The Sun. — London, England, 1863-09-29 00:00:00

HE RRM AN'N, PRESTIDIGITATEUR.- PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—HERR HERRMANN'S Performances, EVERY EVENING, at Eight. In Two Farts—as given by him in all the principal Theatres and Opera Houses of the Continent of Europe and America. The whole of the Marvellous Illusions entirely new, and invented by Herr Herrmann. Prices of admission as usual. Doors open at half-past 7. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY - LANE. Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING. THE DEAL BOATMAN : Messrs. G. Beimore. F. Charles; Miss R. Leclercq, and Mrs. Edmund Falconer. To conclude with the new and original Comedy, by Ed_ Ed mund Fal oner, entitled NATURE'S ABOVE ART : mance of the Nursery : Messrs:Walter Lacy, Addison, Ryder, Barrett, G. Belmore, F. Charles. Neville ; 31155 Charlotte Uunders. Miss Murray, Miss R. Leolercq, Mrs. Melville, and Mrs. Edmund Falconer. Box-office open from Ten till F ive daily. Prices as usuaL Commence at 7. THE A TRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.— Oven for the Seaso n.—Notice. —During the reces s th e un d er mentioned alteration s have been made to ensure the natort ot the a udienca distinct row of Stalls has been ereco c ted, with t w o new stall Staircases one on each side of tte Theatre. In the Dress Circle, all the' partitions and ori ginal seats have been removed , and chairs o a convenient size, covered with Utrecht ve.vet, introduced. The approaches to the Dress Circle will be carpeted and generally improved, while the seats in the Amphitheatre will be made as commo dious as those of the Pit. In addition the whole of the inte rior of the Theatre has undergone a thorough restoration. liar. and llrs. Alfred Wigan every evening. THIS EVENING. and during the Week, to commence at 7, with AN UNLUCKY MORTAL : Mr. William Farren, miss M. Harris, &c. After which, at a quarter to 8, the new Comedy of FINESSE; or, Spy and Counter Spy: characters by Mr. Alfred Wigan, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. Howe, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Dowton (2d appearance). Miss L. Angel, and Mrs. Alfred Wigan. Concluding with TURNING THE TABLES. 0 . n Monday, Oct. 26. Mr. and Mrs. GRAS. MATHEWS ill return to the London stage. i ST EW THE ATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHI.- sole Proprietor and Manaqer, M. R. Webster. This 'I heatre will RE-OPEN for the Winter Season on THURSDAY next. Oct I. entirely new painted and decorated. First appearance of Miss BATE..IIAN, the celebrated Ameri can artiste. At 7, TIIE TRAGEDY QUEEN: Mrs. Stirling. A t 8, the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bateman, suorted by Mr. Arthur Stirling (his first appearance here), Messrs. R. I'hillips, Billinf,rton, Stuart, A. Wood, Eberne, Miss H. Simms and Mrs. Billingten. To conclude with CATCHING AN lIEIRESS : Miss Woolgar and Mr. A. Wood. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE, Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, WHERE'S YOUR WIFE. Mr. Bel ford, Miss Simpson. Followed by (6?d time) THE MOTTO, " I'M ALL THERE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier, Clifton ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, F. Josephs, Maria Simpson, Wallace, and Jenny White. To conclude with TURN HIM OUT. Mr. Turner, Miss Thorne. Commence at 7. T HE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containinv, the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NESTS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 3h. 7m.—Afternoon, 3h. 27m. To-tioaßow.-Morning, 3h. 45m.—Afternoon. 4h• 4m. The Weather—Sun Office, Sept. 29, 1863. TITERIiO3SETEI t . This day at Two o'clock 6B Barometer -29.98. Wind—South-West ; light, and fine. d , 0 1 /Z SUIT e LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 29, 1863. If we were to give implicit credence to the state ments put forward by MANHATTAN and other pro- Federal reporters, we should certainly be led to regard this desperate Civil and all but Servile war in America as even now virtually brought to a conclu• sion ! 'We should be deluded into a belief that already the Union is reconstituted, the Confede rate Government swept out of existence, General LEE reduced to a nonentity, President DAVIS ren dered utterly insignificant. That we are not, in saying this, in any way guilty of exaggeration in regard to the tone adopted by the Northern writers can be rendered apparent upon the instant by a single paragraph extracted from MANHATTAN'S last vulgarly vigorous communication. A letter in which that Yankee JUNIUS appears, more conspicu ously than ever, as the organ of what we may per haps most aptly term the blatant bumptiousness of the North. Roaring at first quite as mildly as BULLY BOTTOM himself—" I hope," coos this " sucking dove" from the other side of the Atlantic, " that no more blood will be shed in our own unhappy civil war. I judge it is near its end, for all the Southern papers have turned blowers,' and brag of what is to be done, in such a manner, that I am confident they are on the eve of a general surrender. You will see that my words will come true. After all, what have the rebels to fight for ? —a part of South Carolina, up in the mountains — Georgia—Alabama--a part of Virginia—North Carolina is on the fence—Arkansas is shaky, her capital captured, and the Mississippi open ! Look on Tanner's map of the old United States, and you will see how little is left in rebellion. Their cause is hopeless, so far as separation is concerted. The rebels could govern the Union, if they had gumption sufficient to go for the Union and fight in the Union. Every day they are in rebellion they strengthen the power of Mr. LINCOLN and his Government." After that, really the best thing, if not indeed, the only thing left, for the Confederates to do, must be—obviously —to send a flag of truce in hot baste to General MEADE, meekly offering the submission of the South in the humblest terms, and upon the very mildest conditions, that can yet be wheedled from the Federal Victors I Before quite coming to this same conclusion, however, it may, perhaps, be just as well to lettuce down the latest particulars just brought to no, per the City of New York, from the actual seat of war. News of battle it will be found to furni th comprising within a very moderate space the following extraordinarily long catalogue of the most recen t advantages gained by—the Confede rates ! To e pitomise them just as they stand in this bewildering string of Telegrams —we learn (per the City of New York) that. when the last mails left, the Confe d erates, under LEE, though not in large force, held a stenng position on the line to wards which M EADE was advancing upon them —namely, upon the li nt in the skirmishes whi ch the Rapidan ! That —4 l had already taken place between the two m alt. armies, 150 Federal Cavalry had j us t been ea + Palled by the Confede rates ! That the Federal General THOMAS was reported to have met with a reverse at Lafayette, Tennessee ! That BUCKNER had c aptured 300 Federal p r i soners ! That ROSECRANz had been driven back by the Confederates 13RA, 0 , a and JOHNSTONE! That General NEGLEVS divi sion of 5,000 Federals, attacked at Bird's Gap 1 1 16,000 Confederates, had, not unnaturally, been forced for a whil e , at least, to withdraw to a dis. tauce, it Was said, of three miles and a-half, by that formidable proportion of three to one! That Gene ral LONGSTREET was reported to have advanced through ltmea at the head of 20,000 Confederates , and to have already pressed forward as far even as Lafayette ! That horn all a quarters the Southern troops were rapidly hurrying together at Atlanta! That Fort Moultrie, although still being shelled, had been strengthened by its Confederate defenders ! That a reconnoitring party of Federals bad been captured on the Savannah Railroad! That in front of the Federal lines in North Carolina there was visible an increase of the forces of the Confederates ! That in Western Virginia Southern troops to the numbsr of 8,000 were preparing for a new raid into the Federal territories ! Yet, with a swarm of telegrams like those dropping in upo n us, we are assured by Northern writers like " Man hattan" that the cause of the South is altogether desperate, that the Confederates are virtually at this m oment shut up, their valiant opponents being e , erywbere victorious. Nay, even this is not all. "; Manhattan" for once seems fairly to have lost his I lead, as the phrase is, meaning his jud gmen t. H e 1 las certainly, for once, cleared out of view all consi derations of decency. He is not only boastful to t ;he last degree, as to what the Federals are going to do •with those poor little emmets of antagonists, the Confederates, but he is announcing how the Fede ral Power is going to swallow up half a million Frenchmen at a gulp ! And while blustering and h oasting in this preposterous manner, he is out r aging, to the utmost possible extent, the few remaining ideas of decorum, of which the reader might still have a hope on his (the writer's) part, by profanely yelling his thanks to the ALMIGHTY, that a bloody war with France has at length become inevitable. We will give " Manhattan's" own words—so that it may be seep at once, from them, how it is, literally, as we have here said ! In his very first sentence, in this his latest communication, he writes, " We have to thank GOD, among other of 1118 mercies, that we are to have a war with France ! And may He so direct events that it may result in making us a united nation—a confederacy of States." Again—" I have never hesitated to declare that a foreign war was, of all things, the one thing needed to restore us to our senses, and to make us a united people. May GOD grant that it has come in the shape of a tear with France." Further on, yet again —" TVe devoutly (!) thank GOD that we are prepared for a contest at sea with France." Even then, he has not done with this blasphemously prayerful exulta• tion over the prospect of that sanguinary encounter. He is still upon his knees, in irreverent rapture over the bare idea of this new and more copious outpouring of blood ! " Let war come" he cries (he still speak ing of the certainty of a war with France) "Let war come, and it will be received as the greatest blessing GOD can confer on us this year !" To de monstrate quite conclusively , however, how wholly MANHATTAN is beside himself at the pros pect of a war with France it is only necessary to refer to his poor little foolish expression of regret that it will be impossible for NAPOLEON himself to go out there to America with those French troops his Majesty would have to send thither immediately upon the declaration of such a War MANHATTAN'S regret being that the defeat of the French armies by the Federals cannot be thus ren dered the more signal and complete—by what P By NAPOLEON " playing the Monkey-General, and smoking cigars"—as he did when opposed to the Austrians in Italy ! Our Yankee Juraus being quite oblivious, for the moment, of the perhaps trivial circumstance, that that same " Monkey- General smoking cigars" again and again defeated the legions of Austria opposed to him at that time in Lombardy upon a succession of memorable battle fields ! The Emperor of RUSSIA is trying a new plan. It would seem as if, after exhausting the policy of the fortiter in re, he was now endeavouring to essay the effect of the suaviter in modo. This may be all very fine, but the question is whether he will succeed in taking in those who have been atten tively watching his prcceedings of late. His doings Hat Helsingfors have all been of the most affable nature, and his speeches are all of the gracious style. He was received by the students at the uni versity with great applause. He expressed his great satisfaction at finding himself once more within the walls of the university, of which for a long time he had been Chancellor. He hoped that for many long years to come it would still send out young men who would remember their duties to the fatherland, and that the Russian EMPEROR was their liege lord. This was putting it in a very ingenious hint, and improving the occasion by re minding his hearers of a fact he doubtless deemed of immense importance. After this affair at the university there followed a banquet to the officers, and general illuminations in the evening. A grand review took place the next day, and the number of visitors was excessive. It would seem that the in flux was far too great indeed for the powers of the inhabitants to accommodate; they were not equal to the emergency, and some very extraordi nary incidents took place. It is said that seven members of Parliament had to walk the streets at night for lack of any accommodation. This appears as if the resources of the community were not very great, but doubtless such a demand upon their extent of room and elasticity of arrange ments had never before occurred. One individual who arrived, and asked for a refuge, was told that there was not sufficient room for a mouse. It is reported that it is intended shortly to take away the division of the Grenadier Guards. This, if accomplished, will greatly improve the state of affairs, as the present combination is a very strange one, there being no less than 20,000 troops in a place where there are scarcely so many inhabitants. The people of Helsingfors will, for the most part, be delighted with their removal. This step will also augur a more peaceful state of things in regard to Poland, as it will testify that so much anxiety does not prevail on that score in the minds of the Russians. The summoning of the Chambers was celebrated with much ceremony. It is more than half a century since Finland was annexed to the Russian Empire, and during all that long period there has been no session of the Finnish Landtdag. Of course it is natural that the greatest gratitude should be entertained for the present boon, and that hopes should run high in regard to the benefits that will accrue from the event just inaugurated. It would certainly appear to studious observers, however; as if the gift were more substantial if the exercise of its privileges were more free and unfettered. If a constitutional assembly had been founded the posi tion would indeed have been altered for the better. In that case there might have been more reliance to be put upon a consecutive form of representa tion ; as it is now, all depends upon the fancies of the hour, and the fluctuations of policy that take place in St. Petersburg are not the most solid, sure, or safe foundations on which to build the structure of a nation's liberties, or test the hopes of a people's rights. If the Emperor of RUSSIA had bestowed some privileges that were ensured beyond the possibility of removal, and that no subsequent casualty could affect or future ruler disclaim or deny, then indeed would the most sus picious hav e con fid ence , an d t h e most sanguine see thei r expectations realised. But when calmly re• viewi ng the state of things, and taking a retrospec the glance at events, how can the present seem pro pitious or the future fortunate. To-day we may be right, but ass,", way not to-morrow bring forth ? In the chances a nd changes of the perplexing inci dents of despotic Government, how soon i s th e sunny P quite illusory. overcast, and the smiling hope proved last It is not the way to ensure the respect or regard of a i people, however much they may profess at first t o b estow upon them a piece-meal reform, or a temporary a me li orat i on. What is not secure cannot be sterling in its value, or satisfactory in its workings. Hence the gr an d doings in Finland may be quite as much in the long mu the herald of a failure as the advent of a success. The liberty th a t d epen d s u p o n the caprices o f tyranny i s h ardly worth the name, and can never attain to the reality of that blessioz. Insomuch, 13°We T e r) 48 the whole of the inucouvres and ma- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 186,q. nagement that are chronicled as transpiring at Helsingfors are of a progressive character they are so far satisfactory, and that good results will follow on even this minor attempt at enlightened policy is certain. Putting as:de the consideration of ulti- mate consequences of the new organisation of things, the Finlanders are rejoicing at the good things now provided for them. It will be most fortunate if they have no cause to change their happy mood for a sorrowful one. It is to be trusted that policy may induce their Russian rulers to persevere in the course now commenced; and so, in waiting for a better state of things, by that inducement they may continue to enjoy as a favour what they should possess as a right. The usual budget of news from India brings us little that is remarkable. The doubts as to the identity of the prisoner now at Cawnpore with the treacherous NANA SAHIB are not yet laid at rest, and the conflicting and unsatisfactory nature of the evidence does not offer much hope of a speedy set tlement of the question. The limes of India states that his arrival at Cawnpore excited a good deal of commotion, but that the interest which had been awakened died out immediately after his arrival. The people of the district, to most of whom the NANA was of course well known, were unanimous in declaring that the prisoner was not the veritable culprit, and though, as the Indian journal observes, their evidence is not entirely trustworthy, yet the general indifference is certainly worth noting as a feature in the case. The same paper, after referring to the numerous instances on record, in which the nearest relatives have been unable to recognise each other after long-continued absence and ex posure, remarks that the mere fact of recognition or its absence, by persons who had formerly known the NANA, must not be accepted as conclusive evi dence, but there are other points in the prisoner's favour. The fact of the English surgeon who for merly attended NANA SAHIB, being decidedly of opinion that the prisoner is not the man, is cer tainly deserving of value, and it must be admitted that his account of himself and his belongings is not at all satisfactory. We need not doubt that the greatest care and discretion will be exercised in coming to a decision, and we may reasonably hope that a little more time will throw some farther light on the matter. With regard to other matters, the prosperity of India appears to be increasing as fast as the most sanguine wishes could make it. The statistics of import, export, and land revenue during the last ten years exhibit some startling figures. The customs revenue of Calcutta has risen during this decade from £95,807 to £3,081,518. O❑ the old principle of the ill wind, the cotton famine has brought good to India, for cotton has of course contributed largely to the recent rapid increase of trade in Calcutta. Of the whole increase of nearly £5,000,000 over the trade of the previous year, cotton we are told claimed one quarter. Until within a year or two back Calcutta exported no cotton save to China, whereas last year its exports of this particular staple were valued at over a million and a half. Political eco nomists may, if they will, preach a sermon to our manufacturers and our Indian legislators on this text, and point the moral by showing them what Lancashire might be if the point now gained in Indian cultivation had been reached some five or en years ago. By next spring or summer we may hope very considerable addition to our sup• ply, but if the sources which are to keep our mills at work full time in '64 or '65 had been forth coming in '6l and '62, might not English men and women have been spared much suffering and Eng lish trade some loss? It is worth ncticing that the greater part of the cotton exported from Calcutta was ;row❑ iu Northern and Central India, and brought down by the Ganges or by rail. The time thus gained is of importance, but still more advantageous is the improved mode of transit, which spares the cotton much damage on the journey. When the systems of railway and water commu nication is fully developed merchants and culti vators will alike profit by the change. The tea plantations are also rapidly increasing in importance, and the total value of the trade of India, not many years since reckoned as one of our most hopeless and unprofitable possessions, is now estimated at one hundred millions sterling. Truly a lesson to political pessimists not to despair of the fortunes of a great country. And we must remember that even now only a thirty-third part of all Madras is under cultivation. Such is the statement of the Madras Board of Revenue, which reckons 21- millions of square acres under the plough, and leaves the rest of the 84 millions to be accounted for, we presume, by the right hon. baronet at the head of the India Office. Yet of this small amount more than one fourth has been added within the last year. Let us hope that this is an augury of a little more rapid progress in the art of cultivation for the future. The heavy rains have been more violent than usual, and their season has been marked by unwonted de struction, and, still worse, by the progress of the cholera in some districts. Sanitary officers are dila tory, and, unfortunately, epidemics will not a l ways wait their leisure. Military promptness is better fitted to deal with such an adversary, and the plain and sensible rules issued long ago by the Com mander-in-Chief have probably been productive of much good in checking disease. It must be a great satisfaction, no doubt, to those who fall victims to defective arrangements this year to know that next season many reforms will be in progress. Still, " Better late than never" is the motto; and the re organisation of barracks, the appointment of officers of health, and the bill giving despotic sanitary powers to magistrates, will go far to remedy that serious evil of excessive and pre ventible mortality which we are now compelled to deplore. The general peace and prosperity of our Indian dominions gives us leisure to improve and consolidate our internal administration. Let cur statesmen look to it that they seize the oppor tunity and do all that lies in their power to atone for past .n eglect. REPRESENTATION OF BARNSTAPLE.— Political feeling is strong in this borough, but no candidate had come forward, or public manifestation been made, up to Monday, out of respect to the memory of the late member, whose funeral took place in London on that day. The names of several gentlemen have been named as candidates, but the most popular individual likely to come forward is Mr. Richard Bremridge, of Newport (Conservative). The Liborals have, however, resolved on producing another candidate. LUNATIC ASYLUM SECRETS.—Every art has its secrets; the attendants in such madhouses as this have been for years possessed of one they arc too modest to reveal to justices, commissioners, or the public ; the art of breaking a man's ribs, or breastbone, or both, without bruising him externally. The convicts at Toulon arrive at a similar result by another branch of the art : they stuff the skin of a conger eel with powdered stone; they give the obnoxious person a sly crack with it; and a rib or back bone is broken with no contusion to mark the ex ternal violence used. But Mr. Cuoper and his fellows do their work with the knee-joint; it is round, and leaves no bruise. They subdue the patient by walking up and down him on their knees. If they don't jump on him, as well as promenade him, the man's spirit is often the only thing broken; if they do, the man is apt to be broken bodily as well as mentally. Thus died Mr. Sizer in 1854, and two others quite recently. And how many more God only knows ; we can't count the stones at the bottom of a well. —Dickens's "All the Year Round," the new number pub lished to-day. GARIBALDI is reported to be very closely watched by the Italian Government, now that be is nearly restored to health. The next shot, it has been sardonioallyremarked, will doubtleks be ordered to be aimed higher. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] AMERICA. (Per the Nova Scotian.) NEW YORK, SEPT. 19 (Evening). Intelligence received from Charleston to the 16th inst. announce that General Gilmore is mounting heavy guns at Port Wagner and Cumming's Point to bombard Charleston. CNMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Unfavourable rumours concerning the position of General Rosecranz' army have caused a rise in gold and exchange, which are now quoted, gold at 35 per cent. premium, and exchange on London, 1481. Money easy. Stocks steady. New York Centrals, 1381 ; Illinois, 1241 ; Erie, 1071. THE POLISH INSURRECTION. BRESLAU, SEPT. 29. Fresh well-armed detachments of insurgents have appeared in the environs of Tarczyn, four leagues from Warsaw. The day before yesterday the commander of the Russian troops in the palatinate of Kalisch held a council with several superior officers of the Prus sian army, relative to the measures to be taken to paralyse the movements of the insurgents. INDIA AND CHINA. SUEZ, SEPT. 28. The Messageries Imperialed steamer Imperatrice arrived here to-day with India and China mails, 64 passengers, and 1,746 bales of silk. The Peluse is expected at Marseilles on the sth October. FRANCE. PARIS, SEPT. 29. The Moniteur of this morning publishes details respecting the favourable impression produced on the Japanese by the chastisement inflicted by Admiral Juares on the Japanese forts from which the Europeans were fired upon. The Tycoon has sent the model of a flag which belonged to him, with an intimation that his Go vernment recognised the right to foreigners to seize any vessel which shall not hoist this flag. BOURSE, Sept. 28.—The market has been more buoyant, and a fair amount of business done, at an advance—Threes, for the Account, being now at 67f. 90c. The Railway Share Market firm. The market closed as follows : It per Cents .. 95 60 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents 68 Do. end month 67 95 Credit M obilier 1213 75 Do, end month 1215 Bank Shares 3395 Credit koncier sossl3oo Italian Loan 74 Do. end month — New ditto Do. end month — Russian Austrian - Spanish Threes 52 50 Home Debt — RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans ............ 1027 50 .. 1030 Northern lOOO .. 1000 Now ditto - Lyons and Mediterranean 1025 1027 50 Geneva Southern ............. 740 737 50 Western ...... Zastern Sardinian Austrian ...... Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona 416 - .. 415 - 565 - 670 - 550 641 25 655 - .. 660 357 50 36J - The Metric System of Weights and Measures TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sut,—The article against the Metric System in the limes of July 9, signed 8., has been already answered by Mr,. Charles Hutton Dowling, C.E., in the _London Re v i ew of August 1, and by Mr. Frank Fellows, of Wolverhampt on, in the Daily News of Sept. 7, his answer having been first sent to the limes, but refused admittance. A much lon g e r essay i n t h e same s t ra i n has ju3t appeared in the Times of Tuesday, Sept. 15, and of yesterday, and to this I now wish to reply, In the first part ( Times, Tuesday, Sept. 15), there is only ono passage which seems to require notice from me. All the observations in regard to th e thermometer, the dimensions of the great pyramid, and ths measurement of degrees, though tolerably correct, h ave nothing to do with the question of the propriety of legalis in System the ingt the Metric System in England in the manner now pro posed. But Mr. Cobden will pardon me if I step aside fro m th e pursuit of my more direct object to quote his words i n t h e House of Commons on the occasion of the recent d e b ate, and to subjoin the version of them given by your essayist. Ewan M sgl a r i . dsho C ,p o Gt b eod, d v e e n trhno s m a F i e l nr — etn i French Government, e e n fo d re learned the Fen e i nc l 1h01w7980, invited Metrico of our R oya l Se ci e t for the t oFrance world. to devise e a cli s n y e s d te t m o weights in of terfer. e" Accent and mea suresing to the representation which you . have ad op t ed, " Ill as the head of the English informed persons make the Royal Society responsible for not attending." Mr. Cobden and his colleagues in the Metric Talleyrand had System agitation throw the blame upon the British Govern ment and the nation. At the . same time,. as this writer says, "The letter (of invitation) was writteu.,, It was addressed to George 111., Go vernment,cor- rectpromi- nent Govern- ment, been informed agitator a n do by yt ment. It may be true, thewS ;: question,Js oo addressedhn R i gg t because h s a..t Miller, u c such w a as your correspondent suggests, that George 111. suppressed the letter, but it is admitted by him method of communicating with the as an undeniable fact that the French Go vernment, through Louis XVI. as its head, did communicate with the English Government by the only regular an. d legitimat e c h anne l. With respect to the alleges accusations against the Royal Society, I doubt whether such accusations have ever been made, and lam persuaded they were not d eserve d. I re gret that your essayist should bring these angry and futile charges against " Messre.Cobden, Ewart, and their friends" at a time when their friends are united without any narrow distinctions of party, in the pursuit of a great and good object, and when, as one of t hem, I have reason to acknow ledge with the highest respect and grat i tude, the kind re ception given to us at one time by Mr. Disraeli as Chancel lor of the Exchequer, a nd on sub sequent occasions by Mr. Milner Gibson, as president of the Board of Trade. The second portion of the articl e, which appeared yester day, com mences with thissentenoe_4, The great argument in favour of the introduction of the Metric System here has been its extreme mathematical accuracy, and the pre sumed ease with which the standard could be recovered and verified in case of the original being destroyed." It is added, " We have been told, that instead of the quadrant of the arc of the meridian being, as the Metrie System sup poses it to be, 10,000,000 metres, it is 856 metres more ;" and it is inferred, that " this fundamental error necessarily vitiates the whole system of weights and measures, and that the kilogrammes should be augmented by 257 milli grammes." In all this it app ears to me that your author is in error. This " great argument " is seldom, perhaps never, used. In support of this remark I may be per mitted to quote pretty largely from a pamphlet published in 1858 by the Intern ational D ecimal Association as the re sult of their inquiries in r egar d t o " t h e B est U n i t of Length," in which the ex am i nat i on of this very question occapies 15 pages. ‘ ' The f ac t appears to b e, that i n the process of measuring the earth, no less than in experiments with the pendulum, abs o l ute accuracy is unattainable ; but that the metre is sufficiently accurate for all practical pur poses, and as truly an ascertained aliquot part of the meridional quadrant as any y other measure that has been, or can, at least under present circumstances, be proposed. The authors of the Metric System never hoped, or pre tended to arrive at, perfect exactness in the measure of the ear th. They knew that no measurement whatsoever can be mathematically accurate, such accuracy being expressed only by imaginary, not real lines. Their endeavour was, by the use of the best instruments, by repeating their ob • servations, by taking every precaution for the avoidance of error, and by making all the corrections, which were proved to be important, to come as near as possible to a true result. No one has denied that their exertions, marked as they were by energy, perseverance, and self-sacrifice, no less than by ability of the highest order, have entitled them to the admiration and gratitude of all enlightened men. Since the completion of their labour, the measurement of meri dional arcs has been undertaken by other parties, and, of necessity, with a slight difference in the results. The improvements suggested by experience and by the advance of science have been carefully introduced. In former instances, prior to Mechain and Delambre's measurement, an angle was thought to be sufficiently defined by a church tower, or a pile of stones ; more recently a mirror, or a painted circle of wood, has been fixed on the summit of the previous object, and, if large enough to be distinguished at the assigned distance, it has admitted of greater nicety in the observations. On such grounds philosophers are natu rally disposed to prefer the more modern conclusions, and the consequence is, that if the metre were now to be deter mined, it would probably be made larger than the established metre, by a quantity, which though not obvious I send here, with the Debate of the House of Com mons, including Cobden'e Speech, corrected by himself, to the eye may nevertheless be rendered perceptible by I the use of very delicate instruments, and which, though quite insignificant as far as regards the daily operations of commerce and even the ordinary pursuits of science, may become considerable by being multiplied, and may conse quently have a sensible influence on geodetical and astro nomical inquiries."—(Page 29-30.) " The inference from all the preceding facts and consi derations is, that neither the metre, nor any other linear measure which may be substituted in place of the metre, can with our present means of information be assumed with certainty, and to the exclusion of all other quantities, as the exact 10,000,000 th part of the quadrant of a meridian, supposed to be measured from the North Pole to the Equator. All such quantities must be taken as approxima tions, the same latitude being used in regard to them, as in all ordinary cases of linear measurement; for it is to be observed that minute differences must exist in all attempts to compare the lengths of different objects. Euclid's axiom, " Things which are equal to the same are equal to one another," is strictly true only of mathematical lines and other imaginary quantities. In practice it is sufficient, if the inequality is not obvious to the naked eye, and does not go beyond reasonable limits. All parties can only make it their honest aim to arrive at perfect exactness, but will not pretend to have attained it, such a pretension being a proof of nothing but their own ignorance."—(Page 37.) I also attach importance to the remark in the same pamphlet (page 40 and 26 note), " that in case the rectifi cation of the metre should be rendered expedient by the progress of discovery, the founders of the Metric System themselves provided a remedy, not by altering the metre itself, but by a change of the regulation, which fixes its standard temperature. This temperature is now fixed at Zero of the centigrade scale, which is the temperature of melting ice. The consequence is that in daily use the rectification takes place without any legislation at all. The warmth of the hand, the heat of the atmosphere, or the superior tempera ture of most foreign countries will of themselves prolong the metre so as to meet the objections of those who deny its accuracy. It is only in rigorously scientific calculations that the incorrectness of the metre, even supposing it to be proved, can be of the slightest importance. . . I cannot find that this temperature is fixed by any positive law, although it was applied under the authority of the commissioners in constructing the definitive metre of 1799, and has been maintained to this day. It appears that the temperature may be altered whenever any sufficient reason for the change is made manifest, and that the metric system is in this respect self-adjusting." It should be underatcod that the whole difference which your author so strenuously condemns as rendering the metric system worthless, ie not more than the thickness of a film of varnish at the extremity of any metre which may be in use. Let your author show us proofs of the universal adoption of this " great argument." I find it not in the speeches of Mr. E wart and his supporters in the recent debate. I search for it in vain in the report of his committee printed in July, 1862, by order of the House of Commons, and in the answers of all the witnesses, on whose evidence that report was based. It does not occur in the " Inaugural Address" of Sir William Armstrong, which you quote ; nor in the Report of the Council of the international Association 'n February, 1858, nor in any of the tracts issued by that association. In short your author's assertion is nothing better than a dream. I now come to a part of your article, which more imme diately concerns myself, and which it is the more necessary to rebut, because its aim is not merely to destroy my own reputation for common sense and veracity, but to overturn at one stroke both the report of Mr. Ewart's Committee, and the credit of the Metric System. You produce as an opponent of the Metric System, the late Professor Play_ fair, of Edinburgh," whom Mr. James Yates, Secretary of the International Association, with a recklessness rarely surpassed, quotes as being the author of ' a most beauti fully written article,' in which he expressed a decided wish that the system should be adopted in this country.' " The reference to my evidence before Mr. Ewart's Commit. tee, query 498. I will remark, en passant, that lam not the Secretary of the International Association. That office has been held for some years by my distinguished and very able friend, Professor Levi, who would probably have answered were he not on the Continent, having been sent to Btrlin as a delegate to the Statistical Congress, and having, moreover, informed me by letter, that the Congress has unanimously passed resolutions recommending the adoption of the Metric System, and, following in this, the example of the Congresses held at Brussels, Paris, Vienna, and London. 1 will now quote Professor Playfair's words in the renew referred to, that your readers may judge for themselves whe ther I was justified in stating to Mr. Ewart's committee that the professor expressed the opinion which I have imputed to him. The article in question concludes as follows:—" We cannot finish our account of these scientific operations with out expressing our wish that the uniformity of measures and weights were introduced into our own, and into every other civilized country. The difficulty is not so great as we are apt to think, when we consider the matter at a dis tance; and to efeet it requires in reality nothing but for the Legislature to say it shall be done. As to the standard to be adopted, though we think the pendulum would have afforded the most c liavenient,yet when one has been actually fixed on, and determined, that circumstance must great!) outweigh every other consideration. The system adopted by the French, if not absolutely the best, is so very near it, that the difference is of no account. In one point it is very unexceptionable. It involves nothing that savours of the peculiarities of any country, insomuch as the commissioners observe that, if all the history which we have been considering were forgotten, and the results of the operations only preserved, it would be impossible to tell with what nation this system had originated. The wisest measure, therefore, for the other nations of Europe is certainly to adopt the Metrical Sys tem. . . . It would not be necessary to adopt their names, which might not assort very well with the sounds that compose the language of other nations. But the Metre, by whatever name it may be called, ought to be adopted as the unit of length, and all the other measures of linear extension derived from it by decimal multiplica- lion and division." Your readers will now be prepared to find that I was instified in what I stated before Mr. Ewart's committee Questions 499, 500), in regard to Mr. John Quincy Adams. ' Mr. Yates," you observe, "did nut scruple to say that Mr. Adams passes the highest eulogy, quite enthusiasti cally, on the philosophers who were employed in making the measurement and devising the system." Let us now hear Mr. Adams himself, whose book I handed to the com mittee. After a most instructive history of the labours of the French commissioners and the correspondent proceed- ings of the Legislature, President Adams thus writes:— " No apology will be deemed necessary by Congress for dwelling upon these details which signalised the establish ment of the new French Metrical System. The spectacle is at once so rare and so sublime, in which the genius, the science, the skill, and the power of great confederated na tions are teen joining hand in hand in the spirit of fraternal equality, arriving in concert at one destined stage of improvement in the condition of human kind; that, not to pause for a moment, were it even from occupations not essentially connected with it, to enjoy the contemplation of a scene so honourable to the character and capacities of our species, would argue a want of sensibility to appreciate its worth. This scene formed an epoch in the history of man. It was an example and an admonition to the legislators of every nation, and of all after times." (Report on Weights and Measures, p, 59,) Again, "If that universal uniformity so desirable to human contemplation be an attainable perfection, it is now attain able only by the adoption of the new French system of metrology in all its important parts. Were it even possible to construct another system on different principles, but em biacing in equal degree all the great elements of unifor mity, it would still be a system of diversity with regard to Franca and all the followers of her system. Ani as she could not be expected to abandon that, which she has established at so much expense, and with so much difficulty, for another possessing, if equal, not greater advantages, there would still be two rival systems, with more desperate chances for the triumph of uniformity. . . , This system approaches to the ideal perfection of uniformity applied to weights and mea sures, and, whether destined to succeed or doomed to fail, will shed unfading glory upon the age in which it was con ceived, and upon the nation by which its execution was attempted and has been in part achieved. In the progress of its establishment there, it has been often brought into conflict with the laws of physical and moral nature with the impenetrability of matter, and with the habits, passions, prejudices, and necessities of man. It has undergone various important modifications. It must, undoubtedly, still submit to others before it can look for universal adoption. But, if man upon earth be an improvable being, it that universal peace, which was the object of a Saviour's mission, which is the desire of the philosopher, the longing of the philanthropist, the trembling hope of the Christian, is a blessing, to which the futurity of mortal man has a claim of more than mortal promise ; . . . then this system of common instruments to accomplish all the changes of social and friendly commerce will furnish the links of sympathy between the inhabitants of the most dis tant regions; the metre will surround the globe in use as well as in multiplied extension; and one language of weights and measures will be spoken from the Equator to the Poles." (P.p. 47, 48.) I must be excused from following your author through the sequel of his essay, more especially since his remaining assertions are rather expressions of opinion than state ments of facts. The best judges may differ in regard to the " balance of scientific evidence," the convenience of the Metric System, the advantage of uniformity, the preference duo to a binary scale, and V " the sublime audacity," the " breach of good faith," &c., implied in the introduction of a bill such as Mr. Ewarrs. Also, the question respecting the sale of grain and wine is too intricate to pursue into itt, details in a letter, which may, even as it is, try the patience of your readers. I will conclude by observing that I make it a general rule not to answer anonymous assailants. In the present instance I have deviated from my ordinary practice, not thinking I was under the slightest obligation to reply, but in compliance with the suggestion of a friend. JA3IES YATES, Lau ierdale House, Highgate, Sept. IS, ha LITERATURE. Stevens' Grade Lesson Books. Fifth Standard. Pp. 220. Longman and Co. Already we have noticed the four preceding volumes of this really admirable series of "Lesson Books," a series especially adapted to meet the requirements of the Revised Code. The " Fifth Standard," here added to the set, brings out yet more clearly to view the excellence of the system upon which the compilation has been made. Another, the Sixth, Standard alone remains to be published, and the series will then stand completely before the public. As far as it goes even now, it is already in one sense complete—complete that is up to the point at which the course of tuition has, at the close of these 220 pages, arrived. Throughout, with the most scrupulous care, the brother editor 3 of the series, that is to say, Mr. Stevens, of King's College, and Mr. Hole, the head master of the Loughborough Collegiate School over at Brixton, have attended to the several requirements of the Revised Code. While doing this, they have notified to all such Teachers as may use these Grade Lesson Books with due attention to the official requirements alluded to, that the reading lesons are intended to be car ried out as here given, namely, consecutively. That the selected words, with their respective sig nitications attached, are designed to be learnt by the pupil before beginning the lesson s'n which they occur, and to which they are prefixed. And—among other similarly useful little items of advice— that the exercises in Reduction here given are placed after those in Addition and Subtraction advisedly. Even Tommy Merton, when first he went, as a email high-bred dunce, to good Mr. Barlow's parsonage, there to learn, or not to learn, exactly as he pleased, in companion ship with honest Farmer Sandford's son Harry —even little Tommy Mertoa might with the aid of these Grade Lesson Books have astonished :qr. Barlow in half the time required thus to astonish him, by unexpectedly evidencing his (Tommy's) suddenly acquired proficiency as a reader. And many of the lessons here grouped together for the boy student are to the full as in teresting as—while they are, beyond a doubt of it (as thus given), far more rapidly instructive than —the charming series of tales scattered through the history of "Sandford and Merton," by Thomas Day, Anyone, without looking into the book under notice, may understand that it is actually thus, as we say—upon oar enumeration of some among the various reading lessons here collected together. Instance this, Eliza. Cook's " Bruce and the Spider,"DAniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe Saving Friday," Professor Longfellow's " Village Blacksmith," Charles Dickens's " Little Dombey's Deathbed," William Longman's "Dinner at an Old Manor House," Da Chaillu's " Infant Gorilla," Oliver Goldsmith's " Moses at the Fair," and other admirably well selected fragments from a very wide range of sterling and popular literature. Vie Arts of Writing, Reading, and Speaking, in Letters to a Law Student. By Edward W. Cox, Recorder of Falmouth. One vol., pp. 328. Crock- ford. These very excellent lettera of practical advice are republished from the Law Times. They were commenced, Mr. Cox tells us, with the purpose only of imparting to law students some hints on the art of speaking, which had been suggested to the writer by experience and observation. Becoming impressed with the conviction that to speak well it is necessary to be able to write well and read well, the learned author has enlarged his original design by the addition of instructions in the arts of writ ing and reading. By so doing he has greatly in creased the value of his book, and he has also ren dered it generally useful as a manual of practical information for others besides the Banister and the Member of Parliament. Mr. Cox's instructions are remarkable for their sound common sense; for example, how earnestly truthful aro the following remarks on— THE PERFECT ORATOR. "A perfect speaker would be almost a perfect man, so that there never was, and never will be, a perfect orator. The best does but approach the standard of ideal excellence. Such great gifts of mind and body must combine to consti tute an orator that, when I detail them, you will cease to wonder that great orators are so few. I will first sketch the mental qualifications, for these, or some of them, are abso lutely indispensable, and their presence will go far to com pensate for the absence of many physical advantages. "The foremost care of a speaker is, to have something to say; his next is, to say it; and his third is, to sit down when he has said it. Th3se may appear to you very com monplace requirements, and you will probably think that I needed not have taken the trouble to write long letters to you to tell you this. But in fact, like other golden rules, they are more easy to remember than to observe. Consult your own experience, and say how many of the speeches you have ever heard, on any occasion whatever, gave utter ance to thoughts, to ideas, to aught that painted a picture on your mind, influenced your judgment, or kindled your emotions. Were they not mere sounding brass and tink- ling cymbals, sentences ' full of sound and fury, signifying nothing,' or words that scarcely fall at all into sentences, insomuch that, when the speaker had concluded, you could not very distinctly say what he had beon talking about ? And if this sort of speaker so abounds, how much more frequent still are they who never know when they have done, and how to sit down, having said what they desired to say. How many men, who are otherwise really respect able speakers, fail in this faculty of sitting down, are con tinually coming to a close and then beginning again, and when you mentally exclaim, ' He is certainly going to finish now,' start off on a new topic, or repeat the thrice-told tale, and take a new lease of your ears, to the severe trial of your patience." Again, in the chapters on " The Oratory of the Bar," we find the following very judicious advice on the best mode of— WINNING OVER A dt, RY. " Light, lively, pleasant talk is the most effective. Do not speak at them or to them, but with them. Lord Abinger used to say that his great success as an advocate was due to his making himself the thirteenth juryman. There could not be a better illustration of the manner of dealing with juries. Therefore take a little trouble at first to put yourself on good terms with your jury, not by flat tering language, but by that more effective flattory which is shown, not said. It you meet a man in the street, and want to convince or to persuade him, how do you proceed ? You take him by the button, you appeal to his intelligence, you explain the matter to him in the most familiar terms and with the most homely illustrations, and you do not let him go till you have made him understand you. Twelve jurymen are only a multiplication of such cases, to be treated in the same manner. "Good temper goes a great way towards conciliating a jury. Command yourself; win with smiles; frowns repel them. Exhibit unflinching confidence in your cause, for any distrust betrayed by you is instantly imparted to them. If the subject is dry, enliven it with some timely jest, and the duller the theme the smaller the joke that suffices to re lieve its dullness. * * * * * * "It is often asked, how far jesting is permissible at the bar. It is not in good taste, perhaps, but I must admit that it is very effective. When the most grave work is being done, men feel the strongest tendency to laugh. It is wonderful what slight and sorry jests will provoke shouts of laughter in a court of justice. I will not now consider the cause of this, though the philosophy of humour accounts for it. The fact suffices. that when surrounded by solemnity we are most easily tickled to laughter. The advocate who can summon smiles to the lips of his audience will com mand their ears more certainly than he who can only call tears into their eyes, and both will achieve an easy triumph over the speaker who can do neither, let him be ever so ac complished in other respects." " The Oratory of the Pulpit," " The Oratory of the Senate," and "The Oratory of the Platform," are the subjects of separate study and consideration ; the preliminary chapters being devoted to general advice on composition and reading, as well as the ma nagement of the voice, &c. &c. Mr. Cox has not for gotten the most minute details in these instructions, in order to facilitate the practical education of the student; and many speakers who are above being called Students would learn much from a thought ful perusal of these pages, whereby they might benefit not themselves only, but those destined to listen to their orations. THE DUKE DE GRAMONT-CADEROUSSE is about, says the Court Journal, to take unto himself a wife, in the person of a native of one of the French colonies, who is young, pretty, and exceedingly wealthy. It was the duke, it will be remembered, who killed, in a duel, poor Dillon, the sporting journalist; who figured prominently in that famous scene in which Calzado, the director of the Italian theatre, was detected cheating at cards--who has been the hero of adventures innumerable; and, for some years past, has been the "fastest" of all young men of rank in the fast world of Paris. His retirement into domestic felicity will leave a great void in the " life" of this gay capital; but, doubtless, there may be many aspirants to the throne he abdicates, tNi(tart . , t .....,..,....1.: . - - th,:,,-,' .-- tlrtmilar. ..,_.,--- ~,., --, The Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia. Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia were to leave Potsdam last night on their way to England. On their arrival in this country their royal highnesses will proceed direct to Scotland, on a visit to her Ma jesty at Balmoral. Their royal highnesses, who will remain in Eng land for some time, will be accompanied by their children. Accouchement of the Queen of Portugal. Her Majesty the Queen of Portugal gave birth to a prince yesterday at 1.35 p.m. By the last tele gram received her Majesty and infant were pro gressing favourably. The event was announced by a salute of 101 guns from the castle. The news of the happy event was transmitted to the Queen and the royal family at Balmoral soon after the intelligence reached London from Lisbon. Towards :the latter end of October her Majesty will return from Scotland and remain at Windsor Castle a short time, and then proceed to Osborne. the Queen will return to Windsor Castle previous to the 13th of December , where it is expected her Majesty will remain to spend the Christmas, at which time the festivities of the season will be resumed.—Cour.l Journal. His Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon, with a numerous suite, has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel. The Duke of Somerset arrived at his official reei donee at the Admiralty yesterday evening, from Maiden Bradley, Wilts. The Duke of Leinster has left town for Worksop Manor, Notts, on a visit to Lord and Lady Foley. The Marquis of Bristol and the Ladies Hervey have arrived at Ickworth Park, near Bury St. Edmunds, from a tour in Germany. The Marquis and Marchioness of Bath have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, on a visit to the Earl and Counters of Chesterfield, at Gedling Lodge, Notts. The Countess (Dowager) of Tankerville has arrived in town from a tour of visits in Scotland. The Countess (Dowager) of Westmoreland and Lady Rose Fane have arrived in town from Scotland. The Earl of Chesterfield left town yesterday afternoon for Newmarket. The Earl Brownlow and Lady Marian Alford, who are at present at Ashbridge Park, Herts, are not es peeted to leave for Madeira until on or about the 7th of November. Lord and Lady Wenloek have returned to Escrick Park, Yorkshire, from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland at Alnwick Castle, Northum berland, Lord and Lady Raglan have arrived in town from the Earl Beauchamp's seat in 'Worcestershire, for the season. Baroness de Clifford has arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from the Continent. Colonel Sowerby has arrived at Thomas's Hotel ; Berkeley-square, from Putteridge, Bury, Beds. CARDINAL WISEMAN.—We regret to state that Cardinal Wiseman has been unable to leave his bed since Wednesday last, As soon as he can be moved it will be necessary for him to leave town for a change of air. ALEX, DUMAS has another novel in hand, which will shortly appear in the Presse. The subject is borrowed from the bloodiest periods of Neapolitan history. Yet it will be called by the name of a saint—" La San Felice." THE BRITISH ARCHEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION will hold their 20th annual meeting at Leeds, during the week from the 12th to the 19th of October. Lord Houghton (Monckton Milnes) is the President. A LITERARY THIEF has carried off from the Ambrosian Library at Milan the whole of the autograph correspondence of the Mecici with the Dukes of Milan, from 1496 to 1510. This treasure was stolen from the study of Dr. Gatti, the conservator. " VON BOCKI7M•DOLFFS's FIAT" f.s the title ap plied to the newest-shaped cylinders now to be seen in the shop windows of the Berlin hatters. ENGLISH AUTHORSHIP IN GERMANY.—Amongst other translations from English into German which are to be in readiness for the approaching Leipzig Fair, are Charles Lever's " Davenport Dunn," Miss Yonge's " Hopes and Fears, or Scenes from the Life of an Old Maid," and three volumes of Mr. Spurgeon's Sermons. MORE LITERARY PIRACY.—The Baron Tauchnit z has just added to his Collection of British Authors " Eleanor's Victory," by Miss Braddon, two vols. DR. ALEXANDER HENDERSON, author of the " History of Ancient and Modern Wines," published in quarto in 1824, and of several other works, died at Caskie ben, Aberdeenshire, on Wednesday last, aged 83. ALDGATE ex-Sheriff Lusk will, it is understood, become a candidate for the vacant aldermanic gown of this ward, in the room of the late Alderman Humphery. Mr. Lusk has been a member of the Court of Common Council for a considerable period and a resident in the ward for many years—there is, therefore, every prospect of his attainment of the honourable and nuW much coveted appointment. MR. MASON.—The announcement which has appeared in some of our contemporaries of the arrival in Paris of Mr. Mason, the diplomatic re presentative of the Southern States, is premature. Mr. Mason is still in London, and, according to present arrangements, cannot leave for France before Thurs.. day next. In all probability arrangements will per mit him to leave on that day; but, till then, his friends will continue to communicate with him in Upper Seymour street. THE ITALIAN ARMY is at present distributed as follows :-9 battalions at Geneva, 6 at Turin, 9 at Aless an dria, 12 in Tuscany, and 120 distributed in the valley of rile Po from Ancona to Milan, supported by 60 squadrons cif cavalry, and 250 pieces of artillery; at Naples, 18 batta lions of the lines, 2of Marines, and 6 of Bereaglieri, with -32 squadrons of cavalry; in all, 82 battalions of infantry, in addition to 6 regiments of Carabineers, and detachments of the Gard Modili. There are also 22 battalions in Sicily. SHAKSPERE'S FOREST OF ARDEN.—The English, above all other people, are addicted to annual flit tinge; but we are almost the only people, says the Athe mown, affiliated to the tribe of Gad, who aro given to visit repeatedly well-known localities abroad, instead of explor ing the historical shrines, the woodland scenery, and thee natural beauties which abound at home. London itself, within a morning's ride by train, is girdled by scenes of delight and storied mansions, the proprietors of which generously throw them open to the public, who know , nothing of them. There are people who could thread the Black Forest, and yet are ignorant of the whereabouts of the Forest of Arden. Thanks to Mr. Hannett, that plea sant place is now laid open to them—in his recently published " Topographical and Historical Account of the District between and around Henley in Arden, and tramp tan, in the County of Warwick." Accompanying him p they may exclaim, with some sense of rejoicing, " Here we are in Arden!" though no one will have reason to add,-- "The more fool II When I was at home I was io a. better place." We know no class of holiday makers to, whom this exquisite district does not offer attractions. As up at Bettws y Coed, where the various visitants are divided into the " Turpentines," the "Paper Stainers," the " Water Whippers," and the " Wanderers," so in Ardent the painters in oil colours may find the effects they most long for ; and the water colour artist, ladies as well as gen tlemen. may pitch their tents, and find picture wealth be fore them ; and anglers need never throw fly in vain, nor the tourists have once occasion to say, after art eight days' exploration, from Henley to Elmdon, that " all js barren.' As for the young ladies, to whom Bettws y Coed is dear for various good causes, we can tell them that there are green. lanes and wooded dells, and convenient brook shies in Arden, where honest love may be as fairly dealt in as up at the old Welsh station whose name signifies "the Ch.pel in the Wood." The Forest of Arden is close to some of oat manufacturing districts, but it has preserved its old rustic . features. The forest is not there, any more than you could now find one in the Forest of Soignies ; but there are noble mansions, quaint and stout old moated houses, dense alai shady woods, abundance of rich hedgerow timber, every* where save in the mid portion of this Warwickshire dis trict ; spreading prospects, SMeeping undulations, beautiful valleys, mossy lanes, secluded by-ways, purling brooks, winding streams, amid a hearty and healthy folk to bid the traveller welcome. And there is good fare in Arden, too ; albeit Warwickshire ale is not known by ill; old s ignificant names of "Mad Dog," " Angel's Food,r "Dragon's Milk , " or " Merry .go-down." And there are fine old traditions to talk of over your Warwickshire cups. THE MYSTERIOUS MAIL-BAG ROBBERIC AT HULL—On Saturday morning the missing cheq ues were received at the Beverley branch of the Yorkshire Dink ing Company (their destination when posted i n the letter at South Cave). The envelope in which they have been posted bears the Hull post mark, and it the refore appears probable that the person (Hrs. Cooke) n ow in cfmtody posted them at Hull prior to her attempt to get the £2B 4s. cheque cashed at the Hull branch of the above company. We are not aware that any one else has yet been taken into custody on the charge of stealing' the mail bag, but investi gations are being made by the Post-office and police autho rities which will probably lead to the apprehension of another party. It is said that the, woman accounts for her possession of the cheques by stating that she came from Hessel to Hull on Thursday evening . , and thac some one in the same train gave her them,- -Leeds Mercury, 4 lari fact coff Nval Whi am( of 620 141 169 con vat gra 68f. 18! ; 108; Bug! Inch Allis and Frar reali Bay Bank 3 per 3 per New New New 6 per &um Mt Dii India Dit Dit Dii Dii Dit Dii Dii taut cons Indic Each Dii Dii Bust Braz Di Dii Buei Di . 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