The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-07 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1858.

power la state under the crown. When he the
throne so little did the Commons care for theireseastled privileges,
that their attendance at the sesame of parliament wee en-
forced by • law. They woke into life la 1629, sad they be-
ams the right hand of the kfag to subdue the remittance of
the House of Lords, and to force upon them a course of legis-
lation which from their hate they detested. Other kings In
times of difficulty summcmed their peat ootusciki," own-
pored of peers, or prelate*, or municipal officials, or ay
=lawhom they paged to nominate. Hbnry VIII.
through the sachet practice, and *wee threw himself
on the representatives of the people. By the Reformation,
and by the power which he turret upon them, he had so in-
terwoven the House of COI9OIOOB wish the highest business
of the state, that the peers thenceforward sunk to be their
shadow.

11 Something, ton, ought to be said of him individual net.
tiona in the details of state administration. In his miller
life, though active and sasiduous, he found leisure :el=
acroroplmente, for splendid sineamnenta, for
careless, extravagant, sometimes questionable. As his Ws
drew onwards his lighter tastes disappeared, and the whole
energy of his intellect wee premed into the business of the
commonwealth. Those who have examined the printed State
Papers may form some impression of his industry from the
documents which are his own composition, and the letters
which he wrote and received ; but only person. who have
seen the original manuscript., who have observed the traces
of his pen in adenoma and corrections, and the handwritings
of his secreted.. In diplomatic commiseions.
in in drafts of sots
of patentee fa mpositione and formula/ma in articles of
faith, in the countless sods ediless-
meets sll salts, or ecclesiastical, which contain the
reel history of this aztanordinary reign, only they can realise
the extent of labour to which he samilksd hlmatdf, sad
which hefted his fife to • premature does. His personal
faults were great, sod he shared besides them, in the errors
of his age • but far deeper blemishes would be but as scare
upon the age;
of • sovereign who in trying:times sustained
nobly the hamar of the Hugh& name, and carried the com-
monwealth securely through the hardest aisle in its history.

Now is not this a little overdone ? Has English
history been such a gigantic delusion as Mr.
Fronde intimates ? Mr. Fronde might have been
satisfied with proving Henry to have been a great
statesman • but we cannot at once accept him in his
new character of a spotless husband, injured—but
confiding. The shook given us •is as great as it
would be were we to find Lord John Russell a high
Tory, or Cardinal Wiseman presiding at an
evangelical meeting in Exeter-hall. We can under-
stand why Mr. Fronde takes such pains to make
Henry morally presentable. The Eaglish are a very
domestic people, and have a wonderful veneration
for character, and all have been more or less grieved
by the taunts of the Romanist writers as to the King
whom they are pleased to call the originator of the
English Reformation—forgetting or ignoring _t he fact,
that if the Reformation, begun in the time of Wickliffe,
had not already taken full possession of the English
mind, no King, good or bad, could have sub-
verted the Ps* power. Said an eminent wit
to George IV, when Prince Regent—" So long
as your father sticks to that ugly wife of his
and goes regularly to church, he will always
be popular." In the same spirit Mr. Fronde pro-
tests that Henry never had mistresses (he however
had a natural son), and will have us believe that he
was unfortunate in wedlock, not lustful or capricious
in his tastes. Again, we are told that if Henry per-
secuted it was because he was compelled to do so by
his peers and bishops. Even in the atrocious execu-
tions of men for foolish words and actions, or even
of ladies of exalted rank and venerable age for little
more than relationship with suspected persons, Mr.
Fronde sees nothing to censure. Mr. Fronds nar-
rates the fact that Lord Darcy and others were
delivered for trial either " through intimidation or
the force of evidence ;" as if the former were quite
as legitimate a means of proof as the latter. Mr.
Fronde might have been less active in finding ex-
tenuating circumstances. They will always be pre-
sent to men's minds. It is the province of the his-
torian to point to that final standard of appeal, those
• inr•smipla-• of right, which will stamp all
human actions with their proper character, which
will make the successful crimes of to-day the infa-
mies of tomorrow ; otherwise history is but a bar-
ren chronicle, pointing no moral, adorning no tale ;
luminous with no light and lustre from a glory yet
to come.

ULDSTER Lacrual.—On Monday night a lecture
under the 'aspics' of Mies Catherine Sinclair, and of the
else. which that lady has Made K. popular in Edinburgh so-
ciety, was delivered in Meyers. Lithgow and Pardle's
saloon by Professor Bhickie. The attendance, as usual, wee
numerous sad fashionable. In the court* of a few prefatory
remarks, the learned lecturer said this was the age of is..
turn. If the immortal William were alive now, lashed et
saying t. All the world's a stage," he would my "AU the
worlds a lecture-room." He trimmed some verses oldie
character of • pqndy on the primp In Sbakspeare alluded
to, and peooeeded to esprit= doubts as to the value of all this
lecturing for purposes of elevation and instruction. Mow-
ever, lecturing being the (*shims—and he having been called
upon to appear by Miss Sinclair—here he was. His MANION
was that of • teacher ; his present subject was Beauty. This
was a bobby of his. He had a mission to expose the shallow
and abominable theory of association propounded by the Ids
able and beloved Lord Jeffrey ; and he hoped soon to Sri it
admitted in Scotland that that theory was exploded. What
was this theory P Conceive here a sphere, an ellipsoid
or oval, and an oblate spheroid—which is the moat
beautiful ?—which is beautiful P The sphere, says one, be-
cause I used to play at ball when • boy; the ellipsoid, sere
another, fir I take eggs to breakfast; the oblate spheroid,
says a third, because the schoolmaster used to say the earth
is of that shape. That was the theory of association. It
wesall nonsense. All the three were beautiful for reasons
that, as he would show, had nothing to do with sssocla-
lion. The theory of association was that nothing was
beautiful—de guitthwe mots est disportalielmos. It was all
custom. But the fact was the world was full of beauty.
You like this, and I like that; it is not that therefore there
is beauty in neither but in both. Both were beautiful
fur much the same, at least for Mintier reasons. Pro-
fessor Blackie then explained what these reasons were:-
1. Trutnfulness, actuality, or reality—meaning that the
beautiful object must be good of its kind and eat • sham; 2.
Proportion, symmetry, harmony of parts ; 3. Congruity
between the constituent parts; 4. Moderation. On each of
them he &rammed at considerable length, and with great
vivacity and fecility of illustration, applying hie principles to
familiar buildings in and round Edinburgh, to the hula
face, and to costume. Towards the conclusion the leaned
lecturer read definitions which he had prepared of the M-
edulla. the humorous, and the beautiful. The anthems
showed a hearty appreciation of the lecture, which wee
throughout very pleasant and characteristic—SoMmion.
Monty MANN ElLS.—Serioolly, Ido not think the
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clubs alone have to sneerer for the decrease in early menages.
Other modern Improvements in society must bear their snare
of blame. I would beck the hearta—l mean the girls—
against the clubs any day, only give them fair play. Bet no
emmible man of moderate means—no man who has to work,
and is willing to work, for his livelihood—l might, perhaps,
say no sensible man in any position—picks his wife out of a
ball-room or an opera-boa, however much be may like to
see her then. A true woman has much more chance—we
all know it—of winning any love that Is worth her whi-
ning, in her own horns, in her undress, in her little same-
lees everyday unstudied grace., sitting on a stile, loitering
by a brook, rattling in a railway carriage, or busy sad sr
Plosions amidst common household duties, then in
what the sex choose to confider the especial mimes et
their glories and their triumphs. I have reed mine-
mime, ar have been told, that any woman, three
amiame Ikea a Gorgon in persons! attractions, can
was op stem propose to her if she has the chance of living
tim sema bare with him for a month. lam inclined,
weft sem esealleatinn, to believe it, humiliating ae it ma
se we amble animals. At all events, there was much
mare seamy of early marriages, and happy ones too, when
of that large clam who have children at their
de tralluie substance to leave them, met ea neighbours;
when parsorial intercourse sea more unreetrained; when a
lad mid grow up in intimacy with another family, and learn
to mil As girls by their Christian names without any bar of
being ail his intentiona! when there were such things as
fishing pram, ant lounging in gardens, and country
asstresahre on long summer mornings, and family
sad rood games on winter's nights not to speak of misste-
ps,* &mess, to which no one minded going sad retaming
sight ear ten mike, packed into any kind of conaressas, six
task* err, well wrapped up, dam in a gig—. the more the
mrerise."—Blerkwood.

Nzw THEATRE AT PsllB.—Tha arrangements
for the erection of the new Theatre Primes Imperial-are am
actively to progress. It will contain about 3,000 persons,
and notwithstanding the annenally moderate rates at white
it la intestled to Ix the peke of edmiadon, the reosipts ere
expected to amount to from B,ooofr. to 10.000 fr. a night.
The statutes al a joint-stook company, by whom this howl
is to be Wit, are already drawn up. The capital et the
company is fixed at ax millions, divided into 12,000 char.',
of 6006. each. This theatre ts to be bulb es the PION do
Chemist, at the point of junction of the Beedimurd de fa-
bastopol and the Rue d• Rim% and the emliglds7 writ. to
addinos to the theatre, build six beam an the=ml he•
longing to than, the rent of which, with the tianel
60.000 fr. which it Is to receive, will, it is alerted, amply
gasmen the interest to the shareholders.--61.1ipstri.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

(now Len etones concern.)
WAR-OFFICE, Aran, 6.
Nth Regimes! of Foot.—Omerel Hee/villa Relates
=trots the 76th Font, to be colonel, vice Major-
Cecil Biashopp, C. 8., deceased.
76th Foot.—MaJor.General Bt. John A Clerk.. to be
coked, vice Ovarwal Berkeley, removed to the 16th Fuet.

WOOLWICH, APRIL 6.
EMBARKATION or TAOore.—Thio afternoon 107
ticenoo-eotoloirkoori Miens and men of the 4th Datil-
ntid Light lafootry, under the exontand of Captain Bil-
=@irked at Woolwich Arsenal from Dover, lad ma-
on hoard the Golconda freight ship for the Yawning ;
30 son-essamissioned Mamas of the Royal Artillery also an-
baited on board the same vessel for Madam. The Golconda
has remised a large cargo of military Mores.

FORCE IN Luennow.—The following is Sir Colin
Campbell's fame Infantry. 11,443 ; cavalry, 2,961 ; &nil-
Imy, 1,809 ; naval brigade, 331; simpers and miner:, 1,970.
Greed toiel, 18,373.—Fr0ut the Homeward Neil, from India
and China, of April 3, 1868.
In consequence of several cases of smallpox having
brim was among the troops belonging to the 23rd Royal
Webb Podium, who embarked on board the Abacus at
Oseveseed for eIIiOOUR, all this Mel of that corps have been
illeteeterinel end inenreed le the depot at Chatham, when
they arla be ebniemed ma the dames haw dieappeaved.
Captain Mareer's (A) Battery of Artillery is to
morons= Newiridge, to make room for the 6th
Half Y to he mused at Ballincolßg sad half at Cork.
Owing to the want of Minie rifle practice ground
and the diamlty in obtaining 900 yard ranges in other parts
of Ireland, orders have been received to procure, If possible,
five good ranges at the rem course near Kinsale, to consist
of two 300 yards, two 600 yards, and one 900 yards ranges.
Mr. Cramer, the proprietor of the land raked for, has oon-
mated to let the same at the yearly rental of 301., either by
the year or for a term of 31 yews. Colonel Wilson, the con.-
reasdhqr Meer of the Bth Foot, has received Instructions to
tdre the land in quad= from the tat of May, it having been
Inspected end favoarabir reported on by the Rifle Instructors,
who were amompanied by Major Lyons, the district inspec-
tor of musketry, end Captain Brine, of the Engineer depart-
meet. The estahliehment of these ranges will be of immense
advantage to the tore of Kinsale, m, in addition to the Ar-
tillery beteg asseamped here In Ware during the rammer for
target practice, the station is likely to be always the hind-
quarters of a regiment or depot battalion, Kinsale end
Chartesfort Barracks together affording accommodation for
upwards of 1,100 mine.

THE LEVIATHAN.

(TIILOY ♦ COI

The many einieter rumours afloat touching the
Leviathan ashore induced um yesterday (Tuesday) to embark
on • voyage of discovery. On reaching the good ship, the
captain's presume was at once apparent; all was order and
the work wee silently and surely proceeding; so doing and
undoing here, or hurry and bustle there, but every man in
his right place, and the captain's eye everywhere, always
cool end collected his quick perception and decision were
alike remarkable. On Monday afternoon, NM on the point
of sitting down to dinner at Liverpool, a telegraphic message
was put into his hands, and just four hours and a half from
that time he was treading the dorks of his Leviathan charge.
A quick survey assured him that all the bow or stun fasten-
ings had parted, end that those at the stern were intact; for '
tunstely some old craft inshore acted as a fender to the fun
pert of the ship, and upon this state of things a 12- inch hawser
was immediately ordered out and made feat to the Dread-
nought's (hospital-ship) moorings. Soon en anchor and
chain followed to the opposite shore, and these together
effectually stayed the ship from touching the ground, or
crashing the crony old ships so opportunely found in-shore
undergoing repairs; so that a 5/. note will about cover all
the damage done on Monday, except the replacement of
broken moorings. This, however, is steadily progressing.
Captain Harrison knot likely to trust the moiety of his ship
te City or Gore:timed moorings again, but will at owe pro-
ceed to lay out his own bower cables, to be made feat to
Transom's anchors, which have never hailed him in the hour
of used. The force and pressure of the gale on Monday
upon the ship's side most have been prodigious, to map
asunder no less than dye cables, exceeding an aggregate of
600 fathoms of 24 huh stud-link chain, the Admiralty proof
of which is 1124 tons afoot each length, or cable. Captain
Harrison will not leave the ship till all the work is done.