The Sun. — London, England, 1861-04-05 00:00:00

THEATRY.-ROYAI., HAYMARKET. Lesime. Mr. J. B. Bankston. THIS EVENING, the pertonnanoes will comments?. with A DUKE IN ►)IFFICULTIES. Mrs. Stirling, MN F . Haydon, Mrs. Wilkins, Miss Fanny Stirling, Mr. tiuckstone, Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, to. Alter which, will he_ revived, with entirely new scenery irnd elects, and all the original music by the late Sir Henry Bishop, the melodrama of THE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Commence at 7.! T AEA TRE -ROYAL LYCEUM. Sots Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. Two New Tlramas.—Reapßeyance of Mr. John Drew, and sth appearanceOf Miss Matilda Heron. THIS EVENING, THE TWO GREGORIES. After which. a new original comic drama, written by Semi. Lover, Esq., entitled MA C C ART MORE ; or, Posseesion Bine Points of the Law. John Drew, J. Johnston, Forrester, J. Rouse, Medlin ; Misses Rawlings, Hudspeth, Arc. To conclude with a new drama, NEW YEAR'S EVE ; or, The Belle of the Season. Messrs. H. Neville, Villiers, Jas. Johnstone, tr. Rouse ; Mrs. Wlnstanler: Miss Ma'ilda Heron, Mist Willard, aic. 110 YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lassee and Monster. Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore, Meadow, Garden, and Miss C. Leclercq. Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Sup ported by Messrs. Ryder, Hermann Vezin, Graham, Shoro, Meadows, ; Misses Heath, R. Leclercq, and Elsworthy. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL - Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Great Attraction for the Easter Rolidays.-sth ap pearance this season of Mr. B. Webster a nd Miss Julia Daly. THIS EVENING, a new drama (2d time) MAGLIORE, PRESTIDIGITAIOR. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, D. Fisher, &c.; Miss K. Kelly, Miss EL Simms, &c. After which, OUR G Mr. which, 3 U Mr. `G RA! Miss Julia Daly, Mr. Romer, Doors open at halt past R—Commenee at 7. CANTER BURY stmtne -HAL r-Lroad CONCERTS!! Wete. Proprietor ........C. Morton. • A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera, IL CORSARO, (This opera has never been produced is this or any other c ountry, e xcept at these Concerts), having m e t w ith that de cided success which charactise, the most popular werka of this great Master, will be performed EVETT EVENING ; together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI MOTTO, by Donizetti, principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and L. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The Comic Department oomprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A. B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. 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. Tam DAT.—Morning, 10h. 40m.—Afternoon, 1112.19 m. To-moDaow.-Morning, 11h. 56m.—Afternoon, —h. —m. THli WEATHER. —SUN ORRICE, Aria, 5, 1161. THERMOMETER, IN TIM SHADE. 54—highest Mace noon yesterday. 38—lowest this morning and during the night. 49—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.95. Wmo--North-Westerly—light; with dull weather, but dry. However much we may be opposed to the views entertained by Mr. ROEBUCK in regard to the position in which Austria stands relatively to Italy through Venetia, that is to say, to Italy One and Indivisible—there is no doubt at all that the hon. and learned gentleman not only hit the right nail on the head, but hit it moreover a good down right sledge-hammer blow when he remarked the other day at Sheffield that NAPOLEON wanted his own relatives established there in the Roman Peninsula, That is indubitably the arriere pensee ' of the Italian Policy of that idol of Europe, the self-styled Motierator of Revolutions. And that arriere pewee furnishes us with a clue through all the windings and doublings of that more than Cretan labyrinth guarded by the grim imperial Minotaur. Was it not manifest at the very":outset of the War of Liberation ? The Prince NAPOLEON, for example was he not, for this express purpose and to this distinct end, united to the daughter of VICTOR EMMANUEL, in order to render him, at once, an Italian Prince by marriage ? Was he not sent round by Leghorn manifestly in order that he might be in readiness, at the first opportunity, to slip into the vacated'shoes, and ascend the vacant throne of the Grand Duke of TUSCANY ? What was the avowed design of the EMPEROR'S General when marching upon Milan and meditating in the saddle his famous Proclamation ?—that illusory Procla mation promising, in express terms, the liberation of Italy from the Alps to the Adriatic, and then almost immediately afterwards dashing down to dust the high hues raised by that superb promise, dashing them down to the very dust by the miser able compromise of Villafranca ? W hat was the EMPEROR'S project, even then, in his better mo ments, in regard to the future of the Roman Peninsula ? What but the now almost forgotten .scheme of an Italian Confederation ! And the meaning of this was clearly enough manifest. It would have been readily comprehensible in the simple remembrance that the proposition emanated from a BONAPARTE. It was as visible and glaring as the noonday sun when viewed in the light of the then situation all through that peninsula ! With 20,000 of his MAJESTY'S troops still then (as now) firmly established in the very midst of Italy, at Rome, on the vantage ground of the seven hills ! With Prince NAPOLEON at the head of his division of the " Grand Army"—in Tuscany ! His Imperial High ness having been opportunely allied just before to the Royal House of Savoy (house of Savoy now no longer), having taken to wife the young Princess CLOMDE, daughter of King VICTOR EMMANUEL ! Above all, with his MAJESTY himself yonder in the north of Italy, upon the plains of Lombardy, as Commander-in-Chief of a force of 200,000 men, hav ing there martialled under his banners the soldiers not only of France but of Piedmont ! Southwards— everything then to hope for, in the interests of MURAT, through the paralysis fallen upon theßoutt- RON rule, and through the consequent certainty that there too would be empty shoes for another Imperial Highness, there too would be a vacant throne for another dear cousin to ascend as Sovereign. Why in the glare of the light of that the then situation of affairs in Italy, the real meaning of the Italian Confederation talked of by NAPOLEON 111. was perfectly obvious. It meant a snug family party at the council board of that proposed Confederation —under the nominal Presidency (just to keep up appearances and to hoodwink the Ultra montanists) under the nominal Presidency of the POPE, bat under the real presidency of the Head of the Inamily, his disinterested Majesty NAPO LE•N 111,. That magnificent Liberator of Italy who had gone forth to accomplish the work of her I • --Iherat ion, affecting all the chivalrous mag nanimity of .DON QUIXOTE, but who returned from the labou r of 3ts only partial achievement with the purloined realty of Savoy and Nice slipped into his pecicet with an adroitness worthy of " One of Mr. FAQIN's ‘'HARLEY BATES, or the Artful Dodger. The ignominious. eis t ap ,: pointtnent of all his h MAJESTY'S hopes abo u t teltalian Confederation, the futility of all his indire ct , Tpts to est a bli s h one of his Imperial .Cousin, s (1, 4 . nee NAPOLEON) on the throne of Tuscany, and au other (Prince MuRAT) on the throne of the Two es—the wonderful simplification of the Whole origi na l ly complex problem of Italian Liberation b y the m erging of all the various o, % cited States Lombardy, Parma, Modena, , canY• the Legations, the Two Sieilies—into .ok:kc z _ $4 :„...„, A l* " L-- THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1881. Sovereignty under the chieftainship of the Re Galantuomo : events, results, world-famous occur rences like these account quite simply and compre hensibly for the sullen silence and apparent impas sibility with which that enigmatic EMPEROR at the Tuileries has been looking on all this while at the progress of affairs in Italy—in point of fact, ever since his interview with the young Kaiser at Villafranca. Hence GARIBALDI was left absolutely to shift for himself when he went across with his little phalanx from Genoa to Marsala! The very Sovereign for whose advan tage that heroic adventurer was imperilling his life, and far more than his life in his own estima tion, the hopes that had so long gladdened it— VICTOR EMMANUEL himself, for the extension of whose dominions GARIBALDI was thus audaciously daring Fortune and tempting his Destiny—the King of SARDINIA, King of LOMBARDY, King of ITALY, as he was to be in the hereafter, was withheld by the same Napoleonian in fluences until success was achieved, from any overt complicity in GARIBALDI'S matchless enterprize. GARIBALDI, at any rate, thereby winning for himself the additional and supreme glory of being able to say with CORIOLANUS, "Alone I did it !" Hence, likewise, in subjection to the same influences, the Siege of Gaeta was prolonged, and prolonged far beyond the period to which there was any need for its being extended. NAPOLEON 111., dis appointed in his original designs, disgusted at the manifest impracticability of inducting his relations into Italy, there to settle them down com fortably into a Frenchified Italian Confederation all this while past—would—and yet would not ! His MAJESTY'S emotions, by the way, must have been rather peculiar we should imagine all this while—during those marvellous deeds of daring done by GARIBALDI and during the consequent expansion of VICTOR EMMANUEL'S dominion, down wards from the southern borders of his new province of Lombardy, through Tuscany, through Parma, through Modena, down to the extremest tip of the toe of that more than Seven Leagued Boot of Italy. Since Mr. ROEBUCK blurted out that remark the; other day down at Sheffield, his argument has been rather ludicrously corroborated ludicrously, we say, because we cannot induce our selves to look upon what we here refer to, seriously —namely, by the publication of that preposterous letter from the Prince LUCIEN MURAT to "Dear Duke" Somebody trying to coax the Nea politans over to himself by a grand Muratist Counter-Revolution ! This wonderful little, by the-way-Manifesto has, we are quite aware, since its appearance, been formally repu diated by the French Imperial Government. Of course, we all know whit that means! It had fallen a dead letter—or rather in the midst of an explosion of laughter—and therefore it has been repudiated. But—supposing it had succeeded ! had given evidence, sooner or later, of succeeding, of firing the train and producing eventually the grand and triumphant explosion of a Muratist counter revolution ! Ah !—then we should have had a quiet reference to " the inexorable logic of events." What a pity it is that—in the Napoleonian sense— events are sometimes so illogical and inconsequent. The Amer,ican newspapers and correspondence, if they do not materially differ from the telegrams, give some rather curious views of the working of things in the two Confederations. Mr. LiNcout's difficulties appear to be increased by the danger of division among his own party. There is on the one hand the large majority of honest Free-soilers, who will hear of no compromise or half measures. They elected Mr. LINCOLN to fight to the last the battle with the Slaveholders, and any sign of weakness or hesitation on the part of their leader will quite cool their zeal, and induce them, at the elections for Congress, to vote for representatives who would not support anything like a trimming policy. New Hampshire has just held her election of members for Congress, the Govprnor and other officials ; and though the Republicans had a ma jority of 3,500, yet this was a reduction from one of 9,000 at the last election. This was due, it seems, almost entirely to the rumour that the Government would probably withdraw its troops from Fort Sumter ; the news had not spread abroad much, or it is even thought that the Republicans would have been beaten. If feeling was so strong in this quiet old-fashioned little State, we may expect that it will be difficult indeed to deal with in the newer, and to use their own phrase, more " go-a-bead " Northern States. It is not, however, easy to see how Mr. LINCOLN can retain Fort Sumter. The seventy defenders must soon be starved out, if supplies be not sent them ; and the Carolinians have erected, it appears, such powerful well-armed batteries on the shores of the harbour which surround the Island, that the Fort, strong as it is, could not long hold out against a general attack; neither could any hostile force, without heavy loss, march upon the batteries in order to relieve the Fort. It seems to be quite certain that if all the army of the United States were to attack the shore batteries, as must now be done to accomplish anything effectual, it would be not half large enough for the purpose. Mr. LINCOLN'S most Republican supporters will there fore be unreasonable indeed if they quarrel with him. The BUCHANAN conspiracy, going on for a long time while he was a mere powerless President elect, has placed him in his present situation ; and, mortifying as it must be to see the brave Major ANDERSON and his brave little band so deserted, the blame rests with BUCHANAN and his Cabinet, wholely and solely. Even on this side the water we can be sure of that ; and, cordially sympa thising with the position of the brave men in Fort Sumter, we can hardly wish Mr. LINCOLN to be guilty of what must be useless bloodshed in a vain attempt to relieve it. To feed, however, the discontent of the ardent Republicans, there appear to be also a host, numbered by thou sands, of disappointed aspirants to office. The well-known and corrupt system of the States being to turn all the servants of the State, down to the village post-master, out of office, when a new President has been elected by the party opposed to that which gave them their appoint ments, Mr. LINCOLN, has, it is therefore to be feared, much difficulty before him in keeping hi s own party together. He will have difficulty, also, in all probability, of a serious character, in regard to finances. Hitherto, with the exception of land-sales, almost the entire revenue of the Federal Government has been raised by Customs. These must, it would seem, produce but little as things now stand. The unsettled state of politics alone acts as a dis couragement to trade. Our own exports to the States were in consequence very much reduced last year. This year it is likely they will be still smaller. The new protective tariff of the North can hardly fail to diminish the importations to a far greater extent than the advance in duties will compensate. Besides, in all probability New Orleans chiefly, and the other Southern ports in their measure, will attract by their lowered tariff the consignments which might otherwise have been made to New York or Boston: Even the tributaries of the Mississippi may be made Subservient to the Object of carrying into the North-West States of THE SUN, LONDON,'FRIDAY :EVENING; APRIL 5, 1861. Norsibrammer •'— th. - i) Union the goods whi c h h ave en t ere d at New Orleans by the l ow e r t ar iff of the South. Indeed . Any policy more suicidal on th e p ar t o f t h e sending .over to Europe and En g l an d North, thal."‘ a hostile an,i most intricate and perplexing tariff, at the very b ' ame ti me as the Southe rn St a t es sen d us one of the ,greatest simplicity, and cons t ru ct e d for Revenue purposes only, can hardly be conceived. It remains to be seen what chance the Government has of negotieing its new loan of twenty-four million dollars, on the faith of such a foolish, selfish, protectionist tariff. On the other hand, all is not quite bright for the South. It has not been ascertained that any part of their loans hitherto authorised have been taken up. Even Southerners tbemselves i if they have money to spare, a rather rare case, do not like lending it to a Government composed half of repudiation States, and headed by a President trained in that School. Their revenues, too, are yet to be collected, their trade to be almost created, and money does not like to trust itself on such chances. It turns out also that there is an anti- Secessionist party in the South, so strong that the leaders of the movement have not ventured to appeal yet to the people except indirectly. They appropriated about £lOO,OOO belonging to the Federal Government in Louisiana, and are busying themselves in raising and equipping soldiers, but between their party divisions and want of money. they, though acting with more decision, may soon become as much embarrassed as Mr. LINCOLN and the Republicans in the North. In such a complication of circumstances, predic tion is useless. The high probability of the seces sion becoming a permanent one, increases, but no one can foresee the effect of the inconveniences which both parties will soon feel. England can have but one wish,—that civil war should be avoided, and that the slave trade should not be re-opened. The last, indeed, ought to be a szne qua non of our acknowledging the new Confederation. At present the South is playing a thoroughly hypocritical and politic part on that subject. The Gulf States would like to re-open the trade, but they want to purchase the Border States, by offering them the profitable trade of breeding negroes for their plantations ! Should the latter join the North, the South will resort to Africa, if England permits it. PONTIUS PILATE 11. has proceeded to judgment. The Bishop of POICTIERS is now at his mercy. A decree has issued which, "considering" one cir cumstance and law after another, thus concludes— " And, whereas, according to the terms of the Declaration of 1682, it is a fundamental maxim in the French law That the Chief of the Church, and the Church itself, have only received power over spiritual things, and not over civil temporalmatters ;' that, consequently, the pastoral letters which bishops may address to the faithful of their diocese must only have for object to instruct them in 'their religious duties ; "Whereas, the 'Bishop of POICTIERS, by his pastoral letter of Feb. 22 last, took on himself to censure the policy and to criticise the acts of our Government ; " Considering that the said pastoral letter also contains an offence against our person, and makes remarks calculated to alarm the religious belief of our Catholic subjects; " Considering that these facts constitute an excess of power, a contravention of the laws of the empire, and a proceeding which might arbitrarily disturb the conscience of citizens ; " Our Council of State having been heard, " We have decreed and do hereby decree as follows : " Art. 1. There is an abuse in the pastoral letter of the Bishop of POICTIERS of Feb. 22, 1861.' " The said pastoral letter is and remains sup pressed." At first sight the reader would think the con clusion of this solemn document rather a feeble one —a ridiculus nuts from the mons parturtens. What can the Bishop of POICTIERS care for the suppression of the pastoral after it has done all the mischief he meant it to do ? And as to the legal offence of an " abuse," he must, we may suppose, laugh heartily at the verdict ; he meant that the pastoral should be an abuse of his spiritual position to a secular purpose; and the decree seems, there fore, only to proclaim his triumph. But we must not conclude too hastily. The actual punishment is light enough, but the laws cited are the sting of the degree. The " offence against the person," which may be supposed to be that of rebaptising the Emperor with the name of the Roman Governor, may be punished by a fine of from 500 to 10,000 francs, with imprisonment from six months to five years ! The publishing of a pastoral, in which shall be inserted any censure or criticism on the Government, subjects the offander to banish ment. The decree therefore pretty plainly, by referring explicitly to these paragraphs of the penal code, tells the Bishop that he is liable to all these serious consequences, if the Government sees fit to bring them down on his head. The Bishop is told that he lies at the mercy of the man whom he has reviled. What is the most remarkable of all to English men is, that the law under which the pastoral is pronounced an abuse, was one made during the time when democracy had even abolished the Chris tian era! It is dated 18th Germinal An 10 ! and, amongst other vague offences, was specified that of "arbitrarily disturbing the conscience of the citizens." Under such a law religious liberty is obviously impossible. Who shall say what is an arbitrary attempt to disturb conscience, and what a reasonable one ? Every Religious Reformer must have but a poor chance indeed, if he belonged to the higher order of ecclesiastics against whom the law is directed. Our Puseyites on the one hand, and Essayis's and Reviewers on the other, would be rather hard put to it to show that they had not needlessly caused the good people some little perturbation. However, we manage these things better in England, and hope we ever ',bail. Rude abuse of the Sovereign, under the garb of religion, would in. England need no legal punish ment. We are glad to learn (says the Cheltenha2n Examiner) that his Grace the Duke of Beaufort is now in a fair way of recovery from his recent severe affliction. Hii grace is now able to take carriage airing, and it is confidently hoped that he will soon be equal to horse exercise, to which he is well known to be so devotedly attached. The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli have passed through town from South Wales, where they have been. on a visit to Lord and Lady Tredegar, for Wim pole, Cambridgeshire. The Duke de Modena is about to leave Vienna for Venetia. General Cabrera, Count de Morera, has ar rived in the Austrian capital from Modena. RETURN OF LORD ELGIN.—It is probable that mthiis dd d l i e st o i f n u gus ex i t b w ed ee n k o . ble roardn w E n a r is rive n iwn travellingE ngl a d i a n t t h h i s e leisure from Trieste, and is expected in Paris on Saturday next, where Lady Elgin will go to meet him. THE BALLOT SOCIETY. —The weekly meeting of the executive committee was held on Tuesday, at the offices, 5, Guildhall-chambers--The Rev. W. H. Bonner in the chair. Mr. Whitehurst, Mr. Bontems, Mr. S. Nodes, Mr. Man, Mr. Elt, &c., were present. The followi ng subscrip tions were announced, amongst others : —A. W. D au l ton, J. Cunningham, Brentford, £ 2 2 5.; W. F. Defame,. £ 1 ; Athzr. Sergeantton,3LP., 1Os.; C. C o ok e , N ewport, Parry , lsle of Wight, £3 3s. ; Rev. W. H. Bonner, 55.; James Wrigley, Bury, a ; T. Wrigley, Bury, £2 2s. , T. • Bazley, M.P., £3 3s. (additional) ;20 workmen in the employ of Mr. Ephraim Helium, Stock port, £i. J. W. Probyn, Esq., London, was elected a mem ber of the council. Reports relating to movements in th e ballot in the several constituencies of Carlisle, Oxford, Abingdon, and Lewis, were received, and directions gig e to aid the local friends in thir movements. T T NEW 6. more buoyancy, although the amount of business still continues very limited. For the Account, Threes- are now at 67f 65e. Railways quiet, but firm. The following were the last quotations 4i per per Cents ... 94 95 Credit Fancier Do end month.... 93 — 1 Belgian 4f looi 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 65 1 Roman Bank Shares . 2892 50 , Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 643 75 1 §panish Threes 47 75 Do. Account .. 645 j Home Debt - TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. TURIN, APRIL 4. In to-day's hitting of the Chamber of Deputies the discussion on the affairs of Naples was con- tinued. Signor Ferrari spoke in favour of the autonomy of Naples. (Marks of disapprobation.) He eulo gised Garibaldi, and proposed that he should be ap pointed Governor of the Southern Provinces. Signor Scialoja refuted the arguments of Signor Ferrari. The Marquis Pepoli said, that Murat was the first to proclaim in 1815 the independence and unity of Italy. The discussion will be continued to-morrow. Garibaldi is still indisposed, and has not yet been present at the sittings of the Chamber. VIENNA, FRIDAY. On the occasion of the opening of the Austrian Diet to-morrow the members will proceed to the Cathedral of St. Stephen, where a religious cere mony will be performed, after which the formal opening will take place in the Hall of Assembly. The last sitting of the present Council of Munici pality was held yesterday. The sitting was a public one. PARIS, FRIDAY. The Paris papers publish a telegram, dated Con stantinople, 4th April, stating that the Porte had addressed a memorandum to the Representatives of the Powers, announcing the blockade of the Adriatic coast on the side of Montenegro. The Report of the proceedings of the Interna tional Commission at Beyront had been received at Constantinople. The Report indicates dissension among the members. COPENHAGEN, MARCH 4. The official Departments Tidende publishes the report of the President of the Council to the King in reference to the affair of the budget, giving a historical outline cf that question. The following is a summary of the report : On the Ist March the great Powers insisted that the budget should be submitted to the Estates of Holstein. The Danish Government replied on March 4 that Article 13 of the provisional constitution of Holstein contained the budget. On the 15th and 19th March the Government sent instructions to the royal commissioner at the Diet of Itzehoe, ordering him to explain clearly to the Estates the bearing of Article 13 on the ques tion of the budget. On the 24th March the Government gate in structions to the commissioner to declare to the Estates that Article 13 of the provisional constitu tion gives to the Estates the opportunity of Toting on, accepting, rejecting, or amending the budget, even if they should reject all the other articles of the provisorium. On the 25th March the Government forwarded fresh instructions to the commissioner to declare to the Estates that by Article 13 of the provhorium the Diet was rendered quite as competent oa that question as if the budget itself were submitted to it. Notwithstanding these instructions, however, the royal commissioner declared his inability to give a distinct reply to the interpellation on that question. On the 27th March Lord Wodehouse declared to the Danish ambassador at London that he understood and approved the views of the Danish Government, according to which Article 13 of the provisorium sufficiently provided for the communication of the budget to the Estates. Lord Wodehouse also declared that his reply to the interpellation of Lord Ellenborough was to the same effect. ITZEHOE, APRIL 4. In to-day's sitting of the Estates the Govern ment commissioner declared that documents relat ing to the finances would be submitted to the Estates by Government. He said the Estates never had the right of giving a definitive vote on the budget either of Holstein or the whole monarchy. The committee will make a report on this communica tion to-morrow. KALISCH, APRIL 3 (Evening.) The disturbances continue. Crowds are assembling at the frontier station for the purpose of making an insulting demonstration (Katzenmusik) against M. Szcypiorni, the director. The windows of his house were smashed by the people. It is said that orders have arrived to sup press the disorders by military force if necessary. WARSAW, APRIL 4. Great agitation has been produced here in con sequence of a manifesto published by the governor, and a speech recently made by him. The citizens agreed to wear the deepest mourning. The persons intrusted with the duty of main taining publiC order returned their cards of office as constables to the authorities. A great number of the members of the delegation of citizens declare themselves willing to tender their resignation. Count Wielopolski having made urgent represen tations to the Prince Governor on the critical state of things, Prince G.ortschakoff published a second address, which had the effect of tranquilising the public mind. As, however, the agitation has much increased within the last 24 hours, the governor has taken the necessary measures to meet all eventualities. PESTH, APRIL 4. The Emperor haj decided that the Diet is to be opened at Buda, whence it will be immediately transferred to Pesth. Count Apponyi has been appointed to open the Diet. BERNE, APRIL 4. The majority o f th e Pi e dmontese commission charged t o exam i ne t h e pro j ect o f a ra ilway th ro ugh the Alps which separate Italy from Switzerland have voted in favour of cutting the tunnel through the Luckmanier. The minority were for cutting it through the Splugen. In consequence of this de. cision the Bundner Oberland has voted 1,000,000 fr. towards the construction of a line of railway through the Luckmanier. BOMBAY, MARCH 12. The Bishop of Madras died at Madras on the 4th inst. Sir Robert Napier has met with a serious acci dent by the fall of his horse. There is no news of importance. FRANCE. The Patrie of this evening says the English naval division stationed at Malta has been de pa' e'led to the lonian Islands, where the agitation is increasing►. The same journal publishes news from Vienna, stating that the Hungarian democratic party main tains its demand f or t h e a b solute separat i on o f th e administration of H ungary f rom that o f A us t r i a. BotaisE, April I.—The market has shown rather RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto BB5 -- .. 885 Lyons and Mediterranean 946 25 .. 947 50 Geneva 3BO .. Southern 536 25 .. 537 50 Western .. 540 .. 541 25 Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lotrbard CANADA. On the 16th ult. the Governor-General opened the session of the chamber of the Legislative Coun cil at Quebec. His Excellency spoke as follows : Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, Gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly—l congra tulate you on the abundance of the harvest with which Providence has blessed us, and I think I may express the hope that the commercial prosperity of Canada is rapidly reviving. In the year 1860 we have had the honour of welcoming to our shores his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Our gracious sovereign has acknowledged the loyalty which greeted her son in this province, and I feel confident that the grateful remembrance of his visit will live long in the hearts of our people. Much has lately been effected by legislation, and I hope that the circumstances of the province are such as to require few important measures to be laid be fore you in this the last session of the present par liament. It is a satisfaction to me to see that the consolidated statutes, both of Upper and Lower Canada, have been promulgated in an authentic form; but I must remind you that something yet remains to be done, and I desire your assistance in assimilating, as far as possible, the law which prevails in either section of the province. A mea sure will be submitted to you having for its object the proper administration of bankrupt estates in Upper Canada. I would earnestly request your care ful consideration of so grave a subject. Some changes are required in our commercial law, and the further improvement of our prison discipline demands the establishment at particular places of certain well regulated gaols or local penitentiaries. The registra tion of j udgments in Upper Canada has been the cause of expense and delay,ancl I think you will fin d it expe dient to amend the laws which relate to this matter. The repo rt of the Commissioner of Crown Lands will be laid before you. You will see that the receipts from the department have increased, and that the greatest efforts have been made to establish a sound system of immigration and promote the settlement of our waste lands. My attention has been directed to the fact that a writ, issued by the Court of Queen's Bench in England, has been served in this colony. I have been advised to represent to her Majesty's Government the expediency of pre venting by legislation in Great Britain any possible conflict of jurisdiction. I will also add that certain recent legal decisions appear to make it expedient for you to define by statutory enactment of your own the nature and extent of the laws and customs of Parliament as they shall exist in Canada. Gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly—The accounts for the year which has just expired will be laid before you immediately, and I hope you will have no reason for being dissatisfied with the results which they present. You.will see that the reception of the Prince of Wales, whilst it was, we hope, worthy of the province and of its illustrious guest, was conducted by the Commissioners of Public Works with a due regard to economy. I have again to ask at your hands the supplies which will be required for the service of her most Gracious Majesty in the current year. Honourable Gentlemen and Gentlemen,—l have now only to desire you to give your best considera tion to the various subjects on which I have touched, and I offer an earnest prayer that God will aid your councils, and will bless our people with his choicest gifts. .ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY. In the large nursery establishments in the neigh bourhood of London and elsewhere, many new and valuable plants are cultivated, and come into bloom during the months of March and April, too early in the season for exhibition at the ordinary metropolitan flower shows. In order to supply an opportunity for displaying to advantage flowers of this description the managers of the Royal Botanic Society have instituted early spring fetes or flower shows. The present is the third of these exhibi tions, and has proved them to fulfil in a high de gree the purposes for which they were undertaken. One of these fetes took place on Wednesday, and the day being fine a large and fashionable com pany was present. Not only have the prizes offered for these early flowers induced the gar deners to find out some method of coaxing plants to flower early, even without any sunshine, but they have stimulated them to raise new varieties. This was shown by the great variety of hyacinths exhibited, the distinct kinds now numbering some hundreds, instead of some dozens, as was the case a few years back. This result is fully borne out by the following list of price.? awarded. _ NEW PaNTS.—Small silver medal to Mr. F. Fodman, gardener to R. Hudson, Esq., Clapham common, for azalea—Flag of Truce. Bronze medal to Mr. W. Bull, nurseryman, King's-road, Chelsea, for citheroxylon nivium. Bronze medal to Messrs. Parker and Williams, nurserymen, Holloway, for statice propinquer. Certificate to Mr. W. Bull, nurseryman, for amaryllis vittata fol. striata. First-class certificate of merit to Mr. F. Fodman for azalea—Lord Elgin; 2d ditto to Mr. W. Bull, for primula sinensis fimbriata nivea planer • 3d ditto to Mr. W. Bull, for prim u l a s i nens i s rubella plener. SIX. STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS.-ISt prize to Messrs. J. and J. Fraser, nurserymen, Ley ton, Essex ; 2d ditto to Mr. W. Young, gardener to Capt. R. Barclay, West Hill House, Highgate. Six FOLIAGE PLANTS —lst prize to Messrs. J. and J. Fraser, nurserymen ; 2d to Messrs W. Cut hush and Son, nurserymen, Highgate; 3d to Mr. W. Young, gardener to Captain Barclay. TWELVE HYACINTHS.--lst prize to Messrs W. Cutbush and Sou ; 2d to Mr. W. Paul, nursery man, Walthani Cross; 3d to Mr. - C. Turner, nur seryman, Slough, Bucks. Six CINERARIAS —lst prize to Messrs. J. Dob son and Son, nurserymen, Isleworth. . SIX AURIWLAS.-Ist prize to Mr. C. Turner, Slough; 2d to Mr. J. James, gardener to F. Wat son, Esq., Isleworth. SIX ROSES.-Ist prize to Mr. Turner, Slough. MISCELLANEOUS.—SmaII silver medal to Messrs. W. Cutbush and Son, for 50 hyacinths; ditto to Mr. W. Paul, Waltha m C ross , f or two boxes of roses; ditto to Messrs Parker and Williams, for imatophillium miniatum ; bronze medal to Mr. W. Paul, for collection of hyacinths; ditto to Messrs. Paul and Son, nurserymen, Cheshu:it, for one box of roses ; certificate to Mr. J. James, gardener, for six pansies in pots ; ditto to ditto, for 24 cut pan sies ; ditto to Mr. Davidson, gardener to G. Bishop, Esq , for six gloriniers. First-class certificate of merit to Mr. C. Turner, for cineraria prairie birch; ditto to ditto, for cineraria, James Andrews ; ditto to ditto, for auricula, Rifleman ; ditto to Messrs. F. and A. Smith, nurserymen, Dulwich, for cineraria, Queen of Spring. Second class certificate of merit to ditto for cineraria Antagonist; ditto to ditto, for Louise ; ditto to ditto, for Rosy Morn ; ditto to Mr. James, for cineraria, Duchess of Hamilton. THE BUILDERS' STRIKE.—No definite arrange ment has yet been come to relative to the terms offered by Messrs. Kelk and Lucas. Tho feeling of a great number of the men is against accepting the proposition. INTERNATIONAL COURTESY. Italy invites France to take French leave of Rome.—Punch. THE REVIEW . ON EASTER MONDAY.—The 18th Middlesex, under the command of Captain Templar, joined at the Marble -arch at 10.30 a. m., and were battalionized with the Victories in the Ist brigade under Major White head, taking part in all the proceedings at Wimbledon for the remainder of the day, and this corps marched on that day fully 20 miles ; they fell in at half-past 8 o'clock, a.m., and were dismissed at half•past 10 p.m., having been 14 hours on their legs. WELLS CATHEDRAL.—The Wiltshire _Mirror says :—Only one marriage has been performed in the Cathedral fer more than 100 years, in consequence of some ecclesiastical law making it illegal to perform the marriage ceremony in the Cathedral for this long period. This dis ability has been removed within the last few days, under the provisions of a recent Act of ParliamPllt) which has extended to bishops the power to license places for the celebration of marriages, LITERA 2' URE. Ten I ear's Wanderings among the Ethiopians. By Thomas T. Hutchinson, F.R.G.S. Hurst and Blackett. It is an old saying that you cannot wash the Ethiopian white, and Mr. Hutchinson's ten years experiences among our sable brethren show that in spite of Exeter Hall enthusiasm and negro worship, the inhabitants of Western Africa may be consi dered almost as a connecting link between .the human race and the Gorillas and Ourang Outang. We do not deny that they are human or that they arc capable of civilisation, but it will be a work of time, and centuries must elapse before the man eating savage of fiery Africa can take his stand as a respectable neighbour to the rest of the world. The author of these pages does not draw his conclusions front the accounts of others, but states what he has himself seen, and those who peruse his experiences among the savages will be able to understand what are the trials to which the missionaries are subjected among the heathens in Africa. Cannibalism seems to be pre valent to an extent which it is impossible to con eeive throughout the entire slave district. Mr. Hutchinson states that he has seen dried human flesh exposed for sale in the markets, and that it is the custom to eat prisoners taken in battle ; likewise, that when any individual is executed, whether for crime committed or for any religious ceremony, the head of the victim is the perquisite of the execu tioner, and the body is divided among the poor. (This is at least economy.) The author was an eye witness to the execution of a prisoner, being concealed in a shed adjoining the place of exe cution. We give his own words to describe the transaction : As the juju butcher stepped back and measured his dis tance to make an effectual swoop at his victim's neck the man moved not a muscle, but stood as if he were uncon scious—till— Chop I the first blow felled him to the ground. The noise of a chopper falling on meat is familiar to most people. No other sound was here—none from the man, not a whis per nor a murmur from those who were seated about 1 I was nearly crying out in mental agony, and the sound of that first stroke will haunt my ears to my dying day. How I wished some one to talk or scream, to destroy the impres sion of that fearful hough, and the still more awful silence that followed it. Again the weapon was raised to continue the decapitation—another blow as the man lay prostrate, and then a sound broke the silence! But, oh, Father.of Mercy lof what kind was that noise—a gurgle and gasp accompanying the dying spasm of the struck-down man. Once more the weapon was lifted—l saw the blood flow in gory horror down the blade to the butcher's hands, and there it was visible in God's bright sunshine to the whole host of heaven. Not a word had yet been uttered by the crowd. More chopping and cleav ing, and the head, severed from the body, was put, by the ju-ju executioner, into a calabash, which was carried off by one of his women to be cooked. He then repeated another cabalistic word, or perhaps the same as at first, and directly all who were seated rose up, whilst he walked away. A yell, such as reminded me of a com pany of tigers, arose from the multitude—cutlasses were flourished as they crowded round the body of the dead man—sounds of cutting and chopping arose amidst the clamour of the voices, and I began to question myself whether if I were on the other side of the river Styx, I should see what I was looking at here through the little slit in the wall of my hiding-place ? A crowd of human vultures gloating over the headless corse of a murdered brother negro—boys and girls walking away from the crowd, holding pieces of bleeding flesh in their hands, while the dripping life fluid marked their road as they went along ; and one woman snapping from the hands of another —both of them raising their voices in clamour—a part of the body of that poor man, in whom the breath of life was vigorous not a quarter of an hour ago The whole of the body was at last divided, and nothing left behind but the blood. The intestines were taken away to be given to an iguana —the Bonnyman's tutelary guar dian. Throughout the entire work Mr. Hutchinson carries the reader along with him, his writing is so earnest and truthful that even in the most revolting reve lations of barbaric cruelty we feel that the thing is • described as it happened, however how hor rible, and feel convinced that truth is stranger than fiction. Mr. Hutchinson's wanderings took him through various states, the peculiarities of the inhabitants of which he describes, but on the whole he considers the negro race, in spite of what is maintained by the " Nigger Worshippers," as an inferior class of humanity ; and strongly as we condemn slavery in all its forms we cannot but admit that, of all classes of the human species, the negroes are the only ones who would submit to become marketable articles. The Australian savage is set down by ethnologists as the lowest caste of humanity, but against his will work he will not. He may he tortured to death, but, like the American Indian, he maintains his right to conduct his own actions, and to be ruled by no man. Not so the negro ; and say what philosophers may, for the present at least, the mark of Cain is indelibly imprinted on the race. Mr. Hutchinson gives some amusing pictures of African life, and throughout the narra tive the interest never flags. Lectures. By William Longman. Bvo. pp. 248. Longman and Company. Already these remarkable contributions to our national history have attained the magnitude of a goodly volume—a volume evidencing considerable research and persevering industry on the part of their Author.. Lecturer. Mr. Longman has now brought down his narrative of the earlier annals of England to the close of the reign of the Third Henry. His third lecture comprises within it, in fact, a comprehensive epitome of the whole of the long reign of Henry 111. from Anno Domini 1216 to Anno Domini 1272—fifty-six years altogether. As with its predecessors the present lecture is an expansion of what was originally delivered (26th October 1860) before Chorleywood Association. The letterpress is embellished with a map of France, showing the possessions conquered to Eng- land in that country, and is further interspersed with a variety of curious woodcut illustrations. As an admirable example of the lucidity of the style in which Mr. Longman lectures to the Chor leywood Association, we give the following sum mary of Henry the Third's character : SUMMARY OF THE CHARACTER OF HENRY THE . THIRD. Thus ends the history of a king who left behind him no hive for his virtues, nor hatred for his crimes. He was an amiable, religious, man; of elegant tastes; but weak, va cillating, and indolent. In order to be left to the quiet en joyment of his favourite tastes and occupations, he was only too willing to make promises, which were no sooner made than he found reason to break them. He had not sufficient strength of mind to rem a i n fi rm to his plighted word. His reign will, however, remain memorable, so lone. as our constitut iona l government stands, as having been ° the time when its foundations were first securely laid. In narrating the events of this reign, I have been eon s straitly obliged to remark on the weak and blamable points in the king's character ; but it would be unjust to his memory, were I not also to point out his redeeming good qualities. Unfortunately, however, these were more suited to the adornment of a private station, than to shed lustre on the character of a king. He was pure in his domestic life, and of strong religious feelings ; and be had a great love for, and was a great patron of, art. " Henry did more to advance the progress of art than any English sovereign anterior to Edward the Third." He rebuilt Westminster Abbey from its foundation ; he decorated and ornamented Windsor Castle, which was said, by a contemporary writer, to be the most magnificent palace in Europe; and he "re paired, or rebuilt, most of the numerous manor-houses be longing to the crown ; besides contributing largely to the improvement of parish churches in all parts of the king dom." He brought to England many Italian artists ; and his taste for the fine arts must have been one of the sources of that profuse expenditure, which often involved him in diffi4ulties. His social qualities were also great; and he displayed them, not only in his liberal entertainments to his great men at home, but in his splendid festivities abroad when he visited France, Here also is Mr. Longman's mention of the more remarkable persons whb were the counterpoises of the same Sovereign REMARKABLE PERSONS IN HENRY'S REIGN. In Henry's reign, the English language was still con fined to the daily intercourse of life, and was not adopted in written books. But there wore, several writers, who, although they used the Latin tongue, have shed a lustre on this reign. The name of Roger Bacon is the first that presents itself. His learning extended over almost every branch of human knowledge. He is called an astrologer and an alchemist ; but he was really a deep student of mt.- ture, whose mysteries he skilfully unravelled. He not only understood the laws of light, but he conceived the idea of a telescope, and made some advances towards an explana tion of the phenomenon of the rainbow. He knew the effects and composition of gunpowder, and was well ac quainted with many branches of what is now called Natural Philosophy. The hi s t or i ans of the time next claim our notice, and the chief of these were monks. There was Matthew Paris, a Benedictine monk of the monastery of St. Alban's, William l'tishanger, another monk of the sam e abbey, and Ro ger o f W en d over, h o was originally a monk of St. Alban's, These are the principal writers whose names deserve mention; but there is another well known English man, to whom I hav e a l rea dy re f erre d, an d without an account of whom the history this reign would be very imperfect. I refer to Robin Hood. The peroration of the lecture is a general tribute to, we might almost venture darling reto terrlmingitFarene earnest panegyric panegyric upon, E Mentioning Robin Hood, Mr. Longman does not forget to mention also jolly F r i ar Tuck, stalwart Little John, and little Much -the-Miller with his Lincoln-clad " merry men all" of the greenwoods. Routledge's Illustrated _Natural _History. Parts 25 and 26. Part 25 not having come to hand until the middle of last month we were unable to notice it with the other periodicals, but as it treats of some of the domestic favourites of many of our country readers, we give the following extract, showing the extra ordinary sagacity of the raven. That dogs have been known to hunt in company is familiar to all, but the partnership of do.; and bird, and also of oat, raven, and co., is something unusual. We have not space to give all these anecdotes, but N*is♦ quote one as a ty pe of the retlt "One of th ese Merit:ois.llp 1n birds struck tr p a great fries dship cor a tkis o rier d og belon , lng to the landlord of an inn. a n d pn, r e so ?air as to stooompany his ally in little hunt ,F es peditions. In these affairs th e t wo comra d es us 4 Kill an astonishing number of hares, rabbits, and other gazle, each taking- his own sham of the work. As soon AS they came tc a covert,. the raven would station himself out side, while the dog would enter the covert and drive out the hares from their concealment, taking care to send them in the direction of the watchful bird. On his part the raven always posted himself close to one of the outlets, and as soon as any living creature passed within reach, he would pounce upon it, and either destroy it at once or wait until the dog came to his assistance, when by their united efforts the prey was soon killed. Rat. hunting was a favourite sport of these strange allies, and it was said by those who wit nessed the proceedings, that the raven was even more useful than a ferret would have been. "Another and a very ampsing anecdote of the Raven and its cunning, is relate by Capt. M'Clure, the well known Arctic voyager. Speaking of the behaviour of various birds and beasts during the winter, he remarks that the raven is the hardiest of the feathered tribe, and even in the depths of winter, when wine freezes within a yard of the fire, the raven may be seen winging his way through the icy atmosphere and uttering his strange rough, croak ing cry, as unconcernedly as if the weather were soft and warm as an English spring. ' Two ravens,' he observes, ' once established themselves as friends of the family in Mercer Bay, living mainly by what little scraps the men might have thrown away after meal times. " The ship's dog, however, looked on them as his espe cial perquisites, and exhibited considerable energy in main taining his rights against the ravens, who nevertheless out witted him in a way which amused every one. Observing that he appeared quite willing to make a mouthful of their own sable persons, they used to throw themselves inten tionally in his way just as the mess tins were being cleared out on the dust heap outside the ship. The dog would immediately run at them, and they would just fly a few yards; the dog then made another run, and again they would appear to escape him but by an inch, and so on until they had tempted and provoked him to the shore a considerable distance off. Then the ravens would make a direct flight for the ship, and had generally done good execution before the mortified-looking dog detected the imposition that had been practiced upon him, and rushed back again." Orley Farm. By Anthony Trollope. Part No. 1 introduced us to the dranzattspersonee, Part No. 2, develops the working of the plot—how through the ill-will of a country attorney, the great Orley Farm case was revived, after smouldering though not extinguished for more than twenty years. Mr. Anthony Trollope is as clever as usual, in depicting characters, and in Mrs. Mason he has depicted an individual existing, alas, in many families, but seldom selected by writers of fiction— ,6 I have already hinted that Mrs. Mason was not a de lightful woman. She had been a beauty, and still amaginect that she had not lost all pretension to be so considered. She spent, therefore, a considerable portion of her day in her dressing. room, spent a great deal of money for clothes, and gave herself sundry airs. She was a little woman with large eyes, and regular eyelashes, with a straight nose, and thin lips and regular teeth. Her face was oval, and her hair was brown. It had at least once been all l rown, and that which was now seen was brown also. But, neverthe less, although she wa s p ossesse d o f a ll these charms, you might look at her for ten days together, and on the eleventh you would not know her if you met her in the streets. " But the appearance of Mrs. Mason was not her forte. She had been a beauty; but if it had been her lot to be known in history, it was not as a beauty that she would have been famous. Parsimony was her great viri ue, and a power of saving her strong point. I have said that she spent much money in dress, and some people will perhaps think that the two points of character are not compatible. Such people know nothing of a true spirit of parsimony. It is from the backs and bellies of other people that savings are made with the greatest constancy and the most satis factory results. " The parsimony of a mistress of a household is best dis played on matters eatable —on matters eatable and drink able; for there is a fine scope for domestic savings in tea, beer, and milk. And in such matters chiefly did Mrs. Mason operate, going as far as she dared towards starving even her husband. But nevertheless she would feed her self in the middle of the day, having a roast fowl with bread sauce in her room. The miser who starves himself and dies without an ounce of flesh on his bones, while his skinny head lies on a bag of gold, is, after all, respectable. There has been a grand passion in his life, and that grandest work of man, self-denial. /au cannot altogether despise one who has clothed himself with rags and fed himself with bone-scrapings, while broadcloth and ortolans were within his easy reach. But there are women, wives and mothers of families, who would give the bone-scrapings to their husbands and the bones to their servants, while they hide the ortolhns for themselves; and would dress their children in rags, while they cram chests, drawers, and boxes with silks and satins for their own backs. Such a woman one can thoroughly despise, and even hate; and such a woman& was Mrs. Mason of Groby Park," At this early stage it would be unwise to venture a surmise as to the plot of the story, but we have no fear in saying that Mr. Anthony Trollope's new work will command a full share of public attention. GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION. On Wednesday night Mr. and Mrs. Ge rm an Reed and M r . J o h n Parry gave an en ti re l y new entertainment, call e d " Ou'l. Card Basket," written by Mr. Shirley Brooks, The combination of three performqs, of cou:ese, results in giving the new entertainment 'a dramatic character, Mr. Reed has PrevV..ed himself with a Chamberlain's license-, under cover of which he has no oceP..sion to fear the disagreeable results which follow a too comprehensive construction of the well known " Act of George the Second." " Our Card Basket" has a plot not very novel or complicated, it is true ; but yet a plot enough to give greater force and applicability to the various assumptions of character. A married couple of the name of Candytuft, who have recently taken a villa at Rich mond, find they are not visited, and that a false impression is current as to their former social posi tion. To obviate this scandal, Mr. Candytuft sends for an old lawyer, Mr. Babbleton, to wham he gives instructions to prepare a will, bequeathing property to a fabulous amount—being perfectly certain that old Babbleton will chatter of his neW client's wealth all over Richmond. Such is the case ; visitors begin to pour in, among them a Miss Clutchley, a beggar for charitable institutions; Major Popley, a superannuated old buck; a Miss Absinthe, a passee prancer, a French girl with a. dog (an absurd character, utterly out of place) ; hunting gentleman ; and three sisters, the Mine* Pry, all dressed alike, and creating great laughter by their actions. Between the parts Mr. John Parry, in his own person, and seated at the piano in his old fashion, sings a song in the style for which he was formerly so celebrated. The subject is the visit of a juvenile party to a pantomime, and, with appropriate in strumental accompaniments and clever imitations, the whole scene is presented in a most amusing form, illustrated moreover with a portfolio of capital sketches, Altogether the new entertainment is calculated equally with those which have gone before to please the public, and to exhibit in the most advantageous manner the peculiar talents of Mr. and Mrs. Reed and Mr. Parry, whose excellences are so well known as to render praise superfluous. TILE BRITIBII VOLUNTEER i v _ROME A letter, dated Rome, March 30, says :—" Politics have been out of season during the past week in this Most Holy and Eternal City, and in lieu of them we have had a surfeit of the pomps and ceremonies of the Roman Church, blessing of people and palm branches, washing of feet and altars, baptising of Jews, misereres and stabat maters. " A great many strangers have come to Rome for the pageant; hotels and lodging houses are crowded, and conveyances at a premium. No very extraordinary incidents have marked the pro. gress of the ceremonies, at which, as usual, the English have composed an important section of the spectators. The British Volunteer exhi bited himself in various fantastical uniforms, exciting much speculation among the French as to what branch of the service he could pos sibly belong to. The conjectures of the Artillery men at St. Angelo, as they leaned over the parapet way the al t an o nd t ai V db a li va t e l cdkaana, leather e i n r e v a e m rhye u I s tn i a n l le g it t b o wo l oa i ts s s t s e n n a scanning the carriage loads th a t crossed the bridge on thei n r ceo w ag a t s t c o a . rle O t especial puzzle to them —even the old Crimean being at a l oss t o d ecide upon his corps. I believe it was fi na ll y settled that he was either a Life Guardsm an or a f i reman. It is a very difficult thing to prevent an Englishman from wearing a uniform when he can establish any pretext for it, and particularly when it saves him the necessity of turning out in a black dress suit at 9 a.m., but I think the general feeli ng i s t h at the British Volunteers would do best to wear their Volunteer dress only is the British islands. This is a matter of taste, and none can deny their right to wear the clothes they themselves have paid fbr ; but they must make up their minds to be looked upon as National Guards, and to endure the searching criticism of foreign military men. Of course, there were many French at all the ceremonies, and a story is current of slight collision which took place yesterday in St. Peter's between an officer and one of the great dig nitaries of the Pope's household. An Italian, having pushed against the latter, laid the blame upon some French:officers who, he said, were push ing him, and to whom the Monrsignore thereupon addressed reproachful words, saying that French soldiers were not wanted there. The officer to whom this rem ar k was more par ti cu larly directed_ is said to ha ve a p os t rop hi se d th e Monsignore the epithet " Imbecile !" to which a Colonel who gentle man if the French were not here the rev. gen stood by added the 12ungent and. truthful remark man would not be here either." INDIAN FAMINE EL LIEF FUND.--Yesterday the subscriptions received at tho Mansion House in aid of thin fund amounted to upwards of £2,000, which raised the total amount down to last night to about £23;000. into 1 Th sold E Thi dEttioi sup p i is act. antici Thl It qui havin 91! t the 9f ditto Exotic The been r alterai ditto, Brazil ditto ] Russia The bited and C night for An tions h the bet United Do. 5 IN Penns r .ezulsyl Dols Do. eh& Richiga 1)0 . do . 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