The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-22 00:00:00

CHRISTMAS LOLIDAYS.—HASTINGS and ST. LEONARD by the BRIGHTON RAILWAY.— CHEAP RETURN T ICKETS to these places will be issued on the 24th instanth T the trams leavinz Victoria at 2.5 aid 6.55 pm , and London -brid.e at 2.10 and 7.0 p.m., available for return on the SUS DAY or INtON DAY following. T ra i ns in connection with tl aese leave Kensington at 1.35 and 630 p.m. AG ENTS REQUIRED. THE Rt)YAL INSURANCE COMPANY is prepared to entertain applications tor Agency Appoint- Inents from gentlemer i havinz command of Eire and Life Business. he Royal has alwl vs been conspicuous for its liberality and promptitude in th e settlement of claims. Its annual Inco me is n ow over . X 500 , 0 01 And its funds in hand exceed 0 ),000 Transfers of Policies from other Companies received with put charge for Policy, - whatever the amount. Address. JOHN R. JOHNSTON, Secretary. Royal Insurance Company, 29, Lombard-street. BONNET'S SITJKS LYON.—Every Article of commerce takes Its title either from the inventor or laanufacturer, and the more perfect the production the eater ii the credit winch attache, to the originator. BONNET'S SILKS are said to be incapable of identifica tion in Engladd; but the fallacy of such an assertion is ex pos d by the very trade mark of the firm, as exhibited by Messrs. JAY, of Regent-street. The following. interwol 'en mark may be seen at the end Of each piece :—" 31anufact ure de C. J. Bonnet et Cie., i Lyon a Injurieux." Wear guaranteed. YIAMILY MOURN ING.—Messrs. JAY wou l d resp e ctfully announce that great economy is effected y purchasing Mourning at their establishment, 247 and 249, REGENT-STREET, their Stock of FAMILY MOURNING being the largest in Europe. Though Messrs. .Jay professedly keep the best articles for Mourning and Half-Mourning—at all times the cheapest—they supply a Complete Suit of Pomestic Mourning, for 2i guineas. MOURNING COSTUME of every description Is kept Ready Made, and can be forwarded in town or country at a moment's notice. The most reasonable prices are charged, an d wear ot every article is guaranteed. Tt/E LONDON GENERAL MOURNING WAREHOUSE, Regent-street (next Circus). JAYS'. ICINGLAND'S CONGRESS, in the K 4,1 CHRISTMAS DOUBLE NUMBER of FUN, on itiP.:,ONESDAY. One Penny. --- RO YAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GA.RDEN• tinder the Management at Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. W. Harrison. O n BOATING NIGHT (Satu rds y , Dec. 26), to commence With the Second Act of Balfe's popular opera, THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. After which, a Grand Christmas Pantomime, on a stale of unprecedented magnificence, entitled HARL EQUIN ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. D oo rs open at half - p ast Six —Commence at Seven. -------- R OYAL DR UR Y-L ANE. T HEAT-RE Edmun Falconer and Managers, 31_e ss ils B ..Chatterton. In preparation, to be pr.:du cd on BOXING NIGHT , and p l a yed dur w t h e holidays, a Grand Comic Ch r i stmas PAN- "g ritte i by E. L. Blanchard, Esq.. entitled and t h Oriental story of SINBAD THE ° T u lle go rg e o usly beautiful character of the decora- SA s, inclus i v e of more th All the u , ual amou n t o f scen i ca l e s and trans torma•i on wonders, are ensured by the fact6")rouf' their b e ing entirely design e d and for the most part xecu t e d by the celebrated artist, William Beverley, wh , se -Cininent services have been retained this Christmas exclu sively for the Theatre Royal Drury-Lane. The general :,ction of the Pantomime will be arranged by, and the whole pro duced under the direction of, Mr. Robert Roxby. Principal characters in the opening* by Messrs. Tom Matthews, Fitz jameg, J. Nevil:e, G. Weston, and Master Percy Roselle; _plisses Lizzie A ilmore, Rose Leclercq, E. Weston, Coventry, 43 ,- 0 . The Harlequinade will include the services of those popular Pantomimists (forming a double company), Harry Boleno and C. Lau i, Clowns ; Mr. Barnes and Mr. J. Morris, Pantaloons ; Mr. Cormack and Mr. S. Saville, Harlequins ; Madame Boleno and Misses Gunniss, Columbines. l'he masks, devices, and dresses, from designs by the humorously re nowned Dykwynkyn. The music selected and arranged by Air. J. Barnard. Machinery by Mr. Tucker and assistants. C;as Illuminations by Mr. .1. Hinckley. Properties by Mr. Needham and assistants. Dresses by Mr. Laury and Mrs. Lawler. The dances and action of the Ballet will be arranged by Mr. Cormack. Comic scenes, tricks, &c., invented by Messrs. If. Boleno and Cormack. Morning Performance of the Pantomime every Wednesday, at 2 o'clock. Box Office open from 10 till 5 daily. THEATRE ROYAL DRUR Y-L AN E. Managers, Messrs. Edmond Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. On BOXING NIGHT, Dec. 20. the Farce of A ROLAND FOIE AN OLIVER. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, G. Delmore, the Misses Heath, R. Leclercq, Murray. To conclude with the new Grand Christmas Comic Panto mime of SINBAD THE SAILOR ; or, The Seven Wonders of the World. Clowns, Messrs. H. Boleno and C. Lauri ; Harlequins, Messrs. J. Cormack and S. Saville; Pantaloons, Messrs. W. A. Barnes and J. Morris ; Columbines, Madame Boleno and Misses Gunnies. Prices as usual. Box Office open from 10 till 5 daily. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. BEL DE NIONIO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated on BOXING NIGHT, Saturday, Dec. 26, MONDAY, Dec. 28, and Every Evening during the Week. THIS EVENING, the performance will commence with a New and Original Farce, entitled THE LOST CHILD: 31e3s-s. H. Widdicombe, Shore, Garden, F. Charles Collett, Moreland; Misses Percy, Pauline Lezlerca, Wood, Mrs. Lee, and Miss E. Lavenu. After which, at Eight o'clock, BEL DEMON'IO, a Love Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from Stendhal's " Italian Chronicle , ," by Mr. John Brougham. Principal coarse ter by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles, Brougham, Emery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford, Collett, Sims ; Miss Kate Terry, E. Lavenu, Airs. Lee, and Bliss El sworthy. The Public are entreated to take notice that No Charge is made to the occupants of Boxes, Box-places, or Stalls, either for play balls or for the safe keeping of hats an , l cloaks, and teat the attendants in all parts of the house are forbiuden to receive any gratuities whatever. Box-office open daily from 11 to 5. Commence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL HAY NI ARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, A GAME OF SPECULATION. Messrs. Chas. Mathews, Cliipoendale, W. Farren, Rogers, Clark, Braid, Gordon, &c. ; Mesdames Fitzwilliam, Hill, Griffith, &c. Followed by THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Messrs. Charles Mathews, Ccmpton,Weathersby,&c.; Mesdames C. Mathews, Keeley. Griffith, &C. With COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. C. Mathews. And MY faUSBAND'S Commence at 7. ROYAL , ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. under the Manarzement of Mr. B. WEBSTER, will OPEN on BOXING NZGllT.—Amon;st the artists engaged are Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford, and Mr Charles '*Tathews; Mrs. Stirling, Mrs. Frank Mathews, Miss Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Cii,rles Mathews. On BOXING NIGHT, the new Comic Drama of the HEN AND CHICK.E,Ns : Mrs. Stirling in her original character. After which, a Comical Conglommtive Christmas Absur dity, by Henry J Byron, Esq., and entitled 1863; or. THE SENSATIONS OF THE PAST SEASON, with a Shameful Revelation oil Lad/ Somebody's Secret. New Scenery by Danson and Sons. Appointments by Mr. Ireland. Music by Wallerstein. Principal characters by Mi. J. L. Toole, Mr. t'.tul Bed) ord, Miss Cottrell, Miss Fauny Josephs, &c. And the BIRTHPLACE OF PODGERS : Mr. J. L. Toole in his origina.. l character. ATM THEATKE-RO YAL, ADELPHI.- TAl ' 4o te - Frooriotor and Manager. M. B. Webster. EVENING THE PRETTY HORSEBREAR ER. 3re " rs • J. L. Toole:Paul Bedford, and Miss Woolg - ar. 4.t 8 til e *, New Drama of LEAH : Bth weeic of Miss Bate man, u PR°+rted. by Messrs. Arthur Stirling, R. Phillips, Btl lin B n iai n r t,n: btephenson, Eburne; Miss H. Simms. and L. T T o o e o o l n e. elud e with ICI ON r.A.RLE FRANCAIS. Mr. J. Commence at 7. LEA 11.-EvERy NIGHT. itirltShS, ri ß ,th A' a r p E p lVi ea r aLE A H.-THIS EVENING, r nA'N. in the charactercharacterthe great Tragic Actress, Miss t h e unbouuded success with wh t i o ,L'. l ,AH. In consequence of na tion of the prif.cipal charge,,, hiss Bateman 's imperso ot L has been attended. new ive Act Drama that it will be performed EVEay ast?i, begs to announce INC+ until further notice. ROYAL STRAND ------------, 1 1 E A T R E. nranavr, Mr. W. l l. Swab Me Geo. THIS EVENING, MIRIAR'6 CII-Im}-1-11411. Honey, Parselle, Belf ord, Turner, Miss ik:.,, Wanders. aa.ville,ssrs. and Miss Followed by (25th time) PATIENT PENEL„ Return of Ulysses. Messrs. Honeyand Feato u N or, The Swanborough and Simpson. esciames After which, MT :NEW PLACE. Mr. A. Wood. Commence at 7. HE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN, ,, Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENtE, ailla be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGE:sIT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DA.7.—Morning, h. m.—Afternoon, 12h. 15m. ro-moßrww.-Morning, 12h. 42ru.—Afternoon, lh. 4m. The Weather—Sun Office, Dec. 22, 1863. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock Barometer-29.95. Wind—N.-W. ; fresh, and very fine. „ SUM c -t,, LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 22, 1863. The Emperor NI -,--- sen . PoLEuN's reply to front the French the address ofe is, t iu every essential respect worthy of the au t h or C o ngress, a noble project, Every even though it should prove to be a daydream. 4, _7ol7ord in this imperial : io p l p e ly m h ot 'a i s ve it p s o w : e i r g h o t i my U l he b asserts " is notions,it both at home and not rest true, but one a b r oad." s vague gener a li ty, with which his ADJESTY d oes a dding as he does, inn tinediately, therepthe appeasing of p assions, with concord n a ,`l d es i re nd:at contented, onion:' rind further '`ta I direct all my wishe s to the A moment when the great questio ns which divide governments and peoples will be paciflcally solved by EuropeanlB Arbitrament." By the utterance of which volun. teered assurances, not only to the Imperial Senate, but through the Senate of France to the Govern ments of all Christendom, the EMPEROR has, of his own free will, gone out of his way to endorse, to underline, to emphasise in the most distinct and positive way imaginable the pacific assurances so very recently addressed by himself per sonally, under his own hand and seal, to each and all of the European Sovereigns. And, not satisfied with even this as an intimation of his earnestly pacific intentions, the Emperor of the FRENCH recalls to mind the memorable words penned by NAPOLEON the Great, when in exile at St. Helena, that to fight in Europe would be to make Civil War ! May not this great thought," asks NAPOLEON 111. directly of his Senate, indirectly of all Europe, "May not this great thought [namely that to fight in Europe is to make Civil War], though an Utopia in the past, shortly become a reality ?" To that end, to the end if possible of rendering it so, of rendering this Utopian notion or the past, a sacred reality of the future, and that by an earnest effort in the present—the French EMPEROR, only the other day, propounded to Christendom his Arcadian proposition of a Grand European Congress : what our own Laureate, as a poetical political-day-dreamer sang of nearly a quarter of a century ago, in his famous poem of Locksley Ball, as "the parliament of nations, the federation of the world!" Rebuffed though the EMPEROR'S halcyon proposition has been in one or two quarters, in one of them, especially, mean ing of course our own, with a singular and a wholly uncalled-for discourtesy, the Imperial au thor of this great scheme of a peaceful Congress now contents himself with saying, in words evidencing on his part an imperturbable equanimity— "lt is always an honour to proclaim a principle tending to remove the prejudices of another age. Let us unite our efforts for this noble end, and let us only study obstacles to vanquish them, and. incredulity to confound it." The perturbation with which the coming Jour del' an was beginning to be looked forward to, will surely be in a great measure dissipated, even among the class of,the Alarmists, by the reiteration by NAPO LEON M. of his pacific intentions thus pointedly and emphatically through his Senate to all Chris tendom. _ There are few public gifts more appreciated by the population of a large and crowded city than parks arid open grounds. We all know how highly our London parks are valued by our toilworn arti • sans and busy trading community, while the popular affection for Hampstead-heath, Clapham. common, and many other such localities has often been loudly proclaimed on occasion of the many attempts made to encroach upon them. Such places of resort are inestimable privileges to those whose duty confines them to close and crowded shops, offices, or workrooms. At least one day in seven they can see something more than chimney tops or bleak walls. At least there are some spots within easy and uncostly reach in which, as one of our popular writers says of the miners emerging from their subterranean gloom, they can " breathe the air of earth, and look upon the light of heaven." The parks of London have been styled very aptly " the lungs of the metropolis," and although a great part of the vast city's inhabitants can only breathe in this sense once a week, yet there is no question that they conduce very much to the phy sical health as well as the social pleasures of the people. In many of our great towns, sprung up like volcanic islands from the fervid commotion of manufacturing or trading life, similar advantages are being provided for the people. A wise philan throphy looking forward as well as around, provid • ing for the need of the coming years as well as for rho wants of the generation that is passing, has in many instances chosen this form of expending vast wealth or embodying benevolent sentiments. If he who plants a tree for the benefit of posterity has a right to be called a benefactor of his kind, most assuredly ho who opens so delightful and healthful a source of recreation to those who are to come after us deserves our admiration and approval. Many of our wealthy men in the leading provincial towns have greatly interested themselves in any effort made towards opening parks and pleasure grounds for the people. Many of our large centres of industry possess such an advantage, and it is heartily to be wished that fewer were without it. Among those thus favoured is Birmingham, whose beautiful Aston Park has been the subject of much gratification to all classes of visitors, It is with considerable regret, therefore, that the public have recently seen some transac tions brought to light which appear to render doubt ful the right of the people to retain their park. It seems, according to the correspondence lately pub lished, that when the park was first opened to the public its proprietors were the members of a joint stock company, formed not indeed for purposes of profit, but with a view of securing the hall and park, which had long been coveted by the inhabi tants of the city. One of the earliest public intima tions of the scheme was a letter addressed to the Earl of SHAFTESBURY by Mr. RATCLIFF, then Mayor of Birmingham, in 1853. This letter was written with the object of obtaining her MAJESTY'S promise to open the park in person, end the advan tages which the park opened to the large body of artisans who thronged that thickly peeped district. This letter produced a subsequent communication from the Home-office, in answer to which the Mayor entered very fully into the matter. This reply, which was read at the meeting of the Bir mingham Town Council held last week, enables us to understand the original aspect of affairs. Mr. RATCLIFF tells the Home Secretary that the main capital of the company was raised by means of shares of 21s. value, issued to working men. Others were donation shares, the holders of which claimed ' , eithe r pro fi t nor pr i v i lege. The remainder of the c3Pital was to be raised by the issue of a third class of t e ar _ , es, which were chiefly tak e n by th e m iddl e Classes f or the sa k e o f o bt a i n i ng a vo i ce i n the mane g'lllent of the park. It was also provided i n th e ra deed of settlement that if the company should p rove unable to pm ed with the scheme, they mi g ht tender the whole to the council of the borough upon payment of the liabilitie s then existing. Such a clause appears to off a difficult;. Creditable solution to the present J It appears that the purchase • never was asked, with all the obtained, her having b een fully State, to open a place for Pomp and circnme wa s no general stance t i t :A n n e c e e e y e T o Y f IYor, unwilling, longer to be hingular recreation which in T a tie few pr y es e e a n ra t m . public naturally, that the very the borough should lose their treasured Il a H r t p to s e k on t t h h e e b.b. step of addressing Sir C. B. P - Jeet, in order that the matter might reach the Q uxtli The reply to this communication contained a veil:- merited reproof. It expressed her MAJESTY'S eel.. prise that she had not been correctly informed on the matter, and expressed her expectation that the citizens of Birmingham would not delay in securing the park as a public possession. This very natural and sensible advice does not appear to commend themselves to the good people of Birmingham. The royal hint has not been taken, and the members of the Town Council seem to be decidedly unwilling to fulfil the pledge partly given on their behalf by their former Mayor, whose acts and writings on I this m a tt er they never opposed or oo , tradicted. At THE SON, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBI?,II 22, 1863 the late meeting, too, resolutions were pro posed—one to the effect that the matter be re ferred to the Baths and Park Committee, with instructions to consider any proposal made for the purchase; the other was that the Council should take steps to purchase Aston Hall. The discus sion as to the relative merits cf those proposals was long and animated, occupying several hour 3, and engag i ng numerous speakers. One gentleman boldly declared that the town was compromised, and that after bringing the QUEEN to Birmingham and representing to her MAJESTY that Aston Park was for the people, it would be disgraced if the Council did not purchase it, let the price be what it would. His remonstrances failed in their effect, and by a preponderance of 29 votes the resolution for referring the question back to a committee was passed. We cannot but share the hope expressed by Sir CHARLES PHIPPS on behalf of her MAJESTY, that the wealthier citizens of the town of Birmingham will not suffer stich dis credit to fall upon their town, as the loss of this park would infallibly occasion. The sum re quired, though perhaps large for the purpose, is not large for a town like Birmingham, and it would ill become one of England's great manu facturing centres to be accused of parsimony. Their eloquent member, who is always ready to proclaim the right of the poor, had better road them a lesson. Indeed, if he sets them the ex ample by heading the subscription list it would be only consistent. Let Birmingham look to its laurels, or the general public will begin to believe the professions made on behalf of the working classes, especially as concerns the opening of this Hall and Park, to be no more sterling than their manufactures were wont to be regarded, and con sider them mere "Brummagem wares." Every now and then the readers of the public papers are horrified and disgusted by the account of some shocking act of cruelty, and some wanton case of malignity comes before them that seems more suited to the doings of fiends than the delibe rate deeds of men. A most frightful instance of barbarity has just been brought before us by the energetic efforts of that praiseworthy Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. It is most satisfactory to reflect upon the result of their la bours, and the amount of good that they do is almost incalculable. Still their services effect more benefit in so far as regards preventive measures, and it is of importance that the subject be consi dered in the light of adopting remedial ones. The knowledge that at any time a case of cruelty may be detected and brought to justice doubtless deters the commission of many crimes ; but when the danger has been braved and the act perpetrated, in spite of all warning and regardless of detection, it is neces sary to reflect a little on the nature of the penalties inflicted. It is very much to be regretted that for some reason or other the sentences on these mis creants and ruffians are never half severe enough, and do not in the hundredth degree come up to a fitting idea of retribution. The case here cited is most revolting, and indeed it is almost toe horrid to dwell upon. Two labourers were charged with maltreating a dog in the most cruel fashion. They were flaying it alive. Mr. PRATT, who prosecuted, very properly demanded the heaviest possible punishment, truly adding that this case was one of the worst ever brought into a court, It was proved by witnesses that the " prisoners were actually en gaged in cutting off the skin from a dog while alive." It was also shown that it was not till some disturbance overtook them that they desisted, and threw the animal into the sea. The Chairman of the Bench said that he had never heard a " more gross case of cruelty in all his experience." All this was very true, but the conclusion drawn from such pre mises is most dissatisfying. The prisoners were condemned to two months' hard labour. This is a mere farce of punishment in comparison with what such characters deserved. There should be some imperative infliction to such cases as these that no magistrate can alter, and from which there can be no escape. This will be the only sure and certain way to put down such a disgrace to humanity as the occurrence, much less the repetition, of these offences most assuredly is. In the first place there should be some disgrace attached to the penalty in flicted, to that the offender may not have the oppor tunity of treating the affair as a joke when the term of his incarceration is over. In the instance of the " garotters" the plan now in vogue of affixing to the sentence the penalty of flogging, appears to have been in some way successful, since far less is heard of the exploits of these nocturnal assailants, who had become at one time inseparably asso ciated with the perils and dangers of the night. When the attention of Parliament was drawn to the question, there was great opposition at men tion of the proposal for instituting flogging as an addenda to the sentence on these offenders. Doubt less the same objections would be urged were the energetic reformers of the law to propose a similar infliction on the perpetrators of the cruel deeds re ferred to. Notwithstanding such demurrers abound ing, it is to be earnestly trusted that there will be found discerning legislators to take up the cause when Parliament assembles. The near approach of this period is a source of satisfaction to many as well as Mr. COBDEN ; and they confidently look forward to the opportunity that will present itself to those desirous of amend ing errors, rectifying mistakes, and adjusting diffi culties in the working of the decrees of justice. It is a solemn and sacred duty to society to put a stop to such violation of all laws, both human and divine, as are infringed by the doers of the dark deeds alluded to. It is a grave responsibility which rests on our Legislature that our laws should be changed and altered until they are sufficiently strong to deter those who are evil disposed from the commission of such crimes. It would be a great ad vantage to the cause of civilisation, and a special service to the interests of humanity, if prompt and decided measures were adopted. It is a scandal to an age, with its vaunted improvements and its astounding discoveries, that there is no statesma❑ who can devise, and no legislators who can carry out, laws.that are potent enough to militate against barbarians and check the course of brutality. No pains should be spared, no prejudices should be allowed tostand in the way of the necessary change and imperative remedy. As BOILEAU observes of a faulty production-- Yowl foes sur le metier remette: l'ouvrage. Again and again should the effort be made, until it is an established fact that a strict and severe discipline is effected, and that a system of terrorism prevails that must in time create a salutary effect and produce a beneficial change. 'ln inflict a trifling penalty upon men so destitute of the commonest feelings of humanity and so dead to all sense of shame, and then to enforce far heavier penalties upon those whose offence is a trivial theft to which onlyaltm:::: driven by the pressure of want and the tiao demands of a starving family, seems most as a n i s s t justice. h l aa t tb w ot e l e l ri n et not ns do to rate property inc t on :niusju • that is to be protected ; that may point m ueh be very neceseary, b l khcneeloglwernleceaed.tgseocial regenerators, if i t is of rthatea worth ranks before it, A It is idle to preach about and the spread of educe known that the iwiy takes no cognisance of ttaihnoend diffusion becom Standard uge e f et once cruelty as a crime. It cannot be a misdemeanour or a folly; it is a grave and serious commission of wrong which the offender should be taught to consider of vital consequence to himself and his welfare, rendering him amenable to the severest possible penalties which his fellow countrymen can inflict, and exposing him to the wrath of a still greater and more terrible tribunal hereafter. When barbarities are committed that the readers who study savage life can hardly credit, it is time the country takes the alarm, and that from the benevolent and philan thropic who abound among us, some should stand forth to take up the case of cruelty in its worst features with a zeal that will be worthy of the cause, and with the spirit which will not shrink from any ordeal to which its efforts may be subjected. All improvements meet with opposition, but the pilot who weathers the storm is not stopped by the raging of the hurricane nor the roar of the waters, and the reformer who stems the abuses of his age must persevere through good and evil report until success attends his efforts, and after the happy issue of his labours he may behold the end that crowns the work. LITERATURE. The life of William Blake. By the late Alexander Gilchrist. Two Vols. Macmillan and Co. It was Glorious John who wrote in Absalom and Achitophel the witty and imperishable distich— "Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide." Of the miserable truth imbedded in the poetic am ber of which couplet, William Blake, the hero of Mr. Gilchrist's posthumous biography, is as surely one of the most extraordinary illustrations any where discoverable. There, too—in Blake's instance —the partition was not only thin indeed ; it was of the very thinnest And this thinnest of all possible partitions between the bounds of Genius and of Madness was, moreover, as it appears to us, perforated like the section of a honeycomb, like the framework of a colander, like the skele ton of a leaf. - Besides, it should be said, the pro portions in which the Genius and the Madness of Blake's nature or idiosyncraey stood relatively to each other, were, to our thinking, such, were so widely contrasting, were so painfully dis proportionate in the predominance of the one over the other, that when the two, i.e., the Genius and the Madness, through the medium of that thinnest of perforated partitions (still to em ploy Dryden's simile) became mingled together, the drop of Genius, so to speak, got to be so diluted in the surging ocean of Madness as to be hardly recognisable, save upon the subtlest researches being instituted by whet one may call the very chemistry of criticism. Already, since the recent publication of these two singularly hand some volumes—volumes the superb " getting up" of which reflects the very highest credit upon the publishers—we have remarked a disposition, on the part of a good many among the ablest of our contemporaries, to exaggerate in an astounding manner, in a manner to ourselves alto gether incomprehensible, the infinitessimal modicum of Genius in any way (at any rate to our limited apprehension) discernible in the intellect of William Blake. Born, this Pictor Ignotus was, it appears, in the November of 1757, though we should most assuredly have expected him to have been born rather within the month of March, for mad as a March hare he certainly continued to be, off and on, all through his eccentric life, until the time when (within three months from the completion of his seventieth year) he breathed his last on Sunday, the 17th of August, 1827. Seventy miserable, anxious years, moreover, they must have been to poor Blake—in the flesh. For, all through his career he was constrained to exercise the most rigid economy—sometimes even being driven to the direst straights from a lack of the mere bare ne cessaries of existence. \Ve have said, advisedly, that in the flesh, his life of seventy years duration must have been full of, and running over with, wretched ness, But—in the spirit—enjoying, in that way, the privilege of all madmen, he doubtless had many ex quisite consolations. To begin with,he—in common with another Pictor Ignotus, to wit, Benjamin Robert Haydon—to begin with, like Haydon, William Blake believed in himself. Nay—in this, better off than poor Haydon (who, by the way, had that direst of intellectual curses, the ambition of a great genius, with scarcely any particle of genius at all through the aid of which to realise his aspi rations)—better off than poor Haydon, William Blake not only believed in himself, but found others (infatuated people, as it seems to us, we must confess it!) who believed in him also. Varley, for one, and divers other clever men, abler and wealthier men than Varley. It should be pre wised at once, however, before we pen another syllable about the strange, erratic, bewildering hero of this biography, that we must not be sup posed to imply other than the fullest and the most cordial appreciation on our part of the rare and noble powers here applied to the task of writing Blake's Life, and of analyzing his various works, both pic torial and literary, by the gifted biographer—since unhappily deceased—that ripe scholar and large hearted gentleman, whose worthier privilege, as it appears to us, it was, to be the Biographer of William Etty the Royal Academician. The late Alexander Gilchrist, to whose indefatigable industry and as• siduous devotion to the task he had voluntarily selected as the last and crowning labour of his own life, we owe this highly elaborated Life of William Blake—the deceased Mr. Gilchrist has undoubtedly, in this posthumous work of his, offered another notable contribution to the art-literature of Eng land. Whatever our estimate of Blake, the hero of the biography, that at least, in honest truthfulness, must be here asserted in regard to this final literary achievement bequeathed to the public by Mr. Gil ehrist as the writer of so very singular a biography. Thanks, moreover, to the earnest co-operation in a labour-of-love upon a labour-of-love—thanks, we say, to the earnest co-operation of Mr. D. G. Ros setti and of Mr. W. M, Rossetti, in collecting toge ther the materials here compacted within the compass of the second of these two volumes— the literary performance now before us, as a whole, appears to us, as such, almost as satisfactory as though it had been watched, as a completed work, through the press by Mr. Gilchrist himself. What ever friendly devotion could do, to the end of per fecting Mr. Gilchrist's hardly completed labours upon this his "Life of William Blake," has certainly been done (Mr. Gilehrist's widow may securely laying that comforting " unction to her soul") by the affectionate zeal of men as gifted and as peculiarly well qualified for the task intrusted to them as the Messrs. .Rossetti. Returning, how ver, to the work itself as a work of art, we must frankly acknowledge that it is to our view the veriest puzzle among puzzles. To say nothing whatever of the man's " Life," look, we would simply ask, at his works—look at his pictures! look at his writings ! Here, of course, the very pick of those works, of the drawings and of the writings of William Blake, the very choicest among them are here, we say, as a matter of course, pre sented to us, manifestly with a view to command our admiration. Several among the ablest of our contemporaries, as already hinted, have forthwith, thereupon, at once, and quite in continently, gone into a sort of ecstasy of admiration. Paaens have been chaunted to the memory of the genius of Blake, to the memory of his genius both as an artist and (ye Gods !) as a Poet. For ourselves, w e have come to the examination of the " Life of William Blake, Pictor Ignotus" (and so be it, in perpetuo !)—we have come to the examination of these selections from his Poems (!) and other writings, and of these fee similes of the very choicest among his pictorial productions, with a judgment altogether unbiassed. And having now scanned the two volumes, these two splendidly appointed volumes, upon which the eminent publishers, the gifted biographer, the fair editress, and her two distinguished colaborateurs in perfecting so farce could be perfected the present poethum ous biography having now very carefully scanned these two attractive volumes of the Life of William Blake by the late Alexander Gilchrist, we, for one, certainly can affect no sort of admiration whatever for the mad genius of William Blake himself, assuredly none what ever for his doggrel verses, nor yet for the grotesque and often hideous productions of a pencil that seems to have had the capacity chiefly of jotting down, in black and white, so many fantastic nightmares! A sample or two of Blake's poetry will be quite sufficient for our purpose—as affording a perfect justification to every syllable we have written, hero, about it. Take this very amaz ing production, for example, from p. 33 : THE LITTLE BOY LOST. Father, father, where are you going ? O do not walk so fast; Spoak, father. speak to your little boy, Or else I shall be IJst. The night was dark, no father was there, The child was wet with dew ; The mire was deep, and the child did weep, And away the vapour flew. Can anything be—more distinctly—drivel? Or take the pendant to it— THE LITTLE BOY FOUND, The little boy lost in the lonely fen, Led by the wandering light, Began to cry, but God, ever nigh, Appeared like his father, in white. He kissed the child, and by the hand led, And to his mother brought, Who in sorrow pale, through the lonely dale, The little boy weeping sought, Or let us excerpt from page 40 the subjoined jingle : SPRING. Sound the flute! Now 'tie mute; Birds delight Day and night, Nightingale In the dale, Lark in sky,— Merrily, Merrily, merrily to welcome in the year. Little boy, Full of joy; Little girl, Sweet and small; Cock does crow, So do you; Merry voice, Infant noise; Merrily, merrily to welcome in the year. Little lamb Here I am ; Come and lick My white neck; Let me pull Your soft wool ; Let me kiss Your soft face ; Merrily, merrily we welcome in the year. Or again at page 57 the following : THE FLY. Little Fly, Thy summer's play My thoughtless hand Has brushed away. Am not I A fly like thee ? Or art not thou A man like me ? For I danne, And drink, and sing, Till some blind hand Shall bruda my wing. If thought is life, And strength, and breath; And the want Of thought is death ; Then am I A happy fly, It I live, Or if I die. About equivalent to this kind of poetry (save the mark !) are the choice exemplars here given of Blake's pictorial performances. Opposite p. 129, vol i., is a drawing of a spider's web, such as any school-boy, not an incorrigible dunce, might scrawl on his slate in a few minutes. In the same vol., at p. 137, there are a few wriggling lines representing a flame, and used as the tail-piece to a chapter. At p. 89 (do.) is a horrible hobgoblin of an old man, on all fours, that the before-mentioned schoolboy's younger brother might readily have pencilled on the margin of his copybook in a moment of hallucination or of indigestion. It bears—this crawling old man in scrawling outline—a ter rible resemblance, in its way, to the effigies of the patriarch Job, as represented by Blake in a series of frightful drawings that we suppose, from the elaboration with which they are all given in a cluster, are to be looked upon as very high up, indeed, among Blake's artistic masterpieces. Job himself, in these drawings by Blake, when he is at his worst, looking for all the world as though he had the measles rather than those boils Pet Marjorie used to be so thankful for not having, herseif, like the great Patriarch of old. In brief, the series of drawings by Blake in illustration of the Book of Job, are, according to our sense of the awful or the beautiful, very much, indeed, like a series of profane caricatures. The very archangels in the background of one of them—a cluster of three of which archangels will be found here reproduced in gilded emblazonry on the cover of the two volumes—look, as the phrase is, as like as two pins, to a row of double teeth, when looked at from a little distance. Let either of the two volumes be held up at the opposite side of a room, to any one who knows nothing whatever about the contents of the books, and we are perfectly well satisfied that the impression produced on the majority of individuals will be that the volume so displayed is some gorgeous work upon the science of Dentistry. According to our view of it—the work altogether is a mistake : the Life of William Blake, as we estimate it, not being worth the writing, his poems not worth the printing, his drawings not worth the engraving. As one of Cruikshank's funniest pictures, representing a landsman dreadful sea sick, had inscribed under neath it, " A very good man, no doubt, but a bad sailor;' so we should be, here, disposed to pro. nounce upon this Life of Blake an opinion some what similar, namely, one to the effect, that William Blake also, in his way, was a very good man, no doubt, but neither a Poet, nor yet a Painter. X JULLIEN'S BAL MASQUE. The mantle of Jallion pere seems to have de scended on his son, together with his popularity. The close of his concert season at Her Majesty's Theatre—the season itself having been an unques tionable success—was last night marked by one of the largest gatherings at a bal masque within our recollection. The re-arrangement of the theatre showed judg ment. In place of the two narrow straits on each side of the orchestra,where the proscenium contracts the space, and wherein on crowded nights the pro menaders have their bodily circulation impeded and their physical circulation accelerated by a squeeze, and an atmosphere recalling the " horrors of the middle passage," the withdrawal of the musicians entirely to the back of the stage, gave ample scope for passing; indeed it was the part chosen for much of the saltatory evolutions in front of the removed orchestra. The decorations of the theatre were tasteful, and the boxes well filled for such an occa sion, when the more ardent pleasure seekers prefer mixing in the revelry to looking on from " some coign of vantage." The inventor of the celebrated "Greek fire," Levi Short, died in Philadelphia on the 26th ult. MR. EDMONDSTONE, late lieutenant-governor of the north-western provinces of Bengal, has been made a K,C.8., and Colonel C. It. W. Hervey, of the Bombay Staff Corps, a C.B. MR. CONINGHAM, M.P., does not intend to retire from the representation of Brighton until the end of the present Parliament. THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES are in a ferment, remarks the Spectator, even the judges joining in public meetings to protest against the revival of transpor tation to any part of the continent. Even as it is, bushrangers in New South Wales plunder small towns with impunity, and the colonists affirm that wherever they may be sent the convicts will sooner or later make their way to the settled districts. It appears to be beyond question that if the plan be persisted in the colonists will resist, and it must not be forgotten that even the Cape Colony, which has not begun to talk of setting up for itself, rebelled against the introduc tion of prisoners. BACON'S FEDERAL PROGRESS MAP OF AMERICA. —Messrs. Bacon have just published another of be their excellent series of coloured American maps. The one before us professes more than ordinary intetest, cause it shows at a glance the exact position of affairs both i on t n Fe deral and Confederate States. Th ere is also given he same sheet a great quantity of usefut information, amongst which will lie found a record of important events during the war, extracts from the census, position of the American forts, North and Sxth, ec.;. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, DEC. 22. The extra Inman steamship City of Limerick, from NeW York on the 11th inst., arrived here at 3.45 a.m. to-day, with two cabin and 20 steerage passengers, but no specie. She landed four steerage passengers and proceeded at 4 a.m. for Liverpool. Her news has been anticipated. GREENCASTLE, DEC. 22. The Canadian steamer Hthernißn, from Portland on the 12th inst. arrived here at 8.10 a.m. to day. RUMOURED PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. LIVERPL , OL, DEC. 22. A private telegram received here by the Hiber nian, states that rumours of peace negotiations were current at New York. These rumours were considered very doubtful, but they nevertheless had influenced the markets. Gold, 49. FRANCE. REPLY OF THE EMPEROR TO THE ADDRESS FROM THE SENATE. PARIS, DEC. 22. Thy Emperor made the following reply to the address of the Senate, presented by the deputation yesterday : " Good is the sole motive power of my actions, both at home and abroad. I desire the appeasing of passions, with concord and union. I direct all my wishes to the moment when the great questions which divide Governments and peoples will be paci fically solved by European arbitrament. This wish was that of Napoleon when ho wrote from St. Helena, that to fight in Europe is to make civil war.' May not this great thought, an Utopia in the past, shortly become a reality ? It is always an honour to proclaim a principle tending to remove the prejudices of another age. Let us unite our efforts for this noble end, and let us only study obstacles to vanquish them, and in credulity to confound it." The Moniteur of this morning publishes the cir cular of M. Drcuyn de Lhuys, dated Dec. 8, the sense of which agrees with the analyses already published by the journals. BOURSE, December 21.—The arrival of the Eng lish funds with an advance of s has had no influence uu the market, which has again become heavy, and the business done shows a fail on the closing price of Saturday. ' t hrees, for the Account, which opened at 66f. 40c., are now at 661. 30c. Mobilier have also receded, being,now quoted at 1,022 f. 50c. Railway Shares have also slightly declined. The market closed as follows :—• 41 per Centa .. 04 05 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 35 Credit Mobilier 1027 50 Do. end month...J.o3J Bank Shares 3350 Credit 14 oncier 1220 Roman 74 Italian Loan 7l 40 Do. end month — New ditto Do. end month.... Russian Austrian Spanish Threes.„ 52 50 Rome Debt .. — Deferred RA-IL Orleanm Northern rAYB. Cash. Account. 970 970 965 .. 966 25 New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 922 50 .. 925 New ditto Geneva .. 498 75 Southern .. 675 677 50 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian fiurbard North of Spain Saragossa:. .. 612 50 .. 612 50 Ditto to Barcelona .... 302 50 .. 300 THE SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN QUESTION. HAMBURG, DEC. 19. The feudal party, the clergy, lawyers, and offi cials of Holstein are preparing an address in which they call upon the Prince of Augustenburg to assume the throne of the Duchies. Numbers of ex• functionaries in Schleswig and Holstein who have refused to take the oath of allegiance to the King are now residing in this city, and keep up the agitation, from which the Senate wisely holds itself aloof. It has, however, induced the citizens to vote a million of marks banco for the defence of the coast against possible Danish attack. The well-known writer, Baron Dirking-Holm feld, brother of the former Danish envoy to Paris, is now residing at Frankfort, where he warmly defends the cause of the Duchies against Germany. He has recently published a pamphlet, intended to prove that, in right of his wife, Christian IX. is the only legiti mate King of Denmark and the Duchies. There is little doubt, indeed, that if the Schleswig-Hol steiners felt assured of their national rights, they would unquestionably reject the Duke of Angus tenburg. It would be necessary, however, that the concession should be made regardless of the pressure of the priests and functionaries, who think all their privileges would be secared under the reign of the Pritice. The agitation in the north of Germany only hoists the flag of the Duke of Augustenburg to separate the Duchies from Denmark and to conquer Schleswig. The democratic portion only takes part in it, because it hopes that it will bring about another directed against the Sovereigns of the small German princi palities, and the reactionary system followed in Prussia. The Austrian troops, consisting of 170 officers, 5,500 men, and 400 horses, arrived here by way of Harburg. They are made up of 2 German regi ments, 1 Polish regiment, 3 Hungarian regiments, and 1 Italian regiment; 2 hussar regiments, 1 being Hungarian, the other Czechs, a chasseur regiment, and a battery of 98 guns. The town of Hamburg is to pay 100,000 marks monthly towards the sup port of the troeps. ROME. ROME, DEC. 16. The great event which chiefly occupies men's minds in the Eternal City is the step about to be taken by the Pope at the Coasistory which will be held on the 21st. His Holiness will then appoint bishops to the various dioceses in the old Pontifical provinces of the Romagna, the Marches, and Umbria. The new prelates are to be distributed as follows :—Cardinal Gaidi will be Archbishop of Bologna, Monsignor Clementi Bishop of Rimini, Monsignor Cardoni Bishop of Loretto, Monsignor Vitelleschi Bishop of Osimo, Monsignor Andreali Bishop of Cagli, the Abbe Micalet, of Malta, Bishop of Citta di Castello, and the Franciscan monk Pettinati Bishop of Nocera. N a poleou An opinion prevails that the E m p eror will use all his influence at Turin a appointment cause Ring Victor Emmanuel to accept the a po intment of o nly can show, the Pope, but with what resu lt im e omm ended by th© Emperor at the next Consistory. been recommended has s or Do Donnechas , the Archbishop , of Rouen, Alons Napoleon to the pope asCardinal, and will be nomi• Y as formerly an Orleanist, Hated to 1011 .`". ;n 1 , 4 , 9 co-operated w i t h the French Ambassador to cause the p opo to accept the decree expelling the Jesuits from France. He is now a devoted Bona. partist, and a Cardinal. The ex-Queen of Naples has retired to Albano, where she i n t en d s to pass the winter. T he King uf Bava r i a , while ill Rome, made every effort to re concile the King and Queen, but without success. It is rumoured that the French orroY at R ome will be increased by 6,000 men. = , srm it i o 643 t • HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, DEC. 21. His Royal Highness Princa Alfred left Osborne this morning, with Prince William of Hesse, for, London. Prince William proceeds immediately to Ger many, and Prince Allred will return to Osborne. Lord Stanley of Alderley has returned to Loild°' Funeral of the late King of Denmark. COPENHAGEN, Dec. 1 6 . The Berlinske 7idencle publishes the following "At the moment of going to press the mortal remains of King Frederic VII. are being convey ed from this city. The immense, imposing fun eral cortege moves in the calm, clear winter's day through our city amid the salute of minute gur l6, the tolling of bells, and the deep-felt grief of th e whole population. The city has put on mourning' All business has ceased. The houses in those streeta through which the procession takes its waY hung with black and white drapery, and fli es h e ' mast high. In many places there are inscriptions recalling the most important events in the lifo °f the deceased monarch. "All parts of the country have sent represero* lives to the capital to pay the last mournful honours to King Frederic, and at different points on th i e passage of the cortege a last farewell is raised whisei testifies to the affection borne by the p r esent gee ration to the deceased, and the gratitude with w hich the Danish people through many future generatioris will regard him." THE BETROTHMENT OF THE PRINCESS ANNA OF liEssE, daughter of Prince Charles, to the reigning O ra % Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, took place a few clays at Darmstadt. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge ali6 a large party will meet on the 4th proximo at Lino vi e l Park, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Derby. The Duke of Brabant, by the advice of his pbs:s, i• clans, will pass the worst portion of the winter in tile euvL ai rons of Nice. The Duchess of Brabant will r emain Brussels with her children. His Excellency the Earl of Carlisle and suite bO a been staying on a visit to the Marquis of Drogheda at ere Abbey, Monasterevan. The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland and &wi l l left Stafford House, St. James's, yesterday, for Cliefae73' near Maidenhead. The Marquis of Tullibardinc left town last even, in for Blair Athole, Perthshire, to meet the Duke 11,131 Duchess of Athole. We are informed the Duke is i n 8 Sl' low and precarious state. The Earl Granville has left town oil a visit to tb fr e Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, at Bowood Wilts. The Earl and Countess of Alalmesbury left town at the close of the past week for Heron Court, near Chris church, until the meeting of Parliament. The Earl and Countess Spencer and LadP sawn Spencer will remain in Egypt until the end of January' are then expected to go to Algiers and Spain on their Wsj.. nura eroh: home. It will be gratifying to the noble earl's friends to learn that his lordship's health has greatly ben° fitted by his visit to the East. The Earl of Mansfield arrived at Caen Wood, Hampstead, on Friday last, from Scone Palacehis residence, Perthshire. The Earl and Countess of Cardigan have recce entertained a parry of visitors at Dean Park. Amongst thi3 aYt company have been the Earl of Oxford, Lord Courte n Auru iral saa . Lord Loughborough, Lord and Lady Bruce, ° r / ' the lion. Mrs. Rous, Mr. and Lady Emily Ki n gscote, 1 -1 St. George Foley, Hon. George Craven, Colonel and irl°°l Mrs. Curzon, Hon. H. Forester, Mr. George P a y ne, G3PL and Mrs. De Horsey, &c. Louisa Countess of Seafield has arrived a t the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood, from Grant Lodge, The Right Hon. Sir George Grey is still s tay at his seat, Falloden, Northumberland. PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON.--The present Etnper °l , Napoleon ILL, some years ago, enjoyed a quite exception al popularity amongst the London cabmen, from always yar ing without a word whatever they asked of him I JUDGE'S CHAMBERS.—Mr. Sergeant Shee, haviog, been sworn in one of the judges of the Court of Queen's Bench, attended at the Judges' Chambers yes er day. His lordship will relieve Mr. Justice Mellor , who b 35 just returned to town after disposing of the assiz e busino's e at York, where he had been sitting in consequence of th death of Mr. Justice Wightman. There will be a daily 3 : t tendance at the Chambers until the Christma s recess.. f:'11 the Queen's Bench and Exchequer Courts the judges ' 31& ,,, 1 e the morning ; but in the other court Mr. Justice liet,tl''' sits in to Mn.JUSTICE SHEE NOT AN IRISHMAN.--In the biographical notice of Mr. Justice Shea which sp a peered in The Sun on his elevation to the Bench it is statd. that he was born in Kilkenny. This statement is, it , 913 ,; pears, inaccurate. His father was an Irishman, desconeei from . a family who had settled in the county of liiil' eWi n early period in life. He married a Miss Darell, prior to the revolution of 1668, but came to Engle° at : ' bee jiis tic ,s toa well-known family in Kent, and his son, now a gentleman connected with Kent that he address'; Shee, was born at Finchley, Middlesex, in 1804. I t sv ,, as t a ' e tioned Parliament with reference to Roman et"' meeting held at Penenden-heath when that ee°3tY,,,earil cipation. In his speech on the nomination-Mr fraltanrit Marylebone hustings, in 1847, he said, in reply t o . te but / that ho was an Irishman :—I was born at FO lll6 asp i re have yet to learn that it is a crime in an Irislll3l3ll toti, to enter that Parliament in which Sheridan, an d 61. :f tt- t 7,16 and Canning, and Wellington laid the foundation - country's greatness." f a° AN EPISCOPAL SWASHBUCKLER, GETTIN G -' ' se dine, A FIX AND OUT OF IT !—Bishop Polk, to Colonel Fremantle, is the finest figure in thoee P 5 1.5 0 ; A good looking man, with all the manners and affabilit Yore ' grand seigneur," tall, upright, and "looking rei tell , D tieg like a soldier than a clergyman." When he has 0 ; 1 ° 1° 7 1 ' yeti he intends to go back to his other profession. Il e 1.6 : cted Cathogo ..a_ the brave man, whereof here is a specimen incident es . 3 , 0 11‘ from him by our ingenuous Guardsman. / 318 „ )1P t E 4 ' kquitur, in a modest yet graphic meaner : "---` e " e y i ' 4l . ja it was at the battle of Perryville, late in the ° ve t' i'l-' t ° fact, it was almost dark, when Liddell's Brigade e''''' t 1 ,,eal action. Shortly after its arrival I observed a beclY ang le t° whom I believed to be Confederates, standing at 53 arrived this brigade, and firing obliquely at th e newlir:rt be troops. I said, 'Dear me, this is very ea d, and tis o f tel stopped ; ' so I turned round, Lut could find 11 03° . so 1 young men, who were absent on differe nt niessag'e'.s.fl'aving determined to ride myself and settle the matter. oat cantered up to the Colonel of the regiment which v ie ' a his I asked him in angry tones what he meant liY own friends, and I desired him to cease doing s° e . 0 , be He answered with surprise, 'I don't think th ere 31 . ..0 mistake about it; I am sue they are til ;',, o e i n rer ' Enemy I ' I said; ' why I have only just lett r s 3, n ame self. Cease firing, sir ; what is your nano l'' w h o are is Colonel —, of the Indiana; and Pr 3 Y , sir ' is hnient , you?' Then, for the first time, I saw, to my' ast °ll ~.. ,,e n t that he was a Yankee, and that I was in rear of a r e I b " - ` lit to of Yankees. Well, I saw that there was n . O ho o l? ._scut ior brazen it out; my dark blouse and the inercelaseLn 1 g to :him 04 befriended me, so I approached, g 4:115;t:oon show you wi -v: ', shoot Lt 000. shook my fist in his face, sir' atdown the ' i lx slowly o i nce.' I thentarook line, shouting at an authoritative manner to theX to cease firing i . , e the same time I experieced adisagreeable sensation, i'% my y a h i t sseirandCceaauseterfiedrinsfo: h k and calculating how - bull et ' many A screwing up ray '- sc ' 1 , shou. aers every moment. I wits afral'i would be between re 9 Paco until I got to a small copse, w be ,,,,,.. to increase my the spurs in and galloped back to my men. I il' 3- "., e put ,Colonel,en up to the nearest colonel, and said to 1 11 ': Colol have reconnoitred those fellows pretty cl osel y —end I find there is no mistake who they are : 7 011 ° ::e go t up and go at them." And I assure yo u, sir, Unit t,- slau ghter of that Indiana re g iment was the greatest.' las.ie e ver seen in the war." , HOLYROOD P ~ . PALACE,--It wai l afford genera ,eta'.. llhcation to the public to learn alat several valuaDiae additions to the collection of Royal p ictures at blolyree are about to be made by command of her Majesty. 13 cD : large collection in Hampton Court there are a good r-'" 1-) 1 . duplicate portraits of Royal personages et. nnected m oo u o , less directly with Scottish history, and on the attentioa ~: the Queen being drawn, through the proper of-qcial chanee',°,c to this circumstance, and the suggestion made that 50°_3.,.. these might be spared from the richly clothed walls of liall'a ton Court Palace to the more needful and not less Roy al ', I , t , appropriate Holyrood, her Majesty at once acquieecsetaill'al the propriety of the transfer, and exhibited Lunen Pe: ..0 . e ,. interest in the selection of the pictures. As the artreo 1 is t, otvea merits aro not yet completed, we cannot give any paintings, but may mention that both their number. 0. . their value are considerable. We believe that, c at°, tiun with the Homo Secretary and the Lord Adv_ead, through whom the necessary communications NVer%li:, the Mr. Forbes of Medwyn is entitled to the credit of be f t Fu ~it means of obtaining for Scotland this valuable mark o trio favour. Mr. Forbes has, we believe, taken m uch job ,. to in the matter, and his success must be very Brati l) _„ O .. all who feel an interest in our Scottish historical in L merits.--Scotsman. I dati thre tale vit! Nvitl cide as I port ing lesE Ala rat ret Wh nas tat a 1 WI nu cu bo lif in .£: 1:'