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• • KEATING'S PALE NEW FOUINTI)LAND COD LIVER OIL. The FineA Imported this Season. 'l' ifIS VALUABLE MEDICINE having of late years come into such general ui-e, and being, moreover, so exten sively prescribed by the most eminent practitioners both in town and country, Mr. Keating can with the greatest having been analysed, confidence recommend this Oil as being perfectly pure, nearly tasteiess, and free from adulteration, reported on, and recommended by Prof. Taylor, rif Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, Dr. Scott, M.D., L.R.C.P L.S , &c., and i ir. Edwin Payne, M D. L.R_C.P., D.I.R.C . S., who,. in the words of the late Dr. Pereira, says that "'the b st Oil is that which is most devoid of colour, odour, and flavour, cha racters this will be found to possess, being purely of hepatic or igin, a point of great weight with reg ar d t o it s th erapeut i c value. Sold in Half-pints, ls. 9d. ; Pints, ls. ; Quarts, ss. 6d. ; and Five -pint Bottles, 12s. 6d., imperial EA s T ING, Chemist, 79, St. Paul'measure, by THOMAS _KChurchyard, London. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA , COVENT-GARDEN. XI) Under tile Mauazement of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. ----- THIS EVENING, W+ll .ice's Romantic Opera, THE PESERT FLOWER : Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne ; Messrs. W. TI. Weiss, H. Corri. A. Cook, and W. Harrison. conductor, Mr. A. 3lellon.—Doors open at half-past Seven. comuience at Eight. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY - LANE. - Managers . Messrs. K Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING the rertormances willcommence with the Comedietta of JOHN DO BB 3 John Dobbs, Mr. G. F. Ne ville (his first appearance in London); Peter t'aternoster, Mr. G. Belrnore ; other characters by Mr. j. Neville, Mr. WMde, Miss liarfleur, and Miss Murray. After which, Lord Byron's Choral Tragedy, MANFRED. MesErs. 1 helps, Ryder, Rayner, M.agreson, Ward, Spencer ; Miss Heath, Miss F. Atkinson, Miss Leclercq, and Mrs. E. Falconer. Vocalists—Miss Poole, Miss hitter, Miss Cicely ott , Miss Heywood, and Mr. Swift. To conclude with an Original Farce (never acted), by John Oxentord, Esq , entitled BEAUTY OR THE BEAST. Principal characters by Messrs. Addison, G. F. Neville, Barret, Spencer, and G. Weston ; Mrs Edmund Falconer and Miss R. Lecicrq. IIHEATRE ROYAL HAY MARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, OUR MARY ANNE. After which, COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles Mathews. Followed by TETE GOLDEN FLEECE. Messrs. Charles Mathews, Compton,Weathersby,&c. ; Mesdames C. Mathews, 1., Keeley. Griffith, &c. And MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at 7. RoyAL LYOEu AT THEATRE, Under the Sole ManagementFechter. BEL DEMONIO Triumphant Success) will be repeated E ver y Evening until further notice. Tins EVENING, to commence with a Comedietta by w. Gilbert, tesq., entitled UNCLE BABY: Mess' s . J . G . Shore. Widdicombe, Charles, Miss P, Le:lercq, and Carlotta Leelerq.l After which, at a Quarter-past Elzht, BEL DEMOMG, a. Love Story, hi Twelve Tableaux, taken from Stendl:al's •, Rattan Chronicle ," by John Brom,ham. Prine'pal charac ter by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs; jszacilytienn:uelltiafrAirZisf, lir-nxhilm, Emery, Raymond, Moreland Collett, Andrews, Sims ; Miss hate Terry, .L Lee, and 311ss Elsworthy. 13EL DEMONIO; a LOVE STOR Y, in Twelve Tableaux. NEW THEA'T'RE-ROYAL, AD ELpHi, ,sou. Pronrtator and Manazer, 317. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, at 7, TIIE TIIAGEDY QUEEN: Mrs. Stirling. At 8, the New Drama of LEAH: Miss Bateman, supported by Mesers.Artbur Stirling, R. Phillips, Billimr,ton, Stuart, A Wood, Eburne, Miss H. Simms and Mrs. Billing -ton. To conclude with CATCHING AN HEIRESS : Miss woolgar and Mr. A. Wood. MTL MISS BATEMAN.—LEA—The triumphant and enthusiastic success of the great tragic artiste, kiss BATEMAN, on her first appearance in the character of LEAH, in the new five act Drama of that title, having been nightly repeated, and even exceeded during the las , , four weeks, amidst the applause and tears of crowded audiences, and tneprofoun 1 impression created upon all who have wit nessed the touching, impersonation by Miss Bateman of the heat-broken Jewish maiden, being confirmed by the unani mous verdict and critical approval of the entire press, the Manager ot the NEW ADEL PHI THEATRE has the honour to announce that Miss BATEMAN will appear in the New Drama of LEA El EVERY EVENING till further notice; and in order to meet, as far as possible, the increasing demand for stalls, has added two more rows to those previously existing. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanboroug,h. THIS EVENING, FAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR LADY. Mr. Leigh Murray. After which, MIRIAM'S CRIME. Messrs. G. Honey, Parselle, Belford, Turner, Miss K.Saville, and Miss Handers. To conclude with WHERE'S YOUR WIFE. Mr. Belford. Commence at 7. TIHE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, van be had Every Evening - of _ . G. R. GI.kNIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins Darr.—Morning, 7h. 31na.—Afternoon, Bh. lOat To.golut.ow.-Morning, Bh. 46m.—Afternoon, 9d. 24m The Weather---• Sun Office, Nov. 4 , 1863. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock Barometer-29.90. Wind—South- Westerly ; moderate, and cloudy. 5.7 2,1 3 . t i tt l y 1 7 *ll it 4%4 4,4 LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 4, 1863. In regard to the interpretation of the Foreign Enlistment Act, the law authorities appear to be rather seriously at loggerheads. The Government, indeed, upon this point, would seem fast to be get ting deeper and deeper into difficulties. It is im possible not to recognise that it really is thus, as between the law officers of the Crown and our judicial administrators. Any one, in fact, may see that it is so, upon scanning carefully that little involved and at moments bewildering tangle of argument—like the ilLtwisted strands of a clumsily manufactured rope (almost we were going to say, of sand !)—which yesterday occupied so long the attention of th e C our t o f E xc h equer, b y reason l 't u the pertinaci ous di a l ogue k ep t up b y the Attorney- Ge neral with the Lord Chief Baron in reference to the Well-known case of the Alexandra. Stripping .theWhete question at issue, of all legal technicalities, gnat of it VOry 'si tu as it at present st an d s , may b e put, thetpxl;,:ilnceed, thus :—Wh e th er — t hi s i s really plai n Superior Court of it— w h et h er w i ll or will not be referred) coi (to ncide which the matter is a b ou t to with the Lord Chief Baron in the interpretati on vital section of the pat y the latter upon a certain hnews ei f gn Enlistment Act, a section, as the country r 4 ,, 1 1 well by this time, of the very last importan ce , other than the one felzhbaiat _s!ction is, of course, no equipping, or the fit t i o ,, e d il i t ag the arming, the design or intent that they shE t o u f bvessels e with the turned to use a gainst for directly hostile purpo ses w ith which this country ia at recihe a nation n b e lligerents in respect to wh om t at i t u . regard t o tamed by our Gov ernment is o ne of etri B at u de main heeutralit According to t Lord Chiefaron' s direction. to the jury in referenc e to the Alex andra, th e men had no alternative whatever in ar riving , j : t r h y : decision at which they actually did arrive in Battle. ment . (so far as that court could settle it) I of the dispute in regard to that particular trial. The Lord Chief Baron, as will be very well remembered, distinctly directing the jury, if they were of opinion that the defendants in the suit had no intention whatever to have the Alexan dra armed,equipped, orfitted out, in an English eea port to the end that it should be eventually employed against the Federal Government, that the verdict they, the jurymen, must find should be (as of course it was immediately) a verdict against the Crown) a verdict simply a n d di s ti nct l y f or the d e f en dants. The Q uest i on now awaiting settlement in the supe riorcourt is—Will this ruling be sustained The A ttorney -General can't think it. Naturally enough he can't think it—he the first law officer of the Crow n , the chief resp onsible bar, o f h the p, • champion at the policy adventured neon by the Gover n . ment of which he is a member. ' A policy we are tempted to Say at onc e so v ery ras hl y adventured upon by them, not,o:ult in iae.g now adventured upon reference to the Ale xan d ra and the Alabam a also in reference t o those two 0 unlucky s t eam rams yet in the shipbuilding yarci f LA . T f n D BROTHERS, down at Liverpool. Let the Chief rulin and g be Baron'ssus sustained, i v n e e r d y , positive 6.-nd unhesitati ng t h e 1, , w officers of the Crown, and theGovern raent themselves , of which t he y are the are i n a predappoiin ted ad clearly and obviouslyvacates, cacnent The builders of the A lexandra, and, it may be added, of the Alabama, and, it may still further be iasserted, of those two unfinished steam rams down at Liverpool, will be pronounced definitively to have been guilty of no outrage against the laws whatever—the seizure or detention of any one amongst those vessels being thereby placed conspi cuously beyond the reach of any possible justifica i tion. " 'Tis a very pretty quarrel as it stands" —and we can only watch the development of the future phases of it, with somewhat of the complacent relish of Sir LITI )"..73 O"rRIG GER in the comedy. The Government in this matter have been flagrantly indifferent to the wisdom latent in two very homely little axioms, part and parcel , of the familiar idioms of the language. 1 Easy does it," one of them ; " More haste less speed," the other. It yet rEmains to be demonstrated whether the Foreign Enlistment Act empowers them to deal thus rigorously with unarmed ves sels, constructed in British building-yards, a n d floating in English waters. The interpreters of the law, or at any rate one of the most authoritative amongst them, having ruled in the case of the Alexandra that theactprdeoceispiitioatteslyo au thorize them ! By acting thus as they have done now more than once in regard to these kind of vessels, the Government have assumed a position antagonistic to one of our own high courts of law—they have gone far towards wastonly wounding (in the very name of neutrality !) the natural susceptibilities of the Confederates —they have won certainly a nauseous compliment or two from a vulgar mouth piece of the Federal Government like the Rev. WARD BEECHER—they have, seemingly with a strange perversity, gone clean out of their way, quite unnecessarily, to irritate, almost we had said to outrage, the patriotic sensibilities of the English people over whom they have (by a "fortuitous con currence" of circumstances) been called to rule. 'Whatever may be the consequences of Earl RUSSELL'S extraordinary conduct concerning Mr. LAIRD'S ships i❑ limbo, one result has at least been obtained from his strange policy. We now know what is to be expected from an iron-clad hastily sent to sea in bad weather. That the Prince Con sort was severely tried in a gale of unusual severity is clear ; and likewise, it is reported, that she left port not quite prepared for the emergency. This, however, was a frequent occurrence in olden times ; in fact, the exception proved the rale, which the late Lord DUNDONALD'S memoirs, and those of others, back to the days of BLARE, testify; but the verdict of those on board of her, even under the There is an old adage, familiar to us all, which is generally admitted to be full of plain practical 'wis dom. It tells us that " Prevention is better than cure," and most persons agree in thinking the advice very sound and wholesome. If it were more generally followed there is no doubt that a good deal of very serious mischief would be avoided, and our gaols, reformatories, and hospitals would have less to do. But although often enough quoted and widely diffused through other spheres of life, it is only very recently that the principle which these five words represent has been admitted into our dealings with what are styled, with some truth, " the dangerous classes." Our forefathers, when their goods were appropriated, their houses broken into, their lives imperilled, and their social order generally disturbed by these troublers of society, attempted to cure the evil by a very summary pro cess, despatching all such malpractisers out of the world with all convenient speed. The idea of en deavouring in any degree to counteract or mitigate the evil appears seldom or never to have been en tertained. The lower classes were then looked upon too much as altogether " dangerous," and the ruling feeling with regard to them waa to keep them down. Mrs. FRY, indeed, and other kindred spirits, penetrated into the haunts of vice and crime, bat the wiser, more humane, and more hopeful theory of seeking to direct the course of the young before they enter on the path of crime, instead of trying to arrest their progress when on the fatal down ward slope, appears to have been left for our own day. It was impossible for earnest philanthropists to labour much among the very poor without per ceiving the terrible temptations to which from their very earliest days they are exposed ; and ragged schools, reformatories, industrial asylums, and nu merous other institutions, betoken the increasing sense that "prevention is better than cure." One great obstacle in the way of the reform of elder criminals has always been found in the difficulty of procuring them an honest means of livelihood. Em ployers are naturally averse to engaging a man of questionable antecedents, while there is no one to give him a character, and yet idleness and want are morally certain to lead the reformed criminal back to his old courses, and the struggle after better things and its failure only contribute to a still darker and more hopeless ruin. Few positions are more worthy of pity and sympathy than that of a man who is willing and anxious to work for an honest living, but who finds nothing but discourage ment in his endeavours, though plenty will help him to steal. And yet to this position, one whose experience of the darker shades of life might have taught him its danger, and whose responsible position should have rendered him careful of harsh and hasty judgments, has condemned the followers of a humble but thriving trade. We refer, of course, to the proceedings of Sir RICHARD MAYNE with respect to the,Westminster street stallkeepers. The Chief Commissioner's acts in this instance have been marked by an in justice and want of consideration quite unusual with him. It is difficult to understand his motive, seeing that the inhabitants of the districts referred to have warmly advocated the cause of the poor stallkeepers, while the local Board of Works, on whose representations he first acted, have withdrawn their request and rescinded the resolution which was the origin of the removal. Sir RICHARD MAYNE, indeed, now refuses to admit that he was in any way influenced by the representations of the Board, and told the deputation that waited upon him on this subject, that the rescinding of the original resolution was a matter of no moment, seeing that he had acted independently of it in the first instance. When he was reminded that he had himself written to say that he had given the orders for removal " in consequence of representa tions made by the District Board of Works," he replied that, if so, it must have been done inad vertently. Now there is no reason why it should have been done inadvertently, seeing that the com plaint certainly came from the District Board, and they were-the proper persons to raise an objection rescind to the continuance of the stalls if they were found ° l nlttede public traffic. If the members of the Board h ave ....m—___ . EMBARGO ON MEAT.---It would be useless at this heard evidence enough to induce them to • their own decision, and even to express regret at hael n time to enter into any speculations as to the motives or in reviously gone so far, it is surely tent k ions of b the Washington Government in instituting the not too ranch t o g P expect fir RICHARD MAYNE to re- We have now only to deal with the simple considerhisdete e:xportation of stock from America is strictly p f s r oc o t b s t t b h ite at ai th a g e nd the prohibition rigidly enforced, and that complaints of int:illation. There have been nopu bile tants of the neionizenhience; the respectable inhabi- we must very quickly find another way to get our beef and to secure the return accustomed standin g - p lates the principal shopkeep ers or have taken a prominent at th ese have taken active steps ese poor people to their . and in the thi s proceeding and e part, streets in question seionces argu- This is of itself a mutton, or starve. If we do not, elapsed, secure a supply of stocks from o e territory, we shall begin by having a • comedown n to dbty depopulating the is posedy fro. n a m whereStown ritishCol e ta: C h ar t i o boo e pricey iaotr ail, and m meat , such before tb. t7 .. o reo,, t h e h ave thaa A • merman famine in Victoria, 'amble they will feel little dis- Land. When the miners they will have to pay more even inevitable iif theyconsequence 1 fficient answer to the Chief Co nimi 5 11 men t that these stalls were the re sort _„ . l ig g any of thieves and, roust be that they will use all possible diligence to get away other bad characters. It is certan' y n ot at all 7 ru from Victoria, and down to California. Thus, all hope of bable that those who reside on the spot, and .t ) ' paying summer expenses by winter trade will be cut off, much better opportunities et ' conse- and the position of the merchants, storekeepers, and traders quently have adgi no . altogether will be very little short of desperate. The colon than Sir RICHARD MAYNE, would have wish ed f ., ) ; i AIM tOW is scarcely old enough or strong enough to bear y the return of the stallkeepers, had they:been vicious auccessfully the shock of so heavy a blow as this, and it How far the proceedie . zuay be considered as extremely doubtful tear it would be able or dishonest persons. ga of to recove r from it. A statement has apped in a mor - the Chief Commissioner tend to discourage crime, !ug contemporary to the effect that the long drought n in may be judged by the statement of one of these attict.ecittrhfornia and Mexico has forced the owners of • This man said this be so W ive them up into the mountains for pasture, It stallkeepers at a recent meeting. rii _ ...... ,.. it e must look to the Sandwich Islands for sup that he had been a thief in early life, knowing no ' " HE I' 'weever Island Express. A ALI:X4ND better, but that for the last ten years he had led nezuela n Go veranutuatA CASE.—We hear that the Ve and that Mesa %ri ll: ve made an offer for the Alexandra, an honest life, as the police, who knew him, might re. testify. He w as marr i e d, and had two ch ild ren, bona fide. O ur Governmeet lit aranteed th e t ransact i on to be ° the transactio n . , however, declined to tigV",h- A , whom he sent to school, and tried to b r ing up MR. MORTON PRICE atid, iv i I honest. "Sir RICHARD MArNE " 'd this man) , .1 negotiation fur the Wheatre Roy a l, lig -1,88 LUcETTE are in eataling4er (48tley's). circumstances, is very severe, namely, " that no ship could have behaved worse in a gale than she did," and will tell more or less against all ships of her description. The chief complaints against her are, that she is wanting in buoyancy, in fact, that she cannot rise over a sea, and that she rolls and labours heavily. The question now is, how are these defects to be remedied? Experiments are now being made to test iron plates of six inches and upwards would it not be prudent to try first whether ships can carry four inches and a half in bad weather ? The preservation of the Prince Consort is due to the resolution and energy of her officers and crew rather than to her sea - worthy qualities, or to the provision which should long since have been made by the Admiralty for a case of distress like the present, by providing a " graving dock" at Dublin. This, however, is net to our present purpose ; we wish rather to draw attention to the fact that the extra ordinary and unconstitutional conduct of the Foreign Secretary has taught us a lesson which ought not to be neglected. People may be too clever, and by attempting over -much break down completely. We have the warning of the American's " Monitor" fresh in our memory; let us not follow their example, let the Lords of the Admiralty and their chief con structor look to these matters, and not by their would-be improvements saddle the nation with heavy navy estimates, and useless sea monsters, alike unable to float or fight. Earl RUSSELL has taught the natio❑ a useful lesson (unconstitutionally cer tainly), but nevertheless he deserves a return for the favour which we doubt not the ensuing session of Parliament will read to him. He has yet to learn that British laws are made to be observed by all, from the prince to the peasant, and not to be mis construed, misapplied, or perverted to suit the syco phantic or pusillanimous fancies of anti-English statesmen. His lordship has not stopped at trifles certainly, and if treating all alike (at least as regards his countrymen) be fair play, no one can complain much more than another. Whether it be the Royal Navy, whose power to carry out the commands of the Admiralty are virtually doubted by the Foreign Secretary, the Bench, by the complete overriding of the Chief Baron's decision, as laid down in the case of the Alexandra, by the authority of the Cus tom-house officials, in whose hands the retention of the ships in question rested ; or last, not least, of the rights of British subjects, by contravening an ex isting law to please a foreign Government. This, too, on the unconstitutional ground that a future assembly of the representatives of the country would sanction a measure which must necessarily de• grade the nation in the estimation of Europe, and that measure to be introduced by the man who scorned to lend himself to aid the pass ing of Lord PALmEßsroN's redoubtable Con spiracy Bill in 1858. Can the Ministry never take warning in time? Can the Head of the Government so soon have forgotten his late ignominious defeat, when, in the plenitude of popularity, he was sud denly turned out of office for his un-English sub serviency to foreign dictation. Will he again ven ture his place and power at the beck and call of a Government which threatens to sweep English commerce off the seas, and yet is obliged to transfer three-fourths of her commerce to foreign vessels, from the fear of two or three cruisers of a State she despises, whose ports she in vain endea vours to blockade, and whose ships, with all her boasted navy, she cannot catch. Does Lord PAL MERSTON wish to drag England to the brink of a war as he did in 1858, and then retire from the field, and leave it to his successors as a pre cious heritage. The seizure of Mr. LAIRD'S ships must soon come to an issue at Westminster, and although by perversion of justice the vessels may still be detained for a time by point of law, We doubt not the majesty of the law will be vindicated by the Bench without favour or affection to Ministers or Americans. " says that I must go back to my evil courses," and in all human probability he will be driven to do so, and the children, once honestly brought up, will be trained in thieving. This is only one case, and this speaker must not be taken as an example of his class, since we are told on good authority that the average time during which fifty of the ejected stall keepers held their standings was twenty years. Many of them succeeded their parents at the stalls, and the steadiness and constancy, which aro always accepted as evidence of respectability, are thus strongly in their favour. We have not so much superfluous employment that we should lightly destroy an honest and thriving trade. It is not so easy to supply the poor with bread and fuel, that we should be too ready to prevent them from doing it for themselves. It is not so easy to keep out of temptation when its force lies in famine, in want, in bitterness of spirit against supposed injustice, i that we should wilfully put the trial in another's way. The approaching winter already makes itself felt, and cold and hunger are churlish and unwel come guests at the poor man's hearth. It is a cruel thing to deprive men of employment at this season, except for pressing and urgent reasons, and we earnestly trust the Chief Commissioner will recon sider his decision, and leave the poor stallkeepers of the Broadway and Strutton-ground unmolested until as good cause has been found for their removal as has been found for their retention of the old itinerant market-place. THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVP,MBER 4, 1863. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAM.] THE POLISH INSURRECTION , CRACOW, Nov. 3. Czachowski, Bosak, and Chmienski have effected a junction in the mountains of St. Kr'cz, in the palatinate of Cracow. Rochebrun and Komorowski have had a successful engagement with the Russians in the palatinate of Lublin. The railway communication between Skierniewice and Warsaw is interrupted. The news is confirmed of young ladies of 15 years of age having been arrested in Warsaw and taken to the citadel. The troops of Mouravieff have marched from the government of Augustoiv into that of Plock. ....e............ COPENHAGEN, Nov. 3 (Evening). At yesterday evening's sitting of the Rigsraad the fundamental law was discussed. The President of the Council was opposed to all the proposed amendments. The debates were calm, and the amendments were rejected by 40 votes against 14. ... .........• SPAIN. MADRID, Nov. 3. The Opposition papers are vehemently attacking the Ministry. .- -----. CHINA. PARIS, Nov. 4. The Paris papers assert that letters have been received here from China, representing the situa tion of the insurgents as precarious. given of the mission ar i es an d Satisfa c t ory ne ws is native Christians. The mandarins hostile to Euro peans had been disgraced. BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE MAILS, SOUTHA.M? lON, Noy. 4. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Magda lena has arrived here with the above mails, 61 pas sengers, £21,462 in silverspecie from Buenos Ayres, £1,291 in gold from Rio, and 1,260 packages of ca"go• She experienced off Finisterre a heavy gale from the North West, and strong winds and a Leavy sea from the same direction up Channel. :'he Magdalena exchanged colours on the 14th with the outward French mail. Eer Majesty's ships Egmont and Stromboli were at Eio. The Admiral with the remainder of the squadron was on the River Plate. Tte English ship Flora, of Liverpool from Ma nilla, put into Bahia on the 11th, leaky. She re portel having been boarded by the Alabama, off the Cape of Good Hope. General Penalozs, with 1,000 mon, had threa tened to invade San Juan. His headquarters were in Riola, where it is said his influence is so uni versal that he can dictate terms of conciliation with the National Government. The sugar crop at Pernambuco was a month later than usual. The weather had been favourable for all description s of produce. Business at Rio Janiero was slightly active, and would last so a few days. The coffee market was calm, and the demand for brown sugar was lively. Exchange firm, with an upward tendency. The sugar market at Bahia was dull, with abate ments in prices. Cotton increasing. Rum in de mand. Tobacco sales unimportant. There was a grtat scarcity of provisions at the Cape de Verde Islands, in consequence of no rain having fallen for more than a year. PORTUGAL. (Per the Magdalena.) LISBON, OCT. 31. The King, accompanied by the Queen, intends visiting Oporto in November. The Italian residents in Lisbon are raising sub scriptions for the erection of a monument to com memorate the marriage of Dorn Luiz and the Prince Mary of Savoy. The Queen has taken carriage exercise on seve ral occasions. The King has distributed the prizes at the Polytechnic Institution, on which occasion his Majesty made an impressive speech to the members. The Royal family visited the Opera in state yes terday. The city was partially illuminated. '[he Portuguese corvette Sa Da Bandiera sails shortly for Angola, and the Infante Dorn John for England. The American corvette St. Louis is in harbour. The subscription in Lisbon for the loan amounts to £285,000 sterling, and i❑ Oporto to £500,000 sterling. Consequently applicants can only receive a small per centage of the amount required. The weather is wet and stormy. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Trade is dull. Exchange on London, 53y, on Paris 528, on Hamburg 48, Genoa 526. Rentes are quoted 491 to 50, Coupons 492, Bank of Por tugal shares 550, Commercial Oporto 262. FRANCE. MARSEILLES, Nov. 3. Letters from Naples of the 31st October state that the inauguration of the Foggia Railway is fixed for the 8t1: inst. The King wilt leave th , ., same evening for Avellino and Malo. Ho will return to Naples on the 9th. Two hundred car riages with p u bli c f unct i onar i es an d N eapo li tan nobles will go out as far as M a l o t o mee t hi s Majesty. O rna t preparations are being made for the reception o f th e Ki ng at N ap l es . The review of the fleet will take place on the 10th 25 vea2els will be present in the Bay. The Minister of War has ordered the line of the Volturna to be placed in a state of defence, and the provisioning of the fortress of Gaeta. BOURSE ; Nov. 3.—The market has shown little animation, but the prices of yesterday have been well mait‘tainad, Threes being now unvaried at 67f. 25c, Mobilier also remains about tho same. Rail way Market quiet, but firm. The market closed as follows : it per Cents 95 50 Do. end month — 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 30 Credit Mobilier 1111 25 Do. end nionth 1107 50 Bank Shares ...... 3365 Credit 1! ander l3lO Roman Italian Loan 73 Do. end month 73 15 New ditto 73 10 Do. end mouth 72 9;) Russian Austrian Spanit. , ll Threet3.,, Flomo Debt Deferred RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 978 75 .. 980 Northern 982 50 .. 980 New ditto .... Geneva Tauean .... 1 .. Is N l4 ;e:w st a the d: r i a li a t . n u t o f 1 : : 1 1 . . Eastern .... Sardinian.... Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa...„ Ditto to B - arcelona -- - • • - - 957 50 „ . 955 - 912 50 .. - -- 497 50 - - 690 - .. 697 50 515 - - 505 - 500 35 413 75 .. 411 25 411 25 .. 410 - 558 75 .. 557 50 538 75 .. 538 75 631 25 .. 632 50 332 50 .. 335 -- GERMANY AND DENMARK. We read is the Conseitutionnel :—" The four military commissaries charged with preparing the Federal execution in Holstein will shortly meet. Gan. de Aloltke, the Prussian commissary, is in structed to make a proposition ucordiug to the terms of which a portion of the Austro•Prussian corps de reserve would enter Holstein at the same time as the corps of execution of Saxon and Hano verian troops of 6,000 men. This measure is to shield the latter corps from an attack by the Danish troops, which at A ny given moment might be landed at Kiel or at Eckeruforde. According to a letter from Berlin, England is endeavouring, in the eventuality of a blockade of the German ports, to obtain the entrance of the port of Hamburg for her trading vessels; but it is doubtful whether this privilege will be granted to the British Go vernment." LITERATURE. The Browns and the Smiths. By the Author o "Anne Dysart," &c., &o. Three Vale. Hurst and Blackett. The authoress of "Anne Dysart" excels in the faithful delineation of domestic life. Her stories possess a homely, quiet, but not unattractive interest, particularly refreshing in these days of sensation romances. In perusing "Anne Dysart" and other works from the same pen, we are somewhat reminded of Miss Austin's style of narrative, although the modern nove list does not approach in minute exactness of detail the writer of " Sense and Sensibility," whose wonderful "filling up" of the minor portions of her pictorial sketches are somewhat in the character of the marvellous backgrounds of David Wilkie. If we have any fault to find with the "Browns and the Smiths," it is perhaps that of over-simpli city. We see almost too much of Miss Clara Wellby and Miss Harriet Richard, the two old maids of Goslingford, who gossip and quarrel and " make it up again," times innumerable. Miss Richard is a Smithite, Miss Weilby is a Brownite—under which opposing deno minations all Goslingford may be divided— "tinder each banner proud to stand Were ranged the noblest of the land :'' The great feuds of the Browns and the Smiths of Goslingford dated two or three generations back. They were rival attorneys. The one a Whig, the others Tory. The one a Churchman, the other a Dissenter. But the authoress shall herself explain the position of affairs, which she does in a chapter en. titled VERY HACKNIED. " There is nothing new under the sun," said the wise monarch, and if this could be said with truth nearly three thousand years ago, when the world was not much more than half as old as it is at present, how doubly stale must all things have now become I You have all, my readers, heard, ad nauseam, of the Montagues and Capulets—the Yorkists and Lancastrians; the names are as familiar as that rivalship of race, and hatred of families, which, in our days at least are not con fined to princes and nobles, but may be found in every mar ket town, in every country village, and probably in every thieves' quarter in the world. But though there is nothing new, not even similes, though originality is more than ever impossible to us in these latter days, yet the picture of hu‘nan passions and human follies, be it only true, however commonplace, never fails to make us weep or laugh, As the occasion demands. It is this which encourages me to introduce to your notice the Browns and the Smiths, and to hope that you will even paedon an allusion to the Montagues and the Capulets. It is so much easier to take up an old simile than to rummage through one's daily decreasing stores of memory for a new one. And then, the hackneyed one has the advantage of being understood by everybody ; even by those—if in these days of universal knowledge there be any such—who have only heard of the Montagues and Capulets by way of re ference. Now, the Browns and the Smiths were the Montagues and Capulets of the borough of Goslingford. The little town in which these events take place and its various inhabitants, are described with a felicitous pencil. As a specimen of the writer's descriptive abilities, let us take the follow ing picture of , GOSLINGFORD. Goslingford is a thorough old English country town, and, in the days of which I speak, though these are not very remote, had not been invaded even by a railway. It consists of four streets, at right angles, somewhat narrow, but very picturesque; the colouring, old, dusky, and mel lowed, and the tall chimneys and overhanging upper stories throwing, in the summer sunshine, those shadows, broad and deep, so dear to the heart of the aceomplished gentle • man who writes the " Stones of Venice." A broad river, bearing a little—a very little—traffic on its bosom, steals lazily by, past the little town, and through green meadows, mostly flat, onwards to the sea. Cattle repose in these meadows, amid cowslips and buttercups, and under the shade of tall elms and wide spread oaks; and low hills, not robed, however, in "the azure hue" of distance, but chequered with the unmistakeable yellow and green of corn fields or turnip fields, gird in the pleasant vale, which has many a counterpart in rural England. Thus, though a pretty and an interesting old town, it is a very everyday one—being, in fact, in architec ture and situation, the very commonest type of as English uncommercial town. The people, too, are the very kind of people who reside in such towns, even in these days of rapid and constant communication of every place with every place else, when everybody is becoming, outwardly at least, so like everybody else, that national and local distinctions, and even individual character, seem in danger of being obliterated by the modern monotony of re finement and cultivation. But as yet, at Goslingford, most people still dined at three o'clock, and went out to tea par ties at six ; and it was, by many persons, thought very fine and foolish of the Smiths, when they gave a dinner party at the irrationa: hour of half-past six, at which the wine was handed round by Thomas, indoors man-servant, and Sarah, housemaid, instead of being put on the table, that the guests might drink with each other in the old friendly way, When "people were not too fine to enjoy themselves." The tide of public feeling, that is, the feeling of the polite world of Goslingford, for a time rose decidedly on the Brown side. "Old Mr. Brown," said Miss Clara Welby, to her friend Miss Harriet Richards, " would never have permitted such new-(angled nonsense. But people now-a-days must all be finer and wiser than their fathers. Perhaps next time the meat will be all carved at the side table." The " mighty war" of the Browns and the Smiths is, for the most part, a very tame affair. It rises in interest, however, when the heir of the Smiths becomes the suitor for the only daughter of the Browns —Hannah. This Hannah is a quiet undemonstrative girl, endowed wit►l strong feelings and animated with very high principles, as is conspicuously manifested in two most important incidents of her career. We must admit, however, that we have perused her story at a disadvantage, her name continually producing upon us the same uncomfortable sensation as a jarring chord in a melody. We have no fault to find with " Hannah," neither do we object to " Brown," but the combination, the fatal combination, " Hannah Brown," has continually recalled to mind the horrible tragedy of Greenaere, a tragedy in which, it will be remembered, one Hannah Brown Was the victim I We hope that other readers may not be haunted by the same unfortunate reminis cences, for Hannah herself is a dear,good girl, worthy only of suggesting pleasant associations. As the best exemplification of her peculiar character, so humble, so loving, but so determined ; and, as giving a glimpse also of the different individualities of young Smith and old Brown, we will give a scene aptly named— ♦ CRISIS. Mr. Brown and Mr. Edgar Smith were both atanding. Edgar at the window, apparently looking out on the church yard; Mr. Brown at a writing table in the middle of the room. Hannah dared not look at her father's face; but ehe in stinctively felt it was a bad omen that her lever did nut advance to meet her, or even turn to her on her entrance. He made, however, an involuntary twitching movement as he heard the door open and close. Hannah took hold of the back of a chair. The moment was sickening. Hannah 1" said her father, and one could perceive that was only with an effort ho spoke firmly, " this young gen- tleman, this Mr. Edgar Smith, tells me that it is with your consent that he comes here to ask mine to his marrying you. Is this true ?" Hannah could just find words to answer—" Yes, father." She trembled excessively; but she was beginning to get less nervous, though more alarmed. " Hannah," he said, and there was grief and severity in his tone; "had I not heard this from your own lips, I could not have believed it. Are you aware that this gentleman is one of a family who would do anything—anything not in the world's opinion dishonest—to better themselves, that they even avow such principles? Have you forgotten, poor simple girl, that you are the only heir of my fortune, and has it never struck you that to a Smith that may have been one of your chief attractions?" Here Edgar turned fiercely round, an d confronted Mr. Brown with angry eyes. Edgar, though he was not quite blind to family faults, like all the Smiths, had strong family affections. But if he intended to speak, Hannah prevented him. "Father," she saitl firmly, " you are mistaken, Re would have loved me all the same if I had not had bixpence I know he would." " Thank you, Hannah—thank gau for ever,'' said the lover, earnestly, "You have great confidence in your own charms, it ap pears," eaid Mr. Brown. "No, father; but I have great confidence in Mr. Smith's sincerity." "God bless you, Hannah I" said the young man, "now no accusation can wound me." " Fine words, and the folly of a love sick girl," said Mr. Brown, " will not alter facts, will not excuse you, Mr. Smith, for clandestinely stealing my daughter's heart, when you must have known such an alliance would be dis tasteful to me." "Sir, I have not clandestinely stolen your daughter's heart. I have sought her in the face of the world, and the moment I have known my affection was returned, I have sought your countenance. I knew there were grudges be tween the families, but I hoped this union might have been the means of terminating feelings which are neither right nor wise." " Perhaps, young man, your elders may be as goad judges of that as you. And now, Hannah, that you know my opinion, and I think you ought to have known it from the beg lining, will you inform me what you intend to do ?" Hannah looked up in amazement, and faltered out some thing about her father's consent. Old William Brown be • ceme very pale, set his lips firmly, and answered— " That I should willingly consent that you make your self miserable for life is impossible. Hannah, you have but one alternative. You are my only child—the only thing left to me on earth to comfort me in my old age. Marry this man, and I will not curse you, I will not disinherit you ; but if you do, you will break my heart, and bring my grey hairs with sorrow to the grave." For a moment there was a pause. If William Brown had been pale, his daughter became many degrees paler; but her trembling and her nervous ness were over for the moment. She stood upright, anal said in a firm though very low tone— " Then, father, I will not marry him." The sensation created in Goslingford by this inci dent may be imagined. Another lady-love lays claim to the attentions of Edgar Smith, and set ious trouble:: fall on the devoted head of Hannah, but in her case, as it generally happens in real life, all ultimately turns out well for the faithful heart and the unwearying patience. lily Nephew's History of Rome. By Caroline Ada Norton. One Vol., pp. 135. Houlston and Wright. Better than Pinnock's Catechism,bet ter even than Goldsmith's Abridgment, this pretty little storybook, all about ancient Rome—as interesting as a romance and as authentic as a careful research in the light of Niebuhr and of Cornewall Lewis can make any his torical narrative—deserves, and we doubt nut will attain, a wide popularity among the young people for whose instruction and amusement it has been intended. The title we cannot but think a mis take, as so many titles of far more important books are, unluckily,of late years. Otherwise the volumette is deserving of our frank and cordial commendation. A Defence and Exposition of the Principles of Astrology. By Alfred Pearce. Pp. 72. Berger. This is not the first appearance of Mr. Pearce as an enthusiastic champion of the pseudo-science of Astrology. And a note at the close of the little pamphlet, now published by him as a popular sketch of celestial philosophy in all its branches, intimates plainly enough that it is not intended to be his last. Think of his zeal, in advocating the principles of astrology, as we may, speak of it, write of it as we may, say that he is bitten with a Graze about notions long exploded as idle day-dreamings, yet day-dreamings formerly indulged in by some of the mightiest intellects of whom the world has had record, dreamings, however, it should be added, that have long been set aside as obsolete alike by the general multitude, and by the great masters of modern philosophy— still, in spite of all that, it is quite impossible not to recognise that the writer of this very curious argument is seriously in earnest, himself, throughout it. It is dedicated by him in words of fervent admiration to Zadkiel. It purports to con tain within it answers to all "religious, scientific, and popular objections" to astrology. The motto placed upon the title-page is ingeniously selected from Thessalonians—" Despise not prophesyings ; prove all things ; hold fast that which is good." In obedience to which recommendations or injunctions, Mr. Pearce, evidently himself believing in Zadkiel's scheme of " Celestial Philosophy" as the right one, undertakes,' within the compass of seventy-two pages, at the cost of no more than one shilling to the purchaser, to "prove all things" in relation to Astrology ! How far he succeeds in the attempt, the reader need not only conjecture ; but—if he has the leisure and the inclination—can actually see for himself by skimming these fourteen chapters into which Mr. Pearce has divided his rapid defence and exposition of his pat hobby. The Farmers' Almanac and Calendar for 1864. Pp. 100. Ridgway. Among the earliest in making its appearance be times each autumn, our old friend The Farmers' Almanac and Calendar is am9ng the most useful and comprehensive of the publications of its class. The.new year 1864 is interesting, as we all bear in mind, of course, already, before it comes, as one of those exceptional years called Leap Year, or Bisex tile. As an almanac and calendar of particular im portance, The Farmers' has still the benefit or a double revision. before making its appearance in November. The contents of it being carefully scrutinised and authenticated by Mr. William Shaw a nd Mr. Cuthbert Johnson, F.R.S. A glance down the alphabetical index—given upon its very title page in triple columns—will yield assurance at once to any one who opens it, that the publication could hardly have been rendered more complete. ./Vé Code. Born to Good Luck. By C. Dagobert. One Vol. Pp. 152. Dulau. In this charming volnmette a new serial issue is commenced. The design kept in view throughout it, by IVT. Dagobert, is—to furnish those who can only study the French language " by fits and starts,"with a series of works calculated to facilitate their acqui sition of knowledge in regard to the structure and idioms of that language, by fits and starts. Ne Coile, or as it is freely translated, "Born to Good Luck," is the first specimen of this pretty little library in French and English, thus started for the use (and amusement) of travellers. The system upon which the work is constructed is not by any means Hamiltonian. The French and English confront each other upon opposite pages, and can be read alternately or (so to speak) simultaneously at pleasure, according to the whim and fancy of the student-traveller. The notion of the series appears to us to be very excellent. The Spaniards have at length established) a Punch, which is called El Cascabel. A petition in favour of the Poles, signed by M. de Montalembert, M.St.Marc Girardin, M. Odilon Barrot, and other eminent personages, will be presented to the Senate soon after the opening of the Chambers, praying that Franca shall declare that Russia has forfeited the righter she held by the treaties of 1815, and that she shall forthwith recognise the Poles as belligerents. A PERILOUS ADVENTURE.—Two youngsters, named Lee and Inch, procured a boat from Meadfoot eacli, Torquay, on Sunday afternoon, and pulled over to the great Rock, which lies near Hope's Nose, and a little less than a quarter of a milefrom the shore. The rock is a few acres in extent. The boys landed there and amused themselves, having secured their boat. The wind, however, rose to a gale, and when they looked fur the craft, it was drifting far beyond t heir reach. The prospect o able r f passing the night on this blea k, dreary, and inhospitoc was from inviting, and therefore young Lee, stripping, far f into the eddying tide, w hi c h was lashed into fury plunged the swift current which by the storm, and nutwithstandiug the i c s r l a a w nd led a n tod hfaer farm-house succeeded e i sweeps along between in reaching the shore , and No a very exhausted s tate. boat could live upon the sea it was not until Monday morning that the other lad w.as res!..,ued.— Western Morning ig . the title of a littl e 7ell-known Madame vo l " u m ß e ea f u ro t m iftli the fo p r en ev o e f ri' the now , Rachel. It need sca r c el y be remarked at it is addr esse d ma inly to the gentle sex, its object being to afford them certain hints as to the best means of preset :dug female beauty. Madame Rachel comes in direct oppositi; l l to Mr. Urquhart as to the use of the Turkish bath for ,ladies. warning them against the use of cosmetics, and advocating warmly the use of the fragrant productions of Arabia. The authoress promises another publication on the subject, in which will be given a more lengthened explanation of her system, with such advice and receipts as may enable ladies (says the writer) to make themsehes "beautiful for evert" Cinlrt'4Wl Cirear. ,4 HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 3, The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon. Lady Bloomfield arrived at the Castle. The Prince and Princess of Wales. SANDRISGIIAM, Nov. 3. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales rode to Wolferton this morning. His Royal' Highness Prince Frederick, accom panied by Captai❑ Lund, arrived at Sandringham on Saturday afternoon. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Christian of Denmark, Prince Frederick, and Princess Dagmar, attended by Captain Castenscjoldo Captain Lund, and the Countess Reventlow, left Sandringham this morning at 10.40, proceeding front Wolferton by the 10.57 ordinary train for London. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of %Vales, attended by Lieutenant-General Knollys, Major Teesdale, and the Countess of Morton, ac companied their royal highnesses to the Wolferton Station. It is understood that the Prince and Princess Christian and Princess Dagmar will leave England in a day or two for Denm&rk. Prince Frederick returns to Oxford to pursue his studies. Major Teesdale has succeeded Captain Grey as Equerry in Waiting on the Prince of Wales. The Duke of St. Albans, Earl Granville, and Captain Grcy left Sandringham for town =Sunday afternoon. The Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia. Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia and suite left Inverary on Monday forenoon for Edinburgh, proceeding by the famed route through Glen Crow, Tarbet, on the banks of Lochlomond, and Balloch, where they took their seats in the 4.10 p.m. train. The Lochlomond Steamboat Company had one of their magnificent steamers at Tarbet to convey the royal party to Balloch, but their royal highnesses preferred to drive along the banks of the " Queen of Scottish lakes." At the various stations on the Dumbarton shire Railway large numbers of people were on the platforms and gave a warm greeting to their royal highnesses, who frequently bowed their acknowleg ments. The weather was delightful, and the royal party appeared in the best of health and spirits. The Prince and Princess arrived at the Waverley Station shortly after seven o'clock on Monday night, and were received on the platform by Prime() Alfred, Prince W.lliam of Hesse, and the Lord Provost. There was also a large number of people on the platform, who loudly cheered the royal party. The Prince and Princess, who drive to Slaney's Hotel immediately after their arrival, were accom panied by the following suite :—The Countess Hohenthal, Count Furstenstein, and Captain Leucaudon. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left town last evening on a visit to General Hall, at the gallant general's seat, Cambridgeshire. The royal duke and a select party will remain there till the close of the week. Their Royal Highnesses tte Duchess and Prin cess Mary of Cambridge visited the ex-Queen of France and the Duke de Nemours, at Claremont, yesterday. His Highness Prince Pierre Wittgenstein, his Highness Prince Leon Radzivill, Count Demidoff, and Captain Vansittart have left Long's Hotel, for Norfolk. The Prince of Schleswig-Holstein has left the St. George's Hotel. The Marquis of Hastings has left Long's Hotel. The Dowager Marchioness of Queensberry has arrived at Wilton-crescent from Leamington. The Earl and Countess of Lincoln and family have left town for Paris, on their way to Nice, where they will pass the autumn before going to Rome for the winter. The Earl and Countess of Wilton have left town to take up their residence at Egerton. Lodge, Melton. Mow bray, for the hunting season. _ . The Earl of Glasgow has left the St. George's Hotel. The Earl of Hopetoun has left Long's Hotel. The Countess of Dunmore and the Ladies Murray left town yesterday for Dunmore Park, Perthshire• Lady Herbert (of Lea) and family ieave town in a few days for Italy, where they will pass the winter. AN ANECDOTE OF THE PRINCESS BEATRICE has recently been related to the effect that H.R.H. was, or pretended to be, greatly troubled in her mind one gay as to the salt she was eating. How was she to know that it was not part of the very salt into which Lot's wife was turned ? As no answers would satisfy this anxiety, she was advised to write to Dr. Stanley, then in the Holy Land with the Prince of Wales,and a great favourite with the royal children. She did so, and received in reply a most delightful letter from the learned Dean. "PRINCE NAPOLEON, on going to the Hammam," says the Court Journal, "had the distinguished honour of taking his Turkish bath in the same room with Heenan, the American prizefighter. Heenan was introduced to the Prince, and they smoked a chibouk together." It should be observed, however, in contradiction to our contemporary, that although Prince Napoleon and Mr. Heenan were in the Hammam at Jermyn-street on the same day, they were not together. SIR W. ATHERTON.—We regret to announce the serious illness of Sir William Atherton, the late Attorney- General. His illness has indeed assumed such a form as to alarm his friends. 'ISE NEW FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO THE COURT OF ST. JAMES'S, the Prince de la Tour d'Auvergney is ,expected at Gibraltar House (the former residence of King Hudson), at Hyde park Corner, in the course of a few weeks. The mansion is to be decorated, and in part re furnished; and it is whispered that the French Embassy will again become the centre of all that is gay and brilliant in the diplomatic world. The new Ambassador is a widower, in the prime of life; and as his first wife was an English lady, it is not improbable that the new mistress of Gibraltar House may also be selected from our own countrywomen. The Prince belongs to one of the oldest families of France, and is said to stand high in the favour of his Imperial master. The Count de Flahault, the predecessor of Baron Gros at the Court of St. James's, also married an English lady—the Baroness Keith and Nairne—.and their only daughter is now the Marchioness of Lansdowne, having married the present Marquis when holding, by courtesy the title of Earl of Shelburne.--Court Journal. AFRAID OF THE BALLOON.—M. Eng Arnorat, in a second letter to the Nation, has given a fuller account of M. Nadar's journey :—" While riding along al a height of 700 metros we had beneath us a picture , of Paul Puttees 50 leagues square. All at once the tableau became animated. The people below had perceived the 12.11100 n. W e heard cries expressive of astonishment, fright, an& even anger —but the feeling of fright seemed to predominate. We distinctly saw women in their chemises look hurriedl y out of windows and then rush back again. We saw chubby boys oe o men, an d blubbering as if they were m ad. Some at s eterm ined than the rest, fired off guns at s lti y .l 0 1 0 t us, as . I saw - several mammas pointing us cut to stubborn babies with a ,a attitude which seemed to say that our balloorx was Old Bon'? Old women raised thei r h ands aga i ns t signal many ran away, making the sign of u th s e and cross. at theirlt is e vident that in some o f t h ese villages we wer e taken to be the devil in person. O n that point it apropos to cite a letter communicated to me which halo been addressed to this Courrier de Hanovre. I translate it textually This nro.''bing, at about six o'clock, we WO parsing over our head, .at a prodigious height, an immens e round form, to which was suspended something which looked like a square house of a red colour. Some people pretend to have seen animated beings in this strange machine, and to have heard h 'suing from it superhuma n cries. What think you, Mr. Et liter ? The whole count!'" is in a state of alarm, and it will ,be long before our peeP h3 recover their equanimity.' " AIRS. PHILPOTTS.—The numerous friends an d admirers of the venerable Bishop of El - eter, now in his S 6ll/ year, must have regretted to hear of the death of his wife -- an event which had born expected for some time Pee t ; Mrs. Philpatts was the d aug h ter o f M r. W i lli am Surteee, Seaton Burn, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and was a r.ear relative of the late Lord Eldon. She married his lordship, then the Rev. Henry Philpotts, a rising clergyman in the diocess Durham in 1804, and leaves a numerous family'. M rs ' Philpotts died at Bishopstowe, Torquay, and was' la her 82d year. • A NEW OPERA BY I.3OUNOD, ENTITLED " ISIS REio," is about to appear at the Theatre Lyrique, Par is ' The story is founded on a Provengal poem by M. Mistral • BERGER, THE CELEBRATED BILLIARD PLAYER is at present exhibiting his skill at Lyon s, at th e, Cafe du XIX. Siecle, and excites general admiration. -flf against any ° announces the extraordinary feat of playing di, best amateurs a game des compter of 100 — scar 0 that is, he must make 100 before his adversary can r. one! In addition, it must be reme mbered that Berger pl aya the cannon game only.