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

lIERRMANN. PRESTIDIGITATEUR.- PRINCESS'S T FIEATRE.—HERR HERRMANN'S Pert ormances, EVERY EVENINOr, at Eight. In Twc Marts—as given by him in all the principal Theatres and . Opera Houses of the Continent of Europe and America. The • vhole of the Marvellous Illusions entirely new, and inventk 1)y Herr Herrmann. Prices cf admission as usual. Doors 4 pea at half-past 7. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY - LANE.-- Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton._ THIS Ei , ENING, THE DEAL BOATMAN : Messrs. G.. Belmore. F. Charles; Miss R. Leclercq, and Mrs. Edmund. Falconer. _ To conclude with the new and original Comedy, by Ed mund Fal-oner, entitled NATURE'S ABOVE ART : A Ro mance of the Nursery : Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Ryder, Barrett, G. Belmore, F. Charles. Neville ; 31Iss Charlotte ftunoers. Miss Murray, Miss R. Leclercq, Mrs. Melville, and Mrs. Edmund Falconer. Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. Prices as usua L Commence at 7. • TETEATRE ROYAL HAY M ARKET Oren for the Season.—Notice.—Duriutz the recess Use undermentioned alterations have been made to ensure the comfort of the audienez A distinct row of Stalls has been andlie n partitions acon a v n e d nienterected, with two new .:'tall staircases, one on each side of ti e Theatre. In the Dress Cir cle all t chairs ori ginal seats have been remov ed, size, covered with Utrecht ve :vet, introduced. The approaches to the Dress Circle wilt b e car p eted 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 r es t ora ti on- Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan every evening. THIS EVENING, and during the Week, to commence at 7, with AN UN LUCKY MORTAL : Mr. William Parrett, Miss M. Harris, &c. After which, at a qnarter to 8, the new Comedy of FINESS ; or, Spy and Counter Spy: characters by Mr. Alfred Wigan, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. Howe, Mr. Buckstone ' Dowton (2d appeara nce ) . _ Mi ss L . A nge l , an d M rs. -Alfred Wigan. Concluding with TURNING THE TABLES. On Monday, Oct. 26, Mr. and Mrs. CLIAS. MATHEIrS will return to the London stage. ATEW THEATRE-R0 VAL, ADELPHI.-. Sole Proprlstor and Manaver, Mr. B. Webster. - - This Theatre will RE-OPEN for the Winter Season on URSDAY next. Oct 1. entirely new painted and decorated. First appearance of Miss BATEMAN, the celebrated Ameri can artiste. At 7, THE TRAGEDY QUEEN : Mrs. Stirling. A t S, the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bateman, supported by Mr. Arthur Stirling (his first appearance here), Messrs. R. Phillips, Billington, Stuart, A. Wood, k.berne, Miss H. Simms and Mrs. Billington. To conclude wi , h CATCHING AN lIEIRESS : Miss Woolgar and Mr. A. Wood. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, WBERE'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 Bimpson, Wallace, and Jenny White. To conclude with TURN HIM OUT. Mr. Turner, Miss Thorne. Commence at 7. TIRE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing- the Ls test SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEws AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. HIGH WATER AT T i ONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 3h. 7m.—Afternoon, 3h. 27m. To-MORROW.-Mcnaing, 3h. 45m.—Afternoon. 4h. 4m. The Weather—Sun Office, Sept. 29, 1863. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock .................... 68 Barometer-29.98. Wind—South-West ; light, and fine. C§ LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 29, 1863. moment shut up, their valiant opponents being everywhere victorious. Nay, even this is not all. " Manhattan" for once seems fairly to have lost his head, as the phrase is, meaning his judgment. He has certainly, for once, cleared out of view all consi derations of decency. He is not only boastful to the last p aegree, 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 boasting in this preposterous manner, he is out raging, to the utmost possible extent, the Ifew 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 seen 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 his 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 naticn—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 roar with France." Further on, yet again —"We devoutly (!) thank GOD that we are prepared for a contest at sea with France." Even then, he bas 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 wag' with France) "Let war come, and it will be received as the greatest blessing GOD can cnt itjj'ePlwork us this year I" To de monstrate quite is con clusively, beidohims h el o f w a e t ve t r h , e p bow ros. wholly MANHATTAN 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 1 NiANIIATTAN'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 ? By NAPOLEON "playing the Monkey-General, and smoking cigars" —as he did when opposed to the Austrians in Italy ! Our Yankee Jumns 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 sunnier in mode. This may be all very fine, but the question is whether he will succeed in taking in those who have been attene tively watching his proceedings of late. His doings at 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 walla 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 ho doubtless deemed of immense importance. Ater 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 rocm 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 effect or future ruler disclaim or deny, then indeed would the most sus picious have confidence, and the most sanguine see their expectations realised. But when calmly re ° iewir.g the state of things, end taking a retrospec , hv e glanc e a t events, h ow can th e presen t seem pro pion% or the future fortunate. To-day we may be right, but what may not to-morrow bring forth ? In the chancea and changes of the perplexing inci dents of de?pt,ti, Gove rnment, how soon is the sunny Pr'neet overcast, and the smiling hope respect or regard of a people, bowcver It is not the wa y to e n sure proved quite illusory. first to be s t ow u p on th em mthuechlastthienyg may profess at a piece-meal temporary ame li orat i on . Whot is not reform ,secure ora cannot be Sterling in its value, or satisfactory in its workings. fence the grand doings in Finland may be quite as much in the long run the herald of a failure as the advent of a success. The liberty that depends upon the caprices of tyranny is hardly worth the name, and can never attain to the reality of that blesaiiit. Insomuch, however, as the whole of the mango Tres and ma- 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,conelo 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," cons 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 mounlains— 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 concerned. 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 hie Government." After that, really the best thing, if not indeed, the only thing left, for the Confederates to do, must be—obvicusly—to send a flag of truce in hot haste to General )MADE, 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 ! Before quite coming to this same conclusion, however, it may, perhaps, be just as well to glance down the latest particulars just brought to 118 , per the City of New York, from the actual Be at of war. News of battle t will be found to furnish, comprising within a very moderate space the fo llowing extraordinarily long catalogue of the most recent advantages gained by—the Confede rates I -° epitomise them just as they stand in this bewilde r i ng string of Telegrams—we learn (per the City of New York) that, when the last mails left, the Confederates, under LEE, though not in large force, held % Strong position on the line to wards which AlEma t was advancing upon them --namely, upon the line of the Rapidan ! That in the skirmishes Nvh-l e h had already taken place la!twecn the two train armies, 150 Federal just been c o Cavalry had Iltur e d by the Confede rates! That the Federal (- 4 , eenera r 'inomas was reported to have met with a r everse at Lafayette, Tennessee ! That BUCKNER 4 4 captured 300 Federal prisoners ! Tnat RosEer i , z had been driven back by the Confederates l a —RGG and . JOHNSTUNE ! That General NEGL WB divi sion of 5,00 u Federals, attacked at Bird's Gap by 16,000 Confederates, had, not unnaturally, b een forced for a while, at least, to withdraw to a die. tance,it was said, of three miles and a half, by that formidable proportion ot three to one! That Gene ral LC)NGSTREE.T was reported to have advarced through Resaca at the head of 9 0,000 Confederates, ' and to hare already pressed forward as far even as Lafayette ! That from all quarters the Southern troons were rapidly hurrying to ether at Atlanta! Th a t Fort Moultrie, although still being shelled , had been strengthened by its Confederate defenders ! That a reconnoitring p arty of Federals had 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 number of 8,000 were preparing for a new raid into the Federal territories ! Yet, w i th a swarm of telegrams like those dropping i n upon 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 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 aside the considerati9n 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 SAIIIB 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 Vines 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 a s a feature in the case. The se me 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 SABIB, 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 hcpe that a little morn time will throw some further 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 rev enue during the last ten years exhibit some startling figures. The customs revenue of Calcutta has risen during this decade from £95J,807 to £3,081,515. On 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 cur 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 ten 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 noticing that the greater part of the cotton exported from Calcutta was grown in 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 claroege 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 always 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 neglect. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] AMERICA. (Per the Nova Scotian.) NEW YORK, SEPT. 19 (Evening). Intelligence received from Charleston to the 10th inst. announce that General Gilmore is mounting heavy guns at Fort Wagner and Cumming's Point to bombard Charleston. CNMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Unfavourable rumours concerning the position of General Rosecranz' army have caused a rise i❑ gold and exchange, which are now quoted, gold at 35 per cent. premium, and exchange on London, HSI,. Money easy. Stocks steady. New York Centrals, 138 4 1 ; Illinois, 1241; Erie, 1071. THE POLISH INSURRECTION. BRESLAU, SEPT. 29. REPRESENTATION OF BARNSTAPLE.—PoIiticaI 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, whoee 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 Brcmridge, of Newport (Conservative). The Liberals have, however, resolved on producing another candidate. 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 Imperiales 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. PRANCE. PARIS, SEPT. 29. LUNATIC ASYLUM SECRETS.—Every art has its secrets; the attendants in such madhouses as this have been for rears possessed of one they are 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. Cooper and his fellows de their work -.shit 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 ef a well. —.Dickens's " 411 the Year Round," the new number pub. lisped today. The Moiziteur 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: ft per Cents. 95 50 Italian Loan 74 Do. end Do. end month — 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 67 95 Do. end month.... Credit Mobilier.... 1213 75 Russian Do. end m0nth....1215 Austrian - Bank Shares 3395 Spanish Threes.... 52 50 Credit Fonder 1300 Rome Debt 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 sardonicallyremarked, will doubtleks be ordered to be aimed higher. Lau'erdale House, Higbgate, Sept. 18, 1863. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1863. to the eye may nevertheless be rendered perceptible by 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 patrphlet (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, is 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. Ewart 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 Berlin 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. I will now quote Professor Playfair's words in the review 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 accoreet of these scientific operations with out expressing our wish that tho 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 deink, when we consider the matter at a dis tance; and to effect 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 snvenient,yet when one has been actually fixed on, and determined, that circumstance must greatly 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, tnerefore, 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 tion and division." Your readers will now be prepared to find that I was justified in what I stated before Mr. Ewart's committee (Questions 499, 500), in regard to Mr. John Quincy Adams, "Mr. Yates," you observe, "did not 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 seen 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 au 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 meti ology in all its important parts. Were it even possible to construct another system on different principles, but em bracing 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. And 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, it 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, passi ons , 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, 43.) 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 due to a binary scale, and "the sublime audacity," the " breach of good faith," &c., implied in the introduction of a bill such as Mr. Ewart's. Also, the question respecting the sale of grain and wino is too intricate to pursue into its 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 JAMES YATES. LITEUATITITE. Stevens' Grade Lesson Books. Fifth Standard. Pp. 220. Longman and C 3. 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 aided 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 editors 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 nifications attached, are designed to be learnt by the pupil before beginning the lesson in which they occur, and to which they are prefixed. And—among other similarly useful little items of advice— that the exercised in Reduction here given are placed after those in Addition and Subtraction advisedly. Even Tommy Merton, when first he went, as a small 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 Merton might with the aid of these Grade Lesson Books have astonished Mr. 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 our enumeration of some among the various reading lessons lame collected together. Instance this, Eliza Cook's " Bruce and the Spider,"Riniel 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," Du 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 litezature. The Arts of Writing, Beading, 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 ho 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 Ban inter and the Member of Parliament. Mr. Cox's instructions are remarkable for their sound common sense; for example, how earnestly truthful are the following remarks on— RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern lOOO .. 1000 New, ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1025 .. 1027 50 Geneva.. Southern 740 .. 737 50 Western Eastern .. .. Sardinian —•—• s • "-- -- Austrian Lorchard North of Spain Saragossa.....~, . Ditto to Barcelona The Metric System of Weights and Measures TO THE EDITOR. OF THE SUN. SlR,—The article against the Metric System in the Times of July 9, signed 8., has been already answered by Mr. Charles Hutton Dowling, C.E., in the London Review of August 1, and by Mr. Frank Fellows, of Wolverhampton, in the .Daily News of Sept. 7, his answer having been first sent to the Tones, but refused admittance. A. much longer essay in the same strain has just appealed 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 one passage which seems to require notice from me. All the observations in regard to the thermometer, the dimensions of the great pyramid, and the measurement of degrees, though tolerably correct, h ave nothing to do with the question of the propriety of legalis ing the Metric System in England in the manner now pro posed. But Mr. Cobden will pardon me if I step aside from the pursuit of my more direct object to quote his words in the ,triinevited the Accort- House of Commons on the occasion of the recent sdyebztaetnie, and to subjoin the version of them given by your essayist. written." It Go wallslor.doCpotbedd,enthesaFilt—en‘o,hßGefoovreerhthmeenFtr,einochl7lN9lor, English Government to send learned Fellows of our Royal Society to France to devise a system of weights and mea " Ill ishugrestoforthteherewproer:odo. toltVioen dwechliinehedytoouinthearvfeerea.d":pted, informed persons make the Royal Society responsiblelftorwnaost attending." Mr. Cobden and his colleagues in the Metric System agitation throw the blame upon the British Govern ment and the nation, At the same time, as : this writer tthsuthche Was s glish says,Go vernment, derdlir ems es " end T: t letter: George (of 111.,n invitation) a thet io n h ) e a w d a o s f and it wee so addressed because Taltlheroannldy cor rect been informed by Sir John Riggs Miller, a member of the House of Commons, who at that time was the most promi nentreet method agitator of f n o t o h m e ra q u U n e i s e t a iO ti nz g th w a i Govern ment, It may be true, as your correspondent suggests, that George 111. suppressed the letter, but it is admitted by him as an undeniable fact that the French Government, through Louis XVI. as its head, did communicate with the English Government by the only regular and legitimate channel. With respect to the alleged accusations against the Royal Society, I doubt whether such accusations have ever been made, and lam persuaded they were not deserved. I re angry and futile Cobden, Ewart, a n d t h e i r f r i ends " one the of t them, pursuit lh o a f ve reason to acknow a oghreatrgthesatagyootuorstes„%aiyeisstsresh.ould bring thes e at a time when th e ir friends are united witho u t an y narrow object,distinctions when,of pa r party, ,groat and good ledge with the highest respect and gratitude, the kind re ception given to us at one time by Me. Disraeli as Chancel lor of the Exchequer, and on subsequent occasions by Mr. Milner Gibson, as President of the Board of Trade. da favour of the introductionh this ne—" The second portion of the artic le, Which appeared yester day, commences The great argument in the M e t r i c Sy s t em h ere has been its extreme mathema t ical accuracy, and th e pre sumed ease with which th e standard could be recovered and verified in case of the original being destroyed." It i s added, " We have been told , that instead of the quadrant witsente of e of the arc of the meridian being, as the Metric 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 appears to me that your author is in error. This ~ great arg ument ,P is seldom, perhaps never, used. Ira support of this remark I may be per mitted to quote pretty largely from a pamphlet published in 1858 by the International Decimal Association as the re sult of their inquiries in regard to "the Best Unit of Length," i n which the examination of this very question occupies 15 pages. " The fact appears to be, that in the process of measuring the earth, no less than in experiments with the pendulum, absolute accuracy is unattainable ; but that the metro is sufficiently accurate for all practical pur poses, ar d as truly an ascertained aliquot part of the meridional quadrant as any other measure that has been, or can, at least under present circumstances, be proposed. Tho authors of the Metric System never hoped, or pre tended to arrive at, perfect exactness in the measure of the earth. 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 there 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's Speech, corrected by himself, 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, fort hese, 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. Thase 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 fell at all into sentences, insomuch that, when the speaker had concluded, you could not very distinctly say what he had been 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 beat mode of— WINNING OVER A JULY. "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. Therefot o take a little trouble at first, to put yourself on good terms with your jury, not by flat tering langu9ge, but by that more effective flattery 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 the.n. 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 Palpit," "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 thevoice, &e. &a. 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 prusai of these pages, whereby they might benefit not hemsclves only, but those destined to listen to their orations. THE DUIiE DN 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 Calz.ido, the director of the Italian theatre, was detected cbeat , ng 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, 7177' ff tiffurt eirmbr, The Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia. Their Royal Highness; 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 -1 and for some time, will be accompanied by their children. Accouchement of the Queen of Portugal. Her Majesty the Queen of Portugal gave birth o a prince yesterday at 1.35 p.m. By the last tele gram received her Majesty and infant were pro gressing favourably. The evert 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 festivitias of the season will be resumed.—four! Journal. His Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon, wits a numerous suite, has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel. The Duke of Somerset arrived at his official resi dence 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 Countess 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 ex pected 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 ARCHAEOLOGICAL 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 Atnbrosian 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 BOCKUM-DOLFFS's KAT" 5.8 the title ap- plied to the newest-shaped cylinders now to be seen in. the shop windows of the Berlin hatters. ENGLISH AUTHORSHIP IN CiERIIIANY.—Amm Tat 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 PIRAC Y.—The Ba►on 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 C askie ben, Aberdeenshire, on Wednesday last, aged 83. ALDGATE WARD.—Mr. ex-Sheriff Lusk will, it is understood, become a candidate for the va ;quit 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, there fore, every prospect of his attainment of the honourable and xtow 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 pres ant arrangements, cannot leave for France before The day next. In all probability arrangements will y sr mit him to leave on that day; but, till then, his friends will continue to communicate with him in Upper Seym street. THE ITALIAN ARMY is at present distributed, as follows :-9 battalions at Geneva, 6 at Turin, 9 at Alestean dria, 12 in Tuscany, and 120 distributed in the valley of the Po from Ancona to Milan, supported by 60 squadrons of cavalry, and 250 pieces of artillery ; at Naples, 18 batta lions of the lines, 2of Marines, and 6 of Bersaglie ri, with. 32 squadrons of cavalry; in all, 82 battalions of irfantry, in addition to 5 regiments of Carabineers, and detachit ants of the Gard Modili. There are also 22 battalions in Si cily. SIIAKSPERE'S FOREST OF ARDEN.—The Engli sh, above all other people, are addicted to annual fl tinge ; but we are almost tho only people, says the A ntewn, affiliated to the tribe of Gad, who are given to visit repeatedly well-known localities abroad, instead of explor ing the historical shrines, the woodland scenery, and the natural beauties which abound at home. Loudon itse2l, 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 pl ea sant place is now laid open to them—in his recet tly published "Topographical and Historical Account of the District between and around Henley in Arden, and Tramp tan, in the County of Warwick." Accompanying him, they may exclaim, with some sense of rejoicing, "Hex a) we are in Arden 1" though no one will have reason to to "The more fool II When I was at home I was in a better place." We know no class of holiday maker's to whom this exquisite district does not offer attractions. • AI up at Bettws y Coed, where the various visitants are divided into the "Turpentines," the "Paper Stainers," rthe " Water Whippers," and the " Wanderers," so in Arden the painters in oil colours may find the effects they ma >st long for ; and the water colour artist, ladies as well as gel le 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 an eight days' exploration, from Henley to Elindon, that "all is barreat."" As for the young ladies, to whom Bettws y Coed is dear for various good causes, we can tell them that there are gr( en lanes and wooded dells, and convenient brook sides in Arden, where honest love may be as fairly dealt in as up et the old Welsh station whose name signifies "the Cht.peit in. the Wood." The Forest of Arden is close to some of ou r manufacturing districts, but it has preserved its old rth;tie 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 and shady woods, abundance of rich hedgerow timber, every' where save in the mid portion of this Warwickshire dis trict; spreading prospects, su eeping undulations, beautiful valleys, mossy lanes, secluded by-ways, purling brooks, winding streams, aul 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 its old signii leant names of "Mad Dog," " Angel's Food,r' "Dragon's M ilk, or " Many .go-down." And there are fine old traditie us to talk of over your Warw:ckshire cups. TUE MYSTERIOUS MAIL-BAG ROBBERY AT HULL.—On Saturday morning the missing cheques were received at the Beverley branch of tlie Yorkshire Bank ing Company (their destination when posted in the letter at South Cave). The envelope in which they have b een posted bears the Hull post mark, and it therefore ePP:7 probable that the person (Mr& Cooke) now i n cu :, ° Y posted them at Hull prior to her attempt to got the X-b 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, butinvesti gations are being made by the Post•oilice and police u pprehe of utho neton rhies which will probably lead to the another party. It is said that the woman account s for her her possession of the cheques by stating t h a t she came t Hesse' to Hull on Thursday evening, and that some one in the same train gave 14er thega. — 4fecis Atercury. 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