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

• 4 4 4 - t. 0116 N pjt 43 . 79111= 7 , 44 lit M o -T te,. .4 WNW 1.14, IRIGHT HON. LORD JOHN JAMES MANNERS, M.P.—Who Shot his Dog 7—Diplomacy ,Done —in FUN this week, One Penny. TI E DUKE'S MOTTO. THE HL,NDREI, AM) SIXTY-FIFTH NIGHT, and Last Week but One of the present Season. R 0 YAL LYCEUM THE A TRE.- Under the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTER. Last Week but One of the present Season. TATS EVENING, to commence with an Original %ketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter-past Eight, the Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr3logne, entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. 'Pechter, eunported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G. Jordan, J. Brongitam, B. A iddbombe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson ; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, and Fileworthy. Doors open at 7, commence at half-past. Acting:Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. VA., Sole F,essee and Manager, Mr. G. Vining THIS EVENING, at Eight o'clock, Shakespere's Play of ROMEO AND JULIET. Romeo, Mr. Walter ontgomery ; 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 TB EATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHL- Sole Proprietor and :Kamm, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE IRISH TIGER. After which, at Eight o'clock, a new drama, entitled THE HAUNTED MAN ; OR, T E GHOST'S BARGAIN, in which will be exhibited Professor Pepper's adaptation of the Great Spectral Illusion. Messrs. J. L. Toole, It. Phillips, Befton. C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss H. Simms. Followed by a new Burlesque, entitled ILL-TREATED IL TROVATORE. Messrs. 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, Menders, and E. Beton. Followed by (11th time) THE MOTTO, " I'M ALL THERE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier, Clifton ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, F. Josephs, Maria Simpson, Wallace, and Jenny White. To conclude with LOVE IN LIVERY. Commence at 7. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLhNIE, 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. Cris DAY.—Morning, 12h. 24m.—Afternoon, 12h. 55m, To-mounow.-Morning, lh. 25m.—Afternoon, lh. 52m, TLI SON, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 29, 1363. 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 66ih 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 dispassionately. 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 end all, to the influence of a nameless something, a je-ne-sais.quoi, a simple charm of manner, the glamour of the witche'y of a smile. Suavely, by the side of his inanimate remains, it is remarked some• what under breath " Everybody liked him "—bat then acidly, in a whisper, in a sort of confidential " abide" 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 NORMANBY'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 NoRmANBY, 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. Re was for about a year Governor of the most important among our West Indian Colonies But, above all, during very nearly one whole lustre, he was not only uni nterruptedly Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, but from first to last, from 1831 to the turn of the year tion 1 838 - 9, he w as , w ith ou t an y excep hatel'er, the moat popular Lord Lieutenant of whom Ireland has, even now, any recollection. An Englishm an and a p rotestant, he was nevertheless pronounced, at the time, Englishman T me, by O'C ONNELL , t h e b est Irela n d e had ever seen ! "Isis reception in the sist er island,: the Times of this m orn i ng mentions as h aving bee n departure from I reland, enthusiastic." His as at the close of hi s reign, we well reme mber, having been mark e d n ot according to the ()rein: b by gen : i sense of the phrase by enthusiasm—but Ireland Lord NORMANBY'S departure hom th e e Irish enthusiasm! Castle at Dublin, and his final farewell to when he e mbarked on board the s t eamer the beautiful harbour:of Kingstown, being, in point o f fact and q uite literally, an ovation! Yet, all t h is, We are asked to regard as simply and solely the recom pense accorded by his countrymen to him f or his possession of a handsome form and features, set off to the admiration of all, by the fascinations of a winning deportment. This demand upon our credulity is in itself, to our thinking, utterly and flagrantly ridiculous. Another version we have to give of Lord NOR 3/ANBY's character, and we believe it to be the true a ppears to us, far more readily to one. It certai nl y explain his many successes in life, the love 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 IV -.ORMANBY by two Liberal Prime Ministers, as shrewd in their estimate of adminis trative and diplomatic worth, as most men of their time, to wit, Lord MELBOURNE and Lord JOHN RUSSELL. Born of an old Tory family, Lord NORSIANBY, 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 eo 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 i❑ the least. Hence, probably he is sti 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 w 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 en 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 missioners advise that the limits of the Metropolis be extended from these 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. Thesecond 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 84- 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 seine - 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, in th e not i ces for constructing 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 ways should originate in one house,be grouped tog' - 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. merit 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 STRATHEDEN withdrew his motion, so that Rothing 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. A very su b stant i al and practical reform is pro raised us during the course of 1864. The metro politan turnpikes are positively and unreservedly to be abolished ! The long standing nuisance which has confronted the citizen whether he turned east or West, north or south is at length to be removed. 'thee met him alike in a visit to Camden T me w rs n m o it r h ß o a r 1 T l'a e d P d o inndg.toflay, andan expedition t o H a m way nearer h ome, barring him wfroh suburbs of K ens i ngton, m ich th s e to q o u d ai i n n t the eid the less aristocratic high ways of Kennington and Camberwell, th e prec i ncts of the City-road, a n d even forbade him t o go many yards past the famous Angel, of Islington, without h a ving his co nve y ance stopped by a resistless and merciless exactor. Th e annoyance has really been very great, and, as it int er f ere d with the conve nience of all classes of the population, it is really surprising that even English hasglis nhpoatrieeasncoenhtaos complain tolerated it so long. cou ntry The o that metropolitan grie f ya t n h ceesLegsat moniolponlirsee, since thea this long of the members p ik e s c y a fi l t l e e rn d f b o a r i su b p ee p u res d s e i f o g n rr o e f the deferred for obnoxious : .o nianyyteuarras: 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 grieves is fairly our thr o h n e g a h r t 'at both Housespresent, o a fn Parliament, l t i h a o m u e g n h t ithet w ill b ill not come into force until the July of next year. So the sturdy toll-keepers may count the intervening t h w e i r t e h d a in s e the n se that the days of their glory are numbered, and that i m n o t e n r t v h a s 1 , f a r n o d m tr r e e a l u s u c t r e e n thet passengers, 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 not too much a matter of coarse 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, who 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 hiin frequently to some particular locality where a toll gate bars the way, while those who have time or opportunity of eyed 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 highway suddenly and then drop in again, while the Mows 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, it 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 M'Kinlay'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 1 On the shepherds seizing their fire-arms, under a sense of possible 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 reef 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 new friends, and after a sort interval taken to Port Deuison, waere a subscription was made on his behalf, and where both himself and his narrative were the subject of very general interest. SOUTH-TALLETRA. D OR GOLDSMITH.—A corre• spondent of the Guardian traces to Robert south Talleyrand's celebrated snot, "La parole a ere donnee l'horame pour l'aider a cacher sa pens6e," 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."— [Midway between South and Talleyrand—the same identical thought occurs in " The Citizen of the World," by guileless Oliver Goldemith.—ED. SUN.] A WHITECHAPEL TRAGEDY —recently witnessed in the largeroftne 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 Man 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 tie plus ultra of villan)—cuts the throat of a baronet who had years be tote 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 he 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 seizes. 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 h a bit s f ormed, I should really just like to try a little criminality. Fancy p ass i ng a f orge d bill to your banker ; calling on a friend and sweeping his sideboard of plate, his hall of umbrellas and coats : and then going home to dress for dinner, say —and to meet a bishop, a judge, and a police magistrate or so. and talk more morally than any man at table I How I should chuckle (as my host's spoons clinked softly in my pocket) whilst I was uttering some noble speech about virtue, duty, charity I" L'EMPEREUR !—The only question which men put t o themselves in Paris, in France, and even out of France, is, " What is he doing or thinking in Vichy ?" There, theanxiously face of every one who approaches the gloomy paper even went the length o f p roclaimin g that there was hope for peace, because a gentleman who is at the same time a friend of Poland and a friend of Napoleon looked downcast after an interview with which he was favoured in the Delphian Chalet. has app ed Of Shakespeare's complete works, tran slated b y Francois Victor Hugo, the eleventh volume already. The Invalide publishes a letter from Warsaw, dated the 12th instant, stating that the police had arrested three men, on one of whom was found an c.0.0n of ta xes, by o rder from th e N at i ona l G overnment to assass i n ate theofficer by whom, as it happened, the arrest was made. Such incid ents ," t h e l et t er says , " are n ot uncommo n mmo n at W arsaw. " It also states that the col wet: successfully e nforced, p a id up. the Russian au th or iti es , i s b e ing Even the arrears of former • years are bein g 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 also adopted a resolution which in effect acknowledges the equality of the rights of Jews in the canton of Argovie. LEM BERG, 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 Busse states that the Czar has ordered reinforcements to be sent to the companies of artillery stationed at liestch, Nicolaieff, Dana munde, Wiborg, 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 other person present. After the interview of the Sovereigns the Presi dent had a conference of an hour azd a half with the King of Sweden. ----- TOTAL LOSS 01' THE STEAMER PARIS, SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 28. The steamer Atalanta, Captain Lewis, from the Channel Islands, arrivad 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, bOUTHAMPTON, JULY 29. The Tasmania has arrived here with the above mails, 165 passengers, 257,349 in specie, and 2,886 packages of cargo. Her Mdjesty'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 Ist. 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 bad been visited by a violent storm, causing considerable damage and destroying seve ral buildings. Numerous cases of incendiarism had occurred at Barbadobs 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 shocks 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 revolutio nar y attem pt in Haiti had ter minated. Sevente en were se ntenced 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- terest to foreign countries. Business at Valparaiso had somewhat improved. The general tone of all markets was dull. Ex change 441 d. to 45d. The Government of Peru has sanctioned the con struction and guaranteed 7 per cent. on the capital for 25 years of the two new lines of railway con necting the inland cities with the ports. The loss of Puebla was received in Peru with strong expressions 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 Government." Lord Palmerston and Father Curd. Before the incident referred to shall have passed altogether from public recollection, we think it only due, in fairness to Sir George Bowyer, to publiso, as we do below, in extenso, the whole of the various documents referred to by 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 Lilco 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 certain ly makes good in every single particular the positive contradiction given more than once in the House of Commons b . l 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 arty English newspaper : [TRANSLATION.] Letter of the Rev. Father Curci 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 tion, he cited a sermon preached by me eight days before ;n the church of the Spirito Santo dei Napo litan, 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, in an English Parliament, should bring forward such ab surdities.—Believe me, your affectionate friend, C. M. CURCI, [TRANSLATION.] Letter of Neapolitan Nobitity 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 ►iberty to Europe, and the greatest defence of civi liz ition—comprehend that war of falsehoods and calumnies which has dragged our country into such great misfortunes, and see that the kingdom of the Two Sicilies 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 ycu 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 Camaldoli. Baron Camillo Nolli. The Duke John Riorio Sforza. The Prince of Chiaramonte. 'l he 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., &e., appeared the witnesses hereinafter named— that is to say : His Most Rev. Excellency Monsignor Accardi, Bishop di Anglona a Tursi. His Most Rev. Excellency Monsignor Celesia, Bishop di Catti. The Most Rev. Abbot della Sanctissima Trinita, &c., 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 Statells , di Principi de Cossaro, The Duke di Maddaloni and Prince di Colobrano, Fran cesco Proto. Cav 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 dell% 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 Curti preached about the vice of idleness, and not about the so-called brigandage. And we further declare that the said Father Cum 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 cranies 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 atter a few years we cease to give them wacurne, notwithstand ing all that poets bave sung in their raise, THE HEIGHT OF ABSURDITY. ____ ._ o It—that is the Height of Absurdity—has surely been reached at last by the new 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 the 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 Faubourg St. Germain—a perfect gentleman, by birth, education, and manners—tall and well-made—has fine largo 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 ever ing at the stage door of the opera, where the short-sighted notary by mistake deals a violent blow on the nose to the Tut kish 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 eff-et 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 bert's face, The pursuers follow close for more than three miles, through field, forest, and meadow, M. L'Ambert, all bleeding, animating his companions by word 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 making a new nose out of your cheek, the second is borrowing it from Your forehead, arid 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, 2,000t.—t0 have a piece of flesia large enough for a nose cut out of his left arm, but not quite detached, and to be tied afterwards for the period of a u,onth to the handsome notary, in such a man ner that the fibres and blood• vessels may grow I rom 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-low.ing 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 freeb 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. Aft er long and d, ep 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 sfr. piece. M. Altred 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 nursee 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'AmLert, 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 agaia. To run back to his bad, search the sheets and blankets, drive into the mattress, and explore the neigh bouring furniture, is the work of a minute. But there is no nose. Nothing ! nothing I nothing I The belt in an instant brings all the servants of the house together, and M. L'Anabert swears that he will turn the whole lot off like dogs unless they find his nose. 'nay search as it frantic, but the nose caunot be• fuuud. 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, S tamps her pretty little foot fur impatience, chiding all the people around with admirable impartiality. Having waited for half-an-hour beyond the time ap pointed for the ceremony, the bade 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 rich 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 tact everything about him, pleases and gratifies my feelings. Besides, I un 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 1" 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 raking a walk, he runs against Roinagne, whom Dr. Bernier has declared to be dead. " Wretch, where is my nose?" 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 tom 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 " header" in this astounding French sensation novel, that is as a satyr to Hyperion when com pared with " Aurora Floyd," or "Lady Audley's Secret l" BRICK MAKING BY MACHINERY.—For many years considerable dif f iculty 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 Pountney-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 mou.d, ensures a beautiful smooth and even face to the bricks, with clean, tine, and sharp angles, such as would be impossible to pr , duce by hand moulniug, 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 tar superior to those made by the hand process, require less time to dry, and are not so liable to crack in burning. M. DE CHATEAUBRIANIS'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 instrumtnts. Greatly revived by his dabble in the water, he began to chat in a most anifnattd manner, all the time walking hard at his jaws,,,,Life of Victor liugo. HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, 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, their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales 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 train 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, es previously stated, their royal high nesses will he received by the mayor and corpora tion, and will be the guests of his worship during the night. FRANCE. THE BOURSE, July 28.—The arrival of the Eng lish funds with an advance of a 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 closed as follows : 41 per Cents. 96 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 95 Credit Mobilie- 1042 50 Do. end month 1040 Bank Shares 3390 -- Credit 1 meter 1245 BAIL' Italian Loan 7l 15 Do. end month 7l 10 New ditto Do. end month 7l 45 Russian Austrian Apanieh Threes.„ 63 irome Debt . . 5O 50 WAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans - Northeru ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1010 .. 1007 50 Geneva 487 50 .. 487 50 Southern 646 26 .. 653 76 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lon bard North of Spain - Saragossa 665 .. 670 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 extracts from the same, and occasionally bibliographical accounts of literary curiosities and book-varieties, and to similar objects as our Notes and Quoin. i‘ • • ona e n .4 Foreign Courts. PARTS, 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 manoeuvres of the troops and hold a general review. Panne Napoleon Charles Bonaparte, two days back, visited the experimental silk-growing establishment, or ganised by M. Guerin••DTeneville on the imperial farm of Vincennes, near Joinville-le-Pout. 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 wormo 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 CarriHgton leave town at the close of the ensuing week for Gayhurst Park, Bucks, for the autumn. Lord and Lady Abercromby have left Claridge'e Hotel for Scotland. Lord and Lady Farnham have left Claridge's Hotel for Abery stwith, North Wales. Lady Emily Peri left Wnitehall-gardens on Monday for her villa at Genova. The Right 1-1)n. 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, Flintbhire, Tth, Marquis of Bristol and the Ladies Hervey left the family residence in St. James's-square, on Monday, tor Dresden, and intend to make a tour of several months in Germany. The Eirl and Countess de Grey and Ripon, ac companied by Lord Goderich, leave Carlton-gardens on. Friday next, for S.udeley 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 daring the ensuing week. The Earl and Countess Jermyn left town oti Monday on a visit to Lord and Lady Wharncliffe at Wort ley Hall, near Sheffield. Tne Earl Granville left town yesterday for Siindon House, Sussex, to meet a large and distinguished circle assembled there for the Goodwood race Kneetiag Count &din° and M. de Vera have left the Bruns wick Hotel for Goodwood. Str Henry and Lady de Hoghten 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) Regiment 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 Kildare, 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 of 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 Aghanville, King's County, in the peerage of Ireland, or which peerage his lordship was a representative in the House of Lords. was the son of Mr. Thomas Burgb. 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 en sign in May, 1804, and was appointed aide-de-camp to. General Sir John Cradock, whom he accompanied io Por tugal in November, 1808, where Sir Jubn 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 side-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 a'Onor, and El Bodon ; sieges of Ciudad 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 Talavera, Busaco, Fu'sntes d'Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Bad ajoz, and Salamanca. For his long and me ritorious services in the army he was, in 1860, made a 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 01E1080 in the British army with whom he was brought in contact. Among the honours bestowed upon him by foreign so vereigns he was a Knight of the Tower and Sword of For• tugal, and of St Anne of Aussie. His commissions bore date as follow :—E7sign, March 31, 1804 ; lieutenant, Nov. 12, 1804; captain, Sept. 4, 1806 ; major, March 31, 1811; lieutenant-colonel, Sept, 5, 1812; colonel, May 27, 1826; major-general, Jan. 10, 1817; lieutenant-general, Nov. gs 1846; general, June 20, 1854; and colonel of the .29th Re 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 ICI., numbers at this moment no less than 400,000 volumes. A curious invention is reported from FranCie, namely, the decreasing of the scabbard of the bayonet by one-halt when the bayonet is withdrawn. Mr. Frith is said to be proceeding rapidly will). his picture of the Itoyal Marriage. He has been constar tell at work during the season; and most of the royal and a ris° tocratie personages whose portraits are to be introduPed therein have given him sittings. DOLCE FAR .NIENTE.—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 off to the Legation of the country of whim he is a naturalised subject. I would not mention its name for the world, as I do not wish to bring down condign punishment on th e offender, but would rather give a word of advice and warn' ing to youthful Attaches 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 Attaché ?—out. No chance, then , to-day, so an appointment is made for the morrow. The Sect etary—like the late lamented Charles Lamb, he begins late, but " then see how early he leaves off'—will be in the " Chancellerie" from 12 to 2. The naturalised one take s the "mean time," and keep 3 his appointment at 1 o'cionki He is to leave Paris that evening, and has much to do. Lie waits 10 minutes, when an official-looking porter comes to him to say that " the Secretary cannot see him because he is in his bath." To such a stern fact there was no reply, 87A so the poor man has gone "passport-less" away. FOUR AT A BIRTH.--The German journals state that an event of rare eceurrence took place on the 23d inst. at Mulheim, on the Kuhr, when the wife of a dal labourer gave birth to four infants, two boys and two gir l ' s ' The mother and the children, adds the report, "are doing NEW ZEALAND.—The ship Shalimar, CaPt airt . Allen, from Lyttieton, New Zealand, April 16, has arrived in the Channel: he lan :eel three of her passengers aA her letters at Penzance on Monday,