The Sun. — London, England, 1863-09-29 00:00:00

JJERRM ANN, P RESTIDIGITATEUR.- PRINCESS'S " THEATRE.—HERR HERRMANN'S Performances, EVER Y EVENING, at Eight. In Two Farts—as given by hi min all the principal Theatres and Opera Houses of the Continent of Europe and America. The whole of the Marvello• as Illusions entirely new, and invented by Herr Herrmann. I?rices of admission as usuaL Doors opea at half-past 7. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE , - Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, THE DEAL BOATMAN: Messrs. G. Belmore, F. Charles ; Miss R. Leclercq, and Mrs. Edmund Falconer. To conclude with the new and original Comedy, by Ed mund Faloner, entitled NATURE A'S BOVE ART A Ro mance of the Nursery : Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Ryder, Barrett, G. Belmore, F. Charles. Neville ; Miss Charlotte Sauivers. Miss. Murray, Miss R. Leclercq, Mrs. Melville, and Mrs. Edmund Falconer. Box-office open from Ten till Fiv e daily. Prices as usual. Commence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL the r i e i c e E s s T t . h — e Oven for the Season. —Not i ce.— H D A u r Y i undermentioned alterations have been made to ensure the comfort of the alldiCllo3 : A distinct row of Stalls h as b een erected, with two new Stall Staircases, one on each s id e o f the Theatre .. In the Dress Circle, all the partitions and ori ginal seats 'nave been removed, and chairs o a convenient size. covered 'with Utrecht velvet, introduced. The approaches to the Dress Circle will be carpeted and generally improved, w hile the seats in the Amphitheatre will be made as commo dious as those of the Pit. In addition the whole of the inte rior of the Theatre has undergone a thorough restoration. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan every evening. THIS EVENIN', and during the Week, to commence at 7, with AN UNLUCKY MOltrAL : Mr. William Farren, Miss M. Harris, &c. Atter which, at a quarter to 8, the new Comedy of FINESSE; or, Spy and t minter Spy: characters by Mr. Alfred Wigan, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. Howe, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Dowton (2d appearance). Miss L. Angel, and Mrs. Alfred Wigan. Concluding with TURNING THE TABLES. On Monday, Oct. 26, Mr. and Mrs. CUAS. MATHEWS Will return to the London stage. TvEW THE ATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. This 7 heatre will RE-OPEN for the Winter Season on THURSDAY next. Oct 1, entirely new painted and decorated. First appearance of Miss BATE ALAN, the celebrated Ameri can artiste. At 7, THE TRAGEDY QUEEN: Mrs. Stirling. At 8, the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bateman, supported by Mr. Arthur Stirling (his first appearance here), - Messrs. R. Phillips, Billington, Stuart, A. Wood, Eberne, Miss H. Simms and Mrs. Billington. To conclude with CATCHING AN HEIRESS : Miss Woolgar and Mr. A. Wood. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, WHERE'S YOUR WIFE. Mr. Bel ford, Miss Simpson. Followed by (42d time) THE MOTTO, "I'M ALL THEItE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier, Clifton ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, F. Josephs, Maria Simpson, Wallace, and Jenny White. To conclude with TURN HIM OUT. Mr. Turner, Miss Thome. Commence at 7. 1 HE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," 1. Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, Can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 3h. 7m.—Afternoon, 311 . 27m * To-moßitow.-Morning, 3h. 45m.—Afternoon, 411. 4m. The Weather—Sun Office, Sept. 29, 1863. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock .................... Barometer- 29 . 98 . Wind—South-West ; I?ght, and fine. 1 111 LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 29, 1863. If we were to give implicit credence to the state ments put forward by MANHATTAN and other pro- Federal reporters, we should certainly be led to regard this desperate Civil and all but Servile war in America as even now virtually brought to a conclu sion ! We should be deluded into a belief that already the Union is reconstituted, the Confede rate Government swept out of existence, General LEE reduced to a nonentity, President DAVIS ren dered utterly insignificant. That we are not, in saying this, in any way guilty of exaggeration in regard to the tone adopted by the Northern writers can be rendered apparent upon the instant by a single paragraph extracted from MANHATTAN'S last vulgarly vigorous communication. A letter in which that Yankee JUNIUS appears, more conspicu ously than ever, as the organ of what we may per haps most aptly term the blatant bumptiousness of the North. Roaring at first quite as mildly as BULLY BOTTOM himself—" I hope," coos this " sucking dove" from the other side of the Atlantic, " that no more blood will be shed in our own unhappy civil war. I judge it is near its and, for all the Southern papers have turned blowers,' and brag of what is to be done, in such a manner, that I am confident they are on the eve of a general surrender. You will see that my words will come true. After all, what have the rebels to fight for ? —a part of South Carolina, up in the mountains — Georgia—Alabama—a part of Virginia—North Carolina is on the fence—Arkansas is shaky, her capital captured, and the Mississippi open ! Look on Tanner's map of the old United States, and you will see how little is left in rebellion. Their cause is hopeless, so far as separation is concerned. The rebels could govern the Union, if they had gumption sufficient to go for the Union and fight in the Union. Every day they are in rebellion they strengthen the power of Mr. LINCOLN and hie Government." After that, really the best thing, if not indeed, the only thing left, for the Confederates to do, must be—obviously—to send a flag of truce in hot haste to General MEADE, meekly offering the submission of the South in the humblest terms, and upon the very mildest conditions, that can yet be wheedled from the Federal Victors Before quite coming to this same conclusion, however, it may, perhaps, be just as well to glance down the latest particulars just brought to us, per the City of New York, from the actual neat of war. News of battle it will be found to furnish, comprising within a very moderate space the following extraordinarily long catalogue of the most recent advantages gained by—the Confede rates! To epitomise them just as they stand in this bewildering string of Telegrams —we learn (per the City °- t New York) that, when the last mails left, the C 'efederates, under LEE, though not in large force, h ° l 4 a strong position on the line to wards which Mt& DE was advancing upon them —namely, upon the line of the Rapidan ! That in the skirmishes which had already taken place between the t va main armies, 150 Federal Cavalry had just been eeptured by the Confede rates! That the Federal General THOMAS was reported to have met with a reverse at Lafayette, Tennessee ! That BucKNart bad captured 300 That 11° "caANz had been Federal prisoners ! driven back by the Confederate s -D A)RAGG and JOHNSTONE! That General I\Tt LtY's divi sion of 5,000 Federals, attacked at Bird' s Gap by 16 ,000 Confederates, bad, not unnaturally, b een forced for a while, at least, to withdraw to it di a. tance,it was said, of three miles and a•half, by that formi dable proportion of three to one! That Gene ral LONGSTREET was reported to have advanced through Resaea at the head of 20,000 Confederates, and to have already p ressed forward as far even as Lafayette ! That from all quarters the Southern troops were rapidly hurrying together at Atlanta! That Fort Moultrie although , still being shelled, bad been strengthened by its Confederate defenders That a reconnoitring. party o f Federals had been captured on the Savannah Railroad ! That in front of the Federal lines in North Carolina there was visible an increase of the forcesof the Confederates That in Western Virginia Southern troops to the number of 8,000 were preparing f or a new raid into the Federal territories ! Yet, with a swarm of telegrams like those droppin g i n upon , us, we are assured by Northern writers like "Man_ hattan" that the cause of the South is altogether desperate, that the Confederates are 'virtually at this moment shut up, their valiant opponents being everywhere victorious. Nay, even this is not all. " Manhattan" for once seems fairly to have lost his head, as the phrase is, meaning his judgment. He has certainly, for once, cleared out of view all consi derations of decency. He is not only boastful to the last degree, as to what the Federals are going to do with those poor little emmets of antagonists, the Confederates, but he is announcing how the Fede ral Power is going to swallow up half a million Frenchmen at a gulp ! And while blustering and boasting in this preposterous manner, he is out raging, to the utmost possible extent, the few remaining ideas of decorum, of which the reader might still have a hope on his (the writer's) part, by profanely yelling his thanks to the ALMIGHTY, that a bloody war with France has at length become inevitable. We will give "Manhattan's' own words—so that it may be seen at once, from them, how it is, literally, as we have here said ! In his very first sentence, in this his latest communication, he writes, " We have to thank GOD, among other of Ills mercies, that we are to have a war with France ! And may He so direct events that it may result in making us a united nation—a confederacy of States." Again—" I have never hesitated to declare that a foreign war was, of all things, the one thing needed to restore us to our senses, and to make us a united people. May GOD grant that it has come in the shape of a war with France." Further on, yet again —" We devoutly (!) thank GOD that we are prepared for a contest at sea with France." Even then, he has not done with this blasphemously prayerful exulta tion over the prospect of that sanguinary encounter. He is still upon his knees, in irreverent rapture over the bare idea of this new and more copious outpouring of blood! "Let war come" he cries (he still speak ingiFrance)t gre atest and it will be of the certainty of a w war come, reacr with t h asghe re " Let a ron us this year !" To de blessing GOD can confe monstrate quite conclusively, however, bow wholly MANHATTAN is beside himself at the pros pect of a war with France it is only necessary to refer to his poor little foolish expression of regret that it will be impossible for NAPOLEON himself to go out there to America with those French troops his Majesty would have to send thither immediately upon the declaration of such a war t MANHATTAN'S regret being that the defeat of the French armies by the Federals cannot be thus ren dered the more signal and complete—by what ? By NAPOLEON " playing the Monkey-General, and smoking cigars"—as he did when opposed to the Austrians in Italy ! Our Yankee JUNIUS being quite oblivious, for the moment, of the perhaps trivial circumstance, that that same " Monkey- General smoking cigars" again and again defeated the legions of Austria opposed to him at that time in Lombardy upon a succession of memorable battle fields ! The Emperor of RUSSIA is trying a new plan. It would seem as if, after exhausting the policy of the fortiter in re, he was now endeavouring to essay the effect of the suaviter in ?nada. This may be all very fine, but the question is whether he will succeed in taking in those who have been atten tively watching his proceedings of late. His doings at Helsingfors have all been of the most affable nature, and his speeches are all of the gracious style. He was received by the students at the uni versity with great applause. He expressed his great satisfaction at finding himself once more within the walls of the university, of which for a long time he had been Chancellor. He hoped that for many long years to come it would still send out young men who would remember their duties to the fatherland, and that the Russian EMPEROR was their liege lord. This was putting it in a very ingenious hint, and improving the occasion by re minding his hearers of a fact he doubtless deemed of immense importance. After this affair at the university there followed a banquet to the officers, and general illuminations in the evening. A grand review took place the next day, and the number of visitors was excessive. It would seem that the in flux was far too great indeed for the powers of the inhabitants to accommodate; they were not equal to the emergency, and some very extraordi nary incidents took place. It is said that seven members of Parliament had to walk the streets at night for lack of any accommodation. This appears as if the resources of the community were not very great, but doubtless such a demand upon their extent of room and elasticity of arrange ments had never before occurred. One individual who arrived, and asked for a refuge, was told that there was not sufficient room for a mouse. It is reported that it is intended shortly to take away the division of the Grenadier Guards. This, if accomplished, will greatly improve the state of affairs, as the present combination is a very strange I one, there being no less than 20,000 t roo p s i n a place where there are scarcely so many inhabitants. The people of Helsingfors will, for the most part, be delighted with their removal. This step will also augur a more peaceful state of things in regard to Poland, as it will testify that so mach anxiety does not prevail on that score in the minds of the Russians. The summoning of the Chambers was celebrated with much ceremony. It is more than half a century since Finland was annexed to the Russian Empire, and during all that long period there has been no session of the Finnish Landtdag. Of course it is natural that the greatest gratitude should be entertained for the present boon, and that hopes should run high in regard to the benefits that will accrue from the event just inaugurated. It would certainly appear to studious observers, however, as if the gift were more substantial if the exercise of its privileges were more free and unfettered. If a constitutional assembly had been founded the posi tion would indeed have been altered for the better. In that case there might have been more reliance to be put upon a consecutive form of representa tion; as it is now, all depends upon the fancies of the hour, and the fluctuations of policy that take place in St. Petersburg are not the most solid, sure, or safe foundations on which to build the structure of a nation's liberties, or test the hopes of a people's rights. If the Emperor of RUSSIA had bestowed some privileges that were ensured beyond the possibility of removal, and that no subsequent casualty could affect or future ruler disclaim or deny, then indeed would the most sus picious have confidence, and the most sanguine see their expectations realised. But when calmly re• viewing the state of things, and taking a retrospec tive glance at events, how can the present seem pro pitious or the future fortunate. To-day we may be right, b ut what may not t o - morrow b r i ng f ort h ? in the chances and changes of the perplexing inci dents of despotic Government, how soon is the sunny prospect overcast, and the smiling hope proveel quite illusory. It is not the way to ensure the lasting respect or regard f a may profess atfirst o to be p s e t ople, however much they ow upon them a piecemeal reform, or a temporary amelioration. Whet is not secure cannot be sterling in its value, or satisfactory in its workings. Reece the grand doings in Finland may be quite as much in the long run the herald of a failure as the advent of a success. The liberty that depends upon the capri ce , of tyranny is hardly worth the nsme, and can never attain to the reality of that blessing. Insomuch, however, as the whole of the manoeuvres and ma- VIE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1888. nagement that are chronicled as transpiring at Helsingfors are of a progressive character they are so far satisfactory, and that good results will follow on even this minor attempt at enlightened policy is certain. Patting aside the consideration of ulti mate consequences of the new organisation of things, the Finlanders are rejoicing at the good things now provided for them. It will be most fortunate if they have no cause to change their happy mood for a sorrowful one: It is to be trusted that policy may induce their Russian rulers to persevere in the course now commenced; and so, in waiting for a better state of things, by that inducement they may continue to enjoy as a favour what they should possess as a right. The usual budget of news from India brings us little that is remarkable. The doubts as to the identity of the prisoner now at Cawnpore with the treacherous NANA SAHIB are not yet laid at rest, and the conflicting and unsatisfactory nature of the evidence does not offer much hope of a speedy set tlement of the question. The limes of India states that his arrival at Cawnpore excited a good deal of commotion, but that the interest which had been awakened died out immediately after his arrival. The people of the district, to most of whom the NANA was of course well known, were unanimous in declaring that the prisoner was not the veritable culprit, and though, as the Indian journal observes, their evidence is not entirely trustworthy, yet the general indifference is certainly worth noting as a feature in the case. The some paper, after referring to the numerous instances on record, in which the nearest relatives have been unable to recognise each other after long-continued absence and ex posure, remarks that the mere fact of recognition or its absence, by persons who had formerly known the NANA, must not be accepted as conclusive evi dence, but there are other points in the prisoner's favour. The fact of the English surgeon who for merly attended NANA SAHIB, being decidedly of opinion that the prisoner is not the man, is cer tainly deserving of value, and it must be admitted that his account of himself and his belongings i s not at all satisfactory. We need not doubt that the greatest care and discretion will be exercised in coming to a decision, and we may reasonably hope that a little more time will throw some further light on the matter. With regard to other matters, the prosperity of India appears to be increasing as fast as the most sanguine wishes could make it. The statistics of import, export, and land rep enue during the last ten years exhibit some startling figures. The customs revenue of Calcutta has risen during this decade from £950,807 to £3,081,518. On the old principle of the ill wind, the cotton famine has brought good to India, for cotton has of course contributed largely to the recent rapid increase of trade in Calcutta. Of the whole increase of nearly £5,000,000 over the trade of the previous year, cotton we are told claimed one quarter. Until within a year or two back Calcutta exported no cotton save to China, whereas last year its exports of this particular staple were valued at over a million and a half. Political eco nomists may, if they will, preach a sermon to our manufacturers and our Indian legislators on this text, and point the moral by showing them what Lancashire might be if the point now gained in Indian cultivation had been reached some five or ten years ago. By next spring or summer we may hope very considerable addition to our sup- ply, but if the sources which are to keep our mills at work full time in '64 or '65 had been forth coming in '6l and '62, might not English men and women have been spared much suffering and Eng lish trade some loss ? It is worth noticing that the greater part of the cotton exported from Calcutta was grown in Northern and Central India, and brought down by the Ganges or by rail. The time thus gained is of importance, but still more advantageous is the improved mode of transit, which spares the cotton much damage on the journey. When the systems of railway and water commu nication is fully developed merchants and culti vators will alike profit by the change. The tea Plantations are also rapidly increasing in importance, and the total value of the trade of India, not many years since reckoned as one of our most hopeless and unprofitable possessions, is now estimated at one hundred millions sterling. Truly a lesson to political pessimists not to despair of the fortunes of a great country. And we must remember that even now only a thirty-third part of all Madras is under cultivation. Such is the statement of the Madras Board of Revenue, which reckons 2k millions of square acres under the plough, and leaves the rest of the 84 millions to be accounted for, we presume, by the right hon. baronet at the head of the India Office. Yet of this small amount more than one fourth has been added within the last year. Let us hope that this is an augury of a little more rapid progress in the art of cultivation for the future. The heavy rains have been more violent than usual, and their season has been marked by unwonted de• struction, and, still worse, by the progress of the cholera in some districts. Sanitary officers are dila tory, and, unfortunately, epidemics will not always wait their leisure. Military promptness is better fitted to deal with such an adversary, and the plain and sensible rules issued long ago by the Com mander-in-Chief have probably been productive of much good in checking disease. It must be a great satisfaction, no doubt, to those who fall victims to defective arrangements this year to know that next season many reforms will be in progress. Still, " Better late than never" is the motto; and the re organisation of barracks, the appointment of officers of health, and the bill giving despotic sanitary powers to magistrates, 'will go far to remedy that serious evil of excessive and pre ventible mortality which we are now compelled to deplore. The general peace and prosperity of our Indian dominions gives us leisure to improve and consolidate our internal administration. Let our statesmen look to it that they seize the oppor tunity and do all that lies in their power to atone for past neglect. REPRESENTATION OF BARNSTAPLE.—PoIiticaI feeling is strong in this borough, but no candidate had come forward, or public manifestation been made, up to Monday, out of respect to the memory of the late member, whose funeral took place in London on that day. The names of several gentlemen have been named as candidates, but the most popular individual likely to come forward is Mr. Richard Bremridge, of Nowport (Conservative). The Liberals have, however, resolved on producing another candidate. LUNATIC ASYLUM SECRETs.—Every art has its secrets; the attendants in such madhouses as this have been for years possessed of one they are too modest to reveal to justices, commissioners, or the public; the art of breaking a man's ribs, or breastbone, or both, without bruising him externally. The convicts at Toulon arrive at a similar result by another branch of the art: they stuff the skin of a conger eel with powdered stone; they give the obnoxious person a sly crack with it ; and a rib or back bone is broken with no contusion to mark the ex ternal violence used. But Mr. Cooper and his fellows do their work with the knee-joint; it is round, and leaves no bruise. They subdue the patient by walking up and down him on their knees. If they don't jump on him, as well as promenade him, the man's spirit is often the only thing broken; if they do, the man is apt to be broken bodily as well as mentally. Thus died Mr. Sizer in 1854, and two others quite recently. And how many more God only knows ; we can't count the stones at the bottom of a well. —.Dickens's "All the Year Round," the new number pub lished to-day. GARIBALDI is reported to be very closely watched by the Italian Government, now that he is nearly restored to health. The next shot, it has been sardonicallyremarlied, will doabtlefe be ordered to be aimed higher. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] AMERICA. (Per the Nova Scotian.) NEW YORK, SEPT. 19 (Evening). Intelligence received from Charleston to the 16th inst. announce that General Gilmore is mounting heavy guns at Port Wagner and Cumming's Point to bombard Charleston. CNMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Unfavourable rumours concerning the position of General Rosecranz' army have caused a rise in gold and exchange, which are now quoted, gold at 35 per cent. premium, and exchange on London, 1481. Money easy. Stocks steady. New York Centrals, 1381 ; Illinois, 124; Erie, 1071. THE POLISH INSURRECTION. BRESLAU, SEPT. 29. Fresh well-aimed detachments of insurgents have appeared in the environs of Tarczyn, four leagues from Warsaw. The day before yesterday the commander of the Russian troops in the palatinate of Kalisch held a council with seNeral superior officers of the Prus sian army, relative to the measures to be taken to paralyse the movements of the insurgents. INDIA AND CHINA. SUEZ, SEPT. 28. The Messageries Imperialea steamer Imperatrice arrived here to-day with India and China mails, 64 passengers, and 1,746 bales of silk. The Peluso is expected at Marseilles on the 6th October. FRANCE. PARIS, SEPT. 29. The Moniteur of this morning publishes details respecting the favourable impression produced on the Japanese by the chastisement inflicted by Admiral Juares on the Japanese forts from which the Europeans were fired upon. The Tycoon has sent the model of a flag which belonged to him, with an intimation that his Go vernment recognised the right to foreigners to seize any vessel which shall not hoist this flag. BOURSE, Sept. 28.—The market has been mote buoyant, and a fair amount of business done, at an a dvance—Threes, for the Account, being now at 67f. 90c. The Railway Share Market firm. The market closed as follows : It per Centa. ...... 95 50 Italian Loan 74 Do. end month.... Do. end month — 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 67 95 Do. end month.... Credit M0bi1ier....1213 75 Russian Do. end m0nth....1215 Austrian Bank Shar es ..... 3395 Spanish Threes 52 60 Credit k oneier ....1300 Rome Debt to the eye may nevertheless be rendered perceptible by I the use of very delicate instruments, and which, though quite insignificant as far as regards the daily operations of commerce and even the ordinary pursuits of science, may become considerable by being multiplied, and may conse quently have a sensible influence on geodetical and astro nomical inquiries."—(Page 29-30.) " The inference from all the preceding facts and consi derations is, that neither the metre, nor any other linear measure which may be substituted in place of the metre, can with our present means of information be assumed with certainty, and to the exclusion of all other quantities, as the exact 10,000,000 th part of the quadrant of a meridian, supposed to be measured from the North Pole to the Equator. All such quantities must be taken as approxima tions, the same latitude being used in regard to them, as in all ordinary oases of linear measurement; for it is to be observed that minute differences must exist in all attempts to compare the lengths of different objects. Euclid's axiom," Things which are equal to the same are equal to one another," is strictly true only of mathematical lines and other imaginary quantities. In practice it is sufficient, if the inequality is not obvious to the naked eye, and does not go beyond reasonable limits. All parties can only make it their honest aim to arrive at perfect exactness, but will not pretend to have attained it, such a pretension being a proof of nothing but their own ignorance."—(Page 37.) I also attach importance to the remark in the same pan'phlet (page 40 and 26 note), " that in case the rectifi cation of the metre should be rendered expedient by the progress of discovery, the founders of the Metric System themselves provided a remedy, not by altering the metre itself, but by a change of the regulation, which fixes its standard temperature. This temperature is now fixed at Zero of the centigrade scale, which is the temperature of melting ice. The consequence is that ha daily use the rectification takes place without any legislation at all. The warmth of the hand, the heat of the atmosphere, or the superior tempera ture of most foreign countries will of themselves prolong the metre so as to meet the objections of those who deny its accuracy. It is only in rigorously scientific calculations that the incorrectness of the metre, even supposing it to be proved, can be of the slightest importance. . . . I cannot find that this temperature is fixed by any positive law, although it was applied under the authority of the commissioners in constructing the definitive metre of 1799, and has been maintained to this day. It appears that the temperature may be altered whenever any sufficient reason for the change is made manifest, and that the metric system is in this respect self-adjusting." It should be understood that the whole difference which your author so strenuously condemns as rendering the metric system worthless, is not more than the thickness of a film of varnish at the extremity of any metre which may be in use. Let your author show us proofs of the universal adoption of this " great argument." I find it not in the speeches of Mr. Ewart and his supporters in the recent debate. I search for it in vain in the report of bis committee printed in July, 1862, by order of the House of Commons, and in the answers of all the witnesses, on whose evidence that report was based. It does not occur in the " Inaugural Address" of Sir William Armstrong, which you quote ; nor in the Report of the Council of the International Association , n February, 1858, nor in any of the tracts issued by that association. In short your author's assertion is nothing better than a dream. I now come to a part of your article, which more imme diately concerns myself, and which it is the more necessary to rebut, because its aim is not merely to destroy my own reputation for common sense and veracity, but to overturn at one stroke both the report of Mr. Ewart's Committee, and the credit of the Metric System. You produce as an opponent of the Metric System, the late Professor Play_ fair, of Edinburgh," whom Mr. James Yates, Secretary of the International Association, with a recklessness rarely surpassed, quotes as being the author of ' a most beauti fully written article,' in which he expressed a decided Wish 'that the system should be adopted in this country." The reference to my evidence before Mr. Ewart's Commit tee, query 498. I will remark, en passant, that lam not the Secretary of the International Association. That office has been held for some years by my distinguished and very able friend, Professor Levi, who would probably have answered were he not on the Continent, having been sent to Berlin as a delegate to the Statistical Congress, and h aving, moreover, informed me by letter, that the Congress has unanimously passed resolutions recommending the adoption of the Metric System, and, following in this, the example of the Congresses held at Brussels, Paris, Vienna, and London. 1 will now quote Professor Playfair's words in the review referred to, that your readers may judge for themselves whe ther I was justified in stating to Mr. Ewart's committee that the professor expressed the opinion which I have imputed to him. The article in question concludes as follows:—" We cannot finish our acconut of these scientific operations with out expressing our wish that the uniformity of measures and weights were introduced into our own, and into every other civilized country. The difficulty is not so great as we are apt to think, when we consider the matter at a dis tance ; and to effect it requires in reality nothing but for the Legislature to say it shall be done. As to the standard to be adopted, though we think the pendulum would have afforded the most c onvenient,yet when one has been actually fixed on, and determined, that circumstance must greatly outweigh every other consideration. The system adopted by the French, if not absolutely the best, is so very near it, that the difference is of no account. In one point it is very unexceptionable. It involves nothing that savours of the peculiarities of any country, insomuch as the commissioners observe that, if all the history which we have been considering were forgotten, and the results of the operations only preserved, it would be impossible to tell with what nation this system had originated. The wisest measure, therefore, for the other nations of Europe is certainly to adopt the Metrical Sys tem. . . . It would not be necessary to adopt their names, which might not assort very Ns ell with the sounds that compose the language of other nations. But the Metre, by whatever name it may be called, ought to be adopted as the unit of length, and all the other measures of linear extension derived from it by decimal multiplica tion and division." Your readers will now be prepared to find that I was justified in what I stated before Mr. Ewart's committee (Questions 499, 500), in regard to Mr. John Quincy Adams. " Mr. Yates," you observe, " did not scruple to say that Mr. Adams passes the highest eulogy, quite enthusiasti cally, on the philosophers who were employed in making the measurement and devising the system." Let us now hear Mr. Adams himself, whose book I handed to the com mittee. After a most instructive history of the labours of the French commissioners and the correspondent proceed ings of the Legislature, President Adams thus writes : " No apology will be deemed necessary by Congress for dwelling upon these details which signalised the establish ment of the new French Metrical System. The spectacle is at once so rare and so sublime, in which the genius, the science, the skill, and the power of great confederated na tions are Eeen. joining hand in hand in the spirit of fraternal equality, arriving in concert at one destined stage of improvement in the condition of human kind ; that, not to pause for a moment, were it even from occupations not essentially connected with it, to enjoy the contemplation of a scene so honourable to the character and capacities of our species, would argue a want of sensibility to appreciate its worth. This scene formed an epoch in the history of man. It was an example and an admonition to the legislators of every nation, and of all after times." (Report on Weights and Measures, p. 590 Again, "If that universal uniformity so desirable to human contemplation be au attainable perfection, it is now attain able only by the adoption of the new French system of metrology in all its important parts. Were it even possible to construct another system on different principles, but em bracing in equal degree all the great elements of unifor mity, it would still be a system of diversity with regard to France and all the followers of her system. And as she could not be expected to abandon that, which she has established at so much expense, and with so much difficulty, for another possessing, if equal, not greater advantages, there would still be two rival systems, with more desperate chances for the triumph of uniformity. . . This system approaches to the ideal perfection of uniformity applied to weights and mea sures, and, whether destined to succeed or doomed to fail, will shed unfadiug glory upon the age in which it was con ceived, and upon the nation by which its execution was attempted and has been in part achieved. In the progress of its establishment there, it has been often brought into conflict with the laws of physical and moral nature with the impenetrability of matter, and with the habits, passions, prejudices, and necessities of man. It has undergone various important modifications. It ,must, undoubtedly, still submit to others before it can look for universal adoption. But, if man upon earth be an improvable being, if that universal peace, which was the object of a Saviour's mission, which is the desire of the philosopher, the longing of the philanthropist, the trembling hope of the Christian, is a blessing, to which the futurity of mortal man has a claim of more than mortal promise ; . . . then. this system of common instruments to accomplish all the changes of social and friendly commerce will furnish the links of sympathy between the inhabitants of the most dis tant regions; the metre will surround the globe in use as well as in multiplied extension ; and one language of weights and measures will be spoken from the Equator to the Poles." (P.p. 47, 43.) I roust be excused from following your author through the sequel of his essay, more especially since his remaining assertions are rather expressions of opinion than state ments of facts. The best judges may differ in regard to the "balance of scientific evidence," the convenience of the Metric System, the advantage of uniformity, the preference due to a binary scale, and "the sublime audacity," the " breach of good faith," &c., implied in the introduction of a bill such as Mr. Ewart's. Also, the question respecting the sale of grain and wine is too intricate to pursue into its details in a letter, which may, even as it is, try the patience of your readers. I will conclude by observing that I make it a general rule not to answer anonymous assailants. In the present instance I have deviated from my ordinary practice, not thinking I was under the slightest obligation to reply, but in compliance with the suggestion of a friend. 'JAMES YATES, Lauderdale House, Highgate, Sept, 18, 1863, LITERATURE. Stevens' Grade Lesson Books. Fifth Standard. Pp. 220. Longman and CJ. Already we have noticed the four prec?ding volumes of this really admirable series of " Lesson Books," a series especially adapted to meet the requirements of the Revised Code. The " Fifth Standard," here added to the set, brings out yet more clearly to view Use excellence of the system upon which the compilation has been made. Another, the Sixth, Standard alone remains to be published, and the series will then stand completely before the public. As far as it goes even now, it is already in one sense complete—complete that is up to the point at which the course of tuition h as , a t the close of these 220 pages, arrived. Throughout, with the most scrupulous care, the brother editors ' of the series, that is to say, Mr. Stevens, of King's College, and Mr. Hole, the head master of the Loughborough Collegiate School over at Brixton, have attended to the several requirements of the Revised Code. While doing this, they have notified to all such Teachers as may use these Grade Lesson Books with due attention to the official requirements alluded to, that the reading lesons are intended to be car ried out as here given, namely, consecutively. That the selected words, with their respective sig nifications attached, are designed to be learnt by the pupil before beginning the lesson in which they occur, and to which they are prefixed. And—among other similarly useful little items of advice— that the exercises in Reduction here given are placed after those in Addition and Subtraction advisedly. Even Tommy Merton, when first he went, as a small high-bred dunce, to good Mr. Barlow's parsonage, there to learn, or not to learn, exactly as he pleased, in companion ship with honest Farmer Sandford's son Harry —even little Tommy Merton might with the aid of these Grade Lesson Books have astonished Mr. Barlow in half the time required thus to astonish him, by unexpectedly evidencing his (Tommy's) suddenly acquired proficiency as a reader. And many of the lessons here grouped together for the boy student are to the full as in teresting as—while they are, beyond a doubt of it (as thus given), far more rapidly instructive than —the charming series of tales scattered through the history of "Sandford and Merton," by Thomas Day. Anyone, without looking into the book under notice, may understand that it is actually thus, as we say —upon our enumeration of some among the various reading lessons here collected together. Instance this, Eliza Cook's " Bruce and the Spider,"Deniel Defoe's " Robinson Orusoe Saving Friday," Professor Longfellow's " Village Blacksmith," Charles Dickens's "Little Dombey's Deathbed," William Longman's " Dinner at an Old Manor House," Da Chaillu's " Infant Gorilla," Oliver Goldsmith's " Moses at the Fair," and other admirably well selected fragments from a very wide range of sterling and popular litexatare. The Arts of Writing, Beading, and Speaking, in Letters to a Law Student. By Edward W. Cox, Recorder of Falmouth. One vol., pp. 328. Crock- ford. These very excellent letters of practical advice are republished from the Law Times. They were commenced, Mr. Cox tells us, with the purpose only of imparting to law students some hints on the art of speaking, which had been suggested to the writer by experience and observation. Becoming impressed with the conviction that to speak well it is necessary to be able to write well and read well, the learned author has enlarged his original design by the addition of instructions in the arts of writ ing and reading. By so doing he has greatly in creased the value of his book, and he has also ren dered it generally useful as a manual of practical information for others besides the Barrister and the Member of Parliament. Mr. Cox's instructions are remarkable for their sound common sense; for example, how earnestly truthful are the following remarks on— RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1027 150 .. 1030 Northern lOOO .. 1000 -- New ditto..... Lyons and Mediterranean 1025 .. 1027 50 Geneva 740 .. 737 50 Western 511 25 .. 612 50 Sardinian...... . . Austrian Lombard North of Sp a i n Eastern Saragossa . , Ditto to Barcelona 415 - .. 415 - 565 - 570 - 530 - 541 25 655 - 660 - 357 50 .. 36) - The Metric System of Weights and Measures TO THE EDITOR. OP THE SUN. SlR,—The article against the Metric System in the limes of July 9, signed 8., has been already answered by Mr. Charles Hutton Dowling, C.E., in the London Review of August 1, and by Mr. Frank Fellows, of Wolverhampton, in the Daily News of Sept. 7, his answer having been first sent to the Times, but refused admittance. A. much longer essay in the same strain has ju3t appeared in the Times of Tuesday, Sept. 15, and of yesterday, and to this I now wish to reply, In the first part (Times, Tuesday, Sept. 15), there is only one passage which seems to require notice from me. All the observations in regard to the thermometer, the dimensions of the great pyramid, and th e measurement of degrees, though tolerably correct, ha ve nothing to do with the question of the proprie t y of legaii s . pinegsed. the Metric System in England in the manner now pro- But Mr. Cobden will pardon me if I step aside front th e pursuit of my more direct object to quote his words in th e House of Commons on the occasion of the recent deb a t e, anti Mr. to subjoin Cobden the sail—"version Before of them the Frenchgiven b youry essayist. Metric System was adopted, the French Government, in 1790, invited the English Government to send learned Fellows of our Royal Society to France to devise a system of weight s and mea sures for the world. We declined to interfere,". Accord ingthis writer to the representation which you have adopted, " Ill informed persons make the Royal Society responsible for not attending." Mr. Cobden and his colleagues in the Metric System agitation throw the blame upon the British Govern meatsays, "Thea nd th e let n t It was addressed to George 111., as the head of the English aertio(ne,f inAvtitathtieens)amweastivrmreiltasea.,. Go vernment, and it was so addressed because Talleyrand had been informed by Sir John Riggs Miller, a member of the House of Commons, who at that time was the most promi nent agitator on the question, that such was the only cor rect method of communicating with the English Govern ment, It may be true, as your correspondent suggests, that George 111. suppressed the letter, but it is admitted by him as an undeniable fact that the French Government, through Louis XVI. as its head, did communicate with the English Government by the only regular and legitimate ' channel. With respect to the alleged accusations against the Royal Society, I doubt whether such accusations have ever been made, and lam persuaded they were not deserved. I re gret that your essayist should bring these angry and futile charges against '° slessrs.Cobden, Ewart, and their friends" at a time when their friends are united without any narrow distinctions of party , in the pursuit of a great and good object, and when, as one of them, I have reason to acknow ledge with the highest respect and gratitude, the kind re ception given to us at one time by Mr. Disraeli as Chancel lor of the Exchequer, and on subsequent occasions by Mr. Milner Gibson, as President of the Board of Trade. The second portion of the article, which appeared yester day, commences with this se ntence---" The great argument in favour of the introduction of the Metric System here has been its extreme mathematical accuracy, and the pre sumed ease with which the Standard could be recovered and verified in case of the or iginal being destroyed." It is added, "We have been told, that instead of the quadrant of the arc of the m eridian bei ng, as the Metrie System sup poses it to be, 10,000,000 metres, it is 856 metres more ;" and it is inferred, that " this fundamental error necessarily vitiates the whole system of weights and measures, and that the kilogrammes should be augmented by 257 milli grammes.,, In all this it appears to me that your author is in error. This "great argument" is seldom, perhaps never, used. In support of this remark I may be per mitted to quote pretty largely from a pamphlet published in 1858 by the International Decimal Association as the re sult of their inquiries in regard to " the Best Unit of Length," in which the examination of this very question occapies 15 pages. " The fact appears to be, that in the process of measuring the earth, no less than in experiments with the pendulum, absolute accuracy is unattainable ; but that the metre is sufficiently accurate for all practical pur poses, at, d as truly an ascertained aliquot part of the meridional quadrant as any y other measure that has been, or can, at least under present circumstances, be proposed. The authors of the Metric System never hoped, or pre tended to arrive at, perfect exactness in the measure of the earth. They knew that no measurement whatsoever can be mathematically accurate, such accuracy being expressed only by imaginary, not real lines. Their endeavour was, by the use of the best instruments, by repeating their ob servations, by taking every precaution for the avoidance of error, and by making all the corrections, which were proved to be important, to come as near as possible to a true result. No one has denied that their exertions, marked as they were by energy, perseverance, and self-sacrifice, no less than by ability of the highest order, have entitled them to the admiration and gratitude of all enlightened men. Since the completion of their labour, the measurement of meri dional arcs has been undertaken by other parties, and, of necessity, with a slight difference in the results. The improvements suggested by experience and by the advance of science have been carefully introduced, In former instances, prior to Mechain and Delambre's measurement, an angle was thought to be sufficiently defined by a church tower, or a pile of stones ; more recently a mirror, or a pain • ted circle of wood, has been fixed on the summit of the previous object, and, if large enough to be distinguished at the assigned distance, it has admitted of greater nicety in the observations. On such grounds philosophers are natu rally disposed to prefer the more modern conclusions, and the consequence is, that if the metre were now to be deter mined, it would probably be made larger than the established metre, by a quantity, which though not obvious send here, With the Debate of the House of Cora ine ucthag cobdowe Speech, corrected by himself, THE PERFECT ORATOR. "A perfect speaker would be almost a perfect man, so that there never was, and never will be, a perfect water. The boat does but approach the standard of ideal excellence. Such great gifts of mind and body must combine to consti tute an orator that, when I detail them, you will cease to wonder that great orators are so few. I will first sketch the mental qualifications, for these, or some of them, are abso lutely indispensable, and their presence will go far to com pensate for the absence of many physical advantages. "The foremost care of a speaker is, to have something to say; his next is, to say it; and his third is, to sit down when he has said it. Th3se may appear to you very com monplace requirements, and you will probably think that I needed not have taken the trouble to write long letters to you to tell you this. But in fact, like other golden rules, they are more easy to remember than to observe. Consult your own experience, and say how many of the speeches you have ever heard, on any occasion whatever, gave utter ance to thoughts, to ideas, to aught that painted a picture on your mind, influenced your judgment, or kindled your emotions. Were they not mere sounding brass and tink ling cymbals, sentences full of sound and fury, signifying nothing,' or words that scarcely fell at all into sentences, insomuch that, when the speaker had concluded, you could not ♦ery distinctly say what he had been talking about ? And if this sort of speaker so abounds, how much more frequent still are they who never know when they have done, and how to sit down, having said what they desired to say. How many men, who are otherwise really respect able speakers, fail in this faculty of sitting down, are con tinually coming to a close and then beginning again, and when you mentally exclaim, He is certainly going to finish now,' start off on a new topic, or repeat the thrice-told tale, and take a new lease of your ears, to the severe trial of your patience." Again, in the chapters on " The Oratory of the Bar," we find the following very judicious advice on the best mode of— "WINNING OVER A JULY, "Light, lively, pleasant talk is the most effective. Do not speak at them or to them, but with, them. Lord Abinger used to say that his great success as an advocate was due to his making himself the thirteenth juryman. There could not be a better illustration of the manner of dealing with juries. Therefore take a little trouble at first to put yourself on good terms with your jury, not by flat tering language, but by that more effective flattery which is shown, not said. It you meet a man in the street, and want to convince or to persuade him, how do you proceed ? You take him by the button, you appeal to his intelligence, you explain the matter to him in the most familiar terms and with the most homely illustrations, and you do not let him go till you have made him understand you. Twelve jurymen are only a multiplication of such cases, to be treated in the same manner. " Good temper goes a great way towards conciliating a jury. Command yourself; win with smiles; frowns repel them. Exhibit unflinching confidence in your cause, for any distrust betrayed by you is instantly imparted to them. If the subject is dry, enliven it with some timely jest, and the duller the theme the smaller the joke that suffices to re lieve its dullness. "It is often asked, how far jesting is permissible at the bar. It is not in good taste, perhaps, but I must admit that it is very effective. When the most grave work is being done, men feel the strongest tendency to laugh. It is wonderful what slight and sorry jests will provoke shouts of laughter in a court of justice. I will not now consider the cause of this, though the philosophy of humour accounts for it. The fact suffices, that when surrounded by solemnity we are most easily tickled to laughter. The advocate who can summon smiles to the lips of his audience will com mand their ears more certainly than ho who can only call tears into their eyee, and both will achieve an easy triumph over the speaker who can do neither, let him bo ever so ac complished in other respects." " The Oratory of the Palpit," "'The Oratory of the Senate," and "The Oratory of the Platform," are the subjects of separate study and consideration ; the preliminary chapters being devoted to general advice on composition and reading, as well as the ma nagement of the voice, &c. &c. Mr. Cox has not for gotten the most minute details in these instructions, in order to facilitate the practical education of the student ; and many speakers who are above being called Students would learn much from a thought ful perusal of these pages, whereby they might benefit not themselves only, but those destined to listen to their orations. THE DUKE DE GRAMONT-CADEROU SSE is about, says the Court Journal, to take unto himself a wife, in the person of a native of one of the French colonies, who is young, pretty, and exceedingly wealthy. It was the duke, it will be remembered, who killed, in a duel, poor Dillon, the sporting journalist ; who figured prominently in that famous scene in which Calzado, the director of the Italian theatre, was detected cheat , ng at cards—who has been the hero of adventures innumerable; and, for some years past, has been the " fastest" of all young men of rank in the fast world of Paris. His retirement into domestic felicity will leave a great void in the " life" of this gay capital; but, doubtless, there may be many aspirants to the throne he al2licates, s- ' l4 O - /rmliat (Trutt The Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia. Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia were to leave Potsdam last night on their way to England. On their arrival in this country their royal highnesses will proceed direct to Scotland, on a visit to her Ma jesty at Balmoral. Their royal highnesses, who will remain in Eng. land for some time, will be accompanied by their children. Accouchement of the Queen of Portugal. Her Majesty the Queen of Portugal gave birth to a prince yesterday at 1.35 p.m. By the last tele gram received her Majesty and infant were pro" gressing favourably. The event was announced by a salute of 101 guns from the castle. The news of the happy event was transmitted to the Queen and the royal family at Balmoral soon after the intelligence reached London from Lisbon. Towards :the latter end of October her Majesty will return from Scotland and remain at Windsor Ca.stlo a short time, and then proceed to Osborne. the Queen will return to Windsor Castle previous to the 13th of December , where it is expected her Majesty will remain to spend the Christmas, at which time the festivities of the season will be resumed.—Court Journal. His Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon, with a numerous suite, has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel. The Duke of Somerset arrived at his official resi dence at the Admiralty yesterday evening, from Maiden Bradley, Wilts. The Duke of Leinster has left town for Worksop Manor, Notts, on a visit to Lord and Lady Foley. The Marquis of Bristol and the Ladies Hervey have arrived at Ickworth Park, near Bury St. Edmunds, from a tour in Germany. The Marquis and Marchioness of Bath have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, at Gedling Lodge, Notts. The Countess (Dowager) of Tankerville has arrived in town from a tour of visits in Scotland. The Countess (Dowager) of Westmoreland and Lady Rose Fane have arrived in town from Scotland. The Earl of Chesterfield left town yesterday afternoon for Newmarket. The Earl Brownlow and Lady Marian Alford , who are at present at Ashbridge Park, Herts, are not ex pected to leave for Madeira until on or about the 7th of November. Lord and Lady Wen lock have returned to Escrick Park, Yorkshire, from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland at Alnwick Castle, Northuur* berland. Lord and Lady Raglan have arrived in town from the Earl Beauchamp's seat in Worcestershire, for the season. Baroness de Clifford has arrived at Thomab'S Hotel, Berkeley-square, from the Continent. Colonel Sowerby has arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Putteridge, Bury, Beds. CARDINAL WISEMAN.—We regret to state that Cardinal Wiseman has been unable to leave his' bed since Wednesday last. As soon as ho can be moved it will be necessary for him to leave town for a change of air. ALEX. DUMAS has another novel in hand, Which will shortly appear in the Prase. The subject is borrowed from the bloodiest periods of Neapolitan history. Yet it will be called by the name of a saint—" La San Felice." THE BRITISH ARCHEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION will hold their 20th annual meeting at Leeds, during the week from the 12th to the 19th of October, Lord Houghton (Monckton Milnes) is the President. A LITERARY THIEF has carried off from the Ambrosian Library at Milan the whole of the autograph correspondence of the Medici with the Dukes of Milan, from 1496 to 1510. This treasure was stolen from the study of Dr. Gatti, the conservator. " VON BOCKIIM-DOLFFS's ITAT " 53 the title ap plied to the newest-shaped cylinders now to be seen in the shop windows of the Berlin hatters. ENGLISH AUTHORSHIP IN GERMANY.—Amongst other translations from English into German which are to he in readiness for the approaching Leipzig Fair, are Charles Lever's "Davenport Dunn," Miss Yonge's " Hopes an .d Fears, or Scenes from the Lifo of an Old Maid," and three volumes of Mr. Spurgeon's Sermons. MORE LITERARY PIRAC Y.—The Baron Tauchnit Z has just added to his Collection of British Authors " Eleanor's Victory," by Miss Braddon, two vols. DR. ALEXANDER HENDERSON, author of ttia " History of Ancient and Modern Wines," published in quarto in 1824, and of several other works, died at Caskie - ben, Aberdeenshire, on Wednesday last, aged 83. ALDGATE WARD.—Mr. ex-Sheriff Lusk will, it is understood, become a candidate for the vacant aldermanic gown of this ward, in the room of the 15.te Alderman Humphery. Mr. Lusk has been a member of the Court of Common Council for a considerable period and a resident in the ward for many years—there is, therefore, every prospect of his attainment of the honourable and novf much coveted appointment. MR. MASON.—The announcement which has appeared in some of our contemporaries of the arrival in Paris of Mr. Mason, the diplomatic re presentative of the Southern States, is premature. Mr. Mason is still in London, and, according to present arrangements, cannot leave for France before Thuo" day next. In all probability arrangements will per mit him to leave on that day; but, till then, his friends will continue to communicate with him in Upper Seymour' street. THE ITALIAN ARMY is at present distributed as follows :-9 battalions at Geneva, 6 at Turin, 9 at Alessan dria, 12 in Tuscany, and 120 distributed in the valley of xhe Po from Ancona to Milan, supported by 60 squadrons of cavalry, and 250 pieces of artillery ; at Naples, 18 batta lions of the lines, 2of Marines, and 6 of Bersaglieri, with 32 squadrons of cavalry; in all, 82 battalions of infantry, in addition to 5 regiments of Carabineors, and detachmont s of the Gard Modili. There are also 22 battalions in Sicily. SIIAKSPERE'S FOREST OF ARDEN.—T he English, above all other people, are addicted to annual flit" tinge ; but we are almost the only people, says the 4t4he noum, affiliated to the tribe of Gad, who are given to visit repeatedly well-known localities abroad, instead of espy or ing the historical shrines, the woodland scenery, and ,the natural beauties which abound at home. London itself, within a morning's ride by train, is girdled by scenes of delight and storied mansions, the proprietors of which generously throw them open to the public, who know nothing of them. There are people who could thread the Black Forest, and yet are ignorant of the whereabouts of the Forest of Arden. Thanks to Mr. Hannett, that plea sant place is now laid open to them—in his recen.tly published "Topographical and Historical Account of the District between and around Henley in Arden, and HeareP tan, in the County of Warwick." Accompanying h .im, they may exclaim, with some sense of rejoicing, " Hell) WO are in Arden 1" though no one will have reason to ad d," -- " The more fool II When I was at home I was a better placo." We know no class of holiday makers to whom this exquisite district does not offer attractions. A- 5 up at Bettws y Coed, where the various visitants are divided into the " Turpentines," the "Paper Stainers," the " Water Whippers," and the " Wanderers," so in Arden the painters in oil colours may find the effects they most long for; and the water colour artist, ladies as well as gen.* Omen. may pitch their tents, and find picture wealth be fore them ; and anglers need never throw fly in vain, n er the tourists have once occasion to say, after an eight d.ays' exploration, from Henley to hlmdon, that "all is barre n.'' As for the young ladies, to whom I3ettwa y Coed is dear for various good causes, we can tell them that there are g r een lanes and wooded dells, and convenient brook aides in Arden, where honest love may be as fairly dealt in as u p at the old Welsh station whose name signifies "the Cht.y,el in the Wood." The Forest of Arden is close to some of our manufacturing districts, but it has preserved its old :coati s features. The forest is not there, any more than you could now find one in the Forest of Soignies ; but there are n oble mansions, quaint and stout old merited houses, dense en d shady woods, abundance of rich hedgerow timber, every' where save in the mid portion of this Warwickshire dis trict; spreading prospects, sweeping undulations, beg,utiful valleys, mossy lanes, secluded by-ways, purling b rooks , winding streams, and a hearty and healthy folk to bid the traveller welcome. And there is good fare in Arden 1, too ; albeit Warwickshire ale is not known by its old sign ificant names of "Mad Dog," " Angel's Food,r "Dragon's .Milk," or " Merl y•go-down." And there are fine old traditions to talk of over your Warwickshire cups. DIE MYSTERIOUS MAIL-BAG ROBBERY AT HULL.—On Saturday morning the missing cti eq a u6a were received received at the Beverley branch of the York shire letter ing Company (their destination when posted in the at South Cave). The envelope in which they have e been earn posted bears the Hull post mark, and it ther eto l e cmi p ears probable that the person (Mrs. Cooke) now in posted them at Hull prior to her attempt t o get the £2B 4s. cheque cashed at the Hull branch of the above company. We are not aware that any one else has y et been taken int o custody on the charge of stealing the ma il bag' but investi gations are being made by the Post •office and police autho rities which will probably lead t o the apprehe nsion of another party. It is said that the w oman accounts for her possession of the cheques by stating that she came front and that some ohe Ilessel to Hull on Thursday evening, in the same train gave her thera.—.Leeds Mercury, A alig Ind All mm►d Fra real 143 lal fac Co: rail Frl3 I ncii Ban Con, Indi Exc. Aas Bra: ue . Chil Dan Dtiii _Egv DI Equ (ire( Di Di Itali Meg Di Moo New Di Di Di Pun: Di Di Port Di Di Di Rusi Di Di Bard Di span Dii Di Span Bel g i Date] pit r en , Italia ones fit