The Sun. — London, England, 1857-02-05 00:00:00

lAON D 0 N. -LETTS'S NEW POSTAL DIS TRICT MAP, with OFFICIAL STREET LIST, 25., post free. ',Ms and Co., 8, Rorl ExchAnge. Letts's Dian s are not out of print rt. Inqn , re above, or of any Boolseller In the King dom. Catalogues gratis. T.ONDON AND ITS VICINITY.-LETTS'S I NEW POSTAL DISTRICT MAP, with OFFICIAL STREET LIST, 45., post tree or, 65., WI coloured, shows the Mr extent of each District, and embraces an extent of 40 miles E. and %V., and 28 miles N. ant A. An outline of the same at 2s. each, and the Ordnance ➢Maps of England at 6d. the quarter sheet. Letts, Son, and Co., 8, Royal Exchange. T tIEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE.— Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. Acting Manager, Mr. C. Mathews. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Roxby. Scenic Artist, Mr. W. Beverley. The eminent Comedian, Mr. Charles Mathews, every evening. Great Success of the Grand Christmas Pantomime, the most magnificent ever produced on the English stage. THIS EVENING, her Majesty's Servants will perform an entirely new three-act Drama, entitled THE BLACK BOOK. Characters by Mr. C. Mathews, A. Younge, G. Honey, Mr. Vincent, Mr. Tilbury, Mr. Lingham ; Misses Cleveland and M. Oliver, and Mrs. Selby. , After which will be produced - • SEE, SAW, MARGETtV DAW ; Or, Harlequin Holiday, and the Island of Ups and Downs. The reduced prices as follows, varying throughout the bowie to suit every one :—Galleries, 6d. and ls. ; Second Circle of Boxes, ls. 6d. ; Pit, 2s. ; First Circle of Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Dress Boxes, 35.; Stalls, as. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d., 1/. ]s., 1/. lls. 61, and 2/. 2s, A Morning Performance of the Great Pantomime every Wednesday, at Two o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMA.RKET. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven, THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, with Mr. Murdoch as Charles Surface; Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. Chippendale; Sir Benjamin Backbite, Mr. Buckstone ; Crabtree, Mr. Compton; Joseph Surface, Mr. Howe ; Sir Oliver Surface, Mr. Rogers ; Moses, Mr. Clark; Sir Harry (with a song), Mr. W. Farren ; Lady Teazle, Miss Reynolds ; Mrs. Candour, Miss Talbot ; Lady Sneerwell, Mrs. Poynter ; Maria, Miss E. Sabine. - _ After which, a new comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled THE BABES IN THE WOOD, or Harlequin and the Cruel Uncle. The scenery of the opening story painted by Mr. W. Callcott. The pantomime produced under the direction of M. Milano. Harlequin, M. Milano ; Columbine, Fanny Wright; Pantaloon, Mr. Mackay ; and Clown, Mr. Driver ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. C. Dillon. THIS EVENING will be produced an entirely new and original combination of burlesque and pantomime, entitled CONRAD AND MEDORA; oTakmisquin Corsair and the Little Fairy at the Bottom of the-Init. The burlesque opening by W. Brough, Esq., ;eluded upon the ballet of Le Corsair, as produced at Her *-41rsitalby's Theatre. The harlequinade upon things in gene t2ol. The new and magnificent scenery painted by Mr. F. Ironton. Conrad (the Corsair) Miss Woolgar Birbarto (his lieutenant) Mr. J. L. Toole Med ora Mrs. Charles Dillon Clowns Mr. H. Marshall To be preceded by THE KING'S MUSKETEERS. D'Ar tagnan, Mr. C. Dillon. The box-office open daily, from H to 5, under the super ttenclence of Mr. Chatterton, jun. Carriages conveying parties ta the Private Boxes to set down at the State entrance in Burleigh-street. Last Morning Performance, Saturday, Feb. 7, at 2 o'clock. T HEATRE ROYAL, AD EL PHI Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. Great Hit of A Night at hotting-Hill, THIS EVENING, will be performed BORN TO GOOD LUCK. Mr Barney Williams. ' After which, A NIGHT AT NOTTING-HILL, in which Mr. Wright and Pala Bedford will appear. Followed by OUR GAL. Mrs Barney Williams To conclude with MOTHER SHIPTON ; or, Harlequin Knight of Love, and the Enchanted Whistle. Harlequin and Columbine (a la Watteau), Madame Celeste and Miss Wyndham ; Clown, Mr. Garden ; Pantaloon, Mr. Moreland ; Scaramoneh, Mr. Le Barr. Characters is the bur lesque by Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. J. Bland, Mr. 8.. Romer, Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham, Miss Mary Keeley, Miss Rate Kelly, Miss Arden, die. OYAL SURREY THEATRE, Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. THIS EVENING, an original play, in three acts, entitled A BIRD IN THE HAND WORTH TWO IN THE BUSH. Roderick Praiseworthy, Mr. Shepherd. After which, HARLEQUIN AND THE SIMMER QUEEN. Harlequin, Mr. F. Glover ; Clown, Mr. Buck ; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury; the Four Sprites, the Fillis Fa ncily ; Columbines. Mesdames Marie and Agnes. THEATRE ROYAL, SADLER'S-WELLS Under the Management of Mr. Phelps. THIS EVENING, will 'l7.e performed WERNER. The characters by Messrs. Phelps, Marston, Robinson, Ray, drc , and Mesdames Atkinson and Eburne. To conclude with the pantomime, THE GENIE AND THE FISHERMAN. STRAND T H.E AT RE. —M an ager, M r. T. Payne.—This Evening will be performed DON'T LEND YOUR UMBRELLA. Followed by (third time) TAE ANTI-GAROTTE. After which, the immensely successful novel Burlesque Pantomime of THE MAGIC MISTLETOE ; or, Harlequin Humbug and the Shams of London. The Fairy Christmas, Miss E. Wilton ; Good Humour, Miss Norbmy ; Mercury, Miss Cameron; Humbug, Mr. Herbert; Cant, Mr. Bolton; Baron, Mr. J. B. Johnstone ; Sir Roland, Mr. Clarke ; Lord Lovell, Miss Craven ; Addelpste, Miss Cuthbert ; Crambo, Master W. Edouin ; Lady /tomes, Miss E. Jacobs ; Baroness, Or. G. Lee ; Furbilosa, Mr. J. Howard. Novel Harlo quiaade :—Clown, Miss Cuthbert ; Littlo Clown, Master W Edouin ; Pantaloon, Mr. J. Clarke ; Harlequin, Miss Craven ; Columbines, Miss E. Jacobs and Mdle. Collison ; Premier ituseuse, Mdle. Marie Charles. Commence at Seven. Stalls, is. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls. ; Gallery, 6d. A morning performance of the Pantomime every Monday at two o'clock R OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, DELICATE GROUND. Messrs. G. Vining and Leslie ; Mrs. Stirling. A new Fairy Extravaganza, by J. R. Planche, Esq., called YOUNG AND HANDSOME. Messrs. F. Robson, Rogers, Leslie, G. Cooke, Danvers. Misses Swanborongh, Thirlwall, St. Came, Castleton, Bromley, Maskell, ana Mrs. Melfort. After which, CRINOLINE. Commence at half-past Seven. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMP lIITHEATRE Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. THIS EVENING the equestrian comic pantomime, PAUL PRY ON HORSEBACK, which (this Week being devoted to the Juveniles and Country Visitors) will each night be played first. The comic vagaries of the Grimaldi Horse are ind escribable. After which, the SCENES in the CT,CLE. To conclude with KATHERINE AND PETRUCFIIO Petruchio, Mr. James Holloway. Commence at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Private Boxes, from 11., no charge for booking ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, ed. Box-offico open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jtm. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Duets, &c., viz.: —Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunell, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta ; Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling. P. Corgi, Senor Antonio M. de Solla, and E. L. Hime ; Masters Austin, Bennett, and Corti ; Messrs. Sam Collins, E. Maekney, and C. J. Wilkins. Pianoforte, J. Harroway, R. A.; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun. : director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre cisely. Suppers, dic., until twelve o'clock. Mr. C. Morton's Annual Full Dress Ball will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 28. Gentleman's ticket, 73 ; lady's ditto, 5s ; double ti cket (lady and gent!eruan or two ladies), 10s. 2LIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. prepared to tern its back on Free Trade, or tc abandon the hope of making further progress in the direction of "unrestricted competition." As we have repeatedly stated, not only do we believe that a judiciously framed and equitably assessed Property Tax is the very best for the community that any financier can devise, but we believe it to be an imperative necessity, which must be main tained at all times, and under all circumstances. The Leviathan attempts to alleviate the popu lar excit,..ment by stating "that the Income Tax at its present rats shall cease and determine on a given day," and as already provided, such day being not far off. What is more, the whole tax is doomed to extinction, as a peace tax. Not only "the war 9d. but the peace 7d., lies under sentence of death, to be carried into execution this time three years !" But the same arguments, the same promises have been repeated usque ad nauseam, and on even higher authority than that of the Jupiter tonons of Printing House-square. From the period of its imposition, an " imposition" in every sense of the word, in 1842, until what we are now gravely t 1d was the final settlement of 1853, it was always a temporary impost, doomed to speedy extinction. Never was a longer term granted than three years—and yet grievous com plaints were, ab initio, preferred against its gross inequality and palpable injustice. No time ol n sanctify a fraud—and that was a fraud of the most barefaced descrip tion on the struggling proprietors of pre carious incomes. It was a fraud, too, to term it. a Property Tax, for, as the " Spirit of COCKER" has so clearly and distinctly explained, it is not a tax on property. It certainly charges incomes derived from property, as it does the earnings of industry ; but capitalists can, nay, more, they do, continue to evade the liability. It is not too much to say that, of the seven or eight thousand millions of accumulated and realised property, not one-half contributes in any shape, or under any schedule, to the impost. As suming that 12,000,0001. out of the 16,000,000/. is obtained from property—it proves that the property contributing only pays on, in round terms, 180,000,0001. per annum, a grossly inade• quate amount, as we shall be prepared to prove should the allegation be disputed or questioned. All the fraud, therefore, is not with the possessors of in dustrial incomes paying under schedule D. It should properly be denominated a tax on incomes and wages exceeding 1001. Why, then, should the people submit to be plundered for three years longer ? Is it because they have already groaned under the burden for fourteen years ? That should furnish an irresist ible argument for obtaining compensation in the only shape it can be afforded—viz., a total exemp tion, for the future, for the earnings of the indus trious classes, not for their continued submission to the inequitable charge of an additional period. What would the Crystal Palace Directors and Sharekolders have anwered to the suggestion that as ROBSON had been robbing them for three or four years, and they had given him notice that his services would be dispensed with in a few months—he should not only be allowed to enjoy his ill-gotten gains with impunity, but to continue his system, for the remaining period of his service ? If this doctrine can be maintained, the lover of " a spicy turn-out" has been an ill-used man, and LEOPOLD REDPATH would have a claim for heavy damages against his prosecutors ! If, however, the penalties of the law can be enforced against individuals—the political ROBSONS and REDPATHS —if they cannot be compelled t 3 disgorge the amount of which the sufferers have been svtindlei, should at least submit to an immediate cessation of their unhallowed receipts. But it is universally admitted that the tax may be required again. It is one to be resorted to in any emergency—whether on account of war or a financial crisis. If, as the Times truly asserts, " Money means the sinews of war, the Income Tax is the very essence and vitality of the whole muscular system." "An instrument" (acc3rd ing to Lord DERBY) " of vast energy, and effect, exhibiting in the strongest degree to foreign countries the immensity and power of our re sources in war." The sword is, therefore, in every sense impending over our heads, and by a very fragile support. It may fall on us at any mo ment. Surely, therefore, it is better to antici pate the difficulty than wait to the period when appeals will be made to the patriotism of the nation, not to interfere with the potent instru ment which must exhibit to our opponents " the immensity and power of our resources in war." As to the impossibility of finding any way to equality of taxation, or what is better designated a fair apportionment of that tax, it is all " bosh," a gross and transparent humbug from beginning to end—from the alpha to the omega. As the Times once declared, any competent ac tuary could, in a few hours, devise a plan that would at least be an approximation to perfect fairness. If the independent Members only in sist on the trial, it will be made, aye, and suc cessfully. Let fiscal reformers, then, exert them selves unanimously and energetically—let them give " a long pull, a strong pull"—(but above all)—" a pull altogether," and speedy and com plete success must attend their exertions. Sir GEORGE CORNEWALL LEWIS, Mr. DISRA ELI, aye, and even Mr. GLADSTONE, will strive to give immediate effect to that which may indeed be re garded as a final arrangement. TYIE SUN; LONDON, THURSDAY ETA_N NG, FEBRUARY 5 1 1857. claimed that she meant to overthrow first the Giant Monopoly, and then turn their guns against the other monopolists, and she beat them all though banded together, and used the vanquished to overthrow those who yet held their ground. Cotton was a mighty power then—politically it was gun-cotton ; now it has shrunk back to its natural commercial quality. Manchester will never have again so noble an object, so noble a foe, and so glorious a triumph. It thoroughly understood its ground and its object, and that object was entirely national. It forgot that its object was all important to itself, as its eyes opened to its importance to the whole community. But Manchester ever since has been, like so many conquerors, objectless. Its league wanted t) throw ant its vast powers into some new conflict, but could find nothing worthy of its former organisation and efforts--the great leaders seemed to think they could lead on every other question as they had done in that which was pecu liarly their own ; but they found themselves sunk to the leadership of coteries. They have commonly had useful reforms in their pro gramme, but they all had one great defect for Manchester : they were not essential to the prosperity of the cotton manufacture. The public met in their Free-trade Hall, met to hear and to clap, but did not leave to work, to sub scribe money, and to petition by the thousand. Manchester has nothing in hand which she can take up as specially her own, and yet substan tially the nation's. She is, it is true, a useful and a great ally, but no longer a Premier City. Hence the vast difference between the speeches of last Thursday evening, and those of former years. In the place of the terrible home thrusts and the impassioned declamation, at which thousands used to rise and wave hats and handkerchiefs, with unappeasable and vociferous cheering, we had lec tures and behaviour cool as in the House of Com mons—behaviour, indeed, much more quiet than frequently distinguishes that honourable place. Good sense, useful statements, pleasant political banter, and a sound resolution or two—nothing to petition for—nothing to subscribe for, were the character and the results of tie meeting. The most enthusiastic part of the proceedings was perhaps the unanimous re-election of Mr. BRIGHT by the universal suffrage of the vast assembly, a proceeding in which, I though having often had occasion lately to differ with the Hon. Member, we yet cordially concur with the electors of Manchester. We believe that in the House all classes value Mr. BRIGHT as one of their ornaments too much to wish to lose him, and that, with the exception of his well-known crotchets, he is unquestionably a first-rate mem ber. We should like to have all the best ability of the country in Parliament, even if not on our own side. Of course Mr. GissoN, the chief orator of the evening, was great on peace, penny newspapers, and the paper duty. He intends to carry the repeal of the last, and, singularly enough, two Chancellors of the Exchequer have seemed to wish to gratify him. It is much desired by the Manchester folk, not, we must own from literary motives, but that it may cost them less to pack their goods. This intellectual argument, it will be remembered, was used with great emphasis by Mr. GLADSTONE. Add to this, that the duty almost crushes the penny papers of Messrs. GLAD STONE, LEWIS, and GIBSON, and it is not unlikely that the duty will go. The mismanagement of the war, the pitiful results to what they ought to have been, the shameful treatment of the two Crimean Commissioners, are all topics on which we could endorse nearly all that was said ; but whether Russia ought to be stopped in her course of European burglaries, these gentlemen thought it not worth while, or not prudent, to discuss. The Income Tax could not be mentioned with out, of course, an unsparing denunciation of inquisitorial examination of tradesmen's and cotton lords' ledgers, and of unfair assessment and balance-sheets ; no popular assembly could be safely exhorted to put up with an Income Tax without that. We were not in formed, however, of the proposed substitute for the denounced inquisition; and without resorting to a Property Tax rather than an Income Tax, it does not seem easy to say how the inquisitors are to be got rid of. Mr. GIBSON' wished to cut down the expenditure to the fifty millions, or so, which was sufficient before the peace ; if so the Customs, Excise, St Imps, and Assessed Taxes, &c., will, as things now stand, supply his fiscal wants, and we imagine that if he put it to any meeting he could call, ,whether the Income Tax, or any Customs or Excise Tax should be first repealed, he would find little if any division of opinion. For the strictly political part of the pro gramme, the extension of the Suffrage and the Ballot were the chief points mooted. The latter was made indeed a prominent object, the Secre- tary of the Ballot Society was there from London, and moved a resolution. It was seconded by Mr. NICHOLSON, from Australia, who took an active pact in introducing it into that country, and who described its eminent success Viere. The Chair man, Mr. WILSON, in putting the resolution, gave it his cordial support, and it was carried unani mously and enthusiastically. The shameless assertion that nobody wants, and nobody cares for the Ballot, is being every day openly refuted. Lord JOHN RUSSELL may be sure his little pocket Reform Bill, without the Ballot, will incur univer sal contempt, and will die unwept, unless he shed again the tears himself. Great is Manchester, but not qu;te so great as she was. In the days of the League her annual gathering was the morning stir of the session ; we looked to it almost as much as to the QUERN'S A magnificent and alluring project has just Speech ; it communicated to us, not like the been set on foot amongst ourselves, with an espe- Royal document, the vague anything-meaning cial view to the pacific advance of the great cause statements of a Cabinet afraid to speak out, but of Italian Regeneration. The scheme we allude the resolves and plans of the most vigorous public to is that of the ENIPORIO ITALIA.NO —an enter body of the day. What the League would do prise having already a recognised organ of its own concerned many politicians and constituencies so called, and involving as its main object the wore than what Ministers would not do, establishment in London of a comprehensive or would not promise to do. Words that Institution for the Patronage of Italian Science, burned with the fervour of a noble Art, Commerce, Industry, and Literature. The cause gave to long columns of small print an in- Institution of the E mporio Italian°, it should be terest which words, used to conceal intentions, observed at once, has been projected, and the could not impart to paragraphs in large type of Journal of the Emporio Italian°, we may presume, what had been read from the Throne. is to be edited, by LORENZ) MONTEMEma Dm CONTI --...----..... Why is it so different now ? Manchester does SANDONNINI,—the whole undertaking being The Times announces as a great fact that the not think less of itself, nor has she any reason to carried out under the immediate and personal i nc ome Tax, " for every penny in the rate of do so. Her numbers and her wealth are immensely superintendence of the Marquis of DOWNSHIRE. assessme nt, brings a million of p oun d s sterling increased ; she is represented by two members, of According to a Prospectus recently issued, the sum into the Exchequer." We cannot certainly con_ whose ability and whose weight in the House any of 200,0001. will be required for the foundation trovert this position, for two simple reasons —tat, constituency may well be proud. Her huge, but of the Institution, out of which it is intended because the Revenue Returns establish it beyond brick place of meeting is now exchanged for a that 160,0001. shall be devoted to the expenses of the p oss ibility o f d o ubt or dispute ; and, 2dly, building worthy to be called the Free-trade Hall, erecting the necessary building's, as well as to the becau se it i s a po i n t which we have repeatedly and yet we no longer look to the great ante-sex- formation of a capital to be distributed among urged, but from which we draw very different sional gathering at Manchester with the breath- the shareholders-28,000i. being set aside for conclusions indeed from those which the Times less interest of former days. The plain reason prizes ranging, gradually, from a minimum of 201. endeavours to e s t a bli s h. O ur argument is, as it seems to b e th at Manchester, like her great to a maximum of upwards of 3,0001.-8001. being . always has bee n , th at no Financ i a l Mi n ister can Free-tr a d ers, seems to have fulfilled her awarded as a premium for the Italian who may possibly - dispense with appointed missi on ; and though she will submit the best plan for the proposed edifice— withouton a entering so large a source of revenue retrograde policy, and re- not cease to be an important city she 6 000/ b • reserved as a Charitable Fund for can- , . being establishing duties and taxes that have been either not again become the centre of a great national the benefit, of course, of Italians exclusively— abolished or greatly reduced, to the intense gra- movement. Bravely and well her merchants and : 2 000/. for covering any expenses that may be tification of the tax - paying comm un it y , an d th e manufacturers did battle with l or d s of the soil. j incurred on behalf of the Projector and the u equivocal advantage of the trade and com- Manchester took up the cause of the people's food. Initiatory Committee-3,2001. remaining over merce of the country. We cannot agai n un d er She made common cause with, every man except the and above all for distribution as rewards for any possible consideration of circumstances enter 30,000 growers of corn and their brother mono- Italian Inventions and Italian Discoveries. Alto on the p a th s o f p ro tection, The nation is not polists in other departments, She openly pro- gether, we conceive, a very moderate and judicious TMEI DAY—Morn. 31 min. aft. 10—Evening 21 mid. aft. 11 To-hfcmow—Morn. 0 min. aft. o—Evening 4 nain.aft. 12 THE WEATHER—SUN Orrrcrit, FEBRUARY 5. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 37—highest sines noon yesterday. 84 -lowest this morning and during the night. 39 —this day at noon. BA.aomyernß, 30 . 13—falling. %VIND, S.W.—Light, with mild weather and thaw. Two o'CLocK.—Slight snow. %i) 4 , ,'f'.-,7-- , - __.,,, ..,, ,p4..4,,,,,.i :~? ~. c?~~~~Y. LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1857. estimate of the liabilities growing ou t of the esta blishment of the Emporioliano I nstitution. Already it is observable that ti: is singularly attractive design has enlist3d the sympathies cf the Italians themselves, and elici to from the leading portions of the Italian Pross the very strongest expressions of encourage taunt. It has been commended very earnestly, f( it example, by the Spettatore of Florence, by t I 1) Gazetta of Milan, by the Corriere published at Vienna, by the Risorgimento of Turin, by the Pirata of Genoa, by the Giornale of Bologna and the Giornale of Mantua, by the Gazetta: of Trieste and the Gazetta of Venice, by the Trieste Osservatere, and the Turin Giornale delle Arti e delle Industrie. It commands hardly less urgently the sympathy of the British than of the Italian newspapers— the encouragement of the organs of public opinion in England than that of the journals printed and circulated in the chief cities of the Roman Penin sula. It has ours already, at any rate, frankly and cordially—The fun hesitating not to ac cord to this beneficent scheme of the Imperio Ita lian° the homage of its frank sympathy and the aid of its cordial encouragement. We shall watch the development of the design with an interest not less than that of earnest solicitude. May it, if once set energetically afoot, do good service in RI own good way and in its own good time, in the pacific and beneficent advance of the interests it is intended to forward—those, as we have said and seen, of the great cause of Italian Regeneration ! A Prospectus recently issued by the Harwich and Continental Royal Mail Steam-Packet Com pany—a newly organised Company, proposing to establish a regular periodical mail-steam-packet service between the former port and Rotterdam —gives very large and very reasonable promise, we cannot but think, not merely of considerable ...advantages to its own shareholdeis, but of others accruing from it to every one having capitil already embarked either in the Eastern Counties or in the Dutch Rhenish Railways. A very rational and obvious deduction, this—as any one may recognise upon the merest glance at the web work of railroads branching off from either ex tremity of the newly-projected route across the Channel. The Eastern Counties Railway con ducting the traffic front Harwich to Colchester, and thence onwards—north, south, east, west— along the various lines in England, to London, Southampton, Exeter, Birmingham, Liverpool, York, Manchester, ctc. ! The Dutch Rhenish Railways, starting from Rotterdam and the Hague, penetrating through the Neiherlands to the extremities of Hanover, Holstein, and Westphalia, and so onwards, in like manner, and upon a yet ampler scale—. north, south, east, west—to all parts of the Eu ropean Continent. Downwards to Cologne, to Wiesbaden, to Frankfort, to Darmstadt. Up wards to Harlingen, to Emden, to Cuxhaven, to Lubeck, to Kiel ! Although the shares of the new company have been fixed at 101. each, it is anticipated by the Directors that no imme diate call will be requisite beyond 51. at the utmost. Already we are in no way surprised to see enrolled among the list of subscribers an important and, comparatively speaking, remote body like the Liverpool Commissaries. The auspicious character of the proposed mail steam packet service across the channel, between Har wich and Rotterdam, being sufficiently obvious at the first instant, to the enterprising men of Lanca shire. As, we conjecture, it must infallibly prove elsewhere, in our own country, and in most of the northern countries of Earope, approached from England through the Netherlands. TEE DIVISION ON THE ADDRESS The following is a list of the majority against Lord Grey's amendment on the Address to her Majesty : Lord Chancellor _ _ VISCOUNTS. Cremorno Dugs. Falkland De Tabley Argyll Sydney De Manley MARQUISES. Torrington Dufferin Ailesbury BMWs. Foley Lansdowne Bath and Wells Glenelg EARLS. Chester Hathertou Airlie Down Lilford Abingdon Gloucester Lyndhurst Bessborough Llandaff Lyttelton Clarendon • London Methuen Cork St. David's Panmuro Cowper BARONS. Saye and Selo Granville Belper Stanley of Alderley Harrowby Broughton Truro Shelburne Camoys Vivian Spencer Crowe Wenlock The Earl of Derby entertained at dinner, at his man sion in St. J a mes'-square, last evening, the Earl of Chesterfield, the E irl of Dartmouth, the Earl of Powis, the Earl of Verulam, the Earl Beauchamp, the E ar l of R 4 mont, the Earl of Portarlington, the Earl of E rne , the Earl of Lanesbo rou g h, the Earl of Enniskillen, the Earl of Darnley, Lord Forester, Lord Dynevor, Lord Ravensworth, Lord Sondes, Lord Bateman, Lord Waleingham, Lori Feversham, Lord Ws nford, and Lord Cloncurry. The Earl and Countess of Albemarle and the Ladies Keppel have arrived at their mansion in Grosvenor-square, from Quidenharn Hall, Norfolk. Viscountess Palmerston has issued cards for assemblies on every Saturday during the present month. Viscount Wellesley has left the Clarendon for Dray cott House, near Chippenham. Lord Dufferin has left the Clarendon for Windsor Castle. Rearadmiral the Hon. Sir Richard Dundas, K.C.8., now in command of the fl.et on "special service," it is said, is about to return to his old seat in the Admiralty. It is stated that about 16,000 qrs. of red Lincolnshire wheat were bought on French account at the close of last week. OLYMPIC THEATIIII.—A false impression having gone abroad with respect to the health of Mr. Wigan, we have been requested to state that he is still seriously indis• posed. TROOPS FOR INDIA.-0a Tuesday an order was re ceived i❑ Dublin from the Horse Guards for the Queen's Bays and 3d Dragoon Guards to hold themselves in im mediate readines to proceed to India. Similar orders, it is also added, have been also issued to seven regiments of infantry. _ . F6NERIL OF BARON ALDERSON.—The remains of this learned judge were removed to Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk (his lo'rth id tee), on Tuesday morning. Great numbers of people were assembled in St. Mary Magda len's Church at an early hour to take part in a eolemn service in the church of which he laid the first stone. The body was met at the door by the Revs. E. Stuart, incumbent of St. Mary's; W. U. Richards, incumbent of All Saint's, Margaret-street ; and J. Murray, incumbent of St. Andrew's, Wells-street. The coffin was r heed on the floor of the nave, and three candles were burning on each side of it. The pall was of blue velvet with a yel low fringe, and a cross worked on it of red velvet. The 39th Psalm was sung to a Gregorian chant, and the lesson (1 C or . xv.) real by Mr. Murray. The Holy Communion was then celebrated, the sons and daughters of the deceased baron, his nephew, Mr. Drew ; his son in-law, Mr. W. C. Cocks and other mourners ; and Mr. Justice Coleridge, Mr, J. D. Coleridge, Mr. A. D. Cole ridge, the Rev. W. H, Milman, and one or two other friends of th e f am il y, being the commun i an t s . BUSH IDE AND KA RACX —A French paper says : "Bushire, which h as just been captured by the English, is situated i n F ars or Farsistan, the province of Persia known by the ancients as Persis. The name of the town , is really Bender Abouschehr. It is situated on a tongue of land once covered by the waters of the gulf, and is defended on th e land side by a high wall flanked with towers,. constructed a t unequal distances. This port, which is the most imp or t ant o f P ers i a , manifests none of the activity that ch arac t er i ses E uropean mar iti m e towns. The majority of the vessels which navigate the Persian Gulf touch at Bushire and Basra, in order to land or take in goods. This trade does not, however, give em ployment to more th an e i ght vesse l s un d er the English flag and six under the colours of the Imaum of Muscat. These vessels form a tonnage of about 4,500 tons. The town of Bushire contains about 400 houses, besides a great number of huts constructed of palm timber, erected outside the walls. The number of inhabitants, stated by some travellers to amount to 20 000 has been considera bl y reduced by Plague, choler which Farsst In h as b een th e theatre, and at present does not probably surpass 6,000 souls. Bushire tains seven mosques, four of which belong to the Similes 'a i and numerous wars, of and three to the Sunnites, also two bath s and two caravanserais. Th e English factory is situated about two miles from th e t own. Karac k or Kharedj, thie island now occupi e d b y the Eng li s h, contains an exe c lent port, good well s o f f res h wa t er , and is capaile of being strongly fortifi e d . I n a commercial, and military point of v i ew, K arack i s o f high inopavanee. Up to the present moment th i s i s l an d hai been know n only for its lucrative pearl-fisheries. The most valu able in ; the pearls are de s p atc h e d to E uro pe by Bagdad - inferior ones are emp l oye d b y t h e Persiansthe ,deco ration of their pipes, h arness , an d pocket mirrors,' LATEST N WS. THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. PARIS, THURSDAY, 9 A. 31. The Moniteur contains an article on the ques tion of the union of the Danubian Principalities. The PlenipoteLt;ary of France at the Conference of Vienna had st tted it as his opinion that it was the combination best suited to assure to thosepro vinces the strength necessary to become a bulwark for the Ottoman Empire. The French Government has not ceased to profess the same opinion, and what has recently taken place between it and the other Cabinets has only tended to confirm it in its convictions. It does not despair of seeing them prevail in the councils of the Powers, and that the one most interested will admit that the union of the Principalities has nothing which is not completely in accordance with tke rights of suze rainty of the Sublime Porte with regard to the Danubian Principalities. MARSEILLES, FEB. 4. We have arrivals front Constantinople to the 26th January. The Presse d' Orient announces the reception of the Commission for reconstituting the Danubian Principalities by the Sultan. The Porte is pre paring a general amnesty for Moldo-Wallachia. Rustum Pacha replaces M. Mussuras as Minis ter of Turkey at Turin. The Gazette de Teheran publishes a State docu ment, complaining of the injustice of the English in declaring war while negotiations were pending at Constantinople. The taking of Bushire was known on the 4th of January. Persia is not discouraged, but is sending troops into Farsistan. The rumours of a conees4ion and of pacific p ar rangements are unfounded."' The English are moving troops from Bushire upon Shiraz. The Pays announces that another collision has taken place on the frontiers ot Persia between the Russians and the Turcoman tribes. In virtue of a convention signed between Russia and Persia in the year 1846 the Russians constructed the fortress of Petrowsky on the Caspian Sea, near Astrabad. The commander of the fort, iu order to protect the garrison from a surprise, lately erected two exterior works communicating with the fort. These works had scarcely been finished when, on the 11th of January last, the Turco mans, profiting by a dense fog, fell suddenly on the Russians and forced them b fall back on the fortress with a slight loss. The Governor having placed the garrison under arms, sallied out with a strong force, and held in check the Turco mans, who had already begun to demolish the works ; and he, at the same time, demanded assis tance of the Governor of Ashoorada, which was im mediately sent to him. The Russians then pursued the Turcomans, killed some, and took more prisoners ; among whom was a chief of the prin cipal tribe of pirates in the Mazandaran, who was at once sent to the Governor-General at Astrakhan. The Russians by waging an implacable war against the Turcoman robbers have rendered some service to the merchants trading in those countries. TREATY FOR THE REDEMPTION OF THE SOUND DUES. The following is the outline of the treaty about to be concluded between Denmark and the various European Powers trading with the Baltic, for the redemption of the Sound Dues : The preamble states, that with a view to facilitate and increase the commercial and maritime relations at present existing between Denmark and the other contracting States, these parties have agreed to negotiate a treaty for abolishing the dues levied on ships and other cargoes passing through the Sound and the Belts, and for diminishing the transit duty payable on goods passing overland from the Ger man Ocean to the Baltic. In the first article the King of Denmark under takes for the future not to levy any duty under the name of customs, tonnage, or for lighthouses, buoys, &c., on any vessels, or their cargoes, passing from the German Ocean to the Baltic, or vice versa, through the Belts or the Sound, and this, too, irre spective of whether the vessels simply pass through the Danish waters, or whether they be compelled by stress of weather or for the sake of commercial operations to cast anchor there, or to put into a port. No vessel of any sort belonging to the contracting Powers is in future to be subjected to any detention or other hindrance while passing through the Belts or the Sound ; with regard t 3 the vessels of other States not partici pating in this Tresty, the King of Denmark is to be at liberty to settle by separate arrangements the fiscal conditions that are to be accorded to them. The King undertakes further to free from all dues for lighthouses, beacons, buoys, &c., and, in general, from all maritime taxes, with the exception of ab solute port dues and customs, any such vessels of the contracting parties as may enter or leave Danish ports, either in cargo or in ballast, and equally whether they have or have not entered into any commercial transaction at the port. In the 2d article the King binds himself to main tain and keep in good order all the lights, beacons, buoys, &c., at present in use, both at the ap proaches to Danish ports and roads, or along the Danish coast. Secondly, in the interest of com merce and navigation, to pay due regard to the expediency of modifying the position or the form of these said lights, beacons, buoys, &c., or of increasing their number, and this without any charge or burden to foreign vessels. Thirdly, to keep up the present supply, of pilots, whom it shall be optional to all masters of vessels to employ or not. The charges for pilotage are also never to rise higher than they are at present ; they are to be the same for Danish as for foreign vessels, and are to be payable only by those vessels that tyke pilots on board. Fourthly, he will permit private individuals, whether natives or foreigners, to establish stations in the Sound and Belts for providing steam tugs to vessels passing through and desirous of profiting by this facility. Fifthly, he extends to all canals or other routes leading from the German Ocean to the Baltic the!same exemption from duty which Danish and foreign merchandise of certain kinds enjoy on certain routes, (here follows a specification of the various kinds of merchandise and the various routes); and if in future any goods not specified here should succeed in obtaining an ex emption from transit duty on any one of those routes, that exemption shall be extended 'to all others. An d sixthly, he undertakes to re duce the rate of transit duty on all those goods now liable to it r to an unif lborm rate of 16 skillings f o 500 . Danish weight ; and Danish money finally, should the transit dues come, at any future time to be lowered on any one of the routes below this rate, the King undertakes to put all the rout es now connecting, or which may hereafter connect the German Ocean or the Elbe with the Baltic o r any of its tributaries, on a f o oting o f perfect equality with any routes that may h ere after be opened between any two ports of his According to Art. 3, the provisions of Articles 1 and 2 are to come into force on and after April the Ist of this year. Art. 4 binds the States entering into this treaty with Denmark to pay the latter as an indemnifica tion for the sacrifices it makes in the above articles the sum of 30,570,698 rix dollars, according to various quotas already agreed upon, and with the provision that each State is liable only for its own quota. In Art. 5 it is provided that the various amounts above specified shall be_paiti within 20 years, in AO half-yearly equal instalments, which shall inclade the poriion of the capital due and tho interest that accrues on the outstanding balance. Each of the high contracting parties undertakes in Article 6 to come to an agreement with the King of Denmark as to-1, the manner how, and the place where, these half-yearly payments shall be made ; 2, the manner and the rate in which the several amounts, as stated in Danish money, shall be computed in the money of the said State ; and, 3, the conditions and the manner in which the said State reserves to itself (if at all) to pay off by anti cipation its quota of the indemnity money. In the following and concluding article the exe cui ion of the foregoing stipulations is made to be dependent on the accomplishment of the formalities required by the constitutional laws of the high con tracting States, who, however, undertake to procure that sanction at the earliest possible time. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The official reply of England has been received here, stating that the final e vacua ti on o f th e T ur ki s h territory and waters will take place towards the close of February. The Prussian Envoys at Naples announce that the King has received their recommendation of con cessions favourably. The fusion of the Central and Orleans lines of railway will be signed on Friday. By a decree in the Moniteur Generals Corbin and Marcel have been promoted to the rank of grand officers in the Legion of Honour. The Moniteur publishes in extenso the list of prizes offered by the Royal Irish Agricultural Society for both native and foreign cattle to be exhibited at the Grand Cattle Show, which is to take place in Waterford in August next. The proposition which has emanated from Ham ' burg for sending via Calais all the correspondence ' of Germany with England does not appear to have any chance of success. The French Government, says a letter from Berlin, shows no disposit'on to enter into an arrangement on the subject with the directors of the German Post-office. A letter addressed to the Moniteur de la Flotte states that the Russian squadron in the Caspian Sea has just been organised into two brigades. Each will be co = mmanded by a rear-admiral, and will be composed of four vessels of war, two cor vettes, two steam advice boats; and 20 other ves sels. The two brigades will be placed under the superior command of the Board of Admiralty of Astracan. There are now on the stocks in that port two frigates and five steam corvettes. "It appears certain," says the Pays, " that ne gotiations have been seriously opened on the sub ject of the dispute between England and Persia, and there is reason to hope that they will lead to a pacific solution. Russia has interfered in the ques tion, and a circular is spo., , en of as hiving emanated from St. Petersburg, in which the Russian Govern ment declares for the statu quo ante bellum in Asia, and consequently for the abandonment of Herat by Persia." BOURSE, Feb. 4.—The following were the las quotations : Cash. tr. c. 4. p©r Cents 3_per Cents 67 95 End of Month. -fr. -,. 68 10 New Loan Bank Shares 4,150 Roman (x d),. Credit Mobilier 1,360 Austrian Belgian Fives . 99i— Spanish Threes.. Piedmoutese (5) 9O 50 Home Debt RAILWAYS—FOR CASH. fr. c. Orleans 1,360 -- Western Northern 936 23 Strasburg fr c Lyons 1,365 New Ditto Mediterranean 1,765 Grand Central Lyons Geneva Cette MONTENEGRO. A letter from Ragusa of the 21st ult., in the Zeit of Berlin, gives a few details of the annexa tion by Montenegro of certain Turkish villages, briefly mentioned some time back :—" About ten days ago 600 Montenegrins arrived in the Ottoman districts of Zupri and Sutorina, and declared to the inhabitants that henceforth they were placed under the protection and sovereignty of Montenegro ; and that consequently they would have to pay taxes to Prince Danilo. The Turkish receiver at Su torina was ordered to immediately quit the country with his family, which he did without offer,ng any resistance. They afterwards le v ied. the capitation tax as in Montenegro, as well as an extra contribut on to defray the expense of the expedition. After organ ising the communes, according to Montrngrin usages, the greater part of the band departed, car rying with them the money they had collected. Those who remained occupied themselvt s in organ ising tribunals. Order was not disturbed in any other way, nor have any military measures been adopted at Ragusa in consequence." PRUSSIA. The Bourse Gazette of Berlin of the let states that on the preceding day the Financial Committee of the Prussian Chamber of Deputies declared to the Ministers of Finance, the Interior, and Com merce, that it still persisted in its opinion of the non-necessity of the new taxes, but that it would not come to7a definitive decision until it had sepa rately examined each of the measures proposed by the Government. The ministers are stated to have replied with great warmth, that in case the Chani ber should refuse the new taxes, the Government would employ all the means which the constitution placed at its dicpotal to force the measures. This has led to a belief among the deputies of the Right that the Government is prepared, if necessary, to dissolve the chamber." The New Prussian Gazette has opened a sub scription for "the faithful subjects in Neuchatel who are oppressed by tho Republicans, or who have taken refuge in foreign countries, in order not to serve against their King." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 30th ult. have reach ed us. The Gazette continues to publish addresses from the bishops and chapters to . the Queen, thank ing her Majesty for her services to the church. The Espana says that a project was on foot between some London and Paris firms for establishing an international bank at Madrid. General Prim had charged General Zavala to defend him before the military tribunal by which he is shortly to be tried. Considerable activity was manifested in preparing for the approaching elections. It was thought pro bable that the provincial deputation of Madrid would be authorised to contract a loan of 6,000,000 reals. A great quantity of snow had fallen in the province of La Mancha as well as in Anda lusia. Letters from Melilla say that on the 11th ultimo, several Moors presented themselves at the Mantelete gate of that town on pretext of selling eggs, and that suddenly drawing pistols from beneath their dress they fired on the sol• diers on duty, killing two men and wounding a third, after which they took to flight. The soldiers who were unhurt returned their fire and wounded two of the men, but the Moors car ried them off. The detachment on duty at the guard. house immediately turned out, but the Moors were too far to be overtaken. In consequence of this affair it had been determined to admit no more Moors into the town. A letter from Vienna in the Bourse Gazette of Berlin says :—" Hitherto the Russian Government has refused the admission of foregn consuls to the Black Sea ports, stipulated by the treaty (1' Pari s , on the plea of he presence of the English fleet in that sea. As these vessels have now received orders to evacuate the Turkish waters, the English Cabinet has claimed the admission of consuls, and has informed our Cabinet of that step, in order to obtain its adhesion." PORTUGAL. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 4. The Meander steamer brings Lisbon dates to the Jan. 26, wh n the following foreign vessel.; of war were anchored in th e Tagus :—He r Majesty's steam ship Princess Royal, Capt. G. Giffard ; the Sans pareil, Capt. Rey, which had returned the previ ous day from Rear-Admiral Dundas's squadron for the repair of her rudder. The squadron had met with bad weather, and was about 300 miles off Lis bon, where the steam-frigate Retribution had ar rived on the 26th, and the French ship Austerliti and steamer Flambeau, the Phenix having left on the 23d for the south. SUDDEN DEATH OF COLONEL WYNDHAM. —On Tuesday afternoon, about 3 o'clock, Col. Wyndham, while walk ing with two 'Alta near the bridge on the north side of the Serpentine, witnessing the evolutions of the numer ous skaters disporting nn the ice, suddenly fell down and expired. The body was removed to his residence in Connaught -terrace. The Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China have issued a circular, stating that they "will shortly be enabled to commence business in a field where com merce is extending with extraordinary rapidity," and announcing two calla of 21. each, payable respectively in one and three months. The English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Ba'i't have announced an intended dividend for the past haifluar aL the rate of -5 per cent. per an num, f i e‘, , , of ineoftw tax, leavhig 4,015/. to be carried to the reserved fund. - . _ I - Cis stated that the attempt to float the Royal Mail Steam Colptly'fs yowl Tyne.wil!be resumed next week. ART GaSSIP PROM I?OVIE.—MR. GIBSON AND MISS 110SMER. (From a correspondent of t'ie Daily News.) ROME, Jan. 29. —Rome is unusually full this sea son. The unsettled state of Naples, and the pro mised presence of sundry crowned heads here, are the reasons assigned for the exorbitant demands of Padrone, which startle the stranger on his arrival, and make him think twice before he decides to spend the winter in the Eternal City. Provisions of all kinds are dear. The cost of living has nearly doubled itself within the last five years, so that those who contemplate an economical sojourn in Italy must be content with Florence or Pisa — at least till the Roman season is past, that is to say, until after Easter, when apartments undergo a sudden depreciation of fifty or sixty per cent. The spoiling process, commenced by the English, is receiving its finishing touch at the hands of the Americans. If Englishmen lavish their money like Princes, Americans lavish theirs like Empe rors. "Of all families I have ever served," said a shrewd intelligent courier, "give me an American for liberal expenditure, a Russian for closeness and meanness." The parsimony of the Russian suite at Nice is the gossip of the place, and does not add to the popularity of the Court. Queen Christina, the Queen-Mother of Spain, goes altogether on a dif ferent tack, and makes her presence here felt to the inconvenience of residents and visitors, by monope lising the best boxes at the opera and theatres, and the best seats at concerts. Ristori plays her first engagement in Rome since her great success in Paris and London, early in next month, and for a week past the subscription list has been full. B• much for the gossip of the day, ere we take our way to the calmer atmosphere of the studios which con gregate here in Rome thick and fast—England) America, France, and Germany contributing even ' more largely to Italy to swell the ranks of artistes. The coloured Venus in Mr. Gibson's studio is still the subject of much discussion. For the bene fit of those who cannot see it, a short description may not be amiss. No man living, perhaps, is 5 6 thorough a master of form and proportion as Mr.; Gibson, and his Venus is, in these respects, his chef-d'oeuvre. The modelling of the torso and limbs is very fine, the form and sentiment of the back beautiful. Greek art is to Mr. Gibson evidently the alpha and omega of all art. The Greeks cd loured their statues ; why should not the moderns and so Mr. Gibson took brush in hand and covered the beautiful, highly-wrought marble with a thin pink wash, stained the hair a delicate tow, pencilled the head-fillet blue and gold, gilded the apple in the hand, and made the hem of the robe to correspond with the band in the hair. Thus, neither flesh net marble, statue nor woman, stands the Venus, chal lenging all beholders to accept or reject the ilin° - vation. Near to the Venus is a coloured copy of his beautiful Cupid, even more eccentric than the Venus ; the flesh a delicate salmon-tint, the hair a warmer tow than the Venus, in virtue of virility perhaps, the eyes fixed and staring, looking over, not at, the butterfly on his breast, the wings tinted in palest hues of rose and blue ; while the pedestal on which this masquerading god stands is of a deep tawny yellow, a bad imitation of giallo antic°. Given the advantage of colouring marble, one can' not but feel, while looking at these statues, holy' distinct is the art of the sculptor and the painter ; and any eye sensitive to colour must experience 3 sensation of relief in turning to the stately grenP of the Queen, supported by Justice and ClemencY!, the original of which is just placed in the House (n Lords, and to the basso-relievo of Cupid and Psyche , than which nothing more chaste and pure in modern art exists. In looking at Mr. Gibson's works one feels that study and skill can no further go. TheY, speak eloquently of a lif e d evo t e d t o th e cu lture art, and it would be difficult to find a more devotee, disciple and follower of the great masters of anti" quity. Among art students in Rome is to be found in the studio of Mr. Gibson, Harriet Hosmer, a young American lady of decided genius, and of great force and energy of character. As earnest in her devotion to art as her mas t er an d f r i en d , sedulous-11 availing herself of her matured knowledge and skill, she is, at the same tim e , s t r iki ng out a pa,r, of her own, with results so am pl e i n th e presenvf, that there is scarcely any limit to the expectation! that may be formed of a c areer so soun dly xn. thoroughly commenced. I n th e N ovem ber 1852, accompanied by her father, a physician in th e neighbourhood of Boston, Miss Hosmer arrived Rome, resolved to follow sculpture as a profession , and to devote herself seriously t o a n ar t w hich she had hitherto studied as she b es t cou ld i n h e r flatly, country. Unheralded and unknown, she brought with her for all introduction a certificate for anal ( /' mical studies given at the college at St. Louis, and a couple of daguerreotyp es o f an or i g i na l b ust of Hes Per/ modelled, cast, and cut in marble, by herself. These daguerreotypes were shown to Mr. Gibson by a common acquaintance, who at the same time briefly stated Miss Hosmer's wishes and intentions. A man of few words, Mr. Gibson looked at them for a while in silence ; then said, in his short, expres sive way, " Send the young lady to me. I will ell all I can for her." To Mr. Gibson she went, and with Mr. Gib son s h e h as b een ever s i nce ; a pupil after his own heart, earnest, industrious, and w i ; flagging in her zea l, if th e wor d s mas t er an d puP"_ may be u se d o f a re l a ti ons hi p b eaut i ful i n it se lf and alike honourable and honouring to both. During these fo ur y ears , Mi ss H osmer h as modelle d sev eral original busts, the most strikin g o f w hi c h is a Medusa —the beautiful, poetical Medusa. The features ale classical, the expression forcible yet delicate, the merit altogether of a high order, both as to design and exe cution. A more ambitious work is a life-sized sta tue of none, taken at th e momen t o f her beit:g deserted by aris. A small er fi gure o f P uc k , se a on a toadstool, is full o f sp i r it , f un, and raj's chief, evincing no less humorous than tragic power' But the chef-dce'uvre of all this talented young f artist has yet accomplished is a life-size figure. the beautiful and accomplished Beatrice Cenci, 3u finishing in Amble, and which we may hope to l e in the ne x t ex hibi t i on of the Royal Academy. 'll the story of Beatrice Cenci it is stated that hope: were entertained o f a pardon, hopes destine d n ot to be realised, and that when the priest came finally to announce their failure, and the day of execution , he fou n d h er " calmly sleeping on the flee 4, of her wre t c h e d cell. " This is the moine chose n b y Miss Homer, and rendered .T. great feeling an d sentiment. The arrange" went of the recumbent figure is exquisitely ,na tural and gra ce f u l. Th e head—and a lovely head it is—rests on the right arm, thrown over a pige we i t the figure lying on the right side, the left leg foot crossed at full length over the right, half draw:,. up, and i n di ca t e d, rat h er than seen, through t"; drapery, whi c h i s a t once s i mple and rich. •'l' balance of the figure is admirable. In the pr e ; foundness of her s l ee p, th e l e f t arm has dropre,-; forward, and the rela xe d fi ngers, as the back of it' hand rests on the g roun d , are entangled in,rather than holding, a rosary. Every inch of the figt; sleeps—a profound sleep, but full of life and feel ing. Involved as this word-painting may seem, t r.. attitude is simplicity itself ; anything more simples and natural, and at the same time more graceful , it would not be easy to conceive. In '1 contrast to this sleep of life is the sleep c % death in a monumental figure Miss Homer now modelli ng, and which is equally rem all able f or f orce of expression combined wl simplicity and grace. He giveth His belov ed r . sleep" i s th e thought instantaneously suggested PY this figure, a portrait of a deceased Ymulg lady Death is unmistakeably expressed, but it is the sleep of death, and not the annihilation "w ch 1 ; 1 _, , monumental figures so usually and painfully rani ° " The C enc i " i s an or d er execute d f or the Pub;_, Library of St. L ou i s ; th e monumen t i s •to by erected in the church of St. Andrea delle Fratte, and is to th e memory o f a b eau tif u l y oung g i r l who died here l as t summer . It i s i m p oss ibl e t o look at , these works of art, the production of one so young; admirably within school, and yet free, forcible, an original, without recognising the advent of a sisrft genius to that which has placed Rosa Bonheur bthoethh_eandoosfa Bonheurhe rdep or tm Harrietent ofa art. Of either Hosmer—M"'nr Browning might have written these lines from h er poem of " Aurora Leigh"— " She who did this thing was born To do it—claims her licence in the work." SUDDEN DEATH AT A TEMPERANCE MEETING.' - L 11° : night, as a tempe rance mee ti ng was a b ou t t o ootranel l w „ a in the Wesl e y an Ch ape l , K ens i ngton, a middle-age,., man, apparently in hi s usua l h ea l t h and spirits, dropped into the arms o f a companion, and in a feat moments ho ceased to breathe. MUTH OF A VETERAN COLONIST.—Mr. Stevenson, Justice of the Peace and Coroner of the city of Adelaid e ' died on the morning of Sunday, Oct. 19. Mr. Steven' son was in his fifty- e i g h t h year, and would, if he hadlivea two months long er , h ave b een a South Austral i an Colo- nist of twenty years' standing. He arrived out from England in her Majesty's ship Buffalo, as private W I : tary to Captain Hindmarsh, the first Governor o f ti! . colony, and was the first clerk to the Legislative,Cou uc Y! the first coroner and one of the first bench of mag i° trates. Before leaving Eogland he had been an es ters ' s ive co n t r ib utor to the leading columns of an ev ening newspaper, and was devoted to other literary' Purely t He was editor and part proprietor of the first netvoluTo in the colony, th e S ou th A us t ra li an G aze tt e a nd Colon Register (now th e S ou th A us t ra li an .R eg i s ter), and vots consequently " the Father of the South Austraut!a_d press." Latt er l y he had only occasionally contrib to the press, an d d evo t e d hi s attention more e xclus L l; to hortinultur:o The name of Georgo son (say; the .71 , :ies)," was 4. hotmehohl all parts of the colony, and colonisti will univer pronounce that he deserves to be enrolled among ~4 earliest, its most attached, and its most assiduous 81". persevering benefactors.",