The Sun. — London, England, 1861-10-04 00:00:00

8.c ,, *INN-Jet-a a.m.' Lagan rota' orrr-Flot-s a.m.*`= s .N 'W'allAmarem-(24 March- /f-29 Sept.) Erranem-gordat THE ASTRAL PERIGEE' AN PHILOSOPHY. CINQUE-PORTAL, Wit-in-G" moot-court.--In B. c. Diez-Cing'kent-60. N. *Pilot-soar arc-en-cash bye utre _ ge o gra ph fuic to @over's 4% Arrow . • • : : off and-on, Diepp's-nouen to Lizard-Pt. oer Ind. Quadra,-, cu l m i na tion zodiac wend tQ terd M in orca 's Langue O'ock 40e N. Its state - rope Anchor flag - tow's pras-by Tyre 'round the fiat earth, as of Titus Vaspasian's meter, yr 79 on 1824-35 Act in ' i3acca-Conchea'd, leet-Crts. The Bote/oigne 'd illegal mittComfn Regatta fete of the 27-Bth, August'en A.D. 1861—as Eve sham'd.on " the after math-B' head' ng night of Ikon gapte'R"—issued on the 13th, Old Lammass-day from the " Mandato office (of Grand master of Malta's College, St. James's-st.", on U. S. c. 33, s, 7, 1800-2-as of Amiens treaty-Nap), in dupelex, welkin ,Paul the capson-scholastic,' by Goal LEwEs' Ship way seal' of ?Paris en a kirk Earth-moving' error. * cz• B. viz. " Command old words, that long have slept—to wake, Words that wise Bacon, and brave Raleigh spake." This fang awl. Barn/tin out-jlot f u s ,exchange as C orn hill-a t. nt-chaTc4. "Like age-father-131 Co-w.f.-BB (1712) like (IGO.* child sprig PALMERSTON 1861-as of H.j.T ror P i l t e s —cites the chart er o f Bristol by L. P. 9 Anwe, 24 baekwarn'ng to six, five, or four," combar - ( 011s ' in Jul for ' the sunk Cabotage) curvature a Latrinity - us -, ) sunk port, .G Q. inn Jet;m land wad-set' s prior t o op a o vil iNi u c on . , s tax 1291-97-Doge 11.'s 9th, at Shore-BA, , of resumed Review Bright-helm -stone meridian of Lo ndo n ls for" Carthage-mud port-Coe hon,Edict Com d ff n n o . w , f era in Egypt's 1828," by 9-10 W. 3d, ;ificunt--Em i - o. 15, for undersigned's sole Etruscan " Arbitrat'm Arias ont toe' as G' log 68'0 'twist Turkish ALT, and Codrington, who in Clandian letter-A, didn' . t— t " Scorn arbitration as a s am 9th] To ninth and tenth of William's reign." [nO 10th. So, " no 1581's E a rthrolling-bulls," with a 'Fiat earth cm.* 6'er Jeef amen'ys astral.—lst, See Edw . Lyafgue.e2.l°-re-enacted_in_ 1832, 8 s by 2-3 IT., cap. 92; see.4—entitled, The S u b mis si on p mb an o the Clergy Restraist appeals — as yet pending al's Brazil-9, in None of APPe 25 Henry 8, cap. 19, viz., Whereas divers intervention, life-titled noblemen and spiritual persons have sent out civil-summons, in their own names, as in the time o f the usurped powers of the Bishop of Rome, con t r ary to the common law, touching writs in lay causes of correction, de sure patronatus, and probates of testaments —Be it enacted, that all such citations or other processes by advocates or other officers on behalf of the King's High ness, do bear the EchoKnightrider's fiscustom'ary endorse ment, as well as the Common-clerk's name placed under the citor's name, and after the registered seal, in " Die Baaren Jet; M" TEST to wit. 0 Pevensey : : ;lofts. transit mane in Antcec right o'er N.Z. Waitangi's " Brother and sister's" treaty. -(-0. S.2oei . Az'rs as ; ponti-Phi/imore. Thus— Lvganunt-Rotalorum's of Kent, under eubsyderal lathe epochs for P. f audits to Bow towns Bprefix 51i0N., its L'ond'on -wave over cr) Wall-iu-ford bye --.feirencester Seven hundreds' in 34-HEN. Alnothus, to 1-4 Hen. 4's hogshead of wine Jus-" _Ex-change-A 1." as of _Bristol's"' leva languo" in altgmare Conic-meet, of Fresh and salt water Admiral's Court," not of a Co-mercer's brewing -sup.' " Think deep.—or touch not the Pyrean spring," may. Whence, by 1 Philip & Mary, c. 7, "No man shall exercise the office of Justice Conservator (to Water bailirs Silver-oar, of July, 1521, 81—now Utzecht's Indian-paddle Treaty of 1713-63, as of Mexico's Philipine isled Bohun inspector of all gfiseal-f meter-Crts.), who like WOLSET, shall take en himself the power to direct and serve his own precept.' Wherefore this Negative • since (by Russn-Dutch loan on America's double-hdd-ea g les-xopacx, in Mingan trust-acts of 1832), pension'd Church-Queen's " in 03 —of a, by civil list, —tho' in 6'er"left facts"—have ceased to be the head of Malcolm in.'s a.a.e -son monetary Trust in presbyteralkindred I, and at your peril disobey this law —for ' one and all' as based on Agricola's B;cot and lot hand-up ceremonial,'—typic on Caesar's silver coinage for electing yearly the Ex'change shat, cn !9th Sept., or Simi-call-meze—*maiistrates, en union echo-wall with the 24th March one—in murri nomine"l—. 27, Aug. 31, 1861 [unpaid 7 jan.ter martyr 19 yrs], London, PETER. BASQUET, II The flag-union Jag, Ist Fruit a. m M p, m. pacca-corn hill'd- tribune of Income-tax freeman,AntipQd'n Crown Colonf chief Bulo. tea' of 1842, as the Criminal Law's Extradi- Temple. tion Act, Constable of the Sea Shores, Labanchere. bearing .Kamerica's paddle of Admiral's g 4 [2 March, '4l] Court, late in Canterbury's (34-Guizots H. M. Perley. settlement for New Zealand's Probate 3 Sept, '4l. Crt., its gial lure poy Stil'lordWarden v tho' cruelly set up a ecca machine. in " Baccarisa gentis imagines." N. • * C neui,Es ' ACKERLEY, J.P. of Carib- allyd f England, elected 29th August, 1825 (by Ad- .•• : : miral G. Hamond, Stuart do Rothsay's Sec- Crown rotary; Marcus Hill—Sarnm, .Presbyter, egu, on The holy alliance abolition,' of King- p clubs), its Standard meter-bearer 1837—Lt. 1 pay'd double-oathii'd victim—supporter Si of poor indian PETER 10 yrs, by Indian female Peu Qu' sponsorship 1820—thro' Quebec's Hamilton-' Rien Dalhousie, in Elder's duty for nis and own's S.P.Q.R, instant State-birth provision, as the Mon tague Subsidy first-fruit loan 1814'20's, major Tresor- Cartwright's successorial Ombra-Irhomo, to trove. 1322'99's Quadra Manfredum'y depeccaria,' Conche'd in 1-2 W. 4, Na. 54, naming Act. To all metre-roded Councils General' in nature's Year-law, under 1835's Municipal and Reform Acts to Mayor's local supremacy (against New" Comfa 'Grippe-Jesus' Christian Clubs, 11 Geo. 111, c. 55, male or female," as at Dover and Burgh Ports 1772's on the resignation aver-bull'srun of Clement 14's Jesuit priest Abolition, for Earth Lay resumption for all allotments of land) over the yearly Poor-law Guardians—(as are for the time being) on 1603's church Canon in vestry'red lettered functional succession —an afterthought of Q. Elizabeth's. P. C. 1' nunLEY-men, for oaths in retrospect sense for sound office. Papal-tribuner of purse minor E x -change bA pointers* o.s. Fiat-earth's Pi 6re' an Philosophy to 1582, on COWPER'S 1671's liuitson " Chiliarcha?r" of St. Michael's PENN for Vox humane' organ pipe -run' ? 16g2,—t0 Jan. 14, 1814. T. Foreign Quarterly Review, Nov., 1829, p. 303 ; and Maritime Register, 17th Aug., 1861, p. 1051. Survey Arbitrations.—By 9 10 W. iii, c. 15, it is enacted, " That merchants, sole - traders—(and all Antipode'ans SR those under the 'Turkish, 1809-Dardanell'd Pacli; hi. Jan' Bailled treaty,' 1841)—desiring to end their controversies by arbitration, may agree that their submission of their suit to an Award or umpirage (as of Africa's 1828 trust on Thony Monthermer' ACXERLEY, Flag-Lt. of Ocean 74),—0f any person, should be made "on Captain Cook's mono rule in tribal right MAonrc i " of his Majesty's Admiralty courts of Record ; and in case of disobedience to such award or Umpirage, the parties neglecting or refusing (F. Q. Review, Nov. 1829),—t0 perform the same, shall be subject the Penalties:of Contemning a Rule of Court, as apper taining to the Anglo-Saxon Mexi-Spanish trust, as Cuba- Philipne'd on 1763-4-State Grants, reset 31 Jan. 1842-3, on the Carib-micniac'd for the whorle's head Inn-fan-Gee and Out-fan-G.—suatentation " Locatelli's." "Neath polar Astra's warring wolf to fawn, And view with trembling whom they view'd with scorn.' A LFRED MELLON'S PROMENADE CONCERTS. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. LAST WEEK BUT ONE. Te last CLASSICAL NIGHT will take place this Even ing, on which occasion the first part of the Concert will consist of a Selection from the works of MOZART and BEETHOVEN. The second part will be Miscellaneous. The following Vocalists will appear :—Mdlle. PAREPA, Miss POOLE, Mdlle. GEORGI, Mr. V. RIGBY, and M. FONTANIER (his first appearance). Commence at 8. Promenade, ls. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. To-morrow (Saturday), the Last VOLUNTEER NIGHT, when Beethoven's Battle Piece will be performed by the Orchestra, and the Bands of the Victoria Rifles and the City of London Rifle Brigade. On Monday, Haydn's CREATION (the entire work). Ori Wednesday next, for the Benefit of Miss Julia Woolf. pIitEATRE.ROYAT.. HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. finckstone. rf~lS EVENING, the performances will commence with THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Shylock, Mr. Edwin Booth (from the principal American theatres); Launcelot Gobbo, Mr. Bucksfone ; Portia, Mrs. Charles Young. After which, BOX AND COX. To conclude with TURNING THE TABLES. Commence a 7. YA T. PR TNCE S S'S THEATRE, Laasee and Manager. Mr. A. Harris. T lIIS EVENING, THE RENDEZVOUS. After which, a new and original comedy, in five acts, writ ten byJohn Brougham, entitled PLAYING WITH FIRE ; characters by Mr. John Brougham (hie 6th appearance), Mr. Ryder, Mr. H. Widdicombe, Mr. G.*Jordan (of the principal theatres of the United States, his 6th appearance in Eng - lan 1), Mims C. Lelofercq, and Mrs. Weston. With THE GARIBALDI EXCURSIONISTS. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. 'P HIS EVENING, A MIDSUMMER'S EVE. Atter which, at Eight o'clock, the new and success ul comedy of WOMAN ; or, Love against the World. Chararters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Veen, J. Robins, Mrs. Charles Young, Mrs. Weston, Miss Murray, and Hiss Lydia Thomson. whi Po :11 Mis conclude with AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE , i n s Quick Step, Lydia Thompson will danee a New Volunteer 7. icesas as usiul t commence boors open at half-past 8, to at Box - ice open daily from 11 till 5. 1E w THRA , pi t y --ROYAL. ADELPHL— ,.I solo Proprio,,,, and Man, If r. B. Webster. O p en f or the Winter Season. T!1 rs EVENING. MUSIC C l HAlM aw e . sers. p. insher, Romer, Warde, BAT H l and Laidi Alter which (242c1 time). Tq E 3crocicault, D. Fisher, SAWN. Mr. tl. 1, Smith, Romer. Howard. Ward ; •%rery , Stephenson, Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs, H. Le wis,_oueicault, Miss m aressrsi Fisher, l'oconclude with LOVE AND HITNo r R i Emery, C. J. Smith, Mrs. H. Marston, and Doors open at half-past 6—Commence g e 1 ANTERBURY HALL CONC ERTS, - - AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. 31 r. SAM COWELL evcry evening at Nine and a quarter 4; Mayen Also, Grand Selections from , TROVATORE, WU A VIATA, NORNIA , MARTHA, &c. By Miss Russell. gins Ernst, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, Mr. Morley, and a powerful Chorus. The Comic department comprise' Messrs. Harvey and 'French. " The Nerves " -Mr. afar-hall —Mr. Wood and his talented Son—and Miss Harriet Coveney Musical Director, Mr. Jonglimans. Admission-Hall, 6d. ; Stalls anJ Balcony, Is. O x F O R D, 6, OXFORD-STREET. ' EVERY EVENING. H A Grand Selection from Verdi's newopera, " Simon Boo canz,zra" (now produced for the first time in this country), by Miss Russell, Messrs. C. Greyille, Tivoli, Greene, Morley, and Herbert ; also from Verdi's " Macbeth," by Madame _En deratsohn and the entire Company. Full band and chorus. Conductor. Mr. F. Jonghmans. Varied Comic Entertain ments by Harvey and French (The Nerves), Wood and his 'on, E. 31arshali, and W. Randall. Hall, 6d. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private B oxe; Ns. 6d. HIGHWATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY.—Morning, lh. 30m.—Afternoon, ;Ih. 50m. i To-moßitow.-Morning, 2h. 10m.—Afternoon, 2h. 30m. THE WEATHER.—Strx OFFICE, °aroma 4, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 63—highest since noon yesterday. 53—lowest this morning and during the night. 64—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.16. WlND—South-Easterly—frestt gale; with fine weather. THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, OCT. 4, 1881. Some of our contemporaries seem disposed to amuse themselves with guessing the topics which the King of PRUSSIA and the EMPEROR are to dis cuss at Compiegne on Sunday evening. What some of them will be can be little doubted; it would be strange, indeed, if the affairs of all Europe were not matter of conversation, especially when we are assured that the visit ig one of cour tesy and goodwill, not of business. Perhaps we should have been more ready to think so if pains had not been taken to assure us of it, As it is, the meeting of the two monarchs will singgest all kinds of speculations to those who "put no confi dence in princes,"—and especially in princes who have done everything in their power to destroy confidence. It was not very long ago that the last threat of Earl RUSSELL was that use were to look round for new alliances in the event of a neighbouri ng Power showing itself so ambitious as to desire fresh accessions of territory. Prussia was commonly con sidered and understood to be one country between which and ourselves diplomatic cords were to be closer drawn, and a kind of offensive and defensive understanding to exist. We naturally, therefore, ask, what Means this visit of our ally presumptive to our antagonist presumptive ? Has England any interest whatever in it ? If we may answer specu latively, we should say none whatever., So far from caring a straw for the Prussian alliAnee, we should think it enormously dear at the pric e 'we have to pay to supplement the poverty of the ICING and his son, when we found the latter a wi fu, whom he could not maintain without a good ro v .nd sum per annum out of our treasury. We won der how much our German consorts, male and fen 18 de, have ever received from the Fatherland ! Er 1€ lishmen cannot look to Prussians as allies. TI is )y have deceived all round too often. They would sell us again at a day's notice if by doing so th.e y could ward off an invasion, or appropriate anot h er little principality, or set up a German fleet, or o btain as neutrals the carrying trade between two bellige rents, one of whom they knew to be viola ti ng, and the other maintaining the public law oi! Europe. We must say it openly, notwithstanding t h e differ ence in religion, and the long rivalry, we Ni could in finitely sooner have the French for allies i n any un dertaking than the Prussians. We should Ea 4 )ec t more sense of honour, and if not the absence ()1 selfish ness, yet a greater reluctance to exhibit it too bare facedly. As to the present KING, we know of n ithing to give us better hopes of him than we had from his brother. He is not so capricious and vaci 1 lating, it may be said. But then he is a dull, stub born old Conservative, of the most leaden German ype. Not one noble deed has he done since his aset )1 at to the throne. Italy has had as little as she co uld of his sympathy, though his Chambers, to do the n i justice, were better to her than he. As to Del 21 nark, he has used her disgracefully; the shabby man is actually joining with other Germans to , demand liberties foi the German population subje c t to the King of DENMARK, which, rather than g 'e to his own subjects, he would see them bayone tf :ed first. He has actually driven the brave inhab i tants of the little kingdom to prefer a war with. Prussia to enduring farther intermeddling. We cannot wonder that there should :be again a little flutter among the German Prince s, . Were we in their place we should not have they . smallest doubt that our territories would be dis, ci issed as matters of convenient exchange between the two greater territorial potentates. How in u .ch else where in Germany, would compensate for arrang ing natural boundaries on the Rhine, is a 'question which Louis NAPOLEON would certain ily not scruple to put, if he thought its answ a; r might conduce to the glory of the dynasty; and as cer tainly his Prussian MAJESTY would not: shrink from an answer involving a notice to quit to some of his neighbours, if he supposed the who) le thing would be to his advantage. Right or wror ig, such would be the opinion of all parties who cold d afford to speak their minds, and that being the case, all the Sovereigns likely to be affected by the discus sions at Compiegne must feel more or less un easiness. England can but look on with unconce? n. We could desire indeed a strong Austria, a strong Prussia, a strong Italy, and a strong Sprdi a. But Austria refuses in her despotic pride and s el fishness the first condition of strength—justice and loyalty to her nationalities. Prussia is worthLe SS as a leader of Germany, and helpless as a :military power, sprawling as she does over half s 0 ermany and what she has robbed from poor Poland. We can only look to ourselves. That we :mean to do ; and the Kings and Emperors must ; settle matters as_ they best can. We are ever ri 3ady to give our moral support to nations strug gl ing for liberty, but we care not for the schemes of ( lespots. English—our own good, honest native : . tongue, and the honours due to it, is one of the tx pies of the moment. A right sort of lecture on - I fanglish teaching, by the Rev. A. J. D'ORSEY, B. 1) ~ Eng lish Lecturer at Corpus Christi College, Cat n' bridge, now lies before us, urging the necessity of inst auction on our language itself; and daily letters in the newspapers are demanding that clergymon shall utter it in a manner worthy of its merits . The clerical delinquents, on the latter point, seem 3. to be the worst, judging at least by the numerous com plaints and the humble excuses. It is a 'clergy man, the Rev.J.D'ORsEY, who writes of his orkl4 r,that we " might listen to the way in which the $J harch service was read in nine cases out of ten as a proof (indistinct utterance, incorrect pronunciaticm, pro vincial accent, false emphasis, drawling ; monotony, &c.)—t o the dull, listless style in which sermons were composed and delivered, and to the painful attempts of most clergymen to do what the barrister or the member of Parliament did—speak without paper." To be sure our Parliament itself, where if we regard its name speaking must be held to :be an essential qualification, incurs a tolerably who)esale censure. "With some dozen exceptions, in neither House were there any really good public speakers. Of the 10,000 speeches made last session, 5,000 might have been spared, and the rest given in a tenth of the time, if the speakers had been trained to speak to the point, to say what they had to say in the fewest words." We must confess our fears hat . „ •." , ..•.i., .., J' 3 '....- ' U l . , % - t :•.. • ~t , , % . v .. *,..... N - • P li 4 AIIPIr. ' . 4.1;.... • * GI ''.. - is 'ft * ' • ft ...,. „1„ THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 4, 1861. most of our readers will shrug their shoulders and pronounce the lecturer of Corpus Christi College right. Mr. D'ORSEY would begin at the beginning. He does not in his lecture forget even the nursery and the first instructors of children. He quoted QUINTILIAN as to the choice of nurses with good pronunciation, and censured the carelessness of English parents in allowing vulgar, un educated servants to surround their children ; but it was to our National Schools and Universities that he chiefly addressed his observations. He ad verted to the sad condition of English teaching in our National Schools, proving his assertion from the reports of the inspectors. " He had ascertained that in our great public schools, no direct attention was paid to English ; no recognition of the dignity of our own language and of its idiomatic structure, so different from that of the ancient tongues ; no organized English department with an able Saxon scholar its head : most of the head masters being of opinion that sufficient provision was made by the c4.-dinary practice of translation, writing an occa sion3l theme, or declaiming a passage from SHAKE SPEARE on ' Speech-day.' Some exceptions existed,—the City of London School, King Edward's School at Birmingham, and the School at Bury St. Edmund's." We can all of us witness to the truth of those statements, unless we happen to have been in boy hood at the schools he names. Few, indeed, are the schools in which the grammar and structure of our own language are stuEied at all in proportion to its importance. Germans and Frenchmen do not treat their vernacular with such contempt as to leave it to chance whether it be spelt correctly and written , grammatically and in good taste. We have, per , haps, the richest language on earth, yet we seem as if we knew it not. We smooth it somewhat, no doubt, on the grindstone of Latin and of Greek; but, like the diamond, its beauty and worth can be fully developed only by friction with itself. No doubt much might be done from the com mencement to the termination of what we commonly mean by a child's and youth's education to give him a much better mastery of his own language. If required from childhood to express him self, on topics suitable to his age, in the most perspicuous, condensed, and correct language, we should not surely be bored as we are with sermons chiefly, and speeches in fair measure, which task our patience to the uttermost with empty verbosity, and by the violation of almost every rule of good taste. To some, just perceptions of propriety in language could, indeed, never be imparted. In regard to style, they resemble persons who have no ear for music playing an air mechanically. But, during the time which the great majority of the middle as well as of the upper classes attend school, even boys might soundly learn the principles of good writing. If, in regard to that comparatively early age, we might suggest a hint to schoolmasters, it would be to set their pupils to practise English composition, on topics thoroughly within the compre hension of boys. A greater error cannot be, we imagine, than to give a boy or even a lad such topics as the passions, or the virtues, or the cha racter of persons beyond their power to appreciate. The best description of cricket or football ; or of the different ways in which boys spend their money, or of their last excursion, or of a family of child dren's common characters, filled up from his own knowledge under fictitious names, would be far better practice, both for thought and composition, than anything not thoroughly under their command. General topics, on which a modern GOLDSMITH or a BACON would not find it easy to be pleasantly or profoundly original, are too often given to children. The result is a stilted artificial, or imitative effort. The thing required is to give the best expression to thoughts natural to a child. The child who can do this will be "father to the man " who can do it. Too often, we fear, from early habit, the man who sits down to write, or tries to make a speech, attempts something unnatural and artificial—something beyond—if we may allude to the oft-cited expression —first catching his thought, and then cooking it. As to our adult writers and speakers—the clergy especially, who have been so much before us of late, it is not for us to tender much of our advice. The Bishops, it seems, have taken their pulpit enunciation in hand, and certainly not too soon ; the worst is, it would now appear that Bishops have already tried their best, and with what results Mr. D'ORSEY has just told us. This augurs but unfavour ably for them as elocution masters ; or elocution examiners. The open expression of public opinion will, however, do much. All the pulpit readers and:orators will know that they are hence forth under special observation. Many of them will take prompt steps for self-improvement. All, except in the very rare case of utter indifference to what their fellow-creatures think of them, will feel some concern to get rid of awkwardnesses which have been publicly censured and voted intolerable. In deed, we have but little doubt that if the press does its part, if it does not suffer the thing to sleep, if it returns to the criticism, and to the demand for im provement, from time to time, this alone will be enough. The clergy will soon begin to discover ' the way to desk and pulpit reformation, if the pub lic does but tell them,—We must have it. CHARLES DICKENS has somewhere written—it is in one of his picturesque fugitive pieces published originally, if we recollect rightly, in household Words—" When the wind is blowing, and the sleet and rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel." And who amongst us all does not ? —though he may not have the capacity to conjure up the scene before his " mind's eye" as vividly as the Great Novelist, "Such books," adds the latter, in the same place, " have had a strange fascination for my mind from my earliest childhood; and I wonder," he exclaims with a whimsical astonishment at himself, "I won der it should have come to pass that I never have been round the world, never have been shipwrecked, ice-environed, tomahaNyked, or eaten." In a vague way similar reflections must have occurred often enough before now to many other English " Gen tlemen who live at home at ease." Islanders as we are, citizens of the greatest maritime power upon the globe, we have all of us an instinctive hanker ing after the sea-faring life. The veriest landsman amongst us has an unaffected interest in everything relating to that element which has been, throughout our history, at once our securest defence, and the noblest arena of our glory. Honoured though the Royal Army is, it is the Royal Navy that is regarded by one and all alike as the National Profession. Among all the warriors who have ever won the admiration of their com patriots in this country, the one who has incontesti bly gained for himself the enviable pro-eminence of being the " darling Nero of England," is the greatest of our Sea Captains. The favourite story book of childhood in this country is the n 4rrative of the adventures of a poor shipwrecked sailor. The best-thumbed pages of our annals are those in which the marvellous exploits of our great sea-fights are recorded, from the glorious feats of BLAKE down to those of DUNDONALD. And were it otherwise, it would only have been the very depth of ingratitude upon our part. For it is to these men, it is to this class, it is to this particular profession, that we are indebted for being what we are. Without their aid we should have remained among the most insig nificant States of the earth, instead of being the lords of one-fifth of the whole habitable globe— embracing within the compass of our empire vast dominions in the Old and the New World, in the east and the west, and the north and the south, in Europe, Africa, America, and Australasia. It is not, however, to the pages of our voyagers, or still more to those of our nautical remancists, that we need ever have recourse in order to gratify to the full our appetite for the marvellous in regard to the maritime service of England. Here, as elsewhere, the truth of Lord BYRON'S dictum is wonderfully verified that— , c truth is always strange, Stranger than fiction."—Don Juan, my 101. In testimony of this we have but to turn annually to the astounding statistics given to the world, autumn after autumn, in the shape of the yearly official Wreck Chart and Register. Here is the last of these terrible records, the one that has but just now been issued—" The Wreck Register and Chart for 1860 " Like its predecessors it tells by its appalling array of facts the magnitude of the perils encountered by " those who go down to the deep in ships !"_Those gallant hearts sung of in the classic and pathetic verse of the Sailor Fal coner— " Tars—who unmoved behold the angry storm In conflict all the rolling deep deform, Who, patient in Adversity, still bear The firmest front when greatest ills are near." Enough almost might be said upon this point by simply notifying the fact that, upon a rough average, calculated upon a series of years, we have a loss revealed to us through those Charts and Registers of 800 lives annually, and of £1,500,000 worth of property yearly doomed to destruction. Year by year, of coarse the precise number of lives lost, the actual value of property destroyed, will be found to fluctuate. But the numbers and the value as we have here given them may be taken as the average. During the past year of our LORD 1860, the wrecks off the coast of England have—by reason of the foul weather that prevailed more or less throughout that twelvemonth—been unusually numerous. They amounted in fact to no less than 1,379. Nevertheless it is some con solation to find that the number of lives lost in consequence of these casualties, proves to have been considerably below the average. Instead of being 800, the total amount did not exceed 536—still a terrible waste of life notwithstanding ! Whilst, however, 536 perished —as many as 2,158 persons, we find, were in 1860 snatched from a watery grave by life boats, shore boats, and other means, includ ing the rocket and mortar apparatus. There are two or three circumstances conneeted with the shipwrecks of 1860 that are sufficiently curious in themselves to deserve particular notification. For example —as to the direction of the wind that proved most destructive, we find that—" 111 vessels were wrecked during the prevalence of the wind from S.W. ; 128 from W.N.W. ; and 104 from N.W. 8 vessels were wrecked during absolutely calm weather ; 151 in a fresh breeze ; 168 in a whole gale ; 101 in a storm ; and 139 in a hurricane." Again as to the immediate cause of several of these catastrophes—" 21 wrecks took place from not heaving the lead; 2 from intemperance; 35 from general negligence and want of caution ; 39 foun dered from unseaworthiness ; and 5 from defective compasses." Everyone of these sources of disaster being obviously fortuitous and preventible. Besides this, it is somewhat singular to note the following items ih regard to the ages of the vessels wrecked —items strangely demonstrative (as has been re marked elsewhere) of the very curious fact that when these ships "should be most vigorous" they are in reality " most feeble," as will be understood at once when the reader finds that, " during the past three years, 3'77 vessels under 3 years old were wrecked ; and 472 between the ages of 3 and 7 years ; whilst 644 of them perished between the ages of 15 and 20." So that we are constrained to add unhappily, Q. E. D. Altogether, it is frightful to reflect that during the last eleven years only there have perished in this way along our shores 6,83 seamen—chiefly on board our coasting colliers. During nearly nine years past there have been 10,336 vessels thus wrecked along the coasts of the United Kingdom. Placed side by side with which last-mentioned re cords must be given by way of consolation the gra tifying announcement that during the last five years alone, no less than 11,495 lives have been saved by means of lifeboats, of shore-boats, of ship-boats, and of the life-saving apparatus. Much, th ere f ore , h as undoubtedly already been done, but obviously, quite as obviously, more, far more, remains to do. And the directest way of all in which to do it, we do conscientiously believe, is by furthering the inte rests of the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, by prompt subscriptions and hearty goodwill, for their funds are low, and getting lower, by reason of their unwearied liberality in furnishing lifeboats along the coast. Let our countrymen only think that the sympathy they now display may yet even conduce to save their own lives in the days of peril and dis aster. It is said that " who giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord ;" but they who support the LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION are only lending to them selves, by insuring the rescue of their own lives and those of others. Countrymen ! be prompt in your generosity, and it will be a sweet solace when you die, whether it be on land or wave. SUDDEN ILLNESS OF THE EARL OF EGLINTON —On Tuesday evening the Earl of Eglinton was suddenly struck down by apoplexy while in the act of leaving Mount- Melville House, St. Andrews, where he had been dining with a party of golfers and friends. Up to six o'clock on Wednesday night, his Lordship's condition was such as to excite serious apprehensions.—Caledonian Mercury. MARRIAGE IN HIGII LlFE.—Yesterday the mar riage of Viscount Sandon and Lady Mary Francis Cecil, eldest daughter of the Marquis of Exeter, took place at St. George's Church, Hanover-square. As usual on such occasions the church was crowded with spectators. The Emperor and Empress, the day before leaving Biarritz, paid a visit to Beholia, in order to see the famous Ile des Faisans. This small island has for some time been in danger of disappearing, owing to the . waters of the Bidassoa washing away at intervals portions of earth ; but works are to bo erected at the joint expense of Spain and France for preserving it from destruction on account of its historical interest. . Duels seem to be increasing in Germany. The Zeit, of Frankfort, states that a hostile encounter has just been fought near that city between Major Von der Tann, Chamberlain to the King of Bavaria, and an Austrian officer, whose name is not given. The Major was shot in the abdomen, and soon after expired. ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB.—The autumnal recess of this club having concluded, the usual monthly meetings of members have been resumed. There was a very full attendance on Wednesday night, including the noble commodore, Lord Alfred Paget. Twenty-one noble men and gentlemen were added to the list of members, amongst whom were his Grace the Duke of Marlborough, Lieutenant-Colonel G. P. Evelyn, owner of Le Neve, schooner, Mr. Augustus Nugent, of the Little Wyvern, cutter, and Mr. R. Hesketh, of the Peri, cutter. This great club, which now possesses 230 yachts, amounting to 14,000 tons, is, by the above addition, nearly full. The number of members, from time to time extended, has been fixed at 900, and there are now only ten vacancies. A letter from Biarritz says :—" M. d'Eseayrae de Lauture has been received here with all the distinction to which his adventures in China entitle him. He had the honour of dining with the Emperor. M. d'Escayrac has brought back with him a young Chinese girl, who speaks French remarkably well. A Corfu letter of the 21st ult. states that the health of the Empress of Austria continues improving, and that her Majesty's spirits fire excellent. HEALTH OF THE EARL OF GIFFORD.—We are happy to learn that the E; trl of Gifford, M.P., is recovering from the severe illness w hick has for the last few weeks confined him altogether to the house. It is understood ti sat the lord lieutenancy of Monmouthshire, rendered vacant by the accidental death of Mr. Capel Hanbury Leigh, will be offered by the Premier to Lord Llanover. Advices from the Roman States announce that the steam-frigate Asmodee, with the Siamese Ambassadors on board, arrived at Civita Vecchia en Tuesday evening. 1 he Ambassadors proceeded at once to Rome. • The Nouvegist de .Rouen says that before the Tuileries can be made habitable according to the Emperor's taste, it will be necessary to pull down the Marsan pavilion on the Rue Rivoli side, as well as the Flora pavilion on the quay, which is now in course of demolition. It is rumoured in diplomatic circles that Russia has sent a comminatory note to the Porte, remonstrating against the expedition to Montenegro; there is even a talk of a Russian fleet being sent to Cattaro, and it is said that Austria is very uneasy at the projected movement. The whole of the objections of the Conservatives in the parish of Maryle • bone were yesterday disallowed by the revising barrister, 'Mr. Tyrrell, who awarded costs in each case against the objector, Mr. Martin, amounting to between £3O and £4O. The rectory of Inworth, near Kelvedon, Essex, rendered vacant by the death of the Rev. Samuel Wix, M.A., has been conferred upon the Rev. Frederick Poynder, M.A., of Wadha.m College, Oxford, second master of Char terhouse School. A letter from Homburg states that three days ago the ceiling of the Conversation Room fell in, and that several persons were injured. No details are given. The advices from Rio de Janeiro mention the failure of the house of Pinto and Pimenta, for nearly £lOO,OOO. They were dealers in imported goods, and the liquidation is not expected to yield more than 30 per cent. It appears that it is not in the Mediterranean, near Marseilles alone, that the tunny fish has been this year so abundant. The Algiers journals state that large quanti ' ties have appeared on the coast of Africa, and that some of them are of extraordinary size, one having reached the weight of 150 kliegs. A communication from Nuits (Cote•d'Or) says : —" The vintage has commenced here, and is favoured with beautiful weather, which cannot but have a most favour able effect on the grapes. The year 1861 will assuredly be classed among the number of good years. Considerable purchases of the best growths have already been made by foreign dealers at high prices." A Polish deputy in the Council of the Empire of Austria was lately condemned in Austrian Gallicia to 24 hours' imprisonment, for having at a funeral taken part in singing the Boz cos Polak°, or national Polish air, which is considered seditious. As the bill on the privileges of the members of the Council has not yet been definitively adopted the Chamber, must give him leave of absence to enable him to undergo the imprisonment. DEATH OF MR. ARTHUR SMITH.—We regret to announce the death of this gentleman, brother of Mr. Albert Smith, whom he has only survived some eighteen months. Mr. Arthur Smith was well known in literary and theatrical circles as one of the clearest-minded and most practical men of the day. He had the management of his brother's entertainment, and all the business arrange ments of Mr. Charles Dickens's Readings were entrusted to his care. He was one of the Committee of the Theme Fisheries Preservation Society, and the author of a clever and witty little book called "The Thames Angler." Mr Smith was in his thirty-seventh year. MR. ALFRED MELLON. The excellent pro menade concerts given at Covent-garden Theatre will ter minate with next week. No pains have been spared to render them attractive both to the general public and to the lovers of classical music, a Mendelssohn or Beethoven night varying with an evening devoted to the Volunteers, and artistes of the first celebrity being engaged in every department. The last "classical concert" will take place to-night, and a performance of Haydn's oratorio of the " Creation" (entire) is announced for Monday. MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER.— REPUDTATION OF THE WIFE.—An instance of the injlls-, tice of the law prohibiting marrisge with a deceased wife's sister came before the Leeds Board of Guardians on Wed nesday, on the application of Christiana Stead for an order of maintenance against Thomas Stead, a forgeman, lodging in Hunslet. It appeared that Stead had been previously married to the sister of the applicant, and that about two years ago, his wife having died, he went through the ceremony of marriage with the latter, at the parish church. Since that time they have disagreed, and, on Stead refusing to support her, she applied to Mr. Hartley, the relieving officer, for relief. The officer ordered Stead to appear before the Board, when he declined to make his wife any allow ance, on the ground that they were not lawfully married. It was admitted that the applicant was the deceased wife's sister, and Stead said that unless the law could compel him to support her he would not do so. The chairman (Mr Middleton) told him that he ought to be ashamed of himself, to come before a body of gentlemen and repudiate a woman, whom he had taken as his wife, on such a ground. Mr. Thompson said he was disposed to try the case, and he therefore proposed that they make an order upon the hus band for 3s. per week, and instruct the officer to summons him before the magistrates if he refused to pay it. Mr. Kirk seconded the motion, which was carried, after a short discussion. THE DIGESTION OF A BOA CONSTRICTOR.— Geignani informs us that the Museum of Natural History in Paris has just made an acquisition in a singular manner. About a month ago the boa-constrictor in that establish ment took a fancy for its own blanket and swallowed it entire, so that the administration, considering the chattel to be beyond recovery, put it to the profit and loss account. But, lo I twenty-six days later, what should the keeper find one morning in the boa's cage, but the identical blanket, this time under the form of a great roll, a yard and a -half in length, and about 15 inches in circumference I The said roll has been placed in the Museum, to be preserved as it is, and we may state that the boa is "as well as can be ex pected" after this remarkable performance. Oscar Becker has been lodged in the House of Correction at Bruchsal, in order to commence his term of punishment. In accordance with his request, his employ ment during prison life will be that of a joiner. The prac tice of placing a variety of handicrafts-at the option of the prisoners is now generally pursued in German gaols, and has been found to exercise a very favourable influence upon the habits and morale of the convicts. In Berlin, for in stance, a great deal of the carved woodwork for which the town of late has gained some reputation is manufactured by the inmates of Moabit Penitentiary, the majority of whom did not even know how to whittle a stick before the day of their confinement. A LUCKY RAGMAN.—A local paper says :—" A collector of rags and bones, named Powell, residing in Mane vers-street, Sneinton, near Nottingham, in the course of his peregrinations last week bought an old waistcoat, which as is usual in the business, he offered for sale for 2d. ; but it was so utterly worthless, that he could not dispose of it. Taking it home, he tore it up, when to his surprise, he found in the lining of one of the waistcoat pockets a cheque for £3OO. He was, no doubt, puzzled what to do with so much wealth, and the last that was heard of him was that he had gone to London in order to convert the cheque into cash." THE PUBLIC BATHS OF LIVERPOOL.—At the meeting of the Liverpool Town Council on Wednesday, Mr. Tobin drew the attention of the council to certain gratifying statistics in connexion with the baths. Ho found that in 1842-3, when the baths were first established, they were visited by 11,700 persons, and during the past year by 303,000 persons; also, that the receipts in 1842-3 were £l5O, whereas the past year they were £6,400. Such facts, Mr. Tobin observed, must be a great encouragement for the building of baths and washhouses in other towns, in which, he hoped, there would be erected buildings as com modious according to their size as those in Liverpool. DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT AT DONCASTER.—A most diabolical, but, happily, unsuccessful attempt to set fire to a workshop and stable at Doncaster has just been discovered, and it is apparent that the perpetrators of the outrage had calculated with some certainty on the success of their plan. Mr. Quartermaster Bull, of the 3d West York Militia, has a stable and other outbuildings adjacent to his residence in Carr-lane, Doncaster, The building is divided into several parts, and in a portion of it he has an engine, which he lets to Messrs. Cutdy, machinists; and in another part ho has some valuable models connected with the machine trade. On Friday last by turned his horse out to grass, and, hav ing no further use for the stable for the present week, he locked the door, and did not re •enter it until Wednesday last, when, to his astonishment, he made the startling discovery that some person or persons had attempted to set fire to the stable by introducing, through a small hole above the manger, some combustible material, which had first been lighted. The straw, which was almost clean and a foot in depth, had been burnt to a cinder, and the manger and wood-work all but destroyed; but for want of ventilation the fire had srnouldered on and I eventually died out. Had it not done so the whole of the models in the room above would have been de stroyed, and Messrs. Candy's plant also consumed. Mr. Bull was insured in the Yorkshire Fire-office to the extent of £1,400, so that had the place fallen a prey to the act of an incendiary he would not have been a loser to any great extent. Mr. Etches, the chief constable, and Mr. Gregory, the assistant-superintendent, both of the borough police force, have taken steps which it is to be hoped will, with the aid of a reward, bring the perpetrators of this cowardly act to justice. No motive can accurately be assigned for the attempt, as Mr. Bull is much respected by all who know him. " DIRT CHEAP !"—The living of Hurstmonceaux —where the estimable Archdeacon Hare laboured for so many years—has just been sold for £7,300, which the auc tioneer said was " dirt cheap." Dirt, indeed, though in a sense not intended by the knight of the hammer ; for can anything more defile the purity of a Church than this sell ing of souls for the possession of £1,200 a year ?—The Liberator. The Great Western Railway of Canada announce that the revenue for the half-year ending the 31st of July will not warrant the directors in recommending a dividend. The weather in Paris for the last two or three days has been exceptionally fine. The sun shines out warmly, and the windows are kept open exactly as in the height of summer. The Official Gazette of Turin announces that the sons of King Victor Emmanuel were present at the cere mony of laying the first stone of a monument, to be erected on the field of Castelfidaedo, to commemorate that battle. DEATH OF THE VICAR OF HARROW.—We regret to announce the death of the Rev. John W. Cunningham, M.A., vicar of Harrow-on-the-Hill, and the 'oldest bene ficed clergyman in the diocese of London. Mr. Cunning ham was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, and graduated in 1802. PASSPORTS FOR AMERICA.—We are authorized to state that the United States' Consul at this port has re ceived official notice that all persons going to tho United States will require to have passports from the authorities of their respective countries, vised by a Minister or Consul of the United States.—Liverpool Daily Post. DR. PANTALEONE.—We learn that Dr. Panta leone, who for so many years, in his capacity of physician, enjoyed the confidence of the principal English and Ame rican families at Rome, and who was so brutally expelled from that city in the spring, on the ground of his political opinions, is about to settle as a medical practitioner at Nice, where his services are likely to be in request during the ensuing winter. THE SUICIDE AT THE AUSTRIAN EMBASSY.—Yes terday Mr. George S. Brent instituted an investigation into the painful circumstances attending the death of Bartholo mew Wittmayer, aged 28, the valet of the head-secretary of the Count Rudolph Apponyi, the Austrian ambassador. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide, while in a state of mind unsound." ACCOMMODATION FOR THE STEAM TRADE AT THE LIVERPOOL DOCKS.—An application from the Cunard Com pany for extended accommodation at the Huskisson. Dock was received by the Mersey board yesterday, and referred for consideration. Messrs. Haigh and Co. were yesterday empowered to construct the roof and sliding doors for an enormous shed at the Huskisson Dock, by which goods will be effectually protected from the weather, &c. ; cost, £8,650. An incident of Austrian brutality is given in the Temps. A few days ago, some soldiers, billeted in a house at a few leagues distance from Pesth, lost seven florins. Their suspicions turned on a young Hungarian named Honth, whom they denounced to the commandant of the district. The supposed culprit was:then ordered to deliver up the sum in question, but declaring his innocence, and failing to do so, was condemned to 300 lashes. Honth fainted several times under the executioner, and the day after was so ex hausted by the punishment that he died of its effects, not, however, too late to hear himself cleared from the stigma thrown upon him, by a girl who committed the theft coming forward and publicly confessing it, PETERBOROUGH GREAT FAIR.—The great fair at Peterborough, called " Bridge Fair," was held on Wednes day. The day being unusually fine, there was an enormous number of visitors. The horse and cattle fairs were as ex tensive as heretofore. Fat beasts were a ready sale, at from Ss. to Bs. 6d. per stone, and fresh short-horn stores in good condition made from £lB to £2l. There were a great many Irish beasts of a much better kind than used to be brought to this fair, and though there is great risk with them, and prices were as high as the short-horns, they were freely purchased for home grazing. The ram fair was well sup - plied by the best breeders, and full prices were made. Horses also were an advance upon recent fairs, and, taken generally, business appeared to have felt the inspiriting influence of the late harvest. EXTENSIVE FIRE AT MANCHESTER,—About three o'clock yesterday morning a cotton waste warehouse, oc cupied by Messrs. Chadwick and Taylor, situate in Old Factory-yard, Manchester, was discovered to be on fire, and the flame spread with such rapidity that when the fire bri gade of the city arrived there appeared to be little hope of saving the building or its contents. The men exerted themselves vigorously for many hours, but it was not until noon that the fire was got under. The whole building is more or less injured, and the loss on that and the stock is estimated at £12,000 or £14,000. The cause is attributed to spontaneous combustion. A GENTLEMAN POISONED BY MISTAKE.—Mr. Hanbury Lee, of Pontypool-park, has died from the effects of poison given him, at his residence, Plymouth-house, Penarth, near Cardiff. Mr. Lee, who reached his 81st year some few days since, met with a slight accident by falling down part of the staircase. A. bottle of medicine was or dered to be given the aged patient, and some embrocation to be applied to his back. On Friday night last the butler was requested to give his master a portion of the medicine. The two bottles, one containing the medicine and the other the embrocation, lay upon the mantelpiece. The butler gave the deceased the embrocation instead of the medicine. The fatal mistake was instantly discovered ; medical gentlemen applied the usual remedies with the stomach pump, but the poor sufferer, who called his household around him, shook hands with them, and more than once begged they would not hurt his butler, who had given him the poisonous liquid in mistake. He died the following evening. —Bristol Daily Post. A WORD FOR THE MIDDLE AGES.—The great Religious period, again, when Catholicism was the religion of Christendom, was favourable to able adventurers. Its thoroughly democratic organisation was the means by which the lower classes were raised into freedom, and a career was offered to all ability. The priesthood was the highest office and dignity ; and the priesthood was acces sible to all alike ; and, when this opportunity had once been opened to the humblest classes, they had gained a social advantage which could never be taken from them. The organic period of Christendom, then, was an age of privi lege for adventurous ability. However true it may be that the present is an age, and America a country, for low-born genius to rejoice in, it may be a question whether there is any kind of age or country, on the bright side of civilisation, which men of natural force could not make their own way very much to their own wish.—MlSS HARRIET MAR TINEAU in Once a Week. MADAME BONAPAR,TE-WYSE:--The publication of Mr. Wyse's letter, denying any relationship to Madame Bonaparte-Turr, has revived a good deal of gossip about Madame Bonaparte-Wyse. This lady is the daughter of Lucien Bonaparte, who was destined by the Em peror Napo leon I. to be the wife of the Prince of the Asturias before the dethronement of the Spanish Bourbons was decided on She was accordingly brought to Paris to be educated, but, being given to satire, used to transmit to her parents cari catures of Madame Mere and her Imperial uncle, whose weak points she hit off so humorously that he, inter cepting some of the epistles, got enraged at the portrait which his niece drew of him, and sent her home in disgrace. Her whole life has been a series of imprudent actions, and to a great extent she is an alien to her family. In 1852 she claimed, as an Imperial princess, a dotation, but her claim was rejected. The Emperor, however, presented her with a considerable sum of money, to relieve her from some presging embarrassments. ROWING MATCH BETWEEN JOHN MACICINNEY AND G. DREWETT.—Another great match has been added to the list for the present season. John Mackinney, of Richmond, and George Drewett, of Chelsea, are matched for £lOO, to row on Nov. 19 from Putney to Mortlake. SWIMMING.-THE LEANDER SWIMMING CLUB —On Wednesday evening last a•race for a silver medal, fair breast swimming, took place at the Lambeth Baths, be tween the first-class swimmers of this club, and after some very excellent swimming, was won by young Grove, who carried off the prize for the second-class swimmers, given by the same club, last week. First Heat—Grove, 1; Wat son, 2 ; Shots, 3. :Second Heat—Evans, 1 ; Haines, 2. Grand Heat—Grove, 1; Evans, 2—Grove winning by four yards. PEDESTRIANISM.--We last week noticed that a pedestrian, named Elston, had commenced the task of walking 00 miles a day for six successive lays, and we have now to inform our readers that the young man completed his arduous undertaking on Saturday last, a little before six a.m. The weather throughout the week was generally unfavourable fot pedestrian performances, and on Satur day afternoon and evening there was incessant rain for several hours, and about the titre Elton completed his task it came down beautifully. This, however, did not lull the excitement of hundreds of men and boys, who stood about in the drenching rain, waiting patiently over an hour for the arrival of their pet pedestrian. He came at last, and although pretty much exhausted, not more so than anyone might reasonably expect to find him at the finish of a 360- mile walk in six days. Immediately on reaching the Anchor Hotel he went to his room and changed his clothes, and afterwards joined a numerous party of young people at the hotel, and sang them several songs.—West Sussex Gazette. Second-rate cookshops have a wonderful power of developing. greasiness. Every item shines. The very hungry, however, who go there generally need greasy food —I mean physically ; fat makes fat and warmth. I confess, though, that on hearing a wise man the other day remark how Greenlanders ate blubber to produce " carbon," I could not help saying (to myself, of course, for he was a great medical authority) that they probably ate it because they could not get anything else. lam a great be liever, nevertheless, in nature as guide and caterer in eating. She not only provides oil and fat for the inha bitants of the Polar regions, but takes away from him the extreme disgust we should feel at such food. In deed, I believe that the palate is the truest re gu l a t or of our diet. What we like best agrees with us best— in moderation—there is the rub. Dainty dishes are some times abused, because they tempt us to eat too much. Their daintiness is not their defect. The same bulk of nasty food would disagree with us much more than the same bulk of nice food. Some people, indeed, profess that they don't care what they eat. They are generally mistaken ; but if not, all I can say is, they ought to be ashamed of them selves.—Olive a Week. CRYSTAL PALACE. —ONE SHILLING DAY, Thurs day, Oct. 3 . — Admissions on payment, 2,572 ; ditto by sea son tickets, 831. Total yi§iitors, 3,406, LATEsrf NEWS. PARIS, OCT. 4. A Council of Ministers was held yesterday, under the presidency of the Emperor. TURIN, OCT. 4. Letters from Venice state that a strong naval expedition, with troops on board, had left that port for the coasts of Dalmatia and Fiume. ROME, Our. 3. The Pope has received the Siamese Ambassadors. The ex-Qneen of Naples was present at the funeral service performed in honour of the Bourbon soldiers killed last year while fighting against the Garibal dians and Sardinians. CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 3. The Porte has consented to the raising of the blockade of Montenegro, provided that Prince Nicholas and his Senators signed an engagement henceforth to respect the Turkish territory. Namik Pasha has been appointed Governor of Bagdad. BELGRADE, OCT. 3 (EVENING). A Servian officer has just sent a challenge to the Austrian Consul-General for his disrespectful beha viour towards the Prince of Servia. PARIS, THURSDAY. The Paris papers of this evening announce that the King of Prussia will arrive at Compi4me next Sunday evening. The Pays of this evening states that it has rea son to know that the news that Anatria wnuld effect a large reduction in her army is unfounded. The Constitutionnel of this evening publishes an article signed by its chief editor, M. Grandguillot, entitled " The Visit of the King of Prussia." This article commences by recalling that, in the course of the last ten years, almost all the Sove reigns of Europe have visited France, and ex; presses hopes that these meetings of the Sove reigns will lead the peoples to esteem and under stand each other. " France," it continues, " sees nothing else in the visit of the King of Prussia." Replying to the construction put upon the visit by the German press, which considers it as a mere act of courtesy in exchange for the visit of the Emperor of the French last year, M. Grandguillot says,—" It is, we think, difficult to admit that the Sovereigns of the two most influential and solidly established Continental Powers should meet solely to exchange a few commonplace courtesies." M. Grandguillot considers the treaty of commerce now negotiated between the two countries to be of immense importance, " because political treaties only reconcile sovereigns, while commercial treaties reconcile nations." The article terminates as follows : " King William of Prussia is one of those princes who are able to understand their country and their age. The firmness and the uprightness of his cha racter are proverbial. He comes of the race of those princes who, boldly declaring to their people that they trample under foot unjust prejudices and blind hatreds, and that they disdain the favour of an ephemeral popularity, only seek the impartial ap probation of posterity." TURIN, OCT. 3. It is not true that =Prince Carignan will repre sent King Victor Emmanuel at the coronation of the King of Prussia at Konigsberg. General Rocca will deliver to the Sultan the Collar of the Order of tate Annunziata. The anniversary of the battle of the Voiturrio has been celebrated wit b. great enthusiasm in Sicily; Perfect order prevailed, News has been receiv •ed here from Palermo stating that a popular demon! rtration was to have taken place in that city to ex :press the popular wish that the Italian army shoulocl proceed to Rome. In con sequence, however, of the precautionary measures adopted by the authorities it did not come off as intended. PESTH, OCT. 3. It is asserted that 'military auditors will provi sionally try civil causes in the Comitat of Pesth, and that a military Court will administer the penal laws. HAYTI AND CUBA. The last despatches from the French West Indian squadron, given by the Patrie, state that the steam corvette, the Lt noisier, arrived at Hayti on Aug. 25, having on bi3ard M. de Forbin-Janson Consul-General of France at Port•au-Prince. At that date the affairs o f the Island were in a more satisfactory position ; the Convention that had Put an end to the differences between the Spaniards and President Geffraird had been brought into full operation. The Spanish expedition against Mexico was being actively organised in (In.ba. Marshal Serrano hav ing called for voluntee rs to the corps that is to em bark for Vera Cruz, the whole of the regular army of Cuba, privates and officers, responded to the ap peal, and the Marshal was compelled to determine the selection by drawi: a g lots. The enthusiasm in favour of this expedition against the Mexican Re public is extreme throiaghout the Spanish Antilles. FR I.4I‘TCE. BOURSE, Oct. 3.—T he market has been calmer to•day, and quotatior is firmer, with a slight up ward tendency. Thr€ 'es opened at 68f 25c., and are now at 68f. 50c. The following are the last quotations : ft per per Cents 96 40 Credit Fonder ....1200 Do. end month 96 20 Belgian 4f ........ 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 40 Roman Bank Shares 2900 Austrian - Credit Mobilier.... 732 •50 Spanish Threes 4B Do. Account 735 —1 Home Debt ...... 47i LILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans ... 1395 .. 139 7 50 Northern New ditt0.............. 900 Lyons and Mediterrar luau 1030 .. 1031 25 Geneva ............. 341 25 .. 342 50 Southern ........... 640 .. 640 Western ........... . 542 50 .. 641 25 Eastern ........... ." 598 75 .. 597 50 Sardinian ............•... 355 -- ' 1 Austrian " 507 50 .. 507 50 Lombard • •. • • ... 532 50 .. 530 AU STRIA. A letter f rom T r i es t e , i n th e D anu b e G az ette of Vienna says The ne WS of a probable increase in the Austrian fleet has 'been received by the sailors with the greatest satis friction. In its present state the fleet is absolutely insufficient to protect the coasts andports of the :Empire, and in the event of war to give energetic assistance to the army, or to be a desirable ally for a great maritime Power. We know vN well that Piedmont is making extraordina r y efforts to have a navy superior to that of Aus t ria, and that the blockade of the maritime towns of the latter would ruin for a long time all her commerce. Austria has xexcellent vessels, but not e e no clle us e h n v t sailors and essels;andsir: e other States impose sac rifices on themselves to i increase their fleets, Austria can do the same. Tow° irds the end of the year ten gunboats will be termir ca ted and armed. A ship builder named Tonello elel serves great praise for the firm confidence he enttertains in the future of Austria; he has disbar; ced 200,000 florins to trans form the dockyards of sa) a Marco into a vast estso ... t