The Sun. — London, England, 1863-05-26 00:00:00

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI, Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, a petite Drama, THE ANGEL OR DEVIL. Miss A. Jones, Mr. Toole, and Mr. Billington. After which (12th time), a new Drama, in one act, entitled THE WOODEN SPOON MAKER. Messrs. B. Webster, Miss H. Simms, and Mrs. 13,1- Stuart, Stephenson , S efton ; lington. Followed by a new Burlesque, ent'fled ILL-TREATED IL TROVATORE. ssrs. Toole. P. Bedford, R Phillips, Ebnrne, C. J. Smith, Romer ; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and Sari, and Miss K. Kelly. _ _ To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Toole, &c. Commence at 7. Mr. J. L. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," 1 Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE , Can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE. NEWS AGEItT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, May 26, 1863. THE SETTLING DAY—Adam Black. EN., M. P.—Ko-Too at Court, &3. Ace.—in FUN, This Week. One Penny. " cIATURDAY NIGHT JOURNAL." Every Week. One Penny. Forensic Reminiscences. The Thames Embankment and its Approaches. America and the Giants; &c. &c. 80, F. eet- street. T HEAT.I-.M.; :11, HAY MARKET. Lessee. Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, BORROWING A HUSBAND. Pa mela, Miss Maria Harris. After which, 9th time, a new and original comedy, entitled FINESSE; or, Spy and Counter-Spy • Mr. Bu-kstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, and Miss Louisa Ange , . Followed by an apropos Dramatic Sketch, introducing a Panorama of the Tour of the Prince of W ales in the East. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at 7. THE DUKE'S MOTTO. THE HUNDREDTH AND TENTH NIGHT. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Management of Mr. PECHTER. THIS EVENING, at 7, 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 Drama, in Three Acts, and Pro7.,Ue, entitled THE A DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G. Jordan, J. Brougnam, H. v‘ , iddi3ombe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson ; Misses Carlotta Lecleroq, Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, and Elsworthy. Acting-Manager, Mr, H. Barnett. THERMOMETER. This morning ....... 54 This day at Two o'clock 63 Barometer-30.12. Wind—N.W. ; light breeze, and fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tau; DAY.—Morning, 7h. 36m.—Afternoon, Bh. sm. To-moßaow.-Morning, Bh. 40m.—Afternoon, 9h. 15m. •17 44, 4.`2 . t ‘ 11 .04, Zif Z l_ * 0 ' e f'' C k 4 .V15.5) P 1: .*,, Np • 'lll LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1863. The Royal Speech delivered yesterday at Turin to Messieurs the Senators and Messieurs the Depu ties of the Italian Parliament by VICTOR EMMANUEL IL may be described at once as, above all things, a speech of generalities. Yet the generalities were so judiciously chosen that it must be regarded alto gether as a :telling speech in its way. It seems strange that it should be so, yet it actually does happen to be so nevertheless, that only now, after so long an interval of silence in hie regard, does the KING, standing in front of his throne, offer to the assembled Legislators of the Peninsula a tardy expression of his opinion in regard to the dead Statesman through the agency of whose wily policy his Majesty, above all men living, has so largely profitted. " You first commenced your Parliamentary labours at the time when Providence," says VICTOR EMMANUEL (not, we may be certain, without a qualm), " had taken from us the illustrious man who so powerfully as sisted me in the difficult enterprise of our rege neration." After all this lapse of time, during which the old, long-vexed question of Unification seems to have sullenly fallen into the background, its noisiest champions, as it were, dropping off one after another into a doze of very exhaustion —it cannot possibly but occur to us at length, re garding the whole state of things yonder in Italy from a distance, and, as much as we possibly can contrive to do so, dispassionately—it cannot possibly, we say, but occur to us that out of the whole turmoil one man, and one man alone, can be described as having in anyway materially profitted, in a worldly sense, out of the whole of it. CAVOUR was in a manner killed by it—worn out prematurely by the harassment of his secret anxieties, toils, and labours in the development of his Macchivellian enterprise. GARIBALDI has unquestionably come to grief through it. His prestige—at one time, and for a long time too, paramount and unrivalled—has long since been cast down into the very dust. The Invincible was overthrown by a mere Colonel of Bersaglieri, in an insignificant tussle in a little hole-in-a-corner among the heights of Aspromonte. The redoubtable conqueror of the Two Sicilies, the most daring of modern Con dottieri, literally put his foot in it at last—into the Italian Boot that is—when he was shot down, with a torturing bullet left in his ankle, as though he had been some ordinary deserter, trapped and driven to bay, by one of the petty officers in the army of King VICTOR EMMANUEL. The King himself is really and truly the one man, who in a worldly sense can be in any way described as having benefitted by the revolutionary move ment in Italy. Yet, while it is so, who will hesitate, who can possibly hesitate, to assert—what common sense certainly compels us to assert—that a man like GARIBALDI, who has individually pro fited nothing by the Revolution, has been through. out it, is still to this present moment, far more con sistent in his course of proceeding in reference to it, than the Royal voluptuary who has profited every thing by it ? That pre-eminently bold, yet at the same time also, it should be said, that pre-eminen tly discreet Swashbuckler, who was dubbed long ago by GARIBALDI himselqin a moment of loyal effusion the —Jte Galantuomo. Remembering how it has come to pass that GARIBALDI, il one may really express it, s i og lehanded, w i t h the audacity of one of theold B uc can eers, seized the Kingdom ttheSicilies and made a present of his booty t o King VICTOR EMMANUEL —one certainly cannot but wonde r over the moral left by tho exploit—when thinking that that same Soldier of Fortune was eventually shot down like a dog by the soldiers of the KING he had served so effectually ! That he has been for months past slowly recovering from his wound in his little rocky home at Caprera, while the Monarch who has so largely benefitted, in a mat erial w a y , that is, by the largeness of his acquisitions in the shape of con qnered c i ties and absorb ed territor y , can p oin t to the result of it all, as (so far) quite successfully un 09 Victor Emmqnue: did, fa it eecompli—referring, w ith not unna tural complacency, }ester day, in his royal speech, to the rcassemblee. Senators and De puties at Turin, to tt,e recognition of his new king. dom by many cf the Foreign Powers ! To his continued success in arranging dynastic alliance after dynastic alliance—the marriage of hie daugh ter, the Princess CLOTILDA , t o EIJI. the Prince NAPOLEON, being followed but a few years after by 'the taking to wife of his other daughter, the Princess MARIA PIA, by the youthful King 'of Portugal ! The King referring also yesterday, • exultantly, to the conclusion of treaties of Commerce successively, by his administrators, with Frame, Belgium, Sweden, and Turkey—other Treaties of Commerce being yet, at this moment, in process of negotiation with England and with Holland. So elated, in fact, with the results of the whole movement is the one man who has individually benefited by it, that is to say, the King—[Cavoun having died under the weight of its prosecution, GARIBALDI having Wien under a fusillade from the royal sol diery because of his at any rate consistent pertina city in striving to carry it out to the very last ex tremity]—that to his Majesty's view everything is rose-coloured. Army and navy are getting rapidly disciplined and perfected, he almost tells us—for something more! "Within two years," says his MAJESTY, "from the campaign of the glorious sub- Alpine army, the soldiers of our new provinces have been organised, and we are now proud of an Italian army, brilliant alike by its valour and solid in its dis cipline. Our navy, rich with so many great elements, and to the development of which yon have devoted so much solicitude, will equal , in progress the renown the army has attained." All the while listening to those sonorous words, reading them as they come flashed to us by telegraph, we cannot but muse over the somewhat selfish complacency of the royal speaker, remembering not only, as we have said— how his Chief Statesman • succumbed in the over zealous advancement, coute qui coute, of the interests of his King—how his Chief Soldier, the greatest military adventurer now living, w as thrown aside like a broken sword-blade when it had done its utmost in carving out, through a host of difficulties, the still incomplete and malformed Rough Outline of a State, called the Kingdom of Italy. Reading the KING'S Speech of yesterday—at the close of its perusal there comes discor dantly to recollection one sinister item from a mass of evidence recently brought forward in the British House of Commons by an eyewitness as credible as the noble lord the Member for the borough of Chichester :—" In the next room [Lord HENRY LENNOX is recounting his recent peregrina tion through the prison at Salerno] there were 230 persons, and to state the squalor and filth in which these men were would require an abler and more elo quent tongue than mine to paint ! Among them were men of the National Guard, who were condemned to that living death because they had listened to the voice of GARIBALDI ! One of them was a most wretched object, and many of them had been in prison so long that they had literally no clothes, and were therefore unable to rise to ask for that pity which had before greeted my ears !" The grave of CAVOITR, the rock of Caprera, the dungeons of the State prison at Valerno—cluster like un sightly and reproachful vignettes round that pic tured pageantry yesterday in the Royal Palace at Turin. The Royal Geographical Society has had an unexpected and scarcely looked for triumph to celebrate at its annual meeting, where full justice was rendered both to the difficulties and the suc cess recounted by the eloquent discourse of their President. The address of Sir RODERICK MUR CHISON will be read with deep interest, for it gives, in a simple, yet graphic manner, an out line of the labours and researches that resulted in the remarkable discovery over which we are now rejoicing. The details of the expedition, the Presi dent purposely left to be more fully given by the discoverers themselves, whose speedy arrival in this country is now confidently looked for. It was enough to tell ns, in the interval, that they had richly earned their reward by a long course of exertion and danger, which needed all their tact and courage to bring to a speedy conclu sion. Only a few weeks since, as Sir RODERICK MURCHISON reminded his hearers, the greatest anxiety was felt for the fate of the enterprising travellers, and these gloomy forebodings were heightened bythe rumour, happily false, of the death of Consul PETHERICK. It will be remembered that this gentleman had arranged to meet the travellers at Gondokoro, on the White Nile, and there to supply them with money and other necessaries. These ar rangements were of course dependant upon the safe passage of both parties through the dangers of the intervening route, and unfortunately the loss of all Consul PETHERICK'S stores would have prevented him from assisting his friends, although he reached the appointed spot. But help was at hand. Another English traveller had heard of Mr. PETHERICK'S troubles, and with a liberality and enterprise that reflect the highest honour on him, he immediately fitted out an expedition at his own cost, resolved if possible to relieve the explorers, or, if that hope failed, to pursue the explorations himself. His energy was rewarded by meeting the wanderers at Gondokoro five days before the arrival of Mr. PETHERICK, and by supplying all their needs. The joy of the travellers at beholding him can with difficulty be pictured in a civilised country. " The meeting," says Captain SPEKE, "of two old friends suddenly approaching one another from the oppo site hemispheres, without the slightest warning, can be better understood than described. He was our saviour, if not in the interior, at any rate on the Nile." The account of Captain SPEKE'S adventures among the native tribes are full of interest. He was fortunate enough to obtain the favour of three powerful Kings—one of whom behaved to him with singular kindness; another detained him in a kind of honourable captivity for five months, this delay being very vexatious. The last district through which he had to pass was, however, the most troublesome, for the people were barbarous, and the King endeavoured to take from him his only chronometer. The adventurers passed a whole year in getting through three kingdoms, in no one of which had a white man ever been seen. And Sir RODERICK MURCHISON remarked that they would scarcely have accomplished this alive had they not been liberal in their gifts to the Kings, and had not these Sovereigns, whose power is abso lute, anxiously wished to open a trade with the whites. In spite of all delays and dangers, however, the travellers safely accomplished their journey, and they have thereby entitled themselves to a high place among the li s t of eminent discoverers. `` The question of the sources of the Nile," said the President, " has occupied geographers and travellers from the re motest periods of history ; and when we come down to the period of the Romans, we learn from SENECA that NERO sent up two centurions to settle the question, but they returned without accomplishing what e:.e f ourre, for u two countrymen only ountrymen have effected. It is not , this occasi on , b ut our as c g oun e t c r g y rn s p h l u e l r d s to rejoice be proud oi such a feat as has been accomplished by the two gillant officers of the Indian army ; and I have no doubt that wh en t h e rec i, als of their toilsandjour neys are made known, as well as their graphic description of interior negro kingdoms of whose names we never heard, they will b e greeted with the same applause of the public as that which was so justly bestowed on my illustrious friend LIVING STONE after be had traversed Southern A &ice." Many a long day elapsed from the return of the two centurions from their fruitless quest, before Sir RODERICK MURCHISON received Captain SPEKE'S laconic telegram, " The Nile is settled !" Curiously enough it was Captain SPEKE who first propounded the theory which has sub sequently proved to be the right one, namely, THE - SUN, LONDON. TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 26, 1861 that the true centre of Africa is a great elevated watery basin, abounding in fertile lands, its large lakes fed by numerous streams, and its waters escaping to the sea by fissures and depressions. "While this theory was clearly verifi- - d in Southern Africa by Livingstone in the escape of the Zambesi, as narrated by himself, and is well known to be true in the case of the Niger, so does it apply to the Nile,in asfar as the great central lake,Vic toria Nyanza, occupies a lofty plateau of 3,500 feet above the sea. In this example, as the waters flow from a southern watershed, and cannot escape to the east or to the west, there being no great trans versal valleys in the flanking higher grounds, they necessarily issue from the northern end of the Lake Victoria Nyanza, and, forming the White Nile, take advantage of a succession of depressions, through which they flow and cascade. The upper most of these cascades, and close to the lake, has been named, after my predecessor, Ripon Falls, Thenceforward, the White Nile, fed by other affluents as it flows to the South, has a descent of 2,400 feet, when it reaches Khartum, which is 1,100 feet above the sea. The general course of the Nile, from south to north, and its peculiarity as a stream, in having no affluent between the Atbara River and the sea, a distance of 1,700 miles, has been illustrated by Sir HENRY HOLLAND. The phenomenon of its being confined to this northward course is due to the fact that the flanking higher grounds, ranging from south to north, do not afford, as in Southern Africa, lateral valleys which lead to the sea." The triumph of ascertaining these valuable and in teresting facts has been justly earned by English men, and this by the perseverance end courage with which they have explored these danger ous and inhospitable regions. Further infor mation will doubtless be obtained by sub sequent discoverers, but the glory of the first discovery indisputably rests with Captain SPEXE and his brave companion. Sir RODERICK MURCHISON justly reminds the public of the en couragement given by him to the proposed route by Zanzibar, at a time when great prejudice existed against it. The result is gratifying in every point of view, and adds a fresh leaf to the laurels won by British discoverers. The wording of the address to the KING by the Chamber of Deputies in Prussia is now published, and is most worthy of attention. It is of some length, and is very carefully arranged. The com pilers of this document appear to have achieved what the French call a juste milieu, between assert ing their rights and yet showing respect to their SOVEREIGN. The address commences by remind ing the KING that at the commencement of the present session, the Chamber pointed out to him the importance of a return to constitutional rules by means of which alone could they hope for a restora tion of peace at home and strength abroad. This is strictly true, and had the Ministers not been so headstrong in their course, very different would now be the prospects of Prussia . They appear to have adopted Perversity as their motto, and the more the Deputies objected, the more determined grew their opposition to all popular rights and all constitutional principles. Next re ference is made to the very extraordinary conduct of the Ministers. In this passage, not being restrained by the respect that naturally influences their lan guage towards the KING, the Deputies speak out strongly, and in no way mince matters. " Your MA JESTY'S Ministers openly express unconstitutional principles, and prepare to act on them." This is stating their grievance in plain terms, and proclaim ing the dereliction of those entrusted with high authority in a manner that cannot be mistaken. Their offences are then enumerated. They have re fused to take part with the Chamber in the bill on Ministerial responsibility, and they have gone so far a 4 to declare that "they could not submit their respon sibility to the judgment of the judicial court desig nated by the constitution." Tnis is a cowardly act in. the first place, and, secondly, proves a violation of the first principles of the constitution. The most inexcusable act is last cited, namely, that they have on a most futile pretext withdrawn themselves from the Chamber in defiance of the right of the two Chambers to demand their presence. After wards reference is made to their influence abroad, and here it is truly stated that danger is to be apprehended, and that the Ministers have disappointed all their hopes by their foreign policy, while by their very unconstitutional acts at home they have lost the confidence of populations and of governments. Even when the Chamber of Deputies has raised its voice against their mistaken and mischievous course no heed is paid to their suggestions ; and the Ministers have even gone so far as to declare that they should make war if they thought it necessary—that they should make war with or without the consent of the Cham ber. Great stress is laid on the failure of the prin cipal object of the session in consequence of the rupture of the personal relations between the Minis tars and the Chambers. We now come to the most important part of the reply, that part of it in which the Chamber tells the KING that it has no further cleans of coming to an understanding with the present Government, and that it declines to co operate in its present policy. They go so far as to say that they consider an abyss is between the advisers of the Crown and the country, an abyss which cannot be filled up but by " a change of per sons, and, what is more, by a change of system." "The country calls for respect for its constitutional rights," says the Address, "may the respectful prayer of the Deputies be heard by your MAJESTY, and may you, as in the glorious days of our past, seek for and find the éclat of the royal house, and the power and safety of the Government, in the reciprocal bond of confidence and of fidelity be- tween the Prince and the people. It is only in that union that we are strong. On that.condition, but on tbat alone, we may without fear await any attack from whatever quarter it may come." This last passage is a worthy conclusion to this most for cible address. If the KING resists the appeal he will have only himself to thank for all that may occur. It would have been difficult, if not almost impos sible, for the subject to have been better treated than it has been in this eloquent and energetic document. The Deputies appear to have been actuated by a due sense of responsibility, and animated also by. that love of their country which has always in ,pired men to great and glorious deeds. They are likewise honest in their remarks; they do not cry peace where there is no peace, but, on the contrary, t hey show the .danger while they suggest the remedy. It is earnestly to be trusted that this final attempt will be si.ccessful, and that the RING will at last recognise the evil that must ensue from if at hle,,ssth,otuoldwoisbesrtinenadtelybeptteerr si ing me for improvement shall hav e i s s t ni ra i n c e a a l r k c u e u n c p o l u ss n e s d els b , y be a f i o t o r e i; e t t h h e e rt —At a muting of siiirl holders of this company May the 21d-.held a t Bi rm i ng h am on S a t ur d a y l as t, . n o• resolutions IMPERIAL CONTINENTAL GAS LIGHT RT COMPANY. J. Rawlin s , E sq., i n t h e c h a i r , th e f o llow] wore pawed —Moved by F. J. Welch, Esq., by S. W. L ucas, Esq., and resolved—"ll secondedat whilst an increas e d di vidend, or a capitalisation of undi divided pr o fi ts, or both, it begs to express its entire con fidence in the di rectors, whose prudence, discretion, and pleased to see th is meetin g would be much management have obtained for this company so pre-eminent a position." Also resolved—" That the chairman be re quested to forward a copy of the above resolution to the board of directors," ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. LE PROPHET E. This all but masterpiece of Meyerbeer is now so thoroughly establishe d as one of the great attractions of this theatre, on the score of a completeness of rendering which it probably could receive at no other house in Europe, that its repro duction is always looked forward to as one of the chief treats of the year, and a tribute equally duo to manage ment, public, and composer. Little wonder, therefore, that last evenbag its announcement served to a , serable one of the most brilliant audiences of the season, and that its per formance proved a source of the very highest gratification. It is ti ue we had to accept on this occasion the substi tution of Madlle. Didiee for Madlle. Caillag, in the charac ter of F ides, and we shall not pretend to disguise the abatement in the power of the performanco which this change net lessarily occasioned Madlle. Didiee is among the most va tious and engaging of our London favourites— a sound M 1,31 ician, a thorough artist, and a singer possessed of a most agmeable and expressive voice, but she has neither the tragic g•enius nor the physical power which are de manded by the sorrowing Fides, and which unite in so striking a man ner in the claims of Madllo. Caillag. In ad dition to this, .11adlle. Didiea was so unwell on this wee sion that Mr. Harris was compelled to request the indul gence of the audience on her behalf beford the commencement .af the third act, so that the public were nit permitted to enjoy the fall extent of the compensation which it is usually in her power to bestow. Nevertheless, in the face of all deficiencies, and against the exactions of all standards, her performance was stamped with a merit which was universally acknowledged, and which cannot fail to advance her position as one of the most sterling members of the company. Her " Figlio mio" was distinguished by its depth of pa.• thetic earnestness. Her "Pieta pieta," was equally marked by its emphatic feeling, and the subsequent duet with Bertha had every claim to the loud approval with which it was rewarded. The cast of the opera in other respects retained its old and grand attractions. Signor Tamberlik was the John of Leyden, and the very finest, need we add, that the Lyric stage of Europe possesses. His voice was in superb order, and he has rarely exerted with more success all those qualities which so nobly denote If m, than on the occasion of last evening. His " Impero piu soave" was again an instance of that intense feeling which he can so well unite with his tragic vigour; and so also was his "Madre addio," which terminated the first set amidst loud and general demonstrations. Of an opposite and equally successful character was his "Del Ciel lo sguardo, at the conclusion of the second act, which led to his summons be fore the curtain by all parts of the house. The remainder of the performance we can only refer to in our old and general terms of praise. Madlle. Dottini was the Bertha, Signor Tagliafico the D'Oberthal, and Signora Baraldi and Polonini, with Herr Zelger, the Anabaptists, and the exer tions of each must be acknowledged as most meritorious. Of the delivery of the magnificent choruses with which this opera abounds no eulogy could be too great, nor is a less tribute demanded by the superb performance of the band, under the baton of Mr. Costa. The unrivalled miss en scene, which so peculiarly distinguishes this great produc tion, of course remains in all its glory—its wonderful skat ing scene included—and the entire impression of the night, was one that amply sustained the character of this first of lyric theatres. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. MADLLE. PICCOLOMONI. The three performances for the benefit of Mr. Lumley, which were originally advertised to be given at Her Majesty's Theatre during the present month, but which for reasons that we need not discuss were transferred to the above house, were initiated last evening by a performance of the " Traviata," in which the heroine was sustained by its moat distinguished representative. Mr. Lumley's claims as a manager, during the 18 years that he directed our only Italian opera, are sufficiently acknowledged to account for the crowded and elegant appearance of the theatre last night, which has rarely worn the look of fashion that it presented on this occasion, Had such a cause, however, bean wanting, the re-appearance of Maine. Piccolomoni, now the Marchioness Gaetani, and especially under the well-known circumstances of her return, would have been quite enough we fancy to have ensured the result attained. Most of our readers must be aware that she has not only emerged from her retitement, but made the jour ney to London on purpose to evince her sympathy with the manager who introduced her to tie London public. As much in a personal respect, therefore, as an artistic, she was likely to obtain a hearty response to her generous en deavours and to be rewarded with the welcome which so warmly and universally greeted her first appearance in the opera. She soon, however, convinced her patrons that on artistic grounds alone she was entitled to the reception which had been so earnestly accorded to her. She never sang or acted better than on this particular occasion. Whilst she showed that her vocal power was not at all impaired, her histrionic was manifested in all its old unrivalled excellence. Her pleasant kindly face, it is true, and a little embonpoint of person, somewhat detracted from the effect of the consump tive and remorseful Lost One, bet these were objections soon forgotten in the passionate ardour of her acting, which won her a loud recall at the conclusion of each act, and a still more emphatic summons at the final descent of the curtain. She enjoyed the able support of Signor Giuglini in Alfredo, who was deservedly encored in the " I miei bollenti spiriti," and also Signor Della Sedie in the elder Germont, whose rendering of all his music, b u t m ore especially the "Di Prov e n za," was graceful and tender to a degree. Aradlle. Ferraris also added her attractions to the list, by one of her most charming introductions, in the divertisse ment given in the ball-room. At the conclusion of the opera, Mr. Lumley made his appearance in answer to the summons of the entire house, and bowed his acknowledgments with a very obvious amount of emolon. On Friday next their Royal High nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales will honour the third performance with their presence, when the entertain ments will consist of " La Figlia del Reggimento," and the last act of the " Favorite," in which Madlie. Piccolemoni will be supported by Signor Giuglini. Upwards of 36,000 holiday folk visited the Cry s4al Palace yesterday, partly attraoted by the beauty of the place, and partly by the round of amusements specially provided for the occasion. Ample music was provided by the company's band, the band of the Coldstream Guards, and the great organ. The Zoological Society's gardens in the Regent's park, always a favourite resort of the London , rs on their national festival of Whit Monday, were more than usually crowded yesterday. A MISERABLE VIGNETTE FROM THE DERBY DAY—AS SKETCHED BY THE " SPECTATOR."— There was one sorrowful creature who had dragged a barrow load of ginger-becr all the way from London, having started the previous day. Of course ginger-beer stood no chance in such weather—a mouthful of snow would have been as . and the peoplepleasfint;and wereinth gehaufrtreyrinnoon, when the races were over, away, the poor woman sat on her barrow quite alone, with her head buried in her hands, and tears streaming through her thin fingers. She had " not taken a penny," she said, and it was all she had reckoned upon for weeks. We saw her afterwards about a mile on the road painfully dragging on through the deep sticky mud, which came over her boots at every step. It w,s one of the minor tragedies of the D. that forlorn I:eing toiling back, disheartened and sad, to a starving home. A PROTEST AGAINST PUNNING. —Except when it involves a witty thought, the play on words is but the mark of a mind too feeble to lay hold habitually with its entire attention on the thoughts of which words are the signs, but accustomed to stop at the mere percep tion of their sound within the ear. It indicates the weak ness of an intellect so little attentive to souse that it is able to spend what trifle of thought it connects witb the use of words on the jumping aside after any jingle that can be dragged into false association with them. The social con tempt for the mere punster is not expressed as in playful juke against a spoilt child of good humour; it is the well grounded and demonstrably just censure of a manner of speech that signifies commonly a want of intellect. Where a man of sound judment has Leen like Sidney SinCh also a punster, his puns always sent home a witty thought and were not a mere brainless playing upon words.—Examiner. PLYMOUTH, Monday, 10 p.m.—(By Electric and International Telegraph.)—The ship Owen Glendower, Captain Norris, which left the Downs last Monday with passengers for Auckland, has put into the Sound this evening leaky. EXETER HALL —We are re.luested by Mr. Mar•. tin to state that the performance of Handel's " Judas Mac cabous," by the National Choral Society, with Mr. Sims Reeves, will commen2e at half-past seven on Thursday evening, and not at eight o'clock as previously announced. Several gentleman connected with the city are engaged in an endeavour to procure a commemorative statue of William Paterson, the founder of the Bank of Bngland, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) - -- SPAIN. MADRID, MAY 25, It asserted that Senor Facundo Goni will proceed to Mexico as Spanish Plenipotentiary, after the French troops shall have entered that city. Twenty-one Prefects have been replaced. The rumours of a Ministerial crisis are unfounded. Senor Enriquez has been appointed Under-Secre tary to the Ministry of Marine. The Duke of Montpeniier will shortly leave for London. FRANCE. PARIS, MAY 26. The Constitutionnel of to-day contains an article signed by its chief editor, M. Paulin Limayrac, upon the intrigues of men belonging to the old par ties. The writer says :—" An end is about to be put to equivocation. Up to the present time these par ties have undermined the power of the Govern ment by subterranean intrigues, penetrating the Administration by its former relations with it, and vitiating the principle of Government. "The tendency of popular Government is vigor• ous, full of sap and energy, of love for the masses, and sympathy for the popular classes who, the first to hail it, were often perverted by men of a different spirit, who insinuated themselves into many posi tions under false pretences of devotion, corrupting the best systems by introducing the poison of ancient influences. " It was a source of surprise that a known enemy of the Government should exercise so much influ• enco on the Administration. Thank God, that is about to cease. False friends, false devotion, and false services will be unmasked, and placed face to face with the declared enemies of the Govern ment. The part which the Government has to fulfil will be freed from all the obstacles which have hitherto impeded its progress. " The ,enius of the empire will be fortified by that which is lost by the spirit of intrigue." BOURSE, May 25.—The market has not been very animated, but the prices of Saturday have been well maintained, Threes being unvaried at 69f. 60c. The Railway Share Market has been also quiet, but firm. The market closed as fol lows : It per Cents. 97 Do. end month 97 8 per Cents Do. end month 69 65 Credit Mobilier 1447 50 Do. end month 1451 25 Bank Shares 3450 Credit koncier 1450 Italian Loan 72 60 Do. end month — New ditto Do. end month.... Russian Austrian SpaniBh Threes 53 50 Home Debt RA ILWAYB. Cash. Account. Orleqns lOO7 50 .. 1006 25 Northern New, ditto .. . Lyons and Mediterranean 1065 .. 1068 75 Geneva.. Southern 777 50 775 Western Eastern ..... 512 50 512 50 Sardinian Austrian Lon. bard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona 580 - . . 580 - 730 - . . 727 60 387 50 . . 388 75 C D . n rt tiritulat HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, May 23. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helana, nod attended by Lady A. Bruce, went out driving this morning. Princess Louise went out riding, Prince Arthur arrived at the Castle, attended by Major Elphinstor e. Dr. M'Leod arrived at the Castle. Her Majesty's Birthday. WINDSOR, May 25, The 44th birthday of her Majesty the Queen fall ing this year on Sunday, it was simply annou•iced early in the morning of yesterday by one joyous peal from the bells of the Chapel Royal of St. George and St. John's Church, and to-day this aus picious event was observed with the customary honours. Early in the morning and throughout the day merry peals were sent forth from the above churches, a royal salute was fired in the Long-walk from the corporation ordnance by the town lmnbar dier, and in the evening the principal inhabitants and royal tradesmen celebrated the day by dining together at the White Hart Hotel, when Mr. Win. Harrison, the worthy mayor, presided, and the cus tomary loyal and patriotic toasts were given and responded to with much fervency and ability. The customary handsome present from her Majesty of a fat buck from Windsor Castle Great park graced the table, with every delicacy of the season, dis playing much taste and liberality on the part of the host, Mr. Johnson. Had it been later in the season the present of venison would have been ac companied by a handsome present from the royal gardens. There were also royal salutes fired from Fort Belvedere and the Adelaide frigate on Virginia water. The birthday of her Royal Highness Princess Helena Augusta Victoria, born May 25, 1846, was also observed here with the customary honours, THE CALCUTTA MAILS. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have received the following telegram " MARSEILLES, MAY. 26. " The Euxine, with the above mails, arrived at Marseilles at 6 a.m. this day. " The mails were to leave for London at 11 a.m.' Sheridan in Paris, or lin Homme de Ries. Mr. Aylic Langle, a French dramatist, who about a month ago suddenly leaped into celebrity as the author of a comedy in four acts, entitled " Un Homme de Rien," and produced at the Theatre du Vaudeville, shows a great deal of the talent by which the egg-dancer of former days was distinguished. He has chosen for his principal personage no less a man than Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and he has evidently taken some pains to become acquainted with the circumstances connected with his subject. He knows that Sheridan was a dramatist before he was a politician, and that, of his two corn edies, the " Rivals" was written before the " School for Scandal." He knows th a t Sheridan went int o Parliament as representative of Stafford, and that he figured in the ranks of the Opposition. He knows that his love for the lady he married in his youth involved him in two duels with the same adversary. He knows that at the and of the last century, there was a celebrated English actor named Kemble. The acquisition of all this knowledge implies a praiseworthy spirit of research not igways to be found in a French dramatist. But what is far more surpris ing than the knowledge possessed by M. Langle is an in accuracy which almost seems to be the result of deli berate study. Having mastered a tolerably veracious outline, he is determined to be incorrect in every de• tail; nor did the accomplished egg-dancer avoid touch ing her eggs with greater precision than is shown by the dramatist in missing correct dates and facts. He must not be compared with those common Gallic blunderers who exhibit a Lord Mayor selling his wife at Smithfield, or show the constituency of a free and in dependent British borough electing a member of the House of Lords. These may be likened to egg-dancers who would shirk the task imposed upon them, by putting their eggs in one corner of the room, while they danced in the other. They simply avoid their mark by not approaching it, and their caution is undeserving of applause. But N. Langle dexterously navigates through an archipelago of facts, and the skill with which ho avoids bumping against an historical truth is really marvellous. If he once grew careless, he would be right in spite of himself; but such is his vigilance, that any misfortune of that kind is beyond the sphere of moral possibility.—Saturday Review. —Precisely a like absurdity was perpetrated twenty odd years ago by M. Alexandre Dumas in his utterly ridiculous drama of Kean (that is Edmund Kean), the Tragedian. MARKETS—This Day. HAY MARK2TS. SMITIMELD.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 Os Od ; clover do., £3 10s to £5 lOs; and straw, £1 lOs to £1 16s per load. A. slow demand. CUMBERLAND..—Meadow hay, £2 Os to Os; clove) do., £3 lOs to £5 lOs; and straw, £1 10. i to £1 16s per load. Trade inactive. WHITECHAPEL —Meadow hay, £2 Od to £1 Oz ; clover do ,£3 lOs to £5 10s; and straw, lOs to £1 lGs per load. Trade dull. COLONIAL. TEA.—The dealings have been extremely limited, and prices remain inactive. SUGAR.—There has been a fair inquiry for exportation, but the operations for home consumption have been chiefly in good grocery qualities, at slightly reduced quotations. COFFEE.—OnIya small amount of business has been trap sacted at about previous rates. RicE.—For East India descriptions there has been e, moderate inquiry, without any mwerial alteration to report in values. TALLOW.—The market has continued exceedingly inac tive, and but few dealings have taken place, either for pre sent or forward delivery. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 43s 6d, and last three months 408 per cwt. The "Four-in-Hand" Club's first appearance for the season in Hyde-park is spoken of by the Court Journal as not having been a good one, owing to a tre mendous shower coming down about an hour before the time appointed for the "meet." The sky, however, cleared, and about six o'clock seven or eight of the "drags" ap peared at the Magazine, and shortly afterwards wended their way in procession down "the drive" to Greenwich. The Earl of Sefton took the lead, and his "golden chest nuts" showed no diminution in the exquisite beauty they presented last year, Mr. William Morritt, the member for the North Riding of Yorkshire, has turned his experience to good account, and his neat yellow drag and work-like looking reans presented quite the beau i ;eat of the old coaching days. The Duke of Sutherland followed with a team of magnificent bays, and Lord Strathmore rivalled him with four splendid browns. Lord Londesborough's turn out is too well knows for every sort of perfection to need e--pecial mention, and it excited quite a sensation in Paris, where its noble owner ordered that it should meet him on his return from the East. The drags of Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, of Sir George Wombwell, and of Captain Callen der, a debut, brought up the rear, An attorney (evidently up to sharp practice) stated the other day in the Court of Bankruptcy in Liverpool that it had teen his custom to carry in his pocket book a blank cheque-book of each of the local backs : and the reason he assigned for this practice was, that sometimes people would say, " Dear me, if I had my cheque-book Pd pay you." "Oh I you would, would you ? " Yes, certainly." Whereupon he was down upon them with a blank cheque. AND CHINA The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess of Macclesfield and Major T ees d a l e , visited the International Dog Show, at the Agricul tural Hall, Islington, yesterday morning, The Duke de Chartres paid a visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough Hou se . The Prince of Wales, attended by his Equerry in Waiting, rode on horseback. The Princess of W a l es , attended by her Lady in Waiting, took a drive in an open carriage. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales dined with the Duchess of Inverness in the evening at her residence in Kensington Palace. Their royal highnesses were attended by the Coun tess of Macclesfield and Major Teesdale. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Misses Longley have left town for Addington Park, Croydon, for the Whitsuntide recess. Prince Alexander Dolgorouki and Count George de St. Priest have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, from Paris. The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough come to town to-morrow from Blenheim Palace, near Woodstock. The parties for which invitations were issued were put off, owing to several of the junior members of the family being attacked by scarlatina. Having quite recovered, the duke and duchess are now enabled to receive company. We un derstand that the Marquis of Blandford is about to enter one of the regiments of the household cavalry. Prince Stirbey has arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Nice. The Duke of Somerset, as First Lord of the Ad miralty, will give a full-dress dinner on the 6th of the ensuing month, to a numerous and distinguished party be longing to his department of the State in honour of the Queen's birthday. The Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has issued invitations for a State dinner a 4 the Clarendon Hotel in honour of her Majesty's birthday on Saturday, June 6. The Marquis of Ailesbury will receive a large circle at dinner on the 6th June in honour of the Queen's birthday. The Earl and Countess Jernlyn left town yester day for Ickworth Park, near Bury St. Edmund's, for a few days. The Countess Cowper and Ladies Cowper have gone to Wrest Park, Beds, for the holidays, The Earl and Countess of Devon have loft town for Powderham Castle, Exeter, for the Whitsuntide holi days. The Earl Russell, as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has issued cards for a full-dress banquet on Saturday, the 6th proximo, in celebration of her Majesty's birthday, to the whole of the foreign Ambassadors and Ministers, together with the noblemen and gentlemen who have filled diplomatic appointments abroad at present in town. The Earl de Grey, as Secretary of State for War, will entertain a numerous circle of military officers and others connected with his particular department at the State on Saturday, the 6th of next month, in celebration of the Queen's birthday. The Earl of Dudley gave his first ball for the season last night at Dudley House, Park.lane. A nume rous party was present. Lord Stanley of Alderley has left town for Alderley Park, Cheshire, for the Parliamentary recess, Lady Stanley and family remain in town. Lord and Lady Farnham have arrived at Cl aridge's Hotel from Cavan for the season, Lady Rennie has issued cards for her first dancing party in the first week of June, The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Secretary of State for the Home Department, has issued invitations for a state dinner at the Clarendon Hotel, in honour of her Majesty's birthday, on Saturday, June 6. THE FRENCH ELECTIONS. We read in the Constitutionnel—" The candidate ship of M. Thiers ought to be opposed by every possible means, and the Government expects from 'ou that you will use the greatest efforts to cause s failure, and that the electors will treat it as it deserves." Those words were addressed in 1848 by the Minister of the Interior, and eigned by M. Jules Favre, the Secretary-General of the Ministry to M. Emile 011ivier, the Commissioner of M. Ledru Rol lin, in the Bouches du Rhone, and afterwards removed by General C tvaignac. Every one ought to have justice done him ; the instructions of M. Jules Favre were very clear, and M. Emile 011ivier executed them faithfully. He undoubtedly might have ventured to make some observations to the Micister of the Interior on freedom of universal suffrage, and against the system of official candie dateships. He ought perhaps to have added a word in favour of the illustrious and national historian of the French revolution. He did not think of it any more than his chief then thought of the solemn and indignant speeches which he since so frequently delivered on the same subject. M. Longepied, agent of the clubs, who had received from the Pro visional Government 123,000 fr. to facilitate the ap plication of universal suffrage, took the field. M. fliers was opposed, according to Ministerial order, by every possible means, but two months nfter the re port of M. Ducos on the accounts of the Provisional Government said.--' We have not been satisfied with the explanations given M. Emile 011ivier as to the employment of two sums of 1,500 f. and 13,200 f. He has been obliged, he says, to send delegates into e great number of communes in the Bouches du Rhone, to reconstitute the municipal authority and to direct the electoral movement.' And further on, as to the outlays which hove taken place, from the avowal of M. 011ivier himself, to exercise an ener getic influence on the elections,' we cannot admit them, and we do not suppose that the Assembly will show itself more complacent than its committee, we therefore reject the 13,200f.' M. Tillers failed. At present M. Thiers sees his name figure on an elec toral list, between those of M. Jules Favre and M. Emile 011ivier. M. Thiers recently wrote that, at the moment of becoming a candidate, he felt the greatest repugnance. Every one will comprehend it." The arrangements for the "meeting of the three choirs "—in other words, the Worcester Musical Festival of this year—are nearly completed. The principal singers engaged are Mdlle, Titiens, Madame Lemm ens _ Sherrington, Madame Sainton-Dolby, Miss Banks, Miss Palmer, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. Wilbye Cooper, Mr. Weiss, and Mr. Santley—a great array of vocal talent. The fes tival will be held during the second week of September. TEE RUSSIAN BUDGET. ST. PETERSBURG, May 20. The Ministry of Finance has just completed and published one of its most important labours—the budget for 1863. Instead of the simple balance sheet of tables sent into the world last year as the first Russian budget, we are presented upon this occasion with a regular argumentative report, giv ing manifest signs of its author having put the best face upon affairs. There are probably few countries where a single year brings about such changes in finance as is the case here, and Herr von Reutern has taken trouble to enumerate them in detail. It is only requisite to observe that the practice of farm ing ont the right of supplying brandy, hitherto the main source of revenue, ceased on January 1, and had been replaced by free trade; that the tax upon trade will be assessed upon new principles, and with 50 per cent, reduction, from the let July ; and that the poll-tax in towns has been abolished, and a house talc substituted in its stead. With sill these changes it is difficult to form an even approximate;y correct estimate, and comparisons with the bygone year are quite impracticable. Added to this comes the fact that a number of income and expenditure items, formerly not mentioned in the budget at all, are now introduced. The income from these sources alone amounts to 42.7 million roubles, and the ex penditure to 37.8 millions. The former of these are estimated at 318.8 millions for 1863, or, after de ducting the above-mentioned 42.7 millions, amount to 276.1, while the figures in 1862 were 284.7. The diminution is owing to the abolition of brandy farm ing, for the consequences of which the Government had no standard of measurement, but simply as sumed that a deficit of 14 millions might take place in this branch. It appears, however, that the first quarter of 1863 has not justified this assumption, but that, on the contrary, an increase of income from this source may be expected. With re spect to events in Poland alone, the Minister has found his lowered estimate correct. Owing to the abolition of the above-mentioned direct taxes, the revenue from these last has diminished by 520,000 roubles; but the Crown domains, on the other hand, have produced an increase of 2.7 millions. The supplementary impost of 25 per cent. added in October last to the tax on occupants of land, has produced 6,290 000 roubles. A decrease of 700,000 roubles was expected in revenue from the removal of the cotton tax, and a diminution of 1,700,000 roubles on the mining produce and coin taxes, owing to the abolition of the former to make way for free trade. The expenditure is estimated at 330.5 millions, which, after deducting the 37.8 millions not pre viously taken into consideration, leaves 292.7 mil lions for comparison with 1862, when the expendi. ture amounted to 310.6. From this 15 millions are to be deducted which have been expended upon ac count of sources of revenue no longer in existence (brandy, ize.). The remainder therefore amounts to 295 5 millions, or a diminution of 2.8 millions in 1863, and this notwithstanding the increase of cer tain eApenses, such as pensions, the interest of the new loan, &c. The dEficit, which in 1862 amounted to 141 millions, has risen in 1863 to 15.7 millions. Tois it is proposed to cover by an exchequer sur plus of 700,000 roubles, and the issue of five series of Treasury bills, each series consisting of 3 mil lions. Of these latter 9.6 millions are already in circulation. The financial report, as may be sue' posed, is silent as to the influence of the Polish re° volution upon this comparatively favourable budget, and it possesses therefore a purely statistical value. Letter from Norfolk, Virginia. The following extracts are from a letter addressed by a young officer of the British navy to a friend in Edinburgh, and give an interesting glimpse of the movements of society in a town with Southern sympathies but in Federal possession ; '• H.M.S. Desperate, off Norfolk, Va, April 29. We left Fortress Monroe yesterday in conse quence of a request from our vice-consul here that we should come up for the purpose of affording protection to himself and the other British subjects in the town, in the event of an attack on the town by the Confederates. " The Confederates are in the neighbourhood of the town in pretty considerable force. General Longstreet has the command, some say of 50,0 0° ' others of 30,000; the latter is the opinion held bY the Federal authorities, their own power beieg about the same. They hold the advantage in their possessing gunboats; still even with that grea t help they are not doing the amount of damage to the Confederates which they so sanguinely ea' petted. " For some time the presence of the so-called rebels has been palpably made known to their an tagonists in the neighbourhood of Suffolk by occa sional raids, not doing any serious damage, but still enough to keep the others on the alert, and prevent any aid being sent to others of their forces in a worse position. Still, though constantly harassing, the attack on the encampment was never made. A short time ago the Confederates managed to erect a battery on the bank of the Nansemond River, about half-way between Fort Monroe and Norfolk, from which they have been for some time annoying ',he gunboats. We have heard the firing distinctly for about the last ten days. All Sunday it was very heavy. At that time we did not know where it was going on, but on coming up here we found out that the battery had been captured and about 100 men taken prisoners —not, however, without (it is said) destroying three of the Federal boats entirely, and one partially. " One of the brightest occurrences took place down here a few days ago. General Corcoran was stopped by Col. Kimball, of the 9th N.Y. Volun teers, and asked for the countersign; not having it, and being refused to be passed, he coolly out with his Colt and shot the colonel. N-xt day he is pro moted from brigadier to major general! I think that beats Sir Joshua Jebb and the For gar rotters.' "Should the Confederates advance on the town of Norfolk (at present they are investing Suffolk), General Keyes, commander-in-chief of the Federal army here, has given notice that he will at once fire upon the town without regard to either sex or age; • and has given notice to all the women to quit the town, hut they will not go. I do not, however, anticipate tht, attack will take place, and think that all the game here is for the purpose of taking the attention of the Federals off some more important point. Te Yankees are awfully savage at us, because we do not visit them at all, while we are never out _ -- of the houses of th e C on f e d erates. Th ey put it all down to our feeling sympathy with the South , Well, I dare say there may be some ground for their attributing it to that; in some cases I know 0 0 feeling is entirely with the Confederates, but the real fact is that we got some introductions to the ladies of Norfolk from other naval sfficers who 10 4 been here, and we all like them very much. We have no parties or any thing of that kind; all they say is,' You bring a lot of gentlemen, an d we ' l l find the ladies,' so off we go in a body of about a doze' and call at any of their houses. Well, from ther e we disperse and bag as many ladies as are necessary and then all come back again, and go at it as 1 06 as we can, dancing and singing. "This is quite as pleasant for them as for us, for they have literally only one young man in the town' all all the rest b e i ng i n the army or navy • and he d °e not go much o ut , as h e i s tormented by ~ a ll us ions ' crinolines, caps, an d crochet, so they are gla d t 0 catch us. "There is one projected move on foot here- 41Z ," the establishment of a civil government in VirgiD lB ; Whether this is to be subordinate to the preaal" military law, or to supersede that, we do not kao w . ,; at any rate th e Vi rg i nians about here do not se e ® to relish it muc h . They have a King " now, who, however, is a gentleman ; and 00' are mightily afraid of getting a King Stork, whoa , hundred t o one, w i ll not be so. The idea en ter. rained by some here at present is, that all the or b e who will not ta k e t h e oath of allegiance vill packed off to Dixie,' while the ladies will not allowed to leave the town ; and by this refineinell_te cruelty, this separation of families to induce II:, poor wretches to join the detested Union.. _f; present almost all supplies are cut off from them' some families, indeed have hardly on. Still, from what I have seen of the fr . ! e here, male and female, 'should aay that, if au the Confederates are like the people of this part er conqu er them:' may exterminate, but never will thorn." enough to ouuo