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r.) were but ; whilst ull prices. 1 extreme 'heat and for ship- rket, last 'ecl 6,720 beans, 65 wad 5,336 it, coast -1 in fair ement in moved oft :alised on not quite rices were nt a large ) business 1 to those )6 dearer. rley Was L'ade than north 801 11 quota• fair re- were the 785 to 805 i 22s 245 • 24s 295 • 20s 225 •• 21s 255 •• 26s 303 •• 333 373 • • 3$ 423 •• 323 363 •• 353 385 •• 39i 423 •• 433 463 •• 63s 655 • 464 509 'k 463 503 )n a yery I. In the in 1854, 1, 1,647 ; es. Pigs. ... - ... - ••• "'" ••• ..... ••• ''''' •••• -..... lows :-- . Pigs. ale in to• om Scot fresh up )a of all dance of I heavy, lat, from nd Cam rthorne ; a ; from almoit Leep, and mutton yet that .'he best ,he wool, the Isle Leavy, at DS. The ), moved 'Mt Teal htiona ry K. d. 5 8 5 0 5 8 4 2 4 8 29 0 27 0 : . 259 bo .... ... 73 es of fat 'kat, on Market .28,'5e6 s. cio to 3 4 3 IS 4 4 4 0 i 2 4 18 5 8 5 0 6 8 5 2 5 8 4 2 4 0 4,155 19,60, sheop 1,300; L both lg the ye off other 's im nbro'. cwt; Lss. Ant from ed at con- NEWMARKET RACES.--(This Day,) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAI 3 I3.) QUEEN'S PLATE. Homily Alas Be ika Four ran. SWEEPSTAKES. T. Y.C. Nine tte Oltenitza Four ran. LATEST BETTING. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 9to 4 agst Yellow Jack sto 2 agst Porto Rico 3 to 1 apt Fazzoletto Arrived—Polmoodio and Joshua. Sweepstakes 300 Suva—Faros paid forfeit. MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday closed quietly with a steady feeling. The sales Were estimated at 8,000 bales, 1,500 on speculation, comprising 200 Pernam and Meauham 61d. to Cid., 120 Bahia qd. to 6g-1.,100 Egyptian 7d. to 'ltd., 1,000 Surat 4id. to sid., and 20 Sea Islands is. 6d. per lb. In the Railway Share Market prices were a shade lower. The English Stock Market has been somewhat agitated by a variety of unfavourable rumours, principally with reference to the New Loan, but it is likewise stated that a dissolution of Parliament Will soon take place. Some large sales have been made, and a decline of per cent. has occurred. Consols for money opened at 92k g, but they have Since receded to 91i. For account prices have been 92 and since 92 to 92A. The New 3 per Cents. have been 911 to 92, and 912 while the Reduced are about 901-. The June Exchequer Bills have been is. discount, and India Bonds Bs. discount. In some of the principal Foreign Securities there have been numerous transactions, but sales having again preponderated prices have taken a lower range. Turkish 6 per Cents. have receded fully 1 per cent., the lowest quotation being about 3 5g 1. The 4 per Cents. have been 101/ and 1001. Sardinian Bonds have been at 9.4-, to 95, Spanish 3 per Cents. at 44, and the New Deferred at 23 ; all being at a reduced value. Dutch 4 per Cents. are 93. The Railway Share Market is depressed, by sym pathy with the Funds, and the decline in some cases is to per cent. In Brighton, North- Western, Midland, and North-Eastern, a large business has been done. The foreign and colonial lines are not so much affected, but they are mostly at nominal quotations. Foreign mining shares are neglected ; banking shares are heavy, and also the miscellaneous un dertakings. Canada Land are 1/. to 2/. lower. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. i troin the Oticscst List.. ; ftn , :t , - done. 3 per Cent. Red'eccd Annuities ....... 91h i 90/ 2 per Cent Console Annuities 924 $ 11 li,w 3 per Cent. Annnit'e. New 2 per Cent. Annuities 76 Long Annuities, expire sth Jan. MO.._ , Ditto 30 Yea's, expire sth April, 1885 l7 1-16 Indic Bonds, ..CluOu ..... • Consols .or Account ....., ................. ... 921 i 2 Exchequer Bills, 2icl- March. June. 21000 . I " E5O Smal o l ••• PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Hex i c al, 3 per Cent rdinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Svanisl Bonds, 3 per Cent Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Turkic!, Bonds, 4; per cent 964 4 i 51 Ditto Account Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. ;Mvuiende n' Vie above ..Fable iti Lobaurs, Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent., 12 Guil — Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 93 QUARTER PAST TWO. Consols for transfer 9 1 4 7- 92 92 92 1 8 Ditto Account LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(Tbis Day.) LONDON, April 23.—Wind this day at noon. N. ; light breeze and fine. PORTSMOUTH, April 27.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Tar tar, from Liverpool, with two mortar-boats in tow. Sailed —Victoria and Albert, royal yacht, for Madeira ; P , cific (a. tpt.), Crimea ; H.M.S.'s DI agou, Centaur, Trusty, and Thunder, Sheerness; H. M.S 'a Conqueror and Centurion, Devonport. MARGATE, April 27.—Wind N.E.—Arrived —Bury, from London, for Dublin, assisted in, the master and crew having been hurt by the windlass capsizing. CRooKDAVEN.—Arrived—Colonist, from Callao, leaky ; Plantagenet, Mauritius MILFORD, April 27—The Emera ld, of and from Wick 'Ow. for Liverpool, was run down off Holyhead on the 24th inst., by the Wallace, of Glasgow. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SoVrilAmFroN, Monday Morning. Arrived—Adelaide, Atlas, Xerxes, and Eliza, from New- Port; Jessie, Shields ; 17nity, Russell, Trinity, and Tho mas, Cardiff ; Providence, Leith. Sailed—Devonshire (s.), for London; Purveyor, Port land; Clara and Valiant, Cardiff. (BY SUBMARINE AN). isRITISET TELEGRAwI. GRAVESEND, Monday, 10.2 G a.m. Wind N.E. • tide, 3,i hours' ebb ; cloudy. Arrived, April z 7 Inez, from Calcutta; President Filli- Mere, Now York ; Mary Ann, Memel. Arrived, April 28.—Carolinda, from Cherbourg ; Alma, Danzig. Sailed, 27th—Sovereign of the Seas, for New York. DEAL, Monday, 10.12 a.m. Wind N.E. by N., fresh. Passed—Leopeldina, from Shields, for Oporto ; High bury, Shiels, for Gibraltar. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Con sort rode on horseback on Saturday morning. attended by the Hon. Emily Cathcart, Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel F. H. Seymour. The Princess Royal and the Princess Alice took a drive in an open carriage add four. His Royal Highness Prince Albert pre , 4cled at a meet ing of a Committee of the Royal Corninissi , ners for the Exhibition of 1851, at Buckingham Palace, on Saturday. The other members present were the Earl of Derby, Earl Granvil , e, Lord Stanley of Alderley, L Ord Over stone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., the Right Hon. W. E. Cl-adstone, M.P., and Mr. Coulson, Q,C. Mr. Edgar Bowriug, Secretary to the Royal Commis sion, was in attendance. The meeting, which took place at 11 o'clock, broke up at a quarter to 2. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by Prince Arthur and the Princesses Helena and Louisa, took a drive in the afternoon in an open carriage and four. The Equerries in Waiting attended on horseback. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Con sort, accompanied by the Princess Royal, honoured the Royal Italian Opera with their presence in the evening. In attendance were the Marchionet=s of E'y, the Hon. Mary Seymour; the Hon. Emily Cathcart, Lord Byron, Lord Alfred Paget, and Col. F. H. Seymour. _ -- • - Yesterday her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, the Pi ince of Wa'es, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, the Princess Alice, the Ladies and Gen tlemen of the Court, and the Domestic Household at tended Divine service in the chapel at Buckingham Palace. The Hoa. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor offi ciated. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess of Gloucester on Saturday, at her residence, Gloucester House. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard and Lord James Murray, honoured the Haymarket Theatre with her presence on Saturday evening. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 17.—Since the proclamation of "peace the rate of exchange has been rapidly going down from 137 to 120 piastres the pound sterling. WAnsaw, April 25.—General Prince Gortscbakoff has just published a decree maintaining the prohibition against the exportation from Poland of rye, barley, oats, wheaten flour, and cattle. The reason assigned for this measure is the existing dearness and scarcity of those articles. The Royal British Bank will open on the Ist of May a Holborn branch at the corner of Chancery-lane. SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER. CoLouns.•—The private view of this society's exhibition took place on Saturday, previous to its being opened to the public this day (Monday), and was attended by a numerous and fashionable company of the aristocracy. Arnow., the distinguished visitors we noticed the Duchess ( 7 f Sutherland, the Duchess of Wellingt)n, the Diike and Duchess of Argyll, the Duke and Duchess of Northum• berland, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marchioness of Ailesbury, Earl Grosvenor, Earl and Countess Grey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of Oxford, Win chester, and Lichfield, Viscount and Viscountess Chel sea, Earl and Countess Jersey, Lady Peel, Lady Mac. donald, Lord and Lady Monteagle, the Right Hon. Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood, the Right Hon. Henry and Lady Mary La.bouchEre, the Right Hon. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Aidorley, the Hon, Mrs. Sey liaour Bathurst, 44c, SUARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. Closing Prices 6atutday t tng. Boet. and East:.. g3lfast Si 'Sinning. We've rh- Aour fi e Lancsl.. di Oherii.lre Jnuct..., 90. Cheat. ck Birk. .£5 l ) and £25 C+.n6 ....... :1 yth 81'T:711a origina £25 °zed. at ~ristol and Exetot (!aledonian. ('arm. and Cardigar , Ohester It Holyhead. Cork and Bandon. ,Cork, Black, di Pas Cor,wall Do. A Do. B riel Junction bilyin&BelfastJunc Dun. P. & A f•• !•. Jnc East A.1.-311an Eastern Counties.... ssst.'Tniou, A Eit'P De., B. Stoet Do., New A. East Kent L.Aueashire ...„ inburgh dt °lase Edinb. and Peehlos Edin.PAL &Durl., • , orth 81, etyde Jun Furness Do. Extension........ Glasgow &S. West. Great N. of Seotlnd. Great Northorn Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stook tli.ALWest.(lre ; Great Western ' Do. Stour Val, Rai: Qua. Stk Irish So nth-Bab tor neater & Carlikj, Do., Thirds „. Do. New Thirds LAncash. audYorkFil L.s, Wet. Ridiogr.L. LlV.Crsby. &South pt Loudon & Black wail Loud. Bright & S.C6t. Loud. and N. Viostr Do. Fifths D0.101.311.,1ii& Do. Eighth 5.,. ...... London ands. Wostr Do. .... Do., £4,0 Lutinclrrytz Coleraine Ln(lndrry. & Ennisk. Aanch.Shef.& Lineli. D. Man. & Lin. 17b Metropolitan Midland Do. Riming. &Derl2, , s , fidhl. CI. West. (Ire, Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Nwpt.Aberg. & llrfd Newry & Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrevor Norfolk Nortlin.Conntios North Britisl , !la "Devon Rail. & Dock Stock ,0., A Stock B Stock Do.; 6 .1). thia.rantea... N. Eastern—Berwk 1)0. do. Extension ~ Da.do.G.N.E.".euroh Do. Leads Do. York North London .&S.Wstrn., Ham - stead, and City :Forth Staffordshir siorth Western..., t. & S. West rn. Jun c 9nneaton, And Leicester........ "►s., Wore., k Wolv. ~Tt9llloll.th ;S(:ottimh Central__ ;Scottish Midland -,,,,,;pehire Tin i ) 11 ;lontli Devon Sonth Eastern ' , outh Wales Vrkßh. Rh. Riv. Pr) Do Wek Stockton & Darli :atoll 4 Hrztlep TAP' Vale Pret o No. I_, & it 'Ulveratone & Lane. Waterftl. & Kilkonn, Writerford&Limerl West Cornwall. West End of Loam and Crystal Palaco) Do. A West London Wimbledn &Croydon' Do. 5 p.c. Oblgs. con.. in Sli. at par till '64 Ardennes klgian EaAn. Jun (ITS tOnr. , sa,fse , Bombay , Baroda, an ("antral Ind i a,Scri Do. >emerara )ntch Rhenish ?Astern of France Do. 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' National of Ireland New South Oriental Bank )f cJorporati , m- Ottoman Bank Royal British 3or.th Australia Tnion of Australia_ Do. wow 6.0.9. 'Tnioo of Lion lon Yl 7 ostan J3k Qf LOud 92 •-94 i lh 63 - 65 i -1• P 63 7. .6g' ••- '''' ... 15 i -- 164 16}-- 17i 3 -- 2 d I ,Par 2p ---- 3d ••• .. m. 11,.. • •• "... 111 , • 41 - 43 42 -; 43 lip' 72 7i - 84 ' i 61 3', Business done this day. 10 all 14 all ¶.4 al] 14 1011 2i 1i 100 99i 7313 53i 76. 5i 14i 704 TO 25 f x d 8i 4 271 20t i THE ON, LONDON, MONDAY EVENI.O, APRIL _2B, 1856. LE, , i_ED A ItENTALb. THE QUARTERLIES. —analogous and not less marked for a great man who bas married for love. The French, we are told, were disappointed because the Emperor bad not married a Royal Princess ; the English would have deemed it a derogation from his personal grandenr if he had. One thing was wanting to the popularity of George 111. with the masses—that be should have married Lady Sarah Lennox in place of a cold and unattractive German. This one crowning claim Louis Napoleon had ; and by that, more than by almost any one other characteristic, did he captivate the sympathies of the middle and lower classes of our island. And, in addition to all this, and as a final clue to the explanation of the offensive pheno menon, it cannot be denied that the open, straight forward, cordial, honourable dealing of the Emperor with this country ever since he became our ally, was felt by our statesmen to present a most welcome and lavourablo contrast with the circumstances which bad marked our intercourse with the French Court under both branches of the House of Bourbon." , lCeYLa►.A'7rca Leas., (lompanr, Closinc, 1.d0e2 Saturda3. Isinesb this la.:. The Edinburgh Review. No. COX.--Out of the 210 of the Edin 5 urgh, there are three of them for alleig h al t e ar w ti o c r l l e d s j ni ust exactly up the contents of number actly like " hamlet without the part of Hamlet among the dramatis personc e!" First and foremost there is the introductory contri bution relating to " Modern English History," and having reference in it to Henry Richard Lord Holland, to Lord :Mahon, now Earl of Stanhope, to my Lord John Russell, to the Duke of Bucking ham and Chandos, X.G., to every one, in fact, but the very one whose name is popularly identified most immediately with Modern English History— Thomas Macaulay ! Then there is an elaborate paper upon "The Greek People and the Greek Kingdom" —and not a whisper in it about the Right Hon. Thomas Wyse, her Britannic Majesty's Ambas sador to the Court of Athens during all these years of anxiety, intrigue, and discontent ! Lastly, there is an argument about the " Aus trian Concordat," and not a syllable of allu sion during the whole course of it to the four lectures delivered not very long ago in London by Cardinal Wiseman—lectures presenting to our English public in a condensed form one rather im portant side of that same argument ! Hamlet—we repeat—without the Prince of Denmark ! It is ra ther significant, we cannot but think, that the great Whig organ, just at this particular time, when our rulers are beginning to practise all kinds of ridiculous courtesies towards Russia, should begin puffing up those contemptible Greeks at the expense of the recently eulogised but now-once more-depreciated Osmanlis—the Edinburgh Review saying of the Greeks, in set terms of panegyric, " this race is rapidly increasing in wealth, intelli gence, and power, whilst its former oppressors are sinking into decrepitude !" The old stock phrase of abuse used usque ad nauseam before the recent war broke out, a phrase that, by repetition upon repetition, prepared the way positively for that rascally hypothesis of the late Czar about the sick man and the division betimes of his property among his more powerful neigh bours. It is revolting to mark the revival of the old babble so very soon iu the midst of the banging of the preposterous squibs and crackers of rejoicing over a disgraceful cou.promise. In the very preamble -of the paper upon the Austrian Concordat the following remarkable allusions are made by the writer of the article to the glorious dawn of the present very memorable Pontificate : • A criticism which will be wonderfully welcome to the heart of Mr. Payne Collier, enrolls the Edinburgh Review formally among the organs, ac cepting as reasonably admissible the authority of the anonymous " Corrector of Shakspere." Among other things of note the reviewer, speaking of Shakspere's apparent indifference as to his re putation, says very impressively : "The great dramatist himself took no steps whatever to prepare his plays for printing ; he left his manuscripts with his associates, and buried himself in his Stratford acres, with an apathy which— ' Were it wisdom, coldness, or deep pride,' has something of the awful in it, when we reflect on the gigantic fame of the man and the real nothingness of fame." Besides the seven articles already specified in our remarks, there is an eighth of an eminently readable character relating to " Sir Isaac Newton," a paper half criticism, half biography. The Quarterly Review. No. CXCVI. Usually there are two or three stock-themes in the current number of the quarterly reviews and monthly magazines—precisely as there are the same important and unimportant fragments of intelligence given to the public simulta neously in the daily and weekly newspa pers. It is so just now, as under ordinary circumstances, with regard to the Tory Quarterly and the Whig Edinburgh. Both contain onslaughts upon Mr. John Ruskin by reason of his recent issue of additional portions of his magnum opus about " Modern Painters." Both—again—com prise among their contents certain rather stringent strictures anent the views lately expressed by M. de Montalembert in an extended pamphlet, or, as it may be otherwise termed, a moderately-sized volume, as to the " Political Future of Great Britain." The estimate formed in reference to "The Pontificate of Pius IX. has already exhibited to the world a series of vicissitudes hardly to be equalled in the long annals of the Papacy, and of contradictions not to be surpassed in this age of sudden changes and sur prising revolutions. For the first time since the death of Ganganelli, Europe hailed the election of a Pontiff to the chair of St. Peter, who addressed himself to popu lar sympathies, and seemed eager to advance with the liberal progress of the 19th century. He owed his no mination to the b'ameless purity of his life, and to the influence of the constitutional government of France, which was at that time represented iu Rome by an am bassador of no common discernment. He was enthroned in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, amidst the veneratio❑ of the clergy and the enthusiastic applause of the people. His first actions were calculated to improve the degraded condition of the Roman Government in the Papal States, and to vindicate its independence even against the preponderating influence of the Austrian garrisons in Northern Italy. But few months had elapsed after the Pope's accession, when that storm broke loose which convulsed the poli tical fabric of Europe, and unhappily laid low so many of the free institutions of the Continent. At that awful mement, when more powerful Sovereigns and more vi gorous Governments fell in rapid succession before the excited populace of their capitals, the Pope still rode for a time upon the eddies of the stream, and lent his voice to consecrate the cause of Italian liberty and indepen dence. the latter by the Quarterly reviewer who has taken M. de Montalembert's brochure in hand, is rather disparaging upon the whole—but then some critics, it must be borne in mind, aro neces sarily, perversely, and cross-grainedly—Crokers ! According to this view of the work, Englishmen have no reason to be at all solicitous as to the value set upon their institutions, or as to the nature of the hopes and fears entertained, by M. do Montal embert in regard to their future—the great, thun dering, infallible Boanerges of the Quarterly roar ing out against one of the most eminent of living Frenchmen this terrible interdict—" We have little confidence in his judgment of either men or things, and we look on his work as a mere half-fanatical, half-rhetorical essay." Thinking thus of Montale m bert and his writings, why on earth has this very critic taken such notorious pains to supervise the translation of the political brochure in question—why ? But for the rather malignant purpo e of wilfully distorting the mean ing of the original in its transformation into our English vernacular ! And why, having this rather contemptuous opinion of both book and author— why, after voluntarily undertaking the task of intro ducing him, through a deforming medium, to the British public—why take the supplementary trou ble of analysing at some length a volume so en tirely worthless in its character and tendencies— why ? But that, here again, some little opportunity was afforded to the acrid translator and the sour-tempered reviewer for avenging himself spitefully upon one Abraham Hayward for certain sharp and caustic gibes hurled at him (and at somebody else, of another and more definite gender than the epicine) through the columns of the Times newspaper ! At least se it appears—if we are not very wide of the mark in viewing this same Quarterly Reviewer as decidedly and beyond all manner of doubt—a Croker. Speaking of Mr. Ruskin hardly less severely than that critic's critic in the Edinburgh, another reviewer in the Quar terly says of him very happily—" Mr. Ruskin's writings have all the qualities of premature old age, the coldness, callousness, and contraction." A definition we cannot but regard as, all things considered, wonderfully felicitous. Yet the writer is by no means blind to the beauties of the great object of Mr. Ruskin's idolatry—or indifferent consequently to the subject of the major part of his enthusiasm. For example the Quarterly reviewer thus ingeniously enumerates the many admirable qualities of various eminent landscape painters only to accord to. Turner the highest place of all—if for no other reason for that of his combining in his marvellous paintings so many hitherto scattered excellences. Rah the critic : " Prince Metternich declared in his exile that of all the strange and astounding phenomena he had wit nessed, that which bad surprised him most was a libe ral Psipe.' But the illusion was a brief one. In the re action which followed that paroxysm of madness, the Roman Government was the first to recoil from the task it had undertaken. The revolution, which had been mo mentarily assisted and controlled by the valour of Charles Albert, and by the adhesion of Pio Nono to the national cause, soon deserted its champions, and turned upon them with as much fury as it had shown against its mortal enemies. The Pope, betrayed by his troops and attacked by his subjects, saw one of his secretaries shot by his side in the Quirinal, whilst his minister, Connt Rossi—a man who combined the loftiest conceptions of a statesman with the most courageous devotion to the cause of his native country—fell, butchered on the steps of the Cancelleria." The sequel to all this is held vividly enough in the popular remembrance. The exile at Gaeta, and. the Gallic bombardment of the eternal city from the Janiculum—consequent upon which incidents the spiritual domination of the Papacy is described by the reviewer as having been more signally than ever demonstrated throughout Christendom, embracing "all nations, from the frontiers of Thibet and the most distant islands of the Pacific to the great cities of Europa." A suggo.tiro them° in truth all this for very serious contem plation ! " Body and Mind" is the title of a . very enthralling essay tracing the- connection between the two—an union the physical part of which is thus cleverly described : " Every bone of the spine is a thick ring ; and these bones, when placed upon each other, form not only what is called the vertebral column, but also a canal. Within this strong bony canal is placed the spinal cord --medulla or marrow, in popular phrase,--which is clntinuJus upwards with the brain, and downwards with the nerves going off to the limbs and trunk. The brain and this spinal cord constitute the great centres of all sensorial and motive action ; hence they are termed the cerebrl spinal axis.' It is in and by and thrciugh this axis that the mind operates and receives the impressions of the senses ; and its various channels of communication with the external world are the multitudinous nerves of motion and sensation which, passing off in innumer able and microscopically minute fibrils from the axis, ramify over the whole surface of the body, and penetrate every muscular fibre." " Claude had set the very sun in the heavens ; Cuyp had depicted the rarified pulsation of still-noon heat, and the solemn all-massing vapour of a golden after noon ; Berghem ha I piled up those stately masses which the winds drive together, and then leave for hours un disturbed ' • Poussin had gathered the thunder-cha rge d clouds, showing deep within the lurid chamber whence the bolt is ready to fall ; Rubens hal spanned the rain bow ; Wilson had painted daylight in every gradation, from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same ; Ruysdael had given the sky which heightens the idea of solitude ; Van de Weide and Backhuytien, that which we most remark at sea—each had their favourite phase best in keeping with their favourite object ; while to Turner was reserved not only the desire of expressing every phase (excepting always the unfathomable vault of the early masters), and of rendering every form of cloud that floats under heaven, but also of arresting those evanescent and fantastic forms of vapour and mist which never bad been aimed at before." Out of this essay grows up a suggestion as to the meaning of insanity which a p pears t o us a b ou t th e most ingenious within the range of our recollection. Au explanation it is dependent upon the duplex character of the brain as an anatomical structure— upon the exact balance, or e xqu i s it e ly n ice adjust ment, of whose moieties the sanity of thought and sensation may reasonably be presumed to be de pendent. And consequently- D ut of the disorgani sation of which balance or adjustment of the twin lobes of the brain—insanity, or at the leas.; monomania, may readily enough be under stood to emerge as au inevitable result. This suggestion of a clue to the Mystery is worthy, we cannot but think, of a very elaborate and extended development. 4, Ruskinism" is the suggestive heading of a fiercer onslaught upon the author of " Modern Painters," by a slashing, dashing, crashing critic in the Edinburgh. Who says of— Besides these, of course, others might readily enough have been enumerated—such as Salvator, with his wild and rocky fastnesses ; and Hobbima, with his green and twinkling verdure ; and Cana letto, with his glancing water courses, and others, the dii minores of pastoral and sylvan scenery, and glimpses of river and ocean; Ert Veest, and Gia como Cavedone, and Bartholomew Briemberg, and Paul Potter, and the Brills Paul and Matthe w , and Phillip° d'Angeli, and! the like—but those already mentioned were obviously of them selves more than sufficient. Sufficient, more than sufficient, to satisfy even Mr. Ruskin's greed of praise for the greatest of all English, per- haps in truth as the Oxford Graduate has all along maintained the greatest of all English or Foreign painters of landscapes. Does anybody want to know anything at all about " The Haldanes ?'' If so—here is a very readable—" full, true, and par ticular account " of Robert of Airthrey, and of his brother James Alexander—sons of a Captain in the H.E.I.C.M.S. "Lewis on Early Roman His tory" seems destined to form a companion volume to Niebuhr—just as, in reference to English His tory, Hume's name is coupled inextricably with Smollett's. Pity it seems that au ingenious philo logist and antiquary like the right hon. member for Radnor burghs should forsake his natural post as a shrewd commentator upon Livy and Tacitus for the purpose of assuming a most unnatural position for him, namely, that of a bungling and crotchetty Chancellor of the Exchequer. Let us cherish the hope that before long he may once more take up with Facts instead of with Figures. A chapter on " British Family Histories" introduces the readers of the Quarterly successively to such houses as the Bagots, the Shirleys, and the Lind _ says. Besides the five articles already particula larised in this new number there are three other rather noticeable contributions yet remaining to be mentioned. There is a treatise on the " lieace" considered in regard to its effects upon the condi tion of Turkey. There is an amazing paper en- titled "The Triton and the Minnows,'' descriptive of Scott Russell's monster vessel the Great Ea - stern Sereu;-and-Padelle Steam-ship a perfect mam moth in its way, as is glaringly demonstrated upon page 445, where six little outline woodcuts show at a glance how comparatively trivial, as compared with this huge sea-monster are—(in in creasing proportions) one of the gun-boat flotilla, the Great Western, the Great Britain, the Persia, or even H.M.S. (131 guns) the Duke of Welling ton ! Frivolous productions these latter really seem to be when contrasted with a gigantic vessel like the Great Eastern—"rushing through the night in full career—an arrow 27,000 tons in weight, propelled by a bow of 3,000-horse power!" A. ship twice the size of the Ark 1—" receiving on board floeks and herds to furnish fresh meat for the passage !" A vessel capable of " bringing home our 50,000 troops from the Crimea, with all their artillery and baggage, in the course of ten or twelve days !" Finally, to complete our catalogue of the eight articles in this current num ber of the Quarterly, there is a very clever and caustic review of " Southey's Letters," as edited and selected by the Rev. John Wood Warter, Vicar of West Tarring—Vicar (one could almost fancy him to be, now that we have read this scarri fving criticism of his literary labours)—Vicar (at once we may be allowed to hint) of Tarring and Feathering ! 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"After having made a fame by hanging on to the skirts of a famous artist--after deluding those craving for novelty into the belief that a dashing style must imply precious discoveries --after having met the humour of the time, by preaching thereligion of architec ture with a freedom in the use of sacred names and sacred things from which a more reverential man would have shrunk—after having served as an eloquent though too flattering guide to the treasures of Venice—after having enriched the citizens of this Scottish metropolis with ra ceipts how to amend the architecture of our city by patching Palladian squares, streets, and crescents with Gothic windows, balconies, and pinnacles—after having lectured to decorators on the beauty and virtue of paint ing illegible letters on sign -boards and shop-fronts—the wisdom of Mr. Ruskin has of late begun to cry in the streets." ----- - Speaking of Mr. Ruskin.'s "Royal Academy Vade Mecum, of 1855," the reviewer declares in its regard " rarely has vanity, so overweening in stature, so unblushing in front, so magisterial in language risen up between a writer and his public." During the course of a criticism upon recent effu sions of " Remusat and M.ontalembert," another contributor to the Whig Quarterly, th us exp l a i ns for the benefit of the bewildered Bourbonists and Republicans of France—the enthusiasm of— ENGLAND'S RECEPTION OF NAPOLEON 111. " Three or four causes contributed to its enthusiastic character. In the first place we received him, without reference to himself or his an tecede nts, as the ruler and representative of our great rival natoin, with which we had then for the first time formed an offensive and defen sive alliance of the closest intimacy. We were anxious to show to France how hearty was our friendship; how sin cere our reconciliation ; how generous and earnest our de sire to bury in oblivion all former jealousies and animosi ties ; how unfeigned our delight at a union on which we in stinctively felt, and deliberately and profoundly believe, so much of the future welfare of Europe and of humanity must hang. Next, it should be remembered that Eng lishmen have a peculiar and inveterate admiration for all who have raised thetuselves — who are the sons of their own deeds—the architects of their own fortunes. We always do honour to the man, be he lawyer, soldier, or politician, who has risen from nothing. To this feeling was added a vivid recollection of all that was romantic' and picturesque in the history of the man then making his progress through unexampled crowds in a royal carriage ; how he who was now the Queen's guest had once been a special constable in London streets—how he ' who was now Emperor of the first nation of the Con tinent, had seven years before been a poor and obscure exile on our shores. In all this, it must be admitted, there was much to excite the imagination and to excuse the somewhat extravagant ebullition of welcome which waited on his progress through the city. But, again, much of this enthusiasm was due to the lady who accom panied him. Had he come without his Empress, his reception would have been decidedly less warm. Her history, no less than her rare grace and beauty, contri buted to this result. If the English people have a weakness for a man who has raised himself from an o b vire m iti, ol they klkyo Another . wotwas doubtedly entitled him to a brief memoir. Instead of a record in some proportion to hi; claims, four volumes of a !sulky life, for which a Mr. John Holland is chiefly responsible, though it bears a second name upon the title-page, have already appeared, and two more at least are yet to come. So gigantic a monument to a person of no particular eminence provokes ridicule of itself, and the sentiment becomes cne of disgust when the long drawn narrative is found mainly to consist of verbose, pompous, dreary inanities. The poet speaks for himself in his works, but the man, to his lasting injury, is judged by the medium through which he is seen, which is that ~ f his feeble and incapable biographer." Mr. Wood Waller fares rather worse, however, we cannot but think, altogether, than even Mr. John Holland--and, alas ! deservedly. He is, in fact, loudly and haughtily denounced by the Quar terly Reviewer as a writer who "has not the art of expressing himself with clearness"—as a writer afflicted with " utter incompetency for this or any other literary undertaking" —as a writer with "a total want of the most ordinary perspicacity" —as a writer affording us at one moment a " ludicrous exhibition of hopeless nonsense"—aud at another preserving for us what if not " rejected for its pro fanity" ought at any rate to hare been "suppressed for its dullness !" So much for the latest number of the Quarterly, with its cordial reprobation of the " solemn silliness" of the Vicar of Tarring— and Feathering ! LITERATURE. The Lion-Bunter of South Africa. By Roualeyan Gordon Cumming:. John Murray, Albemarle street. It is seldom that we look on any cheap edition which comes before us with ungracious feelings ' • but we are obliged to conf ess , a f ter h av i ng glanced at Mr. Cumming's book, reduced in form and price from the two original volumes—we are obliged to confess, we repeat, that this glance at the con tents has so operated on our common-place nerves that we cannot give it a welcome as a valuable auxiliary to the useful and pleasing legion of cheap works now presented to the public. Yet we are not fastidious in our hunting tastes. We have not shrunk from flinging a harpoon in the Northern waters, nor from cracking a rifle in the Indian jungle. Sport is a noble and inspiring excitement for men, provided the sport be indulged is for the occasional love of that excitement, or for the neces sary commercial supplies of civilisation; but when it is evident that a savage love of blood, and ferocious monomania for killing, rather than any real view to temperate change of pursuit, or profitable traffic, impel a human being to wage wanton and systematic slaughter against the brute crea tion, the question may occur whether the ma jestic quadrupeds—preying and slaying from hun ger and instinct only—are not allied to almost as elevated a race as the self-elected butcher of them. M. Cutuming must, indeed, be a wonderful hero, if all related in his adventures be true. Our latent hope is that the mighty modern Nimrod has put a fabulous account' upon the booksellers' , counters to test how much the appetite of novelty devourers will swallow of monstrous invention and unwholesome imaginative stimulant. We trust that he has only wished to resuscitate the curdling horror experienced in our Story Book days —turn ing himself into the merciless " Btuebeard"—.mak iug Southern Africa his "Secret Chamber," and tak ing lions, tigers, leopards, rhinoceroses, antelopes, giraffes, wolves, hyenas, ostriches, and endless others of the God-created things for his wives. The Fatimas of curiosity will find the key to the terrific scene in Mr. Cumming's work, and whether they drop it, as the lady of old did, or not, we think they will find it unpleasantly marked with sanguinary stains. We fear we may touch the weakness of some of our tender-hearted readers ; but in support of the opinion we have advanced, we give a moderate specimen of the author's de scriptive power, and his decided manner of secur ing his game : " I soon found fresh spoor, and after holding on for several miles came, just as the sue was going down, upon the fresh lairs of fear hippopotami. They had been lying asleep on the margin of the river, and hearing M 3 cantle crackling through the reeds, plunged into the deep water. lat once saw that they were newly started, for the froth and bubbles were still on the spot where they had dashed in ; and next moment I heard them blowing a little way down the river. I then headed them, but with consider able difficulty, owing to the cover and the reeds, and at length came down right above where they were standing. It was a broad part of the stream, with a sandy bottom, and the water came half-way up their sides; there were three cows and an old bull, and, though alarmed, they did not appear aware of the extent of the impending danger. " I took the sea-cow next me, and with my first ball gave her a mortal wound, knocking loose the great plate on the top of her skull, when she commenced plunging round and round, and then occasionally remained still, sitting for a few minutes on the same spot. Oa hearing the report of my rifle two of the others took up stream, and the fourth dashed down the liver, trotting along at a smart pace, like oxen, as long as the water, was shallow. I was now in a state of very great anxiety about my wounded sea-cow, for I feared that she wound get into deep water, and be lost like the two last. To settle the matter, there • fore, I fired a second shot from the bank, which, entering the roof of hsr skull, passed out through her eye; after which she kept constantly splashing round and round in a circle in the middle of the river. I had great fears of the crocodiles, and did not know whether the sea-cow might not attack me ; my anxiety to secure her, however, over came all hesitation, so, divesting , myself of my leathers, and armed with a sharp knife, I dashed into the water, which at first took me up to my arm-pits, but the middle gas shallower. "As I approached Behemoth I halted for a moment, ready to dive under the water if she attacked rue; but though her eye looked very wicked, she was stunned, and did not know what she was doing ; so, running in upon her, and seizing her short tail, I attempted to incline her course to land. It was extraordinary what enormous strength she still had in the water ; I could not guide her in the slightest degree, and she continued to splash, plunge, and blow, and make her circular course, carrying me along with her, as if I was a fly on her tail. Finding this gave me but a poor hold, I took out my knife, and, as the only means of securing her, cut two deep parallel incisions through the skin on her stern, and lifting this skin from the flesh, so that I could get in my two hands, I made use of it as a handle; and after some desperate hard work, sometimes pushing and sometimes pulling, the sea-cow continuing her circular course all the time, and I holding on like grim Death, eventually sv.cceeded in bringing this gigantic and most powerful animal to the bank. My Bush• man now brought me a stout buffalo-rheirn from my horse's neck, which I passed through the opening in the thick skin, and moored Behemoth to a tree ; I then sent a ball through the centre of her head, and she was num b:x.3d with the dead." i\lr. Cumming's delight at his murdering the harmless and beautiful giraffes is something quite refreshing. Our readers may like to know how he managed one of them : " The ground was firm and favourable for riding, at every stride I gained upon the giraffes, and after a short burst at a swingeing gallop was in the middle of them, and turned the finest co .v out of the herd ; finding herself driven from her courades and hotly pursued, sho increased her pace, and cantered along with tremendous strides, clearing an amazing extent of ground at every bound, while ber neck and breast, coming in contact with the dead old branches of the trees, were continually strewing them in my path. In a few minutes I was riding withn five yards of her stern, and, firing at the gallop, sant a bullet into her back ; increasing nay pies, I uext rode alongside, and, placing the muzzle of my rifle within a few feet of her, fired my second shot behind the shoulder—the bell, however, scorned to have little effect. I then placed my self directly in front, when she came to a walk, and dis rnounting,, I hastily loaded both b Lrrels, putting in a doable charge of powder; but before I was ready she was off at a canter. In a short time I brought her to a stand at fifteen yards in the dry bed of a watercourse, and fired, aiming where I thought the heart lay, upon which she again started ; having reloaded, I followed, and had very nearly lost her, for sho turned abruptly to the left, and was far out of sight among the trees. Once more I brought her to a stand, and dismounting, gazed in wonder at her extreme beauty, while her soft dark eye, with its silky fringe, looked down imploringly at me : I really felt a pang of sorrow in this moment of triumph for the blood I was shedding ; but the sporting feeling prevailed, and pointing my rifle towards the skies, I sant a lsullet through her neck. Oa receiving it, she reared high on her hind legs and fell backwards with a heavy crash, making the earth shake around her—a thick stream of dark blood spouted far from the wound, her colossal limbs quivered for a mo ment, and she expired." We will not dwell longer on the particular doings of one capable of " bagging" his elephant bulls, " knocking over" his lions," and " biinging down" his rhinoceroses as schoolboys gather cob. nuts—by hundreds. We must mention, however, that Mr. Cumming had a huge horse, called " The Immense Brute," which surely claims some hon ourable introduction to the admirinrr world. May we suggest to the mighty Lion 'Hunter, who now presides over a London Exhibition, telling all ho has done and seen, that it would be doing a consistent thing if he had the cognomen of the dumb slave legibly printed aid placed as a badge on the breast of the master. The Lion-Killer. By Jules G6rard. Lambert and Co., New Oxford-street. Here we have another " lion" volume, by a Frenchman, fit to take its place by the s id e o f any "extraordinary " and " wonderful" bock of advent ures —whether that book be "Jack the Giant-Killer" or " Gulliver's Travels." There is an a mount of episodial matter in Mons. Gerard's relations which rather ameliorates the savage de tails of rifle and bullet performance, and causes us to look upon the p ro d uct i on as asort of African " Nights Entertainments." Fables and tales of pleasant character aro introduced, having purpose and point about them. In fact, we consider M. Gerard's work as a regular romance. Ho makes most of his victim-lions breakfast on lovely women, dine on honest men, " thaw up" whole herds of horses, oxen, mules, and sheep, and commit the extreme of desolating mischief, before they are " rolled over" by his " well-placed" bullet. We meet with pet lion-cubs carried home iu his pocket, anecdotes of marauding robbers who are taught to behave themselves properly, delicate young brides within a foot of a lion's fangs, and all kinds of astonishing and startling incidents. We are not constitutionally given to this class of read- I ins rep WQ conaollo4 tQ cliocw f? Mg 01711 special perusal between :'t Tr. Cumming's book n Mons. Gerard s, we should certainly pref©r that o the latter gentleman. THE MILITARY BOARD OF INQUIRY. (This Day.) The Board resumed its sittings to-day at 11 o'clock. There was a much larger attendance of ladies this morning than on any previous occasion, That portion of the Hall devoted to the public was much crowded, probably f rom a desire to see Lord Cardigan (whose case' was announced to be taken to-day), whose name has be come notorious in connection with the celebrated but unfertunate Balaklava charge. The business of the C our t commenced wit h Lord Lucan reading his . defen ce t o the Board. He said that, after having attentively r ea d C ol. Tulloch's report, he had come to the con c l us i on that it had but two objects in view : viz , first, not to uph o ld his report, but to ex cuse the Commissioners for having made it ; and, secondly, to exonerate him (L or d L ucan) and the cavalry , from blame. He hal little to complain of the tone, manner, or spirit in ref e rence t o hi s conduct in this in quiry, but he was compelled to express his opinion that he had collected the evidence which told against him, while that which was in his own favour was carefully paraded before the public. He bad, moreover, the popu lar prejudice in his favour, and the press loud and clause rous on his side, while witnesses called by him (Lord Lucan) were run down and undervalued, and those of Col. Tulloch applauded and their motives upheld. If the manly and straightforward evidence of Sir Edmund Lyons had been treated in that way who could expect to escape? It was not f or C o l . T ulloch to appeal for sympathy to the Court, and he (Lord Lucan) should not ask for it, for whatever might be the result of this extraordinary and humiliating inquiry —the first of the kind that had ever been held on a general officer—he should never fear being hereafter taunted with the re proach that he had ever neglected the comfort of that brave and gallant army c omm it te d to his charge in the Crimea. His l or d s hi p then adverted to the evidence of Colonel Griffiths relative to- the alleged differences between them. Colonel Griffiths did not remember much of what occurred at the time he alluded to, and that not very correctly. He had stated that his regiment was moved ten times, whereas Major Connolly had stated it was not moved more than seven times. He night perhaps excuse Col. Griffiths for this mistake, for he could easily understand how much more serious it was for Col. Griffiths to move than for any other officer, in consequence of the difficulty of carrying about with him his own well-regulated domestic and culinary esta blishment. (Laughter.) He denied that he had ever been guilty of rudeness to Col. Griffiths in the interview alluded to, or that he had done anything to discourage or deter him ; but that, on the contrary, he did every thing in his power to urge him and other officers to pro vide every possible shelter for the cavalry, and that consequently the inference was unfairly drawn by the Commissioners with reference to the altercations be tween him and Col. Griffiths, and was both uncourteous and groundless. He (Lord Lucan) did not recollect positively what did occur between them, but he recol lected Col. Griffiths visiting him one morning, as was usual with the officer of the day, to receive his orders relative to the pickets, when he (Lord Lucan) jocosely remarked on the "greyish white greatcoat " Colonel Griffiths had on, which he had received from Constanti• nople. Colonel Griffiths then made some remarks about the permanent position of the camp, and no doubt he (Lord Lucan) replied, " How can I tell you what we are about to do." Col. Griffiths continued in a tone of re. preach. He (Lord Lucan) replied, and he believed Col. Griffiths received it with a sneer, and made some extrava gant suggestion on what was then uppermost in his mind, and which he was discussing with the Coininander-in• Chief and the Quartermaster-General of the Army. Col. Griffiths then in an extraordinary manner threw himself back on his horse and said, "You are not speaking to me like a gentleman, nor treating me as one gentleman ought to treat another." He then told him to be quiet, or he would place him under arrest. Colonel Griffiths continued repeating that he was only talking to him (Lord Lucan) as one gentleman bad a right to talk to another, on which he (Lord Lucan) told him to hold his tongue and join his picket. (Laughter.) His lordship, after some other remarks, said he would wil lingly leave his case in the hands of the Board ; but there were some remarkable points in the evidence that had been submitted, both to the Commissioners and the Board, to which he found himself bound to advert-- and first with reference to the percentage of deaths of the horses. He maintained that his statements on a former occasion in connection with the deaths were cor rect, and that every figure in the Commissioners' report was incorrect. He had shown that the heavy cavalry had not 1,055 horses on the Ist October, as had been stated, because at that time there was not a single man of heavy brigade in the Crimea, and it was only after the arrival of the Enniskillen and the Royal Dragoons on the sth or 6th of the month that the heavy cavalry became complete. His lordship then proceeded to ana lyse the figures in the Commissioners reports, relative to the returns of the horses and deaths, which he charac teriSed as "stuff," "rubbish," and "unintelligible," and in proof of it asserted that the number of horses landed in Bulgaria was 2,450, out of which 422 died there, and 275 on the passage to the Crimea, making a total loss, up to that time, of 693, leaving 1,752 horses alive. Out of this number 817 horses died in the Crimea up to the 16th of January, or 48 per cent. His lordship next referred to a paragraph in the report relative to the hutting, which accused him of disingeniousness and com plained that a great deal of obloquy had been cast upon him in consequence of the displacement of a marginal note, ae alleged by the printer, which the Commissioners might at any time have put right, but they had declined doing so until two or three days after the commence• ment of this inquiry. In this as in every other part of the report the Commissioners state ments were inconsistent and at variance with the facts. lie then again came to the question of censure, and here he contended that if there was one part more than another that contained animadversion on his con duct it was in the Commissioners' remarks in connection with the hutting, and notwithstanding what Col. Tulloch had said to the contrary, it was evident that the Com missioners had animadverted on him without mentioning his name, hoping thereby to evade the responsibility they would otherwise have incurred by stating his name, important part passing to what he considered the most part of the report, charging him with wan t o f prompti tude and ingenuity in devising shelter for the cavalry, he remarked, in rather strong terms—amounting almost to animadversion—on Col. Griffiths' sheltering, which he said comprised only a six inch drain, quite inadequate for what it was intended, and which that officer was unable to make without relying on assistance from others. The charge of want of promptitude and ingenuity resolved itself into two questions, a can vas question, and a drainage canvas. With regard to the former, he called the attention of Sir R. Aire) , to the use of canvas for shelter as early as October. There was no want of promptitude or ingenuity here, but did Col. Tulloch show sufficient sagacity when he was di " rested by the Minister of War to make the necessary arrangements for hutting the men. Col. Tailoch said he was not invested with that re sponsibility by the Minister for "War, and begged the protection of the Court. The Judge-A.dvocate-General said there ! was no evi denca of that kind before the Court, arid Lord Lucan bad better confine his remarks to what had been stated in evidence. Lord Lucan continued--He said that whatever might have been stated about the use of canvas, no person of experience, and especially those who had been in the Crimea, would say that it cauld have been used with safety to the hones on the plateau in the month of November. He agreed that if nothing else could have been obtained canvas t o a certain extent might have been of advantage especially in roofing, but there never was a sufficient quantity of scantling with which to form frame work for canvas roofing, and if Mr, Rawlinson had stated that it would have been safe to have used the same scantling for canvas as for timber. The deficiency of scantling was a difficulty which any amount of canvas could not have remedied, but admit ting canvas would have been useful was it to be got. Admiral Sir E. Lyons had stated that canvas could not have been had from the fleet, and every word that bad fallen from the gallant admiral would have been con firmed by Admiral Dundas if he had been allowed to use his written replies to the queries he (Lord Lucan) had forwarded to him so that they had evidence of the two admirals of the station on that point. The Judge-Advocate-General— I think not Lord Lucan. The replies of Sir D. Dundas had not been received is evidence. Lord Lucan said be would fall back on the evidence of Sir E. Lyons, w hi c h was quite sufficient for his pur pose. It had been proved that if there had been a suffi cient supply of canvas that there was a deficiency of car penters. The authorities at home were not well ac quainted with the supply of carpenters at Constantinople, and, as an instance, he had only to refer to what occur red at Scutari. Some works requiring construction: there the War-office sent out a clerk of the works at SOO/. per annum to look after it, and the Ordnance, not knowing what the War -office bad done, sent out ano ther clerk of the works at 500/. per annum—(laughter) —and the conseuence was that there were two clerks of works, at 1,0001. a year salary. When they got to Scutari they founi they had only 16 men to look after— (laughter) —that being all the men they could get. He wo u ld next refer to the trenching, &c., for shel ter, and that brought him to the evidence of Mr. Raw linson, who, in addition to his being a civil en. gineer was also an eminent genealogist—(laughter)—he meant geologist, had stated that pits could have been constructed in certain places, but that was impossible, because the cavalry bad orders to keep in a certain place, and he had further given a statement of how much ground a soldier could excavate, based on what a navvy was capable of doing, an assumption which every one who knew the habits, &e. of the two classes of men knew to be absurd. We shall give the cpaslusion in our last edition. PARMA, April 23.—The state of affairs continues tin. changed. Count Crenneville has received orders from Vienna not to remove the troops under his command without having previously applied for instructions to the Imperial Government. 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