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Qlll FITZROY KELLY, M.—A Lay FUN of Oxford.—A Bill at which to take at P. Sight—in THIS WEEK. One Penny. • HEAT RE-Rfu lA=., HAY MARKET. Lessee. Mr. J B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, a new Farce, entitled AN UNLUCKY MORTAL. After which, 38th time, a new and rrig,in al comedy, entitled FINESSE; or, Spy and Counter-Spy : Mr. BuAstone, Mr. Bowe, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. and Mrs . Alfred Wigan, and Miss Louisa Ange , . Fol oweo by (18th time), a new Farce, EASY SHAVING: Meses Compton, W. Gordon, Roger. ; Miss Louise Keeley, Miss Fanny Wright. t To conclude with THE STAR OF ANDALUSIA. Commence at 7. THE. DUKE', MOTTO. THE 111.;...DREi` 11,1) FORTY-FIRST NIGHT. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.- Under the Sole Manmement of Mr. FE' HTE R. THIS EVENIN(L to commence with an Gri sin.l ;ketch, entitled A UDDI;:N ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, 3arden , B. Wiadicomb, M:ss Flenrade, and Mrs. Lee. Atte , . which, at a Quarter -past Eip,ht, the Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr3lo rue, entitled THE DUKE'S NH iTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brouczham. The principal character will be su-itained by Mr. Fechter, aunported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G Jordan, J. Brougvir am, oiddi iombe, F. Charles, Garden. Raymond, Dason Misses Sophy Henrade. Rate Terry, :,avenue, and Blsworthy. Doors open at 7, commence at half-past. Acting-Manager, Mr. a Barnett. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole r.pasee 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 E ATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHL soIe Prormutor ond Msniwer. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE IRI-H TIGER. After whicb, at Eight t,',cloTek, E a new drama, entitled THE HAUNTED MAN ; )R GHOST'S itARGAIN, in which will be exhibited Professor Pe; per's adaptat!on of the Great Spectral Illusion. Messrs. J. L. Toole. R. Phi lips, Stuart, Billington. C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss H. Simms. Followed by a new Burlesque, entitled ILL-TREATED IL TRO vATORE. Mc ssrs. Took. P. Bedtord, R Phillips, I.:l3tirne, C. J. Smith, Romer ; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and Sari, and Miss K. Kelly. Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, COURT FAVOUR. Messrs. W. H. Swanborougb, Parselle, and Miss Ada wanbarough. Alter which. the Great Burlesque, ALI BABA ; OR, IHE THIRTY-NINE THIEVES. Messrs. Honey, Turner, Danvers, Mesdames Ada Swanborough, Saunders, White, Button, ann Hughes. '1 o conclude with MARRIAGE AT ANY PRICE. Mr. Hcney and Miss Josephs. Commence at 7. ripHE TI - IT RD EDITION OF THE St l N." Containing the L+test SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening, of G. R. GLENIE. NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, Juyl 1, 1863. THERMOMETER. This morning This day at Two o'clock 74 Barometer-30.2 0 . Wind—E. ; light, and very fine weather. HIGI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, lh. 34m.—Afternoon, lh. 59m. To-atoßitow.-Mooring, 2h. 29m.—Afternoon, 2h. 54m. 474 !l i t SUIT LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1863. An adjournment of the debate upon Mr. ROE BUCK'S motion was a matter of course. That ad- journment, it will be seen, has been set apart for Thursday. Yesterday's discussion, however, of the important problem now submitted to the House of Commons for solution (thanks to the impetuosity, or the indiscretion, or whatever else may be the motive power actuating the hon. and learned mem ber for Sheffield)—last evening's discussion, we say, was sufficiently protracted not merely to admit of Mr. ROEBUCK himself relieving Ms mind of the whole argument prepared by him upon either side of the Channel in favour cf the recognition of the Southern Str:tes of America, but to allow of that argnment being followed up by the more or less re markable speeches, delivered, among others, by the hon., right hon., and noble representatives respectively of Birmingham, of Oxford University, of Stamford, and of Huntingdonshire. Mr. RoE• BUCK—all things considered—perhaps never before addressed the House of Commons at such enormous disadvantage to himself. Every one who listened to him last evening must have had almost pain fally in remembrance the thought that Tear'em had been over very recently, at his own free wil and pleasure, to Fontainbleau, there to be very de• licately and adroitly muzzled by the astute ruler of the French nation. That very potentate, at " the bright particular star" of whose good fortune, this same Tear'em has hitherto been baying as the mad dog bays the moon. Hearkening to Mr. ROE BUCK'S speech last evening, the effect o f his wor ds at times was almost ridiculous. " I know certain things about the state of mind of the Great French Ruler which I am authorised (by his MAJESTY) to lay b e f o re this House." The House being—the British House of Commons ! The speaker of these courtly words about, and at the instance of, the Great French Ruler being —of all men in the three kingdoms—Mr. ROEBUCK! Again Mr. COBDEN might have asked' as he once asked on the title p age o f a famous Pamphlet, 46 What neat—and next." PerhaPs Next we shall be having a panegyric pronounced by Mr. KINGLAKE upon the valour of NAPOLEON Or by Mr. WHALLEY upon the system of education carried out at the College of Maynooth. Or of open voting in contradistinction to the ballot by Mr. BERKELEY! At any rate here was the member for Sheffield, the cynical, stiffaccked, cantankerous member for Sheffield, talking by the hour, in words the most honeyed, in phrases the most courteous, w i t h epithets the most courtier-like and complimentary, about that same identical man of men, the Emperor of FRANCE, against whom he has heretofore alone employed language of the utmost possible scurri lity. No wonder the opportunity, presented to him by the recognition of this astound ing transformation, was altogether irresisti ble when contemplated by the member f or Birmingham ! N )t one of the foul terms flan s forth, in the most reckless of his vituperations of the Em peror NAPOLEON 111., by the hon. and learned mem ber for Sheffield, but what Mr. BRIGHT found them clinging tenaciously to his own remembrance— thereupon following up the immediate instinct of his constitutional pugnacity by hurling them back upon —the Reviler turned Panegyrist ! " I have no faith in the Emperor of the FRENCH !"—"Nothing but enmity and bad faith can be looked for from the French EMPEROR ! "—" His perjured lips touching that hallowed 'cheek ! "—every scurrilous phrase of Mr. ROEBUC K'S was faithfully echoed back to him last nigut by Mr. BRIGHT. Ail those brutal vitu • perations indulged in by the member for Sheffield, -whenever be had occasion to make any reference directly to the potentate whom he now mentions, for3aoth, only with such ;ly Profont,d re spect, all those rhetorical bludgeonings, as we may call them, were yesterday showered down upon the bludgeoner himself vicariously, by the uncompro. mising and pitiless member for Birmingham. Amidst the loud laughter of the House of Commons Mr. ROEBUCK not only had, as patiently as might f denounced by Mr. BRIGHT as a be, to hear himsel " co-conspirator" with the Emperor NAPOLEON but, worse than that, as a touch of poignant ridicule, to hear himself and his associate, Mr. LIDSAY, spoken of by the member for Birmingham still more sneeringly as the envoy extraordinary from Fontainblea• -' l, ' ll 4,theenvoys "most eztraor;hinary 1" Viewing the whole d the vitally in portaut quatjal Lord SHAFTESBURY is not a man to let as i ti c bj e e t c o t drop. If once he has ascertained its importance the welfare of any class of the community, he is sure to use unremitting efforts towards accomplish ing the desired end. Last night, in the House of Lords, he rose to move an address to her MAJESTY, " praying that an inquiry into the physical and mural condition of the dressmakers and milliners be made by the Royal Commission now sitting, and the state of children and young persons in trades and manufactures not regulated by law." His lord- ship added that he had no doubt that the commission would find means to arrange some system that would lead to a discontinuance of the abominations of which they had lately heard so much. Earl GRANVILLE said that the Government had already referred the subject to this Commission, and that, therefore, there was no necessity for the address. It is to be trusted that no efforts will be spared to make this inquiry as full and fair as possible, and that if the reports communicated are unsatisfactory, as they are sure to be, some alterations will be qeedily devised to check the deleteri us influences of the unhappy plans now being employed, which on all bides are so condemned as a.,ke militating , against the health and often the morals of this working community. The habit that prevails in some establishments, and was referred to in a letter recently published on the subject, of supposing that all the young persons employed must have friends to receive them on Sundays, is a most objectionable one. Mr. ISAACSON, in his letter the other day, re marked that the young ladies could not go out in the evening because it was not proper for them, but this rule applies with much greater force to the practice referred to. It is putting them 'wilfully into temptation of all kinds, and no reprobation can be too strong for those who, instigated by the idea of a paltry saving, allow young persons who are in their charge to be exposed to evil. The whole mode of procedure is bad in the extreme, whether we con consider the insufficient ventilation, the over work in the bad atmosphere, the want of exercise in the open air, and, lastly, the custom of turning them out in the world when their fingers cannot be employed, the system adopted in these establishments is objectionable from first to last. It is a melancholy retrospection to calcu late the condition of so many young persons, whose whole lives have been rendered a burden to themselves by the ills that have followed in the train of these numerous hardships. 'What numbers have been forced to give up their employment altogether, and how large a portion fill untimely graves, it would startle some indifferent and igno rant parties concerned in the transaction to be told. The present is not rendered the easier to these sufferers, because of all the excitement that has re cently prevailed on the subject. - While the world has commented on the system, and bewailed its vic tims, the busy toil and traffic - has gone on the same. There has been no diminution of labour, and no improvement in comfort to this unhappy tribe of workers. It remains, then, for those who have the means to use them, for those who are able and efficient, to relax in no effort, and to heed no discouragement, until they can rest assured that something has been done in the right way, and that the good cause is at least advanced in some degree, it is too much the practice with well intentioned persons to lament over a calamity at the time of its occurrence, without afterwards concern ing themselies . any.. mire" about it. When the horror has passed ...away, they go on unheedind until tbe next miafortune occurs. But , this sad case of the dressmakers' assis tants has been too often the subject of comment, and the object of scnemes and investigations, not to have now attained a degree of importance, and to have been invested with an interest that will not easily allow it to be forgotten. It cannot be that, when the season is over for the busy and the gay, these unhappy creatures are to know that their relaxation is never to come. There must be some individuals too just to allow this hardship to be definitely prolonged, and some kind hearts who will not readily remain in inaction while these cruel sufferings continue. No improvement was ever easily made, and no real good ever obtained for the industrial classes, without opposition having to be encountered. There are necessary evils to be endured, but none who earnestly take up this cause will deny that the success will be worth the struggle. The end that will crown their work will be a noble one, and it is only surprising that more has not been done in this quarter, considering the claims of its sufferers and the long time it has been before the public in various forms. However, there is now sufficient evidence to suit the most sceptical, and sufficient reason to rouse the most inert to take up the cause with energy, and to continue it with zeal, secure that they can never find a better object for their cares, or effect more substantial benefits by their success. in dispute as to the recognition or non•recognition of the Southern States of America—apart from this purely personal matter affecting the dignity and independence of a popular member of the English Parliament—it is impossible not to recognise already, through the haze of the first night's discus sion of that one paramount question in dispute, that the House of Commons has the opportunity now clearly before it of guiding to the one only wise and humane course of a temporising, a hesitating, and an all but bewildered Cabinet. The Budgets of the current year have been espe cialiy fortunate for India. Sir CHARLES TBEVE LYAN'S able statement met,'as it deserved to do, un- qualified approval in CAlcutta, and has given every encouragement to the well-wishers of India. Our English financier has, however, been equally for tunate or praiseworthy in affording a stimulus to the energies alike of capitalists, settlers, and natives. The cultivation of tea promises to open a new field in which success is not even doubtful. Attention has recently been especially turned in this direction, and by a fortunate coincidence at the very time when 1,500 miles at the foot of the Himalayas are being covered with the tea plant, the joyful news arrives that the English Chencellor of the Exche- quer has greatly reduced the dlty on tea. This has of course redoubled the energies of the specula- tors, and the prospect of profiting by the increased home consumption has raised their hopes and ex- peltations to the highest pith. Tea has, of course, been long cultivated in India, and the Assam tea plsnt in that country is well known among vs. It is the spirit and extent of the present culti- vation that renders it remarkable, and when we learn that the resources of neglected and misgo verned India are expected to excel Japan and com- pets with China, so long the undisputed sovereign of the tea trade, we may reasonably hope that better days have dawned for our Eastern Empire. The usual export of tea from India has been about two million pounds and a half, while Japan has doubled the amount. The resources of Japan are not yet half developed, notwithstanding the indus try and sagacity of the people, and possibly the rapid advance of her competitor in the tea market may arouse her energies to make further progress But even then there are n 3 fears for India, where European capital and intelligence take the lead, and where such a vast expanse of land lies waiting for cu,tivation. The home trade and the protection of England give also immense advantages to the Indian cultivators, which the peculiarities of the Japanese will prevent them from sharing. So little doubt is entertained of the rapid development of the trade that there seems to be an absolute tea mania ; and certainly there is some excuse for the most prosaic mortal being carried away by excite- ment when he sees comparatively new and Imre markable companies declaring dividends of four; six, and even ten per cent. The great point on which the success or failure of the company chitty depends is the possession of an able, experienced, and 'thoroughly trustworthy manager, who is on the scene of action. It is to be hoped that as soon as this want is more widely known there will be no lack of intelligent and capable Europeans to supply such offices. The tea districts and many other parts of India open a field to a class of men for whom there is not too much room at home, men who are no longer young enough for a subordinate position, but who, from various causes, are compelled to seek a new employment in middle life. The management of the tea districts would, of course, require some experience in that special line; but there are other branches of trade and commerce now opening in the country in which ready employment might be found for capable, honest, and intelligent Englishmen. The lessons taught by the indigo and silk trades which languished under native control, but flourished with sudden energy under the management of Euro peans, are not forgotten, though, thanks to the re strictive wisdom of our legislators, they have not hitherto been profited by to their full extent. Ten years sufficed to render the drooping Indian indigo a dangerous rival for the African market. Ten years from this time, if Providence spares us wars and disasters, will probably see India transformed. The one condition is that she should have enlight ened and liberal government, and not be ruled in that perverse and prejudiced fashion which refuses to learn from the positive facts before its eyes. After all the experience of the past the Madras Presi dency still clings to the old restrictions. One would think the effects produced by the nine months of Lord CANNING'S regulations would have convinced the most prejudiced of the mischievous course they were pursuing. During those few months thousands of acres of land were purchased, which are now being cleared for tea cultivation. But if those rules had not been in force the land would still be lying waste, and we should bear no more of the promising trade. Assam, in which the plant is indigenous, is for the most part uncultivated, though larger than the little kingdom that rules the vast domains of India. We may fancy what the trade will be when tea drinking is as popular throughout Asia as it is in Europe, and it is a beverage peculiarly saited to the temperate Hindoo. It has hitherto been an almost unattainable luxury for the lower classes, but the day is fast approaching when they may dr i n k their own native produce at trifling cost. The admixture of Europeans, who, we may hope, will remember the moral responsibility attaching to them, mus t have a beneficial effect on the nations,while the re gular and pacific employment is already, we learn, transformingrude and bloodthirsty tribes into orderly and quiet labourers. A better future is dawning for India, and we trust that our statesmen and legislators w ill feel it their duty to encourage it by every means in their power. The reduction of the tea duties has been a most welcome boon, and the sooner the sugar duties follow their example the better for India, as we ll as for England. Public works are greatly neede d, but the negligence of years is not atoned for in a d a y , and the large sums set aside for roads, canals, &:c., by our able Indian es ults by nest financier, ought to produce great r ear. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 1, 1863, LITERATURE. Fifty Years' Biographical Reminiscences. By Lord William Pitt Lennox. 2 vols., imp. Bvo. Hurst and Blackett. Lord William Lennox has given us, in these two very charming volumes, E. pleasant glimpse of the glittering surface of society, and the different celebrities of every various kind and character who, meteor-like, have come" and " gone "in rapid succession during the last half century. Lord Wil liam very modestly tells us that his book is "sent forth entirely without literary pretension. It is given," he adds, " as the lightest possible gossip, put together without art; a mere collection of memo randa of the remarkable characters I have known." And certainly during his fifty years' experience his acquaintance has been singularly varied and re mark able. Born in 1799, the same year in which his father, then Colonel Lennox, fought his duel with the Duke of York, the author of thesememoit B had for his godfather no less a personage than Wil liam Pitt. Reminiscences of Dublin Society during his boyhood (when his father was Lord Lieutenant), and of Westminster School, and his painful e.speri ence at " fagging'' fitl up the first chapters of the first volume. In 1814 Lord William accompanies the Duke of Wellington to Paris, being appointed attaché to the British Embassy in the capital. As an illustration of the easy, gossipping style in which these memoires are written, and the pleasant anec dotes with which they abound, let us quote the fol- lowing passage : " I knew almost every body in Paris, who might be consi dered worth knowing; celebrities of a lmost ever y variety. Talma I saw as otten as I could ; but there was another theatrical star of whom I saw a good deal more. "Madame Grassini has since paid the debt of nature at Milan. She was about seventy-eight years old, but looked scarcely fifty, so wonderfully well had she pre served her attractions as a beautiful and accomplished vocalist. " This admirable lady possessed in the highest degree the art of touching the feelings. Talma used to say of her that he had never seen any other actress—not even At ars, Duval, or Duchesnois—endowed with a physiognomy so expressive and so mutable. "Her profile, with its Grecian outline, her fine marble brow, and dark hair, which formed a frame of ebony about it—her incomparable eye brows, her black g - psy eyes, now flashing with the fiery passions of tragedy, then languish ing with th e t en d er emo ti ons o f l ove —and that astonish ing ensemble of perfection which nature had collected in her, as if t o review all her gifts in one woman, exer cised on the spectator a charm he found it impossible to resist. " One evening in IEIO, Grassini and Crescentini were singing Romeo and Juliet, at the 3 uileries. After the ad mirable scene in the third act, Napoleon, transported, and forgetting the rules of etiquette, clapped and shouted like a school boy. " Telma was weeping, seated on a bench near the orches tra. The great tragedian confessed that he had never felt anything so deeply in his life before as what he now felt after listening to thesyren. " As soon as the performance was over, the Emperor sent Crescentini the order of the Iron Crown. Not being able to decorate (.) rnssini in the same way, he enclosed to her a slip of paper, on which he had written with hie own hand : " ' Bon pour vingt mine livres.—NApoLzorr.' •' Crescentini, who was frantic w ith joy at the unexpected favour confer red u p on himself, could not help peeping at the lady's note. ,a i . ' Twenty thousand francs I' cried he, 'that's a large sutra.' " ' It is the marriage portion of one of my nieces,'replied Grassini. " Indeed no artist could be more generous or more indul gent than she was to her family. "Long after the Empire had beet swept away, as the great actress chanced to be at Bologna, they presented an other niece to her, who was also to be provided for. The girl was extremely pretty, but she lacked spirit and tone of voice, they said, to take to the stage. She is a spoilt con tralto,' they added. " Let me hear her,' said Grassini. "No sooner chenerilhd' o had the girl emitted he r first note, than she you on in your v threw her arms about h er nec k, and said— yesotuisrne.qu yireounronvesLfe ism assistancey not a n alto; mi t n h e e fir b st soprano i n th e wor ld, an d far stronger th an c ot t e o is t it Labour well, my little darling, there is a rich bank in your throat.' 4, The young girl to whom Madame Grassiti predicted so brilliant a destiny was Giulia Grisi." w mediately Mlowing these fest ive remembrances , comes the memorable episode of Waterloo, of which battle, and the scenes connected with it, Lord Wil liam, although wounded at the time, was through out a prominent spectator. Lord William's mother, it should be remembered, was the Duchess of Richmond, who gave that ever memorable ball on the eve of the battle—" when Belgium's capital had gathered there her Beauty and her Chivalry." The second volume finds Lord William an officer in the Horse Guards, and a page at the coronation of George IV. Then as we turn over the succeeding chapters what a be wildering variety of scenes and characters pass before us. The leading stars of the theatrical and musical worlds, Kean and Kembie, Vestris and Malibran—the wits and humorists of the past generation—Theodore Hook and Charlas Matthews the elder, and among others Count D'Orsay and the men of faelion! The marriage of King George IV., the death of the Princess Charlotte, the publi cation of the Waverley novels—such are a few among the rematkable incidents and events with which these two volumes superabound. It is true the work, as a whole, is (almost inevitably, per haps), somewhat superficial in its style, and ephe meral in its character; but it is written throughout in a kindly, genial tone, and cannot fail to afford pleasure to those who read it. It will amuse all, and will certainly interest the majority of those who may happen to make its acquaintance. Recent Campaigns in Virginia and Maryland. By Captain C. C. Chesney, R.E. One vol., pp. 230. Smith, Elder, and Co. The author of this exceedingly clever, and in some parts very brilliant summary of General Pope's and General M.Clellan's o perations during 1862 in Virginia and Mary land, has regarded those hapless Federal campaigns from a purely military point of view. In this precisely consists the dis tinctive value.and interest of. the volume here sub mitted to our consideration. Brief though it is, extending as the work does to no more then ten rapidly-written chapters and a postscript, the book we cannot but pronounce, at once, a highly creditable performance on the part of Captain Chesney, whether regarding him as an Author or as a Soldier. To the student of the science of stra tegy, it holds out very conspicuous attractions. By them especially its pages are secure of being scanned with eager eyes of interest. How far the writer is qualified to descant thus currente calamo upon themes of such manifest complication, and of such instantly recognisable importance, the very title page of the volume indicates to the reader, immediately upon his openingit, and be fore commencing its perusal, there being attached to Captain Chesney's name, the reminder to us of his being already installed at Sandhurst Colleg as the Professor of Military Hi stor y . To hi s Royal Chie, Highness tthe the book Fis, a s a parenthesis informs us ield-11arshal Commanding-in ''(with H.R.H.'s gracious permission)" respectfully dedicated, as to one " under whose direction the study of military history has first been introduced [surely it ought to have been said systematically and not altogether!] into the education of the British officer!" After giving a very lucid, and yet at the sametime a very comprehensive description of the seat of war— that is to say, in Virginia and Maryland—Captain Chesney describes in this rapid survey the opposing armies and their respective L eader s. He then re lates the circumstances of M' Clell an's advance upon Richmond, followed, s oon enough, by hi s retreat from Richmond. Pope's campaign in Virginia is then sketched with a few swift, but some of them masterly touches. The invasion of Maryland, the fall of Harper's Ferry, the battle of Antietam, Lee's retreat into Virginia, and the fourth invasion of that ravaged State, lead the reader on, at last, to the superseding of M'Clellan by Burnside, when the base of the F e d er al ope rations was altogether changed. The narrative closes, so to speak, as we pause before Fredericks burg. Captain Chesney in it has contrived to t' row much light upon the course of la cent military events in the melancholy war still raging between Federals and Confederates. And he does this simply, if one may say so, without appearing thereby to depreciate the merit of his labours as a military historian, by systemising, within the compass of a little more than 200 very readable pages, our hitherto somewhat confused recollections of the war as it began in Virginia and Maryland. Old New Zealand. By A Pakeha Maori. One vol. Pp. 216. Smith, Eider, and Co. Several books relating to New Zealand, and the recent wars in New Zealand, have latterly, one after another, made their appearance. Among these more than twice-told tabs, however, this new volume upon the self-same occurrences, will hold its own without difficulty. And this mainly, we would say, by reason of its vivacity. Past and Present— New Zeal a nd and the New Zealan ders stand before us vividly, here, in lively contrast. The Mariner, as the voyageur to our antipodes, who writes the fifteen amusing chapters, here under notice, needs must be as such—we ourselves " needs must hear," as inevitably as the wedding guest was con strained to listen t , ) the Ancient Mariner in Cole ridge's eltrich ballad. That is, we needs must hear, or rather read, the Pakeha Maori who here discourses to us, if we but once fairly begin turning over his pages and reading them with an attentive eye. Scenery and dress, mermaids and melons, sham fighting and real fighting, flotsam and jetsom, these and countl ess o th er ma tters are sketched in by the Pakeha Maori with a pen in its way almost as vivid in its picturesque touches as though it were a pencil, and that pencil, too, a coloured crayon ! Unadorned by a single engraving, or even woodcut illustration, the volume so far resembles one of the famous storybooks of Hans Christian Andersen, inasmuch as it is to a certain extent also a picture-book without pictures. By the mere vivacity of his style the writer is his own illustrator. A KNOUT AND KNOUT SCOUNDREL. — Genera Mouravieff —Fun. EUGENE SUE, writes Captain Gronow, in his re cently published volume of small-talk, entitled "Recollections and Anecdotes," was the very reverse of Balzac, both in appearance and manner. Nothing could have been more coned and scrupulously neat thaa hit, dress, which was rather dandified, but in good taste, ac cording to the notions of 20 or 30 years ago. He wore aiways a very broad-brimmed hat, of glossy newness, and remarkably tight, light-coloured trousers; which, by-the by, were not particularly becoming to a man built in a stout mould ; but a Frenchman who cannot diminish the rotundity of bis abdomen, generally revenges himself upon his legs, which he circumscribes in the smallest possible compass, giving himself very much the appearance of what we Englishmen are taught to believe to be his national characteristic and prototype—a frog. . . . He was remarkable for the beauty of his horses; his cab was one one of the best appointed in Paris ; his house in the Rue de la Pepiniere (L.ow an asylum) was a perfect " bonbon niere," and his dinners were renowned for their excellence. He was supposed (and to my knowledge with considerable reason) to lead a very Sardanapalian life. Strange stories are told of his castle in Sologne, where he was waited on by a number of beautifat women, of alt countries, and of all shades of colour. DEERFOOT CONTESTING A RACE ON BOARD TPe monster GREAT vessel EAR.—D aring S t T h E e R r e N w . •- a s a D Cl CO r n in ti g nua t l h succession c cpassage o f o s sports, o t rt h s e , games, and diversions among the thousand passengers and the crew. Thinning matches, purses for walking, jumping in sacks, steeplechases on all fours, and—name it not to the police--" cock-fighting" prevailed- The whole was con cluded, while the ship was going up the Sound, with a race for a purse between Deerfoot and Mr. Rafferty (engi neer's steward.) The distance was three times round the dock—about three-quaeters of a mile. At ten o'clock on `Wednesday, May 27th, the pedestrians appeared at the starting-place. Deerfoot was the favourite, although un used to the sea and running on planks, where Rafferty, who is accounted a capital pedestrian, was quite at home. Deer foot, however, won easily by ten yards. THE QUEEN OF SPAIN A HOMCEOPATHIST.—For years past the homosepathists have had a royal patron in the Queen of Spain. Latterly her Majesty has entirely broken with the allopathists and all other lets, and trusted herself entirely to homoeopathy. As a consequence, most writers of homoeopathic books now send a book to Madrid, and in return mostly receive a Spanish decoration of some kind or other. Thus the order of Charles 111. has just been bestowed upon two French pupils of Hahnemann, Messrs. Jahr and Peroussel.. It is proposed to erect in Westminster Abbey a bust and tablet in honour of the late Sir George Cornewall Lewis. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary of Cambridge will honour Lady Howard with their company at her morning party at Craven Cottago, Fulani, to-morrow (7.lursday), the 2d 4 LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per the American.) NEW YORK, /UNE 19 (Afternoon). The excitement throughout Pennsylvania has materially abated. The report of the invasion was exaggerated, the only Confederate force in Penn sylvania being 3,500 men under Generals Jenkins and Rhodes at Harrisburg and Greeneastle, and they retreated upon the afternoon of the 17th inst., it is supposed to Hagerstown. The Confederates have respected all private property, and paid for all goods in Confederate scrip. Harrisburg and Pittsburg are being strongly fortified, as it is still believed that it may enter into Gen. Lee's plans to attack these places, although it is now generally thought that the capture of Wash ington is the object of Gen. Lee's campaign. Upon Tuesday the 16th inst., the Federals at Harper's Ferry were attacked by the Confederates and compelled to retreat to Maryland Heights, from where they shelled the Confederates, who, after damaging the railroad and the canal, retreated towards Williamsport, the Federals reoccupying Harper's Ferry. At Winchester Gen. Milroy abandoned his guns and everything during his retreat, and his forces became scattered; 1,600 of them arrived at Han cock, Maryland, but learning that the Confederates were approaching in force, and being demoralised and without officers, they dispersed over the country. General Hooker's army is supposed to be in the neighbourhood of Bull's Run, his head-quarters being at Fairfax, but General Hooker's movements being dependent upon the development of General Lee's plans, it is impossible to tell Hooker's exact position. The Baltimore correspondent of the New York Herald asserts that General Lea's object. is the cap ture of Washington. The Confederates who at ticked Martinsburg and Winchester, and who in vested Harper's Ferry, and invaded Pennsylvania, numbered 12,000 men, and consisted of three squad rons of Ashley's cavalry and the rest of mounted guerillas under Jenkins, Jones, and Imboden, with two regiments of infantry. General Ewell did not command them, and they were not drawn from his corps. General Lee's plan is to move his whole army to wards Centreville, and launch them either directly on the works at Arlington Heights, by way of Vienna, and cross the Potomac at Coon's Ford, 12 miles above Washington then move directly call to Bladensburg, tear up the railway there, so as to cut off communication with the North and East, and then attack Washington from that direction. General Lee's main army was on Tuesday (the 16th) at Thoroughfare Gap, 40 miles west of Wash- ington. On Wednesday an engagement occurred at Aldie, in the Bull Run mountains, between a detachment of Federal cavalry, and Fitzhugh Lee's brigade, in which the Federals drove the Confederates from several positions for five miles, and captured seventy prisoners. The Governors of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania are very active in raising and for warding militia to the points threatened. Numerous regiments have left New York and Philadelphia, and others are organising. The New York 7th Regiment is stationed at Baltimore. The popular clamour for the appointment of General M'Clellan continues, The Philadelphia and New York municipalities have also proposed resolutions urging the President to reinstate MClellan. The New York German Committee has requested Mr. Lincoln to permit Generals Fremont and Sigel to issue a call for volunteers for the defence of Pennsylvania. The President replied that the Governor of New York was sending troops, and it would cause confusion for the Administration to set to work independently of him. (Per the American.) NEW YORK, JUNE 19 (Evening) There is no material change in the state of things at Vicksburg. The Federals sti l .l hold the Black River Bridge, and there are no Confederates within 30 miles of Gen. Grant's rear. Reinforcements and supplies for Gen. Pemberton in Vicksburg are said to be sent across the Missis sippi from De Soto during night. The reported capture of Pocataligo Bridge between Savannah and Charleston by negro troops was untrue. Several Federal expeditions have been made from Port Royal into defenceless portions of the country, and private residences and property have been destroyed and plundered. General Hunter, who is replaced by General Gilmore in South Carolina, has arrived in Wash ington. The Ohio Republican convention nominated John Brough, a war democrat, for Governor. A Democratic meeting held at Springfield, Illinois, has passed resolutions opposing the war, favouring peace upon the restoration of the Union, and proposing a national convention to secure the Constitutional State rights. A public meeting held at Montgomery, County Indiana, has appointed a committee to inform the enrolment commissioners that they would enrol at their peril. Measures have been taken to arrest the parties implicated in the meeting. The Florida has Burnt the ship Crown Point. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JUNE 19 (Evening). Money tighter ; gold 431; per cent. premium ; Exchange on London bankers' bills, 156 i ; Stocks dull, New York Centrals, 117-1 ; Illinois Central, 1001,; Erie 93 ; Six per Cent. United States Bonds, 104. Cotton steady ; Midland Upland, 68; Flour dull, and prices 10c. lower; wheat dull, et a decline of 3c.; corn heavy, and 2c. lower; provisions in good inquiry ; coffee quiet ; sugar dull ; molasses steady ; crude petroleum, 28 to 29. THE ATTACK UPON GENERAL MILROY, (From the Baltimore American.) Major-General Milroy reached Baltimore at one o'clock this morning from Harper's Ferry, and returned again at 11 o'clock on a special train with his staff. He came down to have a personal inter view with Major. Gen. Schenck, and to waive all claims of rank in interfering with the command at that point, which will remain under Brigadier-Gen. Tyler. He, however, desired to return to his men, and volunteered to act in any position that he might be deemed most serviceable in. We had the pleasure of a brief conversation with him, and were pleased to learn that his forces have not suffered to so great an extent as was supposed. At the time he left the Ferry, forty-two members of Alexander's Maryland Battery had arrived, and it was believed a considerable number had made their escape in the direction of Romney and Cumberland. They mostly secared their horses. and have probably accompanied the cavalry. The only Maryland regiment that suffered severely was the sth Regiment, known as Col. Bchley's, who was absent in Baltimore. The enemy turned the guns of the Maryland Battery on this regiment, and for a time they were in a very hot position. The number killed and wounded is not known, though but few of them escaped either casualties or capture. They fought bravely, and it is hoped that a good number of them are prisoners of war. The Sixth Maryland Regiment, which was reported to have been cut up and almost destroyed, to the astonishment of every one, came marching into Harper's Ferry yesterday afternoon, with their flags flying, arms at rest, and singing " Hail Columbia," with the gallant Colonel Howe at their head. It seemed as if they had risen from the dead, and their return caused great astonish ment. It appears that at the commencement of the assault on Winchester they were entirely cut off and being surrounded by an immense force surren dered, and were taken to the back of the works. I❑ the =fusion of the assault made by the rebels they were neither disarmed nor placed under guard, and Colonel Howe, knowing the country ',ell, and see ing an opportunity to escape by side road, formed his men in line, and in the darkness of the evening moved quietly off. They were compelled to take a circuitous road to reach the Ferry, but went on their way rejoicing, with neither an enemy in front nor pursuers in the rear. The cavalry fbrce of Gen. Milroy, consisted of the First New York, Thir tieth Pennsylvannia, and two companies of the Third Virginia. Go]. Milroy ordered them to re treat to Romney and Cumberland, and be yester day received a despatch announcing their safe arrival at that place. The outer works at Winchester were carried by the rebels by sten m at six o'clock on Sunday evening, and the whole fortifications strongly invested by force of not less than 15,000 men under General Ewell. It became at once a question of ultimate surrender or to make a bold dash to force their way through the enemy's lines; and a council of war, held on Sunday night, unanimously advised an evacuation. The large guns and his artillery were all spiked at once, and at one o'clock on Monday morning he abandoned everything except his horses, and struck boldly through the enemy's lines. The movement was so rapid that the enemy was taken by surprise, and, the night being dark, the movement, so far as the troops immediately investing the works were concerned, was accom plished with but little loss. They were followed by cavalry, and a great many stragglers taken pri soners ; but when four miles this side of Winches ter, at the junction of the road leading from Berry ville to Bunker Hill and Martinsburg, they were intercepted by a strong rebel force with artillery, and strongly posted in the woods on the roadsides. General Milroy rallied his men and made several attempts to storm and capture their batteries, but was driven back. Daylight was now rapidly approaching, and it was deemed prudent to endeavour again to cut their way through the enemy's lines, which was successfully accomplished, and being without artillery, they suffered conside rably, especially in prisoners captured, before the enemy gave up the pursuit. About 12 o'clock on Monday they reached Halltown, and the enemy, having abandoned the pursuit, they, after a short rest, marched into Harper's Ferry during the af,er- noon, The gallant fellows were in a sad condition, after so severe a march end fight, but were full of spirit and gratification that they had escaped the clutches of the enemy. All the stores, ammunition, and waggons at Winchester, fell into the hands of the enemy, together with all the artillery, not a gun having been saved. THE WRECK OF THE STEAM-SHIP NORWEGIAN. ASPY BAY, CAPE BRETON, June 14, 1863. The steam-ship Norwegian, of the Canadian steam ship line, which lett Liverpool at half-past twelve o'clock noon, of the 4th, and Londonderry on the sth instant, for Quebec, was wrecked on St. Paul's Island this (Sunday) morning, 14th instant, during a thick fog. All her passengers and e:ew, together with mails and baggage, were saved. The newspaper despatches were saved by Purser Wallace. (DeSpatch to the Agents in Montreal.) MONTREAL, June, 17, 1863. The following despatch has been received by the agents of the steamer Norwegian : " ASPY BAY, C. 8., June 14, 1863. " Allan Rae and Co., Quebec. "The Norwegian was wrecked this morning, at seven o'clock, in a thick fog, on St. Paul's Island, a mile and a quarter east of the North-east Light. She had on board fifty-eight cabin and two hundred and seventy-one steerage passengers—all, together with the crew and mails, saved. A large portion of the baggage has also been landed. The steamer, when I left at one o'clock, was all but on her beam ends, well on the rocks. Her fore peak and forward compartment have several feet of water in them. The main and after ones are quite dry. " Captain M'Master was not certain whether she could be got off. He requests that a steamer be sent down immediately to the wreck. " The passengers have been conveyed to the Government Mame Society's House. " Mr. Campbell, Governor of the Island, is lend ing all his assistance. "JOHN WALLACE, Purser." NEW YORK, JUNE 20, Morning, General Sherman's corps have pushed their up. proacbes to within 20 yards of the bastions a Vicksburg. The Richmond Inquirer says that the Federal gunboats have ascended the Chickahominy to within 50 miles of Richmond, a land force of 15,001' co-operating. Preparations were being made to repel any attack. General Bragg has been reinforced, and there are indications of his uniting with General Bukner to invade Kentucky. The British Consul has arrived from Richmond at Fortress Monroe. The Confederate Secretary of State has written to Mr. Mason efficially that the President's deci sion to revoke the British Consul's exequatur was mainly influenced by the Cmsul denouncing unoffi c i a lly the Confederate Government as indifferent to cases of great and atrocious cruelty. These re marks referred to the enlistment by conscription of two British subjects who, by their acts, had ac quired de facto citizenship. Protection and respect will be continued towards foreign consuls who pos sessed the Federal exequatur prior to the secession, as long as they do not seek to evade the legitimate authority of the Confederate Government. Bu' Lord 14) ons assumes the power to issue instructions and exercise authority over British consuls residing in the Confederate States, thus ignori►.g the exis tence of the Confederate Government, and implying the continuance or relations between that Ministry and British Consuls residing in Confederate States which existed prior to secession. This is also the assertion of a right by Lord Lyons to exercise the authority of a Minister accredited to and officially received at Richmond. The President therefore forbids further direct communication between neu tral consuls in the Confeuerate States and function aries of neutral nations residing in the enemy's country. In future 01l communications between the British Consul and foreign countries, neutral hostile, must be restricted to vessels arriving from or despatches to neutral ports. Serious resistance has been offered to the enrol ment in Ohio. A collision has occurred between the military and 500 armed insurgents. _ Another enrolment officer has been shot in nthana. It is considered certain that General Lee is ad vancing upon Hooker a army in three columns, his right under Hill, by way of Occoquan and Wolf Run shoals ; his centre under Ewell, by way of Thoroughfare Gap ; and his left under Longstreet, by way of Leesburg. This information was obtained by a reconnaissance of Colonel Duffie, who, after the engagement at Aldie on Wednesday, proceeded to Middlesburg, but was driven out by the Confederates, and retreated across the mountains at Hope Gap, reaching the Federal outposts by tortuous routes. Several of his officers are missing. General Hooker's forced march from Falmouth to Fairfax was attended with great hardship, all the streams being dried up. The woods were full of stragglers, who could not be kept in the ranks, and numbers fell upon the road through exhaustion. An attack was apprehended in Baltimore on Wednesday, the 17th inst., and north and north western roads leading to the city were barricaded wi; h tobacco hogsheads. Upon Wednesday night the Confederates crossed the Potomac at two points, and drove the Federals from Point of Rocks and Catoclin station, after wards capturing a military train running between Harper's Ferry and Baltimore. The Confederates have not entirely abandoned Pennsylvania. Upon Friday morning, the 19th inst., they entered Macannelsburg end carried off large quantities of boots, shoes, cattle, and horses. They still occupy Greencastle, and troops have been sent from Harrisburg to Chambersb - arg by rail, and will march from Cnambersburg against the Con federates at Greencastle. Yesterday (19th inst.) 12 Confederate regiments were encamped about Hagerstown and Williams port, Maryland, and more were ere asing at Wil liamsport. They have - visited Hancock, Maryland, but were driven off. The Federal General. Milroy is said to be advanc ing towards Rest, with 4,000 mounted infantry and 5,000 mounted riflemen. The militia arriving at Harrisburg are to be sworn in for 30 days. • The Governor of Pennsylvania assures the troops they would be discharged immediately upon the present emergency being over. SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 1. The North German Lloyd's steamship America, 'rom New York on the 20th, has arrived here with 170 passengers, 8,200 dols. in specie for England, 101,400 dols. for France, and 500 dots. for Bremen. On the 24th ult., in long. 47 58 W., lat. 46 32 N., during a dense fog, the America came in con tact with the English bark Eliza Ann, of Ply mouth, with timber, from Queb€c. The Eliza Ann was cut down to her water•line, water-logged, and abandoned at 9 p.m. All bands were saved. AUSTRALIA. PLYMOUTH, JULY 1. The Lincolnshire, from Melb - ,urne, April 18, passed here this morning. Ste brings 10,805 oz. gold. The Lincolnshire landed eight passengers at this port. Mr. Laurie, one of her passengers, an auctioneer of Geelong, wad washed overboard and drowned on the 26th May. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, JULY 1. The chief of the Provincial Government of Prus sia has published a letter of the Crown Prince, dated the 26th ultimo, expressing the thanks of the Prince and Princess for the many proofs of sincere affection and devotedness shown to their Royal Highnesses during their recent journey. THE BRAZILS. LISBON, JULY 1. The Royal Mail Ccmpany's ship Parana, with the Brazil mail, has arrived here, and will leave at 2 p.m. to-day tor Southampton with 191 passengers, £7,168 in gold, £7,545 in silver, 250 rolls of to bacco, and 203 packages of sundries. FRANCE. PARIS, JULY 1. MM. Schneider and Vernier have beeu appointed Vice-Presidents of the new Corps Legislatif, and MM. Hebert and Romeuf questors. An Imperial decree has been published for a Universal Exhibition of Agricultural and Indus trial Products, which shall open at Paris in May, 1867. Productions of these descriptions will be admitted from all nations. BOURSE, June 30.—The market remains quiet, but with prices maintained. Threes, for tho Ac count, are unvaried at 68f, 50c.. Little doing in Railway Shares, and but slight change in quota tions. Stock became offered before the close by speculators who had been before two extensive purchasers, and prices receded to leave cff as fol lows : II per Cents . . 96 95 Italian Loan 73 30 Do. end Do. end month — 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 35 Credit Mobilier 1185 Do. end month... 1176 50 Bank Shares .3410 Credit k oncier .... 1370 New ditto Do. end month — Russian Austrian Spani,h Threes., 54 Home Debt .. 62 RA iL 'AYE. esph. Account. Orleanr Northern .... New ditto . Lyons and Itleditsrranean 1017 50 .. 1015 Geneva 447 50 .. 417 50 Southern Western Eastern .... Sardinian .. 4lB 75 .. 415 Aostrian I 4M' hurd North of Spain Saragossa 720 .. 720 Ditto to Barcelona EXTRAORDINARY ANTIQUAhIAN DISCOVERIES IN ROME; as deactibed by a German scuiptor living in the Eternal City.—The villa of Livia, the wife of Augustus, called "Ad Gallinas," has been excavated near Prima Porta, seven mi4lie fr, m Rome, on the Via Flareinia ; and at the very beginuing of the excavations the completely preserved figure of Augustus, besides three very beautiful busts and reliefs, were brought to light. This figure, eight feet in height, is the most beautiful imperial statue in exist ence, and altogether a work ot first rank. A special interest is found in the excellently preserved traces of painting on the mantle, under-garments, and arm .ur. The mantle was red; but on the head and the nude legs no trace of painting is to be found. The people who had made the discovery were naturally very happy, and flattered themselves with the hope of recei.ing no less than half a million of scudi for it; but we considerably damped their enthusiasm, and brought them down to 20,000 scudi. I wonder whether our valuation was correct. The excavations of the im perial palaces, instituted by Napoleon, have likewise folded important results already, chiefly of architectural interest. The sculptures found yet are not of much consequence. It is a colossal undertaking, and will take about ten years more, at least before it is completed. In order to assist the Emperor's plans the Pope has given orders teat the other side of the Palatine, where the walls of Romulus were found, shall likewisele examined; and excavations have been sot on foot on that spot. 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