The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-07 00:00:00

THE NEW ORATORIO,

Dr. Arnold's new oratorio of " Ahab" was last
night performed for the first time at Exeter-hall
with very fair success. The composition of an
oratorio is a work of no light labour, demanding
musical ability and scientific knowledge of the very
highest order. Aczustomed as the public now are
to the masterpieces of Handel, Hadyu, Men-
delssohn, and Beethoven, a new work of this kind
has to undergo a searching ordeal on its first repre-
sentation. It is, therefore, a tribute to Dr. Arnold's
powers that the earliest appearence of "Ahab" i
should have been an unqualified success. We
cannot, of course, rank it with the old chef d'oeuvres,
but taking it as a modern composition, it is
certainly displays talents of a very high order, com
bined with industrious application. The principal
performers were Madame Lemmens-Sherrington,
Miss Palmer, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Cummings, and
Mr. Renwick. The latter gentleman is a baritone,
and the introduction of this kind of voice is somewhat
of a novelty. The soprano part has the advantage
over the contralto in the beauty of its airs. One
of them, " Arise, arise, eat, be merry," sung with
great animation and effect by Madame Lummens-
Sherrington, completely charmed the audience, who
enthusiastically redemanded it. The same compliment
was paid to Mr. Renwick's solo in the second part,
" For all the Gods." The duet, " The souls of the
righteous," sung by two ladies, was also encored,
though it scarcely deserved it. A little of the fault
was, however, in the voices of the singers. A very
noisy chorus of the Prophets was repeated, but it is
impossible to help remarking how much louder the
modern compositions are than the old. The chorus
singers might with advantage moderate their
voices. Altogether the work reflects great credit
on its composer, and its unquestionable success
must have afforded well-mei ii.ed gratification.

Jeux d'Esprit on Garibaldi,

(From the Realm.) 0
Salve valcle, Garibaldi 1 Welccme to Britannia's shore I
YJu are dear, oh I ancient hero to all hearts of oaken core.
Thou;h true blue be, more than ruby, ploasing to the

taurine eye,
Buil wont run down tints of sun•down—morro w's promise-
blushing sky.
Brave as lions, void of science, cool in fight, in council hot,
Unsuspicious, injudicious, great you aro though wise y,u'ro
not.

Dwell with Sutherland I--no other Duke could such full
trust inspire,
Whose endeavour has been ever to secure the Thames from
fire.

TIIR PROPOSED STATUE, OF SIR ROWLAND HILL
AT BIIDITNGIIA3I.—The following communication has been
received by the treasurer : —" Cannes, Var, Ist April, 1864.
—Lord Brougham presents his compliments to Mr, James
Lloyd, and authorises him to put down his name for ten
guineas (XlO 10s.) to the subscription on account of Sir
Rowland Hill, of which he highly approves, regarding Sir
Rowland as a great benefactor, especially to the working
classes."

"Molt" at the Theatre Francais, is the title of a
three-act pray, and, as the mune signifies, is the
delineation of extreme egotism, as shown by an old bache-
lor, who has a young and pretty housekeeper, over whom
ho tyrannises, and whom he keeps in a present state of
slavery, and also hopes to bind to him for life, as a needy
dependant to be the kind comforter of his old age, The
charming housekeeper is, however, rescued from
the clutches of the old wan by a nephew who
arrives from abroad, falls in love with the model
young woman, and, even in spite and at the risk
of offending his uncle, insists upon marrying her. The
process of bringing the uncle to an unselfish view of the
case, through the hard things said of him by his friends,
their threat of desertion, and at last a self-prompting ray of
generosity left somewhere in his breast, forms the points for
the actor to show his development of character, end have
been very ably seized upon, It is a piece well suited to the
Francais, which loves the careful and truthful portraiture
of some idiosyncrasy, and the result has been a success
which rings in all quarters of Paris.
DISCHARGED CONVICTS. The managers of
Scotch prisons, in their report on 1863, give an
abstract of the returns made by the chief officers of the
general prison at Perth, relating to 561 juvenile male pri-
soners liberated in the last six years. The first half yearly
report after their liberation showed that the conduct of 271
Wds good; of others' it was tolerable or not known; of 54
bad, and 91 had already returned to crime. The next re-
port, half a year later, showed only 187 of good conduct,
and 45 bad, but 187 returned to crime. The third report,
half a year later still, showed 170 of good conduct, 56 bad,
and 267 returned to crime. The numbers
orat
Rtheicthharred
ton three
periods t
Gosport whose
ospcoorn: conduct was
theb
tolerableo ay were 42, 56, and 50,
NNoilas Clerks, of the 25th (
FATAL ACCIDENT.—An inouest was held yester-
dayCameronianm) Regiment,
commanding a detachment of the regiment stationed tem-
porarily in Fort Gomer. It appeared that after mesa on
Sunday
evening he lit a cigar and went out alone for a stroll
upon the ramparts. He did not return. On the following
morning his body was found in the moat which surrounds
the work, and in which the water has a depth of three feet.
From appearances which could be plainly traced on the
ramparts of the work and is the moat it would seem that
he stumbled over a part of the stonework on the ramparts,
and fell over into the moat. His footprints could be traced
round the work in his endeavours to extricate himself to
the spot 'where the body was found. One hand was bound
up with a handkerchief, it having evidently been cut in
tailing over the parapet. The features were quite calm,
and this fact, coupled with the delicate health of the de-
ceased and the shallow depth of water, leads to the belief
that he must have been drowned while fainting from ex-
haustion. An inquest was formally held, and a verdict
was returned in accordance With the facts of the case. The
tuneral, attended with military honours, will take place to-

morrow. •
SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—An accident of
a very serious character happened on the Methley branch
of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway on Tuesday. The
engine of an oreltnary passenger train got off the line and
crossed the rails a few yards further up, and then, breaking
from the carriages, fell over an embankment. The stoker
had both his legs broken, and the driver and guard were
both injured, as were also one or two of the passengers.
A MAN BURIED ALIVE.—On Monday afternoon
a man named Thomas Wilds, who worked for Mr.
Fairbank, a contractor for the Peckham branch of the
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, was admitted into '
St, Thomas's Hospital, having been fearfully injured by an
immense quantity of earth falling on him, it appears from
what can be gathered from him that he was at his usual
occupation when the earth gave way, and before he could
get out of the way the whole of it felt on him, completely
burying him. A number of man were quickly on the spot,
and he was as soon as possible extricated and conveyed to
the above hospital, where he was attended by the house
surgeon, who a. certained he had fearfully injured his
back, hip, and thigh. He lies in a dangerous condition.
FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT AT TORQUAY.-0a Sun-
day a large number of the crew of H.M.q. Prince
Consort, now lying off Torquay, in Torbay, were permitted
on shore on leave. With the exception of some stragglers
they returned on board about 7 o'clock in an orderly man-
ner. Soon afterwards those who had been left behind came
down to the pier—it is said a dozen in all. They hired a
waterman's boat, and two men, named Norsworthy and
Hayman, pulled them off. With such a number the boat
was overloaded, and when only about a dozen feet from the
pier head capsized. Eight of the men were rescued ; how
many are drowned is uncertain for the present, but the
bodies of two men—Hayman, the waterman, and. Winters,
an able seamen—have been recovered.— Western Morning
Arm!,

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

ENGAGEMENT BEFORE DUPPEL.
COPENHAGEN, APRIL 6, 2.45 P.m.
Last night the enemy drove back our videttea
upon the left wing, when an infantry engagement
ensued.

At daybreak our troops re-occupied their former

position.

During the night the enemy extended the parallel
already commenced.
Our loss is trifling.

AMERICA.

SOU UHANIPTON, APRIL 7.

The Hamburg and AmericAn Company's steamer
Saxonia sailed this morning for N6W York with a
large cargo and upwards of 500 passengers.
The Hamburg and Atnericiu Company's steamer
Hammonia sailed at the same time for Liverpool.
The gun fired on board to announce her departure
exploded, killing the gunner.

THE CAPE MAIL.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 7.
The royal mail steamer Saxon left here last night

with the Cape mails, comprising 19 bags of letters,
100 bags of papers, and 12 bags of books, 32 pas-
sengers, and £60,000, shipped at Plymouth for the
Cape Government.

FRANCE.

PARIS, APRIL 7 (Morning).

The Moniteur of this morning says :—" Accord.
ing to advices from Miramar the Archduke Maxi-
milian will receive the Mexican deputation on
Saturday. lie will leave for Mexico on Sunday
next."

BOURSE, April 6.—Stock has been rather offered,
and the business done has been at a slight decline.
Threes, for the Account, are now at 65f. 95c., and
Mobilier at 1,045 fr. Railway Market also heavy,
and many of the lines show a slight decline. The
following are quoted ex div.:—Orleans (Old) 70fr.
New 81fr. 25c. Western 20fr. Roman 12fr. 50c.
The market closed as follows :

41 per Cent 5....... 93 20 Italian Loan 67 40
Do. end month.... Do. end month 67 65
3 per Cents
Do. end month.... 66 Do. end month....
Credit M0bi1ier....1042 50 Russian
Do. end m0nth....1043 75 Austrian
Sauk Shares 3295 Spanish Threos....
Credit Fancier 1272 50 [Tome Debt .. —
Roman .. 77k Deferred
LI.AIL WAYS.
Cash. Account.
885 .. 890
963 75 .. 967 50

Orlearn ...
Northern

New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 932 50 .. 935
New ditto
Southern 650 .. 648 75
Western
Eastern ....
Sardiniar
Austrian
Lon- bl.rd

North of Spain
Saragossa 685 —68 J
Ditto to Barcelona 260

LITERATURE.

A Wonderful Index,

Index Goographzeus. Compiled Speck'ly with
reference to Keith Johnstr.;n's Royal Atlas. One

Vol., pp. 676. Wm. 'Blackwood and Sons.
As a mere matter of curiosity we should like un-
commonly to know how long it could possibly have
taken to build up, as it were, pebble by pebble, this
mighty cairn of geographical information. We
should be disposed to conjecture, at a rough calcu-
lation, that within the compass of these 676 double-

columned pages there must be ranged together here
in aiphabetica: order—from "Aa Moss ; Zealand,
Denmark, 55 deg. 35 min. N. latitude, 11 deg. 30
min. E. longitude," to " Zywiec or Seypus.cla ; Gal-
licia, Austria, 49 deg. 41 into. N. latitude, to 19
dug. 12 min. I°llo' ude"—upwards of one hun-
dred and twenty thousand pieces of just such
precise and valuable (almost, we might say, in,
valuable, because direct and practical) information.
The Index Geographicus, it should be especially
noticed, is, as we have just skid, arranged in one
long streak (as the Yankees would term it) of names,
of localities, of Mountains, Rivers, Valleys, Straits,
Archipelagoes, Gulfs, Peninsulas, S-4ttlements,
Provinces, C ipes, Forts, Hatbours,lslands, Parishes,
Volcanoes, Glaciers, Counties, Promontories, In
lets, Canals, Bridges, Lakes, Villages, and what not
—alphabetically ! That is, in one consecutive chain
of names—alphabetically printed—from the top of
the first column in page 1 to the bottom of the
second column in page 674—comprising the body of
the work : otherwise from the beforementioned
inaugural Au-moss to the final name (exclusive of
those in the single leaf of the addenda) i. e., Zwiec.
It is worthy of particular note, again, in regard to
this marvellous repertory of knowledge of a
purely geographical kind, that while each name
out of so vast a multitude of names as to have
been already computed by us as extending to a
total in round numbers of some 120,000 or there-
abouts—that while to each of these names there
is attached not only mention of the latitude and
longitude of the especial locality referred to, but,
in numerals and abbreviations, reference also to a
given map in the magnificent Royal Atlas (that
ne plus ultra among atlases) compiled by Mr.
Keith Johnston, and published by the Messrs
Blackwood and Sons, of London and Edinburgh—
the Index Geographicus is, notwithstanding this,
applicable, directly and instantaneously applicable,
to all modern atlases and maps whatsoever. In
point of fact, the work is announced by advertise
ment to have aimed, in the first place, at rendering,
itself as completely as possible an Index of easy re-
ferenca to the Royal Atlas of Mr. Keith Johnston
aforesaid; and, in the next place, at becoming, as far
as night prove to be in every way compatible with
this primary object, available as an Index of easy
reference to all other geographical works—howso-
ever, or by whomsoever published, whether as
single maps or as atlases (other than the Royal),
whether published by the Mess:s. Blackwood, or
issued from other establishments than theirs, say,
I for example, from tt e establishments of either

Mr. James Wyld, or Mr. Edward Stanford, both
of Charing•cross. The work before us, as it has
now been completed, we may assert at once quite
confidently, zealises both of these objects—
that is, the primary one and the subsidiary
one—and it does so in a manner in the
highest degree satisfactory. Nay it does more
than this—it has been so carried out as to
constitute itself what it indeed has acknowledged
its aspiring to do—it has constitued itself that
is to say, a direct and acceptable salmi nate for the
Gazeteer. As a matter of course, in realising thus
the primary object with which this mammoth
Index Geographicus was undertaken, every in-
dividual name any where to be found in the Royal
Atlas has in this vast and comprehensive Index
been duly catalogued. In recording thus every-
one of those names, here, in alphabetical order,
the greatest care appears to have been taken, not
in a merely general sense, but in a very especial
sense indeed, to secure exactitude in the nomen-
clature. Meaning, when we say this, that
all the nearly countless aliases of localities have
been duly recorded and catalogued in like man
ner.

M, for example, in respect to names
occurring in the map of Hindostan—in the map of
that country to be found in the Royal Atlas and

equally also in every map of Hindostan whatever—
Pondicherry is recorded here in the Index Geogra

phicus, and so also is Catch, bat with Catch occurs
here likewise as more consonant with Eastern pro-
nunciation Rachh, and with Pondicherry for a like
reason, Puducheri. Ex uno discs orioles. And hence
the whole " Index," as an " Index," is really and
truly about the completeat possible. Another ex-
traordinary facilitation of reference is secured by
the careful insertion of all names having the prefix
Saint—under any and every of its modifications, es
Sainte, S4ll, Santa, San, Snut. The clue of clues
reference—to the Royal Atlas first of all, but
quite as well also to all other maps and
atlases—is to be found, the most naturally

as well as the most securely, in the minutely calcu-
lated meeting-point at every given locality of the
latitude and the longitude. It is this minute ell-
culation of each, that imparts to the work under
notice its conspicuous and most remarkable value.
As a Geographical Guide, and Gawiteer, end Index,
all in one, the work is really nothing less than a
boon in this age of already vastly multiplied, and
still fast multiplying knowledge of all kinds,

On the Phenomena of Hybridity in the Genus Homo.
By De. Paul Broca. Edittd by C. Carter Blake.
One Vol., pp. 88. Longman and Company.

is wonderful what solid and valusble forma-

tion has been here compacted to.„...,tner— within less
than one hundred pages octavo. Another work of
very considerable value has thus been added to the
list• of puliicaHons now commenn d, with a p7o•
sptcl., le! us :tope, of f,sf taaltipiying into a sub.
stantial library, un,fer the auspices and, more than
that, under the cal%.,tui supervision tnd et the direct
instance of the Society of our London Asathro-
pologists. The treatiee here placd within reach of
the E.-;glish reading public is obvious;y, of course,
in no degree coznparahle, in the cotnprehensivenest;.,
of its survey, to its itornfsqliate pred(fc-.sor, !tilt
remarkabe work from the hand of

constituting about the aptest introduction to
the science of Anthropology yet compiled,
penned, too, by one of the profoundest masters
of that science for the we of every slutLiot corning
to it purely and simply as a beginner—a work we
ourselves had the satisfaction nearly four months
ego of earnestly commending, through these
columns, to the consideration of scientific readers
generally, meaning the happily chosen first volume
of the " AnthropPogie der Naturvoiker." It is not,
in this inst-nce, once more to a German master
that the Pub Ashing Committee of the Anthropo-

logical Society has directed its attention, wirti a
view to selecting some new work upon a spec;fio
branch of the science (uot upon the science
as a whole but, let us repeat the words, upon a
specfic branch of it), it is not, we say, to a German
writer wgain that the Publi4hiug Committee of our
Eogiish Anthropological S ,ciety hi's turned its
regard, but to a French antnropologist as profound
in his mastery of the science as Dr. Broca. A
writer, moreover, upon this science whose merits
are such, within ti,e recognition of scientific Europe,
that his present editor, Mr. Blake, can deprecate
his own selection by the learned President
of the Anthropological Society as editor of
Dr. Paul Broca's treatise on Hybridity, thus
earnestly, and yet in no respect at all extravagantly :
namely, where he says in his Preface—" The
habitual methods of thought of Dr. Paul Broca are
so exact, his style [is ?] so terse, his knowledge of
the literature of anthropology so vast, and his power
of application and concentration of ideas [are] so
powerful, that a just preference might have selected
another Editor." Not so—at least so far as relates
to their appreciation of his selection as Editor of Dr.

Broes—not so will the readers of this English

version of this little work on Hybridity, by
the French philosopher, think when they have
-come to read it, or even when they have
come to advance a little way in the reading of it :
though it is agreeable enough, in the midst of so

much intolerable self-Assertion on the part of others,
lo note a skilled and conscientious culivator of the
science of anthropology, such as Mr. Carter
waiving hus any claim of his to the honour ot
being in this manner 4ingel out from among all
his colleagues by his President. A more judicious
selection, evidently, the learned Prt:siden, Dr..

Jamcs Hunt, could hardly have made than he has
made in thus choosing the "other" St2,cretnry of the

Association to endit' a treatise, within the narrow

comp. ss of which so much of the exact thought, the
terse style, so much of the power of concentration
and the capacity for concentrated thought, so much
of that vast knowledge of anthropological literature,
noticeable in the writings of Dr. Broca, are com-
pacted together. A 3 a searching inquiry into the
complex subject of Human Hybridity, the work,
brief though it is, we believe to be as yet unrivalled.

Popular Edition of the Speeches and Addresses
of II R.H. the Prince Consort. One Vol.
ply. 127. John Murry.
As a memorial of our beloved and lementeci
Prince nothing could well be more beautiful in its
Nay than this popular edition of his Speeches, in b
little green volume issued from the great pub ishing
house in Albermarle-street, price One Shilling
'fete very colour of the brochure seems to us appro.
priate—l.ence, indeed, we nave just now mentioned
it—this same popular i sue of the speeches
and Addresses of H.R.H. being in a ver)
fsptcial manner calculated to " keep his memory
green" in the hearts of that Great Pople
who had learnt so to love him, and who
have had, during these last two years, such
bitter cause to lament what still appears to us his
premature disappearance. Popular—in the fullest
meaning of the phrase—the work is surely certain to
be : and it is earnestly to be hoped, bath for the sake
of the departed Prince, and for that also of his
revered relict, for the sake of his Royal
Highness and of her Majesty, that it may be so.
And for this reason—that these Speeches and Ad-
dresses, just exactly as they are, here faith-
fully recorded—these Speeches and Addresses,
just precisely as they fell from bis lipe
in life, verbatim et literatim, now that he
is dead, now that his lips can breathe no other
syllable, at once, to any one who reads them
thinkingly, explain and justify (both, to the
full) the Priace Consort's resplendent reputa-
tion. They explain and justify, completely
and signally, his reputation as a philosophic
thinker, as a keen-eyed statesman, as an appreciator
of art, as a scientific enquirer, and, above all that,
(and how much more!) as a practical philanthropist.
Nay, more than this, it should be said
in simple justice to the nature of the
Prince, that the little work here comme-
morative of so many of hs gentler senti-
ments and aspirations, as a sy mpathiker
with his " kind" generally, but in a very
particular manner as a sympathiser with the
great multitude of the " workers" among hi;
fellow creatures, indicates i❑ the Princes regard
far more even than his wisdom—his goodness.
It is so conspicticusly thus with the whoh-
tenour of these Speeches and Addresses that
they may be said in a manner to underline
and emphasise the epithet distinctively applied to
H.R.H. by the Poet Laureate in those exquisite
verses, which are perhaps the masterpiece of Alfred
Tennyson—that dedication of his "Idyls of the
King" to the memory of the Prince, in which
he Poet apostrophised him as " ALBERT THE
GooD!" As a popular memorial calculated to
perpetuate the in.imate appreciation of his nobler
qualities by the English people, the cheap re-issue
of a work hitherto published only in a
costly form is beyond all the sculptured
monuments, the marble cenotaphs, the architectural
mausoleums, the porphyry sarcophagi that could
be constructed, as symbols of honour to his me-
mory, by the lavished love nnd gri4 and wealth of
a mourning nation. Toe .itt te book is at• ogether
so perfolt u memento o, the Prince Consort, as one
who was " a Prince indeed" that it wou,d b,3
gratification to think the time may yet come and
that speedily, when a cony of it may be lying upon
the parlour table of every cottage in the land, and
upon the scant book-shelf of every toeen mechanic.

THE QUEEN OF SPAIN has presented the Empress
of the French with two magnificent horses of the Araujuez
race—a mixture of Arab and the Spanish breed.
A NOBLE VETERAN.—A movement has been set
on foot for the purpose of erecting a memorial to the
honour of Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere, G.C.8.,
G.C.11., to commemorate his long and distinguished ser-
vices as a soldier. It is proposed to erect the memorial in
Cheshire, in which county Combermere Abbey is situate.
Lord Combermere, who has reached the age of 84, holds the
office of Constable of the Tower of London, and Custos
Rotulorum of the Tower Hamlets, to which ho was ap-
pointed on the death of the late Duke of Wellington.
Russia gives hostages to the future fortune of
Denmark in the announc4ment of the heir to the
Czar's throne having proposed for the hand of Princess
Maria Dagmar, younger sister of the Princess of Wales.
The bridegroom comes of a 4.3 on the 20cn next September,
being four years above that of his intended bride. The
amish Princess is to visit Sr. P.3tersburg in the autumn,
and conform to the orthodox Eastern Chula., according to
the laws of the Euarire,—Letter from l'en.4,

(fauat
nrsnlar
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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, April 6.

E Granville arrived at the (Jostle yesterday.

Toe. royal dinner party consisted of his Mjesty
the King of the Balgians, her Royal Highness
Princess Helens, her Royal Highness Princess
Angus,us of Sixe Coburg, and ner Serene Highness
Princes CioHttdo; the Coantr!ss of Gainsnorough,
Lady in W.,.izirg to hot. M j: sty ; Lldy Caroline
B cringimr, B osch, the Hon. (.;4roline
C ViTalit.ll, Hon.
Lew.- Gaierrit the H.)o. C. Grty, Coi. the Sir
Phipps, General Count de Moerke, ke and
K. eul, gentlemen in attendlucc, on tut Kicg
of
ine Th!:;i.2:ns ; Lord 11;~ers, CoiGnel F. Seymour,
C. 8., M.-I,:r-Gtneral F. Seymour, Lieut.-Colonel
Piqt, Mr. S.Ahl, and the Masrer of the Household,
M jesr.y I hi! K'n;; of the Btd2ians, attended
ov G-•ntTi.J Count de Moerkerke end Dr. Kt 621,
left, the C.:sttu this af,ernoon for Buckingham
Pdace.,

licr Royal Highnee,s Princess Augustus of Saxe
Coburg, their Serene Higoresses Princess Ciotilde,
Prirxi,se Ame.ir, and Prince
.Krdinand, attended
by Madile. de Borsch, left the Castle this morning
for Claremont.