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

_ BONNET'S SILKS a LYON.—Every Article of commerce tal•;:ei, its title either from the inventor or manufacturer, and 'the in ore perfect the production the grater is the credit which attaches to the originator. BONNET'S SILI IS are said to be incapable of identifica tion in England; h the tal lacy of such an assertion is ex pos -d by the very tr ade mark. of the firm, as exhibited by Mess rs. JAY, of Regent-street. The following ir tterwovert mark may be seen at the end ofeach piece :—" 31 anutacture de C. J. Bonnet et Cie., a Lyon eta Injurieux." 'riear guaranteed. HER MA JESTY'S THEATRE. Nights of Fez formance—Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. THIS EVENI2 tG, TFIURSDAY, FEBRUARY I 'ALTST (In English). Lemmens -Sherrit ,;ton, Taccani, an d Florence Lancia. Santley, Mar chesi , Dussek, and Sims Reeves. Cot ductor—Signor Arditi. Commence at ELr,ht. of the Theatre open daily. Tickets, also, at Messrs. Chappell and Co.'s, 50, New Bond " treet. IT ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE OF FAUST (In English). MONDAY next, FEBRUARY 15. To commence at Two o'clock. Lemmens-Sherrington, Taccani, and Florence Lancia. Santley, Marchesi, Dussck, and Sims Reeves. Conductor—Signor Arditi. .Prices of admission same as t o the Evening- Performance. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GAR DEN. U nder the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING (first time ) a new Opera, founded on Goldsmith's Comedy, and to be called SIT.; STOOPS TO CONQUER. Miss Louisa Pyne and Air. W. Harrison. After which, the Burlesque Opening of the Grand National Pantomime, HARLEQUIN ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Doors open a t half-past Six—Commence at Seven. _ 431-IEATRE ROYAL DR U R Y-L AN E. Managers, Messrs. Edmond Falconer and E. B. Chatterton. T IT'S EVENING, the Performances will commence with the New Berl o-Comic Drama, by Edmund Falconer, entitled HT AND MORN. Principal characters by Mr. Phelps, supported by Messrs. Ryder, Raynor, Fit zjames, and Misses R. Leclerc,i, Atkinson, and Heath. To conclude with the new Grand Christmas Comic Panto mime of SI NBAD THE SAILOR; or, The Seven Wonders of_ the World. Clowns, Messrs. H. Boleno and C. Lauri ; Harlequins, Messrs. J. Cormack and S. Saville ; Pantaloons, Messrs. W A. Barnes and J. .orris ; Columbines, Madame Boleno and Misses Gunniss. Prices as sasuaL Box Office open from 10 till 5 daily. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. BEL DE VIONIO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated 3.ivery Evening during the Week. THIS EVENING, the performance will commence with a ew and Original Farce, entitled THE LOST CHILD: essTs. Widdicombe, Shore, Garden, F. Charles Collett, 4reland; Misses Percy, Pauline Le:derci, Wood, Mrs. Lee, and Miss E. Lavenu. ter which, at Eight o'clock, BEL DENIONIO, a Love Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from Stendhal's Italian Chronicle 4," by Mr. John Brouviam. Principal charac ter by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles, Brough,m, 3,!:mery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford, loilett, Sims ; Miss Kate Terry, Miss E. Lavenu, Airs. Lee, an d Niles Elsworthy. The Public are entreated to take notice that No Charge is wtade to the occupants of Boxes, Box-places, or Stalls, either t o; play b 11 1 ,4 or for the safe keeping, of hat , and cloaks, and that the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden to rece ive any gratuities whatever. Box-office open daily from 11 to 5. Commence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL HAY M ARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, LITTLE DAISY. Followed by SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. After which, KING ARTHUR ; or The Days and Knights of the Round Table. Messrs. Chipoondata, Compton, Braid, Clark, Rogers, Tilbury, &c. ; Mesdames L. Keel e y , Brou g h, Wright, Terry, Lindley, Rogers, &c. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. — Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, DONNA DIANA. After which, HARLEQUIN LITTLE TOM TUCKER; or The Fine Lady of Banbury Cross, and the Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe and Had so Many Children she didn't know what to do, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Si 7. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE ['BETTY lIORSEBitEA.KER. Miss Woolgar. kt to Eight, the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bate man, supported by Messrs. Arthur Stirling, R. Phillips, Bil- Ington, Stuart, Stephenson, Eburne ; Miss H. Simms, and Mrs. Billim,rtcn. To conclude with LADY BELLE BELLE; or, Fortunlo and his Seven Magi?, Men. Messrs. J. Clarke, It. Phillips, Stephenson ; Miss Woolgar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss L. Laidlaw, Miss Seaman. • - Commence at 7. LE A.H.-EVERY MISS BATEMAN. N I G II T 31 ISS BATEMAN.—LF,AH.—Tnis EVENING, the 11:1111 appearance of the greatTrap,ic Actress, Miss B.I'I'EMAN , in the character of LN:AIi. In consequence of the unbounded success with which Miss Rateinan's imperso nation of the priticipat character in the new Five Act Drama of LEAII has been attended, Mr Arebster be , 4 - s to announce that it will be performed EVERY EVENING until further entice. 'ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING UNLIMITED CONFIDENCE. Mr. Belford, Mr. Parselle, ; Miss Marie Wilton, Miss Thorne. Atter which, the Grand Christmas Burlesque, ORP HEMS AND EITRY DICE : Messrs. Honey, Wood, James Fenton, Mesdames Swanborough, Marie Wilton, Hughes, &o. Followed by MARGATE SANDS:. Commence at 7. The Weather--Sun Office, Feb. 11, 1864. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Cro. ded with rank and fashion.— The New Comedy of THE SILVER LINING every Evening—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Stirling, tit's. Frank Matthews, and Mr. J. L. Toole every evening. The following eminent artistes are engagedßenjamin Webster, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Frederic Robinson, Mr. Ashley, and Mr. Chas. Mathews ; Mrs. Stirling, Miss Herbert, Mrs. Frank Mat thews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Went worth, and Mrs. Charles Mat!news. THIS EVENING, and during the Week, at 7 o'c'ock, sn entirely new Comedy, in 3 Acts, by LeicestPr Bucking ham, Esq., entitled THE SILVER LINT G : Mr. Charles Mathews M r . Frederic Robinson , Mr. Ashley, Mr, John stone. Mr. Montague ; Mrs. harles Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Cottrell, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirling. To be followed by Mr. Charles Mathews just translated from the French)in his characteristic character of Un Anglais Timide, entitled COOL AS A CUCUMBER. To conclude with 1863; or, THE SENSATIONS OF THE PAST SEASON Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. A. Cottrell, and Miss Fanny Josephs. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containincr, the Lateet SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, Dan be had Every Eveninv, of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. COALS. —The LILLE SHAL L COMPANY'S COAL Q. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis' ..265. per ton. I Double 21s. per ton. Top 255. ~ Nuts. . . l9s. „ Deep . 22s. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W. Best Cote Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tina D,ky.—Morning, 3h. 50m.—Afternoon. 4h. 14m. to - xoßitow.-Morning, 4h. 32m.—Afternoon. 4h. 53m. THERMOMETER. Lagt night„ This day at Two O'clock Ba.rometer— , 29.Bo. Wend.. • moderate, and cloudy, • ' 4 l "T. LONDON, THURSDAY, FEB. 11, 1864 Yesterday's rumour of an armisticea ti ppears now to have been altogethe r unfoun ded , . r wish probably father to the thoug h t o f it. But the was being at least fromi l repo r t has now been doubly, and for the time beim h . e quite positively, contradicted. A telegram Paris denies the accuracy of it altogether. while the semi-offi c i a l Nord-deutsche•Allgemeine ztang, says th e same , if possible, yet more ex Pnr citiy. The Prussians, this Berlin journal remarks, io far trom being in any way likely to consent to, a : I arms tire, will, for a certainty, n o t r:29t satisfied so long as a single Dahish soldier can be found any where upon the Boil of Schleswig. And that there are Danish soldiers still there, notwithstanding the astounding vithdrawal of the main army en masse to the Island o f Allen, a ppears to be indisputable. A portion of that main army, it cow turns out, instead of re treating ( shall we say esca p in g ?) to Alsen, under the command of that now most unpopular veteran vie Danish coinmande ir-n-chief, General DE tilt marc hed northwards, t niw appears, at the donble.quick," hotly p ur sued by the allied invaders. In trut h, it is hardly probable, now that the Austrians and Prussians have so much way upon them, as we may call it, in the forward rush of their military successes, that they should lightly THh SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11, 1864. consent, quite abruptly, to pause for however brief an interval, thereby impeding their onward progress. , Meantime, since the battle at Oversee, the Aus trians under GABLENZ, and the Prussians under MLLLE have not been idle. Flensburg, as a matter of course, was, immediately after their signal defeat of the Danes at Oversee, entered in triumph. But there already in Flensburg the victorious allies found the Prussian cavalry, under Prince FREDERICK CHARLES, occupying it the latter having reached the town in one day's advance from Arnis. Unsatisfied with the mere occupancy of 'Flensburg, the victors of Oversee, still led by GABLENZ and MuLLE, after a brief repose of twenty-four hours, pressed forward in the direc tion of the entrenchments at Dappel. from her ; and it is not impossible that the first BLAKELY guns used in this country will be cap. tured from the Russians. The noble duke at the head of our naval affairs declared that the only object of the authorities was to get the best article for the service, and that they wished not to over look any valuable practical improvement, but they were overrun with so many new projects, that endless delay would be occasioned if all were tried. No one proposes such an outlay of time and money, but have we no one at the Admiralty capable of selecting which are worth a trial? How is it, if the interests of the service are the first considera tion, that such an inventor as BLAKELY was turned from the country in despair ? We have noticed of late several traits in the present Vhile the war is being thus prosecuted by the belli gerents, the dawdling hesitations of our own Go vernment in arriving at any determination what ever, as to a definite policy of any kind, certainly of any comprehensible kind, is giving rise to all sorts of ugly rumours, rumours of the most sinister and ominous description, at Berlin, at Vienna, and at—Paris. It is easy enough, of course, to put aside as altogether idle, to appear to laugh to scorn as a thing wholly extravagant the notion of there being any estrangement of an appreciable kind between :the Governments of France and England, by reason of Earl RUSSELL'S impertinent mode of declining, in the name of his QUEEN and Country, any participation on the part of England, in the labours of the Congress proposed by his Majesty the Emperor of the FRENCH. With the jauntiest air of almost indifference, so idle does he affect the rumour to be in his estimation, Lord PALMERSTON thrusts aside the mere hint of Ministers which distinguish their actions from those of some of their predecessors, who have been fore most in every achievement whether in war or peace which could increase the renown or add lustre to the annals of the country. A very daring instance of decadence, or want of purpose has recently been furnished with regard to the want of celerity which has been displayed in laying the papers which relate to the Danish question before the House. Patting aside political discussion as to motives, real or suppositions, for these documents not being ready at the opening of the session, and passing by the non fulfilment of any plan whereby the previous negligence was rectified up till now, the intelli gence conveyed to both Houses regarding the pro • duction of these papers is really astonishing, when Lord CARNARVON in a brief, but emphatic speech, sought to gain the desired information as to when the members of the Legislature would have au opportunity afforded to them of arriving at a any such estrangement as a notion alto gether preposterous. And yet, what man is there in the three kingdoms gifted with a particle of sense, who for a single moment gives credence to it ? It is only necessary for that matter to look at the Paris journals in order to see, that—not the rumour laughed at, but the denial of that rumour with a laugh—it is, that is preposterous. Why it is a thing notorious, in point of fact, both in London and in Paris, that there is this estrangement—alt Lord PALMERSTON'S assurances to the contrary notwithstanding. Nor, can the fact, that it is so, be regarded as a matter in any way surprising under the circumstances. Judging from our own feelings,it would on the contrary have been very surprising, indeed, had it been otherwise. Which ono amongst us, is there, who would not have felt estranged by a rebuff so singularly dis courteous and so wholly unprovoked as that to which the Emperor NAPOLEON found himself abruptly subjected by the decision arrived at by his cordial ally—or rather, it should be said, by the sneering cynicism of manner with which that decision was announced through the now notorious despatch penned by that most perverse of letter writers, the noble earl the English Foreign Secretary. Estrar.gement there is between the two Governments—thanks to our our own. And Europe may soon have cause to re member it, by reason of several, now imminent, complications. &finite conclusion as to the conduct of the Govern went and the state of affairs generally, and whieh result could only be attained by a perusal of the documents in question. Earl RUSSELL'S reply must have been a source alike of wonder and dismay. The noble lord said that three weeks must elapse before they could be furnished, Was 'there ever such a preposterous idea and such an untenable argument. Well might Lord DERBY exclaim on the instant, " Send them to the Times/ This is just one of his lordship's happy thoughts which spring spontaneously to the mind, and often create more impression than elaborate phrases and studied sentences, which take long to connect, and longer still to understand sometimes. Cer tainly the cynic may exclaim, " Progress to what ?" when he peruses this statement. In an age which is preeminently distinguished for speed, and re markable for quickness in all things, are the Minis- term of the most enterpri3ing nation in the world to wile away a considerable time, while the work that some hours should see accomplished takes weeks for its completion. The sarcasm of the noble lord, the head of the Opposition, is a very just one, and the home truths it contains must afford en- lightenment to the bewildered, and raise doubts in the minds of the credulous as to the nature of the objections which occasion this insuperable delay. No one who takes up a paper within a few hours of the rising of the House, and surveys the rows of columns which record the details of the night upon some great question of more than ordinary interest, but wiil comprehend the absurdity of the excuses put forward by the authorities. When Sir ROBERT PEEL made his famous speech on the Catholic Emancipation, which created sach a sensa tion at the time, a copy of this journal was placed in his hands twenty minutes after he resumed his seat, which contained eight columns of the speech that he had just delivered to the House, and which had cccupied a period of two hours and a half in its utterance. With the resources of the Times establishment the whole of the papers which have been the subject of so much discussion in Parlia ment, could be printed in twelve hours. Surely then it is as idle as it is unworthy of Ministers to put forward these shallow excuses, and to interpose these shuffling delays. Why is not pressure applied in the right quarters? Why are not needful exertions made to put an end to such inconvenient dilatoriness, and to end a state of things which is creditable to none concerned in it. In the House of Commons the subject was discussed at some length, and some rather sharp retorts were indulged in by the Opposition. Mr. DISRAELI made a strong point of this suspicious case, and clearly demonstrated the proper means to rectify mistakes, and redeem the errors made in the tran sactions of these affairs. He asked why they did not use more despatch, and suggested that the printer of the Foreign Office had been only " rubbed up for the first time on that day," and concluded his re marks by pressing the inquiry, and taking away the shadow of an excuse and the semblance of an apology from the Government. "If you have all the materials ready, and the credit of the Foreign Office be at stake, you must endeavour to compen sate for former laclaes by distributing these docu ments into the hands of several printers, and I will be bound to say, with proper diligence, that you ought to produce those papers to Parliament in eight and forty hours." There is a trite saying which avers that Fas est at haste doceri, and the Ministers will do well to take to heart the warnings conveyed in this address of their opponent. There is truth in them which, if they are disregarded, may prove to be only too powerful for them to Con tend against in a future day. There are many who cannot, or will not, comprehend the complications of the Schleswig-Holstein affairs, who will under stand only too readily, and with too apt an intelli gence, that at a great political crisis despatches that bore immediate reference to the conduct of the Government were withheld at a critical juncture, and that the reasons adduced for their non-appear ance were such as no novice could fail to confute. This is not a time, when the fate of nations depends on the issue of events that a day may bring forth, to have the course of a debate arrested by excuses so lame that they excite instant derision on the part of their hearers, the reasons for the delay being such as no man of business would listen to for a moment, and no Minister of spirit would suffer to be mentioned in his presbnce, mach less given to Parliament. The discussion in the Upper House on Tuesday ❑ight respecting the guns and armour plates em ployed by the Admiralty was not without import ance. The Earl of HARDWICKE asked whether her MAJESTY'S ships were supplied with any guns or projectiles that could penetrate the iron plates of a ship's side four inches and a half thick. The noble earl, after remarking upon the wonderful changes introduced by the progress of modern invention, observed that he had been a member of the Cabi net to which Sir WILLIAM ARMSTRONG'S guns were first submitted. It is due to Lord DERBY'S Go vernment of 18 to say that they showed every willingness to patronise the invention. Since that time, as we know, other inventors have appeared upon the field—invention has succeeded invention —the improvements in guns and armour plates have kept pace with each other, leaving the final adjudg merit of superiority of power yet undetermined. Lord HARDWICKE said it appeared that Mr. -WHIT WORTH, ARMSTRONG'S formidable rival, had not been permitted to carry out his experiments exactly in the way he wished, and he added that his reason for putting the question as to the guns now in use in the Royal Navy was that Mr, WHITWORTII had never failed to penetrate the iron plating to which his guns were opposed. Lord HARDWICKE con tended that this reduced our expensive armour plated vessels to the level of the old wooden ones, an assertion which the Duke of SOMERSET subsequently denied. Lord HARDWICKE also pointed out that the armament of the sea ser vice ARMSTRONG gun might not be useful on Lard ship, and would not bear the charge required for heavy artillery. The requisite machinery is so delicate and complicated as very quickly to get out of order. The ARMSTRONG guns are excellent for field service, but a high degree of precision and de structive power of projectiles was more aimed at by the inventor than a length of range. With regard to heavy guns recent improvements have shown that they can be constructed on a scale which the strongest armour plating would be quite unable to withstand. At the late trial of the Armstrong 600 pounder at Shoeburyness, a shell weighing 610 lb. passed through and demolished the Warrior target at a range of 1,000 yards. The Duke of SOMERSET, in his reply to the Earl of HARDWICKE, said that the Government had obtained 130 and 150 pounders that would pierce iron plating, but the difficulty lay in obtaining an ef f ective broadside gun. It is true that the constructor of the Navy has asserted that he can build ships to carry very heavy broad side guns. This is no doubt correct, but in so doing. the speed of the vessel must be proportionately diminished. A. speed of nine or ten knots is quite inadequate to the requirements of a man-of-war at the present day, for no matter how powerful her armament or invulnerable her armour plating, a vessel that cannot overtake an enemy is practically useless. These excessively heavy guns of ARM STRONG, BLAKELY, er others may be very advan tageous in forts where they can be worked by means of steam machinery, or hydraulic power, but will never be available for service in ships unless indeed the suggestions of Admiral THE MARITIME INSURANCE COMPANY (LiaitTED, SARTORIUS, of making the ship the gun carriage, —The recent meetings of the newly- formed Marine Insurance Companies in Liverpool have been in should be put into practice. The gallant admiral every respect so satisfactory and encouraging, that proposed that the gun should be so fitted as to we are not surprised that another should be intro fire always in a line with the keel ; thus a ves- d uced to the public under; far, ushered above title. exTishte. en eel work e d b y tw i n screws m i g ht carr y a heavyMaritimeceU under e o x m tr P a a o n r y ci e h inarily fa;ourable auspices. The gun both foisward and aft, the gun being pointed Company commence operations at mice, on the basis by the turning of the ship. eificial P ting a occasion-exdpla"tion experienced in According to the t the delay experienced in get- Co., of the old established business of Messrs. Price and and which, more recently, under the exclusive direction of Mr. Henry Case, has been one of the supply of WHITWORTH'S guns has been most prosperous and best managed private under by the difficult which that gentleman getting the properdifficulty material for their construction. We are inclined to think, with the measure with- Earl of llAnDwtexe that the coldness almost in , had more to do with the matter. The Government variably shown by th© Admiralty to inventors has writing concerns in Liverpool. The valuable ser vicdes of Nlr. Case have eenecured as rhanag r i e n a g writerrare upon, h t i h s e remunerationsuccess hf t he d e e h p m e din pa nyg, andi a out the payment of any " promotion " money, either in cash or shares, The profits of Messrs. Price and a Co.'s veaveraged ged business, ahea t i d , u , r o l o n og per the annum,lastfe anw years , haveencouraging have succeeded in effectually disgu s ti ng one of our fact, assuring for the new Company a most name most able men, and were only aro use d to a sense !. o u sincre aandsed advantages company,which, givesthe of their mistake by finding him engaged i n t h e natural promise of a certain publicand increasing business. service of a foreign Government. T oo late they The capital of the os new company is filed at tried to secure his services—their order must wait Lwil will be £1,000,000, in issued. ini:l oflhariheelsi,st of dwhichireeto only directors comprises 25,000 until the prier engagement is fulfilled. This i s some of the most influential and best known mem the way in which England's most potent arms of de- bees ofu g uarantee t L e Liverpool v e t rzo t o l t he public mercantile will h e community, fairly wn a i n il d fence—her men of genius and ca ac y —arc driven impartially treated in the allotment of the shares. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] THE WAR IN SCHLESWIG. RETURN OF KING CHRISTIAN TO COPENHAGIN. COPENHAGEN, FEB. 10, 5.14 p.m. The King left Sonderburg to-day for Copen- hagen. The enemy continues quiet, ind has thrown out patrols as far as Nybbol. The spirit animating the Danish army is re ported to be excellent. PROCLAMATION OF MARSHAL WRANGEL. FLENSBURG JAN. 9, Evening. A proclamation issued by Field Marshal von Wrangel declares the authotty of the King of Denmark to be superseded it Schleswig. The public functionaries Nvll be maintained, so long as they obey the Austritn and Prussia❑ Civil Commissioners. All politica meetings are prohi bited, and tranquillity and )bedience are recom mended to the inhabitants. The railway between Flentburg and Rendsburg Ls restored. Snow is falling. VIENNA, FEB. 10. The Botschafter says : " Denmark, by its anterbr conduct, and finally by its armed resistance, has abolished treaties. The London treaty no longer elists. The great German Powers are masters of the,r policy towarda Den mark. The ulterior events of the war, the cir cumstances under which peace will be concluded, and the regard due to the condition of Europe, will aid in determining what usa they will maks of this liberty of action." _____ The Calcutta, Bombay, and Hauritius Mails. SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 11. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Syria, with the above mails, passed the Needles at 11 40 a.m. to-day. FRANCE• PARIS, FEB. 11. THE " CONSTITU TIONNEL" ON THE DANISH WAR. The Constitutionnel of this morning, in an article by M,Limapac,considers that the evacuation of the Dannewerke will be found to have prolonged the war. The writer fears that the difficulties now arising will be of a different kind to those before the war. The basis of negotiation will have been dis placed. M. Limayrac sees with regret that many complications and difficulties are possible. BOURSE, Feb. 10.—The market has been agitated, and the fluctuations have been frequent. Threes, for the Account, after having been done at 66f, 45e., are now at 66f. 30c. Mobiiier also advanced at the opening, but are now rather lower than yesterday. Railway Shares without any material change up to the present time. The market closed as follows 41 per Cents. 95 20 Do. end month . 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 35 Credit XI obilier 1012 50 1)o. end month 1015 Bank Shares 3300 Credit 1 , oneier 1230 Roman Italian Loan 6B 30 Do. end month — New ditto .. Do. end month.... Russian &ustrian Spanieh Threes 5l Home Debt Deferred FLYS. Cash. Account. 996 25 .. 997 50 955 953 75 RAIL Orleans Northern .... New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 93 5 .. 935 New ditto — .. Southern 660 .. 670 Western Eastern SaHinian Austrian Lombard . . worth of Spain Saragossa 575 .. 575 Ditto to Barcelona [A portion of the following appeared in a Fourth Edi tion of Vie Sun of last evening.] AMERICA. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) (Per the Columbia, via Galway.) NEW YORK, JAN. 28 (Evening). Nashville despatches report that the Confederate cavalry under Forrest crossed the Tennessee river on the 25th inst., and attacked Athens, Alabama, but they were defeated, and endeavoured to return. Another Confederate force simultaneously at tacked Florence, Alabama, and was also repulsed. Chattanooga despatches report that Johnston had fallen back from Dalton. The Confederate pickets are at Kingston, 40 miles south of Dalton, to cover the retreat. There are no Confederates to be found within 45 miles of Chattanooga. Longstreet's cavalry was skirmishing with the Federals at Knoxville on the 23d. It is c onfidently believed that the Federals could hold Knoxville. Washington despatches still assert that a mutiny had occurred in Lee's army. Two regiments en deavoured to desert, but failed. A convention to form a new State Constitution wilt assemble at New Orleans on the 22d Feb, The Kedar, Germania, Australian, and Etna have arrived out. NEW YORK, JAN 29, Evening, Direct advices from Knoxville on the 20th inst. report that considerable anxiety, amounting to a panic, existed in that city. Southern despatches report t h a t Longstreet's cavalry are within four miles of Knoxville. Advices from the South state that the Mis sissippi is blockaded at Granville and Millikens Bend by Confederate batteries. Very few trans ports go down. It is reported that Morgan with seven regiments will make a raid into Kentucky through the Gaps in the eastern part of the State. Trade restrictions have been removed inKentucky and Nissour:, COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORI, Jan. 27, Evening. Money tight. Gold 57. Exchange on London 1714 ; On Paris, 3.20. Stocks steady. N ew York Centrals, 1371 Illinois, 127 ; Erie, 107 k. Crude petrole um , 29 to 291 ; refined, 46 to 47. FIGHTING NEAR TENNESSEE. LIVERPOOL, Feb. 11. Further advices received here from New York to the 30th ulc„ per the Columbia, state that Long street had been reinforced, and that fighting had commenced near Tennessee. The shelli ng o f Ch ar leston W 513 Still progressing. Gold, 57 quotations un c h ange d.. premi um . Illinois shares, 126. Other THE NANA.Another "Nana" h as turned up in Mey war. The best the two, for the on l y ay, perh a p s, to stop this would be to hang iv preten d er s on the st ren g th of their own assertions. Ther e can b e little doubt that the real scoun drel is either dead or i n th e hands of Jun g Bahadoor. 'I he former of these s uppos i t i on s is by far the more probable of have for keeping -im would be the intention of playing 1-, him as a trump car d s h ou ld opportunity offer, and he kn ows that the man nev er h a d the slighte st p ersonal influence, James Harris, reason the Nep aulese Ilinister could and as a winnin g Gar d a lways was, a nd will be, not worth playing.—Calcutt a E ng li s hman. STOKER KILLED.—On Tues da y afternoon, while North British R a il wa y, FIS engaged in coupling some NV trucks at a aiding near Niddry station h© was struck by the stoker of a , g oods train on the some rails which were projecting over the end of ono of the trucks, and his head was frightfully crushed between the rails and a truck. The unfortunate man was speedily re moved to Edinburgh for surgical treatment, bat ho was dead before the train in which he was brought reached town. The deceased was a native of Castle Douglas, was unmarried, and had only been in the se rvice of the com pany fora short time,—Scotsman. Atherstone, Taylor, and Browning. The Poetical Works of Henry Taylor, D.C.L. Three Vols. Chapman and Hall. There are three among the more thoughtful Poets of the present Age who, although essentially different in their genius, stand about upon a par in the exent of their popularity. Two of them are veterans as illustrators of our national literature. The youngest of the three has more enthusiastic admirers than any who have ever clustered about his two elder contemporaries. These three meditative poets it was hardly necessary, indeed, to have parti cularised by name : their identity must, otherwise, at once have been conjectured. The youngest of the three is, it will be understood instantly, quite as a matter of course, no other than Robert Browning Author (beyond all his writings to us) of "Pippa Passes." Edwin Atherstone— Author of the most Miltonic Poem of his day, of the stately and resplendent poem, that is, of "Nineveh"—is another of this select Triumvirate. The one last to be here mentioned, because the one now more immediately coming under our considera tion, being Henry Taylor—Author chiefly and dis tinctively of " Philip Van Artevelde." Compara tively speaking, the popularity enjoyed by each one of these three gifted writers, is of a peculiarly restricted character. Even, if it is to be called popularity at all! It is among the more highly educated that they alone find their audience. And there, even among that class of the more highly educated, merely a select few have in any one instance, in regard to Atherstone, in regard to Taylor, even in regard to Browning, been kindled into anything like a semblance of fervid admiration. Apart altogether from the distinguishing pecu liarities inherent in the genius of each of these three poets—peculiarities sufficient of themselves, perhaps, to account for their readers being the re fined and even fastidious few, instead of the varied many—there has been a recognisable material reason, if one may so call it, why they have failed in winning for themselves any i wide-spread popu larity. Our meaning, when we have so expressed ourselves, being simply this, that they, each of them, for the utterance of their thoughts, have carefully selected a medium distinctly precluding them, as it appears to us, from gaining the ear, from extorting the admiration, from alluring to and concentrating upon themselves the observation, of the great con course of the general public. Atherstone, for ex ample—a poet gifted with a most gorgeous and effluent imagination—has in an Age of Railways and Telegrams, when people read not only as the old prophet Habbakuk has it "running," but lite rally flying and whirling over the earth's surface at the tail of the fiery dragon of the steam engine— Atherstone has so far (if we may venture to speak thus with a noble work like Nineveh upon our bookselves) mistaken his epoch, as to write poems extending over two huge volumes, and these two volumes subdivided into a great many highly elabo rated cantos. Browning and Taylor, on the other hand, have still more flagrantly blundered, as it seems to us, in the selection of the vehicle for the display, or the putting forth, of their respective imaginings—their vehicle being one, their imagin ings how different ! namely, in the deliber ate choice by each of them, by Henry Taylor and by Robert Browning, of not merely the unacting, but the unactable Drama. Hence it is, mainly at least, we cannot but think, that popularity, genuine, unmistakeable popularity, has evaded the grasp of these three rarely-gifted men—no more than a choice c luster of readers being enabled , as yet, justly to ap preciate, at their real worth, the elevated intellects, and, here and there, the exquisite performances—(as in many glorious passages of Nineveh, as in all the lovely scenes of Pippa Passes, as in nearly the whole of the two lofty historical dramas, together going by the name of Philip Van Artevelde)—the ambitious •werks and the unquestionable genius of Henry Taylor, of Robert Browning, of Edwin Atherstone. And what is more—when we have said this—we doubt very much, indeed, whether it would be prac ticable,by any means,for the powers and the writings of these three remarkable men to be forced into anything like mere factitious popularity. Even, though it were by doing, in regard to them all, what has been recently done in regard toßobert Browning —namely, by grouping together the pick of his effu sions in a single volume of comparatively small dimensions. It is in the nature of things in respect to each of them, we believe, that their audience should be fit and few. That they have this select body of readers and of earnest aumirers, there cannot be a doubt. They do indisputably enjoy among all those who are in any way qualified to appre ciate them, a full and 'a most unaffected fervour of appreciation. In Browning's instance it is an appreciation, as we have said, that has even risen in some quarters to the height of a genuine, and, certainly, a most ingenuous, enthusiasm. Among the writings of the three, there are—whatever may be the narrowness of the popularity attained by these writers as poets—works that " the world will not willing let die." As will have already been intimated by our foregoing remarks — indubitable evidence of this may be found, as we conceive, very readily, indeed, in Atherstone's Nineveh, in Browning's Pippa Passes, in Taylor's Philip Van Artevelde. Having said which, we have now but to add that the comparatively select few who already enjoy the privilege of knowing and appreciating, at their true value, that last-men tioned poet and that last-mentioned masterpiece, will rejoice, as we have rejoiced, at the appearance (in so very charming a form as the present edition, in three volumes) of the collected and carefully revised Poetical Works of Henry Taylor— works including among them not o his opus magnum of "Philip Van Artevelde," nly but, together with that, " A Sicilian Summer." " St. Clement's Eve," "Edwin the Fair" (in the drift of which we have, by the way, no sympathy whatever), " Isaac Commenus" and Minor Poems, leading off with " The Eve of the Conquest." The edition before us, in truth, just as it now stands may be pronounced, as we for one do not hesitate for an instant to pro nounce it—an acquisition to any library in the land, even to those libraries which are the most rigidly and the most fastiduously selected. members. With regard to the word-famous letters of Cicero, of which more than eight hundred have been preserved, it is remarked that they Liford us a glimpse of that inner life, that conflict of passion and feeling with dignity and duty which the Roman, whatever his place or power, was usually so careful to conceal. "We believe we may say, without fear of contradiction, that of Cicero alone in the whole compass of classical antiquity has such a picture survived the ravages of time. Of Cicero alone can it be affirmed that we are in many and very consi derable instances made acquainted not merely with what he thought it, the proper thing to say in pub lic as a vir consulariB, or to consign to a set treatise, but with what ho felt in his heart of hearts, and confided to his friend of frieids." Bearing this in mind, the reader must not judge harshly of the foibles and failings which are sometimes exhi• bited in the letters. The test to which the Roman philosopher is subjected is a sharp one, and we should rather rejoice that one of the old cele • brities shines out so brightly through the dust of ages. Captain Speke's record of his African travels is the subject of an interesting article, recounting the plan of that geographical campaign with which the public is already familiar. It is remarked, in conclusion, that whatever may be the discoveries of future explorers, they cannot deprive Captain Speke and his companion of the honour of having been the first Europeans to penetrate those myste rious regions, and to force their way through savage tribes, and kingdoms where the face of a white man was unknown. An essay on " Guns and Plates" is well written and interesting, but it shows such manifest partiality that its arguments cannot be accepted as in any way conclusive. The naturalist will find a good deal of information in a paper about Eels, whose animated style and entertaining matter will also find favour with the general reader, although he may not altogether coincide with the 1 opinion of the enthusiastic Frenchman who declares "there are few animals whose image one must re trace with as much pleasure as the common eel !" Two papers on " Rome in the Middle Ages," and those terrible Danish Duchies which have become such a bugbear to Europe, conclude an interesting number. THE SANTIAGO CATASTROPHE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I have sufficient confidence in your sense of justice to believe that you will not refuse me the necessary space in your widely circulated journal for an act of justice, be cause I ask that favour in a cause which is highly unpopu lar in itself, and of which you may very probably have formed a view entirely different from that which I wish to present. It is our well-founded boast as Englishmen that we regard the interests of truth and honesty as paramount to all considerations of political or religious difference; and it is both because I consider these principles of English fairness to have been outraged in the public treatment of the subject in question, and because I am anxious to place on record my humble protest in their favour, that I venture to ask your assistance in carrying out an object which will involve you in no responsibility either for the statements or opinions which I may advance. The recent most lamentable catastrophe at Santiago has been dealt with by many public journals in a spirit which is almost such as to deter any one who has regar4 for his own character from coming forward, either with contradic tions to statements of fact, or with pleas in behalf of those whom it has become the fashion to condemn with the most merciless severity. This is one of the most unjust conse quences of a popular cry ; but the more keenly that injustice is felt the less reserve ought we to have about making those sacrifices of personal popularity which are necessary for withstanding it. I have no knowledge whatever of the Santiago clergy, nor any personal interest in coming forward to protest against the public outcry of which they have been made the victims. More than this, I think it evident that if they were directly responsible for the decorative arrangements of their church, which were certainly the human cause of the catastrophe (a matter which appears to be extremely questionable), they are chargeable with gross and inexcus able negligence, though it is a sort of negligence which on a lesser scale all men are liable to commit. For how often does it happen that a long course of immunity from the consequences of carelessness hardens us into a confidence of security from which we are only aroused by some unex pected, though not unnatural, disaster? But really, with the exception of this admitted and undoubtedly most serious fault, I cannot see, taking all the accounts of the accident together, that there is any sure grounds for casting on the priests of the unhappy church any other blame than that which is fairly attributed to them for their extraordinary want of circumspection and foresight. But if it be true, as appears from some even of the most prejudiced accounts, the arrangement of the church on the fatal evening was not the works of the priests regularly attached to it, but of a stranger to whom they had imprudently assigned the work of embellishment, in that case their responsibility even for this portion of the work is considerably lessened, inasmuch as they may not have become aware of the peril ous nature of the decoration till it was too late to change it without a risk almost as great as that incurred change it it to remain. There is indeed another allegation against the priests of the church, which, if it were true, would be of a more serious nature ; I mean, that they closed the sacristy door against their affrighted congregation, because they were anxious only to save the property of the church. • I think even here that charity would suggest some allowance for the effect of a panic to which even the most cool-headed are not superior, as well as to the circumstances that there is, in every Catholic Church , an ob j ect more precious to a priest even than his own life, I mean the most blessed Sacrament,in which he believes that his Saviour himself is present. But if we are to believe a narrative of the calamity, which is quite as trustworthy (to say the least) as those of an oppo i site tenor, the priests did not close the sacristy door, but, on the contrary, left a passage through it, by which many persons were saved. I find this assertion positively made in a French paper of authority (Journal des Villes et des Campagnes), upon the faith of its South American corre spondent. Frcm the same paper I learn that it was not the priests who removed the sacred objects from the church, but a young layman, and since the name of this heroic young man is added (Guevara) I take it for granted that the fact is certain. The same account tells Us, upon the authority of the South American journals themselves, that of the two priests who alone were in the church at the time of the fire one perished in the flames, and the other fainted away, and was carried out into a neighbouring house. Among the shameful uses which have been made of this calamitous accident one bas been to fasten the odium of it upon the Jesuits. It is strange, indeed, that the persons who write upon these subjects should not be aware that the Jesuits have been expelled from South America for more than half a century. It is 2erfectly true that the church in which the fire occurred was b..;ilt by the Jesuits, but had long passed into other hands, and is about as historically true to attribute to them any connect;ou with the recent accident as it would be to make Roman Catholics answerable for the burning of York Minster. After laying these statements before you I will occupy your space no further than to request that your readers w;!I test by it the language in which the conduct of the Santiago priests has been commented upon by some of the public journals, more especially the Spectator. They have been in some quarters almost accused of having wilfully occa sioned the accident; as if it were the natural result of the avarice and selfishness imputed to them to burn the church and congregation upon which they depended for their main tenance. They have been charged, at the very least, with saving their own property, instead of the lives of their flock ; as if the clergy of a church had any other interest in its sacred vessels and appurtenance than such as those ob jects possess in the eyes of all religious persons, from the fact of being used in the worship of Almighty God. To sum up all : these priests have been represented as no better than brutes in human form, and the only excuse which Charity can find for them is to transfer the hideous features of iniquity which they are said to exhibit from themselves to the Church whose Ministers they are. The version of the whole story which I have set before you is, as I myself fully believe, its true picture. That it is at all events pre bable I think no fair-minded person will venture to deny. But if it be merely possible, that charity which " believeth all things and hopeth all things" till its favourable con structions are actually overborne by the most indisputable testimony, should lead us, as I think. to accept it as at any rate a plea in arrest of judgment so frightfully rash and so inordinately cruel.—l am, &c„ The Quarterly Review. No. 229. John Murray. The present number of the Quarterly is fully up to the standard, both in regard to the variety of the subjects and the literary merits of the articles. It opens with A lengthened and interesting paper on the trade and commerce of China, which we have already referred to in these columns. Following this is a review of Nathaniel Hawthorne's spiteful attack upon our good old mother country. An attack in which we are almost unable to recognise the thoughtful and far-sighted truth-seeker who brought us the " Mosses from an Old Manse." Emerson's "English Traits" is brought under con sideration, and a comparison instituted between the views and sentiments of the two literary New Eng landers. The author of " Representative Men" is by far the deeper observer, and be perceives and comprehends many aspects of our national character which are altogether imperceptible to Mr. Haw thorne, Mr. Emerson finds in the mutual sympathy of the members of the race one great secret of Eng lish power. " English believe in English. They have trust in each other, The very felons have pride in one another ' s English stanchness. The people are more bound in character than differenecd in ability and rank." Mr. Hawthorne's dislike and contempt for everything insular extends to inanimate nature. " For my part," he declares, " I never ate ' . a te an English fru it, raised in the open air, that could AMERICAN MODE OF CLEANING THE BOTTOMS " After OF THEIR IRON A SHIPS.-- di ver , e ncased in the com p a re in flavour with a Yankee turni p . this, what more can be said ? The " Old Home" usual helmet, sits on a spar, lashed across the vessel's keel, is clearly a very miserable place, and as this is armed with a scraper, with which he cleans the portiodn precisely the opinion which Mr. Hawthorne forms w an 't d h h in. his reach, before and abaft. The spar is theints,hdiftelt, of our men, our manners, laws, customs, and cape op Monitorsera to r remains at C is sta e te p d ro t c h ee t ds th regularly with his work tdillrcNo ) hours, and that theevmatPer several cities—our greatest achievements, our heroes, poets, harleusnton are kept clean and statesmen scarcely reaching the standard of by this process. It was found by actual measurement that common -place United States citizens —it is scarcely 250 bushels of oyster-shells and sea-grass were removed worth while to expend so much trouble upon us. from the bottom of the Montauk, the accumulation of one season. The officers sometimes indulge in a Mr. Forsyth's able and interesting life of one of the great men of antiquity carries us into a world very seized on the hulls of their own vessels. mess of oysters far removed from Yankee coneeitand impertinence ; DIMINUTION OF CRIME IN - r - • A.& ALEs —At the though the old evils of a Republican form Epiphany Quarter Sz'sSiolla of the peace opened of government meet us again in the fierce t.n . t that the other day in Carmarthen, the chairman, Mrt.hJe..liteihabniene,l contentions —the plottings and counter plottings— of Dolanco, communicated to the gdrandt jury co ntain the s mime the jealous rivalries and arbitrary measures which of :s u i n n e g e l m e prisoner the c alendar dcloinuplimented the county often deprived the State of the services of its ablest t try 8 g times. on the absence of crime even in the moa t trying for trial,.an FREDERICX QAhELEY. §t. John's Church, Islington, Feb. 9. asf. eirobt ur t _ ITER MAJESTY. 05130RNE, Fc ked out b. 10. The Queen and Princess Helena wa l yesterday. The Countess of Caledon has succeeded the gar• chioness of Ely as Lady in 'Waiting. -----4 P----- The Prince and PritteeSS of ViTales. The announcement made by us yesterday, that the journey o f the Prince and Princess of Wales to St. Leonards would probably be postponed a 0 0 ' count of the rigorous state of the weather, verified, for at half -past 10 yesterday re"l3i4 : viaheger telgram was sent from Frog to the of the South-Western and South-Eastern Beilwils' announcing that their royal highnesses did not lir tend , to undertake the journey that dal iesterday, morning the Prillee of Wales, ece°ul.o; parried by Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, Wide Teesdale, C. 8., and several officers of the u a . r a has been now quartered at Windsor, who had been oiled by the prince, skated on the ice which tbe se c o e c , frost of the last few days has formed on the s tir v e o . f the small sheet of water known as "1 3 t 3lac k . a ngs in the Home Park, a short distance fro the e"" of the Thames. Lwoardicu g Hamiltonrave their entertained and st The '.Marchioness accompa Ii i , 6 4 ne---4---------ss of Abercorn, Earl and bury, Grrey, thee e at Paris on Mr. Chichester way e to Cannes. Lady Georg Hamilton, linasies! bl rFor taetsc tdiieheaenrdlaFstracucceeiisieCs,o it.i:iiie es : , residence in C gardens, Maria Marchioness cot A_'itee, Carlton-gard ens, Russell, the Bart and °, llD .,tel Earl de Gray and Ripon, Lord and Lady ~ i' "1"0 ea , of Alderley, Sir Hamilton and Lady Seymour, LadiPdaos worth, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, M. r a nd ,gamrae, Laugel, General Delano. and Mrs. Malcolm, Mr. Bernal (A' and Mr. The Hon. e. g elict of Rosalie Countess d'Altoo, r co o Peter Count ' d Alton, of Grenans town, Tipp o f did at Florence lastrtimi week. Her ladyship Was daughter late Lord ' eston. 'Ted at The Lord Provostof Edi n bu rg h has arrived the Clarendon Hotel to His Excellency from Scotland. ft Vr°l/11 Sir H. Bulwer bas le Hotel for Paris . soa Mi" The Hon. .... of J oe Colin BradshaW and Mrs. ..,,,widc Bradshaw,the United States, have left, the B B Hotel, Jerm Yu-street, for Paris. goes Colon®l and Mrs. Kennet Williams arid t he 0 t heir Williams have returned to the Brunswick 11004 ° way to Nice. it ri A FANCY BALL AT PARIS.--e fancy boo give f dt by the M - • misterof F . fairs and Ns 0, orelga rt 0 0 0 DrouYn de LhuYs was attended by more than Pi' is seldom ( says didll Gala has a roore sPlee 4 ore turesque scene been witnessed. In the brilliant enadgeft observed the Ambassadors of Austria, Prussia; 911;. oere r ad nearly all the diplomatic body resident in rsillidiotiav were also an • ense number of other foreigoer%dv,4 tion as well a imm s m embers of the Senate, Legislative P,. ,:rioci- Council of State, high dignitaries Court, al' 1 : es s, of the „ o coo pal celebrities of the army and navy, and the er"' 0 os id 0 and letters. The Emperor and Empress were A°18..-oiricli, be ere. and tastei t incognito. The fancy costumes, eScs'l'oo 0' were more nunmrous than the 013/1/1,10iorio" representeudl'every civilisation, and fantastieepsr"ce 0 personations in almost endless variety. l‘isiO.; °tie, Lhuya wore a costume of the reign of Loull_„'"Aid OP", Prince studdedee de Castelcicala appeared in a Ole'''. ko i 0 ~...erwith gold stars ; the Princess TroubetPtioe 0 rillearette; the Princess Demidoff in a costurae of ° o d e& witiardriallL ; the Countess de Portal& OS A lifil 130rej00 diamonds ; the Baroness de Szebach in ° r°s• Pe' costume; d prioces toe Say as Mine. e Mackau as a Moorish + did C OO .i t Medici, in a most sPlea of Stips'es; studded Mary withd de diamonds, copied from a Piehirt°,oolll2,t.„e. Mine, Periera de 1 G as a personification of SOW; t."' . 0 •P , -a ueronn" A'ons" Cir ier as a Louis X.V. rear -1 0 a Guerinet , as a Polish Hussar, Mdlle. Haussineet food cassias, the two Mdlle. Heckeren in extretueli elegsplcOt ij; costumes as a Naiad ; Did,11%,,. 101e' a Biblicalet ; Mdlle. du Halley costume; Aida - bid /rie),°- 6 fed'' e. Guttierez as ~ V% Chemais G - 1 Roman II°Y as an Oriental; and Itidll°., pel,o dame. One lady (name unlatoolo foot ` v 0 Photographs,portra being covered over fro m helatir 80. °,ciacl were ailtss,„) and wearing the camera as a hee'l7ooesree'bico two ladies and one gentleman af il , O f ' II- 0 4 wearing Mack veils. The courteous affectabintltod ipeetto the honoursamagnificent of the evening were done by thelio6 016 e, ter gavesupper wa charm to this fete. .- fo e - t oo wards resumed,served at two o'clock. Psnell:,soo the uslgoll and kept up till past four, Di t be cotilloll~ led terminated by an ani naa_ ..._ 0 Seebach. -*ARO +. -- ------1,,,b. . jihOBAS cu T trtotaih, l uotte T eiensbhhg - - eoro thoi them b.he THE „„ OPENING . OF FAllDW— aoefstohcoiations and its 111srl O SP 0 surroundiogei giri,ed:geslot cppAerscaaii.joserejuisogoin .i, 4 ,08 7,„„ no lon ger inany? country, take it All '",joi, or f. Perhaps there is 00,- ,itil S lwe O a l Wgsi phrase, ct s a tnoei Parliament e, s e t Ws hasiwooteaos tiehburhyo:ded;:efygahoisiter: ,tatA o tiht v orb e :gi .oi i r e eeib l i :e g o:. :irrot:so o l,oti t : oot, : ili 0 : ::::: Within the Nevin l'",''''aio, riofro sides a an and w hi c h rialt' ttlo unmistakable British Cohstl' ~,ectoc' 00. made critical foreigner' - .4160, le/ crowddiamonds, as of le 'hi e s braveeach a thing, a f ter all, as a Dritioh ciora, let . 0. devoutly eight will, within our 0,13,430 sa e 0dc,,,11, have in trust, be witnessed agaia. 'Ltd tDeP°:O, St. Stephen's the rustle of sifiro I'.'foi 1000`co on the galleries, and set the Peer° ;000,00010 nobly-born and beitatl„t (05,10, the floor of their own house. TO°ll , b : opce °oil! dukes, and princes of the blood will m . o ,3ge l ho ? gays, with ermine and scarlet. rhea tbetjtie bisiri stow in their quaint feast -day attire t i via ele-or will fill the house with the flutter of 'iiiotp, l is t' .and gowns; itng with orders, and weariog 11011°r113:00• elj:eoifr is rich with terterns and all colours, will vary the tie-ras: 01, ambassadors and dipleroAt of e ll P Di will stand the corps of gentleinelv°l"firpt of Pri,roite4 cently arrayed; the house itself, o ge off ' er' art, down, and with heraldic emblazonr,Yo'pirli, gilding and c°l°lll.' sod °toil° waded by that " dim, religious light? taitiel ~I P 0 way through the noble windoWe of se gea fro 4 The Magna Charm barons in bro0e00103:to ilic battlement speak out, and ward in their several nicheo °T 000 11,404 then the trumpets will blare, the estpoo 4 1 w rit ; a stately Prh.tce.spitdOs'ir Itotif its way along the corridors, with 1 .` 51 .0 131liirc wog' Officers of State, Garter sing at Artl3 'ol'i; f° Lord Chamberlain, Lords and laidies'n liiltillooff and pages galore. The brilliant WO° opee Ila r 1 remain in almost painful suspells° until-- ei .oali 0 "At length bursts in the argent 05r, i „eB,ll, With plume, tiara, and all rich Ar ' otrAP „et ft el° o°' and, as every one rises upon the shall have again a coup d'ceil which °eel° d er i fection of colour and of form . for t a ,he doi . oleo , WHAT IT -Th ur sday WOO '" vorllo colt lug the sixth session of the present ' a pc , 1 0 19 QueenNictcria. And if any one Ylisbes Ilicti,bret ' roo° a' " .0 11 treat to the gorgeous spectacle w° !lola r i IV he should have seen the unicaP 000 pet i t dial e a 0 not to say stuffy, ceremony tha . il 00 orto achnlile ' 0 1 11 p d f Upper Chamber. You are her, ')" 0 i pr shown to your seat by the ushe r, orpoS be ! with awe unspeakable. PresentlYl_ 00014 Ore thing of a haze, you see before Yo:,:` op fiht; tt,c!, covered with trumpery red lot ._"_ order o'4, cr. robed Peers take their places in t.°Ptps 00°000' rank, the Lord Chancellor sittiog la 00 tee jig' with 00 c , na 0 , I , moo, and proceeds to do boaur‘'itlg °Oli f Willi(' Augustus Clifford is desired to Ole° trlll IP° nity. By and by you hear surg ing 1,,,urii,05, o w ~t hel door, as though a mob from 1 . oirpp. ° 1,5 4 m inster was eager for ad 111,1,9 usbed ° I 3 „er° Speaker, half waiking and ha° I'oooeli sto.ol, heavy wee. .. toe to under the weight of 0 n who Or e P O O 01. il l, press behind, with Lord Caer le° At ict ' Ori when the disorderly Corutro-s, and alit° bigot 0 to the frout--when theyshah:eo rhst th.eleepp,ir.,,llo. tish crowd must sf rive to be flerb9l;opp iolori:;,, Vireo the Lord Chancellor tell otP,,, dracious qtviollioipi, sent for to bear the all_. ,Pf. The li°'' 10 0 c is ho reads to them h eir 00.110 heo roolit,o cal keep heir ..ro rtld.uctipticeloriol , 0 : 11 0 cal enough, and an the lA°. „.,,aiehes b,_,o tO° „tat 004'11 oiterea • peat e ‘. mincing voice which. disto4s. 16 eon 0 1010 1 id royalordinal 5 amount - , ~,iter is .0y 9 Speech , Speechthe Lastly, Air. "' rabhic j w hich nilficikilifortnation . dislo'B ,4 IP same disO%ler• leaves house With tbe 003° f i