The Sun. — London, England, 1861-05-20 00:00:00

THE WELLINGTON, 160, ' PICCADILLY. —Gentlemen arn respectfully informed that the SALOON DINING ROOMS are now OPEN for the Supply of LUNCHEONS and DINNERS, from One to Nine o'clock ran. Set Dinners and Dining from the carte in the most varied form. Dinners from the joint, 2s. Whitebait is now served daily THOMAS PRICE, Superintendent. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Lessee, Mr. J. B. Baokstone. THIS EVENING-, the performances will commence with a new an d original Comedy, entitled BLACK SHEEP. air. Buckstone, Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, to. ; Mrs. Wilkins, Charles Young, Miss Lovell, &c. --- Otter which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery and ellects, and all the original music by the late Sir Henry Eishop, the melodrama of THE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.--. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore, Meadows, Garden, and Miss C. Leclercq. Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Sup ported by Hermann Vezin, Ryder, Meadows, to. ; Misses Heath, Elsworthy, and R. Leclercq. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Reproduction of "_The Colleen Bawp, " The Adeiph: "Census" every Evening'. THIS EVENING, the successful new Farce, entitled A TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford. After which (134thlime), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. D. Boucicault. D. rasher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, 'C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS. Messrs. J. 1,. Toole, Eburne, Romer, C. J. Smith ; Miss Kate Kelly, Miss E. Ehorne, and Mrs. Chatterley. Doors open at half past 6—Commenoe at 7. CANTERBURY - HALL CONCERTS AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. EVERY EVENING, A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera, UN BALLO IN MASCIIERA , (First produced in England at this Establishment), With a Chorus of Forty Voices. Also, Verdi's IL CORSARO, never performed at any her Concerts. Solos on the Cornet -a-piston, by Mr. Levy. The Comic Department comprises the Brothers Conrad (in their new and inimitable entertainments), Mr. Wood and his talented little Son, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Blanchard, Mr. Hol lingsworth, and Miss Rose Howard. Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGHMANS. TH E 0 X FOR D, 6. OXFORD-STREET. Mr. LTIVIT, undoubtedly the best performer of the day on the Cornet-a-Piston—Grand Selections (on the most complete scale) from Dinorah, Martha, Stradella, &c., and other vocal and instrumental music, by Miss Russell, the Misses Stuart, and Miss Ernst, Messrs. Charles Greville, Fornari, Kimber ley, Bernard, Beaumont, Bervon, Huish, Signor Tivoli, and Mr. Henry Herbert, with full band and powerful and selected chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans.—The following Comic talent, Messrs. W. Randall, J. Blanchard, W. H. Wie land, Hollingsworth, E. Marshall, Harvey, and French, and the Brothers Conrad in their latest and best entertainment, every evening. Admission, Hall, sixpence; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THU DAY.—Morning, 9h. 58m.—Afternoon, 10h. 30m. To-moßitow.-Morning, 11h. sm. —Afternoon, 11h. 34m. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MAY 19, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 56—highest since noon yesterday. 40—lowest this morning and during the night. 52—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.40, rising rapidly. WlND—Easterly, inclining to South—rather fresh; with cloudy weather, and occasional sunshine. MAI 20. THEENOWETBE, IN THE MAIM. :5 8 —highest since noon yesterday. 42—lowest this morning and during the night. 67—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.41. WlND—North-Westerly—light and variable; with fine sunshiny weather. THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 20, 1881. Another curious American document appeart in our columns to• day—of no less authority than the opinion of Mr. C. M. CLAY, the United States' Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. Peters burg, on the Anglo-American phase of the Civil War in his own country. To Englishmen the letter will appear rather more rhetorical than what they would look for from a personage of such im portance, and charged with such responsible busi ness as a Minister Plenipotentiary—rather more, too, of passion than of accurate statement and unanswerable argument. Still it is a document of considerable interest ; not merely because it appeals to us directly, but because we must suppose Mr. CLAY to utter the views and feelings of a large part of the Americans, perhaps of his Government. He first answers, as the reader will see, three questions respecting the Free States and their cause, and then three respecting the honour, the interest and the safety of England in reference to it. " What are we fighting for ?" he inquires ; but we can easily imagine the reply of the Seceded States to all his remarks. You are not fighting for " nationality" they would say; for, we are not holding you as an oppressed nationality diverse from ourselves, — which is the accepted meaning of your phrase— and keeping you down by force. You are fighting on the contrary with a part of our common nation ality because, thinking itself ill-treated, it has as serted its right to separate Government. Yon are not fighting for liberty, trial by jury, freedom of speech and of the press, for we have all these, as much at least of the two last, as yourselves. We never parted with our Sovereign rights; we have the power of life and death ; and we have an efficient militia as the North will soon learn to its cost. The gravest charge against them is the viola tion of the constitution of their own states themselves, by refusing to submit the question of Secession to Universal Suffrage antthe Ballot. As we showed at length a few days ago, it is aristocracy and not democracy which has broken up the Union. The aristocracy which dares not face the Ballot-box, and which uses at its will four millions of its fellow men. Mr. CLAY also rightly enough characterises the spirit of the American aristocracy, and the deplorable consequences, could its principles but triumph over the world. Next he asks, " Can you subdue the seven re volted States ?" He has no do doubt on this head " Of course we can"—when the whole seven re volted States contain a population less by a million and a half than the single State of New York ; when if all the slave States were to make common cause ; when if all the Border States joined them, the North outnumbers them by two to one; wh en the Southern strength is diminished by the large number necessary to guard the slaves; when the money, when the navy, are to be found only i n the North, and when the whites in the slave state s are divided among themselves, who can donbt that we can overpower the rebels But can you govern when you have sub jugated ? A question frequently put. We do mean to stdu , 'ugateh e replies. We go to deliver; to put down not States only, but rebellious citi zens who now overp ower the lovers of the Union and order. Such lan guage certainly re minds us of the French going to Rome to deliver the people from a faction, a n d t o deliver them into the hand of the POPE. There is how ever, a real difference. It cannot be denied that the Unionists are numerous in the Southern States themselves, and that the political leaders for their own purposes, and in a very clever way, have con trived to precipitate a conflict with the North in order to prevent the people from calm and unpre judiced consideration of the subject. 7 When Mr. CLAY undertakes however, to point out to us wh at i s right and best for England, we naturally feel even more at home in noticing his opinions. We think we know our own interest in the matter, and certainly no strife between nations, or between sections of nations, has lately occurred • frf' k.•` < ", ~401.0tP. r 1 7' • it Lt Dltft - - 0.• in which honour, duty, and interest alike lead us to preserve a strict neutrality, and a most rigid im partiality. It is not, Mr. CLAY does not say that is, the object of the North to abolish slavery—in that object every Englishman would feel the deepest interest. But even were that the point to be fought for, we could have no right to throw our weight into the Northern scale. We do not believe, however, that the North cares for emancipation, unless, indeed, by the force of circumstances it is now under going the process of conversion. Mr. CLAY must forgive us, however, if we smile at his at tempts to bring in our commercial interests. We must think that the Northern States are hostile to them. Their last tariff is an unmistakeable attack on British manufactures ; they must abolish it and agree to a fair revenue, not a protective, tariff, before we can hail them as commercial friends. Already America is rapidly becoming to us of but secondary commercial importance. If indeed, without regard to slavery we looked to our own interest, it would probably be to support the South, to break the blockade and ;.to sustain the cotton growers. They are of more consequence to us than American consumers who are made to pay an exor bitant artificial price for our produce. Mr. CLAY'S last flourish on the destiny of the Free States, even should part of the South be lost, will little move the present generation. We may well leave it to our successors to deal with the great Republic, if Republic it continues to be, as they find it. It may well be that North America is yet to become several respect able nations instead of one ambitious republic, which shall:almost control the world. To hear of " offending" an America which, in twenty years, is to have 40,000,000 of inhabitants, and in half a century 100,000,000, will certainly in no degree modify the conduct of England. We all know tolerably well What is before us in respect to the course about to be taken in the House of Commons in furtherance of the Financial Policy of her MAJESTY'S Government. But it would be very difficult, indeed, for any one to foresee accurately what is likely to come of it ! The arrangements are at length mapped out with sufficient distinctness. For example—directly after the close of this brief recess of Whitsuntide, that is to say on Thursday evening next, but two days after to-morrow—Viscount PALMERSTON, in his double capacity as Leader of the House of Commons and Head of the Administration, will move in so many words, " That the House will immediately resolve itself into a Committee of Supply." The next stage of the Customs and Inland Revenue Bill being reserved, according to announce ment—(for the convenience of members scattered into distant parts of the country in quest of home relaxation during the holidays of Whitsuntide) — the Budget Bill, we say (already read a first and second time without division) being reserved for its next stage—namely, for its consideration clause by clause in Committee upon this day se'nnight. Whereupon—that is on Monday, the 27th instant —on the motion that the House do resolve itself into Committee on the Customs and Inland Revenue Bill, Mr. NEWDEGATE will move, "That, whereas the embodiment of the principal financial proposals of the Government in one bill unduly increases the power of the Government over the taxation of this country and the interests thereby affected, limits inconveniently the action of this Nouse, and would annul the well-ascertained function and privilege of the House of Lords, it be an instruction to the committee to divide the Customs and Inland Reve nue Bill, so that each of the taxes to which it results may be separately treated." Another indication this that the Paper Duties' Abolition has become subordinated in importance as a matter of dispute between the great Opposing Parties, the Liberals and Conservatives confronting each other to the right and to the left of Mr. SPEAKER—has become subor dinated as a matter of dispute between the Minis terialists and the Opposition to the far more for midable, to the actually vital and momentous ques tion growing out of it, the Constitutional Question as to the line of demarcation separating the powers and prerogatives respectively of the Lords and Commons' House of Parliament. It is the ques tion as to that which now remains to be settled one way or the other way between the Opposition and the Government. These are to fight no longer with merely so many " paper pellets"—they are to exchange the old party broadsides upon a matter affecting one of the vital principles of the Constitution. That is the course apparently now decided upon by the Conservative Opposi ' tion, after a lengthened delay for the purpose of mature deliberation. It seems a very simple clues ' tion for settlement thus, off hand, under the circum stances. But—looking for a moment at the dif ferences of opinion perceptible among those on the Government side of the House, and among their antagonists upon the expectant side of the Op position—the prospect becomes one altogether of a very dubious character. It is not by any means that, in the matter of that constitutional difficulty, all those who are seated upon the right hand of Mr. Speaker think, and feel, and are determined, coute qui coute, to vote with her MAJESTY'S Government. Neither is it by any means clear that Mr. NEWDEGATE'S Amendment will secure to itself unanimous support from those who are seated upon the left hand of Mr. SPEAKER, among the ranks of what happens to be called sim ply, as Mr. DISRAELI very recently reminded the House, "imply and solely because they sit opposite the Treasury Benches, " The Opposition," her MAJESTY'S Opposition ! It is a matter of notoriety not merely among the electors of Stroud but elsewhere, far and wide throughout the United Kingdom, that the ' Right Hon. EDWAUD Hoissmax in regard to this constitutional question has spoken, thinks very strongly, feels very strongly, will in all human likelihood vote most decidedly With the Opposition and Against the Government. Turning to the side of the Conservatives, have we not very recently had the cat let out of the bag by Sir WILLIAM HEATIICOTE in reference to the views entertained in respect to the constitutional problem by no less an authority, among the leaders of the Opposition, than th e right hon, and learned gentleman, for merly ins talled in Lord DERBY'S Cabinet as the Con servative Rome Secretary ? Mr. WALPOLE inti mating to the House of Commons but a very few evenings since,through the • lips of his communica tive friend and sympathiser, Sir W . HEATHCOTE, his (the ex-Home Secretary's} strong feeling in this matter, Against the opinion s k nown to be enter tained by the majority of the Opp os i t i on, and in favour of the diametrically opposite opinions enter tained by the mass of the miscellaneous supporters of the Government! Others amonhe Liberals— an exceedingly select few we shad n conjecture— may be f oun d to think and act with the right hon. member for Stroud. More—we are disposed to imagine —will be found breaking away from the side of th e O ppos i t i on in cora i panionshi l) with the right h on , mem b er f or t h e University of Cambridg e , p oss ibl y to speak, cer tainly to vote (with him) among the temporary sup porters of the Government That is the position_ those are the prospects—of Government and of Oppo;itign. It is certainly a position,—so far as we can comprehend it at this moment—full of en couragement to her MAJESTY'S Government. And as certainly those are prospects very dis heartening to her MAJESTY'S Opposition. Still everything will depend upon the tone and tendency given to the debate about to be provoked upon this day se'nnight in the House of Commons by the point-blank Amendment then and there to be pro posed by the hon. gentleman the member for North Warwickshire. France is preparing to evacuate Syria—but she is doing it so very sulkily. It appears probable — though we do not count upon the event with any thing like certainty, in fact we shall not believe it until it has actually been accomplished—it appears probable that before the first week of June shall have passed the French troops will have been withdrawn from the country of the Lebanon. As a matter of course, however, our imperial neighbour is indulging in all sorts of sinister anticipations, in all kinds of lugubrious predictions as to the inevitable consequences (so they at least appear now to the darkened views of Frenchmen), the certain and wholly unavoidable consequences of this withdrawal of the soldiers of France from the Lebanon. There is a conviction even at Paris that hard upon that withdrawal will follow—fresh massacres. Supposing which to be the case—and it is, of course, frightfully possible— certain are we, in our turn, that the old suspicions will revive about those massacres being instigated by the MACHIAVELLIAN diplomacy of a race bent upon finding an excuse, bent upon making an opportunity for the realisation once more of the national air of the French empire, Partant pour la Syrie ! Whether true or false, those rumours have been afloat before now, those suspicions have een undeniably entertained. And so surely as the anticipated renewal of the massacres—the massacres by the fanatical Druses of the unfortunate Maronites —so surely as the anticipated re newal of those massacres follow upon the evacuation of • L 'he Lebanon by the soldiers of NAPOLEON 111., acc;qrdin9 to the general conviction now at Paris—so surely' as that, will (in that terrible contingency) return tho. Ne rumours, revive those . suspicions ! For the fair me of France, for the credit of the French Governm.'-'nt, it is to be hoped that the expectations of the Parisians in this matter will not be realised, that L 'he Druses will not again carry fire and sword throug h the country of the Lebanon so soon as the French soldiers shall have recrossed the Mediterranean. It is a significant circumstance that the ext:vino section of the French press has become clamoroY of late about its being—England above all—not the Turkish ambassador, not the Ottoman Govern ment, not the other powers of Europe combined, but principally, almost exclusively, the English Government that compels France to fulfil her engagements at the appointed time and to with draw her troops (according to promise) from the Lebanon. It is a monstrously, extravagantly, a flagrantly false accusation. But let that pass—it is significant. It is especially significant, moreover, that the French press should argue thus bitterly against the English Govern ment, as the Government of an Ally constraining France to act contrary to her own wishes, to do violence to her own convictions—immediately upon the very morrow (as it is) of those stormy, not to say indecorous and intemperate discussions which have so recently reflected so much discredit upon the Imperial French Senate. Ah ! how they do love us on the other side of the British Channel ! So dearly—so tenderly—so devotedly ! We have evidences of their affection in the state of the French army, in thestate of the French navy, in the state of the French artillery, of the French arsenals, of the French fortifications. We have had these evidences of the cordiality of this alliance increasingly be fore us ever since that cordial alliance commenced, And now, as supplementary tokens of the like affec tion, we witness these furious scenes in the French Senate, scenes expressive there of an almost malig nant antipathy to England and Englishmen. And now, as yet farther and yet plainer supplementary tokens of a similar kind, we have these caustic refer ences of the French press to England as the power obliging France to be true to her own word and to withdraw her troops from the Lebanon. N'importe, however—so long as they are withdrawn when the date arrives for this Syrian Evacuation. NEW MUSIC. f A Home Love Song. By Frederic de Bernhardt. , J. H. Jewell, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury. Hail to Thee ! Hail to Thee ! Canzonet. By John Raymond. Williams, 123, Cheapside. f The words of the first of these compositions are by W. Charles Kent, whose lyrical contributions to some of our best periodicals are well known and appreciated for the elegance and tenderness they possess. The simple beauty of the " Home Love Song" before us well merits the sweet melody which is wedded to it by Frederick de Bernhardt. There is no straining after effect, no sudden transi tions to break up the flow of harmony nor mar the expression of deep and gentle feeling contained in the words ; and, moreover, it is within the compass of all voices—a recommendation not always attend ing our ballad school of music. We most cordially advise those who admire the combination of genuine poetry and pure melody to place this song in their folio. " Hail to Thee ! " is the production of a young musical amateur, who promises fair to do that which will bring his name out from the private ranks before long. There is much in this canzonet evincing originality of treatment and poetic concep tion of language. The composer evidently has a fine ear, and has arranged his air in some parts to give it rather the character of vocal declamation than of mere har monic rhythm. We hope to see more of Mr. Ray mond's compositions, feeling sure that the present specimen is but a slight rendering of the talent which lies latent in' him. REMOVAL OF THE COURT TO OSBORNE.—Her Majesty, his Royal Highness the Prince Consort. and the Royal family, attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, arrived at the Royal Clarence yard, Gosport, by special South-Western train at 5.30 p.m. on Saturday and crossed over to Osborne in the Royal screw yacht Fairy. Her Majesty travelled strictly private, the ceremonies usu ally observed on such occasions being entirely dispensed with. THE TELEGRAPH IN RIISSIA.—The extension of the electric telegraph across Siberia to the Pacific Ocean has progressed so far during the past four years, that at the commencement of 1861 the Russian Government had ordered the construction of lines extending G,oookilometres, 2,000 of them being in the country lately ceded to Russia by China—that is, along the shores of the Amour and Ussuri, from the town of Nicolaewsk, through Chabarowska to the port of Nowgerod, the most southern point of the new Russian territory on the sea of Japan. The Minister of Marine is ordered to provide the funds necessary for the construction of these 2,000 kilometres. At the same time a line of telegraph has been commenced from Kasan in Europe to Siberia. During the present year there will be opened to the public a line of 2,000 kilometres, from Kasan to Omsk in Siberia, and shortly afterwards this line will be extended 2,500 kilometres farther to Irkoutsk. Thus, within two or three years, a network of telegraph lines will be extendei from Europe on the one side to Irkoutsk in Asia, and on the other, the Russian possessions on the Amour and Ussvri will be put in communication with the principal Russian ports on the sea of Japan. Of the whole distance, estimated at 10,000 kilometres, there remains only that p9rtion between li•koutsk by Kiahta as far as the town of Catarouka to be undertaken. But when the works now in hand have been concluded, this last line will be pro ceeded with immediately. Thug ivithin four years we shall see realised the gigantic project of putting the whole of Europe in direct communication with the farthest shores of the Pacific Ocean. Besides the incalculable advantages which this Siberian li ne o f te l egrap h w ill con f e r upon • Russia, upon its commerce w ith Chi na , an d u p o n the whole by the ea s y of Europe, and speedy communication with China, Japan, and other count r i es b or d er i ng on th e Pacific I Ocean, it will be a great step towards the completion of a Russian-American line of telegraph by Siberia and the 4 islands of the racific Ocean,—aCClmnics' Jia,gqzine, • 1 ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. The first of Madame Grisi's "Eight Farewell Performances" came off on Saturday night, and during the 30 years, or thereabouts, of her artistic reign in these islands Madame Grisi has probably never received a heartier welcome ; there was nothing but applause, recalls, and bouquets, during the entire representation ; the reception was enthusiastic. The cavatina—"Casta Diva"—with its cabaletta, "Ah bello a me ritorno" (given almost without exception, " mezza voce")--was feted as of yore ; the duet with Adalgisa—in which the unconscious rival of the Druidess recites the history of her love, and the sympathising Norma pronounced, with unaccustomed emphasis, the sig nificant " Oh I rimembranza!—io fur," &c.— was listened to with unabated interest ; the scene where Pollio, in presence of Adalgisa, was con fronted by his indignant mistress, metamorphosed, through his falsehood, from a lamb into a tigress, created the accustomed effect—the deunciation, " Oh ! non tremare, o perfiido!" uttered with ex traordinary force, being unanimously encored ; the yet finer address to Adalgisa, " Oh ! di qual sei to viltima," perhaps more 'grandly declaimed by the songstress than on any former occasion, was still more grateful to the ears of " the judicious ;" and the fall of the curtain, at the end of the first act, was the signal for a genuine ova tion. Twice Madame Grisi re-appeared—the first time led forward by Signor Tamberlik, accompanied by Madame Ortolani Tiberini ; the second time alone, carrying a bouquet that had been projected from the box which, when Majesty graces the theatre, is tenanted by the Queen. At the termi nation of the opera, the summons for Madame Grisi was, if possible, even warmer than that which had been elicited an hour previous. No final demon stration, indeed, could have been more thoroughly genuine. Two months, however, might be less profitably and agreeably spent by frequenters of the Italian Opera than in watching th e gra d ua l progress of Adelina Patti, and in seeing " the last" of Giulia Grisi. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. On Saturday night Mr. Alfred Wigan's first sea son at this theatre was brought to a conclusion; and after the curtain fell on the " Scrap of Paper " the manager advanced and addressed the audience as follows : " Ladies and Gentlemen,—l cheerfully accept the modern custom, that the manager of a theatre should, on the last night of his season, say a few words of grateful recognition of the past, and admit his patrons into his confidence as to hopeful expectations of the future. In taking the St. James's Theatre, I would not disguise from myself that I was experimenting with a property the fortunes of which has not hitherto been prosperous, but I remembered the dismal forebodings that attended my first venture in management; I remember e d in what a proud and firm position your support had enabled me to establish my first theatre ; and I was not dismayed by the difficulties that surrounded this my second N -enture. The last time I had the honour of ad g you from a stage of my o wn , an d i n my cocre ssn own Iverson, it was with mixed feelings of pride in my position, and of pain that ill health compelled me to retire, perhaps for ever, from the grateful task of contributing to your amusement, and to sever our connection in the full tide of success. But it is with unmixed pleasure I appear before you this evening. At the beginning of the season my own health, and that of my active, indeed, I may say, my indefatigable partner in all re spects, scarcely seemed to promise the energy ade quate to such an enterprise, and on that account, our effort has been throughout a severe and anxious struggle. But we have been sustained and cheered by the hearty support of the public, and I am sure I shall give no public offence if I add of a large circle of private friends. Our company have cor dially seconded our efforts, and as a lover of my art and my profession, I hail with pleasure the return which they receive as most acceptable to them in in their steady advance in public favour. The re sult enables me to-night to offer you on behalf of Mrs. Wigan and the ladies and gentlemen of the company:and myself our hearty thanks for the large measure of success which lies attended this our first season. During a part of the vacation the theatre will be occupied by a French company, but in Sep tember next, ladies and gentlemen, we trust to meet you again with stronger health, a stronger com pany, and if possible stronger confidence in the continuation of that support from which we shall never cease to endeavour to deserve: Until next season, ladies and gentlemen, most respectfully and gratefully bid you farewell." _ The speech was frequently interrupted by ap plause, and at its finish Mr. Wigan received hearty cheers from all parts of the house. To-night a French theatrical company open for a summer season. CRYSTAL PA LA CF , . -HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION. The grand horticultural exhibition of the season took place on Saturday, in the Crystal Palace, under the most favourable circumstances. The flower show itself was one of the moat beautiful we remember to have seen for many years ; benches were ranged up and down the nave from end to end of the palace, and were filled with flowers of every form and every hue. Standing in the centre transept, whilst the band of the Cold• stream Guards performed with their usual efficiency a fine selection of music, looking to the right or to the left the scene was one which nature and art seemed to have combined together with the greatest success to produce, and was charm ing in the extreme. The number of visitors throughout the day was more numerous than on any other occasion this spring. THE LORDS AND THE BUDGET.—We hardly see how the Lords can do otherwise than accept the challenge and throw out the whole budget, leaving to the Ministers the responsibility of having compelled them to take that painikl alternative. It would be much better that the fin ancial business of the country should be thrown into tern porrry confusion than we should part with any of the con stitutional privileges of the House of Lords, or hamper in any way the deliberations of a body whose services we need so much. It is much more important to us that the con stitutional functions of each house should be maintained in their integrity than that we should gratify Mr. Gladstone's paltry vanity. And we are confident that if Ministers dare to go to the country on this issue, the electors will be of the same mind.—John Bull. PRINCIPLE AND PRACTICE.—Mr. George Craw shay, of Tyneraouth House, having refused to pay the sum of £9 Bs. 11d. levied upon him for assessed taxes, on the ground that in his opinion the war in China was illegal and unjustifiable, and this not being considered a valid reason for his non-payment of the tax, Mr. T. D. Hadaway, col lector of the Queen's taxes, North Shields, proceeded on Friday afternoon, under the authority of the Board of In land Re venue, with the sale of certain articles of Mr. Craw. , shay's household furniture to obtain the amount due. The first article put up was a rosewood work-table, which brought 16s. The next was an easy chair, covered with crimson damask, which realised £1 IBs., it being purchased by the auctioneer. After this, two easy chairs, covered with Utrecht velvet, were introduced; the sum obtained was £2 16s. for each chair. A set of mahogany dining tables was then put up, and was purchased for the sum of £5. The company then proceeded upstairs into bed-room No. 2, where a feather bed was sold for £2 7s. This con cluded the sale, the auctioneer announcing that sufficient money had been obtained to meet the amount duo with ex penses. The amount realised by the sale was £l5 13s. The amount due for the taxes, together with the expenses, will be between £l3 and £l4, so that Mr. Crawahay will have a small balance t 3 receive. The sale was conducted in a quiet and orderly manner, and for every article put up there was competition.--Shields Gazette. FORTUNE ESCAPE.—On Thursday, as a young girl, about 17 years of age, a nursemaid in the service of Mr. Robinson, at Weston, was looking out of an upstair window, she by some means or other overbalanced herself, and fell out head foremost. Luckily, on a level with the next story there was a large water tank, into which she plunged, and thus escaped without any injury beyond the fright of an uncomfortable ducking.—Bath Chronicle. SCOTTISH PAWNBROKING.—Mr. Stirling, of Keir, in the House of Commons, proposed a new mode of raising revenue. There were, he said, in Glasgow, 89 establish ments of one kind of pawns, and no fewer than 400 of the other; while the number of pawntickets used in that city alone were estimated at five millions per annum. The total number of tickets used in the United Kingdom was not less than 150,000,000. A tax of d. each would yield £150,000 a year. The Nationalites of Turin announces that four members of the U.S. Congress have arrived in that city for the purpose of forming a foreign legion, if the Italian Government does not object. On the other hand, Mr. Patterson, the U.S. Consul at Genoa, has issued a notice informing the public, that he clltly receives applications from Italian and other officers, desirous of taking service in the army of the United Stator, but that he is utterly unac quainted with the intentions of his Government in that respect. LATESI NE WB. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, MAY 20. The Asia arrived here at 1.45 a.m: She brought 149 passengers, and 4,795 dols. for Havre. She landed all mails, except those for Liverpool, and 10 passengers, and proceeded at 2.30 a.m. All well. She experienced strong easterly gales on the passage. NEW YORK, MAY 8. 'ihe Federal Government has telegraphed to New York for 5,000 stand of arms. The President of the Defence Committee has telegraphed to Albany to the Governor of New York, requesting him to send more troops to Washington, as reliable information had been re ceived that the capital was in imminent peril. The Governor of Virginia has issued a proclama tion declaring his intention to resist any invasion of the State, and authorising the General of the army to call out as many volunteers as may be necessary. The Governor of North Carolina has sent a war like message to the Legislature, urging the im mediate calling of a Convention of the people to declare for secession and condemn President Lin coln's policy. The Legislature of Tennessee has passed a seces sion ordinance, subject, however, to a vote of the people. A despatch received by the Associated Press states that Arkansas has passed a secession ordi- nance. It is currently reported that Federal troops will occupy Baltimore in the course of the present week. The Southern Congress at Montgomery has passed a law recognising the existence of war with the Federal Government. An Act has also been passed for granting letters of marque. The Vice-President of the Confederate States has made a warlike speech at Atalanta. He declared that if Maryland seceded the Confederate States would claim Washington, as the right district of Columbia would fall by reversionary right to Mary land. Despatches from Pensacola state that Genera Bragg is making active preparations to attack Fort Pickens. Mr. Seward, in answer to inquiries made by New York merchants, has telegraphed that a foreign vessel could not be sent to load cotton at Norfolk for a foreign port. Mr. Seward's official correspondence with the United States Minister at Paris has been published. He requests the Minister to inform the French Go vernment that the Federal Government would never allow a dissolution of the Union. The steamships City of Baltimore, North Ame rice, and Africa, have arrived out. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, MAY 7, EVENING. Exchange is somewhat firmer. Bankers' bills, 1041 to 105. Stocks have improved ; the following are the closing quotations :—Erie, 221; Illinois Central, 63; New York Central, 73i. The cotton market is firmer. Sales to-day 2,300 bales. Middling upland is quoted 131:c. Breadstnffs and flour are steady. Wheat in mode rate demand. Freights slightly improved. NEW ORLEANS, MAY 7. Cotton, middling, 101 c. to 11c. Sales of the last three days, 1,800 bales, against 5,000 at the same period last year. Decrease at all the Southern ports, 890,000 bales. Freights heavy. TURIN, MAY 18. The Nationalites of to•day says :—" General Klapka has taken his departure for Caprera, to pay a visit to General Garibaldi. He will return to Turin to meet Kossuth." The Turin journals of to-day announce the arri val of Kossuth in this city. M. de Martino, the new lieutenant of the King, will leave to-morrow for Naples. NAPLES, MAY 17. One hundred thousand ducats, destined to pay the reactionary bands, have been seized at the house of a person attached to the Bourbon party. A depot of spoil, the results of the late plunder ing expedition of the reactionary bands, has been discovered at Isernia. TRIESTE, MAY 18. The Empress of Austria arrived here this morn ing in the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, which was accompanied by the Osborne. The Emperor went to meet her Majesty at Pirano. AGRAM, MAY 18. In to-day's sitting of the Diet of Croatia docu ments relating to the abdication of King Ferdinand were laid on the table. PESTH, MAY 18. The discussion on the proposal of M. Deak, rela tive to the address, was continued to-day in the Lower House of the Diet. M. Lonijay declared that Hungary, reserving her right, was ready to bear her share of the common burdens of the State, and would enter into nego• tiations on the subject with the council of the empire. VIENNA, MAY 19. By virtue of an Imperial resolution, M. Asboth, formerly general of the Hungarian National Guard of 1848, and who was lately arrested, has been par doned and unconditionally set at liberty. COPENHAGEN, MAY 19. The Copenhagen journals of to-day publish the following as the full speech of the President of the Council of Ministers, in reply to the address signed by 71,006 electors, which was presented to him on Friday last : Mr. Hall said—The Government share the views expressed in the address, and consider that they have acted in accordance with them. They await tho moment when a more complete statement can be made to the Diet without damaging the interests of the country by an anticipation of the result of the negotiations which are still pending. Nevertheless I will state that it is the conviction of the Government that a solution of the question now the subject of controversy is urgently necessary. Painfully acquired experience has convinced me that a solution is only attainable when such an in dependent position is granted to Holstein as may enable the King, without allowing any encroach ment on the government of those parts of the coun try which do not form part of the German Confe deration, to satisfy the demands made by the Federal Diet on the Duke of Holstein, even if they be not founded on federal right. Friendly powers have acknowledged the conciliatory nature of the steps taken by Denmark, and have admitted the danger of leaving the question open. I may, therefore, be permitted to express a hope that they will adopt the view of the Government, that this is the only possible solution. The Government are preparing for and, , eventual conflict, but they still retain the hope of a peaceful arrangement and a re-establish ment of good relations between Denmark and Ger many, which are both natural and desirable." LITERATURE. Wheel within Wheel. By Noell Radcliffe, author of " Alice Wentworth," " The Lees of Blendon Hall." Three Vols. Hurst and Blackett. This is rather a peculiar story, and although it displays considerable ability it is not, on the whole, an agreeable one. Some of the passages that refer to Langton's conduct are not exactly pleasing to the taste, and Kate Desborough forfeits one's opinion of her high principles and correct judgment, when she consents to form an engagement with a man such as Langton has proved himself to be. Lady Carew is a very clever sketch of a woman of her sort and disposition. Many such women are scat tered abroad, causing misery to all who are connected with them. Perhaps the worst part of her conduct, or at all events the portion one can less readily find an - excuse for, was the double dealing she practised towards Kate. When this warm-hearted and impulsive girl trusted im plicitly in her pretended friendship, she invited her to serve her own ends, and afterwards detained her by all sorts of false promises and untrue assertions to carry out her bad intentions and to further her unworthy plans. It is almost a satisfaction at last to hear of the sad conclusion to this intricate drama. It does not seem in accordance with any idea of justice or notion of morality that a set of individuals who were mixed up in such nefarious transactions, some as actors, others as abettors, should prosper for any length of time. Kate Langton's death was not to be regretted, as she was spared the wretched future that must have awaited her; while on the other hand it was desir able that Lady Carew should survive to reflect over the fearful havoc she had effected by the indulgence of her sinful vanity. Incited by this she had refused to live in honourable seclusion with her mother, and married a man she despised. Her subsequent career is traced in these pages with very great skill, and may serve as a warning to those who seek to establish themselves in splendid positions regardless of the considerations of respect and fine feeling. It is rather a relief to turn to the secondary personages of the tale and to dwell on their peculiarities that are in some instances amusingly described. Mrs. Oakly and Mrs. Spencer Langton may be cited as admirably drawn in their respective styles. This work will doubt less be admired by many who like complicated narratives, and prove for them an attractive study to mark out the distinctions of several different styles of character, and it may thus attain to a great measure of success. The previous productions of this author have been distinguished for their ability and this one does not fall short of the mark that was reached by its predecessors. The Englishwoman in Italy. By Mrs. Gretton. the Laird of Norlaw. Hurst and Blackett's Standard Library. We are glad to see this delightful book selected for the new number of Messrs. Hurst and Blackett's excellent edition of standard works. We noticed it at length at the time of its first appearance, and have therefore only to repeat the cordial eulogium we expressed on that occasion. The pleasant and easy style, the natural pictures of domestic life and sketches of social peculiarities which graver travel lers leave unnoticed, combine to give a lifelike and faithful representation of the people, as well as to form a most entertaining and read able volume. As the interest felt in the Italians has increased rather than diminished among us since the original publication of this work, we cannot doubt that a large class of readers will hasten to secure so attractive an addition to their library. " The Laird of Norlaw," by the well-known, and highly appreciated authoress of " Margaret Maitland," is a most welcome addition to this valuable collection, inasmuch as it is one of those works that are at all times desirable to re peruse and that ono can take up atany moment and find something to attract and admire in its natural descriptions and truthful reflections. There is no auther of the present day whose works are more likely to be generally appreciated in a standard series like the present. Ragged London in 1861. By J. Hollingshead, author of "Under Bow Bells," &c. Smith, Elder, and Co. Most of the readers of the Morning Post will re member a series of articles on the state of the lowest of the London poor, which appeared in the early part of this year under the title of " London Horrors." They were written during the period when the distress occasioned by the unusual seve rity of the season had directed public attention to the social state of our pauper population, and are now collected and reprinted, when the panic has passed by and the reflections then forced upon us are too apt to die away and be forgotten. Mr. Hollingshead has been the author of several works on the metropolis and its inhabitants, which have been favourably received. The one before us, how ever, is not altogether satisfactory. It is somewh a t superficial and bitter in its tone, speaks with dis paragement of most of the efforts to relieve the distressed, asserts that our eleemosynary institu tions encourage pauperism and imposition, and yet can suggest no better remedy for the existing evils than to abandon the present generation to their own courses. The ragged schools and other efforts on behalf of children he speaks of with appro val, as all well-wishers of the poor must do, justly saying that " Philanthropy can do no harm and much good by devoting all its energies to the young, and the more it improves their minds and morals the more chance is there they will aim at a higher standard of living." The following p'assage, extracted from a paper styled " A New Chamber of Horrors," reprinted from Angle Year Round, exhibits some startling facts : The world is too ;busy, the newspapers are too univer sal in their aspirations, and our statesmen are thinking far too much of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, to devote more than a passing glance to these most awful deaths, unless they are brought before them in a blunt, material shape. The dead man is hurried away in the parish coffin, the usual curt line is recorded in the registrar's book, the paragraph in the newspaper corner is read and forgotten, and the whole thing is buried in eternal night. This is not enough ;, and, for the sake of those strugglers who are left, we require more. Per-centages, averages, and all the hocus-pocus of statistics are only mists, fogs, curtains, and sleeping-draughts, except to the official mind ; and we, the public, require something more gross—and more palpable. The deaths from " privation ' " "deaths from want of breast milk," " deaths from neglect," " deaths from cold" —or, in plain unsavoury words, from utter starvation—increase every year. There were 222 (in London only) in 1848 ; they were 516, within the same area, in 1857, and this without questioning how many of the returns under the head of " fever" ought to be classed as starvation. Here is a country that spends one hundred millions sterling a year in universal government, and yet allows hundreds of its children, in its metropolis alone, to be annually starved to death I The work displays careful study of the subject, and the appendix gives many important statistics, but although it serves to impress us with the amount of want and wretchedness which surrounds and intersects this great and wealthy metropolis, it is not likely to attain any other object. Writing on such a subject with ample materials, the author might have presented us with a more satisfactory and useful volume. Traits and Anecdotes of Animals. Illustrated by Wolf. Bentley. The perusal of the history of animal life is always interesting, but when it is enlivened with curious anecdotes, and the attention of the reader is en thralled by the narration of wild adventure and hairbreadth escapes, it becomes irresistible. Of such ingredients is the work before us composed, with the addition of many good engravings depict ing the various incidents which are related in its pages. The narrative is confined to no particular country or continent ; all quarters of the globe are the same to the compiler ; he seeks only for useful and curious information duly au thenticated, and relates no incident without stating his authority, and certainly the most fas tidious cannot complain of either want of variety or interesting matter. As the book is, to a great extent, a collection from numerous authors it is impossible to find one extract to furnish a sample of the whole ; but the following is ludicrous as well as instructing:— " A bold undaunted presence and defiant aspect gene rally proves the best protection when an unarmed man is threatened by these or other animals, but artifice is some times necessary. A ludicrous instance is related by an old quartermaster (whom we knew some years ago), in a small volume of memoirs. At Christmas, 1826, he was Een t up the country to a mission, about thirty-two miles from San Francisco. lie and the others erected a tent, after which they all lay down on the ground. slept like a top,' says he, 'till four the next morning, at which time I was awakened:by the man whose duty it was to officiate as cook for the da who told me if I would go u g s o t u d p e t s o crb t i he e v m ill y ag d e re a s n s d , get a light, y, goo d breakfast ready f or th e he would have a_ ladf by the time they awo ke. ,r that very dress sav ed my life. Over the re s t o f my clothing, as a seaman , I had a huge frock made from the skin of a rein-deer. It was long enough, when let down, to cover my feet well, and turned up at foot, buttoning all round the s kirt. At the top was a hood, made from the skin taken off the head of a bear, ears and all. In front was a square lappel, which, in the day, hung loosely over the breast, but at night buttoned just behind the ears, leaving only the mouth, nose, and eyes free for respiration, o that one, with such a dress, might lie down anywhere and sleep, warm and comfortable. Mr. S- had given eight dollars for it in Kamtchatka, and, on our return to more genial climes, forgot the future, and gave it to me. F anc y, then, my figure thus accoutred, issuing from under the canvas tent, with a Lmtern in my hand. I had not ad vanced twenty yards, when first only two or three, and then a n ime o n s s e e d n t u o m th b i e n r k of b u j t a g a h l jackals S urrounded of t them, but seeing their me. I was at firstmdisp numbers increase so rapidly, I grew alarmed, and probably gave way to fear sooner than I ought. A few shots from the tent would probably h av e sent them away with speed, but no one saw me. Every moment they drew closer and closer in a complete round, and seemed to look at me with determined hunger. For some moments I remained in a most dreadful state of alarm. It just then occurn 4 to m e NIA I OTICe lleara 9f g boy w 1 49 4 4 c 1 driY9ll back bull 910 of a field by walking backwards onhis hands and feet. Fortunate thought I I caught at the idea; in a moment I was on all-fours, with my head as near the earth as I could keep it, and commenced cutting all the capers of which I which I was capable. The jackals, who no doubt had never seen so strange an animal, first stopped, then retreated, and, as I drew near the tent, flew in all directions. The men awoke just in time to see my danger, and have a hearty laugh at me and the jackals." Among the interesting portions of the book are the history of the giraffe, its first ,introduction into this country, the mode of capture, and the general pecu liarities of this extraordinary animal ; and the anecdotes of the bear, horse, lion, and eagle. A description of an Arab combat as described by General Daumas shows the extraordinary mode of warfare practised by these nomadic tribes. Words of Comfort for Parents bereaved of Ltttle Children. Edited by W. Logan. Nisbet & Co. This little volume is addressed to those who have been deprived of their little ones by the stern hand of death, and it offers to them all those consoling reflections and soothing considerations which can alone lighten the weight of such a sorrow. The extracts from letters, sermons, and addresses set forth the promises of Scripture in the strongest light; and the gloomy and morbid doubts with which some rigid sectarians would meet such words of comfort are shown to be as contrary to the teaching of God's word as repulsive to the 'best feelings of human nature. The poems added at the conclusion include, of course, the charming poems of " Casa Wappy," " The Reaper and the Flowers," and many o th er t en d er expressions of parental feeling. We are not surprised to find that the former edition was so well received, and have little doubt that the present volume, enlarged and revised, will be equally acceptable in many bereaved homes. The able pen of the Rev. W. Anderson, of Glasgow, has contributed an introduc- tory essay. Contes Fadles. A Selection from Modern French Writers. By the author of " Amy Herbert." Longman. This little volume is intended for the use of chil dren, and is well adapted to serve as an introduction to French literature. It consists of simply written stories and sketches, all more or less attractive and interesting. The volume forms a prelude to the " Extraits Choises," selected by the same author, which obtained much favour. The _Little _Fishers. Cassell and Co. Messrs. Cassell have published a charming coloured lithograph with the current number of " The Ladies Treasury," representing three fisher children on the beach, examining the contents of their fish basket. The picture is very pleasing and the extreme moderation of its price places it within the reach of every household. We hope it will not be the last of the kind which Mr. Cassell will supply to his subscribers. Cassell's Illustrated Family Bible. Cassell and Co., Ludgate-hill. Superior Edition. We see with satisfaction that a superior edition of this admirable publication of the Holy Scriptures is now being issued in monthly parts. It is printed on better paper, and is altogether in a superior style and character, but although double the price of the other edition, it is still extremely moderate, being only one shilling a part. The marginal notes and references are copious, and are very well suited for family reading. The cheaper edition still pro gresses favourably, and has the same advantages in notes and in the number of its illustrations, though of inferior quality. VISIT OF IHE VOLUNTEERS OF THE INAS OF COURT TO CAMBRIDGE. The anxiously expected visit of the volunteers of the Inns of Court to Cambridge took place on Satur day last, and a most flattering reception was af forded them. From an early h our i n t h e morning trains by the Eastern Counties Railway, and vehicles of all description by the ordinary roads, conveyed their living loads into the town, and the consequence was that Cambridge was more densely crowded than it has been for many a day past; and at one time there were not less than 20,000 persons assembled on Parker's Piece, where the Review be fore Colonel M'Murdo was held. The gallant mem bers of the inns left London by a special train at 9.52, and arrived in Cambridge at 11 , 15 ; they numbered 450, and were under the command of Colonel Brewster, Adjutant Wood, Captains Lyley, Roupell, Bulwer, Chitty, and Oeffries, &c. The train was under the supervision of Mr. Sproule, on the part of the railway company. Mr. Kenneth Macaulay, M.P. for Cambridge, accompanied his brother volunteers, but was not in uniform. On arrival at the Cambridge station a grand parade drill was gone through, Colonel M'Murdo looking on from the platf orm , b u t t a ki ng no official part therein. Just before one th e c o r p s , h ea d e d by their band, marched out of the station in fours, and proceeded by the Hills Road to Parker's Piece amid a literal ovation, the band beating a tatoo the first part of the way. On the Hills Road the crowd was so dense that the desire to compliment the visitors was somewhat obstruc tive to their passage, but the Piece being reached at last, a slight hitch occurred. It was 20 minutes to two before the University corps entered on the ground, their late arrival being attributed to some misunderstanding with regard to the arrangements of the Prince of Wales. On the entry of the University corps, however, a scene presented itself which, perhaps, has not been surpassed at any other demonstration of a like character in the country. The Piece, a mile square, and nearly as level as n billiard-board, was kept by the Cambridgeshire Mounted Rifles under Capt. Pemberton, the Ist Cumbrigeshire Rifles (Cambridge Town F oot) un der Capt. Prest, and the Bth Cambridgeshire Rifles (Cambridge Town Foot), under Capt. Leapingwell, while dotted about were to be seen gallant men attired in the uniforms of several corps of London, Isle of Ely, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Hertford shire Volunteers. There was an outer ring of car riages, pedestrians stood about eight deep all round, and houses . were crowded in the windows and on the nearly University stro, and the ng, wer e h ea d ed by their band playing two corps marched past saluting each other, amid ringing cheers from all parts of the ground. The Vice-Chancellor and other distinguished members of the University, the rev. chaplains of the Cambridge University and town corps, and the whole of the elite of the neighbourhood were on the ground. At two o'clock his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended by the Hon. Gen. Bruce and Col. Teesdale, arrived on the ground on horseback. The Prince of Wales,' who is Honorary Colonel of the University corps, was not in uniform ; and Col. Baker held th e ac ti ng comman d o f t h e University corps. The University and the Inns corps wheel e d into line and saluted his Royal Highness on his arrival, the bands playing the first verse of th e National Anthem, during wh ich the Prince sat bare-headed. The real business of the day then began in the evolutions usual to a field-day, under the command of Col. M'Murdo. Aides-de-camp rushed hither and thither; suppositious victories and glorious retreats were achieved; and at half-past three the University corps were drawn up before Col. M'Murdo, who, after some complimentary ob servations on their progress since he last had the pleasure of meeting them, said it was necessary that they should acquire the habit of never firing high. Firing high was a too general fault of untrained troops. If untrained troops, when engaged in act i ve service, would just take two angles of elevation low and horizontal, it would produce a better effect than much target practille. He was once in action on horseback, and when within a few yards from t to observedthatmovements the exbcuelllloeetfns flewexcellently too wcoerplld s thathoignhe Witenemyh regardto the capt a i ns , w h o had most important duties to perf orm; one o f were word generally to sa p the first of w h i ch was to k eep t h e proper dis bduayt he th they y had a dis tances of their respective companies —to look to the preservation of good wheeling distance. He felt deeply the honour conferred upon him by the invitation to command that day ; and would only remark, that if all rifle corps were posse ssed of the same confiden c e an d s kill as disting uisded them, there wo u ld b e no necessity for counting their ene mies in the field of battle. The Royal party retired at 20 minutes to 4 o'clock; and th en the University and thei r visitors fell in and enthusiastically cheered each oth er . They proceeded from Parker's Pie ce by separ a t e routes to Senate House-hill, wher e they " fell ou t , " but in a military sense only, amid cheers for each other, again and again renewed. The vis it ors were the honoured guests of various colleges d ur i ng t h e i r stay, many of them having conferred honour on the society, which, after all, claims them as their Alma Mater. The special train started for London a little before nine, but the numbers of the legal corps were much diminished, owing to many re maining behind, in Cambridge. engaged in festivity with friends DEATH OF A CELEBRATED ACTOR OF TIIE OLD SCHOOL —On Saturday Mr. Crisp, a contemporary of Mimi O'Neil (the present Dowager Lady Beecher), Mr. Conway, I,and Charles Kemble, expired rather suddenly, aged 74 years, Mr. Crisp was an actor of great powers, and pos sessed a most retentive memory. In later years he was attached to those provincial theatres under the management of his brother, who was most enterprising and successful. The death of Mr. Crisp is much regretted by the 'Moms of the stage. I I 11 1 a v el ecei 6 Per 14( tions The tin ued ch ange V enetia Dteviou Joint 4 4. L °itit St 4:per C c e e t z I 3 PE —itto S tc 4 Ditto I bitt o 4 /Coh eitti Ditt g ke z i oan : b Ditto .4us s i ao. D ittO z Ditt o ~Pazish 4 urki, l3. 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