The Sun. — London, England, 1864-02-20 00:00:00

BONNET'S SILKS eiLYON.—Every Article of commerce tal;Ps its title either from the inventor or 'manufacturer. and the more perfect the production the grater is the credit which attaches to the originator. BONNET'S SILKS are said to be incapable of identifica tion in England ; but the fallacy of such an assertion is ex pos dby the very trademark of the firm, as exhibited by Messrs. JAY, of Regent-street. The following interwoven mark may be seen at the end ofeach piece :—" Manufacture de C. J. bonnet et Cie., b Lyon eta Injurieux." Wear guaranteed. it 0Y A ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under thSl an agement of Hiss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING (9th time' a new Opera, founded on Goldsm;th's Comedy, and to be called SIT 0; STOOPS TO CONQUF.R. Miss Louisa l'yne and Mr. W. Harrison. Atter which, the Burlesque Opening of the Grand National yantomime, HARLEQUIN ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Doors open at half-past Six--Cjornmence at Seven. 1111EATRE ROYAL DR U R Y - L AN E. Managers, Messrs. Edmond Falconer and N- B. Chatterton. TIM; EVENING, the Performances will commence with THE MAN OF THE WORLD. Mr. Phelps, Mr. Barrett, Dlr. G. evillc ; Misses Atkinson, R. Leclercq, and Murray. To conclude with the new Grand Christmas Comic Panto mime of SINBAD THE SAILOR ; or, The Seven Wonders of tho World. Clowns, Messrs. H. Boleno and C. Lauri ; harlequins, Messrs. J. Cormack and S. Saville ; Pantaloonsadame , Messrs. W A. Barnes and J. Mo rris ; Columbines, M Bolen° and Gunniss. Prices as usv Box Office open from 10 till 5 daily. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. BEL DEMO.zIO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated Every Evening during the Week. THIS EVENFSG, the performance will commence with a New and Origim,l Farce, entitled .THE LOST CHILD: Messrs. H. Widdicombe, Shore, Garden, F. Charles Collett, Moreland; IslisseS Percy, Pauline Leclerc/ Wood, Mrs. Lee, and Miss E. Lavetut. A 'ter which, at Eight o'clock, 13EL DEMONIO, a Love Story, in Twelir Tableaux, taken from Stendhal's "Italian Chronicle'," lge Mr. John Brougham. Principal c!tarac ter by Mr. Fechter, supported by 3lessrs. Jordan, Charles, m, E. nery , Brou , !•11 Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford, , Collett, Sims ; Elate Terry, Miss E. Lavonu, rs. Lee, and hiss Elsworthy. The Public a:7e entreated to take notice that No Charge Is i'llade to the occupants of Boxes, Box-olaces, or Stalls, either for play bills or for the safe keeping of hat- and cloaks, and t.lat the attendat ta in all parts of the house are forbidden to receive any gratu. , ties whatever. Box-office opon daily from 11 to 5. Commence at 7. HEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE LITTLE DAISY. Miss Maria Barris. To be followed ty (by desire) THE RIVALS. Bob Acres, Mr. Buckstone; S;.r Anthony Ab - Aclute, 31r. Chippendale ; Nes =rs. Howe, Britid, Rogers. Clark, Coe; Miss Angel, Miss H. Lindley, Mi's l'nowdea, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. After which. ARTHUR ; or The Days and Knights of the Round Sable. Messrs. Chippendale, Compton, Braid, Clark, Rogers, Mbury, &C. ; _Mesdames L. Keeley, Brough, Wright, Terry , Undley, Rogers, &c. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.--. Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, PAUL'S RETURN. After which, HARLEQUIN LITTLE TOM TUCKER; or The Fine Lily of Banbury Cross, and the Old Woman who Lived in a S'aoe and Had so Many Children she didn't snow what to; do. NEW TE:EATRE-110 YAL, ADELPHI.- 8010 Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. 2 Week of Miss Bateman. THIS EVENING, THE FRETTY TIORSEBREA.KER. Miss Woolgar r. J. L. Toole. to Eight, the New Drama of LEATT : Miss Bate man, supported by Messrs. Arthur Stirling, It. Phillips, Bil ington,- Stuart, Stephenson, Eburne ; Miss 11. Simms, and Mrs. Billingten To cowelude with LADY BELLE BELLE; or, Fortunio Find his Seven Magi: Men. Ai essrs. J. Clarke, iC. Phillips, Stephenson ; Miss Woolzar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss ratti ;oseils, bliss L. Laidlaw, Miss Seaman. Commence at 7. LEA H.-EVERY MISS BATEMAN. NIGHT. MISS BATEMAN.—LEAH.—Tnis EVENING, the 12! st appearance of the g,reat Tragi3 Actress, Miss BATEMAN, itt the character of L EAU. In consequence of the unbounded success with which Miss Bateman's imperso nation of the priveipal character in the new Five Act Drama of LEAH has bean attended. Mr Webster begs to announce that it will be performed EVERY EVENING until further notice. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Croxded with rank and fashion.— The New Coroledy of THE ii . SILV E R Lif , NG every Evening.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, M Stirling, Mrs. Frank Matthews , and Mr. J.. L. Toole eve' evening. The following eminent artistes are gm-age , ' :—Mr. Benjamin Webster. Mr. .1. L. T0,,1e, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Frederic Robinson. Mr. Ashley, and Mr. Chas. Mathews ; Mrs. Stirling, Miss Herbert, Mrs. Frank Mat thews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Went worth, and Mrs. Charles Mat:sews. THIS KVENING, and during the Week, at 7 o'c'ock, an entirely new Comedy, in R Acts, by Leicest , r Iluckin. ham,'.Esq., entitled THE SILVER LINT •I i : Mr. Coarles Mathew.. Mr. Frederic Robinson, Mr. Ashley. Mr, John s•ons. Mr. .lorit - r',:rll , ; 349 ( ha-les Mrttliew3, Mrs. Frank Matthews, 31 ss Cottrell, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirliih.f. To he followed by Mr. Charles ,i - iltliews just translated irorn th. French) in his characteristic character ot Un Anglais Timicir, entitled COOL AS A CUCUMBEIZ. To conclude with 1851; or. TETE SENSATIONS OF TIP; PAST SEASON: Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. A. Cottrell, and Miss Fanny Josephs. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Illane.zer, Mr. W. IT. Swanborough. TEAS EVENTNG, ON AND OFF. To be by TINI,T3IITEO CONFIDENCE. Mr. elford, Mr. P.:;:selle ; Miss Mario Wilton, Miss Thorne. Atter which. the Grand Christmas Burlesque, Ottl'llEll3 ELTRYoICE : Messrs. honey, Wood, .James Fenton, Wei:dames Swanborough, Marie Wilton, ITughes, Concluding with MARGATE SANDS. Commence at 7. GRACE EGF,RTON (Mrs, GPorge Case), at. the I'OLYGR. BALL, King William street (her Tlt 1 R 1) SEASON in London), EVERY EVENING, at Eight (except Saturday). Saturday 14Ieift' tings at Three. Stalls 3a. ;Inreserved seats, 2s. ; area, Is. Will contitue postirely for a month only. ;11FIF.IF. RD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing . the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, Dan be had Every Evenimr, of G. ft GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, llple-park. C BLS.—The S.—The LILLESHAL L COMPANY S COAL. Direct from their own Collieries. 11 1arqui5'....... 2 65. per tan. I Double 21s. per Lou. Top 255. „ Nut 5........ l9s. i„ Deep 225. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De 'Pots. Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W. Best Core Terms cash. • JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS De.Y.—Morning, h. m.—Afternoon, 12a. 30m. To-xoßaow.-Morning, 12'a. 55m.—Afternoon. lh. 19m. The Weather—Sun Office, Feb. 20, 1864. THERMOMETER.. This day At Two o'clock 3O Barometer-29.93. Wind—N.E.; fresh breeze, and fine. w r , Suit LONDON, SATURDAY, FEB. 20, 1864. A question of very great interest and im portance was opened to discussion on IVednesday evening by the motion of Mr. BERNARD. The relief of the poor has always been a difficult subject. That it is the duty of the State to support its poorer members, to succour the infirm, to provide for the aged, and to supply the wants of the utterly desti tute, has been unhesitatingly admitted on all sides; but the manner of doing so has been less univer sally apparent. As it is, many and grievous defi ciencies are daily felt in our existing social arrange raentr, and the public are beginning to look round t.etta for a4eteedy. Town and country alike have their vievarccs—in the one the unjust and oppres -5,v0 inequality of rates is especially felt, while in the other tho effects of the law of settlement an , constantl:r e. -- )m . piained of. Mr. BERNAItD . S motion more particularly Referred to the agricultural dis tricts. lie asked leave to introduce a bill provid ing for the more equitable distributi 311 of the charge on lan d e d property for the relief of tae sick and d est it u te, Rind although such a measure might cer tainly deal with a very comprehensive range of topics, its principle object was to secure the substi tution of a union fa a county rate. After some discassion, 'a which the President of the Poor Law Board took a prominent part, promising his sup port to the measure, the bill was withdrawn, Mr. BERNARD expressing himself satisfied that it would be better to leave it in abeyance until another ses- El°n. SD far, then, the matter remains where it was. But two questions tress upon our notice. The first whether the really destitute 1r032 whatever cause are properly cared for, C.r.4 the se c o nd, wlA.ther the burden of supporting them is fairly divided among the different members of the community ? Neither of these queries can be very satisfactorily answered. Cases are constantly coming under our notice in which, from some cause or another, poor persons suffer the extremes of want and hunger, and juries have to return the melan choly verdict, "Died from want of the necessaries of life." No one can attribute wilful neglect or in tentional cruelty to the officials of our parishes, but tco often in poor and densely peopled localities the natural desire to keep down the rates which press so heavily on the ratepayers produces a reluctance to attend to the needs of the extreme poor, and an anxiety to discourage pauperism which sometimes bears startling fruit. The inequalities and injustice of the present system of rating are so manifest that it is only surprising they should have survived to the present day. It stands to reason that in a dis trict like Spitaifields or Bethnal-green, where the largest number of poor congregate, the householders are very unlikely to be able to pay heavy rates with anything like ease. Very probably a great many of them with difficulty keep off the rates themselves. Small shopkeepers, occupiers of tene ments with four rooms, or little lodging-house keepers, are not likely to be very willing to sub scribe for the relief of the destitute on a larger scale than the rich merchant of the City or the mar quis in Park-lane or Grosvenor-equare. Why are some parishes:rated:at:two or three shillings in the pound, whereas in others a poor rate is almost a thing unknown ? Which class can best afford to contribute to the relief of the necessitous—the in habitants of St. George's Hanover-square or those of Bethnal Green? The intelligent foreigner so often referred to as the referee on matters of social philosophy, might naturally consider that the latter was the wealthiest of the two. A great deal is said about the equality of our laws, and the fairness of our system of government, but we expect the true explanation of such a glaring absurdity is •to be found in a remark made by Mr. VILLIERS the other evening. "It was difficult," said the right hon. gentleman, "to induce parishes that were exempt, or but slightly rated, to support the principal of equal contribu tion, based on the value of all the property rated; and the resistance, on account of this interest had always been extremely influential." Naturally so, because it is the wealthy parishes who oppose the reform, and the injustice of the present method, and the hardships of the poor weigh but little i❑ comparison. The true cure is to be found in a national rate. The poor of the country are a national burden which every man should assist in bearing according to his ability. There is no rea son because a man lives in one street, instead of another, that he should give six times as much towards the relief of persons who have no real claim on his aid, save that of common humanity which appeals to all parishes alike. A national rate would cure many evils. It would avoid the mani fest injustice of the burden as now distributed an through the country. Witness the high rate of Liverpool, and the ingenious arrangement by which some country landowners contrive to keep the very men employed on their farms off their estates. It would take away that anxious desire on the part of the officials of heavily rated parishes to discourage the poor from applying for help—an anxiety which has no effect on the hardened and worthless, but which makes the decent and indus trious poor struggle on through almost any privations rather than go to " the House." It would relieve poor ratepayers of a heavy burden, and in cases of a national calamity like the distress in Lancashire end Cheshire, the weight would fall on all alike. No one could fail to bo touched during the worst time of the trouble by the accounts of thJ ratepayers who were themselves reduced to the greatest straits, yet fighting on till overpowered by the burden of the constantly increasing rates. Had there been a national rate a good many might have been kept from pauperism. A line once overstepped is hard to retrace. Such a rate would remove the inducement to keep labourers off the land, and con sequently have an influence in promoting the build ing and improving of cottages. What says Mr. VenniEns, who, as one of the original inquirers in 1833, and the present head of the Poor Law Board, should be able to give a sound opinion ? " The effect of the parochial system has been to exempt some parishes entirely, and to cause in others every kind of inequality and injustice besides in the dis tribution of the burden." With such a confession from our Poor Law President, with deaths from starvation continually recorded in our columns, with the dwellings of our agricultural labourers in a state that is a national disgrace, and with strug gling tradesmen of the lower class heavily taxed for a common burden which the rich man may not pay for at all, it is certainly time that something was done in the matter of our parish rating. Sir G. GREY's motion for leave to bring in a Bill for amending the Penal Servitude Acts, afforded occasion for some debate on the sub ject. It proves that the question still en gages the attention of the House, as it has long engrossed the thoughts of the public. Amid the discussion some very conflicting statements were made, but on the whole Sir G. GREY'S Bill appeared to receive general approbation. It is certainly, as Lord NAAS stated it, a step in the right direction, and it is to be hoped that having once entered into the spirit of the task, the autho rities will proceed, and that whatever be the poli tical creed of those who occupy the Treasury benches, the importance of this subject of penal servitude will be duly considered, and the question studied with reference to its bearing on the inte rests of society. There is one point in which many will concur with Lord NAAS ) and that is relating to Western Australia. With all due deference to Sir G. GREY—who is doubtless animated with the best intentions, and thinks he sees valid grounds for his resolve—it is to be regretted that the right hon. baronet has come to the determination not to carry cut the plan of sending convicts to Western Aus tralia. This is a mistaken concession, and one that furnishes a bad precedent, while at the same time it will occasion great disappointment to the colo nists, who sought for the convict labour, and work incalculable mischief to the unhappy subjects of discussion. In the first place, to take the question upon the broad principle of justice, what right , have those who are so far away from the place in dispute 1-o set rp a claim or put forward a demand to judge of the propriety or non-propriety of such a proceeding? C:nsistency is highly necessary, and for the inhabitants of one place to dic tate to those of another as to what class of workers they shall employ, is simply absurd. The fact is, that prejudice has a great deal to do with this vehement opposition, and in some cases un founded alarm, produe-..d by the exaggerated repre sentations of those whose object it is to sound au alarm, or create a panic, until the vexed question is withdrawn, and the attempt proves futile. There is everything to hope for as regards the future of the criminal who returns to liberty on that distant soil, far away from old associates, and surrounded by a complete change. Surely, under such in fluencer, wo may venture to form a well-grouuded expectation, and to indulge in a substantial hope, that for these outcast brethren it may be said, " old things are passed away, 'tad all thin_s are Income new." Those who first started the inimical idea, and gave rise to the strenuous opposition, have much to answer for. Inasmuch, as concerns the colony itself, a great boon would have been conferred on it by the acquisition of convict labour. Many of the places which have so strongly disclaimed the notion of allowing the ingress of convicts, have themselves greatly benefitted by the very source which they would now shut out from others. It seems a great pity that these unfortunate outcasts should be con signed to certain destruction, by being sent back to all their old associations, while in a new world, as it were, fairer scenes and brighter prospects are awaiting them. If, however, it is determined to give up for the present all thoughts of this plan, it is important that a right view should be taken of the manner in which they are to bo treated at home. Lord NAAs spoke is terms of approbation of the Irish system, but it is proposed by Sir G. GREY to leave things in statu quo is this respect. It is neither one thing nor the other to carry on a system which irritates the men without conferring any substantial benefit upon soeiety ; and, above all other alterations, some very strict measures should be passed concern ing those who are convicted. It is not enough for them to complete their sentence ; they should have the full term before imposed, doubled or treb'ed, according as their offence has been comparatively great or small. It is greatly to be hoped that during the discussion on this topic some very great changes will be made relative to the manner in which the discipline is carried on within the walls of the prison. The days are happily gone by when dark doings and cruel tortures disgraced the annals of our prisons and made our gaolers a species of barbarians. We have, however, fallen into the op posite extreme, and the details that have been most unwittingly afforded relating to the management of criminals as to diet, labour, and recreation have been scandalous. It is downright in tolerable to reflect that vice should be pampered, while honest poverty struggles on unheeded, and the deserving sufferer often dies a cruel death without the commonest necessaries of life. Such a course of conduct is totally subversive of order and justice in a State, and the dictates of sense and reason are alike arrayed against it. By all means care and at tention should be bestowed upon these criminals, but they should be given no indulgences that they would not have had if they had kept in their own position and done their duty faithfully to their Creator and follow-creatures, A 9 has been ob served, this is a beginning that has been made; and . the hopes and wishes of all who have the wet. fare of the community at heart will be interested in the furtherance of the undertaking now,so auspi ciously commenced. It is high time that the atten tion of the Legislature be called to the consideration of a system into which serious errors have crept, and wherein so many abuses have taken root. r THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, ISM, THE BRITISH INSTITUTION, The Exhibition for the present season at the British Institution is, we regret to say, very consi derably below the aversge. As usual, numerous works are displayed upon the four walls ',of the noble suite of three apartments constituting the gallery. Minos drawings, both in size and merit, are hung non the screens. There is the customary diversity of landscape, animal life, histories_ scenes, genre pictures, fruit, flowers, winter, spring, summer, and autumn views, sea-pieces, and so forth; but among them all, while there are very few really good paintings, there are a great many utquestion ably bad, while the vast majority are beyond all question na - ,:tzt, indifferent. A single gem alone attracts 'the eye, scanning, no matter whether care ful!..y or cursorily, the contents of this art-casket— that eo:itary chef-d ceuvre being 68, " W.:.11-bred Sitters that never say they are Bored"—the said sitters being a ten collie and a black re triever, painted as dogs can alone be painted by Sir Edwin Leadseer. The retriever holds erces wise in his mouth one of the artist's camel-hair brushes. A pheasant and sore pigeons—as speci mens of dead game—are littered in the front part of the picture. There are, besides this, other more usual appurtenances of a studio—odds and ends introduced, it would seem, almost hap-hazard. Every detail touched with the easy, careless, mar vellous touch of the great master. The expression of the doge' countenances being the central interest of this new masterpiece of Lendseer's. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, - - The 450th concert of this society was given last evening, on which occaaion Handel's magnificent composition, "Israel in Egypt," was selected for performance. The attendance of company, in the great hall, was by uo means inferior to that which invariably assembles on every per fermance of " The Messiah," although the oratorio under notice is remarkable for the subordinate parts allotted to the soloists. In "Israel in Egypt" the great weight of the perfor mance is thrown upon the choristers, and to this circumstance must, perhaps, be attributed the comparative non-success which invariably attended its performance during the life•• time of the illustrious composer. To us of the present time it seems remarkable how the massive and splendid choruses could have been listened to without creating the utmost enthusiasm, bat certain it iE, an extraordinary change has happily taken place and for this impro vement in our musical taste, the Sacred Harmonic Society and Mr. Costa deservethe unanimous gratitude of every true lover of music in its beat and loftiest form. The soloists were Madame Rudersdorff, Madame Sainton-Dolby, Miss Banks, Mr. Santley, Mr. Patey, and Mr. Cumming. The list of instrumentalists embraced the name of nearly every performer of merit, and the unrivalled chorus of the society were on this occasion divided into two separate and distinct choirs, placed at either side of the noble organ. The opening recitative was sung by Mr. Cumming with care and intelligence, and then fol lowed the chain of remarkable double choruses that grandly demonstrate the power of sound. It will be quite unneces sary on the present occasion to do more than reiterate the praise we have invariably given this incomparable body of choristers, at the same time remarking that never have They given the Hailstone Chorus, as it is familiarly called, and the sublime composition, "The waters overwhelmed them," with greater precizion and effect. In the former the rest previous to the two concluding bars was a perfect miracle of power and discipline. It is almost needless to remark that both were unanimously encored. In the second part Madame Rudersdorff sang " Then didst blow," and the introduction to the final chorus, " Sing ye to the Lord," with the greatest purity and effect. Madame Dolby was, as ever, majestic and tender in the beautiful air "Thou shalt bring them in,' and Mr. Cumming highly distin guished himself in the tenor war song. The duet. " The Lord is a man of war," was sung 1 y Mr. Santley nod Mr. Patey, and of coarse elicited the usual encore. " Judas Maccabeus" is to be the nest oratorio performed. Miss Grace Egerton's Entertainment. .-----..-,D. ___-.- Mies Grace Egerton's (Mrs. Goorge Case) entertainment at the Polygraphic Hall, King William-street, will be found wcll deserving of patronage. The present ido.► is to limit its duration to one month ; but if real merit is consi dered, it ought to become one of the permanent entertain ments of the metropolis. The abilities of Miss Egerton as a public entertainer are remarkable,. and her assumption of the different characters of which her pretty entertainment is made up, will bear comparison with any hitherto seen in London. Mr. Case agreeably gives a variation to the even ing's amusements, by some very cleverly executed solos on the violin and concertina ; and to those wishing amuse ment for a coupe of hours, we cordially rec , mmend a visit to the Polygraphic ail!. THE RUBENS OF FEANCi.:.—On Tcesday last the numerous works of the late EuOue D,:lacroix, were exhi bited in the Rua D:uot. There seems no style watch M. Delacroix has not attempted and adorned—mythological pictures, such as " Aclasan Chang-Al into a Stag ;" his'o deal works—for instance, " Louis IX. on the Bridge of Taillebourg;" religious insirations, as " Christ iu the Garden of Gethsemane ;" pictures from Byron and GOethe; and finally compositions of fruit and flowers. The works offered for sale will fetch great prices, for France is very proud of her artist. SO LIKELY !—Greco and his eccomplices having been examined yesterday at the Concicrgerio by M. Davienne, the president, who named M. Allon to defend Greco, Trabucco, and Scaglioni as they declined to appoint counsel, Signor Mazzini has been invited to appear, but " come and be killed" was not less attractive to the his toric ducks than auch a summons to Itr_zzini, who will suffer judgment to go by default, and punishment also. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LREITTER'S TELEGRAMS.] AUSTRIA AND THE LONDON TREATY, VIENNA, FEB. 20. TLe Austrian Goverment addressed a circular despatch on the 13• h inst. toall the members of the German Confederation. The following is a RIM , mart' of the document : "It is admitted that the London treaty is not binding upon the Federal Diet. "A vote on that treaty, taken by the Diet, in conformity with the propositions of the committee, wenn not be decisive with regard b that question, but might possibly induce the non-Gorman Powers to make counter declarations in favour of the treaty, thereby aggravating the critical state of affairs. Austria, therefore, requests the German Governments not to assent to the different proposi tions of the. Committee, bai to instinct that body to make a fresh report, which shoule treat solely of the succession question." Movements of the Niels Juel, PLYMOLTH, FEB. 20. The Danish frigate Neils Juel is reported to have been seen yesterday evening off the Deadman near Falmouth. When observed she was under close reefed topsails, and lying close to :he land awaiting arrivals. THE INVASION OF JUTLAND. COPENHAG EN, FO3. 19, 2.16 pan, It is cffi;ially announced that all was quiet at Duppel at 11 a.m. to day. In consequence of the circuitous movement of the enemy the Danes were compelled to evacuate Kol ding in Jutland. A cavalry eng , .gement subsequently took place at Gudsoe, without result. HAMBURG, FEB. 20, 10.31 a.m. Advices from Flensburg state that several iron clads, among which were the Esberne-Snare and Absalom, appeared on the 18th inst. on the Flens burg Fiord, and exchanged shots with the allied artillery. It is stated that a Prussian garrison has pre vented a larding of the D.:VES to the north o! Friederichsort, which had been attempted in the boats of the Esherne-Snare and Thor. AUSTRIA. DEPARTURE OF AN AUSTRIAN FLEET FOR THE PROTECTION OF GERMAN VESSELS, VIENNA, FEB. 20, Morning. A rquadron of 12 Austrian men-of-war has re ceived orders to put to sea for the protection of German merchantmen against Gorman cruisers, Part of the fl et has already sailod, FRANCE, BOURSE, Feb. 19.—The market has been rather less animated, but without any material decline in prices. Threes, for the Account, are unvaried at 66f. 65c. Mobilier are rather lower, being at 1,075 f. Railway Shares quiet, and with a slight decline on some of the lines. The market continucd heavy to the c!ose, and le: 41 per Cents 9.5 45 Do. end month — 3 por Cents Do. end month 66 60 't off as follows : Italian Loan 6B 10 Do. end month 67 90 New ditto — Do. end month — Credit Mobilier..., 1057 50 Do. end m0nth....1070 R,usaian Austrian _ _ Bank Shares 3290 Credit k oncior 1285 Roman Spanish Threes 51 25 Rome Debt Deferred RA IL WAYS. Cash. Account. 1000 25 .. 1005 — 9O . . 957 50 Oriwtne Northern .• . • Ncwditto. Lyon& and Me di t ~ :rnlnean _ _ 940 - .. 940 -- New dittr , Syathorn Wo3tem Eastona Sanlinian 895 - - G7l 667 50 516 25 .. 517 50 478 75 .. 480 - 382 .50 382 50 Austrian 412 50 . 426 25 tmrloard North of Spain - Saragos.a . , 5OO -- .. 59J -- Ditto to Barcelona .... MARKETS—This Day. COVENT GARDEN. There was a seasonably good supply of produce at our market to-clay. The trade was firm at the following rates. FRUIT. e. d. 8. 11., N. d. s d Pine apples 8 oto 10 e l ] Mulberries, pr pt..o otc 0 0 Colonial do., each 0 oto 0 0 2herries, per lb. 0 oto 0 0 Grapes,per lb 5 otolo 0 Foreign ditto, pun° oto 0 0 Foreign do ... 1 oto 2 6 , Filberts, per lb .. 1 3to 1 6 Melons .... ectarines, per dz 0 oto 0 0 Cohauts, per lb .. 0 oto 0 0 Apples, per ht-sv. 2 6to 4 0 Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0 Pears, per do Oranges, per 100..3 6to ti 0 Peaches.. Lemons, per 100.. 3 6to 7 0' Currants, per li.sv 0 oto 0 0 Gooseberries lit eve° otoo 0 i Plums, per do. Strawberries pr pt 0 oto 0 0 Greengages, pr do. 0 oto 0 0 VEGETABLES. Greens, dz bunch 5 0 to 7 0 Cabbages, pr doz 0 10 to 1 6 B Id ditto 0 0 so 0 0 Savo) , do., pr dz 0 10 to 1 6 Cauliflowers, p dz 1 0 to 2 6 Brown, per bus. 0 8 to 1 0 Potatoes, per ton 60 0 to 110 0 New ditto, pr pt 1 0 to 0 0 Turnips,clz bunch 2 0 to 2 6 Carrots,pr do 6 0 to 6 0 Cucumbers 0 0 to 0 0 Garlic, per lb Sorrel, per sieve 0 0 to 0 0 Green peas, ti.-sv. 0 0 to 0 0 French beans,h.s. 0 0 to 0 0 Onions, doz. bn 2 0 to 2 6 New Do., dz bun u 0 to 0 0 Spinach . . 0 0 to 0 0 Brussels sprouts 0 0 to 0 u Shallots. per lb .. 0 6to 0 Horseradish, pdn 1 oto 2 Parsley, per ditto 0 oto 0 Celery, per ditto 0 10 to 1 Beet, per doz. .. 0 oto 0 Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 Small salad, p. pn, 0 oto 0 Mushrooms,p ptl. 1 oto 1 Artichokes, each 0 oto 0 Cos lett, score .. 0 oto 0 Mint and savory..o oto 0 Endive, per score 0 oto 0 Radishes, dz hnds 0 oto 0 Tomatoes, doz... 0 oto 0 Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 Rhubarb, per bun 1 0 to 1 Asparagus, pr do. 0 oto 0 I Seakale, per bun. 1 oto 1 POULTRY. Turkeys, 4s Od to 8a Od; poulte, 4s Od to 4s 6d each; geese, 58 Od to 7s Od ; ducks, 2s Od to 3s 6d ; ducklings, 38 Od to 3s 6d ; rabbits, is Od to is 10d each ; wild do., is 'to is 2d • pigeons, Os 6cl to Os 8d each ; Surrey fowls, 8s Od to 138 Od ; chickens, 68 Od to 10s Od; barn-door fowls, 3s 6d to 6s Od ; capons, Os Od ; hares, 3s 6d to Os Od ; ptarmigan, Os Od to Os each; pheasants, 08 Od to Os Od ; partridges, Os Od to Os Od ; woodcocks, 3s to Os Od; snipes, Os to Os 10d; teal, Os Od to Os Od ; wild ducks, is 6d to 2s Od ; widgeons, is Od to Os Od ; plovers, la Od to is 6d each ; guinea fowls, Os Od to Os Od ; roaBting pigs, Os Od to Os Od each; Ostend fresh butter, Os lldtois •2 'd • English, is 2d to is 4d per lb ; English eggs, 108 Od to — s Od ; French do., 8s Od to 9s Od per 100 ; leverets, 3s Od to Os Od ; grouse, Os Od to Os Od. • BILLING SGATE. • Salmon, is 8d to 2s 2d ; trout, Od to Os ; eels, 5d to 10d ; prawns, Os; pike, skate, sturgeon, and halibut, 6d per lb. ; turbots, 5s Gd to 18s ; cod, 3s Od to 12e Od ; brills, 2a Od to 6s Od ; &revs, 5s Od to 5s 6d ; mullets, Os Gd to s 6d ; lobsters, 2s to 4s Od; crabs, Gd to 3s Od ' • plaice and gurnets, Od to Os Od each ; soles, od to 3s 0,1 per pair ; common oysters, 88 to 26s ; natives, 65s to 70s per bushel ; whitings. 2s Od to ss; haddocks, 6s to 12s ; smelts, OA Od to Os Od; flounders, Os Od per dozen ; mackerel, Oa per 100 ; fresh herrings, 7s to 8s per 100 ; bloaters, Os to Os per 100 ; carp and tench, Os Od to Os per brace. NEWPORT. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 4d , mutton, 3s 8d to 4s , Gd ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od; Veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d; and pork, 3s Gd to 4s Gd per Blbs, by the carcase. WHITECHATEL. 11.)cf, from 3s 2d to 4s 2d ; mutton, 3s Gd to 4s Gd; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d; and pork, 35 4d to 4s 4d per Sibs by the carcase. BREAD. ------- - The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 61d to 7d, of household do., 5d to Gd per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 531 b to 611 b, 21d to 3d ; 641 b to 721 b, 3d to Sid ; 721 b to 801 b, 3d to 3ld ; 801 b to 881 b, 31d to 4d ; SSlb to OMb, 31d to 41d ; 00th to 1011 b, 41 to 4 d; 1041 b to 1121 b, —d to —d. Horse hides, Os ad to lOs ad ; calf skins, light, 2s ad to 4s Od ; hill, 78 Od to Os Od ; polled sheep, lOs Od to 14s Od ; half-breds, Os Od to 118 Od ; Downs, 7s (Id to 9s 6d; lambs, Os Od to Os Od; sheallings, Os Od to Gs Od. HAY MARK.ZTE.4. SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 03 to £4 as Od ; clover, £4 Os to ..C.5 103 Od ; sad straw, LI 2s to la 103 par load. A slow trade. CUMBERLAND.--Mea4ow hay, £3 Os to £4los Od ; clover £4 Os to £5 Bt, 0,1 ' • and straw, £l3i to £1 103 per load A moderate demand. WILITECIIAPEL —Meadow hay; £3 Os to LI 6s Od ; clover, I' Os to L 5 lOs Ud ; and straw, £ l 2 to £1 lOs per load Trade dull. A PATTI DE FOIE GRAS —(otter wiso 3 Patti who was a very fat liver)—The Parisians have conceived the delicate compliment of calling the Basal Gras Adeline Patti. He—that is, she with the new name —weighs 15,000 kilogrammes. BALANCE OF THE Sz-xEs.--In. 1861 there were 104.811 boys born to every 100,000 girls, but the mDrtality, (for what reason wo kaow not) is so much greater among the boys that the balance is reduced to nearly an equilibrium. For every 100,000 women at home in England there are 95,008 men also at. home ; and when we consider how many thousands of the flower of the popu lation are engaged abroad in the army, navy, and mer cantile marine, we see that the Wawa is nearly equal, AMERICA. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) QUEENSTOWN, FRIDAY. The Royal Mil stermship Auqtralasisn, from New York on the 10th inst., arrived here to-day, at eight p.m., with 41 passengers and 307,182 dole. in specie. She landed two passengers and 85 sacks of mails, and proceeded at 8 30 p,m. ' All well. NEW YORK, FEB 8 (Evening). General Mcade's army made a reconnaissance in force on Saturday last to the south side of the Rapidan. Lee was found in full force in the Fede ral front. After heavy skirmishing, in which the Federals are reported to have lost from 200 to 3uo men, they returned to their old qvrters. Four thousand Conftderates made a deroonstra- lion against Cumberllrd Gip on the 29th ult., but, after heavy skirmishing, were driven back and have since made no further movement. General Johnstone's main army is stated to be at Rome, Georgia, where the general is supposed to have retired, either for convenience in obtaining supplies or to prevent desertions, which were very numerous. Southern advices to the sth report that 8,000 Federals had crossed the Tennessee River near Ger mansville, their supposed object being the destruc tion of the iron works in the Cherokee country. The Nezo York World asserts that Sherman's ex pedition has moved from Vicksburg duo east in the direction of Selma and Montgomery, Alabama. In conjunction with Sherman's movement a large Federal cavalry force, under Grierson, is advancing southwards from Holly Springs, the object of the combined movement being, it is thought, to conquer Mississippi and Alabama. Iu order to strengthen Sherman the Federals have withdrawn their forces from Middle and Western Tennessee, and abandoned Corinth and the line of the Memphis and Charles ton Itailro:ld as far east as Bridgeport. MAile dispatches of the 4th inst. assert that the Confederates had occupied Jackson, Mississippi. Southern accounts assert that General Early had captured 800 Federals at Petersburg, Western Virginia. Advices from Charleston to the sth state that he firing on the city and Fort Sumter continued. A committee of the New York Union Lincoln Association has callcd the people throughout the state to meet on the 22d February to give public expression to their sentiments favouring Mr. Lin coln's re-election to the Presidency. A new political organisation has been started in New York favouring a more radical abolition policy than that pursued by the Lincoln Adminis tration, and organising a movement for the nomi nation of candidates to carry out this policy. Horace Greely spoke in favour of the movement. The steamer Presto ran ashore off Charleston on the 2d inst. The Confederates would save most of the cargo. The blockade runner Wild Dayrell has been de stroyed near Topsail Inlet. NEW YORK, Feb. 9. Mobile despatches report that eight Federal regiments, with two batteries of artillery, crossed Big Black River on the sth inst. Considerable excitement prevaled in Mobile. _ _ _ The force which was expected to attack the city was estimated at 30,000 strong. • There is a doubtful report from Chattanooga of a wide spread mutiny in the Confederate army. General Butler sent an expedition, consisting of three brigades of infantry, four regiments of cavalry, with 12 guns, across the York River to wards Richmond, for the purpose of surprising the Confederates and releasing the prisoners in Rich mond. The expedition reached within 12 miles of Richmond, but was discovered through infor mation furnished by Federal deserters, and com pelled to return without attaining its object. Advices from Charleston to the 7th inst. state ,hat the firing on the city had ceased. NEW YORK, FEB. 10, Morning. Tht _Richinoizd Examiner states that a German has been arrested i❑ Richmond as the ringleader of a plot for the release of the prisoners in that city, and the assassination of President Davis. The striae paper states that the Federals lost 1,500 men daring; the Confederate attack on the Federal outposts at Nevvbrn. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, NEW YORK, FEB. 9 (Morning). Money easy. GDld, 59, firm. Exchange on London, 1741 ;on Paris, 3214. Stocks firm and advancing. New York Centrals, 1331 ; Illinois, 1304; Erie, 113 i ; 6 per Cent. Uaited States Bonds, 1074. Cotton dull. Middling Upland, 830, Flour very firm. Wheat in good demand for export. Corn heavy. Provisions good inquiry. Coffee firm and advancir•g. Sugar steady. Molasses inactive. Petrolcura—Crude, 30 to 31; refined, 45 to 47. MEXICO. NEW YORK, FEB. 8 (Evening). Mviced received here from Vera Cruz to the Ist ult. confirm the news of th© French occupation of Z leatecs, Guadablitra, and Agnes Cid ;ntes. Several Mexiem generals, the Juarez Finance Minister, and numerous officials, have, given their allegiance to the French. The H4v4n.ah eon espondent cf tic Herald aserts that at a council ;f Spanish generals held at Ha vanah, it 'was determined to petition the Spanish Government to abandon San Domingo. THE YELVERTON CASE. The Hon. Theresa Yelverton presented a petition to the House of Lords on Wednesday last, through her agent, praying their lordships to order the ap pellant, Major the I-lona - W. Yelverton, to pay to the petitioner the sum of £5OO, or such sum as to their lordships shall seem meet, either in nature of alimony or for the purpose of enabling the petitioner to complete her case ; and, further, that the hearing of the cause may be postponed for three months, or until such tine as the said £5OO is paid to the peti tioner. The petitioner states that in January, 1860, she raised an action of declaration of marriage before the court in Scotland, and on the 19th December, 1862, the judges declared the marriage to be lawful, and ordered Major Yelverton to pay the costs of the proceedings, but he had never paid any such costs. In 1860 an action was brought in the Court of Corn mon Pleas in Ireland, against Major Yelverton, by Messrs. Grant and Gash, merchants, London, for £29 9s for necessaries supplisd to the Hon. Mrs.' Yelverton, and judgment was given in their favour, with costs, on the sth July, 1860. The petitioner goes on to state that in January, 1861, another action was brought in Dublin against Major Yel verton, by Mr. Thal wall, an irom master, in York shire, for £259 17s 3J, for board and lodgings sup plied to -Mrs. Yelverton, at the request of Major Yelverton, and that the cause was tried before the Lord Chief Justice and a special jury, in March, 1861, when, after a trial of many days, the jury returned a verdict in favour of Mr. Thelwall for the amount claimed. In this case a rule nisi for a new trial was granted, and, after having been argued before the full court, the rule was discharged on the 7 , ,h July, 1862, with costs; but Major Ye:verton has not paid any part of the debt or costs in which he has been condeunne I. And the petitioner further states that her husband never contributed anything' towards her support, but that he is living in con cealment, and his solicitors and agents refuse to give any information as to his place of abode. The petitioner then goes on to state that in consequence of theenormouslaw expenses she incurred in defend ing herself and maintaining her rights as his wife, her private means are nearly exhausted, and that she is now dependent for mint...lnane:3 on the assis tance of her friends. The privations and hardships to which the petitioner has bean exposed through the cruelty of her husband, and the mental anxiety which she has suffered during the last five years and a half, have produced a total prostration of strength. She was taken ill in the south of France, when on her way to England, nod her tredical advisers are of opinion that it would be dangerous to her life if she was to be removed at present. Their lordships considered the petition, and have ordered the question with refereuee to the same to be referred to the next appeal committee. LITERATURE, The North British _Review. No. LXXIX. Ed raonston and Douglas. Although several articles of importance lend an especial interest to the current number of the North British Review —conspicuous among them a reve rential treatise upon the " Vie de Jesus," such as will hardly satisfy the egotism of M. Reran should it fall under his observation—we have turned, as we conjecture every person taking up this ever•welcome blue covered northern quarterly will turn, must perforce turn, instinciively, inevitably, to the last paper of all—the eighth—simply entitled "'Thackeray." Of all the many memorials of Thackeray yet given to the eager multitude of his lamenting admirers since his startling demise, this paper in the 11 orth British is, to cur mind, in comparably the very best. To our think ing, it is beyond all comparison the best. Nothing, it is true, could by possibility have been more exactly what it ought to have been, what we should (in our thorough appreciation of the two men) have wished it to have been, could our wishes have had any influence whatever in shaping out the result—nothing could possibly base been in more exquisite taste es an expression of manly sorrow and fraternal sympathy than Charles Dickens's In Memoriam paper leading eff the last number of the Cornhill. But then it was—though of the best—so very brief! As for Mr. Anthony Trollope's tribute to Thackeray in the same number of Thackeray's own especial periodical—well, it was most gene• rous in tone and feeling, only, in point of fact, it was too much so, for, while it was all that, it was also to the last degree extra vagant. The finest novel in literature, the most perfect creation of a character in the whole range of fiction—why, these superlatives were simply preposterous as applied even to '• Eamond" (that exquisite romance !), even to Colonel New come, that worthy companion to other imaginary beings, such, let us say, as Sir John Falstaff or Sir Roger Dc Coverley. The charming little me moir published by Mr. Hannay, first of all, in his own Edinburgh newspaper, and afterwards in a sepa rate form as a slight pamphlet, was—in bulk, or rather in the lack of bulk—insufficient. The cone pilation prepared for the press with such surprising rapidity by Mr. Theodore Taylor, and published jo very promptly the other day by Mr. Rotten of Pic cadilly, turns out to be, when the kindest thing that can be said of it, is said of it, wholly and solely a compilation. Bearing in mind, therefore, all that has yet appeared in regard to Thackeray since the date of his lamentably sudden demise, this eighth and last contribution, in the current number of the North British .Review, is, we repeat, to our thinking, the very best, because in every way the fullest, the most searching in its criticism, and, therefore, all things consi dered, the most satisfactory. It is enough of itself to secure to the number, as we can hardly doubt but what it will, an unusually largo and widely scattered circulation. Often, throughout it, we don't the 'est atom in the world agree with the writer in the North British in his estimate of this or that among Thackeray's writings. For example, we cannot for the life of us regard that great writer's Lovel the Widower as in any one respect a masterpiece. On the contrary, it seems to us, among all his writings, to be in almost . every particu lar one of the least satisfactory. It is the old story he had so often and often related before, told once more all over again—the tone of it, meanwhile, as caught from one of the most pro minent characters in the fiction, to wit that horrid butler, being inconceivably vulgar. Barring, how ever, instances like these, where our own judgment flies to quite an opposite conclusion to the one arrived at by the North British Reviewer, we have to thank the latter for a memorial chapter on our great humorous satirist, Thackeray, the eager perusal of which has on the whole given us the liveliest satisfaction. Among the scattered treasures of Thackeray's own inimitably comical writings, not to be found among his works, even in his collected Miscellanies, we have reason to be grateful to the North British for giving us in its grotesque entirety, what we have often heard sung, but never remember before this to have seen any where in print—Thackeray's wonderfully funny impromptu song of— LITTLE lIILLEE, There were three sailors in Bristol city, Who took a boat and went to sea. But first with beef and captain's biscuit, And pickled pork they loaded she. There was guzzling Jack and gorging Jimmy, And the youngest he was little Billee. Now very soon, they were so greedy, They didn't leave not one split pea. Says guzzling Jack to gorging Jemmy, "I am extremely hungaree." Says gorging Jim to guzzling Jacky, "We have no provisions, so we must eat we." Says guzzling Jack to gorging Jimmy, "0 gorging Jim, what a fool you be I There's little Bill is young and tender, We're old and tough, so let's eat he." "0 Bill, we're going to kill and eat you, So undo the collar of your chemie." When Bill received this infumation He used his pocket-handkerchie. "0 let me say my catechism, As my poor mammy taught to me." "Make haste, make haste," says guzzling Jacky, While Jim Failed out his snickersneo. So Bill went up the maintop gallant mast, Where down he fell on his bonded knee. He scarce had come to the Twelfth Commandment, When up he jumps, " There's land, I see. There's Jerusalem and Madagascar, And North and South Amorikee. There's the British fleet a riding at anchor, With Admiral Nelson, K.C.8." So when they came to the Admiral's vessel, He hanged tat Jack and flagged Jimmee. But as for little Bill, ho made him Tao captain of a seventy-three. Our obligations ought also to be expressed here to the North British Review for recalling to our re membrance that charming dedication of our great humorist's " Paris Sketch Book," in the very grace ful terms to his Tailor, N.I. Aretz, of No. 27 in the Rue Richelieu. Several perfectly original reminis cences of Mr. Thackeray, here published for the first time, lend a peculiar interest to a paper that altogether claims from us our very cordial com mendation. STATE OF TRADE, MANCHESTER, Feb. 19.—We have had a very quiet market for yarns in all departments, both home and export, and, generally. speaking, prices are easier as compared with Tuesday. In the home trade there is some business doing, but most of the sales have been small parcels. In cloth sellers re port a limited bueiness. There has been a rather cave inquiry, but it has not resulted in much actual business. As stated in our recent reports, the greater activity on Tuesday and previously was owing more to accumulated orders than any new demand, and most of these having tow been placed buyers do not feel inclined to operate further. No doubt the recent arrivals of cotton and the further expected arrivals are haul:icing buyers to some extent in holding back. At the same time manu facturers are rather cheerful, believing that the great reduction Which has taken place in the pro• duce of the mills will influence prices favourably, whatever may be the tff.ct on the markets of im ports of cettn. Whenever people wish to purchase for immediate delivery they find a difficulty in meeting with stocks of goods, and certainly this seems to bear out the opinion entertained by manu facturers, who ere, generally speaking, exceedingly firm about prices. Seine orders have been given out running into April and May, the contractors for which have taken rather lower prices, but for early delivery most kinds of cloth keep firm, with a ten dency to higher rates. NOTTINGHAM, 19th.—There was a limited at tendance at the Exchange-hall to-day. 'For lace yarns the demand was still qu iet, but prices re mained firm. In hosiery yarns little or no altera tion took place. SiikF, both spun and thrown, maintain their prices. Brown nets met a slow sale. The makers are less actively engeged, but there is no change in prices to quote. dellint\c' 11 E 2, MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Feb. Feb.. The Queen and Princess Helena walked and drove yesterday mornirg. The Hon. Harriett Phipps has -4ucceededthellolll Emma Llseelles as Maid of Honour in Waitivg. The Prince and Princess of Wales' ST. LEONARDS, Feb. 19. The ioten , s;ed run with the East Sussex fog' hounds did not take place this morning , a 8h3113, frost during the night, accompanied by faquen' fells of snow. having made the earth s o hard ag to be unsafe for hunting purposes. Mr. Carteift the master, had made every preparation for earrs'; ing out the proposed arrangements bad his 1031 Highness the Prince of Wales desired the honads to be laid on. The place of meet was the gar° Inn, Baldsloe, about three miles from lian tiqs ; on the summit of an extensive ridge of hills, alongl which the road from Hastings to Battle is carried i On this bleak spot from two to three t housa l persons had assembled, presenting som e such scene as that described on the occasion of the meet e at Sidley Green on Tuesday, About noon t: a prince caused a very kind message to be forwar ue l to Mr. Curteis, intimating that he thought it wcir li s be unwise to hunt that day, as it would be dange r l s to the riders as well as to the dogs. The 11 " ° „ 8 were then taken back to the kennels, and t he lea number of horsemen, carriage occupants, and P e°. trians gradually retired. The cold of the morning has been followed b i ri a s genial afternoon, during which the sun has 511° ,' d warmly and brilliantly, and the change has enab.`e3 her Royal Highness the Princess to take a clric ds along the sea front, in a close carriage, for uPv far of an hour. There has not been so cold a temperature saps' rienced in the month of February in this p lace ea years. Generally speaking, at this time of Ye is the temperature is several degrees higher than re on the adjacent hills, rendering the atoacsPbefor enjoyable to the many invalids who flock her e winter residence. The Prince of. Wales took walking exercise, at r i companied by Mej)r Teesdale, to the eastern P. of Hastings, both in the forenoon and a ftern°° , 3 u t Tcemorrew, it is believed (according to Pr ese g. arrangements), the royal party will visit Mr. h' Curteis, at his seat near Harstmenceaux. Dr. Sieceking returned to town this morning' iioOr DENIS DUVAL is announced as the title ei r. Thackeraps last " Unfinished Story," now fcrtheoll3l:3o (the first of the tour parts of it) in the March number of Cornhill. m ade , 71.1 E ROYAL BABY.—A locket has been of studded with gems, to contain a small particle of the hair the infant Prince, for a gift t the Queen . 11 be The King of the 13elgi o ans, it is though t ) one of the sponsors to the Infant Prince. We understand that it marriage is to ta 2` Lie between Captain J. G. Hamilton, late of the : ‘ , R l ot Guards, and Lady Emily Melville, youngest daugur the late Earl of Leven and Melville. - ' • g M. de Falloux is at present engaged in p rePSr .- i ti f e. for publication a number of letters of the Abb 6 L acoro Mr. Charles Dickens has consented to pr esi i:iipt the annual dinner of University College Hospital at 14 " Rooms on Tuesday, April 12. pt M. JULES JaNIN has finally resolved to r e : t i l e himself for election in place of M. Alfred de Vig il 8- French Academy. a Of DEXTEROUS SWORDSMEN.—An eye-w itne the assault of arms the other day at the St. J'' lnells oo hall, writes :—lf I were under sentence, say for tressff (horrible supposition), and my head was to b e cut ° T ., ad should, as a last request, send my compliments to C°4l/10. St. John, and beg him to do me the friendly ofgee. s ,,,o , dexterity would almost reconcile one to the circun'— of He would not take two blows. He rivalled the fe3/4tsion Saladin with his scimitar ; those of Richard of t he o rd Heart with his mighty two-handed weapon, and his Stlkoagand' equalled the feats of the mythical Excalibar. 3 kerchiefs dropped in the air were deftly cut in tw ; •rS) single stroke. Ribands (I hope they came from C° /-1 , 1 ;rod were cut into fragments. Thick bars of lead were s e ' r - o as with single strokes. A whole sheep, hung up on e t c ol ors with much ceremony by the guardsmen, wa s Cll 4 fl' a cleanly than ever was sheep by the knife and' s and butcher. Then an apple was tied in a handker°b'ih, cut into two pieces at one blow, without a thread o f 1 " 1 ,10 being severed. Corporal-Major Waite did this, se u A r hit the " Charley Napier" feat. This is a verY 091 / his feat. One guardsman laid an apple in the pa lut ,sli G hand, and the other took a sharp-edged sword and ':tDas in two without cutting the hand at all, and this WO" once. a 0° DEVASTATION MADE IN THE RAM' S ~,,,,91 1 NOBILITY, titled and untitled, during the In " Thirty Years' War" of the White and Red i ldse , - ;stert the thirteen battles fought between York and 14 ,,, 5e- di aors from r, that of St. Albans, in 1455, to that on P_ s tigg ie 6 own, near Bosworth, in 1485,—in nine of which struggle flos the Yorkists were the victors, yet they ultimata lost great prize at Bosworth,—there perished in flgh t ',, b , l B , der, or under the axe, two kings, four pri'l - , - „; s 4s‘ dukes, two marquises, one•and-twenty e arls, t' t allY counts, and seven-and-twenty barons. To t il : s tt otr be added, one lord- prior, one judge, one hundred and was° nine knights, all noble; four hundred and l e r a aet le ' esquires, the eldest sons of knights, and a bodY °L tPly, the man, or untitled nobility, of coat-armour and auc es ut ob er number of whom is variously stated, but wh ich oo ldier S ' being incorporated with the death-roll of pr ivate a nd rho try's bs' swelled the great total to nearly eighty - s ix Such was the cost to the country of that coustrYedaja blood , shed in a quarrel which, after all, ended intiw by way of compreniiee. n t e /erj a INDIAN FATALISM,—In this universe -0 Willed straw shakes with the wind unless it Were sc) ii? before. Fate rules supreme—what avails muf fs ta l e 0 : is weak, who strong, who good, who bad , exceP . 35, f oci predestined to be so ? Mortal ruen and immortal ii yet' that much is in them—nothing is beyon d 0.5 lea verily, they ere puppets, under the contro l of sts/3"iii it l l ' hands of Ono above. Yes I this world is a stage "joisible's act as we are bidden: the I'ower that direc ts us is dase, He alone knows why we dance, cease to dance, 3 p rO fif , i l again; to Him alone is it plain why some are asitta others oppressed; why this quarrel arose between. ', I . his I s ". Wis Wamitra, and why Arichandra is to euffor doe! noconce and purity of heart. .Let Ilis ll b° oitig Arichandia. O r cr THE ANTI-GERMAN TOAST.--T- - 0 rer ° g Advertiser, in referring to the writer of th rro orel o, given in our columns of yesterday, emphaticelll 0ur..0000P,1 the truth of its statement. We do so , says u s e ' ver :e racy, from the very best information, derived fl ra sources ; and should the denial of the acc uracy o o 10 ti p graph be persisted in we shall be mo re sPec' meantime, suffice it to say, that the terms i x % boa e r toast alluded to was proposed were, as m a y err s ferred from the wording of our paragraph , r a t., eve e than we described them to be. It is due to out l o t contemporary to state, that he does not ei la a r s,Dits mi o originating the story of "The Toast." 1 1 , t we 'felt " the piece of gossip was going about," Ol d , t 'f o t 10 ° 1 , 0 0' only given it " currency." But we aboulu not 0 v ie it right to give the story "currency," 113c1 dot a r ras' assured of its accuracy. We repeat, therefore,strieof stated on the subject, and a good deal more/ la the c,O THE URDER AT LEICESTER.-"Sr°o bor°",io quiries made by Sergeant Wright , echot 005 police force, it is quite coma/wive that t:.obleSiedd, Upton, whose body was found bearing uuln se ' 3 ,eioli s fle otit of violence, floating iu the canal on r ho pall, eurosotal, has been brutally murdered. On gr. ot lief 10 ,11, carefully examining the body, he discovered t b f t he 5 . „ . 01 about six inches in length, down the centr.se°o pre,0:1110 and also the gash on the hip, had evidentlYhut. Na 'teC by some sharp instrumeat, probably 0 lot ° c , af ar at next to the ear and an ,ther on the side ".eels 11 10 , tos cauecd by a job with a blunt pied of irl' a f ; the rite Da case the poker seems to bave broken one ° siovca r c ca other ribs are also broken, and the bodY, 111 ,* oioti re ito tO ° been frightfully mutilated. From the i 3 e i° ..o . ,feeoc c . a dor; by Sergeapt Wright, and the singular Gir thti 3 O , 2. 3s ; t iariqiry had been made by the parent 3 ofthe 1 : o bodY log the three weeks ho has been missing, ' ,riot:s te the woun4s appear to have boon caused P re , w horl Cl,ireet' going thrown into the water, the doceasecrr'ia pove 11, 4 - Upton, a framework knitter, now liv ing , on a ° 1 0 was apprehended on 'Wednesday evell i . rl ,.. ° s ta kes be ev al e a perpetrating the crime. The pr er; er c l9 ,: t i c e) 1 :v magistrates on a hursday morning, ds of j u 'l e rho (which to publish would defeat the e n ior , b . i" c iv ert ` af t boon received, he wee remanded till 111 0 7 , the pr iet O a, ceased was missed, about three weeks 6 g tree t (11e $ ci f to 0 ° , 13 „1,0 then lived in B,;rkley-street, Craven.! _ eroo re t of the canal where the body was Mlua) r !e i see 3 street, and lately to the place of l ' is o L pink 55,011 th police have taken pos;ossion of u c fart her t o dy, found the prisclaer',l hor_se, and 3 : t tbe: 3 peon,i , sei bf:in;,;mad e. iin iD (1'1 , 0 e .; s o b E rs ,At, `sae prLA:l4teil 6noeiiiug rippee.ranec, w 0 0 1 00 0 1 ,,, jov y LL it ecroner, I`,lr, J. Gre4erv, nt the AO l to ;i rk Thurscl..ly eveni:,., and after mew, bee , &nee ...;;; to tine of the LOY "`' adjourn td,—Le6cfs ill crew - y. 1101 1 Per ha by cof t; `ecfed 41c CON