The Sun. — London, England, 1861-02-04 00:00:00

-,-, -,-,.. -- ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA. COVENT-GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, and during, the Week, Balfe's New legendary Opera, BIANCA, THE BRAVO'S BRIDE MiS4 Louisa Fyne, Miss Thirlwall ; Messrs. A. Lawrence, J. Wharton, 11. Corri, A. St. Albyn, G. Kelly, Wallworth, T. Distin, Lyall, and W. Harrison. With the Grand Pantomime, BLUE BEARD ; or, Harle quin and Freedom In her Island Home. Clowns, Messrs. H. Boleno, H. Payne. Hildyard, and Lilliputians. Harlequins, Messrs. Milano and F. Payne. Pantaloons, Messrs. Barnes and Tanner. Columbines, Mdme. Boleno and Clara Morgan. Sprites, the Zelinski Family. Mr. W. H. Payne, Mlle. Lamoureux, &C. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at Seven. T HEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee. Mr. J. B. Baeketone. THIS EVENING the performances will commenee with THE RIVALS. Sir twins O'Trigger, Mr. John Brougham; Lydia Languish, MIAs Fanny Stirling. After which. a new Pantomime. QUEEN LADYBIRD ELND HER CHILDREN. The Pantomimists by the un rivalled Lecleroqs, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wright Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. OPENING of PARLIAMENT by her MAJESTY in state and DAY PERFORMANCE of the Pantomime. ROBINSON CRUSOE ; commencing at half-past 2, and concluding. at halfast 4, TO-MORROW (TUESDAY)Posi tively the last.— Excursion Trains from all parts of the country. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. -- Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with RIIY BLAS. Messrs. Fechter, Basil Potter, Garden, Ray • mond, Graham, Cathcart, and A. Rani's. After which, a new Christmas comical pantomime, entitled ROBINSON CRUSOE or,riarlequin Friday, and the Kim! of the Caribbe Islands : in which Monsieur Espinosa and Mdlle. Marie Dumilatre, of the principal cantinental theatres, will appear. Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest. THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM. Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. irw-g e _appearance of Madame Celeste and Mrs. Keeley. THIS EVENING, the new drama, ADRIENNE; or, 'THE SECRET OF A LIFE. Princli_pal characters by Mr. e g nry Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. H. Butler, Mr. Villiers, Mr. G. Vlninz, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Clifford, Mr. J. Johnstone ; Mrs. Keeley, and Madame Celeste. After which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic Extravaganza, CRYSTABELLE ; or, The Rose without a Thorn, showing THE VISION OF A ROSE, ITS FADING AT EVE, AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR. Followed by THE YOUNG WIDOW. Miss M. Ternan and Mr. H. Neville. JDELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manazer, Mr. Beni. Webster. THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J. L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E. Thorne. • After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. lloucimult, D. Fisher, Billinfrton Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss W oolgar, Mrs. Billing,ton, and Mrs. Chatter ley. To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza. entitled BLUE BEARD FROM A NEW POINT OF HUE. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford. C. J. Smith; Miss Woolgar, K. Belly , Laidlaw, and E. Thorne. Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. Box-offloe open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, X 2 2s. ; Family Boxes, XL Orchestra Stalls, Se. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Ss.; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, Is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wm. BATTY. THIS EVENING. will be reproduced TURPIN'S RIDE TO YORK, AND THE DEATH OF BLACK BESS, in which the Brothers Edwin will appear with their celebrated steed Black Bess. To be succeeded by Scenes In the Arena, supported by talented Parisian and British Artistes. _ _ Concluding with Ratty's Prize Equestian Comic Panto mime, for Good Little Boys and Girls, by T. L. Greenwood, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE WONDERFUL HORSE ; or. Percinet and Grociosa, the Ugly Duchess and the Greedy King, produced with Gorgeous Scenery, by Mr. Cuthbert, new Costumes and Appointments, and introducing In the eomie scenes Batty's Prize Equestrian Harlequinade, and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley, and Brandon Ledger. - - A Grand Morning Performance will take place on Friday, Feb. 8, commencing at two o'clock with the Pantomime. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4 __Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. Commence at 7. CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS!! A Grand Selection from Verdi's Opera, IL CORSARO, consisting of the following Morceaux:— Prelndio. Coro Scena ed Aria "Tutto parca Sorridere" Coro di Odalische. " Oh qual perenne" Cavatina "Vola talor dal Carcere" Coro ed inno Soma ed Aria. " Cento lezgiadre Vergini" Terzetto Finale " Voi tacete io non" will shortly be produced, in the orignal key and Italian laneuace—the first time of performance in this country—in addition to the usual attractions. Mr. F. JONGIIMANS, Musical Director. Also, in preparation, Selections from Verdi's New Operas, "Un Ballo in Maschera," "Simon Boccane,zra ;" and Flo tow's celebrated Opera of "Stradella." HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Thu; DAy.—Morning, Bh. 20m.—Afternoon, 9h. Gm. To-MORROW.-Morning, 9h. 46m.—Afternoon, 10h. 34m. THB WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, FEE. 3, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 44—highest since noon yesterday. 34—lowest this morning and during the night. 44—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.40 ; falling. WlND—South-Westerly; rather fresh, with dull weather, and some sunshine now and then. FEB. 4. THERMOMETER, IN THE MADE. 45—highest since noon yesterday. 38—lowest this morning and during the night. 44—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.98; falling rapidly. WlND—South-Westerly—rather fresh; with fine, sun shiny cool weather. The legislative assemblies of France and Eng land cemmence their labours this year almost simultaneously. To-day, it is the Emperor NAPO LEON 111. who inaugurates the session of 1861 with a Speech from the Throne, addressed to his Senators and Deputies surrounded, while he speaks, by his Ministers, Cardinals, Marshals, and the other great dignitaries of his despotic Government. To-morrow, it will be her most gracious Majesty the Queen VICTORIA who will have once more to preface with her Royal Speech the annual labours of the Lords and Commons of England in Parliament assembled—it will be the Constitutional Sovereign of these free realms ad dressing the two great divisions of the Legisla ture, hereditary and representative, encompassed by all the resplendent ceremonials of her regal office, and in th e presence of the responsible guardians and administrators of her Constitu tional Government. The contrast presented to view by these two grand and imposing spectacles might not unnatu rally lure the more reflective into a comparison not without its own peculiar interest, a comparison of the two political systems, separated from each other by the narrow gap of the ChanneL Any dallying, however, with such merely abstract re flections, at a moment :ike the present, would be hardly less culpable than it would certainly, in one sense, be ludicrous under the circumstances. For is it not manifest, in spite of any thing that has been said or that can be said to the contrary, that all Europe is at this juncture thrilling with expectancy —upon the eve of some great political and military outburst—upon the verge of some inscrutable abyss of difficulties ? It is perfectly true, of course, that the Moderator of Revolutions and the Arbitrar of Europe, as that Sly Little Man over the water claim s to be, benignantly avails himself of every opportunity, be it that afforded by a complimentary jour de t' un, or this more ceremonious occasion of the opening of the legislative session in France, avails himself beneficently of every possible oppor tunity to reassure those who are more solicitous than the generality as to any chance there is of maintaining intact the general tranquillity of Christendom. "Peace- (Ace „ is the gist of his Imperial Majesty's assurances : but then, in the very teeth of these assurances, are there not those facts visible in a thousand directions all around us—facts as inevitable in their logic as events them elves ? Are not France and England at this crisis in their own histories, and consequently a l so in the annals of all Europe, armed c ap a pie ._ armed as th4y have neither of them been armed since the close of the last great war ? Have they not been now for several years competing openly with each other in the improvement and extension of their armaments both by sea and by land ? Has ' not France, military France, virtually thrown down a gauntlet of defiance before maritime Eng land, by launching (in a time of profound " Peace") that first steel clad line•©f--battle ship ap propriately designated (as typical of the great incentive to Gallic prowess) La (Moire—that monster of the deep, the formid able attributes of which have been now so rapidly and enormously surpassed by those of its English sequel or consequence the Warrior : that British steel-clad man-of-war, which ought to have been dubbed " Duty," upon the same principle which accorded the name of" Glory" to the steel cased ship of France ? Under the impulse of this monstrous and unnatural competition—during an interval of Peace, of profound Peace, remember—under the incentive of this unnatural competition between the war establishments of France and England, have not the military and maritime departments of the latter country of our own country,'cost us within one single year (of Peace !) the ruinous expenditure of £30,000,000? And not only thus has it been with us in England—have we not at the same time had occasion to enrol the Manhood of the United King dom in a National Guard of Riflemen, numbering now but very little short of 200,000 men ? While, to crown all—towards the close of our last Parlia mentary session—had not the House of Commons the necessity, the imperative necessity, thrust upon it of voting, in a year of deficit, in favour of the graduated disbursement of many millions sterling to be applied to the improvement and the multipli cation of our National Defences, of our Arsenals, of our Fortifications generally. France all the while maintaining in full efficiency her immense standing army of 600,000 men, and rapidly urging on the de velopment of a naval force long since second only to that of England ! England, at the same time, recollect, suicidally regulating her financial system by a supreme reliance, in a period of "Peaee" (of Peace, recollect)—by a supreme reliance upen the War Tax—namely, that detested Income Tax which is nothing less than the shame of Mr. GLADSTONE, as it cannot but inevitably prove, sooner or later, the avenging source of his disgrace and downfall as an administrator. Italy, moreover, tremblingly alive to the urgent need of consummating the work of her political emancipation ! Hungary awaiting with breathless eagerness the signal for her final rising, for the reclamation of her independence ! Poland, too, is she less, think you, upon the alert for her opportunity ? And Austria with her financial system bankrupt, and revolt threatening in all her various provinces—is not she likewise, quite consciously to herself, standing now upon the brink of imminent destruction ? Are there not 200,000 of her soldiers gathered together within the boundaries of Venetia, under the shadow of the great fortresses of the Quadrilateral, preparing for the defence of that her last point of resistance south of the range of the Carpathians ? Turkey likewise, no less conscious than Austria of the rapid advance upon her enervated powers of the inexorable doom of her long anticipated dissolution! Prussia yearning meanwhile to rend from the grasp of Denmark the coveted provinces of Schleswig and Holstein— those Danish provinces which have so lung acted upon the territorial greed of Prussia as the Turkish provinces of Moldavia and Wallachia have acted upon that of the Russian auto cracy. And it is now, forsooth, in the midst of all these formidable oscillations of the Balance of Power in Europe, it is at such a junc ture, at such a crisis, that we are to be lulled into a feeling of fatuous security by the cuckoo cry of " Peace, Peace," from the lips of the im-moderately wily Moderator of Revolutions ! A different prophecy of the future in Europe is audible to Joint BULL, in the ringing of every golden coin of all those I:,3O,UUU,UOU lavished by him, in this secure and blissful epoch of Peace, upon his War Establishments. If courtesies on both sides will but give us reduced estimates, we shall not fail to have them. The memorial of the sixty members to Lord PALMERSTON on the extraordinary amount of our peace expenditure was couched in language as bland as could well be conceived. The sixty stated that they had long been sheep of Lord PALMER STON'S flock, and humbly begged him not to drive his taxation shears quite so closely to their ribs ; only gently hinting, that in such a state it gave them "the cold shivers," when they had to turn out of doors and meet their constituencies. They had been very meek and unresisting in the House, but they could not enjoy its shelter all the year round. They hoped, therefore, in the present state of foreign affairs, his lordship would leave them a little more of their wool. The memorial was for warded, it seems, to their shepherd by three of the flock, Messrs. CRAWFORD, BAINES, and BUXTON, and very gracious is the reply received; "My dear CRAWFORD" is assured that they are recog nised as the general supporters of her MAJESTY'S Government, and rather important that they should be, when thirteen is or was the real Government majority. But they are also informed that between them and Lord PALMERSTON there is perfect unanimity of opinion; " I beg to assure you," he says, " that I am much gratified by the friendly spirit in which this memorial has been drawn up ; and I entirely concur in the opinion it conveys that a due regard to economy should be observed in making arrangements for the public services of the nation." And yet one cannot help imagining that the gracious Premier, when he had indicted this sentence, said to himself —perhaps said it out—" Now, memorialists, I have you on the hip !" The memorialists had not ventured beyond generalities, and Lord PAL MERSTON meets them with generalities. While the asking is confined to the vague, we may be sure the answer will not commit itself to the definite. w We may eas il y conceive of a more definite course memorialists lists might have taken—we have,hi ch theindeed, m lm indicated it already. Had \ they selected the one tax, acknowledged to be the most incurably unjust of. all--had they de manded its repeal—had they also demanded ( retrenchment down to the amount of revenue left by the repeal, which would probably have been a diminution by only one-half of the tax—they would have given the public and the House some thing definite for consideration, and the Minister something which he could not have avoided noticing, even though but in the way of objection or of uncer tainty. We may, indeed, hope that her --MAJESTY'S Government are themselves a little uneasy at our expenditure, any increase of which could hardly be met except by adding to that " flea bite," our national debt, and feel the desirableness of having a war tax in reserve to hold out in terrorem as a part of our national defences. They must feel that with customs' duties cut down to the most profitable point, to a point from which, should they be advanced, loss of revenue might be the result, and with the impossibility of laying on fresh duties on imports, their one resource in war is the Income Tax. We can hardly suppose them, therefore, if they have an eye to the national security and i nfluence, not to wish to abolish the In come TU. Bad in itself, its one m m it a is that it can raise on an emergency enough by a kind of fiscal confiscation to meet demands, which do not admit of procrastination. The power to add an income tax to previous taxation is as trily a part of our national defence as is the Chan nel fleet itself, or our Volunteers. It is for these sixty persons to devise their plan. To write vague memorials to Premiers is, indeed, easy work, but it was not merely for that that they were chosen as representatives. Here are persons enough to divide themselves into sub-committees, who should take in hand the department in which most waste is known to prevail— should examine carefully existing documents, call for fresh returns, and probe to the bottom the inscrutable depths of official mismanagement. It would be, we know, hard work—but the two principles so successful in everything else, of divi sion and combination of labour, would effect much. Private persons have no means, or scarcely any, of coming at the truth ; but if a public man moves with intelligence and determination, facts are soon brought to him, he is put on the track for obtaining others, and daylight soon begins to dawn on what was at first a very dark, and to the nation a costly mystery. We have before given our friends, the Sixty, similar advice, and we repeat it with the confidence that if they show themselves as de cided in action as ready at memorialising, they will soon make way. One committee of the kind was appointed last year, and it is proposed to renew it this—it was to examine into the miscellaneous expenditure. But a committee, or several committees, are much needed in the different branches of the vastly heavier army and navy expenditure. It is affirmed by those who have the best-right to be listened to, that immense savings might be made without the least reduction in our means of defence. But, even in the miscellaneous expenditure, light began to be shed on some branches of wasteful expendi ture by the committee, which augur well for the result of a vigorous and compre hensive process of the kind applied to all departments. We refer our readers to some of the particulars mentioned in another column. Passing over the larger matters, we find Lord LLANO'VER assuring the committee that the mere appointment of a permanent Commission of Works—which is an entirely new political depart ment—would alone save thousands. Such items were instanced as £2,404 in a year for beating carpets and van hire ; also the extravagant cost of office furniture, so totally different to that of the most respectable private offices in the City. Again, the Ambassador's house in Paris has cost no less than £75,000 for repairs since 1825, besides £l,OOO a year for general repairs ! With such illustrations of wanton extravagance in the small way, the country may conjecture what would be the result of a businesslike overhauling of the dockyards, the ordnance, the stores and commis sariat, and the entire administration of our naval and military affairs. It may well believe that we might save the income tax, and have the public work better done, and the national defence, to say the least, quite as well provided for. RETURN OF THE COURT TO BUCKINGHAM PALACE.—This morning her Majesty, his Royal High ness the Prince Consort, with the members of the Royal family and suite, left Windsor Castle for Buckingham Palace. The Royal party proceeded to town by special train on the Great Western Railway. According to pre sent arrangement the Court will visit Osborne in March for a week or ten days, and at the end of that month return to Windsor Castle for the Easter holidays. The Court will visit Scotland at a much earlier period this year than heretofore. It is expected that her Majesty will keep her birthday the (24th May) at Balmoral, at which time it is said the Crown-Princess of Prussia will be visiting her Majesty. THE QUEEN'S LEVEES.—It is understood that the the Queen will hold levees at St. James's Palace upon Thursday, the 14th inst., Wednesday, the 20th inst., and uksvn lirc,lncaday, th" l Mil or marcn next. Their Royal Highnesses the Duohess of Cam. bridge and the Princess Mary honoured the Adelphi Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have received a select circle at Kimbolton Castle during the past week, the guests including the Earl and Countess of Cla rendon and Ladies Villers, the Earl of Sandwich, the Countess Cowley and Lady Feodorowna Wellesley, the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, Lord Frederick Paulett, Sir Charles Russell, itc. The Marquis of Lansdowne comes to town to day from Bowood. The Marquis of Ailesbury arrived at his mansion in Pall-mall on Saturday from Tottenham Park, near Marlborough, Wilts. The Marquis of Salisbury comes to town to-day from Hatfield. Her ladyship and family will come to town on Wednesday. The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde have arrived in town from Portamna Castle, Galway. The Earl and Countess Grey have arrived at their mansion on Carlton-terrace from Howick Castle, Northumberland. Frances Countess Waldegrave and Mr. Harcourt, M.P., come to town to-morrow from Nuneham, where they have been receiving a succession of visitors. The Earl of Lincoln, eldest son of the Duke of Newcastle, is about to form a matrimonial alliance with the daughter of Mr. Henry Thomas Hope, of Deepdene. Earl Granville gave an official dinner on Saturday, at his residence in Bruton-street, to the following party : The Lord Chancellor, Viscount Palmerston, Sir G. Corns wall Lewis, the Duke of Newcastle, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir George Grey, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, the Earl of St. Germans, Viscount Sydney, Mr. Helps, and Mr. Harrison. Viscountess Palmerston has issued cards for an assembly this evening at Cambridge House. The Speaker and Lady Charlotte Denison have arrived at the House of Commons, from Ossington Hall, Newark. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mrs. Gladstone come to town to-day, from visiting Lord and Lady Lyttelton, at Hagley, near Worcester. Lady Molesworth entertained at dinner last evening the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, Lord and 'Lady Wodehouse, Mr. Loch, Baron Rothschild, Lord Torrington, the Right Hon. C, P. Villiers, &c. Sir Edmund Head, Governor-General of Canada, left Liverpool on Saturday by the royal mail steamship Africa, for New York. General Pave, aide-de-camp to the Emperor 01 the French, and Madame Faye, have arrived at the Bruns• wick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Paris. The address of the House of Lords, in answer to the speech from the Throne, at the opening of the session, will be moved by the Earl of Sefton, and seconded by Vis count Lismore. The Archbishop of Armagh last week (says the Weekly Register) passed through London, on his return to Ireland. His grace's report both of the health and cheer fulness of the Holy Father is most satisfactory. The Hon. J. H. Cameron, who is a member of the Canadian Legislature, and a grand master of the Orange body in British America, is at present in the north of Ireland, and was welcomed to Belfast on Wednesday evening at a dinner and public meeting of the "brethren" in the Orange-hall of that town. The local journals give lengthened reports of the proceedings. The Paris correspondent of the Universel says that Count de Montalembert is dangerously ill. Only his intimate friends are allowed to see him. According to the Journal de Geneve, the follow ing is the sense of the letter lately written by the Empress of the French to the Queen of Naples :—" She would be in her place, and envies her the part she now plays by the Side of her husband, in the midst of her family and devoted sol diers. She cannot advise her to abandon her rights, forshe also knows the sorrows and duties which royalty imposes ; and it is on that account that, better than many others, she understands her courage and devotion." The speeches of Fr. Lacordaire and M. Guizot at the French Academy, seem to have been but little relished at Court. The Empress, who was present, ap plauded and wept. Prince Napoleon, who was also pre• sent, laughed painfully and talked very loud. Charming Plomplon. THE BRITISH GARIBALDIAN LEGION.—On Fri.. day evening another detachment of the British Garibaldian Legion arrived at the Victoria Docks, from Gibraltar, where they had been 15 days subsisting upon subscriptions, and had been sent home by the British Government. On arriving is Loudon the wen were perfectly destitute, 'L. ..),• , "..'' , '.• , • . , s - 1 - 1,,-' 4 4" , ?. , •/q 43 1 ~---- , .:,,, - 1 - _,..--- --, i' , - :n m \ :.? '. l l L,..,,,,..,,,,,, ' 6 i — , : ; - . 4„. ' l6 'r • i't 0' ' ' Fiii.:r "‘ THE SUN. LO4DON, MONDAY, FEB. 4, 1861. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1861 GARIBALDI'S EXPECTED VISIT TO ENGLAND. TO THE EDITOR OF I .IIE SUN. SIR,—In consequence of a inter received by me from General Garibaldi, dated'' Caprera, January 21st, 1861," stating his ferveit approval of the motion I purposed to bring Wore the Court of Common Council next Thursay (and of which notice has been given), and es( of his intention to visit England at an early dat, at the same time intimating his inability at preent to indicate the precise period—l think it adcsable, therefore, to postpone my motion until suet time as the hero, planting his foot on our "shore of freedom," shall l in person thank, as he desires 0 do, our nation, for the moral and material supprt which has been given to the Italian cause. I am,iir, yours tnly, JOHNRICHARD SON 30, Bishopsgate-street Witbut, 8.C., Feb. 2. MR. BRIGIIT'B IRGATITIBS; Mr. Bright has made a " kummagem" speech, in which the omissions are mst conspicuous. He says nothing about Parliamenary Reform, and he omits to point his hearers tc the happiness, con cord, and prosperity of the United States. Still Mr. Bright has the House oiPeers left to abuse, and the army to calumniab. He is vituperate, venomous, and vindictive " acording to custom." Mr. Bright, having failed in its attempt to reform the representation, is now about to attempt to reform our finances. " Hovvlong," he says is the question passing from moith to mouth, " will the Chancellor of the Exchquer be able to raise £70,000,000 in taxes on the pople of this country ?" This is a question whic., it is quite true, is pressing upon public attenton. We feel it —for we feel in our pockets and fild that the income tax has extracted the last spar shilling. But Mr. Bright is certainly not the nan " born to set us right" in finance. He has n'ver opened his mouth about taxation without makfig atrocious mistakes. He cannot understand the zonetary question, he says. A settler in one of he western States of America being questioned al to the extent of his religious privileges, admitted that no religious preacher sojourned amongst hem, but added, as an extenuating circumstance, "we have a man who can make a smart prayer." Mr. Bright is neither a statesman nor a financier. What then ? He can bully a bishop, slander the House of Lords, and demonstrate the inferiority of our limited monarchy to the United States Republic.—Derbyshire Courier. THE BUCKLEY SERENADERS.--The performances of this clever Croup• are limited to a few evenings more at the St. James's Hall. Had the law with regard to theatrical entertainments permitted tie representation of those bur lesque operas which have been so highly successful in America, their stay would have been greatly lengthened. The present season will terminate on Saturday evening, the 9th of February, on which occasion the entertainment will be for the benefit of the general manager, Mr. .R. Bishop Buckley. LYCEUM THEATRE.—We much regret to state that Mr. John Drew, the talented Irish comedian, was suddenly seized with a most alarming fit on Saturday evening. Scarcely had he uttered a few words in the first scene of " The Irish Emigrant," when he was observed to stagger, and before assistance could be afforded to him he fell. The curtain was instantly dropped, and the un fortunate sufferer immediately conveyed home. Every attention which kindness and skill could suggest was afforded to him. The Liverpool naturalists are preparing an anniversary festival to be held at St, George's Hall in April next. SPICIE FOR INDIA AND CHINA.—SOtITIIAMP TON, MONDAY.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Indus, sailing to-day for Alexandria, takes out in specie—Gold coin, £lB,OOO ; bar silver, £76,786; and dol lars, £20,647. SPECIE FOR THE CAPE.—SOUTHAMPTON, MON DAY.—The Union Company's screw steamer Celt, sailing to-day for the Cape of Good Hope, takes out in specie, sove reigns, £3,000. Mr. Joseph Severn has been appointed her Ma jesty's consul at Rome. Mr. Severn is well known for his knowledge of the fine arts, and the interest he has taken in matters relating thereto during his long residence to Rome. Mr. Smale, of the equity bar, has been appointed attorney-general at Hong Kong, in the place of Mr. Adams, who has become the chief justice. Mr. Smale is well known as having been for many years a reporter in Chancery. We (Stafordshire Advertiser) are happy to state that the Duke of Sutherland has had another favourable week, and is decidedly improving. The Trustees of the International Exhibition of 1862 met on Saturday last at the Council-office. Present : Earl Granville, Mr. T. Baring, M.P., and Mr. C. W. Dilke. rrh rf e Indeendent says that at the Hullah Concert at Sidney tiouege, tne 'National Anthem was omitted in compliance with an express wish of the court and the prince himself, that " for the future, when his royal highness appears in public, during his stay in Cambridge, he may be allowed to enjoy himself in quiet and be received with silent respect." Mr. Frederick H. Whymper has been appointed a sub-inspector of factories. THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF THE ABBE TINET. —The Liverpool coroner's jury returned a verdict of "Found drowned" in this case, the report of which has already appeared in our columns, when the name of Tinet was erroneously printed as Flint. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE CROYDON RAILWAY. —On Saturday a fatal accident occurred to John Miles, aged 37 years, whp resided at Croydon-common. It ap peared that the deceased was working on the Croydon Railway, near Sydenham, when one of the engines struck him and knocked him down, and the tender laid open his skull. He was taken to Guy's Hospital, but died shortly after his admission. The Univerity of Oxford has elected Mr. John Stainer, Mus. Bac. Ch. Ch., organist of Magdalen College, to the honourable position of University Organist, recently vacant by the decease of Dr. Stephen Elvey. Mr. Stainer, who is only 21, was formerly a chorister in St. Paul's Cathe dral, and at the early age of seven evinced a precocious talent by his ability to extemporise a fugue on any given subject. He bids fair at no distant period to occupy a prominent place in the musical world. THE FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE SHEERNESS DOCK- YARD.—An inquiry into this calamitous occurrence, the particulars of which were given in The Sun of Friday, took place on Saturday, at the Clarence Hotel, Sheer ness, before Mr. J. Hill, coroner for the district, and a highly respectable and intelligent jury. After inspecting the bodies of the deceased the jury proceeded to the scene of the accident, and carefully examined the machinery, the boiler, and the other works connected with the fatal occur rence. After this they returned to the Clarence Inn, when a witness named John Powell was examined. He said two jennies were used in order to lift the boiler. He did not think the strain on one was greater than the strain on the other. They had been originally tested, and found capable of lifting 30 tons each. The weight of the boiler now being lifted was only 28 tons. Had the necessary complement of men, and the lifting:was conducted as usual, but the chain of one jenny rode a little more than the other, and this caused the surge. The crash and accident immediately suc - ceeded the surge. Fackerall overlooked the working of both the jennies. Surges of the same kind had occurred before, but not such heavy ones. Mr. Hill, the coroner, observed that Fackerall was a very material and important witness, and as he was too ill to attend, he suggested that the in quiry should be adjourned. A juryman recommended the desirability of obtaining the evidence of some scientific gen tleman, and suggested that application should be made to the Secretary of State to send down Mr. Bramwell or Mr. English, engineers, in order to give their opinion as to the cause of the accident. Other gentlemen of the jury thought the same, and contended that in justice to the public every possible means should be adopted and facility afforded for the production of the best evidence that could be procured on the subject: After some discussion this was agreed to, and the inquiry was adjourned until half-past 10 o'clock on Monday, the 11th inst. APPREHENSION OF A MURDERER.—Up to Satur day morning no trace was obtainable of Thomas Donne gan, who stands charged on the coroner's warrant with the murder of James Cassidy, in Johnson-street, Liverpool. A reward of £lOO was offered by the Secretary of State for Home Department for his apprehension, and placards to that effect were posted between Friday night and Saturday morning all over the town. Tho offer of the reward had not been very long issued before Donnegan was in custody. At a little before 9 o'clock on Satur- day morning police officers N. Lees and Stadman suc ceeded in capturing him in Cornwall-street, Everton. It appears that since the time of the murder he had been skulking about from place to place, sleeping in entries and other out-of-the-way places, and had succeeded in obtain ing a partial disguise, having to some extent changed his clothes. When taken to the police-office he was offered breakfast, but was unable to eat. His countenance is of a forbidding character, and he is of small stature and a light make. While at the police-station, where he was kept under strict surveillance in a room off the detective-office, he appeared exceedingly restless, continually pacing up and down the apartment. An immense crowd was assembled outside the police-station for the purpose of seeing him as he was expected to pass up towards the court. This expec tation, however, was disappointed. Donnegan was not taken before the magistrates at all. Having been appre• hended on a coroner's warrant, he was at once committed to Kirkdalo Gaol to await his trial at the ass 7 zes, which will be held in March. Thomas Donnegan, his uncle, who was also wounded by him at the same time Cassidy was killed, said to be slowly in the way of recovery. LATEST NEWS. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) PARIS; MOXDA.Y: The Moniteur publishes an imperial decree regu. lating the sitting of the Senate and Corps Legis latif. The projects of the addresses of the Senate and Corps Legislatif will be drawn up by Commis sions composed of the presidents and one member from each committee. Both addresses will be voted paragraph by para- graph. Any amendment to the addresses will only be discussed when signed by five tnembersi VIENNA, VEL 4. Numbers of the nutigarlan soldiers on furlough, who had been ordered to return, have already arrived at their quarters. Tho semi-oillcial Donau-Zeitung gives a denial to the news published by some German journals that a treaty relating to the Danubian principalities had been concluded between Russia and Austria. COPENHAGEN, FEB. 2. The Danish Diet has been closed. The King, in his reply to the President's speech, said 2 " Should they come near us, my people will de fend themselves if I call upon them to do so." The semi-official Berlinski Tidende, in publishing this speech, makes the following remarks " Should German troops enter Holstein without being called upon to do so by our Sovereign, and contrary to his wish, a violation of territory would then take place, and the Federal Diet would in fact have declared war against Denmark. War at the present moment would be inconvenient for Ger many, and is consequently convenient for Denmark. " A state of armed peace exhausts the strength of a country and weakens popular enthusiasm, without which a small people cannot make war. By a blockade we can now damage the commerce of Germany, and ruin the Prussian ports for a long period. The conflict must therefore now terminate either by war or by negotiation." ROME, FEB. 3. Advices received here from Gaeta to the Ist inst., state that the fire of the besiegers on the land side was rather frequent, while that of the besieged had slackened. The Sardinian projectiles were especially directed against the city. On the 31st ult., Monsignor Cresevolo, superior of the seminary, was mortally wounded. The cure of the cathedral and one monk were also badly wounded. The Alcantarista Convent was nearly destroyed on the night the 31st ult. -, BERLIN, FEB. 3. General La Marmora has repeatedly declared that Sardinia has no intention of attacking Venetia. He has made no other political declarations. TURIN, FEB. 3 (Morning). The Opinione says :—" Count Brassier de St. Simon will to-day present to his Majesty the credentials confirming 'his appointment as Ambas sador of the King of Prussia at Turin." BERNE, FEB. 3. The Federal Council has been officially informed that the Italian elections, even in the Two Sicilies, have been favourable to the Ministry. NAPLES, FEE. 1. Prince Carignano has gone to Mola di Gaeta. His journey is said to be in connection with ne gotiations for the surrender of Gaeta. The Italian troops who are pursuing the reac- ft 1,. .,,,r.. &MO • 42.x50 At the recent fight at Frosinone the Italian troops were victorious. / TURIN, FEB. 3 (Evening). General Rocca, in his report, announces that confidence and tranquillity are returning through out the whole frontier of the Abruzzi. The town of Sora has presented an address to General Sonnaz, expressive of gratitude for his exertions to restore tranquillity. The peasants compel the demoralised reactionary bands to surrender to the Sardinians. BERNE, FEB. 2. The Federal Council yesterday received semi official information from Turin to the effect that the Sardinians !expect to be masters of Gaeta within eight days. CALCUTTA, JAN. 11. The Viceroy refuses to communicate to the Indian Council the papers concerning the Mysore grant. News has been received here that the landing of the American Ambassadors had been repulsed at Japan. India is quiet, but indiscretion is shown by the income tax officials. Captain Simpson, of, the 2d Light Cavalry, is dead. PARIS, FEB. 3. The Paris papers publish a telegram from Con stantinople, dated February 2, announcing that the European Commission at Beyrout had proposed to establish in Syria one sole Government for the Christian inhabitants, under the protection of the European Powers. According to the same telegram the Porte had proposed the establishment of two Governments, with general councils composed of Christian and Mussulman members. HOMEWARD, BOMBAY, AND MAURITIUS MAILS. The Orissa brought the above mails to Sues, arriving there on the 25th January. The Ellora, with the heavy portion of the mails, &c., left Malta at noon on the 31st ult., and may :therefore be expected at Southampton on the 9th inst. OUTWARD MAILS. The Ceylon, from Southampton on the 20th, reached Malta at 4 p,m. on the 29th and sailed at midnight. The Euxine, from Marseilles on the 28th, arrived at Malta at 1 a.m. on the 31st, and sailed at 6 a.m. for Alexandria. The Singapore, with extra London mails of 12th ,o 18th November, reached Calcutta on the 26th December. The Nubia, with English mails of 20th to 26th November, arrived at Calcutta on the 29th Decem ber. The Bengal, with those of the 4th to 10th December, arrived on the 10th ianuary. FRANCE. A letter from Paris published in several Legiti mist journals in the aepartments, says : "A deputation, composed of about 150 young men of the law and medical schools, waited on the Pere Lacordaire, at tb.e Carmes, to express to him their congratulations on his speech in the French Academy. The illustriious Dominican, though much fatigued after his exertions of the previous day, returned thanks in, an animated dificourqe. 1142 dwelt particularly on the principle that liberty alone can be advantageous to the true interests of the Church, and that with it perhaps we should not have seen all that has passed within the last three years. He concluded with the following words : I ' I believe I am a fervent Catholic, but I am certain that I am an impenitent Liberal." There must be something contagious in the atmosphere of the French Home-office which even the soundest moral constitution cannot resist. The spirit of M. Billault, and others who have won unenviable distinction by the harassing warfare carried on against everything approaching to free expression of thought, seems to defy exorcism, and still haunts the familiar spot. Who would have thought, a few weeks ago, that M. de Persigny, who gave fair promise of a tolerant and just dispo sition in his dealing with the press, would reopen the inglorious campaign, and in a fashion which bids fair to throw his predecessors into the shade ? His treatment of the Courrier du Dimanche pre sents a striking contrast to the liberal circulars which the Minister issued on his accession to office. The avertissements inflicted by previous Ministers and their agents were often very harsh ; some were merely ludicrous blundering —such as that given to a provincial paper for saying a few words tending to disparage guano as manure. But it has never happened that, as in the case of the Courrier du Dimanche, the passages of the article which drew down chastisement were not produced as evidence of the supposed offence. And certainly this is the first time that, to the -prejudice inflicted on the paper the summary expulsion of the editor from France has been added. To justify this Hotspur decision it is alleged that the editor is a stranger, and that a foreigner must not " insult" and " outrage" the institutions of the country. M. de Persigny should have remembered that the editor could not have entered on his duties without the permission of the Government; that M. Ganesco being a foreigner did not prevent the permission from being accorded; and that he should be treated exactly as the French editor of a paper in similar circumstances. Such of the papers as have noticed this act of unprecedented severity, which, coming from the quarter it does, astonishes everybody, agree in blaming it so far as they can venture to do so; the liberal Siecle as well as the Legitimist Gazette de France. The Steele concludes its comments by saying that "it is a very grave affair to drive into exile, to banish from his adopted country, a person who for several years past had all his interests in France ; who lived ac cording to French life ; and who has made a posi tion in France which lie will not be able to find in another country," bidding fair to surpass his prede cessors, and leaving nothing to be desired to his subordinates. There is a great movement of troops at present throughout France, in consequence of the forma tioß of depots for the army of reserve. Various detachments of troops have sailed from Marseilles to reinforce the French army at Rome, and others are to follow. The conscripts of the year 1860 have received orders to join their depots by the Ist February, RUSSIA. Advices from Kiakhta, in the St. Petersburg journals, announce that the Russian merchants are taking all the necessary steps for turning to account the recent treaty with China. General Ignatieff, who left Pekin on the 10th November, arrived at Kiakhta in 15 days, the shortest time hitherto taken. On his arrival the church bells rang a peal, and a Te Deum was celebrated in the principal church: THE MAGAZINES. Blackwood. There are some very good articles in this number; the one on "The Foreign Secretary," in particular, may be cited as an instance of powerful writing, able argument, and effective satire. Of course, there will be diverse opinions regarding the truth or falsity of the strictures here deduced against the noble lord, but impartial observers will agree that many of the reproaches are just, and in no case more especially and emphatically than in his con duct on the Reform Bill two years ago. If, as has been hinted in some quarters, no decided movement is made this session:to introduce another, the country in general and the ardent wishes for Reform in particular will have its vaunted champion to thank for that vexed question not having been settled before. He, however, preferred to divide the House on the merits of the measure of his opponents before it was fairly before it in " all its bearings. The prejudices must be great or the judgment very faulty that would induce any one to call such conduct becoming the dignity of a statesman, or the justness of a legislator. This episode in the home policy of the Foreign Secretary is thus commented upon : " The Derby Government had a Reform Bill which Lord Palmerston was, but which Lord John was not, willing to let pass. He would not let Lord Palmerston turn out the Government, but he would do it himself, in the expectation that it would fall to the conqueror to divide the spoil. He laid a cunning trap, which caught all the Liberals, includ ing Palmerston ; and on the strength of his success he was able to treat with his rival on something like equal terms for a division of the spoil. We shall not now vex our tea dQrs with a history of the intrigue by which the Reform Bill of Lord Derby's Government was rejected without evc.n being discussed. We may be content to characterise it in the plain and unparliamentary language of Sir Hugh Cairns, who told Lord John Russell some severe truths. " There is one subject," he said, " upon which the people of this country are entirely agreed. They do not like any thing which bears the least appearance of or approach to artifice, or—l must use a homely phrase—a dodge. They do not like it in business, they do not like it in politics, but least of all will they admire it in a man who, at a time? when the best interests of his country at home and our most peaceful hopes abroad demand all the patriotism, all the candow . , and all the forbearance of a s t a t esman , approaches the consideration of a great national question like this, not fairly to criticise, not boldly to reject, but with a crafty and catching device to confuse, and, if it may I be, to dislocate parties ; and on that confusion and disloca tion to secure his own political aggrandisement and private advantage." In the remarks on the foreign affairs of last year the mistaken notion entertained by Lord John of the policy of the French Emperor furnishes another vantage-grouad of attack, and those who re member how emphatically the noble lord denied the possibility of such an occurrence as the seizure of Savoy taking place, and de clared before the assembled House of Commons, that he had studied the character of that great man, the Emperor, and he was convinced that he contemplated no such annexation will agree that the critic here has cause to quegtion his perspicacity and doubt his prophecies. In allusion to this blunder and to the mistaken manner in which the Treaty was conducted, the following passage appears : For the manner in which this country Fag "supremely diddled" in the affairs of the Commercial Treaty and the annexation of Savoy, the colleagues of Lord John Russell must bear a large portion of the blame. But not on that account is Lord John himself to escape condemnation. 'Upon him, indeed, must the greater share of the blame lie. He was in constant communication with the French Court. it was his business to follow every indication, to penetrate every design, and, by a bold face, to shame the adversary. Ne had warning enough. Again and again he was told of the FAmperer's designs upon Savoy. In the simplicity of his heart, he could not believe it. He was as blind as the bats that cling to the crevices of the Foreign Office. He saw nothing till the deed was finally determined on. If Lord John Russell had from the first shown a firm front, and exhibited a disposition not to be mislead by the Commercial Treaty and by asseverations that, in the pre sence of great armaments, really meant nothing, he might have prevented the annexation of Savoy. He was gulled into believing that he had influence where he had none, and he had the mortification of being obliged to rise in the House of Commons and eat his own word. Having vouched there for the character of the French Emperor, and the certainty of the French alliance, lie had to get up and calmly announce that the former was no longer to be trusted, and that the latter was at an eiid. Never has a Foreign Secretary in this country had to con fess so inglorious a defeat. We commend this spirited article to the notice of all who would peruse a first -rate commentary on public affairs, and for those who wlil not subscribe to the extreme views here taken, there will yet be the satisfaction of viewing the opinions of an eloquent opponent expressed in clear, concise, and comprehensive words. There is an enter taining paper OR " B log ra phic a Dramatica," which will repay the reader for glancing at it. It demonstrates in an impressive style the great change that has taken place in regard to theatri cal celebrities. It says that " the morbid curiosity about the denizens of the stage has completely died out," and hence the state of things has mate rially altered from the last generation, when "if seemed as if an unlucky person, whether an am bitious Hamlet, or an unlucky Ophelia set forth upon the boards, they were forced in all fteure time to dance a torch-dance down the great hall of life like a set of princes and potentates at a Prussian wedding, and found repose and shadow never more.' " Norman Sinclair" in this instalment presents us with some important information in regard to the mysterious railway forgeries. There is a paper on Mr. Davis's recent work on " Carthage, and its Remains, which enters into an elaborate detail of its plan, but spea k s somewhat slightingly of its merits, but at last it allows that " his name will be voted for ages to come in - . 7r‘ry discussion of the antiquities of Carthage," in consequence of the ra'n li ,t e ''c has addrd to the Ina :A urn. " School and College Life," its Romance and Reality; is a very amusing notice of some work that have lately appeared on this subject. Most . of the opini ons h ere expressed are correct, and. above all the ridicule that is cast on those over drawn and exaggerated statements that appear in some stories. In the tale of " Ernest Brace bridge's School-days," we find that thislintellectual youth informed the doctor that he and his father could talk " Latin and Greek together, just as easily as we do French. and German, and Italian." It is wisely said that " what such a prodigy should have been sent to school for at all, except to puzzle the masters, is the mysterious part of this history." Dublin University Magazine. A new story is begun in this number, called "An Only Son." It promises well for a first instalment, and presents us with some very natural. specimens of boys. Philip and Ned are likely enough associates to be met with any day in our wanderings on the high road of life; and Mrs. Burkitt seems likely to prove a shrewd woman of the world. A domestic tale like this has always attractions for many. The literary criticisms in. this magazine are generally very good. There are two articles on the subject, one, entitled " Tenny son's Philosophy. --In Memoriam ;" and another, "Recent Popular Novels." In the observations on. the philosophy of the Poet Laureate it is said that the "' In Memoriam' is not a theological poem." Its charm is that it describes the experience of sorrow and doubt which a cultivated mind has passed through on his way to a higher faith, and. a contented submission to the ills of life." Further on, in dwelling on the views expressed concerning faith, it is said, " We should wish a more cheerful acknowledgment of the light which we have. The poet dwells on the mystery of the possession of evil, but does not admit, as he ought, that these are the eyelids of the morning, the skirts of the mantle of Him who decks himself with light as with a gar ment." The novels criticised are "The Mill on the Floss," " The Woman in White," and " Lavinia," all of which appeared last season, and were, in their peculiar styles and distinctive characteristics, among the most striking and successful. In the observa tions on the " Mill on the Floss" it is truly said, that it is a mistaken notion which prompts female writers of celebrity to assume a masculine disguise. " Only a woman's book" is a phrase which no just or generous critic would think of using against writers of the stamp of " Currer Bell," George Sand, and the author of "Adam Bede." Such women would have lost none of their present fame had they always avowed their sex as openly as Mrs. Hemans, Mrs. Somerville, and Mrs. Brown ing have done; their place in modern literature will be determined not by their genders, but by their books—by the beautiful things they have written, rather than the beautiful things they may have seemed in the flesh to masculine eyes." Of the "Woman in White" no very great opinion is entertained, but of " Lavinia" the writer speaks highly, and those who have read the book will agree that the praise is deserved. "We heartily thank the author of Lavinia' for hav ing given us so clear a proof that the art of writing a classic novel has not wholly died out even in an age of groping realism and frantic straining after new effects." There is a brief memoir of the able physician, " Sir Henry Marsh," which is interesting to peruse. Also an article on " Ships in Armour," and an engraving is given. of La Gloire. The discussion of the subject is appropriate at the present time. It is mentioned. that " the two primary elements involved in. the construction and use of an iron-cased fleet, namely, expense and skill, are in their develop ments in favour of England over any other country." There are other papers of interest and. importance to complete the contents of this num ber, as The Maori War," and " Prospective Politics." Fraser's Magazine A paper on our political relations with foreign Powers opens this number. It analyses the con duct of our recent Cabinets, and attacks with con siderable severity the line of policy they have pur sued. With a good deal of truth and just severity there is likewise some amount of prejudice, inasmuch as a sweeping condemnation of every successive English Government, and an approval of the foreign policy of the French Emperor, are, to say the least, somewhat inconsistent. The remarks on the favour too often shown by our statesmen to Austria are sound and well merited ; undoubt edly, a straightforward and manly course, with out regard to the interests or interference of that treacherous Power, would solve many of their perplexities. But, while admiring the pertinence and directness of his attacks on our Austrian sympathies, we cannot but wonder that the same writer who so vehemently denounces "the monstrous inconsistenciess" of Lord John Russell, is so ready with plausible excuses, and. even indignant defences, of the conduct of the foreign policy of another power, which, to ordinary mortals, seemed still more uncertain and startling in its changes. "A Strange Story of Titahua" shows us the miseries and dangers of compulsory veracity. Like the visitors to Madame de Geniis's famous Palace of Truth, the inhabitants of this singular island expressed their real thoughts with out intention, and the result was generally very unsatisfactory. The continuation of Mr. Whyte Melville's story of " All Down Hill" gives us the an tecedents of the fair songstress who was introduced. to us last month, and who bids fair to be the heroine of the story. The third paper on "France and Paris forty, thirty, and twenty years ago," continues its discursive recollections, and, among other interesting details, gives us some particulars of the state of the French bar at those periods. The writer's opinion of our neighbours forensic ability in the decade from 1820 to 1830 is highly flattering. The romantic history of Ida Conway's love affairs is continued, but the fair heroine, though more truthfully drawn than many charming damsels of romance, does not win on the reader's sympathies. A. K. H. B. gives us another of his pleasant essays, taking for his subject " Solitary Days." Of course so genial and kindly a writer, while admitting the advantages of occasional still ness and seclusion to the student, denounces con tinued loneliness as deteriorating to the nature and depressing to both mind and body. Among its dangers he mentions one to which the more highly organised are especially liable :—" There is an influence," he says, " which is felt in a solitary life which ought never to be permitted to gain the upper hand. I mean the influence of our own mental moods. It is not fit that a man should watch his mental moods as he marks the weather, and be always chronicling that on such a day he was in high or low spirits, kindly disposed or snappish, as the case may be. The more stirring influence of intercourse with others renders men comparatively heedless of the ups and downs of their own feelings ; change of scenes and faces, conversation, business engagements, may make the day a lively or a depressed one, though they rose at motming with a tendency to just the oppo site thing. But the solitary man is apt to look too much inward, and to attach undue importance to the fancies and emotions which arise spontaneously within his own breast, many of them in great measure the result of material causes." After admitting that many kinds of mental work, and more especially the labour of composition, can only be adequately performed in stillness and soli tude, he goes on to comment on the dangers of complete isolation from our kind : The highest excellence, indeed, in some one department of human exertion is not consistent with decent goodness in all ; you dwarf the remaining faculties:when you develop one to abnormal size and strength. Thus men have been parents. Thus d to pay their h g raevaet pmenrea c h h e e e r a s , g b r e u a t t u statesmen,co mm o n y h n u e t g l e % t i f t u t e l tradesmen's bills. Thus men have been great moral and social reformers, whose own lives stood much in need of moral and social reformation. I should judge from a portrait I have seen of Mr. Thomas; Sayers, the champion of England, that this eminent individual hag attended to his physical to the neglect of his intellectual development. His face appeared deficient in intelligence, though his body seemed abundant in muscle. And possibly it is better to seek to develop the entire nature—intellectual, moral, and physical—than to push one part of it into a prominence that stunts and kills the rest. It is better to be a complete man than to be essentially a poet, a statesman, a prize fighter. It is better that a tree should be fairly grown all round, than that it should send out one tremendous branch 'to the south, and have only rotten twigs in every other direction ; better, even though that tremendous branch should be the very biggest that ever was seen. Such an inordinate growth in a single direction is truly morbid. It reminds one of the geese whose livers go to form that regal dainty, the pats de foie Bras. By sub jecting a goose to a certain manner of life, you dwarf its legs, wings, and general muscular development; but you grow as large as itself. I h ave k nown human itsanb liver beings who practised on their mental powers a pre cisely analogous discipline. The power of calculating in timures of writing poetry, of chess-playing, of preaching sermons, was tremendous; but all thgir other faculties were like the legs and wings of the fattening goose. Let us try to be entire human beings, round and cora pit:te ; and if we wish to be so, it is best not to live too much alone. The.best that it in man's nature t a k en as a whole 114 brought out by the society of his kind. In one or two respects he may be better in solitude, but not as the complete man. An account of the life and times of Hafiz, the cele breed Persian poet, will interest the reader. It is . , ..... _..,„._ ..............--. -- w , somehat amusing, however, to ,, find the author referring to his former paper on the subject pub lished in Fraser, September, 1854. We fear, amid the excitements and Changes of the inter vening YeArS) few Qf its readers will. retain A distinct w