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to IN ALM ANACR, 1864. One Penny. r on Thursday. ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT -GARDEN. -U n der the ManagementHa ot rriso 31 . iss n. Louisa Fyne and Mr. W. THIS EVENING, for , the 2d time, Bilte's new Opera, BLANCH DE NEVERo : Miss Louisa ryne, Miss Anna Hiles, miss Emma Heywood ; Messrs. W. H. Weiss, H. CorH, A. Cook, A. ;_•t. Albyn, C. Lyall, J. Rouge, and W. Harrison. To conclude with THE MARRIAGE OF GEORGETTE. Bliss Thirlwall and Mr H. Cord. Conductor, Mr. A. Mellon. Doors open at half-past Six—'Ammence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY - LANE. Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. TIIIS EVENING the :^eriormances will commence with the Farce ot BEAUTY OR THE BEAST. Principal cha racters by Messrs. Addison, G. F. Neville, Barret, Spencer, and G. Weston ; Mrs Edmund Falconer and Miss H. Lecicrq. Atter which, Lord Byron's Choral Tragedy, MANFRED. Messrs. r helps, Ryder, Rayner, 31,agreson, Ward, Spencer ; 1U i+s Eburne, Miss E. Atkinson, Miss Leclercq, and Mrs. E. Falconer. Vocalists—Miss Poole, Miss 'litter, Miss Cicely Nott, Miss Heywood, and Mr. Swift. ' To conclude with an Original Farce, by W Brough and A. Ilalliday, entitled MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS: characters by Mr. J. Neville, Mr. G. Weston, Mr. Warde, Mr. J. Marris ; Mrs. C. Melville, and Miss Hartieur. THEATRE ROYAL DR U R Y-L AN E. Managers, Messrs. Edmond Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. Great and continued success of the production of Lord Byron's MAN FRED, generally acknowledged by the . pres and the public to be one of the most comp lete and leg i t ima te triumphs of a combination of artistic capabilities pe nted on the stage for many years. THIS EVENING,: her Majesty's Servants will perfor m- BEAUTY Oft THE BEAST. `"After which, commencing at a Q ua rter before Ei ght o'clock, Mortals I Lord Byron's Choral Tragedy ot MA NFR ED. Manfred, Mr. Phelps; Abbot of St. Maurice ;, a M r. ,R te y t d a e i r ne ; r a ) , Chamois Hunter, Mr. A. Rayner ; Manuel ( in Mr. Neville ; Herman (a young Domestic Messrs.the Caste of Manfred), Mr. G. Weston • Retainer , Weaver, Kirk, Wilson, Smith, and Eccar 3 r i d r. s. wa l Arimanes (Ruler of the Evil A gencies Des per (Spirit .Verde o ; r ., t k a r l i s e 1 (Spirit of the Ether), Miss Emma M ay wood , .O n d( he (Spirit of the of the Stars), Miss Louisa Hitter; ma of Memory). s Waters). Miss Poole ; Cicely Nott ; Auster (Spirit Meitgerson ; IN übes (Spirit of MeserioCth6 ( Spirittorm), Mr. Swift ; Mi ss A tarotu (spirit of the Earth), Mr. Ryder; Titanos (Spirit of the the Shadow of Night), Mountains), Mr. G. Spencer Lache-is, and Atropos—the *Neinesia (Goddess of Vengeance), Mrs. Edmund FalColler ; Clotho,. Emma Atkinson, Miss C. IVeston, Three Destinies —alias Phantom of Astarte, Miss Rose and Miss Murray ; M. Weirdh b ur n e l ; v o E r l v d i , l Leclerq ; the Witch thef the Agencies and Spirit Spec t A r e l s ') s of 3l i t s h s e M, Messrs. T. Matthews, urJ. low,J. Morrisrs. Melville, J. D a rk,Cors.c Miss Sieymour, and th 3l e is La d ie s -11ar an d Gentlemen of the Choir and the B a l le t. Order an,dCtiaracter of the scenery. Act L —Scene 1 : Studio and (roth,ic Gallery in Manfred's Castle. Scene 2 : a Precipice and &tamers near the Summit of the JIM , - Scene 1 : The Chalet of the Chamois frau. Act 11 . --,_ Pass. Scene 2: The Steinbach, s a Bunter and Alpin e Waterfall, in one of trio L ower Valleys among ownLirtatfir ofAltPhe Cliffs, the haunt of and Overhanging The sunbow's ra ys still area the torrent with the Alp " of heaven, and roll the sheeted silver's waving ma ny hue s column o'er the craw's perpendicular." Scene 3: The Snow capped Summit of the Jun,gfrau, by Moonlight. Scene 4 : T h e Hall of Arimanes in the Nether World, painted by Mt. Danson and Son. Act 111. —Scene 1 : Terrace and Exterior of Castle. Scene 2 : The Turret Studio, the Magian's Mid night Daunt. :Amok and Illumined by a Thunderstorm, and finally Destroyed by Flashing Bolt and Crashing Avalanche. Last Scene : A Snowy Alpine Waste or Wilderness. Pro gramme of the Songs and Choruses —Act I —Scene 1 : Mys tical Responses of Viewless Spirits to the Magian's Invoca tion. Ist Solo, "Mortal to thy bidding' bow'd," Miss Emma Heywood ; 2d Solo, "In the blue depth of the waters," bliss Poole ; 3d Solo, " I am the rider of the wind," Mr. Swift ; Septette, Misses Poole He - wood, Cicely Nott, Mr. Swift, a n d . y Chorus; The Impre cation—Solo, "When the Moon is on tile Wave," Miss Cicely Nott; Solo, •` Th ugh thy Slumber may be deep, ,, Miss Poole ; Chorus, by the whole Choir. Act. ll. cene 3 : Solo and Chorus, " The Captive Usurper," Miss Cicely Nott and Chorus ; Sony, " The Ship sailed on, the Shin sailed last, ss "Mi ' Emma 'I leywood. Scene 4—Grand Choral Hymn of the Evil Agencies, " Bail to our Master, Prince of Earth and Air," solo verses by Mr. Swift, chorus by full Choir ; Ju bilant Chorus and accompanying Dance, by full Choir and the Ballet. Act lll.—Last Scene : Grand Dual Chorus ot Good and Evil Spirits, by the Principal Singers and Full t hoir. The general action of the tragedy arranged by Mr. Phelps. The incidental dances designed and directed bi Mr. Corrnack. Costumes from designs by R. W. Keene, Esq., and from Elaxman's Diustratioas , f Ciassical and Mythological Conceptions. Machinery by Mr. J. Tucker and Assistants. Gas Illuminations by Mr. J. llinckley. Spectral illusions by Mr. Cox, under the direction of Mr. Telbin. The whole of the entirely new scenery designed and principally painted by dir. W. Telbin, assisted by his son, Mr. 11. Telbin. 'I he Hall of Arimanes painted by Mr. Danson and Sons. The increased orchestra and present arrangement ot the music, orif!inally composed by Sir Henry Bishop, under the direc tion of SI r. Barnard. The choir under the direction of Mr. Charles Beale. To conclude with the Farce of MY HEART'S IN THE lIIGHLANDS. Private Boxes, 10s. ed., 215., £1 lls. lid., £2 2s , £3 35., and £4 4s. ; stalls, Os. ; Dress Cir cle, 45. ; First Circle, 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; pit, 25.; Lower Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, dd. No half-price. Box office open trom Ten to Five daily. Doors open at half-past Six, commence at Seven o'clock. Stage Manager, Mr. Phelps. THEATRE ROYAL HAY M ARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, SILKEN FETTERS: Messrs. Chas. Mathews, Chippendale, W. Farren, Howe, &c. ; Mesdames C. Mathews and M. Harris. Followed by THE GOL DEN FLEECE. Messrs. Charles Mathews, Compton,Weatheraby, ; 3lesdames C. Mathews, L Keeley. Griffith, &c. Followed by COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. C. Mathews. And LITTLE DAISY. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. BEL DE MONIO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated Eve: y Evening until further notice. THIS EVENING, the Comedietta, by IV. Gilbert, entitled UNCLE BABY: Mess s. Widdicombe, J. G. Shore, Charles; kiss P. Leiercg, and Carlotta Leclerai. After which, at Eight o'clock, BEL DEMONIO, a Love Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from Stendhal's "Itaiian Chronicle ," by Mr. John Brougham. Principal charac ter by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles, lirouei4m, Emery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford, Collett, Andrews, Sims ; Miss Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, Alm Lee, and Miss Elsworthy. Doors open athalf-past 6—commence at 7. T EAH.-EVERY NIGHT. NEW THE ATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHL — Sole Proprietor and Manatrer, hir. R. Webster. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE TRAGEDY QUEEN : Mrs. S .irling. kt 8, the New Drama of LEAH : Bth wee of Miss Bate man, supported by Messrs. Arthur Stirling, It. Phillips, Bil lington, Stuart, Stephenson, Eburne; Miss H. Simms, and Mrs. Billington. To conclude with THE IRISH TIGER : Miss K. Kelly and Mr. ttephenson. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. R TRIS EVENING, MIRIAII'S CRIME. Messrs. Geo. -.PneY, Parselle, Belford, Turner, Miss K. Saville, and Miss Ver which, MY NEW PLACE. Mr. A. Wood. /,4 3 c,finclude with FAINT fIEA.RT NE VER WON FAIR k• Mr. Leigh Murray, Miss Buf ton, Commence at 7. 11: 11:P ' THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN,' cont at aka be tinV, the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE ' 4 very Evening of N o q• Et. GLIGNIE, NEWS AGENT, on Hyde-park. MG , R Tins DI WATERora AT LONDON BRIDGE.it- 0 410 Rnow.-lion li ngs Ih . 16 12h. 12m.—Afternoon, 12h. 3Gm. 2m.—Afternoon, lh. 27m. The Weather.— --- B ull Office, Nov. 23, 1863. ra m ,„ -- Thi s day at Two o e t„; °m RTRE.. Barometer .. ............... 50 Wind—South-West • s ' ol . 0, and fine. (--ex - • egt SAM LONDON, MONDAY, Nov. 23, is 3 The diminution of General LEE'S main army to t extent of the 30,000 men, who were known tohavo been suddenly withdrawn from it, clearly meant, according to the last despatches received sev eral days since from the American seat of war, that the Confederate Chief was, in serious earnest, at it again! The intelligence now received confirms this instant impression. It more than confirms the impression. It explains, in regard to the latest movements of the confronting main armies of the North and of the South, everything that in any way can be said to have needed explanation. The key to the whole mystery, if mystery there was, in this withdrawal from LEE'S army of no less than 30,000 of his troops —thereby caus i ng t h e ma i n army o f the South to be temp orar ily ou t num b ere d by their c onfronting antagonists, the Northern main army na_der : o r be found in these new tid inthgesetzt: may be there recognised in fact at a glance by those again who read run n i ng . G enera l LEE has bewildered and outwitted his opponent. As in the old Stonewall" days, w h en th a t re d ou bt a bl e soldier at the biddin g of his great Leader, General ROBERT LEE, world ;suddenly disappear from everyone's ken, together with several thousands of those southern vetera ns , were ever ready under his banners to vd ev i e l r .s he listed— disappearing as suddenly in this though the ground had swallowed them way , as though JACKSON and his army ha ' a nl u —as taken a header and dived into the solid earth, to tr somewhere, probably where they were the leastup ex pected, certainly where they were the least welcome —precisely in the same startling manner now " thirty thousand" of LEE'S troops have been sprited Way, no one knows for some time for what parti cular purpose, or bent upon reaching what point in particular, as their destination. The present mails, however, as we have intimated, explain all that needed explanation in the last. The tidings they bring to us, account for that notable movement of LEE'S, by the results they relate. Gen. BURNSIDE has been defeated—his antagonist, General BRAGG, having been enabled to accomplish that achievement of his defeat, by means of certain timely reinforce ments. Remembering how far apart the confront ing Northerns and Southerns under BURNSIDE and BRAGG are from the confronting main armies of the Federals under MEADE and the Confederates under LEE, it will be appreciated all the more t o h r e e se r e e v a e d l i i l t y s: even by the unprofess ional observers of how masterly again have been the manoeuvres organised by the Confederate Commander-in- Chief. The plans of LEE in regard to 'MEADE, and in regard to BURNSIDE, are still to the last perfectly harmonious. By reason of those plans being adventured upon and successfully carried out, his main army (di minished as we know, and thus diminished, more over, for very good reasons indeed)—LEE'S main army falls back before the collective advance of the Federals under MEADE : an advance to which the latter have been tempted by the above-mentioned diminution of the Confederate forces, their diminu tion, that is, by the sum of those very troops de spatched from them in hot haste away into Ten nessee. The Confederates, in fact, us the result of this astute manoeuvring of LEE'S, have fallen back south of the Rappahannock, south of the Rapidan They have simply withdrawn thus to their old position south up of the Rapidan—the Federals in following so far, gaining, in effect, nothing whatever from their antagonist, beyond capturing about half of a small body of men who had made a foolhardy resistance to three corps of MEADE'S army on the north side of the Rappahannock, While these things were occurring as to the relative positions occupied by the main armies of the Federals and Confederates, the latter were signally worsting the Federals under General BURNSIDE in Tennessee l There, at that point, the key to the mystery is discernable. We now learn, upon sufficiently reliable authority, seeing that it is General GRANT who reports the fact to the Federal Government at Washington, that two of General BURNSIDE'S advanced positions had been attacked by the Confederates, and that the forces occupying them had been captured. Rumours of the ugliest character were reported to be flying about when these tidings left the American shores, the darkest, the gloomiest rumours as to General BURNSIDE having been subjected to a really disas trous discomfiture. Rumours they appear to be, moreover, sufficiently well founded, if only for inas much as they seem to be borne out by the an nouncement of General BURNsIDE's compulsory resignation. Elsewhere, among our telegrams of this afternoon, will be found a remarkably suc cinct and detailed narrative, from the hand of General LEE himself, recounting, in the form of an official report to the War Department at Richmond, the circumstances leading to, and attending upon, the late strategic movements that have taken place between the Rapidan and the Rappahannock. To this remarkable despatch we would here direct very particular attention. It directs a keen and vivid beam of light through a dense and hitherto, in parts, all but impenetrable haze of confusion. The condition of the labouring c'asses during the winter season is generally a matter of some anxiety and importance, especially when, as at present, we have indications of somewhat severe weather. We have not begun the winter very satisfactorily in the metropolis, for we hear every day of the large numbers who apply at the unions for relief, as well as for nightly admission to the casual wards. To such a height has this evil in creased that a regular discussion has been opened on the subject, and the questions of district asylums, temporary relief and shelter, and the obstacles which exist in the way of any better administra tion of the Poor Laws, or any improvement in their construction, have become matters of daily talk and argument. We have received, too, several painful and startling warnings of late to remind us that our social arrangements are by no means infallible, since men, women, and children can die in our midst of absolute want and starvation. While the question of how to dispose of these nightly wayfarers is remaining under consideration there is another point which presses on public attention, and that is the vast numbers failure of whose employ ment drives them to join the band of paupers. We shall probably be none of us much surprised to learn that several hundreds of needlewomen are already reckoned among them. The wearying nature of their employment, the long stretch of in cessant labour which it requires to earn the barest living, and the miserable sums earned in proportion to the labour, have all been matters of com mon note since "loon sang his stirring " Song of the Shirt." Since then needlewomen's societies and institutions have been founded, their cause has been advocated by philanthropists, and helped forward by much kindly charitable labour. One of the most considerable of these establish ments is located in Hip de-street, Manchester-square, where everything is conducted in the most busin ass like manner, and where the managers undertake to supply good work on fair terms. This institution has been in existence for several years, and was at one time very well supported. Unfortunately, such is no longer the case, and a letter addressed by the manageress, Miss BARLEE, to our princ'pal morning contemporary, reveals a state of distress among the female workers of London which is startling at this ea rly period of the cold season. Miss BARLEE stat es that for several years the society with which e l a connected has kept several hundred women constantlythe failure employed, but that this season, owing to been .Of the supply of work, at least 400 have since de l't'ved of employment. This is bad enough, m ost of these needlel women are entirely dependent on theiror support, and affirm that they must go to th e 3IISS BARLZR's Union if th a t f a il s t o k ee p them. But revelations go still further. She tells us that, having applied t hilfisWunpaOrers which he large City warehouses for work, the answ ers she received showed as we can general. " We have The nueie question has the distress to be not Partial ftosvr. i , , ,e as many hands Thousand; l o a f ch w in om er e y n efdoer d aha employment few pence a day. " " work." ' a great boon, poor woman g o t , a. _ for each the t o make, each o f . Which took six some holland °e coats payment was . boars' IC,lhoeseinwtroordkiccatniodn of the sewing machine has et suitable employment for hurried on the consideration of the always been a poor, laborious, and uncertain re _ H un .ff source, but it is now failing them altogether. by its means " dreds who helped out a scanty income eir are now deprived of the acceptable a ddition to th ort it wants ; thousamds whose sole means of Eupp was are now hovering between pauperism and vice. 2 Ca n is to be done with them and for them - not our active s ocial reformers devise some relief for need so pressing, extremity so undeserved ? The great origin oi° the evil undoubtedly is that mistaken custom. or habit of thinking which, until the last living few years, forbade a woman to earn h er other than by teaching, dom etic service, or THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER - 23, 1863. -------- needlework. One consequence is the crowds of ill paid and half-educated governesses, who struggle for situations, each trying to outdo her fellows in the extent of her professions and the mode ration of her charges. Another result is to be seen in the letter before us. Had some of these hundreds of women been trained in early life to bookkeeping, watchmaking, or other trades where delicacy of finger, care, and skill are the chief requisites, how much misery might have been saved ! But all these occupations require to be learned carefully; not caught up in a hurry when the pupil must work or starve. One branch of employm en t, i n d ee d, t h ere i s w hich would em ploy large nu m b ers o f respectable women in work well adapted to their strength and tastes, and open to admit those whose youth missed the training needed for so many occupations. We allude to shop serving, which, in our " nation of shopkeepers," con stitutes no unimportant item of the national indus try. Why custom, whim, or prejudice should be allowed to stand between women starving for want of work, and an employment for which they are especially fitted, is a question hard to answer in these days of practical sense and earnest endeavour. It would appear to an impartial observer, that in a large proportion of the shops of this busy metro polis women are much better suited to the task of serving customers than men, and yet in how few do we see them ? If our large linendrapers were to inaugurate the change, how great a blessing would they confer on hundreds of desponding females. Let those who by act, word, or influence can promote the cause, not hesitate in doing so, since the wages inadequate for an active and intelligent man would support a woman in decency and com fort. Meanwhile other plans must be tried, and other schemes set on foot, that we may hear no longer of " thousands" of either men or women being in our midst, willing to work, but unable to obtain even such wretched employment as will bring them 1 in a farthing and a half an hour. The new Chamber of Deputies has inaugurated its career in a worthy manner, Indeed, there has been evinced a spirit and decision that must eventu ally exercise a beneficial influence on public affairs, and in the peculiarly trying position of politics at present it must be a great relief to those anxious about the future to note this significant starting that has been effected. The Ministers have adopted a wise course, whether merely to carry out their game and gain a particular point, or whether be cause they are really impressed with the importance of events, and seek to propitiate those of whom they are afraid —at all events, the latest intelligence from Prussia affords, in its way, more satisfactory information than has been sent for some time lately. The Ministry have published a Royal decree, which is in conformity with the article 63 of the Consti tution. " This decree withdrawsithe order of the Ist of June, referring to the prohibition of news papers and periodicals." This is certainly a step in the right direction, and too much credit cannot be given to those earnest and energetic members who have fought the good fight, and so soon gained their end. The decision of the Ministers, as expressed in this decree,has soon followed on the intelligence conveyed of the discussion on the sub ject in the Chamber. Whatever maybe the duration of this Chamber, or whatever success may attend their efforts, and good results crown their deli berations, it is a most satisfactory solution of one great difficulty, and a notable conclu sion to a disturbing discussion, to notice this ad justment of the ordinance question. ;The rescind ing of such an order is the best thing that could possibly befall the nation. We may now indulge i❑ some hopes that may not prove groundless, and entertain some idea of an improvement taking place in the prospects of Prussia; at all events the ardent patriot, the earnest wellwisher, and the philosophic observer of events in the country may rest satisfied that there will be some outlet for public grievances, some expression for wounded feelings, and some record of national wrongs. Tho notion of suppress ing all free mention of important events, all unre stricted comment on the mutation of measures, and all indignant or disappointed remarks on great na tional changes, is in reality sapping the foundation of the power and prosperity of the country. A more short-sighted proposal never emanated from an infa tuated Cabinet, or was sanctioned by a mistaken Monarch. It is well that at the eleventh hour a patriotic Parliament has come to the rescue, and in defiance of difficulties, and regardless of opposi tion, declared their honest conviction, and professed their honest purpose. It is to be trusted that this arrangement may ba a final one, and that the day may never come when the country of Prussia suffers such decadence and degradation, and her sons allow themselves to be so stultified. In a great measure a nation that has once gained any sort of pre-emi nence has its fate in its own hand, for if it use its opportunities and guard its privileges, it will be next to impossible for any King, however tyranni cal, or any Ministry, however unworthy, to circum scribe to a great degree the limits of public privileges, or to invade the stronghold of popular rights. It was once remarked by Mr. DISRAELI, in alluding to social advantages, that when nations fall, it is be cause a degenerate race intervened between the class that created and the class that is doomed." This is very true, and therefore the anxiety of all lovers of freedom and discerners of events.. The issue that waits on the actions of the Prussian representatives is a mighty one, and far off generations may have to bless or curse the day which sent them forth to the trial ground to fight the battles of their country's rights,and vindi cate her claims before the nations of the world. In the Upper House it is something to notice that a protest was made against the proposal of the para graph " which expressed gratitude to the Govern ment for the measures adopted against the spread of the insurrection in Poland." Unfortunately, the earnest appeals of Count BRINOKI did not produce any decided alteration in the terms of the address, but at all events they must have produced some beneficial effect upon the Assembly, and the dis cussion called forth the virtuous indignation of Herr VON BISMARK, who expressed himself in no measured terms concerning the suggestions of the Count. It would be ludicrous if the subject were not so serious, and if the consequences were not so lamentable, to mark the want of sequence in the arguments of the Minister, and the absurdity of some of his opinions. When he goes on to state, however, that "Government has a political, social, and moral interest in the movement of Russian Poland not bsing victorious," it is sad to reflect that these cruel words, and heartless sentiments, ate uttered by one in so important and influential a position, and charged with such solemn responsi bilities, As is usual, the case with these one-sided arguers, and these wiseacres of politics, who speak with what has been aptly described as "splenetic authoritativeness, and factious sophistication," we find plenty of abuse of opponents and the ordinary share of unfounded statements and inexcusable inuendoes. Thus Ilerr BISMARK actually announces to us the fact, that a movement must not be allowed to be successful "which soils itself with u nheard-of crimes, and which delights in the apotheosis of assas sination." It wou ld b e difficult to discover 'whether this sentence is mo st remarkable for its insolence, die tinguished for its injustice, or characterised by its falsity." Well might the poet have exclaimed in his matchless delineation of the horrors of the Polish invasion,-- " Oh I sacs ed Trul7, thy triumphs ceased awhile, And Hope, thy sister, ceased with then to smile, When leagued Oppression poured to northern wars, ller whiskered pandoors, and her fierce hussars." There is nothing which more strongly marks the style of these apologists or defenders of tyrannical measures than the extraordinary departure from veracity which marks their statements. Their cause is so bad that they are obliged to start by denying its attributes, and falsifying its work ings. So we learn from the Emperor of all the RUSSIAS himself that his policy is a merciful one, and all his actions inspired by the most benig nant motives, and also Herr BISMARK kindly in forms us that the Poles are to blame for their reckless unconscionable conduct. What must they do to horrify men who throw infants in their cradles out of window, and subject females to the most cruel sufferings. All these vituperations are idle in the extreme, because those who judge both sides will not be biassed by them. The CZAR and his myrmidons may exhaust themselves in eloquence through the length and breadth of his dominions, which exceed in extent the limits owned by any other power, but they will never bring Christian or heathen lands to believe that the men who are trampling the soil of Poland beneath the iron heel of conquest, and denying the slightest quarter to her aged, her sick, and her infirm, are walking in the ways of pleasantness, nor can the people crushed by such cruelty and tortured by such inflictions be said to tread the paths of peace. Nothing is more sig nificant than the vehement defence of the Russian policy, which has been constantly made by Herr BISMARK, and therefore it especially behoves the Chamber of Deputies to take heed to their efforts, that the storm may not find them unprepared for its assaults, or taken by surprise at its sudden advent: Steady courage, firm endurance, and a resolute spirit can alone avail to nerve them for the day of trial, and to give them a happy issue and a successful conclusion out of the fitful le. strugg Rumoured Resignation of Lord Russell, We (Spectator) have received a statement on what should be first-rate authority, that Earl Rus• sell retires from the Cabinet, and is succeeded by Lord Clarendon. We record the report with deep regret, for though we cannot support or admire Earl Russell's recent policy in Poland he is the truest representative the noblest of English fac tions ever had. (From the fforning Herald.) A rumour has been current for the last two or three days to the effect that Earl Russell has re signed the seals of the Foreign Office, and that. Lord Clarendon is to succeed him. We cannot pre tend to be in the secrets of the Cabinet, tor can we trace the rumour to any reliable source. We must be content, therefore, to publish the report, leaving it to time to show what it is worth. There is certainly some prima facie evidence to justify it. Lord Clarendon has within the last fort night had interviews with the Queen, with Lord Palmerston, and - Earl Russell. It is currently re ported that the policy of the latter nobleman has given rise to grave discussions in the Cabinet, which are not likely to be terminated except by his retirement, and his opponents point to certain damaging articles published in journals notoriously influenced by the Premier, as evidencing some thing like a break-up of the alliance between the two Whig leaders. Moreover, if Earl Russell fancies the ..11inisterial craft in danger, we know of old that he is the first man to desert. On the other hand, it is not unreasonable to conclude that Lord Clarendon's interviews may have had reference solely to the Congress and to various questions of foreign policy now pressing for solution. His lordship has for some months past been exceedingly busy on the Conti neat, and may be supposed to be well " posted up" on most of the subjects that are likely to bc: brought under discussion at the Congress. It is, perhaps, natural that he should be anxious to fight over again his battles of 1856, and favour civilisation with another " Declaration of Paris" about the rights of belligerents; and it is quite possible that Lord Russell has only been seeking an associate when he was supposed to be looking for a successor. Perhaps some of our Liberal contem poraries will set the doubts of the public at rest by informing us whether we shall retain the services of the hero of Blairgowrie, Birkenhead, and Kago- LATEST INTELLIGENCE. I [REUTER'S TELEGRAM.] THE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION. GLUCKSTADT, Nov. 23. The officials of the Superior Court of Appeal f or the whole of Holstein in this city have unanimously resolved to refuse to take the oaths of allegiance to the new King. JAPAN, LIVERPOOL, Nov. '23. According to advices from liakodadi, dated 6th October, received via San Francisco, the authorities had ordered all foreigners to leave Nagasaki, but the foreigners refused, and the Japanese Governor resigned. The Chief Minister and three other Ministers of the Cabinet had been dismissed because they were in favour of peace with the Christian nations. The Mikado had issued an order that no Daimio should purchase any foreign vessel. The Prince of Nagasaki had issued orders that the Japanese pilots, who conducted the American vessel of war Wyoming to Sunoniski, should be killed. One of these pilots was murdered soon afterwards. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Tire POET LAUREATE has been experimenting in classic metres; and some specimens of hexametars and pentame ters, Alcaics and hendecasyllabics, by him will appear in the next number of the Cornhill Maganne, together with a sample of a translation of Homer in blank verse. MR. THACKERAY'S new novel, to appear in the Cor•nhill Hagazi4e, will relate to a very early period of English history. MR. CHARLES READE'S novel of a " Very Hard Cash" now rapidly drawing to its conclusion in " All the Year Round," will be published by Messrs. Low, Son, and Co. early in December. Ma. EDMUND YATES will commence a new novel of English Life in the Temple Bar Magazine, on the conclu sion of Mr. Dutton Cook's "Trials of the Tredgolds," in February. Mit, G. A. SA.LA'S new ,F cries of essays entitled, " Streets of the World," will begin in the next number of the same magazine, while the January number will contain the open ing chapters of a now novel by Miss Braddoa, to be called " The Doctor's Wife." "RACHEL RAY," by Anthony Trollope, is announced as the new volume of the Tauchnitz series. THE new correspondent of the Times in the United States, who has succeeded Dr. Charles Mackay, is actually Signor Gallenga, the well-known writer, and a member of the Italian Parliament I A LIFE OF STERNE, BY Met. PERCY FITZGERALD (of Dublin), will shortly appear, reprinted from the Dublin University Magazine. Loup AMBERLEY, the eldest son of the E trl Russell, i s the writer of the article on clerical subscription in the North British. Review. BOOKS RECEIVED. Caxtoniana. By Sir E. Bulwor Lytton. 2 vols. Black• wood. The Gladiators. By White Melville. 3 vols. Longman. The Wife's Evidence. By W. G. Wills. 3 vols. Hurst and Mocha. 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Renan's " Vie de Jesus :" " Monseigneur l'Eveque,—You have been so kind as to send me the book you have written to combat a recent work which attempts to raise doubts on one of the fundamental principles of our religion. I have seen with pleasure how energetically yon defend the faith, and I offer you my sincere con gratulations. "Whereupon, Monseigneur l'Eveque, I pray God to have you in His holy keeping. " Written at the Palace of Compi(' , gne this 14th of November. " NAPOLEON." FRANCE. BOURSE, Nov. 21.—The market has lost a little of its firmness, and the business done shows a slight decline. Threes, for the Account, are now at 67f. 30c. Mobilier has also slightly receded. Railway Market quiet, but firm. The market closed as follows :- 4t per Cents. 95 45 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 20 Credit Mobilier 1095 Do, end month 1093 75 Bank Shares 3350 Credit lioneier I2SS Roman RAIL Italian Loan 72 25 Do. end month 72 15 New ditto Do. end mouth.... Russian Austrian Spanish Threes s3i fl MD ft Debt Deferred VAYB. Cash. A ccount. 980 ~ - 977 50 977 50 .. 980 -- Orleans Northern .. New ditto — Lyons and AleditNri - anean 951 25 .. 955 New ditto 9OO Geneva.. — • e S althorn Western - Eastern ..... 488 75 Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa 628 75 631 25 Ditto to Barcelona 318 75 .. 322 50 LITERATURE, longfellow's New Poems. Tales of a lVayside Inn, By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. One Vol. Pp. 214. Routledge. Than many of the poems in this ingenious col lection, Professor Longfellow has written nothing more beautiful. " King Robert of Sicily" would of itself make the antende for a hundred abortive " Golden Legends," and for a whole multitude of jingling " Hiawathas." There is the ring of the true metal in these melodious verses. As we listen to the voice that now sings to us, weare delightedly conscious of its being that of no other than the author of " Evangeline." The collection here linked together into a harmonious whole by a suc cession of graceful " interludes" we have advisedly designated ingenious. For, besides being far more than simply ingenious, it is, in the midst of a crowd of other, and many of them muzh loftier, merits, conspicuous in a remarkable degree for its inge nuity. The design of it is accurately enough ex plained upon the title-page. The time of the poem is an autumn evening. A Wayside Inn "at Sud bury town"—" a kind of old Hobgoblin Hall"—is the scene of the narrative, or rather is the spot in which the several narratives are related. It is one of those picturesque specimens of an " ancient hostelry" of which The Maypole at Chigwell, in Charles Dickens's tale of the Gordon Riots—that enthralling, inimitable story of Barnaby Budge—is the very architype or delightfuLest of all possible examplare. The trailing woodbines festooned from the overhanging eaves, the very gleaming of the ruddy firelight through the crimson curtains at the lattice, these and various other minute par ticulars in regard to the Wayside Inn of Longfellow recall vividly to our recollection the dear old May pole Tavern of Epping Forest, as pourtrayed by the wonderfully realistic pencil of Dickens. Here, in the American auberge, Professor Longfellow de scribes a cluster of strangely contrasting wayfarers, at the outset of his little transatlantic Decameron. And as motley a groupe they make, as even the im mortal train of Pilgrims pourtrayed by old Geoffrey Chaucer, as setting out, several centuries back, on the road from the •Tabard, in Southwark, to the shrine of the holy martyr St. Thomas it Becket, in the Cathedral at Canterbury. The landlord of the Wayside Inn, dubbed by reason of his gentle birth, and in spite of his fallen fortunes, " The Squire" — in this, something like our old friend " Barring ton" in Charles Lever's charming little fic tion so entitled—leads off the list of these assembled interlocutors. Among his guests or customers are—a young Sicilian, a Poet, a Theologian of Cambridge, a Musician who delights them all with his improvisations on his beloved instrument, "An Angel with a violin I" as he is apostrophised by his lyrical celebrant, one in whose warbling notes the listeners hear by turns the Sti 6mkarl sing, the:cataract booming downwards, the scream of seabirds on the wing— " The rumour of !he forest trees, The plunge of the implacable seas!" these, with a Spanish Jew from Alicant, make up the singular concourse in the inn house-room at Sudbury, on the autumn evening when the Tales are told. Seven tales they are in all, each told by one of the personages above enumerated. To the landlord) being a patriotic landlord) we owe the opening tale of the series, entitled " Paul Revere's Ride," an incident of the old war, relating to the lighting up of a beacon and the rousing of whole country side by the midnight gallop of a single horseman. Brief though the story is, it is "full of fire and fary," and yet, for once, "signifying" something ! The Student's tale is a charming version of that painful little love-tale of Boccaccio's about " The Falcon of Ser Federigo." Tenderly though it is here related in these lovely verses of Longfellow, it comes to us now, as painfully as ever. We grieve as poignantly at the close of it, as ever we did of yore, over the evil fate of the poor gerfalcon whose neck is wrung by his master, and whose smoking body, stuffed with spice, is feasted upon by the beautiful widow, the lost love of old of Ser Federigo, but who is won back to him thus in his poverty and dejection by this exquisitely painful evidence of hospitality towards her under his cottage-roof ! Monne Gio vanna is the youthful widow in this familiar love story of Florence. Charmingly, when her little boy is prattling to Ser Federig o, does t he poet sing— ., The voice was hers, and made strange echoes start Through all the haunted cham bers of his heart, As an Eolian harp through gusty door:" Of some old ruin its wil d music pours. Even, however, th e bewitching poe tic atmos phere here thrown aroun d the tender legend of " The Falcon of Ser Fedexige fails to reconcile us to it. Of the Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi, the tale related by the Spanish Jew, we think nothing whatever. We pass it by with indifference. It is literally as nothing when brought into comparison with a similar legend told years and years ago by our lamented Leigh Hunt. As for the Theologian's Tale of Torquetnada, it is, from first to last, simply hideous and utterly loathsome. The incident it recounts, is, in effect, one too fearful of its kind to have been selected as a subject for the imagination to dwell upon. We pass it by with a shudder of abhorrence. Curiously apropos to the discussions about "Small Bird Murder," which have been of late maintained in the public journals in this country, and probably also on the other side of the Atlantic, is the tale, prettily told here, at the close of this series of poems—told, too, by the Poet, ►neet:ing the poet who is described as among the guests in the Wayside Inn at Sudbury—a wonderfully logical, and, to our mind, entirely convincing little apologue, about " The Birds of Railing worth," lairds that were certainly not worth killing ! Five out of the seven stories told in the Wayside Inn have now been briefly particularised—namely, those of the Landlord, the Poet, the Student, the Spanish Jew, and the Theologian. Two others, as representing, the one, the chief merit, the other, the chief demerit of the book, have yet to be specified. One of them it is true has already been casually glanced at as, to our mind, the principal beauty and glory of the collection. The other, is by far the longest poem in the book, sub divided as it is into as many as two-and-twenty minor poems, making► up the whole tale told by the incoherent Musician. He it is who sings to us through upwards of 100 out of the 244 pages—sacred here only to "The Way side Inn," and "Birds of Passage"—sings to us joltingly, confusedly, unmusically, unsatisfac• torically in every imaginable way—" The Saga of King Olaf." Coming to us, as this, the chief poem of the book does at the very centre of it, it is only comparable, according to our fancy, to a very dry, choking, husk, as the_ core of some delicious blooming, nectarious, ambrosial fruit dropped ripely into our hands, a fruit that we are otherwise disposed to luxuriate over with a sort of rapture. Drinking in the whole flavour and succulence of it with unmarred delight, but for this same unwelcomed husk of " The Sage of King Olaf," we can make nothing of that—at least, we certainly cannot swallow it! It is a husky core and a very large one in proportion to the dimensions of the fruit itself, that we should dearly like to cut out of it altogether and throw aside as valueless, as worse than valueless, as entirely intolerable. How Professor Longfellow could ever have taken the trouble to write it, how any one among his most infatuated admirers could ever effect, as some, we observe, are actually doing, to take even the smallest modicum of pleasure in reading it, alike passes our comprehension. To our palate it is, just in one plain word, unendurable. By way of compensation, however, we have the poet's lovely vers;on of that beautiful old legend about " King Robert of Sicily," here already spoken of by us in terms of unrestricted and now deliberately reiterated admiration. A legend it is that Leigh Hunt some years ago told very gracefully in prose in his elegant Christmas volume entitled, deliciously, "A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla," Never yet, however, by poet old or young, English or Italian, has the bewitching tale been told so exquisitely as it has been here told by Professor Longfellow. As told by him, it will take its place henceforth amongst the cherished gems of American literature. From first to last we fail to detect a flaw In it. Very recently though the book has been published, in which it is contained—a very opal in a setting of gold—we have read it again and yet again. ft is too long for quotation by us entire, and it would be a cruelty to tear it up piecemeal, as fragmentary quotations. The incident will probably be remem bered by many as being the ordeal imposed b 3 Heaven in punishment, according to the lovely old Sicilian legend, upon King Robert of Sicily, the brother of the reigning Pontiff Pope Urbane and of the German Emperor Valroond—in punish ment to King Robert of Sicily, for his impious pride in scouting as treasonous to himself the chaunt by the priests, one evening at Vespers, of the awful words, "deposuit potentes de sede et ex ultarit bundles," words so familiar to us as a portio❑ of the beautiful Al agnifieat ! How the ordeal is passed through by King Robert, and with what effect, let Longfellow's new poem be turned to by the reader in order to learn„ Having said which— let us pass on to the seven minor poems clustered together at the close of the volume, under the title of " Birds of Passage—Flight the Second !" Recalling to mind thereby—on reading that mention of flight the second—the minor poems at the close of " Miles Standish," among which appeared Longfellow's lovely verses upon Children, verses which have since then been dear to our very heart's remembrance. A companion to that beautiful little Poem on Children we here give, as, altogether, about the choicest jewel of the present collection. It is entitled— THE CHILDREN'S HOUR. Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall-stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegro, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper, and then a silence : Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning together To take me by surprise. A sudden rush from the stairway, A sudden raid from the hall I By three doors left unguarded They enter my castle wall! They climb up into my turret O'er the arms and back of my chair; If I try to escape they surround me; They seem to be everywhere. They almost devour me with kisses, Their arms about me entwine, Till I think of the Bishop of Bingen In his Mouse-Tower on the Rhine I Do you think, 0 blue-eyed banditti, Because you have scaled the wall, Such an old moustache as I am Is not a match for you all I I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon In the round-tower of my heart. And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in dust away I Of the " old moustache" who sings these delicious verses—verses filled full of that home tenderness which has already made the name cf Henry Longfellow " familiar as household words" on so many hearths here in Old England—the charming little volume now under notice presents to us as its frontispiece a delightful portraiture. It is evi dently from a photograph. It represents the author as he is now—bearded, " moustache " and all—precisely the very countenance we should have wished to recognise as that of the poet Longfellow. SHIPPING—This Day. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPII.) Morning Arrived, Nov. 22—Egerat a, from Palras; Pe t, fro m St. GRAVESE ND, Monday . i Michael's ; Cz ir, from 13imilipatam ; Chandler, from Pug wash • Lady I( insale, from GiJon ; Lion, steamer, from Harlingen; Hawthorn, from Cephalonia ;. Lord J. R usse ll, Quebec; from Dunkirx ; Earl of Aberdeen, from! Hamburg; frm fr u om ioja; Francis, from Marans ; Alexander flack,. from Caroline, Charlotte, and Ernest—all . from St. Michael's;corea: Bueephalus, from Bombay; Garland, z H ie e d at;hverigßell,from o from m st. v C i o v l l o e u ioo; Elizabeth, Sunbeam, J ewa Gan Godh , r, from . Singapore; Gazelle, from Charen ch N o o w ; f 2 o 3 o_. from Terceira; Corcyra, from Palras. i r °nl Arrived, F °°- DEAL, Monday Morning. Anchored—Guirtjo Maria, from Shields, for Batavia ; Ratcliff, for Trinidad ; .Ellen Rose, for N assau; M ary E. R a y, for Adelaide ; Kirtch, for San Francisco--all from London. Passed—Rival, from St. Michael's for Hull. Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. Market without change, Sales, probably about 5,000 bales. r 61111 HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 21. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Helena, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attended by Me.jor Elphinstone, arrived at the Castle last night. Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, Princess Louise, and Prinoe Arthur, went to-day to be present at the ceremony' of the laying the first stone of the new church about to be erected at Windsor, which ceremony was per— formed by her Royal Highness the Crown Prince:is (Princess Royal). The royal party was received on arriving at th.e spot by the Rev. H. Ellison, Vicar of Windsor, a :- companied by the Bishop of Oxford, the Dean of Windsor, and a numerous body of the clergy. After a prayer had been said the Princess laitl the first stone with the usual formalities. The suite in attendance consisted of Countess Hohenthal, Baroness Dobeneck, Lady C. Barring - ton, the Hon. Horatia Stopford, the Hon. Harriet t Phipps, Miss Hildyard, CGunt Furstenstein, Major Von Schweinitz, Major-General the Hon. A. Hood, and Colonel H. Ponsonby. Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, Princess Helena. Prinees3 Louise, and Prince Leopold, honoured the Windsor Theatre with their presence yesterday afternoon to witness " The Ghost Illusions" as exhibited by Professor Pepper at the Polytechnic Institution. Their royal highnesses were attended by the Countess of Caledon, Count Furstenstein, Lord Cremorne, Colonel H. Ponsonby, Colonel the Hon. A. Hood, and Mr. Buff. Nov. 22. The Queen, their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leo pold, her Serene Highness Princess Hohenlohe, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended Divine service in the private chapel this morning. The Rev. Dr. Stanley preached the sermon. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey and Dr. Stan ley arrived at the Castle yesterday. The Queen honoured Mr. Frith with a fourth sitting on Saturday for his picture of the Prince of Wales's marriage. During the past week he has also been honoured with sittings by the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, the Princesses Helena, Louise, and Beatrice, and the Crown Prince of Denmark. The Prince and Princess of Wales. SANDRINGHAM, Nov. 21. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, accom panied by Major Teesdale and Mr. 11. ViHebois, the master of the West Norfolk hounds, left Sandring ham shortly after nine o'clock on Friday morning and drove to Burnham, for the purpose of hunting with the West Norfolk. Several foxes were " found," but unfortunately could not be got away. Saturday was the last " day out" with the hounds during the Prince's present visit to Sandringham, and there was consequently assembled such a " field" as has probably never before been witnessed is Norfolk. At about eleven o'clock the field was joined by the Prince of Wales, Lieut.-General Knollys, Msjor Teesdale, and Mr. Fisher. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, accompanied by the Hon. Mrs. F. Stonor, drove a pair of greys• The worthy master, with his huntsman, Tom Tip ton, at once commenced the " draw" of the home, the Brick-kiln, and the Babingley covers, but though several foxes were started they managed to get " tO earth," and obstinately refused to " break away." This was the more regretted, as on the previous occasion when the meei, was at Sandringham it turned out a blank day. A few days ;onger will terminate the present visit of their Royal Highnesses to their Norfolk seat, and immediately upon their departure the building of an addition to the present hall and stabling wig be cAnmenced, and the Norwich ga tes will be temporarily fixed on the site of the present gates at the principal entrance of the park. It i 9 net intended to fix them permanently, as it is con templated after a few years to extend the park. The park has been prepared for deer, with which it Will be stocked in a few days. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lothian and Lady Alice Kerr aro staying on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury and Talbot at Ingestre Hall, Staf fordshire. The Earl and Countess of Hardwick() and Lady Agnota Yorke leave Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, early in the ensuing week, to visit the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury at Hatfield House, Herts. The Earl and Countess of Mounteharles returned to town on Saturday from visiting Lord and Lady Egerton of Tatton, at Tatton Park, Cheshire. Proposed Cavalry Barracks at Chelsea, On Saturday a numerous deputation from the inhabitants of Chelsea waited upon the Earl de Grey and Ripon, Secretary of State for War, at the War-office, Pall-mall, to protest against the adoption by the Government of a proposed site for nevt cavalry barracks in that district. Earl de Grey a nd Ripon received the deputation at the War-office at 12 o clock. Mr. Tite, M.P., introduced them, a nd read a memorial issued by the vestry of Chelsea, front which it appeared that the Govern ment intend to pull down the barracks at Knightsbridge, and erect others on a plot of land called " Quail's field," situated on the south side of Sloane-street. The memorial pointed out the in jury the erection of the proposed barracks would do to the valuable house property in the neighbour hood, and suggested that it would impede improve ments now contemplated, and that a better site might be found on the Surrey side of the Chelsea suspension-bridge. Mr. Tite said he concurred with these views. The Rev. Mr. Burgess, rector a o of Upper Chelsea, and the Rev. Mr. Neven took simi lar view of the effects to be produced by the e rec tion re marked of the proposed barracks, and that they de Grey said there could be but lat le doubt t h a t would be injurious to the rating of t he parish. E ar l wo uld admit that/ b arrac ks would arise. He whatever locality might be c hosen similar com plaintsrvbiee, There he had ist r theic t i t n o deal with d s was one point upon which there w as complete cer tainty, and that was that the cavalry barracks at Knightsbridge were most uncomfortable and in convenient, and that the sooner they were pulled down the better. Although he had inspected save" ral sites, that at Chelsea was, on the whole, the best that could be found. The deputation ha d made a great point as to the non-paymen t o f rates by these military establishmects . That was a question which he thought migh t fairly b© considered by the Treasury. The deputation had, in their observations, OW gested that there was a site which might be apPre priated to the purpose on the opposite side of th e river. But, taking into consideration the position of the Houses of Parliament, the Royal ,palaces' and public buildings, be felt that it would be fatal objection in a military point of views th a t they should have the river between the barra ela and those places. Mr. Simons said there v as another site, which was not liable to objection, betw e en the new Chelsea Infantry Barracks and the river. The Rev Burgess said he had another sugges tio nitae to offer, and that was that a portion of the m nge grounds of the Royal hospital might, be aPPI.n, priated for this purpose. Out of the 66 acres whl the hospital and grounds occupied, he was sure ,„" acres and upwards might be appropriated to th purpose. Earl de Grey said he did not see ho w he should be justified in making suc h a es _ that just suggested, but that the w h o l e qu est ion should have his mature consideration. The depu tation then withdrew. A ar tic ce fac tie rec Ital Me: Mo Nei No D e Lk 8111 Le D o Br,