The Sun. — London, England, 1856-05-29 00:00:00

ITER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Madame ALBONI. GRAND EXTRA NIGHT. —TO-MORROW EVENING (Friday, May 30th), will be repeated Bellini's Opera, LA SONNAMBULA. Amina, Madame Alboni ; Lisa, Madlle. Rizzi ; Teresa, Madlle. Borgaro ; Elvin°, Signor Salviani; Alessio, Signor Vario ; and Count Rodolpho, Signor Beneventano. To conclude with the new Ballet Divertissement, LA MANOLA. Madame Albert Bellon, Mdlles. Katrine, Rosa, Lisereux, Clara, Pierron, M. Venafra, and M. Vandris. The Scenery by Mr. Charles Marshall. Madlle. PICCOLOMINL—On Saturday, Madlle. Piccolo mini will make her fourth appearance. Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre, Colonnade, Haymarket. ROYAL SURREY TREATER. Lessees, Mews. Shepherd and Creswiek. ON FRIDAY EVENING, WiII be performed MA,RTIN CEIUZZLEWIT. To be followed by A THUMPING LEGACY. To couclade with TWICE KILLZU. AST LEY'S ROYAL AMP HIT II EAT ILE . Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. A GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE, THIS DAY, at Three o'clock, when will be presented, for the first time, a Patriotic Allegorical Pageant Drama, entitled THE FES TIVAL OF PEACE, or Honour to the Brave; with a bril liant series of Scenes in the Circle. Box-ottice open tram E , evan till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. •Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, inn. man WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tais DAT—Morn. 28 min. aft. 9—Evening 1 min. aft. 10 TI-Mositow—Morn. 23 min. aft.lo —Evening 2 min. aft. 11 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, MAY 29. THERMOMETEU, IN TEIX —highest since noon yesterday. 56 —lowest this morning and during the night., 61 —this day at' noon. BAROMETER-29 -98. WIND, N. to N.N.E.—Rather fresh, with dull weather and glimpses of sunshine. e "me ' Nfi , 3 4 4 , 2 46; ( "2 . ,-"" AV! are,. ' )3M, LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1866. THE ILLUMINATIONS. The greatest fools make the rarest chows ! We Lope that the evil consequences (yet to come) of this patched up mock - Peace may teach Posterity to beware of being parties to such national humiliation in their day. The once proud land of the Free is now betrayed to Continental hypocrites, in order that a foreign nobody of yesterday may be the future purveyor of kindred despots : " Trust not your freedom to the Franks ; They have a King who buys and sells : In native swords, and native rankg, Your only hope of freedom dwells !" The day of illumination for the bitter first fruits of a mismanaged war has at last arrived. And of all days in the year, as we took •ccasion to notice last week, it is the anniversary of the restoration of that debauched traitor, CHARLES IL, who sold his people for French gold, and suffered that glorious flag, which the genius of the Great OLIVER and the enterprise of the heroic BLAKE had elevated to the highest pinnacle of renown, to be draggled in the mud—brought England, in point of fact, to so sorry a pass that a Dutch Admiral, with every circum stance of insult, swept the Channel, and, sailing unimpeded up the Thames, menaced with the thunder of his guns the safety of the me tropolis ! Royal Oak day ! Could there have been a more appropriate day selected for the cele bration of a truce dictated and enforced by a con spiracy of foreign despots and domestic traitors ! Corporal NYM must have admired " the humour of it " had that veteran conveyancer been still in the land of the living. " Sold again !" cried the sententious parrot over the victim of a huckstering espousal. "Sold again." Not all the guns in the Park will this day be able to drown the ominous words, "SDld again"—a thorough unmitigated "sell !" The very artists employed by Government to furnish designs for the illumination seem to have been influenced by a consciousness of the fact. At Somerset House, for instance, the wreath of neional glory is painted-- waving feebly upward from beneath the anchor in the salt ooze where it lies drowned. Nevey was wit- Bossed a greater poverty of invention, nor a snore straggling array of paltry devices on the part of private individuals. When the people of this co•antry do rejoice they do so handsomely. The inference is obviouQ, and the absence of all enthu siasm in the streets confirms it—everybody feels, to a greater or less extent, we have been " sold again." We are only surprised that the illumi nation at the Horse Guards is not in keeping with that at Somerset House. The device there should have been the Gallic Cock, in the act of crowing, perched on tin shoulders of the British Lion, muzzled. The motto of the Garter is, however, well enough in its way. iloni soil qui mal y pinse—evil be to him who evil thinks—in indi rect confession, as we take it, of guilt. S 3 poor, in fact, is the display, and so little proof does it afford of any rejoicing on the part of the people, that were the Government designs with drawn there would be little more to be wituesse 1 than on an ordinary Birth-day. The people are 'wiser than their rulers give them credit for. What have they to - rejoice over ? Rejoice, in May, orer a German Peace, concluded in March ; a peace in the making of which they had no say, and which was ratified without the semblance of their concurrence. It is bad enough to be sold ; it is intolerable to be called upon to rejoice over such a bitter humilia tion ! The triumph is a German triumph, and a triumph over, and not of, the people. Let German hearts and German voices rejoice over it, together with those grovelling traders who would an readily illtiminate if the CZAR were in posses sion of Loudon. The population having to pay for all, whether they like it or not, may choose to witness the exhibitions which Government has provided, but they neither will nor can do more. Too many noble lives have been sacrificed, too much national treasure has - been- wasted, too bitter a pill of national humiliation, has been swallowed, to admit of that. Their forefathers rejoiced (war great victories gloriously won, and. followed by greaVresults. How should they rejoic e over a German Peace—over the stoppage of the national arms, just ` as a career of glory and sue ... ens) follow in g °# 'a period of ever-memorable dis aster, was opened otl tcithpin ! The people have not forgotten Agineoqt,,'Cressy, the victories of the Peninsula, a nd the(igloriou s 18th o f June. NELSON and hii achievements are not quite erased from their recollection. Prince ALBERT has not got them sufficiently Germanised for that. They cannot rejoice. Not a few, indeed, are t o b e found who go so far as to deplore the fact that her MAJESTY'S Birthday should be celebrated on a day characterised by so much national humiliation.- L would, indeed, have been fortunate if the irresponsible and secret directors of the Govern ment, a nd the responsible and avowed Ministers had been as solicitous for the honour and welfare of the United Yingdona as they showed them selves to be to prevent any humiliation, or loss of powor . to :Russia. Had it been so we never have hr dof '' the witertible Cuo.ANDoN ~ ~.. H~~ capitulation," or the gratuitous and uncon stitutional surrender of our unquestionable maritime rights. Never was there a sacrifice more wanton and uncalled for than that which Lord CLARENDON deliberately made. Not a single effort was made to avert the evil—not a word spoken in defence of what was considered by the Statesmen and Jurists of former days, as the clearest and most valuable privilege belonging to their " Mistress of the Seas," the most formidable weapon by which she could bring any enemy, whether continental or transatlantic, to reason. We were accustomed to rely on our " wooden walls," not merely as defenders of the 1 British soil, for any invaders, even if they effected a landing, would have bitter cause to deplore their temerity, but also as the means of checking and destroying the adversaries' commerce, and thus inflicting the heaviest blows on the sensitive part, the pocket. Against this power no enemy , could stand. It was to it that England owed her eventual triumph in the most serious struggle in which she had ever been involved. But for it there might have been no interruption to the NAPOLEON dynasty. The Great EMPEROR might have lain in state in the Tuileries in place of dying in exile. With its surrender we have abandoned the chief source of strength which entitled us to rank amongst the great Powers of Europe. It is obvious that England is not and cannot be a great military nation. We cannot maintain half or three-quarters of a million of fighting men, partly because our free institutions do not allow of forced conscriptions, and men, aye and boys, of all ranks being compelled to serve as private sol diers at the will of a despotic ruler ; partly, also, because our commercial and manufacturing occupations are too well remunerated to in duce men voluntarily to shoulder the firelock and accept the QUEEN'S shilling, but chiefly be cause we pay and feed our soldiers far better than any other nation, and do not allow them to make up by plunder for the scantiness of their ether resources. But our maritime power and maritime rights more than compensated for any and every deficiency. As GEORGE CANNING truly declared, we have " braved confederacies and sustained wars rather than give up the principle, and when ever in despair of getting the British" (they were British, not German Governments then) " Govern ment to surrender it by force, recourse had been had to proposals of amicable negotiations for the pur pose of defining, limiting, or qualifying the exercise of the right of search, Great Britain had uni formly declined all such overtures, from a convic tion of the impracticability of qualifying, limiting, or even defining in terms that would be accept able to the other party the exercise of a right, without impairing, if not sacrificing the right itself." It was in speaking of that same right, and the attempt to produce a new code of maritime laws, that Mr. PITT made the memorable dec!aration " Whatever shape it assumes, it is a violation of public faith, it is a violation of the rights of England, and im periously calls upon, Englishmen to resist it even to the last shilling and the last drop of blood, rather than tamely submit to degrading concession, or meanly yield the rights of the country to shameful usurpation." But this degrading concession has been treacherously made at Paris without the slightest necessity on the insidious application of our own Ally. It was to France that the powerwas peculiarly dangerous. In the event of any future compli cation in which the flags of France and England were arrayed on opposite sides—and such an event is possible, although, we trust, not probable— France could carry on her whole commerce under neutral flags, and her only vulnerable point being guarded by the concession so improvidently made might laugh our puny efforts to scorn. We have voluntarily disarmed ourselves, or have been com pelled to fling down our well-tried weapons by a juggle, of which we shall not trust ourselves to speak in the terms that it deserves. Lord CLARENDO.i is not the only delinquent. There are others implicated. The manner in which the surrender was made, proved that it was not the result of any sudden inspiration, but rather of a well-organised conspiracy to sap the foundation of England's greatness. Neither the Parliament nor the People of Great Britain were consulted. If such had been the case we can scarcely doubt the nature of the indignant response that would be heard from every district through out the length and breadth of the land. We would still be prepared to resist to the last shil ling and the last drop of blood the degrading concession, and refuse to barter our children's birthright to gratify Emperor, Kaiser, or Prince. But the matter was kept involved in deepest mystery. Not a hint was suffered to leak out of the terrible degradation and injury about to be sustained by Great Britain. We were deluded into the notion that the Conference was held for the purpose of obtaining satisfactory guarantees from Russia, such as might justify the cessation of hostilities. It was not for moment imagined that we, who had made no aggression, were to be required to make the heaviest sacrifice of all. The Italian question, and others, were venti lated as a mere excuse for the more se rious matter introduced. They were quietly shelved by ' the refusal of Count Buor, to dis cuss them, as not within the scope of his duties. But Lord 'CLARENDON did not adopt a similar course. Ho struck at the first summons not on a topic under discussion, but one that was surreptitiously and improperly introduced by those who should not have aimed a blow at, or been willing to surrender, England's rights. That it was illegal and unconstitutional we have no doubt. That it is not, and cannot be, binding on our successors is equally certain. We cannot deprive them of their weapons of offence and defence—cannot compel them to sur render their inalienable rights, rights indispens able to the honour and security of the country. It would be just as competent for Lords PA.LMER. STON and CLARENDON, LOUIS NAPOLEON, and the irresponsible Premier, to stipulate that England should pay tribute to France, acknowledge its supremacy, and entrust its defence in case of aggression to French soldiers, while the British helots worked at the loom or the plough, as that they should attempt to bind her not to resort t° t he only weapons that could be effectual in time of war. -We repeat what we have already declared, that not only Lord CIARENDON, but all the parties cognisant of this miserable and degraded capitu lation,,sheuld be impea.ched and brought to con= exemplary punishment. dip and t must be much mi, hi. n nl the Derby- C u mous MEASURE•TROVii:—Lcismenz mast make easier than finding, for where y ou day with one Mall " who has picked come in contact with at least ten who ha : e ller you theirs. By the bye, the Lord of the Manor a good thing of it, if he claims all the money that dropped on those ocoasions.—Punch. Taz FORCE or HABlT.—'Louis Napoleon h as whether the credit, hather justly or not, of having concluded the present treaty. It would seem as if, at the "Theatre of Wa r , " as at all our other theatres , the En g lish could not aveil taking their "Peace" from the French. — Punch. - _ COLONIAL.—..It is not true that the Governorship of Victoria war, offered to Prince. Albert, and in the hand somat &Dauer idiattd.—Funcht. THE SUN; LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1856. "GERMAN PASTE." Our English glory is confirmed, our triumph ratified, A little English gold has gone—a few brave men have died ; But "Articles of Peace" are signed, and form a painted cage, Where, like the " Happy Family," all nations lose their rage. 'Tie curious to watch the "Bear" bow down with courtly stoop, And let the Gallic Nagle strut around him " cock-a-whoop ;" 'Tis strange to see the Lion stretched, like lamb on flowery plain, While Prussianßats audAustrianCats are playing with his mane. 'ris whispered there's a secret in the mixture of their food, Some potent charm that cunningly affects their real blood ; And shrewd men have suspicion that the "secret" is a taste Of that mysterious condiment well known as "German Paste." So satisfying does it prove, so soon it yields enough, It seems a pity that our "stores" did not contain the stuff'; That Englishmen and English steeds, on Balaklava's waste, Could net have had their lives saved by a little" German Paste," PorhapsJohn Bullmay ask to know how this same stuff is made, Perhaps he'll find that this same stuff affords a Royal trade. Perhaps at last his genuine and honest roast-beef taste Will "stop supplies" for bills of fare made up of "German Paste." MARCO. 4 PEACE, PEACE, WHEN THERE IS NO PEACE." LINES FOR MAY 29. Blazing rockets pierce the sky, Flags hang out from tower and steeple, Yet there is but little joy In the hearts of British people. amain are the illuminations, Vain the cannon's thundering peal, Vain the Royal Proclamations, Joy Great Britain cannot feel. Great she is, alas ! no longer, In the dust she bows her head ; While the despots are but stronger, And the hopes of freedom dead. By our household idols shattered, All the brave ones we have lost, By the millions we have scattered, All the sum the war has cost. By our soldiers' deeds of wonder, Since they stood on Alma's height, We declare the peace a blunder, 'Tis our duty still to fight ! Oh ! for one more chance with Russia, This time on the open sea, Noble fleets but wait to crush her, Let them not inactive be ! Then, our mighty task completed, Shall the wrongs of Poland cease, And the nations all be treated To a happy, lasting peace. Now, though rockets pierce the sky, Banners wave from tower and steeple, Yet there is but little joy In the hearts of British people! Brompton, May, 1856. W. G. BEATTIE'S WALLACE. An exquisite little bronze statuette of the ever glorious Sir William Wallace, the darling hero of Scotland, is at present on vie* at Mr. AMean's, in the Haymarket. Designed by a provincial sculptor for the Arts-Union of Glasgow, 'it cannot but be examined with some degree of curiosity by the miscellaneous art-critics of the' metropolis. No matter whether those who are by temperament more sanguine, or those who are by experience less credulous of the good things which may from time to time be worked out of marble, or pig ment, or metal, or granite by the cunning imple ments wielded elsewhere than under the fostering shade of the School of Design, or under the pro tuberant pepper-boxes of the Royal Academy ! Mr. Beattie's charming statuette of Wallace fur nishes, we cannot but think, conclusive testimony that taste, ability, and imagination may flourish elsewhere than in direct communication with the dark ice-house in which some fifty or sixty busts, good, bad, and indifferent, are annually displayed at the back of a particularly ugly building not a hundred miles from Charingcross. The effigy of the champion of Scottish liberties as " bodied forth " by the creative fancy of Mr. Beattie is altogether so excellent 'of its kind, so accurate in costume, so chivalric in attitude, and so emi nently characteristic throughout that we are dis posed to regret that the scale upon which the design was carried out was not colossal rather than miniature. Such, too, we cannot but ima gine will be the sentiment with which this very chaste production of art will be viewed by the majority of those who may examine it, whether as connoisseurs of sculpture, as admirers of heroism, or simply in the abstract as patriotic lovers of Wallace and Caledonia. LATEST NEWS. PARIS, THURSDAY MORNING. The baptism of the Imperial Prince is fixed for be 14th of June. The Moniteur says that the work of Baron do Bazancnurt borrows no official character from the fact that it is dedicated to the Emperor. By the steamer Danube, which left Constanti nople on the 19th, and whose arrival at Marseilles we announced yesterday, we learn that a serious conflict .has occurred at Philippoli, in Roumelia, between the Christian and Mussulman populations. The Austrian Internuncio has set out on an ex ploration of the mouths of the Sulina branch of the Danube. The Presse d'Orien,t states that the Porte has named four Christians and a Jew mem bers of the Imperial Council. Gen. MacMahon will assume the command in the Crimea on the departure of Marshal Pelissier. A despatch from Odessa of the 14th states that a quarantine of four days is imposed on all ves sels coming to that port. The price of wheat was firm ; that of coals had fallen. Great anger kas been excited in Athens by the articles in the English journals on the affairs of Greece and Italy. Five brigands were executed on May 21. FIREWORKS FOR MAY 29. Squibs, crackers, and rockets, And wheels—from our pockets Well paid for—oh, glorious, glorious peace ! What no one can boast of We shan't make a toast of, But pray, this our joy, may not soon have to cease. Squibs, rockets, and crackers, The war had its backers Not few; but this peace, like a newspaper puff, The thoughtless hoodwinking, bias found many thinking That Louis, the Czar and Co., soon—but enough. Stars, candles, and bluelights; Methought I saw two lights Shine forth in the heavens—ourselves were the one, And like to a brother At first seemed that other, But shortly it grew, and blazed hot as the sun. Stars, bluelights, and candles, And now from my sandels I shake the dust at you—ye who are blind ! Who wot not, unequal Where friends are, the sequel Is ever, the strong leave the weaker behind. Bells, triple bob-majors, As singing for wagers— All jingling and jangling—Oh, Lord, what a din, And I writing treason With rhyme, if not reason ' • Roar cannon ! bang pistols ! and laugh ye who win. Edinburgh.. J. W. P. THE TEMPLE OF HUMBUG. . A. PASTORAL. - Tell me, shepherds, tensile, pray, Unto UMBUG'S ana the way ; Shepherd swains, this pilgrim tell, Whereabouts doth Humbug dwell? Gentle stranget, take the way, On a morn in jocund May, Walking Eastward up the Strand; HUMBUG dwells on thy left hand. Yea, but shepherds, what may I Know the dome of 11min:um by? Shepherds, kindly tell me what Signs denote the hallowed spot? Crowds of votaries who wait, Thronging round the Temple gate, Over whom sleek HUMBUG reigns, Se ions n 3 mphs and solemn swains. Are they tuen so clearly seen By their countenance and mien ? May they be so surely known, By their garb, for I:llmmuG's own ? By their visages severe Nymphs and swains revealed, appear ; These in black with ties of white, Those in saddest hues bedight. Thanks, kind shepherds—now I'll go W here CANT'S tumid rivers flow, Floods which Maanvorm poureth out, And the Sabbatarians spout. Go where wild fana;ics stray ; If, like them, thou lose thy way, Ask for guidance to the HALL EXETER which Shepherds call.—Punch. His Royal Highness Prince Frederick William of Prussia visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, yesterday, at Clarence House, St. James's. His Excellency the Prince Carini arrived in town on Tuesday from Paris. His Excellency made a brief stay at the Pavilion Folkestone, previous to his re turn to Eaton-square. Sir Henry and Lady Houghton and family have ar rived ft.( ni the Continent, and are sojourning at the Pavilion Hoto, F.dicestone. The Earl and Countess of Stamford and Warrington have arrived in Hilt-Area, from Enville Hall, Stafford shire. Sir Archibald Alison, Bart., and Lady Alison have arrived at R%wleigh's private hotel, in Jertnyn-street, from Fossil Llnarkshire. The Earl : ad Countess of Clarendon gave a grand din ntr at the family residence,in Grosvenor-crescent, last evening, to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary, and a distinguished circle of the nobility were invited to meet their royal highnesses. The Earl and Countess of Malmesbury entertained at dinner last evening the Earl and Countess of Chester field, the Eari of Stradbroke, the Marquis Conyngham and Lady Cecilia Conytigham, the Earl of Howth, ihe Earl of Eglinton, L _rd and Lady Delamere, terd Otho Fitzgerald, the Hon. Admiral Rona and Mrs. Rout', Right Hon. Sir W. ,and Miss Somerville, the Eon. Gilbert Heathcots, Mr, Charles Greville, Lord Bateman, &c. MR. BARON PutTT.---Mr. Baron Platt, whose severe indisposition prevented him goinglait circuit, or appear. ing in court during this and the previous term, is said to have tendered his resignation. , PORTSMOUTH, Wednesday Night.--The W. S. Lind say has arrived with the head-quarters of the 4th Dra goons. The Clyde also, with the Army Works Corps. The Windsor has arrived from New South Wales, with the 99th Regiment. nEALTH OF THE BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER AND BRISTOL. —We regret to learn from a correspondent that the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol is in a very weak state of health. Prayers were offered 'on - his behalf in the several churches in the diocese last Sunday. CHURCH BUILDING IN ST. PANCRAS.—The works at the church of St. Matthew, Oakley-square, after b e i ng suspended for many months for want of funds, have now been resumed, and it is anticipated that the structure will be ready for consecration in the course of the present year. THE TRIAL OF PALMER.—By the new act under which Palmer was tried, an account of the expense of his removal and maintenance, &c., in Newgate, is to be de livered to the county treasurer of Stafford, who is to pay the same. Any objection to the account must be made in writing, within a calender month of its delivery. We understand, from good authority, that this trial will cost the country at least ie,oooz._ TRH PRINCIPALITIES.—The Correspondence Autri chicane publishes an article upon the evacuation by the Austrian troops of the Danubian Principalities, whie, it says, has commenced., The semi-o ffi cial organ con - cludes with stating that Austria will complete the evacuation immediately that the stipulations of the Treaty of Paris concerning the organisation of the Prin cipalities haVe been (girded into effect. Loan BROuaEAM.—We regret to announce the death of the only sister . of Lord Brougham, which took place on the 25th inst. The mournful event has happened at a moment when his lordship is far from well, although to the last moment aseideomein the discharge of his Par liamentary duties, both judicial and political. The fol lowing letter from his lordship was read the other even ing by the . Lord Chancellor in the House of Lords : "My dear Lord Chancellor,—l am sorry that I must trouble you to take charge of the Carlisle petition and of my bills, as _I am unable to attend, being very unwell.; but besides, I find that 17 years (since my afflictions. in 1839) have, both by the length of time and the work, left me unable to struggle as I then did, and I may, per haps, venture to hope that I have earned a title.to some rest under the present distress. Two of the bills are in their last stage ; but by far the most important (the Judicial Statistics) is not, and I earnestly recommend it tolycur care. The prints are delivered to-day, and the numerous schedules, elaborately and moat carefully pre pared, really exhaust the whole subject, and give a coal- P‘tn l Yetem of judicial statistics, civil and criminal, general and local. As I shall almost immediately leave t b Igo." 'town, I hope yqu may receive this so as to act upon jt Lora Br oug h am w ill, we believe, quit win re. immediately, either for Stratbaoldayo Ar West. TOMB OF WILLIAM COBBETT. Over the slab which has hitherto covered the grave of William Cobbett, in the churchyard of Farnham, Surrey, a tomb has just been erected by Mr. Thomas Milnes, the sculptor who executed the statue of Nelson recently put up in Norwich. The tomb is made of a durable stone, from the quarry at Roch Abbey, in Yorkshire. It stands near • the porch of the church, is of solid workmanship, oblong in firm, and in style following the plainest old English architecture. On one panel, the inscription, copied from. the slab, is :—" William Cobbett, son of 'George and Ann Cobbett,; born in the Parish of Farnham, 9th of March, 1762. Enlisted into the 54th Regiment of Foot in 1784, of which regiment he became sergeant major in 1785, and ob tained hisklischarge in 1791. In 1784 he became a political writer. In 1832 was returned to Parliament for the borough of Oldham, and represented it till his death, which took , place at Normandy Farm, in the adjoining parish of Ash,. on the 18th of June, 1835." On the panel opposite : ," Anne Cobbett, daugh ter of Thomas and Anne. Reid, and wife of William Cobbett ; born at Chatham,. 28th of March, 1774. Married at Woolwich, sth of February, 1792. Died in London, 19th of July, 1848." Farnham church is within. a mile of Waverley Abbey, Wand of Moor Park (once the residence of Sir. William Temple), and about two miles from Aldershot. It has undergone muoh alteration since the present vicar came to the parish, being greatly repaired and beautified, and ren dered more commodious. THE ILLUMINATIONS AND FIRE- WORKS. " Great joy in London now,' says some great fool, When London had a grand illumination, Which to that bottle-conjuror, John Bull, Is of all dreams the first hallucination So that the stre,ts of coloured lamps be full, That sage (said John) surrenders at discretion His purse, his sod!, his sense, and es-en his nonsense, To gratify, like some huge moth, this one sense." —Byron. TO THE BurrOß OF THE KIN. Sin,—Optimism is in the ascendant ! Redeunt Satur nia Regna 1 In this best of all possible countries of this best of all possible worlds, under this best of all possible Governments, it seems almost impossible, to be wrong or to do 'wrung. It is true we sometimes stumble over melancholy and disgraceful efects, but somehow or another these seem to have no corresponding causes. It ignorant people, like myself, persist in looking for them, they receive sore slaps and buffets in the face from a flight of Good Intentions, whicb, emerging from the old ruins of Routine, flutter and, flap about our ears so as utterly to blind and confuse us. Blessed, then, and happy are the ignorant ! Here, on the Cotswold, we were bewildered by the war, which has left us minus many " old familiar faces " of sons, brothers, and husbands. We were more bewildered by the peace, which has left us simply, plus the double income tax and a rumour of fireworks and illuminations, which we, the olod•compellers,` shall never see, and, of which, unless they are to represent the old custom of corpse-candles, we cannot divine the reason. But, of course, all is for the best. Our time, Sir, is pretty. well occupied in the country. Boys and old women will steal turnips, and hardened ruffians will frighten pheasants into apoplexies. Never theless a book sometimes finds its way into our hands, and enables us to lay aside "Burns' Justice " for a brief period. I venture to quote a few passages from an author (Captain Mayne Reid) who appears to have seen, thought, and done as much as most men in this best of all possible worlds. He says : "A fondness for fireworks is a singular but sure charac teristic of a declining nation." " Give me the statistics of pyrotechnic powder burnt by a people, and I shall tell you the standard measure of their souls and bodies. If the figure be a maximum, then the physical and moral measure will be the minimum—for the ratio is inverse." "I saw a whole nation, its rich and its poor, gazing on one of these pitiful spectacles, got up for the purpose of uup ing them into contentment. It was the price paid them for parting with their liberty of opinion, as a child parts with a valuable gem for a few sugarplums. They were gazing with a delight that seemed enthusiasm. I looked upon eyes that gleamed with demoralised thought." "These were the representatives of a once great people, and who still deem themselves the first of mankind. I felt sure that this was an illusion. The pyro•spectacle and its reception convinced me that I saw before me a people who had passed the culminating point of their greatness, and were now gliding rapidly down the declining slope that leads to annihilation and nothingness."—Vide" The White Chief," pp. 109-10. Would not one imagine, sir, that all this bore date about the Ist of June, 1856, and was written not a hun dred miles from St. James's t But in this best of all possible countries, the best of all possib'e Governments, of course, knows best, and the country ought to rejoice in being spared the trouble of coming to a conclusion. Of course before it was determined to spend thousands on these coming illuminations, the aforesaid best of all Governments has satisfied itself-- lit. That not a single sOldier's widow or orphan is left unprovided for. 2d. That the Chancellor of the Exchequer is labouring under a plethora of revenue, an " ernbarras des rickesses." 31. That the great majority of the country consider the peace as safe, satisfactory, and honourable. For unless these three- points are beyond dispute, the fireworks and illuminations seem to us, ignorant country people, very like a mockery, and almost like a crime. But no doabt our best of all possible Governments can give a satisfactory answer on all three heads. So by all means let us have fireworks and illumina- tions ! What next ? as my friend Richard Cobden has it. Why, next, of course, the window breaking. Ki ng Mob must be allowed to rejoice in his own fashion— Gin in pailfuls, beer in rivers ! • Dash the window glass toshivers, as sings a respectable character in one of Scott's novels. Why not? You have "achieved" (that is the phrase) a belauded and illumined peace. Who can object to so respectable an ancient right as window breaking, its in variable accompaniment ? What are glaziers bills com pared with time-honoured custom After all, your broken windows are only a " prielibatia," a foretaste, a slight reminder of what might bare happened it the Cu,. sack had got the upper hand. It is only the mustard without the beef. It is only the thistle with which the donkey chooses to excite its carrot-sated palate. Even quiet Cowper could become enthusiastic upon it— That man shall be my toast, When breaking windows is the sport, Who bravely breaks the most. But if you have shabby misgivings, how easy your safe. guard. " Proximus ardet ucalegon"—your next-door neighbour illuminates, but why should you ? Put but your faith in placards, shelter yourself under thei - egi g of Powys and you are secure, otherwise you may ha ve cause to lament that you are not— Proxinans, at longo proximns interballo. Sir, in London you are a wise, sensible, and consistent race of people, but sometimes your proceedings are be. yond the comprehension of A COUNTRY SQUIRE. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. —Yesterday, a man name!! Charley Garner, a zinc-worker, was killed at the London Bridge Terminus of the London and Brighton Railway by endeavouring to enter a carriage whilst thc train w 35 la MotiOll. 7 FRANCE. M. de Morny will shortly leave for St. Peters burg. He has freighted a steamer to convey to Russia the personnel of his embassy. M. de Morny takes with him eight carriages and 20 horses, for himself and his suite, which is to consist of 50 persons. His departure will take place during the first fortnight of June. The trial of the news agent, Lejolivet, on a charge of complicity in purloining public docu ments, aad of bribing and corrupting a servant of the State, comes on before the Court of Assizes of Paris in the early part of next month. Among the Russian ports and cities, where France is hereafter to maintain consuls or agents are Kertch, Taganrog, Cherson, Nicolaieff, Simpheropol, and Bakshi-Serai. The Consulate formerly established at Odessa is td be a Consu late-General. The following letter has been addressed to the Diritto (Turin newspaper) : " PARIS, MAY 20. " I believe it urgent to answer another objection. I have been told, that by counselling the national party in Italy to confide in the Piedmontese Go vernment I render the patriots of Italy apathetic, and I preach inertness. Now nothing could be further from my intention. T said that the na tional party in Italy ought to give its co-ope ration to the Piedmontese Government, in the event of that Government entering on the way which conducts to the common end—viz., the independence and unity of Italy. The national party does not abdicate ;it co-operates. Co-ope ration is action, and not inertness. Already in March, 1854, when I protested against the coun sels of Lord John Russell I affirmed that we should ever agitate until such time as our inex tinguishable aspirations for national independence were satisfied. " And now, in the name of the great National party, I say to the Italian patriots, ' Agitate, agi tate, ardently, incessantly, until our object be gained—until Italy shall become one and inde pendent.' " I have every confidence that the Piedmontese Government will be witk us, and that confidence is increasd by recent events. If I be deceived, it would be a great misfortune; but, even then, the National Italian party should not desist from its labours. Ix any case, and in any event, and until Italy become independent and one, Italians, all you who love your native laud, listen to the word which comes to you from the exile, ' Agitate, agi-, tate " MANILA." A private letter from a (French) friend at Brus sels alludes to the Circassians in the following• terms : " We learn from Constantinople that the Russian have commenced their work of destruction in the Caucasus; that they have burnt a villaae,and taken off 22 prisoners and - 6 000 bead of cattle. We should like to know what pretext is alleged for such bri gandage. Had that village during the war coin mitted acts of hostility for which the Russians are exacting the penalty ? If so, why should we now be told that we cannot stipulate for the Circassians because they have done nothing for the common cause ? By acting so the nations of the West, the , Franks, ought forthwith to renounce the reputation for generosity, magnanimity, and grandeur which 'the East invests them with, for they only know how to protect those who, like the Greeks, are subjected to a secondary Power, and not those who kill the soldiers of the Czar of All the Russian. This is not all. If the Circassians are revolted subjects, they are comprised in the promise of amnesty made to the Congress by the representatives of Russia. Their massacre is an infamous breach of faith, which shows how our conventions with them will be executed. If we do not mean to declare war to avenge this immediate violation of treaties, what prevents us at least from using repri sals on the Sovereigns of Naples and Greece, who have shown themselves so devoted to Russia ? If the Circassians are a people who acknow ledged Turkey, or who, formerly independent, de sire to acknowledge it now, we have the right, and we are bound to settle the limits of their frontier, and to protect them. We are opposed to the Cie cassians selling their children to the Turks, who married the daughters and adopted the sons ; and we allow the Russians to make them prisoners. And what will be done to these prisoners ? They will be sent to Siberia to join the Poles, or will be made Russian soldiers, which is a still more miser able prospect." Tile BOURSE, May 23.—The following woro the last quotations : Cast. fr. e. End of Month. 11 per Cents . 94 20 —f. —43. i per Cents 75 5 75 25 New Loan 75 45 _.... ...... Bauk Shares 4,150 ft )man Credit Mobilier 1,93 ; kustrian dolgian Fives 92 97 ;panish Throes 4l :). iedniontest,(s)...... 93 75 home Debt ~....,_ 421 RAILWAT4--108 CASH. prleans ........ ...... 1,475 cs Western 972 20 Northern .......... 1,167 50 Strasburg LIO as ... 1,547 50 New Ditto riediterranean ......1,7'!0 Grand Central Lyons Genova . 832 50 Teste ....... ........ Cette THE PRINCIPALITIES. The following private letter has been received from Bucharest, under date the loth : " We are witnessing a curious spectacle here. Prince Stirbey, despairing cf remaining at the head of affairs, caused an address to be - presented to him self, which he has hawked about and for which he has solicited signatures. The purport of the ad dress is to beg Prince Stirbey to remain in power, and to sacrifice his amour-propre to the well being of the country, and to accept even the title of Kaimakan. Every one knows what that means. But this is not the only prayer of the address ; it also demands-the prolongation of the Austrian occu pation during the sittings of the commission, on the pretended fear of disturbances if the Austrian forces are withdrawn. This, of course, means that Prince Stirbey could not remain in power a single day if he were not supported by Austrian bayonets. I need Rot tell you that the indignation of the public is roused by these acts, and it is re marked that Stirbey is very long in deciding on retiring, and the Porte in signifying to him that the period of his office has expired." THE CRIMEA. The Courrier de Marseilles publishes the following letter, dated Sebastopol, the 10th inst. :—" The embarkation of troops is proceeding with the greatest rapidity. About 40,000 men have already left, and as many more will have sailed before the end of June. The French forces remaining here number 80,000 men. In order to facilitate the embarkation the engineers have constructed five platforms, three at Kamiesh and two at Sebas topol, near the Quarantine. Those platforms ad vance sufficiently far into the sea to enable both men and horses to walk into the steamers which are to convey them toi France. The Remount Commission, over which Colonel Abdelal pre sides, meets daily. Every person on the point of embarking brings his horses before that commis sion, Which disposes of them in the following man ner :—The horses fit for service are placed in the cavalry, others are given up to the waggon-train, and those considered unserviceable for any military purpose are sold. It is intended to establish mar kets on different points of the Crimea, to afford the Russians anti Tartars greater facilities to pur chase those horses::. " The 49th .13,egirsent of the line embuks to-by. The teperture- of the he hal been repeatedly talked of, but I have reason to be lieve that he will be one of the last to quit the Crimea. This delay will enable the troops already arrived in the south of France to recruit their strength previously to their entering Paris with the Marshal. The Russians continue to pay us frequent visits. Kamiesh is their principal re sort. A merchant told me that they bought up all the porter, champagne, liquors, curacoa, and Bordeaux wines of the best description which they could procure ; but that to those articles alone were their purchases confined. The same merchant says that the traders of Kamiesch overcharged them shamefully, and that if they were satisfied with a reasonable profit they would sell five times as much. There are at present, at Eupatoria, 9,000 Tartars waiting for means of conveyance to quit the Russian territory and proceed to Varna. Thence they are to repair to the Lower Dobrudacha, where Mirza Sahir Pasha, Governor of Silistria, is at pre sent making the necessary arrangements for the installation of the new colony. Villages are to be built at the expense of the Imperial Government, and the Sultan has ordered that they should be supplied with means of existence during two years. Steamers are shortly expected at Eupatoria to take on board those 9,000 Tartars, who may be usefully employed in constructing the canal of Kostendje.' RUSSIA►. The Inclependance Beige publishes the following letter, dated Warsaw, 24th inst.:— "The Emperor, on his return from the cathedral, gave audience, at the Palace of the Belvidere, to the dignitaries of the Catholic, Greek, and Protestant clergies, the mem bers of the Government, the marshals of the Polish nobility, the notable inhabitants of the country, the superior officers of the army, and the public functionaries of the second and third classes. His Majesty showed himself extremely affable towards everybody. The most remarkable and important of all the speeches delivered on the occasion is that ad dressed by s the Sovereign to the marshals and nobility, who were received together. Ido not know if the speech is to be published in the official Gazette, which is to appear this evening. That of yesterday makes no mention of it, and down to the present moment—two hours before the departure of the mail—the text of the Imperial address has not yet been sent to the editor of that journal. The following is the substance of it :—' My line of conduct towards your country,' said the Emperor, will consist in an absolute oblivion of the past. lam satisfied with the Poles, not only because, in spite of the revolutions and wars which lately disturbed Europe, they did not forget the duties they had to fulfil towards their Sovereign and themselves, but also because those who fought in the ranks of my soldiers gave proofs of braveryand unshaken loyalty. I bear them all, therefore, in my heart, and I shall never cease to love the Poles as my owe children. I request you to tell this to your countrymen ; but tell them also that the period of wild schemes is gone by. Let there be no more of them, gentlemen. I wish Poland to be happy, and she can only be so by her union with Russia.' It is useless to say that this speech, delivered with an ex pression of conviction and benevolence, produced a deep impression on all present. The higher classes of our society, on being informed of the sentiments of the Mo narch, received them with marked satisfaction. They applauded the frankness and confidence with which the Emperor addressed the nation. As for the people, their demonstrations are full of expansion and enthusiasm. They prove that they appreciate the blessings already conferred on the counts." by the Emperor. Last evening, when the Emperor was riding through the park of Lazienki, the population assembled on his passage saluted him with its accla mations until he re-entered the palace. In the after noon of yesterday his Majesty proceeded, with Prince Gortachakoff, to the railway station to receive his sister, the Grand Duchess Olga, and her husband, the Prince- Royal of Wurtemburg. A few hours after her arrival the Grand Duchess drove through the parks and streets of Warsaw, which were again illumina• . ed. A grand ball is to be given to-night by Prince Gortschakoff, whose wife was honoured yesterday with a visit from his Majesty. The hal, of the nobility is to take place after to-morrow. That of the city will be give,. at the Hotel de Ville, but the night has not yet been fixed." AUSTRIA. - VIENNA, May. 25.—The subjoined article, which appeared in the Ministerial Oesterreichische Corre spondemz of last night, must be considered a sup plement to that of which a translation appeared in The Sun yesterday. That it is from the same source—the Foreign-office—need hardly be said : "A number of North German papers and correspon dents continually repeat that the Imperial Court desires to induce Prussia to guarantee the territory of the Austrian empire, more particularly that part of it which is in Italy, and they do not fail to make the most of this theme of their own Invention. " Neither the papers in question nor their readers need be under any alarm. Austria, which in the most trying and dangerous times of external and internal con fusion found means to retain possession of the Italian crown lands, has the consciousness of being perfectly well able to defend both her territory and the position which is hers by right of treaty against any attack. The power of Austria is based on her internal strength and on European treaties which are recognised and ra epected by all the Powers. As to the policy of the Austrian empire, it is based on a respect for all acquired rights. " True to its principial' regard for the independence of all sovereignties, the Imperial Royal Government can never recognise the right which is claimed by the Sardi nian cenrt to speak in the name of Italy. Although re garding things from a point of view entirely different, we cannot but agree with the opinion expressed by that Minister that in the perception of international re lations, rights, and duties, there is an impassable gulf between Austria and the present Sardinian Cabinet. • " Wherever Austria has intervened in Italy she has done so in the most disinterested manner ; she has intervened at the request of the different Sovereigns, and, as soon as the one or other of them has declared his ability to maintain public peace and order with out foreign assistance, the Imperial forces have been withdrawn front his territories. Prudent and judi cious reforms, freely emanating from the re spective Sovereigns, may conduce to the wished-for peace and quiet of the Italian States, and the Imperial Go vernment has never failed to give its counsel in that direction, though always with that consideration which is due to the dignity and independence of foreign States. " Austria is ready to give her approval to all advantageous changes which may emanate from the free and enlightened will of the Italian Go vernments, and she wishes nothing more e 4r neatly than that the time may soon come when the Italian Sovereigns, to whom she has afforded her disin terested support against the revolution and its agents, may be able to dispense with the assistance of the Austrian troops, but she will firmly repel any unjusti fiable attack which may belnade on those Italian States that are allied 'to her, and will do - all in her power to counteract the machinations of the anarchists, and to prevent revolutionary agitation." A letter from Varna, of the 24th, states that the Pan there French gun- boat, which has been stationed there for the last seven months, had left for France, orders having been brought to her to that effect by the Phlegethon. Commandant de Russell, of the latter vessel, has been sent by Admiral Trehouart to settle the naval accounts at Varna for coal and oxen supplied to the French navy. The reply from Con stantinople to the communica.tiou of the sentence against the assassins of the Bulgarian girl had not reached Varna. The Pasha had been set at liberty. AMERICA. LIVE it POOL, WEDNESDAY. The Lirerpool and Philadelphia steam-ship Com pany screw steamer City of Baltimore, Leitch com mander, arrived this afternoon with advices from Philadelphia to the 15th inst. The Washington correspondence of the New York Daily Tribune states that Padre Vizil bail been received by the President as Minister from Nica ragua with distinction and cordiality. In the Senate on the 14th— " Mr. Clayton said he had seen in the morning news• papers what purported to be an extract from a letter from the British Minister at Washington, dated March 31, 1856, in which Mr. Crampto❑ says — "`lt will be witnin your lordship's recollection that Mr. Clayton was informed by Sir Henry Bulwer, before the treaty of 1850 was signed, that Runtan was dejure and de facto a British possession, and Mr. Clayton has on various occasions since, in conversation with me, stated that he considered Rustan a British possession a s much as Jamaica, or any other British West India "Mr. Clayton branded this statement as utterly untrue in every particular. The British Minister must have laboured under an hallucination as strange as ever en tered the brain of any man to make such a declaration. Nothing like it bad ever escaped him in conversation with Mr. Crampton or anybody else. Fortunately the fact d . ,d not rest upon the statement of Mr. Crampton and himself. He had a living witness, and first he would call attention to a letter written by Mr. Crampton and read in the Senate on the 12th January, 1854. In which he(Mr. Crampton) attempted to prove that Ruatan was not a dependency of Belize, and was not exempted from that provision of the treaty of 1850. He then had Mr. Crampton's testimony on the subject, and read it to the Senate. He would no N . read it again to contradict Mr. Crampton's statement which was made known to him for the first time that morning, and of which be had not the most remote conception. In this letter Mr. Crampton said— The dependencies of British Honduras are, in my opinion, distinctly enumerated in the treaty of 1786.' He bad made this statement deliberately, and the irresistible conclusion was that Ruatan was not irolnded in these dependencies. Mr. Clayton said while he was detained at his lodgings by sickness inFetruary or March last he was called upon by Mr. Crittenden, and while they were engaged in conversation on this subject Mr. Cratnpton canoe in to invite him (Mr. Clayton) to dine with him. He (Mr. Clayton) was too sick to accept the invitation, but took occasion to ask Mr. Crampton if be knew an 3. thing of the charge that he (Mr. Clayton) la I ever at:. mitted that Ruatan was exempted from the operation of the treaty, and Mr. Crampton in most unqualified terms acknowledged that there was nu troth in the report that be (Mr. Claytori) had ever made auy such intimation to c r itic:don corroborated 4r. Clapon's etzte.. ment. He.,could not pretend to give the details of a conversation at which he was accidentally present ; but, according to his recollection, the substance of it viso directly contrary to . the statement in the newspapers, and sustained the account Mr, Ciayton had given of it. " Mr. Clayton said he had made speech after speech in the Senate, endeavouring to prove directly the reverse of what he was represented as admitting. He was will ing to put the most charitable construction upon it, but it was an utter mistake. " Mr. Casa thought it very certain Mr. Clayton, un le-s in some fit of insanity, could never have said to Mr• Crampton what was attributed to him. " Mr. Pratt inquired what evidence there was that this letter was authentic. He thought there must be some mistake. " Mr. Clayton had no knowledge as to its authen ticity. When his attention was called to it that morn ing he was much astonished, and bis first duty waats disprove the statement. No matter by whom . made, it was false. If Mr. Crampton never made such a statement he was not injured by these remarks; but, if he did make it, it was for Mr. Crampton to explain. It had appeared in the puhlic • prints, and, until it was denied or disavowed, Mr. Clayton was bound to suppose that it was a genuine document. Lie should, however, be very happy to be assured to Oa contrary. " Mr. Fish, in response to a question from Mr• Clayton, said that in the course of two interviews w ith. Mr. Crampton the latter had sttted that Mr. Clayton always denied that Ruatan was a British possession: He (Mr. Clayton) thought there must be some mistake in the copy of the letter. " Mr. Cass said that Great Britain, being repeated'," driven from one point of defence, had invariably taken refuge at another, 'and recent events bad shown this more strongly than ever." Mr. Buchanan had had an interview of several hours with the President on the 14th, in which he, made a personal report of his mission. His friendsare much buoyed up by the demonstrations he received while en route. Mr. Clayton's denial of Mr. Cramp ton's allegation that he had admitted to the latter that Ruatan was as much a British possession as. Jamaica made quite a sensation in the Senates being sustained by Mr. Crittenden, who was pre sent at the particular interview. It is understood also that Mr. Fish was prepared to testify to the same effect, having seen Mr. Crampton after the interview mentioned and received a similar state ment from him. In commercial matters there is no charge of importance. A. despatch from Washington, of the 15th inst., states that Secretary Marcy sent for M. Mar coletta, the Minister from Nicaragua, and in formed him of the determination of the Adminis- , tration to receive the Padre Vizil as the Minister from the new Government of Nicaragua. g• Marcoletta complained of it as violating the laws of God and of nations, entering his solemn protest against the proceeding, and informing Mr. Marcy that he should prepare an expose of all the facts, to be communicated by him to the members of the diplomatic corps. Another despatch states that the President would send a message to Congress on the 16th, announc ing the recognition of the Walker Government, and giving his reasons for that step. Telegraphic accounts from New Orleans of the-' 14th repeat the arrival of the San Francisco mail, • bringing dates from that city to the 21st of April. The steamer George. Law has sailed from Aspin wall for New York with nearly $2,000,000 in gold on freight. The San Francisco markets were quiet. A messenger from Nicaragua arrived at Aspie - wall reported that Colonel Schlesinger had been recaptured, and would be shot. The British ship Wilson Kennedy, from Liver pool for St. John's, New Brunswick, was abandoned on the 10th of May, in the Bay of Fundy. The crew were taken off by a schooner and taken to Boston on the 14th. The City of Baltimore left on the 16th inst.,—not the 15th. UNITED STATES SEAME N. SHIELDS, May 27. —At the present time there are * considerable number of large United States, merchant vessels in the Tyne taking in coals, but as there is no treaty between this country and the United States for the restoration of runaway seamen, many of the masters of those vessels are suffering the greatest inconveL jell° through the Lien leaving their vessels and joining , British vessels. In fact, some large vessels are lying in Shields' harbour ready for sea with only four or five hands on board. Fifteen masters of those vessels, ae'; , companied by the inspectors of the river police,. and , Mrs 11. Davis, the American Vice-Consul at Newcastle-on - Tyne, have made application to the mayor and magie• trates in North. Shields to solicit the assistance of the police to restore the men to their duty. At the inter view the masters stated that since their vessels have come into the harbour it has been impossible to main— tain discipline among the men ; they go on shore when they think proper and return when they think proper, and are in a complete state of insubordination ; they wished to know whether the magistrate would adjudicate in cases of insubordination, and allow the police to interfere to prevent crimps inveigling their men away from the vessels to employment in Bri tish ships, as wages were higher in the Tyne than in the American service. The Mayor, Capt. Linskill, replied that as no treaty existed between England arid the. United States, as between England and most European countries, for the rest 'ration of runaway seamen, the authorities on the Tyne had no power to order the pe• , lice to interfere with the seamen, either in maintaining discipline or in restoring them to their vessels if they ran. away; so long as they did not make themselves amenable to the law of England. British owners, he said, suffered most severely when their vessels touched at American' ports by the seamen being induced to desert wholesales and in sense instances the captains of the vessels so der,erted had been obliged to pay as high as 151. a-month to seamen to bring back the vessels to England. Hs knew that the marine Department of the Board of Trade in this country was anxious that the American Government should place the marine of that country upon the same terms of reciprocity with England, with regard to seamen, as the' principal maritime States of Europe, and he suggested that the vice-consul at Newcastle should make out detailed account of the inconvenient position of American captains visiting British ports, and remit it to the GO" vernment at Washington. An American master made somewhat impertinent observation to the bench with respect to coloured men, and asked if the property of' the American owners was riot to be protected in British ports? The mayor replied, that the men were engaged by a civil contract, and that just such an amount of dis cipline could be exercised towards the men while in a British port as was compatible with the laws of this country. Coloured men and white men were alike in England ; they were all equally free and equal as seen as they came within the jurisdiction of our laws. About 50 men have run away from their vessels ; a great num ber of them are coloured men. THE POPE AND LORD PALMERSTON. Row:, May 22.—The confusion and contradiction that prevail among the various parts composing the eccle siastical Government have been forcibly demonstrated by the recent conflict with regard to the publication of Lord Palmerston's speech on the affairs of Italy. The Pope, who has a will of his own when he thinks proper, read the whole speech in the Dcbats, * paper which he is in the habit of perusing regularly ;' and resolving that his o wn goo d i n t en ti ons an humane disposition, for which even the British Premier gives him credit, should not incur the blame attributable to the mai adminiAration and arbitrary acts of his ministers, hiS Holiness insisted upon the publication of the speech in the Roman official paper in spite of the strenuous opposition of Cardinal Antonelli, who was so disgusted at having to give up that he was quite ill for two days afterwards. Tb speech, however, as printed in the Journal of Rome, is sufficiently ambiguous and incor - rectly translated to render it uncertain whether the or monical acts alluiied to by Lord Palmerston refer to the Pope's present Ministers or those of his ',constitutional reign ; but even this garbled account, inserted only on toe Pope's absolute command, was so obnoxious to the police authorities, acting under the orders of the Seer& tary of State, that many copies of the journal destined for the provinces were kept back at the post office or se;zed after arriving at their respective destinations, whilst those distributed as usual to the subscribers in Rome were withdrawn from the cafes on the following morning, thus affording the public the absurd spectacle of a Government giving orders for the seizure and pre' hibition of its own official organ. THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER AND THE POLES. The correspondent of the Independance Beige Warsaw gives the following as the substance of a speech addressed by the Emperor Al exan d er to 3 deputation of the inhabitants of that city who waited upon his Imperial Majesty on the 23d My line of conduct towards your country is—abso lute forgetfulness of the past. I am content with the Poles, not merely because, in spite of revolutions and wars in which all Europe has been entangled, they hare not forgotten their duties to their sovereign and to them' selves, but still more because those of them who have fought in the ranks of my soldiers have displayed a bra very and fidelity which have been proof against all Wail)* tation. " I have them all in my heart, and shall not cease to love the Poles as my own children. "Tell this, messieurs, I pray you, to your fellow•. countrymen ; but tell them also that the time for dreams is at an end. No mere of reveries. Gentlemen wish Poland to be happy, and she can only be so bi her union with RusSia." 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