The Sun. — London, England, 1864-02-11 00:00:00

COALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COAL 4. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. 265. per ton. I Double.. 21s. per ton. Top 2.5 a. „ Nut 5........ l9s. ~ Deep 22s• Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W. Best Core Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. :AA BONNET'S SIL LYON.—Every Article of commerce takes its title either from the inventor or Tianntacturer, and the t more perfect the production the grater is the credit which attaches to the originator. BONNET'S SILKS are said to be incapable of identifica tion in Englandfallacy of such an assertion is ex pos dby the very trade mark of the firm, as exhibited by Messrs. J AY, of Regent-street. ',"he following intern 'oven mark may be seen at the end ofe_ach piece :—" Mani& retire de C. J. Bonnet et Cie., k Lyon eta Inj urieux." Wear guaranteed. la - ER MAJE STY'S , THEATRE, JAL Nights of Perform: mce—Tuesdays, Thursdays, and , aturdays. EVENLNG,TI lURSDAY, FEBRUARY 117 — FAUST, (In English). Lemmens-Sherrington„ Taman', and Florence Lancia. Santiey, Marchesi, Dussek, and Sims Reeves. Conduct of —Signor Arditi. Conn nence at Eizht. Box-office of the Theatre open daily. Tickets, also, at Messrs. Chappell andCo.'s, 50, New Bond ,' tree t. TER MAJESTY'S THEATRE TER GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE OF FAUST (In English). MONDAY next, FEBRUARY 15. To commence at Two o'clock. LeMltterlS-Sherrington, Tacoma, and Florence Lancia. Santley, Marches', Dussek, and Sims Reeves. Conductor—Signor Arditi. Prices of admission same as to the Evening Performance. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING (first time' a new Opera, founded on 6 oldsmith's Comedy, and to be called SIT .4; STOOPS TO CON(II.3] Miss Louisa Pyne and M. W. Harrison. After vvhich, the Burlesque Opening of the Grand National Pantomime, HA.RL,T,QUIN ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Doors; open at half -past Six—Commence at Seven. TFIEA'rRE ROYAL DR U R Y-L AN E. Managers, Messrs. Edmond Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS 14„:"" TUNING, the Performances will commence with the New Se rio-Comic Drama, by Edmund Falconer, entitled li GaT ,tYD MORN. Principal characters by Mr. Phelps, supported by Messrs. Ryder, Raynor, Ft zjames, and Misses g. Leclercq, .Atsinson, and Heath. To conclude with the new Grand Christmas Comic Panto mime of SINBAD THE SAILOR ; or, The Seven Wonders of thy: Wo :dd. Clowns, Messrs. 11. Boleno and C. Lauri; Barlequins„ Ilessrs. J. Cormack and S. Saville ; Pantaloons, Messrs. W A. Barnes and J. morris ; Columbines, Madame Boleno and Misses Gunniss. Prices as naual. Box Office open from 10 till 5 daily. ROY LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. BEL D EMONIO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated Every Ilvt ning during the Week. • - THIS E VENING, the performance will commence with a New and Original Farce, entitled THE LOST CHILD: ilesrs. IL. Widdicombe, Shore, Garden, F. Charles Collett, Avreland; Misses Percy, Pauline Leclercq, Wood, Mrs. Lee, and Miss I Lavenu. A Ater which, at Eight o'clock, BEL DESIONIO, a Love Stor in Twelve Tableaux, taken from Stendhal's Italian Chronicle , ," by Mr. John Brougeam. Principal charac ter by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles, Broughsm, Emery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford, Simi I ; Miss Kate Terry, Miss E. Lavenu, Airs. Lee, and niss El. iworthy. The Public: are entreated to take notice that No Charge is nade to the occupants of Boxes, Box-places, or Stalls, either to: play bills or for the safe keeping of hat' and cloaks, and that the atte admits in all parts of the house are forbidden to receive any , gratuities whatever. Box-offs ;...c open daily from 11 to 5. Commence at 7. THEAI'RE ROYAL HAYMARKET.- So;le Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, LITTLE DAISY. Followed by SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. After which, KING ARTHUR ; or 'the Days and Knights of the Round Table. Messrs. Chipnendale, Compton, Braid, Clark, Rogers, Tilbury, &c. ; Mesdames L. Keeley, Brough, Wright, Terry, Lindley, Rogers, &c. Commence at 7. ROYAI PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Saie Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, DONNA DIANA. ----- After which, HARLEQUIN LITTLE TOM TTTCKER; or The Fine Lady of Banbury Cross, and the (Ad Woman who Lived in a Shoe and Had BO Many Children she didn't know what to do. NEW THE ATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE PRETTY HORSEBIIEAKE R. Miss Woolga r. et to Eight, the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bate inan, suppomed by Messrs. Arthur Stirling, R. Phillips, Bil lngton, Stuart, Stephenson, Lburne ; Miss H. Simms, and Mrs. Billing-ton. To conclude with LADY BELLE BELLE; or, Fortnnio and his Seven. Magi Men. Messrs. J. Clarke, It. Phillips, Stephenson ; Miss Woolgar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss L. Laidlaw, Miss Seaman. Commence at 7. LEA. H.-EVERY MISS BATEMAN. NIGHT. ISS BA'S'EMAN'.—LEAH.—THIS EVENING. the llath appearance of the p;reatTratric Actress, Miss ISA rEMAN. in the character of L14.;A11. In consequence of the unbounded EC uccess with which Miss Bateman's imperso nation of the prii.cipai character in the new Five Act Drama of LEAH has been attemied. Mr grebstei. beg.s to announce that it will be performed EVERY EVENING until further notice. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. tinder the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Cro A ded with rank and fashion. The New Comedy of THE SILVER LINING every Evening.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Stirling, sirs. Frank Matthews, and Mr. J. L. Toole every evening. The following eminent artistes are engaged :—Mr. Benjamin Webster. Mr.. 7. L. Toile, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Frederic Robinson, Mr. Ashley, and Mr. Chas. Mathews ; Mrs. Stirling, Miss Herbert. Mrs. Frank Mat thews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, 3liss Went worth, and Mrs. Charles Mat News. THIS hVENING, and during the Week, at 7 o'c'ock, en entirely new Comedy, in 3 Acts, by Leicester Bucking ham, Esq., entitled Tl, E SILVER LIN' , 41 Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Frederic Robinson, Mr. Ashley, Mr, John s.one, Mr. Montague ; Mrs. harles Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Cottrell, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirling. Ti? he followed by Mr, Charles Mathews just trans4ted from the French)in his characteristic character of Un Anglais Timide, entitled COOL AS A CUCUMBER. To conclude with 1861; or, THE SENSATIONS OF THE PAST SEASON : Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. A. Cottrell, and Miss Fanny Josephs. p OYAT, STRAND THEATRE. 'Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborouzli. TILTS EVENING, UNLIMITED CONFIDENCE. Mr. Belford, Mr. Parselle ; Miss Marie Wilton, Miss Thorne. Alter which, the Grand Christmas Burlesque, ORPHEUS AND EERY VICE Messrs. Honey, Wood, James Fenton, Mesdames Swanborough, Marie Wilton, Hughes, &C. Followed by MARGATE SANDS. Commence at 7. '(THE THIP.D EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containinz the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, pan he had Every Evening- of G. R. GLIGNIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TRIG DAY.—Morning, 3h. 50m.—Afternoon, 4h. 14m. ro - voßnow.-Morning, 4h. 32m.—Afternoon. 4h. 53w. The Weather—Sun Office, Feb. 11, 1864, THERMOMETER. Last night This dal, a t Two o' c l o ck .. 35 Barometer-29.80. „ /V11 "--W • moderate, and cloudy. . , ,t , - 11 ; 1 .11 1 fe *7* g 1 .d.W.. b .6 4 - U T 1 --- :. , , lit ~,,,,,,,:_, , ~...,. LONDON, THURSDAY, FEB. 11, 18, • Yesterday's rumour of an armistice appears now to have been altogether unfounded. Th e wish was probably f a th e r to the thought of it. But th e report has now been doubly, and for the time being at least quite positively, contradicted. A telegram from Paris denies the accuracy of it altogether. Whi le the semi-official Nord-deutsche-Allgemeine-Zei tung, says the same, if possible, yet more expli citly. The Prussians, this Berlin journal remarks, so far from being in any way likely to consent to a n armistice; will, for a certainty, not r . at satisfied. so . lo ng EL ., a single I)),Lisli soldier can be found htly Where upon the 8 . ) il of Schleswig. And that there ere Dinish soldiers still there, notwithstanding the astounding wit hdra opal of the main army en masse to the Island of Alsen, appears to be indisputable. A portion of that main army, it now turns out, instead of re treating (shall we say escaping ?) to Alsen, under the command of that now most unpopular veteran the Danish commander-in•chief, General DE MEZA, marched northwards, it now appears, at the double-quick," hotly pursued by the allied invaders. In truth, it is hardly probable, now that the Austrians and Prussians have so much way upon them, as we may call it, in the forward rush of their military successes, that they should lightly consent, quite abruptly, to pause for however brief an interval, thereby impeding their onward progress. Meantime, since the battle at Oversee, the Aus trians under GABLENZ, and the Prussians under MULLE have not been idle. Flensburg, as a matter of course, was, immediately after their signal defeat of the Danes at Oversee, entered in triumph. But there already in Flensburg the victorious allies found the Prussian cavalry, under Prince FREDERICK CHARLES, occupying it -- the latter having reached the town in one day's advance from Arnis. Unsatisfied with the mere occupancy of Flensburg, the victors of Oversee, still led by GABLENZ and MULLE, after a brief repose of twenty-four hours, pressed for ward in the direc tion of the entrenchments at Dappel. While thewar is being thus prosecuted by the belli• gerents, the dawdling hesitations of our own Go vernment in arriving at any determination what ever, as to a definite policy of any kind, certainly of any comprehensible kind, is giving rise to all sorts of ugly rumours, rumours of the most sinister and ominous description, at Berlin, at Vienna, and at—Paris. It is easy enough, of course, to put aside as altogether idle, to appear to laugh to acorn as a thing wholly extravagant the notion of there being any estrangement of an appreciable kind between.:the Governments of France and England, by reason of Earl RUSSELL'S impertinent mode of declining, in the name of his QUEEN and Country, any participation on the part of England, in the labours of the Congress proposed by his Majesty the Emperor of the FRENCH. With the jauntiest air of almost indifference, eo idle does he affect the rumour to be in his estimation, Lord PALMERSTON thrusts aside the mere hint of any such estrangement as a notion alto gether preposterous. And yet, what man is there in the three kingdoms gifted with a particle of sense, who for a single moment gives credence to it ? It is only necessary for that matter to look at the Paris journals in order to see, that—not the rumour laughed at, but the denial of that rumour with a laugh—it is, that is preposterous. Why it is a thing notorious, in point of fact, both in London and in Paris, that there is this estrangement—all Lord PALMERSTON'S assurances to the contrary notwithstanding. Nor, can the fact that it is so, be regarded as a matter in any way surprising under the circumstances. Judging from our own feelings,it would on the contrary have been very surprising, indeed, had it been otherwise. Which one amongst us, is there, who would not have felt estranged by a rebuff so singularly dis courteous and so wholly unprovoked as that to which the Emperor NAPOLEON found himself abruptly subjected by the decision arrived at by his cordial ally—or rather, it should be said, by the sneering cynicism of manner with which that decision was announced through the now notorious despatch penned by that most perverse of letter writers, the noble earl the English Foreign Secretary. Estrangement there is between the two Governments—thanks to our our own. And Europe may soon have cause to re member it, by reason of several, now imminent, complications. The discussion in the Upper House on Tuesday night respecting the guns and armour plates em ployed by the Admiralty was not without import ance. The Earl of HARDWICKE asked whether her MAJESTY'S ships were supplied with any guns or projectiles that could penetrate the iron plates of a ship's side four inches and a half thick. The noble earl, after remarking upon the wonderful changes introduced by the progress of modern invention, observed that he bad been a member of the Cabi net to which Sir WILLIAM ARMSTRONG'S guns were first submitted. It is due to Lord DERBY'S Go vernment of 1858 to say that they showed every willingness to patroni3e the invention. Since that time, as we know, other inventors have appeared upon the field—invention has succeeded invention —the improvements in guns and armour plates have kept pace with each other, leaving the final adjudg ment of superiority of power yet undetermined. Lord HARDWICKE said it appeared that Mr. WHIT WORTH, ARMSTRONG'S formidable rival, had not been permitted to carry out his experiments exactly in the way he wished, and he added that his reason for putting the question as to the guns now in use in the Royal Navy was that Mr. WHITWORTH had never failed to penetrate the iron plating to which his guns were opposed. Lord HARDWICKE con tended that this reduced our expensive armour plated vessels to the level of the old wooden ones, an assertion which the Duke of SOMERSET subsequently denied. Lord HARDWICKE also pointed out that the armament of the sea ser vice ARMSTRONG gun might not be useful on board ship, and would not bear the charge required for heavy artillery. The requisite machinery is so delicate and complicated as very quickly to get out of order. The ARMSTRONG guns are excellent for field service, but a high degree of precision and de structive power of projectiles was more aimed at by the inventor than a length of range. With regard to heavy guns recent improvements have shown that they can be constructed on a scale which the strongest armour plating would be quite unable to withstand. At the late trial of the Armstrong 600 pounder at Shoeburyness, a shell weighing 6101 b. passed through and demolished the Warrior target at a range of 1,000 yards. The Duke of SOMERSET, in his reply to the Earl of HARDWICKE, said that the Government had obtained 130 and 150 pounders that would pierce iron plating, but the difficulty lay in obtaining an effective broadside gun. It is true that the constructor of the Navy has asserted that he can build ships to carry very heavy broad side guns. This is no doubt correct, but in so doing. the speed of the vessel must be proportionately diminished. A speed of nine or ten knots is quite inadequate to the requirements of a man-of-war at the present day, for no matter how powerful her armament or invulnerable her armour plating, a vessel that cannot overtake an enemy is practically useless. These excessively heavy guns of ARM STRONG, BLAKELY, or others may be very advan tageous in forts where they can be worked by means of steam machinery, or hydraulic power, but will never be available for service in ships unless indeed the suggesti ons of Admiral SARTORIUS, of making the ship the gun carriage, should be put into practice. The gallant admiral proposed that the gun should be so fitted as to fire always in a line with the keel ; thus a ves sel worked by twin screws might carry a heavy gun both forward and aft, the gun being pointed by the tu rning of the ship. According to the official explanation, tho delay experienced in get ting a Supply of WurrwoßTifs guns has been occasioned by the difficulty which that gentleman experienced in gettin g the proper material for their construction. We are inclined to think, with the Earl of HARDWICKE, that the coldness almost in variably shown by the Admiralty to inventors has had more to do with the matter. The Government a ed in these have succeeded in effectually disgusti ng one of our most able men, and were only arousedento a sense of their mistake by finding him eng a g e d service of a foreign Government. Too late they tried to secure his services—their order must wait until the prior engagement is fulfil (I. This i s the way in which England's most potent arms of de fence —her men of genius and capac'y—are driven from her; and it is not impossible that the first BLAKELY guns used in this country will be cap , tured from the Russians. The noble duke at the bead of our naval affairs declared that the only object of the authorities was to get the best article for the service, and that they wished not to over look any valuable practical improvement, but they were overrun with so many new projects, that endless delay would be occasioned if all were tried. No one proposes such an outlay of time and money, but have we no one at the Admiralty capable of selecting which are worth a trial ? How is it, if the interests of the service are the first considera tion, that such an inventor as BLAKELY was turned from the country in despair ? We have noticed of late several traits in the present Ministers which distinguish their actions from those of some of their predecessors, who have been fore most in every achievement whether in war or peace which could increase the renown or add lustre to the annals of the country. A very daring instance of decadence, or want of purpose has recently been furnished with regard to the want of celerity which has been displayed in laying the papers which relate to the Danish question before the House. Putting aside political discussion as to motives, real or suppositious, for these documents not being ready at the opening of the session, and passing by the non fulfilment of any plan whereby the previous negligence was rectified up till now, the intelli gence conveyed to both Houses regarding the pro • duction of these papers is really astonishing, when Lord CARNARVON in a brief, but emphatic speech, sought to gain the desired information as to when the members of the Legislature 7would have an opportunity afforded to them of arriving at a definite conclusion as to the conduct of the Govern ment and the state of affairs generally, and whieh result could only be attained by a perusal of the documents in question. Earl RUSSELL'S reply must have been a source alike of wonder and dismay. The noble lord said that three weeks must elapse before they could be furnished, Was there ever such a preposterous idea and such an untenable argument. Well might Lord DERBY exclaim on the instant, " Send them to the Times.' This is just one of his lordship's happy thoughts which spring spontaneously to the mind, and often create more impression than elaborate phrases and studied sentences, which take long to connect ? and longer still to understand sometimes. Cer tainly the cynic may exclaim, " Progress to what ?" when he peruses this statement. In an age which is pre-eminently distinguished for speed, and re markable for quickness in all things, are the Minis ters of the most enterprising nation in the world to wile away a considerable time, while the work that some hours should see accomplished takes weeks for its completion. The sarcasm of the noble lord, the head of the Opposition, is a very just one, and the home truths it contains must afford en lightenment to the bewildered, and raise doubts in the minds of the credulous as to the nature of the objections which occasion this insuperable delay. No one who takes up a paper within a few hours of the rising of the House, and surveys the rows of columns which record the details of the night upon some great question of more than ordinary interest, but will comprehend the absurdity of the excuses put forward by the authorities. When Sir ROBERT PEEL made his famous speech on the Catholic Emancipation, which created sach a sensa tion at the time, a copy of this journal was placed in his hands twenty minutes after he resumed his seat, which contained eight columns of the speech that he had just delivered to the House, and which had occupied a period of two hours and a half in its utterance. With the resources of the Times establishment the whole of the papers which have been the subject of so much discussion in Parlia ment, could be printed in twelve hours. Surely then it is as idle as it is unworthy of Ministers to put forward these shallow excuses, and to interpose these shuffling delays. Why is not pressure applied in the right quarters? Why are not needful exertions made to put an end to such inconvenient dilatoriness, and to end a state of things which is creditable to none concerned in it. In the House of Commons the subject was discussed at some length, and some rather sharp retorts were indulged in by the Opposition. Mr. DISRAELI made a strong point of this suspicious case, and clearly demonstrated the proper means to rectify mistakes, and redeem the errors made in the tran sactions of these affairs. He asked why they did not use more despatch, and suggested that the printer of the Foreign Office had been only " rubbed up for the first time on that day," and concluded his re marks by pressing the inquiry, and taking away the shadow of an excuse and the semblance of an apology from the Government. "If you have all the materials ready, and the credit of the Foreign Office be at stake, you must endeavour to compen sate for former lathes by distribnting these docu ments into the hands of several printers, and I will be bound to say, with proper diligence, that you ought to produce those papers to Parliament in eight and forty hours." There is a trite saying which avers that Fas est ab hoste doceri, and the Ministers will do well to take to heart the warnings conveyed in this address of their opponent. There is truth in them which, if they are disregarded, may prove to be only too powerful for them to con tend against in a future day. There are many who cannot, or will not, comprehend the complications of the Schleswig-Holstein affairs, who will under stand only too readily, and with too apt an intelli gence, that at a great political crisis despatches that bore immediate reference to the conduct of the Government were withheld at a critical juncture, and that the reasons adduced for their non-appear ance were such as no novice could fail to confute. This is not a time, when the fate of nations depends on the issue of events that a day may bring forth, to have the course of a debate arrested by excuses so lame that :hey excite instant derision on the part of their hearers, the reasons for the delay being such as no man of business would listen to for a moment, and no Minister of spirit would suffer to be mentioned in his presence, much less given to Parliament. THE MARITIME INSURANCE COMPANY (LIMITED). —The recent meetings of the newly-formed Marine Insurance Companies in Liverpool have been in every respect so satisfactory and encouraging, that . we are not surprised that another should be intro duced to the public under the above title. 4 fhe Maritime Company, however, is ushered into exist ence under extraordinarily favourable auspices. The Company commence operations at once, on the basis of the old established business of Messrs. Price and Co., and which, more recently, under the exclusive direction of Mr. henry Case, has been one of the most prosperous and best managed private under writing concerns in Liverpool. The valuable ser vices of Mr. Case have been secured as managing underwriter, his remuneration depending in a great measure upon the success of the company, and with out the payment of any " promotion " money, either in cash or shares, The profits of Messrs. Price and Co.'s business, during the last few years, have averaged about £9,000 per annum, an encouraging fact, assuring for the new Company a most nume rous and influential clientelle, and which, with the increased advantages of a public company, gives natural promise of a certain and increasing business. The capital of the new company is fixed at £1,000,000, in £lO shares, of which only 25,000 will be first issued. The list of directors comprises some of the most influential and best known mem bers of the Liverpool mercantile community, which Is a guarantee that the public will be fairly and =Partially treated in the allotment of the shares. TIM SEM LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11, 1864. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LRELTTER'S TELEGRAMS.] THE WAR IN SCHLESWIG. RETURN OF KING CHRISTIAN TO COPENHAGEN. COPENHAGEN, FEB. 10, 514 p.m. The King left Sonderburg to-day for Copen- hagen. The enemy continues quiet, and has thrown out patrols as far as Nybbol. The spirit animating the Danish army is re ported to be excellent. PROCLAMATION OF MARSHAL WRANGEL. FLENSBURG, JAN. 9, Evening. A proclamation issued by Field Marshal von Wrangel declares the authority of the King of Denmark to be superseded in Schleswig. The public functionaries will be maintained, so long as they obey the Austrian and Prussian Civil Commissioners. All political meetings are prohi- bited, and tranquillity and obedience are recom mended to the inhabitants. The railway between Flensburg and Rendsbnrg is restored. Snow is falling. VIENNA, FEB. 10. The Botschafter says : ic Denmark, by its anterior conduct, and finally by its armed resistance, has abolished treaties. The London treaty no longer exists. The great German Powers are masters of their policy towarda Den mark. The ulterior events of the war, the cir cumstances under which peace will be concluded, and the regard due to the condition of Europe, will aid in determining what use they will make of this liberty of action." The Calcutta, Bombay, and Mauritius Mails. SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 11. Pany's steamer The Peninsular and Oriental Com Syria, with the above mails, passed the Needles at 11 40 a.m. to-day. FRANCE. PARIS, FEB. 11. THE "CONSTITUrIONNEL" ON THE DANISH WAR. The Constitutionnel of this morning, in an article by M.Limayi ac, considers that the evacuation of the Dannewerke will be found to have prolonged the war. The writer fears that the difficulties now arising will be of a different kind to those before the war. The basis of negotiation will have been dis placed. M. Limnyrac sees with regret that many complications and difficulties are possible. BOURSE, Feb. 10.—The market has been agitated, and the fluctuations have been frequent. Threes, for the Account, after having been done at 66f, 45c., are now at 66f. 30c. Mobilier also advanced at the opening, but are now rather lower than yesterday. Railway Shares without any material change up to the present time. The market closed as follows : 41 per Cents .. 95 20 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 35 Credit Mobilier 1012 50 Do. end month 1015 Bank Shares 3300 Credit Fonder 1230 Roman — Italian Loan 6B 30 Do. end month — New ditto •• Do. end month.... Russian Austrian .. - Spanish Threes 50A Home Debt Deferred rAYB. Cash. Account. 996 25 .. 997 50 955 .. 953 75 BAIL Orleans Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean New ditto Southern Western .. Eastern •• • e Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain ...... Saragossa.. Ditto to Barcelona ..._ _ .. 935 - .. 935 - 660 - 670 -- 512 50 .. 517 50 480 - 478 75 381 25 .. 380 - 397 50 ~ 401 25 521 25 518 75 490 - .. 490 -- 575 - 575 298 75 .. 302 50 [A portion of the following apprared in a Fourth Edi tion of The Sun of last evening.] ANERICL (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) (Per the Columbia, via Galway.) NEW YORK, lAN. 28 (Evening). Nashville despatches report that the Confederate cavalry under Forrest crossed the Tennessee river on the 25th inst., and attacked Athens, Alabama, but they were defeated, and endeavoured to return. Another Confederate force simultaneously at tacked Florence, Alabama, and was also repulsed. Chattanooga despatches report that Johnston had fallen back from Dalton. The Confederate pickets are at Kingston, 40 miles south of Dalton, to cover the retreat. There are no Confederates to be found within 45 miles of Chattanooga. Longstreet's cavalry was skirmishing with the Federals at Knoxville on the 23d. It is confidently believed that the Federals could hold Knoxville. Washington despatches still assert that a mutiny had occurred in Lee's army. Two regiments en deavoured to desert, but failed. A convention to form a new State Constitution wilt assemble at New Orleans on the 22d Feb. The Kedar, Germania, Australian, and Etna have arrived out. NEW YORK, 'JAN 29, Evening, Direct advices from Knoxville on the 20th inst. repurt that considerable anxiety, amounting to a panic, existed in that city. Southern despatches report that Longstreet's cavalry are within four miles of Knoxville. Advices from the South state that the Mis sissippi is blockaded at Granville and Millikens Bend by Confederate batteries. Very few trans ports go down. It is reported that Morgan with seven regiments will make a raid into Kentucky through the Gaps in the eastern part of the State. Trade restrictions have been removed inKenticky and Missouri. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Jan. 27, Evening. • Money tight. Gold, 57. Exchange on London, 1719 ; on Paris, 3.20. Stocks steady. N ew Y or k Centrals, 137 k; Illinois, 127 ; Erie, 1071. Crude petroleum, 29 to 29i ; refined, 46 to 47. FIGHTING NEAR TENNESSEE. LIVERPOOL, Feb. 11. Further advices received here from New York to the 30th ult., per the Columbia, state that Long street had been reinforced, and that fighting had commenced near Tennessee. The shelling of Charleston was still progressing. Gold, 57 premium. Illinois shares, 126. Other quotations unchanged.. THE NANA.—Another " Nana" has turned up in Mey war. The beat way, perhaps, to stop this would be to hang pretenders on the strength of their own assertions. There can be little doubt that the real scoun drel is either dead or in the hands of Jung Bahadoor. The former of these suppositions is by far the more probable of the two, for the only reason the Nepaulese Minister could have for keeping him would be the intention of playing him as a trump card should opportunity offer, and he knows that the man never had the slightest personal influence, and as a winning eard always was, and will be, not worth playing. —Calcutta Englishman. STOKER KILLED.—On Tuesday afternoon, while James Harris, the stoker of a goods train on the North British Railway, was engaged in coupling some trucks at a siding near Niddry station he was struck by some rails which were projecting over the end of one of the trucks, and his head was frightfully crushed between the rails and a truck. The unfortunate man was speedily re moved to Edinburgh for surgical treatment, bat he was dead before the train in which he was brought reached town. The deceased was a native of Castle Douglas, was unmarried, and had only been in the aeryice of the com pany for a short time,— &Osman. LITERATURE. Atherstone, Taylor, and Browning, The Poetical Works of Henry Taylor, D.C.L. Three Vols. Chapman and HAIL There are three among the more thoughtful Poets of the present Age who, although essentially different in their genius, stand about upon a par in the exalt of their popularity. Two of them are veterans as illustrators of our national literature. The youngest of the three has more enthusiastic admirers than any who have ever clustered about his two elder contemporaries. These three meditative poets it was hardly necessary, indeed, to have parti cularised by name: their identity must, otherwise, at once have been conjectured. The youngest of the three is, it will be understood instantly, quite as a matter of course, no other than Robert Browning Author (beyond all his writings to us) of " Pippa Passes." Edwin Atherstone— Author of the most Miltonic Poem of his day, of the stately and resplendent poem, that is, of " Nine veh"—is another of this select Triumvirate. The one last to be here mentioned, because the one now more immediately coming under our considera tion, being Henry Taylor—Author chiefly and dis tinctively of " Philip Van Artevelde." Compara tively speaking, the popularity enjoyed by each one of these three gifted writers, is of a peculiarly restricted character. Even, if it is to be called popularity at all ! It is among the more highly educated that they alone find their audience. And there, even among that class of the more highly educated, merely a select few have in any one instance, in regard to Atherstone, in regard to Taylor, even in regard to Browning, been kindled into anything like a semblance of fervid admiration. Apart altogether from the distinguishing pecu liarities inherent in the genius of each of these three poets—peculiarities sufficient of themselves, perhaps, to account for their readers being the re fined and even fastidious few, instead of the varied many—there has been a recognisable material reason, if one may so call it, why they have failed in winning for themselves anyTwide-spread popu larity. Our meaning, when we have so expressed ourselves, being simply this, that they, each of them, for the utterance of their thoughts, have carefully selected a medium distinctly precluding them, as it appears to us, from gaining the ear, from extorting the admiration, from alluring to and concentrating upon themselves the observation, of the great con course of the general public. Atherstone, for ex ample—a poet gifted with a most gorgeous and effluent imagination—has in an Age of Railways and Telegrams, when people read not only as the old prophet Habbakuk has it "running," but lite rally flying and whirling over the earth's surface at the tail of the fiery dragon of the steam engine— Atherstone has so far (it' we may venture to speak thus with a noble work like Nineveh upon our bookselves) mistaken his epoch, as to write poems extending over two huge volumes, and these two volumes subdivided into a great many highly elabo rated cantos. Browning and Taylor, on the other hand, have still more flagrantly blundered, as it seems to us, in the selection of, the vehicle for the display, or the putting forth, of their respective imaginings—their vehicle being one, their imagin ings how different! namely, in the deliber ate choice by each of them, by Henry Taylor and by Robert Browning, of not merely the enacting, but the unactable Drams. Hence it is, mainly at least, we cannot but think, that popularity, genuine, unmistakeable popularity, has evaded the grasp of these three rarely-gifted men—no more than a choice cluster of readers being enabled, as yet, justly to ap preciate, at their real worth, the elevated intellects, and, here and there, the exquisite performances—(as in many glorious passages of Nineveh, as in all the lovely scenes of Pippa Passes, as in nearly the whole of the two lofty historical dramas, together going by the name of Philip Van Artevelde)—the ambitious works and the unquestionable genius of Henry Taylor, of Robert Browning, of Ed win Atherstone. And what is more—when we have said this—we doubt very much, indeed, whether it would be prac ticable,by any means,for the powers and the writings ' of these three remarkable men to be forced into anything like mere factitious popularity. Even, though it were by doing, in regard to them all, what has been recently done in regard to Robert Browning --namely, by grouping together the pick of his effu sions in a single volume of comparatively small dimensions. It is in the nature of things in respect to each of them, we believe, the t their audience should be fit and few. That they have this select body of readers and of earnest aumirers, there cannot be a doubt. They do indisputably enjoy among all those who are in any way qualified to appre ciate them, a full and a most unaffected fervour of appreciation. In Bro fling's instance it is an appreciation, as we have said, that has even risen in some quarters to the height of a genuine, and, certainly, a most ingenuous, enthusiasm. Among the writings of the three, there are—whatever may be the narrowness of the popularity attained by these writers as poets—works that " the world will not willing let die." As will have already been intimated by our foregoing remarks-- indubitable evidence of this may be found, as we conceive, very readily, indeed, in Atherstone's _Nineveh, in Browning's Pippa Passes, in Taylor's Philip Van Artevelde. Having said which, we have now but to add that the comparatively select few who already enjoy the privilege of knowing and appreciating, at their true value, that last-men tioned poet and that last-mentioned masterpiece, will rejoice, as we have rejoiced, at the appearance (in so very charming a form as the present edition, in three volumes) of the collected and carefully revised Poetical Works of Henry Taylor—. works including among them not only his opus magnum of "Philip Van Artevelde," but, together with that, " A Sicilian Summer," " St. Clemenee Eve," "Edwin the Fair" (in the drift of which we have, by the way, no sympathy whatever), " Isaac Commenus" and Minor Poems, leading off with " The Eve of the Conquest." The edition before us, in truth, just as it now stands may be pronounced, as we for one do not hesitate for an instant to pro nounce it—an acquisition to any library in the land, even to those libraries which are the most rigidly and the most fastiduously selected. The Quarterly _Review. No. 229. John Murray. The present number of the Quarterly is fully up to the standard, both in regard to the variety of the subjects and the literary merits of the articles. It opens with a lengthened and interesting paper on the trade and commerce of China, which we have already referred to in these columns. Following this is a review of Nathaniel Hawthorne's spiteful attack upon our good old mother country. An attaok in which we are almost unable to recognise the thoughtful and far-sighted truth-seeker who brought us the " Mosses from an Old Manse." Emerson's "English Traits" is brought under con sideration, and a comparison instituted between the views and sentiments of the two literary New Eng landers. The author of " Representative Men" is by far the deeper observer, and he perceives and comprehends many aspects of our national character which are altogether imperceptible to Mr. Haw thorne, Mr. Emerson finds in the mutual sympathy of the members of the race one great secret of Eng lish power. " English believe in English. They have trust in each other. Die very felons have pride in one another's English stanchness. The people are more bound in character than differenced in ability and rank." Mr. Hawthorne's dislike and contempt for everything insular extends to inanimate nature. " For my part," he declares, " I never ate ate an English fruit, raised in the open air, that could compare in flavour with a Yankee turnip." After this, what more can be said ? The " Old Home" is clearly a very miserable place, and as this is precisely the opinion which Mr. Hawthorne forms of our men, our manners, laws, customs, and capa cities—our greatest achievements, our heroes, poets, and statesmen scarcely reaching the standard of common-place United States citizens—it is scarcely worth while to expend so much trouble upon us. Mr, Forsyth's able and interesting life of one of the great men of antiquity carries us into a world very far removed from Yankee conceit and impertinence; though the old evils of a Republican form of government meet us again in the fierce contentions —the plottings and counter plottings— the jealous rivalries and arbitrary measures which often deprived the State of the services of its ablest members. With regard to the world-famous letters of Cicero, of which more than eight hundred have been preserved, it is remarked that they eff•Jrd us a glimpse of that inner life, that conflict of passion and feeling with dignity and duty which the Roman, whatever his place or power, was usually so careful to conceal. "We believe we may say, without fear of contradiction, that of Cicero alone in the whole compass of classical antiquity has such a picture survived the ravages of time. Of Cicero alone can it be affirmed that we are in many and very consi derable instances made acquainted not merely with what he thought it, the proper thing to say in pub lic as a vir consularis, or to consign to a set treatise, but with what he felt in his heart of hearts, and confided to his friend of frie6ds." Beating this in mind, the reader must not judge harshly of the foibles and failings which are sometimes exhi bited in the letters. The test to which the Roman philosopher is subjected is a sharp one, and we should rather rejoice that one of the old cele brities shines out so brightly throegh the dust of ages. Captain Speke's record of his African travels is the subject of an interesting article, recounting the plan of that geographical campaign with which the public is already familiar. It is remarked, in conclusion, that whatever may be the discoveries of future explorers, they cannot deprive Captain Speke and his companion of the honour of havieg been the first Europeans to penetrate those myste rious regions, and to force their way through savage tribes, and kingdoms where the face of a white man was unknown. An essay on " Guns and Plates" is well written and interesting, but it shows such manifest partiality that its arguments cannot be accepted as in any way conclusive. The naturalist will find a good deal of information in a paper about Eels, whose animated style and entertaining matter will also find favour with the general reader, although he may not altogether coincide with the opinion of the enthusiastic Frenchman who declares "there are few animals whose image one must re trace with as much pleasure as the common eel !" Two papers on " Rome in the Middle Ages," and those terrible Danish Duchies which have become such a bugbear to Europe, conclude en interesting number. THE SANTIAGO CATASTROPHE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Silt,—l have sufficient confidence in your sense of justice to believe that you will not refuse me the necessary space in your widely circulated journal for an- act of justice, be cause I ask that favour in a cause which is highly unpopu lar in itself, and of which you may very probably have formed a view entirely different from that which I wish to present. It is our well-founded boast as Englishmen that we regard the interests of truth and honesty as paramount to all considerations of political or religious difference; and it is both because I consider these principles of English fairness to have been outraged in the public treatment of the subject in question, and because I am anxious to place on record my humble protest in their favour, that I venture to ask your assistance in carrying out an object which will involve you in no responsibility either for the statements or opinions which I may advance. The recent most lamentable catastrophe at Santiago has been dealt with by many public journals in a spirit which is almost such as to deter any one who has regard for his own character from coming forward, either with contradic tions to statements of fact, or with pleas in behalf of those whom it has become the fashion to condemn with the most merciless severity. This is one of the most unjust conse quences of a popular cry ; but the more keenly that injustice is felt the less reserve ought we to have about making those sacrifices of personal popularity which are necessary for withstanding it. I have no knowledge whatever of the Santiago clergy, nor any personal interest in coming forward to protest against the public outcry of which they have been made the victims. More than this, I think it evident that if they were directly responsible for the decorative arrangements of their church, which were certainly the human cause of the catastrophe (a matter which appears to be extremely questionable), they are chargeable with gross and inexcus able negligence, though it is a sort of negligence which on a lesser scale all men are liable to commit. For how often does it happen that a long course of immunity from the consequences of carelessness hardens us into a confidence of security from which we are only aroused by some unex pected, though not unnatural, disaster? But really, with the exception of this admitted and undoubtedly most serious fault, I cannot see, taking all the accounts of the accident together, that there is any sure grounds for casting on the priests of the unhappy church any other blame than that which is fairly attributed to them for their extraordinary want of circumspection and foresight. But if it be true, as appears from some even of the most prejudiced accounts, the arrangement of the church on the fatal evening was not the works of the priests regularly attached to it, but of a stranger to whom they had imprudently assigned the work of embellishment, in that case their responsibility even for this portion of the work is considerably lessened, inasmuch as they may not have become aware of the peril ous nature of the decoration till it was too late to change it without a risk almost as great as that incurred by allow ing it to remain. There is indeed another allegation against the priests of the church, which, if it were true, would be of a more serious nature; I mean, that they closed the sacristy door against their affrighted congregation, because they were anxious only to save the property of the church. I think even here that charity would suggest some allowance for the effact of a panic to which even the most cool-headed are not superior, as well as to the circumstances that there is, in every Catholic Church, an object more precious to a priest even than his own life, I mean the most blessed Sacrament,in which he believes that his Saviour himself is present. But if we are to believe a narrative of the calamity, which is quite as trustworthy (to say the least) as those of an oppo site tenor, the priests did not close the sacristy door, but, on the contrary, left a passage through it, by which many persons were saved. I find this assertion positively made in a French paper of authority (Journal des Villes et des Campagnes), upon the faith of its South American corre spondent. From the same paper I learn that it was not the priests who removed the sacred objects from the church, but a young layman, and since the name of this heroic young man is added (Guevara) I take it for granted that the fact is certain. The same account tells us, upon the authority of the South American journals themselves, that of the two priests who alone were in the church at the time of the fire one perished in the flames, and the other fainted away, and was carried out into a neighbouring house. Among the shameful uses which have been made of this calamitous accident one bas been to fasten the odium of it upon the Jesuits. It is strange, indeed, that the persons who write upon these subjects should not be aware that the Jesuits have been expelled from South America for more than half a century. It is perfectly true that the church in which the fire occurred was built by the Jesuits, but had long passed into other hands, and it is about as historically true to attribute to them any connection with the recent accident as it would be to make Roman Catholics answerable fur the burning of York Minster. After laying these statements before you I will occupy your space no further than to request that your readers will test by it the language in which the conduct of the Santiago priests has been commented upon by some of the public journals, more especially the Spectator. They have been in some quarters almost accused of having wilfully occa sioned the accident ; as if it were the natural result of the avarice and selfishness imputed to them to burn the church and congregation upon which they depended for their main tenance. They have been charged, at the very least, with saving their own property, instead of the lives of their flock; as if the clergy of a church had any other interest in its sacred vessels and appurtenance than such as those ob jects possess in the eyes of all religious persons, from the fact of being used in the worship of Almighty God. To sum up all : these priests have been represented as no better than brutes in human form, and the only excuse which charity can find for them is to transfer the hideous features of iniquity which they are said to exhibit from themselves to the Church whose Ministers they are. The version of the whole story which I have set before you is, as I myself fully believe, its true picture. That it is at all events pro bable I think no fair-minded person will venture to d eny. But if it be mersly possible, that charity which " believeth all things and hopeth all things" till its favourable con structions are actually overborne by the most indisputable testimony, should lead us, as I think, to accept it as at any rate a plea in arrest of judgment so frightfully rash and so inordinately cruel,—l am, &e,, FREDERICK OAKELEY. St. John's Church, Islington, Feb. 9. AMERICAN MODE OF CLEANING THE BOTTO➢iS OF THEIR IRON SHIPS.--A diver, encased in the usual helmet, sits on a spar, lashed across the vessel's keel, armed with a scraper, with which he cleans the portion within his reach, before and abaft. The spar is then shifted, and he proceeds regularly with his work till completed. It is stated that the operator remains under water several hours, and that the Monitors at Charleston are kept clean by this process. It was found by actual measurement that 250 bushels of oyster-shells and sea-grass were removed from the bottom of the Montauk, the accumulation of one season. The officers sometimes indulge in a mess of oysters seized on the hulls of their own vessels. DIMINUTION OF CIIIME IN WALES.-At the Epiphany Quarter Sessions of the peace opened the other day in Carmarthen, the chairman, ➢lr. J. Johnes, of Dolanco, communicated to the grand jury the pleasing announcement that the calendar did not contain the name of a single prisoner for trial, and complimented the county on the absence of crime even in the most trying times. ot ) Innbr* HER MAJESTY. OsBoRNE, Feb. 10 . wa lked o ut The Queen and Princess Hel ena yesterday. The Countess of Caledon has succeeded the 145 r. chioness of E!y as Lady in Waiting. The Prince and Princess of Wale s. t The announcement made by u s . ester Wales ; t ,that the journey of the Prince and Prin cess of St. Leonards would probably be postpone d ° b e en count of the rigorous state of the weather, has a verified, for et half-past 10 yesterdaY Enoteiegers telgram was sent from Frognsore to the milliegys ' of the South-Western and South-Eastern BBilw6in. announcing that their royal highnesses did not tend to undertake the journey that daY• 'yesterday morning the Prince of panied by Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, Brids Teesdale, C. 8., and several officers of the al te d now quartered at Windsor, who had been je l lere by the prince, skated on the ice which tb e ee fo o frost of the last few days has formed on the ell i r os'' of the small sheet of water known as “ 13 ' lec ,, ao lts Wales, fieceii; in the Home Park, a short distance from the of the Thames. n 'ed The Marchioness of Abercorn, aceerclsl,,eed Lord Hamilton and Lady Georgiana Hamilton, hi's at Paris on their way to Cannes. Mr. Chichester Forteseue and Frances u°ji At i l eit Waldegrave entertained at dinner last e vening, v, - 05 residence in Carlton-gardens, Maria March i o ness of ' te it bury, the Earl and Countess Russell, the Earl and C 4 °lll' o3 l4' Grey, the Earl de Grey and Ripon, Lord and La d y " rd -'' o les' of Alderley, Sir Hamilton and Lady Seymour, l's cl Y - dsfos worth, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, 3 1 • au ci n O le ' Laugel, General and Mrs. Malcolm, Mn.' B e rnal - 517 Q and Mr. Delano. relict Of at Peter F rl' l h o The Hon. o tl n ad . : At wit ßosalie eoenk,.fHG erreCountessn ladyshipan s town, d,iv'TAs?l t pu o e n r : r: re , ;Joa o Aavilteru late Lord Trimleston. arrived The Lord Provost of Edinburgh has t o the Clarendon Hotel from Scotland. His Excellency Sir H. Bulwer has left •-r et 00 Hotel for Paris. The Hon. Joe Colin Bradshaw and MrS' and l° Bradshaw, of the United States, have left the 13L"-- Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Paris. o °e : Colonel and MI.'S. Kennet Williams -- e n tile- Williams have returned to the Brunswick jjotel, o n way to Nice. A FANCY BALL AT PARIS.—The face., ba m t he- i 11 g ic f 0. by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and sel* Drouyn de Lhuys was attended by more than 90 " Aie i e ; and seldom (says Galignani) hasa more ePlell'-,vd ere turesque scene been witnessed. In the brilliant cr°,•, r keir observed the Ambassadors of Austria, Prussia,....and*tioere and nearly all the diplomatic body resident in r ari tdisli l:l ; were p also an immense number of other fore i g ners tion as well as members of the Senate, Le .i s lativ e '" - pr iaGe Council of State, high dignitaries of the C o urt, t fle ;estes * pal celebrities of the army and navy, and the arts , ' -l os ia and letters. The Emperor and Emp ress less were sl °° 0 . 1 , 1 [ 01 be present incognito. The fancy costumes,P exceedn3o ' A ad and tasteful, were more numerous than the d°railreie:orici,ll represented every civilisation, and fantastical 6" I)°tiyfl personations in almost endless variety, 3 1 ° ).e .' .1" ?_#: Lhuys wore a costume of the reign of Loos Princess de Castelcicala appeared in a ePl e t i t i ;oi ° l n ; studded with gold stars; the Princess Trotw e ;,, lacT A Pierrette; the Princess Demidoff inaeostunie 0f th. g - v tl oB l 7. Heury 111. ; the Countess de Portales as a lo t - ,;:lo it ' with diamonds ; the Baroness de Seebach in a Cl ,; • P e ; costume;usi s Mme. de Mackau as a Moorish Prioc es ;', AO: Say as Mary de Medici, in a most splenaiu studded with diamonds, copied from a icture ° f i ' oat° Mme, Periera as a personification of Snow; P tb e V-Se . ° de la Gueronnier as a Louis XV. marchi°lle'oss'o ca . rinet, as a Polish Hussar, Mdlle. Ilaussinen, otiStle.l ssian, the two Mdlle. Heckeren in extremelY elegvOari plo costues; Mdle. du Halley as Naiad a Biblical m costume l ; Mdlle. Guttier a ez as a geXie, °; %o I' S Chemais Gilloy as an Oriental; and Dldlle. xirooo,eo' Roman dame. One lady (name unknowa) P e f r t ' O4l Photographs, being covered over from head t n.g e .°° f l3 l portraits, and wearing the camera as a head'a r ':6 s, : ii i were also two ladies and one gentleman as I. ° ll- • r t e tt c „4 l' wearing black veils. The courteous affectabilitY ote'- the honours of the evening were done by the 13.°s t f i 6 & e t e e llt gave a magnificent charm to this fete. A - 6 `,: o r supper was served at two o'clock. Dancifig w: 1 1 1 ° wards resumed, and kept up till past four, w hoa the OP .° terminated by an animated cotillon, led bY Seebach. THE OPENING OF PAHL' , ap t ag Dg soa to osf associations s aoß e t rto n ihnt e i iss n gha a n n d y WHAT IT WAS.—Perhaps there is nefll' e i ril i otti i° its err c u s n u t r r r y oUn t a d k i :gist a ll ai /112 th 01111e:Pi glories s lia o m f tehnotsebydatyhsel SAovreere;enoto?tet;:e phrase, hthigemh laS ta o l ot o e n b g eo e c, r e, ai ? iseigo W ne it t rh h ,e, e , fNaoirre,wt xn save , tic ; j et i ti oei r og i 1 1 0 1 less hi s least ? We hope not. We hope that the brava t o oee' which country'cousins would give thei r e3 b et be ; and which made critical foreigners thiok,to theft sides an unmistakable. British Constitutl°:tneleA was such a thing, after all, as a British sP e l e t ur il this brave sight will, within our oWil cirl' ,; , e 0136 1 1 devoutly trust, be witnessed again. Tteli d 00 ° 4 have in St. Stephen's the rustle of silks al l wolow a of diamonds, as nobly-born and beantit° de6alic" crowd the galleries, and set the peers 13t M o ro on the floor of their own house. Then ber n ° o c; dukes, and princes of the blood will b e : d geo gay with ermine and scarlet. Then t the hei r' Dislt i show in their quaint feast -day attire ; lawn will fill the house with the flutter of and gowns; ambassadors and diploinat is f a ll 9e bf ing with orders, and wearing uniforms terns and all colours, will vary the see s, 000,4 will stand the corps of gentlemen -at-ar n cently arrayed; the house itself, a ga ll ° o w t °l3 r• art, is rich with gilding and colour, now is P e it o down, and with heraldic emblazon/3'o 0041300, 'vaded by that " dim ; religious light" way through the noble windows of sta' — , o 0, 0 4 Tire Magna Charta barons in bronze l' olo and ward in their several niches °Orli': 40 the then the trumpets will blare, the cacr'e,i,ll'fl,,ist battlement speak out,"a stately proceesioa ' f ; its way along the corridors, with A'-'ll - " Officers of State, Garter King at Arr ee '. o Niro l Lord Chamberlain, Lords and Ladie s l w itlii e ,, c p and pages galore. The brilliant tbroligespectaP remain in almost painful suspense and "At length bursts in the argent P B e 0 /0 With plume, tiara, and all rich arraey looce, and, as every one rises upon the Roya l _ P s th e shall have again a coup d'ccil which eeem' W V ; fection of colour and of form. 2,,,„ for pt 0 the dal WHAT IT IS. —Thursday WAS parlia' ale C ol e ing the sixth session of the presen! _ d or a . 06 Queen Victoria. And if any one 01.0b_Tee t oot cl bto trast to the gorgeoue spectacle We T i e B oa' he should have sem the unimpressi enacted eii3g not to say stuffy, ceremony that (4 1 . 5: _ d, o cl 1) , 00 1f Upper Chamber. You are adeaatv_bao ,self shown to your seat by the usher, abase ;o i , with awe unspeakable. PresentlYl eat b P tif a thing of a haze, you see before beige, 6 _l3 wteieti,hor covered with trumpery red .0 orderu robed Peers take their places the . 13.0 cestr'',oo rank, the Lord Chancellor sitting 10 *_oo Vaigo Augustus Clifford is desired to sor t ; co rt Y ot mons, and proceeds to do SO wit h toad of iireott nity. By and by you hear a surg'rTieue door, as though a mob from the P_ u o t tie minster was eager for adhlisei°ll,llo on °Lod Speaker, half walking and ha lf r tuse ell st 6g i tl bee . press behind, with Lord Cnarles And so. mace' tr ° under the weight of a heavY bo I ,le 0 0 , 0 when the disorderly Cornteol2Bl vi .s „d a ll fish crowd must strive to be first' 9e to lera7 3 b oa to the front—when they have b eho thef the Lord Chancellor tells theta ran ions sent for to hear the Queen's g- e a—i; he reads to than accordingly' which ottb.e,. sioners keep on their coclte Ch es in n_eado trio cal enough, and the Lord Üb ti, e„ ses b a y , mincing voice which clisting o'lol loss joy Royal Speech, ordinary amount of a jar Is o et 11 Speeches. Lastly , Mr. r S " c abb le leaves the house with the sew same disorder, whichinfocrnon taatiivosn e la'! t e d r eiscir,,ll3';ee on 43