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- - being then left as before to settle its own domestic institutions, was carried. In the debate on it 'some sensible remarks were made by Mr. BROWN ING, to the effect that the South boasted of the blacks being armed in defence of the Confe derates that the proper retaliation of the North would be to treat them also as citizens, to appeal to their loyalty by proclaiming emancipa tion as the reward of service. There is reason in this, and not mere cleverness only. If the South itself treats the blacks as citizens the North may fairly appeal to them to be loyal. Or if the South uses them in military service at all, the North has every right to do the same, and to neutralise, if possible, such a means of strength for the South. Amongst the direct taxes one on slavee was agreed to. This would seem to be recognising them as property, but the Congress may certainly point to the example of England which can be pleaded for regarding men servants as a test of their master's ability to pay taxes, and charges them in the same taxing-papers with carriages, horses, and dogs. rhyme- We may soon expect some important news from Austria. The German advisers of the weak young EMPEROR have, or will soon have, the reply of the Hungarian Diet to the impudent and lying Rescript which they had advised their master to send to Hungary. HAPSBURG as he is, it would appear that the EMPEROR, person ally, is not so hard-hearted and ambitious as these paltry German Ministers. He has, we are told, some not unnatural desires that the generous people, who are willing to overlook some infor malities and to address him as monarch, should feel towards him as loyal subjects to a deserving king. SCHMERLING and the Camarilla who ad vise him, know that they can obtain no personal regard from the Hungarians. They are despised by the e r haughty and liberty-loving aristocracy of Hun as a mere batch of mushroom officials, slaves themselves, and desirous to enslave others. But "King" is yet a magic word with Hungarians. The sentiment of loyalty is wonderfully strong among the people, or it could not have survived such treatment as they have received from the per fidious and cruel line of Hapsburg Kings. And the King of HUNGARY is aware in some degree of this. The fact can hardly be concealed from him, that he has only to speak the word, and he might at once re gain the whole strength of Hungary, and be a mightier monarch than he ever was, although a monarch of the free. T " 0 X F O R D, 6, OXFORD-STREET. The architectural beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and brilliancy of lighting of this noble building, render it one of the sights of London. Open Every Evening. The pro ro- gramme is varied, and includes Selections from "La "Un Ballo in Maschera," &c., (by a f ull company of principals, powerful band, and chorus). Solos by Miss Bryant on the Piano Forte, and by Mr. Russell on the Trombone. Old English Ballad, by Miss Green, Scotch Duets by the Misses Stuart, and other vocal and instrumental music of the highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The Comic portion of the entertainment i s su pp orted by Messrs. M. P. Foster (in his " Life Sketches"), Sam Collins, Harvey, and French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. Randall. Hall, sixpence ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY. —Morning, 3h. 40m.—Afternoon, t 3h. To-mouitow.-Homing, 4h. 20m.—Afternoon, 4h. 42m. Opposition. Listening to him, it was as if we heard the loudest and most boisterous of some " four and twenty happy boys," who like the urchins in HOOD'S Ballad of " Eugene Aram"— " Came bounding out of school." And of whom the poet sings in an exhilarating There were some that ran, and some that leaped, LATEST Ni I W . BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, AUG. 9. The Nontteur of to-day publishes the usual monthly return of the Bank of France, which shows the following results, as compared with the July account : INCREASE. Francs. Cash in hand .. w , P 12 1.6 millions. Bills discounted; 'not yet dn'e 4 4.5 millions. Bank-notes Treasury balance Advances DECREASE. 26 5 6 millions. 15 3.5 millions. Current accounts 11 million. 21 2.5 millions CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 8. The number of officers in the Turkish army has been reduced. Henceforth the new officers will be chosen from among those who have been dismissed on account of this reduction. A commission has been appointed for the re demption of the new Caimes. TURIN, AUG. 9. General Fanti will proceed to Chalons, in order to be present at the military movements. Signor Bastogi, Minister of Finance, has been raised by the King to th e r a n k of Count, and appointed Grand Officer of the Order of St. Maurice and Lazarus, on account of the services rendered by him in the conclusion of the National Loan. VIENNA, AUG, 9. An ordinance from the Minister of Finance orders that, at present and during harvest-time, those Hun garian taxpayers who are really indigent are to be treated with indulgence, but that the most ener getic measures of severity are to be employed against those solvent persons who refuse to pay the taxes. PESTH, AUG. 8. In to-day's sitting of the Lower House the draft of an address from the Diet to the Emperor was proposed by M. Deak. The demands made in this address do not differ from those contained in the first address. It refutes the Imperial rescript, and declares in conclusion that further negotiations are broken off. This address was unanimously and enthusiasti cally adopted, and it was resolved to send it to the Upper House. PESTH, AUG. 9. The draught address, as proposed by M. Deak, also mentions the rights of the Bohemian and Galician Crowns ; decidedly declines that deputies from the Hungarian Diet should be sent to the Council of the Empire; and declares that the Hungarian Diet must cease transacting any Par liamentary business. RAGUSA, AUG. 5. The European commission for the settlement of the affairs of the Herzegovina has been dis- solved. Omer Pacha has addressed an ultimatum to the Montenegrin chiefs. The army of Omer Pacha now numbers 30,000 men, and is being concentrated with the intention of vigorously carrying on operations. FRANCE. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9. 'lB6l. Cossacks as had no families to make a movement in advance, and it so happened that it was the Cossacks of the regiment of Khopersk that were fixed on to compose the advanced guard, and form a new line. Those men form a body who have covered them seVes with glory during the wars in the Caucasus. This regiment had established itself on the side of the Kouburn, and the ground being good, they had, from their skill iu agricultural labours, become rich. That fact had made it the interest of the subordinate agents of the Government to get them dislodged from the place where they were, and sent forward to form the new advanced guard. The Cossacks, however, heard of the project, and sent a deputation to Prince Bariatinski to remonstrate against their removal, bat they were not allowed to have an interview of the General. A promise was, however, given them that the old men and the fathers of families should not be sent. to form the advanced guard. Soon after, Prince nariatinski quitted the Caucasus; and Count ---, who succeeded to the command, gave orders for all of them to quit their houses and lands, and march forward. They refused to obey, and troops and artillery were sent to enforce obe dience to the orders of the General. This harsh ness roused them to rebellion, and quitting their families and taking with them only their arms, they went over in a body and joined the enemies of the Russians." AINSWORTH'S NEW WORK. ----THE—WRITHER.—SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 9, 1.561. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 74 —highest since noon yesterday. 63—lowest this morning and during the night. 70—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.40. WlND—Westerly—light; fine, but sultry, weather. t,1, 1 4 , !ir 4 ttliA 1,44 z . .‘A - *•;V..! O6 - e rl 4 :2 4.5 The supposition which forced itself so strongly on our minds—that General SCOTT had been forced to fight against his own judgment—seems to be the exact truth. Unless the distinct assertions of a member of Congress, as to the words of an actual conversation, are to be wholly disbelieved, there can indeed be no doubt on the subject. It was asserted in debate that General SCOTT had thus yielded, when Mr. RICHARDSON stated in express terms that he, with two of his colleagues, whom he named, were present with the President, the Secretary of War, and General SCOTT. That the General said in conversation, "I am the biggest coward on earth" —Mr. RICHARDSON rose from his seat—" Stay," said the General, " I will prove it. I have fought the battle against my judgment, and I think the President ought to remove me to day for doing it." In the course of further conversation, he ad hered to the same statement. He appealed to GOD that he had done all in his power to make the army efficient ; but thought he deserved removal, " because he did not stand up when he could, but did not." The old General did not, on the other hand, release the President from the implied charge of having forced him to fight ; for it appears the President said to him—" Your conversation implies, Gene ral SCOTT, that I forced you to battle. " When, instead of replying that he did not, the General only observed, "I have never served under a President who has been kinder to me than you have been." We think it can hardly now be doubted what was the fact ; but again, the President himself would appear to have yielded to the clamour of the Northern public in thus tampering with tho judgment of his responsible commander; and Mr. RICHARDSON, who told Congress of the conversation, told them also, that he had known the President from his boyhood, knew him to be an honest man if let alone, but feared he had not " firmness to stani up against the politicians around him." Happily the later accounts all point to a com paratively small loss of life. The Confederates now say that their loss in killed and wounded did not exceed sixty ; that their force little exceeded 3,500, while that of their opponents was between 5,000 and 10,000, and this is an official account sent to New Orleans. 0a the other hand, Presi dent DAVIS, writing on the evening of the battle to the Congress at Richmond, states his own force at 15,000, that of the enemy at 3 5,000. The Fede ralists have reduced their numbers in like propor tion ; the total loss of their army in killed i s now set down at 150. The " missing" have come in in very great numbers. The country afforded abundant temporary shelter for fugitives, and great numbers appear to have thought preserving their lives the best patriotism ; they could be used, and taken care of again too, in the service of their country. Yankees are as wise as they are brave. Their best estimates of the number brought into action, or into the field, is about the same as that of President Davis. We have some account also of the reasons for for what seemed the almost treacherous conduct of General PATTERsON. General JOHNSTONE'S corps, whom he had defeated not far from Harper's Ferry, was present at the battle, while PATTERSON himself, instead of following him up and holding him in check, had fallen back on that place. He says that JOUNSTONE had received such large re inforcements as considerably to outnumber him, while nineteen regiments of his three months' men had, with four exceptions, all determined to leave. So far, therefore, from being able to prevent JOHN wroNE from co-operating with BEAUREGARD, h e had to look to his own safety. The " three months' ra„,, appear to have returned home by wholesale. It is said that their want of firmness did a g re at pa r t of the mischief at Bull's Run. It is not itnpossible that the generals might wish to u3a them while they had them, hut that they thought it rather hard, having had so easy a ti me of it for three months, to be tra.ted like so many ij it lalls at the very end of their time. The . ques ti on —what to do with slaves—creates some cTiffleulty in C on g ress . it is e asy to see that the mornbers are still a fraid o f it , A c ompromise resolutic )n that the war was to termin ate with the reatorati on of the Federal Government, each State What a pity it seems that all his dominions can furnish him no CAVOUR. To every looker on the facts of the case admit of no dispute. Hungary asks nothing but simple legality. The SCHMERLING camarilla reply by notoriously illegal assertions and requisitions. Now it ought to be, and might be, the easiest of tasks for Statesmen to govern a people, who are heartily and from long custom devotedly attached to law. Granting as they do that some of the laws of 1848 require revision, they are assuredly right in insisting that the re vision shall be made constitutionally and legally, not by illegal edicts prepared by a German bureau, and signed by an Emperor of AUSTRIA, who is not yet fully and legally King of HUNGARY. True their constitutional rights separate Hungary to a con siderable extent from the rest of the Empire; but so are some of the other provinces separated—for only German Austria can be a member of the German Bund. But what these mischievous theorising Ger mans, in their zeal to enslave to themselves a poli tically nobler race, fail to perceive is, that Hungary can be a source of strength to the Austrian EM PEROR only by treating her loyally. She has ever been too ready to pour forth blood and money for the honour and safety of her worthless Kings; and if any King of HUNGARY now were but heartily to accept the position he would find no kind of difficuly in obtaining Hungarian aid for any • purpose which ought to secure it. On one point alone the Hungarians would probably be firm. They would not aid in the occupation of Venetia. Their constitution, and their solemn agreements with their Hapsburg Kings, guarantee to them that their soil shall not be violated, as it now is, by hated foreign troops; they also guarantee that Hungarian sol diers shall not be employed in foreign service without the consent of Hungary. This law alsa is now in abeyance—Hungary must, and will, be firm till it secures respect for these essential guarantees of freedom ; but, when it has secured them, nothing is more certain than that this people, ever too confiding, would be but too ready to lend their whole sup port to maintaining the greatness of a King worthy of the name. The grand mistake of old routine diplomatists, like Lords PALMERSTON and RUSSELL, is that of confounding a strong Austria with a legally amalgamated Austria. As a fact, Austria is incapable of amalgamation. 11;gliminded, free Hungarian nobles and people can never amalgamate with the political serfs and theorising Bureaucrats of the Archduchy. But, as independent subjects of the same Crown, they would be faithful to it, and Austria might be again a Power through her sub jects loving their Government and thinking it worth defending. On the contrary, the victory of Vienna over Pesth will be the weakness of Austria. It is positively refreshing to read Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE'S speech to his Liskeard Constituency. A speech it is, no doubt, about everything in general and nothing in particular. But it is one neverthe less which will be perused at once and by all with no less profit than amusement. As to the entertaining character of any remarks there may fall at any time from the lips of the hon. member, that everyone takes to be sure just as a matter of course. It would be difficult we cannot but think for the member for Liskeard to be dull even if he ambitioned to be so. It may be recollected that when he was in office as ISecretary to the Admiralty he evidenced his own con sciousness of something like this by what we may call an instinctive recognition of the alternative before him as a subordinate in an Administration. Either—he recognized it at once himself —either he must hold his tongue altogether, or if he spoke at all he must infallibly have spoken out. Therefore almost as a matter of necessity he observed-- Silence ! Whether or not he may have had the di s . creet advice of Prince TALLEYRAND echoedt s o T h o i N m ,s , as a timely whisper from Lord PALMER first Cabinet, on his (Mr. OSBORNE'S) first taking his seat in the Chief Secretary's Office at the Board of Admiralty—" pas de zele"—the hon. member certainly dropped into Silence, as one may say—at discretion. Only upon the removal from his lips of the padlock of official responsibility—came at . last—at last—delightfully for himself, we should think, that " wild shriek of liberty" with which, as Mr. DISRAELI remarked at the time, Mr. OSBORNE celebrated his emancipation from office. It was for all the world like the gleeful shouting heard from the village urchins when released from the Dominie's thraldom towards the cool of the evening. And Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE then appeared to be only about the most noisy and hilarious of the long hushed and cramped up subor dinates who escaped with him to " the village green" and " the cool of the evening" on the side of the , Like fishes in a pool." Ever since then Mr. 0 SBORNE, happily for us all, has remained ungagged. Occasionally during the last, for the most part, dull and tedious session he has enlivened the debates with his sparkling and some times caustic, but even then always good-humoured pleasantries. About the happiest and most " tell ing" of all the speeches that he has delivered this year, either in or out of Parliament, is the one addressed by him to his constituents at Liskeard on Wednesday evening. It is BERNAL OSBORNE all over. Full of home truths, flashed upon us like the thrust of a rapier. Full of the most poignantly laughter-provoking, but at the same time the most perfectly gentlemanly, personalities. Mr. OSBORNE is as a speaker —we all know it—what SIDNEY SMITH was as a conversationalist : a professional dealer in bon mots, eccentric witticisms, and extravagant whimsicalities. It matters nothing to him what the theme may be that is presented to him for con sideration. It is not by any means requisite that it should be in itself essentially a provocation to laughter—let us say like Father DALY'S inter position between the Premier and the Post-office in regard to the affair of the Galway Contract, or, again, like Mr. VINCENT SCULLY'S excruciatingly ludicrous extravagancies in regard to what he deems the wrongs of Ireland. CHARLES LAMB said of 7.‘IuNDEN's acting that it could "impart a dignity to a joint-stool," and of MUNDEN himself that he could " understand a leg of mutton in its quiddity." GILBERT A'BECKETT, that Prince of Punsters, one of the pleasantest of wags, and yet in spite of that one of the worthiest of our London police magistrates, could, in the estimation of those who knew him best, turn the dullest subject, by merely writing about it, into the delightfullest. It is pretty much in this way that, by merely speaking about anything in the wide wide world, Mr. OSBORNE can always contrive to make it entertaining: and it is after this fashion that he deals with the dull dead level of the at length happily dead and gone Parliamentary Session of 1861. It is thus he deals with all that is peccant—and what is not ?—in the Great Liberal Party so called. What is it he terms the Reform Question for example ? Why, borrowing a whim sical phrase from OLIVER GOLDSMITH, he designates it "A very good horse in the stable, but a jade on the road." Does he quote a felicitous saying, uttered by the right hon. gentleman the Leader of the Opposition, he can't for the life of him resist remarking of him incidentally, that while Mr. DISRAELI often says a good thing, he but seldom does any ! An odd way of putting a party view, that the member for Bucks would be first to laugh at. The Liberal party itself Mr. OSBORNE designates humorously "a set of confirmed inva lids." Messrs. VILLIERS and GIBSON he speaks of as having been allowed to take their places low down at the Cabinet table—below the salt, shall we say—like poor relations. In effect, through all his witty gibes and oddities, he arrives point blank at this sound, common sense view of the whole political situation, before he brings to an end his capital speech at Liskeard, on Wednesday. He says :—" The state of the Liberal party is becoming somewhat of a mongrel nature. We have now got into a state of confusion, and if you ask one man what he is in politics he will tell you Liberal Conservative, and if you ask another he will say he is a Conservative Liberal. What is to be the end of all these political differ ences? Unless some energetic measures are taken by her MAJESTY'S Government to meet Parliament with measures entitled to public approbation, not only abcut spending money, but cutting down and reforming the expenditure, I believe that question will be taken out of their hands, and they will be consigned to the outer darkness of Opposition," Let the Ministry—while laying these home truths well to heart during the next half year—remember that they are uttered by a thorough-going Liberal. And let them remember this, too—that, as the old proverb tells us, " there is many a true word spoken in jest." The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli have passed through town for Hugenden Manor, Bucks, from Knebworth Park, Herti, where they have been on a risit to the Right Hon. Sir E. Bulwer Lytton. The new decoration of the Legion of Honour of Agriculture will, it is said, consist of a star, ornamented ith mother of pearl, and surrounded with rays in silver; on one side will be the likeness of the Emperor Napoleon, and on the other agricultural symbols. It will be worn suspended from a blue ribbon streaked with red. The new Order is to be established on the 15th, the Emperor's fete. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.--The Earl of Derby, Chancellor of the University, has appointed the Rev. Wil liam Charles Salter, 31. A., Vice-Principal of this Hall, Fellow of Balliol College, to the Principalship of St. Alban hall, in the room of the late lamented Dr. Cardwell. The appointment of Mr. Salter, who has held the office of Vice- Principal several years, has given great satisfaction. THE FRENCH NAVY.—The Independance Beige says :—" Notwithstanding the jealousy exhibited on the other side of the Channel, the French Government con tinues to give important development to the organisation of its naval force. Our correspondence for some days past has given us intelligence of an augmentation of the mari time cadres. The Patric of to-day - announces the 'crea tion of a special division of plated vessels in the squadron of evolutions. This division will consist of four or five vessels." JUDGES' CllAMßEßS.—Yesterday the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, Sir Alexander Cockburn, the vacation judge, made an order that business was to com mence at Chambers on Monday, the 12th of August, and following days, at 11 o'clock, and that all parties desiring to attend before the judge on and after Monday, the 12th day of August, can do so at his residence, No. 40, Hert ford-street, May Fair, at 12 o'clock. During the long vacation attendance will be given at the Common Law and Crown-office from 11 until 2 o'clock only, daily. After the termination of the circuit, the business during the entire vacation does not, of necessity, entirely devolve upon the vacation judge, as it is quite competent for any judge to act who may be in town. THE CONDEMNED CONVICT HILTON.—The exe cution of this unfortunate man, condemned at the last Cam bridgeshire assizes for the murder of his wife at Parson Drove, near IVisbeach, in March last, and who so persist ently insisted on pleading guilty, is fixed for Saturday next at Cambridge. By the exertions of his father and his inde fatigable solicitor, Mr. 011ard, a petition for a remission of the capital sentence was forwarded to the Home-office, urging, first, circumstances which might lead to the con viction that the prisoner is insane, and secondly that it was possible that he received sufficient provocation from his deceased wife to reduce the crime to manslaughter. To this a reply was received from Sir G. Grey stating that he could see no sufficient ground for interference with the operation of the law. N Fo yearsforty-eight THE rt _0 MERCANTILEI.g.htw fire-offices ne iV h Olt L have Wnr a i et theshtin b l she NEWS of ptlast 187 which only t we l ve now continue i v n existence, ee showing that the fire insurance notobnuesineexsesehaisoh,a b t e a suc cessful with all offices. Th e s h ares of all fire offices within the last 20 years are, with dis count, and some unsaleable. At a meetinz at the Mansion House the other day the wildest inferences were drawn by the speakers. From rough statistics hastily collected, it might have been inferred that all the business of the fire offices was London insurances, and second, that all the London business consisted of mercantile risks. Now, the fact is, the premiums on London mercantile fire insurances, oven of the leading commercial offices, constitute a most insignificant per-centage of their general revenue, not, we believe, on the average, above two or three per cent. On the other hand, it is stated by these offices that during the last ten or twelve years the losses paid on this class have amounted, on the average, to nearly three times the pre miums secured. We earnestly caution the public against trusting to the delusive statements made by professional promoters in any new scheme. The hard savings of a life time may be lost when staked in new undertakings—the whole of the capital sunk—by one large firo such as hap pened at Southwark, PARIS, THURSDAY. To-day, at 11.30 a.m. the Emperor officially re ceived the Minister of the Kingdom of Italy. His Excellency and suite were conveyed to the Tuileries in three state carriages. M. Solar, who had appealed against the judg ment pronounced against him, did not appear to day before the Tribunal, and his appeal was V-iere for dismissed. M. Caley was condemned in a fine of 3,000 f. for having participated in the distribu tion of a false dividend. It is asserted that the interview between the Emperor and the King of Prussia will take place at Strasbourg on the 6th October next. BounsE, August B.—The market has been again animated to-day, but sales for realisation have caused a slight reduction in prices, —Threes, for the Account, being now at 68f 40c. Railways quiet, but firm. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents 98 —, Credit Foncier 1230 1)o end month.... 98 —, Belgian 41 looa 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 40 i Roman Bank Shares 2895 Austrian _ Credit Mobilier Do. Account 7lO Spanish Threes 47 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans l4ll 25 .. 141 b Northern .. 980 New ditto — Lyons and Mediterranean .. 1022 50 Geneva — .. 345 Southern .• 620 Western — , 535 Eastern . ... _ , 585 Sardinian - • • 370 Austrian — .. 501 25 Lotrbard THEATRF./WYAL, IiAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Iltiastone. THIS EVENING, the perlorninnoes anilt comm enm with a new Ballet, BACCHUS AND ARIADNE. Miss Fanny" Wright, the Leclercqs, Mr. Webster, &c. After which, a new Comedy, entitled MY LORD AND MY LADY ; or, It Might have been Worse. Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Buckstone, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Wilkins, &c. Followed by OF AGE TO-MORROW. Mss M. Oliver. To conclude with TURNING THE TABLES. Commence at 7. YAL PR INCE' S S'S THEAISE.— Leg@ee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, the new comic drama, entitled A HOMESTEAD STORY, Messrs. Ryder Shore, and Miss Harris. Followed by THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Messrs. rechter. A. Harris, Meadows, Miss Murray, Miss R. Leclerq, and Mrs. Westsn. To conclude with THE FIRST NIGHT. Mr. A. Harris. and Miss Maria Harris. NEW TWEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Reproduction of the great drama of "The Dead Heart." THIS EVENLNG, the great Adelphi drama. THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, Fisher, Billing ton, Eburne, Smith, Romer ; Miss Woolgar and Miss Kate Kelly. To conclude with (22d time) THE PRETTY HORSE BREAKER. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Miss K. Kelly, Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Thorne, Miss Laidlaw, and Mrs. Chatterley, Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. ANTERBURY H ALL, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Verdi's New Opera, UN BALLO IN MASCHERA, arranged and conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. Mr. Levy on the cornet-a-piston. Mr. Wood and his talented littl , Son, the best Negro Delineators of the day. The extraordinary comic duet, "The Nerves," by Messrs. Harvey and French, the most grotesque performance in London. Mrs. Lawrence and Mr. Marshall in several New Songs written expressly for him, including the " Excursion to Brighton." Admission, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, ts. RETURN of SAM COWELL to ENGLAND, who will shortly 7ppear at his old quarters, after an absence of five years. RE-DECORATION of this Magnificent HALL, executed by Mr. William Sanderson, of Lambeth, under the direction of Samuel Field, Esq., architect, is now completed. This popular Place of Amusement now surpasses its former grandeur, and, with the FINE ARTS GALLERY and SPACIOUS PROMENADE, forms the MOST ELEGANT PUBLIC BUILDING in the WORLD. Considerable im provements have been made in the VENTILATION and LIGHTING. THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9,18 M. TURKEY. A letter from Constantinople of the 31st ult. has the following :—" The Sultan is pursuing his work with activity and energy. The best reformer of the army is, without contradiction, Namick Pacha, Minister of War, who possesses much greater in telligence than his predecessor. He is, however, neither fanatical nor superstitious. He has been reproached with the affair of Djeddah, but that is wrong, as at the time of the massacres he was at Mecca, to which city he had been called by im portant business. As soon as he heard of what had taken place he proceeded to Djeddah by forced marches, at the head of a battalion of cavalry, and succeeded, but with difficulty, in restoring order. I must add that Namick Pacha is a man most devoted to the Empire, that his integrity is above suspicion, and that if he scrupulously observes the religion of his fathers, he can perfectly well appreciate the advantages of Western civilisation which he had studied in France, where, for two years, he worthily repre sented the Sublime Porte as its ambassador. What has never yet been seen here before is the nomina tion of a Frenchman to the post of military sub intendant, which has hitherto been always filled by a Mussulman. The official journal announces the appointment in the following terms :—M. Delonguy (under the Ottoman name of Ala- Effendi), officer of the Staff and private Secretary, has just been, by order of the Minister of War, raised to the rank of (bimbachi), Major and Sub intendant of the Hospitals of Stamboul (Constan tinople). M. Delonguy, as we have already said, is a Frenchman. He was in the particular service of General Omer Paella, and distinguished himself on several occasions, particularly during the dis astrous events in Syria." TIIE CAUCA SUS. A telegraphic despatch mentioned, a few days ago, that the reAment of the Cossacks of Khopersk, now serving in the Caucasus, had revolted. A letter from that country gives some details connec ted with that fact :—" The Cossack regiments attached to the Russian army of the Caucasus form several lines, which are complete military colonies. They conquer the soil from the enemy, and there establish themselves, with their families, guarding their acquired possessions, sabre in hand. The lines of these military villages are, as a matter of cou progressrse , gradually advanced, and as it were, mark the of conquest. Prince Bariatinski lately, in order to gain ground, ordered ouch The Constable of the Tower. A Historical Ro mance. By William Harrison Ainsworth. Illustrated by John Gilbert. 3 vols. Chapman and Hall. Originally appearing as a serial story in Bentley's Miscellany, occasionally illustrated by the delicate and facile " pencilling" of John Gilbert—Harrison Ainsworth's new historical romance has recently been issued from the press by Messrs. Chapman and Hall, in its complete form, as a separate publication. Accordingly as the work appeared in the pages of the magazine from month to month, we have analyzed its merits almost chapter by chapter. Ever since the three exquisite volumes into which it is now compacted have been lying before us— tempting us to examine the fiction as a whole, to weigh it in its entirety in the balance of criticism— we have eagerly, but until now vainly, looked fcr the double opportunity for so doing ; first, for the leisure for writing, secondly, for due space in our journal, both of them unprocurable until Parlia ment should have been prorogued. At length the two requisites are within our reach, and we eagerly grasp at them in order at length that we may realize in this way a long cherished intention. Mr. Ainsworth's new story is worthy of the au thor's hand as a Master-Romancist. Often as he has written historic fiction, he has never written better than throughout these Five Books of The Constable of the Tower. The production assumes its place at once among the most brilliantly deli neated and highly elaborated narratives of this cha racter. It makes a superb triad among the writings of Harrison Ainsworth, when placed, as we hesitate not to place it upon the instant, between two old favourites of ours, owing their existence years ago to his pen of glamour and fascination— Windsor Castle and the Tower of London. Clubbing those 'three works together, ranging the whole nine vo lumes side by side on our bookshelves—nine enthrall ing volumes of historic romance, illustrated by the pencils of Johannot, Gilbert, Delamotte, and Cruik shank—it would be difficult (remembering their contents) not to recognise in their author a combi nation of genius and of industry, of fecund fancy and untiring research, but rarely brought toge ther and thus intimately united in the service of imaginative literature. Otherwise—by how many of his writings as a Novelist !—Mr. Ains worth has vividly enough attested the pre-eminence of his powers as a romance writer, especially and Peculiarly as one into whose possession have fallen, sot° speak, not only the grimly robe of Mrs. Radcliffe and the weird wand of Monk Lewis, bat together with those symbols of a mysterious authority over all the sources of terror and of wonderment, much of that higher gift of gifts for imparting to the g rizzliest improbabilities a prevailing air of veri similitude and of absolute credibility, which is the secret of the glamour exercised over us by all the great masters of Romance from Godwin and Matu rin down to Ilenri De Balzac. Who has not long since recognised the possession of all these gifts and powers in their very perfection in the author of that enthralling romance of romances—the story of ROOKWOOD? It is said of Mr. Ainsworth that he has exhausted all the old familiar resources of the romancist—the trap-doors and the sliding panels, the wrack, the dungeon, the scaffold, the perillous feats and hairbreadth 'stapes that carry the ro mance reader on through " moving incidents by flood and field" with the speed, let us say, of Dick Turpin when bestriding Black Bess on the great north road between York and London. It is hardly an exaggeration. Yet his achievements (for they are little less than achievements) in this way are all so varied in their nature : they form such startling contrasts when brought for a moment into comparison ! Instance this—the terrific descent from the pillar described in our author's splendid romance of the Admirable Crichton, and the wonderful flight down the roaring current of the Thames in the opening pages of Jack Shepherd, when the Silent Highway is swept over by the scourge of that astounding hurricane. It were superfluous, however, to endeavour nowadays to illustrate, by examples culled from his volumi nous productions, a distinguishing peculiarity long and long ago so very generally recognised. It is a peculiarity this which will be found more or less pervading the whole series of Mr. Ainsworth's effu sions as a fictionist. Discoverable, hardly less than in those famous books of his which we have already here particularised—in his other remarkable nar ratives, some of them historical, others purely the outpourings of his imagination. Hence, in truth, the popularity, more or less, appertaining to those extraordinary narratives, whether reference be made to Old St. Paul's, with its record of the fire and plague; to St. James's, with all its Court in trigues, introducing us to people as widely different as Sacheverel and Marlborough ; and to Guy Fawkes, with its marvellous Rembrandt glimpses of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators! Or whether, on the other hand, allusion be made to the purely fanciful history of the Miser's _Daughter, to the goblin scenes depicted in those wild annals com memorative of lhe Lancashire Witches, even to the pages of that tantalising fragment of a Romance called Auriol ! To say nothing of the allurements thrown in like manner by Mr. Ainsworth's wizard like, and almost, one might say, lurid imagination, over various passaaee in his more recent fictions— over the serio-comic incidents of The Flitch of Bacon —over the strangely fluctuating fortunes of The Spendthrift—over the singularly interesting, and some of them wonderfully probable, and others still more wonderfully improbable, adventures of Mervyn Clitheroe—over the varied characters flitting to and fro across those beautiful Sussex downs near Brighton,vvith the picturesque gables of "0 vingdean Grange" in',the midst of its clustering orchards and shrubberies, filling up the background of that last alluring picture, vividly sketched in black and white, by the indefatigable pen of our unwearied and seemingly inexhaustible Romancist. At last—reverting to one of those higher kinds of labour in this beautiful fairyland of fiction (the dreamland, the cloudland of Imaginative Litera ture), in which he had already signally evidenced at once his capacity and proficiency as a Fabulist— Harrison Ainsworth has, in this the latest of his numerous literary productions, completed that His torico-Rornantic Triad to which we have already referred as shining out with a sort of triple lustre from among his ci,ehteen or twenty separate and some of them world-famous works of imagination. Placing TIIE CONSTABLE OF THE TOWER as we do, and as we have already here intimated, between " Windsor Castle" and " Tile Tower of London" — we recognise in those three historic romances, in those nine goodly volumes, a superb contribution towards the elucidation of the events of one of the most extraordinary epochs in the annals of our native land. No man has more vividly realised to himself and to his readers the distinguishing pecu liarities of that most memorable period, the very heart or centre of which is the time during which varius, cujus rei Tibet simulator ac dissimulator, alteni appetens, suiprofusus, ardens in cupiditatibus, satis eloquentice, sapientice parum." All this— together with physical gifts and graces to which Cataline could not lay claim—Seymour being the handsomest man of his time, and one endowed (as the loves of Catherine and Elizabeth sufficiently well evidenced), with an almost irresistible charm of fascination. Yet so calm, so uninfatuated is Mr. Ainsworth, in his regard, while here treating of Seymour's ambition and Sey mour's character, that sometimes even we scarcely think justice is done to the Lord High Admiral. For example—the novelist who has here chosen Seymour as his hero takes for granted, accepts as absolutely proven and as henceforth not to be for an instant contravened, the gailt imputed to the Lord High Admiral in respect to his supposed complicity with the Master of the Mint at Bristol —Sherington, here called by Mr. Ainsworth Sharingtoe. Our novelist takes for granted, we say, accepts as absolutely proven, the charge made against Seymour of having (for a given sum) con nived at Sherington's misdeeds in clipping the coin, issuing base testoons, and falsifying the entries in the books of his department. Although it is as yet doubtful to this day whether Sherington was not in reality a double-dyed rascal actually " suborned to calumniate Seymour as the price of his own life "—" a suspicion," observes Lingard (vol. v., p. 279, last Editiart), " a suspicion which was almost converted into certainty when that offender (i.e., Sherington) was not only pardoned but restored to his former appointment, and found still to possess a considerable fortune." However, we mention this one instance merely as affording what may with truth be called "proof positive," that in delineating his hero, Seymour,',Mr. Ainsworth has not had his' judgment blurred at any rate by the feverish influ ence of the lues Boswelliana. We have followed the incidents of the story so carefully from month to month as the narrative has appeared in its first or piecemeal form in Bentley's Miscellany, that we have nothing further left to say here in regard to the plot of the romance, a plot the thread of which, if we may so express it, has been carefully and dex terously woven into the meshes of history. The result of Mr. Ainsworth's art in so weaving it, being in effect that in The Constable of the Tower we have as it were a gorgeous specimen from his practised hand of the tapestry of historico-romantic literature. Among the personages whose forms and features are here recognisable are not only the dying monarch and the boy-king his successor, not only the Protector Somerset and his ambitious brother the Admiral, not only the young Princesses (afterwards Queens) Mary and Elizabeth, besides the Queen Dowager, Catherine Parr, but together with these the various personages peopling the Courts of Henry VIII. and Edward Vl.—Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury; Wriothesley, the Lord Chancellor; the Earl of Hertford, the Great Cham berlain; Lord Russell, the Privy Seal; Sir Anthony Brown, the Master of the Horse, and so forth. The Constable appearing as a matter of course, and even of right on his part, as nomi• nally the central figure upon the canvass. Upon the vory threshold of the story, so to speak, the reader's attention is arrested, being held spell-bound thence to the very Finis. " The curtain," says the novelist at the outset, " was about to descend upon one of the most tremendous dramas ever enacted in real life—a drama which those who witnessed it be held with wonder and awe. The sun of royalty, which had scorched all it fell upon by the fierceness of its mid-day beams, was fast sinking into seas lighted up by lurid fires, and deeply stained by blood." Shortly after which comes that terrible picture of the Royal Bluebeard at the close of his evil reign; Harrison Ainsworth depicting the bloated mass of sensuality then called and yet remembered with horror as HENRY VIII. Engendered in his frame by want of exercise, and nourished by gross self-indulgence, disease made rapid fear ful progress. Ere long he had become so corpulent, and his limbs were so much swollen, that he was almost incapable of movement. Such was his weight that machinery had to be employed to raise him or place him in a chair. Doors were widened to allow him passage. He could not repose on a couch, from fear of suffocation ; and unceasing anguish was occasioned by a deep and incurable ulcer in the leg. Terrible was he to behold at this period. Terrible to hear were his cries of rage and pain, which resembled the roar ing of a wild beast. His attendants came nigh him with reluctance and affright, for the slightest inadvertence drew down dreadful imprecations and menaces on their heads. But the lion, though sick to death, was a lion still. While any life was left in him Henry would not abate a jot of the sovereign power he had exercised. Though his body was a mass of disease his faculties were vigorous as ever ; his firmness was unshaken, his will absolute. To the last he was true to himself. Inexorable he had been, and inexor able he remained. His thirst for vengeance was insatiable as ever, while his suspicions were more quickly aroused and sharper than heretofore. But during this season of affliction, vouchsafed him, perhaps, for repentance for his numerous and dire offences, there was no endeavour to re• concile him with man or to make peace with heaven; neither was there any outward manifestation of remorse. The henchmen and pages stationed at the door of his chamber during the long hours of night, and half slumber ing at their posts, with other watchers by his side, were often appalled by the fearful groans of the restless king But these migh t be wr ested from him by p a i n, an d were n proof that conscience pricked him. Not a word escaped his lips to betoken that sleep ~ vf.s scared away by the s pectres of his countless victi ms . What passedthm that dark and inscrutable breast n o man couldteli 1 Several of Mr. Ainsworth's imaginary characters , occasions. How the prediction as to Seymour is at leng th fulfilled, let the subjoined fragment of Mr. Ai tlP worth's resplendent narrative relate : Owing to the precautions taken by the Constable, SE " mour was brought to the scaffold in safety, and when soon afterwards mounted the steps and appeared upon it, tremendous shout arose from the beholders. Hitherto ti l l day had been dull and gloomy, but at that moment a sl i gt burst of sunshine fell upon him, and illumining his 0 1 '1 countenance'rendered him yet more conspicuous to the c i, r t assemblage whose eyes were strained towards him• in his proudest moments had he looked more majestic OP — he did now that he stood upon those fatal boards, nor pf u haps, for one instant, more elated. But the smile w ll ,7 ic t had played upon his features quickly f a d e d a way, es the sunshine that had lighted them up, and left them P"' and rigid-looking as marble. He had been preceded upon the scaffold by the Constable and the Lieutenant, toge thet, with Mauger. By this time Latimer had mounted 617, steps, and stood beside him. No other person was allows upon the scaffold. It had been the Admiral's intention tfo address the crowd, and for this purpose he advanced to wards the front of the scaffold, and, bowing to the bystanders, beg ° to speak; but such a tumult arose, and so many vociferatio n° wereraised, that his words were completely drowned, and b e yielded—though NA ith manifest reluctance—to the Con' stable's entreaties to him to desist. Taking off his cap, he cried in a sonorous voice, that rose loud above the disturb' ante, "Longlive King Edward I" The shout was receive(' with acclamations, followed by fresh groans and hooting against the Lord Protector. Latimer then approached hire , and asked if he sincerely repented his sins and placed hie hope in the Saviour. But Seymour scarcely heeding biv a ; and anxious, as it seemed, to get done with the scene, calls fiercely to the executioner to make haste, and throwing ° lf his gown, revealed a figure which, for symmetry, was 1111 ' rivalled. Again Latimer approached him, and was ag ar repulsed. Seymour then knelt down, and deep silence felt upon the multitude. His prayers, which did not occ ulV l many minutes, being ended, he signed to Mauger that he was ready. Then approaching the block he knelt , dc 4 beside it, took the broidered handkerchief sent him vi a Elizabeth from his doublet, pressed his lips to it, an fastened it over his eyes. At this moment Latimer v, vanced and cried out in his ear, " Repent 1" " AwaY,, !is cried the Admiral, "you distract me !" He then lai d comely neck upon the block, and the axe descended. T 1111 4,,, perished the guilty and aspiring Seymour. According '7, Latimer, he died "very dangerously, irksomely, horriblYit Others, however, judged him more charitably, and ti lcn/g he made a bravo ending. e And we certainly cannot but recognise the j usti •c of that comment pronounced upon this tragic te.; mination to the life of Seymour, that impres sl and judicial comment of the National Histo ric ; —" This tragedy has left a deep stain upon the mory of Somerset and Latimer. Somerset sa cr i , ficed a brother to ward off th e d anger o f a rill' f : Latimer prostituted his holy office to sanctifi, deed of cruelty and injustice." As contrasting Pifer tures to the foregoing and to themselves, we give by way of final quotations —passages descriptl 0 of Seymour's last love scone ( a t once a love st ea d and a death scene) with Queen Catherine; after it in rapid sequence, frightfully rapid as t` lo incident came itself, one of Seymour's many 1° scenes with the Princess Elizabeth. Here CATHERINE'S DEATHBED. " Have you any further injunctions for me, Catherine r inquired Seymour. n o' "Only this," she replied. "Be kind to the little „I cent I have so lately brought into the world, I do 11 ‘ . think it will live long to trouble you." r "While I am spared to watch ov er it, it shall neon, want a father's love. But you indulge in sad forebodieeb Catherine, none of which, I trust, will be realised. kle,fe .n better heart in regard to yours e lf. Y ou are no t so e'" gerously ill as you suppose." " All is well-nigh over with me, Seymour," she gr ek ' ile d " Give me your hand. Mine has been a wretched lifet;fot I am not sorry it draws to a close. V a i n ly h ave I look eu happiness in the married state—in e ac h i ns t a nce I , ll.t ip been disappointed, but in none s o d ee ply, an d so w e ' . ,, u o ro as in the last. The disappointment has be en a ll the Rj ef o bitter because I expected so much. Wh o wo uld ll e e r that one so richly graced in mind and body as 9 °ll , ir ' mour, could be so faithl e s s , s o cruel ? E ve n 11 " -- tyranny has been less terrible than yours." clP# " What have I done, Catherine ? ' • cried &yule bractedly. " What have I done ?" 4 "You have kill e d me ," s h e replied, raisin.. herself -- boas last effort, and fixing her eyes upon hi m , "if ° no t by p al s° by unkidness." " Oh ! n unsay your words, Catherine,' , he "Recal that dreadful accusation." 1 .04 0 But it was out of her power to recal it. The fierce e3` that burnt for a moment in her eyes became suddel i n e tlif tinct—the hue of her features changed to that a u e- o py and with a groan she sank backwards. The 111111i4 queen's troubles were over. be With a loud cry Seymour flung himself on his loleeo side her, and, clasping her hand, cried in a 10 101- r voice, " Look down upon me, C a th er i ne, and f or e° ni ,i e tbe His grief was real. His nature was not all evil, good within was for the moment touched. A P re " ce i keenest self-repr u ach, if i t had been in his powe._e r te; e ol his unhappy wife t o ex i stence, at that moment n haved e - r e e i o n n e horridos.H contrast is the love scene between SEY - lOU R AND ELIZABETH. Elizabeth was then residing at Hatfield, an d ° clo about a mont h after his return to town, the Adm irt " A - 0 1° attended only by U go . Hi s v i s it was no t unespect;::, re' princess having b een prepare d f or it by a letter. '' - ou toe ceived him very graciously, and after some little dine Mistress Ashley, by whom she was attended, discr t he withdrew. No sooner were they alone together theil a nd Admiral, flinging himself on his knees before he r : i A te seizing her hand, exclaimed, in passionate tones, ie to come to claim you, Elizabeth. There is now no obstaleovea, our union. The bar that stood between us is ren ,t You will be mine—mine !" lord' " Not clandestinely, as you propose in your letter, m 9 she rejoined. " I will never consent to secret rolP t o such as took place between you and the queen . On am decided, so you will strive in vain to move me. o ur , "Your decision amounts to a refusal," cried SeY ra wei " Were I to d e mand your hand formally in 13 ' 3° 0 1 the neither the Lord Protector, nor the Council, n or c ase King, your brother, would consent. Such an r o would be madness, and would effectually frustrate ouviooi ject. You kayo often told me you hoped the time the occurrences related in " The Constable" are supposed to take place. As we took occasion to remark some few months back, while the story was in the midst of its periodical appearance in the pages of Bentley's Miscellany, the titie of the narrative appears to us to be somewhat of a misnomer. For, interesting though the character of bluff Sir John Gage (the Constable of the Tower) is undoubtedly in itself—it is altogether subordinate to many other characters introduced upon the scene: the hero of the Romance being, beyond all ques tion, that most alluring and admirable study for a Romancist—the handsome, gifted, daring, ambi tious Sir Thomas Seymour ! Afterwards Baron Seymour of Sudeley, Lord High Admiral of Eng land, husband of Henry the Eighth's widow, Catherine (Parr) the Queen Dowager, the favou rite uncle of King Edward VI,, the aspirant to the Protectorship, the affianced lover of the fair young Princess—afterwards our great Queen — Elizabeth ! The marvel is that until now Sey mour has never been chosen as the hero of an English Historical Romance. Chosen as such, however, he has been at length in these enthralling Five Books of The Constable of the Tower, a work that might more literally have been designated The Lord High Admiral of Eng• land. Designate it how we may, however, the his toric romance of" The Constable'' with its veritable hero " The Admiral," are here before us—invested, each of them, with a not very easily resistible fascination. Although Mr.Ainsworth has evidenced by the mere selection of that personage a certain partiality for all that is noble or better in the ex traordinary character of Lord Seymour, he has de lineated the character and described the career of that adventurer's intrigue with a candour strangely dispassionate. Here, in these pages, of which Sey mour is the glory and the boast, it is impossible to recognise anything whatever of that unconscious infatuation growing up almost unawares in the mind of almost every historian or biographer who dilates upon one favourite character selected from the throng of our bygone fellow-men—that unconscious, or at any rate only half conscious infatuation ad mirably well defined by Lord Macaulay (who un wittingly, by the way, evidenced exactly the same "disease of admiration" in the instance of his own chosen demi-god King William III.), as the lees Bos tvelliana. Nothing whatever of this same disease of admiration is displayed anywherethrough these three volumes of his historical romance of "The Constable" by Mr. Ainsworth, when treating of the ambition and the enterprise, the rise and the downfall, the daring loves and the lamentable death of Seymour the Admiral. " Arrogant, assuming, and implac able—a man of insatiable ambition ;" those are the expressions of Hume. To Seymour might be applied many of those marvellous words in whieh the master hand of Sallust has touched off to the very life the nature, the genius, the character of Lucius Cataline. Might we not remark, in truth, of Sey mour, as Sallust observes in the immortal words, in regard to Cataline :—" Nobili genere natus, fuit magna vi et animi et corporis, sed ingenio malo pravoque. . . . . Animus audax, subdolus, familiar now for many years past in the popu lar remembrance, reappear upon the scene, and move with their familiar air among the numerous historic personages introduced: conspicuous among these creations being Og, Gog, and Magog, the the giant Warders of the Tower, and with them little Xit, their dwarf companion. Here is a nother whose grimly features will be at once recognised: MAIJOER, TEIR HEADSMAN. The upper part of his frame was strongly, though not stoutly built, the arms being remarkably muscular, but his . lower limbs were less powerful, and he seemed to be halt et the right leg. His physiognomy was singularly repulsive., the nose being bro a d an d flat, and the eyes fierce an d blood - shoot ; the forehead bald, and the hue of the skin dull and earthy. His cheeks were clothed with a shaggy big beard, and the sable locks left on either side of his head , were wild and unkempt. His habiliments were of red serge, but above his doublet he wore a leathern j erkin/ which was sullied with dark stains, as if of gore. On his right hip he carried a broad two-edged knife, protec ted by a sheath. But the implement that proclaimed his revolt ing, office was an executioner's axe. This he had n ot the grace to lay aside, but continued to lean upon it while sioci ing before the King. Another axe, similar in sire d form, was reared against the wall, and near it stood a ° ye. handed sword, sometimes, though but rarely, employ ed in capital punishment. When the headsman arose, it ins tantlY became apparent that the seat he had occupied was block—and, moreover, that it was a block which had frequently used. Manger, boasting the possession of a rais tic power by means of which he can predict fro m a man's face whether his head shall fall by the hand of the executioner, the following scene ell sues, a scene thus vividly described : " I will go at first, having neither f e ar nor faith," s ay fi the Constable. And he did as Manger had directed. After looking fixedly at him for a moment, the executioner W. served with a grim smile, " your head will never be ratt le ' Sir John." " I never deemed it would, thou fell hound; replied the Constable, turning away. " I will make t he next assay," said Sir Thomas Seymour, stepping forward, and placing his foot gr ace f u lly on the block. T he A headsman fixed his eyes keenly on hi m f or a moment, al l ' then struck the flag with his axe. A hollow ani ominous sound was returned by the atone, as if the repose of tit e dead had been disturbed. " That signifie s th a t thou a r ; to handle me on the scaffold, thou vile caitiff —ha ?" Gr ie : Seymour, with a contemptuous laugh. "My nerves (41. ; unshaken. Does your highness hesitate ?" he add ed ' turning to the Lord Protector. " Not I, forsooth," re ' turned Hertford, taking his place. " I have no morel: 0 ; giving than yourself." " Desist, I pray your highness. like it not," cried Edward. " Nay, I must needs disob e Y your grace, or my brother will say I am afraid," return Hertford. " That shall I, and think so too," cried Ser . mour. " I pray your highness look me straight in the face," said Manger . And as the Lord Protector complied he again struck the stone with his axe, occasioning th : same hollow resonance as before. " Soh I your hightl ee ' is likewise doomed I" exclaimed Sir Thomas Seyras tir ' with a laugh. "It would appear so," rejoined Hertforw with a forced smile. " Let me see what my destiny 1 1 l be," said Lord Lisle, advancing, And, setting his c ° , on the block, he gazed with exceeding sternness at headsman, hoping to terrify him. Mauger, however, ul f not quail before the look, but, after a brief s crutiny e ; the other's countenance, again smote the stone with 11 fatal axe. This time the sound proceeding from tb° flag was deeper and more awful than on the precedhl° ,~:~ I