The Sun. — London, England, 1857-07-13 00:00:00

fliE SUN, LO N DON, , .. _____ - ( S COMPANY. ..3.11011 WATER AT LONDON ER 1 ifti i. , .. ciNDE RAILWAY EXTRA () al)Di ARVGENERAL MMTING OF SHARE - 1T ad DAl—Uorn. 51 flan. aft. 5 —Even., 13 min: aft. 6 BOLD iii.li'S. —NOTIOX IS HEREBY GIVEN, That an Extraordinary To s-'0 - W—M General Meeting of the ./tarell mere of the above Company vita be ~ 11..0 _Orn., 38 min. aft. 6 —Even., 1 min aft. 7 dßroad- ...-- held within the Company'xi oflleeq, in Gresham Douse, Ol Street, la the City of Lonilon, on FRIDAY, the 24th day of July, - *057, at 1 O'clocirin the afternoon precisely, for the purpose of con sidering and approving a Bill now pending in Parliament, entitled, . 1 A Bill for authorising the Scinde Rail' ay Company to Extend their Operations, and for Regulating the Capal of the Col3l pany, and for other purposes." By which Bill it is ntend, d to enable the Company to negotiate with the Honourable the East India Company for the purpose or constructing a railway I in the Pupjaub territory, front Mooltan to Lahore an 1 Umritsir, and also for establishing on the river Indus, between Hyderabad and Noonan, a steam flotilla, in connection with the railways, and by which Bill It Is also intended to annul the Deed of Settlement of the Company, and forpe il" The Seindo Railway Act, 18'5," and to re-enact the same,parts thereor, with amendm nts, and to con fer adOittenal powers on, and. to make further provisions with respect to, the Company, and by which Rill provision is made for keep i n g 3,parate accounts of the capital, and of the receipts, cre dits, payments, and lialilities of the saveral undertakings of the Company THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, JULY 12. THZEHOMETEB, IN THE SHADE. 73 -Mghest since noon yesterday. FS -lowest this morning and during the night. 80 -this day at noon. iiAiOIIIETZIt, 30.35. WIND, S.W. ; light and fine. JULY 13. 81 - hlghest since noon yesterday. -towast this morning and during the night. 77 -this day at noon. BAROMMTER. 30.39. WIND, S.W. ; fresh and squally, with fine weather. W. P. ANDREW, Chairman. THO.i. BURNELL, Secretary. Gresham Tiouse, Old Broad-stre,t, 11th July, 1857. ' TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. — Signor GIUGLINI has the honour to an nouuce that his BENEFIT will take place THIS EVENING MONDAY,JuIyI3, on which occwion he will have the honou to appear in Five of his principal Characters. LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1857 Sir CoLIN CAMPBELL this morning took his de- The Fourth Act of Verdi's IL TItOVATORE. parture for Hindostan, there to crush out with a heel of iron the flames of Revolt lately kindled by the Delhi insurgents. We give this glorious Ley:lora, Mdile. Spezia ; Azneena. Madame Alboni ; II C lute di Luro, Signor Ben .otentano ; and Manrico, Signor Gniglini. The Last Act of LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. int4lligence first, because we believe the important fact here announced will be accepted as glad tidings indeed by the whole mass of our home population. With Sir COLD. 7 CAMPBELL as Com mander-in-Chief of our Anglo-Indian army, Lucia, Madre. Pieco'o•nini ; Bedebent, Signor Valetti ; Enrico, Signor Ball tti ; and Edgarclo, Signor Giuglini. Selections from the Ballet of LES- RUSES. . For the First Time, the Last Act of BelLnrs IL PIRATA. Including the celebrated "In Vedrai." Imogene, Madlle Ortuiani ; Gualtero, Signor Ginglini. The Last Scene of I MARTIKI, ..Mdile. „Signor Giugliai. Pauline Po' into ...... The'Last: Act of • LA . FATVORITA. Leonora, Spezia ; Fernando, Ginglini, To conclude with'the admixed Ballet, - ,3IATtCO - ' SPADA. For particulars, see bills. A limited number of rexcs in the Half-circle Tier have been specially reserved for the public, and'may be had on applica tion at the Box-office. at the Theatre Co!onnade, Haymarket. Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. HER MAJESTY'S THEATitE JEJL L'ELISIR D'AMORE. - The Last Night but One of the Subscription. Picco'omini, Rosati.---First appearance of Marie Taglioni and M. Charles. TO-MORROW EVENING, Tuesday, July 14, will be pro duced (2d time these - sit - years) Donizetti's Opera of L'ELIKR D'AMORE. . . _ Adina, Piccohiinia (2d time ); Nemorino, Signor Belart ; Moore, Sig. fielletti ; and Dr. Dulcamara, Signor Rossi (2d appearance this season). After wliich, will be produced an entirely New Ballet Divertissement, entitled MARCO SPADA. Put particulars see bills. A limited number . of boxes in the Half Circle Tier have been specially reserved for the public, and may be had on ap plication at the Box-olllce at the Theatre Colonnade, Hay market. Price One Guinea and On 3 Guinea and a Half each. HER - MAJESTY'S THEATRE. IL DOL•T GIOVANNI. EXTRA NIGFIT, On TIIURSDAY EVENINg NEXT, will be repeated Mdza . t's chef-rl'ceuvre, IL DON GIOVANNI. The entertainments in the Ballet Deparment will be sup ported by Madam.Rosati, Mesailes. Katrine and' Bosehetti, M. M ssot, Signori l3orotti and Ronz.mi. For particulars sea bills. lES BOUFFES PAIUSIENS—St. JAMEIi'S 4 THEATRE:— Triumphant Success of the FRENCif PLAYS., • Positively the Last Night but One of the Season. THIS EVENING, MONDAY, July 13, the entertain. rnents will commence; at eitrlit preci-ely, with Operette, cn un Acte,' LE DUEL DE BENJAMIN. 31. Guyot, M, Jean Paul', Maille. Mace. MiFollowed by the new Operette-Militaire, en un Acte, DR AGONEITE. M. Guyot, M. Tayau, M. Leouce, Madlle. C. Guffroy. _ _ _ . _ After whieb, will be repeat , : l Operette, LA ROSE DE ST. FLOUR. M. Pradeau, M. Chas. Petit, and Md.le. Dal mont. To conclude with Opera-P,onffe, moyen age, en nn acte, CR iQUEFER ; ou, Le Dernier des Paladins. The Orchestra -of -the The Ara des Bouffos will accom pany these 'Representations, under the direction of the composer, N. Offenbach. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be engaged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, via Bond-street: THEATRE,' R 0 Y A DRURY-LXNE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. OPEN EVERY EVENING. GREAT EQUE3TRIAIsT AMERICAN and CONTINENTAL COMPANY, under the direction of Miss Ella. Prices—Pit and Promenade, is ; 80xe.4, 2s. 6d., 25., and ls. ; Galleries, ed. .Doors open at half-past 7. Commence at 8. . JACK,TITE IIANT KILLER, with noval effelts. Miss ELLA in Two unapproachable Act. It 0 THIS EVE E I I ; F P : 4 I N N I w E l S' bo S i o i rm E e Li a T it E 'Shakespere's Play of • THE TEMPEST. P.ecoded by LIVING TOO FAST. TUEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKEU Lessee—Mr. J. B. Blickstone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with A COMICAL COUNTESS. After which, the new and oriet.al Comedy, entitled VICTIMS, in which Mr. Bnckstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. William Farren, Miss Reynolds, &c., will appear. Followed by THE FIRST AND SECOND FLOOR. To conclude with a new Ballet, THE GLEANERS. In future the pric.rwill 130 tr t Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening}, 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price, s. d Press Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes . 3 0 Upper Boxes._ Fit . ........ 2 0 Pit 1 0 Lower Gallery 1 0 cower Gallery 0 C Upper Gallery 0 CNo half-price to Upper Gillery. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. I_,c-iee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE CUSTOMS OF THE COUNTRY. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams. fter which, a new drama, THE FAIRY CIR 'LE; or, Con O'Carolan's DIVAM. Mr. a d Mrs. B. Williams. Followed by e new ftrce, LITEST FROM NEW YORK. Yr. and is. Barney Williams. R OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Les Bee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, will be revived WIVES AS THEY WERE AND MAID , AS H Y ARE Mr. Addison, Mr. Mr. F. Viuing. - Mrs. SCrling, Miss Swanbprongh, dr.c. To conclude with the o iginal ExtravakanzA, by R.)1 . 3e- t B. Brough, . Esq., called 14f ASANIELLO. Messrs. Rob son, Cooke, Danvers, &c. ; Misses Swanboro-gb, Thirlwall, .tfu,g l .:es, Bromley, and Mrs. Me7font. Commence at half-past Seven. OTRATIP THE XT —Leisee, Mr. T. Payne. —THIS will he, performed Dougla9 Jerroll's d?frrna of THE PRISONER, OF WAR, m es : r s. Strulrt, etc., Miss Cravod and Mrs. Weston, llorrol by LOVE IN LIVERY. To conclude cith the late Douglas Jtrrold's farce of the SMOKE) MISER. Commence at half-plet Seven. Stalls, 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. Pit. Is. ; 6d. pOYAL, StITR,Rr' . .Y THEATRE, Acl resie,!s, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick THIS EVENING will he performed the gran 1 opera o NORMA. LUcy Es:zott, Miss Lanza, Miss,Dyer, Mr. Ha' Mr. Durand, Mr. Mancers, an 1 Mr. A. Coiike After which, EXTREMELY PECULIAR. and Miss M. Eburne. To conclude with THE EMPEROR. AND THE EXILE, Y4rnold, She: e, eze Mr. Sheplaord F , TFV9 -". r ()YAI R AMPHITHEATE A T ....essce and ltilnlf.,ver, Mr. W. Cooke. Under the patronage of Iler nijesty :and Ms Tuval Highnes, Pri The renowned Parisiannco Equestrienne, Maio. Mililos, nightly hailel with enthusiastic approbaton. THIS 'EVENING (MONDAY), the entertainments will commence with the superb spectacle of MAZEPPA AND TIIE WILD HORSE. Miaica James.Holloway. co nmenel svith spore'sSha travely of RICHARD 111., with Equestrian IlingtraVous.- The entertainments concluding with an - incomparable rou tine of Mr. W. Cooke's SCENES i n the ARENA, introduc ing 111sdlte. Mililos and other Artistes of celebrity. ComrneLee - at seven Dress Boxes 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s.'• PriYate Boxes, from 21 s. , no charge for booking; Pit, 2s ; ; Upp ST Gallery, 6d. II ilf-priee at bait-past'llight; - B Wilco opoj from' F.10r.,n till nuir. Stage Ma ne , or M W. reinestrian O'rector, Mr. %V. Cooke, jun. The T1...(1 Performance will be given on Saturday, July 13, at Twi o'olOu'r. NATIONAL. STANDARD TnEATRE. Propricti)r, Mr. John Douglas. Last Week of ri.irlwinds of gesticulated e - xtacy, fifli EVENING, Profesior ANDERSON, the Great Wizard of the North, in his entirely New MagicAl Drama, A INTIC ;RT IN I,VONDE R-WORLD ; or, 11137zie, Mirth, and Mystery. 'Extraordinary nove/tic.4 every night, and three Att action Ine:'e•pi•:l 6 -: 3,7 1 oit f) • the e , :nelruhilq week of wondorg. roAle, who i s th,;l.:itz v o e' f .- Con ~,, ! ..!ess of Mr. G. G REAT niff!it. VOCAI we need have no solicitude for the ulterior consequences of the terrible struggle which we • cannot but - regard as only just now com mencing—a life-and-death struggle for the main tenance of cur vast Asiatic Empire—a vital or a deadly strife for the allegiance of 100,000,000 of :he subjects of our Constitutional-Sovereign. The latest intelligence from the far East—re e.ived, so to speak, but a few hours .since, yet published in our Columns on Sat trday evening—this iatest intelligence, we say, was in truth sufficiently alarming to necessitate some bold and resolute ,neasure like this (viz., the instant appoiutment of Sir Ceram CAMPBELL to the chief command of ear' forces in Hindostan) on the part of our Home Government. It reached Ministers—that disas trous news—late on Friday evening ; and was formally taken into consideration by them at the Cabinet Council on Saturday. So seriously taken into consideration, that already we see the result is this wise and instantaneous nomination of Sir COLIN CAMPEELL-ono of the most heroic and illustrious of living soldiers—to the imminently perilous and responsible post of Commander-in- Chief of the whole of our military force s in the Indian peninsula. No wonder the idvieers of her MAJESTY have acted for once thus resolutely, without temporising or procrastination. rho situation is altogether too full of danger and alarm to admit of one moment's unnecessary delay. Ministers have seen this, and have acted accordingly. it would have been incomprehensible, wholly and astoundingly incomprehensible, had they acted other Wise. For what is this Saddee Peril which they are called upon to grasp—at once—and with a glove of steel ? What ? It is the _Revolt of the whole Bengal Army ! The Desertion or ate Rising in Arms of 26,000 men in the aggregate. [t is true, no doubt, that not by any means the whole of these 26,000 men are activity in the held against our authority—considerable bodies of the rebels having fled from their colours in all directions, hastening either to their own homes, -a- into yet more secluded retirement,. It is also consolatory in another way, to remember that even at the principal stronghold of the Rebellon, the Ancient Capital of the MOGUL Empire—at Delhi—the insurgents having tempted battle out side the walls with the troops still faithful to the British. Government had been signally defeated with a loss of twenty.six guns—their routed and diminished ranks being driven back ignominiously into the town, and the town itself threatened with an immediate assault gild bombardment ! By a singular casualty, General ANsoN died of cholera on the 27th of May at Kurnaul—leaving vacant, at a crisis of great peril, the post of Com mander-in-Chief, in which post he was thus strangely and mysteriously deprived of that coveted prize of the Soldier, the opportunity of earning distinction I The appointment, however, of General PATRICK GRANT as Commander-in- Chief had—although by necessity only a tempe rary appointmenf—already done very much more than simply relieve the general anxiety spreading far and wide throughout Hindostan. It had re vived the hopes of the civilians, and reanimated anew the resolve and energy of the soldiery. L. ppears, under the circumstances of the case, to have been perhaps the wisest course upon which the Indian Government could possibly have adventured—this temporary nomination of one of the most popular of all the Soppy Generals until the situation ceuld be resolutely dealt with by the Imperial Government at home. Let it be re• membered that Geueril GRANT is in the Com pany's Service—that he was recently appointed (the first instance of the kind—absolutely the first instance of the kind—with reference to any but a . Queee's Officer) Commander of the Forces at Madras—and that he was Viscount (then Sir Iltton) GOUGLI'S Quartermaster-General throughout the two memorable campaigns of the Punjauti. As a " temporary " appointment, no thing in truth, we conceive, could have been better judged than this one of General PATRICK GRANT as Commander-in-Chiel pro tem, namely, until the Governor-General and the Councils et Calcutta could communicate with the magnates of Leadenhall-street and the Horse GuacdP, and, above all, of course, of the Imperial Government. Now—having communicated with them—the In dian Governor and Government are relieved from all this heavy weight of responsibility. Already, as we have seen, the crisis has been effec tually dealt with by the Advisers of the Crown. And the danger threatening the stability of our Indian Empire may, uuder GoD's protection, be already looked upon as vir tual:), dissipated and scattered to the winds of heaven I Eagland, we do confidently believe, reposes implicit reliance upon the wisdom and the valour of Sir COLIN CAMPBELL-and events will soon prove, with GoD's blessing, that she is not in any way mistaken in her elevated estimate of the warlike genius of that heroic Highlander I The Lords have ones more rejected the Oaths Bill. The second reading was on Friday refused by a majority of 34 in an unusually fill house, there being 139 for and 173 against the Govern ment. The numbers present who heard the debate wore 91. for and 109 against, and proxies 48 for and 64 against. Fur the sake of retain ing one of the la . 3t•vestiges of bigotry and into lerance, they retiined .uieless and almost blas phemous adjurations that might, without any extraordinary stretch of argument, be described as " taking the Loan's name is vain." For this, too, they have entered into colli4on with the other branch of the ,Logi-lature, which, by a de cisive and over,vhchning majority, decided for -- the removal of the civil and religious die- CAN HALL, abilities. • They have certainly " paid d3arly for OPE.‘I INERY EVENING.—The . ' West minster-road.— iv , company of Noelthas are. eng•aged for the performance of their whistle," in which, as might have been an elections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals Choruses, elc`.., v ia.: Mis s E . Pearce Mrs. Caulfield' members.of the Episcopal Bench Glee 3, llnetBitook l'iss Bruneil, Uigfi'Snrniners, and Madame lilar"etta • Mr. J a very decided and prominent part, th ere b e i ng t atlitield, Herr F. n. Gr over, T. Farrant, ' S. jo J. B yrki . r, W. Melling, P. Corri Senor Antonio M. no lifasters B ennett and Corsi ; .o less than. fifteen votes (seven present an d de Solla, and F, L. liime; Mc srs, Cant (A)11111A, and E. Hackney. eu no t, rt . elg Mr. te' nickl .1-jarmonium, J Caulfield, jun.; iireeto - ; • The old stock fallacy "of upchristianisirg the ht Dr xies) recorded. against the bill. Mr. J. L'wzAelti Cumuictica at Seven o'clocA - S u2pera,lize,,tuveittwelve o'clock --Legi6iature was .of course . lar4ely - resorted to. Atheists, 14 1 reethilikers, and Mormons, it was ad mitt'ed, might tako the oaths, and others, whom we'shall not insult by naming, along with these parties. It is, however, against the Jews that the holy enthusiasm now prevails. Even HAMAN himself was not more fiercely indignant againat MOUDECAI, more bent on removing him from the King's presence, than were the maj,,rity against the admission of even a single Hebrew to a seat in Parliament. True it is that the gentlemen thus aspersed maintain an honourable and unimpeachable character in every relation of life—that they have made ex.;e'lent magistrates, independent electors, and good and loyal subjects—that they have always been prompt to come forward with their wealth and credit in every national emergency. Still an insurmountable bar is to be raised against them, and they are to Le daily insulted by a petty, and, we may almost add, a malicious exclusion from a place to which they are as well entitled to admis- aion as any other loyal subject of her MAJESTY. The facts of the case " lay in a nutshell." It was universally acknowledged that it was a mere accidental disqualification, never intended at the time when the words •` on the true faith of a Christian," were added to the jurat or form which gave validity to the promissory part of the under t tking, but which constituted no portion of the pledge. In declaring that he accepted that pledge and was willing to swear to it "in the manner most binding on his conscience," Baron ROTHSCHILD did all that could reasonably be required at his hands. The whole current of legal, decisions from the leading case of "Oniechund v. Barker," to the pre • sent time has gone in that direction. The great mistake was, when the House of Commons at the suggestion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, refused to allow the chosen representative of the City of London to be sworn at the bar, and required a bill to be passed for that purpose. It was the then Premier t ` who raised the giant first," in order that he might subsequently have the plea. sure of killing it. That was the grievous error, which ithas taken so many years to repair. Had that course been adopted the excitement would speedily have subsided and matters moved in their ordinary course. Lord JOHN wanted to make a ittle political capital, and he contrived to raise a lemon, which he has never since had sufficient power to exorcise. We do not think that Lord DERBY or his fol lowers will have much cause for rejoicing at the triumph they have obtained. They have gone in direct opposition to the three most eminent mem bers of their party. What would the Tory Oppo sition now be without the aid of Lord LYNDHURST, of Mr. DISRA.ELI, and of Sir J. PAKINGTON ? "The RUPERT of Debate" would be left alone in his glory without their countenance and advice. He would indeed be " left alone with his glory," with scarcely a counsellor )r coadjutor on whom he could rely. It is strange how far men will be hurried by the rancour of religious hate ; how every feeling of propriety, every consideration of consequences, will be banished from their minds. There is the victim, and whether it be to torture and destroy, or merely to insult and injure, an affecta tion of religion will always be put forward as an excuse for the painfte, duly. Th 3 modern FRONT DE B(EUF can't openly despoil ISAAC of York. He can't threaten to broil him over the glowing embers unless a heavy ransom be counted down on the dungeon floor ; but he can insult and injure,_can deny the enjoyment of unquestionable tights and privileges, and display the odium theo- logic/cm in all its bitter intensity. They have done their worst, and we should far rather be in the position of the victims whose just claims have been postponed for a time, than of those, "dressed in a little brief authority," who refused to act in a liberal and conciliatory spirit towards those to whose " prudence, ability, and moderation," they were compelled to pay an unwilling tribute. At length one member has been unseated, Mr. NEATE for Oxford ; some small consolation this to Mr. CARDWELL and his now defunct party, though he has still to win the prize of a seat for himself. Less lucky here than at Clitheroe in 1841, ho only enjoys the pleasant satisfaction of-the dog in the manger, but that is some satisfaction to an irate politician, of taking from another what he cannot enjoy himself. Perhaps, however, Mr. CARDWELL means to try his chance once more at Oxford. The city must have a kindly feeling for him. It took him in, a homeless wanderer, in 1853, after rejection by two large constituencies, Liverpool and Ayrshire, in 1852 ; and, seeing the Peelites in danger of political starvation, it may, as before, if he be prepared to apply again, show kindness to the needy. A useful, though some_ wsat overrated man, is Mr. CARDWELL in his line; and after the recent birching he may do his task better. As Mr. NEATE does not complain of his judges, perhaps we ought not ; we certainly think, however, that if he was unfairly unseated, other members are only more lucky iu the tribunals be fore which they were brought. His Chairman was a Conservative, and only one of the committee was prepared, like himself, to vote for the Ballot. Somehow, with but one clear exception, the decisions of the Committee are very much in ac cordance with their political character. Wo do not mean to insinuate judicial partisanship, but unconscious bias is quite possible. At Cambridge, a Liberal Committee has retained a Tory member in his seat, and has inclined to the most lenient interpetration of paying messengers and travel ling expaises. At Tewkesbury, a pretty Libe ral Committee fixes a Liberal member, Mr. MARTIN, iei his seat ; but the - evidence against him was certainly of the feeblest kind. At Bury, a Liberal Committee also refuses to eject Mr. Puturs, although there can be little doubt that the non-electors endeavoured to intimidate the shopkeepers to vote for him, and probably secured him the victory : quite equitable this as things go ; and, it may be, legal. &t Maidstone, on the other hand, a Tory Committee retains twe good Tories in their seats, notwithstanding a dis graceful system of promising to pay, and appa rently a deliberate arrangement for paying, as soon as the lapse of time rendered it legally safe. " The Constitutional Society" —.one founded, we presume,under the auspices of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, is the dominant power. And Mr. BERESFORD HOPE had in perfect innocence paid 3,5001. in 1817 at, a proper time after the election, although the election was :scat contested! but of clause, according to the usual estimate of political gratitude that could have no weigh% now. "I promise to pay," was probably the only thing which cent' influence a " Constitutional" man. , Marlborough was but a case of disputed quali fication, the qualification being one granted for the occasion ; but while on this side the Tweed, only the choice of a constituency is not qualification suffi cient, it would of course be the height of absur dity to be over particular on the score of property qualification. The committee, however, decided fairly in not 7:ilowing liabiai es i n unfortunate -constructive connection with the Royal British Bank to darjape an otherwise sufficient qualificatii I. At Itf,e'Adalo and Ware;:am the decisions, were, as rt.) observed at the time, by Tory committees, lt3 faVour of Tory mem b er At Pontefract, . " •, INIOND V EVENING. a Liberal committee had to choose between two Liberals—Mr. WOOD the sitting member, and the late member Mr. OLIVEIRA, who had paid the small consideration of 6,250/. for the seat in 1.852, and who therefore fairly presumed that Pontefract could net have been carried against him in 1857 without a very liberal expenditure. lie was. promised, too, it seems, that " next time" he should' be returned cheap—it would appear, however, that his well-paid friends deserted him, and that Mr. Noon's carpet factory had more influence on the present election than 6,000/. paid five years' ago. Of course, that was all gone and spent. The amusing part of the story was the coolness with which Mr. OLIVEIRA, and M►s. OLIVEIRA, who was chief actor, gave evidence of their own gross bribery at the former election. Nothing material was proved against Mr. WOOD, but it was certainly proved on the Et ron gest of all evidence, that Mr. and Mrs. OLIVEIRA. would stick at nothing. It is obvious that in this Parliament the fashion is to keep the sitting Member in his seat. Bribery and intimidation are conspicuous enough ; they must, of course, have abounded in constituencies, where there is no petition ; and landlord influence must have been the silent and irresistible law of the counties. The remedy is apparent enough ; but he new House has no wish for it, Her Majesty and the Prince Consort leave Own on. Thursday for Aldershot, where they intend to remain— sleeping at the Royal Pavilion—until Saturday, when her Majesty will go to Osborne.- Her Majesty the Queen (Mother) of Hol'and till arrive in London to-morrow with several members of her family. We understand her Majesty's sojourn in this country will be limited to five days. During her sojourn here the Queen will stay at Claridges's (Mivart's) Hotel. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Lady Augusta Bruce, and Colona Stephens, honoured the performance at her Majesty's Theatre with her presence on Saturday evening. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Orleans, accom. panied by the Count de Paris, honoured the establish went of Mr, F. West, in St. James's-street, with a visit on Saturday. The Earl and Conntess of Scarborough have lift Claridge's Hotel for .Southampton, on a yachting ex. cursion. The Hon. Rev. Archer Clive and Mrs. Clive have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jerinyn-street, from the Continent. The Rev. Sir H. Thompson has arrived at the same establishment, from Tunbridge Welly. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA (LYOEUM).—The Queen and the Prince Consort honoured the performance of the opera of "Fra Diavolo " at this theatre with their pre sence on Saturday evening. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were 'accompanied by his Majesty the King of tie Belgians and the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, his Royal Highness Prince Frederick William of Prussia, and the Princess Royal, and his Royal Highness the Count of Flanders. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Donizetti's pretty little pastoral opera, entitled " d'Arnore," was per formed at the above theatre On Satnalay evening, with Madile. Piccolomini for the first time in the character of Adina. We need scarcely say that the heroine of so many dramatic triumphs succeeded in doing ample jus tice to a part which, compared with those she has already performed with the most brilliant success, is small and easy. 6T. JAMES'S THEATRE.-- , -The season of the Boufies Parisiennes terminates tomorrow evening on which oc casion four o f the most attractive pieces are to be per foeremn e s d o brief, . t sh emucht itwas impossible tbe regretted othat procurethe season has barn a Unger conye, Their next season we trust will be one of longer duration, for, thanks t the talent and enter prise of Mr. Mitchell, "the French Plays" have become an actual necessity to "-the London season." Mr. Locke, M.P. for Southwark, has resigned the office of Common Pleader. for the city of London. The European and American Csmpany's steamer Indiana, now on her way to England from New York, has 1,000 tons of sugar on board. MR. J. B. GOUGH.—Mr. Gougb, the teetotal orator, will leave America on the 15th of this mouth, by the Niagara, for England. The two French architects, Crepinet and Hazeville, who carried away prize'., in the " plans for public offices," are both very young men, and are at present einoloyed as inspectors of. he buildings in the Louvre,: ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, G RAY'S- IN'N-ROAD —The number of patients relieved at this hospital during the week ending July 11, 1857, was 2,935, of which 805 were new cases. GENERAL ANSON.--The colonelcy of the 55th Regi ment of Foot, to which the late General Anson suc ceeded on the death of Lieut.-General the Hon. Henry E. Butler only in December last, becomes vacant by his demise. The unfavourable season of the Paris theatres has commenced, and tells its own tale in the following figures :—ln May the receipts amounted to 45,249/ , and is the last month to only 34,3411. Tile falling off is con sequentiy 10,9081. EXPENSES OF THE CHINESE Ware—The sum re paired to he voted by Parliament this session towards defraying the expense of the naval and military opera tions in China beyond the ordinary grants for navy and army is estimated at 500,000/. SUICIDE FROM BLACKFRIARS BRlDGE.—Yesterday morning, a man of respectable appear la co precipitated hiiwelf int r the river from this bridge, On the tide re ceding the body was found, and taken to Christ Church dead-house. It is that of a man about 60, clad in black cloth( s. LOSS OF LIFE BY FIRE.—On Saturday morning a fine little boy, named George Burrell, aged four years, residing at Liuleheuse, while standing on the fender ignited his pinafore., and before assistance reached him he was most shockingly burned over the face, arms, and body. He shortly after wards expire 1. lb has been arranged that instead of the punishment of seven years' traesportation, as originally proposed in the Fraudulent Trustees Bill now before Parliament, the term of three years shall bs adopted, and that this may be modified to fine or imprisonment for not more than two years, with or w ithout hard labour. IRISH WASTE LAND IMPROVEMENT COMPANY. —The Mister of the Rolls in Ireland has refused to make an order to wind up this c mmany'e affairs on the ground that the petition flr that purpose was presented by a person under no ohlgation to pay h is aeat,,, and also on the ground that the O rly substantial debt was one in which ;here was only an interlocutory judgment. A meeting of the members of the Army and Navy Club has been ceded for the 27th instant, to take into consideration a communication from his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the patron of the institu ion, It appears, says the United Service Gazette, that his Royal Highness has oecorte aware that gambling has been for so ne time carried on the Club to a fearful extent. THE COMING HARVEST. —It is stated that in the more forward districts in the south of Eneland wheat cutting is Expected to ceintnence about mil Monday week, should the weather continue propitious. It is noticed as a favourable sign that little has been heard of the potato blight, which was recently reported to have wade its ap pearance in the south of Ireland. The bill promoted by the directors of the Great Northern Railway to throw the cost of Retipath's frauds on the preference shareholders, passed the committee of the House of Lords on Friday afternoon, to the astonish ment of its oppcments. It will, therefore, be forthwith brought up for its third reading. RETIRED OFFICERS IN THE HOUSE OF COMHONS.— , There are 14 persons in receipt of retired al owarces and coaspowa'ions for loss of office, formerly connected with the House of Commons, viz.—A clerk a sistant the table, 1,9581. ; a IA cipal of the Publi Bill sffice and clerk of tee fees, 1,900/. ; three conaroittce clerks, one, 1,1001.; anoth er 338/., and a third 1001 ; a clerk of elections, 800/.; chief clerk of the Engrossing-office (an abolished office), 609/. ; a principal doorkeeper, 5001.; a deputy-housekeeper, 360/. ; a vete office clerk, 300/. ; a mr s.:enger, 332/. • and some others of smaller amounts. The total sum paid for retired allowances arid compen sstions to officers of the House of Coremonslis 8,524/. — Civil Service Gazette. DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.— On Satur lay morning a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Hsle, pic'ure-frame maker, Naylor'e-court, Eftgh-streete Whitechapel, whereby two persons were injured, and property to a considerable extent was destroy,ed. Another fire occurred on Saturday morning at the cheep of Mr. Sanger, a German fancy stationer and jeweller, of 198, Whitechapel-road. A young man, named Smith, tai save biteself from being eutrocated, leaped out of one i f the upper windewe, by which he sustained such serious it+irit=s that ho was removed to the hospital. IN Elf BR AN C E OF THE LATE AIR, DOUGLAS i';r•RoLD- - The amateur performance by Mr. Charles Dickens and his friends, and Wilkie Collins's "Fr, zee D. in aid of the fund now being raised "in re membrance of Douglas Jerrold," took place at the Gallery of Illustration on Saturday evening. Not withstanding the utmost economy of space was ob served by the committee in placing the audience, and not a single place was unappropriated, so numerous bad been the applications for tickets that a secand perform ance for Saturday next had been resolved upon for tho gratification of the runny who must other wise have been disappointed ; but the second perform ance was no sooner announced than all the places fur that also were taken up, and applications continued to come in ; so another repetition, the final one, for Satur day, the 25th inst., is to take place. The second per formance gave the utmost delight, and the audienc', al though many of them were suffering from inevitable die corufurt from the crowded state of the room, listened with breathless attention. Mr. Buckstone's capitril farce of " Uncle John" foilowed, and the inimitable acting of Mr. Charles Dickens and Air. Mark Lemon, who sus , tamed the perts of Uncle John and Friend Thomas, kept the audience in a genial state of merriment to the close. 1.1 L Y 13, 1857 ATE Ntsi WS r THE INDIAN MUTINIES. Wo have received the following telegraphlc menage from Trieste : TRIESTE, SUNDAY. The steamer Bombay arrived on the 11th of July (yesterday), at half-past 3 o'clock p.m., in 123 hours from Alexandria. The India mails leave this morning with intel ligence from Bombay to Juno 15 ; Calcutta, June ; Madras, Juno 11 ; Ceyl9n, June 15 ; and Hong Kong, May 25. The mutiny had spread to several other regi- ments of the Bengal army in the North-Western Provinces, but the crisis was looked upon as past. Reinforcements of European troops were on their way towards Upper India from the Bombay and Madras presidencies, and from Ceylon. The Bombay and Madras armies continued firmly loyal. General Anson had died of cholera at Kurnaul on May 2 1 t. Intelligence from Dalhi to the Bth of June had been received at Madras and Bombay. The heights around the town were in possession of the Government troops. The rebels have been attacked and driven dis pirited within the walls. They had hat 26 guns. News of the capture of Delhi was hourly ex- pected. The native troops had been disarmed at most of the stations in the Punjab. The loss to the Bengal army through mutiny and other causes is estimated at 26,000 men. The disaffection is entirely confined to the army. Sir Patrick Grant had been appoibted to suc ceed General Anson, and universal confidence was fat in the efficacy of the vigorous measures adopted by the Governor-General. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Erin has been lost near Galle. At Bombay the tightness in the money-market had increased, and the banks had raised their rate of interest. Exchange was 2s. 2d. to d. Both the Bombay and Calcutta import-markets were dull. Exchange.—Calcutta, 2s. ld. to d. Money was plentiful. All the most influential communities of Cal cutta, including the Mahommedans, had presented addresses to the Government, containing assur ances of their loyalty. CHINA. From China we learn that the gunboats have gone up the Canton river to attack the Mandarin junks. General Garrett and his staff had arrived. Tea was going down freely to Foe-chow-4.00, where all was quiet. • A battle had been fought between the Impe rialists and the rebels above Foo-chow-foo, and it was believed that the Imperialists had been victo- rious, Canton was suffering from famine. The price of rice at Hong Kong, 4 dollars per pica]. Sir John Bowring had intimated that compen- sation for loss sustained by British subjects will be demanded from the Chinese Government. Exchange at Hong Kong, 4s. 11d. Shanghai, May 15.—Exchange, I's. 2d. to. 7s. 3d. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. The Empress is expvctad to return from Plom bierez to St. Cloud to-morrow. It is again announced that the Duke de Gram mont, French Minister at Turin, is to be appointed Ambassador to St. Petersburg, in the place of the Count de Morny. A chest of arms of various descriptions was sent to-day to the Imperial Attorney-General by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, which will serve as important evidence in the forthcoming prosecution of the Italian conspirators arrested in Pari-. These arms will prose the connexion existing between the insurgents in Italy and the conspirators in Paris, as they are part of those discovered in Italy, and are of the same manufacture as those seized in Paris. The following priva'e telegraphic despatches have been received : "TURIN, JULY ii. "The Minister of the Interior has declared to the Senate that there bad bean seized in Genoa only 300 muskets, 20 pistols, and 240 poniards. What had been said of the plans of the insurgents which had been known beforehand, and likewise that the public establishment.; had been under mined, is not true. No mine had been dis covered under these establishments nor in the town. The squadron under the command of Ad miral Lord Lyons, which is at L% Spezzia, consists of three ships of the line, two corvettes, and three steamers. Lord Lyons arrived at Genoa on the 10th." "MADRID, JULY 11. "The Senate approved yesterday the bill. on Press. The Congre3s granted to-day the au hority demanded by the Government to collect the taxes." " The Congress has been prorogued." The French Government has received the follow ing telegraphic despatches from Marshal Randon, Governor-General of Algeria : " JULY 4. " The Beni-Menguillet, the Beni-Attaff, and the Akbile made their submission this morning. "Of all the great conferation the Zouaona there remain to mike their submission only the Ben i- A.oucef and the Beni-Beo-Akache, who are ex pected every mom t, and of whom several frac tions have already /rrived at my camp." " SIDI-EL-UASS EN, JULY 3. " The submissions succeed each other, and my camp is full of liabyle Chiefs, who come to demand the aman for their tribes. " This morning it was the turn of the Beni- Bolt& ar. To-morrow that of the Beni-Ouassif. I expect the Beni-Menguillet during the day." ITALY. . TURIN, JULY 7. With the advancement of the Judicial investiga tion of the late affair at Genoa, fresh discoveries of the malicious intentions of the conspirators are con tinually brought to light, and each newly revealed fact proves the plot to have been more diabolic in its character than bad previously been conceived ponible. The following is from a copy of one of the insurrectionary orders. _ _ " Courage t The first houseand family that should be sacked in street will be the family of being the richest, the most wealthy, and being spies and cruel enemies of liberty. Pillage and fire ! Courage I" As the investigation proceeds fresh arrests have been made, and the number of persons now in confinement is altogether about 100. Great quan tities of arms have been confiscated daily since the d;scovery of the plot, showing the vast sca'e upon which the arrangements were made, and the eattolico, which is nut generally a good authority) but which may, perhaps, have peculiar means of information in this instance, asserts that a vessel with 30,000 stand of arms was in the offing when the plot was disclosed, and that, having become aware of the fact, she passed down the coast and landed her cargo elsewhere. A royal sturgeon was caught i n Southampton Water, near Ca!shot Caqls, on Fi iday night. It was five feet long, and weighed about 50 pounds. A stur geon was caught in Southampton Water near Redbridge, a short time since, which weighed 200 pounds. The aurpon is often - found swimming in company with salmon. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. The Royal mail steamship Europa, Capt. Leitch, has arrived with advices from New York to the 30th ult. and Boston the Ist ,inst., and $455,986 in specie on freight. On the 7th inst. the Europa exchanged signals with the ship William Stetson, of Thomaston. On the 10th, in 55.14, long. 10.56, she exchanged signals wEth the screw steamship Glasgow. On the 11th she . sianalle the ship Maria, and the .Royal mailship La, all bouud west. The screw steamship City of Baltimore, hence ; the steamship North Star, from Bremen and South ampton ; and the screw steamship Edinburgh, from Glasgow, had arrived at New York. The Royal mailship Niagara, hence, bad arrived at Boston. The West Indian mail steamer Dee arrived at Havannah on the 23d ult. ct The Royal mail steamship Indian, hence, arrived at Quebec on the 27th nlr. The United States Minister to Bogota, Judge Bowlin, had arrived" at Washington, having failed in amicable negotiations with the President Os- pina. The Mormon missionaries who left Salt Lake city by about the Ist of May reached Nebraska with their hand carts on the 15th of June. The Illinois had arrived at New York with the Californian mails of the sth of June and $1,852,867 on freight. There was a report of a defalcation to the amount of $50,000 in the Mint Department. The melter was charged with the embezzlement, but be explained the deficit as attributable to the de fective flues carrying off the gold dust. The mining accounts are favourable. 139 of Walker's Filibusters had reached New York in the Wabash fri g ate from Aspinwall. The New York and Philadelphia Chambers of Commerce had iesolved afier the Ist instant to abandon the system of giving advance wages to seamen. The President bad recognized Mr. E. W. Mark as British Consul for Maryland. Accounti from New Mexico state that the Unified States' troops and The Mexican garrison of Chihua hua were about to co-operate against the Indians, who were very troublesome. Ad vices from Savannah report the arrival there on the 25th: of . June of the Spanish fleet, consist ing of five sailing vessels and two steamers, and having on board 2,000 men. From Honduras we learn of the arrival at Omoa, on the 6th of May, of the deputy agent of the Honduras Railway Company and a staff of engi neers. In Costa Rica great rejoicings occurred on the return of a portion of the troops from Nicaragua. The others, under General Canas, remained.to ass st in reorganizing the Government.. They showed• a determination to retain permanent pos session of Punta Arenas and the fortification on the San Juan. At New York on the 29th ult. the Bank state ment showed a decline of nearly two millions in specie, a decline in loans of one hundred and four thousand dollars, and in deposit of over a million and a half dollars. In the stock-market there was no strength whatever. Foreign exchange was ex tremely dull. First-class commercial bills on Eng land were oared at 1098 to 1091; Bankers reluc tantly yielded even at the reduced rates, no large amount being saleable for cash. We quote Bankers' Bills 60 days' sight on London, 1091 to 1091; Paris, 5.171. Money continued active, but merchants found no difficulty in obtaining what they required at' moderate rates. The demand for the payment of duties on the Ist instant. was the only pressing , want. The cotton-market was firm, extreme rates being obtained. Middling uplands were quoted at 14 c. to 144 c. ; Mobilee, 148 c. ; New Orleans, 142 c. In State flour there was a slight improvement ; other de , criptions were firm and steady. Wheat was without change, the offetings being small. Mess pork was inactive, and prices were firmly Imp ported by the holders. Hams were lower, and freely offered at 102 c. to 11c. Beef was flan, but moderately active. Spirits of turpentine were held with increasing firmness, and sales had been made on private terms at 4Fic. to 48i. Tar was active at unchanged rates. Freights were without improvement. To Liverpool—for cotton, 2e. 6d. to 3s. per bale; flour, 6d. per b•trrel ; grain, 2d. to 4d. per buShi 1. To London—flour, ls. to Is. 3d. per harry'. To Havre—cotton, ic. On the evening of the 30th, at New York, cot ton had advanced Orleans middling was quoted at 14. Flour closed very heavy for lower grades., Wheat was unsettled. Corn closed quietly. Beef, lard, and butter were heavy, iron was dull ; Scotch pig at $3O to sm. Ttloacco was dull. Freights were firmer_to Liverpool—Cutton, 3s. per bale; flour, 6d., nominal ; grain, 24d. and 21d. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. This following is the latest by telegraph, via Halifax, dated New York, July 2 :-- "Our latest; dates from New Orleans are to the Ist inst., on which day the sales of colt )n were about 3,500 bales, at an advance of c. under the influence of the Niagara's advices. Middling quoted at I4lc. " The ship William Willett, from Liverpool for this port, went ashore at Squaw Inlet, on he Jer sey coast, and will prove a total loss. The pas sengers and crew•were all saved. " The New York Stock-market on the 2d was dull. Wheat and corn had an advancing ten dency." AUSTRALIA. [A. portion of the fallowing appeared in our impression of Saturday :--] _ _ LIVERPOOL, JULY 12. The Black Ball clipper ship James Baines, Cap tain Macdonali, arrived this afternoon with ad vices from Melbourne to the 26th April, being ten days later than those received overland. Sho bas brought 60,314 ounces of gold on freight, 163 pas sengers, and a quantity of wool, tallow, &c. The James Baines made the run from Melbourne to the Equator in 44 days, and then experienced light trifling winds to Cape Clear. The over:and mail of the 24th February had not arrived out, the latest dates from England being per Great Britain. The auxiliary screw steamship Groat Britain ar rived at Melbourne on the 19th April, after a pas sage of 62 days. The Black Ball clipper Lightning . , hence, made the run out in 71. days; the from London, the Sea Lark, from Cardiff, and the Dunstand, from Liverpool, in 141 days, had ar rived at Melbourne. _ • Lady Barkley, wife of Governor-General Bark ley, died on the 17th of April at Soorak from Der vou3 exhaustion, resulting from a recent accouthe matt Great sympathy was felt by all classes. The O'Shanassy Ministry bad:fallen by a vote of want of confidence moved by Mr. Fellowes. The Majority was-34 to 19. The Governor sent for Mr. Haines to form a Ministry, but he declined, and Mr. 111 ( CtiHocti undertook it, and immediately put himself in communication with Mr. Michie and ahem Business generally was improving, though there was no pariicul it advance in prices_. Sugar gene rally was maintaining fair prices. No bonds of bottled beer but Bass's saleable. Rum in rather better demand. • Port wine very dull of sale. Flour dull at from 161. to 171. The Melbourne Herald of the 25th states that there was very little doing in the market. Good samples of wheat sold at 6s. 6d. to 6s. 9d. Brandy continued firm. The quantity of gold by escort for the week ending the 24th was 37,307 ounces (cash 37,8141.) The value of imports into Melbourne for the week ending the 18th of April was 252,338/. ; exports, 85,592/. The prices of wool were fully maintained. PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY MORNING. Ti:e Roxburgh Castle, Captain Adams, 94 days from Melbourne, was off the port yesterday, and Landed pa , sengers here. She has a cargo of copper ore and wool, 90 passengers, and, it is slid, half a ton of gold dust. The Itoxburgh Castle has had a very boisterous passage. She left Port Phillip April '7th, cleared the Head on the 10th, carried away topgallant mast before sighting Cape Horn, which she rounded May 10th ; 10-t bulwarks off the coast of Brazil, cros: , -e I the line June Bth, and shoal.) , after experienced contrary wind or calms for nine conse cutive days. Near the Lizard, at 11 a.m., on Fri day, spoke the Blackwall, f r om Plymouth, under a'l canvass for Melbourne. The Francis Henty, Capt. Caincros., from Mel bourne March the 24th, landed passen gers at two o'clock this morning. She has nine passengers and 24,000 ounces of gold. After expending 10 days in attempting to make the passage home by Cape Fiore, the Francis Henty put about off Van Die men's Land, and rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 60 days. She is 26 days from the line. The Copenhagen, Capt. Godfrey, is outside the harbour, coming in and bound to Melboutne. The Queen and the Prince of Wales, from the, East Indies, for London, are in the Channel. THE LATE DOUBLE RETURN FOR HUNTINGDONSHIRE —The inquiry into the late election for Huntingdon shire, which resulted in an equality of votes for Mr. J, M. Heathcote and Mr. E. FeHowes will commence dur r g tue week. As about 60 votes are oljected to of rich side the inquiry will piob.hly be an cxtrunel3 di 'us OW. LITERATURE. The Franks. By Walter. C. Pvrry. Longman. Thi3 volume is on a subject of considerable histori cal importance, though the knowledge of it is neither correct nor general. The Franks, though a mighty and warlike people, the founders of come of the chief European nations, have left but few traces in the annals of the past. Their's was an age of strife and struggle, when historians and minstrels were few, and little to be trusted from ;ho vehemence of oppoAng parties, and the pre udices which were then unsofcened by extended knowledge and tolerant principle 3. They lived for the present, not the future ; but th e coun t r y m e n _ _ of Carl Mattel, the predecessors of Charlemagne, deserve some consideration even in our day. The author of this work i 3 Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Gottingen, and hal consequently had aczess to the chief sources of Frankish his- tory. He has evidently devoted much care and labour to the prosecution of his task, has com- pared opposing accounls, has allowed for con flicting prejudices, and has formed a tho rough acquaintance with the subject. He com- men - ces with describing the Frankish race, their peculiarities, the traditions of their early settlement in Germany and Gaul, and the division of their lands. The two great divisions of Austrasia and Neustria were of the most importance, and these are clearly explained for the assistance of the students. Austrasia being the name of the original seat of the Franks on the right bank of the Rhine, and Neustria being the title of their settlements in Gaul. It is scarcely neces ary to remind the reader that they were divided into the kingdoms of Ger many and France by the treaty of Verdun, The distinction between them was always great, the Frankish element maintaining its pre-etnini.nce in Austrasi!,_while in Neustria, it became absoibed in the old'Roman characteristics. This ddference be tween the different races of the Franks themselves renders the task of chronicling their peculiarities, laws and customs, one of no ordinary difficul y. That the writer has succeeded in his task and at the same time in producing• an interesting volume, out of comparatively unattractive materials, will, we think, be readily admitted. The openin g in deed has little interest, th e ear l y s t rugg l es of the rival kings and chiefs differing little 'from one ano ther. The long line of the Merovingian rois faneans, whose indolence and incapacity have be ' come a proverb, furnish but a tedious catalogue. The reader who will persevere, however, through this necessary introduction, will find his reward in arriving at the histories of their great successors. The remarkable contrast between the Merovin- giau and Carlovingian dynasties was proved by the fact, that the successors of Clovis became gradually weaker, and more incapable of governing, while the successors of the first Pepin increased in, power and skill. The fifth generation saw the descendant of Pepin of Lauden ruling an empire which embraced France, Germany, and Italy. It is true that the glory of the race paused at that epoch, and the son of Charlemagne had few of his ancestor's qualities, but the succession of the three Pepins and Carl Martel in one family was sufficient to secure the supremacy of the Carlovingian race. The following extract gives a picture of the charac ter of Carl Martel, the son of one eminent Pepin, the father of another, and the grandfather of Charlemagne : " Carl Martel may be reckoned in the number of those great men who have been deprived of more than half the glory due to them, because they want the sacred poet.' Deeds which, in the full light of history, would have ap peared sufficient to make a dozen warriors immortal, are despitchee by the Frankish chroniclers in a few dry w,.rds. His greatness, indeed, shines forth even from their meagre notices ; but we feel, as we read them, that had a Caiiar or a Livy unfolded his character and de scribed his exploits,--instead of a poor pedantic monk like Fredegar,—a rival might be found for the Caesars, the Scipios, and the Hannibals. "We have seen that he inherited little from his father but the hereditary vigour of his race. He began life as the prisoner of an envious stepmother. When he escaped from his prison at Cologne, he was surrounded by powerful enemies ; nor could , he consider hiring safe until, with a force which voluntarily joined his standard, he had defeated three armies larger than his owu. His subsequent career was in accordance with the deeds of his early life. Every step in his onward progress was the ralult of a contest. He fought his way to the seat of his mighty father. He defeated the Neustrians, and coropeiled them to receive a sovereign at his hands. He attacked and defeated, in rapid succession, the warlike nations of the Flie.iane ' and the Saxons ; be re fixed the Frankish yoke more firmly upon the necks of the Swabians, the Bavarians, the Aquitanians, and Gaseous ; ' and, above all, he- stemmed the mighty tide of Moilemism which threatened to engulf the world. " Nor was it with external enemies alone that he bad to contend. To the last days of his active life he was engaged in quelling the enless Geditions of the great seigniors who were as impatient of 'control' from above as of opposition from below. " The great and important results of his actiiity were the predominance of the German element in the Frankish empire, the preservation of Europe from Mohammeda nisw, and the union of the principal German tribes into one powerful State. And all these mighty objects he effected, as far as we are able to judge, chiefly, though not entirely by the sword. He beat down everything which barred his course ; be crushed all those who dared to oppose him ; he coerced the stubborness of the inde— pendent German tribes, and welded them together by terrific and repeated blows. Our prevailing idea of him, therefore, is that of force—irresistible energy ; and his ' popular' surname of Martel, or the Hammer, appears a particularly happy one. .• " His lot was cast in the battle-field, but the part which he there performed was useful as well as brilliant. Though evidently a warrior of the highest class—great in the council as in the field—he was not that degradei being, a mere warrior. He never seems to hive sought war for it, own sake, or to have del:ghted in bloodshed. He was willing to negotiate with an enemy, even when he fat himself the stronger; and was placable and generous to his bitterest foes. The aid he afforded to Boniface and others in tkeir efforts to convert the heathen, and the sympathy he showed in their success, sufficiently prove that he was not indifferent to religion ; and that he could appreciate, not only the brave exploits of the gal'ant soldier, but the self-sacrificing labours of the zsalous missionary. Pepin the Short, the son of Carl Martel, was an other eminent ruler. It was he who first assumed the crown instead of leaving the nominal authority in the hands of the Merovingian faincans. The` last of the dynasty of Clovis was shorn of his royal locks and sent into a monastery. Pepin's elder brother, Carl Jun) 3, had previously retired into one, leaving the cares of State to his brother. Mr. Perry says of him : " With such 'high qualities, important trunsactions, and glorious deeds, connected with his name, we m ight wonder that the fame of Pepin is not greater, did we not know the diminishing force of unfavourable contrast. Unfortunately, for his renown at least, he bad a father and a so,n still greater than himself. Such a mall would have risen like an alp from the level plain of ordinary kings : as it is, he forms but a link in a tong chain of eminences, of which he is not the highest; and thus it has came to pass that the tomb of one who ruled a mighty empire for twenty-five years with invariable success, who founded a new dy nasty o f ki ngs, an d estab lished the Popes on their temporal throne, is inscribed with the name of his still more glorious successor ; and all his high qualities and glorious deeds appear to be forgotten in the fact that he was 'Pater Caroli Magni.'" With Pepin the Short, the present history ends, though the author gives us a conditional promise of a work on the life of Charlemagne, to which this volume will form a useful introduction. • The concluding chapters are devoted to the state of the laws, religion, &c., and. show a careful study of those confused and stormy time. We trust the author will fulfil his promise of another work, and in the meantime commend the present careful and interesting record to all who would form an ac quaintance with the early Frankish history, en acquaintance indispensable to the knowledge of the foundation of the European monarchies. THE NEW RUSSIAN TARIFF. BERLIN, JULY 9.—The JOurnal of the Senate has interfered very materially with the specula - aria of printing the new Russian tariff and publishing it separately for 80 copecs, for with its number of it t it i n s e ; 3 it o, co i ni t rpeipisrtitsatnset;zl4vhocoill d ff o e c r u en m t e a n r t lic b l u es a:y an al together with the various appendices and addenda fills 40 printed sheets. The entire tariff is divided into three main divisions ; the first contains a list of the goods that henceforth ar i a to bo imported free of all duty, Nos. 1 to 55 ; the 2d, goods that are in future to pay an uniform duty of 20 copecs per pood, Nos. 56 to 83 ; and the 3d, goods which are to pay various duties, or the import of which is to be prohibited altogether, Nos. 84 to 367 ; and this third division is again further subdivided. The old principle is re' tained of making a difference of Customs' duty be tween goods imported by water or by land in favour, of the later ; and a n ew p r i nc i p l e i s i n t ro d uce d of levying on various goods imported into the Trans' caucasian ports of the Black Sea lower duties than if they were imported into Russia or Poland ; this advantage in favour of Transcaucasian trade e% tends even to a total freedom from duty for certain articles which are taxed more or less heavily in the rest of the Russian dominions. One of the items in the list of goods to be imported duty free gives unusual satisfaction—viz., printed books ; up to the promulgation of this new tariff the duty on books had amounted to 30 copecs per lb. This rate, and the method of applying it, viz., according to weight, was particularly onerous as regarded bookC, the int Peutual worth of which by no means CICASefi the heavier they are. 1 trac Al this and Eun take in tl the certg the 1 ball place 'Viet Ansi Pllll flew Post tiow then And the that awi l arno still alth of t F 1( tl S