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very proper warnings are given in this treatise on
the folly of pursuing this timid course that is de-
nounced, and the great danger to which it leads.
" Great nations," it is said, " do not live and grow
a greater age by peace and national prosperity.'
For examples, we are shown Imperial Rome, which
fell headlong into ruin when she ceased from action,
end gave herself up to the pursuits of luxury. If
this is put down to "despotism," it is urged that
"democracy" has not been very successful on the
other side of the Atlantic. The decision arrived at
is, that the only sure and safe methoc for a state to
pursue is to make the principle of duty its guiding
influence and ruling motive. By this means we
should not rush into war hastily, nor cling to peace
in an ignominious fashion, but calmly and consis-
tently follow in the right path which may lead
through difficulties and danger, but never can con-
duct to dishonour. It is of no avail for us to
be preaching morality to others if lookers-on
perceive that we take care not to put our precepts
into practice when they would result in our loss or
disadvantage. Great stress is here laid on the
marked difference that exists in the estimate put
upon the words uttered by the English or French
in periods of emergency. When the French EM-
PEROR makes a remark on foreign affairs of any
importance, the Funds of Europe fall in conse-
quence, but little heed is given to our Ministers
impressive utterances or striking statements. Now
this is hardly a creditable position for a ration like
ours to assume, and it is indeed a solemn warning
to ail those who persist in advocating the doctrines
of expediency, to the detriment of all-important
1 and primary considerations. The bold principle is
here laid down, end should be followed in our
dealings with foreign nations, that we are to wage
war or not as honour commands, and not to listen
to the plea of the undertaking being too much for
u 3. If the time comes when a State " does e,,ot
because it dares not interfere, it has ceased, to be
a great Power." Sach words ought to .oe written
in indelible characters before the eyes of our vacita
lating statesmen, and exemplify the doom they are
bringing on their country through their mean and
unworthy actions. We cannot have a right to in-
terfere, and yet have a right to stand still; either
it must be our dory to do so, or else we ought not
to take action. "If war be not oar duty, it is a
crime, to Which no nation on earth can plead a
right," is very properly enunciated here, and evil
will betide that nation that does not advocate such
doctrines in her councils, and maintain their labelers
vance by all in authority under her rule. The
writer then proceeds to examine into the question
as to whether Denmark has been sufficiently
wronged to justify interference. On this point
there can be no doubt in the minds of those who
have regarded the question at all attentively. An
epitome is given of the leading events of the case,
and the conclusion is, of course, that injuries have
been inflicted upon that nation. Next, the subject
is discussed as to whether there exists any pledge
which calls upon England to interfere. In support
of this many authorities are quoted, and cogent
reasons adduced, to prove the necessity of adhering
to the original intentions that actuated those who
were parties to the Treaty at the outset, and the
words of Earl RUSSELL himself are given, which
show that the most obligatory inducements exist
for binding
us to the fulfilment of the pledges
given at the time of the signing of the treaty
to which 8
which involv
0 many nations were parties, and
e so many interests to others,
besides concerning
the welfare of Denmark in its
most vital concerns.
It is said here that the
Emperor of the Fittieeer got the armistice; we took
the credit, bat he did it. Not till he joined us was
• and for all
anything lone, our fine sounding phrases,
which were bat empty and delusive utterances,
no one took the trouble to notice them. The eon-
England's honour eluding remarks on are very well
it would be a
worthy of notice, and b •
right day for
us if more attention was paid to the tree ee.
eaning
'
of the term. " Her honour is not in vain glory
and warlike achievement, still less in ships and
stores and prosperous trade, her honour is to raise
the standard of Europe, and to maintain the prin-
ciple of duty, and to act as GOD'S servant among
the nations in upholding truth and righteousness."
The sooner we address ourselves to the considers

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tion of these first principles of right, the better it
will be for the credit of our national name, and the
influence we gain over the other nations of the
world. No mistake is so grievous as to listen to

The chief question that now engages attention is
Denmark. It not only engrosses the thoughts of
public men, but it attracts the interest of those in a
private capacity, who do rot ordinarily interfere
with the conflicting events of political life. One of
the greatest difficulties that arise in the considers.
tion of this vexed question, is the point of interfer-
enco cr not-interference. This debiteabio subject
has been very ably treated in a pamphlet lately
published, called" Intervention, a Duty or a Crime."
These pages go far to prove the insufficiency of the
present plan, whether as regards due provision for
the interests of our allies, or a proper respect for
the national honour. The case is treated here in a
eery fair and equitable manner, and the waverers
who may not as yet quite 'Lava made up their minds
will do well to stuiy the Suggestions thus forcibly

timorous suggestions of peace when there should be
no peace, and to entertain 19w motives of expediency
when we are called upon to vindicate our character
from reproach, and to render that service to others
which is the proudest privilege of power.
It '

la not necessary in the present day to dilate
upon the merits of the 72.0glish navy. They are
too universally admitted, and too cordially recog.
nised, to require any such enforcement. Never-
theless, although the English navy is our boasted
bulwark," our << wooden wall" of invincible
security, and although the Sailor is especially the
darling of the EngHhti people, our nay., officers hove
to endufe many hardships beyond these which are
the inevitable multi of their condi..on. Among

put, and they will, doubtless, rise from the perusal many such, hardships which one would imagine only
of these eloquent and impressive pages with their require to be pointed out to be amended, there is a
doubts resolved into certainty, and their hesitation peculiar provision in the Pension List which renders
merged in conviction as to the necessity of prompt valueless the claims of the widows of any naval
and immediate action, not only for the preservation officers who may have married after reaching the
of the interests of a brave and struggling people, age of sixty. If, at first sight, such an enactment
who have looked to us in vain for the help we were appears in any way reasonable, not a word can
bound to impart, but also for the maintenance of assuredly be urged in its favour when we call to
our good repute, our self-respect among ourselves, mind the peculiar circumstances which surround
and oar fair fame before the nations of the world, the domestic life of the naval officer, and cast a
Great stress is laid on the importance of fulfilling shadow over his home and affections. During the
the terms of the Treaty of 1852; and it is very truly years of his active service he is compelled to
stated that we have no right to deny the claims separate himself for very long intervals from family
thus enforced upon us, or to disavow the necessity and friends. Th© Soldier's wife may follow her
of holding to that engagement, because difficulties husband across the seas; but the privilege of that
have interposed themselves and rendered the case dear companionship is not permitted to the Sailor.
complicated. Truth and honour do not recognise It is only natural, then, to suppose that in the
such things as capable of sanctioning broken faith instance of the Sailor, above all others, late mar-
or exculpating false promises and faintheartedness riages might be countenanced by law. After years
in the performance of duty. Nothing can be put of estrangement from all home associations, the
in a simpler or more straightforward manner than Sailor may, more than all others, be excused if late
this argument. "We have had twelve years to in life he seeks, in connection with some congenial
find out the flaws of this Treaty, and to rescind it, helpmate, to form "a comfortable couple," after the
if need were, in peace and honour; and now when fashion of TIM LINKINWATER and Miss LA CREEVY.
the time has come to keep it, to keep it with trouble If he do so, who, remembering the antecedents of
and cost, we are suddenly to discover that the pro- his chequered career, shall venture to blame him
test of Schleswig and Holstein frees us from our for thus late in life endeavouring to surround him-
engagement. Truly this would be a most conve- self with the endearments and ties of a home ? The
nient discovery, but it is a new idea of a nation's Legislature does so by placing his widow upon a (life
honour." This is the only true and fitting way to ferent footing from the widows of younger men.
look at the question, if we would carry out the His widow, the widow of a naval officer who has
principles of political justice and conform to the married after sixty, having no claim—no legal claim
suggestions of honour and rectitude. It is one of upon the consideration of that country to whose
the greatest shams that have ever been palmed service her husband has devoted the best years of
upon the people of this country, this notion that has his life, and perhaps sacrificed the aspirations
gained ground in high places and been taken up by of bis youthful affections. Such a clause in the
some ofthe most it) fluential ofourstatesmen, that there pension-list is not worthy of the generous, devoted
really exists no claim for us to go to war for the people whe are ever ready to contribute with no
preservation of the rights of others, which rights stinting hand to every worthy claimant; and who
are intimately associated with our own integrity so worthy of such endowment as the widows of
those who have spent their lives in the service of
and good faith. Convenience will not do to choose
as the ruling motive of our actions, and if we stoop their country! The clause we fully believe requires
to resort to the doctrine of shuffling expediency in only to be duly considered in order to be imme•
cases where bold and decisive action is wanted, we diately cancelled.
shall indeed fall from our high estate to draw upon I
us the scorn and eontempt of the world. Some

While the principles which govern our chief
educational institutions are forming part of the
pubic discussions, and are being closely criticised
and examined by men of all parties, preparatory
apparently to some legislative change, it is interest-
ing to turn to a large public school holding its
anoual festival, and assembling peers and prelates
and other dignitaries of the State to do it honour.
The Merchant Taylors' Company is indeed some-
thing than a mere school, being one of the very first
of our mercantile bodies, and possessing all those
claims to respect and pre-eminence which four cene
turies of active and eventful life can give to any
institution. The celebration of Saturday was held,
however, exclusively in honour of the school which
is connected with it. The exciting days of exami.
nation were over, but the more gratifying and
gracious ceremony of awarding the prizes so hardly
won was among the first of the day's performances,
accompanied as usual by the delivery of orations,
the acting of scenes from the dramas ot various na-
tions, and the comments of the head-master on the
individual achievements and general conduct of the
boys under his care. With the results of the
teaching the Merchant Taylors have no reason to
be dissatisfied, since out of the eight monitors four
have obtained open scholarships this year, and the
school can already boast of having ten scholars at
Oxford, and six at Cambridge, all doing creditably,
according to the testimony of Dr. HESSEY. Al-
though these statistics and the general ceremony of
prize.giving and recitation might be chiefly inte-
resting to the youths concerned in it and to their
immediate connections, still a scene ot the kind
possesses its attractions for the grown-up man, busy
in the great routine of political, professional, or
commercial life. Morelists may speculate on the
possible dest'4nies of the heroes of the day, preachers
may seradionise on the vanity of human hopes and
ex?ectations, and furetel the probable disappoint-
meats that await ambition; scholars may compare
the result of a test like the present with those that
attended their own school days; but as a general
rule the prevailing feeling is one of genial sympathy
for the eager youths, of hearty good wishes for their
future success, and of kindly yet touching (einem•
brance that the grave spectators themselves once
formed part of a group as buoyant, as eager, as
ambitious. The testimony borne by the head-master
to the general good conduct of the boys under his
charge was highly gratifying, and proves that the
system of discipline adopted in our great schools is
not, as some would contend, altogether a failure.
At the banquet, as we have said, many of the cele-
brities of the day were assembled. Law was power.
fully represented by Lord CHELMSFORD and WENS..
LEYDALE and several of the judges ; politics by
Lord STANLEY and Mr. WALPOLE; the Church of
England by the Bishop of OXFORD ; science by
Professor OWEN; art by EASTLAKE and LANDSEER;
the Universities by the two senior fellows of St.
John's, Oxford, and Dr. WYNTER, whose name has
lately been needlessly dragged into a newspaper
correspondence ; while a goodly show of Earls
and Marquisses proved that the Upper House
was not unmindful of the welfare of the Merchant
Taylors. The usual complimentary toasts called
forth the usual courtly responses, and, perhaps, the
only noticeable speech of the evening was Lord
STANLEY'S reply to the toast of the House of Com-
mons. In that brief address the noble lord took
occasion to maintain the general character of the
House, which he was then representing as
a deliberative assembly, possessing in a high
degree the confidence of the country. For
himself be declared that, during the years
in which he had been associated with its
members, and had taken part in its deliberations,
the stronger had become his respect for its opinions
and his faith in the general soundness of its deci-
sions. This is probably the case with any one who
mixes with a great public body drawn from various
classes, and representing various shades of feeling
and opinion on religious, political, and social mat-
ters. Where the number is large enough, and the
individuals sufficiently varied to represent fairly
the great body of the English people, we shall
always find a sense of right, a love of fair play, a
hatred of oppression, regulated and gaided by the
sound common sense which is one of the predomi-
nating characteristics of our countrymen. But, as
these qualities are confined to no one class alone,
and are no more typical of the peer than of the
' Peasant, there can be no reason to fear any
change, or even considerable modification of
them, in a new House of Commons which
more fairly represented the nation at large. On all
questions of national interest or importance, the
unanimity of Englishmen of all ranks has always
been one of their great safeguards, and there is no
reason top 0(11
iotui
obst, tolohaatnmg
east tienr sd
oorof me
sot ri
oe
administration,finance, and social welfare, would
impartial a discussion as they even do
rgfeouereeesiitgvienonass oefetwa'nd careful a consideration, as tem-
perate
inanad
classes alone, but all ranks of English householders.
The days are gone by when mob orators and demo-
cratic leaders would have been selected by the
poorer householders. We may depend upon it that

no class of constituents will exercise their newly-
acquired right more pruizntly, more conecientiously,

and more judiciously than our now excluded elec-
tors when once they are admitted to the franchie.
They will be eager to show how well they deserve
the privilege, how fairly they are able to judge of
those political questions of which they were sup-
posed to be mere wrongheaded enthusiasts. We
trust before long that when thanks are returned for
the Lower House the speaker may felicitate his
hearers on the fact that that House does fairly re-
present the English people.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

POLAND.
LEIPSIC, JUNE 13,

The Oyczyzna of to-day says
" The Russians have rased the village of Prus-
zauba, in Poland. The inhabitants had bistinadoed
a spy. Men, women, and children have been sent
half naked to Siberia,

" A decree of the National Government prohibits
the purchase of national landed property sold by
the Russians, declaring the sale to be null sod void
even at third hand."

'''..... ~.,

SPAIN.
MADRID, RI NE 13,
At Coimbra, fires have recurred in the houses of
several of the professors. Suspicions have fallen
on 'the students, in consequence of which the
Council
University have suspended the lec.
has been made for the
security of the professors,
tares
some the
provision

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F itANCE.
PARIS, JUNE 14 (Morning).
The Moniteur of to-day regards the death of Si-
El-Azerey as calculated promptly to disorganise
the insurrection.

Telegrams from Algiers announce that addi-
tional tribes had given in their submission.
The attitude of the Klby:es is pacific
BOURSE, June 12.—The arrival of the English
funds with a decline of 7 has had s depressing effect
on the market. Threes, for the Account, have re-
ceded to 66f. 70c., and Mobilier to I,oof. Railway
Shares have been rather offered, and many of the
lines are it present quoted at lower prices. Thu
market continu d heavy to the close, and Mobilier
showed a further decline. Business left off as
follows :

41 per Cent 5....... 93 25 Italian Loan 69 70
Lio. end month.... Do. end month 69 60
3 per Cents ..... 66 75 Ditto Threes..•• •
Do. end month.... 66 95 New Mexican
Credit Mobilier.... 1087 60 Russian
Do. end month.... 1077 50 Austrian
Bank shares 3400 Spanish Threes.... .---
Credit 1, oncier l2lO Home Debt ......
Roman
a4ILWAYki.

Orleans
.0•••
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
New ditto
Southern
Western
Eastern ....
Sardinian
Austrian
Lon.bard
North of Spain
Saragossa..
Ditto to Barcelona

Cash. Account.
867 50 , 865
987 50 .. 987 50
865 .. 865

645 - .. 645 -
50`2 50 .. 505
465 - .. 463 75
367 50 .. 365 -
405 - 408 75
530 533 75
442 50 440
572 53 .. 570 -

THE CONFERENCE,

The following, says the Morning Post, is the des
elsration which was made by the Plenipo!entiariss
of Denmark at the sitting of the Conference on the
2nd inst.:—
" When, at the period of the conclusion of the
Treaty of London, the present .King of Denmark
accepted the choice nude of him to succeed to the
then reigning King, his Majesty's resolution was
dictated principally and decisively by the firm hope
that Europe would know how to maintain that
1 which she had recognised and agreed to by this
solemn treaty. His Majesty did not wish by his
refusal to interpose an obstacle to the integrity of
the Danish monarchy receiving an ulterior guaran-
tee of stability, and he knew by the renunciations
and sacrifices made by those having the right that
in accepting the offer made to him he compromised
the rights of no one.
"Since then things have changed, and his Ma-
jesty has been obliged to submit to a most cruel
disappointment. In spite of his owa efforts and
those of his devoted people—his sole support for the
realization of a work in which nearly the whole Of
Europe had concurred—his Majesty was obliged to
take into consideration the possibility that his hopes
would not be realized.
"If it must be so, if the Powers of Europe really
wish to abandon the treaty of London, his Majesty
to avoid the resumption of hostilities would not op-
pose a territorial cession, provided always that he
should ettain thereby not only peace, but also an
independent, perfect autonomous, existence for that
which would remain to him of his States, and on
condition that the future destiny of the ceded ter-
ritories should not be fixed without their consent.

"The Danish Government accepts, then, in pin-
ciple, the proposition made at the last sitting by
Earl Russel! for the re establishment of peace be-
tween Denmark and the two great German Powers.
" But in order that peace, which we ardently
wish for, may be real, it
must be under all condi-
tions which will be necessary to assure to Denmark

the independence which coca-es to her by right, the
political independence which the Treaty of London
should guarantee to her, and for the preservation of
which the Danish people have not hesitated to en-
gage single-handed in a sanguinary struggle with
forcea greatly superior to their own.
" The Danish Plenipotwitiaries feel bound to ob-
serve from the present time that in the sacrifices
wished to be imposed on Denmark there are limits
which the Danish Government cannot exceed.
"The new frontier of Denmark is a vital question
for this country, It is necessary that she should
possess a frontier having reference to her military
and commercial interests, and this frontier ought
to be fixed by sufficient guarantees.
" There is one other point on which the Danish
Government reserves all its freedom. It is only on
quite special conditions that his Majesty the King
of Denmark will consent to the cession of the Duchy
of Lauenburg. This country was acquired in his
time by the Ring of Denmark in
exchange for a
part of Pomerania, to serve as an equivalent for
the kingdom of Norway, sacrificed for the re-esta-
blishment of the peace of Europe, and it is essen-
tially foreign to the dispute which has caused the
present war,

" Finally, the Danish Plenipotentiaries ought to
claim for their Government full liberty to reassume

the position which it has invariably maintained up
to the present time, on the basis of the Treaty of
London, as soon as it sees that the provisional

and conditional abandonment of this position will
not lead to an equitable and just arrangement fit-
ting to replace the dispositions of this Treaty,"

LITERATURE,

A Brilliant Managerial Career.

MILITIA REGIMENTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.
—A parliamentary return was published yesterday
of all regiments of militia in the United Kingdom, showing
the number of companies in each regiment, the strength of
each company, the number of privates with the regiment at
the last training, the number enlisted between the sth of
April, 1862, and the sth of April, 1853,
and between 1863
and 1864, and the sums paid in each regiment for such en-
listments. From this return it appears that the number of
privates present at the training of 1863 was—For England
and Wales, 60,110; for Scotland, 8,542 ; for Ireland,
24,300; total number, 92,952. privates enlisted between
the sth April, 1862, and April, 1833. for the United King-
d0m,29,293; privates enlisted between 1863 and 1864, 29,236.
And the sums paid for such enlistments were: For England,
£12,044 3s 3d ; for Scotland, £5,001 2s 3d; for Ireland,
£17,273 13s 5d ; total amount, £4,338 18s 11d.
ELECTOhS IN IRELAND.—A return of the number
of electors, according to the registers of 1 562 and
1833, in every county, city, and borough in Ireland, exhibit
the following results :—The total number of electors in the
32 counties in 1862 was 175,188; while in 1863 there was a
decrease, the number being 173,172. In 1862, in the cities
and boroughs the registers contained 31,224 names ; in 1863
the number was 30,673, There has thus been a falling off
in both categories.

Reminiscences of the Opera. By B am in Lumley.
One vol., pp. 448. Hurst and Blackest.
During a full score of years Mr. Lumley was
Dire4tor of that great,Lyrical establishment in the
Haymarket, familiarly known to our fathers and
grandfathers as The King's Theatre, to nueseltes as
Her Majesty's Theatre, An Operatic Manager at all
times in, in his way, somewhat of a Potentate. He
lives in the rarified atmosphere of what, by way of
especial distinction, is emphatically tetened Society.
He floats upon therm:fate of the cream of the cream.
He is not simply an unit, but a very important unit
in the midst of the Lipper Ten Thousand, Nor is
this power, infirientei prgsliqs, whatever
you may like to call it, extends far beyond the
wails of his Grand Opera House, wherever that
may chance to be situated, whether in Fall shall
or in Cavent-garden. It extends far even beyond
the outer borders of Meyfair, of Belgravia, of
Tybarnia—it extends beyond the Channel—it ad-
vances into the capitals of all the great leading
Powers of the European Continent—it penetrates
into the Cabinets of Statesmen, even into the
Cabinets of Sovereigns. Of all this, if attesta-
tion is required by the incredulous, the fullest and
the amplest attestation is certainly afforded by
these Reminiscences of Mr. Lumley's. As a reper-
tory of anecdote, we have not for a long while met
with anything at all comparable to these unusually
brilliant and most diversified Reminiscences. They
reveal the Twenty-years' Ditector of Her Ma-
jesty's, to us, in the thick and throng of all his
radiant associations. They take us luringly—as it
were led by the button-hole—behind the scenes,
in every sense of that decoying and profoundly
attractive phrase. They introduce us to all the
stars, now singly, now in very constellations. They
bring us rapidly, delightfully, exhilaratingly—as
we turn the pages containing them, that is, con-
taining these charming recollections—to a know-
ledge so intimate of what has really been doing
there in the Realm of Song, not only behind the
scenes and in the green-room, but in the recep-
tion apartment of the director himself, that
we are au courant with all the whims
and oddities of the strange world in which he fills
so high and responsible a position, Reading Mr.
Lumley, we now know more than we have ever
known before of such Queens of the Lyric Stage as
Pasta, and Catatani, and Matibran, and Grisi,
and Sontag, and Piccolornini—cf such light-
footed faizi s of the ballet es Teglioni,
and Fanny Eisler and Cerito—of such priori
tenon* as Rubici, and Mario, and Gerdoni,
and Giuglini— of each baritones as Ronconi
and Tamburini, or of such bassi profondi as the won.
drous Standigl and the mighty Labiacue. Nay, Mr.
Lumley takes us out of the glare of the footlights,
'May from the clang of the orchestra into the dt earn-
haunted presence of the great composers of the age,
bringing us face to face, as it were, among others,
with It issini, and Mendelssohn, and Meyerbeer,
and Verdi, and Balfe, and Donizetti. He lets
us into the mysteries of his correspondence
in regard to the successful acquisition by him now
of an Italian, now of a German artiste, for whom
rival Operatic Managers, rival Ministers of State,
occasionally even rival Kings and Emperors are
contending—he lets us, we say, into the mysteries
of his correspondence in respect to such nego-
tiations, now with Count Cavour, now with
Prince Metternich. For—in his doings, in
his movements, in his negotiations, Sove-
reigns, Prime Ministers, Ambassadors, Governments
are turn by turn not merely vaguely and cour-
teously, but directly and profoundly interested! It
is pleasantly illustrative of the extraordinary variety
of people of eminence in different ways with
whom Mr. Lumley, as Director of Her Majesty's
Theatre, was brought into familiar communication,
according to a homely idiomatic expression,
"rubbed elbows," where we fiad him mention-
ing, among a crowd of kindred incidents, the
circumstance of his standing via a via once upon
a time with the Emperor Napoleon IIL. then
Prince Louis Napoleon, in a quadrille with
Carlotta Grisi, Cerito and Taglioni, at the Great
Operatic Director's own well-known vNa at
Fulham, " The Chancellor's!'' That ultra suburban
haunt of the Fashion, where he used to collect
together on the "smooth shaven lawns," among
the flower beds and the shrubberies, all that
was to be found most interesting, season after season,
in the West.end districts of the metropolis. The Re-
miniscences here recounted, in symmetrical crder,
if not always with the strictest regard to chrono-
logical arrangement, extend over a period of two-
and-twenty years, begieuing in 1836 and ending in
1858, within which interval lie the score of years,
already referred to, as marking the epoch of Mr.
Lumley's reign at Her Majesty's, as Director. These
twenty years, it would hardly be any extravagance
to assert, were, all things considered, the most
resplendent in the history of that superb establish-
ment. Remembering it, as he does, in the palmiest
days of his very memorable management, Mr.
Lumley speaks off it, and we can't wonder in the
least at his doing so (bearing in mind, that is, what
his recollections must be) as " the noblest lyrical
theatre of Europe." Troubious though the history
of it has been from first to last, it has always been
profoundly interesting. It was so in the dais of
Mr. Taylor, the first lessee of the King's Theatre.
It is so still—with such artistes yet on the
boards as Titiens and Giuglini—under the skilled
and enterprising and undaunted direction of the
present manager of Her Majesty's, Mr, Mapleson,
From the hands of Mr. Taylor who, by mortgaging
and selling the boxes, began the complications,
thenceforth trammelling the enterprise, year
after year, increasingly, the establishment
passed for a brief time into the possession
of Mr. Goold— thence through a series of dis•
tressing Chancery suits to Mr. Goold's executor,
Mr. Waters—and not long afterwards from thelatter
to the banker Chambers. The father-in.-law of the
popular novelist, Mr. Harrison Ainsworth, in other
words, that miniature Mudie of his day, Mr.
Ebere, first of the Library, later on of the King's
Theatre, held the latter for seven tolerably success-
ful, at any rate not disastrous, years under his
management. He had taken the great opera house
at the beginning of those seven years from Mr.
Chambers, and at the end of them handed it over to
Mr. Laporte. From the management of the last-
mentioned Director, it was that the King's
Theatre, afterwards Her Majesty's Theatre, passed
into the possession, under the direction, under the
mastery of Mr, Lumley. Mr. Lumley, as the world
knows, originally having to do with the House and
its affairs, purely in his capacity as Mr. Laporte's
Legal adviser—finally assuming the sole sway there
for twenty memorable years as, himself, in his
turn, Lessee and Director. As exemplars at
once of the delightfully interesting incidents
he here has to recount, and of his sparkling
vivacity of manner while recounting them, several
passages of the attractive work now under notice
tempt us to give them by way of illustrative quota-
tion. Torn away from the context piecemeal,
though they are, given thus though they necessarily
must be in a mere fragmentary shape, they will
serve to justify our commendation of the book as
one more than simply readable throughout. A
book as enthralling, let us say, as an anecdotal
talk over a cigar in a Richmond-hill balcony,
upon a summer's evening, with some most
agreeable companion, who, besides being an agree-
able companion, has a good deal to tell from his
own experience, and who, beyond all that, is a bril-
liant conversationalist. After this fashion, as be-
tween the puffs of our cigar, we listen to Mr. Lumley
while he thus recounts to us his vivid remembrance
of Jenny Lind's Debut;--
The brilliant appearance of the house inside was increased
by the presence of the Queen and Prince Albert, the Queen
Dowager and Duchss ot Kent, who had all come to wi circa
the dtbut of Jenny Lind. On the entrance of the newpruns
donna as Alice, the welcome given to one who, though un-
known, had already won renown, was unusually enthusiastic.
For a few moments she appeared bewildered and " scared, '
but her self-possession returned. Her very first notes seemed
to enthral the audience. The cadenza at the end of her
opening air—the whole of which was listened to with a
stillness quite singular—called down a hurricane of applause.
From that moment her success was certain. The evening
went or, and before it ended, Jenny Lind was established
as the favourite of the English opera public. Voice, s'yle,
execution, manner, acting—all delighted. The triumph

Lyrical Theatre in the Haymarket, ought to have
been written ! And now that, in recognition of this
fact by Mr. Lumley himself, they have ben written
thus delightfully and, all will admir, most amns

ingly, we are rejoiced that they have been jutted
down and given to the world during his own life.

line, by the well.known arecto;"a own hand

almost, we had said, in the very form, certainly
with all the authority of an autobiography.

A Fatal Error; or, The Vyviannes. By J. Mas-
termau. Two Vols. Smith, Elder, and Co.
*The story of Constance Vyvianne—who arrives,
a little timid child, from India, to prove a bone of
contention to her uncongenial relatives—in the first
chapter--who, shortly afterwards, falling into the
hands of a novel-reading lady, undergoes a danger-
ous apprenticeship of sentimentality—and who ulti-
mately, under the influence of the "fatal error"
which overcasts the sunshine of her life, enacts
(under mistakea views) the part of a heroine, is a
most interesting story, and is most charmingly
narrated. We cannot but think the conduct ot
Constance, even under her "error," a great mittak9,
but we shall not hare enter into a particular aTia-
iysis of that conduct lest we should reveal the
mystery of the book. The first volume, and the
early portion of the second, before the occurrence cf
the event which leads to the "fatal error," is by fer
the most pleasing. The various characters are very
happily delineated, and the domestic sketches are
singularly attractive. Bolton Lance, the lively
sailor hero, is a most delightful character, and
assuredly deserves better treatment than he
meets with from his mistaken bride. Major
Vyvianne is gay and selfish, and Gabriel Lance,
his admiring shadow, occasionally appears to be,
an imitation of Lord Dundreary. Me first volume
is enlivened by an election, and the second con-
tains a very interesting account of the rescue ot
some miners, buried in the earth. The conver-
sations with which both volumes .bound are, for
the most part, sprightly and animated, and the
uevel-res.der o seeks to be pleasurably enter-
twined will indeed commit a " fatal error" if he
neglect to nuke acquaintance with " The
V) viances.''

Expeditions on the Glacier. By u Private of the
38:n (Artists) RAJ Volunteer& Pp. 120.

E. arid F. N. Spon.

This little brochure, written by a member of the
Alpine Club, gives a very animated and interesting
record of a❑ annuli ascent of Mont Blanc, "the
monarch of mountains," of Monte BAsa, of the
Col du.Geant, and of Molt Blufyt. Appended to the
narrative is an extract from the Writer's bill at the
Royal Hotel at Cnamounix for provisions required
for the ascent of Mont Blanc, and other practical
information calculated to 'wove serviceable to irF
tending► travellers.

The Girls' Joicrnal, Parts I. and 11.

The " boys" have for some time past bad a maga-
zine of their own, and now a new periodical makes
us appearance for the benefit of the "girls." 1';:e
contents appear to resemble the Family Herald and
the Lady's Newspaper, without possessing the par-
ticular merits of either. The " patterns" given
may ba very acceptable for the worktable, end the
novelettes may wile away a passing hour, but we
could wish for the leisure hours of the girls of Eng..
land a more profitable employment. Instead of
imitating the sensational effects now so much
admired by older novel writers, the projectors of
this new journal should endeavour to grace its pages
with simple tales of sterling merit, such as the
writings of Maria Edgeworth and Mary Russel
Mitforu. A reprint of some of those deservedly
popular works, with original stories of a similar
character, such as -Miss Tytler or the author of the
" Heir of Redclyffe" might contribute, would render
the Girls' Journal a valuable and enduring publi-
cation.

PRAED'S POETICAL WORKS will be published by
Messrs. Moxon and Co., in two volumes, the first week in
July, Lady Young, the poet's sister, contributes a series
of poems written in early life, for the most part unpub-
lished. Mr Praed's nephew, Sir George Young, is revis-
ing the test; and a memoir of the poet will be supplied by
the Rev. Derwent Coleridge.
REBOUL, POET AND BAKER.-M. Reboul, 01
Nimes, died on the 29th May, in his native town,
atter long and painful sufferings. He was born in 1796, and
continued to furnish his fellow townsmen with fresh rolls
all his life, although his poems had been received so
favourably. The first collection of his " Poe'sies" appeared
in 1836, introduced by Lamartine and A. Dumas. Lamar-
tine's muse has evidently strongly influenced Reboul's
genius, which was not of power sufficient ever to take quite
an original footing. In 1846, a second collection followed.
In 1848, Reboul was member of, the Assembles Consti-
tuante, for the Gard department. The town of Nismes hay
honoured its poet. by a princely funeral, at which the Maire,
the Prefect, all the higher officials of the department Gard,
numerous officers of the army, the bishop. and all the
clergy assisted, accompanied by a vast crowd of people.
After three different addresses, a poem in Provencal dialect
was delivered at the grave. The town is about to erect a
mausoleum to his memory.
PATRIOTIC AMERICAN LADIES.-A recent letter
from Indianapolis says :—" The ladies of Indiana.
polls have energetically entered upon the work of recruiting.
Seven hundred of them, under trick own names, in tilt,
public irints, volunteer to take the places in business of as
many men who will go to the war. This is- more than the
city's quota under the last call."

was achieved. At the end or the r•rformance, the Queen,
who during the entire evening had repeatedly manifested
her extreme satisfaction, expressed to me her admiration
in a tone and manner that snowed how deep an impres-
sion b.ad kelt made upon her. " What a beautiful siok.:,er I"
" What au actress " How charming I" " How deligh:.-
ful Those were the exclamations that fell from the lips of
her Majesty, whom I had never before seen thus moved to
enthusiasm.
As the aroma of the regalia floala cn into the even-
ing air iroln the Itiehmotid iialton7l hear him as L:
discourses about Mademoiselle R tchei
In " Bajazet," in " Andremaque," in " Marie Stuart,"
ehti eleilttified the house, and even in the monotonous
" Aridne," of Thomas Corneille, and the dial! " Taecrede,"
of Voltaire, she worked up her audience by the great force
of her impere,nations to a state of frantic admiration,
Great indeed must have been the power of this ycung actress
to hate net only reconciled the English taste to the un-
congenial classicalities of French " legitimate" tragedy,but
to have produced in her audience a positive enthusiasm.
It is a genuine fact, that many ladies fainted from emo-
tion c urieg these representations, One was carried in-
sensible from the theatre, in spite of all efforts to recover
her. On this circumstance being told to an American
manager, ho exclaimed, " Oh, that's nothing I she ought
to have died in the theatre I the effect would have been
tremendous--what a good puff lost I" The humble origin
of Mademoiselle Rachel is well known ; but few perhaps
are aware that she had not received in her youth the com-
monest rudiments of education, and that she taught herself
writing merely by copying the manuscript of others. On
her first introduction into high society she was greatly
embarrassed by the conventions of tiaa table, and the ques-
tion that once arose in her mind, at a grand dinner, as to '
the proper use of the knife and fork in the consumption of
asparagus, was infinitely embarrassing.
Among the earliest of his recollections, he thus re-
lates the stirring aspect of the King's Theatre
during the height of " The Tamburini Row :"
The famous omnibus boxes were filled towards the con-
clusion of the opera, with the fashionable allies of the
coalition; and it was from this quarter that, on the fall of
the curtain, the uproar first commenced. Shouts of " Tam-
burini I" "Laporte I" " rareburini I" were taken up and
echoed by partisans, and easil3 -led public clamourers, in
various parts of the house; whilst many of the genuine
public raised the counter cries of "Shame "No
in i-
midarion !" "Don't be bullied I" and even evidenced
their sense of the real cause of the disturbance by shouting,
"Turn out the omnibus responded to by the occupants
with cries of "You had better try." Several times
Monsieur Laporte appeared, and endeavoured to
address the aueience, but the deafening clamour
rendered him inaudible. Yells, hisses, shouts, over-
powered every other sound. A sort of stormy conference
took place during this scene of contusion between the ma-
nager and the tenants of the omnibus boxes, whose rage
seemed to increase as the "row" warmed their blood. The
curtain at last rose upon the ballet. Cerito was that evening
to Lave made her first appearauce. For more than an hour
the scared coryphe'es stood ready to begin. In vain I For
the fourth cane bd. Laporte appeared. Fie seemed to have
succumbed, for in answer to direct api.eals on the point, he
promised to make propositions to Tarnburini. But even
this did not appear suldieieut to the originators of the row.
They still hooted, and at last, the whole of the noble and
inshionablo occupants of the omnibus b .xes leaped on the
stage, among them a young Prince or the Blood. The cur-
tain Low fell definitively, and, amidst the sympathetic
cheers of,
one purtiOn of the house and the hootines of
another, the gallant chevaliers of the " omnibus' waved
their hats triumphantly, and shouted " Victory I"
Altogether these "Reminiscences" of Mr. Lum!ey
as Operatic Manager for twenty years at toe Great

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TVA ,ar

HER MAJESTY,

WINDSOR CASTLE, Monday:

Her itljeßty went to Lwacion to-day, expressly
to the Duke of N.fweP.etle, who *ls alarmingly

The Que,en afierwarils went to the Deanery at

lirestminster.

Her Royal Ili:;hness Princess Louis of Hesse
accompinied the gicen.
Tae Hon. Mrs. Bruce and Lord Charles Fitzroy

were in attendance,

His Royal Highness Prince Alfred went to Lon-
don this morning, attended by Lieut. Haig.
Princess Helena and Princess Louise, attended
by Lady Ciroline Barrington,
the Hon. 'farads
Stopford, Lieut.-General Sir H, Bentinek, and
Lieut.-Colcnel the Hon. D. de Roo, left the Gistle
this afternoon for Buckingham Palace.
Prince Louis of Hesse, attended by Captain von
llre,ftery eller, also went to London. _

Prince Hermann of Sclms, Priuca Ysenburg
Budengen, and Count Erbech returned to Lond°ll
lest night.