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On the lElt of October will be published, a Third and Cheap Edition, price 10s. 6d., OBSCURE DISEASES of the BRAIN and MIND. By FORBES WINSLOW, M.D., D.C.L. London : Robert Hardwicke, 102, Piccadilly. RO'IAL COLOSSEUM -Mr. GEORGE ItIICKL AND'S BENEFIT will take 'dace at the above ?institution TO-MORRoW (Tuesday), Morning and Evenin the 25'th inst. In addition to the usual attractions a GRA ND CONCERT will be given, at which the following artistes will appear : Mrs. Alexander Newton, Miss Palmer Lyle. 'Hiss K ite Mellon, Miss Julia Elton, Miss Annie Cox ; Mr. Y oung, Mr, Dawson, Mr. ki enry Buckland, Mr. Roger-, Montem Smith, and Miss Rosins Collins. The ent-r -tainruenta will conclude, by particular desire and on this oc casion only. with the Moving. Melodrama of ADELINE hfOWBRAY, THE MALTREATED MAIDEN : or Villainy Vanquished and Virtue Victorious. Admission to the whole, One Shilling. lIERRMANN. PRESTIDIGITATEUR.- PRINCESS'S TTIEATRE.—IIERR HERRMANN'S Performances, EVERY EVENING, at Eight. In T wo Parts-218 given by him in all the principal 'I heatres and Opera Houses of the Continent of Europe and America. The whole of the Marvellous Illusions entirely new, and invented by Herr Herrraann. Prices of admission as usual. JII_, HE ATRE ROYAL DRURY- LANE. - Managen.s. Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING. THE DEAL BOATMAN: Messrs. G. Belmore, F. Charles ; Miss R. Leclercq, and Mrs. Edmund Falconer. --- To conclude with the new and origi na l C ome dy, by Ed mund Fal,oner, entitled NATURE'S ABOVE ART : A Ro mance of the Nursery : Alessrs.lValter Lacy, Addison, Ryder, Barrett, G. Belmore, F. Charles. Neville; Miss Charlotte aun,iers. Miss Murray, Miss R. Leclercq, Mrs. Melville, and Mrs. Edmund Falconer. Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. Prices as usual. Commence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.- Oven for the Season.—Notice.--During the recess the undermentioned alterations have been made to ensure the comfort of the audicnca A distinct row of Stalls has been erected, with two new Stall Staircases, one on each side of the Theatre. In the Dress Circle, all the partitions and ori ginal seats have been removed, end chairs o' a convenient size, covered with Utrecht ve,vet, introduced. The approaches to the Dress Circle will be carpeted and generally improved, while the seats in the Amphitheatre will be made as commo dious as those of the Pit. In addition the whole of the inte rior of the Theatre has undergone a thorough restoration. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan every evening. THIS EVEN INC, and during the Week, to commence at 7, with AN UNLUCKY 3IORfAL : Mr. William Farren, miss M. Harris, &c. After which, at a quarter to 8, the new Cornedy of FINESSE ; or, Spy and C ounter Spy: characters by Mr. Alfred Wigan, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. Howe, Mr. Buckstone ; Dirs. Dowton (first appearance). Miss L. Angel, and Mrs. Alfred Wigan. Concluding with TURNING THE TA TILES. On Monday, Oct. 26. Mr. and Mrs. CLiAS. MATHEWS wiii return to the London stage. NEW THEATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI,-. Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. Thig Theatre will RE-OPEN for the Winter Season on TFI UR:3DAY next, Oct 1, entirely new painted and decorated. First appearance of Miss BATEMAN, the celebrated Ameri can artiste. At 7, THE TRAGEDY QUEEN :Mrs. Stirling. At 8, the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bateman, supported by Mr. Arthur Stirling (his first appearance here), Messrs. R. Phillips, Billing ton, Stuart, A. Wood, Eberne, Miss 11. Simms and Mrs. Billingtcn. To conclude with CATCHING AN HEIRESS : Miss Woolgar and Mr. A. Wood. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, WHERE'S YOUR WIFE. Mr. Bel ford, Miss Simpson. Followed by (6lst time) THE MOTTO, " I'M ALL THERE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Cok er, Clifton ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, F. Josephs, Maria Simpson, Wallace, and Jenny White. To conclude with TURN HIM OUT. Mr. Turner, Miss Thorne. Commence at 7. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN ." Containing . the Latest SPORTING 'INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening of (.1. It. GLENIE. NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, "Iyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tnts DA.Y.—Morning, 2h. 2 5m.—Afternoon, 2h. 45m. To-woßnow.-Morning, 3h. 7m.—Afternoon, 3h. 27m. The Weather—Sun Office, Sept. 28, 1863. THERMOMETER. This morning ...... _ _ 79 This day at Two o'clock Barometer-29.89. Wind—West ; moderate, and cloudy. "4 , so- - -+ Fes' i4l jt 404t-ovitt LONDON, MONDAY, SEPT. 28, 1863. Earlßuss - ELL has just now, through the medium of .a pretty long speech, been delighting the natives of Perthshire, down at Blairgowrie. His Lordship is tolerably certain, however, through the medium of that very same speech, not so much to delight, as firmly and rather blankly to astonish the natives of every other part of the three kingdoms. We may take even the plaudits won by the eloquence of the noble orator from the assembled tenantry at Blair gowrie, so indicative far more of their satisfaction at having so important a member of the Cabinet as the Foreign Secretary to listen to, than of anything like a deliberate coincidence of theirs in the opinion expressed by him in the course of his harangue. Conning the speech of the noble Earl, under the influence of no such purely personal and compli mentary feelings, that is, as one among a throng of feasting tenants down at Blairgowrie--reading the noble Lord's Address to that tenantry, now that it comes reported to us from a distance, in cold blood, in plain legible black and white, we can only marvel at the rashness (in many particulars) of an oration which does really and truly ap pear to us to be quite as much a mis take on the part of Earl RUSSELL as his notorious despatch a few months back in regard to that tedious Schleswig Holstein Difficulty. Here —in this speech of Lord RUSSELL'S yonder in Scotland—the blundering appears to us to have about it a twofold hardihood. The daring rashness of the remarks uttered by the Foreign Secretary, both in regard to the Steam Rams and in regard to the Federal Government, surpasses anything in the way of blundering r as h ness ever yet ventured upon, even by Earl RUSSELL. H eart and soul we go with the noble lord, of course, when he contents himself with denouncing, in lan guage worthy of him as one of the younger asso ciates of WILBERFORCE and CLARNsON, the hideous abo mination of Slavery : when he said, " For my part, 1 consider that it is one of the most -horrible crimes that yet disgraces humanity." But when Earl illi stitta, goes on to argue that England for the most P l ttt, that is to say, the vast majority of the people se this country, are in favour of the Northern Government, rather than in favour of the Southern Government, that Englishmen as a body s ympathize more with the Federals and less with the Confederates, We can only admire the wilful effrontery with which notorious facts, demonstrative of exactly the reverse, are coolly set aside as of no earthly consideration whatever. It is true that in the very laboured argument in which Earl RUSSELL put forth this astounding declaration, he strives, very speciously, to affect an appearan ce of conspicu ous impartiality. But nothing less audacious than what we have said is the conclusion he eventually ar rives at. A conclusion, nevertheless, a, we all know full w e ll, u tt er l y b a seless and in support a bl e. Again, when Earl RUSSELL talks, as he talked on tiaturday to the convivial tenantry at Blairgovvrie,i n reference to those seizure of the steam rams with the outlandish Egratian nauase (misnomers now in the strictest sense of the word, seeing that the PitduA of that African province of the Turkish EmPti° ib no longer to be the purchaser) down is rsir. LAIRD'S shipyard at Liverpool—. h w en Lord RUSSELL talks, as he Milked on Saturday, in reference to that little t ra ri,aetion, certain, at least, w e may b e o f thi s , that he was "counting without his host t" lt was speaking of what the House of Commons would do its such and such a contingency, without the smallest assurance in the world that they would do anything whatever of the kind. " Everything,' he said, " that the law of nations requires, everything that the present Foreign Enlistment Act requires, I am prepared to do, even if it should be proved to be necessary for the preservation of our neutrality that the sanction of Parliament should be asked to urther measures that her MAJESTY'S Ministers may still add." The present Ministers of the Crown may " still add , ' whatsoever they in their collective wis dom may deem fit and proper, right and necessary. But—whether Parliament will sanction anything of that kind when added—that is quite another matter ! . That, at least, remains to be proved —next se s sion ! The programme of the party of progress in Prussia that has lately been issued appears to be very excellent in its way, and it would be well if there were any chance of its being carried out. It comprises many im portant points, and seems to take in all really essen ial changes. The first item mentioned is cne of the chief improvements needed at the present time— " complete liberty of the press, and consequently the suppression of the decree of the end of June." If there were any chance of this saving clause being carried, there would be comparatively little to de sire for the country that is now so painfully and precariously situated. In nothing did the Ms- MARK Confederation so prove their falsity to the obligations impossd on them as in this particular of the press. " Presentation of the law on Minis terial responsibility prescribed by the Constitu tion," is the second point mentioned. Certainly it is very much needed, since the present ad visers of the Crown arrogate to themselves the same divine right as that enjoyed by their Sove reign. They ignore the claim of anyone to criticise their conduct, and refuse to render an account of their actions to the most influential persons. The third proposition is to establish the "effective re cognition of the right of the Chamber of Deputies to control the expenses of the Treasury.' ' w ', This i is a noticeable plan, and points to a reform is loudly called for. The manner in which the finances of the country have been conducted is really reprehensible, and must it eventuallypvroes de t rimental nothing but confusion, whi l e to the nation. In fact, the chief o ff ce oft p h a e Cha m ber is set aside altogethe r. are The precluded from exercising their rights, and they are, as a body, compelled to stultify themselves. It I s high time that the representati ves o f the people should no longer forego their principles, but perform the duties they owe to themselves an d their country. "Reorganisation of the House of Lords" is the next thing mentioned. This would doubtless be a very desirable arrangement, as the whole of the political fabric in Prussia is in great need of reconstruction. "An army founded upon a popular basis,with a two years' service." This is to serve as a check on the arbitrary notions of the KING, and the unconstitutional doctrines of his Ministerial advisers. The ninth and last pro vision, is a "German Parliament freely elected by the nation." If this were carried, it would be indeed a desideratum. The programme of the party of progress is a well-considered proposal, and a complete exposition of the wants of the nation. That it, or some such alterative measure is required is without doubt, but that it will be put into practice is quite another affair. The spirit of intolerance appears to be rampant in high quar ters, and everywhere the arbitrary schemes and the despotic plans that were promulgated in the summer are being put into execution. Thus we hear that during the last few days additional warnings have been given to various newspapers; a pamphlet on the Constitution, end the law on the Press has been confiscated. Also, at the request of the Government, the police at Leipsic "have con fiscated a number of weekly journals published there." All these things prove that some change is imperatively called for, and that the counsels that prevail at Berlin are about as mischievous and im politic as they can be. It is stated that soon after the opening of the Diet the documents relating to the German question will be laid before it. There is not likely to be much gained by this, because whatever good propositions are made by the Diet are certain to be overruled by the authorities. The KING'S answer to the Frankfort Assembly is now naturally the subject of much speculation. It is said that the Government complain, inasmuch that the project of Austria in regard to reform was only communicated to the KING after the letters of invitation had been sent to the other Sovereigns. This is a very extraordinary excuse, because great pains were taken to inform King WILLIAM of the new proposals. The fact is that there is no one so difficult to teach as those who do not wish to learn, and who are predetermined not to put the know ledge they gain to any profit to others, to in crease thereby their own stock of wisdom. They assert that Prussia and Austria should hold an equal rank in the Directory. This might be desirable if practicable, but all must admit that the chance or opportunity of so doing has been wilfully cast aside by the KING and his infatuated advisers. The Ministry propose to the KING to " refuse his adhe sion to the actual project, and to enter into negotia tion with his confederates." All this sounds very fine, but it is in reality little else than clap-trap to cajole the other States, and make a specious sem blance of assiduity before the people. The begin ning and end of all these projects is Ministerial Conferences. This wonderful arrangement is to furnish a sort of Deus ex Alachina to extricate the Sovereigns from their embarrassment, to give im- provements to the States, and to bestow benefits upon the people. These beneficent results might be more likely to loom in the distance if the prime mover or special originator of the whole man muvre were another and a better man. The shadow be hind the throne flings its sombre gloom, and caets its dusky hue over promises that shine so brightly, and the hopes that speak so fair. It seems useless to augur any advantage that may accrue to Prussia until a change comes over the spirit of her dream. In the meantime it seems safe to predicate that little or nothing can be looked for in the way of amelioration until the affairs of Germany are ar ranged in a more concise and connected form. At present there are too many pioneers of progress, but they seem to find it difficult to collect sufficient followers. Among the numerous harvest celebrations and agricultural meetings which have taken place within the last week or two there was no especial feature in the dinner given at Watton. Norfolk has been blessed with a full share of the abundant harvest, but happily, good crops are not this year such exceptional possessions as to call for any special remark. The address of Mr. G. W. BEN TINCK, one of the county members, is, however, well worth reading, and has some claims to distinction less as a triumph of oratory than of i corung from the lips of one of the staunchest members of the Conservative party. The purport of his speech, which he prefaced by obberving, With dry humour, that it was his in tention to say s omething disa g r eea bl e , was t h e attitude which it would Income the agricultural 'interest to assume with regard to the vexed ques tion of Reform. Without expressing an opinion as to the expediency or necessity of introducing a Reform Bill, he reminded his hearers that they had been told on high authority that they were to look forward to the speedy discussion of fresh measures of Reform. When the question came to be dis cussed, he advised them to bear in mind that th e principal grievance in the country was the want of proper representation of the rural uistricts, and that this Want he attributed in a great meacure to their own lack of determination in making them selves heard. The rural districts had, he declared, every right to be represented, on the grounds alike of wealth, numbers, and intelligence. "There is no other great commercial industry," says Mr. BENTINCK, " which, when its interests are at tacked, does not bind itself together and fight its own battles with vigour and resolution." He appealed to the assembly whom he was ad dressing, to say whether such was the course pursued by the representatives of the rural interest, and loud cheers marked their coincidence in the opinions of the speaker. Mr BENTINCK reminded them that the burden of taxa tion pressed with heavy and unequal weight on the agricultural districts, and this is certainly an evil which, if they were more efficiently re p re sented, they might in some degree see m itigated. The truth is that the farmers have been usually far too busy in opposing the first whisper of reform to pro vide with proper prudence for their own interests. The possible evils attendant on the train of reform were eagerly insisted upon by interested de claimers, who, with ready volubility, exaggerated every drawback and doubled every disadvantage. The real importance and benefit of securing an en larged and unbiassed representation were left un heeded, and it was found too late by the Tories and their supporters that by their perverse and obsti nate opposition they had left the whole game in the hands of the Whigs. Since the days of the great Reform Bill the electoral position of the agricul • tural population has been a frequent subject of comment, but little has been done in the way of substantial improvement. Yet no class stands in c g r r e e a a s t i e n r g L i e n e t d el lofpoliticalintel l igence and reorganisation. The in public spirit among the rural population generally, the gradual dying out of old and obsolete notions, all point to the ad vancing claims of our agricultural districts to a better and fairer representation. Where steam comes in prejudice generally goes out, and the application of art and science to the cultivation of the soil and the gathering in its products are fast combining the once antagonistic interests of town and country. There is some hope for the farmers, judging from the past, when the party which they are generally supposed to favour comes again into power; but they, in common with the rest of us, had better expect little " from the veteran reformer Earl RUSSELL," unless they wish for disappointment, The liberal public have neither forgiven nor for gotten his refusal to allow the DERBY Reform Bill to pass into committee, followed as it was by a total abandonment of the subject when the virtu ously indignant Opposition changed sides with their rivals. Some cynics might suggest that the reason for refusing the much-maligned Bill to run the risk of improvement was the fear of having any Reform at all, since, judging by the subsequent conduct of Lord JOHN and his colleagues, an amended repre sentation was what they most dreaded. But what matter ? The great . Reformer of the house of BEDFORD has reaped the reward due to his disin terested and patriotic labours; and he is taking good care, by the manner in which he is conducting the foreign affairs of the nation, to distract men's minds from the remembrance of his past doings. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] THE WEST INDIA, MEXICAN, AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT, 28. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Tasmanian, has arrived here with the above mails, 112 passengers, 3,528,372 dols. in specie, of which 60,403 dole. are on account of the Mexican divi dends, and 1,700 plckages of cargo. The Tasmania left St. Thomas's on the 13th inst., and experienced strong head-winds to the Western Islands. The steamer Darien, from Liverpool, arrived at St. Thomas's on the 6th inst. General Forey and M. de Saligny had been re called from Mexico by the French Emperor. General Bazaine had taken command of the troops. The French forces, 1,200 strong, took pos session of Tampico on the Bth August. The expedition against the Government of Presi dent Juarez had been postponed until after the rainy season. President Juarez was in San Luis, Potosi, com bining his troops, in order to resist the French. The exportation of specie had been forbidden from all towns occupied by the French, but large consignments are shipped by way of Mansancello. The rebellion in St. Domingo has resulted in a large sacrifice of life and property. The Dominican refugees attacked three garri sons, destroying them by fire, and murdering all the sick in the hospitals, sparing neither women nor children. Porto Plata was invaded by the insurgents, but they were ultimately driven out by troops who had arrived in a Spanish steamer. Large bodies of troops have been despatched from Havannah and Porto Rico to put down the rebellion. The dispute between Bolivia and Chile remained unsettled, Chile was still occupying the disputed territory. A steady business was going on at Valparaiso, Exchange on London, 441 d to 45d. The news from the West India Islands is unim• portant. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1863. LITERATURE, The Manual of Dates, By George H. Townsend. London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge. " 'rime," according to Hooker, " is the measure of the motion of the spheres." The definition is a perfectly accurate one in its peculiarly limited form. Our clocks and watches merely record the earth's rotation on its axis ; our annals register the pro gress of events according to the number of revolu tions made by this planet around the sun. If the earth were to rotate more rapidly, our days and hours would be shortened with all the pleasures and the sorrows which they contain; if it traversed its orbit more swiftly, every year of man's life would thereby be shortened, and our days and years might be gradually and imperceptibly abbreviated. Of course astronomers would soon find it out ; but the unastronomical portion of the human race might lose a large frac tion of their time without knowing anything about it. "Geometry," Faye Sir William Hamilton ) (cis the science of pure space : algebra is the science of pure time." In time and space all human beings live : they are the dimensions of our existence. And, as humanity wants nothing more than the abstract, the science of space adds to geometry geo graphy. Similarly, chronology is a supplement to the algebra of time. As every nation has its geogra phic boundaries, so almost every race has its special epoch. The Hebrews, with unparalleled sublimity, start from the warld's creation ; we are now in the year 5684, according to their :reckoning. Rome sturdily fixed the building of the city as the first day of its calendar—as if the world had nothing worth record before the great esylum arose on the seven hills. The birth of Christ has fixed the point of departure for all Christian nations, and the flight of the false prophet for all 'Mohammedan. Of course the most simple and philosophical commencement would be the very beginning of humanity, if only chronologists could agree as to the precise date of this occurrence; but, as the different dates assigned vary over a period of more than 3,000 years, it is vain to attempt a chronology on this prin ciple. A." Manual of Dates," like Mr. Townsend's, is of infinite value to the author and to the student, and should be on every library table. It enables a man instantaneously to verify or rectify his ideas. It is the key to history. One's recollection of a particular period, with all its prominent dramatis persona, is revivified by a single re ference. You have in such a book the very essence of history and geography—ay, and even of politics because these things are inseparable from chronology. A chronological manual ought not to be an encyclor wile, yet must in some degree partake of that character. The compiler is only bound to deal in dates, but, com passionating his readers he sometimes expands into definitions. Consequently a book of this kind is very interesting to read, apart from its value for reference; and, as Macaulay re marked, that his favourite resource on a rainy day was Johnson's falio Dictionary, we may be for given for suggesting that Mr. Townsend's "Manual" would serve admirably for a similar purpose. It is impossible to open it anywhere without meeting information that the reader has either forgotten or had never known. The compilation of this work must have been immensely laborious. It contains 959 pages, of which about 40 are index. It is easier to judge the contents of such a volume from the index than from the cursory examina tion with which a reviewer must necessarily content himself. The iadex is in treble columns, each column containing between 80 and 90 entries; and of these columns 171 are devoted to the statutes of England. More than six are given to sieges, from Abbassabad to Taragoga. Sea fights, from Abydos to Zuyder Zee, occupy about a column and a half. Bat tles, as might be expected, take far more space; they monopolise more than 15 columns, between Abancay and Zpyt. And here let us pause to show a collateral use of such a work as this. Let the reader honestly say whether he knows anything about the battles of Abancay or the battle Zyp—the Alpha and Omega of Mr. Townsend's series. Where were they fought? When were they fought ? Who were the commanders-in-chief ? Who beat whom ? Those pedantic examiners who puzzle the unlucky young gentlemen who are candidates for the civil service would be enabled to perplex their victims far more thoroughly by using the "Manual of Dates!' There are many points in this work which deserve special commendation. Let us take the wants of the political student. He requires to refer to the Administrations of Great Britain. Under that head ing he finds them tabulated from Godolphius' in 1702 to Palmerston's second in 1859. Each is de scribed under its own special title. Take those which had queer sobriquets. There is the " Broad Bottom" Ministry, with Mr. Pelham at its head, both First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, and seven dukes among his subordinates. There is the " Long-lived " Administration which held office for two days in 1716. There is " all the talents"—Canning's felici tous nickname—which had in reality only one able man among its members. All these we find care fully registered by Mr. Townsend, with sufficient explanation in each ease. Indeed, if we found any fault with this book, it would be that the descrip tive or explanatory [part is more complete than could fairly be expected in a manual of chronology. This is a fault on the right side, so long as it does not lessen the number of purely chronological references which the work contains;: andithanks,to the industry of the compiler and the liberality of the publishers, it appears to us that the number of entries is far greater than in any other chronological dictionary which we have en countered. Editorial labour has been admirably supplemented by typographic arrangement while the excellence tboth of paper and type deserve high prise. The compilation of a work like this must have been a weary task; but Mr. Townsend will, we hope, find some reward in the consciousness that he has furnished all who write and all who read with an invaluable and indispensable chronological menus!. The Necessary Existence of God. By William Gillespie, of T orbanehill. Fourth Edition. One vol., pp. 483. Houlston and Wright. One of the most remarkable essays of modern times, " The Constitution of Man," has for many years been printed and published in a very cheap and popular form, the original cost of this same popular edition having been defrayed with funds provided by the bequest of an enthusiastic admirer of George Combo's undoubted masterpiece. R e . markable beyond all question though the merit of that performance as a literary production, it has upon it unhappily the taint peculiar to an argument ,:haracterised throughout by a flagrantly deistical tendency. The philosophy there taught though trembling like Hamlet's " twixt heaven and earth" tends in no way heavenwards. It is on the con trary and in the strictest meaning of the phrase, of the earth, earthy. The thoughtful essayist who therein weighs in the balance so many of the awful problems of the universe, dropping them one by one into his own ingenious little scales and testing them as it were by the rules of avoirdupois, looks to life here—(as the deadening result of all his inquiries)—as the "be all and the end all," as a mere fitful and fleeting series of perishable phenomena. In his specious exami nation of theology, so to speak, through the dull material spectacles of the phrenological theorist, George Combs seems to us to have borne a certain resemblance to those fantastic and eventually deis tical anatomists, who at one time, as one might say, set seriouely to work to discover the soul in the pineal gland I That mysterious little central core of one of the most complicated portions of our human structure, that, an anatomist of large experience in the dissection-room once remarked to us, he had often crumbled between finger and thumb, always with one result, that of a gritty gravelly sensation —as though this idly dreamt of seat of the soul were, mere peculiarly even than any other part of our anatomy, of the earth earthy ! Precisely of that character is the result, so far as our own sensa tions on reading the famous essay can be tersely described—precisely of that deadening, disappoint ing, earthly character is the effect produced by a perusal of Mr. Combe's " Constitution of Man." Instead of enabling him to soar to any great philosophical altitude, it leaves its reader in the end most miserably grovel ling in the dust. Reading it, and it alone —sup posing, that is to say, that there were no higher, or purer, or more elevating philosophy to fly to— we might adopt at the close of it the epicurean phrase of the people of old, " Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die." An enthusiastic admirer of a very different production, indeed—this remarkable essay upon, or inquiry into, or, may we presume to say, demonstration of " The Necessary Existence of God," has, iu his turn, and far more philanthropically than the late Mr.Combe's admirer, provided funds for the issuing from the press of a cheap and popular edition of the work—the very edition here under notice ! Upon the head of the title page, it is calledßafter the name of this enthu siastic friend of Mr. Gillespie's),"The .RasselEdition' , —Mr. James Russel, junior, of Arnotdale, being the individual referred to. Half way down that same ar resting and attractive title page, it reads rather oddly, a most, one might say, indecorously (remembering the awful problem of his inquiry)—when we find the author's name, there, indicated asWilliam Hony man Gillespie, Esq., of Torbanehill. As incongruously, the " Esq." appears there, as though it were en graven upon a tombstone. Of the production itself, as a philosophical inquiry into what might be de fined as, in truth, the one supreme problem of the universe, Lord Brougham, in his Discourse of " Na tural Theology," declared emphatically—" I con sider Mr. Gillespie's book on the argument, a priori, a valuable addition to science of Natural Theology." Remembering which notable opinion, it is no mat ter of surprise to us to find here that " The Russel Edition" of Mr. GiUespie's performance, the fourth edition which has just now been published, has been appropriately inscribed by the writer to the learned and philosophic ex-Chancellor. The late Sir William Hamilton went even farther than Lord Brougham, when pronouncing his com mendation, for he said, with yet greater emphasis of praise, " I do not, I can assure Mr. Gillespie, mean to flatter him, in saying, I consider his work, on the Necessary Existence of GOD, among the very ablest specimens of speculative philosophy which this country has latterly ex hibited." High commendation, indeed, coming from the lips or rather from the band, from the mind or rather from the conscience, of such a man as the late Sir William Hamilton. It is an effusion thus remarkable for its ability, that Mr. Russel, of Arnotdale, has munificently contrived to place here at once (through this edition of it) within reach of the general community, The argument therein under taken by the author of the book, is one lying at the root of all religion. It is one coming home, there fore, to the heart and soul of every believer alike, of the philosophical inquirer of every denomination. Les Noces de la Lune: Legende d Outre-illonde. Par le Chevalier de Chatelain. Bvo., pp. 23. Basil Montagu Pickering. Taking as his motto for this graceful poetic trifle (more than which it affects not to he) half-a-dozen MOLDO-WALLACHIA, lines by Theodore de Bauville, the central couplet of which is simply— " Son 6.flae s'4leva de tout sa hauteur, Par la creation juiques au Createur " the Chevalier do Chatelain, familiar as he is with every nook and cranny of the great composite Temple of our English Literature, cannot bat have been conscious, while pencilling down those six lines upon the fly-leaf of his brochure, that the couplet we have quoted above is but the feeble echo of Pope's renowned and familiar line— " And look thro' Nature up to Nature's God I" Hardly is this, however, the way to do it ! Sin gularly accomplished and clever though the Cheva lier is, as we have often had occasion to indicate in these columns, we hardly care to see him playing, so to speak, a sort of poetic game of cup -and ball with the planets and their satellites. He has his purpose, as the reader will readily enough discern on running glibly through these three-and-twenty rhythmical and melo dious pages ; and that purpose, that idea which he is bent upon expressing, he does express prettily enough and humorously even be it said, through the medium of what may be called a rhyming jeux d'esprit. It may appear to the author himself probably on our part as little batter than mere over-fastidious hypercriticism, when we say, but say it we must, nevertheless, that the regions of astronomy seems to us, by reason of their su blimity, to be altogether inappropriate as a field or medium for a seriocomic jeux desprit, even though poetic in its character. The writer seems to reveal himself to us here in the very act of taking, not as having taken, but we repeat, as, in the act of taking the step hinted IA by Napoleon when talking to the Abbe du Pradt after the retreat from Russia. His feet, his poetic feet that is, are upon either side of the dread boundary line. Yet, for all that, the trifle is welcome toque, if only for inasmuch as it is the medium of apprising us of the fact that our gifted and indefatigable author has now in the press—appropriately in anticipation of the 23d of April, 1864—his version, in French, of " Hamlet ; Tragedie en cinq actes de Shakespeare." TO THE EDITOR OF " THE SUN." SIR,-The proceedings of Prince Ceuza, the Hospodar of ➢loldo-Wallachia, having recently called forth the interfe rence of the representatives of the Great Powers at Constan tinople,it is:only natural that Englishmen,who paid CO dearly for the " pacification" of the Principalities some years since, should inquire what acts of the Hospodar have provoked a remonstrance from the Great Powers. • The condition of the Greek monasteries in Moldo-Wal lachia was one of t ipse causes of domestic dissension which had furnished an excuse for foreign interference, and was, therefore, submitted to the consideration of the Conferences. These monasteries were founded at different periods within the last three or four centuries, by men who wished to provide for their compatriots and co-religionists harbours of refuge, so to speak, where they may receive religious and secular instruction, and where what remained of the learning of the East may be still preserv_d. Num bers of young men are brought up in these establishments, and, after having passed through a certain course of study, are sent at the expense of the institution to the different European capitals, to reap a more abundant knowledge. Considering the abnormal condition in which the Christians of the East have been placed during so many centuries, we cannot overrate the services which these monasteries have rendered to Christianity and civilization. These monasteries are constantly spoken of in despatches and public documents as the " dedicated convents,'because their founders, in the spirit of the times in which they lived, had submitted them for special purposes to a certain authority. They were for the most part dedicated to the monasteries and churches in the Holy Land, such as the Holy Sepulchre, ica., and are known collectively as the Holy Places. Between the Egumenes or heads of the Greek monas teries, and the Governments of Moldavia and Wallachia, differences have for some years existed; and, in order to adjust these disputes, it was decided at the Paris Confe rences that arbitrators should be chosen by each party, and the points in dispute submitted to them. Should the arbi trators not agree, an arch•arbitrator must be chosen, and if the parties interested should not be able to agree upon the choice of each arbitrator, then the Sublime Porte, in con cert with the guaranteeing Powers, was to elect such arbi trator. These conditions are laid down iu the 13th Proto col of the Paris Conferences, and are alike binding on the representatives of the monasteries, the Hospodar, and the Great Powers. But how has Prince Couzs acted ? Unmindful of hir obligations to the guaranteeing Powers that in 1859 recog nised his double election, he has set at defiance the proto cols of the Paris Conference, he has sequestrated the re venues of the Greek monasteries, he has interdicted the use of the Greek tongue in the public worship, he has ordered the judges not to allow the advocates of the monasteries to plead their cause at the public tribunals, unless aided by the officers of the Crown ; and, finally, in the Juno of the present year he issued an ordinance by which the sacred vessels, and vestments, and documents of the converts were seized. When we remember that, some fivs or six years since, Prince Couza was plain Colonel Couzl, and when we see him thus defying the authority of his Suzerain, the Sultan, and the Great Powers of Europe, ono is tempted to think that his draught of kingship has been too much for his reason. When remonstrated with, he coolly declared that his sequestration of the monastic revenues was "definite." The Great Powers have expressed their determination to carry out the conditions of the 13th Protocol of the Paris Conferences.--I remain, sir, your obedient servant, A LOVER or FitEEDom. Mr. J. H. Foley, RA., has nearly completed an equestrian statue of Sir James Outran, a sitting statue of Sir Charles Barry, a monument in memory of the late General Bruce, and a statue of Fath:tr Di-thew. He has received commissions for two statues of the Prince Consort --QAQ for Dirnalpglaain, and anotiler for Cambridge. Canal L___tto klatnifar THE QUEEN IN SCOTLAND. BALMORAL, Shpt. 25. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Louis of Hesse and Princess Beatrice, and attended by Baroness Schenck, drove to the Linn of Muick. Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse dined at Abergeldie Castle, attended by their suite. The Right Hon. William Gladstone, Chancellor of the Exchequer, has succeeded Earl Russell in attendance on her Majesty. Sept. 2G. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess of Wales, Princess Helena, and Princess Louise, drove to Loch I ,:allater yesterday afternoon. Prince and Princess Louise of Hesse, Prince Alfred, and Prince Arthur, attended by Baroness Schenck, drove to Loch Bullig and rode back. Prince Alfred dined at Abergeldie Castle. Their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar arrived in town on Saturday, from visiting the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield at Gedling Lodge, Nottinghamshire. The Prince of Sciara has left the Brunswick, Jermyn-street, for Paris. _ His Excellency Baron Gros will arrive at the French Embassy to-day, to resume his diplomatic duties. The Duke of Beaufort has been receiving a select party at Troy House, Monmouthshire, during the past week. The party separated on Saturday. The Earl of Chesterfield arrived in town on Saturday from Gedling Lodge, Notts. The countess is staying at Bretby Park, Derbyshire. _ . Lord and Lady Foley, accompanied by the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, have arrived at Worksop Manor, Notts, from Scarborough. The Lord Chief Justice of England, Sir Ales- Cockburn, is detained in town by indifferent health, other wise the Chief Justice would have left for Scotland. 'fliE KNIGHTS OF THE GARTER.—The banners and achievements of his Royal Highness Prince Alfred and the Earl Grey have just been placed by Sir C. Young, Garter, in St. George's Chapel, Windsor. It is understood that there are now two stalls vacant by the deaths of the Marquis of Lansdowne and the Marquis of Normanby. THE HEALTH OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN. —His grace slept a good deal on Saturday morning. In the early part of the night he was restless. In other respects there is no change. ThE SHAKSPEARE TERCENTENARY.—This week's additions to the National Shakspeare Committee show that the proposal to do honour to Shakspeares memory is steadily gaining favour in the three chief capi tals of the United Kingdom. From Edinburgh the Lord Provost sends in his adhesion ; the Rev. J. R. Ingram, LL.D., is the newest representative of the sentiment ani mating Ireland ; and the accession of Mr. Alderman Besley to the Committee indicates the feeling of the City of Lon don. The Rev. Canon Miller, D.D., the Rev. John. Stroughton, V. Henry Blaauw, Esq., and Dudley Costello, Esq., have also enrolled themselves amongst the kromoters of the movement.—Athencelon. THE ORIGIN OF " MASANIELLO."—" The cele brated Bigottini, ' the Marie Taglioni of the first Empire,' made her supposed last appearance for some charitable purpose at the Grand Opera in Paris in 1826. The general enthusiasm was enormous, and, of all specta tors, Scribe was the most ardent admirer. He then be thought himself whether he could not write something for her in which her wonderful mimic pcwers might appear in a still more brilliant light; and tkus came to make the heroine of a new libretto entirely dumb, so that all her sentiments and emotions must be expressed solely by her face and movements. Auber surpassed himself in the music." THE TEMPLE CHURCH, the exterior of which is greatly improved by the addition of the conical roof to the " round," is having other improvements extended to the interior in the way of decorations. It is expected that these works will be completed, and the church re-opened on Sunday next, the 4th proximo. THE CITY SHERIFFS.—Messrs. Nissen and Cave, the City sheriffs for the ensuing year, were sworn into of f ice today, in the Guildhall, before the Lord Mayor and Court of Alderman. The eighth season of the Royal English Opera, Covent Garden, under the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, will commence on Monthly, October 12. A new opera, by Mr. W. V. Wallace, entitled " The Desert Flower," will be produced. JEAMES ON THE CONTINENT.—They keep early hours at Frankfort. My first night there, I thought that, after an early supper, I would go out and see the towrt. However I discovered, at an incredibly early hour for a large city, that there was no town, that the town had shut up and gone to bed. Returning disconsolately to my hotel, I was struck by a majestic figure, placidly standing before the gate. For a moment I was uncertain, but then the truth flashed upon my mind—that look of calm superiority, that unruffled equanimity, those fixed features, that ele gantly-turned calf, it was, it must be—The British Flunkey. Meeting on foreign soil, I addressed some remarks to hitar. The magnificent creature deigned an affable response' " You are in service here ?" " With Lady --," wao the answer. " Where have you been travelling ?" " Don't know." " What is the name of the city where you aro now ?" "Don't know." With feelings of deep awe, I respectfully wished him good night.—From London ,Society for October. AMERICAN MAIL STEAMERS DUE AT LIVERPOOL THIS WEEK.—The City of New York, from New York ou the 19th, and the Nova Scotian from Quebec, on the same day are both due to-morrow (Tuesday) ; the former at Queenstown, and the latter at Greencaskqe. The Cunard steamer Scotia is due at Queenstown on Yriday afternoon next, with dates from New York to the 23d inst. RENEWAL OF GARROTTING.—On Saturday morn ing, about three o'clock, a most cowardly and sav age attack was made by three men upon a young man named Joseph De INlarooff, a printer, in the employ o f Messrs. Elliot, of New Oxford-street. It appears that he was returning home from his work about the above-men tioned hour that morning, and when in the neighbourhood of Coal-yard, Drury-lane, three men rushed out of a pas sage, and immediately afterwards Marooff felt himself st,lized by the back of the neck by a man, who nearly stranvled him ; in addition to this, another of the men hit him 0 . tremendous blow in the abdomen,which deprived the vietbn of his senses. On recovering he found he had been robbed of all the money in his possession, some 305.; at the same' time his coat and waistcoat were torn to rags. Information of the outrage was given to the police. It was noticed by Marooff that one of the men concerned was blind of one eye. `yw rHE CIRCULATION OF FRENCH CLASSIC LITERA TURE.—The following curious statistical items, respecting the number of editions issued of the French Classics in France, are taken from the authentic: in formation furnished to the " Commission of Literary and Artistic Property," by M. Imhaus, late Directeur .de l'lm primerie et de la Librairie. From 1714 to 1840 the separate works of Voltaire reached the high figure of 428 editions ; while of the complete works, in France, England, and Hol land, the editions were 61. From 1840 to 1862 the as ve r rage number of the partial editions of Voltaire's tragedies or historical works is 100; but of complete editions only three or four have appeared during that period. The editions of Corneille's chef d' our, es are innumerable; but of complete or selected editi.ns only fifty editions were issued up to 1830. Of the " Theatre Classique ° of Racine 25,000 copies are annually struck eff- His separate works have, up to 1835, been printed in 48 library editions—his complete works in about 70. Moliere's " Classical Theatre" appeared in 20,000 copies annually ; his separate works in 70, and his complete works in 150 edi tions. CrC:billon's separate tragedies were issued in about 15 editions, the oldest of which dates kora 1707 ; Ducis's reached 25 or 30, The complete works of Crebillonhad 35 edi' tions, and those of Ducis 20. Of " Telemaque" there are printed about 10,000 copies a year. From 1700 to 1830 less than 95 editions, some of great value, were issued- Some copies are sold at about 2,000 f, Massillon's works. comprising all his sermons, have had about 25 editions. Of his " Peit careme,” his separate sermons, and some of bis funeral orations there are issued about 5,000 or 6,000 copies annually. Montesquic's " Grandeur et Decadence deg Romaine," which went through four editions during hi' g lifetime, has had about 30 since his death, and an immense number of copies are struck off annually. The " Esprit des Lois" cut through 20 editions with an enormous number Of copies; the " Lettres Persannes" had 25, the miscel laneous works :30, and the complete works 35 ed itions• The complete works of Pascal have only had 10 edi tions ; but certain illustrations have considerably added to their sale. From 1710 to 1835 the " Ferisees i went through ten editions; and since. then they hav er gone through 10 or 12. 3he " Lettres Provinciales" J'34 about 40 editions, besides the 12 t clitiona of the Latin IPl•ns lation, the first of which dates 1653. The dramas of j3 lect marehais have produced, separately, 40 editions. works bad about seven or eight, and his comPle t :. Nv : - " the , about 15. La Sage's novels had 100 editions, joilou-n theatre 6 Spanish, Portuguese, and other translations. went through 40, and his select or complete wor.ks through literary, an . d 10 or 12. The different philosophical, politics], other works of Rosseau have gone through about 155 late or selected tions, including the translations. His comp works went through from GO to 65 e ditions. Florian' Fables, mostly stereotyped and with illustrations, have had more than 130 editions. Lafontaine's Fables, with about 10 editions every year for the last 200 years, have thus reached the figure of about 9,000. Of the Coates there have appeared nearly 50 editions of _real value, The piracies , with or without engravings, are 11:111111:49rOie; MR. ALFRED MELLON'S CONCERTS. These admirable concerts, which for the last five or six weeks have attracted overflowing audiences, terminated on Saturday evening with the benefit of Mr. Alfred Mellon. The theatre was crowded to excess in every part, and after listening to perhaps ono of the best selections that has been performed during the run of the concerts, the audience parted with Mr. Mellon in a manner that must have been exceedingly gratifying to the able and talented conductor. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, The performances under the management of Mr. Walter Montgomery at this theatre finally closed on Saturday evening with the "Lady of Lyons," and "Not a Bad Judge." Although Mr. Mont gomery retires from the cares of management, he does not quit the company engaged by Mr. George Vining for his winter season ; on the contrary, we hear a new drama is being written especially for him. In taking leave of Mr. Montgomery for a short time we heartily congratulate him on the favourable impression he has made on the play going public, and with the firm conviction that the time will yet come when he will take his stand in the metropolis as one of its best and most famous actors. ADELPHI THEATRE. The season here dosed on Saturday with the benefit of Mr. B. Webster, on which occasion he appeared in perhaps his best and greatest part, viz., Triplet, in the comedy of "Masks and Faces." It is quite unnecessary to say more than that the per formance elicited the most enthusiastic applause. Mrs. Stirling, of course, represented her great cha racter of Peg Woffiugton. Time, in both instances, has rather mellowed than weakened the represen tation. Mr. Webster's Triplet is one of those exquisite portraits, broad, rich, and genial, and yet at the same time full of the minutest touches, which is only the product of the most finished art; and Mrs. Stirling's Peg is one of the most varied and charming pieces of acting ever witnessed on the metropolitan stage. At the fall of the curtain the applause was im mense, and in a few moments Mr. Webster again appeared and spoke as follows : Ladies and Gentlemen—l feel highly complimented by your presence here this evening, and at so short a notice. I did not intend to close at all, as my redecorating and painting has been going on for the last month, constantly, though iwperceptibly, in consequence, I presume, of the attention of the public having been riveted on the natural and supernatural appeaarnces on this side the footlights but the dome obliged me to succumb to necessity, and shut my doors in the midst of most profitable receipts. You will, I am sure, be pleased to hear that the whole season has been very prosperous. Though we have been dabbling in illusions lately, this is no illusion. I perceive that since my taking out a license for spirits the whole town has been addicted to them, but I am happy to say without intem perance. As the theatre will only close for three days, 1 can scarcely call it a vacation, especially as the house will be during that time crowded with artists of every descrip• tion ; but, in this instance, entirely at my expense. How ever, thanks to my patrons, I can well afford anything for your comfort and gratification; it will be a pleasure to me. On Thursday next I reopen my doors, with a new drama and a new actress of high American repute, who will, I am sure, receive a hearty English welcome, and, I hope, a genuine success. With a grateful sense of the past favours of many years, and a confidence in them for the future, I beg to thank you most sincerely, and, in the fashion of the day, say, a la Francais, "Au revoir !" It may be stated that the young actress from America to whom Mr. Webster alluded is Miss Bateman, the daughter of a distinguished actor in that country, and one of the two sisters who, as the "Bateman children," astonished the London public some 12 years ago. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. Mr.• Telbin's magnificent moving diorama of the Holy Land, Egypt, Syria, and Turkey is now at tracting al! London to the Egyptian Hall, Picca dilly. The series of paintings exhibited illustrate the toar of the Prince of Wales in the East, each one being a perfect marvel of scenic art—the Holy Sepulchre, Ford of the Jordan, Nazareth, Beyrout, and the interior of a Turk's House perhaps eliciting the most rapturous applause. The enjoyment of the exhibition is heightened by the delivery of a very entertaining descriptive lecture by Mr. Arthur Matheson, selected from the writings of Sharp, Bartlett, Warburton, King lake, Bremer, the Rev. J. M. Bellew, &c., and also some very excellent music, both vocal and instrument. We can confi dently recommend a visit to this diorama, as it is certainly one of the best exhibitions of the sort in the metropolis. FRANCE. BOURSE. Sept. 26.—The market has experienced considerable fluctuations during the day, and the struggle b e t ween t h e B ul l s an d B ears h as been rather strong. Th rees , f or t h e A ccoun t, o pened at 67f. 45 c ., went up to 67f. 65c., again receded to 67f. 35 e ., and are now at 671. 50c. The Ra il way Share Market has been more steady, and prices in general unman without material change. The market closed as follows :- 11 per Cents„ 94 45 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents ...... 67 50 Do. end month.... 67 60 Credit Mobilier.... 1162 50 no. end m0 nth , ...1167 60 Bank Shares ...... 3400 Credit } wider ....1340 Italian Loan 73 60 Do. end month 73 80 New ditto Do. end month — Russian Austrian .. — Spanish Threes 52 ffome Debt RAIL' rAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans ........ .. 1028 75 .. 1 025 Northern .... 992 50 • • 992 50 New ditto ............ .. Lyons and M e diterranean . 1020 1022 50 Geneva.. 498 75 • • Southern 725 .. 7 2 7 50 Western ... 533 75 538 75 Eastern 5ll 25 612 60 Sardinian Austrian ......... 413 75 • • 413 75 Lombard 5 65 565 North of Spain. .. . 550 545 Saragossa .. 652 50 • 652 50 Ditto to Barcelona 300 THE KING OF GREECE. , The Journal de St. P e t ers b ourg gi ves some details respecting the journey o f t h e King of Greece. It says—" On the 21st September, the day of the ar rival of the King of Greece at the imperial resi dence of Taarskce-Selo, a grand dinner was given at the palace. On the 22d, in the afternoon, his Majesty the E m peror held a review of the garrison of Tsarskce Selo. His Majesty the Ki n g of the Greeks was present." A letter from Vilna, dated Sept. 20 , says :—" To day his Majesty George 1., King of the Greeks, arrived at the Vilna railway station o n his Way to St. Petersburg. His Majesty entered our city at six p.m., accompanied by Count S ponneck costume u t m w e o officers ofa p a o n f is t h h e A ll d a m ni i s r h al n . a n avy he Wore th e y Moura vieff 11., Commander of the district and of th e Go vernments of Vitebsk and Mohilew, accompani e d by his staff, waited upon the K in g . At dinner th e King proposed the health of our august Sovereign, while the national hyena struck up. General Mou ravieff responded by proposing the h ea l th of the King, a toast which was received with loud cheers. A large multitude had assembled at th e station to get a glimpse of his Majesty.„ AUSTRIA. says the Europe, , 6 au s er h . or of . Austria on the 18th. Ik a l d a , esty,. in energetic lan for t h t e o p a e c r c e o h r a d e e an ef which prevai a ls lf i gaHuued : a ‘ gri B eeen it cr r ete o hs n oee fn d ft ta ' e E hmde c e i tnE t o v em c c hi ): t i. h o e f , oo Emperoror i the. oardLowßearilliwauyn Hun gary, and solicited tools. His Majesty discussed the question of the Alfold line with M• advancewi twith en allowance o f i5O, O 0 0 0 1 fl d EwLTO33 at some length, and ended by acceding to the iequest of the Baron, who returned immediately to Pesth, where he opened on the following day the assembly of the Society of Hungarian Naturalists and Physicians, of which he is president." Death of Admiral Sir Remy Hope, K C.B. occurred among the flag officers of the a c tive vacancy Hope, K.C.8., w ho d ied on Wednesday at his s ea t in Hampshire. T he late Sir Henry Hop e was e ld es t son of the late co mmis sioner, Charles Hope, by hi s marriage with An n V ane, eldest daughter of Henry, list has by the demise of Admiral Sir Henry first Earl of Darlington. He was born in 1787, and entered the navy in the spring of 1798 as mid shipman. He served in the Mediterranean on board the Kent, 74 (which ship conveyed Sir Ralph Aber crombie to Egypt), and also served at the blockade of Alexandria. He afterwards removed to the Ss if tsore , Captain Benjamin Hallowell, and was on board that ship in a desperate engagement with the enemy which red -aced her to a wreck, and ren dered her a prize to the French squadron. He ob tained the rank of lieutenant in May, 1804, and served under Captain George Hope and Captain T. Masterman Hardy- The late admiral, according to O'Byrne, " Won Perpetual fame by his ardour i n pursuing, his intrepidity in bringing to close action, and his undaunted spirit in maintaining for two hours and a half a conflict with the American ship President, of 56 guns and 465 me n, who at length hauled down her colours, after a loss to herself of 35 kiiled and 70 wounded." Pre viously to this brilliant affair, which t,ok place 15th January, 1815, Capt. Hope had taken the Perry, letter of ma rque, had also served at the blockade of New London, and had contributed, during an expe dition up the Penobscot, to the capture of the town of Gamine, Ist September, 1814. On arriving with his prize at Spithead, the gallant officer was pre rented by the Admiralty xvith a gold medal in acknowledgment of his brave conduct, and was no minated a Companion of the Order of the Bath. He was put out of commission is September, 1815, and remained on half- pay. He had been naval aide-de-camp to William IV. and to her pre sent Majesty. In July, 1855, he was nominated a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. His commissions bore date as follow :—Lieutenant, 3d Nlay, 1604 ; commander, 22d Sanuary,lBo7; captain, 24th May, 1808; rear-admiral, 9th November, 1846; vice-admiral, 2d April, 1853 ; and admiral, 20th January, 1858. Mr. Mason, the late envoy of President Jefferson Davis at London, is now ill Faris. 4 Co r tort to Ger of hom Lin ] Peet i~~ ; to E lilai Mrk IV il Box] foul raj