The Sun. — London, England, 1861-03-25 00:00:00

9rHEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lesmee, Mr. J. B. Blackstone. On EASTER MONDAY (April 1)„ will be performed A DUKE IN DIFFICULTIES. Mrs. Stirling, Miss F. Haydon, Mrs. Wilkins, Miss" Fanny Stirling, Mr. Iluckstone, Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, ,tie. After which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery and effects, and all the original music by the late Sir Henry Bishop, the melodrama of THE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Commence at 7.1 NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Novel Attraction for the Passion Week.—TO-MORROW ( Tuesday), and every evening during the Week (Friday ex cepted), the celebrated Italian Illusionist, Chevalier ANTO NIO POLETTI, in his extraordinary and wonderful enter tainment of NATURAL and CHYMICAL MAGIC ; and Pell's (the Original Bones) Ethiopian Minstrels. Doors open at half-past Six, commence at Seven. Box-office open To morrow, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday, from 10 to 5. No charge for booking. ADELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYA L . Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. On EASTER MONDAY, a new drama, MAGLIORE, PRESTIDIGITA2OR. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, D. Fisher, 4tc.; Miss K. Kelly, Miss U. Simms, acc. After which, OUR FEMALE AMERICAN COUSIN. Miss Julia Daly. Doors open at half past 6—COMMellee at 7. CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS!!! Westminster -road. Proprietor.. • • ....C. Morton. A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera, IL CORSARO, _ (This opera has never been produced in this or any other country, except at th ese Concerts), h avi ng met with that de cided success which charactise 4 the most popular works of t Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ; netbreerawith a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI INTO, by Donizetti, Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond,. and C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A. B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell, W. H. Welland, and the Brothers Conrad. John Martin's Three celebrated Pictures will remain on view a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the Establishment FUNERAL OF THE DUCHESS OF RENT. In consequence of the Funeral of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the above establishment will be CLOSED THIS EVENING. T H E 0 X F OR D, No. 6, OXFORD-STREET. Madame Parepa, Miss Russell, Madame Marietta, and Miss Poole ; •Mr. Swift, Mr. George Genge, Mr. Charles Greville, and Mr. Santley ; •Miss Rosina Coffins (the celebrated Vio llniste), and Mr. Levy, in addition to a host of talent, will appear at THE GRAND INAUGURATION CONCERT To-morrow Evening (TUESDAY), March 26. THE OXFORD, 6, Oxford-streeet. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 121 i. 48m.—Afternoon, lh. 10m. To-moun.ow.-Morning, lh. 30m.—Afternoen, lh. 52m. THB WEATHER..--SUN OFFICI, MARCH 24, 1861, THMEMOMETEIL, IN TYE SHADD, 59—highest since soon yesterday. 39—lowest this morning and during the night. 55—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.84. WlND—Westerly—light; with fine weather. MARCH 25. THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE. 57—highest since noon yesterday. 42—lowest this morning and during the night. 68—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.92. Wm:l—North-Easterly—moderate ; with dull weather. a . --Z - -•4 i -z., 4:A.•.,4 .: iz•(_.....E—.5.- • 4,7`;* tv , . i .... -,•,_kri , ; ,- s-4 ~,=,- • r• o ' E. . . . . . . . . . L :e A it.......,.,......4:.....,. :21, ,, ; :, . v y ,',,,...,,:., „,_ '‘'n THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1881. The EMPEROR has again spoken, and again in language characterised by the most extraordinary ambiguity. His reply to Messieurs the Deputies extends to no more than three sentences or two paragraphs. Yet within that narrow compass the Riddle of Europe contrives to compact together phrases sufficiently enigmatic and bewildering to mean—just nothing or anything. It is, of course, perfectly true that still to this day, as when MIL TON sang the familiar words originally— "The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum," being by any possibility audible in the neighbour hood of the old ruined fane of APOLLO'S shrine at Delphos. But so long as his reigning Majesty NAPOLEON 111. can speak from his throne there, across the Channel, in the Palace of the Tuileries, all the oracles are not dumb, there is still one voice that can be heard speaking most oracularly—there is literally the " hideous hum " the poet specifies as peculiar to the old Pythonic utterances, and all ends here as the oracles of old ended, according to theblind bard's description, in "words deceiving." There is one thing, however, about the Imperial declaration of the present French Sovereign that when he speaks the most clearly his assurances are the least to be relied upon. As when he intimated, as positively as words could inti mate anything, that his Government had no inten tion whatever—observe, no intention even of secur ing the annexation to Fralice of Savoy and Nice— immediately before that very annexation was actu ally accomplished. So that when his MAJESTY deals now merely in generalities, when he indulges chiefly in the most ambiguous phraseology there is the largest amount of probability that something good may just within the limits of possibility result from it. Judging of him simply from experience, esti mating his policy purely from precedents within every one's recollection, we might aver quite frankly and with perfect reason that supposing the French EMPEROR on Saturday afternoon, in answer to the loyal address of the deputation from the Legislative Corps, headed by the President, had given a solemn assurance that he guaranteed Peace to Christendom, people might naturally have looked shortly after Easter for an explosion of war in Europe that would agitate more or less all the various Powers of the Continent. The match having been applied- of course by the very hand of NAPOLEON himself--the Moderator of the Revolution ! Inasmuch, therefore, as the EMPEROR speaks this time not at all plainly, inas much as he gives no promise whatever that can be construed into a promise of peace, there is a hope therefore left for the maintenance of tranquillity. "I thank the Chamber," says his MAJESTY, "for the sentiments which it expresses towards me, and for the confidence which it places in me." Adding —autocratically—" If that confidence honours me and flatters me, I think I deserve it from my con stant solicitude of only looking upon questions in a point of view of the real interest of France." And then comes, in truth, that " nut to crack "—the wonderful closing sentence of the Imperial reply to the address of the Legislative corps on Saturday afternoon. " To be up to the age," quoth his MAJESTY, " to preserve of the past all that is good, to prepare the future by sweeping off the path of civilisation all the prejudices which obstruct it, or utopias which compromise —that is how we %ball bequeath calm and prosperous days to our children." Whatever anybody may like to make out of that of course he may. The words may mean, RS we have said, just anything or they may mean just nothing. And probably the oracular ruler of 40,000,000 Frenchmen, the enigmatical Captain of 600,000 soldiers , was as satisfied with those marvel lous words of his on th e 23d at Paris—as President ABRAHAM LINCOLN himself with that final meta phorical flourish of . his on the 4th of this present month of March at Wasingtoa--that amazing figure of speech about chords stretching from battle fields to hearts all over the (shall we say ?) " Union " —chords play ,d u pon by the Angel of E verybody's Better Nature ! An astonishing metaphor likening the whole of the North American Republic to a sort of cobweb harpsichord, dreadfully out of tun?, j us t now, and with evidently more than one or two screws loose somewhere. So with this last sentence from the lips of the French EMPEROR : it is as evi dently a pet little rhetorical flourish, as that other dropped from the mouth of the American PRESI DENT. Now that we have got it we must make the most of it—and chew the cud of sweet and bitter fancy latent in it with a befitting sense of gratitude. So far as any glimmering notion goes that might thence be afforded as to the probabilities of that future which the EMPEROR speaks of in terms so mysteriously generalised—the Imperial reply to the address of the Legislative Corps, might just as well never have been uttered. So utterly blank is it as an index to coming probabilities, or even possibilities. About Rome, for example, the oracle is dumb—there is only the voice, as we have said, the vox et pretorea nihil—excepting only the " hum" before-mentioned of the " words deceiving." But, then, the Imperial speaker has obviously his little game to play between the antagonistic authorities still confronting each other in the " almost but not quite" liberated Italian Penin sula. Rome all this time being, in NAPO LEON'S regard very much like the oyster ad judicated upon by that wily Lawyer in the fable who settled the squabble for its possession between two disputants by swallowing the oyster himself, and handing a shell a-piece to those disputants. Has not the French EMPEROR up to this moment held possession for ten or twelve years of the Eternal City ? And does he not now hand the nominal unification of Italy to his Majesty VICTOR EM MANUEL 11., without Rome ! And to his Holiness Pius IX., the nominal independence of the States of the Church, minus the States themselves ! These are the two empty shells handed to the right and to the left—while the lawyer of sharp-practice is quietly enjoying the deglution of his oyster in between the two deluded disputants. A policy like this, one would have thought (judging from history) would have been the very last ever to find favour in once haughty, high-spirited, chivalrous France. A miserable dodge, a dirty little trick, like that which a year ago thimble-rigged the pea of Savoy under the Imperial Crown of NAPOLEON 111., one might have imagined (judging still from history) must have alienated from a ruler who would in such a flagrant manner as that speak and act so very :differently, the affections of a great nation of Frenchmen: But the address of the Legislative Caps to the EMPEROR on Saturday assured his MAJESTY in so many words 1--" In Savoy and in the county of Nice you have pacifically, and in virtue of a treaty sane tioned by the popular will, restored to the Empire provinces which had long been friendly, and are now irrevocably French. In this circumstance you obeyed the necessities of territorial defence, the natural consequence of a notable aggrandise ment of a neighbouring State ; and your policy, as firm as it was prudent, has given satisfaction to France without [certainly a bold asser tion this !] without infringing upon European rights." Assuredly after this, the annexation of Savoy and Nice to France is—un fait accompli both with regard to the French people and to their Sove reign. It remains with English diplomacy to see henceforth, at any rate, that Europe is not outraged either in the direction of Italy or elsewhere by any similar Napoleonian tricks of annexation. The decision of the Lords in the case of BnooK T. BROOK calls for serious consideration of the practical steps which should be taken in regard to a considerable number of persons, many of them, socially speaking, of the highest respectability, who are now pronounced, by the highest legal Autho rity, to have contracted marriages which are legally null and void, or to be the descendants of marriages which . leave them, under the inconvenience of being, in the eye of the law merely, illegitimate. We shall not waste time in attempting to con trovert the interpretation of the law of the land by such high authorities ; even if their known bias as Scotch or English Churchmen had something to do in unconsciously influencing their judgment—there it is. That it was honest, even if unconsciously biassed, we have not the smallest doubt. That it is law now, is certain. One thing is, however, to be noticed in the judgments, as delivered by all who spoke at any length—the marriage was confessedly good, so far as the forms and ceremonies of the con tract went ; the lex loci was admitted to be valid to this extent. But it was held that forms and cere monies valid abroad could not cure a defect in the essentials of marriage, and that the essentials of a marriage depended, not on the law of the place where it was celebrated, but on the law of the country where the persons were domiciled. Fur ther, as in all countries all restrictions cannot be considered essentials, it was necessary to show that the limitation arising out of the Act of 1835 was of the nature of an essential. The reason assigned by all the learned Lords was, that the Legislature enacted the restriction because marriage between a widower and his deceased's wife's sister was " contrary to the will of God." As being so, it was again and again observed, the pro hibition to marry in this relation became an essen tial. Yet further, it was truly observed that it was not the business of the judges to decide whether such marriages were contrary to GOD'S law, but whether the Legislature, from the time of HENRY VIII., so regarded them. And on that point there can be little doubt. We need hardly say that the vast majority of intelligent persons now, both laymen and divines, agree that there was, even to the Jews, no prohi bition of the kind proposed—rather the contrary. And that, therefore, those who invented the canon Which prohibits the marriage referred to, and those who, at the Reformation, transferred the canonical prohibition to our Prayer-book, were equally mis taken as to the will of GOD. Hence with far better reason might the laws against witchcraft, and those which punished adultery with death, be part of our legislation, since they were undeniably the " will of GoD," as addressed to the Jews. It is now conceded by all, whose opinion is worth the slightest respect, that it never was the will of GOD to prohibit a man from marrying his wife's sister, except during her lifetime, in a country where polygamy was common. The canon, and its accept tance by our reformers, being then confessedly founded on a misinterpretation of Scripture, even those who would conform English laws to the laws of MOSES have lost their own reason for this parti cular law. It is acknowledged then that what makes this prohibition an essential is actually wanting ; yet our judges feel compelled to treat the prohibi tion as based on the will of GOD, not because they can affirm that it is so, but because their fore fathers, in the twilight of a crude reformation, thought so, and because English law declares it to be so. However, what ought now to be done ? Can it be tolerated that numbers of virtuous and innocent persons should be subject to serious legal incon veniences, because our worthy but half-benighted ancestors mistook the will of GOD ? The decision in this case of the highest authorities leaves but one legal resort—alteration of the law. Is it too much to hope that the Lords, as legislators, will have the good sense and wisdom to reverse their decision as judges? Or rather to pronounce, in the former capacity, that they can no longer permit to be lawl what in the'latter capacity they feel bound to affirmi is law. They have, ministerially, been compelled to perform the cruel part of inflicting severe penal. ties on the perfectly innocent—can they be so heartless as to leave the summa injuria consequent on their summum jus unredressed ? Or will they go to the extreme of punishing those who did not . even intentionally violate the law of their " domi cile "—believing, on the authority of legal advisers, that that Act left them a means of marriage open, which it might have prohibited directly, and not through a construction which requires an hour's judgment to prove it a sound one ? In the case of those who have married abroad, honestly believing such marriages to be legal there, it revolts all our notions of justice that they should suffer for the obscurity of the Act. There are, however, thousands besides affected by the lAw as it stands, who have morally a claim to release from all the civil penalties under which they lie. They have indeed defied a law, an Act of Parliament, but they have not defied the principle on which the Act is based. They have not defied the principle which by the confession of all the learned Lords makes the prohibition an essential of marriage. They have one and all respected the will of GOD in the matter. They have respected what Bishops and Archbishops have acknowledged to be the will of GOD at least we doubt whether the most rigid canonist among the Bishops would pledge his reputation for Biblical scholarship on affirming that the canonical interpretation of the old passage in Leviticus is not a false one. They have obeyed the spirit of the Act by violating its letter. Three learned Lords especially declared that conformity to " the will of GoD" was what the Acts on the subject sought to attain. This intention of legislation has also been the intention of the persons who suffer from rigid construction of the letter of the Act. We must maintain that such persons are not to be made the victims of Acts which do not, in the judg went of the vast majority of the living, fulfil their own object. All such persons may properly be regarded as dissenters from the canons of their own Church on this point, although termed Churchmen ; but their Lordships have to consider the equally large number of Dissenters who feel it to be a direct infringement of their religions liberty that they should live under Canonical and Episcopal legislation. It is lot denied that, but for the Canons which Dissenters do not' acknowledge, but which the Church thus far accepts, no one would have now dreamed of the absurd prohibition in question. It is also undeniable that the Act by which Dissenters are persecuted is the late Bishop of LONDON'S Act, not Lord LYNDHURST'S, as it is commonly termed. On the 23d of July, 1858, the venerable Lord, in his place in the Upper House, declared that the Bill was so altered in committee in this respect that he could no longer acknowledge it, and added emphatically that " the Right Rev. Prelate was infact the author of the _Bill." Now that the Law Lords have shut the only door supposed to be open, Dissenters will certainly not be put down by a Bishop's Act which inflicts on them penalties because they cannot conform to what they deem either his High Church , prejudices or intolerance, or both. Let Bishops, they will say, inflict penalties if they like, and if their flocks will submit to it, on contumacious Churchmen, but let not us who reject the authority of canons and of prayer-books too, be tied te l episcopal apron strings. We hava but one remark more to make. The country has declared its opinion again and again,' not only by petitions of unusual weight and character, and in great numbers considering the small number of persons affected, but by their representatives in the Lower House. If this consideration and the position of several thousand innocent persons do not move the House of Lords this session to grant prompt redress, the wronged parties must consider the best course they can take. It may be well worth their while to establish an office to register the marriage contracts of those to whom the Peers of England alone deny a well proved right. Such a record of a contract solemnly made and witnessed will be satisfactory evidence of marriage to all the parties most interested—and in time, as in the case of the Society of Friends and of the Dissenters, register of their own births in connection with their own places of worship, the Legislature will be but too thankful to accept such well-kept registers as valuable evidence of past marriages. The bigotry of our EXETERS, OXFORDS, and CIIELMSFORDS—their determination to make Church supremacy ride roughshod over Dissent and common sense too cannot last for ever. All such obstinacy, though tenacious of life, is mortal in a land of liberty; and, when it gives up the ghost, the Registrar-General will be grate ful for the Registry whieh we venture to suggest. His Serene Highness Prince Victor of Hohen lohe-Langenburg arrived at StVames's Palace on Satur-1 from Germany, in order to attend the funeral of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. His serene high ness left town yesterday afternoon for Windsor. His Serene Highness the Prince Holstein- Augustenburg has arrived at Howchin'e Hotel, from Germany. The Duke and Duchess of Atholl have arrived at the St. George's Hotel. The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland and Lady Blantyre left Stafford House on Saturday for Cliefden, near Maidenhead, to pass several weeks in retirement. Lady Susan Vane Tempest, who has sufficiently recovered from her recent indisposition to leave town, has gone on a visit to the Marchioness (Frances Anne) of Lon donderry at Wynyard Park, near Stockton-on-Tees. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER-HALL,— The usual Passion-Week performance of " The Messiah" will take place on Wednesday next. Principal singers, Miss Louisa Pyne, Madame Sainton Dolby, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Mr. Bentley. The rehearsals of Beethoven's celebrated grand mass in D aro proceeding so satisfactorily that it is confidently expected that the work will be pro duced at the following concert. The Council of the Society of Arts have given to the Female School of Art permission t-) hold an exhibi tion of fine arts, in their great room, in the Adelphi, during the month of June. The profits of the exhibition will be applied to the building a new school of art. 1 DESTRUCTION BY FIRE OF THE Fox TAVERN, LAMBETH.—This well Inown tavern, situated at the waterside, Lambeth, was totally destroyed by fire early on Saturday morning. We (Army and Navy Gazette) understand that officers returning home from India, via the Cape, in charge of invalids, will be allowed to count as service in Tndia the three months following the date of their departure from that country. It is reported (says the United Service Gazette), that Rear Admiral Sir 11. Keppel has declined to accept the command of the South American station, and that, on being relieved by Sir Baldwin Walker, he will return to England. The Master of the Rolls proposes, ou the 16th oft April, to make a call of 10s. per share on the contributories of the Deposit and General Life Assurance Company. RENEWAL OF THE BUILDERS' STRIKE.—We un derstand that the bricklayers and masons are about to re• commence the strike which IN as defeated in 1859. In spite, of the efforts to introduce other topics into the dispute, it is virtually the same question as before, namely, a limi tation of the hours of labour to not more than nino. On' Saturday the workmen employed by Messrs. Lucas and Kelk and Sir Morton Pete Were to remove their tools and cease work. From one or two other smaller firms thel men also " go out." As in the case of the strike at Messrs. i Trollope's, the masters, it is thought, will adopt the same' course as in 1859, and close their yards till work is resumed at Messrs. Lucas and lielk's and at Sir Morton Peto's. In the case of Messrs. Lucas the strike is particularly unfor-; tunate, as they are the contractors for the Great Exhibition building in 1862. The ground has already been broken at Kensington, and the preparations advanced for laying, the foundations of the brick walls, but now all is stopped. THE SIIN, LONDON, MONDAY :EVENING, MARCH 25, 1861. 'FUNERAL OF ERR ROYAL BIGHNESSI THE LATE DUCHESS OF KENT. The funeral of her Royal Highness the Ate' Duchess of Kent took place to-day at eleven o'clock. The body, up to this time, has remained at Frog more, whence it was removed at four o'clock this morning. The removal was effected with the strictest privacy. On arriving at Winldsor the coffin was laid in the Wolsey Chapel, adjoining the Chapel Royal, where it remained until the hour fixed for the funeral ceremony. The coffin bore upon a gilt plate the iinscription : " Depositum Illustrissima Principissa Victoria Maria Louisa, Illustrissimi Principis Edwardi, Ducis Lantite et Strathernise Vidtta, Matris Augustissimte et Potentissima Victoria, Dei Gratia Britanniarum Regina, Fidei Defensoris, Obiit sexto decimo die Martio, MDCCCLXL. Annoque tetatis 75." The following is the official prograrcime of the ceremonial : On the naorning of Monday, March 25, 1861, the remains of her late Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and Strathern, daughter of his late Serene Highness Francis Frederick Anthony Duke of Saxe Coburg Saalfeld, mother of her Majesty the Queen, and widow of his .late Royal Highness Edward Duke of Kent and Strathern, will be pri vately removed from Frogmore House tifo the nave of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, near to the tomb of her late Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte, in the choir of which chapel they will be deposited until the completion and consecration of the mausoleum now in the course of construction in the grounds at Frogmore. In strict accordance with the understood wishes of her late Royal Highness, the funeral will be conducted in the most private manner, and the following limited ceremonial' will be observed : The body having been previously conveyed, in the strictest privacy, from Frogmore House to St. George's Chapel, where it will be received by the Vice-Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household, will there remain under thel charge of the officers appointed by the Lord Chamberlain i i until the hour fixed for the funeral service. At half-past ten o'clock those who have had the honour' to receive the Queen's commands to attend the ceremony, but who do not take part in the procession, will be admitted , to St. George's Chapel, and will be at once conducted to l seats in the choir. At eleven o'clock the royal family and other royal per sonages will assemble in the Chapter -•room of St. George's Chapel, from which they will be conducted to their places in the procession by the Lord Chamberlain. The Dean and Canons of Windsor, attended by the choir, will receive the body at the anti-chapel, and then join the procession. The remainder of those appointed to take part in the pro- 1 cession, having previously assembled in Wolsey's Chapel, will form in the following order in the nave of St. George's Chapel : Pages of her late Royal Highness. Dressers of her late Royal Highness. House Steward of her late Royal Highness. Medical attendants upon her late Royal Highness. Chaplains to her late Royal Highness. Equerries to her late Royal Highness. Gentlemen in Waiting upon the various members of the Royal family, and representatives of absent royal per- 1 sonages. Equerry in Waiting to the Equerry in Waiting to the Prince Consort. Queen. Groom of the Bedchamber to Groom in waiting to the the Prince Consort. Queen: Lord of the Bedchamber to Lord in Waiting to the the Prince Consort. Queen. The Choir of Windsor, The Canons of Windsor. The Dean of Windsor. THE CORONET of her late Royal Highness, borne by Lord James Murray,l Equerry to her late Royal Highness. Controller in the The Vice- Lord Chamberlain's The Lord Chamberlain. Chamberlain.' Department. THE COFFIN. (Supporters of the Pall. Supporters of the Pall.' Lady Fanny Howard. Lady Katherine Yerd Lady Augusta Brute. non Harcourt. LadySusanLeslielld- Lady Gardiner. ville. Dowager Lady Cou per. Girter King of Arms. THE CHIEF MOURNER. • • . • ": • , • . • • HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE CONSORT. supported by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, and attended by The Earl Spencer, Groom of the Stole to his Royal Highness. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. His Royal Highness the Count de Paris. His Royal Highness the Duke de Nemours. His Royal Highness the Duke de Chartres. His Royal Highness the Duke d'Alencon. His Royal Highness Duke Philip of Wurtemberg. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar. His Serene Highness Prince Frederic of Schleswig- Holstein-Augstenburg. His Serene Highness Prince Victor of Hohenlohe- Langenburg. Upon arrival 'within the choir, the coronet and cushion will be placed upon the coffin. His royal highness, the) chief mourner, will sit at the head of the corpse. His Royal Highness the Princ e o f W a l es an d hi s S erene Highness the Prince of Leiningen will sit on each side of his royal high ness. The ladies who support the pall will occupy stools on either side of the coffin. The Lord Chamberlain will, stand at the foot of the coffin. The other royal personages in the procession will be con ducted to stalls in the chapel. The attendants upon their royal highnesses will also be seated. The rest of the procession, having previously ad vanced towards the centre of the choir, will remain there, during the ceremony in the same order in which they en-, tered the chapel. The "Dead March in Saul" will be played while the procession moves up the chapel. The first part of the service and the anthem having been performed, the corpse will be lowered into the entrance to th e royal vault, and the dean will conclude the burial serH vice, upon which Garter king of Arms will proclaim the /style of her late royal highness. After which the toy a l f am il y an d other royal personages ! will be conducted out the chapel, and the others compos-! ling the procession will retire. A guard of honour of the Scots Fusilier Guards will mount during the ceremony at the entranc e t o St. G eorge ' R Chapel. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE. • Dress to be worn at the funeral of her late Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent by all who form part of the pro- i cession, or who are invited to attend the funeral. Ladies.—Mourning morning dress, with crape veils ; not bonnet. Gentlemen.—Black evening coat, with trousers and boots; white cravat; round hat. ' Stars and ribbons will be worn. PLYMOUTH, Saturday.—The ship William Tell,! g Captain Bonney, from Havre, on the 9th of March, for New I York was off this port yesterda: : •. Letters dated Calcutta, February 13, state that Messrs. Dunbar's ship Octavia was lappointed to sail on. the 14th, with 99 soldiers, their wives, ,and families for England. Another of their the Lady Anne, Captain Sinclair, would leave with troops in March, homeward bound. A third, the Minden, was engaged to convey European soldiers to New Zealand. CONFERENCE ON THE BANKRUPTCY. BILL. —A conference, in which the Chambers of Commerce of Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield and the Manchester Associa tion for the Protection of Trade, were represented, was held in this city yesterday. Its sitting occupied several hours, in which theimportant clauses of the bill were dis cussed in detail, and the meeting was unanimous in resolv-, ing to recommend modifications in the clauses referring to !the duties and responsibilities of the creditors' assignee, and expressed a strong opinion that those clauses, as they now stand, would defeat the object of the bill, and prevent any merchant undertaking the office of creditors' assignee. A deputation to London, with a view of.promoting amend ment in these clauses when it reaches the House of Lords, was unanimously resolved upon.—Mane/fester Guardian. BANK RORDERY.—The chief cashier of the branch [ Bank of England at Portsm ou th , a M r, Theakston, has !been missing from that establishment since Friday last, find with him £l,OOO in gold. So far the discovery, of the floss extends at present, but, as Theakston had been in the lestablishroent during the time it has been in existence at ;Portsmouth (25 years), and at the time of absconding was fin receipt of a salary of £4OO per annum, it is feared that lother discoveries will yet be made. Thoakston left a note, addressed to a gentleman employed in the bank, in which the stated that he had money sufficient to carry him to Lon don, and that he intended to destroy himself. j FORGED BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES.—There , are a great many f org ed ns t es o f t h e B an k of England at ? present in circulation. There is a very simple way of find- . Z ing out whether a note is good or bad. The difference be -Itween a good note and a forged one is that the former has ' ;the watermark produced in the manufacture of the paper, while in the latter it is produced by embossing. If a good !note is wetted with a sponge and held up to the light the watermark remains, and is even clearer than before ; but if this is done to a forged ono the watermark entirely disap ,pears, LATEST NE WS. MALTA, MARCH 22, 8 P. 31. M. Hensken, the Secretary of the American Minister at Jeddo, Japan, has been murdered. The Foreign Ministers are reported to have re tired to Kanagnawa. (?) The Prussian treaty has been signed. NAPLES, MARCH 24, 4 P.M. It is asserted that Francis 11. will leave Rome Ifor Bavaria on the 2d April. Neapolitan noblemen are daily returning from Rome to Naples. Prince Dentice has arrived at Naples. The formation of the new Ministry at Turin has produced an excellent impression here. The office of Director-General of the Post has been suppressed. Public opinion at Naples is favourable to the centralisation of the Administration now being carried out. POSEN, MONDAY. M. Mukhanoff took his departure from Warsaw with great precipitation. He was unable, however, to avoid encountering popular demonstrations at the railway terminus, which were repeated at the other stations on his route. Advices from Berlin state that the anniversary of the King's birth-day was celebrated on the 22d inst. with great rejoicings. At night Berlin was brilliantly illuminated. The St. Petersburg Gazette publishes the Imperial manifesto for the emancipation of the Serfs. It bears date 19th February (March 3d). BELGRADE, MARCH 23. The Turkish Commissioner has proclaimed the act of amnesty granted to the Christian refugees of the Pashalik of Nissa. The refugees have declared, however, that they cannot venture to avail themselves of the amnesty, and have sent a petition to the Sultan. Servia is tranquil. Agitation prevails in the southern frontiers of th• Principalities. CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 16. The Bu 3 garian bishops have been excommuni cated and sentenced to exile by the Greek Patriarch. Sir Henry Bulwer and the Dutch Minister have, however, interfered, and prevented the execution iof the sentence of exile. The issue of guaranteed and redeemable paper 'money is now under the consideration of the Go- Ivernment, and is likely to be made. PARIS, MARCH 24. I The Paris papers publish a telegram, dated Con stantinople, 13th inst., announcing that Prussia and Austria, like France and Russia, had remitted notes to the Porte stating the urgent necessity of reforms. On account of the insurrection in the Ilerzego ivina, and the fears entertained respecting other provinces, the Porte had called out 50,000 redifs. The emigration of Christians from Damascus continued. The Paris papers publish a telegram, dated Con stantinople, 20th inst., stating that the Porte had consented to the prolongation of the occupation of The International Commission at Beyrout had 'demanded the prompt execution of the condemned [Druses. Vely Pasha would leave for Paris on the 27th inst. WARSAW, MARcu 23. A proclamation has just been published announcing that the resignation of M. Muh kanoff has been accepted by the Emperor. The announcement has been received with the greatest enthusiasm by the people. VENICE, MARCIE 23. In consequence of the popular demonstration which took place here on the 18th inst. in honour of Garibaldi five persons, natives of Udine—two from Pardinone, two from Verona, and one from Treviso—have been arrested and conveyed to Olmutz. Two other persons have been conveyed Ito Iglan. and Hrubschitz. VIENNA, MARCH 23 (Evening). The Oesterreichische Zeitung of to-day says : " The Russian Ambassador here has been ordered by his Government to officially declare that Russia disavows any participation with Montenegro in the insurrection in the netighbouring provinces, and !that Russia had sent an energetic note to the Prince of Montenegro. M. de Balabine, on receipt lof this notification, made the necessary communi cations to Count Rechberg and Prince Callimaki, !the Turkish Ambassador." TURIN, MARCH 24. In the Senate M. Sforza has formally requested the Government to.take steps for inducing France to withdraw her troops from Rome. Count Cavour has announced to the Chamber of Deputies that the Ministerial programme has undergone no change. FRANCE. BOURSE, March 23.—The market has been in animate. with very little business, and scarcely any variation in prices. Threes opened at 68f 20e., Railways unvaried. The following are the last quotations : II per per Cents ... 96 Credit Foncier 937 50 Do end month.... —1 Belgian 4i — '3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 20 Roman Bank Shares . 2880 Austrian Jredit Mobilier 665 Spanish Threes.... 48 Do. Account 665 —lHome Debt itA.ILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1421 25 .. 1422 50 North ern New ditto B9B 75 .. 898 75 Lyons and Mediterranean 955 .. 955 Geneva 390 391 25 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian . . 376 25 .. • • Austrian Lombard . . . 472 50 .. 473 75 ITALY. The Minister of Finance in the Piedmontese Chamber has presented a bill to the Chamber of Deputies for oxemp tang from stamp duty all deeds signed by political refugees to save their property from sequestration. The Italian Sensite, in its sitting of the 20th, after some preliminary business, proceeded to the : discussion of the bill for the abolition of feudal tenures in Lombardy, and voted the two first articles. The Minister of Justice 'announced the resignation of the C.binet, after which the Minister of War read a telef r aphic despatch received from VAscoli on the same day, announcing that the for tress of Civitella (lei Tronto had surrendered to .Gen. Mezzocapo, Taber a cannonade which lasted four days, as aim dy known. 1 A Turin letter says:— " I have received :news of Garibaldi J frt nn a person formerly a Major lin his army, who ha s,iust arrived here from Caprera. IThe General told hi ni that for the moment there wai nothing to be don( ;." ISadler's Wells Theatre has been taken by Mr. , Josephs, for a spri - pg seas i In, to commoii Loo on Eater- LITERATURE. Lucy Melville ; or, Lost and Found. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. This is a very pleasing story, there are a great many characters introduced, and altogether we meet with almost every variety of disposition. The author is particularly happy in the sketches of young girls, of whom there are many to grace and enliven these pages. The heroine Lily is a delight ful picture of a sensitive and refined disposition early initiated into the cares and trials of life. The story is another of those tales, whose name is, in deed, " legion," of an " enfant trouve," with which the literature of every land abounds; but in this case there is some novelty met with, as a very long period elapses before the discovery is made. Mr. and Mrs. Lacy are patterns of domestic bliss and bright illustrations of virtuous parents, whose hope is to rear up their family in the ways of pleasant ness and the paths of peace, and whose happy des tiny it is to have those prayers answered, and those wishes fulfilled—a more charming family could hardly be imagined than that of the Grove. Not alone did the benignant influence extend over the immediate members of the home circle, whose sons grew up as the young plants, and whose daughters shone as the polished corners of the temple, but all those received beneath the roof were benefited. Effie, the wild and untutored West Indian girl, and Lily, the desolate outcast, were alike made happy and at home there. Mrs. Granville is very adroitly sketched as a woman who was so wrapt up in external requirements, that she constantly forgot everything else. Minnie, her beautiful young daughter, reaped the bitter effects• of the unwise conduct on the part of her mother. Had it not been for the fortunate introduction to Mr. and Mrs. Melville, her death would have been a dark hour, indeed, and the summons of the king of terrors would have been more dreadful to the proud daugh ter of the princely house than to the meanest dweller of the cottages around. Mary, the eldest daughter of Mrs. Lacy, had married Mr. Melville, the rector of Mrs. Granville's parish, and the wise counsel and loving ways practised at the Grove bloomed with fresh beauty and flourished in in creased vigour in the new soil into which they had been transplanted. Henry Granville, the possessor of the estate, was fortunate in choosing Ellen, the second daughter of the Lacys, as his partner. The excellent advice of Mr. Melville so affected his pre vious good disposition, that he eschewed his mother's worldly maxims and set out for himself in the new path put before him. He became one of those favoured few and far between who are the protec tors of their property, in the purest sense of the term, with whom the welfare of their people is a sacred trust committed to them by Providence, for which they will one day have to give a strict account. Ellen is the most pleasing of the ladies met with; she is beautiful and graceful, but these are her least attractions. She possessed an intelli gent mind and a kind heart. She was placed in more difficult positions than the rest of her family; she emerged successfully from the trial, and when exalted so much above them all, she was the same u naffected and gentle being that she had been in her girlish days. Dr. and Mrs. Scott are most ludi crous specimens of humanity. Mrs. Scott was the sister of Mrs. Lacy, but of a totally different dispo sition. Shs had been quacking herself all her days, and finally, to the horror of her friends, married her last grand discoverer, in the medical line, in the full hope and confident expectation that he would be able to retire from business and devote all his abilities solely to her: This hope proved futile and this expectation illusory. When they were mar ried Dr. Scott threw physic to the winds, insisted on the immediate and final dissolution of her nerves, of which every one who had met her had heard so much, and if she proved refractory to the rules of the new pharmacopoeia, he compelled her to rise early and to take violent exercise before break fast. Her health improved greatly, but she felt utterly disappointed. Mr. and Mrs. Bell and their daughters afford a glimpse of another phase of life; here we meet with a vulgar woman who tyrannises over natures refined beyond her comprehension. Mr. Bery was the rector of the village where the Lacys resided. He it was who first adopted the outcast Lily, and, at his death, transferred her as a sacred charge to the family at the Grove. The brief record of his only daughter is a most touching pas• sage in the story. Lucy Bery is one of those bright beings who seem now, even here, to bear about them traces of that angelic world on whose confines their spirits are lingering. Mr. Bery was a true pastor to his flock, and his whole life was devoted to the holy work in which he had engaged. He seemed a copy of the beautiful lines of Goldsmith— " And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt her new-fledged offspring to the skies, Ile cheered each flight, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds and led the way." The meeting of the long parted parents and their beautiful child is affectingly narrated, and at the end of the story there are some bright pictures drawn of the felicity of the group who have long figured before us. This is a light story with nothing very remarkable in it, but it gains upon the attention by is beautiful descriptions of home life, and it interests throughout by its attractive characters. Those who desire an agreeable subject for a few hours' perusal will be delighted with " Lucy Melville," and many might gain hints how to make home happy, by studying the ways of the household of the Grove, who truly dwelt together in unity. These volumes present a graceful and genial sketch of English country life, mingled with variety in incident and vivid descriptions of dif ferent characters. Paul the Pope, and Paul the Friar : a story of an Interdict. By T. Adolphus Trollope, author t,f " A decade of Italian Women," &c. Chapman and Hall. There are probably few readers of the present time who are at all familiar with the events of the great struggle between Pope Paul V. and the Vene tian Republic, which, in its day agitated all the Courts of Christendom, and engrossed the attention of monarchs and statesmen. Yet that struggle was not withoutlasting effect, and had it terminated dif ferently the consequences to the ultimate develop ment of social and religious liberty might have been serious. Pope Paul the Fifth, who had passed the greater part of his life among the musty records of Roman law, found himself unexpectedly elected to the Pontificate in 1506. He came to his new dig. nity impressed with the most exaggerated views of his own authority and importance, and his pas sionate and obstinate temper seconded only too ' well the suggestions of 'his intellect. He availed himself of every opportunity of asserting the dig nity of the Popedom, and in several disputes which occurred with the neighbouring States, at the com mencement of his reign, he obtained speedy sub mission on the part of his opponents by threats and menaces which he would not have scrupled to fulfil. He found, however, a very different antago• nist in the Republic of Venice. That state, then eminent for the wisdom andpatriotism of its rulers, refused to accede to his unjust demands. The Pope had long been displeased with the indepen dent attitude maintained by the Venetians, and was not slow to avail himself of the opportunity of ex pressing his displeasure. The points in dispute were two. In the first place the Senate had caused the arrest of two priests who had offended against the criminal law ; and, secondly, they had confirmed an old law which forbade grants of land to ecclesiastics. The immense portions of territory which had passed into the hands of the Church, and its exemption from taxation, rendered this statute. necessary. After the interchange of remonstrances, expostulations, explanations, en treaties, and threats the Pope placed the whole of the Venetian territories under an Interdict ; that is to say, a wholesale excommunication. The senators of Venice, however, were nothing daunted. They refused to acknowledge that they had been in the wrong, and consequently declared the 'ope to be acting under a mistake, and the Interdict to be null and void. They adopted the most active measures ; they prevented the publication or diffusion of the obnoxious document; they insisted on the priests continuing the performance of their accustomed duties, and such ecclesiastics who refused to disobey . the Papal injunctions were at once transported be yond the frontier. They also kept up a large stand ing army ready to encounter less spiritual measures of enmity, and made continual and earnest repre sentations to all the chief Courts of Europe, of the state of the case. 'With all this, however, they refused to make any concession of their rights, and at length after a protracted struggle, and the active inter vention of France and Spain, matters were brought to a conclusion, the Pontiff being obliged to sur render his extravagant pretensions. The two priests were surrendered to the French ambassador under pretence of paying a compliment to his King, and with the express stipulation that it was an exceptional case. The laws were b left on the statute books, and Venice came forth triumphant from the dreaded encounter, professing compleie equanimity and indifference. The chief actor in the final negotiations was Cardinal Joyeuse, whom Henry IV. despatched as envoy extraordinary and mediator. The interference of Philip 111. of Spain only tended to complicate affairs, while the counsels of our timid and talkative James I. were throughout most energetic and warlike. All through this fierce encounter the Senate was ad vised, assisted, and supported by the counsels of Paul the Friar, a member of the Servite brother hood, and one of the most eminent men of his day for natural ability and acquired learning of every kind. A contemporary and familiar associate of Galileo, it has even been doubted how far the con structiou of the thermometer is due to him, while I his country men b e li eve hi m t o h av e forestalled 1 Harvey in the discovery of the circulation of the blood. y In the strife of pens and wordy harangues , citation of authorities, references to ancient manu scripts, and hair-splitting disquisitions, which, in accordance with the spirit of the time, were called forth by the quarrel, Friar Paul especially distin guished himself, and his labours in behalf of the Republic were unceasing. Familiar with the secrets of Rome, and well skilled in theological learning, he would have been a formidable opponent even without the vigorous intellect and inflexible integrity that were his most formidable weapons' When the struggle was over, it is not surprising that the partisans of Rome looked with the deadliest enmity on him who had lent such efficient aid to the rebellious senate, and sought every means to entrap him. The friar was too wise to truss himself out of Venice, and failing other wo n ! of revenge, his enemies had resort t o th e despicable crime of assassination. The intended victim, hog ever, survived the attempt, and the Senate re doubled its rewards and precautions. It is satis factory to find that this eminent man died a natura l death at an advanced age in 1622, a year after the death of Paul the Pope, his old antagonist. Th e readers who are acquainted with Mr. Trollopo style will readily imagine that this story loses nothing in his hands. His familiarity with th e Italian history of that epoch, and his fervent *l i r pathy for religious liberty an d f ree gover nmell" qualify him in no ordinary degree for the task he has undertaken. Hi s op en i ng c h a pt ers on " Time" and " The Men," prepare the way for tu e d succeeding events, and make the reader acquaint% with the scene of action. Hi s l eng th ene d accoun t of the election of a Pope, taken from an old Italian work by one of the Cardinal's secretaries, i s eery curicus. The work is, perhaps, somewhat too voluminous. We can readily believe that the WO of correspondence and accumulation of documents' through which he has waded, make his own work $ mere epitome by comparison, but nevertheless a fur ther condensation of his materials would have rov e , it more acceptable to the genera l rea d er , withou t in any degree depreciating its value, as repetitions both of narrative and reflection occasionally occur' The English public are, however, indebted to Mr' Trollope for a very interesting volume, w hich, ill connection with his former, and we hope with his future, works, will tend to increase the very liniitel knowledge generally possessed among us o f the history of the Italian Republics. The following tribute to the wisdom and ability of the Veneties Government affords a fair specimen of the author 6 style : But if the gratitude of all succeeding generations, an c ! especially of the present, has been,!and is, due, in a great!. measure, perhaps, than has been generally recognised, t u o Father Paul, to a still greater degree have the historian of the various European nations failed to mete out a 1.11 , 1 measure of recognition to the sagacious, intrepid, ax i d patriotic government, which employed, protected, a ri , backed him, and which, at a time when greater nations fol . corrupt motives would not, and weaker communities darr a , not, oppose the encroachments of Church power on tuf secular affairs of mankind, stood forth the champleuu'r civil liberty and the supremacy of civil law. It was 1151 .7,1 6 the strong shield of the Venetian republic that the terr!"., Friar braved the power which, but f o r such p r otectqJ e o would have crushed him in an instant. It wa s at 0 bidding and for the laws of Venice th a t h e f oug ht as a Vene tian 4 citizen, preferring loyalty to hi s h uman it y t o loyal t y to his tonsure. The position assumed by the Government of Venicl e the great and all-important struggle which is to be subject of the following pages, was truly such as to nie r t i o the admiration and gratitude f mankind. But in this,' in various other respects, the peculiar and remarkable , -Tu re 10 vernment which ruled Venice and its territory for 4 than eight hundred years, has been but superficially s tadi ito and very erroneously appreciated by the writers of pgu history. The French historian Daru, whose work Is , ° ; l4 of pretension, and has incautiously been widely receive,' a one of authority, has contributed much to this false a" unjust estimate by its errors in fact and unfairness in re presentation. But a few picturesque lines by an unisl t., , 0 sally-read poet have done perhaps even more to root in t„m t contemporary popular mind a very mist iken noti o n ut; Government which, though it was by no m eans f ree fro: : the errors in practice and theory that b e l onge d t o i ts ages was for a period of many centuri es d ec id e dl y i n a d van ce O any other European comm un ity, b o th i n i ts concept i o n e,f the functions of the Government and its mode of carrli,7 out its views. A graphi c poe t- spo k en wor d or two of dot scription of the prisons of the republic—a romantic storS two of the secret action and irresistible power of " the Te c h —have sufficed to enable the flash of genius to photog,ra,P,,, on the yablie mind the well-known picture of a nlYr e i o rious, remorseless, and tyrannic power, which serves general reader" for an idea of that skilfully-constructed t' o well-poised system of government to which mankind 11 0 ,. ° ,,t many occasions owed so much. In vain the matter of- ,9 ' traveller, rule and notebook in hand, visits the priso l e; which have securely established themselves in all t l ` v romantic imaginations of Europe, and proves that g f i ", jury of upholsterers would pronounce them far more e ) , Portably habitable than many of our own. In vain ' te suggested to the romance-of-history-loving mind that, us Bridge of Sighs conveys by its poetically lugubrl ° to name no such serious imputation on the authorities? I , which it belonged, as for instance the phrase " 131 a c, Monday" casts on the administrations which made Nia ci ", day perennially " black" at the Old Bailey. The pro S ee man and humble dealer in facts finds it—not in this matte ,; alone—a very up-hill and well-nigh hopeless task to nau" that which the poet and the romancer have but too t l3° ' roughly done. The real history of Venice has yet to be written. A- 1311 , 1 1 1- dant materials for it are now available which could bar be said to be available a few years ago. It is a sg„t second to none that mankind has ever acted in all i ; makes history valuable and delightful. We have rau'i writing on the subject ; but we have not yet the history Venice, in any language, The Campaign of Garibaldi in the Two Biellie s ; A Personal Narrative. By Charles Stua r t Forbes, Commander R.N., author of " Icelan d its Volcanoes, Geysers, and Glaciers." Willits° Blackwood. 't This is a most interesting little work, and , sure to be one that will be received well anywbe'i n as it refers to one of the most striking men i o the day, and one who will occupy a bright page , the annals of the history of the nineteenth centur&' The author of this book had the advantage of r o acquaintanteship with the illustrious h ero o f Rail'', liberty, and hence he is enabled t o wr it e as °fit-, who knows of what he speaks, and ha s no Oral:, tale to tell us, since he has mingled in some of th e stirring scenes that have ren d ere d It a l y th e stew of interest on which the eyes of E uro p e h a ve b a w lately gazing. He thus writes :—" Courteous l y permitted by Garibaldi to follow the bent of 1131 4 inclination, and honoured by his friendship, I plisa, e io many hours in his society, and ofttimes shared!', frugal hospitality. If I have abstained from dilat sa .,°, on his character, it is because I feel that lang lo s fails to do him justice. The irresistible spell vrisl o enables him to usurp all hearts may be traced o t .' the simple fact that he is what Pope has termed tP 'P e no blest work of God, "an honest man." period of his stay was very brief, but in those R i o months more events of importance occurred t h 11 have often taken place in as many years. It sc be found throughout these pages that a c er ,,,1 0 graphic description is gi ven o f a ll th a t t oo k Pstif of consequence, and th a t it i s w r itt en i n a Ic e i spirit and an animat e d s tyl e . Thi s recor d parts p, of the character of a romance, when we conte plate the extraordinary achievements that W e t, accomplished by a daring spirit and a devoted /tet e , There is a portrait of Garibaldi at the commeav o l ment, and throughout the book there are sev er 00 illustrations, which furnish the reader with P la , of the various battles and the places of the acts These are of great service, as we can always fb r lo a better idea of an occurrence when all its dets l e r are spread out, and when the mind can be tt a grasp the relative position of different places 1 0 their consequent influence on the events of t o , warfare. This campaign of Garibaldi is not u ri , worthy of the land in which it took place, as 03 14 baldi observed to his companions in arms :—" It. a e 'a owes to you an undertaking which has mer it the applause of the universe. You have conquerre" and you will conquer still, because you are 1 31 pared for the tactics that decide the fate of battl e ' , You are not unworthy of men who pierced the se t f i ried ranks of a Macedonian phalanx, and conten% not in vain with the proud conquero r s o f A.s'; To this wonderful page in our country's histsfr4 another more glorious still will be added, a 0 the slave shall show at last to his free brethre n sharpened Word forged from the links of his fetteriscii An impressive description is given of Gari i . ba t be distributing the m e d a l s t o th e r em na nt of at " Glorious Thousand," who landed with bi ra c i e d Marsala. He appropriately and feelingly 8 14 4 0 0 to those who had perished in the struggle in that, words, "But many of those who went with usa t he now absent,—their bones are bleaching ea fields of Calatafimi and Palermo, the Mental: ls ' o t, the Schiaffinis, the Yiickiiris : they will 11 0 however, be forgotten ; let their families keep ,os testimonial of their valour as an heirloom, and J o it young veterans, who have survived to rece iv o ot with your own hands, remember that all i s o e done yet, and that I trust and reckon on l e o, whenever your services shall be again requ i 'nfe Let us begin the distribution with those who fallen in our sacred cause." This eloquent trips to the memory of those who had fallen by wayside before the prize had been won, is in aev o ( dance with the spirit of those famous lines Byron,— " To us even banquets, fond regrets supply, In the red cup that crowns their memory, And the brief epitaph on dangers day, When those who win at last, divide the prey And cry, remembrance saddening o'er each brat , How had the brave who fell, exulted now." t I The author of this work h as co nferred a bene.fi 00 the reading community in p r esenting them I°, te r , cancise an account of a mos t important an d in le esting episode in the history of nations. The: all is attractive from its vigour and vivacity, an' a r who desire to refresh their memories by th e A ll usal of the Italian incidents of last autumn, je do well to possess themselves of this Yo'r'rto which they will find facts narrated that s stranger than many seems w ns, or a t n h d y the deede A o 013 ee hero chronicled who of the gOQ- hPorr