The Sun. — London, England, 1863-07-29 00:00:00

RYGHT HON. LORD JOHN JAMES MANNERS, M.P.—Who Shot his Dog'—Diplomacy hone--in PUN this week, one PeunT• TDUKE'S . MOTTO. THE HUNDREO AM) SIXTY-FIFTH NIGHT, and Last Week but One of the present Season. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. — Under the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTER. Last Week but One of the present Season. THIS EVENING, to commence with an Original Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, H Viriddicomb, 311ss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter -past Eight, the Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, and Prplogue, entitled THE DTJKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter, imported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G. Jordan, J. Brougham, R. ‘Viddimmbe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson ; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E. (.avenue, and k:lsworthy. Doors open at 7, commence at half-past. Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. G. Vining. THIS EVENING, at Eight o'clock, Shakespere's Play of ROMEO AND JULIET. Romeo, Mr. Walter Montgomery; Mercutio, Mr. G. Vining; Friar Lawrence , Mr. H. Marston ; Apothecary, Mr. Belmore ; The Nurse, Mrs. H. Marston ; Juliet, Mdlle. Stella Colas. To be preceded by the new Comedietta, entitled COUSIN TOM. NEW THEATRE-R0 (AL, ADELPFIL-.• Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE IRISH TIGER. After which, at Eight o'clock, a new drama, entitled THE HAUNTED MAN; OR, TiiE GHOST'S BARGAIN, in which will be exhibited Professor Pepper's adaptation of the Great Spectral Illusion. Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Phillips, Sefton. C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss H. Simms. Followed by a new Burlesque, entitled ILL-TREATED IL TROVATORE. ISlEssrs. Toole, P. Bedford, R. Phillips, Ebnrne, C. J. Smith, Romer ; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and ,Sara, and Miss K. Kelly. Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. TO-NIGHT WHILE THERE'S LIFE THERE'S HOPE. Messrs. W. H. Swanborough, Parselle, Vollaire, G. Honey ; Misses Ada Swanborough, L. Thorne, F. Hughes , M anders, and E. Button. Followed by (11th time) THE MOTTO, " I'M ALL THERE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. F. Danvers, Maria Collier, Clitton ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, Josephs, Simpson, Wallace, and Jenny White. To conclude with LOVE IN nc LIVERY-. mee at 7. THE THI RD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLI,,NIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather--Sun Office, July 29, 1863. THERMOMETER. This morning This day at Two o'clock 7O Barometer-30.20. Wind—West ; light, with fine weather, HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Cltis DA.T.—Morning, 12h. 24m.—Afternoon, 12h. 55m. To-gonnow.-Morning, Ih. 25m.—Afternoon, Ih. 52m. 1. 4 . k ttg 01 4 * ( N., 151 , 0 111 11111111 7 0 :±1 airNe\s'L LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1863. Yesterday—upon the very morning of the day upon which the Parliamentary Session of 1863 came to an end—expired, in the 66th year of his age, CONSTANTINE, Marquis of Normanby. Scarcely is the breath out of his body, when a sneering, super cilious, almost spiteful, certainly a most depreciatory notice of the noble dead, appears in the columns of the chief of our contemporaries. For what it is worth, we transcribe it, in its entirety, in another part of our own impression of this evening : com mending to its perusal those who list —convinced that it can in no way prove injurious to the reputation of the departed peer in the esti mation at least of those who come to a perusal of so supercilious an epitome of his career in any way d'spassionately. When it is borne in recollec tion, as is here distinctly acknowledged, indeed, in the very outset of this scornful memoir, that the deceased had won for himself so many high honours, during a not very protracted lifetime, it must assuredly appear, to the judgment of any rational observer somewhat of an extravagance to attribute the acquisition of these high houours, one and all, to the influence of a nameless something, a je-ne-sais- gaol, a simple charm of manner, the glamour of the witcheey of a smile. Suavely, by the side of his inanimate remains, it is remarked some what under breath " Everybody liked him "—hut then acidly, in a whisper, in a sort of confidential " aside" to the whole world—" nobody knew why." Yet, immediately upon this, come those very incon gruous acknowledgments already referred to, acknowledgments in no way harmonising with the writer's vague and eccentric hypothesis as to the secret of the late Lord NORMANDY'S success in life —as a patrician, as a politician, as a diplomatist, as an administrator, as a viceroy, and as an ambassa dor. The late Lord NORMANDY, heir to an earldom, won for himself a Marquisate. He became a Knight of the Garter. Twice he was Secretary of State — now over the Colonial Department, now over the Home Department. He was British Ambassador at Paris during several years, all of them important, some of them very momentous ; the noble marquis continuing there as ambassador during the whole of the various stages of the French Revolution of 1848, in effect up to the coup d'etat of the PRINCE PRESIDENT. He was British Ambassador at Florence also at a very notable epoch until the stormy waves of the Italian Revolution had rolled over the whole of the Roman peninsula. He was for about a year Governor of the most important among our West Indian Colonies — Jamaica. But, above all, during very nearly one whole lustre, he was not only un interruptedly Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , but from first to last, from 1831 to the turn of the year 1838-9, he was, without any excep tion whatever, the most popular Lord Lieutenant of whom u i ree4s _ Englist ; an u an a d as even now, any recollection. An pronounced, a Protestant, he wa s nevertheless at the time, by O'CONNELL, the best English man Ireland 11ad , ever seen ! " His r eception in the si s t er island," been of this morning the ee mentions as having departure from enthusiastic." His Ireland, at th e c l ose o f hi s reign, we w e ll remember as having been marked not according to the ordi a by enthusiasm —b ut by g dry. sense of the ph rase tune f Irish e n th us i asm ! Lord NORMANDY' S d eparture Dublin, and his fi na l farewell rom the Castl e at t Ireland when h e e mbarked on board th e steam: harbour:of Kingstown, bei ng, in Pa. n the b eau tif u l quite literally, an ovation! Vet, all this, of fact and . asked to regard as simply and solely we are the recom pense accorded by his countrymen to - for his possession of a handsome form and features, set off, to the admiration of all, by the fasci • nations of a winning deportment. This demand upo n our credulity is in itself, to our thinking, utterly an d flagrantly ridiculous. Another version we have to give of Lord NOR mANBY'S character, and we believe it to be the true one. It certainly appears to us, far more readily to e xplain his many successes in life, the lore and re pect of the Irish people, the manly and dispas sionate panegyric pronounced upon him by the Liberator, and the cordial confidence reposed in Lord NORMANDY by two Liberal Prime Ministers, as shrewd in their estimate of adminis trative and diplomatic w orth, as most men of their time, to wit, Lord MELBOURNE and Lord JOHN RUSSELL. Born of an old Tory family, Lord NORMAN BY, of his own free will and choice, entered upon public life, not as a Tory, but as a thoroughly independent and liberal-minded politician —as a Whig, almost as a Radical To his honour be it said—his maiden speech was in favour of Catholic Emancipation. it was because he remained true to those principles or his youth—consistently ap plying to Italy those doctrines of genuine civil and religious liberty that years ago rallied together all sections of the great Liberal party, for the working out in the United Kingdom of the great and sacred cause of Catholic Emancipation—it was because of this consistency in his opinions as to the evil of coercion, whether in political or in religious belief, whether in England or in Italy, that Lord NOR MANBY has had to endure so much derision and so many revilings, now, during these last few years of his life, with his health prematurely broken, with his physical energies lamentably failing him, but with his moral energies never once failing him in the least. Hence, probably he is 86,1 the recipient of those sneers and contumelies posthumously when he has passed away from the midst of us, cer tainly (even the most cynical among his depre ciators must allo ei this) with his noble name un sullied, and without having one blot upon his escutcheon. The report of the Committee of the House of Lords on Metropolitan Railway communication is worthy of attention. It seems from the compre hensive nature of the statements that the greatest care has been taken in the whole working of the Committee, and the conclusions arrived at appear likely to conduce to general benefit if the advice be attended to. The Committee examined a great number of persons in the course of their deli berations (including officers of the Board of Trade, the managers of the principal railway companies, several engineers, etc.) In the first place the Com missioneri advise that the limits of the Metropolis be extended from th , ;se prescribed to the Royal Commissioners. The new limits laid down are far more extended, and hence far greater scope will be afforded to the railway companies in the exercise of their ordinary undertakings. The second recommendation is a most desirable one, and it is to be hoped that due regard will be paid to it. That squares and open spaces in the metropolis should not be unnecessarily taken for the purposes of a railway. This is an essential point to be considered, as it must exercise injurious effects on the public health to have all the spaces that have hitherto been open closed up with houses and otherwise impeded with stations and railway appurtenances. The third provision states that it would be objectionable to allow the construc tion of a great central station in the metropolis the reason for this being that it would occupy too much space and be therefore prejudicial in its effects. It is also recommended that "in the construction of any new lines of railway within the Metropolitan Railway district, subways, covered ways, or tunnels appear preferable where circum stances admit of them." Of course the adoption of this plan would obviate the necessity of numerous alterations, and the great inconvenience that often results from extensive clearance, besides the stop page to business during the progress of the works. The convenience of the labouring classes is taken into consideration, and it is suggested that wher ever compulsory power is given to take many of the houses inhabited by them, due notice shall be given to those concerned. This is a very admirable ar rangement, and one which it is to be hoped will be agreed to, since the comfort and convenience of the working population ought always to be one of the chief objects of the Legislature, and no improve ments should ever interfere materially with their wellbeing. The only station that it is proposed to establish in a more central part is the Great Eastern, but it is suggested that arrangements should be made to construct one or more lines of railway to facilitate the pro gress of passengers to the main stations of the long lines, and such new lines not to be in the hands of any one of the present great companies, but placed under such management as to ensure equal advantage to all." It would, doubtless, be a vast convenience to those proceeding on long jour neys to escape the irritating obstruction, and some times insurmountable hindrances, that now so often impede the way, and the plan of making this line general, and not exclusive, will tend to prevent serious consequences and angry disputes that would result in great inconvenience to the public. A sug gestion is made that will greatly relieve the crowded state of the streets at present, that an inner line of railway should be completed to join or abut upon the principal railway stations ; also that an outer circle be formed within the Metropolitan Railway district, and at certain points to bring the two into communication. It is proposed that al internal communication be under one management and that, i n th e not i ces for construct i ng railways,, it should be stated that the line might be so altered as to unite a part or the whole of such railway with one or more existing railways or works. In order to make future legislation conformable with these views, it is suggested that a select committee before the second reading of the bills, report their opinion upon such schemes. Finally it is advised that the two Houses of Parliament should agree that all bills connected with the construction of rail- way■ should originate in one house,be grouped toge ther, and referred to the same select committee. Lord STRATHEDEN made a great mistake in endeavouring to obtain the appointment of a commission. As Lord DERBY said, the report of the commission might differ from that of the committee, and thus great embarrass. mont would result. The noble Earl also truly said, that after the report of the committee it was quite unnecessary to appoint a commission. Lord STANLEY Of ALDERLEY said the question of a commission had been very carefully considered by the committee, but it had been disapproved of for various reasons. It would interpose great delay and be very injurious to the progress of the works. It is satisfactory to notice that Lord STRATIIEDEN withdrew his motion, so that nothing prevents the carrying out of the wise and comprehensive schemes of the committee. Their trouble must have been very great, but their zeal and assi duity have not been unattended with satisfactory results, and they have the qualification of knowing that their advice will be of essential service to the inhabitants of this crowded metropolis. is pro• etro miAsedveursy dsuurbisntgantthieal courseand p o r t act l i B c 6 a 4 l ref l o ,h r m e m politan turnpikes are positively and unreserv edly to be ab o li s h ed ! The long standing nuisance which has confronted the citizen whether he turned east or west, north or south is at length to be removed. It has met him alike in a visit to Camden Town or Ball's Pond, and an expedition to Ham mersmith or Teddiugton ; nay, which stood in the way nearer home, barring him from the quaint old suburbs of Kensington, the less a r i s t ocrat i c high of the City-road, ways of Kennington and gtouaenvdenCafornrbbaedrwe ehlil,mthth g e o precincts many yards past the famous Angel, of Islington, without having his conveyance stopped by a resistless and merciless exactor. The annoyance has really been very great, and, as it interfered with the conve nience of all classes of the population, it is really surprising that even English patience has tolerated it so long. The country has no reason to complain that metropolitan grievances monopolise the atten tiongt h i s e l a u t b u n r e o , x i s o i u n s e e t u t r h n i oe lfe long called for suppression of the members ofth p ik e s y stem has been deferred for to many years' THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 29, 1363 Certainly the authorities cannot be accused, as Lord PALMERSTON would say of the German Con federation, of having acted too hastily, for even now the boon is to be delayed for another twelvemonths. It "shames our eyes and ill i g s ri f a e i v r e l s y our o h u e g a h r t ' b ' o a t t h H present,ou Houses of o a f n r d a a r l l t i la ct o m u e g n h t h i te willb not come into force until the July of next year. So the sturdy toll-keepers may count the intervening months, and treasure the sums gathered in the interval from reluctant passengers, with a sense that the days of their glory are numbered, and that the curious little houses barring the QUEEN'S highway, the man in ambush, who springs out like a jack-in-the-box upon defenceless wayfarers—the white aprons and formidable pockets, are numbered ' with the things of the past. Some years ago a formidable but unruly band of opponents to turn pikes made strong resistance to the erection of toll gates in Wales. These unlucky and detested in stitutions became the origin of riot and even bloodshed, until, we believe, some modification of the original infliction was obtained. No such frantic efforts have been made on behalf of the Londoners, who have, in accordance with the na tional custom, gone on grumbling at the infliction until the hope of its removal was almost forgotten. Turnpikes have certainly given us something to grumble at, which is said to be one of the necessi ties of life to an Englishman, but it is almost to be questioned whether they are nut too much a matter of course fully to answer that purpose. It is sur prising that the bill has not been earlier introduced ; that no representative of some metropolitan bo rough has earned the lasting gratitude of his con stituents by introducing it nine years ago. It is manifestly an unjust as well as inconve nient arrangement, seeing that the rate payer, woo contributes his share to keep the road in order, is free to use the other high ways without tax or imposition, but if he enter on the domain of a turnpike trust, he has to contribute towards the expenses of his neighbour's road as well as his own. In the same way the resident in one of these hapless vicinities, if he goes perhaps a mile or two from his house, has to pay another turnpike in addition to his old enemy. This is merely a sample of the injustice of the system under its best aspects, and in fact it taxes heavily any person whose business calls him frequently to some particular locality where a toll gate bars the way, while those who have time or opportunity of evad ing it do not scruple to do so. It is well known that the system of evasion is carried on to a very great extent. Omnibuses turn out of the high way suddenly and then drop in again, while the ditours and contrivances of carters are endless. Cabs are happily indifferent, but the fare is not, when a blockaded turnpike gate loses him a precious five minutes, which to London men of business is often invaluable. The same aggravation is experienced by those who ride in carriages, who suffer from the inconveniences and delay, if not from the expense. All these annoyances, and the numerous evils and impositions connected with the abuses of the system, are now happily coming to an end, and we shall soon see the last of a troublesome, unequal, and officious impost, which is entirely contrary to the whole spirit of our social regulations. AN AUSTRALIAN ROBINSON CRUSOE !—ln Davis's " History of IVPKinlay's Tracks across Australia," a work not long since issued from the press by Samsons Low and Co,, appears the following curious narrative of an encounter with one who, quite naked, and of a reddish yellow hue, was seen at once to be no aboriginal native I On the shepherds seizing their fire-arms, under a sense of poseible danger, he called out in English, although speak ing with difficulty, that he was their countryman. He then informed them that he had lived for 17 years with the Aborigines in the neighbourhood, being the sole survivor of the crew and passengers of a ship that had been wrecked, so far back as the year 1846, upon a reel off the adjacent coast, He had been wandering over the country about Mount Elliott, a lofty hill, above 4,000 feet in height, near the mouth of the Burdekin, and he must have been but a short way to the east of M•Kinlay's party, as they passed down the river. His name was James Morrill, and he was born near Maldon, in Essex, England, and had been a sea man of the wrecked vessel the Peruvian. He was supplied with clothes by his Lew friends, and after a short interval taken to Port Denison, where a subscription was made on his behalf, and where both himself and his narrative were the subject of very general interest. SOUTH-TALLEYRA D OR GOLDSMITH.—A corre• sponoent of the Guardian traces to Hubert south Talleyrand's celebrated mot, " La parole a ete donnee l'hotnnie pour l'aider a cacher sa pensee," in a sermon preached in Westminster Abbey on the 30th of April, 1676, on "The Wisdom of the World." In his clear logical English the preacher says —"Men speak with designs of mischief, and therefore they speak in the dark. In short, this seems to be the true inward juagment of all our politic sages, that speech was given to the ordinary sort of men whereby to communicate their mind, but to wise whereby to conceal it."—[\lidway between South and Talleyrand—the same identical thought occurs in " The Citizen of the World," by guileless Oliver Goldsmith.—ED. SUN.] A WHITECHAPEL TRAGEDY—recently witnessed in the larger ofthe two theatres" down east"—is thus described by a writer in the Spectator of last Saturday The piece, he says, was entitled the " Fatal Shadow ; or, the Mau with the Iron Heart." The character may be gathered from its title. The principal character is certainly a villain of the deepest dye. Strange to say, he is not an aristocrat, but an attorney. Of course, the surprising dis closures and comings to life again are so frequent as to ren der all description of the plot utterly impracticable. This lawyer—whose " make up" is certainly the ne plus ultra of villany —cuts the throat of a baronet who had years be fore supplanted him in love, and obtains the conviction for the crime of an innocent but mysterious being, who appears to be either a great nobleman or a harlequin, I could not quite tell which. To make sure, he pours poison down his throat in prison, and swears he saw him commit suicide. He ruins both son and nephew of his first victim by for gery and fraud, and drives his mother by like means to suicide by suffocation with charcoal—a magic lantern view of the scene delighting the audience beyond measure, Whenever ho is thwarted he comes to the front of the stage and exclaims, with diabolical grimaces and corresponding gestures, " How soon it would be done—with a twist—of my wrist; and ends by drawing a razor across his throat with a guttural "c-click." He loves, but is hated by, a mysterious being, " the woman with the golden hair," to whom he offers twice, under peculiar circumstances. The first time, on her refusal, he chains her down by a barrel of powder, her favoured lover close by her side, and then places a slow match in the powder. The next time forms the " sensation" of the piece. He throws her over a bridge in Venice, and then flings her a rope, which, in her death agony, she seises. He then exclaims three times, " Wilt thou be mine ?" At the third time of asking the golden haired one spurns him in a series of articulate screeches, which bring the house down. He then abandons the rope, and she sinks , but her lover and the mysterious har lequin appear, and the former saves her by a sensation header a la Myles Coppaleen. A CONFESSION !—Thackeray, in the new number of the Cornhill for August, says :—" But that my age is mature and my habits formed, I should really just like to try a little criminality. Fancy passing a forged bill to your banker ; calling on a friend and sweeping his sideboard of plate, his hall of umbrellasand coats : and then going home to dress for dinner, say —and to meet a bishop, a j u d g e, and a police magistrate or so, and talk more morally than any man at table 1 How I should chuckle (as m y host's spoons clinked softly in my pocket) whilst I was uttering some noble speech about virtue, duty, charity 1" L'EMPEREUR !—The only question which men put to themselves in Paris, in France, and even out of France,i e s, fa ": h h f a What everyis ho o doinghe who or a p pr thinking oae hes in them Vichy g 100 ?' " y There, the scanned, ef a p n r o d c l a a i n m i i n n a fl u t e h n a t t i al there foreign w as gentleman who is at the sa me hope paper d e v i d a fri end of Napoleon look e d time a friend of Polan d an h en we nt the le ngth vihi ch ho was favoured for s psenalceio,ubselycause a downcastin t he De 1 p a h f t i e a r n a C n h ailnette.rview wit h Francois Victor Hugo, the elevent h volume pp at Of Shakespeare's complet e works, trhaansslaat7lbeyd already. The Invalide publishes a letter fro m dated the 12th instant, stating that the police an Warsaw, had arrested three men, on one of whom was found order f rom th e N a ti ona l G over nment to assassinate the officer by whom, as it happened, the arrest was made. " Such incidents," the letter says, " are not es s f ofu l l t ; l enf o r ced. e unco mmon at Warsaw." It also states that the col lectionpb ayia up. t h e Russian Even h t authorities, a rrea rsof form er is being s years are being LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REITTER'S TELEGRAMS.) POLAND. BERNE, JULY 28. The National Council has ratified the convention concluded with the Italian Government to the diocese of Tessin. The Council has alao adopted a resolution which in effect acknowledges the equality of the rights of Jews in the canton of Argovie. LEMBERG, JULY 29. Deputy Count Wodzicki has been arrested here. CRACOW, JULY 29. The Invalide Busse confirms the intelligence of fresh engagements having taken place at Lithu ania, especially, at Babelsniki and Petryszki. The Russians stationed in the town of Radzauo, in the Palatinate of Plock, were attacked and dis persed by a Polish detachment on the 18th inst. ST. PETERSBURG, JULY 24. The Invalide Russo states that the Czar has ordered reinforcements to be sent to the companies of artillery stationed at Kestch, Nicolaieff, Duna munde, Viborg, and Sweaborg. All the companies of artillery in the fortresses of Poland have been placed on a war footing. THE INTERVIEW OF THE KINGS OF DENMARK AND SWEDEN. COPENHAGEN, JULY 29. At the recent interview of the King of Sweden with the King of Denmark, the Danish President of the Council was the only ether person present. After the interview of the Sovereigns the Presi dent had a conference of an hour and a half with the King of Sweden. TOTAL LOSS OF THE STEAMER FARIS. SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 28. The steamer Atalanta, Captain Lewis, from the Channel Islands, arrived here this morning. She reports the loss of the steamer Paris, belonging to the Newhaven and Jersey line. _ _ The Paris struck on the Grunott rock, near Eliza beth Castle, off Jersey, yesterday at 9 a.m., and sunk immediately. The passengers and crew are saved, having been picked up by the South Western Company's steamer Wonder. WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS, SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 29. The Tasmania hes arrived here with the above mails, 165 passengers, 257,349 in specie, and 2,886 packages of cargo. Her Majesty's ship Megaera, from Plymouth, had arrived at Jamaica. She embarked the 4th West Indian Regiment, and sailed for the coast of Africa on the lat. The Federal ship of war Ticon derage, Admiral Gardner, arrived at St. Thomas on the 14th inst. The news from Central America is unfavourable to the cause of General Barrios. It was thought that his invasion of Nicaragua would lead to his overthrow. Costa Rica remained quiet, but the arming con tinued. The news generally denoted further trouble and bloodshed. News had arrived at St. Thomas of the partial destruction, by fire, of Porto Plata, San Domingo. Only two of the merchant stores remained standing, and property to the amount of 500,000 dollars had been destroyed. Most of the leading merchants would suffer, as the trade between Porto Plata and St. Thomas was extensive. . . St. Vincent had been vsited by a violent storm, causing considerable damage and destroying seve ral buildings. Numerous cases of incendiarism had occurred at Barbadots amongst the coloured labourers on the estates, owing the the reduction of wages and the consequent low prices of sugar. Coffee selling at 56 to 64. Pimento—none at market. The continued dry weather caused apprehensions for the new crop. Business dull. The cultivation of cotton at Demerara was en gaging the attention of planters. The weather was fine for the crops• The import market was well supplied. Freights were scarce, and tonnage abun dant. Business depressed. Two severe s hocks of earthquake had been expe rienced at Jamaica, causing considerable alarm. The undulations took an easterly direction. Imme diately afterwards a great change was visible in the atmosphere, accompanied with rain. Trade at Jamaica was unusually dull. Freights—little doing. The trial of the individuals accused of complicity in the late revolutionary attempt in Haiti had ter minated. Seventeen were sentenced to death, in cluding the chief conspirator. Aime Lagros and seven others were immediately executed. The annual Congress of Chili had been opened. The Presidential address contained nothing of in- Valparaiso had somew h a t i mprove d . The _ t e rest to foreign countries. Bnug general n markets was dull. Ex ha The Governm ent of P eru has sanctioned the con struction and gu arante ed 7 per cent. on the capital for 25 years of the two new lines of railway con necting the inland cities with the ports. c eie4ee4srs; lat d. tone to 4 n of . all The loss of Puebla was received in Peru with strong expre ssions of regret. MEXICO. SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 29. The following Mexican news has been received here by the Tasmanian The yellow fever and smallpox are raging at Vera Cruz. •' Gen. Forey has ordered that all goods for the interior are to be under French protection. ". The feeling abroad is in favour of the French 15 10 50 45 Lord Palmerston and Father Curci. Before the incident referred to shall have passer altogether from public recollection, we think it onl3 due, in fairness to Sir George Bowyer, to publish, as we do below, in extenso, the whole of the various documents referred to b him very recently during one of the last debates in the House of Commons. If ever a Prime Minister has been convicted of the high crime and misdemeanour, in a Prime Minister, of having been gulled, it has been thus in the pre sent instance with Lord Palmerston. Old birds are sometimes, apparently, to be caught with chaff, in spite of the proverb. For once the discovery of a mare's nest has been formally and ostentatiously an nounced before a bewildered Parliament by one of the most wily of our veteran Diplomatists, and that one, moreover, occupying, at the time, the supreme position of First Lord of the Treasury. The sub• joined documentary evidence certainly makes good in every single particular the positive contradiction given more than once in the House of Commons by the hon. and learned baronet the member for Dun dalk to Lord Palmerston's extraordinary and utterly groundless statements. To the declaration of the Neapolitan Nobles, made upon oath before the Notary Public (Dominico Monti) on the 24th of May, 1863, at Rome, v,e append the complete list of names affixed to it. We believe this is the first occasion upon which that complete list of names has appeared in print, certainly in any English newspaper : _ [TRANSLATION.] Letter of the Rev. Father Curd to Sir George Bowyer. ALBANO, May 22, 1863. Most Esteemed Friend,—You having asked Lord Palmerston, in the British Parliament, on the 13th of this month, on what grounds he had asserted certain things injurious to the French Government, to the King of Naples, and the Neapolitan emigra tien, he cited a sermon preached by me eight days before in the church of the Spirito Santo dei Napo, titan, attributing to me reproaches against those illustrious exiles as fomenting brigandage. Now, I, out of regard for truth, hasten to inform you that the statement, cited by Lord Palmerston consists of a tissue of unmitigated falsehoods. In my sermon, not only I uttered no word regarding, but I made not the slightest allusion, direct or in direct, to the King of Naples, the reaction or brigandage, —to what the Neapolitans at Rome do, or ought to do, nor to anything of the sort. Indeed, the subject treated in my discourse had no connec tion with such matters, for its object was to exhort my hearers to avoid idleness, and to employ usefully the time which God allows us. Of all this I have as many witnesses as I had hearers, among whom, I believe, many Romans were included, as the sermon was preached in a public church, and with open doors, Lord Palmerston said that you were able to pro- cure accurate information regarding this fact, and I am glad to have been able to furnish you with it. If you can find the means of communicating it to those who heard those false assertions, I am con vinced that your worthy colleagues will learn with regrte and shame that a Prime Minister, i❑ an English Parliament, should bring forward such ab surdities.—Believe me, your affectionate friend, C. M. CIIRCI, S.J. [TRAN SLATION.] Letter of Neapolitan Nobility at Rome to Sir George Bowyer. ROME, May 27, 1863. Sir,—With feelings of gratitude to you and the other honourable members who have taken the de fence of our unfortunate country, oppressed by the cruelty and rapacity of the Piedmontese Govern ment and its partizans, we send you herewith a legal declaration against an assertion of Lord Pal. merston. May England, who is the teacher of liberty to Europe, and the greatest defence of civi lization—comprehend that war of falsehoods and calumnies which has dragged our country into such great misfortunes, and see that the kingdom of the Two Sieilies is oppressed by the most iniquitous tyranny—the hypocrisy of liberty. If lies and calumnies are invented, even regarding a sermon preached before many hundreds of persons, what are we to believe regarding the information received by the present Cabinet of St. James'? No, your great and generous nation cannot any longer be deceived, and the day must come when she will comprehend that in a great degree she is burthened with the responsibility of the crimes eommitted by the Piedmontese Government. Re newing our thanks to you and to your honourable colleagues, we declare ourselves respectfully your obedient servants, (Signed) Count Francis Statella. The Prince of Bisegnomo. The Duke of Regina. Cavaliere Natalidi Attavella. Joseph Ricciordi Count of Camaldol , Baron Camillo Nolli. The Duke John Riorio Sforza. The Prince of Chiaramonte. The Prince of Aquavive. The Duke of Maddaloni. Count Enrico Statella, Count Anthony Bianculli. The Duke of Terra Conziano. The Duke of S. Valentino. Extract from a solemn legal declaration made at Rome, the 24th of May, 1863, before Dominico Monti Notary Public, and recorded in his office, being a deposition. Ad perpetuam rei memoriam. Before me, Domenico Monti Notary Public, &c., ste., appeared the witnesses hereinafter named— that is to say : His Most Rev. Excellency Monsignor Accardi, Bishop di Anglona e Tursi. His Most Rev. Excellency Monsignor Celesia, Bishop di Catti. The Most Rev. Abbot della Sanctissima Trinita, Monsignor de Ruggiero. The Most Rev. Abbot di Monte Vergine, Monsignor de Cesare. His Lordship the Prince di Bisignano D. Pietro, An tonio Sanseverino. His Lordship the Marquis D. Michele Imperiale de Prin cipi, di Francarilla. His Lordship the Prince D. Diego Pignatelli, di Monte leone Borgia. The Baron D. Camillo Nolli. The Prince di Acquaviva Gio Battista di Mari. The Count D. Francesco Statella di Principi de Cossaro. The Duke di Maddaloni and Prince di Colobrano, Fran cesco Proto. Cay. Giuseppe Natale Gagliani di Attavilla. The Count D. Enrico Statella di Principi Cossaro. The Count di Chiavomente D. Giulio Guicciardi. Cay. D. Francesco Bonanno di Principi di Linguagrossa. The Count di Camaldoli D. Giulio Guicciardi. The Count D. Raffaele Gaetani. His Lordship D. Carlo Duke dells Regina. The Duke di San Valentino D. Fran, Capue Mimetolo. The Duke D. Giovanni Riario Sforza. Cay. D. Adolfo Caraccioli di Principi di Castagneta. The Duke di Lenolangiano D. Gio Maria d'Alessandro— who spontaneously make and have made the following deposition. Declaring that having heard on the 3d of the present month the ser mon of the Rev. Father Curci in the Venerable Church of the Spirito Tanto dei Neapolitan ; the said Father Curci said not a word, nor did he make any allusion direct, or indirect even in the most remote manner, to or regarding the King or the reaction, or the improperly called brigandage. We also declare that the said Rev. Father Curci preached about the vice of idleness, and not about the se-called brigandage. And we further declare that the said Father Curci never preached any other sermon before his sacred Majesty the King, our Lord, nor before the Neapolitan emigration re siding at Rome. This we declare to be the simple truth, which we are ready to affirm on oath before any competent tribunal. [The signatures of the above 22 witnesses, Pre lates, Princes, Dukes, Counts, &c., here follow in due succession.] THE HOUSE-CRICKET is essentially nocturnal in its habits, seldom venturing forth until darkness and silence encourage its exit from the snug nooks and crania which form its daylight lodgings. As may be imagined from the hot places they frequent, these insects are of a very thirsty nature, attacking whatever is moist, often gnawing holes in wet clothes which are hung by the fire to dry. Their chirping noise is the result of a brisk friction of the wing-covers, and may be generally silenced for a time by any rival noise. Crickets multiply so rapidly that after a few years we cease to give them welcome, notwithstand ing all that poets have suus in their raise, Government." FRANCE. THE BOURSE, July 28.—The arrival of the Eng lish funds with an advance of k has tended to give a little firmness to the market, although the amount of business continues limited. Threes, have im• proved to 67f. 25c. Railway Share Market gene rally firm. The market receded towards the end and olosed as follows : It per Cents. 96 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 95 Credit l'slobilier 1042 50 00. end month 1040 Bank Shares 3390 Credit Fonder 1245 RAIL Italian Loan 7l Do. end month 7l New ditto Do. end month 7l Russian 9l Austrian Spanish Threes. „ Home Debt ir AIM Cash. Account. Orleans Northam 975 980 -- New ditto ...• • • G Ly en oz a and Mediterranean 1 46 0 84 1 76 0 5 - 206 ... ... 1 46 0 85 0 73 7 57 6 05 0 Southern Western Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian Lorr.bard North of Spain ...... Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona " The Philobiblion" is the title of a New York literary journal, commenced on the let of November, 1861, devoting itself to the critical notice of rare, curious, and valuable old books, to giving cstracts from the same, and occasionally bibliographical accounts of literary curiosities and book-varieties, and to similar objects as our !Vote. an d Citirtdc THE HEIGHT OF ABSURDITY. It—that is the Height of Absurdity—has surely been reached at last by the now French sensation novel, entitled "Le Nez d'un Notaire." This utter extravagance is the actual production of M. Edmond About, the vaunted apostle, if we may venture to call him so, of the sneering infidelity of the age. His last nonsensical masterpiece is not only published by tho Messrs. Michel Levy Freres, of Paris : but has absolutely attained already the glory (such as it is) of a third edition. And as illustrative of the reach of folly from which such writers as M. Edmond About do not shrink, we transcribe from the Reader of Saturday an ingenious synopsis of the work : M. Alfred L Ambert, the hero of the silly book, is a public notary in the Fatibourg St. Germain—a perfect gentleman, by birth, education, and manners—tall and well-made—has fine large eyes, an Olympian forehead, beard and hair of the most amiable blond, and a Roman nose—that is, nose number one. M. Alfred L'Ambert, this Adonis-notary, gets into a quarrel one evening at the stage door of the opera, where the short-sighted notary by mistake deals a violent blow on the nose to the Turkish secretary of embassy. Thereupon Ayvas Bey takes a solemn oath that he will seek retaliation, and then and there provokes his adversary to a duel. The affair of honour takes place not many hours after, in the early dawn of the morning, near the village of Parthenay, on the road to Sceaux. Before entering the field of combat, M. Alfred L'Ambert perceives an ill - looking tom - cat grinning at him from a tree, and threatens to kill it, but with the only effect of driving the animal further into the wood, just above his head at the place of duel. The "affair of honour" is set tled in a few seconds. Swords having been chosen, Ayvas Bey, leading the attack, makes short work of the business by cutting off his rival's nose. Poor M. L'Ambert falls into the arms of the doctor, who consoles him with the as surance that the precious ornament of his face may easily be sewn on again. The belligerents then look for the nose, but to their horror find that it has disappeared. The tom cat has run away with it. So they all, duellists and se conds. comprising a marquis, a stockbroker, and three Turks, run after the tom-cat, which is perceived capering away, carrying off the most ornamental part of M. L'Am beit's face. The pursuers follow close for more than three miles, through field, torest, and meadow, M. L'Ambert, all bleeding, animating his companions by Ovoid and example. "Those who have never seen a notary running after his nose can form no idea of the zeal of his pursuit," remarks M. About. But, in spite of all the ardour of the chase, the tom-cat escapes finally—and the consequence is that the handsome notary has to return to Paris without his nose. When he has reached his residence a surgeon is sent for —which surgeon is the celebrated Dr. Bernier. The first question asked by M. L'Ambert is—" Can you restore the missing part of my face ?" "Oh, yes," replies the man of science;" that is no very difficult matter; and there are even three ways of doing it, among which you may choose. There is the French method, the Indian method, and the Italian. The first consists in cutting enough flesh for na , ,king a new nose out of your cheek, the second is borrowing it from your forehead, and the third from your arm." The notary is horror-struck at each of these propositions, and ready to drive the doctor out of the room at once. But the enthusiastic M. Bernier insists with plaintive eloquence :--" Do let me cut you a nose out of your arm." After long discussion, a compromise is arrived at. A poor wretch of a water-carrier, called Romagne, a fellow six feet high, with plenty of flesh, but not a penny in his pocket, is called up from the street, and after some gentle persuasion consents—damages, 2,0001.—t0 have a piece of flesh large enough for a nose cut out of his left arm, but not quite detached, and to be tied afterwards tor the period of a month to the handsome notary, in such a man ner that the fibres and blood• vessels may grow from the one body over to the other. The plan, carried out carefully, succeeds to perfection. At the end of less than five weeks the two Siamese twins are separated, and M. Alf. L'Ambert is enabled to go forth again into the world of Paris more good-looping than ever. Instead of a Roman, he has now a Grecian nose, which is greatly admired by the ladies as being both novel and of the most elgant shape. During a whole season, the lucky notary is the leading lion at the club and the green-room, and it is only when the win ter sets in that fresh clouds appear on the horizon. The beautiful nose on a sudden takes a reddish tinge, and soon begins to look scarlet. Dr. Bernier, who is called in, tries palliatives, but in vain. After long and deep cogita tion, the distinguished surgeon at last discovers the cause of the evil. It is the occult influence of Romagne over the nose made out of his own flesh. Romagne is sought for; and it is found that he has taken to drinking—the 2,000 francs which he earned by the scientific operation having proved too great a temptation for him to remain at the water cart. Fortunately, the money is spent now; and Romagne, promising to be sober for the future, is sent away with a blessing and a 6fr. piece. M. Alfred L'Ambert's nose for the next twelve months is all right. Once more, however, distress is looming in the future. The Greek nose one fine morning is found to be limp. Romagne is looked after immediately, and is discovered to be in a dying state for want of food. Of course, he is transported on the instant to the mansion of M. L'Ambert, is nursed tenderly, and, like a healthy wretch, recovers in a few days. S , too, the nose gets well again; and its leaseholder, warned by re peated accidents, resolve, finally to settle in life and keep an eye upon Romagne. These plans are soon ripe for exe cution. Mdlle. Irma Steimbourg, the daughter of a wealthy merchant, consents to give her hand to M. L'Ambert, and the marriage is fixed to take place on the 3d March, at one o'clock precisely. On March 3, at 8 o'clock in the morning, M. Alfred L'Ambert awakes from his slumbers, smiling at the first rays of a beautiful day. To clear up his ideas, he takes his batist handkerchief from under his pillow, and brings it to his nose Good heavens I there is no nose—the handker chief meets nothing but empty space. With one bound the notary is out of bed and before his mirror. Horror of horrors I the day of Pathenay has come again. To run back to his bed, search the eheets and blankets, drive into the mattress, and explore the neigh bouring furniture, is the work of a minute. But there is no nose. Nothing I nothing I nothing The belt in an instant brings all the servants of the house together, and M. L'Ambert swears that he will turn the whole lot off like dogs unless they find his nose. Th e y search as it frantic, but the nose cannot be found. Meanwhile, M. Steimbourg, senior, has put on his gala dress, his blue habit with gold buttons ; and Madame Steimbourg is busy surveying the toilet of the beautiful Irma, who is in the hands of two ladies'-maids and three dressmakers. The white bride, covered all over with rice powder, like a gudgeon got ready for the trying pan, stamps her pretty little foot for impatience, chiding all the people around with admirable impartiality. Having waited for half-an-hour beyond the time ap pointed for the ceremony, the bride at last hears the dread ful news. She has a heroic movement : " What I do you think," she exclaims, " that I should be so low and vulgar as to marry a man merely for the sake of his face ? Had it been for that, I might have chosen my cousin Roderick, who is much better looking though not so rioh as M. L'Ambert. I have accepted the hand of M. L'Ambert because he is a real gentleman, in very good position—because his character, his hotel, his horses, his mind, his tailor, in fact everything about him, pleases and gratifies my feelings. Besides, I act now in full dress, quite ready to be married, and my reputation might suffer it the nuptials were to be put off. Do, mamma, let us go to M. L'Ambert; I will take him such as he is, for better, for worse." But, arrived face to face with the bridegroom, the noble enthusiasm of the beautiful Irma vanishes at the instant. She is seen fainting away ; and only regains consciousness to break out into a flood of tears, exclaiming, amidst her sobs, " Oh, Roderick, Roderick, how unjust I have been to you I" The romance of the notary's nose ends by M. Alfred L'Ambert selling his extensive practice, retiring to a charming villa in the environs of Paris, and having a silver nose made for his daily use. One morning, in taking a walk, he runs against Romagna, whom Dr. Bernier has declared to be dead. " Wretch, where is my nose T" exclaims the excited notary. " Ah, sir, it was not my fault," rejoins the trembling water-carrier; " I got into a factory, and my left arm, being caught in the teeth of an iron wheel, was torn clean off. It happened early on the morning of the third of March." Such in brief, is the quagmire of twaddling feebleness in which this sneering, cynical M. Edmond About has de. liberately taken a " hwader" in this astounding French sensation novel, that is as a satyr to Hyperion when com pared with " Aurora Floyd," or " Lady Audley's Secret I" BRICK MAKING BY MACHINERY.—For many years considerable difficulty has been experienced in producing a machine capable of making accurately formed bricks from all varieties of clay; this has, however, been successfully ove, come by the invention of Messrs. Page and Co., of Laurence Pountnoy-hill, of an entirely new de scription of self-lubricating brick die, which, by admitting moisture round the clay as it passes through the die or mould, ensures a beautiful smooth and even face to the bricks, with clean, true, and sharp angles, such as would be impossible to produce by hand moulding, and from the immense pressure brought to bear upon the clay in the machine, the material can be used of much greater density, The bricks are, therefore, in every way far superior to those made by the hand process, require less time to dry, and are not so liable to crack in burning. M. DE CHATEAUBRIAND'S TOILET.—He untied his handkerchief, and began taking off his green morocco slippers. Victor Hugo rose to take leave, but the great man would not let him go, but went on undressing regardless of his presence ; he removed his grey swan skin pantaloons, his shirt, and his flannel waistcoat, and at last got into his tub, allowing the servant to wash and rub him. Once dried and dressed up again, he cleaned his teeth, which were very beautiful, and for the use of which he kept a whole case of dentist's instruments. Greatly revived by his dabble in the water, he began to chat in a most animated manner, all the time working hard at his jaws. —Life of Victor liugo. 4 4Alp„: 1' 7 441 4,ri‘ 7 ~ li finrt , r ---.4 ; -- Cittnlar. , 4 *.., - HER MAJESTY. OSBOANE, July 28. The Queen, Princess Helena, and Princess Beatrice, attended by the Dowager Countess of Mount•Edgcumbe and Lord Alfred Paget, drove out yesterday. Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Halifax. As at present arranged, ihflir Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of WalLs will leave London for Halifax on Monday morning by the ordinary 10 o'clock train, to which a state carriage will be at tached. This trai❑ always travels at express speed, and no stoppage will be made until it reaches Peter borough, a distance of 76 miles from London, at 11.35. After a delay of five minutes the train will proceed to Grantham, 29 miles distant, which will be reached at 12.35. Three quarters of an hour more is allowed for the distance between this station and Retford, about 33 miles. On leaving Retford at 1.13, the train will proceed to Wakefield, and then on to Halifax, distant 202 miles, arriving at 3 49. There, as previously stated, their royal high nesses will be received by the mayor and corpora tion, and will be the guests of his worship during the night. Foreign Courts. P.iiita, July 27. The Emperor is expected at the Camp of Chalons about the 12th August, where he will remain several days, to be present at mancauvres of the troops and hold a general review. Prince Napoleon Charles Bonaparte, two days back, visited the experimental silk-growing establishment, or ganised by M. Guerin-Meneville on the imperil farm of Vincennes, near Joinville-le-Pont. The prince went over the plantations of oaks and mulberry trees, and especially noticed the fine cocoons of the oak silkworm, and the diffe rent stages from the egg to the worms placed in the hedges, and making their cocoons in the open air. The Duchess Dowager d'Albe has arrived at Bagneres de Bigorre with her grandchildren, the nephews of the Empress. The Duke of Marlborough left Blenheim Palace, near Woodstock, yesterday, to join his yacht at Southamp ton. The noble duke intends to make a cruise for a few weeks to the westward, and during his excursion will visit the Earl and Countess Vane at their seat in Wales. Lord and Lady Carrifigton leave town at the close of the ensuing week for Gayhurst Park, Bucks, for the autumn. Lord and Lady Abercromby have left Claridge's Hotel for Scotland. Lord and Lady Farnham have left Claridge's Hotel for Aberystwith, Norat Wales. Lady Emily Peel left Whitehall-gardens on Monday for her villa at Geneva. The Right Han. Sir Robert Peel, M.P., has gone to Goodwood for the race week. The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer will leave town to-morrow to join Mrs. Gladstone and family at Hawarden Castle, Flintshire, The Marquis of Bristol and the Ladies Hervey left the family residence in St. James's-square, on Monday, for Dresden, and intend to make a tour of several months in Germany. _ The Earl and Countess de Grey and Ripon, ac companied by Lord Goderich, leave Carlton-gardens on Friday next, for Studeley Royal, near Ripon, Yorkshire, in order to make preparations for the reception of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess' of Wales, who are to be the guests of the noble earl and countess for three days during the ensuing week. The Earl and Countess Jermyn left town on Monday on a visit to Lord and Lady Wharncliffe at . Wort ley Hall, near Sheffield. The Earl Granville left town yesterday for Slindon House, Sussex, to meet a large and distinguished circle assembled there for the Goodwood race meeting Count Satin° and M. de Vere have left the Bruns wick Hotel for Goodwood. Sir Henry and Lady de lioghtiin have arrived at Maurigy's Hotel from Walton. Sir Frederick H. Bathurst has arrived at the same establishment from Clarendon-park, Salisbury, Wilts- Death of General Lord Downes, G,C.B. We have to record the demise of General Lord Downes, G.C.8., Colonel of the 29th (the Worcestershire) Reginie't• of Foot, intelligence of whose death was received in town yesterday. The sad event took place at his lordship's resi dence, Bert House, county Kild,:tre, Ireland, after a few days' illness. Much sympathy is felt not only by the nume rous friends of his lordship, but by the tenantry and others located in the immediate neighbourhood t ,NI the family estate, during the several bereavements recently experienced by the noble family of which his lordship was the head. The late gallant Ulysses de Burgh, Baron Downes of . ..9.ghanville , King's County, in the peerage of Ireland, of which peerage his lordship was a representative in the House of Lords. was the son of Mr. Thomas Burgh. He was born in Dublin in 1788, and married on June 20, 1815, Maria, only daughter of the late Mr. Walter Bagenal, who died in :1842; and, secondly, in August, 1846, Christophena, widow of Mr. John Willis Fleming, of Stoneham, Hants, who died in October, 1860. By his first marriage he leaves surviving issue Anne, wife of the Earl of Clonmel ; his other daugh ter, wife of the present Lord Seaton, having died only re cently. The late Lord Downes entered the army as eft' sign in May, 1804, and was appointed aide-de-camp to General Sir John Cradock, whom he accompanied to Por tugal in November, 1808, where Sir John held the chief command until May, 1809, when he (Sir J. Cradock) was succeeded by the Duke of Wellington, with whom Lord Downes remained as aide-de-camp and assistant military secretary, during the whole war, and was present at the battles of Talavera (where he was slightly wounded), Bu saco, Fuentes d'Onor, and El Bodon ; sieges of Eluded Rodrigo and Badajoz; battles of Salamanca, Vittoria, and the Pyrenees ; siege of San Sebastian ; battles of the Ni velle (at which his horse was killed under him), Nive, and Toulouse (where he was slightly wounded). His lordshiP received the gold cross and one clasp for Vittoria, Pyrenees? Nivelle, Nive, and Toulouse, and the silver war medal and six clasps for Tatavera, Busaco, Fuentes d'Onor, Ciudad RodrigO, Badajoz, and Salamanca. For his long and me ritorious services in the army he was, in 1860, made Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. The gallant noble• man had held the post of surveyor-general of the Ordnance from 1820 to 1827, and several staff appointments in the United Kingdom, and was much respected by all classes in the British army with whom he was brought in contact. Among the h onours bestowed upon him by foreign so vereigns he was a Knight of the Tower and Sword of Per' o sfollow n s s e i p g t. , n 4, M tugal, and of St A nne o f R uss i a. Hi s comm i s sions bore d l a B r o c 6 h ; 31 m , l a B j 0 0 r 4, ; lieutenant,areh 3181 1 N0 1 1 " u e e n a 4 ; captain, :— E; lieutenant-colonel, Sept. 5, 1812; colonel, May 27, 182 5 ; major-general, Jan. 10, 1817; lieutenant-generat, Nov. 9, 1846; general, June 20, 1854; and colonel of the 29th lie giment, Aug. 15, 1850. We are sorry to see that another edition of Re nan's " Vie de Jesus"—the fourth—has left the press. The Royal Library at Copenhagen, founded by Christian Id., numbers at this moment no less than 400,000 volumes. A curious invention is reported from Franco, namely, the decreasing of the scabbard of the bayonet bY one-halt when the bayonet is withdiawn. Mr. Frith is said to be proceeding rapidly with his picture of the Royal Marriage. He has been constantly at work during the season; and most of the royal and aris tocratic personages whose portraits are to be introduce d therein have given him sittings. DOLCE FAR INIENTE.—A day or two ago a friend of mine, says the Paris correspondent of a contem . porary, having occasion to visit one of those kingdoms (Austria and Prussia) on "urgent private affairs," went 0 6 to the Legation of the country of which he is a naturalised subject. I would not mention its name for the world, ee I do not wish to bring down condign punishment on the offender, but would rather give a word of advice and warn ing to youthful Attached and other foreign officers who are sent from Swell•street, let us say, to aid and protect their Majesties' subjects abroad. Needless to say that at this season "his Excellency" was aux Eaux. The First, Secre tary ?—not in ; the First Attache ?—out. No chance, theut to-day, so an appointment is made for the morrow. The Secretary —like the late lamented Charles Lamb, he begins late, but "then see how early he leaves off"—will be in the " Chaneellerie" from 12 to 2. The naturalised one takes the "mean time," and keeps his appointment at 1 o'clock. He is to leave Paris that evening, and has much to do. waits 10 minutes, when an official-looking porter comes 10 him to say that " the Secretary cannot see him because be is in his bath." To such a stern fact there was no reply, an so the poor man has gone " passport-less" - away. FOUR AT A BIRTH.—The German journals state that an event of rare occurrence took place on the 23d inst. at Mulheim, on the Kuhr, when the wife of a del labourer gave birth to four infants, two boys and two gi rls ' The mother and the children, adds the report, "are doing well." NEW ZEALAND.—The ship Shalimar, CaP t4ir ! Allen, from Lyttleton, New Zealand, April 16, has arrived in the Channel. She landed three of her passengers an her letters at Fenzanee:on Monday, Minie 1