The Sun. — London, England, 1863-06-10 00:00:00

SIR SAMUEL MORTON PETO , Bart, M.P.— An Imperial J uggle—Wigrams Wiggins. &C. &C., in FUN THIS WEEK. One Penny. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION BUILDING, SOUTH KENSINGTON. A GRAND MILITARY CONCERT. in AID of H.R.H. the PRINCESS MAKY'S FUND for Providing Nurses for the Inmates of the CAMBRIDGE ASYLUM, will be g yen tte INTERNATIONAL EXHIrsITION BUILDING, South Kensington (by special permission), On SATURDAY next, the 13th of JUNE. Doors open at Two, the Concert to commence at Three precisely. Under the Immediate Patronage of His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES. Her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of CAMBRIDGE. His Royal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, and 'Her Royal Highness Princess MARY ADELAIDE. The BANDS of the hOUSEHOLD BRIGADE, consisting The First Life Guards, The S. cond Life Guards, Royal Horse Guards ( The Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards, and The Scots Fusilier 6 uards, Will perform on this occasion. NW See the full Programme, now ready. Admission, ss. ; reserved seats, 7s. 6d. ; stalls, numbered and strictly reserved, 10s. 6d.—Tickets to be obtaine i at Mr. Sams' Royal Library, 1, St. James's street, S.W. ; Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Westerton's Library, St. George's-place, Knightsbridge ; Messrs. Keith, Drowse, and Co., 48, Cheapside ; and at Mr. Austin's Ticket-office, St. James's Hall, 28, Piccadilly. H ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.- PRODUCTION OF FAUST. GRAND EXTRA NIGHT. TO-MORROW EVENING (Thursday), June 11, will be performed (for the first time in this country), having been many weeks in preparation, Gounod's celebrated Opera, FAUST. The new and extensive Scenery and original Effects by Mr. William Callcott. The Costumes, from original designs, by Mr, S. May and Miss Dickenson. The Machinery constructed by Mr. S. Sloman. The Decorations and Appointments by Mr. Bradwell. The Incidental Dances arranged by M. Petit. The following is the signally effective cast : Margherita, ; Marta, Mdlle. Taecani; Siebel, Mdlle. frebelli ; Mephistophiles, Signor Gassier; Valentin, Mr. Santley ; Wagner, Signor Board ; and Faust, Signor Giuglini. Chorus of Students, Soldiers, Citizens, Women, &c. Conductor, Signor ARDITI. In Act the Second, Grand Ballavile, by the Corps de Ballet. Saturday next, June 13 (second time), FAUST. The Opera commences at Eight o'clock. Stalls, One Guinea ; Reserved Box Seats, 10s. 6d. ; Pit Tickets, Bs. 6d. ; Gallery 'tails, ss. and 7s. ; GAllery, 25. 6d. ; Private Boxes, in the Gallery Circle, to admit three persons' 215. Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets may be had at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily, under the superintendence of Mr. Nugent, from Ten till Six. H ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.- MADAME RISTORI. Mr. MAPLESON has the honour to announce that he has made arrangements with the Great Tragedienne, Madame RISTORI, for a series of EIGHT REPRESENTATIO NS. MONDAY EVENING NEXT, June 15th, MEDEA. Medea, by Madame Ristori. Commence at Eight -o'clock. Pit Boxes, £3 38.. G rand Tier, 14 4s. ; One Pair, £3 3s. ; Two Pair, Li 28. ; Stalls, 158.; Reserved Box Seats, 7s. 6d. ; Pit, ss. ; Gallery Stalls, 4s. ; Gallery, 2s. 6d. Boxer, Stalls, and Vckets to be obtained at the Box-office of Her Majesty's Theatre, which is open daily, from ten till Mx'; and at all the principal Libraries and ilusicsellers'. TH.EATRE-R0 Y AL, HAY MARKET. Lessee. Mr. J. B. Bnckstone. THIS EVENING, a new Farce, entitled AN UNLUCKY MORTAL. After which, 21st time, a new and original comedy. entitled FINESSE ; or, Spy and Counter-Spy : Mr. Bukstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, and Miss Louisa Ange'. Followed by an apropos Dramatic Sketch, introducing a Panorama of the Tour of the Prince of Ve ales in the East. Commence at 7. THE DUKE'S MOTTO. K. THE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THIRD NIGHT. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.- Under the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTE EL T HIS EVENING, to commence with an Original sketch, -entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter -past Eight, the Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr3loc.rue, entitled THE DUKE'S 3 IOTTO , by Paul Feval. and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter, sup p o rted by Messrs. J. G. Shore , G Jordan , J. Brougham, H. IN' iddi ,ombe, F. Charles, Garden , Raymond , Dawson; Misses Sophy Henrade, Kate Terry, E. Cayenne, and £lsworthy. Doors open at 7, commence at half-past. Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. ptoYAL PRINCESS'S TFIEATRF. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. G. Vining THIS EVENING, will be presented (13th time), COURT AND CAMP : Messrs. G. Vining, C. Verner, H. Marston, G. Belmore, G. Alurray. Warde; Mss Amy Sedzwick, Miss L. Laidlaw, and Miss Lydia Thompson. To be preceded by (3d time) a new Comedietta, entitled COUSIN TOM. And followed by A CHARMING NEW TB E ATRE-RO YA L, ADELPHI.-- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING. THE WILLOW COPSE Mr. Benj. Webster, Mr. J. L. Toole. Mr. Paul Becif ~ r t, Mr. Millington, Mr. Stuart, Mr. Stephenson ; Miss WoJ.gar, and Miss IL Simms Followed by a new Burlesque, entiled ILL-TREATED IL TRO YATORE. M ssrs. Toole. P. Bedtord, R. Phillips, 14:13nrne, C. J. Smith, Romer ; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and Sara, and Miss K. Kelly. Commence at 7. rpm THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN." .1 Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening of G: R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, June 10, 1863. -4.- TRERMOIIETER. This morning.. This day at Two o'clock 6B _ _ Barometer-29.74. Wind—E. ; fresh breeze, and fine. HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS Di7,—Morring, Sh. 55ra.—Afternoon, 9h. 30m. TO.NOREC w.-Morning, 9h. 59m.—Afternoon, 10h. 30m. • • Ne - S ' Ar."<l.4lM:yl' t far I I " LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1863. After all the rhodomontade of the Federals about victory upon v i c t ory h av i ng b een won by GRANT over PEMBERTON it now turns out, (as usual) that, according to the very latest accounts received from the beleagured city of Vicksburg,, that place still, up to that date, held out! The Confederates who are defending Vicksburg are said to number about 15,000. The Federals who are assailing it are spoken of as numbering altogether 60,000 Yet every onslaught up to the latest of these despatches yet brought to us, per the City of Bal timore, had been one after another repulsed. They had been repulsed so resolutely by the Confederates, and with such slaughter to the Federals that the latter—pausing for a while apparently to recruit their energies—had actually begun enrenchicg themselves, Under such circumstances as these, we cannot for one in stant wonder when we find a thoroughly outspoken critic of events like MANHATTAN blurting the fright ful truth right out at last, where he says, under date New York, the 26th tilt.—" We cannot forget that ev ery overwhelming and terrible defeat that we h ave sus , ' ain Government announcement was prefaced by the solemn ouncement that we had won a great victory. It was so," he adds (de scending to the mela ncholyparticulars), "in the case of Bull Run —the seven days' massacre at Richmond—the slaughter under POPE—the butchery at Antietam —the waste ern HOOKER might ricksburg—and the last catastroph uder life at Frede upon the B,appahannock." iie Fended to this , pointblank, It is so, now, in"; e 41)- to this reported succession of triumphs viron guar rence the Confederates upon the banks of the Mississippi Nap, hos he not already remarked, virtually, as much in the preceding sentence of this very same communicati on, from which the foregoing commen taries have been taken, has he not already remarked —and we would here especially call attention to the two words he has interpolated in parenthesis in the subjoined passage, words that we have ventured yet further to emphasise byiitalicising—" We have been so often,"writes MANHATTAN at the very outset of his letter pencil on the 26th—" We have been so often bitten by the good news that our forces had won a great victory, and afterwards had to weep that it was not true, that many people are shy and suspicious of the flood of victories that has poured in - upon us since Saturday last, culminating in th e f (if true)—. , Our flag now floats over the blood , Rt ~tted walls of Vicksburg.'" Observe true !" the victories turn eut to have been—every one of them—repulses. The Confederate flag still waves (pot the Federal flag) "over the bloodstained walls of Vicksburg." What says MANHATTAN a little later on in his uncompromising way ? Surely hometruths were never so bluntly spoken right out before! Corns were never trodden upon more ponderously ! " There are many," quoth this rough and ready Junius of the Yankees, " Who do not believe Vicksburg is taken. Ifor one." There is a touch of ROEBUCK in his style. It is very dramatic, thoroughly honest, indiscreet (according to the official view of indiscretion), but always manly, and always comprehensible. " Why" asks MAN HATTAN, with a keen eye to the reductio ad absurdum," should 20,000 or even 10,000 men in that city (i.e., Vicksburg) surrender without firing a gun ? It is not the usual rebel praetice. The name of every man in Vicksbur g would be con signed to infamy if it was so. Yet, to have this news true, the immense force must have run away as if they were frightened sheep. Ido not believe they did. Consequently Ido not think Vicksbm g is ours just now. It may be by-and-bye. Again, I. will believe that we have gained a great success when I hear what has become of General JOHN STONE and his army, He is the best general in the rebel service. [MANHATTA/i should have saia what he probably here meant —Nosy that STONE WALL JACKSON is no more.] As yet, we have no accounts of him, and he is a man that must be reckoned as of some account in a fight before we claim a decided victory. We are all up in the air now. All inflated with this great victory. GOD grant it may prove true, if it will bring this cruel and unnatural civil war to an end one hour sooner. Defeat has no effect 'upon our spirits. It depresses us for a moment, but like old topers, we drink up the next morning our dead liquor, and get more excited than ever. To day or to-morrow may come the news Vicksburg is not taken. JOHNSTONE and the other Gene rals have combined—a battle has been fought— and our poor fellows have been slaughtered to the extent of 15,000 or 20,000. GRANT and his army are prisoners.' " All which—though put by MANHATTAN only hypothically—is in the highest degree probable, The facts still being that Vicksburg, when these last advices left, yet held out, and that since Jackson fell into the hands of the Federals nothing whatever has been heard or seen by them of General JOHNSTONE—that General being notoriously engaged in gathering reinforce ments together at Canton or thereabouts with a view (if he can only contrive to do it in time) to raise the siege of Vicksburg ! Last night the " Security from Violence Bill" was read a second time in the. House of Lords. Lord CARNARVON moved the second reading. This noble lord has before distinguished himself on the subject of prison discipline, and through his exer tions has brought the case before the public very fully. He explained the purport of his measure as very simple and very short. He proceeded briefly to answer the objections which he knew many per sons entertained to the proposal. In the first place, it was said that to award a particular punishment for a particular offence was special legislation. Now, he argued that it might be desirable to put a number of offences in one category, but that it was seldom practicable. On the contrary, said his lordship, it has been very much the genius of Eng lish legislation to deal with each particular case and suggest the most suitable remedy. It was a uni versally acknowledged fact that crime had increased during the last few years, especially had offences augmented in attacks on the person which were known as " garotting." Last autumn this crime was committed to a frightfulextent, and though some said there was exaggeration in these statements, yet the great number of convictions proved that there was good ground for alarm. It was true that there was a large decrease now, but that might be mainly attributable to the summer season, which did not offer such facilities for the commission of the offence. Finally, Lord CARNARVON said that he objected to what might be termed "panic legislation." But it was precisely to prevent that undesirable result that he wished their lordships now to dispose of the affair. There was great force in this suggestion of Lord CARNARTON'S, for if nothing is done this session, in all probability there will be a renewal of the disgraceful scenes of last autumn, and then there will be so much indignation felt in some quarters, and so much terror exhibited ire others, that it will end in a panic requiring the Legislature at last to interfere. In pursuance of the nature of this offence his lordship said that it was well known that the perpetrators of the crime of " garotting " were generally those who had often before been con victed, and he added these appropriate remarks on the perversion of justice that has so often taken place of late years. "And where such violence has been used as is calculated to result in murder we must rot draw too nice a distinction if an intent to murder has been frustrated by some Provi dential interposition or some fortunate accident. I must say that Parliament has to thank itself in a great degree for this state of things. Unfortunately it has been for some years the study of Parliament to mitigate every rigour of the law, to cut down punishments, to abate the severity of sentences, and even when they are pronounced, to modify them very considerably. I think this course of legis lation has contributed materially to give rise to a special case; and as we have such a case to deal with we ought not to hesitate to apply a special remedy." 1 This was a well-deserved reproof to those who are scandalised at the idea of exercising severity to wards prisoners, but who at the same time persist in frustrating the objects of all old established forms of punishment. They deprecate the introduction of new measures, while they virtually annul the effect of the old ones. In support of the proposal for the infliction of corporal punishment Lord CAR NARVON alluded to the efficacy of the system in putting a stop to the attempts at violence on the person of her MAJESTY. It had also been proved to be effectual in preventing the recurrence of acts of destruction against works of art. Lord CRANWORTH moved an amendment, however, that the bill be read a second time that day six months. He gave as his reason that it was not possible to prevent par , titular crimes by special acts. His lordship also said that he looked upon the principle of the mea sure as objectionable. Fortunately, however, the House did not appear to coincide with this view of the question, for the amendment was negatived without a division. Lord GRANVILLE was apparently anxious to prevent the mea sure from passing, and yet was wise enough to know that he would sustain defeat in doing 80. Under the circumstances he had better have had the grace to keep quiet, for the state of things as regards the " garotters" reflects great discredit on the Ministers, and, in fact, upon all in authority. They follow their own pet schemes with great eagerness, and are always ready to ad vocate their own views; but the safety of the public is quite another question. It is all very well for Lord GRANVILLE and his friends to laugh at chi merical fears and to denounce panic legislation, b ut if their own families were in a different g ra d e o f society they would not like them to run the risk of such attacks. For the sake of kes ing up the re- TEIE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY Z'VENI prehensiole custom that now prevails of condoning crime, they are willing to make their arguments subservient to the cause of protectingfelons. It isno torious that the present system in our convict prisons is a mockery, and that the gaols are not much better as regards discipline, though things do act rest on the same indulgences. All who understand this class of offenders will recognise the importance of attaching disgrace to such outbreaks. The man who comes out of prison under this sentence cannot be a hero to his associates. It is most satisfactory that the measure is in a manner settled ; and the best proof that it was needed consists in the fact that none of its opponents could suggest a better remedy. They did not even attempt to find one, so that whatever good results may ensue from this plan the public will not have to thank the Government. They have been most supine in the ease, and apparently consider it of very little consequence, one way or the other, regarding the whole affiir as a panic• Those who consider that it is always most undesir able to allow such scandalous proceedings to pass unchecked, will appreciate the efforis that have been made in both houses to hold out a threat to such offenders : and all who suffered last year from the prevalence of this nefarious practice will rejoice to know that some effort has been made to check the progress of the evil, if not to prevent its recurrence. It is necessary for the Metropolitan Boards to watch narrowly the proceedings of the owners of land in the neighbourhood of the few open spaces which our ever-growing streets and squares have left us. It is not long since general excitement prevailed on the southern side of the Tnames, in consequence of attempts being made to convert the pleasant commons of that locality into rows of bricks and mortar. While that question still re mains pending, the enemy make a fresh assault in another quarter, though we can hardly call it a new attactr, inasmuch as Hampstead-heath has been often the object of aggression before now. It certainly appears strange that the wishes of the public should be so often disregarded in this matter, and that these continual endeavours should be made to trench on the public privileges. If these gentlemen had their will, the busy classes who in habit our crowded thoroughfares, with but little variation during the round of the year, would lose a very wholesome and innocent recreation. Gentle men who are owners of lands or gardens of their own, when wearied with the sights and sounds of the metropolis, can refresh themselves after the fulfilment of their Parliamentary or social duties, by a residence in the country or a conti nental tour. The class they would shut out from the heaths and commons of the metropolis, has no such opportunities. A Sunday excursion to Hamp stead, or Tooting, doubtless appears to these gentle men a contemptible enjoyment, which is more hon oured in the breach than the observance,und one that deserves little consideration at the hands of cultivated and rational mortals. It is our English custom to respect the rights of classes, of whatever degree, and to endeavour at least to look on such matters as they appear to the interested parties. If the gentlemen who look with such scorn on the pleasures of a suburban stroll in the company of donkey boys and ginger beer sellers were, by some extraordinary transformation, to be compelled to spend their days in one unvarying round in a dark shop or close office, we apprehend that even such a view of blue sky and green fields would be welcome. While such throngs continue to resort to these places it is evident they supply a popular want which it would be difficult to meet without them. Where would the crowds who now resort to the heaths and commons spend their holiday afternoons it those places were enclosed? The parks are not elastic, and if they were, there is more formality and restriction about them. It is the professed object of the present day to foster every kindly feeling between classes, and to en courage every healthy influence, while our sanitary reformers and men of science talk much about the care of the public health. Why then should these repeated attempts, which contravene every one of these professions, be suffered to continue. Cannot some means be devised by which all such questions may be set satisfactorily at rest. It is time that some general principle were acted upon for th protection of these public rights, which are other wise likely to suffer from some unsuspected bill passing through a careless or empty House. It might have been supposed that the metropolitan members would be the first to stand up for the rights of their constituents, but such is not the fact. At a recent meeting of the St. Pancras Re presentative Council, Captain CAMERON called at tention to another bl,l which had been intro duced into Parliament by two metropolitan membersee-IVIr. Cox and Sir MORTON PETO —which Bill had for its ostensible object an amendment of the Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Act, but its real object was to enable Sir T. M. WILSON to build in the immediate vicinity of Hampstead-heath. A bill on the same subject has also been introduced in the Lords under the auspices of the Lord Chancellor, so that there is really ground for uneasiness. Captain CAMERON remarked as a proof of the character of the bill that part of it went to repeal the 21st section of the Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Act of 1856, which pro hibited Sir T. M. WILSON from building on the ground adjacent to, and which would effect the enclosure of, Hampstead-heath, The section which it was proposed to repeal by the present bill was, the prohibition to any person who had been before the House of Lords with a private bill for enclosing public places, which had been reported against by the judges, from obtaining any public act to enable him to do so. Tho justice and reasonableness of this clause is evident, and it is difficult to see what can be the object of proposing to expunge it unless some fresh enclosure is meditated. We trust that the their Houses va r vigilance,iwoui eMx examine Metropolitan l n i t tn that narrowly will not relax ll Boards tlhye t he cmembersclauses s o f of bothany bill of this nature which may be brought before them. It is easier to withhold permission than to withdraw, less difficult to forbid the building of houses than to pull them down when built, and the members of our Legislature may he sure t hat in countenancing any such infringement of the public rights and privileges they will be committing a most impolitic and unpopular act, and, will be occasioning great and lasting regret. THE PRINCESS MARY'S CONCERT.—The grand military concert which is to take place on Satur day next in the Exhibition Building, on behalf of the PrinceesMary of Cambridge's fund for providing nurses fir the aged and invalid inmates of the Cambridge Asylum for Soldiers' Widows, promises to be a great success. All the bands of the various regiments of the Household Brigade are engaged to perform, and from the number of tickets already sold it is believed that from 15,000 to 20,000 persons will avail themselves of the opportunity at once of seeing all the beauty and fashion of London, of listening to the grandest military music of the day, of spending a very plea stgatnaottaawtfhtoernoon amid the familiar aisles of the Exhibition, and cinagi: o bl f .eiet doing rn o i i (d.,,b n :o g s ~,N,fatr, good service to one of the most deserving of our public charities. It is more than probable, we hear, ' ' r work br Prince c t and h e i d e mp i o r EagßrAAaiPrincessMauritus, re o se f boat from the C to take passemr, screw steamer, brigl rigged, This alias the Virginia, '" n il: e a:es will promote the STEAMERarrived tat. 4 oNff ,S G lcoi E nil o y : r3 G eop lA owr .7 .s, hb l ay l va e . e o r r ;fe b d u e .t ra d t e e cl p in ri e v d a . te T er he Ge G o e rg o i r a g , ia an w d a w s a a s n as i k ro e n d Q. This was probably the Japan, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) TEE POLISH INSURRECTION, CRAUOW, JUNE 9. The Russians have shot the Abbe Iszola a' Wilna. Engagements terminating favourably for the in surgents have taken place at Wyszogrod and Bal wierzynski, in the kingdom of Poland, and at Horke, in Lithuania. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 10. Five ex-Chamberlains have been exiled to Bar bary on account of frauds discovered to have been committed by them upon the Civil Li s t. The investigation into the charges against the late Ministers Biz , , Hassib, and Saffeti Pasha has been commenced. FRANCE, BOURSE, Jane 9.—But little change has taken place in the tone of the market, and prices remain about the same. nrees, for the Account, are now at 69fr. 371 c. Italian Loan has slightly improved. been much dealt in, and 43 rather weak. Closing Railway Shares have not the market is on the who prices as follow :- 4t per Cents. 97 25 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 30 Credit Mobilier 1265 Do. end month 1245 Bank Shares — Credit Foncier Italian Loan 73 05 Do. end month 73 10 New ditto 74 Do. end month 74 10 Russian Austrian Spani,h Threes 53 50 Home Debt .. 5l 75 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans . 997 50 .. 997 50 Northern New ditto — • • -- Lyons and Mediterranean 1042 50 .. 1047 50 Geneva 443 75 445 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian .. Austrian 498 75 .. 501 25 422 50 420 465 - .. 462 50 Lon•hard North of Spain Saragossa .... 712 50 .. 717 50 Ditto to Barcelona .... 383 75 .. 385 THE CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. (RETITER'S TELEGRAMS.) The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular .and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : MARSEILLES, June 10th. The Valetta, with the above mails, arrived here at 4 a.m. this day. Tae mails leave for London at 11 a.m. THE WEST AFRICAN MAIL. LIVERPOOL, MAY 9. The steamer Armenian arrived here this even ing with the above mail, one box of diamonds, 307 ounces of golddust, 800 sovereigns, and 2,500 dole. in specie, and 29 passengers. Her dates are—Benin, April 23 ; Fernando Po, 28th; Cameroons, 30th; Old Calabar, May 2; Brass River, 4th ; New Calabar, 7th ; Bonny, 7th ; Lagos, 11th ; Accra, 12th ; Cape Coast Castle, 14th ; Sierra Leone, 21st ; Bathurst, 25th ; Teneriffe, June 1 ; Madeira, 2d. Fernando Po was healthy, and trade had much improved. No reduction had taken place in the prices cf oil. Trade was stopped at Accra owing to the expected attack upon Cape Coast Castle by the Ashantees. Five soldiers from her Mhjesty's ships Dart and Dove were drowned at Accra on May 13 while attempting to land in canoes. Private despatches state that the coast generally was fearfully unhealthy, but this is not confirmed by the Armenian's despatch. A SPECIMEN OF MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY.— A Protestant clergyman, one Rev. William Dampier is thus described by Miss Thackeray in her " Story of Elizabeth :''—" He was a big, commonplace young man, straight-minded and tender-hearted. with immense energy and great god spirits. He believed in himself; indeed, he tried so heartily and conscientiously to do what was right, that he could not help knowing, more or less, that he was a good fellow. And then he had a happy knack of seeing one side of a question, and having once determined that so and so was the thing to be done, he could do so and so without one doubt or compunction. He belonged to the school of athletic Christianity. I heard some one once say that there are some of that sort who would almost, make out cockfighting to be a religious ceremony. William Dampier did not go so far as this, but he heartily believed that nothing was wrong which was done with a Christian and manly spirit. He rode across country, he smoked pipes, he went out shooting, he played billiards and cricket, he rowed up and down the river in his boat, and he was charming with all the grumbling old men and women in his parish ; he preached capital sermons, short, brisk, well considered. He enjoyed life and all is good things with a grateful temper, and made most people happy about him." A MARK FOB GENERAL CONTEMPT.—Bismark —Fun. A VERITABLE JIM CROW !—" Oh, my dear E--! I have seen Jim Crow—the veritable James; all the contortions, and springs, and flings, and kicks, and capers you have been beguiled into accepting as indicative of him are spurious, faint, feeble, impotent—in a word, pale northern productions of that ineffable black conception. It is impossible for words to describe the things these people did with their bodies, and, above all, with their faces, the whites of their eyes, and the whites of their teeth, and cer tain outlines which either naturally and by the grace of heaven, or by the practice of some peculiar artistic der: terity, they bring into prominent and most ludicrous dis play. The languishing elegance of some, the painstaking laboriousness of others; above ali, the feats of a certain enthusiastic banjo-player, who seemed to me to thump his instrument with every part of his body at once, at last so utterly overcame any attempt at decorous gravity on my part that I was obliged to secede; and, considering what the atmosphere was that we inhaled during the exhibition, it is only wonderful to me that we were not made ill by the double effort not to laugh, and, if possible, not to breathe." Fanny Kemble's Journal. _ _ QUEEN'S THEATRE, EDINBURGH.—Mr. Herman n Vezin, late of the Princess's and Lyceum Theatres, and Mrs. Charles Young (now Mrs. Vezin), late of the Haymarhet and Sadler's Wells Theatres, after having ful filled a successful engagement in Glasgow, performed before a crowded and fashionable audience in Edinburgh en Monday night. The Scotsman of yesterday says : —The dramatic version of Miss Braddon's novel, " Lady Audley's Secret," which has been so popular in London, was produced at the Queen's Theatre. It was preceded by the well-worn farce of "Box and Cox," in which Mr. Andrews (whose abilities as a burlesque actor were well tested during a lengthened engagement at the Operetta- House last season, and gained for him a large measure of popularity) amused the audience, and worked them up into good humour, by his clever by-play in the part of Cox, the hatter. " Lady Audley's Secret" introduced two actors of c msiderable merit to the Edinburgh public in Mr. Hermann Vezin and Mrs. Charles Young. The story has been some what altered to suit the exigencies of the stage, but its main outlines are preserved, and its leading incidents effectively grouped together in the play. In the first act, we have George Talboys (Mr. E. D. Lyons) landing in England after his toilsome career of three years at the Australian diggings, on his way to share his wealth with the wife whom he deserted in anger, He is suddenly plunged into despair by reading, in the chambers of his friend Robert Audley, the announcement of bis wife's death—she having in the interval married Robert's uncle, and sent the an nouncement to the papers to prevent his searching for her. Th-n comes the visit of the two friends to Audley Court, the recognition of Lady Audley (Mrs, Young) by Talboys, and their interview, in which she upbraids him with his desertion of her, and angiily repudiates his charge of unfaithfulness. Mrs Young's acting in this scene was full of womanly pathos, so much so as to exclude for the time being the idea of Lady Audley's own error, and to kindle a thorough sympathy for her, and implicit belief in the justice of her cause. In the second act, however—be tween which and the first twelve months are assumed to have elapsed —we have Lady Audley goaded to desperation by the hostility of Robert, and endeavouring to remove the traces of one error by a series of crimes. In this altered admirablyo s t h d e i f n p ocussl possesses susi phaseetesdatsoot stately tutehel such and guilty Nvoman—L4dy Audley, though commanding orrdaalnetadennroAd;wreosxan. expressive Young, not longer ust t n l a vl g e ee injured n j s u ut r he e ci dsest countenance, a sh n ieu d lm, defiant, but the resolute sympathy less, still exercises a fascination over the specta tor,mfihgoau c a part, and its pathos and its passion were alike represented with remarkable skill and fidelity. Mr. Vezin personated the cool and unswerving Robert Audley in a careful and judicious manner, with almost none of that stage manner ism by which, in the closing scenes especially, such a charac ter might have been deprived of its identity in less able hands, NG, JUNE 10 1863. AMERICA. (REUTERS TELEGRAMS.) (Per City of Baltimore.) NEW YORK, May 30 (Morning). A prisoner at the Old Capitol Prison, Washing ton, has been shot dead while lnoking out of window by the guard on duty. The prisoner was charged with having furnished military appliances to the Confederates at Richmond. He is said to have been a British subject. It is officially stated that the length of coast blockaded by the Federal squadron, from Alexan dria, Virginia, to the Rio Grande, is 3,500 miles. There are 189 openings in this line of coast. General Grant's army attacking Vicksburg is said to number 60,000 men. Great lissatisfaction is expressed by the Southern generals with Pemberton's military operations against Grant, and the Richmond TVhig says it is rumoured that General Johnston has taken his sword from Pemberton, and placed him under arrest. The Petersburg Express of the 23d considers the situation at Vicksburg extremely critical, and says the destruction of the bridge across the Big Black River not only isolates Vicksburg from communica tion with all other parts of the Confederacy, but opens to the enemy the rich and ranch desired Yazoo country. The Express fears that Pemberton, with scarcely any field artillery and his army greatly reduced, cannot long hold out unless Johnston speedily concentrates his furces and relieves the be leaguered city. The Richmond Examiner says that an attack on Vicksburg can nowhere be made with a force equal to the garrison. On no side can more than 8,000 men be deployed in line for an assault. The cha racter of the ground renders approaches difficult, while heat and the country malaria during six months of the year would make its siege at present one of the most murderous on record. Only trea chery or cowardice could explain the capture of Vicksburg by sudden assault, and its fall by any other means seems daily less probable. The Richmond Sentinel says that Johnston, who is outside Vicksburg, is preparing to fall on Grant's flank or rear, and thus raise the siege by a battle. For this grand struggle both sides seem reinforcing. Tne Sentinel looks hopefully on the situation. Colonel Jones, with the Bth Pennsylvania Regi ment, has made an expedition from Newbern and attacked the Confederates in their entrenchments at Gum Swamp, capturing their artillery, 200 pri soners, and destroying their works. The Confede rates, however, rallied, and following up the Fede ral rear harrassed the Union troops considerably until they gained their own tines. The Confederate fire then became very severe, and Colonel Jones was killed behind his breastworks. The schooner Sea Bird, of Philadelphia, whilst aground at the mouth of Neuse River, North Caro lina, was captured and burnt by the Confederates. They put off in small boats from the shore, and took prisoners the captain and crew of the schooner. It has been ascertained at Beaufort that nearly a million dollars' worth of supplies have reached the Confederates through the sutlers of the Federal army, who opened wholesale houses at points where the Federals had no military jurisdiction, and to which the Confederates obtained free access. The Federals have made an expedition from West Point, Virginia, into the neighbouring counties, sacking the grain warehouses and burning the mills, and capturing horses, cattle, and sheep. They took from the farmers everything that could be of use to the Federal army, and destroyed their agricultural implements. The Richmond Examiner thinks the present mo ment most propitious for the Southern army to gain a victory, which shall signify something more than repulsing the enemy, for defensive operations wit l never secure the acknowledgment of their indepen dence or end the war. The Northerners will fight 40 years so long as war means dispatching men and money to a distance, and as long as they fail to see the columns of an invading army blackening their fields, lit by the flames of their houses and towns. From the first the only reasonable hope of the Con federacy has been the transfer of hostilities to the enemy's country. If that cannot be done the pro grest, of invasion, however slow, must after a time overwhelm the South. No treaty of peace id pos sible unless signed on Northern soil; and if the Southern armies can ever go there at all the time is now at. hand. The New York Herald thinks the treatment of Generals Siegel and Francis Meagher, by the War Department, in refusing to give them active com mands is shameful, and attributes Know-nothing proclivities to the Secretary for War. It is stated that General Meagher is about to visit Europe. The Free South, a Northern journal, printed at Port Royal, says that Gen. Paxton has ordered ra tions for negroes to be altogether discontinued, ex cept in cases where to do so would be inhuman. The distribution of rations fostered the idea enter tained by the negroes that the Government was bound to support them. The transition from slavery to freedom appeared to them only a change of mas ters, the difference being that the new master was more easily imposed upon than the old one. The Free South hopes that when the negroes have had an opportunity of raising their own subsistence, and run short through laziness or neglect, they will be taught by the pangs of hunger a lesson that will not be lost. Their former condition as slaves gives them no claim on the United States. On the contrary, they owe the Northern Govern ment a debt of gratitude for favours conferred, and the sooner the idea of philanthropists that it is the duty of the Government to give them free support is abandoned the better it will be for both whites and blacks in the Southern depai tment. The Commercial Advertiser says :—" All the prisoners taken in the battles on the Rappahannock have been exchanged, and it appears that the num ber captured by us is just half that captured by the enemy. The South claims to present e list in excess of 8,000, while ours is little more than 1,000. This is understood to be the condition of the exchange arranged between the Northern and Southern com missioners. The rebel papers boast of the fact, And the rebel authorities intimate that they should now dictate some terms regarding the exchange of pri soners in future, which would lead to bloody re taliation if not complied with." The New York limes says that Governor Sey mour's letter to the Vallandigham meeting is posted in all parts of New York. After violently de nouncing the letter, the Times nays : " There are thousands ignorant or base enough to be influenced by it, but if the patriotic feeling of millions in New York State is raised, the New York rebels will be swept like chaff before the wind. The governor may do much mischief, bur he must stop very far short of the revolutionary violence he has intimated in his letter, or he will confront a public spirit it will be hardly safe to grapple with. The human soul never had a more inflexible purpose than that now held by the people of New York State, to sustain the war until the rebellion is crushed. Any man attempting to divert that de termination by pretext or device will be ground to powder." The Commercial Advertiser, noting the changes of population caused by the invasion of the Northern armies throughout the South, says that similar changes are taking place in the Northern States. Strangers are arriving in unprecedented numbers. So many emigrants never landed at New York in one day as on Monday last (the 25th), the aggregate being over 3,500. During the season probably 50,000 emigrant have Bought the Ameri can shores, four-fifths of them having landed at New York. DISPATOH OF THE BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE MAlLS.—Southampton, Tuesday.—The Royal Mail Company's steamship Magdalena, Capt. Woolward, sailed hence to-day, at three p.m., with the mails for Lisbon, B a hia, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Monte Video, Buenos Ayres, &c. She took out 73 passengers and on freight for Rio £209,900, of which amount £200,000 in sovereigns is fir the Bank of Brazil, and £7,400 in bar silver for tho Minister of Finance; for Bahia, £4,000 in sovereigns; for Monte Video, gold coin £226 ; for Buenos Ayres, gold coin £1,600; and for Lisbon £9,893 in sovereigns, of which amount £6,000 is consigned to the Union Bank, The Magdalena also took out a very full cargo of French and English merchandise, \pze „ find cruht HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, June 9. Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena and Princess Beatrice, and attended by the Marchioness of Ely, Lady A. Bruce, Lord Talbot de Mtlahide, Lieut.- General the Hon. C. Grey, and Major-General the Hon. A. Hood, went to London to-day by special train on the Great Western Railway. Her Majesty was met at the station by his Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by Major Covell, and pro ceeded thence to the Horticultural Gardens, the Equerries attending on horseback. Her Majesty was received at the entrance in Exhibition-road by the Duke of Buceleuch, Presi dent ; Sir W. Dilke, Vice-President ; and the coun cil and secretaries of the Society, who had the honour of being presented to her Majesty. Her Majesty proceeded up the centre walk of the gardens to the spot where the Great Exhibition Memorial is erected, surmounted by the statue of the Prince Consort, which is to be formally inaugu rated to-morrow by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Princess of Wales and other members of the Royal family. Her Majesty was met here by Mr. Durham, the sculptor, by whom' the statue was executed, Alder man Challis, the chairman, and Mr. God win, the secretary of the Memorial Committee, who had also the honour of being presented to her Majesty. Her Majesty made a lengthened inspection of the Memorial, visiting every spot whence a fresh view might be obtained, and frequently expressed how much she was pleased with it, and the gratification it had afforded her to see its success. Her Majesty also marked her interest in the progress of the gar dens by afterwards spending a considerable time in the conservatory and adjoining terraces, with which she declared herself much satisfied. Her Majesty then returned by the Eastern Ar cade to her carriage in Exhibition -road, and drove to Mariborough•house to visit the Prince and Prin cess of Wales. There were also present in the gardens, to meet her Majesty, the Earl Granville, K.G., Viscount Sydney, G.U.8., the members of the Works Com mittee, Mr. Kelk, the contractor for the Exhibition Building, Mr. Foley, Mr. Westmacott, and others. The Prince of Orange paid a visit to her M ijesty at Marlborough-house. The Queen returned to Windsor at two o'clock. Lord Methuen and Captain Sir W. Hoste have succeeded Lord Talbot de Malahide and Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell as Lord and Groom in Waicing. The Prince and Princess of Wales. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, the Prince of Leiningen, the Duke of Cambridge, and Count Gleichen, honoured the performance of Her Majesty's Theatre last evening with their presence. They were attended by the the Earl of Mount-Edgecumbe, Lieut.-Gen. Knollys, Lieut.-Col. Keppel, Major Cowell, and Col. Tyrwhitt. The Prince of Wales, accompanied by Prince Alfred, and attended by his Equerry in Waiting, rode out on horseback yesterday. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales received addresses of congratulation to his Royal Highness a►,d the Princess of Wales yesterday afternoon, at Marlborough -house, from the clergy of the Province of Canterbury in Convocation, and from the clergy of the cities of London and Westminster. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops, and the clergy of the Province arrived in their Convo cation robes at half-past two o'clock. Present : The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Lon don, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Chichester, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop of Llandaff, the Bishop of Salisbury; Dr. Travers Twiss, Vicar-General; Mr. Francis Hart Dyke, Registrar of the Province of Canterbury ; and Mr. Felix Knyvett, Apparitor- General. The officers and members of the Lower House of Convocation present were :—The Prolo tutor, the Dean of Bristol; the A3tuary, Mr, Francis Cobb; the Deans of Canterbury and Norwich, the Archdeacons of Buckingham and London ; proctors for chapters—the Rev. Canon Harvey, Dr. Jelf, Dr. Jeremie, and the Rev. Canon Argles ; proctors for the c;ergy—the Warden of All Souls, the Revs. A. M. Hopper, T. Mills (chaplain to her Majesty), M. W. Mayow, J. C. B. Riddell, J. H. Randolph, J. Bramston, F. Vincent, Dr. M'Caul, Ashton Oxen den, and G. B. Bloomfield. His Grace and the clergy were ushered to the saloon, where their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales received them, attended by the Lady and Gentlemen in Waiting. The Archbishop of Canterbury delivered the fol lowing Address : "To THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES. "We, the Archbishop, Bishops, and clergy of the Pro vince of Canterbury in Convocation assembled, approach your Royal Highness with the expression of our cordial congratulations on your happy marriage. "We pray God, for Christ's sake, long to continue to in crease your happiness here, and to grant you, above all, His choicest earthly blessings of mutual affection; that so your Royal Highnesses in your exalted position may, through His grace and mercy, long live before this people as bright examples of godly unity arid Christian love. "And we will ever pray, &c." The Prince of 'Wales returned the following an swer : "My Lord Archbishop, Bishops, and clergy of the Pro vince of Canterbury,—The Princess and myself thank you heartily for your congratulations on our marriage, and for your prayers for our happiness, which we desire to assure you we appreciate most deeply. " We trust that our humble efforts may never be wanting to justify the affectionate interest which you have taken in our union." The Lord Bishop of London and the clergy of London and Westminster arrived at Marlborough house. Present—the Lord Bishop of London, the Dean of St. Paul's (Dr. Milman), the Dean of West minster (Dr. Trench), the Archdeacon of London (Ven. William Ha;e Hale), the Archdeacon of Mid dlesex (Yen. John Sinclair), the President of Sion College (Rev. J. Jackson), Rev. Cano❑ Dale, Rev. Canon Champneys, Rev. Canon Melvill, Ven. Arch deacon Bentinck, Lord J. Thynne, Rev. Canon Jennings, Rev. Canon Wordsworth, Rev. Canon Cureton, Rev. Canon Nepean, Rev. T. • Randolph, Rev. Dr. M'Caul, Rev. Ernest Hawkins, Rev.Thos. G. Hall, Rev. Chas. B. Dalton, Rev. R. G. Baker, Rev. Henry Venn, Rev. Derwent Coleridge, Rev. W. A. Soames, the Chaplain-General (Rev. G. R. Gleig), Rev. J. Jackson, Rev. R. Burgess, Rev. C. Mackenzie, Rev. W. G. Humphry, Rev. Dr. Kynaa ton, Rev. F. C. Cook, Rev. C Marshall, Rev. M. Gibbs, Rev. Dr. Goulburn, R: , v. J. H. Hamilton, Rev. T. T. Ainger, Rev, F. G. Blomfield, Rev. Dr. Hessey, Rev. Dr. Irons, Rev. J. E. Kempe, Rev. Thos. Griffith, Rev. W. Rogers, Rev. H. Howarth, and the Rev. W. H. Fremantle (Bishops Resident Chaplain). His Lordship and his clergy were ushered to the saloon, where the Bishop presented Addresses from the Lord Bishop of London and the clergy of the cities of London and Westminster on the recent marriage. Toe Prince of Wales was attended at the recep tion of the addresse d by the Earl of Mount E cumbe, Lord in Waiting, Lieut.-General Knollys, Controller and Treasurer; Hon. Robert H. Meade, Groom in Waiting ; and Lieut.-Colonel Keppel, Equerry in Waiting. The Princess of Wales was attended by Countess de Grey, Lady in Wa:ting ; and Lord Harris, Chamberlain. A deputation from the Grocers' Company had an interview with the Prince of Wales, to confer the freedom of the Grocers' Company upon his Royal Highness. The deputation was composed of Mr. Henry Grace, Master ; Mr. Jas. Cottam, Mr. Mark Cattley, and Mr. Vesey Weston Holt, Wardens; and Messrs. Henry Warner, William Pott, Henry Browning, Robt. Garrard, and W. J. Thompson ; a deputation from the Court of Assistants; and Mr. W:n. Ruck, clerk. The Freedom of the Company was presented to the Prince of Wales by the Master, Mr. Grace, the certificate being enclosed in a handsome gold box. The oath on admission was administered to hi s Royal Highness by the clerk, Mr. Ruck. LITERATURE. Respectable Sinners. By Mrs. Brotherton. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. Notwithstanding its not very attractive title, Mrs. Brotherton has here given us a ver, attrac tive novel, in which sonic of the Tartuffis and Pharisees of modern days are both skilfully and se verely depicted. The discrimination of character is singularly happy, and the story is very naturally and pleasantly told. The two heroines, Louisa Danhaye and her daughter, Helen Ashton, are beautiful portraits, beautifully portrayed. Both of them full of faults of very different kinds, and both of them so richly endowed with natural goodness, that the discipline of life, which comes to all, leaves them chastened by sorrow and ennobled by suffering. At the opening of the tale Louisa is a widow of one-and-twenty, and Helen an orphan of three years old. The widow, it appears, had married without her father's consent, and she is now left almost penniless. But, fortunately for her youth and inexperience, her husband's brother arrives from abroad, and for the time provides for her. An amusing chapter " On Daily Breai and Daily Cake," deserves to be studied by the sentimental young ladies who sigh for love in a cottage. Louisa Danhaye, the only child of a wealthy father, had, it should be remembered, up to the time of her marriage, existed in blissful ignorance of worldly affairs. Louisa held the precious metals in sublime contempt, and always called them " dross." So do a vast number of romantic. young women, whose parents happen to be well off. And oh I ye younger brothers, it is always some dainty creature brought up on cake, that is so innocently eager to share your crust I Louisa, for instance, bad an excellent appetite for her Gaily cake, liked it as •rich as it could be made, and munched it gracefully—sighing senti mentally the while for dry bread. This brief passage gives a glimpse of Mrs. Brother ton's lively, pleasant style. Her manner of narrat ing her story is very charming ; and the story itself is sufficiently interesting to make us reluctant to spoil its interest by any premature disclosure of its plot. Widow Louisa selects a second husband— " a respectable sinner"—and little Helen, an affec tionate, impulsive child, skrinks from him instinc tively, as little David Copperfield shrank lrom Mr. Murdetone. But widow Louisa is not meek and. malleable like poor Clara, and Mr. Hartley, of Hartley Hall, finds his match. Another "respect able sinner" is Mrs. NPttlefold, Louisa's aunt, who, from avaricious motives, keeps up and augments the estrangement between Louisa and her father. The character of this irreproachable lady, with her rustling silks avid her benignant smile, is very effectively described. Edward Hartley, the hypocri tical son of a tyrannical father, is another character drawn with skilful discrimination. The fatal effects. upon a weak nature of such early training as fell to his lot at the hands of those " respectable sinners," his worldly father and his austere grandmother, are most effectively shown. The happy influence ulti mately obtained by the loving but too impetuous Helen will be a matter of satisfaction to all who take an interest in her story. The character of the mother is, however, the happiest in the book. The one strong feeling of her life, her devotion to her daughter, while it subjects her for a time to much anxiety and distress, ultimately proves, like every unselfish emotion, the source of Lenefit and blessing, at once to gifer and recipient. Other " sinners" ap pear in these volumes, less " respectable," but more to be respected. Mrs. Brotherton will find favour with many readers, who, it is to be hoped, may derive from her teaching as much profit as.pleasure. An Errand to the South in the Summer of 1862. By the Rev. W. Wyndham Malet. One vol. pp. 312. Bentley. A pleasant, gossipping book enough—but one that unhappily comes before us according to the over frank first page of a most ingenuous Preface as literally published at the " request of friends." The acknowled.fment is evidently made, of course, by the author, with a view to propitiate the reader's leciency, and to attract attention to the narrative which follows thereupon. Mr. Malet not having the faintest notion in the world, apparently, that if the f,ct is as he states (and we cannot in courtesy but credit his statement) that same fact is dead against him, to begin with. Nay, in addition to the gaucherie of rills announcement of his, that his lucubrations do now actually make their appearance before us in deference to that melancholy circumstance " the request of friends" betore mentioned—the writer positively goes on a t once to m ake , matters still worse by " humbly apologising tor " presuming to offer such d esu l tory '' jottings by the way—by " throwing h imse lf upon t h e generos ity" of those who may "honour his reminis cen c es with perusal"—and by t r u s ti ng t h at t h e many imperfec tions, repetitions, an d so f ort h , t h at w il l be foun d in his pages " will mee t w i t h l en i ency, leading t'3 forgiveness." N o b o d y , we un d erta k e to say, cares one snap of the fingers for any book that comes under consideration prefaced by such meekly propitiatory sentences as these. Bad as impertinently self-suffi cient prefaces are, beyond a doubt, they are far more likely to be tolerated than a pensive, little, stam mering, blushing, introductory page or two like the couple here only too modestly penned by the bearer (and writer) of the "Errand to the South." And the volume, when it comes to be looked into, turns out to be precisely what might have been pretty confidently predicated it would prove to be, from the tone and manner of this most mistaken avant courier. As a specimen of the author's style of writing throughout, we subjoin his sketch (if it really can be so called) of the Southern President : JEFFERSON DAVIS.. President Davis's house is situated on the brink of one of the Richmond hills, looking to the north, a small stream running at its foot, and the rail to Gordonsville winding through the valley. There are two porticoes ; the en trance one to the north, and the lawn and garden one to the south. The house is granted by the State. The negro servant ushered me into a lofty and cool dining-room, and in a few minutes in walked his Excellency; his height about 6 ft. 10 in., and shoulders board, as they need to be to bear his awful responsibilities ; calm his eye, smooth his voice, measured his words ; his whole demeanour making you feel at once at home : his dress of the plainest, being a suit of blue Virginia manufacture, a sort wf light flannel cloth. We sat down tete-a-fete, and I enjoyed a cup of excellent tea. Mrs. Davis and the children were at Raleigh in North Carolina. Could anything be more vapid or colourless than this pencilling of President Davis ? It affords one not the faintest notion of what the man is really like. And precisely in that way is the book before us written throughout. It is as if we were scanning a succession of outlines drawn very lightly with an ill-pointed slate-pencil upon a rather dull slate—the wnole being (as we have alrelr'y described the above as being) utterly and completely colourless. As a narrative of an Excursion into the South, it is perfectly conscien tious, but—it is colourless. And these penciliings are in another way precisely like pencillings upon a slate, they are so easy of obliteration. Gosing the book, we remember little or nothing of its contents. The War in Poland, 1830-1831. By Sir Archi bald Alison, Bart., D.C.L. Bvo., pp. 79. Blackwood and Sons. A chapter from Sir Archibald Alison's world famous History of Europe has here been most opportunely republished in a separate form. So republished, it constitutes the most rtivopos little namphlet well imaginable. For, anyone who watches (and who does not ?) with profound interest the course of events in this new insurrectionary movement in Poland, can hardly appreciate the import of it, as a national rising, with the smallest approach to accuracy, without having first of all recalled to mind the character of the last war in Poland, the war of 1830-31, the war here succinctly but also, it may be said without any real contradic tion of terms, most comprehensively, described by the Histori an o f E urope. As one of the most re markable epi so d es of his great work, the incident recorded in this memorable chapter upon Poland is one of the most mournfully enthralling. !eeton's Dictionary of Universal Biography. One vol. Pp. 1,117. S. 0 Beeton. The compiler of this really marvellous volume of curiously condensed and well compacted knowledge has, in the very best meaning that can possibly be attached to the words, fairly out-Maundered