The Sun. — London, England, 1864-04-12 00:00:00

It IRFOOPLOEPREY—thHeVuinNsEanSd"the RAaiNlwDays iPinilishieLd ducation, Szc., in FUN this week. One Penny --..--..- B ONNET'S SILKS a LYON. --Every Article of commerce takes its title either from the inventor th oe r manufacturer, and the more perfect the production greater is the credit which attaches to the originator. BONNET'S SILKS are said to be incapable of identifica tion in England ; but the fallacy of such an assertion is ex posed by the very trade mark of the firm, as ex by Messrs. JAY, of Regent-street. The following interwoven mar k may be seen at the end ofeach piece :—" Manufacture de C. J. Bonnet et Cie., a, Lyon e a Injurieux." Wear guaranteed. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent -garden. From this time until the end of the season there will be four nights in each week, viz., every Monday, Tuesday, Thurs day, and s atsrday. if Mdlie. Lagrul---Signor Graziani—Signor Mario. THIS EV I , 'NING (Tuesday , the 12thlApril. will be per formed* tor the 2d time this season, Donizctti's oera, LA. FAVORIT A. Leonora, Mdlle. Emi Lagraa, her 2d ap pearance in that char.:c cc in England; Inez, Madame Tag liafico ; Alfonso XL, Signor Graziaui ; Baldassar , Signor Attri ; Don Gaspard, Signor Rossi ; and Itrdiaando, signor Conductor, Mr. Costa. The incidental Divertissement will be supported by Mdlle. Salvioni, Mdlle. Carmine, and Mdlle. Navarre. Commence at ha , f past Eight. Pit tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre rta Is, 10s. 641., 75., and ss. ; amphitheatre. 2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had at th- box-offic •• under the portico of the theatre, and at the principal musicsellers' and librarians'. TaEATRE ROYAL DRUR Y-L AN E. Managers, Messrs. Edmond Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, MAGIC TOYS. Miss Lydia Thomp son. • After which, will be prod u c ed the Grand Stage Revival of Shak+pere's Chrsmicle or Historical Play, entitled the First Part of HENRY TEIE FOURTH. No pains or expense will be spared to render this presen tation of out Nation ,1 Author's most popular, and it may be said, most rep •esentative E(iglish Drama. a becom ng Corn rue norarfon, in example, at the National Theatr, of tt grandeur and corn :rehensiye chancier of his genius. emine..it The cast will include imperso nations by those 'trtists, Mr. PH S(.I.,PS, Mr. Walter Montgomery, Mr. Walter Lacy. Mr. .e ddiso Mr. Ryder, Mr. itobert Roxby, Mr. Barrett, Mr. E Phelps, Mr. Rayner, Mr. H. Vandenhoff, Mr. G. Belmore, 5.1 r. Ellerton, Mr. Fitzjames, Mr. Neville ; Miss Edith Wynne, Mss R se Leclercq, •nd Mrs. Edmund Fal coner, supported by all the Members of the Drury-lase Ccm an p y. Tne new and characteristic sceiery will be entirely de - B med and painted by Mr. William Beverley. The cos climes, armour, &o, will be fashioned from designs by R. W. Beene, Esq., t,ken from illustrated MSS. of the veriod, and other autoor ties. Concluding with AN APRIL FOOL. Mr. G. Belmore. 11IHEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.- sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, April 12, OUR A NIE ilicAN COUSIN: Messrs. t-othern, Buckstone, Chippen•lale, Itoeers, Clark, Gordon, Braid, &c. ; Mesdames Angel, Lindley, Bill, Harrii, Snowden, &c After which, the new Easter piece, entitled VENU 3 AND ADONIS. Messrs. Compton, Wm. Farren, Coe. &c. flames Louise Keeley, Snowden, Nelly eo wet - , fill, Wright, Rogers, &c. To conclude with TURNING THE TABLES. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, PAUL'S RETURN. After which, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. The Two Dromios, by the Brothers Webb. To conclude with. 12th time, a new Farce, by J. M. Morton, Esq., entitled DRAWING-ROOM. SECOND FLOUR, AND Af rICS. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Pechter. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with THE DAY AtoTEEt THE FAIR: Messrs. Widdi combe, Garden, Moreland, and Miss E. Lavenu. A Ater which, at Elaht o'clock, the 129th Night of BEL DE MON TO, a Love Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from Stendhal's " Italian Chronicle .." Principal characters by Messrs. Jordan, Charles, J. Brougham, Emery, Morton, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford, Collett, Sims ; Miss Hate Terry, Miss E. Lavenu, Mrs. Lee, Miss Elsworthy. The Public are entreated to take notice that No Charge Is 'inade to the occupants of Boxes, Box-places, or Stalls, either for play bills or for the safe keeping* of hat 4 and cloaks, and that the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden to receive any gratuities whatever. Box-office open daily from 11 to 5. Commence at 7. NEW THEN rttE-Ro YAL, ADELPHI.— Sole Pronrtstor and Hanavr. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING-. ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS : Mr. - J. L. Toole, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Billington, and Yliss K. Kelly. At 8, LE All: Hiss Bateman, supported by Messrs. A. Stirling, R. Phillips, Biliington, Stuart, Eburne, Stephenson ; Miss H. Simms and lrs. Bi, lington. To siaclude with THE AREA BELLE : Nressrs. J. L. Too7e, P. Bedford, It homer, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. MISS BAT E M A E A H.-'THIS EVENING and EVE itY EVENING.—Miss Bateman will re-ap ear in her great impersonation of the Jewish ma dm til further notice. In urder o give due effect trds moat remarkable suc.les of the se son, e irel new scenery by the celebrat ar ists Messrs. Danson and ions, and Thofups n. New dr as s and appo ntm.nts have be n prepare i for its production.—N. 1. In consequence of the ..I. , essing and numerous applications at the Box-offi e, ar vigement have cow been made by which Seats m-y be ob a Fortnight in Advance. --- ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Cro aided with Rank and Fashion. —The greatly successful aew Cc.m dy every Evening.—Re-engagement of those cele brated :ertistes, Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews. Amongst the artists engaged are Mr. Benj.Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. J. L. 1 1, ,01e, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. F. Robinson ; Miss Herbert, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. THIS EVENING, A DAY AFTER THE W F.DDING. Mr. F. Robinson and Miss Herbert, her first appearince this season. At a quarter before 8, the successful new Comedy, by L. Buckim!ham, Esq., entitled THE SILVER LINIAG Mr. harles Mathews, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ashley, Mr. Montague ; NirS Charles Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirling. After whi3b, COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles Mathews. To conclude with UNDER THE ROSE : Mr. Ashley and Miss A. Cottrell. Commence at 7. R '' Manager, STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, MY PRESERVER. later which, the Grand Christmas Bariesque, ORPHEUS AND EURY OICE : Messrs. Honey, Wood, James Fenton, gesdames Swanborough, 15Iarie Wilton, Hughes, &o. Concluding with TURN Hilt OUT. Commence at 7. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing,' the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, eau he had Every Evening of G. It. GLItNIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Ilyde-park. COALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis' 26s. per ton. I Double .21s. per ton. Top 255. „ Nuts.— ... 195. „ Deep .225. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, uaddin gton, W. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. The Weather—Sun Office, April 12, 18644 TRERNIOMETER This day at Two o'clock Barometer-30.60. Wind—N ; fresh breeze, and fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAL—Morning, sh. 46m.—Afternoon, 6i. 10m, To-mou - now.-Morning, 6h. 30m.—Afternoon, 6h. 56m, Stilt LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1864. About GARIBALDI'S reception yesterday by the people of London there cannot possibly be (as there certainly ought not to be) any misapprehension whatever. It is the simplest truth—it is the merest statement of a fact—to say that it was, just in one word, magnificent. The weather was superb ; the multitudes assembled together were stupendous; the enthusiasm displayed by those multitudes admits in no way of exaggeration. In proof of ail which, one single fact will speak for itself—namely, the fact that it took jive hours and twenty minutes for GARIBALDI to reach his princely destination, as the guest of the Duke of SUTHER LAND, from the moment of his leaving the rail way carriage at the N; --ne Elms Station ! Five mortal hours and twenty minutes between the time of his emerging from the railway carriage on to the platform at the Nine Elms terminus, and the time or his crossing the threshold of Stafford House, in St. James's. The distanc e interve ning between those two points is tolerab l y well know n to every Lon doner. It could be walked readily enough in very little more than half - an - h our. And yet 8 0 dense was the throng of people of all ages, of both sexes, cf all conditions, that poured out to see GARI BALDI and to welcome him on his arrival in our metropolis, that it took those five hours and twenty minutes for one of the Duke of SUTHERLAND'S carriages, drawn by four horses, mounted by postillions in the Duke's livery, to convey GARIBALDI to his destination. That one fact, we say, speaks clearly enough for itself. It indicates at once the vastoes' of the assembled concourse, and the enthusiasm of the people gathered together along the routo of the process lion. As to the actual number present, there, in th e streets, to see GARIBALDI, it is, of course, impossible to compute it with anything like accu racy. But, remembering the extent of the popu lation of London, and remembering also the vast throngs that poured into the capital by railway yesterday from all pacts of the country to catch a glimpse of the celebrated adventurer whose arrival was being so very eagerly looked for, we don't think it would be extravagant to say that he was greeted during those five hours and twenty minutes, between the Nine Elms Station and Staf ford House, by fully 1,000,000! After this—again we say it—there cannot surely by any doubt what ever as to the character of GARIBALDI'S reception yesterday by the people of London. Bat, now, as to its meaning —as to the meaning of this vast and astounding popular movement. It is to be hoped that that, too, admits of no misapprehension whatever. It is a movement so far without any of the sinister significance attached to it by such noodles as M. ASSOLANT, that the real meaning of it all, as it appears to us, may thus, perhaps, all things considered, be the most accurately ex pressed : Englishmen have got it into their heads that GARIBALDI is one of the very bravest, that he is one of the most dauntless men living. And his exploits, his known exploits, those achievements accomplished by him as a Soldier, as a Sailor, as what the Spaniards called a Buccaneer, what the Americans call a Filibus ter, what the Italians themselves called a Condot tiere, if they indicate anything at all certainly in dicate in GARIBALDI'S nature not so much per sonal valour as absolute audacity. As indicative of this consummate audacity, his memorable expo • dition, with one thousand followers, free lances, so to speak, or freebooters, or by whatever name we may choose to call them—his renowned expedition, at the head of those one thousand men, from Genoa to Sicily, is comparable only to one other incident recorded in modern history—meaning the Return from Elba of the great NAPOLEON ! NAPOLEON also traversing the waters of the Medi terranean—from Frejus to Cannes—at the head of one thousand followers. Only, it should be borne in mind, certainly, that while the two incidents were kindred in their audacity, there was this difference between them, that whereas NAPO LEON'S advance upon Paris was achieved without the shedding of one drop of blood, there was fierce fighting enough at one or two points before GARI BALDI'S conquest of the two Sicilies could be accomplished. Indeed, if regard be had to the relative disproportion of numbers between the combatants and the signal victory achieved in some instances by the minority, Melazzo and Calatafimi mey take rank in this way with Sir CHARLES NAPIER'S dashing exploits at Meannee and Hyderabad. Englishmen, again, we would say then, have somehow got it into their heads that GARIBALDI is one of the most dauntless men living. His defence of Rome against OUDINOT in 1849 ; his retreat thence towards Venice in the same year when pursued by the Austrians; his daring advance against the Austrians ten years afterwards, when, between the lakes and the mountains to the north of Lombardy, he opened what afterwards came to be known as the War of Independence, the war later on signalised by the French victories of Magenta and Solferino; above all, his conquest of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies four years ago, when (as is now universally known, as, indeed, was notorious at the very time) at the head of a mere handfull of fellow-adven turers—these facts, especially, in the history of GARIBALDI have impressed the English people with the notion that this man is, in truth, dauntless, that in his nature this world-famous Soldier-Sailor has a heroism of character akin to oar own NELSON, or our own DIINDONALD. Again, the history of GARIBALDI has impressed the English observers of it with a profound sense of the man's individual disinterestedness. It is a fact, as undeniable for example, as that NAPO LEON 111. conquered Lombardy, at the head of his insignificant army, and thea handed over that conquered province as a gift to King VICTOR EMMANUEL, that GARIBALDI at the head of no magnificent army at all, but simply taking with the mere handful of followers already mentioned, after conquering, at the point of his sword, and then completely taking possession afterwards of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, handed over that king dom as a gift to that same King VICTOR EMMA NUEL, Nevertheless, while those two facts just par• ticularised, those two achievements and those two gifts were precisely as we have described them to have been, Englishmen have got somehow to remem ber as the historical sequels or consequences of them, that whereas NAPOLEON 111., later on, absorbed Nice and Savoy into his own empire, GARIBALDI has profited nothing, pecuniarily or territorially, by Ms " transaction." They attach to the memory of his deeds, therefore, a sense in his regard of complete disinterestedness. The reception they have given to him, therefore, to sum all is one sentence, is demonstrative of their ardent recogni tion of his personal valour and his personal disinte restedness. Foreign nations will do well, we would observe, when they come to hear of GARIBALDI'S reception in London, to recognise this, in truth, as the real inner meaning and signification of yesterday's astounding demonstration. M. ASSOLANT et hoc genus omne msy write themselves do wn what DOGBERR Y wished to be written down by the clerkly Sexton, they may do this ad libitum to their own perfect edification, doubtless, but certainly (there can be no ques tion ab)ut this) to our excesstNe amusement, whist they are so writing. But Rational Observers on the continent will look, on the other hand, some• what more dispassionately at the incidents now transpiring in this country by reasons of GABI BALDIB presence amongst Us, and so, regarding them, will attach to these incidents, we repeat, no sinister significence whatever. As if in testimony of the fact being precisely as we have here put it, the very manner of GARI BALDI'S reception, betokens that it has no party significance, that it is more of a personal de monstration. While, for example, GARIBALDI is greeted in the streets by the humblest classes of the population, he is, during his stay in London, the guest of one of the wealthiest patricians in the land, the young Duke of SUTHERLAND. Upon this very morning, egain, down at Chiswick he has been welc..and by his ducal host's mother (one of the most intimate personal friends of her Majesty the QUEEN) her Grace the Dowager Duchess of SUTHERLAND. To-morrow evening, moreover, at Stafford House, GARIBALDI is to be entertained at a grand banquet given there in his honour—a banquet at which the chiefs of both the great politi cal parties, that is, of the Government and of the Opposition, will attend. Chief among those chiefs being the Earl of DERBY, the ex-Premier, and the now Prime Minister of England, Viscuunt PAL MERSTON. Whether or not, in recognition of the Duke of SUTHERLAND'S hospitality we know not— bat, at any rate, precisely at the time of his displaying ir, there appears the announcement that his Grace, for no other earthly reason conceivable, saving, indeed, hie wealth and his lineage, i, to receive the Vacant Garter. As indicative, again, that the pre sent i 3 a personal and not a political demonstration, it is worth noticing that conspicuous among those who fraternised with the Italian chief during his recent sojourn in the Isle of Wight, there was one so little of a politician in any way, certainly so little of a politician in any parti san spirit, as the Poet Laureate ! While, conspicuous upon the list of names, names good, bad, and indif ferent, making up the hodge-podge of what is called the Reception Committee, appears the name of CHARLES DICKENS, the Great Novelist. The de monstration yesterday, upon the arrival of GARI BALDI in the metropolis, it is agreeable to think, passed off without any untoward incident whatever —such as the tumult sardonically anticipated by the Spectator. And it is thus, too, in spite of several pro ceedings eminently calculated either to render the popular movement of yesterday ridicu ous, or to pro voke among the right thinking feelings of profound indignation. A preposterous panegyric on MAZZINI, articulated through one of the addresses presented to GARIBALDI, might have justified, as it appears to us, any amount of indignation, and that, namely, as an interpolated panegyric conceived, in every syllable of it, in the most evil taste, and one, it should be said, moreover, having nothing what ever to do with the proceedings of yesterday. As to the nonsensical inscription upon one of the ban tiers of "Rome or Death," while it was signally suggestive of the Big Word, and No Acts signal ising th© Foreign Policy of Earl RUSSELL, it looked immensely like a mal apropos reminder to the hero of yesterday's ovation of about the most flagrant error of his whole life, that blunder (worse than a crime, a mistake) ending in his fiasco at Aspro monte. "Rome or Death" were GARIBALDI'S watch words then : and certainly it was for him much more like Death than Rome at Aspromonte. *** With one solitary oversight, which we are anxious here to particularise, the Police arrange ments yesterday were admirably good. But the oversight alluded to—a distinct and shameful over sight on the part of the Police authorities, was nothing less, as it appears to us, than an outrage against Public Opinion of the most flagrant charac ter well conceivable. And the outrage we refer to was nothing less than this—that in the neighbour hood and along the line of the procession there were allowed to be displayed upon the walls, by hundreds upon hundreds, disgraceful posters, inset bold letters thus— GARIBALDI, MAZZINI, S T A NS F E L D, AND .bed in THB SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, 1864. LORD PALMERSTON FOR EVER. An outrage like this ought certainly sever to have been quietly tolerated by the police. It the pla cards so inscribed were posted up, on the sly, during the night time, the police authorities ought at the least to have had them torn down with indignation in the morning, Thera seems to be really no end to the lamentable cases resulting from the mismangement of affairs by the Bethnal-green officials. Mr. CHRISTY, the re lieving officer, has already earned a most unenviable reputation for his harshness to the sick and desti tute, and he seems to be only carrying out the wishes and expressing the sentiments of those around him. There is no doubt that the charge for the maintenance of the poor presses very heavily on the inhabitants of a district like Bethnal-green, where a great part of the ratepayers can barely keep above pauperism themselves, and the anxious desire of the guardians to keep the expenses of the Union down to the mirimum is, of course, princi pally due to the real necessities of the district. A striking proof is thus afforded of the evils arising from the inequality of the poor rate, since St. George's, Hanover-square, could certainly pay treble the amount charged on St. George's-in-the- East with less inconvenience, instead of being only called upon to contribute a small proportion of the sum demanded from the poorer parish. It is hard and unjust that the chief burden of supporting the absolutely destitute should fall upon the poor instead of the rich, but that such is the case the returns of the parish rates indisputably show. Still, allowing for all natural reluctance to increase an already exorbitant charge it is cer tainly difficult to exonerate the cfficials of Bethnal Green from the charge of indifference to the lives and sufferings of their fellow creatures, if nothing worse. We can hardly set down the constant re petition of deaths from want and neglect, of coro ners' innuests, and mutual recrimination, to acci- ' dental or casual causes. They are rather the fruits of a system regularly carried on, whose effects vary in proportion to the degree of sickness and destitu tion it encounters. The one grand object seems to be to give as little relief as possible, to disgust the poor with parish aid and to saddle their assistance, when at last reluctantly granted, with conditions that render it so distasteful as sometimes to make absolute starvation preferable in the minds of those who have "seen better days." It seems at the outset very strange that when there is an organized and costly system of parish relief professedly avail able for every destitute person, such a thing as death from want of the common necessaries of life should be ever heard of amongst us. Yet the re• cords of this winter alone reveal some startling tragedies, and there is little security that another season of equal severity will not witness their repetition. One grand barrier which has been found very effectual in deterring the more respectable class of the very poor from seeking parish aid is the condition that if one member of a family is ill and wants care and relief, the whole family must come into the house before it is attainable. The recent case at Bethnal-green was an instance of this sort. A woman, aged 62, the wife of a weaver, died from congestion of the lungs, her death, according to the medical testimony, being accelerated by pri • vation. The husband stated that Dr. MoonE had attended his wife, and given a certificate for her admission to the infirmary. The man, who pro bably could not read, thought it was an order, and took his wife with it in a cab to the workhouse. When there, 'the porter refused to admit the woman, saying it was as much as his place was worth to let her in without a regular order. She could not stand,but had to be supported at the gate, where she remained for nearly an hour. It was raining fast, and the poor woman at length begged to be taken back, or she "should die in the street." The porter was asked for a chair, that she might rest for a little while, but he refused it. The next day the husband obtained an order for nourishment from Dr. MOORE, which he took to Mr. CHRISTY. According to the evidence, that gentleman said, " I shall give no nourishment. You must both come into the house." The man replied—" It is very hard that the parish chould be burthened with two when only one wants relief." Mr. CHRISTY said he did not care, both should come in, Ultimately—it is not said how long after—he sent an order of admission, when the poor woman I was taken to the infirmary, and died soon after. This evidence was mainly corroborated by other witnesses ; and a gateman at the union, who did not remember being asked for a chair, confessed to having orders to let no one sit down. The family, who were six in number, were supported by the daughter, who earned £1 a week by washing. Such a sum, though quite sufficient to keep the healthy members off the parish, would certainly not allow for comforts which a sick woma❑ might absolutely require. These are the very cases which our unions should especially aid—the struggling poor, who maintain themselves as long as they can, and only come to the parish from absolute necessity. But it is all alike to Mr. CHRISTY and his associates. " Move on," is their watchword. "No admittance" should be inscribed on their gates. So long as no pauper sits down at their gates, the porter's work is done; so long as the relief and attendance for the sick is made conditional on a man in health becom ing an inmate of the dismal able-bodied ward, at the cost of separation from his family, and sacrifice of his independence, the relieving officer's duty is accomplished. If a pauper dies, more or less, what does it signify ? There are already too many in Bethnal.green. If their deaths are hastened by cold and exposure at the workhouse r%er it will tech a useful lesson to the survivors to be less troublesome when their turn comes. Mr. CHRISTY is, apparently, of the schoot of DRAco, and we fear he is not the only man who ranks poverty as the first of crimes. LITERATURE, Adela Cathcart. By George MacDonald, M,A., author of "David Elgiubrod," &e. Three Vols. Hurst and Blackett. "Adele Cathcart" should, most assuredly, have been issued at Christmas time, and it would have taken its place as one of the most delightful Christ mas books which have appeared for many years. It is appropriate to the season of lay and legend on account of the variety of miscellaneous tales and songs which are in the course of its pages happily introduced, and it is more especially adapted to the season of love and, kindness by reason of the Christian s which tae whole of charity and tenderness by whole narrative and series of narratives is. suffused. As Professor Kingsley says of Dr, Newman, " We like its tone"—it is one which wil or should find universal favour. Without the name on the title-page, it is easy to recognise " Adele Cathcart" as the emanation of a poet's mind, and the outpouring of a poet's heart. Adele, the heroine of the main story, is the only child of a widowed father, and wh e n th e st o ry b eg i ns , at Ch r i s t mas t i me, she is drooping appa rent cause, and dying away without any Iliettai or physical. A new doctor is called .a, who ultimately effects her cure by the kency of an elixir not specified in the Pharmacopia. This doctor and Mr. John Smith, a dear delightful old bachelor, the narrator of the history, concoct a plan to win the young lady back from her life of ideal sorrow to a contemplation of the stern realities of actual existence, as exemplified in the lives of her fellow. creatures. To this end a set of very charitable conspirators meet together, and narrate tales and recount histories singularly varied in style and character, but all animated by one high beneficent purpose. The young lady listens—and, as her tears fall for the woes of others, already her own individual burden becomes more light. Among the group of characters assembled at Purleybridge we are introduced to some very interesting indivi duals. First, and forethost, there is our host, the father of Adele, the worthy Col. Cathcart, "straight, broad-shouldered, and tall, with a severe military expression underlying the genuine hospitality of his countenance, as if he could not get rid of a sense of duty even when doing what we liked best." The good Colonel, who is devoted to his daughter, is nevertheless anxious to have for his son-in-law his nephew Percy, who forms one of the Christmas guests, and who proves to be an empty-headed coxcomb, who can only think of number one. This gentleman generally passes the time of the story-telling asleep on a sofa. His character is best revealed after church on Christmas day, when, having declined to accompany the party of worshippers, he meets them on their return. " There, in the churchyard, we found Percy, stand ing astride of an infant's grave, with his hands in his trousers.pockets, and an air of condescending satis faction on his countenance, which seemed to say to the dead beneath him— , Pray don't apolo gise. I know you are disagreeable, but you can't help it, you know,' and to the living coming out of Church—' Well, have you had your little whim out ?' ' Percy owns that he does not like Sunday. His mother, he tells us, had produced this effect by an over-strictness and a too-constantly enforced atendance at Church. " But the worst of it is," confesses the delinquent, "I can't of my head that I ought to there even get it out be when I'm driving tandem to Richmond." Mr. Smith, who narrates to us the whole st or y , is, he himself says, a Nobody, full of sy m p ath y in all the joys and sorrows of all a round him, and hence himself a most l oveable and welcome companion. The curate and h is wife, and the doctor above mentioned, ere interesting studies in their different ways, but the old school master and his wife are to our mind the most attractive persons in the motley group, and the stories related by them surpass all the rest in ten swoisthimiptslypaatnhdeticnaptinetrualrie;of d th es e o d ri e b a a t d h , o w f ten derness and t ru thf u l ness . Th e schoolmaster's story , appeal to the heart OT every mother who may read it. " The will alllittle baby, Brokeu Swords" is a very animated and interesting narrative. The young soldier, who has one sword broken in disgrace, more than retrieves his honour and the second sword is broken as be gall antl y falls standing alone in the post of danger. So various are the histories introduced that we cannot be sur prised that there are some among the number not quite to our taste. Of these are, s trange to say, the contributions of Mr. Smith, who , p ractical man as he is, tells us th e s t or y of a " L i ght Prin cese," who has b e en d e p r i ve d by a wicked fairy of her gravity, or power of gravitation, which is humorous in the extreme, but this s tor y and the " giant's he ar t" are cer t a i n ly mo re adapted to the chiloren's library. Were the book , h owever, as we have eaid, a Ch r i s t mas b oo k ( a nd it is well worthy of appearing as suc h i n a secon d edition next et inter) then eventhmeoseral, however,fantasticva in w ould be in season. Thor© t h e most apparently is a charmingo r frivolous. A mong th e more attractive con tributions n oeintocryhroifs:miUss Day,cle P e ter"—Uncle Peter and who in conse quence regarded every succeeding C hristmas es a new n who was b excuse fcr acts of generous kindness. We heartily agree with Colonel Cathcart who, when it is ob. jected that Uncle Peter is not natural, exclaimed, " Chen he ought to be ! and it is all the more reason for putting him into a story if he is not to bo found in the world." Mrs. Bloomfield tells a sweet little tale of how a lady learned a lesson—the lesson— from an idiot boy, who gratefully trusted every thing to the bountiful care of Blessed Father." Some fragments of Mr. Armstrong's discourses we would willingly quote as specimens at once of the beautiful style and tender teaching that abounds in these three volumes, but isolated passages would do injustice to the book, which is better read as a whole, and fir which many a thoughtful reader will feel a new debt of gratitude to the author of "David Elginbrod." THE COMPOSER OF THE NATIONAL ANTHEM : WAS IT Dn. JOHN BULL?—` The name," said Mre. Nickleby the beloved, "began with B and ended with G. Perhaps it was Waters." A worse motto than this, for the use of those who love whimsy, might be found to stand at the head of the controversies concerning. the parentage of our noble National Hymn. The last speculation put forth concerning it, with the usual charming assurance and so quiintance with facts of our Allies, in one of their journals, is this, that Haydn (I) pilfered the tune from Lulli, and presented it to England.—Athanevunt. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LREITTER'S TELEGRAMS.] THE FRENCH BUDGET. PARIS APRIL 12, 11.7 a.m: The Budget stipulates that the stamp duty, levied in accordance with the law of the 13th May, 1863, on rentes, loans, and public securities of foreign Governments shall be raised from 50 centimes to 1 franc. This measure is to take effect from the Ist July, 1861. THE BOMBARDMENT OF DUFFEL. COPENHAGEN, APRIL 11, 1.55 e.m. A violent fire was uninterruptedly kept up by the enemy uniil 7 p.m. yesterday. Twenty of our men were wounded. The windmill on Duppel hill has been burnt down. FLENSBURG, APRIL 12. A rescript of the Civil Commissioners prohibits all public officers in Schleswig, under penalty of immediate dismissal, from affixing their signatures to any resolutions or addresses having reference to the London Conference. THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 12. The Royal Mail steamship Seine, with the above mails,has arrived here. She brings 150 passengers, 2,661,695 dots. in specie, and 821 packages, and a general cargo. She left St. Thomas's on the 29th ult., and experienced fine weather throughout the passage. Diplomatic negocia'ions between Chile and Bolivia had been broken off. The quarrel is prin cipally the Mejillones Islands end their deposits of guano. Peru and the Minister of the United States had offered their intervention. Eleetioneering was progressing. It was amid pated that the results would be favourable to the liberals. A disastrous fire bad occurred in Valparaiso, and •property to the value cf 400,000 dole. had been destroyed. The fire originated in the best part of the city. Messrs. Huth, Gruning, and Co., and Messrs. Green, Nicholson, and Co., English firms, have been completely burnt out. A better tone prevai;ed in general business. Considerable sales had been made. Foreign arrivals were numerous. Home charters had declined. Her MNjesty's corvette Alert left Valparaiso on ,he 20th ult. for Vancouver's Island. At Valparaiso exchange was quoted 44d. to 44d. Bar silver, per mare, fine, 10 dole. 75 c. The general news from Peru is unimportant. A measure had emanated from the Government to put down gambling houses, and punish gamblers. The experiments made in Guatemala for growing cotton had been successful. In Honduras General Jose Maria Medina had been elected President, and General Florencio Xatruch Vice-Present. Alvarez, the opposition can didate, had left the country, and taken refuge in the island of Roatan. The constituent Assembly in Salvador was hold ing session. Several laws had bean passed, and a commission appointed for reforming the constitution. In Nicaragua President Martinz had tendered his resignation, which the Congress had declined to accept. The cotton crop was better than had been ex pected. It was calculated that it would amount to 20,000 quintals. Extensive preparations were making for the next crop. Large tracts of land bad been cleared for cultivation. Trade was reported dull at Greytown. The new channel to the harbour wes completely closed up, BOMBAY AND MAURMITS MAILS, SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 12. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Syria, with the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 118 passengers, a general cargo, and £l2O in specie. She left Gibraltar on the 7th inst., and on the Bth spoke the steamer Ceylon. Gibraltar exchange on London, 20 days, 50k; on Paris, 5.30; Marseilles, 5.31. Freights unchanged. The weather was fine at Jamaica. The cotton cultivation was engaging attention, and being ex tended. The sugar crop was backward. Coffee was scarce, and prices advancing. Freights were plentiful for Europe. Exchange, 90 days, half per cent. At Demerara the weather was fine, and the estates were busy. Produce was arriving freely at the market. Freights unchanged. Exchange, 90 days,:47o dollars. Barbadoes was suffering from want of rain. Sugar reaping, and the general yield was unsatis. factory. The young canes were healthy. Trade dull. Exchange, 4871 dollars. From St. Domingo nothing important. The insurgents were said to be disheartened. AUSTRIA, VIENNA, April 9. At 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon the Emperor left this city for Trieste. His Majesty was accom panied by his yoengest brother (the Archduke Louis Victor), the Archduke Leopold, the Ministers Count Rechberg and M. von Schmerling, Count Crenneville (the First Adjutant-General), Count Koefstein (the Lord Marshal), M. von Carolyi (the Hungarian Vice-Chancellor), M. von Mazuranic (the Croatian Chancellor), and Baron Geringer, the representative of Count Nadasdy, the Chancellor of the Grand Principality of Transylvania. The Abend Post (a supplement to the official Wiener Zeitung) tells us that the Emperor has gone to Trieste, " to affix his signature to a Staats Acte (Public Act), which the acceptance of the Imperial Crown of Mexico by his Imperial Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian has rendered ne cessary." When his Majesty left he said he expected to be in Vienna again early in the morning of Sunday (to-morrow), but he will hardly be able to get back so soon, as it has been snowing heavily for the last four and twenty hours. It is understood that his Imperial Highness will retain his title of Archduke of Austria, and his ap panage of 120,000f1, (X12;000) a year. The Em peror has allowed his brother to levy 6,000 men here. The Austro-Mexican Legion will consist of three battalions of the Line, one regiment of Lancer, one regiment of Hussars, two batteries of eight guns each, one company of Engineers, and one company of Pioneers. Officers and men are to be engaged for six years, and at the expiration of that time the former will be allowed to re-enter the Austrian army, and to have the rank they held when they left it. The bounty money offered is 25f1. for the common soldiers aid 501 for the non-commissioned officers. Many cfficers have already effered their services to the Archduke, and some of them are men of rank and standing. For the last few weeks an artist has been employed at Miramar in making drawings for the liveries and other household necessaries of the future Emperor of Mexico. Information has been received from Bucharest that 400 Austrian and Italian refugees are collected on the frontier of Transylvania, and are waiting for an opportunity of getting unobserved into that pro vince. The men of action in Moldavia are said to be in direct communication with persons in the Szekler districts ; but I doubt the correctness of the statement, as people here are much in Vie habit of making mountains of molehills. As eilc regiments are posted on the frontiers of Transylvania, the Austrian Government has little , or no cause to fear that 400 men, who have not a single leader of note, will attempt to enter that province. 15,000 men Are on their way from Salzburg to the Southern Tyrol, and several battalions are now marching from Hungary to Venetia. Men in office still think that there will be a revolutionary outbreak in the above-mentioned province before the year is at an end ; but persons of my acquaintance, who are in correspondence with the inhabitants of some of the principal Italian cities, say the prevalent opinion is, that the moment is inopportune. The Dalmatian Diet has been dis solved " bete use no benefit to the province is to be expected from it." The general Synods of the Lutherans and Calvirists in Austria have at length been convoked for May 22, 1862, and their sittings will be held in this city. Schubert, the renowned composer, died here on the 19th November, 1828, and his property, which consisted of wearing apparel and notes, was valued at 631 Toe expenses for his funeral, which were defrayed by his relatives and friends, were 84.351 The sum of 17,0001 has now been subscribed here by the admirers of Schubert's conipceitions, and the money will be employed in the construction of a monument to the memory of a man of whom the Austrians are very proud, As is but too often the case, the merits of the originator of the musical composition known as the German " Lied" were not properly appreciated until he was dead and gone. Schubert was 32 years of age when he died. BELGIUM. The Belgian Senate in its last sitting adopted the bill for annexing to the commune of Brussels two zones 'of territory belonging to the communes of Ixelles and St. Gilles, lying by the side of the avenue leading from the boulevards to the public promenade of the Bois do la Chambre : " The bill for allowing the entrance duty free of vessels built abroad and purchased by Belgian shipowners was the object of an amendment pro posed by Baron Osy, senator of Antwerp. The bill fixed the Ist March last as the day from which its enactments were to take effect. Ihe amendment proposed to alter the date to the 15th of the same month. Baron Osy objected to the retroactive character given to the law. The Minister of Finance had been accused of wishing to render the law executory on the Ist of March, in order to favour an Antwerp shipowner, the purchaser of a vessel nationalised after that date. Baron Osy declared that ho did not propose his amendment in consequence of that circumstance, but solely on principle. The code interdicted retroactive laws, because they might be at tended with danger. The Minister of Finance repned that the charge brought against him was unfounded, that the shipowner alluded to had not nationalised his vessel, and therefore could derive no advantage from the Ist of March. Ho also remarked that, as to the question of principle, Baron Osy only objected to retroactivity for the Ist of March, but admitted it for the 15th. However the Sen ate would consider whether, for an amendment of such trifling importance, it was worth while to incur the inconvenience of sending the bill back to the other Chamber, which had already rejected a simi lar amendment. The Senate then declared against the amendmen by a large majority, and ad opted the bill. FRANCE. A letter from Canton in the illonitet:r says " M. de Trenquayle, the French Consul at this port received a visit on the 15th Nov., from the Viceroy of the two Kounags, and was fortunate enough to induce that eminent personage to accept an official invitation to be present at the Catholic church of Canton. The two Tartar Geaerals, the Go vernor, the Superintendent of the Finance and the Treasurer, have also promised to attend. Grand preparations are being made, and great curiosity is felt to witness the strange spectacle of all the Chinese authorities coming offi cially to render homage to a faith the profession of which by a native only a short time since entailed the penalty of death. This incident is a striking proof of the influence which France exercises in the south of China owing to her successes in 1857. The French Consul has received from the Chinese Go vernment expressions of its satisfaction at the im provement apparent among the Chinese troops owing to the instruction given to them by the French sub-officers appointed for that purpose. A communication from Voile says—The Dorm= brigade having returned to support the Prussian troops, the Gondrecourt brigade has partially occu pied the position so left, and which covers the corps of operation before Fredericia. The advanced posts to the north are supplied by the Prussians and Ans■ trians alternately, the Prussians occupying them for 48 hours, and the Austrians then for as long. Since the arrival of the Austrians the Danes have not shown themselves south of Horsens. The screw corvette Heimdal, from the Sound, has arrived at Copenhagen, with a screw frigate, the Amphion, 300 horse power, built for war service, but without guns, and under jury-masts. Tne dal sighted this vessel carrying the English flag in the neighbourt ood of Elsinore. As'she presented a suspicious appearance, she was ordered to lay to, but disregarded the order, whereupon the Heimdal fired a shot across her bows and brought her up. The captain stated that he was bound for Copen hagen to offer the ship to the Danish Government, hut as there was reason to suppose her intended fur Dan talc or some other Prussian Port, the commandt r of the Heimdal thought it best to bring the suspi cious stranger into this port. _ _ . BOURSE, April 11.—The market is without ani mation, but Saturday's quotations generally well maintained. Threes, for the Account, are now unvaried at 66f. 15c. Mobilier have slightly im proved, being last quoted at 1,053 i -r. 75c. The Railway Market quiet, but firm. The market closed as follows : --- - II - per Cents. 93 50 Italian Loan 67 Do. end month.... Do. end month 63 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 66 25 Do, end month — Credit M0bi1ier....1055 Russian Do. end m0nth....1056 25 Austrian Bank Sharsi 3300 Spanish Threes..,. Credit Ponder 1290 Horne "Debt Roman AA IL 'AYB, Cash. Account. 906 25 .. 907 50 976 25 .. 977 50 Orleans , ... Northern .... New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 94) .. 945 New ditto Southern 653 75 .. 653 75 Western Eastern Sardinian 366 25 .. 365 Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa 590 •.. 587 50 Ditto to Barcelona HOLSTEIN. A large majority of the members of the Holstein Estates (40 out of 49) met on the sth at Kiel, in extraordinary Session, and unanimously passed the following declaration : " We, the undersigned Deputies to the Holstein Assembly of Estates, at present consisting of 49 members, solemnly declare, with regard to the Conference of European Powers about to assemble in London, as follows: " We protest against every decision that may be come to at the above Conference, respecting the future of the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, and in especial with regard to the person of the successor to the throne vacated by the death of the King Duke Frederick VII., without the opinion of the country being first taken as to the hereditary right of his successor. We further deal ire every recognition of any such successor by the European Powers without the previous consent of the country as not legally valid and binding upon the same. " We declare, moreover, hereby as the rights of this country before Gad and man— " 1. Tuat the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein are independent States, inseparably connected with each other fur ever. " 2. That by lineal succession and primogeniture the male line of the Oidenbarg Royal House is exclusively called to the throne. " 3. That Christian IX., King of Denmark, it , therefore in no way rightfully entitled to the throng of the Duchies, being excluded by agnates of nearer claims, but that the Londen Treaty of May 8, 1862, together with the Danish succession law of the 31st of July, 1853, are not ](gaily bring rpm the Duchies ; the former because foreign Poc ere in no way possess the right of disposition over a coun try not belonging to them, and the latter because not ratified 'by the assent of the Schleswig and Holstein Assembly of Estates, the agnates, acid the Germanic Confederation. "4, The nearest claimant among the now living Princes of the House of Oldenburg, after the renunciation of his father, is Duke Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderbors-Augustenburg , who has already declari!d that he has assumed the Government as D ake Frederick VIII. of Schles• wig and Holstein. "Wa further declare that the voice of the coun try, agreeing herewith, has unmistakt:ly expressed its desire, in numerous petitions to the General Federal Diet, and in addresses of devotion and deputations to Dake Frederick VIII. from tho Schleswig-Holstein nobility, the University, the clergy, the teachers, and the towns and rural districts cf Holstein as well as Schleswig, to recognise Duke Frederick of Schleswig-Hol stein Sonderborg- Augustenhurg as the sole and only rightful successor to the throne, and has testified the readiness of the people to sacrifice life and property in his service as their legitimate sovereign. _ _ . " Finally, we hereby protest most solemnly against every arrangement of the European Powers by which an illegal ruler shall he forced upon the Duchies, contrary to their expressed wishes, and by which the connexion with the kingdom of Denmark definitively severed by the death of Frederick VII. shall be restored by force. We cast upon the ori ginators of any such arrangement the responsibility of the inevitglA disadvantages and dangers to the tran.inillity and peace of our country, of Germany, and of Europe." (The signatures follow.) It appears that in consequence of the war, many Lubeck merchantmen now sail under the Russian flag. The Russian consuls, however, now make great difficulties about granting the permissicn to do so It is asserted that it is the Homburg merchants wh o for purposes of speculation, have informed the Danish Gcvernmcnt that, since the commencement of hostilities, the Russian fl .g is used to excess ; in consequence of which the Danish Government has complained to that of Sr. Petersburg, which has accordingly forbidden the Hanseatic consuls to lend the Russian flag any longer. (faurt7',l,- Ovular HER MAJESTY. -9 WINDSOR CASTLE, April 11. The Queen, attended by Lady Augusta Stanley, walked in the grounds this morning. His Majesty the Kin; of the Belgians, attended by General Count de Moerkerke, went to Clare• moat, and visited the Queen Marie Amelie. In correction of the description of dress worn by the Queen at the Court on Saturday last it is to be stated that her Majesty wore diamonds only in the cap, and an opal brooch set in diamonds. The Prince and Princess of Wales. SANDRINGHAM, April 11. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales walked in the grounds on Saturday, and afterwards rode out. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, with Lieut.-Gen. K❑ollys, Captai❑ Grey, Mr. Wood, Mr. Holzman, and the Hon. Mrs. Bruce, attended Divine service at Sandringham Church yesterday. The Rev. G. B. Moxon, 8.A., officiated and preached. The vacant Garter will, it is believed, be bestowed upon his Grace the Duke of Sutherland. The Duke of Kispalda has left Claridge's Hotel for Paris. Lord Clarendon will, it is said, shortly proceed to Paris upon a private mission to the Imperial Court. It is no secret that a considerable alienation has sprung up between the two Governments within the last few months, which Mr. Siansfeld's alleged share in the Mazzinian demonstration has not tended to remove. Lord Clarendon, from his courtierlike instincts, has, we understand, been selected as an instrument for restoring more amicable rela tions, and dispelling the irritation produced by Lord Russell's policy and Lord Palmerston's speeches. Napo leon 111 must be the most forgi ring of men if he succeeds. —Herald. MR. AND MRS. HERMANN VEZIN will return to the Princess's on Monday next, making their re-appear ance in " Donna Diana." They are to be succeeded, we believe, by Madlle. SLella Colas. A CHARMING INSTANCE OF TOLERATION.--.There is a story bflJat in the Inns of Court which seems to require a refutation. It is said that Mr Pope Hennessy has joined the Home Circuit, but on applying for aamission to the mess he was biacklalled. As the mess is not a club at which any one can exercise a veto the committee inquired the reasoz, when the dissentients gravely alleged that they had acted on principle, that they did not object to Mr• Hennessy as a barrister, or as a politician, or as a gentle.. man, but simply as an UT rarnontanel It that story is true in any degree whatever, bigotry would seem to have found her last refuge in the Home Circuit. No such exclusion can, of course, be maintained for a month, but one wonders if the gentlemen who resisted would object to dine 7 ivith the Pope, or send an excuse to a duke whose lists of guests included Cardinal Wiseman,—Spectator. FEARFUL OCCURRENCE.—OL Sunday morning, at about 5 o'clock, a y ming man named Perry, living in Hallett's-row, Brickkiln-street, hearing a noise as of some one in distress in an adjoining house, occupied by an old couple named Holland, knocked at the door. His mother was with him, and some one inside the house told them to break open the door, They did so, and found the place full of smoke. On entering the house they heard groans in the pantry, a place about three feet wide by six feet long. On going into this pantry they saw a horrible sight. In one corner was the old man, shrivelled and charred in a fearful manner, quite dead. In the opposite corner was his wife, groaning and crying for water, and her clothes burnt from her tack. From the state in which the man was found the woman must have seen him burnt to death. His clothing was completely burnt to a cinder. Several pieces of money were found in the pantry, quite black, and as though they had been exposed to great heat. The woman stated that she caught fire while in the kitchen, and she rushed into the pantry to throw some water on her clothes when her husband followed her, and in attempting to extinguish the flames must himself have been burnt. The old man was a shoe maker and worked at home, his wile had some employment at a neighbouring factory, and both were much given to drink, Oa Saturday, after drinking all day, the unhappy couple went home intoxicated, and were heard quarrelling until between three or four in the morning, and atter that time groans were so continuously heard that at last Mrs, Perry aroused hsr son.—Manchester Guardian. CHARLES DICKENS'S title to his new story, " Our Mutual Friend," now immediately forthcoming, have called forth many protests "in the interest of the Queen's English. " What is a mutual friend ?" asks one hypocrite." If A has friendly feelings towards B, mad B reciprocates them, their friendship is mutual ; and they may without impropriety be called mutual frienas. Bat if A and B are two persons, each of whom enjoys the friendship of a 'laird person, C, there is no "mu utility" in the ease. C is in this case their common friend ; and the use of the word " mutual" to express the relation in which any one of them stands to either of the others, is manifestly incorrect, Two brothers cannot be said to have a mutual parent. Their father is their common parent. There is uo doubt about it, and we remember remarking the fact at the first moment the title of Mr. Dielsens's new story came to our knowledge, that in one of his essays Lord Macaulay has made a particular and emphatic protest against this expression. Oar contemparary, the Athenaunz, very justly remarks, however, that Mr. Dickens, it is admitted, has the power, and the right, to raise a mere colloquialism out of the dust, and to confer upon it the dignity of a literary iaiona I l'he new novel, " Adela Cathcart," by George 3 MacDonald, NI.A, author of "David Elginbrod," &c•• vole.—" Adele Cathcart (says the Sunday limes) i s a de• lighttul book. We quit it with reluctance, It is not often that we are called upon to review a work in which we fin d so much to admire. Written in purest English, quaint, sparkling, and panda!, anon delighting us with flashes Of humour or winning us with true and sul:itie pathos, Alicia Cathcart' may at once take up its position among the masterpieces of modern English fiction." It has been announced that no further applica tions for the bonds of the Venezuelan Government Six per Cent. Loan will be received after NV ed nes.day next. EubEcription at Cologne and Amsterdam closes on the same cloy.