The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-05 00:00:00

THh SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, rEBRUARY 5, 1864.

THEATAE ROYA. G DRUR Y-L AN E.
3tAgers, Messrs. It :dmond Falconer and
• • F. B. Ch. itterton.
THIS EVENING, the Pert brmances will commence with
the New Serio-Comic Drama, by Edmund Falconer, entitled
12,1 G wr AND MORN. Principal characters by Mr. Phelps,
supported by Messrs. Ryder, Raynor, zjames, and Misses
L. Leclercq, A tAinson, and He ath.
ro conclude with the new Grand Christmas Comic Panto-
mime of SINBAD THE SAILLOR ; or, The Seven Wonders
of the World. Clowns, Messrs. H. Boleno and C. Lauri;
harlequins, Ressrs. J Corma.ck and S. Saville ; Pantaloons,
Messrs. W A. Barnts .and J. morris ; Columbines, Madame
Bolen() and Misses Gunniss.
Priem as usual. Box Offlc,e open from 10 till 5 daiiy.

11,0YAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter.
BEL 131,1110:310 (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated
Every Eve ning during the Week.
THIS EVENING, the performance will commence with's.
New and Original Farce, entitled THE LOST CHILD:
Me,szs. IL Widdicombe, shore, Garden, F. Charles Collett,
31-reland ; Niistses Percy, Pauline Leolerci, Wood, Mrs. Lee,
and Nita% E. Lavenu.
A `te hich, at Eight o'clock, BEL DEMONIO, a Love
Story, in Twelve Tableanx, taken from Stendhal's "Italian
Chronicle ," by Mr. John Brougham. Principal charac
ser by 11 r. Fechter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles,
Brouzh m, Emery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford,
Coi lett, Sims ; MI4S M. Henrade, Miss E. Lavenu, Mrs. Lee,
and Alias Elsworthy.
The Public are entreated to take notice that No Charge is
made to the occupaats of Boxes, Box-places, or Stalls, either
to: play b lls or for the safe keeping of hat and cloaks, and
I at the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden to
receive any grataiti,33 whatever.
Box-office open, daily from 11 to 5. Commence at 7.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.-
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone.
fl LS EVENING, OUR AMERICAN COUS IN : Messrs.
Sothern, Buckstone, Chippendale, Braid, Gordon, Rogers,
Cl Cullentord, &c. ; Mesdames Angel, Snowden, Terry,
Lindley, Hill, &c.
After which, KING ARTHUR ; or The Days and Knights
of the Round Cable. Messrs. Chippendale), Compton, Braid,
Clark, Rogers, Tilbury, &c. ; Mesdames L. Keeley, Brough,
Wright, Terry, Lindley, Rogers, &c.
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Commence at 7.

OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining,.
THIS EVENING, DONNA DIANA.
After which, HARLEQUIL 'LITTLE TOM TUCKER;
or The Fine Lady of Banbury Cross, and the Old Woman
who Lived in a Shoe and Had so Many Children she didn't
snow what to do.

INT TB E A TRE-RO YAL, ADELPHI.-
, sqle Probrlutor and Manwrer. Mr. FL Webster.
THIS EVENING, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS: Mr
J L. Toole, _ _

- - - •
t to Eight, the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bate-
Tian, supported by Messrs. Arthur Stirling, R. Phillips, Bil-
Mgton, Stuart, Stephenson, Eburne ; Miss H. Simms, and
Mrs. Billing-ton.
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enaelude with LADY BELLE BELLE; or, Fortnnio
and his Seven Magic Men. Messrs. J. Clarke, LC Phillips,
Stephenson ; Miss Woolgar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Patti
Josephs, Miss L. Laidlaw, Miss Seaman.

Commence at 7.

L EA H.-EVERY
MISS BATEMAN.

NIGHT.

31ItShSe 1
oB9tAhTaEppMAeara N.
nTee—ofLthEeAgrilea.—tjr HilcSActress EVENING,miss
10..rEM,L.N. in the character of LEAH. In consequence of
the unbounded success with which Miss Bateman's imperso-
nation of the priucipai charac,er in the new Five Act Drama
of LEAH has been attended. Mr isrtbetet begs to announce
that it will be performed EVERY EVENING until further
otice.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. under the
Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER.
Cro ded with rank and fashion.- The New Comedy of THE
SILVER LINING every Evening.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Mathews, Mrs. Stirling, qrs. Frank Matthews, and Mr. J.
L. I oole every evening. The following eminent artistes are
engaged :—Mr. Benjamin Webster. Mr..f. L. To. le, Mr. Paul
Medford, Mr. Frederic Robinson, Mr. Ashley, and Mr. Chas.
Mathews ; Mrs. Stirling„ Miss Herbert, Mrs, Frank Mat-
thews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Went-
worth, and Mrs. Charles Maniews.

KVENING, and during the Week, at 7 o'c ock,
r n entirely new Comedy, in 3 Acts, ty Iricestor Buckinc:-
ham, Esq., entitled 'l' E SILVER I.1:4 '• 4; : Mr. Charles
Mathews, Mr. Frederic Robinson, Mr. Ashley, Mr, John-
s oi,e. Mr. Montague; Mrs harles Mathews, Mrs. Frank
3ralthews, Thss Cottrell, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirling.

To he followed by irr. Charles Mathews just translated
from the French) in nis characi eristic character of 1.7 n Anglais
riiinide, entitled COOL AS A CUCUMBE (:.
To conclude with 1863; or, THE SENSATIONS OF
THE PAST SEASON : Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford,
Mr. A. Cottrell, and Miss Fanny Josephs.

p OYAL STRAND THEATRE.
AA) Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, UNLIMITED CONFIDENCE. Mr.
Belford, Mr. Parselle ; Miss Marie Wilton, Miss Thorne.
After which, the Grand Christmas Burlesque, OIIPHEUS
AND EURYOICE : Messrs. Honey, Wood, James Fenton,
Mesdames Swanborough, Marie Wilton, Hughes, drc.
Followed by MARGATE SANDS.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB. 5, 1864.

The Four great Parliamentary Gladiators con-
fronted each other yesterday—two in the arena of
the Lords, two in the arena of the Commons—like
,6 giants refreshed." Whatever may be thought
of Lord DERBY's good-humoured onslaught upon
OIL: Government—and it must certainly be allowed
to have lacked nothing at all in the way either
of vigour or vivacity-whatever may be the im-
pression caused by Lord RUSSELL'S sarcastic
reraliation—it will assuredly be allowed on all
bands that, lastevening, both Mr. DISRAELI and
PILMERSTON were at their very best. Rouses
so densely crowded, at such an early hour, upon the
first day of the session, we cannot very readily
rzcall to mind. Immediately after the new peers
!end the new members had respectively taken their
caths and their seats—eight new peers, it will he
cbserved, and a dozen new members (conspicuous
among the newly sworn-in Peers, being the late Earl
of MULGRAVE, mow second Marquess of NORMAN By,
and the late Mr. "ArIONCKTON 141ILINES, now first
8,,r0n Ileuctercee : conspicuous among the new
members of the House of Commons, beiug just no
one i% particular !)—Beareely had this preliminary
usiness of the first sitting of the Houses been duly
go, through, when it became perceptible at a
lance, more especially in the House of Commons,
that the Government and the Opposition benches
alike crowded from the front row until far
back under the shadow of the galleries.
In each
House
the debates commenced almost aimulta-
neeealy. For, while the Lords did not meet again,
after the opening of Parliament in the afternoon,
until about five o'clock, the Commons, although
meting at four p.m., consumed very nearly one,
hour with a dawdling delivering-in of notices of
motion. Nearly, therefore, we say, at about the
a,:me time, the opening Discussions of the session—

the discussions upon the Royal Speech and the
Loyal Addresses commenced. The proposers and
seconders of the Addresses, arrayed—according to
the ridiculous etiquette of the Legislature in gold-
laced uniforms of some kind or another, one as a Rifle
Volunteer, one as an officer of Yeomanry, one
as a deputy lieutenant of a county, together so
many doomed oratorical Men in Buckram—had, as
usual, to bear the brunt of inaugurating the &bates
of the year. Happily, perhaps, in one respect,
(though unhappily beyond ah doubt in another, see-
ing that they were dreadfully long-winded) the
the Marquess of SLIGO and Lord ABERCROMBIE
were nearly inaudible, even in tho body of the
House of Peers. While—in the Commons—
f the modest harangue of Lord RICHARD
GROSVENOR were (as it certainly was not) one jot
. better than a mere schoolboy oration, the speech
of Mr. GOSCHEN, the new member for the City
of London, unquestionably rose, before its conclu-
sion, to a level of considerable excellence. It was
throughout a manly, straight-forward, well-consi-
dered address, and was delivered, all through, with
very good effect, the immediate close of it, as just
now hinted, telling admirably from its mere earnest-

nese.

Therenpon,without further parley, came at once the
Tug of War " with a will"—in the Lords between
the Earl of DERBY and Earl RUSSELL, in the Com-
mons between Mr. DISRAELI and Lord PALMER-
STON. Than the remarks of the noble
Earl the Leader of her MAJESTY'S Opposi-
tion, upon the meddling system upon which
the Foreign Secretary appears to be bent upon
vindicating, in the most inconsistent manner pos-
sible, the Procrustian policy of Non-Interven-
tion, none, surety, could have been more thoroughly
exhilarating, because none could very well have been
more genuinely humorous in their application I--
" Nihil intactum reliquit,' " exclaimed Lord
DERBY, quoting from Dr. JOHNSON'S epitaph on
Dr. GOLDSMITH in the neighbouring Abbey,
'"Nihil tetigit quod non' I cannot say
ornavit,' but conturbavit.' (Laughter.) The
policy of the noble earl, as illustrated by his appli-
cation of the principle of non-intervention, may be
given in two homely vernacular words, meddle and
muddle.' (Laughter.) The course of the noble lord's
correspondence in every difficulty that has arisen
has been lecturing, scolding, blustering and re-
treating. (Cheers.) The policy of the Cabinet re-
minds me of another party of actors, who figure in
the Midsummer Night's Dream.' The noble earl
himself seems anxious to combine the parts of
two members of that company—Bottom, the
weaver, and Snug, the joiner. He is, like Bot-
tom the weaver, ambitious to play every part, not
excepting that most satisfactorily played by Moon-
shine. (Laughter.) But his favourite part is that
of the Lien. He says, Let me play the Lion ; I
will roar so that it shall do a man's heart good; so
that men shall say, well roared the Lion.' (Laughter.)
He knows also how to follow the other part of the
example set him by Bottom—how to aggravate his
. voice like any sucking dove. (Renewed laughter.)
He has had recourse also to that ingenious
device mentioned by the dramatist,' Let not the
audience be too much alarmed by the Lion, let
us show them one side of my face under my
akin, and let us say I am no Lion at all, but
only Bottom the weaver.' (Roars of laughter.)"
Lord RUSSELL'S characteristic return in kind, for
which hard hitting—when his time came in due
course for the indulgence of a little tart and
smart telling, if not actually quelling retaliation
—was, it will be perceived, this eminently terse,
almost witty, rejoinder as the very first sentence
of his harangue in reply :—" The noble earl
has borrowed his wit from his memory and
his facts from his imagination." It is true that
we happen to have Lead something exceedingly
like that before. But iet that pass, for we want to
turn:our remarks now, forsome brief while at least, to
the Two Speeches last night in the House of Commons,
the speech of Mr. DISRAELI and the speech of Lord
PALMERSTON.

As bold, outspoken harangues inaugurative
of the Debates of the Session, they were worthy
in every way of the two great statesmen.
We hardly remember when either the noble lord
the Prime Minister, or his formidable assailant the
right hon. gentleman the leader of the Oppoaition,
has begun the struggle of a session with more
energy and animation. The very tone of voice, the
mere personal bearing of Mr. DISRAELI appeared to
indicate his determination to enact his part, whatever
it may turn out to be, this year most energetically.
And this—unusually for him (the exordium of a
speech of Mr. DISRAELI'S, being ordinarily delivered
almost, one might say, sotto voce, with suppressed
power and studied deliberation)—this ringing voice
and trenchant accentuation of his words, being
noticeable yesterday in the right hon. gentleman's
remarks at the very outset, in his very open-
ing sentences. Ex. gr. his introductory reference
to the Royal Speech, as appearing to him to be " a
document not addressed to the time in which we
live, and bearing no due relation to the circum-
stances of the day "—a document of which he said
afterwards, " If it were not for one paragraph, in
which an appeal is made to the unaffected loyalty
of the nation by reminding tea of the birth of an
heir to the Prince of Wales, I really see no reason
why it should not have been composed in any other
year than A.D. 1864." Could anything, moreover,
have been 'more completely, more intensely seti
generis than Mr. DISRAELI'S comment upon one
little result of Lord RUSSELL'S bewildering scheme
of diplomacy, that namely, coming to light recently
in Greece—"We all know that against fate you may
guard, but no human sagacity can baffle the uncon-
scious machinations of stupidity!" Again—when re-
ferring to the English Foreign Secretary's singularly
curt and most irritating because most offensive rejec-
tion of the EMPEROR'S no doubt scarcely practica-
ble, but still humane and magnanimous prcject of
a Great European Congress—the right hoc, gentle-
man delivered himself thus admirably of his senti-
ments : " The position of the Emperor of the
FRENCH," he said, " is peculiar. He has
publicly, almost ostentatiously, proclaimed it
to Europe, and therefore there is no in-
delicacy in referring to it—he has told you
that he is not like the Emperor of AUSTRIA
or the Emperor of RUSSIA. He does not stand
upon tradition—he is not hedged in by the magic
of prescriptive right. He has been created, and
can only be maintained, by the sympathies of his
people—a proud, imperious, and discontented
people. Humiliate the idol, and the worshippers
are disquieted. A considerate ally might have
remembered this, An ally who had encouraged
the very policy which had involved the Emperor
of the FRENCH—an ally who had been the par-
taker of his project, and fully shared his diplomatic
discomfiture—such an ally ought not have received
the proposition for a congress in a spirit of cynical
criticism. I maintain that the natural language of
diplomacy is conciliatory. I say that it is to be
regretted that the Foreign Secretary of State did
not find a happier medium for expression than a
sneer." The perfect reasonableness of all which,
who is there—saving only it may be some thick
and thin apologist of the Minister—will
for one instant venture to gainsay ? Caustic,
however, though Mr. DISJIAELI was last evening,

as Mr. DISRAELI can be when he lists—Lord PAL.
MERSTON was still a match for him, even when his
thrusts were seemingly the deadliest : and he was
thus a match forhim, moreover, with the easy grace of
an imperturbable bonhommie. Taunted with having
no Policy and having no Allies, Lord PALMER-
STON'S reply was—if only for the mere manner of it,
the scarcely perceptible shrug of the shoulders,
the barely appreciable inflection of the voice—ex-
quisitely felicitous. Thus, when referring to the
Schleswig - Holstein difficulty, when that
difficulty gave indications of having reached
a very climax of complication, quoth the
veteran Premier last evening, " We, in con-
junction with France, Russia, and Sweden—we
have no allies—(laughter)—we are entirely unsup-
ported by any one—(laughter)—but it so happens
that, by some combination of circumstances or
other, some Powers are acting with us—call this
what you like—we, with France, Russia, and
Sweden, have called on Prussia to wait
till the the time necessary for assembling the
Danish Parliament, to procure the revocation
of the constitution." Again, a little later on, when
alluding to another incident—" We made,"
he said " many applications to prevent this,
but we had no policy.' (A laugh.) But
it was done somehow or other. We
made this proposal." The House, naturally,
roaring with merriment at each of these good-
humourea rejoinders of the Prime Minister—a
merriment equally contagious with the Opposition
as with the Government ! Unpremeditated illus-
trations by the House of Commons, as one may
say, of—

" Laughter holding both its sidoo !"

Such, altogether, were the salient points noticeable
in regard to last evening's discussions in the Lords
and Commons upon the occasion of the first sitting
of Parliament this session. The drift of those
discussions has not by one iota altered our
view as; expressed upon the instant in The Sun
of yesterday, immediately after the delivery of the
Royal Speech on the opening,of the Legislature—it
has not altered, we repeat, by one iota our opinion
as to the bewildering haziness of that Speech
as a programme for the session, or as to the enigma-
tical character of the Policy of the Government,
even if it should be proved in the end to have really
any definable Policy whatever.

The revelations made by the Sanitary Inspector
at Norwich respecting the condition of the dwel-
lings of our agricultural labourers are sufficient to
startle the most incredulous or indifferent. As this
gentleman boldly appends his name and address to
the statistics which he furnishes, and as they re-
main unchallenged, there is no reasonable excuse
for doubting his statements. In his official capacity
he has naturally come into contact with many evils
which might escape the notice of casual visitors,
and it is certainly high time that these secrets
should be dragged to the light of day, and public
opinion brought to bear upon the matter. The
miserable places which he now describes are, he
tells us, to be found on the estates of noblemen and
gentlemen of good position, who are ambiticus of
legislating for the nation while they are incapable
of ruling their own property rightly. The evil,
says Mr. CLARKE, abounds in both open and close
parishes, but the greater number of the instances he
has now brought forward are taken from private
estates. One of the cottages he has seen
has one small, ill ventilated bed-room occu-
pied by eight persons ! No ventilation would
suffice for such a Black Hole unless the windows
were wide open d,y and night. But our pleasant
English villages abound with such Black Holes.
Mr. CLARKE has seen one in which a man, his wife,
and three daughters—the eldest 20—sleep in a
room lift. by loft. 4in. ; and another, from which

the commonest conveniences are absent, where
father and mother, five daughters, and two sons are
compelled to sleep in One room. One place is de
scribed as " an old clay hut with two chambers ;"
another as "a clay hovel cracked and tumbling
about in all directions inside and out ;" a third as
" a wretched old hovel consisting of two low rooms."
Well may Mr. CLAItKE, as sanitary officer, speak of
the ravages of fever among a population housed
like this, crowded into miserable hovels entirely
deficient in all sanitary arrangements, with crumb-
ling walls and often leaking roof. What are the
landlords about ? Doubtless many of them will
readily come forward with their donations to
charities, their annual subscriptions to schools
and asylums, regardless of the fact that
they are making paupers and sufferers by the
homes to which they are condemning their

poorer tenants. Of such inconsistency, it may
be said, without irreverence, " These ought ye to
have done, and not to leave the other undone.'
Those who clamour for the political rights of the
people had better first devote their energies to
securing some recognition of their rights as civilised
human beings. Such homes as those described
above are a disgrace to any estate, and in their
Lendency to produce fever, to encourage epidemics,
to lower the moral tone, and take away the self-
respeet of the labouring classes, they surely bring
in some degree their punishment. The misfortune
is that that punishment falls heaviest on the inno-
cent party. It comes in broken health, dirt, and
discomfort to the parents, and it opens the way to
the direct temptations for the children. Decency
and cleanliness and comfort are consulted in our pri-
sons; they should surely not be altogether impos-
sibilities in an honest working man's home. As a
well-known writer has justly said, " To keep on an
estate, not only the marketable value must be paid
for its labour, but in that value must
be included real decent homes. If this is not done,
the labour of an estate, ever in a state of transition,
will be one continued plague to the owner and the
tenantry." This need of decent houses is greatly
felt by the poor in London, where the rents are so
high as to be a terrible drain on their scanty re-
sources. Miss BURDETT COUTTS, Mr. WATERLOW,
and others, have endeavoured to mitigate the evil,
and Mr. PEABODY'S munificent gift is being de-
voted to the same good cause. There are some
points about the new houses built by the trustees of
this fund, however, which might, we think, be
modified with advantage, if the object is to benefit
those most in need of help, The rents are above
the reach of the struggling poor who can hardly
keep their heads above water. Yet they more than
others need decent and well-kept homes to preserve
them from sinking into utter degradation. Again,
some houses should surely be built out of this mag-
nificent fund which should be for the accommodation
not of the respectable but of the most needy. It is
well, of course, to encourage respectability, but a
well-to-do artisan, with a little furniture about him,
can with no great difficulty get clean and respectable
rooms, and it is for those sinking step by step, whose
things have been perhaps taken for rent, or pledged
for pressing need, that help is most wanted. Such
persons are often refused admittance into decent
apartments and are driven to low alleys, and dis-
reputable courts, in which they soon become
absorbed into the mass of dirty and disorderly
inhabitants. The return becomes next to impos-
sible, and habits of drunkenness and pauperism
are confirmed by their reckless associates; the
children play with the unkempt and ill-taught
ragamuffins round them, until they too add to the

list of the new generation of our dangerous classes.
In London, as in the provinces, there is much to
do, but while we must look mainly to private
benevolence for the one, we must hope that public
inquiry will do something for the other. Among
all the varying topics that will be brought before
the reassembled Parliament, this should surely not
be overlooked. It concerns the welfare of a great
body of the people whom they represent. It will not
be difficult to obtain full particulars on the subject.
Mr. CLARKE in his letter offers to furnish com-
plete details to a Parliamentary Committee, and we
trust he will be taken at his word. At any rate the
session should not be suffered to close without

something having been done to mitigate a very
serious evil, and to remove what is in the present
state of things a national disgrace.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

LBEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

AUSTRTAN LOSS IN THE ATTACK
UPON JAGEL,
RENDSBURG, FEB. 5.
In the attack upon Segel, the day before yester-
day, the Austrian Brigade Gondrecourt lost 400
men, with many superior officers.
Two persons flamed Hardesvog and Blanefeld
offered themselves as guides, but conducted the
Prussian troops against the Austrians.
Both parties fired into each other.
THE MEXICAN QUESTION.
The Moniteur of to-day publishes a correspon-
dence from Mexico, which contains an extract from
a letter addressed by the Archduke Maximilian on
the 4th November to General Almonte, stating
that his resolution is well weighed.
The advices also announce the departure of a
fresh deputation commissioned to offer the Archduke
the ratification by the provinces of the vote of the
Assembly of Mexican Notables, which was the
condition laid down by the Archduke for his
acceptance of the Crown.
The same authority holds out the prospect of the
early adhesion of Generals Doblado, Urags, and
Etchegaray to the new Empire.

TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 25.

The Levant Herald of to-day says :

"We have reason to believe that the Turkish
Government has decided upon establishing at Con-
stantinople a distinct law court, in the form of a
Tribunal of Arbitration, for the purpose of settling
in an equitable manner all commercial disputes and
d ifferences,w het her between the Porte and foreigners,
or between Turkish subjects and foreigners resi-
dent in the Ottoman dominions. The court will
consist of three members—an English barrister, and
a French and a German advocate. -We have heard
the names ef three gentlemen who have been selected
for this new judicial office ; and we understand the
salary of each has been fired at £1,200 a-year.
This institution may, no doubt, be productive
of great future benefit. It will save the
Porte the frittering away of large sums
in protracted wrangles about contracts ; litigations
on questions of personal, commercial, and inter-
national contention will be considerably shortened;
justice will be promptly administered, and both tte
public and the Government will reap the benefit.
_ .

The same paper contains the following :
" A piece of intelligence has reached us in a letter
from Tiflis, of the 4th inst., of more than usual in-
terest. Four Russian officers, endeavouring to
penetrate into India, for the purpose, it is' alleged,
of joining the frontier tribes in insurrection there,
have been arrested by order of the Khan of Bokhara,
now imprisoned in the latter city. They were dis-
guised as travelling merchants ; but some little in-
dications of costume and speech betraying their
foreign origin, excited the suspicion of the Bok ha-
ralees, and resulted in their apprehension. They
then avowed who they were, and what was their
destination. The Emir, however, suspecting them
of being spies, has detained them ; and the most
active measures are being taken by the Governor
of Auremberg, on instructions from St. Petersburg,
to procure their release. We have this fact on
undoubted authority.

,
Cart CirtuTat

HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Feb. 4.
The Queen. accompanied by the Marchioness of
Ety, drove out yestetday,
Major-Gen. Seymour and Lieut,-Co'onel the Hon.
D. de Ros have arrived as Equerries in Waiting.