The Sun. — London, England, 1863-01-19 00:00:00

RoyAL ENGLISH OPERA, CO VENT GARDEN. Under the Manag em ent of Miss Louisa Pyne a n d Mr. W. H a rrison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, to commence with RUT BLAS : Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne, Miss Thir and Madame Laura Baxter ; Messrs. Santley, Patey, Lyall, AynaleyCooke, E. Dussek, and W. Harrison. Conductor—Mr. A. Mellon. After which, the Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, en titled HARLEQUIN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Doors open at hall-past B—Commence at 7. TREAT RE-R YA L, DRURY-LANE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, the Comio Drama of THE NEXT OF KIN. After which, the Grand Pantomime of LITTLE GOODY TWO SHOES. Commence at 7. 'THEATRE -ROYAL, HAY MARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckatone. THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, will he performed )UR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. After which, a new and original Extravaganza, entitled RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA ; or, The Happy Valley. Rasselas, Miss Louise Keeley. Concluding with OUR MARY ANNE. T HEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Management of Mr. FECTITER. THIS EVENING, Jan. 19, to commence with an Orizinal Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic 1 Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr3logne, entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Pechter, supported by Messrs. G. Vining, J. Brougham, H. Widdi combe, W. M'lntyre, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, H. Butler, Dawson • Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E• Lavenue, and Elsworthy. Mr. Phelps and Mr. W. Montgomery are engaged, a n d will shortly appear. Doors open at half-past Six, performance to commence at Seven. Private Boxes, 22 12s. 6d., and £2 2s. Places registered. Stalls, Os. Bd. ; Dress Circle, s a. Circle, 4s. Bd. Prices at d o o rs —Stalls. es- ; Upper D re ss Circle, ss. ; Upper Circle, 4s. ; Pit, 28. • Gallery. i s . No half-price. Box- Oka open daily from 11 till 5. public are entreated to take notice that no charge is made to the occu fo r p the sate k ants of boxes, box places, or stalls, either for playbills or eep ing of hats and cloaks ; and that the atte , n a d t a u n i t t s ie l s n w a h ll at p e a v r e t r s of the house are forbidde n to receive any Lr Stage-Manager, Mr. G. Vining. Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr Lindus. THIS EVENING, LAW v. LOVE : Miss M. Oliver. Followed by ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES AN OTHER. Mr. R. Roxby and Miss Amy Sedgwick. After which, the New Grand CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, .‘ RIQUET WITH THE TUFT ; or, Harlequin and Mother Shipton." Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. C. Seyton, Misses Gray and Hudspeth, Mr. Milano, Mr. R. Power, Miss A. Collinson, and Mr. Eralford. 'MEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- _LI Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE LI I TLE TREASURE. Mr Billington, Mr. R. Phillips, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A TICKET OF LEAVE : Messrs. J. L.Toole, P. Bedford, and Mrs. Billington. To conclude with " GEORGE DE BARNWELL : or, Harlequin Folly in the Realms of Fancy." Miss Woolgar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Seaman ; Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bed ford, Stephenson, C. J. Smith. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams ; C , own , M r. W. Hild y ard ; Pantaloon, Mr. J. Paulo. The celebrated Arthur and rtra nd Commence at 7. The WEATH:EB.—Sun Office, Jan. 18, 1863. THERMOMETER. Highest since Noon yesterday Lowest during the night This day at N00n..... ._._ ..,. Barometer-29.38. Wind—N. -Westerly; moderate, with fine weather. JANUARY 19. THERMOMETER. Highest since Noon yesterday Lowest during the night This day at Noon .... Barometer-29.45. Wind—N. -Westerly ; blowing a gale, squally and variable. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY: Morning, lh. 24m.—Afternoon, Ih. 54m. TO-moßitow.-Morning, 2h. 20m.—Afternoon, 2h. 44m, ____ _ ~, $ ..P.'a' ..A. ,:,!. ~.- , , . . ~...,_ ,Ii '... 4 .- -- - 1 7- r "L tl l6l 4 .4 k . C. ' -'. \ 4 1 3te trZIaCILY '0 "1. 1; 0 AIM fi.is• t 0... , ..4.17, 0 44 1, 11 , ‘ - - - LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1863. While the Quarterly flings down the gauntlet, with an air of defiance, in the name, and on behalf of the Conservative Opposition—the " Reform" Administration (save the mark I) gives signifi cant token to the world that it is prepared (in the chapter of political accidents) for some just possible discomfiture. Several bran new Peers are now announced as likely to follow hard upon the heels of those half dozen baronets whose names have already been indicated as chosen from among the Whig mediocrities. While the bloody hand is about to be affixed to the escocheon of Mr. HENRY Rica, of Richmond—a coronet is preparing to encircle the brow of Sir CHARLES WOOD, of Halifax. "Sore such a pair" —et cetera ! The ejaculation is nothing less than inevitable—Mr. HENRY Rim and Sir CHARLES WOOD having, together, throughout the last quarter of a century, enjoyed an unenvi able pre. eminence among the recognised bores of the House of Commons, a pre-eminence namely among that fearful race—(the dread, it may be re membered, far away in Rhineland, of Messrs. BROWN, JONES, and ROBINSON)—as Members whose prolixity constituted of itself a full and perfect jus tification of the well known motion of that virtual Forerunner of the Early Closing Movement, the late Mr. BROTHERTON. It seems at any rate in one particular appro priate that while the American PRESIDENT is ren dering his partial emancipation of the negroes :n a manner penal in its character, the English PREMIER is associating the idea of failure, of distinct and positive failure, with these his latest promotions to the peerage and the baronetage. Who, for ex ample, could possibly have the hardihood to pre tend for one moment that the career of Mr. RICH, in Parliament, or out of it, has been in any way a success 1 1 Again the notion of ennobling Sir GEORGE GREYat this moment seems almost worthy in its facetiounsess of being no more than an on dit excerpted from the "London Claarivari." Can it be—can it possibly be in recognition (this ermine robe and baronial coronet, for the brow and shoulders of the Right Hon. the Home Secretary) in grateful and admiring recognition of his recent suavity (as Secretary of State) to those adventurous gentlemen the Garotters? Again, the selection of that other right hon. already mentioned, to wit Sir CHARLES WOOD—minis terially speaking already pretty well "My Lord High Everything," Secretary of State in turns for this, that, and the other, as well as, time and again, Chancellor of Her MAJESTY'S Exchequer, to the muddling of the national accounts during his tenure of office, and the simultaneous bewilder ment of all the permanent officials at the Treasury — this most ingenious selection of Sir CHARLES WOOD is, it will be observed, so charmin g ly malapropos , li so exquisitely inapropriat e ! It comes to the right hon. baronet, we presume, in reward for his recent and very flagrant display of a want of all sagacity in regard to the administration of affairs in Hindo stan—as a recompense, we will supp ose, f or his reiterated wounding of the feelings, and his most perverse interference with the policy of Mr. LAING, his repudiated India financier. Altogether a master stroke of adroit ness, surely, this nomination to the peerage of Sir CHARLES WOOD and Sir GEORGE GREY! By the way—about the latter—Zadkiel, in one of his last "Almanacks" but one, Was not so very far wrong after all! Namely, when predicting a year or so back (he was only "out" in his twelvemonth) that —" about this time Sir GEORGE GREY will have a prospect of realising his ambition." People laughed atthe wonderful intimation at the li;ne, but ZADKIEL TAO TzE, had he only been lucky enough to put the words down for Jan., 1863, instead of for whatever date it was the sage selected, wou ld have had rea son to hope for another magisterial recognition of his accuracy as a prophet by that honest, simple minded civic gobemouche Mr. Alderman HUMPHREY. As it is—the other Peers that are to be, we have all this while left waiting, as it were, upon the threshold of that "other place," the name of which cannot be mentioned openly to ears polite within the popular branch of the Legislature. Among them, there is one form at any rate that almost all who glance at the strange group will recognise with something really like an unaffected sense of com placency. Meaning—need we say it ?—the amiable and accomplished member for the borough of Pon tefract. It seems an odd successor, this, to have chosen, nevertheless, as the new literary peer to fill the vacancy left by the premature passing away of Lord MACAULAY. So to speak, it is for all the world like putting a brilliant little humming bird into the cage of some dead and gone Eagle of the San. The author of "Palm Leaves "—in lieu of the Master Essayist and the Historian o f England ! Yet—while wincing at the contrast — n one will be grudge the crowning honour about tobebestowe bestowed upon this liberal-minded gentleman true hearted man of letters. Turning from which not ungratified glance at Mr. MONCKTON MILNES, we remark hard by there, among the select few, one other name of note in its way (in a very different way, however) : not another GREY, nor yet a RUSSELL, nor yet an ELLIOTT, but next door to each, meaning as a matter of course an ELLICE. Mr. EDWARD ELLICE, that is—an Ursa Major who would consequently seems to have hunted his fellows (by deputy, of course) to some purpose, besides the mere accumulation of wealth, in the forest wilds of the Hudson's Bay Company's Territory. In startling contrast to whom, comes, in the person of Mr. WENTWORTH BEAUMONT, an opulent leader of ton, who has won a peerage for himself, not in the sylvan wilds of North America, but in the very thick of the creme de la creme, curdled together between Mayfair and Belgravia, in the very centre-point of our social civilisation. Stich would appear to be the distribution of the court cards in this last deal by Lord PALMER STON prior to—shall we say it ?—the probably coming Dissolution of Parliament. Miching Maleclao, or "it means mis chief," might have been adopted as the motto of the bold, slashing, political article con tributed—(manifestly, we would enjecture, by no other than Lord ROBERTCECIL)—to the current num ber of the old Tory Quarterly. And while the Op position gives thus unmistakeable evidence of a determination to do battle in downright earnest, immediately upon the commencement of the now fast approaching session—the Government that is, affords the world those equally unmistake able evidences we here speak of, evidences that they are at length putting things in train, betimes, for a clean sweep out, should occasion require. The favourite Whig notion of a clean sweep out in the contingency of any Parliamentary contretemps— being, of course, not Resignation but Dissolution. And so, the golden bowl of this present Parlia ment (already mature of age as Parliaments go !) rolls steadily on towards its appointed goal. With what bias, who does not recognise ? The Proclamation of Mr. LINCOLN for the Eman cipation of the Slaves of his enemies must be a stumbling block to those of his friends. What is good for the one could not surely be bad for the others. Well may those doomed to slavery ex claim, " Save us from the PRESIDENT'S friends !" for all his virtue has gone to the other side, and we are still left in bondage, because of the good ness of our masters. Verily, it is a sad prefer ence for us, while our masters exult that virtue is its own reward." So says Mr. LINCOLN, and those who support his rule. The great problem now is, how will the matter work ! That, time alone will decide. It were as idle to reason as it would be presumptuous to prog nosticate. The deed is done for the present, and hope may hope, or fear may forbode, the future. All is, we doubt not, unmixed with grave anxiety. Still the question recurs—lf the act was good, why not have done it before ? If it was inexpedient sooner—then is it politic now ? Events must prove. Out of slavery Mr. LINCOLN has redeemed but three millions, and left the fourth in chains, by way of hostage for their masters' fidelity. And this he calls emancipation. But the freedom which he affects to bestow is not in his own gift, nor has he the power to persuade or en force it. Now if he were really bent on freeing the slave ho had ample opportunity at the beginning, but made no sign. Compromise might have resulted from a fair argument of the matter, and the issue have proved mutually beneficial to master as to slave, and a world of horrors be prevented. But no. Mr. LINCOLN would brook no arbiter. He wculd predominate. Empire was his idol—the day dream of his ambition—simple civilian though he was. In his own lust for empire he would permit no rival for independence. The glorious Republic had, in his eyes, more virtue than that of the " almighty dollar" in the cupidity of his friends. The Republic had hitherto been successful beyond all human experience, and there seemed no bounds to his hopes. It was idle to reason with destiny ; and the failure of every succeeding attempt only served to stimulate renewed exertion in the overweening belief that fortune was only trying his fortitude the more. Thus faith in the future but nerved his strength the more that he w ould redeem the melancholy failure of the pest. And so he went on, reckless of the cost, for that con cerned others—not him. Therefore "he put his foot down," and none might dare to question his omnipotence. It was hopeless to point to the finger of time, for present power will not calculate on future pro babilities. The day was his own, and to-morrow also—for divinity was undefinable— " So runs the world away." Although Mr. LINCOLN had expended nearly half his term of power with Each warlike catastrophe more deplorable than its predecessor, still, like the spendthrift gambler, he would risk another throw and stake his —no, not his own—but the fortune of others on the cast and tempt the fate of the already cracked Republic on the event. True, he had his doubts on the peril of the game, and hoped to Heaven that he was doing all for the best. He might be wrong, but he wished to be right —so it saved the ,Union Thusheap o p f e c a r l e e a d ti t o o n Heaven wortlty as if there were n o other portion ofit its care, s ir a u ve to th b e e. ...P Republic that wa s, and the re united And so the EVIDENT has puthisf on theootdow down with a vengeance by playing his last trump game s a his hand of et but anc w iP at i o o u n l . d not ri win, eheld because the c he felt 50 strong that rd that h e would palter with dest i ny . Th e world wondered a t hi s temerity, but took no mea sure of i before, the fathomless depth of his power. As for money, he had command of inanity —more than CHASE could count or STANTON conceive. The weird sisters—not Gen. SCOTT ' S — beguiled him on until his remaining senses were bewildered with the never-ending, still beginning, toil and trouble of his charmed infatuation. Poor man I we could pity him, but for his persistent perversity. The Southern States ? Aye, there's the rub. What's HECCUBA to him, or ho to HECCCBA ? Mr. LINCOLN may call rebels from the sultry South, but will they come ? Not they indeed, save such un welcome visitors as LEE, " STONEWALL" JACKSON, and STUART have already proved. " The Rebels" have a President of their own—one who prefers to rule in the South than serve elsewhere. As recourse to compulsion has only resulted in discomfiture, and another trial were only an excess of mockery, Mr. LINCOLN now launches his " tarna tion" edict, but the charm hath lost its virtue; even the sanctity of Sunday will not restore the freshness of loose fish, and the more they are hawked about the more offensive they become. As for the three million slaves which Mr. LIN COLN'S Proclamation professes to set free, how is he to accomplish it ? The " idea" is good and glorious, but how is it to achieve a local habita tion and become a fact ?—for practically it is only as yet a name. Before you satch old birds pat salt on their tails—which Mr. LINCOLN has only as yet attempted by a sprinkling of sea water—and the ' majority of the blackbirds have sought the shelter of swamps and forests. They fight shy of the forbid den fruit—Mr. LINCOLN'S talismanic hypocrisy has no charm for them. Slaves though they be, they have more faith in the devils they know than trust to one who holds forth the olive branch with one hand, while he flourishes the scorpion lash in the other. Mr. LINCOLN'S policy, if he has one, seems to perplex himself as much as it troubles his friends, for no one knows what he would be at. To day looms large with the note of preparation, and expeditions on a gigantic scale are on the move —but to morrow looks in vain for their coming— and the day after the world wonders whither they are going. The secret deepens in mystery until the uprising of a dense fog unfolds the day of disaster half veiled in doubt! And this not once but often, as if repetition delighted in playing its unaccountable series of downfalls. But there is still balm in Gilead; if any one can be to blame— Mr. LINCOLN extends his protecting shield, and would be " whipped" himself rather than allow any of his chosen men to be " suspect." There is chi valry in this, perhaps, if the President had to pay the piper; but his privilege of office forbids the ban, and doubting sycophants demur to state the reason why. No, no : Mr. LINCOLN may be a good man, but he is unquestionably a weak one. Ho wt.uld be all things to all men, but any thing for the Union. He knows his own mind in that if in nothing else. He is virtuous on compulsion, and only great when he cannot help it. Obstinate doubt seems to be his guiding principle, and freeman or slave is all one to him. He would embrace both under the cloak of the Union—but apart they are each intole rable. Archbishop WHATELY'S letter to Mrs. STOWE j is one replete with common sense from beginning to end, and his arguments must carry conviction to the minds of all not hopelessly wedded to their own particular prejudices. At the outset he makes a statement which might do for an epitome of the whole, and certainly sums up most perfectly the prevalent notions that are entertained in this country on the great conflict now raging across the Atlantic. " Some few sympathise with the Northerns, and some with the Southerns, but far the greater portion sympathise with neither corn. pletely ; but lament that each party should be making so much greater an expenditure of life and property than can be compensated for by any advantage they can dream of obtaining." This is quite correct and conformable to the prevail ing sentiments extant in the country. Arch bishop WHAT ELY then goes on to say that those who are against the North are not so from any admiration of slavery, but because they under stand the question of the war as that of dis puting about the Union. They say that the Southerners had as good a claim to secede as the Americans formerly possessed to separate from this country; and, again, many hold the opinion that, considering the fearful sufferings in the cotton districts, it has been a great stretch of forbearance on our side not to have re cognised the South and broken the blockade. Con tinuing his long line of reasons, the writer next states one cause that should be taken to heart by the blustering set who have done so much mischief by misrepresentation and spiteful inuendoes. He says that there are many who are provoked at the incessant railing against England, and threats of taking Canada, which some of the American papers promulgate as their new course of procedure. The next point is not a reason that will be otherwise than irritating in the extreme to Yankee self esteem and importance. It sets forth that some consider that if the Confederates continue to hold their ground a little longer, they must necessarily gain their point, since the European Powers are certain to acknowledge people who have maintained their independence for two or three years. Another unanswerable argument is next adduced, when the archbishop states that the position of the negro in the Northern States is not so enviable ; as, besides being treated as an outcast, he is prevented from taking many employments, on account of the white men refusing to labour with him ; hence, says the 1 astute reasoner, "he will have gained little by taking refuge in the Northern States." This concludes the series of statements, which are based on good autho rity and which are manifestly put forward by one who speaks what he does know. They are also full of good sense and justice in the abstract. We cannot hope that they will convince the lady to whom they are addressed, because her views on the subject are so decided, and, of course, she will think that her original ideas aro correct, and that we do not care for the question that lies so near her heart. Mrs. STOWE should remember that when she came to our land as the authoress of " Uncle Tom's Cabin," 3. she was warmly welcomed as the able ex ponent of a subject that came home to the feelings of every true-hearted inhabitant of a country on whose shores the slave is free. it is othor wise now ; and those who sent the expression of their wishes to their countrywomen of America met with no reci procation. It is not fair now, when it suits poli tical purposes to give au adherence, to turn round upon us and call us the upholders of slavery, that they did not seek themselves to put down, when it could have been done without bloodshed. The grandest victories are not those won by force of arms, but by the gradual influence of reason, and the gentle teachings of wisdom. From these meek yet most mighty auxiliaries all great national benefits must gain strength and acquire a rooted position. If Mrs. STOWE had asked our assistance in times of peace to aid, by entreaty or expostulation, a gradual subversion of slavery, we would willingly have acceded; but now, when the blast of war has sounded in our ears, for us to compromise the dignity of our country by rushing in to make confusion worse confounded with an intervention that would be laughed to scorn on one side, and only irritate the other, would be simple madness. Besides, it is not Slavery that is the war-cry, but the Union, and to call one thing by the name of another is a paltry subterfuge to which we cannot conde scend, and which would entail upon us the odium of cryin g out peace when there is no peace. Like many well-meaning but one-sided arguers, Mrs. STOWE has got herself into a false position, ~ nd is indignant with us that we will not share her difficulty. Circumstances are altered since she came here, and hence our line of conduct must be dif- ' THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1863. ferent. Our convictions are the same now as here tofore, that no man has a right to call his fellow man a slave; but the experience that the wisdom of ages draws from the pages of history informs us that violence cannot convince, and that no social changes can be suddenly brought about, but must be effected by the gradual infusion of ideas, and the steady patience and calm endurance that will not flag lilt they have reached the goal. Sugges tions to those excited by political conflicts and urged on by party zeal can seldom do much ; but nothing is more needed in a complicated case like the slavery question in America than that precious Charity which beareth, hopeth, and endureth all things for the good of others, and in the cause of virtue and the interests of religion. If Mrs. STOWE could induce her friends to exercise more of the spirit of tolerance there would a be greater likelihood of the atta'nment of her desires coming to pass, than from any angry complaints against other nations, or hostile encounters and demonstrations, which combine the horrors of civil war with the inconve niences that ensue from the disruption of engage ments with foreign conntries. Every year we have to lament the departure of great men from among us. Every year statesmen and sages, philosophers and artists, are summoned to join that vast procession so impressively described by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE as moving onward into the Silent Land. Death has already been busy in 1863 ; he has called away one whose place will not easily be filled, and whose hand, although he had passed the allotted age of man, had scarcely ceased from its labours. HORACE VERNET is no more. After a life of more success and comfort than Fortune often allows the children of genius, he has passed to his long sleep, surrounded by friends who deplored him, and receiving to the last tokens of Imperial esteem and favour. HORACE VERNET'S life extended over the most remarkable period of his country's history. Born in 1789, a ' fortnight before the assault on the Bastile, his child hood passed amid the storms of the Revolution, his early youth chronicled some of the glories of the Empire, his manhood saw him the favoured artist of the Citizen RING, his old age was honoured by the THIRD NAPOLEON. The son and grandson of a painter, he early displayed a passion for his art, and received the encouragement so often wanting to the early efforts of genius. His ancestors for three generations had been artists of some cele. brity, his grandfather, JOSEPH VERNET, being the first marine painter of his day. It is of him that the story is told that during a storm at sea he bade the sailors bind him to the masthead that he might sketch the scene. How far this anecdote is true we know not, but it furnished a subject for his grand son's pencil many years later. CHARLES VERNET, the son of the preceding, was a battle painter, who had certainly rare opportunities for exercising his talents, since we find among his pictures such sub jects as " The Morning of Austerlitz," " Marengo," " Rivoli," &c. The young HORACE probably owed much to his family connections in art, for his ma ternal grandfather was MoREAH the engraver, and his uncle CHALGRIN the architect. Thus, in spite of poverty and the troubled times, his artistic edu cation proceeded. His first work, on a mythological subject, was unsuccessful. In his second—a battle piece—he showed the originality of his powers, and foretold the subsequent success of the great battle painter. He was then but twenty, but he married and opened an atelier, where the future companion of kings was glad to draw bill heads and fashions for rnodzstes. We wonder whether he introduced into these works of art any of the singular ingenuity that distinguishes his woodcut designs for the "Life of Napoleon." Soon, however, Fortune began to L smile on the young adventurer. His " Capture of a Redoubt," " Barriere de Clichy," and other works brought him into notice. His picture of the "Trumpeter's Horse" was painted for MARIE LOUISE, but this was not her first acquaintance with the works of HORACE VERNET. His was the favoured pencil selected to pourtray the features of the great Conqueror in a miniature, which, set in brilliants of the highest value, was despatched to Vienna to show the youthful Archduchess the likeness of her future lord. In 1812 he was awarded the first-class medal, and a year or two later was created a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. After the down fall of NAPOLEON, VERNET continued to celebrate his victories, and in 1822 a work of his was refused admission to the exhibition, the loyal jury disap proving of the subject. The painter, however, was not so easily disposed of. He immediately opened an exhibition of his own, displaying his collection of works, and his fame increased rapidly. He was high in favour with LOUIS PHILIPPE, w ho commissione d him to decorate the wall s of the Cons t an t ine Gallery of Versailles with paintings of the Algerian cam paign. In fulfilment of this c harge , VERNET visited Algeria frequent l y , and many of his scenes are well known. 'I he cause of his dispute with his patron is familiar to many readers. The KING commanded him to paint the siege of Valenciennes, and insisted on his introducing LOUIS XIV. as a principal figure. The painter objected on Dr. COLEN So'S ground, that it was unhistorical, seeing that the " Grand Monarque" was on the occasion in question at a safe distance from the scene of action. Mutually offended, they parted, the artist thr pwing up his commission and betaking himself to the CZAR, who gladly received him. H e rema i ne d in Russia for some time, painting the walls o f th e Winter Palace; but, in 1842, he was despatched to France to convey to the bereaved father the con dolences of the CZAR on the death of the Due D'ORLEANS. This brought about a reconciliation, and VERNET remained in France. LOUIS PHILIPPE offered him a peerage, but he declined it. His grandfather had been offered the title of " gentil homme" with similar ill success by LOUIS XIV. Members of the nobility of art, the VERNETS could afford to slight the honours conferred by kings. The restoration of the Empire brought no vicissi tudes to the painter. In 1855 he obtained the great medal of honour at the Universal Exposition, and a year later he exhibit e d an ep i so d e o f th e l as t s i ege of Rome, being th en i n h i s s i xty - e i g h t h year. HOP.ACE VERNET h as gone down to h i s grave full of honours. His lif e l ong industry b rought him a fitting works whecrrovpesrtizeod al f fame ike by h n i s d fortune. Sovereign and by the people, hi s countrymen He and was by honoured by the a strangers, he was rich in the respect and love of his 1 triends ; yet sorrow was not wanting. His only child, a daughter worthy of hi •m, married to PAUL DELAROCHE—a great artist like her father—died before him. Th e lone line of painters is thus brought to a close, t er • minating in its greatest man. Yet though we may lament that such is the case, we may write on his tombstone the inscription over ALBERT DDRER'S last resting place. Enzt:gravit is truly a fitting epitaph f or su c h men, for they can hardly be said to be • entitely gone from us whose fame and works remain. It is said of one of the most • eminent of the old Grecian Generals that when a friend was lamenting that he left no children to perpetuate his honours, he replied, alluding to his victories, "Not so ; I leave two chit- 1 dren, LEUCTRA and MANTINEA, who will bear down my name to the latest posterity." Even so it iS with the works of the great Frenchman whom the world of art now deplores. LATEST INTELLIGENCE, THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA, NEW YORK, JAN. 8 (Morning). Federal despatches, dated Cairo, the 7th inst., say : The Confederate entrenchments and fortifications extend back from Vicksburg six miles. General Sherman's troops advanced to within two miles of Vicksburg, when he was attacked by a superior Confederate force. The fighting upon Sunday, the 28th ult., was very severe. Batteries were taken and retaken, and the 4th lowa Regiment lost 600 men in killed, wounded, and missing. The Federal General Iforey, with 1,500 men, was sent out to execute a special order, but has not since been heard from. Fears are entertained for his safety. Confederate steamers are conveying reinforce from Louisiana shore to Vicksburg. The Confederates have concentrated all their forces from Jackson to Grenada, and along the line of the roads, amounting to 65,000 men, at Vicks burg. This force attacked General Sherman on Monday, the 29th ult., and caused him to fall back to his first line of defence. Fighting occurred on the 30th, after General Sherman had fallen back, but it was thought he could maintain his position. Confederate General James E. Johnston com mands at Vicksburg. General Sherman has not been reinforced by General Grant, who is still at Holly Springs. The Federals have destroyed the Vicksburg Shreveport, and Texas Railroad as far as Delhi, a distance of 33 miles. It is supposed General Horey's mission was to destroy this railroad, and, as he has not since been heard from, fears are entertained that he was cut off and captured. Southern accounts, dated Vicksburg, 30th ult., represent that the Federals attempted to storm the Confederate lines that morning, but were repulsed with heavy loss. Despatches from General Burnside's army say : —" Although the Confederate force on our front has been greatly reduced, and the army at Port Royal entirely withdrawn from view, it is not believed that any have been sent to reinforce General Bragg from this point, but they have merely fallen back upon the line of railroad for greater facility in pro curing supplies." President Jefferson Davis passed through Au gusta, Georgia, on the 2d Jan., on his way direct to Richmond. During his tour he inspected the military situation at Murfreesboro', Jackson, Vicks burg, and Mobile. General Butler had held a reception in Phila delphia, where he made a speech justifying the hanging of Mumford in New Orleans. He said : " Mumford tore down the Federal flag in daylight in presence of the Federal fleet, leading the Fede ral commander to believe that the mayor of New Orleans had concluded to renew the contest, and, if it had not been for the caution of Commodore Far ragut, the city might have been bombarded." It was in mercy to the town, that was hereafter to be taken, that General Butler considered it necessary to punish Mumford, according to the just laws of war, after the restoration of quiet, whether rightly or wrongly. The act still commended itself to General Butler's judgment. Throngs of rowdies and gamblers were assembled before the execution, and resolved Mumford should not be hung. It became a question whether they or Butler ruled New Orleans, and from that day there was never any question upon that subject. Arrangements are being made to give Butler a public reception in New York. General Halleck has ordered General Grant to rescind his order excluding Jews from the military department in Mississippi. The New York journal contain Washington de spatches, stating that the French Min ist. rat Wash ington had removed the French Consul at New Orleans and appointed M. Fauaounet as his suc cessor. Four ballots have been taken for the Speakership of the Assembly of the New York State Legislature, resulting in a tie vote each time, Dean, Democrat, receiving 63 votes, and Sherman, It publican, the same number. General Grant has issued a general order de_ nouncing as disgraceful the surrender of Holly Springs by the Federal forces, with all the cotton and Government supplies. Grant says it was per fectly practicable to have defended the place until the arrival of reinforcements. THE BOMBAY MAIL. MARSEILLES, JAN. 19. The Vectis, with the above mails, reached Mar seilles at six a.m. this day. The mails left for London by the 11.30 train. ALEXANDRIA, JAN. 18. The Euxine, with the above mails, left this day at 3 p.m. for Marseilles. The Pera, with the heavy portien of the same mails, left this day, at 10 a.m., for Southampton where she may be expected about the 31st inst. She has on board 53 boxes of mails and 49 pack ages of bagge, ex Colombo. The Simla brought the mails to Suez, arriving there on the 14th. ITALY. TURIN, JAN. 18. The Stampa of to-day denies the statement pub lished by LaFrance, and repeated by the Moniteur, that financial difficulties compelled the Italian Go vernment to ask the Chambers to authorise the im mediate conclusion of a new loan. NAPLES, JAN. 18. The French Ambassador at St. Petersburg, the Duke de Montebello, havicg telegraphed to Gene ral Lamarmora requesting him to use his influence for the liberation of the Princess Barberini, General Lamarmora replied that he could not interfere with the course of justice. MADRID, JAN. 17. The new Ministry has been formed, and is com posed as follows : President of the Council and Minister of War, Marshal O'Donnell. Minister for Foreign Affairs, Marshal Serrano. Minister of Interior, Marquis Vega de Armijo. Minister of Finances, Senor Salaverria. Minister of Justice, Senor Guillamas. Minister of Public Works, Senor Santa Cruz. Minister of Marine, Senor Lujan. ATHENS, JAN. 18. The election of the President cf the National Assembly will take place to-morrow. The candi dates for the office are Palamides and Valbis. Fears are entertained in some quarters lest the present crisis should lead to civil war. -____ THE DUKE OF COBURG. COBURG, JAN. 17. The Cobu? ger Zeitung of to-day publishes an extraordinary supplement, which says, " The Duke has left here to-day for Brussels, at the wish of a foreign power. Apprehensions aro entertained lest the Duke should contemplate a change of his position as a ruler." VIENNA, JAN. 18. Telegrams received here ennounee the death of Said Paella. FRANCE. PARIS, JAN. 19. The Moniteur of to-day announces that the in terest on Treasury bonds has been raised to 3 1 1, 4, and 41 per cent., according to the date of their fall ing due. Le Steele tells us of an extraordinary discovery in the artistic world by a M. Willeme, who bas in vented what he calls photo-sculpture. By means of the employment of several photographs obtained simultaneously, and the pantograph, an instrument which reproduces, with perfect fidelity, the lines it is made to follow, enlarging or diminishing them at pleasure, M. Willeme has succeeded in producing sculpture mechanically in a very short space of time. You stand for some seconds as for ordinary photo graphy, and, instead of a flat likeness on glass or paper, you receive your bust or your statue of what ever size you choose. This theory the inventor explained with great clearness a year ago, but few would credit it. An atelier, with the necessary fittings, has been constructed on the Boulevard de l'Etoile. It is a large glazed rotunda, in the middle of which you need only place yourself for a few minutes in any attitude you may select, to return a day or two after, and receive your imago in relief as if from the hands of a master sculptor. The Pays mentions that, in consequence of the last directions of M. Horace Vernet, the Academy of Fine Arts will not be present officially at his funeral. His express wish was that his funeral should be conducted with the greatest simplicity; that there should be no military escort, no deputa tion, and no speech delivered at his tomb. This sad ceremony will only be attended, therefore, by the members of the family and the private friends of the illustrious deceased, to whom the present notice will serve instead of invitation. It is thought that the reading of the address may take place in the Senate on Saturday next, the 24th inst. The debate will , probably begin towards the 28th. The lieutenant of the vessel Iricault, who is commissioned to convey to Hue the commercial treaty concluded between France and Arracan, left Paris this morning at eight o'clock for Marseilles, where he will embark to-morrow evening. The Constitutionnel of to-day announces that the distress and misery of the cotton operatives is in creasing to a great extent. It goes on to state that unless the State had adopted some measures for their relief, that there would be serious cause for anxiety. However, the steps adopted by the Go vernment do not, it is argued, preclude the necessity for private donation, and an urgent appeal is made to all those capable of responding to use every effort in their power for the relief of these worthy suf ferers. A new race-course has been made in the Bois de Vincennes, in imitation of those of the Bois de Boulogne. The object of these races will be to create a stir and animation in the villages at the east of the capital, which were little favoured by any fetes until lately. To-day the demolition of thirty-seven houses will commence, which are to clear the space for the beginning of the projected road between the Faubourg Poissionniere and the Rue Lafitte. Doubtless, it is said, this arrangement will be car ried on steadily to the Rue of the Chaussee D'Autin. BOURSE, Jan. 17.—The arrival of the English funds with a fall of a per cent. has added to the heaviness of the market here, but without, up to the present hour, causing any material decline, Threes, for the Account, being now at 691 r. 90c. The Railway Share Market is also heavy. The market closed as follows per Cents .. 98 GO Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 90 New 3 per Cents Do. end month - Credit Mobilier 1137 50 Do. end month 1143 76 Bank Shares 3410 Credit I4oncier l4BO Piedmontese Fives . Italian Loan 69 80 Russian - - Austrian Spanish Threes — Home Debt .. — RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto Lyons and Medituranean 1162 50 .. 1162 50 Geneva 390 .. 395 Southern Western .. Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian Gory bard North of Spain Saragossa.. Ditto to Barcelona Death of M. Horace Vernet. The sorrowful anticipations inspired during these last two days by the news of the serious ill-health of M. Horace Vernet, says Le Pays, have, alas ! been realized only too quickly. We have the greatesi, possible regret in announc ing the death of this illustrious artist. At half past 9 o'clock yesterday morning he terminated his long and bitter agony, in the palace of the Insti tute, where he occupied an apartment, situated in the right wing. The original cause of the death of M. Horace Vernet dates back now a considerable time. As everyone knows the celebrated painter had an especial love for horse exercise. Eighteen years ago, while out riding he had a fall from his horse in the Park of St. Cloud, this fall breaking two of his ribs. Since which accident three other casualties of a precisely similar kind, have unhappily occurred to aggravate the morbid effects of the first wound. The last of these casualties took place about seven months ago, at Hy eres, on the beautiful property possessed there by M. Horace Vernet. And from that moment a tumour, which had already formed in the injured side, presented characteristics that caused the greatest solicitude to those in attendance upon the patient, necessitating a number of serious surgical operations one after another, ope rations which were performed at Verseilles by Doctors Gosselin and Goddard. Those skilful practitioners—who were succeeded afterwards at Paris by MM. Malgaigne, Honolle, and Vaillant— found it impossible eventually to ward off the dreaded mortification that finally ensued ; the fatal disease at length carrying off, as related, at half-past nine o'clock yesterday morning, the greatest of all the great painters of the military glories of France. THE STREET BOY is the natural enemy of adult man, and it is to him a condition of existence to defy the laws of society and elude the policeman. The better to carry out the great purpose of his life, in choosing, not merely his sports and pastimes, but even his industrial occupations, ho is always guided by the amount of annoy ance he will be enabled to inflict upon his senior fellow creatures. It is for this reason that we find him, even when comparatively reclaimed, specially affecting such employ.. ments as furnish him with an opportunity for giving loud and sudden knocks, uttering shrill and startling cries, delivering irritating messages-- such vocations as those of the youth who brings the newspaper, the printer's boy, the t elegraph-office lad In the streets his ingenuity is chiefly displayed in the way he carries awkward articles entrusted to him. Everyone with a knowledge of boy -nature knows that if you wish to send, from one end of London to the other, anything in • conveniently shaped and difficult to manage in a crowd — say a small ladd er, or a curtain-pole, or a few yards of gas tubing, or a pair of gigshafts—you can always get a boy to carry it for a trifling remunerition, if not fir nothing. The facilities which the task affords for exasperating mankind, by poking it in the ribs and stomach, are to him more than gold or silver. On these occasions, and indeed whatever may be the nature and form of the burden, be it tray, basket, or parcel, his philosophy has taught him that the maximum of pain to the world and pleasure to himself may be secured by carrying his load on his head and resolutely keeping his hands in his pockets. The advantages of this precaution are twofold. In the first place, the position of the article is more favourable for the infliction of injury, and there is more pleasing variety and chance about its evolutions than when carried in the hand; and secondly, there is the pro spect that in some lucky collision it may fall on some body's toes, or at any rate receive some damage itself; for the destruction of property always has a soothing effect on the street-boy's wind,—, Sunday &vim The Pope's Speech on New Year's Day- The following is a literal translation from the Osservatore Romano of the speech delivered by his Holiness to the French officers on New Year's Day : " I accept with paternal affection the congratula tions and the good wishes which you, General, have the goodness to offer me in the name of the army you so worthily commard, and I gladly seize the present occasion to demonstrate my grati tude to that same army which, by the will of your august Sovereign, is placed here for the purpose of guaranteeing the free exercise of his jurisdiction to the Vicar of Christ. Though the French army is glorious in the field by its valour, and in time of peace by its disci pline, I do not hesitate to assert that it is more glorious still by the mission it now fulfils in the name of God, as the noble instrument in His hands for the maintenance of the rights the most legi timate and the most holy of the head of the Catholic religion. This city, which all the world calla eternal,' was destined of God from the first days of Christianity to be the residence of His representa tive on earth. This city, made precious by the blood of martyrs, adorned and sustained by the example of saints, enriched of God in the person of his vicar, whoever ho may be, even unworthy as the present who speaks to you,—enriched, I say, with the gifts of counsel, of wisdom and of firmness,—this city is made the mark of revolution, and of the impious of the whole world, who strive to make it the capital of I know not what kingdom. No; such is not the truth. The very persons that proclaim it the capital with their lips cannot entertain any such will, because their depraved intentions are far different. Yes ; their end attained, they would have this remnant of the temporal dominion, to be able to combat the religion of Jesus Christ. Already have they put in practice his perverse design in the usurped provinces, cast ing into prison both bishops and priests, usurping the possessions of the Church, exposing to scorn and want and hunger the spouses of Jesus Christ, and multiplying disorder and all kinds of immo rality. But to prevent the consummation of this horrible attempt God has set you here, my most beloved children, assigning to you the mission of an enterprise so fraught with glory, When God created the seas and the oceans, which in the moments of tempest raise their threatening waves on high, as if they would swallow up the earth, he yet affixed their limits, forbidding them to pass beyond. Usque hue venies, et non procedes amplius, et hic confringes tumentes fluctus tuos.' So revolu tion and impiety, threatening on every side the capital of the Catholic world, God, by means of you,' imposes on the passions of men that they should not go beyond the limits assigned by him for the present. You then must well see, my most beloved children, how lively is the desire which I feel to raise my hands on high to impart to you the Apos tolic benediction. I bless you and your parents and friends. I bless the whole army of the French wherever it may be found. I bless the Imperial family, and more particularly the young Prince who is united to me in spiritual bonds. I bless the ad mirable French Episcopate and its worthy clergy I bless the millions of Catholics scattered through out the entire .Empire, who in a thousand ways have laboured, and continue to labour, to sustain and comfort this Holy See and the Father of all the Faithful, And because I am the Father of all the Faithful, I desire with all my heart that this benediction may descend copi ously on all who are scattered over the face of the earth, the more so that they have united in consoling the common Father. And why is it not given to me to bless also the enemies of the Holy See and of the Church P But if the hand be not lifted over them to make the sign of redemption, the heart turns to God to implore the Divine mercy upon them. Jacob, the holy patriarch, wrestled during the course of an entire night, but at the dawn of day Jacob discovered that his ad versary was an angel of God, then prostrate on the earth, end, full of love and respect, he exclaimed that he would not let him go till he, the holy angel, had given him his benediction. Those wretched blind ones, who battle in the dark night of ignor ance and of error without perceiving the terrible abyss which yawns before them, do battle against the Church, against its ministers, against the faithful, and against the angels of God, and therefore must we pray that the Lord himself may open their eyes, and that they may be enabled to recognise the immense error they commit, and the imminent peril in which they lie ; that under the influence of salutary remorse they may abandon the abominable enterprise they have taken in hand, and, prostrate in penitence, may demand—first, pardon, and then the benediction of Heaven. Mean while I bless you in the name of the Eternal Father, to the end that in His omnipotence he may giv e you the strength to believe and to hope. I bless you in the name of the Eternal Son, that name whereof the Church this day celebrates the greatness—ia that name before which the heavens bow down, and the earth and hell itself, to the end that you may be inspired for that name with respect and confi dence and love. I bless you in the name of the Holy Spirit—of that Spirit of Charity, to the end taat you may love one another." REPRESENTATION OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE.—Lord George Manners is still the only candidate for the vacancy about to be occasioned by the retirement of Mr. E. Ball, and there is little, if any, doubt, that he will be returned. The noble lord was introduced t) the farmers in the New market district at a meeting held in the course of lass week, and was extremely well received. WAVENEY VALLEY RAILWAY. --A junction bits been effected between the extention of this com pany's line from Bungay to Beccles and the Great Eastern system at the latter town. A party of the Great Eastern directors inspected the works last week, and traffic will be commenced next month. The line will be worked by the Great Eastern Company, and will be fused in that system by an act, which will in all probability be carried through parliament during the ensuing session. BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.—This cow pany propose to raise an additional capital by the creation of new shares or stock to the extent of £375,000, 112 addition to the £4,000,000 already raised or authorised to be raised, to be applied to the enlargement of their stations et Yeovil and Exeter for the interchange of traffic with the South Western, and for the enlargement of several other stations on their line, also for the construction of the Chard and Taunton line, and the lease or purchase of the West Somerset and Bridgwater communication work, together with the purchase of additional lands, and the alteration of rates and charges. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—PROPOSED EX" TENSION TO NOTTINGHAM.—The proposed exten sion will start from the Nottingham and Grantham Rail' way, near Sneinton, and after passing through places ill Nottinghamshire terminate by a junction with the Erewasb Valley branch of the Midland Railway, near the Butterlef Iron Works and Codnor Park, Derby, with a fork line from Greasley. The Parliamentary estimate amounts to £350,000. THE CASE OF THE REV. ME. M`LATJOHLIN.—At' the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, on Satur day, the court gave judgment in the case of the Rev. Patrier 4 M'Laughlin, the Roman catholic priest. The Lord Justice General (111Veill) delivered the unanimous opinion of the seven judges, which was to the effect that Mr. M'Laughfin t however unintentionally, bad been guilty of contempt Ot court. Whatever privilege of confilentiality the law might allow in certain circumstances between a penitent criminal and his spiritual adviser, the privilege could not extend to & case like the present, where the question related not to any communication between the penitent and the clergyman, but to an act of the priest himself. With regard to the limitation of the oath, that procedure was altogether & mistake on the part of the justice, and it did not in any respect take away the obligation of the witness to tell the whole truth, inasmuch as that obligation rested on the common law and not on the form of the oath. Their lord ships, however, in consideration of the priest having been led into some confusion as to his obligation by the conces sion of the justice, and in consideration of his exertions to repair the offence the culprit had committed, resolved to mitigate the sentence to the term of imprisonment already suffered, and to suspend the further execution accordingly• ANECDOTE OF CARDINAL MEZZOFANTI.--Dr• Wap, a professor of Utrecht, who saw Mezzofanti at Rome in April, 1837, wrote in the Cardinal's album el pair of Dutch quatrains, expressive of his admiration• Mezzofanti instantly replied in six lines of Dutch verse, and asked if there were any mistakes in them. Dr. liral) pointed out three, but all very trifling. These lines of Mezzofanti's were undoubtedly produced extempore, sli 4 they aro an answer to the lines of Wap, and they have more easy and flowing air than most of his compositions• They are, perhaps, of all that Dr. Russell has produced , the most extraordinary proof of his wonderful and unparal leled powers, ha the be; ta] th 4 di,