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

FRANCE.

The Pope and Cardinal de Bonald.

The Moniteur of yesterday contains the follow-
ing :

" The Monileur of the 28th of February last
announced that the Ambassador of France at Rome
had expressed to Cirdinal Antonelli his painful
astonishment on thip 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.

" the 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 [tome, under date of the 11th of this month,
to the clergy of his diocese, a letter which has been
printed and distributed in France, and in which he
declares that the Moniteur has been imposed upon
by false intelligence; that the Sovereign Pontiff
had said nothing to him respecting his circular;
that his Secretary of State had said clothing to him
about it . . .; tint he had only known of the
displeasure of the Pope from the Moniteur.

" The information from which the article in the
Monzteur has been drawn up 'Pi as 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. Fresh information, also official,
states tlak t 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 Under 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 subject
to his Secretary of State.' In fine 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.
wager. He tells us that in 1865 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 he made
this prediction, so that we may hear more of this on his
reaching Europe.
VANCOUVER S ISLAND AND BRITISH COLUMBIA.
—The imports into the port of Victoria in the year
1863 amounted in value to 3,888,812 dols., an increase of
333,335 dols. over 1862. The direct imports from Great
Britain rose from 691,278 del% to 1,432,521 do's.. while
those from 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
be 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
1858.63 up to 10,200,184 dols,

The contest between Mr. Kingsley and Dr. New-
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. Longtnan,
begins his answer here, as will be seen, with these
words—" Dr. Newman has made a great mistake."
I❑ writing the Reply so commenced, i❑ writing any
reply at all, we believe, however, that it will become
more and more apparent, 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-
login 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 Mc. 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—panes that elicited
(and no wonder) such earnest panegyrics both from
the Spictator and the Saturday _Review, pages that we
ourselves have read so often since 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. " What, then does
Dr. Newman mean P" 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-
till perusal of the pamphlet before us, is in its way
something akin to that with which wo might con-
template the gifted harum-scarum head boy of his
school, scrawling up a caricature 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
chatk-marks on the schoolroom door, we listen for
the sound of the first "thud," or "swish," from that
terrible instrument of torture, now fairly and firmly
back, once more, as of old, in the clutch of that
pitiless• Master, at once of Style and of Argument.

The Chess Congress of 1862. Rifted by I. at wen
that. One Vol. pp. 536. 11. G. Bohn.

For ehessplayers 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 senthal.
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 bee❑ devolved, wisely enough, the responsible
duty of editing the bulk of the work before us—
being in effect A Collection of the G Ames 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 is mind that the Congress itself was
especially noticeable among Congresses of this
kind ny reason of the extraordinary length of its
public sittings, by reason of the splendour and
diversity of some among the more remarkable garnet,
played during those sittings, and above all, by
reason of the fact that before the breaking up of the
Congress a new code of laws hed been formally
enacted by common agreement among the numerous
distinguished players therein assembled together
from all parts of the globe. It was but right and
reasonable therefore that a Cengress in their severel
ways, so especially remarkable in its character
and results, should have some record in its pro
eeedings, and that that record should be 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 fact, 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 senthal. '['he latter, we
observe, as responsible editor of the volume, offers
his grateful acknowledgments to eight illus-
trated players, to wit, Boden, Heydebrand,
Jaeniscb, Lenge, Lewis, Prod, Staunton, and
Walker for the assistance they have 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 th:s goodly volume all due
mention made of the arduous task undertaken
by Mr. Paulsen in playing ten (even) games, blind-
fold and simultaneously, against ten 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 %V tn. Thos. Lowndes. New Edition. Re-
vised, Corrected, aed 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 calve
the " nucleus furnished by L iwndes," he has deve-
lcped into a splendid and comprehensive work, for
the ankh all future English Scholars will have
rectum to be grateful. It is a work, it
should now be borne especial y in mind,
now that the tenth and conc'uding instalment
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: tege
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, supetficie
ally and unsatisfactory. As the work has here been
revised, corrected, and enlarged, evidently in
most instat.ces with scrupulous care, by Mr.
Bohn, it has expanded from a mere germ
as it were into a ripened whole. And that
whole not merely a fruit, not even, we would
83y, a tree of fruit, but a whole orchard
filled with it in mellow abundance. The learned
editor of the work, as it now is, may 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
thisl Otha and anal Part of the Manual, upon Virgil,
Voltaire, Walton, Warburton, Whately, Whewell,
Wit, Witchcraft, and Zenophon. Now, that the
body of the work is finished, we are glad to observe
the intimatio a given by Mr. Bohn, in his Preface,
that with a view of course to the facilitation of re-
ference, a very useful Appendix is immediately
forthcoming.

Croquet. By John Seques. Pp. 31. Longman

and Co.

Captain Mayne Reid, by his capital little hand-
book, published some time back by Mr. Skeet, has
given the signal to other authorities upon the new
game of Croquet to descant upon it in like manner.
Besides another guide to the rules of the game

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-aufficientEnglialiman
who has suddenly acquired importance by his wealth,
and therefore arrogates ell the rights of position.
The Irishman is to many for his antagonist, and
by a few home thrists 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 pot of the story advances but little,
although Luttrell is brought into crntact with the
American whom we have previously mentioned,
and who, as we predicted, will evidently take a
prominent place among the dramatis persona in
the sequel. The passages which relate to the ob-
stivacy and pride of Luttrell, and his remorse at
the possible consucinences, 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
Mcssrs. Chambers, has this month reached its sixth
Part---pan instalment embellished with a very bean-
illul map of the southern or antipodean continent
of Australasia. Before the close or this sixth instal-
ment of the Gallery, the reader finds himself well
advancing in the Rev. l'hornas Milner's description
of the empire of 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-
ing it off—being a gossiping chapter of recollectioUfil
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 representation 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 an

entertainment of the most extraordinary descrip-
tion. It is divided into four parts, the first
of which, entitled en " Elopement Extraordinary ;
or, Hurry and Flurry," is from the pen of Mr.
Oxenford, and the remaining three, by Mr. T. W.
Robertson, consist of a descriptive, humorous,
musical, scenic, mimetic, characteristic, barometri•

cal, thermometrical, and domestic-comical sketch,

entitled a" A Bachelor's Boa." 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

careiages,about tostart from Tilbury for Fencnurch-
street. Tau first traveller that makes his appear-
,:nca is a negro rne,4odist, one Peter White, who, in •
order to amuse the public until the time of starting,
obliges them with a soug,of course with banjo accom-
paniment—this profitable customer who has cunt rived
to get down to Gravesend for half price, is now re-
turning to London with the half of some other per-
son's excursion ticket. As soon as he has taken his
seat in the third-class carriage, he is followed by
Miss Araminta Hotdfast, a strong-minded young
tudy, who has popped her own question, and is now
waiting for an ardent youth who has consented
to run away with her, The weak-headed young
spark arrives, and having taken their seats in
the first-class carriage, the pursuing uncle next
appears, and is followed by a number of other
cieverly sustained characters, viz., a railway
porter, a newspaper boy, a ticket collector, &c., &e.
The plot, of course, concludes with the forgiveness of
the runs ways by tue uncle, and this situation is
Jleverly 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
four characters, apparently at the same time, and.
with the most 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 window,
inquiring very politely about some mistake respect-
ing the tickets. The situation was very successfully
worked out, and at its conclusion the audience gave
vent to their admiration by the most enthusiastic
applause. •

After a short interval the curtain again ascended
on the " Bachelor'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 have a perfect cloud of visitors. There
is, for instance, the policeman looking out for dearest
Jane with the cold beef and warm spirits, Miss
Pamela Pappington ; the nextra boy to clean the
knives, the chance waiter, the shoeblack, the lamp-
lighter, the sweep, le Commandant Girofleur
Miss Euphemia Pappington, Mr. Fulke 11Jilium
Mr. Gonoph, the Mac Tartan of Glensnuffbogie,
Honest Joe Higgins the milkman, and Mr. and Mrs.
Bowser, c., all represented with the rapidity of
tigntning by Mr. Woodin. The characters are not
merely head and shoulder portraits, but nearly all
tell length illustrations, and of the most aifficult
description. For instance, one moment we
have Pappington in her ball dress, Mac-
Tartan in his Highland kilt, the French
Commandant in his splendid regimentals, the
shoeblack it, his, and, fleetly, the sweep in his soot.
Nothing certainly could be more miscellaneous than
such a collection, and the great wonder is how
Mr. Woodin is enabled to effect such rapid and
complete changes in face, costume, and figure.
Several excellent songs are scattered through the
entertainment, and, as if to fill the measure to
overflowing, Mr. Woodin throws in a Highland
fling, which he dances with remarkable vigour and
bptrit.

From first to last the entertainment was a series
of tillccesets, and we feel a pleasure in recording the
fact, because Mr. Woodin is one of the most un-
tiring and deservedly-popular entertainers of the
public.
Tile hall, which has been beautifully re-decorated,
was crowded in every part—indeed, long before the
commencement of the entertainment, standing room►
was at a premium.

MR. DISRAELI'S STARTLING RETORT— on Mr.
Stanafeld's interruption.--Mr. Disraeli (says the
Court Journal) shone out triumphantly when Mr. Stasis.
Feld was so imprudent as to interrupt him, and to ask
" what correspondents" had addressed Mazzini at Thurloe-
square. "You know them better than I do, I suppose,"
retorted Mr. Disraeli, turning round sharply upon the un-
fortunate Civil Lord of the Admiralty, and looking hid
through and through. Mr. Disraeli is a great actor.--at
least, he remembers the Demosthenic advice to orators, that
"action, action, action" is the one thing needful to orators.
When his lace is in repose you would hardly believe that it
was capable of such varying expressions, and that that
rather demure and dejecred countenance would light up 86
the soldier's face lights up in battle. As poor Mr. Stens-
feld jerked himself forward and spoke the two fatal wortlo
—anly two—the veteran parliamentary warrior saw bta
triumph, and dealt his strokes again and again. " ' What
correspondents!" says the hon. member for Halifax. Wbl
the assasins of Europe. ' What correspondents ?' WbY
the advocates of anarchy throughout the Continent.' Wbat
cATespondents? Way the men who point their poignards
at the bre.tiA of our ally." The effect was of that wagnetic
kind which spontaneous eloquence, driven home then and
there, alone can produce, and Mr. Stansfeld will not soon
interrupt Mr, Disraeli again,