The Sun. — London, England, 1863-08-10 00:00:00

ERMAJESTY'S THE ATRE. GRAND EXTRA FINAL FEILFORMANCE FOR ',I;HE BENEFIT OF Mr. MAPLESoN.b will be performed , THIS EVENING (Monday), Aug. 16t Verdi's favourite Op IL IL a, TR OVAT ORE. Terminatinfv with the " Miserere." The following is the pow , riul cast :—Manrico, Sig. Giuglini; Il Conte di Luna, Mr. Santley ; Ferrando, Sig. isossi Ruz, Sig. Soldi ; Un Zini2 aro, Sig. Casaboni ; Azucena, Mdlle. Trebelli; Ines, Madame Corsi ; and Leonora, Mdlle. Titiens. After which, IVeber's celebrated Overture to OBERON. To conclude with the Second Act (the renowned Garden Scene) of FAUST. Margherita, Mdlle. Titiens ; Marta, Ta.ccani ; plephistophiles, Si Bossi ; and Faust, Sig. Giuglini. Conductor, Si,,. AIM Restrictions to Evening Dress not enforzed. Commence at Eight o'clock. Prices :—Gallery, 23 ; PR, 3s ; Boxes, 5s ; Dress Circle, 7s; Orchestra St Als. 12s tict ; Private Boxes from Half-a-Guinea upwArds : Pit Tier Boxes, to hold four, Two Guineas. Bo , -office of the Theatre (under the superintendence of Mr. Nugent) oren this day from Ten till S:x. Tickets als.) to be obtained, in the evenings, at the special offices open at the entrance of the Pit and Grand Tiers. NE" THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL— soIe Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE IRISH TIGER. After which, at Eight o'clock, a new drama, entitled THE HAUNTED MAN; uR, Tt,E GHOST'S ttARGAIN, in which will be exhibited Professor Pepper's adaptation of the Great Spectral Illusion. Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Phi:lips, Sefton. C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss IL Simms. Followed by a new Burlesque, entitled ILL-TREAT ED TROVATORE. ME ssrs. Toole, P. Bedford, It. Phillips, Ebnrne, C. J. Smith, Romer; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and Sara, and .hiss K. Kelly. Commence at 7. OYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manazer, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. TO-NIGHT WHILE THERE'S LIFE THERE'S HOPE. Messrs. W. H. Swanborough, Parselle, Voltaire, G. Honey; 31isses Ada Swanborough, L. Thorne, F. Hughes, Mandera, and E. Button. Followed by (loth time) THE MOTTO, "I'M 'ALL THERE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier, Clifton ; Mesdames Ada Swanboroug,h, F. Josephs, Maria Bimpson, Wallace, aria Jenny White. To conclude with KEEP YOUR TEMPER. Commence at 7. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN , " Containing the Latest SPORTING DITELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening of G. R. GIANIE, NEWS AGEXT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAT.—Morning, 11h. sm.—Afternoon, 11h. 40m. TO-XORROW.-Morning, —h. —m.—Afternoon, 12h. 18m; The Weather—Sun Office, Aug. 10, 1863. immosioll by many have been criticised most invidiously, And to some extent not unreasonably, would it have been thus looked upon—that is, had General FORM'S sword carved au Imperial Throne out of t he Presidential chair in Mexico, say for his Impe rial Highness the Prince NAPOLEON! In electing the Austrian Archduke MAXIMILIAN, Catholic , Mexico has secured fcr herself a Catholic Sovereign. And an Austrian Prince has been chosen thus by Mexico, at the very time when the Viennese Government is beginning to be regarded with the moat favour in Europe, among the more earnest lovers of, and believers in, Constitutional Monarchy —as the best of all forms of Government. To the disrupted Republican institutions of North America, the announcement of Mexico's transformation into an Empire, under the sceptre of his Majesty MAXIMILIAN 1., cannot possibly be regarded other wise than as "a heavy blow and great discourage ment F' Upon Austria itself the effect of this choice of one of her Archdukes as the future Emperor of a State conquered by the sword of France, cannot, on the other hand, but be one tending to draw Austria and France more than ever har moniously together. A result, that, o r b o v le io e u t sly T , very e propitious, at this moment, for the are among the principal reasons, y t w h e ou eo g o h ee th iv e e y th a a re t by no means the only reasons, why Emperor com y the complacency we are authorised to regard with Election, by Mexico, of the MAXIMILIAN. m l i p f t o r t t h e e: ofo ou t the of theßeturns rank an ko o f ofthe re Registrar-Genera The value and dry figures into matter for general consideration. The sound basis of fact which they give us affords a foundation to most important theories, and guards aiike against extravagant cre d u li ty or dange u rou s s indifference. We are enabled to detect the first symptoms of any great epidemic without waiting till the insidious foe is already in our midst. We can take those hygienic precautions which are of more value than medicine, in the same degree that prevention is better than cure. In the case of the recent prevalence of small-pox we were enabled, thanks to our accurate system of registra tion, to remark the increasing number of deaths as soon as the disease began to spread, and to take im mediate steps to enforce the practice of vaccina tion, to which modern society owes so much. The attention of the proper authorities would not have been directed to the real evil while idle gossips and lovers of horrible tales would have circulated fear ful rumours among the ignorant and timorous, thus increasing the danger by spreading the panic. As regards the births and marriages, too, the informa tion thus acquired is very useful. It affords a test of our national welfare, which is generally tole rably correct ; and the social economist can form a pretty good judge of the internal state of the coun try from its records. In England this year there is a considerable increase in the marriages on those of the same quarter in the last two years. It will be remembered that last year a considerable dimi nution in their number was perceptible in Lanca shire—a fact which it was not difficult to trace to the prevailing distress. It is therefore satisfactory, as vindicating at all events the prevalence of a hope for better times coming, to find them again increasing, the numbers for the corresponding quarters being 5,431, 4,887, and 5,245, the figures for this year thus nearly amounting to those for 1861. The principal increase is to be found in Liver pool and West Derby, which are furthest removed from the depressing area of the cotton famine, but it is satisfactory to notice a considerable increase in the numbers of Manchester and Salford. According to this evidence, Manchester, the best qualified to judge, does not despair of the fortunes of the county, end we trust it will not be long before such sanguine anticipations will prove to have been well founded. The high rate to which the emigration statistics have risen is doubtless due to the influence of the distress. In the half-year ending at Midsummer no less than 121,096 quitted the country, the greater part being bound for the United States, which, under existing circumstances, appears to be somewhat singular. The number for the quarter is 83,290, an amount sufficient, one would think, to satisfy Mr. FERRAND and the other advisers of wholesale deportation of the unemployed masses. The birth rate is satisfac tory, as showing the rapid rate at which our pepu latienissatseadily increasing. The number in the quarter w more than that of last year by nearly 4,000. In the metropolis alone there were nearly 26,000 in the thirteen weeks. It is not surprising to find a decrease in Lancashire and Cheshire. There has been so much said about the ill health of London lately, that the actual facts will be looked for with some interest. It seems that after two years of improved public health the mortality in creased last autumn, and has remained at a high rate ever since. The average for the three quarters ending in June is 2-191 per cent., whereas in the last nine months it has been 2 . 313 per cent., and it is singular that this increase is not confined to one part, but is spread throughout the country. We are not sur prised, for Instance, to find the manufacturing dis tricts suffering frlai an unusually heavy mortality, but the distress in the cotton districts has net happily affected the general trade and prosperity of the country sufficiently to render that an expla nation of the high death rate elsewhere. Neither is it due to one particular ailment. Measles, usually ranked among the mildest of zymotic diseases, has been remarkably fatal in the manufac turing districts, nearly one-fourth of the total of deaths being in some parts attributed to it, This is so singular that it is worth special attention. It is to be feared t ha: a rtduced state of the system consequent upon the distress of the last eighteen months has something to do with it. But while measles are killing people in Lancashire, small-pox is busy in London, 7 . 88 deaths being registered in It is time that the authorities should the quarter. see that the laws respecting vaccination are strictly enforced, and the importance of this precaution more fully shown to the ignorant prejadiced.and and Aale Vac MARSON, the surgeon of the Small-pea THERMOMETER. This naornlng ....................... 70 Thia_day at Two o'clock .................... 81 Barometer -30.06. Wind—S. ; fine. '146 ttt tc".4(474"6'`‘ sk44' , LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1863. Looking through the Mexican intelligence, has been of late, and, for that matter, still is, for all the world like peering through the tube of a kalei• doscope. With the same materials—as valueless, some of them, as so many little bits of coloured glass—the changes aro so total, so rapid, so very bewildering, and yet, each of them in turn, to all appearance so complete in itself, and in a manner so exceedingly symmetrical Even the momentary cr ises of anarchy—when, like chips of b ea d an d bugle, the political nonentities of the hour, there, have been recognised, as it were, in the very act of changing places—Mexico has presented to view a certain picturesqueness. JUAREz and his rivals, poussetting and balaneeing, to the right, to the left, hands across, and more frequently still at daggers drawn, up the middle and dawn again, have presented to view the Mexicans themselves, in the first instance, like the Christmas-eve company in Mr. FEZZIIVIGgs country dance "in various stages of affectionate grouping,"—sometimes it may be allowed, also, in various stages of grouping any thing but affectionate ! After wards came the tripartite intervention. England and France, with Spain, projecting at first a joint interposition be tween the belligerents. Abandoned, as some might say, left in the lurch, by her sometime associates in the enterprize, France perseveres as France is, under the like circumstances generally in the habit of persevering. And, although, in thus per severing, she alone remained consistent in re spect to the enterprize, France immediately learns that a change has come over the spirit of the dream of her Mexican project, so far as any change could possibly be effected in it, by the somewhat perverse withdrawal of all further sympathy on the part of one at least of her two intendiog associates. General FOREY lands with his expeditionary force, a force consisting of some of the picked troops of the first military nation in the world. The Mexican anarchists are expected by most observers—particularly by those numbering themselves among the more enthusiastic believers in French prowess—to succumb almost imme diately upon the advance inland of the in vading army of Frenchmen. Time elapses, however, and nothing whatever of the kind occurs. The republican soldiers of JUAREZ are still, there, in arms —unconquered. So far from gaining any brilliant success at the outset of his Mexican campaign, General FOREY appears to stumble into a succession of difficulties. One blow is parried after another. When they are not actu ally parried they are evaded. Ominous rumours come floating eastwards across the Atlantic. The French are announced to have been driven back— are stated at length (and that, moreover, pretty confidently) to have been actually defeated with a Sanguinary loss. Suddenly, however, after delay upon delay, these ugly and sinister misstatements are swept aside altogether as misstatements clearly and definitively demonstrated. General You; girding up his loins—all things being pre pared—advances inland at the pas d'charge. And, as NeeoLEON's good fortune will have it, immedi ately upon the very morrow of the perverse rejection by P ar i a of all the Imperial candidates without one solitary exception —come to the EMPEROR at Fontainbleau, is the very nick of time, the tidings of the Pell of Puebla. They come so suddenly, so unexpectedly, so opportunely for the Emperor of the Feee cu, t coup de theatre. txtthey have all the effect of a Afterwards, almost as abruptly after a littlef in the ermediate pause, come tidings also of Mexico itself. Thevictoriousgeneral, Fall ofthe city of in one of the ea rliest of his exulting despatches is ' in the indulges i n a cer t a in amount of hyperbole, that descrip tion of the popular enthusiasm of the Mexicans on the arrival of the victors, a description e adorning that very dispatch of General l'oßEY's t o the T Minister at Paris. This triumphant d lmperial "patch of th e French General talking, as may be remembered, of the the French soldiers as " crushed" under Weight the bouquets and garlands showered dow n u m them from the windows, as they marched into the captured city. to shouts of " Viva l'Emp ereur, vine l'imperatric e !" Now, as the ver y latest n ews from Mexico, come ringing to us acrcss the Atlantic, other cries of " Viva l'Empereur !" But, this time, the EMPEROR whose name is th us ardently greeted by the Iklexicans is—not NAP°• taken at the inquest upon the per- The evidence and Ilunstanton LEON El 1 It is the newleeelected Emperor of sons who s eere e kl , Mexico—the Emperor MAXIMILIAN I! The Aus lcvurrence of similar casualties. killed at the accident on the Lynn lomacy has been be done to avoid the ilwaY Proves that much may Irian Archduke, whose brows Dip striving to measure for so many crowns, has at last The Rector of South cotton had the most imperial am on g them all fitted to on both sides was very mach stated that the land used for them—it yet remains to be see n whether or not to bullocks, and horses, and ee grazing Sheep, u had tee his own entire satisfaction. on the line. "He considered 11 the ice seen heifers fence In some respects, it may be admitte d at once Mr. —LOMFIELD'S land f rom the r ' separating that the selection is eminently satisfact or y . Had fee tly inadequate to ke e p the bulloe a k ilwa emy was per the lin e. " any scion of the Imperial dynasty of All the other evidence comb crated this state' France been elected to the throve of Mexico , the went, that ent, and therefore it will b e ev id ent choice might have been, would almost ceetainly ,: r ue is to be feat in immediat e ly rectify:Dg l,i" Lava been, looked upon with jealousy. It Woul4 ito.t LW' td Ahdl .w -/-1 4;,, Xetaatila cination Hospital at Highgate, who is well quali fled from his experience to give reliable information, found that when small-pox attacked persons who had not been vaccinated it killed one iu every three, whereas vaccination reduced the mortality to one in 15. The virulence of the disease is abated in every way, but it is important to know that much depe n d s on t h e manner in which the operat i on i s perfo rme d . W e have to thank these records for collecting much valuable information, and for en abling the publio to guard against many dangers to the genet health. THE SU great part of the evil consists in delaying necessary work, and also in disputing which party is to undertake the necessary alterations. It Would seem that the company, in one pl a ce, had put up a fence four and a half feet high, owing to the representation of one who farmed the land along the side of the railway where the accident hap and put up barriers wherever a pened. What a pity that theynydiadninmoatlsgoweorne, thus rr i p n prevent v ; e n a t t the the possi bilityeam ei k ely tonf accidentb a e ny grazing and oc cu time the expense could not be so considerable as to prevent the oc3upiers of ground in th e immediatethe vicinity of railways from themselv es undertaking task. The fact is, that both sides are to blame, and surely this terrible misfortune will make them bitterly regret the ill-saved trouble and expense of putting up fences. The obloquy of the affair will rest with the neighbourhood in w hich the accident happened ; but exactly the same blame attaches itself to all parts of the country, wherever trains are passing to and fro, and the same shortsightedness prevails in making the need ful preparations for guarding against such events. Besides those killed, many persons have been seriously injured, and perhaps for the remainder of their lives will have cause to regret their ill-starred journey on this occasion. It was to an excursion train that the accident occurred ; but there does not appear to have been any of those mistakes and blunders made that two years ago caused so much confusion in this special kind of traffic, and created so much trouble and suffering in so many quarters. The sole cause of the disaster was the want of due foresight on the line, and that indifference is shared by so many persons residing in the neighbourhood of railways that it is to be earnestly hoped that this sad occurrence will serve as a warning that they will turn to good account. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE POLISH INSURRECTION. CRACOW, AUG. 10. An engagement took place on the sth at Polichnia, in the Palatinate of Lublin, in which the insurgents under Krysinski and Wagner were victorious. They pursued the Russians for a distance of two miles. The loss of the insurgents was considerable. Russian troops aro moving from Janow and Krasnystaw. The Poles are likewise concentrating their forces, and a battle is expected in consequence. GERMANY. VIENNA, Auci. 10. Twenty-one German Princes, including the Grand Duke of Baden, have accepted the Emperor of Austria's invitation to the proposed Congress at Frankfort. According to the programme of the Emperor, the proposed National German Assembly would be composed of an Upper and a Lower House. The former would be composed of the German princes, the latter of members of the Diets of States belong ing to the German Confederation. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. MARSEILLES, AUG. 9. The Messageries Imperiales steamer, with the above mails, passed off Messina on the Bth, and is expected to arrive at this port on the 10th inst., with 69 passengers, 1,054 packages of sundries, and 980 bales of silk. FRANCE. PARIS, Monday, AUG. 10. The Emperor arrived at Pin on Saturday last. An immense co ncours e of people, more than 10 0 , 000 , were present , who cheered his Majesty. The greatest enth us iasm was manifested. Le Pays observes that, alchough the Archduke Maximilian has hastened to express his thanks to the French E m p eror f or his Imperial Majesty's con gratulations upon th e Archduke's nomination by the Junta as Emp eror o f M ex ico, his Imperial Highness fails to indi ca t e , even b y a single phrase, whether he consents or not to that nomination. It is very satisfactory to notice that the distin guished members of the French medical profession are raising their protest against the disgraceful practice of vivisection. The conduct of the EMPEROR in this respect has been most praiseworthy. Some time since a deputation from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals waited upon him, and explained to him the great extent to which this pernicious custom was carried on in France. The EMPEROR promised to give this subject his attention, and he has done so. If the result be that this cruelty is put down, a great benefit will have been conferred on the people by the prohibition. Nothing demoralises or deteriorates the mind more than such revolting acts of cruelty. Those who are callous at first become downright brutes as they proceed, and those who at first shrunk back become hardened at the repeated efforts. • The excuse given, that such a course is necessary, is quite absurd. The fact is that those who uphold such practices do it for the love of the thing itself. They delight in experiments, and it is in the cause of scientific discovery that such tortures are inflicted, and not for the sake of the benefit of their fellow-creatures. The perpetrators of such acts profane the name of the humanity they profess to serve. Nothing can justify the infliction of such atrocious cruelty, and the best answer to the untenable reason, that it is done to gain knowledge, is that right cannot come from wrong. The worst is that the same animal is kept for fresh experiments instead of being killed at once after the tortures inflicted. It would be only right to render such revolting acts impossible by the stringent exercise of the law. It is a disgrace to any civilised country in which such deeds are enacted, No one possessed of right feeling in or out of the profession but will raise his voice against the practice, and no ono has yet clearly defined or fully proved any known benefit that has ever been gained to society by such horrors. The ignorant are taken in by the dogmatic assurance of the learned that it is neces sary, but those skilled torturers would find it very difficult to make the• experienced believe in the necessity. It is not altogether an idle belief that encourages one to hope that the worst is over in this horrible practice, and that a stop will bpeedily be put to the practice of vivisection that has so long continued in France. When one of the chief members of a profession sets his face against any custom, a great step is gained in the right direction. Instead of proving beneficial to the young surgeon to witness such displays, such indifference to brutal torture, and such wanton cruelty, it must render him very unfit for his vocation in after-life. To deaden all sympathy with suffering, and to harden the mind to all consideration, is not at all the way to fit one for walking through the world amid scenes of trouble and anguish. wherever "mankind and misery are found." The thousand ills that flesh is heir to are sufficiently trying in themselves to endure without the professor of medicine, who issent for to minister to the afflicted, regarding all pain as a joke, and considering the intensest torture a good opportunity for making observations. Such would be the result it i esultsof highlyt e continuous n e u c o r ue credit tpor of a ct l i l coo vivisection, a con cerned in putting down this disgraceful practice in France. No one who strtves to assist in this good cause will ever regret the trouble that has been taken, or consider that he has not conferred a benefit on all concerned. L' Opinion Nationale regards the occasion as highly favourable to the development of a Franco- Austrian alliatce. Le Constitutionn e l speaks of the enthusiasm with which the Emperor has been received by the popu lation throughout the whole of his recent trip into Normandy. BOURSE, Aug. B.—The market continues heavy, but without any further material decline,—Threes, for Dt o p e r . en the sd: eamnreotCents... :t h.. :. Account,.. .. . 3 being 366,576. 4_ _ _ .. 45 n 5 0w at 67f. 3 0 c . Railway Share Market without animation. The marke closed as follows: Do. end month.... 3 per Cents ...... 67 45 Credit Mobilier....loBo Do. end month... 1075 Bank Credit Bonier ....1245 -- RA IL' Italian Loan 7l Do. end month 7l New ditto Do. end month 72 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes., 53 Home Debt Cash. Account. Orleans ....... 1017 50 .. 101 7 Northern ********** 992 50 .. 987 50 New ditt0...... - • • --- Lyons and Mediterranean 1022 50 .. 1020 Geneva ..... uthern ......... . 690 .. 695 So Western Eastern ... Sardinian Austrian 425 426 25 Lombard North of Spain .... 543 75 .. 542 bp Saragossa 6BO .. 680 .. Ditto to Barcelona • • 352 50 .. 35 7 50 ' THE GERMAN REFORM QUESTION. VIENNA, Aug. 6. The TViener Zeieung of this day contains the following important official communication :---a Hi s Imperial R o y a l Apostolic Majesty has addressed autograph letters, bear in g date Vienn a , July 3 let, to all the Sovereigns who are members of the Ger man by which a nd to the Senates of th e f our thatFrank fort),person, the t ed re - organisation in o r d er w hi c h letters the German Confeder ates are invited his re l l Majesty the Band, w hich shall be in accordance with the spirit of t he times, ma y be tak en into con sideration. His Majesty proposes that th e F e d eral city of Frankfort s hall be the p la ce of assembly, and that the first s ittin g shall be held on the 16th of this present month of A ugust." The letters in q uestion, which are 35 in number, questionio m eet were written some three or four weeks ago, but s i g ned until Friday they were not last. The tiiissive addressed to the Bing of Prussia was presented by the Emperor in person, as his Majesty wished to give his Royal relative a special proof of his good will and kindly feelings towards him. A person who saw the two Monarchs meet at Gastein says that the King of Prussia had tears in his eyes when he shook hands with and embraced the Emperor, and that the Austrian Monarch also displayed some emotion. wh e n the King called on the Emperor the two Sovereigns retired to a room which was once occupied by the late Archduke John, and there they remained alone for about a quarter of an hour. The King was accompanied by his adjutant, M. von Man teuffel, but the Emperor of Austria saw nothing of M. von Bismark until he returned his Prussian Majesty's visit. On the 2d inst. Francis Joseph of Austria diced with Frederic William of Prussia, and his Majesty's next neighbour was the in fatuated author of the Prusso-Itussian Convention of the Bth of February. Soon after dinner the Aus trian monarch returned to the villa which the Countess of Meran had placed at his disposal, and in the course of the evening M. von. Bismark went there to pay his respects. lam not aware whether the Prussian Minister Was admitted to the presence of the Emperor, but it is probable that he was not, as his stay at the villa was very short, and he ap peared to be much out of temper when ha left it. His Majesty, who is said to be in excellent spirits, returned to Schonbrunn late in the evening of Tuesday, the 4th inst. A POSTHUMOUS OPERA BY MARSCH:NER is about appear at Vienna. CHARLOTTE CORDAY'S POLITICAL WORKS, in cluding all her letters, edited " par un Bibliophile Nor mand," is the title of a small volume just published. TWO NEW DRAMAS are announced by Victor Hugo: " Torquemada" and " The Twins." GouNoD, it is said, has finished another opera, which is first to be performed at the beginning of the winter. season in Paris. It is called " Miretlle ; the text by Mistral and Carre ; the scene in Spain. A NOVEL BY M. ALEXANDER DUMAS will soon appear embodying the leading facts of Lady Hamilton's life, and called " Emma Lyons," A PART-SONG BY THE VETERAN METHFESSEL, now in his eightieth year, bet, unhappily, deaf, was exe cuted recently at Brunswick in his presence, with every imaginable German musical ovation. The 16th instant is likely to be a very important day for Germany, for on it the Emperor of Austria, who is at the head of the German Bund, will in person bring forward a project for its reform. Men in office profess to know little or nothing of the intentions of his Majesty, but a foreign diplomatist has given me to understand that the following are the principal features of the Austrian project of reform :-1. Germany to have representative insti tutions like those possessed by Austria; 2. The German Parliament to consist of two Chambers— the upper one to be a House of Peers, the lower one a Chamber of Deputies. The Upper House to be partly composed of persons nominated by the different German potentates, the Lower House to be formed of deputies elected by the representa- THE prize of the French Academy for Eloquence for the year 1861 has "L'Eloge de Chateaubriand" for its subject. THE RENAN-LITERATURE is swelling up in proportion to the demand for his work, there having ap peared among commentaries upon it very recently :—" Re- P °nB e a M. Renan sur la ' Vie de Jesus,' " par un Libre Croyant ;'," Le Livre de M. E. Renan sur la Vie de Jesus," par M. Laurentie ; "Lecon preliminaire a M. Renan sur la s V u i r e 1 ( ? y e:: s ci , e " jp6asru A d b , E b . 6 rn M e B . t M R i ti e n h a o n n ; i: Granges. par ‘'Un p e re tch ri a o p d p e e s e Mr. Wimus, the painter of the "Death of Chattertcn" (lately diapoeed of at the sale of the late L. A. Egg, R.A., for £800), has recently returned from a long sojaurn in Italy, where he has been engaged in making studies of the people and scenery of the southern half of the Peninsula. Mr. HEIM ERT'S first fresco in the Westminster Palace is within a week of completion. The subject is ,c M os es giving the Law to the Israelites." It is said to have been most elaborately studied, the painter having sought to indicate even the season of the year and the hour of the day in which this great delivery o f t h e law was ac complished. WEBER'S ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST NIGHT OF HIS CEERON—In one of those delightful and pathetic letters to his "Lim)," which relate his English experiences— " My best beloved Caroline I" be says, "through God's grace and assistance, I have this evening met with the most c ol ,. plete success. The brilliancy and affecting nature of the triumph are indescribable. God alone be thanked for it When I entered the orchestra, the whole of the house, which was filled to over - Awing, rose up, and I was saluted by huzzas, and waving of hats and handkerchiefs, which I thought would never have done. They insisted on encor ing the overture. Every air was interrupted twice or thrice with bursts of applause. . . . So much for this night, dear life, from your heartily tired husband, who, however, could not sleep in peace till he had corumuziated t 9 YQ 4 Aew cd - Z iung, Q nht tives of the people in the various German states. 3 . Only those Austrian and Prussian provinces which are part and parcel of the federal territory to have a right to send representatives to the Ger man Parliament. 4. The method of proceeding in federal matters to be simplified. 5. An efficient executive power to be established. Such power either to consist of the representatives of Austria, Prussia, and Bavaria, or of the representatives of Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Saxony, Hanover. As the ex-Minister Count Bernstorff de clared that Prussia wished to exclude Austria from the Germanic Confederation, it is not likely that the Austrian propositions will find favour at Berlin, but the German nation so ardently desires a reform of the Bend that it will hardly be inclined to attend to the special interests and bye-ends of the Prus sians. Ia my opinion, a well-organized, powerful, and independent German Confederation would be a great boon to the world at large, as it would be a guarantee for the maintenance of the representa tive system in the Federal States and a safeguard against the encroachments of France on the one' tide, 422 of Fou s ig cn tha 14122! AUGUST 10, 1863. 90 95 10 20 RECOGNITION OF REVOLTED STATES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—The effects of the non-recognition of the Confederate States will be a war lasting for years, carried on by the invaders in a barbarous manner, disgraceful to humanity and Christianity, the con tinued starving of the operatives of Lancashire and Lyons, and the injury of Europe as well as of the belligerents. Why does England not recognise the South ? Not from any feeling of right and justice, but from the cowering of Earl Russell to the braggadocio of the North and his pandering to the Bright and Cobden party at home—and that after his own statement that the North are lighting for empire and dominion. That the Confederate States are united as ono to win their independence, we have ample proofs in the fact of man, woman, and child being ready to die for their country, and in Mr. Vallandigham's address to the men of Ohio, that he did not meet a single Unionist in the South. There was not the same unanimity in France when Lord Palmerston recognised the empire, which was right, as the greater portion of France willed it, though Earl Russell dismissed him from the Foreign-office for so doing. In France there were Republicans, Orlean- ists, and Legitimists. In the Confederate States all are Confederates. Earl Russell recognised the kingdom of Italy. Why, then, should not the South meet with the same treatment? The English people are lovers of fair play, and cannot refuse to our own flesh and blood what they have granted to foreigners. X.Y.Z. Hudson's Bay Monopoly and Canada, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—The Canadian Parliament meeting on the 13th, no doubt the proposal of the Duke of Newcastle, through the Under Secretary, to renew this gigantic monopoly, and grant to an irresponsible private company three-fourths of British America, will be there fully con sidered. Canada, some years ago, having sent Chief Justice Draper to oppose the renewal ofthe monopoly—exclusive privileges and lease of the Company—desired to have the country opened in colonies under the Crown, with equality to all, and exclusive privileges to none, which Lord Derby's Government intended doing, and which ought to be done. Lord Bacon says all monopolies are against the principles of the British Constitution, and are, therefore, illegal. Parliament has never sanctioned the grant of Charles the Second, which has always been questioned, though, if confined to the shores of Hudson Bay, as intended by the merry monarch, few would demur. Parliament this session has abolished the rights of fishery on our coasts and rivers, though granted some years ago by Parliament and the Crown because they were injurious to the public good and public interest. Why, then, should the Duke of Newcastle attempt to continue a monopoly that has been the incubus of British America, preventing.settlers on our priaries and driving them to the bordering ones of illinesota and Wisconsin ? People will not settle under the rule of an irresponsible private company when they have our colonies and the western states free to them. So unpopular and despotic is the sway of the Hudson's Bay Company at the Red River settle ment, where the chief population lies, that the people have risen and released a prisoner against the will of the company's servants. The Duke of Newcastle is a " know-nothing" of the opinion of the Canadians and inhabitants of the Red River settlement, and must have been misled in offering to renew the monopoly. TRAVELLER. Proclamation of the Archduke Maximilian as Emperor of Mexico, The following intelligence, dated Havana, July 22, is published by the New York journals : The French transport Milan arrived here yester day from Vera Cruz, having left there on the 13th inst. She brings dates from the former capital of the Republic to the 10th inst., on which day, in the city of Mexico, was proclaimed the Empire, the Archduke Maximilian to fill the throne. The Council of Notabilities being duly assembled by a previous convocation declared unanimously, with the exception of two votes, that the Mexican nation through them selected the empire as the form of government, and through them proclaimed the Archduke Maximilian of Austria Emperor of Mexico, and that should his highness refuse the throne thus offered him, they implored the Emperor of the French to select a person in whom he had full confidence to occupy the throne of Mexico. The public proclamation of the empire of Mexico took place in that city on the 10th inst. A courier was immediately despatched to Vera Cruz, and the Milan sent off with the news. It is stated from Vera Cruz that all the towns along the route of the courier made immense manifestations of joy on the promulgation of the news, and at Vera Cruz 100 guns were fired in honour of the event. THE NEW EMPEROR OF MEXICO.—The Moniteur of yesterday says The Minister of Foreign Affairs has received from the Consul-General of France at Havana the following telegram, trans mitted from Queenstown on the Bth of August Havana, July 21—By the Milan, which arrived to-night, I learn that on the 10th of July the Arch duke Maximilian was proclaimed Emperor by the Assembly of Notables held in Mexico.' " A FEEBLE REJOINDER, Perhaps the feeblest rejoinder ever penned by mortal man has just been written by the RTv. F. D. Maurice, and published in last Saturday's spectator. It is evidently supposed to be an answer (!) to the inimitable sarcasm given in this August number of Fraser by T. C., i.e., Thomas Carlyle, called (i n Latin) " The American Iliad in a Nutshell"—an er ,i_ gram at once quoted by us from Fraser into our own columns. As a specimen of F. D. Ws (that is, as we have said, the Itev. F. D. Maurice's) notion of smartness in the shape of repartee, here is his very amazing rejoinder copied bodily from the Spectator of Saturday : AN EPISODE IN THE " ILIAS (AMERICANA) IN NUCE." DIALOGUE. H. (an English gentleman of great respectability, a mem ber of the Carlton) —My dear fellow, you know I wish per dition here and hereafter to all Yankees; but dd you not begin this internal row? S. (a Southern agent)—Of course we did. Everything was at stake. A scoundrel of the old country scattered books up and down the States against Gigmanity. li e preached the doctrine of the old Scotch ploughman, ,4 A man's a man for a' that." He canted about a judgment of God which camp upon the French nobles of the last cen tury for denying that doctrine. Certain fools at the North fancied he was in earnest. They believed what he told them, and said that they should act upon. Idiot parsons went so far as to say that the words we use on Sunday about a person who was put to death as a slave being the corner-stone of the universe were true. What could we do ? It was a matter of life and death. We raised the shout for Gigmanity. We affirmed that slavery itself, not the person who suffered the death of the slave, was the corner-stone of the universe. These are our watchwords. In this cause, and not, as Gm° foolish friends of ours re preseut, to vindicate our right to hire our serval is for life, we have drawn the sword and flung away the scabbard. H. (much affected)—Brave and noble men! Champions of our interests al well as your own I You have not been exactly the friends of England. But we feel that we may embrace y' as ours. Let us join solemnly in drinking the toast, "The Cause of Gigmenity and Slavery, civil anc: re ligious, all the world over." [Blip, hip 1 hurrah ! and exeunt.) F. D. M. Viscount Palmerston still lingers in town, though it is understood the knotty political problem of the day was solved, so far as our Government is concerned, at the last Cabinet. Indeed our Foreign. Secretary has already taken his departure for his shooting-lodge in Scotland. The Premier, the Home Secretary, the Duke of &menet, and one or two other Ministers still hauut the metropolis. ARRIVAL or A AIELBOURNE Green's ship Lady M e l v ille, 1,000 tons, Captain Gimblett, from Melbourne, may 6, passed up channel off Ply mou th on Saturday night. She brings about 120 passengers, 10 oz. of gold on freight ; 374 bales wool, and a quantity of tallow, hides, horns, copper ore, &e. Seven of her passen- Sqol4oo 'eIYIEY4 37 Y /PUQ.b9Atvn§9.ol4oY piE4t: RtV /A4l. t T_cry enuTat HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, August 7. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, at tended by Lady C. Barrington, Lieut.-General the Hon. C. Grey, and Major Cowell, embarked in the Royal yacht Fairy to be present at the Cowes Regatta. Count and Countess Gleichen dined with her Majesty in the evening. AUG. 8. Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princess Louise, yesterday inspected the new schools at Whippingham, no w in course of erection by her Majesty's command. The Hon. Mrs, Bruce and Lieut.-Colonel Du Plat were in attendance. AUG. 9. The Queen, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Alfred, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold attended Divine service this morning at Osborne. The Rev. G. Prothero officiated. The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting and the Household were also present. The christening of the infant Princess, daughter of his Serene Highness and her Grand Ducal High ness Prince and Princess Leiningen, took place at Osborne this afternoon. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. W. L. Onslow, chaplain and naval instructor of her Majesty's ship Racoon. The sponsors were her Majesty the Queen, her Imperial Highness Prince William of Baden (re presenting her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Baden), her Royal Highness Princess Helena (representing her Royal Highness the Crown Prin cess of Prussia, Princess Royal), and his Grand Ducal Highness Prince 'William of Baden (repre senting his Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Coburg). Her Majesty the Queen named the child Alberta Victoria Sophie Marie Ernestine. There were also present their Serene and Grand Ducal Highnesses Prince and Princess Leiningen, their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise, Prince Alfred, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Prin cess Beatrice. The following had the honour of being invited : Count and Countess Gleichen, Lady C. Barrington, the Hon. Mrs. Brace, the Hon. Horatio Stopford, Lieut.-General the Hon. C. Grey and Mrs. Grey, Colonel Sir T. M. and Hon. Lady Bidduiph, Lieut.- Colonel and Mrs. Du Plat, Sir James Clark, the Rev. G. Prothero, Major Cowell, Major Elphin stone, Mr. Buff, Dr. Hoffmeister, Miss Hildyard, Mademoiselle Bauer, Commander Simpson, Dr. Minter, and Mr. Truscott (Royal) yacht. Departure of the Queen for Germany, Her Majesty's steam yacht Fairy, Master Com mander D. Welch, arrived off the dockyard, Wool wich, on Saturday, under special orders to the Commodore Superintendent, Sir Frederick Nicolson, and commenced coaling from the Hebe hulk. The Fairy will go down to the Arsenal this morning, and berth alongside the T pier, where the arrange ments have been completed in anticipation of the arrival of her Majesty and the royal family for em barcation at low tide to-morrow evening, at 5 o'clock, as originally intended. The Queen has expressed her desire to take her departure under the strictest privacy and seclusion, consequently all applications for admission to the Arsenal to witness the embar cation have been rejected. Orders have been issued by the heads of departments, instructing the police to arrest any persons belonging to the establishment or otherwise who may be found loitering in or about the thoroughfares during the time appointed for the Queen's arrival. The clerks and others occupying offices in the vicinity of the avenues lead ing to the pier are also warned not to approach the windows. The orders are to be enforced under pain of summary dismissal, and as any breach of the in structions is ordered to be rigorously dealt with, it has been suggested by the departments that the gates of the establishment shall be closed for the day at 1 p.m. The proposition to that effect is now under the consideration of the Secretary of State for War, and will not probably be issued to-day. A half-holyday, moreover, is usually granted on such occasions, and is, therefore, not without prece dent. The only persons who, it is stated, will be in attendance on thedeparture of the Sovereign.wiii be Viscount Sydney, Lord Lieutenant of the county ; Col. Sir David Wood, acting Commandant at Wool wich ; Sir F. Nicolsou, Commodore of the port; and Capt. Gordon, Superintendent of Stores. Ministerial Movements. Viscount and Viscountess Palmersto❑ will leave Cambridge House to-morrow for Walmer Castle, Kent, for the autumn, The Earl Granville, the Lord President of the Council, came to town on Friday night from visiting the Earl and Countess de Grey at Studley Park, near Ripon. The noble earl will leave to morrow for Woolwich, in order to accompany her Majesty to Germany, and will remain in attendance on the Queen till her return home. The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, with Lady Mary Wood and family, has returned to town from Yorkshire for the wedding of Miss Wood, intended to be solemnised to-morrow. The Earl de Grey returned to town on Saturday morning from Studley Park, his seat in Yorkshire, where he has been honoured by the company of the Prince and Princess of Wales. The Duke of Newcastle has been passing the week at Ryde, Isle of Wight, and the Right Hon. Thos. Milner Gibson has been yachting off the island. It is understood that the Prince of Wales will pay Leeds a special visit. There is a rumour that Prince Napoleon is about to pay the King of the Belgians a visit. Lord. Brougham is staying at Brougham Hall, where Mr. and Mrs. Brougham are residing. The noble and learned lord is in excellent health, and will not return to France until he goes to Cannes for the winter. Lady Brougham remains in town. The Duke of Brabant has left Brussell for Scot land, where he proposes to enjoy the sport of grouse shooting. The Duke of Somerset, the First Lord, and other leading officials of the Admiralty, will visit Portland to day on their way to pay an official visit to Devonport. Mr. Romaine left the Admiralty on Friday to join their lord ships. Rear-Admiral Eden and Rear-Admiral Lord Cla rence Paget returned to town on Friday evening from Ports mouth. Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir.E. Grey came to town on Saturday from Portsmouth. The Duke of Leinster left his house on Carlton House-terrace on Saturday last for Carton House, near Maynooth, Ireland. The Duchess Dowager of Beaufort and Lady Edith Somerset have arrived in London from Badminton. The Marchioness of Exeter and Lady Victoria Cecil, owing to the indisposition of the Marquis of Exeter, whose detention in town by illness has been already an nounced, have returned home from Switzerland. It will afford his lordship's friends pleasure to learn that he is much better. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, who were on a visit to the Earl and Countess de Grey at Studley Park, near Ripon,,during the visit of their Royal High nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, have gone to Jer veaux Abbey, accompanied by the Count and Countess Danneskiold, _ _ The Earl and Countess of Essex have left Eng land for a prolonged stay on the continent. The Earl of Wilt on w ill c ome to town on Wed nesday from Cow es , I s l e o f Wi g ht, for the purpose of being present at the marri a g e of his youngest dau ghter, Lady Alice Grey Egerton, with Mr. Dalrymple Des %lux, which is appointed to tak e place the follo win g da y . The Earl and Countess of Yar borou g h purpose to leave Brocklesby Park, Lincolnshire, in the cour se o f t h e present week, for Scotland. MAIL STEAMERS DUE FROM AMERICA THIS WEEK.—The following vessels are due at Liverpool this week, with the mail s from America, viz, :—Th e Cit y of London, with dates from New York to the Ist inst., may be expected to reach Queenstown to-morrow (Tues day) ; the Nova Scotian, with dates from Quebec to the Ist inst., may also be expected at Greencastle in the course of to-morrow; and the Cunard steamer Africa, with dates from Boston to the sth inst., and from New York, via Halifax, to the evening of the Gth inst., may be looked o r Q., m4 Et9p C9APQ ci*gclay ivxt, Journey of the Prince and Princess of Wales• EDINBURGH, Saturday. Yesterday forenoon the Price and Princess spent two hours and a half in driving through the town • and visiting Holyrood Palace and the (Lstle. Their royal highnesses and suit© left the Douglas Hotel in two open carriages and pair. All the morning a large number of people hung about in front of the hotel in the hope of seeing the royal pair, and after the carriages came to the door the multitude rapidly increased. On coming out their Royal Highnesses were loudly cheered by the crowd as their carriage moved slowly through. On reaching Princes-street the royal party drove east by Waterloo-place, Re gent-road, and Abbey -hill to Holyrood. Here the Prince had the opportunity of showing the Princess the palace of his ancestors on the Scottish throne. With the apartments of Queen Nlary the Princess appeared deeply interested, and examined with much attention the relics and memorials of the Stuarts that are preserved there. The royal party also visited the picture gallery, with its long line of kings painted to order, and with its more recent accession of some genuine royal portraits of the 15th century. They were next shown the apart ments of her Majesty Queen Victoria, and lastly the beautiful but ruined chapel. Their Royal High nesses were conducted through the building by Sir William Gibson Craig, Lord Clerk Register, Mr. Matheson of the Board of Works, Mr. Gough, Keeper of her Majesty's rooms, and others. Their visit occupied about three-quarters of an hour, and as they came oat they found a large con course awaiting them, attracted by the tidings that they had gone to visit the Palace. There was no force to keep order, except the ordinaryguard at the Palace and a few police ; for an escort of the 3d Hussars which had come up from Peirshill was turned into the new stable-yard, the Prince having signified his wish not to be so accompanied. But there was no need of military to control the people, whose only fault was their too loyal eagerness to get near the carriage. Without any difficulty the crowd were got to open out and let the carriage pass towards the Queen's drive, and many enjoyed a view of the Royal pair to their hearts' content, and raised a hearty cheer to signify their pleasure and welcome. On entering the drive the carriage took to the right towards St. Leonard's, and many of the people immediately ran the opposite way, ex pecting that the circuit would be made; but after having gone up that part of the drive which skirts Salisbury Crags the carriage turned, repassed the Palace, drove up the Canongate, High-street, Lawn market, and Castle-hill to the Castle, followed in these populous thoroughfares by great and applaud ing crowds. Their Royal Highnesses reached the Castle about 20 minutes before one, and alighted in front of the officers' barracks. They were received here by Major-General Walker, C. 8., commanding the dis trict, and Major Hyde Page, aide-de-camp, also by Lieutenant-Colonel Lockhart, 92d Highlanders, and Fort Major Macdonald. They were first taken to Mons Meg Battery, and shown the splendid view of the New Town and shores of the Firth of Forth —a scene which, in favourable circumstances, is equalled by few in point of variety, richness, and beauty. The day was, however, very dull, the sky being heavily clouded, and the distant view ob scured. It was the only day for many weeks that the fine prospect was not seen to advantage. The attention of their Royal Highnesses was drawn to the curious old gun, Mons Meg, so long regarded as a giant among pieces of ordnance. The contrast the lumbering and broken-winded monster shows with the Armstrongs of modern date seemed much to amuse the visitors. The Prince and Princess were then shown the regalia of Scotland, and the various other ancient jewels belonging to the Scottish Crown exhibited in the dark apartment in the tower, end were next conducted to the apartments in which Queen Mary resided when a prisoner in the Castle, and where she gave birth to James VI. of Scotland. Finally, they were shown through the armoury, and left the Castle about 20 minutes past one. At the gate they were again hailed by a large assemblage, and as the carriage drove slowly down the esplanade their Royal Highnesses received a perfect ovation, crowds pressing round the carriage and cheering and waving hats and handkerchiefs with great hearti ness and delight. In the narrow thoroughfare of Castle-hill there was a perfect blockade, and the Royal carriage did not escape from the crowd till on reaching the Assembly-hall a deour was made . by Castle-terrac e , an d t h e R oya l party now drove' rapidly round the Castle, returning by Princes street. In East Princes-street a crowd bad gathered, and the windows were thronged with ladies and gentlemen, in the hope that a visit would be paid to the National Gallery, but, although the Royal party passed on, the spectators were fully gratified by the view afforded them. The Royal party returned to the hotel about half-past 1, ap parently much pleased with their visit, and having gratified many thousands of the inhabitants by appearing among them and so graciously responding to their acclamations. Shortly after their Royal Highnesses had returned to the hotel rain began to fall, and by two o'clock it poured down in perfect torrents. Up to the hour of their departure—half- past three o'clock—the rain was incessant, and fell in such density that all who were exposed to it were in a few minutes wet to the skin. The tonsequence was that the streets were almost cleared of spec tators, although many took available points of shel ter, in the hope of getting a glimpse of the Prince and Princess as they passed. A great crowd bad been expected, and preparation was made for it by the presence of a strong military force. Their services, however, were completely un necessary, and they had to sustain one of the most thorough drenchings that it may ever fall to their lot to experience. The Hussars had their overcoats attached to their saddles, and gladly received the order to put them on, but the Highlanders had come upon the ground quite un protected, and appeared in rather a woeful plight. On the platform at the station the band and a guard of honour of the 92d Regiment were drawn up. The Lord Provost, the Sheriff, the Major- General and Staff, the commanding officers in garrison, and several railway directors were also on the platform. The Prince, on leaving, cordially shook hands with the Lord Provost, the Sheriff, and Colonel Lockhart, and a beautiful bouquet was presented to the Princess' by a young lady, the daughter of one of the directors. The Royal train left Edinburgh precisely at half-past 3, and ar rived at Larbert at 4.16, where the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway engine was replaced by one belonging to the -Scottish Central, and the train transferred from the charga of the directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Company to those of the Scottish Central. Their Royal Highnesses arrived at Perth at 26 minutes before 6, and were received on the platform by the Ent of Dunmore, with whom their Royal Highnesses cordially shook hands and entered into conversation, and also by a guard of the 74th Highlanders and 3d Hussars, the Lord Provost and magistrates of Perth, the Sheriff, and several of the railway directors. The Prince and Princess then entered the carriage which was in waiting to convey them to the British Hotel, which had been selected on account of its proximity to the railway station, and as they drove along they' were received by the crowd with loud cheering- The afternoon was showery, and this made the assemblage of spectators much smaller than it would have been had the weather been fine. About half past 6 o'clock the Prince left tho hotel and paid a visit to Lord Stormont at Scone Palace. To-day, at 20 minutes before one o'clock, their Royal Highnesses left Perth en route for Balmoral- An immense crowd accompanied them from the hotel to the station, where a guard of honour of the 3d Hussars and the 74th Highlanders were drawn up. On the platform, where a largo number of ladies and gentlemen had assembled, the Prince and Princess were received by the Provost and Magi strates of Perth, the Earl of Dunmore, the Sheriff, and others. As the train left the station, their Royal Highnesses were loudly cheered. The ReYa l party left Perth exactly at 12.40, and would iirr ivt ' at Balmoral short l y before 8 o'clock. ALOYNE, Aug. 8 . The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived to Aliggeldie at lAgf-pfot 5 o'elcek, 411 well.