The Sun. — London, England, 1863-07-14 00:00:00

THEATRE -B . HAY MARKET. Lessee. /Sr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, a ,new Farce, entitled AN UNLUCKY MORTAL. To be succeeded by the new and original comedy, entitled FINESSE ; or, Spy and Counter-Spy : Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. and - Mrs. Alfred Wigan, and Miss Louisa Angel. To be followed by the new Farce, EASY SHAVING : Messrs. Compton, W. Gordon, Rogers ; Miss Louise Keeley, Miss Fanny Wright. To conclude with THE STAR OF ANDALUSIA. Commence at 7. THE DUKE'S MOTTO. THE HLNDREI" A 1.) FIFTY-SECOND NIGHT d Last Week but Three of the present Season. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE..— .Under the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTER. Last Week but Three of the present Season. THIS EVENING, to commence with an Orizinal sketch, ntitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, IL Widdicomb, Mss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter-Past Eight, the Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, and P1'3102'11% entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feyal and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter supported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G Jordan, J. Brougnam' W iddi3ombe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson Misses Carlotta Lech - TN. Kate Terry, E. Cayenne, and Elsworthy. Doors open at 7, commence at half-past. Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lonsee and Manager, Mr. G. Vining THIS EVENING, the grand new Drama, entitled COURT A'ND CAMP : Messrs. G. Vining, C. Verner, H. Marston, r. Belmore, G. Murray, and Warde; Miss Murray, Miss L. Laidlaw, and Miss Lydia Thompson. - - - To be preceded by the new Comedietta, entitled COUSIN TOM. And followed by A CHARMING PAIR. Mr. Roxby, Mrs Ng; ston, and Miss Jones. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- Bole Proprietor and Manager. M. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE IRI-H TIGER. Alter which, at Eight o'clock, a new drama, entitled THE HAUNTED MAN; OR, T E GHOST'S BARGAIN, in which will be exhibited Professor Pepper's adaptat!on of the Great Spectral Illusion. Messrs. J. E. Toole, R. Philips, Stwart, Billfngton, C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss H. Simms. Followed by a new Burlesque, entitled ILL-TREATED IL TROVATORE. Messrs. Toole, P. Bedford, R. Phillips, Ebnrne, C. J. Smith, Romer ; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and Sara, and Miss K. Kelly. Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, MY WIFE'S SECOND FLOOR. Mr. Clifton. Followed by WHILE THERE'S LVE THERE'S HOPE. Messrs. W. H. Swanborough, Parselle, Vollaire, G. Honey. Misses Ada Swanborough, L. Thorne, F. Hughes, Manders, and E. Bufton. After which. the Great Burlesque, ALI BABA ; OR, THE THIRTYINE THIEVES. Messrs. Honey, Turner Danvers, Mesdames Ada Swanborough, Saunders, White, Button, and Hughes. Commence at 7. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, July 14, 1863. THERMOMETER. This morning This day at Two o'clock Barometer-30.29. Wind—N. ; moderate, and fine weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. tHis DAY.—Morning, lh. sm.—Afternoon, :Iy , 29m. To-moßnaw.-Morning, lh. 52m.—Afternoon. 2h. 12m. •-• v 'f s Pig “4,--151gN THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 14, 1863 LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1863. Mr. ROEBUCK has consented to withdraw his proposition ! The momentous question is postponed sine die. At the eleventh hour, at the critical mo ment of the encounter, the once determined assail ant holds his hand, "And back recoils he knows not why, Scared at the sound himself has made." We must confess that we are disappointed in Mr. ROEBUCK. It was not in this pusillanimous, vascil lating spirit that he orginated and perseveringly carried out the famous Crimean investigation. No cause should be undertaken unless we are persuaded of its justice. But if, so persuaded, we have once " put our hand to the plough,' , nothing should in duce us to turn from our enterprise—nothing but a conviction that we were mistaken, and that we have embraced an unworthy cause. Such a conviction can justify and even ennoble a change of opinion, as was remarkably evidenced in the career of Sir ROBERT PEEL; but we have no reason to suppose that Mr. ROEBUCK is shaken in his belief as to the justice of the cause he had so gallantly espoused. He is in his heart as convinced of the rights of Southern Independence as he was some three days back. Why then does he shrink from the self imposed responsibility of advocating those rights at the very moment of trial ? He draws back in consideration of the PREMIER'S assurance that the motion proposed would " interfere with the good government of the country." On that assurance, Mr. ROEBUCK withdraws, after having raised the hopes of the lovers of Peace and the advocates of Southern Independence, and Lord PALMERSTON assumes the responsibility of the situation. What his course will be, may be very easily imagined. Following that very safe and prudent counsel which assures us that— _ _ " Success is virtue and misfortune shame," our Government will reserve their decision. They will wait yet awhile until new telegrams again and again announce new victories to the South, and at last they will come forward with their tardy and then valueless recognition of an Independence that will then stand in need of no acknowledgment. That such will be the case ultimately we do not doubt. The instinct of the People, which is generally far in advance of the actions of the Government, has already long since aroused the popular sympathies. Those sympathies found, as they have often found before, a worthy exponent in Mr. ROEBUCK, but he has abandoned his cause and neglected his op portunity. Lord PALMERSTON, of course, com mends him for so doing; but, while approving that portion of the hon. member's conduct, the noble Premier took occasion to administer to him a very severe and well-deserved rebuke for his recent diplo maticinterference. "I hope," said LordPALm ERSTON, and the cheers of the House ratified his assertion" that this will be the last time when any member of this House will think it to be his duty to communicate to the British House of Commons that which may have passed between himself and the Sovereign of a foreign country." " The British Parliament,' , added the noble lord, " is accustomed to receive mes sages from the SOVEREIGN of the United Kingdom but we are in no relation to, we have no intercourse with, no official knowledge of, any Sovereign o any foreign country." The advisability of such a rule is sufficiently obvious, and it might have been supposed that Mr. ROEBUCK would have been the very last person likely to infringe it. But as " some failingsleau to virtue's side," so do some virtues lead their possessor into error. Thus it is with the learned but impetuous member for Sheffield— " Prone to the rash, revolting from the mean." his gallantry occasionally places him in a dilemma. Proud of his position as a Tribune of the Peeple, 1. e allows himself to appear in Peliament as the envoy of a foreign Sovereign i The resolute advocate of the recognition of the South, an untimely prudence arrests him in his career, and carries disappoint ment to all who had relied upon him. As Lord PALMERSTON admitted with regard to Mr. ROE BUCK, we are persuaded that he "acted with the very best intentions," but these intentions have proved singularly fallacious in their result. The correspondence between the King of PRUSSIA and his son, which has been recently published, is of a significant character. If all that is reported be true, this will not be the last altercation of the luxd, either verbal or epistolary. The first cora munication reported is one from the CROWN PRINCE, which was forwarded at the end of May. In this his Royal Highness alludes to what the KING had observed on the subject of the aspect of affairs. " You told me," said the PRINCE, "that I was more liberal than you.'' This is manifestly true, for recent occurrences have testified to the validity of the statement. Then follows some very plain truths, deferentially put, but not the less telling. The PRINCE says that while he makes no opposition, he yet must tell the truth. He conjures his father not to attack the laws, and warns him of the insidious designs and dangerous machinations of the func tionaries. " With their art of interpreting the laws they know how to represent the legality and neces sity of their measures in such a sense that they lead the Sovereign step by step into a very different path from that which he had proposed to himself to fol low." Had the KING taken t his advice at the time, what mischief might have been avoided and what trouble spared. If the PRINCE wrote such words, he has, indeed, proved himself a true pro phet, and there is no doubt that the same verification will attend his later predictions. The KING, in answer, declares that his son has not been circumspect eiviugh, and has made speeches of an opposition character, and intimates that an opportunity is offered to him to repair the mis chief that he has done by declaring energetically in an opposite sense, by coolness towards the men of progress, and by extolling the doctrine of the Conservatives. The PRINCE protests against the decree of the Ist of June, in a letter addressed to M. BISMARK. He declares that he " considers the restrictive measures against the press as illegal, and prejudicial to the state of the Royal house." He furthermore adds that they were taken without his knowledge, against his will, and he protests against them. The next day he writes to the KING, declaring against the decree, and repre senting that the spirit of the constitutiou had been violated by not submitting it to the Diet. The KING had stated in his previous letter that it was to be. On the sth the PRINCE made the celebrated speech at Dantzic. This called forth a letter from the KING, in which he " energetically disapproved" of the address. In case the report was incorrect, the KING demanded a contradiction in the journals, and required the PRINCE to pledge himself to avoid such declarations for the future. The PRINCE replied that his words were not " thoughtlessly uttered. His conscience had imposed on him for some time past the necessity of adhering to the doctrine whose truth he felt more and more each day. The wish to avoid contradiction had kept him silent hitherto ; but now the Ministry, without consulting him, had compromised his future and that of his children. He would retract nothing, but keep silence. As for his position in the army and Ministry, he was willing to give it up, and only desired to reside where he might bo a stranger to politics. The KING'S reply was moderate ; he said that he wished the PRINCE to express his opinion to no one but him self, and towards everyone else to maintain a strict silence. M. BISMARICS reply was not of great purport. He said—" It depends upon your Royal Highness to lighten or to render more difficult our great task." The last sentence, in which he states that he also has a conscience, is rather astonishing, as no very visible proofs of its existence have been apparent of late months. These reports of the cor respondence may not be altogether strictly correct, but it is most probable that they are so in substance ; and, at all events, they faithfully represent the spirit by which the various parties are actuated, even if the details are not strictly accurate. The speech of the CROWN PRINCE at Dantzic is an un disputed fact, and, of course, it is well known that its utterance must have pro voked the KING, and incensed his Ministers to no common degree. Some communication is sure to have been addressed to the PRINCE, and some forcible representations made to him. He would have 'answered these letters, and after mak ing a public profession of his faith in the legitimate rights of the state and his belief in the efficacy of the freedom of the press, he could not abjure those opinions in private. So far then there is every ground for giving credence to these reports, and granting their authenticity, it is a matter for re joicing that the heir to the throne of Prussia should so comport himeelf at a critical juncture like the present. It would be impossible to conceive a more difficult position than that in which he is placed, or to imagine a more delicate task than the one in which he is engaged, to reconcile opposing interests, to attend to conflicting claims, and so to adjust his course, as, on the one hand, to give due respect to his father, and on the other not to compromise the coarse he so honestly believes in and conscientiously advocates. This is, indeed, an awkward dilemma, but the PRINCE appears to have steered clear of any great coliision, and to have avoided any contre temps that would have been peculiarly unpleasant. So much decision and reticence speaks well for his after career. In his place many would have yielded to the temptations that surrounded them, and allowed things to take their course, shrinking from the responsibility, and disclaiming all idea of personal interference if suggested to them. Again, some would have gloried in the notoriety of standing isolated, of abandoning their position, and coming forward in a reckless spirit of defiance to confront the KING and oppose the Ministers, whose counsels so n_ili teed against the best interests of the country. The PRINCE has done neither, but chosen and kept the difficult medium course which so few contrive to maintain successfully, but which in the doubtful ways of life has often been trodden with so much su ccess. The CROWN PRINCE is not called upon to make a decided stand, because h a i s not invested approves with direct responsibility, at the same t i me he is called upon to let the na tion k e n c o h w aasn i g f e h s he done that pr entirely p hiveoes or disapproves of the s T ta h r i t a lin h g h recently been made. and emphatically, and hence he merits the respect of all who appreciate candour and admire self command. In the complicated affairs in which hereafter he will be called upon to take a prominent part, there is every reason to expect that he will acquit himself to the satisfaction of the country and the benefit of the community, while he adds lustre to his own reputation. We are not likely soon to find a limit to the versatile capacities of steam. We have already seen the greater part of DARWIN'S famous prophecy amply fulfilled, and though " the realms of air" are still left in undisputed possession of the man of science and the professional aeronaut, there is no say i ng what use another generation may put them to. The advantages which We derive from th e application of steam power to machinery are, how '' ever, as great as those conferred on na l : ll i: f ' ae assist ance in locomotion, and the mills and , l:1 of our large commercial towns offer as striki ng a contrast to those of a hundred years since as an express train does to the pack horses of the middle ages. The powers of this wonderful agent have now, however, found a new field in which they are likely to be no less beneficial, though in a less conspicuous form. It is a sphere where we shou d hardly have expected to find even our übiquitous friend. The eager traveller, the busy manufacturer, might well be ready to hail its assistance with eagerness and delight; but who would have expected that the great motive power of trade and manufacture would be found offering its services to the time-honoured but rival profession of agriculture. Yet so it is, and the farmer, proverbially cautious and careful, slow to follow new schemes and suspicious of modern in • no vations is likely in future to be as anxious the steam up" as any of his more ambititoo "getu sand society o ff ered a prize for an energetic fellows. Some year s a g o an agricultural implement worked by steam, which should turn up and till the land, and prepare it for the re ception of seed. The idea, as might be supposed, was ridiculed in many quarters, but there is no room for laughter now, for it has been amply demonstrated that a 10-horse steam engine can do the work of cultivation better and cheaper than it can be done by horses; and this, too, in hard clay land, where the task of ploughing is both laborious and unsatisfactory. An interest ing letter from the Right Hon. E. DENISON to General PEEL gives an account of his experience in steam farming. It is curious and amusing to fin:: the grave President of the Lower House coming forward as an authority on such points. He speaks, however, from personal experience, and therefore commands attention. He says that he had long been watching with interest the application of steam to the purposes of agriculture, but it was not antil the spring of this year that he made any ex periment with it. At that time a fine farm of 600 or 700 acres of clay land was left in a bad state by a careless tenant, and he resolved to try the aid of steam in reducing it to order. He procured a 10-horse steam engine, and worked it dur ing the month of May last. " When the iand was baked as hard as a brick, and when no implement, moved by horses, could make any impression, my ten-horse power steam engine began its work, smashing and breaking up the land in a manner which was suite surprising." The neighbouring farmers who came to look on at once perceived the great advantages of the system, and many of them declared they would gladly pay £1 or £1 10e. per acre to have avy clay land so broken up. The first outlay on the machinery, says Mr. DENISON, is £500; the cost of working, when the ground is very hard, is 6d. per acre the first time, and 3d. the second. The exact daily ex penses were Ll ls. 4d.; and Mr. DENISON justly observes that the question is well worth the consi deration of farmers, especially those who have strong clay lands to work upon. He suggests that the heavy preliminary expenses might be met by the combination of several neighbours, or by an arrangement with some persons who would make it their business to let out the machinery on hire, charging so much per acre for the work. We have little doubt that when once our large farmers have fully realised the advantages of steam cultivation they will find some means to avail themselves of them, and that steam, which, as Mr. DENISON says, " has brought Edinburgh within ten hours of Lon don, and America within ten days of England,'' will perform no less valuable, though humbler, services in the cause of that old-fashioned tilling of the soil to which, after all, we are all indebted for bread. Very general regret will be felt at the total de struction of a graceful and popular building. The gay and brilliant Bazaar in Langham-place, so long a favourite resort for fashionable idlers willing to spend time and money alike at its fascinating stalls, is now transformed into a heap of blackened ruins, surrounded by a few tottering walls, The loss is something greater than mere stocks of fancy goods, many valuable paintings having unfortunately been in one portion of the Bazaar, among them a famous Titian. The large and valuable collection of a well known naturalist, Mr. WHITAKER, has also been almost entirely destroyed, the poor little birds who had been brought from all parts of the globe being found dead in their cages. Mr. WHITAKER'S de partment was just by the entrance in Langham place, and consequently was entered before the flames had reached, but the work of destruction was unfortunately done by the smoke. A beautiful cockatoo of great value, left in Mr. WHITAKER'S charge, was among the victims, and his own collec tion of birds, insects, &c., are roughly estimated at £6OO. A fortunate exception to the devastation was the escape of the lizards, who, with singular sagacity, crept under the hay in their cages as the smoke came in, and thus escaped unhurt. One of the most painful features in the case is the number of honest and industrious persons that will be thrown out of employment by the catastrophe. Forty or fifty young females presided over the stalls, and many of these rented the stalls themselves, having stocked them with the proceeds of their own in dustry. All their little property is thus suddenly swept away, and the promising investment has proved an utter failure. This is surely a case to call for some help from the public, and we cannot doubt that those who have often lingered at the pleasant counters, and purchased elegant trifles from these poor stall keepers, will willingly contri bute to their assistance in this sudden and lament able catastrophe. IMPROBABLE !—A rumour is afloat to the effect that an interview has been managed between Napoleon 111. and Garibaldi, who has been ordered to Mail, the great waters for rheumatism and neuralgia, and that already several messages had been conveyed to and fro between the great hero and the hero-factor before the departure of fiar latter from Fontainebleau. LIEUT.-COLONEL HENDERSON, late Controller- General of the Convict Department of Western Australia, and now recently appointed Chief of the Convict Depart ment here in England, is said to be the officer Sir Joshua Jebb always hoped for as his successor. This selection, therefore, must be a source of gratification to Sir Joshua's family, as it seems to mark Government's appreciation of their lamented relative's judgment and opinion in so im portant a matter as the appointment of his successor. Mlle. Boucourt, a charitable lady well known at Saint-Quentin, and who has just died in that town, has bequeathed a capital of 17,000 f. and the income arising from an inscription of 450 f. rente, to assist in the construc tion and repairs of a church in the Faubourg d'lsle; to the civil hospitals a sum of 20,000 f. for the foundation of two beds for incurable patients ; to the establishment of the Petites-Sceurs-des Fauvres, 15,000 f,; and 5,000 f. among other institutions. A " FAIR" PUN.—I remember (says Lord Eldon) I was coming away from the Queen's Drawing-room in my full dress as King's Counsel (Lord Clarendon, then Mr. Villiers, was with me), and we came into the rooms where milliners were collected to see the fashions. Said I, " Why, Villiers, I think all the prettiest women are here." One of the girls, and a most amazingly beautiful creature she was, stood up and said to another, " I am sure that gentle man is a judge." A correspondent of the Toronto Leader, writing from Vicksburg, says the Confederates have a gun which domineers over the river, and ie a pestilent bother to the Federals. They call him " Whistling Dick." No gun boat has any business where this terrible gun can get a shot at it. It shoots a ball two and cne-half feet long, steel pointed, weighing 2501 b., can tear through our best iron• clads, and is thought to be the best gun of the war, THE EXHIBITION BUlLDlNG.—Negotiations ai e, it is said, now going on between the Alexandra Park Com pany and the contractors for the purchase of every part of the Exhibition building except the picture galleries. This Alexandra Park Company was some time ago formed for the purpose of establishing a North London Crystal Palace at Muswell.hill. The work of demolition is therefore for a time suspended. RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN PARLIA MENT.—Yesterday in committee of the Lords the bills of the London and North-Western Railway Company for new branch lines and additional powers were passed. The company, however, elected to withdraw the bill for the prop -fed transfer to them of the Lancaster Canal, o n the ground of certain clauses proposed to be inserted. 3.1 r. Rope Scott, Q C., opened the opposition of the Scottish Central to the Edinburgh, Dunfermline, and Perth, and the clauses of the North Eastern, Hull, and Doncaster Exten sion were settled, HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, ROSMUNDA." No greater test could be demanded of the power of Madame Ristori than the interest she is able to infuse into the classic play of Alfieri, with which last evening she concluded the present term of her performances. We can compare it to nothing but the ardour of Pygmalion, which sufficed to endow a statue with vitality. A greater triumph of the unities could scarcely be instanced than " Rosmunda." A play of a single movement—for its five acts ar e b ut momentary divi sions of one a c tion—of a single scene, a single incident, and, in all creative respects, a single pas sion—carries unity to a point that is almost a pun upon the term. Nothing, objectively at least, could be closer to its Greek original, and nothing, to modern sympathies, could be more monotonous and dull. Our belief in the Shhksperban method, which presents man as a complex being, and insists on incident as the great means of developing and contrasting character, will not permit us to subscribe to a rescusci presented man h ctual being, a ta s t a io p n a o r f ely th i e de a a n i c , i a en ad t t n h a e t or a y s , wan hi ea be cause he was always associated with some great re ligious or historic lesson. The story of Rosmunda needs but to be detailed to exhibit a rigid simplicity that entirely u nfit s it for the modern stage, unless sustained by a n ele ment to which it makes not the least pretension—an extraordinary amount and force of character. The hosa heroine—widowshehad of king of the Lombards, w treacherously Aii put to death in revenge of his murder of her father, and by means of a chief, Almachiide, w h o m she had rewarded for hie crime by raising to a share of her throne—is shown as no sooner possessed of the great end of her vengeance, than she is unexpectedly punished by it. Sne dis covers that her ne w husband, to whom she is passion ately attached, not only regrets the service he has done her—which he now denounces as the basest treachery—but that he also loves the daughter of the murdered king, Romilda, who is detained at the court a prisoner. The most terrible revulsion of f ee li ng is the instant and natural result a nd revenge, which is the master passion, becomes the sole tenant of her heart. Learning that Romilda has a lover in Ildovaldo, a Lombard general, she tempts the latter with the hand of the Princess if he will head his troops and arrest her husband. He eagerly consents, but in the strugg le tha t en sues Almachilde gain s t h e advantage, and the two lovers of the Prin cess rus hi n g in to her presence with their followers she sees bat one way to defeat them both and perfect her revenge—which is to destroy their unhappy idol. Dragging her victim to the summit of the st a i rcase , which is surrounded by the contending troops, she compels their leaders to dismiss them, and recall her own guards to the palace. This i s no sooner done, and she is once more reinstated in her power, than she buries her dagger in her victim, and brandishing it above her, tells her husband that its next blow is reserved for himself. Such a subject it will be seen, however capable if rightly treat e d— o f being sublimed by a great tragedian— when spread over five act s, and only sustained by a s i ng l e incident, could scarcely fail to become wearying even to the most ideal of spectators. It affords but three opportunities to the powers of Madame Ristori. First, the discovery of her husband's f a l se h oo d—and after its outburst of dismay and fury, the terrible ack nowled g ment of vengeance, as th e on l y pass i o n of her soul—next, her fierce enjoyment of the first step to it on Romilda s indignant rejection in her presence of Almachilde's passion and confession of her love for another, and lastly the C l os i ng scen e which sates her vengeance with the destruction of her rival. Of the manner in which Madame Ristori deals with these positions, no words of ours could convey an adequate idea. An intensity as deep in feeling as it is poetic in expression, sweeps from a subtlety the most keen to a grandeur the most Impressive, and leaves but the one conviction in the mind of the spectator of a tragic genius wholly unequalled on toe modern stage of Europe. Terri ble indeed is the condensed passion with which she murmurs the invocation to revenge to return and fill her breast as its sole diety— Tu cola Riedi, o Vendetta ; riedi, e me riempi Tutta di tutto 'I notne tun, s' io sempre Per prima e sots Deit a mix t'ebbi. Fearful the exultation of her smile and gesture as Romilda repays the confession of Almachilde—by avowing her own love for anot , er—and still more appalling is the fury with wh:cli she grasps Romilda on hearing her procla imed as the future Queen, a nd waving her dagger over her, presents her as her own victim— " Donna di me Costoi. di me, nel petto Io quest° stil gia gia le immergo." Above all, however, is the mad ferocity with which she drags her v i ct im up the staircase, foldin g h er as in th e coils of so me infuriated serpent, a n d t h en having secured exu ltingly destroys her, an d bran bin their t err ibl e ya power whi c h we find h e in dishes her dagger a s the im pending doom of a perjured husband. "Ho it ferro an cor, trema, or princi p ia a pp ena, La vendetta ch e, compiare in to g lum." O but hrtkeedise rose ardour to somethi n g hi g her than h er usual level. t onlyr passages h herself, s v: l e t r ~ e y sa y they were thoroughly It is needless to appre ciated by her refined and excited audience, who were raised to enthusiasm repeatedly, and sum moned her before them with the loudest demonstra tions at the end of the third act and also of the play. Madame Ristori, it is right to add, was very ably supported on this occasion by the talents of Madame Glech in Romilda , h Who acted with great spirit, and signori Pezzana and Ciotti in the characters of the husband and the lover. We cannot take leave of these performances, which have avowedly been a source of such high enjoyment to t he p ub ic, witho ut expressing a Wi s h that we know to be the echo of a general feeling, that they may be speedily repeated, and without also tendering our thanks to the spirit and taste of Mr. Mapleson, in becoming the means of such a gratification within our reach. HAYMARKET THEATRE.—The annual benefit of Mr. Buckstone takes place to morrow evening, and with it closes his second season, which has now extended to the unusual length of five years. The attractions are of a very varied description, The great feature of the even ing will be Mr. Bucketone's annual address; and in the on e to be deliv ered to- morrow evening th e events of the Twelfth," Brock, t r h o , " in ic past, as wel l as the arra ngements for the future, will be d escr ibed in the manager's most agre ea bl e an d w i tty style. Th e entertainments commence with th e very pretty ballet, ok,and wh m h is, M Louiser. Bu° i t B e t e lne u y e "The Star of And alusia;" then follows th e ce l e b rated dramathat h s sustains the part " Charles o thet Adam . Mr. and M rs Wigan next appear in the capital t t o f farce 4i The Beng a l T iger, " Mrs. Howard Paul g i ves her celebrated imit at i on of S i ms Reeves, and the balla d oi of "Goodby e , S weetheart. " The whole concludes old but excell ent farce " Deaf as a Post, " for Mr. n, Mr. W. F arren, and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. It is aCwstmohUprtC the Compton, a of great satisfaction to know that the season has been one of a very prosperous description, and Mr. Buck stone has our best wishes for a continuance of that good fortune which he most richly deserves. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—A grand amateur per formance is to be given at this theatre on Wednes day, the 24th inst., for the benefit of Madam Celli, the widow of the late Baron Fillippo Celli, the distinguished professor of music —the instructor of Grisi, Albertazzi, Boccabadati, Signor Poggi Ivanhoff, the famous Zucchelli, and Mdm. Lemaire, wh o i s at the preseni time giving pro of of the Baron's excell en t method of teaching in Lab' , showing that age, which had deprived him of his voice, h a d no t robbed him of the p ower of developing that of others. The performance will b e one of no ordinary description, as Mr . Tom Taylor app ears i n the part of Oppenhardt in his own ' original comedy " T he Lesson for Life, " in which the characters will b e sustained by the members of t h e Ci v il Service Rifle Volunteers, assisted by Mrs. Stirling and Miss E. Ferry. We are also to have other entertainments of a very attractive nature, but we feel certain the simple fact that the widow of the late talented maestro stands in need of help, will be sufficient to ensure an overflowing audience The honorary secretary has made arrangements by which tickets for the performance can be obtained at Mitchell's Library, Old Bond -street. THE LATE R AILWAY A CCID ENT.—OOI. Yolland, the Board o f T rede Inspector, has been bolding a private in quiry as to the state of the permanent way from Pontypool-road to Newport, and upon his decision, to a greater extent will depend the question as to whether the West Midland or the Monmout h s hi. e is the responsible company for the accident. The damage to the railway and ?exPectid, amount to from 48,00 to 41 0 , 000, plant and th e compensation to be paid to sufferers will, it is -~~;, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, JULY 14. Private letters received here from Sc. Petersburg state, on good authority, that the intended journey of the Empress has been postponed for political reasons. Her Majesty, it is said, will await the result of the Russian reply to the notes of the three Powers, WARSAW, JULY 14. In consequence of the absence of Marquis Wielo poski on leave, General Berg has convoked the Administrative Council, at the sittings of which he will preside until the return of the Governor. THE WEST INDIA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 14. The royal mail steamer La Plata, with the above mails, arrived off the Needles at 12.10 p.m. to-day. FRANCE. PARIS, SUM' 14. The King of Portugal has sent his congratula tions to the Emperor on the taking of Mexico. It is officially stated that the rumour of M. Hubert Delisle having been entrusted with a mis sion to Mexico is unfounded. " If we are well informed," says the Pa'ne, " the French Government, justly preoccupied with the events which have recently taken place at Mada gascar, and anxious to provide in all cases for the interests as well as the security of French residents, proposes to send out a naval force to that part of the Indian seas. Tne vessels designated for that mission will sail from Toulon," BOURSE, July 11.—The market continues heavy, and prices have slightly declined. Threes, for the Account, are now at 68f. 50c. Mobilier hive been offered, and are also lower. The same may be said of Railway Shares, which all show lower quo tations. The market closed as follows: it per Cents. . . 96 95 Italian Loan 7l 75 Do. end month.... Do. end month 7l 80 3 per Cents Do. endZmonth.... 68 50 Do. end month 72 30 Credit Mobilier.... 1165 Russian Do, end m0nth....1165 Austrian Bank Shares ...... 3405 Spanish Threes.n Credit F oncier 1295 Rome Debt .. — RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans ................ 1015 .. 1015 Northern .......... 992 50 98 7 50 New. ditt0........... • • Lyons and Mediterranean 1020 .. 1021 25 Geneva ............ 472 50 .. 473 75 Southern .............. 645 .. 647 50 Western .............. 630 527 50 Eastern . • ....... 501 2.5 .. 500 5ardinian............. 413 75 .. 415 Austrian .............. 452 50 .. 451 25 imor.bard • ............. 566 25 •• 570 . North of Spain ....... 533 75 • • 540 Saragossa .............. 700 . 695 Ditto to Barcelona ... 365 -_367 50 RUSSIA. Warsaw letters agree in representing the retire ment of the Grand Duke Constantine as imminent, and those advices seem to look upon that fact as a triumph of the old Russian party. If the Press of Vienna is to be believed, the position occupied by the Grand Duke has become untenable. That jour nal publishes the following :—" The position of the Grand Duke Constantine is really deserving of pity. Attacked on both aides at the same time, and sub jetted to the mistrust of the old Russian party, of which he was formerly the hope, and to the hatred of the Poles, he finds his life menaced, although thus far the National Government has exercised all its efforts until recently, to protect his personal security. He has been warned from that quarter that he would do well to discontinue his rides outside the city, as there were people who wished to carry him off. He had at length found existence unbearable, being obliged to remain constantly in the palace and gar den surrounded by a guard, and had recommenced making excursions—under a strong escort, it is true. In consequence of this notice, the Grand Duke now remains in his apartments, and hardly dares to eat to the satisfaction of his appetite." AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna, dated July llth, says : The principal topic of conversation in this city is the arrest of Prince Adam Sapieha, the son and heir of the Marshal of the province of Galicia. Some days ago the Russian Minister at this Court observed to Count Rechberg that M. Wysocki would not have been able to raise 1,800 men in Galicia had he not been aided and abetted by some men of influence in the province. M. von Balabine then spoke of the undisguised hostility of Prince Adam Sapieha to the Russian Government, and he is said to have given information which led to the arrest of that noblemen, who is a member of the Galician Diet. By the warrant, which was issued by th e C r i m i na l C ourt at L em b erg, we learn that the only son of one of the most loyal, influential, and wealthy nobles in the Empire has been arrested " on suspicion of having rendered assistance to the revolutionary expedition to the Russian province of Volhynia." At the same time that Prince Adam Sapieha—a married man, about 35 years of age—was deprived of his liberty, the police seized the papers of the Galician Agricultural Society, and searched the palace of Prince Leo Sapieha, who, as Marshal of the Province, is Presi• dent of the Galician Diet. Sapieha possesses a large castle at Krasiczn, near Przemysl, in Galicia, and the telegraph informs us that it, on the 9th inst., was searched from top to bottom by police agents from Lemberg. Prince Adam Sapieha is a very ardent patriot, and it is not unlikely that the atrocities committed by Mouravieff and his colleagues have so violently roused his indignation that he is indiffe rent to the possible consequences of his actions. The Vienna papers express disapproval of the conduct of the Clalician authorities, but it is morally certain that the order for Prince Sapieha's arrest was sent from this city to Galicia. The Russian Consul at Lemberg avers that many of the men under Wysocki's command were armed with weapons of Austrian make, but no great importance is here attached to his assertions, as the agents of the Russian Government are in the habit of fabri cating news for the furtherance of their own ends. At Lemberg it is now much the question of a des patch written by the Russian Commander in Radzi willow which chanced to fall into the hands of General Wysocki. "In the document in ques tion," says the Lemberg correspondent of a Vienna paper, " the Russian officer warmly expresses his gratitude for certain information received from the Austrian military and police authorities." The name of the Austrian Colonel Kunsti, who is stationed at Brody, has been men tioned in the matter in question, but no proof has y e t been adduced that he informed the Russians that an expedition was about to cross the frontier into Volhynia. On the let inst. the Polish National Government published a proclamation, in which it is said that the war will be continued as long as a Russian foot is planted on Polish soil." There is so much rhodomontade in the proclamatio❑ that it would produce a mfmt disagreeable impression on English readers, and I therefore refrain from. forwarding a summary of it. The invisible Government arro gates to itself the right of treating with the Powers when it shall be the question of sepa►ating Poland from Russia, " a thing which must soon happen, as the Polish nation feels that it is able to shake off the Muscovite yoke." GREECE. The Moniteur publishes n letter from Athens, of the 4th inst., which gives the following particulars relating to the origin and issue of the recent con flicts in that capital:— " To make the cause of the late disturbances in telligible, it will be necessary to state that M. Bul garis, ex-president of the Provisional Government, had been making great efforts to restore his influ ence, and had succeeded in forming f.n important party in the Assembly. He had also collected ' around him a band of devoted partisans, 000 in ❑umber, under the command of Lieut, Laoutzako (Leotzakos), composed partly of soldiers and partly of peasants from the country. While M. Bulgaris was thus preparing his return to power, the arrival of M, Cnristides drew from him many of his supporters in the Chamber, and his friends in the army were greatly diminished by the influence of M. Grivas. Affairs came to a crisis when, after the return of the Commissioners from Copenhagen, the Chris tides party succeeded in ousting M. Botzaris from the Ministry of War, and getting M. Coronaios (a decided opponent of M. Bulgaris) appointed in his stead. On the very day M. Botzaris left the Ministry of War, a band of 40 men, commanded by an officer named Kyriacon, left Athens, for the purpose, as was supposed, of plundering the mho, bitants of the country. M. Coronaios immediately sent a detachment after this band, which was sur rounded and brought back to Athens ; but on entering the city they succeeded in escaping from their captors, and took possession of an empty house, from which they fired on the troops. The Minister of War then sent against them a de tachment of Laoutzako's battalion, with two howitzers, but these troops all went over to Kyriacon. M. Coronaios, greatly alarmed, despatched a hundred men to take up a position at the palace, and at the same time Laoutzako was invited to a conference, where he was arrested and sent on board a Greek frigate lying in the Piraeus. On learning the arrest of their officer, Laoutzako's battalion took arms and seized two ministers of the opposite party, MM. Callifronas and Coumoun douros, whom they held as hostages for the security of their chief. Having been joined by a party of the artillery under the command of Papadiaman doulo, they next marched on the palace and attacked the troops posted there by M. Coronaios. In the conflict which ensued and lasted the whole night, the son of Admiral Canaria, a lieutenant of infan try, was mortally wounded. At 8 in the morning the fighting ceased. The Assembly having been convoked meanwhile, the Ministry was dissolved and the president of the Chamber invested with the supreme power. A deputation was at once sent to the palace to propose an armistice, which was accepted, and in order to obtain the release of the ministers held as hostages, Lieut. Laoutzake was liberated. No further disturbance occurred that day, but the next morning (the 2d July), M. Coro naios, the Minister of War, having gone to the Bank with a few lancers to come to an understand ing with the gendarmes who guarded it, was fired at by them and obliged to send for additional troops. On hearing the firing at the Bank, Laoutzako's men marched to the assistance of the gendarmes, but were compelled to take refuge in the neighbouring houses, from the windows of which they fired on the troops under Coronaios, who were cannonading the Bank. At the same time the house of Admiral Canaris was assailed by others of Laoulzako's men, and vigorously defended by M. Grivas and his pallikars. During the day about 100 persons were killed or wounded, but in the evening an armistice for 48 hours was concluded through the intervention of the French, English, and Russian Ministers. The next morning the Ministers of the three Powers addressed a joint note to the President of the As sembly declaring their intention of breaking off all relations with Greece if hostilities should be resumed after the expiration of the armistice, and proposed that the Bank should be placed under the protection of a small English, French, and Russian gar rison. This last proposal was accepted by the President, and at once carried into execution. On the evening of the same day, the deputies who had till then sided with MM. Bulgaris and Laout• zako accepted the terms offered by the Coronaios' and Christides' party, and on the 4th a ministry of conciliation was formed with M. Roufos as its pre. sident. M. Papadiamandoulo, military commander of Athens; M. Artemis, commander of the gendar mery, and the chief of the police, were dismissed from their functions, and quietly submitted. The Assembly also decreed the removal of all the troops from Athens, the security of the city being entrusted to the National Guard alone. All material disorder has now ceased, and as there is at present a regular Government supported by the Assembly, any further disturbance can only proceed from factious rebels." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 9th state that the Queen and Royal family left that city early on the previous morning for La Granja, where they ar rived at half-past seven. In the afternoon her Ma jesty received the Ministers, high dignitaries of the Palace, and all the notables of the province, among whom were Marshal Serrano, whose pre sence gave rise to numerous conjectures. It is said in certain circles that he is before long to form a Cabinet to succeed that now in office, and that he will be assisted in this under taking by MM. Mon and Bermu ez de Castro. The convent of the Nun Patrocinio, in the neighbour hood of La Granja, which contains 40 women, and enjoys a royal subsidy of 5,000 f, per month, besides numerous presents of necessaries from the royal domain, excites surprise among the Spaniards sojourning in this locality. These people look with disfavour upon such liberalities. FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. At the last sitting Dr. Giraldes communicated his observations on the effect produced on the pupil of the eye by the Physo •stigma venenosum or Cala bar bean, well-known for its poisonous qualities, but not so much for the property it possesses of causing the pupil to contract, which was first noticed by Dr. Fraser in 1862. As the Calabar bean is not to b 3 had in France, Dr. Giraldes was obliged to have recourse to Dr. Fraser's kindness for a sample of this drug, with which he has since made experiments at the Hopital des Enfants- Malades. He operated on eight children of the ages of 3,4, 12, and 13, whose pupils were strongly dilated, and with a small brash introduced a drop of the extract of the -Calabar bean, dissolved in glycerine, under the eyelids. A few minutes after, the pupils of all these patients were mani festly contracted, and at the end of about 20 minutes the contraction had produced its maximum effect, and the pupils were scarcely half a milli metre in diameter. In the case of one of these children, the pupil had been previously dilated by means of the sulphate of atropine, and yet at the end of 20 minutes it was contracted as much as the others. This contraction gradually ceases in the course of from 15 to 20 hours. Mr. Hubert, of Trawsfynydd (Wales), sent in a paper explaining the principle of a new simplification of writing, by means of which the number of despatches sent by telegraph may be quadrupled; while, if used for common writing, it will save Limp, and applied to printing, will save space.—M. Delaunay presented a note concerning certain experiments of his on mad dogs and glandered horses, from which he conceives the hops of being able to preserve these animals from both the disorders alluded to by a peculiar process of inoculation. ivrAR,IIE TS—This Day. RAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD. Old Meadow hay, £3 10s to £4 15s ; new do., £3 to £4 ; old clover, £4 10s to £6 6s ; new do., £3 10s to £4 15s; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s per load. A fair demand. CumnnanAND.—Old Meadow hay, £3 10a to £4 15s ; new do., £3 08 to £4 Os; old .cove', £4 lOs to £6 6a ; new do., £3 10s to £4 15s; and straw, £1 83 to £ll6s p.r load. Trade steady. WHITECHAPEL —Old Meadow hay, £3 108 to £4 15s; new do , £3 is to £4 Os; oid clover, £4 lOs to £6 Os; new do , £3los to £4 15s ; and straw, £1 Ss to £1 16s per load. A moderate inquiry. COLONIAL. TEA.---The operations have been very limited, and the few bargains entered into were at previous prices. The public sales of opium commence to-day SEGAR.—Business has been very dull, and quotations remain unaltered. In the refined market there is a fair de mand for dried goods at previous rates. COFFEE.—A limited business has been done in Colonial descriptions, holders demanding full rates for goud and fine qualities. Rice —Only a few bargains have been reported in East' India, and prices have remained without change of impor tance. _ _ TALLOW,—The market has continued very 411111, and owing to a pressure of sales, prices have shown a downward movement ror both present and forward delivery. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 425, and last three months 45e per cwt. ‘fittn'k" HER MAJESTY, OSBORNE, July 13. The Queen and royal family walked and drove in the grounds. The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Marchioness of Carmarthen and Captain Grey, arrived at Marlborough House about twelve o'clock yesterday morning from Frogmore. Their Royal Highnesses afterwards proceeded to Wimble don, attended by the Marchioness of Carmarthen, Lieutenant- General Knollys, and Captain Grey, and were present at the rifle shooting of the National Rifle Association. The Prince and Princess of Wales visited the Duchess of Cambridge, yesterday, at her residence in St. James's Palace. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Marchioness of Carmar then and Captain Grey, honoured the performance at the Princess's Theatre with their presence last evening. Foreign Courts. PARIS, July 12. The Empress came to Paris on Saturday after noon in an open carriage aid four, without escort, and paid a visit to the Princess Clotilde at the Palais Royal. Her Majesty returned to St. Cloud at 5 o'clock. VIENNA, July 10. According to intelligence from Rolm:, much un easiness has been occasioned by the reports of the ill health of Queen Marie of Naples. It appears that a chest complaint has manifested itself, and that the malady has already made some progress. BERLIN, July 11. The King will leave Carlsbad on the 18th, and will reach Gastein after an easy journey of about three days' duration. His Majesty will reside there about three weeks, and will then visit the Queen of Prussia at Baden-Baden, remaining till the end of August. The King will then return to Berlin to be present at the autumnal military manoeuvres. The Queen arrived at Coblentz to-day, and will remain there about three weeks. Her Majesty will then proceed to Baden-Baden on a visit of some duration. ROYAL VISIT TO ALDERSHOTT (THIS DAY). — The Prince and Princess of Wales having intimated their intention to visit Aldershott this day, the troops formed on Bricksbury-hill at 11 o'clock precisely to await the arrival of their Royal Highnesses. On arriving at the South Camp the royal party partook of luncheon, and then proceeded to review the troops. The evolutions commenced about 12 o'clock, and as the day was fine the review was one of the most brilliant of the season. The strength of the divi vision has been considerably augmented during the past few days by the arrival of several regiments, among which are included the Royal Horse Guards (Blue), the sth Lancers, the 18th Hussars, the Ist battalion Scots Fusilier Guards, and two batteries of the Royal Artillery. The present strength of the division comprises seven regiments of cavalry, 12 regiments of infantry, three batteries of Royal Horse Artillery, and four field batteries, mounting a total of 42 guns. About 16,000 men and nearly 800 officers took part in the day's proceedings. VISIT OF THE PRINCE OF WALES TO YORKSHIRE. —lt has already been intimated that their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales are about to visit Halifax. Great preparations are making to do honour to the royal personages, who, according to the present ar rangements, will thrive in Halifax on Tuesday, August 4, and become the guests of Mr. J. Crossley, the mayor of the borough. There will be a grand procession through the principal streets of the town on the following day to the new Town-hall, which will be formally opened by the Prince, who, after attending the spacious Piece-hall, to listen to the rejoicing songs of from 15,000 to 18,000 Sunday school scholars, and partaking of luncheon in the mayor's parlour with her Royal Highness the Princess, will proceed to Ripon and Studley Royal, the Yorkshire seat of Earl de Grey and Ripon. After remaining at the mansion of Earl de Grey and Ripon on the night of Wednesday, the sth, their Royal Highnesses will next day proceed en route to Scotland. THE REPORTED ROYAL VISIT TO DUNROBIN . The Prince and Princess of Wales, we understand, will not visit Dunrobin Castle this season. The Edinburgh. papers were quite right in stating that su:th a visit was in tended and arranged with the Duke and Duchess of Suther land, but their royal highneises have been reluctantly com pelled to postpone the northern journey till another year.— Inverness Couricr. NAPOLEON 111. IN SEARCH OF HEALTH AND QUIETUDE.—His Majesty, who has gone to Vichy for the express pprpose of regaining the health and spirits worn to tatters by the late politic.l excitement and anxiety, says the Court Journal, has publicly announced in the Moniteur that he refuses to receive any solicitors, peti tioners, complimenters, or congratulators whatever. Not withstanding this warning, whole convoys of these peculiar specimens of unhumanity are daily leaving Paris, each one with the hope that an exception will be made in his favour, all with the conviction that their own merit is sufficient to secure the preference. ALARMING ILLNESS OF THE DUKE OF HAMILTON. —lt is with sincere regret that we have to announce the very serious illness of the Duke of Hamilton. On Wednesday last his grace left London by the way of Paris, to join the Duchess of Hamilton and daughter at Baden- Baden. While in Paris the Duke was seized with illness, and on Sunday his grace's medical attendant pronounced that he was suffering from congestion of the brain. The Duchess and Lady Mary Hamilton were telegraphed to, and as soon as possible repaired to Paris. The Marquis of Douglas was telegraphed to in England, and instantly on the receipt of the news departed for Paris. The numerous friends of the duke will learn with regret that the accounts received by telegraph in the course of yesterday were very discouraging, and that he is in a most precarious condi tion. RATE OF THE WESTMINSTER CLOCK.—The Astro nomer Royal reports to the visitors of the Royal Observatory that the rate of this clock, which records itself at Greenwich daily by galvanic connection, "may be consi dered certain to much less than one second a week." The original stipulation was that it should not exceed a second. a day, and that was attempted to be set aside as impracti cable by some of the candidates for making the clock. Mr.. Airy's testimony to its accuracy is the more valuable, as he had retired in 1853 from the joint superintendence of the work, on account of some differences with Mr. Denison, Q.C., who designed the clock and invented the "gravity escapement" for it, which has since been adopted in other large clocks. It may not be generally known that most of the wheels are of cast iron ; the hands and other appendages weigh about a ton and a half, and the pendulum 6 cwt. The dials are 22} feet wide, or 400 feet in area each, and cost more than the clock itself. The cracked Big Ben still hangs in the tow,r, with a hole cut in its side, by which Dr. Percy investigated its real state, and reported it as " porous, un homogenous, unsound, and a defective casting." THE EASTERN FISHERIES.—Some of the boats connected with Great Yarmouth which have been engaged in the mackerel fishery are already " making up." The fishery has been attended with unsatisfactory results, and some of the boats will scarcely cover their expenses. Prices have been forced down, notwithstanding the far from abundant catches, to 15s. per 100 in consequence of large importations of fish from Norway packed in ice. Similar complaints of want of success came to hand from Lowestoft. The . parties engaged in the midsummer herring fishery peak of failure in that respect also. FORTIFICATIONS ON THE SOLENT.—The old feudal pile of Hurst Castle is, we understand, to be used future merely as a magazine, but on the shore line, both above and below it, are to be erected a double tier of case mated granite batteries—the lower tier mounting 50 guns laid a jleur d'eau, like the batteries of the Dardanelles, to hit ♦essels on the water line; the upper tier about 50 feet from the water, and carrying the same number of guns of the same calibre, that is to say, the heaviest that our ad vancing knowledge of artillery will enable us to construct. Above this again will probably be another line of guns in embrasures, so that the entire range of defences on both sides of the Needles passage will amount at the lowest to 250 guns, of which at least 100 will be always able to concentrate their fire an a ship, whatever part of the Channel she may be steaming. Such a number of guns firing into one vessel would be, one would think, enough to stop anything that can float We believe the works will immediately corn- Inence.—Hants Independent. TEE MURDER OF MR. FITZGERALD.—.THE TRIAL OF DILLANE.—LIMERICK, :Monday. -- The Hon. Judge Keogh opened the commission for the county at ten o'clock this morning. The Attorney-General and Solicitor- General attended. Matthew Dillane, Ns hose brother was executed after last assizes for procuring the murder of Mr. Francis Fitzgerald, having been placed at the bar, the Attorney-General stated that although there was evidence sufficiently strong to place the prisoner upon trial for the capital offence, that evidence could not be admissible in a legal form. Therefore the Crown would only proceed upon the minor counts of the indictment.. Mr. Coffey, as counsel for the prisoner, pleaded , guilty, and the learned judge, after a most impres,ive address, sentenced Dillane to ten years' penal servitude, directing that he should be sent off at once, without being allowed an interview with his friends. eel the me cis( bat in i rat the vei att ati( Ba 3 F 31 1 Ne Au