The Sun. — London, England, 1856-05-19 00:00:00

1 - s ~,~~ THEATRE OTYLL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, ' , tr. r. Smittt. ENGLISH OPERA. THIS EVENTING will be produced MISCHIEVOUS ANNIE. After which, CINDERELLA. To cowhide with THE YANKEE 110173EKEEPER. THEATRE ROYAL, H IYHARKET. the Management of Mr. Buckstona. TRII EVENING, THE EVIL GENIUS. Followed by EL GAMBUSINO; or, The Mexican Goldseeker. After which, GRINS/LAW, BAG3fIAW, ACD BRA.D3HAW. To conclude with TOM THUMB. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Hinagernmt of Mr. Clissucs KEAN. THIS EVENING, TY= VICTOR VANQUISHED. After which, TR T., WINTER'S TALE. Pritripal characters by Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean. ROYAL THEXTRE ADELPIII. Proprsotor ant Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, :►i.:lame Celeste. THIS EVENING. LIKE AND UNLIKE. /dews. B. Tebst , T, Wright, V. 13el'orl, C. Set Sy, Garden; Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham. After which, ITROM.7I' PRIVATE AFFAIRS. To cone; acle 'with MY PRECIOUS BETSY. ROYAL OLY'vIPIC THEATRE. Lessee and 2.lanazer, 7 1 ,1 r. Alfrel Wigan. VII , EVENING lIF.TRIBIT lON. To conclude wits ST tY AT HOME. ROYAL SUIII.EI7 TiTUA.TRE. Lames, JiesTr3. S). - ioplicrd and Cmswick. TIN.; EVENING, JACK . SHEPPARD. Followed by YOUR LIFE'S IS D lti D ER. coic11:1e. with %Ts Y BAK R. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMI'FIITHEATRE. Lessee . ..id `!.t: , ir. 'am Cooke. Decided and unequivocal triumph THIS EVENING, The highly saccessfal Ito - nahti?, Fquestrian Pipectacie, called THE IT')ItSE OF IRE CAVERN'. or th, , untod Rri4ands of the Abruzzi, in which Mr. o Coolie's Horses, trained tw him, wtU exhibit a turnher of floret eff •ets—turniott the ponicrous wheel of the tavern. fetching w.At•:r from the well. kicking down the door of the guard-house, wr .1 ' , :ruption of Vesuvius. After which, The EQUETTRt ACTS in the ATtENA, concluding with a Gera cf High Art. )t-oflice ones fr,rn 7Te).v.'n Fe, ,r. Stare Manager, Mr. W. Weet. Equeltri.tn Nfr. Coke, jun. 111(}`l k T 4 '. - F , 7l)i)N BR,FTIGE. Tale DAT—Morn. 23 :nin. art. I—Ev:ming 45 naln.a.ft. 1 T 2 rala. aft. 2 —Rvaniag 13 rah- aft. 2 THE WEATHER. —SUN OFFICE, blur 18. THE RMO3IF,T ER, IN TIIF SHADE. 63 • hitrheql RiT noon veg t er( i N y. 47 -'.0.,76/51.- this Taorning and during the right. 55 -tLk a 37 s*.t Z - V7,TEP, 29.55 WIND, S.W.—Fre3b, 4 with heavy squalls and rain occa sionally. Yesterday afternoon it blew a very strong gale from S.W., with heavy gnats, rain and hail—quite stormy. 31.kr 19. 00 s:neo noon yesterday. 47 —lowest this moraine. and (luring the 'eight. 62 --tht4 flay At BAROMETER 'lows to 29'59, now up to 29•92—a rise of nearly half gu ins:h. WIND, W.S.W. to W.N.W.—Rather fresh, with fine weather—suashiae and cloudy. ,T t,l - 171-fj.) , k t , 4 3 . • - . LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 19, 135 G. THE NEW LOAN OF FIVE MILLIONS. The Loan has been this day concluded. The Chin4llor' of the Exchequer has accepted the offer made, and he will this evening call on the soin`disant guardians of the national purse, to aftirm the contract. We have already explained the nature of the grol,s aggression on the unques tionable privileges of the House of Commons, which should alone be sufficient to prevent the ratification of the bargain. Re has wilfully and deliberately usurped an authority to which he is by ao means entitled, and that damning fact should prevent really independent members from sanctioning the transaction, however favourable it may be in other respects. By a time-honoured and excellent rule, any amendment of the Upper House on a financial question will be rejected ! Why, then, should not a similar regulation be adopted with respect to any interference on the part of the grown, which would be even more objectionable than on the part o: the collateral legislative body ? In the present instance, as in that which occurred is February, Baron ROTHSCHILD was the only bidder. The conditions offered were such as to discourage any competition, and to offer a hand some premium to the middle men, or loan mon gers, who merely come forward in the first in stance without any intention of seeking perma nent investments. The tender was also below the minimum contained in " the sealed paper." February it was nearly 17s. 6d. ; at present it is Os. 3d. per cent., and nearly 22,0001., or 21,9331. 6s. Bd., has been saved to the tax-payers by " the sealed paper." The following is a brief report of the proceedings at the Treasury, viz. : A numerous attendance of capitalists took place this morning at the Treasury to take part in the bidding for the new loan of 5,000,0001. Shortly after 10 o'clock a.m. the hour appointed for the business, thegentlemen in attendance, including Baron E. Rothschild, Sir A. Rothschild, Mr. J. Chapel, Mr. Norbury, Mr. Biddulph, Mr. R. and'_ Mr. T. Thornton, Mr. B. Cohen, Mr. L. Cohen, Mr. Marjoribanks, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Cazenove, ic.7c., were reoeivel by Lord Palmer ston, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. J. Wilson, on the part of the Government. The Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank were also pres en t. The Chancellor of the Exchequer having handed to the Governor of the Bulk a sealed paper, con taining the mininvlan terms which the Government were prepared to accept, Baron L. Rothschild observed there was one rather important questi on which he wished to ask —What were the intention s of the Government with regard to Exchequer Bills? The Chancellor of the Exchequer —I stated at our previou3 meeting what were the intentions of the Government. 1,V, 3 have no intention, at least no expectation, of issuing Mai Icluer Bills. I pr e. SUMSit is to issuing bills you refer ?, Baron Ratimthild not exactly that. The Chancellor of the, El3he,cluer—Well, as to the rate of interest, all I can say is tint notice upon that subject will shortly be given, but I am afraid I can't give any further information just SOW. BAron-Roths3hit - I.—Lie Gpverntnent then hwa no intention of funiing. The Chancellor of 14,xedeq1er.—N o . That I stated before, that th 3 G)vernment had decided not to fund at preset: Baron Itotlaschi!d,—'m, question to be decided is whether you will increase the rate of interest, for that may make a difference in the terms. E x _ chequer Bills in their present position can scarcely be said to float. The Chancellor of the Exchequer—They are not at a very great discount yet, and that i.i Ft, question which at present cannot be decided. Is there any gentleman present who is disposed to make an offer for the New Loan ? Baron Rothschild hauled in - a paper containing his tender. No other tender belly; offered, Tie ChancellOr of the Exchequer opened the T `~~ paper handed to him by Baron Rothschild, and read— " MAY 19, 1858. " Sir,—We beg to offer for the proposed loan of 5,000,0001. to be paid for at the periods mentioned in the public notice of the Bth inst., at the rate of 1081. Three per Cent. Consolidated Annuities, with dividend from Jan. last, for every 1001. in money, on which we are ready to pay the required deposit. "To the Chancellor of the Exchequer." The Ohanoellor of the Exchequer.—That is not equal to our terms. How much is that equal to in Consols ? Baron Rothschild.—Very nearly 92g. Mr. Wilson.—Or 92i ? Mr. J. Lapel.—lt is between 92i and 92g. Baron Rothschild—lt is within 9d. of 921. The Chancellor of the Exchequer—Well, that is not equal to our terms. Will the Governor of the Bank open the paper which I have placed in his hands ? The Governor having opened the paper read the minimum terms of the Government, 1071.105. 7d., or equal to 93. The Chancellor of the Exchequer—There is therefore a difference of .1. Baron Rothschild—Will you allow us to retire for a few moments, as before ? The parties then retired. On their return, Baron Rothschild, addressing the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said—We have decided on accept ing your terms. The Chancellor of the Exchequer—Very good. You will please sign the usual paper. Baron Rothschild—Yes. Your terms are 1071. 10s. N., or Consols at 93. The Governor of the Bank.—Precisely so. The contract was then signed in due form, and the parties immediately withdrew. From this we may form some opinion of the radical defects of the system. It is manifest that the Government "bill-discounter" was trying to make the best possible bargain for himself and his confederates. Knowing that there is no com petition, in consequence of the virtual monopoly he has established, he may bid as low as ho pleases. The sealed paper is then opened, the supposed secret—if secret it be—is revealed, and the bargain is concluded. What, then, can be the advantage of the affectation of mystery ? It does no good, but it prevents the general compe tition that might save a large amount to the Exchequer. If we could get rid of " red tapism " the price would be announced and the public invited to subscribe, and fifty, or or even one hundred millions, could easily be ob tained. But the middle-man system must be followed up at a cost that would, if better applied, admit of many valuable although apparently 1 trivial reforms. When more than 90,000/. of anticipated profit has been so easily surrendered, we may form an estimate, nearly as accurate as any we may expect from the Financial Minister this evening, of the gains actually realised. It would surely form an appreciable item in the taxes levied on the general community, or a valuable contribution to the fund for the relief of Ithe widows and orphans who have to deplore the Ilosses of husbands and fathers during the late war. Prince FREDERICK WILLIAM of Prussia is en route to England, and may be expected every day. The object of his mission is no secret. He is a suitor for the hand of the Princess Royal ; and it is unfortunately but too notorious that the matter is already arranged, and that nothing re mains but providing the dowry for the Royal victim. It is, of course, impossible to say whether " the daughter of England" will be contented with her lot. There are few English parents who would allow a child of 15 years old to enter into a binding engagement before she could know her own mind, or form a correct judgment as to whether the intended match was calculated to promote her happiness. A brief respite might be allowed, unless questions of "State policy" im peratively required the sacrifice ! Marriages de con venances were never very popular in England in any rank of life ; and past experience has cer tainly not enhanced the feeling in their favour. But perhaps the most unfortunate of any of the kind that have been contracted have been those of the Royal families, from the very earliest period of English history. But setting aside, so far as manly, generous Englishmen can set aside the personal question, let us look to it in the only point of view in which it seems to be regarded by " the prevailing in fluence." Consider it merely as a question of State policy—and see whether it be beneficial to Eng land or the English ? We have had considerable experience of Prussian policy since the commence ment of the Eastern difficulty, and certainly no inducement has been thereby afforded to induce us to desire a closer connection. She has proved, beyond the possibility of doubt, her entire and unmitigated selfishness. Q uestions of European interest were disregarded unless they affected Germany, and that part of Germany in which Prussia was concerned. She wilfully and delibe rately abdicated the position she once occupied, and proved that there was nothing to be hoped for from her friendship, or feared from her enmity. Should the nuptial contract be concluded we cannot expect any assistance in the hour of need. Prussia will look solely to the " German" side of the question, or rather to that which seems most to her own advantage. But if, on the other hand, she should be involved in difficulty, then Eng land will be dragged into the scrape. We cannot suffer the husband of our own PRINCESS ROYAL to be driven from his dominions by foreign aggression or domestic discontent. After the pre cedent established in December, 1851, we cannot hope to find many Ministers who will declare that " England has no Cousins." We have suffered so much from the Hanoverian connexion that it should scarcely be necessary to inculcate the impolicy of German Alliances. But setting aside even this important argument against the Match, let us look to what may be the consequences should there be a failure of the issue of her MAJESTY in the male line. There are at present four Princes, and it is to be hoped qat some may perpetuate the race without look ing to the House of HOZENZOLLERN for an heir to the British Throne. Bat we must remember that Queen VICTORIA was the representative of the fourth son of GEORGE 111. The Royal Marriage Act operates very unfavourably to l'g'timatc and recognised offspring. What occurred in the l 'egihnieg may also be repeated in the latter Part of the century, and with many Noble Lards and Ladies, and Captains, Madames, and mlern° isolles descended from R valty, there may be few whose claim s to the Crown can admit of argument. England may then be a ma l gama t e d with Prussia. Th e P russian Sovereign may rule over the Unitel Kingd om, and the Court of St. •Thenee's be presided over by a Pr uss i an Vi ceroy ! What any be the consequenc es of such a result ? We already know to our cost th e effects of even a mitigated form of Germanism. Saxe Coburg is not very satisfactory. What would be the Pries- Aian rule ? Every true-hearted Englishman ca n supply the answer. There is yet time to interpose the authority of the British Parliament_to address the Crown in opposition to the contemplated match, that may yet prove a firebrand to Europe. Let the so called guardians of the public purse take the initiative, and declare that they will ?tot THE SUM LONLON, MONDAY EVENING-, MAY 10, 1866. vote a dower of even 7,000/. (to say nothing of 70,000/., which is perfectly ridiculous). Such a resolution may abate the ardour of the "love sick" Prussian, although we fear it would not pre vent the marriage, the collateral advantages whereof to the Court of Berlin would induce it to accept the juvenile Princess without portion, aihough, according to its usual policy, it will, like the Irish patriot, " take all it can get, and keep grumbling." Owing to the inclemency of the weather there was no demonstration in the Parks yesterday. Had the day been specially provided for the Poor by Exeter Hall it could not have been more un genial. The rain fell in all sorts of showers, inter rupted at intervals by a momentary glimpse of sunshine, overcast almost immediately by wild gusts of wind charged with pattering hail—hail, on one occasion, of the heaviest description. No band could, under any circumstances, have played on such a day in the open air, and the people wisely stayed away. Exeter Hall is quite at liberty to make the most it can of the event. A table covered with communications from all parts of the kingdom, and from individuals of various classes in society, tes tifies, apart from what we have seen and heard, to the resolution of the public to do battle with Exeter Hall on the Sabbath question—com munications, it is but justice to say, characterised by so much intelligence, and worded in a strain of such indignant earnestness, that it is with much regret we find ourselves unable, through want of space, to admit them into our columns. One gentleman who, as nearly all have dose, gives his name and address, after expressing his satisfaction at the stand now being made by the London people against the hot-headed Sabbata rians, thus vindicates Yorkshire from participation in the Pharisaism of the Leeds Mercury :—" I write to assure you that many of the most ardent admirers of Mr. BAINES, as far as regards his general politics, have been fairly sickened by the endless repetition of his Pharisaical views against he observance of the Sabbath, and his long tirades against every system of National Educa tion which has been brought before Parliament." Another, " A Presbyterian," testifies unequivo cally not only to the order which characterised these Sunday reunions, but also to their educa tional tendencies, and expresses the most pro found surprise at the undignified conduct of the Premier. So satisfied is he of the good morn• effects of these reunions, that, though a " working " man, he is prepared to subscribe a sovereign to the payment of the band. Another correspondent, apparently a professiona gentleman, takes up and amusingly deals with th:. subject of sacred music, showing to what irreve rent tunes those who object to polka or waltz music in the Parks are accustomed to sing the praises of GOD. Another demands to be informed whether " the glorious and happy sight in the Parks i, never to be seen more by those who have the bad taste to prefer our Great Master's own example, and the teachings of such men as JEREMY TAYLOR, PALEY, and WHATELY, to SUMNER, CUMMING, and , the Ranters." Again, this is addressed to the opposition, " Open our British Museum, our great national institutions, gardens, and galleries —you may then, and not till then, shut up our gin palaces and take away our park music." Others are in a more indignant key, but in ooe thing they all coincide, and that is in saying, Speak unto the people of London that they go forward." The people of London, we are per suaded, have set their hands to the plough and will not go back. The wrong done them rankles deeply in their breasts, and we must say they would deserve to be turned outof their theatres arr , other places of week-day amusement proscribed b . l the Sabbatarian party also if they did not persist in having it righted. There will be a demonstra tion, possibly of triumph, next Sunday, if th, weather does not resemble that of yesterday. and we would recommend our readers to use their utmost influence in getting up of in any way promoting the signature of peti tiona for the restoration of the Bands in their respective localities. The House of Commons i on its last legs ; and, consequently, is weak an. timorous, and but too easily persuaded by th Sabbatarian party to vote against its inclinations. The Premier depends on the House, and, between. the two, the cause of the people has fallen to th , ground. Let them both be made aware, by host of bona fide petitions, that it will be their wisdon not to provoke the people too far ; for, if any harm ensues, the Sabbatarians 'won't be able t , guarantee them their seats. In point of fact the number of those who would absolutely with hold their ♦otes from a non-Sabbatarian Membem is much smaller than is supposed even by those who believe themselves well-informed on the subject. The difference between signing a petition and re fusing a vote is immense. We would fain hope that Honourable Members will arrive at the con viction that the London population, knowing what is right and proper for themselves, really desire Sabbath recreation, and will withdraw al ungracious interference with their enjoyment, 8( as to enable the Premier to muster up resolution, to rescind the prohibition. The people really mean to succeed one way or other—and peaceably if possible. THE ROYAL ACADEMY. (THIRD NOTICE. Already in our two previous criticisms upon the Royal Academy Exhibition for 1856, we have given, first of all, a general survey of the promi nent characteristics of the collection ; and, se condly, an analysis of the chief contributions from the more conspicuous masters in the old•new school of the Pre-Raphaelites. It remains for us now to adventure upon some more comprehen sive estimate of the 618 pictures disposed upon the walls of the three principal apartments. Ap propriately enough, the motto selected for the title-page of this year's Catalogue, is the senti ment from La Harpe—" Les Artises sont les en fans de la Paix, ils sont bienfaissants comme elle, et c'est par elle qu'ils prosperent." Appropriately enough, we say, when viewed merely as an ab stract sentiment, and not as one having reference to any immediate application of it—seeing that most of the paintings at present exhibited on the walls of the Academy must have been carried tolerably far towards completion before this amiable Patron of Art was summoned anew into being by the Paris Plenipotentiaries ! The Royal Academicians themselves are in some force this season, notwithstanding the visitor looks in vain—as usual of late years—for any new ma nifestation of the genius of perhaps the greatest of all living English Painters, William Mulready ! Although Creswick has retired, for once, from the annual competition ! Although Cope, and Her bert, and Maclise have all restricted their energies )f late to the advancement of the legislative palace at Westminster ! Although among the defaulters for 1856 may be yet fur ther enumerated —Knight with his speak ing likenesses, and Danby with his gor geous and romantic landscapes, and Egg with his wondrous realisations of the day-dreams alternately of the poet, and the novelist, and the chronicler. Regretting the absence of those emi nent names from the list of exhibitors, we have, nevertheless reason for some degree of exultation , tver the treasures of art actually contributed to he Gallery of the Royal Academy by the Royal koarlemicians themselves. Leslie, it is true, con ents himself with the display of but one solitary n'oduction, and that a very inadequate one, as a .01sen of his rare abilities whether as a designer or ,s a colourist. No. 144.—a statuesque glimpse , f " .Elermione," the flermione, however, rather .f the Atelier than of the stage, of Lsslie than of illakspere. Webster, again, delights his adcni •ers with no more than a single painting, but melb a painting !--one so wondrously worthy in -very way of this Hogarth of the Cottage, this 9stale of the Playground, this Wilkie of the Vil lagers—No. 114—" Hide and Seek." A picture in which the great artist-humourist has tasked his invention so very charmingly in stowing away ; "dispersed cluster " of youngsters, one in the 'iaby's cradle, with an obtrusive boot sticking cut from under the coverlet ! another beneath an tverturned basket, with a hand forgotten outside lie wicker-work ! a couple of breathless urchins fattened together in anxious complicity behind the pening door, through which the eager laughing ioy-seeker is peering, in hopes of detecting his oerdtt-playmates. Mother all the while, good, com :ortable Mother, sitting in the midst with an evident though suppressed appreciation of all -he fun lighting up the grave mouth and the aughing eye—as though she feared by the mere 'xpression of her maternal features to betray the whereabouts of her boyish Romps and her girlish Hoydens ! Stanfield, moreover, has but two aictures in the collection, but one of these two a very masterpiece, No. 94, "The Abandoned"- -le hull of a wrecked vessel far away on the wild ocean, rolling heavily upon the rolling billow; luridly lit up by a sun-burst streaming down upon it from a sudden cloud-rent overhead—altogether he most wonderful bodying forth of a wierd. ideal )f solemn, pathetic, and uttermost desolation. Compared with this magical sea-seape, Stanfield's other marine piece, admirable though it is in several particulars, No. 191, " A guards costa siding out a gale at the mouth of the Bidassoa," iwindles into insignificance. A couple of paint ngs are alone supplied this season, also, from the •asel of Sir Edwin Lattdseer, No. 147, "Saved," fery appropriately dedica.ted to the Humane So ;iety, and No. 208, "Highland Nurses," most :aappropriately dedicated to Miss Nightingale. like former picture being the representation of a canting Newfoundland, who is supposed to have 'reserved a little boy from drowning, though •when must ever remain matter of the wildest con jecture seeing, that the child appears to be, some tow or other " as dry as a bone," while the dog, to less strangely, seems to be only slightly damp bout the hind quarters ! The latter picture being, a the other hand, a nut very graceful tribute to se benevolence of the heroine of Scutari, through he medium of an incident not unusual in forest• ife—where the fawns are seen tenderly licking he bleeding bullet-hole in the flank of a wounded toe, tumbled down in pain and exhaustion among he grass and fern of the green wool Shaw. " Saved," though hung rather too high to be een to advantage will be regarded, we doubt not, is the painting the less unworthy of the two, as an exemplar of those rare powers which have ;floured to our great animal-painter his unrivalled Ind European reputation. Redgrave, likewise, tas but two pictures in the present collection, as ve hace just observed to be the case, in 1856, on the part of the animal-painter Lsndseer ;nd of the marine-painter Stanfieli—Redgrave's ;ompanion contributions being, however, as neither •n the instance of Stanfield or of Landseer, emi 'ently pre-Raphaelite in their general treatment. \To. 68, " Little Red Riding Hood," a delicious green vista of forest scenery, with a wondrous sil serecl, moss-dappled, gnarled, and lichened bole in :he foreground, the whole of the wondrous little wood view actually "lit up" by the scarlet cloak tf the tiny, light-footed lady of the nursery song; ind No. 182, " Handy Janie," the " knowing )st" little country lassie that ever had her portrait imued by the cunning brush of a pre-Raphaelite Lcadamician ! Another of these potent acadami cians, who tantalises us with merely two contri butions to the present year's very remarkable exhi bition, has yet to be particularised, as he ever deserves to be particularised most honourably and 3ulogistically-E. M. Ward—one of the youngest, is he is also one of the most gifted, of the R. A.'s )f England. Both of these contributions, howbeit, ),re so admirable of their kind, that we have no serious cause to complain of the artist's indolence, or to speak of such pictures in sober earnest as in Any way merely tantalising. No. t 5, " The last )arting of Marie Antoinette and her Son"-- , nother of Mr. Ward's pathetic mementoes of the •lungeon life of the Bourbons, in the earliest and nost terrible of the three great French Revolu ,,ions. The painter, who has already celebrated ipon historic canvass the incarceration of Napo. eon Bonaparte during the first days of the Direc• tory ; and the passage of Charlotte Corday to execution under the gaze of Robespierre, and Banton, and Desmoulins ; and the prison -griefs )f Louis NVI. and his Family, with the Queen patching the threadbare vest and the Princess ending another Picciola in the window-sill-11as iere, in No. 75, no less gracefully, no less ten- lerly, no loss pathetically portrayed, the last parting of the luckless and beautiful Marie An einette from . her unfortunate Children. 13Jsides .he Queen, the Dauphin, his sister, and the sister of the dead King, there glo3n l Ton us from the background various members of ho Revolutionary Committee, soma terrible and :one in their preposterous dresses absolutely and “otesquely ridiculous. Inimitable, too, is the litter of the still-life accessories of the picture, the ' .:anvass frame with its half-completed embroidery, ,he ball of worsted rolled into a tangle, the gut ,.ered tallow on the neglected tin-sconce, the broken slate with its sums partially obliterated, he gaudy tricoloured sash wound round the , vaist of the child-Dauphin, then indeed regarded '1) , the emigres as King Louis .XVll.—all help marvellously to point the moral of that melan choly story of royal suffering and Republican de basement. Ward's other picture No. 587, "Byron's early love," is altogether a smaller and less pretending work of art, chiefly noticeable for the skilful contrast of the wax-light of tile draw ing-room interior seen through the lattice window and the moonlight of the rural-scene outside Annes.- ley Hall—the figure of Byron standing midway between the moonlight and the waxlight looking in upon the lovely form of his beloved whirling about in the dance—his own exquisitely chiselled profile being precisely turned the while to the gaze of the spectator, the very type of a poet face.! Frith has three paintings in the gallery this year, one of these an universal favourite with mammas and little children—No. 131. "Many Happy Returns of the Day," a charm ing peep for after times at the home-life of well-to-do English folk of our present comfort-loving generation. Grandpapa turn ing from his newspaper, and looking amused over the top of his spectacles, from his easy-chair in the chimney corner as the little puss at his el bow brings him (carefully) his brimming glass of wine—Grandinamma, silver-haired and good hu moured at the dessert-table—Papa, comely but al most Jewish in his smugness, giving out the Toast of the Day, the Health of the little Dar ling under the }Towering arch of flowers !—it all admirable—adinirable from Mamma herself verging prettily to the matronly epoch of embon wint, or from her unmarried sister (who is never intended, we wager, to degenerate into an old maid, but who will doubtless, in a very few years, have cogent reasons of her own for wishing the same good wishes to others than nephews and nieces) to those same nephews and nieces in all the many stages of child-like excitement, or to the prim lit - le parlour-maid in the back-ground bearing in her hand, the birth-day present of a doll or a punchi nello ! It is all, we repeat, admirable :as No. 7 from the same hand, " A Dream of the Future," is exquisitely graceful, or as No. 341, also from the easel of Frith, " Garden Flowers," is really charming as a specimen of something better than floral loveliness. Roberts We have already spoken of in our earliest notice of this year's Exhibition of the Royal Academy—the notice which ap-• peared in our columns on the very day of the " private view "—in those earnest terms of ad miration which are peculiarly due to the principal among his five very noteworthy contributions. No. 10, a wonderful interior view of " Christmas Day at.S:,. Peter's, Rome, 1854 "—an interior resplendent by its marvellous combination of papal pomp and architectural Magnificence. No. 337, " St. Peter's—looking back upon Rome ;" No. 383, " Venice—approach to the Grand Canal ;" No. 541, an "Old Temple on a Sunny Promontory ;" and No. 552, " A Monu ment at Venice," are exteriors by Roberts of sin gular and varied excellence, but his interior of St. Peter's, No. 10, is incomparably this year in every way the artist's. chef d'oeuvre. Without subscribing to the rather pert opinion of Uwins, as expressed once upon a time to Mr. Morris Moore, by the Honourable Member for Perthshire, we may content ourselves with a hint that the old painter is somewhat passe, Nos. 261, 472. and 893 being scarcely passable, the picture, the least unworthy of his former fame being, without doubt, No. 454, his very English scene of " Gleaners leaving the Stubble-field." Jones's least unsatisfactory painting, again, for the pre sent season, is No. 186, being a very melo dramatic, smoky, theatrical representation of the battle of " Trukkee" (28th Feb., 1845), when Sir Charles Napier was a greater "God of War" than Dalhousie, " Lieutenant-Celonel to the Earl of Mar," conquering Sciude by a series of thunder strokes, and only laying aside the sword of the Conqueror to take up the pan and the fasces of the Administrator. Witherington rejoices our sense of the beautiful in rural scenery as agreeably as ever ; while ,the two Pickersgills display their con trasting merits—larger promise being observable in the Associate than in the Academician as cannot be said to occur in regard to the two Coopers—the Academician here revealing, as hitherto, astonish ing ability as a painter of horses, and in regard to the mere number of his picture - more than ordinary productiveness. Of alt his eight contri butions, the one which will doubtless be examined by the generality with the liveliest interest, being No. 245, the " Portraits of Two old Campaigners," Marengo, the white war-hone of Nap aleon, and )ponhagen, the bay-charger of his Grace, the late Duke of Wellington. Cooper, the Associate, in his turn, contributes half-a-dozen of his Cuyp-like Cattle-scenes to the Gallery, one of them in combination with a landscape by Le':. according to their wont, as the Beaumont and Fletcher of the brush—Lee's noblest work this Season, however, being No. 221, an exqaieire marine piece, a view of " The Plymouth Break water,",:a masterpiece of water painting, whether viewed in regard to the feathery curls of spray blown off from the crests of the distant surges, or in reference to the wide ample wash of the waves over the level. stones of the breakwater in the foreground. Frost continues to be as ever clas sically conventional both in theme and treatment —but charmingly so, we admit, in No. 162, his group of the " Graces." Horsley, among five pictures of great beauty gives us one, No. 311, " A Novice," which we do not hesitate at once to select as of *all the " best beautiful." G odal 1 forsakes this year, for once, the field in which he reaped his first laurels, for one in which we cannot think he will ever add to them very considerably ; we mean that of historic° religious painting to which he has exclusively dedicated his energies this year through the medium s ' of his one large picture, No. 359, " Cranmer at the Traitor's Gate"—a picture of which we are constrained to say (in spite of our admiration for the artist's genius) that it is decidedly larger than it is meritorious. Neither can we regard Frank Stone as having, by his one solitary production, displayed in this year's ex hibition, extended very considerably his repute— let us say —as a love-painter 1 No. 319, " Doubt" being (in.spite of twe or three comely faces) both in general merit and in actual purpose, eminently doubtful. Poole hardly realises, for once, the expectations cherished, season after season, by those who appreciate, as it deserves, the genius of that Defoe of the Pencil : No. 373, -" The Con spirators," being only remarkable for its chiaro scuro. Elmore, on the contrary, has surpassed himself by his admirable historic picture No. 175, portraying "Charles V. at Yuste" —the old Emperor bidding a last farewell to the earth with all its beauties, looking 1:1;s last upon his favourite Titian, upon the portrait of his beloved wife, as she was in her youthful loveliness, breathing, for the last time, the fresh and scented air floating in from the garden into the coolness of the cloisters, basking in the last gleams of the evening ,sunlight—prior to his being carried, for the last time, into the gloomy cell, from which he was to came forth no more alive ! The aged 112 march,. _as _portrayed by the brush of Elmore, is a marvellous limning of reverent and dejected senility. The accessories, many of them, are in troduced with singular adroitness—the favourite parrot upon the chair-rail with the nutshells littered on the ground beneath its perch—nay, the mere velvet covering of the chair, black velvet, old, worn, and threadbare—everything is painted with colours of astonishing verisimilitude. Conspicuous, if ,nOt preeminent, among the failures of the present year, is that pre sented by the one picture contributed to the walls of the Ac idemy by the young artist who last season delighted the world of art with the im mense promise visible in his painting of a Pre- Raphaelite Procession. Leighton's picture for 1856 is again, indeed, a large one, and so far, but no farther, hears a resemblance to its prede cessor. It is, No. 508, entitled "The Triumph of Music"—the subject of it being in reality no more the Triumph of Music than its treatment by Mr. Leighton can be considered, in any way at all, a token of the Triumph of Painting. It is Orpheus, in fact, trying to redeem his wife from Fla,des ! Such a blear-eyed, hand-clasping, high shAildered,' hobgoblin of an Eurydice, being, in fact, the most horrible object, perhaps, Orpheus could anywhere have discovered in all the horrid recesses of that diabolical realrfi of the purloining Dis and the ravished Prospine. Tire effect of the picture altogether would be absolutely laugh able, but that it happens at , the same time to be positively and irredeemably revolting. While Orpheus fiddles—Eurydice seems to be gibboxing. We turn our glance from this big painting with a shudder of disgust, and happily find an exqui site relief by walking over to an opposite corner of the same apartment, where T. Faed, another artist who gave large promise last year, has in some respects already justified the popular expec tations in his regard by a little picture, No. 592, of " Highland Mary"—a picture delicious in colouring, the red bundle on the lassie's lap har monising, with the loveliest effect, with her looped up kirtle of green, and the under petticoats of yel low and brown, toned down by the neutralising grey of the shepherd's plaid thrown over her shoulders —the charm of the whole figure being crowned by the lovely face so soon to be lamented in its grave by the tender heart and eloquent lips of the Poet Ploughman ! This cabinet picture of " Highland Mary" we take to be, in every way, a more notable contribution to the gallery from the easel of Mr. Faed than that larger painting, No. 273, " Home and the Homeless," which is, strictly speaking, but a weakened repetition of the idea expressed by the artist's popular picture of last year, " The Mitherless Bairn." Prominent among the successes of 1856, how ever, let us mark especially two most charming contributions to the walls of the Royal Academy by a young artist of much more than large pro mise, already, be it said, of very considerable and remarkable. achievement ! Pictures they are by J. M. Carrialc: one of them, No. 86, " Biook Ford, Devon"—with its overhanging branches chequered into light and shade by the gleaming sunbeams, and the cool end transparent current underneath stirred into minutest ripples by the pleasant zephyrs and the. hooves of the quaffing horse driven down to water by the little urchin bestriding honest D )bbin : the other, No. 262, " The Village Postman" searching in his letter bag for good .news for the expectant cottager— every detail of the rustic scene sketched in by the youthful observer of nature with a really marvellous truthfulness, not merely in regard to the rural perspective, but in reference even ro the tiles up )n the house-top, the clambering ivy, the dusty road, and the twinkling leaves of tree and thicket. Another artist of the same name, popular now for some years among our most popular miniature painters, T. Carrick, the miniature painter of Lord John Russell, and Daniel O'Con nell, and Signor Lablache, and William . Farren, and other varied celebrities—with whose features the English public have been familiarised by no hand more successfully than by that of T. Carrick —tppears during the past year to have been more than usually industrious and in some instances more than ordinarily successful. Instance this— Nils. 702, 709, 721, 727, 751, 778, 797, atid 826 —particularly in regard to No. 751, the likeness of Miss Cushman, the celebrated tragic and melo dramatic actress, a fine, clever, characteristic face, to often seen disfigured in the hag-like guise of the gipsy witch, Meg Merrilies. Returning from the Miniature Room into the principal suite of apartments, we would more par titularly direct some few words of most cordial admiration to a very noble picture, villanously hung, close down by the ground, so that you are obliged to kneel to see it properly, t remarkable painting by H. Wallis, No. 352, "Chatterton." Mr. Wallis has two other pictures •in the gallery of no inconsiderable merit, No. 56, " Marten's Tower, Chepstow Castle," and No. 5 L 6, ‘"Andrew Marvell returning the Bribe"—but this splendid work, depicting the suicide of Thomas Chatterton, white it is the finest production yet given to the world by the genius d . Mr. Wallis, is also, be it said, one of the most extraordinary works of art in the whole Exhibition. We may conjecture that the painter (for the exigencies of colour, per haps) has some the raiment of the "marvellous bay, the sleepless soul that perished in his pride," depicting him in white silk (?) stockings, and violet satin (0 knee breeches, and— on the chair by the sidn , of his miserable death pallet—a crimson velvet (?) doublet clothes poor Chatterton (who de-itrsyed In.nself after un dergoing two or three days and nights of absolute starvation) would c3rtainiy (if he had had them) have turned into bread at the pawnbrokers. But forgiving this solliciiim as to the app trel of the boy-creator of Rowley—what pathos may we not discover in this representation of his suicide ! In dho lithe still, almost childish, fi4ure, in the thin stripling face, in the wild disorder of the reddish auburn hair, in the torn and scattered manuscripts, in the clenched . hand, in.the very bloom which has been shed the plant in the flowerpot upon the window-sill.l And the distant morning view of the great city (this " stony- hearted " dreadful London of ours) seen through the dim and broken glass of the Brooke-street garret window—iurely never be fore was light, seen through window glass, so won derfuly, truthfully, astonishingly painted ! It is the very triumph of actual fact and tragic power in painting ! Honour say we to the hand that could depict so powerfully, so poetically, and so pityingly the death-scene closing that astonishing career of Chatterton. Another painting we would also mention in terms of well-merited praise, ,Na. 35, " Koine" by Paton, the most pathetic memento of the late war that has yet come under our ob servation. And so—with a glance of chagrin into the dark and chilly store-room devoted below-stairs to sculpture—we pass once again into the daylight from this eighty-eighth Royal Academy Exhi bition. LITERATURE. A Summer in, North,lrn Europe. By Selina Bun bury, author of "Life in Sweden," &c. 2 vols. Hurst and Blaokett. This is a very lively and agreeable hook of travels, full of sketches of national characters and descrip tions of scenery given in a pleasing and entertain ing style. The authoress, who is already favour ably known to the public both as a novelist and a traveller, has previously given us a narrative of her life and adventures in Sweden during a northern winter. The present work, however, does not re strict us to one country, for we are introduced to scenes in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Gothland, the Alaiol Islands, of which we have all heard so much, and many other places of interest. In all she met with a *most hospitable reception—indeed the description she gives throughout of her ac quaintance with the inhaaitants of the North latavei a very favourable impression. Their kind ness and readiness to accommodate and oblige a total stranger was without exception, and the au thoress has well, repaid the friendly attend nis she met with, in the attractive picture she has drawn of then. She has evidently visited many countries, and is therefore iu some degree qualified to judge of national character as well as of architecture and national features. Her descriptions of the latter are full of admiration of the wonderful effects of the northern winter, of which she is an enthusiastic admirer. So vivid is her rocolleciiou of the splen daur of a northern night, with its clear spherical moon and glittering crystal snow, that she often reft-..rs to it, and depicts it even in the record of her summer excursions. She tells the tale of her' own advtntures very agreeably, and many amusing mis fortunes are related for the reader'sgratideatiou. One of these was on the occasion of her first lauding in Sweden, when she ; only knew a few words of the langeage, but trusting to the information of her guide-book repaired to an hotel where English was said to be spoken. A. young woman appeared, to whom she put the question, " Can you speak Eng lisp ?',' and received the Satisfactory answer of " Yes." The wearied traveller accordingly gave her order ; foremost in the list, of course, the Eag lish demand for tea. "Yes" was the reply to every inquiry or command, . and the attendant disap peared. An hour elapsed —no tea. The bell was rung ; up came/ the English interpreter, who, on being asked if the refreshments were ready, replied Ytis," and went away again. Another hour and another ring at the bell. A stranger this time came, and made the traveller understand that the English flicka was out. At length she returned. " We are tired of waiting for this tea," exclaims the traveller. " Yes," is still the cheerful reply. A new light breaks on the victim's mind, " Is yes the only word you can say T' she asks. " Yes," is once mote the answer 1 How she extricated her. self from her difficulty she does not tell us. M an y of the old traditions and romantic tales of the' country are interspersed, and afford a pltalirg variety. Many anecdotes of the famous Gus:avn, Vasa are also introduced, though the writer tit oi not seem to regard that Warlime monarch with much admiration. Had he been unsuccessfnl, she says, and ended hie life as Gustavus Vasa, the Adven turer, instead of King Gustav the First, she might have felt the same interest in his career as in that of Charles Edward, but as history puts that possi bility out of the question, she cannot help differing entirely with her good friends the Sweden, who hold his memory in affectionate veneration ; his name, she says, is a . touchstone to Swedish enthu siasm. The following is an amusing anecdote of a dilem ma in which the hospitable inhabitants of a little country post station were found on the arrival of the authoress and her companion : " rnere was an air of excitement about the quiet, out-of the-world little place, which was evidently nct lessened by the report that an English traveller bad ar rived. The hoste4s, in particular, seemed to be in dis tress, and discovering that my companion was la native, she appr , ached her confidentially, and begged her to ask me to tell them the Swedish for keek. "I naturally thought of the English kick, but knew' nothing of keek ; however, the reason of the inquiry was soon made known. Some hours previously two English gentlemen had arrived there, as usual, for a change iof herses.From the time that their former skjuits departed, they had, the still wonder-stricken host& declared, continued to move about, crying 'keek, keek and saying no other 'word. " In vain they tried to satisfy the unintelligible want : all that the house could afford was presented in turn, and at every renewed offer the word keek, keek was repeated. Whoever they met, whoever came to them, heard only this word. At last a man who had been in Norway, and had heard the word chicken,' shrewdly guessed it was the English for that creature, called kontl in Swedish. Forthwith, the good-hearted hostess, 'On hospitable thoughts intent, rushed out and sacrificed her only hen, cooked it in the mode not most calculated to render its mastication less laborious, and offered it up to the hungry and impatient travellers. Alas ! they left it uneaten, and only cried keek, keak !' more than ever. " It certainly was a chick they wanted, however, said Friherrinan. " ' And when did they cease to cry ' keekr I asked. " Never,' said the afhicted host and hostess, looking fixedly in my face with profound gravity—' Never. Tney were saying it here for three hours while the post horse4 were being brought, and whe❑ they got into their carriage and were driving off, the last word they said, when skjuit , bonden was getting into his seat, • Was `keek, keek !' " I bunt into an uncontrollable laugh. " Well,' said Frtherrioan, 'your countrymen's dis tress amuses you, yet you cannot tell what they meant; Oyes, they said quick ! quick ! They wanted the horses ; when they got them at last they wanted to be driven quick ! quick ! Travellers sometimes seem to think one word must be intelligible, even if a great ouliber are n ,t.' " T►►e feeling towards the English was very friendly, bet many were 'disposed to regard the Russians with a less favourable sentiment. The annexation of Finland to the Russian empire ap pears to have given little satisfaction. The reader will not be sorry to learn, however, that Russia and the Russians occupy a very small space in the volumes—indeed they are only casually men tioned. _Neither does the war present itself to our notice, with the exception of a few incidental re marks in the description of the Baltic islands. Among the most formidable of our authoress's undertakings was the descent of the Falun mine.. She was induced to make this adventurous expe dition by the representations of her travelling com panion, who declared she was not afraid, and would encourage her. However, when equipped for the exploit, she found her leader had come to the conclusion to remain on the surface of the earth instead of venturing below it. Our traveller, who appears by no means deficient in spirit, set off alone. She had previously read Dr. Clarke's ac counts of his descent into two mines in Sweden — one a very dangerous and difficult one, into the iron mine of Persberg, and another, a compara tively easy one, into the copper mine of Falun. However, she soon found her hopes and expecta tions disappointed, as the following description will show : " The de-cent of this latter mine was easy where Clarke visited it fifty years ago, and continued to be easy until about two years previous to our visit, when an ex tensive ran took place which destroyed the winding easy flight o' steps, which I had understood led all the way, for two hundred fathoms, down to the bottom. My descent,. therefore, was; after all, to be made almost ex actly as De. Clarke describes the terrible descent into the iron mine of Persberg. "This was by means of perpendicular ladders, placed on a series of very small platforms, which serve as landing-places ; but each platform borders on a preci pice, where you hear the sound of Water gurgling in darkness ; the staves of the ladders are cold, slipper - Jr, ivered with black mud and soft ice. Imagine an ate tempt to go down these in thick darkness, with a guide standing on the platform above you, holding a torch, which casts its light over your head only to bewilder ; for it you turn that bead to look where your steps lead, yOu only see profound gho-Nn beneath, and, for aught you know, you are to step off that ladder into—what ! that inquiry the man seems to think unnecessary—he tells you to go on. " It was in such a position that the extract I had read from Dr. Clarke, and which had beeeu mistakingly applied t this mine ' unfortunately occurred to m e : [n addition to the danger to be apprehended from the atase of the ladders, the staves were covered with ice or :nail, and reudsred so slippery that we could have no dependence on our hands if our feet.failed us. Then, to complete our tears, as we mention this to the miners, they said, Have a care; it was just so one of our women, fell as she was descending to her work.' `And not b ' , mile of her ?" Became of her ?—she became pankaka I "119 re, indeed, another observation• of his was also qp disable As the iab-urers are not accustomed to reci-ive s rangers they never use precautions, nor offer the assi-tansy usually afforied in more frequented mines.' Time weigni, of a great pea-coat was a rather unfortunate equipment to choose for such a descent. "' A. miner (ame up the ascending , ladder ; as the torch-light flashed on his face it appeared to me very tike one of those that used to frighten my childhood, when seen in the r-flection of blazing spirits and sulphur urned on a pewter dish. He looked at me as we iias-ed, and his look seamed to say, am glad to go up, and you are foolish to go down.' "At length we came to the chamber where all the Kings of Sweden, from time immemorial up to King Oscar, have eaten a dinner ; for by an ancient usage this is one of the many penalties inflicted on the Swedish Kings. To dance in the town-hall on New-year's - night, to drive through the Djurgard in procession on. the let of May, to descend into Store ICopparbergen on their accession to the throne—these, and many 'similar little performances, are entailed on the possession of that crown." " Not many visitors to this mine go further than this royal cha ober. And indeed the vision, to one who , does so for only once in a lifetime—the first and only time—may haunt him afterwards. The glare of fitful light, the sulphurous faces of those who seem to have parted for ever from the bright sun and the light of earth—the sound of unseen water—the horrid depths yawning so close that a single step aside would send one down aci Va t ) mine-master's son sent a large block of ,wood for my instruction, teaching me by action what he did not say in words. All this, and more than this, yea will see, and hear the sounds of the block as it rebounds from ledge to ledge, Lolling, falling, and hear the sound coming fainter, fainter, till after the lapse, I should think, of nearly a minute, it is heard no more. "It was the discovery that, on landing on one of the very small platforms, I had stepped back within half a foot of one of these gulfs, that totally freed me from any desire to see more of the copper mine of Falun. After that my courage failed, and I only recollect clinging to an upright ladder, and crying to my stolid guide, will go up ! I will go up !' " He said afterwards that he feared then the chance of my ever going up was small, for he believed I ohould be physically deprived of the power of movement, and re main there, encumbering, I suppose, the mine descent for ever." Fortunately she "made an effort," and pre sently emerged into the light of day ; " but not for half the mines of Golcanda," she exclaims, "do I think I would again go into the copper mine of Falun." We think the reader will hardly be surprised at her arriving at this conclusion, especially when ho learns that, in addition to her alarm and risk during the descent itself, that she was crippled from fatigue, as she pathetically de scribes it. Certainly her picture of Stora Kop parbergen, as the Swedes term it, is less attractive than her other northern scenes, and few of her readers are likely to be tempted to make its de scent, even though it claims to have been worked in the time of Solomon's Temple. To all who wish fora gay and varied panorama of Northern life and scenery, and for a work full of information, conveyed through an entertaining medium, we commend these volumes, as among the most lively and generally attractive travels that have appeared. for some time. CRYSTAL PALACE—FIVE SHILLING DAY, MAT 17. Admigsions on payment, 357; do. by season tickets,. 1,383 ; total visitors, 1,740._ Tag AmERICIAN MAILEL—The royal mail steam ship Africa, Capt. Stone, sailed from th e M erse y, on Satur day, about 10 a.m., for New York, wi' h the usual weekly mails for the North Arnericao Continent, ninety-three pas4engers, and a fair cargo of mi-rehandise. An audacious robbery was committed ten days ago in Spain. A picture of the Assumption, generally ascribed to Murillo, or at least to one of his best pupils, was taken from the high altar of the church of Mendiguren, near Vittoria , A VERY 111011 WIND—SERIOUS DAMAGE.—Daring yesterday a very high wind prevailed in London, and considerable damage was done in several parts in con sequence. In Hyde-park at least twenty-five trees were more or less injured, some of them being actually torn up by the roots. Two of them were blown down, while many people were taking shelter under them from the rain, and it is very remarkable no serious injuries were sustained. As it was, however, several of the bystanders received bruises on various parts of the body and had their clothes spoiled. In the Green-park also some of the trees were torn up by the roots, and huge branches of others were hurled to a considerable distance. The preparations for the forthcoming peace fireworks, which bad been erected opposite Berkley-street, Piccadilly, were for the most part blown down, and other portions of the different structures were likewise injured. Many chimney-pots, ac., were blown into the streets, and some ciamwre was done to the shipping in the Downs; but although several accidents of a minor character have occurred, we have heard of no lives being loot. COWES, ISLE OF WIQHT.—Way 18. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) THE COURT AT OSBORNE. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived yesterday. Fier Majesty, the Prince Consort, the Duchess of Kent, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and Prince Alfred, attended divine service at Whippingham Church this morning. The Prince of Prussia is expectel at ()Acme to morrow. PRINCE FREDERICK WILLIAM OF PRIISSIA.—it is de finitively arranged that Prince Frederick William, eldes, son of the Prince of Prussia, will land at Dover to•mor row afternoon, and will at once leave, attended by a nu merous suite, for Osborn©, on a visit to her Majesty an his Royal Highness Prince Albert. His Royal High uss during his sojourn in this country, which it is con templated will not. exceed the last week in June, will lot the guest of the Queen. As our remders are aware, the illustrious Princ-i is stated to be the suitor for the hand of the Princes- Royal._ The Earl of Cia,;endon, the Right Hon. M. T. B a i nes , the Right Hon R. Vernon S.nith, and the Chancel'or of the Exchequer, have remained in town during tte recess. Lord Pa:mum returns to tlwn this morning fron the north. The Duke of Argyll, accompanied by the Duchesp, comes to town to-day from staying with the Duke o Sutherland at Clifden, near Maidenhead. The Right Hon. Henry and Lady Mary Laboucher, came to town on Saturday from their country seat. The Earl Granville, the Lor 1 President of the Cour. cil, accompanied by the Countess, arrived in town lac, last night, from visiting Sir Robert and Lady Emil) Peel, at Drayton Manor, Staff , rdshire. General Chesney and Mr. W. P. Andrew had an in terview with,bis Highness Aali Paella, the Grand Yizier, at Claridge's Hotel, on the 17th inst., regarding the Euphrates Valley route to India. Lord and Lady Aveland and the Hon. Gilbert Heath cote, M.P., have removed from Langham-place to Bei grave-square. Lord Aveland has purchased a lone lease of the mansion occupied for many years by the late Earl Brownlow. Sir James and Lady Anne Mackenzie have arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from their seat in Scotland. Mr. R. , bert Stephenson, as President of the Institu tkn of Civil Engineers, announces his Conversazione for Tuesday, May 27. Major-Generic Sir James Love, K.C.B. and K. 11., Lieut.-Governor of Jersey, is to proceed to the Austra lian olonief.—Usite4 scryko cia:444. LA The 2 now hcu ;he Emi an "ex esty. The position of Russia of the R he front Marsh General had been Placed is 'Bale of th lions of r The Se lOng pre, tegislatil for the ba Several o ordered I minder c reports ot euseion, i: Bourjolly and the 1 The sittin The Ar A .0 Prince teas Math Austrian and a nun Paris wei dinner wa I Cloud , at r _ ; I qinisters, i heir ladit Prince artnre fr !Tanou nee( to rema !Ale Princ t Le A.rchd BOURSE --- ( It lotation: ,per Cent ,I pin• Cents. tank Share 'r b iSdit Mobi Fiv Nimontes I °r'74 . t' l l7 llB h 0177.: I " , :l n it s erran - E 1 • ens Gene eott e )110 COM The Li , °F 3 ed wit tireated 4 , 11 d 800 44 . to 8 Jr lb. 1 (. 1 a fair a light adv. The adN , i /ir a 4 ac 'lle ilegoti Daring tl tteded the t't trade 411 ants ec 'kpected. 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