The Sun. — London, England, 1856-08-05 00:00:00

• R MAJESTY'S TIIEATAIE.I FAREWELL NIGHTS. PICCOLOMINI— ROSATI —LE - COP.S AIRE. THREE FAREWELL NIGHTS will be given, viz. :—This Evening (Tuesday), August 5 ; Thursday, August 7 ; and Saturday, August 9. This Evening (Tuesday, August 5). will be presented LA FIGLIA DEL REGGIMENrO. Marie, Madlle. Piccolomini ; Tonio, Signor Calzolari ; Scr gents Sulpizio. Signor Belletti. To conclude with the Grand Ballet, LE CORSAIRE. Medora, Madame Rosati. On THURSDAY, August 7, DON PASQUALE. Norina, Mdlle. Piccolomini. On SATURDAY, August 9, LA TRAVIATA. Violetta, Mdlle. Piccolomini. With the new grand Ballet of LE CORSAIRE. Medora, Madame Rosati. Reduced Prices :—Three Pair, 11. ls. Two Pair, 1/. lls. ed. Pit and One Pair, 2/. 12s. 6d. Grand Tier, 3/. 3s. Pit, 55. Gallery Bows, 15s. Gallery Stalls, ss. Gallery Side Stalls, 3s. ed. Gallery, 2s. 6d. The free list suspended, the public press excepted. THEATRE ROYAL, II Y MAR IC ET. Under the Management of Mr. Bileketone. THIS EVENING, A COMMA!". COUNTESS. After which SE 30gD LOVE.. Followed by THE CA.PTIV&3. After which THE RIGEITS AND WRONG 3 OF WOMA.I. To con.•hidc with THE SPANI3H SNIEJEINT. ROYAL THEATME ADELPIII. Troprlator and Manner. Mr. B. Webster. Directrovs, Ma 'lame Celeste. THIS EVENINP, URGENT PRIVATE AFFAIRS: After which, MEDEA. Followed by OUR G 11-L. To conclude with BORN TO GOOD LUCK. ROYAL PICLICIII49 TaTi:ATRE, OXFORD-TItF.F.T. Under the .N.Tsuivernent of CHLRLES KELM. THI 4 EvENINI4, MUSIC H ITI.I After which, TIE WINTER'S TALE. ROYAL OLY:Hetc THEATRE. Less;a and MariaTer. Nfr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVE'SINft THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER. After which, MEDEA. To conelnile wit's wEr.sa CIP.L, ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITIIKATIZE. Lessee and Manv, , .er, Mr. Win. Cooke. THIS EVENING, (First week) Shalcespere's Traefly of KING MCI! ARD THE THIRD ; or, the Rattle of Bosworti Field. Compressed into 3 acts. Mr. W. Cooke's splendid stud of horses effk:ctlvely introduced. Grind, striking, and indescribable tableau of the Battle of Bosworth Field. After which, The SCENES in the CIRCLE, and a variety of select entertain ments. Box-office open trlrniE!even WI roll'. State Manager, Mr. W West. Eqnestriln Director, Mr. Of. Cooke, jun. HIGa WATER AT LONDON BRID3g. THIS DAY—Morn. 34 min. aft. 4—Evening 41 min. aft. 4 TA-NottEoviT—'llorn. 7 min. aft. s—Evening 22 min. aft. 5 THE WEATHER—SUN ()Fria?, AUGUST 5. TIIRRIIONMER, IN Trill SiLtDa. 79 —hlq,best since noon yosterday. 59 —lowest this morning And during the eight. 74 —this day at noon. PA-tomrrza-30 . 33—rising. Wm% Northerly.— Light, with find waathar, bu , cooler than for the last few clays. r w ?'ll r'• "`''c am . :2• -c; 4 4 LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1856. A resplendent Pharos erected upon that ever lasting Mountain of HORACE, by way of comme morating the " ridiculous Mouse," of whose par turition it was once upon a time guilty, would be nothing to it. Absolutely nothing to it ! Fancy —Marshal PELISSIER made a Duke, and Admiral LYONS created a Baron—for what ? For the ex press purpose of celebrating in a very sign &Z man ner the Mouse of a Peace brought forth by the growling, thundering, eerthquakin,g Mountain of the late European War ! In comme;noration of this tremendous little Event—Admiral LYONS is made a Peer of Parliament, and Marshal PELISSIER a Napoleonian Doke ! The rieHeelus Mus has its oaeoe, then, flaming away atop of the parturient Mons ! As though—" Mons Meg" herself having fired off a dried pea with a stupendous and re echoing detonation, the lieges of Auld Reekie were forthwith to " pile Pelion upon 03sa," by topping the Castle of Edinburgh with a cloud-piercing monument in celebration of the said dried pea ! Never was there anything more preposterous. Marshal PELISIER created a Duke,—what for ? for never taking the northern forts of Sebastopol after all, with an army of 1300,000 men, aided by a fleet the world had never before seen paralleled for efficiency, thanks to the combined influence of steam-engines, screw-propellers; railroads, and electric telegraphs ! Admiral LYONS created a Baron—for what ?—for doing just about "ditto" to Sir C. NAPIER in the Baltic, or, in other words, "next to nothing !" Why, it was only thus, by the distribution of baronial. and ducal coronets, that the Great Decisive Battles of the World (Victories such as those recounted by Professor CREASY) were recompensed of yore by the Rulers whose Captains by sea and land were not Pigmies, but Paladins ! Even the Grandest Sea Captain who ever bore the " Meteor Flag of England" in triumph over the ocean, even HORA.TIO NELSON' ill Lusei r, after such victories as St. Vincent, and the Nile, and Copen hagen, and Trafalgar, died at last but an English Viscount, with a beggarly Italian Dukedom ! And NAPOLEON, the First NAPOLEON, the Great NAPOLEON—what Marshals those were he created Dukes of the Empire ! Not a PELISSIER among them—not one man among them (the ghastly joke must be pardoned, if only in consideration of its exceeding appositeness)—who could either smoke others or be smoked himself ! Hls Ducal Marshals were victorious heroes—such as MAs SENA, " the Spoilt Child of Victory," or as MURAT, " the B3au, S b a reur (who was King even ultimately), or as NEY, " the Bravest of the Brave," or as LANNES, o f whom the modern SESOSTRIS said "I found him a Dwarf, I left him a Giant," as DUROC, as SOUL TP gs JUNOT, as Ben- NADOTTE, as MACDONALD, as a thron g of others, 'the Knights of the Gallic Annetta, th e P ALADINS .of the greater CHARLEMAGNE ! And now the Royal descendant of ARTHUR, the Imperial Suc cessor of NAPOLEON, selects—the one, Ad miral, LYONS, for doing " next to nothing," to be a Baron—the other, Marshal PBussiEß, for pretty nearly do. do. do., to be a Duke ! And so— for the Peace— we have had in Eng land royal salutes, a flJnrish of trumpets, reviews, and fireworks ? And so—for the War— in France they are going to adorn their capital 'with an imperial colossal monument of commemo ration. _Here, as though it were after tile cam paigns of a MARLEOROLTGII or a WELLINGTON - . There, as though the present were the worthy sequel of campaigns, like those of Marengo or of Austerlitz. Alas !-_for the contrast : and Alas ! also, by reason of that contrast—for the inevit able Ridicule ! The forthcoming Presidential election seems to excitement amongst our Trans.be the prevailing atlantic brethren. The PIERCE-MARCY dodge, at one time regarded as a promising "spec.," t o t a ll y failed in its intended effect, and General PIERCE had to resign himself, with the best grace pos sible, to return into private life, the station for which he is best qualified. Mr. BUCHANAN, the late representative of the United States at the Court of St. James's, was selected by the Demo cratic section as their candidate. Thia was the party which formerly secured a four years' term of the White House for the pugnacious General. But it appeared that he could not retain their allegiance. His chances were, therefore, accord ing to Yankee parlance, "most catawampously thawed up ;" and Mr. BUCHANAN, who had the advantage of being away from home for a consi derable time, succeeded to his forfeited honours. But still the Democrats had it not all their own way. The old Whig party had a will of their own ; and as the successful candidate generally clears out all the public offices, and substitutes friends and supporters of his own for the old employee 3, there was that lively sense of favours to come, the sanguine anticipation of personal benefit, to stimulate the voters on behalf of their favourite. They well knew that if the Democratic ticket turned up the capital prize there would not be that general clearing out that would create the anxiously-looked for vacancies. Neither PIERCE nor BUCHANAN could disturb the existing arrange ments, and therefore the transatlantic waiters on Providence should put forward one who would be crippled by no such restrictions, but could offer the highest rewards to his friendly constituents. They found a good man and true for the position, Night MILLARD FILLMORE, who had formerly filled the Presidential chair, and who had also been out of the way on an European tour. He was there fore the chosen of the Whig party. But there was an unfortunate difficulty in the way that„ de stroyed the unanimity indispensable to success. The " domestic institution," or, in other words, the system of slavery for which PIERCE and BITCHANAN were ready " to go the entire animal," proved the fertile cause of di3sension, a very apple of discord, amongst the Whig delegates. There were Northerns and Southerns who were diamet rically opposed on this important topic. The recent proceedings at Kansas had alarmed those who might otherwise have voted with the general body. They saw, however, the attempt to obtain a recognition of the unholy traffic by even those opposed to the demoralising system, and to do so vi et annis, obtaining converts, according to the system of ithEIONIET, by the strong hand. There was, therefore, a split amongst the party ; and although FILLMORE obtained the ticket so far as the slave-holding States were concerned, the North erns, who constituted a large and influential minority, refused to be bound by the arrange ment. There was, however, " another RICHMOND in the field." Col. FRE3IONT, the fortunate pro prietor of a large tract of auriferous land in Cali fornia, was free from the sable stain, with which both his opponents were indelibly marked. He not only holds the Republican ticket, at all times offering a respectable chance, but has had it endorsed by the Northern Whigs, who refuse to swell the ranks of the slave-owners, or voluntarily to assume the iniquitous brand. The result has been that FREMONT has won many votes from both of his opponents, and that he will probably show a greater number of suffrages than either BUCHANAN or FILLMORE at the hour of trial. Indeed, so far as the p )pular selection is concerned, the question lies be tween BUCHANAN and FREMONT, and FILLMORE has not the slightest possible chance. But it is not the candidate who has the greatest number of votes that must succeed. An absolute majority is required—that is to say, more than a clear majority of Electors must record their suffrages in favour o: one person—to render the Election valid. The time consumed before 14 Speaker was appointed will give some notion as to the difficulty of the task. If no person should obtain that clear m.ijority in the Electoral Col lege, the House of Representatives will have to select one from amongst the three who have ob tained the highest number of votes. The hopes of the Fillmorites rest entirely on the House of Representatives. If they succeed in neutralising the popular election, they antici pate that by a fusion of parties they may possibly succeed. Like their namesakes in Great Blitaio they hope to rule by playing the extremes against each (Oder, and filching votes alternately front FREMONT and BUCHANAN. The slaveholders may vote for the slave-supporting Fri.Laroae, while they would fight to the uttermost against the Abolitionist, FREMONT while the Northern Whigs may possibly be induced to come round rather than see the coveted prize fall into the hands of BUCHANAN. An absolute majority of States will, however, be required in ',Congress as well as in the Elec toral College ; and there is a fourth party interested in preventing any election in either place before the 4th Much, in which case the Vice-President will at once be elevated to the Presidential chair. It seems to be generally considered that Mr. BRECKENRIDGE, the Demo cratic candidate fur the Vice-Presidency, will succeed in the contest. If, then, both elec tions for the Presidency be neutralised, a person will obtain the position who would not directly receive a single vote. This shows the complicated system of the State ma chine at Washington. FREMONT or BUCHANAN would unquestionably be placed at the head of the poll at the Electoral College ; but FILLMORE will strive to render that abortive, and may probably suceed in so doing. Then comes the chance of BRACKENRIDGE, and if the same game can be played the House of Representatives, his will be the triumph. From this it will be seen that the system in force in the model Republic is eminently calculated to bring second-rate men into power, and to set aside those whose position and charac ters better entitle them to the distinction. It is, however, to be hoped that the growing enthusiasm in favour of Colonel FREMONT, the abolitionist can didate, may achieve the victory, and save the United States from the disgrace of having its first citizen an advocate of the nefarious and abominable traffic in human beings. The condition of a people deprived of their liberties by means of an army whose achievements abroad reflect honour on—shall we say—tine national standard, and whose capabilities of offence and defence keep aggression at a respectful did. tance, is snfficiently deplorable. But the condi tion of a people deprived of their liberties by means of an army formidable against and terrible to none but themselves, is enough to move the least susceptible lover of freedom to heart-felt compassion. To find an exemplification of the first described condition would involve no great research, and for the second we have only to turn to Spain. Saragossa has capitulated, a n d th at bluff blus tering traitor, General O'DONNELL, by the grace of wantonness and fraud, and the instrumentality of an army not rated very high in military circles, is now master of Spain ! " How are the mighty fallen !" The proudest people in the world at the f e et o f a coarse -minded, military adven turer, in whose veins runs no drop of the blue blood of their haughty grandees, and having as their Sovereign a QUEEN who, to an invincible repugnance to virtue, adds the treachery of a BOURBON, and more than the caprice of a village coquette, and whose line, if perpetuated, must be associated with her dishonour, and the humilia tion of her subjects. How it is all to end is now the problem for consideration. Time only can yield the solution. Master though General O'DoNNELL now is of the situation, nothing is more precarious than his tenure of power. Perfidious towards ESPARTERO, and a traitor to the Constitution, he walks among pit-falls, and may disappear from his elevation in a night. What he has sown it is his doom already to reap. If he would rest where he is he will fall short of what his prompters and patrons ex pect of him. If he resolves on gratifying their wishes, and burying the debris of the Constitution in the gulf of absolutism—he will be dismissed when he has served the turn, to make way for a more courtly and more reliable instrument. If in despair he turns to the more pliable of his former friends among the Liberal party, and en treats their aid on the ground of a desire to rescue and consolidate what remains of the Con stitution, possibly he may draw some of them over to him ; but the Liberal party can never hence forth regard him otherwise than with suspicion. The people hate while they fear him, and the army, though it may like him, will have but little hesitation to turn him off to make way for a better bidder. The political aspect is turned to all appearance towards despotism. The fate of O'DONNELL seems sealed, and with his downfall fare well for a time to what is left of the Consti tution. An abler intriguer will in all probability supply his place, though it may be not until the Court Camarilla has brought the country to a dead lock. The people will then be x uled with an iron, but for all that an uncertain, hand, and the end will come if only for the country to go through the same round again. A despotism with such a Sovereign not merely ought not, but in the nature of things cannot; stand. The interests that are inseparably bound up with it are contemptible No reputable portion of the population can enter tain for it any respect. No hereditary affection exists for it to appeal to, and the army, rude en gino though it be, feels its position, and is not likely to offer itself a sacrifice to imbecility. That day would deserve to be signalised by a white stone which saw constitutional liberty once more established in Spain. The year of revolu tions comes slowly on, may it, if all previous at tempts fail, bring freedom to that unhappy coun try also ! Could but CHARLES V., or " Armada" Pirtur rise from the grave to witness its present condition ! THE MEDIT: MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 5. By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Euxine, Capt. Killoch, with the India, China, and Mediterranean mails, we have dates from Alexandria, July 22 ; Malta, 26th ; Gibral tar, 31st. The Euxine brings 62 passengers, and on freight 2,009 bales of silk, 600 sacks of wheat, and nine packages of general merchindise. During the homeward voyage the Euxine expe rienced strong head winds. On the 30th ultimo passed the brig Chesterfield, off Gibraltar, steering to the westward ; 31st, spoke the schooner Maid of Athens, in lat. 36.25 N., long. 7.20, steering N.W. ; August Ist, off the Burlings, passed the screw steam transport W. S. Lindsay, with artil lery, for England, and the mail steamer Sultan, with the Peninsular mails, steering for Lisbon. The steam transports Clarendon and Clyde had touched at Gibraltar, en route for England, from the Crimea, with detachments of different regi ments. The hired barque Barretto, Junior, with return ed stores ; the British ship Daedalus, with wooden huts and stores ; the sailing transport Gertrude, in tow of her Majesty's steamer Banshee ; and the troop ship 6ilnuou had reachediGibraltar, from the E Her Majesty's steamship Dragon, with three companies of Royal Sappers and Miners, from the Crimea, for Spithead, sailed from Gibraltar on the 30th ult. The sailing transport Burlington, with Royal Artillery, for England, was at Gibraltar. The Queen Dowager of Oude, the heir apparent to the throne of Oude, and suite, have not arrived by this packet. The illustrious party remained at Cairo, and will, it. is said, proceed to England by the mail packet Indus, next due at Southampton. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, AUG. _4. The Queen and Prince, the Prince of Wales, the Prin cesA R.,1 al, Pri❑ceas Alice, and Princess Helena at to❑ded divine service at Osborne yesterday morning, which was performed by the Rev. G. Prothero. The Duchess of Kent also attended the service. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Sir T. Fremantle, Chairman of the Customs, had also an interview yesterday with the right hon. baronet, at his official residence in Downing. street. A deputation from the Metropolitan Board of Works had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing street. The deputation consisted of Mr. Thwaites (Chairman), Major Lyon, and Mr. Corrie (members of the Board), and Mr. Woolrych (Clerk of the Board). A deputation of the Board of Works for the White chapel District bad an interview with the Right Hon. Sir B. Hall at the office of Public Works in Whitehall place on Saturday. The deputation consisted of Messrs. J. Casey. F. T. Hart, r. Brushfield, G. Simmons, J. Shelton, C. Sands, and the c:erk, Mr. A. Turner. The deputation was introduced by Mr. C. S. Butler, M.P. THE.SUNf LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, .AUGUST 5 ) 1.856 MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. Viscount Palmerston leaves town to-day, accompanied by Viscountess Palmerston, to pass a few weeks at her ladyship's seat, Brocket hall, Herts. The Marquis of Lansdowne has left Lansdowne-house for his lordship's villa at Richmond. Toe Earl of Harrowby, accompanied by the Countess and family, have left town for Sandon-ball, Staffordshire. The Earl of Clarendon, with the Countess, returned to town yesteriay from visiting Mr. G. G. Harcourt, M.P., and arances Countess Waldegrave, at Nuneham-park, Oxfordshire. The noble earl subsequently left town for Osborne, on a visit to her Majesty. The Right Hon. Sir C. Wood, with the Lords of the Admiralty, in the Admiralty steam-yacht, is at Queens- town on an official visit of inspection. Lady M. Wood and the Right Hon. Sir George Grey and Lady Grey are with Sir Charles, and purpose a visit to the Lakes of Killarney prior to leaving Ireland. The Duke of Argyll is still on the Continent. , The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Theresa Lewis and family leave town, it is ex pected, to-morrow for Harpton-court, Herefordshire. The Right Hon. H. Labouchere, M.P., and Lady M. Labouchere, are passing the summer at Stoke-park, near Windsor. The Lord Chancellor and Lady Cranworth left town at the close of the past week for the noble and learned lord's seat in Kent. Gengral Commanding-in-Chief, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, held a levee, at the Horse Guards, yesterday, when there was a numerous attend ance of officers. Lord Gough arrived on Saturday in Limerick from Lougbcooter Castle, and left by the four o'clock train for Ratbronan, the residence of his son, the Hon. Cap. • tain Gough. THE EUROPEANA AND AUSTRALIAN ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY.—LIVERPOOL, Aug. 4.—The Mel bourne agency fur this company has just been given to Messrs. Mackay,d Baines, and Co., the Australian branch firm of the enterprising owners of the Black Ball line of packets. This is an appointment that cannot fail to give satiqaction to the colonists, Messrs. Baines and Co. having themselves done so much to lessen the distance between the Australian ports and the mother country. The Royal group, which has elicited such unbounded mtisiaction from the numerous visitors to the exhibition of Madame Tussaaid, will reczive shortly the addition of bi ; Majesty the King of Sweden and his Majesty the K in g of Naples. Both are in a forward state, we under sts .nd, and will be exhibited in a few days. Several otl +er objects of interest are in progress by the indefati gal Messrs. Tassaud. (Ntroras OF LlVERPOiL.—According to the Customs' bill ;if entry the total va'ue of foreign goods imported iat ) Liverpool during the past half-year was 24,806,185/. 1 55., of which goods to the value of 14,358,3191. 15s. v rere imported during the past three months. The v aloe of the exports of British goods for the six months N WA 25,941,7061., exceeding the imports by 1,135,520/. 5 e. LATEST _NEWS. MADRID, AUG. 3. Tranquillity is general. The public funds are rising rapidly. The national guard of Saragossa have been disarmed. A new ayuntamiento and a fresh provincial deputation have been named. In Catalonia, the bands which had taken refuge in the mountains are dispersing. Espartero leaves to-morrow for Logrone. M. Luzuriaga, Minister of Justice, is replaced by M. Igurate. MARSEILLES, Aua. 4, 8 P.M. The Danube has arrived, with advices from Constantinople of the 28th of July. The evacuation of the Allied troops will be completed on the 15th of August, and the hos- pitals will be given up. The squadron of Admiral Lyons will be sta tioned partly at Smyrna, partly at the Pira3us, and partly on the coast of Syria. The steamer Caledonia has arrived from Con. stautinople. Marshal PeHasler has left Marseilles for Plom- bieres. PARIS, Auci. 5. The Moniteur publishes the following : The Emperor returns to St. Cloud on the 9th inst. His Majesty has no intention of leaving again before the 15th August. There will not, however, bq any official receptions on the 9 Tranquillity having been restored in Spain, the Emperor has given orders for the suspension of all movements of troops towards the frontier. The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post (second edition) says :—Since the ratification of the treaty of peace we have had many examples on the part of Russia towards the Porte of an ungenerous hostility, as well as positive violations of the spirit of the treaty which Russia was evi dently more ready to sign than to respect. The allies have performed their contract with the utmost honour and fidelity. We have abandoned every point of the Crimea as early as possible, and without destroying at Eupatoria, or Balaklava ' or Kamiesh, even the works erected by the allies. We have left Sebastopol without any guarantee but Russian honour of the port being reduced to a commercial eepot. We have left thousands of graves on Ri's 4tn soil, and created a heavy debt at home, with out seeking repayment in any way from Russia. What is the conduct, on the contrary, of our late enemy towards Turkey; the Power we went to war for, to defend, to cause Russia to respect ? Why, Russia destroys every fortress in the possession of her troops. Reni and Ismail are Vown up, and Kars is Ltill occupied ! It is all very well to say , these places can be rebuilt ; but where is impover ished Turkey to get the money to construct each vast defective works ? SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 30th ult. have reached us. The Epoca says :—" We have waited to the last moment to communicate to our readers all the news of the day. Telegraphic despatches, which arrived at three o'clock in the afternoon, an nounce that the whole of Catalonia is pacified. But this result was not obtained without new con flicts. The rebel General Ruiz, at the head of 2,000 men, almost all national guards, fortified himself in Elers, but he was attacked by the regiment of ' Navarre under Colonel Gonzalez. and put to flight. On the 25th, Ruiz, the mayor of the place of Girona, Commander Gangara, and all the other persons who were concerned in the insurrection of Girona and Lampourdan, entered France, and were arrested by the French authori ties. The paper manufactory called the Au rora, at Girona, has been burned down. Bar celona, Taragona, and Lerida, are quite tranquil. The same is the case at Valencia. The column which is marching on Aragon disarmed the na tional guard of Segorbe. Teruel has surrendered. General Damato, and the republican junta esta blished there, has taken to flight. Alcanez also recognises the legitimate government of the Queen. On the 2811, the national guards of Badajoz, and of several towns in the Estramadura, were dis artned. The last despatches increase the hope that Sarag - ossa will surrender without the effusion of blood; in the city there is a conflict between the members of the junta. The Government, in order to provide for the case of the conditions it exacts for the surrender of Saragossa not being accepted, has sent off a siege-train." The same journal says :—" It is said that the Queen intends to no minate General Narvaez to a high post in diplo macy." The two companies of the 3d battalion of the National Guard who were on duty at the palace during the insurrection, and who remained faithful, were continuing their service and were every day, says the Epoca, receiving now proofs of her Majesty's esteem. A letter of the 31e, received in advance of the regular mail, says :—" We have little truthful news, but a good deal that is doubtful. The dis contented are hoping, it is not known what, and the Government is remaining inactive, it is not known why. The destruction of the paper manu factory at Gerona by fire is a dreadful thing. The fire is supposed to have been caused by insurgents who escaped from Barcelona. People are begin ning to believe that the recent fires iu Spain have been caused by a secret society, to which a large portion of the clergy belongs, and that they, for the sake of averting suspicion, profess socialist ideas. Notwithstanding the severity with which incendiaries have been punished in Castillo, there are still others who commit arson. A few days ago a boy 13 years of age was arrested for setting fire to some crops in the environs of San tovenia, and he stated that he had done so because a man had paid him a small sum of money. One reason why the clergy are suspected of having a hand in the fires is that none of the persons ar rested for causing them would make any revels} tions as to their reasons or the persons who insti gated them—a proof that they must have acted under stropg religious sentiments. Orders have been given for the release of M. Orense, Marquis de Albaida, democratic deputy, who is in custody at Valencia. It is said that, in consequence of the resignation of the embassy at London by M. Gon zalez, the post has been offered to M. Olozaga, and that a military man, probably General Prim or Marshal Narvaez, will be appointed to the em bassy at Paris. The Bishop of Urgel, exiled at Majorca, has received permission to return to Spain." FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The Moniteur contains a report of the labours of the magistracy in civil and commercial matters during the year 1854. BOURSE, Aug. 3.—The following were the latest quotations : End of Month. —f. 70 85 Cash. fr. e. 4i per Cents 94 -- 3 per Cents 7O 50 New Loan 7O 10 Bank Shares 4,100 Roman Credit Alobilier 1,632 50 lustrian Belgian Fives ...... .. 99i Spanish Threes — Piedmentese (5) 9O /dome Debt ......« 39i RAMP/ATS-1011 CASH. fr. c. fr. a Orleans 1,410 Western 962 50 Northern ...,......, 1,042 50 Strasburg Lyons ....1,425 New Ditto Mediterranean ...... 1,8 i 7 50 Grand Central Lyons Geneva BO7 50 Taste Cette BO3 Austrian Corn. B7O RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, July 26.—The authorities of Moscow have voted a sum of 50,000 silver roubles from the reserve capital possessed by the city, for the expenses that will be entailed by the solemnity of the coronation. The Russian armies suffered severely during the war from bad military a dministration. This was the reason why the Emperor appointed, about two months ago, a committee of inquiry under the pre sidency of A.D.C. General Prince Vassiltebikoff. The Maritime Journal publishes the text of the imperial ukase in question, the most importait regulation in which confers on the said committee, fer enabling it to ascertain the reasons of those disorders that accompanied the provisioning of the hospitals and the old armies of the south and the Crimea, the right of examining all persons what soever from whom it may expect to receive any information, and of citing as witnesses all the ad ministrative authorities. According to recent accounts, the number of killed and wounded by the fire at Saionica amounts to fully 700. Among them are the Russian, Dutch, and Sardinian consuls. AMERICA. WASHINGTON, JULY 23. In the proceedings of both branches of the Le gislature yesterday there were several signs that the adjournment is approaching. The Senate sent down to the House of Representatives a resolution fixing the 11th of August as the termination of the session. The rules if the house were suspended to allow it to be discussed, and the debate, as de bates often do, deferred the decision. Provisos and amendments were moved and discussed, but the house rose without coming to a final resolution. The Representatives, however, determined to meet for the rest of the session an hour earlier than usual ; by assembling sooner, sitting longer, and attending more closely to the real business before them, it is hoped the breaking up may be possible within a fortnight or three weeks. Recent unhappy incidents and the discussions that arose out of them have consumed much time ; in truth, some things more precious even than time have been lost ; a state of feeling has been created, or, rather, deep ened in intensity and bitterness, which renders a speedy separation of parties very desirable, and it will be well if they separate in peace. The weather is excessively hot, all but incapaci tatingfor work of any kind ; though the " severity" of the season is probably a degree more endurable here than in New York, where you are hemmed in by miles of wall and pavement, and the atmosphere is sometimes heated to fierceness. In Washington the city has not swallowed up the country 7 the two are more blended ; the main streets are a little too wide for the present traffic certainly, but they are well planted with trees, and there are many pleasure spots of green, reserves and enclosures, more fresh and verdant than might be supposed possible under such a blazing sun ; a month or six weeks more of such heat will no doubt change their aspect for the worse, but as yet they look cool and flourishing. Under a Federal system there seems always t o have been a difficulty in fixing the seat of Govern ment. '1 he Swiss Republic solves it by changing the locality in which the Grand Council meets every two years. Even the German Confederation, which represents the Sovereigns only, sits in a free city, not within the territory of either of the royalties represented. In founding the American system of government many things were settled by a com• promise ; thus neither of the larger cities was se lected as the centre of le g islation and the Execu tive. A small district of 0 square miles only, a mere speck on the surface of the country, was formed on the frontier of Virginia and Maryland, and within it was founded the city of Washington, as the centre of the federal Power. It is no more the metropolis of the United States than Oxford is the capital of England. It is a special city, within a special territory, for a special purpose. For nearly 60 years all the business of the Federation has been carried on from it • but trade and com merce, as they were not mainly sought by its foun ders, have kept aloof and found other channels. In half a century it has only attained a population of about 60,000—absolutely insignificant when com pared with the enormously rapid growth of many other American cities. if quiet and repose are essential to the proper consideration of public affairs, Washington affords them both ; whether political feuds and the irritation of party feeling are not aggravated by removal from the influences of a great capital may be a matter of doubt. It is very probable the two great parties in the States —the Bianci and Neri of America—would be re strained to a more moderate pitch of feeling, or at least to a more temperate mode of expressing it, by the cooler commercial spirit of society in New York. The two principal points in Washington are, of course, the Capitol, the seat of the Legislative Bodies, and the "White House," the official resi dence of the President, in the vicinity of which are the chief Government offices. Such extensive addi tions are being made to the Capitol that all the old views and descriptions of it are imperfect. It lies about the centre of the city, yet in the midst of a park-like domain, abounding in the blessing of shade and the benevolence of seats, which are fully appreciated by the citizens. It is a favourite pro menade. From the Pennsylvanian Avenue, the main street of the city, after crossing the enclesure, a flight of steps leads up to a terrace with a marble fountain, on either side of which there are flights of steps to a second terrace, which runs along the whole front of the building. As every part of it is open to the public without restriction, you soon find your way to the gallery of the House of Re presentatives, a semi-circular hall, with seats and desks so arranged that every member faces the Speaker, who occupies a tribune at the central point of the diameter, under a canopy with heavy crimson drapery. The galleries run round the whole apartment ; the portion above the Speaker is reserved for ladies, of whom a few were present. The discussion was rather formal yesterday ; but the members have more resources in such a case than with us. The desks were strewel with news papers, letters, and envelopes ; many were reading, some writing, and occasionally fanning themselves ' • Chinese fans were nearly as numerous in the hall as straw hats ; the terrible heat compels the gen tlemen to adopt the fan and parasol (in the enlarged form of the umbrella) as in Australia they have taken the veil ; there is no sound reason why any of these articles should be exclusively for feminine use. The names of the members having been twice read over, with the prospect of a third call, I left the house sitting, and it rose for the day without any definite result ; there will probably be some more lively debates before the adjournment. THE PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST. NEW YORK, JULY 23; "Fremont stock is rising," said a gontleman to me to-day in speaking of a late visit to the west. I cannot express my own views of the present state of the Presidential contest better than in this brief phrase. The nomination of Mr. Buchanan fell dead upon the country, exciting little enthu siasm beyond the circle of his immediate friends, and adding no external strength to a party which at that moment unquestionably controlled a de cided majority in the electoral college. Mr. Fill more's return added something to the enthusiasm of the Know-nothing party, and the recent action of the old Whigs in the States of Virginia and Maryland has strengthened the chances and ex hilarated the hopes of that once formidable organi sation. Instead, however, of counting upon placing their candidate in the Presidential chair by the popular vote as they once hoped to do, their only hope now is that, by securing the votes of enough Southern States, they may divide the vote in the electoral college, so that uo candidate shall get a majority there, and thus throw the election into the House. For the Republican nominee, on the other hand, there is a growing enthusiasm. In the West, especially, I am assured that there is . a fer- Your rivalling that which carried General Harrison to Washington in 1840 by the most overwhelming popular vote since the election of Washington. In the State of Indiana, which my information has hitherto led me to regard as probably sure for Bu chanan, there has been a recent demonstration which indicates a popular excitement beyond pa rallel. There is scarcely any part of that State which has not sent more or less persons to Kansas. Driven back at the point ,of the bayonet or the butt of the rifle, these persons have carried the story of their wrongs into every settlement, and at a mass convention of the friends of Fremont at Indiana polis 50,000 or 60,000 persons assembled, full of the enthusiasm which carries popular elections in that section of the country. I am told that the same feeling pervades all the agricultural States of the North-West and makes their vote reasonably sure for the Republicans. New England is looked upon as equally sure, though I am told that the State of Connecticut will perhaps throw asufficiently large Know-nothing vote to render the result doubtful. If the North-west and Now England vote in a solid body for Fremont, the middle States of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylva nia, will decide who shall be the next President. His friends count upon it as certain by a large ma jority, and I cannot see why, making all allow ances for sanguine hopes, their calculations are not well founded. New Jersey I regard as doubtful ; but I cannot see that parties have taken ground so decidedly in Pennsylvania as to insure it to any one but Buchanan. I believe, from all I can learn, that there is a growing enthusiasm there for Fre mont, but I do not think that it has yet reached a point to place that State iu danger of loss by the democracy. There are yet three months to work, every day of which the Republicans may hope to gain. Apropos of the influence of the press in this election, the 11 erald has the following : " We find, then, from a careful examination of our ex changes, and from an application to them of the official returns of the census of the newspaper circulations of 1850, that at this time the three parties for the Presi dency are represented as follows : Newspaper?. Circulation. For Fremont.... Fur Buchanan 172 294,763 Fcr Fillmore 53 95,391 "Of these aggregates, it will be seen that Mr. Bucha nan has 104 papers in the north and 68 in the south — that of the whole number, 110 are old Democratic jour nals, that eight have been Whig and one Independent. It further appears that Colonel Fremont has 182 journals in the north and only six in the south—that of the whole number, 82 have heretofore been Whig, 18 Demo cr‘itic, 15 Know-nothing, and 17 Independent. As for Mr. Fillmore, he is weak in both sections ; yet, in the south, in the way of newspapers, we see that he has two thirds of the number supporting Mr. 1312411 mm, and that his whole list consists of 45 . old Whig papers (nearly all soutb), two papers heretofore Dernoeraiie, 10 Know-nothing, and one Independent." While the Whigs of the South are organising for the support of Mr. Fillmore, the Northern Whigs are taking ground for Fremont. A large Whig meeting was held in Boston last week, at which the Republican nomination was endorsed. Some of the Southern Democrats have it in view, if there is no election by the people, to throw overboard Mr. Buchanan, and have dr. Breckenridge, the Democratic nominee for the Vice-Presidency, made President. The constitution provides that— ‘‘ Art. 12, Sect. I.—The electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same State with themselves ; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice• Pr esident ; and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of ail persons voted for as Vice• President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit, sealed, to the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate ; the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted ; the person having the greatest number of votes for President shall be President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of tl•e elec tors appoin'od ; and if no person have such a majority, then from the persons having the highest number, not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as Presi. dent, the House of Representatives shall choose imme diately by ballot the President. But in choosing the President the votes shall be taken by Stites, the repre sentation from each State having one vote ; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a number of members from two-thirds of the States, and a majority of all the States shall be necessary t r a cticice ; and if the House of Reprelentatives shall rot choose a President when ever the right of choice shall devolve upon them before the 4th day of March next following, then the Vice- President shall act as President, as in case of death or other constitutional ditatility of the Presi. • it." The scheme is that there shall be no election of President by the house, and that Mr. Brecken ridge, being elected Vice-President by the Senate, shall become de facto President on the 4th of March, 1857. In Congress there has not been much of public interest since my last. The Senate have passed the ' bill for fortifications, reducing the amount front $3,000,000 (the war estimate) to $1,800,000, and have voted to adjourn on the 18th of August. The house have had the neutralisation laws under dis- mission, and have been debating the Senate's reso lution of adjournment, finally agreeing to it. Parties have been mainly interested at Washington with the projected duel between Mr. Burlingame and Mr. Brooks, the hero of the Sumner assault. Like most Washington duels, it has flashed in the pan. Mr. Burlingame proposed to fight with rifles in her Majesty's dominions, but Mr. Brooks thought it was not worth while to go so far to be shot at, and intimates that a duel in Canada is quite a different affair to a duel in the States. The minority report on the Kansas elections is printed at length in the Union, of the 19th. The conclusions are : " 1. That at the first election held in the territory under the organic act for delegate to Congress, General John W. Whitfield received a plurality of the legal votes cast, and was duly elected such delegate, as stated in the majority report. "3. That the territorial Legislature was a legally constituted body, and had power to pass valid laws, and their enactments are therefore valid. " 3. That these laws, when appealed to, have been used for the protection of life, liberty, and property, and for the maintenance of law rand order iu the territory. " 4. That the election under which the sitting delegate John W. Whitfield, was held, was in pursuance of valid law, and should be regarded as a valid election. ' "5. That as said Whitfield, at sa'd election, received a large number of legal votes without opposition, he was duly elected as a delegate to this body, and is entitled to a seat in this house. " 6. That the election under which the contesting de legate, Andrew H. Reeder, claims his seat, was not held under any law, but in contemptuous disregard of all law ; and that it shou Id only be regarded as the expres sion of a band of mak:entente and revolutionists, and consequently should be wholly disregarded by the House. "7. As to whether or not Andrew H. Reeder re ceived a greater number of votes of resident citizens on the 9 th than J. W. Whitfield did on the lit of October, 1855, no testimony was taken by the committee, so far as the undersigned knows, nor is it material to the issue." General Smith has assumed the command of the United States' troops iu the territory, and in reply to a request from the Free-state men for protec tion against the armed Missourians, replied that he had no authority to do so ; that those bands were the regularly enrolled militia of the territory ; that everything they do is done under colour of law, and that the Free-state men have no redress except by resort to the civil powers. Tne Senate have passed a resolution asking the President for the instructions to the United States' troops in Kansas. The Government deny that President Comon fort has been offered 6,000,000 for a now slice of Mexican territory. Notwithstanding this denial, it is believed by well-informed people in Washing ton, that the new Minister at Mexico has been authorised to negotiate for a further cession with reference to the proposed Pacific Railroad. All the iron needed for that road (if made on the Southern route), imported from the Pacific side, would at present have to pay duty in Mexican ports. I have no doubt that the Cabinet are negotiating to do away with the necessity. The various reports on this road will be sub mitted to Congress this week. One will go against any Government aid to the project; a second in favour of a single road, to be constructed by the aid of cash advances from the Government, these advances to be reimbursed by the sale of lands to be set aside for that purpose ; the third, signed by all the committee except the two making the above report, recommending three roads, and gigantic grants of land for their construction that would throw the Illinois Central grant far into the shade. We hardly know at Washingt in who is President at Nicaragua. No reliable account shows Walker as possessed of more than 600 fighting men ; he is also reduced in funds, and can hope for nothing from this country. A foray into Costalßica is made im practicable by the rainy season, consequently at present Rivas is supposed to be uppermost. In this city.we are as yet free from the yellow fever, although vessels continue to arrive at quar antine with it on board. There is so much of it in the bay below that I fear we cannot avoid it here. We have had cool weather for a few days past, but the fire is returning. We have at last succeeded in convicting a Portuguese slaver of being con cerned in the slave trade, and have sentenced him to 10 years' imprisonment. These fellows have almost invariably succeeded in escaping their de serts. The late arrivals from Cuba speak of the landing of a large cargo of coolies on the island to work on the plantations in the place of Africans. ASTOUNDING IF TRUE. The Berlin Correspondent of a morning contemporary says :—" If we are to believe a very circumstantial letter from Munich, Britannia's maritime power has had a very narrow escape from the total destruction which awaited it had a third naval campaign been opened this year in the Bay of Finland. From this letter we learn that a certain Bavarian corporal, named Bauer, who, in 1849, made some unsuccessful experiments with a diving vess e l in Kiel harbour, has since then brought hie labours to a successful result ; the letter which he wrote was indited 17 feet below the surface of the sea, off Cronstadt, June 24, and iu the company of the writer, in his vessel, were at the time a Russian naval officer, e ight sailors, and a smith. This experiment had been preceded by eight others, for the purpose of testing the capacity of the vessel, and it was to be succeeded in a few days by a grander one in the presence of the Grand Duke Con stantine And a committee named for the purpose. On the occasion here alluded to the crew of 11 persons re mained eight hours, without interruption, under water ; and, in addition to the letter-writing feat, and the drinking of divers bottles of Rhine wine to the healthy of various European potentates, they performed during that time all sorts of evolutions with the vessel, moving backwards and forwards, rising and sinking, whether vertically or at an angle, whether rapidly or slowly, eze. In short, the only circumstance connected with the de scription that at all suggests an opening for scepti c i sm is, that the letter was written by the inventor himself ; when we have another description, written by an im partial person, we shall know better what to think a b ou t this matter. RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR HUDDERSFIELD STATION. --An accident occurred on Saturday morning at the Hillhouse engine shed, Hudder,field. The 6.25 a.m. pa.senger train bad just passed the engine shed when a Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln engine started from the shed •to run into the station to be attached to a train for Sheffield. At the same moment a luggage train (which had been turned into a siding till the pasting of the 6.25 train) was driven towards the shed to be shunted, and the consequence was that a butfir of each engine came into collision. One of the buff ri was hurled a distance of twenty yards, the lug;age engine had its wheel tires knocked off and the slue considerably injured. The Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire engine had the whole of its side torn away and its tender turned upside down. Several wag gons were also inverted, acd the traffic was stopped for three hours. Thomas HiteLen, the fireman, and John Turner, the driver of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Liucolnshire engine, were removed to the infirmary, the latter being much shaken and the former severely cut. David Nichols, the pointsman, was also much hurt by a piece of wood striking him while falling from one of the luggage waggons. A signal was hoisted for the luggage train to be delayed, but the driver was prevented by the thickness of the atmo sphere from teeing it,--Mancheiter Guardian. LEWES' GOETHE. The T ife and Works of Goethe ; With Sketches of his Age and Contemporaries. By G. H. Lewes. 2 vols. David Nutt. It is curious that, while the most appreciative of all the commentators on Shakspere was (A. W. Schlegel) a German—incomparably the most gifted and intelligent of all the biographers of Goethe is (G. H. Lewes) an Englishman. These two re markable volumes, commemorative of the greatest literary genius of the Teutonic race—volumes only given to the world at last after two years of assiduous preparation—constitute henceforth, par excellence, we do conscientiously believe, THE " Life of Goethe," and, as such, assume at once a high and unassailable position among • our great classic masterpieces. Cordially —now that his labour of love is at length accomplished—now that we have the fruition of it in our hands thus substantially and satisfactorily—cordially do we offer to Mr. Lewes our unaffected and most ear lnest congratulations. Thus far, at least, he has fulfilled his ambition. Again and more triumph antly than hitherto he has passed another of the golden goals towards which his steps have been reverently and ardently directed. In this last and worthiest of his various literary productions he has acquitted himself, we must protest at once, hardly less to our surprise than to our admiration. His brilliant imaginative sketch of the Young Author, " Ranthorpe," his charming historiette of " Rose, Blanche, and Violet," his fiery and daring apostrophe to the shade of "Robe spierre," his luminous and comprehensive " Bio graphical History of Philosophy" shall we acknowledge it ?—had hardly prepared us for the mellowed and perfected excellence of this really masterly memorial of Goethe and his Contem poraries. A biography not unworthy, in its way, of taking rank among the more admirable examples produceable through any age, or in any tongue, in that, to us, we had nearly said, the most fascinat ing of all the numerous departments of literature. The work—it is interesting to remark at once—is thus gracefully inscribed to Thomas Carlyle, the translator of " Wilhelm Meister," and as such the one " who first taught England to appreciate Goethe"—" As a memorial," writes Mr. Lewes, " Of gratitude for Intellectual Guidance, and of esteem for rare and noble qualities." Conspicu ous among the various honours conferred upon the author of " Sartor Resartus "—we take this dedi cation to be about the one the most eminently well calculated to afford him a genuine and lasting sense of gratification. The motto selected by Mr. Lewes for his title-page--resembling some what the motto we ourselves should have chosen for the title-page of a crowning biography of the Great Napoleon (namely, the opinion uttered in regard to that extraordinary man by the Right Hon. Charles James Fox, to wit : "'believe him to be one of the best, as I am sure he is the greatest of mankind")—is sententiously as follows :—" Goethe's heart, which few knew, was as great as his intellect, which all know." AOTOC ft7rEV Jung Stilling ! And truthfully— judging from these dispassionate records, the data of which, as the title-page again intimates, have been industriously collected by our author, from sources both " published and unpublished." The former, namely, the published sources of in formation in regard to the life of Goethe, may of course be readily enough enumerated. Foremost among them the brief biographical notices by Doring and by Schutz—succeeded, as those mini ature mementoes were ultimately, by the ampler narratives of Viehoff and of Schafer—Viehoff 's Goethe's Leben extending to four, and Schafer's to two volumes :-Itolumes as substantial in ap pearance, but by no means as meritorious in character, as these two tomes from the hand of G. H. Lewes. Besides the " Lives" of Goethe, penned by Daring, and Schutz, and Viehoff, and Schafer, there were—affording materials and hints to our author—Herr Falk's "Reminiscences of Goethe," and Mrs. Austin's " Goethe and his Contemporaries," and Mr. Oxenfori's translation of " Enckerinann's Conversations," and Goethe's own Letters, letters addressed now to the Countess You Stolberg, now to Kestner, now to Charlotte—not forgetting various other Epistles, Memoirs, and Recollections, or (what Mr. Lewes quite comprehensibly designates " as much of a stumbling-block as of a stepping-stone"), the renowned Wahrheit and Dichtung, Goethe's own famous fragment of Autobiography ! All these published sources of information in regard to his subject Mr. Lewes has wisely brought under con tribution, has fairly sifted and ransacked. But with these he has scrutinised no less searchingly various unpublished sources of intelligence—. sources imparting to his volumes very agreeably an air of undoubted novelty and originality. Speaking of this in his Preface he observes— " Besides the mass of printed testimony, I have endeavoured to get at the truth by consulting those who lived under the same roof with him, those who lived in friendly intercourse with him, and those who have made his life and works a special study." A Life, remember, extending over the ample " span" comprised between 1749 and 1832—a life consequently embrac ing eighty-two years altogether Johann Wolfgang Goethe having been born in 1749, about, noonday on the 28th of August, and hav ing expired at length full of years and honours, iu 1832, at about the same hour of the day on the 22d of March. Works including among their number—his maiden phantasy " Gots von Berlichingen," his morbid tale of love and suicide " Werther," " Clavigo," " Egmont," " Stella," "Die Fischerin," "Triumph der Empfiudsam keit," " Iphigenia," "Ilmenau," Tasso," his " Theory of Colour," his " Treatise on the Meta morphoses of Plants ;" above all, his wonderful " Wilhelm Meister," his astonishing " Faust," and his exquisite " Herman and Dorothea." What a genius ! What fecundity What depth ! What imagination ! Remember ing these works, do we not surround our ideal of Goethe with the graceful and angelic forms of Charlotte, and Dorothea, and Mignon, and Marguerite ? Do we not marvel over the me mory of this giant intellect under the glamour of the Walpurgis Night, to the eltridch strain of the "Ed King," to the wierd glimmer of the sar donic and evil eye of that mocking phantom yonder in the dark background, the wily and diabolic Mephistopheles Such is the memorable " Life," such are the marvellous " Works," re counted and analysed by Mr. G. H. Lewes' pen of sagacity and fascination. A masterpiece not unworthy of its theme—this noble biography will henceforth be regarded, we rest assured, hardly less in Germany than in England, as the classic authority commemorative of all most worthy of commemoration in regard to Goethe and his contemporaries. THE LARGEST STEAMER IN THE WORLD. The American steamer Vanderbilt, the largest steamer in the world, has had a trial trip at New York. Her paddle-wheels made 16 revolutions a minute, and it was considered that 18 revolutions could be got out of her. Twelve of her revolutions were equivalent to 14 knots au hour, and with 13 miles an hour only she could cross the Atlantic in ten days. Her length is 335 feet, breadth of beam 46 feet, depth of hold 32-i feet. She is 5,000 tons burden. She will draw 20 feet when loaded. She will carry 1,000 tons of freight, 1,500 tons of coal, and 800 tons of water. Her crew consists of 150 persons. Amongst them for the engine depart ment will be 4 engineers, 13 coal heavers, 24 fire men, and 3 water tenders. Her stewards depart ments will consist of 1 steward, 8 cooks, 24 waiters, and 3 porters. She has five decks and 16 water tight compartments. Her engines consist of two overhead beam engines with a power of 5,00 0 horses. The boilers are tubular, each 30 feet long, and weighing GO tons- The cylinders are 90 inches i❑ diameter and 12 feet stroke. The wheels are 4 1 feet in diameter, and the boiler surface is 20,0 00 superficial feet. She has 32 furnaces, and she will consume 100 tons of coals in 24 hours. Her floor ° are fastened through her keel with copper bolts ; the bolts weigh 50 tons. She is iron strapPe, d throughout with 350 diagonal straps, weighing in the aggregate 96 tons. She has been built by d a y work and not by contract, and her coat will be nearly 1,000,000 dollars. .4