The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-23 00:00:00

FRANCE.

La France, under the heading " Lord Palmerston
and M. Mazzini," says as follows :—" A member of
the House of Commons, a Minister of the Crown,
Mr. Stansfeld, has been convicted in his place in
Parliament of being the friend and correspondent
of Mazzini ; he himself has made a complete avowal,
a motion directed against him, and which would
have been equivalent to a judicial condemnation,
was negatived only by an insignificant majority.
He has emerged from the debate acquitted, but ❑ot
justified, ond all the world, after such a scandal,
expected that he would resign his official position
to preserve the Government as well as the dignity
of the house. Nevertheless, Mr. Stansfeld remains
in office, and Lord Palmerston, in reply to a ques-
tion on the subject, baldly declared that his ' ho-
nourable friend Mr. Stansfeld' had tendered his
resignation, that he bad refused it, and assumed the
whole responsibility of a decision which looks like
a defiance of the feeling of the country and the
house. Such is the incident which engaged the
House of Commons on the 18th, and which the
British press is just now ringing with. It is not
our business to appreciate the unaccountable atti-
tude of Lord Palmerston in this business; we
are content to record the impression it has pro-
duced in the House of Commons. Never were
the surprise and indignation of a great assembly
expressed in more forcible terms. Some of the
most prominent members of the House of Com-
mons, Lord Echo, Mr. Duncombe, Mr. Haii-
burton, Atderman Rise, Mr. Osborne, Mr. Fitz-
gerald, Mr. Griffith, Mr. Ferguson (sic), streati-
ously protested against the presence in tne mtnistry•
at a mau who glories in the friendship of
Mszzini. Lord Palmerston, who, after the previous
day's vote, fancied the matter was at an end, and
did not anticipate the next day's storm, remained
silent. We will not inquire what can have induced
him to shield with his responsibility the conduct of
' his hon. friend,' who is also Mazzini's ; but what
is certain is that this incident has assumed such,
proportions as will render the noble lord's position
in Parliament very trying. A man cannot with
impunity defy the opinion of his country, and the
conscience of Europe. The declaration of Lord
Palmerston is not only impolitic—it is also a grave
infringement of the generous instincts of a nation
which may have granted a refuge to foreign con-
spirators, but which has ever protested against the
doctrine of assassination. As for us, we take due
note of the noble speeches delivered in the House of
Commons; we see in them the real expression of the
feelings of England, and we deplore that a diffe-
rence of such a description should have arisen be-
tween the people of England and the Government
of her Britanoic Msjesty."
The Presse says :—" The result of the division on
Thursday is mast serious as regards the existence
of the Ministry. A majority of ten on such an
occasion constitutes a moral check, and no doubt can
be entertained that these impassioned debates have
weakened and shaken the Administration."

The Temps thinks that the Government will use
its utmost efforts to achieve a diplomatic coup de
thecitre during the recess, and, if they should not
succeed, has no doubt that on this day week the
curtain will rise far the first act of "a MiGkaterial
crisis."

BOURSE, March 22.—The market still continues
heavy. Threes, for the Account, which opened at
66f. 5c., are now at M. 95c. Mobilier, after having
been done at 1,050 f., heave receded to 1,042 f. 50c.
Railway Market quiet, but prices in general pretty
well maintained. The market remained dull to the
close, and left off as follows :-
41 per Cents .. 93 10
Do. end month....

Italian Loan 67 70
Do. end month 67 75
\levy ditto
Do. end month —
Russian
elustrian
ipanish Threes —
Home Debt
Deferred
FA.Y6.

3 per Cente
Do. end month 65 90

Credit Mobilier 1045
On. end month
Bank Shares 3295

Credit 1 oncier 1275
Roman ..

SA IL

Oriettna
N'orthern
New ditto
i.,you4 and Mediterranean'
itiew ditto
S Althorn
Western
Eastern • ...
Sardinian ..
anstrian
1.0-rhard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

Cash. tincotint.
1006 25 1905
952 50 ,„ 960

936 25 936 25
885 - -
667 50 .. 656 25
523 75 .. 521 25
480 - .. 477 50
371 25 . 371 25
407 50 .. 410 -
637 50 635 -
485 .. 485 -
581 25 .. 580 -

The Pope and CardiLal de Bonald.

The Moniteur of yesterday contains the follow-
ing

" The Ilfoniteur of the 28th of February last
announced that the Ambassador of France at Rome
had expressed to Cardinal Antonelli his painful
astonishment on the occasion of a letter being
addressed by his Eminence Cardinal de Bonald to
the clergy of Lyons, giving an account of an
audience which his Holiness had given to the car-
dinal.

" he Moniteur added that Mgr. Antonelli, after
having received the orders of the Holy Father upon
the matter, had declared that his Holiness, in the
terms reported textually by the Moniteur of the
28th of February, had energetically blamed the
letter of Cardinal de Bonald, and charged the Sec-
retary of State to express his displeasure to him
therewith; that, in fine, Cardinal Antonelli took
measures to fulfil immediately the orders of the
Holy Father.
"Mgr. de Bonald thought it his duty to address
from ktome, under date of the 11th of this month,
to the clergy of his diocese, a letter which lies been
printed and distributed i❑ France, and in which he
declares that the Aloniteur has been imposed upon
by false inteLigence ; that the Sovereign Pontiff
had said nothing to him respecting his circular;
that his Secretary of State had said clothing to him
about it . . .; that he had only known of the
displeasure of the Pope from the illoniteur.

' The information from which the article in the
.illonzteur has been drawn up was official. It
establishes the fact that at the date of the 23d
February last M. de Sartiges received from
Cardinal Antonelli the explanations which
were literally reproduced by the Moniteur of
the 28th. Fetish information, also official,
states thtit if from causes that we have not appre-
ciated, the communication from Cardinal Antonelli
to Mgr. de Bonald was delayed, the Secretary of
State affirmed nevertheless, 'that he had, on the
9th of March inst., caused to be transmitted to Mgr.
de Lyon, the expression of the blame of his Holi-
ness for his indiscreet publication; that he had
charged Mgr. Bernardi, his Uoder Secretary of
State, to perform that commission ; that the latter
had sent for M. de Serre, grand vicar, and nephew
of the cardinal, and had requested him to transmit
to Mgr. de Bonald the expressions of blame which
the Holy Father had made use of on the stinker
to his Secretary of State.' In flue Mgr. Bernardi
himself confirmed this information.
" 'this simple expose will suffice to make the
truth fully known."

A GREAT COMET is predicted by Professor New•
mager. He tells us that in 186 5 a comet shall come
so close as to endanger this our earth, and, should it not
attach itself to us (as one globule of quicksilver to another),
nor annihilate us, the sight will be most beautiful to behold.
During three nights we shall have no darkness, but be
bathed in the brilliant light of the blazing train I The
professor was leaving Australia for Bavaria when ho made
this prediction, so that we may hear more of this on his
reaching Europe,
VANCOUVERS ISLAND AND BRITISH COLUMBIA.
—The imports into the port of Victoria in the year
1863 amounted in va'ue to 3,883,812 dole., an increase
333,335 dols. over 1862. The direct imports from Great
Britain rose from 691,273 dole, to 1,432,521 dols„ while
those fro.na San Francisco fell from 2,315,066 dols. to 1,880,117
dole. ; these colonies are thus in course of becoming less de-
pendent upon American supplies of provisions. If nothing
he deducted for re-exports, and the imports be apportioned
among the white population only, it would appear that every
man, woman, and child in these two colonies, on an average,
consumed imported merchandise and produce in the year to
the value of more than 300 dols. The export of gold in
1863 is stated at 2,935,170 dols., an increase of 767,986 dole.
over 1862, and bringing the total shipments of six years
1553.63 up to 10,200,1 it dote,

LITERATURE,

What then Does Dr. Newman Mean ? A Reply.
By the Rat. Charles litogiley. Pp, 48. Mac

millet] and Co.

The contest between Mr. Kingsley and Dr. New- I
man is becoming exciting. It is safe to be very
memorable. The rev. and fashionable novelist, in
his Reply to that wonderful little pamphlet, pub-
lished a few weeks since by the Messrs. Lengtnan,
begins his answer here, as will be seen, with these
words—" Dr. Newman has made a great mistake."
In writing the Reply so commenced, in writing any
reply at all, we believe, however, that it will become
more and more app.arent, as time advances, that Mr.
Kingsley has made a far greater mistake himself. As
a logician, as a master of style, as a rhetorician deal-
ing in iroey—he is no match whatever—we feel this
at every page, as we turn the leaves wistfully
he is no match whatever when opposed to that
subtle and profound intellect which is among the
marvels of our age. All Mr. Kingsley's pamphlet
put together is as nothing, when weighed in the bal-
ance with those last two pages of the little pamphlet
to which it affects to be a reply—pages that elicited
(and no wonder) such earnest planegytics both from
the Spectator and the Saturday Review, pages that we
ourselves have read so often enact: they were printed,
reading them, as we have done, again and yet again,
out of the sheer delight awakened by the sense of
their inimitable excellence of style, that we have got
to know them almost by heart. " Wnat, then does
Dr. Newman mean ?" asks Mr. Kingsley. In eager
expectation we await Dr. Newman's answer to that
pertinent query. Mr. Kingsley " pauses for a
reply"—to his reply. And he is safe to have it.
The impression produced upon our mind by a care-
ful perusal of the pamphlet before us, is in its way
eomething akin to that with which we might cot:-
template the,gifted harum-scarum head boy of his
school, scrawling up a carieature of some learned
and venerable pedagogue, scrawling it up with
touches of fun and freaks of sarcasm on the back
of the school-room door, while the said peda-
gogue (with a bone in his wrist) approaches
the while, " unbeknown" to him, holding in
his formidable grasp a swinging ferula, one that has
been long kept tenderly treasured up in the very
briniest pickle! As we turn from glancing at the
chalk-marks on the schoolroom door, we listen for
the sound of the first " thud," or " swish," from that
terrible instrument of torture, now fairly end firmly
back, once more, as of old, in the clutch of that
pitiless Master, at once of Style and of Argument.

2he Chess Congress of 1862. E cited by I. Lo xen-
thAl. One Vol. pp. 536. H. G. Bohn.

For chessplayers the new volume of Bohn's
Scientific Library will prove a perfect treasury of
information and amusement. It may be described
as the joint production—production we say advis.
edly, for it is far more than any mere cut-and-dry
compilation, of Mr. Medley and Herr Lo menthe'.
The former of these two gentlemen being the Ho-
norary Secretary of the Congress referred to, and
the latter, Herr Lowenthal being at once its Mana-
ger and Foreign Correspondent. Upon the Manager
has been devolved, wisely enough, the responsible
duty of editing the bulk of the work before us—
being in effect A Collection of the Games Played by
the Competitors in the Congress of 1862 as well as
Selection of the Problems sent in, there and then,
for Competition.. To the Honorary Secretary of
the Congress has no less judiciously been entrusted
by way of introduction to this Collection of Games
and Selection of Problems "An Account of the Pro-
ceedings at the Congress of 1862" and " A Memoir
of the British Chess Association." It will be re-
membered of course that it was under the manage-
ment of the British Chess Association that the
Congress was held two years ago. And it will be
long borne in mind that the Congress itself wee
especially noticeable among Congresses of this.
kind by reason of the ektraordinary length of its
public sitiings, by reason of the splendour and
diversity of some among the more remarkable games
played during those sittings, and above all, by
reason cif the fact-that before the breaking up of the
Congress a new code of laws hed been formally
enacted by common agreement among the numereu
distinguisheC, players then. in assembled together
from all parts of the globe. It was but right and
reasonable therefore that a Congress in their several
ways, so especially remarkable in its character
and results, should have some record in its pro
ceedings, and that that record should he one
of no ephemeral description. A record worthy
of it, worthy of perpetuating a remembrance
of its proceedings, worthy of opening out through
its agency a new epoch in the history of
Chess, has, in point of tact, been here produced in
this volume by the Manager and the Honorary
Secretary of the Congress—that is, by Mr. G. W.
Medley and Herr J. J. Lo /gentile'. The latter, we
observe, as responsible editor of the volume, offers
his grateful acknowledgments to eight illus-
trated • players, to wit, Loden, Heydebrann,
Jaenisch, Lange, Lewis, Preti, Staunton, and
Walker for the assistance they nave afforded in the
labour of accurate compilation, evidently with him a
labour of love throughout. Among the marvels of
the Chess Congress of 1862, there will be found at
about the middle of this goodly volume all due
mention made of the arduous task undertake❑
by Mr. Paulsen in playing ten (even) games, blind-
fold and simultaneously, against tea distinct
opponents. Everything connected with the Cone
gress has been deliberately recorded in this
volume. Nothing of the smallest importance seems
to have been overlooked.

The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature.
By Wm. Thos. Lowndea. New Edition. Re-
vised, Corrected, and Enlarged by Henry G.
Bohn. Part X. Pp. 2747-3027. H. G. Bohn.
With the publication of this tenth instalment of
his huge and laborious undertaking, Mr. Bohn com-
pletes his really noble as well as useful biblio-
graphical enterprise. From what he himself calls
the " nucleus furnished by L)vindes," he has deve-
loped into a splendid and cOmprehensive work, for
the wnich all future English Scholars will have
reaton to be grateful. It is a work, it
should now be borne ' especial y in mind,
now that the- tenth and cone'uding
of it has actually made its appearance—it is ,a
manual of English Literature containing within it
an account, succinct, sometimes even elaborate, of
all rare, curious, or useful books either published in
or relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the
date of the invention of Printing downwards: toge
tber with bibliographical and critical notices, as
well as collations of the rarer articles and
due records, wherever obtainable, of the prices at
which these articles had been respectively sold
during this present century. All this in truth
was undertaken to be compiled, collated, and
catalogued in the original work of Lowndes—but
done in that work, as those acquainted with it
know only too well, very partially, superfici-
ally and unsatisfactory. As the work has here been
revised, corrected, and enlarged, evidently in
most inbtacces with scrupulous c ire, by Mr.
Bohn, it has expanded tram a mere germ
as it were into a ripened whole. And that
whole not merely a fruit, not even, we would
say, a tree of fruit, but a whole orchard
filled with it in mellow abundance. The learned
editor of the work, us it now iii, m'►y well direct,
attention, in evidence of the care applied by him to
the toil of compilation, collation, revision, and en-
largement, to the rewritten or expanded articles in
this 10th and final Part of the Manual, upon Virgil,
Voltaire, Walton, Warburton, Mutely, 'Wbewell,
Wit, Witchcraft, and Z-nophon. Now, that the
body of the work is fiuished, we are glad to observe
the intimatio i given by Mr. Bohn, in his Preface,
,hat with a view of course to the facilitation of re-
emeince, a very useful Appendix is immediately
-orthcomicg.

Croquet. By John Jaques. Pp. 31. Longman

and Co.

Captain Mayne Rbid, by his capital little hand-
hook, published some time back by Mr. Skeet, has
riven the signal to other authorides upon the new
same of Croquet to descant upon it in like manner.
Be2idts anothtr guide to the rules of the game

which we presume is being published by the
Messrs. Routledge, hero is this charming little
manual issued from the great publishing houe
in the Row. A sixpenny manual, fully and admi-
rably illustrated with woodcuts, with diagrams and
engravings, and these embellishments scattered
through a letter-press description of the laws and
regulations of the game, at once as brief, and yet
its complete as any one could reasonably wish.
Mr. Jacques evidently understands his subject
thoroughly, and so writes upon it, therefore, that
we read him at once with pleasure and reliance,

LUTTRELL OF ARRAN, by Charles Lever, part 4,
opens with a very clever chapter, describing the
inferiority between the old Irish patriot or rebel,
and the matter-of-fact and self-sufficient Englishman
who has suddenly acquired importance by his wealth,
and therefore arrogates all the rights of position.
The Irishman is to many for his antagonist, and
by a few home thrusts drives him off the field in
high dudgeon. The characters in this chapter are
well pourtrayed. It is in fact the best of the num-
ber. The plot of the story advances but little,
although Luttrell is brought into contact with the
American whom we have previoUsly mentioned,
and who, es we predicted, will evidently take I
prominent place among the dramatis persona in
Las sequel. The passaged which relate to the ob-
stinacy and pride of Luttrell, and his remorse at
the possible consequences, are defined with much
truth to nature; and although certain passages
in the story may seem unreal to the English reader,
a brief visit to the western shores of Ireland would
prob ably reveal facts stranger than any fiction.

THE GALLERY OF GEOGRAPHY, published by the
ML•s6rs. Cuambers, ties this month reached its sixth
Par —an instalment embellished wick a very beau-
mu; map of the southern or antipodean continent
of Australasia,. Before the those of this sixth iustA.
meet of the Gallery, the reader finds himself well
ldvancing in the Rev. Thomas Miluer's description
of the empire or France.

CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL has, in its Fourth and
and greatly improved Series, reached its third part
with the close of the month of March. In it the
serial story, which is still the chief attraction
among the contents, `- Lost Sir Massingberd,"
has extended from the twentieth to the twenty-
seventh chapter, each inclusive. Perhaps the plea-
santest reading in the whole number, among the
miscellaneous contributions, is the very paper lead-
jog it off—being a gossiping chapter of recollections
anent " Mine Inns."

POLYGRAPHIC HALL.

MR. W. S. WOODIN'S NEW ENTERTAINMENT.

Welcome, thrice welcome back to London, genial,
joyous, good-humoured Mr. Woodin, and certain
are we, that every one present last evening at the
first representatio❑ of the new entertainment, will
cordially join with us in our congratulations. After
an absence of more than ordinary duration Mr.
Woodin has returned home, bringing with him art
entertainment of the most extraordinary deserip.
tion. It is divided into four parts, the first
of which, entitled art "Elopement Extraordinary.:
or, Hurry and Flurry," is from the pen of Mr.
Oxenford, and the remaining three, by Mr. T. Wr-
Robertson, consist of a descriptive, humorous,
musical, scenic, mimetic, characteristic, barometri•
cal, thermometrical, and domestic-comical sketch,
entitled a" A Bachelor's Box." After a few intro-
ductory sentences from the clever entertainer, the

curtain rises and discloses to the audience a railway
train, consisting of first, second, and third-class
carriages,about tostart from Tilbury for Fenchurch-
street. Tile first traveller that makes his appear-
duce is a negro melodist, one Peter White, who, in
order to amuse the public until the time of starting,
obliges them with a eoug,of course with banjo aecom.
paniment—this profitable customer wno has cont rived
to get down to Gravesend for half price, is now re-
turning to London' with tne half of some other per-
son's excursion ticket. As soon as be has taken his
seat in the third-class carriage, he is followed by
Miss Araminta Hoidfast, a strong-minded young
lady, who has popped her own question, and is now
waiting for an ardent youth who has consented
to run away with liar 'tor week-hedded young
.perk arrives, and navh,g taken their seats 13
the first•class carri.ige, the pursuing uncle nest
appears, and is followed by a number of other
cleverly sustained characters, viz., a railway
porter, a newspaper boy, a ticket collector, /cc ,
Die plot, or course, couciudes wish the forgiveness of
the runs waye by t'ae uncle, and this situation is
cleverly worked out in a most ingenious scene,
which represents the interior of a first-class car-
riage, in which Mr. Woodin sustains no less than
tour characters, apparently at the same time, and
with the molt astonishing effect. The lady and the
two gentlemen appear to be sitting comfortably in
their seats, whilst the head of the ticket-collector is
continually popping in and out the windovre
hlquiring very politely about some mistake respect"'
lug the tickets. The situation was very successfully'
worked out, and at its conclusion the audience gav°
vent to their admiration by the most enthusiastic
applause.
Atter a short interval the curtain again ascended
on the " Bachetor's Box," a little suburban
snuggery of an old gentleman with horticultural
tastes. The fun of this portion of the entertain-
ment is occasioned through the many disagreeables
poor old Mr. Pappington is subjected to in his en'
deavours to escape a noise. The old gentleman to
please his niece is about to give a party, and no sooner
is the audience made acquainted with the circum'
stance than we haves perfect cloud of visitors. There
is, for instance, the policeman looking out for dearest
Jane with the cold beef and warm spirits, Miss
Pamela Pappingtou ; the nextra boy to clean the
knives, the chance waiter, the shoeblack, the lamp-
lighter, the sweep, le Commandant Girofieur
Mies Eaphemia, Pappington, Mr. Fulke
Mr. Gonoph, the Mac Tartan of Glen enuffbogies
Honest Joe Higgins the milkman, and Mr. and Mrs.
Raweer, all represented with the rapidity of
lightning by Mr. Woodin. The characters are not
merely head and shoulder portraits, but nearly All
lull length illustrations, and of the most alfficu3
uescription. For instance, cue moment We
nave Pappington . in her ball dress, Mac'
tartan in his Highland kilt, th a French
Commandant in his splendid regimen tale, the
shoeblack his, and, finally, the sweep in his soot.
Noi,:ileg certainty could be more MidOellant.iohB than
such a ectlection, and the great wonder is hey;
Mr. Woodin is enabled to effect such rapid and
complete changes in face, costume, and figure.
Several excellent songs are scattered through tho
entertainment, auci, es it to fill the measure t°
everfiewing, Mr. Woodiu throws iu a ilii;niand
thug, whion he dances %vita remarkable vigour cad
spirit.
From first to last the entertainment was a series
of successes, and we feel a pleasure in recording the
fact, becAu6e Mr. Wet,clin is one of the most tie'
tiring and deservedly-popular entertainers of tllO
public. •
The hall, which has been beautifully re-deco,rated•
was crowded in every pert,. ndeed, long before the
commencement of the entertainanent, standing TO02:81
Was at a premium.
•

MR. DISRAELI'S STARTLING RETORT---0n iNfr'
Stansfeld's interruption.—Mr. Distaei (says the
Court Journal) shone out triumphantly when Mr. Sta
fold was so imprudent as to interrupt him, and to as'
what correspondents" had addressed Maraini at Thurloe:
square. a You know them better than I do, r ouPPnEe)
retorted Mr. Disraeli, turning round sharply upon the
fortunate Civil Lord of the Admiralty, and looking' 1:1
through and through. Mr. Disraeli is a great actor'
least, ho remembers the Demosthenic advice to orators,
"action, action, acti al" is the one thing needful to oratoro.;
When his face is in repose you would hardly believo that
was capable of such varying expressions, and that that,
rather demure and dejec ed countenance would light up
the soldier's face lights up in battle. As poor Mr, StsPrs
fold jerked himself forward and spoke the two fatal worui4
—mly two—the veteran parliamentary warrior BaW
,bat
triumph, and dealt his strokes again and again. " „hi
correspondents?' says the hon. member for Halifax.
the assasins of Europe. What correspondents r
the advocates of anarchy throughout the Continent. 'AVIA
correspondents? Why the men who point their poigAarti,
at the breast of our ally." The effect was of that wan
kind which spontaneous eloquence, driven borne then pan
there, alone can produce, and Mr, Stansfeld will not Ev
interrupt nein.