The Sun. — London, England, 1856-09-30 00:00:00

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The sales were 12,000 bales, 1,000 for export, and, 3,000 on speculation, and in addition to Americans, 270 Pernam and Marauham, at Gid. to 7d. ; 400 Bahia, at Gid. to Old. ; 500 Egyptian, at 7d. to Bid. ; 1,200 Surat, at 415 d. to Sid. ; and 50 Sea Islands, at Is. to ls. 2id. per lb. The Railway Share Market was quiet, and prices were a shade lower than on Saturday last. The Paris commercial report states that the great event of the past week has been the raising of the rate of discount by the Bank of France. This measure has been adopted at a period when trade is dull, and the warehouses are about laying in their supplies for the winter season ; and is con sidered a fresh obstacle to a favourable return of business. The resolution of the Bank has been determined upon in consequence of the great ope rations in silk, and the speculations in gold and silver. Business amongst the manufacturers has been very quiet during the week, and chiefly caused by the monetary crisis on the Bourse. The warehouses have commenced to make purchases to meet their wants for the ensuing season. The same causes which have depressed the home trade have checked commerce with foreign countries. Germany sends very few. .commissions, and the pur chases made on French account are required to be paid for in silver. Large sums have also been sent from Marseilles to the Sea of Azoff in payment for the wheat brought from thence. On the other hand new orders have arrived from America, in consequence of the improvement in trade at NO7/ 'York and Orleans, and the easy state of the money market. The demand for merchandise for export to the Brazils and other states in South America is regular, and manufactures especially prepared for these countries command a high price in the market. The inquiry for discount accommodation at the Bank of England is described as being excessive. This additional pressure has of course arisen from the expectation that the minimum rate of discount will be raised on Thursday to 5 if not 5i per cent. A confident impression seems to prevail that an increase of I per cent. would be comparatively use less, and be quite insufficient to check the demand for discounts. The effect of either mea sure, however, has already been anticipated, and in the existing state of affairs it is generally admitted that the extreme course would be the most expe dient. Already the value of money in Lombard street is 5 per cent., even on the best descriptions of paper, and the tendency is still upwards. All hope of an early improvement in monetary affairs, both at home, in France, and throughout the Ger man States, is therefore abandoned, and although few predict a crisis, there is, nevertheless, a well founded impression that the prevailing stringency will be prolonged for some months. At Paris money is very scarce and trade depressed, while the Bourse continues in an exceedingly heavy con dition. The letters daily received speak in very gloomy terms of the future.. This, however, is always the case when business is dull and prices are declining. There has latterly been a singular absence of gold remittances from Australia, but the Champion of the Seas and several other vessels with large quantities of treasure are now overdue, and may be hourly expected. Their arrival at this period, when the money market is so unsettled,, would be very opportune. _ _ _ Her Majesty's ship Ilighflyer, for the East Indies, will take out, it is said, 80,0001. to the Cape of Good Hope. The amount on board the Emine, for the Peninsula, is 26,550/. The Funds ar• now about 1 per cent. lower than at the official close of business yesterday, with a very feeble appearance. An unpleasant feeling prevails with reference to Italian politics, but the chief cause of the declinA thin further fall in the Rentes at Paris. Consols for money were 92k, and afterwards 91i ; while for 4 account they were 92h 1, and 91 92. They are now 91i for the former, and 91i 92k for the latter, being firmer. Exchequer Bills have sunk to 7s. to 10s. premium, and the Bonds were 991. East India Bonds are marked 83. premium. Foreign Stocks are also lower, but the dealings are limited. Turkish 0 per Cents. are down to 98f and 99, and the 4 per Cents. to moi i. Spa nish Threes are 42 ; Portuguese Threes, 42f ; and Mexican 22t. Russian 4f per Cents. have been 95f to 90. _ _ The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks : Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 to 71 ; Mexican, 21i to 22 ; Peruvian, 76 to 78 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 56 to 58 ; Portugueso 3 per Cents., 42 to 44 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 106 to 108 ; ditto 41 per Cents., 95 to 97 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 41 42} ; ditto Deferred, 23i 24 ; ditto Certificates, bf ; ditto Passive, 61 I. The English Railway Shares are all depressed, being on the average 10s. to IZ. lower than yester day. Great Northern, however, form an excep tion, having been firm. About an average amount of business has been done. French and other foreign shares, in which there has been very little movement of late, have all decidedly fallen in consequence of the depressed state of the continental bourses and money markets. Northern of France have dropped , Paris and. Lyons 4, and Great Luxembourg to 4. The Canadian also rule at reduced quota tions. Joint-stock banks are generally quoted a trifle lower, but the Bank of Egypt are firm. Canada Land shares have recovered 21. to 31. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. (From the Official List: . Resin... done. S per Cent. Consols Annuities 921 2 1i 2 Indig Bonds. £lOOO .......... Ditto, under £lOOO 8 p ..-.. Consols /or Account ' ..,.' Ezahoquer Bills, 21d. ~., 21000 2580 7 10 p ft: ' Small • 7lO p Ditto Bonds, 1858, 31 per Cent. — .40-• Ditto. 1859 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. - . Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account - ' Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 Ditto 1853, 3 per Cout — 41 31 Ditto Account Russian Bonds, 1822, i: St., 5 per Cent 1065 Ditto 4i per Cent. 96 51 SpanisL Isoads, a per Cent ... ............ Ditto Account 42 Taritith ,i,ouds, 6 per cent 99 S Ditto Account nitto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Ditto Account Doncoo-n , on the above payable In London. Franch Routes, 41 per Cent. Ditto 3 per Cent. .. Dutch Exchange, 21 per Con';., 12 Guilders Litt° 4 per Cent. Certificates 96 THREE O'CLOCK. Console, money 92i A Ditto for Account, Oct. 8 92s 1 The directors of the Crystal Palace Company announce that " pending the verification of the share register now in progress, the issue of the dividend warrants on the ordinary shares is necessarily suspended." THE TELEGRAPH IN THE NORTH.—The Electric Telegraph Company entertain the idea of extending their wires to the north, altogether independent of the extension of the railway. A favourable idea is the pro longation of the electric t4:legraph along the sea coast. The company are prepared to extend their communica tion along the coast as far as the Orkney Islands, pro vided an annual income of 2,0001. can be guaranteed to them for a certain number of years. --AberdeenHerald. THE ART TREASURES EXHIBITION.—To the het of contributors we have already given we have the pleasure to add the noble name of Salisbury. The marquis has given the Manchester committee carte blanche in select ing from his pictures at Hatfield. The first instance we have heard of refusal to the application of the committee is from General Wyndham. This is to be regretted. for few collections equal Petworth in genuine Holbeins ; it is also rich in specimens of the English school, and contains several of the chefs d'ceuvre of Vandyke. KOSSUTH'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND. —We have already announced the approaching visit of M. Kossuth to Edin burgh, for the purpose of delivering a lecture to the working classes, in compliance with an invitatio 4 signed by 1,500 woreieg men, which his feeble health prevented him from accepting when here formerly. We learn that on this occasion M. Kossuth will also lecture in Dundee, Montrose, Kelso, Jedburgh, Dumfries, Ayr, Hamilton, and Lanark, from all of which he has received nume rously signed requisitions. I'ELAI:ID. the General and staff re-assembled on the parede.groued, and inspected the let, 2d, 31, and 4th battalions, which had been drawn up for the occaeion in divisions, under the various colonels cemmeuding. The General mi nutely inspected the eccontretuent4, aed carefully elite voyed the regimental necesariee, for which purpose, in Lis progress down the lines, he occasionally ordered a man for Nerd to unpack his kit, which he examined. Tee inspection of the 6th, 7cle S be 9th. and 10th battalions is to take place to-day ; the 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th to-morrow ; and the hooks and accounts, &c., on the following days of the week. The regimental music, which is daily performed on the enclosure facing the Artillery Barracks at Woolwich, is ordered to play from 4 to d during the winter season, the weather permitting. Mejor Boothty's compeny of the 6th Battalion Royal Artiliery, Brevet-LieuteCoh Ady's company of the 9th Battalion, and Captain Colclough's company cf the Ist Battalion, are under orders to proceed to Leland to morrow from Woolwich. Major Boothbv's eolipany con siete of 20 non-commissioned officers, 100 guunels, and 2 tiuminters. The other two companies have a similar number, with the exception of 16 instead of 20 non commissioned ufficers. Capt. Colclough'e company will relieve others ordered to return to headquarters at Woolwich. 1 non.conitn;ssioned office, and 10 gunners of the Ist battalion Royal Artillery ; 19 gunners of the b%h battalion, 10 gunuere of the Gth battalion, and 1 non commissioned officer and 3 gunners of the 7th battalion, are to proceed from headquarters, Woolwich, on the 17th and 27th October, to fill up vacancies at Gibraltar. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Commander E. W. Tumour, to the Raleigh ; Commander Joseph Edye to the Colossus ; E. T. 11. Buyer, naval cadet, to the Colossus. AYTOUN'S NEW POEM. DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING. MR. SMITH O'BRIEN. Bothwell,. A Poem, an six Parts. By W. Edmon stoune Aytonn, D C.L. Blackwood and Sons. The Limerick papers of Saturday announce the death, on that morning, of the Dowager Lady O'Brien, mother of the present Lord Inchiquin and Mr. W. Smith O'Brien. By this event the latter gentleman obtains an increase to his income from the family property of about 3,0001. per annum, the deceased lady having enjoyed a life interest to that amount in the Cahirmoyle estaie, and which was strictly settled on Mr. Smith O'Brien and his heirs after her dernise. A spirit stirring, Scottish, hist.orical ballad•poem that would have gladdaried the eyes of eld. Sir Walter Scott, and have. muvt'l tie heart of young Sir Philip Sidney as with the sound of a trumpet —Bothwell will sustain, without in any appreciable degree enhancing Professor Aytouti?-s reputation. As a whole, it is worthy of him—yet in no way be yond, even if it really equal what his master-hand has already accomplished. And what that hand has accomplished the lovers of pathos and frolic, of impassioned eloquence and of satiric acrimony, know lull well, and knowing appreciate even to the extent of a wide-spread and mmiFee toil admiration. Hence the popularity secured to his various pro ductions almost immediately upon their successive appearance. Hence the gay triumph won for his Book of Ballads, by that arch-wag of wags, Bon Gaultier ! Hence the contagious peals of laughter provoked (in that name of seriocomic particularity, the name of T. Percy Jones) by the spasmodic tragedy of Firmilian ! Hence the rapid pas sage through nine large, and some of them costly, editions of what still remains William Edmonstonne Aytoun's most remarkable contribu tion—simultaneously to our poetical, and historical, and imaginative literature—his fervid, earnest, inspiriting national lyrics, the Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers. Another, and more elaborated pa triotic ballad, coming within the same category, a new Lay of one of the more fierce and daring, and at the same time one of the more execrably base and blood-stained Cavaliers of Scotland, is this " Poem, in Six Parts"—commemorative of Both well—the infamous James, Earl of Bothwell, who, as third husband of the beautiful and unfortunate Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (partner of her throne by the brute force of a lawless conspiracy), was (strange to tell) at once a Rebel and a Sovereign I Throughout the Poem, as the Author remarks in the course of his brief but sufficient Preface, ho has not once deviated,. he tells us, from what be con siders to be the historical truth. In corroboration of which fact a variety of valuable and interesting Notes are (according to Professor Aytoun's wont) appended. By one ,of the most succinct and curious of which notes the reader is reminded very vividly of the astonishingly rapid sequences of the principal events in the romantic history of Mary Queen of Scots. Beginning with her marriage with the Dauphin, on the 24th of April, 1558, and ending with her incarceration in Loch leven ou the 15th of June, 1567. Nine years, crowded with so many joys and sorrows, with so much splendour and abjection, with so many tragic events and pathetic vicissitudes Married, as we have seen, on the 24th of April, 1558, to the Dauphin, Mary was espoused on the 27th of July, 1565, to Darnley, and on the 15th of May, 1567, wedded in terror and anguish to the remorseless Bothwell. Remaining in the first in terval a widow scarcely five years, her royal hus band, Francis 11., leaving expired prematurely on the sth of December, 1560 ; and in the second in terval wearing the weeds little more than three months, Henry Darnley having been barbarously murdered on the 10th of February, 1567, by the horrible Gunpowder Plot of Kirk-o'-Fields. In reference to which deed of darkness it should never be forgotten by those who cherish so much fana tical bigotry in connection with the grim remem brances associated with the sth of November— that that conspiracy was a projected vengeance for a crime not only projected but actually accom plished in the previous century ! Darnley, the father of James I. of England and VI. of Scotland, having really fallen the victim of the Gunpowder Plot of Protestant conspirators, as his son was after wards nearly falling a victim to the Gunpowder Plot of Roman Catholic conspirators. The one, a dark deed absolutely accomplished; the other a darkdeed projected, but never accomplished. Remembering whivh it seems scarcely just that sectarian animosi ties should be still sedulously and rancorously kept alive in regard to the co-religionists of intending criminals—while the actual criminals of an earlier generation are abandoned wholly to the damning Nemesis of History alone, without being recalled periodically to popular remembrance and execration by the sour-flavotred prayers of an implacable and scurrillous anniversary. There has often been a talk of our sweeping away by legislative enactment that portion of the Church-service relating to the sth of November. Nevertheless, it still remains— glorified by the squibs and crackers of our ingeni ous street urchins ; as much the idol of the zealot as to the small London boy is the ragged old Guy annually borne from house to house upon a rush bottomed chair. However, to return to Professor Aytoun's Poem from this incident/4i episode °feral clam in reference to whet-:e-shat poem of his he has so admirably described, namel', the real Gunpowder Plot, the realised plot of James Bothwell, and not the merely projected plot of Guido Fawkes—it is especially worthy of notice by the readers of this stirring ballad, that it portrays the third husband of • Mary as he really was, accord ing to the most creditable witnesses (Harries, for example, and Throckinorton), with all his crimes unglozed, with all his daring, his ambition, and his remorse. Extending over "Six Parts" though it does, the whole poem (220 pages 8vo.) is nothing less than a Monologue ! Bothwell himself loquitur throughout. The scene from first to last, lying in his dungeon* in the Castle of Malmoe, in Denmark ! So that poring over these extended verses, the reader of the "Six Parts" of this La mentation might be half-tempted to ask with the voluble and bewailing Earl— " Is it the dripping of the roof, Or plunging of the sea, That thus infects me with the weight Of ttreir monotony ?" (p. 21)— might be half-tempted to ask, we say, but that the nervous eloquence, the pathos, the passion, the verve, we might almost add at times the cestrum or afflatus of the poet, carries us onward un weariedly and eagerly to the final couplet, upon the stropg current of his enthusiasm bearing up, so to speak, the ample pinions of his imagination. From the dungeon of Malmoe Castle, as from a watch-tower, we look back with the imprisoned and despairing Bothwell upon the salient points of his fierce and desperate career. The incidents being enacted all over again, so to say, under the lurid glare of his remorseful memory. How distinctly, how vividly, how picturesquely—let the poem itself declare, in accents (some of them) " the world will not willingly let die." The recol lections of Bothwell coming, ever more and more wildly to us, to the accompaniment of the dia pason of the ocean washing ever and ever around the walls of his Danish dungeon. Au accompani ment audible from the first when we hear— " With thundering hurl, the angry sea Smite on the crags below." Audible, as audible to the last as when the Cap tive Earl howls to the eagle flying over the storm , tossed vessel— " Down with thy pinion on the mast, Scream louder in the air, And stifle in the wallowing sea The shrieks of their despair." Admirable as the poem is as a work of art, when examined piecemeal we cannot but regard it, in its main design, as—a mistake. It is by an error of judgment, we conceive, that the speaker in Aytoun's Bothwell (as very recently in Tenny son's Maud) is a madman—a maniac with lucid intervals ! A rhetorical lunatic, no doubt of it— but still, when all is said and done, a lunatic, whe ther rendered so by despair, or remorse, or an guish, or horror, it matters nothing. Perhaps for this very reason our author may be held the less responsible for plagiarisms resulting from a griev ous disorder of the memory—au error in Both well's instance, howbeit, which magnifies a molehill into a mountain : changing plagiarisms as such into anachronisms of portentous magnitude. To say nothing of the Scottish Earl's memento of his first worship of the young and lovely Queen of Scots, reminding one so vividly of Pope's celebration of Belinda's cross, as one— " That Jews might kiss and infidels adore." What shall we say of that reminiscence from the Poet-Laureate t " With rapiers drawn and pistols bent, They seize their wretched prey ; They wrenched her garments from his grasp, They stabbed him where he lay."—Bothwell. " They should have stabbed me where I lay, Oriana ! How could I rise and come away, Oriana ! How could I look upon the day t They should have stabbed me where I lay, Oriana! They should have trod me into e a y, Oriana 1 "—Oriana. Again, passing by as, comparatively speaking, un worthy of particular notice that mention of Christ mas— " Full many a hearth is decked to-night, To bail the blessed worn, On which, in ages long ago, The Saviour child was born."—Bothwell — So " wondrous like" poor Gerald Griffin's lyrio upon the same sacred festival, beginning— " The Christmas light is burning bright In many a village pane, * A dungeon, by the way, in which, while Bothwell bewails his eternal separation from his old castle-home, " The Hermitage," he can find no solace in the thought sung so exquisitely in an after age by the poet Lovelace [will Professor Aytoun forgive the punning quotation?]— " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage." TITE SUN, LOWOONT, TUESDAY PITITNTING SEFTENCTIER 30 % 1145 R. Anti many a cottage rings to•night With many a merry *.train : Young boys and gir:s run laughing by, Their hearts and eyPs elate ; I eau hut think on mine and pig", For I am desolate," What shall we • say of that (cloubtleii unwitting) recollection of Burns ? "They NI .ge at will the m - tintnin pathg, They the falcon cry ; And here, within a loathly cell, A fettered slave am I."—/logervell. "The gowan blooms upon the hill, the primrose by the brae ; The hawthorn's budding in the glen and ni , lk white is the slae ; The meanest hind in a' Scotland may rove thy sweeti artiativ. But I, tl►e of a' Sootland, tomtit lie in !nisi)» strAt,g."----Buyns, What of that other transcript from the Laureate 7 " toll 1111/ of for hreali Oh hi ter leAr3 'the shed, Of the sad cry st►e misel to lio.iven,_ g God ! that I were dead !'"- -Bothwell. As everybody knows—literally the refrain of Mr. Tennyson's Marianna in the gloated Grange. Precisely as that other passage— " Ring on, ye bells ! Let others throng, &e. Ring ou tor them! I hear you well, tiz,:!." —Bothwell. is but the reiteration of the dulciauous and well remembered " Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky ! Ring out the old, ring in the now I Ring out the false, ring in the true, &c." —ln Memoriam, Precisely, too, as that outburst in Bothwell, "By heaven it was a glorious sight," &c., ilia the dim echo of " But, oh 'twas a glorious sight to see The charge of the Coristian chivalry !" What most amaze us, however, among these evi dently unconscious transcripts by Professor Aytoun are the two hereafter particularised, one from Scott, the other from Byron. To wit— " 0, never rest your faith on worth• ' Pens are for priests ; trust nought but swords." —Bothwell. "Let women, Edward, war with words, With curses monks, but men with swords." —Sir IValter. And, to crown all— " There is a peak of guilt so high That those who reach it stand above The sweep of dull humanity, The trail of passion and of love. The lower clouds that dim the heavens T,uch not the ni,untain's hoary crown, ' And on the summit, thunder-riven, God's lightning only smites them down !" —Bothwell. " He who ascends to mountain-tops will find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below, Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocsan spread, Round him are icy rocks, and keenly blow Contending tempests round his naked head : And thus reward the toils which to those summits lead." —Oltilde Harold. As Lord Byron himself, however, used jocosely to contend when subjected to similar accusations— plagiarisms are proofs positive, first of all, of a man's extensive reading, and, secondly, of his re tentive memory ! Apart from all such casual evi dences of either of these enviable capacities on the part of Professor Aytoun, Bothwell abounds, hardly less than the Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, with tokens of those many rare intellectual powers which in their peculiar and forceful combination constitute our author's distinguishing characteris tic. That characteristic of poetic fire, energy, en thusiasm, or impulsiveness, which tends to associate his genius in our minds with those of a Tyrtgeus or a Campbell. It is the conspicuous charm of his heroic song—that deep, sad, earnest passion which seems to throb in its very rhythm, and to vibrate in the manly and sonorous rhyme marking the measure of each musical cadence. Throughout the whole of this laboriously-sustained. monologue, Bothwell, sooth to say, is the not unbefitting exponent of that lyric enthusiasm which is, so to speak, the origin of the dynamic force, of the hidden motive power setting in play Professor Aytoun's imagination. Whether the lawless cap tive is listening awe-fully while— " . the midnight chimes proclaim The hallowed season come, When Heaven's broad gates are opened wide, And Hell's loud roar is dumb." Or remembers with scornful indignation how it came to pass that Darnley neglected his beautiful Queen for Queans far less beautiful— " Left her, with base unmanly threat, Alone to weep and pine ; Tiya• Infer* hie in hArlOtsr And hiccup o'er his wine." Whether at another moment lie is muttering to himself, as it were, with ground teeth and flashing eyes— fap~, " If laggard laws delay redress For insult or for wrong, There is no arbiter like steel So ready and so strong ;" Or in the wild, imaginary anticipation of the dread thunder-blast that blew old Kirk-o'-Fields ruin he marvels to himself among the revels of Holyrood on the night of Darnley's murder— " What, if that Babel should be stilled, Struck dumb by one tremendous knell, What, if the air above were filled With clanging from the clocks of hell 1 It is ever in accents resounding and energetic that Aytouu breathes the whole fervour of his fancy through the lips of Bothwell. Very seldom, indeed, does it happen through the whole protracted length of the Six Parts of this extended Monologue that the prevailing energy drops down into the bathos of a puling anti-climax, as (Part v., s. xii.), where the rebel earl exclaims— " 0 wretch to fashion such a lie ! 0 slave to ruin one so fair 1 0 false to faith and chivalry 0 villain,. well may I despair !" As seldom as the lines halt through the casualty of a careless scanning, as when (twice in the poem) the rival Queen of England is spoken of with no regard at all to the exigencies of her polysyllabic name-of-fame : ex. gr. : " And fiercely blazed Elizab th's wrath Against the lneklei•is pair, &c." No I—verve and verse for the most part through out the whole poem are, with these rare exceptions, entitled to all but unconditional commendation. The noblest passages in the production, to our thinking, being those de scriptive successively of the assassinations of Riccio and Darnley, of the abduction of Mary to Dunbar, and, above all, of the memorable duel in the Billhope glen between the Warden of the Marches (Bothwell), and that sturdiest of all his foes, John Elliot, of the Park. One after another each of those foes of his, we are told, fell before the Warden of the Marches—Whitehaugh and Mangerton, Johnstone and Armstrong-- I had them all, but only one, John Elliot, of the Park, As stalwart and 9,3 bold a man As ever rode by dark. I sought him far, I sought him near, He bail id all my men ; At last I met him face to face, Within the Billhope glen. Short parley passed between us twain— " Thou art the Warden 1" " Ay.! Thou, Elliot. of the Park 1" . " I am." " Wilt yield thee 1" "Come and try !" We lighted down from off our steeds, We tied them to a tree ; The sun was sinking in the west, And all alone were we. Out flew the steel ; and then began A sharp and desperate strife. For Elliot fought to 'scape the cord, I fought for fame and life. Ha, ha I were he alive again And on this dungeon floor, What joy with such a man as that To cross the sword once more ! The blows he fetched were stark and strong, And so were mine, I ween, Until I cleft his head-piece through, And stretched him on the green. " Wilt yield thee now 1" " I will not yield But an'ye promise grace." "That must you ask upon your knee Before your Sovereign's face." Blinded with blood he struggled up— " Lord Earl I" he said, " beware ! No man shall take me living yet ; Now follow, if you dare !' I slipped upon the broken moss ; And in the sheugh we rolled, Death-grappling, silent, heaving each Within the other's hold. He passed above me and I felt— Once—twice—his dagger drive ; But mine went deeper through his'breast-- I rose but half alive ! All spun around me—trees and hilbl— A mist appeared to rise ; Yet one thing saw I clearly yet Before my fading eyes : Not half a rood beyond the burn, A man lay stiff and stark ; I knew it was my stubborn foe, John Elliot, of the Park. • I strove in vain to sound my horn, No further strength bad I ; And reeling in that lonely glen I fell—but not to die. A descriptive passage, that, worthy of the harp, the hand, the voice, whence came the glorious and inspiriting Lays of the Scottish Cavalif ;rs:. Verses, those, having the true " ring" in. th em—full of heroic passion, and of a charm strwagely- and .tkildly picturesque. Bothwell, let it be observi)d, is briefly but gracefully inscribed by the auth or, " To Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart., M.P.': —to the Peet of King Arthur, to the Satirist of the Nets rimon, to the Rornancist of My tcovel—" In Memory - of a Visit to Holyrood." Blackwood has told the reason why Sir Edward might, in a man ner, have claimed the dedication of the volunie to himself " t.y right"—relating as old Maga has done in the number for last August (p. 223), that upon the occasion of that visit paid together to Holy rood by the Scottish bard and the English novelist, the latter, turning to his companion, said—" Let the world hear the story of Bothwell !" And it leas heard it accordingly—heard it, as it were, from the lips of the recreant hero of the tale him self, through the medium of this impassioned and artistically elaborated Monologue. SKETCHi: OF LI)NDON ACTORS. MR. WI4IBSTER If there is ono (pettily ;thew another for which Mr. Weliiter c.leliritte , l it is that of taking pains. Wu think that he 'is himself aware of his distinguishing excellence, and is proud of it. He has none of that fire of inspiration which, although it may sometimes bring to light hidden beauties, as often hurries an impetuous actor into extra vagances. Ho is, on the contrary, a careful stu dent of the limits by which the capabilities of act ing are bounded. He is liable to under-act rather than over-act a parr.' He would rather miss half a-dozeu excellences than commit a single fault. He is careless about extending his outline, but he is scrupulously watchful as to the filling it up. He is the Mieris or the Jan Steen of actors. His finish is admirable. But then he wants breadth. He never interprets largely, but he always interprets accurately. He sees in a given part all that the ordinary reader sees, and he gives expression to his view of the part in a manner that no ordinary actor could do. And this is all owing to his wonderful power of taking pains, of bring ing to bear upon any given object of study all the' histrionic qualities with which nature has endowed him. He leaves none of his faculties uuworked. He gets one hundred per cent. out of them all. He never, like all common actors, or like many actors of genius, has to reproach himself with hav ing left any portion of his work unfinished. This is a most serviceable and useful peculiarity. By dint of it Mr. Webster has gained, and maintained, a position in public esteem which, although not so lofty or dazzling as that achieved by the public's prime favourites, has yet led to no inconsiderable amount of fame and fortune. By unwearied study and care he has surmounted certain difficulties which would have been insuperable to one of less energy. After years of labour, during which he was constantly rising in his profession, he was en abled to rent, as lessee the house which had made his reputation as an actor. In his farewell address to the audience after the lesseeship of 16 years, he told them that he took the Haymarket without the assistance of a single farthing beyond what he had saved by rigid econnmy out of a very small salary. During that time he said he had paid 20,0001. to authors, and large sums to the theatre and to actors. His, he said, was the longest lesseeship on record. These assertions testify to an extra ordinary amount of energy and determination. It would be difficult to point out characters in Mr. Webster's repertoire which are more distin guished than the rest for those qualities in which be excels. There are some which afford greater capabilities for his talents than others, but owing to the peculiarities to which we have alluded he seldom goes beyond the ordinary average of his acting. In his least as well as his greatest parts he always acts as well as he can act. There are, however, some parts which, from their larger de velopment, are greater favourites with the public, because they make larger appeals to their sympa thies than others. Among these we may mention " Tartuffe." In this play, which only missed at taining the extensive popularity of many of the pieces of the Adelphi on account of its total difference from those pieces in point of construc tion and style—his acting was not to be surpassed. It had, indeezl, none of the animal spirits break ing through the surface of hypocritical reserve which was so remarkable in Dowton's " Dr. Cant well." 'He was the finished, undisturbed hypo crite all through. The perfect varnish of the cha racter was never disturbed by spot or wrinkle. As au actor, acting the part of one who is acting, it was admirable. Cymon Foxall in "The Beggar on Horseback," and Nathan Thompson in " Borough Politics," Dr. 011apod in the Poor Gentleman," the!Laird of Killicrankiein "Queen Mary's Bower," may be all specified as performances in which Mr. Webster allows--no- fraction of an opportunity of making the most of his part to escape him. He does the most perfect _justice to his_author, but *at the same time he never embellishes him. It cannot be said, therefore, that Mr. Webster ever makes a part his own in the sense in which Keeley and Buckstone do this. He never impresses his per sonality on the part. He is content to furnish his audience with a faithful copy of his author's mean ing. He is as accurate as a photographer ;he is sel dom luxuriant, like an artist. With all.this, his delineations are occasionally artistic in a high de gree, and few persons have had to compare him in any particular part with another actor without hav ing to confess that, in taste, exquisite propriety, and correctness, Webster is the superior. His achievements as a manager have been even more remarkable than those as an actor. He conducted the Haymarket triumphantly during 16 years. His career at the Adelphi has been most prosperous. For his success he is in debted to that good taste and fulness of purpose which distinguish his acting. His plays are got up with an attention to detail which must involve im mense labour. No part is neglected, no capabilities amongst the manager's resources are unused. The Adelphi, under Mr. Webster's management, has consequently been the scene of uninterrupted suc cess. To his other merits we may add that Mr. Webster is a liberal patron of matters connected with the drama, and is well versed in dramatic literature. His judgment seldom deceives him.— Daily News. THE FREE LAND GRANTS IN CANADA. The free land grants, which we have noticed in former numbers, are creating much interest in Ca nada ; and, from the numerous applications which we have had, respecting them, we are glad to find they are also attracting considerable attention in England. The terms of settlement, we find, have been slightly altered, and i t is very desirable that it should be extensively known that the former conditions of settlement, on the Hastings, Adding ton and Opeonga Road, which required the appli cant to be a British subject, and produce testimo nials of character, have been rescinded. No secu rity could be given to the agent that the certificate was genuinA, and to confine the grants to persons now subjects of the British Crown would have ex cluded persons who make excellent and enterpris ing settlers, such as Germans, Norwegians, Swedes, and even emigrants from the - United States, many of whom will probably avail themselves if the opening thus afforded. The conditions are as follows : One hundred acres wilt be given to any settler eighteen years old, and having the means of providing for himself until the produce of his land is sufficient to maintain him. The bearer of the certificate must state to the agent his name, age, c ondition, trade, or profession ; whether he is married , and so the name and age of his wife, how many children he has, the name and age of each of them ; where he is from, and whether he is the owner of land elsewhere. The conditions of location are, to take possession within a month, and to put in a state of cultivation at least twelve acres of the land in the course of four years, to build a house (at least 20 by 18 feet) and to reside on the lot until the conditions of set tlement are duly performed ; after which accom plishment only shall the settler have a right to ob tain a title of property. Families comprising several settlers entitled to lands, preferring to re side on a single lot, will be exempted from the obligation of building and of residence (except upon the lot on which they live), proyided that the required clearing of land be made on each lot. The non-accomplishment of these conditions will .lause the immediate loss of the assigned lot of land, which will be sold or given to another. The road having been opened by the government, the settlers are required to keep it in repair.—Cana diata _News. ROYAL BRITISH BANK.—Yesterday the necessary forms were gone through and the various documents signed by Vice-Chancellor Kindersley, and forwarded by epeeist messenger to Bury St. Edmund's, confirming t be appointment by Mr. Edwards, his chief clerk, of carding as interim manager of the affairs of this bank. The interim manager will have to enter into an'li are amount of recognisances as the court may dirlct, and he will also have to find two or more sureties. Now that the order absolute for winding-up the affairs of the bank has been made, none of the assets can be disposed of except by order of the court, and the manager will at once, under the order of the court, call upon all parties to deliver up all books of account, deeds, instruments, easily bills, notes, and papers, in ekudnig " the l i t tle book with the little key," kept by Mr. Cameron, the manager, he court will pro ,ceed to determine what parties T will be entitled to :attend proceedings, and will appoint representatives of eontributories or shareholders, who are entitled to friapect the books and papers free. Criminal proceed ir.gH may be taken for stealing, embezzlement, or mis appropriation, on behalf of the shareholders, by the manager, and a penalty of 1001. may be enforced on any contributory concealing the estate of the company. Creditors will now have to bo called in, and the list of contributories will then be settled. Tin ULSTER BANK. The Belfast journals refer in laudatory terms to the proceedings at the last meeting of the Ulster Banking Company, at which a dividend of 8 per cent. per annum was declared, and a most satisfac tory•report read and adopted. The reserve fund of this establishment now exceeds 43,0001., and its deposits are rapidly increasing, chiefly from the agricultural districts. The maniv4ers and clinks have had a bonus presented to them, in recognition of their unremitting zeal and attention to the inte rests of the bank. The salaries of the directors have also been raised, owing to the increased busi ness now devolving upon them. MURDER AT SPIKE ISLAND. The following statement appears in one of the Dublin papers this morning : " On Friday evening an occurrence took place at the convict depot, Spike Island, which resulted in the death of one of the turnkeys employed on the island, under circumstances of peculiar atrocity. The name of the victim is John Reddy. He was a man of excellent cha racter, had been a long time employed in the service, and has left a widow and family to deplore his loss. Some time since ho had, in the discharge of his duty, to report a convict named Power for misbehaviour, for which punishment was awarded by the governor. This excited feelings of the deepest resentment in the mind of Power, whose vengeance was executed with fatal result on Friday evening. It appears that bet ween seven and eight o'clock, the time for closing the cells having ar rived, Reddy visited all the cells, and among them he inspected that in which Power and two other convicts were located. He was in the act of extinguishing the light, his back being turned to the convicts, when Power came behind him, and with a piece of iron, a portion of his bedstead, struck the unfortunate man a violent blow on the head. Reddy staggered and fell, bleeding pro fusely. The blow had fractured the skull, and life would, even were no other blow struck, have soon been extinct. While the victim was lying on the ground, another convict, a man named Norris, is stated to have come over and struck him. Before any assistance could arrive Reddy had breathed his last. The blow inflicted by Power bad fractured the skull immediately above the ear, and had nearly severed the ear from the head. The culprits have been placed under arrest, and are awaiting the result of a coroner's inquest. The chief criminal, Power, belongs to the county Waterford, and was convicted at the last assizes of that county for cattle stealing, and sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. His conduct since his removal to Spike Island depot was very bad, and he is stated to have fre quently uttered threats against the deceased. The coro ner has been written to, but has not yet arrived. Great regret is felt for the deceased. In addition to his posi tion in the depot, he was proprietor of a shop at Queens town, and was much respected in the lcoAlity." Nava] and Military Intelligence. A circular granting compensation to Crimean officers for the passage home of their horses has been issued. The circular states that the Secretary of State for War, having had under consideration the question of granting compensation to officers who were not provided with a free passage for their horses on the return borne of the army from the East, has decided to allow 301. per horse (exclusive of bat animals) In lieu of such free passage, and to cover any loss sustained by staff and regimental officers in disposing of their chargers with reference to the General Order issued on the subject dated Head quarters, Sebastopol, 26th of April last. Certain regu lations are prescribed by the circular, in order that the necessary documents may be forwarded in support of claims for compensation. A circular making considerable alterations and increase in the existing rates of regimental lodgmg-money has been issued to the army by order of the Secretary of State for War. _ . The authorities at the War Department intend making a large addition to the strength of the Royal Sappers and Miners, by the formation of one or more additional companies to this corps. The recruiting for this branch of the service is going on briskly, and several detach ments of recruits have recently joined the head-quarters at Brompton-barracks, Chatham. An order has been received at Chatham garrison from the Horse Guards, directing that the soldiers belonging to the depots of regiments at the Provisional Battalion who were enlisted at the commencement of the late war for a period of two years, and who are not willing to be re-enlisted, are to be forthwith discharged from the ser vice. It is expected that a considerable number of the troops whose period of service has expired will not quit The Riverdale and the Echunga transports arrived at Spithead yesterday with stores from the Crimea. The first named has also on board a quantity of ammunition, shell, &c., and the latter Commander Johnson, of the Transport Service, and men of the Army Works Corps. The Highflyer, 21, screw corvette, Capt. Shadwell, went out of harbour to Spithead yesterday afternoon, and saluted the flag of the Commander-in-Chief, prior to sail ing for the Cape of Good Hope. The Melville, 72, was towed to Cowes from Porti mouth yesterday morning, to be fitted up as a storeship by Messrs White for the East India station. The Flying Fish, 6, screw despatch boat, went out of harbour at Portsmouth yesterday to try her machinery. She averaged about her previous speed. The paddlewheel steam sloop Salamander, 6, Com mander G. T. Mecham, from Cork, arrived at Plymouth on Sunday, with Rear-Admiral of the White Sir H. D. Chads, K.C.8., one of the members of the Court ap pointed to inquire into the conduct of Capt. Superinten dent J. Nies, of the Royal William Victualling yard. His Excellency Musurus Bey, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister from the Court of Constantinople, will, it, is said, pay a visit shortly to the port of Plymouth. The object of the Turkish Ambassador is to transact some public business on board the Payki Zaffir, 104, now ut anchor in the Sound. The steam-corvette Cruiser, 17 guns, Commander Fel lowes, having under her charge the gun-boats Stanch, Haughty, and Forester, for the East Indies, put into Falmouth on Friday with very strong contrary winds and bad weather, to await a favourable opportunity of getting to the southward, as none of them are using their steam power for the present. The Dee steamer, Master Commander Pullen, left Falmouth on Saturday for the eastward. The Colossus, 81, screw, Captain Thompson, is pre paring to sail immediately for the Mediterranean. The Powerful, 84, Captain T. L. Massie, has been ordered to be paid off at Chatham to-morrow, after which she will be placed in ordinary. I'he Racoon, 21, and the Charybdis, 21, two of the new class of screw steam-corvettes, building at Chatham dockyard from designs furnished by Sir Baldwin Walker, C. B. , Surveyor of t he Nav y , are pr easing very rapidly, an d a re expected to be ready for launching early next year. The Cadmus, 21, the last of this class of vessels recently launched at Chatham, made a trial trip on Friday of her machinery which was found to answer satisfactorily. The Hero, 90, screw steamer, building at Chatham, has a large number of shipwrights working on board, in order to bring her forward for launching. The Southampton, 50, has been taken into dock at Chatham for the purpose of undergoing repairs in order to fit her for sea. It is understood that she is in tended for the Coastguard service. Extensive alterations and improvements ate in pro gress at Chatham dockyard. Among other alterations will be the construction of a large new dock., on the site of the second slip, which will be capable of accom modating vessels of the largest class in the navy. Her Majesty's paddlewheel steam vessel Banshee was yesterday morning warped out of No. 3 dock and taken into basin at Woolwich, after repairs. The screw steam sloop Rattler, in the dry dock at Woolwich, has been found so thoroughly overrun with the dry rot that she has been pronounced unfit for fur ther service. The transport ship Norwood, 849 tons register, Capt. Bristow, arrived at Woolwich pier yesterday from the East, laden with 140 tons of ammunition, carts, wag gons, one troop boat and gangway, prove,ions, water casks, arid fittings for 425 men and 15 officer. The Albatross, transport, is discharged from the Go vernment service at Wool w ich. The freight ship Norval is being laden in the West India Docks with 95 tons of ordnance stores, ball, am munition, combustibles, and $1 tone of clothing. She is to sail to-morrow. The annual inspection of the Royal Artillery troops, which commenced on Friday at Woolwich, was resumed yesterday morning. The Commandant, Sir W. F. Wil liams, accompanied by Col. Bloomfield, Aide-de-Camp to her Majesty, and attended by the garrison staff, rode up to the review-ground at 10 o'clock, and was received with the customary honours. Monday being the day appointed for the inspection of the field batteries, they were supplied with 15 rounds of ammunition per gun, and were drawn up on the commcn in two lines, ready for the Commandant's inspection, under the com mand of Colonel Anderson, C.B. The inner line was composed of three divisions, Nos. 1, 3. and 4, c insisting of the H and Q, the V and I, and the X and P batteries, under the respective commands of Lieutenant-Colonel Buchanan, Colonel Fitzmayer, and Lieutenant-Colonel Phillpotts. The outer line was comp sed of Captain Pigou's and Captain Travers's small arm reserve, Major Lennox's battery (under instruction), and Captain and Adjutant Bruce's detachment. The following captains and subaltern officers of the various brigades were like wise in attendance—namely, Captains Gibbop, Q Battery ; Williams, V Battery ; Clark P Battery ; Thrupp, X Battery; Jones, Na, •2, Ball -cartridge Brigade ; Brabazon, H Bat ery ; Hardy No. 4 Battery ; and Travers, No. 3, Ball-cartridge Brigade ; Lieutenants Belmour, No. 4 Battery ; Pitt, No 3, Ball-cartridge Brigade ; Bazalgette, P Battery ; Sha kerly and Law, X Battery ; Brown, No. 2, Ball-car tridge Brigade ; Majendie, No. 2 Battery ; Dyer and Whinyates, J Battery ; and Ravenbill and Auley, of the V Battery. From the soft state of the ground, occa sioned by the late rains, no movements were performed, and after passing through the ordinary inspection the batteries were ordered to return to quarters. At 2 p.m. THE STEAM FRIGATE MERRIMAC. The United States screw steam-frigate Merrimac, now lying in Southampton Water, is 300 feet long. The length of her spar deck is 281 feet. Her breadth of beam is 611 feet, and depth of bold to gun deck 26 feet 3 inches. Her capacity at load line is 4,587 tons, and draught of water 231 feet. She has two 10-inch, 24 9-inch, and 14 8-inch guns. Her 10-inch guns weigh 12,0001bs each, and the 24-inch guns 9,ooolbst. each. The former would throw 130-p ainders, the latter 84- pounders, and her 8-inch guns 64-pounders. Although Sir Howard Douglas is a great authority amongst American naval men, they differ, it appears, from him as to the comparative merits of solid shot and shell ; for they intend that the Merrimac shall fight with shells. The weight of the 10 inch shells on board the frigate when unloaded is 1011bs. ; of the 9-inch shells, 69lbs. ; and of the 3-inch one', 49ilbs. The weight of metal front a broadside from the Merrimac, in solid shot, would be 1,7161b5., and in shells, 1,3821b5. One of the peculiarities of Dahlgren's guns, which are on board the frigate is the enormous disproportion between the thickness of the breech, where the first shock of the explosion takes place, and that of the chase of the gun. Thus the breech metal in the pivot guns is 10 inches thick, while the thickness of the chase is not above 21 inches ; - yet, notwithstanding this, when Dahlgren's guns are purposely put to the extreme test, they burst at the breech, and not at the chase, which shewa that the disproportion in thickness is not too great. The local variation of compasses is counteracted on board the Merrimac by three magnets, whose powers and posi tion are adjusted by some secret calculation} to the variable attractive powers of the different parts of the ship. The method of calculation is the invention of an American, who has not divulged his secret. His adjustment has answered extremely well in the Merri mac. Hoisting arrangements are attached to the screw of the frigate. The screw is 26 feet 2 inches in pitch, and 17 feet 4 inches in diameter. The frigate has a 2-rod steeple engine, with a 72-inch cylinder and a 3-foot stroke. The pressure of steam is 20lbs. to the square inch. Toe revolutions are 50 per minute. The engine department is furnished with independent auxi liary engine for coaling the ship, and with four of Mar tin's patent vertical flue boilers, and a steam engine register and chronometer clock. The two latter are rare and costly instruments for an engine room. The consumption of fuel is 35 tons a day, full steam. The chief engineer's room is fitted up with every requisite for itna, inable accident that may occur. The length of the main mast of the Merrimac is 123 feet ; the fore mast is 111 feet, and the miaen 1091. The size of the mainsail is 51 square feet, of the foresail 40 square feet, of the maintop 45 square feet, and of the jib 24 square feet. The whole area of the Merrimac's sails is 566 square feet. In ordei to carry an enormous armament, and to fight the heavy ships and batteries that she would be pitted against, she has been constructed of very great strength. She has iron transept braces 41 inches wide, and of an inch thick between the outer and inner planking ex tending from the sheer plank to the keel. Her knees are of prodigious strength and solidity. In war time she would carry a few more guns of the same calibre as those she has now on board, and about 100 more men than sh• now musters. There are many things in this frlgate de serving the attention of Englishmen. Her quarters for fighting are very roomy compared with these of English line-of-battle ships, crowded as the latter are with guns and men. Thus, in battle, there would be far less de struction of life on board the Merrimac than on board an English ship. The paucity of guns on board the fri gate is compensated for by their large calibre, and the frigate being more easily managed than our three-deckers, she would with her artillery—superior both in length of range sled powei a of mischief--do fearful damage to the largest line-of-battle ship before the latter could approach her. These have been the reasons that have induced the Americans to build and arm such frigates as the Merrimac, and the 'practice of a nation so shrewd, go ahead, and brave as America undoubtedly is, ought not to be despised. The Merrimac took two years building. She is the smallest of six frigates, built on the same plan, the names of the others being the Wabash, Minnesota, Colorado, Roanoke, and Niagara. The Merrimac was stationed a short time at Havana before she came to S nithampton. On Friday last, Capt. Prendergast, her commander, and some of his officers, dined with the 0 ,untess of Hardwicke, at her beautiful seat on the banks of Southampton Water, close to where the frigate is lying, and th• Americans were charmed with her ladyship's graceful hospitality. The Earl of Hardwicke, who is a captain in the British navy, is from home. The officers are quiet, gentlemanly, and well read men, and, like English sailors, take pride in their profession. They of oJurse believe Americans quite equal, if not superior, in pluck, in science, and in fight ing, to Englishmen, and apparently would not be indis posed to have a brush with us. With all this, it is curious, however, to notice the deep regard they betray for Old England, and the numerous inquiries they make as to the distance from Southampton of Stratford-on- Avon, Abbotsford, and other places connected with England's peaceful worthies. The arrival of the Merri mac is a godsend for Southampton, on account of the money the men and officers will spend in town. Bum boats and boats laden with provisions and visitors are continually going off to the frigate. Since Mr. Croskey, the American consul, brought the first United States mail packet to Southampton, half a million sterling has been spent in that town in American dollars from Ibe various men-of-war and mail packets belonging tq the United States that have called at the port. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—MoNnIy. The only change of importance was the promotion of Flacrow to the "premiership " for the Eastern Counties Handicap, Tice bis stable companion, The Poacher, who has retired. The betting on the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire showed no important change. For the former Middle• ton was quite friendless. Closing prices : EASTERN COUNTIES HANDICAP. 3to 1 agst Flacrow (taken and offered) 16 to 1 agst New Brighton (taken) 10 to 1 agst Little Gerard (taken) 100 to 8 agst Sister to Hesse Cassel (taken) 16 to 1 agst 'rider (taken) 20 to 1 aget Mr. Verdant Green (taken) CESAREWITCH STAKES. 12 to 1 agst Fulbeck (offered, take 14 to 1) 20 to 1 agst Alice Wentworth (taken) 20 to 1 agst Cotswold (taken) 20 to 1 agst Quince (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agst Cerva (taken, 25 to 1 also laid) 25 to 1 apt Mary (taken) SO to 1 agst Peter Wilkins (taken) 30 to 1 aget Tyre (taken) 40 to 1 agst Duvernay filly (taken) CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES. 20 to 1 agst Lance (taken) 20 to 1 nest Polmoodie (taken) 30 to 1 agst The Trapper (taken) 30 to 1 agst Breeze (taken) DERBY. 25 to 1 agst Sydney (taken) 50 to 1 aget Saunterer (taken) EASTRUN COI:117TM FIANDIOA.P.—The following horses are struck out :—Vengeance, Porto Rico, Cave Adul• lam, Maid of the Morn, Eloquence. All John Scott's horses are struck out of their en gagements this week, except Vanity in the Hopeful Stakes. CESAREWITCH AND CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.— YOUATT Wlll. GRAY'S advice for the above events is now ready. Lance for the Portland Stakes, at Doncas ter, and eleven other winners is something extraordinary, but the advice on the above races will astonish all, as 1,000 to 1 can be obtained about the double event. I am positive one, if both, does not come of. Recollect, I named Mr. Sykes and Crown Pigeon last year (first and second). Apply early, or the long price will be lust. Terms : —To the Cambridgeshire, 7s. 6d. ; one week, 54. ; single race, 2s. 6d. ; to the end of the season, 10e. 6d.—Address, 15, Charing-cross. THE QUEEN OF OUDE HOAX.—On Saturday Mr. G. R. Collie attended before the sitting magistrates, at the Public-office, to inquire whether any measures had been taken by the local police for the detection and punish ment of the individual who, under the character of an agent from the Queen of Oude, has been lately attempt ,g to impose upon the good people cf this town. Mr. Collis said that since he made his previous application he had been to London, and had seen Capt. Brandon, obtaining from him the original letters. The mayor also had heard from Capt. Brandon, and there could no longer be any doubt that the man Wyndham was a not.' lous swindler. He wished, therefore, to know what steps tad been taken by the police for his ap prehension. Mr. Kynnersley said as yet the authori ties at Birmingham had no legal evidence, and it would be beet for Capt. Brandon to come down here, as there appeared something mysterious in the transaction. — Birmingham Mercury. THR NEAPOLITAN CRISIS. (From the Times.) It wai laid down, as a basis of reasoning during the C..niferences at Paris that no State had a right to maintain within its limits such a system of rule, or of misrule, as would endanger the safety of its neighbours or the tranquillity of Europe. There could be no idea of petty interference, nor of ag gressive policy veiled under the pretext of self-pre servation. The mischief must be notorious, the danger imminent, the cause just. Noir, the ques tion has arisen whether at the present moment such a state of things exists in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies as will justify the application of this • principle. For a moment we will make abnegation of the common feelings of humanity—we will for get the tortnres inflicted upon the political prison ers by express order of their King, the loathsome dungeons in which' they are confined, all all the hideous detail, , which nave reached us from the capital of the Sicilian Soverriign: Let us look at he question without regard to the sufferings of tho Neapolitan , , but regarding only the interests of Europe. First of the facts. According to the best advices we can obtain, the whole of the Ita lian peninsula, save only the dominions of the King of Sardinia, is upon the very eve of a great revolutionary outbreak. This movement is only restrained by. the presence of foreign armaments. Were the. Austrian forces withdrawn to-morrow within the limits of the Lombardo-Venetian-king dom, and were the French troops recalled from Rome, as sure as the next day's sun would rise so surely would the Italian peninsula be in a blaze of revolution from the Alps to Otranto. The status quo is maintained by foreign interference in its last expression—that is, by the presence of foreign bayonets and foreign troops. Despite, however, of this constant and present interference, the semblance of outward peace can scarcely be maintained frona day to day in the dominions of the King of the Two Sicilies. War having, once broken out there, it would infallibly run like wildfire throughout the peninsula, and on that well-tried battle-ground the battle of the nations must begin once more. Would France yield the dominion of Italy to Austria without a struggle? Would Aus tria-surrender the most beautiful of her provinces until she had expended her last man and her last florin in its defence ? When the forces of Austria were engaged in Italy, would her various Cisalpine provinces, which are now but waiting ,their oppor tunity, not take advantage of the opportunity when offered ? What would bo the effect upon the fortunes of the present dynasty in France if, in the course of the inevitable hostilities, the French arms should meet with even a momentary reverse? These are grave consideration 3 for Europe, if not for England, who might stand aloof, if she choose, and say, " Your system is not my - system ; settle your own affairs among yourselves." But, suppos ing her not to stand aloof, we repeat that thefie are grave considerations, flowing naturally out of the Italian question in its present aspect, and more especially are they connected with the actual pos ture of affairs in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Has the time, then, arrived, for the practical ap plication of e proposition recognised at the Con ferences at Paris—namely, that no State has a right to maintain within its limits such a system of government as endangers the safety of its neigh bours or the tranquillity of Europe ? , The Governments of France and of Great Britain are of opinion that such a time has arrived. They have already more than once endeavoured, in the way of friendly remonstrance, to convince the King 'of the Two Sicilies that his position is dangerous in the extreme ; but their remon strances have been treated with neglect, deri sion, insult, and scorn. The anxious soli citations of an Austrian Envoy have been attended with no better effect. The King will not recede. Even in the last extremity the Go vernments of France and Great Britain are not about to have recourse to interference. They are merely about to try an expedient which, as it is hoped, may prodnce the desired effect without the adoption of more direct pressure. All diplomatic relations will be closed between the Court of the King of the Two Sicilies on the one side, and the Courts of the Tuileries and of St. James's on the other. The subjects of France and England still resident in the dominions of the Sicilian King will, however, require protection more than ever when the missions of their respective nations are withdrawn. To remedy this French and English ships will be directed to cruise off the coasts of Southern Italy and of Sicily, and to lend assistance to the subjects of their respective Governments in case of need. As to any consequences which may -eon,- to the - lung of the Two Sicilies from the hands of his own subjects in consequence of the presence of those cruisers it is no affair of ours. He disclaims our interference—we will not inter fere, save to repel foreign interference. If the principle of non-interference is to be applied at all, it must be applied in its integrity. A very-re markable Russian State paper, which we publish this day, insists 'Oh great vehemence upon the rigorous application of the principle to Neapolitan affairs at the present moment. This State paper is in the form of a circular, addressed by Prince God schakoff to the representatives of Russia at the various Courts. The Prince begins by laying down the principle that henceforward non-interference, in the most strict and liberal acceptation of the term, must be the rule of European policy, inas much as the recent war with Russia was undertaken, in vindication of it. The wily Russian, whose busi ness it was to make out an ad captandurrt argu ment, presumes that henceforward all historical transactions prior to the despatch of the allied armies to the East to prevent the conquest of the Turkish empire by the Czar are to be ignored. By no means. The doctrine of interference in the affairs of a neighbouring State remains just where it was before the passage of the Pruth by the Rus sian forces and the Congress of Paris. A man may, even violently, enter his neighbour's house which is in flames, although he damages some of his neighbour's property in so doing, to guard his own habitation from harm. This is what France and England might do, but, as we have shown, it is not what they are about to do, in Naples. A. man may also enter his neighbour's house for the express purpose of stealing his valuables and cutting his throat because he is " a sick man." This is what Russia did with respect to Turkey. She interfered, and her interference was checked. In Greece, too, Prince Gortschakoff remarks with regret the pro tracted occupation of the capital by foreign troops. He forgets that Athens was but a Russian battery pointed against Turkey, and that its continued occupation—which we regret far more sincerely than he can do—has been forced upon Western Europe by the reckless intrigues of his late master. The Russian idea was to raise the Greeks against the Porte •, and Athens, as the capital of an indepen- • dent Greek kingdom, was to be a principal focus of the insurrection. To return, however, to the af fairs of Naples, which are just now of more im mediate importance to the tranquillity of Europe Does it not sound somewhat hypocritical when we find a Russian diplomatist writin„o.—" To endeavour to obtain from the King of Naples concessions af- fecting the internal goiernment of his States by threats or by a menacing demonstration is a violent usurpation of his authority—an attempt to govern in his stead—it is an open declaration of the right of the strong over the weak ?" Failing the accept ance of these views, in the usual jargon of such documents—which we spare our readers—we are told that the Emperor of Russia will employ his material forces as he may think fit. Intelligence has been received in Paris that orders have been given to a Russian squadron to prepare for sea, and that the destination of this squadron is Naples. Of course with such a demon stration we can have nothing to do. If the Empe ror of Russia chooses to send his ships to Naples or elsewhere, so he does not violate the treaty of Paris, we have not the slightest title to challenge the exercise of his discretion. France and England may well afford to smile at the threatening aspect of a Russian squadron tightly anchored in a con venient bay. We found some difficulty in seeing them during the last war, and can feel nothing but satisfaction at the prospect of a closer inspection. This demonstration either means nothing or some thing. If nothing, the sham will soon be found out ; if something, all we can say is that the Rus sians are welcome to set sail for the Bay of Naples whenever they please, and to stay there as long as they can. The only direct effect of the demonstra tion will probably be that the French and English Governments may think it necessary to increase the number of their ships upon the Neapolitan station. Such is the present aspect of this affair. Once more we say, if the principle of non-interfer ence is to be carried out according to the Russian view, the French and Austrian troops now in Italy must retire within the boundaries of their respec tive States. Our hands at least are clean in the matter. Of us, at all events, it cannot be said that we aggravate the condition of our political prisoners by any needless suffering, for we have recently pardoned the few deluded criminals who might be classed under this denomination. If we interfere, then, we shall do so against our will and with the full weight of an immense moral force, for it must never be forgotten that England has less to gain and more to lose than any other Power by mixing herself up in continental quarrels. NEW CHIJRCE( AT SALTAIRE. '—'lCifn Saturday last Mrw. Salt laid the foundation of a new congregational church at Saltaire, r f which her husband, Mr. T. Salt, was the founder. The building, which will be in a handsome style of architecture, will accommodate 600 or 700 per. aone, And will cost p,0001.-m - sx3 (Juardian. .r, i ll It of if the Mr. pro- start •ossea ; ,hero t, an i fa and (is sr