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R 0-YAI. ENGLISH OPERA,
CO VENT-GARDEN.
Under the Management of
Mi
Harrissson. Louisa Fyne and
Mr. W.
THIS EVE'SING, W ne, Miss Susan allace's Romantic Opera, TH
Harrison'E
DESERT FLOWER : Miss Louisa Py Pyne
Messrs. W. H. We EL Corri. A. Cook, and W. .
Conductor, Mr. A. Mellon.—Doors open at half-past Seven.
commence at Eight.
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EATRE ROYAL DRURY - LANE,
-Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton.
THIS EVENING, GONE TO TEXAS. Mr. Walter Lacy
and bliss Murray
Af rer which, LordMessrs.rs.
Byron's Choral Tragedy, MANFRED.
Messrs. rhelps, Ryder, Rayner, Mtagreson, Ward, Spencer ;
Miss Heath, 'Miss E. Atk(nson, Miss Leclercq, and Mrs. E.
Falconer. Vocalists—ands PoowiMisle,
ft. Miss hitter, Miss Cicely
Nott, 'Miss Ileywood, 3lr.
To conclude with A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER,.

TFIE ATRE ROYAL HAY MARKET.-
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THIS EVEAING, OUR MARY ANNE.
Atter which, COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles
Mathews.
Followed by TRE GOLDEN FLEECE. Messrs. Charles
Mathewe, Compton,Weathersby,&c. ; Mesdames C. Mathews,
L. Keeley. Griffith, &c.
.And MY HUSBAND'S GHOST.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter.

Mr. FECHTER begs respectfully to inform the Nobility
and Public that the above Theatre will 01" KN on SATUR-
DAY next, with a new Drama, entitled BEL DESIONIA,
a Love Story, in Four Acts, in which Mr. Fechter will ap-
pear, supported by Messrs. Broughqm, S. Emery, G. Jordan
and F. Charles ; Miss Kate Terry, Miss Lavenue, ra. Lee
and Miss Elsworthy.
The 131 x-office will be opened on Monday, Oct. 26, from
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31ISS BATEMAN.—LEAI-I.—The celebrated
young American Actress, Miss BATEMAN, having*
an her first appearance in the New Drama of LEA.II
38 that has
been witnessed for many years, and the profound
created by her Impersonation of the character ot LEA.II upon
a c,owded audience havino- been completely ratified by the
unanimous verdict and critical approval ot the entire Daily
Pre.s, the Manag,er ot the NEW ADELrin THEATRE has
the honour to announce that Miss BAT EMAN will appear
in the New Drama of LEAF!. EVERY EVENING till further
notice.

NENV THEATRE-R 0 YAL, ADELPHI.—
sole Proprietor and Manazer. Mr. B. Webster.
T HIS EVENING, at 7, THE T RAGEDY QUEEN : Mrs.
8, the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bateman, supported
by At
eMssrs.Arthur Stirlin, R. Phillips. Billhwton, Stuart,
A Wood, Eburne, Miss H. Simms and Mrs. Billington.
To conclude with CATCHING AN HEIRESS : Miss
Woolgar and Mr. A. Wood.

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and the ease, finish, and accuracy of his tricks are
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Followed by THE MOTTO, "I'M ALL THERE." Messrs.
honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier, Mesdames Ada Swan-
borough, F. Hughes, Weston, Thorne, Wallace, and Jenny
White.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 27, 1863.

It is not often that a great master of rhetoric
like M.r. GLADSTONE, obtains here in England the '
opportunity of reading an elaborate oration from
paper. In the British Legislature, whether Com-
mons or Lords, it is un-Parliamentary to do so.
Whereas, among our French neighbours, it is very
nearly the reverse. It is at any rate so far the re-
verse in France, that the speeches delivered from the
tribune that are not read, are the rare and peculiar
exceptions. During the period of the Constitutional
Government under Louis PIIILLIPPE, M. TIMES
shone conspicuously among his political rivals
or colleagues, now as leader of the Govern- '
ment, now as leader of the Opposition, by address-
ing the Chambers, fluently and often with brilliant
eloquence, by the hour, without the aid of
even one scrap in the shape of a stenographic
memorandum lying before him on the shelf of the
tribune. Recently, under the imperial rule of
NAPOLEON 111., one of the very few indeed in (what
there is yet left of) the French Legislature, one of
the very few who could yet do the like there, was
the late distinguished and lamented statesman
orator, and administrator, M. BILLAULT. To an
English clebater, particularly to a great Parlia-
mentary athlete, like Mr. GLADSTONE, the reading
of
adelibevately written discourse must, we cannot
bat thl •
nk, be a very tame affair indeed. Accustomed
to the free. utterance of the thoughts and opinions
n from his heart, or descending from his brain,
tohi
B'll'3 tube poured out from thence in that golden
coin of
words of eloquence in their musical ring and
intrinsic 'value far beyond the fabled rubies and
diamonds spoke
n
GLADSTONE mum,
,bwl the Arabian Princess—Mr.
discourse (as he en reading a carefully written
did
yesterday down at Burslem,
in Staffordshire, in h
of old JOSIAH WEDG-
WOOD, the patriarch of
the Potteries
Mr. GLADSTONE,e thereabouts)
must surely have
felt as though he we:les:yhmove-
ments,e h pered in his move-
ments, as though he
a closer atmosphere ! yet, reathing for a while
eading his address,
now that it comes to us in it
must have done had it been printed
i form, (as it
unquestionably
very spoken by him
yesterday quite spontaneously) it is
very beautiful. It is full of thought
fresh, abounding with originality. if
as it does, beyond a doubt, and, indeed, it
hardly have been otherwise—to take rank among
could
the masterpieces of oratory to which Englishmen
have become accustomed from Mr. GLADSTONEI
it is, at any rate, in many respects, quite worthy
of him. And as an address spoken by Mr. GLAD.
STONE (whether impromptu or merely read, it mat-
harm about it, this speech of
ters little), it has a c
the Chancellor of the Exchequer's down at Burslem,
a charm that we have not for a long while past been
in any way called upon to recognise and appreciate
in the Parliamentary speeches of
Mr. GLAD-
STONE down in the Legislative Palace at
Westminster. The charm we speak of is the charm
of geniality. Session after session the Chancellor of
the Exchequer's eloquence has been marred either by
his ascerbity or byhis arrogance. His sentences, for a
long while past, have had about them something of
the
swish of the ferule. He has been, alternately,
administering severe chastisement to some political
opponent, great or small, as the case might be—or
he has been still more
severely lecturing the whole
ilouse of House
of Commons, we take,
never was lectured before. The debates, there, must
apparently (whensoever
partake somewhat of the
monotony, for him,
oftahgst
eipe magistri,erpetual repetition of
the second declension—
ul a g sTt rhoe,
&c., down to the doleful vocative and ablative.
m
pedagogue has so far gained upon his nature (as his
favourite role) that it: has harshen'd his once melo-
dious voice and seamed his once handsome coun-
tenance with lines of premature age and inflexible
severity. Geniality seems to be about the last
thing thought of, whenever Mr. GLADSTONE airs
his eloquence, or shall we say gives himself airs, in
he House of Commons, Ineemuch has he habituated

himself there to " assume the god, affect to nod, and •
seem to shake the spheres," that, on his rising, some-
times, one would almost fancy the members gene-
ra ly—like naughty schoolboys, or tim'rous hares—
trembling on their forms. For once, however, as
he was wont to be in times gone by, before be grew
cross-grained and took to scolding—while, in far,t,
he was yet known as Handsome GLADSTONE, W. idle
he stood at the head of his class .as ono of
PEEL'S Boys, while MACAULAY was 'patting
him on the back with the Edinburgh, as the
model Student of Christ C'aurch, Oxford—for
once, as he was wont .v.) be in those far
happier early days of his 'when all was " promise"
and not " place," Mr. c.LADSTONE was yesterday
geflial, for once again, and that, moreover, in his
two characters r 011,4 into one, as a writer and as
a speaker. Disco.,•.rsing upon one of our old English
Worthies, he., for that one rare interval, resumed
his almost 4orgotten geniality, speaking, as he did
so, in a manner worthy of himself and of his simple
theme., the life andlabours of our English PALISST,
good, honest JOSIAII WEDGWOOD, the Father of
\
our English Potters, the Founder of our English
Potteries.

Manchester has always been famous for public
meetings and addresses, as the annals of many hard
fought political struggles may testify. The so
called Manchester party has always expressed a
good'. deal of sympathy for American institutions
and laws, and has more than hinted that it would
be `veil for England if she were to copy them a
little more closely. It was not therefore to be sup-
pose d that so decided a Federal as Mr. BEECHER
would quit this country without delivering an ad •
dress 'in that city; and accordingly on Saturday
morning the Manchester Union and Emancipation
Society invited the American speaker to be present
at an entertainment given in his honour. Mr.
BEECHER, of course, took the opportunity of ex-
pressing his views on the state of affairs in his own
country, which were mostly received very cordially,
although one or two awkward questions occasion-
ally broke the spell of unanimity. According to
Mr. BEECHER everything Northern is colour de rose.
The Federal finances are flourishing as they never
flourished before, and thriving, moreover, on a
sound and satisfactory basis. He does not deny the
possibility, or even probability of a great
financial crash. He looks upon that as the
best and shortest way of setting everything to right
and clearing up old scores. "In America," he
says, "we need a financial judgment day once in
ten years, and we get it." He is perfectly satis-
fied with this state of affairs, and he probably re-
presents the feelings and opinions of a good many
of his countrymen. A new country, he says, must
have credit, and with credit comes the evils of spe-
culation and the mistakes of over sanguine men.
Once in ten years the thing comes round in a kind
of crash. The bubble is broken, the paper is gone,
and the property remains. The man that yester-
day says " This is my house," don't say so tomor-
row; but the community is not hurt, the property
is there, the difference is in its shifting owners.
This cool and comfortable sort of reasoning comes
very well from a speaker of that country where
a failure is thought nothing, so long as it is large
enough to be creditable. However, whatever the
end of the road along which the Federal Govern-
ment are travelling, Mr. BEECHER declares it to
be very smooth and pleasant, and so long as the
day of reckoning is some way off, the profusion
of capital afloat is quite sufficient to satisfy Ame-
rican financiers. But fiscal questions were not
the only ones to be discussed at the Manchester
Assembly. Mr. BEECHER declares his great
object to be the promotion of a better under-
standing and a lasting peace between this country
and his own, and in pursuance of this end be wished
to make us understand the American view on every
question, or, as he terms it, " The American stand
point." Accordingly he endeavours to realise to us
the Northern aspec6 of the famous Trent, but he
does not succeed in making out a very clear case.
In the first place he says the Federals looked upon
the transaction as altogether comic. They were
extremely amused at the pretentious embassy
terminating behind the bolts and bars of a Northern
prison. After they had sufficiently enjoyed the
joke they began to inquire about the law, but a
search into English precedents confirmed their
previous impressions of being altogether in the
right. Still Ur. BEECHER affirms that there was
a universal readiness to acknowledge that they
might be in the wrong, and that any delay in the
surrender of the two prisoners was only
occasioned by the courteous desire to wait
for the expression of the wishes of the English
Cabinet. When the final decision was arrived at,
although it excited surprise, Mr. BEECHER affirms
that it was at once agreed to, and that he cannot
recall any occasion on which it was spoken or
written against. This may be very true, so far as
Mr. BEECHER'S experience may go, but we cannot
so easily forget the bombast about sweeping
Eng:ish commerce from the sea, which is repeated
at every opportunity, and the general ill feeling so
persistently shown by the North. We fear that
the orders which despatched British troops to
Canada, and put the navy and dockyards on double
labour, whatever offence they may have given to
Mr. BEECHER, had more to do in procuring the
liberation of Messrs. SLIDELL and MASON than the
courtesies of diplomacy or the search for precedents.
Coming to the great question of slavery, which of
course could not be left undiscussed by the guest of
Emancipation Society, Mr. BEECHER had a good
deal to say. The matter was introduced in the
worst possible taste by Mr. PATERSON of Liverpool,
who thought fit to denounce, in most unworthy
language, one whose name every right-minded
Abolitionist must honour. It is easy to stand up
now at a meeting of Emancipationists and to speak
of Lord BROUGHAM'S views on the American ques-
tion as I,
words of unparalleled baseness," and to
sneer at himself as " a poor spoilt old man ;' but it
was not so easy to fight the battle of Emancipation
years ago when the name of HENRY BROUGHAM
was foremost in the9.'leiltienvaculo.selTyhis entwined is no t twh
o
argue a great
complicated et
political system, ramificationsSuch vehemence
of a vast social and
vehemence of language and
unreasonable extremity of views put additional
obstacles in the way of settling a most momentous
and pressing matter. it
attempt be made to
consider the question of slavery Y in a practical
light with the object of .-
smoothie
g away
s
the formidable difficulties in the scay, not only of
compenating ' the slave-owners, bat
et providing
for the emancipated slaves thenisei .
expressed as to the wisdom if any
doubt is expres and kindness
wholesale abolition, a dozen
siesta ar© at once ready to denounce the speaker as
foe to the cause, a friend to slavery
a traitor---a
t horrors. There is,
and all its attendant
perhaps,
no subject cn which the great body of the English
people feel more strongly than slavery, and it was
this feeling that Americas Unionists counted on to
support them. But they did not reckon on Eng.
Hall clear-sightedness. Englishmen were not going
to believe, however specious the arguments or
eloquent the periods, that what is right in one
'
State is wrong in another; that it is the height of
sirtue and the triumph of freedom to declare those
slaves free over whom you have no infiticnce while "
loyal" plantation owners may have as many
slaves as they like. To our plain old-fashioned

Southdeath;
might choose to dictate on the subject of
slavers.
We cannot find in all Mr. BEECHER'S
professions any contradiction of a fact which is
perhaps too well known to bear contradiction—
the ill-treatment of free negroes in the Northern
States. It was easy to turn from the awkward
question as to whether blacks were treated like
whites among the virtuous abolitionists—easy to
denounce a traveller who commented on the harsh-
' ness and injustice shown them, as " a serpent" and

" a son of the devil" ; but the audience who re-
c,ived snch denunciations with enthusiastic ap-
plause might perhaps find a week in New York a
curious confirmation of such accusations. It is not
by such intemperance of language and such incon-
sistency of conduct, that Englishmen will ever be
won to the Federal cause. They must be a little
more convinced of the sincerity of the professions,
and see a little more of humanity in the practice,
before even Abolition can enrol men in its ranks.

Mr. LAIRD'S remarks are always worth attend-
ing to. On the occasion of his addressing the volun-
teers of Birkenhead the subject to which he alluded
at the close of his speech was naturally one that
excited attention and interest. He alluded to the
confusion that has prevailed with regard to the
Alabama, and corrected some of the misstatements
that have prevailed to so great an extent with re-
spect to that world-famous vessel. In the first
place, he contradicted the report that she had made
her escape in a surreptitious manner, the fact being
that she sailed in broad daylight. He next de-
clared that the rumour respecting the captain in-
forming a sailor of his intentions was altogether
unfounded. It is astonishing how often reports are
circulated with the greatest confidence, and the
utmost credence attached to theta by persons in a
responsible position, and all the time there is really
no foundation for their existence. Doubtless this
affair of the Alabama has given rise to a hundred
statements, differing in complexion but similar in
exaggeration. Mr. LAIRD is quite justified in tak-
ing every opportunity that presents itself to him of
making public all that he has to tell concerning a
vessel of which he says with becoming spirit that
he is not ashamed to acknowledge that some of his
family have had to do with it. The assertions, then,
that have been made by the member for Birkenhead
ought to carry weight with them, and impress those
who have hitherto been prone to believe all that
interested parties or prejudiced politicians have been
ready to say. Mr. LAIRD was very happy in his
exposition of the Solicitor-General's contradictory
opinions with respect to this vexed question. The
eminent gentleman was very explicit in respect to
the impossibility of stating that the Alabama was
sent out of this country as a ship of war. It is well
known that on a recent occasion Sir ROUNDELL
PALMER has modified or altered his views, but his
first reading of the matter is the one most in se"
cordance with the general tone and temper of the
country. Also Mr. LAIRD pointed out the
discre-
pancy that exists between Lord PALMERSTON'S
and Earl RUSSELL'S views on the subject.
It is really
.remarkable that the two lead-
ing statesmen of the Cabinet should so materially
differ on a subject that concerns national honour,
and involves so many important interests. Lord
PALMERSTON stated to the House in last March

that had the Government proceeded to stop the
Alabama, they might have been liable to heavy
damages. This observation is curiously contrasted
with the spirit which animated Earl RUSSELL in
Scotland the other day. The Foreign Secretary
completely contradicts the opinion of the Premier
in practice, if not in theory. He announces his
intention of straining the law to the uttermost,
and if the powers vested in it are not suffi-
cient, he undertakes to go to Parliament for an
indemnity. Mr, LAIRD'S bold address and out-
spoken declaration expresses the latent conviction
that is in the minds of all high-minded and inde-
pendent Englishmen. When he asserted that
Parliament would not indemnify any man, how-
ever powerful, who tried to transgress the law,
loud and protracted cheering followed his remarks.
There is no doubt such will he proved to be the
case, and not all the eloquence of Mr. COBDEN,
nor the vehement denunciations of Mr. BRIGHT,
Will Convince or coerce the members of the Legis-
lature. No statesman made a greater mistake than
they who tried the introduction of the Conspiracy
Bill; but the present proposal is even worse, and
Lord RUSSELL may count on a yet stronger and
fiercer opposition, it he put his professions into prac-
tice next session. Doubtless the Americans are
now exultant at the prospect held out to them of
coercing English statesmen, and sacrificing English
interests at the shrine of arrogance to suit their own
grasping demands. Mr. LAIRD truly remarks that
the lawsof this country were not made for the Admi-
nistration but for the people, and that no Minister
has a right to call for obedience to those measures
which may hereafter become law, but are not so
now. If Lord RUSSELL gain the admiration and
applause of the Government of Washington, and

forfeit the respect and confidence of the people of
this country, he will have paid a dear price for his
bargain. Inconsistency is a quality that is always
obnoxious to the tastes of a nation, and it is pre-
seating that feature of a character in a very dis-
tasteful form to maintain a neutrality that has cost
us so dear, and occasioned in some parts of the land
a distress that has been unparalleled in its extent
and intensity, and then to turn round and favour
one side of the combatants in a way that is particu-
larly injurious to our mercantile interests, and de-
rogatory to the honour of the country. These things
generally right themselves at last, but meanwhile
it is annoying to find men in a responsible position
influenced by such mistaken views, and led astray
by the representations of parties who only seek to
gratify their own desires without regard to the re•
quirements of the country.

eers.

ROYAL GALLERY OP ILLUSTRATION .—Mr. Ger-
man Reed, in a few days, intends presenting to the
public a perfectly novel entertainment, and one which, if
we mistake not, is likely to produce most important results
to the musical profession and the public in general. With
a view to promote the interests of music and musicians, Mr.
Reed intends producing an " Opera di Camera"—namely, a
work of simple dramatic form, requiring for its execution a
limited number of vocalists, with the accompaniment of a
pianoforte, in a manner altogether without a parallel in
the metropolis. The united exertions of Messrs. Mae-
latren and Oxsnford have been secured, the former for the
music, the latter the libretto ; and the result of the en-
gagement is the production of an opera of the description
mentioned, entitled " Jessy Lea." Mr. German Reed has
our best wishes for success, but of that there cannot be a
doubt, recollecting the good things he has already delighted
and Milford
in order thatilithaev7:
his patrons with.
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LITERATURE.

Poems and Translations. By Edward Vaughan
Kenealy, LL.D. One Vol., pp. 460. Reeves
and Turner.
As Judge Blackstone:wrote his Farewell to the
Muses in a poetical outburst, so far like the song

of the nightingale that it was at the least " most
musical, most melancholy," so, like wise, has written

Dr, Edward Kenealy. With this difference, how-
ever—that in Dr. Kenealy's Farewell the pathetic
is at times strangely, almost, one might say, hyste-
.

rically, mingled with the humorous. The sobs are
not unfrequently interrupted by wild shrieks of
laughter. As a collection of poetical pieces of a very

miscellaneous character, the volume before us is, in

many ways and for many reasons, very remarkable.
It is in one sense, if so paradoxical a phrase might

'or a moment be just barely tolerated, a sort of a

posthumous book published during the author's
lifetime. For it is so—partially and actually—in
this way : it is posthumous in regard to the
poet's youth. These Poems were, as Dr.

Kenealy tells us in his preface, originally
intended to precede the publication of his

Artu) Pantonaiwe. Many of the productions here
collected together are manifestly enough the effu-

sions of that happy "golden age" for us all—la
jeunesse. That sweet spring-time in the Year of
Life for each ! The time—how often wistfully looked
back to now !—when we went a-maying ! Poems
like these of the vernal season, of the early morn-
ings, when the flowers were opening, and the dews
sparkling, and the delight of life was new—may
he found here by the reader scattered up and down
the volume very refreshingly. That is one of the
peculiarities we have alluded to, as especially no.
ticeable in this book, published as it is by its
author during what Longfellow tenderly speaks of
as " the winds of autumn and the first fall of the
snow.' Another curious particularity here on the
part of the writer is visible at the first momentary
glance at his' title page. The word translations
being far more conspicuous, there, than the word
poems—meaning, by the last-mentioned word, poems
of an original character. Yet, strange though
this is upon the surface, when we
come to look more closely into the depths of the
current of thought flowing down these 460 pages—
far more for the most part than a mere rivulet of
rhyme running (according to Sheridan's droll alli-
teration) through a meadow of margin—the empha-
sis, so to speak, laid upon that ordinarily subordi-
nate word translations on the title-page, becomes in
no way at all so very surprising. For, what are
these same translations by Dr. Kenealy ? Transla-
tions they are such as render the book almost a poly-
glot edition—translations so various that they might
have amused the leisure hours of a leviathan of lan-
guages, like the late wonderful Cardinal Mezzofanti.
Upon the mention of whose world-famous name as
the very Paragon of Philologists, we may avail
ourselves of this first opportunity to relate what we
may at once entitle.—
AN ORIGINAL ANECDOTE ABOUT MEZZOFANTI—as

told to us by an accomplished Welch gentle-
man recently returned from Rome—a Welch-
man, not only as born in Wales of Welch
parents, but as heart and soul a descendant of the
ancient Britons, speaking the Welch language, a
cumetance not very general among the more highly
educated and patriotic of Welch men of the upper
class. Our informant, by the way, as a native of
North Wales, speaks fluently and familiarly the
dialect of North Wales—finding it to this
day, however, a matter of extreme difficulty
(though himself a Welchman) to understand, or
be understood by, a native of South Wales
—so widely different are the two dialects. Yet

upon the testimony of our Welch friend, how stood
the matter in respect to those two diametrically
different dialects, in the instance of that most mar-
vellous of linguists, Cardinal Mezzofanti ? Mezzo-
fanti—remember----never having, all his life, been
in Wales, either North or South 1 Why, the matter

stood simply thus—that Cardinal Mezzofanti could
converse with perfect facility, (whenever circum-
stances threw them together), either with John
Gibson, the great sculptor, or with Henry 'Williams,
the eminent landscape painter, the one a native of
South Wales, the other of North Wales. The diver-
sities of dialect bAlling an accomplished native of
the land in which they occur, proving no difficulty

or impediment whatever to one so rarely endowed
with the gift of tongues as his Eminence Cardinal
Niezzofanti.

Returning to Dr. Kenealy, however, and his I ,
translations, we find the latter introduced effiu
ently upon these pages from 271 to 459—from
the Greek, from the Latin, from the Swedish, from
the Danish, from the Spanish, from the Magyar,
from the Italian, from the German, from
the Portuguese, from the Irish, from the Arabic,from
the Bengali, from the Persian ! Translations, among
others, from Homer, and Catullus, and Mendoza,
ind Petrarch, and Victor H Igo, and Camoens, and
Goethe ! As a pretty little preliminary pastime,
the introductory " Sonnet" (reprinted, as a footnote
tells us, from an earlier volume of verses published
originally several years ago) is translated by our
author himself, not only into Latin, and German,
and Irish—the former we may venture to say most
gracefully, the latter, we must confess, being utterly
incomprehensible to us—but, in addition to
all that, Dr. Kenealy must needs give three
distinct versions of that one sonnet, on page
3, on page 4, and on page 5 in Hindostanee.
We suppose there are are but two or three men in
this country, who could, with ease and pleasure to
themselves, coon these manifold " translations"
(from and into English) by Edward Vaughan
Kenealy, weighing all them discriminatively against
their respective origin'.ls, in the balance of an
appreciative judgment—there are, let us repeat it,
we should suppose but one or two in the whole
country who could really do this with ease and
pleasure to themselves, Dr. Bowring let us say, or
his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman. Yet it is a man
as accomplished as Dr. Kenealy, a ripe scholar, a
writer gifted with no small share of eloquence in
rhythmical composition—who can nevertheless have
the exceeding bad taste to mix the true grain
with so much mere draff and husks—husko
and draff that nearly choke us in our
endeavour to swallow them. What possibly,
for example, could have possessed Dr. Kenealy
to write, to correct the proof-sheet, actually to
publish, such mere lyrical jibbering, as that song
poem, doggrel, what shall we call it? (pp. 264-5)
—entitled " The Three Wolves," with a burden or
refrain at the clase of each stanza, for all the
world like that inarticulate baby-talk, familiar iu
the nursery, when the palm of the hand is rapidly
patted against the little rosy lips—
"Wille, wau, wau, wau, wau I
Wille, woh, woh, woh, woh I
Whit to whoo I whit to whoo I woh I "
But the " Nursery Rhymes," as here actually
preserving for us, to the number of nine—one
a-piece for the Muses in their second childhood !
those, in truth, are very marvels of effrontery, put
forth gravely, as they are, by a learned adult like
Dr. Kenealy for indefinite preservation. Shall
we so far partake of the silliness rampant in these
same Nursery Rhymes as to give one or two of them
in the way of quotation ? Take the following—
Little black Bob
Was a desperate snob—
Iris tongue was as sooty as grandmother's bob;
But the brain that he had
Was so hopelessly bad,
There wasn't in Bedlam one equally mad.
That, we take it, is a case de lunatico inquirendo.
Or, read the fallowing—
There was a man,
He took his knife,
And he said to a lady—
" Will you be my wife ?
For if you wo'nt,
I'll have your life"—
Sir," says she,
" I'll be your wife."
That being clearly a case for the Court of Probate
and Divorce. If we venture upon giving just one
more—say the following :
LITTLE JACK SNIPE.
Little Jack Snipe,
Ho found some tripe,
And didn't know how to cook it,—
So a cat came up,
And gobbled it up,
cook .t
Saying, " nut' a the way /
we can only say if such morceausr are specimens of
our author's taste, whether of rhyme or reason—

this song of the snipe and such like nonsense-verses
—de gustibus non dispn;anduns. Nevertheless, it is
impossible not to recognise in Dr. Kenealy a scholar
will very rare gifts and accomplishments (many
of them, it is true, as in this instance, deplorably
run to waste)—a poet who has already evidenced the
blending in his handiwork of the gold and the clay,
as in that extraordinary production, touched here
and there unmistakably with true touches of genius,
yet so much of it, the bulk of it in fact, of the earth
earthy, some of it even devilish of its kind-7he
New Pantomime !

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The Prince and Princess of Wales.

SANDRINGHAM, Oct. 26.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, the Prince and Princess Christian of Den-
mark, and the Princess Dagmar, attended Divine
service yesterday morning at the Sandringham
Church ; the Rev. G. B. Moron, the rector, officiated,
assisted by another clergyman. The ladies and
gentlemen in attendance were—the Countess of
Morton, the Countess Reventlow, Lieut.• General
Knollys, Captain they, Captain Castenskjotd, and
Mr. Fisher.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and
Prince Christian of Denm4rk, attended by Captain
Grey and Captain Cistenskjold, proceeded to folk-
ham this morning for a day's shooting with the
Earl of Leicester.

It is understood that his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales and his Royal Highness the Prince
Christian of Denmark, attended by Captain Grey
and Captain Gastenskjold, will attend the Houghton
meeting at Newmarket to-day, to witness the run-
ning for the Cambridgeshire Stakes.

Foreign Courts.

l'Ams, Oct. 25.

The Empress of the French, on the day after her
Arrival in Madrid, went to see her mother, the
Countess of Montijo, and remained with her for
some time. In the evening the Empress went with
the Queen in great State to witness the represen-
tation of " SCinairamide." Her Imperial Majesty
at between the Queen and the King, whilst
At the sides were the Infantes Don Francisco and
Don Sebastien, and the Princess Anna Murat. Be-
hind them were the grand officers of the palace and
the Empress's suite. The appearance of the theatre
was magnificent, all the boxes being occupied by
the Ministers of the Crown, the members of the
diplomatic corps, the great functionaries, all in full
uniform, and the ladies of the Spanish aristo-
cracy. A curious particularity is related, as at-
tendant on the Empress taking possession of
tier apartments in the palace. An old custom of
etiquette requires that, when a foreign crowned
head sleeps in the palace, a gold key should be pre-
iented on a cushion to the visitor. That ceremony
was duly gone through by M. Onato, one of the
grand officers of the palace. The telegraphic de-
ipatch of the Emperor Napoleon to the Empress,
when he heard of the invitation given by the Queen of
Spain, was worded as fellows :—" Mr. Barrot
informs me that the Queen of Spain in-
vites the Countess de Pierrefond to visit Madrid.

I. recommend the countess to accept such an
amiable invitation." Tae general expectation is that
(he Empress will prolong her stay in the Spanish
capital for two or three days, in order to show the
satisfaction she feels at the reception given to her
oy Queen Isabella.
Baron de Malaret, appointed French Minister at
Curio, has arrived in Paris. He is about to return
to Brussels to present his letters of recall.
The Brussels journals state that the King of the
Belgians, who continues in the enjoyment of excel-
lent health, will remain at his villa on the Lake of
Como to the end of the week.

The Court will return to Windsur from Scotland
to-morrow morning at nine o'clock.

The Prince and Princess of Wales are expected
at Windsor to spend the birthday of his Royal Highness,
on the 9th of November.

On the Bth of September, the anniversary of the
betrothal of the Prince and Princess of \Vales, the
Prince gave a beautiful present to her Royal Highness—a
bracelet, set with diamonds and rubies, enamelled in Danish
colours, and introducing his own portrait. The monogram,
surmounted by the coronet of the Princess, is most taste-
fully arranged, and the bracelet is altogether of a very
novel and chaste work. The design was by the Prince.—
Court Journal.

TIIE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA is in very bad health,
and the doctor gives little hope of her recovery.

TIIE YOUNG QUEEN OF NAPLES is, we grieve
to learn, in bad health, and it is said spits
blood. Her cousin, the King of Bavaria (who has recently
taken up his residence at an artistic kind of pied•d-terse
belonging to his father, King Louis, in the Via di Porta
Pinciani, known as the Villa di Malta), anxiousto effect her
re-establishment, has brought with him to Rome a German
doctor of great repute, to whose care he is desirous of en-
trusting Queen Maria Sophia's health.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Louis of Hesse and the Crown Prince and Princess of
Prussia were expected to arrive in Edinburgh last evening
from Balmoral, and to leave the Waverley- bridge Station
for London to-night.

The Princess Hohenlohe arrived at Dover yester-
day afternoon from the Continent, and proceeded to the
Lord Warden Hotel. Her Highness intended to pass the
night in the hotel, and to come to London this morning.
Colonel Francis Seymour, C. 8., is in attendance on her
Highness.

The Duke of Somerset, who has been staying at
Stover Park, Devon, with the Duchess and family, is not
expected to return to his official residence at the Admiralty
until next week. His Grace is expected to dine with her
Majesty's Ministers at the Lord Mayor's banquet at th©

The Duke of Newcastle is expected to arrive in
town towards the close of the week from Clumber Park,
Notts. _

His Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio arrived at
49, Grosvenor-street, last night, from Italy.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury left
Hatfield House, Herta, to-day, for Highclere Castle, near
Newbury, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Curnarvon
until Thursday next.

The Earl and Countess Grey are entertaining a
select party at Howick Hall, Northumberland.
The Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor left
town yesterday on a visit to Sir Edward Kerrison, Bart.,
M.P., and Lady Caroline Kerrison, at Brome Hall, Nor-
folk.

The Earl of Chesterfield has arrived at the St.
George's Hotel.

Ttie Count and Countess Maxenee de Daraas
d'Hautefort have arrived at Brown's Hotel from Paris.
Lord Metnuen and the Hon. Mrs. Methuen have
left the St. George's Hotel.

The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, Bart.,
M.P., and Lady Mary Wood, left Kickleton Hall on
Friday last, to pass a few days with the Earl and
Countess de Grey, at Studley Park, rear Ripon.
Lord Edward St. Maur arrived at Netherby
Ball, near Carlisle, on a visit to Sir Frederick and Lady
Graham, on Friday last, from staying with the Duke
and Duchess of Sutherland, at Dunrobin Castle. His
lordship is expected to arrive in town in a day or tWO.
A marriage is about to take place between the
Hon. Robert Bourke, third son of the Earl of Mayo,
and brother of Lord Naas, M.P., and Lady Susan Brown
Ramsay, eldest daughter of the late Marquis of Dal-
housie, K.T., Governor-General of India.
THE PRINCE DE LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE'S no-
mination to the French embassy at our Court it
it is said givingmuch satisfaction, the Princebeing a man of
finished social attainments. His Excellency is the eldest
of three brothers, one of whom is Archbishop of Bourges„
and the other a lieutenant colonel of infantry, who was for
a long time orderly officer to the Emperor. The Ambas-
sador is 42 years of age, and has an only son by an English.
lady, who is now deceased. He is nephew of the late Car-
dinal La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauragnais, Bishop of Arras,
and belongs to a Younger branch (separated also by many
centuries) of the ancient house of La Tour d'Auvergne.
SIR HENLY HOLLAND, one of her Majesty's
physicians, has been visiting the army of the Potomac. Ho
was received with military honours.
THE ENSUING TERAL-1n addition to the arrears
for the ensuing term already mentioned, there are 24 cases
and two enlarged rules in the Crown list of the Court of
Queen's Bench, making the arrears GO in that court and
toe other two courts 63.

REMARKABLE SPEECH OF THE KING OF DEN-
MARK.—According to the Aftonbladet, of Stock-
holm, the King of Denmark has just delivered the fol-
lowing speech :—" I have every confidence in the victory
and the justice of our cause. I know that my faithful

Schleswigers are Danish at heart, and that it would be a
crime against them to consent to divide Schleswig'.
History shall not tell that the last of the Oldenbourgs
parcelled out Denmark. lf, however, in the course of tuna
we must succumb as being the weakest, and France anti

Sweden permit the most southern province of Scandinavia,
the old Jutland of the south, to share the fate of Galicia,
of Poland, and of Northern Italy, by being overpowered
and suppressed by German Govcrnmeirts, then I will
descend from the throne and will proclaim the republic.
passed three years of my youth in Switzerland ; and I have
studied the laws and institutions of that country, and I 1"
convinced that no people of Europe is more fitted for the
Republican E3:steuz than my clear Danish people."