The Sun. — London, England, 1861-04-29 00:00:00

TWEA T RE-E() Y .L , 1 1 k - r '4 • . 4. .i. 44 Leone, Mr, J, B, Baokstone. . . T.GIS EVENING, tic performances will comracne.c with s new and original Comedy, entitled BLACK SHEEP. iinekstone, Mr. Compton, Mr. Rowe, (to• ; Mrs. Wilkins, ?dm Charles Young, Miss Lovell, &c. After which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery and effects, and all the ori g inal music by the late Sir Henry Bishop, the melodrama of THE MILLER AND HIS MEN. COllll3lOlOB at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee and Manager, la A. Harris, TIIIS EVENING, THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore, Meadows, Garden, and Miss C. Leelereq. Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet Mr. Fechter. Sup ported by Hermann Vezln, Ryder, Meadows, dr.c. ; Misses Heath, klsworthy, and R. Leelereq. N EW THRATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.— Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Reproduction of "The Colleen Bawn. " The Adelphl "Censum " every Evenin7. THIS EV/MING, Ist time of a new Farce, entitled A TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford. After which (lB6th time), THE COLLEEN HAWN. Mr. D. Boncicault, D. Ostler, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. _ _ To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS. Messrs. J. t.. Toole, Marne, Romer, C. J. Smith ; 31189 Kite Kelly, Miss E. thorne, and Mrs. Chatterley. Doora open at half past 6—Commence at 7. C ANTERBURY- HAL CONCERTS!! Westminster-road. Proprletor ........C. Morton. A Grand Selection' from Verdi's new Opera, IL CORSARO, t hr e --- , t w or ith ari t y ha o t (This opera has never been prodttc h e a di n u g. this ra country, bxcept at these Concerts), vi de cided success which charactise 1 the most popular works of this great Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ; to ether with a Selection trorn LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI MENTO, by Donizetti, Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss Tyrrell, Mr. H. H er bert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drum mon d , an d t . W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmins. Th. Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A. it. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, P. Bell, W. H. W e ll an d , and th e B ro thers Conrad. John Mirtin's Three celebr a t e d Pi ctures will remain on N. , low a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the Establishment. HIM" WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TTris DAY.—Morning, 4h. 48m.—Afternoon, sh. 13m, To - monnow.-Morning, g, sh. 37m.—Afternoon, Gh. 4m, THE WEATHER.—SUN OPPICZ, APRIL 28, 1861. THERMOMETBII, IN THII 811A1)11. 39—highest since noon yesterday. 33—lowest this mornintr and during the night. Sharp frost in the night. 49—this day at noon. BAROMETER -30.10. WIND—Wea.-North-Westerly— moderato ; with fair qeat her. APRIL 20. THERMOMETER, TN TRP. SWAMI. 53—highest since noon yesterday. 39—lowest this morning and during the night. 49—this day at noon. BAucourrica.-30.23. Witio North-Easterly—rather fresh; with cloudy weather, CAP 41. k A • g , '" 1 17: o;-" , , _ -,5-;"•7'...• • ' • i• • AI .011 S..* • . THE SUN. LONDON, 'MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1881. Another arrival from America brings information of the President's response to the fall of Fort Sumter—it is tantamount to a declaration of war against Rebellion. In this proclamation which the President specifes by name seven med . ing States, and declares that they have now for some time opposed the due execution of the laws by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary means, and that he therefore calls forth the Militia of the States to the aggregate number of 75,000 men. He also finds in the present state of affairs an extraordinary occasion, such as was contemplated by the Constitution, for summoning a special Congress, which he calls accordingly—not, however, at once, but for the 4th of July. This is what he has done. If we ask his object in all this, he tells us that it is "to maintain the power, the integrity, and the existence of our national Union, and the perpetuity of popular Go vernment, and to redress wrongs already long enough endured. That his first practical effort will ~e rohably be to repossess the forts, places, , anti property which have been seized from the union," in doing which all possible care will be taken to avoid injury to property and to all peaceable persons, Those who have entered into the combinations denounced by the proclamation are warned to retire peaceably from them within twenty days from its date, (the 15th of April.) His purpose in calling the Congress together is " to consider and determine such measures, as in their wisdom the public safety and interest may seem to demand. Thus, as far as the words of a solemn public docu ment are concerned, war is declared ; the 75,000 militia area to suppress said combinations, and to cause the laws to be duly executed," and with the halting *.word " probably," the reconquest of the forts, and regaining of all federal property is announced as one of the first measures to be at tempted. Looking impartially at all the circum stances, there seems to have been a desire on each side to provoke or tempt the other to be the first to commence war. If it were so, Mr. LINCOLN has been the cleverer, for he has led the Southerns across the American Ticino, and they have to bear the blame of firing the first shot, with, however, the unparalleled result of killing, almost of wound ing, none on either side. The blood of Federal troops has not been shed, but a federal fort is in the hands of the Confederation. The commencement of the war wants, happily, one of the most irritat ing things in such cases ; yet, it was as truly an outrage on the Flag of the Union; and a declara tion of war on the part of the Seceders, as if the garrison had been, as all M. LAMARTINE'S defeated armies were, a dprimafpfl." it in this light. That the defeat was bloodless, was accident, or a special Providence, according to one's creed; that the United States have been defeated in a petty enc‘mnter, is the undeniable fact, and the Ruler, for the time being, of the United States prepares to redress the disgrace and the wrong. There is something, however, in the general tone of the proclamation which suggests the possibility that immediate action is not likely. Congress was not to assemble for seven or eight weeks ; and the threat of repossessing himself of the forts, &c., is, as we have seen, introduded with a qualifying ex pression. Mr. LINCOLN may only intend to place himself in the formal position which the attack on the fort required, and may especially have had in Niew the threatened attack on Washington itself. kould ruck an act be ventured by the Southerners, hPare desperate enough for almost any thi ng, and , indee d , we might expect a long, exhausting, bl 13°4 3' strife, which wo u ld en f ee bl e t h e entire States, and • end in a rising of the slaves and the extermination or Possibly flight of the great er par t of the S outhern - whites. It would infuriate the North, and pa s ,i o n would overpower every pru ofntial consideration Even as it is, the spirit of no North is rising f ea , rto ly. Perhaps one of the' most striking indications of this is, that Senator DOUGLAS, Mr. I.I NtOLN'S antagonist called on him, and after r a lly avowing hi s political differences to be as decided as ever ) told theT resident that he was Prepared to sustain him in all hi s constitutional ( efforts to pre se rve the Union ; th a t a firm policy and prompt action were necessary ; that the capital was in danger, and Must be protected at all hazards and at any cost, and DOUGLAS' friends are said to rejoice in the course which he has taken. The- North, We are told, will be as a unit in the support ~.~,: ®. of any measures the Government may take, and the leaders of all parties are enthusiastic for vigorous measures until the Rebellion is " crushed out." From all the Free States offers of troops to a greater extent than is required are rapidly arriving, and it is evident that the public spirit of the North is kindled to a high degree of intensity only by the comparatively small affair of Fort Sumter. Whether Mr. LINCOLN means to act with the decision which some of the facts we have mentioned appear to indicate, remains to be seen. He would have no easy task at the beginning; his preparations are not relatively so advanced as those of the South ; but should the conflict become long and serious, his navy, and his resources in money, and in the power to manufacture military requisites, must give him an immense advantage. Nor can we, in this country at least, easily b e li eve that the moral advantage of being on the side of justice, of right, of freedom, in fighting with the scoundrel cause of slavery, will not be an immense advantage. England cannot forget, we hope even Manchester rill not, that these seven seceded States are ready to shed blood in defence of slavery, and of slavery the most cruel and oppres sive which ever disgraced the earth. We would rather bloodshed indeed were avoided, but if war there must be, the prayer of every Englishman must ascend to Heaven with that of the negro, and not with that of his hardened and malignant oppressor. Let not the South reckon too much on Lancashire. We need cotton, it is true, but slavery we cannot endure, and let the consequences to us be what they might, we believe the vast majority of Englishmen would rejoice to hear that the result of a war was.that slaveholders were thoroughly beaten and their slaves emancipated. Cotton we should soon get elsewhere. Get rid of Sir CHAS. WOOD for Lord STANLEY, and send Sir JOHN LAWRENCE to India, and we should soon have cotton, and in plenty from our own territory. In any case we do not believe that cotton would long be wanting. The demand would stimulate in genuity and exertion, and it would soon be swept to our shores, by a wide spread and determined effort, which needs some such provocative to call it forth, and thus to terminate the accursed system for which seven States, full of tyrants far worse than European Czars, Emperors, and Kings, are now ready to shed blood. Exacter accounts of the attack, defence, and sur render of Fort Sumter contain many particulars of interest. One fact may be well worth the attention of Lord PALMERSTON--the complete success of rapidly-constructed defences of extemporised mate rials. They illustrate the views of General BuR GOYNE, confirmed, indeed, as they were by the achievements of TOTLEBEN, that earthworks and sand bags may soon be made capable of sustaining any fire. We are informed that the earthworks were expressly constructed " that the artillerists might be protected from the enemy's fire ;" and that, though " Major ANDERSON'S guns were well served, yet no one on shore was killed. It is therefore to science that we must attribute the bloodless character of this terrific bombardment, and not to want of skill in the use of guns." New Orleans and its defence from works constructed of cotton bags is also called to mind, and the American writer regards the whole as giving them an admir able lesson on the comparative ease of constructing impregnable coast defences. We hope our Govern ments will all consider well what they do before they sink irrecoverable millions of money on Ports down Hill. To meet what is so unlikely to occur as a hostile attack from thence, JONATTIAN has shown us what we could do at a few hours' notice. GARIBALDI, as we intimated on Saturday, has nobly closed his recent contentions at Turin by a general and magnanimous reconciliation. He has come to a satisfactory understanding at last with CAVOUR—he has again grasped the hand of fellow ship with CIALDINI. But—at the same time it should be remembered—he has boldly and frankly spoken out the whole truth to each of them. He has done this before the Italian Parliament. He has done this consequently, so to speak, in the sight and in the hearing of all Christendom. GARIBALDI'S reconciliation, therefore, must be regarded in no way whatever as a mere compromise. He has car ried his point throughout. His opinions remain the same in regard to the infamous cession of Nice and Savoy—that most discreditable act by which Count CAVOUR rendered GARIBALDI, as the latter himself expressed it—rendered GARIBALDI, of all the men in the wide world, " A foreigner in his own country." Upon that atrocious con cession of CAVOUR's to the territorial greed of the French EMPEROR, GARIBALDI still looks hack . with scorn and indignation. He still bears painfully in remembrance the notorious fact, that he has been allowed to fight the battle of Italy all along so far in the French EMPEROR'S eyes upon sufferance, Have any of us forgotten how in his Imperial MAJESTY'S despatches from the battle plains of Lombardy, the name of GARIBALDI, fighting grandly though he was all the while under the southern shadow of the Carpathians, was meanly, despicably tabooed altogether. Not one syllable of comment, to say nothing of generous tribute, was ever penned during the whole of the North Italian Campaign by the Emperor-Generalissimo or by any one of his MAJESTY'S Marshal-Lieutenants in reference to that dauntless hero, who upon the skirts of the vast army of the Allies was performing day ac v val s -. trz ► tavui, cab tun /MALL 1.11 1115 little band of Volunteers —since famous in both hemispheres as the Garibaldians. Not one syllable of comment, to say nothing of a tribute at once eulogistic and magnanimous ! Again—GARIBALDI has not forgotton, cannot, we may be quite certain of this, very easily lose the recollection of the man ner in which he was ecnstrained to cast the whole fortunes of the Italian War of Independence upon the hazard of a die, when, quitting Genoa with his daring phalanx of followers, he hastened Persius like southwards to release Sicily as the new An dromeda. Uncountenanced by France, and—by reason of the French policy—unaided overtly by Sardinia, GARIBALDI, when he left the bay o Genoa on his voyage to Marsals, might have echoed the words of XULIUS to the seamen, Coesarem vehis ! Upon that one man everything was then depen• dent, upon his sword, Italia, but trusting at tha crisis in her desti n y con fi dent that it would prove no broken reed under her hand, but that it and it alone would be found capable when the hour had struck of cleaving in twain at a blow the Gordian K not of her difficulties. After the accomplishment of that wonderful enterprise, when, under the guidance of GARIBALDT, a mere handful of men had compelled a royal army, twenty thousand strong, to lay down its arms and yield up the Sicilian soil entirely to its thousand deliverers—when, a little later on, GARIBALDI alone, without his Garibaldians, had taken train for Naples, and there entered the capital of the Southern Italian Kingdom, though seemingly a mere ordi nary railway traveller, as a conqueror and a deliverer—aiter the accomplishment of that won derful enterprise we all remembered how literally this great man emulattul the self-abnegation of a CINcINNAns and a WASAINGIVINI THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1861. No doubt can no remain that the massacre of ,he Poles, at Warsaw, was preconcerted—pre arranged deliberately by a savage and ruthless Governor, who refused to listen even to the re monstrances of the brave generals whom he ordered to perform his bloody behests. It is difficult also, now, not to father this atrocity upon the CZAR himself, slow as we were to believe that the eman cipator of his own serfs could be the willing murderer of unarmed Poles peacefully asking for the most obvious rights. All the efforts of Russia to denationalise the Poles have utterly failed. The Poles, though speaking a language very similar to the Russian, both languages being mutually intelligible dialects of the Sclavonic, will adhere to their own tongue ; schools have been worked in vain against the national feeling; and Russia still has no better means to extort sub mission than those of the last century and the former part of the present one—the means by which Austria secures obedience in Venetia. A letter from Posen gives details of the massacre which have the aspect of truth. It appears that the Russian soldiers Who reside in Warsaw, 22,000 in number, soon acquire a friendly feeling towards the Poles. GORTSCHAKOFF dared not, therefore, order them at first to fire on the unarmed petitioners who desired to send, through him, their petitions to the CZAR. He temporized, he promised liberally, till he had gathered together a large number of strange Russian soldiers, and with these he soon went to work. It is now certain that not only did some of his higher °facers remonstrate, but that one blew his brains out rather than obey orders, and that three were afterwards shot by order of court-martial for not killing unarmed 1, men and women. Europe has now to consider how it shall hence forth regard the Czar ALEXANDER IL Warsaw seems to have proved again the truth of NAPO LEON'S saying, " That a Russian was but a Tartar with a varnish of European civilisation—scratch a Russian and you'll find the Tartar beneath." A Tartar, indeed! could any monarch be found in civilised Europe to plan the atrocity of the Bth in Poland ? The Hapsburgs are perhaps the only other rulers capable of such blood-chilling crimes. T.L vJ , 3. i..- massacre of the unarmed as the legitimate weapons of royalty against liberty. The Russian Czar must, we fear, be now remitted to the long list of Imperial wretches who have been, not wolves, but tigers in sheep's clothing—who have talked of mildness while washing their hands in innocent and noble blood. Viscountess Palmerston had an assembly on Saturd iy evening at Cambridge House. The Earl and Countess of Derby entertained at dinner on Saturday evening the Marquis of Hartington, the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, the Earl Annesley, Viscount and Viscountess Newport, Lord and Lady Skel mersdale, Sir Robert Peel, M.P., and Lady Emily Peel, Colonel the lion. P. W. and Lady Emma Talbot, and Lord Stanley. Viscount Milton left town on Friday for Liver pool,on his way to America. His Excellency the Italian Minister has suddenly been summoned to Turin, on account of the alarming ill ness of his mother. His Excellency left town on Saturday even ini.6% CRYSTAL PALACE.—The Exeter Hall offices will be kept open until eight o'clock this evening for the issue of tickets for the great festival performance of the Creation on Wednesday next, the Ist of May. A LMACK'S.—The first ball of the first subscription of these fashionable r•eunion,s will take place at Willis's Rooms on Thursday next, when several of the ladies atronesses have arranged to be present with large parties of friends. A brilliant ball is fully anticipated. THE SWISS SINGERS.—" The Schweizer Sanger,' as they designate themselves, are becoming very popular at St. James's Halt; there is a freshness and spirit about their singing that is truly charming, and the part songs of Kucken, Roth, and. the national Swiss melodies, are given with a richness of harmony, and striking effect in modula tion, that is 1-.ighly pleasing. Madame Decker's deep con tralto notes are quite a marvel in female vocalisation, and Mdlle. K&Jer's soprano voice is not only excellent in quality, but managed with so much ability as to elicit frequent applause. Madlle. Claussen's lively and humorous songs are particularly attractive, and her introduction of an Eng lish song., "The Captain," takes the fancy of the audience greatin..being always encored, The entertainment is one that. 49:Q merits a visit, Europe could not note without emotion that the sword of GARIBALDI had no sooner stricken the chains of despotism off the Neapolitan population than it was calmly sheathed, while GARIBALDI himself escaped from the toils and responsibilities of a supreme dictatorship to recruit his health at Caprera, in his little Island Hermi tage. And what alone hurried him back even tually upon the public scene was—we are all vividly conscious of this also—not any impulse whatever of personal ambition, not any incentive at all of individual vanity, but that strong, all mastering, fraternal sympathy that bound him in life and death to his companions in arms, officers and men, his heroic followers, the Gari baldians. On their behalf and in the interests of the Italian peninsula, GARIBALDI tore himself reluctantly from his retirement in Caprera, and hastening to Turin, there, in the Legislative Cham ber, ascended the tribune, soldier though he is, orator though he is not, essentially a man of acts rather than a man of words either spoken or written, ascended the tribune and there—speaking " the truth, the whole truth, and (as he believed it) nothing but the truth" right out, made a clean breast of it in the presence and healing of his fellow legislators, the assembled Italian representatives. The Ministry were infuriated, the Chief Minister of all (CATouR) was especially infuriated. The Assembly was in a tumult. The President rang his bell, put on his hat, suspended the sittings, and, even when the business of the Legislature was resumed, satisfied his conscience as Speaker of the Italian House of Commons by energetically reprimanding and calling to order—GARIBALDI ! Yet GARIBALDI still spoke plainly —retracted no thing—insisted upon the necessity of doing justice to his followers, maintained the absolute need there is, a need since admitted and recognized, for calling out a new and yet grander Italian armament. Since then the Soldier of Italy has conversed with the SOVEREIGN. And the latter has to the delight of—it would be difficult to say how many—millions both in and out of the Italian peninsula, brought CATO'UR and CIALDINI in turn amicably face to face with GARIBALDI. The re conciliation of these men is better for the interests of the popular cause in Italy than the calling out of a supplementary 50,000 strong. It is so re garded in Italy. It is so looked upon far and wide through Christendom. And now that the recon ciliation we are alluding to is glanced back at, how ever casually—it cannot but be felt that the one man, whose dignity has been preserved throughout, in point of fact, is the very one whose self-respect was thought by some to have been so often jeopardised in the course of these transactions. GARIBALDI has carried his point—he has yielded nothing. He hai been insisting simply upon justice for his friends and companions. That justice, thanks to his interposition in their favour, will no longer be denied to them. He has been pleading in behalf of the only reasonable course lying open before those who wish well in earnest to the cause for which GARIBALDI has been him- self so long and so heroically fighting. And all the while he still looks with horror to the remem brance of that execrable yielding up to France of Nice and Savoy, with their live stock, in the shape of two million Nizzards and Savoyard,. LATEST NE WS. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, SUNDAY. The Royal mail steamship America, Captain M'Cauley, with dates from Boston to the 17th, and Halifax the 19th inst., arrived here at 1 a.m. to day. She brings 74 passengers and 13,800 dole. in specie, for Havre. The America landed the Irish and a portion of the English mails, and proceeded at 1.20 a.m., all well. NEW YORK, APRIL 16. Major Anderson and his men left Charleston on the loth, in the steamer Baltic, for New York. Extensive preparations are being made for the defence of Washington. President Lincoln's call for troops has been en thusiastically responded to by the Northern States. The New York Legislature has voted 30,000 men and 3,000,000 dols. Virginia advices state that it is anticipated that the secession ordinance will soon be passed. Kentucky has refused to supply troops to the Washington Government. Official advices have been received at Washing ton, stating that General Santana surrendered San Domingo to Spain on the 18th March. The Fulton has arrived out. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Exchange unsettled, 107 to 1071; Stocks falling. Erie, 221; Illinois, C6l; New York Centrals, 73 ; Missouri Sixes, heavy fall, quoted at 51; Virginia Sixes, 571 ; cotton nominal; flour heavy. oFened at 68f. 65c., are now at 68f. 75c. Railway Shares also firm. The following were the last quotations:- 41 per - par Cents ... 95 501 Credit Fonder 930 Do end month.... Belgian 4± — 3 per Cents Do. end month GS 70 Roman Bank Shares .. 2885 —; Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 682 50 Spanish Threes 4B 25 Do. Account 685 , Home Debt (LATEST BY TELEGRAPH via HALIFAX.) NEW YORK, APRIL 18. The North appears united, and volunteers are being rapidly enroll*. Money is liberally tendered from all quarters to support the Government. President Davis has issued a proclamation autho rising letters of marque. The Governors of Kentucky, North Carolina, and Missouri refuse to supply troops to the Federal Government. Maryland and Delaware sustain the Federal Ad• ministration. Troops are concentrated at Washington. The Confederate Government is about to issue a call for 150,000 volunteers. It is understood that President Lincoln is about to make a second call for volunteers. The Federal fleet has left Charleston for New York. Griffin Town, the lower part of Montreal, has been inundated, and damage done to the amount of 1,000,000 dollars. No lives were lost. The North Briton and Glasgow have arrived out. NEW ORLEANS, APRIL 17. Cotton irregular. Freight for British ships id., and for American nips refused at fd. TURIN, MONDAY, In the course of next week a bill will be pre sented to the Chamber of Deputies for negotiating a loan of 500,000,000 f. A despatch received from Naples to-day states hat the city is perfectly tranquil. NAPLES, APRIL 28 Perfect tranquillity prevails in the city. Yesterday, at four p.m., the drums of the National Guard beat a general alarm, and numerous patrols traversed the streets. Numerous arrests have been made among crimi nals who had escaped from prison and assumed the uniform of the National Guard. The events of yesterday were the result of 6 Bourbon conspiracy. News from the provinces announces that a reac- tionary movement had been made by some Bourbon soldiers and brigands, who were preparing to march on Naples in the belief that the reactionary moye men t had succeeded there. Five hundred brigands bad entered the Roman States, in the province of Aquila. Four vessels having left Civita Vecchia for Naples with Bourbon soldiers and brigands on board, an Italian war vessel has gone to meet them. The officers of the National Guard at Naples have, in the name of the entire corps, protested in the Pungolo against the events of yesterday, declaring at the same time that they are ready to defend the Government. FRANKFORT-ON-THE -MAINE, APRIL 28. In yesterday's sitting of the Federal Diet the Danish representative declared that the Patent of 1859 would be submitted to the Estates of Hol stein to receive their ratification, although they would have no power to cancel it. The Danish representative also refuted the ob jections recently raised by the Estates against the proposals of the Danish Government. In the same sitting the Federal Diet passed a resolution respecting the Federal military organi- sation. The division of the Federal reserve is to be maintained, and an increase of the troops furnished by each contingent was also resolved upon. BERNE, APRIL 28. The treaty between Switzerland and Italy for carrying a railway over the Luckmanier has been COliCiuueu. Switzerland is to contribute 48,000,000 f. towards he cost of construction. The treaty also stipulates that when 25,000,000 f. of this amount shall have been guaranteed, and 5,000,000 f. actually spent on the construction of the railway, the kingdom of Italy will, within four years, contribute 20.000,030 f., which will not, however, bear interest. It has been further stipulated that the cost of laying the railway over that portion of the Alps between Dissentis and Olivone shall be defrayed by the kingdom of Italy. The canton of St. Gallen has already voted 5,000,000 f. towards the expenses. FRANCE. PARIS, APRIL 27. The Parte of this evening says :—" The asser ion that the French army is to quit Rome is un- Founded. " France remains at Rome, not only to insure the security of the Holy Father, but because her pre sence insures peace to Italy by permitting her to continue her interior organisation and the develop ment of her institutions. The departure of the French from Rome would leave the belligerent parties in presence of each other, and would within a short time bring about a conflict betw,een Austria and Piedmont. It is for this reason that all the Powers, with England at their head, see without regret the prolongation of our occupation of Rome, which is likewise demanded by religious interests." The Pays of this evening says :—" A despatch received here announces that Francis 11. will shortly quit Rome." Another despatch avers the contrary. BOURSE, April 26.—Two o'Clock.—The market continues firm, but Without any material itoprove meat in prices. For the Account, Threes, which' RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1348 75 .. 1350 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 958 75 .. 960 Geneva 395 .. Southern 550 .. 550 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard W. S. WOODIN, AND HIS CABINET OF CURIOSITIES At Christmas, Mr. Wooossi opened this his third entertainment. And, recollect, " the third—[cer tainly in this instance]—is the charm !" Already Four Months have elapsed since " The Cabinet of Curiosities" was first of all unlocked—appropriately enough upon Boxing Night; and ever since then, with the solitary intermission of the one exceptional week immediately preceding Easter, the Polygra phic Hall has been crowded day after day with those lovers of fun whose delight is expressed alter nately throngh rounds of applause and peals of laughter. Everybody is familiarly acquainted with Mr. Woodin by this time. Insomuch that ho may be set down confidently as ono of the best known men in the United kingdom —not in the metropolis merely, but all through the provinces, in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and, we dare say, even in that little imperiutn ?n imperio yclept Berwick upon-Tweed. He has made the round of our forty shires, including the counties Palatine. Like one of our most popular novelists, he has forsaken the beaten track and taken " Rambles Beyond Rail ways." Supposing his bumps of locality to bo as well developed as his bumps of individuality —and in that last mentioned particular don't we all remember how truly "he speaks with most miraculous organ !"—his memory of the cities, boroughs, villages, hundreds (we might count them by thousands) through which he has flitted during the course of his provincial excursions, would ren der hien an invaluable reviser of a newly perfected British Gazetteer. Talk of Sam Slick—as Mr. Bernal Osborne talked of him after his discursive speech of Thursday evening iu the House of Com mons, as an appropriate editor of " The Rambler " —we would back Woodin in that particular against a dozen Haliburtons. Yet, after all—intimately acquainted though the three kingdoms are by this time with this Human Hydra, W. S. Woodin, a man who really seems to have as many " heads" as the discourse of a Scotch Controversialist—it appears to us scarcely further back than the day before yesterday, when we had the first surprise of attending his " a. no. 1" perform ance. Nevertheless, looking back to dates—we find that no less than nine long, and to Mr. Woodin busy, years have elapsed since this seeming event of—just the day before yesterday ! It was during the year after the Great Exhibition, it was in the year of the coup d'etat that our new Master (of the Revels) took all London by storm—with the aid of the quiet little device (for all the world like Somebody Else over the water) of one single night's Entertainment. Our Imperial ally, we all recollect —it was one of the most memorable little incidents of 1848—set forth originally to take possession of Paris, and through Paris, of France, carrying with him Gast like Woodin !) a Carpet Bag. Hither moreover came his imperial highness the Prince President Woodin, in his turn eight years ago—as another conquering embodiment of that mysterious stranger the Man With the Carpet Bag. And when he set resolutely to work unpacking it, upon that firNt occasion of his public appearance in London in the principal room of the old Adelaide cianers, hard by St. Martin's-in-the-fields, it would have been impossible even for Sir Charles Coldstream himself, gazing in upon it through the most super cilious spyglass, to have asserted that there was " nothing in it There seemed to be everything in it in the way of good humour and comicality— and not only everything, but everybody : old and young, man and woman, short and tall, stout and spindling—the victims of atrophy and the sufferers from elephantiasis. After wards when that übiquitous Carpet Bag had travelled pertinaciously hither and thither upon all the railroads, on all the coaches, in all the post chases we might fancy of the United Kingdom, the light-heeled bearer of it, the easily fitted wearer of all its motley contents, returns amongst us here in London not so much like " a giant" as like a who's Caravan of Giants " refreshed," appearing upon his second advent, not simply as the Man with the Carpet Bag, but as that plastic and elastic Jack-of-all-trades known in all large households as the Odd Man. The man who can turn his hand to anything--who can be for the nonce upon an in stant's notice, just anybody, Figaro la ! Figaro si ! the Oddest of all Odd Men, as it hap pened, illustrating again in his own person a very " Olio of Oddities !" Accomplishing this, moreover, so successfully that without wishing to be any more invidious than Cassio—all London declared Number Tw, o, as compared with Number One (until then, as became it, " taken care of " sedulously) to be "more excellent than t'other.'' A preference chorussed during the last two or three years all through these islands, all through this little laughter-loving British Archipselago. And now—"bock agen," asdeliberately as that canny Scot who knew so well where he was the best off, comes the young polyphonist to his old often-trodded haunts in his own well-frequented Hall Polygra phic. As youthful as ever he is in appearance. As though scarcely nine weeks, to say nothing of nine yesrs, had elapsed since his earliest apparition in London as the giver of these Entertainments. His elegantly little theatre completely and in parts exquisitely redecorated. His two little green tables of yore transformed each of them now into—a if the same slim, smiling, voluble, bright - eyed young Entertainer as ever his smooth shaven face, in spite of all its manifold contortions and tortuosities :of feature while im personating his World of Characters, not yet seem ingly, oven when scanned through the lens of an opera glass, "up to a wrinkle"—his costume, though (as a gentleman's evening dress, of course, should be invariably) simply black and white, yet - - altogether, in spite of that, the very pink of per _ _ .. _. fection. Yonder he stands before his audience, when the curtain rises evening after evening in his Polygraphic Hall telling them how glad he is to see them again, and explaining to them—while he is fitting on his white kid gloves—how, since they last met there, he has, during his progress through life, met with another singular variety of whimsi cal personages, whose introduction upon the scene (extracting them one by one from his Cabinet of Curiosities—into which they have been somehow conjured and there carefully enshrined) will con stitute the night's entertainment. After which— hey ! Presto!—the wand of the Enchanter is waved—and the audience for two hours afterwards with the single intermission of merely ten minutes between the first and second part of the per. formanee) is to all intents and purposes whisked away into the fairy regions of No-man's land—the stage of your true Polyphonist ! How possibly can Nv e now describe the quickness . - - the diversity, the completeness, the inimitable ela- boration of all Mr. Woodin's nightly transform- tions. Gifted though the ablest critic may be— and it is superfluous to say that our modesty aspirep not to that pre-eminence--as well might Mr. Hunt the water-colourist himself (though he can depict miraculously the rainbow sheen of a dead pilchard) attempt to paint the hues of some expiring dolphin. The spectator has scarcely begun to reconcile him- self to the fact that Mr, Airoodin has expanded into a Stout Gentleman let us say—some Stout Gentle- man like one of their late Royal Highnesses—with a double chin and an immense waistcoast, a voice like Lablache, and a snortle like incipient apoplexy, when, in a twinkling, ho is perhaps bowing to his audience, in propria persona, over the moveable lid of one of his desk cabinets, adjusting Lis white cravat, or arranging his own hair, or buttoning one of his white kid gloves, with the most amazingly serene and imperturbable of countenances. Hardly has he announced in half a dozen words the inter view he has had with another wayfarer in life, when again, in a twinkling, he is airing a new costume, in the full glare of the footlights —arrayed from top to toe as a lady of the last century, arrayed in fact from the glossy braid of her tresses to the dainty point of ber satin slipper in the utmost amplitude and delicacy of (we may fairly use the phrase in this age of steel hoops and crinoline) her feminine "surroundings." Here in literal truth, in the person of Mr. Woodin, we have realised before our gaze that well-known couplet in Dryden's " Absolom and Achitophel"— "A man so various that he seemed to be Not ONE but all mankind's opitome !" _ _ _ And he is not merely in the strictest sense of the words "A Host in himself"—as the giver of these Entertainments. He is more than that—he is him self A whole Company into the bargain. Yet though he is in this manner, as we have said, him self a whole Company—Heavy Father, Walking Gentleman, Duenna, Lover (of either sex), and so forth—he could not possibly (remembering the swiftneEs of his changes), there is, at any rate, this to be said, he could not possibly complete the Com pany by being—Prompter. Supposing Sophocles again to be in the ascendant amongst us, or any other of the Greek Tragedians —we all remember " Antigone" and the Vandenhoffs—we would earnestly recommend the selection of Mr. Woodin as—the Chorus. Speaking to us as he does in so many voices, appearing before us as he does in so many shapes, one might almost he bewildered at last into the notion that his must be some disembodied spirits (" high spirits," surely) entering at pleasure into the semblance of certain individualities; oue might occasionally, we say, be bewildered into this notion, so confused is our recollection of his identity—but that there he is repeatedly "himself again" like Richard—the genuine Simon Pure in the snow-white linen, the dress coat and the black broad-cloth "continua tions." Yet, while admitting him (solely by reason of these perpetual reminders of his identity) to be in point of fact, like the rest of us, an actual Noun Substantive—we must insist upon it, at any rate, that if he is a Noun at all he must certainly be a Noun of Multitude—signifying many. Never was the truth of Shakspere's philosophic summary of human life more signally verified than in Woodin that comprehensive assertion that— "ONE MAN is his time plays many parts." While the application of the line may be here still further emphasised by avowing, in regard to Mr. Woodin's rapidity of impersonation, that there is but " one man" who " in his time" [the whole enter tainment, as we have remarked occupies but two hours altogether] " plays (so) many parts." And these the mere " Characters " represented by Mr. Woodin in his entertainment—how are they even to be here passingly enumerated ? Dividing the body of Lon don Life adroitly, with a few trenchant syllables into Four Quarters—passing through Spring with its Fashionable Marriages, Public Dinners and Derby Day ; through Summer with its Excursionists ; through Autumn with its Tourists ; through Winter with its Entertainments—who, and what, and where are not the chosen Characters ? Snuffy old Mrs. Poppies, the Pew Opener, with her benedictions upon the bride and bridegroom, interrupted by an incongruous growl over her douceur—" only a beg garly half-crowned." Tom Dibbs, the little shriek ing blackguard charity boy, all grin and muffin-cap —scared away the instant afterwards by the stupen dous Goldknot, the very Beadle of Beadledom. Mr. Bobbles, the delightful Secretary of the Great Um brella Lending Association—cheering himself on as he reads the report for the last twelvemonth by interpolated shunts of Rear ! Hear! from the depths of his neckcloth. As to the Epsom Downs on Derby Day—Mr. Woodin seems to crowd himself off the stage altogether, so that we lose .3ight of him entirely for a while—he seems abso lutely to crowd himself off the stage with—red coated Flying Jack, the vender of the c'rect card, the whiskered Dvi Ling- creficirmun, the black-haired. scarlet-cloaked Gipsy Fortune-teller, and the Ticket-of-Leave-looking Thimble Rigger, who in the midst of his hoarse patter bobs himself, table, thim bles, pea and all out of existence, on catching sight of the coming—" Police." Added to these and a swarm of others—the dirty cokernut-seller, the clean capped and aproned gingerbread-seller, the owner (or shall we say the nephew) of Aunt Sally, the Veiled (bonvivant) Mordekana of the Borouche, the Tidily Toddy tooler of the chaise and pair, with dear old Mrs. Aldgato Pump of the dilapidated Dogcart, and that wonderful spangled india rubber acrobat Herr Jacobo Johnsonini. Have we not, moreover, immediately afterwards brought before us, at full length and in startling contrast to each other, that garrulous old pragmatic Mr. Rodney Hook, the meditative angler " with weak nerves and strong objections," eagerly in quest of quiet and the picturesque—and, haunting his foot step, literally dogging his footsteps, Thomas Gubbins, the Ostler, over scratching that oakum head of his, that looks as if it wanted grooming with a currycomb, seeking a purchaser for " a tidy dawg," at something, of course, like "a tidy price," visibly bringing with him about his frowzy dress the strongest flavour -of stableyard ammonia. Hardly has Gubbins done scratching his shock-head with the haft of the clasp-knife with which he is carving his peripatatic dinner, while talking to us in appropriate growls about his " dawg," when he (the Ostler of the Red Lion) is summarily replaced by the buxom Landlady of the same. Widow Whimperley, to wit : with her pre posterous reminiscence of having had the question popped to her on the top of the Monument, and with those decoying glances of hers so plainly ask ing to have it popped again, that they must in fallibly have thrown old Mr. Weller, by the mere ,ense of his peril, into a cold and profuse perspira tion. Among the happiest of Mr. Woodin's kit-cat portraits from the life, those ingenious half-lengths ,uddenly produced from the recesses of his Cabine of Curiositics, commend us to Mr. Winelees, the gantlnman, voixo in in auola. dirA And lengthened confusion about his hat—to Deborah Gunn, the boisterous old bathing woman—end to Simpson Stentor, the town crier, bawling out his incoherent announcements with the most ludicrous sontempt for punctuation. As for the more finished and more carefully elaborated delineations —don't we all know perfectly well that heavy sNs ell, Mr. Halcyon Higgins, possessor of a yacht and hater of all " bawther," who smokes a meer ,chaum (we are intimate with the very aroma of his cavendish), and who possesses an invaluable nauti cal auxiliary in the dapper form of Jones, the Skipper ? As to Jones himself, can't he spin a yarn with the best of them, and dance a hornpipe with the agility of a sea harlequin! Our Polyphonist's skill in the articulation of patois, by the way, is not the least surprising of his many gifts es a deline ator of the types of national character. Instance his Cornish miner, with his wonderful subterranean sort of ballad chant—his Welch girl with her pretty guttural ditty—his flaxen-headed countrybumpkin, with his preliminary jabber about the fineness of the "meaning this Warning," and his extraordi. rigmarole of a song in the broadest dialect of Dor .4etshire. IVitn?ss, moreover, the dry humour of Sandy 11Thaster, the Scotchman, and the racy un and roystering blarney of Barney O'Brien, the Irish car driver. Another while—whew ! as at he shrill call of the scene-shifter's whistle—we are taken back a whole hundred years at a bound, from 1861 to 1761—our agile Proteus inc :mprehensibly standing before us—no longer Mr. Woodin, but my Lady Frances Foresight, a belle (of that far-off kpoch) decidedly worth ringing—radiant in bro caded silks and hooped petticoats and jewelled stomacher, in lappets and farthingale—her delicate tresses powdered,and her blooming cheek perf ec t e d with that last poignant touch of grace in those days, the " beauty spot" so essential as an •adjunct in the toilettes of our great-great-grandmothers. How Mr. Woodin surpasses himself in the do:- og scenes of his new entertainment those only cfol Anderpt%nd who hay° themolvo witomed with their own eyes and ears his really amazing performance of three characters simultaneously ! A sectional view of two separate boxes in a London eating-horse, revealing to the spectator that meek Mr. Shrink and that outrageous Mr. Ruffles, thru3t ing their heads forward turn by turn in such rapid alternation (they are supposed to be seated back to back) that they actually do really appear at times to be before the audience (as we have said) simul taneously, The mediating voice of tho waiter being heard, moreover, at rapid intervals all through their long-sustained and laughter-moving conten tion. To complete the evening's entertainmen t triumphantly, have we not those marvellous glimpses of other popular entertainments latterly the rage in London—glimpses visible and audible in the basso prefundo of the Sompnour, in Mac farren's " Robin Hood"—better still in M. Lavas' seur's charming little chansonette from the French ♦audevilles—best and happiest of all in that exeru' ciatingly ridiculous " Old Bob Ridley" of the Buckley Serenaders " Single shuilte, double shuffle, cut and cross cut; snapping his fingers, rolling his eyes, turning in his knees, presenting the backs of his legs in front, spinning about on his toes and heels, like nothing but a man's fingers on the tambourine ; dancing with two left legs, two right legs, two wooden legs, two wire legs, two spring legs—all sorts of legs and no legs—what is this to him ?" It is for all the world like that astonishing peep Dickens gives us into the frolic of nigger life (American Notes, I. 218), realised for once on this side of the Atlantic : when hey !" with the chuckle of a million counterfeit Jim Crows, in one inimitable sound," Old Bob Ridley has bounded through the doorway—and W. S. Woodin is there the nest instant bowing his last bow to his laughing audience, at the close of another evening shutting down the cover, and turning the key in the lock of his wonderful Cabinet of Curiosities. LITERATURE, All for the Best • a Story of Quiet Life. 3 vole. Hurst and Blackett. This is a story of domestic life which does not detail any very remarkable events, but tells is an effective manner the record of home joys and sor rows which influence so powerfully the course of human existence. The two sisters, who principally engage our attention, are different in disposition, but both estimable. Mabel is an excitable and enthusiastic girl, who is always restlessly endea vouring to do something grand, and tormenting herself and others by her vague speculations and unsortled habits. The diary which she keeps illustrates in a forcible style her various phases of mind and the devious turnings she took before she arrived at a happy stage of progress. Maud's history is far more simple in its short sad tenour. She was one of those gentle gracious beings who are occasionally met with in the dark paths of sad mortality, as if to show us how bright and beautiful human nature can become. She was the guiding influence of the house, though she was much younger than Mabel. She was en gaged to Stephen Roden shortly after the commence ment of the story. He was agent to a duke in the neighbourhood, and was a man in every way fitted for Maud, from his high principle and kind heart. For a few short months all went happily' with them, and then— " As they descended, following hope, Thore sat the shadow feared of man." A fatal accident on the railway terminated Stephen's life, a few weeks before their wedding day, and Maud was left on the threshold of exis tence to sorrow over the heaviest calamity that could befall her. The passages that record this era of her life are very beautifully written, and convey in an earnest spirit the depths of the affliction and the Christian faith with which she was enabled to meet it. As Maud wandered over the garden, and by the woodlands of her home, she was, after the first bitter agony had been past, able to look calmly around her, and, ami I the smiling beauty of the summer luxuriance which surrounded her, to look through nature up to nature's God. "She would never say goodbye to Stephen any more. Henceforth there would be no parting between them ; never more, indeed, to hold any speech with him of years on earth to come ; but not the less truly hers, in all present and coming times, chosen perhaps by his father, and her father to be one of those ministering spirits who do always keep watch , and guard over the children of the kingdom.' Farther on it is told us how she loved to dwell on " the pleasant words of Stephen, the last she had ever heard him speak, " After all, Maud, it is only' a little while." It was thus through this burning baptism of tears, and afterwards across this kingly threshold of hope, that Maud Harcourt passed from girlhood to woma n hood." The events of Mabel's career were very different, but by degrees we find her learning patience and imbibing hope in her experience of life, and when she records this passage in her diary she was nearly following the footsteps of her sister Maud, "But, after all, it is only a little while, the weariness will be past by and bye. There will be nothing of this to think of, to murmur over, in that glorious coming time, when in the great eternity we shall awake and find it day.'" She was married soon after Maud's trial, as she wished nothing to be different on her account, and Maud was left to perform her duties, more than ever appearing as an angel spirit doing goad to all around her. The motto of the book is a very beautiful one, " So He bringeth them to the haven where they would be." In its earthly sense Maud had long ago reached it, in a heart at peace within, but Mabel was some time before she had passed the rough waves on which she was tossing when we first beheld her. It was some years before Maud was taken to the real haven where only cai the spirit rest, where .the waves of this troublesome world have been left for ever. Th e description of Maud's death i s a touching scene, replete with calm and sommnity. At the beginning of her trouble we were told that " she was able to look forth clearly' and steadily unto the land that is very far off," and this happy gift of vision did not desert her at the last. There are one or two well described indivi duals met with in these pages, as, for instance, Mrs. Tresilis and Miss Gabbatis. The former in her beauty and her loveliness forms a melancholy object of interest, and it is a relief to learn that she soon sunk to rest and found her grave close to the shores of that sea she so loved. Miss Gabbatis is a good specimen of a village gossip, but she is a very harmless one, and all look forward to her visits with pleasure. This story of a Quiet Life may contain more useful information and convey more desirable hints than many grander and more demonstrative works. It tells of the simplest occur rences in an impressive manner, and the great lessons of life and death are only to be learned in solitude and reflection. The author has had at heart to teach all r ea d ers h ow to l oo k for q uiet in the stormy scenes of a world at strife, and where the haven lies in which the weary voyagers may look for peace when— The storms are weathered and the ocean crossed." The last scene of Maud's life is thus described :- -or., aud fur the last time, ere it was given to her again for ever there came that far-back little golden year of hope—the hope that had changed the current of her whole life, and whose loss ha , s worked for her such Roble compen sation. It came to her in its earthly likeness for just one more loving look, and she said farewell to it very quietly, knowing that it would be only a little while before she saw it again transfigured into heavenly beauty, hers for ever, standing in the light of the new world the shadows of this one passed away, and she remembered only the joy. Draw ing so near, step by step, to the eternal gates, where no thought of sadness might find leave to enter, the angel of sorrow that had accompanied her through all these years let fall his garb of mourning, and she beheld him as.one of the shining ones. What need, then, for the glory to come down upon her face as she thought of these things ; and then bending over her, Miss Nunby saw that the light upon her face was given there by the lingering sunlight only. It was all over, the "little whil e " so l ong waited for. so patiently endured, was come at last. Stephen and Maud would never have to part any more now, never any more at all, And so He bringeth them unto the haven where they would be.' " THE WEATHER. METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS. This Day, 1 between 8 and B. IE. M. I D. F. C. .r. S. 9 a.m. I _....- --- Nairn 30'10 44 40 W.S.W. 3 7 c. F , Aberdeen Leith Berwick 30 22 49 44 W.S.W. 1 1 b. 3 Ardrossan.... 3021 46 44 W.S.W. 3 6 o. I 3 Poi it sh .... 30' '3 48 46 W. 3 3 b. 3 Shields Galway 30 30 50 47 N . E . 2 4 o. 1 Searborough .. 36. 8j 45 41 N. 3 3 b. * Liverpool.... 30.25 46 39 N. 1 2 c. 1 Valentia Queenstown._ 3027 t 0 49 N. 4 5 o. 2 Yarmouth 3O 15 44 43 N. 4 6 O. 4 London 3o'lB 45 41 N.N.W. 2 8 c. I Cover 3o':3 :47 43 N.E. 5 3 c . Portsmouth :30* 3 50 .9 W. 5 5 m. Portland Plymouth_ I Penzance 5 52 1 51 1 N.E. 1 7 b. i EXPLANATION.—B. 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