The Sun. — London, England, 1861-03-25 00:00:00

fr YEA TR-E-ROYAI„ HAYMARKET. ..n. LesAee, Mr. J. B. Baciudone. On EASTER MONDAY (April I)„ will be performed A DUKE IN oIFFICULTIES. Mrs. Stirling, Miss F. flaydon, Mrs. Wilkins, Miss Fanny Stirling, Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, Ate. Atter which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery and effects, and all the original music by the late Sir Henry Bishop, the melodrama of THE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Commence at Z.,, • • THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Novel Attraction for the Passion Week. - TO-MORROW Luesday), and every evening during the Week (Friday ex cepted), the celebrated Italian Illusionist, Chevalier ANTO NIO POLETTI, in his extraordinary and wondertul enter tainment of NATURAL and CIIYMICAL MAGIC; and Pell's (the Orig,inal Bones) Ethiopian Minstrels. Doors open at half-past Six, commence at Seven. Box-office open To morrow, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday, from 10 to 5. No charge for booking. ADELPHI, NEW THEATRF:-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Ben). Webster. Ou EASTER MONDAY, a new drama, MAGL L. I OR E , PRESTIDIGITATOR. Messrs. B. Webste r, J. ole D. Fisher, Nc.; Miss K. Kelly, Miss tl. Simms, &C. After which, OUR FEMALE AMERICAN COUSIN. Miss Julia Daly. Doors open at half past 8--Cotes at 7. CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS!!! Westminster -road. Proprietor ........C. Morton. A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera, IL CO RSARO, (This opera has never been produced in this or any other country, except at these Concerts), having met with that de cided success which charm - time+ the most popular works of this great Mast er, will be performed EVERT EVENING together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI ENTO, by Donizetti, Principal Artistes —Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonehmans. The Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A. B. H o llingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell, W. H. Welland, and the Brothers Conrad. John Martin's Three celebrated Pictures will remain on v i e w a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the Establishment. FUNERAL OF THE DUCHESS OF KENT. - - In consequence of the Funeral of her Royal HighneAs the Duchess of Kent, the above establishment will be CLOSED Trus EVENING. T H E 0 X OR D, No. 6, OXFORD-STREET. Madame .Parepa, Miss Russell, Madame Marietta, and Miss Poole ; Mr. Swift, Mr. George Genge, Mr. Charles Grevillc, and Mr. San tley ; Miss Rosina Collins (the celebrated Vio liniste), and Mr. Levy, in addition to a host of talent, will appear at THE GRAND INAUGURATION CONCERT To-morrow Evenim.Y, (TUESDAY), March 26. THE OXFORD, 6, Oxford-streeet. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tkus DA.T.—Morning, 12h. 48m.—Aftethoon, lh. 10m. To-m08.8.0iv.-Morning, lh. 30m.—Afternocm, lh. 52m. TIM WEATHER.-.-SIIN OFFICE, MARCH 24, 1861. THEEMOKETER, IN THE SHADE. 59—highest since noon yesterday. 39—lowest this morning and during the night. 55—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29,84. WIND —Westerly—light; with fine weather. MARCH 25. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADR. 57 —highest since noon yesterday. 42—lowest this morning and during the night. 58—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.92. Wnco—North-Easterly—moderate ; with dull weather. , 4 , : , -:4 , i. y t %'• \:A , k ---`; , 9e ~. .„ 3 —J i; k ,, A 4 . , r , gi 4 A I V 4 : ... i ft ' '''' -, 4‘ •.• Iji:" - ~..< ..,,-; :,,,,, ' 7 ' • --, .;*(), , S e , ----- 1 ,- --, , , - t , ,,-, 4,: / :.,,,./. 4,1•' 1 . P. : L i, N ' ' . .A —l %—t ~ - 4.; I r, ----- :.l':j ° ' ;t,''''7lt.-4..! , •,.,' . ' bc "'.-' T E S UN. LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1861. The EmpEnon has again spoken, and again in language characterised by the most extraordinary ambiguity. His reply to Messieurs the Deputies extends to no more than three sentences or two paragraphs. Yet within that, narrow compass the Riddle of Europe contrives to compact together phrases sufficiently enigmatic and bewildering to mean—just nothing or anything. It is, of course, perfectly true that still to this day, as when MIL TON sang the familiar words originally— " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum," being by any possibility audible in the neighbour hood of the old ruined fane of APOLLO'S shrine at Delphos. But so long as his reigning Majesty NAPOLEON 111. can speak from his throne there, across the Channel, in the Palace of the Tuileries, all the oracles are not dumb, there is still one voice that can be heard speaking most oracularly—there is literally the " hideous hum" the poet specifies as peculiar to the old Pythonic utterances, and all ends here as the oracles of old ended, according to the blind bard's description, in "words deceiving." There is one thing, however, about the Imperial declaration of the present French Sovereign that when he speaks the most clearly his assurances are the least to be relied upon. As when he intimated, as positively as words could inti mate anything, that his Government had no inten tion whatever—observe, no intention even of seem.= ing the annexation to France of Savoy and Nice— immediately before that very annexation was actu ally accomplished. So that when his MAJ ESPY deals now merely in generalities, when he indulges chiefly in the most ambiguous phraseology there is the largest amount of probability that something good may just within the limits of possibility result from it. Judging of him simply from experience, esti mating his policy purely from precedents within every one's recollection, we might aver quite frankly and with perfect reason that supposing the French EMPEROR on Saturday afternoon, in answer to the loyal address of the deputation from the Legislative Corps, headed by the President, had given a solemn assurance that he guaranteed Peace to Christendom, people might naturally have looked shortly after Easter for an explosion of war in Europe that would agitate more or less all the various Powers of the Continent. The match having been applied of course by the very hand of NAPOLEON himself—the Moderator of the Revolution ! Inasmuch, therefore, as the EMPEROR speaks this time not at all plainly, inas much as he gives no promise whatever that can be construed into a promise of peace, there is a hope therefore left for the maintenance of tranquillity. "I thank the Chamber," says his MAJESTY, "for the sentiments which it expresses towards me, and for the confidence which it places in me." Adding —autocratically—" If that confidence honours me and flatters me, I think I deserve it from my con stant solicitude of only looking upon questions in a point of view of the real interest of France." And then comes, in truth, that " nut to crack "—the wonderful closing sentence of the Imperial reply to the address of the Legislative corps on Saturday afternoon. "To be up to the age," quoth his MAJESTY, " to preserve of the past all that is good, to p re p are the future by sweeping off the path of civilisation all the prejudices which obstruct it, or utopias which compromise—that is how we shall bequeath calm and prosperous days to our children." Whatever anybody may like to make out of that of course he may. The words may mean, as we have said, just anything or they may mean just nothing. And probably the oracular ruler of 40,000,000 Frenchmen, the enigmatical Captain of 600,000 soldiers, was as satisfied with those marvel lous words of his on the 23d at Paris—as President A BizitirA m LINCOLN himself with that final meta phorical flourish of his on the 4th of this present month of March at Wasington--th a t amaz i ng figure or speech about chords stretching frem , battle fields to .hearts a ll over the (shall we say?) , --chord::--chord:: played upon by the Angel of Everyb o d y ' s Better Nature ! An astonishing metaphor likening the whole of the North American Republic to a sort of cobweb harpsichord, dreadfully out of tun 3 just now, and with evidently more than one or two screws loose somewhere. So with this last sentence from the lips of the French EMPEROR : it is as evi dently a pet little rhetorical flourish, as that other dropped from the mouth of the American PRESI DENT. Now that we have got it we must make the most of it—and chew the cud of sweet and bitter fancy latent in it with a befitting sense of gratitude. So far as any glimmering notion goes that might thence be afforded as to the probabilities of that future which the EMPEROR speaks of in terms so mysteriously generalised—the Imperial reply to the address of the Legislative Corps, might just as well never have been uttered. So utterly blank is it As an index to coming probabilities, or even possibilities. About Rome, for example, the oracle is dumb—there is only the voice, as we have said, the vox et preterea nihil—excepting only the " hum" before•mentioned of the " words deceiving." But, then, the Imperial speaker has obviously his little game to play between the antagonistic authorities still confronting each other in the "almost but not quite" liberated Italian Penin sula. Rome all this time being, in NAPO LEON'S regard very much like the oyster ad judicated upon by that wily Lawyer in the fable who settled the squabble for its possession between two disputants by swallowing the oyster himself, and handing a shell a-piece to those disputants. Has not the French EMPEROR up to this moment held possession for ten or twelve years of the Eternal City ? And does he not now hand the nominal unification of Italy to his Majesty VICTOR EM MANUEL 11., without Rome ! And to his Holiness Pius IX., the nominal independence of the States of the Church, minus the States themselves ! These are the two empty shells handed to the right and to the left—while the lawyer of sharp-practice is quietly enjoying the deglution of his oyster in between the two deluded disputants. A policy like this, one would have thought (judging from history) would have been the very last ever to find favour in once haughty, high-spirited, chivalrous France. A miserable dodge, a dirty little trick, like that which a year ago thimble-rigged the pea of Savoy under the Imperial Crown of NAPOLEON 111., one might have imagined (judging still from history) must have alienated from a ruler who would in such a flagrant manner as that speak and act so very differently, the affections of a great nation of Frenchmen. But the address of the Legislative Corps to the EMPEROR on Saturday assured his MAJESTY in so many words;—" In Savoy and in the county of Nice you have pacifically, and in virtue of a treaty sanc tioned by the popular will, restored to the Empire provinces which had long been friendly, and are now irrevocably French. In this circumstance you obeyed the necessities of territorial defence, the natural consequence of a notable aggrandise ment of a neighbouring State ; and your policy, as firm as it was prudent, has given satisfaction to France without [certainly a bold asser tion this !] without infringing upon European rights." Assuredly after this, the annexation of Savoy and Nice to France is—un fait accompli both with regard to the French people and to their Sove reign. It remains with English diplomacy to see henceforth, at any rate, that Europe is not outraged either in the direction of Italy or elsewhere by any similar Napoleonian tricks of annexation. The decision of the Lords in the case of BROOK T. BROOK calls for serious consideration of the practical steps which should be taken in regard to a considerable number of persons, many of them, socially speaking, of the highest respectability, who are now pronounced, by the highest legal autho rity, to have contracted marriages which are legally null and void, or to be the descendants of marriages which leave them, under the ineonvenience of being, in the eye of the law merely, illegitimate. We shall not waste time in attempting to con trovert the interpretation of the law of the land by such high authorities ; even if their known bias as Scotch or English Churchmen had something to do in unconsciously influencing their judgment—there it is. That it was honest, even if unconsciously biassed, we have not the smallest doubt. That it is law now, is certain. One thing is, however, to be noticed in the judgments, as delivered by all who spoke at any length—the marriage was confessedly good, so far as the forms and ceremonies of the con tract went; the lex loci was admitted to be valid to this extent. But it was held that forms and cere monies valid abroad could not cure a defect in the essentials of marring, and that the essentials of a marriage depended, not on the law of the place where it was celebrated, but on the law of the country where the persons were domiciled. Fur ther, .as in all countries all restrictions cannot be considered essentials, it was necessary to show that the limitation arising out of the Act of 1835 was of the nature of an essential. The reason assigned by all the learned Lords was, that the Legislature enacted the restriction because marriage between a widower and his deceased's wife's sister was " contrary to the will of God." As being so, it was again and again observed, the pro hibition to marry in this relation became an essen tial. Yet further, it was truly observed that it was not the business of the judges to decide whether such marriages were contrary to GOD'S law, but whether the Legislature, from the time of HENRY VIII,, so regarded them. And on that point there can be little doubt. We need hardlyisay that the vast majority of intelligent persons now, both laymen and divines, agree that there was, even to the Jews, no prohi bition of the kind proposed—rather the contrary. And that, therefore, those who invented the canon which prohibits the marriage referred to, and those who, at the R e f orma ti on , t rans f erre d the canonical prohibition to our Prayer-book, were equally mis taken as to the will of GOD. Hence with far better reason might the laws against witchcraft, and those which punished adultery with death, be part of our legislation, since they were undeniably the " will of GOD," as addressed to the Jews. It is now conceded by all, whose opinion is worth the slightest respect, that it never was the will of GOD to prohibit a man from marrying his wife's sister, except during her lifetime, in a country where polygamy was common. The canon, and it s accept tance by our refcrmers, being then confessedly founded on a misinterpretation of Scripture, even those who would conform English laws to the laws of MOSES have lost their own reason for this parti• cular law. It is acknowledged then that what makes this prohibition an essential is actually wanting ; yet our judges feel compelled to treat the prohibi tion as based on the will of GOD, not because they can affirm that it is so, but because their fore fathers, in the twilight of a crude refoi thought so, and because English law declares it to be so. Ilowever, what ought now to be done ? Can it be tolerated that numbers of virtuous and innocent persons should be subject to serious legal incon veniences, because our worthy but half-benighted ancestors mistook the will of GoD ? Thu decision in this case of the highest authorities leaves but one legal resort,--alteration of the law. Is it too much to hope that the Lords, as legislators, will have the good sense and wisdom to reverse their decision as judges? Or rather to pronounce, in the former capacity, that they can no longer permit to he law what in the latter capacity they feel bound to affirm is law. They have, ministerially, been compelled to perform the cruel part of inflicting severe penal ties on the perfectly innocent—can they be so heartless as to leave the summa injuria consequent on their summunz jus unredressed ? Or will they go to the extreme of punishing those who did not even intentionally violate the law of their " domi cile"—believing, on the authority of legal advisers, that that Act left them a'means of marriage open, which it might have prohibited directly, and not through a construction which requires an hour's judgment to prove it a sound one? In the case of those who have married abroad, honestly believing such marriages to be legal there, it revolts all our notions of justice that they should suffer for the obscurity of the Act. There are, however, thousands besides affected byl the law as it stands, who have morally a claim; to release from all the civil penalties under which! they lie. They have indeed defied a law, an Act of Parliament, but they have not defied the principle! on which the Act is based. They have not defied, the principle which by the confession of all the, learned Lords makes the prohibition an essential of marriage. They have one and all respected the will of GOD in the matter. They have respected what Bishops and Archbishops have acknowledged to be the will of GOD —at least we doubt whether the most rigid canonist among the Bishops would pledge his reputation for Biblical scholarship on affirming that the canonical interpretation of the old passage in Leviticus is not a false one. They have obeyed the spirit of the Act by violating its letter. Three learned Lords especially declared that conformity to " the will of GoD" was what the Acts on the subject sought to attain. This intention of legislation hap also been the intention of the persons who suffer from rigid construction of the letter of the Act. We must maintain that such persons are not to be made the victims of Acts which do not, in the judg ment of the vast majority of the living, fulfil their own object. All such persons may properly be regarded as dissenters from the canons of their own Church on this point, although termed Churchmen ; but their Lordships have to consider the equally large number of Dissenters who feel it to be a direct infringement of their religious liberty that they should live under Canonical and Episcopal egislation. It is Rot denied that, bu' for the Canons which Dissenters do not" acknowledge, but which the Church thus fat accepts, no one would have now dreamed of the, . t absurd prohibition in question. It is also undeniable that the Act by which Dissenters are persecuted isi the late Bishop of LONDON'S Act, not Lord LYNDHURST'S, as it is commonly termed. On the 23d of July, 1858, the venerable Lord, in his place in the Upper House, declared that the Bill was sc altered in committee in this respect that he could no longer acknowledge it, and added emphatically that "the Right Bev. Prelate was infact the author of the Bill." Now that the Law Lords have shut, the only, door supposed to be open, Dissenters will certainly not be put down by a Bishop's Act which inflicts on them' penalties because they cannot conform to what they deem either his High Church 44 prejudices or intolerance, or bath. Let Bishops] they will say, inflict penalties if they like, and it their flocks will submit to it, on contumacious Churchmen, but let not us who reject the authorit3 of canons and of prayer-books too, be tied V. episcopal apron strings. We have but one remark more to make. The country has declared its opinion again and again, not only by petitions of unusual weight and character, and in great numbers considering the small number of persons affected, but by their representatives in the Lower House. If this consideration and the position of severs: thousand innocent persons do not move the House of Lords this session to grant prompt redress, the wronged parties must consider the best course they can take., It may be well worth their while to establish an office to register the marriage contracts of those to whom the Peers of England alone deny a web proved right. Such a record of a con tract solemnl made and witnessed will be satisfactory evidence of marriage to all the parties most interested—and in time, as in the case of the Society of Friends and of the Dissenters, register of their own births connection with their own places of worship, the Legislature will be but too thankful to accept Bud well-kept registers as valuable evidence of past marriages. The bigotry of our METERS Ox.romps, and CHEL:NISFORDS—their determination to make Church supremacy ride roughshod over Dissent and common sense too cannot last for ever. All such obstinacy, though tenacious of life, is mortal in a land of liberty; and, when it gives up the ghost, the Registrar-General will be grate ful for the Registry which we venture to suggest. His Serene Highness Prince Victor of Hohen lohc-Langenburg arrived at St.:Jarnes's Palace on Satur day, from Germany, in order to attend the funeral of hell Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. His serene high. ness left town yesterday afternoon for Windsor. His Serene Highness the Prince Holstein Augustenburl,, , has arrived at Howchin', Hotel, fromi Germany. The Duke and Duchess of A tholl have arrived a the St. George's Hotel. The I)uehess (Dowager) of Sutherland and Lads Blantyre left Stafford House on Saturday for Cliefden, neat Maidenhead, to pass several weeks in retirement. _ -IFUNERA.L OF .11ER ROYAL BIG-LINESSi THE LATE DUCHESS OF KENT. The funeral of her Royal Highness the late.. :Duchess of Kent took place to-day at eleven o'clock!:• The body, up to this time, has remained at Frog-i `more, whence it was removed at four o'clock this, morning. The removal was effected with the' 'strictest privacy. Oa arriving at Windsor the : ,, , coffin was laid in the Wolscy Chapel, adjoining the[; ,' '';Chapel Royal, where it remained until the hour p ' . . i' qfixed for the funeral ceremony. r. ,t.': The coffin bore upon a gilt plate the inscription :r . ;;ss ,(:.- v--iLe 8 it' , Victori Maria) Louisa), P . k Ducis Lantia) et Strathernire Vidua, 'r : Matris Augustissimm et Potentissimaa :- 1 : l i)t r u i m Illust ncipissa3 r Illustrissimi Principis Edwardi, Victoria°, i: Dei Gr9,tia Britanniarum Regina, ,t:. Fidei Defensons, ~ Obiit sexto decimo die Martin, MDCCCLXL. r Annoque 813 tatis 75." ~„ The following is the official programme of the (ceremonial On the niornin,;• of Monday, March 25, 1861, the remains of her late Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent andl Strathern, daughter of his late Serene Highness Francis'?, Frederick Anthony Duke of Saxe Coburg Saalfeld, mother f" 1 of her Majesty the Queen, and widow of his late Royal Highness Edward Duke of Kent and Strathern, will be pri-,'!.1 vately removed from Frogmore House to the nave of SOI George's Chapel, Windsor, near to the tomb of her late% Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte, in the choir of which chapel they will be deposited until the "ti and consecration of the mausoleum now in the course ofl construction in the grounds at Frogmore. In strict accordance with the understood wishes of hei late Royal Highness, the funeral will be conducted in the; most private manner, and the following limited ceremonial will be observed :ri The body having been previously conveyed, in thel strictest privacy, from Frogmore House to St. George's Chapel, where it will be received by the Vice-Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household, will there remain under the! charge of the officers appointed by the Lord Chamberlain, until the hour fixed for the funeral service. At half-past ten o'clock those who have had the honour to receive the Queen's commands to attend the ceremony, but who do not take part in the procession, will be admitted to St. George's Chapel, and will be at once conducted to seats in the choir. At eleven o'clock the royal family and other royal per-1 sonages will assemble in the Chapter•-room of St. George's Chapel, from which they will be conducted to their places' in the procession by the Lord Chamberlain. The Dean and Canons of Windsor, attended by the choir, will receive the body at the anti-chapel, and then join the procession. The remainder of those appointed to take part in the pro cession, having previcusly assembled in Wolsey's Chapel, will form in the following order in the nave of St. George's' Chapel Pages of ler late Royal Highness. Dressers of her late Royal Highness. House Steward of her late Royal Highness. Medical attendants upon her late Royal Highness. Chaplains to her late Royal Highness. Equerries to her late Royal Highness. Gentlemen in Waiting upon the various members of the Royal family, and representatives of absent royal per sonages. Equerry in Waiting to the Equerry in Waiting to the Prince Consort. Queen. Groom of the Bedchamber to Groom in waiting to the the Prince Conscrt. Queen; Lord of the Bedcharcber to Lord is Waiting to the the Prince Consort. Queen. The Choir of Windsor, The Canons of Windsor. The Dean of Windsor. THE CORONET lof her late Royal Highness, borne by Lord James Murray, Equerry to her late Royal Highness. Controller in the The Vice- Lord Chamberlain's The Lord Chamberlain, Chamberlain Department. THE COFFIN. Supporters of the Pall. Lady Fanny Howard. Lady Augusta Bruce. Lady Susan Lesliellel ville. Supporters of the Pall, Lady Katherine Ver non licreourt. Lady Garliner. Dowager Lady Cow per. Garter King of Arms. THE CIIIEF MOURNER. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE CONSORT ; supported by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, and attended by The Earl Spencer, Groom of the Stole to his Royal Highness. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. His Royal Highness the Count de Paris. His Royal Highness the Duke de Nemours. His Royal Highness the Duke de Chartres. His Royal Highness the Duke d'Alencon. His Royal Highness Duke Philip of \Vurtemberg. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar. His Serene Highness Prince Frederic of Schleswig- Holstein-Augstenburg. His Serene Highness Prince Victor of Hohenlohe- Langenburg. Upon arrival within the choir, the coronet and cushion] will be placed upon the coffin. His royal highness, the', chief mourner, will sit at the head of the corpse. His Royal, Highness the Prince of Wales and his Serene Highness the', Prince of Leiningen will sit on each side of his royal high ness. The ladies who support the pall will occupy stools] on either side of the coffin. The Lord Chamberlain will stand at the foot of the coffin. The other royal personages in the procession will be con ducted to stalls in the chapel. The attendants upon their royal highnesses will also be' seated. The rest of the procession, having previously ad vanced towards the centre of the choir, will remain there during the ceremony in the same order in which they en tered the chapel. The "Dead March in Saul" will be played while the procession moves up the chapel. The first part of the service and the anthem having been performed, the corpse will be lowezed into the entrance to the royal vault, and the dean will conclude the burial ser vice, upon which Garter King of Arms will proclaim the style of her late royal highness. After which the Loyal family mad other royal personages , will be conducted out the chapel, and the others cornpos• I ing the procession will retire. A guard of honour of the Scots Fusilier Guards will mount during the ceremony at the entrance to St. George's; Chapel. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE. Dress to be worn at the funeral of her late Royal High- ness the Duchess of Kent by all who form part of the pro cession, or who are invited to attend the funeral. Ladies.—Mourning morning dress, with crape veils; no bonnet. •, k4 g". 1: 4 1 , T -41 r 44.7 tu , W k - • MALTA, MARCH 22, 8 P.M. M. Hensken, the Secretary of the American Minister at Jeddo, Japan, has been murdered. The Foreign Ministers are reported to have re tired to Kanagnawa. (?) The Prussian treaty has been signed. NAPLES, MARCH 24, 4 p.m. It is asserted that Francis 11. will leave Rome for Bavaria on the 2d April. Neapolitan noblemen are daily returning from 'Rome to Naples. Prince Dentice has arrived at Naples. The formation of the new Ministry at Turin has produced an excellent impression here. The office of Director-General of the Post has been suppressed. I Public opinion at Naples is favourable to the centralisation of the Administration now being ,carried out. POSEN, MONDAY. M. Alukhanoff took his departure from Warsaw with great precipitation. He was unable, however, to avoid encountering popular demonstrations at the railway terminus, which were repeated at the other stations on his route. Advices from Berlin state that the anniversary of the King's birth-day was celebrated on the 22d inst. with great rejoicings. At night Berlin was brilliantly illuminated. The .tit. Petersburg Gazette publishes the Imperial manifesto for the emancipation of the Serfs. It bears date 19th February (March 3d). BELGRADE, MARCH 23. The Turkish Commissioner has proclaimed the act of amnesty granted to the Christian refugees of the Pashalik of Nissa. The refugees have declared, however, that they cannot venture to avail themselves of the amnesty, and have sent a petition to the Sultan. Servia is tranquil. Agitation prevails in the southern frontiers of the Principalities. CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 16. The Bulgarian bishops have been excommuni cated and sentenced to exile by the Greek Patriarch. Sir Henry Bulwer and the Dutch Minister have, however, interfered, and prevented the execution of the sentence of exile. The issue of guaranteed and redeemable paper money is now under the consideration of the Go vernment, and is likely to be made. PARIS, MARCH 24. The Paris papers publish a telegram, dated Con stantinople, 13th inst., announcing that Prussia and Austria, like France and Russia, had remitted notes to the Porte stating the urgent necessity of reforms. On account of the insurrection in the Herzego vina, and the fears entertained respecting other provinces, the Porte had called out 50,000 redifs. The emigration of Christians from Damascus continued. The Paris papers publish a telegram, dated Con stantinople, 20th inst., stating that the Porte had consented to the prolongation of the occupation of Syria. The International Commission at Beyrout had demanded the prompt execution of the condemned Druses. Yelp Pasha would leave for Paris on the 27th inst. WARSAW, MARCH 23. A proclamation has just been published announcing that the resignation of M. Muh kanoff has been accepted by the Emperor. The announcement has been received with the greatest enthusiasm by the people. VENICE, MARCH 23. In consequence of the popular demonstration which took place here on the 18th inst. in honour of Garibaldi five persons, natives of Udine—two from Pardinone, two from Verona, and one from Treviso—have been arrested and conveyed to Olmutz. Two other persons have been conveyed to Iglau and Hrubschitz. VIENNA, MARCH 23 (Evening). The Cesterreichische Zeitung of to-day.says : " The Russian Ambassador here has been ordered by his Government to officially declare that Russia disavows any participation with Montenegro in the insurrection in the neighbouring provinces, and that Russia had sent an energetic note to the Prince of Montenegro. M. de Balabine, on receipt of this notification, made the necessary communi cations to Count Rechberg and Prince Callimaki, the Turkish Ambassador." TURIN, MARCH 24. In the Senate M. Sforza has formally requested the Government to take steps for inducing France to withdraw her troops from Rome. Count Cavour has announced to the Chamber of Deputies that the Ministerial programme has undergone no change. LITERA7U.RE. Lucy Melville ; or, Lost and Found. 3 vois. Hurst ald Blackett. This is a very pleasing story, there are a great many characters introduced, and altogether we meet with almost every variety of disposition. The author is particularly happy in the sketches of young girls, of whom there are many to grace and enliven these pages. The heroine Lily is a delight ful picture of a sensitive and refined disposition ' early initiated into the cares and trials of life. The story is another of those tales, whose name is, in deed, " legion," of an " enfant trouve," with which the literature of every land abounds; but in this case there is some novelty met with, as a very long period elapses before the discovery is made. Mr. and Mrs. Lacy are patterns of domestic bliss and bright illustrations of virtuous parents, whose hope is to rear up their family in the ways of pleasant ness and the paths of peace, and whose happy des tiny it is to have those prayers answered, and those wishes fulfilled—a more charming family could hardly be imagined than that of the Grove. Not alone did the benignant influence extend over the immediate members of the home circle, whose sons grew up as the young plants, and whose daughters shone as the polished corners of the temple, but all those received beneath the roof were benefited. Effie, the wild and untutored West Indian girl, and Lily, the desolate outcast, were alike made happy and at home there. Mrs. Granville is very adroitly sketched as a woman who was so wrapt up in external requirements, that she constantly forgot everything else. Minnie, her beautiful young daughter, reaped the bitter effects of the unwise conduct on the part of her mother. Had it not been for the fortunate introduction to Mr. and Mrs. Melville, her death would have been a dark hour, indeed, and the summons of the king of terrors would have been more dreadful to the proud daugh ter of the princely house than to the meanest dweller of the cottages around. Mary, the eldest daughter of Mrs. Lacy, had married dr. Melville, the rector of Mrs. Granville's parish, and the wise counsel and loving ways practised at the Grove bloomed with fresh beauty and flourished in in creased vigour in the new soil into which they had been transplanted. Henry Granville, thy possessor of the estate, was fortunate in choosing Ellen, the second daughter of the Lacys, as his partner. The excellent advice of Mr. Melville so affected his pre vious good disposition, that he eschewed his mother's worldly maxims and set out for himself in the new path put before him. He became one of those favoured few and far between who are the protec tors of their property, in the purest sense of the term, with whom the welfare of their people is a sacred trust committed to them by Providence, for which they will one day have to give a strict account. Ellen is the most pleasing of the ladies met with ; she is beautiful and graceful, but these are her least attractions. She possessed an intelli gent mind and a kind heart. She was placed in more difficult positions than the rest of her family ; she emerged successfully from the trial, and when exalted so much above them all, she was the same unaffected and gentle being that she had been in her girlish days. Dr. and Mrs. Scott are most ludi crous specimens of humanity. Mrs. Scott was the sister of Mrs. Lacy, but of a totally different dispo sition. She had been quacking herself all her days, and finally, to the horror of her friends, married her laSt grand discoverer, in the medical line, in the full hope and confident expectation that he would be able to retire from business and devote all his abilities solely to her. This hope proved futile and this expectation illusory. 'When they were mar ried Dr. Scott threw physic to the winds, insisted on the immediate and final dissolution of her •nerves, of which every one who had met her had heard so much, and if she proved refractory to the rules of the new pharmacopoeia, he compelled her to rise early and to take violent exercise before break fast. Her health improved greatly, but she felt utterly disappointed. Mr. and Mrs. Bell and their daughters afford a glimpse of another phase of life ; here we meet with a vulgar woman who tyrannises over natures refined beyond her comprehension. Mr. Bery was the rector of the village where the Lacys resided. He it was who first adopted the outcast Lily, and, at his death, transferred her as a sacred charge to the family at the Grove. The brief record of his only daughter is a most touching pas• sage in the story. Lucy Bery is one of those bright beings who seem now, even here, to bear about them traces of that angelic world on whose confines their spirits are lingering. Mr. Bery was a true pastor to his flock, and his whole life was devoted to the holy work in which he had engaged. He seemed a copy of the beautiful lines of Goldsmith— " And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt her new-fledged offspring to the skies, lie cheered each flight, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds and led the way." The meeting of the long parted parents and their beautiful child is affectingly narrated, and at the end of the story there are some bright pictures drawn of the felicity of the group who have long figured before us, This is a light story with nothing very remarkable in it, but it gains upon the attention by its beautiful descriptions of home life, and it interests throughout by its attractive characters. Those who desire an agreeable subject for a few hours' perusal will be delighted with " Lucy Melville," and many might gain hints how to make home happy, by studying the ways of the household of the Grove, who truly dwelt together in unity. These volumes present a graceful and genial sketch of English country life, mingled with variety in incident and vivid discriptions of dif ferent characters. Paul the Pope, and Paul the Friar : a story of an Interdict. By T. Adolphus Trollope, author Gf "A decade of Italian Women," &c. Chapman and Hall. There are probably few readers of the present time who are at all familiar with the events of the great struggle between Pope Paul V. and the Vene tian Republic, which,in its day agitated all the Courts of Christendom, and engrossed the attention of monarchs and statesmen. Yet that struggle was not withoutlasting effect, and had it terminated dif ferently the consequences to the ultimate develop ment of social and religious liberty might have been serious. Pope Paul the Fifth, who had passed the greater part of his life among the musty records of Roman law, found himself unexpectedly elected to the Pontificate in 1506. He came to his new dig. nity impressed with the most exaggerated views of his own authority and importance, and his pas sionate and obstinate temper seconded only too well the suggestions of his intellect. He availed himself of every opportunity of asserting the dig nity of the Popedom, and in several disputes which occurred with the neighbouring States, at the com mencement of his reign, he cbtained speedy sub mission on the part of his opponents by threats and menaces which he would not have scrupled to fulfil. He found, however, a very different antago nist in the Republic of Venice. That state, then eminent for the wisdom and patriotism of its rulers, refused to accede to his unjust demands. The Pope had long been displeased with the indepen dent attitude maintained by the Venetians, and was not slow to avail himself of the opportunity of ex pressing his displeasure. The points in dispute were two. In the first place the Senate had caused the arrest of two priests who had offended against the criminal law ; and, secondly, they had confirmed an old law which forbade grants of land to ecclesiastics. The immense portions of territory which had passed into the hands of the Church, and its exemption from taxation, rendered this statute necessary. After the interchange of remonstrances, expostulations, explanations, en treaties, and threats the Pope placed the whole of the Venetian territories under an Interdict ; that is to say, a wholesale excommunication. The senators of Venice, however, were nothing daunted. They refused to acknowledge that they had been in the wrong, and consequently declared the Pope to be acting under a mistake, and the Interdict to be null and void. They adopted the most active measures ; they prevented the publication or diffusion of the obnoxious document; they insisted on the priests continuing the performance of their accustomed duties, and such ecclesiastics who refused to disobey the Papal injunctions were at once transported be yond the frontier. They also kept up a large stand ing army ready to encounter less spiritual measures of enmity, and made continual and earnest repre sentations to all the chief Courts of Europe, of the state of the case. With all this, however, they refused t o ma k e any co ncession of their rights, and at length after a protracted struggle, and the active inter vention of France and Spain, ma tt ers were b roug h t to a conclusion, the Pontiff being obliged to sur render his extravagant pretensions. The two priests were surrendered to the French ambassador under pretence of paying a compliment to his King, and with the express stipulation that it was an exceptional case. The laws were left on the statute books, and Venice came forth triumphant from the dreaded encounter, professing complete equanimity andindifference. Th e c hi e f ac t or i n th e fi na l negotiations was Cardinal Joycuse, whom Henry IV. despatched as envoy extraordinary and mediator. Th e i n t er fe renc e o f Philip 111. o f Spain only tended to complicate affairs, while the counsels of our timid and talkative James I. were throughout most energetic and warlike. All through this fierce encounter the Senate was ad vised, assisted, and supported by the counsels of Paul the Friar, a member of the Servite brother hood, and one of the most eminent men of his day for natural ability and acquired learning of every kind. A contemporary and familiar associate of Galileo, it has even been doubted how far the con struction of the thermometer is due to him, while ...• • .. . • .• . • . . . ••• . • lb; • • • • • • .0 • THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY r,EVENINC, MARCH 25, 1861. FRANCE. BOURSE, March 23.—The market has been in animate. with very little business, and scarcely any variation in prices. Threes opened at 68f 20c., Railways unvaried. The following are the last quotations per per Cents ... 96 Credit Foncier 937 50 Do end month.... Belgian .. — 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 20 Roman Bank Shares 2880 Austrian 01-edit Mobilier.... 665 Spanish Threes 4B Do. Account 665 Home Debt 1 Lady Susan Vane Tempest, who has sufficiently recovered from her recent indisposition to leave town, ha gone on a visit to the Marchioness (Frances Anne) of Lon dondorry at Wynyard Park, near Stockton-on-Tees. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER-HALL.— The usual Passion-week performance of "The Messiah" ; PLYMOUTH, Saturday.—The ship Willi am T e ll , ii Captain Bonney, from Havre, on the 9th 4 March, for New'will take place on Wednesday next. Principal singers. Miss Louisa Pyne, Madame Sainton Dolby, Mr. Sims . York, was off this port yesterday. Letters dated Calcutta,' Reeves, and Mr. Santley. The rehearsals of Beethoven' s ...ol February 13, state that Messrs. Dunbar's ship Octavio wa s celebrated grand mass in D are proceeding so satisfactorily - appointed to sail on the 14th, with 99 soldiers, their wives, that it is confidently expected that the work will be pro , • and families for England. Another of their ships, the Lady duced at the following concert. . • Anne, Captain Sinclair, would leave witl troops in March, The Council of the Society of Arts have giver ;homeward bound. A third, the Minden, was engaged to to the Female School of Art permission tl hold an exhibi- 1 convoy European soldiers to Ne w Z ea l an d . tion of fine arts, in their great room, in the Adelphi, during C ONFERENCE ON THE BANKRUPTCY BILL. —A 4 the month of June. The profits of the exhibition will be conference, in which the Chambers of C ommerce o f L ee d s, applied to the building a new school of art. Bradford, and Huddersfield and the Manchester Associa D ES TRUCTION BY FIRE OF THE Fox TAVERN, - 1 tion for the Protection of Trad e , wers represen t e d , was LAMBETII. — This well •known tavern, situated at the I hours, in which the important clau ses o f th e bill were di s- 1 held in this city y es terday. It s s itti t occup i e d severa l' waterside, Lambeth, was totally destroyed by fire early on , Saturday morning. 1 cussed in detail, and the meeting was unanimous in resolv- 1 We (Army and Navy Gazette) understand that ::i ing to recommend modifications in the ',lenses referring to officers returning home from India, via the Cape, in charger the duties and responsibilities of the crecitors' assignee, and of invalids, will be allowed to count as service in Tndia the -* expressed a strong opinion that those chuses, as they now ITALY. three months following the date of their departure from =' stand, would defeat the object of the WI, and prevent any The Minister of Finance in the Piedmontese f that country. merchant undertaki n g the offic e o f cre ei tors ' ass i gnee. A Chamber has presented a bill to the Chamber of It is reported (says the United Service Gazette) .; deputation to London, with a view of promoting amend- i that Rear Admiral Sir H. Koppel has declined to accept "" went in these clauses when it reaches tae House of Lords, .. ~, -. . . . I nea by political re ugeesto save f their property the command of the South American station, and that, on!, was unanimously resolved upon.—Mamhe,ster Guardian. from BANK ROBBERY.—The chief casiier of the branchi Deputies for exempting from stamp duty all deeds sequestration. being relieved by Sir Baldwin Walker, he will return to - England. ;panic of England at Portsmouth, a 11r. Theakston, haso The Master of the Rolls proposes, ou the 16th of ' e 7 l been missing from that esproceeded to the tabliNhment since Friday last, some preliminary business, l The Italian Senate, in its sitting of the 20th, April, to make a call c f 10s. per share on the contributories and w ith hi m Imo i n gold. So far tie discovery of the4discussion of the bill for the abolition of feudal of the Deposit and General Life Assurance Company. RENEWAL OP THE BUILDERS' STRIKE.—We un- *--;. t4less extends at present, but, as Theakston had been in theptenures in Lombardy, and voted the two first establishment during the time it has been in existence at derstaud that the bricklayers and masons are about to re.- Portsmouth (2 , 5 years), and at the time of absconding was in roc ipt of a salary of £lOO per annum, it is. feared that Ho , w r read commence the strike which was defeated in 1859. In spite Oresig,nation of the Cabinet, Oarticics. The Minister of a J f u te s r ti l c v e hi a c ri h n t o h u e n; l e in d is t t h er e of the efforts to introduce other topics into the dispute, o.other discoveries will yet be made. Thealc;ton left a note,; ive despatch • d from a the a sam telegraphice day, announcing i;a virtually the same question as before, namely, a limi-, the hours of labour to not more than nine. On addressed to gentleman ' l • • !. a criip uy ed in the bank, in whichill f,,,,:ne stated that he had money sufficient to carry him to Lon-ti Ascoli on tation of ./, tress of Civitella del Tronto had surrendered to Saturday the workmen employed by Messrs. Lucas andil"°n, and that he intended to destroy himsel. Ei'Gren. Mezzocapo, after a cannonade which lasted , v-;, , Kelk and Sir Morton Peto were to remove their tools andl FORGED BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES.— Tneremfour days, as already known. re t c h e at the for cease work. From one or two other smaller firms the `fare a great many forged notes of the Bank of England his at- y ,i A Turin letter sa s:— " I have received men also "go out." A s in the case of t he strike at MessrsVresent in cir cu l a ti on . Th ere i s a very s i mp l e way of find-rnews of Garibaldi from a person formerly a Major Trollop's, rn 's, the masters, it is thought , will adopt the saei- ing out whether a note i s goo d or b a d. Th e diff erence be army, who has just arrived here from Caprera. course as in 1859, and close the ir y ards till work is resumed. tween a good note and a f orge d one i s th at t h e f ormer has-.;iii : at Messrs. Lucas and Kelk's and at Sir Morton P e t o ' s. I n the watermark produced in the manufacture of the paper, ~, i . a . , The Gen era l t o ld hi m th a t for the moment there was ,4! the case of Messrs. Lucas the stri ke is p ar ticularly unfor-•i n the latter is produced by embo s si ng . If a goo d nothing to be done." !;, tunate, as they are th e con t rac tors for the Great Exhibitionknote is wetted with a sponge and held up to the light the - building in 1862. Th e groun d has already been brokenwa;ermark remains, and is even clearer than before; but if , Sadler's Wells Theatre has been taken by Mr. at Kensington, an d th e prepara tions advanced for laying _this is done to a forged one the watermark entirely disap- :Josephs, for a spring season, to commence on Easter the foindations of the brick walls, but now all is stopped, spears. Monday. Gentlemen.—Black evening coat, with trousers and boots; white cravat; round hat. Stars and ribbons will be worn. RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1421 25 .. 1422 50 Northern New ditto B9B 75 .. 898 75 Lyons and Mediterranean 955 .. 955 Geneva no .. 391 25 Southern 540 .. 540 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard . . his countrymen believe him to have forestalled Harvey in the discovery of the circulation of the blood. In the strife of pens and wordy harangues, citation of authorities, references to ancient manu scripts, and hair-splitting disquisitions, which, in accordance with the spirit of the time, were called forth by the quarrel, Friar Paul especially distin guished himself, and his labours in behalf of the Republic were unceasing. Familiar with the secrets of Rome, and well skilled in theological learning, he would have been a formidable opponent even without the vigorous intellect and inflexible integrity that were his most formidable weapons. When the struggle was over, it is not surprising that the partisans of Rome looked with the deadliest enmity on him who had lent such efficient aid to the rebellious senate, and sought every means to entrap him. The friar was too wise to trust himself out of Venice, and failing other means of revenge, his enemies had resort to the despicable crime of assassination. The intended victim, how ever, survived the attempt, and the Senate re doubled its rewards and precautions. It is satis factory to find that this eminent man died a natural death at an advanced age in 1622, a year after the death of Paul the Pope, his old antagonist. The readers who are acquainted with Mr. Trollope t g style will readily imagine that this story loses nothing in his hands. His familiarity with the Italian history of that epoch, and his fervent sym pathy for religious liberty and free government, qualify him in no ordinary degree for the task he has undertaken. His opening chapters on , g The Time" and " The Men," prepare the way for the succeeding events, and make the reader acquainted with the scene of action. His lengthened account of the election of a Pope, taken from an old Italian work by one of the Cardinal's secretaries, is very curicus. The work is, perhaps, somewhat too voluminous. We can readily believe that the maze of correspondence and accumulation of documents, through which he has waded, make his own work a mere epitome by comparison, but nevertheless a fur ther condensation of his materials would have made it more acceptable to the general reader, without in any degree depreciating its value, as repetitions both of narrative and reflection occasionally occur. The English public are, however, indebted to Mr. Trollope for a very interesting volume, which, in connection with his former, and we hope with MS future, works, will tend to increase the very limited knowledge generally possessed among us of the history of the Italian Republics. The following tribute to the wisdom and ability of the Venetian Government affords a fair specimen of the author's style : But if the gratitude of all succeeding generations, and especially of the present, has been,!and is, due, in a greater measure, perhaps, than has been generally recognised, to Father Paul, to a still greater degree have the historians of the various European nations failed to mete out a fair measure of recognition to the sagacious, intrepid, and patriotic government, which employed, protected, and backed him, and which, at a time when greater nations froul corrupt motives would not, and weaker communities dared not, oppose the encroachments of Church power on the secular affairs of mankind, stood forth the champion of civil liberty and the supremacy of civil law. It was under the strong shield of the Venetian republic that the terrible Friar braved the power which, but for such protection, would have crushed him in an instant. It was at the bidding and for the laws of Venice that he fought as a Vene tian citizen, preferring loyalty to his humanity to loyalty to his tonsure. The position assumed by the Government of Venice in the great and all-important struggle which is to be the subject of the following pages, was truly such as to merit the admiration and gratitude of mankind. But in this, as in various other respects, the peculiar and remarkable Go vernment which ruled Venice and its territory for more than eight hundred years, has been but superficially studied and very erroneously appreciated by the writers of popular history. The French historian Daru, whose work is one of pretension, and has incautiously been widely received as one of authority, has contributed much to this false and unjust estimate by its errors in fact and unfairness in re presentation. But a few picturesque lines by an univer sally-read poet have done perhaps even more to root in the contemporary popular niind a very mist iken notion of a Government which, though it was by no means free from the errors in practice and theory that belonged to its age, was for a period of many centuries decidedly in advance of any other European community, both in its conception of the functions of the Government and its mode of carrying out its views. A graphic poet spoken word or two of de scription of the prisons of the republic —a romantic story or two of the secret action and irresistible power of " the Ten" —have sufficed to enable the flash of genius to photograph on the pablio mind the well-known picture of a myste rious, remorseless, and tyrannic power, which serves •I the general reader" for an idea of that skilfully-constructed and well-poised system of government to which mankind has on many occasions owed so much. In vain the matter-of-fact traveller, rule and notebook in hand, visits the prisons, which have securely established themselves in all the nmantic imaginations of Europe, and proves that any jury of upholsterers would pronounce them far more com fortably habitable than many of our own. In vain it is suggested to the romance-of-history-loving mind that the Bridge of Sighs conveys by its poetically lugubrious name no such serious imputation on the authorities, to which it belonged, as for instance the phrase " Black Monday" casts on the administrations which made Mon day perennially " black" at the Old Bailey. The prose. man and humble dealer in facts finds it—not in this matter alone—a very up-hill and well-nigh hopeless task to undo that which the poet and the romancer have but too tbo' roughly done. The real history of Venice has yet to be written. Abun dant materials for it are now available which could h a rdly be said to be available a few years ago. It is a story second to none that mankind has ever acted in a ll that makes history valuable and delightful. We have much writing on the subject; but wo have not yet the history of Venice, in any language. The Ca2npaign of Garibaldi in the Two Sieilies. A Personal Narrative. By Charles Stuart Forbes, Commander R.N., author of " Iceland , its Volcanoes, Geysers, and Glaciers." William Blackwood. This is a most interesting little work, and it is sure to be one that will be received well anywhere , as it refers to one of the most striking men of the day, and one who will occupy a bright page in the annals of the history of the nineteenth century. The author of this book had the advantage of an acquaintanceship with the illustrious hero of Italian liberty, and hence he is enabled to write as one who knows of what he speaks, and has no fireside tale to tell us, since he has mingled in some o f the stirring scenes that have rendered Italy the stage of interest on which the eyes of Europe have been lately gazing. He thus writes :—" Courteously permitted by Garibaldi to follow the bent of my inclination, and honoured by his friendship, I passed many hours in his society, and ofttimes shared his frugal hospitality. If I ha ve a b s t a i ne d f rom dil at i n g on his character, it is because I feel that language fails to do him justice. The irresistible spell which enables him to usurp all hearts may be traced to the simple fact that he is what Pope has termed the noblest work of God, "an honest man." The period of his stay was very brief, but in those fesY months more events of importance occurred than, have often taken place in as many years. It w il l be found throughout these pages that a veil graphic description is given of all tliat took place of consequence, and that it is written in a fair spirit and an animated style. This record partaken of the character of a romance, when we contera plate the extraordinary echievements that wer e accomplished by a daring spirit and a devoted heart. There is a portrait of Garibaldi at the commence' ment, and throughout the book there are several illustrations, which furnish the reader with plans of the various battles and the places of the actions. These are of great service, as we can always form a better idea of an occurrence when all its details are spread out, and when the mind can better grasp the relative position of different places and their consequent influence on the events of the warfare. This campaign of Garibaldi is not un worthy of the land in which it took place, as Gari baldi observed to his companions in arms Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered, and.you will conquer still, because you are pre pared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles. You are not unworthy of men who pierced the ser' ried ranks of a Macedonian phalanx, and contended not in vain with the proud conquerors of Asia' To this wonderful page in our country's histerl another more glorious still will be added, an d the slave shall show at last to his free brethren sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters. An impressive description is given of Garibald i distributing the medals to the remnant o f the " Glorious Thousand," who landed with him al Marsala. Ha appropr i ate l y and feelingly allu d e ' to those who had perished in the struggle in thes e words, "But many of those who went with us are now absent,—their bo nes are bl eac hi ng on tb fields of Calatafimi and Palermo, the Montano's!' the Schiaffinis, the Yiicko r i s : th ey will lle"; however, be forgotten ; let their families keep th testimonial of their vaour as an heirloom, and V: young veterans, who have survived to receive it with your own hands, remember that all is ° done yet, and that I trust a n d rec k on on 9°lt whenever your services sh a ll b e aga i n requ ire , ... A u o Let us begin the distributi on w ith th ose w h o hav, fallen in our sacred caus e ." Thi s e l oquent t r ibute the to the memory of those wh o h a d fallen by wayside before the prize had b een won , i s in accor , dance with the spirit o f th ose f amous lines of Byron,— " To us even banquets, fond regrets supply, In the red cup that crowns their memory, And the brief epitaph on dangers day, When those who win at last, divide the prey And cry, remembrance saddening o'er each brow, How had the brave who fell, exulted now." The styi The the readingauthor community this w ork nhas presentingconferred b a c benefit o_ 5... 3 0, e incise an account of a most important and inter citing episode in the history of nati ons . The all is attractive from its vigour and vivacity, and e who desire to refresh ni their m emor i es b y the pill usal of the Italian incidents of l as t a utull :Y`,„ do well to possess themselves of this work which they will find facts narrated that ,are , 01d s tranger than many ficti ons , an d t h e deeds of hero chronicled Why ;teems worthy of the good tiou fear glor cool fori Serb,