh ' ezhaw, nathWale§; sad H. S, Liodgoo clevap. I LATEST NEWS. MARSEILLES, MAY 13. The Constantinople journals of the sth, brought by the Indus, state that the fanatical Turks at Marasch had burnt the English consular agent and his family. A private letter adds that the Cadi encouraged the murderers. Troops had been despatched by the Sultan, who has given severe orders of repression. Omer Pacha is charged with the organisation of flying columns, which will patrol the provinces, in which it is feared that misery may create disturbance. The Abasians, united under the presidency of Prince Earned, have set forth their claims to nationality ; an Abasian deputation is awaited at Constantinople. Some thousand Georgians and Tartars, from the Crimea, have arrived in the Dobrudscha. Ac counts from Alexandria state that General d'Or goni, extraordinary ambassador of the Burmese empire to France, is expected there shortly. BERLIN, MAY 13. The Prussian, Moniteur publishes the Royal decree which confers the decoration of the grand cordon of the Black Eagle on the Emperor Napo leon. A decree announces the reduction of state paper-money to 15 million thalers, and states that bonds bearing interest will be issued to the amount of 161 million thalers. Prince Frede rick William leaves on the 17th for London. Prince Windischgratz has arrived in Berlin. HAMBURG, MAY 13. Price Oscar of Sweden arrived at Lubeck yes. terday evening, on board the Gauthiot. Se leaves for Paris, unaccompanied by the Queen Dowager. MADRID, MAY 13. Marshal Espartero inaugurated yesterday the railroad works at Saragossa. The enthusiasm of the population was at its height. The proroga tion, if not a dissolution, of the Cortes w ill shortly take place. Tranquillity reigns through out the country. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. " The Moniteur publishes the appointment of Baron de Bourqueney as Ambassador at Vienna, and that of M. Huber as Austrian Ambassador at Paris." The Moniteur publishes a senatus-conaultum regulating the proceedings in cases of expropriation on account of public utility at Martinique, Guada loupe, and the Ile de la RSunion. Bou RsE, May 14.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. e. 4i per Cents P4 3 per Cents 75 New Loan 75 50 Bank Shares 4,000 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,865 Austrian Belgian Fives. 97 Spanish Threes Piedmontese(s). End of Month. —f. —c. 75 40 RtiILWA TS-FOB CA Ss. fr. c. _ fr. 0. Orleans - Northern .1,150 Strasburg - Lyons. ..... 1,460 New Ditto Mediterranean 1,700 Grand Central Lyons Geneva Bl2 50 Vesta Cette Bl5 50 Austrian Corn. 940 AUSTRIA. The Austrian Gazette ;;;;;;ces that it is Baron Brunow who is to replace Prince Gortschakoff as Russian Ambassador at Vienna. He is to set out for his post as soon as the Emperor Alexander's accession is notified to Queen Victoria, and diplo mat'c relations are renewed with England. Baron de Langenau, Austrian Ambassador to the Court of Stockholm, has arrived at Vienna. Count Collorede, the new Austrian Ambassador to the See of Rome, left Vienna on the 9th for his post. Previously to his departure, he had a long conference with Count Buol and Cardinal Viale Prela. " We have stated the political signification," says the lndependance Beige, " which is to be attached to the journey to Berlin of the Austrian Prince Windischgratz, who is coming on a visit to General von Groeben, the same who was charged with an important confidential mission from his Court to Paris at the opening of the Eastern war. Rumours, circulating in the diplomatic world of Berlin as of Paris, attribute this journey to the desire which Austria has to conclude an intimate alliance with Prussia, with a view to obtaining from Germany the modification of one of the stipulations of the congress of Vienna. In virtue of that stipulation the solidarity of defence between all the states com prising the confederation only exists for the German provinces proper ; Austria wishes to extend the advantages of the stipulation to her Hungarian, Galician, and Sclasonian possessions, and above all to her Italian provinces, which she considers most menaced. But Prussia seems but slightly disposed to yield to that desire, and it is affirmed that up to the present moment the overtures of Austria have not been received with much readiness in Berlin. The most conservative minds pronounce themselves against an alliance concluded in these terms, which would impose heavy obligations on Prussia, without any real compensations. They think that their country has had to congratulate itself on the neutral attitude it maintained during the Eastern war, and it is their desire to persevere in that policy. The minor liberal States of Ger many, which in general vote with Prussia, appear disposed to share in that opinion." PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlia of the 11th say :—" M. de Rochow-Plessow, who killed M. de Hinckeldy in a duel, will in a few days proceed to the fortress of Stettin to undergo the sentence of imprisonment pronounced on him by Court-martial. Count Grabow, commander of Stettin, is the uncle of M. de Rochow, and the captivity of this latter will no doubt be very mild. It is thought that the King will pardon the seconds, who have also been con demned." SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 9th says :—" Some journals recently publishing letters representing that communications of an unfriendly nature had passed between France and Spain are now obliged to confess that none Jiaye taken place, and that our diplomatic Kglatinna. with. France could not be more cordial." The Novedades says that there are not fewer than ten editors of Madrid papers now confined in the gaol of the Saladero, and that besides there are a number of others undergoing condemnations in fortresses. The Cortes, in the bill on the press, has decided that writers shall be compelled to sign tkeir articles, and shall be liable to imprisonment as well as fine for those of a sedi tious character. The Clamor Publico and the Epoca vehemently denounce the latter enactmen as destructive of all true liberty of the press. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY, 11 A.M. The United States mail steam-ship Arago, wit h the French and English mails, from New York, eso route to Havre, has arrived off Cowes. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. —(This Day.) LONDON, May 15.—Wind this day at noon, S.S.W., light breeze and cloudy. 11,A SGATE, May 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Fra ternity, from Christiania, for Dover, leaky; Ann, Har tlepool, for Torbay, with damage from contact with th Tudor, from Bombay. PLYMOUTH, May 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—H.M.S.'s Hecla and Pigmy, from Portsmouth. Sailed—Victoria, for Quebec. (PiR ICLEOTRIO TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON Thursday Morning. Arrived.--Vivid, from Swansea ;Roman, Buenos Ayres ; Helen Catherine, Memel. Sailed.—Mary Sharp, for Sunderland. LivzurooL, Thursday Morning. Wind S.S.W. QuEENSTOWN, May 15. Wind N Arrived—Elizabeth Buchan, from Ballikenabi ; Marion, Mauritius; Ariel, Barba,does; Isis, Monte Video ; Windsor Forest, Callao. Off.—Harriet Wade, from Callao, for London. 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