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

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY - LANE. - • Managers, Messrs. Edmund Falconer and F. B Chatterton.—The Public is respectfully informed that th e above (the National) Theatre will be OPENED for th . !.e WINTER SEASON, on SATURDAY NEXT, Septemb' r 12th, when will be produced an entirely new al id original Comedy, by Edmund F a Poner, Authorentitled of •` Extremes,' " Woman." " Peep o'Day," &c., NATURE'S ABOVE ART : A Romance of the Nursery„ in which Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Ryder, Barrett, G. Belmore, F. Charles, Neville ; MiMrs.ssM Cha llrlotte S MaundEd ers, Miss Murray, Miss R. Leclercq , elvie, and rs. mund Falconer. assisted by ot her artists, w ill perform. After the Comedy will be presented a Popula, Farce, prin cipal characters by tavourite members o f the Company. Box-office open from Ten till . ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Legsee, Mr. George Vining. Open under the Management of 2.1. r. Walter Montgomery. THIS EVENING, KING JOHN. King John, Mr. Walter Montgomery ; Faulconbrldge, Mr. Henry Loraine. To be followed by FAMILY JARS. Commence at 7. tiE A ritE-KO Y AL, ADEL PHI.- Prooriotor and Managnr. M. B. Webster. T HIS EVENING (for theefit of Mr. J. L. Toole), THE TR A GEDY QUEEN. Mrs Stnlin Followed by YOUR LIFE'S IN DANGER. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, and M's. Billin2,ton. OPERATIC SELECTIONS, by the Nelson Sisters. After which, THE ROSEBUD OF STINGINGNETTLE FARM. Messrs. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith. And T E HAUNTED MAN; or, the Ghost's Bargain, in which will be exhibited Professor Pepper's adaptation of the Great Spectral Illusion. Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Phillips, Sefton. C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss H. Simms. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, HIS FIRST CHAMPAGNE. Mr. Leigh Murray. Followed by (15th time) THE MOTTO, " I'M ALL THERE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier, Clifton ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, F. Josephs, Maria Simpson, Wallace, and Jenny White. - - To conclude with TURN JIM OUT. Mr. Turner, Miss Thorne. Commence at 7. IFIKE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," a Containing . the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 11h. 45m.—Afternoon, h. m. To-scommow.-Morning, 12h. 20m.—Afternoon, 12h. 40m. The Weather--Sun Office, Sept, 9, 1863, THERMOMETER. This morning. This day at Two o'clock Barometer-29.85. Wind—South-Westerly; light, and cloudy. k LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 9, 18G3. Au exceedingly delicate question is now arising as to whether El Toussoun or El Monassir are to be detained in Mr. LAIRD'S Building-yard down at Liverpool. Whether those two steam rams, now upon the very eve of their completion, aro to be detained there, by order of Her MAJESTY'S Go vernment, under the Foreign Enlistment Act. Th e settlement of this question one way or the other, and that within a very few days from the present moment, is dependent, of course, upon the deei sion arrived at by :the law officers of the Crown, as to the bearing of that enactment upon one of the nicest points of international law. Whether can it be shewn that the destination of these two formidable ships-of-war is such as would bring their retention in the building-yard within the capacity or authority of the Government ! That is, really and truly, the question. Originally, as is well known, nay as their outlandish names sufficiently indicate, El Toussoun and El Monassir, they were ordered to be built is Mr. LAIRD'S yard by his Highness the late Pasha of EGYPT. They were ordered by him, we believe, about the time of his visit to this country: when his Highness was feasting his guests on board his yacht with all kinds of good cheer, while undermining his own constitution by poisoning himself with stale bottled-up Nile water. They were ordered, these two steam-rams, as one may say, vicariously or circuitously : that is to say by a French House, to whom had been given by the late Pacha a strange twofold commission—one for coining a considerable sum of Egyptian money in France, the other for getting constructed, here in England, by one of oar best shipbuilders, these very two steam-rams Ei Toussoun and El Monassir. At the period of the late PACITA'S sudden and unlooked for demise, one of those two commissions had already been com pleted. The money, to the full amount stipulated, had been duly coined in France, and, not only that, it had been actually conveyed from France into Egypt. So that that part of the contract could not by possibility be repudiated. Not so did it happen to be, however, in regard to the other part of the commission—that is to say, in regard to the two steam-rams, then, at the time of the PAGIIk'S death, —merely in course of construction. The commis sion, so far as it related to them, was at once can celled by his Highness's successor. The re sponsibility of the order devolved, in consequence of that unexpected repudiation of it in Egypt, upon the French house from which Mr. LAIRD had re ceived it. The problematic circumstance in regard to the transaction ire its present phase, therefore, is —as to the purpose to which these two steam-rams are about to be applied by the French House for which they have been manufactured. What may be their destination ? The destination, that is, of El Tonssoun and El Monassir ? Not Egypt, as originally intended—that we know. Whither, when completed, is it intended that they should proceed ? " The accusation is," says the Premier's organ, the Morning Post, " that they are destined for war with a friendly Power. They will conse quently," says the Post (and we presume it speaks thus confidently upon authority !)—" they will con 11_."luently be detained, and a court of law will determine whether, under the terms of the Fo reign Enlistment Act, the detention is legal, or whet her the owners can recover them from the hands of „ an insurance Government." Upon mere suspicion ha peened ' l ee office endeavoured (ineffectually, as it 4 b to evade, only th e o th er d a y, the com pletion of at ita usiness con t ract i nto w hi c h i t h a d entered j7deliberately. d good will an d p l easure , qu it e fraud, and arso n pan a mere suspicion of foul play, of a trocities besides— rnar w a e know hardly what other in cold blood, a n d a l mos t, one might say, by wholesale, .seeing LEY V . POLE, was saidthat the lives of the whole TEMPLE f mnii ; to 1 : 0 11 the b case of WOOL- Lave wilfully jeo- par dised by the plaintiff on the b urning down of his dwelling-house, on Campde. more than iil a year ago. All this was attempted to be brought home to t he accused upenraereaos & for there was not ev idence of any Weir.h. addPiucambnl to support the charge. It will be wise on Coe p art of the Government, therefore, in this metier of the two steam rams now in Mr. LAIRD'S building yard, upon mere suspicio n ! not to act simply and solely Recent events have materially contributed to enlarge our general store of knowledge. The wars and revolutions of our own days have familiarised us with the details of localities whose named were • scarcely to be found in the o ld geographies and guidebooks. The Crimea, although figuring In Tartar history, was not so well known in England and France tm years ago as it is now; Cawnpore and Lncknocv were names only &wilier to Anglo- Indians, while the student might turn over a good many maps of Italy before he lighted on Solferino or Magenta; and we have all learned to thread our way more readily through the perplexing maze of English and Indian names, whicti serve to distin guish the localities of the vast States of America from following the track of this unhappy war. V arious circumstances have combined to give fresh in terest to the long-pending strife between Den a lark and Germany, and in consequence we are all lily to know more about the quiet little duchies rf Schleswig and Holstein than our predecessors e rver learned. There has always been a degree of s ympatby existing between the English and the 1 Janes, due perhaps in some measure to our Viking a ricestry. The two peoples have many charac t i-ristics in common. They have the same love of fi'eedom, the same fearless truthfulness, the same s pirit of daring and adventure, the same resolution te , maintain unshaken their ancient constitutional F.ghts. Travellers tell us, too, of a striking simi -13 rity in the appearance and language of the two re ces. A recent visitor to the town of Rendsburg declares that the country near it bears the strongest re semblance to our richer agricultural districts, while the chattering of the peasants in their low German increases the familiar impression. This to wn of Rendsburg, though little known to travel lers, is not without importance, and occupies a some what remarkable position in reference to the quarrel with the Diet. It is a very ancient city, claiming to have been in existence nearly a thousand years, but it is not old enough, strange to say, for the question of its exact locality to have been decided. Thematttbeer of its site was o ne o f the four points which commissioners who undertook finding odrawit impossiblethebona dary line failed to agree upon, to to unite in assigning it to either duchy. yrh ques tion in dispute is whether Rendsburg belongs e Holstein or to Schleswig. The or i g in of the dis. pute is thus summed up by a recent visitor ;—"Th e difficulty is occasioned by the ci rcumstance th at the town is situated upon w h a t must be called island s in the Eider. The river, which here farms its junc tion with the Eider Canal, separates into three branches as it approaches Rendsburg. Between the Schleswig and the Holstein branches as we may call them—the third is a trifling stream running through the town and seemingly serving as a sewer —Rendsburg was built. Now the Eider is the boun dary between the two duchies, and both the con tending parties recognise it; but the Danes say that the Holstein branch is the real Eider, whilst the Germans contend that the Schleswig branch is the true stream. The Rendsburghers, who are thorough Holsteiners, and by no means well affected to the Danish Government, claim, however, in sup port of the Holstein contention, that they were recognised as part et the empire in its palmy days ; and that the town sent its deputies to the assembly summoned by the Empercr." How this vexed question will be ultimately decided it is of course impossible to say, but a military solution of the difficulty is certainly very much to be deprecated on all sides. Germany is already split into sections, ',distracted by factions, and threatened by despots. She has quite enough to do for the next half cen tury et least in consolidating her own internal forces, and in encouraging unity and peace at home. Why should she harass and oppress a neighbouring Power, who in no way interferes with her well being or crosses her prospects. The motive was plainly stated in the English House of Commons by the Prime Minister; and the Danes, who study carefully our English politics, must have regretted very vividly that Lord PALMERSTON did not hold the seals of the Foreign-office in place of his incon sistent and letter writing colleague, Earl RUSSELL. Lord PALMERSTON found the key to the riddle in the wild and fruitless ambition, long cherished by Prussia, to become a great naval Power. The countrymen of FREDERICK THE GREAT have good right to any pretensions they may choose to make in the way of military distinction ; but, without any disparagement to a brave and enlight ened nation, we may decidedly say that nature has denied them the requisites of a naval nation. Even the long sought possession of the coveted harbour of Kiel would not, in itself, convert a people, whose proper classification is into soldiers and civilians, into a nation of sailors, and the endeavour to force a war upon a peaceable and well-disposed nation will not tend to raise Germany in the estimation of the thinking portion of Europe, and will tend very tittle to the furtherance of her own interests. Denmark has now a fine career open before her, if she is suffered to run it unchecked by internecine strife. Her peop:e have all the capacities for de veloping Into a great nation. Her sympathies and traditions are liberal, her population brave and enlightened; her KING is beloved by his people, and her Constitution is moderate and capable of improvement. The intellectual powers of her race rank high, as many names known and honoured i❑ Art and Literature testify. Politically, the last year or two has witnessed events of considerable importance connected with her fortunes. The alliance of her Royal family with the first of the great Powers of Europe cannot fail sensibly to affect her fortunes, notwithstanding the unhappy meddlings of an English statesman in an affair which we must charitably hope he did not under stand. The election of another scion of her ruling house to the vacant throne of Greece, although not so complimentary as if it had been made earlier, is another noticeable occurrence. Greece, like Den mark, has great capabilities, though her history is of the past rather than of the future. She is now, it is true, plunged into anarchy and confusion ; but it young King GEORGE and his advisers are equal to the position, a rapid change for the better may be expected. When his position is fully assured and the area of his power extending, the youthful Monarch of Greece will hardly forget that he W as once a Dane, and his sympathies and his influence will henceforth weigh in the scale of his country. men and relatives. If rumour speaks truly another fair Princess of the Danish Houso is to extend the influence of her country further .North, and under these auspices the angry aggression of the German Diet loses much of its terrors. IVe must hope that hat venerable body will exercite their charac- eristic and proverbial caution, and pause before hey rashly commence hostilities, ruinous to the interests of both countries, and especially injurious to that scheme of German unity which is now more than ever filling the dreams of German visionaries; and occupying the thoughts of German patriots. The Polish reply to the Russian appeal is worthy of notice. It is certainly replete with interest, and animated with a spirit ofindependence. The Poles commence by stating that for seven months " a mur derous contest has raged in our country between two nations —the one eager to oppress and enslave, a a n n d a t w h i e th ot a he j r us fi t ghting in self-defence." This is a that their very true definition of the state of a f f airs recently ; in crushing pr ide do the patriots go on to say opponents have drawn many forces from the remotest limits of the empire, but they have not succeeded their coura ge, proceed, with sible, to reject quest" on the devotg: them —they have not quenched indigniont., or endurance. Then they What the that is quite comprehen part of they trulyn 8 ca ll haughty self-conceit of the subjects a " cruel re- Even the ojeets of the CZAR might blush to hear the sharp j r • eoinders they have called forth from a trampled-on b ut - ut unsubdued nation. They are shown that th e 44 highest object of a noble nation is not comprised in the oppression of a kindred race, or in destructive dream s of don l i_ nation over two quarters of the globe." This em phatic passage forcibly explair! the lack of progress that is made by the :nighty ltroitia tmpire. It i, THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9,1863 w because they only care for the quantity, and not for the quality of their conquests. To infuse a gradual improvement among their own possessions, and to soften down the harsh outlines of conquest into something more genial and gracious, is quite beyond the ken and above the wishes of the nation. The humiliating position that is occupied by the largest country in Europe is aptly alluded to in this reply. After stating that it is three-quarters of a century since the nation have advanced with great steps towards fr,:edom, the speakers earnestly declare—" You alone have remained encrusted with the rough barbarism of ancient times and the Tar taric wildness of the steppes." This is plain speak ing, at all events, and, if it answers no other pur pose, it may take down the pride of the assuming dictators who presumed to lecture the patriots struggling for their birthright and the citizens pining for their social rights. It is melancholy to dwell on the passage that refers to the suffer ings that have been endured for the cause of liberty on the soil of Poland. The in domitable energy that has held up the patriots and the sublime endurance that has maintained its ground despite all obstacles, and notwithstanding all attack, are illustrated in this rely—" a spirit stronger than the sword, and mightier than despair" has animated and informed these heroes and martyrs, and now the sentiment shines through these words, and imparts to them a life and lustre. The stirring memories of the past arouse these men when they declare to the Rus sians that finding it impossible to make them adopt a civilisation far inferior to their own, they have perpetrated heathenish cruelties against them, and by endeavours to annihilate them, have planned to call their native land their own. There is the prescience that a long course of injustice and deceit generally imparts to the oppressed when it is said, " We mark a satanic smile upon the lips of our oppressors when they hail us as brothers." Considering the circumstances of the case, the term is an insulting one, and it is not surprising that it should be rejected with scorn and contumely. Of what avail iE it that a tor tured and tyrannised people should be made game of, which they certainly are when the represen tatives of the soil of their oppressors thus salutes them with the sacred title of affinity bearing evidence of cordiality and goodwill. It has failed in making the Poles think they were being ad dressed by those keenly alive to their welfare. It will fail in making any of the nations of Europe believe in the sincerity of the framers of the appeal. "We shall never be decoyed again by the honey of your deceptive words," declare the Poles in their reply. For often has the fatal mistake been made for the lesson to need learn ing again, and forewarned is forearmed we may be sure in this instance. The absurd proposition that was made by the Russians, that the Poles should join them in attacking their natural enemies, the nations of Western Europe, is scouted with the scorn it deserves. On the contrary, they distinctly declare that if they occupy any position it will be to join the enemies of Russia, not the other nations, who are their friends. Then, as to the prospect of culture held out in the appeal, it is shown how the devastators have crippled education, suppressed schools, and stolen the treasures of art and of science. Finally, they say, " Not unto us, then, but to your CZAR, call loudly. Bow to the unalterable course of history. Of one thing let him bs assured, only lie can obtain peace who is willing to leave others unmolested ; and only then will the Russian people be happy when they permit us to enjoy our happiness undis turbed." This is a worthy conclusion to a noble address, that deserves to represent the nation of patriots whose mouthpiece it professes to be. A more uncalled-for and inconsistent thing than this appeal of Russian patriots to the Polish people has to difficults t e he s n o tgooccodneaonctanasnwswere.rs tNootthheisnegawiskwmaorrde scarcely been heard o f, an d i t i s most sat'sfactory messages, and it is creditable to those who framed the reply that it in every way enters into the ne cessary detail, and aptly represents the spirit of the nation. At ad events it cannot be said that this arduous struggle, this unequal conflict, and this dreadful suffering has been all in vain. Through the gloom of the reign of terror which is established oa her soil, Poland has beheld some signs of a brighter dawn and a better day of freedom near at hand. The Russian EMPEROR cannot for shame accord privileges to that nation that he IN ithhoids from his own people, and hence it may yet turn out that the Russiane themselves are benefited by the noble efforts made by the patriot sons of Poland. It is a tribute to courage and constancy of which history can record no more signal instance or strik ing example. Those who have perished on the battlefields, or who endure the harder lot of a foreign prison, might rejoice if they knew that in some measure their work was not profitless, nor their labour thrown away. The fact is that the Poles have held out so bravely, and resisted so in- cessantly that the whole of Europe joined the cry of their wrongs. If unable to assist by armies, the voice of public opinion, and the concurzent testi mony of witnessing nations is sometimes more powerful than armed hosts. One urges and excites to opposition, the other overawes and impresses. If only good result accrue to the heroic nation that has been so long the shame of her tyrants, and the grief of her friends, it will be one of those world wide blessings that attract universal acclamation, and form the source of thanksgiving to all be. holders in divers nations and of many races. OUR IMPORTS.—The imports of foreign and colonial goods into the United Kingdom are of four classes. The first comprises articles of food. The cora puted real value of these in the returns for 1b62 was no less than £ 93 ,027,988, a sum equal to three-fourths of the value of the entire export of British and Irish produce and manu factures. By far the largest item is for corn and flour, the imports of which in that year reached the enormous amount of £37,755,060. The import of grain, meal, and flour never reached 12,000,000 qrs., until the bad harvest of 1860, in which year it was 1 4,494,976 qrs., but in 1861 it was 16,094,914 qrs., and in 1862, 18,441,791 qrs. The average price on which the value of the wheat imported was computed in 1862 has not yet been stated • in 1861 it was 538 9d for R ussian, 60s 2d for Prussian, 39s 9d for Egyp tian, and 55 8 2d for American. There were otherim ports of food of as t on i shing amount. Not to speak of strong drink, nor of tea, coffee, and sugar, we imported in 1862 cattle, sheep, and swine, and salted meat and lard, to the amount of more than £5,000,000 (the oxen and bulls were put in 1861 at an average of £l7 lls, and the sheep at 455); butter, nearly £5,000,000; cheese, £1,500,000 ; rice, £2,400,000; eggs, £600,000; poultry, £85,000. A second class of our imports consists of raw materials of manufac ' ture ; and the value of these arrivals in 1862 was £96,513,530. In 1860 the amount was £91,981,804. The importof was the largest ever received. The ' cotton is by no means ex pressedfi o n r g t of ff wool in i t n h e lB6 2 ice must b bya statement borne or of in t ho mind.v alueT of n thee quantityimports; fell the fromrise in c l o 2 m ,4 p l9, ni o e 9 d B Ivalue ii. B o 6 ln o t o £ 4, 35 6 , 7 7 8, 56 3 , 3 8 3 89 c w t t o . i 13 1 1 , 8 0 6 9 2 3; the ,045. In 1866 the computat ion was on American cotton at 60s. 40. per cwt.; in 1861 at 725. 50. A third class of imports con sists of articles used in manufac t ure or agriculture, not being raw materials of manufacture; and these articles reached £16,643,572 in the year 1882, The chief items in this class are wood, sawn or split, planed or dressed ; oils, guano, copper partly wrou g ht, an d i ron i n b ars. Th e remain ing . class comprises m anu f ac t ure d art i c l es, an d t h e i mpor t o f these in 1862 amounted to £17,196,463 ; a few unenume rated articles bringing the whole amount of the imports of 1862 up to £225,716,974. The chief manufactured articles imported were silks of the value of more than £6,000,000; woollens, £1,574,218; cottons, £899,738 ; leather goods (ch iefly gloves), £851,256 ; c l oc k s an d watches, £464,000; 'factures of hair and goat's wool, £397,454; and glass/ £408,',;88. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REI7TER'S TELEGRAMS.) GERMANY. LITERATURE. CHAMBERS'S HANDY GUIDE TO THE KENT AND SUSSEX COASTS. One Vol. pp. 172. W. and R. Chambers. A Shilling Guide-Book, capitally illustrated, admirably well compacted, gossipping but not garrulous, instructive in regard to what we want to know, and interesting throughout—has just been published by the Messrs. William and Robert Chambers, of Edinburgh and London. It conducts the reader or consulter of it, as its very title shows, along those pleasant coasts so delightfully familiar to us all—the coasts of Kent and Sussex. A beau tifu' little, delicately coloured, folding map (all the better it would have been if backed by linen) is pre fixed to the volumette as a sort of frontispiece. A map skirted along its northern margin by the meandering line of the River Thames from beyond Reading in the west, circuitously eastwards past Gravesend, the Medway and Sheerness, until its fresh waters are lost in the rolling salt waters of the Channel and the German Ocean. A map skirted along the south quite as waveringly from Portsmouth in the west, to the Forth Foreland in the east, confront ing the terrible Goodwin Sands. As to the interest• ing character of the various scenes traversed by the tourist who may take this Handy Guide Book as his circerone that may perhaps be the most readily indicated by a passing reference to the subjects selected for the twelve ex cellent woodcuts distributed among the letterpress. Here Tilbury Fort, here Earl Amherst's lovely seat of Knole near Sevenoaks. Yonder grand old Rochester Castle, looking down in ruins upon the stately old Cathedral. Yonder, again, at one while, Fort Pitt, Chatham, and at another Kit's Coty House, ;he hughest Cromlech in all England. Mar gate is the subject of two illustrations, one of the town, one of the pier. Canterbury Cathedral meets our glance, a little later on in the ♦ery readable nar rative or description here put together by one evi dently no novice at these kind of compilations. After wards we have a peep, successively, at Dover Castle and at that other airy castle overlooking Hastings. Near the latter fashionable watering-place, we are led, not unwillingly, back, infancy, by the draughts man, to Lovers' Seat, at Fairlight. The closing illustration, making up the round dozen, showing us the well-known bit of Brighton, seen from the Chain Pier. In the form of an appendix there will be found grouped together, also, in this little Guide Book, all kinds of use ful information, such as the names of the owners of the bathing machines at the different watering-places—the dates of the various local races—the principal angling streams in the two counties, and a mass of useful statistics. Zadkiel's Almanac for 1864. Among the curiosities of literature in this later half of the nineteenth century, Zad kiel's Almanac holds its own in the oddest way i maginable —actually coming forth now, in the 34th aunnal issue of it, with a circulation of no less than 50,000 copies! At sixpence a-piece, that is, according to the not very recondite calculations of Cocker, a round sum of 25,000 shillings, or eleven hundred pounds sterling—expended upon a little astrological pamphlet in an age not only of railroads and electric telegraphs, of steam-printing and pho tograph, but one io which spectral illusions are patented. Bat then, as indubitably, it is an age also in which Mr. D. D. Home has held his seances, not only in the middle-class drawing-rooms of Eng land, but far and wide in most of the palaces of continental Europe I An age when Mr. William Howitt quite confidently avows his belief is spirit-rapping, as well in various other kinds of eccentric phenomena—attributable, he tells us, to the influence of a power ridiculously dabbed by one of that gentleman's friends, by a couple of female names, tacked together by a hyphen—names applied by the discoverer of this unseen influence, in affectionate tribute (we are left to imagine) to some fair friend or relation, say his sweetheart or his aunt. Cheek-by-jowl with these wonderful wonders-ot-wonders, Zadkiel Tao Sze, professing to be skilled in a science once the vogue among the world's greatest philosophers, amongst intellectual giants like Kepler and Brahe, like the poet Milton and the Chancellor Bacon, appears upon the scene autumn after autumn, quite as an ordinary, almost as a commonplace, personage. Here he is, however, a little earlier than is his wont, putting forth his almanack in the beginning of September, instead of, as hitherto, towards the close of October. Propitiously calling 1864, upon his title page, The Year of Hope ! And yet upon the opposite side of his pamphlet, upon the very last page of it, p. 84, " frighting the isle from its propriety," with the most ominous and appalling of hieroglyphics ? Britannia upon the sea shore standing by a broken column, her anchor snapped asunder, her banner of , the union jack lowered, and trailing in the dust . Captain Morrison, R.N., for the mask, has be come transparent by this time, and the features of Zadkiel are distinguishable through the interposing veil of his disguise, has a word or two to say quits apart from his usual wont, in regard to the late trial, in which he appeared as plaintiff. Another gallant and learned officer in . the royal navy, confronting him, as defen ant, in the Court of Queen's :Bench, before the Lord Chief Justice of England. A full true and particular account of this strange trial will be found appended this year to Zadkiel's Almanack. In it the authentic record of those proceedings will be dis covered, given at length and in the minutest parti culars. That trial relating, as may ba very well remembered, to the Crystal Globe, scanned, among others, by a Bishop of the English Church Esta blishment, to say nothing of numerous Lords and Ladies perfectly well known among the t Upper Ten Thousand ! The most noticeabl e peculiarity isy of all, however, in this new issue of Zadkiel's i one to be found upon page 80—LETTERS FROM H.R.H. THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT, addressed by order of H.R.H. to Z otherwise Captain Morrison, R.N. " Thanks" from H.R.H. " for the horoscope of the Princess Royal"—for Zadkiel's Almanack for 1841—for another copy of Zadkiel's Almanack, c onveyed to His Royal Highness by Lord , Robert Grosvenor . To say nothing of that noble lord's pro •in one of these le tters (a p romise we take itfo m r is g e ranted afterwards fulfilled) to endeavour to obtain the exact moment of the Prince's birth, toge ther with the expression of a hope that it might be made known u nder a happy influence to his corres pondent, the Astrologer! Under any circum stance, but particularly after the notoriety of the l a t e proceedings in the case of Morrison v. Belcher, it is perfectly c om p rehensible that Zadkiel should exu lt (as he, evidently and quite naturally, does) in being able to g ive publicity, just at this time, to the particulars of this really extraordinary corre spondence. A CHURCH OR A SUB-EDITORSHIP !—An adver. tisemeoZ, appear ed the other day in one of th e morning paper, s says the Saturday Review, that m a y serve to indicate the kind of speculation which may soon become Common :--- " Wanted, a Church of Progressive Th oug h t, by a Young Minister, accustomed to a large Congregation in one of the first Provincial Towns. No objection to a Sub -Editorship.—Address, Alpha, &O." This modest pe tition for pulpit or paste-pot was cruelly thrust down into obscurity a mong• the unfurnished a p artments, second-hand billiard -tables, washing, nurses wet and dry, cream-coloured cobs, and gentlemen of the highest position wbo would be obliged by the loan of ten pounds fur twenty-four hours. W e presume poor "Alpha" indulges in the hope that his advertisement may catch the eye of some heretical deacon as it wanders down the column of notices "To Mas ter Pork-butckers," "To Grocers' Assistants," or ‘, Eligible Milk-walks." But we fear his hop is ill-founded, Persons of this sort like to keep busi ness apart from pleasure, • and would be sorry to turn their eyes, when once fixed on the shop till, to anything connected with the edifying pastime of badgering :pastors. Besides, we would gladly think that even the most ignorant and stupid of deacons has too much intelligence to be taken in by so transparent a piece of impudence as a newspaper advertisement for a church of progressive thought by a person who has no objection to take a sub -editorship. And what is a Church of Progressive Thought ? An assembly, we presume, of half-educated tradesmen, who, under the sage guidance of the advertiser—himself probably a person with no pretence to any education beyond'such as could be procured at a Dissenting theological collego—would begin by a little mild Colensoismovould advance to some sort of mysticism, would tumble into atheism, and finally (the majority of them), after about five years of progressive thought, would make a violent progress back again, and become the most orthodox of churchmen or narrowest of chapelmen, while their leader would be forced to insert an other advertisement in the daily mere, or perhaps take t o touting for a photograpker, THE QUEEN'S RETURN TO ENGLAND GOTHA, TUESDAY. Her Majesty Queen Victoria left Coburg at half past ten last night. Her Majesty will remain a day at Darmstadt. Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse left before the Queen on Friday last. King Ferdinand of Portugal has arrived. FRANCE. BOURSE, Sept. B.—Th© market has been rather heavy, and the business done shows a decline— Threes, for the Account, being now at 60f. 10c. The Railway Share Market also heavy, and some lines rather lower. The market continued weak to the close, and left off as follows : it per Cents 95 75 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 95 Credit Mobilier 1210 Do. end month 1210 Bank Shares 3100 Credit 1 1 °1:Icier 1420 Italian Loan 74 05 Do. end month 74 10 New ditto 74 Do. end month 74 05 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes.,, 53 Rome Debt .. 5l 75 IVAYB. RA IL' Cash. Account. Orleans - Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1042 50 .. 1040 Geneva .. 495 .. 497 50 Southern 745 .. 742 50 Western Eastern Sardinian 430 .. 435 Austrian Lon.bard North of Spain Saragossa 660 .. 660 Ditto to Barcelona EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, SEPT. 1. Intelligence has just been received from the White Nile of the slaughter of several boats' full of so-called ivory traders. The blacks surprised the boats, killed everyone on board, and carried off the cargoes. The loss has been so severely felt at Khartoum, the centre of the trade in slaves and elephants' teeth, as to have caused some failures, an almost unprecedented event there. No commisera tion can b e f e l t f or the fate of these men, f or i t was only an ac t o f w i ld justice on the part of the bl ac k s. Attention has b een frequent l y ca ll e d by travel lers, to the i n f amous practices of the w hi te tra d ers . a nd lately by Captains Speke and Grant, Armed bands are despatched in large boats from Khartoum ; they surprise unoffending villagers, kill the men, make slaves of the women and children, and drive away the cattle to be bar tered against elephants' teeth. A person who has made several excursions on the White and Blue Niles tells me the traders have made the name of the " pale race" eo odious that the features of the natives alter and assume an ex pression of hatred when they utter it. It is time that the Government of Egypt should take vigorous steps to curb the piratical expeditions from Khar toum, and to stop the trade in black slaves. The boats are, it is true, visited at certain appointed stations along the river from Khartoum to Cairo, and if any slaves are found they are confiscated. But they never are found, for they are simply dis embarked a mile or two above each station, anti making a short march on foot of three or four miles are re embarked a little lower down. This could not be done without the connivance of the autho rities, and were the Government to take up the matter seriously the traffic might be stopped imme. diately. Swif t police boats moving u p an d down the river, an d i nspect i ng boats at pleasure, together with a proper super vision over the land caravans, would very soon render the trade impos sible. It is hopeless to expect any improvement in the condition of the countries bordering en the Upper Nile while such atrocities are permitted, and the sale of slaves connived at. Yet they are tracts of exceeding fertility, and might one day if properly matured by the Egyptian Government form most valuable posssssions, and yield a greater revenue than Egypt itself. It is to be hoped that the massacre which has just occurred may rouse this Government into adopting stringent measures to put a stop to the piracy on the 11( hite Nilo, and to the trade in blacks. The Egyptian Trading and Commercial Company has just appointed a superior agent on th e White Nile— one thoroughly acquainted with those countries, and who has gained a high r e p utation for never havin g joined in any act of aggression a g ainst the n atives. His presence, and the action of so powerful a Cern• piny, will greatly tend to repress the lawless act s of the ivory traders, by exposing their deeds, an d bringing those countries more directly under th e notice of the European public, and instituting friendly relations and fair traffic with the black population. One of the principal objects of the Viceroy's visit to Assouan is to see personally what measures might be adopted towa rds lessenin g th e danger of the Nile's rising ta n high, by directing the surp l us water into the Birket-at-Fayourn, an artificial lake inundation i n two ways. formed by the ancien ts for th is very purpose, Lower Egypt i„xposed t o The one is au unusually high Nile r o lli ng down from the Tropics; t he othe r is from irrigation water suddenly turn ed back i nto the river. The lands of Upper Egypt are fertilized by t h e Nile being allowed to flow over them, and remain a given time ; as the land is in:terraces, the water is transmitted from the higher to the lower levels by cutting the intervening dykes, and finally it is discharged back into the river at a point necessarily muci lower than where it was turned on to the lands. The rush poin of t s g such a vast bod y o f water, often at many together, causes a su dd en an d great t s o addition to the volume of the stream, and here, reaching Lower Egypt it occasionally bursts the dykes, and pouring over the country sweeps every the newly-sown grain in t t h h e ing before it , and rots ground. may be interested in hearing t the much-vexed oint as t o th e merits of Eng lt ah lr o a u n r d r A a c r i a n r e b g h o a r ds has p horses s just again been tried in Cairo. Ali Pacha, who has the finest stud of Arabs in Egypt, maintained that no English horse could run against an Arab for four miles. His Highness Halim Pacha offered to run Companion, a well. known racer here, against him for any sum he liked. The match was run from the first station on the Suez desert to Cairo. The English horse, which was bred, I believe, by Lord Ribblesdale, won in a canter by more than half a mile. Such a crushing defeat has taken all courage out of the partisans of Arab horses. %%That astonished the natives most was that Companion, beating his adversary by so great a distance, was perfectly fresh, and quite ready to turn round and run the distance over again, while the Arab was quite exhausted and blown. The Ambassadors from Cochin China are here ; they are lodged in one of the Viceroy's Palaces, and are attended by a French officer, who escorts them about Alexandria, pointing out objects of interest to them, about which they do not seem to care at all. They leave in a French frigate, which has come to take them to France. THE EGYPTIAN HALL. Mr. J. K. Lord's descriptive and pictorial entertainment may now be said to have taken the position of one of the established and favourite places of resort in London. A very agreeable, ple4sant, and withal most instructive even ing may be spent with Mr. Lord in his Piccadilly wilder ness ; now, listening to his wonderful travels, history, and hair-breadth 'stape s b y fl ood and field ; and aga i n , to the wild songs of the t rapper, with which his narrat i v e is in terspersed. Mr. Lord's very eloquent descriptions of the wonders of Oregon, Van couver ' s Island, British Colum bia, and the Rocky Mo un t a i ns are ren d ere d hi g hly interesting by the exquisite pan oram i c views with which he accompanies them. So appropriat e are the d eco rations, so striking the pictures, added to the hunter-like costume and accoutre ments Rnd the earnestness of the lecturer, that the visitor is occasionally liable to forget the fact that he is comfortably seated in a hall in Piccadilly and not actually on the trail of a trapper in the far West. The Lord Mayor, who is a Freema s on , h as been f r equently passed the s i gn by prisoners brought before him. Ilis lordship latterly, in consequence of this, made an in , dignant remonstrance to a prisoner—and A brother, ---`. - NORWICH MUSICAL FESTIVAL. The choruses in Mr. Silas's new work, " Joasb," were rehearsed on Monday evening in St. Andrew's Hall, under that gentleman's personal supervision. Mr. Silas expressed himself pretty well satisfied with the result, but intimated that the voices ought to be more concentrated, so as to produce a more united effect, and some effort will be made to attain this object. Mr. Benedict was expected down again yesterday, and last evening the choruses of his can tata, "Richard Coeur de Lion," were to be rehearsed. Mr. Benedict will remain in Norwich during the remainder of the week. The rehearsal of Monday evening was attended by about 200 persons, a charge of ls. being made for admission ; for as the period is now approaching when a return must be secured on the outlay and liabilities incurred, the committee has abandoned the gratuitous principle on which it acted last week. Daring the last few days applications for tickets halve been received toierably freely, aad the total represented by the sale had advaoceol from £2,500, at which it stood a week since, to about £3,300 yesterday. The ex penditure will be somewhere about £3,800, so that there is a very fair prospect of a surplus being realised, as in 1860. For the Thursday and Friday morning performances, when "Elijah" and the "Messiah" will be given, there is scarceiy a vacant seat now available; but the same cannot be said with regard to the miscellaneous concert of Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, at which last " Joash" is supposed to be the staple feature. Great prominence has been attached to this work; but as it is a new and untried production., com paratively little interest has been displayed with regard to it. It is right, however, to state that the programme for this morning includes also the scene at the Gates of Nain, from Leslie's oratorio " Em manuel," and selections from the " Stabat Mater," and that Mademoiselle Titiens and Mademoiselle Trebelli will appear, as well as Sims Reeves. The usual fittings have been erected in St. Andrew's Hall, and the bare and naked walls will receive their old udornments in the shape of time-honoured portraits of local worthies. Mr. Charles Mathews upon the French Stage. (From the Daily News.) Mr. Charles Mathews, the English comedian, made his first appearance upon the French stage at the Theatre des Varie!es, in Paris, on Monday night. The piece selected was a version in French, under the title of "Un Anglais Timide," of the actor's own farce of the "Bashful Man." Our Paris correspondent, writing on Monday night, gives the following account of the performance:— " Mr. Charles Mathews has not niet with quite such a great success at the Varietes as I should have been glad to have recorded, and as I think he deserved. It is always an arduous task for an actor to play in a foreign language, and before such a critical audience as a Parisian one the ordeal is doubly frightful. But Ido not think the comparative failure of this evening's representation is in any degree attributable to that cause. Mr. Mathews speaks French better than almost any Englishman I ever heard. Indeed, his easy, graceful, and singularly correct pronunciation might be envied by many an educated Frenchman, and the very slight English accent occasionally perceptible was really no detriment at all to such broad farce as the Bashful Man.' From the moment he stepped upon the stage it was obvious that all the difficulties of a foreign tongue had been overcome with marvellous felicity. Although he speaks with the volubility which he inherits from his father, every word was audible in every part of the house and every 'point' told. The fault, if fault there were, was not in the actor but the author. The humour of the piece was, in the opinion of the audience, exhausted in the early part of it, and during the ten minutes which pre ceded the fall of the curtain they began to get weary. "No puff preliminary was resorted to in order to secure an audience for Mr. Mathews. I heard by the merest ac cident that he was to make his first appearance at the Varietes to-night, and could hardly believe my informant —so out of the usual course of things did it appear to me that such a theatrical event should take place without making more noise beforehand. I went however, to the door of the Varietes, and there I saw by the bills, Un Anglais Timide,' a comedy in one act, by Mr. C. Mathews, was to be produced this evening, and that Mr. C. Mathews would play the character of Mr. Brown. Thereupon I secured a stall—which was not difficult, for the theatre was by no means full at the opening, although before the Bashful Man' began nearly every seat was occupied. From the convel sation of people around me I found that 1)1 , -. C. Mathews' fame as an actor had not reached Paris. A great many came out of curiosity to see an Englishman play in French; but they knew nothing about him. The audience was therefore as genuine a one as could well be. Only if I may trust my own im pression there was a cabal of some 20 persons predetermined to hoot down the Englishman, if they could see their oppor tunity. In the early part of the piece Mr. Mathews' acting of the cool adventurer who makes himself at home in old Gogo's house, sets his furniture to rights, rehangs his pic tures, pokes him in the ribs, orders his servants about, and makes love to his ward, was fully appreciated, and rewarded by roars of laughter such as are seldom heard within the walls of a French theatre. But a comic song in English was not relished, because not understood, and another song to the guitar in Neapolitan patois (also not understood) provoked visible marks of impatience. At last, just as the ♦ery slight denouement of the farce was being worked out the audience seemed to think the explanations of how it came to pass that Mr. Brown mistook somebody else for Gogo, jun., on a Rhine steamboat, as altogether unneces sary, and at all events too long. There was a good deal of stamping of feet, and some cat-calling, and the curtain fell amidst considerable disturbance. There was little or no applause at the end of the piece, and Mr. Mathews was not called for. I, however, heard several people in thefoyer while criticising the piece, speak highly of Mr. Mathews' talent, and if he cares to persevere on the French stage I a m quite sure there will be great curiosity to see him when he becomes better known. SHIPPING —This Day. LONDON, Sept. 9 . —Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly; light breeze, and cloudy weather, with rain during the morning. FALMOUTH, Sept. 9.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Pieter, from Akyab for Liverpool; Trio, from Cochin; Carolina, from Havannah. BELFAST, Sept, 7.--Wind N.W.--Arrived—Handy, from Sulina. RAMSGALE, Sept. 7.--. Wind S.W.—Arrived—Helena, from Stockholm for Lisbon, assisted in here leaky, and is discharging her cargo. PORTSMOUTH, Sept. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Maria Johanna, from London for Cnrdiff and Buenos Ayres ; Enable, from Gefle for Bilboa. CLYRE, Sept. B.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—The Channel Fleet. for Belfast. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning. Arrived—Havre, steamer, from Havre; Purveyor, from Swanage; Courier, steamer, from Jersey. Sailed—Queen, for Plymouth; Antelope, for Cardiff, BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived, Sept. B—Hannah Andrews, from Stettin ; Frau Marie, from T aganrog; J o h n B ruster, from Prince Ed ward's Island. Arrived, Sept. 9—Elkin, from Wykobing ; Pole Star, from Calcutta; Albert, from Quebec; Four Ststers, from Antwerp ; D. W. Pickering, from Pomeron ; Mellona, from Guernsey; Springbok, from Stanbey ; Margaret, from Malmo; Rover, from Guernsey; Eliza, from Mazagan; Sarah King, from Guernsey. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Anchored—Minister, from Loudon, for Sonswald ; John Exeter, from north, for west. IA FRENCH WATERING PLACE.—It looks a comical kind of decency to English eyes. The men are dressed in a sort of trowsers and jersey all in one, which differs from ordinary garments of that description chiefly in being much toe short in the legs and arms. This ar rangement seems to be a compromise between the Govern ment's appreciation of decency and the natural human de sire to be as naked as possible in the water. But, to a stranger, it looks as if all the male population of the place had been seized with a sudden fancy for dressing in the clothes of their little boys. But they are not the oddest figures of the scene. The Government having ascertained the minimum of clothing that is respectable for men, appears to have come, by a kind of mechanical logic, to the conclusion that a similar quantity is abundant for women. The result is, that the beach is peopled with a number of nondescript-looking figures, bearing much the appearance of short, ill-made men, scantily dressed in cho colate-coloured serge —a sort of forked radish turned brown from keeping—which it requires some effort of reasoning, on the part of people who are not habituated to this Para disaical innocence of costume, to believe may possibly be ladies. All these figures wander about in t he aimless dila tory way which appears to be an integral portion of the , amusement. Some aro approaching the water with lazy steps, wondering whether it is not rather cold, end, in the agonies of deliberation, displaying the beauties of their cos tume to considerable a dvantage. Othe rs, w ho have had A which theych cling mayto relieve their their dip, are picking their steps wea ril y over the shingle, looking in vain for wheretheeabase garments themselves of the dripping figures with a tenacity which gives rather a s t atuesque effect. All this time, by way of contrast, the beach is full of non-bathers—women dressed as only French women can dress—who are come to enjoy the epectacle,—Saturday ACP*OI4/. & 40 it (4111374, 11 Ta t HER MAJESTY. In accordance with Admiralty instructions the Fairy, steatiz-tender to the Victoria and Albert, left Woolwich harboor yesterday, and took up moorings at Greenhithe, to bi; in readiness to convey her Majesty and the royal Amity and suite from tho royal yacht to the Royal Ai•Renal-pier, where her Majesty will disembark on Thursday, and proceed from Woolwich to Windsor. In consequence of the proceedings taken by the War Department with reference to the orders issued by the heads of de partments at the Royal Arsenal on her Majesty's recent embarkation, the mistake will not be re peated on this occasion, and it is stated that no deviation will be made from the ordinary regula tions as to the admission of visitors—viz., the mili tary and those provided with War-office tickets will not be excluded from the establishment, although the line of route and the approaches to the pier will be strictly kept by a strong body of the dockyard and the It division of police. Prince Napoleon was, a few days since, cruising off the Isle of Wight in his yacht. His Imperial Highness and the Princess Clotilde are going to Lisbon, in order to be there during the ae• couchement of the Queen of Portugal. His Excellency Count Nesselrode has arrived at Maurigy's Hotel from Paris. The Marquis of Bristol and the Ladies Hervey have arrived at Homburg from Dresden. The noble mar quis and daughters are expected home towards the close of the month. The Countess (Dowager) of Jersey is expected to arrive in town to-day from Osterley Park, near Southall. The Earl and Countess Stanhope have arrived at the Hotel Mirabeau, Pads, on their way to Switzerland. Lord and Lady Proby, Lord and Lady Kenyon, Sir Erskine and Lady Perry and family, Lady S, Lindsay, and Lady Stannue are among the English visitors assembled at Baden-Baden, Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley ana Hon. Misses Stanley left town on Monday for the family seat in Cheshire. Mr. and Lady Selina Bidwell have arrived at Maurigy's Hotel from Deal Castle. Sir William C. and Lady Georgiana Codrington have arrived in town expressly to attend the wedding of Lord Londesborough and Lady Edith Somerset to-morrow• The youthful Duke of Hamilton is said to be about to enter Christ Church, Oxford, to complete 1 113 education. THE BLESSED WORDS OF SCRIPTURE.—Those blessed words it is full of, words that in our hours of ease, or biblical criticism, pass over our mind like some drowsy chime; but in the bitter day of anguish and be reavement, when the body is racked, the soul darkened , shine out like stars to the mariner ; seem then first to swell to their real size and meaning, and come to writhing mor tals like pitying seraphim, divinity on their faces and hea t ing on their wings. —Charles Reade's "Very Bard Cash. " A YEAR'S RETRENCHMENT.—Addressing a meet' ing of his constituents, at Aberdeen, the other day, Colonel Sykes rehearsed the achievements of himself and his fellow "economists" during the past session. " Williams, the member for Lambeth," he said, " moved, on the vote for 148,000 men for the army, that, taking into account that we have the volunteers, the militia, t h e en rolled pensioners, and th e yeomanry all available, 10,00 0 men should be Struck off. But how many supported him ? Just 19. That is the proportion we generally ob tain—for lam always on that side. (Hear, and a laugh.) We had a good many divisions of that kind, and in fact the result is the same, except by accident. Again, there was the proposal of Mr. Dodson, a moderate man, to place the diplomatic service money under the control of the House of Commons. Well, he got sixty-five to assist him in what would appear certainly to be an absolutely necessary measure, against 136. Now, I come to a miracle—( a laugh)—we succeeded in one motion of this kind. M Constantinople, the house of our Minister had been charged in the estimate £2,225 for repairs (annual, mar k you), besides a charge of £lOO per annum for an archi.' tect—a permanent charge, the architect being attached to the house. (Laughter.) I told Mr. Cowper—` If P ti , dismiss the architect, it will save ou the £2,225 in repairs. (Laughter.) I did not intend to carry the matter forward bat Lord It. Cecil rose on the Opposition side, and Moved the reduction of the vote by the amount of the architect' s salary, and was carried. (Laughter, and hear, h e ar.') Well, here was a reduction of £4OO per annum ou t o f a t o tal expenditure of £69,302,008. That is the amount you spent last year, and all we could do in the House of Commons was to reduce it by £4,000 in the miraculous circumstances I have mentioned." (Laughter.) THE RAISING OF HOLBORN VALLEY.—There are two plans before the public by which this may be accomplished. One involves the demolition of a large amount of property in Holborn, Skinner-street, Farring don-street, King-street, and adjacent thoroughfares, for th e purpose of raising the general level of the roadway According to this plan, instead of two steep hills, there will be four m:;derate inclines, running north and south, an d east and west. This will be a resolution of levels, and should the gradients, east and west,' be made easy enough for the heavy traffic that will continue to run in those directions, this plan will be the most thorough that could be devised. Mr. Bunning is the author of the scheme- The other proposes to throw a viaduct over the valleYt towards the north side, thus avoiding an extensive destruction of property, and providing a roadway on a dead level from east to west. There will also be, as at present, a level road from north to south, but there will be the great disadvantage of the present inclines out of the valley from Farringdon-street, &e., and the Metropolitan Railway Station to Holborn and Skinner-street. This plan was advocated, though not originated, by Mr. Marra ble, the late architect to the Metropolitan Board of Workßs and it would be the cheaper of the two. We have thus two plans before us emanating from two great municipal autho rities of this metropolis. The responsibility of carrying out this indispensable improvement has been thrown by Par liament upon the Corporation, and we leave to its wisdom and experience the selection of the most permanent and practically-useful scheme.—City Press, EPITOME OF A FRENCH NOVEL.—One of the stories of the younger Dumas, which has long enjoyed a supreme popularity among the artists and stu dents of Paris : and the drift of which is thus described by a Saturday Reviewer :—Antonine, a beautiful girl, W l3 ° gives her name to the book, is the daughter of a physician. Edward, or Arthur, or Alphonse —we forget which—catche s a glimpse of her ancle one muddy day in the Rue de Rivoli, and forthwith tumbles into a frantic ecstacy of love. ll ° cannot eat, nor sleep, nor read. He is consumed wit h fever—he raves all day and cries all night—he looks ghastly; est soufrant," which seems to be the appro priate phrase for the climax of this kind of agony. Alt er a time he discovers the r es id ence o f Antonine's father, am& ,, calls upon him on the pretence of seeking his professional advice. Antonine has been peeping through the parlour blinds, and on his departure asks her father if the young man is ill. "My child," is the reply, " this day twelve months this young man will be dead." Antonine, who is deeply in love with Edward or Alphonse, swoons away al this, while the physician weeps copiously. It appears, how" ever, that there is a certain system for curing consumption , which is Edward's malady ; but it is one requiring til e most tender and incessant vigilance on the part of the nurse. The rest follows. Antonine devotes herself to his cure, and without delay marries the consumptive suitor. Then the action of the story really begins. The reader will be at no loss to imagine the situation, and the elaborate and minute expansim which it will receive at the hands of the author of "La Dame aux C a melias," and "La Dame aux Perles." Two young lovers in a state of frantic mu tual passion, heightened by the consciousness that their fiery bliss may be quenched within twelve months, and one of them supposed to be slowly wasting away in consumption—what more could be desired by any writer or reader of this school of fiction ? The medical details, nosy so indispensable alike to the boudoirs of the Chan 3 P o Elymies and the dirty garrets of the Quartier Latin, are car efully enumerated. We may leave our readers to co' lecture the quantity of blood -spitting and the amount of passionate raving, and the loathsome artistic product which results from their combined representation. Suffice it to say that this is protracted through a whole volume, and that at last Edward is carried safely through the crises by means of the heroic devotion of Antonine. This is the end of the story proper, but the sting lies in " reader is supposed to be worked up to a tremendous pitch of sympathy with the sufferings of Ed ward and Antonine, and to be left happy in the contemplation of their future bliss, when his dream is dispelled in some such style (w e quote from memory) as the following :—" Reader, do 3' og :, really want me to tell yon what bec ame o f th em ? I would much rather Lave it unknown. It would be better for you perhaps, not to know. But, after all, art is truth, &c., Well, Edward is filling some small post in a provincial town, and has grown fat. He is now engaged in an in trigue with the with of the Prefect. Antonine knows all about it, and laughs heartily." his difficult to recall err thing more deeply cynical than' the laugh with which We are dismissed. The author plainly flings his moral at mankind as the sum and ccnclusion of all human philo• sophy, and implies that anybody who thinks otherwise must either be a romantic young fool or a hypocritical cld one. _ - A Rouen journal, in giving an account of a banquet of the Orpheenists, mentions among the curiositie s of the bill of fare, Creitons d'Ananas a la Verdi, Plorobiere s SlaC6eS a la Auber, and rain de volailles a la Rceeini,