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Manfier, Mr. W. H. Swanboronzh. THIS EVENING, 1113 FIRST CHAMPAGNE. Mr. Leigh 3lurray. Followed by (39th time) THE MOTTO, "FM ALL THERE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier, Clifton; Mesdames Ada Swanboraugh, F. Josephs, Maria shnpson, Wallace, and .Tenny White. To conclude with TURN HIM OUT. Mr. Turner, Miss Thorne. Commence at 7. TriRE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing 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.—Moraing, 4h. 15m.—Afternoon, 4h. 30m. To-moßßow.-Morning, 4h. 52m.—Afternoon, sh. 10m. The Weather—Sun Office, Sept. 2, 1863. THERMOMETER. This morning This day at Two o'clock 7O _ _ __ 7 Baromoter-29.30. Wind—South; light, and cloudy, with rain. Zifit ('7 l Sum LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2, 1863. One solitary little cocoon will yield you an as tonishing length of silk, however scantily the silk worm may have been fattened upon mulberry l ea ves. Not one jot less remarka b le in its way, that is as an instance of facile expansion, or rather, it should be said, prolongation, is the manner in which the thread of his discourse has been spun out this month by the most conspicuous contributor to the New Review (Political, Philosophical, and Literary), a periodical which, although it has not yet completed its first half year, has already as sumed a high place among its contemporaries as the organ of the more advanced Conservatives. " The Session of 186 V is the title of his paper, the theme of his high argument. It is a short text enough, and not apparently— to a superficial obser ver, at least—so very suggestive ! Y e t it i s from this atom of a germ that has here, in the first q uarter -of-a-hundred pages of the opening article in the New Review for September, grown forth the ablest resume yet published of the doings (such as they were) of the two Houses during the last session—by reason of the debilitat ing, relaxing, soporific influence of the regime, nominally of the Whigs, but actually of Tories under Lord PALMERSTON ! The " situation," as our neighbours have it, in the closing paragraph of this clever and caustic survey is thus hap pily epitomised, where it is said that— " A popular Premier :at the head of an incapable and divided Ministry, and supported by a gross majority of from five to ten votes ; a Liberal Cabinet which came into power upon one understanding and retains it on another ; a - Whig Party which owes its tenure of power exclusively to the aid of the Tories. and a Radical party which discovers in its official leaders the humble servants of the Conservatives, make altogether a wholly exceptional, abnormal, and unnatural polircal tableau." Not one single phrase, epithet, adjective in all which, can, we take it, for one instant be seriously controverted. The Ministry is—precisely as it is there described. That it is incapable and divided is proved to the recognition of everyone, by the flagrant fact of its doing just absolutely nothing. Its foreign policy is a nullity. Its home policy has long since fairly become comatoie. When it has attempted to interfere even in some minor detail, as in reference to the City Police, it has floundered into a succession of mistakes, and has been compelled eventually and ignominiously to withdraw from its ill-advised venture at innovation. The incapability and the division of the Ministry are as undeniable in eff,,ct (that is to say, literally in their effects), as is the one isolated merit of the Cabinet, the one exceptional source of its vitality, the personal popularity of the First Lord of the Treasury. That it (and he) came into power upon one understanding, while it (and he) retain that same power upon another, who shall venture to gainsay ? It is admitted oven frankly en ough by Ministers themselves—by Lord PAL MERSTON as their chief, with a good-humoured combination of slyness and satisfaction, that must be to the very last degree irritating to the few inde pendent Liberals (Liberals at heart and 'not merely by name) below the gangway, or sparsely scattered about the back benches. Nothing in its way could be more felicitous than the application by the reviewer to our veteran Premier (p. 5) of those melo dious lines applied by LUCAN to the delineation of POMPEY, beginning " Famceque petitor multa dare in vulgus"—and more especially of that majestic comparison to the giant of the forest, " Qualls frugifero quercus sublimis in agro"—a passage kindred in excellency to a congenial simile in one of the opening pages of Sir WALTER RALEIGH'S noble Histo r y of the World. Scattered though the well-tempered but at intervals the h ardly less than scathing survey, here taken in the New Review, of the session of 1863, ar e other phrases, and, indeed, at times whole passages, far more satirical than complimentary. I It is the Whigs," we are comically reminded at one moment, '; who wag their political pigtails over the dangers of a Tory Government, and resemble nothing so much as the old gentleman whom WASHINGTON IRVING saw at Stratford, who still seemed to think himself hale and vigorous, with the trifling exception that for some yews past he had quite lost the use of his legs.'" At another moment we are called upon to how it has com e to p ass that this Mosaic .31-m• know atry sits powerless in the House of Commons, and utterly abashed in the House of Lords. Only occasionally is it, that the bite of the satirist is little less than a mere mumble with a toothless gum—as where he s tys with a spiteful but innecuoua acrimony thet " Sir GEORGE GREY is a weak end obstinate man, and very much a clerk, who certainly doss nothing towards compensating for the blunders of Lord RUSSELL." The two new men inducted into the Government—it is erroneous here said into the ranks of the Cabinet—are more accurately described the Marquis of HARTINGTON as the Ascanius of the Whigs, and Mi-. STANSFELD as one holding the same position among the Radicals as a " promis ing junior" holds at the British bar. Refer ring to Mr. DISRAELI'S memorable con trast on the 26th of last June, his contrast between the Conservative and Liberal creeds, without doubt very admirable of its kind, but here described rather extravagantly as one " which for terseness, clearness, pregnancy will bear comparison with the style of DEMOsTIIENES ?" the New Review observes, after quoting a passage from it, "The truth of all this is so undeniable, its moral effect is so irresistible that Mr. DISRAELI'S opponents became alarmed, and consoled them selves by groundless statements to the effect that the speech from which it is taken had given offence to his party. Why, there is not a single expression in it, from beginning to end, that could give offence to a single Conservative. This is the stuff and nonsense which is always re peated whenever Mr. DISRAELI inflicts a wound on his opponents. The recurrence of these assertions as surely indicate that his shaft has gone home as the marker's signal at Wim bledon announcing a bull's-eye or a centre." Against Earl RUSSELL, in particular, the critic draws up a very heavy bill of indictment, in deed. "He bas bade Russia," he says "do this and do that, and if the EMPEROR quietly refused, 'what then ? Why, then, we can only say, like 808 ACRES in the play, that—the EMPEROR is a 4‘ very ill-bred man," No less stingingly sarcastic are his allusions when speaking "of Lord RUSSELL'S performances in various other quarters of the globe—of his silly invitation to the PorE—of his pompons letters addressed to the Court of Copenhagen, and the arrogance displayed to wards the Government of Brazil—of his disastrous policy in China, and h lous and unrighteous dealing with the isp people er i of Japan." As to his cession of the lonian Islands to Greece, the New Beview (and as the organ of the Conservatives it is significant that it should hesitate not to speak out thus boldly upon that matter) declares it to be nothing less than " a soiled page in English History, and one which, by itself, is sufficient to stamp Lord RUSSELL'S tenure of the Foreign-office with eternal shame. To a sheer propensity for meddling, com bined with an attempt to repair one blunder by another, and to efface the effect of his Schleswig- Holstein despatches by obsequious and officious zeal in the affairs of Greece, we owe the loss of a position which, some day or other, Great Britain will bitterly regret." Without scru tinising yet further the articlemayupponronwouheicche we have been commenting, we it to be as highly flavoured, almost, we might say, as hotly devilled a dish of political sarcasms as any yet served up by Lord ROBERT in the Quarterly. One of the most interesting features of our English scientific life is the gathering together of men dis tinguished in various branches of knowledge to communicate the observations made and the fresh steps gained in each several department. It is not very long since our social reformers, philanthropists, and philosophers banded themselves together for the consideration of some of those evils, dangers, and difficulties that clog the wheels of our social pro gress. The various questions that come to the sur face, as civilisation proceeds on her onward march, are examined in their different aspects, and the work that yet remains to be done in clearing the way of justice, toleration, and knowledge is helped forward in the most practicable manner. An older and in some respects a more remarkable society has just terminated its annual labours. The British Association numbers among its members names which are not only a boast of our time but of our country—men who are not only remarkable in their own island, but who bear a European reputa tion. Every assembly of such men leaves the world richer than it found it. When each states the ex perience he has gathered, even in a few short months, of the science to which he has devoted all his powers, the result must be worthy of the most respectful attention. In these gatherings, too, each meets with associates worthy of him; the one can readily comprehend the meaning of the other ; he can encounter him on his own ground, he can appreciate his difficulties, ho Can raise objections, he can perceive the great ends of science to whia, the most trifling and casual discovery may tra. It is encouraging for the thinker to :enfold his conjectures, his perplexities, his suggestions in such an atmosphere. He is secure from narrow prejudice, from superficial criticism, from contemp tuous neglect. Sir RODERICK MURCHISON is not likely to misapprehend Sir CHARLES LYELL, Pro fessor OWEN will not rashly contradict Sir DAVID BREWSTER, Mr. GLAISHER will certainly give a patient hearing to Sir WILLIAM ARMSTRONG. The whole circle of the sciences is, as it were, brought before us. We leern the point of development which each has reached, we acquire the fruits of the enterprise and exertion of the wise men of other lands than our own, and the busy worlds of politics, fashion, and commerce suspend for a while their own interests, their own engrossing topics of thought and discussion, to listen to the addresses of great men as they discourse on those mighty and immutable laws before which our earthly wisdom owns itself bffiled and powerless. Nor is the atten tion of the meetings entirely confined to purely speculative subjects. Those all-important questions of physiological science which affect health %nd life form part of their discussions, and each year the added experience of the generation is brought for ward to ameliorate the sufferings inseparable from humanity. Thus, in the present meeting, a matter of vital importance to a large body of our country men wan the subject of thought and discussion. The terrible amount of mortality existing among our troops in India has lately been commented on as a subject urgently pressing for inquiry. It would ill become England to rest idle on hearing of such loss of life—loss not from the enemy, or the devastating p est il ence, but from causes constantly and universally prevalent ; in sidious disease that leaves its fatal poison rankling in the veins, or quietly adds unit after unit to the long list of English soldiers' graves under, the Indian sun. It is needful that we should at once inquire into the possibility of ameliorating such a state of things, and the open discussion of the question among able, conscientious, and intelligent men will go far to dispel that ignorance whichisso of too, na fatal agent in the work of destruction. So, , the section of Geology brought its contribution to useful and popular knowledge in its discourses on coal mines, while the information, so laboriously and dangerously acquired by Mr. GLAISHER, is pre sented to his scientific contemporaries in the most copious and intelligible form. We may feel proud that such a gathering should lose none of its inte rest as the years roll on, but that each successive meeting should bring together so many men, die - tingnishecl in such various bran c h es o f l earn i ng , t o do honour to their country and to instruct their generation. Ou the .e whole, the Frankfort Congress appears to be very satisfactory. Still various objections were made at different times to the project; and this is not to be Wondered at, consider ing the importance of the p o i nts discussed and the magnitude of the change s proposed. Indeed, at one time the august assembly separated, to allow the Ministers to confer on the subjects under discus sion. These official advisers suggested several al terations; some of them were of a salutary nature. They proposed to add a seventh vo i ce to the Directory. Austria, Prussia, and Bavaria to have one representative each; two repre sentatives to be given to those kings and princes who have two or three votes in T_HE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1863. the Federal Assembly, or plenum in the Bund. The twenty States that have only one vote in the Federal Assembly are to have two in the Directory. So far the proposition seems feasible enough, and likely to impart satisfaction to the several different parties in the affair. It appears that this change was sudden, for it was considered that the matter was settled, but some of the Princes expressed their disappointment of the arrangements made, and con sequently the alteration was made. On Thurs d ay some very important business was transacted at the meeting. Objections were raised to some portions of the Austrian Reform, and the Congress has re moved some of them. In article eight a decisive change has been made. A simple majority in the Federal Council will not have the right to empower the Directory to make war against a foreign Power " which may attack . a Federal State having terri tories that do not belong to the Bend." This is a very wise arrangement, and contrasts favourably with the somewhat harsh and arbitrary plan at first proposed, and which could not have failed to mili tate against the wishes and hopes of those Princes who were comproraised in the affair. They would not have liked to have been compelled nolens volens to take up arms against foreign States, in defence of the territaties of Prussia and Austria. Some modificatioris were made likewise in article nine, so that the Directory will not have the right to inter fere for she "p revent i on o f di s t ur bances in a Federal State." S ome " react i onary P r i nces, " as th e y are Ptylej, take umbrage at the proposition which re to the attributes of the National Assembly. One of these objectors urged his views on the ground that the consequences would be eventually unpleas ing to those who designed its formation. "If the Chamber of Deputies have the privilege of legislat ing in matters connected with the public press, with the rights of association and domicile, &c., it will gradually become a kind of Constituent Assembly, a body which none of us can possibly wish to see formed." This is a most impolitic argument, and one which if carried out is likely to be pro ductive of great mischief. Little enough in all conscience has been granted by the Im• perial act of Reform, in the style in which these faultfinders would make out, and it is as absurd as it is unjust to put forward all these objections, and compromise the success of a mea sure that might be better, but that might be far worse in every way. The Duke of COBURG ap pears to have acted in a most sensible manner in this awkward affair. lie made several propositions to the Assembly, to induce them to allow the Ger mans to be represented by men of their own choice. It is not surprising that he should be one of the most popular men in Germany. He certainly de serves to be on many grounds"; and, if unsuccessful in these endeavours, the people will not be the less grateful for the energy with which he fought their battles, and kept his own cosnsel, when so many were against him. All honour is due to those who thus pioneer the path of progress, and hold out examples of a class that all might be proud to fol low. The Frankfort Journal, it appears, is very indignant that the Emperor of AUSTRIA should preside at the Directory. This is a very uncalled for fault to find. It seems that the EMPEROR has the best right to that place of privilege, and on the principle of Palmam qui nzeruit ferat, he has cer tainly more claim than any man, Whatever good may come from this Ac,aembly of Princes and Ministers at the Congress of Frankfort, will certainly belong to the man who planned and proposed the augrAst assembly. If, on the other hand, the termitratrLon should not be so auspicious as the orening, ihe blame will rest with those who have need tr le i s n s o , u 'Ace d apposition, useless t o t h c e h a p n l g a n e s a , f o a r n a d m presented eli o r atin g the ee,adttion of a time-honoured nation, that has lon g waited for the d awn o f a b r i g h ter d ay of free f JOM than she at p resent enjoys. CARLYLE'S FATHER AND CARLYLE'S SADNESS ! An American periodical has lat 31y published from the report of a blind interlocutor a conversation of Mr. Carlyte's,in which he paints with his usual force and quaint ness of style the portrait of his father, and deplores the ono error that that sagacious man committed in giving his son what is now called a good education I—" I think," said Carlyle, " of all the men I have ever known my father was quite the remarkablest. Quite a farmer sort of a person, using vigilant thrift and careful husbandry; abiding by veracity and faith, and with an extraordinary insight into the very heart of things and men. . .He was an elder of th e ki r k ; and it was very pleasant to see him in his daily and weekly relations with the minister of the parish. They had been friends from their youth, and had grown up together in the service of their common Master. That parish minister was the first person that taught me Latin ; and I am not cure but that he laid a great curse upon rue in so doing. Ah I sir, this learning of reading and writing —what trouble and euffering it entails upon us poor human creatures I He that increaseth in knowledge increaseth sorrow ; and much study is a weariness to the flesh I—l am not sure but that we should all be the happier and better, too, without what is called the improvements of the modern ages I For mine own part, I think it likely that I should have been a wiser man, and certainly a godlier, if I had fol lowed in my father's steps, and left Latin and Greek to the fools that wanted them. LA NOURRICE !—After the nurse has had her parting weep over her disappearing progenitare, ..he is summoned to the bedroom to offer a first repast to Henriette or Gaston. The details of the operation aro not ordinarily publishable, nor are they indispensable to the subject—they may therefore be passed over in mute discre tion. But, at whatever cost to nervous ears, something must be said about another scene which produces itself soon afterwards, and which is too essentially inherent to the question to be left in silence. A nurse, like everybody else, must go to bed, and as in France she generally sleeps in her mistress's room, it is under her scrutative eye that she innocently undresses. The outer contrast between the coarse clothes and awkward ways of the peasant nurse and the pretty interior of a Paris apartment is always rather a shock to the feminine proprietor of the latter, but the sen timent so created in her mind is carried to utter disgust by the process of going to bed, which forcedly brings out the personal peculiarities of her new domestic. It is a fact worth the attention of so-called students of living colour that cer tain portions of an arriving nurse invariably present a tint which, though it is evidently a consequence of perennial unwashfulnees, is difficult to accept as a credible condition of the human pellicle. A pair of naked Burgundy feet, fresh from their native vine slopes, present to the asto. nished eyes of the Parisian spectator a shiny metallic mottled dark grey—they look exactly as if they were oxy dised. This curious hue, which is supposed in France to be a sp ec i a l personal attribute of the wet-nurse, intended by nature to distinguish her from her fellows, just as her cap distinguishes her garments, disappears the next morn ing under the dissolving influence of the inevitable bath, into which the terror-stricken woman is remorselessly plunged moment gm h l e ee r ni r nt u st t th h ae l n e ht s ,i s tat li t a r t ah r e e eess h , s o ee sf h thh o e thus wantonly destroys, in a p t p it r nr e at n ne t cf transforms previous . filth. From that un less she is an incorrigible brute, r s na hi s p, he w r h i i n ch t , hre months from a gawky village lot intelligent servant. B u t, even in the everne t as o o f n s a u b c ly ees s s m , a th rt e , process is laborious—not o n l y i s her physical natu re t o b e thoroughly changed, but, which is more difficult still, h er language and habits must alter too.—Bentley's 111iscellany, for Septenzber. ONE REASON FOR FORSAKING ATHEISM. Mr. J. B. Belabingtou, an Atheistic lecturer, and late editor of the Propagandist, has embraced Christianity. I n a lecture, giving his reasons for the change, he stated that in the month of September last he went on a lecturing ex .. pedition to Scotland. The first place at which he held forth was Glasgow. There he saw the churches all crowded on Sundays, and even on week days when there was service in them, and it struck him as strange that he, as the apostle of infidelity, was obliged to hide his head in a small room street, and even there had but a thin attendance. From not capable of containing more than 100 p eo p le, in a back Glasgow he went to Greenock, and there the ease was worse. All the infidels he could muster were some half-dozen working men. He could not get a printer to print his billy announcing his meetings, nor a bill-poster to paste them up. They were accordingly printed at Paisley, 12 miles off, but they were of little use, for no one came to hear his lectures, and he began seriously to reflect that playing the infidel prophet wrts something very like playing the fool. On coming back to England these reflections took a prac tical effect, and after much consideration God revealed him self to him, and he saw the errors of the course he had been Pursuing. Ile warned yo ung men w h o , lik e hiniself,might be led away by the statements of infidel writers, to weigh them well before they embraced them, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE FRANKFORT CONGRESS. FRANKFORT, SEPT. 2. Luxemburg has joined Baden, Saxe-Weiraar, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Waldeck in declining to accede to the resolutions. Their votes will be referred to the committee. The younger branch of the House of Reuss also refuses to accede to the reform plan, but will sign the letter to Prussia communicating the result of the Conferences, No Ministerial conferences will take place until countergpropositions may have been received. The privilege of Austria to preside at the Direc torat© has been agreed to by a majority of the Congress. BAVARIA. MUNICH, SEPT. 2. The Archduchess Sophia of Austria, mother of the Emperor of Austria, has passed through this city on her way to Carlsruhe and Baden-Baden. At the latter place her Imperial Highness will have an interview with the Queen of Prussia. SPAIN, MADRID, SEPT. 2. The Correspondencia Autografa of to-day says that in the conference at La Granja, General Prim informed the Queen that the circular of the 20th ult. had paralysed the labours of the electors. The Progressista s f e l t i nsu l te d by the motives and con ditions impos e d upon their meeting. He feared that their abstine nce f rom vo ting would be the first serious consequence. The ministry should either modify its pretensions or resign. The Progres sistas would never place themselves in the position of revolutionists. The Queen replied that as a constitutional sove reign she could not, in the absence of the Chambers, entertain a different opinion to that of the Ministry, whose services had merited the Royal confidence. Her Majesty h ope d that all wou ld b e am i ca bly ar ranged by the period of her return to Madrid. THE POLISH INSURRECTION. POSEN, AUG. 30. The following event will prove how far the Prus sian Government has gone in repressing the present stet© of things in Russian Poland. Some time ago a number of Polish ladies presented a petition to the principal authority in the province of Posen, to be permitted to establish hospitals for the wounded Poles near the Prussian frontier. The required permission was given from motives of humanity. It has now, however, been withdrawn, and the troops confiscate all consignments of beds, lint, &c., intended for wounded insurgents. According to information from an authentic source, the follo w i ng i s t h e t e xt of the speech ad dressed by the Emp eror o f Russia to the officers of the last conting ent of troops s ent into Poland " Go and serve tllB well; do not betray me, or I will dismiss you all and promote the soldiers that you see behind you in your places." This public insult was offered to the officers in presence of all the soldiers. FRANCE. BOURSE, Sept. I.—The upward movement Whi c h marked the close of business yesterday has Con tanned, and stock has been again in demand at a further advance, Threes, for the Account, being nuw quoted at 68F. 70c. The Railway Share Market has been similarly acted on, and quotations are generally higher. The market closed as fol lows 14 per Cents. 97 40 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 75 Credit Mobilier 11 95 Do, end month...• 1195 Bank Shares 3385 Credit k oncier 1325 HAIL, Italian Loan 73 60 Do. end month.. • Nevv ditto ....... Do. end month 73 80 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes.. • Rome Debt 'AYB. Cash. Account. Orleans ...........••••• 1030 .. 1035 —... Northern .......... 1000 —.. 997 50 • --- ditto- Lyons and Mediterranean 1045 .. 1042 50 Geneva 493 75 .. 493 75 Southern ........ Western Eastern Sardinian ....... ... 422 50 .. 418 75 Austrian .............. 432 50 .. 435 Lombard ............. 570 .. 570 North of Spain ........ 560 .. 565 Saragossa .............. 980 .. 685 Ditto to Barcelona .... 360 357 50 RUSSIA. La France publishes the following respecting the project of Constitution for Russia, under date of Moscow, 23d August According to the proposed plan the part of the Empire that would enjoy special Constitutions, would be nine in number, viz. : " The Gra❑d Duchy of Finland, the Provincial Assembly of which would be hold at Holsiugfors. "Baltic-Russia, comprising' the Government of St, Petersburg, properly called, Esthonia, Livonia, and Cour land, the Provincial Assembly of which would have its seat at St. Petersburg. "Great Russia, whose Provincial Assembly would meet at Moscow. " Little Russia, with a Provinci a l A ssem bl y a t Ki ew . " Southern Russia, with a Provincial Assembly at Odessa. " Western Russia, with a Provincial Assembly at Wilna. " The Kingdom of Poland, with a Diet which would be held at Warsaw. "Eastern Russia, with a Provincial Assembly at Kazan. " Finally, Siberia and ths adjacent provinces, with a Provincial Assembly at Irkoutsk. " As regards the provinces'of the Caucasian region and of American Russia, their organisation will be ulteriorly considered. The particular institutions for Poland will, it is said, be very extended. Should the Poles decline to send deputies to the Chamber of the Representatives of the Em pire, their scruples would be respected, and the special Government of Poland would function under the sole direc tion of the Diet of Warsaw, towards which the lieutenant of the Emperor would fill the constitutional mission of head of the executive power." SWEDEN. Advices from Stockholm announce that the volunteer system, on the model of that in England, is to be introduced into Sweden. The object is, the defence of the national territory, under the hypo thesis of the Swedish forces being employed abroad. The eventualities of the Danish question are said to have influenced the Government at Stockholm is this matter. DESTRUCTION OF HERNE'S OAK.—The shattered trunk of Herne's Oak was blown down on Monday morning last. A portion of this celebrated tree fell from the trunk upwards of 20 years ago, and has been carefully preserved in the royal stores at - Windsor Castle. Since then this famous tree has been fenced in with park pales, and a plate attached to it, upon which is engraved : There is an old tale goes, that Herne the Hunter, Sometimes a keeper here in 'Windsor Forest, Both all the winter time, at still midnight, Wahz round about an oak.—" Merry Wives of Windsor." Shakspere when he wrote the " Merry Wives of Wind sor" is said to have lodged at the Ilope Inn, Frogmore, at that time known as "The Bottle on the Moore;" this inn was about 200 yards distant from the tree. Herne is said to have been one of the forest keepers in the early part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and having committed some offence that would have occasioned his dismissal from office, he formed the desperate resolution to hang himself upon this tree. Its identity as " Herne's Oak " has been disputed by many writers, but in a plan of the Castle and town of Winds or , pu b lished at Eton i n 1742, the position of the oak is clearly defined and marked as Falstaff's oak. The fairies' dell h as b een partially fill e d up, but the lat e Prince Consort had much of the earth removed, when large oaks, in an upright position, were discovered at the bottom of this dell, which, no doubt, will now be put into, its ori ginal state to perpetuate the scene of Falstaff's distress and the pranks of the "Merry Wives of Windsor." THE LITERARY 1 IMES, after nearly half a year's existence as a penny periodical, finds that its price will not do; and, therefore, enlarging its size from twelve pages to sixteen, it is to be published henceforth at twopence, AMERICA. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) (Per the Bohemian.) NEW YORK, August 21 (Evening). The Tribune asserts that, according to informa tion received from Richmond, General Lee will offer General Meade battle before September, and that if Meade refuse, Lee will invade Maryland, select a battle ground, and await the Union army, his aim not being to carry operations northward but to take Washington. General Lee is organising a reserve force of 40,000 men to be stationed at Win chester, or another point in the Shenandoah Valley. This force ;s intended for some particular purpose, and will be commanded by General Longstreet. It is semi officially announced that the Govern ment is confident of the reduction of Fort Sumter, after a few hours' bombardment. But this would not terminate the siege, as there is desperate work and fighting to be done afterwards which may re quire a considerable time. Official circles put but little faith in the antici pation of immediate triumph, but entertain no doubt of ultimate success. Mr. Davidson, a member of the North Carolina Legislature, has written a letter to the Raleigh Standard saying ho believes four-fifths of the people of North Carolina demand peace upon any terms which will not enslave and degrade them. They may prefer Southern independence, but that they now believe cannot be obtained, nor do they see much future hope of it. They would compromise, upon an amendment to the continuation and per petuation of slavery in the States. He urges the people to elect members to the next Southern Congress who favour a six months' armis tice, and submission of disputed matters to a con vention of delegates from the Northern and Southern States, elected by the people themselves. The District Court has ordered an appraisement of the Peterhof', in order that if the Government decides upon purchasing her at prize value she shall be delivered to the Government. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money easy ; gold, 251 premium; exchange, New York Central, 1301; Illinois, 1243 ; ; Erie, 119. NEW YORK, Aug. 22 (Evening). The l'ichmond TVhig contains Charleston news to the 20th inst., stating that during the last 24 hours the Federal operations were confined to a steady and continuous bombardment cf Fort Sum ter from guns on Motris Island. The Federal 200-pounder Parrot-guns are too much for the walls of Fort Sumter, and their firing begins to tell upon the fort, which only replies at long inter vals. The defence of the harbour, however, does not depend mainly upon Sumter. If that fort be battered down, says the Richmond WM I, the har bour may still he held. It is determined to defend the city street by street, house by house, as long as as a foot of earth is left. The Governor has urged all non-combatants to leave Charleston as soon as possible. General Lee is still upon the Rapidan and Rap pahannock, where it is expected engagements will take place. General Meade is preparing to receive Lee's anticipated attacks. Rumours are current that Lee's movement to wards Fredericksburg was a feint, and that he is going towards Richmond via Gordonsville. Eight hundred guerillas, under Qaantrell, have crossed the Missouri River, captured Lawrence, Kansas, burning and destroying property to the estimated value of 2,000,000 dols. Senator Lane is supposed to have been captured. The Federal troops have started in pursuit of the guerillas. Military affairs are active in Mississippi. General Burnside is moving towards Knoxville, and General Rosecranz towards Chattanooga. President Lincoln has promised to attend a Union mass meeting at Springfield, Illinois, on the 3d September. If unable to be present, he will address the people by letter. The New York Herald urges President Lincoln to send strong columns from General Grant's' and. Banks' armies through Texas to Rio Urende, oppo site Matamoras, in order to counteract any coalition between the Emperor Napoleon and the South, or any attempt of Naroleon, to annex Texas to Mexico. General Maury has issued an order at Mobile that persons domiciled there are subject to the con scription, even though they have taken the oath as aliens. The New York. Times contains an article attack ing England and lauding Russia. It says :•.•." We are bewildered at England's treachery, which has subsided into a fixed, unchangeable policy. There can be no oblivion of the past. Henceforth America will recognise no tie to England." The New York Times accepts these new relations, and says It will go hard with America but England shall have enough of these relations before America has finished." The draft continues in New York without any disturbance. Mayor Opdyke has called a meeting of the common council to act upon the amendments he bas to propose to the municipal apprepriation for drafted men. (Liter by Telegraph to Father Point.) NEW YORK, August 22 (Evening). A report has been received from Philadelphia that Fort Sumter is captured and that the Federal gun boats have passed that fort. The Federal Govern ment has received no such intelligence, and little credence is given to it. Troops continue to arrive at New York to pre serve order during the draft. COM MERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Gold, 24 per cent. premium. Stocks dull. New York Central, 131. Erie, 1191. Cotton quiet. Middling Upland, 67ke. Wheat and flour dull. Corn very firm. Provisions and coffee in good inquiry. Sugar, molasses, and petroleum firm. A treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, was yesterday concluded ebetween the United Kingd om o f h Sweden and Norway and t R e public of Liberia, by their respective plenipotentiaries, tha Count Wachtmeister and Mr. Gerard Ralston. THE FORTHCOMING VISIT OF THE BRITISH ARCH OL OGICAL SOCIETY TO LEEDS.—The annual /E meeting of this society•isto be held in Leeds during October. It will be under very i fi ential patronage, the president being the newly created ( lord Houghton. Among the • papers to be read will be one on the Early History of Wright an Account L e eds, by Mr. J ewe llery and othe r Antiquities discovered by Lord Londesborough in Seamer Lime Quarry, near Scar. borough, Mr. Wright; p York, Mr. J. R. !auche ; on Ripon Cathedral, Mr. C. E. Davis; on Fountains Abbey, and on Spofforth Castle and Church, Mr. Gordon M. Hills; on Kirkstall Abbey and on Adel Church , Mr. Edward Roberts ;' on the Wakefield Chapel on the Bridge, Mr. F. R. Wilson ; on unpublished MSS. relating to Meaux Abbe y , Mr. E . Levien ; on the IWeapons of Ancient Yorkshire, Mr. H. T. Comin g; on Historical Autographs, Mr. I'. O'Callaghan; on Crom lechs, Rev. W. C. Was ; on Harewood Castle and Church, Mr. J. Jones ; and on various other interesting antiquarian topics. The excursions include th e f o ll owing visits :---To Ripon and Fountains; to Adel Church, Farnley Hall, Ilkley, and the Runic Crosses; to Harewood Church and Castle; to Wakefield Church and the Chapel on the Bridge; to Pontefract Castle an d Church; to Borough bridge and Aldborough ; to Kirkstall Abbey and Halifax ; and to York Cathedral and the Museum of that city. A DELICATE QUESTION.--A curious case of breach of contract—which, however, included a libel—has just been decided in Paris. Mademoiselle S— proceeded against the director of one of the Paris theatres for certain moneys due to her for an engagement as se cond danscuse. The defendant pleaded " never indebted ;" and, as a rider to the plea, stated that " the calves of Made moiselle's legs were too big for a danseuse." The following letter was put iu by the counsel toi the prosecution and formed the ground of the action :—" My dear Mademoi selle,—You surely. are not serious in proposing to appear as second dlnseuse ? Your physicalformarion,otherwise charm ing, is totally opposed to such a career. You may consider your engagement cancelled and yourself free. We have now but to 'regret a rehearsal which bias produced such negative results.—Agree, Mademoiselle, to believe the respect with which, ,Sc.c.' On the part of the plaintiff it was argued that she had made no secret of her legs, which were such as a liberal nature had given to her; that they were, in fact, the stock-in-trade of a dancer ; that objection had been taken by other directors to danseuses " sans mollet," and finally, tb at the state of the case was known to the defendant wJ can he made the contract. The iefen dant offered to ref. u. the matter to an " expert," and named the ballet-ru aster of the Imperial Academy as his referee, but the Col art held that strong legs were no breach of contract, and ga ce a verdict with,coste for Xhc LITERATURE. Veronia. Three vole. Hurst and Blackett. If " Veronia" be the first work of its author, we are inclined to augur well for his future career. It evinces great powers of thought, and a very con siderable ability in their development. The cha racters are not crowded on the canvass, but they are drawn with very great discrimination. Veronia de Medul, the heroine, is the fair and haughty daughter of a ruined patrician. We first discover her in a poor and lonely habitation, working to support a dying mother—dying for want of that succour for which Veronia is too proud td ask. The painful death of the mother produces a sad and thrilling effect ; it is portrayed with tragic power. The severe lessons of affliction produce their effect upon Veronia. At first her pride of birth is t‘lmost amusing in its arrogance, so Van Helder finds it. Van Helder is the kind, cordial friend env) tries, but for long in vain, to bring comfort to the isolated and unhappy ladies, while, as a doctor, he is attending the sick bed of Madame de Medul. At one time, while a friendly but most animated discussion about patricians and plebians, the rights of birth, and the pride of rank is going on, Veronia naively exclaims,with a half complimentary , insolence, "I always forget you are not a gentle man !" Few gentlemen are more deserving of the name than is the worthy Dr. Van Helder, decidedly the character of the book, a most original and most graphic portraiture. Van Helder, notwithstanding his inquiring and incredulous temperament, is the bosom friend and constant companion of the vener able Cure of St. Andrews, of which parish he is himself the doctor. He is also the constant subject of the indignant animadversions of Godensca, the Cure's housekeeper. The mutual war of words which almost continuously prevails between this well-matched pair of originals is very entertaining. Godensca's bitter tongue is, however, as is often the case, no criterion of the disposition of her heart towards the doctor. Jacques Henricart, the Man of the People, and Adrian de Boisvante, the treacher ous lover, are a well-contrasted pair. M. Bouchard is also happily sieetched, but his daughter's picture is somewhat overdrawn. Even the assistance which she gives to her father's law business (acting, in fact, as chief clerk) cannot quite account for all her disagreeable qualities Miss Sally Brass becomes an attractive companion when compared with Mademoiselle Justine Bouchard ! The Vicar's two sisters, Beth and Ana (the scene is laid in North Flanders) are simple, homely maidens, kept very much in the background, while the fascinating and dangerous Herminie de Mont Brison, and the devout and treacherous Madame de St. Barthelemy take, as becomes them, a very prominent position. The last volume is the most interesting of the three, and until the very end the reader is quite ignorant as to what may be Veronia's fate. The episode of Carl Dopter and his little wife Gretchen, perishing of fatigue and want in the Canon gate of Edinburgh, is quite unnecessary to the story, and might have been omitted. Again the author commits a serious error when, in the middle of the third volume, he enters into an explanatory discourse with his readers on the peculiarities of novel-writing and novels, his own among the number. Such a proceeding is destruc tive of all illusion. The reader is to believe the story true, or it is worthless. Such aside conversations with the audience have become a fashion with our novel writers nowadays, introduced, we sus pect, by th® 'roundabout confessions which Mr. Thackeray delights to bestow upon his readers. The example, however agreeable in his instance, is dangerous, and would be well avoided. We the more readily mention these exceptionable parti culars because we consider " Veronia" to be the production of one who is fitted to take high rank among the novelists of the day. Left to Themselves, By Mrs. Gordon Smythies, author of " Cousin Geoffrey," &c. Three vols. Hurst and Blackett. Mrs. Gordon Smythies has taken for the heroes of her new novel two little friendless, helpless, neglected boys, "left to themselves" in the wide wilderness of London. The moral of 'her story is to enforce the truth that all that is essential to success in life comes not from without but from within. Honesty and truthfulness, energy and per severance, faith and patience, are better than any gifts of friends or fortune which take to them selves wings and flee away when most required. With the history of these little " city Arabs" as her theme, Mrs. Smythies presents to us many of the varying phases of London life, its trials and temp tations, its privations and its penalties. A bed at night in the Adelphi Arches and a halfpenny cup of coffee for breakfast are at that the only sorry comforts within the reach of poor Harry and Sim Hazeldean. Very graphically and very forcibly does Mrs. Smythies " point the moral," while she pleasantly and skilfully " adorns the tale—the les sons conveyed in the apposite histories of the two brides, Mercy Mayflower and Blanche Melville, are full of warning to fair maidens of high and low degree who " love not wisely, but too well." The admonitions about temperance which are inciden tally, and not obtrusively introduced, would endear the volumes to the heart of George Cruikshank, and will, we doubt n o t, w i n f or the fair authoress go ld en opinions from many readers. We congratulate Mrs. Smythies on this new work, which is a fresh evidence of her kindness of heart, and her anxiety to devote her abilities to the true cause of the people, namely, their social regeneration and im provement. We are somewhat disappointed to find at tha end of the tale that the two devoted com panions in many trials, Harry and Sim, are not brothers, but cousins. We sympathise with the dismay of poor Harry, who has watched with an elder brother's affection over Sim, when ho finds him removed to a more distant relationship, and the change is not really necessary to the development of the story. The romantic affection of Lena Linley, and the life-long devotion of Little Prim rose, are mysteries that we shall not touch upon, but leave for the personal discovery of the reader. Tonal Foreign Courts. PARIS, August 31. Prince Napoleon has again left Paris for Havre, accompanied by the Princess Clotilda. Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clotilda, the Moniteur de la Flotte states, are shortly to proceed to Lisbon in their yacht the Jerome Napoleon. Prince Labanoff, the Russian Ambassador at Constantinople, who is now on leave of absence from his post, has arrived in Paris. The Chevalier Nigra, Italian Minister, is pre paring to quit Paris on leave of absence, for the recovery of his health. "We regret to announce," says the Memorial Diplonzatique, "that the state of the King of Spain causes serious uneasiness. The strength of the august patient after he had undergone a very painful operation has sensibly diminished, a symptom the more alarming, that his Majesty's constitution has never been robust." BRUSSELS, August 31. Prince Amadeus of Italy arrived in Brussels on Sunday from Copenhagen. His royal highness was accompanied by Count Montalto, by the Por tuguese Minister, and other high officials. The prince will proceed to Ostend on a visit to the Belgian royal family. He travels incognito under the title of Count de Pallanza. The Prince and Princess de Joinville, the Duke and Duchess de Chartres, with a numerous suite, have arrived in Brussels from Ostend. The Duke and Duchess di Fiano have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Brussels. The Duke of Marlborough has returned to Blen heim Palace, near Woodstock, from a c , uise in his yacht. The Earl and Countess Fortescue are passing the season at Castle Hill, Devon, with their family. It is un derstood that the noble earl and countess purpose again to pass the winter abroad. The Countess (Frances) Waldegrave and Mr. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., are expected to arrive in town at the close of the week from the countess's seat in Somer setshire, and will then leave for Dudbrook, Essex. Lord Blantyre, who has been on a visit to the Duchess (Dow.) of Sutherland, at Stafford House, St. James's, left yesterday for Erskine House, Renfrewshire, N,B. _ _ _ _ Lord John Hay has left town for Stratlafieldsaye, Hints, on a visit to the Duchess of Wellington. The Chancellor of the Exchequer hae arrived at Pen-maen-maur, Conway, from Hawarden Castle. The Right Hun. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., arrived at his residence in Whitehall-gardens, yesterday, from Switzerland, Miss BRADDON, whose " Lady Audley's Secret' and "Aurora Floyd" everybody knows, has just addressed a characteristic note to a French writer who asked for some particulars of her life : " Story I Lord bless youl " she writes, " I have none to tell, sir I I have not, like Aurora Floyd .. . nor like Lady Audley • • although some of our critics on this side of the Channel have declared that I would never have been capable of speaking of . . and of .. . unless I had previously been familiar with the way in which such crimes are committed , I began my literary career with a little comedy entitled The Loves of Arcadia,' which was played at the Strand Theatre in 1860 ; next I wrote a volume of poems in 1861. This comedy and this volume of poetry were followed firstly, by the Trail of the Serpent;' 2dly, 'Lady Lisle ; third, ' The Captain of the Vulture ; ' fourth, Ralph the Bailiff;' fifth, 'Lady Audley's Secret ; ' sixth, Aurora Floyd ; ' all of which made their first appearance in peri odicals. Besides these novels, I have at the same time edited a monthly review and a weekly review, and I wrote anonymously a great many articles for the latter. lam writing now, as you know, ' John Marchmont's Legacy,' and ' Eleanor's Victory.' The former is publised in Temple Bar, the latter in Once a Week. In enumerating the titles of my books, I have given you the history of my life, at least to the present date." THE LIBRARIES OF CONSTANTINOPLE.—It is perhaps not generally known that the capital of Turkey possesses a large number of public libraries, a general catalogue of which is now being made. According to an ea imate which is considered reliable, the total num ber of manuscripts thus catalogued will exceed a million. Unfortunately, however, many of these MSS. have been so damaged by lying in heaps in damp cellars or worm-eaten chests, as to bo partially, and in some cases entirely illegible. It is also to be regetted that, until now, none of the trea sures of the early periods of Byzantine literature, which it was hoped would be brought to light, have been found. It has, on the contrary, been proved that all the works of those times which are known to have existed have been ruthlessly destroyed. The remaining works are consequently chiefly in Arabic, or in other Semitic languages; but they form, on the other hand, the richest collection of Oriental literature in existence. Ahmet-Vafick-Effendi Subhi-Bey and other Turkish men of letters have proposed that this inestimable mass of literary treasures be collected in one building, so as to render it accessible to students engaged in historical researches, and there is every reason to believe that this proposal will be adopted, notwithstanding the opposition it has hitherto met with. The first step towards the forma tion of an imperial library has already been taken by placing 40,000 volumes of good works, in various European lan guages, and which belonged to 11-Hami-Pasha, in the Dar al-Fanoon, the building of the University. Orders have been given to increase this collection considerably, so as to create a tolerably complete library for consultation, to which the public will be freely admitted. Adding to such a col lection the MS. already mentioned, Constantinople would be superior to any capital in a literary point of view, espe cially if by some lucky chance the plays of Menander, or the lost books of Livy, or the remaining tragedies of eEschylus, were suddenly brought to light from amidst the parchments now being so carefully examined.—Critic. APPARITION OF THE LIVING.—Add now for an apparition which had a definite and distinct pur pose. A solicitor, resident in the Isle of Wight, had busi ness at Southampton. He stayed at one of those hotels for which the town of mail steamers is famous, and, after dinner, he was looking over his law papers while he sipped his port. Ho was aroused from his foolscap and red tape by the opening of a door ; his wife (whom he had left at home in the Isle of Wight) entered, gazed at him steadfastly, and passed out through the opposite door. Ho naturally thought that it was a hallucination, and re sumed his reading, with a wondering smile at his own weakness. But, within a quarter of an hour, the very same n a thing noe o o c f c ur t r h e e d a a p g e a c i t n r e ; a a n n d i t ni h e p r l e o r i s n v g a s lo o o n k t whichh e c ou n ter t e . - rifled him. He at once resolved to return home; with some difficulty got a boatman to take him across ; and when he reached his house, was struck by the ghastly and alarmed lock of the maid servant who opened the door. This woman was so frightened by his unexpected return, that she spontaneously confessed her intention to murder her mistress, and her confession was confirmed by the fact she had concealed a carving-knife wader her pillow. This is a very perplexing case for those who think spectral phenomena can be philo sophically explained. Here you have the phantom of a living person projected, entirely without that person's consciousness. Let it be assume d that a person in extreme peril can, by intense volition, act on the nervous system of the universe, so as to influence hie dearest friend : but here the person whose likeness appeared was entirely devoid of apprehension, while the servant, who alone knew what was likely to happen, would naturally exert no voliti on t owar ds revealing it.—The Dubl i n University for September. EXPLOSION OF THE MONROE DOCTRINE.--The Emperor of the French, by the establishment of a monarchy in Mexico which will be in alliance with the Southern States and the British possessions in North America, extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the United States to the Pole, the germ of a mighty monarchy—proves the nonsense of the Monroe doctrine. In British America there is a population of whites nearly as numerous as in the Confederate States, backed by the voewreur lienektandee,wsoorltdh,atwtifththaoycooansltywbhoitcrhaethtoo g F r e e d a e t r e a s i t s n e a a v n a l n p e themselves, they need not fear Mr, Sowara's cry of " On t(' Canada." England can man the fortresses and supply them well arras, ammunition, and ships, but for the &Aerie° of their country they must rely on their own resources—' their volunteers and militia. Our Government should sco that a sufficient supply of artillery and stores will be eent out, With a dozen or two of our idle gunboats, which can lie in the Ottowa, the St. Charles, under the citadel of Quebec, and Halifax, ready on the first open water to enter the lakes —the canals passing vessels 140 feet long, and 26 wide, with a draught of 9j feet—and this should be don° before winter sets in, Let the CanadEaue then remember Cromwell's address—" Put your trust in God, and keep your powder dry." As to a threat of war, if steamers are permitted to leave our shores, it is " Buncomee'— a •• V O % et preterea nihil." Let England no longer be troubled, bu t act as she did in the Trent affair and there will be no war, but let her yield in dishonour, and we drift into war. (From a CorrespondeutO A MONUMENT TO SHAKSPERE AT OUR. ANTI" PODES !—Our Australian cousins—at least those of Mel bourne —are, we learn, preparing to do honour to the memory of Shakspere. The Age, of that city, Bar —"I' ll c lay model of a colossal s t a t ue of Shakspere has b een exe cuted by Mr. Charles Summers. It is proposed to erect the statue, in bronze, in front of the public library. - Victor Hugo's Social Philosophy. It is a question which thinkers are continually striving to settle ; the treatment of the criminal adjusted, not solely to the moral guilt involved in the crime, but to his temptations, influences, sur roundings, and organisation. Has M. Hugo helped us out of this difficulty ? Has he reconciled the crime of necessity (as it is called) with individual responsibility ? Has he at all aided us in explain ing the doctrine of self-preservation with that of the safety of society ? Has he settled that much vexed theory of cerebral formation with man's amenability to law ? Has he thrown any fresh light upon the administration of justice? Has he at all assisted us in realising SLakspere's prayer, a wise union of mercy with justice? We confess that he has not. Sadly, too, we confess it; for while "Les Miserables" is unsatisfactory, and a failure as a book of philosophy, it is, nevertheless, a masterly novel. We acknowledge the immense power and brilliant genius of the romance; but the weakness of the philosophic theory, and the one sidedness of the moral, are lamentable. Every artist admires the absolutely perfect portrait of Val jean; but no sound statesman would guarantee the cessation of robbery by presenting the thief who stole our bedsteads with the bed also. We are all delighted with the generous, merciful Bishop : but no wise lawgiver would decree that charity to the culprit should be entirely substituted for law. The dependence of society upon each of its individual members, argues that such indulgence, instead o f being right, and an effective preventative of crime, would be manifest injustice, and productive of evil. Considering the present state of human nature, w e are sceptical of any good that M. Hugo thinks would result from the adoption of his social philo sophy.—Social Science Beciew, No. just published. The Attorney-General has appointed Sergeant Kinglake senior counsel for the Post-office on the western circuit, in lieu cf the late Sir F. Slade. The rumour which had obtained currency relative to the retirement of Mr. King-lake from the western circuit is t tlijally contra dicted iDy that gentleman, I