The Sun. — London, England, 1863-04-02 00:00:00

TRE EXHIBITION of ALUMIN IUM and ALUMINIUM BRONZE. 2,000 SPECIMENS, illustratinz the appli cation (Ornamental and Useful) of these in teresting Metals, ARE NOW ON VIEW at 31 AXED' BROTHERS'STREE T. NEW ROO3IS, r.:22, REGENT Admission by Card. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GARD EN.-31r. rye has the honour to announce that the OPERA SEASON of 15 3 will commence on TUESDAY, April 7. The Prospectus with full particulars may be ob tained at the Bog-office, and at the principal musicsellers and librarians. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.- Mr. MAPLESON has the honour to announce that the OPERA SEASON of 1863 will commence on SATUR DAY, April 11. The prospectus, with full particulars, may be obtained on application at the Box-office, wirch is open daily, under the superintendence of Mr. Nugent, from Ten to Six ; and at all the principal Libraries and Musicsellers. THE ATR E-R OYA L, DRURY-LANE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. On EASTER MONDAY, for the 347th time in London, PEEP O'DAY. Mes=rs. Henry Lorraine, Walter Lacy, C Verner, Addison, J. Graham. G. Spencer, T. Neville, &c. Misses Cleveland, Clara Weston, M. Hudson, &c. To conclude with MAGIC TOYS. Valentine, Miss Lydia Thompson Commence at 7. T EIEAT RE-RON AL, HAY MARKET. Lessee. Mr. J. B. Buckstone. On EASTER MONDAY, will be performed MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Hero, Miss Ellen Terry ; Beatrice, Miss Louisa Angel. After which, an apropos Dramatic Sketch,. introducing a Panorama of the Tour of the Prince of Wales in the East. To conclude with BORROWING A HUSBAND. Pamela her first appearance), Miss Maria THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Management of Mr. PECTHER. On EASTER MONDAY, to commence with an Original sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. a After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic THE Drama, in Three Acts, Quartered Pr3loque, entitled DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feral and John Brougham. The princ i pa l c haracter will b e sustained b y Mr. Fechter, suoported n by Messrs. G. Vinig, J. Brougham, H. iddi combe, W. Wltyre, F. Charnles, Garden, Raymond, H. Butler, Dawson ; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, and Elsworthy. Stage- M a nager, Mr. G. Vining. Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Ai arnett. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Lessee and Manager, Mr ',lndus. On Easter Monday the drama of AURORA FLOYD. Mi4s Amy Sedgvrick, Miss Henderson, and Mrs. Simpson ; Messrs. Roxby, G. Melville, G. Belmore, C. Seyton, Wallace, and Collett. To conclude with a new whimsical Extravaganza, entitled BEAUTIFUL HAIDEE ; or The Sea Nymph and the Sallee Rovers. W THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- .1_ Solo Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING (ttth time) AURORA FLOYD. Miss Avonia Jones, Miss H. Simms, Mrs. Billing•ton ; Mr. Benj. Webster, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Billington, Mr. Stuart, Mr. Sefton, Mr. Romer, Mr. C. J. Smith. After which, A VALENTINE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, Miss Kate Kelly, and Miss Seaman. Commence at 7. TVHE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE. NENVS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. NOTICE. THE WEDDING SUN Is still Publishing. ~.... The Weather—Sun Office, April 2, 1863. THERMOMETER. Highest since Noon yesterday... ............ 50 Lowest during the night ............... . ... 31 . This day at Noon ......................... 51 Wind—North; lig ht, and fine weathi..r. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T7fl3 DA.T.---Morning, 21h, 59m.—Afternoon, lh. 20m, To-gonnovi.-Morning, lh. 36m.—Afternoon, lh. 55. n, ' EI a 51141) LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1863. By a curious coincidence, H.R.H. Prince ALFRED arrives again in England almost simultaneously with the advent of the Telegram from Athens announcing the recognition by the Greeks of Prince WILLIAM of Denmark as their new constitutional Sovereign, under the title of King GEORGE the First. In a manner, it might be said, that the Crown of Greece is the Wedding Gift from the Second Son of our beloved QUEEN, to the Family of the Bride of H.R.H.'s Elder Brother, the Heir Appa rent. However tLe fact may be expressed, its instrinsic significance amounts to that. Immedi ately after the faineant ex-King OTHO had taken his final departure from the shores of the classic laud his Majesty had during nearly one whole generation so flagrantly misgoverned —immediately the Athenians had been enable at last to realise as as a delightful certainty that d they ware at last effectually and for ever rid of the German Court and of the intriguing Queen Consort, remarkable, this latter, if for anything, for her most undeniable Russian proclivities —the one distinct and instantly avowed decision of the revolutionised peoplo of Greece, was that Prince ALFRED of England, and no other than Prince ALFRED, should, as inevitably as the sunrise fo llows the dawn, appear in due course as the result of the recently proclaimed Provisional Government. In this, obviously, they were precipitate. They counted without their host. They made certain that the Throne had only to be proffered, to be accepted. But, however much they may have been mistaken in thus jumping to a wrong conclusion, the meaning of their choice of Prince ALFRED, unsolicited and spontaneously, wa s from the first instant of its announcement, beyond th e reach of misapprehension. Alluding to which only a day or so back at Greenock, the noble Pre mier, Lord PALMERSTON, himself remarked with as much truth as emphasis, that" there cannot be a more striking proof of the respect which the conduct of this British nation has inspired into men living in other lands than the unanimous desire expressed ho by the people o f Greece, and no t only by those w live in Greece, bat by the Greeks in every part of Europe—to receive as their sovereign the grac i ous Qti Eli N—in which wish son of our they were led by a knowledge of the bless ings which our political institutions communicate to the people or these realms, and by an anxious desire that they a l so m i ght, by t a king a British Prince, have a guarantee that they would enjoy blessings of the same kind." The acceptance of the however, by proffered gift, th e young Prince, or rather by his Royal mother (announcing the deci sion of the Crown through the medium of her MA jESTY's Constitutional Government) was recognised seeedily enough as something quite impracticable. Desirable in many respect s it might be, but, altoge ther, it was impracticable; It must almost of necessity have excited, not un naturally, a feeling of jealousy among several of our most important allies. It would almost inevi tably have led in the end—supposing an English l'rince to have been enthroned at Athens—to the estrangement from us of more than one powerful, and at present friendly, Government. Rus sia would have been piqued, :and, worse than that, aroused to a sense of alarm by the plant ing of a new branch or offshoot of the British dynasty so close upon her frontiers. France, even if she could have remained a silent spectator r 4 events, while the transformation sugge..3ted by the revolutionised Greeks was being effected, must, wi:hout doubt, at heart, have regarded the accom p'ishment of thoac events with suppressed and rankling indignation. Besides, in other and more obvious ways, for other and more manifest reasons, the thing, as originally proposed, c ould not so very easil y as the Greeks seemed to imagine, be carried tent. The question was not one that simply had to be decided between Greece and England. It was rather a problem, the solution of which could oniz be pronounced by the great contracting parties, by the coincidence of the dominant powers of the European Continent. Before the ultimate decision I could be arrived at, before the new arrangement, whatever that might be, could be carried de liberately and dtfinitively into effect, the senti ments of France, of Russia, of Germany to a certain extent, would have seriously to be con sidered. But for this, the arrangement proposed by Greece seemed on the face of it so very admirable and so very easy of accomplish ment ! His Royal Highness Prince ALFRED to be proclaimed King of Greece. England to be relieved from the long vexation of her irksome Protectorate over the lonian Islands,by giving those seven islands up gracefully and graciously to the Greek People, who had so long covetted that particular acquisition —handing over the lonian Islands to Greece as the munificent dotation ac companying her new Sovereign. H. R. H. the third son of Queen VICTORIA, might then, it was presumed by the more sanguine, have succeeded to the expectant post hitherto occupied by his Royal brother the new King of Greece—Prince ARTHUR, in other words, assuming that brother's position) heretofore, as the Heir Presumptive to the reigning Duke of SAXE COBURG. Than all which, in simplest truth, how really preferable in every way is the newly suggested and, to all appearance, virtually accomplished arrange ment! The result in all essential respects is virtually to the Greeks themselves, almost as if they had carried out their own original proposition. It is not alone that they have got a young Sailor-Prince for their new Constitutional Sovereign. That they have that, is little more than an interesting little coincidence, odd enough in its way, but in itself nothing at all to the purpose. They have had offered to them, moreover, and have judi ciously accepted, with the good grace of an instant cordiality, a young Sailor-Prince, very much indeed of the same age as Prince ALFRED of Englann% What renders this ultimate selection of Prince WIL LIAM of Denmark as the new occupant of the Throne of Greece especially propitious for Greece herself, is the consideration that it is a choice by which Greece secures to herself, still, the earnest sympathy of England in all her after fortunes — Greece by the acceptance of Prince WILLIAM (hence forth to be known to Europe as King GEORGE I.) placing her liberties quite as directly under the tegis of the Constitutional Government of Eng land, as if Prince ALFRED himself had been en throned at Athens as the Greeks had originally intended. Nobly and with a most exemplary self-command, have the Greek people been biding their time while the question of their future King has still remained undecided and problematical. A haughtier or a more irritable race, under the .ike circumstances, might have been goaded into declaring themseives petulantly for a pure demo cracy. Wiser in their generation than men like Mr. BRIGHT, the Greeks have all along recog nised the superior advantages accruing to a civilised people who give their choice, by a very decided preference, not to a purely Democratic, but to a Constitutionally Monarchical form of Government. Looking at the full and rational liberty enjoyed by Er gland under the mixed sys tem of King, Lords, and Commons, Greece, if she has failed to secure for her new Monarch the brother—has eagerly accepted the brother-in-law— of our future SOVEREIGN. Lord ..PALMERSTON is certainly resolved to make ;he most of his Easter holidays, and he appears to reap golden opinions wherever he goes. He left Glasgow only to receive new homage at Edinburgh, and wherever he goes he continues to meet the wishes of all classes by his happy style of address, and his amusing manner of combining instruction with amusement. His speeches are not of the highest order of eloquence, but it is to be questioned if a much more brilliant discourse would have answered the purpose so well, or have suited the requirements of the audience. His lordship was presented with the freedom of the city. The remarks of the Lord Provost were signally appropriate, and he made one of those gracious and genial speeches which are so pleasing at the time, and afterwards linger in the memory of those who hear them, and stamp their composer as one who is equal, on an important and momentous occasion, of rising to the height that is due. This is a faculty that does not always exist even when the speaker possesses great gifts, no quality is mare rare than ready adaptation to circumstance, and few more useful or more agreeable. The Lord Provost said that the corporation esteemed it no small privilege to have an opportunity of tes tifying their acknowledgements of " the manner in which his lordship, for the last fifty-seven years unceasingly, devoted his whole energies and powers of mind to the prosperity and welfare of the coun- try." He also said that they did not consider him so much as the leader of a great political party, as the statesman, whose object was to enhance the security and honour of this great empire. This next passage is most suggestive, and interest ing to cont.mtplate, " Since his lordship left the roof and guardianship of their distinguished Scot tish philosopher, DtGALD STEWART, more than sixty years ago, his life had been one of toil and tumult, from which he might be said never to have rested, but which had now led him to the first place and to the highest honours. In almost all the conflicts of that eventful and stormy period he had borne a foremost part ; but they saw him there again, verging on four-score, in the full pos session of bodily health and strength, with intellect not enfeebled, and, better than all, with heart not embittered." This was language worthy of the occasion, and Lord PALMERSTON was equally happy in his reply. He observed that there were circumstances, both personal and genera', which rendered the gift bestowed upon him that day peculiarly gratifying and satisfactory. "It was, as you have observed, life, in obtaining w ithin this city that rem stpheen Universityaof hEfdminy burgh a instructions which I have received, part, and I will say the most valuable part, of the 'ons of auld larg syne, and therefore from recollect' I value the Igo that the city me. I cannot but remember a gift which you have conferred upon of which I have now the honour to be a mem ber, enrolled among a list of eminent and dis tinguished men, is a city w of the most faous in the history of the world for its traditi ons an d glorious na ac hievements. " ve i n: e notns:" His lordship then went on to expatiate on the in conceivable benefits that resulted from controversy , and wisely asserted that it was by the free and unfettered exercise of opinion that truth was arrived at, and the public good secured. He also said that there was one condition which should rule and control party spirit, and that was expressed in an, old Dutch proverb—that 'men may agree to differ. There was nothing which should prevent men from entertaining the most diverse political opinions, and yet preserving for each other the most profound respect. They should not seek to win their adversaries to their own opinions by the wind which made them wrap their cloaks more tightly round their shoulders, bat by the warmth of friendship and persuasion. This doctrine comes most appropriately from Lord FALUERSION, who is distinguished for being the 'THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 2. 1833, foremost to open his doors to nun of all classes and shades of opinion, and often after a stormy debate has he welcomed to his mansion the leadErs of the opposition and been glad to exchange the heat and burden of the day of strife in the political arena for the amenities of social intercourse and the charm of congenial intellects, This feeling imparts a chi valric sentiment to the rude and rough encounters of public life, and seems to carry one back to the days when honour was more thought of, and in dividuality was more prominent. Thus may straightforward men in the prosaic days of the nineteenth century share somewhat the noble re cognition of the knights of old— _ " Of the stern joy that warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel." Lord PALMERSTON also made an address at the University, where he received the honorary degree of LL,D. He said that the honours con ferred ❑pon him that day were doubly grateful to him both as regarded the present and the past. He said that it some times occurred to one who revisited the scenes of his youth to find himself unknown, and the place that once was thriving now deserted. How different from what happens to-day, said his Lordship. He then alluded to his connection with that city in far-oft days, in this forcible passage :—" It is pleasing to me to revisit this building in which during three winters I was daily and constantly bestowing earnest attention upon the instruction I there received. For my own part, gentlemen, I am fairly free to confess — to employ a word which used to be a cant term in the House of Commons, ' I am proud to acknowledge'—that if I have been in any way successful in public life, if I have been enabled to steer my course in a manner satis factory to my own conscience, and to meet the general approval of my fellow- countrymen, it has been that in those three years which I passed in this city I was furnished by able hands with charts and compasses, which taught me how to steer my course, to avoid many of the dangers to which the voyage of life is exposed, to pursue in safety that career which I was destined to follow." This is a pleasing interlude to the dull monotony of the political drudgery, and the heavy burden cares of the State which inseparably attend upon the life of such a man as Lord PALMERSTON. Also it might serve as an incentive to the young men around him. "Go thou and do likewise" might be addressed by their preceptors to those eager spirits entering on life so live and act during a long course of chequered years, that if here after you re-visit the scenes of your youth, you may look back from the confines of your age with satisfaction on the prospect. The most trying test of human actions and motives, is to return in mind at least to the days of " anld Lang syne." Our Premier has stood this ordeal, and may be congratulated on having so successfully acquitted itittheli of the arduous duties that devolved upon him, and on having exhibited a spirit worthy of a veteran statesman full of years and honours, but as buoyant as ever, and as reE.dy to do service to his SOVEREIGN and his country as when, half a nen 'ury ago, he entered on the career of public life. PORTRAITS OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES. Engraved by William Holl, from Photographs by Mayall, taken at Osborne, March 14, 1863. London : John Mitchell. By the publication of these exquisite engravings Mr. Mitchell has signalised, with extraordinary rapidity, the fitness of his own special appointment as Bookseller and Publisher to their Royal High nesses. How works of art, so minutely and delicately touched throughout as these are, can have been produced with anything like the rapidity here manifested, is certainly little less than marvellous. The date, given above, indicates when the photo graphs by Mayall were taken, down at Osborne, on the fourteenth of March, that is on the fourth day of the stiil unfinished honeymoon ! And yet, though the honeymoon itself is even now unfinished, the engraved portraits, taken from the original pho tographs, have been finished to the utmost nicety by the swift and dexterous hand of Mr. Holl. These engravings, which in shape aro companion ovals, are in merit, and when simply viewed as specimens of the art, nothing short of masterpieces. Still better than this, immeasurably better than this, they are truly wonderful as likenesses. Both Prince and Princess are in morning costume in all save that their heads are uncovered. The Prince is even equipped in his great coat. So that they bear all the appearance of being just prepared for a stroll in Osborne Gardens, or a walk in Os borne Park. The Princess, more charming than ever somehow in this picture—possibly from the more becoming arrangement of her hair, here not swept so entirely from her forehead as in her pre vious portraitures—wins upon our loyal admiration the more familiarised we become with the beauty of her fair, ingenuous, thoughtful, animated face. In the countenance of the Prince, too. as it is here revealed to us in this faithful presentment, we seem more distinctly than ever to recog nize a mingled resemblance to his Royal Father and his Queen Mother. Under each engraving is a facsimile of the respective sig natures, here of the Prince, here of H.R.H. the Princess. The autograph " Alexandra" being as flowing and,delicate as that of " Albert Edward, P," is bold and masculine. Recognising in these Portraits, as we do, incomparably the best en graved likenesses of both Prince and Princess yet published, we cannot be surprised that her Majesty has graciously permitted the engrav ings to be dedicated to herself—thereby attesting her Majesty's estimate of their value and excel lence. Precocity (says a Saturday Reviewer), in all its stages, is more or less amusing from its odd knack of fastening upon the foibles of the model which is for the moment the object of its admiration. We mean, of course, where the model is not radically vicious, and the blemishes copied are only transitory, and do not get into the blood. A precocious boy in petticoats, when he begins to feel ripe for jackets and the society of bigger brothers, puts his feet through bonnet-boxes, and melts down the nose of his sister's favourite doll. Promoted to jackets, he makes himself sick on strong cigars, and gar- ' nishes his conversation with manly expletives. But it is when he is just entering into the Canaan of visiting. cards and tail-coats that his precocity assumes its most grotesque form—it is so quaintly compounded of servile imitation and a swaggering self reliance, whi h now and then breaks out into positive ferocity. A precocious youth of seventeen is delighted to find himself in the society of his superiors in age and whiskers, copying with abject eagerness their general tone in conversation and dress, and unconsciously caricaturing their absurdities. But still he is always ready to fire up on the slightest suspicion that he is being slighted or snubbed. At a wedding-breakfast, or an archery party, it makes him wretched to discover that his gloves are darker, or his buttons larger than those of his favourite model ; but this homage turns in a moment to the liveliest hate, if he fancies that the model, not content with robbing him of the prettiest bridesmaid, is making her laugh by some brutal reference to razors, or to the blighted young gentleman who has so often hung his harp on the willow tree, before going off to the wars again. He thirsts f r the blood of the bearded beast, and yearns for a revival of the tournament or the duel. He even speculates on the best • kin , a w ay of plc quarrel in the hall, and convulsively clenches his fist under the table —hastily opening it, how ever, as the horrid thought occurs to him that, among grown-up men, fisticuf EXTRAORDINAR Y BIRT/IS. — On t his mornin g fing is conside red school. boyish. (Wednesday) a poor woman, the wife of a labouring man, named Brien, who resides in May-lane, off Bally bricken, and is in the employment of Mr. Casey, pig-buyer, was safely delivered of four children— two boys and two girls. They all died within a couple of hours afterwards. On two previous occasions of a similar nature this very prolific woman gave birth to twins each time, making eight children—from the first birth to the last—in two years and two months I—Waterford Nail. PLEASANT PUNISHME_VT.—"That's what I call capital punishment," as the boy said when his mother shut him up in the closet amongst the preserves, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA, (Per Anglo-Saxon.) NEW YORK, MARCH 21, EVENING. General Sumner is dead. An armed party of inhabitants have succeeded in rescuing several deserters from the military autho rities at Rush County, Indiana, but troops were sent from Indianopolis, and they were recaptured. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money easy. Gold 54 per cent. premium. Ex change on London, Bankers' Bills, 170. Stocks dull. New York Centrals,lldQ. Illinois Centt als, 92k. Erie, 791. THE POLISH INSURRECTION. DAN ZIC, APRIL 2. The Danziger Zeitung of to-day publishes a mes sage, dated Eydtkuhnen, April Ist, stating that yesterday afternoon the railway communication with Kowno was completely interrupted in the vicinity of Maurnoz9. A portion of the telegraph wires. extending for about an English mile, has been destroyed, and the rails have been torn up. The same message announces that a special train has been despatched with military against the insur gents from Wirballen. Trains to Berlin are no longer allowed to pass the frontier. BRESLAU, APRIL 1. The Breslauer Zeiturig of today publishes a cor respondence from Warsaw, dated the 31st ultimo, asserting that the Revolutionary Committee of that city had resolved upon everywhere ordering the in surgents to lay down their arms, and that two in surgent leaders had already dibbandca their forces. DANIZIC, APRIL 1. The Dariziger Zeitung of to-day publishes a tele gram dated Warsaw, March 31, asserting that a body of insurgents, numbering 1,500 men, stationed near Muiszew, had been disbanded by order of its chief, it being considered useless to continue the struggle. The same telegram asserts that the Warsaw Revolutionary Committee had ordered the recruit ing agents to cease making enlistments. The Danzigtr Zeitung also asserts that the Em peror of Russia intends granting an autonomy to Poland, but will not grant a Polish national army. CRACOW, APRIL 1. The insurgent force commanded by Lelewel has been dispersed, and part of it compelled to seek refuge in Galicia. The Czas asserts, however, that Lelewel has repulsed the Russian troops. DENMARK• COPENHAGEN, APRIL 2. Last night a most important proclamation of the King was published, referring to the separation of Holstein from its connection with the entire monarchy. The introduction to this document says : " The proclamation of the King of the 28th Jan., 1852, stated his Majesty's intention to combine the different portions of the monarchy by means of a common constitution, into one single well-regulated State. This intention could not be realised, because the Federal Diet interfered in the interior affairs of the monarchy, and set up demands not founded on Federal laws, and incompatible with the indepen dence of the Crown and the privileges of those por tions of the country not belonging to the Confedera tion. The estates of Holstein have in addition rejected every proposition which might have led to an agree ment, and have declared themselves hostile to any common constitution based upon united representa tion. Such a state of internal discord, by which the development of the kingdom has been paralysed for the last ten years, cannot longer continue. In consequence of the unsatisfactory results of the last I Assembly of the Holstein Diet, we deem it our duty as ruler to settle the position of Holstein in the Monarchy as we consider most in conformity with our Federal d u ti es . For the present we confine ourselves to the most urgent part of this task , re serving any further developments for a future period. "By thi s p resen t proclamation, therefore, we grant to Holstein an independent army. For the future Holstein will share with the rest of the mo narchy the civil list, the appanages, the public debt, the navy, the department for foreign aff►irs, the administration of the domains, the customs, and the postal arrangements, but even in reference to these details the Estates of Holstein shall have the right of decision,reserving further separation where no agreement between the Holstein Estates and the Rigsraad (Council of the Empire) for Denmark- S chleswig shall be found attainable." His Ma jesty further ordains that the Alinistry shall sub mit to the Holstein Estates bills, establishing con stitutional regulations for the general control of the finances, a liberal electoral law, liberty of the press, the right of petition and of association, and religious freedom. The proclamation calls together the Rigsraad (Legislative Assembly for Denmark- Schleswig) upon the 22d April next. FRANCE. 1 3 _ 4 1tIS, APRIL 2. It is officially stated that the last reports received from Mexico announce that General Forey had summoned a council of all the generals and chiefs of the service for the 28th February, in order to arrange the details of the movement on Puebla, and give their final instructions. The parks of artillery, the war material, and a great depot of stores were concentrated at Quecholac, to which place all the munitions neces sary for the first operations had been cor.veyed. The sanitory condition of the army was very satisfactory. The Constztutionnel of to day in an article signed by M. Limayrac says :—" In the maintenance of M. Fould in the Mi n i s t r y, the country will see with pleasure a fresh pl e d ge o f good order in th e finances, and of reduction in the public burdens." BOURSE, April L—The arrival of the English Funds with an advance of 1, has given some little stimulus to this market, and Three per Cents, have been done with a slight improvement, and are now firm at 69f, 55c. The Railway Share Market has been quiet, but prices, in general, well maintained. Mobilicr show a further advance. Stock became offered towards the close, and prices again receded to leave off as follows : 4 per Cents 9G 35 Do. end month — 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 15 Xew 3 per Cents Do, end month.. „ Credit Mobilier 1345 Do, end month 1342 50 RA IL' Bank Shares 3380 Credit k oneier 1490 Italian Loan 7l 40 Do. end month 7l 40 Russian Austrian Spaniel). Threes 52 25 II ome Debt - PATS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern . ............. New. ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1220 .. 1218 70 Geneva ............ Southern 763 75 .. 765 ........ Western .............. 546 50 .. 550 Eastern ..., . 5 37 50 .. 537 50 ...... i .. Sardinian Austrian Durban] North of Spain Saragossa 737 50 .. 735 Ditto to Barcelona 1115 -- 1107 50 1038 75 .. 1042 - ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.—The number of public Acts passed in the present Session, which commenced on the 6th of February, is soyea, THE BRAZILS LISBON, APRIL 2. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Parana, from the Brazils, has arrived here, and will leave at 2 p.m. to-day for Southampton, with 132 passengers, £5,150 in specie, 500 packages of tobacco, and 150 packages of sundries. Briton Medical and General Life Assurance Society, The distinguishing pecularities of this office are Ist. That Policies issued on the profit scale by peculiar principles of the association become pay able during the lifetime of the person assured, without any increase of premiums. After having been in force a period of five years policies are ab solutely indefeasible and indisputable, and all right to question them on any ground whatever after that time is renounced and discharged. A special clause to this effect is contained in the deed of set tlement of the association. 2d. That all the ad vantages of a mutual office are obtained, with the security of a subscribed capital ; 80 per cent. of the profits will be appropriated to the holders of poli cies who have assured according to the tables for participating in the same. Ten per cent. set aside to form a fund for the assistance of persons who, through misfortune or illness, may not otherwise be able to keep up their policies. The importance of this arrangement will, at once, be evident to all. 3d. That there is in it secured the adoption of a more equitable division of profits. To the extinction of the last payments of premiums sre appropriated those profits which are generally applied by way of bonus, thus enabling the association to pay the policy during the assured's lifetime, providing against the often-urged objection, " that persons do not themselves reap the benefits of their payments," and adding to the stability of the office instead of weakening its resources. The profits of the asso ciation are so fairly divided that each assurer re ceives the whole of the profits to which he is en titled, instead of incurring the risk of having them given to one who dies before any profit has been really made on his policy, a risk inseparable from the system ordinarily adopted. Every contingency incidental to the duration of human life is entertained. The assured have the security of a large subscribed and fairly paid up capital ; and at each division of pia fits 80 per cent. thereof is awarded them. They have thus no per sonal risk, and yet enjeiy all the advantages of a mutual office. Ten per cent. of the realised profits are set aside to form a fund for the assistance of persons who, through misfortune or other wise, may not be able to keep up their policies. The office allows one-half of the premium to remain at credit, with small interest payable thereon, as a debt upon the policy for the first five years (subse quently renewable for a further term), so that any one desiring to assure for, say £l,OOO, would only pay the rates for £5OO. Should he die £l,OOO would be paid to his heirs or to whomsoever he might will it, less the due unpaid premiums. Another advantage is that policies issued on the profit scale (i. e,, entitled to a share in the periodi cal profits) become payable during the lifetime of the person assured, and without any increase of premium whatever. How policies are made payable during the life of the assured, the following table will show : To ASSURE £lOO, PAYABLE DURING LIFE. Age Ago Age next Annual next Annual next Annual Birth- Premiums Binh- Premiums. Birth- Premiums. day, day. day. 15 £1 14 6 30 £2 10 1 44 £3 14 0 16 115 0 31 211 4 45 36 2 17 115 8 32 212 9 47 40 11 18 116 6 33 214 3 49 47 0 19 117 5 35 217 6 50 410 10 20 118 4 36 219 3 51 415 0 21 119 4 37 3 1 1 54 59 1 22 20 4 38 13 3 0 55 514 8 24 22 7 39 35 0 56 6 0 1 25 23 10 40 36 9 58 612 3 26 2 5 1 41 38 6 60 75 6 27 26 4 42 310 3 65 93 0 28 27 8 43 312 0 70 i lll6 0 29 2 8 10 The Briton has an income of over £lOO,OOO, and investments in the public funds and other securities, amounting to £lBO,OOO. New business is estimated to be coming in at the rate of £16,000 a year. The manager of the Briton is Mr. John Messent, who has the advantage of acting in co-operation with an influential board of directors. Among these are noticeable men of substance and position. like Sir James Duke, Bart., MP. for the city of London ; the chairman of the board being Dr. Bar • low, and the deputy chairman Mr. Webb. A WORD FOR MISS BRADDON. Those who have read " Lady Audley's Secret" will not need to be reminded of the important posi tion which the incident of arson occupies in the story. The burning of Mr. M.yburn's mill by " the turn-outs" occupies no such position in Mr. Fullom's story, and is not tie work of any of the principal actors in it. As for the coincidence of describing the red light in the sky, we should be curious to see any piece of descriptive writing into which a conflagration is introduced, which omits to notice that circumstance. But, perhaps, the choicest piece of critical inge nuity displayed by Mr. Fullom, in drawing up his indictment of plagiarism, is the fo' lowing : MAN OF THE WORLD. LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET. Danvers prevents Rosalie Lady Audley prevents ter from denouncing his intended first husbecond marrieanand irom dounc marriage with Eleanor , by Inv - , her rge by pushing her over the preei- dropp in g him in the well. pace (pp. 39v, 403, 404). The reader has only to compare for a moment, the relative situations of the persons alluded to in these passages, to perceive the absurdity of Mr, Fallow s charge in this particular. But the plain fact of the matter is, that there is no clause in this most impudent indictment which is not as destitute of foundation as those which we have quoted. The coincidences and resemblances, such as they are, belong altogether to the same cate gory as Fluellen's celebrated comparison between the rivers of Macedon and those of Monmouth, and if they were to be held to justify plagiarism for one moment, it would be impossible for any author to escape conviction. If M r . Fullom's case against Miss Braddon is to hold good, any other novelist (say Sir Walter Scott or Mr. Charles Dickens) has an equally good case for complaint. We have only to draw a few comparisons somewhat in this style, and the whole case is proved • MISS BRADDON. SIR W. SCOTT. MR. C. DICKENS Lady Audley is a Robe Bradwar- Dora is a y_-ung young and beauti- dine is a y. , ungand and beautiful wo ful woman, with be otifui woman, man, with fair ha,r fair hair and blue with fair hair and and blue eyes, and eyes, and a power blue ryes, and a avower of •t rut of at raatiog the po 4 - erot attracting ing the affection of affection ot those the affection of those about her. about her. those about ber. MISS ERA DDON. MR. C DICKENS. Captain dder is a pea- Captain ()utile is a seaisr faring per6o , ., of rough man- lug per so , of rough manners ners and an amiable disposi- and an amiable dispoEition tion (though somewh q ad- (though somewhat addioted dieted to rum), and is deeply to rum) aedis de-ply attached attached to Aurora. to Florence Dombey. Nothing could be easier than to prove accusations of plagiarism in this way ad infinitum ; but nothing, our readers admit, could well be more absurd. It Mr. Fullom's object in putting forward this charge is to revive the sale of an inconveniently large "remainder," it is not improbable that the curiosity which naturally leads people to inquire into such matters for themselves, will cause his hopes to be partly realised; but whether this proceeding will tend to increase his reputation or Letter his position as a man of letters is another question. To those who de look into the matter for themselves, we can confidently appeal for a decision, whether we have treated Mr. Fullom at all unfairly in pronouncing his charge to be utterly destitute of foundation. As for the lady, she has written to the Morning Herald a brief di claitr.er of ever having read one line of Sir. Fullom's book, and we entirely believe her. Moreover, we advise her to rest satisfied with her ignorance—unless, indeed, she chooses to peruse his pages with a view of studying what to avoid, in which case they might be of some use. And this is a branch of knowledge in which Miss Braddon has yet much to learn.—From the " Critic" for April, 1863. HOLYDAYS AT THE LAW OFFICES.—To-morrow (Friday) the offices of the Common Law Courts will be closed, and will be re-opened on Wednesday morning• riT j " a Gurr - NW" Oral Tat HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, April 1. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Princess Louis of Hesse, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by Major Cowell and Dr. Armstrong, arrived at the Castle last evening shortly after seven o'clock. Her Majesty the Qaeen, accompanied by Prin cess Helena, Prince Leopold, and Prince Louis of Hesse, met the Prince at the station of the SJuth- Western Railway. Lord de Tabley and Lieutenant-Colonel Kings cote have succeeded Lord Rivers and the Hon. Sackville West as Lord and Groom in Waiting. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has given instructions that the wedding presents to be exhibited at the South Kensington Museum are to comprise not merely the jewellery, but almost all the presents which have been accepted. The day for the public exhibition will be announced as soon as the arrangements are sufficiently completed, The Marquis and Marchioness of Tweeddale and the Ladies Hay have left Hill-street for East Stoke Park, Wilts. Viscountess Downe has arrived at the Pavilion Hotel, Folkebtone. DEATH OF LORD WATERPARK.—This noble man, who had attained his 70th year, expired on Tuesday last. He was the son of the first baron (created 1792), and married, in 1837, the youngest daughter of the first Viscount Anson and sister of the Earl of Lichfield. DEATH OF ADMIRAL SIR JOHN Louis.—We have to announce the death of this officer, who ex- pired at his residence, 61, Eaton-place, on Tuesday last. Sir J. Louis entered the navy zn 1795, as first-class voluu- teer, on board the Minotaur, 74 ; and when lieutenant of the Naiad he assisted at the cutting out of a French war schooner, near Brest. He commanded the Aigle,in 1814,and became captain in 180, rear-admiral in 1838, vice-admiral in 1849,and admiral of the white in 1815. Sir John received the good-service pension in 1860. He was superintendent of the Malta dockyard from 1838 to 1843, and superinten dent at Devonport from 1846 to 1850. He was also naval aide-de-camp to William IV. During his command of the Aigle, Sir John Louis earned a very high character, and was particularly praised for the manner in wbioh he placed his ship, and the precision of her fire when engaged in cap uring and destroying a French convoy under ihe guns of Port Maurice. In 1807 he married the eldest daughter of Lieut.-Col. Kirkpatrio, of the Bth Bengal Native Infan try. He is succeeded in the baronetcy by hii grandson. DEATH of VIOE-ADMIRAL W. G. COURTENAY.- This officer died on Tuesd.ty, at his residence in the Albany, aged 67. He entered the navy in 1805 (under the auspices of Earl St. Vincent), and first served on board th• Amason, 38, commanded by the then Captain (afterwards Sir William) Parker. During the six years he remained with this vessel he , aw much active service, and assisted, in company of the London, 98, at the capture, in 1806, after a long running fight, of the French 80 gun ship the Ma rengo, and the famed Belle Fouls frigate. He next joined the Victory and Bellerophon, and, on obtaining his lieute• nancy in 1813, he served in the Crescent, 38, the San Josef, and several other vessels, In 1822 Mr. Courtenay com manded the boats of the CI rene, `.G, and displayed great courage and judgment at the destruction of some slave fac • tories in the Gallinas River on the African coast. Being promoted in 1823 to the Bann : 20, he became for some months senior officer on the African station, after which he held temporary command of the Owen Glendower, 36, dur ing the Ashantee war. He afier wards returned to the Bann, and in that vessel captured two Brazilian slavers, with 728 slaves on board. He was made pst captain in 1828 in the Magnificent, receiving ship at Jamaica. In the following year he assumed command of the Mersey, 26, when he returned to England, and was paid off in 1831. He ob tained rank as Vice-Admiral of the Blue by seniority in 1861. STATE OF PAUPERISM.—The Poor Law Board have issued their annual return of the number of paupers relieved on the let of July in England and Wales, with the exception of the few parishes still under the 43d of Elizabeth, or under Gilbert's Act. In July, 1861, the number of paupers relieved was 8b1,574; in July, 1862, 925,310 an increase of 8 7 per cent.; but the increase among the adult ablebodied paupers was 16 . 6 per cent., following an increase of 8.6 per cent. in the previous year. The pro portion of the paupers relive d in July, 1862, was 1 iu 21, or 4.7 per eent, on the pnpulati enumerated in April, 1861; in July, 1861, the proportion, on the same popula tion, was 1 in 23, or 4.3 per cent. A PENNY SERIAL ROMANCE.—Rather tantalizing close of a new instalment :—At length, maddened by the thoughts which whirled successively through his brain, scorching and b istering it with the images they con veyed, he turned round, and advanced upon her with glaring eyes, and foaming at the mouth like a tiger. " Woman !" he said, as the white froth bubbled on his lips; " when I first saw you, I believed that your—that your— past history —" She turned upon him like lightning, and, with her finger pointed menacingly at him, she ex claimed, in a clear, firm, determined voice—" To be con tinued next week." THE GREAT TRIBULATION OF POLAND.—By far the greatest of Poland's misfortunes is nut that she is oppressed, but that she is partitioned. Whenever a writer or speaker begins to compare the Prussian with the Aus , rian, or the Austrian with the RUssian mode of persecuting the Poles, and ends, as most pet sons do by according the pre ference to the German forms tl o tse f h . n ty teci T ru an eisn ny, he p ttioonsuf crhormov the comparisons h e th p a h e o t lt i dh p o oi e n s t n o o f t v u i n e o e r r s h t a e n w d t u h l d e n P o o at all. h l t l, oTohoeunontry will one thing not retainmaain divided . bouttheuf tu i r h e e o r f e isPoland is, that a com plete unity of feeling between the fou r p ar t s, of whicbtwo—Lithuania and the kingdom of Poland—are in the hands of Russia; and unless Poland gains her independence, the Poles of Posen and Gallicia will end by joinin their fate to that of their brethren u n d er the Russianw t sceptre.. t g . e n This is l s n itw i i t e i l n ailc o hm f n opr o t rlia m sthh e i o • p e rb : yo y a vt t idh h ne e ect e p ol ser e .noa r d s i o inn n ag a t t o h n ae of has n o oftenh' tthe heard G eopinionrr u ex pressedan - They will submit no longer to the triple torture under which they have writhed for so many years, and it is for the West of Europe to ceoose wheth r it will help the Poles against Russia, or whether, sooner or later, the Poles shall be forced to obtain Russian assistance against Prussia and Austria.—Cornhill Magazine. A TIPS JUROR.—At Chester, on Monday, the Assize Court was somewhat startled by the gesticu lations and loud tones of a gentleman who had been sum moned as a juryman. He loudly demanded how long he was to be kept there ?—The Judge (looking up surprised)— Bring that person here. The juryman was accordingly forthwith seized and led before his lordship, exhibiting at the same time time unmistakeable symptoms of having been indulging in deep potations during the day.—The Judge, addressing the juryman, said—What do you mean, sir, by disturbing the court in this way f—The juryman—l was brought to attend upon your lordship on the jury; I have left four children, without a mo'her this ten years.— The Judge—You aro very unfit to be a jury man.—The juryman (who coreinued to speak with a strong Milesian accent—l am very teethe your lordship; lam the biggest robber from here to London. (Loud laughter.) The Judge —Well, put him in the dock on his own statement. The juryman—Put me where you like. lam the , iggest rob ber, and Judge Harden will tell you the same thing. The juryman was then placed in the dock, where he shed co pious tears, and gave utterance to various unintelligible re marks. The Judge—Keep him in custody until he gets sober, and then let him be discharged. The fuddled jury.. man was then led into the castle, saying, "God bless you, my lord ; may you live for a hundred years; may I see you in heaven. (Laughter.) God bless—(the voice, in ventrilo quial style, died away in the distance)." TRADE OF GLASGOW.—The number of sailing and steam vt siels which arrived a t Glasgow in 1831 was but 11,512, with total tonnage of 732,327 ; while last year the number had increased to 15,864, with an aggregate t .nnage of 1,530,642. In 1831 no larger ve,isel than 3uo tons arrived ; in 1841, three vessels got up to Glasgow of between 600 and 700 tons; ten years later four vessels of 1,000 tons rrrived ; and in 1861 not less than 29 vessels of 1,000 tons and upwards came up to the Broomieiaw. Last year there were floating in the harbour 96 vessels of from 700 to 1,000 tons, and 48 of 1,000 tons and upwards. In 1862 there were 69 vessels in the harbour having a draught of 18ft, 45 of 19ft, 18 of 20tt, and lof 2 tit The Clyde was the very cradle of steam navigation. It was on the Forth and Clyde Canal that the application of steam power to yes. eels was first attempted, though it was not successfully ac complished till several years after, in the beginning of this century. It was on the Forth and Clyde Canal that Ful ton, whom cur Am( rican friends claim as the first to apply the steam-engine to maritime purposes, witnessed these early experiments, and from there carried them to the other side of the Atlantic ; and, profiting by what he had seen, established the first steamboat on the Hudson to run be tween New York and Albany. Scotland not only gave the idea of the first steamboat to Americans, but it led the way to the adoption of this class of vessels generally in Europe. Half a century since the waters of the Clyde were first ploughed by the paddles of the Comet, a tiny vessel of some three horse power, with 40 feet keel and 10i feet beam. Two years elapsei, and the Elizabeth of e:gbt horse power, and the Clyde of 14 horse power, are found competing with the pioneer of steam ships for traffic on the riYer. THE INS :N POLAND. BRESLAU, March 29. The Archbishop of Warsaw has addressed a letter to the Czar, in which occurs the following charac teristic passage : " At a time of terrible calamity and bloodshed I feel it my duty to address your Majesty, and to tell you, in my capacity as chief of the Polish establish ment, what are the only means of putting a stop to the indescribable misery which has befallen our land. " Administrative reforms, whatever their extent and import, are no longer calculated to satisfy the Poles. There is not a man in the country to be gained over by the tender of mere administrative improvement. The nation yearns for political life and the restoration of independence. The most terrific repression will never be powerful enough to eradicate a spirit filling all Polish souls, and which, I regret to say, tends, from day to day, to deepen the gulf between the nation and the throne. It is only by the revival of Polish independence and the maintenance of no more than a dynastic connexion with Russia that your Majesty can remove the pro bability of ruling, in no distant future, over a coun try consisting of ruins, and where public prosperity is a myth of the past. I trust your Majesty will not hesitate to adopt a less painful alternative at a time when insurrection begins to flag and subside. Powerful and independent as you are, your Majesty will not believe that to be generous implies to be weak." Fresh detachments of the Grenadier corps have arrived at Warsaw. This force has been distributed over the interior to guard against rural commotion; but its place in Russia is being gradually filled up by Ki:lm ucks, Bashkirs, and other Tartar horsemen, In addition to this reinforcement part of the northern garrisons are being despatched to the south. As a necessary consequence rebellion obtains a temporary ascendancy in Augustowo and Plock. The fall of Langiewicz is said to be the signal for Mieroslawski's return to the camp; but rumours are too vague as yet to allow of any credit being attached to the story. Thus much, however, seems to be certain—that the fall of his rival has not par ticularly contributed to endear Mieroslawaki to the nation. A Special Correspondent in a Balloon. (From the St. James•s Magazine.) The " Professor" aroused me at three o'clock, when I found the canvas straining its bonds, and emitting a hollow sound, as of escaping gas. The basket was made fast directly, the telescopes tossed into place; the Professor climbed to the side, hold ing by the network; and I coiled up in a rope at the bottom. " Stand by your cables," he said, and the bags of ballast were at once cut away. Twelve men took each a rope in hand and played out slowly, letting us glide gently upward. The earth seemed to be falling away, and we poised motionless in the blue ether. The tree tops sank downward, the hills dropped noiselessly through space, and directly the Chickahominy was visible beyond us, winding like a ribbon of silver through the ridgy landscape. " Guess I got 'em now, jest where I want 'em," said Lowe, with a gratified laugh ; " jest keep still as you mind to, and squint your eye through my glass, while I make a sketch of the roads aad the country. Hold hard there, and anchor fast !' he screamed to the people below. Then he fell imperturbably to work, sweeping the country with his hawk eye, and escaping nothing that could contribute to the completeness of his jotting. We had been but a few minutes thus poised, when close below, from the edge of a timber stretch, puffed a volume of white smoke. A second afterward, the air quivered with the peal of a cannon. A third, and we head the split ting shriek of a shell, that passed a little to our leff, but in exact range, and burst beyond us in the ploughed field, heaving up the clay as it exploded. " Ha!" said Lowe, "they have got us foul Haul in the cables—quick !" he shouted, in a fierce tone. At the same instant, the puff, the report, and the shriek were repeated ; but this time the shell burst to our right in mid-air, and scattered frag ments around and below us. " Another shot will do our business," said Lowe between his teeth ; "it isn't a mile, and they have got the range." Again tte puff and the whizzing shock. I closed my eyes, and held my breath hard. The explosion was so close, that the pieces of shell seemed driven across my face, and my ears quivered with the sound. I looked at Lowe, to see if he was struck. He had sprung to his feet, and clutched the cordage fran tically. " Are you pulling in there, you men P' he bellowed, with a loud imprecation. " Puff! bang ! whiz-z-z-z splutter !" broke a third shell, and my heart was wedged in my throat. I saw at a glimpse the whole bright landscape again. I heard the voices of soldiers below, and saw them running across fields, fences, and ditches, to reach our an chorage. I saw some drummer boys digging in the field oeneath for one of the buried shells. I saw the waving of signal fligs, the commotion through the camps—officers galloping their horses, teamsters whipping their mules, regiments turning out, drums ►►eating, and batteries limbered up. I remarked, last of all, the site of the battery that alarmed us ; and by a strange sharpness of sight and sense, believed that I saw the gunners swabbing, ramming, and aiming the pieces. " Puff ! bang ! whiz•z-z•z ! splutter ! crash." " Puff! bang ! whiz z z z! splutter! crash." " My --," said Lowe, hissing the words slowly and terribly, " t hey have opened upon us from another battery." The scene seemed to dissolve. A cold dew broke from my forehead. I grew blind and deaf. . I had fainted. " Pitch some water in his face," said somebody. "He ain't used to it. " Helloe there, he comes to." I staggered to my feet. There must have been a thousand men about us. They were looking curiously at the aeronaut and me. Tne balloon lay turning and struggling on the clods. Three cheers for the Union bal-loon 1" called a little fellow at my side. " Hip, hip—hooroar hooroar! hooroar." STATE OF TRADE. LEICESTER, April I.—Tnere is rather more ac tivity in the hosiery trade, and there is more doing in regular goods, tut still a good deal of machinery remains disengaged, and many of the workpeople are only partially employed. At Loughborough and Hinckley trade is dull. The yarn market is without material change, and spinners are generally working to order, so that no extra stock is made. In wools there is no alteration, but the market is a shade more active. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, March 31.-38,038 tons of coals, 2,770 tons of coke, 9,728 cwt. of iron, and 11,599 cwt. of alkali were exported from the Tyne last week. There was an increase in the ship ments of alkali of 5,748 cwt., and a decrease in the shipments of coal, coke, and iron. The chemical trade of the Tyne is showing much briskness. The demand for soda is lively, with a. irm market and an advance of 58. per ton ; assorted casks, .£4 17s. 6d.; export casks, £4 15s. per ton ; best white alkali, 2id.; seconds, 28d. per cent. per cwt. ; bicarbonate of soda, £l2 10a to £l3 ; bleaching powder, £9 to £9 ss. per ton. NOTTINGHAM, April I.—There is not much alteration in the cotton lace trade. Plain nets are still in only slight request, and there is not much doing in cotton fancy goxis. Mrchlin quiltinge meet a rather better demand. Torre is also rather m ore doing in silk quiltings. Black laces and nar row edgings are still selling freely, anti no stocks of any d,scription of goods ore showed to accumulate. There have been a few buy( rs in the m..rket, but their operations are still limit Ed. The hosiery trade is without any improvement. '1 here ore very few orders for export, and the home trade is squally dull. Yarns are firm, at high pricts. RIVAL SENSATIONISTS!—Conceive, says the Saturday Re►;iew. the sufferings of Mr. Boucicault when he hears that, without his permisssion—withou6 even the scanty courtesy of a complimentary preface—a rival playwright has dramatised " Ivanhoe" or some other of Scott's novels, and has one scene in which Rebecca hauago for five minutes by a single hair from the castle's topmost turret, and another in which, down in the deepest dungeon and armed only with a hair-pin and a rusty nail, she car ri aon a long stage-cornbat either with the Templar to save her own honour and the blushes of the audience, or with th• Saracens to rescue poor old Isaac's epidennis from the gridiron of Wmat-do-bcouf.