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GRAND NAVAL REVIEW at SPITHEAD, on WEDNESDAY, 23d April, 1856.—London ,and South- Western Railway. A Special Train, at the ordinary fares, will leave the Waterloo bridge Station, London, on , IVEDNESD.A.Y, at 6.20 a.m., for SOUTHAMPTON, calling at Farnborough, Winchdeld, Basingstoke, and Winchester, and returning at 8.30 p.m. By order. Waterloo-bridge Station, April 16th, 1856. TH FIATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LASE Lessee. Ur. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENI 0, IL TROVA TORE. o e , n hide with THE ENCHANTED GARDEN. THEATRE ROYAL, SXMARKET. Under the Management et Mr. Euckstone. THIS EVENING, THE EVIL GENIITS. After which. EL GAMBUSINO ; or, The Mexican Goldseeker. In. which PER EA NENA and the Spanish Dancers will appear. Followed by GRINSEIAW, nAGiIIAVV, AND BRA.DSIIAW. To conclude with THE PO3TMAN'3 KNOCK. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OX TORD•STRE ET. Tinder the Management of Mr. CHARLES KLAN'. TriT4 EvENINn, A WONDERFUL WOMAN. To be tAlovved by FAUST AND MARGUERITE. To conclude with A PRINCE FOR AN HOUR. THEXTRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, 3ssidame Celeste. EVENING, LIKE AND UNLIKE. Messrs. B Webster, Wright, P. Belford. C Reny, Garden ; Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham. To conclude with JACK. AND THE BE AN STALK ; or, Harlequin and Mother Goose at Home Again. ROYAL OLYIINC THEATRE. Lessee and 3fana7er. Dir. Alfred Wigan. TUB EVENING STILL WATERS RUN DEEP. After which will he produced a New and doubly-moral, though e ccessively old, Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled TUE DISCREET PRINCESS; or, the Three Glass Ia which Messrs. Emery, F. Robson, IL Cooper, Miss Marston, and Vass Maskeli will appear. ROY.tL SURREY THEATRE. Lessees, Uesarg. Shepherd and Crewlnk. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Drama, entitled now WE LIVE IN TIIE WORLD OF LONDON. Followed by VIE POSTMAN'S KNOCK. To conclude with TTIFFLEHAITSEN"; or, The Lawyer's Legend. ROYAL MARYLEBONE THEATRE. BENEFIT of !kiss FITZP XTRICK. FRIDAY and SATURDAY, April 18th and 19th. To commence with TAE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Lady Teazle, Mice Fitzpatrick Messrs. Stirlinz, Stuart, Belford, Lewis Ball, Saunders, Langton Cooke ; Mss Morrell and Miss F. Mars. After which, BALLET. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey. Tu con&ude with THE HAUNTPD INN. Messrs. Robertson, J. P.. Johnstone, Lewis Ball, Belford, Cooke; Misses Morrell, Douglass, and Robert eon. Boar, 2s. ; Pit, Is ; Gallery, 6d. Stage Manager, Mr. E. Stirling. ASTLEY'S ROYAL ANIKIITIIRATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING, The Performances will embrace that startling novelty, a Real English Steeplechase, with all its exciting incidents. The Entertainments wiii c mmence with THE ARAB OF TIIE DESERT 'ND HIS FAITHFUL STEED. After which. the EQUESTRIAN WONDERS OF THE ARENA, Trampoline, Gymnastics, &c. To conclude with a Drains Introducing ENGLAND'S HARVEST HOME and NATIONAL S CEEFLECH&SE, with a noble Stud of Horses, trained by Mr. Will am Cooke. Itox.ofilee open from E:even till Fair. Stage Manager, Mr. W . West. Eqoestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. EMMt STANLEY'S "SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN." The 3fanazer respectfully announces that the L &ST ITORNINII PE RFOR SEANCE of this most popuhir an ,I amusing Entertainment, will take place en Saturday, the 19th, at half•past two. Evening performances as msu al, on afondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and F-idays, at 9 o'clock. Admlsslon—Sack Seats, Is. ; Centre Seats, 2s. ; Stalls, 3s. SAINT MARTIN'S HALL, Long-acre. UIGEI WATBR. AT LONDON BRIDGE. TRIO DAY—Morn. 2 min. aft. I—Evening 20 min. aft. 1 re...Moult° w—Morn. 36 rain. aft. I—Evening 50 min. aft. 1 THE WEATHER—SuN OFFICE, APRIL 18. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 53—highest since noon yesterday. 46 —lowest this morning and daring the night. 55 —this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30'13—falling. WIND, N.N. E.—Light, with fine sunshiny weather. ~~ .~.~, ~ •~: ';~ 1131, LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1856. The closing of the Congress has been officially announced. The last sitting was held on Wed nesday, and the Earl of CLARENDON, Count BUOL, and Baron MANTEITEFEL will forthwith return to their Ministerial labours in their respective coun tries. We gave iu our impression of yesterday the statement of the Moniteur, which also de clares that, " after the signing of the Treaty, the Plenipotentiaries had still to occupy themselves with different questions, of a nature to consoli date and complete the work of peace"—that " the ratifications will be exchanged at the end of the month "—and that "immediately after the pro mulgation of the general Treaty, the Protocols will be published, and will make known the labours of the Congress in their details." The last is the only important part of the in telligence. It was previously known that the P lenipotentiaries had occupied themselves on various points, the object whereof must hare been in some manner connected with the so-called " work of peace." For what other purpose could the sittings have been required, and the animated, if not angry, discussions that_ took place ? They probably related to the appointment of the Com missions referred to in our leading columns of yesterday, and the Italian queition, which was ventilated by Count CATOUR, whose views were, as is generally believed, earnestly supported by the representatives of France and England. Th e •ratifications could not, by any possibility, be de ferred beyond the end of the month ; inasmuch as the Treaty was signed on the 30th March, and ° lll the following day Lord PALMERSTON an nounced i n the House of Commons, that "the limitation of tim e for the purpose (i.e., of ratifica tion) was four weeks, but that it was hoped that, at least, within three weeks the ratifications might be exchanged at Paris." The m a tt er t h en must be concluded on or before the 27th inst., and if the anticipation of the Britiih Premier sh ou ld b e ry da realised it may be look e d for almost eve y. There is, therefore, nothin g very im portant in th e first or second statements of the Moniteur. The full publication of the Protocols is, how ever, an interesting point. If we have been sold, and we fear that but little doubt can exist, on that part of the case, it will be something to know on whose shoulders the responsibility should rest, and what were the positions assumed by the different Plenipotentiaries. We trust that there nvay be no "cooking of the accounts," that the protocols will contain a full and accurate report of what really took place, without either amplifi cation or concea!ment. It is to be feared, how ever, that some of the questions may be slurred over, and that the supposed details will exhibit that which may suit the purposes of the different parties rather than the actual facts. One thing would seem to be unfortunately but tee , palpable to admit of doubt. Prussia has been permitted to regain the position which she had most iustly forfeited through her despicable and sneaking policy. She is represented in every com ini3sion, while Piedmont that so nobly braved every danger, and took part with the Western. This is the truthful description of the tra ditional policy of the dynasty with which we are about to form a close and intimate connection, if the British Parliament do not effec tually interfere before the unfortunate event has been consummated—a connection which may im plicate this coutitry in many difficulties, but which cannot by any possibility prove beneficial or advantageous to England. We had frequent and abundant reasons in the olden time to deplore the ties by which we were bound to Hanover. They have fortunately been severed by the acces sion of her MAJESTY, and we should hesitate be fore we again become involved in others far more formidable to the future welfare and tran quillity of the British nation. What, we ask, would ba the consequences in the event, which GOD forbid, of the failure of the male issue of Queen VICTORIA, and the amalgamation of the throne 3 of Prussia and Great Britain ? Sach an event would 'be quite possible, and the prospect should - - be sufficient to prevent the marriage, unless ac- companied by an act to prevent the issue from }laving any claim to the English throne. Even supposing that the case should never arise, there would be the prospect of England being called on to interfere in the event of the present discontent in Prussia leading to a change of dynasty. The least objec tionable result would be the accession of a body of pauper exiles to the pension list, and the good Clicquot being permitted to indulge his peculiar tastes at the expense of our overburdened taxpayers. On every ground the marriage should be prevented, if practical,le. Parliament should speak out boldly and intelligibly while there is yet time, so as to be enabled to avoid all . _ responsibility when the evil day had arrived, and not to be called on to repair the mischief arising from a contumelious disregard of the advice, which it is constitutionally entitled to offer to the SOVEREIGN. It will doubtless have been observed by many of our readers that the columns of our journal contained last evening a very long and in -many respects a very eccentric communication. A let ter penned b y M r. M ORRIS MOORE, one of th e principal witnesses before the Select Committee of 1853 upon the subject of the National Gallery " Eccentric" have we called it ? Well, yes-- slightly eccentric—just with a faint dash, per haps, of eccentricity, or a dim suspicion of what you might call odd, queer, fantastic! As thus:— Mr. MOORE is decidedly, undeniably, distinctly, glaringly in the right ! He has home truths to tell, the mere utterance of which is beyond the emphasis of any figure of rhetoric, however forceful ! He has his opponents —to begin with—at a positive dis advantage! He has nothing to do but to point an index-finger at them, to have the absurdity and untenableness of their position clearly, univer sally, and upon the instant instead of a va ili ng recognised ! Yet, himself of the golden opportunity thus within his grasp —he takes up cudgels not in any way called for (so entirely are his opponents lying at his mercy from the very outset !), and belabours about him, pell-mell, right and left, furiously, ravagingly ! Worse than. a Blunder, we take this to be. A Mistake Read the letter, and see whether or no we are right in so designating it. Look at it ! The facts in it, for the most part, nobody, we under take to say, can very well presume to contra• vene. Yet these plain, bold, sturdy, incontro vertible facts are so overlaid with vituperation, Powers during the very crisis, is excluded from any participation in the discussions relating to the domestic government of the Danubian Principali ties and the arrangement of the new line of fron tiers. Judging from her antecedents there can be but little doubt that Prussia will cast her entire weight into the Muscovite scale, and that, with' the aid of Austria, the matter will be made as pleasant to the Government of St. Petersburgh as possible. It will be something to know how this most untoward event has been brought about ; and by what means, or through what influences, the nation that professed a contemptible neu trality, while it was really lending the greatest possible assistance to our adversary, and acquiring immense profits from its proceedings, has been suf fered to escape with impunity from the natural consequences of its misconduct. On the Continent, even in Prussia itself, and in every petty, German State, these matters are openly talked of, and the escape of Prussia is universally ascribed to the matrimonial alliance between the heir presumptive to the Prussian throne and the Princess Royal of England, which, it is said, has been definitively settled by the par ties principally concerned, although not a single hint has as yet been given to the British Parliament on a matter of such vital consequence to the entire nation, and which may possibly affect the succes sion to the Throne, and transfer the Crown from the House of Hanover to that of Brandenburgh. No authentic information will probably be given until a Royal Message declares that the inauspi cious match has been arranged, and the • guardians of the national finances are called on to vote a large dowry to the youthful bride. We trust that they will exhibit sufficient independence to resent the insult, and to resist the unjustifiable demand. There is too much of the public money already finding its way into German channels, and if the private in fluence, said to be paramount, desire to enforce an alliance—in every respect so distasteful to the British People—the funds. may be• provided for the purpose, without a begging appeal to the peo ple. Prince ALBERT has already pocketed more than six hundred thousand pounds of English money. Uncle LEoroLD has received nearly two million pounds sterling. And there is reason to believe that the greater portion of these enormous amounts have been carefully put by and are now available. If for their own pur poses they desire to conclude this ill-omened mar riage, let them put their hands in their own pockets and abstain from fresh demands that will only raise unpleasant questions, and bring the im provident arrangements heretofore made into very painful notoriety. What is there in the antecedents of the present reigning House of Prussia to render its alliance acceptable. In every instance it has displayed the utmost duplicity and insincerity, looking merely to its own selfish interests, and disregard- , ing the most sacred obligations, whenever it seemed convenient to do so. " Nusquam tuta fides" should be the motto of that perfidious State. It has been truly remarked by a contemporary that " she has been perfidious to friend and foe alike, and has not hesitated to accept from the hand of the common enemy the spoil of her own Allies. While accepting the subsidies of England she proposed, after the vic tory of Austerlitz, a treaty of which the basis was the annexing Hanover to the Prus sian dominions. Her perfidy to her friend, her servility to her enemy, and her rapacity towards all, did not even secure her the confidence of him to gain whose favour she was ready to descend to the lowest point of degradation. The conduct of Prussia during the crisis of the last three years does not qualify her to be the ally of any Power." THE SUN s LONDON, FRIDAY _EVENI,N(I, APRIL 18, 1856, Everything considered, indeed, in regard to the very curious Letter penned by Mr. Moore, and printed in our columns last evening—it must be accepted, we conceive (this remarkable and eccentric communication), as partly 'valuable and partly worthless. Its pith, or marrow, or gist, or gravamen, or whatever you may like to call it, being altogether incontrovertible. Its Sound and Fury—signifying Nothing ! " What a horrid House of Commons this is ! " was the exclamation of a lady on reading there was a " count-out" last night —an expression of opinion in the justice of which Sir JOSHUA. WALMS LEY will not be indisposed to concur, for his motion for the extension of the franchise and the amendment of the representation in England and Wales was apparently shelved thereby for the remainder of the session. A "horrid House of Commons" indeed—a House that, like a roue gambler on his last 16gs, is only anxious to procrastinate the period of its dissolu tion, knowing, as its members do, they may go further and fare worse. A House ePte, incap able of doing any good for the country, and haunted by the reflection that it has done none, and merits nothing at the hands of the con stituencies but rejection. A House that will be for ever more memorable as the not unworthy oeuraerpart of that distinguished assembly of which " Praise GOD BAREBONES" was so illustrious an ornament. A House that more than tolerated the st'nilities, if not worse, of an ABERDEEN, and drive lied like a dotard over the pukish twaddle and. recondite nonsense of a GLADSTONE. A :House that, in its desire to make things pleas wait, buried manliness and honesty under the desi ;nation of political rivalry in a napkin, and havi ng suffered the country to drift into war with out remonstrance, and to have its energies west 3d without complaint, waited with dumb acquiescence for a Peace patched , up in the inte rest of its enemies. A House impatient of deli bens; ;ion, dubious of integrity, incapable of patri- otic resolution, and alike blind and indifferent tty the z tecessities of the times. A House whose god is self, and whose High Priest is a German, whose divinity was brightened at college with an ever last ig half-crown in his breeches' pocket, entrusted to his keeping as pocket money, and who has not &lug English in his composition, save the bone, mu mole, and sinew that come of English provender. - frouse that fears an incensed mob, yet dares to lg . ao: re the welfare of an entire people—that can P rate of an impeachment, but would shiver in its shoe: ►if called upon to affirm n" just sentence On prestamptuous imbecility and Germanic treason• or rather, we should say, with sheer abuse, arti culated in a succession of violent expletives, that the strength of the argument degenerates into positive weakness. Besides all which, iu regard to the mere style of the composition—the sentences are so plenteously freckled with inverted commas, the phraseology employed is so industrously un derlined into italics—that, beyond all manner of doubt, its writer ought henceforth to be num bered amongst those who were, once upon a time, happily designated the Forcible Feebles by the Right Honourable Gentleman the Member for Buckinghamshire. A hurried glance down this remarkable commu nication will illustrate plainly and readily enough what we have said in regard to its extravagance in the way of vituperation. According to Mr. Moon; the House of Commons is—"obsequious," "servile," and " profligate." According to him many of the questions he was required to answer in 1853 before the Committee were—" invidious," "disgraceful,"and devoid of "decency." According to him the honourable gentleman the representative of Perthshire made an attack characterised by the following string of epithets—" unfair," " disin genuous," "unwarrantable," "ignoble," and " underhand." According to Mr. Moon; the Prime Minister of England is charged with "in sincerity, vulgarity, and insolence," with speaking what is "false," with uttering what is a " gross slander," with having neither " the spirit of a man," nor " the feelings of a gentleman." Now really this does appear to us—just by the merest trifle, of course,—overdone. It seems something more even than a waste of power. It has a sort of a resemblance in its way to that vaulting ambition which overleaps itself, and which we take to be the moat poetic of all extant definitions of a summersault. It appears to us, in fact, for all the world precisely what the Rev. CHARLES KINGSLEY somewhere horridly calls (in the lan guage of the most pedantic of pedagogues) ne iniety or over-muchness ! The worst of it all being that, apart from his adjectives, apart from his expletives, apart from his personalities and vituperations—Mr. MORRIS MOORE is decidedly in the right, having the full swing, the entire monopoly, the unlimited com mand of the best side of the argument ! Instead of simply availing himself of which, he damages a good cause by writing as we have indicated, as our readers may have already seen for themselves. In point of fact there is a description, in the cur rent number of the Edinburgh Review, of Mr. RUSKIN'S first appearance as a fine arts' critic (in the character of an Oxford Graduate idolising TURNER) that in one or two particulars, to our thinking, fits this recent apparition of Mr. MOORE to a nicety. The Edinburgh Reviewer hav ing observed incidentally that Mr. RUSKIN " branded as idiots, ruffians, and liars, the VANDERVELDES, SA LVATORS, and CLAUDES, " continues—" And the preacher snatching up Truth and Nature as his watchword, but forget ting that these also imply Love, Charity, arid Reverence, rushed into the Arena—Malay fashion —thrusting here, smiting there, foaming at the mouth, to establish Lis professional sanctity." Edin. Review, April, 1856, p. 538. Mr. MORRIS MOORE—to a T ! Truth, in his hand, as a watchword—Reverence, Charity, Love, for gotten—" thrusting here, smiting there, foaming at the mouth, to establish his professional sanctity !" Doing all this, and yet having all the while within his grasp—Truth ! The rights of the case as to the squabble between himself and Mr. STIRLING, the Member for Perthshire, are best known of course to themselves individually. But it does appear to us, nevertheless, as hardly fair on the part of the former, when he repeats what w. 4, said to him by the latter three years ago pri vately, or at least, we may presume, sotto voce— "As for UWINS, he's an Ass"—the said CrwrNs being Mr. Uwriss, the Royal Academician. Nei ther does it seem to us exactly above board, when Mr. MOORE, repelling what Mr. STIRLING has re cently said in the House of Commons, observes of it, it is substantially " a direct contradiction to the sentiments which he once expressed to me in my own room, and which he has repeated elsewhere." "In my own room" being, in reality we take it, synonymous with the sub rosa regarded as so sacred among the Romans of antiquity. Whence—be sure of that !—we cannot but con jecture that, from this time forth, the historian of the " Cloister Life of the Emperor CHARLES V." will emulate rather more sedulously than he has evidently done heretofore the reserve and silence of the royal recluse, whose declining years he has admirably celebrated in a masterly contr bution to our biographical literature. A House whose most graceful act was obscurely to insinuate at the outset of the War that it meant to do nothing but vote the supplies and keep the Ministry in power. A House anti-Sabbatic, yet at the beck and nod of the Sabbatarians, pro fuse in profession as unprincipled in action, and that to all appearance would not merely shut the labouring population on a Sunday out of the Bri tish Museum and other public institutions belong ing to them, where their minds and hearts might be quickened to livelier apprehensions of the CREATOR'S wisdom and goodness, but would shut them up in a penfold on that day if it were safe, and it would insure at the hands of the " Maw worm" section of its constituents its re-elec tion. A House whose " count-out last night is satisfactory proof that before a measure of Parlia mentary Reform can be introduced it must be dissolved into its ignoble elements. A " horrid House of Commons," indeed ! LATEST NEWS. THE TREATY OF PEACE. VIENNA, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, Now One of the most important conditions in the treaty of peace is that the forts on the Circassian coast of the Black Sea are not to be rebuilt. In short, the status quo on the coasts of the Black Sea is to be maintained. This is authentic. MARSEILLES, THURSDAY. The Indus has arrived. She brings the follow. ing important intelligence : " CRIMEA, APRIL 5 "The news of the signature of peace has ar. rived here. " The Presse d' Orient announces that the eva,cu ation of the Russian territory by the Allies wil begin with the fortress of Kinbourn, and that LITERATURE. Irish Quarterly Review. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. This Review admirably maintains its sterling and liberal principles. The current number con tains ten distinct articles on important and interest ing subjects, the first being a most ably-written digest of the Poems lately given to the world by Longfellow, Bailey, and Browning. The writer expresses the same wonder which is elicited in every intelligent and impartially-critical mind, viz., how authors who can create such natural beauties can perpetrate such literary atrocities ; and regrets that the love of mystification and inane scribbling should invest the sunny slopes of Parnassus with the at moSphere of Bedlam. We do earnestly hope that the obscure and meaningless poetic productions so awfully predominant at present will come under the severe denunciation of all honest critics, until the mistaken authors are convinced that " divine in spiration" is by no means synonymous with dis cordant nonsense or turgid bombast. It is high time some of our modern bards discovered that the People's taste and judgment will not accept spas modic syllables as immortal breathings, and not all that toadying cliqueism can effect, will transmute erratic quicksilver, or heavy lead, into Apollonian gold. There is a charming continuation of the bio graphy of the Irish novelist, John Banim, replete with curious and interesting matter ; and there is a lengthy paper headed " War and Peace," which claims especial eulogy, and cannot be too widely read. It deals sternly, but discretionally, with the unfortunate systems of management and series of incidents which have inflicted no small share of discredit—to use the gentlest word—on our na tional glory. The naval, military, and general financial statistics in this article are copious and explicit beyond the average of such statements, and deserve attention. We conclude our notice of this healthy periodical with the following extract from the last-mentioned paper : " We bad hoped ere concluding this article to have been able to announce and comment upon the final terms of peace. But up to this moment nothing further is known, at least by the general public, than was known three or four weeks ago. It is still left to conjecture whether there is, or is not, more sincerity in the Russian acceptation of bases' this year than when they excited and disappointed our hopes this time twelve months. We know not what concession or surrender of ill- acquired territory Russia is prepared to make, or what guarantee will be exacted from her against future ag gressions. Judging from the past, she will, unless ef fectively bound down and restrained by some permanent and well-guaranteed arrangements, only bide her time, and wait for some period of European distractions to resume ber course of rapine and unjust acquisition. "She took advantage of the beginnings of the Ameri• can Revolution to secure a lion's share in the first parti tion of unhappy Poland, and subsequently advanced her southern armies till they occupied the northern shores of the Sea of Azof, and secured the course of the Dnieper. When England and France were alike nearly exhausted by war in 1783, she annexed the territory of the Don Cossacks to the shores of the Caspian, and entered the Crimea. In 1792, in the first wild throes of the French Revolution, she seized the country between the Dniester and the Bong and completed the second partition of Po: land. In 1795, the war of the French Revolution being then hot in Europe and all attention engaged by it, she effected the third and final partition of Poland. In 1802 she seized upon Mingrelia. In 1803 she invaded Georgia. In 1805 she seized the territories of Karabagh and Mongatchon, and in 1806 Shamaki, on the Caspian Sea. In 1807, and the subsequent years till the conclu sion of the war, Russia continued her ad vances i n t h e East, taking advantage of the distractions of Europe, and marking each successive year with a fresh achieve ment of rapine. These her unjust acquisitions received a tacit sanction from the Holy Alliance' in 1815, and an active addition to them in permitting her to absorb the Duchy of Warsaw, and finally shut Sweden out from her plundered province of Finland. "Reluctantly she now found herself compelled to hold her hand, the other powers of Europe having at length time to look around them, and beginning to manifest no little wonder and anxiety at wh a t s h e had been doing while their attention was engaged in their own struggle for existence. And it was not till 1829 that her states men ventured to move forward again, when suspicion had been lulled to sleep, and France and England, for purposes of their own, were courting Russia, and had but a year or two before, in conjunction with Russia, annihilated for the time the naval power of Turkey, anti dismembered her territory. The treaty of Adrianople and of Unkiar-Skelesi attest that Russia, and R issia alone, profited in the end by the alliance. "It is to be hoped that in the Conference now about to meet at Paris, if it be judged impossible to insist upon a giving up of many of these ill•gotten acquisitions and advantages, adequate guarantees will at any rate be in sisted upon as to desisting from future aggression, and such arrangements made for the Danubian provinces and Asiatic Turkey as will make those countries bulwarks, as it were, against Russia, should she attempt hereafter to violate her engagements," Putnam's Monthly Magazine. Sampson Low, Son, and Co. The numbAr for tbia month contains Dovoral fresh and vigorous papers. The opening article is a very temperate and sensible one on " Religious Freedom in America." There is a " fast and furious" tendency to theological disputations in the young country, but vindictive argument and declamatory assertion are no very edifying substi tutes for Christian toleration and truth, and the following remark is worthy of consideration in its most universal acceptation : " A sectional spirit in politics is bad enough, but the attempt to carry it into literature and history—and that., too, under cover of sentimental liberality and a special regard for justice—deserves to be at once exposed and rebuked." The paper headed " Have Animals Souls " will repay the perusal. It mincles fact and speculation in a very suggestive tone, and has much of novelty to recommend it. The " Poetry of Robert Brown ing" is fully discussed, and we as fully subscribe to the accuracy of the opening sentence, "Robert Browning's poetry is very hard reading." In " A Talk about Popular Songs " the writer says "As to Moore's songs, 'the Irish in general do not sing them. The people of the cities and towns, in their singing moments, usually choose others of a more racy order, and many which express the old airs in words dif ferent from Moore's. There, and everywhere else, ' Rory O'More,' th e ' B o ld S oldier Boy,' Widow Mach ree,' and the 'Low-backed Car,' are heard twice as often as Go where glory waits thee,' the 'Meeting of the Waters,' or the Harp of Tara.' The marble halls of the English aristocracy were bad places fur anything like Irish inspiration, apparently ; and Moore seems to have taken his old airs to make melodies for Anglo- Saxondom, as others took the stones of the old castles to make elegant modern houses—thinking they put them to a very good use, too. His songs have too much re finement, and too little pathos and simple heartiness, to be popularly cherished among his countrymen. The Irish-speaking portion of them do not know his songs, of course. Some time ago an attempt was made to turn these into the Iri s h ; b u t th e exper i ment, w i t h hi s pointed and figurative stanzas, was a failure. The "Political " articles are broad and gene rous in spirit, and the "carving " of "new works," both Transatlanti c an d E urop ean, is done in a competent and just style. A Month at Malvern. By R. J. Lane, A.E.R.A. Spirits and Water. By R. J. L. Mitchell, Old Bond-street. The first of these works was published some ten years since, giving a pleasant diary of a few weeks spent by Mr. LlllO and his son at Dr. Wilson's Water-cure Establishment, Great Malvern. The book has run through several editions, and may be pronounced pleasing and interesting. It gives a minute account of "Packing," " Doucheing," Sitzing, and exercising—interspersing the detail of the daily duties of Flydropathy with episodes of pic-nics to Camp Hill, sketches of eccentric patients, practical cheats put upon the Doctor, and gossip ing anecdotes of various kinds, calculated to allure any tolerably well-to-do invalids to undergo the process of being washed clean from their physical evils. Mr. Lane derived such immense benefit from the treatment that he would indeed be a most ungrateful patient not to speak as enthusiastically as he does of it. We only hope that every sufferer who tries the same system may be equally fortu. nate in the results arising from it. Spirits and Water is a cheerful little book, not mixing alcoholic fire with the pure element, but infusing instead, a strong dash of that mental exhi laration which is derived from the original vintage of Health and Strength. It yields the particulars of two walking tours through South Wales and the Isle of Wight ; telling us, among innumerable points of information, the most useful fittings for a travelling knapsack and the medical appliance for a blistered toe. Altogether, the volume is very readable, and concludes with some specimens of poetry, which, though reminding us of Words worth and Hood, cannot be considered, in our candid criticism, as likely to extinguish either. Border Lands of France and Spain. 1 vol. Chapman and Hall. It is such an agreeable variety to me e t w i t h a book of travels not relating to either Turkey or Russia, that the author's apology for publishing the record of a visit to the mountains of South western Europe at the present epoch is rendered unnecessary. In explaining his reasons for issuing a work on the Peninsula, at a time when he sup poses the sympathies of the public to be wholly • directed to the frontiers of Asia, he tells us that it was commenced with no other view than that of occupying some idle time, but that it gives a faithful picture of what he saw in his expedition, and portrays the social peculiarities of a district unvisited by most travellers. In the first part of his work he gives a view of the Basque provinces, i and the narrative of a visit to the romantic district of Bear; a spot associated with the memory of the "That States, of native wealth possessed, Though very poor, may yet be very blessed ;" and it is to be hoped it will long preserve its ancient government and peculiarities, undisturbed by the factions of more conspicuous States. A History of the Constirmtion of the Republic is ap pended, for the benefit of the reader, to whom this volume presents something of novelty and much of entertainment. The Journal of Psychological Medicine, edited by Forbes Winslow, M. U., opens with the usual "Quarterly Retrospect," in which the more salient events of the quarter are recorded and commented upon by the editor. An instalment of an article on " Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity" deals with the subject of "Lucid Intervals," which involves a consideration of the doctrine of planetary influ ence. "Notes of a Visit to the Public Lunatic Asylums of Scotland," and " Autobiography of the Insane," are continued—the remarkable autobio graphic narrative to which we drew attention in our last notice coming to n, conclusion. Anything more vividly and painfully descriptive of the fevered fancies and mental tortures of the insane we do not remember to have read. Among the remaining original contributions may be noticed an article "On Moral and Criminal Epidemics," another " On some unrecognised Forms of Mental Disorder," and a third " Oa Criminal Responsi bility." The first, more especially, is deserviog of thoughtful consideration at the present time. The concluding paragraph runs as follows : " It is ever a painful task to dwell exclusively upon tho dolueions and crimes of mankind ; but it is in the aberrations of intellectual and moral culture that (as in other sciences) we must seek the clue to their normal laws. We have attempted to trace' these aberrations, and have here met constantly with the conviction that man, who has an individual responsibility, is the play thing not only of his own passions and instincts, but, through the laws of his being, also of those of others. We have seen that through these same laws, and others of still more profound and complex opera,ti , n, large ma:ses are likewise subject to evil influence, from the caprices or vices of one. In attempting to trace the causes of these phenomena, we have ventured to in'i mate that our press has a liberty which amounts to licence—that our spiritual teachers are lax in their duties—that science is prostituted to evil purposes, and that our Legislature is not entirely free from the impu tation of adding its quota to the encouragement of crime. All this forms a problem ofitast importance to humanity. Vise and thoughtful men are looking ea rnest l y i nto it, and attempting its investigation, and we, in this im perfect sketch, have but yvished to add our m it e to the endeavour, by inquiring into the history and conditions of the past, which is indeed 'the irit:lrpretation of the present, and the prophecy of the future." :a addition to the above area number of impor tant excerpts from foreign psychological literature. The _History of France, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. By Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A., F.S.A. The London Printing and Pub lishing Company. The first part of a history of France, written, or to be written, we are told, in the fair and amicable spirit becoming the present alliance between the two countries, and illustrated in the first style of art. Mr. Wright is already favourably known as a careful and able compiler ; and, judging from the present part, a useful and popular history may be anticipated at his hands. The illustrations are de serving of praise. Popular History of England. By Charles Knight. Bradbury and Evans.—The fourth part of this illustrated history bears the reader along th-ough the important interval between the coro nation of William the Conqueror and the death of Henry I. Judging by the instalment in hand, the work is likely to merit the title given to it, both as regards its style and" circulation, and satisfac tirily to reward the labours of the judicious and enterprising editor. The Insurance Magazine Contains a number of able papers on subjects more particularly appertaining to the profession of actuaries. Among other things, there is a table showing the progress of life assurance in Great Britain during 1852-53-54, from which it would appear (supposing the data to be reliable) the total business of life assurance has increased much more rapidly in these years than in the three preceding. The English Cyclopcedia. Conducted by Charles Knight. The present part is devoted to Bio graphy, and includes a notice of the celebr a t e d Jeremy Beutham and the Polish patriot Beat. The English Cyclopcedza promises well, and seems calculated to become popular as well as useful. NEWPORT, ABERGAVENNY, AND HEREFORD RAILWAY COMPANY.—An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of this company was held y es t erday in the London Ta vern, to receive a report of the committee appointed by the shareholders at the last general meeting, and to alter, it necessary, a resolution passed on the occasion to raise additional capital ; the Hon. W. E. Fitzmaurice in the chair. The report of the cornmitttee, read . by the secretary, s t a t es that it would be necessary to raise 350,0001. to finish the line to Quaker's-yard from Crumlin, and to liquidate all existing liabilities. Each of the officers of the company have certified as to the amount of their individual requirements, and the committee have confi dence in their estimate. The total amounts to 361,7161, less arrears of calls and cash in hand aroountng to 12,7161., l eav i ng a b a l ance o f 348,997/., which will be sufficient to complete a double line from Hereford to Crumlin, and a single one from thence to Quaker'slard, with works for a double line. They consider that within 15 months from this date the receipts will be sufficient to provide for the interest on all bonds, on the present 5 per cent. preference shares, and on the proposed p re f erence shares at 6 per cent., and also to pay a dividend of 3 per cent. to the original shareholders. The co mm i t t ee h ave no reason to doubt that the receipts will c ons id era bl y exceed their present estimate of 401. per mile per week. per cent. prefer eTnhceey stock r e c tom:hued extentth c creation e o a f t 1 0 0 ofnn elOl. for every ori ginal hp,b sf 6 share in the company, wh ic h w i ll amount to 216,8401 , to be offered in the first instance to the holders of stocks pro rate, the remaining part of the 350,0001. they recommend to be raised by debentures. The committee strongly recommend the proprietors to take their proportion of the 6 per cent. stock. The resolution passed at the last general meeting will have to be rescinded, and power given to raise 350,000/. to complete the line from Crumlin to Quaker's-yard. Re. solutions to carry out the recommendation of the report were unanimously agreed to. brilliant sister of Francis the First and her heroic daughter. We also meet with a description of the mountains and mountaineers of East and West Catalonia, a visit to the Pyrenean baths, and to the proscribed race of Cagots, the Pariahs of the Peninsula; a visit to the people of Cerdagna and Roussillon, in which the writer takes occasion to give us some account of the mysteries and miracle plays of the Trouveres. He says it was with a feeling akin to an instructive con viction that he had relapsed into the media val world, that after the services at the church were concluded he entered the humble theatre in which these performances took place. Though he admits that the introduction of the sacred events upon the stage must shock a northern visitor, he contends that we are not justified in throwing the charge of profanity upon the mys teries. He asserts that they are suited to the sen timents of the people, and that in those accustomed to them from childhood they do not produce any other sentiments than serious and devout feelings. The second part of the work is perhaps the more striking, from the novelty of its subject. It nar rates a visit to the republic of Andorre, " are almost unknown and independent republic, whose records, while they throw additional light on the annals of the early Moorish wars, serve also to corroborate the testimony of the historians of the Carlovingian age, and whose title deeds, being the original charters of the Emperor Charlemagne, are by 400 years more ancient than the surviving do cuments of any one of the German or Italian republics." This wonderful little domain is situated in the heart of the most mountainous district of the border lands, and the inhabitants present all those qualities of hardihood, frugality, and sim plicity that so often characterise the dwellers in mountainous regions. A comparison between the civilisation of Andorre and the rich and fertile valley of Urgel (in the adjoining district of Cata lonia) is entirely in favour of the mountaineers, notwithstanding the comparative poverty of their soil. The traveller approached it with con siderable curiosity, as he was aware it was a district that few, of his countrymen had ever visited. Indeed, the Syndic, or head of the Republic, sub sequently informed him, that though he had filled that office for seven years, not one Englishman had visited his dominions during that time. " The majority of the English people had, I was per suaded, seldom heard of its existence ; and yet it was nearly the oldest of the States of Europe. It had maintained its independence with little inter mission, from a period long anterior to the Norman conquest. It presented nearly the identical form of polity which had characterised its government in the days of Charlemagne and of Louis le Debon nair. And in the midst of prescriptive revolution, among the surrounding nations, it continued, be yond comparison of any other State, to be guided by Conservative principles, sanctioned by imme morial tradition." Tnis secluded and singular little State fully realised the anticipations' of the traveller. He regards it as a species of Utopia, as rare as it is admirable. How far its indepen dence and stability could have withstood the com motions and perplexities of modern civilisation, had it been situated in a spot less retired from the notice of the political world, it would, perhaps, he difficult to say. As it is, however, it presents to the occasional traveller the confirmation of Gold smith's assertion-- Eupatoria will follow." CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 7. The Sultan has sent the Order of the Medjidie to Prince Albert. The proclamation of the Hatti-Houmaioun has been received with demonstrations of rejoicing in Syria, at Larnaca, at Rhodes, and throughout the whole of the Archipelago ; but it has produced unfavourable effects in Amasia. Konah is in full revolt, and great excitement prevails in Armenia. An English company has obtained the concEs sion of the railway from the Turkish capital to Adrianople. The last letters from Athens are to the 11th. The French admiral feted the anniversary of the independence of Greece by a salvo of artillery from his vessels, and by having them dressed out with flags. General Kalergi is shortly to leave Greece for France and England. The English artillery and siege trains have been the first to embark, and are beginning to leave for England. The Egyptian fleet has returned to Aiexandri2. The Journal de Constantinople announces that serious disturbances have taken place at Sivas and Koniab, but that order has been re-established. Aali Bash has been ordered to leave for Lon don to convey to his H.R.H. Prince Albert the insignia of the Order of the Medjidie, which the Sultan has conferred upon the Consort of the Queen of England. The Anglo- Persian difficulty is not yet settled. The Turkish Ambassador at Teheran has re- signed. The Hatti-Humayoun has been hailed with joy n Syria, at Lo.rnaca, at Rholes, and throughout ,he Archipelago. In Armenia, on the contrary, great ex icemen prevails. AUSTRALIA. PLYMOU C Li , THURSDAY EVENING. The Black wall, Captain Thorn, belonging to Mr. Green, of London, has arrived in the Channel, and was 74) miles S.W. of the Lizard at 10 o'clock a.m. on Monday evening, when she placed 21 pas sengers, chiefly Cornish men, in a Scilly pilot boat, which landed them at Penzance on Tuesday after noon. • The Blaokwall left Melbourne on the 28th of December, and, after touching at Pernambuco, crossed the line on the 23d of March, since which fine weather has been experienced. She has a full cargo, chiefly wool, and is said to bring between three and four tons of gold dust and upwards of 200 passengers, many of whom have parcels of gold due. Among the first-class passengers are several suc cessful Scotchmen returni:ag with their families. It was Captain Thorn's intention to land the mail, containing about 2,000 letters, at Plymouth. ASTLErS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. The annual benefit of Mr. Win. Cooke, the enter prising lessee of this world-renowned theatre, will take place o-' Teesd iy, the 221 inst. Mr. Cooke may well revert with pl e asure to the congenial re su lt s o f , . his untiring efforis during the past, for he basre;- dered the Royal Amphitheatre a scene of increased and increasing triumphs. Since his connection with the theatre he has conducted it in a manner that reflects the highest credit upon him as a manager ; and the public, we rejoice to know, have not been stow to acknowledge the deep debt of gratitude they owe him. That the tide of prosperity may long continue to flow we most ardently desire, for no mana ger better deserves the patronage and support of the play-goingipublic than does Mr. Cooke. The entertain ments he has selected for the occasion of his benefit are of the most attractive character. They embrace a new grand spectacle ; a classical melange of equestrian per formances in the circle, including the appearance of his wonderful mare, Raven, and the celebrated equestrian act of Miss Kate Cook on her milkwhite charger, Snow drop, and a variety of other amusements. We feel assured that had Mr. Cooke merely announced his bene fit, and made no alteration in his issued " bill of the play," the Royal Amphitheatre would present a scene that would delight the heart of any manager ; but add ing to the announcement the promised attractive enter. tainment, an early application for seats, we should fancy, will become absolutely indispensable. Her Majesty has invited Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, the Commander - in - Chief of the Mediterranean fleet, & c ., to be her guest on board the royal yacht at the revie w . It has been notified by the general commanding the troops in camp at Colchester, that his Royal Highness Prince Albert will inspect the whole of the regiments on Monday next. Her Ro yal Highness the Duche ss o f K ent, attended by Lady dy Fanny Howard, Baroness de S pe th , an d Sir Tuesday evening. H er royal highness went e yesterday, attended b y L a d y Fanny hr presence George to Cowper, rrog omn honoured the H a y mar k et T heatre with 0 r e Howard and Sir George Couper, and returned to her re sidence, Clarence House, St. James's, in the aft ernoon . MONUMENT TO JOHN WESLEY.—At a public meeting held at Epwortb, the principal town in the Isle of Axholme, North Lincolnshire, and the birth-place of John Wesley, the founder of the sect of Wesleyan Methodists, it was unanimously resolved----" That a statue, in accordance with a design submitted to the meeting by Mr. Henry Tilbury, artist, Doncaster, be erected in some convenient place in the town of Epworth, the birth place of the late John Wesley ; the requisite fund to be raised by a national penny subscription. A committee was formed, with Mr. G. Dunn; M.D., cf Doncaster, at the bead, for the purpose of carrying out the object of the meeting ; and, in furtherance of the foregoing resolution, a lithograph ,of the intended mo nument was ordered to be prepared, and arrangements were made to facilitate the collection of subscriptions by dilly authorised agents. The design of the proposed monument represents John Wesley attired in a gown, with a Bible in his band, preaching, from a tombstone, he having once delivered a sermon from a stone over his father's grave in Epworth churchyard. A VISIT TO NICARAGUA The following letter, from the pen of a C ' farmer, who gives a description of a visit of ob Nicaragua, has been published at New York :e:, , New York, March 14, 1 8 °' " We arrived at last at the city of Granada , sentinel of Walker's army, who told us to hurl would get into the guard house. Having letter' duction to the American consul, I proceeded Obis and, without stopping to present them, I asked knew where we could procure lodgings. He ) sent a servant with us, and after an hour's vac offered the privilege of swinging a hammock in one of the h ouses . H av i ng no hammocks, our ' was to secure them, and after a long search wee' buying a couple at $2 each. We returned, tied got into them, and passed the remainder of Ol t gazing at the st ars an d fi g h t i ng musquitoes. r the next morning that we were fortunate in good accommo , lations as we did, as menyof our had slept in the government barracks, and sortie !j about the Plaza. M r . S qu i res, a car p en t er , one sengers who hail gone on with his family, slice ting a house, and during the remainder of 1 13 1 myself and Mr. Squires' friend, a Mr, Jacksoll , e i Connecticut, a farmer, remained with them, 0 , supplied with the best living which the coati/ We stil hontinued, however, to sleep in hamel' we hung high to avoid th e li zar d s wh i ch e b0" „ My next two weeks were occupied in looking country in the vicinity. M y opportunities is: , tion were abund a nt, an d I w ill now proc ee d succinctly the f a ct s o f i mpor t ance wh i ch I deg"' municate. First, I propose to show the inde farmers to emigrate to the land which has A the ' garden of the world.' The offer of fronv, acres of land as a free gift is held out to the , mer ; and on th e N or th ern Li g h t going out I° farmers on board who had been lured freed 4ji in the United St a t es b y th e golden promises l' N icaragua. Mr. Jackson, who with myself " Mr. Squires, had sold his farm in Connecticut t 0 gut discouraged, was taken sick, and died ill, , Four of the others w en t ou t f rom Granada, w ith ties, to examine the coun t ry, an d were gone ' days. They hired mules, and went to Messiah' the number were taken sick with the fever 1 r return and died. The other two returned ° where one died with the fever three days after. O t l i iug three left d e t erm i ne d t o get out of the cold i as possible. Another party of farmers, sorae,„, fornia, went d own t o exam i ne a region of car, be very fertile, situated between Rivas and , Two of the p ar ti es were taken sick with the A' absent, and th e °t h en returned to Granada, an" ' claims to the land they had staked out ; after / 1 , returned to the land to commence operations. at Virgin Bay, on my way home, I saw 00,ep gentlemen and talked w ith him. He was ver b the fever himself, an d b eyon d t h e hopes °' 0 0 He toll me that so on a ft er return i ng to cotton t y ing their claims they were taken down with o M and when he left his location, four of the 13 , 11 0 lying there too sick t o b e remove d . I learne d f 0 vernment officer that these claims were the l'ire'ild been filed for f arms , s i nce W alker ' s goyernralto established, and th a t up to that time not a sPs" 0 ~ struck into the gr oun d , on G overnment land, woiyil rican. As reg a rd s th e f ert i l i ty of the soil st 0 the state are very fruitful ; but I do not thin"' p can can make a living on any amount of landeei that I can judge th e G overnmen t l an d for agr i? poses is worthless. I b e li eve th at t h e labou r clear up sufficient land of th e un d er b rus h to 613 ,i son to live from it (if he could live from sold' land), if the labour were applied to five acxes, rendering it fertile, anti devoting it to gardenins , re, and fruit near here, it would make a man inde e i think a person is fer better off aho i s wor king !11, 50 cents a day and his board than he would be at i with 1,000 a cres of l an d. Af ter they have rp. in their possession, if they live long enough e a house, they will fi n d th a t th e l a b our of el°,"-e enough to raise a n acre o f corn w i ll be more th''' endure. The land is covered with an almost irides under-brush, whi c h f orms t h e retreat of cout'l and •corpiens. Numbers of farmers who have E 7 the purpose of taking up land were in Grenade some dying, some sick, and others without the toe ling away, discou rage d an d di e h ear tened. I too k v o , to test all the tropical fruits of the country, an d give our apple and peach for the whole c a talogp duceinents to mechanics a r e b u t li tt l e b etter , if Squires, the carpenter, wh o wen t out i n the North; who had a good chest of tools, and was an esn'ie man, was making from $3 to $5 per day • bu t this could not l as t more t h an a few weeks, ss melting in his line t o d o except repairing windy jobbing, and m a ki ng an occas i onal store.oeua te , wan, also a carpenter, w h o went out with 1)1 was employed by the G overnment i n making CO' l is the most lucrative employment in the place{ taken sick at six o'clock in the evening, and s i , next morning he was dead, and th a t d ay was fil.,, coffin which he had made hi mse lf. H e was ee r to F perate in his habits and in excellent health 111/ A ll merit when he w-s taken sick. Hi s b ro th e r cs is ""ot the Northern Li g ht a fee, days since, sick with and it was only by care f u l nursing on the velpd was enabled to reach his home alive. Mr. R. d e l/ many years cutter and foreman in the tailoring went of William T. Jennings and Co., of Bron s ti only man in Granada who is making money et l e j ne, having the patronage of the Government as il bli, all the private citizens Many mechanics, 11 13 Y, employment, get out of money, have no means ° f are thus forced to leave the country. There i 9 ° I , class of emigrants who are fired with military °o and to them I have but little to say. GenerallY; no honest employment h ere, an d d o not wa nt least six of thi s class, who left New York n , January, died th e next day after thei r arils's' b i their way f rom G ranada to Leon, where the,' ordered to march, musket in hand, under a W r e c ili I did ° not learn how m an y more d ied b efore r ed but was inform e d th a t t h ecapta i n of the company' on a mule, w e nt on t o L eon f or a physician. The 4,4 leaves New York in hi g h sp i r it s, b ut w h en h e S nerd Walker' s p ower h e wi ll b e as tame an d s ubs o a sick lamb. In wa lki ng aroun d among the tre° , o seen them in tears over their desolate situation,) impossible for them to leave the army. Walks f r o :m an, however urgent the ne cess it y may be. iaei very worthy young man plead the sickness al and her destitution, as a reason for his return, ° v eo , answer he got was a peremptory order to go bacs t i a' piny. There are very worthy young men in the among them all there is a general di ssa ti s f a ction , appointment. Th e i r food is very poor, and ti ;re . 1) barely en oug h f or the i r washing expenses. IP, receive only s i x d o ll ars per week, and sickness r the army to an alarming extent. For labouri n g emigrate the iuducenientsare quiteasfew. Oeen 3 :P Granada on th e d ay I d id , to return, was sEnzaei fever on the way down the lake. At Virgil , ~..48 treated by a physician, who thought that he Idll'o ' to start for home. He did so, and on the 5ee, ( 1 3 . 0 from San Ju a n h e di e d , and his body was O l io' board. I und ers t oo d t h at ho was formerly a P°„;01 New York. Two Irishmen, brothers, went : a Northern Light, but one b ecame discouraged ""14, at San Juan and re t urne d . His brother, eovisio on with me to Granada. He got employment, ° and a half per day, at driving the government was a healthy an d s t ric tl y so b er man, but, one w 11 his arrival, was seized with the fever and died. , possible for an American to work in that olites t ' e ;o, larly those f rom th e nort h ern states, They beef, o f tated and weak, and those who are in the beln, ing sufficie n tly t o i rr i tate the stomach almost !,f, die. Granada is th e grea t d ead h ouse of the coulP"A miles from the city is a pond, which, in 0 1 7 son, becomes putrid, and the wind, wIP ° DJ' always blows from that direction, sends s , over the city; and thi s , with rumand dirt, is th e ,0;! the unhealthiness o f th e p l ace. When I left ' ab . l about 400 Americans in the place, and they W e loili the rate of 5 p er d ay on an average. It is said t O , a place 10d miles above Granada, and reached b‘ f r‘ much more healthy. Vi rg i n B ay, Castillo, and 40' are comparatively health y .—l am, respectfully 9;190 " WILLIAM D. $ ll , EXTB.A;SIVE SEIZURE OP FLOV IVAKENIgLD. The Court-house, Wakefield, was crowded e O. ll O , nesday last by persons anxious to hear the Pt /tV ) relative to th e l a t e ex t ens i ve se i zure of flour frolesi Jackson and Son, corn dealers, W a k e fi e ld. 0 0 1 , s.-ven sack s had been seized by J osep h J o he' d i sanitary inspect or o f t h e b orough, in Feb Or d from two s h ops o f the defendants, in Westg; o oo 1 Wrengate, und er th e i mpress i on that they were " 2:) hunihn foud. Owing to the result of the a - k i J , Professor Taylor, of London, 82/ of these sorVii ordered by the bench of magistrates to be reel Messrs. Jackson. Th e cases b e f ore the bench 0"-ylit nesday related to the 41 sacks still retained bli o ill spector. The pr es idi ng mag i s t rate on the occO'reo Mr. Joseph Holdsworth. Mr. W. Shaw apP,l,, the prosecution, and Mr. Digby Seymour, to' b i , ' specially retained for th e defendant, assisted p t Micklethwaice. The first charge preferred : $ Messrs. Jackson was for having flour for sale i; o t, shop at West ga t e - common on the 26th of Feb. lac same being u n fit f ur h uman food, contrary to 'fief tute. Mr. Seymour took objection that the pris ° lo no authority f rom th e l oca l b oard to proceed es'ijib case to recover pen a lti es , as requ i red by the ' g ifl l 19th of Victoria, cap. 121, sec. 5. The bench c ° pt the information bad a s regar d e d t h e penalties, e o u d r as regarded the seizure. Th e i n f ormat i on fel l te'd fri, and the next case taken was f or h av i ng fl ou r 0- or premises in Wrengate on the 25th of February 1 106 food, which the inspector prayed might be de,l - n o 7 The principal witness called for the prosecoV4 Dr. Letheby, of the London Hospital, who, "i i i,' examined a specimen of the flour, declared It , t - c) e l opinion, to be unfit for human food, owing 'i, gluten of the flour being in a state of deconlr, - ,P 4 The Rev. W. R. Bowditch, Mr. Slatter, eurgef - O lv, ' Mr. Milne*, surgeon to the convict departme o % - ini",. House of Correction, all gave it as their ° `° , 4 that the flour was unfit for human food. g r ;fo," . moor made a l ong an d a bl e a dd ress for the °acit and be then ca ll e d a num b er o f corn-factors, irieg'iniv Mr. Th omas Smit h , o f t h e fi rm of Sandal.' a nd " Or Liverpool and Manchester ; Mr. W. NelstroP ge td Mayor o f St oc kport ; M r . H ar b ridge, biscuit coett;oof, uif Liverpool ; and Mr. Tho m p son , W akf i eld,—a ll ef , gave it as their opinion th a t th e fl our was fit for b ° DI food. Mr. Huggon, chemical lecturer, Leede,', D 1 Atkinson, physician t o th e dispensary, Wakefiel d ifsi Craven, of Rothwell ; and Professor John '1,.: i e tl', consulting chemi s t t o th e R oya l Agricultural 0,°,-oire; had all exami ne d por ti ons o f th e fl our, and they tiesclivi' it to be fit fo r h uman f oo d. Th ere was no trace °' 'of" teration in the flour, and a slight taint which it obte o l f O.: might have been caused by the improper stowing a siii ii during the six weeks since th e se i zure. The OtourlP 0 dismissed after having occupi e d th e C ourt eight `:, It; The decision was received with a roun d of applat 4 the assembled audience. Th e case h as excited o'ol3o most interest among the corn-dealers in Yorkshir e Lancashire. _ - 6 LORD DALHOUSIE.—O ur M a l ta corresponaen . f o that Lord Dalhousi e , late Governer-General of ', P ot arrived at that p ort on the 10th inst. in the Gerraot The Caradoc w as to sa il for Marseilles as soon a s damage she sust a i ne d in a gale on the 9th had been t paired. His lordship had derived great benefit frois voyage. -..,,,,