The Sun. — London, England, 1863-05-26 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1863. The Royal Speech delivered yesterday at Turin to Messieurs the Senators and Messieurs the Depu ties of the Italian Parliament by VICTOR EMMANUEL 11. may be described at once as, above all things, a speech of generalities. Yet the generalities were so judiciously chosen that it must be regarded alto gether as a:telling speech in its way. It seems strange that it should be so, yet it actually does happen to be so nevertheless, that only now, after so long an interval of silence in his regard, does the KING, standing in front of his throne, offer to the assembled Legislators of the Peninsula a tardy expression of his opinion in regard to the dead Statesman through the agency of whose wily policy his Majesty, above all men living, has so largely profitted. " You first commenced your Parliamentary labours at the time when Providence," says VICTOR EMMANUEL (not, we may be certain, without a qualm), " had taken from us the illustrious man who so powerfully as sisted me in the difficult enterprise of our rege neration." After all this lapse of time, during which the old, long-vexed question of Unification seems to have sullenly fallen into the background, its noisiest champions, as it were, dropping off one after another into a doze of very exhaustion —it cannot possibly but occur to us at length, re garding the whole state of things yonder in Italy from a distance, and, as much as we possibly can contrive to do so, dispassionately—it cannot possibly, we say, but occur to us that out of the whole turmoil one man, and one man alone, can be described as having in any way materially profitted, in a worldly sense, out of the whole of it. CATOIIR was in a manner killed by it—worn out prematurely by the harassment of his secret anxieties, toils, and labours in .the development of his Macchivellian enterprise. GARIBALDI has unquestionably come to grief through it. His prestige—at one time, and for a long time too, paramount and unrivalled—has long since been cast down into the very dust. The Invincible was overthrown by a mere Colonel of Bersaglieri, in an insignificant tussle in a little hole-in-a-corner among the heights of Aspromonte. The redoubtable conqueror of the Two Sicilies, the most daring of modern Con dottieri, literally put his foot in it at last—into the Italian Boot that is—when he was shot down, with a torturing bullet left in his ankle, as though he had been some ordinary deserter, trapped and driven to bay, by one of the petty officers in the army of King VICTOR EMMANUEL. The King himself is really and truly the one man, who in a worldly sense can be in any way described as having benefitted by the revolutionary move ment in Italy. Yet, while it is so, who will hes.itate, who can possibly hesitate, to assert—what comneon sense certainly compels us to assert—that a man like GARIBALDI, who has individually pro fited nothing by the Revolution, has been through. out it, is still to this present moment, far more con sistent in his course of proceeding in reference to it, than the Royal voluptuary who has profited every. thing by it ? That pre-eminently bold, yet at the same time also, it should be said, that pre-eminently d iscreet Swashbuckler, who was dubbed long ago by GARIBALDI himself,iin a moment of loyal effusion, the —Re Galantuonzo. Remembering how it, has come to Peas that GARIBALDI, as one may really express it, singlehanded, with the audacity of one of theold B uc caneers, seized the Kingdom of the Sicilies and made a present of his booty to King VICTOR EMMANUEL —one certainly cannot but wonder over the moral left by the exploit—when thinking that that same saldier of Fortune was eventually shot down like a dog by the soldiers of the KING he had served so effecteially ! That he has been for months past s l ow ly recovering from his wound in hi s li tt l e rocky home at Caprere, while the Monarch who has so largely benefitted, in a material wa y, thai t s, by the largeness of his acquisitions in the shape of con quered cities a nd absorbed territor y , can point. to the result of it all, as (so far) quite successfully un fait accompli --referring, as Victor Emmanuel did, with not unnatural complacency, yesterday, in his royal speech, to the reassembled Senators and De- I puties at Turin, to Cle recognition of his new king. dom by many of the Foreign Powers! To his continued success in arranging dynastic alliance after dynastic alliance —the marriage of his daugh ter, the Princess CLOTILD.t, to H.I.H. the Prince NAPOLEON, being followed but a few years after by the taking to wife of his other daughter, tLe Princess MARIA Pia , b y the y o uthful King of Portugal ! The King referr in g also yesterday, exultantly, to the conclusion of treaties of Commerce successively, by his administrators, with France, Belgium, Sweden, and Turkey—other Treaties of Commerce being yet, at this moment, in process of negotiatiou with England and with Holland. So elated, in fact, with the results of the whole movement is the one wan who has individually benefited by it, that is to say, the King—[Cavouß having died under the weight of its prosecution, GARIBALDI having fallen under a fusillade from the royal sol diery because of his at any rate consistent pertina city in striving to carry it out to the very last ex tremity]—that to his Majesty's view everything is rose-coloured. Army and navy are getting rapidly disciplined and perfected, he almost tells us—for something more! "Within two years," says his MAJESTY, " from the campaign of the glorious sub- Alpine army, the soldiers of our new provinces have been organised, and we are now proud of an Italian army, beiliiant alike by its valour and solid in its dis cipline. Our navy, rich with so many great elements, and to the development of which you have devoted so mach solicitude, will equal in progress the renown the army has attained." All the while listening to those sonorous words, reading them as they come flashed to us by telegraph, we cannot but muse over the somewhat selfish complacency of the royal speaker, remembering not only, as we have said — how his Chief Statesman succumbed in the over zealous advancement, coute qui coute, of the interests of his King—how his Chief Soldier, the greatest military adventurer now living, w as thrown aside like a broken sword-blade when it had done its utmost in carving out, through a host of difficulties, the still incomplete and malformed Rough Outline of a State, called the Kingdom of Italy. Reading the KING'S Speech of yesterday—at the close of its perusal there comes discor dantly to recollection one sinister item from a mass of evidence recently brought forward in the British House of Commons by an eyewitness as credible as the noble lord the Member for the borough of Chichester :—" In the next room [Lord HENRY LENNOX is recounting his recent peregrina tion through the prison at Salerno] there were 230 persons, and to state the squalor and filth in which these men were would require an abler and more elo quent tongue than mine to paint ! Among them were men of the National Guard, who were condemned to that living death because they had listened to the voice of GARIBALDI ! One of them was a most wretched object, and many of them had been in prison so long that they had literally no clothes, and were therefore unable to rise to ask for that pity which had before greeted my ears !" The grave of CAVOIIR, the rock of Caprera, the dungeons of the State prison at Valerno—cluster like un sightly and reproachful vignettes round that pic tuied pageantry yesterday in the Royal Palace at Turin. The Royal Geographical Society has bad an unexpected and scarcely looked for triumph to celebrate at its annual meeting, where full justice was rendered both to the difficulties and the suc cess recounted by the eloquent discourse of their President. The address of Sir RODERICK MUR CHISON will be read with deep interest, for it gives, in a simple, yet graphic manner, an out line of the labours and researches that resulted in the remarkable discovery over which we are now rejoicing. The details of the expedition, the Presi dent purposely left to be more fully given by the discoverers themselves, whose speedy arrival in this country is now confidently looked for. It was enough to tell us, in the interval, that they had richly earned their reward by a long course of exertion and danger, which needed all their tact and courage to bring to a speedy conclu sion. Only a few weeks since, as Sir RODERICK Nlußcuisom reminded his hearers, the greatest anxiety was felt for the fate of the enterprising travellers, and these gloomy forebodings were heightened bythe rumour, happily false, of the death of Consul PETHERICK. It will be remembered that this gentleman had arranged to meet the travellers at Gondokoro, on the White Nile, and there to supply them with money and other necessaries. These ar rangements were of course dependant upon the safe passage of both parties through the dangers of the intervening route, and unfortunately the loss of all Consul PETHERICK's stores would have prevented him from assisting his friends, although he reached the appointed spot. But help was at hand. Another English traveller had heard of Mr. PETHERICK'S troubles, and with a liberality and enterprise that reflect the highest honour on him, he immediately fitted out an expedition at his own cost, resolved if possible to relieve the explorers, or, if that hope failed, to pursue the explorations himself. His energy was rewarded by meeting the wanderers at Gondokoro five days before the arrival of Mr. PETHERICK, and by supplying all their needs. The joy of the travellers at beholding him can with difficulty be pictured in a civilised country. "The meeting," says Captain SPEICE, "of two old friends suddenly approaching one another from the oppo site hemispheres, without the slightest warning, can be better understood than described. He was our saviour, if not in the interior, at any rate on the Nile." The account of Captain SPEKE'S adventures among the native tribes are full of interest. He was fortunate enough to obtain the favour of three powerful Kings—one of whom behaved to him with singular kindness ; another detained him in a kind of honourable captivity for five months, this delay being very vexatious. The lest district through which he had to pass was, however, the most troublesome, for the people were barbarous, and the King endeavoured to take from him his only chronometer. The adventurers passed a whole year in getting through three kingdoms, is no one of which had a white man ever been seen. And Sir RoDERIcK MURCHISON remarked that they would scarcely have accomplished this alive had they not been liberal in their gifts to the Kings, and had not these Sovereigns, whose power is abso lute, anxiously wished to open a trade with the .vhites. In spite of all delays and dangers, however, the travellers safely accomplished their journey, and they have thereby entitled themselves to a high place among the list o f em inent discoverers. "The question of the sources of the Nile," said the President, " has oc cupied geographers a nd travellers from the re motest periods of history ; and when we come down to the period of the Romans, we learn from SENECA that NERO sent up two centurions to settle the question, but they returned without accomplishing is not,lishing what our two countrymen ha ve effected. It therefore, for us only as geographers to rejoice on this occasion, but our country should be proud of such a feat as has been accomplished by the two g Inuit officers of the Indian army ; and I have no o ee y u s e b sr t i that tri a eon when the rec i ta l s o f th e ir toils and known,jour moafdeinterior n as e o w k e i l n l same we applausenever he o a e t h p e u y v, will io a g a d s t m h s e i r o f graphic whose namesttt e sbthat r c w e t h e i tl e h w w i with so justly bestowed on my illustrious friend LIVING sTONE after he had traversed Southern Africa?' Many a long day elapsed from the return of the two centurions from their fruitless quest, before Sir RODERICK MURCHISON received Captain SPEKE'S laconic telegram, " The Nile is settled P' Curiously enough it was Captain SPEKE who first propounded the theory which has sub. sequently proved to be the right one, namely, that the true centre of Africa is a great elevated watery basin, abounding in fertile lands, its large lakes fed by numerous streams, and its waters escaping to the sea by fissures and depressions. "While this theory was clearly verified in Southern Africa by Livingstone in the escape of the Zambesi, as narrated by himself, and is well known to be true in the case of the Niger, so does it apply to the Nile,in as far as the great central lake,Vic toria Nyanza, occupies a lofty plateau of 3,500 feet above the sea. In this example, as the waters flow from a southern watershed, and cannot escape to the east or to the west, there being no great trans versal valleys in the flanking higher grounds, they necessarily issue from the northern end of the Lake Victoria Nyanza, and, forming the White Nile, take advantage of a succession of depressions, through which they flow and cascade. The upper most of these cascades, and close to the lake, has been named, after my predecessor, Ripon Falls, 'thenceforward, the White Nile, fed by other affluents h is it flows to the South, has a descent of 2,400 feet, when it reaches Khartum, which is 1,100 feet above the sea. The general course of the Nile, from south to north, and its peculiarity as a stream, in having no affluent between the Atbara River and the sea, a distance of 1,700 miles, has been illustrated by Sir HENRY HOLLAND. The phenomenon of its being confined to this northward course is due to the fact that the flanking higher grounds, ranging from south to north, do not afford, as in Southern Africa, lateral valleys which lead to the sea." The triumph of ascertaining these valuable and in teresting facts has been justly earned by English men, and this by the perseverance and courage with which they have explored these danger ous and inhospitable regions. Further infor mation will doubtless be obtained by sub sequent discoverers, but the glory of the first discovery indisputably rests with Captain SPEKE and his brave companion. Sir RODERICK NIURCHISON justly reminds the public of the en couragement given by him to the proposed route by Zanzibar, at a time when great prejudice existed against it. The result is gratifying in every point of view, and adds a fresh leaf to the laurels won by British discoverers. The wording of the address to the KING by the Chamber of Deputies in Prussia is now published, and is most worthy of attention. It is of some length, and is very carefully arranged. The com pilers of this document appear to have achieved what the French call a juste milieu, between assert ing their rights and yet showing respect to their SOVEREIGN. The address commences by remind ing the KING that at the commencement of the present session, the Chamber pointed cut to him the importance of a return to constitutional rules by means of which alone could they hope for a restora tion of peace at home and strength abroad. This is strictly true, and had the Ministers not been eo headstrong in their course, very different would now be the prospects of Prussia . They appear to have adopted Perversity as their motto, and the more the Deputies objected, the more determined grew their opposition to all popular rights and all constitutional principles. Next re ference is made to the very extraordinary conduct of the Ministers. In this passage, not being restrained by the respect that naturally influences their lan guage towards the KING, the Deputies speak out strongly, and in no way mince matters. " Your MA JESTY'S Ministers openly express unconstitutional principles, and prepare to act on them." This is stating their grievance in plain terms, and proclaim ing the dereliction of those entrusted with high authority in a manner that cannot be mistaken. Their offences are then enumerated. They have re fused to take part with the Chamber in the bill on Ministerial responsibility, and they have gone so far as to declare that "they could not submit their respon sibility to the judgment of the judicial court desig nated by the constitution." Tais is a cowardly act in the first place, and, secondly, proves a violation of the first principles of the constitution. The most inexcusable act is last cited, namely, that they have on a most futile pretext withdrawn themselves from the Chamber in defiance of the right of the two Chambers to demand their presence. After wards reference is made to their influence abroad, and here it is truly stated that danger is to be apprehended, and that the Ministers have disappointed all their hopes by their foreign policy, while by their very unconstitutional acts at home they have lost the confidence of populations and of governments. Even when the Chamber of Deputies has raised its voice against their mistaken and mischievous course no heed is paid to their suggestions; and the Min:sters have even gone so far as to declare that they should make war if they thought it necessary—that they should make war with or without the consent of the Cham ber. Great stress is laid on the failure of the prin cipal object of the session in consequence of the rupture of the personal relaticns between the Minis ters and the Chambers. We now come to the most important part of the reply, that part of it in which the Chamber tells the KING that it has no further means of coming to an understanding with the present Government, and that it declines to co operate in its present policy. They go so far as to say that they consider an abyss is between the advisers of the Crown and the country, an abyss which cannot be filled up but by " a change of per sons, and, what is more, by a change of system." " The country calls for respect for its constitutional rights," says the Address, " may the respectful prayer of the Deputies be heard by your MAJESTY, and may you, es in the glorious days of our past, seek for and find the éclat of the royal house, and the power and safety of the Government, in the reciprocal bond of confidence and of fidelity be tween the Prince and the people. It is only in that union that we are strong. On that condition, but on that alone, we may without fear await any attack from whatever quarter it may come." This last passage is a worthy conclusion to this most for cible address. If the KING resists the appeal he will have only himself to thank for all that may occur. It would have been difficult, if not almost impos sible, for the subject to have been better treated than it has been in this eloquent and energetic document. Deputies of responsibility, r e a s pp o ea sib rt i o l i havetyand been animated a actuated lo by a due se nse er t ewdmeis love of their c oun t r y which has alway s sin b - y a e h n o ho o nest s great theiran cl gloriousremarks m a rk s ; d e t e hey ds. do oTihioeyt cry peace where there is no peace, but, on the contrary, they show the danger while they suggest the remedy. It is earnestly to be trusted that this final attempt will be successfu l , an d that the KING will at last recognise the evil that must ensue from his tyrannical course, if he should obsiinately per sist in it, hearkening at last, to wiser and better ejunsels, before the time for improvement shall have passed by altogether. following st resolutions May th e 2lid-- - IMPERIA L CONTINENTAL GAS LIG HT C OMPANY. —At a meeting of shareholders of this company the la j lie . l it i a a w t li ß n i s r , mEiz h , a i m n thoenchair,Saturday were passed :—Moved by F. J. Welch, Esq., seconded by S. W. Lucas, Esq., and resolved—" That whilst this meeting would be much pleased to see an increased dividend, or a capitalisation of undi divided profits, or both, it begs to express its entire con fidence in the directors, whose prudence, discretion, and management have obtained for thiq company so pre-eminent a Position." Also resolved—" That the chairman be re quested to forward board of a copy of the above resolution to the directors," THE SETTLING DAT—Adam Black. Esq., 1-",--ICo-Too at Court, dn. &o.—in FUN, This Week. One Penny. 44 SATURDAY NIGHT JOURNAL." Every Week. One Penny. Forensic Reminiscences. The Thames Embankment and its Approaches. America and the Giants ; &c. &c. 80, Feet-street. i(ILLEAT E -R0 t A 1., HAY MARKED. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, BORROWING A HUSBAND. Pa mela, Miss Maria Harris. After which, 9th time, a new and original comedy. entitled FINESSE ; or, Spy and Counter-Spy Buckstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, and Miss Louisa Angel. Followed by an apropos Dramatic Sketch, introducing a Panorama of the Tour of the Prince of Wales in the East. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at 7. THE PUKE'S MOTTO. THE HUNDREDTH AND TENTH NIGHT. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTE R. TIM EVENING, at 7, to commence wi th an Orizinal Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Garden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. Shore, After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, and PrDiOglle, entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feral and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by , Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G Jordan, J. Brougham, H. iddnombe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson; Lavenue, and Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, N. Elsworthy. Acting-Manager, Mr. 11. Barnett. NEW THEATRE -ROYAL, ADELPHI, Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, a petite Drama, THE ANGEL OR DEVIL. Miss A. Jones, Mr. Toole, and Mr. Billington. After which (12th time), a new Drama, in one act, entitled THE WOODEN SPOON MAKER. Messrs. B. Webster, Stuart, Stephenson, Seft ; Miss H. Simms, and Mrs. 8.1- llngton. Followed by a new Burlesque, en t f led ILL-TREATED IL C.OO Mt ssrs. Toole, P. Bedtord, R Phillips, Ebnrne, . Smitb, Romer; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and Sar I, and Miss K. Kelly. To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Toole, Arc. Mr. J. L. Commence at 7. 711 HE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGEWT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, May 26, 1863. THERMOVMTER. This raornin ...... 63 This day at Two o'clo ck Barometer -30.12. wind—N.W. ; light breeze, and fine. RIGS WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tills DA.T.—Monling, 7h. 36m.—Afternoon, Bh. sm. To-lionnow.-Morning, Bh. 40m.—Afternoon, 9h. 15m. etiC THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 26, 1863. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. LE PROPHETE. This 3 ll but masterpiece of Meyerbeer is now so thoroughly establiel ted as one of the great attractions of this theatre, on the tea re of a completeness of rendering which it probably cvuld rw ceive at no other house in Europe, that its repro duction. is always looked forward to as one of the chief treats cif the year, and a tribute equally due to manage• ment, 1 mb:ic, and composer. Little wonder, therefore, that last ev( ming . its announcement ,served to a- satiable one of the mo 5t briLliant audiences of the season, and that its per forman oe proved a source of the very highest gratification. It is true we had to accept on this occasion the substi tution o; f Madlle. Didiee for Madlle. Csillag, in the charac ter of Fides, and we shall not pretend to disguise the abatement in the power of the performance which this change necessarily occasioned Madlle. Didiee is among the most various and engaging of our London favourites — a sound musician, a thorough artist, and a singer possessed of a most .agreeable and expressive voice, but she has neither the tragic genius nor the physical power which are de manded by the sorrowing Fides, and which unite in so striking a manner is the claims of Madlle. Csillag. In ad dition to this, Madlle. Didiee was so unwell on this occa sion that Mr. Harris was compelled to request the indul gence , of the audience on her behalf before the commencement of the third act, so that the public were not perm itted to enjoy the fall extent of the compensation which it is usually in her power to bestow. Nevertheless, in the face of all deficiencies, and against the exactions of all standards, her performance was stamped with a merit which was universally acknowledged, and which cannot fail to advance her position as one of the most sterling members of the company. Her " Figlio mio" was distinguished by its depth of pa thetic earnestness. Her "Pieta pieta," was equally marked by its emphatic feeling, and the subsequent duet with Bertha had every claim to the loud approval with which it was rewarded. The cast of the opera in other respects retained its old and grand attractions. Signor Tamberlik was the John of Leyden, and the very finest, need we add, that the Lyric stage of Europe possesses. His voice was in superb order, and he has rarely exerted with more success all those qualities which so nobly denote him, than on the occasion of last evening. His " Impero piu soave" was again an instance of that intense feeling which he can so well unite with his tragic vigour ; and so also was his "Madre addio," which terminated the first pet amidst loud and general demonstrations. Of an opposite and equally successful character was his "Del Ciel lo sguardo, at the conclusion of the second act, which led to his summons be fore the curtain by all parts of the house. The remainder of the performance we can only refer to in our old and general terms of praise. Madlle. Dottini was the Bertha, Signor Tagliafico the D'Oberthal, and Signors Baraldi and Polonini, with Herr Zelger, the Anabaptists, and the exer tions of each must be acknowledged as most meritorious. Of the delivery of the magnificent choruses with which this opera abounds no eulogy could be too great, nor is a less tribute demanded by the superb performanoe of the band, under the baton of Mr. Costa. The unrivalled mice en scene, which so peculiarly distinguishes this great produc tion, of course remains in all its glory—its wonderful skat ing scene included—and the entire impression of the night, was one that amply sustained the character of this first of lyric theatres. DRURY-L ANE THEATRE. MADLLE. PICCOLOMONI. The three performances for the benefit of Mr. Lumley, which were originally advertised to be given at Her Majesty's Theatre during the present month, but which for reasons that we need not discuss were transferred to the above house, were initiated last evening by a performance of the " Traviata," in which the heroine was sustained by its most distinguished representative. Mr. Lumley's claims as a manager, during the 18 years the.t he directed our only Italian opera, are sufficiently acknowledged to account for the crowded and elegant appearance of the theatre last night, which has rarely worn the look of fashion that it presented on this occasion. Had such a cause, however, been wanting, the re-appearance of Maine. Piccolomoni, now the Marchioness Gaetani, and especially under the well-known circumstances of her return, would have been quite ettough we fancy to have ensured the result attained. Most of our readers must be aware that she has not only emerged from her retirement, but made the jour ney to London on purpose to evince her sympathy with the manager who introduced her to the London public. As much in a personal respect, therefore, as an artistic, she was likely to obtain a hearty response to her generous en deavours and to be rewarded with the welcome which so warmly and universally greeted her first appearance in I the opera. She soon, however, convinced her patrons that on artistio grounds alone she was entitled to the reception which had been so earnestly accorded to her. She never sang or acted better than on this particular occasion. Whilst she showed that her vocal power was not at all impaired, her histrionic was manifested in all its old unrivalled excellence. Her pleasant kindly face, it is true, and a little embonpoint of person, somewhat detracted from the effect of the consump tive and remorseful Lost One, bet these were objections soon forgotten in the passionate ardour of her acting, which won her a loud recall at the conclusion of each act, and a still more emphatic summon at the final descent of the curtain. She enjoyed the able support of Signor Giuglini in Alfredo, who was deservedly encored in the " I miei bollenti spiriti," and also Signor Della Sedie in the elder Germont, whose rendering of all his music, but more especially the "Di Provenza," was graceful and tender to a degree. Madlle. Ferraris also added her attractions to the lief, by one of her most charming introductions, in the divertisse ment given in the ball-room. At the conclusion of the opera, Mr. Lumley made his appearance in answer to the summons of the entire house, and bowed his acknowledgments with a very obvious amount of emotion. On Friday next their Royal High nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales will honour the third performance with their presence, when the entertain ments will consist of "La Figlia del Reggimento," and the last act of the "Favorite," in which Madlle. Piccolomoni will be supported by Signor Giuglini. Upwards of 36,000 holiday folk visited the Cry stal Palace yesterday, partly attracted by the beauty of the place, and partly by the round of amusements specially provided for the occasion. Ample music was provided by the company's band, the band of the Coldstream Guards, and the great organ. The Zoological Society's gardens in the Regent's park, always a favourite resort of the Londonfrs on their national festival of Whit- Monday, were more than usually crowded yesterday. A MISERABLE VIGNETTE FROIII IHE DERBY DAY—AS SKETCHED BY THE " SPECTATOR."— There was one sorrowful creature who had dragged a barrow load of ginger-beer all the way from London, having started the previous day. Of course ginger-beer stood no chance in such weather—a mouthful of snow would have been as pleasant; and in the afternoon, when the races were over, and the people were hurrying away, the poor woman sat on her barrow quite alone, with her head buried in her hands, and tears streaming through her thin fingers. She had " not taken a penny," she said, and it was all she had rneicilkeocledthueproonafd painfully orweeks. dragging on through the deep We saw her afterwards about a sticky mud, which came over her boots at every step. It w„s one of the minor tragedies of the Derby, that forlorn teing toiling back, disheartened and sad, to a starving home. A PROTEST AGATNST PUNNING.—Except when it involves a witty thought, the play on words is but the mark of a mind too feeble to lay hold habitually with its entire attention on the thoughts of which words are the signs, but accustomed to stop at the mere percep tion of their sound within the ear. It indicates the weak ness of an intellect so little attentive to sense that it is able to spend what trifle of thought it connects with the use of words on the jumping aside after any jingle that can be dragged into false association with them. The social con tempt for the mere punster is not expressed as in playful joke against a spoilt child of good humour; it is the well grounded and demonstrably just censure of a manner of speech that signifies commonly a want of intellect. Where a man of sound judment has teen like Sidney Smith also a punster, his puns always sent home a witty thought and were not a mere brainless playing upon words.—Examiner. PLYMOUTH, Monday, 10 p.m.—(By Electric and International Telegraph.)—The ship Owen Glendower, Captain Norris, which left the Downs last Monday with passengers for Auckland, has put into the Sound this evening leaky. EXETER HALL.—We are repeated by Mr. Mar tin to state that the performance of Handel's " Judas Mac cabala," by the National Choral Society, with Mr. Sims Reeves, will commence at half-past seven on Thursday e vening, and not at eight o'clock as previously announced. Several gentleman connected with the city are engaged in an endeavour to procure a co mmemorative statu e of William Paterson, the founder of the Bank of England, LATEST INTELLIGENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) SPAIN., MADRID, MAY 25. It asserted that Senor Facundo Goni will proceed to Mexico as Spanieh Plenipotentiary, after the French troops shall have entered that city. Twenty-one Prefects have been replaced. The rumours of a Ministerial crisis are unfounded. Senor Enriquez has been appointed Under-Secre tary to the Ministry of Marine. The Duke of Montpensier will shortly leave for London. FRANCE. PARIS, MAY 26. The Constitutionna of to-day contains an article signed by its chief editor, M. Paulin Limayrac, upon the intrigues of men belonging to the old par ties. The writer says :—" An end is about to be put to equivocation. Up to the present time these parties have undermined the power of the Govern ment by subterranean intrigues, penetrating the Administration by its former relations with it, and, vitiating the principle of Government. " The tendency of popular Government is vigor ous, full of sap and energy, of love for the masses, and sympathy for the popular classes who, the first to hail it, were often perverted by men of a different spirit, who insinuated themselves into many posi tions under false pretences of devotion, corrupting the best systems by introducing the poison of ancient influences. " It was a source of surprise that a known enemy of the Government should exercise so much influ ence on the Administration. Thank God, that is about to cease. False friends, false devotion, and false services will be unmasked, and placed face to face with the declared enemies of the Govern- meat. The part which the Government has to fulfil will be freed from all the obstacles which have hitherto impeded its progress. " The genius of the empire will be fortified by that which is lost by the spirit of intrigue." BOURSE, May 25.—The market has not been very animated, but the prices of Saturday have been well maintained, Threes being nnvaried at 69f. 60c. The Railway Share Market has been also quiet, but firm. The market closed as fol• lows : it per Cents. 97 Do, end month 97 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 65 Credit Mobilier 1447 50 1)o. end mnnth 1451 25 Bank Shares 3450 Credit k oncier 1450 Italian Loan 72 60 Do. end month — New ditto Do. end month — Russian Austrian .. — Spanish Threes 53 50 Home Debt . 73 60 BAIL' ,WAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1065 1068 75 Geneva 452 50 .. 445 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lom ba rd North of Spain Saragossa 730 727 50 Ditto to Barcelona THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have received the following telegram " MARSEILLES, MAY 26, " The Euxine, with the above mails, arrived at Marseilles at 6 a.m. this day. " The mails were to leave for London at 11 a.m.' Sheridan in Paris, or Un Homme de Rien. Mr. Aylic Langl4, a French dramatist, who about a month ago suddenly leaped into celebrity as the author of a comedy in four acts, entitled " Un Homme de Bien," and produced at the Theatre du Vaudeville, shows a great deal of the talent by which the egg-dancer of former days was distinguished. He has chosen for his principal personage no less a man than Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and he has evidently taken some pains to become acquainted with the circumstances connected with his subject. Ho knows that Sheridan was a dramatist before he was a politician, and that, of his two comedies, the " Rivals" was written before the " School for Scandal." He knows that Sheridan went into Parliament as representative of Stafford, and that he figured in the ranks of the Opposition. He knows that his love for the lady he married in his youth involved him in two duels with the same adversary. He knows that at the end of the last century, there was a celebrated English actor named Kemble. The acquisition of all this knowledge implies a praiseworthy spirit of research not always to be found in a Fi ench dramatist. But what is far more surpris ing than the knowledge possessed by M. Langle is an in accuracy which almost seems to be the result of deli berate study. Having mastered a tolerably veracious outline, he is determined to be incorrect in every de tail; nor did the accomplished egg-dancer avoid touch ing her eggs with greater precision aran is shown by the dramatist in missing correct dates and facts. He must not be compared with those common Gallic blunderers who exhibit a Lord Mayor selling his wife at Smithfield, or show the constituency of a free and in dependent British borough electing a member of the House of Lords. These may be likened to egg-dancers who would shirk the task imposed upon them, by putting their eggs in one corner of the room, while they danced in the other. They simply avoid their mark by not approaching it, and their caution is undeserving of applause. But M. Langle dexterously navigates through an archipelago of facts, and the skill with which he avoids bumping against an historical truth is may marvellous. If he once grew careless, he would be right in spite of himself; but such is his vigilance, that any misfortune of that kind is beyond the sphere of moral possibility.—Saturday Review.—Precisely a like absurdity was perpetrated twenty odd years ago by M. Alexandre Dumas in his utterly ridiculous drama of Kean (that is Edmund Kean), the Tragedian. MARKE TS This Day. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.--Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 Os Od ; clover do., £3 lOs to £5 lOs; and straw, £1 lOs to £1 16s per load. slow demand. CUMBERLAND. -- Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 Os; clove; do., £3 10s to £5 lOs; and straw, £1 lOs to £1 16s per load. Trade inactive. WHITECHAPEL —Meadow hay, £2 Od to ZI Oa; clover do , £3 lis to £5 10s; and straw, Ll lOs to £1 36s per load. Trade dull. COLONIAL. • TEA.—Tha dealings have been extremely limited, and prices remain inactive. St coax.—There has been a fair inquiry for exportation, but the operations for home consumption have been chiefly in goed grocery qualities, at slightly reduced quotations. COFFEE.—OnIya small amount of business has been trap sacted at about previous rates. RICE.—For East India descriptions there has been a tnoderate inquiry, without any mak erial alteration to report in values. TALLOW.—The market has continued exceedingly inac tive, and but few dealings have taken place, either for pre sent or forward delivery. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 43s 6d, and last three months 40s per cwt. The "Four-in-Hand" Club's first appearance for the season in Hyde-park is spoken of by the Court Journal as not having been a good one, owing to a tre mendous shower coming down about an hour before the time appointed for the "meet." The eky, however, cleared, and about six o'clock seven or eight of the "drags" ap peared at the Magazine, and shortly afterwards wended their way in procession down "the drive" to Greenwich. The Earl of Sefton took the lead, and his "golden chest nuts" showed no diminution in the exquisite beaaty they presented last year, Mr. William Morritt, the memt - er for the North Riding of Yorkshire, has turned his experience to good account, and his neat yellow drag and work-like looking roans presented quite the beau iieul of the old coaching days. The Duke of Sutherland followed with a team of magnificent bays, and Lord Strathmore rivalled him with four splendid browns. Lord Londesborough's turn out is too well known for every sort of perfection to need especial mention, and it excited quite a sensation in Paris, where its noble owner ordered that it should meet him on his return from the East. The drags of , Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, of Sir George Wombwell, and of Captain Callen der, a debut, brought up the rear, An attorney (evidently up to sharp practice) stated the other day in the Court of Bankruptcy in Liverpool that it had been his custom to carry in his pocket book a black cheque-book of each of the local banks : and the reason he assigned for this practice was, that sometimes people would say, " Dear me, if I had my cheque-book I'd pay you." " Oh! you would, would you ? " Y es ' certainly." Whereupon ho was down upon them with a blank cheque, - 17 1 ti, Tar HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, May 23. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helana, and attended by Lady A. Bruce, went out driving this morning. Princess Louise went out riding. Prince Arthur arrived at the Castle, attended by Major Elphinstone. Dr, M'Leod arrived at the Castle. Her Majesty's Birthday. WINDSOR, May 25. The 44th birthday of her Majesty the Queen fall ing this year on Sunday, it was simply annowiced early in the morning of yesterday by one joyous peal from the bells of the Chapel Royal .of St. George and St. John's Cnurch, and to-day this aus picious event was observed with the customary honours. Early in the morning and throughout the day merry peals were sent forth from the above churches, a royal salute was fired in the Long -walk from the corporation ordnance by the town bombar dier, and in the evening the principal inhabitants and royal tradesmen celebrated the day by dining together at the White Hart Hotel, when Mr. Win. Harrison, the worthy mayor, presided, and the cus tomary loyal and patriotic toasts were given and responded to with much fervency and ability. The customary handsome present from her Majesty of a fat buck from Windsor Castle Great park graced the table, with every delicacy of the season, dis playing much taste and liberality on the part of the host, Mr. Johnson. Had it been later in the season the present of venison would have been ac companied by a handsome present from the royal gardens. There were also royal salutes fired from Fort Belvedere and the Adelaide frigate on Virginia water. The birthday of her Royal Highness Princess Helena Augusta Victoria, born May 25, 1846, wag also observed here with the customary honours. The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess of Macclesfield and Major Teesdale, visited the International Dog Show, at the Agricul tural Hall, Islington, yesterday morning. The Duke de Chartres paid a visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough House. The Prince of Wales, attended by his Equerry in Waiting, rode on horseback. The Princess of Wales, attended by her Lady in Waiting, took a drive in an open carriage. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales dined with the Duchess of Inverness in the evening at her residence in Kensington Palace. Their royal highnesses were attended by the Coun tess of Macclesfield and Major Teesdale. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Misses Longley have left town for Addington Park, Croydon, for the Whitsuntide recess. Prince Alexander Dolgorouki and Count George de St. Priest have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, from Paris. The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough come to town to-morrow from Blenheim Palace, near Woodatock. The parties for which invitations were issued were rut off, owing to several of the junior members of the family being attacked by scarlatina. Having quite recovered, tha duke and duchess are now enabled to receive company. We un derstand that the Marquis of Blandford is about to enter one of the regiments of the household cavalry. Prince Stirbey has arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Nice. The Duke of Somerset, as First Lord of the Ad miralty, will give a full-dress dinner on the 6th of the ensuing month, to a numerous and distinguished party be longing to his department of the State in honour of the Queen's birthday. The Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has issued invitations for a State dinner at the Clarendon Hotel in honour of her Majesty's birthday on Saturday, June 6. The Marquis of Ailesbury will receive a large circle at dinner on the 6th June in honour of the Queen's birthday. The Earl and Countess Jermyn left town yester day for Ickworth Park, near Bury St. Edmund's, for a few days. The Countess Cowper and Ladies Cowper have gone to Wrest Park, Beds, for the holidays, The Earl and Countess of Devon have left town for Powderham Castle, Exeter, for the Whitsuntide holi days, The Earl Russell, as Secretaty of State for Foreign Affairs, has issued cards for a full-dress banquet on Saturday, the 6th proximo, in celebration of her Majesty's birthday, to the whole of the foreign Ambassadors and Ministers, together with the noblemen and gentlemen who have filled diplomatic appointments abroad at present in town. The Earl de Grey, as Secretary of State for War, will entertain a numerous circle of military officers and others connected with his particular department at the State on Saturday, the 6th of next month, in celebration of the Queen's birthday. The Earl of Dudley gave his first ball for the season last night at Dudley House, Park.lane. A nume rous party was present. Lord Stanley of Alderley has left town for Alderley Park, Cheshire, for the Parliamentary recess. Lady Stanley and family remain in town. Lord and Lady Farnham have arrived at Cl;ridge's Hotel from Cavan for the season. • Lady Rennie has issued cards for her first dancing party in the first week of June. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Secretary of State for the Home Department, has issued invitations for a state dinner at the Clarendon Hotel, in honour of her Majesty's birthday, on Saturday, June 6. THE FRENCH ELECTIONS. We read in the Constitutionnel—" The candidate ship of M. Thiers ought to be opposed by every possible means, and the Government expects from you that you will use the greatest efforts to cause its failure, and that the electors will treat it as it deserves." Those words were addressed in 1848 by the Minister of the Interior, and signed by M. Jules Favre, the Secretary-General of the Ministry to M. Emile 011ivier, the Commissioner of M. Ledru Rol lin, in the Bouches du Rhone, and afterwards removed by General Cavaignac. Every one aught to have justice done him; the instructions of M. Jules Favre were very clear, and M. Emile 011ivier executed them faithfully. He undoubtedly might have ventured to make some observations to the Minister of the Interior on freedom of universal suffrage, and against the system of official eandi dateships. He ought perhaps to have added a word in favour of the illustrious and national historian of the French revolution. He did not think of it any more than his chief then thought of the solemn and indignant speeches which he since so frequently delivered on the same subject. M. Longepied, agent of the clubs, who had received from the Pro visional Government 123,000 fr. to facilitate the ap plication of universal suffrage, took the field. M. Thiers was opposed, according to Ministerial order, by every possible means, but two months after the re port of M. Ducos on the accounts of the Provisional Government said We have not been satisfied with the explanations given M. Emile 011ivier as to the employment of two sums of 1,500 f. and 13,200 f. He has been obliged, he says, to send delegates into ,► great number of communes in the Bouches du Rhone, to reconstitute the municipal authority and to direct the electoral movement.' And further on, as to the outlays which have taken place, from the avowal of M. 011ivier himself, to exercise an ener getic influence o❑ the elections,' we cannot admit them, and we do not suppose that the Assembly will sow itself more complacent than its committee, we therefore reject the 13,200f.' M. Toiers failed. At present M. Thiers sees his name figure o❑ an elec toral list between those of M. Jules Favre and M Emile 011ivier. M. Thiers recently wrote that, at the moment of becoming a candidate, he felt the greatest repugnance. Every one will comprehend it." The arrangements for the "meeting of the three choirs "—in other words, the Worcester Musical Festival of this year—are nearly completed. The principal singers engaged ara Mdlle. Titiens, Madame Lemmens- Sherrington, Madame Sainton-Dolby, Miss Banks, Miss Palmer, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. Wilbye Cooper, Mr. Weiss, and Mr. Santley—a great array of vocal talent. The fes tival will be held during the second Week of September. THE RUSSIAN BUDGET, ST. PETERSBURG, May 20. The Ministry of Finance has just completed and published one of its most important labours—the budget for 1863. Instead of the simple balance sheet of tables sent into the world last year as the first Russian budget, we are presented upon this occasion with a regular argumentative report, gil l ' lug manifest signs of its author having put the best face upon affairs. There are probably few countries where a single year brings about such changes in finance as is the cage here, and Herr von Reuters has taken trouble to enumerate them in detail. It is only requisite to observe that the practice of farm ing out the right of supplying brandy, hitherto the main source of revenue, ceased on January 1, and had been replaced by free trade ; that the tax upon trade will be assessed upon new principles, and with 50 per cent. reduction, from the Ist of July ; and that the poll-tax in towns has been abolished, and a house tat substituted in its stead. With all these changes it is difficult to form an even approximately correct estimate, and comparisons with the bygone year are quite impracticable. Added to this comes the fact that a number of income and expenditure items, formerly not mentioned in the budget at all, are now introduced. The income from these sources alone amounts to 42.7 million roubles, and the ex penditure to 37.8 millions. The former of these are estimated at 318.8 millions for 1863, or, after de ducting the above-mentioned 42.7 millions, amount to 276.1, while the figures in 1862 were 284.7. The diminution is owing to the abolition of brandy farm ing, for the consequences of which the Government had no standard of measurement, but simply as sumed that a deficit of 14 millions might take place in this branch. It appears, however, that the first quarter of 1863 has not justified this assumption, but that, on th© contrary, an increase of income from this source may be expected. With re spect to events in Poland alone, the Minister has found his lowered estimate correct. Owing to the abolition of the above-mentioned direct taxes, the revenue from these last has diminished by 520,000 roubles; but the Crown domains, on the other hand, have produced an increase of 2.7 millions. The supplementary impost of 25 per cent. added in October last to the tax on occupants of land, has produced 6,290,000 roubles. A decrease of 700,000 roubles was expected in revenue from the removal of the cotton tax, and a diminution of 1,700,000 roubles on the mining produce and coin taxes, owing to the abolition of the former to make way for free trade. The expenditure is estimated at 330.5 millions, which, after deducting the 37.8 millions not pre viously taken into consideration, leaves 292.7 mil- - lions for comparison with 1862, when the expendi ture amounted to 310.6. From this 15 millions a re to be deducted which have been expended upon ac count of sources of revenue no longer in existence (brandy, &c.). The remainder therefore amounts to 295.5 millions, or a diminution of 2.8 millions in 1863, and this notwithstanding the increase 'if cer tain expenses, such as pensions, the interest of the new loan, &c. The deficit, which in 1862 amounted to 141 ; millions, has risen in 1863 to 15.7 millions. This it is proposed to cover by an exchequer sur plus of 700,000 roubles, and the issue of five series of Treasury bills, each series consisting of 3 mil lions. Of these latter 9.6 millions are already is circulation. The financial report, as may ba sup posed, is silent as to the influence of the Polish re volution upon this comparatively favourable budget , and it posseeses therefore a purely statistical value' Letter from Norfolk, Virginia. The following extracts are from a letter addressed by a young officer of the British navy to a friend in Edinburgh, and give an interesting glimpse of the movements of society in a town with Southern sympathies but in Federal possession : " H.M.S. Desperate, off Norfolk, Va, April 29. "We left Fortress Monroe yesterday in conse .- quence of a request from our vice-consul here that we should come up for the purpose of affording protection to himself and the other British subjects in the town, in the event of an attack on the toga by the Confederates. 4, The Confederates are in the neighbourhood of the town in pretty consid era bl e f orce . General Longatreet has the comman d , some say of 50,000, others of 30,000 ; th e l atter i s the op i n ion held by the Federal authorities, their own power being about the same. They hold the advantage in their possessing gunboats; still even with that great help they are not doing the amount of damage to the Confederates which they so sanguinely e%' petted. " For some time the presence of the so-called rebels has been palpably made known to their an tagonists in the neighbourhood of Suffolk by °cos" sional raids, not doing any serious damage, bat still enough to keep the others on the alert, and prevent any aid being sent to others of their forces in a worse position. Still, though constantly harassing, the attack on the encampment was never made. A short time ago the Confederates managed to erect a battery on the bank of the Nansemond River, about half-way between Fort Monroe and Norfolk, from which they have been for some time annoying the gunboats. We have heard the firing distinctly for about the last ten days. All Sandal: it was very heavy. At that time we did not know where it was going on, but on coming up here s ee found nut that the battery had been captured and about 100 men taken prisoners —not, however , without (it is said) destroying three of the Federal beats entirely, and one partially. "One of the brightest occurrences took place down here a few days ago. General Corcoran was stopped by Col. Kimball, of the 9th N.Y. Volun teers, and asked for the countersign ; not having it , and being refused to be passed, he coolly out with his Colt and shot the colonel. N,xt day he is pre' moted from brigadier to major general! I think that heats Sir Joshua Jebb and the 'poor gar' rotters.' " Should the Confederates advance on the town o f Norfolk (at present they are investing Suffolo General littyes, commander-in-chief of the Federal army here, has given notice that he will at once fir• upon the town without regard to either sex or age; and has given notice to all the women to quit thi, town, hut they will not go. I do not, howevel: anticipate th attack will take place, and think W I all the game here is for the purpose of taking O lt attention of the Federals off some more importan t ' point. " The Yankees are awfully savage at us, becall° l we do not visit them at all, whil e we are never of the houses of the Confederates. They put it ° down to our feeling s y mpat h y w i t h the South the Well, I dare say th ere may b e some ground for thehe attributing it to that ; i n some cases I knowt:e feeling is entirely with th e C on f ederates, but real fact is that we got some introductions tot b a ladies of Norfolk from other naval officers who Vr e been here, and we all like them very much. Chop have no parties or any thi ng o f t h at ki n d ; all Chop say is,' You bring a lot of g en tl emen , an d we'll _ea a the ladies,' so off we go in a b o dy o f a b out a do:0 and call at any of th e ir h ouses . W e ll, from t,13 we disperse and bag as many l a dies a s are nec esr o pg and thsn all come back again, and go at i t se to as we can, dancing and singing. for "This is quite as pleasant for th em as for 0-'O9 they have literally only one y oung man i n t he t do es all the rest being in the army or navy ' • and 13e n os to not go much out, a s h e i s tormented by alloo l ied to crinolines, caps, an d crochet, so they are g catch us. " There is one projected move on foot her~vt e. the establishment of a civil government in v' r e' oe tit Whether this is t o b e su b or di nate to the c r o w ; military law, or t o su p erse d e t h at , we do not s ee° at any rate the Virginians about here do IJ' ig j u st to relish it much. They have a King I. : ne y are now, who, however, is a gentleman ; and a mightily afraid of getting a King Storl , eater hundred to one, will not be so. The ld e the eatileg tamed by some here at present is, that ell " w ill be who packed will not take th'e while the lad oath of allegienc. swil nl no t be ,ie en tof &Io n • allowed to lea ve th e t own ; an d b y t hi s rt,_ d uce ttio cruelty, this s e p ara ti on o f f am ili es , to l j o u ien . At poor wretches to join the detested , ren , thenil t present almost all supplies are cut off bto subsist some families, indeed have hardly en°l the Pe a r on. Still, from what I have see° that, if a u be here, male and female, I should , saY pars t he Confederates are l ik e t h e peo ple of Ch ill reencluer North may exte r mi na t e , b u t never IV them."