The Sun. — London, England, 1864-06-08 00:00:00

NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND , 112, Bishop gate-street. London, 7th June, 1814. The DIRECTORS of the NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK of 11.1sIGLAND HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That a HALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND, at the rate of Eight per Cent. per annum, and a HALF-YEARLY BONUS of Seven per Cent., w 11 be payable on the Company's Stock on , ind after the Bth July next, wnen the Dividend and Bonus War rants will be obtained at the Company's Office, 112, Bishops gate-street, or at the different Branches. The TRANSFER ROOKS will be CLOSED on and after THURSDAY, the 9th June, until the Dividend and Bonus become payab . e. By Order of the Court of Directors. A. ROBERTSON, Agent and Manager. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden. 'l:h:re will in this week be five opera nights, viz.. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and. aatErday. Extra Night. _ . Mdlle. Adelina Patti ; Signori Renconi, Ciampi, and Mario. TO-MORROW EVENING (Thursday), June 9, Rossini's Opera, It. BAR BIERE Di S VIGLIA. Hosing, Mdkle. Adelina Patti; Bertha, Madame Tag,iafico ; Figaro, Signor Ronconi; Bartolo, Signor Ciampi ; Basilio, Signor Tagliafico; F orello, Signor Polonini ; sargente, Signor Rossi ; and Almaviva, Signor Mario. Conductor, Mr. Costa. Commence at half past Eight. 7.'lt tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre stalls, 30s. 6d., 75., and ss. ; amphitheatre.:2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had at the box-office under the portico of the theatre, which is apen from ten to five, and at the principal musicsellers' and librarians'. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. GRAND EXTRA. NIGHT. First Appearance this season of Mdlle. Volpini. Volpini, Betteiheim, Santley, Ginglini. TO-MORROW EVENING (Thursday, June 9, Flotow's admired Opera, MARTA. Signori Giuglini, Mazzetti, S an tley, Caeabo nl ; Mdlles. Bettelheim and Volpini (first appearance this season). Conductor, Signor ARDITI. To conclude with the New Ballet Divertissement, by 31, Magri, LA FESTA DI BALLO. 3ldlle. Catarina Ber tta. bldlle. R osa Gulud, and Si nor AminAturo, supported by the Corps de Ballet.ra Saturday Next, June, MlL—First time this seaso n o f ROBERT LE DIABLE. Gardoni, Bettini (first appear ance this season), Ilarcello Junca, Gassier, Bossi ; Catarina Beretta, Liebhart, Harriers 1% eppern (first appearance in England). utsJune 14th.—FAUST. Wedneed y, June lsth.—Extra Night. —ROBERT LE DIABLE. Commence at Half-past Eight o'clock. except oa Saturday next, when the Opt ra commences at Eight. Pit Tickets, 75.; Reserved Box Seats, 10s. 6d.; Amphi theatre .t , talls, ss. and 7s. ; Gallery, 2s. 6d. ; Private Br: xes, in the Upper circle, 21s. Box Office of the Theatre open daily, from 10 till 6, where places may be secured ; also at Mitchell's, Bubb's, Lacon and Oilier's, Bond-street ; Leader's, Opera Colonnade ; Sam's, St. James's-street ; Cramer, Wood, and Co.'s, and Hammond's. Regent-street ; Keith, Prowse, and Co.'s, Cheapside ; and at Chappell and Co.'s, 50, New Bond-street. jjIHEATRE ROYAL HA YM ARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. Mr. Howe and Miss L. Angel. After which, DAVID GARRICK. Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Buckstone, Rogers, Clark, Wealhersby, &c. ; Mesdames Snowden, Nelly Moore, Fitzwilliam. After which, the new Easter piece, entitled VENUS AND ADONIS. Messrs. Compton, Wm. Farren, Coe. &c. ; Mes dames Louise Keeley, Snowden, Nelly i'ower, Hill, Wright, lto ere, &c. To conclude with AN UNLUCKY MORTAL. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. Mr. FECHTER will perform HAMLE r THIS EVENING (Wednesday). Claudius, Mr. Emery ; Polonius, Mr. John Brougham; Ghost, Mr. G. Jordan ; Laertes, Mr. C. Vanden hoff ; Horatio, Mr. J. G. Shore ; First Gravedif,rger, Mr. H. Widdicomb ; Osric, Mr. N'. Charles ; Messrs. W 3l'lntyre, F. Morton, Raymond, Moreland, Clifford, Edmonds, Wall bank, Collett ; Ophelia, Miss Kate Terry ; Actress, Aliss Henrade ; and Gertrule, Miss Elsworthy. The Scenery painted by Mr. W. Telbin. Notice.—The doors open at half-past 7, and Hamlet corn inences at 8. Box Office open daily from Eleven o'clock till Five. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining - . THIS EVENING will be performed a new and original Drama, by R. Slous, Esq., entitled LIGHT AND SHADOW. Mr. D. Murray, D. Fisher, J. W. Ray, J. Nelson, Scc. ; Mivs Stafford and Aiss Caroline Carson. Atter which, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Louts and Fabien dei Franchi, Mr. Vining ; Chateau Renaud, Mr. Walter Lacy. EW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL-- IA hots Proprietor and Manag - er, 31:. B. Webster. Last Four Nights of Ihe Great Tragediene, Miss Bateman, in the character of LEAH: THIS EVENING,an apropos Sketch, SHAKESPEARE'S HOUSE: Messrs. J. L. Toole, It. Phillips, Stephenson. Af er which, at 8, LEAH : Miss Bateman, supported by Messrs. A. Stirling, R. Phillips, Biiiington, Stuart, Eburne, Stephenson ; Airs. Billing-ton. To conclude with THE AREA. BELLE : Messrs. J. L. Too/e P. Bedford, it. Burner, Miss Woolg - ar, and Airs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. MISS BATEMAN am LEAIT.—LAST FOUR NIGHTS of the Great Tragedienne in her original character of the Jewish Maiden, in which she ha., appeared b• fore crowded, iashiunable, and delighted audiences every evening for the past e ght months. The great attractiveness of this closing' series of represent4tions render it necessary to secure seats at once, as th; box book is being rapidly PI led. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE , uzder the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. rowded with rank and fashion.— The highly successful new Ccmedy, by Dion Boucicault Esq., every Evening. Re-engagement of those ce ebraied and popular artistes, Mr. ant Mrs. Charles Mathew's. Amongst the artists engaged will be found the popular names of Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. )'rank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. .. Clarke, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. F. itobinson, Mr. Ashley ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Miss Herbert, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss H. Simms, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirling. EVERY EVENING, at 7, A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Miss Herbert. At a quarter before 8, an entirely new and ori2inal Comedy, in 5 acts, by Dion Boucicaulr, entitled THE FOX CHACE Characters by Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Frank Matthews Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ash' ey, Mr. W. Cbamoer laine ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, and Miss Henrietta Simms (her first appearance here). At 10, OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND. Mr. Charles Mathews and Mr. Frank Matthews. - ___. To conclude with SHAKE HANDS : Mr. J. Clarke; Mies Fanny Josephs. _ . _ Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. For the Benefit of Mr. G. Honey. THIS EVENING, MIRIAM'S CRIME. Followed by THE MORNING CALL. After which, MAZOURKA. Messrs. Honey, James, Fenton, Turner, &c. ; Misses Marie Wilton, Simpson, &c. Commence at 7. T H4 ASCOT.— RA CE GLASSES (the best) , at CALLAGHAN'S, 23A, New Bond-street, W., corner of Conduit-street. N.8.--z'ole agent to Voigtlander, V ienna. NOVEL STYLE in FRENCH BONNETS._ French fash'on has produced Bonnets for this month of a light go•samer texture, which arc mmodate the present style of wearing aria displaying the lady's h air. They are of the most exquisite variety, and, though still adhering to the favourite colours of black, white, and neutral, are entirely remodelled in shape, size, and substance. SPeAallY imported from Paris for J AY' S, The London General Mourning Warehouse, 247, 249, and 211, Repent-street. COALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis' 245. per ton. I Double... ...... 20s. per ton. Top 231. ~ Nuts. • •..... ..... 185 • If Deep 2ls. ~ Well screened and delivered within five miles, of their De pots, Westb ourne P ar k- r oad, W., and 17 , South Wharf Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. , Beat Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latent SPORTLNG INTELLIGENCE , an be had Every Evening of G. Et GLIsNiE , Ntwa AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, June 8, 1864. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock 7O Barometer -2 9 . 90 . WIND —S. ; cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 4h. 26:n.—Afternoon, 4h. 45m. ro.moaaow.-Moraing, sa. sm.—Afternoon, sh. 22m. - 7 4 , cs. : SUIT LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1861. I t i s amusing to note the extraordinary out-burst of exc itement among oar gallant neighbours on the other side of the Channel, becaus e of Vermouth, the winner of the Grand Prix de Paris, so winning that great race as actually to best Blair Athol, the win ner of the 1). - 2rby. That the lovers of le Sport in delighted at thi s double France should be greatly victory is only natural, and what might in reas on have been expected. Our one surprise, and not cnty our surprise but regret, is thin—that they should have shown temper in giving utterance . to their exultation. Hitherto we have always had the highest possible opinion of the good taste, not only of a Frenchman, but of a great throng of Frenchmen. Their politeness has heretofore been such that we should hardly have been disposed to dub any crowd of them a mob. Within the last few days, however, w© have had reason to revise this long cherished opinion of onr neighbours. And to revise it very much indeed to our regret. The fact being simply that the excited multitude who hailed the triumph of Vermouth the other day with so very blatant an enthusiasm, did so in a manner characterised by the very worst taste imaginable. Not satisfied with cheering the victor, they must needs revile the vanquished. And this not simply by sarcastic or sardonic looks, or by ironical implication. Nothing of that kind—no: bat—wonderful to tell of a French crowd, for once we must say of a French mob, admirably well dressed, and talking that politest of lan guages with the best possible Parisian accent— wonderful to tell, we Bay, in regard to such a throng of well-equipped and well-educated Frenchmen their excitement was manifested by a display of the vilest and vulgarist possible bad taste. Cheering Vermouth and his rider, of course, was all well and rule with th e usages o f good, was all perfectly civilised society upon a racecourse. But hissing with storm of hisses Blair Athol and his jockey CIIAL LON ER Well, really one would hardly have looked for worse taste than that at a donkey race got up some where upon a bit of waste ground at Hockleyein • the- Hole at a gathering of costermongers. Cheer as loudly asyou like, 0 polite Frenchmen! But—hiss the stranger who comes amongstyou as your gnest,either to triumph or to be vanquished, according to the chances of the turf—well, in honest truth, we should never have given you credit for it ! That the win ning of a great prize like this one of 100,000 francs, and winning it, too, over the Derby Winner, should have roused the unsophisticated sportsmen of France to a singular pitch of enthusiasm, is only what might have been looked for. Nay the patriotic significance of that enthusiasm of theirs, even in their pastimes, we frankly and heartily sympathise with. Insomuch that we read, if not with a sense of comp:acency, with a feeling of very sincere satisfaction, what is thus remarked upon this point by our able Parisian con temporary the Constitutionnel • where we find it said—" Popular enthusiasm is always a touching spectacle, and a fact worthy of attention. The great topic of conversation at present is the indescribable scene which took place on Sunday on the racecourse in the Bois de Boulogne. In deed, not to be struck at so marked a demon stration would be impossible. Above all was re marked the spontaneous expression of the na tional feeling, exalted by one of those successes to which patriotism is never indifferent, and to which it was still more sensible on Sunday. The cry of Vive l'Empereur !' was raised by every voice, and it was to the Imperial stand that the unanimous acclamations of an immense popula tion were directed. The more sudden and spon taneous the demonstration, the more was it a touching homage to the Sovereign whose name is for the people the natural formula of every joy, as it is the symbol of all greatness." But—the turning of this into an anti-English manifestation again we say it —is the worst possible taste—is the vilest, vulgarest act well imaginable. The Ministers may find that they are not let off so easily as they imagine after all about the Con ference. On Monday they were in a very awkward position, and not all the savoir faire of the noble lord at the head of the Government could extricate him from his difficulty. Times are sadly changed from the good old days when the Premier's speeches were always received with cheers and enlivened by laughter. Now we meet with ominous expressions of dissent, and frequently the very decisive remark of " oh, oh," is heard in the full flow of his elo quence. Aspiring statesman and ambitious novices may learn a useful lesson from this peculiar state of things, and discover that the most popular Minis ter may presume too far on the forbearance, kind ness, and partiality of his immediate adherents and of the public generally. Nothing could be more unsatisfactory than the tone in which the noble lord replied to all the inquiries put to him on a subject of vital interest to so many. First of all, he did not know, or would not tell if he did know, the leading points on which information was desired. It seems more than probaYe that the armistice will not con tinue much longer, and then all this delay and hindrance in the prosecution of the business of the Conference will have answered its purpose and gained the wished-for delay. Indeed, it seems doubtful if the plenipotentiaries will again assemble before the expiration of the term fixed upon for the continuance of the armistice. It is too much to expect the members of the Legislature tamely to submit to all this subterfuge and not to take heed to the ways of those, who seem to hold out delusive expectations to all within their reach, and then to fulfil no fair sounding promise, but to allow it to wither rend droop for want of realisation. Mr. DISRAELI'S speech was an entire success from beginning to end. It was one of his happiest efforts, when he showed forth in striking colours the shuffling policy and unequal conduct of the Government, and exhibted the wrong system on which all their plans were founded. First of all he explained the importance of the House maintaining its reserve upon the question of peace or war when the Government have that weighty matter to discuss among themselves. This rule, however, may be carried too far, and as there are limits to all things, so the extreme reticence that has hitherto marked the House on both sides must be considered, in order to take cognizance of matters which are of most grave importance, and intimately connected with the honour of England, the well-being of other nations, and the general character that we have to uphold before the nations of world, as to our will or efficiency to protect an ally from a dangerous and destroying enemy. The day of grace is past, so far as relates to the secrecy that eternally pervades this Conference, There can be no reason why all sho u ld be enve l ope d i n such Cimmerian darkn ess. It is not at all the way toimp impress the foreign plenipotentiaries with a notion of our vast conseenence. and immense in. Engli s h Mi n i sters dare what they are t a lki ng finolite n a c l e l a i sv f t t h h e e y p fi ti e b d l i a t h t aot hear about, and that all must be done of any conse quence before a whisper transpires Which might arouse and excite the public attention, and wake the slumbering wrath of the community. Those who planned the delightful surprise for ne may find a change is also awaiting them, and their mae cc lyres may fail after all, nor bear the garish light of day when at last it falls upo n their re condite structure. Mr. DISRAELI'S speech may Eerve for an analysis of the whole affair of this Conference, and if anything was wanting to complete its triumph, it was thevery indignant man ner i n w hi c h Lord v PALMERSTON replied to the strictures of his political opponent. The most important point in this mat ter ie, that the House is not aware of the principles upon which the Govern/net:4i; are now acting. Mr. DISRAELI remarked that they had frequently been told that it was the intention of her Majesty's 'Ministers to maintain the Treaty of 1852 ; they went into the Conference to ma:ntsin it inviolate, but now there Was every :eaton to fear that the very men who were ready to go to war some months back for the furtherance of this o :tot WerenoW sacrificing this principle, and giving up the integ rity and independence of Denmark. The right hon. gentleman delivered some warnings to the Treasury Benches, which it is to be hoped that they will heed, if not, the day will come when the country will call upon them to deliver up a strict and solemn account. Whether their mischievous policy be checked or not, in time to avert the worst consequences from Denmark, they will not escape with impunity for their unworthy course of action, If they are not conducting the momentous affairs at this critical juncture after the fashion they de clared it was their intention to do, they are deceiving the country and trifling with Parliament. Honour demands that they should keep all their promises to a foreign State who has trusted to their honour and relied on their goodwill, but they have also duties to perform to their own people. The House of Commons, which is the tribunal that judges of their actions, is the last place where mystery and reserve should reign paramount. The best way to judge of the merits of a particular course of pro ceeding is to consider its effects. Suppose the direful reports we hear on all side's are correct; suppose the rumours that reach us from neighbouring lands not so restricted for information as we are, are proved to be genuine, what will be the result ? Denmark will be ruined, and chiefly through the instrumentality of England. Meanwhile there is nut a public meeting that takes place, there is no affair of moment that occurs, where some tribute is not paid to the courage and constancy of the Danes, and the most striking testimony afforded of the earnest and heartfelt sympathy which the people of England feel towards the oppressed and injured country of Denmark. All this goodwill is to be useless, all this kind sentiment is to be thrown away, because the Government are resolved to carry out their own peculiar notions. If they are put in office to represent the wishes of the people and carry out the policy of the House of Commons, they are bound to let it be known what is their policy and what not. Mr, DISRAELI truly stated that if her MAJESTY'S Government " were themselves partici pating in the partition of Denmark, which only five months ago they were stirring up an European war to prevent, then it was a mockery of the House of Commons if, under such circumstances, Lord PALMERSTON remained silent. The noble lord might raise laughs from his own supporters, who appear to think life or death, the prosperity or adversity of nations are alike the legitimate subjects of ridicule, but he will find himself grievously mistaken in the long run. Mr. OSBORNE, who is always a sharp observer of events, and can chronicle them in a smart style, has foretold the doom of the Ministers in his laughable simile of the monks of La Trappe. He said the noble lord and his friends were emulating them in silence, and he did not know if they were also digging their own graves. If so, they will not have the satisfaction of saying, with the French monarch--" All is lost but our honour." Metropolitan improvements are the order of the day, and the relief of our crowded thoroughfares is a matter that is continually before the public in some form or another. The lines that are running to and fro and frightening London from its pro priety, are all projected, professedly, for the public convenience. They turn people out of doors and bring their houses about their ears entirely to save them the trouble of going an extra mile when they want to travel. They were so anxious to corsult the convenience of the City, more especially, that they were quite prepared to swallow up one-eighth of its whole surface for the good of the remaining seven parts. Citizens, however, took objection to this very wholesale way of doing business, and were as lothe to be dispoaAeeeed of their n•rim ofne e 2 and dusky marts as any landed proprietor of his old estates or belongings. Westwards, however, the state of things is different. There the complaint is Rot of over interference, but of too little. The aristocratic denizens of the localities where Temple Bar is out of sight and heari❑g, are beginning to discover that their part of the metropolis has had no share in the changes of recent days. They are unwilling that affairs should so be left, and that the busy rival worlds of North and South-west should have no means of general communication between Bond-street and Kensington. This grievance has long been greatly felt by those reeding in these localities, and it was brought prominently forward by Lord LUCAN the other night in the Upper House. The noble earl, not content to complain of an evil, without at the same time suggesting a remedy, proposed that Hamilton-place, now looking on with stately indifference on the bustle and con fusion of Park-lane, should be opened as a thorough• fare for carriages and cabs, which, in those aristo cratic quarters, are the principal means of convey ance. This would certainly relieve the crowd and the pressure on one particular street, although it does not tend much to shorten the distance at pre sent existing between the two nearest available highroads. Nobody proposes to send the stream of business vehicles pouring through Hyde Park, where, indeed, they are as likely to come to a dead lock on a gay afternoon in the season as they are in Park'lsne itself. Au, then, the park must be left altogether out of the calculation, it would be wise to secure the line of communication nearest to it. At least we should have fewer complaints of the perils of Park-lane, through whose winding and narrow entrance now pour the omnibuses coming from the Great Western and Victoria Stations, be sides the cabs that are bound on the same journey, and a myriad of other vehicles on various errands. To add to the general confusion there is a corn chandler's establishment in the narrow part of the lane, with carts perpetually loading and unloading ; and two public-houses, before which Lord LUCAN declares he never passes without seeing a gentle man's carriage standing blocking the road; and this declaration is very easy of belief. For a dis tance of one hundred and fifty yards from Piccadilly the width from kerbstone to kerbstone, of this disputed passage is according to the noble earl's statistics, only 18 feet 6 inches. This, as will be at once apparent to the most uninformed, is a width totally disproportionate to the demands of the traffic. The Duke of CAM BRIDGE observed that since he had lived where he does this traffic had enormously increased, owing chiefly to the Victoria Station. Formerly there were no omnibuses passing up and down Park-lane, whereas now there is a regular service of them, and, as may be easily imagined, the communication be tween the two western stations is constant and extensive. Railways, while they relieve traffic in one way, greatly increase it in another, and when the only means of communication between two such busy and important stations as these two western ones is restricted virtually to one street, and that one with an entrance two narrow and crowded to be convenient for the purposes of ordiaary trcffic, the confusion and anneyance that results may be easily irilaßinld, At the time of the first Exhibition Park-lane presented a curious spectacle. So great was the commotion and so intricate the stoppages and deadlocks Which the vehicles arrived at, that i t was found necessary to station no less than three policemen at the part where it joins Picca dilly. The plan of opening the top of Hamilton place could be effected without much expense, delay, or trouble, and it would at once relieve the p res sure by giving nether entrance, It would not THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 18G4. nflict so much inconvenience on the owners of the houses in Hamilton-place, as might appear at first sight, since the front of those houses is towards the park, and consequently only the back rooms look out on Hamilton-place. Besides, as it is only proposed to allow cabs and carriages to go through it, and it is ridiculous to suppose that any one who is so fastidious as to quiet and seclusion would fix their dwelling in the close vicinity of so gay and busy a highway as Piccadilly, Lord LucAN declared his belief that if a satisfactory arrangement could be come to between the local authorities and the lessees the necessary improvements in Hamilton-place would not exceed five or six thousand pounds. Therefore they could be effected without the aid of an Act of Parliameat, since no Act is necessary where the alteration does not el-cc - A £50,000. But allowing that the expenses would be greater and the difficulties more formidable then the noble Earl seems to suppose, neither a question of a few thou sands, nor the opposition of private parties, should be suffered to defeat a scheme whose object is so entirelygood. We shall hope to hear this ma t for ter the publicdiscussed and consid ere d at another opportunity. The Attitude of Spain Towards Peru, The Madrid Gazette, of the 3d of June, contains the following roport of the explanations given on the 2d June in the Congress, by the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, in reply to a question of Signor Lasala "The Queen's Government, though resolved to await fresh despatches from Signor SalazAr upon the recent events in Peru, deemed it necessary that its policy should be thoroughly understood ; and, havin g ; no views that it cannot avow in the face of the world, it has haatened to address to its repre sentatives in Paris, London, and 'Washington a declaration which it considers necessary, in order that the intcntiocs of Spain should not be doubted. It is as follows: THE CHIEF SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS. " Aranjuez, May 24, 1864. When the present Ministry were honoured by becoming the counsellors of her Majesty, your Ex cellency knows that the resiaent minister in Peru, Signor Eusebius Salazar y Mazarredo, had already proceeded to Peru, with the mission of urging com plaints concerning the sad events of Talambo. One of my first cares was to study this affair, and after wards to write confidentially to Sig. Salazar, recom mending him to use the utmost pradence in the accomplishment of his mission. It did not enter into the views of the Queen's Government to pro voke or to accept questions in those countries or in any otter which were not perfectly justified, or to reject the reasonable satisfaction which might be given to it in any case in which the honour and the interests of the nation necessitated persistence. The last mail from America brought the despatches of Signor Salazar, indicating the unfortunate turn taken by this affair, but they do not clearly indi• cate what Signor Salazar proposed to do. Com pelled to await other despatches which will doubt less give us some explanations, I have felt bound to address to your excellency the present despatch, reiterating to you the assurance, in order that it may always serve as the rule of your conduct and in your interviews with the Government to which you are accredited, and the Spanish Government does not deny the independence of any American State, and it has no territorial pretension upon that part of the world. The differences that it has had, or teat it may have, with the republics of the New World will not make it abandon the prudent line of moderation which it has followed, and which it will continue to follow ; on the contrary, it will always regard them as misfortunes, and will try to terminate them as quickly as possible without de manding anything more than is claimed by its honour and its well understood interests. God protect your Excellency." , "The chamber can judge of the frankness and good faith with which the Queen's Government has pro- Gtoded. lu its differences with the American States the Spanish Government, which has no craving for American territory, will act as all civilised nations act, protecting merely its interests and its dignity. After this declaration, which dates from May 24th, the Government adds that it has received no fresh despatch from Signor Salazar. It knows, as mem bers know, what the newspapers say of this affair. They deplore these sad events. It naturally awaits the despatches of Signor Salazar. It cannot be ex pected to come to a conclusion before hearing the representatives of Spain in Peru, and in the present state of the question it cannot present any docu ments whatever, Let the chamber take note of the formal declaration that I here make, namely, that the Queen's Government does not wish in any way to attack the independence of American nations, that it does not desire to make any conquest, or to augment its territory in those regions, but that it energetically sustain in this ques tion, as in every other, what the dignity and interests of Spain demand." Signor Lasals in reply expressed his satisfaction with this official declaration, and said that until fresh despatches arrived judgment must necessarily be suspended upon the subject. Letter of the lion, Mrs, Yelvertou, The following is a portion of that letter of Mrs. Yelverton's, which, in the House of Lords yester day, the Lord Chancellor characterised as one of the most beautiful he had ever read MISS LONG WORTH TO MAJOR YELVERTON. MOIS DE MARIE, Nay 6. Caro Carlo Mio,—You can only write at night. Is that the reason you w r it e so seldom ? I can write to you any hour of the day or night, and do not require either the silent night or the muee of darkness to place me en rapport with you. It is my only pleasure now, and I labour under the delusion peut-etre that it is one to you. Oh ! I want you so much to come. All nature is so lovely that it is a sin not to rejoice with her in her smiling bright new dress. The hills are white with daisy and the valleys green with fresh moss—the trees are all loaded wit hvaried blossoms, and the air is heavy with delicious odours—there is a south wind breathing warmth and telling me of you—all the little birds are chorusing iu joyous melody. Existence is perfect bliss to them. Two of them are lovingly contem plating constructing a little settlement near my window, and there they are chattering and con sulting about it all day long' Doubtless they have no uncle to prohibit their future visions of happiness in their little mud wall. I wish I were a bird to be able to choose another bird, and then sit in a tree and be sung to. The sea is as clear and bright as a mirror, or one's first dream of love; and the por• poises are splashing and rolling about in the very height of enjoyment. They all go swimming toge ther, and do not condemn one to live solitary ()lien in the loveliest sea grotto. The very insects go dancing and sparkling in th e sunshine. They seem in a perfect ecstacy of delight, and never know when to stop; their small humming makes an as• companiment to the rest of natures music. Be au . tiful little flowers are clinging to and fraternising with wh is p e grim g t o h l e d s w e e tstones;sweetest things ings to clear rippling water is loving, listening mossy banks. All things have found a sympathise r but I alone ; so you muit come, and " we'll a-may. in„ go." Why should man alone be discordant ? Why should he not enjoy the lovely things of the earth like all other created creatures ? Why should be for ever toil and never reap the fruit ? The Fates heard my lament on my solitude, and sent me a sympathiser. TEE CASE OF A STOLEN WIT. r.,—sente,ce was given yesterday in the Curt of Probate by Sir J. P. Wilde in the cause of Quick v. Quick. It will be remembered that a convict at Portland, named Charles Kemble, stated that he had destroyed the will of the testator, an attornoy in E:y-place, while he was robbing his house, 7, Lawn. road, llaverstock-hill. The learned judge said he had no doubt that a will had been made as alleged, but he could find no reason, either from principle or authority, to justify the re ception of evidence respecting . the deceased's declaration as to what his will contained. %\ hat he had stated about it was mere hea;say, and could not be adn3itted. There was there fore nothing of which the Court could grant probate, Pro bate was refused with costs, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS. ] RECALL OF THE RUSSIAN MINISTER FROM ROME, ST. PETERSBURG, JUNE 7. Baron de Mayendorff, the Russian Chargé d'Affaires at Rome, has been instructed to deliver to Cardinal Antonelli M. de Kisseleff's letters of recall, by which the mission of the latter, as Russian Minister at Rome, will be terminated. The Russian Government has sanctioned the free transit of goods through the Caucasus to Persia. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, JUNE 8. An Imperial decree has been issued abolishing the duty upon goods exported from Russia and Poland for purposes of European commerce. The following artioles are excepted :—Wood, potash, macs, leeches, rags, silk worms' eggs, and all kinds of bones, except burnt and ground ones. ITALY. CELEBRATION OF THE FETE OF THE CONSTITUTION. TURIN, JUNE 8, Morning. The Turin papers of today say :—" Advices received here from Venetia and the Roman provinces state that popular demonstrations celebrating the anniversary of the establishment of the Constitution have taken place there. The Austrian and Pontifical police were unable to prevent them. SPAIN. MADRID, JUNE 7. The Peruvian Consul has written to the Epoca stating that he can prove by documents that Senor Mozavedo, the resident Spanish Minister in Peru. did not send an ultimatum to the Peruvian Govern ment before acting, AUSTRALIA. DARTMOUTH, JUNE 8 The Wave of Life, from Melbourne, on the 6th March, arrived off this port last night. She rounded Cape Horn on the 4th April, and crossed the Equator on the 9th May. She brings 25 passengers, a cargo of 2,700 bales of wool, and 5,5000z5. of gold. On the 24th May she spoke the Middlesex, from Calcutta, for Portsmouth, with troops. FRANCE. The dome of the church of Val.de•Grace, which was in a ruinous state, has just been taken down piece by piece in order to be reconstructed. On the condemned murderer La Pommerais being informed that his appeal was rejected, he said, with. oat manifesting the least emotion, "I expected so." He then asked whether, his fate being decided, he would now be allowed to see his wife and father. He was informed by the director that their visits would henceforth be permitted. La Pommerais is said to have remarked to his advocate, '• Do what you can, but I prefer the scaffold to the bagne ! A letter from the cure of Olivet, countersigned by Mgr. Dupanloup of Orleans, is said to have been delivered to the Empress. BOURSE, June 7.—The market has been heavy, and the little business done shows lower quotations. Threes, for the Account, are now at 66f. 95c. Mo bilier have receded to 1,135 f. Railway Market dull, with a slight decline on some of the lines. The market closed as follows :- 4/ per Cents 93 40 Italian Loan 69 90 Do. end month.... Do. end month 7O 30 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 67 New Mexican .... 59 Credit Mohilier....ll3o Russian Do. end m0uth....1133 75 Austrian .. — Bank Shares 3355 Spe.nieh Threes.... Credit Fancier 1240 Flome Debt Roman RA IL WAY'S. Cash. Act ount. Orleans 865 „. 872 50 Northern Lyons and Mediterranean 870 872 50 New ditto Suuthorn Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona 651 25 .. 652 50 501 25 .. - - 461 25 .. 462 50 370 - .. 371 25 400 - .. 403 75 633 75 .. 538 75 442 50 .. 445 - 580 - .. 575 - 252 50 .. - - The Duke of Augustenburg, A letter from Berlin says :—" Since the chances of the Duke of Augustenburg have increased in a manner so surprising, Prussian diplomacy on the one side, and that of Austria and the secondary States of Germany on the other, have displayed a singular activity in securing in advance the sym pathies of the Duke of Schleswig - Holstein-Lauen• burg. Upon this point there is neither truce nor pardon, and, though less apparent in the eyes of Europe than the war against Denmark, this internal and diplomatic war is not less pass sionate." The following remarks of the Botschafter of Vienna seem to confirm, as far as Austria is con cerned at least, the assertions of the foregoing letter. The Botschafter says :—" We understand that the Duke of Augustenburg is expected at Vienna. The duke knows that Austria has taken the initiative in his favour, and the tact which he has displayed in circumstances of difficulty shows that he will pay as much regard for the conquerors of Oberselk and of Oversee, and for the comba tants of Heligoland, as for the vanquishers of Duppel: The duke's visit gives us much pleasure for another reason. It is a certain proof that the duke has not engaged in any military convention, or anything of the kind, with Prussia; for he knows that that would secure him a very cold re ception. As it is, the duke may be certain of the most distinguished welcome, and we congratulate ourselves that things have taken such a turn that official sympathies are now directed towards Vienna —the living symbol of the German cause." THE CHARMS OF STREET MUSIC.—If you are going to put down everything, and do away with everything in this way, I want to know what a gentleman of independent property like myself is to do ? How am Ito he amused during the long hours of the day, when there is nothing doing in the Haymarket? As I said before, you have left me nothing to beat ; you won't let me aid and abet a fight ; you forbid me to match my dog or my game cocks ; and now you are going to deprive me of my barrel organ—that sweet box of tunes, which comes, as I lie on the sofa smoking my cigar, to soothe me with Il Baton, and The Young Man from the Country, and the Dark Girl dressed in Blue. Oh, how I love that dark girl dressed in blue ! I have never seen her, but music has painted all her charms, and I know that she is a smart young girl, a tall young girl, a nice young girl, and a dark young girl. All this in a flowing blue skirt. What a picture I It ravishes my soul ! I send out a shil ling to poor Giovanni, and bid him play over again and again. There are two lady patronesses of Giovanni's a few doors down on the other side or the way. Charming girls they are, with pink cheeks and frizzyhair, and nearly always sitting out in the balcony in low dresses. I fancy they are orphans, poor things, for I never see any one at the window who looks like a parent. They are passionately fond of music, and keep the organ-men playing to them for hours, and always pay them well; for I am happy to say that, though orphans, they appear to be well off, and go out in a brougham. There is another ardent lover of music at num ber one, an old gentleman who had a fortune left him on condition that he drove out every day in a coach and four. He has a organ to play to him at all his meals, and when the painter fellow, at number two, runs out with a maul stick in his hand to drive the musician away, the old gen- tleman has him into the garden, and makes him play there. There is another cantankerous man near me, who is always .ushing out at the poor fellows and setting the police upon them. I don't know who he is; but he sits at a window all day long writing, and appears to work for his living. A pretty thing S if independent persons like myself, and the old gentleman, and the two pretty ladies, are to be deprived of our pleasure to suit the whims and fancies of mere work people. The conceit of the fellows who . i" study," as they call ii, is perfectly ridiculous,—Dieken" " 1111 she Tear Round." LITERATURE, Le Correspondant d'Avril et de : Mai. Charles Douniol. Several articles of unusual interest are comprised in these two numbers of Le Correspondant. Upon the article loading off the later of the two, the one but just now published, we have already commented in our leading columns. The argument therein put forth, it may be remembered, had relation to the affeirs of Poland, and emanated from the hand of no less illustrious a writer, publicist, statesman than the Count de Montalembert. We spoke of it at the time as one of the most impressive and re markable appeals to the nobler sympathies of Europe that has ever been addressed to his contem poraries even by M. de Montalembert. Turning back to it again, hearkening once more to these eloquent and impassioned utterances, we are more than ever of that opinion. It is a cry of love, of pity, of homage, of sympathy for that mcst cruelly oppressed among all the European nationalities—a cry so piercing and persuasive that, but for the miserable record of these last seventy years of Rus sian cruelty and European apathy, we might almost hope for its penetrating to the conscience of the Cz)r and to the conscience also, we might say, of the rest of Christendom ! For, while the Czar himself is of course the chief offender in the perpetration of this hideous crime of oppression, the other Powers are guilty also with the blood-guiltiness of complicity or con nivance. The accents of the Count de Montalembert as now heard through this noble effusion of his genius, at once as an orator, as a writer, as a states man, and as a great Christian philanthropist, must he grateful, we may be certain, to all such earnest sympathisers with the Polish population, now living, as the hon. member for King's County—might be grateful, one is almost tempted to say in pagan phrase, to the manes of such departed champions of the cause of Poland as the late gentle hearted, noble minded Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart. At the least if inoperative of good, by reason of the obdu racy of those whom the Count de Montalembert is addressing, namely, all the right thinking men of Christendom of all tongues and of allcountries—the Count may once more, at least, exclaim (and with how much reason !) as he has so often done before now upon no less momentous occasions, " Liberavi ammam meam!" He has unburthened his soul by giving utterance to the thoughts, emotions, hopes, aspirations, imparting so fervid an eloquence to his argument throughout this remarkable paper,entitled, "Le Pape et la Pologee"—and, while unburthen ing his own soul in so writing, he has articulated the thoughts, emotions, hopes, aspirations, lying until now dumb and unuttered in the breasts, we believe, of many millions of his contemporaries. It is with a sense of personal obligation, therefore, that we read an argument such as this of the Count [de Montalembert's. He says for us what we cannot express—what at least we could not thus have expressed—for ourselves. He is again, as he has been before now so often and so well, the mouthpiece of the Conscience of Christendom ! It is like a light suddenly beheld in the darkness—a voice abruptly audible in the silence—a light whose radiance, a voice whose eloquence is known full well to us all ! Glancing through the rest of the contents of this latest number of Le Correspondant and its immediate predecessor, we observe that Louis Joubert has just now brought to a close his nouvelle of "La Jeunesse du Doyen"—that Victor Fournel has a graphic little disquisition upon " Les Monumens du Nouveau Paris"—that the ex-Deputy Keller analyses rather searchingly the three last Budgets of the Imperial Government —that Leon Lagrange has a tribute to the memory of Hippolyte Flandrin (of whom, by the way, the Count de Montalembert speaks incidentally and very touchingly towards the close of his, the Count's, paper about Poland as " the most Christian and the most deeply to be deplored among all contemporary artists")—and, finally, be it here remarked in regard to the contents of the April number of this able periodical, that P. Douhaire contributes to the last published instalment but one of Le Correspondant a criticism very interesting, indeed, as coming from the hand of a Frenchman, upon the writing and genius of the late Mr. Macke ray. Perhaps the moat attractive paper in the new livraison of Le Correspondant, after the inaugu rative paper of the number from the hand of the Count de Montalembert, is H. Blaze de Bury's memorial chapter upon the great composer of the " Huguenots" and "Le Prophete," recently de ceased. People's Edition of Alacaulay's History of England. Part VIII. Longman and Company. The third volume of this wonderfully cheap and admirably got 7 up popular edition of Macaulay's colossal fragment of our National History, regarded from a purely Whig point of view, is here, in this eighth shilling instalment, dilly commenced. As a piece of magnificent writing it is beyond the reach of any exaggeration in the way of praise. As an example of herculean labour, in the way of research, it becomes more and more remarkable at every fresh examination of it. Bat as for its free dom from bias, from prejudice, from predilection— well, the less said about all that the better. It was little else than the statement of a fact, when somebody dubbed it, years ego, on its first publi cation, A Great Whig Pamphlet. The genius of Lord Macaulay, as Sir Archibald Alison well said of it, was more forensic than Solicitors' Benevolent Association, The fourth anniversary festival of this institution formed for the relief of poor and necessitous attor neys, solicitors, and proctors in England and Wales, and their wives, widows, and families, was celebrated yesterday evening at the Freemasons' Tavern. In consequence of the unavoidable ab sence of the Lord Chief Justice of England from illness, the chair was filled by Mr. T. Harrison, the deputy chairman of the association. Before pro posing the first toast, the chairman read a letter from Sir Alexandei Cockburn, to the effect that he had been compelled to absent himself from his court in consequence of severe indisposition, expressing his regret on that account, declaring that he would hold himself at the service of the society on any future occasion, and containing a cheque for ten guineas. After the usual loyal toasts, Mr. Bristow, late M.P. for Kidderminster, proposed, " The Army, the Navy, and Volunteers," which was received: with the customary enthusiasm, Captai❑ Rose returning thanks on behalf of the Volunteers. The next toasts were, " The Lord Chancellor and her Majesty's Judges," coupled with the name of Mr. Secondary Potter and tha Bar, which was responded to by Mr. Wordsworth, Q.C. The chairman, in proposing " The Solicitors' Benevolent Association,'' after expressing his regret at the absence of the founder of the association, Mr. James Anderton, said that, while in almost all other professions and calling there had long been a provision for cases of necessity, whether on the part of members themselves or of widows and orphans, there had, until recently, been no such provision in the case of that profession ; yet there was, perhaps, no vocation which was more exposed to calamity. After an expensive education many a man left a widow and several orphans destitute, his own patrimony having been unavoidably expended whilst he was commencing an apparently success ful professional career ; and there were various other causes which tended to produce distress among solicitors, such as the failnre of clients and the loss of sums advanced on tt eir account. In conclusion the cheirmen remarked that that asso ciation had no antagonism towards the Law Asso ciation, but was labouring in the same cause as that excellent . institution. Among the other toasts was that of " The Chairman," which was cordially responded to. The amount of subscriptions and donations announced in the course of the evening was upwards of £6OO. The musical arrangement s were under the direction of Mr. W. J. Fielding, who was assisted by Miss Rose Hersee, Miss Baden, Mr. W. Cummings, and Mr, W. Winn. Mr. Har ker was the toastmaster. _ Ard'„ ), ' C l N ,zi. * is-' „l , 4Pk. r- 0 ' riallal HER MAJESTY, BALMORAL, JUNE 5. The Qteen and royal family, with the ladies al gentlemen in waiting, t,ttended Divine service the Castle. Mr. M'Leod, her Majesty's chaplain officiated. Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Helel and Princess L.;iningen went to the parish churl of Ceathie, where Dr. M'Leod performed the dot The Duke of Argyll and Dr. M'Leod bad t: honour of dining with the Queen and.royal famil Return of the Queen and Royal Family to Windsor, Her Majesty and the younger naccabers of t 1 royal family arrived at - Windsor about fIJ o'clock this morning from Balmoral. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prince of Wales, and Prince and Princess Louis of lie 2 and suites left the Queen's private station at Nil Elms, shortly after twelve yesterday, by sPec i train on the South Western Railway, and arrivi at Ascot station at 1.15 p.m. The royal party aft the race returned in state by road to Frogno House and Windsor, their return in the even being witnessed by crowds of spectators. The Royal Highnesses were accompanied by Alfred, who arrived at Windsor about ale v6 . o'clock in the morning, by the great Western Ra t way, from Slough, and who, accompanied by M I T Cowell and, Mr. Haig, immediately drove ove r the course. Prim At four o'clock the infant con of the Prince Al Princess of Wales, and the youthful Princess Vi toria, daughter of the Prince and Princess Louis Hesse, accompanied by their attendants, arrived Windsor by the Great Western Railway, A splendid suite of apartments has been prepo in the Lancaster Tower, which faces the Loa Walk, for the use of their Royal Highnesses ti Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, who dolt their stay at the Castle will remain the g uests her Majesty. The Princess Victoria and at tendau will occupy a nursery in Edward lll.'s Tower. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prince' of Wales, with their infant son, will reside at F'° more House during the races. They are expe o to visit Ascot again an Thursday. The Prince and Princess of Wales, The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended the Countess of Morton, Lieut.-Gen. Kuoflys/ a l) Lieut.-Col. Keppel, left Marlborough House noon yesterday for Frogmore. The Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, 0 . 1 tended. by the Baroness von Granny and Captal von Westerwelier, left Marlborough House f ° Windsor Castle. The Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Prim and Princess Louis of Hesse, honoured Mess y ' Thy and Son with a visit on Monday, at the G el man Gallery, for the purpose of inspecting Ni th picture of his Royal Highness's marriage V I G. H. Thomas, and Mr. William ;....'impson's wa ter colour drawings of India, Thibet, and Cashmere' Her Majesty has just added 160 acres to the pr( perty in which her marine residence at Cowes, in. the 15 of Wight, is situa4d, by the purchase of a couple of f 3l.° for £5,400. His Royal Highness Prince Philip of Warta burg has returned to the Clarendon Hotel from Glarereoll Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duch ° , de Montpensier arrived yesterday at the Clarendon 1- I° ' from Claremont, In the evening their Royal iliglio s '; entertained at dinner the Duke de Chartres, the Du ke Nemours, the Count d'Eu, the Duke d'Alencou, the P rix de Joinvilie, the Duke de Penthievre, the Duke d'ilumal Prince Philip of Wurtembarg, the Spanish Min ister al Madame Comyn, the Duke de Granada and the mem bers the Spanish Legation in London, Viscount and Visco unte Vigier, M. and Madame Bocher, Col. Velarde and Set" Cagigas (in attendance on the Duke de Monipensier). de Cele, in waiting to the Duchess de Montpensier, Co Solis, M. Sauchiz, M. Laug - el, Ecc. After the banquet tb royal party went to the Italian Opera to witness tb performance of " Faust." Ttle Duke of Roxburghe has left the Clarena° Hotel for Norway. The Duke and Duebess de Mercy end suite ha/ arrived at the Clarendon Hotel from Paris. The Baroness de Thoren and suite have le i Brook-street for Malvern Hail, Solihull, Warwickshire . Count Alexander Stroganoff has returned to th Clarendon Hotel from Paris. A marriage will shortly be solemnised betweel Lord Henry Loftus, brother to the late and uncle to th present Marquis of Ely, and Louisa Countess of &afield' MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage c Lord Frederick Cavendish, second son of the E itiji of Devonshire, with the Hon. Lucy Caroline LYt telt°l3 second daughter of Lord Lyttelton, was solemnised Yester, day at Westminster Abbey. The ceremony Earl ) with full choral service. The Earl Granville, the Clarendon, Lord and Lady Taunton, the Marchioneot;j, Exeter, the Duchess of Sutherland, the Chancellor ef.,,f Exchequer and Mrs Gladstone and a number of the neb l ; were present. The bridegroom and his best-man arr ive r d i ; the Abbey at half-past 12 o'clock, and shortly afte rWa A lt the bride arrived accompanied by Mrs Gladstone. " - re ; quarter to 1 the bridal procession was formed, and from the Jerusalem Chamber in the following order 12 bridesmaids following the bride, who resting on the A 136 of her father proceeded to the altar, the bridegroom ; ( 1. accompanied by Mrs Gladstone and his brother, Lo rd ~aa ward Cavendish, who acted as best man. The 1 1 ° Ii ' a - pt Rev. W. Henry Lyttelton, canon of Worcester en d was performs of Hagley, and uncle of the bride, performed the 0 % 0 1 rite, assisted by the Hon. and Rev. Francis Grey, r ec i t la Morpeth. At the termination of the solemity the We " Ai' party proceeded to the Jerusalem Chamber for the re tration of the marriage. The happy couple and their foe then left the Abbey for the Right Hon. the Chane el t I e the Exchequer and Mrs. Gladstone's residence on 01 " ..- 0 .6' house-terrace, where a sumptuous dejeuner had be er/ :ty' pared for the interesting occasion. The Duke et 1) t ° 0 00 shire, the Duchess of Sutherland, the Earl and C o ri, if of Clarendon and Lady E. Villiers, Lord Edward an d °l ;d Louisa Cavendish, Lord and Lady George Cavendis h ', - 0° and Lady Taunton, Lord and Lady Bagot, and eb°/' tits of the relatives of both parties were present. Later tito afternoon the noble lord and his w if e l e ft town I°' Dowager Duchess of Sutherland's villa ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITEC'" : OI I The annual dinner of the R o yal I n stitute of 13r " - itio Architects took place on Monday evening, June 6, il l Is saloon of the Wellington, St. James's-street—Tll°,l33de° Donaldson, Esq., Ph. D., President, in the chair. v'fori nearly 100 members of the profession, the following i(iTeti)°, were present :—Sir Charles Eastlake, President °1,05,0 Royal Academy ; General Sabine, President of the A , ; Society; Mr J. P. Knight, R.A. ; Mr Westmaoot t f Mr David Roberts, ILA, ;MrE. W. Cooke, Rat. 1 11 J. B. Berosford Hope, LL.D. ; Mr Bazalgette, C. Hutton Gregury, C.E ; Mr Cole, C,8,; Cap t. R.E., &c. The debate on the subject of the Na tion° n . lery in the House of Commons, which took p1a00..?-ot,ro same evening, prevented the attendance of sa vor ' guests—Lord Etch°, Mr Cowpei, Mr Tite, Sce. MADAME DE STAEL AND MR. WILBERN it , it3 o In the early spring of 1814, Madame de St ae :ele i in London, with her son and daughter, where she t mu u c l h ar is in w th h to m the hig b h e e c s o ts e acquainted ociety .li aving expressed erforCa► icwith the Duke of Gloucester, in order to gratify her, select dinner party, to which he was specially itiv it % le d afterwards made a great point of his dining ht which he did, and, in addition to her son and d aug `:. - d ei ,fo / ;; aß d company included Lord and Lady Landsdowne, L°' rowby, Sir James Mackintosh, &c. One of the on assured me that, without any e ffort in IP s Wilberforce's part, the conversation was q uick ' tits 0-, hand, and that such was the brilliancy of hi s thoug 4silv remarks, that Madame de Stael herself, afte r thus 0.1.0;ot., him, said, " I have always heard of Mr. el ( ft amongst the most benevolent of men : I shall now think of him ae one of the wittiest and most bo plt He told me that he had afterwards sent her Ili° tio )te cit s n p rac ti ca l Ch r i s ti an i ty , f or w hich she had alraos , , , 0 ,0 and her remark on it to a mutual friend Wo , l'aurore do l'immortalite." h I,# TIIE OFFICERS OF THE CANDIA."-"I' C ic ed ° Commissioners of the Admiralty have re ce o d tea letter, signed by several of the passengers 0 13 . r eco ili : Candia Peninsular and Oriental steanaer, CO P ro mending to their lordships' notice the v er y elce wv , duct of 12 engineer officers of the Royal DiavYi jot , wh also passengers in the Candia, on the 29th AV . ' , e _cittri li . 4 the steamer encountered a very severe cyclonia ga:se'ofgas7, which she was fcr some time in great danger. Tellcc'ilio were on their way to join the Euryalus, 01 1 t h peell ° „ tion. Their names are Messrs. Pickles, Eckerslo9: v„iitut W P a o i v t e e r ;m l: i re n n ty lt r a e rn ,a , n G d i ß pa r v ow es n , their satisfaction at receiving such an account'.iviooolo, favourably noted the Praiseworthy coutitict .PTahgee,irCichradsseh, iFpsailttiasvenea,veliot:ce: