The Sun. — London, England, 1864-04-23 00:00:00

BONNET'S SILKS A LYON.--Every Article of commerce takes its title either from the inventor or manufacturer, and the more perfect the production the grater is the credit which attaches to the originator. BONNET'S SILKS are said to be incapable of identifica tion in England ; but the fallacy of such an assertion is ex pos dby the very trade mark of the firm, as exhibited by Messrs. JAY, of Regent-street. The following interwoven mark may be seen at the end of each piece :—".Manufacture de C. J. Bonnet et Cie., a Lyon e a Injurieux." Wear guaranteed. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden. From this time until the end of the season there will be four Opera nights in each week, viz., every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Mdlle. Emilia Lagrua ; Mdlle. Giuseppini Tati; Mdlle. Marie Battu; Sig - nor Graziani ; Signor Mario. This Evening (Saturday), April 23, will be performed (for the first time these two years, V erdi's opera, UN HAL LO IN MA.SC'HERA. Amelia, Mdlle. Emilia Lagrua, her first appearanc , in that character in England ; Mdlle. tiiuseppini Tati, her first appearance in England; Oscar, .Mlle. Marie Battu ; Beyato. Signor Graziaui ; Armando, sLinor Tagbafico ; Ang - rt, Signor Cappoui ; Silvano, Signor FaLar ; 11 kaiudice, Signor Rossi ; and it Duca, Signor Mario. Conductor, Mr. Costa. The Incidental Divertissement wi 1 be supported by Mdlle SAlvoni and M. Desplaces. Commence at half past Eight. Pit tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre eta Is, 10s. 6d., 75., ard ss. t amphitheatre. 2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had at the box-office under the portico of the theatre, which is open from ten to five, and at the principal musicsellers' and librarians'. THEATRE ROYAL DRUR Y-L AN E. Managers, Messrs. Edmond Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, a Scene from TWELFTH NIGHT. Atter which, will be produced the Grand Stage Revival of Shakepere's Chronicle or Historica l Play, entitled the First Part of HENRY THE FOURTH. The cast will include impersonations by those emine.it trtists, Mr. PFIELPS, Mr. Walter 3lontgomery, Mr. Walter Lacy, Mr. Addiso ,, , Mr. Ryder, Mr. ltobert Roxby, Mr. Barrett, Mr. E. Phelps, Mr. Rayner, Mr. H. Vandenhoff, Mr. 14. Belmore, Mr. Ellerton, Mr. Fitzjames, Mr. Neville ; Miss Edith Wynne, M ss Rcse Leclercq, and Mrs. Edmund Fal coner, supported by all the Members of the Drury-lane Ccm pany. Concluding with a new Masque, called THE FAIRIES' FESTIVAL. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, AN UNLUCKY MORTAL. Followed by TWELFTH NIGHT. Messrs. Howe, Chip pendale, Buckstone, Rogers, Compton, Farren, &c. ; Mes dames Angel, Lindley, Fitzwilliam, After which, the new Easter piece, entitled VENUS AND ADONIS. Messrs. Compton, Wm. Farren, Coe, &c.; Mes dames Louise Keeley, Snowden, Nelly rower, Bill, Wright, Rogers, &c. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, Selections from Shakspere's Works, including* AS YOU LIKE IT, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, and the entire COMEDY OF ERRORS. The Two Dromios, by the Brothers Webb. Messrs. Fining, Her mann Vezin, Nelson, D. Fisher, &c. ; Mesdames Hermann Vezin, H. Marston, Mdlle. Parepa, Rebecca Isaacs, &c. m R w . h F ol E e p C r H ofi T ts E o p, the be l F i s rst t N o ig a h n t p s o n u e n .t.ht ionai o t the Hamlet will be divided between the NATIONAL P SHAK SPEARE COMMITTEE and the DRAMATIC COLLEGE SCHOOLS FUND. Mr. FECHTER'S indisposition pre venting the production of Hamlet this Evening, ihe 23d, the LYCEUM THEATRE will be closed. On MONDAY, April 25, first time at this Theatre, Mr. John Brougham's Original Comedy, PLAYING - WITH FIRE. Doors open at 7, commence at halt-past. NTEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL- Sole Proprietor and Manazer, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, LEAH : Miss Bateman, supported by Messrs. A. Stirling, R. Phillips, Biiiington, Stuart, Eburne, Stephenson ; Miss H. Simms and Dirs. Billington. Af er which, an apropos Sketch, SHAKESPEARE'S HOUSE: Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Phillips, Stephenson. To conclude with Tin: AREA BELLE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, K. Ramer, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. MI SS BATEMA N.-L E A H.-THth EVENING and EVERY EVENING.—Miss Bateman will re-apf.ear in her great impersonation of the Jewish ma:den until further notice. In order to give due effect to tuis most remarkable SUCCeSi of the season, eutirety new scenery by the celebrated artists Messrs. Danson and t•ons, lad Thompson. New dresses and appo'utments have bean prepare•t for its production.—N.ti. in consequence of the .wessing, and numerous applications at the Box-offi.;e, ar vngements have now been made by which Seats m,y be ob a Fortnight in Advant e. ItOYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. 11. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, MY PRESERVER. Atter which, the Pa cony Scene from ROMEO AND JULIET. Mi•ses Swanborough and Wilton. Followed by the Fifth Act of MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Concluding with the Great Burlesque, ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE Messrs. Honey, Wood, James Fenton ; ales dames Swanborough, Marie Wilton, Hughes, &c. Commence at 7. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. uader the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Re-engagement of those celeorated artistes, Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews. The greatly successful new Comedy every Evening. THIS EVENING, A DAY AFTER. THE WEDDING. Mr. F. Robinson and Miss HerLert. _ _ - • At a quarter before 8, the successful new Comedy, by L. Buckingham, Esq., entitled Ttl E SILVER LIN r. f_harles Mathews, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ashley, Mr. Montague; Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirling. After which, COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles Mathews. To conclude with UNDER THE ROSE : Mr. Ashley and Altss A. Cottrell. . _ Commence at 7. COALS. —The LILLESHAL L COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis' 26s. per ton. Double.. 21s. per ton. Top 2.55. „ Nut 5........ 19s. „ Deep ...225. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. ►'MHE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," AA Containing . the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, Ilan be had Every Evening of G. R. GLhNIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather•--Sun Office, April 23, 1864. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock 65 Barometer-30.01. Wind—S.E, ; moderate breeze, and very fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 2h. 50m.—Afternoon, 3h. 10m. TO-Koßßow.-hioraing, 3h. 28m.—Afternoon, 3h. 44m. f SUMti101"11. TIM SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1864. LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1864. SHAKSPERE'S Birth three hundred years ago is , in thought at least, commemorated to-day, the wide world over, by every reasonably educated English man. As for the celebration of it otherwise, it is a a pity, perhaps, that it was ever dreamt of. And this, simply, because the result of the movement set on foot with a view to its public and practical com memoration hes turned out to be so very much indeed of a failure. In fact, could this anti-climax of a result have been even dimly forseen by its orie ginatore, we may rest perfectly well assured that the movement NVOU' d never seriously have been commenced. Better by far would it have been, had nothing whatever been attempted, than that so very little should come of all these spas. mocEe efforts iu the way of elaborate preparation. Toe Stratford-upon-Avon commemmoration is, after a;1, the only really rational attempt to A fittin g celebration of this Tercentenary anniver sary. And even there, in SHAKSPERE'S own birth place, the chief incident of the day—of the day—is an unearthly three o'clock dinner (3 p.m. being the dining-honr of neither artizan nor aris tocrat), presided over by the Earl of CARLISLE, and followed in the evening by a display of Mr. DARBY'S firew or k s As for the celebration of the day, here, in Landon, but little enough, un fortunately, need b e remar k e d upon that hcad. And for even that little, the public are mainly indebted, on the one hand to our working men in the metropolis, and on the other to our London theatrical managers. The working men have taken the morning to themselves. The theatrical managers have taken the evening. As something at any rate in the way of a commencement of some practical ki n d, the London Trade Societies (who have recently aired their banners in honour of GARIBALDI) collected together this morning on Primrose Hill : and there, with what ceremonial they could muster, to the sound of music, played by the bands of her MAJESTY'S Household Brigade, and to the planting of a sappling oak from Windsor Forest, in memory of this day, as WILLIAM SHAKSPERE'S three hun dredth birthday,formallv rechristened the Hill itee;f —henceforth to be called no longer Primrose Hill, but Shakspere's Hill. As for the principal manage ' lel celebrations of the day, in the evening, they may very readily ba summarized. A Shaksperian Con cert and Recital at the Agricultural Hall, Islington ! The First Part of " Henry the Fourth" at Drury- Lane ! " Twelfth Night " at the Haymarket, fol lowed by " Venus and Adonis"—not, however, SHAKSPERE'S exquisite poem, but Mr. BURNAND'S ridiculous Burlesque! " The Comedy of Errors" at the Princess's, with the Brothers WEBB as the two Dromios ! The Second Part of HENRY the SIXTH at the Surrey ! At the St. James's, and at the New Ade!phi, performances of a miscellaneous cha racter in aid of the Monument Fend. The Monu ment here referred to, being the one still intended to be raised eventually in Green Park by the Na tional Shakspere Committee—or rather that Monu ment Embracing A Statue of Shakspere, so ling advertised as intended, and just now so humorously pourtrayed by one of Mr. Punch's comic draughtsmen in the Tercen tentary number of that merry publication. The Festival to-day at the Crystal Palace, again, is one of the few prominent indications in London or near it, of anything at all like a suitable public celebration of this Tercentenary of the Poet's birth day. A beautiful SHAKSPERE Medal, it should be mentioned, however, has been produced—under the design of Mr. JOHN BELL and the skilled manipulation of Mr. L. C. Wye:lN—at the Messrs. HUNT and ROSKELL'S establishment. As for the Coventry Ribbon-Favour, it is just nowhere. And the same be said, unhappily, of the once-talked of National Holiday. Meanwhile, the more enterprising of our pub lishers are pouring out from the press, with every luxury of their craft, a really won derful variety of New Editions of those writings of SHAKSPERE'S, which, as the next greatest of our English Poets said of them, are, in very deed, SHAKSPERE'S noblest and most en during monument. Coupled with his name and fame, we are here tempted to add, are two or three circumstances so remark able of their kind, as mere coincidences, — well known every one of them, but little thought of nevertheless—that we cannot but think it will be interesting to bear in mind, however passingly, on this three-hundredth anniversary of the Great Poet's Birth. The cir cumstance of his Death occurring on the anniver sary of his Birth is of course vividly in the recollec tion of ns all. And no less so is the fact of this same date, the date of the 23d of April, being the day set down in the Calendar as commemorative of the patron saint of England, ST. GEORGE. Between those two St. George's days—the 23d of April,' 1564, the date of SHAKSPERE'S birth at Stratford-upon- Avon, and the 23d of April, 1616, the date of SHAKSPERE'S death, also at Stratford-upon-Avon— as many years elapsed as there are weeks in a year : that is, Fifty-Two. Along the southern coast line marked by the white cliffs of England, moreover, there beetles forth conspicuously to view before the gaze of every one approaching the heights of Dover, after crossing the British Channel, that gigantic evidence of the fame of SIIA4SPERE 7 the Cliff called after him—and so called after him for what reason ? Simply because, in one of hie plays, there occurs a passage of a very few lines, describing an imaginary jump from the summit of it! Another matter yet for reflection t in SHAKSPERE'S regard, we would suggest as not undeserving one momentary thought to-day—refering here as wo do to the cir cumstance of this great National Genius having had his birthplace and his deathplace—appro priately, as it seems to us—in the very centre of that England he loved so well—in one of the most beautiful old country towns in the land—in the green heart of Warrickehire. The expenses of the law and the prolixity of lawyers have passed into a byword. Setting aside the fabulous cost and interminable duration of a case which runs through the various civil courts, there is no legal form, no petty transaction in which it is necessary to invoke the assistance of a lawyer which does not demand an amount of time and money totally disproportionate to the affair. The reform of the law has long been a matter of consideration, but, like all reforms, it is a very tedious and difficult process. Such a large and powerful body is inte rested in keeping up the old abuses that it is a task of much patience and delicacy to introduce any measure curtailing the privileges of lawyers, or reducing the inevitable expenses of the law. We must admit that one of the most active and con sistent of our present law reformers is the noble lord now sitt'ng on the woolsack. The public owe him a debt of gratitude for having availed himself of the authority of his position and the advantages of his experience to remedy many existing defects in our legal administration, and more especially to encourage that brevity, clearness, and simplicity which have heretofore been supposed to be entirely incompatible ,with strict legality. One of his most important measures was on Thursday evening brought under the notice of the House of Lords by Lord CHELMSFORD, who called the attention of their lordships to the working of the Land Transfer Act, which he denounced as a failure, since very few persons had taken advantage of it since the Bill had become law. Lord WESTBURY declared himself obliged to his noble and learned predecessor for having given him the opportunity of explaining the actual state of affairs, and accordingly he pro ceeded to give very clear and conclusive answers to the charges brought against the bill by Lord CHELMSFORD. It appears from the statistics which ho gives us, that although since the passing of the Act there have been only 65 applications for regis tration under it, yet those applications included nearly two millions'-worth of property, and such amount of business in the short space of 16 months is an unusually favourable commencement to the practical working of any measure. The Lord Chan cellor reminded the House that all such reforms worked their way very slowly, and cited the example of the Copy hold Enfranchisement Act, now so popular, under which there was in the first year of its existence only one application. In the second year there 12 cases; i❑ the next, 29; and so on by slow but sure degrees, until, twenty years later, the number had risen to 786, The Enclo sure Commissioners' Act, spin, had at first only 10 cases in twelve months ; the second year showed an increase of two ; the third year the number of cases was 39; and so on, until the annual amount is 246. Such is the slowness with which the know ledge of these important changes spreads among the people. It is not surprising if we come to consider the absurdity and difficulty attending legal docu ments, and the consequent abandonment of affairs almost entirely into the hands of lawyers. It is scarcely likely that a man who has been for many years in the habit of turning to his solicitor for an explanation of every legal question will at once take upon himself the unwonted responsibility of acting eatirely in opposition to his solicitor's opinion and advice. He must be a strong-minded and clear-headed man who will at once brave the displeasure of his professional adviser and turn a deaf ear to his doubts as tee the accuracy, efficiency, and legality of his proceedings. The solicitors, as a body, plainly intimated their intention of op- Posing this measure when it was first introduced, and they have amply fulfilled the threat, as Lord WESTBURY frankly told the House cn Thursday. Nevertheless, the edeanta,ges of t e Act are so great and apparent that it will assurt (11 find more and more favour with the public as it becomes more widely known and its utility better appreciated. The Lord Chancellor showed to their lordships a certificate of title under the new Act, with the map, the accurate result of the title, the copy of the entry on the register ; and from holding this simple and comprehensible document in his hand, the owner, if he wished to sell his property, could carry it to the auctioneer, the purchaser could examine the corresponding entry in tho hook of register, and the business is at an end. This simple registration supersedes the wearisome inves tigations, the tedious delays, and all the expense and uncertainty belonging to the transfer of land under the old Acts. In the event of a mortgage or a wish to raise money temporarily, the advantages are equally great. In fact, matters are broaght within a man's own scope and comprehension in stead of bring hopelessly entangled in the hands of his professional advisers. No wonder the solicitors set their faces against a measure which reduces an investigation of title occupying 150 sheets of parchment to one side of a single sheet ! Yet such was the case with the very document which the Lord Chancellor held in his hand, and the Duke of INIoNTRosE cited a case which had come under his own observation in which a charter consisted of half a page instead of 30 pagzs ! Under the existing system of legal charges, such a measure is certain to encounter most formidable opposition, since as solicitors have themselves said with great force to the Chancellor, " the law as it now stands, rewards them far prolixity and fines them for brevity." And the interest thus brought to bear is by to means insignificant. Lord WESTBURY declared a patent fact when he said that this was a lawyer ridden conntry, for every peer among his auditors had a solicitor sitting on his shoulders like SIND BAD'S old man of the sea, whom he could not shake off? The noble and learned lord went on to say with some humour, but much truth, that most of them were quite in the dark as to the wearing of the unwieldy masses of parchment to which from time to time they appended their names. " All other mysteries have been unfolded, but this thiug which comes home to you all is a sealed book." With a view to the removal of the obstacles which militate against the success of this measure, and also in the interests of the public, the Lord Chancellor proposes to introduce a measure for the alteration of the law with regard to the remuneration of solicitors. Such a bill, if fairly framed and successfully carried out, will indeed be a public boon, and there is probably no one who has ever had any dealings with the grave and learned confraternity who will not gladly hail an innovation which makes verbosity and ob scurity inseparable attendants on the already suf ficiently perplexing and discomfiting dealing of the law. The growing feeling of the country with respect to the insufficiency of its Parliamentary represen tation bodee no good to the tottering fortunes of the present Administration. Her MAJESTY'S ad visers are indeed in such an unfortunate position that it is difficult to see what can extricate them from their perplexities. It is true, that it would be scarcely possible to exceed the ucpopularity of their foreign policy—a policy which, by its in genious combination of loud remonstrances with very timorous actions, its "meddling and mud dling," has continued to combine in a very remark able degree the drawbacks and inconveniences of peace and war. It has given us the necessity of maintaining costly and extensive war armaments, at the same time that it can neither uphold our honour nor protect our commerce. It has made us take a prominent part in every foreign question, while it has neither befriended the weak nor con• ciliated the strong—neither satisfied our allies nor daunted our opponents. Our reputation has collapsed, our professions are ridiculed, and self interest is invariably declared to be the ruling motive of a power which is continually making uncalled for concessions, and abandoning every advantage which a holder and a wiser age had gained. Under these circumstances the foreign policy of the Government will certainly not he its strong point at the hustings when that inevitable day of trial comes, which even Lord PALMERSTON'S tact and ingenuity cannot stave off much longer. But unfortunately for the prospects of the Whig Cabinet, supposing that a sudden settlement of all the vexed questions at present distracting Europe were possible, they would not be much better off. If Russia granted Poland an independent constitu tion to morrow, if the Northern States of America recognised the independence of the South, and both parties gave Earl RUSSELL'S eloquence as the reason of their conduct ; nay, even supposing the Schleswig-Holstein problem to be finally solved during the lifetime of the present House of Com mons, the troubles of the Government would not be altogether over. There would be one obstacle in the road to success, one ghost that re fused to be laid, and its name would be Reform. The very question which carried them into power has turned into one of their most serious perplexi ties. No one can suppose, the most sanguine Liberal cannot possibly imagine, that it is the in tention of Lord PALMERSTON'S Cabinet to grant any comprehensive measure of Reform. Yet the awkward questions will inevitably be asked on the hustings, to which it is very improbable that " Rest and be thankful" will be accepted as a sufficient or satisfactory answer. Ministers will be reminded of those high•fiewn professions which flowed so glibly from their lips at the time of the uncondi tional rejection of the DERBY Reform Bill. How imperative was it then to extend the franchise, to remodel the electoral districts, to shorten the dura tion of Parliaments—for why should such con sistent and patriotic members fear to meet their constituents ? and as for election expenses, the ballot would put a very decided limit to them. Unfortunately the same story will not do twice over, and a long and continuous tenure of office leaves lit tle excuse for unfulfilled pledges. It can not, therefore, be very gratifying to the Government or their supporters to witness the assembling of popular delegates from many of the large towns of the kingdom which recently took place at Man chester to confer on the great question of National Reform. Mr. ERNEST JONES was there, with his proposal of manhood suffrage, and a good many adherents, who declared that the mass of the people would never be thoroughly aroused by a less comprehensive measure. Others were there, however, more prudent and more far-seeing, who reminded the Conference that the people of this country had always been averse to sudden and violent changes, and that consequently the way to ensure success was to proceed with caution, and to obtain the aid of all classes by demanding mode rate and practical measures, It is on this principle that we trust the reformers throughout the country will act, not plunging into wild extremes, which startle the prudent, and w'eich, after all, have only theory to recommend them. No Government can much longer delay a reform of the Parliamen tary representation and an extension of the suffrage. A constituency of 1,200,000 is perfectly inadequate to represent the people of this country. But in securing this important reform we hope that a measure even more important in its direct inflatnee upon oar Parliamentary system will not be overlooked. So long as open voting continues to be the practice, so long will bribery, influence, and intimidation be the rule rather than the exception. The meeting at Manchester seems to have left this point rather in the background, but it must be made a sine qua non if real and substantial reform is wanted. Who will give it remains to bo seen. It is certain to encounter a formidable opposition, being entirely for the good of the people that no political interest can profit by it. Meanwhile the coming election will give the country an opportunity of testing its repre sentatives on the point, and wo look upon the organisation of the National Reform Conference as a favourable sign of the times. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] AMERICA. (Per the North American, via Greencastle.) NEW YORK, APRIL 9 (Afternoon). The Army of the Potomac is preparing for an early forward movement. All surplus baggage has been sent to the rear, and furloughs have been stopped. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money tight. Gold 70a prem. Exchange on London, 1861. Stocks opened firm to day, but have since become very heavy—New York Centrals, 1431; Illinois, 1491 ; Erie, 126 i. Cotton quiet. Middling Upland, 64c. Breadstuffi advancing. Petroltum very firm. Crude, 351 ; refined, 52 to 512. The City of Manchester, from New York on the 9th inst., arrived at Queenstown at 7.30 a.m. She brings 131 passengers and 276,270 dols. in specie. She landed 10 sacks of mails andl2 passengers, and proceeded at 7.40 a.m. Her news has been anticipated. SPAIN, MADRID, APRIL 23. The Queen has left for Aranjuez. The Novedades of to-day says :--" The Prores sist banquet will not disturb public tranquillity, although more than 1,000 persons will take part in it." THE JOURNEY OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA, HAMBURG, April 22, Evening. Yesterday afternoon the King of Prussia arrived at the Castle of Gravenstein, and after a short stay proceeded to Atzbull, where he saluted the regi ments which had been engaged in storming the Duppel redoubts. His Majesty praised and thanked several of the officers and soldiers, and the whole of the troops defiled before the King; after which he took his leave, and at 4.30 p.m. went on to the trenches. Early this morning Herr von Bismark, accompanied by Herr Kendell, councillor of lega tion, passed through Hamburg on his way to join the King of Prussia. It is said that the object of the King's visit to the duchies is to sound the population, and to pave the way for a vote in con formity with the views of the Prussian government. It is also said that the Emperor of Austria is ex pected in the duchies. THE lONIAN ISLANDS. A letter from Corfu, of the 4th inst., states : " Further portions of the fortifications of Vido have been destroyed during the past week, and the huge and rugged heaps of masonry can now be plainly seen from the town. One object particularly strikes the attention ; it is a permanent gun platform, thrown over on its side, and it is almost, if not quite, intact. Similar instances have occurred with other platforms in this fortress, which have not been broken, Gunpowder itself has been unable to shatter these hard and solid blocks. The martello tower on the north side of the island was blown up; it rose slightly, then burst open, and fell in a thousand pieces, adding its quota to the ruins already existing around it. There yet remain some large portions of this fortress to be destroyed." The same letter contains the following paragraph on the finances of the Islands :—" The deficiency in the funds necessary for the payment of the ex penses of the State for the past month has been made good by the Government out of the municipal chest. The decision of the Special Commission has just been given in favour of the munhipality, as against the Go vernment, vesting in the former certain property known as public property, producing a large annual rental, together with a large sum for mesne profits, the whole of which sums ought to be devoted to the purposes of local government only. Within a week or two after this decision is given the municipal chest is emptied by the Government for its own purposes. This is a very strong measure, and is in effect making Corfu pay for the other islands. II the union with Greece is not effected before the end of Lilo (:resent month, the Government will again have to tax their ingenuitY , to provide money for the current expenses." DEPARTURE OP GARIBALDI, Yesterday, after less than a fel tnight's sojourn in the ca pital, General Garibaldi quitted London on his return to his island home in Caprera. With the General also left his two sons, Menotti and Ricciotti, his secretary, his surgeon, and the other members of the little household that accompanied him from his islan h Up to last night no effort had been spared by delegates from various deputations to induce the General to posipona his departure fJr at least a time; but Garibaldi, having accepted the Duke of Sutherland's invi tation to proceed in his yacht to Caprera. could not think of drawing back at the eleventh hour from such an engage ment. He therefore firmly adhered to the intention he ex pressed in the early part of this week of leaving town on Friday. During the week he had expressed a desire to Inca the Americans resident in London before his departure, and yesterday he accepted an invitation to breakfast with the Hon. Freeman H. Morse, consul for the United States, at his residence, Kensington-gate. Among others present be sides the host and Mrs. and Miss Morse, were the U.S. Mi nister, Mr Adams, and Mr Wilson and Mr Moran, secretaries of Legation, Mr Cyrus W. Field, the Hon W. M. Evarts, Mr J. S. Morgan, Mr W. E. Forster, M.P., and Mrs Forster, Mr Seely, M.P., and Mrs Seely, Mr Rossini, &c. After the dejeunrx a large number of American ladies and gentlemen were presented to the General. Shortly before 12 o'clock Garibaldi returned with his host to Mr Seely's residence at Prince's-gate. The gentlemen comprising the Italian Reception Com mittee, Messrs Bellinzona, Biachi, Ciocei, Cetti, G. Galli, Lironi, Ortelli, Ponzini, G. Roncoroni, and A. Roncoroni, and the bearer of the national flag, Mr Bareggi, called at Prince's-gate to taka their farewell of the General. The committee arranged themselves on either side of the entrance to the mansion, and were most kindly received by their renowned countryman, who, while heartily shaking hands with them, wished them and their families and friends every happiness. After leaving Prince's-gate, the General, with Mr Seely, drove to Lord Shaftesbury's residence in Grosvenor-square, and afterwards proceeded to Stafford• house, arriving there at half-past 12. There was no crowd, for it was believed that the General had already left town, and certainly none expected him at Stafford-house. Yet the visit to Stafford house was made expressly with the view of affording his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales an opportunity of paying a private and friendly visit to the great Italian pa• triot before quitting this country. The Prince of Wales came to town yesterday to att en d a meeting of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster, and after the transaction of this business his Royal Highness walked from Buckingham Palace to Stafford. house without attracting any observa tion. At Stafford-house he remained for upwards of an hour. It is needless to say with what sincere satisfaction the announcement of this visit by his Royal Highness to the General will be received throughout the country. At a little before 4 o'clock Garibaldi left Stafford-house for Cliefden-house, near Maidenhead, the seat of the Duchess Dowager of Sutherland. He will resume his journey for Plymouth on Monday; and will pass that night at Col. Peard's residence, Penquite, Cornwall. On Tuesday morn ing the General and his friends embark on board the Duke of Sutherland's yacht for Caprera. We are favoured by Mr. Seely with a copy of the follow ing farewell address from Garibaldi to the English nation : " I offer my heartfelt gratitude and thanks to the English nation and their Government for the reception I have met with in this free land, I came here with the primitive object of thanking them for their sympathy for me and for my country, and this my first object is accomplished. I have desired to be altogether at the disposition of my Eng lish friends, and to go to every place where I might be wished to go, but I find that I cannot now fulfil all these engagements of my heart. " If I have caused some trouble and disappointment to many friends, I ask their pardon. but I cannot draw the line between where I could and where I could not go, and there fore for the present these are my thanks and my farewell. " Sti.l, I hope, perhaps, at no distant time to return to see my friends in the domestic lite of England, and to re deem some of my engagements with the generous people of this country, which, with deep regret, I feel that I cannot now fulfil. " G. GARIBALDI. "26, Princo'3-ga!e, London, April 22." TO TILE EDITOR or THE SUN. Sir,—Allow me to confirm everything that was stated yesterday evening by Mr. Gladstone in the House of Commons. The advice tendered to General Garibaldi was dictated solely by considerations for his health and position. The names of those present at the meeting would be a sufficient proof that no other thought could have had any influence. Many of them were thos3 of his long-tried and best friends, who bad hazarded much more in his behalf than would be involved in resistance even to the aotual displeasure of a foreign Power. That such displeasure, however, was a simple invention I assert, and am able to prove. The solid, persevering, and hearty attachment of Mr. Gladstone to the cause of Italy and amoral Garibaldi is as notorious as it is generous and true ; and though I cannot for myself claim any such honour, I declare in the most solemn manner, and on the word of a gentleman, my firm belief that we were all of us animated by the sa me ardent desire (with ou t rt f e rcnce t o anyt hi n g, or anybody, but the General himself) to urge th a t, a nd that only, which w as indispensable to his personal welfare. It was, I assert, the General's own and unsuggested de cision to give up the provincial journey altogether. He could not, he declared, draw a line of preference for certain towns, and that to accomplish the whole list was impossible. —Your obedient servant, April 22. SIIAFTESBURY. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. (From the Illustrated London News.) The will of the Right Hon. Lord Arthur Lennox, formerly M.P. for Chichester, was administered to in her Majesty's Court of Probate by his relict, Lady Charlotte Lennox, daughter of the fourth Duke of Gordon. Lord Arthur Lennox was a son of the late Duke of Re e ' lmon d, K,G. He held the pest of Lord of the T reasury an d Clerk of the Ord nance, 1811-6 ; and was a Li eu t.-Col• in the Army , Lfo'rgmhetrl f ln antry. i y commanding'his the 72d Highla nders and 68th gallant fifty-eight, havingexecuted r 1840, entirely in his own h a ndwriting , beq ueathin g h o i f fi s ae will d i ed so a f t far the b a a c g k e of as to his relict, Lady Lennox, the whole of his pro-. p up er o t n hery,botlhadyresablipa,snddeeptearsaeo, is to be divid ed e q uall y nal, for her l ife, which, The will of Mrs Mary Dorothc a Pemb erton, relict of the late John PeinCrion, Esq. , o f Sherbarn Hall, amongst all their children. Durham,Thompson, -£BO,OOO personalty ; t h e exe cutors being Thomas C . B arr ; i s a t e n r d - a t t i ;L e a ß w ev ( . ll J cP o h h e n wofthe late John Pemberton) Cnndill, B.D. The will bears date 1853, and there are four codicils. Legacies are left to near relatives and friends; also legacies to servants. The residue of the funded property is bequeathed equally amongst eight of her nieces. The estate of Sherbarn Hall is devised to the said Thomas C. Thompson, who also takes a moiety of the residue of the real and perso nal property, the other m oiety being :eft between Mrs, Burdon and Mrs. hurray, the nieces of the testatrix's late husband. The will of James Masse, Esq., of Upper Gros venor-street, was proved, in London, under £300,000 personalty, a nd probate granted to the Right Hon. Lady Caroline Fitzhardinge Maxse, the relict, daughter of the late Earl of Berkeley, and the sole executrix, appointed by the will, bearing date 1860, to which are appended five codicils. To his relict, Lady Caroline, the testator has bequeathed his real estate, and also a considerable portion of the personal estate (saving a sum of £135,000 to be held in trust for the payment of two annuities to h:s two sons and unmarried daughter), the relict taking a life interest in the surplus residue, which, upon her ladyship's decease, will be divided in certain proportions amongst the sons and daughters. There are legacies to servants. The late Mr. G. Daniel, of Canonbury, has be queathed to the British Museum the famous cabinet carved from the mulberry-tree presented by the Corporation of Stratford-on-Avon to David Garrick, upon the occasion of the jubilee of 1769. He has also left to the British Museum the Garrick cor respondence upon the subject, and a perfectly unique ring, containing a fine miniature of Shak epere under crystal and set in gold. POLAND. The Nord publishes the following despatch from Breslau, dated 21st :—" The Breslau Gazette an nounces that at Woyern, in the Grand Duchy of Posen, a Prussian Captain of the 49th Regiment of the Line, with 11 men, having lost their way,arrived at Wturck, on Russian territory. The Prussian soldiers there fired on some Russian cavalry, be lieving them to be a body of insurgents. They were immediately surrounded by 400 Russians, commanded by Colonel Nelldotff, disarmed and con ducted to \Vole) kin, but were liberated on the fol lowing diy. The Russian colonel was challenged to fight by the Prussian captain, but refused to give the required satisfaction." FRANCE. BOURSE, April 22.—The market continues firm, but without any further advance in Rente ; Threes, for the Account, being unvaried at 67f. 50c. Mobilier have again improved, and are now quoted at 1,272 r. 50c. Railway market quiet, but firm. The market left off as follows : 41 per Cents. .. 94 2 Italian Loan 63 80 Do. end month.... Do. end month 6B 70 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 67 25 Do. end month — Credit Mobilier.... 1227 50 Russian Do, end m0nth....12z5 Austrian Bank Shares 3960 Spanish Threes — Credit F onmer ....1310 Rome Debt Roman ... 76 50 J Deferred RAIL WAYS. OrleanH Northern Cash. Account. 896 25 .. 891 25 975 .. 982 50 New ditto Lyons and llediturranean 952 50 .. 955 New ditto 9OO .. Southern 670 .. 670 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa 5BO .. 580 Ditto to Barcelona Bhakspere's Doctors, (From to-day's Lancet.) Six doctors are leprobenzed in Shakspere's dramas. The allusions to physicians and surgeons are very frequent, but fi x only actually appear upon the stage in propria persona. In the play of " Henry the Eighth" Dr. Butts appears. This is the only occasion upon which Shakspere has introduced a physician who had really figured in history. William Butts, we learn from Dr. Munk's "Roll of the College of Physi cians," was educated at Gonville Hall, Cambridge, of which he became a Fellow. He was physician to Henry VIII., and enjoyed his confidence to a re markable degree, being knighted by the King under the title of Sir William Butts, of Norfolk. Shakspere pictures in a few words the physic;an's powerfr.l infllence with tha monarch. Cranmer's enemies at court have contrived that he shall be kept waiting amidst the servants outside the door of the council chamber. Butts remarking this, says— " This is a piece of malice. lam glad I came this way so happily; the king Shall understand it presently." Cranmer, upon this, exclaims— " 'Tis Butts, The king's physician : as he passed along, How earnestly he cast his eyes upon me I Pray Heaven he sound not my disgrace!" Dr, Caius, who plays such a prominent part in the " Merry Wives of Windsor," is described as a French physician. The character seems to have been de vised simply for the sake of the fun which is get out of the foreigner's broken English. In the whole play there is scarcely an allusion to the doctor's profession, and he might for all practical purposes have belonged to any other. Oar laughter is entirely directed against the man, i❑ no respect against the physician. The poisoned goblet ever accompanies the dagger as en emblem of the tragic muse. The treacherous draught has been, from earliest times, employed by the dramatist as the most terrible of all the means by which life is taken upon the stage. Shakspere makes frequent use of this agency. One might be led to expect that occasions of this nature would furnish opportunities for the introduction of the physician into the play ; but, curiously enough, this only happens once—in the play of " Cymbe line." When the Queen is plotting the destruction of her step-daughter Imogen, she applies to Corne lius, her physician, for some poisonous drugs. The physician cautions an unskilled woman against experiments which seem to be dictated by curiosity and can lead to no useful result. Had not the action of drugs been tested by himself or some other skilled ob:crver, ho would nit have been in a position to substitute in safety those he gave her for the poisonous kinds which she desired, and Imogen would have perished miserably. He communicates (to the audience) the reason of his justifiable deception in the following passage : "I do not like her. She does think she has Strange lingering poisons: I do know her spirit, And will not trust one of her malice with A drug of such damn'd nature. Those she has Will stupefy and dull the sense awhile : Which first, perchance, she'll prove on cats and dogs; Then afterwards up higher ; but there is No dangerin what shcw of death it makes, More than the locking up the spirits a time, To be more fresh, reviving." It is interesting to contrast the conduct of Corne lius with that of the Apothecary in "Romeo and Juliet," under somewhat similar circumstance— " Meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones," The poor wretch, starving and over-tempted by Romeo, makes but a brief resistance to the bribe of forty ducats; but, as he parts with the poison, there is evidence of a painful struggle in his excla mation— "My poverty, but not my will, coneents I" Following Dr. Johnson's example, we might here express a hope that Romeo, were he living now in London, might find as much trouble in procuring a dose of poison a 3 he did in Mantua. We fancy, however, that he would not need either to seek out a starving drug vendor, or to give him such a sum as 40 ducate, so much have we improved in these matters during the last three or four centuries. Two doctors figure in "Macbeth"—an English man and a Scot. The former has very little to do. He merely describes to Malcolm how the King (Edward the Confessor) is curing a crowd of per sons affected with" the evil" by a touch of his royal band. The latter has a much more important part. He is present with a waiting gentlewoman when Lady Macbeth walks in her sleep. Not a gesture escapes his attention ; and with judicious care, when Lady Macbeth speaks, he takes written notes of her words. He is soon struck by their terrible import. The physician sees in the condition of mind of his patient a danger of suicide, and properly takes pre cautions against it. To iNhcbetla's inquiry, shortly afterwards— " How does your patient, doctor?" he replies— " Not so sick, my lord, As she is troubled with thick coming fancies, That keep her from her rei,t. MACB. Cure her of that : Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a roofed sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain; And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart? DOCT. Therein the patient Must minister to himself, - MACB. Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it I" It is curiously significant of the error often pro duced by isolating passages from their context that this last expression of Macbeth has been interpreted into a disbelief on Shakspere's part is the power of medicine ! The question which the remorse-haunted Thane has addressed to the doctor is evidently in tended quite as much on his own account as on that of his wife; and the reply, shattering the last rem nant of hope, fills up the measure of his misery, and forces from him the cry of impatience. Not less admirable is the picture of the physician in " King Lear," It would almost seem, indeed, that Shakspere had some living representative in his eye whom he esteemed and wished to honour when he conceived these two characters, so much do they resemble one another in the qualities of judgment and candour. The old king, maddened for a time by the ingratitude of his daughters, has roamed about the country, exposed to storm arid cold. Cordelia, whom he has so wrongly judged and harshly treated, and who is overflowing with affection for her father, succeeds in housing him in the shelter of her camp. In intense anxiety at the old king's delirium, she addresses herself to the physician : " What can man's wisdom In the restoring his bereaved sense ? PHYS. There is means, madam ; Our foster-nurse of nature is repose, The which he lacks; that to provoke in him Are many simples operative, whose power Will close the eye of anguish." The means employed are successful; after a long and refreshing sleep the king awakes. Never, probably, has anything more true and tender been written than the scene which follows. The physician's concluding advice is Equally be fi ting the circumstances : " BC comforted, good madam : the great rage, You see, is killed in him ; and yet it is danger To take him even o'er the time he has lost. Duke him to go in : trouble him no more Till further settling." Such is a very brief sketch of the medical charac , tern introduced into hie plays by the great poei whose tercentenary we celebrate this day. It should be our especial duty to venerate Shak spere, for never have we had so powerful a cham pion. His estimation of our art is marked by the character of the representatives of it which he bi traduces. With un worthy examples, doubtless, before him, which were as open to his ridicule ab ever were the doctors of his age to Molie re, he never condescends to picture the class from base and ex ceptional models, but draws the character of tee physician with a liberal and loving hand. Turee hundred years have passed since then, and with them great changes have come over the charac ter and position of medical men ; but their purpose in life is still the same, and, mindful of this, they will treasure in their remembrance his just appre ciation of their art— "Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, To all their iseue." cur. t grallOr HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, The Queen walked and drove in th e g round° yesterday morning and afternoon. 1) Princess Helena rode on horseback, attended 7 the 'Hon, Emily Cathcart. April 22. • SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday .—His Royal Il i g ll4 nees Prince Alfred, attended by Major Cowell, Earl GreY' s and Lieut. Haig, embarked from the docks at half-Pa o s t mter• this afternoon on board the Royal yacht Fairy, Commander Welch, BIZ roic'e for Osborne. had His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge - a dinner party last evening at Gloucester House, Pa rk ' lane. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge, the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenbur' Strelitz, the Princess Mary, and a distinguished circle wer e present. The Duke of Noweastle was enabled to take a carriage airing yesterday with the Countess of Lincoln. I II : grace's health has wonderfully improved du rin g the 185 ten days. The Duchess of Marlborough has issued cards fe r an assembly on the 12th of May, at her grace's residence in St. James's-square. c p His Excellency the Count Kleczkowski , Fren t Ambassador at Pekin, with the Countess Kleczkowski Tudor) and family, have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jerra/w street, for Paris. His Excellency M. Armand L. do Balan, Pl eni : potentiary at the Conference, has arrived at Maurigf" Hotel, accompanied by his suite, from Berlin. Viscount and Viscountess Daneraile have arrived for the season at 20, Hertford-street, from Lincolnshire. a The marriage of Prince Augustus of Sweden en Norway, Duke of Dalecarlia, with the Princess of Sase; Altenburg, took place on the evening of the 16th bast. the Altenburg Palace. ONE OF MR. AUGUSTUS BOUVIER'S ChaTll3l pictures, in the collection now on view at 53, Pall' i t (" The Caryan Slave "), bas recently been purch ased her most gracious Majesty the Queen. Rondeau sur Shakspere, 25 AVRIL, 1861. Cest un dtvoir de celebrer Shakspere, De presenter et I'encens et la myrrhe Au noble autenr qui nous dota d'Hamlet, Da Romeo, d'un thel re complet Qua l'univers depuis longtemps admire. C'est un devoir—qui peut me contredire ? Pour qui du beau se soumet a ['empire, De rendre hommage a talent si parfait. C'est un devoir ! Voila pourquoi je m'empresse de dire : Au demi•dieu qui fit vibrer la lyre Si cta.nement, avec si grand effet, Honneur et gloire . . . et j'incrusto le fait Dans ce rondeau que pour lui viens d'ecrire. C'est un LE CHEVALIER DE CHATELSIS. • tit The fifth number of the Autographic illirrorOu t published, is peculiarly interesting, as it contains an e l° ,, c , copy of Shakspera's will and lac similes of all his autog raph taken from official documents. The Tercententary number of Punch is sta° ll 7, the best literary productions in honour of the ShaksPer'- Festival now in progress of celebration. SITE FOR THE SHARSPERE MEmoRTAL.-1P ire glad to hear it rumoured that the Beuchers cont e " . plate the erection of a commemorative bronzo statue >3 Shakspere on that part of the Thames Embankment v"P-6 will abut upon the present river frontage of the gar A more appropriate site could not be fixed upon in L° O " A - Ig . The Gardens are the scene of the assumption of the "" d tinctive badges of the White and Red Rose of York (41. Lancaster in the first part of " Henry VI A " (° ll.' Scene 4)— " This brawl to-day, Grown to this faction in the Temple Gardens, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night ;" to remind one of which, now that the smoke nuisance "( abated, there the white an - I red roses flourish again f ° l o yore in the days of the Plantagenets. It is within "to more than a stone's throw of Playhouse-yard, cl ose Apothecaries' Hall, which marks the site of the Bl ecl % friars Theatre, of which Slaakspere was, according to t- Ellesmere papers, if we receive them as genuine, part p ro' prietor, and, at all events, for which he wrote some of 16 „ plays, in which he himself acted. At Bankside, tm i : other side of the river, stood the Globe Theatre, at most of bis plays wet e performed, under his own niece, ment, the site of which adjoined Globe. Alley, which 11' been swallowed up by the ample range of buildings forming the celebrated brewhouse of Messrs. Barclay, Pe rki es, Co.—the Reader. PUBLIC MEMORIALS TO SHAKSPERE.--The Bri° tie!' Institution has on its front a large bas-relief bi Thomas Banks, R.A., which cost 500 guineas, representiao Shakspere between Poetry and Painting—Aoide, wit htil t double mask of Tragedy and Comedy, instructing th e P ee „o f whilst Painting, looking towards the spectator, intr odu ;t him to more ex ended notice by the sister art. Vi le ' 0 present, is the only outdoor monument to ShaksP ere r i the metropolis, and owed its erection to 6 P i: vate mercantile speculation, During this T eree ; tentary week it may not be out of pie' of mention that three other public memorials Shakspere are to be seen in London—the first of ti1:110 being Roubiliac's statue of the poet, in the Hull of no British Museum, on the left of the British Museutof,;) the left of the entrance to the Grenville Library, v A i r was executed for Garrick at a cost of three 1 1 ' 113 % -e cf guineas, and bequeathed by him to the nation ; the se e°- , e ; the somewhat undignified statue by Kent in Weal:allied,' Abbey ; and the third, the Chandos portrait of Shagge—he which had belonged to Davenant the poet, Bettertou r-ht. actor, and Mrs. Barry the actress, and which was bo a ; at the Stowe sale in 1848 by Lord Ellesmere for hundred and fitty-five guineas, and has since been Pr -; seated by him to the National Portrait Gallery, open eCe r day during the present week.—. The Reader. SHAKSPERE 111EDAL.--A medal, which Wa s a l, e : signed by Mr. John Bell, and engraved by C. `Won, has been produced by Messrs. Hunt and R os ' - o g, ' to commemorate the tercentenary of our great peer' by e the obverse is a profile head of Shakspere, surrounde d e "glory" of his own works, the likeness being chiefly re t ;c , from the Stratford bust and Chandos portrait. simile of the autograph, beneath the head, is encircicula, a wreath of wild flowers, such as primrose, cowslip , 111 0 0 rose (in which " a bee sucks"), honeysuckle, SO* ;4,5 1 larger bindweed twining round a magician's wand d or witch-elm. On the reverse is an apotheosis of th e 00 centenary. The last two centuries have already la ict ge at wreaths on the scroll on the poet's knee, while the Pre- century is in the act of crowning him. ELIZA COOK, after a long absence from litel.vittntirde; cornea before the public again this day with ao written for the occasion of the " Working Men's spere Celebration, and planting of an Oak on Primr ool9 ; t i ci to the Poet's Memory." Russell-square is the spot s elf for the meeting of the Ancient Order of Foresters an d ° ,, E .. 11 6 similar societies, accompanied by the Havelock o n e Volunteers, under Colonel George Cruikshank, o'clock. The ceremonial itself will take place at two da;ci.; i and the sapling, from Windsor , is to be planted, viea vi t by the hand of Mr. Phelps. In the evening the " vr er t "; men" will attend a grand musical and dramatic eht' l meat at the Islington Agricultural Hall.—fhe Reads etir LA NDSEER'S NELSON'S LIONS.—Are - nearer the final payment to the memory of Nej j c i a than in July last, when a spasmodic effort was m ade ' fanfare announced that one lion had been modelled 0 are as an instalment towards completing the four that wanted in bronze? Has Sir Edwin Landseer eo o P le ,l; t riV his studies in the Zoological Gardens, are all the liens establishment dissected and done with, and no satisfae."o results expected ero the coming of a fresh batch or Pr ide o l el lions," as the hunting - books have it. If the latt is il i a ease, let us send for a legion of lions; our gallant tillY' proprietor of that great lion-walk, Algeria, would 1)00-it too happy to supply the tardy sculptor with lions, ae' o ho Edwin may taste the delight of the Assyrian Iting 6 ., B V kept a Paradise wherein to enjoy lion battues before DL"hio fast. Who would envy him the sports ? who begrudg e the beasts ? Nobody envies Sir E.,iwin Landseer the Oel-s4' eior., of aught so much as the sole and unrestricted Pr.ooo lege he enjoys of seeing in his mind's eye the statues that will some day render Tratalgar-eclu ers ,,, C° o o. able. Let it not be to:gotten that we expect to he-frota distinct and original lions, wholly differing in ckeigil, oito each other; not a mere repetition of the same aniille" the position of his head and tail slightly altered, 10 art hint look, to the thoughtless, another beast. Ale der3 i r deals too freely in machine repetitions for a melt like Sro' Landseer to omit the opportunity he has of en terlig 3 0 ,6 test against the practice, and, at the same time, 10 1 ' ° : fot ir Nelson ungrudgingly. The great A dmiral gave u on original victories : let us give him — n tone y not Of' object for our consideration—four original lions. u ltsr , We are desired by Messrs. Herries,. Fog and Co., to give the most unqualified contradievro, to the unjustifiable report inserted in this morning's dap re' templation, no se that ive a s n a n amalgamationßank.isabout Thereto take ispnlaocte, bet e n e e n v t e .h rr e t e' o,ooo d 13ileeenre, everan y bseuecnhthame asllgigahmtaestitoncoitunractionnicati p le a a r s t t ie f s ou ab n o d v a a tio nr foerd;uncognryepootrhte.r which could afford t t ' s on between tP SHIPPING—This Davy. LONDON April 23.—Wind this day at noo n —S ou th- East; moderate breeze and very fine weather. PORTSMOUTH, April 231—Arrived--Manchester, from Calcutta. FA.LMOITTII, April 23.—Wind E.—Arrived—Alexander, from Skien. CLYDE, April 21.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Bungalore, for Matanzas—John Gray, for Trinidad—Melrose, for New York—Abbey Craig, for Miramichi. Sailed—City of Brussels, for Calcutta, OFF BLACKWATER, April 21,—Wind W.—Arrived— Ocean Belle, from Nassau. PLYMOUTH, April 22.—Wind E,--Arrived—Acadian, from Philadelphia for Havre, leaky, NEWPORT, April 22.--Wind S.B,—Arrived—Tyne, steamer, from Bristol, BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning. Sailed—Panther,steamer, for Boulogne; Hanoveroteamer, for Calais; Holland, steamer, for Ostend. DEAL, Saturday Morning. Passed—Protesia, for Trinidad; Spirit of the Deep, for Shanghai; Sussex, for Port Phillip; Pandora, for Con stantin,ple ; Helen Bair, for Bangkok—all from London— Edward Sophia, barque, from Belize (in tow); General Slade, from Guernsey —both from London. THE CIVIL SERVICE.—Houso of Commons.—Mr R. U. Lindsay has been appointed a supernumerary clerk. Audit-office.—Mr W. A. Impey, Mr H. F. Wilkin son, Mr C. S. Woreley, and Mr H. V. Bacon have been appointed examiners. Copyhold Inclosure and Tithe Cora mission —Mr J. Graham has been appointed a clerk. War. office.—Mr E, Men has been appointed second-class viewer, army clothing devt, Pimlico. Customs—Mr J. Hopwood has been appointed an established elerk at London Docks. Inland Revenue.--Stamps and Tax Branch,—Mr H. For der. surveyor of taxes, has been transferred from the Merthyr Tydvil to the second Brighton district. Excise Branco.—Mr W. Reid, officer, Glasgow, first division, has been appointed to Carlisle division—Mr G. Atkinson, offi cer, Carlisle division, to Glasgow, Ist division—Mr J. Ball, officer, Bromley, Ist division, to Bromley, 3d division—Mr W. Hickox, officer, Portsmouth, 3d division, to Bromley, Ist division—Mr H, Gapp, officer, Maidstone, 2d division, to Portsmouth, 3d division—Mr T. Jones, officer, Ingate stone division, to Maidstone, 2d division—Mr A. Ashby, officer, Cork, sth division, to Ingatest3ne division—Mr H. M'Clelland, officer, Cork, 2d division, to Tralee divison—and Mr J. H. Hugo, officer, Amesbury ride, to Cork 2d divi sion,--Civil Service Gazette.