The Sun. — London, England, 1863-09-02 00:00:00

R OYAL PRINC ESS'S THEATRE Lessee, Mr. C:-eorge Under the Management of Mr. Walter Montgomery. TIIIS EVENING, Shakes! Jere's Tragedy of IIAaiLET ITamlet, Mr. Walter Montgon very. To be followed by A ROUG II DIAMOND. Commcace at 7. NEW THEATRE-;%0 fAL, ADE] PHI: Sole Pronristor and D ianagnr, Mr. B. Webster. T IS F,VF,NING - (2d week), at 7, a new comic drama, THE BEN AND CH ICK ENS • or, A Sign of Affection. and Miss 'Messrs. Bill ington, R. Phillips, Stephenson ; Mrs. Stirling 11. Simm. Atter which, at a quarter-Past 8, the new drama in of IN THE RACINTED MAN 011, GHOST'S I3ARGA, 'which will be 'wexhibited Professor Pepper's adaptation of 'he Great Spectral Illusion. Messrs. J. L. Toole, It. Phillips, ef ton C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss U. Simms. Followed by a new Burlesque, entailed ILL-TREATED J r , If vAToit,E. Mtssrs. Toole. P. Bedford, R. Phillips., },brirne. C. J. Smith, Romer ; the Sisters Neilson, Carry and Bari, and Miss K. Kelly. OYAL STRAND THEATRE. 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Not one jot less remarkable in its way, that is as an instance of facile expansion, or rather, it should be said, prolongation, is the manner in which the thread of his discourse has been spun out this month by the most conspicuous contributor to the New Review (Political, Philosophical, and Literary), a periodical which, although it has not yet completed its first half year, has already as sumed a high place among its contemporaries as the organ of the more advanced Conservatives. "The Session of 1863" is the title of his paper, the theme of his high argument. It is a short text enough, and not apparently— to a superficial obser ver, at least—so very suggestive ! Yet it is from this atom of a germ that has here, in the first q uarter -of-a-hundred pages of the opening article in the .11 7 eto Review for September, grown forth the ablest resume yet published of the doings (such as they were) of the two Houses during the last session—by reason of the debilitat ing, relaxing, soporific influence of the regime, nominally of the Whigs, but actually of the Tories under Lord PALMERSTON ! The " situation," as our neighbours have it, in the closing paragraph of this clever and caustic survey is thus hap pily epitomised, where it is said that— " A popular Premier :at the head of an incapable and divided Ministry, and supported by a gross majority of from five to ten votes ; a Liberal Cabinet which came into power upon one understanding and retains it on another; a Whig Party which owes its tenure of power exclusively to the aid of the Tories. and. a Radical party which discovers in its official leaders the humble servants of the Conservatives, make altogether a wholly exceptional, abnormal, and. unnatural palit'ca,l tableau." Not one single phrase, epithet, adjective in all which, can, we take it, for one instant be seriously con trocertecl. The Miniatry is—precisely as it is them described. That it is incapable and divided is proved to the recognition of everyone, by the flagrant fact of its doing just absolutely nothing. Its foreign policy is a nullity. Its home policy has lon ; since fairly become comatose. When it has attempted to interfere even in some minor detail, as in reference to the City Police, it has floundered into a succession of mistakes, and has been compelled eventually and ignominiously to withdraw from its ill-aalvised venture at innovation. The incapability and the division of the Ministry are as undeniable in effsct (that is to say, literally in their effects), as is the on a isolated merit of the Cabinet, the one exceptional source of its vitality, the personal popularity of the First Lord of the Treasury. That it (and he) came into power upon one understanding, while it (and he) retain that same power upon another, who shall venture to gainsay ? It is admitted even frankly enough by Ministers themselves—by Lord PAL MERSTON as their chief, with a good-humoured combination of slyness and satisfaction, that must be to the very last degree irritating to the few inde pendent Liberals (Liberals at heart and not merely by name) below the gangway, or sparsely scattered ab3ut the back benches. Nothing in its way could be more felicitous than the application by the reviewer to our veteran Premier (p. 5) of those melo- dious lines applied by LUCAS to the delineation of PompEy, beginning " Famceepte petieor multa dare in vuig„,,,_and more especially of that majestic comparison to the giant of the forest, " Qualis frugifero quercus snblimis in agro"—a passage kindred in excellency to a congenial simile in one of the openin g pages of 'Sir WALTER RALEIGH'S noble %story of the World. Scattered though the well-tempered but at intervals th e hardly less than scathing survey, here taken in the _Yew Review, of the session of 1863, aro ether phrases, and, indeed, at times whole passages, far more satirical than c omplimentary, "It is the - Whigs," we are comically reminded at one moment, " who wag their political pigtails over the dangers of a Tory G o vernment, and resemble not hing 20 much as the old gentleman whom WASRINGTOrt I ttviNG saw at Stratford, who still seemed to think himself hale and v i gor ous, with the trifling exceptio n that for some years past he had qu i te l o s t the use of hi s legs.' " At another moment we are called upon to know how it has come to pa ss t ha t this Mosaic Atinistry sits powerless in the Hou se of Comm ons , and atterly abashed in the House of Lords. Only occasionally is it, that the bite of the satirist is little less tha n a mere mumble with a toothless gum—as where he slys with a bpitefut but irIiIeCUMIS acrimony th st " 6ir GEORGE GREY 18 a weak ard obFAlnate man, and very much a clerk, nig) certeinly does I:tithing towards compensating for *le blunders of Lord llvssur.." The two new inducted into the Government—it is erroneous :here said into the ranks of the Cabinet—are more accurately described the Marquis of 11ARTINCTON as the Ascanius of the. Whigs,. and Mr. :TI:TANSF.ELD as one holdir,g the same position among : the Radicals as a "promis ing junior" bolds at the Briti,', l bar. Refs r• r i ng to Mr. bisuAELV memorable con trast on the 26th, of last J une, his contrast between the Conse rvative and Liberal creeds, without doubt very admirable of its kind, but here described rather estravagantly as one " which for terseness, clearness, pregnancy will t „ ar comparison with th e Style of D.cmosTa.r..NEs the 21 7 ::•zo Bellew obsrvtfo a at4l . - quoting a passsg, from it, "The truth of all this is so undeniable, its moral effect is so irresistible that Mr. DISRAELI'S opponents became alarmed, and consoled them selves by groundless statements to the effect that the speech from which it is taken had given offence to his party. Why, there is not a single expression in it, from beginning to end, that could give offence to a single Conservative. This is the stuff and nonsense which is always re peated whenever Mr. DISRAELI inflicts a wound on his opponents. The recurrence of these assertions as surely indicate that his shaft has gone home as the marker's signal at Wim bledon announcing a bull's-ego or a centre." Against Earl RUSSELL, in particular, the critic draws up a very heavy bill of indictment, in deed. "He has bade Russia,"• he says "do this and do that, and if the EMPEROR quietly refused, what then ? Why, then, we can only say, like 808 ACRES in the play, that—the EMPEROR is a " very ill-bred man," No less stingingly sarcastic are his allusions when speaking "of Lord RUSSELL'S performances in various other quarters of the globe—of his silly invitation to the POPE—of his pompous letters addressed to the C o urt of " Copenhagen, and the arrogance displayed to wards the Government of Brazil -- of his disastrous policy in China, an d his peril lous and unrighteous dealing with th e p eo p le of Japan." As to his cession of the lonian Islands to Greece, the New -Review (and as the organ of the Conservatives it is significant that it should hesitate not to sp eak out thus bol d l y upon that matter) declares it to be nothing page in English Histo r y, a le n s d s tnhea which,‘‘ a by itself, tself, is sufficient to stamp Lord RUSSELL'S tenure of the Foreign-office with eternal shame. To a sheer propensity for meddling, com bined with an attempt to repair one blunder by another, and to efface the effect of his Schleswig- Holstein despatches by obsequious and officious zeal in the affairs of Greece, we owe the loss of position which, some day or other, Great Britain will bitterly regret." Without scru tinising yet further the article upon which we have been commenting, we may pronounce it to be ,as highly flavoured, almost, we might say, as hotly devilled a dish of political sarcasms as any yet served up by Lord ROBERT in the Quarterly. One of the most interesting features of our English scientific life is the gathering together of men dis tinguished in various branches of knowledge to communicate the observations made and the fresh steps gained in each several department. It is not very long since our social reformers, philanthropists, and philosophers banded themselves together for the consideration of some of those evils, dangers, and difficulties that clog the wheels of our social pro gress, The various questions that come to the sur face, as civilisation proceeds on her onward march, are examined in their different aspects, and the work that yet remains to be done in c:earing the way of justice, toleration, and knowledge is helped forward in the most practicable manner. An older and in some respects a more remarkable society has just terminated its annual labours. The British Association numbers among its members names which are not only a boast of our time but of our country—men who are not only remarkable in their own island, but who bear a European reputa tion. Every assembly of such men leaves the world richer than it found it. When each states the ex perience he has gathered, even in a few short months, of the science to which he has devoted all his powers, the result must be worthy of the most respectful attention. In these gatherings, too, each meets with associates worthy of him; the one can readily comprehend the meaning of the other, he can encounter him on his own ground, he can appreciate his difficulties, he can raise objections, he can perceive the great ends of science to which the most trifling and casual discovery may tend. It is encouraging for the thinker to unfold his conjectures, his perplexities, his suggestions in such an atmosphere. He is secure from narrow prejudice, from superficial criticism, from contemp tuous neglect. Sir RODERICK MURCHISON is not likely to misapprehend Sir CHARLES LYELL, Pro fessor OWEN will not rashly contradict Sir DAVID BREWSTER, Mr. GLAISHER will certainly give a patient hearing to Sir WILLIAM ARMSTRONG. The whole circle of the sciences is, as it were, brought before us. We learn the point of development which each has reached, we acquire the fruits of the enterprise and exertion of the wise men of other lands than our own, and the busy worlds of politics, fashion, and commerce suspend for a while their own interests, their own engrossing topics of thought and discussion, to listen to the addresses of great men as they discourse on those mighty and immutable laws before which our earthly wisdom owns itself baffled and powerless. Nor is the atten tion of the meetings entirely confined to purely speculative subjects. Those all-important questions of physiological science which affect health and life form part of their discussions, and each year the added experience of the generation is brought for ward to ameliorate the sufferings inseparable from humanity. Thus, in the present meeting, a matter y of our country men and di scussion. of vital importance to a lar ge b e d though men was the s u bj ect of The terrible am oun t of mortality existing, among our troops in India has lately been commented on as a subject urgently pressing for in - quirt', would ill become E ng l and to refit idle e n 1 I t hearing of such loss of life—loss not from the yor the devastating pest i lence, but from 1 causes constantly and universally prevalent 1 in sidious disease that leaves its fatal poison rankling in the veins, or quietly adds unit ants unit to the long list of English soldiers' Ritttves under,the Indian sun. It is needful that we should at once inquire into the possibility of ameliorating such a st a t e of • things, and the open discussion of the que s ti on among able, conscientious ) and intelligent men will go far to disp e l th a t i gac r a nce which is so often a fatal agent in th e wor k o f destruction. So, coo, the section of G eo l ogy b roug ht it s contribution to useful and popul ar k now l e d ge i n it s di s courses on coal mines, while the information, so laboriously and dangerously acqu i re d b y M r. GLAISHER, is pre sented to his scientific contemporaries in the most copious and intelligible form. M re may feel proud that s uc h a gathering should lose none of its inte rest an i ns vears roll on, but that each successive - ietthilg should bring together so many men, dis - t inguished in such various branches of learning, to do honour to their courtly and to instruct their generation. 1 On the ;Thee to NI very satisf ac t , the Frankfort C — ongress appears °U. Still var i ous o bj ect i ons I were made at different times to the project; and this la not t o be wondered at, consider ing the importance of the points discussed and the magnitude of the changes proposed. Indeed, at one time the august assembly separated to allow the Ministers to confer on the subjects under discus sion. These official advisers suggested several al terations; some of them were of a salutary nature. add a seventh vo i ce They proposed to to the Threctory. Austria, Prussia, and Bavaria to have one representative each; two repre seatativLs to be given to thosc.: kings and princes who havo two o: three votes in rfili SON. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEAII3ER 2, 1363. the Federal Assembly, or plenum in the Bund. The twenty States that have only one vote in the Federal Assembly are to have two in the Directory. So far the proposition seems feasible enough, and likely to impart satisfaction to the several different parties in the affair. It appears that this change was sudden, for it was considered that the matter was settled, but some of the Princes expressed their disappointment of the arrangements made, and con s s o eq m u e e v n e t r ly y t im he po a r lt t e a r n a t ti b o u n si w ne a s s s m w a a d s e t . meeting. Objections were raised to so me p ortions ran O sa n c T te h d u a r t sa t a h Y e of the Austrian Reform, and the Congress has re moved some of them. In article eight a decisive change has been made. A simple majority in the Federal Council will not have the right to empower the Directory to make war against a foreign Power " which may attack a Federal State having terri • tories that do not belong to the Build." This is a very wise arrangement, and contrasts favourably with the somewhat harsh and arbitrary plan at first proposed, and which could not have failed to mili tate against the wishes and hopes of those Princes who were compromised in the affair. They would not have liked to have been compelled nolens volens to take up arms against foreign States, in defence of the territories of Prussia and Austria. Some modifications were made likewise in article nine, so that the Directory will not have the right to inter fere for the "prevention of disturbances in a Federal State." Some " reactionary Princes," as they are styled, take umbrage at the proposition which re lates to the attributes of the National Assembly. One of these objectors urged his views on the ground that the consequences would be eventually napless. ing to those who designed its formation. "If the Chamber of Deputies have the privilege of legislat ing in matters connected with the public press, with the rights of association and domicile, &c., it will gradually become a kind of Constituent Assembly, a body which none of us can possibly wish to see formed." This is a most impolitic argument, and one which if carried out is likely to be pro ductive of great mischief. Little enough in all conscience has been granted by the Im perial act of Reform, in the style in whi c h these faultfinders would make out, and it is as absurd as it is unjust to put forward all these objections, and compromise the success of a mea sure that might be better, but that might be far worse in every way. The Duke of COBURG ap pears to have acted in a most sensible manner in this awkward affair. Ho mede several proposiLions to the Assembly, to induce them to allow the Ger mans to be represented by men of their own choice. It is not surprising that he should be one of the most popular men in Germany. He certainly de serves to be on many grounds'; and, if unsuccessful in these endeavours, the people will not be the lees grateful for the energy with which he fought their battles, and kept his own counsel, when so many were against him. All honour is due to those who thus pioneer the path of progress, and hold out examples of a class that all might be proud to fol low. The Frankfort Journal, it appears, is very indignant that the Emperor of AUSTRIA should preside at the Directory. This is a very uncalled for fault to find. It seems that the EMPEROR has the best right to that place of privilege, and on the principle of Palinunz qua meruit ferat, he has cer tainly more claim than any man, Whatever good may come from this Assembly of Princes and Ministers at the Congress of Frankfort, will certainly belong to the man who planned and proposed the august assEmbly. If, on the other hand, the termination should not be so auspicious as the oyeaing, the blame will rest with those who have introduced useless changes, and presented needless opposition, to the plans for ameliorating the condition of a time-honoured nation, that has long waited for the dawn of a brighter day of free dom than she at present enjoys. CARLYLE'S FATHER AND CARLYLE'S SADNESS An American periodical has lately published from the report of a blind interlocutor a conversation of Mr. Carlyle's,in which he paints with his usual force and quaint ness of style the portrait of his father, and deplores the one error that that sagacious man committed in giving his son what is now called a good education I—" I think," said Carlyle, "of all the men I have ever known my father was quite the remarkablcst. Quito a farmer sort of a person, using vigilant thrift and careful husbandry; abiding by veracity and faith, and with an extraordinary insight into the very heart of things and men. . .He was an elder of the kirk ; and it was very pleasant to see him in his daily and weekly relations with the minister of the parish. They had been friends from their youth, and had grown up together in the service of their common Master. That parish minister was the first person that taught me Latin ; and I am not bure but that he laid a great curse upon me in so doing. All I sir, this learning of reading and writing —what trouble and suffering it entails upon us poor human creatures I He that increaseth in knowledge increaseth sorrow ; and much study is a weariness to the flesh I—l am not sure but that we should all be the happier and better, too, without what is called the improvements of the modern ages I For mine own part, I think it likely that I should have been a wiser man, and certainly a godlier, if I had fol lowed in my father's steps, and left Latin and Greek to the fools that wanted thin'. LA NOURRICs !—After the nurse has had her parting weep over her disappearing progeniture, she is summoned to the bedroom to offer a first repast to lienriette or Gaston. The details of the operation are nut ordinarily publishable, nor are they indispensable to the subject—they may therefore be passed over in mute discre tion. But, at whatever cost to nervous ears, something must be said about another scene which produces itself soon afterwattlS, and which is too essentially inherent to the question to be left in silence. A nurse, like everybody else, must go to bed, and as In Prance she generally sleeps lit her mistress's tuotn, it is under her ecrutative eye that she innocently undresses. The outer contrast between the coarse clothes and awkward ways of the peasant nurse and the pretty interior of a Paris apartment is always rather a shock to the feminine proprietor of the latter, but the sen timent so created in het Mind is cart led to utter disgust by the process of going to bed, which forcedly brings out the personal peculiarities of her new domestic. ft is a fact worth the attention of sit-called students of living colour that cer tain liotlions of an arriving nurse invariably present a tint which, though it is evidently a consequence of perennial unwashfulness, is difficult to accept as a credible condition of the human pellicle. A pair of naked Burgundy feet, fresh from their native vine slopes, present to the asto• nished eyes of the Parisian spectator a shiny metallic mottled dark gr e y— t h ey look exactly as i f t h ey were oxy fised. This curious hue, which is supposed in France to be a special personal attribute of the wet-nurse, intended iw c n a hg p i ca d hn i s d t t i ch n re g t by nature to distinguish her from her fellows, just as her rldloiesrsa.chler. gardients, disappears the next morn stvrilenlenv‘hvoman is remorselessly plunged influence of the inevitable bath, into single instant, all tracesinosf uh t : ea r thh o cer thus pre vi wantonly a u s filth. F ram , in thata by her ruthless mistress, friscmanaignacworrkyigvibilllsagberulateut transformsintore apprenticeship, of success, heraN b v h l ch , un less smart, moment the nurse be., y mon shet intelligent hs naturesu eces s t , o the he process is laborious—not only is her physical thoroughly changed, but, which is more difficult still, her language and habits must alter too.—Bentley's .1114cellany, for September. ONE REASON FOR FORSAKING ATIIEISM.—Mr. J. B. Bebbington, an Atheistic lect urer, and late editor j ej u 'i g c:i hisjittti' has embraced Ch r i st i an i ty. In a u s fur the change, he e l a t e d t h at in t h ct e tur of the ei lit ember last he went on a lecturing ex - The first place at which he held forth ex pedition to Scotland. was ' Glasgow. There he aiw the churches all crowded on i lecture, of Sundays, and even on week days when there was service in them, and it struck him as strange th at he, as the a p ostle was obliged to hide his h ead in a entail room nut capable of contaittinte more than 100 people, in a back of infidelity, street, and even there had but a thin attendance. From Glasgow he went to Greenock, and there the case was worse. All the infidels he could muster were some half-dozen working men. lie could not get a printer to print his bills announcing his meetings, nor a Lill-poster to paste them up. They were accordingly printed at Paisley, 12 miles off, hut they were of little use, for no one came to hear his lectures, and he began seriously to reflect that playing the infidel prophet was something very like playing the fool. On coming beck to England these reflections took a prac tical effect, and after touch consideration God revealed him self to Lim, and be saw the errors of the course he had been pursuing• lie warned young men who, like hitusell,might be led away by the statements of infidel writers, to weigh , await well before they embraced them, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) TEE FRANKFORT CONGRESS. FRANKFORT, SEPT. 2. Luxemburg has joined Baden, Saxe-Weimar, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Waldeck in declining to accede to the resolutions, Their votes will be referred to the committee. The younger branch of the House of Reuss also refuses to accede to the reform plan, but will sign the letter to Prussia communicating the result of the Conferences, No Nlinisteiial conferences will take place un counter propositions may have been received. The privilege of Austria to preside at the Dime torate has been agreed to by a majority of the Congress. BAVARIA. MUNICH, SEPT. 2. The Archduchess Sophia of Austria, mother of the Emperor of Austria, has passed through this city on her way to Carlsruhe and Baden-Baden. At the latter place her Imperial Highness will have an interview with the Queen of Prussia. SPAIN, MADRID, SEPT. 2. The Correspondencia Autografa of to-day says that in th e conference at L a G ran j a, G enera l P r i m inform e d t h e Queen that t h e c i rcu l ar o f t h e 20th nit. had Paralysed the, labours of the electors. The Progres s i s ta s f elt insulted b y the motives and con ditions imposed upon their meeting. He feared that their abstinence from voting would be the first serious consequence. The ministry should either modify it& pretensions or resign. The Progres sistas would never place themselves in the position of revolutionists. The Queen repliel that as a constitutional sove reign she could not, in the absence of the Chambers, entertain a different opinion to that of the Ministry, whose services had Merited the Royal confidence. Her Majesty hoped that all would be amicably ar ranged by the period of her return to Madrid. THE POLISH INSURRECTION. POSEN, AUG. 30. The following event will prove how far the Prus sian Government has gone iu repressing the present state of things in Russian Poland. Some time ago a number o f P o li sh ladies presented a pet i t i on to the prin c ip a l authority in the province o f P osen , to be p erm i tte d to establish hospitals for the wounded P o l es near the Prussian f ron ti er . The required permission was given from motives of humanity. It has now, however, been withdrawn, and the troops confiscate all consignments of beds, lint, &c., intended for wounded insurgents. According to information from an authentic source, the foll ow i ng is the tex t of the speech ad dressed by the Emperor o f Russia to the officers of the last contin gent of troops sen t into Poland Go and serv e me well ; d o not betray me, or I will dismiss you all and promute the soldiers that you see behind you in your places." This public insult was offered to the officers in presence of all the soldiers. PRANCE. BOURSE, Sept. I.—The upward movement which marked the close of business yesterday has con tinued, and stock has been again in demand at a further advance, Threes, for the Account, being new quoted at 68F. 70 c . The Railway Share Market has been similarly acted on, and quotations are generally higher. The market closed as fol lows :- Dito.peerndCennitosn.ih 07 40 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 75 Credit Mobilier 1195 Do. end month 1195 Bmk Shares 3385 Credit i oncier 1325 Italian Loan 73 GO Do. end month 73 85 Near ditto Do. end month 73 80 Russian .. Austrian Spanish Threes 53 Home Debt lam 'AYB. Cash. Account. Orleans .... 1030 .. 1035 —. Northern .......... 1000 —.. 997 50 New ditto ............ :• .. -- 5 Lyons and Meditca ra nean 104 .. 1042 60 G eneva .... 493 75 .. 493 7,5 Southern ........ 730 .. ._ Wesiern .............. 631 25 .. 530 Eastern Sardinian .............. 422 50 .. 418 75 Austrian Lorphqrd North of Spain ........ 560 .. 565 —_ Saragossa .............. 680 .. 685 Ditto to Barcelona .• • • 36 0 • • 357 50 RUSSIA. La France publishes the following respecting th e project of Constitution for Russia, under date of Moscow, 23d August :-- si According to the proposed plan the part of the Empire that would enjoy special Constitutions, would be nine in number, vii. : " The Grand Duchy of Finland, the Provincial Assembly of which would be held at Helsingfors. "Baltic-Russia, comprising the Government of St. Petersburg, properly called, Esthonia, Livonia, and Cour land, the Provincial Assembly of which would have its seat at St. Petersburg. " Great Russia, whose Provincial Assembly would meet at Mv.cow. "Little Russia, with a Provincial Assembly at Kiew. "Southern Russia, with a Provincial Assembly at Odessa. w estern R wa i a , with a Provincial Assembly at Wilna. "The Kingdom of Poland, with a Diet which would be held at Warsaw. "Eastern Russia, with a Provincial Assembly at Kazan. "Finally, Siberia and the adjacent provinces, with a Provincial Assembly at Irkoutsk. "As regards the provinces of the Caucasian region and of American Russia, their organisation will be ulteriorly considered. The particular institutions for Poland will, it is said, be very extended. Should the Poles decline to send deputies to the Chamber of the Representatives of the Em pice, their scruples would be respected, and the special Government of Poland would function under the sole direc tion of the Diet of Warsaw, towards which the lieutenant of the Emperor would fill the constitutional mission of head of the executive power." SWEDEN. Advices from Stockholm announce that the volunteer system, on the model of that in England, is to be introduced into S weden. The object is, the defence of the national territory, under the hypo thesis of the Swedish forces being employed abroad. The eventualities of the Danish question are said to have influenced the Government at Stockholm iu this matter. DESTRUCTION OF HERNE'S OAK,—The shattered trunk of Herne's Oak was blown down on Monday morning last. A portion of this celebrated tree fell from the trunk upwards of 20 years ago, and has been carefully preserved in the royal stores at Windsor Castle. Since then this fatuous tree has been fenced in with park pales, and a plate attached to it, upon which is engraved : There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Sometimes a keeper hire in Windsor Forest, Loth: all the wittier tone, at still midnight, Welit roundabout au oak.----" Merry Wives of Windsor." Shakapere when he wrote the " Merry Wives of Wind sor" is said to !lava lodged at the liege Inn, Frogruore, at that time known as "The Bottle on the Moore ;" this inn was about 200 yards distant from the tree. Horne is said . to have been one of the forest keepers in the early psrt of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and having committed some offence that would haw' occasioned his dismissal from office, he formed the d esperate reso l u ti on t o hang himself upon this tree. Its id ent i ty as " H erne ' s O a k" has been disputed by many wr it ers, b ut in a plan of the Castle and town of Windsor, publishedat Eton in 1 7 12, the position of the oak is clearly d e fi ne d and mar k e d as Falstaff's oak. The fairies' dell has been partially filled up, but the late Prince Consort had much of the earth removed, when large oaks, in an upright position, w ere disc)vered at the bottom of this dell; which, no doubt, w ill n ow be put into its ori ginal state to perpetuate th e scene of Falstaff's distress and the pranks of the "Merry Wives of Windsor." TELL, LITERARY limEs, after tiegrly half a year's existence as a penny periodical, finds that its price will tot do ; and, therefore, enlarging its s ize from twelve pages to s ixteen, it is to be published heue:forth at twopence, AMERICA. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) (Per the Bohemian.) NEW YORK, August 21 (Evening). The Tribune asserts that, according to informa tion received from Richmond, General Lee will oar General Meade battle before September, and that if Meade refuse, Lee will invade Maryland, select a battle ground, and await the Union army, his aim not being to carry operations northward but to take Washington. General Lee is organising a reserve force of 40,000 men to be stationed at Win chester, or another point in the Shenandoah Valley. This force ;s intended for some particular purpose, and will be commanded by General Longstreet. It is semi officially announced that the Govern ment is confident of the reduction of Fort Sumter, after a few hours' bombardment. But this would not terminate the siege, as there is desperate work and fighting to be done afterwards which may re quire a considerable time. Official circles put but little faith in the antici pation of immediate triumph, but entertain no doubt of ultimate success. Mr. Davidson, a member of the North Carolina Legislature, has written a letter to the _Raleigh Standard saying he believes four-fifths of the people of North Carolina demand peace upon any terms which will not enslave and degrade them. They may prefer Southern independence, but that they now believe cannot be obtained, nor do they see much future hope of it. They would compromise, upon GA amendment to the continuation and per petuation of slavery in the States. He urges the people to elect members to the next Southern Congress who favour a six months' armis tice, and submission of disputed matters to a con vention of delegates from the Northern and Southern States, elected by the people themselves. _ . The District Court has ordered an appraisement of the Peterhoff, in order that if the Government decides upon purchasing her at prize value she shall be delivered to the Government. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money easy ; gold, 251 premium ; exchange, !XVI New York Central, 130&; Illinois, 1241 Erie, 119. NEW YORK, Aug. 22 (Evening). The lachmond Whig contains Charleston, news to the 20th inst., stating that during the last 24 hours the Federal operations were confined to a steady and continuous bombardment of Fort Sum ter from guns on Morris Island. The Federal 200-pounder Parrot-guns are too much for the walls of Fort Suinter, and their firing begins to tell upon the fort, which only replies at long inter vals. The defence of the harbour, however, does not depend mainly upon Sumter. If that fort be battered down, says the Richmond Whig, the har bour may still ho held. It is determined to defend the city street by street, house by house, as long as as a foot of earth is left. The Governor has urged all non - combatants to leave Charleston as soon as possible. General Lee is still upon the Rapidan and Rap pahannock, where it is expected engagements will take place. General Meade is preparing to receive Lee's anticipated attacks. Rumours are current that Lee's movement to wards Fredericksburg was a feint, and that he is going towards Richmond via Gordonsville. Eight hundred guerillas, under Quantrell, have crossed the Missouri River, captured Lawrence, Kansas, burning and destroying property to the estimated value of 2,000,000 dole. Senator Lane is supposed to have been captured. The Federal troops have started in pursuit of the guerillas. Military affairs are active in Mississippi. General Burnside is moving towards Knoxville, and General Rosecranz towards Chattanooga. President Lincoln has promised to attend a Union mass meeting at Springfield, Illinois, on the 3d September. If unable to be present, he will address the people by letter. The New York Herald urges President Lincoln to send strong columns frum General Grant's and Banks' armies through Texas to Rio Grende, oppo site MatamoraF, in order to counteract any coalition between the Emperor Napoleon and the South, or any attempt of Napoleon to annex Texas to Mexico. General Maury has issued an order at Mobile that persons domiciled there are subject to the con scription, even though they have taken the oath as aliens. The New York Times contains an article attack ing England and lauding Russia. It says :—" We are bewildered at England's treachery, which has subsided into a fired, unchangeable policy. There can Zee no oblivion of the past. Henceforth America will recognise no tie to England." The New York Times accepts these new relations, and says —" It will go hard with America but England shall have enough of these relations before America has finished." The draft continues in New York without any disturbance. Mayor Opdyke has called a meeting of the common council to act upon the amendments ho has to propose to the municipal appropriation for drafted men. (Later by Telegraph to Father Point.) NEW YORK, August 22 (Evening). A report has been received from Philadelphia that Fort Sumter is captured and that the Federal gun boats have passed that fort. The Federal Govern ment has received no such intelligence, and little credence is given to it. Troops continue to arrive at New York to pre serve order during the draft. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Gold, 24 per cent. premium. Stocks dull. Net. York Central, 131 . Erie, 1191. Cotton quiet. Middling Upland, 671 c. Wheat and flour dull. Corn very firm. Provisions and coffee in good in Sugar, molasses, and petroleum firm. iquiry, A treaty of amity, andcommerce,United Kingdom nanavigation,.was yesterday concl uded betwentlie o fLiberia, by theirngdom Sweden and Norw a y and the Republic respective plenipotentiaries, the Count Wachtmeister and Mr. Gerard Ralston. THE FOETIICOMING VISIT OF THE BRITISH ' ARCILSOLOGICAL SOCIETY TO LEEDS.—The annual meeting of this society is to be held in Leeds during October. It will b e under very influen tial p atrona g e, the p r esident being the newly. created Lord Houghton. Among th e papers to be read will be one on the Early History of Leeds,by Mr. Wright ; an Account of Anglo-S axon J ewe llery and other Antiquities discovered by L or d Londesborough in Seamer Lime Quarry, near Scar. borough, Mr. Wright; on the Badges of the House of York, Mr. J. R. Planche ; on Ripon Cathedral, Mr. C. E. Davis ; on Fountains Abbey, and on Spofforth Castle and Church, Mr. Gordon M. Hills; on Kirkstall Abbey and on Adel Church, Mr. Edward Roberts ; on the Wakefield Chapel on the Bridge, Mr. F. R. Wilson ; on unpublished MSS. relating to Meaux Abbey, Mr. E. Levien ; on the Weapons of Ancient Yorkshire, Mr. H. I'. earning; o n Historical Autographs, Mr. P. O'Callaghan ; on Crom lechs, Rev. W. C. Lukis ; on Harewood Castle and Church, Mr. J. Jones; and on various other interesting antiquarian topics. The excursions include the following visits;—To Ripon and Fountains ; to Adel Church, Farnley Ilkley, and the Runic Crosses ; to Harewood Church and Castle ; to Wakefield Church and the Chapel on the Bridge; . Pontefract Castle an d Ch urch; to Borough bridge and Aldborough ; to Kirkstall Abbey and Halifax; a nd to York Cathedral and the Museum of that city. A DELICATE QUESTION.--A curious case of breach of contract—which, however, included a libel—has just been decided i n Paris. Mademoiselle S pro c : eded against the director of one of the Paris theatres for certain moneys due to her for an engagement a. se cond danscuse. The defendant pleaded "never indebted ;" and, as a rider to the plea, stated that " the calves of Made moiselle's legs were too big for a danseuse." The following letter was put in by the counsel for the prosecution and formed the ground of the action :—" My dear Mademoi selle,—You surely are not Serioll3 in proposing to appear as second chnsease ? Your physical fortnation,otherwise charm ing, is totally opposed to such a career. You may consider your engagement cancelled and yourself free. We have now but to regret a rehearsal which Las produced such negative results,—Agree, Mademoiselle, to believe the respect with which, See' Oa the part of the plaintiff it was argued that she had made no secret of her legs, which were such as a liberal nature had given to her; that they were, in fact, the stock-in-trade of 9. dancer ; that objection had been taken by other directors to denseuses •` sans make," and finally, that the :state of the case was known to the defendant when he made the contract. The defen dant offered to refer the matter eo an " expert," and named the ballet-moister of the Imp erial Academy as his referee, bat the Court held that stro , ag legs were no breach I of contract, and gave a verdict withccste for the plaintiff, LITERATURE. Veronia. Three vols. Hurst and Bischoff. If " Veronia" be the first work of its author, we are inclined to augur well for his future career. It evinces great powers of thought, and a very con siderable ability in their development. The cha racters are not crowded on the c tnvass, but they are drawn with very great discrimination. Veronia de Medul, the heroine, is the fair and haughty daughter of a ruined patrician. We first discover her in a poor and lonely habitation, working to support a dying mother—dying for want of that succour for which Veronia is too proud to ask. The painful death of the mother produces a sad and thrilling effect; it is portrayed with tragic power. The severe lessons of affliction produce their effect upon Veronia. At first her pride of birth is almost amusing iu its arrogance, so Van Helder finds it. Van Helder is the kind, cordial friend who tries, but for long in vain, to bring comfort to the isolated and unhappy ladies, while, as a doctor, he is attending the sick bed of Madame do Medul. At one time, while a friendly but most animated discussion about patricians and plebians, the rights of birth, and the pride of rank is going on, Veronia naively exclaims, with a half complimentary insolence, "I always forget you are not a gentle man !" Few gentlemen are more deserving of the name than is the worthy Dr. Van Helder, decidedly the character of the book, a most original and most graphic portraiture. Van Helder, notwithstanding his inquiring and incredulous temperament, is the bosom friend and constant companion of the vener able Cure of St. Andrews, of which parish he is himself the doctor. He is also the constant subject of the indignant animadversions of Godensca, the Cure's housekeeper. The mutual war of words which almost continuously prevails between this well-matched pair of originals is very entertaining. Godensca's bitter tongue is, however, as is often the case, no criterion of the disposition of her heart towards the doctor. Jacqces Henricart, the Man of the People, and Adrian de Boisvant 6, the treacher ous lover, are a well•contrasted pair. M. Bouchard is also happily sketched, but his daughter's picture is somewhat overdrawn. Even the assistance which she gives to her father's law business (acting, in fact, as chief clerk) cannot quite account for all her disagreeable qualities Miss Sally Brass becomes an attractive companion when compared with Mademoiselle Justine Bouchard ! The Vicar's two sisters, Beth and Ana (the scene is laid in North Flanders) are simple, homely maidens, kept very much in the background, while the fascinating and dangerous Herminie de Mont Brison, and the devout and treacherous Madame de St. Barthelemy take, as becomes them, a very prominent position. The last volume is the most interesting of the three, and until the very end the reader is quite ignorant as to what may be Veronia's fate. The episode of Carl Dopter and his little wife Gretchen, perishing of fatigue and want in the Canon gate of Edinburgh, is quite unnecessary to the story, and might have been omitted. Again the author commits a serious error when, in the middle of the third volume, he enters into an explanatory discourse with his readers on the peculiarities of novel-writing and novels, his own among the number. Such a proceeding is destruc tive of all illusion. The reader is to believe the story true, or it is worthless. Such aside conversations with the audience have become a fashion with our novel writers nowadays, introduced, we sus pect, by the roundabout confessions which Mr. Thackeray delights to bestow upon his readers. The example, however agreeable in his instance, is dangerous, and would be well avoided. We the more readily mention these exceptioaable parti culars because we consider " Veronia" to be the production of one who is fitted to take high rank among the novelists of the day. Left to Themselves, By Mrs. Gordon Smythies, author of " Cousin Geoffrey," &c. Three vole. Hurst and Biackett. Mrs. Gordon Smythies has taken for the heroes of her new novel two little friendless, helpless, neglected boys, "left to themselves" in the wide wilderness of London. The moral of her story is to enforce the truth that ail that is essential to success in life comes not from without but from within. Honesty and truthfulness, energy and per severance, faith and patience, are better than any gifts of friends or fortune which take to them selves wings and flee away when most required. With the history of these little "city Arabs" as her theme, Mrs. Smythies presents to us many of the varying phases of London life, its trials and temp tations, its privations and its penalties. A bed at night in the Adelphi Arches and a halfpenny cup of coffee for breakfast are at fist the only sorry comforts within the reach of poor Harry and Sim Hszeldean. Very graphically and very forcibly does Mrs. Smythies " point the moral," while hhe pleasantly and skilfully "adorns the tale"—the les sons conveyed in the apposite histories of the two brides, Mercy Mayflower and Blanche Melville, are full of warning to fair maidens of high and low degree who " love not wisely, but too well." Th e admonitions about temperance which are inciden tally, and not obtrusively introduced, would endear the volumes to the heart of George Crnikshank, and will, we doubt not, wia for the fair authoress golden opinions from many readers, We congratulate Mrs. Smythies on this new work, which is a fresh evidence of her kindness of heart, and her anxiety to devote her abilities to the true cause of the people, namely, their social regeneration and im provement. We are somewhat disappointed to find at the end of the tale that the two devoted com panions in many trials, Harry and Sim, are not brothers, but cousins. We sympathise with the dismay of poor Harry, who has watched with an elder brother's affection over Sim, when he finds him removed to a morn distant relationship, and the change is not really necessary to the development of the story. The romantic affection of Lena Linley, and the life-long devotion of Little Prim rose, are mysteries that we shall not touch upon, but leave for the personal discovery of the reader. Victor Hugo's Social Plailosophy, It is a question which thinkers are continually striving to settle; the treatment of the criminal adjusted, not solely to the moral guilt involved in the crime, but to his temptations, influences, sur roundings, and organisation. Has M. Hugo helped as out of this difficulty ? Has he reconciled the crime of necessity (as it is called) with individual responsibility ? Has he at all aided us in explain ing the doctrine of self-preservation with that of the safety of society ? Has he settled that much vexed theory of cerebral formation with man's amenability to law ? Has he thrown any fresh light upon the administration of justice ? Has he at all assisted us in realising S:sakspere's prayer, a wise union of mercy with justice? - We confess that he has not, Sadly, too, we confess it; for while "Les Miserables" is unsatisfactory, and a failure as a book of philosophy, it is, nevertheless, a masterly novel. We acknowledge the immense power and brilliant genius of the romance; but the weakness of the philosophic theory, and the one sidedness of the moral, are lamentable. Every artist admires the absolutely perfect portrait of Val jean; but no sound statesman would guarantee the cessation of robbery by presenting thu thief who stole our bedsteads with the bed also. We are all delighted with the generous, merciful I3ishup : but no wise lawgiver would decree that charity tu r tle culprit should be entirely substituted for lave. -the individual members, of society upon each of its members, argues that such indulgence, instead of being right, and an effective preventative of crime, would be manifest injustice, and productive of evil. Considering the present state of human nature, w e are sceptical of any good that M. Hugo think s would result from the adoption of his social phil o . sophy,—Socral Science Review, ,No. l ust published. The Attorney•Goneral has appointed Sergeant Kinglake senior conned for the Post-office ou the western circuit, in lieu cf the late Sir F. Slade. The rumour whieli had obtained curr.3ney relative to the retircumit of Mr. Kingiake crow the western circuit io con . ra - dieted by that geatleinan, lirt tirnlbr. 44. Foreign Courts. PARIS, August 31. Prince Napoleon has again left Paris for Havre, accompanied by the Princess Clotilda. Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clotilda, the 2lioniteur de la Flotte states, are shortly to proceed to Lisbon in their yacht the Jerome Napoleon. Prince Labaneff, the Russian Ambassador a t Constantinople, who is now on leave of absence from his post, has arrived in Paris. The Chevalier Nigra, Italian Minister, is pre paring to quit Paris on leave of absence, for the recovery of his health. "We regret to announce," says the Memorial Diplomatique, "that the state of the King of Spain causes serious uneasiness. The strength of the august patient after he had undergone a very painful operation has sensibly diminished, a symptom the more alarming, that his Majesty's constitution has never been robust." BRUSSELS, August 31. Prince Amadeus of Italy arrived in Brussels on Sunday from Copenhagen. His royal highness was accompanied by Count Montalto, by the Por tuguese Minister, and other high officials. The prince will proceed to Ostend on a visit to the Belgian royal family. He travels incognito under the title of Count de Pallanza. The Prince and Princess de Joinville, the Duke and Duchess de Chartres, with a numerous suite, have arrived in Brussels from Ostend. The Duke and Duchess di Fiano have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Brussels. The Duke of Marlborough has returned to Blen heim Palace, near Woodstock, from a c , uise in his yacht. The Earl and Countess Fortescue are passing the season at Castle Hill, Devon, with their family. It is un derstood that the noble earl and countess purpose again to pass the winter abroad. The Countess (Frances) Waldegrave and Mr. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., are expected to arrive in town at the close of the week from the countess's seat in Somer setshire, and will then leave for Dudbrook, Essex, Lord Blantyre, who has been on a visit to the Duchess (Dow.) of Sutherland, at Stafford House, St. James's, left yesterday for Erskine House, Renfrewahire, N.B. Lord John Hay has left town for Strathfieldsaye, Hunts, on a visit to the Duchess of Wellington. The Chancellor of the Exchequer hab arrived at Pen-maen-maur, Conway, from Hawarden Castle. The Right Hun. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., arrived at his residence in Whitehall-gardens, yesterday, from Switzerland. MISS BRADDON, whose "Lady Audley's Secret " and " Aurora Floyd" everybody knows, has just addressed a characteristic note to a French writer who asked for some particulars of her life : " Story I Lord bless youl " she writes, "I have none to tell, sir I I have not, like Aurora Floyd . . . nor like Lady Audley . . • although some of our critics on this side of the Channel have declared that I would never have been capable of speaking of . . . and of . . . unless I had previously been familiar with the way in which such crimes are committed. I began my literary career with a little comedy entitled. ' The Loves of Arcadia,' which was played at the Strand Theatre in 1860; next I wrote a volume of poems in 1861. This comedy and this volume of poetry were followed firstly, by the Trail of the Serpent;' 2dly, 'Lady Lisle ; ' third, ' The Captain of the Vulture ; ' fourth, Ralph the Bailiff;' fifth, Lady Audley's Secret ; ' sixth, Aurora Floyd ; ' all of which made their first appearance in peri odicals. Besides these novels, I have at the same time edited a monthly review and a weekly review, and I wrote anonymously a great many articles for the latter. lam writing now, as you know, ' John Marchmont's Legacy,' and Eleanor's Victory,' The former is publised in Temple Bar, the latter in Once a If eek. In enumerating the titles of my books, I have given you the history of my life, at least to the present date." THE LIBRARIES OF CONSTANTINOFLE.-It 15 perhaps not generally known that the capital of Turkey possesses a large number of public libraries, a general catalogue of which is now being made. According to an es , imate which is considered reliable, the total num ber of manuscripts thus catalogued will exceed a million. Unfortunately, however, many of these MSS. have been so damaged by lying in hears in damp cellars or worm•eaten chests, as to be partially, and in some cases entirely illegible. It is also to be regetted that, until now, none of the trea sures of the early periods of Byzantine literature, which in was hoped would be brought to light, have been found. It has, on the contrary, been proved that all the works of those times which are known to have existed have been ruthlessly destroyed. The remaining works are consequently chiefly in Arabic, or in other Semitic languages; but they form, ors the other hand, the richest collection of Oriental literature in existence. Ahmet-Vafiek -Effendi Subhi-Bey and other Turkish men of letters have proposed that this inestimable mass of literary treasures be collected in one building, so as to render it accessible to students engaged in historical researches, and there is every reason to believe that this proposal will be adopted, notwithstanding the opposition f t hat hitherto met with. The first step towards the forma tion of an imperial library has already been taken by placing 40,000 volumes of good works, in various European lan guages, and which belonged toil- Hami-Pasha, in the Dar al-Fanoon, the bulling of the University. Orders have been given to increase this collection considerably, so as to create a tolerably complete library for consultation, to which the public will be freely admitted. Adding to such a col- lection the MS. already mentioned, Constantinople would be superior to any capital in a literary point of view, upe— cially if by some lucky chance the plays of Menander, or the lost books of Livy, or the remaining tragedies of .schylus, were suddenly brought to light from amidst the parchments now being so carefully examined.—Critic. APPARITION OF THE LIVING.—Aod now for an apparition which had a definite and distinct pur pose. A solicitor, resident in the Isle of Wight, had buei ness at Southampton. He stayed at one of those hotels for which the town of mail steamers is famous, and, after dinner, he was looking over his law papers while he sipped his port. He was aroused from his foolscap and red tape by the opening of a door ; h i s w if e (whom he had left at home in the Isle of Wight) entered, gazed at him steadfastly, and passed out through the opposite door. He naturally thought that it was a hallucination, and re sumed his reading, with a wondering smile at his own weakness. But, within a quarter of an hour, the very same thing occurred again; and there was on the counte nance of the spectre an imploring look which ter rified him. lie at once resolved to return home; with some difficulty got a boatman to take him across ; and when ho reached his house, was struck by the ghastly arid alarmed look of the maid servant who opened the door. This woman was so frightened by his unexpected return,. that she spontaneously confessed her intention to murder her mistress, and her confession was confirmed by the fact she had concealed a carving-knife under her pillow, 'lbis is a very perplexing case for those whu think spectral phenomena can be philo sophically explained. Here you have the phantom o f. a living person projected. entirely without that person's consciousness. Let it be assumed that a person in extreme peril can, by intense volition, act on the nervous system of the universe, so as to influence his dearest friend : but here the person whose likeness appeared was entirely devoid of apprehension, while the servant, who alone knew what was likely to happen, would naturally exert no volition towards revealing it.—The Dublin University for ;September. EXPLOSION OF THE MONROE DOCTRINE.—The Emperor of the French, by the establishment of a monarchy in Mexico which will be in alliance with the Southern States and the British possessions in North America, extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the United States to the Pole, the germ of a mighty monarchy—proves the nonsense of the Monroe doctrine. In British America there is a population of whites nearly as numerous as in the Confederate States, backed by the greatest naval power in the world, with a coast which the Federals can never blockade, so that if they only be true to themselves, they need not fear Mr. Seward's cry of " On to Canada." England can man the fortresses and supply them wiih artw, ammunition, and fillips, but for the defence , of their cou n t ry t h ey roust rely on their own resources-- their volunteers and militia. Our Government should COE that a sufficient supply of artillery and stores will be sent out, with a dozen or two of our idle gunboats, which can lie in the Ottowa, the St. Charles, under the citadel of Quebec, and Halifax, ready on the first open water to enter the lakes —the canals passing vessels 140 feet long, and 26 wide, with a draught of 91 feet—and this should be done bolero winter sets in. Let the Canadians then remember Cromwell's address—" Put your trust in God, and keep your powder dry." As to a threat 01 war, if steamers are permitted to leave our shores, it is " Buneomb"—a v e x et preterea nihil." Let England no longer be troubled, bu t act as she did in the Trent affair and there will be no war, but let her yield in dishonour, and we drift into war.- (From a Corresponcleut,) A MONUMENT TO SHARsrERE AT OUR ANTI PODES !—Our Australian cousins—at least those of Nei bourne —are, we learn, preparing to do honour to the memory of Shalispero. The Age, of that city, says—"Th ° clay model of a colossal statue of Shakspere has been ex-c" cuted by Mr. Charles Summers. It is proposed to erect the statue, in bronze, in front of the public library.''