The Sun. — London, England, 1863-10-27 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY, ocr. 27, 1863. It is not often that a great master of rhetoric like kr. GLADSTONE, obtains here in England the opportunity of reading an elaborate oration from paper. In the British Legislature, whether Com mons or Lords, it is un-Parliamentary to do so. Whereas, among our French neiE,PhbJurs, it is very nearly the reverse. It is at any rate so far the re verse in France, that the speeches delivered from the tribune that are not read, are the rare and peculiar exceptions. During the period of the Constitutional Government under LOUIS PHILLIPPE, M. THIERS shone conspicuously among his political rivals or colleagues, now as leader of the Govern ment, now as leader of the Opposition, by address ing the Chambers, fluently and often with brilliant eloquence, by the hour, without the aid of even one scrap in the shape of a stenographic memorandum lying before him on the shelf of the tribune. Recently, under the imperial rule of NAPOLEON 111., one of the very few indeed in (what there is yet left of) the French Legislature, one of the very few who could yet do the like there, was the late distinguished and lamented statesman orator, and administrator, M. BILLAULT. To an English debater, particularly to a great Parlia mentary athlete, like Mr. GLADSTONE, the reading of a delib era t e ly wr itt en di scourse mus t, we canno t b t think, be a very tame affair indeed. Accustomed to the free utterance of the thoughts and opinions rising from his heart, or descending from his brain, tehi -• eeio s ilys tob e p oure d ou t f rom th ence i n t h at go ld en of Words of eloquence in their musical ring and intrinsic valuedia monds tk far beyond the fabled rubies and must, by the Arabian Princess—Mr. GLADSTONE .‘vhen reading a carefully written discourse ( as he d in Staffordshire, i nWa yesterd a y d o w n a t B urs l em , honou r o f c ld J OSIAH WEDG OOD, thepatriar c h of the Potteries ther ea b ou t s ) Mr. GLADSTO NE , We 84 1', must surely have felt as though Wer e wereb hampered in his move ments, as though a closer atmosphere ! Yet, reading for a while his address, now that it comes to us its printed print e d form (as it mus t have done had it bee n , till:questionably yesterday quite spontaneously) i t iBsl3°kerl by him u i g f ht, ver y beautiful. It is full a f originality. virile, fresh, abounding with it fails— as it does, b e y ond a doubt, and, indeed, it hardly have be en otherwise—to take rank a mong could th e masterpieces of orator y to which En;listitia eu have become accustomed from Mr. GLADaToNE it is, at any rate, i n ma ny respects, q u i te worthy of him. And as an address spoken by Mr.GL AB . STONE (whether impromptu or merely read, it r a m_ tern little), it has a ch arm about it, this speech o f the Chancellor of the Exchequer's down at Burslem, a charm that we have not for a long while past been in any way called upon to recognise and appreciate in the Parliamentary speeches of Mr. GLAD STONE down in the Legislative Palace at Westminster. The charm we speak of is the charm of geniality. Session after session the Chancellor of the Exchequer's eloquence has been marred either by his ascerbity or byhis arrogance. His sentences, fora long while past, have had about them something of the swish of the ferule. He has been, alternately, administering severe chastisement to some politica l ho opponent, great or sma ll, as t h e case m i g h t b e —or has been Still more severelylecturing whole House the House of Commons, as House of I Commons, we take, never was lectured before. The debates, there, must apparently (whensoever he • himself at least has been engaged in them) have partaken somewhat of the m onotony, for hi m , of the perpetual repetition of the second declension tnagist magistri, magistro, B;c., down to the doleful vocative and ablative. The pedagogue has so far gained upon his nature favour ite rule) that is has harshen'd his once (as his melo dious voice and seamed his Once handsome coun tenance with lines of p remature a ge and inflexible severity. Geniality seems to be about the last thing thought of, whenever Mr. GLADSTONE a i rs his eloquence, or shall :e e say gives himself airs, i n he House of Common, ieeoraueh has he habituated himself there to " assume the god, affect to nod, and seem to shake the spheres," that, on his rising, some times, one would almost fancy the members gene rely—like naughty schoolboys, or tim'rous hares— trembling on their forms. For once, however, as he was wont to be in times gone by, before be grew { cross-grained and took to scolding—while, in fact,' he was yet known as Handsome GLADSTONE, While he stood at the head of his class 'as oae of PEEL'S Boys, while MACAULAY was patting him on the back with the Edinburgh„ as the model Student of Christ Church, Oxford—for once, as he was wont to be 3 .n those far happier early days of his when all was " promise" and not "place," Mr. GLADSTONE was yesterday p; e lial, for once again, and that, moreover, in his two characters rolled into one, as a writer and as a speaker. Discoursing upon one of our old Engli s h Worthies, he, for that one rare interval, resumed his almost f or g otten g enialit y , s p eakin g , as he did so, i n a manner worthy of himself and of his si m pl e theme, the life and labours of our En glish PALI SSY , goo d, honest JOSIAII WEDGWOOD, the Fath er o f our English Potters, the Founder of our English Potteries. Manchester has always been famous for public meetings and addresses, as the annals of many hard fought political struggles may testify. The so called Manchester party has always expressed a good deal of sympathy for American institutions and laws, and has more than hinted that it would be well for England if she were to copy them a little more closely. It was not therefore to be sup posed that so decided a Federal as Mr. BEECHER would quit this country without delivering an ad • dress ;in that city ; and accordingly on Saturday morning the Manchester Union and Emancipation Society invited the American speaker to be presen at an entertainment given in his honour. Mr. BEECHER, of course, took the opportunity of ex pressing his views on the state of affairs in his own country, which were mostly received very cordially, although one or two awkward questions occasion ally broke the spell of unanimity. According to Mr. BEECHER everything Northern is colour de rose. The Federal finances are flourishing as they never flourished before, and thriving, moreover, on a sound and satisfactory basis. He does not deny the possibility, or even probability of a great financial crash. He looks upon that as the best and shortest way of setting everything to right and clearing up old scores. "In America,'' he says, "we need a financial judgment day once in ten years, and we get it." He is perfectly satis fied with this state of affairs, and he probably re presents the feelings and opinions of a good many of his countrymen. A new country, he says, must have credit, and with credit comes the evils of spe culation and the mistakes of over sanguine men. Once in ten years the thing comes round in a kind of crash. The bubble is broken, the paper is gone, and the property remains. The man that yester• day says " This is my house," don't say so tomor row; but the community is not hurt, the property is there, the difference is in its shifting owners. This cool and comfortable sort of reasoning comes very well from a speaker of that country where a failure is thought nothing, so long as it is large enough to be creditable. However, whatever the end of the road along which the Federal Govern- went are travelling, Mr. BEECHER declares it to be very smooth and pleasant, and so long as the day of reckoning is some way off, the profusion of capital afloat is quite sufficient to satisfy Ame rican financiers. But fiscal questions were not the only ones to be discussed at the Manchester Assembly. Mr. BEECHER. declares his great object to be the promotion of a better under- standing and a lasting peace between this country and his own, and in pursuance of this end he wished to make us understand the American view on every question, or, as he terms it, "The American stand point." Accordingly he endeavours to realise to us the Northern aspect, of the famous Trent, but he does not succeed in making out a very clear case. In the first place he says the Federals looked upon the transaction as altogether comic. They were extremely amused at the pretentious embassy terminating behind the bolts and bars of a Northern prison. After they had sufficiently enjoyed the joke they began to inquire about the law, but a search into English precedents confirmed their previous impressions of being altogether in the right. Still 7 11 r. BEECHER affirms that there was a universal readiness to acknowledge that they might be in the wrong, and that any delay in the surrender of the two prisoners was only occasioned by the courteous desire to wait for the expression of the wishes of the English Cabinet. When the final decision was arrived at, although it excited surprise, Mr. BEECIIER affirms that it was at once agreed to, and that he cannot recall any occasion on which it was spoken or written against. This may be very true, so far as Mr. BEECHER'S experience may go, bat we cannot so easily forget the bombast about sweeping English commerce from the sea, which is repeated at every opportunity, and the general ill feeling so persistently shown by the North. We fear that the orders which despatched British troops to Canada, and put the navy and dockyards on double labour, whatever offence they may have given to Mr. BEECHER, had more to do in procuring the liberation of Messrs. SLIDELL and MASON than the courtesies of diplomacy or the search for precedents. Coming to the great question of slavery, which of oourse could not be left undiscussed by the guest of Emancipation Society, Mr. BEECHER had a good deal to say. The matter was introduced in the worst possible taste by Mr. PATERSON of Liverpool, who thought fit to denounce, in most unworthy language, one whose name every right-minded Abolitionist must honour. It is easy to stand up now at a meeting of Emancipationists and to speak of Lord BROUGHAM'S views on the American ques tion4B " Words of un p ara ll e l e d b aseness ," an d t o sOeer et himself as "a poor spoilt old man ;" but it w " net so easy to fight the b a ttl e o f E manc ip a tion years ago when the name of HENRY BROUGHAM Was foremost in the van. This is not the way to argue a great question closely entwined with all the complicated rami fications o f a vas t soc i a l an d political system, unreasonable extr eta u c ith vehem ence o f l anguage an d obstacles in th e Way 0 ,7 e of views put additional and pressing matter. Itttling a most momentous consider the question qf elnye attempt be made to li g ht with the obj ect of Y s a practical the formidable difficulties in the in moothing a wa y compensating the slave-owners, but Y, not only of of providi ng for the emancipa ted slaves themselves__ if is expresse d lly If m n— as to the wisdom kindness of immediate wholesale abolition, a dozen enthu ready to denounce th siasts are at on ce speaker as to the cause, a friend to s lavery and traitor --a foe and all its attenda nt horrors. There is, perhaps, no subject on which the great bo d y o f the English people feel more strongly than slavery, and it was this feeling that American Unionists counted on to support them. But they did n ot reckon on Eng lish cleansightedness. English m en were not going to believe, however specious th© arguments or eloquent the p er i o d s , that what is right in one State is wrong in another ; that it is th e height of virtue and the triumph of freedom to declare those slaves free over whom you have no influenc e, while ' l oyal" plantation owners may have as man y s ' ,a ' s 'ee as they like. To our Flail old ftv hioned notions of right and wrong, murder is murder, whether a black man assassinate his master or a slave-driver flog a negro to death; but North and South seem to view the matter differently. .We entertain no reasonable doubt, that an offer to re turn to the Union would secure any terms the South might choose to dictate on the subject of slavery. We cannot find in all Mr. BEECHER'S professions any contradiction of a fact which is perhaps too well known to bear contradiction— the ill-treatment of free negroes in the Northern States. It was easy to turn from the awkward question as to whether blacks were treated like whites among the virtuous abolitionists—easy to denounce a traveller who commented on the harsh ness and injustice shown them, as "a serpent" and " a son of the devil" ; but the audience who re cived such denunciations with enthusiastic ap plause might perhaps find a week in New York a curious confirmation of such accusations. It is not by such intemperance of language and such incon sistency of conduct, that Englishmen will ever be won to the Federal cause. They must be a little more convinced of the sincerity of the professions, and see a little more of humanity in the practice, before even Abolition can enrol men in its ranks. Mr. LAIRD'S remarks are always worth attend ing to. On the occasion of his addressing the volun teers of Birkenhead the subject to which he alluded at the close of his speech was naturally one that excited attention and interest. He alluded to the confusion that has prevailed with regard to the Alabama, and corrected some of the misstatements that have prevailed to so great an extent with re spect to that world-famous vessel. In the first place, he contradicted the report that she had made her escape in a surreptitious manner, the fact being that she sailed in broad daylight. He next de clared that the rumour respecting the captain in forming a sailor of his intentions was altogether unfounded. It is astonishing how often reports are circulated with tbo greatest confidence, and the utmost credence attached to them by persons in a responsible position, and all the time there is really no foundation for their existence. Doubtless this affair of the Alabama has given rise to a hundred statements, differing in complexion but similar in exaggeration. Mr. LAIRD is quite justified in tak ing every opportunity that presents itself to him of making public all that he has to tell concerning a vessel of which he says with becoming spirit that he is not ashamed to acknowledge that some of his family have had to do with it. The assertions, then, that have been made by the member for Birkenhead ought to carry weight with them, and impress those who have hitherto been prone to believe all that interested parties or prejudiced politicians have been ready to say. Mr. LAIRD was very happy in his exposition of the Solicitor-General's contradictory opinions with respect to this vexed question. The eminent gentleman was very explicit in respect to the impossibility of stating that the Alabama was sent out of this country as a ship of war. It is well known that on a recent occasion Sir ROUNDELL PALMER has modified or altered his v i e ws, but his first reading of th e ma tt er i s th e one most in as cordance with the general tone and temper of the country. Also Mr. LAIRD pointed out the discre pancy that exists between Lord PALaIERSTON'S and Earl RUSSELL'S views on the subject. It is really remarkable that the two lead ing statesmen of the Cabinet should so materially differ on a subject that concerns national honour, and involves so many important interests. Lord PALMERSTON stated to the House in last March that had the Government proceeded to stop the Alabama, they might have been liable to heavy damages. This observation is curiously contrasted with the spirit which animated Earl RUSSELL in Scotland the other day. The Foreign Secretary completely contradicts the opinion of the Premier in practice, if not in theory. He announces his intention of straining the law to the uttermost, and if the powers vested in it are not suffi cient, he undertakes to go to Parliament for an indemnity. Mr. LAIRD'S bold address and out spoken declaration expresses the latent conviction that is in the minds of all high-minded and inde pendent Englishmen. When he asserted that Parliament would not indemnify any man, how ever powerful, who tried to transgress the law, loud and protracted cheering followed his remarks. There is no doubt such will be proved to be the case, and not all the eloquence of Mr. COBDEN, nor the vehement denunciations of Mr. BRIGHT, will convince or coerce the members of the Legis lature. No statesman made a greater mistake than they who tried the introduction of the Conspiracy Bill; but the present proposal is even worse, and Lord RUSSELL may count on a yet stronger and fiercer opposition, if he put his professions into prac tice next session. Doubtless the Americans are now exultant at the prospect held out, to them of coercing English statesmen, and sacrificing English interests at the shrine of arrogance to suit their own grasping demands. Mr. LAIRD truly remarks that the laws of this country were not made for the Admi nistration but for the people, and that no Minister has a right to call for obedience to those measures which may hereafter become law, but are not so now. If Lord RUSSELL gain the admiration and applause of the Government of Washington, an d forfeit the respect and confidence of the people of this country, he will have paid a dear price for his bargain. Inconsistency is a quality that is always obnoxious to the tastes of a nation, and it is pre. seating that feature of a character in a very dis tasteful form to maintain a neutrality that has cost us so dear, and occasioned in some parts of the land a distress that has been unparalleled in its extent and intensity, and then to turn round and favour one side of the combatants in a way that is particu larly injurious to our mercantile interests, and de rogatory to the honour of the country. These things generally right themselves at last, but meanwhile it is annoying to find men in a responsible position influenced by such mistaken views, and led astray by the representations of parties who only seek to gratify their own desires without regard to the re quirements of the country. ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION.—Mr. Ger man Reed, in a few days, intends presenting to the public a perfectly novel entertainment, and one which, if we mistake not, is likely to produce most important results to the musical profession and the public in general. With a view to promote the interests of music and musicians, Mr. Reed intends producing an "Opera di Camera"—namely, a work of simple dramatic form, requiring for its execution a limited number of vocalists, with the accompaniment of a pianoforte, in a manner altogether without a parallel in the metropolis. The united exertions of Messrs. Mac fatren and Oxenford have been secured, the former for the music, the latter the libretto ; and the result of the en gagement is the production of an opera of the description mentioned, entitled "Jessy Lea." Mr. German Reed has our best wishes for success, but of that there cannot be a doubt, recollecting the good things he has already delighted his patrons with. and Milford Haven, 111.0 N SHIPBUILDING AT THE SOUTH WALES 13°"8.—Efforts are being made at the principal in orderptehuadt Ports of South Wales, including Newport, Cardiff, Llanelly, to establish iron shipbuilding yards, forh theirdstrict may not, as has hitherto been the shipbuilders. case, de in the matter, for tilr' Theriving iron ships on the Tyne and Clyde there, the plates bein port of Llanelly has taken the lead g :an iron ship already on the stocks Co., Marshfield Works. manufactured by Messrs. Nevill & about to commence building an B. dry dock, and Mr. Scott, Ituill 13 atchelor Blethers are ice vessel at the Cardiff and &l l :zed upon the site of a shipbuilding yard at Cardiff, saccepted contracts for the castructio4 of several iron bhisp LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. NEW YOltli, OCT. 17 (Evening.) (Per the North American.) It is officially announced that General Lee has not crossed the Potomac. There is no further news from Virginia. President Lincoln has called for 300,000 Volun teers. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money easy, Gold, 491. Stocks dull. CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. MARSEILLES, OCT. 27. The Vectis, with the above mails, arrived here at 8.30 a.m. this day. The mills leave for London by the 11 . 30 a.m. train. LO L ENGLISHGDEN. OPERA, COVENT AR •• 4 Under the Manatxemen t H ot Miss arrison. Louisa Fyne and Mr. W. THIS EVENING, Wallace's Romantic Opera, THE rES ERT FLOWER : Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne ; Messrs. W. H. Weiss, H. Cond. A. Cook, and W. Harrison. Conductor. Mr. A. Mellon.—Doors open at half-past Seven. ommence at Eight. TREATRE ROYAL DRURY- LANE. Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, GONE TO TEXAS. Mr. Walter Lacy and Miss Murray. Ai ter which, Lord Byron's Choral Tragedy, MANFRED. T+ltessrs. helps, Ryder, Rayner, M-a,greson, Ward, Spencer ; 14ltiss Heath, Miss E. Atkinson, Miss Leclercq, and Mrs. E. Falconer. Vocalists—Miss Poole. Miss r.itter, Miss Cicely otr, Miss Heywood, and Mr. Swift. To conclude with A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. iIHEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.- Sole Lessee and Mana;:er. Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, OUR MARY ANNI•I After which, COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles Mathews. Followed by THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Messrs. Charles Mathewo, Compton,Weathersby, ; Mesdames C. Mathews, L, Keeley. Griffith, &c. And MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. Mr. FECIITER begs respectfully to inform the Nobility and Publie that the above Theatre will Or h:N on SATUR DAY next, with a new Drama, entitled BEL DEM.ONIA. , a Love Story, in Four Acts, in which Mr. Fechter will ap pear, supported by Meagre. Brouzh..m, S. Emery, G. Jordan and F. Charles ; Miss Kate Terry, Miss Layenue, !Eire. Lee and Mies Elsworthy. The Box-office will be opened on Monday , Oct. 26, from eleven till five. M ISS BATEMAN.—LEAI-I.—T he celebrated young American Actress, Miss BATMAN, havi of LEAH ng an her first appeararce in the New Drama, ob tained the most triumphant and enthusiastic success that has been witnessed for many years, and the profound impression created by her impersonation of the character ratified AH pt a crowded audience hsvino- been completely by the unanimous verdict and critical approval of the entire Daily P Mana , er ot the NEW DE LPIII THEATRE has the ress, the honour to announce that Miss riAT EMAN will appear in the New Drama of LEAH EVERY EVENING till further notice. EW THE A.TitE-1-t0 YAL, ADELPHI.-. Sole Pronrtetor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE TRAGEDY QUEEN: Mrs. fit 8, the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bateman, supported by Messra.A.thur Stirling, R. Phillips, Billinzton, Stuart, . A. W oo d, Eburne, Miss H. Simms and Mrs. Billington. To conclude w ith CATCHING AN HEIRESS Miss Woolc,,ar and Mr. A. Wood. ERRMANN.-PRINCESS'S THEATRE._ Immense Success.—" The Tricks and Feats of Herr le rrma nn are nearly all of the most asto n i s hi ng and Inc )m -prelienaible kind. His sleight-of-hand f ea t s are really mar vellous, and the ease, finish, and accuracy o f hi s tricks are such as have never before been witnessed In this country."— standard, Sept ; 20. Herrmann in his MONEY TRICK, EVERY EVA IN G. "AIN ew System of Making Ple aty of money " commencing at Eight. Half-price at Nine o'Clock. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Hr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, TURN HIM our. Mr. C. Fenton. After which, 1 11111,111'A CRIME. Messrs. G. Honey, Parse'le, Belford, Turner, Miss K.Saville, and Miss Manders. Followed by THE MOTTO, " I'M ALL THE ttE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier, Mesdames Ada Swan borough, F. Hugh es, Weston, Thorne, Wallace, and Jenny White. Commence at 7. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, =be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, ilyde-park. fIIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY.—Morning, 2h. sm.—Afternoon, 2h. 23m. To-mottßow.-Morning, 2h. 44m.—Afternoon, 3h. 3m. The Weather—Sun Office, Oct. 27, 1863. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock Barometer-29.88. Wind—South-West; light breeze, and foggy. 4 T 4. egt .04 * -4 0*; SUM Tllh SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCI'OBER 27, 1863, FRANCE. BOURSE, Oct. 26.--The market was heavy at the opening, but afterwards rallied, and now shows a slight improvement, Threes, for the Account, being at 67f. 17-Ic. Mobilier Shares are also rather higher. Railway Shares firm, but with little business doing. The market continued firm to the close, and left off as follows : It per Cents. 95 30 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 25 Credit Mobilier 1123 75 Do. end month 1 1 2 3 75 Bank Shares .3340 Credit k oncier 1300 Roman — Italian Loan 73 40 Do. end month 73 26 New ditto Do. end month — Russian Austrian Spanish Threes 63 50 Horne Debt .. s2a Deferred PAIN. Cash. Account. 980 980 981 25 .. 980 955 25 912 50 500 6 86 25 .. 692 50 512 50 .. 515 508 7 5 .. 607 50 413 75 .. 415 416 25 420 566 25 .. 665 540 541 25 632 50 .. 635 337 50 .. 342 50 BAIL' Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean New ditto - • Geneva Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona HAYMARKET THEATRE. A splendid audience last night assembled at the Hay market Theatre to welcome home the inimitable Charles Mathews, after an absence from the stage of nearly two years. This circumstance of itself would have been quite sufficient to have filled the house, but the eclat which has recently attached to his performances in the French language at the Theatre des Variet6s, Paris, gave an additional amount of interest to the occasion. It was felt by all a duty to welcome him, in conjunction with his ac complished wife, in a manner peculiarly and thoroughly English. The piece he selected for his entree was a farce from the French, known here as " Cool as a Cucumber." In this farce for forty nights Mr. C. Matthews, in the French language, elicited from the most fastidious and exacting audiences in Paris not only applause but admiration, and that, be it remem bered, from a class by no means ready to adroit the existence of excellence in any but Pa risian actors, in what is familiarly termed here "light" comedy. The moment his voice was heard " without," as it is professionally termed, as the modest, retiring and bashful (?) Mr. Plumper, the applause of the audience commenced, and on his appearance the assembly gave vent to such hearty demonstrations of fervour, that Mr. Mathews seemed for the moment perfectly over powered by the cordial greeting. Again and again he attempted to commence his part, but salvos of applause followed each effort, and for some minutes the interior ce the theatre presented a scene of the most extraordinary description —the cries of " Bravo, bravo I" " welcome, welcome 1" accompanied by the waving of hate and handkerchiefs, coming from all parts of the house. At length the farce was allowed to proceed. There is no need of even giving a mere outline of the plot, as every body knows that Plumper introduces himself into the house of a retired gentleman, on the supposition that he has once met his son on board the Rhine steamboat, and immediately he commences arranging the furniture, hang ings to pictures, &c., &c., to please his own fancy, irre spective of the wishes and desires of the astonished and dumbfoundered owner of the house. He kisses the maid, makes love to the niece, drinks Old Barkins's wine, rings for biscuits, orders luncheon, &c., &e., in the most off hand free-and-easy style; and the farce is brought to a climax by his obtaining the consent of the father to the marriage of his (Barkins's) son and niece, a consent he had determined never to give. The manner in which Mr. Mathews enacts the part is the perfection of light comedy. He sus tains a perpetual laugh by the most delicate acting, and when the farce evaporates into mere burlesque, and he mingles stage facts with the dramatic story, the whimsi cality of the whole thing finishes the little drama amidst roars of laughter. In the classical burlesque "The Golden Fleece," Mrs. Mathew's sustained the part of Medea with extraordinary spirit, of which it is impossible to speak in too high terms of praise. To sum the performance up in two or three words, it was the very cream of burlesque acting, and elicited immense applause. Mr. C. Mathews appeared as Chorus, and gave two or three of his extra ordinary patter songs, in a manner perfectly and wholly his own. Mr. Compton was great and glorious as the King of Corinth, and Miss Louisa Keeley as the fast young Jason, reminded us very forcibly of her talented and gifted mother. The burlesque, which was put on tke sta ge in magnificent style, pleased the audience amazingly. ROYAL COLOSSEUM. The last season of the existence of the Colosseum, as at present arranged, will certainly be the must successful on record, and the next question naturally asked is, how has that success been achieved ? The answer is extremely short, viz , by the untizing, persevering, and indomitable energy of Mr. A. Nimmo. Since the establishment has been under his superintendence, novelty has seconded novelty in quick succession• He has not been satisfied with engaging artistes, the gloSs of whose performance has been taken off by their appearance at other places in the metro polis, but from his extended knowledge and experience he knew exactly where to get that which he required, and, moreover, that which he was certain would hit the taste of the metropolitans. His last introduction, Herr Maju, the preatidigitateur, is a wonder. His tricks are new, neatly and cleverly performed ; and the whole audience nightly leave the magnificent theatre with the firm conviction that their "eyes aro made the fools o' the other senses." We must especially point out the wonderful trick he performs with two plates of cotton wool. Having eaten the whole in small quantities, and blown forth immense volumes of smoke and fire whilst doing so, he next produces from his mouth hundreds of yards of coloured ribbons, to the immense astonishment of the audience. This is succeeded by another equally as clever, but of a different description, which shows most in contestibly that whether 5 or 50 halfcrown-pieces are required he can produce them all from his 16 magical coins. At the conclusion of the Wizard's performance Mr. George Buck land gives his Musical Gleanings. This is followed by an exhibition of the magnificent panorama " Paris by Night," then follows the ever-pleasing dissolving views, and the whole is brought to a conclusion by the wonderful repre sentation of the " Destruction of Lisbon by Earthquake." Although this picture has been exhibited for years, yet it still preserves all its beauties, the colours, effects of light, shade, and the storm at soa are now as beautiful as ever. What with Stalactite Caverns, Swiss Scenery, Statuary, Conservatories, &c., the Colosseum is certainly one of the best and cheapest exhibitions ever presented to the public. THE SULTAN has given orders to construct at Maslak a camp, on the model of that of Chalons, to manoeuvre there 40,000 men in the spring. REVIVAL OF THE OLD GAME OF TENNIS.—The Prince of Wales is a very expert tennis player, and we believe (says one of our weekly contemporaries) that his Royal Highness will extend his patronage to the London tennis courts, of whi T ch en t n h i e s r; a a s r a e n th i r n e d o o . or O a t ra h u er s s e w rne il a l, t, how- i e t v l e l r a , s so w o o n n s t p t r o in b g e. up whoa the game becomes as popular as can not be excelled. It promotes moms sana in corpore sane. There aro only a few of the ancestral halls of England that can boast of a court; perhaps the best are those of Good wood and Woburn. We are surprised that such should be the case, because there are few more scientific games than tennis; in addition to which, those that cannot play at this game can always pass a few hours at rackets, or even that play of our early years—fives. Tennis appears to have been introduced into England in the beginning of the 13th cen tury by the upper ten thousand, who erected courts for the performance of it. The origin of the name is doubtful. The celebrated oath of the " Jeu do Paume" was taken by the members of the National Assembly in a tennis court at Versailles, May 20, 1789 (when the doors of the hall had been closed against them by the Royal command), binding themselves never to separate until they had given a con stitution to France. . " THE QUEEN v. WHITEITURSTP—This case, which was removed by writ of certiorari from the Central Criminal Court, stands the second for trial the sittings after next term, commencing on the 26th November, The ca:e has been pending nearly twelve raczthe, LITERATURE. Poems and Translations. By Edward Vaughan Kenealy, LL.D. One Vol., pp. 460. Reeves and Turner. As Judge Blackstone'wrote his Farewell to the Muses in a poetical outburst, so far like the song of the nightingale that it was at the least " most musical, most melancholy," so, like wise, has written Dr, Edward Kenealy. With this difference, how ever—that in Dr. Kenealy's Farewell the pathetic is at times strangely, almost, one might say, hyste rically, mingled with the humorous. The sobs are not unfrequently interrupted by wild shrieks of laughter. As a collection of poetical pieces of a very miscellaneous character, the volume before us is, in many ways and for many reasons, very remarkable. It is in one sense, if so paradoxical a phrase might for a moment be just barely tolerated, a sort of a posthumous bcok published during the author's lifetime. For it is so—partially and actually—in this way: it is posthumous in regard to the poet's youth. These Poems were, as Dr. Kenealy tells us in his preface, originally intended to precede the publication of his Xe-w Pantomiine. Many of the productions here collected together are manifestly enough the effu sions of that happy " golden age" for us all—la jeunesse. That sweet spring-time in the Year of Life for each ! The time—hcw often wistfully looked back to now !—when we went a-maying ! Poems like these of the vernal season, of the early morn ings, when the flowers were opening, and the dews sparkling, and thO delight of life was new—may be found here by the reader scattered up and down the volume very refreshingly. That is one of the peculiarities we have alluded to, as especially no• ticeable in this book, published as it is by its author during what Longfellow tenderly speaks of as " the winds of autumn and the first fall of the snow." Another curious particularity here on the part of the writer is visible at the first momentary glance at his title page. The word translations being far more conspicuous, there, than the word poems—meaning, by the last-mentioned word, poems of an original character. Yet, strange though this is upon the surface, when we come to look more closely into the depths of the current of thought flowing down these 460 pages— far more for the most part than a mere rivulet of rhyme running (according to Sheridan's droll alli teration) through a meadow of margin—the empha sis, so to speak, laid upon that ordinarily subordi nate word translations on the title-page, becomes in no way at all so very surprising. For, what are these same translations by Dr. Kenealy ? Transla tions they are such as render the book almost a poly glot edition—translations so various that they might have amused the leisure hours of a leviathan of lan guages, like the late wonderful Cardinal Mezzofanti. Upon the mention of whose world-famous name as the very Paragon of Philologists, we may avail ourselves of this first opportunity to relate what we may at once entitle AN ORIGINAL ANECDOTE ABOUT MEZZOFANTI—as told to us by an accomplished Welch gentle man recently returned from Rome—a Welch man, not only as born in Wales of Welch parents, but as heart and soul a descendant of the ancient Britons, speaking the Welch language, a cumstance not very general among the more highly educated and patriotic of Welchmen of the upper class. Our informant, by the way, as a native of North Wales, speaks fluently and familiarly the dialect of North Wales—finding it to this day, however, a matter of extreme difficulty (though himself a Welchman) to understand, or be understood by, a native of South Wales —so widely different are the two dialects. Yet upon the testimony of our Welch friend, how stood the matter in respect to those two diametrically different dialects, in the instance of that most mar vellous of linguists, Cardinal Mezzofanti ? Mezzo fanti—remember--never having, all his life, been in Wales, either North or South ! Why, the matter stood simply thus—that Cardinal Mezzofanti could converse with perfect facility, (whenever circum stances threw them together), either with John Gibson, the great sculptor, or with Henry Williams, the eminent landscape painter, the one a native of South Wales, the other of North Wales. The diver sities of dialect baffling an accomplished retire of the land in which they occur, proving no difficulty or impediment whatever to one so rarely endowed with the gift of tongues as his Eminence Cardinal Mezzofanti. Returning to Dr. Kenealy, however, and his translations, we find the latter introduced afflu ently upon these pages from 271 to 459—from the Greek, from the Latin, from the Swedish, from the Danish, from the Spanish, from the Magyar, from the Italian, from the German, from the Portuguese, from the Irish, from the Arabic, from the Bengali, from the Persian! Translations, among others, from Homer, and Catullus, and Mendoza, and Petrarch, and Vietor 119 go, and Camoens, and Goethe ! As a pretty little preliminary pastime, the introductory " Sonnet" (reprinted, as a footnote tells us, from an earlier volume of verses published originally several years ago) is translated by our author himself, not only into Latin, and German, and Irish—the former we may venture to say most gracefully, the latter, we must confess, being utterly incomprehensible to us—but, in addition to all that, Dr. Kenealy must needs give three distinct versions of that one sonnet, on page 3, on page 4, and on page 5 in Hindostanee. We suppose there are are but two or three men in this country, who could, with ease and pleasure to themselves, conn these manifold " translations" (from and into English) by Edward Vaughan Kenealy, weighing all them discriminatively against their respective origim.ls, in the balance of an appreciative judgment —there are, let us repeat it, we should suppose but one or two in the whole country who could really do this with ease and pleasure to themselves, Dr. Bowring let us say, or his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman. Yet it is a man as accomplished as Dr. Kenealy, a ripe scholar, a writer gifted with no small share of eloquence in rhythmical composition—who can nevertheless have the exceeding bad taste to mix the true grain with so much mere draff and husks—husks and draff that nearly choke us in our endeavour to swallow them. What possibly, for example, could have possessed Dr. Ken ealy to write, to correct the proof-sheet, actually to publish, such mere lyrical jibbering, as that song poem, doggrel, what shall we call it? (pp. 264-5) --entitled " The Three Wolves," with a burden or refrain at the close of each stanza, for all the world like that inarticulate baby-talk, familiar iu the nursery, when the palm of the hand is rapidly patted against the little rosy lips— ,6 Witte, wan, wau, wau, watt I Wille, woh, woh, woh, woh I Whit to whoo I whit to whoo I woh I " But the " Nursery Rhymes," as here actually preserving for us, to the number of nine—one a-piece for the Muses in their second childhood ! those, in truth, are very marvels of effrontery, put forth gravely, as they are, by a learned adult like Dr. Kenealy for indefinite preservation. Shall we so far partake of the silliness rampant in these same Nursery Rhymes as to give one or two of them in the way of quotation ? Take the following— Little black Bob Was a desperate snob— His tongue was as sooty as grandmother's hob; But the brain that he had Was so hopelessly bad, There wasn't in Bedlam one equally mad. That, we take it, is a case de lunatic° inquirendo, Or, read the bllowing— There was a man, He took his knife, And he said to a lady— " Will you be my wife ? For if you wo'nt, I'll have your life"— " Sir," says she, " be your wife." That being clearly a case for the Court of Probate and Divorce. If we venture upon giving just one more—Say the following LITTLE JACK SNIPE. Little Jack Snipe, He found some tripe, And didn't know how to cook it, — So a cat came up, And gobbled it up, Saying, " lhat' s the way Icook it—" we can only say if such morceaux are specimens of our author's taste, whether of rhyme or rearion— this sang of the snipe and such like nonsense-verses —tie gustibus non dispu'andurn. Nevertheless, it is impossible not to recognise in Dr. Kenealy a scholar with very rare gifts and accomplishments (many of them, it is true, as in this instance, deplorably run to waste)—a poet who has already evidenced the blending in his handiwork of the gold and the clay, as in that extraordinary production, touched here and there unmistakably with true touches of genius, yet so much of it, the bulk of it in fact, of the earth earthy, some of it even de%ilish of its kind-7he New Pantomime ! RISE OF RELIGIOUS SECTS. FRAGMENTS IROM A VERY CURIOUS AND SUGGESTIVE SECTION (yS 26, pp. 108-100) or "DIE POCRET DATE Boob," BY W. L. It. CATES. A.D. The Arians •• •• •• 320 The Pelagians The Nestorians •• •• •• •• •• 430 The Greek Church (separated from the Roman) .. 800 The Albigenses and Waldenses . .. 1100 The Flagellants • • • • .. .. 1260 The Lollards (followers of John Wickliffe) .. 1380 The Hussites (followers of John Husse) 1415 The Moravians (or United Brethren) 1457 The Anabaptists • • • • • • • • .. 1520 The Lutherans (followers of Martin Luther) .. 1527 The (Reformed) Church of England • • .. 1530 The Calvinists (followers of John Calvin) 1535 The Antinomians (followers of Agricola) 1.535 The Presbyterians .. 1550 The Socinians (followers of Sedans) • • • • 1550 The Puritans .. .. 1560 The Independents (or Congregationalists) .. 1580 The Baptists • • • • • • • .. 1608 The Quietists (followers of Do-Molinos) .. 1640 The Quakers (followers of George Fox) .. .. 1644 The Unitarians (followers of John Biddle) .. 1650 The Muggletouians (fols. of Ludovick Muggloton) 1650 The Nonconformists (after the Act of Uniformity) 1662 The Cameronians (followers of Richard Cameron).. 1666 The Pietists (founded by Spener) . • .. 1670 The Shakers (or United Society of Believers) .. 1688 The Glassires (followers of John Glass) .. .. 1730 The Hutchisonians (followers of John Hutchison).. 1730 The Wesleyan Methodists (followers of JohnWe,ley) 1739 The Calvinistic Methodists (fols. of Geo. Whitfield) 1751 The Jumpers .. 1760 The Lady Huntingdon's Connexion 1765 The Swedenborgians (fols. of Emanuel Swedenborg) 1787 The Southcotiians (followers of Joanna Southcote).. 1792- The Ranters (followers of Hugh Bourne) .. 1810 The Bryanites (followers of William O'Bryan) .. 1815 The Irvingites (followers of Edward Irving) .. 1830 The Mormons (followers of Joseph Smith) 1830 The Morrisonians • • • • 1840 Manhattan's Last Screech through the War Trumpet. LINCOLN'S LITTLE GAME-AGAIN A LOSING ONE! There has been a battle upon the Rapidan by a portion of the forces of General Lee. Meade's men were terribly beaten, and the slaughter was awful. Some say 1,200 killed, 1,800 wounded, and 1,500 prisoners; yet read how mild and mealy .is the Government dispatch ; "It appears that ono of General Kilpafriek's cavalry brigades attempted a reconnaissance on the south side of Robertson's River, when they were met by a large body of Stuart's rebel cavalry. A fight ensued, continuing an hour, when our troops fell back upon the infantry reserves. After another severe contest the infantry were compelled to give way, and a considerable number of them were captured," A person might read a week before he discovered that such a mild description related to a bloody battle, where our troops were cut to pieces twice, both cavalry and infantry. It is on a par with a recent dispatch of Rosencranz, who closes his account of the bloody battle in which he was defeated near Chattanooga with '• Our loss is severe, but the re sult is commensurate," which probably means gram matically that the result is also severe. M'CLELLAN BONNET TED (A LA. PEEL) BY MANHATTAN. General Mielellan has happily ruined himself politically. The letters relating to the arrest of the Maryland Legislature have all been published. A knowing fly, if he were to get it into one of the ears of the second Emperor Napoleon, could destroy the French empire ; so a very little cause has upset the prospects of Napoleon M'Clellan. " Oh, my Maryland !" Who that loves liberty (I confess that privately I think Liberty an intense humbug) can read those accounts of arrests without weeping. Nothing like it ever occurred in the most tyranni cal days of English history, A whole Legislature bagged like a flock of pigeons, and this great feat was performed by the celebrated General M'Clellan, after consulting with the Secretary of State. If Mac had displayed half as much cleverness when he was absolute commander of 650,000 men—brave, gal lant men (400,000 of whom, owing to his cursed cowardice, ignorance, or something worse, are now manuring and fertilising Virginian farms), this war would have been settled long ago. I have said long ago that this M'Clellan would be used up po• litically as he is in a military point of view. Where is he now ? " FIFTY YEARS AND EUROPE WILL BE EITHER REPUBLICAN OR COSSACK," said Napoleon the Great. Now it seems to be America's tura (according to Manhattan), and Republicans are turning Cossacks. "We are rapidly Russianising. Last night a grand dinner was given to the Russian admiral and the rest of the set by our wealthy citizens connected with commerce. It was got up regardless of ex pense. Horace Greely was present, and being par tially intoxicated, gave the toast " Dear Woman," but Mayor Opdyke made all right by the following fY toast, " The City of N ew Y or k. Wi t h s h t e u r p left hand she grasps the harvest of the West, and with her right she weds the everlasting sea." These things are harmless, for they pass away, but not so the names of our children. Since these Russians arrived in the harbour of New York over 2,000 innocent children have been born. Of course, the Russians had nothing to do with the fact, but twenty years hence what will posterity think of the morality of 1863 P These children are not named Charles, Henry, Robert James, Joseph, William, Rufus, George, and such good names, but instead of them, hundreds are being christened weekly Botokoff Jones, Ostensacken Smith, Rusin Johnson, Ivan Miller, Osliba Jackson, Emperor Alexander Taylor, Czar Wilson, Liscoski King, and Stockel Brady. Then, again, all the names of articles have changed. They, too, are Russianised as well as our babies. We have advertised Cossack pistols, Novgorod garters, Grand Duke boots, Muscovite shirts, Mos cow pantaloons, Kremlin vests, Catherine crinolines, Gortschgkoff writing paper, and Petersburg over- coats. Then, too, the gunpowder that is wasted in firing salutes to the Russians ! If placed under France, it would blow the Emperor a long distance in the direction of the moon. Even the pavement in Broadway, called the Russ pavement, is now claimed as a Russian article, although many in Lon don know that it was laid down by my old but now dead friend Horace P. Russ, who was a Nova Sco tian and not a Russian. Last night the inventive Stetson thought to compliment the Emperor of Russia, and so had as a principal dish—Charlotte Russe. Two SKITTISH YOUNG ELEPHANTS. —The Museum of Natural History in Paris received on Tuesday last a male and female elephant about a y ear old, and a male and female cameleopard, 18 months o ld, sent aspresent to the Emperor by the Viceroy of Egyp t . The cameleopaids are very tall, and the coat of the fem ale is g ra y er than of the male, which is a bright bay. The y are both that re markably tame. The elephants .are n ot taller than young asses, but they are as lively and playful as kittens. They gallop and strike each other with their trunks, and when tired they lie down beside each other. The Museum of Paris now possesses five elephants. LOOK OUT !—A remarkable American book, called " Louis Napoleon, the Destined Monarch of the World," propounds the theory that the personal Anti christ is none other than the present Emperor of the French. The cover of the book is adorned with a most captivating picture of the seven-headed and ten-hot ned beast which Doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus— having one foot on Europe and another on America. Six of the beast's heads are of a wolfish typ e , b ut the seventh has hair and moustaches, and those " pale, corpse-like, i m er turbable features" which we all k now. The contents of the volume are sufficiently mysterious and terrible to fulfil the promise of its outside. It announces that Louis Napo leon will very soon acquire sup reme ascendancy over the whole of Christendom, " and for three-and-a-half years will ruthlessly slay nearly every one who will not acknowledge him to be God." The whole of this tremendous drama is to be completed by the year 1870, when its hero is to perish at the battle of Armageddon ; and therefore it may be ex pected that the performance will very soon begin, V. 5 E' ---„, 4 wA14 :. 1 . ,e' i , ...„. , 4 Cfur t , , -7-1 , - , - -- - !Lagar. ~..._ ~; The Prince and Princess of Wales. SANDRINGHAM, Oct. 26. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Prince and Princess Christian of Den mark, and the Princess Dagmar, attended Divine Rervice yesterday morning at the Sandringham Church ; the Rev. G. B. Moson, the rector, officiated, assisted by another clergyman. The ladies and gentlemen in attendance were—the Countess of Morton, the Countess Reventlow, Lient.•General Knollys, Captai❑ they, Captain Castenskjotd, and Mr. Fisher. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of \Vales and Prince Christian of Denmark, attended by Captain Grey and Captain Cstenskjuld, proceeded to folk ham this morning for a day's shooting with the Earl of Leicester. It is understood that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and his Royal Highness the Prince Christian of Denmark, attended by Captain Grey and Captain Gastenskjold, will attend theHoughton meeting at Newmarket to-day, to witness the run ning for the Cambridgeshire Stakes. Foreign Courts. PARIS, Oct. 25. The Empress of the French, on the day after her arrival in Madrid, went to see her mother, the Countess of Montijo, and remained with her for some time. In the evening the Empress went with the Queen in great State to witness the represen tation of " Semiramide." Her Imperial Majesty sat between the Queen and the King, whilst at the sides were the Infantes Don Francisco and Don Sebastien, and the Princess Anna Murat. Be hind them were the grand officers of the palace and the Empress's suite. The appearance of the theatre was magnificent, all the boxes being occupied by the Ministers of the Crown, the members of the diplomatic corps, the great functionaries, all in full uniform, and the ladies of the Spanish aristo cracy. A curious particularity is related, as at tendant on the Empress taking possession of her apartments in the palace. An old custom of etiquette requires that, when a foreign crowned head sleeps in the palace, a gold key should be pre sented on a cushion to the visitor. That ceremony was duly gone through by M. Onato, one of the grand officers of the palace. The telegraphic de spatch of the Emperor Napoleon to the Empress, when he heard attic invitation given by the Queen of Spain, was worded as follows :—" Mr. Barrot informs me that the Queen of Spain in vites the Countess de Pierrefond to visit Madrid. I recommend the countess to accept such an amiable invitation." The general expectation is that the Empress will prolong her stay in the Spanish capital for two or three days, in order to show the satisfaction she feels at the reception given to her by Queen Isabella. Baron de i‘lalaret, appointed French Minister at Turin, has arrived in Paris. He is about to return to Brussels to present his letters of recall. The Brussels journals state that the King of the Belgians, who continues in the enjoyment of excel lent health, will remain at his villa on the Lake of Como to the end of the week. The Court will return to Windsor from Scotland to-morrow morning at nine o'clock. The Prince and Princess of Wales are expected at Windsor to spend the birthday of hi 3 Royal Highness, on the 9th of November. On the Bth of September, the anniversary of the betrothal of the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Prince gave a beautiful present to her Royal Highness—a bracelet, set with diamonds and rubies, enamelled in Danish colours, and introducing his own portrait. The monogram, surmounted by the coronet of the Princess, is most taste fully arranged, and the bracelet is altogether of a very novel and chaste work. The design was by the Prince.— Court Journal, THE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA is in very bad health, and the doctor gives little hope of her recovery. TILE YOUNG QUEEN OF NAPLES is, we grieve to learn, in bad health, and it is said spits blood. Her cousin, the King of Bavaria (who has recently taken up his residence at an artistic kind of pied-d-terre belonging to his father, King Louis, in the Via di Porta Pinciani, known as the Villa di Malta), anxiousto effect her re-establishment, has brought with him to Rome a German doctor of great repute, to whose care he is desirous of en crusting Queen Maria Sophia's health. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse and the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia were expected to arrive in Edinburgh last evening frdm Balmoral, and to leave the Waverley-bridge Station for London to-night. The Princess Hohenlohe arrived at Dover yester day afternoon from the Continent, and proceeded to the Lord Warden Hotel. Her Highness intended to pass the night in the hotel, and to come to London this morning. Colonel Francis Seymour, C. 8., is in attendance on her Highness. The Duke of Somerset, who has been staying at Stover Park, Devon, with the Duchess and family, is not expected to return to his official residence at the Admiralty until next week. His Grace is expected to dine with her Majesty's Ministers at the Lord Mayor's banquet at the The Duke of Newcastle is expected to arrive in town towards the close of the week from Clamber Park, Notts. His Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio arrived at 49, Grosvenor-street, last night, from Italy. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury left Hatfield House, Herts, to-day, for Highclere Castle, near Newbury, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon until Thursday next. _ The Earl and Countess Grey are entertaining a select party at Howick Hall, Northumberland. The Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor left town yesterday on a visit to Sir Edward Kerrison, Bart., M.P., and Lady Caroline Kerrison, at Brome Hall, Nor folk. The Earl of Chesterfield has arrived at the St. George's Hotel. The Count and Countess Maxence de Damao d'Hautefort have arrived at Brown's Hotel from Paris. Lord Methuen and the Hon. Mrs. Methuen have left the St. George's 116 tel. The Bight Hon. Sir Charles Wood, Bart., M.P., and Lady Mary Wood, left Kickleton Hall on Friday last, to pass a few days with the Earl and Countess de Grey, at Studley Park, near Ripon. Lord Edward St. Mkur arrived at Netherby Hall, near Carlisle, on a visit to Sir Frederick and Lady Graham, on Friday last, from staying with the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, at Dunrobin Castle. His lordship is expected to arrive in town in a day or two. A marriage is about to take place between the Hon. Robert Bourke, third son of the Earl of Maye s and brother of Lord Naas, M.P., and Lady Susim Brown Ramsay, eldest daughter of the late Marquis of Dal housie, K.T., Governor-General of India, THE PRINCE DE LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE'S no mination to the French embassy at our Court it it is said givingmuch sati s f act i on, the Princebeing a man a finished social attainments. His Excellency is the eldest of three brothers, one of whom is Archbishop of Bourgot and the other a he utenant.colonel of infantry, who was for w e lo a long time orderly o ffi cer to the Emperor. The Ambas sadoris 42 year s o f age, and has an only son by an English l ady , belongs to a now deceased. He is nephew of the late Car dinal La To ur d' Auvergne-Lauraomais, Bishop of Arras, and bh younger branch (separated also by maul centuries) of the ancient house of La Tour d'Auvergne. SIR HENRY HOLLAND, one of her Majesty'S physicians, has been visiting the army of the Potomac. Ia was received with military honours. TUE ENSUING TERM.—In addition to the arrears for the ensuing term already mentioned, there are 24 cases and two enlarged rules in the Crown list of the Court of Queen's Bench, making the arrears 66 in that court and la the other two courts 65. REMARKABLE SPEECH OF THE KING OF DEN' MARK.—According to the Aftonbladet, of Stock" holm, the King of Denmark has just delivered the fol lowing speech :—" I have every confidence in the victory and the justice of our cause. I know that my faitbfal Sehleswigers are Danish at heart, and that it would be IL crime against them to consent to divide Schleswig. History shall not tell that the last of the Oldenbou r g s parcelled uut Denmark. lf, however, in the course of tiu lg we must succumb as being the weakest, and France an d Sweden permit the most southern province of Scandinavia, the old Jutland of the south, to share the fate of Gali cia ; of Poland, and of Northern Italy, by being overpower!' and suppressed by German Governments, t h e n I will descend from the throne and will proclaim the republic. I passed three years of my youth in Switzerland ; and I hav e studied the laws and institutions of that country, and I the convinced that no people of Europe is more fitte d for Republican system than my dear Danish peoples".