The Sun. — London, England, 1863-10-01 00:00:00

HIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIa DAT. — Morning, 4h. 25m.—Afternoon, 4h. 42m. To - atonnow.-Morning, 4h. 59m.—Afternoon, sh. 20m. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. TECIS EVENING, WHERE'S YOUR WIFE. Mr. Bel ford, Miss Simpson. Fo'ilowed by (64th time) THE "MOTTO, "I'M ALL THE ltE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier, Clifton; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, F. Josephs, Maria Simpson, Wallace, and Jenny White. To conclude with TURN HIM OUT. Mr. Turner, Miss Thorne. Commence at 7. DR. WYIII 'ER'S NEW WORK, QI.TBTLE .;.! 3 and LISSOM FINGERS Being Soroe of th( Chisel Marks of Our Industrial and Scientific I'rogr•ess, ma' (be had at all the Libraries or at any Booksellers, pr ice 6e. By fhe same Author, CURIOSITIES OF C T VILIZATION. Sixth Edit!on. es. OUR SOCIAL BEES. Sixth Edition. 6s. London : Robert Hardwicke, 192, Piccadilly. Now ready, 629 pp., pot t Svo., Third and Cheap Edition, pr ice 10s. 6d., OBSCURE DISE., XSES of the BRAIN and MIND. By FORBES trINSLOW, 3.r. P., D.C.L. London : Robert Hardwicke, 102, Piccadilly. HERRMANN, PRESTIDIGITATEUR.— PRINCES , ''S TT! EATRE.—HERB HERRMANN'S Performances, EVERY EVENING, at Eight. In Two Parts—as given by him in all the principal 'theatres and Opera Houses of the Cor :tinent of Europe and America. The whole of the Marvellous Illusions entirely new, and invented by Herr Herrmann. Prices a admission as usual. Doors ope. at half-past 7. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY- LAN._ j. Managers, Messrs. ;. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, TIE E DEAL BOATMAN : Messrs. G. Belmere, F. Charles; 31: ,ss 11. Leclercq, and Mrs. Edmund Falconer. To conclude with the new and original Comedy, by Ed mund Fal oner, entitled : SATURE'S ABOVE ART : A Ro mance of the Nursery : M . ..essrs.Walter Lacy, Addison, Ryder, Barrett, G. Belniore, F. Charles. Neville; Miss Charlotte Banners. Mts• Murray, :Hiss R. Leclercq, Mrs. Melville, and Mrs. Edmund Falconer. Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. Prices as usuaL Commence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARE I ET. - Open for the Season. THIS EVENING. and during the Week, to commence at 7, With AN UN LUCKY MORTAL : Mr. William Farren, Miss M. Harris, After which, at a quarter to 8, the new Comedy of FINESSE ; or, Spy and Counter Spy : characters by Mr. Aifred Wigan, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. Bowe, Mr. Buckstone ; Dowton (3d appearance), A rs lfred Wigan. Miss L. Angel, and Mrs. Concluding with TURNING THE TABLES. 011 Monday, Oct. 26, Mr. and Mrs. CURS. MATHEWS will return to the London stage. NEW TB E ATRE-RO SrAL, ADELPHI.- Solo Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. This Theatre will RE-OPEN fa' the Winter Season T,,RIS EVENING, Oct.l, entire l y new p ainted and decorated. First appearance of Miss BATE.IIAN, the celebrated Ameri can artiste. At :7, THE TRAGEDY QUEEN: Mrs. Stirling. A I , the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bateman, supported by 3fr. Arthur Stirling (his first appearance here), Messrs. I 'hillips, Billington, Stuart, A. Wood, Eberne, Miss U. Simi as and Mrs. Billington. To conclude with CATCHING AN HEIRESS Miss Woolgor and Mr. A. Wood. TELE THTRD EDITION OF " THE SUN,' Containing- the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE Can te had Every Evening of G. EL GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCT BER 1, 1863 The 'Weather—Sun Office, Oct. 1, 1863. TEI This day at Two o'c H Iock MOIIETER. 64 Barometer -29.38. Wi nd — South -Easterly; moderate, and fine. eijit r -a' • SUlt lONDON, THURSDAY, OCT. 1, 1863. Upon the whole the Revenue Returns for the Quarter may be pronounced satisfactory. Remem bering the long continuance of the American War, which has shut out from us, for so protracted an interval, the customary supply of cotton required for see large a branch of our manufactures—these tables, showing that in spite of the American War, in spite of this sudden, and almost total, and fright fully protracted continuance of our yearly cotton supplies :has in no conspicuous way injuriously affected our commerce, cannot but be followed with a sense of grateful exultation. There is no doubt rather disagreeably noticeable, almost at the first glance, a large apparent decrease in the Revenue of the Quarter. A decrease large, that is, compara tively. A decrease, however, that is, as we have stated merely apparent—because one arising purely and simply from the double reduction made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his last Budget : here by the diminution of the duty upon tea, here by the dropping of a proportion of that burdensome tax upon income and property, every penny in the pound, of ivhich represents upwards of £1,000,000 sterling, wrung from the earnings of the whole ag gregate of our busy toiling population ! Hence, and solely because of this reduction upon the income tarn and upon the tea duty, the more notable dimi nutions referred to in the total Revenue ht o f the which—notwit d in g Q earter. Notwithstanding the decrease in the p rocee d s of tha Proper tysa Tax upon the Quarter to the extent of ZlOB,OOO, and the decrease under the Customs Returns upon th e Qnarter to the extent of £329,000, mainly attri butable to the remission of duty upon tea—notwith standing that decrease upon:the Quarter under these two heads to the tune (together) of £437,ooo—there is yet manifest this most gratifying consideration, viz , that while there is a slight deficit discernable upon the last Quarter, and a yet slighter one upon the last Half-year, there is very . nearly a good round million in the way of surplus upon the whole Year, or, to be plain, a net increase upon the year to the extent of exactly £808,842. There is but little doubt of it, altogether, in point of fact, that we have small reason for solicitude of any kind in regard to our financial position—even in very despite of this woeful civil war in North America, a war that by necessity, of course, so very seriously (but, than k Heaven, as our financial tables continue to s how for our consolation, not disastrously) affects our manufactures. We should have still less reason e nce to those highly elaborated for anxiety in re fer but smoothly working contrivances by which the balance is maintained in our complex fiscal slid financial arrangements accordingly as they are modified by the annual influence of the Budget --were it not for the remembrance that, in the person Of th egifted man who is now entrusted with the res pon sibilities devolving upon England's Chancellor o f Exchequer, we have, besides the to questionable Man of Genine, the great Orator, the ripe Scholar, the, loy a l Minister, the patriotic Administrator —a mos t rash, a most dangerous, and a most eccentric Ex perimentalist as a Finan cier. Of that there can be no f arther doubt what ever. This last Y ea r's Budget_if there ever was a doubt of any kind, of even the flimsiest kind, upon the subject —set that do u bt at ones and for ever : in the m ind at restand co2selence, that is, of everyeae, but a zn - ind par tisan of the Government. r. rigid `ILA t'STO E'S forgottim. Th e escapades of last year were too fligrant, in truth, of their kind to be very readily propJsed club tax, the proposed tax upon chariti es, the whimsey hers, and the crotchet there, juggled before the House by that ambidexterous rhetori ciar, as cleverly but about as distressingly (merely to witness even) as the fl ishing to and fro of the Lult , dczen daggers tossed from hand to hand by B.:31510-SAMMEE—who can think of these even now without a qualm of discomfort at the prospect neat spring of another and kindred performance? Fantastic crotchets and whimsies in the way of experimental-finance—(still in this like those glittering daggers of RAmmo-SAmmEE)—that the Conjuror himself might swallow but that the spectators could not ! Swept aside as "rd l Y 106 Perilous than they were beyond any doubt ridiculous, they will in all likelihood, these dis creditable eccentricities in the last Budget be emu lated in the next by others as perilous and as ridiculouF. It is the perpetual thought of this an Micro that yields ne a qualm of discomfort, even when we are most disposed to congratulate our- E&1 7 113 while turning over (as we have been doing just now) a comparatively satisfactory balance sheet. Sir H. VERNEY and Mr. HUBBARD have been practising their rhetoric in Buckingham with very tolerable success. It is true that they did not agree altogether in their estimate of foreign affairs, particularly in regard to Russia and Poland. In this skirmish Mr. HUBBARD had the worst of the argument. He spoke at some length, and his ob. servations were very quietly put and speciously in troduced, but the tone of them altogether failed to represent the spirit of the country. He stated that it was a very satisfactory thing to notice that Earl RUSSELL had observed lately that there was no immediate chance of a war because of Poland. This may be a fact, and perhaps it is, for all things are not prepared for a contest just now, and there are certain contingencies and difficulties that might interpose awkward delays and occasion inconve ' nient ;estrangements if that event took place. It was the explanation of the affair that rendered Mr. HUBBARD'S remarks so unsuitable, for he seemed to insinuate that we had no right to have interfered at all in the affair. He set out with this assertion, that "nonintervention was the true policy of this country—non-intervention in every case in which the direct interest or honour of England did not call upon us to go to war." This is rather a sweep ing assertion, because England would be stultifying herself if she did nothing and said nothing, what ever happened of cruelty and tyranny in a foreign State. It would not be doing nothing but perform ing something in a very bad cause if our mighty nation had tamely acquiesced in the policy of St. Petersburg, and thus tacitly encouraging the cruel and devastating course that the legions of the Rus sians have been pursuing in Poland, turning her fields into burial grounds, and threatening to de populate her cities. Mr. HUBBARD went on to say that " great injustice had been done to Russia by the way in which the question had been debated in the House of Commons, and in every public meet ing which had been held in this country." It is a great pity that any influential public man should speak in this strain, because it furnishes an excuse to the opponents of liberty to say that our country is not at unity on the question. Mr. HUBBARD was very indignant that we should have presumed to dictate terms to a nation so mighty, to tell the absolute ruler of seventy or eighty millions of men to cease from hostilities. Times and manners must in deed have changed,for the worse when the exponents of England's policy pause tore fleet if a ruler is mighty before taking up the cause of the weak he is tramp ling on, or defending the poor who are in jeopardy from his wrath. If we are to fear any empire, from whence are there to come any champions of the oppressed. It should be the proudest boast of our countrymen that their Government consider no state too mean to be protected, and regard no empire as too mighty to be opposed if the cause of justice demands it. The spirit of honour, the claims of humanity, and the voice of the oppressed ones on GoD's earth have ever been held sufficientlp potent to call forth the assistance of England, and arm her hosts for any encounter. It is a proud thought to dwell upon that on our empire the sun never sets, but it is a higher and better cause for rejoicing to reflect that on our shores the slave is free. When Mr. HUBBARD said that the first outbreak was the " midnight assassination of Hessian troops quar tered in a Polish province," he might have remem bered what caused that outbreak. The midnight seizure of Polish youths to serve in the ranks of their enemies will be held by many as a sufficient provo cative for even greater deeds of violence. It is really a relief to turn to Sir H. VERNEY'S remarks on this subject. He said that he dissented from his colleague in his views regarding Poland. He gave it as his opinion that " those who went to Russia were miserably deceived," this is, doubtless, very true, but those who stay at home will coincide with Sir H. VERNEY'S assertion that, "there is no coun try in the world that has been so dreadfully tyran nised over as Poland has been by Russia." He considered that we ought not to permit such a state of things to go on without uttering a protest. He went to political grounds, and stated that peace could never be satisfactorily established in Europe until Russia ceased to tyrannise over Poland. This was a word in season, and must have been the exponent of the feelings and the represen tation of the opinion of many persons. Mr. HUB BARD'S views in regard to foreign policy were alto gether of a questionable character on this occasion. He briefly adverted to America, and thereupon affirmed that " in this case our Government had acted with great firmness and consummate wisdom." It would puzzle many to explain how and in what matter " great firmness" is consistent with the shuffling policy and variable demeanour that have characterised all the course of the transactions of our Ministers during thetrans -Atlantic controversy. " Consummate wisdom" does not appear in a line of action that is estranging both sides from us far more than any open espousal of an adverse cause would have irritated either party. Lukewarm acquaint ances aie worse than enemies, and dilly-dallying with things that want immediate decision, and a wavering purpose in settling affairs where a strong will is needed, can never occasion anything but doubt and discontent. Non - intervention is not the present policy towards America. Have we not just heard Earl RUSSELL'S statement that he will protect, to the utmost of his power, one side more than the other. Everyone knows what that means coming from such a quarter, and, therefore, it is quite unavailing for adherents of his policy to try to win over doubtful minds, for such bold assertions are not proved at all. Sir H. VERNEY spoke on the subject of labourer's cottages. He expatiated on the advantage accruing to the landlords by providing good and com f ortable residences. They might thus combine interest with duty, and benefit themselves while they bestowed a blessing upon others. He believed that the land. lord could give his son no better education than h o w to manage their land better and to obtain a thorough knowledge of it. He had had ample e xperience of the efficacy of the changes intro duced into the condition of the dwellings. uls had seen the character of the labourers improved by taking them out of the bad cottages and placing Mr. EUBBARD, in adverti ng tthoemth'il ral g o odeilbiecotn,ere.e'm' arked that it had been said the cottage que stioa was a landlord's, but that it was also a farmer's question. " The tenant far mer paid wages to t.t.ie labourer, who could only cec ullY his cottage at a rent that would remune rate the his 1 b ' proceedings p assed off with a our.' The owner when he g ot sufficient wages for satisfaction to all concerned, and the discussion of local interests will doubtless be productive of great servic e to the good cause noW in hand in 8 1 labouring o m u a r n i nyg places of instances P v er a i s e t nege striking furnishing better homes for the e end exec. importance to the com munity of enabling the labouring with comfort, decency, clasacS to live has attested in many It is no use their keariDg sermow from th e , Ipit, tJwisdom from the learned, or sage counsel from the em ployer, if he returns to a miserable dwelling that seems a mockery of the sacred name of home, and a violation of all the best feelings of humanity. Eloquent exhortation have not been wanting to testify to the importance and extent of the advan tages ensured to a country when possessed of a hardy generation of the sons of the soil. In fanciful allegory one writer has declared that ".'tis from the peasant's hardy stock the race of giants are ;" and the Ayrshire Ploughman has made memorable the following vindication of his class in these lines : " Princes and peers may flourish or may lade, A breath can make them as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied." It would seem that liberal principles are rapidly developing themselves in Denmark, and there is no reason to hope that the stormy period through which she has passed will lead in the end to sub stantial benefits. Once relieved from the weight of German authority, and set free from the continental harass to which he has been subjected, the KING no doubt has liberal views and tendencies. He and his Ministers have the sagacity to see that they must identify themselves with the party of progress and constitutional government, if they hope to retain their position in Europe. It is an independent and constitutional monarch, supported by the love of his people and anxious for their welfare, that King CIIRISTIAN claims our sympathies, and, although an excuse might easily be made for deferring the proposed reforms until a more tranquil time, it is certain that the line now taken is the wiser as well as the bolder one. No time has been lost in fulfil ling the expectations of the people. The day after the assembling of the Rigsraad the President of the Council laid before it the draught of a new consti tution for Denmark and Schleswig, by which all questions common to the two provinces are to be regulated. This draught shows, we are told, great progress in the development of liberal ideas in Den mark, and from what we can learn of it such is cer tainly the case. The members of the Lower House are to be freely elected without any consideration as to their income or the income of the electors. A property qualification will only be requisite for the members of the Upper House. This is certainly a n important step, and it will make the constitution of the two representatives in some respects similar to that of our English Houses of Parliament. All matters concerning Denmark per se will be settled by the Rigsraad, and those of Schleswig by th e estates of that Duchy. There is, therefore, a fair opening for a new political career, but unhappily the Holstein discussion is not at an end. When in deed will it ever be ? It has become th e chronic difficulty of European statesmen, and any means of satisfactory settlement would be accepted gladly by the political world at large. It may be that such a settlement is at hand, and that German pbo by rescue, as sumption and obstinacy will p us h matters to an es tremity that will necessitat e th e fi na l adjustment of athneceloonfgs-pweenddeinn,gwdhiosphuats com e.S upo l d r t l ed th e a e y t o th e and strong in the unan i m it y o f h er people, Den mark presents no cont em ptibl e f ront to the German invader. Should matt ers p roceed much further, moreover, England must infallibly take pa r t, a nd that part, notwithstanding th e symp a thi es o f our Foreign Minister, will not be with the German Confederation. At every port the arrival of the Channel Fleet is the signal for festivities and rejoicings. Ho s pitable Ireland has, of course, formed no exception to th e vale, and has rivalled Glasgow, Sunderland, a nd Liverpool in the warmth of its reception and th 6 extent of its interest. The visit to Belfast has bee n succeeded by a trip to the Bay of Dublin, and although, unfortunately, from the state of the wea ther, their stay wa s necessar il y very limited, there can be no doubt that it was very beneficial in its influence, enlisting th e quick o fsy mpathies the Hibernians on behalf of their noble vessels and their intelligent and courteous commanders. The banquet given by the citizens of Dublin to Admiral DACRES was the occasion for peat rejoicings, and although the time for preparation was necessarily limited, the goodwill of the hosts display e d itself i n the brilliancy of the reception. Th© addresses were chiefly remarkable f rom t h e i r heartiness and unanimity. The Mayor, in proposing th e health of his visitors, remarked that the "wooden walla" to which Old England chiefly owed her glory, were now things of the past, but he expressed h i s con viction that as much depended on the men a s on the ships, and certainly, h owever beneficial may b e changes in the one, w e nee d not seek to improve upon the other. Ad m i ra l D ACRES, who Will be come quite an orator if h e h as so many opportuni ties for speechmaking, sa id, as he has said before in other words, that the en th us i asm of the people at every spot they have v i s it e d s h owed the very interest felt in the Navy th roughout the country. The gallant Admiral att ac h e d great importance to the unity of feeling b e t ween the merchant service allies for and the Navy, and hi n t e d t h at valuable strong the national cause wer e t o b e found, if need existe d , in the merchant servi ce . I n the course of the even ing a bumper was d run k t o the health of Sir LEO POLD M'CLINTOCK, a countryman o f w hom Irish men may well be proud, and that officer, in return ing thanks, spoke of the liberal pr a i se bestowed on him and his companion s . It sea s not surprising that the successful expl orers of the far-famed North- West Passage should have b een warmly their countrymen, for not only did they celebrate in the achievement of that t as k , Which seemed well 'ugh an impossibility, but, greeted by honouring them, the nation paid homage to the brave men who had laid down their lives in those i n h ospitable regions. No guest could have been mo re fi tting at a banquet held in honour of ships and sailors, and no one could have been better qualified to appreciate the capa bilities of the noble vessels then anchored in the Bay. Universal admiration and a feeling of confidenc e and secur i ty appears t o spring up in the minds of l andsmen at t h e s i g ht of A such capable defenders. of them is expressed, commercial gentleman of Dublin gave an amusing illustration of this. He had lately heard some one m a ki n g inquiries about a Southern farmer of enormous size and strength. " Was he a quarrelsome m an ?" " Ah, no," was the reply, '° not in the least." "Was he ever seen to fight P . ' " No, never ; ho was a very quiet man entirely ; he was a most peaceable man ; but (this was added in a whisper) I never saw the man who had a fancy to fight with him !" Such, it is to bt hoped, will be the case with that goodly array of " leviathans afloat" under the command of Admiral DACRES ; and cettLiuly it must be a satisfaction to all lovers of peace and safety that we have such a "material guarantee" for the undisturbed repose of our shores. The cruise of this year has unques tionably done good in awakening the old naval enthusiasm of tho people, and in showing them that all the discussions about national defences have not ended in empty words, but that England really possesses a fleet worthy of her name, her position, and her character. THE FRENCH EXHIBITION OF TH E W ORKS OF LIVING ARTISTS, to be held next year in Paris, will open on the Ist of May, and close on the 15th of June. Foreign as well as French pictures will be admitted. Works for exhibition are to be sent in between the 10th end 20th of mext, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] THE POLISH INSURRECTION. CRACOW, OCT. 1. An engagement took place on the 29th ult. at Mipzow in the Wojwodschaft of Cracow between the insurgent chief Otto and the Rassians. Fifty Cossacks, with their arms and horses were cap tured. Another engagement was fought on the 27th ult., near Semworno, in the Wojwodschaft of Kalisch. Arrests continue to be mad© in Warsaw. TURKEY. CONS FANTINOPLE, SEPT. 30. It is still affirmed in the best financial circles that th ere will shortly be an issue of 30,000,000 fr. in Cansolides for the payment of the Syrian indem- nity. The same announcement has been made by the Levant hlerald, and has not been denied by the G ove rnment. It is sa id that the new securities will only be n e gotiable i n S y ria, and will be red eemable in five years. MEXICO. PARIS, OCT. 1. The 31-oniteur of to-day publishes a letter from mel i c e describing the rapid progress which has been made by French intervention. The same correspondence comparing th e present w i t h the former state of things, says that the num ber of victims under the rule of Juarez was 7,305, of w h o m 2,065 were assassinated while' defending t heir liberty, their life, and their property. FRANCE. PARIS, OCT. 1. Letters received from Rome to the 27th Septem ber announce that General Montebello had pub lished an order of the day, acquainting his soldiers w ith the disgraceful act of the Pontifical gendarme in fi r ing upon the Italian officer on the frontiers, e nd with the equally blameable conduct of the pontifical Government which protected such assas sins. The relations between General Montebello and t h e Pontifical Government were not friendly. Every possible difficulty was provoked by Mgr. Merode, Pontifical Minister of War. BounsE, Sept; 30. —The reponse de primes ( o ption) has been made at 67f 85c for the Threes. kiarket quiet, and with but a trifling variation in quotations, Threes, for the account, being now at 67f 80c. Mobilier at 1,210 f. Railway Share Market without animation, and prices generally we ll maintained. The market improved towards the close, and left off as follows : it per Cents .. 95 90 Italian Loan 74 Do, end month.... Do. end month 74 55 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 68 Do. end month.... Credit Mobilier....l2lB 75 Russian Do. end m0nth....1220 Austrian Bank Shares 3365 Spanish Threes.. , Credit k oncier 1360 Home Debt ...... 511 RAILWAY% Cash. Account. . Orleans 1026 25 .. 1028 75 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1025 .. 1025 Geneva 497 50 .. Southern 737 50 .. 740 Western Eastern .... ....... , 5lO .. 507 50 Sardinian ..... Austrian ........ 415 .. 41 0 Lombard ...... 570 .. 56S 75 North of Spain Saragossa.. 655 .. 655 Ditto to Barcelona • • •--•-. AUSTRIA. .At the sitting of the Austrian Chamber of Deputies on the 25th the committee charged to examine the reclamatioos of the Polish Deputy, Count Dzieduszyski, presented its report. The Count's carriage had been stopped at Lemberg and driven to the police office ; as, however, the arrest did not con tinue longer than was necessary to search the vehicle, the Chamber did not see in the fact, any attack on parliamentary inviolability, and passed to the order of the day on the proposition of the committee. LITERATURE, Breakfast in Bed; or, Philosophy Between the Sheets. By George Augustus Sala. One vol., pp. 334. Maxwell and Co. Foremost in the second rank of our English men of-letters now living, stands the author of these, and of we don't know how many other, delightful pages. Mr. Sala will not take the phrase here employed by us (as distinctively expressive of his position) in any way invidiously. Of that we are certain. He is himself a critic of too much discernment to be de luded in this matter into any such misapprehen sion--even by his remembrance of those halcyon dreams he must, doubtless, at times have in dulged in eagerly enough during the earlier days of his adoption of the intellectual craft of author ship—cherished hopes and wishes in regard to his assuming his place, sooner or later, in the front rank, among the most distinguished of his literary con temporaries. Further than to one of the foremost positions in the second rank of authorship, he must be himself as conscious as anyone that he has not advanced. But in that second rank, to our thinking 14e has taken his place by this time, not merely among the foremost, but par excellence as the Fore most. While in the first rank, stand the literary Sauls of cur generation, towering each of them by far more than a head and shoulders merely above the average intellectual sta ture of their age, men of conspicuous genius who have already hewn out their own niches, or built up their enduring pedestals in the Walhalla of our National Literature, an incompar able Humorist like Dickens, a Crichton of Letters like Bulwer, a Poet like Tennyson, a Satirist like Thackeray—others there are, amongst the most in dustrious writers of the time,who have signalised in a variety of ways the possession ef gifts securing to them a great deal - of our attention, attracting a large share of our sympathy, and even fre quently winning from us our very cordial adniira don. At the head of these we unhesitatingly place Mr. Sala. Daring the last ten or fifteen years he has plied his pen with extraordinary assiduity. It would make a goodly list, we should imagine, by this time, the mere enumeration of the periodicals to which he has, in succession, been, all this while, a contributor—a contributor whose individuality could not but arrest the observation at once of readers and reviewers. Whether writing in this way with an ever flying pen for the wonderful twopenny double columns of Household TVords, or for the übiquitous penny broadsheet of the Daily Telegraph, whether following London Life, 7wice Round the Clock, in companionship with his whimsical artist friend William M'Connell, or recounting, in the earlier chapters delightfully, in the later chapters most disappointingly, the per sonal history and the artistic career of the most original and the most national of our English painters, "William Hogarth," in the pages of the Cornhill Magazine—whether editing a shilling magazine of his own, The Temple Bar to wit, or re lating his voyaging in the Baltic, and his journey ing onwards to St. Petersburg, whether penning a romance like that entitled " The Seven Sons of Mammon," or recounting in old-fashioned diction and in old-fashioned ways the " Strange Adven tures of Captain Dangerous "—Mr. Sala is always readable. He is coarse occasionally, but he is always entertaining. We only remember one of his more pretentious works that we could feel at ail, even at rare intervals, to be in any way wearisome —namely, a work already here particularised, and that, too, with a hint of disfavour or depreciation, meaning his biography of Hogarth. Otherwise than in that one exceptional instance, we have never yet been tempted to throw aside anything to which Mr. Sala has put his hand, whether as a writer of books or as a contributor to the periodicals, out of a sense of its tediousness. Least of all, perhaps, among his many vivacious and varied performances, should we be tempted to do this by the very book now under notice. And we say this in spite of its titlepage—to us an unpleasantly effected, and even, it might be said, a positively unattractive titlepage. " Breakfast in Bed —or, Philosophy between the Sheets—a [what is it Mr. Sala calls it ?] a Series of Indigesable Discourses !" The last (generic) designation of the book, besides being intensely disagreeable of its kind, is, to our mind, beyond that, nothing less than a flagrant misnomer. In digestible these dozen discourses are not—at least we have not found them so. Devouring them with a relish, we have found, on the contrary, that from page 1 to page 334 there was nothing in the whole collection of this really appetising hotch-potch or gallimaufry of innocent fun and humorous observation upon men and things, that we could not, with perfect satisfaction to ourselves, " read, mark, learn (some of it almost by heart), and inwardly digest!" Mr. Sala's " Breakfast in Bed," without having about it any of the sardonic wit, has much of that perennial vivacity for which the famous breakfasts of Mr. Rogers in St. James's were so remarkable, They are, one and ail of them, frolicsome, discursive, and anecdotal. The only thing especially noticeable in it is that our host has the whole of the talk to himself. That talk, while it is throughout conversational in its character, is not by any means conversational in the sense of the ordinary give and take of remarks among a cluster of inter locutors. It does not even widea into Dialogue. It is a series of Discourses—strung together like a succession of Monologues. Upon themes, too, whimsical enough to draw mirth from an anchorite —even from a dirty, unclad, unwholesome anchorite like Mr. Lucas, of the dilapidated farm down in Hertfordshire. Instance—" On a Remark able Dramatic Performance," meaning my Lord Dundzeary, "On a Little Boy going to School," " On the Condition of My Poor Feet"—" On a Remarkable Dog"—" On a Young Lady on a Bal cony," and so forth. While the almost distasteful title of the book ie disagreeably suggestive of notions such for example, as that when Mr. Sala, was correcting the proof-sheets of his " Breakfast in Bed," he must have found them unpleasantly full of crumbs—we, as among his readers (and reviewers), as one of the guests bidden to this matutinal banquet of his providing, sitting there by the side of the well-spread fourposter, have never once felt disposed so far to enforce Poor Richard's recommendation of early rising, as to administer to its occupant what might be properly called a sort of cold pig of criticism, viz., by throwing cold water upon our Entertainer, or upon these Twelve very capital " Breakfasts in Bed" pleasantly pro• vided by him for our entertainment. The Warning to the Presse. A letter from Paris says :—M. Emile de Girardin's irrepressible audacity has at length drawn upon the Presse the warning which, as We were i n f o rmed yesterday, had b een k e pt fo r some days in pickle. The Government fixes as a justifi cat i on of the warn ing upon some passages in an art i c l e of his i n the Presse of yesterday evening, which are, after all, infinitely less strong than the thing s which he wrote before, and which it was thought expedient to pass over. The crime as set forth in the warning is as follows : Considering that the author of the article repre sents the conduct. of foreign affairs as being die quieting for the country and compromising for public credit ; and that he thus ser i ously d i storts the policy of the Government. The only passages in the incriminated article which can possibly be cited as bearing oat the con demnation are the following :—. If the minister had conducted the negotiations with prudence, would France be asking, as she now does every morning when she wakes up, who ther she is to fix bayonets, sell her Rents, and hoard her gold ? We ask of all those in France whose interests are suffering from this insoluble questi on o f P o l an d, and of all those who have read M, D rou -- y n de Lhuys' numerous despatches, whether he has acted in accordance with M. Billault's speech of March 19 , 1863. We ask whether the " execut i on "—to use the words of the ltioniteur—has respon d e d to the "direction ?" We think that the means of execution of the Government idea adopted by Drouyn de Lhuys were the worst possible, b ecause ( a m o ngst other reasons), in case of failure, W hi c h i t i s a lways pru. dent and necessary to provid e for, there was no other prospect than war, or at least a rupture with Russia, the only sincere and useful ally of France, and , moreover, a situation f or the coun t r y relatively weaker than the admirabl e s i tuat i o n which France had attained at the con gress of Paris. It is a truly miserable thing to think of that at a great European crisis lik e the present the French Government should think to make a diversion by a warning to a newspap er . And suc h a warning too! What becomes of the a d m i tte d prin ciple that the acts of ministers are op en to d i scuss ion if it is not permissible to hazard the opinion that a particular line of conduct by aminister is c alculated to alarm the country and compromise credit ? According to the doctrine of the warning the Minister whose conduct is criticised is entitled to say authorita tively that this critici s m i s a l ib e l upon the Govern ment—and there an end. M. de Girardin to-night abstains from all com ment upon the warning, but, with his actual acute ness, contrives to embody in a few words some con siderations which show the follow of the Minister who plumes himself upon diplomatic success. Quoting a few apt words from Lord Russell's speech, reiterating the determination of England not to go to war at the beck of France on behalf of the Poles, be defies the Consblutionnel, Pays, France, and Memorial Diplomatique to talk any more about the " European understanding and the accord between the three powers." The Pays, however, does this very evening per sist that the accord between the three powers has not been sterile, and it founds its observation upon the fact that Lord Russell declares that Russia, not having fulfilled the obligations of the treaties of 1815, has forfeited her title to Poland under them. Notwithstanding the pacific accompaniments of this declaration, the Pays holds it up A§ ene cf great Alper t Ance, SHIPPING—This Day. LoNnoN, Oct. I.—Wind this day at noon—South- Easterly; moderate breeze, and cloudy weather, with rain. NEWPORT, Sept. 29.—Wind W.—Arrived—Volunteer, from Garrucha. THE ENGLISHMAN CARICATURED —by Mr. Nathaniel Hawthorne, in his new book of " Our ' Old Home" :—lt being the first considerable assemblage of Englishmen that I had seen, my laf.;nest impression about them was, that they were a heavy and homely sot of people, with a remarkable roughness of aspect and behaviour, not repulsive, but beneath which it required more familiarity with the national character than I then possessed always to detect the good breeding of a gentleman, Being gene. rally middle aged, or still further advanced, they were by no means graceful in figure ; for the comeliness of the youthful Englishman rapidly diminishes with years, his body appearing to grow longer, his legs to abbreviate themselves, and his stomach to assume the dignified pr.mninence which justly belongs to that me t ropolie of his system. His face (what with the acridity of the atmosphere, ale at lunch, wine at dinner, and a well digested abundance of succulent toed) gets red and mottled, and develops at least one additional chin, with a promise of more, so that finally a stranger recognises his animal part at the most superficial glance, but must take time and a little pains to discover the intellectual. Comparing him with an American,' really thought that our national paleness and lean habit of flesh gave us greatly the advantage in an sasthe • is point of view. It seemed to me, moreover, that the Eng lish tailor had not done so much as he might and ought for those heavy figures, but had gone on wilfully exaggerating their uncouthness by the roominess of their garments; he had evidently no idea of accuracy of fit, and smartness was entirely out of his line. Bat, to be quite open with the reader, I afterwards learned to think that this aforesaid tailor has a deeper sit than his brethren among ourselves, knowing how to dress his customers with such individual propriety that they look as if they were born in their clothes, the fit being to the character rather than the form. If you make an Englishman mart (unless he be a very exceptional one, of whom I have seen a low), you make him a tanZtcr hcot 45pvct 1S tiot 01 polldemo respeottibiiity, Mr. Henley, wtp., on the Influence of Free Trade upon Agriculture. WOODSTOCK, WEDNESDAY. The annual show of the Woodstock Agi icultural and Horticultural Society took place yesterday, in Blenheim•park, which, as well as the private gar dens attached to the ducal mansion, was thrown open to the members and visitors of the society by his Grace the Duke of Marlborough. The show of flowers, which was exceedingly fine, took place under marquees pitched on the lawn near the palace, and a volunteer band attended throughout the day. The number of visitors was very large, and the show was a complete success. The prizes were distributed by the Duchess of Marlborough. In the evening the members of the society dined together, Lord Dillon in the chair. 'Tie Duke of 111.0.1,BoRouGH, in returning thanks for the toast of his health, briefly addressed the company on the present improved condition of agri culture, and the service which had been rendered it by societies like the present. Mr. HENLEY, M.P., in returning thanks for the borough members, expressed his gratification at being present after his recent illness, and expressed a hope that agriculture would always be amongst the first, if not the very first interest of the country. I believe, he said, that it is the first, if measured by a proper standard. If this conclusion was one at which only we ourselves arrived it would still be very gratifying to our feelings, but we have had the advantage of the opinion of a foreign prince who lately presided over the meeting of an agricul tural society at a place not very far distant from this. We have a right to consider that opinion a dispassionate one. Self-love may blind as a little, but no doubt a distinguished foreigner each as the Duke of Aumale residing in this country is likely to take a just view of things which come before him. His royal highness said very complimentary things of us as farmers and Englishmen. He said that we were better off for being free from State interference in the management of our farm ing, and because these societies are self-managed and have nothing to do with the Government. All those things are pleasant to hear ; but a power which watches over us all fears that we might be too proud, and we ha%e been told in the press that though better off than people abroad, we have too many poor, and that though it is well to have agri cultural societies managing themselves, we might have been better off if we had a minister of agri culture; we are further informed that the first spring of agriculture followed on free trade, though I can recollect that the first, spring of agriculture as now carried on among us took place 40 or 50 years ago. But all this has appeared in wl;at is called the leading organ. What are the facts ? At the beginning of the present century there was an agricultural society supported by grants from Par liament. Some 40 years ago the Government of the day got economical, and that society was snuffed out. (Loud laughter.) Well, that society having been snuffed out, the Royal Agri cultural Society sprang up. Therefore, it was not for want of a Government society that we were not batter off. (Hear, hear.) Agriculture, in my opinion, has never stood still. You may trace it from one period to another ; and improvements in agriculture—great improvements—commenced and were developed before free trade was intro duced. (Hear, hear.) I come to book on that. (A laugh.) I think there has been a great improve• ment in what is called thorough draining. The system, contradistinguished from the old Essex system, commenced in this county. I do not go very quick into things—(laughter)—but my tenantry did this 30 years ago, therefore that im provement did not originate in free trade. It is quite true that after the introduction of free trade £2,000,000 or £3,000,000 of public money were Tent to persons to enable them to thorough drain, but that only gave development to a principle which had been known and acted on before. (Hear, hear.) What is the other great improvement ? The quick bringing to market of the stock prepared by the agriculturist. That is an improvement which has been of vital importance to the people. If it were not for it they might have wagged their jaws, but they would have had no meat to put in them. (Laughter, and "Hear, hear.') Sheep, the great staple food of the country, were now brought to market within twelve months after they were born, and when many of them have been shorn once. That began very many years ago in this part of England. I remember seeing the young sheep walking to market with flannel jackets on their backs, to keep them from getting cold. (Loud laughter.) What I am stating is a fact, and it shows how agriculture has gone on, till we now find small lambs going up. You do not get such good mutton, to be sure, but if you had not the supply which is now sent to market you could not feed the people. (Hear, hear.) Again, the improvements in machinery have gone on step by step; from the rough horse thrashing machine to these imple ments which we now see working at everyone of these shows. True, the progress has been gradual, but my hon. friend near me (Mr. Bazley, M.P.) will not pretend that the mills of Lancashire were as perfect forty years ago as they are now. All modern trade and commerce is constantly improving, and in agriculture there are constant improvements as well as in trade. We have not gone on by jumps—we have been con tinually improving : and I am satisfied that we must still be doing so, in order to keep pace with the necessities of the time. Agricultural shows are useful in permitting us to see how we can best do so. Perhaps you of Woodstock think you are the best fellows in tho world, hut if you go a hundred miles you will find people who can walk round yon. (A laugh and cheers.) We see that these fellows go faster and we must go faster too. We must keep moving, and I believe we shall continue to move. But, it may be asked, why are not farmers as en- thusiastic in favour of new inventions, and as quick to adopt them as manufacturers are to avail them selves of improvements in machinery ? There is this great difference—that in experiments made with respect to manufactures, the circumstances are of a fixed character, while in respect of agri cultural experiments the best of them may be upset by atmospherical influences, over which you have no control. An experiment which pro mises very well eav turn out to be good for no thing. This naturally makes the agriculturist more careful than if he could at once make his experi ments under more settled and favourable circum stance. He must watch the effect of three or four seasons—he cannot jump at such conclusions as if he made his experiments within four walls and under a fixed condition of things. Ido not like to see our profession run do ivn as it sometimes is. I do not see why, when the country has brought its agriculture to a point which bears comparison with that of other countries, we should not be allowed to proceed at a fair price. We cannot increase our ground; that is every day taken from us for houses and cottages; yet with all these things we have increased our produce, and this can only have been done by improved modes of working. Ido not conclude from this state of things that there is no room for improvement. Quite, the contrary ; but I think that by the efforts of such societies as these—by watching the effect of in ventions, and by adopting such of them as turn out to be real improvements—you will keep the agriculture of this country, as it is now, at the head of the agricu'ture of the world. (Cheers.) On political subjects, I thank God, there is not much for us to say. As I observed before this year at one of these meetings we are at peace with the world and we are at peace with one another— (cheers) —and I hope we shall keep ourselves at peace. (Hear, hear.) Other countries seem to be willing enough to fight; there seems to be no in disposition on their part to fall out and slay one another, but I hope w© can keep out of it. I see no English interest mixed up in it. I trust we shell always keep out of fighting, unless there is some honest English interest to fight for. If that is the case let us take off our gloves and fight like men. (Cheers.) There is no use in making a noise if you don't intend to fight. The least said the soonest mended. (Loud cheers.) Colonel NORTH and Colonel FAINE returned thanks in brief terms, and several toasts were given responded to btiO;e: ttp party laNio up. zfr. - Ok Elrtribt g'ffurisv.,,,, 1- The Queen in Scotland. BALMORAL, Sept. 29. The Queen, accompanied by the Princrss of Wales, Princess Louis of Hesse, and Prince Alfred, drove to Gairnshiel. Princess Helena, Princess Louise, and Prince Leopold, attended by Lady Churchill, Baroness Schenck, and Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. Charles Grey, drove to Mar Lodge, and honoured the Countess of Fife with a visit. Return of the Prince of Wales. His 11.9yal Highness the Prince of Wales will leave Abergeldie for the south this day on a visit to his estate at Sandringham. It is probable that his royal highness may meet the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia at Edinburgh. Arrival of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia. Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia arrived in London y es terday evening, on their way to Balmoral. Their royal highnesses, who are accompanied by their children and a numerous suite, left the Pots dam railway station on Monday evening at a quar ter past eight, and reached Cologne next morning, after a journey of exactly 12 hours. They were received by the city commandant, and after partaking of breakfast in a room at the railway station, their royal highnesses, attended by the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, visited the far famed cathedral. At half-past 10 the royal travellers left Cologne by the Rhenish Railway, on their way to Brussels. Their royal Lighnesses reached Brussels on Tues day evening; and yesterday morning embarked at Antwerp for Dover, where they arrived soon. after three in the afternoon. The Crown Prince and Crown Princess were re ceived. on landing by Count Bernstorff, the Prussian Ambassador at London, who had previously arrived from Brighton. After a short stay at Dover, their royal highnesses departed at a quarter past four by a special train on the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, and reached Victoria Station et 6.20, hav ing thus performed the journey in five minutes over two hours. The Crown Prince and Crown Princess, with theirßoyal children, travelled in the state carriage belonging to the Brighton Company which had been lent to the Londo❑ and Chatham. Company for the occasion. At the Victoria station they were received by M. Frederic Katte, the First Secretary to the Prussian Embassy; and immediately afterwards a telegram was sent by Count Bernstorff to the King and Queen of Prussia at Baden-Baden, announcin„7, the safe arrival of the royal travellers. Later in the evening their Royal Highnesses left town for Scotland by the Great Northern Railway. It is understood that the Crown Prince and Crown Princess will not return to Prussia for some time. THE KING OF BAVARIA is again going to reside at Rome during the winter. THE NEW KING OF GREECE is to be feted at St. Petersbuig by a grand review and a grand Court ball. QUEEN CHRISTINA of Spain has just lost one of her sons, Don Garcia, who expired the other day at Pau, in his seventeenth year. His Royal Highness Prince Napoleon left the Clarendon Hotel yesterday for Woburn Abbey. The Princess Czernicheff has left the Clarendon Hotel for the Continent. The Prince and Princess Wladimir Bariatinsky and family have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel. His Excellency Count Bernstorff left the Prussian Legation last evening to join the countess and family at Brighton, after attending on their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia on their arrival in England on their way to visit the Queen at Balmoral. The Duke of Devonshire and Lady Louisa Ca vendish, who have returned to Holkar Hall, near Milne thorpe, from Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, will shortly leave for a visit to the Earl of Carlisle in Dublin, and afterwards go to the family estates in Ireland. The Duke and Duchess of Buccieuch will leave town early next week for Drumlanrig Castle, N.B, The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland are receiv ing a succession of guests at Dunrobin Castle, in Suther landshire. The Marquis of Exeter is gradually improving in health. The Marchioness of Ely arrived in town yester day from St. Leonard's-on-Sea. The Earl Russell yesterday left Meikleour Lodge, the Count and Countess de Flahault's seat in Perthshire (where his lordship and family have resided during their stay in Scotland), accompanied by the Countess and Ladies Russell and Viscount Amberley, lor Edinburgh, on the way to visit the Earl and Countess of Mint°, at Minto House, Roxburghshire. Tue EAT.' and Countess Fitz william and Ladies Fil awilliam are visiting the family estates in Ireland. The Earl and Countess of Clare and Lady Louisa Dillon have arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood. Viscount Palmerston arrived at Cambridge House, Piccadilly, yesterday morning, and returned to Broadlands in the afternoon. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield are still entertaining company at Gedling Lodge, their shooting-box in Nottinghamshire. The latest company has included the Marquis and Marchioness of Bath, Lord and Lady Wharn cliffe, Mr. Leslie, M,P., &c. THE EARL OF BROWNLOW (lately come of age) has puchased the Satellite yacht, and is about to proceed in her to Madeira. THE EARL AND COUNTESS OF DEVON, accom panied by their daughter, the Lady Agnes Courtenay, havo returned from the Continent. Mr. and Lady Augusta Sturt have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from visiting Lord and Lady Newport at Canwell, near Tamworth. The Right Hon. Sir Alexander Cockburn, the Lord Chief Justice of England, left town yesterday for Brighton to recruit his health. Lord and Lady Kinnaird have left Farrance's Hotel for Rossie Priory, Inchturo, N.B. Sir Archibald and Lady Agnes Campbell have gone to their seat in Scotland, after visiting the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland at Alnwick Castle. DEPARTURE OF MR. MASON.—Mr. Mason, the envoy from the Scuthern States of America, left London last evening by the mail train for Paris. Mr. Macfarlane remains for a few days to wind up some Unimportant matters of a financial nature. Previous to the departure of Mr. Mason, several members of the personnel quitted London for the French capital. We hare reason to believe that Sir William Atherton has resigned the office of Attotney- General. The cause, we regret to say, is continued ill health. Sir William Atherton was offered the puisx.e judge ship, vacant by the appointment of Baron Wilde to succeed the late Sir Cresswell Cresswell. But hi s s t ate of health compelled him to relinquish all official work, and ha has therefore deemed it his duty to resign the Attorney- Generalship, to the regret of all those officially associated with him. Sir William Atherton is succeeded by Sir Roundell Palmer, the Solicitor-General. With the latter office the name of Mr. Collier has been more than once mentioned by way of rumour, and in the present instance it is not improbable that the rumour may prove well founded. GILBERT WHITE'S ONE SERMON.—AII who love the memory of Gilbert White will be interested to hear that the only sermon ho left behind him—one, per haps, preached more than once in his pretty Selborne—is printed for the first time in the last number of the Journa of &wed Literature. It was written in 1748, when the Natural Historian was only twenty-eight years old, and preached, seemingly, for the last time in 1792, only eight months before his death, ' The text is 1 John, iv. 20, "Be that says he loves God, but hateth his brother, is a lyar, for, if he loves not his brother whom he hath seen, bow can ha love God, whom he hash not seen F' The sermon is communicated by the grand-nephew of the writer, the itev, F. Gilbert White, of 13arngill House, Whitehaven. CLOSE OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY.--Tho Na tional Gallery, Trafalgar-square, is closed for the annual vacation, which is reduced this year from six to five weeks, and will not be opened to the public until Monday, Novem ber 2, when the days of admission will be Mondays, Tues days, Wednesdays, and Saturdays, Thursdays and Fridays are now to be set apart for students. During the recess some valuable paintings by the old masters will be added to the collection. TEMPLE CuuacH.—This church having been thoroughly repaired, will be re-opened for divine service on Sunday next. PLAIN DEALING.—The Committee of the Phil adeiphia Common Council, charged with presenting the cities of New York and Boston with ~deer from Logan square, rec?.ived the following pass over the Camden and Amboy Railroad :—" Pass to New York tho deer t,tlVi their 117‘,,dq, an qu Co col BD CO In, Ex