The Sun. — London, England, 1864-08-22 00:00:00

ALFRED 1 AELLON'S CONCERTS E VER y : El ' Eli ING, at Eight. 33.0 Y AL ITALIAN 01 ?EE A HOUSE, COVNT -GARDEN. T HIS EVENING ( 31 on e .ay), Mdlle. C. Patti, Mdlle. Kreb s ; I .11r. Levy, Mr. G. Coll`' le, Mr. Patey, and Ali Ben Sou-alien Qperatic selection, " Do n G. 'ovanni," .tc. BAND OF ONE HL`_ MRED PERFORMERS. Conductor, 3 Ir. AL FRED MELLON. O n Thursday 3I next, An g. 23, a BEETHOVE N NIGHT. 'en of tit , e repetition of the ende:s. Due node.; will be g ii. Sohn Night. pith eatre Stalls . and A m p hitheatre, One Prome nade. Amp .Shilling ; Dress Circle, 2s. Cd. ; private Boxes, LI le. and. i l / 4 1s. ed. ilhe Box Office is open from 10 till 5. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining . . THIS OVENLNG, 13011. N TO GOOD LUCK. Paddy O'Rafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. Atter which, THE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. NT. Ray, D. Fi her. D. Murray, J. Nelson. H. Forre;tcr. H. Melton ; Mrs. Henry Maiston, Miss Emma Barnett, and RISS F ,nny Gwynne. Nitw EATRII-E0 YAL, ADELlqii.- 64 te propri.tor and ,Aana* - kr. NI:. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, MY IV.I_FE'S MAID. lressrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, R. Phillips, and Mr . Alfred Mellon. After wnich, MASKS AN FACES. Messrs. B. Webtirling-bster,, P. Bedford, R. Phillips, Billing ton, Stuart ; Mrs. Mrs. Billing - ton. and Miss 11. Simms. o conclude with THE AC TOR'S RETREAT. Messrs. J. L. Toole, I', Bedlord, R. Phillipo, and Miss Woolg,r. Commence at 7. NEW BOWER OPERETTA HOUSE.- Senora Georgi Cardinal, the eminent Spanish Come dienne, in Smyth .Lee's new and eminently successful Come dietta. HER ONLY FAILING ; whicb, together with CY3IoN AND IPIIIGENIA, ICED CHAMPAGNE, and THE KISS AND THE ROSE, will be repeatd EVERY EVENING. G AUNTRY sv d --- gfASIDE DRESSES. Re crent-street, have now in stock a Messrs. JAY, DRESSES, suitatle for the variety of WL-w , at the c.earing-out price of only country and seaside, arta £llls. 6d. the dress. JAY'S, 247, 20, and 251, Regent-street. BLACK SILKS.—Ti e price of Silks in the raw material has already risen 15 per cent., and it will soon reach a far greater per-cenvag-e. Messrs. JAY, therefore, invite their numerAis patrons' to take advantage of the stock they have on hand, which they ,can now dispose of on favour able terms ; but the same quies will naturdlly 'more 0,93t1y team the price of silk fluctuates to a higher average JAY' S. 247, 249, and 251, Regent-street. COALS. —The LibLESI - IA.LL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. 235. per ton. I Double... 20s. per ton. Top 9 25. „ Detp • • ......21s. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN bCO TT, Sole Lgent. THIRD EDITION OF "THE SUN," ji Containing the Latest SPOUTING INTELLIGENCE, :an be had Every Evening of G. It. GLhIsIIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. THE LATEST EDITION of ' , THE SUN' supplied, as soon as published every Evening . by HENRY 13ROOKS, Newspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendish street, W. AIWA WATER AT LONDON i3RIDGE. rims DAY.—Morning, sd. 15m.—Afternoon, sa. 40m. ro-yoßazow.-Morning, 6h. 2m.—Afternoon, 6h. 24m. 0,--- , ,t k ,T Ztric- ''lr. .: Sliat LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1864. Sir JOHN TRELAWNY has commenced in good time to address his constituents, and divulge his views on various subjects connected with the great political questions of the day. He soon began his strictures, for he commented on Lord PALMER STON'S remarks at Bradford. " The noble lord spoke in very flattering terms of the energy, ability, and capacity of the working classes of England." Nsw, from this, Sir JOHN not inaptly deduces that he need not be so reluctant to extend the franchise. This was quite a home thrust, but it is well known teat the Premier can be all things to all men just as it suits his turn, and no one who has attained much experience can be taken in by the specious remarks which the members of our Cabinet choose to make concerning important matters relating to home and foreign policy. But the member for Tavis toA did not confine himself to these inuendoes— be went much further, and spoke of that most wkward subject of all, the question of Reform. Although some years have now passed since the great claptrap was made by Earl RUSSELL and hie friends, it is as much to their disgrace now as theta that they should have taken office under false pretences, and stooped to an unworthy subterfuge in order to oust their political opponents from office. Sir JoHN TRELAWNY uttered the exact words which the working classes might have said to the Administration as to their conduct of trickery and deceit—" You took office with the understanding that you were going to bring in a better reform bill than that introduced by Mr DISRAELI, and we supported you in the belief that we were going to receive that instalment of justice for which we have so long waited." It seems strange that such dupli e.'ty should not excite more indignation than it has done, but in the pages of history none of these arch.. deceivers will escape the criticism they deserve. In this discourse we find a good humoured hint thrown out to the Government that they must be a little more zealous in the discharge of their duties. It is indeed not likely that this Cabinet will much longer survive the shocks it is continually receiving, bat at the same time the Liberal supporters have a right to complain in no measured terms upon the faineant policy which has been pursued for so long a period. It is given out that the Ministers are most capable men, eminent in ability, skilled in legislation, experienced in parliamentary tactics, and well versed in administrative affairs, and yet the result is ever the same. Such lame and impo. tent conclusions, after so much unseemly self lau dation and boastful parade of power, may well cell forth the comment of vox et pretera nil al. Sir JOHN TRELAWNY rather overpraised Lord PeLefEneToN, but still the Premier is so great a favourite among many classes, that perhaps it was not to be wondered at, and doubtless many political adversaries might concur with the member for Tavistock, when he said that the noble lord was the first working man in office. "He has worked as hard as any hundred men—l was going to say, in the various offices he has held during fifty years or so, and he will probably remain in office till the end of his life." Such may be all very well, but it is too much for patience when we pass on to eulo. giuma upon Earl RUSSELL. To praise him for his management of our relations with America is indeed intolerable. Who has seen any evidence of that tact, courage, coolness, and calmness, which are here spoken of, and as to the conciliation when proper, and the firmness when necessary, it must be imagined that the former refers to the lenity invariably shown to the Federals, and the latter to the constant enmity displayed to the Confederate cause. Neither does the Danish question appear satisfactorily treated in this sp ech ; we hear the old rigmarole of the Conservative party not explaining their policy. T i Ilia s a v,ry convenient subterfuge, but as the Minister, and cot the Opposition are re sponsible to the House and the country it would be bett e e to scan their cause %little more scrutinisingly, and touch on their commissions rather than specu late upon the commissions o f f others. Sir JOHN proved the bedeess of his cau se b y his feeble advo cacy, and the space that be ap propriated in his long discourse to this all absorbing topic. Church Rates, the Ballot, are very well in their place, but their consideration may well be postponed t o a m ire convenient period when u question is mooted which concerns the honour of the country. N ext year or the year after might do for home reforms, but foreign matters wilt not wait. The great world meanwhile spins for ever down the ringing grooves of change, and the opportunity once lost cannot be recalled. Perhaps we - may dis cover the secret of the shortcomings eN men in office in the fact that their misdeeds are slurred over, and their measures supported at a pinch by the very men who should stand al oof if they sought to be true to the policy they advocate, and the con. stituents they represent. It is too bad to hear a member of Parliament declare to hiff constituents that if we had pee to war we shonid have been beaten, " a war with all Germany on behalf of the Danes would almost certainly have been a failure/ This is an imputation on the English nation that is quite uncalled for. "All Germany" would have looked vary foolish if the attempt bad been made, an d it is especially ridiculous to put forward such a statement when it is a fact patent to the world that it, was the love and not the fear of Germany that actuated cur policy. These in high places were too frightened of the harm we should inflict on that country, and consequently the Danes were sacrificed. What, if in the pe ace-offering our national honour had to ba immolated, the sacrifice was not deemed too great considering the occasion that called it forth. This is not the season that we usually associate with the sufferings of the poor. Want and suffer- ing there must be, we know, all the year round in more or less degree, especially when a sickly season or slackness of work increase the ordinary hard ships of the lower classes. But winter is the time which poor folks dread, and in which their wants press most heavily. It is then that cold adds its numbing influence to hunger, that the system needs more food, more clothing, more warmth, just as the necessaries of life rise in price and be• come consequently more unattainable. It is in winter time that our workhouses fill, that our re- lieving societies are in active operation, end that charitable associations of eveiy kind appeal for increased help. During the gloomy winter months we are pained bat not surprised to hear sad tales of want and poverty even if they reach to the tragic point of absolute starvation, the frequency of whose recurrence in cur wealthy metropolis has set wise and conscientious men to work to devise some remedy. That such is needed is clearly proved by the fact that while the bright summer days are TIM SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, 1864. does this consist with the condition so often attached to succouring a poor family out of doors ? The real meaning is plain enough. As little as possible is to be done, and the poor are not to be encouraged to be troublesome. But we cannot so get rid of our social duties and obli• gations, and so long as deaths from starvation recur in London, a heavy responsibility rests upon its citizens. A little temporary relief would have saved this child's life. Might not the neighbours have applied for it had they thought there was a chance of success ? The fact is that our whole system of levying ratz , s must be altered, if we wish to avoid this reproach ; for so long as each parish is compelled to bear its own burden, so long we shall reap the fruits of that unreasonable in• equality in death and distress among our labour ing classes. LATEST INTFLLIGENGT. (REUTERS ETLEGRAMS.) THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, PLYMOUTH, August 22. The screw steamer Indiana put in here this morning to land passengers and to coal. She left Calcutta May 19, Madras June 2, Cape of Good Hope July 13, and crossed the Equator July 28. The Indiana has 100 passengers, and 30 military invalids and time-expired men from India, with 10 passengers and a mail from the Cape. She had also a full general cargo, principally saltpetre, seeds, cottor, silk, and sugar. Her news from the Cape is three weeks later than that brought by the last mail stermer arrived. Trade at the Cipe was dull. The alarm raised on the frontier of an intention on the part of the Krelis to cross the Basheo was proved to have been groundless. Efforts were being made to discover the author of the rumour. Traders and travellers passing through the Canda country represented the country along the whole coast line to be in a disturbed state. PUBLIC HONOURS. The tribes are said to be more insolent than usual, and several councils had been held amongst the chiefs. A war amongst the natives in that locality was expected. Sir Walter Currie had returned to Grahamstown from the Transkei. • occupation. Parliament was to be prorogued the day the Indiana sailed. Its removal to Graham's Town was considered unnecessary, and it was doubted that the experiment would be repeated. The pro posal of the Diamond Company to este.blish mail steam Communication with Port Elizabeth was agreed to without a division, but only on its con-, taining a condition to call at Table or Simon's Bay also. The proposal of the Union Company to extend mail communication to the Mauritius was rejected. Her Maj _sty's steamer Hornet left on the 11th July for Portsmouth. The Indiana's mail has been landed and for warded from here by to-day's mail train. LISBON, AUG. 15. Don Eusebius Page, and Dan Innocencio Roldan have arrived in 1.40130 n to treat on the part of the Spanish Government respecting the frontier points where junctions should be made between the Por tuguese and Spanish Railways. The Marquis da Tagliacarne has presented his credentials as representative of the King of Italy. the present chargé d'affairs, the Count de la Tour, will soon quit this capital. The Federal frigate Niagara is in the Tagus. It said her mission is to intercept a steamer, bought at Liverpool, ostensibly for the navigation between Lisbon and the Portuguese possessions, but in reality for a Confederate cruiser. The Portuguese papers further assert that the steamer will not sail as the intentions of the Fedcrals have transpired. The reclamation of the Spanish Government respecting the capture of the ship Virgen del Re fugio is not likely to cause any serious difficulty (since announced by telegraph to have been set tled). It appears that this vessel was a slaver, and the proofs of her delinquencies were overwhelming, and she NTAS c iptured 'within the Portu,;u?se waters, a point on which no doubt exists. VOLUNTEERS. THE GRAND VOLUNTEER REVIEW AND SHAM FIGHT AT LIVERPOOL. LIVERPOOL, Saturday. Liverpool has to-day presented an unusual scene of animation and gaiety consequent on a splendid volunteer review and sham fight on the race course at Aintree ; his worship the mayor having invited all the volunteer corps in Liverpool to take part in the interesting proceedings. From the moment his worship announced his liberal intention, the idea was taken up by all classes of the inhabitants, and to-day the town is marked by a holiday almost general, the offices, shops, and other general places of business having been closed at one o'clock this afternoon. The various corps, which consisted of the Ist Administrativeßrigade of Lancashire Artil lery Volunteers, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Sir William Richmond Brown, Bart. ; the 4th Bri gade of Lancashire Artillery Volunteers, Major Melly; Bth Brigade of Lancashire Artillery Volun teers, Lieut.-Col. Clay; 11th Lancashire Volunteers, 2d Administrative Brigade ditto, Ist Battalion of Lancashire Engineer Volunteers, 2d ditto, and Ist, 13th, E4th, sth, 42d. 15th, 51st, 64th, and 80th Battalions of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers, began moving through the town, headed by their bands, to the Exchange station of the Lancashire and York shire Railway, from whence they were all conveyed to the Aintree Racecourse, where the review and sham fight were to take place, at the sole expense of his worship the mayor. About four o'clock all the men had assembled on the ground, to the num ber of between 4000 and 4500, and were.distributed into three brigades, the first being under the cona• mend of Lieut.-Col. Sir W. R. Brown, Bart.; the the second brigade under the command of Lieut.. Col. M'lver ; and the third brigade under the com mand of Lieut.-Col. Tinley. The day being delightfully find the attendance was very numerous, Liverpool pouring out its thousands of all class es . The approaches to th e railway station were most inconveniently crowded, whilst every style of vehicle appeared _to have been brought into requisition to convey the multitude who chose to travel by the ordinary high way. About four o'clock the course at Aintree presented a most brilliant appearance. The Grand Stand was densely crowded with a most fashionable attendance of ladies and gentlemen, whilst the mis• cellaneous company in different parts of the course could be counted by thousands. Sir Charles Wetherell and Col. M‘Murdo, the reviewing officers, attended by their staff, on com ing on to the ground were met by the usual military salute. The review then commenced, followed by the sham fight, which was of an exceedingly inte resting character. At the close of the proceedings the various corps marched off the course to Liver pool, accompanied by their bands.—Observer, THE EMPIRE OP MEXICO. (From the Tinges' Correspowlent.) MEXICO, July 10. On the 28th ult. General Bazaine gave a magnifi cent ball in honour of the Emperor and Empress; 1,200 people, the elite of Mexico, comprising every political name, were present. It htis been said " that more is sometimes gained by a ball than a battle," and such was certainly the case on the present occasion ; the unostentatious and affable manner in which their Majesties walked about the room, entering into conversation with every one, formed such a marvellous contrast to anything that had ever been witnessed in the days of a free re public, when dusty-coloured Presidents never moved without being surrounded by a body guard of still more dusty-coloured aide-de-camps, that on the following morning the whole city of Mexico re sounded with their praises. " The Emperor spoke to me," said onc. "so he did with me," said another, which was heard repeated at the corner of almost every street, showed the value attached to every word which issued from the Imperial lips; and I will venture to assert that of the fifties or hundreds who had the honour of being noticed by the Emperor or Empress on that eventful evening there is not one, be he reactionist or be he republi can, who has not treasured up in his memory and who cannot repeat with the most perfect accuracy every word that was addressed to him. Whether all this is consistent with the opinion so industri. ously circulated, _both here and elsewhere, that Mexicans were essentially republicans and abhorred a monarchy, may well be doubted; all I can say is that never in the same short apace of time have I The embodiment of the irregular horse had been seen any two individuals attain the sam e amoun t o f popularity. abandoned, and the conditions upon which grants The Emperor, for the present, has taken up his abode in the castl e o f Ch a p u lt e p ec , a b out three of Transkeian territory, were to be made were found to be too high, and were to be modified if the miles from the city ; he drives in every mornin; in er, and i e n a rtrhi the ge afternoon, attended aftery a h single avi D ;s o ut r scheme was continued; but it wasconsidered doubt ful whether the territory would be given out fordevoted the returns u o r p n e s n whole of the day to the business 'of the country. All the Ministerial departmen..e are confided to sub secretaries. His Mejes.,- y having very wisely deter mined to reserve te., himself the direct supervision until he can fil le t fit persons to fill the various posts, All the ae,;pointments he has yet made seem to meet with unqualified approbation, and it is fair to pre- Kerne that, with a little time and patience, he will succeed in raising up a moderate party that will more than counterbalance the two extremes which by turns have ruled and ruined the country. The commission to report upon the finances of the country is to meet on the let of next month ; it is to be composed of persons inhabitants of the city of Mexico (foreigners s well as Mexicans, to be named by the Ernperee), and of delegates from the depart ments representing the different classes of the popu lation. The commission is to be sub divided into sections or sub-commissions, to report on the diffe rent matters submitted to their consideration. The duties on imports and exports, the value of public lands, and the best mode of rendering them profit able to the State, colonisation, the debts and indem nities due to citizens of foreign countries, railroads, public works, the currency, taxation, weights and measures, and, in fact, everything having the slightest reference to the finances of the country, are all to form subjects of discussion. I heEmperor, of course, reserves to himself the right of adopting or modifying the reports made by the various sec tions. The field is a wide one, and it may fairly be doubted whether there are men competent to arrive at just conclusions upon subjects se various and important; still, much valuable information must necessarily be elicited, which will serve to form the groundwork for future legislation. Hitherto there has been no regular system of tax ation in this country, and this is scarcely to be wondered at, changes of Government having fol lowed one another in such rapid succession that any President who might have been willing or able to form one would certainly not have had time to carry it out. The consequence has been that the revenues of the ports have generally been seized by the Governors of the States in which those ports were situated, and the Central Government has been obliged to live as best it could by forced loans and cmtrihtvions levied upon the inhabitants of those cities which for the time being acknowledged its sway. Santa Anna (I think it was in the year 1844) proposed a system of taxation which, far from being eecessive, would still have produced about 30,000,000 dole. annually. Such a revenue would be more than sufficient to meet all the requirements of the present Government, and I certainly see no rea son why, if such a sum could have been raised then, it should not be raised now. An honest collection at the ports will at once double, if not treble, the receipts; from this source of revenue alone the Ims perial Government may rely upon 16,000,000 dole. to 18,000,000 dole. annually, leaving only 12,000,000 dots, or 14,000,000 dole., as the case may be, to be collected by other means. As a remarkable instance of what an honest collection will effect I may men tion that the duties levied in the Customelicuie cf this city alone have during the last six months rea lieed the enormous sum of 5,000,000 dole.; in ordi nary times they produced at the very outside 4,000,000 dole. annually. Of course, the same sys tem of robbery and plunder has been going on at Guadalajara, Guanaxuato, San Luis, and all other cities of the empire, and it can no longer be a mat ter for surprise that each succeeding President, however short his time of office might have been, always retired with a princely fortune. Another commission will shortly be named to re vise the laws and provide for the proper adminis tration of justice. Phis will be a Herculean task, for of all the countries in the world there is none in which justice has been so scandalously administered as in Mexico. The first thing to be considered now upon the institution of a suit is, not whether you have justice on your side, but whether you can afford to outbid Your opponent. Venality among the judges has been universal, and I could give you instances, and will do so upon some future occasion, which will make the hair of English lawyers stand on end. The remedy is clear enough,--pay the judges well, do away with written pleadings (at present there is nothing else), examine the witnesses viva Voce, open all courts to the public, have all the cases accurately reported, and punish most severely any judge who, from interested or other motives, is caught tripping. The military commission will commence its la bours in the course of a few days, and a plan of campaign for the interior has been decided upon; in fact, everything is going on as well as the moat sanguine monarchist could desire, and it would really seem as if a great end glorious future were about to dawn upon this hitherto unfortunate country. From the interior there is nothing of importance. The most perfect tranquillity:reigns in all towns occupied by the French. The arrival of their Imperial Majesties has been hailed in San Luis Guanaxuato, and other towns with the utmost dee monstration of joy. Gonzales Ortega is said to be closely pursued by the French, who are not very likely to catch him; and Uraga is still disposed tc join the intervention as soon as he can do so with perfect safety to himself. DEATH OF LORD RODNEY.—On Friday Lord Rodney expired at his seat at. Berrington, near Leominster. Lord Rodney, vtho was in his 46th year, was the great grandson of the famous Rodney. He leaves three children, one of whom succeeds to the title. THE POPULAR STREET "MOT" IN PARIS-" 48 to vu Lambert ?"—Sp ea ki ng of this sudden and all but universal eccentricity of the streets of the French capital, the Spectator of Saturday remarks that during the Et2te Napoleon the Parisians appeared to have invented a new amusement, which consisted in asking their friends, and the passengers, and everybody at all conspicuous, " As tu vu Lambert ?" The word was repeated everywhere, the Emperor himself being saluted with " Vive Lambert, viva Madame Lambert, vive le petit Lambert I" the popu lace applying the name with a pertinacity which proved that they saw a joke somewhere. The police were begin ning to think of Cayenne or the necessity for calling out the military, when it was discovered that a farmer's wife losing h r husband, had been going about asking for "Lambert." The Parisians; struck with the idea of a woman imagining that everybody must know her particular lord, took up the cry, and as the Emperor is the only man known to everybody applied the name to him with appre• ciative unanimity. The minds of the police gradually calmed down, and in consideration of the ftes nobody was so much as arrested, LITERATUR E. Tales and Traits of Sporting Life. By Henry Corbet. One Vol. Pp. 202. Rogerson and Tuxlord, 246, Strand. Since Charles Apperley, the famous Nimrod, and Charles Bindley, the hilarious Harry Hieover, we have had no such sporting writer as Henry Corbet, the writer of this most exhilarating book of Turf Sketches. " Tales and Traits of Sporting Life" as he calls them, these sketches have been oolleeted together from the pages of Bell's Life in .London, cf the sporting magazines generally, and of Dickens's All the Year Bound in particular. Let u 3 premise, at once, while drawing attention thus pointedly to what we have found to be so realty delightful a volume of Sporting Slie:ches, that the writer of it—Mr Corbet—is to U 3 a mere name upon a title-page. And, what is yet more to the point, let 'us add, to this acknowledgment of ours, that, until now, we were wholely unacquainted with him, with his mere name, that is, as a sport ing writer, although among these " Tales and Traits" of his, we have, to our exceeding satisfac tion, recognised one or two papers read by us when they were first published (anonymously) in one or other of the periodicals already mentioned — in Bell's Life, if we remember rightly, or it may have L been in All the Year Round. We have now recognised, we say, one or two papers so read by us, without any knowledge then on our part as to their authorship —papers so delightful in their way, so entirely to our own liking, at least, that we possess to this day clippings from them, clippings carefully preserved among our collection of News paper paragraphs. To be plain, we find that we have thus, for example, already set apart, now, two or three years ago, for pleasant reference to after wards, wtienever we might so list to refer them— fra-escnentary extracts from Henry Corbet's wonder fully graphic description of the late Fulwar Craven, one dubbed by the writer of it " A Bit of a Cha racter !" A description that we had no notion (until now) was Henry Corbet's when it chanced to be first read by us—was it not in Bells Life in Lon don? Again we say of this sketch in particular —now, upon our reperusal of it—a wonderfully graphic description ! As graphic even as E. Cor bet's marvellous little coloured vignette portraiture of "Fulwar Craven" himself—out upon the Downs (with Fly-by-night, we may suppose, or Long waist, visible in the distance)—talking with a red cloaked gipsy-woman. Nay, to our " mind's eye" —having often seen the man himself, and that, too, in the days of his glory,when he was, indeed, in every sense of the phrase, " A Bit of a Character "—H. Corbet's pen-and-ink sketch of Fa' war Craven is more vividly realistic as a life-like sketch than E. Corbet's coloured vignette sketch of him, but just now mentioned. Never were Lord Byron's words, from the famous slang stanza in "Don Juan," so aptly quoted as they are here by our author, as directly applying to Fulwar Craven— " So prime, so flash, so nutty, and so knowing I" Yonder is the very man before us, with, as Mr Corbet expresses it, that " slang defiant yet some how thoroughly sportsman's air about him!" "Character"—as cur Younger Nimrod has it—even as it were, "in the careless cock of his (Fulwar Craven's) battered white hat—in the wisp-tie of his crimson bandana, in the half-open striped waistcaat, and the loose cut of his brass-buttoned brown coat, with another fogle flying from the pocket of it I' Almost equally decisive, it is added, were his drab breeches and gaiters—" emphasised," as the latter were, "by being carefully pulled down at the back to show some inches of pink silk stocking I" And so, too —in this wonderfully lifeslike sketch—in regard to the mention made of the big brooch in the shirt, the purple jacket in the hand (together with the orange cap, Fulwar Craven's jockey-colours on the race-course), the roving glance—" a deal of devil in the eye, a life's story in his very walk and hearing" —et voila ! the owner of D.ception ! the swell ex-Captain Craven ! the Game Evergreen! as ready, says Mr Corbet—in this inimitable portraiture of his, of Fulwar Craven when in his prima—" as ready still as any of you for a bout, a lark, or a drink 1" Here, already—even while quoting thus fragmentarily from these " Tales and Traits of Sporting Life"—we rest assured that we have given our readers a flavourous taste of our au thor'a quality ! And equally satisfied are we, that even brief extracts like the foregoing will be recog nized by the more discerning, as affording the amplest justification of the commendatory words already pros uoanced by us upon the radiant, animated, capital style in which Henry Corbel handles the pen as a Sporting Writer. If he handles the ribbons only but one half as well, he must be a eplendid Whip I How ever that may be, it appears to us perfectly manifest —estimating our author's capabilities from the mere manner of the man—that he is, to the backbone, a thorough sportsman ! One ready alike—according to the mere chance of the opportunity—to throw a fly, to wing a partridge, or to clear a five-barred gate —equally at home, as ho must surely be, in the saddle, among the stubble, or by the weedy margin of the trout-stream. Those who turn to his pages for amusement, will find ample store of that same, closely compacted into this exhilarating little half-crown volume, in which he sketches off, besides Fulwar Craven, divers other dead and gone glories of the turf, men as well known in their time as "John Gully," Pugilist and Member of Parlia ment—as " Old John Day," of his kind A 1 among jockeys and trainers or as that other wearer of the peaked skull cap and the silk jacket, " The Last of the Chifneys I" Commend us, too—for capital bits of fun—to our author's record, here, of "The Love Bird" and " The Hard-up,"of "A Second Fox" and " The Belles of Swindon," Such capital Tales and Traits they are— these Sketches of Sport ing Life by Henry Corbet—that all sporting readers who know them not already, will have reason to thank us, after a perusal of them, for having tt,u3 heartily commended these same Sketches to their consideration. BROTHER OF GENERAL LEE.—Rumour has it that Captain Lee, a brother of the great Confederate gene • ral of that name, is presently enjoying the fishing at Glen. clg, in the West Highlands. He will find the prosecution of the piscatorial art in a quiet Higland glen far more plea sant work than that in which his illustrious brother is engaged at Petersburg.—E:gin Courant. A RIGMAROLE APOLOGUE I—related (apparently by the Ghost of Mr Roundabout) in the Saturday Review,—A lawyer with a taste for casuistiL al speculations was one day walking over a common. He heard a noise by the roadside, which appeared en examination to proceed from a battle between a rabbit and a weasel. The wease had the rabbit by the throat, and it was drumming furiously on the weasel's back with its forepaws. The lawyer began to doubt whether he should interfere or not. By interfering he would save the rabbit's life; but he would also deprive the weasel of his dinner, which he was earning in the natural way of his business. By not interfering, he would neglect to save the life of the rabbit, which, as compared with de priving the weasel of his dinner, would produce a balance of pain. It appeared to the lawyer ? who was a practical man as well as a casuist, that under these circumstance the rabbit ought to have the benefit of the doubt; and in stead of following the advice of one of his own profession who, when a notorious rogue was defended by an ingenious quibble, proposed to "hang the man and save the point," he saved the rabbit's life from his antagonist, and els o saved the point whether he had done right for further con sideration. Upon reflection, he arrived at the satisfactory conclusion that he had done right, on the ground that the individual act produced more pleasure than pain, and that it did not, and from the nature of the case could not, tend to establish an injurious precedent. If, in order to save the life of the individual rabbit, it had been necessary to lay down the general principle that all rabbits ought to have their lives protected against all weasels, he would have been wrong ; for to affirm such a principle would hays been to interfere with the established order of nature whereby it is ordained that rabbits should be the prey of weasels. Bu t the particular act had no such meaning. The lawyer had not the remotest intention of becoming a knight-errant on the part of rabbits in general against weasels, nor did he even intend to set up a company f or that pur pose* H is connexion wi h the subjec: )egan and ended with that !an titular interference, t h e pla i n result o f w hi c h was life to the rabbit, and a countermand of dinner to the weasel , and it was hundreds, perhaps thousands to one that he lived. would never see finch a sight again as long as b e WHALES.—WhiI e t h e B erw i c k clipper th e Tweed was lying becalm e d o ff th e F erne I s lands on Sunday and Monday, it wa s surroun d e d d ur i ng these days by as large a shoal of whales as has been semi off our shores at this season for many years, The sailors d e p lore they had no harpoon on board, as they might possibly have bagged re of whales some of thes e mons t ers o f the deep. The Presence is gener a lly a s i gn o f gre at shoals of herrings,—Berwick Advertiser, HER MAJESTY, OSBORNE, August 20. The Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, drove out yesterday afternoon. AUGUST 21. The Queen and Princess Louis of Hesse drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by Lady Port man and Lieut.• Colonel Du Plat. The Lord Chancellor arrived at 03borne and had the honour of dining with the Queen and royil family. Divine service was performed at aiborne this morning by the Roy. G, Prothero before her Ma jesty, their Royal Highnesses Princess Louis of Hesse, Princess Helena, Princess 1.f.:U!.991 and Prince Leopold. The Prince and Princess of Wales ill Scotland. ---- Oa Monday the P r inc e — of Wales, the Duke o f Cambridge, Lord Hamilton, Col. Curzon, and Ma jor Teesdale went to the moors, and made good bags. The Prince shot 25 brace, the Duke of Cara' bridge 33, and Lard Hamilton and Colonel Curzon' who shot in company, bagged 68 brace, 2 sn i p es ' and 1 hare. On Tuesday morning the Duk e ° Cambridge and Col. Curzon left for Brechinlfitle' and the Prince and Princess of Wales, PriDeeSB Mary of Cambridge, and the other ladies and gene tlemea of the suite went to Lochmuich to th e fishing, returning in the evening by Birkall. Thf Princess enjoys her umal walks and d r ives.. I t grand ball was to be g i ven by th e i r Royal ID& IMISES at the Castle on Friday evening. Their R9yal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Louis of Heste will take leave of her Majesty on Saturday afternoon on their return to Germany. Their royal ki g" - nesses will embark either at Woolwich or Gravesend . The Maharajah Dhuleep Singh and the g 3 h a ' ranee are expected to arrive at his highness's e state, Elveden, near Thetford, Norfolk, in the course of nett mon tb His Excellency Count Von Bernstorff is residing at Carlsbad, where he will remain some weeks for the ben' fit of the waters. During his excellency's absence from London the business of the embassy will be conducted 1/ Katte, the first secretary. His Excellency Prince do Latour d'Auvergne i 5 still residing at Vichy, where he will remain until the Bth Sept., when ho will proceed to the department of Vienn e ' and preside at the council general. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch left their residence in Belgrave-square on Sa'urday last for Delkc ith Palace, near Edinburgh, on their way to Drumlanrig. Ladies Victoria and Margaret Scott had previously left town for Scotland. The Duchess of Hamilton is residing at Baden' wei!er, a small watering-place on the Upper Rhine' rler Grace was honoured by a visit from the Queen of FrUSSia on Wednesday last. It is stated that the Earl of Coventry i s about to be married to Lady Blanche Craven, third daughter of the Earl and Countess Craven. Viscountess Jocelyn and the Hon. M isses Jocelyn have left town for the Continent. Count and for Cou Scotland,ntess left Eaton-square Lord Aveiand and th e H on . Miss H ea t hoc) e have arrived at the Portland H o t e l, S ou th sea , from Belgra"' square. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The remarkable man who now rules in France follows the good example of his illustrious uncle in the con ferring of decorations upon persons who have done good service to the State, whether their acts be military, social, or of an artistic character. But in Britain the martialists certainly have an advantage with respect to pecuniary and social benefits. A peerage was once talked of for the late Sir B. Brodie, but I believe that the idea was not favour ably received ; at any rate, he did not receive peerage; nor am I aware of any medical man, however eminent he may have been, who has been raised to the peerage, although soldiers, sailors, and lawyers, as well as divines, have been received favourably in the Upper Chamber. There, also, we may look in vain for the elevation of our eminent authors and artists. I observed, recently, in The Sun, a printed statement respecting large sums of public money still paid out of the Exchequer to sinecurists, to the extent of many thousands a year, while eminent literati and artists can obtain with difficulty a small pension from Government --the amount of money for this purpose being about £1,200 per annum I A fair sum of money was awarded during the last session by the House of Commons to some eminent painter, which act, I hope, augurs well for the future, for certainly an improvement is desirable. In my opinion, so far as concerns secular honour, the appointment of a new decoration for civilians only—the ALBERT CROSS—as sug • gested in [he Sun a few months since, would be attended with public advantage, and this new decoration would place civilians upon a par with military men with respect to pub lic position. I am, Sir, yours obediently, CHRISEIt, Coox, Aug. 20. Reaping Machines. yet with us, while the reapers are busy, and before Co Saturday an extensive trial of reaping ma the harvest is fully gathered, in comes another chines took place under the auspices of the United mournful story of death from starvation in the Agricultural Society of East Lothian. The com midet of our London streets and squares. We may petition took place on th e f arm o f A t h e l a t ane f or d, well feel surprised that such should be the case, near Drem, where Douglas, the f ame d b ree d er o f farm stock, had provided a field of 65 acres of bare even though the scene of its occurrence should be ley, divided off into lots of about let acres, and Bethnal-green. The circumstances of the ease were, a field of oats of 40 acres, divided into lots of too, of a particularly painful nature. The victim nearly an acre each. The weather was extremely was a child of tender years, who naturally claims favourable for the competitio n , an d th e crop was our pity more then an adult, whose own folly or cut in capital condition, Th e b ar l e y was on a near l y imprudence may be supposed to have had ssme level field, and was a full avenge Drop; the oats, which were in a field with a gent l e s l ope , were li g h t share in his or her destitution. The father was a in the straw, but fully up to the average oat crop hardworking, labouring man, who had been laid of the season. Upwards of 30 machines were en• aside from his work by illness, and therefore pre- tered for the competition, but several were with vented, by unavoidable causes, from properly sup- drawn: Several more were not brought forward, porting his family. He and his wife both appeared some of them, owing to the machines having been raiment or delayed by the railway com p any . Th ere in court, where their emaciated and mi sera bl e looks excited deep commiseration. Ind ee d, were complaints on the ground as to th e con duct of the railway in the matter, and the com they were still so weak from recent ill- petition was delayed fully an hour later than ness that the medical man who gave his the time announced for its beginning. Eighteen evidence, said he thought they could hardly under- machines in all took part in the competition, die stand what was going on. The sad story was soon playing fully the different principles of construc t told. The father, a labourer, earned half- a - crown tion and working of those now in th e mar k et . F our a day, but for the last fortnight had been unabl e to were on the self-delivering pri nc ipl e — name l y, , Samuelson and Co.'s two-horse machine, Brigham work from illness, typhus fever having attacked and Bickerton's two-horse and one-horse reapers ; the whole family one by one, and reduced them to a and 111`Cormick's sheaf-delivering machine, the stete of the greatest weakness. The mother, who latter exhibited by Mr Todd, of Castlemain. The came into court with an infant in her arms, could manual delivery reapers were—two by Mr Halli hardly speak from weakness. The poor child who day, of Haddington ; two by Mr Wallace, Alexan dr.ia, Dumbartonshire ; two by P.ixley, Sims, and died was eight years old, and was like the others Co.; one Pixley machine exhibit e d by M r H ume , recovering from the fever, when, of course, instead Coldstream ; a two-horse band-delivery reaper, by of diminished food, or rather no food at all, he Mr Grey, of Brownrigg ; a two-horse reaper, by required all the nourishment he could take. The Brigham and Bickerton; a "Buckeye" combined doctor who made the post mortem examination reaper and mower, by the same firm ; a Gardner said the child had died from convalsons brought on and Ainslie machine, shown by Mr Reid ; and a by want of food, only half an ounce of gruel being now two-horse reaper, by Messrs. G. and W. teous, Pore found in his stomach. It will be naturally asked of Haddington. There were a l so one o f the why application was not made to th e p a ri s h au - " Eclipse" one-horse machine s o f S amue l son , an d a one-horse " Excelsior" of Brigham and Bickerton, thorities, and the question is answered in the usual Tne extent of the competition brought together a fashion. Two or three years ago the father, when large number of the leading agriculturists of Scot in distress, applied to the workhouse for help, and land, and the beauty of the weather brought out a was given a shilling a week and a loaf; but aft er considerable number of ladies an d gent l emen to some time he was told that he and family mu st witness the interesting sight. Amon g th ose on th e ground were the Maruis of Tweedale, e E come into the house, or they should have nothin g of Wemyss, th e Earl of Haddington, d Lord th Chelmars -1 more. The man who, as we see, can earn, when in ford, Lord Elcho, M.P. fo: the county, Lord good health / half-a-crown a day, and has been Walden, Sir Hew Dalrymple, Sir George able to maintain his family in the inter Grant Suttie, &c. The judges were the vening years, very naturally refused, and, therefore Marquis of Tweeddale, Mr Henderson, Byres ; when this illness came on he would not ask again, Mr Smith, Stevenston Mains; Mr Wyllie, Bolton; and Mr Russell, C oa l st onemains. The re a pi ng be expecting to ba refused. Very prob a bly, notwith standing their former experience, the f a ther and gars on the firi ng o f a gun s h ort l y a l ien eleven, and concluded about five in the afternoon, an interval mother would have made some effort on behalf of taking place between the cutting of the barley and their starving cnild had they themselves been in a the oats, during which time a large party of gentle condition to understand the state of the case, but men dined in the tent, when the chair was taken by prostrated by illness of the most terrible character the Marquis of Tweeddale. After the allotted spaces they were unfit or unable to exert th emse l ves . W e in the two fields had been cut th e j u d ges went mi have no reason to doubt that had the pa r i s h an th o - nutely over the work, an d a l so i nspecte d t h e mechanism of most of the machines. They then rides known of this instance they would have selected a few for a further trial under their own granted some relief, but the question remains immediate view, and after consideration gave the whether there is not something very wrong in our following awards—For manual delivery machines social arrangements. The case before us is just one —Frst prize, Halliday, Haddington ; second ditto, of those which parochial relief_ should be extended Brigham and Bickerston's " Buckeye ; " third ditto, to; it is one which has an especial claim on the well- Halliday, Haddington ; fourth ditto, W a ll ace , D ana to-do-classes of the community. Th© richest and bartonshire ; fifth ditto, Humes, Pixl e y ; s i xt h ditt o , wisest is liable at any time to be laid aside from his Wallace, Dumbartonshire. For self-d e li ver i ng ma enines—firet prize, Samuelson and Co. ; second ditto work, his profession, his ordinary pursuits of what- Brigham and Bickerston's two horse, For the ever kind_ Illness is one of the ordinary visitations best reape r in the field, Mr Halliday, Had of humanity, and while it excites our feelings of dington. The machine placed first is the same as sympathy and pity on behalf of the euffsrer, it that with which Mr Halliday took the first prize at Yester in th e same di str i ct i n 1861 , b ut with con unquestionably exonerates him from any bl ame f or siderable improvement. It differs from the machine inaction. The political economist may, indeed, placed third in having a compound acting guiding contend that those who wholly depend upon their wheel, by which the machine is easily turned, and health and strength for maintenance should lay by which has the merit of considerable importance on some provision for a rainy day,but we have yet to a grass bottom—of not cutting up the soil however find the theory whosepractical applicationwill enab:e sharply it may be turned. Both Halliday's ma c a London labourer with half a er e w n a d ay t o k eep chines are rrovided with a very si m pl e arrangemen t himself, his wife, and six child ren , to put b y enoug h by which one lever throws the m ac hi ne out o f gea r and at the same time lifts the knives out of the to maintain eight parsons during a fortnight's corn ground. This is by many deemed an advantage, pelled inaction. Threepence a day is not so large though it has been objected that, as the knives can a sum for the support of a human being of whatever not be lifted without stopping the cutting, there is age at the present rate of prices that the most not the same facility for clearing obstructions, such rigid of censors need blame, because rent and cloth• as stones, as is given in reapers where the actions ing is all that can be saved out o f it. I t i s i n f am i- are-not conjoined. The beautiful b a l ance arrange liesrunt for lifting the k n i ves i n S amue l son living like this that typhu s fi n d s so rea dy a , and Co. s one-horse machine was very much prey. Their customary rate of living is only just admired. There were, however, no prizes given for enou g h t o k ee p body and soul together, and then one-horse reapers. Brigham and Bickerton's ma when a bad season comes fever sweeps them chines, of which 5 were in the ground, took both off, or an unusually cold winter mows them the second prizes. The "Buckeye" is a strong and down by the hundred. Mendicancy is forbidden rapid working machine, and gave great satisfac tion. Mr Wallace's reapers, whi c h s t oo d f our th and by law, small trad es th a t h a d no cap i ta l , such as sixth, differed from each other in the arrangement trucks and barrow selling, are discouraged by the of the wheels—one of them having two large wheels, police, the workhouse saddles their relief with the while the other was constructed with only one. The condition of going into the house—What are the in- Pixley machine, shown by Mr Home, started very digent to do ? Our practice has for too long been late, owing to its detention on the railway, but sue entirely negative. We tell the people what they ceeded in taking its place in the prize list. The ought not to do, but no one can find out w h a t course easy draught and excellent w or ki ng o f S amue l son ' s self-delivery machine won it the first place in that they ought to take except putting themselves under class. Its light draught is materially assisted by ground with the least possible delay. It is absurd 'he action of the teeth, which pass through two as well as unjust to suppose that a man possessing fingers at each revolution, thus lessening the num. all his limbs and faculties will voluntarily abandon ber of revolutions necessary to give speed to the himself to a pauper's life. Teat life entails total cutters. The same arrangement is used in the separation from his family, the sacrifice of Eclipse m machi ne . Th e its hand delivery machine of Mr Gray excite d considerable attention by all the little comf or t s o f h ome , the eurren- novelty. In it a girl follows the machine, placing der of his freedom of action far a very a`` whippie," or bi n di ng stray on t h e t il t b oar d after each sheaf is d e li vere d. Th e b an d i s th us prison -like existence, where every one re- found lying beneath each sheaf on the ground. In garde him as a burden. The stri nge ncy of the every respect the competition went off well, and the rules for admission is exeueed on the ground that it is desirable to keep people off the rates and to work done was throughout good. So much was this the case that the opinion was freely expressed that with any of the machines on the ground a far discourage ploperi,na as much as p saible. How raer would be well served. FRANCE. BOURSE, Aug. 20.—The market was heavy at the commencement of business, but has since improved. Threes, for the account, after standing for a time at 66fr. 35c., are now quoted at 66fr. 45c. Mobilier show a slight advance, the present price being 1,020 fr. Railway Market quiet, but in general firm. The market closed es follows :- 41 per Cents .. 94 75 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 25 Credit 11 Iobilier 1918 75 no. end month 1017 60 Bank Shares 3370 Credit F oncier 1220 Roman . D I t i a t l t i o a n T h L r o c a e n s 6B 10 Do. end month 6B 10 ' New Mexican Russian Austrian Spanieh Threeb 49 25 1-tome Debt .. 4B 25 Deterred $d IL 'ATS. Cash. Account. Orleans * ,••• BB7 50 .. 891 25 Northern Lyons and Neditsrranean 93) .. 930 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian 350 350 Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa.. 507 50 .. 505 Ditto to Barcelona,,,, - „ 332 50 • tinrt ,4 Germany and the Duchies. A Prussian commission sant to examine the eon' dition and capabilities of the harbour of Dalliz e has reported that its situation is ineligible, an d that, on account of the shallowness of water and want of space, is not adapted for the Prussian navy. "The fleet" will consequently be stationed at Swine' munde for the present, Meetings in favour of the candidature of the Prince of Augustenburg have been held in several towns in the duchies, and resolutions have been passed to the effect that no other claimant shall have the support of the inhabitants. The followiog resolutions were passed at HUEUM in Schleswig :--- Constrained by our manly word voluntarily given, a nd by ur most innate C3nV;Ctiai, under all circumstances we will remain true and steadfast to cur legitimate 'mince, Do ke Frederic VIII. Every other pretension to the throne of Schleswig - s °l ' stein, come from whatever side it may, we will reject with indignation. We will oppose it with all possible means ' and expect that the whole of the German people will do likewise. Each interim Government we look upon as dangerous to the cause of our country, We hereby express to the Governments of Austria arid Prussia our warmest and most deeply f e lt thanks fcr the liberation frcm our hereditary foes, the Danes, an d are ready and willing to approve of any concession which the interest of Germany may require, but we confidently eV " : pect from the exalted s e nse o f j us tice of the Sove rei g ns Austria and Prussia, that now, w ith ou t delay, Schleswl.ge-_r Holstein will be reconstituted as an independent State none. our legitimate rule r F re d er i c VIII. Only when this is dolo ea when a legally-constitut e d asse mh cur legislates f or us, w_ a Schleswig-Holstein arm y i s f o rmed, can •rx consider liberatien to be an accompllished fact." places. Similar resolutions have been pass ed at other A Frankfort letter of the 18th says At Berlin, as well as at Vienna, public opinion is declar reform, and, ing itself more and more against the Austro-Prussian declar ing ance. Prussia finds it an impediment to the establishment. Federal her supremacy in Germany, to the accomplishment of personal views. "n The Duchies are, in fact, looked upon I t Prussia as a territory conquered by the arniY of lila above all. to the realisation of her country, and by that army alone. Besides, the question is asked, what is to be done with the Duchies? If they aro to form a n ew State of the Confederation, the result would only be to increase the evil dreated in 1815, and consolidate a ment, the Assembly of Delegates, and the Congress et Princes, T have each desired to modify or put an end to. The Duchies were not conquered by the old German)" 43' the Diet ; those provinces ought therefore to belong to the new Germany which is now consulting. itself. The Duchies without an army and fleet, and exposed at every moment to attacks from Denmark, could not form an i 11e.. " pendent state. They therefore require protection, and they cannot expect it from one of the secondary States of Ger present state of the Confederation) by many, which themselves only exist (in consequence o f the two groat Powers, Prussia is therefore alone called en to exercise that protection over the Duchies which have. identical military and commercial interests. The principal the support of the object of those observations which are spread among al® docile public is to show the necessity of giving an organ' 11161 sation to the Duchies before settling t h e question of succession. Consequently there is an increased desire to establish a ProvisiOnal Government in the Duchies, totm: yoke the Chambers (of course in presence of the area el occupation), and to obtain the adoption by those asset:ooe.° C on str.; of measures and law s which would overthrow the t u tion of 1848, a nd establish that friendly union which:f Berlin is represente d as indis p ensable to the welfare- Schleswig - Holstein. The Kreutz Zeitung, referring to the fall o f I(,ing 4" Otho when speaking of the dismembe rment of .3" mark, sees the finger of God in the misfortunes which have befallen Christian IX., and SaY S:---. There are still persons at Copenhagen who hope for an intervention of Earope in favour of Denmark' they cenno t resign themselves to such great losses. They say that Kit Christian is convinced that sooner or later the Duchies will set rn. to him, in conformity with the treaty of L o ndon. And King Otho, will he recover Greece sooner or later ia virtue of some treaty f Was not Greece more solemnly guaranteed to that Time; that the German Duchies to King Chrian nd w hat right had King George to th e throne of G ist reece.? Ii ave no t the victories of Duppei and Alaell given the anew or of the living God to the Cavourist policy o f King Ch ristian at Athens? Ho yielded to the couneel, e and p ower of En g land to commit a bad action in Greece and ~,,,,s a b a ndoned by the counsels and power of Eng'lad at .1,0„,e, W e are, of course, not at all inclines to rejoice at the misfortunes of others; but we seek the finger of God i ll hi s .,ory that we may be guided thereby, THE EXPRESSION OF DRESS.—Women aro 13 : 1°r° adornment oflowers than we think. In their dress 00 they exprees their nature, as the flower d°esv their petals and colours. Some women are li ke the niod daisies and vi o l e t s —they never look or feel cotter thanwhens dressed in a morning wrapper. Others are n ot themselle unless they can flame out in gorgeous dyes, like the tulip or or bush rose. Who has not seen woven 'tot like v 7l:l ' lilies ? We know several double marigolds i and P° l3 . ie° : There are women fit only far velvets, ' like the de others are graceful and airy, like ezaleas. Nov an d tD"' n a re ire e you see hollyhocks and sunflowers. When wome to dress as the like, uncontrolled by others, by their circumstances, they do not fail to express tilt, true characters, and dress becomes a form of expression very genuine and useful.-67corge Aureolesmiia ?to Pig' and not limited