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II ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. FAREWELL NIGHTS. PICCOLOMINI— ROSATI—LE CORSAIRE. THREE FAREWELL NIGHTS will be given, viz. :—This Evening (Tuesday), Augu st 5 ; Thursday, August 7 ; and Saturday, August 9. This Evening (Tuesday, August 5), will be presented LA FIGLIA DEL REGGIMENTO. Marie, Madile. Piceolomini ; Tonio, Signor Calzolari ; Ser genie Sulpisio, Signor Belletti. To conclude with the Grand Ballet, LE CORSAIRE, Medora, Madame Rosati. On THURSDAY, August 7, DON PASQUALE.. Nerina, Mdlle. On SATURDAY, August a, LA TRAVIATA. Violetta, Mdlle. Piccolomini. With the new grand Ballet of LE CORSAIRS. Medora, Madame Rosati. Reduced Prices :—Three Pair, 1/. ls. Two Pair, U. 11s. gd. Pit and One Pair, 2/. 12s. 6d. Grand Tier, 3/. 38. Pit, s s. Gallery Boos, 15s. Gallery Stalls, ss. G allery Side Stalls, 3s. 6d. Gallery, 2s. 6d. The free list suspended, the public press excepted. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. BucketOnli: THIS EVENING, A COMICAL COUNTESS. After which SE 'lOgD LOVE. Followed by THE CAPTIVIN3. After which THE RIGHTS AND WRONGS OF WOMAN. To conzlude with THZ SPANISH SERJEANT. ROY %L TFIEkTRE ADELPIII. Proprietor and ganager, gr. B. webster. Directress, IStadame Celeste. TILTS EVENING, URGENT PRIVATE AFFAIRS. Aftir which, M bE A. IFollowed by OUR G A 2. To cnnclude with BORN TO GOOD LUCK. .1' 0. 1--4 1: - •11:r i.'03.1)-'Tfe.KET. L'nle-the Iftu of 41e. CUARLei KEAN. EvEN'TNT:"4, MUS[C H jTII CHA.RNIS. After whicn T 1E WUTTE , VA TALI: „\'.S T, S,w,. , sand `,fanaler, Alfred T EVENING T:IE GREEN-EYED MONSTER, After which. If F D F, A. :include! with THE WELSH GIRL, ItnYtT, ATPTIITTIwATtir.. T,esseo i.nti '+tan::-er, Mr. Wm Cooke TIIN EVENING, (First vr , elc) Bhakespere's Trazedy .of ICPTG RICITTARD THE THIRD; or, this Battle or Boswort Field. rornprcssed into 3 acts Mr. W. Conke'ssol ,, ndi 1 stud of horses eff , ctive'v introdu'ed. Gr tnd strik.in4, an 1 indescribable tablea•i of the Rattle of Bosworth After which, The SCENE 3 In the GIGGLE, and a variety of select entertain. ments. tiox-ollas °nen fry n F.'ev-n Voir. Sta,To Manager, Mr. W West. Equeitrian Director, 'Er. st. Colke. ian. RIGFI W,tTER eIT LINMON BRtDr3Q. THIS 1) (T—Morn. 34 rain. aft. 4—Evening 41 min. aft 4 Te•-Kovovq—Morn. 7 rniu. aft. 5 --Evaniqg 22 rain aft. 5 Tug WEA.THER—Sum OFFIcrl, AUGUST 5. TIIIRILONIRTEIt, IN Tar. SILIDEL 79 -h!;,•hact singe noon yestord.sy. -iowest this morning and during the night 74 -this day at noon. PA 105fETE3-31 . 33—riqing. WINn, Northerly. Light, with fine weather, bu cooler than for th 3 last few days. ea. 0 . ^54 LoNpON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, ,1356. had to resign himself, with the best grace pos- sible, to return into private life, the station for which he is best qualified. Mr. BUCHANAN, the late representative of the United States at the Court of St. James's, was selected by the Demo- cratic section as their candidate. This was the party which formerly secured a four years' term of the White House for the pugnacious General. But it appeared that he could not retain their allegiance. His chances were, therefore, accord ing to Yankee parlance, "most catawampously chawed up ;" and Mr. BUCHANAN, who had the advantage of being away from home for a coni- derable time, succeeded to his forfeited honours. But still the Democrats had it not all their own way. The al Whig party had a will of their own ; and as the successful candidate generally clears out all the public offices, and substitutes friends and supporters of his own for the old employees, there was that lively sense of favours to come, the sanguine anticipation of personal benefit, ,o stimulate the voters on behalf of their favourite. They well knew that if the Democratic ticket turned up the capital prize there would not be that general clearing out that would create the anxiously-looked for vacancies. Neither PIERCE nor BUCHANAN could disturb the existing arrange- ments, and therefore the transatlantic waiters on Providence should put forward one who would be their Sovereign a QUEEN who, to an invincible repugnance to virtue, adds the treachery of a BOURBON, and more than the caprice of a village coquette, and whose line, if perpetuated, must be associated with her dishonour, and the humilia tion of her subjects. How it is all to end is now the problem for consideration. Time only can yield the solution. Master though General O'DortrrELL now is of the situation, nothing is more preCarious than his tenure of power. Perfidious towards ESPAETERO, and a traitor to the Constitution, he walks among pit-falls, and may disappear from his elevation in a night. What he has sown it is his doom already to reap. If he would rest where he is he will fall short of what his prompters and patrons ex pect of him. If he resolves on gratifying their wishes, and burying the debris of the Constitution in the gulf of absolutisra.--he will be dismissed when he has served the turn, to make way for a more courtly and more reliable instrument. If in despair he turns to the more pliable of his former friends among the Liberal party, and en treats their aid on the ground of a desire to rescue and consolidate what remains of the Con stitution, possibly he may draw some of them over to him ; but the Liberal party can never hence forth regard him otherwise than with suspicion. The people hate while they fear him, and -the army, though it may like him, will have but little hesitation to turn him off to make way for a better bidder. crippled by no such restrictions, but could offer the highest rewards to his friendly constituents. They found a good man and true for the position, bight MILLARD FILLMORE, who had formerly . filled the Presidential chair, and who had also been out of the way on an European tour. He was there fore the chosen of the Whig party. But there was an unfortunate difficulty in the way that de stroyed the unanimity indispensable to success. The " domestic institution," or, in other words, the system of slavery for which PIERCE and BUCHANAN were ready " to go the entire animal," proved the fertile cause of dissension, a very apple of discord, amongst the Whig delegates. There were Northerns and Southerns who were diamet rically opposed on this important topic. The recent proceedings at Kansas had alarmed those who might otherwise have voted with the general body. They saw, however, the attempt to obtain a recognition of the unholy traffic by even those opposed to the de,norelising system, and to do so vi et arrnis, obtaining converts, according to the system of MAHOMET, by the strong hand. There was, therefore, a split amongst the party ; and although FILLMORE obtained the ticket so far as the slave-holding States were concerned, the North erns, who constituted a large and influential minority, refused to be bound by the arrange ment. A resplendent Pharos erected upon that ever lasting Mountain of Honace, by way of comme, morating the " ridiculous Mouse," of whose par turition it was once upon a time guilty, would be nothing to it. Absolutely nothing to it ! Fancy —Marehal PeressrEtt made a Duke, and Admiral LYONS created a B tron—for what ? For the ex press pnrpo , ,te of celebrating in a very signal man ner the Mouse of a Peace brought forth by the growling, thundering, earthqietkieg, Mountain of the late E iropean War ! Ia colitn(eneretion of this tremendone little Event--Admiral:Lvoes is made a Peer of Parli'ment, and Mtreletl PELISSTER Nepoleonia,n Deke ! Tee ridicules Mus has its oapee, then, flaming away atop of the parturient Mons ! As though—" Mons - Meg'' herself having fired off a dried pea with a solpe,n.lous and re echoing detonation, the lieges of Auld Reekie were forthwith to " pile Potion upon Oasa," by topping" the Ctstle of E linbureli with a cloud-piercing monnment in celebration of the sari dried pea Never was there anything more preposterous. Marshal PELISSIER created a Duke—what for ? for never taking the northern forts of Sebestopol after all, with an army of 200,000 men, airier! by a fleet the world had never bef ire seen paralleled for efficiency, thanks to the combined influence of ateem-engines, screw-propellers, railroads, and electric telegraphs ! Adinir a LYONS created a Baron—for what ?—for doing just about "ditto" to Sir C. NA.PIER in the Baltic, or, in other words, " next to nothing !" Why, it was only thus, by the distribution of baronial and ducal coronets, that the Great Decisive Battles of the World (Victories such as those recounted by Professor. CREASY) were recompensed of yore by the Rulers whose Captains by sea and land were not Pigmies, but Paladins ! Even the Grandest Sea C 'plain who ever bore the " Meteor Flag of England" in triumph over the ocean, even HORA.TIO NELSON himself, after such victories as St. Vincent, and the Nile, and Copen hagen, and Trafalgar, died at last but an English Viscount, with a beggarly Italian Dukedom ! And NAPOLEON, - the First Narouoil, the Great NAPOLEON—wI...at Marshals those were he created Dukes of the Empire ! Not a PELISSIER among them—not one man among them (the ghastly joke must be pardoned, if only in consideration of its exceeding appositeness)—who could either smoke others or be smoked himself! His Ducal Marshals were victorious heroes—such as Mils SENA, gg the Spoilt Child of Victory," or as MUlt AT, gg the Beau Sabreur " (who was Sing even ultimately), or as NEY, "the Bravest of the Brave," or as LANNES, of whom the modern SESosTafs said " I found him a Dwarf, I left him a Giant," as DIIROC, as SOULT, as JIINOT, as BEE.- NAD OTTE, as MACDONALD, as a throng of otherb, the Knights of the Gallic ARTHUR, the PALADINS of the greater CHARLEMAGNE ! And now the Royal descendant of ARTHUR, the Imperial. ,suc cessor of N.A.rouoN, selects—the one, Admiral tivoNs, for doing "next to nothing," to be a Baron the other, Marshal 1 3 .31,1551 ER, for pretty nearly do. do. do., to be a Dike ! And so— for the Peace —we have had in aig laud royal salutes, a flourish of trumpets, reviews, and fireworks ? And so—for the War— in France they are going to adorn their eitpi.!al with au imperial colossal monument of comm no ration. Bere, as though it were after the GAtri paigns of a MARLBOROUGH or a WELLINGTON. , Then?, as though the present were the worthy 1 sequel of campaigns, like those of Marengo or of Austerlitz. Alas I—for the contrast : and Alas I also, by reason of that contrast—for the inevit able Ridicule ! The political aspect is turned to all appearance towards despotism. The fate of O'DozTNELL seems sealed, and with his downfall fare well for a time to what is left of the Consti tution. An abler intriguer will in all probability supply his place, though it may be not until the Court Camarilla has brought the country to a dead lock. The people will then be ruled with an iron, but for all that an uncertain, hand, and the end will come if only for the country to go through the same round again. A despotism with such a Sovereign not merely ought not, but in the nature of things cannot, stand. The interests that are inseparably bound up with it are contemptible No reputable portion of the population can enter tain for it any respect. Y.) hereditary affection exists for it to appeal to, and the army, rude en gine though it be, feels its position, and is not likely to offer itself a sacrifice to imbecility. That day would deserve to be signalised by a white stone which saw constitutional liberty once more established in Spain. The year of revolu tions comes slowly on, may it, if all previous at tempts fail, bring freedom to that unhappy coun try also ! Could but CHARLES V., or " Armada" PHILIP rise from the grave to witness its present condition The forthcoming Presidential election seems to be the prevailing excitement amongst our Train atlantic brothren. The ....PTERcE-MARcy dodge, at one time regarded as a promising "spec.," totally failed irlitz int:-nd&d G aural PLEB.c.a.,I There was, however, " another RICHMOND in the field." Col. FREMONT, the fortunate pro prietor of a large tract of auriferous land in Cali fornia, was free from the sable stain, with which both his opponents were indelibly marked. He not only holds the Republican ticket, at all times offering a respectable chance, but has had it endorsed by the Northern Whigs, who refuse to swell the ranks of the slave-owners, or voluntarily to assume the iniquitous brand. The result has been that FREMONT has wan many votes from both of his opponents, and that he will probably show a greater number of suffrages than either BUCHANAN or FILLMORE at the hour of trial. Indeed, so far as the popular selection is concerned, the question lies be tween BUCHANAN and FREMONT, and FILLMORE has not the slightest possible chance. But it is not the candidate who has the greatest number of votes that must 'succeed. An absolute I llajority is required—that is to say, more than a clear maj nity of Electors must record their suffrages in favour o: one person—to render the Election valid. The time consumed before a Speaker was appoiutedwill give some notion as to the difficulty of the task. If no person should obtain that clear in ijerity in the Electoral Col lege, the House of RepresentativeS will have to select one from amongst the three who have ob tained the highest number of votes. • The hopes of the Fillmorites rest entirely on the House of Representatives. If they succeed in neutralising the popular election, they antici pate that by a fusion of parties they may possibly succeed. Like their namesakes in Great Britain they hope to ru'e by playing the extremes against etch other, and filching votes alternately front FREMONT aail BUCHANAN. The slaveholders may vote for the slave-supporting FILLMORE, while they would fight to the uttermost against the I Abolitionist, FREMONT ; while the Northern Whigs may possibly be induced to come round rather than see the coveted prize fall into the hands of BUCHANAN. An absolute majority of States will, however, be! required in Congress as well as in the Elec toral College ; and there is a fourth party interested in preventing any election in either place before the 4th M trch, in which case the Vice-President will at oace be elevated to the " Presidential chair. It scorns to be generally considered that Mr. BRECKENRIDGE, the Demo cratic candidate fur the Vice-Presidency, wili succeed in the contest. If, then, both elec tions for the Presidency be neutralised, a person will obtain the position who would not directly receive a single vote. This shows. the complicated system of the State ma chine at Washington. FRE3IONT or BUCHANAN would unquestionably be placed at the head of the poll at the Electoral College ; but FILLMORE will strive to render that abortive, and may probably suceed in so doing. Then comes the chance of BRACKENRIDGE, and if the same game can be played the House of Representatives, his will be the triumph. From this it will be seen that the system in force in the model Republic is eminently . calculated to bring second-rate men into power, and to set aside those whose position and charac ters better . eutitle them to the distinction. It isi however, to be hoped that the growing enthusiasm in favour of Colonel FILEMONT, the abolitionist can didate, may achieve the victory, and save the , United St ~ tee from the disgrace of having its first citizen au advocate of the nefarious and abominable traffic in human beings. THE MED: MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Ara. 5. By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Euxine, Capt. Killoch, with the India, China, and Mediterranean mails, we have dates from Alexandria, July 22 ; Malta, 26th ; Gibral tar, 31st. _ _ The Euxine brings 62 passengers, and on freight 2,009 bales of silk, 600 sacks of wheat, and nine packages of general merchandise. Daring the homeward voyage the Euxine expe rienced strong head winds. On the 30th ultimo passed the brig Chesterfield, off Gibraltar, steering to the westward ; 31st, spoke the schooner Maid of Athens, in lat. 36.25 N., long. 7.20, steering N. W. ; August Ist, off the Burlings, passed' the screw steam transport W. S. Lindsay, with artil lery, for England, and the mail steamer Sultan, with the Peninsular mails, steering for Lisbon. The steam transports Clarendon and Clyde had touched at Gibraltar, en route for England, from the Crimea, with detachments of different regi ments. The hired barque Barretto, Junior, with return ed stores ; the British ship DmJalus, with wooden huts and stores ; the sailing transport' Gertrude, in tow of her Majesty's steamer Banshee ; and the troop ship Simoon had reachediGibraltar, from the East. Her Majesty's steamship Dragon, with three companies of Royal Sappers and Miners, from the Crimea, for Spithead, sailed from Gibraltar on the 30th ult. The sailing transport Burlington, with Roya Artillery, for England, was at Gibraltar. The Queen Dowager of Oude, the heir apparent to the throne of Oude, and suite, have not arrived by this packet. The illustrious party remained at Cairo, and will, it is said, proceed to England by the mail packet Indus, next due at Southampton. COURT CiRCULAR. OSBORNE, AUG. 4 The Queen and Prince, the Prince of Wales, the Prin cess Royal, Princess Alice, and Princess Helena at tended divine service at Osborne yesterday morning, which was performed by the Rev. G. Prothero. The Duchess of Kent also attended the service. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Sir T. Fremanth3, Chairman of the Cust ,, tus, ha I ale an interview yesterday with the right hon. baronet, at his official residence in Downing street. bieres. The condition of a people deprived of their liberties by means of an army whose achievements abroad reflect honour on—shall we say—the national standard, and whose capabilities of offence and defence keep aggression at a respectful die ! twice, is •suffieiently deplorable. But the condi tion of a People deprived of their liberties by means of au army formidable against And terrible to none but themselves, is enough to move the least susceptible lover of freedom to heart-felt compass i on . To find an ex- mplification of the first described condition would involve no great research, and for the second we have only to turn to Spain. . . that bluff , and blus itulated, Saragossa has cap blus tering traitor, General O'DeNNE.L. L ) by 02e grace of wantonness and fraud, and the instrumentality of an army not rated very high in m i litary circles, i 3 now matter of-Spain ! "sow are the mighty fallen !" The proudest people is the world at the feet of a coarse-minded, military adven turer, in whose veins runs no drop of the blue blood of their haughty grandees, asd having as A deputation from the Metropolitan Board of Works had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing street. The deputation consisted of Mr. Thwaites (Chairman), Major Lyon, and Mr. Corrie (members of the Board), and Mr. ‘Voolrych (Clerk of the Board). A deputation of the Board of Works for the White chapel District bad an interview with the Right Hon. Sir B. Hall at the office of Public Works in Whitehall place on Saturday. The deputation consisted of Messrs. J. Casey, F. T. Hart, T. Brushfield, G. Simmons, J. Shelton, C. Sands, and the clerk, Mr. A. Turner. The deputation was introduced by Mr. C. S. Butler, M.P. THE SUN, LO.NDON, TrESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5, 1856. LATEST NEWS. MADRID, AUG. 3. Tranquillity is general. The public funds are rising rap i dly. The national guard of Saragossa have been disarmed. A new ayuntamiento and a fresh provincial•deputation have been named. In Catalonia, the bands which had taken refuge in the mounains are dispersing. Espartero leaves to-morrov for Logrone. M. Luzuriaga, Minister of Justice, is replaced by M. Igurate. MARSEILLES, AUG. 4, 8 P.M. The Danube has arrived, with advices from Constantinople of the 28th of July. The evacuation of the Allied troops will be completed on the 15th of .August, and the hos pitals wil be given up. The equadron of Admiral Lyons will be sta tioned partly at Smyrna, partly at the Piraeus, and partly on the coast of Syria. The steamer Caledonia has arrived from Con. AMERICA. stantinople. Marsha Pelissier has left Marseilles for Plom- PARIS, Aua. 5. yVASHINGTON, JULY 23. In the proceedings of both branches of the Le- gislature yesterday there were several signs that the adjournment is approaching. The Senate sent down to the House of Representatives a resolution fixing the 11th of August as the termination of the session. The rules of the house were suspended to allow it to be discussed, and the debate, as de bates often do, deferred the decision. Provisos and amendments were moved and discussed, but the house rose without coming to a final resolution. The Representatives, however, determined to meet for the rest of the session an hour earlier than usual ; by assembling sooner, sitting longer, and attending more closely to the real business before them, it is hoped the breaking up may be possible within a fortnight or three weeks. Recent unhappy incidents and the discussions that arose out of them The Moniitur publishes the following : The Emperor •returns to St. Cloud on the 9th Inst. His Majesty has no intention of leaving again before the 15th August. There will not, however, be any official receptions on the 9th. Tranquillity having been restored in Spain, the Emperor has given orders for the suspension of all movements of troops towards the frontier. have consumed much time ; in truth, some things more precious even than time have been lost ; a state of feeling has been created, or, rather, deep ened in intensity and bitterness, which renders a speedy separation of parties very desirable, and it will be - well if they separate in peace. The weather is excessively hot, all but incapaci tating for work of any kind ; though the "severity of the season is probably a degree more endurable here than in New York, where you are hemmed in by miles of wall and pavement, and the atmosphere is sometimes heated to fierceness. In Washington the city has not swallowed up the country : the two are more blended ; the main streets are a little too wide for the present traffic certainly, but they are well planted with trees, and there are many pleasure spots of green, reserves and enclosures, more fresh and verdant than might be supposed possible under such a blazing sun ; a month or six weeks more of such heat will no doubt change their aspect for the worse, but as yet they look cool and flourishing. Under a Federal system there seems always t o have been a difficulty in fixing the seat of Govern ment. 3he Swiss Republic solves it by changing the locality in which the Grand Council meets every two years. Even the German Confederation, which represents the Sovereigns only, sits in a free city, not within the territory of either of the royalties represented. In founding the American system of government many things were settled by a com • promise ; thus neither of the larger cities was se lected as the centre of legislation and the ExeCu tive. A small district of 10 square miles only, a mere speck on the surface of the country, was forrned on the frontier of Virginia and Maryland, and within it was founded the city of Washington, as the centre of the federal Power. It is no more the metropolis of the United States than Oxford is the capital of England. It is a special city, within a special territory, for a special purpose. For nearly 60 years all the business of the Federation has been carried on from it ; but trade and com merce, as they were not mainly sought by its foun ders,' have kept aloof and found other channels. In half a century it has only attained a population of about 60,000—absolutely insignificant when com pared with the enormously rapid growth of many other American cities. if quiet and repose are essential to -the proper consideration of public affairs, Washington affords them both ; whether political feuds and the irritation of party feeling are not aggravated by removal from the influences of a great capital may be a matter of doubt. It is very probable the two great parties in the States —the Bianci and. Neri of America—would be re strained to a more moderate pitch of feeling, or at least to a more temperate mode of expressing it, by the cooler commercial spirit of society in New York. The two principal points in Washington are, of course, the Capitol, the seat of the Legislative Bodies, and the " White House," the official resi dence of the President, in the vicinity of which are the chief Government offices. Such extensive addi tions are being made to the Capitol that all the old views and descriptions of it are imperfect. It lies about the centre of the city, yet in the midst of a park-like domain, abounding in the blessing of shade and the benevolence of seats, which are fully appreciated by the'citizens. It is a favourite pro menade. From the Pennsylvanian Avenue, :the main street of the city, after crossing the enc:oiure, a flight of steps leads up to a terrace with a marble fountain, on either side of which there are flights of steps to a second terrace, which runs along the whole front of the building. As every part of it is open to the public without restriction, you soon find your way to the gallery of the House of Re presentatives, a semi-circular hall, with seats and desks so arranged 'that every member faces the Speaker, who occupies a tribune at the central point of the diameter, under a canopy with heavy crimson drapery. The galleries run round the whole apartment ;, the portion above the Speaker is reserved for ladies, of whom a few were present. The discussion was rather formal yesterday ; but the members have more resources in such a case than with us. The desks were strewe 1 with news papers, letters, and envelopes ; many were reading, some : writing, and occasionally fanning themselves ; Chinese fans were nearly as numerous in the hall as straw hats ; the terrible heat compels the gen tlemen to adopt the fan and parasol (in the enlarged farm of the umbrella) as in Australia they have taken the veil ; there is no sound reason why any of these articles should be exclusively for feminine use. The names of the members having been twice read over, with the prospect of a third call, I left the house sitting,,and it rose for the day without any definite result ; -there will probably be some more lively debates before the adjournment. The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post (second edition) says :—Since the ratification of the treaty of peace we have had many examples on the part of Russia towards the Porte of an ungenerous hostility, as well as positive violations of the spirit of the treaty which Russia was evi dently more ready to sign than to respect. The allies have performed their contract with the utmost honour and fidelity. We have abandoned every point of the Crimea as early as possible, and without destroying at Eupatoria, or Bala.klava, or Kamiesh, even the works erected by the allies. We have left Sebastopol without any guarantee but Russian honour of the port being reduced to a commercial eepot. We have left thousands of graves on Rus sian soil, and created a heavy debt at home, with out seeking repayment in any way from Russia. What is the conduct, on the contrary, of our late enemy towards. Turkey ; the Power we went to war for, to defend, to cause Russia to respect ? Why, Russia destroys every fortress in the possession of her troops. Reni and Ismail are blown up, and Kars is &till occupied! It is all very welt to say these places can be rebuilt ; but where is impover ished Turkey to get the money to construct sach vast defective works ? MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. Viscount Palmerston leaves town to-day, accompanied by Viscountess Palmerston, to pass a few weeks at her ladyship's seat, Bricket ball, Herts. The Marquis of Lansdowne has left Lansdowne-house for his lor,lship's villa at Richmond. The Earl of Hatrowby, accompanied by the Countess and family, have left town for Sandon-haU, Staff , irdshire. The Earl of Clarendon, with the Countess, 'returned to "town yesterday from visiting Mr. G. - G. Harcourt, M.P., and Frances Countess Waldegrave, at Nuneham7rark, Oxf.)rd,hire. The noble earl subsequently left town for Osborne, on a visit to her Majesty. The Right Hon. Sir C. Wood, with the Lords of the? Admiralty, in the. Admiralty steam-yacht, is at Queens , town on an official visit of inspection. Lady M. Wood and the Right Hon. Sir George Grey and Lady Grey are with Sir Charles, and purpose a visit to the Lakes of Killarney prior to leaving Ireland. The Duke ofArgyll is still on the Continent. The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Theresa Lewis and family leave town, it is ex pected, to-morrow for Harpton-court, Herefordshire. The Right Hon. H. Labouchere, M.P., and Lady M. Labouchere, are passing the summer at Stoke-park, near Windsor. The Lord Chancellor and Lady Cranworth left town at the close of the past week for the noble and learned lord's seat in Kent. General Commanding-in-Chief, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, held a levee, y at the Horse Guards yesterday, .when there was a numerous attend. ance oiofficers. Lord Gough 'arrived on Saturday in Limerick from Louehcooter Castle, and left by the four o'clock train for Rathronan, the residence of his son, the Hon. Cap. tain Gough. ' THE EUZOPEANA AND ATISTEALIAN ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY —LIVERPOOL, Aug. 4.—The Mel bourne aeency fiir this company has just been given to Messrs. Mackay,-Baines, and Co., the Aus'ralian branch firm of the enterprising owners of the Black Ball line of packets. This is an appointment that cannot fail to give satisfaction to the colonists ' Met.srs. Brines and Co. having themselves done so much to lessen the distance between the Australian ports and the mother country. The Royal group, which has elicited such unbounded ratifaction from the numerous visitors to the exhibition of Madame Tussaud, will receive shortly the addition of his Majesty the King of Sweden and his Majesty the King of Naples. Both are in a forward state, we under. stand, and will be exhibited in a few days. Several other objects of' interest are in progress by the indefati gable Messrs. Tasiand. IMPORTS OF LlVERFO)L.—According to the Customs' bill of entry the total value of foreign goods imported into - Liverpool during the past half-year was 24,805,185/. _ l ss., of which goods to the value of 14,358,3191. 15s. were imported during the past three months. The value of the exports of British goods for the six months was 25 1 9 4 1 ,7061 exceeding the imports by 1,135,5201. se. s + V ..:J ~ a ....i ... SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 30th ult. have reached us. The Epeca says :—" We have waited to the last moment to communicate to our readers all the news of the day. Telegraphic despatches, which arrived at three o'clock in the afternoon, an nounce that the whole of Catalonia . 4 pacified. But this result was not obtained withou new con flicts. The rebel General Ruiz, at the he, of 2,000 men, almost all national guards, fortifie , himself in ilers, but be was attacked by the regiment of Navarre, under Colonel Gonzalez. and put to flight. On the `2sth, Ruiz, the mayor of the place of Girona, Commander. Gangara, and all the other persons who were concerned in the insurrection of Girona and Lampourdan, entered France, and were arrested by the French authori ties. The paper manufactory called the Au rora, at Girona, has been burned down. Bar celona, :Karagona, and Lerida, are quite tranquil. ThQ baz-0 is ,he case at. 7alencia. The column which is marching on Aragon disarmed the na tional guard of Segorbe. Teruel has surrendered. General Damato, and the republican junta esta blished there, has taken to flight. Alcanez also recognises the legitithato government of the Queen. On the 28th, the national guards of Badajoz, and of several towns in the Estramadura, were dis armed. The last despatches increase the hope that Saragossa will surrender without the effusion of blood ; in the city there is a conflict between the members of the junta. The Government, in order to provide for the case of the conditions it exacts for the surrender of Saragossa not being accepted, has sent off a siege -train." The same journal says :—" It is said that the Queen intends to no minate General Narvaez to a high post in diplo macy." The two companies of too 3.1 battalion of the National Guard who were on duty at the palace during the insurrection, and who remained faithful, were continuing their service and were every day, says the Epoca, receiving now proofs of her Majesty's esteem. A letter of the 31e, received in advance of th 3 regular mail, says :—" We have little truthful news, but a good deal that is doubtful. The dis contented are hoping, it is not known what, and the Government is remaining inactive, it is not known why. The destruction of the paper manu factory at Gerona by fire is a dreadful thing. The fire is supposed - to have been caused by insurgents who escaped from Barcelona. People are begin ning to believe that the recent fires in Spain have been caused by a secret society, to which a large portion of the clergy belongs, and that they, for the sake of averting suspicion, profess socialist ideas. Notwithstanding the severity with which incendiaries have been punished in Castillo, there are still others who commit arson. A few 'days ago a boy 13 years of age was arrested for setting fire to some crops in the environs of San tovenia, and he stated that he had done so because a man bad paid him a small sum of money. One reason why the clergy aro suspected of having a hand in the fires is tba'r, none of the persons ar rested for causing them would make any revela tions as to their reasons or the persons who insti gated them—a proof that they must have acted under strong religious sentiments. Orders have been given for the release of M. Orense, Marquis de Albaida, democratic deputy, who is in custody at Valencia. It is said that, in consequence of the resignation of the embassy at London by M. Gon zalez, the post has been offered to M. Olozaga, and that a military man, probably General Prim or Marshal Narvaez, will be appointed to the em bassy at Paris. The Bishop of Urge!, exiled at Majorca, has received permission to return to Spain," FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY EVENING, The Moniteul. contains a report of the labours of the magistracy in civil and commercial matters during the year 1854. BOURSE, Aug. 3.—The following were the latest quotations : Cash. fr. s. End of aiontb. 44 per Cents 94 —f. --- 3 p er Cents 7O 50 70 85 Neer 11 ° 01 7O 10 Roman Bank Shares 4,100 Credit Mobilier 1,632 50 Austrian Belgian Five 5........ 99k Sish Threes Piechnonteee(s) 9O Home Debt 39i - - , Orleans ....... RAI LI, 4fI 7 I . OA T —es::- " W Bes t e e7 tr. •e. 962 50 Northern ' . 1,042 50 Strasburg Lyons.. ........ . . ...... 1,425 New Ditto hlediterranean.,..„ 1,837 50 Grand Central Lyons Geneva BO7 . 50 Teets Cette BO5 --- Austrian C0m....... 870 RUSSIA• -- - ST. PETERSBURG, July 2 6 . - -The authorities of Moscow hiVe voted a sum of 50,000 silver roubles from the reserve capital possesfsed• by the'city, for the expenses that will lac entailed by the solemnity of the coronation. The Russian armies suffered severely during the war from bad military administration. This was the reason why the Emperor appointed, about -two months ago, a committee of inquiry under the pre sidency of A.D.C. General Prince Vassiltchikoff. The Maritime Journal publishes the text of the imperial ukaso in question, the most important. regulation in which confers on the said committee, fer enabling it to ascertain the reasons of those disorders that accompanied the provisioning of the hospitals and the old armies of the south and the Crimea, the right of examining all persons what soever from whom it may expect to receive any information, and of citing as witnesses all the ad. ministrative authorities. ----, According to recent accounts, the number of killed and wounded by the fire at Saionica amounts to fully 700. Among them are the Russian, Dutch, and Sardisian.consuim. that his whole list consists of 45 old Whig papers (nearly all south), two papers heretofore Democratic, 10 Know.nothing, and one Independent." While the Whigs of the South are organising for the support of Mr. Fillmore, the Northern Whigs are taking ground for Fremont. A large Whig meeting was held in Boston last week, at which the Republican nomination was endorsed. Some of the Southern Democrats have it in view, if there is no election by the people, to throw overboard Mr. Buchanan, and have Mr. Breckenridge, the Democratic nominee for the Vice-Presidency, made President. The constitution provides that— " Art. 12, Sect. I.—The electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same State with themselves ; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-Pre• sident ; and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit, Neale, to the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate ; the 'President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of. Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted ; tim person having the greatest number of votes for President shall be President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of tbe elec tors appoiMed ; and if no person have such a majority, then from the persons having the highest number, not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as Presi dent, the House of Representatives shall choose imme diately by ballot the President. But in choosing the President the votes shall be taken by States, the repre sentation from each State having one vote ; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a number of members from two-thirds of the States, and a majority of all the States shall be necessary to a choice ; and if the House of Representatives shall tot choose a President when ever the right of choice shall devolve upon them before the 4th day of March next following, then the Vice- President shall act as President, as in case of death or other constitutional disability of the Presic'eat." The scheme is that there shall be no election of President by the house, and that Mr. Brecken ridge, being elected Vice-President by the Senate, shall become (lc facto President on the 4th of March, 1857. In Congress there has not been much of public interest sine* my last. The Senate have passed the bill for fortifications, reducing the amount from $3,000,000 (the war estimate) to $1,800,000, and have voted to adjourn on the 18th of august. The house have had the neutralisation laws under dis cussion, and have been debating the Senate's reso lution of adjournment, finally agreeing to it. Parties have been mainly interested at Washington with the projected duel between Mr. Burlingame and Mr. Brooks, the hero of the Sumner assault. Like most Washington duels, it has flashed in the pan: Mr. Burlingame proposed to fight with rifles in her Majesty's dominions, but Mr. Brooks thought it was not worth while to go so far to be shot at, and intimates that a duel in Canada is quite a different affair to a duel in the . States. The minority report on the Kansas elections is printed at length in the Union, of the 19th. The conclusions are : " 1. That at the first election held in the territory under the organic act for delegate to Congress, General John W. Whitfield received a plurality of the legal votes cast, and was duly elected such delegate, as stated in the majority report. ; 4 2. That the territorial Legislature was a legally constituted body, and 'had power to pass valid laws, and their enactments are therefore valid. " 3. That these laws, when appealed to, have been used for the protection of life, liberty, and property, and for the maintenance of raw and order in the territory. " 4. That the election under which the sitting delegate John W. Whitfield, was held, was in pursuance of valid law, and should be regarded as a valid election. " 5. That as said Whitfield, at said election, received a large number of legal votes without opposition, he was duly elected as a delegate to this body, and is entitled to a seat in this house. " 6. That the election under which the contestiwt' ' de legate, Andrew H. Reeder, claims his seat, was not held under any law, but in contemptuous disregard of all law ; and that it shou Id only be regarded as the expres sion of a band of mal3ontents and revolutionists, and consequently should be wholly disregarded by the House. "7. As to whether nr not Andrew 11. Reeder re ceived a greater number of votes of resident citizens on the 9th than J. W. Whitfield did on the let of October, 1855, no testimony was taken by the committee, so far as the undersigned knows, nor is it material to the issue." General Smith has assumed the command of the United States' troops in the territory, and in reply to a request from the Free-state men for protec tion against the armed Missourians, replied that he -had no authority to do so ; that those bands were the regularly enrolled militia of the territory ; that everything they do is clone under colour of law, and that the Free-state men have no redress except by resort to the civil powers. The Senate have passed a resolution asking the President for the instructions to the United States' troops in Kansas. The Government deny that President Comon fort has been offered 6,000,000 for a new slice of Mexican territory. Notwithstanding this denial, it is believed by well-informed people in Washing ton, that the new Minister at Mexico has been authorised to negotiate for a further cession with reference to the proposed Pacific Railroad. All the iron needed for that road (if made on the Southern route), imported from the Pacific side, would at L present have to pay duty in Mexican ports. I have no doubt that the Cabinet are negotiating to do away with the necessity. The various reports on this road will be sub mitted to Congress this week. One will go against any Government aid to the project; a second in favour of a single road, to be constructed by the aid of cash advances from the Government, these advances to be reimbursed by the sale of lands to be set aside for that purpose ; the third, signed by all the gommittee except the two making th above report, recommending three roads, and gigantic grants of land for their construction that would throw, the Illinois Central grant far into the shade. We hardly know at Washingtm who is President atlNicaragua. No reliable account shows Walker as possessed of more than 600 fighting men ; he is also reduced in funds, and can hope for nothing from this country. A foray into Costaißica is made im practicable by the rainy season, consequently at present Rivas is supposed to be uppermost. -In this - city we are as yet free from the yellow fever, although vessels continue to arrive at quar antine with it on , board. There is so much of it in the bay below that I fear we cannot avoid it here. We have had cool weather for a few days past, but the fire is returning. We have at last succeeded in convicting a Portuguese slaver of being con cerned in the slave trade, and have sentenced him to 10 years' imprisonment. These fellows have almost invariably succeeded in escaping their de serts. The late arrivals from Cuba speak of the landing of a largo cargo of coolies on the island to work on the plantations in the place of Africans. ASTOUNDING IP TRUE. The Berlin Correspondent of a morning contemporary sa y s :—" It we are to believe a very circumstantial letter from m un ich, Britannia's maritime power has had a very narrow escape from the total destruction which awaited 'it had a third naval campaign been opened this year in the Bay_of Finland. From this letter we learn that a certain Bavarian corporal, named Bauer, who, in 1849, made some unsuccessful experiments with a diving vessel in Kiel harbour, has since then brought his labours to a 'successful result ; the letter which he wrote was indited 17 feet below the surface of the sea, off Cronstadt, June '24, :end in the company of the writer, in his vessel, were at the time a Russian naval officer, eight sailors, and a smith. This experiment had been preceded by eight others, for the purpose of testing the capacity of the vessel, and it was to be succeeded in a few days by a grander one in the presence of the Grand Duke Con stantine'and a committee named for the purpose. On the occasion here alluded to the crew of n persons ye mained eight hours, without interruption, under water ; and, in addition to the letter-writing feat, and the drinking of divers bottles of Rhine wine to the health of various European potentates, they performed during teat time all sorts of evolutions with the vessel, moving backwards and forwards, rising and sinking, whether vertically or at an angle, whether rapidly or slowly, &c. In short, the only circumstance connected with the de ibription that at all suggests an opening for scepticism is, that the letter' was written by the inventor himself ; when we have another desctiption, written by an im partial. person, we shall knor• better what to think about this matter. RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR HUDDERSFIELD STATION. —An accident occurred on Saturday morning at the Hillhouse engine shed, Huddersfield. The 6.25 a.m. passenger train had just passed the engine shed when a Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln engine started from the shed to run into the station to be attached to a train for Sheffield. At the same moment a luggage train (wbich had been turned into a siding till the pass i n g of the 6.25 train) was • driven towards the shed to be shunted, and the consequence was that a buffer of each engine came into collision. One of the liuffer, was hurled a distance of twenty yards, the luggage engine bad its wheel tires knocked off and the side considerably injured. The Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire engine had the whole of its side torn away and its tender turned upside down. Several wag gons were alJo inverted,. and the traffic was stopped for three hours. Thomas HitcLen, the fireman, and John Turner, the driver of the Manchester, Sheffield,. and Lincolnshire - engine, were removed to the infirmary, the latter teing much shaken and the former severely cut. David Nichols, the pointsman, was also much hurt by a piece of wood striking him while falling from one of the luggage waggons. A signal was hoisted for the luggage train to be delayed, but the driver was prevented by the thickness of the atmo sphere from oatiag iti—Mancilater Gy4r4iorrit. THE PRgSIDENTIAL CONTEST. NEW YORK, JULY 23. "Fremont stock is rising," said a gentleman to me to-day in speaking of :late visit to the west. I cannot express my own views of the present state of the Presidential 'contest better than in this brief phrase. The nomination of Mr. Buchanan fell dead upon the country, exciting little enthu siasm beyond the circle of his immediate friends, and adding no external strength to a party which at that moment unquestionably controlled a de cided majority in the electoral college. Mr. Fill more's return added something to the enthusiasm of the Know-nothing party, and the recent action of the old Whigs in the States of Virginia and Maryland has strengthened the chances and ex hilarated the hopes of that once formidable organi sation. Instead, however, of counting upon placing their candidate in the Presidential chair by the popular vote as they once hoped to do, their only hope now is that, by securing the votes of enough Southern States, they may divide the vote in the electoral college, so that no candidate shall get a majority thnre, and thus throw the election into the House. For the Republican nominee, on the other hand, there is a growing enthusiasm. In the West, especially; I am assured that there is a fer vour rivalling that which carried General Harrison to Washington in 1840 by the most overwhelming popular vote since the election of Washington. In the State of Indiana, which my information has hitherto led me to regard as probably sure for Bu chanan, 'there has been a recent demonstration which indicates a popular excitement beyond pa rallel. There is scarcely any part of that State which has not sent more or less persons to Kinsas. Driven baqk at the point of the bayonet or the butt of the rifle,: these persons have tarried' the story of their wrongs into every settlement, and at a mass convention of the friends of Fremont at Indiana polis 50,000 or 60,000 persons assembled, full of the enthuCfasm which carries popular elections. in that section of the country. ` I am told that the same feeling pervades all the agricultural States of the North:Mest - and makes their vote-reasonably sure for the Republicans. New England is looked upon as equally sure, though I am told that the State of Connecticut willperhaps throw a sufficiently large Know-nothing vote to render the result doubtful. " North-west and New England vote in' a.. solid'..body for Fremont, the middle States of Nev York, New Jersey, and PennsylVa- Ma,. will-decide who shall be the' next President. Hi4lriends count upon it as certain by a large Ma jority, andi cannot see why, making all alloW ances-for sanguine hopes, their calculations are not well founded. New Jersey I regard as doubtful_ but I cannot see that parties have taken groundso decidedly in Pennsylvania as to insure it to' any one but Buchanan. I believe, from all I' can learn, that therels a growing enthusiasm there for Fre mont, but I do net think that it has yet reached a point to place that State in danger of loss by the democracy. There are yet three months to work, every day 'af which the Republicans may hope :to gain. Apropos of the influence of the press in this election, the lierald has the following : Wei find, then, from a careful examination of oar ex changes, and from an application to them of the official returns of the census of the newspaper circulations of 1850, that at' this time the three parties for the Presi dency are represented as follows - - Newspaper'. Circulation. For Fremont lBB 474,968 For Buchanan 172 294,763 For Fillmore 5B 95,391 " Of these - aggregates, it will be seen that Mr. Buc.ha nan haslo4 papers``-in the north .and 68 in the south -7 that ofthe whole number, 110 are old Democratic jour nals, that eight have been Whig and one Independeal t. It further appears that Colonel Fremont has 182 journals in the north and only six in the south-- . --that of the whole number, 82 have heretofore been Whig, 18 Demb °ratio. 15 'Know-nothing, and 17 Independent. As for Mr. Fillmore, he is weak in both sections ; yet, in the soutb, in the way of newspapers, WO SOO that he has two ( thirds of the number supporting Mr. ' 1311 9.4 11 .,4 1_414. EWES' GOETHE. The Life and Works of a 7ethe ; With Sketches of his Age and Contemporar, ies. By G. H. Lewes. 2 vols. David Nutt. It is curious that, while t he most appreciative of all the commentators on Sh akspere was (A. W. Schlegel) a German—incompar. %bly the most gifted and intelligent of all the biograi lhers of Goethe is (G. H. Lewes) an Englishman. These two re- markable volumes, commemorativ eof the greatest literary genius of the Teutonic race—volumes only given to the world at last aft. 3r two years of assiduous preparation—constitute b .enceforth, par excellence, we do conscientiously believe, TEE "Life of Goethe," and, as such, assui `ne at Once a high and unassailable position amoni our great classic masterpieces. Cordially—noi r that his labour of love is at length accompli shed—now that we have the fruition of it in our bands thus substantially and satisfactorily—cordi: illy do we offer to Mr. Lewes our unaffected and most ear- nest congratulations. Thus far, at let tst, he has fulfilled his ambition. Again and mor a triumph antly than hitherto he has passed anot ;her of the golden goals towards which his steps 1 have been reverently and ardently directed. In this last and worthiest of his various literary pro Auctions he has acquitted himself, we must protest at once, hardly less to our surprise than to our admiration. His brilliant imaginative sketch of the Young Author, " Ranthorpe," his charming historiette of " Rose, Blanche, •and Tiolev," his fiery and daring apostrophe to the shade of "Robe spierre," his luminous and comprehensive " Bio grapbical History of l'hilosophy" shall we acknowledge it ?—had hardly prepared us for the mellowed and perfected excellence of this really masterly memorial of Goethe and his Contem- poraries. A biography not unmoor thy, in its way, of taking rank among the more admirable examples produceable through any age, or ill any tongue, in that, to us, we had nearly said, the' most fascinat- ing of all the numerous departments of literature. The work—it is interesting.to remark' at once—is thus gracefully inscribed to Thomas (Jarlyle, the translator of " Wilhelm Meister," and LLS such the one " who first taught England to nPpreciate Goethe"—" As a memorial," writes Mx: Lewes, " Of gratitude for Intellectual Guidance), and of esteem for rare and noble qualities." Conspicu ous among the various honours conferred upon the anther of " Sartor Resartus "—we take dedi cation to be about the one the most eminewtly well calculated to afford him a genuine and lasting sense of gratification. The motto selected by Mr. Lewes for his title-page.--resembling sottle; what the motto we ourselves should have chueOo for the title-page of a crowning biography of tha Great Napoleon (namely, the opinion uttered la regard to that extraordinary man by the Right Hon. Charles James Fox, to wit: "Ibelieve him , be one of the best, as I am sure he is the greatest of mankind")—is sententiously as follows :—" Goethe's heart, which few knew,' was as great as his intellect, which all know." Avroc ft7r£ll Jung Stilling ! And truthfully- -- judging from these dispassionate records, the _.• data of which, as the title-page again intimate ;=; have been industriously collected by our author,;:,, from sources both " published and unpublished. " The former, namely, the published sources of in formation in regard to the life of Goethe, noi of course be readily enough enumerated. Foremost among them the brief biographical notices by - Doring and by Schutz—succeeded, as those mini ature mementoes were ultimately, by the ampler narratives of Viehoff and of Schafer—Tiehoff's Goethe's Leben extending to four, and Schafer's to two volumes : volumes as substantial in ap pearance, but by no means as meritorious in character, as these two tomes from the hand of G. H. Lewes. Besides the " Lives" of Goethe, penned by Daring, and Schutz, and Viehoff, and Schafer, there were—affording materials and hints to our author—Herr Falk's "Reminiscences of Goethe," and Mrs. Austin's "Goethe and his • Contemporaries," and Mr. Oxenforers translation of " Enckermanu's Conversations," and Goethe's own Letters, letters addressed now to the Countess Von Stotberg, now to Kestner, now to Charlotte—not forgetting various other Epistles, Memoirs, and Recollections, or (what Mr.. Lewes quite comprehensibly designates " as much of a stumbling-block as of a stepping-stone"), the renowned Wahrhfit and Dichtung, Goethe's - own , famous fragment of Autobiography I All these: f published sources of information in regard to his subject Mr. Lewes has wisely brought under con tribution, has fairly sifted and ransacked. But with these he has scrutinised no less searchingly various unpublished sources of intelligence — sources imparting to his volumes very agreeably an air of undoubted novelty and originality. Speaking of this in his Preface he observes— " Besides the mass of printed testimony, I have endeavoured to get at the i;ruth by consulting - - those who lived under the sa me roof with him, - those who lived in friendly infiercourse with him, and those who have made hi s life and works a. special study." A Life, rumember, extending over the ample " span" comprised between 1749 and 1832—a life c onsequently embrac. ing eighty-two years a ltogether Johanns Wolfgang Goethe having been born in 1749, L about noonday on the 28th of August, and hav-r: ing expired at length full of! years and honours /h i in 1832, at about the sam4ihour of the day on the 22d of March. Wort es including among' their number—his maiden phantasy " Gotz von Berlichingen," his morbid t; ale of love and suicide " Werther," " Clavigo," " Egmont," "Stella, 4 , "Die Fischerin," "Trim eph der Empfindsam.i keit," " Iphigenia," "Ile ienau," " Tasso," hie " Theory of Colour," his " Treatise on the Metal morphoses of Plants ;" al Jove all, his wonderful. , " Wilhelm Meister," his astonishing " Faust," and his exquisite " =an and Dorothea." What a genius ! W hat fecundity ! What depth ! What imag inatiou ! Remember ing these works, do a we not surround our ideal of Goethe with the graceful and angelic forms of Charlotte, and Dorothea, and Mignon, and Marguerite ? Do - w e not marvel over the me- ,A mory of this giant intell Rd under the glamour of the Walpurgis Night, tt - ► the eltridch strain of the Erl King," - to the Ivic rid glimmer of the sar donic and evil eye of that mocking phantom yonder in the dark br Lekground, the wily and diabolic Mephistopheles f Such is the memorable "Life," such are the.; marvellous " Works," re counted and analysed by Mr. G. H. Lewes' pen of sagacity and fascin; xtion. A masterpiece not unworthy of its theme —this noble biography - will • henceforth be regarde( 1, we rest assured, hardly less in Germany than in England, as the dorsi() authority commemora dve of all most worthy of commemoration in r egard- to Goethd and his contemporaries. THE LARGES: r STEAMER IN THE 1 WORLD. The American ste• smer Vanderbilt, the largest steamer in the world, has had trial trip at New York. Her paddle .wheels made 16 revolutions a minute, and it was considered that 18 revolutions c,uuld be pt out of her. Twelve of her revolutions were equivalent to 14 knots an hour, and with 13 miles an hour onl3 r she could cross the Atlantic in ten days. Her ler igth is 335 feet, breadth of bean' 46 feet, depth of 1 cold 32i feet. She is 5,000 tons burden. She will . draw 20 feet when loaded. She will carry 1,000 tons of freight, 1,500 tons of coal, and 800 tons of water. Her crew consists of 150 persons. Amol igst them for the engine depart ment will be 4 engineers, 18 coal heavers, 24 fire men, and 3wa ter tenders. Her stewards depart ments will conf 'ist of 1 steward, 8 cooks, 24 waiters, and 3 porters. Sho has five decks and 16 water tight compart ,inents. Her engines consist of two overhead be: Lin engines with a power of 5,00 0 horses.• The boilers are tubular, each 30 feet long, and weighin! 60 tons. The cylinders are 90 nob in diameter and 12 feet stroke. The wheels are 4 feet in dian ieter, and the boiler surface is 20turi, superficial 1 :eet. She ha s 32 furnaces, and she lI I ' consume 1( )0 tons of coals in 24 hours. Her 11 °" 24 are fastene d through her keel with copper:"bolts ) the bolts weigh 50 tons. She is iron strappe d throughoi it with 350 diagonal straps, weighing ' n the aggre gate 96 tons. She has been built by dll al work and , not by contract, and her cost " nearly 1, 000,000 dollars. F~ :: It- on Ca El