The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-29 00:00:00

TLI SON, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 29, 1363.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1863.

Yesterday—upon the very morning of the day
upon which the Parliamentary Session of 1863 came
to an end—expired, in the 66ih year of his age,
CONSTANTINE, Marquis of Normanby. Scarcely is
the breath out of his body, when a sneering, super-
cilious, almost spiteful, certainly a most depreciatory
notice of the noble dead, appears in the columns of
the chief of our contemporaries. For what it is
worth, we transcribe it, in its entirety, in another
part of our own impression of this evening : com-
mending to its perusal those who list—convinced
that it can in no way prove injurious to the
reputation of the departed peer in the esti-
mation at least of those who come to a perusal
of so supercilious an epitome of his career in any
way dispassionately. When it is borne in recollec-
tion, as is here distinctly acknowledged, indeed, in
the very outset of this scornful memoir, that the
deceased had won for himself so many high honours,
during a not very protracted lifetime, it must
assuredly appear, to the judgment of any rational
observer somewhat of an extravagance to attribute
the acquisition of these high houours, one end
all, to the influence of a nameless something,
a je-ne-sais.quoi, a simple charm of manner, the
glamour of the witche'y of a smile. Suavely, by the
side of his inanimate remains, it is remarked some•
what under breath " Everybody liked him "—bat
then acidly, in a whisper, in a sort of confidential
" abide" to the whole world—" nobody knew why."
Yet, immediately upon this, come those very incon-
gruous acknowledgments already referred to,
acknowledgments in no way harmonising with the
writer's vague and eccentric hypothesis as to the
secret of the late Lord NORMANBY'S success in life
—as a patrician, as a politician, as a diplomatist, as
an administrator, as a viceroy, and as an ambassa-
dor. The late Lord NoRmANBY, heir to an earldom,
won for himself a Marquisate. He became a Knight
of the Garter. Twice he was Secretary of State—
now over the Colonial Department, now over the
Home Department. He was British Ambassador
at Paris during several years, all of them important,
some of them very momentous; the noble marquis
continuing there as ambassador during the whole
of the various stages of the French Revolution
of 1848, in effect up to the coup d'etat of the
PRINCE PRESIDENT. He was British Ambassador
at Florence also at a very notable epoch until
the stormy waves of the Italian Revolution had
rolled over the whole of the Roman peninsula.
Re was for about a year Governor of the most
important among our West Indian Colonies
But, above all, during very
nearly one whole lustre, he was not only
uninterruptedly Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
but from first to last, from 1831 to the turn
of the year
tion 1838-9, he was, without any excep-
hatel'er, the moat popular Lord Lieutenant of
whom Ireland has, even now, any recollection. An
Englishman and a protestant, he was nevertheless
pronounced, at the time,
Englishman Tme, by O'CONNELL, the best
Ireland e
had ever seen ! "Isis reception
in the sister
island,: the Times of this morning
mentions as having
been
departure from Ireland, enthusiastic." His
as at the close of his
reign, we well remember,
having been marked
not according to the ()rein:
b
by
gen:i sense of the phrase
by enthusiasm—but
Ireland
Lord NORMANBY'S departure hom the
e Irish enthusiasm!
Castle at
Dublin, and his final farewell to
when he
embarked on board the steamer
the beautiful
harbour:of Kingstown, being, in point of fact and
quite literally, an ovation! Yet, all this,
We are
asked to regard as simply and solely the recom-
pense accorded by his countrymen to him for his
possession of a handsome form and features, set off
to the admiration of all, by the fascinations of a
winning deportment. This demand upon our
credulity is in itself, to our thinking, utterly and
flagrantly ridiculous.
Another version we have to give of Lord NOR-
3/ANBY's character, and we believe it to be the true
appears to us, far more readily to
one. It certainly
explain his many successes in life, the love and re-
pect of the Irish people, the manly and dispas-
sionate panegyric pronounced upon him by
the Liberator, and the cordial confidence
reposed in Lord IV -.ORMANBY by two Liberal Prime
Ministers, as shrewd in their estimate of adminis-
trative and diplomatic worth, as most men of their
time, to wit, Lord MELBOURNE and Lord JOHN
RUSSELL. Born of an old Tory family, Lord
NORSIANBY, of his own free will and choice, entered
upon public life, not as a Tory, but as a thoroughly
independent and liberal-minded politician—as a
Whig, almost as a Radical ! To his honour be it
said—his maiden speech was in favour of Catholic
Emancipation. It was because he remained true

to those principles or his youth—consistently ap-
plying to Italy those doctrines of genuine civil and
religious liberty that years ago rallied together all
sections of the great Liberal party, for the working
out in the United Kingdom of the great and sacred
cause of Catholic Emancipation—it was because of
this consistency in his opinions as to the evil of
coercion, whether in political or in religious belief,
whether in England or in Italy, that Lord NOR-
MANBY has had to endure so much derision and eo
many revilings, now, during these last few years of
his life, with his health prematurely broken, with
his physical energies lamentably failing him, but
with his moral energies never once failing him i❑
the least. Hence, probably he is sti 1 the recipient
of those sneers and contumelies posthumously when
he has passed away from the midst of us, cer-
tainly (even the most cynical among his depre-
ciators must allo w this) with his noble name un-
sullied, and without having one blot upon his
escutcheon.

The report of the Committee of the House of
Lords en Metropolitan Railway communication is
worthy of attention. It seems from the compre-
hensive nature of the statements that the greatest
care has been taken in the whole working of the
Committee, and the conclusions arrived at
appear likely to conduce to general benefit if the
advice be attended to. The Committee examined a
great number of persons in the course of their deli-
berations (including officers of the Board of Trade,
the managers of the principal railway companies,
several engineers, etc.) In the first place the Com-
missioners advise that the limits of the Metropolis
be extended from these prescribed to the Royal
Commissioners.

The new limits laid down are far more extended,
and hence far greater scope will be afforded to the
railway companies in the exercise of their ordinary
undertakings. Thesecond recommendation is a most
desirable one, and it is to be hoped that due regard
will be paid to it. That squares and open spaces in
the metropolis should,not be unnecessarily taken for
the purposes of a railway. This is an essential
point to be considered, as it must exercise injurious
effects on the public health to have all the spaces
that have hitherto been open closed up with houses
and otherwise impeded with stations and railway
appurtenances. The third provision states
that it would be objectionable to allow the construc-
tion of a great central station in the metropolis
the reason for this being that it would occupy too
much space and be therefore prejudicial in its
effects. It is also recommended that "in the
construction of any new lines of railway within the
Metropolitan Railway district, subways, covered
ways, or tunnels appear preferable where circum-
stances admit of them." Of course the adoption of
this plan would obviate the necessity of numerous
alterations, and the great inconvenience that often
results from extensive clearance, besides the 84-
page to business during the progress of the works.
The convenience of the labouring classes is taken
into consideration, and it is suggested that wher-
ever compulsory power is given to take many of the
houses inhabited by them, due notice shall be given
to those concerned. This is a very admirable ar-
rangement, and one which it is to be hoped will be
agreed to, since the comfort and convenience of the
working population ought always to be one of the
chief objects of the Legislature, and no improve-
ments should ever interfere materially with
their wellbeing. The only station that it
is proposed to establish in a more central part
is the Great Eastern, but it is suggested that
arrangements should be made to construct
one or more lines of railway to facilitate the pro-
gress of passengers to the main stations of the long
lines, and such new lines " not to be, in the
hands of any one of the present -great companies,
but placed under such management as to ensure
equal advantage to all." It would, doubtless, be a
vast convenience to those proceeding on long jour-
neys to escape the irritating obstruction, and seine -
times insurmountable hindrances, that now so often
impede the way, and the plan of making this line
general, and not exclusive, will tend to prevent
serious consequences and angry disputes that would
result in great inconvenience to the public. A sug-
gestion is made that will greatly relieve the crowded
state of the streets at present, that an inner line of
railway should be completed to join or abut upon
the principal railway stations ; also that an outer
circle be formed within the Metropolitan Railway
district, and at certain points to bring the
two into communication. It is proposed that al.
internal communication be under one management-
and that, in the notices for constructing railways,
it should be stated that the line might be so altered
as to unite a part or the whole of such railway with
one or more existing railways or works. In
order to make future legislation conformable with
these views, it is suggested that a select committee
before the second reading of the bills, report their
opinion upon such schemes. Finally it is advised
that the two Houses of Parliament should agree
that all bills connected with the construction of rail-
ways should originate in one house,be grouped tog' -
ther, and referred to the same select committee.
Lord STRATHEDEN made a great mistake in
endeavouring to obtain the appointment
of a commission. As Lord DERBY said, the
report of the commission might differ from that
of the committee, and thus great embarrass.
merit would result. The noble Earl also truly said,
that after the report of the committee it was quite
unnecessary to appoint a commission. Lord
STANLEY of ALDERLEY said the question of
a commission had been very carefully considered by
the committee, but it had been disapproved of for
various reasons. It would interpose great delay
and be very injurious to the progress of the works.
It is satisfactory, to notice that Lord STRATHEDEN
withdrew his motion, so that Rothing prevents
the carrying out of the wise and comprehensive
schemes of the committee. Their trouble must
have been very great, but their zeal and assi-
duity have not been unattended with satisfactory
results, and they have the qualification of knowing
that their advice will be of essential service to the
inhabitants of this crowded metropolis.

A very substantial and practical reform is pro-
raised us during the course of 1864. The metro-
politan turnpikes are positively and unreservedly
to be abolished ! The long standing nuisance which
has confronted the citizen whether he turned
east or West, north or south is at length to be
removed. 'thee met him alike in a visit to Camden
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way nearer home, barring him wfroh
suburbs of Kensington, michthsetoqoudaiinnt theeid
the
less aristocratic high-
ways of Kennington and Camberwell, the precincts
of the City-road, and even forbade him to go many
yards past the famous Angel, of Islington, without
having his conveyance stopped by a resistless and
merciless exactor. The annoyance has really
been
very
great, and, as it interfered with the conve-
nience of all classes of the population, it is really
surprising that even English
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certainly the authorities cannot be accused, as
Lord PALMERSTON would say of the German Con-
federation, of having acted too hastily, for even
now the boon is to be delayed for
another twelvemonths. It " shames our eyes and
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the curious little houses barring the QUEEN'S
highway, the man in ambush, who springs out like
a jack-in-the-box upon defenceless wayfarers—the
white aprons and formidable pockets, are numbered
with the things of the past. Some years ago a
formidable but unruly band of opponents to turn-
pikes made strong resistance to the erection of toll-
gates in Wales. These unlucky and detested in-
stitutions became the origin of riot and even
bloodshed, until, we believe, some modification of
the original infliction was obtained. No such
frantic efforts have been made on behalf of the
Londoners, who have, in accordance with the na-
tional custom, gone on grumbling at the infliction
until the hope of its removal was almost forgotten.
Turnpikes have certainly given us something to
grumble at, which is said to be one of the necessi-
ties of life to an Englishman, but it is almost to be
questioned whether they are not too much a matter
of coarse fully to answer that purpose. It is sur-
prising that the bill has not been earlier introduced;
that no representative of some metropolitan bo-
rough has earned the lasting gratitude of his con-
stituents by introducing it nine years ago. It is
manifestly an unjust as well as inconve-
nient arrangement, seeing that the rate-
payer, who contributes his share to keep
the road in order, is free to use the other high-
ways without tax or imposition, but if he enter on
the domain of a turnpike trust, he has to contribute
towards the expenses of his neighbour's road as
well as his own. In the same way the resident in
one of these hapless vicinities, if he goes perhaps
a mile or two from his house, has to pay another
turnpike in addition to his old enemy. This is
merely a sample of the injustice of the system under
its best aspects, and in fact it taxes heavily any
person whose business calls hiin frequently to some
particular locality where a toll gate bars the way,
while those who have time or opportunity of eyed
ing it do not scruple to do so. It is well known
that the system of evasion is carried on to a very
great extent. Omnibuses turn out of the highway
suddenly and then drop in again, while the Mows
and contrivances of carters are endless. Cabs are
happily indifferent, but the fare is not, when a
blockaded turnpike gate loses him a precious five
minutes, which to London men of business is often
invaluable. The same aggravation is experienced
by those who ride in carriages, who suffer from the
inconveniences and delay, it not from the expense.
All these annoyances, and the numerous evils and
impositions connected with the abuses of the system,
are now happily coming to an end, and we shall
soon see the last of a troublesome, unequal, and
officious impost, which is entirely contrary to the
whole spirit of our social regulations.

AN AUSTRALIAN ROBINSON CRUSOE !—ln Davis's
" History of M'Kinlay's Tracks across Australia,"
a work not long since issued from the press by Samsons
Low and Co., appears the following curious narrative of an
encounter with one who, quite naked, and of a reddish
yellow hue, was seen at once to be no aboriginal native 1
On the shepherds seizing their fire-arms, under a sense of
possible danger, he called out in English, although speak-
ing with difficulty, that he was their countryman. He then
informed them that he had lived for 17 years with the
Aborigines in the neighbourhood, being the sole survivor of
the crew and passengers of a ship that had been wrecked,
so far back as the year 1846, upon a reef off the adjacent
coast. He had been wandering over the country about
Mount Elliott, a lofty hill, above 4,000 feet in height, near
the mouth of the Burdekin, and he must have been but a
short way to the east of M•Kinlay's party, as they passed
down the river. His name was James Morrill, and he was
born near Maldon, in Essex, England, and had been a sea-
man of the wrecked vessel the Peruvian. He was supplied
with clothes by his new friends, and after a sort interval
taken to Port Deuison, waere a subscription was made on
his behalf, and where both himself and his narrative were
the subject of very general interest.
SOUTH-TALLETRA. D OR GOLDSMITH.—A corre•
spondent of the Guardian traces to Robert south
Talleyrand's celebrated snot, "La parole a ere donnee
l'horame pour l'aider a cacher sa pens6e," in a sermon
preached in Westminster Abbey on the 30th of April, 1676,
on " The Wisdom of the World." In his clear logical
English the preacher says —" Men speak with designs of
mischief, and therefore they speak in the dark. In short,
this seems to be the true inward juagment of all our politic
sages, that speech was given to the ordinary sort of men
whereby to communicate their mind, but to wise whereby to
conceal it."— [Midway between South and Talleyrand—the
same identical thought occurs in " The Citizen of the
World," by guileless Oliver Goldemith.—ED. SUN.]
A WHITECHAPEL TRAGEDY—recently witnessed
in the largeroftne two theatres "down east"—is thus
described by a writer in the Spectator of last Saturday
'the piece, he says, was entitled the " Fatal Shadow ; or,
the Man with the Iron Heart." The character may be
gathered from its title. The principal character is certainly
a villain of the deepest dye. Strange to say, he is not an
aristocrat, but an attorney. Of course, the surprising dis-
closures and comings to life again are so frequent as to ren-
der all description of the plot utterly impracticable. This
lawyer—whose " make up" is certainly the tie plus ultra
of villan)—cuts the throat of a baronet who had years be-
tote supplanted him in love, and obtains the conviction for
the crime of an innocent but mysterious being, who appears
to be either a great nobleman or a harlequin, I could not
quite tell which. To make sure, he pours poison down his
throat in prison, and swears he saw him commit suicide.
He ruins both son and nephew of his first victim by for-
gery and fraud, and drives his mother by like means to
suicide by suffocation with charcoal—a magic) lantern view
of the scene delighting the audience beyond measure,
Whenever he is thwarted he comes to the front of the stage
and exclaims, with diabolical grimaces and corresponding
gestures, "How soon it would be done—with a twist—of
my wrist; and ends by drawing a razor across his throat
with a guttural "c-click." He loves, but is hated by, a
mysterious being, "the woman with the golden hair," to
whom he offers twice, under peculiar circumstances. The
first time, on her refusal, he chains her down by a barrel of
powder, her favoured lover close by her side, and then
places a slow match in the powder. The next time forms
the "sensation" of the piece. He throws her over a bridge
in Venice, and then flings her a rope, which, in her death
agony, she seizes. He then exclaims three times, " Wilt
thou be mine ?" At the third time of asking the golden-
haired one spurns him in a series of articulate screeches,
which bring the house down. He then abandons the
rope, and she sinks ; but her lover and the mysterious har-
lequin appear, and the former saves her by a sensation
header a la Myles Coppaleen.
A CONFESSION !—Thackeray, in the new number
of the Cornhill for August, says :—" But that my
age is mature and my habits formed, I should really just
like to try a little criminality. Fancy passing a forged
bill to your banker ; calling on a friend and sweeping his
sideboard of plate, his hall of umbrellas and coats : and then
going home to dress for dinner, say—and to meet a bishop,
a judge, and a police magistrate or so. and talk more
morally than any man at table I How I should chuckle (as
my host's spoons clinked softly in my pocket) whilst I was
uttering some noble speech about virtue, duty, charity I"
L'EMPEREUR !—The only question which men
put to themselves in Paris, in France, and even out of
France, is,
" What is he doing or thinking in Vichy ?"
There, theanxiously
face of every one who approaches the gloomy
paper even went the length of proclaiming that there was
hope for peace, because a gentleman who is at the same
time a friend of Poland and a friend of Napoleon looked
downcast after an interview with which he was favoured
in the Delphian Chalet.
has app ed
Of Shakespeare's complete works, translated by
Francois Victor Hugo, the eleventh volume
already.
The Invalide publishes a letter from Warsaw,
dated the 12th instant, stating that the police had
arrested three men, on one of whom was found an
c.0.0n of taxes, by
order from the National Government to assassinate
theofficer
by whom, as it happened, the arrest was
made. Such incidents," the letter says, " are not
uncommonmmon
at Warsaw." It also states that the col-
wet:
successfully enforced,
paid up.
the Russian authorities, is being
Even the arrears of former
• years are being

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REITTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

POLAND.

BERNE, JULY 28.

The National Council has ratified the convention
concluded with the Italian Government to the
diocese of Tessin.

The Council has also adopted a resolution which
in effect acknowledges the equality of the rights of
Jews in the canton of Argovie.

LEM BERG, JULY 29.
Deputy Count Wodzicki has been arrested here.
CRACOW, JULY 29.

The Invalide Busse confirms the intelligence of
fresh engagements having taken place at Lithu-
ania, especially, at Babelsniki and Petryszki.
The Russians stationed in the town of Radzauo,
in the Palatinate of Plock, were attacked and dis-
persed by a Polish detachment on the 18th inst.
ST. PETERSBURG, JULY 24.

The Invalide Busse states that the Czar has
ordered reinforcements to be sent to the companies
of artillery stationed at liestch, Nicolaieff, Dana-
munde, Wiborg, and Sweaborg.
All the companies of artillery in the fortresses of
Poland have been placed on a war footing.

THE INTERVIEW OF THE KINGS OF
DENMARK AND SWEDEN.
COPENHAGEN, JULY 29.
At the recent interview of the King of Sweden
with the King of Denmark, the Danish President
of the Council was the only other person present.
After the interview of the Sovereigns the Presi-
dent had a conference of an hour azd a half with
the King of Sweden.

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TOTAL LOSS 01' THE STEAMER
PARIS,

SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 28.

The steamer Atalanta, Captain Lewis, from the
Channel Islands, arrivad here this morning. She
reports the loss of the steamer Paris, belonging to
the Newhaven and Jersey line.
The Paris struck on the Grunott rock, near Eliza.
beth Castle, off Jersey, yesterday at 9 a.m., and
sunk immediately. The passengers and crew are
saved, having been picked up by the South Western
Company's steamer Wonder.

WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS,
bOUTHAMPTON, JULY 29.

The Tasmania has arrived here with the above
mails, 165 passengers, 257,349 in specie, and 2,886
packages of cargo.

Her Mdjesty's ship Megaera, from Plymouth,
had arrived at Jamaica. She embarked the 4th
West Indian Regiment, and sailed for the coast of
Africa on the Ist. The Federal ship of war Ticon-
derage, Admiral Gardner, arrived at St. Thomas on
the 14th inst.

The news from Central America is unfavourable
to the cause of General Barrios. It was thought
that his invasion of Nicaragua would lead to his

overthrow.

Costa Rica remained quiet, but the arming con-
tinued. The news generally denoted further trouble
and bloodshed.

News had arrived at St. Thomas of the partial
destruction, by fire, of Porto Plata, San Domingo.
Only two of the merchant stores remained standing,
and property to the amount of 500,000 dollars had
been destroyed. Most of the leading merchants
would suffer, as the trade between Porto Plata and
St. Thomas was extensive.

St. Vincent bad been visited by a violent storm,
causing considerable damage and destroying seve-
ral buildings.

Numerous cases of incendiarism had occurred at
Barbadobs amongst the coloured labourers on the
estates, owing the the reduction of wages and the
consequent low prices of sugar.
Coffee selling at 56 to 64. Pimento--none at
market.

The continued dry weather caused apprehensions
for the new crop. Business dull.
The cultivation of cotton at Demerara was en-
gaging the attention of planters. The weather was
fine for the crops. The import market was well
supplied. Freights were scarce, and tonnage abun-
dant. Business depressed.

Two severe shocks of earthquake had been expe-
rienced at Jamaica, causing considerable alarm.
The undulations took an easterly direction. Imme-
diately afterwards a great change was visible in the
atmosphere, accompanied with rain. Trade at
Jamaica was unusually dull. Freights—little doing.
The trial of the individuals accused of complicity
in the late revolutionary attempt in Haiti had ter-
minated. Seventeen were sentenced to death, in-
cluding the chief conspirator, Aime Lagros and
seven others were immediately executed.

The annual Congress of Chili had been opened.
The Presidential address contained nothing of in-

terest to foreign countries.
Business at Valparaiso had somewhat improved.
The general tone of all markets was dull. Ex-
change 441 d. to 45d.

The Government of Peru has sanctioned the con-
struction and guaranteed 7 per cent. on the capital
for 25 years of the two new lines of railway con-
necting the inland cities with the ports.

The loss of Puebla was received in Peru with

strong expressions of regret.

MEXICO.

SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 29.
The following Mexican news has been received
here by the Tasmanian :

" The yellow fever and smallpox are raging at
Vera Cruz.

•' Gen. Forey has ordered that all goods for the
interior are to be under French protection.
" The feeling abroad is in favour of the French

Government."

Lord Palmerston and Father Curd.

Before the incident referred to shall have passed
altogether from public recollection, we think it only
due, in fairness to Sir George Bowyer, to publiso,
as we do below, in extenso, the whole of the various
documents referred to by him very recently during
one of the last debates in the House of Commons.
If ever a Prime Minister has been convicted of the
high crime and misdemeanour, in a Prime Minister,
of having been gulled, it has been thus in the pre •
sent instance with Lord Palmerston. Old birds are
sometimes, apparently, to be caught with chaff, in
spite of the proverb. For Lilco the discovery of a
mare's nest has been formally and ostentatiously an-
nounced before a bewildered Parliament by one of
the most wily of our veteran Diplomatists, and that
one, moreover, occupying, at the time, the supreme
position of First. Lord of the Treasury. The sub
joined documentary evidence certain ly makes good in
every single particular the positive contradiction
given more than once in the House of Commons b.l
the hon. and learned baronet the member for Dun-
dalk to Lord Palmerston's extraordinary and
utterly groundless statements. To the declaration
of the Neapolitan Nobles, made upon oath before the
Notary Public (Dominico Monti) on the 24th of
May, 1863, at Rome, v,e append the complete list
of names affixed to it. We believe this is the first
occasion upon which that complete list of names
has appeared in print, certainly in arty English
newspaper :

[TRANSLATION.]
Letter of the Rev. Father Curci to Sir George
Bowyer.
ALBANO, May 22, 1863.
Most Esteemed Friend,—You having asked Lord
Palmerston, in the British Parliament, on the 13th
of this month, on what grounds he had asserted
certain things injurious to the French Government,
to the King of Naples, and the Neapolitan emigra-
tion, he cited a sermon preached by me eight days
before ;n the church of the Spirito Santo dei Napo-
litan, attributing to me reproaches against those
illustrious exiles as fomenting brigandage.
Now, I, out of regard for truth, hasten to inform
you that the statement cited by Lord Palmerston
consists of a tissue of unmitigated falsehoods. In
my sermon, not only I uttered no word regarding,
but I made not the slightest allusion, direct or in-
direct, to the King of Naples, the reaction or
brigandage,—to what the Neapolitans at Rome do,
or ought to do, nor to anything of the sort. Indeed,
the subject treated in my discourse had no connec-
tion with such matters, for its object was to exhort
my hearers to avoid idleness, and to employ usefully
the time which God allows us. Of all this I have as
many witnesses as I had hearers, among whom, I
believe, many Romans were included, as the sermon
was preached in a public church, and with open
doors,

Lord Palmerston said that you were able to pro-
cure accurate information regarding this fact, and
I am glad to have been able to furnish you with it.
If you can find the means of communicating it to
those who heard those false assertions, I am con-
vinced that your worthy colleagues will learn with
regrte and shame that a Prime Minister, in an
English Parliament, should bring forward such ab
surdities.—Believe me, your affectionate friend,
C. M. CURCI,

[TRANSLATION.]
Letter of Neapolitan Nobitity at Rome to Sir

George Bowyer.

ROME, May 27, 1863.
Sir,—With feelings of gratitude to you and the
other honourable members who have taken the de-
fence of our unfortunate country, oppressed by the
cruelty and rapacity of the Piedmontese Govern-
ment and its partizans, we send you herewith a
legal declaration against an assertion of Lord Pal
merston. May England, who is the teacher of
►iberty to Europe, and the greatest defence of civi-
liz ition—comprehend that war of falsehoods and
calumnies which has dragged our country into such
great misfortunes, and see that the kingdom of the
Two Sicilies is oppressed by the most iniquitous
tyranny—the hypocrisy of liberty. If lies and
calumnies are invented, even regarding a sermon
preached before many hundreds of persons, what
are we to believe regarding the information received
by the present Cabinet of St. James'?
No, your great and generous nation cannot any
longer be deceived, and the day must come when
she will comprehend that in a great degree she is
burthened with the responsibility of the crimes
eommitted by the Piedmontese Government. Re
newing our thanks to ycu and to your honourable
colleagues, we declare ourselves respectfully your
obedient servants,
(Signed) Count Francis Statella.
The Prince of Bisegnomo.
The Duke of Regina.
Cavaliere Natalidi Attavella.
Joseph Ricciordi Count of Camaldoli.
Baron Camillo Nolli.
The Duke John Riorio Sforza.
The Prince of Chiaramonte.
'l he Prince of Aquavive.
The Duke of Maddaloni.
Count Enrico Statella.
Count Anthony Bianculli.
The Duke of Terra Conziano.
The Duke of S. Valentino.

Extract from a solemn legal declaration made at
Rome, the 24Th of May, 1863, before Dominico
Monti Notary Public, and recorded in his office,
being a deposition. Ad perpetuam rei memoriam.
Before me, Domenico Monti Notary Public, &c.,
&e., appeared the witnesses hereinafter named—
that is to say :
His Most Rev. Excellency Monsignor Accardi, Bishop di
Anglona a Tursi.
His Most Rev. Excellency Monsignor Celesia, Bishop di
Catti.
The Most Rev. Abbot della Sanctissima Trinita, &c.,
Monsignor de Ruggiero.
The Most Rev. Abbot di Monte Vergine, Monsignor de
Cesare.
His Lordship the Prince di Bisignano D. Pietro, An-
tonio Sanseverino.
His Lordship the Marquis D. Michele Imperiale de Prin-
cipi, di Francarilla.
His Lordship the Prince D. Diego Pignatelli, di Monte-
leone Borgia.
The Baron D. Camillo Nolli.
The Prince di Acquaviva Gio Battista di Mari.
The Count D. Francesco Statells, di Principi de Cossaro,
The Duke di Maddaloni and Prince di Colobrano, Fran-
cesco Proto.
Cav Giuseppe Natale Gagliani di Attavilla.
The Count D. Enrico Statella di Principi Cossaro.
The Count di Chiavomente D. Giulio Guicciardi.
Cay. D. Francesco Bonanno di Principi di Linguagrossa.
The Count di Camaldoli D. Giulio Guicciardi.
The Count D. Raffaele Gaetani.
His Lordship D. Carlo Duke dell% Regina.
The Duke di San Valentino D. Fran, Capue Mimetolo.
The Duke D. Giovanni Riario Sforza.
Cay. D. Adolfo Caraccioli di Principi di Castagneta.
The Duke di Lenolangiano D, Gio Maria d'Alessandro—
who spontaneously make and have made the
following deposition. Declaring that having
heard on the 3d of the present month the ser-
mon of the Rev. Father Curci in the Venerable
Church of the Spirito Tanto dei Neapolitan ;
the said Father Curci said not a word, nor did he
make any allusion direct, or indirect even in the
most remote manner, to or regarding the King or
the reaction, or the improperly called brigandage.
We also declare that the said Rev. Father Curti
preached about the vice of idleness, and not about
the so-called brigandage. And we further declare
that the said Father Cum never preached any
other sermon before his sacred Majesty the King,
our Lord, nor before the Neapolitan emigration re-
siding at Rome. This we declare to be the simple
truth, which we are ready to affirm on oath before
any competent tribunal.
[The signatures of the above 22 witnesses, Pre-
lates, Princes, Dukes, Counts, &c., here follow in
due succession.]

THE HOUSE-CRICKET is essentially nocturnal in its
habits, seldom venturing forth until darkness and
silence encourage its exit from the snug nooks and cranies
which form its daylight lodgings. As may be imagined
from the hot places they frequent, these insects are of a
very thirsty nature, attacking whatever is moist, often
gnawing holes in wet clothes which are hung by the fire to
dry. Their chirping noise is the result of a brisk friction
of the wing-covers, and may be generally silenced for a time
by any rival noise, Crickets multiply so rapidly that atter
a few years we cease to give them wacurne, notwithstand-
ing all that poets bave sung in their raise,

THE HEIGHT OF ABSURDITY.

____._o

It—that is the Height of Absurdity—has surely been
reached at last by the new French sensation novel, entitled
"Le Nez d'un Notaire." This utter extravagance is the
actual production of M. Edmond About, the vaunted
apostle, if we may venture to call him so, of the sneering
infidelity of the age. His last nonsensical masterpiece is not
only published by the Messrs. Michel Levy Freres, of Paris,
but has absolutely attained already the glory (such as it is)
of a third edition. And as illustrative of the reach of folly
from which such writers as M. Edmond About do not shrink,
we transcribe from the Reader of Saturday an ingenious
synopsis of the work :
M. Alfred L'Ambert, the hero of the silly book, is a public
notary in the Faubourg St. Germain—a perfect gentleman,
by birth, education, and manners—tall and well-made—has
fine largo eyes, an Olympian forehead, beard and hair of the
most amiable blond, and a Roman nose—that is, nose
number one. M. Alfred L'Ambert, this Adonis notary,
gets into a quarrel one ever ing at the stage door of the
opera, where the short-sighted notary by mistake deals a
violent blow on the nose to the Tut kish secretary of embassy.
Thereupon Ayvas Bey takes a solemn oath that he will
seek retaliation, and then and there provokes his adversary
to a duel. 'The affair of honour takes place not many
hours after, in the early dawn of the morning, near the
village of Parthenay, on the road to Sceaux. Before
entering the field of combat, M. Alfred L'Ambert
perceives an ill - looking tom - cat grinning at him
from a tree, and threatens to kill it, but with the only eff-et
of driving the animal further into the wood, just above his
head at the place of duel, The " affair of honour " is set-
tled in a few seconds. Swords having been chosen, Ayvas
Bey, leading the attack, makes short work of the business
by cutting off his rival's nose. Poor M. L'Ambert falls
into the arms of the doctor, who consoles him with the as-
surance that the precious ornament of his face may easily
be sewn on again. The belligerents then look for the nose,
but to their horror find that it has disappeared. The tom-
cat has run away with it. So they all, duellists and se-
conds, comprising a marquis, a stockbroker, and three
Turks, run after the tom-cat, which is perceived capering
away, carrying off the most ornamental part of M. L'Am-
bert's face, The pursuers follow close for more than three
miles, through field, forest, and meadow, M. L'Ambert, all
bleeding, animating his companions by word and example.
" Those who have never seen a notary running after his
nose can form no idea of the zeal of his pursuit," remarks
M. About. But, in spite of all the ardour of the chase, the
tom-cat escapes finally—and the consequence is that the
handsome notary has to return to Paris without his nose.

When he has reached his residence a surgeon is sent for
—which surgeon is the celebrated Dr. Bernier. The first
question asked by M. L'Ambert is—" Can you restore the
missing part of my face ?" " Oh, yes," replies the
man of science ;" that is no very difficult matter;
and there are even three ways of doing it, among
which you may choose. There is the French method,
the Indian method, and the Italian. The first consists in
cutting enough flesh for making a new nose out of your
cheek, the second is borrowing it from Your forehead, arid
the third from your arm." The notary is horror. struck at
each of these propositions, and ready to drive the doctor out
of the room at once. But the enthusiastic M. Bernier insists
with plaintive eloquence :--" Do let me cut you a nose out
of your arm." After long discussion, a compromise is arrived
at. A poor wretch of a water-carrier, called Romagne, a
fellow six feet high, with plenty of flesh, but not a penny in
his pocket, is called up from the street, and after some
gentle persuasion consents—damages, 2,000t.—t0 have a
piece of flesia large enough for a nose cut out of his left
arm, but not quite detached, and to be tied afterwards for the
period of a u,onth to the handsome notary, in such a man-
ner that the fibres and blood• vessels may grow I rom the one
body over to the other. The plan, carried out carefully,
succeeds to perfection. At the end of less than five weeks
the two Siamese twins are separated, and M. Alf. L'Ambert
is enabled to go forth again into the world of Paris more
good-low.ing than ever. Instead of a Roman, he has now
a Grecian nose, which is greatly admired by the ladies as
being both novel and of the most elgant shape. During a
whole season, the lucky notary is the leading lion at the
club and the green-room, and it is only when the win-
ter sets in that freeb clouds appear on the horizon. The
beautiful nose on a sudden takes a reddish tinge, and soon
begins to look scarlet. Dr. Bernier, who is called in,
tries palliatives, but in vain. Aft er long and d, ep cogita-
tion, the distinguished surgeon at last discovers the cause
of the evil, It is the occult influence of Romagne over the
nose made out of his own flesh. Romagne is sought for;
and it is found that he has taken to drinking—the 2,000
francs which he earned by the scientific operation having
proved too great a temptation for him to remain at the water
cart. Fortunately, the money is spent now ; and Romagne,
promising to be sober for the future, is sent away with a
blessing and a sfr. piece. M. Altred L'Ambert's nose for
the next twelve months is all right. Once more, however,
distress is looming in the future. The Greek nose one fine
morning is found to be limp. Romagne is looked after
immediately, and is discovered to be in a dying state for
want of food. Of course, he is transported on the instant
to the mansion of M. L'Ambert, is nursee tenderly, and,
like a healthy wretch, recovers in a few days. S , too, the
nose gets well again; and its leaseholder, warned by re-
peated accidents, resolve• finally to settle in life and keep
an eye upon Romagne. These plans are soon ripe for exe-
cution. Mdlle. Irma Steimbourg, the daughter of a wealthy
merchant, consents to give her hand to M. L'AmLert, and
the marriage is fixed to take place on the 3d March, at one
o'clock precisely.
On March 3, at 8 o'clock in the morning, M. Alfred
L'Ambert awakes from his slumbers, smiling at the first
rays of a beautiful day. To clear up his ideas, he takes his
batist handkerchief from under his pillow, and brings it to
his nose Good heavens I there is no nose—the handker-
chief meets nothing but empty space.
With one bound the notary is out of bed and before his
mirror. Horror of horrors I the day of Pathenay has
come agaia. To run back to his bad, search the sheets and
blankets, drive into the mattress, and explore the neigh-
bouring furniture, is the work of a minute. But there is
no nose.

Nothing ! nothing I nothing I
The belt in an instant brings all the servants of the house
together, and M. L'Anabert swears that he will turn the
whole lot off like dogs unless they find his nose. 'nay
search as it frantic, but the nose caunot be• fuuud.

Meanwhile. M. Steimbourg, senior, has put on his gala
dress, his blue habit with gold buttons ; and Madame
Steimbourg is busy surveying the toilet of the beautiful
Irma, who is in the hands of two ladies'-maids and three
dressmakers. The white bride, covered all over with rice-
powder, like a gudgeon got ready for the trying pan, Stamps
her pretty little foot fur impatience, chiding all the people
around with admirable impartiality.

Having waited for half-an-hour beyond the time ap-
pointed for the ceremony, the bade at last hears the dread-
ful news. She has a heroic movement :

" What I do you think," she exclaims, " that I should
be so low and vulgar as to marry a man merely for the sake
of his face ? Had it been for that, I might have chosen my
cousin Roderick, who is much better looking though not so
rich as M. L'Ambert I have accepted the hand of M.
L'Ambert because he is a real gentleman, in very good
position—because his character, his hotel, his horses, his
mind, his tailor, in tact everything about him, pleases and
gratifies my feelings. Besides, I un now in full dress,
quite ready to be married, and my reputation might suffer
it the nuptials were to be put off. Do, mamma, let us go to
M. L'Ambert; I will take him such as he is, for better, for
worse."

But, arrived face to face with the bridegroom, the noble
enthusiasm of the beautiful Irma vanishes at the instant.
She is seen fainting away; and only regains consciousness
to break out into a flood of tears, exclaiming, amidst her
sobs, " Oh, Roderick, Roderick, how unjust I have been to
you 1"
The romance of the notary's nose ends by M. Alfred
L'Ambert selling his extensive practice, retiring to a
charming villa in the environs of Paris, and having a silver
nose made for his daily use. One morning, in raking a walk,
he runs against Roinagne, whom Dr. Bernier has declared
to be dead. " Wretch, where is my nose?" exclaims the
excited notary. " Ah, sir, it was not my fault," rejoins the
trembling water-carrier ; " I got into a factory, and my left
arm, being caught in the teeth of an iron wheel, was tom
clean off. It happened early on the morning of the third
of March."

Such in brief, is the quagmire of twaddling feebleness
in which this sneering, cynical M. Edmond About has de-
liberately taken a " header" in this astounding French
sensation novel, that is as a satyr to Hyperion when com-
pared with " Aurora Floyd," or "Lady Audley's Secret l"

BRICK MAKING BY MACHINERY.—For many
years considerable difficulty has been experienced
in producing a machine capable of making accurately formed
bricks from all varieties of clay; this has, however, been
successfully ove.come by the invention of Messrs. Page
and Co., of Laurence Pountney-hill, of an entirely new de-
scription of self-lubricating brick die, which, by admitting
moisture round the clay as it passes through the die or
mou.d, ensures a beautiful smooth and even face to the
bricks, with clean, tine, and sharp angles, such as would
be impossible to pr ,duce by hand moulniug, and from the
immense pressure brought to bear upon the clay in the
machine, the material can be used of much greater density,
The bricks are, therefore, in every way tar superior to those
made by the hand process, require less time to dry, and are
not so liable to crack in burning.

M. DE CHATEAUBRIANIS'S TOILET.—He untied
his handkerchief, and began taking off his green
morocco slippers. Victor Hugo rose to take leave, but the
great man would not let him go, but went on undressing
regardless of his presence; he removed his grey swan skin
pantaloons, his shirt, and his flannel waistcoat, and at last
got into his tub, allowing the servant to wash and rub him.
Once dried and dressed up again, he cleaned his teeth,
which were very beautiful, and for the use of which he kept
a whole case of dentist's instrumtnts. Greatly revived by
his dabble in the water, he began to chat in a most anifnattd
manner, all the time walking hard at his jaws,,,,Life of
Victor liugo.

HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, July 28.

The Queen, Princess Helena, and Princess
Beatrice, attended by the Dowager Countess of
Mount•Edgcumbe and Lord Alfred Paget, drove
out yesterday.

Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to

Halifax.

As at present arranged, their Royal Highnesses
the Prince and Princess of Wales will leave London
for Halifax on Monday morning by the ordinary 10
o'clock train, to which a state carriage will be at-
tached. This train always travels at express speed,
and no stoppage will be made until it reaches Peter-
borough, a distance of 76 miles from London, at
11.35. After a delay of five minutes the train will
proceed to Grantham, 29 miles distant, which will
be reached at 12.35. Three quarters of an hour
more is allowed for the distance between this station
and Retford, about 33 miles. On leaving Retford
at 1,13, the train will proceed to Wakefield, and
then on to Halifax, distant 202 miles, arriving at
3 49. There, es previously stated, their royal high-
nesses will he received by the mayor and corpora-
tion, and will be the guests of his worship during
the night.