The Sun. — London, England, 1863-09-14 00:00:00

THEATREanguish and desolation it is producing, and of ROYAL DRURY - LANE. Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. which it is likely, alas! still for an indefinite period THIS EVENING, will be produced an ent irel y new and original Comedy, by Edmund Fal-oner, Author of tO be productive. " Extremes," " Woman." " Peep o'Day," &c., entitled ...----_ NATURE'S ABOVE ART : A Romance of the Nursery, in which Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Ryder, Barrett, G. Belmore, F. Charles, Neville; Miss Charlotte Saunders, Miss Murray, Miss R. Leclercq, Mrs. Melville, and Mrs. Ed mund ill Y Falconer. assisted by othe r artists, wpw 2' LL After After the Comedy will be prese nted A DA SPENT, principal characters by favourite members of the Company. Box-otlice open from Ten till Five daily. The invitation which the Emperor of AUSTRIA addressed to the King of DENMARK bidding him to the Conference of German Potentates, recently held at Frankfort, was, as we all know, declined, by King FREDERICK. The terms of his refusal are now before us, reprinted from the Europe, and they will be studied with some interest by politicians and statesmen. The task which his Danish MAJESTY had before him was a de.icate and diffi cult one. He naturally felt it to be impossible to be present at the Congress among his enemies of the Confederation. It was true that his arch-ad versary, Prussia, would not be represented, but there were plenty of minor Powers quite ready to fight her battles, and to make themselves disagree able to the ruler de facto of Schleswig. It was, too, unfitting the dignity of an independent and reigning Sovereign to attend personally at a Con gress consisting principally of the members of that Diet who had but a short time back announced their intention of invading his dominions. If he con sulted dignity, he would angrily resent their inter • ference and embroil himself still further with the rulers of States more powerfnl than his listened to prudence, and attempted conciliation,s own. If hehe would be called upon to make hasty pledges which o hi t e i h e himself down by restrictions and admissions would make his case still worse. From very dif ferent motives than those which actuated the King of PRUSSIA and his ill-omened advisers, King m alrtk was resolved n necessary, s t s o a refrainry, however, f from FREDERlCKvisiting of ph Frankfort. that all courtesy should be observed in declining Denmark the invitation of FRANCIS JosErrt, and accordingly we find that the Danish KING is profuse in his assurances of sympathy in the cause and of favour able prognostications as to the result. Nothing would be more agreeable to him, he declares, than to take part in the proceedings, since he is " sin cerely interested" in the results, which, he believes, will be " salutary to the whole of Germany.' He flatters himself that the Austrian KAISER will a ppreciate the motives which guide him in his re fusal, and declares that he will follow the course of events with lively solicitude, and ex presses his conviction that, owing to the favourable inauguration of the meeting under the Imperial auspices, there is good reason to hope for a satisfactory conclusion. After this well turned compliment be takes the opportunity to allude delicately to his own position, and very ingeniously contrives to identify himself in his maintenance of Danish rights with the Austrian EMPEROR in his new schemes of reform. "In times past I have already testified my desire of co-operating with re gard to the Duchies of Holstein and Laueeburg in a development of the Germanic Confederation, which should reconcile the exigencies of the day with the imprescriptible rights of the Sovereigns, and I am convinced that the high sagacity of your Imperial MAJESTY will succeed in attaining this object." He goes on to say that he has grounds for hoping for a speedy conclusion of the negotiations now pending with the Confederation with regard to the constitutional position of the Duchies, and he is the more anxious for such a termination as it will enable him to associate himself in matters concern ing his German territories with the new arrange ments. His Majesty of DENMARK thus carefully avoids putting himself in opposition to the views of his powerful correspondent ; and, indeed, it is pro bable that he is inclined to participate in them to some degree. He is not likely to look too favour ably on the constitution of that Confederation which has already cost him so much trouble ; and under a new settlement of affairs the King of DENMARK might obtain a more satisfactory position, and secure a recognition of his indepen dent rights. If he could gain the support of the Austrian EMPEROR, the situation of affairs would be very much altered, and it is not impossible that, with a view to humbling Prussian pretensions, Vienna might give some indirect countenance to Copenhagen. It is true that it was asserted that Austrian troops were to put into practice the threat ened " Federal execution" in Schleswig; but Austria is not the power really concerned in the possession of Kiel. The Danish KING must see with some satisfaction the increasing complexity of German affairs. Austria has undertaken the inau guration of this comprehensive amendment of the Constitution. Prussia is involved in a domestic crisis which threatens serious consequences ; while the smaller States are divided between anxiously debating what parts they shall play between the two chief actors and in apprehensively regarding the steps France takes towards the Rhine. Among these various and conflicting interests which have grown rapidly in importance during the past six months, Denmark stands a better chance of being left unmolested for the time. It is almost doubtful whether the alliance with England can be ranked among the deterrent agencies, seeing that Earl RUSSELL'S erratic and inconsistent policy appears to be influenced by no such considerations. Lord PAL , 3IERSTON'S manly and straightforward exposition of the real design and object of the Prussian policy may possibly have had weigh; with the cautious members of the Confederation, and certainly the Danish KING will not fail to give his friends and allies an opportunity of assisting him. The dignity and decision with which he has " held his own' ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, Lessee, Mr. George Vining. Open under the Management of Mr. Walter Montgomery. THIS EVENING, THE LADY OF LYONS. Claude Melnotte, Mr. Walter Mont g omery ; Daman, Mr. C. Fitz james ; Pauline, Miss Kate Saville. To conclude with THE POST BOY. Mr. Sefton Parry. Commence e 7. vN TM E ATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHI, Ni l Solo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. R. Webster. CATCHING AN HEIRESS : M r. A . Wood (his }V his .lll first ' INrr ' appearance). Followed by THE TRAGEDY QUEEN. Mrs. Stirling. Atter which, at 4-past 8 o'clock, the new drama of TETE ITAUNTI4.:D MAN; OR, THE G. 081'8 BARGAIN, in which will be exhibited Professor Pepper's adaptation of the Great Spectral Illusion. Messrs. A. Wood, R. Phillips, Sefton. C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss El. Simms. To conclude with a new comic drama, THE HEN AND CHICKENS ; or, A Sign of Affection. Messrs. Billington, H. Phillips, Stephenson ; Mrs. Stirling and Miss 11. Simms. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanboromy,h. THIS EVENING, lIIS FIRST CHAMPAGNE. Mr. Leigh Murray. _ _ _ Followed by (49th time) THE MOTTO, " I'M ALL THERE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier, Clifton; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, F. Josephs, Maria Simpson, Wallace, and Jenny White. To conclude with TURN HIM OUT. Mr. Turner, Miss Thorne. _ against the unfounded pretensions of German ag gressors have never faltered whether in addressing a firm yet temperate remonstrance to the Diet, in dealing with his refractory subjects of Holstein, in rejecting the " pretended friendship" of Earl Rus SELL'S preposterous suggestions, or in replying to the courtesies of the Austrian EMPEROR. By his resolute maintenance of his unquestionable rights, at the same time that he has studiously avoided giving his adversaries any just ground of offence, he has secured the sympathies of all right thinking and independent men. He may rest assured that whatever the sentiments of the English Govern. ment, the English nation will not suffer him to rest unaided should foreign aid be called for, s;nce the independence of Denmark is to them a ques.. ticn of the first importance, whether as regards ing the political adjustment of Europe, or as a mat- ter of equity and right. sh 0 h LordmSTeAnNLEYbyprreefseidrreidngontoThtuhresdparyogartestshemdaidse tribution of prizes at the Preston S c h oo l o f A r t. lie commenced b et y is t t h een ee. l in School of A r t d ur i ng i ts f i ve years ' t e then went on to consider the larger subject s i t preoh of : art for th e f ormat i on of wh i ch this ' t interestin g e s is cultivated i - --„ seined his hearers His lordship made some on the question of how far art rtveemnnattraikzniit:htisth c ounty y, and progress of art in varietal:l: utne o f early and rude states there was l' any wants to be attended to , but matter in detail, and pre p,,ases oltf t t h ltes e ho o . rigin and leisurecety. for ln related to " safety and subsistence. whil e nations were struggling for their existence they h ad n a o t r. 118 e to think of anything beyond actual necessities; they had no more refined wants than those of the animal nature. They built only for shelter and defence, and if they adorned anything it was their persons and weapons. But when they Aimed at 9. higher , Commence at 7. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containinz the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, Can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 2h. 45m.—Afternoon, 2h. OSm, To-monhow.-Morning, 3h. 16m.—Afternoon, 3h. 30m, The Weather—Sun Office, Sept. 14, 1863. THERMOMETER. This morning This day at Two o'clock 6l Barometer-30.29. Wind—W.; moderate, and fine. - 4 riDt 4 44 4 1 , :g 'it - LN mut LONDON, MONDAY, SEPT. 14, 1863. In the midst of all the sanguinary horrors and confusion of this most lamentable war in North America, the one blessing which we have all felt so hopeful, from the first,might result from it, is already apparent as a thing inevitable. It is not only now before us all, as the spectators of the struggle, as a matter of mere vague expectation. It is even now partially assured—it is already in process of realisation. The belligerents themselves have, within this present year of grace, 1863, guaran teed it, so to speak, as a result that can now by no possibility be evaded. They have, in their several ways, rendered it an unavoidable consequence of the fierce struggle in which they are engaged. The one has done this, it may be said, negatively the other positively. Each has fully committed himself to it. In neither instance, is there an open left for withdrawal from the course upon which they have both alike entered quite deliberately—the one with the best grace possible, the other with about the worst. And that course, in each instance, so dissimilar, so apparently trending in opposite direc tions, after that seeming divergence, end at the same beneficent goal—Emancipation. President LINCOLN at the commencement of the present year, holding up the Banner of Emancipa tion as a threat before the Confederates, issued a proclamation virtually declaring the boon to be penal in its character and in its consequence. In the hands of that irritated ruler of the Federals— worsted as all his plans had been then, from the very outset of the war, by those bewildering Secessionists, the rebels as their enemies call them, the Confede rates as they call themselves—in the weak but spasmodic grasp of Mr. LINCOLN, that white and blessed Banner of Emancipation, blackened by the thunder of the fratricidal war in which it was raised, and stained by the blood of the numerous battle fields through which it had been trailed, appeared to the recognition at once of both North and South, and to the horror of all Europe, even when viewing it remotely from the opposite shores of the Atlantic, as a malignant and almost despair ing signal for the transformation of a Civil into a Servile war ! Or, rather, it should be said, for the enhancement of the atrocity of the one by the addition to it of all the scarcely definable fero cities of the other ! Several months have, since then, elapsed, and we all know the feeble conse quences of that most desperate of all the many desperate ventures of the Federal PRESIDENT. We know, so far as Mr. LINCOLN'S proclamation itself is concerned, that, month after month, it ap peared powerless in the way of giving rise to any appreciable consequences at all, great or small, rapid or tardy, good, bad, or indifferent. The pa3ans chauoted by the infatuated be lievers in Federalism as the rot) 074) of the Abolitionist, month after month, here received no kind of justification whatsoever. Similarly, it might be said, tbat,with the advance of time, the fears 'of those who dreaded the effect of Mr. LINCOLN'S li gtva for a Servile War, faded out most happily, firm, of all little by little, but afterwards rapidly Jima altogether. The one und en i a bl e s t e p, how free; w hich was taken by M r . LI NCOLN , i n the y ver„et of issuing his historical proclamation— (darkly Or brightly historical it mat ters no thi ng )— 11 ; tk advance, a step that co u ld no t b e re traced. mlamation, h e hing that step, by i ssu i ng t h a t pro -anent, h e ha p pledged hi mse lf an d hi s Govern pledged the Gove t r manently and unmistakeably : t ut of th e N ort h , t h e Govern ment of the Fed erate a_ _ m aintain, thenceforth, touts g ui souls, to the lif e e t f p °he death, theprinciples o f Abolition, the tens e motive :Irtmeipation. No mat ter how mean the Prompting him to the act, the act itself was aceor ai ,% e r : Mr. LINCOLN had done for spite, had done out of despair, had done in fury, had done for what Jull which he and his predecessors had never had th e heart to do previously in obedience to the Pro mpt .. ings of either conscience or magnanimity. President DAVIS, after the lapse of nearly three quarters of a year has only just now, and therefore quite deliberately, responded to the challenge thro wn out to him by that proclamation of Mr. LINCOLN on the Ist of last January. And now has the Con federate Gevernment responded to that challenge of the Federal Government of the North in reference to the future treatment of the black opulation of both Northern and Southern States ? By a resolution pledging President atvis and his colleagues no less securely and permanently to the great and sacred cause held dear to the heart and conscience of every earnest Abolitionist. The calling out by the South of 500,000 negroes—upon the promise of each one amongst them receiving, not only a plot cf land at the close of the war, but his emancipation from slavery at the data of his enlistment—is the vir tual pledging of the Confederate States to the abolition of slavery altogether. So that, already, this otherwise most deplorable war is yielding 80rne happy results, even in the midst of the S ON, LONDON, MO :\ DAY E VENING, SEPTE MBE R 14, 1863. state there arose that discontent of their position which in some degree is the cause of progress. The reason and the imagination exercised themselves, and they began to desire, not only to lire securely, but to understand what was about them, and to gratify the love of beauty, which seems universal. There is a bad and barbarous art, the same as there exists a rude and primitive literature; but there is no nation that has long existed securely that has not had something it meant for literature, and also something which it meant for art." This is a very true definition of the rise and progress of art in the infancy of nations, and serves to typify its necessity to every state that at all contains the germs of progress in its existence, or that is powerful enough to carry on indepen dently of others. Lord STANLEY then went on to explain the first appearance of artistic creations. They were always distinguished for vastness, but gradually came the higher development of taste ; and when the feeling for art reached this stage it became popular, and was the " property and pos session of an entire nation." As an illustration of this, he went on to show how things that were sumptuous and splendid might yet not show to ad vantage beside articles which, inferior in intrinsic value, were to the eye of taste more characteristic of beauty. As for architecture, you might look, un fortunately, in many English towns at some building of note, to raise which estates have been sold, and yet some simpler edifice at not a hundredth part of the cost may strike " the eye as conforming to those rules of beauty from which the more sumptuous edifice departs." This is the right way to impress upon the minds of others the inherent principles of art, that its triumphs do not depend upon the dis play of money or the lavishness of the style em ployed, but that humble efforts may in their way be more successful. Lord ETANLET forcibly brought out his meaning in these words : " What is the result of all this ? why that art ought not to be, cannot be, the mere plaything of luxury or the slave of wealth." He then expatiated on the universality of the prin ciples of art, which were unlimited in extent, and not confined to narrow boundaries, or influenced by sordid motives. "I hardly understand a •man of sense and feeling," he said, " setting great store on pleasures which cannot be shared by the great bulk—at least, of educated men. We value art, we honour it, we seek to promote it, be cause it is in its nature universal—popular in the true sense—because, like all sources of enjoyment, which are intellectual, not material, it belongs to all those, and to those only, who have within themselves the power to appreciate it—who are students and scholars, not merely pur chasers and patrons." His lordship next commented on the necessity of art, especially in the present day, to counteract the growing tendencies of the age to monetary considerations alone. From the lawyer, with his briefs, to the operative who tends the loom and those who labour, all take to one serious pur suit, and keep to it during the greater part of their lives. However good for society this may be, it is injurious to the individual, for the absorption begets a narrowness, and also produces a craving for excitement and pleasure. To gratify these feelings is a difficult thing, and well it is that art can do so much, His lordship remarked on the great improvements that had been made by Eng lish manufacturers of late years. M. CHEVALIER, in his report on the late Exhibition, had mentioned this striking and satisfactory movement. lie even dreaded lest the pre-eminence of France, in the regions of taste, might be injured by the progress and skill exhibited by English workmen. Some other French gentlemen have expressed themselves to this effect, and attributed the success to the Schools of Design. Finally, Lord STANLEY made some admirable remarks on the absurd notions that prevail in some quarters regard ing the impossibility of English taste being culti vated. There is no want of a love of beauty in the English mind, remarked his lordship. No people in Europe, except the Dutch, were so sensitive to dirt and disorder, negligence and slovenliness, as the English. If it is too early to boast, it is also too early to give up, At one time a gentleman im ported his pictures as he imported his wine, from necessity, for no English school of painting existed. It was therefore patent to observation that England had during the present generation made great and rapid progress. "In promoting these schools of design intended for the better culture of art, we are sup plying a real want, and representing the real ten dency of our time," It is satisfactory when those in a high position come forward like Lord STANLEY to afford their assistance towards carrying out these interesting and important objects. It is to be hoped that his earnest and impressive words will not be thrown away upon those to whom they were addressed, but that they will persevere in their efforts, and by their success inspire others to follow their example. The benefits that accrue to a country from the right understanding and true ap preciation of art are incalculable, and no efforts should be spared to encourage its progress, ANOTITER COLONELCY VACANT !—The colonelcy of the 2d Life Guards is again vacant by the death of Earl Beauchamp, who enjoyed the honour only for a few months. We believe it is the rule, that none but peers shall have the colonelcies of theliousehold Cavalry, and the accompanying Court office of Gold Sack in Waiting. It may be fairly presumed then, that the Marquis of Tweed dale is not unlikely to be the new colonel, as he is the only peer who is a full general. He was never a cavalry officer, but neither were Lord Gough, nor Lord Seaton, nor other possessors of these posts. Long and distinguished service has been generally held to furnish a claim, irrespectively of ,the arm of the service in which it was rendered, and these qualifications Lord Tweeddale very well fulfils-- Army and _Navy Gazette. CAMPDEN HOUSE—we have from the Court Journal—Somewhere about the middle of the last century, became a fashionable ladies' boarding school. Here George Selwyn visited a protegee of his, Mdlle. Fagniani, who married the late Marquis of Hertford. Campden House, which had fallen into the hands of a Mr. Pitt, continued to be a boarding -school up to a considerable period of the present century. Mr. Wolley's residence there has lately been made known to the public. Offering no comment upon the trial, we content ourselves with con gratulating Mr. Wolley on the result, which we consider was a most just one. When leaving Croydon, Mr. Wolley and Miss Coape were loudly cheered by the populace. The bells at Kensington rang when the news reached there of the verdict; and the neighbourhood of Notting-hill seemed delighted at the result of this protracted trial. And last, though not least, nearly all the numerous friends and tics quaintances who partook of the hospitality of Campden House have warmly expressed their sympathy at the result. THE RUSSIAN ANSWER AND COMING REFORMS. —lf we are well informed (says the Independance), and we believe we are, the Russian answer which is ex • petted in London, Paris, and Vienna, whilst maintaining the principles already laid down by Russia in previous despatches, and reiterated in the last article of the St. Petersburg Journal, will likewise contain . an indication of the reforms projected by the Government of the Czar. These reforms will consist of the introduction of the prin ciple of decentralisation, on representative bases, into the administration of the empire. Provincial institu- tions, similar to those of the arrondissement and departmental councils of France will be established. The members will bo chosen by election. The functions of these councils will be more extensive than the similar ones in France, and will more resemble iii character those of the provincial councils in Belgium. With respect to Poland the institutions indicated in the treaties of 1815, with per haps some extension, will be granted, but only after its pacification, and without the least mixture of interference on the part of foreigners. The answer will soon be sent from St. Petersburg, but its contents are already known by ovenertnirme e s n a t t s is o f f aetion France,to tw Eno of : the meaninggiven glandt,haenmdlustria,andh ofave which is that the third will also have to accept them. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. CANADA. MONTREAL, SEPT. 3. Mr. Sicotte's motion of want of confidence in the Ministry has been defeated in the Assembly by a majority of 63 against 60 votes. DRURY LANE THEATRE, The winter season of this national establishment commenced on Saturday evening, under the management of Messrs. Falconer and Cnatterton. Although in the company the names of many of the favourites of last season are not to be found, yet amongst those already engaged by the combined management we have Messrs. Walter Lacy, Ryder, Addison, G. Belmore, Charles, Barrett, and Neville, Misses C. Saunders, Murray, Rose Leclerq, Mrs. Melville, and Mrs. Edmund Falconer. Mr. Phelps is also under engagement to Messrs. Falconer and Chatterton, and the piece in preparation for this gentleman is Lord Byron's tragedy of Manfred, which is to be produced with extraordinary splen dour. The opening piece on Saturday was a three act comedy from the pen of Mr. Falconer, entitled entitled "Nature's above Art," the plot of which is certainly neither brief nor simple. On the contrary, it is difficult, nay almost impossible, to see the intention of the author, yet as nearly as we could make it out it is as follows. An elderly country gentleman, one Mr. Mordaunt, residing in Warwickshire, is awaiting the return of his son Edgar from his travels, when, through the mysteri ous hints of a certain romantic chambermaid, one Sally Stiggins, we begin to imagine the above men tioned Edgar is not that personage. This impres sion is strengthened when we find that Mr. Edgar, instead of applying the proceeds of the large cheques he has been in the habit of receiving from Mr. Mordaunt in improving his intellectual capacities, has been squandering them in low life and dissipation with a member of the P.R., one Bill Paddick, and another individual, a little more polished but not less unscrupulous, a Mr. Meander Wilderspoon. . Before the conclusion of the first act the doubt re lative to Edgar being Mordaunt's son becomes a certainty, and then arrives an interesting young lady, Miss Ellen Lacy, with a companion and schoolfellow, Blanche Maydew,at the Squire's home. Blanche is a foundling, and when the old man en deavours to recollect where he has seen her before, we begin to suspect that she is the personage whose arrival is so anxiously lcoked for. In the second act we expect to find the identity of Blanche Maydew established, but it is not so, and again we are left to puzzle ourselves who the "real Simon Pure" is. We now learn that just at the time Squire Mordaunt's lady became a mother, Mrs. Stiggins, a domestic in the service, also gave birth to a daughter, and both infants being females, we are informed by the housekeeper that a change of babies took place, and that the romantic and heroic Sally Stiggins is no other than the daughter of Squire Mordaunt. Sally now assumes high impor tance, and the once wealthy Edgar now sinks into comparative poverty, at the same time his name, of course, changes from that of high sounding Mordaunt to that of vulgar Stiggins. Sally, now a lady, finds she cannot stoop to marry Edgar Stiggins, and not withstanding the appeals of her once adored lover, she gives him the cold shoulder. All seems going on satisfactorily when a Mr. Oldacre arrives at the hall, and he creates the utmost consternation by his inferming them that the child, imagined to be a girl, was in fact a bay ; then the fortunes of Sally begin to decline, and Edgar thinks there's yet a chance left for him. The complicated matter, how ever, is taken in hand in the third act by the house keeper, and she calls in an aged nurse who declares that a mistake has been made about the change, that the son of Squire Mordaunt is n other than Meander Wilderspoon, who, during the action of the piece, has become a penitent and re formed gentleman, and whose identity can be esta blished by the mark of a pickled walnut (!)on his left arm. Blanche Maydew turns out to be the lost daughter of Mr. Oldacre, and everything ends to the satisfaction of all parties engaged in the play, if not to those who have been witnessing its representa tion "before the curtain." We must say that great perplexity evidently prevailed amongst the audience, and they seemed inclined to agree in the opinion expressed by BillPuddick,when he exclaimed "I'm blessed if I know who's who, or what's what." Mr. Lacy, Mr. Addison, Mr. Ryder, and Mr. G. Be!more sustained capitally the respective parts of Meander Wilderspoon, Bill Puddick, Squire Mor daunt, and Edgar; whilst Miss Charlotte Saunders as Sally Stiggins, and Mrs. Falconer as the house keeper, acted with their accustomed spirit and effect. The great fault of the piece is over-elabo ration, but when the play has undergone the com pression that usually takes place after a first repre sentation there seems to be no reason why " Nature's above Art " should not become attrac tive, notwithstanding its peculiar construction. The good old Lyceum farce, " A Day Well Spent," in which in former days poor Wrench and Oxberry used in the old time to delight the public, brought the entertainments to a very satisfactory conclusion. Mr. Falconer received a very hearty and enthu siastic welcome on his appearkg before the curtain to acknowledge the honour of " a call," and every person present seemed to be animated with the wish and desire that his present season may result in a solid and substantial success. THE CHANNEL FLEET. LIVERPOOL, SEPT, 14. The Channel fleet arrived at the bar at three o'clock this morning, and will come up the Mersey at noon. PRANCE. M. DE PERSIGNY CREATED A DUKE. PARIS, SUNDAY. M. de Persig n y h as been created a duke, in testi mony of regard for the services he has rendered to the state, and for his personal devotion to the Emperor. BOURSE, Sept.l2.—The market has much changed from the tone it exhibited yesterdoy. Stock has been freely offered, and prices have generally re ceded. Threee, for the Account, are now at 68f. 85c. Railway Shares are also quoted lower. The market again improved a little towards the close, and left off as follows : It per Cents. 96 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 Credit Mobilier 1187 50 Do. end month 1192 50 Bank Shares 3380 Credit F oncier 1410 Italian Loan 73 50 Do. end month 73 80 hew ditto Do. end month 73 55 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes — Home Debt _ RA IL' rAYB. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto .... 1 1 0 0 0_ 4 0 5 10 45 -- • Lyons and Mediterranean 1057 50 .. 1057 50 Geneva............ Southern 746 25 .. 742 50 Western Eastern ....... , 512 50 .. 512 50 Sardinian Austrian Lon-bard North of Spain Saragossa iitto to Barcelona .... 3 " 75 .. RUSSIA. The following is a translation of the article in the Journal de St. Petersbourg of the 9th Septem ber, a telegraphi c summary of which has already appeared :—" We have more than once pointed out the rnanorivres of some organs of the press to drive public opinion into a path which can only lead to deception. Thus, when the second despatches of the three Courts respecting the affairs of Poland were forwarded to St. Petersburg, the foreign news papers vied with each other in promulgating a report that the Russian Government a ccepted the proposi tions made to it with some insignificant modifica tions. Hop es were t h us engen d ere d which were not in keeping with the real state of affairs, and when the truth became known the inevitable explana tions which followed were turned to account in the most hostile manner by the very men who had propagated the rumours. At the time we warned our reader to be cautious in believing them. We fulfil a similar duty to-day by putting them on their guard against rumours of a similar nature. The foreign press is l aunc hing forth into the wildest conjectures respecting the projects of the Russian Government as regards Poland and Germany. Radical reforms are spoken of, which are to be im mediately introduced into the kingdom of the em- pire ; new alliances are hinted at respecting the affairs of Germany. The conclusions which are drawn from them are as false as the premises. The position taken by the St. Petersburg Cabinet rela tive to the affairs of Poland, in accordance with the unanimous sentiment of Russia, is perfectly clear, and there is nut anything toindicate an incli• nation to deviate from it. The sentiments of the Sovereign towards his Polish subjects have not undergone any change. But, in his solicitude for their welfare, his Majesty has declared that he con. sidered it his first duty to proceed to the re-estab lishment of material order. The experience of t h i , last two years has sufficiently proved that nothi ng solid can be erected upon ground upset by anarchi cal passions. As regards the diplomatic question, the Imperial GOVerDlll,?,llt remains resolved to h i m its international obligations, but also to m a i ntain can the rights of Russia within th e limits of tre aties. at "As regards the affairs o f German y , the St. Petersburg Cabinet follows t hem with all that nseseia t o provid e but wish for the unionrs which might t e n t g e o mr hnyer ou than terest which they dese rve ; but also wi th that benevolent reserve whic h appertains to its t ra ditions and to tai ha n ter s nesto m r s. R e u d basis of the rights and interests of all th e States et s result of Germany againstwhich d i t ange consists. She Germany has to guard against dangers coming from Russia. The rumours which have been circulated are, therefore, unfounded. They testify extreme levity, if not malicious premeditation. At all events, they can only serve to mislead p ublic opi • nion, ana for our part we think that the mi ss i on of the journalist is not to participate in an error with a view to certain objects of political cleverness, but to endeavour sincerely to ascertain and honestly to declare the truth." M ODERN A R TILLERY. —In this journ a l th e atten• __on of the Governm ent author ities has been called again and again to the Parrott and D a hl gren guns. The Americans have constructed cannon of calibres w hi c h t o us are known only as of theoretical and p ro b a bl e attainment, and they have armed batteries hundred s o f miles nom their arsenals with the most Powerful guns ever used in war, which have been carried by sea and in stormy waters to the enemy's shores. Before such projectiles as these gunscarry the breaching of masonry, whethe r of brick or stone, is but a question of short time. And in the face of these facts we are obliged to record that our scientific officers are of opinion ' th a t our best gun for bre ac hi ng purposes i s th e o ld 68-pounder I Why, we know w h a t t h a t can d o . W e know that a t 3,5j0 yards it s fi re would b e a b out as effectual ae that of Mons Me g . Th ese tr i a l s a t 200 yar d s are perfectly fatuous, if no other results than these, or such as these, be g ained by there. It is of no use saying Sum ter was of brick; it was at least as good work as most of our existing fortifications, and infinitely less easy "to splinter up" than a work o f granite or rab b le masonry. I n substance it very much resembled our martello towers on the beach at Hythe. Rave we any gun which could breach one of these at 3,500 yards g Do, pray, gentlemen of the Ordnance committee bestir yourselves, and get us a gun with such results. Let Mr. Whitworth or SirW. Armstrong, Capt. Pallisser, Capt. Blakeley, Mr. Bashley Britten, Mr. Th om as, any one, give us a gun as good and as cheap as th e Parrott to begin with, and then we can rest content w hile you are going on with your experiments. One thing is certain—that any forts which may b e assailed b y such artillery as the Americans have employed at Sumter must be faced with iron plates. We are yet in doubt as to the mode in which stone works can be coated with iron, but it is obvious that mere masonry will not stand unprotected against the heaviest order of rifled projectiles. Do not let us pooh-pooh the Americans. If wo are wise it is the last thing we ought to do. Our artillerists think they are wrong in the matter of the Dahlgren guns ; for breaching purposes they may be, but unquestionably the Admiralty would be rather nervous about the result of firing a 45018. shot against the stele of the Warrior, a t 2 00 yards' distance, notw i t h s t an di ng the experiments which seemed to indicate that large shot with comparatively kw charges of powder were inefficient. Tho authorities have had no experience of the effect of such shot as Dahlgrens propel. They have not the guns to dis mcheanrgmeetehtelmet. their minds to the little experi ments the Am er i cans have been making for t h e i r benefit at Sumter. It them a p p l y neat the Ordnance officers and gentle . is astoundi ng t o see what progress has been made in artillery s i nce the Crimean war. It i s u ndeniable that the establi s h ment of a few of Brigadier Gill more ' s bat teries before S e b astopol, on Oct. 17, 1854, instead of the " tremendous a rmament " of which Lord Granv ill e b oas ted. , would have "kn ocked the place into a cocke d h a t" i n 24 hours.—Army a n d N avy Gazette. THE FRENCH IRON-CLAD FRIGATE MAGENTA. —The France publishes the following naval moms :--" The iron-clad frigate Magenta has just terminated her experi mental trips at Bre s t i n presence of t h e comm ission presided over by Commandant Dieudonne, and they have been com pletely successful. On the 9th she took on board 300 seamen and officers, and we n t i nto the roa d s t ea d. On the following morning she left for Cherbourg to take part in the move ments which are to t a k e place t h ere . The Magenta is, like the Solferino, armed with a spur, and great interest conse• quently attaches to the manoeuvres she will go through." TERRIBLE INCREASE OF PAUPERISM. -- The annual report of the Poor Law Board, shows that during the last year, which ended March 25th, 1862, the sum of £6,077, 92 7 was expended for the relief of the poor, being an increase of £295,984 as epropared with the year preceding, SURREY THEATRE, M essr s. Shepherd and James Anderson on S a t ur day commenced their winter campaign with great /access; and, from the strict manner in which Mr. Shepherd redeems all his managerial promises, a brilliant season seems certain. The house was crowded in every part, and each old favourite as he made his entry on the stage received at once a warm and hearty welcome. The great performance of the evening was the first representation of a grand romantic melodrama, entitled "The Scottish Chief ; or, the Maid of Ellerslie," Of course the principal part, Sir William Wallace, fell to the lot of Mr. James Anderson; and, if the applause of a first night can be taken as a criterion, Mr Shepherd will have no cause to regret the co-partnership he has entered into. MV Panncefort acted the heroine (Helen Mart-) 1, 2 the intense delight of the audience, and without stopping to particularise the efforts of each artiste engaged in the play, we can truthfully say they acquitted themselves in a most satisfactory manner.rho piece has been mounted with all that care and minuteness that of late has been such a distin 4nished feature in the management of the Surrey, .and in no former instance have Messrs. C. Brew and J. Johnson, the scenic) artists,shown more brilliantly their proficiency in stage illusion. Planche's pre tty little p i ec e, " The Loan of a Lover," in which Mr. Thorne, Miss Esther Jacobs, and Miss E. Webster took part, brought the evening's enter tainments to a pleasant conclusion. A new serio comic drama is, we perceive, underlined for Satur day next, in which Mr. Shepherd will sustain the leading part. RIVER STEAMERS. —A correspondent of the City Press writes late years considerable improve ments have been made in all kinds of public conveyances save one. Railway carriages have been rendered more comfortable, but still there is room for further improvement in that respect ; omnibuses have undergone considerable reform ; and as the London General Omnibus Company a re now pa ying a five per cent. di v id en d , an d hope to have a larger dividend in future, perhaps we shall get even more I commodious vehicles than now, with civil conductors, and drivers who will not go on until a passenger has had time to get off the step ; the new cab company have turned out some decent vehicles and Jehus to match ; all our means of locomotion have improved to :some extent, save, as I said, one—the river steam boats. They remain as inconvenient and uncomfortable as ever. Take a trip up the river in one. If you remain on deck, you sit on an uncomfortable seat, and betwixt your knees and those of your vis-a-vis the space is so small that you are nearly dragged off your sent when anyonl pasties by; you are half roasted by the heat from the boiler, or half starved by the sickening va pours ; and if you have the good fortune to escape these contingencies, you stand a good chance of getting your leg broken or your foot crushed by the gangways or the ropes when you get off the boat. If you go below you find a cabin with bare boards and bare seats, dirty little windows which you cannot see out of, but by which the Thames water can enter freely, to your great discomfiture, and the whole place has a close, suffocating smell about it. Some time ago there appeared a prospect of these grievances being put an end to. A company was to supply us with roomy steam boats after the American plan, propelled by quick engines, tended by civil servants, and quick in their journeys. Whether the proposed company ever came to anything, or whether it was wound up, or what became of it. I cannot say, but of this I feel convinced, that an excel lent field for the investment of capital is here presented, and the wonder is that monied men have not taken advan tage of its ARTHUR SCHOTTNTAUER. Arthur Schopenhaner was born at Dantzic, February 22d, 1788. To his father, a wealthy merchant of great practical ability and force of character, it was his habit to trace the development of his own marked ethical temperament, as to the influence of his mother he was led by his theory of mental organisation to attribute the germ of his no less striking faculties of intellect. Johanna Schopenhaner, distinguished for her voluminous romances, her social genius, her somewhat wild, not to say Bohemian ideas of life, and powers of imagination and wit which made a slave of Goethe, could hardly fail to stamp the mind of her son with some impress of her peculiar idiosyncrasy. The atmosphere in which he was reared fostered this native influence. Precocious in talent, he was early thrown among a social circle of which the leading lights were such as the Schlegels, Klopstock, Rei marus, the Stals, Goethe, and Wieland, Puckler Maskau, and, at one especial period, Nelson and Lady Hamilton. Expelled by the outbreak of the French Revolution from their own city, the family started upon a round of travel through Belgium, Switzerland, France, and Great Britain--an advan tage which a youth of such quickness and obser vation did not fail to turn to account in the acqui sition of modern languages, a lively horror of popular, insurrections, and an intense love of English habits and institutions. His father, himself some what of an original, recommended to him at this early period the habitual reading of the Times newspaper, as the most faithful and living picture of society and the world at large. And to this practice he adhered to the day of his death, having the paper transmitted to him punctually wherever ne was. At Gottingen he studied side by side with Bunsen, under the direction of G. E. Schultze, chiefly in the direction of Plato and Kant. Medi cine formed also one of his pursuits. His life was from the first one of solitude and reserve. In 1811 he repaired to Berlin for the teaching of Fichte, to which, however, he shortly became inveterately opposed. The example of his mother ruining her children by dissipation, added to the rather prosaic scandals of her connexion with Goethe, is said to have contributed to that cynicism which he ever felt, or affected to feel for women. We hear of him, notwithstanding, enjoying life, both at Venice and Dresden, after a truly Byronian model—ln Italia mille e tre. The great work of his life, "Die Welt als Wille and Vorstellung," was first pub lished at Leipzig in 1819. It is strangely in keep ing with the cold and cynic element of his character that on the eve of its appearance he started on a tour to Rome and Naples, where he passed above a year, heedless apparently of the fortune of a book which contained his whole original system of meta physics. After a short terra of profess'lrship at Berlin, he resumed his travels in Italy till the year 1825. Flying in 1831 from the cholera, which carried off Hegel at Berlin, he finally established himself at Frankfort, in company with a female servant and a shock-dog, in comfortable apartments on the quay of bchone-Aussicht. His life was that of a classic sage, regulated by maxims of prudence, comfort, and supreme self-regard, to which end his means and resources were husbanded with parsimo nious care. Without pretending to stoical absti nence from the good things of life, his rule was that of Seneca and M. Aurelius—neurant sequz. His confident expectation was, by this regime of healthy physical activitY, to live to a hundred years, but death surprised him, in the form of a pulmonary attack, at the immature age of 72. With those who disliked him—and they were many —Schopenhauer passed for a morose, selfish, and crusty old bachelor, . fanatic in his opinions, and dictatorial in laying down his crotchets. To the few who admired him and penetrated his reserve, he seemed a creative and inspired genius, to whose serene, unruffled in tellect truth had revealed herself in the final posi tive forms of philosophy, science, and art. Amongst these, M. Foucher de Careil was admitted to an ex ceptional degree of intimacy, and has drawn for us a friendly yet discriminating portrait of the sage. For the men and books of his country he cherished an equal contempt. English, and, above all French, authors attracted his sympathies and filled his lib rary. Next to Kant, he used to aver, Helvetius an Cabanis marked epochs in his life. Rabelais, rarely read in Germany, was another of his favou ritaa. He almost blushed to be a German, taunting his metaphysical countrymen with looking into the clouds for what they had always under their feet. "The word 'idea," he would say, "so clear and precise to a French or English understanding, sets a German off in a balloon." His conversation struck M. de Cariel at their first meeting at a table d'hote at Frankfort. He was then in the last year of his life, an old man, with a clear blue eye, thin sarcastic lips, an immense forehead fringed with long white tufts on either temple, and an expression of mingled nobility and malice. His laced frill and white cravat recalled the image of an elderly gen tleman of the time of Louis XV. Like most men who are constitutionally shy and reserved, he was most at home, next to a few intimates, in the society of utter strangers. A brilliant talker, jealous of contradiction, quick and petulant in tone and ges ture, of rich and unerring memory, and measured while easy precision of phrase, he exhibited much of the conversational cleverness, as he anticipated many of the special opi n i ons, o f t h e l ate M r . B uc kl e. His was the same vast erudition, the bookish know ledge, at the same time devoid of pedantry, which characterised Montaigne. A lover of order and clearness, obscurantism was with him the unpar donable sin. His philosophy, like that of Socrates, formed one with his life, and his special demon was humour, that modern analogue of the Socratic irony. His method of analysis and observation was the same. At the base of the metaphysical and moral system of Schopenhaner lay the peculiar idea of Will. This, he would boast, was his great dis covery.—Saturday Review. Stonewall Jackson's Personal Appearance This redoubtable chieftain was no less a subject of interest to his enemies than to his friends. In every Federal account is apparent the intense anxiety hia presence and movements created. During the battles a Federal captain, who had been taken prisoner, was reclining under a tree, when General Lee and staff rode by. The captain, struck with the dignified and soldierly appearance of the General, languidly inquired who he was, and expressed unfeigned admiration at his fine figure on horseback. Soon after General Jackson rode by, and the weary prisoner again proffered his inquiries. " That's glorious Old Stonewall !" exclaimed the guard, cheering lustily as his eye followed the hero. Up sprung the recumbent prisoner, and, gazing curiously until the General was out of sight, lay down again, with an expres ' sion of disappointment, muttering, " Well, he ain't much for looks anyhow !" The awkward figure of Jackson upon horseback has been the subject of frequent merriment. He usually rode in a loo se , shambling attitude, and was very indifferent about his dress and appearance. On one o ccas i on h e approached a squad of soldiers at dusk, hi s horse floundering along the mire, and himself reeling in the saddle, like a drunken man ; so that one of the soldiers, not recognising him, shouted, as he passed, " I say, old fellow, you look as if you knew where to help yourself to liquor; 1 wish you would hand me some." . . . On first joining the army of the Shenandoah, the horse General Jackson rode was said to be very characteristic of himself, "a plain beast that went straight ahead and minded its own business, an excellent quadruped, that was shot under him ; after which an elegant mare was presented to the General. This was a nigh-strung, visionary animal, who cut capers, and threw her rider, and wa s soon di sc arded for a third, a more controllable creature. But the General never ceased to regret the loss of his first steed.—" The Hero's Life," just published by Chapman and Hall. THE SOUND OF THUNDER is caused by the sepa ration of the atmosphere by the electric fluid, and the excessive rapidity of the separation• force cou n t erac t s what would otherwise be the neutralising effect of the air's elasticity. Similarly, the smack of a whip is not effected by the coming together of tho atmosphere, but by its rapid separation, inasmuch as otherwise a less quick stroke or the wave of the hand would 000400 U a oeasiderable sound. At. op Tillln Ovular HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Sept 12. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High ness the Princess Helena, drove in the grounds this morning. Her Majesty held a Council this afternoon, which was attended by Earl Granville, the Duke of New castle, Viscount Palmerston, and the Right Hon. Sir George Grey. At the Council Parliament was ordered to be fur• ther prorogued from the 14th of October next. Mr. Arthur Helps attended as Clerk of the Council. The lion. H. Elliot was presented to her Majesty at an audience. Sir Andrew Buchanan had an audience of her Majesty. Earl Granville and Viscount Palmerston bad audiences of the Queen. SUNDAY. The Queen, their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel. The Rev. J• Ellison preached the sermon. Count Gleichen visited the Queen. Viscount Palmerston, Earl Granville, Sir George Grey, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir Andrew Buchanan, and Mr. Helps, the Clerk of the Council, left the Paddington terminus by a special train on the Great Western RailwaY at 20 minutes past 1 o'clock on Saturday afternoon to attend the Queen at Windsor Castle. The Ministers left Windsor by a special train at 4 o'clock on their return to town. This evening, at 6 o'clock, the Queen and Royal Family will leave Windsor, and proceed by the usual route to Balmoral, whence the return of the Court to Windsor is fixed for the Bth of October. On Thursday afternoon, soon after the arrival of her Majesty at Windsor Castle, the Queen and royal children visited Herne's Oak, which had not been removed. Since the downfall of this venerable relic it has been religiously guarded by keepers until her Majesty's pleasure should be known as to its ultimate destination. During the late storm which passed over Windsor another fine old oak was struck down by the lightning.—Court Journal. On Friday her Majesty visited the Mausoleum at Frogmore, and expressed her satisfaction at the progress of the works. The Prince and Princess of Wales will shortly return front Scotland to Sandringham Hall, his 'toys' Highness's seat in Norfolk. King Victor Emmanuel is now hunting the gazelle in the Valdieri. The King of the Belgians will g' to Austria ja the month of November, and will pass the winter in a villa near Venice. The Royal Family of Orleans are at present dispersed in all directions. Prince de Joinville is in Swit zerland, and the Duc de Chartres in Mecklenburg, where he and his bride are on a visit to the Grand Duke. She Comte de Paris is at Tunbridge Wells, with the venerable Queen Amelie, and the Duke de Nemours has gone to join his family in Spain. The Pope has just presented to the Museum of the Capitole, the colossal statue of the Empress Faustinat from the time of the Antonines, recently found at the villa Massino, which has been acquired by the new railway cow pany. This is the statue which is of such extreme elegance and beauty, and which has, besides that, preserved all the gilding and colouring, It has now been placed in the Gladiator-room, His Eminence Cardinal Wiseman is announced to lecture at the Hartley Institution, on the 16th instant, at Southampton. As if alarmed by Sir Wm. Armstrong's recent threat as to the exhaustion of England's coal supply, the Duke of Sutherland is engaged in experimenting near the river Skiach in searches for albertite, a substance resem bling coal. The magnificent memorial window in honour of his late Royal Highness the Prince Consort, in St. Mary's Church, Nottingham, was completed on Saturday last. PROBARILITIES OF ANOTHER JAPANESE WAR l—' It is rumoured, and we believe with truth, that the state of affairs in Japan has determined the Government to increase the force in China by one regiment, which will be available for the protection of British subjects in the domi nions of the Tycoon. The 31st Regiment was sent home inconsiderately, just at the moment they were wanted for this purpose, through a not very enlightened observance of the letter of his instructions from home by General Brown• The 31st, we believe, will now be replaced by one of tha battalions that lately sailed for India. Whichever of them can be first made available will be sent on to China instead of landing in India. Either the 2d battalion of the 20th or the 21st would have this duty allotted to it, as the 2d bat' talion 19th and the 36th sailed long after, and the 2d bat' talion 25th were to land at Ceylon to enable the 60th to 6 1 :' on to New Zealand. Between the change thus rendered necessary, and the diversion of the 50th from Madras, the Indian establishment will be left two battalions short of its proper proportions. Our new system of Indian reliefs ren ders any reduction of this kind undesirable, and accordingly two regiments from England will, in all likelihood, be at once sent out. The two first on the roster are the 55th, at Portsmouth, and the 76th, at Aldershott ; and most pro bably these two corps will be placed under ordsrs for Madras within a few days from the present time,-4/04 and Navy Gaaette. AN INVITING OLD LANDLADY.—" 6 Whu wane me ?' A stranger, I answered, wanting lodgings Hech, mon I whu are ye ? let's hae a look at ye l' Wel l, was my reply, I'm a man at present somewhat lonely in tb° world, wanting a home, and a kind old mother who will be very good to me, and accept a little kindness in return dare you take me in ? Hech, mon alive I I'm ber just e puir lonely old body mysen, and know what it is both to want kindness and gie it : dun ye stay out of neete, an d come home drunk ?' Oh, no I there's not much danger of that, for I'm there or thereabout a teetotaller : what are your terms ? Six shillings a week, and find yersen, sp a they're two o'th' nicest rooms i' aw Derbyshire; and aw" got some o'th' nicest pictures in em, and the best collection o' minerals yo'n ever seen; an aw'n got the front door made up to keep awth' beggars and riff-raff out; an th: finest rose-tree up th' house end y'n ever seen; a g ood garden an' the beat milk free th' nicest cow i' aw'th neigh bourhood.'"—Spencer.Hall's Days in Derbyshire. roWughedenoeusdpaary.Aenvgeunsinogn,haisaw to s, JOHNNY WHO UPSET THE COACH V , --.We re' g a y t r u e s t s e t l o i w s t a a s t p e as t s h i a n t g ot through Meikleour House from Dundee, where he had been taking a prominent part in the formal opening of the Baxier Park, an accident occurred which might have been attended with serious consequences. As the noble earl's carriage, contain' ing himself, the countess, Lady Victoria Russell, and Lord Amberley, was passing the Cross at Coupar-Angus, about nine o'clock, one of the wheel horses stepped on the cause way and came down heavily, breaking the pole and startling the other horses. This produced considerable fear and cora motion both among the distinguished occupants in the car' riage, and also among those who witnessed the accident. A crowd speedily collected, when measures were promptly adopted to raise the fallen horse and to secure the safety of the noble earl and family. Mr. Chisholm, letter-carrier, at once threw open the carriage door and got the occupants out, who immediately made anxious inquiries as to the ex' tent of the damage done to the carriage and horses, and espe cially as to the safety of the postilion. The noble earl a nd family were then conducted to the Perth Arms Inn. (Mr. Penny's) by Mr. Gardener, inspector of poor, where every attention was shown to them, Another pole having been obtained for the carriage, two horses were attaches, when the distinguished party proceeded on their journey, after having expressed their thanks for the kindness shown theta by the people. As they drove off they were loudly cheered by the crowd. The detention lasted about an hour. Wo ate h a ppy to be able to state that the noble earl and his farnilY sustained no bodily injuries, though from the nature of the accident they must have felt considerably alarmed. Th e postilion, who appears to have been slightly hurt, was able after a little time to resume his duty.—Dundee Adver. - itser. T s ' s' e t iacireeod unt than 12,000,000 cockchafers have bee n, de h r a y i e d a b r y in th t e h a e u c t a h n o t r o i n ties of a ß e tt p l r e e , m in ium S : it t z o e r rl t an be d i ; destruction has exceeded I,ooof. DR. HOOK ON " BAD COPy."—The chairman of the Slaugham harvest home dinner on Friday said the dean had preached a magnificent sermon to them, and he (the chaitman) was very sorry he was not now present, but he was compelled to leave a silent time ago in order to catch an early train. Before the dean went he asked hint whether, if they wished it, he would print the sermon. The answer the dean made was that he should not sal " No," but should leave it to them, upon which he (the chairman) at once said " Yes." He told the dean he thought they could sell 100, and he believed they would print it. With respect to the copy of the sermon he offered to the dean to get it written out plain for the printers. The dean made answer and said that would never do, he would write it out badly himself. Upon his asking the dean why, ho explained that if the copy was plain, it would be put into the hands of the worst compositors, whereas if it vies written badly the best hands would get it, and the work would be better done, (Laughter,)-- E t ut A stisivp; 11ars. I