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This is well, for the time is ge tti ng on, and any further delays that would have deferred the bill until after the Whitsuntide holidays would have been much to be deprecated on every account. We are not surprised that the committee should have exhibited signs of impatience, and resolved at all hazards to get on with the business before them. It was all very fine for those prejudiced in the matter to begin discussing abstract prin ciples, but men of sense had to consider whether or not the bill was to be finished this Session, and to shape their course accordingly. On the whole, the Government seem to have made wise concessions, and the result has been that they have been strong enough to withstand the opposi tion made to them. Some of this was not inconsi derable, and Mr. GLADSTONE and Mr. BRIG= again exerted their eloquence in vain. The representa tion of minorities is most obnoxious to the hon. member for Birmingham, and he loses no opportu nity of testifying his dislike to it. The committee were, however, proof against all his objurgations, and it is fortunate they were, for the proposition may as well be tried, and if it prove efficacious it can easily be extended at a future period to other places. Mr. BRIGHT never measures his sentences or weighs his words when he has a point to serve, and hence it is no wonder that we find this repre sentation of minorities characterised as an " odious innovation," and verygrievous to all the constituen cies of England. He made a long statement, to the effect that it must not be agreed to, and wound up by describing it as an emanation from the House of Lords. Perhaps this initiating reminder may account for the circumstance that he became so vehement in his language, for we know that the mere " mention of the other place" is enough to raise his wrath in the greatest degree. Mr. LID DELL was venturesome enough to accuse Mr. BRIGHT of preferring American principles to everything else, and he drew down upon himself thereby such a torrent of reproach that the Chairman had to in terfere, and remind the hon. gentleman that he was getting unparliamentary in his tone. Mr. LIDDELL adroitly added that at any rate Mr. BRIGHT admired American manners. Mr. GLADSTONE, in a more moderate style, put his veto upon the principle, but seemed very undecided about its merits ono way or the other. It is not to be expected that the mind of the rigbt hon. gentleman can always jump at conclusions as it did with respect to the Irish Church Establishment. The Committee declined, however, to wait until he was ready to affirm or deny the principle of representation by minorities, and Mr. DISRAELI showed very clearly that they had to decide between the minority prin ciple sanctioned by the House last year and a new scheme. The result of the division gave a majority of fifty-nine against the amendment of Mr. GRAII AM. Mr. MILL created some amusement by declaring that if all places had their rightful number of members Glasgow should have six. An attempt was made to combine the counties of Sutherlandshire and Ross, which provoked a spi rited speech from Lord R. LEVESON-GOWER, and Mr. DISRAELI and Mr. GLADSTONE concurred in opposing the amendment. Upon a division the amend ment was rejected. In order to settle the difficulty Tit E SUN, LONDON, FE I DAY EVENING, N AY 29, 186 S. brought about by Mr. BAXTER'S famous resolution. Mr. DISRAELI said that they would take seven of the doomed burghs, and spare those of the largest population above them. This is a wise arrange ment, on the whole, and lessens the disappointment of interfering with the English Bill. Peebles and Selkirk were joined together, not, however, without some protest being made by Mr. MONCREIFF,, who used the extraordinary argument that, if they began this fashion, they might not easily stop short. This is sure, however, to be said upon the adoption of every new scheme, and we: are not surprised that the Committee refused to sanction it. On the whole, therefore, we think that the House has done its best in this matter of the Scotch Reform Bill, and the progress made yesterday will be more fully appreciated when the Committee resumes its labours after the Whitsuntide recess is over. It is very probable that some points might have been more wisely decided, and that some mistakes have been made, but judging the work collectively it hardly seems that it can be improved upon. Whatever of shortcomings may exist must be laid to the charge of those hon. members who, from various motives, have persisted in interposing delays on the subject. Mr. GLADSTONE, to do him justice, came to the rescue yesterday, and said that they would run the risk of reopening the English scheme of representa tion if they persisted in criticising everything too closely. This was very wise counsel, and it was fortunate that the House accepted it. It is indeed high time that progress should be made, and it will, after all, be in some sort a satisfaction to learn that the Session has not been entirely wasted, and that the ' House of Commons will endeavour to realise the errors of their past, and retrace their wandering steps. The discussion on the Poor Relief Bill in the House of Lords shows how difficult it is to legislate on matters of minor detail. For instance, on prin ciple, it seems only right and just that every inmate of a workhouse should have permission to go outside to attend religious worship, but Lord REDESDALE pointed out that this permission would require con sideration, as it was to be feared persons might avail themselves of it to get off from the workhouse altogether, and leave their children behind them a burden . on the parish. Many privileges are necessarily withheld from those who would be grateful for them for fear of their being abused by the worthless idlers who wish for nothing better than to live at the public expense. This difficulty shows the great necessity of a classifica- tion of the inmates of all large unions, a necessity which is being very slowly recognized. The whole sale manner in which the residents in a workhouse, especially in the country, are too often herded to gether is equally opposed to the health, comfort, and morality of the inhabitants. The young are very apt to become contaminated by the constant asso ciation of older and hardened characteis, vagrants, or drunkards, or, perhaps, worse. This is, especially, the case in the female departments, as those who have interested themselves in the young girls and women brought up in workhouses too well know. Those best acquainted with them say that there is a manifest change in their manner and conduct within a few days of their removal from the school to the adult ward, and in the same way the companionship and conversation of the disreputable and worthless classes are irksome and painful to those of a better stamp whom natural infirmity or inevitable misfortune have driven to the workhouse. If a better classification could be carried out, and those persons of good character and orderly conduct, who had themselves been rate payas, :or otherwise proved their industry and willingness when able to support themselves, could be kept apart from the numerous class, whose own vicious habits and laziness have. pauperised them, much good would be done. It would be possible to .grant the first-class many privileges properly withheld from the others, and the unions would be more easily managed. Among the many improve ments now being carried out in workhouses, we should like to see a change in this particular in eluded ; and we hope, while the matter is still under discussion in Parliament, the necessity of a better system of classification among the inmates of large and populous unions will not be overlooked. The political excitement in the United States, which may be expected to reach its height in the months of June and July, is to affect, it would seem, the interests of others as well as American citizens and voters. The great Fenian leader, Pre sident O'NEILL, intends to seize that favourable opportunity to revenge the wrongs of Ireland upon Canada. A circular, forwarded by that worthy to the Fenian centres, shows that the rhodomontade of the head centres is not exhausted, nor their desire for mischief and plunder diminished by the flight of time, the failure of their enterprises, or the general condemnation of mankind. O'NEILL's feelings have been deeply hurt, and with reason. Malicious and self-constituted agents 'have been busying themselves in promulgating - the i th s tatement that the F en i an l ea d e r Vie-. " too virtuous " to revenge the death of e mar tyrs of Manchester. This very needless fear Mr. O'NEILL effectually disposes of.in his circular. His brothers are told to " believe itlYet." He is ready to shed rivers of blood—a pleasant intima tion—for the Canadians, and he is firmly convinced that rivers of blood will have to flow before Ireland can take her place among the nations of the earth. His virtue only extends so far as to refuse to sane -1 tion " the dagger of the assassin ;" but assassina tion on a wholesale scale he has no objection to, even although to ordinary minds the connection between Canada and Ireland is not very cleal::' Revenge sure and certain is at hand for the mur ders of the Manchester martyrs and the cruel . treatment of the Irish patriots pinin3 in British dungons. How about the Clerkenwell martyrs pining in hopeless infirmity ? All is to be done in " fair and honourable fight," we are told, so that if O'NEILL's programme is carried out we shall be introduced to a new phase of Fenian warfare. This wise and valiant leader thinks it necessary to caution his followers against political tricksters who want to join their organisation for their own selfish purposes, and who have done much mischief in the past. All Fenians must obey the Fenian Constitu tion, to be defined, we presume, by O'NEILL him self. All who form independent circles are not Fenians. What a prospect for the Emerald Isle when her liberation is effected and the rivers of blood have flowed in her cause that there should be divisions in the camp of her leaders. Who shall decide when head centres disagree ? We hope that some external authority will be found who will (lilt a stop to al! this mischievous nonsense before it causes any more loss of life and limb. We are requested to contradict a statement to the effect that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales lies consented to dine with the corporation of the Trinity House on Trinity M)nday, Juno 8. No invitation has yet been issued to his Royal Highness,tho banquet having been deferred to a City subsequent to Trinity Monday, when it is hoped that his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, the Master, will have arrived, and be enabled to preside. The prices of Horniman's Teas are greatly reduced; their well-known superiority has attracted a host of spurious imitations; therefore notice all Genuine Packets are signed, " gorniman c 0.," London. 00 Confectioners are Agents inLc,ndon and 2,200 Chemists in the Country. LITERATURE. Bailey's Foetus. Festus : A Poem. By Philip James Bailey. Seventh Edition. One Vol., pp. 602. Bell and Daldy. Universal Hymn. By the Author of " Festus." One Vol., pp. 51. Bell and Daldy. Our wonder is—not that this is the seventh edition of " Festus," but that it is not the seventeenth. Since the work was first published in 1839, when its author was in the twenty-third year of his age, it has been growing, and expanding, and spreading forth its leaves and rising perpetually to greater altitudes, like a noble tree in the fields of lite rature. - Upon its greater adornment, upon its ampler range, upon its securer perpetuation, the poet, of whose brain and heart it is the emanation, has from the first lavished all the resources of his genius. Like many a great original writer before him, Philip James Bailey has in his time been the target for those fleering sarcasms by which the shallower intellects of the commonplace vindicate their own lack altogether of anything like origi nality. There is that famous whimsicality, for example, flung by him at the Devil, in the very abandon of youthful genius— " You look as if you lived on buttered thunder." Why, for years the mere mention of the poet's name brought forth the remembrance of that one phrase, and wakened fresh peals of seemingly inextinguish able laughter. In the appreciation of that one carefully-selected passage no attention whatever was paid to an equally fantastic simile occurring earlier in the poem— "As though an earthquake smacked its mumbling lips O'er some thick-peopled city." Yet, while the " groundlings," in-another sense than that in which Hamlet uses the word in his Address to the Players, were making merry over a single selected sentence, over one solitary phrase—which at the best or at the worst was simply flung forth by the young poet, as what it is and what it alone affects to be, the wildest and wilfullest of whimsicali ties—they appeared to have no thought whatever of the fact that the greatest creative geniuses of the past had indulged in precisely the same extravagances of metaphor or of diction. Instances by the half dozen might be adduced in proof of this from " Hamlet" and from " Faust," two of the most mar yellow productions of the human intellect—to say nothing of the other effusions of Shakspere and of Goethe. " Aha ! old Truepenny," or again that allusion to " the fellow in the eellarage' (phrases addressed or applied to the ghost of his royal father -by the appalled and heart stricken Prince of Denmark), are cases, as we take it, absolutely in point. It is the privilege of genius alone—not of talent simply but of genius, that is, of an intellect inspired by the true afflatus, the poetic cestrunz, divine and undeniable —to indulge in eccentricities like these, whimsicalities setting at defiance all the laws of art, all the established rules and regulations, so to speak, of the rhetorical proprieties. Folly, it is true, may ape these eccen tricities, but genius alone can override them, can by its all-mastering splendour not only insure their toleration as mere freaks and oddities (atom-blurs like the faculti on the solar disc), but reduce them to almost inappreciable insignificance. Through the admiration awakened by right of a prerogative of that supreme order, the rare and casual phan tasies in which the author of " Festus" here and there indulged, hie violations of good taste have been more than merely condoned. They have come to be accepted and recognised as integral parts of one elaborate and wonderful whale. They are the streaks in the onyx, the bee-bites on the nectarine, the moles— " Cinque-spotted like the crimson drops I' the bottom of a cowslip " is- on the neck or bosom of beauty. Regarding it as a work of art, as a product of unquestionable genius, and that moreover a genius of an intensely and essentially original character, we accept it in its abso lute entirety, in its full and comprehensive Integrity. We take it, in otherwords, exactly as it is —precisely as it comes to us from the artist-hand by which it has been fabricated. For, 'as a work of art, it is no mere cold and impassive form of marble carved into linear beauty for the world's admiration. If it might be likened to anything sculpturesque, it would be alone to that statue of Pyrnalion's into which the artist himself breathed the very breath of life. Remembering the youth of the poet of "Festus," when the book first made its appear ance, and remembering at the same time the splendour and audacity of the imaginative flight upon which he then adventured, who can wonder that occasionally the beat of his strong pinion flagged and faltered, who can marvel that in spite of casual flaws and blemishes (all of them when put together intrinsically of utter insignifi cance), who can marvel, we say, that the work, upon its first coming forth, was welcomed by the more discerning with mingled admiration and asto nishment ! That the first Earl of Ellesmere, himself a fastidious and accomplished judge of poetic excel lence, exclaimed with enthusiasm, " I can scarcely conceive any degree of poetic excellence which this author, starting with so much richness of imagina tion and force of expression, may not be expected to attain." That Bulwer, speaking at once out of his large heart and from amidst his own lofty aspira tions and imaginings, pronounced the book " a most remarkable and magnificent production." That a poet, not of the schools, but of the people, like Ebenezer Elliot, the Corn-Law Rhymer, exclaimed almost defiantly in regard to it—" It contains poetry enough to set ill; fifty poets !" Who can wonder, again, among those who know anything at all of "Festus," that a highly edu cated man of letters like Dr. Westland Marston, while commending its imagery as " sometimes bold and towering as the mountains, at others soft, subtle, and delicate as the mists tliat veil their sum mits," hesitated ; -net. to assert emphatically that " there are few books in viiich what is so profound in its essence is rendereiso familiar in its exposi tion." Eve ** c at of its firs t ; appearance .. the wort, Yi speikefounded to a whole. It was no 'there 1" grnent :7 0i .instalment—it was _Pie young egOa t y-dream in' itk Qopapleteness. t . Since then—upon the original foundationa of thii 'poem which ire Truilt‘ up from the first with 'a reverent hand.likea very Temple of adoration -to God, he has been raising, time by time, now, here, now there, a loftier superstructure, elaborating, now this por tie9 of it, now that—devoting the main energies of his life to the perfecting, so far as might be pos sible, of this as the opus magnum of his heart and of his intellect. Until at last it has comp to assume to itself some of the proportions and characteristics of one of those "poems in stone," our grand old Gothic Cathedrals. And of the artificer of this cathedral poem of " Festus," it may, indeed, be said without any extravagance that he has lavished all the resources of his genius, with an unstinting hand, alike upon all portions of its most intricate and comprehensive fabrie'l From the crypts under the pavement , to the trefoils of the parapet—up even to the topmost pinnacle of the loftiest turret, clanged about by the whirling wings of the claw ! Standing without—clos ing the book after a perusal of it--organ tones float to us from it out ()tour remembrance. Standing within —opening anew' these pages--we are there ia the midst of all the glory showered down in gor geous dyes from the stained glass windows, we are there among all those pictured and sculptured forms of beauty:--we are there with the sanctuary be fore us,, and the altar, and the tabernacle—we breathe the fragrance of the adorning flowers, we smell the perfume of the incense from the swing ing 'thuribles, we hear the choral chant of the ohoristere, the reedy notes and chords, the variable stops and pedals of the great organ with a sense upon us, all the while, of the pendulum throbbing every second in the clock tower, of the chimes pealing quarter by quarter in the belfry, of the grand bourdon tolling hour after hour from its own central turret, of the stony imps and devils leering and mowing each from its coign of van tage, a gurgoyle. We know of no apter symbol, through which to indicate the scope, and aim, and significance of " Festus" as a poem, than that of one of those grand old Cathedrals. The word expressed by it all is —God. The very first scene (which is Heaven) has for its interlocutors God and the Cherubim and Seraphim. The first line articu- lated by the latter, as also the refrain throughout, " God! God ! God !" Hear Festus himself descanting upon the glory and unutterable bliss of the Creator, as symbolised in that true Music of the Sphere; when— " Heaven' s harps And orbs join in : the whole boing harmony— Distinct yet blended—blending all in one Long an delicious tremble like a chord." The poet adding— ". Bu t to Thee, God, all being is a harp, Whereon Thou makest mightiest melody." Or listen to him again when he recounts, through the burning lips of Lucifer the process of crea. tion : " God worketh slowly ; and a thousand years He takes to lift His hand off. Layer on layer He made earth, fashioned it, and hardened it Into the great, bright, useful thing it is ; Its seas, life-crowded, and soul-hallowed lands Ho girded with the girdle of the suu That set its bosom glowing like love's own Breathless embrace, clos3-clinging as for life ; Veined it with gold and dusted it with gems, Lined it with fire, and round its heart-fire bowed R)ck-ribs unbreakable ; until at last Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds." How, in effect, is Universal Beauty apostrophized by the poet of Festus, speaking through the voice of Helen, one of his heroines ? Why, as thus— "Thou apply of God's eye!" And, again, remembering that HeaTen is the home of God, how sublimely he says at one time (again through the lips of Lucifer) — "The Universe is but the Gate of Heaven." And again— "01 , ! everything To me seems good, and lovely, and immortal ; The whole is beautiful ; and I can see No wrong in man, nor nature, nought not meant ; As from His hands it comes who fashions all, All Holy as His word. The world is but A revelation. He breathes Himself upon us Before our birth, as o'er the formless void He moved at first, and we are all inspired With His Spirit. All things are God or of God, For the whole world is in the mind of God, What a thought is in ours. Why boast we then Of aught ? All that is good belongs to God ; And good and GJd are all things or shall be." Another while in the same spirit, he says or rather sings— " One solitary or foreseeing thought Passed like a planet's transit o'er the sun Across the brow, of God." Somewhere, if we remember rightly, he speaks even of the azure heavens above us, as— " The blue eye of God." s It is the alpha and the omega, the beginniet and the end : it is the absolute whole of his medita tions—the adoration of God. And, being so, how he lifts his reader's heart up, with a true sursum corda, by this ennobling incentive -" Let each man know himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God ;" bidding him, thereupon, act and live accordingly. The thought, here, out of which that incentive springs being identical with the one he elsewhere so exquisitely expresses thus— " The world is a great poem, and the worlds The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts." So heartening is his philosophy, that from the known he argues the unknown, asserting boldly— " Faith is a higher faculty than reason." According to the same admirable reasoning set forth in Blanco White's superb sonnet, the sonnet ending_ "If light can thus deceive, wherefore not life—" Bailey observes in his very proem— " We know in day-time, there are stars about us, Just as at night, and name them what and where By sight of science ; so by faith wo know, Although we may not see them till our night, That spirits are about us, and believe, That to a spirit's eye, all Heaven may be As full of angels as a beam of light Of motes." No metaphor is too daring for him in the enun ciation of bis thronging thoughts. " Destruction ani salvation," he says, " are the hands Upon the face of time. When both unite, The day of death dawns." As for annihilation, he recoils from the mere con jecture of it, crying aloud— " Hell is more bearable than nothingness." Occasionally, when he seems to soar the highest, he drops into a colloquialism that has a bathos iu its very extravagance, as where he says— " Sometimes we feel the wish across the mind Rush like a comet, tearing up the sky, That we should join with God and give the woad The slip." At other moments his delicacy of illustration dwindles into mere prettiness, as where he speaks of heaven towards evening— ,- Just when the stars falter forth, ono by one, Like the first words of lova from a maiden's lips." For the most part, however, the tenderness of his lovelier similes in no way derogates from the pre vailing dignity of his verse ; in illustration of which, as we turn the leaves, we light upon the subjoined— Tears, feeling's bright embodied form, are not More pare than dewdrops, Nature's tears which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness ; bait at night When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep." The merest hint of a metaphor sometimes evidences under his hands an extraordinary and overflowing abundance of imaginative power t When Festus, for instance, is asked by Clara, Cau'st see the world," he replies — "Just—a huge shadowy shape ; It looks a disembodied orb—the ghost Of some great sphere which God hath stricken dead ; Or like a worl I which God hath thought—not made." How daintily in his lighter moments he can em bellish a thought with music of verse, and grace of illustration, let Helen answer when Festus casts aside for coolness the wreath she has twined about his temples ."" I thought 'twas a thorn which was tearing thy brow, And if it were only a rose-thorn was tearing, - Why, whether of gold or of roses, as now, A crown if it hurts us is hardly worth wearing." Frequently the whole force of his most powerful utterances will be found to be in their exceeding s implicity. Instance this— " Peace hath more might than war. High brows are calm. Great thoughts are still as stars ; and truths, like Suns, Stir not; though many systems tend round them. Mind's step is still as Death; and all great things Which cannot be controlled, whose end is good." Of again, in austerer shape, the following : " And there arose Out of the earth a giant thing, all earth ; His eye was earthy, and his arm was earthy : He had no heart. He but said, lam Decay, And, as he spoke, he crumbled into earth, And there was nothing of him." So all-embracing are his sympathies, he even goes so far as to assert that— "— evil is Good in another way we are not skilled in." It is here, in " Festus," that is set forth that most exquisite of all symbols of the Holy Trinity, the combination of the three primitive colours - into which the beam of white light is resolvable : the poet here showing that— "— as the three primal rays make one Sole beam of Light, so the throe Persons make One God." Reverting for a moment to what we have already asserted as to the theme, the purport, the inspiration of the whole poem being God, the poet's words are worthy of transcription where lie exclaims in an impassioned apostrophe— " Thou knowest, God, that to the full worship All things aro worship full; and Thy great name In all its awful brevity bath nought Unholy breeding in it, but doth bless Rather the tongue that utters it ; for me I ask no higher office than to fling My spirit at Thy feet, and cry Thy name, God ! through eternity." Everywhere, above, below, around him, in the minutest atom no less than in the immeasurable universe he beholds the attestation of the divinity. He sees the recognition of God in the very twink ling of the stars in the heavens, when he points to— " Yon countless orbs, aye fixing each on Him Its flaming eye, which winks and blenches oft Beneath His glance." • With one other extract only shall we here indulge ourselves. And it is one that, for the force and passion of it, may be not inaptly quoted as one of the most startling integral portions of an extra ordinary whole. It is from the scene in Hell, where the Fiends sing in chorus " Fill the bowl ! it burns but blackly, • Fill it up with living fire : Drunkard! hadst thou sipped as slackly As thou pourest—pour it higher ! Then thou hadst ne'er with me been bound In Hell to dwell ; But lot the burning toast go round— Drunkard!—to Hell! Fill ! it drinks but cold and leadly ; Fill it up with bubbling fire. Drink ! 'tis nothing half so deadly As thy soul, when living, Liar ! Or thou hadst ne'er with me been bound In Hell to dwell; But let the burning health go round— Liar !—to Hell! Fill ! it boils but sick and sadly ; Fill ! some more immortal fire ; Murderer! drain it quickly, madly, As the stab thou gav'st thy sire ! Or thou hadst near with me been bound In Hell to dwell ; But let the burning health go round— Murderer !—to Hell !" As clearly demonstrative of the fact that the suc cessive editions which have already appeared of "Festus" have been no mere reprints, have been subjected to more than simple revision and emen datiou at the author's hands, we would direct atten tion to the fact that the latest, now in our hands— we believe, by the way, that there is a still later one in immediate preparation, • if it has not even already made its appearance—we would direct at tention to the fact that the seventh edition of " Festus," now under our consideration, has been increased by nearly one hundred pages, by at any rate at the very least sixty-seven pages, not one word of which appeared in any of its six predecessors. And, as affording conclusive testimony at once that this in crease has been no mere dilution of the origi nal " nectar of the gods " here put to our lips, we would instance one entire.scene—a scene, in the poetic excellence of it, absolutely on a par with the happiest of those already familiar to the reader—a scene occurring at pp. 414-428, in which Festus and Lucifer are the interlocutors upon the Earth at Midnight. " Festus" in truth is an absorbent— not only of 'the care, and time, and life, and ge nius of its author, but bodily of the whole substance of any other among his really successful literary productions. In proof of which it may be men tioned that the poem of 4 , The Angel W or ld," publiihed originally ani separately in 1850 he has since then incorporated with his larger and more am bitious masterpiece of "Festus." And so 110 w, again, it will be eventually, we believe, in a great measure, in regard to the very latest of , his poetic effusions ; th e " Universal Hymn," in will* like Shadrach, Me shach, and Abednego, he himself chanting the praises of God in the midst of the fiery fur nace of the world, makes the mountains and the valleys, the seas and the streams, the lightaing and the thunder, the zephyr and the whirlwind, the volcano and the earthquake, the dews and the hoar frosts, the spring flowers and the primeval forests, harvest and vintage, day and night, heat and cold, cycles and seasons, the heavens and the earth, vocal with one Univer sal- Hymn or Song of Adoration. Instead of actually incorporating this.with " Festus" later on, however (though from its intrinsic excellence the Hymn would be quite worthy of such incorporation), the author would do well, we think, by rather append ing it to the larger and nobler poem, in the same manner in which Thomson has appended his hymn, beginning " These as they change, Almighty Father, those Are but the varied God "- as an appropriate climax to his quadruple poem of " The Seasons." And " Festus" could merge into no more fitting climax than the " Universal Hymn" the author of "Festus" has, here, most happily pro duced. It breathes throughout the same glowing and adoring spirit, bearing a resemblance (in its relation to the effect of " Festus") to one of those antiphonal voluntaries that we pause to listen to as it peals forth from the organ within, before we pass out into the world again from under the porch of a Cathedral. LATEST INTELL MENGE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AUSTRIA. VIENNA, May 29. It is understood that at the Cabinet Council held yesterday, at which the Emperor presided, it was resolved to abandon the Property Tax project, but to accede to the proposal of the minority of the Budget Committee for a tax of 20 per cent. on all coupons. The proposal of the majority of the committee to reduce the interest on all State Secu rities by 25 per cent. was declared impossible for the Government to ask his Majesty to sanction. Count Stackelberg, the Russian Ambassador,, had a private audience of the Emperor yesterday, to present his letters of recall. His Excellency has left this capital for Paris. SAXONY. DRESDEN, May 28 (Evening). In to-day's final sitting of the Upper and Lower Houses a fresh vote was taken upon the bill relative to the abolition of capital punishment. In the Upper House the previous question was again re jected by 20 votes against 16. In the Lower House 40 members voted for, and 24 against, the previous question. But as the ma jority which had voted for the previous question (and therefore against the bill) did not comprise the necessary number of two-thirds, the President of the Chamber declared capital punishment to be abolished. THE BRAZILS. (Via Lisbon) BUENOS AYRES, April 26. Exchange on London 50. Wet salted ox hides, 40 to 43. Number slaughtered, 62,000. Total sales, 290,500. Shipments, 144,562. No stock dry hides.- American, 43 for 21. Total sales, 69,000. Shipments, 166,083. Stock, 30,000. Wool, 48 to 82. Tallow, 15. Lumber, 88 to 40. Sugar, 18k. Flour, 10. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. GIBRALTAR, May 29. The Syria from Southampton, 23d inst., arrived yesterday at 10 a.m., and left at 3 p.m. for Alex andria ; all well. Experienced unsettled weather. CALCUTTA, May 9, via Trieste. The appointment of Mr. Seton Karr as Foreign Secretary has caused great dissatisfaction, and ad verse comments on the subject have appeared in the Onnot ••1%- cum HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE, May 26. 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Boucicault and Charles Reade's dramatic version of their very successful novel, " Foul Play," was produced at this theatre, with the most perfect and complete success. The story has become so popular that its adaptation to the stage became a matter of certainty, and it will be at once readily admitted that more competent hands than those of its talented authors it could not have fallen into. The drama is divided into four parts, and the only difficulty that pre sented itself was the compression of the story ; however that has been cleverly performed, and we have that which is not often the case a close, com pact, and highly interesting drama, and one which, if we mistake not, will result in a success far greater than that of "Flying Scud." The great fea ture of the piece is that a previous acquaintance with the navel is entirely unnecessary, as from the rising of the curtain until the close of the fourth act.. everything is plain, clear, and intelligible. • The first act opens in the office of Wardlaw and Son, St. Mary Axe, during the panic of 1866 ; and here we rind Arthur Wardlaw, the jdvenile partner, occupied in perusing the falsi fied books of the firm with ruin staring him in the face, the result of his . long-concealed system of fraud. We also learn that he has insured a vessel called the Proserpine, with a cargo of gold from Australia, for more than its value, a portion of the plot being to change the valuable cargo to another ship, but to substitute for boxes of the precious metal ingots of copper. He has bribed the mate of the ship, Joe Wylie, to commit the act, and the success of the villain's scheme is announced by the entry of Burtenshaw, one of the underwriters of the vessel, pale and almost distracted, to ask for time before he is called upon to pay his part of the policy, viz, £20,000. Joe Wylie, the mate, then arrives, he relates the success of the scuttling of the ship, but he causes Wardlaw some uneasiness from the fact that there was on board a missionary chap who sus pected foul play. He, however, quiets him by the information that he placed him, a lady, and four of the crew, in a leaky boat, a thousand miles from land, in the Pacific, so that no fear need be enter tained of anything arising from the circumstance, as he would be certain to go down, provided those on board did not perish by hunger. Arthur Ward law is also anxiously awaiting the return of Sir Edward Rolleston, formerly colonial governor of one of the penal settlements, and his daughter Helen, to whom Arthur is the affianced husband, who have taken their passage on board the Shannon, another of the ships belonging to the firm, but his horror is terrible at the entry of Sir Edward alone, who informs him that owing to ill health his daugh ter was prevented shipping on board the Shannon, but had taken her passage in athe Proserpine. This catastrophe brings the first act to a conclusion. The second opens with a beautiful painted scene—" Godsend Island" in the Pacific—where we discover Helen has been . saved from death by Robert Penbold, and that two of the seamen also survived long enough to make a declaration that the vessel was wilfully cast away. The two have been the only residents on the island for nearly a year. Love, of course, lightens their captivity, but not before Robert Penfold has told IL,len that he is a convict, but that the man who really committed the forgery for which he suffered was no other than Arthur Wardlaw. Sir Edward at this moment arrives, having left England with the determination of searching atnongst the Pacific Islands for any of the remaining survivors 'of the Proserpiue ; and on the discovery of his daughter he also recognises in her preserver one of the convicts who had escaped during the time he was governor of the settlement. Helen, after a struggle between love and duty, returns with her father to clear the name of Robert Penfold from ignominy, and on her arrival in London she com municates with the authorities in Scotland-yard. Hawkins, a detective, is put on the track of Arthur. He discovers the gold supposed to be on board the Proserpine in the cellar of an old house in Cqancery lane, and also secures Joe Wylie, who, through the base villany of his rich companion in crime, Arthur Wardlaw, has been left locked up in the cellar with the gold to die, by which means he hopes to do away with the evidence of Wylie. However, Joe is rescued by Hawkins ; he makes a clean breast of it, the crime is clearly brought home to Arthur Wardlaw, and he also confesses to the for gery for which Robert Penfold was convicted. Helen of course marries Penfold, Wylie is accepted as evidence against Arthur, but the forger is bereft of reason and falls lifeless:to the ground. It will be at once admitted that with such a plot the success of any drama was secured, but when to that was added the united ability of a talented dramatic corps, splendid new scenery, -and elegant ap pointments, the reception of the new piece was enthusiastic. Mr. G. Neville, as Arthur Wardlaw, acted with more than his usual excellence ; Mr. D. Price, as Robert Penfold, and Mr. J. Irving as Joe Wylie, quite realised the characters in the novel, and Miss Hendrade as Helen Rolleston acted the part with the utmost feeling and pathos, whilst in the character of Nancy Rouse, Miss Fanny Josephs threw such spirit into it that it became one of the best in the drama. The whole of the principal performers received the honour of a call, and lifr. i'arselle, the clever stage manager under whose direction the piece was put upon the stage, announced it for representation every evening amidst the enthusiastic applause of very crowded audience. ROY AL DRAMATIC COLLEGE. The annual general meeting of the subscribers to this institution was held yesterday afternoon on the stage of the Adelphi Theatre, Mr. Benjamin Webster in the chair. Mr. ANSON read the report, which stated that the council had the gratification to acknowledge with pride the continued patronage of her Majesty, the Prince of Wales, and other metnbers of the Royal Family. No vacancies had occurred in the residences. The council acknowledged with gratitude the receipt of the donation of £5OO from his Serene Highness the Viceroy of Egypt on the occasion of his last visit to the Dramatic College. They 'had also the honour to announce that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales had been graciously pleased to command a morning performance of the comedy of " London Assuiance" and the farce of " A Roland for an Oliver," by the best artists of the day adapted to the characters, on Frilay, June 5, at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, at which their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess of Wales had expressed their intention of being present. The report was adopted. Mr. J. B. Buckstone, - Mr. W. Cullenford, bfr' F. Matthews, Mr. J. Matthews, Mr. J. B. Childs , and Mr. Sams were elected on the council for the ensuing year. Other officers were elected, and thanks were voted to Mr. Webster, the president. The Irish Times has the following singular pall" graph :—Lord Royston was called to account by Ur. Bla for expressions considered to be personally offensive , said to be uttered during the division on the second reav ing of the Suspensory Bill. A complete retractation Ws° required. Mutual friends interfered. Lord Hoysoll denied having used the offensive language. The oP a .; nation - was deemed most satisfactory. The affa ir settled. h th e T w the ei Cc 6 Pe] 92 t( out 6 108 pe Prim then] at 9; List 54 , to 1.) Cale and and l and Ion( a ' No'; 11„' 4 ni t en d T. I I