The Sun. — London, England, 1856-04-07 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, It Is respectfully annottaced that her MAJESTY'S THEATRE will RE-OPEN early in May. Engagements of great interest have been effected both in Opera and Ballet, and the beat exertions used to make the arrangements worthy of the occasion. The prospectus will shortly be issued. TkIEATEr. ROYLL, DRURY-LANE, Lame, Mr. E. T. Smith. • THIS EVENING, IL TROVA. - TORE. 10 c 'ludo wtth • DAIIGHTEIt OF THE REGIMEN r. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mister the Management of Mr. Buckslone. THIS EVENING, THE EVIL GENIUS. Followed by EL GAMBUSINO; or, The Mexican Cioldseeker. In watch PERE NENA and . the Spanish Dancers will appear. After which, LEND ME FIVE SIIII,LISCIS To conclude with A rum OLTT OF WATER. ROT IL PRISCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. . Under the Management of Mr. CIIAILSI UAL . THIS EvENING, . • . , • A WONDERFUL WOMAN. • • To be followed by ' - FAUST AND MARGUERITE. • To conclude with A PRIYCE FOR A notuc. • TILEATHE KOTAL ADziirEa: rrapriator, Mr. B. Wohster.—Directreiai Madame Celeste. TILLS EVENT/Ili, , • MOTHER IND CULL) ARE, DOISG, WALL. - Atter which, • . unGENr PRIVATE AFFAIItS. To conclude with , . .TA.CK A.: 4 M THE BE A.'S STALK; , or, hlarlegnin and Mother - ' Goose at Horne Again. In which Messrs. J. Bland. P. Itedford, Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham, and Miss B, Arden will apnea{.,, • ROYAL OLYAPI.C . Lessee axtd Mana;er. Mr. 'Alfred 'Mims. TCIP 4 EVENIgG STILL 'WATERS RCM DEEP. Alter which. will be produced a New and deribly-ninral, thougb tces3ively old, Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza. entitled • VIE DISCREET PRINOE,Si; e-, the Three Glass Distaffs. - II which Messrs. Emery, F. Robsm, U. Cooper, kiss Marston, an•l Mies Maskell will appear. ECOYIL Str.ZRE,'Y TEIEA.TRE. Lessees, Means. She*herd and Creswiek. , .TIII4 EVF.NING,., • WIII be performer! anew Drama, entitled HOW Wg LITE IN VIT. woaLi) OF LONDON. roHowe' by THE POSTMAN'S KNOCK- To conclude with TITFTLE/I.kTISPIY; or, The Lawyer's Legend. AOYAL ita&Nl) t'LIKATttN, Usdor the direction of Mr: Ppne THIS EVE`TEca, MY WIFE'S COURN. After which, TIIE LOS DIAMONDS. Fo'lowed by A Ballet Divertissement. After which.. GOOD QUEEN B Si. To conclude win NO !r0!! NO ! ! ! ASTI.PIit'S It'OYAJ, AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. TINS EVENING, • That nniqne and nmtralle'ed Rencontre Equestrienne, a GENU INE ENGLISH STEEPLECHA.SE! Also. the 0-lental Spectacle, rtic ARAD OF THE DESERT ANDJI IS FAITHFUL sTEEO. After which, the WONDERS OF THE ARENA, by riders of Brat-rate talent. To conclude with a Drama of Pr.ril r Exc'teruent. Laughier, Croisinge, Jostlinrs, and Adventures, with Tehtfle Le ass from the stage to the r'ng, in ENGfAND'S HARVEST HONE ant NATIONAL STEEPLEcHIASE. Box-of Ace open from Eleven till Four. Staffs Manager. Mr. W. West. Eques trian Direltor, A - V." - CookP, ;00. „ ROYAL MARYLERONE TIIEA.TRF,. „ Engagement of Mr. CFI kRLF.S M ATTIE WS, far Five Nights only This Evening, MONDAY, April 7th,' II3FD Sir Charles Colilstream, Mr. Q. AfsAhews.„ After which, THE PRACTICAL MAN': Coucisley,, 31r.C. Mathew S- To cpnc'tulo with, , .E3O,Q)D. . . Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. E;Stiillpg, , • , E HMI STANLEY'S fr SEVEI AGES `Ott .-- lirt.Aii*.' • - Second Season. r, - This Lyric EatertaVaeat lia4 been, crawaeci by the artentrnout; approbation of • ALL TIPI , LO.N.DIN JOURNAt3 ,- ;• As the greiteat artistical trittmil.hufthel d‘Y. Lt constitutes am Opera. Comedy. and Vaudeville. With a tilt of chsract:rs is corryct Co. tames ; and Songs in SIX DIFFERENT LANGUAGES! Never atternptel by any other artiste. Evening performances on 1'1o:1,1km Tuesdays, Thursdays, an 1 F-Idays, at 8. Morning performances on Wednesdays and Saturdays at half•pasi two, precisely. Admission--Chairs, 35,; Centre Seats, 2s. ; Back Seats, Is. SAINT AI [IN'S HALL, Long-acre.. Mein. WATER LONDON DitrDflg. TRIO DAY—Morn. 8 min. aft. 3 —Evening 29 min. ?ft. -g To-Nf onno iv—Morn. 47 min. aft. 3 —4lvoniag 8 min aft. 4- THE WEA.TEIEft—Surr Orricg, Apair, 6. TIIgIISIOIiETICII, IN' VIZ SEIADEL, "' 5S highest shied noun yesterday. 47 --owest thi3 morning and durlnA the night. 55 this day at fool. BAROMETER, 21.33. WIND, variable from S.S. E. to S.S.W.—Fresh, with heavy clouds, sunshine, anal occasional showers—a regular April day APRIL 7. 56 —highest silica noon vesterday. 44 —lowest this eioralog and during the night. 55 —this dal. Kt noon. BA.RO wx - rwR —29 55—rising. -' WIND, with fine =whiny weather. e t tt, ',ll • §llll I L9NDON, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1856. Since the termivation of the Easter vacation the House of C3l3lmons has been actively engaged in voting all the supplies required by the Govern ment, and.this, notwithstanding the contemptuous manner in which its very existence , has been ignored, and the profound mystery maintained as to the terms and cOnditiOns actually agreed on in respect to the precious Treaty of Peace. 'lt if, thus' voluntarily parting with its principal power, and virtually committing an act of. felo de se. As we have repeatedly declared, there should be Lig; final ratification -of the Treaty until it had been submitted for the consideration of the different branches of the Legislature and their approval duly obtained. As it is they aro not per mitted to interpose even a veto, or to obtain any -a Itleatie-14orm ar ti en as to whether its proviSions be consistent with the honour or interests of the nation until it' is tOeklate for effectual interference. This is not in acecirdaacc with the spirit of the British Constitution, or the limited nature of the British Monarchy. We ban easily 'conceit - re the storm of indignation.that would be excited in the ' Congress of the United States if so gross an suit were, offered to the_ bcidy ; and, w e understand why the Commons House of Parlia ment should be less tenacious of its rights and privileges, or of the national liberties, of - Which it shciuld be a Vigilant and indefatigable .guardian. It was by the large supplies, so liberally granted by the choseri representatives of the people, that the War was carried on to what, we are told, has been a successful termination. It is surely due to those, who so nobly responded to every demand, that they should learn the equivalent they are to obtain for _the many sacrifices so cheerfully sub mitted to, before the matter has been irrevocably conclUded. But, as we have already st a t e d, suc h a course would not be in accordance with the German Mod e - I s, t o w hi c h we are rapidly assimi lating. It wo u ld not p l ease the "irresponsibl e Piemier," and therefore the House of Commons must swallow its leek, and patiently submit to the 9utrage. Secret diplomacy is bad enough. But there might. be some excuse for not taking the (Onion of "Parliatnent seriatim on the diffe rent points to be brought under the consideration of't,he Plenipotentiaries. " But that the mystery should, .W maintained until the ex c h ang e of ratifications is a monstrous and uncongtilu, tional gross and unwarrantable insult , that should:not for a moment be submitted to. Is there, we ask, no independent representative of an independent constituency ready to assert the dignity of his order, and to claim for the House Of Which he is a member, the fall and, - complete information to which it is pre-eminently entitled ? Is there no champion . willing 'to enter _the arena to vindicate the rights so wantonly, invaded ?---no modern HA MpDEN to question the undue eaten-' sion of the so-called prerogatives of the Crown : ? An address to the Crown praying that her Me- JaSTY would be graciously pleased to refuse her ratification 'to the Treaty until it 'had been laid in extenso before the Howe, andap proved by it, would raise the entire question, andi even if rejected, the division list Would serve ' as a touchstone to prove the fidelity of those ,who had been selected,for a position.so honourable and so influential, and the sterling Charaeter of their alaiinS for a renewal "of the important trust at the next general election. We trust,- then, that such a motion will be made, WhiCh, under any circum stances, 'must' prove beneficial to those, by whom it may be brought forward and supported, and that no other grant of money flay be passed until the House has had the opportunity„Of. expressing its qpinipu. on the interesting and important-topic.. •A _._The.unsettled state 'of many of the leading ~ questions' "forms an additional' reason ,flr requiring this' information. , 'While- the new - political, coxi-! stitUtion of the=: Danubian -Principalities remains ope' ~there is a fertile source of diiiension,'a very. ."la .ale ' of , diseord", among: the- Plenipoten tiar,es. '-:: On Saturday we'asked - "Will- Ails ' triad -consent to withdraw 'her ' troops befOre some; ' settled governmenf- has been' decided on ?" We are already answered: it is .more than hinted that Count Bum. has already alleged various reasons against the immediate -execution of the Treaty of the 30th of March, Which authorised the Austrian occupation, and by Which the troops were bound. 16 depart on the termination of the. War. We always believed that Austria would strive hard, to _ retain her po sition, and to gain peculiar advantages for which _she:was unwilling to pay an adequate price. It will, however, reflect indelible disgrace - both on France and 'England if ihoy permit suchpetti logging. quibbling to prevail, or sanction what ._will become to all, purposes an invasion as scandalous, `• and in :every respect as indefensible as that- of -Russia, for which the Western Powers felethem selves not merely justified, but imperatively bound to unsheathe' the'Swerd. If Austria do not quietly evacuate the position into which she should never have been admitted, she should be summarily expelled vi et arniis. 'Such decided conduct would not, however, be consistent with the deference - exhibited to Germanism, and the disgusting toadying so long displayed. The il ritish Parliament should, however, -be enabled to judge for itself, and have a reasonable opporth riity of expresSing its 'opinion before the nation is irrevocably committed to a Coburg-German policy —very pleasing to King LEOPOLD, 1 'but very dia gusting to the people of England. . . Another very urgent question has been venti _ lated at the Conferences, the fit and proper settle ment *hereof is ihdispensable to the'fliture trap qnillity of Europe. . This is the eandition: of- Italy, .. in which. Austria is '' steadfastly endeavouring to maintain . the 'status, quo: thig `may . not, Properly speaking, call :- for final arrangement before ,- the final concluSion ef• the' Pestce,..ltht it: Wth),Y :of iiiiitit - aii4 - 444 - ii;., isa.67iet,tielitliiitot "safely be deferred: for a , eingle.laour f and 'Oll aviiich the expression•Of pub lic opinion, both in and out, of ;Parliament, will be .peculiarly valuable. - We have . certainly paid enough for a satisfactory settlethent of the affairs of Europe, - and it' would be but a small return for the sacrifices we' have s) . unhesitatingly made., : Besides, Sardinia has irresistible.-claims on the good offices of France add England, which"donid not be Slighted or (Hs; regarded at the termination of a war in which she somobly eameforward;-:putting te Sliaine and COn f4i44,! the despieable neutrals who'remained sb long deaf to the call of honour and. of thity. And what about an, indemnity for the money expenses of the war---leaving the glorious, dead. to speak for ,themselves—already forgotten, if not dis owned ? Oh, England, thou art fallen indeed. If. Mr. Wirdasais be right, and he certainly seems to have lit the mark, we must have, ere long, a cbmmission 'or a committee to examine into the cost of Prince ALBERT. In the Committee of Scpply 'on Friday night, the large sum of 227,6751. was proposed for Irish education. Mr. WILLIAMS_ called the attention of the . Com mittee to a charge of 5,175/. for the "ALBERT Agricultural Training, Establishment and Model Farm," adding that " whenever he saw the name of ALBERT, he found it was accompanied by pro fuse expenditure." It began; if we remember, by the Whigs demanding some 70,0001.. for stables for,his horses ; and the last expenditure talked of is as much per anntitn for his eldest daughter ! We trust the latter report is wholly without foun dation. 'lf the Princess Royal must have i',dowry, why, give her a do/try and have done with it ; but in the name of decency, let ,us not marry our princesses to beggarly mtinental husbands un abre':tO maintain them. We can find , those amongst our own aristocracy who would be, able, to do this. To pay both ways—to pay the Ger mans who marry a Queen or a Princess, and take up their abode here, and to pay also those who remain in their own country ; to pay whether, our Royal Family wants a husband, or one of their Roial families Wants a wife,' this truly is somewhat overdoing tbe matter. Profuse expen diture, indeed, in connection with the name of ALBERT. To return, however, 'to Ireland, and its ALBERT Farm School," supported by English taxes ; the skirmish which lasted _some tune, and drew even Lord PALMERSTON - and Mr. DISRiELI into the._ conflict, elicited some important views from the champions: Lord PALMFASTON maintained, and' - Mr. DISRAELI , d6 rtied s that it was the business of the Govern ment to teach young Irishman farming. On the one side it,;4as. alleged that we could not under take to teach baking and cotton spinning by schools ; why, thereflre,, teach the tilling of land? It seems utterly i4onsible to generalise the scheme of teaching trades at the public cost ; but then' it was said that Ireland was an "exceptional case." True, replies the master of sarcasm, it Wa; so .once,; but.7higa have had hei in hand for five-and-twenty years, and she ought by thi s ti me - to liave Come within ru'e. In England and Scot land landlords are at the cost of enlightening their tenants, and Irish landlords can afford it now. There was no denying this. Tax _spenders, however, never want an argu went.The defence which carried the vote, so far as votes are deternained by reason and argu ment, was the glorious old plea, " Vested rights." Lord PAtMERSTON fought manfully in this Tory ThermPpy/, but he conquered. It would be -hard to deprive those who had enjoyed salaries in 'the ALBERT . Fancy SchOol of tlfeii livelthOod." The Irish Secretary was compelled to acknowledge the THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENIN6, APRIL 7, 1856. indefensibleness of certain items—but he and Lord P.ALMERSTON both, as Mr. DISRAELI told them, made an irresistible appeal ad misericor diam ; even Mr. WILLIAMS himself was touched, and after some four or five dexterous passes be• tween the Premier and Lord DERBY' S Chan cellor of the Exchequer, the grant was car ried by a majority Of eighty-five. This ast subject is, however, a serious one, and should be considered at the threshold of such votes as Lord JonN RUSSELL'S resolutions would lead to. If we are to be told whenever experi ence shows that Government has created a useless set of publics servants, that these'servants don't like losing their salaries, and that, therefore, we must keep up the institution on that account, we may well demur 'on this ground alone to a sys tern of National Education involving scores, nay, hundreds, of State-paid dependent% m All comer , eial and benevolent institution; when the business or the society is a failure, break it up and -pay off the servants. Why should State institutions be an exception to the general course ? We are sorry when. `ary one who has enjoyed a comfort able salary loses it, but it is his business to seek another 'post, and not ours to keep up the un profitable post for his sake. If the other view, however, is to prevail, and if we cannot dismiss public servants when the service they can render is no longer wanted, one Should think twice before ,we ,are led by Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S' educational ambition to an out lay eventually ~of sevPl74 millions. What with the impossibility of 'hoping for any reasonably cheap result from Government managementof any thing which private effort can do, and what with the hopelessness of adapting compulsory education to English habits, we begin to despair of the practicability of Government education. It wil; issue in a vast establishment of Government tools, will inevitably do its work worse than private en terprise—it will necessitate compulsory attend ance,—and, worse than all, the tholuands of Government school officials will retain their posts and their pay, when they turn out to be of little value, on the plea ,that it is a hardship to lose a salary. The necessity of organising the speediest postal communication with Australia is one of those things which will not -admit of question. The c3lonists, who may fairly be suppcsed to under stand their own interests, demand and are pre pared to contribute liberally towards it,' and, apart from this consideration, it is obviously the policy of the Imperial Government to accede to their wishes. Australia, at the present time, standi second in the list of our- customers, awl is likely before long to become the first and best; so that if there existed in the Colonial-office any desire to trifle with Australian interests, a mere re gard for home interests would peremptorily prohibit its indulgence. This being the case, the question for consideration is, which is the shortest and most practicable route ? Font' rontes are before the public. First, the late mail route, via the Cape ; second,"via Sin ga.pere ; third, via Diego Garcia ; fourth, via Panama. The distances and periods of transit being as follows.:—The' Cape, 13,3G7 miles, occupying. 80 days ; the Singapore,. 11,521 miles, occupying 764 days . ; the Diego -Garcia, 10, 348 .miles, occupying 44 days ; the Panatia . ,. 12,686 miles, occupying F within..a few heurs, of 57 days. Stippesing these calculations to be correct, ,the superiority.. is palpably with the third 'or Diego ,Qarcia rettte-Heihieli is the one •pre ferred by the General ...kssaciatiOn" for 'the. Aus tralian colonies: - Thera, is reason to apprehend, however, that a too favourable report has been given of this route, many natural obstacles ex isting to render it both dangerous and uncertain, and, consequently, to make a deviation necessary The elevation ~of, Diego Garcia, it is 'alleged, is - . such that ' the :island can only, •be. a l . proachea' ,by daylight —so that 'a 'steamer, if not fv thin" fifteen miles before , nightfall —there.ls: have to lie-td till morning, thereby losing valuable time. It is further 'alleged, that there is another dangerous reef on the direct track between Aden and Diego GarCia, the avoidance of which would demand both time and c ire ; that Diego Garcia has no lighthouse : ; •no water of good quality ; no culi nary vegetablei ; offers no facilities for repairs, S,°. The most serious charge, however, against this route is that it would involve a steamer in a constant succession of hurricanes, head-winds, circular storms, and adverse curresits—which, if true, is a fatal objection.. Those who prefer these allegations point to the 11Ituritius as the proper depot. True, they urge this deviation will in- crease the distance some 427 miles ; but how many dangers and occasions of delay will not be avoided ! Instead of having carefully to steer clear of dangerous reefs, the only interruption of clear water between Aden and the Mauritius is a boldly-projecting grOup of rocks. Instead of being inaccessible at nightfall, the island is accessible at all hours, besides which it possesses numerous lighthouses, good water, arid every facility for coaling and for repairing shipping and machinery, in all which - things Diego Garcia is wanting. So that if a steamer were disabled there she would actually be compelled to bear up under canvas for .the Mauritius. - Instead, too, in case of accident, having to wait for the next steamer, as at Diego Garcia, a sailing vessel may at all times be char tered at the Mauritius for Melbourne, to which port she could convey passengers on an average in thirty-five days. This, however, is not all ; by this deviation, it is alleged, the most formidabl e elemental Obstacles incident to the bie g o Garcia route weuld...be avoided. No doubt many of 'these allegations are correct ; the main one, however, if established,„ Will settle the question, and to this the attention of Government should be directed. , The route by Diego Garcia, looking merely to • the map, is evidently the shortest ami :reest direct, but that were of little avail if natural obstacles exist which may practically make it the longest route of all ; of course, the truth or falsehOod of the matter must bo ascertained ,by competent scientific authorities, and it will then be for Government to decide be tween the contending parties. To whateVer de termination, however, they may come as to which of these is the best, there exists no earthly rea son why only one route should he adopted. The growing commercial relations between the two countries fully warrant the organisation of a communication also by the Panama route,. and other considerations taught by the expe r i ence of the past and the present aspect of affairs, lend force to the suggestion. FUNERAL OF ADMIRAL SYMONDS. MARSEILLES, April ,4.--The. funeral of the late Admiral Symonds took plaCe in the Protestant cemetery of this town at halt past 9 this morning. It was strictly private. The Admiral sailed from Malta on Friday last in the French. steamer Nil, and died on Sunday, of con sumption. A regulation which is strictly observed here, to send td the lazaretto, at the Frioul, every (lead body which arrives in the port, was dispensed with in the. case of Admiral Symonds ' and every facility was afforded to his friends to land his remains. ' A Cabinet Conncil was held on Saturday afterno)n at the Foreign -office Downing-street. The Ministers pre- Wit were - Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis. of Lansdowne, Earl of Harrowby, Sir G. 6 reY• Mr. Secretary Labouchere, .Lord. Panmure, the r, a ChanCellor of tb e -E i tcheciner, Sir C. Wood, the Right Ron. Vernon Smith, t Bian4ykof-Alderley, , t t sale of Argyll., and the Ri g ht H on, M. T. Baines. Th e Coun cil sat two hqure and a-half. • LATEST NEWS. BERLIN, SUNDAY. A ukase just issued by the Czar states that the two fleets hitherto maintained by Russia in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azoff are not to be re tnstated. It is believed here that at a Cabinet Council held about the middle of last month, the English, Government decided on rejecting the proposition for capitalising the Sound Dues, in the terms Jffered by the Danish Government. England will, kowever, make a proposition of ;ier own. A Royal ordinance prohibits stockbrokers from negotiating the scrip of foreign shares. National shares partly paid up, and foreign shares fully paid, only are permitted for transfer. There are other measures against stock and money jobbing. HAMBURG, APRIL D. After a long debate, the Upper Chamber 'of Denmark has decided, in spite of the vigorous opposition of the Ministers, that every member of the Assembly is entitled to address interpellations to the Govbrnmint: FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. The Moniteur contains the following important notification :—" For the time during which they must await the ratification of the Treaty of Peace, France, Great Britain, Sardinia, and Turkey, on the one part., and Russia, on the •other part, have conduct-A an armistice. It has been consequently agreed that the prizes' made subsequently to the signature of peace shall be restored, that orders should be given for the immediate raising of the existing blockades, and that 'the prohibitive mea sures taken in Russia against the exportation, during the war, of Russian produce, especially of breadstuffs, should also be revoked without delay. Consular acts and the formalities required of navi gators and merchants will be provisionally carried out by agents of those powers that consented to take charge officiously, during the war, of the in terests affecting the subjects of the belligerent states. The Emperor yesterday received the replies of the Grand Duke and of the Elector of Hesse, and of the Senates of the Free Hans towns to the noti fication of the birth of the Imperial Prince, and a letter of felicitations hrn o the Regents of the Re public of San. Marino on the same event. The Moniteur 'continues the announcement of the receipt of addresses of congratulation on the birth of the Prince Imperial. Among the last re ceived is one from the national guard of the Seine with 28,105 signatures attached to it. The Minister of Finance has been authorised by imperial decree to raise 250 millions, the amount of treasury bonds to be issued for the service of the State in 1856. The Rouen journals contain the following " We learn that the Ciiambers of Commerce of our department have just been officially informed that they may very shortly expect the publication of an act authorising the immediate resumption of com mercial relations with. Russia, the removal of all . the blockades, and the revocation o f all restricti ve measures." The following telegraphic despatch has been re ceiyed here :-- " BERLIN, April 4.—The Emperor of Russia has quitted Helsingfors for Abo. His Majesty is to hasten his return to St. Petersburg. An article in the Abeille du, Nord, preaching up the emanci pation of Russian civilisation from foreign, influence,, and violently attacking England, has produced a . great sensation." , BOURSE, April s.—The permission to issue 250 o Treasury Bonds has thrown a damp on the market and produced -a now fall. The follow ing, .were the closing. quotations : Cash. fr. e. Eel of Month. . 44 per Cents 92 75 —f. —c. 3Ter Cents 72 93 73 25 New Loan 73 13 Bank Shaires 3,700 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,670 &ustrian Belgian Spanish Threes • Piednionteat (5). 9l home Debt ...... 40 i RAliVf A IS—FOR CA 3. fr. c. fr. C. Orleans ... ..... • (xd) 1,282 50 Western - (xd) 883 75 Northern Lyons nediterratioan 1,590 Grand Central Lyons Geneva — Testo Cette 762 50 Austrian C0rn....... 920 RUSSIA. Intelligence hag been received from Odessa that many vesSels lying there have received orders by way of Trieste to set sail for Marseilles immediately with their cargoes of corn. - The official report of the Emperor's trip to F;n land-shows that he left St. Petersburg on the after= noon of the 21st of March, stopped the following morning in Friedrichshamm to inspect the corps of Finland cadets and to visit a battery that had last . year been engaged with the English, and left again the same day for Helsingfors, wherehe arrived early on the morning of _the 23d. At 10 o'clock the. Em peror attended mass in the church of tile palace there, and then received the Senate, the officers of the gArrison, Jrc., on which occasion the Citizens of the town, according to Russian custom, broUght him, as a stranger just arrived, bread and salt. The Emperor subsequently. visited the Greek and Lutheran , chinches, the University, the mili= tarY hospitals, and all the batteries on the right dank of the lino of defence. The Emperor was ac companied by his brothers the Grand Dukes Con stantine, Nicholas, and Michael ; General Todtle hen did not accompany the Imperial party, as has, been reporteel, but remained behind in Cronstadt. Whilst Grand Duke, the Emperor was Chancellor of the University of Finland, and on every opportu nity. that presented itself showed a great amount of goodwill towards theFiulanders, with whom ho is very . popular ; the last instance of his peculiar •" mo narchial goodwill." towards Finland was his corn-• wand issued in last year that three posts- as pages in the Imperial service should be set apart, for the sons and descendants of such Findlanders as have. attained the highest military and civil 'rank. The visit of the Emperor to Helsingfors . was by no means an unexpected one. The Emperor was ex pected back..in St. Petersburg by the 30th from his Finland trip. • LITERATURE. THOMAS MOORE. (THIRD NOTICE. Ifernoirs, Journals, and Correspondence of Thomas l3loore. Edited by the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, M.P.. Vols. I. to VI. Longman and Company. Arrived in London, Tom Moore was very soon indeed the favourite of the fashionables awl the pet of the petticoats. It mattered little in his in stance. even in those preposterous days when H.R.H. George, Prince of Wales, was the exam ple and the arch-leader of Snobbism Rampant— that the young Irish poet had a father over in Dublin who was a small shopkeeper. Anacreon Moore, with his sparkling eyes, his animated fea tures, his tongue of fascination, his exhilirating companionship, his wit, his melodious songs trem- Oling into tears or flashing out into sudden laughter carried everything before him in the " great world," as it is called (mean ing the little one)—Bucks, Big-wigs, Beautiful women : all of them dangled after him, indiscri minately, wondering and bewitched, from his Ma jesty's servant the poor play -actor to the aristo cratic " raff" attendant upon his Royal Highness. it is a strange spectacle enough that motley con course traversed by Moore almost immediately upon his arrival in the metropolis. The strangest spectacle ! As motley in its way, nearly, as the crowd grouped by Hogarth's pencil in his famous picture of The Cockpit. Blackguards and Princes jumbled together so very confusedly that one could hardly tell the Prince from the Blackguard. Yet Aoore contrived to get through the crush somehow triumphantly, without receiving the faintest soil or smutch by his forced contact with so many (to say the least of them) " questionable" reputations; and with only this to be regretted in his regard, now that we look back upon his entrance into " life"—that his vertebrfe (by just, of course, the smallest deflection in the world from the perpen dicular) proved a little too supple in— " Bowing down, and bowing down"- - ITALY. NAPLES ' March 31.—During (February) a brief was agreed upon between the Pope and the King. It has already arrived in Naples, though it has not yet received the royal exequatur. The brief inti mates to the bishops of Sicily that all appeals in cases of matrimony; in certain degrees, instead of being discussed and decided by the judge of the Tribunal of the Monarchy of Sicily, are for the future to be carried to Rome. All personal ap peals, too, from the members of religious bodieS, as also from the secular clergy, are now to be made to Rome. THE PEACE TREATY. The Opinione of Turin gives the following as the articles of the Peace Treaty :- 1. Neutralieation of the Black Sea, in which 13us3ia, is allowed to maintain armed vessels for the defence of the coast. 2. Nicolaieff to be reduced to a commercial port. 3. Russia accepts the consuls of foreign powers in the Black Sea and the Baltic. 4. Non-construction of Bomarsund. 5. Russia , gives up a portion of Bessarabia, in cluding the fortress of Ismail. 6. Renounces the exclusive protectorate of the Principalities. 7. Renounces the protectorate of the Greek subjects of th e Porte. 8. The Danube is open to the flags of all nations. 9. A commission is to be sent to the Principa lities to examiae the state of public opinion, and the wants of the country, and to study and fix the new frontier of Bessarabia. Mr. John Steel. proprietor and editor of the Carlisle Journal, died on Sunday morning. He was scarcely 35 year.; of age. The reports that reach St. Petersburg from Simphe ropol complain bitterly of the inclemency of the season, and the enormous prices that provisions have attained there. A pair of fowls that would in former times have been dear at 20 to 30 coptc4„ is bard y to be bad now for 3 silver roubles; a hundred of eggs, that _former)) , cost 75 cope.-s, or one-third rouble, cost now 6 to 7 silver roubles. according to Charles Mtlckay's sarcasm, " The way to get on in London town !" Already we haVe seen how this fell out by the way in reference more particularly to H. R. H. of Wales, poor little Tom Moore sleekly rubbing his harids with a gratified air as he writes to his " dearest mother" about the Prince's affability in addressing him. with " How do you do Moore ? I am glad to see you ;" and such-like royal small talk—" buttered thunder," as Mr. Festus Bailey might call it; from the Jovian lips of his, High Mightiness,! It is pleasant to turn from him in his court suit, spindling (with a sword between his legs) over the carpets of St. James's—and find him erea and manly in his natural attitude and homelier at tire—driving up to town in a coach with Curran "in an uninterrupted fit of laughter all the way," or dining at Incledon's, and there getting "very great" with Irish Johnson, or attending a " beauti fel little fOte champet re " at Mrs. Siddons's cottage, or (yet a little later on) touching in one day, as he says himself, " the two extremes of anarchy and law," dining with Sir F ranc i s B ur d e tt, an d g Oi ng in ie evening to Lord Ellenborough's. What glimpses we obtain, too, both of small and large celebrities—incidentally—as we turn over these pages of garrulous Diary, and gossipping Corres pondence ! Here, in 1791, we come, for example, upon big, burly, beastly old Peter Pindar, not feel ing at all surprised to find that Moore thinks him "coarse both -in manners and conversation." Here, again in 1812, we are brought, not by any means for the only time in these pleasant volumes, face to face with Sir John Steven son the Melodist, the exquisite composer, for instance, of " Oft in the Stilly Night," who is here said by Moore to have shown himself "as boyish and . paradoxical as ever, making the grave, matter•of-fact : Englishmen stare wherever he goes!" At another moment our diarist is recording the fact of his having once upon a time been placed under the tuitiOn, at Trinity College, 'Dublin, of he Rev. -- Burrowes, author of celebrated flash song, " The Night before Larry was stretched" —meaning hanged ! Or awing us with the an- - nouncement of a visit paid to him in 1799, in Lon. don—" by a very famous and very respectable man," a Mr. Biggin—Moore adding, as he an nounces the circumstance to his mother—" By the-bye, it is from him the coffee.biggins take their. name, and from :Them he has taken his money." . An incident, at once recalling to mind that won . derful fellow who once introduCed himself to Dr. 'Johnson with a flourish, as " the great Twalmley," who had invented-flat-irons or some such rubbish An occurrence, 'we take it, pretty familiar to every reader of Boswell, and not to be remembered with out a smile by any one amongst them, even those the least susceptible' to a joke. Writing from New York in the May of 1804—not long before Napo leon changed his consular fasces into a sceptre, and girt his brows with the imperial -dia dem —we find Moore writing to his mo ther—" The oddest things I have seen yet are young Bonaparte and his bride"— a note explaining these same odd things to be no other than M. Jerome Bonaparte and Miss Patterson, the former but just now happily recovered in 1856 from an alarming illness, and known and regarded with profound interest far and wide throughout Europe as his Imperial Highness the Prince Jerome- Napoleon. Writing to Lady Donegal a year later in London, we observe Moore recording then, in 1895, that he likes Rogers better every time he, sees him—that same R )gers, then a man in middle life, having survived until.only the other day, a • memorable nonogenariae, remarkable in many ways, but in none more remarkable than in that of being —strangest of strange paradoxes !—a cynical philanthropist 1 How wondrously the people Moore met, too, contrast with each other. In 1811 ho staying at Donnington ,Park "in clover," while Monsieur is a guest of My Lord Meira's, and, with Monsieur; the Prince de Conde and the Due de Bourbon. Not many years previously he had been sitting in his. Dublin chambers with poor Robert Emmett, chatting, singing, playing the piano. Here is a little miniature memento of his, delineative of THE IRISH CAMILLE DESMOULII4S. " lie was altogether a noble fellow, and. as full of ima ginstion and tenderness of heart as of manly daring. H. used frequently to sit by me at the pianoforte while I played over the. airs from Bunting's collection ; and I 'remember one day when we were thus employe his starting up asif from a reverie while I was playing the spirited air Let Erin remember th e D ay, ' and exclaim 'irig passionately, Oh, that I were at the head of twenty thousand men marchibg tO that air.' " Several years later we come upon Moore's sketch of an English demagogue--Sir Francis Burdett— w,hom he defines .as " a most amiable man," with "something particularly attaching in his manner"— Old Glory ! can we believe it of him ? when Moore adds,—" his gentleness and almost bashfulness forming such a contrast to the violence of his pub lic career." A glimpse of calm home-life in the mir,lst of the turbulence of demagogy*, reminding one of Robespierre's sucking- oranges placidly over .the workshop of the Paris carpenter. Already we have noted Moore's mention of his having caught a glimpse, at New York, of young Jerome Bonaparte—in 1819 we find him at Viter bo, gazing with interest at the "handsome face" of Lucien Bonaparte, the recusant brother of (the then still living but exiled) Naroleou. Arrived at Rome soon afterwards he is amused with an interview with the lovely -sister of the Gallic" Caesar, the Venus of Canova, otherwise Pauline, Princess of Borghese, née Bonaparte —a " fine creature in her way," says the fastidious Celtic Anacreon, to whom the Borghese "showed her beautiful little hands" —which (saith Moore, with a relish), " I had the honour of =kissing twice," adding, and she "let me feel her foot, which is matchless." 0 those Bonapartes creatures formed, one might say, out of the red earth of Mesopotamia 1 What was it Captain Basil Hall remarked about the Bonaparte when he saw him at St. Helena ? —that the skirl of his face was of that infi nitely beautiful delicacy and fineness that it seemed in its texture less like flesh than like some rare Parian marble ! At 52 years of age, too—after such a life —not the faintest tracery of one single wrinkle on the face • not one silvered hair among the dark silken Chesnut ! What tales Moore tells, moreover, here and there in his Diary, of the wonder-working Napoleon ! At one moment a companion anecdote to the old classic legend of the Ccesarent, vehis ! To wit—" When Napoleon was embarking from Elba, his four hundred veterans wished to be aboard the same ship with him ; but the captain of the vessel remonstrated with him and said, that if there came the slightest breath of wind, they would upset with so many on board ; and that he must at most take but half of the guard ; upon which Bonaparte answered, II fera , beau ; and ordered that all should accompany him.' With what miraculous, consequences afterwards, the world knows—in the record of that bloodless and meteoric re-eonquest of an empire, of which Tom Moore upon the very morrow of it (March 27, 1815) writes thus amazedly to Lady Donegal What do you think now of my supernatural friend the Emperor ? If ever tyrant deserved to be worshipped it is he : Milton's Satan is nothing to him for portentous magnificence—for sublimity of mischief ! If that account in the papers be true, of his driving down in his carriage like lightning towards the royal army embattled against him, bareheaded, unguarded, in all the confidence of ir resistibility—it is a fact far more sublime than any that fiction has ever invented, aed I am not at all surprised .at the dumb-founded fascination that seizes people at such daring. For my part I could have fancied that Fate herself was in that carriage." If that account in the papers be. true ! A vast deal more than " that" was true in regard to the unparalleled romance of the " Return from Elba" —a deed of surpassing glory which made Byron write (much about the same time) in one of his letters (dated March, 1815)—" I can forgive the rogue for utterly falsifying every line of mine Ode which I take to be the last and uttermost stretch of human magnanimity." No wonder, Tom Moore years before, in a note to his mother, dated November 2, 1805, alluding to the then recent death of Nelson, could exclaim— " those two men (Bonaparte and he) divided the world between them—the land and the water. We lave lost ours"—meaning our Napoleon. It is amusing, while we turn over these gossiping nemoranda jotted down from day to day currente calamo by the Poet-Fribble, to note with what a lexterous touch of the pencil - he dashes down on the instant the most life-like portraiture of all sorts >f remarkable characters. Do we not at once re- Cognise the haughty carriage of that head of Grecian beauty, the insolent curl of those exquisitely chi selled lips, the flash of those cold grey eyes, the pride of the noble contour making up the glory of the face of By ron , i n th a t astoun di ng revelation made to the Irish Melolist one day in 1819, when Lord Byron. suddenly exclaimed " What do you think of Shakspeare, Moore ? I THINK Him A DAMNED HUMBUG." There is the man instantane ously before us—with all his pride, all his daring, all his vanity, all his folly, all his arrogant and audacious impulsiveness. Wordsworth again—what a wonderfully truthful peep we hare of him in that brief but all-sufficient note in Moore's Diary, Oct. 25th, 1820, " Wordsworth rather dull 1" The very max—to a T ! A portrait, in three words, full length, living and breathing—a speaking .like ness ! " Wordsworth rather dull !" " I see, " adds Moore (and the italics are his own), " he is a man to hold forth ; and who does not understand the give and take of conversation." Two-days later, Oct. 27th, he touches the dull fellow up again, thus: " Wordsworth came at half-past eight, and stopped to breakfast. Talked a good deal [about himself,. always]. Spoke of Byron's plagiarisms from him ; the whole third-canto of 4 Childe Harold' founded on his style and sentiments." Ha ! Ha ! the im pudent varlet—the miserable prig—Fancy Byron (Ye Gods !) plagiarising from Wordsworth ! Fancy . Phoebus borrowing new sunbeams from a cucum ber-bed ! Verily, as Dogberry Lath it, " bab ble " like this is—" very tolerable and not to be endured." Turning to features more pleasant to look upon with " the mind's eye" than those of our dun friend who— " . . . . paints so well the Idiot in his glory One thinks the bard the hero of the story"— turning from the dull solemn egotism of William Wordsworth—it is agreeable to meet with really attractive beings, such, fur example, as Washington Irving or General Lafayette. Lafayette, Moore describes, in so many words, as "a fine interesting old mau"—and Irving he speaks of as " good-look ing and intelligent-mannered." In- Madame de Geniis he finds " a lively little old woman, but by no means so fantastic a person :as Lady Morgan makes her." Schlegel he speaks of as appearing to him "full of literary coxcombry." Lavalotte he mentions as "a very gentle, interesting little man." Boissy d'Anglas shines upon us from his note-book " with his white hair spread out upon his shoul-: ders ' a most extraordinary figure." Beresford, the author of about the drollest book ever penned by mortal,:viz., "The Miseries of Human Life," he speaks of, just exactly as we should expect him to he spoken of—i.e., as " a grotesque-minded person, very amusing." Hear, to ), how it is he talks of Charles Lamb, dear, old, quaint, delightful, incor rigible Charles Lamb—Elia to the life ! coutez Charles Lamb, a clever fellow certainly ; but full of villainous and abortive puns which he Miscarries of every minute." C. Lamb, he informs us, s)on aterwards told him he had got 1701. for his two years' contributions ("Essays of Elia") to the London, Magazine. Glancing over a few more pages, of the Diary, what a very odd little memento we come upon about Bryan Waller Proctor, better known by his nom de plume of " Barry Corn wall"—of whom Moore writes, April 12th, 1823—" a gentle, amiable-mannered person in very ill health [Barry Corn wall still living, April, 1.856, a grey -headed but hale Commissioner de Lunatico Inquirendo, notwithstanding his 33 years' bygone very ill health], which has delayed his mar riage with a person he has long been in love with ; she, too, an invalid ; and somebody, the other day, described the twodovers S - uppiug together at nine o'clock on water gruel." A very different picture to that 'robust one (not to say that picture of rude health) delineative of James Ho g g, the Ettrick Sheph er d, w ho " y e lled out savagely two or three Scotch songs, and accompanied the burden of one of them by labour ing away on-the bare shoulders of the ladies who sat on each side of him !" Wonderfully miscella neous, indeed, is the company to which we are in troduced by Moore, as we follow him through all the vagaries and whimsicalities commemorated in his amusing Diary—one while going behind the scenes of Drury-lane Theatre, where he has "some talk with Kean" then and there playing Sir Giles Overreach—Edmund Kean already spoken of in an earlier volume as .‘‘ this extraordinary phenomenon." At another moment (in 1818) being caught by the button-hole =rin the street by Taylor, Editor of The San, who, thereupon, tells him this very characteristic anecdote of Sheridan : "When some mevere charges against him (relating, Tay for said, to his affair with Matthews) appeared in the Ba'le Chronicle, he called upon Woodfall, the printer of the ahronicle, d requested him to insert them, in order that they might gain universal circulation, and that his answer, which he meant soon to prepare, might be un derstood as universagy. Woodfall complied with bis, request, but the refutation never was written ; so that tl4e rumour was by this means spread, and his indolence prevented him from ever supplying the antidote." As most happily illustrative of the kind of life led by Moore in his best drys, when in London, take this record of the 23d of May, 1828, when he was intat. forty-nine, a date he signalises, by the way, as "not a bad day altogether." Here it is : —" Waltei Scott, Rogers, and Chantrey at break fast ; music and Miss Bailey at luncheon ; dinner at Lansdowne House, with the Venus of Canova before m3i. eyes [remember, he had kissed the hand and felt the foot of >the original !), and Sontag in the evenino•• " To which ha adds, " Taking it with . all its et te;`eras of genius; beauty, feeling, and magnificence; no other country but England could furnish out stiCh a day." So that our dear little Patlander, after ; all, was very John-Bullish in his prejudices f; And so too, again, in his instance, the divine ilivxri of the Poet, roving from flower to .flower, from sweet to sweet, sipping the honey of adulation, and basking in the sunshine of popu larity, lived thegay life of the butterfly. Journal of Adventures with the British Army. By G. Cavendish Taylor, late 95th Regiment. 2 Vols. Hurst and Blackett. This work possesses many qualifications which should cause it to be widely circulated and generally popular. It is remarkable as being the production of a military amateur ; that is to say, of an officer who had recently quitted the army, and who went to the Crimea simply to obtain information. The volumes before us chiefly consist of a diary written on the spot from .time to time. Ho has tried, he tells us, to write of things as they are, and has not distorted facts in order to make his information more agreeable. This book is written in a fair and open spirit, without any of that Prejudice and par tiality which so often mars the effect of works of this kind. He makes no attacks upon indivi duals, though - he totally condemns the culpable mismanagement which produced such deplorable results. From the very commencement the same want of method was observed : " For the reception of the troops soon to arrive some competent general should have boen out there, at least two months before, so as to give him time to become 4'7• quainted with the locality, the country, and the people he had to deal with; and with full power and a uthority to make every requisite provision for the recept ion of our army. " As it was, one cold, snowy morning, the 14th of April, beinc , Good Friday, a large steamer was unexpectedly seen enter the Bosphorus, no one knew what she was, or where from ; but her decks were covered with wonder ing soldiers, fur whieh no barrack accommodation or com missariat arrangements had yet been made. It was the Himalaya, with General Adams and staff; and the 33d and 41st Regiments on board. When the general sent on shore to know where he was to go, or what to do, some time elapsed before any responsible person could be found. The large barracks at Scutari had been assigned to us by the Turks, but they were still full of Turkish soldiers.' The same story which aroused so much indignation two winters ago, the same old story of suffering and neglect is reiterated here in all its chief fea tures, chronicled on the spot itself on the authority of an eye-witness. Thus, writing on November 3d, 1854, he says of the clothing of the troops : "There is a great falling off in the appearance of our sol diers. The French exhibit a great contrast to us. Of course their clothing shows wear and tear, but they look nearly as well, and quite as well as when they first landed in Turkey. Even the Turks are better clothed for rough work than our men. Their great coats are thick, warm, and service. able; while Ours are thin, made of most rotten materials, and qaite i na d equate for keeping men warm in snow or winter weather." Again on Jan. 2d : " From every one coming down from Balaklava one hears different accounts as to what is going on; but all agree in saying that ..the army is in as wretched a condition as it can be, and the daily average of sick is fast increasing. At Balaklava there is plenty of warm clothing and some huts; but from wrong management they have not yet gOt them up to the camp. The French, on the other band ? are partially hutted and Snug, with abundance cf provisions. A French conntes, was staying at Missarie's, and she said the other day— 'ln England you are vary rich, and you buy expensive luxuries and send them out to your troops, but they do j not get them—while in France, we are not so rich—we bul common things for our soldiers, and they do get them and that is what makes the difference.' " A French officer said to the writer, "Your army is magnificent--officers and soldiers are first rate--• but your staff is good for nothing, and the men are , now perishing from th e ir i na bilit y an d neg l ec t. On the 29th of March, 1855, the author write in his note-book, without further comment, " Green coffee is served out to this day, to the men at Scutari." The author renders frequent tog timony t 6 the accuracy a n d u tility o f M r. Russell's information. It would be absurd, be says, to 01 that every detail is correct, but that in such a moll of writing there should be so little that can be dill' proved, he considers marvellous. The publicity given by the newspapers to the sufferings of the army, at the time, be considers was of most essen tial service. It is unfortunately but too evident since that nothing was afterwards done to bring the offenders to justice. He ridicules the idea of the papers giving information to the enemy, for hi says the Russians need hardly have procured in . formation of what took place in our camp three weeks later, when they could have it in a fell hours by means of their own spies, who, it is no' torious, go in and out of the camp without did' culty. The following passage is an effectual arr . sever to those who deny the hardships the army had to =duly. There also some gentlemen who insist that the so' counts published in the p a p ers o f th e h ardships suffered bl the army during the winter are not only much exaggerated. but in many inst tnces false. They contend also that such sufferings as were experienced are inseparable from winter campaigns. These gentlemen were living during that alai in comparatively good quarters, passed every night in bed, and were not exposed to fire or weather. They wars eithsr well-fed by their generals, or had plenty of mono/ at their command to buy any luxury or necessary at ,al3l price, no matter how exorbitant ; and as they never stirria out except when they could not help it, and then never went far, they were ignorant of what took place. ICaose ing nothing themselves, and doubting what they heard,- and read, they were not likely to give much information to their superiors. " I do not believe that the papers contained th. lesq exaggeration. The wonder is—not that the men died during winter, but that any of then' survived it." The writer also severely censures the culpable neglect . that left the heights of Inkerman unde• fended. `• A few days before the battle, some empty barrels wer e made to serve as gabions, and filled with earth, and a tie„" of parapet formed by putting sods of turf on the low well , which had been erected soon after the first arrival of the division. I was present while it was being done, anal heard the staff-officer, who was superintending the work+ and who was afterwards killed, ridicule it, and call it ' Herbert's Folly.' 6ubseq uen t events pretty / A t tila showed that it was no folly at all ; and this breastwork , although paltry in itelf, still did good service • and'' Colonel Herbert—or wh oever cause d i t to be door" made it as strong as the means in his power would per; mit him to do. I have heard engineer officers say tha t they used frequently to represent the unprotected state of our Right; and m-my have said that Si! De Lacy Evans and the Duke of Cambridge used, dik 7 after day, to go to head-quarters, and beg that somothiof might be done to fortify it, but all to no purpose, spa that they were even laughed at; so I cannot but thin"' that there must rest the blame. Defensive works we" , thought to be unnecessary. Directly after the battle a strong work was thrown up onthe ridge, and erased Wit iti three iron 18-pounders, an d th ree 8-i nc h how i tzers. ga d this been done before, we might have repulsed the Rea; clans with small loss to ourselves, for they never could have established their a r till er y on the opposite ridge, and there would have been little-danger of their breaking ill° the camp at that point." The author's opinion of the Turks is a very 10 one ; he has scarcely a word to say in their favour, ' though he frequently remarks on their treachery' peculation, &c. In fact, he records it as his opinlol l / that, in defending Constantinople, our aim shouicl ho less "to keep the Turks in than to keep the Russians out." He considers that it will be necee' sary for the Allies to keep an army of occupation in Constantin pie for some time, to insure the carry' ing out of the proposed reforms. The writer was among the few English who walked about and Olin* dered Sebastopol, according to a vow of long stand" ing, which ho began to fear would never be fulfilled. He deserved some peculiar reward for his persever ance, for he says that though hundreds of amateur s went out for longer or shorter periods none re mained so long or lived so much in the camp as h. did. He appears to have been especially fortunet° al3o in immunity from accidents or illness, as he tells us that " most of the volunteers in this cant' paign have come to grief. Whether they cony menced as civilians or as volunteers from other re giments not engaged in the war, with few exuer tions, they have either died, be en kill e d , or severelf wounded.' Full details of the battles are givenj though they are so well kn own th a t comment wow(' be superfluous. Among the many books that hav e been written on the subject, few have given a more forcible and impartial narrative of the events of the war, or shown forth more clearly the confusion and suffering occasioned by official mismanagement. The easiness and simplicity with which it is written will attract many to whom technical terms and de' scriptions would be unintelligible. On the whole, therefore, it may safely be ranked among the most successful works on the campaign. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT WEST coffrES. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES, Aram 6. About 8 o'clock on Saturday evesing a fire was els; covered in the joiners' shop of Messrs. White's dockyard at West Cowes, in sir near the chip-hole. In a veil, few minutes the fire burst th roug h t h e s i des and roo f o f the building. The dock fire engine and the two belong' ing to the town were got to work with as little delay as possible, but the buildings being wooden ones, and full of timber, paint, & c ., a ll t h e eff ids that could be made had no effect, and the hose of the engines were therefore turned on the ships building in the yard. At 9 o'clock there appeared to b e h ar dl y a c h ance of saving any of them, nor those in the adjoining building-yard, belong' ing to Mr. Hanson, and the lone, Royal yacht schooner of 75 tons, which was on his patent slip repairing, Was • then launched. There Ras such an immense quantity • of timber and piles of deals and planks in the yard that the engines could not be got into the most desirable positions ; add to which the wind was blowing strong directly from the burning buildings on to the ships, that it is perfectly a miracle that not only the whole.orthe ships and mortar vessels, but the gun• boat and steamer, were not destroyed ; indeed that Hansen's shipyard' with the workshops of the Messrs. White and their dwelling-houses had not fallen a prey to the flames. ship of 800 tons, in frame, building for a London firm, was repzatedly on fire, and she is much burnt amidships. The fire was greatly subdued by 11 o'clock, about which time a large fire-engine was brought down from NEW: port. J. H. Hearn, Esq., the mayor of Newport, and a large body of firemen, came down with it. Mr. Moms', the Cowes agent for the Unity Firepffice, had bad large coach-boat got ready for the engine, into which it was immediately taken, and as it was high water it was 'hauled round under the stern of the ship, and efficiently played on her. The fire was not wholly got under be' • fore 4 o'clock. At 6 o'clock the Echo, Government steamer, arrived from Portsmouth with four fire•engiesi• Tao fire was distinctly seen from Portsmouth and Lb. - neighbouring towns, The damage done is calculated, at between 4,0001. an d 5 , 0001 . T he b uildings and stock destroyed are fully insured in the Sun. Fire office. The ship is insured in the Unity, and the amount of damage done to her may probably be about 3001. _ The joiners and other workmen • will be very serious sufferers, from the quantity of their tools that are de stroyed, and" very few, if any, of them are insured. There are probably 100 men so unfortunately situated, when for a few shillings a-year they might hive insured -- their valuable articles, which now it will take them years to replace. Several men fell overboard in the confusion, but sustained only a wetting. A .young max ' named Harris had some of his ribs broken by a plank falling On'him. It is wonderful that many serious acct• dents did not happen to the men, who employed them. - selves throwing down the burning scaffolding connect ing the ship with the burning workshops, the planks forming which being at the time on fire. Mr. John White, the head of the firm, was in London with his family. Mr. Robert White was in the yard all night, most efficiently directing the men in the working of the engines, and he was ably assisted by the work men, tradesmen, police, and the troops from East Cowed and from Parkhurst Barracks. The commander and crew of the Stag, revenue cutter, rendered good service. THE PORTENTOUS SILENCE. On Wednesday Count Walewski gave.a grand dinner to the Members of the Congress, the Diplomatic Corps, t and the French Cabinet. At the dessert be announced his intention to propose a toast with a peculiar solemnity of manner. In a short speech, he said that he drank to ' the duration of the Peace they bad just signed, humi liating to none, honourable-to all. The toast was drunk, but no one spoke. The company looked at Lord Cla rendon—he was silent. They looked at Count he was silent. About this famous Peace all kept their peace. The effect must bave been like that which Scott . describes in the " Antiquary" at Steenie's funeral, wben Elspeth gives the horrif .) ing toast, " Often may we kat such merry meetings." Paris has been full of specula tion as to ,the portentous silence following the toast. Was it any one's business to speak ? Perhaps net. Or - who was to speak first, if responses were due? Or was it that the task was too diffioult ? Whe n little Isaitc asks Carlos to s a y some thing civil to Duenna, he observes —" Faith, Isaac, your • mistress is difficult to compli ment." And perhaps each member of the Congress felt this .soft of Pe-4 ,1 ( 3 11th and that the least said was soonest mended. Pericles said of woMen, thatlsilence _ was their best ornament, and this fair Peace may, like the sex, be set off to the best advantage when nothing is said about it. We admire the discretion of Count Walewski's guests. Sufficient for the day is the evil , thereof, and when the time comes that the Peace must he talked of, there will be no peace, and then how much will be regretted the safe silence of Count Walowski'l table.--Examiner. 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