The Sun. — London, England, 1863-04-02 00:00:00

EXHIBITION of ALUMINIUM and ALUMINIUM BRONZE. 2,000 SPECIMENS, illustrating the nppi cation (Ornamental and Useful) of these in teresting Metals, ARE NOW ON VIEW at MAPPIN BROTHERS' STR NEEET.W ROOMS, 222, REGENT Admission by Card. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT- G ARD {aye has the honour to announce that the OPERA SEASON of 18 3 will commence on TUESDAY, April 7. The Prospectus with full particulars may be ob tained at the Box-office, and at the principal musicsellers and librarians. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.- Mr. MAPLESON has the honour to announce that the OPERA SEASON of 1663 will commence on SATUR DAY, April 11. The prospectus, with full particulars, may be obtained on application at the Box-office, which is open daily, under the superintendence of Mr. Nugent, from Ten to Six; and at all the principal Libraries and 3fusicsellers. THEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.-- Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. On EASTER MONDAY, for the 347th time in London , PEEP O'DAY. Messrs. Henry Lorraine, Walter Lacy , C Verner. Addisol, J. Graham. G. Spencer, T. Nevilie, dzc. ; Misses Cleveland, Clara Weston, M. Hudson, &c. To conclude with MAGIC TOYS. Valentine, M i re Lydia Thompson Commence at '. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAY MARKET. Lessee. Mr. J. B. Bnckstone. On EASTER MONDAY, will be per formed MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Hero, Miss Ellen 'Terry: Beatrice, Miss Louisa Angel. After which, an apropos Dramat ic Sketch, introducing a Panorama of the Tour of the Prince of Wales in the East. To conclude with BORROWING A HUSBAND. Pamela her first appearance), Miss Maria Harris. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Management of Mr. PECHTER.. On EASTER MONDAY, to commence with an Orizinal Sketch, entitled A !SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, H. Widdlcomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr)lo,a,ue, entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Pechter, sunnorted by Messrs. G. Vining, J. Brougham, H. Widdi combe, W. M'lntyre, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, H. Butler, Dawson ; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E. ',avenue, and lasworthy. Stage-Manager, Mr. G. Vining,. Acting-Manager, Mr. H. karnett. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Lessee and Manager, Mr Lindal. On Easter Monday the drama of AURORA FLOYD. Miss Amy Sedgwick, Miss Henderson, and Mrs. Simpson ; Messrs. Roxby, G. Melville, G. Belmore, C. Seyton, Wallace, and Collett. To conclude with a new whimsical Extravaganza, entitled BEAUTIFUL HAIDE E ; or The Sea Nymph and the Sallee Rovers. NEW Til Jf ATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING (14th time) AURORA FLOYD. Miss Avonia Jones, Miss R. S►mms, Mrs. Billington ; Mr. Benj. Webster, Mr. Pant Bedford, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Billington, Mr. Stuart, Mr. Sefton, Mr. Romer, Mr. C. J. Smith. After whiob, A VALENTINE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, Miss Kate Kelly, and Miss Seaman. Commence at 7. EIE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN , " r r Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, cart be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. NOTICE. THE WEDDING SUN Is still Publishing. The Weather—Sun Office, April 2, 1863. THERMOMETER. Hi g hest since Noon yesterd a y . 5O Lowest during the n i g ht ...... ..... .. 31 This day at N00n..... 51 Wind—North; light, and fine weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tray DAY. —Morning, 21h. 59m.—Afternoon, lh. 20m. To.ltoßinW.-Morning, lh. 36m.—Afternoon, lh. 55m. evawa4 , 4 0,,,,b011111VV/rii NM& 1 1 " • , LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1863. by the coincidence of the dominant powe!s of the European Continent. Before the ultimate decision could be arrived at, before the new arrangement, whatever that might be, could be carried de liberately and definitively into effect, the senti ments of France, of Russia, of Germany to a certain extent, would have seriously to be con sidered. But for this, the arrangement proposed by Greece seemed on the face of it so very admirable and so very easy of accomplish ment l His Royal Highness Prince ALFRED to be proclaimed King of Greece. England to be relieved from tha long vexation of her irksome Protectorate over the lonian Islands,by giving those seven islands up gracefully and graciously to the Greek People, who bad so long covetted that particular acquisition —handing over the lonian Islands to Greece as the munificent dotation ac companying her new Sovereign. H. R. H. the third son of Queen VICTORIA, might then, it was presumed by the more sanguine, have succeeded to the expectant post hitherto occupied by his Royal brother the new King of Greece—Prince ARTHUR, in other words, assuming that brother's position, heretofore, as the Heir Presumptive to the reigning Duke of SAXE COBURG. Than all which, in simplest truth, how really preferable in every way is the newly suggested and, to all appearance, virtually accomplished arrange ment! The result in all essential respects is virtually to the Greeks themselves, almost as if they had carried out their own original proposition. It is not alone that they have got a young Sailor-Prince for their new Constitutional Sovereign. That they have that, is little more than an interesting little coincidence, odd enough in its way, but in itself nothing at all to the purpose. They have had offered to them, moreover, and have judi ciously accepted, with the good grace of an instant cordiality, a young Sailor-Prince, very much indeed of the same age as Prince ALFRED of England. What renders this ultimate selection of Prince WIL LIAM of Denmark as the new occupant of the Throne of Greece especially propitious for Greece herself, is the consideration that it is a choice by which Greece secures to herself, still, the earnest sympathy of England in all her after fortunes — Greece by the acceptance of Prince WILLIAM (hence forth to be known to Europe as King GEORGE I.) placing her liberties quite as directly under the aegis of the Constitutional Government of Eng land, as if Prince ALFRED himself had been en throned at Athens as the Greeks had originally intended. Nobly and with a most exemplary self-command, have the Greek people been biding 1 their time while the question of their future King has still remained undecided and problematical. [ A haughtier or a more irritable race, under the ' .ike circumstances, might have been goaded into declaring themseives petulanf.y for a pure demo cracy. Wiser in their generation than men like Mr. BRIGHT, the Greeks have all along recog nised the superior advantages accruing to a civilised people who give their choice, by a very decided preference, not to a purely Democratic, but to a Constitutionally Monarchical form of Government. Looking at the full and raticnal liberty enjoyed by England under the mixed sys tem of King, Lords, and Commons, Greece, if she has failed to secure for her new Monarch the brother—has eagerly accepted the brother-in-law — of our future SOVEREIGN . Lord PALMERSTON is certainly resolved to make ,he most of his Easter holidays, and he appears to By a curious coincidence, H.R.H. Prince ALFRED arrives again in England elmost simultaneously with the advent of the Telegram from Athens announcing the recognition by the Greeks of Prince WILLIAM of Denmark as their new constitutional Sovereign, under the title of King GEORGE the First. In a manner, it might be said, that the Crown of Greece is the Wedding Gift from the Second Son of our beloved QUEEN, to the Family of the Bride of H.R.H.'s Elder Brother, the Heir Appa rent. However the fact may be expressed, its instrinsic significance amounts to that. Immedi ately after the faineant ex-King OTno had taken his final departure from the shores of the classic land his Majesty had during nearly one whole generation so flagrantly misgoverned —immediately the Athenians had been enabled at last to realise as as a delightful certainty that they were at last effectually and for ever rid of the German Court and of the intriguing Queen Consort, remarkable, this latter, if for anything, for her most undeniable R uss ian proclivities—the one distinct and instantly avowed decision of the revolutionised people of Greece, was that Prince ALFRED of England, and no other than Prince ALFRED, should, as inevitably a s the sunrise follow s the dawn, appear in due course as the result of the recently proclaimed Provisional Government. In this, obviously, they were precipitate. They counted without their b e et. They made certain that the Throne had only to be proffered, to be accepted. But, however much they may have been mistaken in thus jumping to a wrong conclusion, the meaning of their choice of Prince ALFRED, unsolicited and spontaneously, wa s from the first instant of its announcement, beyond the reach of misapprehension. Alluding to which only a day or so back at Greenock, the noble Pre mier, Lord PALMERSTON, himself remarked with as much truth as emphasis, that " there cannot be a more striking proof of the respect which the conduct of tt,is British nation has inspired into men living in ether lands than the unanimous desire expressed by the people of Greece, and not only by those who live in Greece, but by the Greeks in every part of Europe—to receive as their sovereign the "'a of our gracious QUEEN —In which wish th " were led, by a knowledg e of the bless ings which our political institutions communicate to the people of these re alms, and by an anxious desire that they also might, guarantee thatTb The et they ycepof the taking wound tance ioy British e Prince, have a blessings of the same kind :' proffered gift, however, by the y oung P r i nce , or rather by his Royal mother (announcing the deci sion of the Crown through the medium of her MA JESTY'S Constitutional Government) was recognised a r ;eedily enough as something quite impracticable. Desirable in many respects it might be, but, altoge ther, it was impracticable; It must almost of necessity have excited, not un among several of na turally, a feeling of jealousy reap golden opinions wherever he goes. He left Glasgow only to receive new homage at Edinburgh, and wherever he goes he continues to meet the wishes of all classes by his happy style of address, and his amusing manner of combining instruction with amusement. His speeches are not of the highest order of eloquence, but it is to be questioned if a much more brilliant discourse would have answered the purpose so well, or have suited the requirements of the audience. Ms lordship was presented with the freedom of the city. The remarks of the Lord Provost were signally appropriate, and he made one of those gracious and genial speeches which are so pleasing at the time, and afterwards linger in the memory of those who hear them, and stamp their composer as one who is equal, on an important and momentous occasion, of rising to the height that is due. This is a faculty that does not always exist even when the speaker possesses great gifts, no quality is more rare than ready adaptation to circumstance, and few more useful or more agreeable. The Lord Provost said that the corporation esteemed it no small privilege to have an opportunity of tes tifying their acknowledgements of "the manner in which his lordship, for the last fifty-seven years unceasingly, devoted his whole energies and powers of mind to the prosperity and welfare of the coun try." He also said that they did not consider him so much as the leader of a great political party, as the statesman, whose object was to enhance the security and honour of this great empire. This next passage is most suggestive, and interest ing to contemplate, " Since his lordship left the roof and guardianship of their distinguished Scot tish philosopher, DUGALD STEWART, more than sixty years ago, his life had been one of toil and tumult, from which he might be said never to have rested, but which had now led him to the first place and to the highest honours. In almost all the conflicts of that eventful and stormy period he had borne a foremost part ; but they saw him there again, verging on four-score,in the full pos session of bodily health and strength, with intellect not enfeebled, and, better than all, with heart not embittered." This was language worthy of the occasion, and Lord PALMERSTON was equally happy in his reply. He observed that there were circumstances, both personal and general, which rendered the gift bestowed upon him that day peculiarly gratifying and satisfactory. "It was, as you have observed, within this city that I spent three years of my life, in obtaining from the University of Edin bargh a part, and I will say the most valuable part, of the instructions which I have received, and therefore from recollections of auld lang syne, I value the gift which you have conferred upon me. I Cannot but remember also that the city e b f er en, is ,whi enrollede h m o n now a the list honour to be a mem• tin guished m en , i s of the most a city eminent and at: s d dis tinguished world for its tradfaitnioenn:anidngltohreiouhs His co n c ei lordship vabl e benefitsthen wenten ttisi•e" that resulted from controversy, history of on to expatiate on the in and wisely asserted that it was by the free and unfettered exercise of opinion that truth was arrived at, and the public good secured. He also said that there was one condition which should rule and control party spirit, and that was expressed in an old Dutch proverb—that :men may agree to differ. There was nothing which should prevent men from entertaining the most diverse political opinions, and yet preserving for each other the most profound respect. They should not seek to win their adversaries to their own opinions by the wind which made them wrap their cloaks more tightly round their shoulders, bat by the warmth of friendship and persuasion. This doctrine comes most appropriately from Lord PALMERSTON, who is distinguished for being the our most important allies. It would almost inevi• tably have led in the end—supposing an English Prince to have been enthroned at Athens—to the estrangement from us of more than one powerful, and at present friendly, Government. Rus sia would have been piqued, ;and, worse than that, aroused to a sense of alarm by the plant ing of a new branch or offshoot of the British dynasty so close upon her frontiers. France, even if she could have remained a silent spectator 6f events, while the transformation suggested by the revolutionised Greeks was being effected, must , without doubt , a t heart, have regarded the accom Vidhment of those events with suppressed and rankling indignation. Besides, in other and more obvious ways, for other and more manifest reasons, the thing, as originally propose& could not so very easily as the Greeks seemed to imagine, be carried out. The question was not one that simply had to be decided between Greece , and England. It was rather a problem, the solution of which could only be pronounced by the great contracting parties, foremost to open his doors to men of ail classes LATEST INTELLIGENCE• and shades of opinion, and often after a stormy debate has he welcomed to his mansion the leaders of the opposition and been glad to exchange the heat and burden of the day of strife in the political arena for the amenities of social intercourse and the charm of congenial intellects, This feeling imparts a chi valric sentiment to the rude and rough encounters of public life, and seems to carry one back to the days when honour was more thought of, and in dividuality was more prominent. Thus may straightforward men in the prosaic days of the nineteenth century share somewhat the noble re cognition of the knights of old— " Of the stern joy that warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel." Lord PALMERSTON also made an address at the University, where he received the honorary degree of LL.D. He said that the honours con • ferred upon him that day were doubly grateful to him both as regarded the present and the past. He said that it some times occurred to one who revisited the scenes cf his youth to find himself unknown, and the place that once was thriving now deserted. How different from what happens today, said his Lordship. He then alluded to his connection with that city in far-oft days, in this forcible passage :—" It is pleasing to me to revisit this building in which during three winters I was daily and constantly bestowing earnest attention upon the instruction I there received. For my own part, gentlemen, I am fairly free to confess — to employ a word which used to be a cant term in the House of Commons, lam proud to ackaowledge'—that if I have been ii any way successful in public life, if I have been enabled to steer my course in a manner satis factory to my own conscience, and to meet the general approval of my fellow-countrymen, it has been that in those three years which I passed in this city I was furnished by able hands with charts and compasses, which taught me how to steer my course, to avoid many of the dangers to which the voyage of life is exposed, to pursue in safety the career which I was destined to follow." (REUTERS TELEGRAMS,) This is a pleasing interlude to the dull monotony of the political drudgery, and the heavy burden cares of the State which inseparably attend upon the life of such a man as Lord PALMERSTON. Also it might serve as an incentive to the young men around him. "Go thou and do likewise" might be addressed by their preceptors to those eager spirits entering on life so live and act during a ' long course of chequered years, that if here after you re-visit the scenes of your youth, you may look back from the confines of your age with satisfaction on the prospect. The most trying test of human actions and motives, is to return in mind at least to the days of " auld lang syne." Our Premier has stood this ordeal, and may be congratulated on having so successfully acquitted himself of the arduous duties that devolved upon him, and on having exhibited a spirit worthy of a veteran statesman full of years and honours, but as buoyant as ever, and as ready to do service to his SOVEREIGN and his country as when, half a cen tury ago, he entered on the career of public life. AMERICA. (Per Anglo-Saxon.) NEW YORK, MARCH 21, EVENING. General Sumner is dead. An armed party of inhabitants have succeeded in rescuing several deserters frcm the military autho rities at Rush County, Indiana, but troops were sent from Indianopolis, and they were recaptured. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money easy. Gold 54 per cent. premium. Ex change on London, Bankers' Bills, 170. Stocks dull. New York Centrals, 116. Illinois Centrals, 92k. Erie, 791. THE POLISH INSURRECTION. DAN TZIC, APRIL 2. The Danziger Zeitung of to-day publishes a mes sage, dated Eydtkuhnen, April Ist, stating that yesterday afternoon the railway communication with Kowno was completely interrupted in the vicinity of Maurnoze. A portion of the telegraph wires, extending for about an English mile, has been destroyed, and the rails have been torn up. The same message announces that a special train has been despatched with military against the insur gents from Wirballen. Trains to Berlin are no longer allowed to pass the frontier. BRESLAU, APRIL 1. The Breslauer Zeitung of to-day publishes a cor respondence from Warsaw, dated the 31st ultimo, asserting that the Revolutionary Committee of that city had resolved upon everywhere ordering the in surgents to lay down their arms, and that two in surgent leaders had already disbanded their forces. DANIZIC, APRIL 1. The Danziger Zeitung of today publishes a tele gram dated Warsaw, March 31, asserting that a body of insurgents, numbering 1,500 men, stationed near Muiszew, had been disbanded by order of its chief, it being considered useless to continue the struggle. The same telegram asserts that the Warsaw Revolutionary Committee had ordered the recruit ing agents to cease making enlistments. The Danziger Zeitung also asserts that the Em peror of Russia intends granting an autonomy to Poland, but will not grant a Polish national army. CRACOW, APRIL 1. The insurgent force commanded by Lelewel has been dispersed, and part of it compelled to seek refuge in Galicia. The Czas asserts, however, that Lelewel has repulsed the Russian troops. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 2. 1863 DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, APRIL 2. Last night a most important proclamation of the King was published, referring to the separation of Holstein from its connection with the entire monarchy. The introduction to this document says : " The proclamation of the King of the 28th Jan" 1852, stated his Majesty's intention to combine the different portions of the monarchy by means of a common constitution, into one single well-regulated State. This intention could not be realised, because the Federal Diet interfered in the interior affairs of the monarchy, and set up demands not founded on Federal laws, and incompatible with the indepen dence of the Crown and the privileges of those por tions of the country not belonging to the Confedera tion. The estates of Holstein have in addition rejected every proposition which might have led to an agree ment, and have declared themselves hostile to any common constitution based upon united representa tion. Such a state of internal discord, by which the development of the kingdom has been paralysed for the last ten years, cannot longer continue. In consequence of the unsatisfactory results of the last Assembly of the Holstein Diet, we deem it our duty as ruler to settle the position of Holstein in the Monarchy as we consider most in conformity with our Federal d u ti es . For the present we confine ourselves to th e m ost urgent part of this task, re serving any further developments for a future period. "By this present proclamation, therefore, we grant to Holst e in an independent army. For the future Holstein will share with the rest of the mo narchy th e c i v il list, the appanages, the public the navy the debt, department for foreign affairs, the administration of the domains, the customs, and the postal arrangements, but even in reference to these detail s th e Estates of Holstein shall have th e right of d ec i s i on,res erving further separation where no agreem en t b etw een the Holstein Estates and the Rigsraad (C ounc il of the Empire) for Denm ark- Schleswi g s h a ll b e found attainable." His Ma jesty fu r th er or d a i ns that the Ministry shall sub mit to th e H o l ste i n Estates bills, establishing con stitutional regu l at ions for the general control of the financ es , a lib er al electoral law, liberty of the press, the right o f petition and of assoc i a t i on, and religious freed om . The proclamation calls together the Rigsraad (L eg i s lative Assembly fo r Denmark- Schleswig) up on the 22d April next. LISBON, APRIL 2. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Parana, from the Brazils, has arrived here, and will leave at 2 p.m. to-day for Southampton, with 132 passengers, £5,150 in specie, 500 packages of tobacco, and 150 packages of sundries. Briton Medical and General Life Assurance Society, hurt uvular HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, April 1. The Queen, accompanied by her Roy il Highness the Princess Louis of Hesse, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by Major Cowell and Dr. Armstrong, arrived at the Castle last evening shortly after seven o'clock. Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by Prin ces Helena, Prince Leopold, and Prince Louis of Hesse, met the Prince at the station of the South- Western Railway. " Administrative reforms, whatever their extent ,ind import, are no longer calculated to satisfy the Poles. There is not a man in the country to be gained over by the tender of mere administrative improvement. The nation yearns for political life and the restoration of independence. The most terrific repression will never be powerful enough to eradicate a spirit filling all Polish souls, and which, I regret to say, tends, from day to day, to deepen the gulf between the nation and the throne. It is only by the revival of Polish independence and the maintenance of no more than a dynastic connexion with Russia that your Majesty cm' remove the pro bability of ruling, in no distant future, over a coun try consisting of ruins, and where public prosperity is a myth of the past. I trust your Majesty will not hesitate to adopt a less painful alternative at a rime when insurrection begins to flag and subside. Powerful and independent as you are, your Majesty will not believe that to be generous implies to be weak." Fresh detachments of the Grenadier corps have arrived at Warsaw. This force has been distributed over the interior to guard against rural commotion; but its place in Russia is being gradually filled up by li,lrruck , ., Bashkirs, and other Tartar horsemen, In addition to this reinforcement part of the northern garrisons are being despatched to the south. As a necessary consequence rebellion Atains a temporary ascendancy in Aug us t owo an d Pluck. 'I he fall of Langiewicz is said to be the signal for Mieroslawski's return to the camp; but rumours are too vague as yet to allow of any credit being attached to the story. Thus much, however,seems to be certain—that the fall of his rival has not par ticularly contributed to endear Mieroslawski to the nation. FRANCE. PARIS, APRIL 2. It is officially stated that the last reports received from Mexico announce that General Forey had summoned a council of all the generals and chiefs of the service for the 28th February, in order to arrange the details of the movement on Puebla, and ive their final instructions. The parks of artillery, the war material, and a great depot of stores were concentrated at Quecholac, to which place all the munitions neces sary for the first operations had been conveyed. The sanitory condition of the army was very satisfactory. The Constitutionnel of to day in an article signed by M. Limayrac says ;—" In the maintenance of Fould in the Ministry, the country will see with pleasure a fresh pledge of good order in the finances, and of reduction in the public burdens." BOURSE, April I.—The arrival of the English Funds with an advance of t, has given some little stimulus to this market, and Three per Cents, have been done with a slight improvement, and are now firm at 69f. 55c. The Railway Share Market has been quiet, but prices, in general, well maintained. Mobilier show a further advance. Stock became offered towards the close, and prices again receded to leave off as follows : It per Cents. . . 96 35 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 15 ew 3 per Cents Do. end month — Credit M0bi1ier...,1345 Do. end month 1342 50 RAIL' Bank Shares 3380 - Credit k onoier ..: 1490 Italian Loan 7l 40 Do. end month 7l 40 Russian .. — Austrian Spanish Threes 52 25 Home Debt ,WAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans lll5 -- .. 1107 50 Northern - NOW ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1220 .. 1218 75 Geneva 430 -- .. Southern 763 75 .. 765 Western Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian ... ..... 508 75 .. 505 Lombard North of Spain Saragossa 737 50 .. 735 Ditto to Barcelona ACTS OF PARLIAUENT.—The number of public Acts passed in the present Session, which commenced on the sth of February, is seven. The distinguishing pecularities of this cffice are Ist. That Policies issued on the profit scale by peeuliar principles of the association become pay able during the lifetime of the person assured, without any increase of premiums. After having been in force a period of five years policies are ab solutely indefeasible and indisputable, and all right to question them on any ground whatever after that time is renounced and discharged. A special cause to this effect is contained in the deed of set tlement of the association. 2d. That all the ad vantages of a mutual office are obtained, with the security of a subscribed capital ; 80 per cent. of the profits will be appropriated to the holders of poli cies who have as su red according to the tables for participating in the same. Ten per cent. set aside to form a fund for the assistance of persons who, through misfortune or illness, may not otherwise be able to keep up their policies. The importance of this arrangement will, at once, be evident to all. 3d. That there is in it secured the adoption of a more equitable division of profits. To the extinction of the last payments of premiums sre appropriated those profits which are generally applied by way of bonus, thus enabling the association to pay the policy during the assured's lifetime, providing against the often-urg,d objection, " that persons do not themselves reap the benefits of their payments," and adding to the stability of the office instead of weakening its resources. The profits of the asso ciation are so fairly divided that each assurer re ceives the whole of the profits to which he is en titled, instead of incurring the risk of having them t en _ given to one who dies before any profit has h really made on his policy, a risk inseparable from the system ordinarily adopted. Every contingency incidental to the duration of human life is entertained. The assured have the security of a large subscribed and fairly paid up capital ; and at each division of prefirs 80 per cent. thereof is awarded them. They have thus no per sonal risk, and yet enjoy all the advanteges of a mutual office. Ten per cent. of the realised profits are set aside to form a fund for the assistance of persons who, through misfortune or other wise, may not be able to keep up their policies. The office allows one-half of the premium to remain at credit. with small interest payable thereon, as a debt upon the polity for the first five years (subse quently renewable for a further term), so that any one desiring to assure for, say £l,OOO, would only pay the rates for £5OO. Should he die £l,OOO would be paid to his heirs or to whomsoever he might will it, less the due unpaid premiums. Auot her advantage is th at policies issued on the profit scale e., entitled to a share in the periodi cal profits) become payable during the lifetime o, the person assured, and without any increase of premium whatever. How policies are nsade payola) , during the life of the assured, the following table will show : To ASSURE £lOO, PAYABLE DURING LIFE. Age Age Age next ] A nnu al next Annual next Annual Birth- Premiums. Birth- Premiums. Birth- Premiums. day, day. ay. 15 £1 14 6 30 I £2lo 1 44 £3 14 0 16 115 0 31 211 4 45 36 ,2 17 115 8 32 212 9 47 40 11 18 116 6 33 ,214 3 49 47 0 19 117 5 35 '217 6 50 410 10 20 118 4 36 2 3 519 1 415 0 21 119 4 37 31 1 54 59 1 22 20 4 38 33 0 55 614 8 24 22 7 39 35 0 56 60 1 25 23 10 40 36 9 58 612 3 26 2 5 1 41 38 6 60 7 - 5 6 27 26 4 42 3310 3 65 93 0 28 27 8 4 3 12 0 70 11 16 0 29 2 8 10 1 - The Briton hes an income of over £lOO,OOO, and investments in the public funds and other securities, amounting to £lBO,OOO. New business is estimated to be coming in at the rate of £16,000 a year. The manager of the Briton is Mr. John Messent, who has the advantage of acting in co-operation with an influential board of directors. Among these are noticeable men of substance and position. like Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P. for the city of London ; the chairman of the board being Dr. Bar • low, and the deputy chairman Mr. Webb. LDrd de Tabley and Lieutenant-Colonel Kingf cote have succeeded Lord Rivers and the Hon. Sackville West as Lord and Groom in Waiting. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has given instructions that the wedding presents to be exhibited at the South Kensingt , n 'Museum are to comprise not merely the jewellery, but almost all the presents which have been accepted. The day for the public exhibition will be announced as soon as the arrangements are sufficiently completed. The Marquis and Marchioness of Tweeddale and the Ladies Hay have left Hill-street for East Stoke Park, Wilts, Viscountess Downe has arrived at the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone. DEATH OF LORD WATERPARIC.—This noble man, who had attained his 70th year, expired on Tuesday last. He was the son of the first baron (created 1792), and married, in 1837, the youngest daughter of the first Viscount Anson and sister of the Earl of Lichfield. DEATH OF ADMIRAL SIR JOHN LOUIS.—We have to announce the death of this officer, who ex pired at his residence, 61, Eaton-place, on Tuesday last. Sir J. Louis entered the navy In 1795, as first-class volun teer, on board the Minotaur, 74; and when lieutenant of the Naiad he assisted at the cutting out of a French war schooner, near Brest. He commanded the Aigle,in 1814,and became captain in 18i.6, rear-admiral in !838, vice-admiral in 1849,and admiral of the white in 1815. Sir John received the good-service pension in 1860. He was superintendent of the Malta dockyard from 1838 to 1813, and superinten dent at Devonport, from 1846 to 1850. He was also naval aide-de-camp to William IV. During his comte•and of the Aigle, Sir John Louis earned a very high character, and was particularly praised for the manner in which he placed his ship, and the precision of her fire when engaged in cap uring and destroying a French convoy under the guns of Port Maurice. In 1807 he married the eldest daughter of Lieut.-Col. Kirkpatri3, of the Bth Bengal Native Infan try. He is succeeded in the baronetcy by hi, grandson. DEATH of VICE-ADMIRAL W. G. COURTENAY.— This officer died o❑ Tuesday, at his residence in the Albany, aged 67. He entered the navy in 1805 (under tLe auspices of Earl St. Vincent), and first served on board tb• Amszan, 38, commanded by the then Captain (afterwards t•ir William) Parker. During the six years he remained with this vessel he saw much active service, and assisted, in comi.,any of the London, 98, at the capture, in 1806, after a long running fight, of the French 80 gun ship the Ma rengo, and the tamed Belle Poule frigate. He next joined the Victory and Bellerophon, and, on obtaining his lieute • aancy in 1813, he served in the Crescent, 38, the San Josef, and several other vessels. In 1822 Mr. Courtenay com mended the boats of the ON rene, 20, and displayed great courage and judgment at the destruction of some slave fan tories in the Gallinas River on the African coast. Being promoted in 1823 to the Bann. 20, he became for some months senior officer on the African station, after which he held temporary command of the Owen Glendower, 36, dur ing the Ashantee war. He after wards returned to the Bann, and in that vessel captured two Brazilian slavers, with 728 slaves on board. He was made p st captain in 1828 in the Magnificent, receiving ship at Jamaica. In the following year he assumed command of the Mersey, 23, when ho returned to England, and was paid off in 1831. He ob tained rank as Vice-Admiral of the Blue by seniority in 1801. STATE OF PAUPERISM—The Poor Law Board have issued their annual returu of the number of paupers relieved on the Ist of July in England and Wales, with the exception of the few parishes still under the 43d of Elizabath, or under Gilbert's Act. In July, 1861, the number of paupers relieved was 851,574; in July, 1862, 92.5,310 —an increase of 8 7 per cent.; but the increase among the adult ablebodied paupers was 16.6 per cent., following an increase of 8.6 per cent. in the previuus )eat. The pro • portion of the paupers reliev. d in July, 1862, was 1 iti 21, or 4.7 per cent, on the population as enumerated in April, 1861; in July, 1861, the proportion, on the same popula tion, was 1 in 23, or 4.3 per cent, A PENNY SERIAL ROMANCE.—Rather tantalizing close of a new instalment :—At length, maddened by the thoughts which whirled successively through his brain, scorching and biistering it with the images they con veyed, he turned round, and advanced upon her with glaring eyes, and foaming at the mouth like a tiger. " Woman I" he said, as the white froth bubbled on his lips; " when I first saw you, I believed that your—that your— past history —" She turned upon him like lightning, and, with her finger pointed menacingly at him, she ex claimed, in a clear, firm, determined voice—" To be con tinued next week." THE GREAT TRIBULATION OF POLAND.—By far the greatest of Poland's misfortunes is not that she is oppressed, but that she is partitioned. Whenever a writer or speaker begins to compare the Prussian with the Austrian, or the Austrian with the Russian mode of persecuting the Poles, and ends, as most persons do, by according the pre ference to the German forms of tyranny, he proves that he does not understand the Polish question from the Polish point of vie, or he would not enter into such comparisons at all. The one thing certain about the future of Poland is, that the country will not remain divided. There is a com plete unity of feeling between the four parts, of which two —Lithuania and the kingdom of Poland —are in the hands of Russia; and unle.s Poland gains her independence, the Poles of Posen and Gallicia will end by joining their fate to that of their brethren under the Russian sceptre. This is not me, ely the personal opinion of the writer, it is an opinion or rather a determination, which he has often heard ex pressed by the leading political men of both the German- Polish provinces. They will submit no longer to the triple torture under which they have writhed for so many years, and it is for the West of Europe to choose wheth r it will help the Poles against Russia, or whether, sooner or later, the Poles shall be forced to obtain Russian assistance against Prussia and Austria.—Cornhill :Magazine. A 'flPss JUROR.—At. Chester, on Monday, the Assize Court was somewhat startled by the gesticu lations and loud tones of a gentleman who had been sum- monad as a juryman. He loudly demanded how long he was to be kept there ?—The Judge (looking up surprised)— Bring that person here. The juryman was accordingly forthwith seized and led before his lordship, exhibiting at the same time time unmistakeable symptoms of having been indulging in deep potations during the day.—The Judge, addressing the juryman, said—What do you mean, sir, by disturbing the court in this way ?—The juryman—l was brought to attend upon your lordship on the jury; I have left four children, without a roo•her this tan years.— The Judge—You are very unfit to be a jury man.—The juryman (who continued to speak with a strong Alilesian accent—l am very unfit, your lordship; lam the biggest robber from here to London. (Loud laughter.) The Judge —Well, put him in the dock on his own statement. The j aryman—Put me where you like. lam the i iggest rob. ber, and Judge Harden will tell you the same thing. The juryman w,,s then placed in the dock, where he shed co pious tears, and gave utterance to various uninteltigible re marks. The Judge—Keep him in custody until he gets sober, and then let him be discharged. The fuddled jury. man was then led into the castle, saying, " God bless you, my lord ; may you live for a hundred years; may I see you in heaven. (Laughter.) God bless—(the voice, in ventrilo quial style, died away in the distance)." ) TRADE OF GLASGOW.—The number of sailing and steam vessels which arrived at Glasg-'w iu 1831 was but 11,542. with total tonnage of 732,327 ; while last year the number had increased to 15,864, with an aggregate t nnage of 1,530,642. In 1831 no larger vessel than 3 0 tons arrived ; in 1841, three vessels got up to Glasgow ot l.etween 600 and 700 tons; ten years later four vessels of 1,000 tons rrrived ; and in 1861 not less than 29 vessels ot 1,000 tons and upwards came up to the Broomielaw. Lao Sear there were floating in the hat bout 96 vessels of from 700 to 1,000 tons, and 48 of 1,000 tons and upwards. In (862 there were G 9 vessels in the harbour having a draughl of 18ft, 4.5 of 19ft, 18 of 201 t, and lof 2 itt The Clyde was the very cradle of steam navigation. It was on the Forth and Clyde Canal that the application of steam power to vas sels was first attem p t e d , t h ough i t was not successfully ac complished till s e vera l years a ft er , in the beginning of this ce ntury. It was on the Forth and Clyde Canal that Ful ton, whom cur Am. rican friends claim as the first to apply the steam-engine to maritime purposes, witnessed these °ally experiments, and from there carried them to the other side of the Atlanti" ; and, profiting by what he had seen, established the first steamboat on th Hudson to run be tween New Y, rk and Albany. Seotlasid not only gave the idea of the first steamboat to Americans, but it led the way to the adoption of this class of vessels generally in Europe Half a century since the waters of the Clyde were first ploughed by the paddles of the Comet, a tiny vessel of some three horse power, with 40 feet keel and 101 feet Warn. Two years elapse and the Elizabeth of eight horse power, and the Clyde of 14 horse power, are found competing with the pioneer of steam ships for traffic on the river, PORTRAITS OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES. Engraved by William Holl, from Photographs by Mayall, taken at Osborne, March 14, 1863. London : John Mitchell. By the publication of these exquisite engravings Mr. Mitchell has signalised, with extraordinary rapidity, the fitness of his own special appointment as Bookseller and Publisher to their Royal High nesses. How works of art, so minutely and delicately touched throughout as these are, can have been produced with anything like the rapidity here manifested, is certainly little less than marvellous. The date, given above, indicates when the photo graphs by May all were taken, down at Osborne, on the fourteenth of March, that is on the fourth ;lay of the still unfinished honeymoon ! And yet, though the honeymoon itself is even now unfinished, the engraved portraits, taken from the original pho• tographs, have been finished to the utmost nicety by he swift and dexterous hand of Mr. Holl. These engravings, which in shape are companion ovals, are in merit, and when simply viewed as specimens of the art, nothing short of masterpieces. Still better than this, immeasurably better than this, they are truly wonderful as likenesses. Both Prince and Princess are in morning costume in all save that their heads are uncovered. The Prince is even equipped in his great coat. So that they bear all the appearance of being just prepared for a stroll in Osborne Gardens, or a walk in Os• borne Park. The Princess, more charming than ever somehow in this picture—possibly from the more becoming arrangement of her hair, here not swept so entirely from her forehead as in her pre vious portraitures—wins upon our loyal admiration the more familiarised we become with the beauty of her fair, ingenuous, thoughtful, animated face. Ire the countenance of the Prince, too, as it is here revealed to us in this faithful presentment, we seem more distinctly than ever to recog nize a mingled resemblance to his Royal Father and his Queen Mother. Under each engraving is a facsimile of the respective Big ' natures, here of H.R.H. the Prince, here of H.R.H. the Princess. The autograph " Alexandra" being as flowing andldelicate as that of" Albert Edward, P," is bold and masculine. Recognising in these Portraits, as we do, incomparably the best en• graved likenesses of both Prince and Princess yet published, we cannot be surprised that her Majesty has graciously permitted the engrav ings to be dedicated to herself—thereby attesting her Majesty's estimate of their value and excel lence. Precocity (says a Saturday Reviewsr), in all its stages, is more or less amusing from its odd knack of fastening upon the foibles of the model which is for the moment the object of its admiration. We mean, of course, where the model is not radically vicious, and the blemishes copied are only transitory, and do not get into the blood. A precocious boy in petticoats, when he begins to feel ripe for jackets and the society of bigger brothers, puts his feet through bonnet-boxes, and melts down the nose of his sister's favourite doll. Promoted to jackets, he makes himself sick on strong cigars, and gar nishes his conversation with manly expletives. But it is when he is just entering into the Canaan of visiting-cards and tail-coats that his precocity assumes its most grotesque form—it is so quaintly compounded of servile imitation and a swaggering self•reliance, which now and then breaks out into positive ferocity. A precocious youth of seventeen is delighted to find himself in the society of his superiors in age and whiskers, copying with abject eagerness their general tone in conversation and dress, and unconsciously caricaturing their absurdities. But still he is always ready to fire up on the slightest suspicion that he is being slighted or snubbed. At a wedding-breakfast, or an archery party, it makes him wretched to discover that his gloves are darker, or his buttons larger than those of his favourite model; but this homage turns in a moment to the liveliest hate, if he fancies that the model, not eontent with robbing him of the prettiest bridesmaid, is making her laugh by some brutal referor ce to razors, or to the blighted young gentleman who has so often hu n g his har p on the willow tree, before going off to the wars again. He thirsts f r t he blood of the bearded beast, and yearns for a revival of the tournament or the duel. He even speculates on the best way of picking a a o n pe d ni c n o g nv i u t, ls h iv o e w ly . that, amor g clenches as t h h i e s h fi o s r underiaorturhegelh t t i a n b o l c t e c h — u e r h s h a s a t t l o i l ly h grown-up men, fisticuffisg is considered school- boyish EXTRAORDINARY BIRTIIS.—On this morning (Wednesday) a poor woman, the wife of a labouring man, named Brien, who resides in May-lane, off Bally bricken, and is in the employment of Mr. Casey, pig-buyer, was safely delivered of four children— two boys and two girls. They all died within a couple of hours afterwards. On two previous occasions of a similar nature this very prolific woman gave birth to twins each time, making eight children—from the first birth to the last—in two years and two months I— Waterford Nail. PLEASANT PUNISIDIENT.—" That's what I call capital punishment," as the boy said when his mother shut him up in the closet amongst the preserves, A WORD FOR MISS BRADDON. Those who have read " Lady Audley's Secret" will not need to be reminded of the important posi tion which the incident of arson occupies in the story. The burning of Mr. Meyburn's mill by " the turn-outs" occupies no such position in Mr. Fullom's story, and is not the work of any of the principal actors in it. As for the coincidence of describing the red light in the sky, we should be curious to see any piece of descriptive writing into which a conflagration is introduced, which omits to notice that circumstance. But, perhaps, the choieest piece of critical inge nuity displayed by Mr. Fullom, in drawing up his indictment of plagiarism, is the fo' lowing : MAN OF TIIE WORLD. LADY AIJDLEY'H SECRET. Danvers prevents Rosalie Lady Audley prevents iier from denouncing his intended first husband lrom denounc marriage with Eleanor, by ing i , econd marriage by pushing her over the preei- dropping him in the well. pace (pp. 399, 403, 404). The reader has only to compare for a moment the relative situations of the persons alluded to in these passages, to perceive the absurdity of Mr. Fullom s charge in this particular. But the plain fact of the matter is, that there is no clause in this most impudent indictment which is not as destitute of foundation as those which we have quoted. The coincidences and resemblances, such as they ere, belong altogether to the same cate gory as Fluellen's celebrated comparison between the rivers of Macedon and those of Monmouth, and if they were to be held to justify plagiarism fur one moment, it would be impossible for any author to escape conviction. If Mr. Fullom's case against Miss Braddon is to hold good, any other novelist (say Sir Walter Scott or Mr. Charles Dickens) has an equally good case for complaint. We have only io draw a few comparisons somewhat in this style, and the whole case is proved •-- MISS BRADDON. SIR W. SCOTT. MR. C. DICKENS Tarty Audley is a Rose Bradwar- Dora is a young young and beauti- dine is a young and and beautiful wo ful woman, with be titifui woman, man, with fair hair fair hair and b'ue with fair hair and and blue eyes. and eyes, and a power blue ryes, and a a power of , t raet of at•raethig the poaerot attracting ing the affection of affection of those the affection of those about her. about her. those about her. SI IdISS BRADDOI6 R. C DICKENS. C a pt a in Prrdder is a sea- Captain Cntile is a sealer faring person, or rough m an- ing pe , soP, of rough manners ners and an amiable disposi- and an h amiable dispoatiocted n Hon (theaigh somew h ,t ad- (thoug some t hat addi dieted to rum\ and is deeply to rum) audis de-ply attached attached to Aurora. to Florence Dombey. Nothing could be easier than to prove accusations of plagiarism in this way ad infinitum ; but nothing, our readers admit, could well be more absurd. It Mr. Fullom's object in putting forward this charge is to revive the sale of an inconveniently large " remainder," it is not improbable that the curiosity which naturally leads people to inquire into such matters for themselves, will cause his hopes to be partly realised; but whether this proceeding will tend to increase his reputation or Letter his position as a man of letters is another question. To those who do look into the matter for themselves, we can confidently appeal for a decision, whether we have treated Mr. Fullom at all unfairly in pronouncing his charge to be utterly destitute of foundation. As for the lady, she has written to the Morning Herald a brief di•cluiraer of ever baying read one line of Mr. Fullom's book, and we entirely believe her. Moreover, we advise her to rest satisfied with her ignorance —unless, indeed, she chooses to peruse his pages with a view of studying what to avoid, in which case they might be of some use. And this is a branch of knowledge in which Miss Braddon has yet much to learn.—From the " Critic" for I April, 1863. HOLYDAYS AT THE LAW OFFlCES.—Tomorro w (Friday) the offices of the Common Law Courts will be closed, and will be re-opened en Wednesday mornivg• THE INSURRECTION IN POLAND, BRESLAU, M4rch 29. The At eh bishop of Warsaw has addressed a letter to the Czar, in which occurs the following charac teristic passage : " At a time of terrible ealamity and bloodshed I feel it my duty to address your Majesty, and to tell you, in my capacity as chief of the Polish establish ment, what are the only means of putting a stop to the indescribab!e misery which has befallen our land. A Special Correspondent in a Balloon. (From the St. James's Magazine.) The "Professor" aroused me at three o'clock, when I found the canvas straining its bonds, and emitting a hollow sound, as of escaping gas. The basket was made fast directly, the telescopes tossed into place; the Professor climbed to the side, hold ing by the network; and I coited up in a rope at the bottom. " Stand by your cables," he said, and the bags of ballast were at once cut away. Twelve men took each a rope in hand. and played out slowly, letting us glide gently upward. The earth seemed to be falling away, and we poised motionless in the blue ether. The tree tops sank downward, the hills dropped noiselessly through space, and directly the Chickahorniny was visible beyond us, winding like a ribbon of silver through the ridgy landscape. " Guess I got 'em new, jest where I want 'em," said Lowe, with a gratified laugh; "jest keep still as you mind to, and squint your eye through my glass, while I make a sketch of the roads and the country. Hold hard there, and anchor fast !' he screamed to the people below. Then he fell imperturbably to work, sweeping the country with his hawk eye, and escaping nothing that could contribute to the completeness of his jotting. We had been but a few minutes thus poised, when close below, from the edge of a timber stretch, puffed a volume of white smoke. A second afterward, the air quivered with the peal of a cannon. A third, and we head the split ting shriek of a shell, that passed a little to our lef', but in exact range, and burst beyond us in the ploughed field, heaving up the clay as it exploded. Ha r said Lowe, " they have got us foul ! Haul in the cables—quick !" he shouted, in a fierce tone. At the same instant, the puff, the report, and the shriek were repeated ; but this time the shell . :urst to our right in mid-air, and scattered frag ments around and below us. " Anotber shot will do our business," said Lowe betwee❑ his teeth ; "it isn't a mile, and they have got the range." Again the puff and the whizzing shock. I closed my eyes, and held my breath hard. The explosion was so close, that the pieces of shell seemed driven across my face, and my ears quivered with the sound. I looked at Lowe, to see it he was struck. He had sprung to his feet, and clutched the cordage fran tically. " Are you pulling in there, you men ?' he bellowed, with a loud imprecation. " Puff! bang ! whiz-z z-z ! splutter !'' broke a third shell, and my heart was wedged in my throat. I saw at a glimpse the whole bright landscape again. I heard the voices of soldiers below, and saw them running across fields, fences, and ditches, to reach out an chorage. I saw some drummer boys digging in the field beneath for one of the buried shells. I saw the waving of signal figs, the commotion t brougn the camps—officers galloping their horses, teamsters whipping their mules, regiments turning out, drums 'seating, and batteries limbered up. I rem'irked, last of all, the site of the battery that alarmed us ; and by strange sharpness of sight and sense, believed that I saw the gunners swabbing, ramming, and aiming the pieces. " Puff ! bang ! whiz-z-z-z ! splutter ! crash." " Puff! bang ! whiz z z z! splutter! crash." My--," said Lowe, hissing the words slowly and terribly, " t hey have opened upon us from anot tar battery." The scene seemed to dissolve. A cold dew broke from my forehead. I grew blind and deaf. I had fainted. " Pitch some water in his face," said somebody. "He ain't used to it. Helloe ! there, he comes to." I staggered to my feet. There tuust have been a thousand men about us. They were looking curiously at the aeronaut and me. The balloon lay fuming and struggling on the clods. '• Three cheers for the Uuion bal-loon !" called a little fellow at my side. "Hip, hip--hooroar ! hooroar ! hooroar." STATE OF TRADE. LEICESTER, April I.—There is rather more ac tivity in the hosiery trade, and there is more doing in regular goods, tut still a good deal of machinery remains disengaged, and many of the workpeople are only partially employed. At Loughborough and Hinckley trade is dull. The yarn market is without material change, and Spinners are generally working to order, so that no extra stock is made. In wools there is no alteration, but the market is a shade more active. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, March 31.-38,038 tons of coals, 2,770 tons of coke, 9,728 cwt. of iron, and 11,599 cwt. of alkali were exported from the Fyne last week. There was an increase in the ship ments of alkali of 5,748 cwt., and a decrease in the shipments of coal, coke, and iron. The chemical trade of the Tyne is showing much briskness. The demand for soda is lively, with a Cm market and an advance of sa. per ton ; assorted casks, £4 17s. 6d.; export casks, ,E 4 15s. per ton ; best white alkali, 2-td.; seconds, 2kd. per cent. per cwt, ; bicarbonate of soda, £l2 10a to £l3; bleaching powder, £9 to £9 ss. per ton. NOTTINGHAM, April I.—There is not much Alteration in the cotton lace trade. Piain nets are still in only sl.ght request, and there is not much doing in cotton fancy goods. Mechlin quiltings ,neat a rather better demand. There is also r,ther more doing in silk quiltings. Black :ces •:nd tlar ,ws edgings are still sehing eely, flail no stocks of any di actiption of goods are showed to accumulate. ['here have been a few buyers in the market, but their operations are still limited. The hosiery trade is without any improvement. There are very few orders for export, and the home trade is Equally dull. Yarns are firm, at hteh priers. RITAL SENSATIONISTS!—Conceivo, sass the Saturday Review. the sufferings of Mr. Boucicault when he hears that, without his permisssion—withou, oven the scanty courtesy of a complimentary prk lace—a rival playwright has dramatised " Ivanhoe" or some other of Scott's novels, and has one scene in which Rebecca hangs for five minutes by a single hair from the castle's topmost turret, and another in which, down in the deepest dungeon and armed only with a hair-pin and a rusty nail, she car ri s on a long stage-combat, either with the Templar to save her own honour and the blushes of the audience, or with the Saracens to rescue poor old Isaac's epidermis from the gridiron of Front-de-bceuf. I