The Sun. — London, England, 1863-11-04 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COV ENT-GARDEN. Under the iltanatTE meat of Miss Louisa Fyae and Mt . W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, 'eillace's Romantic Opera, THE DESERT FLOWER rise Louisa Fyne, Miss Susan Fyne ; Messrs. W. If. Weiss. 11 Corri. A. Cook, and W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. A. Mellor, .—Doors open at half-past Seven. commence at Eight. THEATRE RO'IYAL DRURY - L ANE. Manag•ere, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. , ' .rHI EVENING the re T tormances will commence with the Comedietta of JOHN DO.BB : John Dobbs, Mr. G. F. Ne ville (his first appearance , in London); Peter ratcrnostcr, Mr. G. Bel , nore ; other ci taracters by Mr. j. Neville, Mr. Warde, Miss Harfleur, and Miss Murray. After which, Lord Byro!a's Choral Tragedy, MANFRED. Messrs. t helps, Ryder, Ra yner, Meagreson, ‘Vard, Spencer ; Miss Heath, Miss E. Atkinson, Miss Leclercq, and Mrs. E. Falconer. Vocalists—Miss: Poole, Miss 'titter, Miss Cicely Nott, Miss Heywood, and Mr. Swift. To conclude with an Original Farce (never acted), by John Oxenforel, Esq , entitled BEAUTY Ott THE BEAST. P r incipal characters by Messrs. Addison , G. Neville, Barret, Spencer, and G. Woo and ton ; Mrs Edmund Falconer Miss E. Lecicrq. THEATRE ROYAL HAYNIARKET. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, OUR MARY ANNE. After which, COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles Mathews. Followed by TRE GOLDEN FLEECE. Messrs. Charles Tlathews, Compton,Weathersby, &c. ; -Mesdames C. Pa Athews, L. Keeley. Griffith, &c. And MY HUSBAND'S G HOST. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. BEI, DEMONIO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated Every Even i ng until further notice. THIS EVENING, to commence with a Comedietta, by W. Gilbert, Esq., entitled UNCLE BABY: Mess s. J.G. Shore, Widdicombe, Charles, Miss P. Le,:lercqi and Carlotta Leclereq.-1 After which, at a Quarter-past Eight, BEG DEMO () a Love Story, ln Twelve Tableaux, taken from SiendNlialP; Italian Chronicle ," by John Brougt , am. Principal charac ter by Mr. Fechter , s uppor te d by Messrs. Jordan, Charles, n r , i nghtim, Emery, Raymond, Moreland, , Smith, Clifford, Lee, Coll an d sliss E ett, Andrews,l sworthy. Sims ; Miss Kate Terry, Layenue, 2irs. "DEL DEMONIO ; a LOVE STORY, in Twelve jUP Tableaux. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proorietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE TitAGEDY QUEEN: Mrs. Stirling. &t 8, the New Drama of LEAH: Mies Bateman, supported by Messrs. Arthur Stirling, R. Phillips, Billington, Stuart, A Wood, Eburne, Miss H. Simms and Mrs. Billington. To conclude with CATCHING AN HEIRESS Miss Woolgar and Mr. A. Wood. MISS BATEMAN.—LEAEL—The triumphant ..I.TI and enthusiastic success of the great tragic artiste, Miss 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 last four weeks, amidst the applause and tears of crowded audiences, and tne profound impression created upon all who have wit nessed the touching impersonation by Miss Bateman of the heart-broken Jewish maiden, being confirmed by the unani mous verdict and critical approval nt the entire press, the Manager of the NEW ADEL PHI THEATRE has the honour to announce that Miss BAT EMAN will appear in the New Drama of LEAH 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. - f-7.7 o i - 4, cSult HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS Dev.—Morning, 7u. 34m.—Afternoon, Sh. 10m. To-MORROW.-Morning, Bh. 46m.—Afternoon, 9h. 24m. The Weather—Sun Office, Nov.l , 1863. KEATING'S PALE NE\VFOUNDLAND COD LIVEIt OI L. The Finest Imported this Season. '1 HIS VALUABLE MEDICINE having of late years come into such general use, and being, moreover, so exten sively prescribed by th 3 most eminent practitioners both in town and country, 31 in Keating can with the greatest confidence recommend i ails Oil as being perfectly pure, nearly tasce:ess, and free iron t adulteration, having been analysed, reported on, and recona mended by Prof. Taylor, ed Guy's and nnspital s, Dr. Scott. M.D., L.R.C.P., F.L.S St Thomas's ,t c.. and ,„.. Edwin Pe .yne, M D., L.R.C.P., M.R.C. S., who,' in the words of the late (i ; Dr. Pereira, save that " The brat Oil is that which is most , rvoid of colour, odour, and flavour, cha racters this will be lon a d to possess, being purely of hepatic origin, a point of great 'weight with regard to its therapeutic value. ; Pints, 3s s o ld in Half -pints, 1/23. Oct. ; e 2 uarts, ss. 6d. ;and Five-p i n t Bottles, 12s. 6d., imperial m. EATI NG, Chemist, 7 sure, by THOMAS 9, St. Paul's Churchyard, London. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, FAINT HEART NEVER WON /AIR LADY. Mr. Leigh Murray. After which, MIRIAM'S CRIME. Messrs. G. honey, Porsche, Belford, Turner, Miss K.Sayille, and Miss Handers. To conclude with WHERE'S YOUR WIFE. Mr. Belford. Commence at 7. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, ;an be had Every Evening of G. R. GLY.NIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'6lock 5 G Barometer-29.90. Wind—South-Westerly; moderate, and cloudy. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 4, 18G3. In regard to the :nterprotation 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 ill twisted strands of a clumsily manufactured rope (almost we were going to say, of sand !)—which yesterday occupied so long the attention of the Court of Exchequer, by reason t t he Pertinacious dialogue kept up by the Attorne y with the Lord Chief Baroa in reference to the Nveli.. . kee the vi-bei wn case of the Alexandra. Stripping 4iat o restion at issue, of all legal technicalities, the simply indeed it at present stands, may be put, very the Plain ciarieed, thus :—Whether—this is really the Superior Court of it—whether will or will not be referred) coja u :t a (to which the matter is about to the interpretation e pith the Lord Chief Bar on i n vital section of the For by the latter upon a certain as the country keowa f e lgn Enlist men t A c t, a sect i on , very last importan ce . o r ll well by thi s ti me , o f th e o ther than the one th ats!ctio n i s , o f course, no ::of forbidding the armi ng , the e quipping, or the fitting 0 vessels with the design or intent that they bait be t urne d to use for directly hostile p u rposes e 1 'with which this country is at p,, te alrlB.6 a nation t. bell i geren ts in respect to whore the' u regard to attitude main tained by our G overnment is one of strict rality According to the L ord Chief Baron 's the jury in referenc e to the Alexandr a , tha directionir to men had no alternative w hatever in arriving at t}l s '; decision at which they actually did arrive i n settle. meet (so far as that court could settle it) of the dispute in regard to that particular trial. The Lord Chief Baron, as will b e 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, or fitted out, in an English sea 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 Grows, a verdict simply and distinctly f or th e d e f en dants. the Question now awaiting settlement in the supe rio. r Co urt is — Will this ruling be sustained:' the Attorney -General can't think it. Naturally i enough he the Crows, can't think e it—be the first law officer o f th u e , the chief responsible ch am pi on a t t h e bar, of y adv en t ure d upon b y the Govern polic ment of W hi ch he is a member. tempted t o Say at one© A policy we ar e so very r as hly a d ven t ure d upon by them, n o t only in reference t o th e Al exan d ra rn,, bein g now ad ven t ure d upon also in reference to those two Unlucky s t eam rams yet in the sh i p b uilding yard of d o wn et Liverpo-il. Lot th9_ 'A . TRD BROTHERS ; Chief Barons very positive besustai ne d and the la IV officers of the C rown, and the meat themselves , of which they a„ the appointeva ad vocates, clearly and obviousl y are i n a predicam ent , The builders of the Alexandra, an d , it an d unhesitati ng • may be added, of the Alabama, and, it may still furth er be N I asserted, 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•• 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 LUCIUS CeTRIGGEIt 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. `° Easy does one of them ; " More haste e le m sss s p tr e a e t d ed speed," the other. It yet remains t o be demonstrated whether the Foreign Enlistment Act empowers them to deal thus rigorously with unarmed ves sels, constructed in British building-yards, and 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 the act does not so authorize them ! By acting thus precipitately 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 wantonly 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 BEECIIER—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. 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 was to keep them down. Mrs. FRY, indeed, and other kindred spirits, penetrated into the haunts of vice and crime, but 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 asy;ums, 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 wiil 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 poo r stallkeepers, while the local Board of IVorks, 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 th e 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 t 0 the continuance of the stalls if they were found to impede public t ra ffi c . If t h e mem b ers o f t h e Beard hi ove heard evidence enou g h t o i n d uce th em regret thm. n to r e • sti lla th e i r own d ec i s i on, and even to express previously gone so f ar , it i s sure l y not too mu c h consider his t° expect Sir RICHARD M AYNE to re (letcomplaints of in t e r o aination. There have b een no pu bli c tants of the neigehoerdence3 the respectable inhabi to secure the return rthretelise and in this p rocee di ng the d have taken ac ti ve steps poor people to their accustomed standin g . piace principal shopkeepers of til h av e taken a prominent Part. This is of streets in question s a sufficient answer to the Chi e f c olt olis, io e itelf rnent that these Ocilla wer e the re us t ' of thieves and other bad characters. It is certainly not at , bable that thos e who reside on the S p o t, ' ad'. Pro and conse quently better opportuniti es of quently have much Judging than Sir RICHARD MAYNE, would have wish e d f, , the return of the stallkeepers, had they,been vicieuB or dishonest persons. How far the Proce e di ngs of the Chief Commissioner tend to discourage crim e , may be judged by the statementof one of thes e stallkeepers at a recent meeting. This man said that he had been a thief in early life, knowing no better, but that for the last ten years he bad led an honest life, as the police, who knew him, might testify. He was married, and had two children, Whom he sent to school, and tried to bring up honest. " Sir RICELUID MAYNE," ,:aid this man, " 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 are 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 aid 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, 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 Stratton-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. Whatever may be the consequences of Earl RUSSELL'S extraordinary conduct concerning Mr. LAIRD'S ships in limbo, one result has at least been obtained from his strange poliey. 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 rule, which the late Lord DtJNDONALD'S memoirs, and those of others, back to the days of BLAKE, testify ; but the verdict of those on board of her, even under the 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 not 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 Lards 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 nation 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 pa ss _ ing of Lord PALIIERSTON'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 tin-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. Dues Lord PAL meitsloN 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 thent of law, we doubt not the majesty may r ui still be detained for a time by r-- of ltt law will be vindic a t e d by the Bench wi:,,nout favour or affection to Ministers or Americans. EMBARGO ON MEAT.—It would be useless at this time to enter into any speculations as to the motives or in tentions of the Washington Government in instituting the stock embargo. We have now only,to deal with the simple facts that the exportation of stock from America is strictly prohibited, and the prohibition rigidly enforced, and that we must very quickly find another way to get our beef and mutton, or starve. If we do not, before two months have elapsed, secure a supply of stocks from other than American territory, we shall begin by having a famine in Victoria, and end by depopulating the island. When the miners come down from British Columbia they will feel little dis posed to stay in a town where they will have to pay more than Cariboo prices for their meat, even if they are lucky enough to get any at all, and the inevitable consequence must be that they will use all possible diligence to get away from Victoria, and down to California. Thus, all hope of paying summer expenses by winter trade will be cut off, and the position of the merchants, storekeepers, and traders altogether will be very little short of desperate. The colony just now is scarcely old enough or strong enough to bear successfully the shock of so heavy a blow as this, and it may be considered as extremely doubtful if it would be able to recover from it. A statement has appeared in a morn i_og contempo rary t o t h e e ff ec t th at the l ong drought in Lower C alifornia and Mexico has for ce d th e owners of driv e t h em up into the mountains for pasture. It this cattl e to be so we roust look to the S an d w i c h I s l an d s f or sup -1 res.---- Vanco4ver Island Express, THE ALEXANDRA CASE. —We hear that the V e nezuelan G overnment have ma de an offer for the Alexandra, and that Messrs. Caring guaranteed the transaction to be bona fule. Our the transaction. Governm ent, howe ver , d ec li ne d to sanction MR. MORTON PRICE and MISS LUCETTE are in negotiation for the Theatre Royal, w ebtra34 - 'der (Utley's). 'ME SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, 1863. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAM.] THE POLISH INSURRECTION. CRACOW, Nov. 3. Czachowski, Bosak, and Chmienaki have effected a junction in the mountains of St. Kryz, 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 take❑ to the citadel. The troops of Mouravieff have marched from the government of Augustotv into that of Plock. 0..... ••••I 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 40 votes against 14. amendments were rejected by SPAIN. MADRID, Nov. 3. The Opposition papers are vehemently attacking the Ministry. .- ..-___ CHINA. PARIS, Nov. 4. The Paris papers assert that letters have been recsived here from China, representing the situa tion of the insurgents as precarious. given of the missionaries and Satisfactory news is native Christians. The mandarins hostile to Euro peans had been disgraced. BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE MAILS, SOUTHAMPTON, Noy. 4. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Magda lena has arrived hero with the above mails, 61 pas sengers, £21,462 in silver specie from Buenos Ayres, £4,291 in gold from Rio, and 1,260 packages of cargo. She experienced off Finisterre a heavy gale from the North West, and strong winds and a heavy sea from the same direction up Channel. The Magdalena exchanged colours on the 14th with the outward French mail. Her Majesty's ships Egmont and Stromboli were at Rio. The Admiral with the remainder of the squadron was on the River Plate. The English ship Flora, of Liverpool from Ma nilla, put into Bahia on the 11th, leaky. She re ported having been boarded by the Alabama, off the Cape of G oo d H ope . General P ena l oza , w ith 1,000 men, had threa tened to invade San Juan. His headquarters were in Rio - Ja, 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 descriptions 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 wag dull, with abate. meats in prices. Cotton increasing. Rura in de• mend. Tobacco sales unimportant. There was a great 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 Dom 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. 'the Portuguese corvette Sa Da Bandiera sails shortly for Angola, and the Infante Dom John for England. The American corvette St. Louis is in harbour. The subscription in Lisbon for the loan amounts to £285,000 sterling, and in Oporto to £500,000 sterling. Consequently applicants can only receive a small per tentage of the amouut required. The weather is wet and stormy. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Trade is dull. Exchange on London, 538, on Paris 528, on Hamburg 48, Genoa 526. Rentes are quoted 401 to 50, Coupons 491, 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 Bth inst. The King will leave the same evening for Ave'lino and Malo. He will return to Naples on the 9th. Two hundred car riages with public functionaries and Neapolitan nobles will go out as far as Malo to meet his Majesty. Great preparations are being made for the reception of the King at Naples. The review of the fleet will take place on the 10th ; 25 vessels 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. Bour.sE, Nov. 3.—The market has shown little animation, but the prices of yesterday have been well maintained, Times being now unvaried at 67f. 25c. Mobilier also remains about the same. Rail way Market quiet, but firm. The market closed as follows : It per Cents.. 95 50 Italian Loan 73 Do. end month 73 15 New ditto Do. end month 72 90 Russian Austrian D'o'. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month G7 30 Credit 1111 25 Do. end m0nth....1107 50 Bank Shares 3365 Credit Fonci ei l3lO Roman Spanish Threw.,, Homo Debt Deferred RAIL WAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 978 75 .. 980 Northern 982 50 .. 980 New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean New ditto .. Geneva.. Southern .. Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lowbard North of Spain ...... Saragossa.. Ditto to Barcelona .... 957 50 .. 955 - 912 50 .. - -- 497 50 .. - 690 - .. 697 50 515 - - - 505 - .. 506 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 in the Constitutionnel :—" The four military commissaries charged with preparing the Federal execution in Holstein will shortly meet. Gen. de Moltke, the Prussian commissary, is in structed to make a proposition according to _the terms of which a portion of the Austro•Pruasian 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 any 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 ber trading vessels; but it is doubtful whether this privilege till be granted to the British Go vernment.° LITERATURE, The Browns and Ike Smiths. By the Author of "Anne Dysart," &c., &c. Three Ws. Hurst and Bluckett. 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 Goalingford, who gossip and quarrel and " make it up again," times innumerable. Miss Richard is a Smithite, Miss Wellby 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 other a Tory. The one a Churchman, the other a Dissenter. But the authoress shall herself explain the position of affairs, which sh© does in a chapter en• titled S ERY 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 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 human 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 pardon 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 an 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. Bat 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 irrational 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-fangled 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 tams 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 wita 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 Grecnaere, a tragedy in which, it will be remembered, one Hannah Brown was the victim ! We hope that other readers may not be haunted by the same unfortunate reminis cences, for Hannah herself is a dear,goodgirl,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— A CRISIS. Mr. Brown and Mr. Edgar Smith were both standing. 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 she in stinctively felt it was a bad omen that her lover did not 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 it was only with an effort he spoke firmly, " this young gen tleman, this Mr. Edgar Smith, tells me that it is with your consent that he comes hero 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. E d g ar, though he was not quite blind to family faults, like all the Smiths, had strong family affections. But if he intended to speak, liannah prevented him. " " ou are mietakta, He F a ther," elle said firmly, y would have loved me all the same if I had not had eiapence. I know he would." _ " Thank you, Hannah—thank you for ever," mad the lover, earnestly. "You have great confidence in your own charms, it ap pears," said 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 au 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 gold 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•nning, 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, sot 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, and said in a firm though very low tope— " Then, father, I will noc marry him." The sensation created in Goslingford by this inci dent may be imagined; Another lady-love lays claim to the attentinni'Of Edgar Smith, and serious troubles 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. My Nephew's History of Rome. By Caroline Ada Norton. One Vol., pp. 135. Houlston and Wright. Better than Pinnock's Catechism,better 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 Expositton 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 eraze 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'a 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 ho 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 fourteea 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 amrng 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 carefaily scrutinised and authenticated by Mr. William Shaw and 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. Ne Cale. Born to Good Luck. By C. Dagobert. One Vol. Pp. 152. Milan. In this charming volumette a new serial issue is commenced. The design kept in view throughout it, by M, Dagobart, is—to furnibla 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 Col" 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 establishedj lunch, 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 France shall declare that Russia has forfeited the rights she held by the treaties of 1816, and that she shall forthwith recognise the Poles as belligerents. A PERILOUS ADVENTURE.—T wo youngsters , named Lee and Inch, procured a boat from Meadefrootot beach, Torquay, on Sunday afternoon, and pulled_ ov er to the Groat Rock, which lies near Hope's Nose, d The is a less than a quarter of a milefrom the shore. few acres in extent. The boys landed t,hhear: themselves, having secured their boat f • rose to a gale, and when they looked Cdbienhospitable rock, was drifting far beyond their reach. • ' o P r° tsh i liTacat rdna:edffht however, rose the night on this bleak, dreary, lashedL c e u e r , r currant rt into opptiun which rgy, by the storm, and notwithS f p a l r um f g r e m d in in to vi t t h in e g edd an y d in eddying h tltd r a e en f , o dw r i a u e h n gi c y th o h u el n ysa g ws islandcrawdantod a th fa e rm u rh i o n a , s s e uc n c e e a e r de in d isawereaapcshaila7g etthbeswheaern shore, thean d c rawled a very x ste d s tate. No boat could live upon the sea on Sunday night, and, t h ere fore, it was not until Mond a y morn i ng that th:other lad was rescued.— Western Morning News. B e autiful for ever," is the title of a little volume from the pen of the now well-known Madame Rachel. It need scarcely be remarked that it is addressed mainly to the gentle sex, its object being to afford them certain hints as to the best means of preserving female beauty. Madame Rachel comes in direct opposition 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 s ystem, with such advice and receipts as may enable ladies (says the writer) to make themselves "beautiful for evert" HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 3, The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon. Lady Bloomfield arrived at the Castle. -0-- --- 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 Captain 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 Castenscj old, Captain Lund, and the Countess Reventlow, left Sandringham this morning at 10.40, proceeding from Wolferton by the 10.57 ordinary train for London. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, 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 Danmark. 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 Grey left Sandringham for town on 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 aaagnificent 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 acknowledg 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 Prince Alfred, Prince William of Hesse, and the Lord Provost. There was also a large amuber of people on the platform, who loudly cheered the royal party. The Prince and Princess, who druve to Stoney's Hotel immediately after their a:rival, were accora ponied by the following suite :—The Countess Hohenthal, Count Furstenstein, and Captain Leucaudon. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge loft 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 Nary of Cambridge visited the ex-Queen of Franc () and the Duke de Nemours, at Claremont, yesterday. His Highness Prince Pierre Wittgenstein, ill s Highness Prince Leon Radzivill, Count Demideif, an d 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 ) 20 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 leave town. in a few days for Italy, where they will pass the winter. AN ANECDOTE OF THE PRINCESS BEATltic° b ag wa s, or recently been related to the effect that H.R.H.to pretended to be, greatly troubled in her mind one 69 , 9 as the salt she was eating. How was she to know that it Wa; not part of the very salt into which Lot's wife was turne d 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 delig htful from the learned Dean. "PRINCE NAPOLEON, OR going to the Ham mam, t says the Court Journal, "had the distinguis hed honour 01. taking his Turkish bath in the same room with Heenan, the American prizefighter. Heenan was introduced to the Prince, and they smoked a chibouk to g ether." It should be observed, however, in contradic tion to our contemporarlp that although Prince Napoleon an d >lr. Heenan were in the Hammam ac Jermyn - street o n the same day, they were not together. SIR W. ATHERTON. —We re g ret to announce the lF tter serious illness of Sir William Atherton, the late Attorney` General. His illness has indeed assumed such a forte I'S to alarm his friends. THE NEW FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO THE CO' OF ST. JAMES'S, the Prince de la Tour d'Auverg ne ', ;,expected at, Gibraltar House (the former residence °` King Hudson), at Hyde-park Corner, in the course ofe f elt weeks. The mansion is to be decorated, and in part re' furnished; and it is whispered that the French Brabses3; will again become the centre of all that is gay and brillian in the diplomatic world. The new Ambassador is a widoweri in the prime of life; and as his first wife was an Bngtalif3, lady, it is not improbable that the new mistress of Gi bral House may also be selected from our own country - Wil lie : . The Prince belongs to one of the oldest families of Fralle l and is said to stand high in the favour of his Itar rii ; master. The Count de Flahault, the predecessor of 13er°11 Gros at the Court of St. James's, also married an E agil le lady--the Baroness Keith and Nairae— an d their en daughter is now the Marchioness of Lansdowne, Ile°il3: married the present Marquis when holding, by court esy ' the title of Earl of Shelburne.—Court .Tour,vll. AFRAID OF THE BALLOON.-111.Eugerre ArnoVit; in a second letter to the Nation, has given a f uliv o account of M. Nadar's journey :—" While riding a lop t , a height of 700 metres we had beneath us a p icture of r Potter's 50 leagues square. All at onc e the tableau becaow animated. The people below had perceived the balloon, We heard cries expressive of astonishment, fright, and eveA anger—but the feeling of fright seemed to predominate , out t e o d f is w ti i n n c d t o ly ws sa a c h e mis es .w lo e o s k a h w u e r h ri u e b el t li y boys looking at us, and blubbering as if they were mad; Some men, more determined than the rest, fired off guns e' I saw several mammas pointing u s cut to stubborti• us. w n d w th om en en ru in sh theirbck ag ai . babies with an attitude which seemed to say that our bolle° was ' Old Bogy.' Old women raised their hands aP iu l us, and at their signal many ran aw a y, ma ki ng t h e siglL 0 were cross . It is evident that in s ome o f t h ese villages t ere taken to b e the devil in person. On that p oint it P' apro pos to cit e a letter co mmunicated to me which iG been addressed to the Courricr de Hanovre. I translate textually This morning, at a b out s i x o ' c l oc k, we 13511 passing over our head, at a pr o di g i ous h e i g h t, an iiro e,,, 6e round nfotormh,avtoe seen n ich animated was suspendedben s i ig som et t h l° i l oo ked like a square hou se o f a red. colour . Soule P e l machine, and to have heard • issuing from it superi a tr y cries. What think you, Mr. Editor ? The whole Co ul ' o is in a state of alarm, an d it w ill b e l ong before our P ee'l recover their equanimity.' " P a . HILPOTTS.—The numerous friends a% admirers of the venerable Bishop of _Exeter, now in lais year, must have regretted to hear of the death of his s vite t, an event which had been expected for some time r:of Mrs. Philptts was the daughter or Mr. William Surte l o Seaton Burn, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and WaS a near relsito of the late Lord Eldon. She married his lordship, theo,. Rev. Henry.Philpotte, a rising clergyman in the dioce;ro, Durham in 1801, and leaves a. numerous familY• 10 bet Philpotts died at Bishopstowe, Torquay, and Ivo 82d year. cr AITI V A NEW OPERA BY GOUNOD, ENTITLED variS• REIO," is about to appear at the Theatre Lyriqe,_ u mistrs-* the story is founded on a Proveng al p oem by N. BERGER, THE CELEBRATED BILLIARD PL : 0 is at present exhibiting his skill at Lyoiratns, io ti n ! l ie Cafe du X.IX. Siecle, and escites general adm 5aY e f ann ounces the extraordinary feat of playing a gains t 1 4 ) , the best amateurs a game des compter o f sco re that is, he must make 100 before his adversary t4i.• c Bolg er 04° one I In addition, it must be remembered that the cannon game only. 0 1 t -1 rt trirtzlat